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fix(server): Simlock open failures show what agent-device reported - #27564

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Problem

When opening a Simlock device fails, the Device panel and the agent device tools only say "The device host sent no details." This happens even though T3's agent-device CLI reported why. Reproduced on main (32ecd71) in the web client: a dev server had a Simlock host pointed at a real gateway behind a local proxy, and the proxy answered /v1/agent-device with a plain-text 404 Not Found (agent-device disabled on the gateway, as in the report). Catalog discovery worked. Start on Pixel 9 then showed:

Device simlock:android:Pixel 9 failed to boot: The simulator or emulator could not start. The device host sent no details. Try again or open another device; if it keeps failing, check the device on that host.

For the same request, agent-device itself printed Invalid daemon response, a hint, the daemon's response line 404 Not Found and its log path.

Change

SimlockDeviceHost already turned the CLI's JSON failure into a reason, but put it only in the boot error's cause, and DeviceBootError.message shows only diagnostics. A failed open now puts that reason in diagnostics, bounded to the contract's 2,000 characters, the way DeviceHubOperations does for hub boot failures. The reason also carries the daemon's response excerpt (details.line, cut at 300 characters plus ...) and the agent-device log path when the CLI reports them. details is read as an open bag, so an unexpected shape there never hides the CLI's message. Opening a device whose lease already ended now shows its existing "no longer leased" reason too.

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Fixes #27546

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  • vp test run apps/server/src/device/SimlockDeviceHost.test.ts: 10 passed. "tells the user what agent-device reported when a device fails to open" fails on main (expected 'Device simlock:android:Pixel 9 failed…' not to contain 'The device host sent no details.') and passes here. It also covers a details bag without a usable response line.

  • vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests pass.

  • Real app, same proxy, steps and layout, at this head (1529da3), web client (Chromium, 1280×800, light, no device emulation). The Device panel error now reads:

    Device simlock:android:Pixel 9 failed to boot: The simulator or emulator could not start.

    Invalid daemon response Retry with --debug and inspect diagnostics log for details. The daemon answered: 404 Not Found Log: /home/ubuntu/.agent-device/logs/t3-bc2848/2026-10-30/2026-10-30T11-51-38-290Z-mvuww7ht-522b4545.ndjson

  • Control: with the proxy passing everything through, the same Pixel 9 lease opened and streamed live video in the Device panel.

Before (32ecd71) After (1529da3)
Device panel, Simlock gateway with agent-device disabled "…could not start. The device host sent no details. Try again…" "…could not start." followed by agent-device's message, hint, The daemon answered: 404 Not Found and the log path

Not checked: before/after screenshots of both runs exist but are not attached, because the evidence uploader was unavailable on the machine that ran this; the panel text above is quoted from those runs. The agent device_open tool was not driven directly; it returns the same DeviceBootError. Mobile renders the same error message and was not run.

Not in this PR: the issue's other requests (capability probing during setup, endpoint-specific setup guidance, upstream stream errors in the Device panel, diagnostic export). On main, a Simlock stream that fails already leaves "Connecting video…" after 15 seconds for "No video received from the device. Reconnect to try again." with a Reconnect button. I checked this against a stream that answers 500 and one that never sends a byte.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (issue lead, red test, implementation, review B) and GPT-6.1 Sol (review A), in Claude Code and Codex, orchestrated by T3 Code.

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juliusmarminge and others added 4 commits October 30, 2026 11:30
…e's reason

These tests reproduce #27546: when agent-device fails to
open a pool device (here the gateway's agent-device endpoint answers a
plain-text 404), the boot error says "The device host sent no details."
instead of agent-device's message and the daemon's response line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When agent-device failed to open a Simlock device, the boot error said "The
device host sent no details." because the CLI's reason only went into the
error's cause. The reason now goes into the boot error's diagnostics, and it
includes the daemon's response line (for example a gateway's "404 Not Found")
and the agent-device log path when the CLI reports them.

Fixes #27546

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…d say why a stale Simlock open fails

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at 1529da3

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Simlock failures now include agent-device details, a bounded daemon response excerpt, and a log path when available. The change improves failure reporting without changing device lifecycle behavior or product defaults.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
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Baseline: b3fdf2b · PR result: 00969ff · 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: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Simlock device-open failures now include available agent-device messages, daemon response details, and log paths. Selected boot errors now include diagnostics, with device-host-unavailable reasons truncated to a bounded length.

Changes: Simlock diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Agent-device failure details
apps/server/src/device/SimlockDeviceHost.ts, apps/server/src/device/SimlockDeviceHost.test.ts
Failure descriptions include available hints, daemon response text truncated to 300 characters, and log paths. Tests cover structured response details and non-string response lines.
Boot-error diagnostics
apps/server/src/device/SimlockDeviceHost.ts
Invalid catalog-device errors include the reopen instruction as diagnostics. Device-host-unavailable errors include the reason truncated to 1,997 characters.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#25259: Introduces the SimlockDeviceHost open path and agent-device CLI integration that this change extends with failure diagnostics.

