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fix(link): Children owned by the desktop app or a service can leave and re-link from the Home - #8529
A Home could not move a Remote Link Child to a new SSH alias, or remove it, when the Child's runtime was owned by the OpenCodex desktop app or a background service. Four machines on 2.100.2 hit this over SSH. The Child ended up neither a working Child nor standalone, and after a successful re-link Codex still routed natively until someone ran ocx sync by hand.
Before: after ocx disconnect, ocx restart printed "Restart not performed; the running client runtime was kept…" and exited 1, and /healthz still reported role: client. ocx link add then failed with only Remote Link failed during Child restart preflight. Once that was worked around by hand, the new link came up with native Codex routing and without the Home's catalog.
After:
A: restart and disconnect under a supervisor. A client runtime whose saved connection is gone (ocx disconnect, or a newer connect) now accepts ocx restart under any owner. It hands off to the existing standalone recycle: exit 75 for the desktop app, exit 1 for a service (systemd, launchd and WinSW all relaunch on a non-zero exit), otherwise a spawned replacement. One command now works under all three owners. Only a proven end counts: a disconnected state or a different committed connection. An unreadable or mismatched config, or a connection that is current again by the time the recycle would run, keeps the refusal or the runtime, so a failed replacement never drops a working link (the OCX-6 rollback guarantee). ocx disconnect now restarts a client runtime that is still running. If that restart does not complete, or liveness is inconclusive (a recorded OpenCodex process did not answer), it exits 1 and names ocx status / ocx restart. The --orphaned-token recovery path never runs the restart. With --json, restart progress goes to stderr.
B: a refusal that names its cause.child_restart_unsupported now carries a hint naming the condition and the Child command that fixes it:
still linked (config runtimeRole client): ocx disconnect, then ocx restart
a Hub: ocx hub disable
/healthz reports role client: ocx restart
no restart capability v1: update OpenCodex, then ocx restart
health port differs from the config port: ocx restart
nothing answering on the port: ocx start or ocx service start
The CLI message ends with (code <code>), and the server response keeps the machine-readable code.
C: "done" vs "kept" and working hints.ocx restart already exits 0 for done and 1 for kept; the kept message under the desktop app now names steps that work. The standalone status hint "Re-point with: ocx start" now says ocx sync, because ocx start refuses whenever a proxy is already running (and under the desktop app). The desktop refusal from ocx start now names ocx restart and ocx sync.
D: routing lost after link add, root cause.ocx connect --link re-injected Codex routing over the standalone proxy's injection, but writeJournal only creates or replaces a snapshot, so the journal stayed {kind: "process", pid: <standalone>}. ocx restart then handed the restart to the supervisor. The fresh ocx start ran reconcileJournal, saw a dead process owner and restored native Codex and the old catalog under the new link. An unsupervised restart usually escaped this because its replacement starts while the parent is still alive. Fix: right after its connection commits, connectClient takes over the journal under the Codex config lock and keeps its original snapshot (adoptJournalForClient); each connected ocx sync does the same, as the retry. Before the commit the journal stays its live writer's, so a runtime starting mid-connect leaves it alone. The takeover never claims another client's journal. It re-checks the connection, and writes, while holding the Codex config lock and then the config mutation lock, so no connection change can land in between. Connect checks the same owner, link and token; sync uses its injection guard, so a stale sync claims nothing. A missing journal is not a failure: external Codex providers leave none, and with no journal startup recovery has nothing to restore. A sync whose takeover failed (lock busy, connection changed, or journal owned by an earlier connection) exits 1, skips its post-apply runtime restart, and says what to run. The machine sync API answers 409 with success: false for it. Connect warns when the journal belongs to an earlier connection and names ocx sync --restart-codex for after the next restart. After the commit reconcileJournal({activeClientApiKeyId}) leaves it alone too.
E: re-linking under another alias in one step. Decision: not built. With A and B, the supported path is two commands: ocx link revoke (or the dashboard Disconnect) for the old alias, then ocx link add for the new one, and each failure in between names its fix. A single step would need the Home to recognise one Child behind two aliases (host-key identity across link records) and to sequence revoke and enroll atomically. That isn't small, and the two-step path is now reliable.
Disconnect refusals from the field.
client_catalog_ownership_changed now says the Codex catalog matches neither the catalog this connection wrote nor the one recorded before it connected, and names ocx disconnect --keep-catalog.
desktop_lifecycle_unsafe caused by a desktop-remote/ folder with no state or receipt (seen with a renamed receipt) now names the folder and says to move it aside. Other desktop_lifecycle_unsafe causes keep a generic message; see follow-ups.
Docs: docs-site/.../guides/remote-link.md and structure/remote-link.md / structure/runtime.md.
Follow-ups (not in this PR)
The dashboard Integrations sync button ignores every /api/machine/sync failure, now including the new 409 handover failure (gui/src/pages/Integrations.tsxsyncMachine). This is pre-existing: it already drops the 502 hub-offline failure, and now drops the new 409 the same way. The code change is small, but a gui/ change requires a UI screenshot (enforce-target). The sync row renders only for a connected client, and no harness or test renders Integrations.tsx, so the screenshot needs a connected Home and link. Until then the CLI (ocx sync exit 1 plus message) and the 409 body carry the failure and its recovery.
Journal recovery is not fenced against an in-flight connect (pre-existing, narrowed here). Two windows remain:
A fresh connect with no existing journal still writes a client-owned journal before it commits. A runtime starting in that window restores it as uncommitted client routing. This is writeJournal behavior unchanged from origin/dev.
An existing process-owned journal can be orphaned between the commit and the takeover if that process exits in that instant.
Closing both needs startup recovery and connect to share a lock or a recoverable transaction. Before this PR the takeover never happened at all.
