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Problem

Forwarded calls to a linked environment repeat a descriptor timeout on a silent primary even after verifying a working fallback.

Change and scope

Keep verified fallback routes as fixed 60-second ordering hints in a lazy map bounded to 256 environments. Reuse does not renew expiry. Calls still read link/secret state and freshly verify identity and fencing. Relink/unlink and primary success clear hints; secret eligibility rejects stale hints restored by older in-flight work. Current peer names remain persisted.

The user explicitly approved narrowing this PR to forwarded-call resolution. Conflict resolution keeps main's concurrent status probes and 3-second listing budget from #28543 unchanged. Removed this PR's status preferences, hedge machinery and related tests. Main's descriptor retry from #34208 is retained; the expiry fixture now returns a wrong identity instead of a retryable 404.

Merged main de26b6db3c1044af1fb622baa32748bd2701d63d; final head efcf0ce2a9bf5460c8e2fb8551753bb4a80dc3ba. Two-file diff: 42 production lines and 144 test lines. No client, provider or wire-contract change.

Matched measurements

Windows, Node 24.18.0. Real PeerLinks.resolve, SQLite/secrets/OAuth and loopback HTTP descriptors. Four fresh main/PR/PR/main processes, three independent services per workload per process, four resolutions per service: 144 calls. Setup/linking and per-service diagnostic GC excluded from timings. Same checkout/inputs; baseline substitutes only main's PeerLinks.ts via a Node load hook. Six cold/first-recovery samples per version; 18 healthy/silent warm samples; 12 warm-recovery samples. Native timeouts unchanged.

Resolution workload	Main median [range] ms	PR median [range] ms	Change
healthy/cold	15.49 [8.56, 23.38]	14.43 [7.19, 21.46]	-6.79% (-1.05 ms)
healthy/warm	14.54 [3.80, 16.54]	14.91 [3.12, 16.57]	+2.54% (+0.37 ms)
silent-primary/cold	3015.97 [3009.71, 3026.90]	3018.88 [3008.71, 3024.83]	+0.10% (+2.91 ms)
silent-primary/warm	3013.45 [3006.89, 3028.85]	14.22 [2.73, 16.49]	-99.53% (-2999.23 ms)
recovery/first-recovery	3.14 [2.71, 3.63]	3009.01 [3006.84, 3014.62]	+95720.72% (+3005.87 ms)
recovery/warm-recovery	11.72 [6.44, 16.44]	13.05 [1.93, 16.33]	+11.40% (+1.34 ms)

Repeated silent-primary calls reduce descriptor attempts from two to one. Healthy/cold-silent counts are unchanged. First recovery, when the preferred fallback becomes silent and primary recovers, pays an additional 3-second loopback timeout; repeats use primary directly. Remote-address recovery can pay an extra 10 seconds. This is a sequential resolver tradeoff, not a fast-recovery guarantee. Healthy ranges overlap; small-control neutrality is not established.

Endpoint RSS process medians in main/PR/PR/main order (MiB): 278.78, 446.96, 446.35, 276.97. Diagnostic retained-heap deltas after service completion and forced GC (MiB): 0.051, 0.051, 0.046, 0.052. The current completion-driven cohort therefore reproduces roughly 168-170 MiB higher endpoint RSS on the PR. Endpoints occur at different elapsed times because the PR avoids waits; retained-heap deltas are similar. This run does not establish the cause, matched-time residency, or acceptance of that cost. These are history-dependent snapshots, not peak-memory or leak measurements. Raw coarse Windows CPU counters do not establish CPU neutrality.

Earlier broader versions observed roughly 179 MiB higher RSS in one cohort; a separate paced/quiet follow-up did not reproduce that excess. Those remain historical observations for their old source, not measurements of this head or an established cause. Status optimization is now removed. Resource qualification and tradeoff acceptance remain a maintainer decision; no human approval is claimed.

The repeated fault-path latency benefit survives, but readiness remains qualified by the recovery cost and unresolved RSS observation. No closure decision is justified by an inconclusive memory diagnosis. Browser paint, native clients, real remote/tunnel latency, production-scale concurrency and peak memory were not measured. Maria's earlier real-client evidence applies only to its stated historical heads.

