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Three changes to how the Mac and its remote agents talk to the credential broker. The Codaset side is joelmoss/codaset#45.

Debug builds never reach production Codaset

The Dev app and every test host are Debug builds, and they defaulted to https://codaset.dev, so a local build created real users, devices and grants in production.

BrokerEndpoint (in BrokerSession.swift) now decides which Codaset a build reaches:

  • Release and Nightly: unchanged. They use codaset.dev, or a brokerURL override that is https or http://127.0.0.1.
  • Debug:
    • defaults to the local bin/dev Codaset at https://codaset.localhost;
    • ignores any override that isn't localhost, *.localhost or 127.0.0.1;
    • BrokerClient.send and BrokerSignIn.run refuse any other URL before a request or the browser goes out, so a client built with the wrong URL is refused too.
  • Tests still need no Codaset. Every broker test sends through the in-process BrokerStub. The test URLs moved from codaset.test to codaset.localhost so they pass the Debug check.

A Debug build's remote agent reaches the Mac's development Codaset

The Debug rule above left remote enrolment broken: the Mac's own URL, https://codaset.localhost, names the remote host itself when the agent there resolves it (Greptile; plan on #252). Now a Debug enrolment hands the agent http://127.0.0.1:<port>, a listener on its own box that carries every connection back over the agent connection to the development Codaset's Puma on this Mac.

  • Agent (forward.rs): Service::Forward gains listen {port} and accept {listener}. The agent binds 127.0.0.1 only and announces each connection with a new ACCEPTED opcode. The client claims it on a stream it opens, and from there it is an ordinary forward. Unclaimed connections close after 5 s, at most 8 wait per listener, and a connection holds at most 4 listeners. No version bump: the methods are additive, and an older agent refuses them cleanly.
  • Mac:
    • ReverseForward dials the target for each announced connection. One it cannot dial is claimed and closed at once, so the git helper fails in under a second.
    • BrokerReverseForwards (Debug only) keeps one listener per remote workroom, on a port derived from its ID, so broker.json's URL survives a reattach. It reopens the listener on each new connection and keeps retrying while a dead link's old listener still holds the port.
    • AgentEnrolment takes the agent's URL from an AgentBroker seam. Release and Nightly behave as before.
  • Target: Puma on brokerAgentTarget (3000), not Caddy, because Caddy routes on the Host header and the agent's proofs are signed for 127.0.0.1:<port>. joelmoss/codaset#46 pins Puma to 3000.

Accepted exposure (owner's decision): in a Debug build, every process on the remote host can reach the Mac's development Puma through the listener, and Rails sees it as loopback, which means full error pages and web-console's REPL. Release and Nightly contain none of this. BrokerReverseForwards records the fix to apply if remote hosts ever run untrusted code: filter the relay to POST /broker/… and set a non-loopback X-Forwarded-For.

Dev-only limit: a Dev remote workroom mints only while the Mac is attached. The token the agent already holds covers up to an hour.

Every broker request names the build and version

Requests now send User-Agent: Workroom/<version> (<dev|nightly|release>; build <n>). Codaset stores it per Mac and shows it on the account page.

Validation

  • macapp: make app-test on the broker and forwarding classes (ReverseForwardTests, AgentEnrolmentTests, AgentPortForwardingTests, BrokerClientTests, BrokerSessionTests, BrokerSignInTests, DefaultsIsolationTests): 59 of 59 pass.
    • End to end: a Debug enrolment through a real agent to a stub broker on loopback. The broker saw POST /broker/enrolments with Host and htu set to the URL the agent was given, and broker.json holds it with enrolled: true. No Codaset is needed.
    • Negative controls: removing the code fails its test for the Debug host rule, both refusal checks, the User-Agent header, the dial-failure discard, the bind retry, and the reconnect retry.
  • Agent: cargo test -p wr-agent passes in full (outside the sandbox, which blocks ptys). That includes 9 new forward-service integration tests and 2 new unit tests. Removing pending expiry, the pending cap, or the drop-time kill each fails its test; one of those tests had been passing for the wrong reason and was fixed.
  • Lint: make app-lint exits 0; cargo fmt and cargo clippy are clean.
  • Independent adversarial review of the wr-agent and Mac changes (macapp rule 3):
    • 1 high: the exposure above, accepted for Debug.
    • 1 medium: the stale-port reconnect, fixed.
    • 7 low: 4 fixed (an open in flight swallowing a reopen, a claim freed without CLOSE, an interrupted poll, serial claims). The rest are recorded: listener-cap counting during close, re-enrolment release (no caller yet, Portable derivation on the container driver: the base machine and deriveFromBase #252), and the untestable Release branch.
  • Not run: the full make app-test suite and the UI tests. Only broker and forward code changed.

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  • New Features
    • Debug builds now connect to the local Codaset instance by default. Debug broker overrides are limited to local addresses, and production endpoints are rejected before network or browser activity.
    • Release builds continue to use the production Codaset endpoint by default, with supported secure overrides.
    • Broker requests now identify the app version, build number, and build type.
    • Debug workroom enrolment can connect to the local broker through a forwarded loopback address.
  • Documentation
    • Updated setup guidance to clarify the broker endpoint defaults and allowed overrides.

