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Problem

peerLinks.list (Settings → Linked environments, t3_environment_links, t3 environment list) probed each linked environment's addresses one after another, and each probe could wait 10 s on a non-loopback route. One sleeping laptop held the whole list for 10 s per address. Reproduced on main 7195b69 with two servers from the checkout, environment A linked to peer B over two Tailscale addresses, and B frozen with SIGSTOP: t3 environment list took 3.0 s with B awake, 13.0 s with one address and 23.1 s with two. About 3.0 s of every run is CLI startup.

Change

statusOf in apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts now probes all of a link's addresses at once and counts the link reachable as soon as one answers as that environment. The race is capped at 3 s, the budget loopback already uses, and a link that has not answered by then lists as unreachable. resolve, link and describe keep probeTimeout, so a real call to a waking machine still gets its 10 s. No contract, stored state or client changes.

Scope and approval

Fixes #28531

Verification

• New test lists a peer asleep at every address as unreachable within one probe budget in apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts (the testkit's served peer gains an asleep switch). It fails on the test-only commit 02e1abf with expected 'still waiting on the asleep peer' to deeply equal { _tag: 'Success', value: [ 'unreachable' ] } and passes on the fix. It runs on loopback, so it covers the one-by-one probing; the 10 s off-loopback case is covered by the transcript below.
• vp test run apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts apps/server/src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts: 18 passed. vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (3 packages) and tests pass.
• Runtime transcript, same driver and data on both sides (A linked to B at a Tailscale hostname and a Tailscale IPv6 address; host names replaced):

	B awake	B frozen (SIGSTOP)	B resumed
Before, main 7195b69	3.04 s, reachable	23.11 s, unreachable	—
After, ae322e0	3.18 s, reachable	6.08 s, unreachable	3.04 s, reachable

After transcript

# after: fix/issue-28531 ae322e0364; A linked to B at http://peer-b.example.ts.net:47391 and http://[fd7a:115c:a1e0::b]:47391
## baseline: B awake
peer-b (087b404f-28aa-47c9-a987-3a54046593d6)
  reachable, access approval-required, expires 2026-12-01T06:22:25.812Z
  http://peer-b.example.ts.net:47391, http://[fd7a:115c:a1e0::b]:47391
real	0m3.178s
## B frozen (SIGSTOP)
peer-b (087b404f-28aa-47c9-a987-3a54046593d6)
  unreachable, access approval-required, expires 2026-12-01T06:22:25.812Z
  http://peer-b.example.ts.net:47391, http://[fd7a:115c:a1e0::b]:47391
real	0m6.075s
## B resumed
peer-b (087b404f-28aa-47c9-a987-3a54046593d6)
  reachable, access approval-required, expires 2026-12-01T06:22:25.812Z
  http://peer-b.example.ts.net:47391, http://[fd7a:115c:a1e0::b]:47391
real	0m3.035s

Server-only change with no visible surface, so there are no screenshots. Not checked: web, desktop and mobile clients (their status display is unchanged), macOS and Windows hosts.

Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (claude-opus-5-5) in Claude Code via T3 Code; reviews by GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex) and Claude Opus 5.5.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Listings now probe addresses concurrently and stop waiting after three seconds, while actual calls retain their existing timeouts. Human review is needed for the new default reachability cutoff, which can classify slow or waking peers as unreachable sooner.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
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	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: c90b678 · PR result: 8f8df99 · 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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Walkthrough

Peer-link listing now probes configured addresses concurrently and applies a three-second timeout. It reports links with no responding address as unreachable. Tests cover unanswered probes and responses from alternate addresses.

Changes: Peer-link listing status

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bounded link status probes apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts	statusOf reports links without URLs as unreachable. It probes configured URLs concurrently under a three-second timeout. A matching descriptor results in reachable and updates the stored link label.
Peer probe test coverage apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.testkit.ts, apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts	The testkit tracks asleep peers and unanswered descriptor requests, and releases blocked requests when the server closes. Tests verify that listing reports an unresponsive peer as unreachable after the timeout and reports a peer as reachable when an alternate address responds.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#28533: Changes listing status to use stored probe outcomes instead of live probes.
• pingdotgg/t3code#29779: Updates the peer label from the descriptor fetched during listing.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26551: Changes route selection and timing for linked-peer status probes.

