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This branch carries #33684 plus the zcode serve transport follow-up from Discussion #34215. Upstream main does not contain the provider yet, so the diff against main includes both: the provider itself and the daemon migration. The serve delta alone is the last two commits (21 files, +2,755/−1,896), also viewable as panudetjt#1, which is stacked on feat/provider-zcode.

If #33684 lands first this PR reduces to the serve migration; if this lands first, #33684 is redundant.

Provider (from #33684)

ZCode is a first-class provider: threads, model picking, approvals, steering, usage, on the existing Z.AI login (zcode login on the server machine).

Serve transport (follow-up, Discussion #34215)

The provider used to spawn zcode app-server --stdio and play the CLI's host half, so T3 Code read the CLI's encrypted credential store and minted project access tokens through Z.AI's business endpoints itself. It now attaches to zcode serve, where the CLI's host-side auth service performs the exchange in vendor code.

  • Reads ~/.zcode/server/run/status.json and the ingress token, requests a host capability, and connects to /ws/host. It starts zcode serve detached only when no daemon is healthy, and never owns or stops a shared daemon.
  • Maps channel calls onto the adapter's existing session surface (zcode-session.createSession, zcode-agent.resumeSession / sendPrompt / readSession / setMode / compactSession).
  • Streams the v4 conversation channel (subscribeConversationV4 plus onDynamicConversationFrame), filtered by conversation/<sessionId>.
  • Resolves permission and AskUserQuestion interactions through resolveInteraction.
  • Drops provider/updateAccountConfig, the interaction/requestProviderRuntimeHeaders handler, and zcodeRequestAuth.ts; the daemon owns credentials end to end.
  • Resume after a host restart now reads the advertised model list from session/subscribe, so the next send still carries the model's reasoning level (second commit).
  • launchArgs is forwarded to zcode serve.

Testing

  • vp test run packages/provider-zcode apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ZcodeAdapterV2.test.ts — 70 passed
  • vp run check:changed — pass (typecheck 42 packages, lint, fmt, knip, tests)
  • Live against zcode 3.17.2 / provider v0.17.1 running as a shared user daemon (pid unchanged across the whole pass): provider status, GLM model picker, streaming turn, AskUserQuestion, steering, interrupt, /compact, and resume after a T3 server restart.
  • Found and fixed a resume bug during the pass: Reasoning level is required for account:.../GLM-5.3 after a restart. The adapter parsed settings.model instead of settings.model.available, so availableModels was empty on resume. Covered by the resume case in the adapter test, which fails without the fix.

Evidence

Walkthrough video (53s)

Provider attaches and authenticates GLM models from the daemon catalog
Provider status Model picker
AskUserQuestion round-trip Resumed thread after a T3 restart
Interaction Resume

Related: #33684, Discussion #33685, Discussion #34215.

Made with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in T3 Code (OpenCode harness).

panudetjt and others added 26 commits November 9, 2026 20:27
T3 Code gains a native ZCode driver that wraps the ZCode CLI's
app-server protocol (NDJSON over stdio): session create/subscribe/
send/stop/compact, streaming text and reasoning deltas, tool-call
lifecycle, native approval and question requests, steering, model
selection per turn, and T3 MCP server injection at session create.
Runtime modes map onto ZCode's own enforcement (guarded/edit/yolo);
capabilities the CLI cannot yet prove — rollback, fork, subagent
projection, restart resume — stay off so the UI never promises them.

Auth is CLI-managed like the Kiro provider: the user runs
`zcode login`, and the status probe only reads the credential store.

Verified against the real app-server binary with recorded transcripts
of the session lifecycle, event streaming, and server->client request
surface; adapter behavior is covered by 6 orchestrator-level tests
driving the real adapter over a scripted connection, plus 26 package
unit tests. A completed model turn is currently blocked inside
ZCode's own standalone credential flow (project-token exchange fails
under plain `zcode -p` too), so live replay fixtures land once the
CLI supports standalone turns.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
…off PATH

Desktop installs ship the CLI at ~/.zcode/server/bin/zcode and often
leave it off the server process's PATH, so enabling the provider in a
dev server failed its health check with 'Failed to execute ZCode CLI
health check'. The status probe and session spawn now probe PATH
manually (resolveSpawnCommand defers to exec on POSIX) and fall back
to the desktop shim before reporting the CLI missing.

Also maps T3 runtime modes onto zcode's own enforcement at session
create (Supervised -> guarded, Auto-accept edits -> edit, Full access
-> yolo) instead of relying on the CLI default.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
The zcode credential store is a JSON object keyed by credential id, so
the auth probe reported unknown for every real store. Active-provider
detection now handles the object shape, keeping unauthenticated for a
readable store without an active provider.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
…n models

Seven protocol experiments against zcode 0.17.1 show the app-server
registry never marks pushed account models executable over NDJSON
(push accepted, refresh ok, models still absent; the CLI's own headless
runs resolve fine), so pinning a model always fails session/create.
The adapter now retries create without the pinned model when it hits
that registry error and turns the CLI's 'Select a model' failure into
an actionable message, so a future CLI fix lights the flow up without
an adapter change. Also trims the launch-command fallback comment.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
…t auth

