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fix(server): stop orphaning the agent-device daemon after a missed health probe - #33880
After one missed health probe, every later device_open on the local host fails with Agent tools did not start within 30000 ms. until the agent-device daemon is killed by hand.
startAgentDeviceDaemon probes the cached daemon's /health once, with a 2 s timeout. If that probe fails, it deletes daemon.json and runs agent-device devices --json to start a new daemon. The old daemon is often still alive, though. A probe can time out while the daemon or the server is busy with another command. That old daemon keeps daemon.lock, so:
every new daemon fails with Daemon registration busy., and T3 reports the 30 s timeout;
agent-device daemon stop --state-dir … returns "mode": "not-running", because it finds the daemon through daemon.json, and T3's shutdown stop uses the same command. The daemon is orphaned for good.
Seen on macOS with agent-device 0.21.31. The iPhone's device_open started the daemon at 08:43:53. Its apps command ran from 08:45:53 to 08:45:58 ("Building Apple runner..."). A second device_open at 08:45:57 started a new daemon. The daemon log then shows daemon_metadata_lost followed by Daemon registration busy. on every retry, while the original pid still listened on its port and answered /health in about 10 ms. The logs don't show why that one probe failed.
Change
In LocalDeviceHost.startAgentDeviceDaemon:
The cached daemon gets up to 3 health probes, each with its own 3 s timeout, before it is treated as dead.
If the daemon is still unhealthy, T3 runs agent-device daemon stop --state-dirbefore removing daemon.json. While the file still names the process, agent-device can stop it and release daemon.lock.
daemon stop leaves a record whose pid is already dead, so T3 still removes daemon.json itself afterwards. If the stop fails or times out, T3 logs a warning and still removes the file and starts a new daemon, as main does, so the worst case equals main. This recovery stop allows 15 s, because agent-device waits up to 10 s after SIGTERM and 2 s after SIGKILL before it reports.
Each health probe's timeout covers the response body read, so a stalled body cannot block startup.
Scope and approval
This is a small fix to one function, for a failure that blocks all agent device access on the local host until the daemon is killed by hand. No contracts, clients or defaults change.
Related: #33587 also stops a leftover daemon, but at server shutdown (a daemon left by an earlier server). This PR fixes how a daemon gets orphaned at startup. Both touch LocalDeviceHost.ts, so whichever merges second may need a small rebase.
Verification
LocalDeviceHost.test.ts: 22 passed. The changed tests fail without their part of the fix:
New: keeps a busy daemon that misses a health probe. One failed probe no longer restarts the daemon.
Extended: restarts a cached daemon that no longer answers its health check now asserts the command order devices --json, daemon stop, devices --json. It also asserts that daemon.json still existed when daemon stop ran.
New: still restarts an unresponsive daemon when its stop fails and … when its stop times out. Startup logs a warning and starts a replacement daemon.
vp test run src/device in apps/server: 210 passed. apps/server typecheck passed. The pre-push hook (fmt, lint, knip) passed.
Checked agent-device 0.21.31 directly on macOS:
With daemon.json deleted from under a live daemon, daemon stop --state-dir reports not-running, and the process keeps daemon.lock.
With daemon.json present, daemon stop --state-dir reports stopped: true, mode: graceful, and daemon.lock is released.
With daemon.json naming a dead pid, daemon stop reports not-running and leaves the file in place, which is why T3 still removes it afterwards.
Not checked: a full device_open run against a patched desktop build.
Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).
…alth probe
When a cached daemon missed a single 2 s health probe (for example while it
was busy with another command), T3 deleted daemon.json and spawned a new one.
The old daemon kept running and holding daemon.lock, so every later start
failed with "Daemon registration busy" and device_open reported "Agent tools
did not start within 30000 ms" until the process was killed by hand.
`agent-device daemon stop` could not reach it either, because it locates the
daemon through daemon.json.
Retry the probe before giving up, and stop the old daemon through agent-device
while daemon.json still identifies it, before removing the file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Local device recovery now retries missed health probes and stops the daemon before deleting its registration file. The change is limited to local startup recovery and uses the existing bounded shutdown mechanism.
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LocalDeviceHost retries health probes for an existing agent-device daemon. It reuses a responsive daemon. If all probes fail, it attempts to stop the daemon before removing its state file and continuing startup. Tests cover recovery, stop failures, timeouts, and daemon reuse.
Changes: Agent-device daemon health recovery
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Summary
Probe and recover an existing daemon apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts
LocalDeviceHost makes up to three health probes, each with a three-second timeout, and waits 100 ms between failed probes. If all probes fail, it attempts to stop the daemon before removing the state file. It logs stop failures, timeouts, and nonzero exit codes. Recovery uses a 15-second stop timeout. Host cleanup uses the shared stop helper with its existing 10-second timeout.