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…set.dev

The Dev app and every test host are Debug builds, and they defaulted to
production Codaset, so a local build created real users, devices and grants
there.

BrokerEndpoint now decides which Codaset a build reaches. Release and Nightly
keep codaset.dev (or an https or 127.0.0.1 override). A Debug build defaults
to the local bin/dev Codaset at https://codaset.localhost, ignores any
override that is not localhost, *.localhost or 127.0.0.1, and BrokerClient
and BrokerSignIn refuse any other URL before a request or the browser goes
out. Tests still need no Codaset: they send through the in-process stub.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Broker requests now send `User-Agent: Workroom/<version> (<dev|nightly|release>;
build <n>)`, so Codaset can show which build and version created each Mac's
records.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The app resolves broker endpoints by build type and adds build metadata to broker requests. Reverse forwarding gives Debug enrolment a loopback broker URL through the agent connection. Tests cover endpoint rules, forwarding, reconnects, and enrolment.

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Local broker routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Broker endpoint policy
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/DefaultsKeys.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/BrokerSession.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/BrokerClient.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/BrokerSignIn.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/Broker/BrokerClientTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/Broker/BrokerSignInTests.swift, docs/designs/remote-workrooms.md, macapp/AGENTS.md
The broker URL setting defaults to empty. Endpoint resolution applies build-specific fallback and host rules. Broker requests include a User-Agent with app version, build, and build kind. Sign-in validates the endpoint before browser activity. Tests and documentation cover these rules.
Agent reverse-forward protocol
vcs/crates/wr-agent/src/forward.rs, vcs/crates/wr-agent/tests/forward_service.rs
The agent supports loopback listeners, accepted-connection announcements, and requests that claim pending connections. Tests cover traffic relay, refusal cases, limits, and listener cleanup.
Mac reverse-forwarding implementation
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/AgentPortForwarding.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/BrokerReverseForwards.swift, macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/LoopbackSocket.swift
The Mac client manages reverse listeners and dials local targets for accepted connections. A Debug-only registry assigns stable workroom URLs and retries listener setup after connection changes.
Debug enrolment and integration tests
macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/Broker/AgentEnrolment.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/Broker/BrokerSignInTests.swift, macapp/WorkroomAppTests/Broker/ReverseForwardTests.swift
Enrolment obtains a broker URL before creating a grant and releases the route during failure cleanup. Tests cover route acquisition and release, reverse forwarding, reconnects, and enrolment through a loopback broker.

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Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Enrolment as AgentEnrolment
  participant Registry as BrokerReverseForwards
  participant Agent as Agent listener
  participant Broker as Local broker
  Enrolment->>Registry: Open workroom broker route
  Registry->>Agent: Start reverse listener
  Agent->>Registry: Announce accepted connection
  Registry->>Agent: Claim connection
  Registry->>Broker: Forward connection to configured target
  Enrolment->>Agent: Run agent with loopback broker URL
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6128a

In Debug builds, a failed enrolment route setup can leave a listener for the development Codaset reopening on the remote host. That keeps the local server exposed and uses up agent listener slots. Release the route on that failure before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 6128a

Development builds introduce a route through which processes on an attached remote machine can reach trusted local services on the Mac. Failed setup can also leave automatic reconnection active. Release and Nightly do not use this broker route, and no shipped application caller was found, limiting current exposure.

Retained concerns

  • High · security · inferred: The new Debug broker route carries unrestricted TCP traffic from any process on the agent host into the Mac's configured local service, normally development Puma on port 3000. Connecting processes need neither a broker grant nor control-channel access. The Mac-local connection can satisfy development-only loopback trust checks; the source explicitly documents potential web-console Ruby execution. That outcome depends on external Rails configuration and was not independently verified. Debug gating and the absence of a discovered shipped application caller limit present exposure, but do not authenticate peers when the route is active.
  • Medium · security · inferred: Initial route acquisition is outside enrolment's cleanup blocks. BrokerReverseForwards registers an entry and connection watch before attempting to listen, but does not remove them if that attempt throws. Consequently, an enrolment reported as failed can retain automatic retries and later expose the Mac-local target on a connected host, without successful enrolment or a new caller request. Later grant and execution failures do release the route; the initial acquisition failure does not.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The independently attackable source scope is every process or user able to connect to loopback on an attached agent host. Direct off-host network access is excluded by the bind address. The immediate sink is one configured Mac-local port; if it exposes the documented development console, consequences could extend to data and credentials available to that service's Mac user. No cross-tenant or production broker compromise is established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An untrusted agent-host process can send its own HTTP traffic through the listener to development Puma. The TCP relay presents a Mac-loopback connection and does not enforce broker paths or proofs before reaching that service. This establishes new reachability; console execution is a conditional downstream outcome, not a verified external vulnerability.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Listener ownership is scoped to a control connection, and claims must reference a live listener in that connection's map. This prevents another control session from claiming its sockets. It does not authenticate processes connecting to the TCP listener: the accepted peer address is discarded.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The agent bounds listeners to four per connection and pending sockets to eight per listener, with a five-second pending lifetime. Listener closure and control-connection teardown release ports and waiting sockets. These controls bound abandoned claims and accumulation; they neither authorize peers nor prevent the registry from reopening after failed acquisition.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Before activating this route on hosts that run untrusted code, terminate it at a broker-only gateway that rejects other HTTP routes and prevents development tooling from treating relayed clients as trusted loopback peers.
  • proposed — Make initial route acquisition transactional: on failure or cancellation, remove the entry and cancel its watch unless another active owner explicitly retains the route. Automatic recovery should belong to an established route, not a failed enrolment attempt.
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[Medium risk] Debug builds route broker requests through local reverse port forwards.

