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Standalone gateway feature (SG-FR-1 through SG-FR-7, minus SG-FR-6's remote-anchor stub which is a named, disclosed stub pending Track 1.4's mechanism choice).

Built against the mode-selection contract TRD. Originally shipped with a private, disclosed transcription of the contract's validation logic (Track 1.1's real shared module hadn't landed yet); that transcription has since been swapped for the real scripts/mode-selection.js shared module (commit 90bba22) now that Track 1.1 is landed on this branch's base.

Independently verified end-to-end by the orchestrating Claude session: full patch reviewed line-by-line for both the original build and the follow-up swap; all 21 JS files pass node --check; real test execution on fresh clones — 82/82 across 6 non-e2e gateway suites, 14/15 on the e2e suite (the 1 failure, a SIGTERM-drain timeout, confirmed pre-existing/environmental via reproduction on the pre-swap commit, not a regression).

Known, disclosed gaps: SG-FR-6 (remote anchor) is a named stub blocked on Track 1.4's mechanism choice. A bundle_id collision risk was found in existing, unmodified gsa-mcp-shim.js code (not touched by this PR) — tracked separately as Decision L / SAT-1096.

Full tracking history: Linear SAT-1088 (roadmap document) and the GraphSmith Claude Project SOT doc.


2026-09-12 follow-up (re-triage fixes, Clusters C/D/E): Added a synchronous writer-claim re-validation immediately before chain.appendSession in closeConnection (Cluster C) so an in-flight session whose writer-claim was lost/superseded between opening and finalization is quarantined instead of appended, closing the single-writer hash-chain race window; added a gateway.js status <configPath> CLI subcommand backed by a periodically-written status file using the existing buildHealthStatus(ctx) (Cluster D, no separate ops HTTP port). Cluster E: this PR implements only the configPath-derived-root half of the originally-discussed mode-gate fix (checkModeGate now derives its root from configPath's own directory instead of process.cwd()) — the state_dir cross-check against the mode file's recorded state was scoped out because the finalized mode-selection contract schema carries no such field. The two bugs from the prior re-triage note (an uncaught throw in agent-transport.js's connectionIdFor(), and an unhandled chain.appendSession failure in proxy.js) were independently re-verified against the current HEAD and found already fixed by earlier commits (53d9b2b removed connectionIdFor via refactor; 0dfc661 added the appendSession failure guard) — no further code change was needed for either.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added a standalone gateway with stdio and authenticated HTTP access, downstream MCP connectivity, session management, health reporting, sampling support, and signed session recording.
    • Added validated configuration schemas, status reporting, gateway mode validation, and session-chain integrity verification.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved request correlation, disconnect tracking, graceful shutdown, authentication, malformed-data handling, and integrity reporting.
    • Preserved downstream tool details and correctly handled null request identifiers.
  • Documentation

    • Documented gateway modes, HTTP session behavior, and known limitations.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive configuration, security, lifecycle, chain, session, proxy, downstream, and end-to-end regression coverage.

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pjpoulose and others added 3 commits August 28, 2026 22:06
…G-FR-7)

Implements the Standalone Gateway TRD's core deliverables: a transparent
MCP proxy that captures agent<->downstream-server sessions, seals them via
the unchanged gsa-mcp-shim.js, and persists them to a new hash-chained
gateway-session log (Option P2), with its own SG-FR-7 verifier.

- scripts/gateway/mode-gate.js   SG-FR-1/2: reads+validates .graphsmith/
  gateway-mode.json before anything else (dormant exit 0 in attach mode)
- scripts/gateway/config.js      SS4 config schema + secret-ref resolution
- scripts/gateway/session.js     SS3.3/3.4/3.5: capture, JSON-RPC-id
  correlation, disconnect/anomaly handling, sealBoundaryBundle finalize
- scripts/gateway/chain.js       SG-FR-5: bundle + hash-chain persistence
  (bundle file -> chain.jsonl -> HEAD.json, in that crash-safe order);
  SG-FR-6 remote anchoring is an explicit, named stub (not implemented)
- checks/register-gateway-sessions.js  SG-FR-7 verifier, mirrors
  register-retention.js's shape; detects tampered entries, sequence gaps,
  and incomplete appends, each with a distinct failure reason
- scripts/gateway/downstream.js, proxy.js, agent-transport.js, gateway.js
  transport/dispatch/process-lifecycle, reusing writer-claim.js unchanged

schemas/gateway-config.schema.json and gateway-session-entry.schema.json
are new, Track-1.2-owned schemas. Track 1.1's mode-selection-contract
schema/CLI do not exist anywhere in this repo despite being described as
closed -- mode-gate.js validates against a private, disclosed transcription
of the frozen contract instead of inventing those files itself.

tests/gateway/ (7 suites, 106 checks + a real child-process e2e test)
covers the TRD's SS8 test plan; wired into ci-suite-manifest.json as
gating. Full details in the build report.

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…lone-gateway

Brings in Track 1.1's landed shared module scripts/mode-selection.js
(readAndValidateGatewayMode/statusReport) so this branch's own private
transcription in scripts/gateway/mode-gate.js can be swapped for it in a
follow-up commit.

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…or the shared module

Track 1.2's scripts/gateway/mode-gate.js carried its own private, disclosed
transcription of the mode-selection contract's SS5.1 schema and SS7
fail-closed validation logic, built before Track 1.1's real shared module
(scripts/mode-selection.js) existed. Now that Track 1.1 is merged in, this
replaces that private transcription with a thin delegation to
scripts/mode-selection.js's readAndValidateGatewayMode/computeConfirmationToken.
GATEWAY_MODE_FILE/GATEWAY_MODE_KEY_FILE are now derived from the shared
module's own path helpers instead of re-declared as separate string
literals, so they can't drift. The private MODE_SELECTION_SCHEMA constant
is removed -- nothing outside this file consumed it, and its validation
role is now the shared module's.

Also fixes tests/gateway/_fixtures/mode-file.js: it was writing the
deployment secret as raw random bytes, which only worked against
mode-gate.js's OLD private reader (an unencoded Buffer read with no format
assumption). The real confirmation CLI path (scripts/mode-selection.js's
ensureSecret/writeGatewayMode, now landed) always writes the secret as a
64-char hex-encoded STRING and reads it back as utf8 text -- verified this
round-trips correctly end-to-end. The fixture now writes a hex-encoded
secret to match the real, observable format instead of the old private
module's more permissive (but unrealistic) raw-byte convention.

All 11 tests/gateway/mode-gate/ tests still pass, no test assertions
changed -- only the fixture's on-disk secret format.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR adds a standalone MCP gateway with validated configuration, mode gating, downstream proxying, session capture, agent transports, signed persistence, chain verification, graceful shutdown, and regression coverage.

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Standalone gateway

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gateway contracts and admission
schemas/*, scripts/gateway/config.js, scripts/gateway/mode-gate.js, tests/gateway/config/*, tests/gateway/mode-gate/*
Defines configuration and session-entry contracts. Validates settings, secrets, and gateway modes.
Downstream MCP connectivity
scripts/gateway/downstream.js, tests/gateway/_fixtures/fixture-mcp-server.js, tests/gateway/downstream/*
Adds stdio and HTTP MCP connections, tool discovery, request handling, and protocol validation.
Session capture and proxy dispatch
scripts/gateway/session.js, scripts/gateway/proxy.js, scripts/gsa-mcp-shim.js, tests/gateway/session/*, tests/gateway/proxy/*
Records calls, disconnects, anomalies, tool ownership, cancellations, errors, and sealed sessions.
Agent transports and gateway lifecycle
scripts/gateway/agent-transport.js, scripts/gateway/gateway.js, tests/gateway/e2e/*, tests/gateway/lifecycle/*
Adds stdio and authenticated HTTP transports, session IDs, sampling forwarding, draining, cleanup, and signal handling.
Session-chain verification
checks/register-gateway-sessions.js, schemas/gateway-session-entry.schema.json, tests/gateway/chain/*, ci-suite-manifest.json
Validates hash chains, sequence links, bundle files, and HEAD.json. Registers gateway tests as gating coverage.
Known limitations
KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md
Documents local-proxy capture, HTTP session lifecycle, and remaining persistence limitations.

Execution-surface compatibility

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Graphlint checks
scripts/graphlint.js
Uses a literal backtick delimiter and excludes nested files under the linter directory from the R5 check.

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  participant Agent
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  participant GatewayProxy
  participant Downstream
  participant Session
  Agent->>AgentTransport: Send JSON-RPC request
  AgentTransport->>GatewayProxy: Dispatch session message
  GatewayProxy->>Downstream: Route MCP request
  Downstream-->>GatewayProxy: Return result or error
  GatewayProxy->>Session: Record call and result
  GatewayProxy-->>AgentTransport: Return JSON-RPC response
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if (fs.existsSync(target)) {
throw fail(`A bundle with id ${bundleId} already exists at ${target} -- refusing to overwrite`, "GATEWAY_BUNDLE_ID_COLLISION");

P1 Badge Derive bundle IDs from the complete session

When two sessions have identical initialization data, granted tools, and call counts but different arguments or results, gsa-mcp-shim.js:52 assigns them the same bundle_id; this check therefore rejects the second session, even though its execution trace differs. Because GatewayProxy.closeConnection() has already removed the in-memory session before calling appendSession(), that attestation is permanently lost. The bundle or persistence key must incorporate the complete session content or a unique session identity. (KnoSky was unavailable; inferred from the live files.)

