[huang195]

Stacks on #1764 (#1764), PR P1 of 3. This branch is built on feat/praxis-hop-1721-pP1. That branch is on a fork, so GitHub cannot use it as the base, and the base is main. Until #1764 merges, the diff also shows its commits. Review only the commits after 140e86b3:

1. 4b79ad5f: join ingested rows to Cortex's tunnels and cuts
2. 3f9d029d: hold a bridged tunnel until its gateway row joins
3. bd115a0c: turn on the hop and the egress listener in praxis mode
4. 1c2e62fe: close the praxis egress listener after the forward proxy

What changed

PR P2 of 3 for #1721 (plan: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md, Tasks 5 to 7).

• core/sessionapi: a new HopJoins interface and an Ingest.Joins field. For an erased line, ingest calls Release before it refuses the line. For a response row, ingest calls TakeCut before settleIngested, so that a cut Cortex made replaces the gateway's client_canceled. Request rows go through AppendRequest, with a fallback to AppendCapture.
• core/listener/forwardproxy: hopjoins.go keeps the join registry. A bridged tunnel waits for its gateway row before it writes its close row. A tunnel with no join in the TTL settles as it does today. record.go and tunnel.go record a cut (proxy_error) for TakeCut.
• cmd/cortex: startPraxis turns on the hop and the egress listener in praxis mode. It returns (*forwardproxy.Hop, *http.Server), so that main closes the egress server after the forward proxy.
• Config and docs: core/config listener plan, docs/session-api.md, praxis/README.md.

How it was tested

• New tests: core/sessionapi/ingest_joins_test.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hopjoins_test.go, cmd/cortex/praxis_test.go, core/config/listenerplan_test.go.
• On HEAD 1c2e62fe: gofmt -l, go test -race for core forwardproxy, sessionapi and config, go vet for cmd/cortex, and the praxis, ingest, outbound, ReadGatewayToken, IngestOptions and ListenerPlan tests in cmd/cortex. All pass.
• The Rust steps ran from praxis/ with the rustup toolchain (1.96) and cargo fmt --all --check. They pass. This PR changes no Rust code.
• TestPraxisE2E (-tags praxis_e2e) runs no test on this branch. Task 8 (PR P3) adds it.

Size

• Counted: 915 lines (866 added, 49 removed), in 18 files. Tests are included.
• Exempt: 0 lines.

Review findings not fixed

• [minor] Gate: cargo fmt --check --manifest-path praxis/Cargo.toml fails on a virtual workspace ("Failed to find targets"), and /opt/homebrew/bin/cargo (rustc 1.94) comes first on PATH. The gate needs rustup's cargo and cargo fmt --all. The plan's gate line needs this correction too. This is not a defect in the code.
• [minor] T5: for a cut on a row with no error, the code stores a copy (c := *cut; ev.Error = &c), not ev.Error = cut as the plan says. The row does not share the registry's pointer, so this is safer.
• [minor] T5: no test makes sure that Release is not called for a line that is not erased, or that TakeCut is not called for a request row. TestIngestJoins_ErasedLineReleasesJoin sets j.appended = nil without the fake's mutex. This is safe because the posts are synchronous. File: core/sessionapi/ingest_joins_test.go.
• [minor] T6: TestHopJoin_IdleCutIsTaken does not test the idle cutoff. It makes a proxy_error cut with an SSE frame over the frame cap, because streamReadIdleTimeout is a const (stream.go:29). The test name says more than the test does.
• [minor] Idle-cut order: idleReadCloser.cut (core/listener/forwardproxy/stream.go:89) closes the body to the gateway before the relay records the row. If the gateway's client_canceled line gets to ingest before noteCut, TakeCut gives nil: the row keeps client_canceled, and the cut stays in h.cuts until a later sweep. The frame-cap cut does not have this problem. No test covers the idle case. The window is probably small.
• [minor] T6: no test covers the cut sweep in noteCut (hopjoins.go). The sweep runs only when a new cut is added, so the last cuts stay in memory until the next cut. The map is small.
• [minor] T6: TestHopJoin_ExpiredJoinSettlesAsToday checks only that a close row follows the open row. It does not check the status and byte counts of the "carried nothing" close.
• [minor] T6: Release is tested only after the tunnel closes. No test calls Release while the tunnel is open. The code handles both orders the same way.
• [minor] T7: startPraxis returns (*forwardproxy.Hop, *http.Server), not the plan's *forwardproxy.Hop. Task 8 (P3) must use the two-value form. No test covers the shutdown order in main.go; the P3 e2e work is the only check.
• [minor] T7: some text still calls Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721 future work: praxis/README.md:71 ("Tunnel joins land with the hop (Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721)"), praxis/README.md:115 ("Not in this step: ... the startup probe and gateway_unavailable (Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721)"), and praxis/filters/src/record/line.rs:32 ("Praxis mode 4/8: Add the hop and the egress listener to the forward proxy #1721 decides if the hop carries it").
• [minor] T7: drain order: Shutdown on the forward-proxy server does not wait for hijacked CONNECT tunnels. A TLS-bridged request in flight can lose the egress listener when the drain closes it. The drain runs only on non-local installs, and praxis mode is a laptop feature. No test pins the order.