The CLI's app-server registry only applies an account snapshot whose
basedOn revision hashes the injected catalog path, and asks the host for
project-token runtime headers before every account-model request. The
adapter now pushes an entitlement-ladder snapshot (setting.json OAuth
selection + decrypted credential store), creates sessions without a
pinned model, attaches the advertised default reasoning level at send,
and mints short-lived project access tokens for the runtime-headers
request, mirroring the desktop host. Verified end-to-end: a real GLM
turn completes through the protocol.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
Live transcripts show the CLI streams assistant text as
model.streaming {assistantMessageId, delta, kind, done} — not the
part.* shapes the shared schema advertises — and turn.completed
carries the authoritative full response. The adapter was dropping
the stream entirely, so turns completed with no visible assistant
message. Map model.streaming (text/reasoning deltas -> streamed
items) and materialize the final assistant message from the
completed payload.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
A server restart replays threads through session/resume, whose
subscribe snapshot also advertises the session's executable models.
Parsing it there (not only in the create result) keeps the
registry-required reasoning level attached to sends after restarts.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
…adder

The model picker was a hardcoded static list with no effort levels.
The status probe now enumerates models from the CLI's injected
zcode-builtin catalog filtered by the same entitlement ladder the
account push uses, attaches a Reasoning select built from the
catalog's modelMatch rules (last matching rule wins, mirroring the
runtime composition), and keeps 'ZCode default' as the plan-default
slug. New GLM models appear on provider refresh without an adapter
change. Sends prefer the user's Effort pick over slug suffixes over
advertised defaults, and the credential cipher resolves the username
via os.userInfo like the CLI instead of env names.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode (account:zai-individual-coding-plan).
Harness: ZCode.
# Conflicts:
#	apps/server/src/provider/model-manifest.json
#	package.json
A cache hit was accepted on family and expiry alone, so after a CLI login
switched accounts the same family kept receiving the previous account's
apiKey, apiKeyId, and accountScope until the token expired. Answers now
reread the credential store and require the scope digest to match the
cached entry; the derivation is shared with mint so the two cannot drift.
Also exports the provisioning predicate for the provider status probe.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
…ials

The status probe required an oauth:active_provider marker that
provisioning never sets, so a credential object with an
individual-coding-plan selection was reported unauthenticated with a
spurious 'zcode login' instruction. Auth now derives from the same
predicate provisioning uses. Data paths also fall back to the OS home
(USERPROFILE on Windows) when HOME is unset, so the probe reads the
store ZCode actually uses.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
…y platform

zcodeDataRoot returned undefined when both ZCODE_DATA_BASE_DIR and HOME
were absent (the normal Windows case), skipping catalog discovery and
the account push, so plan models went missing from the picker; it now
falls back to os.homedir(). The PATH probe split on ':' on every
platform, missing ';'-separated Windows entries and letting the desktop
shim shadow the PATH installation; it now splits on the platform
delimiter.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
…uest errors

When a tool child kept stdout open after the CLI exited, the transport
never failed and an active turn could hang forever; an exit drain-grace
watcher now fails the transport independently of EOF. On POSIX,
termination skipped the SIGKILL escalation once the leader exited during
the grace window, leaving tool processes alive; the process group keeps
being probed after exit. Request failures always reported the operation
as "request" because response records carry no method; pending requests
now carry it. Error details copied up to 600 chars of raw server payload
into the message; detail is now bounded metadata and the payload lives
only in cause.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
…eam handling

A session/send rejection cleared activeTurn in memory but left the
persisted turn and session running once the start-error handler stopped
the run subscriber; the error tap now records the failure and runs the
full finalizeTurn sequence first. A session/compact rejection or timeout
left the dead turn installed, blocking the thread with
previous_turn_active; it now recovers into the existing failed-item and
finalizeTurn path. interruptTurn kept the interrupted flag when
session/stop rejected, misreporting the eventual terminal; it restores
the previous flag on failure. Recovery turns (forceNewNativeThread)
reused the cached native session, sending context into the old
conversation; the cache hit and native-id fallback now bypass it.
Text and reasoning deltas of one message shared a stream item key, so
answer text streamed as reasoning; keys are per kind. The approval test
assertion consumes the respond queue instead of racing the event loop.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
The ZCode terms replaced google instead of joining it, so searching
google no longer surfaced Providers (Antigravity signs in with Google).

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
The server and client-runtime manifests require @t3tools/provider-zcode,
so lockfile regeneration in the smoke workspace failed without its
manifest and blocked the required CI check.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
The install warning contradicted the intro and provider list, which both
include ZCode.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
The shim fallback hardcoded the bare zcode name, so on Windows with
zcode off PATH only a zcode.cmd launcher in the data root was missed and
the provider fell back to a binary that does not exist.

Model: GLM-5.3-Flash via ZCode. Harness: ZCode.
…ndpoint override

A runtime-mode change detached the session but the resumed native session kept
the mode it was created with, so Full access could stay `yolo` after switching to
Supervised. The adapter now sends `session/setMode` after `session/resume` and
re-syncs before `session/send`.

`interaction/requestProviderRuntimeHeaders` was answered inline while holding the
session event permit, so three sequential HTTPS calls stalled every stream and
tool event. The answer is forked, and the credential store is cached by content
digest instead of being decrypted on every model request.

`ZCODE_BASE_URL` was always overwritten; the builtin catalog path and endpoint
hash now follow the configured origin so the override works end to end.

The token exchange reports the installed CLI version from `current.json` and
omits it when unknown, instead of a hard-coded `0.0.0`, and the provider docs
disclose that the server reads the CLI's credential store as ZCode's host.
…wning app-server

The provider spawned `zcode app-server --stdio` per turn and minted its own
credentials, duplicating what the zcode CLI already owns and skipping the
user-level daemon.

T3 now attaches to `zcode serve`: it reads the daemon status file for the port
and ingress token, starts the launcher detached only when no daemon is running,
and streams the v4 conversation channel. Channel calls map onto the existing
adapter surface and interactions resolve through `resolveInteraction`.
Account-config pushing and the credential module are gone; the daemon owns the
exchange.
A resumed session advertises its models under snapshot.settings.model.available,
but subscribeSession parsed the model object itself, so availableModels stayed
empty. The next send then omitted reasoningLevel, which GLM-5.3 requires.