A refused disconnect leaves a receipt that blocks the next runtime start (real defect). On macbookpro2 (desktop-owned), ocx disconnect --keep-catalog wrote desktop-remote/disconnect.json with phase prepared, then failed in restoreConnectedCodex with "Codex journal restore was partial". The connection stayed connected, and the client runtime then failed to start five times in a row until the receipt folder was moved aside. Two possible fixes: run the journal check before writing the receipt, or roll the receipt back when nothing else changed; either way a retry must be able to finish or roll back from prepared. This needs a decision on what a partial journal restore leaves behind, so it gets its own PR with a failing test.
desktop_lifecycle_unsafe for its other causes.inspectRemoteDesktopStore folds about a dozen failure sites into conflict or unsafe with no file or reason. Naming them means threading reasons through src/claude/desktop-remote-store*.ts and defining a safe repair for each.
Verification
Coordinator's fresh final review (gpt-6.1-terra xhigh, every changed hunk read) on c2d118880:
P1, tests could write and delete the real ~/.codex when run without the preload: accepted. Production writes are already blocked by assertNotRealCodexHomeUnderTest through atomicWriteFile, which the test-file entry arms without the preload. These tests also did raw writeFileSync/rmSync on import-time Codex paths, which the guard does not see. The three scenarios now run in tests/fixtures/client-link-journal-runner.ts with CODEX_HOME/OPENCODEX_HOME in an owned temp home set before imports. The parent touches no Codex path and removes only that home. The other test files this PR changed use subprocesses with their own CODEX_HOME (codex-journal) or no Codex files at all.
P2, the recycle bypassed service viability: accepted, fixed test-first.client-runtime "a recycle told the service is not viable starts a replacement despite OCX_SERVICE=1" and client-runtime-restart "the recycle receives the supervisor verdict".
P2, disconnect could restart a newer connection: accepted in part, fixed test-first.disconnect-runtime "a connection made after the disconnect leaves its runtime alone" and "standalone is reported only when the runtime after the restart is not a client". The part rebutted: it would not take down a working connection. That runtime's connection is current, so a supervised one refuses and an unsupervised one restarts on the same connection.
P2, dashboard ignores the 409: deferred with reason (see follow-ups).
Final review (fresh reviewer, gpt-6.1-terra):
P2, the post-apply restart ran after a failed handover: accepted. On a Child with an earlier connection's journal, that restart would restore the snapshot over the routing just applied. Fixed test-first: cli-sync-expect-link "a failed journal handover skips the post-apply runtime restart".
Review round 5 (same reviewer):
P2, an unreadable journal read as missing: accepted. Fixed test-first: codex-journal "an unreadable journal on the handover read fails instead of reading as missing". The test stubs only the second read, after the ownership check passes.
GUI disposition: the reviewer accepted it as pre-existing.
Review round 4 (same reviewer):
P1, external providers fail every sync: accepted. Fixed test-first: codex-journal "an external provider leaves no journal to hand over…".
P2, connect ignores a foreign journal: accepted. Fixed test-first: client-link-teardown "connect over an earlier connection's Codex journal warns…".
P2, GUI drops the 409: rebutted as pre-existing.syncMachine never read any response, including the existing 502. Listed under follow-ups.
Review round 3 (same reviewer) found one P1 and two P2s, all accepted and fixed test-first:
Mutation lock not held through the write. The guard and the write now share the lock. codex-journal "adoption holds the config mutation lock through its guard…" sees a competing writer refused. With only the lock wrapper removed, that writer is admitted.
Missing or foreign journal reported as success. The takeover now returns separate outcomes.
Machine API reported success.cli-sync-expect-link "the machine sync route reports a failed journal handover as not complete" failed first.
The reviewer accepted the race between recovery and connect as pre-existing follow-up risk, not a regression introduced here.
Review round 2 (same reviewer):
P1, stale sync claims a later connection's journal: accepted. Fixed test-first: codex-journal "adoption never takes another client's journal and honors the caller's guard".
P2, sync reports success after a failed takeover: accepted. Fixed test-first: cli-sync-expect-link "a sync whose journal handover failed exits 1 and says to sync again".
P1, journal recovery racing connect: accepted in part. The commit-to-takeover window shrank to the takeover call itself. The pre-commit client-owned journal is pre-existing writeJournal behavior. Fencing both is listed under follow-ups.
Review round 1 (gpt-6.1-terra, high effort) found three P1 issues, all accepted and fixed test-first:
unreadable state treated as an ended connection
journal takeover before the connect commit
inconclusive liveness reported as success
The tests are in tests/clients/client-runtime-restart.test.ts (proven-end predicate, recheck before recycle), tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts (the journal stays the writer's until adoption) and tests/clients/client-link-teardown.test.ts (connect over a standalone injection adopts after commit), plus tests/cli/disconnect-runtime.test.ts (inconclusive probe fails).
Each test listed failed on unmodified code first and passes now:
tests/clients/client-runtime-restart.test.ts: a runtime whose connection changed recycles under desktop, service and no supervisor (3 cases), and an unchanged connection under a supervisor is still refused.
tests/server/link-enrollment.test.ts: seven refusal-hint cases (config still linked, Hub, stale client runtime, Hub runtime, no restart capability, port mismatch, nothing answering).
tests/cli/cli-link-enrollment.test.ts: the restart-preflight refusal carries the condition, the fix and the code.
tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts: a client injection over a standalone injection takes the journal, so the supervisor's start keeps routing. On unmodified code the journal owner stayed process, and reconcileJournal printed "Previous session (PID …) did not shut down cleanly. Codex state restored from journal." and removed openai_base_url.
tests/clients/client-link-teardown.test.ts: the catalog-changed and desktop-remote-folder refusals. On unmodified code they printed only Error: client_catalog_ownership_changed and Error: desktop_lifecycle_unsafe.
tests/service/autostart-health.test.ts, tests/cli/cli-restart-health.test.ts, tests/cli/link-apply-restart.test.ts: hint and message expectations updated first, failed, then the source changed.
tests/cli/disconnect-runtime.test.ts covers a new module (restart after disconnect, failure exit 1 with the next command, standalone left alone, --json stdout kept clean).
