[juliusmarminge]

Problem

When linking an environment fails during discovery, the server drops the reason. The descriptor probe in PeerLinks ended in Effect.option, so a DNS failure, a refused connection, a timeout, and an HTTP server that isn't T3 Code all looked the same. The picked-machine path (Settings → Linked environments → Link) explained a failure only when every address was refused as plain http. Once one address got past that check but then failed, or answered as a different environment, the user saw just This environment could not reach <name> at <urls>.. Linking by address (t3 environment link, "Another address…") said Nothing at <url> answered as a T3 Code environment. for every kind of failure.

Reproduced on main (9e85538) with t3 environment link against three different failing addresses. All three gave the same message (transcript below).

Change

• A new internal probe keeps a short reason for each failure: did not answer (ENOTFOUND) / (ECONNREFUSED) with the system error code when there is one, did not answer within N seconds, or answered, but not as a T3 Code environment this version understands. The public describe is now probe plus Effect.option, so listing links and resolving a link behave as before.
• answeringAs (picked machine) gives a reason for every address, including <origin> answered as another environment, <label>. The identity check still runs before any pairing code is sent, so the code and token only go to an address that proved to be the peer.
• answeringAt (linking by address) uses the primary address's probe reason.
• Error reason tags, contracts and stored data are unchanged. The probe error carries no cause, so no response body reaches the client.

Scope and approval

Fixes #30870

Triaged via the automated issue flow.

Verification

• vp test run apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts: 15/15 pass. Two tests were red on main:
  • linking a picked machine that answers nowhere names it and links nothing now pins the full message for one address that answers as another environment plus one refused LAN address. On main it got This environment could not reach Box at http://127.0.0.1:44993, http://192.168.1.20:3773.
  • linking an address with nothing listening says so, unlike one that is not T3 Code: on main a closed port and a non-T3 HTTP server gave the identical Nothing at <url> answered as a T3 Code environment.
• vp run check:changed: pass (format, lint, knip, typecheck of 3 packages, tests of 2 files).
• Runtime transcript: a dev server from this branch and from main (fresh databases, Linked environments on), t3 environment link <url> --pairing-code XXXX. The addresses were an unresolvable tailnet name, a closed loopback port, and a plain HTTP server on loopback. Tailnet name anonymised, stack frames trimmed.

Before (main 9e85538):

$ t3 environment link http://peer.example-tailnet.ts.net:4931 --pairing-code XXXX
PeerLinkError: Nothing at http://peer.example-tailnet.ts.net:4931 answered as a T3 Code environment.
$ t3 environment link http://127.0.0.1:4999 --pairing-code XXXX
PeerLinkError: Nothing at http://127.0.0.1:4999 answered as a T3 Code environment.
$ t3 environment link http://127.0.0.1:4932 --pairing-code XXXX
PeerLinkError: Nothing at http://127.0.0.1:4932 answered as a T3 Code environment.

After (this branch):

$ t3 environment link http://peer.example-tailnet.ts.net:4931 --pairing-code XXXX
PeerLinkError: http://peer.example-tailnet.ts.net:4931 did not answer (ENOTFOUND).
$ t3 environment link http://127.0.0.1:4999 --pairing-code XXXX
PeerLinkError: http://127.0.0.1:4999 did not answer (ECONNREFUSED).
$ t3 environment link http://127.0.0.1:4932 --pairing-code XXXX
PeerLinkError: http://127.0.0.1:4932 answered, but not as a T3 Code environment this version understands.

• No visible surface changes beyond the message text: the web and mobile toasts and the CLI already show the server's message, so there are no captures. The picked-machine path with a mix of failing and refused addresses is proven by the test above, not by a runtime run. The timeout message has no test.
• Not checked: the reporter's actual Linux ↔ macOS Tailscale setup. This change makes its failure reason visible; it does not claim to fix the connectivity failure itself.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 850e188

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Peer linking now explains why each address failed discovery instead of returning a generic failure. Existing credential-destination safeguards and successful linking behavior remain unchanged; the remaining comments concern diagnostic formatting and service conventions.

No code changes detected at e523d54. Prior analysis still applies.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ The exact PR base did not have a successful artifact. Baseline uses the latest successful main measurement shown below.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.5 KiB	21.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Other scenarios

All 64 scenario measurements match main.