Verify daemon health recovery apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts
The tests verify that a daemon is stopped before replacement startup, that startup continues after stop failure or timeout, and that a daemon is reused after one failed probe.
sequenceDiagram
participant LocalDeviceHost
participant DaemonHTTP
participant AgentDeviceCLI
participant DaemonStateFile
LocalDeviceHost->>DaemonHTTP: Probe existing daemon up to three times
DaemonHTTP-->>LocalDeviceHost: Return health response
LocalDeviceHost->>AgentDeviceCLI: Attempt stop after all probes fail
AgentDeviceCLI-->>LocalDeviceHost: Return stop result
LocalDeviceHost->>DaemonStateFile: Remove state file
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Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#23441: Changes recovery behavior for a cached agent-device daemon after a health failure.
pingdotgg/t3code#33587: Adds the daemon-stop operation reused by unhealthy-daemon recovery.
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Suggested reviewers:yash-singh1, only21mil
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The daemon recovery change is sound, but a failed stop can write local executable paths and platform error text to logs. Log only a bounded failure tag before merging; the fix is small.
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The commands assertion checks call order, but it still passes if code removes daemon.json before calling daemon stop. Check for the file inside the stop-command fixture and assert that observation in this test. As per coding guidelines, “Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior.” As per path instructions, changed tests must follow docs/internals/testing.md and test behavior that can break.
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Review comment at @apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts around lines
155 - 156:
Update the test containing the commands-order assertion so its stop-command
fixture records whether daemon.json exists when daemon stop runs, then assert
that it does; retain the existing command-order assertion.
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- Line 574: Update stopAgentDeviceDaemon and its recovery-path call in
LocalDeviceHost to propagate and check whether the stop was confirmed; only
remove daemon.json after confirmed shutdown, and retain it when stopping fails
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.test.ts:
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so its stop-command fixture records whether daemon.json exists when daemon stop
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The recovery path ignored the result of `daemon stop` and removed
daemon.json anyway, so a stop that failed or timed out still orphaned a
live daemon. Remove the record only after a clean, non-timed-out exit, and
otherwise fail with the record intact so a later attempt can retry the stop.
The recovery stop allows 15 s, since agent-device waits up to 10 s after
SIGTERM and 2 s after SIGKILL before it reports.
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Thanks, CodeRabbit. Both points are addressed in 2d07884: the recovery path only removes daemon.json after a confirmed stop (see the inline reply), and the restart test now asserts that daemon.json still existed when daemon stop ran.
Latest round: merged current main (merge commit 95add753d6, no rebase, no conflicts) and pushed ad516d30ae:
Merge review change: dropped the 100 ms Effect.sleep between daemon health probes, since each probe already has its own 3 s timeout. The four changed tests in LocalDeviceHost.test.ts are back on it.effect (the restart test, both still restarts an unresponsive daemon when its stop %s cases, and keeps a busy daemon that misses a health probe). PR body updated to match.
LocalDeviceHost.test.ts passes (25/25), and vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests).
Earlier round:
Merged current main again (merge commit dc2486968b, no rebase, no conflicts) and pushed d2bddf52fc and a follow-up:
Merge review change: in startAgentDeviceDaemon's recovery branch, a failed, nonzero or timed-out daemon stop no longer returns DeviceHostError. It logs a warning, removes daemon.json and starts a new daemon, as main does, so the worst case equals main. The stop-failure test now expects the restart (devices --json, daemon stop, devices --json) and the new daemon's token. I did not add the optional dead-pid skip.
CodeRabbit's log finding was real: the warning logs only the stop's exit code and timedOut, not its output.
CodeRabbit's probe-timeout finding was real: the health probe timeout now wraps the body read too, so a stalled body times out and retries.
Not applied: CodeRabbit's nit to log only stopped.failure._tag. A ProcessRunError carries no command output, and this file already logs { cause } for hub failures.
PR body updated to match.
Earlier merge (468861c4b3) cleared the conflict with #33587; main's version-aware stopAgentDeviceDaemon is kept and runs through this PR's runAgentDeviceDaemonStop helper (10 s).
LocalDeviceHost.test.ts passes (25/25), and vp run check:changed passes (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests).