Commands (macOS arm64, Bun 1.4.4):
bun run typecheck: exit 0
bun run structure:check: exit 0
bun run privacy:scan: exit 0
bun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: 29 pass
bun run test:changed: exit 1, because Bun reported "no working git found" in this environment. I selected the test files that import the changed modules by hand and ran them in groups.
clients: 2926 pass, 5 fail. Two are the ocx-child end-to-end tests (see NOT RUN). Three are 5-second timeouts in tests/clients/client-link-connect.test.ts, which fail the same way on origin/dev.
server/service/config/layout: 678 pass, 3 timeouts under parallel load.
update: 1023 pass, 4 timeouts. Every failing file in these two groups passes alone.
bun test tests/codex-integration alone: 11084 pass, 52 fail (exit 1) when run as one process. Re-run alone on this branch: 13 of the 14 non-update failing files pass; codex-config-write-lock (1 timeout) and codex-shim (1 test, "Unix install rejects delayed detached redispatch…") fail identically on origin/dev. The four codex-cli-update-* files failed only with ~16-second timeouts, import none of the changed modules, and were not re-run alone (about 8 seconds per test).
The ocx disconnect, link enrollment and teardown files changed here all pass alone.
NOT RUN:
A real desktop-owned or service-owned Child runtime. The development machine is a live Child of the Home and was not touched; the supervisor handoff is covered by the controller tests and the existing recycleStandalone behavior.
tests/clients/link-ocx-child-e2e.test.ts (2 tests): this environment has neither cargo nor a prebuilt ocx-child binary. Left to CI.
The full bun run test (resource contention across worktrees on this machine; focused files above instead).
macOS/Windows CI (lane=all), which runs only as a batch dispatch on dev.
Prior art
systemd Restart=on-failure restarts the main process on a non-zero exit: systemd.service(5). This is the behavior the service handoff (exit 1) relies on.
EX_TEMPFAIL (75) means "temporary failure, retry" in sysexits.h(3head); it means "restart" only where a supervisor is configured that way, as the OpenCodex desktop supervisor is (desktop/src-tauri/src/supervisor.rs).
The design reuses the existing recycle path instead of adding a new supervisor protocol. Research used web search; the Aside browser was not used because its skill says it is not for ordinary public-page fetching.
Checklist
Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. The bound restart capability and admission are unchanged; the new accept path runs only after the same HMAC check, and messages carry no secrets.
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New Features
Disconnecting a linked client now restarts its runtime toward standalone OpenCodex, with guidance if the restart fails.
Connecting and syncing can hand off Codex journal ownership; failed handoffs are reported and prevent runtime restarts.
Child enrollment errors now include more specific preflight details and recovery guidance.
Bug Fixes
Restart handling now accounts for disconnected or replaced client connections.
Disconnect errors better explain catalog ownership conflicts and desktop state that cannot be safely identified.
Updated guidance recommends ocx sync to apply routing to a running proxy.
Documentation
Clarified disconnect, restart, and Child enrollment recovery steps.
… removed, under any owner
After ocx disconnect (or a newer connect) a desktop- or service-owned client runtime refused
ocx restart with restart_supervised and kept answering role client, so a Home-driven leave over
SSH could not finish. A changed connection has nothing to keep: accept the restart and hand off
to the standalone recycle (desktop exit 75, service exit 1, otherwise a spawned replacement).
ocx disconnect now restarts a still-live client runtime itself and exits 1 naming ocx restart
when that does not complete.
… preflight refusal
child_restart_unsupported now carries a hint for each cause (still linked, Hub, stale client
runtime, no restart capability, port mismatch, nothing answering) with the Child command that
fixes it, and the CLI appends the error code.
…vised relaunch keeps routing
ocx connect --link re-injected routing over a standalone proxy's injection but left the journal
owned by that process. After the supervisor relaunch (desktop or service), startup recovery saw
a dead process owner and restored native Codex and the old catalog under the new link.
…ow to clear it
A desktop-remote folder holding no state or receipt (seen with a renamed receipt) refused
disconnect with only desktop_lifecycle_unsafe. The inspector now returns that reason and path,
and disconnect names the folder and says to move it aside.
The pull request updates remote-link connection, sync, disconnect, and Child enrollment flows. It adds Codex journal handover, client runtime recycling after disconnect, more specific disconnect diagnostics, and Child preflight refusal hints.
Changes: Client Connection Lifecycle
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Journal handover on connect and sync src/codex/journal.ts, src/client/connect.ts, tests/clients/client-link-teardown.test.ts, tests/fixtures/client-link-journal-runner.ts, tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts
Connection and sync flows attempt to hand over Codex journal ownership after injection. Tests cover ownership outcomes, guards, and locking.
Disconnect checks liveness and can request recycling for a live client runtime. Additional diagnostics describe unsafe desktop store state and changed catalog ownership.
Runtime and routing guidance src/cli/desktop-runtime-guidance.ts, src/cli/restart-failure.ts, src/cli/status.ts, tests/cli/cli-restart-health.test.ts, tests/cli/link-apply-restart.test.ts, tests/service/autostart-health.test.ts
CLI guidance and tests direct users to ocx restart or ocx sync in running-proxy and desktop-supervised cases.
Child Enrollment Preflight
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Role and health preflight hints src/server/management/link-child-preflight.ts, src/server/management/link-enrollment.ts, tests/server/link-enrollment.test.ts
Enrollment refusals include hints based on Child runtime role and health response. Tests cover additional refusal conditions.
Enrollment error codes and recovery guidance src/cli/link-enrollment.ts, tests/cli/cli-link-enrollment.test.ts, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md
Recognized enrollment phases include server error codes in CLI messages. Tests and documentation describe Child restart preflight failures and recovery steps.
sequenceDiagram
participant OcxDisconnect as ocx disconnect
participant Dispatch as disconnect dispatch
participant RuntimeHandler as restartRuntimeAfterDisconnect
participant ProxyRestart as proxy restart handler
participant ClientRuntime as client runtime
OcxDisconnect->>Dispatch: request disconnect
Dispatch->>RuntimeHandler: pass liveness observer and restart handler
RuntimeHandler->>ProxyRestart: restart when a client runtime is live
ProxyRestart->>ClientRuntime: request restart
ClientRuntime->>ClientRuntime: recycle if the served connection has ended
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Possibly related issues
lidge-jun/opencodex#7771 — The changes allow a disconnected client runtime to recycle under desktop or service ownership.
