[captainR0bbo]

Problem

After one missed health probe, every later device_open on the local host fails with Agent tools did not start within 30000 ms. until the agent-device daemon is killed by hand.

startAgentDeviceDaemon probes the cached daemon's /health once, with a 2 s timeout. If that probe fails, it deletes daemon.json and runs agent-device devices --json to start a new daemon. The old daemon is often still alive, though. A probe can time out while the daemon or the server is busy with another command. That old daemon keeps daemon.lock, so:

• every new daemon fails with Daemon registration busy., and T3 reports the 30 s timeout;
• agent-device daemon stop --state-dir … returns "mode": "not-running", because it finds the daemon through daemon.json, and T3's shutdown stop uses the same command. The daemon is orphaned for good.

Seen on macOS with agent-device 0.21.31. The iPhone's device_open started the daemon at 08:43:53. Its apps command ran from 08:45:53 to 08:45:58 ("Building Apple runner..."). A second device_open at 08:45:57 started a new daemon. The daemon log then shows daemon_metadata_lost followed by Daemon registration busy. on every retry, while the original pid still listened on its port and answered /health in about 10 ms. The logs don't show why that one probe failed.

Change

In LocalDeviceHost.startAgentDeviceDaemon:

• The cached daemon gets up to 3 health probes, each with a 3 s timeout and a 100 ms pause between them, before it is treated as dead.
• If the daemon is still unhealthy, T3 runs agent-device daemon stop --state-dir before removing daemon.json. While the file still names the process, agent-device can stop it and release daemon.lock.
• daemon.json is removed only after the stop exits cleanly without timing out. daemon stop leaves a record whose pid is already dead, so T3 still removes the file itself. If the stop fails or times out, T3 keeps the file and reports Device support failed during stopping unresponsive agent tools. A later attempt or the shutdown stop can then retry. This recovery stop allows 15 s, because agent-device waits up to 10 s after SIGTERM and 2 s after SIGKILL before it reports.

Scope and approval

This is a small fix to one function, for a failure that blocks all agent device access on the local host until the daemon is killed by hand. No contracts, clients or defaults change.

Related: #33587 also stops a leftover daemon, but at server shutdown (a daemon left by an earlier server). This PR fixes how a daemon gets orphaned at startup. Both touch LocalDeviceHost.ts, so whichever merges second may need a small rebase.

Verification

• LocalDeviceHost.test.ts: 22 passed. The changed tests fail without their part of the fix:
  • New: keeps a busy daemon that misses a health probe. One failed probe no longer restarts the daemon.
  • Extended: restarts a cached daemon that no longer answers its health check now asserts the command order devices --json, daemon stop, devices --json. It also asserts that daemon.json still existed when daemon stop ran.
  • New: keeps an unresponsive daemon's record when its stop fails and … when its stop times out. Startup fails with DeviceHostError, no second daemon is started, and daemon.json stays in place.
• vp test run src/device in apps/server: 210 passed. apps/server typecheck passed. The pre-push hook (fmt, lint, knip) passed.
• Checked agent-device 0.21.31 directly on macOS:
  • With daemon.json deleted from under a live daemon, daemon stop --state-dir reports not-running, and the process keeps daemon.lock.
  • With daemon.json present, daemon stop --state-dir reports stopped: true, mode: graceful, and daemon.lock is released.
  • With daemon.json naming a dead pid, daemon stop reports not-running and leaves the file in place, which is why T3 still removes it afterwards.

Not checked: a full device_open run against a patched desktop build.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at aeedb7c

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Local device recovery now retries missed health probes and stops the daemon before deleting its registration file. The change is limited to local startup recovery and uses the existing bounded shutdown mechanism.

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Walkthrough

LocalDeviceHost retries health probes for an existing agent-device daemon. It reuses a responsive daemon. If all probes fail, it stops the daemon before removing its state file and continuing startup. Tests cover recovery, stop failures, timeouts, and daemon reuse.

Changes: Agent-device daemon health recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Probe and recover an existing daemon apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts	LocalDeviceHost makes up to three health probes, each with a three-second timeout, and waits 100 ms between failed probes. If all probes fail, it attempts to stop the daemon before removing the state file. A failed or timed-out stop returns a DeviceHostError and retains the file. Recovery uses a 15-second stop timeout. Host cleanup uses the shared stop helper with its existing 10-second timeout.
Verify daemon health recovery apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts	The tests verify that a daemon is stopped before replacement startup, that stop failure or timeout returns a DeviceHostError while retaining the state file, and that a daemon is reused after one failed probe.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#23441: This PR also handles recovery when a cached daemon fails its health check.
• pingdotgg/t3code#33587: This PR adds daemon cleanup during host shutdown, and this change reuses its shared stop helper.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: shivamhwp, yashranaway

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 46886

A stalled health response can block local device startup and later device operations. Apply the timeout to the full probe before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts: 1

155-156: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert that daemon.json exists when stop runs.

