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feat(link): show Child version, install kind and catalog freshness; ocx link check - #8508
wp2 of the Home-orchestrated Child updates roadmap (devlog/_plan/261111_link_child_updates/020_signals_visibility.md). The Home can now see which OpenCodex each linked Child runs and whether that Child's catalog is behind the Home's. It can also check a Child on demand.
GET /api/link/status?children=1: each row gains a child block with the Home version, the Child's running version (peer report) and installed version (last check), its install kind (npm, pnpm, Bun, Desktop app, GOAT-managed, mise, source, ocx-child, unknown), version skew (same/behind/ahead/unknown), update route, catalog freshness (current/behind/unknown), relayed activity and the last operation. The block is opt-in, so older CLIs see unchanged rows. The new CLI validator ignores unknown keys and maps unknown values to unknown, so later Homes can extend it.
ocx link status: shows version, kind, skew and catalog state.
ocx link check (--link-id <id> | --all): a new verb backed by POST /api/link/children/operations (op: "observe") and GET /api/link/children/jobs/{jobId}. Each Child gets one SSH call through the version-gated command from feat(link): gated remote ocx, Child update contract and observation cache #8505. It never updates anything: an ocx older than 2.97.0 or an ocx-child is refused inside the remote script before arguments run. Results are stored in <configDir>/link/child-observations.json.
Catalog freshness: the link relay hashes each fully read /v1/catalog body and records the pull per link after the stream closes. The Home compares that etag with its current catalog. This is the signal behind the "1M models show ~258k" bug: a Child whose catalog is behind now shows as behind.
Per-link activity: relayed model requests are counted per link. Catalog, readiness and parity requests are not, and refused requests are not. Later phases use this to avoid interrupting a running turn.
Docs:skills/ocx (regenerated plus hand pages), registry and help text, structure/remote-link.md, and the docs-site Remote Link guide and CLI lifecycle reference in English and all 7 translations.
Nothing here updates, syncs or restarts a Child. Those operations come in wp3.
Verification
6 new test files and 2 changed ones, written failing-first. The aborted-download test caught a real bug: a cancelled catalog download was recorded as a pull; the relay now tracks cancellation.
bun test on the new and changed files plus link-management-routes, link-status-projection, link-peer-compatibility, management-route-registry, core-lab-boundary, skill-ocx, cli-capabilities and both test-layout files: 264 pass, 0 fail. The implementation lane ran a wider set of 36 files: 843 pass, 0 fail.
bun run typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check, skill:surface:check and bun scripts/file-size-ratchet.ts: pass.
NOT RUN: the full root suite locally (shared, loaded host; CI covers it). No real SSH Child, so checks ran against fake executables. No Windows host.
Security: POST /api/link/children/operations runs a fixed command on a Child over the existing pinned SSH channel. It accepts a dashboard session or an admin token on loopback, refuses Tailscale identity sessions, a client-role runtime and Child-initiated links, validates link ids against links.json, and stores only parsed fields, never remote output. An explicit security review is recorded in a PR comment before merge.
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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.
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New Features
Added ocx link check to inspect Child versions and update plans without installing updates. Check a specific link or all eligible links, optionally return immediately with --no-wait or format results as JSON.
Added Child diagnostics to ocx link status --json, including version details, catalog freshness, activity, and recent operations.
Checks handle up to three Children concurrently, with a 60-second limit per Child. Older Children and link types that cannot be checked over SSH receive appropriate status results.
Documentation
Updated the Remote Link CLI reference and related guidance across supported languages.
This change adds Home-side Child observation jobs, catalog and activity tracking, optional Child diagnostics in link status, and the ocx link check command. It also updates related tests, references, and localized documentation.
The relay tracks eligible requests and reports completed catalog responses. Listener code records catalog pulls and provides activity snapshots. Catalog freshness uses etags, and carried-field-only observation patches preserve an existing observedAt.
Child observation and job execution src/link/child-observe.ts, src/link/child-ops-engine.ts, tests/clients/link-child-observe.test.ts, devlog/_plan/261111_link_child_updates/*
observeChild classifies bounded update-plan probes and returns Child observations. The job engine schedules observations, applies concurrency and per-link locks, and records job results. The plan audit documents framing classifications and the observation flow.
