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Feat: Supervise cortex-gateway as a sibling of cortex - #1762
In praxis mode, cortex -supervise now runs two children: cortex and cortex-gateway. Each child has its own restart loop. In direct mode (praxis.enabled: false, the default), nothing changes.
Fixes#1720. Part of #1714. Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-3-supervise-gateway.md.
What changed
Config (core/config): new fields praxis.listen (default 127.0.0.1:47605) and praxis.egress (default 127.0.0.1:47606). When praxis mode is on, each must be a literal loopback host:port with a port that is not zero.
Gateway (praxis/server): new flag --exit-on-stdin-eof. With the flag, the gateway exits when its stdin closes.
Gateway files (cmd/cortex/gateway.go): at each start, the supervisor writes <config dir>/gateway.token (mode 0600, a new token only when the file is missing or empty) and <config dir>/gateway.yaml. A golden file pins gateway.yaml. A Rust test loads the golden in the real gateway and serves a request through it.
Supervisor (cmd/cortex/supervise.go):
One child spec per child. A cortex crash does not touch the gateway.
The gateway gets an empty env and a stdin pipe. When the supervisor exits for any reason (SIGKILL included), the pipe closes and the gateway exits.
When config.Validate refuses a praxis config, the supervisor starts no gateway and runs cortex alone. The cortex child logs the error at each start.
The cortex child gets CORTEX_GATEWAY_TOKEN_FILE.
Log lines name the child ("child", "cortex" or "child", "cortex-gateway"). The old text proxy started / proxy exited; restarting is now child .... Nothing in the repo parses the old text.
Port check, uninstall, install.sh: cortexBinaries and agentop's setupBinaryNames include cortex-gateway. install.sh --stop checks ports 47605 and 47606. Nothing stops a gateway from an earlier run: the stdin pipe ends it when its supervisor exits.
Docs: praxis/README.md and docs/laptop-service.md.
Deviations from the issue or spec
Decision 11: no admin metrics port in gateway.yaml. The issue does not ask for it, and no caller reads it yet.
Decision 17: agentop's cortexPorts does not change. agentop probes ports only on a fresh install, and a fresh install cannot be in praxis mode yet. The probe of 47605 and 47606 lands with install.sh --praxis in step 5 (Praxis mode 5/8: Support praxis mode in agentop and the installer #1722).
Decision 20: a Linux service does not supervise the gateway. The systemd unit runs cortex without --supervise. On Linux with praxis.enabled: true, cortex refuses the boot. No supported path sets praxis mode yet. Step 5 (Praxis mode 5/8: Support praxis mode in agentop and the installer #1722) makes the unit use --supervise in praxis mode. docs/laptop-service.md tells Linux users not to set praxis.enabled until then.
Plan decision 5 changed: the supervisor keeps the token. It writes a new token only when gateway.token is missing or empty. Each child reads the token one time, at its start. With a new token at each start, a second supervisor on the same ~/.cortex (for example, a manual cortex --local --supervise while the service runs) broke the token pair of the first supervisor at its next child restart. Cortex then refused each ingest POST.
Not in the plan: a config dir that cannot be written. When the supervisor cannot write the gateway files, it logs the error and runs cortex alone, as for a config that does not validate. cortex then refuses the praxis config at each start and logs why, and the fallback keeps the forward address. Decision 13 covers only a gateway that cannot start.
How it was tested
Go: GOWORK=off go vet ./..., gofmt -l . and the tests in core, cmd/cortex and cmd/agentop (full -race agentop suite).
New Go tests: TestPraxis_AddrDefaults, TestPraxis_AddrMustBeLoopback, the gatewayYAML golden, TestWriteGatewayFiles_TokenIs0600AndKept, TestSupervisorChildren_DirectModeHasOnlyCortex (with a praxis config that does not validate), TestSupervisorChildren_WriteFailureRunsCortexAlone, TestSupervisor_CortexRestartKeepsGateway, TestSupervisor_KillLeavesNoGateway, and a test for a gateway that cannot start.
Rust, from praxis/: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings, cargo test --locked. New tests: exit_flag_is_read, exits_on_stdin_eof, keeps_running_without_flag, supervisor_gateway_yaml_serves.
Shell: shellcheck and scripts/install_test.sh.
Tested on macOS only. Not tested on Linux.
Size
Counted: 1217 lines (added + removed).
