feat(devices): target concurrent agent sessions across hosts

[juliusmarminge]

Agents need to use devices on different machines concurrently within one thread. Give each host an explicit CLI config file and each thread/host/device combination a separate session, instead of changing a process-wide daemon target.

Install the pinned agent CLI on the environment independently of local simulator SDKs. Device tool responses supply the required config and session arguments. Atomically replacing a host config lets subsequent commands use a reconnected tunnel without changing other hosts.

Validation: real CLI subprocess tests exercise concurrent host configs, endpoint replacement, and missing-config rejection. Live cups-to-Mac-mini verification on the complete stack confirmed CLI discovery before and after an intentionally terminated SSH tunnel recovered.

App builds, installation, and Metro forwarding remain agent prerequisites.

Rebased-stack verification: agent host-config subprocess tests, device/MCP tests, web and server typechecks, and targeted lint pass. This layer changes CLI targeting without adding UI; subprocess tests provide its behavioral evidence.

Implemented with GPT-6 in Codex.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Device connections now provide host-specific configuration and session arguments for agent commands.
  • Added support for launching agents across multiple configured hosts with isolated sessions.
  • Quick-start guidance now includes remote-host instructions and safely formatted command options.
  • Agent launchers validate arguments, preserve exit status, and clean up daemon-related environment settings.

• Bug Fixes

  • Reconnecting one host no longer changes another host’s configuration or session.
  • Agent commands now fail clearly when device initialization is incomplete.
  • Unavailable agent access no longer starts or registers a device.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	13.6 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.0 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.6 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.1 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	10	—	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	13.6 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.1 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.6 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.9 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	10	—	21	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: 412301a · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces substantial multi-host device runtime behavior, including per-host authenticated config files, session routing, generated launchers, and changed provider/MCP execution paths. The implementation also has unresolved concrete risks around Windows command quoting, stale identifiers and configs, orphaned sessions, and concurrent launcher writes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds host-specific agent configuration and session arguments. DeviceService resolves agent targets and CLI paths. The generated launcher validates arguments and removes daemon environment variables. Device tools and provider instructions preserve host-specific arguments.

Changes

Agent device execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host configuration and sessions apps/server/src/device/AgentDeviceTarget.ts, apps/server/src/device/AgentDeviceTarget.test.ts	Agent endpoints use stable host-specific paths and deterministic sessions. Configuration files use atomic writes, restrictive permissions, and unchanged-content detection. Integration tests cover concurrent hosts, reconnection, and invalid initialization arguments.
Device service agent targets apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.test.ts	DeviceService resolves the agent CLI, configures ready hosts, and returns --config and --session arguments. Host-based fixtures use makeWithHosts.
Launcher and provider environment apps/server/src/device/AgentDeviceShim.ts, apps/server/src/provider/Layers/ProviderService.ts	The generated launcher validates arguments, removes daemon variables, forwards arguments, and propagates process results. Provider setup installs the shim without exporting daemon credentials.
Device open and quick-start flow apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpDeviceToolkit.test.ts, apps/server/src/provider/CodexDeveloperInstructions.ts	device_open resolves and returns host-specific target arguments before opening a device. Quick-start guidance preserves and shell-quotes them. Tests cover unavailable agent access, and mobile instructions use the updated contract.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant device_open
  participant DeviceService
  participant AgentDeviceTarget
  participant AgentDeviceShim
  participant AgentCLI
  device_open->>DeviceService: request host-specific agent target
  DeviceService->>AgentDeviceTarget: resolve config and session arguments
  AgentDeviceTarget-->>DeviceService: return config and session arguments
  DeviceService-->>device_open: return target arguments
  AgentDeviceShim->>AgentCLI: launch with validated target arguments
  AgentCLI-->>AgentDeviceShim: return exit status or spawn error

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8e0cc

Host-specific agent sessions can be created with an empty configuration path in one service-construction path, causing the launcher to reject the command after device readiness succeeds. This is a bounded device-execution failure risk that should be corrected before merge.

