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feat(link): update, sync and restart Codex on linked Children from the Home - #8513
wp3 of the Home-orchestrated Child updates roadmap (devlog/_plan/261111_link_child_updates/030_child_operations.md). The Home can now operate its linked Children: update each one to the Home's own OpenCodex version, sync it now, or restart Codex on it. All three run over the pinned SSH channel the Home already uses for ocx sync fan-out.
ocx link update (--link-id <id> | --all) --yes: first runs an --expect-link identity sync. It then reads the Child's own ocx update --plan --json and applies ocx update --yes --version <Home version> --expect-plan <token> --not-after <Child clock + 120 s>, then syncs again so Codex routing is restored. npm and pnpm Children apply through their install's own launcher (node <root>/bin/ocx.mjs); Bun Children apply through their served entry. Results per Child: succeeded, up-to-date, busy, offline, refused, owner-action (Desktop app, GOAT-managed, mise, source or a Child below 2.97.0), unsupported (ocx-child, Child-initiated, Windows apply), failed (a rolled-back update also resyncs) or uncertain (recorded for later recovery and never re-applied). One update runs at a time per Home.
ocx link sync (--link-id <id> | --all) [--restart-app-server-only | --restart-codex] and ocx link restart-codex --link-id <id> [--scope app-server|codex] --yes: a restart is sent only after the plain sync, and only if no model request for that Child is in flight at that moment. Otherwise it is withheld (restart-skipped:link-active, exit 6). A restart never applies to --all, Windows or ocx-child.
API:POST /api/link/children/operations accepts op: observe | sync | restart-codex | update. DELETE /api/link/{id} answers 409 link_operation_in_progress while a job holds the link. Contract link.child-ops/1.
Safety: every update path goes through the version-gated remote command from feat(link): gated remote ocx, Child update contract and observation cache #8505. Tests run the real gated script against stub executables and prove that a 2.96 install never receives update through Bun or Node, even when the Home believes it can apply; that ocx-child is refused before any arguments run; that the Windows builder only builds update --plan; and that the launcher runs only after the gate, from the same checked root.
Docs:skills/ocx, capability text, structure/remote-link.md, and the docs-site Remote Link guide and CLI lifecycle page in English and 7 translations.
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New and modified tests were written failing-first. The A4 launcher group had 18 of 124 failing before the change; the engine, runner, route and CLI files failed or could not import before it.
17 focused files (all new and changed tests plus the link-boundary, core-lab-boundary, route-registry, skill and layout guards): 402 pass, 0 fail. The implementation lane ran 59 files: 1,230 pass, 17 skip (Windows-only fixtures).
bun run typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check, skill:surface:check and bun scripts/file-size-ratchet.ts: pass. Docs ci-workflow tests: 471 pass.
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The full root suite locally (shared, loaded host; CI covers it).
A real npm or pnpm apply on a live install: only fake layouts ran, so that path is NOT VERIFIED.
Windows fixtures (macOS host).
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.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added ocx link sync, ocx link restart-codex, and ocx link update to manage linked Child computers from Home. Commands report per-Child results and can wait for completion or return without waiting.
Bug Fixes
Link removal is blocked while an operation is in progress, helping prevent interruptions.
Improved update handling for supported package-based Children, including clearer results when required tools are unavailable.
Updated ocx link check conflict reporting when the Home has no links.
Documentation
Expanded Remote Link guides and CLI references across supported languages with command usage, requirements, limitations, and result details.
The PR adds Home-submitted Child sync, restart-codex, and update jobs. It extends job scheduling, SSH execution, management routes, CLI handling, and documentation. The update path includes launcher detection and launcher-aware plan classification.
Defines shared Child-operation types and environment contracts. The engine accepts an environment at submission time, adds reservations and shared access, and applies per-link locks and concurrency limits. Tests cover scheduling, outcomes, retention, and observation parsing.
Adds runners for observe, sync, restart-codex, and update. The update path reports launcher state and uses it in plan and apply classification. Tests cover runner outcomes, launcher routing, refusal parsing, and Windows restrictions.