Deferred issues

• Praxis mode: an outbound policy plugin fails open with only a Warn #1768: in praxis mode, an outbound policy plugin fails open with only a Warn.

Part of #1721

Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) noreply@anthropic.com

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added Praxis-mode request routing through the gateway to Cortex’s egress listener, with destination validation, readiness checks, and clear errors when the gateway is unavailable or refuses a destination.
  • Added request attribution and coordination between gateway records and proxy tunnel events.
  • Added support for preserving relevant errors and client status when Cortex cuts a response.

• Documentation

  • Updated Praxis setup, routing, egress, and session-ingestion documentation.

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Walkthrough

Adds Praxis-mode forwarding through the gateway and Cortex egress listener. The changes also add attribution encoding, readiness probes, egress validation, gateway failure handling, tunnel joins, and session-ingestion integration.

Changes: Praxis forwarding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Attribution and gateway header contract core/attribution/*, praxis/filters/src/filters/attribution.rs, praxis/filters/src/record/attribution.rs, praxis/filters/src/record/row.rs, praxis/server/tests/gateway.rs, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md	Adds the Go attribution wire format and a golden fixture that the Rust test decodes. The gateway keeps destination and token headers for the egress upstream while removing other hop headers; the tests cover the changed header handling.
Cortex egress listener core/config/config.go, core/config/listenerplan.go, core/config/listenerplan_test.go, cmd/cortex/gateway.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/egress.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/egress_test.go, praxis/README.md, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md	Adds an authenticated egress handler that validates destinations and relays requests. It handles probes, guard refusals, upstream failures, streaming and header removal. The listener plan includes the egress listener when Praxis and the forward role are enabled.
Forward-proxy hop and gateway failures core/listener/forwardproxy/hop.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hopheaders.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/record.go, core/model/session.go, core/pipeline/model_alias.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hop_direct_test.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hop_test.go, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md	Adds hop readiness probes and routes eligible requests through the gateway. Skipped requests and forwarded upgrades retain the direct path. Unready hops and dial failures produce a 503 with gateway_unavailable; tests cover forwarding, headers, attribution, readiness and direct-mode behavior.
Tunnel joins and session ingestion core/listener/forwardproxy/hopjoins.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/tunnel.go, core/sessionapi/ingest.go, core/listener/forwardproxy/hopjoins_test.go, core/sessionapi/ingest_joins_test.go, docs/session-api.md, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md	Adds request-ID joins between gateway rows and bridged tunnel state. Ingestion releases joins for erased lines, applies recorded cuts to response rows, and falls back to normal storage when a request row is not joined.
Praxis startup and mode wiring cmd/cortex/ingest.go, cmd/cortex/ingest_test.go, cmd/cortex/main.go, cmd/cortex/praxis.go, cmd/cortex/praxis_test.go, core/config/listenerplan.go, praxis/README.md, docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md	Reads the gateway token at startup, starts Praxis egress and the hop probe, and passes hop joins to ingestion. Praxis mode omits configured outbound plugins from the pipeline; tests and documentation cover the mode wiring.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant ForwardProxy
  participant CortexGateway
  participant CortexEgress
  participant Origin
  Client->>ForwardProxy: Send eligible request
  ForwardProxy->>CortexGateway: Forward request with destination and attribution headers
  CortexGateway->>CortexEgress: Send request with destination and token headers
  CortexEgress->>Origin: Dial destination and relay request
  Origin-->>CortexEgress: Return response
  CortexEgress-->>CortexGateway: Relay response
  CortexGateway-->>ForwardProxy: Return response
  ForwardProxy-->>Client: Return response

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Suggested reviewers: rubambiza, alan-cha

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to d87b1

This change routes praxis-mode forward-proxy traffic through the gateway and a new egress listener, with tunnel joins in ingestion. No concrete merge-blocking defect was identified in the reviewed change.

