Gateway: crash-recovery WAL + idempotency fencing (Option C, Codex PR #29 Findings 1+2) by pjpoulose · Pull Request #33 · SathiaAI/graphsmith

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const result = validateChain(chainEntries, head);

Renew the claim while validating the startup chain

On a sufficiently large chain, this synchronous validateChain walk can block the heartbeat beyond the 45-second staleness window. Because no onEntry callback is supplied, another same-host gateway can steal the claim while this process continues and may subsequently overwrite HEAD.json at line 901. Pass writerClaim.maybeRenew() through validateChain's existing per-entry hook and revalidate ownership before the repair write. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L101-L101

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           const effectiveTtl = typeof ttlMs === "number" ? ttlMs : DEFAULT_RETAINED_SIGNATURE_TTL_MS; 
        
           if (typeof record.completed_at !== "number" || Date.now() - record.completed_at > effectiveTtl) {

Remove wall-clock expiry from retry routing

For a cross-connection retry carrying the same caller idempotency key, this branch replays the recorded result before 24 hours but deletes it and dispatches the side effect again afterward. Thus identical persisted/request inputs take different paths solely because Date.now() advanced, potentially duplicating an email or charge when the downstream does not independently deduplicate; use an explicit deterministic lifecycle or operator decision instead of clock-based routing. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L11-L11

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           } 
        
           /* Same rationale as ensureDir's own doc comment above, for the individual WAL/intent 
        
            * files themselves: `fs.openSync(path, "a")`/atomicCreateExclusive/atomicOverwriteFile 
        
            * all default to `0666 & ~umask` (typically `0644`), which is world/group-readable under

Preserve group access when creating recovery state

Fresh evidence beyond the earlier owner-only permission thread is the later startup-permissions.js access model, which explicitly requires recovery directories/files to remain group-readable at 0750/0640. Every subsequent WAL, intent, or signature operation calls this helper and resets its directory to 0700 (with the adjacent file helper resetting records to 0600), immediately undoing the startup pass and preventing the intended other-UID ops tooling from reading newly created recovery state. Use the shared DEFAULT_DIR_MODE/DEFAULT_FILE_MODE values here. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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           this.log(JSON.stringify({ event: "gateway_intent_signature_reused_without_key", connection_id: connectionId, tool: toolName, intent_key: intentKey, generation: dispatchGeneration, detail: "a completed call's signature was reused without a matching idempotency key -- dispatched as a new, independent call rather than replayed" }));

Make the post-fence diagnostic non-throwing

When an identical completed operation is superseded, the durable intent has already been changed to dispatched before this caller-supplied logger runs. If that logger throws, execution exits before recordCallStart, the WAL append, or downstream dispatch, leaving a false in-flight fence that blocks every retry and eventually requires operator resolution for an effect that never occurred. Route this diagnostic through safeLog or emit it only after rollback-safe setup. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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           return updateIntent(stateDir, intentKey, { 
        
             state: "completed", 
        
             resolved_at: Date.now(), 
        
             resolution: "operator_confirmed_executed", 
        
             cached_result: result,

Retain operator-confirmed results for reconnect replay

When an operator resolves a crashed keyed call as executed, this updates only the connection-scoped intent. Startup then consumes that result and deletes the intent, but unlike the live completion path it never writes the connection-independent completed-signature record; a reconnect with the same caller idempotency key therefore gets a new intent key and dispatches the already-executed side effect again. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier completed-intent retention thread is that the newly added signature store is populated only by proxy.js, not by this operator-confirmed completion path. Persist the resolved result under its signature before recovery cleanup. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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           recovery.deleteWal(stateDir, connectionId); 
        
           for (const intent of recovery.listIntentsForConnection(stateDir, connectionId)) recovery.deleteIntent(stateDir, intent.intent_key);

Keep the WAL until corrupt-intent cleanup succeeds

When recovery-abandon is used after recovery encountered an unreadable or corrupt intent, this deletes the connection's WAL before listIntentsForConnection re-enters the same failing intent scan. The command therefore exits after irreversibly removing the WAL but leaves the corrupt fence behind, and every retry still fails during intent enumeration with no WAL left to quarantine or replay; an unrelated corrupt intent file can trigger the same outcome because the scan reads every record before filtering. Enumerate or quarantine the intents before deleting the WAL, or isolate corrupt files during abandonment. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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           try { 
        
             retained = recovery.readCompletedSignature(this.stateDir, recovery.computeSignatureKey(toolName, callArgs, callerIdempotencyKey)); 
        
           } catch (signatureError) { 
        
             // Fail closed, same rationale as the quarantine scan above: a retained 
        
             // signature that cannot be proven safe to use must not be replayed. 
        
             retained = null;

Block dispatch when a retained signature is unreadable

For a reconnect retry carrying the same idempotency key as a previously completed call, an EIO, permissions failure, or corrupt retained-signature file enters this catch, is converted to null, and then falls through to creation of a fresh dispatched intent and a real downstream call. That is fail-open rather than the fail-closed behavior claimed by the comment and can repeat the already-completed side effect precisely when its deduplication evidence cannot be verified. Return a blocking/operator-review response on signature-read failure instead of treating it as a cache miss. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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            * torn crash-tail and discards it AND every real, complete event appended after it. Loops 
        
            * until every byte of the encoded line has actually been written, on the same fd, before 
        