Suggested reviewers: shivamhwp

Merge Risk: Low · up to 00969

Device-open diagnostics are improved and the tested path is protected, but the unbounded log path in the failure reason remains a narrow issue to address or accept before merging.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check Warning The changes satisfy the device-open diagnostic portion of #27546. SimlockDeviceHost now places the agent-device message in diagnostics, includes a bounded daemon response line and log path, tolera… Implement the remaining coding requirements from #27546 in this or linked pull requests. Add setup capability classification and guidance, stream and capture error handling with retry, diagnostic export or copy through the secret service, a…
Passed Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exposing agent-device details for Simlock open failures.
Description check Passed The description includes Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the failure, implementation, test results, real-app validation, limitations, and excluded issue sco…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The reviewed changes remain within the device-open diagnostic scope of #27546. The CLI failure decoding, bounded diagnostic formatting, lease-expiry diagnostic, and supporting test-fixture changes dir…
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The description includes Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the failure, implementation, test results, real-app validation, limitations, and excluded issue scope. The scope section links the issue but does not include an explicit maintainer approval comment; this is a minor omission because the fix is focused and the rest of the description is complete.

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Explanation

The reviewed changes remain within the device-open diagnostic scope of #27546. The CLI failure decoding, bounded diagnostic formatting, lease-expiry diagnostic, and supporting test-fixture changes directly support that objective. No unrelated product behavior is changed.

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Explanation

The changes satisfy the device-open diagnostic portion of #27546. SimlockDeviceHost now places the agent-device message in diagnostics, includes a bounded daemon response line and log path, tolerates an unusable details.line, and preserves the expired-lease reason. The added test covers the reported failure and malformed response details. #27546 also requires setup capability probing and gateway/worker guidance, distinct missing-route, authentication, network, and worker errors, stream and capture failure diagnostics with retry, diagnostic export or copy, and boundary tests for unavailable workers and stream startup failures. The current changes do not implement or test those requirements.

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Implement the remaining coding requirements from #27546 in this or linked pull requests. Add setup capability classification and guidance, stream and capture error handling with retry, diagnostic export or copy through the secret service, and the required unavailable-worker and stream-startup tests before marking #27546 complete.

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

373-373: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert the reported log path in this case.

The test covers details.line, but not the separate error.logPath branch. Add a log path and assert that the boot error includes Log: ....

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             hint: "Retry with --debug and inspect diagnostics log for details.",
+            logPath: "/tmp/agent-device.log",
             details: { requestId: "22a6bf10a567b2a1", line: "404 Not Found" },
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       expect(failure.message).toContain("404 Not Found");
+      expect(failure.message).toContain("Log: /tmp/agent-device.log");
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/SimlockDeviceHost.test.ts at line 373:
Add a logPath to the error fixture in this test and assert that failure.message
includes the formatted “Log: …” path, alongside the existing details.line
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/device/SimlockDeviceHost.ts:
- Around line 84-85: Update describeCliFailure and the device-open flow in
agentDevice so DeviceHostUnavailableError.reason contains only a safe, bounded
message, while preserving detailed CLI output in the error cause. Map only a
bounded form of those details into the permitted DeviceBootError.diagnostics
field during device open.

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- Line 373: Add a logPath to the error fixture in this test and assert that
failure.message includes the formatted “Log: …” path, alongside the existing
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line ? `The daemon answered: ${truncate(line, 300)}` : undefined,
error.logPath ? `Log: ${error.logPath}` : undefined,

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Keep DeviceHostUnavailableError.reason safe and bound boot diagnostics.

describeCliFailure adds daemon response text and an unbounded error.logPath. agentDevice passes this description to unavailable, which stores it in DeviceHostUnavailableError.reason. Use a safe, bounded reason for that error. Keep the detailed CLI information in cause, then map a bounded form into the permitted DeviceBootError.diagnostics field during device open.

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Update describeCliFailure and the device-open flow in agentDevice so
DeviceHostUnavailableError.reason contains only a safe, bounded message, while
preserving detailed CLI output in the error cause. Map only a bounded form of
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This fixes the device-open half of #27546, but Fixes pingdotgg/t3code#27546 will close the issue on merge while the stream half stays open. Could this say Part of #27546 instead?

The stream half has a fresh report in #27546 (comment). A Simlock gateway with capabilities.stream.enabled=false (the default) answers /v1/leases/{id}/stream with a plain-text 404 Not Found. readIosVideo retries that 404 every second, and after 15 s the panel says "No video received from the device. Reconnect to try again." Reconnect can't help, and nothing points at the setting. This PR doesn't touch that path; its own "Not in this PR" section says the same.

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This adds a second failed-open test where the existing failed-open case already exercises the same path. Could you fold these assertions and fixtures into that case instead?

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const line = responseLine(error.details);
return [
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The new daemon response and log path flow through describeCliFailure into DeviceHostUnavailableError.reason, exposing raw CLI data in a service-error attribute. The diagnostics exception applies only to DeviceBootError.diagnostics; truncating the response does not make it safe for other errors. Please keep a normalized, bounded unavailable reason, preserve CLI details as cause, and extract bounded details only when constructing boot diagnostics. This also confirms the existing review concern on this range.

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Evidence

In the real web app, configure a Simlock gateway that lists Pixel 9 but returns plain-text 404 Not Found from its agent-device endpoint. Open Device and click Start Pixel 9. Both sides use Chromium at 1280×800, light theme, fresh databases, and identical synthetic data.

Before After
b3fdf2b10f 00969ffd02
Before: generic boot failure After: daemon explanation, hint, response and redacted log path
Before recording After recording

Base says the host sent no details. Head shows Invalid daemon response, the CLI debug hint, The daemon answered: 404 Not Found, and Log:. The local diagnostic path is redacted in published evidence. Both stills passed a 500 ms pixel-stability check.

Shared reproduction driver and gateway fixture

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

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  • Agent-facing device tool output was not exercised; evidence covers the real web Device panel.
  • Long daemon-response truncation was not exercised; the fixture returns a short 404 response.
  • Desktop shell and mobile clients were not exercised.

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