Parse the available list and cover the resumed send in the adapter test.
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This PR changes the test suite by +74 test cases (browser 0, unit +61, server +13).

Keep tests that would fail for a real reason, and test logic below the UI where it can be. See Testing.


const userInputView = (payload: unknown): UserInputView => {
const questions = field(payload, "questions");
const question = Array.isArray(questions) ? questions[0] : undefined;

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🟠 High server/zcodeServeConversation.ts:246

For a userInput interaction with multiple questions, only the first prompt and its choices reach the user, and the remaining questions are never answered. userInputView selects only questions[0], so the adapter and interactionAnswer can map only that question; preserve the complete question list through the request and response mapping.

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For a `userInput` interaction with multiple `questions`, only the first prompt and its choices reach the user, and the remaining questions are never answered. `userInputView` selects only `questions[0]`, so the adapter and `interactionAnswer` can map only that question; preserve the complete question list through the request and response mapping.

});
}
const running = yield* readZcodeServerStatus(input.fileSystem, serverRoot);
if (Option.isSome(running)) return { serverRoot, status: running.value };

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🟠 High server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts:152

A stale state: "ready" file makes ensureZcodeServer return the dead daemon's endpoint without starting a replacement, so connectZcodeServer fails and retries keep blocking ZCode sessions. Check that the endpoint is alive before accepting the saved status, and enter the startup path when it is not.

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A stale `state: "ready"` file makes `ensureZcodeServer` return the dead daemon's endpoint without starting a replacement, so `connectZcodeServer` fails and retries keep blocking ZCode sessions. Check that the endpoint is alive before accepting the saved status, and enter the startup path when it is not.

const interaction = conversation.pendingInteractions.get(id);
const answer = interactionAnswer(interaction, result);
if (answer === undefined || sessionId === undefined) return;
conversation.pendingInteractions.delete(id);

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🟠 High server/zcodeServeConnection.ts:291

When resolveInteraction is rejected or times out, respond still reports success, so adapter.ts removes the approval or question from the UI even though the daemon never received it; the ID remains in announcedInteractions, preventing the request from being reannounced and leaving the turn waiting without an actionable request. respond deletes the pending interaction before the call and catches delivery errors; let errors propagate and delete the interaction only after commitCommand succeeds.

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When `resolveInteraction` is rejected or times out, `respond` still reports success, so `adapter.ts` removes the approval or question from the UI even though the daemon never received it; the ID remains in `announcedInteractions`, preventing the request from being reannounced and leaving the turn waiting without an actionable request. `respond` deletes the pending interaction before the call and catches delivery errors; let errors propagate and delete the interaction only after `commitCommand` succeeds.

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const turnOutputTokens = (state: ZcodeConversationState): number | undefined => {
let best: { rowId: number; tokens: number } | undefined;
for (const [rowId, row] of state.rows) {
if (text(row, "kind") !== "turnHeader") continue;
const tokens = number(row, "outputTokens");
if (tokens === undefined) continue;
if (best === undefined || rowId > best.rowId) best = { rowId, tokens };
}
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🟠 High server/zcodeServeConversation.ts:338

A completed turn can report the previous turn's tokenCount, causing adapter.ts to persist stale usage as tokenUsage.usedTokens. turnOutputTokens skips headers without outputTokens before selecting the newest header; select the newest header first and return undefined if it has no count.

 const turnOutputTokens = (state: ZcodeConversationState): number | undefined => {
-  let best: { rowId: number; tokens: number } | undefined;
+  let latest: { rowId: number; row: ZcodeRecord } | undefined;
   for (const [rowId, row] of state.rows) {
     if (text(row, "kind") !== "turnHeader") continue;
-    const tokens = number(row, "outputTokens");
-    if (tokens === undefined) continue;
-    if (best === undefined || rowId > best.rowId) best = { rowId, tokens };
+    if (latest === undefined || rowId > latest.rowId) latest = { rowId, row };
   }
-  return best?.tokens;
+  return latest === undefined ? undefined : number(latest.row, "outputTokens");
 };
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A completed turn can report the previous turn's `tokenCount`, causing `adapter.ts` to persist stale usage as `tokenUsage.usedTokens`. `turnOutputTokens` skips headers without `outputTokens` before selecting the newest header; select the newest header first and return `undefined` if it has no count.

const toolCallId = zcodeRecordString(payload, "toolCallId");
if (toolCallId === undefined) return undefined;
const existing = turn.tools.get(toolCallId);
if (existing !== undefined) {

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🟡 Medium server/adapter.ts:759

When a tool's input arrives in a later tool.updated event, command items keep displaying {} and file writes cannot be emitted as file_change items. toolStateFor refreshes the existing tool's name but not its input, so copy any newly supplied input into the existing state before emitting the item.

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This pull request adds ZCode as a T3 Code provider. It adds provider settings and registration, CLI and credential status checks, daemon and channel transport, and orchestration support for sessions, tools, approvals, and streamed conversation events.

