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feat(link): record Child tunnel transitions in the diagnostics file - #8539
The Home records each -R tunnel transition, with a fixed cause, in the bounded link/diagnostics.jsonl through createTunnelHistoryBook. The Child's setState in src/client/link-tunnel.ts only updated state and waiters, so its diagnostics held only owner-lookup refusals, and a Child-side outage left no record of why (#7297). This is the transition-parity slice from the 2026-10-28 maintainer design comment.
setState(next, cause) now feeds a tunnel history book keyed by one fixed Child key. Each real change writes one tunnel_transition record:
spawned on spawn, connected on connect and stopped on stop;
spawn_failed when ssh cannot start;
the classified ssh stderr cause on exit: auth, hostkey, forward, remote_forward_conflict, timeout, network or unknown.
Each record also carries attempt, the tunnel port and, when a retry is scheduled, retryAfterMs. The port is remembered past stop, which clears the live port first.
Records carry only the existing allowlisted fields. They never include argv, stderr, alias or link id, and the sink's own allowlist still drops anything else.
Records reach the sink in a microtask after the transition. This is defensive: a sink that re-enters the supervisor (stop, status) never runs in the middle of a transition. Late exits were already fenced to the current child (child !== current).
Admission, deadlines and retry policy are unchanged. A throwing sink never changes the lifecycle.
Refs #7297. This does not close the issue: the read-only diagnostics viewer and opt-in SSH capture from the same design comment remain separate decisions.
Verification
New cases in tests/clients/client-link-tunnel.test.ts:
spawn, connect, a host-key exit and stop each record one fixed-cause transition, with an exact field allowlist;
a spawn failure records spawn_failed;
a sink that stops the supervisor on spawned stops cleanly;
a throwing sink leaves the lifecycle unchanged.
Fail-first: the first two fail on dev, where no transition records exist.
The existing case "a stop triggered by failure diagnostics leaves admission closed" used a sink that stopped the supervisor on any record. That sink now filters to the owner_lookup event the case is about, because transitions reach the same sink; its assertions are unchanged.
bun test tests/clients/client-link-tunnel.test.ts tests/clients/link-diagnostics.test.ts tests/clients/client-link-relay.test.ts: 106 pass. Typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check (structure/remote-link.md updated in place), test-layout, the file-size ratchet and the Lab boundary all pass.
bun run test:changed: see the Maintainer judgment comment.
NOT RUN: a real two-machine Remote Link; the harness uses scripted ssh children.
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.
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Improvements
Diagnostic records now include child tunnel lifecycle changes, such as successful starts, stops, connection outcomes, and failures, along with the tunnel port.
Diagnostic delivery is deferred, and errors in diagnostic handlers no longer interrupt tunnel operations.
Documentation
Updated the remote-link documentation to describe child tunnel transition diagnostics.
The Home records each -R tunnel transition and its fixed cause through the
bounded LinkDiagnosticSink, but the Child's setState only updated state and
waiters, so a Child-side outage left no evidence of why (#7297). The Child
now feeds every tunnel state change through the same tunnel history book:
spawned, connected, stopped, spawn_failed and the classified ssh exit cause,
with attempt and port, and nothing else. Records reach the sink in a
microtask, so a sink that re-enters the supervisor cannot interrupt a
transition.
Refs #7297
The Child tunnel supervisor now records lifecycle transitions in the shared tunnel-history format. It retains the tunnel port for reporting and sends diagnostics asynchronously, isolating transition handling from sink exceptions.
Changes: Child tunnel diagnostics
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Summary
Record and emit tunnel transitions src/client/link-tunnel.ts, tests/clients/client-link-tunnel.test.ts, structure/remote-link.md
The supervisor records spawn, connection, exit, stop, and spawn-failure transitions. Tests check transition records, port reporting, and sink behavior. The documentation describes the record fields and emission behavior.
sequenceDiagram
participant Supervisor as createClientLinkSupervisor
participant History as Tunnel history book
participant Sink as Diagnostics sink
Supervisor->>History: Record child tunnel state transition
History-->>Sink: Emit diagnostic asynchronously
Sink-->>History: Return or throw
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Possibly related issues
Issue 7297 requests Child-side tunnel transition diagnostics. This change implements the Child-side transition records described in the issue summary.
Possibly related PRs
lidge-jun/opencodex#7560: This PR extends the shared tunnel-history diagnostics implementation introduced there to Child-side tunnel transitions.
Suggested labels:enhancement
Merge Risk: Low · up to 0c93e
Tunnel timeouts will appear in diagnostics as spawned. This can mislead troubleshooting but does not change tunnel behavior. Fix the cause label before or soon after merge.
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Record timeout causes for tick-driven tunnel failures
When a Child tunnel remains connecting or reconnecting for five minutes, tick() passes the reducer's timeout failure to setState() without a cause. This new observer consequently emits outcome: "spawned" with state: "failed", because createTunnelHistoryBook defaults a missing cause to spawned for that state. The diagnostics therefore misidentify the failure precisely when SSH hangs without producing an exit classification. Pass "timeout" for the tick-driven failure, as the Home supervisor does, and add coverage for this transition.
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Review comments at @src/client/link-tunnel.ts:
- Line 714: Update the tick handling in the link-tunnel flow so a transition
from a non-failed state to failed because readiness timed out passes the timeout
cause to setState; preserve the existing cause for other transitions. Add a
focused regression test that leaves readiness unresolved, advances time beyond
FAILED_AFTER_MS, and verifies the recorded failed state has outcome timeout.
