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Harden eight flaky core and broker tests, and fix the Devin host on macOS - #2058

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Eight tests failed intermittently on GitHub runners while #2057 was in review, at commits that didn't touch them. Each one is fixed at its root cause: no #[ignore] and no retries. One of them was a real product bug.

Test Where it failed Root cause Fix
devin::host::transport_tests::mock_acp_process_stays_idle_and_takes_a_second_turn_until_explicit_release macOS, BrokenPipe at host.rs:479 Product bug. On macOS an accepted socket inherits the listener's non-blocking mode, so the 1 s read timeout did nothing. A request the client hadn't written yet read as WouldBlock, and the host dropped the connection. accept_control sets each accepted socket to blocking. The test now also sends one request from a client that waits 200 ms before writing. That request fails deterministically with the exact CI error on the old code and passes with the fix.
history_flush::a_failing_receiver_ends_at_the_deadline_with_records_pending, a_slow_receiver_cannot_overrun_the_absolute_deadline Every run on a Mac, right after a fresh link macOS scans a newly linked executable on its first launch (7 s measured here, 0 s after). The wall-clock bounds counted that scan. Sandbox::new runs the binary once (--version) before any test starts its clock. The in-process elapsed_ms deadline checks are unchanged. Before: fails on every cold run. After: 4/4 cold runs pass.
relay_core::stopping_a_channel_whose_peer_stopped_reading_is_bounded macOS, timed out waiting for Live The fake replies to the 1 MB register and then stops reading. When the reply arrives after a heartbeat write has already wedged, the channel reads nothing while wedged, so Live never comes. That's expected for a dead peer and isn't what the test checks. Wait for the fake to hold the node.register frame instead of for Live, then check that stop is bounded as before.
relay_outbound::a_missing_accepted_handoff_settles_in_doubt_without_holding_back_later_handoffs Linux, timed out at bridge.rs:498 The two DMs were queued under separate locks. A delivery fetch could see only the first, and the injector's scripted outcomes (one global FIFO) then went to the wrong messages, so the end state the test waits for never came. New FakeRelaycast::send_dms queues both under one lock.
relay_agents::a_slow_initial_connect_poll_does_not_block_team_heartbeats_or_queues macOS on main 05a130289, and earlier on Linux; timed out waiting for the team heartbeat The test used the cohort with successful team queue reads. A successful read refreshes presence and makes the REST heartbeat redundant, as the helper's comment says, so when the read landed first no heartbeat was sent within the hour-long interval. Use failing team queue reads, as the sibling heartbeat tests do. The queue-read assertion still holds, since failed reads are recorded. 25/25 runs pass, and the whole relay_agents suite passes.
probe::inventory::tests::reading_a_provider_database_asks_for_no_pass macOS, including the in-job retry One quiet second didn't mean startup's own passes had finished on a slow runner, so a late startup pass read as a pass caused by the database read. Wait for four consecutive quiet seconds first, the same fix relay-desktop shipped. Main has since landed the same fix with a 30 s deadline and diagnostics, so after merging main this PR no longer changes this test.
broker snippets::tests::mcp_preflight_rejects_incomplete_tool_registration Ubuntu release tests The assertion didn't print the error. Two likely causes: a 1 s budget on a loaded runner, or ETXTBSY from exec'ing a script this multithreaded test process had just written while another test forked. Run the fake server as /bin/sh <script>, so no just-written file is exec'd. Raise the budget to 10 s; it only bounds a hung server, and this one answers at once. Print the error if the assertion fails.

Verified on an Apple-silicon Mac:

  • Devin test: 40/40, plus the A/B above.
  • relay_core and relay_outbound tests: 25/25 each, with the full probe lib suite running alongside as load.
  • Inventory test: 12/12.
  • Broker preflight tests: 20/20.
  • history_flush: 4/4 cold.
  • cargo fmt is clean, and clippy reports nothing new in the touched files.

One user-visible fix (Devin on macOS) has a changelog bullet under Fixed.

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- Devin host: macOS gives an accepted socket the listener's non-blocking
  mode, so a control request not yet written read as WouldBlock and the
  connection was dropped (the BrokenPipe in the transport test). The host
  now makes each accepted socket blocking; a client that pauses before
  writing is answered, and the test covers it.
- history_flush: run the binary once before the wall-clock tests, so
  macOS's first-launch scan of a new executable is not timed.
- relay_core: the stop-bounded test waits for the peer to hold the
  register instead of for Live, which a wedged heartbeat write can delay
  forever.
- relay_outbound: queue both Connect DMs together, so the scripted inject
  outcomes cannot go to the wrong message when a fetch sees only one.
- inventory: wait for four quiet seconds before asserting no pass, as
  relay-desktop does.
- broker MCP preflight: run the fake server through sh (no ETXTBSY from
  exec of a just-written file) with a budget that is not under test, and
  print the error on failure.