Exempt: 277 lines (the plan document, 241; the -update golden cmd/cortex/testdata/gateway.yaml.golden, 36).
Review findings not fixed
All are minor.
core/config/validate.govalidatePraxisAddr: the error for praxis.egress gives the example 127.0.0.1:47605. That is the listen default, not the egress default (47606).
validatePraxisAddr accepts a zoned address such as [::1%lo0]:1. No test pins this.
praxis/server/src/main.rshas_flag: it also matches --exit-on-stdin-eof when it is the value of -c. Only the supervisor passes the flag, always after -c <path>.
main.rs: on stdin EOF, std::process::exit(0) runs no destructors, so _tracing_guard does not flush. The last log lines can be lost.
cmd/cortex/gateway.goingestAddr: TestIngestAddr has no case for a host such as localhost. The IPv6 wildcard [::]:port becomes 127.0.0.1; with IPV6_V6ONLY set, nothing listens there.
gateway.gowriteFileAtomic: no fsync of the directory after the rename. Both files are written again at each start.
Praxis mode is decided once, when the supervisor starts, but each cortex child reads the config again at each restart. If a user sets praxis.enabled: true while the macOS service runs in direct mode, the next cortex restart crash-loops until the service restarts. docs/laptop-service.md now says that a praxis.* edit needs agentop service restart.
scripts/install_test.sh: in one of five runs, the suite reported 264 passed, 2 failed (probably the progress-bar flake, not this diff). The port-list and restage checks are greps of the source.
praxis/README.md "Supervision decisions" item 2: ~/.cortex/ for the service is true only for the macOS service. The new items 1-11 are not wrapped at 80 columns.
docs/laptop-service.md: it does not say that the gateway cannot route on macOS until Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721 adds the egress listener. It also says that the next proxy restart fails after a praxis.* edit. That is true only for praxis.enabled. A praxis.listen or praxis.egress edit does not get to the gateway until the service restarts.
The plan, decision 14 and Task 5: they still describe stopStaleGateway and its two tests, and a supervisorChildren that returns an error. The code has neither. Decision 4 says that with no --config the supervisor has no config. With --local, it now reads ~/.cortex/config.yaml.
praxis/README.md: the sentence on the Go praxis block does not name listen and egress. <dir> is the --config directory, or ~/.cortex/ with --local.
cmd/cortex/fallback.gosupervisorConfigPath: the scan for -local does not stop at -- or at the first argument that is not a flag. In those cases the child does not see -local either, and it exits at boot.
On the first --local --supervise start, the supervisor logs a WARN because the child has not written the config yet. The supervisor then runs in direct mode, and that is correct.
In Praxis mode, Cortex can now start and supervise a gateway alongside the proxy, restarting the gateway independently and shutting it down with the supervisor.
Added configurable loopback addresses for the gateway listener and egress, with defaults and validation.
Setup and uninstall now include the gateway binary. Address conflicts involving it receive Cortex-specific guidance.
Bug Fixes
Gateway startup failures no longer prevent the Cortex proxy from continuing to run.
Documentation
Updated gateway supervision, service behavior, configuration, and uninstall guidance.
The plan splits issue rossoctl#1720 into seven tasks in one PR. It records the
decisions that the issue and the spec leave open.
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Add the ip_acl and forward_proxy key names, the golden flag, the yaml
library and the doc places. Make Task 4 depend on Task 2. Add go mod
tidy -diff to the gate.
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Add praxis.listen and praxis.egress to the praxis block. The defaults
are 127.0.0.1:47605 and 127.0.0.1:47606. ListenAddr and EgressAddr
give the field, or the default when the field is empty.
In praxis mode, Validate refuses an address that is not a literal
loopback IP with a non-zero port. The error names the field.
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Add the flag --exit-on-stdin-eof to cortex-gateway. With this flag, a
thread reads stdin until EOF or an error, and then the process exits
with status 0. The supervisor will hold the write end of a pipe. Thus
the gateway exits when the supervisor exits for any reason, SIGKILL
included. Without the flag, the gateway does not read stdin.
The end-to-end tests now give the gateway a stdin pipe. Two new tests
examine the two cases.
Part of rossoctl#1720.
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… --stop
In praxis mode, cortex-gateway is a Cortex binary. Three places now know it
by name:
- cmd/cortex: a holder of a port that is named cortex-gateway gets the
"another Cortex" remedy.