Possibly related PRs
lidge-jun/opencodex#7484 — This PR extends the client-runtime restart contract to recycle after the served connection ends.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8237 — This PR refines the Child enrollment refusal path with role- and health-specific hints.
Suggested reviewers:luvs01
Merge Risk: Low · up to 41e71
The change is mergeable with owner awareness. Several recovery hints and messages can mislead operators, and two journal-handover edge cases can leave them without a working recovery path. Disconnect may also report success without confirming that a replacement runtime is serving.
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…nnection
Review: an invalid or mismatched client state also read as "changed", so a supervised runtime
could exit on an unreadable config. Only a disconnected state or a different committed connection
now counts, and the controller rechecks right before it recycles.
…on commits
Review: taking the journal during injection let a runtime starting mid-connect restore native
Codex as uncommitted client routing. The journal now stays its live writer's until
commitClientConnection, then connect (and each connected sync, as the retry) adopts it under the
Codex config lock.
…guidance
Review: findLiveProxy returns null both for no runtime and for a probe that could not decide, so
disconnect could report success beside a still-serving client runtime. It now reads
observeProxyLiveness and exits 1 on unknown; --orphaned-token skips the restart step.
…rt a failed one
Review round 2: adoption now never takes another client's journal and re-runs the caller's
connection guard under the Codex config lock (connect: same owner, link and token; sync: the
injection's own guard), so a stale sync cannot claim a later connection's journal. A sync whose
handover failed exits 1 and says to sync again.
…port every failed one
Review round 3: the connection guard and the journal write now run under the config mutation
lock inside the Codex config lock, so no connection or runtime change lands between them.
adoptJournalForClient returns adopted / owned / missing / foreign; sync treats missing and
foreign as a failed handover, and the machine sync API answers 409 success:false for it.
…ect says so
Review round 4: external Codex providers leave no standard journal, so a missing journal is no
longer a failed handover (sync no longer exits 1 for them on every run). Connect now warns when
the journal belongs to an earlier connection, naming 'ocx sync --restart-codex' after the next
restart, and the sync and machine-API messages give the same recovery.
…g as missing
Review round 5: adoption read the journal through readJournal(), which maps both a confirmed
absence and an unreadable journal to null. It now inspects the journal directly: only a confirmed
absence is "missing"; unknown throws, which sync and connect report as a failed handover.
…handover
Final review: ocx sync still restarted a link Child's runtime after reporting a failed handover;
with an earlier connection's journal that restart restores the snapshot over the routing just
applied. The restart is now skipped and the message says so.
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Review comments at @src/cli/connect.ts:
- Line 605: Update the catalog ownership error handling in disconnectClient so
it recommends --keep-catalog only when no disconnect receipt has been committed.
If a receipt exists, direct recovery through the original operation or a safe
receipt transition instead of suggesting a retry with changed options; add
coverage for an ownership change after receipt creation.
Review comments at @src/cli/desktop-runtime-guidance.ts:
- Line 22: Qualify the restart guidance in the message string so `ocx restart`
applies only to standalone runtimes or ended connections; for a current
connected Desktop client, direct users to quit OpenCodex from the tray menu and
reopen it. Update the message test to verify both cases, keeping the guidance
consistent with `createClientRestartController()` and `reportRestartFailure()`.
Review comments at @src/cli/disconnect-runtime.ts:
- Line 38: Update the restart flow so it verifies the replacement result and
current connection state before reporting that the machine runs standalone
OpenCodex or returning success. If a newly committed connection owns the
machine, report that connection change instead; add a regression case where a
connection commits between disconnect and restart.
Review comments at @src/cli/link-enrollment.ts:
- Line 216: Update the special-case error paths in the link-enrollment flow for
child_port_busy, child_external_provider_conflict, and non-residual
remote_platform_unsupported to include the recognized response code in each
error message. Preserve their existing conditions and messages, and ensure these
errors expose the code before they throw rather than relying on the later
codeSuffix path.
Review comments at @src/client/connect.ts:
- Line 1080: Update FOREIGN_JOURNAL_WARNING and the related CLI and machine-sync
failure messages to distinguish verified journal recovery from recovery that
preserves a foreign journal. Recommend restarting and re-linking only when
recovery is confirmed; otherwise provide a separate next step that does not
assume the journal was cleared.
- Line 1157: Update the unsafe/conflict refusal in the desktop lifecycle check
so its message does not claim that nothing changed globally; limit that claim to
local disconnect state, or report the completed teardown when
handleDisconnectCommand handles this error. Preserve the refusal behavior.
Review comments at @src/client/runtime.ts:
- Line 437: Make the scheduled recycle from onLinkEnded and the restart
controller’s recycle callback, exposed here as recycle and calling
recycleStandalone, join the same in-flight promise regardless of which starts
first. Ensure concurrent requests for the same runtime cannot spawn duplicate
replacements or let one failed attempt exit the parent while the other remains
unresolved. Add regression coverage for both start orderings.
Review comments at @src/codex/journal.ts:
- Around line 518-519: Update journalHandoverIncomplete and its handover
decision path so a missing journal is not treated as complete when routing is
injected, while preserving the no-journal outcome for external-provider
configurations. Use enough routing context to distinguish those states, and
refuse or report missing recovery evidence before connect or sync reports
success. Add a regression case for injected routing with a missing journal.
Review comments at @src/server/management/link-child-preflight.ts:
- Line 60: Update the recovery guidance in the
runtime-without-restart-capability message to recommend an owner-managed restart
or stopping and starting the Child after upgrading; do not direct the operator
to run `ocx restart`, which cannot restart a process lacking the bound restart
capability.
- Line 58: The stale Hub-runtime hint must not tell operators to run `ocx hub
disable`, since the effective configuration has already passed the
standalone-role check. Update the hint returned by this branch to direct
operators to restart the stale runtime through its owner, and update the
Hub-runtime test to expect that guidance.