            * the fsync that is supposed to make it durable. */

Propagate real directory fsync failures

If opening or fsyncing the recovery directory fails with a real storage error such as EIO, this helper silently reports success. For a newly created WAL or intent, the file's own fsync does not guarantee that its directory entry survives power loss, so the gateway can dispatch a side effect after believing CALL_START and its fence are durable and then restart with neither record. Ignore only explicitly unsupported directory-fsync errors; propagate genuine I/O failures before dispatch. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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Codex's post-round-1 review comment raised 8 findings. Seven are fixed here; one is escalated to a human decision and deliberately left unchanged. P1 chain.js reconcileHead -- renew the claim while validating the startup chain. The startup chain walk called validateChain with no options, so unlike the status/health walk (commit 0fe5cc6) it never renewed the writer-claim lease per entry -- a long synchronous walk could outlast the 45s staleness window and let another same-host gateway steal the claim, after which reconcileHead would still write HEAD.json. Threads the caller's writerClaim through as validateChain's existing onEntry hook (validateChain's own signature and its other callers are unchanged), and adds the unconditional renew immediately before the HEAD repair write that the per-entry hook cannot cover on a 0-1 entry walk. P1 proxy.js -- block dispatch when a retained signature is unreadable. The catch around readCompletedSignature claimed to fail closed but converted the failure to null, i.e. a cache miss that fell through to a fresh dispatched intent and a real downstream call. An EIO or corrupt signature file therefore repeated an already-completed side effect exactly when its dedup evidence could not be verified. Now returns a dedicated block (-32083 GATEWAY_RETAINED_SIGNATURE_UNREADABLE), mirroring how the quarantine scan above it already fails closed. An absent or expired record still returns null (not a throw), so the blast radius is only the one (tool, arguments, idempotency key) whose evidence is damaged. P1 recovery.js resolveIntentExecuted -- retain operator-confirmed results for reconnect replay. Operator-confirmed execution updated only the connection-scoped intent; startup recovery then consumed and deleted it, so unlike proxy.js's live completion path nothing ever wrote the connection-independent completed-signature record and a reconnect with the same idempotency key dispatched the already-executed side effect again. Now persists the same signature record the live path writes, best-effort (the operator's resolution is already durable) and gated on a caller idempotency key actually being present, since proxy.js's read gate can never replay an unkeyed record. P1 recovery.js fsyncDir -- propagate real directory fsync failures. The helper swallowed every error, so a genuine EIO/ENOSPC while making a new WAL or intent's directory entry durable was reported as success -- the gateway could dispatch believing CALL_START and its fence were durable and restart to find neither. Now ignores only the cases it was written to tolerate (ENOENT, and platform/filesystem codes for "fsync on a directory fd is unsupported") and propagates everything else, before dispatch. P2 recovery.js -- preserve group access when creating recovery state. ensureDir/restrictFileMode/appendDurableLine reset recovery dirs and files to 0700/0600 on every write, undoing startup-permissions.js's group-readable access model (0750/0640) on the same paths and locking same-group ops tooling out again. Now uses the shared stateStore.DEFAULT_DIR_MODE / DEFAULT_FILE_MODE constants. The original property (never the umask-dependent world-readable 0755/0644 default) is unchanged. P2 proxy.js -- make the post-fence diagnostic non-throwing. On the supersede path the durable intent is already flipped to "dispatched" before this diagnostic is logged; a caller-supplied logger that threw was caught by the surrounding block's catch and rethrown, aborting before recordCallStart, the CALL_START WAL append and the dispatch -- leaving a false in-flight fence blocking every retry of an effect that never occurred. Routed through this file's existing safeLog wrapper. P2 gateway.js abandonConnection -- keep the WAL until corrupt-intent cleanup succeeds. recovery-abandon deleted the connection's WAL before listIntentsForConnection, which reads every intent record on disk and throws on any damaged one (including an unrelated one) -- destroying the last remaining record and then aborting, leaving the corrupt fence with nothing to quarantine or replay. Enumerates first; a failing scan now leaves the WAL intact and the command safely re-runnable. NOT fixed, escalated for a human decision (recovery.js:421-422, "remove wall-clock expiry from retry routing"): the 24h retained-signature TTL means an identical cross-connection retry replays before the window and dispatches a new side effect after it. Codex is right that this is clock-based routing, but every option (deterministic lifecycle, operator-gated expiry, unbounded retention) is an externally-visible behavior change with its own failure mode, and the bounded window is a deliberate documented decision in recovery.js's own header. Left unchanged pending that call. Tests: all 10 tests/gateway subsuites green, 714 passing / 0 failing (was 682). 32 new assertions, each mutation-checked: reverting its fix fails its test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85

pjpoulose · 2026-09-17T12:03:06Z

Round-2 review triage (automated) — 7 fixed, 1 escalated

Triage of the 8 findings in the Codex review comment posted at 2026-09-17T03:00:30Z (#issuecomment-5707804171). Fixes are in a880f6121ff97a75e20fd6c26692b782815b6afe, pushed as a single commit on top of d9fa53d9.

Fixed (7)