Changes: ZCode provider

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider contracts and registration
packages/provider-zcode/*, packages/contracts/*, packages/client-runtime/*, apps/server/src/provider/*, apps/server/src/policy/managedProviders.ts, apps/server/src/settingsSecrets.ts, README.md, docs/user/*, apps/mobile/src/features/settings/settings-search.ts, apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts, apps/marketing/src/pages/llms.txt.ts, package.json, scripts/release-smoke.ts
Adds ZCode settings, client and driver registrations, provider metadata, search entries, and setup documentation.
Runtime and provider status
packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeRuntime*, packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeEntitlements*, packages/provider-zcode/src/server/status*, apps/server/src/provider/model-manifest.json
Adds runtime path and launch resolution, catalog and entitlement lookup, CLI-version checks, and credential-based status reporting.
Daemon and channel transport
packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeProtocol.ts, packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServe*
Adds daemon acquisition, host-capability setup, framed WebSocket communication, and session-operation handling.
Conversation events and orchestration
packages/provider-zcode/src/server/adapter.ts, packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeConversation*, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ZcodeAdapterV2*
Adds snapshot and delta conversion, session and turn operations, tool and interaction events, and adapter tests for normal and error paths.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant T3Code
  participant ZcodeAdapterV2
  participant makeZcodeServeConnection
  participant connectZcodeServer
  participant ZcodeChannelClient
  participant ZcodeDaemon
  T3Code->>ZcodeAdapterV2: create or resume session
  ZcodeAdapterV2->>makeZcodeServeConnection: open serve connection
  makeZcodeServeConnection->>connectZcodeServer: acquire daemon and host capability
  connectZcodeServer->>ZcodeDaemon: probe status or start zcode serve
  connectZcodeServer-->>makeZcodeServeConnection: server connection details
  makeZcodeServeConnection->>ZcodeChannelClient: open channel
  ZcodeAdapterV2->>ZcodeChannelClient: send session requests
  ZcodeChannelClient->>ZcodeDaemon: deliver requests and receive frames
  ZcodeDaemon-->>ZcodeAdapterV2: session events and server requests
  ZcodeAdapterV2-->>T3Code: emit provider events and turn results
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Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#33684: Adds an earlier ZCode provider implementation with the same adapter, driver, status, and registration paths; this pull request changes the transport to zcode serve.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 638d2

Multi-select questions from ZCode cannot be answered with several choices, and an explicit single-select flag is wrongly shown as free text. Several other open concerns remain: the user guide misstates credential handling, launch arguments with spaces break, and session startup can hang when the daemon stops responding. Fix the question handling and the credential documentation before merging.

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packages/provider-zcode/src/server/adapter.ts: 1

1602-1673: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Use named spans for the session I/O functions, or state why each one is untraced.

subscribeSession, createNativeSession, resumeNativeSession, and registerThread each make daemon requests with timeouts of up to 150 s. They use Effect.fnUntraced and give no reason. A slow session/create or session/resume therefore has no span to diagnose. The same applies to installTurn, handleServerRequest, streamItemFor, and emitToolItem in this file, respond in zcodeServeConnection.ts, and makeZcodeChannelClient in zcodeServeProtocol.ts. Use Effect.fn("ZcodeAdapter.createNativeSession") and similar names for these operations. Keep fnUntraced only for per-event handlers, and add the reason comment that updateProviderSession already has.

As per coding guidelines: "Default to named spans for service operations and I/O. Use Effect.fnUntraced deliberately for per-chunk/per-event work... Explain the reason beside the function or a group of related functions."

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/adapter.ts around lines 1602 - 1673:
Replace Effect.fnUntraced with named spans for the session I/O operations subscribeSession, createNativeSession, resumeNativeSession, and registerThread, and apply the same treatment to installTurn, handleServerRequest, streamItemFor, emitToolItem, respond, and makeZcodeChannelClient. Keep Effect.fnUntraced only for per-event or per-chunk work, with a nearby reason comment for any such use.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ZcodeAdapterV2.test.ts: 2

708-708: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Assert terminal publication before the start failure.

The child can finish before the test consumes its events. Joining it after turn.terminal only proves eventual completion. The test would still pass if a regression returned the start error before publishing the terminal sequence. That ordering is the contract documented in the adapter’s startTurn rejection handler. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

Extend this case to check the publication boundary explicitly, rather than relying on the position of Fiber.join.

As per coding guidelines, test “race fixes” at “the lowest one that fails on main.”

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ZcodeAdapterV2.test.ts at line 708:
Update the test around `startFiber` to assert that the terminal event sequence is published before the start failure is observed. Make the assertion check the ordering boundary directly; do not rely on `Fiber.join` appearing after `turn.terminal`, since the child may already have completed before the test consumes events.

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191-195: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Remove the constant-only smoke test.

This case compares constants, a direct alias, and a fixed default. Delete the case and its otherwise unnecessary zcodeDriverKind alias in ZcodeAdapterV2.testkit.ts, Line 264. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

As per coding guidelines, “Leave out tests for what types already guarantee, trivial logic, copy text, smoke runs”.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ZcodeAdapterV2.test.ts around lines 191 - 195:
Remove the constant-only test case that compares ZcodeAdapterV2Driver.driverKind, zcodeDriverKind, and the fixed default binaryPath; also remove the now-unused zcodeDriverKind alias from the test kit. Leave unrelated tests and driver behavior unchanged.

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packages/provider-zcode/src/server/status.test.ts: 1

199-217: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Cover picker models in the existing plan-selected status case.

The status tests never read snapshot.models. The entitlement tests call zcodeEntitledModels directly, so no test fails if checkZcodeProviderStatus stops passing entitled models to the picker. The Effect.orElseSucceed fallback in checkZcodeProviderStatus hides catalog or entitlement failures, so such a regression would show only as missing models.

Extend the plan-selected case at status.test.ts:199-217. Add a catalog file under ZCODE_DATA_BASE_DIR for the selected plan. Then assert that snapshot.models contains that plan's model and its reasoning options. This follows the repository rule that backend behavior changes ship with focused tests, and that an existing case is extended when it fits.

