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Problem

Before an agent's tool call reaches a linked environment, the server opens an MCP session there, and that handshake had no deadline. If the peer accepts the connection but never answers (a machine waking up, a stuck relay, an overloaded server), the call gets no answer until Node's fetch header timeout ends it (300 s by default), and Settings keeps showing the link as Reachable.

Change

PeerMcpClient.openSession now runs under PeerLinks.probeTimeout (3 s on loopback, 10 s otherwise), the bound resolve() already applies to its reachability probe. On timeout the call fails with the existing "The linked environment stopped answering." error, and the link records the timeout as its last error. Forwarded tools/call requests still have no deadline, and no retries are added.

Scope

A bug fix for a hang. Fixes #35140. A two-request handshake that could stall until the transport times out now fails within the existing reachability bound.

Verification

To see it on Linux (server):

1. Link two local servers, A and B, through a proxy that accepts B's MCP initialize and never answers.
2. From an MCP client on A, call t3_thread_list on B.
3. On main there is no answer for 300 s and B still reads Reachable; on this branch the call fails in 3.0 s and the link shows the timeout.

main (cd8fc91), this branch (8108e62) and the two merged locally (4a746d6e4b, not pushed), both servers named "Test machine". On main the call ended only at my client's own 300 s limit (UND_ERR_HEADERS_TIMEOUT, exit 1). On this branch it answered after 3.0 s, HTTP 200, with "The linked environment stopped answering." maria-rcks's verification run on 8108e62 covered a real long t3_thread_wait across a link: it waited 19.62 s for a real Codex turn on the peer and returned completed.

Re-checked against main 1032135 on 2026-11-12: the handshake test fails on that main without the change and passes with it, the branch merges cleanly, and the steps still hang on that main (run in the details).

Client	main	this branch	merged with main
Web (T3 Browser panel, Settings → Environments)	Web on main: the linked environment reads Reachable	Web on this branch: the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'	Web on the merged tree: the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'
iOS (iPhone 17 Pro simulator, iOS 26.5)	iOS on main: the linked environment reads Reachable	iOS on this branch: the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'	iOS on the merged tree: the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'
Android (emulator, Android 15, software-rendered)	Android on main: the linked environment reads Reachable	Android on this branch: the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'	Android on the merged tree: the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'

Not checked:

• A stalled renewal after a 404. It goes through the same bounded openSession, but is not tested separately.
• Real tailnet or relay links. The bound is the one those links already get for the descriptor probe.
• The desktop app. I did not run it in this pass.

Full transcripts, merged tree, server traces, healthy call and unit tests, and the method in full

Before an agent's tool call reaches a linked environment, the server opens an MCP session there (initialize, then notifications/initialized). Neither request had a deadline. If the peer accepts the connection but never answers, for example a machine that is waking up, a stuck relay or an overloaded server, the agent's call gets no answer until Node's fetch header timeout ends it (300 s by default). Settings keeps showing the link as Reachable the whole time, because nothing has failed yet.

To reproduce, I linked two isolated local servers, A and B, through a small proxy that accepts B's MCP initialize and never answers. On main, a forwarded t3_thread_list from A got no answer for the full 300 s my test client waited. Settings → Environments still showed B as Reachable.

PeerMcpClient.openSession now runs under PeerLinks.probeTimeout: 3 s on loopback, 10 s otherwise. resolve() already applies that bound when it probes the same address before every forwarded call, so a peer gets the same time to finish the handshake as it gets to prove it is reachable at all. On timeout the call fails with the existing "The linked environment stopped answering." error, and the link records the timeout as its last error.

Only the handshake is bounded. Forwarded tools/call requests still have no deadline, since t3_thread_wait is forwarded in 50 s chunks and other tools may legitimately run long. No retries are added; the existing one-time session renewal after HTTP 404 is unchanged.

There is no issue for this. I think it qualifies as a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug: a two-request handshake that could stall until the transport times out now fails within the existing reachability bound. It reuses the existing reachability bound instead of adding a new timeout policy. It does not change tool-call duration, retries, access or any workflow. The bound is the one exported probeTimeout that descriptor probes already use.