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verified unchanged head 468861c4b3fab5adc72e311bee067ce36f65f23e on a linux boat vm, using isolated dev state, chrome/playwright, a real local git project, android 15 emulator, and real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns through the web composer and MCP tools. no mocks or fixtures.
main b883156e26: paused the real daemon until 3.5 seconds after its health connection. main deleted daemon.json while the daemon retained its lock and still answered /health. replacement logged Daemon registration busy. two consecutive device_open calls failed with the 30000 ms startup timeout; daemon stop could no longer find the live process.
pr, same pause:device_open succeeded. the original pid and registration remained intact.
pr, all three probes missed: a 12-second pause exercised recovery. observed the actual stop subprocess while the old registration still existed, then old-process exit and replacement registration. device_open succeeded afterward.
nearby behavior:device_list, close, reopen, screenshot, and live android video worked. the returned agent-device launcher opened com.android.settings and saved an independently inspected 1080×2400 screenshot, both commands exiting 0.
blacksmith: all 25 LocalDeviceHost tests and all 213 device tests passed. head CI reports 31 successful checks. no source changes.
native t3 ios/android clients, macos/ios and windows hosts, and ssh/remote device hosts were not exercised on this linux vm. recovery-stop failure/timeout preservation passed existing tests but was not fault-injected into the real cli.
an extra attempt to open the installed android home launcher failed intent resolution. settings opened and screenshot capture worked; this does not establish general app-launch coverage or attribute that launcher failure to this change.
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Log a bounded failure category.
Effect.logWarning treats this object as a message, not as the logger cause. If spawning fails, the message can expose the executable path and platform error.
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Problem
After one missed health probe, every later
device_openon the local host fails withAgent tools did not start within 30000 ms.until the agent-device daemon is killed by hand.startAgentDeviceDaemonprobes the cached daemon's/healthonce, with a 2 s timeout. If that probe fails, it deletesdaemon.jsonand runsagent-device devices --jsonto start a new daemon. The old daemon is often still alive, though. A probe can time out while the daemon or the server is busy with another command. That old daemon keepsdaemon.lock, so:Daemon registration busy., and T3 reports the 30 s timeout;agent-device daemon stop --state-dir …returns"mode": "not-running", because it finds the daemon throughdaemon.json, and T3's shutdown stop uses the same command. The daemon is orphaned for good.Seen on macOS with agent-device 0.21.31. The iPhone's
device_openstarted the daemon at 08:43:53. Itsappscommand ran from 08:45:53 to 08:45:58 ("Building Apple runner..."). A seconddevice_openat 08:45:57 started a new daemon. The daemon log then showsdaemon_metadata_lostfollowed byDaemon registration busy.on every retry, while the original pid still listened on its port and answered/healthin about 10 ms. The logs don't show why that one probe failed.Change
In
LocalDeviceHost.startAgentDeviceDaemon:agent-device daemon stop --state-dirbefore removingdaemon.json. While the file still names the process, agent-device can stop it and releasedaemon.lock.daemon stopleaves a record whose pid is already dead, so T3 still removesdaemon.jsonitself afterwards. If the stop fails or times out, T3 logs a warning and still removes the file and starts a new daemon, asmaindoes, so the worst case equalsmain. This recovery stop allows 15 s, because agent-device waits up to 10 s after SIGTERM and 2 s after SIGKILL before it reports.Scope and approval
This is a small fix to one function, for a failure that blocks all agent device access on the local host until the daemon is killed by hand. No contracts, clients or defaults change.
Related: #33587 also stops a leftover daemon, but at server shutdown (a daemon left by an earlier server). This PR fixes how a daemon gets orphaned at startup. Both touch
LocalDeviceHost.ts, so whichever merges second may need a small rebase.Verification
LocalDeviceHost.test.ts: 22 passed. The changed tests fail without their part of the fix:keeps a busy daemon that misses a health probe. One failed probe no longer restarts the daemon.restarts a cached daemon that no longer answers its health checknow asserts the command orderdevices --json,daemon stop,devices --json. It also asserts thatdaemon.jsonstill existed whendaemon stopran.still restarts an unresponsive daemon when its stop failsand… when its stop times out. Startup logs a warning and starts a replacement daemon.vp test run src/deviceinapps/server: 210 passed.apps/servertypecheck passed. The pre-push hook (fmt, lint, knip) passed.daemon.jsondeleted from under a live daemon,daemon stop --state-dirreportsnot-running, and the process keepsdaemon.lock.daemon.jsonpresent,daemon stop --state-dirreportsstopped: true, mode: graceful, anddaemon.lockis released.daemon.jsonnaming a dead pid,daemon stopreportsnot-runningand leaves the file in place, which is why T3 still removes it afterwards.Not checked: a full
device_openrun against a patched desktop build.Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).
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