- agentop: setupBinaryNames holds cortex-gateway. Uninstall removes it, and
it does not count as another tool in the bin dir. Setup installs it only
when the installer staged it.
- install.sh: --stop runs stop_gateway. It sends SIGTERM to the holder of
port 47605 only when its executable is ${BIN_DIR}/cortex-gateway. The port
check after the stop also includes 47605 and 47606. restage copies
cortex-gateway.
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Add cmd/cortex/gateway.go. It makes the two files that the supervisor
writes for cortex-gateway in praxis mode:
- gateway.token: 32 random bytes as hex, new at each call.
- gateway.yaml: the gateway config of the praxis mode spec, Section 4.
It has an ip_acl filter that allows only loopback clients, and one
catch-all route to the egress cluster on praxis.egress.
Both files have mode 0600. Each write goes to a temp file, then Sync,
then rename. The ingest address is listener.session_api_addr, with an
empty or wildcard host changed to 127.0.0.1.
gopkg.in/yaml.v3 is now a direct dependency of cmd/cortex.
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The supervisor writes gateway.yaml in Go. This test starts the real
cortex-gateway with the Go golden file and sends one request through
it. The test makes sure that Praxis 0.8.0 accepts the file, that the
origin gets the request, and that the ingest mock gets a request line
and a response line.
The start code of the test gateway moves to start(), so that the
template tests and this test use the same code.
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In praxis mode, cortex -supervise now runs two children: cortex and
cortex-gateway. Each child has its own restart loop, so a cortex
restart does not stop the gateway.
- At each start, the supervisor writes gateway.token and gateway.yaml
in the directory of the --config file. It gives the token file path
to cortex in CORTEX_GATEWAY_TOKEN_FILE.
- The gateway gets an empty env and a stdin pipe. It runs with
--exit-on-stdin-eof, so it exits when the supervisor exits, also on
SIGKILL.
- At start, the supervisor stops a cortex-gateway from an earlier run
that holds praxis.listen.
- A missing gateway binary is a start failure of that child only. The
supervisor retries it with the normal backoff.
- The supervisor loads the config one time, for the fallback address
and for praxis mode.
Direct mode does not change: one child, the same args and env, and no
gateway files.
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Remove the copied cortex-gateway in praxis mode. Then make sure that the
cortex child starts and stays up, that one ERROR line names the gateway
path after two failed starts, and that SIGTERM stops the supervisor in
less than 5 s.
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The fake gateway blocked in select {} with no other goroutine. The Go
runtime stopped it at once with a deadlock error, so
TestSupervisor_StopsStaleGateway passed without stopStaleGateway.
Block in an Accept loop. Also assert the supervisor's WARN line.
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praxis/README.md: The supervisor writes gateway.yaml. Describe the
--exit-on-stdin-eof flag. Add the supervision decisions of rossoctl#1720.
docs/laptop-service.md: In praxis mode the supervisor has a second
child, cortex-gateway. Name the two files that it writes. Say that the
systemd unit does not start the gateway.
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The systemd unit does not use --supervise. Thus, on a Linux service
with praxis.enabled true, the gateway does not start and cortex
refuses the boot. Add plan decision 20, which moves this work to
step 5 (rossoctl#1722), and add it to the PR-body deviations. Tell Linux
users in docs/laptop-service.md not to set praxis.enabled yet.
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Walkthrough
The PR adds Praxis listener and egress configuration, gateway file generation, and supervised gateway operation alongside Cortex. It also updates gateway shutdown behavior, binary and installer handling, tests, and documentation.
The supervisor starts Cortex and, when Praxis configuration and gateway files are valid, starts cortex-gateway as a separate child. Each child has its own restart loop. The gateway can exit when its stdin closes. Tests cover child selection, restarts, shutdown, and gateway requests using supervisor-generated YAML.
Gateway binary handling is added to port-conflict classification, agentop staging and uninstall, and installer port checks and restaging. Tests cover these changes.
Gateway documentation and implementation plan praxis/README.md, docs/laptop-service.md, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-3-supervise-gateway.md
Documentation describes supervised gateway behavior, configuration, shutdown, and service limitations. The new plan records implementation scope and validation steps.
sequenceDiagram
participant Supervisor as Cortex supervisor
participant Cortex as Cortex child
participant Gateway as cortex-gateway
Supervisor->>Gateway: Start with gateway.yaml and stdin pipe
Supervisor->>Cortex: Start with gateway token path
Cortex-->>Supervisor: Exit
Supervisor->>Cortex: Restart Cortex child
Note over Gateway: Gateway remains running during Cortex restart
Supervisor->>Gateway: Close stdin during shutdown
Supervisor->>Cortex: Stop child during shutdown
The supervision change looks sound, but several docs are inaccurate: they describe a stale-gateway stop that does not exist, misstate what happens after a praxis config change, and understate current gateway limitations. Fix them to avoid misleading operators, though none of this blocks merging.