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The Devin host now handles control requests from pending Unix-socket clients without waiting for incomplete writes, subject to client-count and request-size limits. The PR also adjusts broker and probe test setup and batching, and adds a changelog entry about macOS Devin message delivery.

Changes: Devin control transport

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read bounded pending control requests
crates/probe/src/relay/harness/devin/host.rs
The host tracks pending control connections and reads available request data without waiting for incomplete input. It limits pending clients to 64 and request lines to 131,072 bytes.
Integrate and test pending requests
crates/probe/src/relay/harness/devin/host.rs, CHANGELOG.md
The drive loop passes pending connections to the control handler. Transport tests cover silent and delayed clients. The changelog records a fix for messages arriving shortly after a macOS Devin agent connects.

Broker and probe test adjustments

Layer / File(s) Summary
Adjust test setup and synchronization
crates/broker/src/snippets.rs, crates/probe/tests/history_flush.rs, crates/probe/tests/relay_core.rs, crates/probe/tests/relay_agents.rs
The broker test invokes its script through /bin/sh with a longer timeout. Probe tests warm the test binary, wait for a registration frame, and configure queue-read failures with a long heartbeat interval.
Queue and consume batched direct messages
crates/probe/tests/support/fake_relaycast.rs, crates/probe/tests/relay_outbound.rs
FakeRelaycast::send_dms queues multiple messages under one lock and returns their IDs in input order. The accepted-handoff test uses it to queue both messages.

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ControlClient
  participant DevinHost
  participant ACPFrameProcessing
  ControlClient->>DevinHost: Connect without sending a complete request
  DevinHost->>ACPFrameProcessing: Continue processing ACP frames
  ControlClient->>DevinHost: Send a complete request line
  DevinHost->>ControlClient: Return the request response
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Possibly related PRs

  • AgentWorkforce/relay#2015: Both PRs address macOS behavior for accepted Unix sockets, with this PR applying a transport change to the Devin host.
  • AgentWorkforce/relay#2060: Both PRs address cold-run timing failures in history_flush by warming the test binary.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 47b43

The changelog documents the macOS Devin message-delivery fix. No actionable merge-blocking risk is established for this change.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 2

Failed Failed checks: 2 warnings

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Description check Warning The description follows the template's main parts. It has a Summary, which is a detailed table of the eight tests with their failures, root causes, and fixes. It lists verification under the Test Plan… Fill in the RelayFlow Proof section. Set the change type (for example bugfix, because the Devin macOS fix changes user-visible behavior) in the relay-pr-proof:type marker. Add one case under tests/relayflows/cases// and set the r…
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 25.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title is specific and matches the changeset. It names the two main parts: hardening eight flaky core and broker tests, and fixing the Devin host on macOS. The summary covers the test changes and t…
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The title is specific and matches the changeset. It names the two main parts: hardening eight flaky core and broker tests, and fixing the Devin host on macOS. The summary covers the test changes and the Devin host fix, so the title is related to the main change. It does not describe every file, which is acceptable.

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The description follows the template's main parts. It has a Summary, which is a detailed table of the eight tests with their failures, root causes, and fixes. It lists verification under the Test Plan intent, but the template checkboxes ("Tests added/updated", "Manual testing completed") are not ticked. The RelayFlow Proof section is missing. Its placeholders (replace-me) remain unfilled, so the change type and RelayFlow case are not provided. The Screenshots section is absent but is marked as optional. The description also says the main-branch fix for the inventory test has landed, so that item may need a reconsideration before merge.

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Fill in the RelayFlow Proof section. Set the change type (for example bugfix, because the Devin macOS fix changes user-visible behavior) in the relay-pr-proof:type marker. Add one case under tests/relayflows/cases/<case-id>/ and set the relay-pr-proof:case marker to that case ID. Tick the Test Plan checkboxes that apply, or state why they do not. Remove the replace-me placeholders. Check the inventory test item, which the description says main has already fixed, and confirm whether the PR should still include that item.

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[Low impact] The PR appears safe to merge; no actionable regression was found.

Summary

Fixes delayed Devin control requests on macOS and hardens flaky core and broker tests.

  • Devin agents receive control requests even when clients write later.
  • History-flush tests warm up the probe binary before timing commands.
  • The heartbeat test makes queue reads fail so it can observe the REST heartbeat.
  • The peer-stop test waits for the register frame before checking shutdown.
  • The outbound handoff test queues both messages together.
  • The broker preflight test runs its fake server with more room to respond.