#	Location	Fix
P1	`chain.js` `reconcileHead`	The startup chain walk called `validateChain` with no options, so it never renewed the writer-claim lease per entry — unlike the status/health walk (`0fe5cc64`). Threads the caller's `writerClaim` through as `validateChain`'s existing `onEntry` hook. `validateChain`'s own signature and its other callers are unchanged. Also adds the unconditional renew immediately before the `HEAD.json` repair write, which the per-entry hook cannot cover on a 0–1 entry walk.
P1	`proxy.js` retained-signature read	The `catch` claimed to fail closed but set `retained = null` — a cache miss that fell through to a fresh `dispatched` intent and a real downstream call. Now returns a dedicated block, `-32083 GATEWAY_RETAINED_SIGNATURE_UNREADABLE`, mirroring how the quarantine scan directly above it already fails closed.
P1	`recovery.js` `resolveIntentExecuted`	Operator-confirmed execution updated only the connection-scoped intent, so the connection-independent completed-signature record was never written and a reconnect replayed the side effect. Now persists the same signature record the live path writes — best-effort (the operator's resolution is already durable), gated on a caller idempotency key actually being present since `proxy.js`'s read gate can never replay an unkeyed record.
P1	`recovery.js` `fsyncDir`	Swallowed every error, so a genuine `EIO`/`ENOSPC` on a new WAL/intent's directory entry was reported as success. Now ignores only what the helper was written to tolerate (`ENOENT`, plus the platform codes for "fsync on a directory fd is unsupported") and propagates everything else, before dispatch.
P2	`recovery.js` dir/file modes	`ensureDir`/`restrictFileMode`/`appendDurableLine` reset recovery state to `0700`/`0600` on every write, undoing `startup-permissions.js`'s group-readable model (`0750`/`0640`) on the same paths. Now uses the shared `stateStore.DEFAULT_DIR_MODE`/`DEFAULT_FILE_MODE`. The original property — never the umask-dependent world-readable `0755`/`0644` — is unchanged. `KNOWN-LIMITATIONS.md`'s now-stale sentence was corrected with it.
P2	`proxy.js:651` post-fence diagnostic	A throwing caller-supplied logger was caught by the surrounding block's `catch` and rethrown, aborting before `recordCallStart`, the `CALL_START` WAL append and the dispatch — stranding a false in-flight fence. Routed through this file's existing `safeLog`.
P2	`gateway.js` `abandonConnection`	`recovery-abandon` deleted the WAL before `listIntentsForConnection`, which reads every intent on disk and throws on any damaged one. Enumerates first; a failing scan now leaves the WAL intact and the command safely re-runnable (the bundle is already sealed, so a retry takes the content-verified `bundle_id`-collision path).

Rejected (0)

None — all 8 findings were judged accurate as described.

Escalated to Paul (1)

P1 recovery.js:421-422 — "remove wall-clock expiry from retry routing." The diagnosis is correct: an identical cross-connection retry replays the recorded result inside the 24h retained-signature window and dispatches a new side effect outside it, so the routing decision turns on Date.now() rather than on inputs. Not fixed here because every available option is an externally-visible behavior change with its own failure mode, and the bounded retention window is a deliberate, documented decision in recovery.js's own header:

Extend or remove the TTL. Cheapest, but an unbounded store means a "this once succeeded" fact stays replayable forever — the exact outcome the current header argues against — and the signature directory grows without a reclaim path.
Deterministic lifecycle (explicit terminal state instead of expiry). Removes the clock from routing entirely, but needs a new state transition and a defined owner for retiring a record, i.e. real design work on the recovery state machine rather than a narrow patch.
Operator-gated expiry (an expired record blocks and asks, rather than silently re-dispatching). Safest against duplicate charges/emails, but converts a currently-silent path into one that can halt a retry pending a human, with a real availability cost.

The right answer depends on whether GraphSmith's downstreams are assumed to dedupe independently — a product call, not a code call. Flagging rather than guessing.

Verification

Full gateway suite, all 10 subsuites under tests/gateway/*/run-tests.js:

[0] tests/gateway/chain/run-tests.js               :: SUMMARY passed=106 failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/config/run-tests.js              :: SUMMARY passed=19  failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/downstream/run-tests.js          :: SUMMARY passed=24  failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/e2e/run-tests.js                 :: SUMMARY passed=70  failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/lifecycle/run-tests.js           :: SUMMARY passed=17  failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/mode-gate/run-tests.js           :: SUMMARY passed=11  failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/proxy/run-tests.js               :: SUMMARY passed=152 failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js            :: SUMMARY passed=234 failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/session/run-tests.js             :: SUMMARY passed=49  failed=0 skipped=0
[0] tests/gateway/startup-permissions/run-tests.js :: SUMMARY passed=32  failed=0 skipped=0
TOTAL PASSED=714  SUBSUITES_FAILING=0

714 passing, 0 failing (was 682 — 32 new assertions). tests/state-store/*, tests/verify/triage, tests/audit-replay, tests/reconcile and tests/harness-honesty/lease-determinism were also re-run green, since chain.js and state-store constants are shared.

Each fix is mutation-checked — reverting it individually makes its own new test fail:

chain onEntry + pre-write renew  -> FAIL reconcile-renews-the-claim-once-per-chain-entry-not-only-once-before-the-walk (expected 6, got 1)
                                 -> FAIL reconcile-renews-the-claim-immediately-before-the-head-repair-write (expected 4, got 1)
                                 -> FAIL reconcile-mid-walk-lease-loss-leaves-head-untouched
proxy fail-closed signature      -> FAIL unreadable-retained-signature-fails-closed-with-its-own-code
                                 -> FAIL unreadable-retained-signature-did-not-dispatch-downstream
operator-confirmed signature     -> FAIL operator-confirmed-executed-writes-the-completed-signature
fsyncDir propagation             -> FAIL directory-fsync-eio-propagates-instead-of-reporting-success
recovery dir/file modes          -> FAIL recovery-wal-file-is-0640 (600) / recovery-active-dir-is-0750 (700)
safeLog on the supersede path    -> uncaught logger throw crashes the runner (the stranded-fence bug itself)
abandon ordering                 -> FAIL abandon-intent-scan-failure-leaves-the-wal-intact

No review threads were resolved and nothing was merged — both are left for the human reviewer.