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apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts (1)

156-159: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the empty configureAgent fallback.

agentTarget passes the default "" directly after --config, and the MCP handler uses these arguments for agent-device commands. Make configureAgent required or make the default return DeviceHostUnavailableError instead of creating an invalid command target.

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In `@apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts` around lines 156 - 159, Update the
configureAgent member in DeviceService so it no longer defaults to a successful
empty-string result; require an implementation or return the established
DeviceHostUnavailableError failure. Ensure agentTarget never receives an empty
value after --config while preserving valid configured-agent behavior.

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In `@apps/server/src/device/AgentDeviceShim.ts`:
- Around line 31-32: Update the argument guard in AgentDeviceShim to require
both --config and --session before allowing the CLI path. Restrict help/version
exemptions to the intended command-level invocation so positional values such as
help do not bypass validation, while preserving the existing error message and
exempt behavior for genuine help/version requests.

In `@apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/handlers.ts`:
- Around line 161-165: Handle DeviceHostUnavailableError from
devices.agentTarget in the device_open flow so a session created by devices.open
is not left open when target resolution fails. Prefer closing the created
session before propagating the error, while preserving the existing successful
agentTarget path and device cleanup behavior.

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In `@apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts`:
- Around line 156-159: Update the configureAgent member in DeviceService so it
no longer defaults to a successful empty-string result; require an
implementation or return the established DeviceHostUnavailableError failure.
Ensure agentTarget never receives an empty value after --config while preserving
valid configured-agent behavior.

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apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts (1)

156-159: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Make the default configureAgent fail instead of returning an empty path.

The default returns Effect.succeed(""). agentTarget then emits ["--config", "", "--session", ...]. The agent CLI receives an empty configuration path, so the failure surfaces later as a CLI argument error instead of a service error. A failing default keeps the contract explicit for any caller of makeWithHosts that does not supply configureAgent.

♻️ Proposed change

   configureAgent: (
     hostId: DeviceHostId,
     ready: DeviceHost.DeviceHostAgentReady,
-  ) => Effect.Effect<string, DeviceError> = () => Effect.succeed(""),
+  ) => Effect.Effect<string, DeviceError> = (hostId) =>
+    new DeviceHostUnavailableError({
+      hostId,
+      reason: "Agent configuration is not available for this service instance.",
+    }),

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In `@apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts` around lines 156 - 159, Update the
default configureAgent implementation in makeWithHosts to return a failed Effect
with an appropriate DeviceError instead of Effect.succeed(""). Preserve the
existing successful behavior when callers provide their own configureAgent.

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Inline comments:
In `@apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts`:
- Around line 765-769: Update the not-ready branch in the device handling flow
around agentReadinessIfSupported to distinguish disabled device support,
disabled agent device access, and unavailable host platform support. Read the
relevant settings and host support state, then pass the corresponding reason to
DeviceHostUnavailableError instead of always reporting that agent device access
is disabled.

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In `@apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts`:
- Around line 156-159: Update the default configureAgent implementation in
makeWithHosts to return a failed Effect with an appropriate DeviceError instead
of Effect.succeed(""). Preserve the existing successful behavior when callers
provide their own configureAgent.

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This check found one dependency-acquisition violation; see the inline review comment. The previously reported structured-error violation in DeviceService.ts also remains unresolved.

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🟠 High device/handlers.ts:38

On Windows, agentDeviceQuickStart emits POSIX single-quoted .cmd launchers and target paths, so cmd.exe passes the quotes literally instead of treating them as quoting. As a result, copied commands cannot launch the returned executable or pass paths such as --config C:\... correctly; generate cmd.exe-compatible escaping for Windows commands (or otherwise emit shell-specific quick-start syntax).