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The PR implements the sibling restart loops, gateway files and 0600 token, clean gateway environment, stdin-EOF shutdown, and direct mode with only cortex [#1720]. The generated configuration summary …
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The PR implements the sibling restart loops, gateway files and 0600 token, clean gateway environment, stdin-EOF shutdown, and direct mode with only cortex [#1720]. The generated configuration summary covers the required loopback ACL, filter chain, route, private flags, and body limits. Two requirements remain unmet: runSupervisor does not stop a stale gateway on :47605 at startup, and cmd/agentop/setup_probe.go keeps cortexPorts at 47600, 47601, 47602, and 47604 instead of probing 47605 and 47606 in praxis mode.
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The supervisor loaded the config but did not validate it. So a praxis
address that cortex refuses, such as 0.0.0.0:47605, still started a
gateway on that address while each cortex child crash-looped. Now
supervisorChildren runs config.Validate and, on an error, runs cortex
alone. The cortex child logs the same error at each start.
Remove stopStaleGateway and install.sh's stop_gateway. The stdin pipe
ends a gateway when its supervisor exits, so a new gateway that cannot
bind praxis.listen binds it on the next try. The killers also stopped a
gateway that a user started by hand.
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Before this change, a failed write of gateway.token or gateway.yaml
ended the supervisor. launchd does not restart it, so the proxy and
the fallback stayed down until the next login.
Now the supervisor logs the error and runs cortex alone, as it does
for a praxis config that does not validate. cortex then refuses the
config at each start and logs why. The fallback keeps the forward
address. supervisorChildren has no error to return now.
docs/laptop-service.md now says that a praxis.* change needs
`agentop service restart`.
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- The supervisor starts cortex-gateway with an empty env. The Rust
gateway tests now clear the env too, so they start the gateway the
same way.
- The uninstall help text and docs/laptop-service.md now name
cortex-gateway, because uninstall removes it.
- TestSupervisor_KillLeavesNoGateway failed in the cpex CI job. That
job runs in a container whose PID 1 does not reap orphans, so the
gateway that exited stays a zombie, and kill(pid, 0) still succeeds.
The test's alive() now reads /proc/<pid>/stat and treats state Z as
gone. Reproduced in golang:1.26-alpine with tail -f /dev/null as
PID 1, and the test passes there with this change.
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Minor · Update the Praxis configuration fields. · README.md:64
praxis/README.md:64 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Update the Praxis configuration fields.
PraxisConfig now also has listen and egress. This statement contradicts the new supervision section and can mislead readers configuring those addresses. Update it. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @praxis/README.md at line 64:
Update the README statement about the Go `praxis` config block to include its
`enabled`, `listen`, and `egress` fields, keeping it consistent with the
supervision section.
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Review comments at @docs/laptop-service.md:
- Around line 40-41: Update the praxis-mode documentation near the supervisor
process description to state that gateway routing is not yet complete on macOS:
requests to the default gateway fail because the default egress listener is not
available. Clarify this limitation alongside the existing platform warning
without implying the gateway works on macOS.
- Around line 45-46: Update the stale-configuration description near the
`agentop service restart` instruction to state that changes to `praxis.listen`
or `praxis.egress` do not take effect in the gateway until the service restarts;
remove the inaccurate claim that proxy restarts fail.
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- Line 30: Update Decision 14 to mark the stale-gateway stop as dropped, and
remove or mark as dropped the matching TestStopStaleGateway and
TestSupervisor_StopsStaleGateway items in Task 5. Correct Task 5’s
supervisorChildren signature to return []childSpec only, and add the
deviation—relying solely on the stdin pipe for orphan prevention—to the “PR
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Review comments at @praxis/README.md:
- Line 64: Update the README statement about the Go `praxis` config block to
include its `enabled`, `listen`, and `egress` fields, keeping it consistent with
the supervision section.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
State that gateway routing is not complete on macOS.