Suggested reviewers: shivamhwp

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 8f8df

No actionable merge-blocking risk remains from the reviewed peer-link changes; normal checks can proceed.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: linked-environment listing no longer waits for an unresponsive peer.
Description check		The description includes the problem, implementation, linked issue, focused tests, command results, runtime measurements, limitations, and agent details. It satisfies the required template.
Linked Issues check		Issue #28531 requires peerLinks.list to avoid waiting 10 seconds per slow linked peer. PeerLinks.ts now probes all addresses concurrently and caps the listing probe at 3 seconds. It reports the li…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes to PeerLinks.ts implement issue #28531. The test additions verify timeout and alternate-address behavior. The testkit changes provide the required asleep-peer simulation. No unrelated ch…

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #28531 requires peerLinks.list to avoid waiting 10 seconds per slow linked peer. PeerLinks.ts now probes all addresses concurrently and caps the listing probe at 3 seconds. It reports the link as reachable when any address responds and as unreachable when no address responds. The added tests cover both all-address failure and alternate-address success. The unchanged 10-second timeout remains for resolve, link, and describe.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The changes to PeerLinks.ts implement issue #28531. The test additions verify timeout and alternate-address behavior. The testkit changes provide the required asleep-peer simulation. No unrelated changes appear in the supplied whole-PR summary.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts:
- Around line 364-365: Extend the PeerLinks test around a.asleep and
a.links.list with a case where the first address stalls and the alternate
responds as the linked peer; assert the listing reports reachable without
advancing the clock, distinguishing parallel probing from a sequential probe
with an overall timeout.
- Around line 368-369: After advancing the test clock, await the `listing` fiber
with its join operation before asserting the result. Replace the `pollUnsafe`
sampling and Exit-based assertion with an assertion on the joined links’
statuses.

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Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover a reachable alternate address.

This case only checks that two unanswered addresses become unreachable. Add a case where the first address stalls and the alternate answers as the linked peer. Assert that listing returns reachable without advancing the clock. This catches a sequential probe with an overall timeout.

As per coding guidelines, “Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior.”

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts around lines 364 -
365:
Extend the PeerLinks test around a.asleep and a.links.list with a case where the
first address stalls and the alternate responds as the linked peer; assert the
listing reports reachable without advancing the clock, distinguishing parallel
probing from a sequential probe with an overall timeout.

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Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- changed test block ---'
nl -ba apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts | sed -n '300,390p'
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant test symbols and listing implementation ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'apps/server/src/peer/*.ts' -e 'unanswered' -e 'pollUnsafe' -e 'const listing' -e 'peerLinks.list' -e 'statusOf' apps/server/src/peer || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- exact package declarations and lock entries ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'apps/server/package.json' --glob 'package.json' --glob 'pnpm-lock.yaml' --glob 'yarn.lock' --glob 'bun.lockb' --glob 'bun.lock' -e '"effect"' -e 'effect@' -e 'version: 4.0.5' .
printf '%s\n' '--- comparison for the cited test ---'
git diff --unified=40 6328c8472255e9b93bd362af63ae0d3c17e2d540 64b3d2f254cffee35ea8167d13ba42a2c5103a87 -- apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 41818

---

Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- PeerLinks statusOf and list flow ---'
nl -ba apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts | sed -n '450,535p'
printf '%s\n' '--- PeerLinks testkit probe and unanswered signal ---'
nl -ba apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.testkit.ts | sed -n '55,110p'
nl -ba apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.testkit.ts | sed -n '125,165p'
printf '%s\n' '--- Effect source/declarations available in checkout ---'
find . -path '*/node_modules/effect/*' -o -path '*/node_modules/.pnpm/effect@4.0.5*' -o -path '*/.repos/*effect*' 2>/dev/null | head -80
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,js,mjs,d.ts}' -e 'const yieldNow' -e 'yieldNow' -e 'pollUnsafe' -e 'function pollUnsafe' . --glob '!apps/**/src/**' --glob '!packages/**/src/**' --glob '!node_modules/**' 2>/dev/null | head -120 || true

