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Daemon restart truth: pid-verified CLI, honest tray endpoints, gate deadline, bounded spawns - #361

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Problem

Three restart attempts (two gear-menu, one rt daemon restart) all reported success on 2026-09-21 while daemon pid 14770 never changed. Diagnosis: the tray's lifecycle gate was wedged by an op whose body never returned, and every layer above it reported success without verifying anything: the tray acked {"ok":true} before doing any work, the CLI called it restarted as soon as any daemon answered (the old one does), and the menu polled the same lie.

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  • CLI (commands/daemon.ts): restart succeeds only when a different pid answers rt.sock, and says pid X → Y. A pid that never changes prints a failure pointing at the tray log. start/stop surface a tray-reported failure instead of "tray is not running" / "nothing to stop". A present-but-slow tray falls through to the pid poll instead of reading as absent.
  • Tray endpoints (TrayServer.swift): /daemon/start|stop|restart reply after the op with its real outcome (500 on failure, and on the previously-invisible nil-lifecycle case).
  • Lifecycle gate (DaemonLifecycleGate.swift): every op emits an entered event before anything can eat it, parking behind a holder and the retire-latch skip are observable, and a body stuck past a 120s deadline is abandoned with an error event instead of wedging every later op forever. Late completion of an abandoned body is observed, never double-released.
  • Spawns (CommandRunner.swift): new SpawnDriver orchestration behind a SpawnBackend seam. A child that outlives the timeout (60s default) is killed; a child that exits while a grandchild holds a pipe write end (EOF never arrives — deck's managed-app relaunches do this) settles from termination plus a short grace. Deterministic checks drive the seam; no real spawns in the checks suite.
  • Menu (AppDelegate.swift): consumes the op's real result before polling reachability.

Testing

  • 7 new Swift checks (SpawnDriver x5, gate x2) + existing gate/lifecycle checks, full swift test green.
  • 7 new bun tests for restart/start/stop against faked tray+daemon sockets, watched fail first.
  • bun run test: green except 13 pre-existing local stub-rt failures (Executable not found: bun, machine-local PATH family, present on main).
  • bun run test:e2e: green except plugins.test.ts scaffold typecheck, which fails identically on clean main.

Deploy note

Tray-side fixes are not live until the next dev-bundle deploy; the currently-running tray still has the wedged gate, so launchctl kickstart -k gui/501/com.mattstack.daemon.dev stays the bypass until then.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Daemon restarts now confirm that the process has changed before reporting success.
    • Start, stop, and restart operations distinguish failures from unavailable daemons.
    • Tray lifecycle requests report success or failure only after completion.
    • Slow, stopped, or unresponsive daemons are handled more reliably.
    • Failed launches and timed-out commands now return accurate failure results.
  • Reliability

    • Concurrent daemon operations include timeout handling and improved recovery from delayed operations.

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The change adds PID-based daemon restart verification, explicit tray operation failures, injectable process execution, lifecycle deadlines and events, and synchronous HTTP responses based on lifecycle results. Tests cover process, gate, command, and endpoint behavior.

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Daemon lifecycle reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Command restart verification
commands/daemon.ts, commands/__tests__/daemon-restart.test.ts
Daemon commands distinguish failed tray requests from unavailable trays. Restart requires reliable PID verification and reports failed baseline probes as unverified.
Process execution driver
rt-tray/Sources-core/Services/CommandRunner.swift, rt-tray/Tests/MattstackCoreChecks/CommandRunnerChecks.swift, rt-tray/Tests/MattstackCoreChecks/AllChecks.swift
Process execution uses injectable backends and schedulers. The driver handles streaming output, sticky timeout status 124, EOF grace periods, launch failures, and one-time settlement.
Lifecycle gate deadlines and events
rt-tray/Sources-core/Services/DaemonLifecycleGate.swift, rt-tray/Sources/DaemonLifecycle.swift, rt-tray/Tests/MattstackCoreChecks/DaemonLifecycleChecks.swift
Lifecycle operations return Boolean results, carry origins, emit gate events, enforce deadlines, and report late completion.
Tray lifecycle response handling
rt-tray/Sources/TrayServer.swift, rt-tray/Sources/AppDelegate.swift
Tray endpoints await lifecycle operations and return HTTP success or failure responses. Application restart polling runs only after a successful restart.

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  participant TrayServer
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  participant ProcessSpawnBackend
  TrayServer->>DaemonLifecycle: await daemon operation
  DaemonLifecycle->>DaemonLifecycleGate: run operation with deadline
  DaemonLifecycleGate->>ProcessSpawnBackend: execute process work
  ProcessSpawnBackend-->>DaemonLifecycleGate: return completion or timeout
  DaemonLifecycleGate-->>DaemonLifecycle: return Boolean result
  DaemonLifecycle-->>TrayServer: return HTTP success or failure
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- Line 379: Update the availability check in the restart flow around trayQuery()
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