The gateway routes requests to praxis.egress, but the default egress listener does not exist until #1721. Requests sent to the default gateway therefore fail. The Linux-only warning can make macOS users expect a working gateway. State this limitation here. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @docs/laptop-service.md around lines 40 - 41:
Update the praxis-mode documentation near the supervisor process description to
state that gateway routing is not yet complete on macOS: requests to the default
gateway fail because the default egress listener is not available. Clarify this
limitation alongside the existing platform warning without implying the gateway
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Describe the stale gateway configuration accurately.
Changing praxis.listen or praxis.egress to another valid address does not itself make Cortex fail on restart. The gateway keeps its old configuration until the service restarts.
Suggested fix
--- "a/docs/laptop-service.md"+++ "b/docs/laptop-service.md"@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@
`~/.cortex/gateway.token` and `~/.cortex/gateway.yaml`. A restart of the proxy does
not restart the gateway. When the supervisor exits, the gateway exits too. The
supervisor reads `praxis.*` only when it starts, so after you change `praxis.*`, run
-`agentop service restart`. Until then, the next restart of the proxy fails at each-try.+`agentop service restart`. Until then, changes to `praxis.listen` or+`praxis.egress` do not take effect in the gateway.
**On Linux, do not set `praxis.enabled` for the service yet.** The systemd unit does
not use `--supervise`, so nothing starts the gateway or writes `gateway.token`. Then
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`agentop service restart`. Until then, the next restart of the proxy fails at each
try.
`agentop service restart`. Until then, changes to `praxis.listen` or
`praxis.egress` do not take effect in the gateway.
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Review comment at @docs/laptop-service.md around lines 45 - 46:
Update the stale-configuration description near the `agentop service restart`
instruction to state that changes to `praxis.listen` or `praxis.egress` do not
take effect in the gateway until the service restarts; remove the inaccurate
claim that proxy restarts fail.
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11. **The admin metrics port is not in `gateway.yaml` in this PR.** The issue does not list it, and no caller reads it yet.
12. **The startup probe and `gateway_unavailable` are #1721.** The spec lists "the probe" in step 3, but the probe goes through the hop, and the hop is #1721. The issue does not list the probe.
13. **The gateway path is `filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(self), "cortex-gateway")`**, where `self` is `os.Executable()`. A missing or non-executable gateway is a start failure of that child: it logs ERROR once per run of failures and retries with the normal backoff. The supervisor never gives up (see `supervise.go`), and the `cortex` child keeps running.
14. **The stale-gateway stop runs once, at supervisor start, in praxis mode only.** It uses `holderOf(praxis.listen)` (`portconflict.go`). When the holder's exe basename is `cortex-gateway`, it sends SIGTERM, waits up to `superviseStopGrace` for the port to be free, then sends SIGKILL. Any other holder is left alone: the gateway then fails to bind and backs off, and the log names the holder.
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Update the plan: it describes a stale-gateway stop that the code does not implement.
Decision 14 specifies stopStaleGateway, which uses holderOf and sends SIGTERM and then SIGKILL at supervisor start. Task 5 lists TestStopStaleGateway and TestSupervisor_StopsStaleGateway. Task 5 also gives supervisorChildren a ([]childSpec, error) return type.
The merged code has none of these. supervisorChildren returns []childSpec only, and orphan prevention relies solely on the stdin pipe. The PR objectives state this deviation from #1720. The plan is the recorded design, so a reader will expect behavior that does not exist.
Mark decision 14 and the matching Task 5 items as dropped. Add the deviation to the "PR body" list in Global Constraints. Correct the supervisorChildren signature in Task 5.
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Update Decision 14 to mark the stale-gateway stop as dropped, and remove or mark
as dropped the matching TestStopStaleGateway and
TestSupervisor_StopsStaleGateway items in Task 5. Correct Task 5’s
supervisorChildren signature to return []childSpec only, and add the
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Summary
The two-child design is sound. Each child has its own loop, the gateway stops when the stdin pipe closes, the cortex child gets the token by env, and direct mode stays unchanged. I traced the stop, crash and start-failure paths and found no problem in them. I also ran the PR-head binary (built with -tags $(go -C scripts/profile-tags run . full)) against a praxis config, as -supervise --config ~/.cortex/config.yaml. The supervisor wrote gateway.token (0600) and gateway.yaml, started the gateway with -c … --exit-on-stdin-eof, and on SIGTERM closed its stdin.
