feat(link): add lightweight Rust ocx-child ephemeral Child relay and offline journal - #8237

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native/ocx-child/src/relay.rs: 1

237-250: Minor · Potential issue · Quick win

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fetch_home_authenticated uses read_bounded_body for responses with BodyFraming::None, which returns empty bytes rather than reading a connection-delimited HTTP/1 response.

Attach or sync treats the catalog as empty and fails even though Home sent a valid catalog body.

This can occur when: Home returns a valid Connection: close catalog response without Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@devlog/_plan/261107_ocx_child_ephemeral_link/010_wp1_conformance_contract.md:
- Line 122: Update the verifier’s test command to run the link-prefixed
conformance suite, and align the suite and registration names with that same
test name. Preserve the other test targets and command options unchanged.

Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md:
- Line 194: Update the link-removal guidance around `ocx-child detach` and
`ocx-child disconnect` to distinguish Child-side cleanup from Home-side
revocation: explain that offline detach leaves the Home link record and key in
place, and instruct operators to also run `ocx link revoke` on Home. When the
Child is unreachable, include the documented `ocx link revoke --link-id <id>
--force --yes` command.
- Line 194: Update the `ocx sync --expect-link --json` description to qualify
OCX-6 parity reporting: stale syncs skip the parity post, and other syncs post
on a best-effort basis, so Home may show an older or absent report. Note that
the relay also reports periodically; do not imply every sync reports parity
successfully.
- Line 192: Update the Windows prerequisites in the remote-link guide to allow a
Windows Child to use either ocx.exe or ocx-child.exe, consistent with the
installation options above. Describe the PowerShell helper as containing the
selected executable.

Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/lifecycle.md:
- Line 1328: Update the lightweight `ocx-child` lifecycle documentation to state
that a successful `sync` starts `ocx-child serve` when no relay is running, even
if settings are unchanged. Scope the “nothing is started” statement to full
Children so it does not imply this exception applies to them.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/cli.rs:
- Around line 253-268: Update the attach flow around read_child_state and
ensure_port_available_for_attach to preserve the previous child state and stop
its relay when the listen port changes, before replacing that state. Use the
existing lifecycle mechanism to identify and stop the old relay; keep the prior
state intact until it has been stopped.
- Around line 855-879: Update the status path around probe_local_healthz so it
reports the proxy as running only when the health response matches the Child
service, role, Child marker, and requested port, and—when saved daemon identity
is available—matches that identity. Use the existing health-response and
saved-state contracts to perform these checks; preserve foreground serving
behavior.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/codex_settings.rs:
- Around line 49-52: Update the Rust reasoning_effort validation for
sub.reasoning_effort to match the TypeScript parser’s accepted values, so values
such as "HIGH" are rejected before they can be written to config.toml. Add
cross-runtime rejection tests that verify the Rust and TypeScript validators
agree, using the TypeScript parser’s actual validation rules.
- Around line 45-47: Update the Rust model validator that checks `sub.model` to
reject the same forbidden characters as `safeLabel`, including U+001B, before
settings can be applied. Add a regression test confirming a model containing
U+001B is rejected.
- Around line 63-65: Update the model and Home label length validation in the
settings checks to count trimmed UTF-16 code units rather than UTF-8 bytes,
matching the TypeScript limits while preserving the existing maximums. Add
Unicode boundary tests, including multibyte characters, to verify values at and
beyond each limit.
- Around line 17-20: Update the `fetch_home_settings_doc` deserialization and
validation flow so a document is rejected when it omits `fastMode`,
`multiAgentMode`, or `subagentDefaults`; the `Option` fields in the settings
struct cannot distinguish omission from an explicit null, so track key presence
during deserialization before accepting the document. Preserve the existing
handling of present values and ensure incomplete documents are rejected before
`apply_attach_or_sync` applies any settings.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/daemon.rs:
- Around line 125-164: Update stop_owned_daemon to return an error whenever
shutdown is not verified after the graceful and available termination attempts,
including when the PID is gone or unavailable but is_port_bound(port) remains
true. Return success only after confirming the listener is down and any verified
PID has exited, so cmd_detach preserves recovery state on failure.
- Around line 119-159: Update the verified_pid selection and force_terminate_pid
flow so a PID is signaled only after independent verification that it belongs to
the owned daemon; do not treat Child-shaped /healthz data as ownership evidence
when daemon_pid is absent. If ownership cannot be established, fail closed
without signaling the PID.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/http_wire.rs:
- Around line 546-558: Validate the two bytes read into crlf in the chunk-relay
loop before reading the next chunk; if they are not CRLF, return an InvalidData
error. Ensure this error exits before the final-chunk write so the relay does
not complete a malformed response.
- Around line 513-516: In the chunk-reading flow around reader.read_line, treat
EOF before the upstream terminating chunk as an UnexpectedEof error instead of
breaking and allowing a downstream terminator to be emitted. Add a regression
test confirming that EOF after a nonzero chunk closes the response without a
terminating chunk.
- Around line 422-456: Bound chunk-size line reads and trailer reads in both
read_bounded_body and stream_upstream_to_chunked_client so unterminated metadata
cannot grow memory or hold a worker indefinitely. Enforce a finite byte limit
while reading, including across trailer lines, and return an appropriate error
when the limit is exceeded; reuse an existing limit if available, otherwise
establish a suitable bound without changing body-size handling.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/journal.rs:
- Around line 410-434: Update offline_detach to propagate cache restoration
failures instead of ignoring them, and retain the journal and saved pre-attach
cache bytes until restoration succeeds so disconnect reports failure. Make
retries safe when earlier restoration steps have already completed, preserving
the existing behavior for successfully restored files.
- Around line 289-296: Before the catalog write in the sync flow, verify its
current contents against the journaled hash and refuse sync without overwriting
the catalog when ownership has changed; preserve the existing conflict
safeguards and add a regression test covering an external catalog edit during
attachment, rejected sync, and detach preserving that edit.
- Around line 289-321: Update the attach flow that builds ChildJournalV1 and
calls write_journal so a recovery record containing the original file state is
persisted before any Codex files are replaced. Handle failures at each
intermediate write by preserving a usable recovery path and restoring original
bytes where safe, so attach errors cannot leave replacements that offline detach
treats as NotAttached.
- Around line 406-426: Update the models-cache restore branch in the detach flow
to detect changes made after attach before writing the pre-attach snapshot.
Reconcile the current cache with the snapshot so newer native entries are
preserved while Child-only models are removed; use the existing journal state
and cache representation to distinguish these entries, and avoid overwriting the
cache when that distinction cannot be established.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/parity.rs:
- Around line 77-78: Update the parity parser around LinkChildParityReport
deserialization to accept JSON decimal and exponent values when they represent
safe integers, matching the TypeScript parser. Normalize or otherwise handle
these values before deserialization while preserving the existing range checks,
and add decimal and exponent cases to the shared fixtures.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/platform.rs:
- Around line 236-247: Update the non-Unix directory setup in the function
containing reject_symlink to establish and verify a Windows DACL that restricts
access to the current user before any child storage files are written; fail
closed if this cannot be confirmed. Ensure temporary files are created with
private permissions as well, preserving the existing symlink rejection.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/relay.rs:
- Around line 548-566: Update the readiness flow after
open_authenticated_upstream to use only the current preflight’s
connection_generation; remove the fallback to shared.last_generation so a
missing generation remains unknown. Ensure the readiness response omits
connectionGeneration when gen_opt is None.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/toml_surgeon.rs:
- Around line 662-670: Update the `[agents]` cleanup logic so comment-only,
unowned tables are preserved when applying Home defaults; treat user comments as
remaining user content rather than ignoring them when deciding whether to delete
the table. Remove the table and its managed marker only when no user-owned
content remains, while preserving existing managed-table cleanup behavior.
- Around line 54-75: Update toml_escape_basic_string to escape all TOML control
characters, not just newline, carriage return, and tab, using TOML’s required
escape representation. Update parse_toml_quoted_string to decode those same
escapes so sync and detach preserve the original string values.
- Around line 506-548: Update the sync and detach flow that uses
upsert_table_bool to preserve the original assignment line when Home first
replaces it with fast_mode = false. On detach, restore that line only if the
current assignment still matches Home’s last-written value; leave subsequent
user edits unchanged.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/tests/conformance.rs:
- Around line 416-434: Update the conflict-vector checks around `offline_detach`
in the conformance test to snapshot the bytes of `config.toml`, the catalog, and
`codex-journal.json` before the detach attempt, then compare each file’s bytes
after every `Conflict`. Preserve the existing outcome assertions while ensuring
a refused detach leaves all three files unchanged.
- Around line 305-314: Update the conformance test around apply_attach_or_sync
to verify the applied feature and subagent values after each attach or sync
operation and before detach. Derive expected values from the corresponding
sync_set or fixture row, and use the test’s existing mechanism for reading the
resulting settings.