Review comments at @src/server/management/link-enrollment.ts:
- Line 306: Update the health-probe handling around `parseChildHttp` so SSH
transport failures and malformed HTTP responses remain distinguishable from a
valid response indicating the runtime is stopped. Preserve the available probe
or transport diagnostic in the refusal, and only tell the operator to start
OpenCodex when a successful, valid health response establishes that it is
stopped.
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docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md
scripts/test-layout/layout.json
src/claude/desktop-remote-store.ts
src/cli/connect.ts
src/cli/desktop-runtime-guidance.ts
src/cli/disconnect-runtime.ts
src/cli/dispatch.ts
src/cli/link-enrollment.ts
src/cli/restart-failure.ts
src/cli/status.ts
src/cli/sync-command.ts
src/client/connect.ts
src/client/machine-api.ts
src/client/runtime-restart.ts
src/client/runtime.ts
src/codex/journal.ts
src/server/management/link-child-preflight.ts
src/server/management/link-enrollment.ts
structure/remote-link.md
structure/runtime.md
tests/cli/cli-link-enrollment.test.ts
tests/cli/cli-restart-health.test.ts
tests/cli/cli-sync-expect-link.test.ts
tests/cli/disconnect-runtime.test.ts
tests/cli/link-apply-restart.test.ts
tests/clients/client-link-teardown.test.ts
tests/clients/client-runtime-restart.test.ts
tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts
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// The bare code left a Home-driven leave with nothing to act on; the remedy already exists.
if (error instanceof Error && error.message === "client_catalog_ownership_changed") {
throw new Error("client_catalog_ownership_changed: the Codex model catalog (opencodex-catalog.json in the Codex home) matches neither the catalog this connection wrote nor the one recorded before it connected, so something changed it after connecting and disconnect will not overwrite it. To disconnect and leave that file as it is, run: ocx disconnect --keep-catalog");
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Do not recommend changing options after disconnect preparation.
In src/client/connect.ts, Line 1118 (disconnectClient), catalog ownership is checked both before receipt creation and after preparation. If the catalog changes between those checks, this error occurs with a saved receipt whose keepCatalog is false.
The suggested ocx disconnect --keep-catalog then fails with client_disconnect_options_changed. The saved receipt requires the original option value.
Recommend --keep-catalog only when no disconnect receipt has committed. For an existing receipt, explain that the original operation must be recovered, or implement a safe receipt transition before offering this command. Add coverage for an ownership change after receipt creation.
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Review comment at @src/cli/connect.ts at line 605:
Update the catalog ownership error handling in disconnectClient so it recommends --keep-catalog only when no disconnect receipt has been committed. If a receipt exists, direct recovery through the original operation or a safe receipt transition instead of suggesting a retry with changed options; add coverage for an ownership change after receipt creation.
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Qualify the restart advice for connected Desktop clients.
This message does not distinguish standalone runtimes from connected client runtimes. For a Desktop-owned client whose durable connection is current, createClientRestartController() still refuses ocx restart in src/client/runtime-restart.ts, Line 119.
The new instruction therefore recommends a command that cannot restart that client. Qualify ocx restart as the standalone or ended-connection path. For a current connected client, direct the user to Quit from the tray menu and reopen OpenCodex, as reportRestartFailure() does. Update the message test to cover this distinction.
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Review comment at @src/cli/desktop-runtime-guidance.ts at line 22:
Qualify the restart guidance in the message string so `ocx restart` applies only to standalone runtimes or ended connections; for a current connected Desktop client, direct users to quit OpenCodex from the tray menu and reopen it. Update the message test to verify both cases, keeping the guidance consistent with `createClientRestartController()` and `reportRestartFailure()`.
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Verify standalone state before reporting it.
If another connectClient commits after disconnect completes, the restart can successfully start that new client connection. The restart callback returns only replacement success. It does not establish that the replacement serves standalone OpenCodex.
This line then reports standalone state and returns success while the machine remains a Child. Reobserve the replacement and current connection before printing this message. If a new connection owns the machine, report that connection change instead. Add a regression case for a connection committed between disconnect and restart.
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Review comment at @src/cli/disconnect-runtime.ts at line 38:
Update the restart flow so it verifies the replacement result and current connection state before reporting that the machine runs standalone OpenCodex or returning success. If a newly committed connection owns the machine, report that connection change instead; add a regression case where a connection commits between disconnect and restart.
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Include codes in the special-case errors.
child_port_busy, child_external_provider_conflict, and non-residual remote_platform_unsupported throw at Lines 205–208 before reaching this suffix. Scripts cannot identify those recognized refusals by code. Include the code in those errors too.
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Review comment at @src/cli/link-enrollment.ts at line 216:
Update the special-case error paths in the link-enrollment flow for child_port_busy, child_external_provider_conflict, and non-residual remote_platform_unsupported to include the recognized response code in each error message. Preserve their existing conditions and messages, and ensure these errors expose the code before they throw rather than relying on the later codeSuffix path.
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const FOREIGN_JOURNAL_WARNING = "Warning: the Codex journal belongs to an earlier connection, so the next OpenCodex restart restores native Codex routing. After that restart, run 'ocx sync --restart-codex' to point Codex at this connection again.";
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Do not promise that a restart will clear every foreign journal.
If Codex changes config.toml after injection, restoreJournalState can return complete: false and preserve the journal. On restart, reconcileJournal then leaves that foreign journal in place. The instructed ocx sync --restart-codex can encounter the same foreign owner again, so the documented re-link recovery path does not progress. Make the restart advice conditional on verified recovery. Give users a separate instruction when recovery preserves the journal, and align the CLI and machine-sync failure messages with that distinction. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @src/client/connect.ts at line 1080:
Update FOREIGN_JOURNAL_WARNING and the related CLI and machine-sync failure messages to distinguish verified journal recovery from recovery that preserves a foreign journal. Recommend restarting and re-linking only when recovery is confirmed; otherwise provide a separate next step that does not assume the journal was cleared.
