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Summary

• The server-built BYO handoff card ran a bare commonly login. The CLI's built-in default is production (cli/src/lib/config.js, DEFAULT_INSTANCE_URL), so a card posted by a dev or self-hosted server would register the person's computer against commonly.me.
• The login line now names the server's own origin, commonly login --instance <origin>, read from PUBLIC_API_URL, then BACKEND_URL. That is the convention hostedMcpIntakeService.ts and slackOAuthService.ts already use.
• Only a plain http(s) origin is composed into the shell line. Path, query, fragment and credentials are dropped. Any other value (file:, ftp:, a host with shell characters, unparseable input) keeps the bare login.

Scope

• The v2 "Add a computer" copy already builds from getApiBaseUrl() on main (fix(byo): the computer setup command logs in to the page's instance (TASK-547) #2727), and byo-setup-command-invariant.test.ts guards v2 source. That invariant does not reach the server-built card, which this PR fixes.
• Follow-ups, not in this PR: docs-site MDX and guides.json code blocks that still show api.commonly.me, and the prod fallback literals in hostedMcpIntakeService.ts and slackOAuthService.ts for when both env vars are unset.

Review decisions

• The origin is composed on the server. The card's payload is rendered and copied verbatim, so the origin has to be in the payload. The alternative is substituting commonly login in the frontend, which edits the command text after it is built.
• BACKEND_URL is treated as the public origin. A deployment that sets it to an internal hostname gets that hostname in the line. PUBLIC_API_URL overrides it.

Evidence

• backend/__tests__/unit/services/byoHandoffService.test.ts: 9/9. Four new login-line cases: no config stays bare, BACKEND_URL on all three OSes, PUBLIC_API_URL wins and reduces to the origin, unsafe values stay bare.
• backend/__tests__/service/byo-handoff-memory.test.js: 36/36. The earlier failure was @commonlyai/seats not resolving, because cli/node_modules was empty.
• eslint on both changed files: exit 0.
• Headless Playwright on the Vite dev server (localhost:3000, API base localhost:5000, API responses stubbed): the v2 "Add a computer" copy's clipboard text equals the rendered command, and no request went to commonly.me. That checks the frontend copy path, not the server card.
• Not checked: the server-built card in a live pod. That needs the backend and a pod, and the local stack is down.

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Walkthrough

The BYO handoff payload now selects a validated API origin from PUBLIC_API_URL or BACKEND_URL. The generated login command uses that origin when available. Tests cover origin selection and the resulting login lines.

Changes: BYO handoff API origin

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Select and validate API origin backend/services/byoHandoffService.ts	The payload defaults its optional API origin to the origin parsed from PUBLIC_API_URL, or from BACKEND_URL when PUBLIC_API_URL is absent. Invalid or nonmatching values produce an empty origin.
Use API origin in login command backend/services/byoHandoffService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/byoHandoffService.test.ts	The login command adds --instance <apiOrigin> when an origin is present and remains commonly login otherwise. The payload forwards the origin for each supported operating system. Tests cover configured origins and invalid values.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#2727: Adds --instance using the page API origin to frontend setup commands.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2549: Establishes the kernel-authored local-agent handoff card generated by the native runtime.

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to e3961

IPv6 origins remain unsupported, but this preserves prior behavior. No new merge-blocking risk was identified.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: adding the server origin to the BYO handoff card login command.
Description check		The description directly explains the origin precedence, URL sanitization, affected server-built card, test evidence, and out-of-scope follow-ups.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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[lilyshen0722]

cli/BYO lane review at e39619f (Launch).

On Wren's two calls: yes to composing the origin on the server. Only the server knows which instance it answers on, and a frontend guess is how a dev card ends up registering against prod. Keeping the docs-site and guides.json blocks out of this PR is also right; they get their own PR.

Checked against the live prod backend: BACKEND_URL is the public https API origin and PUBLIC_API_URL is unset. So the prod card now reads commonly login --instance <public api origin>, which works from a person's own machine. A self-host using .env.example gets http://localhost:5000, which is correct when the CLI runs on the same host. The allowlist regex leaves only a plain http(s) origin in the shell line, and the unsafe-value test covers $(id) and file:.

One thing for the next deploy: a server whose BACKEND_URL is an in-cluster address and that has no PUBLIC_API_URL would print an unusable command. Prod isn't that server today. If one is ever added, set PUBLIC_API_URL there.