Review comments at @src/link/ephemeral-child.ts:
- Around line 27-29: The ephemeral-child predicate accepts missing or null
runtimeRole values, but its narrowed type does not represent them. Update the
projected type used by the predicate to preserve the nullish runtimeRole values
alongside the existing role options, and add tests covering both missing and
null inputs.

Review comments at @src/link/ssh-argv.ts:
- Around line 158-159: Preserve the executable kind recorded during enrollment:
update the enrollment and lifecycle-command flow around the `try_ocx` candidate
loop so later sync and deletion target the enrolled `ocx-child`, even if a full
`ocx` becomes available. Ensure sync does not silently skip the Child and
deletion completes the relay and Codex cleanup; retain the existing behavior for
other executable kinds.

Review comments at @structure/overview.md:
- Line 322: Update the invariant binding for the link-ocx-child-conformance test
so it covers Rust digest conformance as well as TypeScript fixture checks; if
that test cannot verify Rust conformance, mark the invariant unbound in
grace.unboundInvariants instead.

Review comments at @structure/remote-link.md:
- Line 191: Update the POST /api/link/apply contract in the remote-link
documentation to reflect current behavior: a foreign listener returning HTTP 404
is not rejected before key issuance; enrollment proceeds until ocx-child connect
detects the occupied port, after which Home compensates. Do not claim that this
case is refused during preflight.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ephemeral-child-discovery.test.ts:
- Around line 60-61: Update the PATH setup in both tests using Bun.spawnSync so
discovery uses a controlled private PATH that provides the required shell
utilities without exposing a host ocx; preserve the fixture’s intended discovery
behavior and ensure the E2E exercises the Rust binary.
- Around line 33-39: Add candidate-selection coverage for both `windowsOcxArgv`
and `windowsPinnedSyncArgv`: verify each selects `ocx-child.exe` when `ocx.exe`
is unavailable, and prefers `ocx.exe` when both executables are runnable. Use
the existing test setup and selection behavior without changing unrelated
assertions.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ocx-child-conformance.test.ts:
- Around line 348-352: Update the corrupt_managed_span_refused oracle to return
currentCatalog for finalCatalog, and set that fixture’s expectedFinalCatalog to
the injected sample so the Rust runner verifies the exact catalog bytes.
- Around line 409-415: Update this chunked-vector conformance case to send the
request through the listener ingress rather than relying on header preprocessing
around relayLinkDataRequest. Assert the listener’s response and the decoded body
forwarded downstream, so the case verifies ingress normalization and body
handling.
- Around line 425-427: Update the conformance tests around
forwardLinkRequestHeaders to assert that the authorization header contains the
expected injected link token for both /v1/responses and /v1/usage. Replace the
route test’s synthesized authentication label with an assertion against the
expected token, and check the header value before the framing test removes it.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@devlog/_plan/261107_ocx_child_ephemeral_link/050_wp5_pr_review_fixes.md:
- Line 17: Preserve the digest of the currently injected on-disk cache when the
sync flow in journal.rs records a new digest before writing the cache. In
offline_detach, use the preserved digest to remove the prior cache only when its
contents still match, retaining the external-writer safeguard; update the
crash-recovery test to verify the previous cache is restored and removed.
- Line 31: Correct the crash scenario in the conformance test around
`offline_detach`: model the state after the v2 catalog write but before the
cache write, and assert the catalog and cache state before detaching. Update
cache recovery so detach removes the cache left by this interrupted attach and
restores the pre-attach state, while preserving any externally changed cache;
assert the removal and preservation behavior in the test.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/journal.rs:
- Line 268: Update the journal hash rotation around
prev.latest_injected_config_sha256 so failed syncs retain the last known-owned
on-disk hashes rather than marking unwritten candidates as owned, while still
recording pending hashes needed for crash recovery. Do not adopt externally
modified file hashes as owned; add a regression test covering two failed catalog
writes followed by offline detach and verifying the original catalog is
preserved.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/tests/conformance.rs:
- Around line 476-502: Update the write-ahead recovery test around
apply_attach_or_sync to deterministically exercise two consecutive sync
failures: one after journal creation and another after catalog writing but
before config writing, using an existing test failure-injection mechanism or
establishing a deterministic test seam rather than filesystem permissions. Start
with a pre-attach catalog, then call offline_detach and assert the recovery
outcome and config/catalog contents match the expected pre-attach state; use an
RAII guard for scratch-directory cleanup so it runs on assertion panics.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ocx-child-conformance.test.ts:
- Around line 183-194: Update runReferenceJournalCase and
stripSurgicalTableFeatures to use the existing structural-line helpers so
multiline-string content is not mistaken for configuration entries or table
headers. Apply the same structural awareness during surgical restore whitespace
cleanup to preserve repeated blank lines inside strings, and add shared test
vectors containing a literal [features], a fast_mode line, and repeated blank
lines in a multiline string, including a surgical detach case exercised by both
runners.