Validation

vp test run src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts from apps/server: 28 passed on final source. Changed-file formatting/lint, server typecheck and diff checks passed. Typecheck emits existing Effect suggestions, no errors. Fixed expiry, identity, recovered-primary ordering, relink/unlink and stale in-flight hint regressions survive alongside upstream status/cancellation/rename/fencing and forwarding tests.

Scoped checks ran locally; repo-wide hooks were omitted in the filtered worktree. CI owns the full suite. No browser/device testing requested or run.

Model: gpt-6.1-sol through Codex in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at efcf0ce

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Previously verified fallback routes are prioritized for one minute to avoid repeatedly probing unavailable primary routes. Current credentials and fresh peer verification remain required, with bounded, memory-only preference state.

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Walkthrough

Peer link resolution now temporarily prefers a verified alternate URL. It checks that the preference is current, configured, and associated with the same secret. Linking, unlinking, and success at the primary URL clear the preference.

Changes: Peer route preference

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and reuse preferred routes apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts, apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts	Resolution prioritizes a valid preferred URL and records successful alternate URLs for 60 seconds. It clears preferences after link changes or success at the configured primary URL. Tests cover preference timing, identity changes, recovery, relinking, and a resolution race.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29779 — Both PRs change how PeerLinks.resolve applies verified probe results.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, saphid

Merge Risk: Low · up to efcf0

After a relink, a slow in-flight call can discard the remembered fallback route. The next forwarded call then waits one extra timeout before recovering. This is a narrow, self-healing performance regression and does not block merge.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Description check		The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change and scope, Validation) but does not use the template's headings exactly. The Problem section is one sentence and gives no reproduction st…	Add a Scope and approval section that links the triaged bug issue or the maintainer discussion, with the approval comment, and states why the change stays within approved scope. Rename or restructure the headings to match the template (Prob…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: reusing verified routes for linked environments, a 60-second fallback ordering hint that avoids repeated descriptor timeouts on a silent primary. The title uses the co…
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The title names the main change: reusing verified routes for linked environments, a 60-second fallback ordering hint that avoids repeated descriptor timeouts on a silent primary. The title uses the conventional commit format and the "perf" type fits the stated goal of cutting repeated timeouts. The title does not mention the recovery latency tradeoff or the memory observation, which is expected for a short title.

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The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change and scope, Validation) but does not use the template's headings exactly. The Problem section is one sentence and gives no reproduction steps or environment. The Scope and approval section is missing as a labeled section: it has no link to a triaged issue or maintainer approval comment. The author states that the user approved narrowing the scope, but gives no issue link or approval comment reference. The Verification section gives focused tests and matched measurements, which meets the template's intent. The description also lists unresolved RSS observations and does not claim the change is ready. Its length and density make it hard to scan, and the Verification section is not split into clear observed results per changed behavior. The description also says that the author used gpt-6.1-sol, which meets the agent-attribution requirement.

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

takeover update, 2026-11-11

merged current main (ba4d01cf7f) with a merge commit to clear the conflict in apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts. kept both sides: main's LoopbackHost reference sits beside the route-preference map, and main's reworded token-fencing comment sits above the preferred-route reordering. no other changes.

verified head: 73b6281344.

• blacksmith: vp run check:changed passed format, lint, both knip partitions, graphql, typecheck (3 packages), and tests (2 files). PeerLinks.test.ts passed 30/30.
• github ci on this head: 19 success, 13 skipped, none failing or pending. merge state clean.
• both bot threads remain resolved. macroscope's earlier approvability verdict still asks for human approval of the reported rss tradeoff.

the live runtime evidence below was not repeated for this merge-only head.

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takeover verification, 2026-11-04

merged current main with a merge commit, preserving route preferences and main's peer label refresh. added fallback-label assertions to the existing behavioral test. pushed without force to the original head branch.

verified head: a618ee4c0bce22e93094c26e6a57ecf5f7dd078d.

• all 33 cafe checks are green, none pending; github reports mergeable.
• blacksmith: focused PeerLinks/PeerForwarding run passed 34 tests. final-head vp run check:changed github/main passed format, lint, both knip partitions, graphql, typecheck for 3 packages, and 29 tests across 2 files. the explicit comparison ref supplies the worker's shallow history.
• live runtime: paired a separate real server with isolated state. with the primary proxy accepting requests without responding, two authenticated MCP project-list calls succeeded through the fallback. a real Chrome browser's authenticated websocket peerLinks.list returned reachable for the same linked peer.
• two independent code reviews approved this head. both earlier bot threads remain resolved; no new actionable findings.

native desktop/mobile, other providers, remote networks, and production-scale load were not repeated this run. no UI changes or new performance claims. the earlier evidence below remains historical evidence for its stated head.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified as-is at e1ef8228669a2ecbb0741b466df06c053b561ae8 on a linux boat vm. no code changes or pushes.