Home status projection and operation routes src/link/status-projection.ts, src/server/management/*, tests/server/link-child-ops-routes.test.ts, tests/server/local-control-socket.test.ts, structure/*
Home routes accept observe jobs and expose job status. Home link status can include Child version, update, catalog, activity, and operation data when requested with children=1.
CLI check and status handling src/cli/*link*, src/cli/registry.ts, src/cli/sync-fanout.ts, tests/cli/*link*, docs-site/src/content/docs/*/guides/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/*/reference/cli/lifecycle.md, skills/ocx/references/*, scripts/test-layout/*
The CLI adds ocx link check, job polling, response validation, and outcome-based exit codes. Status requests include children=1. The references and localized guides describe the command and Child status fields.
sequenceDiagram
participant CLI as ocx link check
participant Routes as Home management routes
participant Engine as Child operations engine
participant Observe as observeChild
participant SSH as SSH runner
participant Cache as Child observation cache
CLI->>Routes: Submit observe operation
Routes->>Engine: Create Child job
Engine->>Observe: Observe selected Child
Observe->>SSH: Run gated update-plan probe
SSH-->>Observe: Return plan output
Observe-->>Engine: Return observation and outcome
Engine->>Cache: Write observation and operation result
CLI->>Routes: Poll job status
Routes-->>CLI: Return job document
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Possibly related issues
lidge-jun/opencodex#8359 — This issue concerns Child runtime discovery and version reporting. The supplied summary does not establish that this change fixes candidate selection or npm-prefix discovery.
Possibly related PRs
lidge-jun/opencodex#8500 — Its plan describes the Child status projection, observe jobs, and ocx link check behavior implemented here.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8237 — Adds ephemeral Child links, which this change handles in observation and status projection.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8255 — Adds Child-kind metadata used by the new observation and diagnostics behavior.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 9672e
Some Child checks return an unhelpful error and wrong exit code, and legacy requests can briefly appear idle. The empty-selection guidance is also inaccurate; these are bounded issues.
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Share the concurrency limit across Child-operation jobs
When two checks target disjoint sets of Children, each submission starts its own worker pool, so the Home exceeds the documented three-at-a-time SSH limit. Submitting two three-link jobs with held observations immediately produces six concurrent calls; submitting individual jobs can bypass the limit entirely. The per-link locks only prevent overlap on the same Child, so they do not bound aggregate SSH processes and update-plan probes. Use an engine-wide queue or semaphore so concurrent jobs share the three execution slots.
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Correct, fixed in 81e0947: the engine now has one shared queue, so at most three items run across all jobs; a test submits two jobs on different links and asserts the peak is three.
Security review (020 Revision 8 item 4; MAINTAINERS.md security-boundary review) of POST /api/link/children/operations, GET /api/link/children/jobs/{jobId} and the link relay changes. A fresh independent review task with a security scope ran two rounds.
Round 1 on a60be3d0d9: FIXES-REQUIRED (1). A legacy relay request was counted as link activity before its key was accepted, so a pre-auth 400 (the AgentAssertion refusal) could keep every link from reading idle.
Round 2 on 81e09479231149b2a5a3630cd22613d1adaf6e55: PASS. Legacy activity now counts only after the response status is known and below 400, and a scratch test confirms 400, 401, 403, 404, 429 and 503 leave inFlight at 0 and record nothing.
Scope verified:
Access:either auth (dashboard session with Origin and CSRF, or admin token on trusted loopback). Tailscale identity sessions are refused, a client-role runtime gets 409 runtime_role_client, and Child-initiated links are refused before any SSH call.
Command: a closed op set (observe); link ids must match lnk_[0-9a-f]{16} and exist in links.json; the remote arguments are fixed and built from the Home's own version.
Remote output: capped at 64 KiB and 60 s, reduced to closed reason codes and strict versions, never stored or logged verbatim.
Jobs: ids carry 64 random bits; retention is bounded (1 h, 32 jobs).
Local-control socket: allowlist unchanged (GET status only).
Catalog hashing: streamed, constant memory.
Isolation: no wp2 module is reachable from src/router.ts, src/server/lifecycle.ts or src/server/responses/core.ts. The status-read flush and the engine-wide queue add no amplification or leak path.