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Share one recycle operation between both entry points.
If onLinkEnded schedules a recycle during the restart controller’s 200 ms delay, the scheduled recycle can still be starting its replacement when recycle starts another. In an unsupervised runtime, both calls can spawn replacements for the same port. One failed attempt can also exit the parent while the other remains unresolved.
Make the scheduled recycle and restart callback join the same promise, regardless of which starts first. Add regression coverage for both orderings.
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Review comment at @src/client/runtime.ts at line 437:
Make the scheduled recycle from onLinkEnded and the restart controller’s recycle callback, exposed here as recycle and calling recycleStandalone, join the same in-flight promise regardless of which starts first. Ensure concurrent requests for the same runtime cannot spawn duplicate replacements or let one failed attempt exit the parent while the other remains unresolved. Add regression coverage for both start orderings.
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Do not treat a missing journal as a complete handover when routing is injected.
If the journal is removed while config.toml remains routed, adoptJournalForClient returns "missing". Line 519 classifies that result as complete. Connect then gives no handover warning, and sync reports success. Later, restoreConnectedCodex refuses disconnect because it finds injected routing without a journal. Distinguish an external-provider configuration, which legitimately has no journal, from injected routing with missing recovery evidence. Refuse or report the latter before presenting a successful handover. Add a regression case for that state. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @src/codex/journal.ts around lines 518 - 519:
Update journalHandoverIncomplete and its handover decision path so a missing journal is not treated as complete when routing is injected, while preserving the no-journal outcome for external-provider configurations. Use enough routing context to distinguish those states, and refuse or report missing recovery evidence before connect or sync reports success. Add a regression case for injected routing with a missing journal.
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Do not disable the Hub for a stale Hub runtime.
apply reaches this branch only after the effective configuration passes the standalone-role check. If Hub settings were already removed, ocx hub disable refuses because the saved role is no longer hub. The operator must instead restart the stale runtime through its owner. Update the hint and the Hub-runtime test. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @src/server/management/link-child-preflight.ts at line 58:
The stale Hub-runtime hint must not tell operators to run `ocx hub disable`, since the effective configuration has already passed the standalone-role check. Update the hint returned by this branch to direct operators to restart the stale runtime through its owner, and update the Hub-runtime test to expect that guidance.
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Give a recovery path for runtimes without restart support.
If an upgrade leaves the old process running, ocx restart cannot restart that process without its bound restart capability. The CLI instead directs the operator to stop and start it once. Recommend an owner-managed restart or stop/start after upgrading. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the recovery guidance in the runtime-without-restart-capability message to recommend an owner-managed restart or stopping and starting the Child after upgrading; do not direct the operator to run `ocx restart`, which cannot restart a process lacking the bound restart capability.
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if (!isChildHealth(beforeHealth, "standalone", childPort)) return await failed(fail("child_restart_unsupported", "The Child must run a standalone OpenCodex with bound restart support; update or disconnect it before linking.", 409));
let beforeHealth: unknown = null;
try { if (before.code === 0) beforeHealth = parseChildHttp(before.stdout); } catch { /* reported as nothing answering */ }
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Preserve health-probe failures in the refusal.
An SSH failure with exit code 255 or a malformed HTTP response becomes null, so the response claims that nothing answered and tells the operator to start OpenCodex. Neither condition establishes that the runtime is stopped. Handle SSH failures and invalid responses separately, and provide a probe or transport diagnostic instead. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the health-probe handling around `parseChildHttp` so SSH transport failures and malformed HTTP responses remain distinguishable from a valid response indicating the runtime is stopped. Preserve the available probe or transport diagnostic in the refusal, and only tell the operator to start OpenCodex when a successful, valid health response establishes that it is stopped.
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… CODEX_HOME
Final review P1: three teardown tests wrote and removed config.toml, the journal and the catalog
through paths fixed when src/codex/paths loads. Run from outside the repository (no preload), those
raw writes would land in the real ~/.codex. They now run in tests/fixtures/client-link-journal-
runner.ts, whose CODEX_HOME and OPENCODEX_HOME point into the test's own temp home before any
import; the parent touches no Codex path and removes only that owned home.
…is viable
Final review: the recycle path called recycleStandalone, which exited 1 whenever OCX_SERVICE=1,
so a process that outlived its service registration went down with nothing to relaunch it. The
controller now passes its supervisor verdict (isServiceViable included) into the recycle; without
a viable service it starts a verified replacement, and the replacement never inherits the marker.
…behind
Final review: a connect landing between disconnect and its restart could have its new runtime
restarted and the machine reported standalone. Disconnect now rechecks that the durable state is
still disconnected right before the restart, and reports standalone only when the runtime seen
after the restart is not a client.
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Review comments at @src/cli/disconnect-runtime.ts:
- Around line 46-47: Update the post-restart check in the disconnect flow so
success is reported only when `deps.observe()` confirms a live replacement with
the expected standalone role; return 1 with recovery guidance for unknown,
absent, or unrecognized-role observations. Add regression cases for these
post-restart outcomes in `disconnect-runtime.test.ts`.
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tests/clients/client-runtime-restart.test.ts
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Require a confirmed live replacement before reporting standalone success.
If the second observation returns unknown or absent, this condition falls through to Line 51 and returns success. The command then reports standalone OpenCodex even though no serving replacement was confirmed. A replacement can stop between restart() returning and this observation.
Require a live observation with the expected standalone role. Return 1 with recovery guidance for unknown, absent, or an unrecognized role. Add regression cases for those post-restart observations in tests/cli/disconnect-runtime.test.ts.
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Update the post-restart check in the disconnect flow so success is reported only when `deps.observe()` confirms a live replacement with the expected standalone role; return 1 with recovery guidance for unknown, absent, or unrecognized-role observations. Add regression cases for these post-restart outcomes in `disconnect-runtime.test.ts`.