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… findings) Round 3 of the PR #33 AI-review loop. Seven findings fixed; three rejected as already-fixed/not-applicable and answered on their threads instead (see the PR). 1. recovery.js intent writes / state-store.js atomic primitives -- Codex "write the entire intent record before dispatching". atomicCreateExclusive and atomicOverwriteFile each made exactly ONE fs.writeSync call before fsyncing and linking/renaming the result into place. fs.writeSync may write fewer bytes than requested, so a short write PUBLISHED a truncated file while returning success -- createIntentIfAbsent then handed proxy.js a valid-looking record and the downstream side effect dispatched against an intent fence that was invalid JSON on disk. Added state-store.js#writeFullySync (the same loop-until-written pattern recovery.js's WAL helper already uses) and routed both primitives through it. 2. chain.js + proxy.js runtime creation modes -- Codex "enforce modes when creating post-startup session files". startup-permissions.js runs once, at startup, over paths that already exist. gateway-sessions/ and chain.jsonl are created later by chain.js, and the sealed-bundle quarantine dir/file later still, only when an append fails -- all with umask-derived 0755/0644 (world-readable) modes. Pass the same explicit DEFAULT_DIR_MODE/DEFAULT_FILE_MODE at each runtime creation site. 3. gateway.js#doStop -- Codex "prevent shutdown diagnostics from aborting claim release". The caller-supplied `log` callback may throw; doStop called it directly (including from the per-connection close-failure handler added in an earlier round), so a throwing logger rejected doStop before writerClaim.release() ever ran and left an embedding process renewing an orphaned claim. All shutdown diagnostics now go through a local non-throwing wrapper, and the release sits in a finally covering the whole body. 4. proxy.js#closeConnection -- Codex "continue sealing when the closing WAL append fails". The CLOSING appendWalEvent was the last unguarded one on this path and runs AFTER the session is removed from both live maps, so a throw there left a completed, healthy session permanently absent from the signed chain with nothing left to retry from. CLOSING is informational for replay, so the failure now poisons the WAL (C1 S2), attests itself as an anomaly, and falls through to finalization. 5. recovery.js#quarantineWal -- Codex "fsync both directories after quarantining a WAL". recovery-abandon's active/ -> quarantine/ rename is the durable save point it reports success on, but rename(2) only mutates two directory entries; neither is durable until its parent directory's fd is fsynced. Both are now fsynced via the existing fsyncDir. 6+7. proxy.js cached-replay branch -- Codex "persist cached replays in the session trace" and "emit one log line for each replayed step" (one code path, solved together). An idempotency-key cache hit returned the cached result without recordCallStart/ recordCallResult or either WAL append, so the agent observed a successful tools/call that appeared in neither the clean-close nor the crash-recovered signed trace -- while emitting TWO log lines for that one step. It is now recorded as a real, ordered step explicitly MARKED as a replay (an optional `replayed` marker carried through session.js exactly like the pre-existing `disconnected` one, and through the WAL so crash recovery reconstructs the same shape), and emits exactly one gateway_call_completed line carrying the replay metadata as fields. 8. recovery.js#sweepExpiredSignatures -- Codex "sweep expired completed-signature records" AND CodeRabbit "sweep expired completed signatures" (the same finding from both reviewers, fixed once). The advertised 24h retention was only enforced per-key on read, so signatures for calls with unique arguments were never revisited and never deleted, growing the state volume without bound. Added a bounded, best-effort sweep (capped entries per pass, expiry decided by the same completed_at field readCompletedSignature uses) called from startup recovery, where both reviewers asked for it; a sweep failure never blocks startup. Tests: 754 passing, 0 failing across all 10 gateway subsuites (was 714). Each of the seven fixes has a new test that was mutation-verified to fail when the fix is reverted. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85

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} catch (signatureError) {

Require durable cross-session replay before cleanup

When a keyed tool call succeeds but recordCompletedSignature fails—for example because the signatures directory has a localized permission or I/O fault—this catch still returns the successful result, and closeConnection later deletes the primary completed intent. If the agent-facing transport drops that response and the agent reconnects with the same idempotency key, neither replay record remains, so the downstream side effect is dispatched again. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier retention thread is that the replacement cross-session record is explicitly best-effort while cleanup is unconditional; retain the primary intent or fail closed until the cross-session copy is durable. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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           for (const name of entries) { 
        
             if (scanned >= maxEntries) break;

Rotate bounded signature sweeps

Once this directory exceeds maxEntries, every startup scans only the same unspecified readdirSync prefix because no cursor, rotation, or age ordering is retained. If that prefix contains live records while expired records fall later, the sweep removes nothing and repeats the same subset on subsequent restarts; workloads creating more than 5,000 signatures per retention interval can therefore accumulate an unbounded expired backlog despite the advertised TTL. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier sweep thread is this non-progressing bound; persist a cursor, sweep oldest entries first, or run bounded batches until progress covers the directory. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L76-L76

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           fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true, mode: stateStore.DEFAULT_DIR_MODE }); 
        
           const target = path.join(dir, `${connectionId}-${Date.now()}.json`); 
        
           fs.writeFileSync(target, JSON.stringify({ sealed, quarantined_at: new Date().toISOString(), reason: cause && cause.message }, null, 2), { encoding: "utf8", flag: "wx", mode: stateStore.DEFAULT_FILE_MODE });