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L9-L10


appendDurableLine(chainPath(stateDir), JSON.stringify(entry));

P1 Badge Reconcile the chain tail before appending

If the process crashes after this durable append but before HEAD.json is updated, the next session reads the stale head and appends another entry with the same sequence number and predecessor; the resulting chain can become [1, 2, 2]. Although the offline checker detects the original mismatch, gateway startup and appendSession() never invoke it, so a recoverable incomplete append is converted into a permanently forked chain. Reconcile or fail closed on the on-disk chain tail before accepting another append. (KnoSky was unavailable; inferred from the live files.)

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L9-L10



P2 Badge Escape the hash separator instead of embedding a NUL byte

The separator in this string is a literal NUL byte, which makes Git classify the new JavaScript source as binary; git show consequently reports only Binary files differ and normal text diff, blame, patch, and review tooling cannot inspect changes to this security-sensitive hash construction. Use an escaped "\0" representation, which produces the same runtime byte without turning the source file into a binary artifact. (KnoSky was unavailable; inferred from the live files.)

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pjpoulose and others added 8 commits September 3, 2026 08:21
…ce in sessions

- record each call's invocation-order seq at recordCallStart and sort by it
  before sealing, so execution_trace step numbers reflect when a call
  actually started rather than when its response happened to arrive
  (out-of-order downstream responses no longer misattest workflow order)
- carry disconnected/disconnect_reason/jsonRpcId and session.anomalies
  through toSealableSession so this evidence can survive into the sealed
  bundle (see companion gsa-mcp-shim.js commit), not just live in memory
- markPendingAsDisconnected now accepts an optional serverFilter so a
  downstream disconnect can be scoped to only that server's pending calls

Addresses PR review comments on scripts/gateway/session.js:109 and :155.
…d bundle

Additive, backward-compatible only (no schema change, existing callers'
output is byte-for-byte unchanged when the new optional fields are absent):
- execution_trace.jsonl lines now carry disconnected/disconnect_reason
  when the source call was marked disconnected
- decision_record.md appends an Anomalies section when session.anomalies
  is non-empty

Without this, scripts/gateway/session.js's toSealableSession could carry
the evidence up to this shim but it would still be silently dropped before
reaching the persisted, signed bundle -- an operator could only see it in
the gateway's own in-memory state, never in the sealed record itself.

Companion to the scripts/gateway/session.js commit. Addresses PR review
comment on scripts/gateway/session.js:155.
…loss

Fixes several PR review findings in scripts/gateway/proxy.js:
- openConnection now seeds the session's granted tool surface from
  mergedTools immediately, so a cached tool invoked without a prior
  tools/list is no longer sealed with granted:false (proxy.js:67)
- handleDownstreamDisconnect now scopes markPendingAsDisconnected to the
  server that actually disconnected, so a pending call to a different,
  healthy downstream is left alone rather than falsely marked disconnected
  (proxy.js:155)
- handleMessage now refuses new requests on every open connection (not
  just new connections) once acceptingNewSessions is false, so an
  already-open agent cannot keep issuing calls after the writer-claim is
  lost; calls already in flight are unaffected and drain normally
  (proxy.js:184)
- notifications/cancelled is now translated (via a connectionId+agent-id
  -> {server, downstreamId} map recorded when each call starts) and
  relayed to the owning downstream connection's new cancel(), instead of
  being silently dropped (proxy.js:103)
- initialize now always returns the gateway's actually-selected protocol
  version instead of echoing back whatever the agent requested
  (proxy.js:100)

All changes verified against tests/gateway/proxy/run-tests.js (14/14 pass)
and tests/gateway/e2e/run-tests.js (18/18 pass, real fixture process).
…handshake, tool descriptor preservation, HTTP response validation, cursor pagination, reachability tracking

Addresses review findings on PR #29 (scripts/gateway/downstream.js):
- Reject duplicate tool names across downstream servers (GATEWAY_TOOL_NAME_COLLISION) instead of silently letting the second server's tool shadow the first's.
- Complete the MCP initialize handshake: send full protocolVersion+capabilities+clientInfo params and the required post-initialize notifications/initialized notification before issuing tools/list.
- Preserve each tool's full descriptor (description, annotations, outputSchema, etc.) instead of projecting down to name+schema only.
- Validate downstream HTTP responses as well-formed JSON-RPC 2.0 envelopes matching the request id; reject malformed/mismatched responses instead of trusting them.
- Follow tools/list pagination via nextCursor with a bounded page cap + cursor-cycle detection instead of silently truncating to the first page.
- Track live HTTP downstream reachability (flips false on network error/timeout, true on any well-formed response) for use by gateway.js's health status.
- Partial fix for the authenticated-HTTP-downstream finding: mirror this repo's own MCP HTTP server's required Streamable HTTP request-metadata headers (mcp-protocol-version, mcp-method, mcp-name) on every downstream request so a downstream enforcing that same contract is not rejected. The bearer-auth-credential half of that finding is left open -- see the review-thread reply for why (frozen downstream_servers schema, additionalProperties:false).

Verified via tests/gateway/e2e/run-tests.js (18/18 PASS, exercises this file against the real fixture server) plus targeted node -e smoke tests against real HTTP servers and real stdio fixture child processes for collision detection, pagination-cursor following, and HTTP response validation (no dedicated unit suite exists for this file).

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…body/duration

Addresses review findings on PR #29 (scripts/gateway/agent-transport.js):
- runHttpAgentTransport() now refuses to start when the resolved bearer token is missing or shorter than 16 characters, matching the same hard requirement mcp-server/src/httpTransport.js already enforces for its own HTTP listener. The config schema cannot enforce this itself (token_ref is only a reference, not the resolved secret), so this is the one place that can actually catch a trivially-brute-forceable token before a network-accessible socket is bound.
- The HTTP request handler now enforces an absolute per-request deadline (setTimeout + req.destroy(), cleared on "close") and a real byte-counted body-size cap (MAX_BODY_BYTES from mcp-server/src/httpTransport.js), mirroring that module's own request-bounding pattern. Without this, a slow-trickled or unbounded body could exhaust memory or hold a connection open indefinitely, including during graceful-shutdown drain.

The session-identity finding in this same file (agent-transport.js:63, HTTP sessions keyed by TCP socket) is left open for clarification -- decoupling session identity from socket identity requires a session-lifecycle policy (idle timeout vs. explicit termination) this repo does not specify anywhere; see the review-thread reply.

Verified via node -e smoke tests: a token under 16 chars throws synchronously before any listener binds; a valid 16+ char token starts the listener normally. No dedicated unit suite exists for this file.

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…etup failure, wire session-chain integrity + last-persisted-at into health status

Addresses review findings on PR #29 (scripts/gateway/gateway.js):
- loadSigningKeys() now checks privateKey.asymmetricKeyType === "ed25519" and throws GATEWAY_BAD_SIGNING_KEY otherwise. createPrivateKey() happily accepts an RSA or EC key, but this build unconditionally labels every key "ed25519" regardless of what was actually loaded -- gsa-verify.js rejects a declared-algorithm/key-type mismatch, so a bundle sealed with a non-ed25519 key would previously persist successfully and only turn out to be unverifiable much later, at verify time. Caught now, at startup.
- startGateway()'s agent-listener setup (stdio or HTTP) is now wrapped in try/catch: on failure (unresolved token_ref, a bind failure, etc.) it stops accepting new sessions, closes every already-open downstream connection, and releases the writer-claim before rethrowing -- previously that already-acquired state would leak, leaving the process able to remain alive after setting a non-zero exit code and blocking a future restart's claim acquisition.
- buildHealthStatus() now computes lastPersistedAt from HEAD.json's mtime (SG-NFR-3's stated contract) and wires checks/register-gateway-sessions.js's SG-FR-7 session-chain integrity walk into the returned status -- previously that walk only ever ran via a synthetic --selftest, never against this deployment's real on-disk chain, so tampering/gaps/incomplete appends had no live operational signal. Downstream reachability now also prefers each connection's isReachable() when available (falls back to !isClosed()).

Verified via node --check plus full re-runs of tests/gateway/{chain,config,lifecycle,mode-gate,e2e,session,proxy}/run-tests.js -- all suites green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…n tail

Addresses a review finding on PR #29 (checks/register-gateway-sessions.js): walkGatewaySessions() previously compared ctx.head's seq/bundle_id/entry_sha256 fields to the chain tail without first validating HEAD.json's own shape. A HEAD.json with a missing/wrong schema_version, extra fields, or an otherwise malformed shape could still slip through the tail comparison and receive a clean "verified" verdict as long as those three fields happened to match, defeating the fail-closed discipline the rest of this module already applies to chain entries (entryShapeOk).