All 64 scenario measurements

Provider	Scenario	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	short turn resume	WebSocket decoded	10.5 KiB	10.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Codex	short turn resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	long turn running, cold open	HTTP decoded	281.7 KiB	281.7 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn running, cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	long turn running, history page	HTTP decoded	92.4 KiB	92.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn running, history page	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	long turn finished, cold open	HTTP decoded	381.5 KiB	381.5 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket decoded	381.6 KiB	381.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	long turn finished, socket cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Codex	long turn finished, work page	HTTP decoded	186.2 KiB	186.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Codex	long turn finished, work page	rows	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Codex	idle thread resume	WebSocket decoded	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	idle thread resume	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	fleet shell snapshot	HTTP decoded	42.4 KiB	42.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	fleet shell snapshot	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket decoded	65 B	65 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Codex	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Codex	fleet shell resume check	HTTP decoded	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Codex	fleet shell resume check	rows	0	0	0	0	✅
Codex	stale shell reload	HTTP decoded	42.4 KiB	42.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Codex	stale shell reload	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Codex	stale shell resume	WebSocket decoded	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Codex	stale shell resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	HTTP decoded	72.4 KiB	72.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	nodes	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	subagents	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	plans	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	providerTurns	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Codex	stale todo list cold open	checkpoints	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	short turn resume	WebSocket decoded	10.6 KiB	10.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	12.7 KiB	✅
Claude	short turn resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	long turn running, cold open	HTTP decoded	283.3 KiB	283.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	302.7 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn running, cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	long turn running, history page	HTTP decoded	93.4 KiB	93.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	107.4 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn running, history page	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	long turn finished, cold open	HTTP decoded	384.2 KiB	384.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket decoded	384.3 KiB	384.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	410.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	long turn finished, socket cold open	rows	151	151	0 (0.0%)	151	✅
Claude	long turn finished, work page	HTTP decoded	188.1 KiB	188.1 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	200.2 KiB	✅
Claude	long turn finished, work page	rows	150	150	0 (0.0%)	150	✅
Claude	idle thread resume	WebSocket decoded	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	idle thread resume	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	fleet shell snapshot	HTTP decoded	43.0 KiB	43.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	fleet shell snapshot	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket decoded	66 B	66 B	0 B (0.0%)	200 B	✅
Claude	fleet shell subscribe	WebSocket messages	1	1	0 (0.0%)	1	✅
Claude	fleet shell resume check	HTTP decoded	18 B	18 B	0 B (0.0%)	100 B	✅
Claude	fleet shell resume check	rows	0	0	0	0	✅
Claude	stale shell reload	HTTP decoded	43.0 KiB	43.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	53.7 KiB	✅
Claude	stale shell reload	rows	27	27	0 (0.0%)	27	✅
Claude	stale shell resume	WebSocket decoded	140 B	140 B	0 B (0.0%)	400 B	✅
Claude	stale shell resume	WebSocket messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	HTTP decoded	73.4 KiB	73.4 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	83.0 KiB	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	rows	75	75	0 (0.0%)	75	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	nodes	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	subagents	2	2	0 (0.0%)	4	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	plans	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	providerTurns	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅
Claude	stale todo list cold open	checkpoints	1	1	0 (0.0%)	2	✅

Baseline: 36371de · PR result: e523d54 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

Peer descriptor probes now classify failures. Address selection and direct-address linking use probe results to report specific errors. Tests cover connection refusal, unrecognized responses, environment mismatches, and plain-HTTP credential risks.

Changes: Peer link diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classify descriptor probe failures apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts	A shared probe retries eligible failures, applies the origin-specific timeout, and classifies certificate, timeout, and transport failures. Other probe failures are reported as incompatible T3 environments. Descriptor lookups use the probe, and direct-address linking returns its result.
Report address-specific link failures apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts, apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts	Address selection checks environment identity and reports individual probe failures and mismatches. Tests distinguish connection refusal from an unrecognized response, and check messages for environment mismatch and plain-HTTP credential risk.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~15 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#26450: The changes report why an address was rejected but do not change address validation or route selection.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26840: The changes report the plain-HTTP rejection but do not permit plain HTTP.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#29709: Both changes define how PeerLinks handles plain-HTTP addresses during environment linking.
• pingdotgg/t3code#28060: Both changes classify and report probe failures in PeerLinks.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, saphid

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 850e1

The change improves linking failure messages with no evident functional regression. One minor open item remains: a very long label reported by a peer could produce an oversized error message. It can be fixed after merge or before.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is concise, uses conventional commit format, and clearly describes the main change: reporting why each address failed discovery during server-side linking.
Description check		The description covers the problem, change, scope and approval, and verification. It includes reproduction details, focused test results, runtime examples, limitations, and the linked issue.
Linked Issues check		[#30870] The change preserves the underlying discovery outcome in probe. It reports transport codes, timeouts, rejected certificates, and incompatible T3 responses without exposing response bodies. …
Out of Scope Changes check		The production changes are limited to discovery failure classification, identity validation during picked-machine linking, and preservation of existing optional descriptor behavior. The test changes v…