One must-fix: cortex --local --supervise never enters praxis mode. That is the command agentop's background (unsupervised) proxy runs. The supervisor finds no -config in its args, so it treats the install as direct mode, while the cortex child loads ~/.cortex/config.yaml, sees praxis.enabled: true, and crash-loops. Details inline.
Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (supervisor, gateway files, config validation, agentop binaries/uninstall), Rust (--exit-on-stdin-eof, gateway tests), Shell (install.sh / install_test.sh), Docs Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 15 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: passing (CodeRabbit pending)
The items under "Review findings not fixed" in the PR body look correctly scoped as minor or follow-ups, so I have not repeated them here.
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must-fix — --local --supervise never runs the gateway, and in praxis mode the proxy crash-loops.
configPathFromArgs reads only -config/--config. --local and --config cannot be used together (main.go), so for cortex --local --supervise this returns "". Then supervisorConfig returns nil and supervisorChildren takes the direct-mode branch. The cortex child, however, resolves --local to ~/.cortex/config.yaml. If that file has praxis.enabled: true, ingestOptions refuses the boot at every start.
--local --supervise is not a corner case. It is the command startUnsupervised (setup_unsupervised.go) runs for the background proxy, and the command that setup_step_service.go:528 tells the user to run by hand. The PR body's main claim ("In praxis mode, cortex -supervise now runs two children") and the new section in docs/laptop-service.md do not hold on this path. Unlike the Linux systemd gap, the deviations list does not name it.
Repro on the PR head (full-profile build, HOME=$H, $H/.cortex/config.yaml from cortex --local --write-config with praxis: {enabled: true} appended, and a fake cortex-gateway next to the binary):
$ HOME=$H cortex --local --supervise
INFO supervisor: child started child=cortex pid=10126
level=ERROR msg="praxis ingestion: praxis.enabled needs CORTEX_GATEWAY_TOKEN_FILE to name the gateway token file"
WARN supervisor: child exited; restarting child=cortex ran=156ms err="exit status 1" restart_in=2s
...
$ ls $H/.cortex # no gateway.token / gateway.yaml, no cortex-gateway child
The same config passed as --supervise --config $H/.cortex/config.yaml starts both children.
Suggested fix: when there is no -config and the args carry -local/--local (or the -demo alias, =true forms included), resolve configPath to filepath.Join(defaultCortexDir(), localConfigName) here. The fallback address and praxis detection then read the same file the child does. A missing file on the very first start still gives nil, which means direct mode, and that is correct. Please also add a supervisorChildren/runSupervisor test for the --local args. If you would rather defer this path, name it under "Deviations" and in docs/laptop-service.md the way the Linux gap is named, so nobody is surprised by it.
Fixes review: cortex --local --supervise did not find the config, so it did
not start the gateway, and cortex refused a praxis config at each start.
Files:
- cmd/cortex/fallback.go
- cmd/cortex/supervise.go
- cmd/cortex/supervise_test.go
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
The supervisor wrote a new gateway.token at each start. Cortex and the
gateway each read the token one time, when they start. A second
supervisor on the same ~/.cortex (for example, a manual
`cortex --local --supervise` while the service runs) wrote a new token.
At the next child restart of the first supervisor, the two children
then held different tokens, and cortex refused each ingest POST.
Now the supervisor keeps a token that is not empty. It writes a new
token only when the file is missing or empty.
Also make supervisor_gateway_yaml_serves stable on Linux. The test
checked the result for ":4760", but the mocks' ephemeral ports can be
in 47600-47609 on Linux. The test now checks the golden file instead.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Hai Huang <huang195@gmail.com>
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Summary
Thanks @huang195. The must-fix from my last review (at e4f722e) is fixed. supervisorConfigPath now resolves --local/--demo (with the =bool forms and last-wins) to ~/.cortex/config.yaml, so the supervisor and the cortex child read the same file.
I checked this end to end on the PR head (full-profile build, HOME=$H, cortex --local --write-config plus praxis: {enabled: true}, a fake cortex-gateway next to the binary):
cortex --local --supervise starts both children. The gateway gets -c $H/.cortex/gateway.yaml --exit-on-stdin-eof with an empty env.
The cortex child stays up: no child exited lines, and no CORTEX_GATEWAY_TOKEN_FILE error.
gateway.token and gateway.yaml are written 0600 in ~/.cortex.