Added headShapeOk(), mirroring entryShapeOk's hand-rolled strict-shape discipline (and scripts/gateway/chain.js's own headShapeOk, deliberately duplicated to keep this module dependency-free per its header) and exported it. walkGatewaySessions() now calls it right after the "HEAD.json missing" check and fails closed (untrusted-input) on an invalid shape.

Verified via node checks/register-gateway-sessions.js --selftest -- all 6 sub-checks pass (verified chain, tampered-entry detection, sequence-gap detection, missing-HEAD detection, stale-HEAD detection, missing-bundle detection).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… deterministic readiness signal

Addresses a review finding on PR #29 (tests/gateway/e2e/run-tests.js, cleanSigtermDrainsAndExitsZero): the test previously waited a fixed 50ms after sending the slow tools/call before sending SIGTERM, hoping the gateway had already recorded the call as pending. Under CI scheduling pressure a 50ms sleep can fire before the gateway has even read its first line, making the test's premise (a call genuinely in flight at the moment SIGTERM is delivered) not actually hold.

Replaced the fixed sleep with a second, fast tools/list request (id:2) sent immediately after the slow tools/call (id:1), awaiting its response as a deterministic readiness barrier before sending SIGTERM. This works because tools/list needs no downstream round-trip (answered straight from the cached tool surface) and readline dispatches "line" events strictly in the order lines were written, so receiving id:2's response proves the slow call's handleMessage() already ran synchronously up to and including session.recordCallStart() -- i.e. it is genuinely pending -- regardless of scheduler/startup latency. Added an assertion that the readiness response has id===2, and tightened the final in-flight-call assertion to also check callResp.id===1.

Pure test-file change, no production code touched. Verified via a full run: node tests/gateway/e2e/run-tests.js -> 18/18 PASS (test is now deterministic instead of flaky).

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pjpoulose and others added 9 commits September 3, 2026 22:58
… token_ref auth, session-boundary doc

Decision 1 (Option B): restrict MCP sampling/createMessage forwarding to
the stdio agent transport only; HTTP agent transport returns an explicit
NOT_IMPLEMENTED error instead of silently dropping the request.

Decision 2 (Option A): add optional token_ref to downstream_servers[]
entries, resolved via the existing resolveSecretRef() convention, so
authenticated HTTP downstreams get a real Bearer Authorization header
instead of relying on a silent reverse-proxy inject.

Decision 3 (Option A): document (KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md #10) that HTTP
agent sessions are keyed by TCP socket, not MCP identity, scoped
explicitly to session_boundary: "connection" (the only implemented
mode); no reverse-proxy pooling in front of this listener. No
session-id lifecycle work done now — revisit when time_window/SS3.4
is designed.

Board lock approved by Alfred + Raj + Andy. Does not touch PR #27,
Decision G, or the main-branch hold.

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… token_ref auth, session-boundary doc

Decision 1 (Option B): restrict MCP sampling/createMessage forwarding to
the stdio agent transport only; HTTP agent transport returns an explicit
NOT_IMPLEMENTED error instead of silently dropping the request.

Decision 2 (Option A): add optional token_ref to downstream_servers[]
entries, resolved via the existing resolveSecretRef() convention, so
authenticated HTTP downstreams get a real Bearer Authorization header
instead of relying on a silent reverse-proxy inject.

Decision 3 (Option A): document (KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md #10) that HTTP
agent sessions are keyed by TCP socket, not MCP identity, scoped
explicitly to session_boundary: "connection" (the only implemented
mode); no reverse-proxy pooling in front of this listener. No
session-id lifecycle work done now — revisit when time_window/SS3.4
is designed.

Board lock approved by Alfred + Raj + Andy. Does not touch PR #27,
Decision G, or the main-branch hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
… token_ref auth, session-boundary doc

Decision 1 (Option B): restrict MCP sampling/createMessage forwarding to
the stdio agent transport only; HTTP agent transport returns an explicit
NOT_IMPLEMENTED error instead of silently dropping the request.

Decision 2 (Option A): add optional token_ref to downstream_servers[]
entries, resolved via the existing resolveSecretRef() convention, so
authenticated HTTP downstreams get a real Bearer Authorization header
instead of relying on a silent reverse-proxy inject.

Decision 3 (Option A): document (KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md #10) that HTTP
agent sessions are keyed by TCP socket, not MCP identity, scoped
explicitly to session_boundary: "connection" (the only implemented
mode); no reverse-proxy pooling in front of this listener. No
session-id lifecycle work done now — revisit when time_window/SS3.4
is designed.

Board lock approved by Alfred + Raj + Andy. Does not touch PR #27,
Decision G, or the main-branch hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
… token_ref auth, session-boundary doc

Decision 1 (Option B): restrict MCP sampling/createMessage forwarding to
the stdio agent transport only; HTTP agent transport returns an explicit
NOT_IMPLEMENTED error instead of silently dropping the request.

Decision 2 (Option A): add optional token_ref to downstream_servers[]
entries, resolved via the existing resolveSecretRef() convention, so
authenticated HTTP downstreams get a real Bearer Authorization header
instead of relying on a silent reverse-proxy inject.

Decision 3 (Option A): document (KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md #10) that HTTP
agent sessions are keyed by TCP socket, not MCP identity, scoped
explicitly to session_boundary: "connection" (the only implemented
mode); no reverse-proxy pooling in front of this listener. No
session-id lifecycle work done now — revisit when time_window/SS3.4
is designed.

Board lock approved by Alfred + Raj + Andy. Does not touch PR #27,
Decision G, or the main-branch hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
… token_ref auth, session-boundary doc

Decision 1 (Option B): restrict MCP sampling/createMessage forwarding to
the stdio agent transport only; HTTP agent transport returns an explicit
NOT_IMPLEMENTED error instead of silently dropping the request.

Decision 2 (Option A): add optional token_ref to downstream_servers[]
entries, resolved via the existing resolveSecretRef() convention, so
authenticated HTTP downstreams get a real Bearer Authorization header
instead of relying on a silent reverse-proxy inject.

Decision 3 (Option A): document (KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md #10) that HTTP
agent sessions are keyed by TCP socket, not MCP identity, scoped
explicitly to session_boundary: "connection" (the only implemented
mode); no reverse-proxy pooling in front of this listener. No
session-id lifecycle work done now — revisit when time_window/SS3.4
is designed.

Board lock approved by Alfred + Raj + Andy. Does not touch PR #27,
Decision G, or the main-branch hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
… token_ref auth, session-boundary doc

Decision 1 (Option B): restrict MCP sampling/createMessage forwarding to
the stdio agent transport only; HTTP agent transport returns an explicit
NOT_IMPLEMENTED error instead of silently dropping the request.

Decision 2 (Option A): add optional token_ref to downstream_servers[]
entries, resolved via the existing resolveSecretRef() convention, so
authenticated HTTP downstreams get a real Bearer Authorization header
instead of relying on a silent reverse-proxy inject.

Decision 3 (Option A): document (KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md #10) that HTTP
agent sessions are keyed by TCP socket, not MCP identity, scoped
explicitly to session_boundary: "connection" (the only implemented
mode); no reverse-proxy pooling in front of this listener. No
session-id lifecycle work done now — revisit when time_window/SS3.4
is designed.

Board lock approved by Alfred + Raj + Andy. Does not touch PR #27,
Decision G, or the main-branch hold.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…ef validation

Adds a fixture tool that issues an unsolicited sampling/createMessage
request upstream, plus e2e tests proving it is forwarded correctly over
the stdio agent transport and rejected with an explicit error over the
HTTP agent transport (Decision 1). Adds config-validation tests for the
new optional downstream_servers[].token_ref field (Decision 2).

Full local suite: 108/108 passing (mode-gate 11, config 17, chain 13,
lifecycle 8, proxy 14, session 22, e2e 23), 0 failed, 0 skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…ef validation

Adds a fixture tool that issues an unsolicited sampling/createMessage
request upstream, plus e2e tests proving it is forwarded correctly over
the stdio agent transport and rejected with an explicit error over the
HTTP agent transport (Decision 1). Adds config-validation tests for the
new optional downstream_servers[].token_ref field (Decision 2).

Full local suite: 108/108 passing (mode-gate 11, config 17, chain 13,
lifecycle 8, proxy 14, session 22, e2e 23), 0 failed, 0 skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…ef validation

Adds a fixture tool that issues an unsolicited sampling/createMessage
request upstream, plus e2e tests proving it is forwarded correctly over
the stdio agent transport and rejected with an explicit error over the
HTTP agent transport (Decision 1). Adds config-validation tests for the
new optional downstream_servers[].token_ref field (Decision 2).

Full local suite: 108/108 passing (mode-gate 11, config 17, chain 13,
lifecycle 8, proxy 14, session 22, e2e 23), 0 failed, 0 skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
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const head = readHead(stateDir);
const seq = head ? head.seq + 1 : 1;
const prev = head ? head.entry_sha256 : null;
const partial = { schema_version: SCHEMA_VERSION, seq, bundle_id: bundleId, prev_entry_sha256: prev };

P1 Badge Reconcile the chain tail before appending

If power is lost after the fsynced chain.jsonl append but before HEAD.json is updated, the next run reads the stale head here and appends another entry with the same sequence and predecessor. startGateway() never invokes the integrity walk—only an optional status() call does—so normal recovery converts the documented incomplete append into a permanently forked chain. Verify and reconcile or fail startup before accepting sessions. KnoSky was unavailable; inferred from the live files.