I ran one scenario on main (cd8fc91), this branch (8108e62) and the branch merged locally with main (4a746d6e4b, not pushed), in that order. A and B are the t3 serve instances and proxy from Problem, both named "Test machine"; A is linked with t3 environment link, and an outside MCP client on A makes the call. All clients run main's client code, as the change is server-only. The phones are paired to A and driven by taps and deep links through the T3 Device panel. The web client is A's own, clicked in the T3 Browser panel, from a second run of the same fixture whose proxy is at 127.0.0.1:14643 instead of 14613.

main: no answer until my client's own 300 s limit ended the call (UND_ERR_HEADERS_TIMEOUT, exit 1), and A still lists the link as reachable afterwards. First lines here, the rest in the details below.

$ node fixture-28876/agent.ts call http://127.0.0.1:14611 <agent token file> 352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469 t3_thread_list
2026-11-12T00:52:02.056Z tools/call t3_thread_list on linked environment

This branch: answered in 3.0 s, and the link records the timeout. First lines here, the rest in the details below.

$ node fixture-28876/agent.ts call http://127.0.0.1:14611 <agent token file> 352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469 t3_thread_list
2026-11-12T00:58:52.121Z tools/call t3_thread_list on linked environment
2026-11-12T00:58:55.158Z answered after 3.0 s, HTTP 200
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"{\"_tag\":\"OrchestratorMcpFailure\",\"code\":\"orchestration_error\",\"message\":\"The linked environment stopped answering.\"}"}],"isError":true}}

exit=0

The main captures were taken during the hang (web 80 s, iOS 125 s, Android 145 s in), the others right after the 3 s answer, each after a reload or relaunch since clients read the link list on open. Android is software-rendered, so it shows status, not layout.

Rest of the main transcript:

node:internal/modules/run_main:111
    triggerUncaughtException(
    ^

[TypeError: fetch failed] {
  [cause]: HeadersTimeoutError: Headers Timeout Error
      at FastTimer.onParserTimeout [as _onTimeout] (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:7918:32)
      at Timeout.onTick [as _onTimeout] (node:internal/deps/undici/undici:1407:17)
      at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:685:17)
      at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:618:7) {
    code: 'UND_ERR_HEADERS_TIMEOUT'
  }
}

Node.js v26.13.1
exit=1

main, after the call ended:

$ t3 environment list   (server A, main, after the call ended)
2026-11-12T00:57:20Z
Test machine (352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469)
  reachable, access full-access, expires 2026-12-12T00:45:40.579Z
  http://127.0.0.1:14613

Rest of this branch's transcript (A's link list, then the proxy's log):

$ t3 environment list   (server A, head, after the call)
2026-11-12T00:58:55Z
Test machine (352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469)
  reachable, access full-access, expires 2026-12-12T00:58:17.479Z
  http://127.0.0.1:14613
  last error: Operation timed out after '3s'

2026-11-12T00:58:52.135Z GET /.well-known/t3/environment
2026-11-12T00:58:52.145Z POST /mcp STALLED
2026-11-12T00:58:56.016Z GET /.well-known/t3/environment

Merged with main (4a746d6e4b): the same result as this branch.

$ node fixture-28876/agent.ts call http://127.0.0.1:14611 <agent token file> 352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469 t3_thread_list
2026-11-12T01:00:30.542Z tools/call t3_thread_list on linked environment
2026-11-12T01:00:33.569Z answered after 3.0 s, HTTP 200
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"{\"_tag\":\"OrchestratorMcpFailure\",\"code\":\"orchestration_error\",\"message\":\"The linked environment stopped answering.\"}"}],"isError":true}}

exit=0

$ t3 environment list   (server A, merged, after the call)
2026-11-12T01:00:33Z
Test machine (352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469)
  reachable, access full-access, expires 2026-12-12T01:00:13.854Z
  http://127.0.0.1:14613
  last error: Operation timed out after '3s'

Server A's own trace for the forwarded call, main then this branch then merged:

$ node spans.mjs <server A state>/userdata/logs/server.trace.ndjson   (main)
PeerMcpClient.openSession | 301332 ms | Interrupted | InterruptError: All fibers interrupted without error
PeerMcpClient.call | 301342 ms | Interrupted | InterruptError: All fibers interrupted without error
PeerForwarding.forward | 301343 ms | Interrupted | InterruptError: All fibers interrupted without error

