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fix(client-runtime): new T3 Connect machines appear without signing in again - #29788

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Problem

A machine newly registered on a T3 Connect account never shows up on clients that are already signed in to it (the Connect list in Settings → Connections or mobile's add-environment screen, the link picker), until the user signs out and back in. Client discovery lists the account's environments only on a sign-in change, when the network comes back, or when a screen explicitly asks; returning to the app does nothing, so a client left open keeps the list it fetched at sign-in. Reproduced with a test on main: list the account with one environment, register a second, bring the app back to the foreground, and the second never appears.

Change

RelayEnvironmentDiscovery in client-runtime (shared by web, desktop and mobile) now checks the account's registrations when the app comes back:

  • On a foreground wakeup (web/desktop window visible again, mobile after 10 s or more in the background), once discovery has listed the account and while signed in and online, it lists the account once and runs the existing full refresh only if the set of environment ids changed. An unchanged list leaves the rows and their statuses untouched; a failed check changes nothing. If the current list is not a settled success (still loading, errored, never listed), it runs the refresh, queued behind any in-flight one.
  • A desktop or browser window that stayed visible and is focused again never fires visibilitychange, so the web platform also emits a new application-focused wakeup on window focus. Only discovery acts on it: the connection supervisor filters it out, and it does not reset retry backoff or trigger resubscriptions.
  • Wakeups during a running check collapse into one trailing check, so repeated focus or tab switches cost at most one extra listing.

refresh itself is unchanged.

Scope and approval

Fixes #29725

Verification

Focused tests in packages/client-runtime/src/relay/discovery.test.ts, 18 of 18 passing on the head. The same test file against main's code (71646e031a): 7 of 17 fail (this transcript predates the last test added):

 × lists the account again when the app returns to the foreground (application-active) 5004ms
 × lists the account again when the app returns to the foreground (application-active-long) 5005ms
 × lists the account again when the app returns to the foreground (application-focused) 5002ms
 × lists a registration that lands while an earlier refresh checks statuses 5019ms
 × coalesces foreground checks that arrive during an in-flight refresh 10ms   (expected 2 to be 3)
 × keeps listed rows when the foreground check cannot list the account 5002ms
 × leaves an unchanged account list untouched when the app returns 5004ms
      Tests  7 failed | 10 passed (17)

The timeouts are the bug: the re-list they wait for never happens on main. The last test added, "lists a registration that lands while a foreground check is refreshing", fails by timeout without the trailing-check change and passes with it. The connection tests (src/connection/) pass, and vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 7 packages, tests, react compiler).

Evidence: no before/after captures. The change is only visible with a real T3 Connect account, which the triage environment does not have.

Not checked: a live relay account, any real client (web, desktop, mobile), and whether Electron fires window focus on every platform.

Triage, red test, implementation and reviews by Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code) and GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex), via T3 Code's automated issue flow.

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juliusmarminge and others added 7 commits November 2, 2026 23:51
…elay environments

These tests reproduce #29725: after T3 Connect discovery has listed the
account once, an application-active (web/desktop) or
application-active-long (mobile) wakeup does not list the account again,
so a device registered later never appears until the user signs out and
back in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…eturns to the foreground

A server newly registered on the account never appeared on a signed-in client
until sign-out, because discovery re-listed only on credentials changes,
connectivity recovery and explicit refreshes.

After discovery has run once, an application-active (web/desktop) or
application-active-long (mobile) wakeup now re-lists the account, skipping when
a refresh is already in flight. The mobile probe wakeup is left alone. A
re-list keeps the listed rows until the new list lands; sign-out, account
switch and listing failures still clear them.

Fixes #29725

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… until the new lookup answers

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…strations changed

Returning to the foreground re-ran the full refresh, which modified refresh
to keep rows during the run. That meant a failed re-list wiped good rows,
kept rows held stale statuses, and a wakeup was dropped while an older
refresh held the lock.