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[clawgenti]

Summary

This PR (P2 of #1721) joins ingested gateway rows to Cortex's bridged tunnels and cuts, and turns on the hop and the egress listener in praxis mode. I reviewed the four commits after 140e86b3, as the description asks. The join registry is correct. await/joined/unawait keep awaiting balanced on every path: a row, an expiry, a release, and a dial failure through dropJoin. takeJoin takes each join once and stops its timer under joinMu, so a row and an expiring timer cannot both settle the tunnel. Settling still runs under t.mu. Startup sets the fields startPraxis writes before the forward proxy serves, and it reads the gateway token once for the hop, the egress listener and ingest. outboundEntries covers both startup and reload, because both go through buildPipelines. I found nothing that blocks the merge. There is one suggestion about the status on cut rows, and one nit.

I ran these locally on 1c2e62f: go test -race for core/listener/forwardproxy, core/sessionapi and core/config (all pass), -count=15 -race on HopJoin|IngestJoins (no flakes), go vet and the praxis/ingest/outbound/listener-plan tests in cmd/cortex (pass), and gofmt -l (clean).

Author: huang195 (MEMBER, maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (forwardproxy, sessionapi, config, cmd/cortex wiring and shutdown order), Docs (docs/session-api.md, praxis/README.md)
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 11 commits (4 in scope), all signed off: yes
CI status: Go CI, CodeQL, DCO and lint pass. These checks fail, and the failures do not look caused by this PR:

• build-and-push: registry.access.redhat.com returned 502 on the UBI base image. This is infra.
• Rust (praxis) / cargo test: this PR changes no Rust code, P1 (#1764) passed the same job at 140e86b, and the job also fails on main at 87f73ca. I could not fetch the job log (blob storage timed out), so I have not confirmed the cause. A re-run would show whether it is the flake on main.

The review findings you listed in the description match what I saw. One of them matters more than the others: the idle-cut order (idleReadCloser.cut closes the gateway's body before noteCut runs). The idle cutoff is the example docs/session-api.md now gives for cut replacement, and no test covers it. The race window is small, but calling noteCut from the cut path before the close would remove it, if that is cheap in P3. praxis/README.md:71 ("Tunnel joins land with the hop (#1721)") is stale too.

[clawgenti]

suggestion: The cut replaces kind and message, but the row keeps the gateway's statusCode. When Cortex cuts a stream after the head, the gateway sees its downstream go away and builds its row with deferred(..., downstream_gone=true), which gives 499 client_canceled (praxis/filters/src/record/row.rs around line 508). So in praxis mode the stored row is statusCode: 499, error.kind: proxy_error, error.code: "200". In direct mode the same cut is statusCode: 200 with proxy_error (classifyBrokenStream keeps the sent status, and docs/session-api.md says the relay arms keep the sent status). A 499 also reads as "the client hung up first" in the docs and in /v1/usage.

cut.Code already carries the sent status (classifyBrokenStream sets fail.Code = strconv.Itoa(resp.StatusCode)), so the fix could be small:

if n, err := strconv.Atoi(cut.Code); err == nil && n > 0 {
	ev.StatusCode = n
}

A test like TestIngestJoins_CutReplacesClientCanceled, with a 499 response row as input, would pin it.

[clawgenti]

nit: This PR ships the startup probe and gateway_unavailable, but this line still calls them future work ("Not in this step: ... the startup probe and gateway_unavailable (#1721)"). Line 71 ("Tunnel joins land with the hop (#1721)") has the same problem.

[clawgenti]

Summary

I re-reviewed this PR at d33ba5f. Since my approval at 1c2e62f, one commit is new: d33ba5f moves the praxis-mode "outbound plugins not built" log line to Warn and corrects its text and praxis/README.md. The new text is accurate. serveOutbound sets hopped := s.Hop != nil && !skipped && !forwardUpgrade, so a forwarded WebSocket upgrade goes to its origin through client.Do, and the gateway never sees it. With outboundEntries returning nil, no outbound plugin sees that traffic either. The old line ("cortex-gateway processes the traffic") said the opposite. The test now pins the level (level=WARN). I found nothing that blocks the merge.