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Record readiness timeouts as timeout, not spawned.
When readiness remains unresolved past FAILED_AFTER_MS, the tick at src/client/link-tunnel.ts:946 passes no cause to setState. src/link/tunnel-history.ts:87 then records the failed transition with outcome spawned.
Pass timeout when the tick changes the tunnel to failed:
Add a focused regression test that leaves readiness unresolved, advances the clock past FAILED_AFTER_MS, and asserts state: "failed" with outcome: "timeout".
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Review comment at @src/client/link-tunnel.ts at line 714:
Update the tick handling in the link-tunnel flow so a transition from a non-failed state to failed because readiness timed out passes the timeout cause to setState; preserve the existing cause for other transitions. Add a focused regression test that leaves readiness unresolved, advances time beyond FAILED_AFTER_MS, and verifies the recorded failed state has outcome timeout.
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Maintainer judgment (bundle lane: service / platform / link diagnostics)
Value. A Child-side Remote Link outage now leaves evidence in the Child's own link/diagnostics.jsonl: spawned, connected, stopped, spawn_failed, the classified ssh exit cause, and timeout at the outage limit, with attempt, port and retry delay. Until now only the Home recorded its tunnel transitions, so reporters like @arikon had to infer Child timing from outside. This is the transition-parity slice recommended in the 2026-10-28 design comment.
UX change. Diagnostics only. The bounded metadata file (256 KiB plus one backup, one record per second per event and outcome) gains Child transition records. There is no CLI, GUI or API change.
Existing users. Admission, deadlines, retry policy, waiter settlement and owner proof are unchanged. Transition records reach the sink in a microtask, and both the history book and the wrapper swallow sink errors, so diagnostics cannot affect the tunnel. Records are queued before stop() resolves, so the existing flush at shutdown still drains the final stopped record.
Privacy. Records contain fixed fields only: event, outcome, state, previousState, attempt, tunnelPort and retryAfterMs. The history is keyed by a constant rather than the link id. No argv, stderr, alias or host appears in a record, the test asserts an exact field allowlist, and the sink's own allowlist still applies.
Windows impact. None specific to Windows. The Child supervisor is platform-neutral.
Verification.
Fail-first: the new cases (transition records, spawn_failed, and the timeout case the first review found) fail on dev or on the pre-fix commit, and pass on this head.
108 pass across the client-link-tunnel, link-diagnostics and client-link-relay suites; the reviewer also saw 54 neighboring link suites pass.
Typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check, test-layout, the file-size ratchet and the Lab boundary all pass.
Review round 1 asked for changes: the outage timeout was recorded as spawned. That was fixed in 0ab44980ea, and a fresh reviewer approved that head.
NOT RUN. A real two-machine link; the harness drives scripted ssh children. Local bun run test:changed had not finished at merge on a host at load average about 9. PR CI was still queued for this head.
Residuals (noted, not changed). An adopted tunnel that dies and an adopted-identity mismatch read stopped, and adopting a leftover tunnel reads spawned with attempt 0. The fixed outcome vocabulary has no adopt or died words; adding them would change the sink enum, which is a separate decision. The next tick records the follow-up spawn either way.
Scope. Refs #7297. The read-only diagnostics viewer and opt-in SSH capture from the same design comment remain open as separate privacy and storage decisions, so the issue stays open.
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Summary
The Home records each
-Rtunnel transition, with a fixed cause, in the boundedlink/diagnostics.jsonlthroughcreateTunnelHistoryBook. The Child'ssetStateinsrc/client/link-tunnel.tsonly updated state and waiters, so its diagnostics held only owner-lookup refusals, and a Child-side outage left no record of why (#7297). This is the transition-parity slice from the 2026-10-28 maintainer design comment.setState(next, cause)now feeds a tunnel history book keyed by one fixed Child key. Each real change writes onetunnel_transitionrecord:spawnedon spawn,connectedon connect andstoppedon stop;spawn_failedwhen ssh cannot start;auth,hostkey,forward,remote_forward_conflict,timeout,networkorunknown.Each record also carries
attempt, the tunnel port and, when a retry is scheduled,retryAfterMs. The port is remembered past stop, which clears the live port first.Records carry only the existing allowlisted fields. They never include argv, stderr, alias or link id, and the sink's own allowlist still drops anything else.
Records reach the sink in a microtask after the transition. This is defensive: a sink that re-enters the supervisor (stop, status) never runs in the middle of a transition. Late exits were already fenced to the current child (
child !== current).Admission, deadlines and retry policy are unchanged. A throwing sink never changes the lifecycle.
Refs #7297. This does not close the issue: the read-only diagnostics viewer and opt-in SSH capture from the same design comment remain separate decisions.
Verification
New cases in
tests/clients/client-link-tunnel.test.ts:spawn_failed;spawnedstops cleanly;Fail-first: the first two fail on dev, where no transition records exist.
The existing case "a stop triggered by failure diagnostics leaves admission closed" used a sink that stopped the supervisor on any record. That sink now filters to the
owner_lookupevent the case is about, because transitions reach the same sink; its assertions are unchanged.bun test tests/clients/client-link-tunnel.test.ts tests/clients/link-diagnostics.test.ts tests/clients/client-link-relay.test.ts: 106 pass. Typecheck, privacy:scan, structure:check (structure/remote-link.mdupdated in place), test-layout, the file-size ratchet and the Lab boundary all pass.bun run test:changed: see the Maintainer judgment comment.NOT RUN: a real two-machine Remote Link; the harness uses scripted ssh children.
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