Reapply modes after umask-masked creation

With a hardened process umask such as 0077, POSIX masks these requested modes to 0700 and 0600; unlike the shared atomic primitives, this raw creation path never calls chmod/fchmod afterward. Because quarantine files are created after the one-time startup permission pass, same-group operations tooling cannot inspect the bundle during the failure that produced it and access is not restored until a restart. Fresh evidence after the earlier mode fix is that its tests use only umask 0022; explicitly reapply the configured modes after creating the directory and file. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

graphsmith/scripts/gateway/session.js

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           const existingHash = existingBundle.manifest && existingBundle.manifest.artifacts && existingBundle.manifest.artifacts.execution_trace && existingBundle.manifest.artifacts.execution_trace.sha256; 
        
           const newHash = sealed.bundle.manifest && sealed.bundle.manifest.artifacts && sealed.bundle.manifest.artifacts.execution_trace && sealed.bundle.manifest.artifacts.execution_trace.sha256; 
        
           return Boolean(existingHash) && existingHash === newHash;

Compare every artifact before accepting a bundle collision

Matching only execution_trace does not prove the existing bundle is the same recovered session: the goal and anomaly-bearing decision record are separate artifacts, and an empty or otherwise identical call trace can accompany different values in either. This is reachable for the explicitly supported pre-session_id WALs, where two sessions with the same initialize/tools/call count still share a bundle ID; recovery can therefore accept the first session's chain entry as the second's and delete the second WAL permanently. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier collision fix is this partial-content comparison; compare all artifact hashes needed to establish bundle equality before cleanup. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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isError: c.isError,

Preserve the replay marker in the signed trace

Although this newly adds replayed to the intermediate sealable call, sealBoundaryBundle reconstructs each execution_trace line from selected fields and never copies replayed or replayed_from_intent_key. Consequently a cached result is signed as indistinguishable from a fresh downstream dispatch, contrary to the stated purpose of the marker. Fresh evidence after the earlier replay-trace thread is that the marker stops at toSealableSession; carry it into the signed artifact. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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           logCompletion(true); 
        
           log(`Refusing to return a downstream-initiated sampling/createMessage result: its CALL_RESULT could not be durably recorded (${walError.message}).`);

Collapse WAL-failure diagnostics into the completion log

When a sampling result is received but its CALL_RESULT WAL append fails, these consecutive calls emit both gateway_call_completed and a plain refusal diagnostic for the same step; the rejection branch repeats the pattern with its WAL-failure diagnostic before logCompletion(true). Consumers counting step logs therefore double-count exactly these failure paths, recreating the one-line-per-step regression already fixed elsewhere in this PR. Fold the WAL failure detail into the structured completion record instead. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L14-L14

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fs.unlinkSync(walPath(stateDir, connectionId));

Fsync the active directory after deleting a WAL

This unlink is treated as completed cleanup without fsyncing active/, while the subsequent completed-intent deletions do fsync their own directory. After a power loss, the intent deletion can therefore remain durable while the WAL entry reappears; if that WAL lacks CALL_RESULT because the live path used the completed intent as its fallback, recovery sees an unresolved CALL_START, has no intent left to prove its result, and blocks the already-sealed connection for operator review before reaching bundle-collision cleanup. Fsync the WAL's parent directory before reporting cleanup complete. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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             headForEmptyCheck = null; // malformed HEAD.json collapses to null, same as validateChain's own doc. 
        
           } 
        
           if (headForEmptyCheck === null) { 
        
             return { action: "none", reason: "empty chain -- nothing to reconcile" };

Refuse a malformed HEAD when the chain is empty

When chain.jsonl is absent or empty but an existing HEAD.json is malformed or unreadable, this catch converts the error to null and the following branch returns “empty chain—nothing to reconcile.” Startup therefore accepts and can dispatch new sessions even though the first eventual append calls strict readHead and fails, leaving those effects unable to enter the session chain. Preserve the read failure or file-presence distinction and hard-fail startup instead of treating this state as a clean genesis. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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🟡 Minor · Print SKIP records as SKIP. · run-tests.js:45

tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js:45
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Print SKIP records as SKIP.

Line 167 now records a SKIP on Windows. record() prints every non-PASS status as FAIL. A passing Windows run therefore emits a false failure line.

Proposed fix

-  console.log(status === "PASS" ? `PASS ${name}` : `FAIL ${name}+${reason || "unknown"}`);
+  console.log(status === "FAIL" ? `FAIL ${name}+${reason || "unknown"}` : `${status} ${name}`);

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In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js` at line 45, Update the record() output
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printed with their respective status and test name without being reported as
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Inline comments:
In `@checks/register-gateway-sessions.js`:
- Around line 253-254: Update the validateChain call to normalize ctx.head
through headShapeOk: pass the original head only when it is shape-valid,
otherwise pass null. Preserve shape-valid pointers for head-not-ancestor
classification and retain the existing validateOptions behavior.

In `@scripts/gateway/chain.js`:
- Line 930: Make the pre-repair-write ownership check unconditional: add a
helper near renewClaim that prefers writerClaim.renew() and falls back to
maybeRenew(), then call it instead of renewClaim() immediately before
atomicOverwriteFile. Keep renewClaim() unchanged for per-entry renewal hooks.
- Around line 866-872: Update reconcileHead’s empty-chain handling to
distinguish an absent HEAD.json from a present but unreadable or invalid one:
preserve the existing { action: "none" } result only when readHead returns null,
but treat readHead failures as a structural failure by latching chain integrity,
throwing the established gateway structural-failure error, and including the
existing HEAD_FILE and CHAIN_CORRUPTION_RUNBOOK context.

In `@scripts/gateway/proxy.js`:
- Around line 1161-1163: Update the poisoned-WAL branch in handleMessage to use
safeLog instead of this.log for the gateway_wal_append_skipped_poisoned
CALL_RESULT event, preserving the existing payload and anomaly recording.

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In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js`:
- Line 45: Update the record() output logic so status "FAIL" includes the
failure reason, while "PASS" and "SKIP" are printed with their respective status
and test name without being reported as failures.