Management API and link-operation protection src/server/management/link-child-ops-routes.ts, src/server/management/link-route-state.ts, src/server/management/link-routes.ts, tests/server/link-child-ops-routes.test.ts
The management routes submit Child operations through the shared engine and map refusal cases to HTTP responses. Link removal reserves the Child-operation lock before teardown and returns a conflict when another operation holds the link.
Adds command parsing, job submission, polling, result handling, exit-code mapping, and capability registration for update, sync, and restart-codex. Tests cover the new commands and updated link-check behavior.
Documents the commands, job schema, version and platform limits, exit codes, failure behavior, and launcher-aware update path across references and localized guides.
sequenceDiagram
participant CLI as ocx link CLI
participant Routes as link-child-ops-routes
participant Engine as ChildOpsEngine
participant Runner as Child operation runner
participant Child as Child over SSH
CLI->>Routes: submit operation request
Routes->>Engine: submit request and environment
Engine->>Runner: run queued item
Runner->>Child: run pinned SSH operation
Child-->>Runner: return operation result
Runner-->>Engine: return item outcome
Engine-->>Routes: return job state
Routes-->>CLI: return job document
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Possibly related issues
lidge-jun/opencodex#8359 — The new operations use the linked SSH channel. The issue describes runtime selection that could affect which executable these operations use; this diff does not establish that it fixes that selection problem.
lidge-jun/opencodex#7297 — The PR adds operation jobs and result states, but does not add the durable Remote Link failure and SSH lifecycle diagnostics requested by this issue.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8508 — Provides the observe-only Child-operation foundation extended by this PR.
lidge-jun/opencodex#8276 — Establishes the pinned sync command and link metadata used by these runners.
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Reserve the link against jobs before starting removal
If an observe job is submitted while DELETE is awaiting the remote disconnect or purge, the engine still admits it because supervisor.holdLink() does not reserve the engine's per-link lock. This check then returns 409 after remote cleanup has already succeeded, retaining the Home's link record and API key even though the Child has disconnected (or been purged). restartTunnel() only restarts the SSH forward; it does not restore the Child's connection configuration. Reserve removal in the same admission mechanism used by Child jobs before the first teardown await, and release that reservation in finally, rather than attempting to abort after destructive cleanup.
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Correct. Fixed in d4af463: DELETE reserves the link in the engine admission (the same per-link lock jobs take) before the body read and any teardown await, and releases it in finally. A job submitted during removal is refused (409 single-link, busy item in a multi-link job), and the post-cleanup 409 path is gone. Route tests cover the race, the entry refusal and release after a failed removal.
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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md:
- Line 208: Update the restart and sync behavior description around
runRestartCodexItem to distinguish an already-active link, where the restart is
skipped before SSH and no sync runs, from cases where sync can complete:
activity begins after the initial check or the operation is sync with a restart
flag.
- Line 210: Update the non-loopback Home guidance in the command exit-status
description to state that these operations are not available from the dashboard,
replacing the direction to use the Remote Link page.
Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/guides/remote-link.md:
- Line 101: Update the Japanese Remote Link guide and equivalent translated
guides to limit the confirmation requirement to `restart-codex` and
`--restart-codex`; clarify separately that `sync --link-id <id>
--restart-app-server-only` does not require `--yes`, while accurately
documenting its effect on active Codex turns. Keep the wording consistent with
the English documentation.
Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/reference/cli/lifecycle.md:
- Line 1390: Update the exit-code entry in the lifecycle reference and the
guide’s exit-code summary to state that with --no-wait, exit code 0 can mean the
job was submitted before completion; its items may still be queued or running
and may later fail. Preserve the existing success meaning for waiting runs.
Review comments at @skills/ocx/references/01_surface_access-remote.md:
- Line 726: Update the remote-access documentation statement about pinned syncs
to limit the guarantee to successful and known failed or rolled-back applies;
explicitly tell operators to re-check routing after an uncertain apply result.
Keep the existing behavior and outcomes for other Child updates unchanged.
- Line 726: Update the legacy Child behavior description to state that Children
on 2.93.x–2.96.x may apply settings through the pinned sync before reporting
legacy-ocx; do not claim they run nothing. Make the matching correction in the
remote-access capability description, keeping the other version and platform
behaviors unchanged.