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Extend the plan-selected status case using checkZcodeProviderStatus to verify that picker models are included in snapshot.models. Add the selected plan’s catalog file under ZCODE_DATA_BASE_DIR, then assert that snapshot.models includes its model and reasoning options.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/policy/managedProviders.ts:
- Line 54: Update the existing-daemon path in ensureZcodeServer so pinned
binaryPath and launchArgs are enforced when attaching to a running ZCode daemon.
First establish whether restarting a mismatched shared daemon is safe for its
other clients; if not, reject the attach rather than silently accepting the
mismatch. Keep the zcodeClient registration unchanged.

Review comments at @docs/user/providers-zcode.md:
- Around line 20-22: Replace the categorical credential-access claim in the
ZCode provider documentation with an accurate description: T3 Code reads sign-in
data and handles tokens for status and model enumeration, while the daemon
performs authentication requests. Preserve the distinction between these
responsibilities and avoid implying that T3 Code never accesses credentials or
tokens.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/status.ts:
- Line 263: Update the PlatformError detail annotation to omit the arbitrary
error.message text and log only a bounded, stable error category; preserve the
existing annotation flow and use an established category symbol rather than
introducing a new one.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeEntitlements.ts:
- Around line 110-111: The nonempty-string check in the entitlement
token-selection path can accept a raw encrypted token that
`readDecryptedCredentialStore` rejects, causing provider status and model
selection to disagree. Validate tokens through the same decryption boundary for
both status and entitlement selection, preserving the existing behavior for
valid tokens, and add one focused test covering a corrupt or differently
encrypted token.
- Around line 80-86: Update readDecryptedCredentialStore and the entitlement
discovery flow so credential decryption and discovery happen in the ZCode
daemon, not in the T3 Code process. Remove the local iteration that decrypts
credentials.json values, and use an established daemon-boundary result for
entitlement discovery without exposing plaintext credentials to T3 Code.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeRuntime.ts:
- Line 212: Update zcodeServeArgs to preserve quoted launch arguments as single
values, so a path containing spaces remains one argument; use an appropriate
argument parser or represent launch arguments as separate values instead of
splitting free-form input on whitespace.
- Around line 198-200: Update the turn handling that calls
zcodeModelSelectionFromSlug so undefined omits the model only for the recognized
default and default$<level> slugs; reject other unparseable slugs through the
existing turn-error mechanism instead of proceeding with the CLI default.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeConnection.ts:
- Around line 287-300: Update respond so a failed resolveInteraction commit
propagates as the declared ZcodeProtocolError and leaves the interaction in
conversation.pendingInteractions; remove it only after the commit succeeds. In
adapter.ts, update respondToRuntimeRequest to retain the request in
pendingApprovals or pendingQuestions until connection.respond succeeds, so
failures leave it answerable.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts:
- Around line 151-152: Update ensureZcodeServer’s handling of
readZcodeServerStatus so a ready status is reused only when the daemon is
confirmed healthy; otherwise fall through to the existing spawn and poll path.
Ensure polling cannot accept the stale status from before the respawn, using an
established health check and status-refresh mechanism.
- Around line 83-87: Add a bounded timeout to the host-capability
`httpClient.execute(request)` effect before `connectZcodeServer` waits
indefinitely; ensure timeout failures become a `ZcodeProtocolError` with
operation `hostCapability` without wrapping an existing `ZcodeProtocolError`
again.
- Around line 116-135: Update the serve startup flow so `spawner.spawn`
completes in the current fiber and its `ZcodeProtocolError` is propagated
immediately on failure; detach only the subsequent `child.exitCode` wait. Ensure
`ensureZcodeServer` receives the spawn failure instead of waiting for the
startup timeout and returning the generic readiness error.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeProtocol.ts:
- Around line 36-45: Update serializeInto to send negative and non-safe integers
through the JSON path, and use writeVarint only for nonnegative safe integers.
In writeVarint, replace 32-bit bitwise digit extraction with arithmetic so large
safe integers encode without truncation.
- Around line 297-304: Update ZcodeChannel.failAll to close the socket after
failing pending calls and completing closed, so decode and handshake failures
leave no active connection; ensure the socket is declared before failAll can
reference it, without changing the existing failure behavior.

---

Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ZcodeAdapterV2.test.ts:
- Line 708: Update the test around `startFiber` to assert that the terminal
event sequence is published before the start failure is observed. Make the
assertion check the ordering boundary directly; do not rely on `Fiber.join`
appearing after `turn.terminal`, since the child may already have completed
before the test consumes events.
- Around line 191-195: Remove the constant-only test case that compares
ZcodeAdapterV2Driver.driverKind, zcodeDriverKind, and the fixed default
binaryPath; also remove the now-unused zcodeDriverKind alias from the test kit.
Leave unrelated tests and driver behavior unchanged.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/adapter.ts:
- Around line 1602-1673: Replace Effect.fnUntraced with named spans for the
session I/O operations subscribeSession, createNativeSession,
resumeNativeSession, and registerThread, and apply the same treatment to
installTurn, handleServerRequest, streamItemFor, emitToolItem, respond, and
makeZcodeChannelClient. Keep Effect.fnUntraced only for per-event or per-chunk
work, with a nearby reason comment for any such use.

Review comments at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/status.test.ts:
- Around line 199-217: Extend the plan-selected status case using
checkZcodeProviderStatus to verify that picker models are included in
snapshot.models. Add the selected plan’s catalog file under ZCODE_DATA_BASE_DIR,
then assert that snapshot.models includes its model and reasoning options.

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museClient,
openCodeClient,
piClient,
zcodeClient,

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Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift

Enforce pinned launch settings when attaching to a running ZCode daemon.

ensureZcodeServer returns early when a daemon already runs. The pinned binaryPath and launchArgs are used only when T3 spawns a new daemon. A daemon that started before the policy, or with other settings, keeps running without the pinned values. The daemon is user-level and outlives T3, so the mismatch can persist.