---

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In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js`:
- Around line 62-66: Update the comment near the sha256Hex(JSON.stringify(...))
explanation to include a resolvable KnoSky citation supporting its claims, or
explicitly label the statement as inferred if no citation is available; preserve
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🟡 Minor · Print SKIP records as SKIP. · run-tests.js:45

tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js:45
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Print SKIP records as SKIP.

Line 167 now records a SKIP on Windows. record() prints every non-PASS status as FAIL. A passing Windows run therefore emits a false failure line.

Proposed fix

-  console.log(status === "PASS" ? `PASS ${name}` : `FAIL ${name}+${reason || "unknown"}`);
+  console.log(status === "FAIL" ? `FAIL ${name}+${reason || "unknown"}` : `${status} ${name}`);

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In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js` at line 45, Update the record() output
logic so status "FAIL" includes the failure reason, while "PASS" and "SKIP" are
printed with their respective status and test name without being reported as
failures.

🟡 Minor · An unreadable HEAD.json with an empty chain is reported as "nothing to… · chain.js:866-872

scripts/gateway/chain.js:866-872
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An unreadable HEAD.json with an empty chain is reported as "nothing to reconcile".

In this branch a readHead throw (invalid JSON, or a shape-check failure) is collapsed to null, so reconcileHead returns { action: "none" } and startup continues. The malformed HEAD.json stays on disk. appendSession calls readHead(stateDir) directly at Line 231, which throws CORRUPT_GATEWAY_CHAIN before the HEAD/tail check runs, so every later session fails to seal while startup reported success.

Distinguish "absent" from "present but unreadable" here. Treat the unreadable case as a structural failure so startup hard-fails with the runbook pointer, per §4 of docs/contracts/chain-validity.md.

🔧 Proposed fix

   if (chainEntries.length === 0) {
     let headForEmptyCheck = null;
+    let headUnreadable = false;
     try {
       headForEmptyCheck = readHead(stateDir);
     } catch (error) {
-      headForEmptyCheck = null; // malformed HEAD.json collapses to null, same as validateChain's own doc.
+      headUnreadable = true;
     }
+    if (headUnreadable) {
+      _latchChainIntegrityFailure({ status: "refuse", class: "empty-chain-with-head", reason: `${HEAD_FILE} exists but cannot be read as a valid pointer while chain.jsonl has no entries` });
+      throw fail(
+        `${HEAD_FILE} exists but cannot be read as a valid pointer while chain.jsonl has no entries -- refusing to start ` +
+          `rather than leave a HEAD every later append will fail on. See ${CHAIN_CORRUPTION_RUNBOOK} for the recovery procedure.`,
+        "GATEWAY_CHAIN_STRUCTURAL_FAILURE"
+      );
+    }
     if (headForEmptyCheck === null) {
       return { action: "none", reason: "empty chain -- nothing to reconcile" };
     }

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In `@scripts/gateway/chain.js` around lines 866 - 872, Update reconcileHead’s
empty-chain handling to distinguish an absent HEAD.json from a present but
unreadable or invalid one: preserve the existing { action: "none" } result only
when readHead returns null, but treat readHead failures as a structural failure
by latching chain integrity, throwing the established gateway structural-failure
error, and including the existing HEAD_FILE and CHAIN_CORRUPTION_RUNBOOK
context.

🟡 Minor · The pre-write ownership check is time-gated, not unconditional. · chain.js:930

scripts/gateway/chain.js:930
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The pre-write ownership check is time-gated, not unconditional.

renewClaim() calls writerClaim.maybeRenew() whenever that method exists, and a real WriterClaim.maybeRenew() returns without renewing while less than heartbeatMs has elapsed since the last renewal. The comment above this call, and gateway.js's convention for chain-mutating writes (leaseGuard.renew() immediately before chain.appendSession), both require an unconditional renewal at this point. On a short chain the pre-walk renewal has just run, so this call performs no renewal at all and the HEAD repair write proceeds without a fresh ownership check.

Use an unconditional renew() for this one call site and keep maybeRenew() for the per-entry hook.
🔧 Proposed fix
   const renewClaim = () => {
     if (writerClaim && typeof writerClaim.maybeRenew === "function") writerClaim.maybeRenew();
     else if (writerClaim && typeof writerClaim.renew === "function") writerClaim.renew();
   };
+  const renewClaimUnconditionally = () => {
+    if (writerClaim && typeof writerClaim.renew === "function") writerClaim.renew();
+    else if (writerClaim && typeof writerClaim.maybeRenew === "function") writerClaim.maybeRenew();
+  };
-  renewClaim();
+  renewClaimUnconditionally();
   stateStore.atomicOverwriteFile(headPath(stateDir), JSON.stringify(newHead), sessionsDir(stateDir));
Note that tests/gateway/chain/run-tests.js#reconcileHeadRenewsTheClaimAgainImmediatelyBeforeTheRepairWrite injects a plain maybeRenew counter, so it cannot distinguish the two behaviors.
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In `@scripts/gateway/chain.js` at line 930, Make the pre-repair-write ownership
check unconditional: add a helper near renewClaim that prefers
writerClaim.renew() and falls back to maybeRenew(), then call it instead of
renewClaim() immediately before atomicOverwriteFile. Keep renewClaim() unchanged
for per-entry renewal hooks.

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tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js (1)
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In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js` around lines 62 - 66, Update the comment
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Inline comments:
In `@checks/register-gateway-sessions.js`:
- Around line 253-254: Update the validateChain call to normalize ctx.head
through headShapeOk: pass the original head only when it is shape-valid,
otherwise pass null. Preserve shape-valid pointers for head-not-ancestor
classification and retain the existing validateOptions behavior.

