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Report the daemon host CPU architecture in /health #3047
Description
Purpose
A remote client cannot learn the CPU architecture of the host its simulators run on. Nothing in /health, devices --json, or eas simulator:get reports it.
Stim (appandflow/stim#1803) builds iOS simulator apps on one machine and installs them on a remote Mac's simulator through agent-device proxy or an EAS Simulator session. xcodebuild has no remote UDID at build time, so the build uses generic/platform=iOS Simulator, which forces ONLY_ACTIVE_ARCH=NO and compiles both arm64 and x86_64. On an Expo app that measured 285 s and a 341 MB .app, against 151 s and 172 MB with ARCHS=arm64. Knowing the host arch lets the client build one slice.
Observed on a real EAS Simulator session (daemon 0.21.16, client 0.21.12):
{"ok":true,"service":"agent-device-daemon","version":"0.21.16","rpcProtocolVersion":2}agent-device devices --platform ios --json lists platform, appleOs, id, name, kind, target, booted, with no arch.
Required behavior
/health advertises an optional hostArch for the process that serves it, normalized to Apple arch names: Node x64 becomes x86_64, arm64 stays arm64, other values pass through. A proxy reports its own hostArch and the upstream daemon's inside upstream, as it already does for version.
{"ok":true,"service":"agent-device-proxy","version":"0.21.17","rpcProtocolVersion":2,"hostArch":"arm64",
"upstream":{"ok":true,"service":"agent-device-daemon","version":"0.21.17","rpcProtocolVersion":2,"hostArch":"arm64"}}The field is additive under ADR 0006 (a new optional response field older clients ignore), so rpcProtocolVersion stays 2. readRemoteDaemonHealth parses it when present and tolerates its absence.
Health is the right surface rather than device entries: arch is a property of the host, simctl does not report it per simulator, and a per-device field would cross discovery, the client normalizer, the output serializer and the MCP schema.
Known limit: the value is the arch the daemon's Node process runs as. An x64 Node under Rosetta on Apple silicon reports x86_64 while simulators boot arm64. resolveMacRunnerArch makes the same trade for the macOS runner destination.
Completion
curl <daemon>/healthon an Apple silicon Mac includes"hostArch":"arm64".- Through
agent-device proxy, both the proxy payload andupstreamcarry it. - A health payload without the field still parses, and the client's protocol check is unchanged.
Environment: macOS 27.0, Xcode 27.0, Node 22.22.2.
Activity
feat(daemon): report the host CPU architecture in /health (callstack#…
feat(daemon): report the host CPU architecture in /health (callstack#…
fix(apple): pick the Mac runner and simulator build arch from the hos…
fix(apple): pick the Mac runner and simulator build arch from the hos…
feat(daemon): report the host CPU architecture in /health (callstack#…
fix(apple): pick the Mac runner and simulator build arch from the hos…
feat(daemon): report the host CPU architecture in /health (#3048)