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Summary
A Home could not move a Remote Link Child to a new SSH alias, or remove it, when the Child's runtime was owned by the OpenCodex desktop app or a background service. Four machines on 2.100.2 hit this over SSH. The Child ended up neither a working Child nor standalone, and after a successful re-link Codex still routed natively until someone ran
ocx syncby hand.Before: after
ocx disconnect,ocx restartprinted "Restart not performed; the running client runtime was kept…" and exited 1, and/healthzstill reportedrole: client.ocx link addthen failed with onlyRemote Link failed during Child restart preflight. Once that was worked around by hand, the new link came up with native Codex routing and without the Home's catalog.After:
A: restart and disconnect under a supervisor. A client runtime whose saved connection is gone (
ocx disconnect, or a newer connect) now acceptsocx restartunder any owner. It hands off to the existing standalone recycle: exit 75 for the desktop app, exit 1 for a service (systemd, launchd and WinSW all relaunch on a non-zero exit), otherwise a spawned replacement. One command now works under all three owners. Only a proven end counts: a disconnected state or a different committed connection. An unreadable or mismatched config, or a connection that is current again by the time the recycle would run, keeps the refusal or the runtime, so a failed replacement never drops a working link (the OCX-6 rollback guarantee).ocx disconnectnow restarts a client runtime that is still running. If that restart does not complete, or liveness is inconclusive (a recorded OpenCodex process did not answer), it exits 1 and namesocx status/ocx restart. The--orphaned-tokenrecovery path never runs the restart. With--json, restart progress goes to stderr.B: a refusal that names its cause.
child_restart_unsupportednow carries a hint naming the condition and the Child command that fixes it:runtimeRoleclient):ocx disconnect, thenocx restartocx hub disable/healthzreports role client:ocx restartocx restartocx restartocx startorocx service startThe CLI message ends with
(code <code>), and the server response keeps the machine-readable code.C: "done" vs "kept" and working hints.
ocx restartalready exits 0 for done and 1 for kept; the kept message under the desktop app now names steps that work. The standalone status hint "Re-point with: ocx start" now saysocx sync, becauseocx startrefuses whenever a proxy is already running (and under the desktop app). The desktop refusal fromocx startnow namesocx restartandocx sync.D: routing lost after link add, root cause.
ocx connect --linkre-injected Codex routing over the standalone proxy's injection, butwriteJournalonly creates or replaces a snapshot, so the journal stayed{kind: "process", pid: <standalone>}.ocx restartthen handed the restart to the supervisor. The freshocx startranreconcileJournal, saw a dead process owner and restored native Codex and the old catalog under the new link. An unsupervised restart usually escaped this because its replacement starts while the parent is still alive. Fix: right after its connection commits,connectClienttakes over the journal under the Codex config lock and keeps its original snapshot (adoptJournalForClient); each connectedocx syncdoes the same, as the retry. Before the commit the journal stays its live writer's, so a runtime starting mid-connect leaves it alone. The takeover never claims another client's journal. It re-checks the connection, and writes, while holding the Codex config lock and then the config mutation lock, so no connection change can land in between. Connect checks the same owner, link and token; sync uses its injection guard, so a stale sync claims nothing. A missing journal is not a failure: external Codex providers leave none, and with no journal startup recovery has nothing to restore. A sync whose takeover failed (lock busy, connection changed, or journal owned by an earlier connection) exits 1, skips its post-apply runtime restart, and says what to run. The machine sync API answers 409 withsuccess: falsefor it. Connect warns when the journal belongs to an earlier connection and namesocx sync --restart-codexfor after the next restart. After the commitreconcileJournal({activeClientApiKeyId})leaves it alone too.E: re-linking under another alias in one step. Decision: not built. With A and B, the supported path is two commands:
ocx link revoke(or the dashboard Disconnect) for the old alias, thenocx link addfor the new one, and each failure in between names its fix. A single step would need the Home to recognise one Child behind two aliases (host-key identity across link records) and to sequence revoke and enroll atomically. That isn't small, and the two-step path is now reliable.Disconnect refusals from the field.
client_catalog_ownership_changednow says the Codex catalog matches neither the catalog this connection wrote nor the one recorded before it connected, and namesocx disconnect --keep-catalog.desktop_lifecycle_unsafecaused by adesktop-remote/folder with no state or receipt (seen with a renamed receipt) now names the folder and says to move it aside. Otherdesktop_lifecycle_unsafecauses keep a generic message; see follow-ups.Docs:
docs-site/.../guides/remote-link.mdandstructure/remote-link.md/structure/runtime.md.Follow-ups (not in this PR)
The dashboard Integrations sync button ignores every
/api/machine/syncfailure, now including the new 409 handover failure (gui/src/pages/Integrations.tsxsyncMachine). This is pre-existing: it already drops the 502 hub-offline failure, and now drops the new 409 the same way. The code change is small, but agui/change requires a UI screenshot (enforce-target). The sync row renders only for a connected client, and no harness or test rendersIntegrations.tsx, so the screenshot needs a connected Home and link. Until then the CLI (ocx syncexit 1 plus message) and the 409 body carry the failure and its recovery.Journal recovery is not fenced against an in-flight connect (pre-existing, narrowed here). Two windows remain:
writeJournalbehavior unchanged fromorigin/dev.Closing both needs startup recovery and connect to share a lock or a recoverable transaction. Before this PR the takeover never happened at all.