• reproduced on github/main (6575ce3250) in a separate worktree before running the exact pr head. installed dependencies with vp i in both. stopped main's captured dev process group before starting the pr's background dev runner.
• drove the real web client with repo playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome. created a real git repo and project, enabled linked environments in settings, and linked a separate real cli peer using the server's websocket api and oauth pairing. the peer used isolated state and no watcher. two network proxies forwarded actual peer responses; making the primary accept connections without responding reproduced the network fault without mocking app/provider responses.
• real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns made three sequential forwarded project-list calls on both versions. main paid the primary timeout on every call: descriptor-to-authenticated-mcp dispatch was 3,005 / 3,006 / 3,006 ms. the pr paid it once (3,027 ms), then freshly verified and dispatched through the fallback in 4 / 5 ms. these are route/dispatch measurements, not total model-turn latency.
• three real peerLinks.list websocket responses with the silent primary took 3,035 / 3,014 / 3,017 ms on main and 37 / 21 / 13 ms on the pr after a forwarded call established the preference. all reported reachable. measurements include ticket/socket setup and exclude client paint.
• neighboring recovery: made the preferred fallback silent and restored the primary. status returned reachable in 146 ms, then 15 ms on repeat. request logs show the primary starting 105 ms after the preferred probe, followed by only the primary on repeat.
• neighboring agent flow: after primary recovery, codex listed a real peer project, launched a remote codex gpt-6.1-sol thread, waited, and read its response. the remote agent ran cat README.md and returned linked environment verification. a further recorded turn made two successful fallback calls returning that project.
• blacksmith: vp i && vp test run apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts apps/server/src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts passed all 31 tests across both files. the head's ci reports 32 successful checks, none failing or pending.

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Not verified

native electron, ios/android, macos/windows, other providers, actual tailscale/tunnel routing, remote-address 10-second timeouts, and production-scale concurrency/memory. the live peer and faulted addresses were loopback. fixed expiry, concurrent relinking, cancellation and identity/fencing edge cases passed the focused existing tests; they were not all repeated through the live client. this is evidence for the exercised fault path, not an overall app performance claim.

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Please review head efcf0ce2a9bf5460c8e2fb8551753bb4a80dc3ba. Conflict resolution keeps main's concurrent status probes and listing budget unchanged, as explicitly authorized by the directing user. This PR retains only forwarded-call fallback preferences. Removed status preference/hedge code and tests; the stale-hint relink regression now exercises resolution. Main's descriptor retry is retained; the expiry fixture no longer depends on retryable 404 behavior.

All 28 focused PeerLinks/PeerForwarding tests, changed-file format/lint, server typecheck and diff checks pass. The rewritten description records fresh matched measurements and first forwarded-call recovery costs. Earlier RSS observations remain historical evidence with unresolved cause; no human approval or whole-app resource neutrality is claimed.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts:
- Line 693: Guard both preference deletion at the preferredRoutes entry for
environmentId and preference writes with the link generation captured when
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Extend the relinking race test so the new link records a preference before the
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Keep an old resolution from replacing a new link’s preference.

Suppose a resolution reads secret S1 and waits for a descriptor. Relinking installs S2 and clears the map. A new S2 resolution then records a working fallback. When the old resolution finishes, Line 693 can delete that preference, or Line 704 can replace it with an S1 preference. The next call rejects the S1 preference and waits for a silent primary before trying the fallback. Check the captured link generation before deleting or writing the entry. Extend the relinking race test to let the new link record a preference before the old resolution finishes.

Based on learnings, a deferred write keyed by a reusable ID should check a secondary identity marker captured before the write.

Also applies to: 704-704

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Guard both preference deletion at the preferredRoutes entry for environmentId and preference writes with the link generation captured when resolution began; discard either mutation if the link has since been relinked. Extend the relinking race test so the new link records a preference before the old resolution finishes, and verify the old resolution cannot remove or replace it.

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