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Problem

An ordinary shutdown of a CLI-linked server deletes its managed tunnel and saved connector configuration. The next start must provision a replacement and wait for its route to propagate. This replaces #20390 with the verification requested in its closing comment.

Change

Keep the tunnel and saved configuration when the server stops, allowing the existing recovery registration to reuse them on restart. Remove the update-only shutdown markers that this makes unnecessary. Enable the existing relay sweep for recoverable tunnels by default so idle allocations still expire. Explicit off and dry-run settings remain supported, legacy cleanup still defaults to off, and explicit unlink retains its deletion path.

Scope and approval

This carries forward the lifecycle change from #20390. Delayed cleanup replaces eager shutdown deletion for the same allocations, rather than adding another cleanup mechanism. The desktop and launcher changes remove the exceptions previously needed to preserve tunnels during updates. The linked closure requested a fresh PR with reproduction and verification evidence. It did not separately approve the cleanup-default change, which remains a maintainer decision.

Verification

Linux x86_64, Node 26.13.0 from a Nix shell, Vite+ 1.4.0, base 5fe18d79ac83.

• vp test run apps/server/src/server.lifecycle.test.ts runs the actual CLI through startup, graceful shutdown, and restart using a temporary T3 home, a local HTTP relay fixture, and a connector subprocess fixture. It waits for registration and process-exit events, checks that shutdown preserves the connector token and confirmed origin, and checks that restart registers the same tunnel without provisioning or deleting one. Against the original server/contract modules from 5fe18d79ac83, it fails after the first shutdown because the relay receives DELETE /v1/client/environment-links/env_123/tunnel. It passes with this fix.
• The restored configuration cases also failed on the base for missing, empty, and whitespace cleanup settings, receiving off instead of enabled.
• vp test run apps/server/src/cloud/CloudLink.lifecycle.test.ts apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.test.ts apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.test.ts passed all 72 tests. The focused relay configuration, reaper, and provider suites also passed, covering grace periods, ownership and replacement guards, dry-run, legacy cleanup, and deprovisioning. The reaper fixture omits the cleanup setting by default, so its existing deletion cases exercise the service default.
• vp run check:changed upstream/main passed formatting, lint, both knip passes, generated API checks, all 35 affected package typechecks, and 105 tests across eight files.

No live T3 state or credentials were used. Live Cloudflare routing and propagation, a deployed cleanup sweep against Postgres, native desktop update installation, and live web/mobile reconnection were not checked. Existing confirmed-origin and relay-unavailable fallback behavior is unchanged.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Server shutdown now preserves managed tunnels, while relay cleanup changes from off to enabled by default. Human review is required to confirm these defaults, particularly automatic reclamation of inactive tunnels in existing deployments.

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Walkthrough

Server shutdown no longer releases managed tunnels, and desktop update handling no longer uses restart-marker files. Install records remain in use. Relay managed-endpoint cleanup now defaults to enabled, while the legacy cleanup mode defaults to off.

Changes: Managed tunnel lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Desktop update record handling apps/desktop/src/updates/*, packages/contracts/src/desktopBootstrap.ts	Desktop update installation no longer writes restart markers. Install-record creation creates the runtime directory recursively, and interruption and failure tests check install-record cleanup.
Server tunnel retention and recovery apps/server/src/cloud/*, apps/server/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/serviceLauncher.ts, apps/server/src/server.lifecycle.test.ts	Server shutdown no longer releases managed tunnels or uses stop-marker and update-handoff checks. Lifecycle tests start the server twice and verify recovery registration and retained tunnel configuration.
Relay cleanup default and configuration infra/relay/src/Config*, infra/relay/src/environments/ManagedEndpointReaper*, infra/relay/.env.example, docs/internals/t3-connect.md, docs/operations/release.md	The managed endpoint cleanup mode defaults to enabled; the legacy mode defaults to off. Tests and documentation describe the defaults and supported modes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Merge Risk: Low · up to bbc59

This change keeps managed tunnels across server restarts and makes the relay's recoverable-tunnel cleanup enabled by default. The rollout docs still say to "keep" cleanup off for the first production deploy, but nothing sets that value, so an unset production variable would turn cleanup on early. Set the variable to off explicitly, or fix the doc step, before the first production deploy.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the primary change: managed tunnels and saved connector configuration are kept across server restarts, which matches the core change in the diff (removing the shutdown release and upda…
Description check		The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change, Scope, Verification) and fills each one with specific content. The Problem section states the bug and the expected behavior. The Change …
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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The title names the primary change: managed tunnels and saved connector configuration are kept across server restarts, which matches the core change in the diff (removing the shutdown release and update markers, plus enabling relay sweep defaults). It uses the conventional commit format with a clear scope. The title does not mention the cleanup-default change, but it does not need to cover every detail.

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The description follows the template sections (Problem, Change, Scope, Verification) and fills each one with specific content. The Problem section states the bug and the expected behavior. The Change section explains the fix and the related cleanup-default change. The Scope section links the prior PR and explains the approval status. The Verification section lists the focused tests, the base-commit failure evidence, the check run results, and what was not verified. The template's agent-attribution line at the end is not present, and the description does not include a model/harness line, which the template asks for only when an agent was used. Both gaps are minor.

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- Line 90: Extend the managed tunnel recovery tests to cover server shutdown and
restart: verify shutdown retains the managed tunnel state, then verify restart
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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

merged main without rebasing and resolved the desktop and launcher conflicts. retained tunnel preservation, main's ssh update-in-progress marker and failure cleanup, and launcher ownership/serving locks. corrected the release guide to say that missing or blank managed cleanup mode defaults to enabled; legacy cleanup remains off.

blacksmith vp run check:changed github/main passed on bbc596ab6b168fae095215edb4522f0151ea3c68: format, lint, knip, graphql, affected package typechecks, and 158 tests across 8 files. the real cli lifecycle test starts and stops the server twice, confirms connector exit, retains tunnel configuration/origin, and registers recovery without deletion or reprovisioning. two independent final code reviews found no remaining findings.

the earlier lifecycle review finding is covered by that existing test. production relay/cloudflare behavior remains unverified. no ui changes.

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Set the cleanup mode explicitly before the first production deploy.

The parser turns an unset or blank RELAY_TUNNEL_CLEANUP_MODE into enabled, and the deploy job passes the repository variable through without a default. If the production variable is unset when the first deploy runs, the relay starts with cleanup enabled before the canary. The procedure step that says to keep off does not set the variable, so it does not guarantee off. Add an explicit step that sets the variable to off.

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-Keep `RELAY_TUNNEL_CLEANUP_MODE=off` for the first production deploy. That deploy applies the
+Set `RELAY_TUNNEL_CLEANUP_MODE=off` explicitly before the first production deploy. An unset or blank value enables cleanup. That deploy applies the

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Update the release procedure’s first-production-deploy step to explicitly set RELAY_TUNNEL_CLEANUP_MODE to off before deploying; do not merely instruct operators to keep it off, since the variable may be unset.

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