The commands assertion checks call order, but it still passes if code removes daemon.json before calling daemon stop. Check for the file inside the stop-command fixture and assert that observation in this test. As per coding guidelines, “Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior.” As per path instructions, changed tests must follow docs/internals/testing.md and test behavior that can break.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts around lines
155 - 156:
Update the test containing the commands-order assertion so its stop-command
fixture records whether daemon.json exists when daemon stop runs, then assert
that it does; retain the existing command-order assertion.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts:
- Line 574: Update stopAgentDeviceDaemon and its recovery-path call in
LocalDeviceHost to propagate and check whether the stop was confirmed; only
remove daemon.json after confirmed shutdown, and retain it when stopping fails
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts:
- Around line 155-156: Update the test containing the commands-order assertion
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Thanks, CodeRabbit. Both points are addressed in 2d07884: the recovery path only removes daemon.json after a confirmed stop (see the inline reply), and the restart test now asserts that daemon.json still existed when daemon stop ran.

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Note

Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Merged current main (merge commit 468861c4b3, no rebase) to clear the conflict with #33587 in LocalDeviceHost.

• main replaced the cached agentToolRef stop with a stopAgentDeviceDaemon that resolves the recorded agent-device version. That version is kept as is; it now runs the stop through this PR's runAgentDeviceDaemonStop helper (still 10 s), and the recovery path keeps its checked 15 s stop.
• Test fixture keeps both sides: main's runs log and this PR's commands, stopResult, failedProbes and daemonFileAtStop.

No other changes. LocalDeviceHost.test.ts passes (25/25), and vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests).

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- Around line 571-576: Update the probe Effect used by the
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Supported by static analysis

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git diff 79bca436b24a6eabb05d3d1a95348ae40d31e713 468861c4b3fab5adc72e311bee067ce36f65f23e -- apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts
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echo '--- head startup and lock ---'
git show 468861c4b3fab5adc72e311bee067ce36f65f23e:apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts | nl -ba | sed -n '505,615p;750,810p;870,920p'
echo '--- base startup and lock ---'
git show 79bca436b24a6eabb05d3d1a95348ae40d31e713:apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts | nl -ba | sed -n '505,600p;710,790p;825,890p'
echo '--- local health handler references ---'
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Apply the probe timeout to the body read.

If the first probe fails and a later response stalls its body, response.arrayBuffer can block startup while startLock is held. Move the timeout after flatMap so each probe can fail and retry.

Proposed fix

         .pipe(
-          Effect.timeout(Duration.millis(DAEMON_HEALTH_TIMEOUT_MS)),
           Effect.flatMap((response) =>
             response.arrayBuffer.pipe(Effect.as(response.status === 200)),
           ),
+          Effect.timeout(Duration.millis(DAEMON_HEALTH_TIMEOUT_MS)),
           Effect.scoped,
           Effect.orElseSucceed(() => false),
         );

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts around lines 571 - 576:
Update the probe Effect used by the DAEMON_HEALTH_ATTEMPTS retry loop so its timeout covers response.arrayBuffer as well as the request: apply Effect.timeout after the Effect.flatMap that reads the response body. Preserve the existing scoped cleanup and failure-to-false behavior so a stalled body read can time out and retry.

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Note

Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 468861c4b3fab5adc72e311bee067ce36f65f23e on a linux boat vm, using isolated dev state, chrome/playwright, a real local git project, android 15 emulator, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web composer and MCP tools. no mocks or fixtures.

• main b883156e26: paused the real daemon until 3.5 seconds after its health connection. main deleted daemon.json while the daemon retained its lock and still answered /health. replacement logged Daemon registration busy. two consecutive device_open calls failed with the 30000 ms startup timeout; daemon stop could no longer find the live process.
• pr, same pause: device_open succeeded. the original pid and registration remained intact.
• pr, all three probes missed: a 12-second pause exercised recovery. observed the actual stop subprocess while the old registration still existed, then old-process exit and replacement registration. device_open succeeded afterward.
• nearby behavior: device_list, close, reopen, screenshot, and live android video worked. the returned agent-device launcher opened com.android.settings and saved an independently inspected 1080×2400 screenshot, both commands exiting 0.
• blacksmith: all 25 LocalDeviceHost tests and all 213 device tests passed. head CI reports 31 successful checks. no source changes.

command transcript

Not verified

native t3 ios/android clients, macos/ios and windows hosts, and ssh/remote device hosts were not exercised on this linux vm. recovery-stop failure/timeout preservation passed existing tests but was not fault-injected into the real cli.

an extra attempt to open the installed android home launcher failed intent resolution. settings opened and screenshot capture worked; this does not establish general app-launch coverage or attribute that launcher failure to this change.