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Explanation

[#30870] The change preserves the underlying discovery outcome in probe. It reports transport codes, timeouts, rejected certificates, and incompatible T3 responses without exposing response bodies. answeringAs reports a reason for each address and identifies an address that answers as another environment. answeringAt uses the primary address reason. describe still converts probe failures to Effect.option, so existing discovery listing behavior remains unchanged. The tests cover mixed picked-machine results, connection refusal, and a non-T3 response. This meets the issue requirement for diagnostic discovery failures. The issue does not require a fix for the underlying Tailscale connectivity problem.

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The production changes are limited to discovery failure classification, identity validation during picked-machine linking, and preservation of existing optional descriptor behavior. The test changes verify these diagnostics and the existing credential-safety behavior. No unrelated contract, error-tag, stored-data, or public declaration changes appear in the reviewed diff.

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Actionable comments posted: 2

Nitpick comments: 2

apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts: 2

649-649: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Cover the timeout diagnostic in this probe-failure test.

This test covers a refused connection and a non-T3 response, but not the duration-specific timeout message. Add a hanging-response case that uses Deferred to observe the request and TestClock.adjust to trigger the timeout. Do not use a sleep. Assert the configured duration (3 seconds for a loopback origin or 10 seconds otherwise) in the message.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts at line 649:
Extend the “linking an address with nothing listening” probe-failure test to
cover the timeout diagnostic: use Deferred to observe the hanging request and
TestClock.adjust to trigger the timeout without sleeping, then assert the
message reports the configured duration—3 seconds for a loopback origin or 10
seconds otherwise.

---

653-668: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert the ECONNREFUSED reason in the refused-address test.

The closed address in apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts is shut down before the link attempt, so the probe fails with a transport error. The test checks only that the message contains the URL and differs from the HTML-404 message. A change that drops the (ECONNREFUSED) reason from the message still passes, because the message still differs from the fallback text. The test does not cover the reason this PR adds.

Suggested fix

       expect(refused.message).toContain(closed);
+      expect(refused.message).toContain("(ECONNREFUSED)");

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts around lines 653 -
668:
Update the refused-address test around `linking(closed)` to assert that
`refused.message` contains the `(ECONNREFUSED)` reason, while preserving the
existing URL and HTML-404 message assertions.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts:
- Line 410: Bound the descriptor label interpolated into the mismatch message in
the peer-link response flow before it is included in PeerLinkError.message.
Preserve the message context while ensuring an unusually long label cannot
create an oversized client-facing error.
- Around line 169-190: Update connectionCode and probeFailure so transport
messages use only module-owned literal phrases selected by an explicit allowlist
of approved system codes; never interpolate or otherwise print a value read from
cause. Keep the generic message for unknown or unlisted codes, and leave the raw
code in cause.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts:
- Line 649: Extend the “linking an address with nothing listening” probe-failure
test to cover the timeout diagnostic: use Deferred to observe the hanging
request and TestClock.adjust to trigger the timeout without sleeping, then
assert the message reports the configured duration—3 seconds for a loopback
origin or 10 seconds otherwise.
- Around line 653-668: Update the refused-address test around `linking(closed)`
to assert that `refused.message` contains the `(ECONNREFUSED)` reason, while
preserving the existing URL and HTML-404 message assertions.

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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Do not build the transport message from cause.code.

connectionCode reads code from the transport error's cause and its nested cause. probeFailure prints that value in the did not answer (...) message. The service-error rule in docs/internals/effect-services.md requires messages to be fixed or built from bounded attributes, never from cause. A shape check on the value still prints a value read from cause, so it does not satisfy the rule.

Print only literal text owned by the module. Use cause.code only to select an entry from a module-owned table of literal phrases. Known system codes keep their diagnostic text. Unknown codes use the generic message. The raw code remains in cause.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts around lines 169 - 190:
Update connectionCode and probeFailure so transport messages use only
module-owned literal phrases selected by an explicit allowlist of approved
system codes; never interpolate or otherwise print a value read from cause. Keep
the generic message for unknown or unlisted codes, and leave the raw code in
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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Bound the peer label in the mismatch message.

