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When Tailscale refuses HTTPS setup, T3 Code keeps running but only logs the failure. Desktop saves the setting and restarts, then Connections shows generic setup guidance and an off switch. A Linux user missing operator permission cannot see the remedy or reliably turn the saved setting off.

Carry a bounded setup failure through the existing server config snapshot/stream, and show host-side permission guidance in desktop/web/mobile Connections. The desktop switch follows the saved setting, including when DNS discovery fails. Successful setup or a successful reachability probe clears the diagnostic. Startup stays nonfatal, endpoint advertisement still requires a successful probe, and existing retry and shutdown behavior stays intact. No raw CLI output travels to clients.

Scope: one existing-operation feedback bug, using CONTRIBUTING's focused obvious-bug exception. The shared contract and client changes carry the same failure to each applicable surface. The underlying Linux failure was reproduced by a maintainer in #16238. This does not change the runtime-mode policy discussed there. Related docs PR https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/23759 covers prerequisites; this PR adds no duplicate documentation. Refs https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/16238.

Evidence:

• vp test run apps/server/src/environment/DirectEndpoints.test.ts apps/server/src/ws.test.ts: 29 tests pass. Covers permission classification, safe unknown fallback, clearing on successful setup/probe, failure/recovery snapshots, and preserving newer settings through those snapshots.
• The new config-stream regression failed against main: expected permission-denied and cleared snapshots, received none. Restoring the fix makes it pass.
• Isolated Linux runtime reproduction using the real Node subprocess adapter and a fake tailscale executable (no listener or real tailnet changes): before, denied setup returned no client diagnostic; after, it returned permission-denied. Unrecognized stderr returned unknown; subsequent successful setup cleared it. All three advertised zero HTTPS routes with the HTTP probe returning 502. This proves service behavior, not real Tailscale routing.
• Linux operator guidance checked against Tailscale's documentation. The account is the one running T3 Code on the host, not necessarily the connected client's login.
• vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, GraphQL, affected-package typechecks, focused tests and React Compiler checks pass.

Parent client verification:

• The real web/server flow was exercised in T3's Browser panel with isolated worktree state and a fake Tailscale CLI. Permission denial shows host-side operator guidance; unknown stderr shows generic guidance without the fake secret/device strings; a successful setup clears the warning. A no-DNS failure also remains visible.
• The actual desktop control components were additionally exercised against a page-local IPC fixture reporting saved Serve enabled with no endpoints. Baseline had no disable switch; HEAD shows a checked switch and permission guidance. Confirming Disable calls the boundary with enabled:false. This verifies component behavior, not native Electron IPC or restart.
• Full evidence and exact scope, including browser observations and reproduction notes. Baseline captures use controlled reversion of only the relevant settings components to cefb544a; the server/contracts/fixture remain identical. Sources were restored byte-for-byte; checkout is clean.

Real web client before	Real web client after

Desktop components with IPC fixture before	Desktop components with IPC fixture after

Remaining verification limits: native mobile testing was attempted, but T3 reports Agent device access disabled for this environment (requires a new enabled agent session). Native Electron restart, live HTTPS routing and platform packaging were not exercised. No real tailnet configuration was changed. Mobile runtime verification remains pending; this is not an unconditional merge-ready claim.

Reviewed with review-loop: 1 round with Claude Opus 5.5. Reviewer verdict: approved. Three nonblocking nits were left unchanged: duplicate classification in CLI logging, a rare preexisting-route probe/setup race, and an optional stream argument used by discovery tests.

Created with GPT-6.1 Sol (extra-high effort) in Codex through T3 Code.

Fixes #14746

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Verdict: Approved at abc8a9e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — The change surfaces Tailscale HTTPS setup failures across web and mobile and keeps the disable control available after failed setup. Existing enablement and endpoint-verification safeguards remain unchanged, with no new network exposure or product defaults.

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Walkthrough

The server classifies Tailscale Serve failures, includes the current failure in server configuration updates, and clears the failure after recovery. Web and mobile connection interfaces display failure messages. The web settings control reflects Serve-enabled state when no HTTPS endpoint is available.

Changes: Tailscale Serve failure reporting

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Failure contract and configuration handling packages/contracts/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/environment/DirectEndpoints.ts, apps/server/src/environment/DirectEndpoints.test.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts	Server contracts define permission-denied and unknown failures and their messages. DirectEndpoints records configuration failures and clears them after successful configuration or endpoint resolution. Server setup uses this operation. Tests cover failure classification and recovery.
Server configuration updates apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/ws.test.ts	Initial server configuration includes the current failure. Late discovery emits snapshots when the failure value changes. Tests check failure and recovery snapshots.
Connection settings display apps/web/src/components/settings/ConnectionsSettings.tsx, apps/web/src/components/settings/SavedEnvironmentRows.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/connection/ConnectionEnvironmentRow.tsx	Connection interfaces display failure messages when applicable. The web Tailscale control reflects Serve-enabled state and supports disabling Serve when no HTTPS endpoint is advertised.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DirectEndpoints
  participant ServerConfig
  participant ConnectionSettings
  DirectEndpoints-->>ServerConfig: publish failure changes
  ServerConfig-->>ConnectionSettings: send updated configuration
  ConnectionSettings->>ConnectionSettings: derive and display failure message