The PR appears safe to merge based on the reviewed changes and the current state of the previous findings.

Summary

The PR confines Debug broker traffic to local endpoints, adds a reverse forward so remote agents can reach the Mac’s development Codaset, and identifies the build in broker requests. The latest changes release a route after failed acquisition and retry a listener that stops while its host connection remains alive.

Diagram
sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent as Remote agent
  participant Mac as Mac reverse forward
  participant Puma as Development Codaset
  Agent->>Mac: Announce connection to agent-side listener
  Mac->>Puma: Connect to loopback target
  Mac->>Agent: Claim waiting connection
  Agent<<->>Mac: Forward request and response bytes
  Mac<<->>Puma: Forward request and response bytes
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A Debug app must have its remote agent reach the Mac's own development
Codaset, and nothing carried a connection from the agent's box back to the
Mac. `Service::Forward` gains two methods, keeping its rule that the client
picks every stream id:

- `listen {port}` binds 127.0.0.1 only and answers with the bound port. Each
  accepted connection is announced with a new ACCEPTED opcode on that stream.
- `accept {listener}`, on a new stream, claims the oldest waiting connection,
  which from there is an ordinary forward: same budget, cap and CLOSE rule.

Unclaimed connections close after 5 s (under the broker client's 15 s
timeout), at most 8 wait per listener, a connection holds at most 4
listeners, and a listener ends with its client's CLOSE or the connection.
FORWARD_SERVICE_VERSION stays 1: the app rejects any other reply version, and
an older agent already refuses the new methods cleanly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… agent's loopback

A Debug build talks only to a Codaset on this Mac, and its own URL,
https://codaset.localhost, names the remote host when the agent there
resolves it. So a Debug enrolment now hands the agent
http://127.0.0.1:<port>, a listener on its own box that carries every
connection back to the development Codaset's Puma on this Mac.

- ReverseForward drives the agent's new `listen`/`accept` methods. Each
  announced connection is dialled to the target and claimed as an ordinary
  forward; one that cannot be dialled is claimed and closed at once, so the
  agent's git helper fails in under a second instead of at the agent's 5 s
  expiry.
- BrokerReverseForwards (Debug only) keeps one listener per remote
  workroom, on a port derived from its ID so the URL in the agent's
  broker.json survives a reattach, and reopens it on each new connection to
  the host, retrying a bind that lost the race with the old connection's
  teardown.
- AgentEnrolment takes the agent's broker URL from an AgentBroker seam:
  Release and Nightly pass codaset.dev as before. A route that cannot be made
  costs no grant, and a failed enrolment releases it with the grant.
- The target is the brokerAgentTarget default (3000), Codaset's Puma
  rather than Caddy: the agent's proofs are signed for 127.0.0.1:<port>, and
  Caddy routes on the Host header.

An end-to-end test runs a Debug enrolment through a real agent and a stub
broker on loopback, and checks the broker saw the proof bound to the URL the
agent was given. No Codaset is needed to run it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A link lost without a goodbye leaves the old connection's listener
  holding the port until the agent notices, possibly minutes. The registry
  now keeps retrying on the new connection (every 5 s, for 5 minutes)
  instead of giving up until the next one.
- A caller joining an open in flight now runs its own afterwards, since the
  open in flight may have been for an earlier connection. The open clears
  its own marker before it completes; clearing it from the caller let a
  waiter spin on the main actor.
- A ReverseForward released after the agent ended its listener now closes
  the connections it was still carrying, rather than freeing them with no
  CLOSE.
- LoopbackSocket.connect waits out an interrupted poll instead of calling
  it a timeout.
- Claims dial concurrently, so one slow target cannot push the rest past
  the agent's 5 s pending timeout.

Also recorded: in a Debug build, every process on the remote host can
reach the Mac's development Puma through the listener, as loopback (full
error pages and web-console's REPL). Accepted for Debug builds by the owner,
and documented on BrokerReverseForwards with the fix to apply if remote hosts
ever run untrusted code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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  • macapp/WorkroomApp/Core/DefaultsKeys.swift
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Addresses the Greptile and CodeRabbit findings on #278:

- An enrolment whose route to the broker fails now releases it. Before, the
  Debug registry kept the entry and its watch, and every later connection to
  the host reopened a listener for a workroom that never enrolled.
- A listener the agent ends while the connection lives (its socket broke)
  is reopened through the same retry loop, rather than waiting for a
  reconnect that is not coming.

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