$ node spans.mjs <server A state>/userdata/logs/server.trace.ndjson   (head)
PeerMcpClient.openSession | 3006 ms | Failure | TimeoutError: Operation timed out after '3s'
PeerMcpClient.call | 3019 ms | Failure | OrchestratorMcpFailure: The linked environment stopped answering.
PeerForwarding.forward | 3020 ms | Failure | OrchestratorMcpFailure: The linked environment stopped answering.
PeerMcpClient.openSession | 22 ms | Success
PeerMcpClient.call | 40 ms | Success
PeerForwarding.forward | 40 ms | Success

$ node spans.mjs <server A state>/userdata/logs/server.trace.ndjson   (merged)
PeerMcpClient.openSession | 3005 ms | Failure | TimeoutError: Operation timed out after '3s'
PeerMcpClient.call | 3016 ms | Failure | OrchestratorMcpFailure: The linked environment stopped answering.
PeerForwarding.forward | 3016 ms | Failure | OrchestratorMcpFailure: The linked environment stopped answering.

With the proxy passing traffic again, a forwarded t3_project_list on this branch answers at once and clears the last error:

$ node fixture-28876/agent.ts call http://127.0.0.1:14611 <agent token file> 352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469 t3_project_list   (stall off)
2026-11-12T00:59:33.642Z tools/call t3_project_list on linked environment
2026-11-12T00:59:33.688Z answered after 0.0 s, HTTP 200
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"{\"projects\":[],\"nextCursor\":null}"}],"structuredContent":{"projects":[],"nextCursor":null},"isError":false}}

exit=0

$ t3 environment list   (server A, head, after the healthy call)
2026-11-12T00:59:33Z
Test machine (352f6344-c190-4187-8e72-0be112678469)
  reachable, access full-access, expires 2026-12-12T00:58:17.479Z
  http://127.0.0.1:14613

vp test run src/peer/PeerMcpClient.test.ts src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts (from apps/server): 25 of 25 pass on this branch and 30 of 30 on the merged tree. With main's PeerMcpClient.ts and PeerLinks.ts under the merged tree's tests, "bounds the session handshake, not a tool call that waits longer" fails with Test timed out in 120000ms (1 failed, 29 passed).

Re-check on main 1032135, 2026-11-12. The steps of #35140 as one script, run from an empty folder in a Linux sandbox named "Test machine": A on 14701, B on 14702, the stalling proxy on 14703, then an outside MCP client on A calls t3_thread_list on B under timeout 60; the web client is A's own, in the T3 Browser panel. First on main 1032135, then on 8108e62 merged locally with it (89f0fba0de, not pushed).

main 1032135: no answer within the client's 60 s (exit 124), B still reachable.

$ sed -n '1,6p;/^start=$(date/,$p' block-main-1032135cf7.txt   # the block's header and its step 5 (call, timing, link list)
$ pwd; ls -A
/tmp/repro
$ uname -n
Test machine
$ git -C "$T3_SRC" rev-parse HEAD
1032135cf754dfa22ffd0e67266b320712e51e72
start=$(date +%s)
(cd "$SRC/apps/server" && timeout 60 vp env exec --node 26.12.1 node call-tool.ts "$WORK/a" t3_thread_list "{\"environmentId\":\"$b_id\"}"); echo "exit $?"
exit 124
echo "the call took $(( $(date +%s) - start )) seconds"
the call took 60 seconds
t3 a environment list
Test machine (609a88e8-7e45-4abd-a35e-cb1f91f90cba)
  reachable, access full-access, expires 2026-12-12T12:11:19.463Z
  http://127.0.0.1:14703

$ jq: server A's spans for the forwarded call in userdata/logs/server.trace.ndjson (1032135cf7)
PeerMcpClient.openSession | 59084 ms | Interrupted | InterruptError: All fibers interrupted without error
PeerMcpClient.call | 59094 ms | Interrupted | InterruptError: All fibers interrupted without error
PeerForwarding.forward | 59094 ms | Interrupted | InterruptError: All fibers interrupted without error

8108e62 merged locally with main (89f0fba0de): "The linked environment stopped answering." after 5 s, and the link recorded the timeout.