Restore main's refresh. On application-active and application-active-long,
a forked check lists the account once and refreshes only when the set of
environment ids changed. If the current list is not settled, it queues a
refresh behind the lock instead. A failed check changes nothing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… registrations

A desktop or browser window left visible beside another app never fires
visibilitychange when focused again, so it never re-listed the account.
The web platform now emits an application-focused wakeup on window focus
while visible. Only relay discovery acts on it; the connection supervisor
filters it out so focus cannot arm a running probe's silent-socket check,
and it neither resets retry backoff nor resubscribes shell or threads.

Foreground checks are coalesced: a wakeup is a no-op while one is already
running, including the refresh it waits on. Signed-out clients skip the
check, so returning to the app no longer republishes discovery state.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…one more check

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at bb3f9df

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Foregrounding or refocusing the app now checks for newly registered machines without requiring another sign-in. Checks preserve unchanged lists and avoid triggering connection probes, keeping the change limited to discovery freshness.

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Foreground wakeups now check for account environment registrations. Visible window-focus events trigger checks without entering the connection supervisor’s wakeup handling. Discovery serializes overlapping checks and refreshes its state when the account environment list changes.

Changes: Foreground environment discovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Wakeup event routing
apps/web/src/connection/platform.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/wakeups.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts
Visible window focus emits application-focused. Foreground wakeup reasons trigger discovery checks, while application-focused is filtered from connection supervisor handling.
Serialized registration checks
packages/client-runtime/src/relay/discovery.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/relay/discovery.test.ts
Discovery serializes foreground checks and refreshes when account environment IDs differ from the current list. Tests cover relisting, overlapping checks, failed listings, and unchanged lists.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#19426: Both PRs extend foreground wakeup handling and classify wakeup reasons for downstream behavior.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to bb3f9

Foreground discovery of new machines should work as intended. Two tests are weaker than they appear, so tighten their synchronization to keep the regression coverage reliable.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4

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Title check Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: clients discover newly registered T3 Connect machines without requiring users to sign in again.
Description check Passed The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, links the related issue, reports focused test results, and states what w…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#29725] requires signed-in clients to discover new account environments without re-authentication. RelayEnvironmentDiscovery now checks account registrations after eligible foreground wakeups…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The changes support issue [#29725]. The new focus wakeup triggers discovery for visible windows. Filtering it from the connection supervisor prevents unrelated connection retry or resubscription behav…
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The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the behavior, links the related issue, reports focused test results, and states what was not checked.

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Issue [#29725] requires signed-in clients to discover new account environments without re-authentication. RelayEnvironmentDiscovery now checks account registrations after eligible foreground wakeups while online and signed in. It refreshes when IDs change or discovery has not settled, and it leaves existing state unchanged when the list is unchanged or the check fails. The web focus wakeup covers visible windows that regain focus without a visibility change. The reviewed diff includes tests for relisting on foreground wakeups, coalescing checks, and preserving state after unchanged or failed checks. The author reports 18/18 focused tests passing.

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The changes support issue [#29725]. The new focus wakeup triggers discovery for visible windows. Filtering it from the connection supervisor prevents unrelated connection retry or resubscription behavior. The discovery tests cover the new behavior. No unrelated change is evident in the reviewed diff.

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@juliusmarminge juliusmarminge added bugfix Fix PR opened by an issue lead; enters the PR loop pr:gate-failed A land gate failed labels Nov 3, 2026
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[gpt-6.1-sol][Codex] on behalf of shivam.

Handing off #29725 to this PR.

I reproduced stale discovery on main 5b9731cedc06f310c394f48e66d50a614397c0aa on corex with the real web Connect rows and discovery service, using synthetic account and relay data. After registering a test server, the account-list request count stayed at one and the server remained absent for more than two minutes. The same-account host-addition regression also failed against main with expected 1 to be 2.