Review comments at @skills/ocx/references/02_json_shapes.md:
- Around line 421-422: Update the item-state list in the JSON shapes reference
to include the valid in-progress states queued and running. Keep the existing
states unchanged so consumers accept all states returned by --no-wait responses.
Review comments at @skills/ocx/references/04_failure_semantics.md:
- Around line 161-163: Update the exit 5 explanation and any exit-code summaries
that omit Child-initiated links. List link_operation_in_progress,
link_not_home_initiated, an empty Home, and a command run on a Child as possible
causes; direct operators to check the error message before retrying rather than
treating every exit 5 as a held link.
Review comments at @src/cli/capabilities-access-remote.ts:
- Line 190: Update the sync usage entries in the capability index and registry
to show separate forms: the general form allowing --link-id or --all without
restart flags, and the restart form requiring --link-id. Keep both usage strings
consistent with LINK_CHILD_OPS_USAGE and the constraints enforced by
parseChildOpArgs and parseOperation.
Review comments at @src/cli/link-child-ops.ts:
- Line 17: Update LOOPBACK_REQUIRED_MESSAGE to state only that CLI child
operations require a Home bound to loopback, removing the unavailable dashboard
alternative. Update the capability description and assert the exact message in
the relevant tests.
Review comments at @src/cli/registry.ts:
- Line 166: Update the sync help text in the registry entry to show the
non-restart form separately from the restart form. The restart form must require
a single --link-id and must not imply that --all supports restart flags; keep
the documented options consistent with parseChildOpArgs and
LINK_CHILD_OPS_USAGE.
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Major · Reject incompatible Node candidates before selecting the launcher. · ssh-argv.ts:389-405
src/link/ssh-argv.ts:389-405 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Reject incompatible Node candidates before selecting the launcher.
If an npm Child has Node 12.19 in its install prefix and Node 18 or newer on PATH, node_ok accepts the prefix Node and skips PATH. The plan reports the launcher as available, but apply cannot load bin/ocx.mjs, so the update fails.
Check candidate compatibility with the package’s Node requirement and continue to the PATH candidate when the prefix Node is incompatible.
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Update find_launcher_node to reject candidates that do not satisfy the package’s Node requirement, including the install-prefix candidate, and continue checking PATH when that candidate is incompatible. Preserve node_ok’s existing availability check and select only a candidate compatible with loading bin/ocx.mjs.
Major · Scale the wait cap for multi-Child updates. · link-child-ops.ts:121-138
src/cli/link-child-ops.ts:121-138 Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Scale the wait cap for multi-Child updates.
In src/cli/link-child-ops.ts:124-133, the three-hour cap can expire during a valid update job. For example, 64 serial updates with three-minute applies exceed the cap even before other steps are counted. The CLI exits 1 while the Home continues the job, so callers do not receive its final result.
Scale the finite cap with the admitted item budget. Retain a bounded allowance for time queued behind other jobs.
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Update the wait cap in waitForChildJob to scale with the admitted items’ estimated work budget, so valid multi-item jobs can finish; retain a finite, bounded allowance for time queued behind other jobs. Keep the queued-item deadline extension from allowing the overall cap to grow without bound.
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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md:
- Line 210: Update the `--no-wait` guidance to explain that the accepted
response provides a `jobId` and users can retrieve the job result with `GET
/api/link/children/jobs/{jobId}`. Describe using that returned `jobId` to check
the asynchronous job’s outcome.
- Line 208: Update the link-removal behavior description to distinguish
single-link and multi-link jobs: a single-link job submitted during removal
receives 409 link_operation_in_progress, while a multi-link job reports that
link as busy and may continue running on other links. Keep the existing refusal
behavior for removing a link while an operation is already running.
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Review comments at @src/cli/link-child-ops.ts:
- Around line 121-138: Update the wait cap in waitForChildJob to scale with the
admitted items’ estimated work budget, so valid multi-item jobs can finish;
retain a finite, bounded allowance for time queued behind other jobs. Keep the
queued-item deadline extension from allowing the overall cap to grow without
bound.
Review comments at @src/link/ssh-argv.ts:
- Around line 389-405: Update find_launcher_node to reject candidates that do
not satisfy the package’s Node requirement, including the install-prefix
candidate, and continue checking PATH when that candidate is incompatible.