$ sed -n '1,6p;/^start=$(date/,$p' block-cand-89f0fba0de.txt   # the block's header and its step 5 (call, timing, link list)
$ pwd; ls -A
/tmp/repro
$ uname -n
Test machine
$ git -C "$T3_SRC" rev-parse HEAD
89f0fba0dea0a907f5f9b37987a1e8c4f4079a2d
start=$(date +%s)
(cd "$SRC/apps/server" && timeout 60 vp env exec --node 26.12.1 node call-tool.ts "$WORK/a" t3_thread_list "{\"environmentId\":\"$b_id\"}"); echo "exit $?"
{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"{\"_tag\":\"OrchestratorMcpFailure\",\"code\":\"orchestration_error\",\"message\":\"The linked environment stopped answering.\"}"}],"isError":true}
exit 0
echo "the call took $(( $(date +%s) - start )) seconds"
the call took 5 seconds
t3 a environment list
Test machine (f1ef474e-1617-4ee1-aeb0-4dda93f74d3d)
  reachable, access full-access, expires 2026-12-12T12:13:55.203Z
  http://127.0.0.1:14703
  last error: Operation timed out after '3s'

$ jq: server A's spans for the forwarded call in userdata/logs/server.trace.ndjson (89f0fba0de)
PeerMcpClient.openSession | 3005 ms | Failure | TimeoutError: Operation timed out after '3s'
PeerMcpClient.call | 3019 ms | Failure | OrchestratorMcpFailure: The linked environment stopped answering.
PeerForwarding.forward | 3020 ms | Failure | OrchestratorMcpFailure: The linked environment stopped answering.

main 1032135	8108e62 merged locally with main (89f0fba0de)
Web on main 1032135: the linked environment reads Reachable	Web on 8108e62 merged locally with main (89f0fba0de): the linked environment reads Operation timed out after '3s'

On 89f0fba0de, Node 26.12.1: src/peer/PeerMcpClient.test.ts, src/peer/PeerForwarding.test.ts and src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts pass, 31 of 31; vp run check:changed against main passes (format, lint, graphql, knip, typecheck of 3 packages, 27 tests in 3 files). With main 1032135's PeerMcpClient.ts and PeerLinks.ts under these tests, "bounds the session handshake, not a tool call that waits longer" fails with Test timed out in 120000ms (1 failed, 5 passed).

Prior PRs

• perf(server): linked calls reuse sessions while a tool waits #26567 by Adamulek123 (merged) made linked calls reuse one session while a tool waits. This PR keeps that session cache and bounds only how a session is opened.
• fix(server): listing linked environments no longer waits out an asleep peer #28543 by juliusmarminge (merged) limits how long listing linked environments waits on an asleep peer. It changes the listing probe, not the MCP handshake, and this branch merges cleanly with main, which includes it.

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Verdict: Approved at fe1f73e

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Linked-peer session handshakes now fail within the existing reachability timeout instead of leaving calls stalled. Long-running tool calls and access controls remain unchanged, keeping the impact limited to session establishment.

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Walkthrough

Peer MCP session initialization now uses the peer probe timeout. Forwarded tool calls remain outside this timeout. HTTP client errors and timeouts use a shared orchestration failure. Tests cover stalled initialization and a later tool call that remains pending.

Changes: Peer MCP timeout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Apply the peer probe timeout apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts, apps/server/src/peer/PeerMcpClient.ts	probeTimeout is exported and applied to MCP session initialization. HTTP client errors and timeouts use the shared “The linked environment stopped answering.” orchestration failure.
Test initialization timeout behavior apps/server/src/peer/PeerMcpClient.test.ts	Tests verify that stalled initialization and the initialized notification time out. A later tool call remains pending during a one-minute clock advance and succeeds when its response is released.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, adamulek123