In `@scripts/gateway/proxy.js`:
- Around line 1161-1163: Update the poisoned-WAL branch in handleMessage to use
safeLog instead of this.log for the gateway_wal_append_skipped_poisoned
CALL_RESULT event, preserving the existing payload and anomaly recording.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@scripts/gateway/chain.js`:
- Around line 866-872: Update reconcileHead’s empty-chain handling to
distinguish an absent HEAD.json from a present but unreadable or invalid one:
preserve the existing { action: "none" } result only when readHead returns null,
but treat readHead failures as a structural failure by latching chain integrity,
throwing the established gateway structural-failure error, and including the
existing HEAD_FILE and CHAIN_CORRUPTION_RUNBOOK context.
- Line 930: Make the pre-repair-write ownership check unconditional: add a
helper near renewClaim that prefers writerClaim.renew() and falls back to
maybeRenew(), then call it instead of renewClaim() immediately before
atomicOverwriteFile. Keep renewClaim() unchanged for per-entry renewal hooks.

In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js`:
- Line 45: Update the record() output logic so status "FAIL" includes the
failure reason, while "PASS" and "SKIP" are printed with their respective status
and test name without being reported as failures.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/gateway/recovery/run-tests.js`:
- Around line 62-66: Update the comment near the sha256Hex(JSON.stringify(...))
explanation to include a resolvable KnoSky citation supporting its claims, or
explicitly label the statement as inferred if no citation is available; preserve
the existing explanation and test behavior.

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Round 4 of the PR #33 AI-review loop, on the genuine current tip (af4fe34). CodeRabbit had not actually re-reviewed rounds 2 or 3's commits before this round -- only Codex was re-triggered after those pushes -- so this round first explicitly triggered @coderabbitai review on af4fe34 before trusting any "no more comments" conclusion. That review surfaced 2 new, valid findings: 1. checks/register-gateway-sessions.js (C2 row 3/4 HEAD normalization): the validateChain call site passed ctx.head straight through without routing it through this module's own local headShapeOk() first, unlike chain.js's internal classifyHeadAgainstTail (which only ever checks head === null). A shape-invalid-but-non-null head object was therefore misclassified instead of being treated as absent. Fixed by gating on headShapeOk(ctx.head) ? ctx.head : null before the validateChain call. 2. scripts/gateway/proxy.js (WAL-poisoned CALL_RESULT diagnostic log): the this.log(...) call inside the `if (s.walPoisoned)` branch of the tools/call CALL_RESULT WAL-append handling runs AFTER the downstream call has already completed successfully -- exactly the position its own sibling catch-block call (right below) already uses this.safeLog for, per the existing "Codex PR #33 review 'use safeLog once the downstream call already completed'" comment. Switched this.log to this.safeLog so a throwing logger can no longer turn an already-earned response into an escaped exception. Both fixes are narrow and mechanical, matching the AI-review-loop skill's "evaluate before you fix" bar. Full gateway + state-store test suite (872 tests) re-run and green with both fixes applied. Also closes a process gap found while auditing all 30 unresolved bot threads on PR #33 before this round: round 1's own fix for the recovery.js:171 finding (commit 7932754) was never actually replied to on GitHub -- posted the missing reply this round, no code change needed there. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85

…part 2/2) Follow-up to round 4 (563f3aa), found while confirming CodeRabbit's fresh re-verification of the recovery.js:171 thread rather than trusting my own reply there at face value. CodeRabbit re-checked the original "create recovery files with mode 0o600 at creation" finding against the current code and reported it only half-fixed: the WAL side (recovery.js's appendDurableLine, commit 7932754) is correct, but state-store.js's atomicCreateExclusive still opens both its temporary file and -- on a filesystem without hard-link support (EPERM/ENOSYS/EXDEV/EOPNOTSUPP/ ENOTSUP) -- the final targetPath itself via a bare fs.openSync(target, flag) with no explicit mode, relying solely on the fchmodSync applied afterward to narrow it. For the temporary file that window is latent (unguessable name), but for the no-hard-link fallback, which writes directly to the predictable, discoverable targetPath, it is a real gap: under a permissive umask, another local user could read a freshly-created intent/WAL record before applyFileMode narrows it moments later. Fixed by passing the resolved mode to fs.openSync's own creation-time mode argument in atomicCreateExclusive's writeTo helper (mirroring the WAL fix's own approach), while keeping the existing fchmodSync call unconditionally as belt-and-braces and as the sole enforcement point for a caller that opts out via {mode: null}. Verified against the existing atomic-primitives regression suite (umask 0, umask 022, mode:null opt-out, and the 5-error-code no-hard-link fallback cases all still pass unchanged) plus a full re-run of the gateway + state-store suites, both green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CNWPgMQ5chbPrTw9Kc6B85

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scripts/state-store.js (1)
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Add KnoSky citations for changed source-code assertions.

The changed comments make claims about existing code or contracts without resolvable KnoSky citations. Add a citation to the live source path, or label the claim as inferred.

scripts/state-store.js#L323-L336: cite the referenced scripts/gateway/recovery.js behavior and historical assertion, or mark them inferred.

checks/register-gateway-sessions.js#L254-L255: cite the C2 HEAD-normalization contract, or mark the claim inferred.