Anchor the comment at packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts:151-152. The zcodeClient registration does not carry the defect.

No patch is proposed. The correction needs a decision about shared-daemon ownership. T3 could compare the running daemon's launch configuration with the pins and restart a mismatched daemon, or reject the attach. A restart affects other clients of that daemon, and the inspected code does not establish which option is safe.

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Review comment at @apps/server/src/policy/managedProviders.ts at line 54:
Update the existing-daemon path in ensureZcodeServer so pinned binaryPath and launchArgs are enforced when attaching to a running ZCode daemon. First establish whether restarting a mismatched shared daemon is safe for its other clients; if not, reject the attach rather than silently accepting the mismatch. Keep the zcodeClient registration unchanged.

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Comment on lines +20 to +22
T3 Code never stores or reads your Z.AI sign-in. The ZCode daemon owns the credential exchange:
it reads the sign-in `zcode login` wrote on the same machine and mints the short-lived account
tokens its turns need. T3 Code attaches to that daemon and never handles the tokens. Signing out

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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Correct the credential-access claim.

status.ts reads credentials.json, and zcodeEntitlements.ts reads a decrypted credential store to enumerate models. T3 Code therefore does read sign-in data and handle tokens, even if the daemon performs authentication requests. Replace the categorical privacy claim with an accurate description of that boundary. The claim affects a user’s decision to connect an account.

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Review comment at @docs/user/providers-zcode.md around lines 20 - 22:
Replace the categorical credential-access claim in the ZCode provider documentation with an accurate description: T3 Code reads sign-in data and handles tokens for status and model enumeration, while the daemon performs authentication requests. Preserve the distinction between these responsibilities and avoid implying that T3 Code never accesses credentials or tokens.

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const error = versionResult.failure;
const detail =
error instanceof PlatformError.PlatformError
? `${error.reason._tag}: ${error.message}`

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Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win

Keep raw platform errors out of log annotations.

PlatformError.message is arbitrary error text. This branch copies it into the detail log annotation. Log a bounded error category instead. As per coding guidelines and path instructions, “Attributes and log annotations stay bounded” and must not contain “arbitrary defect text.”

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/status.ts at line 263:
Update the PlatformError detail annotation to omit the arbitrary error.message text and log only a bounded, stable error category; preserve the existing annotation flow and use an established category symbol rather than introducing a new one.

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Comment on lines +80 to +86
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(parsed)) {
if (typeof value !== "string") continue;
const decrypted = yield* Effect.try({
try: () => decryptZcodeCredential(value, secret),
catch: () => undefined,
}).pipe(Effect.option);
if (Option.isSome(decrypted)) entries[key] = decrypted.value;

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Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift

Keep credential decryption in the ZCode daemon.

readDecryptedCredentialStore decrypts every string in credentials.json, including credentials unrelated to the selected Z.AI family. This puts plaintext credentials in the T3 Code process. The shipped ZCode documentation promises that T3 Code never reads the sign-in or handles its tokens. Move entitlement discovery across the daemon boundary instead of decrypting its credential store here. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

The PR objective also assigns authentication and credential handling to the daemon.

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeEntitlements.ts around lines 80 - 86:
Update readDecryptedCredentialStore and the entitlement discovery flow so credential decryption and discovery happen in the ZCode daemon, not in the T3 Code process. Remove the local iteration that decrypts credentials.json values, and use an established daemon-boundary result for entitlement discovery without exposing plaintext credentials to T3 Code.

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Comment on lines +110 to +111
const token = store[`oauth:${family}:access_token`];
if (typeof token !== "string" || token.length === 0) continue;

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Make provider status and model selection use the same validated token state.

If an encrypted token is corrupt or uses a different secret, readDecryptedCredentialStore drops it. status.ts instead passes the raw encrypted string to this predicate, so the nonempty-string check reports the provider as authenticated while the picker finds no entitled models. Validate the token through the same boundary for both results, and cover this mismatch with one focused test. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeEntitlements.ts around lines 110 - 111:
The nonempty-string check in the entitlement token-selection path can accept a raw encrypted token that `readDecryptedCredentialStore` rejects, causing provider status and model selection to disagree. Validate tokens through the same decryption boundary for both status and entitlement selection, preserving the existing behavior for valid tokens, and add one focused test covering a corrupt or differently encrypted token.

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Comment on lines +83 to +87
const response = yield* httpClient
.execute(request)
.pipe(
Effect.mapError((cause) => new ZcodeProtocolError({ operation: "hostCapability", cause })),
);

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The host-capability request has no timeout.

httpClient.execute(request) has no time limit. A daemon that accepts TCP but stops responding blocks connectZcodeServer, so openSession never returns and never fails. The channel handshake has INITIALIZE_TIMEOUT_MS, but this step runs before it. Add a timeout that maps to ZcodeProtocolError.