Preserve node_ok’s existing availability check and select only a candidate
compatible with loading bin/ocx.mjs.
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- Line 210: Update the remote-link guide’s `--no-wait` explanation to tell
operators to retrieve job results promptly and explain that finished jobs expire
after one hour, may be evicted sooner when more than 32 jobs finish, and are
lost when the Home restarts; note that a later GET may return 404.
- Line 208: Update the remote-link guide’s restart-protection description to
state that it is best-effort: a request may start after `syncWithRestart` checks
activity but before the restart, allowing the restart to end that request even
on a current Child. Advise operators to pause new requests when they need to
preserve turns, and update translated guides that repeat the stronger guarantee.
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- Line 208: Update the restart warning in the remote-link guide to tell
operators to let active Codex turns finish and prevent new turns from starting
before restarting; pausing new model requests alone does not protect turns
running tools. Apply the equivalent warning to the French, Japanese, Korean,
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- `ocx link restart-codex --link-id <id> --yes` syncs first and then restarts the Child's Codex app-servers, so a running Codex loads the current catalog. `--scope codex` also quits and relaunches the Codex desktop app, which needs a signed-in desktop session on the Child. `ocx link sync --link-id <id>` with `--restart-app-server-only` or `--restart-codex --yes` does the same. A restart ends the Codex turns running on that Child, so it names exactly one link. It needs 2.93.0 or later.
- `ocx link update (--link-id <id> | --all) --yes` brings the Child's OpenCodex to this Home's version, never to another one, through the Child's own updater. The Home first confirms that the Child still belongs to this link, then asks the Child for an update plan, applies it with a deadline counted on the Child's own clock, and syncs again after a successful, failed or rolled-back apply. An apply whose result is unknown is neither retried nor resynced; check that Child with `ocx link check`. npm and pnpm installs are updated through their Node launcher and Bun installs through Bun; `ocx link check` on an npm or pnpm Child therefore also runs `node --version` there, read-only. Updates need 2.97.0 or later on the Child; an older Child receives no update command and reports `owner-action` (`legacy-ocx`). Updates run one Child at a time and restart the Child's OpenCodex, which ends the requests the Home is relaying for it, so `--yes` is required.
The Home does not restart Codex on a Child while it is relaying a model request for that Child. If a request is already in flight when `ocx link restart-codex` starts, nothing is sent and the item is `busy` (`restart-skipped:link-active`). If one starts during the sync that precedes the restart, or the restart was requested with `ocx link sync`, the sync still runs and only the restart is skipped (`restart-skipped:link-active`). This protection is best-effort: a request that starts between that check and the restart can still be ended, so pause new requests on that Child when its turns must survive. A Child older than 2.69 is seen as busy only once its response starts for a non-streaming request, so a restart can still end such a request. Windows Children support `sync`; restarts and updates from the Home are refused there (`windows-restart`, `windows-apply`). `ocx-child` Children report restarts and updates as unsupported. One operation runs on a link at a time. Removing a link while an operation runs on it is refused with `409 link_operation_in_progress`; remove it once the operation has finished. While a link is being removed, a new operation that names only that link is refused with the same 409, and a job that names several links reports that link's item as `busy` (`link-operation-in-progress`) while its other links still run.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Wait for active Codex turns before restarting.
Pausing new requests alone does not preserve an existing turn. A turn can be running a tool while no model request is in flight, so the activity check permits a restart that ends the turn. The guide also states this consequence at Line 205. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
Tell operators to let existing turns finish and prevent new turns from starting before restarting. Update the equivalent warnings at Line 101 in docs-site/src/content/docs/fr/guides/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ja/guides/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ko/guides/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/ru/guides/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/tr/guides/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-cn/guides/remote-link.md, and docs-site/src/content/docs/zh-tw/guides/remote-link.md.
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Update the restart warning in the remote-link guide to tell operators to let active Codex turns finish and prevent new turns from starting before restarting; pausing new model requests alone does not protect turns running tools. Apply the equivalent warning to the French, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese guides, preserving each page’s language and surrounding guidance.