Review comments at @tests/fixtures/link/ocx-child-conformance.json:
- Around line 974-1016: Add a Rust surgical-detach test covering multiline
string content that includes `[features]`, `fast_mode = true`, and `[agents]`,
with `fastMode` and `subagentDefaults` set. Assert that attach and detach
preserve the string body byte for byte, including the feature and agent lines.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@devlog/_plan/261107_ocx_child_ephemeral_link/010_wp1_conformance_contract.md:
- Line 129: Resolve the duplicate “Conditional-Path Activation Scenarios
(C-ACTIVATION-GROUNDING-01)” heading: if both sections are required, give the
later section a distinct heading; otherwise, remove the duplicate heading.

Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/lifecycle.md:
- Line 1328: Update the French, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese,
and Traditional Chinese lifecycle pages to document lightweight `ocx-child` sync
behavior: a successful sync starts `ocx-child serve` when no relay is running,
rolls it over when `runtimeStartedAt < lastApplyAt`, and posts a best-effort
parity report on non-stale syncs. Clearly distinguish this behavior from full
`ocx` Child behavior.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/cli.rs:
- Around line 259-278: Reorder the attach flow around read_child_state and
stop_owned_daemon so the new port and Home preflight checks complete before
stopping the previous relay. If a later apply or state-write step fails, restore
the previous state, configuration, credentials, and relay; use the existing
rollback mechanisms or establish how to restore each safely without inventing
new APIs. Preserve the existing --no-daemon behavior.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/codex_settings.rs:
- Around line 38-55: Update sanitize_safe_label to trim using the exact
ECMAScript whitespace set, removing boundary U+FEFF while retaining U+0085; do
not rely on Rust’s str::trim behavior. Add shared parser vectors covering
boundary U+FEFF and U+0085 inputs to verify TypeScript and Rust produce matching
applied settings and digests.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/journal.rs:
- Around line 561-574: Update the detach reconciliation that builds `kept` so a
current entry still matching the injected Home entry is replaced with its
pre-attach version, while independently updated entries and unrelated external
cache changes remain intact. Add a test where `context_window` changes from 1
before attach to 2 in Home and verify detach restores 1 while preserving an
unrelated external cache change.
- Around line 488-494: Update offline_detach’s reconciliation flow around
reconcile_modified_models_cache to distinguish a valid empty catalog from
unavailable backup or invalid cache JSON; on either reconciliation failure,
return DetachError::Conflict before restoring other files and retain the journal
and backup for retry. Add tests covering a missing backup and invalid cache
JSON.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/platform.rs:
- Line 496: Update owner validation in harden_and_verify to handle Windows
default ownership by either setting the owner explicitly to the token user SID
with OWNER_SECURITY_INFORMATION or accepting exactly the user SID or well-known
BUILTIN\Administrators SID. Preserve the protected-DACL and ACE checks, and add
the Administrators-owner case to the Windows test plan.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/toml_surgeon.rs:
- Around line 863-866: Align strip_subagent_defaults and
stripSurgicalSubagentDefaults so detaching the managed default preserves a
comment-only [agents] table and its existing user comments; retain the table
whenever non-dropped body content, including comments, remains. Add a shared
conformance vector for the stated input and expected output.

Review comments at @src/link/remote-windows.ts:
- Around line 147-152: Update OCX_CANDIDATES to resolve the default OpenCodex
home using the same precedence as resolve_opencodex_home(), rather than always
basing it on USERPROFILE when OPENCODEX_HOME is unset. Preserve the child-state
check and candidate ordering so child commands are preferred when enrollment
state exists, and add regression coverage for differing HOME and USERPROFILE
values.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ocx-child-conformance.test.ts:
- Around line 564-583: Update the Rust conformance test to use `test.skipIf`
with a `cargoAvailable` check instead of returning early, so missing Cargo is
reported as a skip. Distinguish a timed-out `Bun.spawnSync` from a non-zero
exit, and add a dedicated CI Cargo job that tests the `native/ocx-child`
manifest.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ocx-child-e2e.test.ts:
- Around line 203-220: Update the privateUtils setup to resolve each required
utility from the host PATH when it is not found in /bin or /usr/bin, and include
only the resolved utilities. Use the resolved sh path for runLocalAsSsh, and
ensure any missing required utility is reported by name before the server starts
or that server cleanup still runs.