Proposed fix

--- "a/packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts"
+++ "b/packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts"
@@ -80,11 +80,21 @@
     `http://${status.host}:${status.port}/api/rpc-host-capability`,
     { headers: { authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } },
   );
   const response = yield* httpClient
     .execute(request)
     .pipe(
+      Effect.timeoutOrElse({
+        duration: Duration.seconds(10),
+        orElse: () =>
+          Effect.fail(
+            new ZcodeProtocolError({
+              operation: "hostCapability",
+              detail: "zcode server did not answer the host grant request.",
+            }),
+          ),
+      }),
       Effect.mapError((cause) => new ZcodeProtocolError({ operation: "hostCapability", cause })),
     );
   if (response.status < 200 || response.status >= 300) {
     return yield* new ZcodeProtocolError({
       operation: "hostCapability",
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const response = yield* httpClient
.execute(request)
.pipe(
Effect.mapError((cause) => new ZcodeProtocolError({ operation: "hostCapability", cause })),
);
const response = yield* httpClient
.execute(request)
.pipe(
Effect.timeoutOrElse({
duration: Duration.seconds(10),
orElse: () =>
Effect.fail(
new ZcodeProtocolError({
operation: "hostCapability",
detail: "zcode server did not answer the host grant request.",
}),
),
}),
Effect.mapError((cause) => new ZcodeProtocolError({ operation: "hostCapability", cause })),
);
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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts around lines 83 - 87:
Add a bounded timeout to the host-capability `httpClient.execute(request)` effect before `connectZcodeServer` waits indefinitely; ensure timeout failures become a `ZcodeProtocolError` with operation `hostCapability` without wrapping an existing `ZcodeProtocolError` again.

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Comment on lines +116 to +135
yield* Effect.forkDetach(
Effect.scoped(
Effect.gen(function* () {
const child = yield* spawner
.spawn(
ChildProcess.make(command.command, command.args, {
env: input.environment,
extendEnv: false,
shell: command.shell,
detached: platform !== "win32",
stdin: "ignore",
stdout: "ignore",
stderr: "ignore",
}),
)
.pipe(Effect.mapError((cause) => new ZcodeProtocolError({ operation: "serve", cause })));
yield* child.exitCode.pipe(Effect.ignore);
}),
),
);

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

The real spawn failure is lost, and the user waits 30 s for a generic error.

spawner.spawn runs inside Effect.forkDetach. If the binary is missing or not executable, the detached fiber fails and nothing observes that failure. The Effect.catch at lines 164-166 covers only resolveSpawnCommand. ensureZcodeServer then polls for the full STARTUP_TIMEOUT and returns "zcode serve did not report a ready daemon." That message hides the ENOENT cause. Wait in the current fiber until the spawn is acquired, and fork only the exitCode wait. Then a spawn error fails fast with its cause.

Proposed direction

-  yield* Effect.forkDetach(
-    Effect.scoped(
-      Effect.gen(function* () {
-        const child = yield* spawner
-          .spawn(...)
-          .pipe(Effect.mapError(...));
-        yield* child.exitCode.pipe(Effect.ignore);
-      }),
-    ),
-  );
+  const spawned = yield* Deferred.make<void, ZcodeProtocolError>();
+  yield* Effect.forkDetach(
+    Effect.scoped(
+      Effect.gen(function* () {
+        const child = yield* spawner.spawn(...).pipe(
+          Effect.mapError((cause) => new ZcodeProtocolError({ operation: "serve", cause })),
+          Effect.tapError((error) => Deferred.fail(spawned, error)),
+        );
+        yield* Deferred.succeed(spawned, undefined);
+        yield* child.exitCode.pipe(Effect.ignore);
+      }),
+    ),
+  );
+  yield* Deferred.await(spawned);

Then ensureZcodeServer should propagate the spawn error instead of only logging it.

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts around lines 116 - 135:
Update the serve startup flow so `spawner.spawn` completes in the current fiber and its `ZcodeProtocolError` is propagated immediately on failure; detach only the subsequent `child.exitCode` wait. Ensure `ensureZcodeServer` receives the spawn failure instead of waiting for the startup timeout and returning the generic readiness error.

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Comment on lines +151 to +152
const running = yield* readZcodeServerStatus(input.fileSystem, serverRoot);
if (Option.isSome(running)) return { serverRoot, status: running.value };

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A stale status.json blocks every session, and the code never starts a new daemon.

readZcodeServerStatus returns the status whenever the file says state: "ready". It does not check that the daemon still runs. Suppose the daemon is killed or crashes before it rewrites the file, for example after SIGKILL, OOM, or a reboot with a persistent home directory. Then ensureZcodeServer returns the stale host and port. issueZcodeHostCapability fails with a connection error, and openSession fails. Each later attempt reads the same file and fails the same way. The user must start zcode serve by hand or delete the file. The PR describes starting the daemon "only when no healthy daemon is available", but this path does not check health. Probe the daemon first. You can check that pid is alive, or treat a failed capability request as "not running" and fall through to the spawn and poll path.

Proposed direction

--- "a/packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts"
+++ "b/packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts"
@@ -148,8 +148,10 @@
       detail: "ZCode has no data directory to host a server.",
     });
   }
   const running = yield* readZcodeServerStatus(input.fileSystem, serverRoot);
-  if (Option.isSome(running)) return { serverRoot, status: running.value };
+  if (Option.isSome(running) && isDaemonAlive(running.value)) {
+    return { serverRoot, status: running.value };
+  }
 
   const launchCommand = yield* resolveZcodeLaunchCommand(
     input.settings,
const isDaemonAlive = (status: ZcodeServerStatus): boolean => {
  if (status.pid === undefined) return true;
  try {
    process.kill(status.pid, 0);
    return true;
  } catch (error) {
    return (error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === "EPERM";
  }
};

After a respawn, the poll loop must not accept the same stale file. Compare pid, or delete the stale file before you spawn.

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeDaemon.ts around lines 151 - 152:
Update ensureZcodeServer’s handling of readZcodeServerStatus so a ready status is reused only when the daemon is confirmed healthy; otherwise fall through to the existing spawn and poll path. Ensure polling cannot accept the stale status from before the respawn, using an established health check and status-refresh mechanism.