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Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#16238: The change classifies setup failures and displays host guidance, matching the reported silent failure.
• pingdotgg/t3code#17362: The change exposes setup failure and retains the enabled state, but does not add late-connect recovery.
• pingdotgg/t3code#14746: The control uses the enabled state and retains disable handling when no endpoint is advertised.
• pingdotgg/t3code#15919: The change displays unclassified setup failures, but does not add CLI path discovery.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#26757: Both PRs change Tailscale Serve setup and diagnostics, including switch behavior when no endpoint is available.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26170: Both PRs allow Serve to be disabled when no endpoint is available.
• pingdotgg/t3code#23605: Both PRs change the Serve setup path; one retries failed setup, while this change publishes failure status and recovery.

Suggested labels: bugfix, pr:needs-verification

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, yash-singh1

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c22a0

No confirmed issue blocks merging. The startup diagnostic is available to the WebSocket configuration through the shared service.

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

Merged main (dacdd06740)

Merged github/main at 67eebaca23 with a merge commit to clear the conflict in ConnectionsSettings.tsx. Main moved CloudLinkRow out of the network-access branch and gave it environmentId. The resolution keeps that and keeps this PR's Tailscale failure row under the disabled network-access row. tailscaleFailure still reads the primary server config, which matches the branch's isPrimaryAccess gate. No other source changes.

vp run check:changed and the DirectEndpoints and WebSocket tests (33 passed) ran on Blacksmith against the merge. The browser check below predates the merge and was not repeated.

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Verified in a real dev environment

Verified the Linux web/server failure-feedback path at abc8a9e8f4d7741f83daae6d63c23ad967e18308, against github/main at cefb544af3c98224874419198c0359b652ca3c94. No source changes were needed.

• Installed dependencies in both checkouts and ran one background dev server at a time. Used repository Playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome, isolated app state, and the actual Tailscale 1.104.5 executable. No mocked CLI, IPC, server responses, or provider turns.
• With Serve enabled and the Tailscale daemon absent, the real CLI exits 1. Main logs the failure but shows no Tailscale diagnostic in Settings > Sharing & access. This head shows the host setup guidance there.
• The actual client WebSocket config reported tailscaleServeFailure: "unknown" and directEndpoints: []. The warning survives a page reload. Disabling Serve in backend startup configuration and restarting removes it. Permissions still expands/collapses beside the warning.
• Added the real repository through Add project > Local folder, selected Codex gpt-6.1-sol, and completed a real turn on main plus a follow-up through the PR client. Replies were tailscale verification baseline ok. and tailscale verification pr ok.
• Ran the existing DirectEndpoints and WebSocket tests through Blacksmith: 29 passed across 2 files. The tested head has 31 successful CI checks, zero pending/failing.

The captures use the same app-created project/thread state. Ports and authorized-client counts differ because each server was paired independently.

Command and runtime transcript. Uploaded video playback and seeking were checked in the T3 browser player.

Not verified

This VM has no connected tailnet credentials. A real userspace daemon returned Logged out., so Linux operator-permission denial, successful Serve/probe recovery, and live HTTPS routing remain unverified through the app. The focused tests cover classification and recovery, but those do not replace a connected tailnet.

Native Electron saved-setting switch/disable/restart, iOS/Android rendering, macOS/Windows packaging, and remote/relay/tunnel clients were not exercised. This is scoped web/server verification.

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Nitpick comments: 1

apps/server/src/ws.test.ts: 1

144-181: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Test the production DirectEndpoints stream binding.

Add a WebSocket config-subscription case that emits a failure and recovery through the mocked DirectEndpoints.tailscaleServeFailureChanges stream and asserts both snapshots. The current test only validates the helper with an injected synthetic stream, so it does not detect a missing production subscription.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/ws.test.ts around lines 144 - 181:
Add a WebSocket config-subscription test that drives the mocked
DirectEndpoints.tailscaleServeFailureChanges stream through the production
binding and asserts snapshots contain both the failure and recovery values. Keep
the existing helper-level test separate; ensure the new case would fail if the
production subscription were missing.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/ws.test.ts:
- Around line 144-181: Add a WebSocket config-subscription test that drives the
mocked DirectEndpoints.tailscaleServeFailureChanges stream through the
production binding and asserts snapshots contain both the failure and recovery
values. Keep the existing helper-level test separate; ensure the new case would
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