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Addresses 3 new Codex findings on PR #29's board-locked implementation:
- tools/list, tools/call, server/discover over HTTP now carry the required
  _meta block (protocol version, clientInfo, capabilities) on every request,
  since a plain JSON-RPC-over-HTTP downstream is stateless and never
  remembers an earlier initialize's legacy handshake state.
- connectStdio's response-correlation check now requires the absence of
  "method" before treating a message as a reply to one of this client's own
  calls, so a downstream-initiated request reusing a currently-pending
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- connectHttp now caps a single response body at 10MiB and enforces an
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Two new Codex findings on PR #29's board-locked implementation:
- The agent-facing HTTP listener now rejects every method but POST with 405
  before authentication or body processing, mirroring mcp-server/src/
  httpTransport.js's own contract -- previously a GET/PUT carrying a
  JSON-RPC body was authenticated and executed exactly like POST.
- runHttpAgentTransport's startup promise now attaches a one-shot "error"
  listener before calling server.listen(), so an async bind failure (port
  already in use, EACCES, etc.) rejects the promise instead of leaving it
  pending forever -- startGateway()'s existing try/catch can now actually
  run its cleanup (release the writer-claim, close downstream connections)
  instead of the default process crashing uncaught after already acquiring
  the claim and spawning downstream children.
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Four new Codex findings on PR #29's board-locked implementation:
- A tools/call result carrying isError:true is now recorded as an error in
  the session (sealed trace, output manifest) even though it is a
  structurally successful MCP response, not a transport/RPC failure -- the
  response sent back to the agent is unchanged (still a normal result, per
  MCP's own tool-error-is-not-a-protocol-error semantics).
- A downstream's structured JSON-RPC error (code, message, data) -- already
  captured by downstream.js as error.rpcError -- now propagates to the
  agent unchanged instead of being flattened into a generic -32000.
- Each connection now tracks whether it has completed initialize: tools/list
  and tools/call are rejected before it (previously dispatched under an
  empty initialization record), and a repeated initialize is rejected
  (previously silently overwrote already-attributed call metadata).
- Each completed call now emits one structured JSON log line (connection,
  step, tool, server, status, duration) via an optional log callback
  (default no-op, so existing unit tests stay silent) -- previously the only
  gateway log for a call was the much-later (or, on a crash, never) session-
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Add a KnoSky citation or [inferring] marker to each listed comment. Root AGENTS.md requires every claim about existing code to include a resolvable KnoSky citation or the word “inferring.” This mandatory rule applies to all eight JavaScript comments. Each comment makes an existing or historical code claim without either form.

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In `@scripts/gateway/proxy.js` around lines 79 - 87, Update the JavaScript comment
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In `@scripts/gateway/gateway.js`:
- Around line 230-234: The recordUnmatchedDownstreamResponse flow must not call
session.recordCallResult with an unmatched response ID, since it can remove an
unrelated pending agent call. Add and use a dedicated session helper that
appends the UNMATCHED_RESPONSE anomaly directly while preserving the existing
active-session and finalized checks.

In `@scripts/gateway/proxy.js`:
- Line 310: Update the capacity check in the session call-handling flow around
MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION to account for both completed calls in s.calls
and currently pending requests before accepting another call. Reserve capacity
for pending calls so concurrent requests cannot collectively exceed the
100,000-call session limit.

In `@tests/gateway/downstream/run-tests.js`:
- Line 209: Update the unmatched-response test flow around onUnmatchedResponse
to resolve a promise when the callback receives the bogus line, rather than
relying on a fixed 200 ms delay. Await that callback promise, while retaining a
bounded timeout only as the failure limit.

In `@tests/gateway/e2e/run-tests.js`:
- Around line 588-590: Update the
e2e-agent-http-session-from-failed-initialize-is-sealed-not-leaked test to
retain stateDir and verify the persisted chain includes the failed
initialization session with its bundle present, in addition to the existing
expired-session response assertion.

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- Around line 79-87: Update the JavaScript comment describing
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… append (Cluster C)

onClaimLost (gateway.js) only calls proxy.stopAcceptingNewSessions() when the
writer-claim is lost -- by design, already-open sessions are left alone to
finish and finalize (SS7: "in-flight sessions ... should still attempt to
finalize and persist"). But that leaves a real gap: if a replacement writer
has since acquired this state directory, an in-flight session finalizing
after that point would call chain.appendSession() and interleave with the
new writer's own appends, corrupting the single-writer hash-chain invariant.

Adds a synchronous, read-fresh-from-disk isWriterClaimValid() check in
GatewayProxy, consulted immediately before chain.appendSession inside
closeConnection -- the narrow fix (re-check liveness right at the
integrity-critical write) rather than eagerly halting every in-flight
session the moment claim-loss is first detected. When the claim is no
longer valid at that check, the session is NOT appended: the already-sealed
bundle is quarantined (same quarantineSealedBundle path persistence
failures already use) and reported via onSealFailure, so an operator or the
next writer can inspect/replay it. Defaults to always-valid when not wired
up, so every existing caller/test is unaffected.

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… mode-gate root (partial)

Three changes bundled in this file:

1. Cluster C wiring: passes isWriterClaimValid: () => writerClaim.status()
   .held_by_this_instance into GatewayProxy's constructor (the check itself
   landed in proxy.js's closeConnection in the prior commit), and updates
   onClaimLost's own comment to describe the narrower, two-part fix instead
   of implying eager halting is the whole story.

2. Cluster D: exposes SG-NFR-3's buildHealthStatus(ctx) operationally for
   this single-tenant, locally-run process. Writes it to <state_dir>/
   gateway-status.json on a fixed interval (STATUS_WRITE_INTERVAL_MS,
   default 10s) via state-store.js's existing atomic-write primitive, plus
   once immediately at startup and once more on clean shutdown. Adds a
   `node gateway.js status [configPath]` CLI subcommand that reads and
   pretty-prints that file, warning if the snapshot looks stale. No new ops
   HTTP port -- deliberately out of scope, see writeStatusFile's own
   comment.

3. Cluster E (partial fix only -- see PR description for what is NOT
   included): checkModeGate's validation root now derives from configPath's
   own directory (path.dirname(path.resolve(configPath))) instead of
   process.cwd(), so `gateway.js --config /path/to/project-b/gateway.json`
   run from inside a different project's directory validates project B's
   own .graphsmith/gateway-mode.json, not whatever sits under cwd.
   options.root remains available as an explicit override. Does NOT add any
   state_dir cross-check against the mode file -- the finalized mode-
   selection-contract schema carries no such field, and adding one would
   mean amending an already-final TRD, out of scope here.

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Covers closeConnection's synchronous isWriterClaimValid() re-check
immediately before chain.appendSession: refuses to append and
quarantines the sealed bundle when the claim is invalid at that
moment, and confirms the default (no isWriterClaimValid configured)
remains a no-op so every other test in this suite and any caller
that hasn't wired a writer-claim keeps behaving exactly as before.

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…r E mode-gate root fix

modeGateRootTracksConfigPathNotCwd spawns the real CLI with cwd set to
a directory with no .graphsmith/ at all, passing an absolute configPath
into a separate, properly mode-confirmed project root -- proving
checkModeGate's root now tracks configPath's own directory rather than
process.cwd().

statusCommandReadsRunningGatewaysStatusFile spawns `gateway.js status
<configPath>` as a genuinely separate CLI invocation against a running
gateway's periodically-written status file, and also covers the
no-status-file-yet case (clear non-zero exit naming the missing file,
not a stack trace).

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635-635: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate shutdown persistence failures and expose unresolved sessions.

closeConnection() returns null after writer-claim loss or chain.appendSession() failure. onSealFailure only logs the error. doStop() ignores the result, writes a status without an unresolved-session field, resolves, and the signal handler calls process.exit(0).

Collect failed connection IDs. Complete connection cleanup and writer-claim release in finally. Record the failed IDs in the final status. Make signal and stdio shutdown handlers return a nonzero exit status when persistence fails.

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In `@scripts/gateway/gateway.js` at line 635, Update the gateway shutdown flow
around closeConnection, onSealFailure, and doStop to collect connection IDs
whose persistence returns null, while always completing connection cleanup and
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In `@scripts/gateway/proxy.js`:
- Line 498: Protect the complete append flow in appendSession with one durable,
gateway-wide keyed append lock shared by every writer. Acquire and lease-renew
the lock before isWriterClaimValid(), then perform intent, bundle, chain, and
HEAD.json writes in order and release it only after all writes complete,
preserving consistency when synchronous work outlasts the writer claim.