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Comment on lines +36 to +45
const writeVarint = (bytes: number[], value: number): void => {
if (value === 0) {
bytes.push(0);
return;
}
for (let rest = value; rest !== 0; rest = Math.floor(rest / 128)) {
const byte = rest & 0x7f;
bytes.push(rest > 0x7f ? byte | 0x80 : byte);
}
};

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

writeVarint loops forever on a negative integer.

serializeInto sends every integer to writeVarint, including negative ones. For value = -1, Math.floor(-1 / 128) is -1, so rest !== 0 is always true. The loop never ends and pushes bytes until the process runs out of memory. Any negative integer in a header or a top-level array argument triggers this. Values above 2^31 also encode wrongly, because rest & 0x7f truncates to 32 bits. Send negative and non-safe integers through the JSON path.

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-  if (typeof value === "number" && Number.isInteger(value)) {
+  if (typeof value === "number" && Number.isSafeInteger(value) && value >= 0) {
     bytes.push(TAG_INT);
     writeVarint(bytes, value);
     return;
   }
-  for (let rest = value; rest !== 0; rest = Math.floor(rest / 128)) {
-    const byte = rest & 0x7f;
+  for (let rest = value; rest !== 0; rest = Math.floor(rest / 128)) {
+    const byte = rest % 128;
     bytes.push(rest > 0x7f ? byte | 0x80 : byte);
   }
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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeProtocol.ts around lines 36 - 45:
Update serializeInto to send negative and non-safe integers through the JSON path, and use writeVarint only for nonnegative safe integers. In writeVarint, replace 32-bit bitwise digit extraction with arithmetic so large safe integers encode without truncation.

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Comment on lines +297 to +304
const failAll = Effect.fn("ZcodeChannel.failAll")(function* (error: ZcodeProtocolError) {
yield* Deferred.fail(initialized, error).pipe(Effect.ignore);
for (const [id, call] of pending) {
pending.delete(id);
yield* Deferred.fail(call.deferred, error).pipe(Effect.ignore);
}
yield* Deferred.succeed(closed, undefined).pipe(Effect.ignore);
});

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

failAll leaves the socket open after a decode or handshake failure.

After a decode error, failAll fails the pending calls and completes closed. The socket stays open. zcodeServeConnection.ts then fails events and exitDeferred, and the adapter reports the connection as lost. However, initialized has already succeeded, so a later call passes awaitInitialized and the readyState check, and still sends frames on the open socket. The client is then closed for consumers but still active on the wire. The handshake-timeout path has the same gap. Close the socket inside failAll.

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     yield* Deferred.succeed(closed, undefined).pipe(Effect.ignore);
+    yield* Effect.sync(() => socket.close());
   });

socket is declared after failAll. Move the openSocket call above failAll, or move failAll below the socket declaration.

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const failAll = Effect.fn("ZcodeChannel.failAll")(function* (error: ZcodeProtocolError) {
yield* Deferred.fail(initialized, error).pipe(Effect.ignore);
for (const [id, call] of pending) {
pending.delete(id);
yield* Deferred.fail(call.deferred, error).pipe(Effect.ignore);
}
yield* Deferred.succeed(closed, undefined).pipe(Effect.ignore);
});
const failAll = Effect.fn("ZcodeChannel.failAll")(function* (error: ZcodeProtocolError) {
yield* Deferred.fail(initialized, error).pipe(Effect.ignore);
for (const [id, call] of pending) {
pending.delete(id);
yield* Deferred.fail(call.deferred, error).pipe(Effect.ignore);
}
yield* Deferred.succeed(closed, undefined).pipe(Effect.ignore);
yield* Effect.sync(() => socket.close());
});
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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeProtocol.ts around lines 297 - 304:
Update ZcodeChannel.failAll to close the socket after failing pending calls and completing closed, so decode and handshake failures leave no active connection; ensure the socket is declared before failAll can reference it, without changing the existing failure behavior.

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Probe a saved ready status before trusting it, keep failed interaction answers pending, preserve every question in multi-question prompts, refresh tool input from later updates, and read token usage from the newest turn header.
Keep the pending approval or question retryable when resolveInteraction fails, matching the transport's new error propagation.

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@packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeConversation.ts:
- Around line 260-265: Update the question mapping so only `multiSelect: true`
enables multi-selection; preserve the boolean through `UserInputQuestionView`
and the adapter into `OrchestrationV2UserInputQuestion.multiSelect`, without
treating `false` as free text. Extend the existing question test to cover both
`true` and `false`.

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Comment on lines +260 to +265
const freeText =
field(payload, "freeText") === true || field(entry, "multiSelect") !== undefined;
return {
header: text(entry, "header") ?? `Question ${index + 1}`,
prompt: text(entry, "question") ?? text(payload, "prompt") ?? "The agent asked a question",
inputType: freeText || choices.length === 0 ? "text" : "choice",

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Major · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Preserve the question’s selection mode.

If a question has multiSelect: false, this condition still marks it as free text. If it has multiSelect: true, UserInputQuestionView loses that value. The adapter then sets allowCustomAnswer but never sets OrchestrationV2UserInputQuestion.multiSelect. A user cannot select multiple presented choices through the resulting structured question. Preserve the boolean through the view and adapter, and cover both values in the existing question test. As per coding guidelines, “Backend behavior changes ship with focused tests for that behavior.”

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Review comment at @packages/provider-zcode/src/server/zcodeServeConversation.ts around lines 260 - 265:
Update the question mapping so only `multiSelect: true` enables multi-selection; preserve the boolean through `UserInputQuestionView` and the adapter into `OrchestrationV2UserInputQuestion.multiSelect`, without treating `false` as free text. Extend the existing question test to cover both `true` and `false`.

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Closing. We are not taking new providers from outside PRs, and this also duplicates #33684. See prior approval.

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