A refused disconnect leaves a receipt that blocks the next runtime start (real defect). On macbookpro2 (desktop-owned),
ocx disconnect --keep-catalogwrotedesktop-remote/disconnect.jsonwith phaseprepared, then failed inrestoreConnectedCodexwith "Codex journal restore was partial". The connection stayedconnected, and the client runtime then failed to start five times in a row until the receipt folder was moved aside. Two possible fixes: run the journal check before writing the receipt, or roll the receipt back when nothing else changed; either way a retry must be able to finish or roll back fromprepared. This needs a decision on what a partial journal restore leaves behind, so it gets its own PR with a failing test.desktop_lifecycle_unsafefor its other causes.inspectRemoteDesktopStorefolds about a dozen failure sites intoconflictorunsafewith no file or reason. Naming them means threading reasons throughsrc/claude/desktop-remote-store*.tsand defining a safe repair for each.Verification
Coordinator's fresh final review (gpt-6.1-terra xhigh, every changed hunk read) on
c2d118880:~/.codexwhen run without the preload: accepted. Production writes are already blocked byassertNotRealCodexHomeUnderTestthroughatomicWriteFile, which the test-file entry arms without the preload. These tests also did rawwriteFileSync/rmSyncon import-time Codex paths, which the guard does not see. The three scenarios now run intests/fixtures/client-link-journal-runner.tswithCODEX_HOME/OPENCODEX_HOMEin an owned temp home set before imports. The parent touches no Codex path and removes only that home. The other test files this PR changed use subprocesses with their ownCODEX_HOME(codex-journal) or no Codex files at all.client-runtime"a recycle told the service is not viable starts a replacement despite OCX_SERVICE=1" andclient-runtime-restart"the recycle receives the supervisor verdict".disconnect-runtime"a connection made after the disconnect leaves its runtime alone" and "standalone is reported only when the runtime after the restart is not a client". The part rebutted: it would not take down a working connection. That runtime's connection is current, so a supervised one refuses and an unsupervised one restarts on the same connection.Final review (fresh reviewer, gpt-6.1-terra):
cli-sync-expect-link"a failed journal handover skips the post-apply runtime restart".Review round 5 (same reviewer):
codex-journal"an unreadable journal on the handover read fails instead of reading as missing". The test stubs only the second read, after the ownership check passes.Review round 4 (same reviewer):
codex-journal"an external provider leaves no journal to hand over…".client-link-teardown"connect over an earlier connection's Codex journal warns…".syncMachinenever read any response, including the existing 502. Listed under follow-ups.Review round 3 (same reviewer) found one P1 and two P2s, all accepted and fixed test-first:
codex-journal"adoption holds the config mutation lock through its guard…" sees a competing writer refused. With only the lock wrapper removed, that writer is admitted.cli-sync-expect-link"the machine sync route reports a failed journal handover as not complete" failed first.The reviewer accepted the race between recovery and connect as pre-existing follow-up risk, not a regression introduced here.
Review round 2 (same reviewer):
codex-journal"adoption never takes another client's journal and honors the caller's guard".cli-sync-expect-link"a sync whose journal handover failed exits 1 and says to sync again".writeJournalbehavior. Fencing both is listed under follow-ups.Review round 1 (gpt-6.1-terra, high effort) found three P1 issues, all accepted and fixed test-first:
The tests are in
tests/clients/client-runtime-restart.test.ts(proven-end predicate, recheck before recycle),tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts(the journal stays the writer's until adoption) andtests/clients/client-link-teardown.test.ts(connect over a standalone injection adopts after commit), plustests/cli/disconnect-runtime.test.ts(inconclusive probe fails).Each test listed failed on unmodified code first and passes now:
tests/clients/client-runtime-restart.test.ts: a runtime whose connection changed recycles under desktop, service and no supervisor (3 cases), and an unchanged connection under a supervisor is still refused.tests/server/link-enrollment.test.ts: seven refusal-hint cases (config still linked, Hub, stale client runtime, Hub runtime, no restart capability, port mismatch, nothing answering).tests/cli/cli-link-enrollment.test.ts: the restart-preflight refusal carries the condition, the fix and the code.tests/codex-integration/codex-journal.test.ts: a client injection over a standalone injection takes the journal, so the supervisor's start keeps routing. On unmodified code the journal owner stayedprocess, andreconcileJournalprinted "Previous session (PID …) did not shut down cleanly. Codex state restored from journal." and removedopenai_base_url.tests/clients/client-link-teardown.test.ts: the catalog-changed and desktop-remote-folder refusals. On unmodified code they printed onlyError: client_catalog_ownership_changedandError: desktop_lifecycle_unsafe.tests/service/autostart-health.test.ts,tests/cli/cli-restart-health.test.ts,tests/cli/link-apply-restart.test.ts: hint and message expectations updated first, failed, then the source changed.tests/cli/disconnect-runtime.test.tscovers a new module (restart after disconnect, failure exit 1 with the next command, standalone left alone,--jsonstdout kept clean).Commands (macOS arm64, Bun 1.4.4):
bun run typecheck: exit 0bun run structure:check: exit 0bun run privacy:scan: exit 0bun test tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: 29 passbun run test:changed: exit 1, because Bun reported "no working git found" in this environment. I selected the test files that import the changed modules by hand and ran them in groups.tests/cli/cli-status-json.test.tspasses alone (61/61).ocx-childend-to-end tests (see NOT RUN). Three are 5-second timeouts intests/clients/client-link-connect.test.ts, which fail the same way onorigin/dev.bun test tests/codex-integrationalone: 11084 pass, 52 fail (exit 1) when run as one process. Re-run alone on this branch: 13 of the 14 non-update failing files pass;codex-config-write-lock(1 timeout) andcodex-shim(1 test, "Unix install rejects delayed detached redispatch…") fail identically onorigin/dev. The fourcodex-cli-update-*files failed only with ~16-second timeouts, import none of the changed modules, and were not re-run alone (about 8 seconds per test).ocx disconnect, link enrollment and teardown files changed here all pass alone.NOT RUN:
recycleStandalonebehavior.tests/clients/link-ocx-child-e2e.test.ts(2 tests): this environment has neither cargo nor a prebuiltocx-childbinary. Left to CI.bun run test(resource contention across worktrees on this machine; focused files above instead).lane=all), which runs only as a batch dispatch ondev.Prior art
Restart=on-failurerestarts the main process on a non-zero exit: systemd.service(5). This is the behavior the service handoff (exit 1) relies on.KeepAlivewithSuccessfulExitfalse relaunches only an unsuccessful exit: Apple, Creating Launch Daemons and Agents.EX_TEMPFAIL(75) means "temporary failure, retry" in sysexits.h(3head); it means "restart" only where a supervisor is configured that way, as the OpenCodex desktop supervisor is (desktop/src-tauri/src/supervisor.rs).Checklist
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ocx syncto apply routing to a running proxy.Documentation