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In `@scripts/gateway/gateway.js`:
- Line 635: Update the gateway shutdown flow around closeConnection,
onSealFailure, and doStop to collect connection IDs whose persistence returns
null, while always completing connection cleanup and releasing writer claims in
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* like a persistence failure below: quarantine the already-sealed bundle so an
* operator or the next writer can inspect/replay it, report via onSealFailure, and
* return null -- never append. */
if (!this.isWriterClaimValid()) {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Guard the complete gateway chain append.

gateway.js binds isWriterClaimValid() to writerClaim.status().held_by_this_instance. WriterClaim renews with a timer that cannot run while synchronous work blocks the event loop. If the append exceeds staleAfterMs, another writer can steal the claim after the check returns true.

appendSession() has no shared append lock or CAS. Two writers can read the same HEAD.json, append entries with the same sequence and previous-head values, and leave HEAD.json inconsistent with chain.jsonl.

Use one durable keyed append lock for every gateway writer. Acquire it before claim validation and release it only after the bundle, chain, and HEAD.json writes complete. If the lock is leased, keep it valid for the full critical section. Apply intent → effect → completion ordering. This gateway filesystem write is covered by the JavaScript workflow guideline.

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In `@scripts/gateway/proxy.js` at line 498, Protect the complete append flow in
appendSession with one durable, gateway-wide keyed append lock shared by every
writer. Acquire and lease-renew the lock before isWriterClaimValid(), then
perform intent, bundle, chain, and HEAD.json writes in order and release it only
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Fixed in becee40: added a synchronous writerClaim.renew() call immediately before chain.appendSession in closeConnection (new GatewayProxy#renewWriterClaim opt, wired from gateway.js), closing the heartbeat-starvation gap on the claim-staleness half of this finding -- a long synchronous append can no longer let the claim go stale between the isWriterClaimValid() read and the write.

Not changing further: the broader ask (one durable, gateway-wide keyed append lock/CAS wrapping the whole bundle+chain+HEAD.json write) is a larger architectural change to the single-writer design than this fix, and needs a product decision rather than being folded into a surgical fix.

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@pjpoulose, I verified the becee40 change.

GatewayProxy#closeConnection() now calls renewWriterClaim() immediately before chain.appendSession(). gateway.js correctly wires that option to writerClaim.renew(). This reduces the heartbeat-starvation window.

The original finding remains open. appendSession() still performs separate bundle, chain.jsonl, and HEAD.json writes without a gateway-wide append lock or compare-and-swap operation. If the synchronous append exceeds staleAfterMs, another writer can take over after renewal and during that write sequence. The two writers can still derive chain state from the same head.

I agree that the complete append guard is a larger design decision. Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue for the durable append-lock/CAS design?

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…ession

PR #29 review round 8 (CodeRabbit + Codex): recordUnmatchedDownstreamResponse
in gateway.js was calling session.recordCallResult(s, msg.id, ...) where
msg.id is the downstream-internal id (not an agent-facing JSON-RPC id) --
risking collision with a live pending agent call sharing the same id value
and corrupting the session trace. Adds a dedicated
recordUnmatchedResponseAnomaly() helper that only ever appends the anomaly
and never touches pendingCalls, plus a fixed MAX_ANOMALIES_PER_SESSION cap
(1000) so a misbehaving downstream cannot grow session.anomalies without
bound; the cap being hit is itself recorded once via a terminal
ANOMALY_CAP_REACHED marker rather than silently truncating.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
Adds unmatchedResponseAnomalyDoesNotTouchPendingCalls (proves a colliding
jsonRpcId does not corrupt a live pending call, and that call still resolves
normally afterward) and anomaliesCappedWithTerminalMarker (proves the
MAX_ANOMALIES_PER_SESSION cap and its terminal ANOMALY_CAP_REACHED marker).
Companion test for the session.js fix in this same PR round.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…cations/initialized, contain logger failures

Three PR #29 round-8 review fixes to proxy.js:

- CodeRabbit "reserve capacity for pending calls": the
  MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION admission check only counted
  s.calls.length (already-completed calls), ignoring calls already admitted
  and genuinely in flight (s.pendingCalls). Several concurrent in-flight
  requests could all pass the check before any resolved, letting
  s.calls.length grow past the cap once they all completed. Now checks
  s.calls.length + s.pendingCalls.size.

- Codex "wait for notifications/initialized before admitting tools": tools
  were admitted immediately once the "initialize" response was computed --
  before the agent necessarily received it (an id-less initialize sent as a
  notification hits the same code path) and before the MCP-required
  "notifications/initialized" arrived. agentInitialized is now a 3-state
  string ("none" | "awaiting_notification" | "ready"); tools/list and
  tools/call are admitted only in the "ready" state, reached only via a real
  "notifications/initialized" notification.

- Codex "contain logger failures after downstream effects": a configured
  `log` callback throwing after a downstream tool call already succeeded
  could escape handleMessage and turn a real success into a JSON-RPC
  internal error, inviting a client retry of a possibly non-idempotent
  effect. Added a non-throwing safeLog() wrapper used at both post-effect
  log call sites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…-call cap fix

Adds sendInitializedNotification() and sends it after every existing
initialize call site that precedes tools/list or tools/call (GatewayProxy
now requires it before admitting either). Extends
initializationLifecycleEnforced with pre-notification tools/call and
tools/list rejection assertions, and adds
noIdInitializeDoesNotUnlockToolsWithoutNotification to cover an id-less
(notification-shaped) initialize. Companion test for the proxy.js fixes in
this same PR round.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…owlist

Two Codex PR #29 round-8 review fixes to downstream.js:

- "bound termination of stdio downstream children": close() previously sent
  SIGTERM once and returned synchronously without confirming the child
  actually exited -- a stdio downstream that traps or ignores SIGTERM would
  keep running (and keep its pipes open) past startup-failure cleanup or
  shutdown. close() now returns a promise that races the child's own
  "close" event against a bounded STDIO_CHILD_TERMINATE_TIMEOUT_MS
  (5000ms, test-overridable via a new connectStdio options.terminateTimeoutMs)
  timer that escalates to SIGKILL. Callers in gateway.js now await it.

- "reject unsupported downstream protocol selections" (5-model panel,
  Paul-approved 2026-09-12): connectAllDownstreams previously accepted any
  non-empty protocolVersion string from a downstream's initialize result.
  Added SUPPORTED_DOWNSTREAM_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS, an explicit allowlist Set
  seeded with this client's own MCP_PROTOCOL_VERSION (deliberately not a
  bare equality check, and deliberately not the prior fully-permissive
  behavior) -- a downstream selecting a version outside it is now rejected
  at startup with a distinct GATEWAY_DOWNSTREAM_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSION
  code (kept distinct from GATEWAY_DOWNSTREAM_MALFORMED_RESPONSE since the
  response is well-formed, just naming an incompatible version -- a judgment
  call, flagged for review).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…on allowlist

- Rewrites unmatchedStdioResponseSurfaced's wait logic: resolves a promise
  from the onUnmatchedResponse callback itself, raced against a 2000ms
  failure-limit timeout, instead of a fixed 200ms wait that is flaky under a
  slow CI worker (CodeRabbit PR #29 review round 8).

- Adds unsupportedProtocolVersionRejected: a fixture returning a well-formed
  but unsupported protocolVersion ("1999-01-01") must be rejected with
  GATEWAY_DOWNSTREAM_UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSION.

- Adds stdioChildTerminationEscalatesToSigkillAfterTimeout (a fixture that
  traps SIGTERM and keeps its event loop alive independently of stdin
  closing, proving close() actually escalates to SIGKILL within the bounded
  terminateTimeoutMs) and stdioChildTerminationResolvesPromptlyOnCleanExit
  (a well-behaved child resolves well under the timeout).

Companion test for the downstream.js fixes in this same PR round.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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… helper, cap downstream-initiated sampling history, add a startup connect watchdog

Three PR #29 round-8 review fixes to gateway.js:

- CodeRabbit + Codex "record/keep unmatched downstream IDs out of agent
  correlation": recordUnmatchedDownstreamResponse called
  session.recordCallResult(s, msg.id, ...) using the downstream-internal id,
  risking collision with a live agent-facing pendingCalls entry sharing the
  same id value. Now calls session.recordUnmatchedResponseAnomaly (added in
  session.js this same round), which only ever appends the anomaly and never
  touches pendingCalls.

- Codex "cap completed downstream sampling history": proxy.js's own
  agent-initiated dispatch enforces MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION and
  MAX_PENDING_CALLS_PER_SESSION, but this separate downstream-initiated
  sampling path (forwardDownstreamRequestToAgent) never consulted either --
  a sampling-capable stdio downstream issuing requests sequentially could
  grow session.calls without bound. Mirrors proxy.js's own admission-refusal
  shape exactly.

- Codex "install shutdown handlers before gateway startup completes" (5-model
  panel, Paul-approved 2026-09-12, majority position): the panel rejected
  building a signal handler that tears down partially-initialized startup
  state as riskier than the status quo on the WriterClaim lock-safety path.
  Instead adds a bounded STARTUP_DOWNSTREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS (60000ms,
  test-overridable via options.startupDownstreamConnectTimeoutMs) watchdog
  around connectAllDownstreams via a new withTimeout() helper, routed through
  the SAME startup-failure cleanup path (writerClaim.release() + rethrow,
  GATEWAY_STARTUP_TIMEOUT) an outright connection failure already uses.
  Graceful-shutdown handler registration order in main() is unchanged (still
  registered only after startGateway() resolves), per the panel's explicit
  direction. On investigation, no existing crash-recovery/stale-claim-reclaim
  path was found in writer-claim.js beyond the existing single-writer
  claim/heartbeat/release mechanism -- reported here rather than built, since
  building one was explicitly out of scope for this fix.