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Correct: the activity check sees only relayed model requests, so a turn that is running a tool with no request in flight can still be ended by a restart. The guide will say to wait for active Codex turns to finish, not just pause new requests. That wording lands with the Remote Link docs pass in wp6 (devlog/_plan/261111_link_child_updates/060_dashboard.md), recorded there, so this PR's docs stop churning; the limitation is already recorded in the roadmap (000 A2, 030 section 10).
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 green on attempt 3. Shard test 1/5 failed twice on runner lidge-ocx-04, both times at tests/codex-integration/codex-cli-update-apply.test.ts:494 ("management API treated an unowned running record as stopped"). That is Codex CLI update code this PR does not touch. The test passes locally, including on a merge with current dev, and passed on lidge-ocx-01; other PRs pass the same shard on other runners. This looks like runner state on lidge-ocx-04 and is reported separately.
Security review: PASS on 99f9b7378b, and PASS on the delta to d4af4638f6 (DELETE reservation, apply-timeout clamp, spawn handling).
Final merge-gate review: PASS on 99f9b7378b (5 Lows, all fixed), PASS on d4af4638f6, and PASS on 5a038babef (CodeRabbit wording round). Later commits change docs only: removal refusals, best-effort restart in English and 7 translations, and the job retention window.
CodeRabbit and Codex: every thread is answered. The Codex P2 DELETE race is fixed. The last CodeRabbit point (wait for active turns, not just pause requests) is recorded for the wp6 docs pass in 060_dashboard.md.
Local checks: 402 tests across 17 files; typecheck, privacy, structure, skill:surface:check and the file-size ratchet pass.
NOT RUN: a real npm or pnpm apply on a live install (fake layouts only), and Windows fixtures.
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Summary
wp3 of the Home-orchestrated Child updates roadmap (
devlog/_plan/261111_link_child_updates/030_child_operations.md). The Home can now operate its linked Children: update each one to the Home's own OpenCodex version, sync it now, or restart Codex on it. All three run over the pinned SSH channel the Home already uses forocx syncfan-out.ocx link update (--link-id <id> | --all) --yes: first runs an--expect-linkidentity sync. It then reads the Child's ownocx update --plan --jsonand appliesocx update --yes --version <Home version> --expect-plan <token> --not-after <Child clock + 120 s>, then syncs again so Codex routing is restored. npm and pnpm Children apply through their install's own launcher (node <root>/bin/ocx.mjs); Bun Children apply through their served entry. Results per Child:succeeded,up-to-date,busy,offline,refused,owner-action(Desktop app, GOAT-managed, mise, source or a Child below 2.97.0),unsupported(ocx-child, Child-initiated, Windows apply),failed(a rolled-back update also resyncs) oruncertain(recorded for later recovery and never re-applied). One update runs at a time per Home.ocx link sync (--link-id <id> | --all) [--restart-app-server-only | --restart-codex]andocx link restart-codex --link-id <id> [--scope app-server|codex] --yes: a restart is sent only after the plain sync, and only if no model request for that Child is in flight at that moment. Otherwise it is withheld (restart-skipped:link-active, exit 6). A restart never applies to--all, Windows orocx-child.POST /api/link/children/operationsacceptsop: observe | sync | restart-codex | update.DELETE /api/link/{id}answers409 link_operation_in_progresswhile a job holds the link. Contractlink.child-ops/1.updatethrough Bun or Node, even when the Home believes it can apply; thatocx-childis refused before any arguments run; that the Windows builder only buildsupdate --plan; and that the launcher runs only after the gate, from the same checked root.skills/ocx, capability text,structure/remote-link.md, and the docs-site Remote Link guide and CLI lifecycle page in English and 7 translations.Verification
bun run typecheck,privacy:scan,structure:check,skill:surface:checkandbun scripts/file-size-ratchet.ts: pass. Docs ci-workflow tests: 471 pass.NOT RUN:
An explicit security review is recorded in a PR comment before merge.
Checklist
Summary by CodeRabbit
ocx link sync,ocx link restart-codex, andocx link updateto manage linked Child computers from Home. Commands report per-Child results and can wait for completion or return without waiting.ocx link checkconflict reporting when the Home has no links.