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 11697

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Web query:

Effect 4.0.5 Effect.yieldNow Fiber.pollUnsafe TestClock.adjust completion guarantee

Result:

Sources consulted:
- Migration documentation missing for many removed/renamed functions and types · Issue #6379 · Effect-TS/effect · GitHub — GitHub issue 6379 in Effect-TS/effect (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- Testing & Dev Tooling | The Effect 4 Handbook — https://eugene1g.github.io/effect-handbook/tooling/testing-dev-tooling
- Rule proposal: zero-duration Effect.sleep re-implements Effect.yieldNow through the Clock · Issue #661 · Effect-TS/tsgo · GitHub — GitHub issue 661 in Effect-TS/tsgo (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- …and 25 more

---

Script executed:

set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- Fiber join patterns in server tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'apps/server/**/*.ts' -e 'Fiber.join(' -e 'forkScoped' -e '.await' -e 'pollUnsafe' apps/server/src | head -160
printf '%s\n' '--- imports and complete nearby examples ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from pathlib import Path
for p in Path('apps/server/src').rglob('*.ts'):
    text = p.read_text()
    if 'Fiber.join(' in text and 'forkScoped' in text:
        lines = text.splitlines()
        for i, line in enumerate(lines):
            if 'Fiber.join(' in line or 'forkScoped' in line:
                lo=max(0,i-6); hi=min(len(lines),i+8)
                print(f'--- {p}:{lo+1}-{hi} ---')
                for n in range(lo,hi):
                    print(f'{n+1:5} {lines[n]}')
PY

Repository: pingdotgg/t3code

Length of output: 45670

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Await the listing fiber instead of sampling it.

After advancing the clock, join listing before asserting its result. Effect.yieldNow does not synchronize with completion of the listing fiber.

Suggested fix

 import * as Effect from "effect/Effect";
+import * as Fiber from "effect/Fiber";
-import * as Exit from "effect/Exit";
 
       yield* TestClock.adjust(Duration.seconds(3));
-      yield* Effect.yieldNow;
-      const listed = listing.pollUnsafe();
-      expect(
-        listed === undefined
-          ? "still waiting on the asleep peer"
-          : Exit.map(listed, (links) => links.map((link) => link.status)),
-      ).toEqual(Exit.succeed(["unreachable"]));
+      const listed = yield* Fiber.join(listing);
+      expect(listed.map((link) => link.status)).toEqual(["unreachable"]);

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts around lines 368 -
369:
After advancing the test clock, await the `listing` fiber with its join
operation before asserting the result. Replace the `pollUnsafe` sampling and
Exit-based assertion with an assertion on the joined links’ statuses.

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Evidence

Ran two real servers with fresh synthetic state on each commit. Linked one peer through two trusted TLS addresses, then ran t3 environment list --json with both addresses awake, both unanswered, only the alternate answering, and both restored. Sleep was simulated by withholding descriptor responses. Videos replay timestamped CLI results and network events at their recorded timing; images are transcript summaries, not app screenshots.

Before	After
c90b67859a	8f8df99e0f
Before recording	After recording
Unreachable after 20.028s from first probe; two sequential ~10s requests.	Unreachable after 3.015s from first probe; both requests canceled together at 2.996s.
Answering alternate address: reachable after 10.045s.	Answering alternate address: reachable after 0.038s.

Restoring both addresses returned reachable on both commits. Whole-command asleep durations, including CLI startup/shutdown, were 20.616s and 3.576s.

Reproduction/seed driver · Renderer · Before events · After events

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

Not shown:

• Physical machine sleep and Tailscale transport were not exercised; unanswered remote-address requests were reproduced using controlled TLS forwarding endpoints.
• Settings UI, desktop, and mobile were not captured; this proof exercised the real server and CLI listing path.
• Wrong-environment identity rejection was not separately exercised; answering endpoints forwarded the actual linked peer's descriptor.