Side note, not a request: on a laptop install, addScriptSlot always appends the script entry before outboundEntries runs. So a praxis-mode start, and each reload, logs this Warn even when the user's config names no plugin. That seems right for a policy gap. It just means the line will be on every praxis start.

My two earlier comments from 1c2e62f still apply and are not blocking: the suggestion that a cut's row keep the sent status rather than the gateway's 499 (core/sessionapi/ingest.go), and the nit about the stale "#1721 future work" lines in praxis/README.md (lines 71 and 115).

I ran these locally on d33ba5f: go test -race for core/listener/forwardproxy, core/sessionapi and core/config (all pass), go vet and the praxis/ingest/outbound/ReadGatewayToken/listener-plan tests in cmd/cortex (pass), and gofmt -l (clean).

Author: huang195 (MEMBER, maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (cmd/cortex praxis wiring and outbound plugin skip, forwardproxy joins and cuts, sessionapi ingest joins, config listener plan), Docs (praxis/README.md, docs/session-api.md). Only the commits after 140e86b3 (#1764's part not re-reviewed here).
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 5 in scope (12 on the branch), all signed off: yes
CI status: passing (all checks green at d33ba5f, including Rust (praxis) and build-and-push, which failed at 1c2e62f)

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• cmd/cortex/gateway.go
• cmd/cortex/ingest.go
• cmd/cortex/ingest_test.go
• cmd/cortex/main.go
• cmd/cortex/praxis.go
• cmd/cortex/praxis_test.go
• core/attribution/testdata/wire.golden
• core/attribution/wire.go
• core/attribution/wire_test.go
• core/config/config.go
• core/config/listenerplan.go
• core/config/listenerplan_test.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/egress.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/egress_test.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/hop.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/hop_direct_test.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/hop_test.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/hopheaders.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/hopjoins.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/hopjoins_test.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/record.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go
• core/listener/forwardproxy/tunnel.go
• core/model/session.go
• core/pipeline/model_alias.go
• core/sessionapi/ingest.go
• core/sessionapi/ingest_joins_test.go
• docs/session-api.md
• docs/superpowers/plans/2026-11-09-praxis-mode-4-hop-and-egress.md
• praxis/README.md
• praxis/filters/src/filters/attribution.rs
• praxis/filters/src/record/attribution.rs
• praxis/filters/src/record/row.rs
• praxis/filters/tests/attribution_wire.rs
• praxis/server/tests/gateway.rs

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[clawgenti]

Summary

I re-reviewed this PR at d87b12a. Two commits are new since my approval at d33ba5f: b2edcdc and d87b12a. They answer my earlier suggestion on core/sessionapi/ingest.go, and the fix works. recordOutboundResponseEvent now gives noteCut the statusCode it was called with, and that is the status the client got. On the relay arms it is resp.StatusCode, the status already on the wire. On a buffered cut it is the 502 that bufferResponseBody wrote. TakeCut returns that status, and fileIngest writes it over the gateway's 499 before settleIngested. The gateway's error.code stays, and error.kind/error.message come from the cut as before. This is the same row shape that direct mode records. Two tests pin the behaviour. TestHopJoin_IdleCutIsTaken goes through the real record path and checks that the status is 200, and TestIngestJoins_CutReplacesClientCanceled checks that a 499 row is stored as 200. The status != 0 guard has its own test. The docs/session-api.md bullet now matches the code. TakeCut is a Go interface with only two implementations, *forwardproxy.Hop (checked by the var _ assertion in cmd/cortex/praxis.go) and the test fake. No JSON decoder or wire format changes. I found nothing that blocks the merge.

My earlier nit on praxis/README.md (lines 71 and 115 still call the tunnel joins, the startup probe and gateway_unavailable future work) has not been addressed yet. It does not block the merge.

I ran these locally on d87b12a: gofmt -l and go vet for core/listener/forwardproxy and core/sessionapi (clean), go test -race for core/listener/forwardproxy, core/sessionapi and core/config (all pass), and go vet plus the praxis/ingest/outbound/ReadGatewayToken/listener-plan tests in cmd/cortex (pass).

Author: huang195 (MEMBER, maintainer)
Areas reviewed: Go (core/listener/forwardproxy hop joins and record path, core/sessionapi ingest), Docs (docs/session-api.md)
Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none
Commits: 14 commits (2 new since the last review), all signed off: yes
CI status: passing (36 pass, Spellcheck skipped)