On SIGTERM, the supervisor closes the gateway's stdin and forwards SIGTERM to cortex.
A second --local --supervise run keeps the same gateway.token, which is what the new 50cce61 change intends.
go test -run 'Supervis|Gateway|IngestAddr|LocalReads|PortConflict|Fallback' ./cmd/cortex, go vet and gofmt -l are clean locally. CI is green.
Two small inline items, neither blocking: a doc line that still says "a new token at each start", and a kept token file whose mode is not checked.
Author: huang195 (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (supervisor config path, gateway files/token reuse, tests), Rust test change, Docs (delta since e4f722e, plus a re-read of the supervisor) Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 17 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: passing
2. The command line is `cortex-gateway -c <dir>/gateway.yaml --exit-on-stdin-eof`. `<dir>` is the directory of the `--config` file, `~/.cortex/` for the service. The binary is in the same directory as `cortex`.
3. The gateway's stdin is a pipe from the supervisor. When the supervisor exits for any reason, SIGKILL included, the pipe closes and the gateway exits. This is the only orphan guard, on Linux and macOS. No `Pdeathsig`.
4. To stop the gateway, the supervisor closes the pipe. After `superviseStopGrace` it sends SIGKILL.
5. At each start, the supervisor writes a new `gateway.token` (32 random bytes, hex, mode 0600) and `gateway.yaml`. It writes each file to a temp file and then renames it. The `cortex` child gets `CORTEX_GATEWAY_TOKEN_FILE`.
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suggestion — This is stale after 50cce61. The supervisor now keeps an existing non-empty gateway.token and writes a new one only when the file is missing or empty. docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-3-supervise-gateway.md decision 5 (line 21) and its test name TestWriteGatewayFiles_TokenIs0600AndNew (lines 55 and 133) say the same old thing. Could you update them to "a token is written only when gateway.token is missing or empty; an existing one is kept"? The PR body already lists this as a changed plan decision. The README is what readers will look at.
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nit — A kept token file keeps whatever mode it already has. If someone (or an older tool) left gateway.token at 0644, it stays that way, and the 0600 comment above no longer holds. ~/.cortex is 0700, so the risk is small. A cheap guard: os.Chmod(tokenPath, 0o600) on the keep path, or treat a token that is not 0600 as missing and rewrite it.
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In praxis mode,
cortex -supervisenow runs two children:cortexandcortex-gateway. Each child has its own restart loop. In direct mode (praxis.enabled: false, the default), nothing changes.Fixes #1720. Part of #1714. Plan:
docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-3-supervise-gateway.md.What changed
core/config): new fieldspraxis.listen(default127.0.0.1:47605) andpraxis.egress(default127.0.0.1:47606). When praxis mode is on, each must be a literal loopbackhost:portwith a port that is not zero.praxis/server): new flag--exit-on-stdin-eof. With the flag, the gateway exits when its stdin closes.cmd/cortex/gateway.go): at each start, the supervisor writes<config dir>/gateway.token(mode 0600, a new token only when the file is missing or empty) and<config dir>/gateway.yaml. A golden file pinsgateway.yaml. A Rust test loads the golden in the real gateway and serves a request through it.cmd/cortex/supervise.go):cortexcrash does not touch the gateway.config.Validaterefuses a praxis config, the supervisor starts no gateway and runscortexalone. Thecortexchild logs the error at each start.cortexchild getsCORTEX_GATEWAY_TOKEN_FILE."child", "cortex"or"child", "cortex-gateway"). The old textproxy started/proxy exited; restartingis nowchild .... Nothing in the repo parses the old text.cortexBinariesand agentop'ssetupBinaryNamesincludecortex-gateway.install.sh --stopchecks ports 47605 and 47606. Nothing stops a gateway from an earlier run: the stdin pipe ends it when its supervisor exits.praxis/README.mdanddocs/laptop-service.md.Deviations from the issue or spec