Also updates the startup-failure and doStop() downstream-close loops to
`await conn.close()`, since downstream.js's close() now returns a promise
(this same PR round's downstream.js fix).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…up watchdog

Codex PR #29 review round 8 findings, exercised at the unit level:

- samplingForwardRefusesOnceCompletedCallCapReached / samplingForwardStillWorksBelowTheCap:
  prove forwardDownstreamRequestToAgent's new MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION admission
  check (landed in scripts/gateway/gateway.js, commit 9a30ef1) actually refuses once the
  cap is reached and still forwards normally below it, using a fake session/proxy/
  agentPusher (driving the real cap via genuine round trips would be far too slow for a
  unit suite).
- startupWatchdogTimesOutOnHungDownstreamConnect: proves STARTUP_DOWNSTREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS
  (gateway.js, commit 9a30ef1) actually fails startGateway() closed against a real hung
  child process that spawns but never completes its handshake, and that the same
  startup-failure cleanup path releases the writer-claim -- not just that the promise
  rejects. Also adds notifications/initialized sends to drainWaitsForInFlightCallToComplete
  and drainTimesOutAndReportsIncomplete, required by the PR #29 3-state agentInitialized
  fix (proxy.js, commit c6f4851) these two pre-existing tests exercise.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…alized notifications

CodeRabbit PR #29 review round 8 "verify that the failed session was persisted":
httpFailedInitializeDoesNotLeakSession previously only proved session REMOVAL (a
follow-up call on the leaked session id sees "unknown or expired"). An implementation
that deletes the session without ever writing its bundle would have passed just the
same. Now also asserts chain.readHead(stateDir) names exactly this one sealed session
(seq===1, a string bundle_id) and that its bundle file actually exists on disk, not
merely referenced -- mirrors singleSessionEndToEndVerifies' own existing
e2e-exactly-one-bundle-written pattern elsewhere in this file.

Ripple from proxy.js's 3-state agentInitialized fix (commit c6f4851): tools/call and
tools/list are now rejected until a real notifications/initialized has been sent, so
adds a new httpNotify() helper (tolerates the empty 202 body a JSON-RPC notification
gets back over the agent HTTP transport, unlike httpPost's request/response pairs) and
sends notifications/initialized in every test that exercises tools/call or tools/list
after its own initialize: singleSessionEndToEndVerifies, samplingForwardedToStdioAgent,
malformedPushedReplyIsRejectedNotSilentlyAccepted,
pushedReplyWithPresentButFalsyErrorIsRejected, samplingOverHttpAgentGetsExplicitError,
httpDownstreamAgainstRealMcpServerSucceeds, httpAgentSessionsAreIdBasedNotSocketBased
(both sessionA and sessionB), and cleanSigtermDrainsAndExitsZero.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
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P2 Badge Treat sampling as a negotiated client capability

When a downstream legitimately invokes sampling/createMessage, this records it as the pseudo-tool <server>:sampling/createMessage, but sealBoundaryBundle() builds grantedTools exclusively from the downstream tools/list surface. Consequently every negotiated sampling call is persisted with "granted":false, falsely presenting authorized model sampling as an ungranted invocation in the signed audit evidence. Record the negotiated sampling capability separately or exclude model calls from the tool-grant comparison. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

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Fixed in commit 2c00732. sealBoundaryBundle's model_call granted-computation now derives from whether sampling was actually negotiated for the connection (gateway.js's agentTransportSupportsSampling, threaded through GatewayProxy -> session.samplingNegotiated -> gsa-mcp-shim.js), instead of checking the sampling/createMessage call id against the downstream tools/list surface. tools/call entries' granted-computation is unchanged. All 226 gateway tests plus the gsa-mcp-shim --selftest pass.

Comment thread scripts/gateway/proxy.js
* grow session.calls -- full arguments and result retained per entry -- without bound
* until this process exhausts memory, entirely bypassing the pending-call admission
* check above. Same "fixed, non-speculative default" discipline as that constant. */
const MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION = 100000;

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P2 Badge Bound retained session bytes, not only call count

Fresh evidence after the completed-history cap was added: the limit permits 100,000 retained calls, while each call can retain a request near the agent input cap and a downstream result near the 10 MiB response cap. A sequential authenticated client or compromised downstream can therefore consume memory long before reaching the count limit—at the declared maxima, the retained payload budget is roughly a terabyte. Track cumulative retained bytes or roll sessions at a practical byte limit rather than relying solely on entry count. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

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Fixed in becee40: added MAX_SESSION_CALL_BYTES (256MB -- a fixed, non-speculative constant matching MAX_PENDING_CALLS_PER_SESSION/MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION's own discipline, not config-driven, same as those two). session.js now tracks a running session.totalCallBytes (request params + response result, serialized) in recordCallResult and markPendingAsDisconnected, checked at admission time alongside the two existing count caps with the same -32000 error family.

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function logCompletion(isError) {
const completedAt = proxy ? proxy.now() : Date.now();
const recordedCall = s ? s.calls[s.calls.length - 1] : null;
log(JSON.stringify({

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P2 Badge Use the non-throwing logger for sampling completions

Fresh evidence after GatewayProxy.safeLog() fixed the agent-initiated path: this separate downstream-sampling completion path still invokes the caller-supplied logger directly after the agent result has been recorded. If that logger throws, the fulfilled callback becomes rejected and connectStdio() sends the downstream an internal-error response despite the completed model invocation, encouraging a retry and potentially duplicating an expensive or externally consequential step. Route this through the same non-throwing logging wrapper. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L10-L10

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Fixed in becee40: logCompletion's log() call on the downstream-initiated sampling completion path is now wrapped in try/catch, so a throwing logger can no longer reject the forward and turn an already-completed model invocation into an error response sent to the downstream. Wrapped inline rather than routed through proxy.safeLog, since this function's own test suite passes a minimal {sessions, now} stand-in for proxy that doesn't implement safeLog -- the inline try/catch gives the identical non-throwing guarantee without that dependency.

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const shutdown = (signal) => handle.stop(signal).then(() => process.exit(0));
process.on("SIGTERM", () => shutdown("SIGTERM"));
process.on("SIGINT", () => shutdown("SIGINT"));

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P2 Badge Install signal handlers before starting the gateway

Fresh evidence after the startup-watchdog change: the SIGTERM/SIGINT handlers are still registered only after startGateway() resolves. A signal during the up-to-60-second downstream-connect phase therefore still uses Node's default immediate termination and bypasses cleanup of the already-acquired writer claim and any spawned downstream children; the watchdog cannot help after the process has already been killed. Install startup-aware handlers before beginning asynchronous initialization. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

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Not changing this -- this file's own header comment (the "install shutdown handlers before gateway startup completes" comment directly above STARTUP_DOWNSTREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS in gateway.js) documents that the 5-model external frontier panel's majority position (Paul-approved) was explicitly against building a signal handler that tries to safely tear down partially-initialized startup state -- calling that a real correctness risk on the WriterClaim lock-safety path, worse than the status quo. The accepted mitigation is STARTUP_DOWNSTREAM_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_MS (60s) bounding the one unbounded startup step (connectAllDownstreams) instead of a startup-spanning signal handler. Revisiting that panel decision is a product call for Paul, not a mechanical code fix.

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} else if (msg && typeof msg.method === "string" && !Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(msg, "id")) {
for (const handler of notificationHandlers) handler(msg);
} else if (msg && typeof msg.method === "string" && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(msg, "id") && msg.id !== null) {

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P2 Badge Validate downstream requests before forwarding sampling

A stdio message is treated as a downstream-initiated request based only on having a string method and a non-null id; it need not carry jsonrpc: "2.0", a valid identifier type, or an otherwise valid request envelope. A faulty downstream can therefore send a malformed object such as {"id":1,"method":"sampling/createMessage"} and still trigger a real agent model invocation and an attested call. Validate the complete JSON-RPC request envelope before invoking options.onRequest, returning an invalid-request error without forwarding malformed traffic. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

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Fixed in becee40: connectStdio now validates jsonrpc:"2.0" and that id is a string or finite safe-integer number before treating a downstream message as a request and invoking options.onRequest; an invalid envelope now gets a -32600 error written back instead of being forwarded to onRequest/the agent's model. Mirrors proxy.js#handleMessage's own existing envelope/id-type validation rule (same code, same id-type test) rather than inventing a new one.