As per coding guidelines: “Claims about existing code must include a resolvable KnoSky citation to the real file path; otherwise label the claim as inferred.”
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In `@scripts/state-store.js` around lines 323 - 336, Update the comments at
scripts/state-store.js lines 323-336 to add resolvable KnoSky citations for the
referenced recovery.js appendDurableLine behavior and historical assertion, or
label those claims as inferred. Update checks/register-gateway-sessions.js lines
254-255 similarly by citing the C2 HEAD-normalization contract or marking it
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- Around line 323-336: Update the comments at scripts/state-store.js lines
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graphsmith/scripts/gateway/session.js

Line 1274 in b351f92

    
           for (const intent of recovery.listIntentsForConnection(this.stateDir, connectionId)) {

Tear down HTTP sessions when intent scans fail

When any intent file is corrupt or unreadable—even one belonging to another connection—listIntentsForConnection throws before this session is removed from the proxy maps. The HTTP sealSession path has already removed its transport entry and swallows the rejection (scripts/gateway/agent-transport.js:257-263), so DELETE or idle timeout leaves an unreachable proxy session and WAL while still returning success; repeated closes can accumulate unbounded ghost sessions and omit them from the signed chain. Ensure failed close attempts remove/quarantine the live session while preserving its WAL for recovery. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

Line 355 in b351f92

    
           ...(c.replayed ? { replayed: true, replayed_from_intent_key: c.replayed_from_intent_key } : {}),

Carry replay metadata into the signed trace

For a cached retry, this marker reaches the intermediate sealable session but sealBoundaryBundle rebuilds each execution-trace record from a fixed field list (scripts/gsa-mcp-shim.js:48-58) that omits both replayed and replayed_from_intent_key. The signed artifact therefore presents a cache replay as an ordinary downstream execution, defeating the new audit distinction. Fresh evidence after the earlier replay-trace thread is that the current shim still strips these fields; include them in the signed execution-trace record. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

Line 923 in b351f92

const swept = recovery.sweepExpiredSignatures(stateDir);

Sweep retained signatures while the gateway stays up

Fresh evidence after the earlier retention thread is that a repo-wide search finds this as the only production call to sweepExpiredSignatures, and it runs only once during startup recovery. A gateway that remains up beyond the 24-hour TTL while handling unique tool arguments still creates one signature file per success, and those keys are never read again, so expired raw arguments/results accumulate until a restart and can exhaust the state volume. Run the bounded sweep periodically, not only at startup. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L76-L76

Line 151 in b351f92

fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true, mode: stateStore.DEFAULT_DIR_MODE });

Fsync newly created recovery-directory ancestors

On a fresh state directory, this recursive mkdirSync may create both gateway-recovery/ and its child directory, but subsequent writes fsync only the child directory containing the WAL or intent file. Fsyncing active/ makes its file entry durable but does not make the new active/ entry in gateway-recovery/, or the new gateway-recovery/ entry in state_dir, durable; a power loss after dispatch can therefore lose the entire WAL/fence hierarchy despite appendWalEvent having returned success. Track newly created directories and fsync each parent up through the existing state directory before treating the record as durable. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

Lines 863 to 865 in b351f92

    
           try { 
        
             recovery.appendWalEvent(this.stateDir, connectionId, { type: "CALL_START", call_seq: replayCallSeq, tool: toolName, server: serverName, arguments: callArgs, ts: replayTs, generation: dispatchGeneration, replayed: true }); 
        
             recovery.appendWalEvent(this.stateDir, connectionId, { type: "CALL_RESULT", call_seq: replayCallSeq, result: intentDecision.cachedResult, isError: false, ts: replayTs, generation: dispatchGeneration, replayed: true, intent_key: intentKey });

Recover a replay that crashes between its WAL records

A cached replay is saved as two separately fsynced WAL appends, so a crash or second-append failure after this CALL_START leaves a pending replay step. Recovery ignores startedFrom.replayed and resolves pending calls only through the connection-scoped intent (gateway.js:1087-1119): a cross-connection signature replay has no intent under the new connection, while a same-connection replay of a later generation is tagged with the default generation 1 here. Both cases are consequently halted for operator review even though the cached result was already proven and available; persist enough signature/generation data for recovery to finish this replay safely. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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

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fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true, mode: stateStore.DEFAULT_DIR_MODE });

Enforce runtime modes independently of the umask

Passing 0750 to mkdirSync does not guarantee that mode because the process umask still masks requested bits; under a common hardened 077 umask this directory is created as 0700 (and chain.jsonl as 0600). Since the startup permission pass already ran before these paths existed, same-group operations tooling cannot inspect the new chain until the next restart, contrary to the declared group-readable access model. The quarantine directory/file creation in proxy.js:51-53 has the same defect; explicitly chmod after creation as recovery.ensureDir and the atomic state-store primitives do. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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log(

Release the claim when recovery-summary logging throws

When startup recovery leaves at least one connection pending operator review and the caller-supplied logger throws on this summary, the exception occurs after the guarded recoverCrashedSessions block and before any later startup cleanup. startGateway therefore rejects while the writer claim and its heartbeat remain active, so an embedding process can indefinitely block every replacement gateway. Include this diagnostic in the claim-release guard or route it through a non-throwing logger. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

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const chainEntries = readChainForValidation(stateDir);

Renew the lease while loading the chain

Fresh evidence after the earlier per-entry lease-renewal threads is that the entire chain.jsonl is synchronously read, split, and JSON-parsed here before the first renewClaim() at line 893 or any per-entry hook runs. For a sufficiently large chain this phase can itself exceed staleAfterMs while the event-loop heartbeat is blocked; a concurrent gateway can steal the apparently stale claim, causing this startup to lose ownership only after the unbounded load completes. Load incrementally with renewal checkpoints, or renew and revalidate around bounded chunks rather than only during the subsequent validation walk. Inferring from live files because KnoSky was unavailable.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L101-L101