Main reproduction with synthetic test data:

web-before.mp4

I have not tested this PR's head fbe19e8f7231f915c6b8076fddaf67dcd75e29f7, production account authentication, or the native apps. My separate local implementation was not pushed; Julius owns the fix and its remaining verification.

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Review comments at @packages/client-runtime/src/relay/discovery.test.ts:
- Around line 601-659: Update the “keeps listed rows when the foreground check
cannot list the account” and “leaves an unchanged account list untouched when
the app returns” tests to await completion of the foreground check before
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it.effect("keeps listed rows when the foreground check cannot list the account", () =>
Effect.gen(function* () {
const harness = yield* makeHarness();
yield* Effect.gen(function* () {
const discovery = yield* RelayEnvironmentDiscovery.RelayEnvironmentDiscovery;
const requests = yield* Ref.get(harness.statusRequests);
for (const environment of environments) {
yield* Deferred.succeed(
requests.get(environment.environmentId)!,
status(environment, "online"),
);
}
yield* Effect.yieldNow;
yield* discovery.refresh;
const settled = yield* SubscriptionRef.get(discovery.state);

yield* Ref.set(
harness.listFailure,
new ManagedRelay.ManagedRelayRequestFailedError({
action: "list relay-managed environments",
cause: new Error("Relay request failed."),
}),
);
yield* harness.wake("application-active");
yield* Deferred.await(harness.secondListCall);

const after = yield* SubscriptionRef.get(discovery.state);
expect(after).toBe(settled);
expect(after.environments.size).toBe(environments.length);
expect(Option.isNone(after.error)).toBe(true);
}).pipe(Effect.provide(harness.layer), Effect.scoped);
}),
);

it.effect("leaves an unchanged account list untouched when the app returns", () =>
Effect.gen(function* () {
const harness = yield* makeHarness();
yield* Effect.gen(function* () {
const discovery = yield* RelayEnvironmentDiscovery.RelayEnvironmentDiscovery;
const requests = yield* Ref.get(harness.statusRequests);
for (const environment of environments) {
yield* Deferred.succeed(
requests.get(environment.environmentId)!,
status(environment, "online"),
);
}
yield* Effect.yieldNow;
yield* discovery.refresh;
const settled = yield* SubscriptionRef.get(discovery.state);

yield* harness.wake("application-active");
yield* Deferred.await(harness.secondListCall);

expect(yield* SubscriptionRef.get(discovery.state)).toBe(settled);
expect(yield* Ref.get(harness.listCalls)).toBe(2);
expect(yield* Ref.get(harness.statusCalls)).toBe(environments.length);
}).pipe(Effect.provide(harness.layer), Effect.scoped);
}),
);

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Tests use Deferred.await(harness.secondListCall) as the only sync point.

The two tests assert state right after the second list call starts. The check can still be running when the assertion executes. The assertions then pass without proving the check finished. Failure and unchanged outcomes could mask a later state change. Await a concrete completion signal, such as draining the forked check, before asserting. This follows the rule in docs/internals/testing.md to await a concrete event instead of racing.

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Review comment at @packages/client-runtime/src/relay/discovery.test.ts around lines 601 - 659:
Update the “keeps listed rows when the foreground check cannot list the account” and “leaves an unchanged account list untouched when the app returns” tests to await completion of the foreground check before asserting. Treat `harness.secondListCall` only as a list-call-start signal; use an existing completion signal or drain/join the forked check, preserving the current assertions.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

the proof has no capture anyone can open:

  • Permanent blocker: T3 Connect is explicitly unavailable in this environment; discovering a newly registered machine without signing in again could not be demonstrated.
  • Browser-tab return, desktop window focus, and mobile foreground return after at least 10 seconds were not exercised.
  • Foreground refresh coalescing, unchanged-list preservation, and account-list failure handling were not demonstrated in the real app.
  • No recordings, driver scripts, or seed scripts were produced or uploaded; there are no public evidence URLs.

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