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In file @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/handlers.ts around line 38:

On Windows, `agentDeviceQuickStart` emits POSIX single-quoted `.cmd` launchers and target paths, so `cmd.exe` passes the quotes literally instead of treating them as quoting. As a result, copied commands cannot launch the returned executable or pass paths such as `--config C:\...` correctly; generate `cmd.exe`-compatible escaping for Windows commands (or otherwise emit shell-specific quick-start syntax).

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🟡 Medium device/handlers.ts:156

device_open returns a session for the emulator serial, but agentTarget has already generated CLI flags from the pre-open Android AVD name (target.id). The response therefore combines flags for the old identifier with device and target flags for session.deviceId; reopening the booted device creates a second session for the same physical device and leaves the first session orphaned. Resolve agentTarget after devices.open using the returned session identifiers.

-      // Resolve consent and agent connectivity before booting or registering a session.
-      const agentArgs = yield* devices.agentTarget({
-        threadId: scope.threadId,
-        hostId: target.hostId,
-        deviceId: target.id,
-      });
       const session = yield* devices.open({
         threadId: scope.threadId,
         hostId: target.hostId,
         deviceId: target.id,
         platform: target.platform,
       });
+      const agentArgs = yield* devices.agentTarget({
+        threadId: scope.threadId,
+        hostId: session.hostId,
+        deviceId: session.deviceId,
+      });

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In file @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/handlers.ts around lines 156-167:

`device_open` returns a session for the emulator serial, but `agentTarget` has already generated CLI flags from the pre-open Android AVD name (`target.id`). The response therefore combines flags for the old identifier with `device` and target flags for `session.deviceId`; reopening the booted device creates a second session for the same physical device and leaves the first session orphaned. Resolve `agentTarget` after `devices.open` using the returned session identifiers.

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🟠 High device/handlers.ts:177

When ensureAgentDeviceShim or devices.agentCli fails after devices.open succeeds, device_open returns DeviceToolUnavailableError but leaves the session registered for the thread. The thread then reports an open device even though the call failed and supplied no usable command; close the session on launcher-preparation failure (or prepare the launcher before calling devices.open).

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In file @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/handlers.ts around line 177:

When `ensureAgentDeviceShim` or `devices.agentCli` fails after `devices.open` succeeds, `device_open` returns `DeviceToolUnavailableError` but leaves the session registered for the thread. The thread then reports an open device even though the call failed and supplied no usable command; close the session on launcher-preparation failure (or prepare the launcher before calling `devices.open`).

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🟠 High device/AgentDeviceShim.ts:27

ensureAgentDeviceShim can leave agent-device-launcher.mjs empty or partially written, causing a concurrent provider session to fail while loading the shared module. device_open rewrites this path on every call via truncating fs.writeFile; write a temporary launcher and atomically rename it into place, skipping the rewrite when unchanged.

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In file @apps/server/src/device/AgentDeviceShim.ts around line 27:

`ensureAgentDeviceShim` can leave `agent-device-launcher.mjs` empty or partially written, causing a concurrent provider session to fail while loading the shared module. `device_open` rewrites this path on every call via truncating `fs.writeFile`; write a temporary launcher and atomically rename it into place, skipping the rewrite when unchanged.

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🟠 High device/AgentDeviceTarget.ts:41

Concurrent device_open calls for the same host can leave the config file containing an older endpoint, so later commands use a stale daemon URL/token after a tunnel reconnect. The read/compare and temporary-file rename sequence is not serialized or version-checked, allowing an older invocation that renames last to overwrite the newer endpoint; add per-host serialization or reject stale writes before rename.

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In file @apps/server/src/device/AgentDeviceTarget.ts around line 41:

Concurrent `device_open` calls for the same host can leave the config file containing an older endpoint, so later commands use a stale daemon URL/token after a tunnel reconnect. The read/compare and temporary-file `rename` sequence is not serialized or version-checked, allowing an older invocation that renames last to overwrite the newer endpoint; add per-host serialization or reject stale writes before `rename`.