Comment thread scripts/gsa-mcp-shim.js
result_sha256: sha256Hex(JSON.stringify(c.result === undefined ? null : c.result)),
is_error: !!c.isError,
model_call: !!c.model_call, // sampling/createMessage → non-deterministic
...(c.disconnected ? { disconnected: true, disconnect_reason: c.disconnect_reason || null } : {}),

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P2 Badge Persist disconnected-call correlation IDs

When a connection closes with a call pending, markPendingAsDisconnected() records its jsonRpcId and toSealableSession() deliberately forwards that field, but this final trace projection persists only disconnected and disconnect_reason. The sealed evidence therefore loses the identifier needed to correlate the disconnect with the observed JSON-RPC request, contrary to the newly added disconnected-call capture contract. Include jsonRpcId in the persisted trace entry, with an explicit representation for synthetic IDs if necessary. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

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Fixed in becee40: added the missing conditional spread for jsonRpcId on the execution_trace line in sealBoundaryBundle (...(c.jsonRpcId !== undefined ? { jsonRpcId: c.jsonRpcId } : {})), matching the existing disconnected/disconnect_reason spread style exactly.

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* manifest) -- but per MCP semantics a tool-level error is still a normal
* `tools/call` RESULT, not a JSON-RPC protocol error, so the response sent back to
* the agent below is still keyed on `transportFailed` alone, unchanged. */
const toolLevelError = !transportFailed && method === "tools/call" && result && typeof result === "object" && result.isError === true;

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P2 Badge Validate MCP tool result shapes before recording success

After a well-formed JSON-RPC envelope resolves, the gateway treats every non-throwing tools/call result as successful unless it happens to be an object with isError: true. A faulty downstream can therefore return null, a scalar, or {} without the required MCP tool-result content, and the gateway forwards it and seals it as a successful call; conforming agents may reject the response while the audit trail says the operation succeeded. Validate the method-specific tools/call result shape before computing toolLevelError and fail closed on malformed payloads. KnoSky was unavailable; inferring from the live files.

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Fixed in commit 8f2fdc2 on this branch.

Added a third audit state alongside transport-error and tool-level-error: malformedResult, computed by a small, pure, exception-safe predicate (isMalformedToolCallResult in scripts/gateway/proxy.js) per the converged predicate -- a tools/call result is flagged only when it is null, not an object, or an array, or is a plain object with none of: a content array, a structuredContent object, or an explicit isError boolean. Extra/unknown fields never trip it, and the check fails open (not malformed) if it throws.

Scoped strictly to tools/call and only when the downstream actually responded (never for sampling/createMessage, never for a transport failure). It is audit-only: isError and the JSON-RPC response returned to the agent are unchanged.

Wired through additive-only, so a well-formed call's signed trace line and operational log line are byte-for-byte unaffected:

  • proxy.js passes malformedResult into session.recordCallResult alongside result/isError, and adds malformed_result: true to the gateway_call_completed log line only when true.
  • session.js stores it on the call record and carries it through toSealableSession.
  • gsa-mcp-shim.js's sealBoundaryBundle folds it into the signed execution_trace as malformed_result: true, omitted entirely (not false) for a well-formed call.

Added 25 new tests covering the full converged matrix (null/string/number/array/empty-object as malformed; content-array/structuredContent/isError-boolean as not malformed, including empty content array and isError:true-with-content coexisting with malformed:false; extra fields never trip it; hostile-getter fail-open; scope exclusion for sampling and transport failures; JSON-RPC/isError parity; byte-parity of a clean call's trace line). All 226 pre-existing gateway tests plus the 25 new ones pass (251 total).

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stdioChildTerminationEscalatesToSigkillAfterTimeout's timing check
(close-escalated-to-sigkill-rather-than-hanging-on-a-trapped-sigterm)
assumes a child process can trap and ignore SIGTERM long enough to prove
close()'s SIGKILL-escalation path actually ran. Windows has no true POSIX
signal delivery -- child.kill() force-terminates the child unconditionally
regardless of any registered handler -- so the assumption is false there,
and the assertion failed deterministically on all 4 windows-latest CI legs
(node 18/22, both workflow-run triggers) at elapsed=3-4ms against a >=150ms
floor.

downstream.js's close() itself was read directly and confirmed correct on
its own terms (a platform-agnostic bounded-wait-then-SIGKILL race) -- this
is a test-only fix. Skips just the Windows-dependent half of the test,
mirroring this repo's own existing precedent (tests/gateway/e2e's
e2e-sigterm-clean-drain-and-release) for exactly this class of
platform-unreproducible signal assertion. The other half of the same test
(close-resolves-once-sigterm-trapping-child-is-actually-gone) is unaffected
and still runs on every platform.

Verified locally (Linux, 3x for stability): 24/24 passing, 0 skipped (the
new skip only fires on win32).
…vious push

The prior commit (6692938) accidentally hardcoded two dynamic interpolations as literal placeholder strings during a manual content transcription:
- capturePath -> "__CAPTURE_PATH__" in samplingCapabilityAdvertisedOnlyWhenSupported()
- name -> "__NAME__" in onRequestReceivesOwnServerName()'s writeSamplerFixture(name)

This restores both to their correct dynamic values. Verified byte-for-byte against the locally tested source (md5 2f05ed0d348bd443a72aadb2a8cf95eb) before push.
pjpoulose added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2026
…-recovery-idempotency

Resolves PR #29 / PR #33 merge conflict per Cluster H/I frontier-panel
verdict (5/5 unanimous both clusters, Paul approved 2026-09-14):

- Cluster H (gateway.js sampling-forward path): MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION
  refusal check runs first (unchanged from PR #29); the WAL-append setup
  (walCallSeq/walAppendFailed, PR #33) follows, unconditional and independent
  of that check. Correction from the original panel brief: this cap is a hard
  admission-refusal, not an in-memory eviction -- a refused call is never
  admitted, recorded, or forwarded, so it never reaches the WAL either. No
  separate WAL-bounding code was needed at this composition point.
- Cluster I (session.js anomaly recording): recordAnomaly and
  recordUnmatchedResponseAnomaly now share one internal, capped
  pushCappedAnomaly helper (MAX_ANOMALIES_PER_SESSION), so PR #33's new
  ambiguous-retry-blocked anomaly is bounded the same way PR #29's
  unmatched-response anomaly already was. All 7 existing external call
  sites are unchanged.
- Remaining 4 hunks (gateway.js imports/exports, proxy.js's agentInitialized
  3-state fix + new pendingOperatorReviewConnections field, session.js
  exports) are mechanical keep-both unions, no judgment call.

No thread resolved, no merge to a shared branch, no push to main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
pjpoulose added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 14, 2026
…ce, found while verifying the PR #29/#33 merge

Discovered running the full gateway test suite against the merge commit
(not part of the approved Cluster H/I conflict resolution itself, but
required to get a genuinely green merge):

- tests/gateway/proxy/run-tests.js: PR #33's entire Option C test suite
  (idempotency/recovery tests) predates PR #29's 3-state agentInitialized
  gating fix (round 8, 'wait for notifications/initialized before admitting
  tools') and never sent notifications/initialized before tools/call --
  that fix's own comment already says every such test must. Added the
  missing sendInitializedNotification() call after each initialize (25
  call sites across single- and multi-connection tests), and updated one
  stale boolean assertion (agentInitialized.get(...) === false) to the
  correct 3-state sentinel ('none').

- tests/gateway/lifecycle/run-tests.js: samplingForwardStillWorksBelowTheCap
  predates PR #33's WAL append in forwardDownstreamRequestToAgent and used
  a bare {sessions, now} fake proxy with no stateDir, so the now-unconditional
  WAL append threw. Gave it a real stateDir via the file's own freshDir()
  helper.

- scripts/gateway/agent-transport.js: a real, pre-existing bug, exposed
  (not caused) by PR #29's own legitimate doStop() fix ('await close() so
  a downstream ... is actually confirmed gone'), which shifted doStop's
  timing enough to surface it within the process's lifetime. The stdin
  readline 'close' listener calls proxy.closeConnection() from inside an
  async event-listener callback with no try/catch; an unreadable/corrupt
  recovery intent for that connection throws, and with nothing awaiting or
  catching this listener's returned promise, the rejection is unhandled --
  crashing the entire gateway process. This is not shutdown-specific: any
  ordinary stdio disconnect racing a corrupt intent hits the same path.
  gateway.js's own doStop() loop already guards its own (redundant, in the
  shutdown case) call to closeConnection for exactly this failure mode;
  mirrored that guard here. Confirmed via a side-by-side worktree of
  feature/gateway-crash-recovery-idempotency's own tip (8167f9d) that this
  test suite passes there today -- the bug is real and latent on that
  branch alone, merely not manifesting before this merge's timing shift.

All 9 gateway test suites now pass: 435 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
(chain 15, config 19, downstream 24, e2e 63, lifecycle 17, mode-gate 11,
proxy 111, recovery 137, session 38).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
pjpoulose and others added 3 commits September 19, 2026 17:11
…byte cap, jsonRpcId trace field, non-throwing sampling logger, downstream request-envelope validation)

Paul-approved fixes from the re-triage round, landed directly on this branch:

1. proxy.js#closeConnection: renew the writer-claim synchronously immediately before chain.appendSession (new GatewayProxy#renewWriterClaim opt, wired in gateway.js), closing the gap where a long synchronous append can starve the writer-claim heartbeat past staleAfterMs. Mirrors proxy.js's own existing isWriterClaimValid opt-injection pattern; renewal failure falls through to the existing quarantineSealedBundle path via the same try/catch as appendSession.