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 8b0dd

Linked calls now fail within a few seconds when a peer stalls the MCP handshake. Forwarded tool calls are unchanged. No merge-blocking risk is evident.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title states the main change: linked calls now fail fast when a peer stalls the MCP handshake. It matches the changeset, which bounds PeerMcpClient.openSession by PeerLinks.probeTimeout and adds a…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each section gives specific content. The Scope section links issue #35140 and explains wh…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #35140 requires that a call to a linked environment fail within a few seconds when the peer accepts the connection but does not answer the MCP handshake, and that the calling ser…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changed files are apps/server/src/peer/PeerMcpClient.ts, PeerMcpClient.test.ts and PeerLinks.ts. The PeerMcpClient.ts diff adds the handshake timeout and a shared stoppedAnswering failure. It leav…

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The title states the main change: linked calls now fail fast when a peer stalls the MCP handshake. It matches the changeset, which bounds PeerMcpClient.openSession by PeerLinks.probeTimeout and adds a shared "stopped answering" failure. The title follows the conventional commit form the template asks for.

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The description follows the repository template. It has Problem, Change, Scope, and Verification sections, and each section gives specific content. The Scope section links issue #35140 and explains why no issue is needed for the fix. Verification gives focused reproduction steps, observed results with timings, unit test counts, and the items not checked. The author also names the tools used to generate the PR at the end, as the template asks. The description is long, with a large details block, but it covers every required section.

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Directly linked issue #35140 requires that a call to a linked environment fail within a few seconds when the peer accepts the connection but does not answer the MCP handshake, and that the calling server record the peer as not answering. The reviewed head wraps PeerMcpClient.openSession in Effect.timeout with PeerLinks.probeTimeout(url) (3 s loopback, 10 s otherwise). The handshake covers both the initialize POST and the notifications/initialized POST. A timeout maps to the existing OrchestratorMcpFailure 'The linked environment stopped answering.' through a new TimeoutError arm in call's catchTags. The PR description reports that the same reproduction hung for 300 s on main and failed in about 3 s on the head and on the merged tree, with the link showing 'Operation timed out after '3s'' as its last error. The added test 'bounds the session handshake, not a tool call that waits longer' covers stalls in both handshake requests and checks that a later tool call is not cut off. Caveats: the recorded last-error text is the transport timeout message, not the 'did not answer at' wording the issue cites for the no-answer case. The issue asks only for a clear error, and the agent-facing message is the existing 'stopped answering' text. Separately, the diff shows no code path that records the timeout in the link state beyond the author's trace evidence. That evidence shows the last error, so it is accepted. Real tailnet/relay routes, the non-loopback 10 s bound, and stalled renewal after a 404 were not separately verified, per the author.

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The changed files are apps/server/src/peer/PeerMcpClient.ts, PeerMcpClient.test.ts and PeerLinks.ts. The PeerMcpClient.ts diff adds the handshake timeout and a shared stoppedAnswering failure. It leaves tool-call duration and retries unchanged. The openSession re-indentation is churn from wrapping the function with a timeout, not a behavior change. PeerLinks.ts only exports probeTimeout, which the new code uses. The test file adds coverage for the handshake bound. All changes connect to #35140. No unrelated change was found in the reviewed diff.

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

merged main into the existing head and resolved the peer-client test conflict, preserving main's refusal and malformed-response checks alongside the handshake timeout coverage. the production change still only bounds session establishment; forwarded tool calls remain unbounded.

verification on 01c8067748:

• blacksmith vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, graphql, three package typechecks, and 20 tests passed.
• real http runtime: a stalled loopback initialize failed at the 3-second deadline; a retry initialized successfully and completed a 3.5-second tool call beyond that deadline, clearing the link error.
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apps/server/src/peer/PeerMcpClient.test.ts: 1

286-324: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add a test where the notifications/initialized POST stalls.

The new test stalls only the first initialize. The notifications/initialized request in openSession answers 202 at once. The timeout in openSession covers that POST, but no test checks it. A change that narrowed the timeout to initialize would still pass this suite. A stalled notification would then leave call waiting with no deadline.

Add a case that stalls the request at index 2 and asserts orchestration_error after 10 seconds. Use TestClock.adjust and await the Queue arrival, with no sleeps or polling. Keep the existing case unchanged, because it covers the tool call that waits past the handshake.