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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/reference/cli/lifecycle.md:
- Line 170: Update the lifecycle guidance in the English and translated pages to
distinguish full `ocx` Children from lightweight Children: clarify that
`ocx-child sync --restart-codex` does not restart Codex on lightweight Children,
and instruct users to restart the Codex desktop app and any long-lived Codex
app-server processes separately.
- Line 172: Correct the failed-restart guarantee in the French Remote Link
description: distinguish lightweight `ocx-child` hosts, where the old relay may
already be stopped if replacement startup or health checking fails, from full
`ocx` Children, where the old runtime continues serving. Apply the same
distinction in the English and other locale pages; keep the nonzero exit
behavior and surrounding apply-parity details intact.

Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/reference/cli/lifecycle.md:
- Line 179: Update the Remote Link Child documentation to identify ocx-child
sync and ocx-child status --json as the lightweight executable’s commands, while
keeping ocx link status --json on Home because it contains Home parity rows.
Apply the same command distinction to the English page and other changed
translations.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/cli.rs:
- Around line 213-219: Update `AttachRollbackSnapshot::capture` to treat only
`NotFound` reads as absent and propagate other filesystem errors, ensuring
attach aborts before `apply_attach_or_sync` can run with an incomplete snapshot.
Add a regression test verifying that an unreadable existing config prevents
attach and preserves the config.
- Around line 223-236: Update restore_path and AttachRollbackSnapshot::restore
to propagate or collect restoration failures while continuing every remaining
restore attempt, then report rollback failures alongside the original apply
error. Treat an already-absent file as a successful removal, and add a test
verifying that a restore failure is reported without preventing other restore
attempts.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/tests/relay_and_lifecycle.rs:
- Around line 527-564: Update the reattach failure checks in the test around
`run_bin` to use the valid credential already established by the test instead of
the rejected `ocx_sk_` value. Capture each call’s stderr and assert the
occupied-listen-port failure and unreachable-Home failure respectively, while
preserving the existing nonzero exit checks and subsequent relay health
verification.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ephemeral-child-discovery.test.ts:
- Line 68: Extend the test around `inflated` with Windows behavioral coverage
using distinct `HOME` and `USERPROFILE` values and both candidate executables
present. Execute both generated commands: assert child-first selection when
state exists under `HOME`, and full-`ocx`-first selection when state exists only
under `USERPROFILE`; reuse the test’s existing command-execution and selection
assertions.

Review comments at @tests/clients/link-ocx-child-conformance.test.ts:
- Around line 266-267: Update the TypeScript structural-table removal check and
the corresponding Rust check so a table is removed only when its body contains
blank structural lines, not comment lines; preserve comment-only [features]
tables during surgical detach. Add a shared conformance vector with
preAttachToml "[features]\n# keep\n" and a replace_root_base_url mutation to
verify the comment survives.

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Review comments at @native/ocx-child/tests/relay_and_lifecycle.rs:
- Around line 320-325: Add an RAII guard for the scratch directory in the
relay/lifecycle test, following the existing ScratchGuard pattern in
conformance.rs. Ensure the guard stops the daemon owned by the test before
removing the scratch directory during unwinding, while preserving the explicit
disconnect and its assertions on the normal test path.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/lifecycle.md:
- Line 1328: Update the restart guidance in the fan-out section to clarify that
`ocx sync --restart-codex` applies only to full `ocx` Children, and direct
lightweight `ocx-child` hosts to restart Codex Desktop and long-running
`app-server` processes separately when needed. Apply the equivalent correction
to the matching locale guidance; do not imply that `ocx-child sync
--restart-codex` restarts Codex.

Review comments at @native/ocx-child/src/cli.rs:
- Around line 300-312: Update the prior-daemon recovery path around
start_or_rollover_daemon to verify that state.json and link-key are consistent
before restarting the relay; do not restart when that check fails. When a
restore fails, report whether the prior relay restart was attempted, preserving
the existing error reporting for restart and state-write failures.

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