The lane passes. This review is not the code gate.

GATE: PASS

[lilyshen0722]

Code gate (Tier 1) at e39619f.

1. Plain origin only: yes. new URL(...).origin drops the path, query, fragment and userinfo, and lowercases the scheme and host. The PLAIN_ORIGIN regex (^https?://[a-z0-9.-]+(:\d{1,5})?$, anchored) is load-bearing. WHATWG URL accepts http://$(id), http://a;b and http://a`b and returns them unchanged as origins, so without the regex they would reach the shell line. A mutant that returns origin without the regex test fails the "drops a configured value" test. A throw, file:/ftp:, IPv6 literals or an invalid PUBLIC_API_URL all fall back to bare commonly login (an invalid PUBLIC_API_URL does not fall through to BACKEND_URL, which is the conservative choice).
2. No shell injection: the only characters that can reach the line are [a-z0-9.-:/], which are inert in sh/zsh, PowerShell and cmd. The only caller (nativeRuntimeService.ts:937) never passes apiOrigin, so the default publicApiOrigin() is the only source. Non-blocking: apiOrigin on buildByoHandoffPayload and buildByoHandoffCommand is an unvalidated exported parameter. A future caller passing its own value would bypass the regex. Consider validating inside buildByoHandoffCommand.
3. Env isolation: beforeEach saves and deletes PUBLIC_API_URL and BACKEND_URL, and afterEach restores both, deleting any that were unset. Nothing leaks.

Behaviour note (non-blocking, CLI-side): commonly login --instance <url> with no saved profile at that URL saves under key default and makes it active. A person whose default pointed somewhere else has it replaced. That is the intended effect for the card (the bare form targeted the active profile, which was the bug), but worth knowing for multi-instance users.

Ran: byoHandoffService.test.ts 9/9, eslint clean on both files, regex-removal mutant killed. CI is green apart from CodeRabbit, which is still in progress.

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GATE: PASS

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Follow-up Comments

Accept bracketed IPv6 origins and use double quotes for the instance.

38-51: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Accept bracketed IPv6 origins and use double quotes for the instance.

PLAIN_ORIGIN rejects valid origins such as http://[::1]:3000. publicApiOrigin() then returns an empty string, so the card emits bare commonly login and targets the CLI default instead of the configured server.

Do not use single quotes for the generated command. They work in POSIX shells and PowerShell, but Command Prompt does not treat them as quoting characters. Double quotes protect this validated origin across POSIX shells and Windows shells.

Suggested fix

-const PLAIN_ORIGIN = /^https?:\/\/[a-z0-9.-]+(:\d{1,5})?$/i;
+const PLAIN_ORIGIN = /^https?:\/\/(?:[a-z0-9.-]+|\[[0-9a-f:.]+\])(?::\d{1,5})?$/i;
...
-  const login = apiOrigin ? `commonly login --instance ${apiOrigin}` : 'commonly login';
+  const login = apiOrigin ? `commonly login --instance "${apiOrigin}"` : 'commonly login';

Update the login-line test expectations to include the double quotes and add coverage for a bracketed IPv6 origin.

The full PR base also emitted bare commonly login, so this is an uncovered valid-origin case rather than a newly introduced bare-login regression.

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Review comment at @backend/services/byoHandoffService.ts around lines 38 - 51:
Update PLAIN_ORIGIN so publicApiOrigin accepts valid bracketed IPv6 origins
while retaining validation for existing hostnames and ports. In the generated
login command, wrap the validated instance origin in double quotes, and update
the login-line tests to expect this quoting and cover a bracketed IPv6 origin.

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[lilyshen0722]

Not fixing in this PR: CodeRabbit's body point on byoHandoffService.ts:38-51.

• Quoting: not needed. PLAIN_ORIGIN only lets through [a-z0-9.-], a scheme and a port, so the origin carries nothing any shell (POSIX, PowerShell or cmd) would interpret. Adding quotes would change every card's copy for no protection gained.
• Bracketed IPv6: a server configured with an IPv6 literal falls back to a bare commonly login, which is exactly what every card printed before this PR, as the review itself notes. That's an uncovered case, not a regression. If a self-host ever needs it, it gets its own PR with a test.