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Review comments at @src/cli/link-child-ops.ts:
- Around line 98-105: Update the 409 handling in runLinkCheck to inspect the
RuntimeApiError body code and provide specific messages for no_eligible_links
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Map the other 409 answers of the operations route to explicit messages.
runLinkCheck handles only the 404 case. The route can also return two other 409 responses. Both reach runCliAction and exit with code 5:
no_eligible_links, returned by --all on a Home with no links.
runtime_role_client, returned when the command runs on a Child.
linkRequest strips the server message and keeps only Link management request failed (409). The operator sees no cause. The capability text, skills/ocx/references/04_failure_semantics.md and the docs all say exit 5 means "another operation holds the link". That statement is wrong for these two cases.
Read the error code on 409 and print a specific message. Keep exit 5 for any 409. Change the docs to say exit 5 covers any conflict from the operations route.
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--- "a/src/cli/link-child-ops.ts"+++ "b/src/cli/link-child-ops.ts"@@ -95,9 +95,14 @@
job = readJob(await request<unknown>("/api/link/children/operations", {
method: "POST", headers: { "content-type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ op: "observe", linkIds: all ? "all" : linkIds }),
}, deps));
} catch (error) {
// A new Home answers link_not_found for a mistyped id; an older Home has no such route at all.
+ if (error instanceof RuntimeApiError && error.status === 409) {+ const code = (error.body as { error?: { code?: unknown } } | null)?.error?.code;+ if (code === "no_eligible_links") throw new RuntimeApiError("This Home has no links to check.", 409, error.body);+ if (code === "runtime_role_client") throw new RuntimeApiError("A Child runtime cannot check other Children; run this command on the Home.", 409, error.body);+ }
if (error instanceof RuntimeApiError && error.status === 404) {
const body = error.body as { error?: { code?: unknown } } | null;
if (body?.error?.code !== "link_not_found") throw new RuntimeApiError(OLD_HOME_MESSAGE, 404, error.body);
}
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}catch(error){
// A new Home answers link_not_found for a mistyped id; an older Home has no such route at all.
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Review comment at @src/cli/link-child-ops.ts around lines 98 - 105:
Update the 409 handling in runLinkCheck to inspect the RuntimeApiError body code and provide specific messages for no_eligible_links and runtime_role_client, while preserving exit code 5 for all 409 responses. Update the capability text, failure-semantics reference, and docs so exit 5 describes any conflict from the operations route, not only another operation holding the link.
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Fixed in 9672ef1: runLinkCheck maps no_eligible_links and runtime_role_client 409s to explicit messages (exit 5 kept), with a test, and the capability text and 04_failure_semantics.md now say exit 5 is any conflict from the operations route.
@lidge-jun Thanks! The handler now maps both 409 codes and preserves exit 5. The test at tests/cli/cli-link-check.test.ts Line 124 covers both messages. I inspected the test but did not run it.
Two documentation details remain:
docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md Line 191 and structure/remote-link.md Line 73 still describe exit 5 only for a held link.
src/cli/link-child-ops.ts Line 15 and the updated capability text say there are no Home-initiated links. The engine returns no_eligible_links only when the store has no links (src/link/child-ops-engine.ts Line 120). A store with only Child-initiated links still submits a job.
Please change the message to “This Home has no links to check” and align the exit-code descriptions with all 409 conflicts.
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src/link must not import src/server (tests/clients/link-boundary.test.ts): move the pure catalogEtag into src/lib/catalog-etag.ts, re-exported by src/server/catalog-download.ts. ocx link check maps no_eligible_links and runtime_role_client 409s to explicit messages (exit 5 unchanged) and the docs say exit 5 is any conflict (CodeRabbit).
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- Line 111: Preserve the local Child-role refusal identifier through linkRequest
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skills/ocx/references/01_surface_access-remote.md
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src/cli/capabilities-access-remote.ts
src/cli/link-child-ops.ts
src/lib/catalog-etag.ts
src/link/child-catalog-freshness.ts
src/server/catalog-download.ts
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Handle the local Child-role refusal.
On a running Remote Link Child, runtimeRequest refuses the POST with a local 503 before it reaches the operations route. linkRequest then removes the refusal code and message. The command prints Link management request failed (503) and exits 1, not the documented message and exit 5. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Preserve the local refusal code in linkRequest and map that specific refusal here. Add a test without the baseUrl override so it exercises discovery.