If an address returns a valid descriptor with a very long label, this line sends that label in PeerLinkError.message. The descriptor schema requires a non-blank label but sets no length limit. Limit the displayed label so one failed address cannot produce an oversized client-facing error. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

As per coding guidelines, “Attributes and log annotations stay bounded: no raw payloads.”

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts at line 410:
Bound the descriptor label interpolated into the mismatch message in the
peer-link response flow before it is included in PeerLinkError.message. Preserve
the message context while ensuring an unusually long label cannot create an
oversized client-facing error.

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The automated pipeline stopped on this pull request and will not merge it:

someone else pushed to fix/issue-30870 (head is now e83ad95); the pipeline does not build on commits it did not review

It stays open for a person to finish or close.

Dismissing prior approval to re-evaluate 76fe6eb

[macroscopeapp]

This translation drops the immediate underlying failure, contrary to the service-error convention. Please retain error as the internal error's cause and sanitize the transport serialization separately so response bodies cannot reach clients. Omitting the cause entirely loses the diagnostic chain and stack.

Suggested fix: preserve the cause on the internal structured failure and explicitly project only safe fields at the client boundary; this requires coordinated changes rather than a local suggestion.

^{Posted via Macroscope — Effect Service Conventions}

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unreachable only forwards arguments into an error constructor, which the conventions explicitly disallow. Please construct PeerLinkError directly in each failure branch; keep probeFailure as the actual normalization mapper.

Suggested fix: remove this helper and replace its three calls with new PeerLinkError({ reason: "unreachable", message: ... }). This touches multiple hunks.

^{Posted via Macroscope — Effect Service Conventions}

[macroscopeapp]

The refactored reusable descriptor probe performs I/O without a named tracing boundary. Please define it with named Effect.fn("PeerLinks.probe"), preserving laziness, timeout, and error mapping.

Suggested fix: wrap the existing function body with Effect.fn("PeerLinks.probe")((origin: string) => { ... }) and update the closing delimiter; this requires multiple hunks.

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Evidence

Enable Linked environments in Settings → Labs. In Settings → Connections → Linked environments → Link, submit the same synthetic pairing code separately against an unused loopback port, an unresolvable .ts.net hostname, and a loopback HTTP server returning HTML. Chromium, 1280×800, light theme, fresh isolated databases with the same synthetic project on both sides.

Proven: the scenario failed on base and passed on head for all three diagnostics.

Case	Before — f7b81e1d11	After — 76fe6eb102
Refused connection
Unresolvable hostname
HTML response

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Not shown:

• Picked-machine aggregation and another environment answering were not exercised: this scenario uses direct addresses and does not create a machine catalog or second T3 environment.
• Timeout and rejected-certificate diagnostics were not exercised: the fixtures cover connection refusal, DNS failure, and HTML responses.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts:
- Line 254: Update the reusable probe operation in the PeerLinks code to use the
named Effect function `Effect.fn("PeerLinks.probe")` instead of an arrow
function returning an Effect. Preserve the existing retry and timeout ordering.

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• apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.test.ts
• apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts

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Major · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use a named Effect function for probe.

This reusable I/O operation returns an Effect from an arrow function. Convert it to Effect.fn("PeerLinks.probe") and preserve the retry and timeout ordering.

As per coding guidelines, “Reusable functions use Effect.fn("Service.operation"), not an arrow or declaration returning Effect.gen,” and “Default to named spans for service operations and I/O.”

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/peer/PeerLinks.ts at line 254:
Update the reusable probe operation in the PeerLinks code to use the named Effect function `Effect.fn("PeerLinks.probe")` instead of an arrow function returning an Effect. Preserve the existing retry and timeout ordering.

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Evidence

Enable Linked environments in Settings → Labs, then open Settings → Connections → Linked environments → Link → Another address. Submit a synthetic pairing code separately with an unused loopback port, an unresolvable .ts.net hostname, a loopback server returning HTML, and a loopback server that accepts requests without responding.

Environment on both sides: real web client and server, fresh isolated databases, synthetic fixtures, Chromium 151 on Linux, 1280×800, light theme. Each still matched a second screenshot taken at least 500 ms later.

Case	Before	After
Commit	95cb068c10	e523d54cf0
Refused connection
DNS failure
HTML response
Timeout
Recording	Before interaction	After interaction

Browser driver · HTTP fixtures

Observed: base reports the same generic discovery failure for all four cases. Head reports ECONNREFUSED, ENOTFOUND, an incompatible-response explanation, and a three-second timeout respectively.

Not shown:

• Picked-machine linking with mixed refused/plain-HTTP addresses and an identity mismatch: no known-machine fixture with multiple advertised addresses was created; captured proof covers the Another address flow.