2. proxy.js: new MAX_SESSION_CALL_BYTES cap (256MB, fixed constant matching the existing MAX_PENDING_CALLS_PER_SESSION/MAX_COMPLETED_CALLS_PER_SESSION discipline) -- session.js now tracks a running session.totalCallBytes (request params + response result, serialized) in recordCallResult and markPendingAsDisconnected, checked at admission time alongside the two existing count caps.

3. gsa-mcp-shim.js#sealBoundaryBundle: add the missing conditional spread for jsonRpcId on the execution_trace line, matching the existing disconnected/disconnect_reason spread style -- the field was documented but never actually written.

4. gateway.js#forwardDownstreamRequestToAgent's logCompletion: wrap the caller-supplied log() call in try/catch so a throwing logger can no longer turn an already-completed downstream-initiated sampling call into a rejected forward/error response (mirrors GatewayProxy#safeLog's own non-throwing contract; inlined rather than routed through proxy.safeLog because this function's own tests pass a minimal {sessions, now} stand-in for proxy).

5. downstream.js#connectStdio: validate the JSON-RPC envelope (jsonrpc:"2.0", id a string or finite safe-integer number) of a downstream-initiated request before invoking options.onRequest, returning a -32600 error instead of forwarding malformed traffic to the agent's model. Mirrors proxy.js#handleMessage's own existing envelope/id-type validation rule.

Not changed (escalated back for a product decision, not mechanical fixes -- see the review thread replies and session report):
- gateway.js:217 sampling-not-marked-granted in sealBoundaryBundle's grantedTools computation -- changing what "granted" means for a model_call in a signed attestation bundle is a semantics decision, not a mechanical fix.
- proxy.js:424 tools/call result-shape validation before recording success -- requires designing an MCP CallToolResult shape validator and deciding failure semantics; a behavior change to every call's audit trail, not a narrow fix.
- gateway.js:871 signal-handler-after-startup timing: reject-with-reason only, no code change -- this build's header comment already documents the Paul-approved 5-model frontier panel decision against a startup-spanning signal handler.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…ot tools/list

sealBoundaryBundle's execution_trace computed `granted` for every call entry by
checking its id against the downstream tools/list surface (grantedTools). A
sampling/createMessage call is a model_call, not a tools/call -- its id
(e.g. "fs:sampling/createMessage") can never appear in grantedTools, so every
sampling call was signed into the attestation bundle as granted:false, reading
as "this call was not authorized" even when it plainly was.

Sampling is its own MCP capability, negotiated once per connection at
initialize, not something tools/list was ever meant to cover. This gateway
already computes that fact -- gateway.js's agentTransportSupportsSampling
(from config.agent_listen.transport) is the same signal already used to (a)
advertise `capabilities: { sampling: {} }` to each downstream server and (b)
gate whether forwardDownstreamRequestToAgent can relay a call at all.

Thread that existing fact through instead of inventing new tracking state:
- gateway.js passes it to `new GatewayProxy({ agentSupportsSampling: ... })`
- proxy.js stores it and stamps it onto every session it opens
  (session.createSession(..., { samplingNegotiated: this.agentSupportsSampling }))
- session.js carries session.samplingNegotiated through toSealableSession
- gsa-mcp-shim.js#sealBoundaryBundle now computes a model_call entry's
  `granted` from session.samplingNegotiated, leaving tools/call entries'
  granted-computation (tools/list membership) unchanged

Fixes the gap flagged in PR #29 Codex review comment 4000335132 ("Treat
sampling as a negotiated client capability"). All 226 gateway tests
(tests/gateway/*) and the gsa-mcp-shim --selftest pass unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
…ool-level errors

PR #29 review thread 4000335147 (frontier-panel review, 4/4 independent
models converged after two rounds of critique): a `tools/call` result was
previously judged only by `isError` -- a downstream that answered with
neither a recognizable success shape (`content` array) nor a recognizable
error/structured shape (`structuredContent` object, or an explicit
`isError` boolean) was recorded as a normal, non-error call, since nothing
about isError true/false was ever asserted on it.

This adds a third state to the audit model, alongside transport error and
tool-level error: `malformedResult`, computed by a small, pure,
exception-safe predicate (isMalformedToolCallResult in proxy.js), scoped
strictly to tools/call and only when the downstream actually responded
(never for sampling/createMessage, never for a transport failure). It is
audit-only -- it never changes isError, never changes the JSON-RPC
response returned to the agent, and is not a validation gate (per-content-
block schema conformance stays out of scope).

Wired through additive-only, so a well-formed call is byte-for-byte
unaffected:
- proxy.js passes `malformedResult` into session.recordCallResult
  alongside result/isError, and mirrors it into the
  `gateway_call_completed` structured log line only when true.
- session.js stores it verbatim on the call record and carries it through
  toSealableSession for gsa-mcp-shim.js to read.
- gsa-mcp-shim.js's sealBoundaryBundle folds it into the signed
  execution_trace as `malformed_result: true`, omitted entirely (not
  `false`) for a well-formed call.

Covers the converged test matrix: null/string/number/array/empty-object
results (malformed), content-array/structuredContent/isError-boolean
results (not malformed, including empty content array), isError:true with
content present (both flags coexist, malformed false), extra/unknown
fields (never trip it), a hostile getter that throws (fails open, not
malformed), scope exclusion for sampling/createMessage and transport
failures, JSON-RPC response/isError parity, and a byte-parity check that a
clean call's signed trace line carries no malformed_result key.

All 226 pre-existing gateway tests (tests/gateway/*) plus 25 new tests
(21 in tests/gateway/proxy/run-tests.js, 4 in
tests/gateway/session/run-tests.js) pass -- 251 total.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
pjpoulose added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
…s WAL/idempotency work

Resolves conflicts between PR #29's 3 new fixes (writer-claim renewal before
session seal, 256MB session-call byte cap, downstream JSON-RPC envelope
validation, sampling-granted-by-negotiated-capability fix, malformed-tool-result
flag) and PR #33's crash-recovery WAL / idempotency-intent / quarantine
mechanism, composing both feature sets rather than dropping either side:

- gateway.js: kept both new GatewayProxy constructor options
  (pendingOperatorReviewConnections/getChainIntegrityFailure from PR #33,
  agentSupportsSampling/renewWriterClaim from PR #29); kept PR #33's fix moving
  the startup-recovery summary log inside the writer-claim-release try/catch;
  extended the CALL_RESULT WAL-replay branch to also read back PR #29's new
  malformedResult field so a crash-recovered session doesn't silently lose that
  audit flag.
- proxy.js: combined both new GatewayProxy fields/doc comments; combined the
  two independent createSession() options (sessionId from PR #33, plus
  samplingNegotiated from PR #29); combined the two recordCallResult() call
  sites so the WAL-durable path also carries malformedResult through, and
  wrote it into the same CALL_RESULT WAL event PR #33 added (paired with the
  gateway.js replay-side read above); kept PR #29's writer-claim renewal
  immediately before chain.appendSession, alongside PR #33's own `{ log:
  this.log }` option on that same call.
- session.js: kept both new createSession() fields (walPoisoned from PR #33,
  totalCallBytes/samplingNegotiated from PR #29).
- gsa-mcp-shim.js: kept all three additive execution_trace fields (replayed/
  replayed_from_intent_key, jsonRpcId, malformed_result).
- tests/gateway/session/run-tests.js: kept both new test functions
  (malformedResultFlagStoredAndPropagatedToSealedTrace,
  identicalContentDifferentSessionIdsProduceDifferentBundleIds/
  sessionIdAutoGeneratedWhenNotProvided) -- both were already wired into
  main().

downstream.js and tests/gateway/proxy/run-tests.js merged automatically with
no conflicts.

Local investigation/merge-resolution only per instructions -- not pushed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85
pjpoulose added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 20, 2026
…very dir tree

Round-5 frontier-panel finding #4 (2026-09-18) was marked fixed in 4ec5a4d, but the
fix was incomplete: ensureDir's ancestor-fsync loop fsyncs every newly-created
ancestor's own CONTENTS (e.g. gateway-recovery/'s listing of active/), but never the
pre-existing PARENT's listing of the topmost newly-created ancestor (e.g. state_dir's
listing of gateway-recovery/ itself). A crash right after the very first recovery
write on a fresh state_dir could therefore still lose the gateway-recovery/ directory
entry -- the exact scenario the original fix's own doc comment claimed to prevent.

Found and independently verified while merging PR #33 onto PR #29's latest branch tip
ahead of Bug B's design work. Fixed by also fsyncing `cursor` (the first pre-existing
ancestor found by the walk-up) whenever anything was actually created under it.

New test: ensureDirFsyncsThePreexistingParentOfTheTopmostNewAncestor, spying on
fs.openSync the same way the existing fsyncdir-eio tests do.

Full suite (tests/gateway/* + tests/gsa-mcp/*): 830 passed, 0 failed (was 827/0
before this commit; +3 new).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85

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