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Review comment at @src/cli/link-child-ops.ts at line 111:
Preserve the local Child-role refusal identifier through linkRequest instead of reducing it to a generic status and message, then update the linkRequest error handling near the 409 check to map that specific refusal to the documented message and exit code 5. Add a test that exercises discovery without a baseUrl override.
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Maintainer integration into dev under MAINTAINERS.md (maintainer with admin access, PR-only bypass of the second-approval requirement; no self-approval).
Required CI on this head: all checks green. Shard test 2/5 first failed on tests/providers/claude-cli-client-http.test.ts (JSON parse EOF in a Claude CLI image-history case). That test passes locally (5/5) and is unrelated to this change, so only the failed jobs were re-run, and they passed.
Security review: recorded above; round 2 PASS.
Final merge-gate review: GO-WITH-FIXES on a60be3d0d9 → PASS on 81e0947923. After CI caught a src/link → src/server import, the delta to 9672ef169c (catalog etag moved to src/lib; explicit 409 messages) got its own PASS on this head.
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Local checks: 13 focused files, 332 pass; typecheck, privacy, structure, skill:surface:check and the file-size ratchet pass.
Carried to wp3 (Low): "no Home-initiated link" wording for no_eligible_links; a legacy non-streaming request counted from its response headers; the CLI wait limit when jobs queue behind each other.
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Summary
wp2 of the Home-orchestrated Child updates roadmap (
devlog/_plan/261111_link_child_updates/020_signals_visibility.md). The Home can now see which OpenCodex each linked Child runs and whether that Child's catalog is behind the Home's. It can also check a Child on demand.GET /api/link/status?children=1: each row gains achildblock with the Home version, the Child's running version (peer report) and installed version (last check), its install kind (npm, pnpm, Bun, Desktop app, GOAT-managed, mise, source,ocx-child, unknown), version skew (same/behind/ahead/unknown), update route, catalog freshness (current/behind/unknown), relayed activity and the last operation. The block is opt-in, so older CLIs see unchanged rows. The new CLI validator ignores unknown keys and maps unknown values tounknown, so later Homes can extend it.ocx link status: shows version, kind, skew and catalog state.ocx link check (--link-id <id> | --all): a new verb backed byPOST /api/link/children/operations(op: "observe") andGET /api/link/children/jobs/{jobId}. Each Child gets one SSH call through the version-gated command from feat(link): gated remote ocx, Child update contract and observation cache #8505. It never updates anything: anocxolder than 2.97.0 or anocx-childis refused inside the remote script before arguments run. Results are stored in<configDir>/link/child-observations.json./v1/catalogbody and records the pull per link after the stream closes. The Home compares that etag with its current catalog. This is the signal behind the "1M models show ~258k" bug: a Child whose catalog is behind now shows as behind.skills/ocx(regenerated plus hand pages), registry and help text,structure/remote-link.md, and the docs-site Remote Link guide and CLI lifecycle reference in English and all 7 translations.Nothing here updates, syncs or restarts a Child. Those operations come in wp3.
Verification
bun teston the new and changed files pluslink-management-routes,link-status-projection,link-peer-compatibility,management-route-registry,core-lab-boundary,skill-ocx,cli-capabilitiesand both test-layout files: 264 pass, 0 fail. The implementation lane ran a wider set of 36 files: 843 pass, 0 fail.bun run typecheck,privacy:scan,structure:check,skill:surface:checkandbun scripts/file-size-ratchet.ts: pass.NOT RUN: the full root suite locally (shared, loaded host; CI covers it). No real SSH Child, so checks ran against fake executables. No Windows host.
Security:
POST /api/link/children/operationsruns a fixed command on a Child over the existing pinned SSH channel. It accepts a dashboard session or an admin token on loopback, refuses Tailscale identity sessions, a client-role runtime and Child-initiated links, validates link ids againstlinks.json, and stores only parsed fields, never remote output. An explicit security review is recorded in a PR comment before merge.Checklist
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New Features
ocx link checkto inspect Child versions and update plans without installing updates. Check a specific link or all eligible links, optionally return immediately with--no-waitor format results as JSON.ocx link status --json, including version details, catalog freshness, activity, and recent operations.Documentation