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Add a separate test near the existing handshake timeout test that makes the HTTP
request at index 2 wait indefinitely, then starts the probe and waits for that
request’s arrival through the existing Queue. Advance TestClock by 10 seconds
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🤖 Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 replying on behalf of Victor.

Re this review: applied in 8108e62. The stalled notifications/initialized POST is now covered.

• I extended the existing case "bounds the session handshake, not a tool call that waits longer" rather than adding a new it, following docs/internals/testing.md ("Extend before you add").
• In that case, request 0 (initialize) stalls, then request 2 (the next session's notifications/initialized) stalls. Each wait follows the Queue arrival and TestClock.adjust(10s), and each asserts orchestration_error. The later tool call that waits 1 minute still succeeds, so that coverage is unchanged.
• With the timeout narrowed to the initialize POST alone, the old suite passes 5/5. The updated case fails (1 failed, 4 passed).
• PeerMcpClient, PeerForwarding and PeerLinks pass 25/25 on three consecutive runs, and vp run check:changed passes.

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Verified in a real dev environment

verified unchanged head 8108e625a88c2fc598fe913ae2ce4db4407e21c5 on this linux vm. used isolated state, the actual web client in repository playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome, real codex gpt-6.1-sol turns, and a real linked peer. a forwarding proxy stalled handshake traffic without replacing server responses. only one dev server ran at a time.

• reproduced on github/main (e4d86abca9): the codex linked project-list call stayed pending past 1m39s. a separate public mcp call received no answer before its 15-second client limit.
• on this head, stalled initialize and notifications/initialized failed in 3.05s and 3.02s with The linked environment stopped answering. the link stored Operation timed out after '3s'.
• submitted the stalled call through the web composer. real codex received the error and completed its turn.
• restored traffic: project listing succeeded in 62ms, cleared the link error, and the same codex thread successfully read the real peer project.
• a linked t3_thread_wait waited 19.62s for a real codex turn on the peer and returned completed, timedOut: false. tool calls remain unbounded by the handshake deadline.
• blacksmith ran the existing peer-client, forwarding and link suites: 25/25 passed. head ci reports 29 successful checks, none failing or pending. no source changes or pushes were needed.

short runtime transcript

Not verified

native ios/android, electron desktop, macos/windows, real tailnet/relay routes and the 10-second non-loopback bound were not exercised on this linux vm. runtime 404 session renewal was not separately exercised; the existing renewal test passed. these captures demonstrate server behavior through the web client, not a visual redesign.

[only21mil]

Note

🤖 Opus 5.5 replying on behalf of Victor.

Thanks for testing this end to end on the unchanged head, and for the earlier main merge (01c8067) that kept main's refusal and malformed-response checks next to the handshake coverage.

Your run covered two things our verification had not:

• A real linked t3_thread_wait waited 19.62 s on a real Codex turn and returned completed. That shows a long call across a link is still not bound by the handshake deadline. The description had listed this as covered only by the unit test.
• With real servers, a stalled notifications/initialized also failed in about 3 s, where we had only checked it in the TestClock case. The agent got the error and finished its turn. Once traffic came back, the same thread read the peer project.

Neither of us has exercised real tailnet or relay links, which get the 10 s non-loopback bound, or a stalled renewal after a 404. The renewal path is covered only by the existing renewal test.

[juliusmarminge]

Evidence

Chromium 156 on Linux, light theme, 1280×800; fresh synthetic state and two isolated real servers per commit.

Link A to B through a forwarding proxy. Keep descriptors answering, stall initialize, ask the deterministic agent in an A thread to list B's threads, wait 5.5 seconds, and reload Settings → Environments. Repeat with notifications/initialized stalled.

	Before	After
Commit	d8f3feff0c	8b0dd3df05
Both handshake stages	Before recording	After recording
Initialize stalled
Initialized notification stalled

Base stayed pending with no last error. Head returned “The linked environment stopped answering.” in 3.109 s and 3.091 s and recorded the 3-second timeout. An established tool call delayed by 4.5 seconds succeeded on both commits.

Scenario and proxy/agent driver · Startup fixture · Web configuration · Runtime observations · Reproduction instructions

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

• Non-loopback 10-second timeouts and session renewal after an MCP 404 were not exercised; these captures use fresh loopback sessions.