gateway.yaml. The issue does not ask for it, and no caller reads it yet.gateway_unavailablemove to Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721. The probe goes through the hop, and the hop is Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721.agentop updateand a released gateway. No release has a gateway before step 7 (Praxis mode 7/8: Release cortex-gateway as a standalone binary #1723).cortexPortsdoes not change. agentop probes ports only on a fresh install, and a fresh install cannot be in praxis mode yet. The probe of 47605 and 47606 lands withinstall.sh --praxisin step 5 (Praxis mode 5/8: Support praxis mode in agentop and the installer #1722).cortexwithout--supervise. On Linux withpraxis.enabled: true,cortexrefuses the boot. No supported path sets praxis mode yet. Step 5 (Praxis mode 5/8: Support praxis mode in agentop and the installer #1722) makes the unit use--supervisein praxis mode.docs/laptop-service.mdtells Linux users not to setpraxis.enableduntil then.gateway.tokenis missing or empty. Each child reads the token one time, at its start. With a new token at each start, a second supervisor on the same~/.cortex(for example, a manualcortex --local --supervisewhile the service runs) broke the token pair of the first supervisor at its next child restart. Cortex then refused each ingest POST.cortexalone, as for a config that does not validate.cortexthen refuses the praxis config at each start and logs why, and the fallback keeps the forward address. Decision 13 covers only a gateway that cannot start.How it was tested
GOWORK=off go vet ./...,gofmt -l .and the tests incore,cmd/cortexandcmd/agentop(full-raceagentop suite).TestPraxis_AddrDefaults,TestPraxis_AddrMustBeLoopback, thegatewayYAMLgolden,TestWriteGatewayFiles_TokenIs0600AndKept,TestSupervisorChildren_DirectModeHasOnlyCortex(with a praxis config that does not validate),TestSupervisorChildren_WriteFailureRunsCortexAlone,TestSupervisor_CortexRestartKeepsGateway,TestSupervisor_KillLeavesNoGateway, and a test for a gateway that cannot start.praxis/:cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings,cargo test --locked. New tests:exit_flag_is_read,exits_on_stdin_eof,keeps_running_without_flag,supervisor_gateway_yaml_serves.shellcheckandscripts/install_test.sh.Size
-updategoldencmd/cortex/testdata/gateway.yaml.golden, 36).Review findings not fixed
All are minor.
core/config/validate.govalidatePraxisAddr: the error forpraxis.egressgives the example127.0.0.1:47605. That is the listen default, not the egress default (47606).validatePraxisAddraccepts a zoned address such as[::1%lo0]:1. No test pins this.validatePraxisdoes not refusepraxis.listen == praxis.egress, or a praxis address that is the same as a cortex listener port. The bind then fails and backs off without end. This is a note for Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721.praxis/server/src/main.rshas_flag: it also matches--exit-on-stdin-eofwhen it is the value of-c. Only the supervisor passes the flag, always after-c <path>.main.rs: on stdin EOF,std::process::exit(0)runs no destructors, so_tracing_guarddoes not flush. The last log lines can be lost.cmd/cortex/gateway.goingestAddr:TestIngestAddrhas no case for a host such aslocalhost. The IPv6 wildcard[::]:portbecomes127.0.0.1; withIPV6_V6ONLYset, nothing listens there.gateway.gowriteFileAtomic: no fsync of the directory after the rename. Both files are written again at each start.cortexchild reads the config again at each restart. If a user setspraxis.enabled: truewhile the macOS service runs in direct mode, the nextcortexrestart crash-loops until the service restarts.docs/laptop-service.mdnow says that apraxis.*edit needsagentop service restart.scripts/install_test.sh: in one of five runs, the suite reported 264 passed, 2 failed (probably the progress-bar flake, not this diff). The port-list and restage checks are greps of the source.praxis/README.md"Supervision decisions" item 2:~/.cortex/ for the serviceis true only for the macOS service. The new items 1-11 are not wrapped at 80 columns.docs/laptop-service.md: it does not say that the gateway cannot route on macOS until Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721 adds the egress listener. It also says that the next proxy restart fails after apraxis.*edit. That is true only forpraxis.enabled. Apraxis.listenorpraxis.egressedit does not get to the gateway until the service restarts.stopStaleGatewayand its two tests, and asupervisorChildrenthat returns an error. The code has neither. Decision 4 says that with no--configthe supervisor has no config. With--local, it now reads~/.cortex/config.yaml.praxis/README.md: the sentence on the Gopraxisblock does not namelistenandegress.<dir>is the--configdirectory, or~/.cortex/with--local.cmd/cortex/fallback.gosupervisorConfigPath: the scan for-localdoes not stop at--or at the first argument that is not a flag. In those cases the child does not see-localeither, and it exits at boot.--local --supervisestart, the supervisor logs a WARN because the child has not written the config yet. The supervisor then runs in direct mode, and that is correct.Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com
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