No actionable issues were found.

Diagram

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
    A[Accept same-user connection] --> B[Keep request pending]
    B --> C{Complete line available?}
    C -->|No, within deadline| B
    C -->|No, deadline passed| D[Close connection]
    C -->|Yes| E[Parse request and answer]
    E --> F{Stop requested?}
    F -->|Yes| G[End host]
    F -->|No| H[Continue provider work]
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Nitpick The test's stated precondition, a wedged heartbeat write, is never established. The test waits for …

683-687: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

The test's stated precondition, a wedged heartbeat write, is never established. The test waits for node.register, sleeps 500 ms, and calls channel.stop(). The final Stopped assertion also holds after an ordinary stop, so the test can pass without a heartbeat write in flight. It therefore does not guarantee that the stop-cancels-in-flight-heartbeat branch in push.rs runs. A regression that stops sending heartbeats would also not fail this test.

Establish an in-flight blocked heartbeat write before channel.stop() runs. The 500 ms sleep does not provide that condition.

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No code diff is proposed. The fake's ability to observe a pending client write is not established, so this comment does not prescribe a fake signal or a frame-based check.

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Review comment at @crates/probe/tests/relay_core.rs around lines 683 - 687:
Update the test around fake.wait_for and channel.stop to establish, using an
observable signal supported by the fake, that a heartbeat write is blocked and
in flight before stopping the channel. Do not use the 500 ms sleep or the final
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reliably observe the pending write so the test fails if heartbeat sending is
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Comment thread crates/probe/src/probe/inventory.rs Resolved
The Devin host answers each control request whose line has arrived and
keeps a client that has not written yet pending until its one-second
budget runs out, so a silent client no longer holds up ACP frames or
another request. The warm-up launch and the inventory quiet wait are
bounded, and the changelog bullet names the spawn command.

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Minor follow-up Bound how many connections one accept pass takes.

205-205: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Bound how many connections one accept pass takes.

accept_control keeps accepting until listener.accept() returns WouldBlock. CONTROL_PENDING_LIMIT caps only the stored clients, not the connections accepted. A continuous connection flood keeps the loop running, so queued ACP frames and pending control requests are not handled until the flood stops. The control client gives up after 3 seconds and treats the missing response as a failure.

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Review comment at @crates/probe/src/relay/harness/devin/host.rs at line 205:
Bound the number of connections accepted in each pass of accept_control so a
continuous connection flood cannot prevent queued ACP frames and pending control
requests from being handled. Keep CONTROL_PENDING_LIMIT’s existing role for
stored clients, and return to the request-processing path after the per-pass
bound is reached, leaving remaining connections for a later pass.
Nitpick Cover a partial request line in the transport test.

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Cover a partial request line in the transport test.

The transport test covers a silent client and a client that pauses before it writes a full line. It does not cover a client that has written part of a request line. A regression that blocks after a partial line would not fail the suite. Adding this case tests the reader that this PR changes.

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         drop(silent);
+        // A client that has written part of a request line holds up no one else.
+        let mut partial = UnixStream::connect(&record.socket).unwrap();
+        partial.set_read_timeout(Some(Duration::from_secs(3))).unwrap();
+        partial.write_all(br#"{"op":"status""#).unwrap();
+        let asked = Instant::now();
+        assert_eq!(
+            request(&record.socket, json!({"op":"status"}))["state"],
+            "idle"
+        );
+        assert!(
+            asked.elapsed() < Duration::from_millis(500),
+            "a partial client delayed another request by {:?}",
+            asked.elapsed()
+        );
+        partial.write_all(b"}\n").unwrap();
+        let mut line = String::new();
+        BufReader::new(partial).read_line(&mut line).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(serde_json::from_str::<Value>(&line).unwrap()["state"], "idle");
         // A client that connects before it writes is still answered (macOS

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Review comment at @crates/probe/src/relay/harness/devin/host.rs around lines 633
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Extend the transport test around the existing silent-client case to cover a
client that writes only part of a request line. Verify a separate status request
still returns “idle” promptly, then complete the partial request and verify its
response; preserve the existing silent-client and delayed-write checks.
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…queues

The test waited for a REST heartbeat while the team queue reads
succeeded. A successful read refreshes presence and makes that
heartbeat redundant, so when the read landed first no heartbeat was
ever sent within the hour-long interval. Team reads now fail, as in
the sibling heartbeat tests.

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@kjgbot kjgbot changed the title Harden seven flaky core and broker tests, and fix the Devin host on macOS Harden eight flaky core and broker tests, and fix the Devin host on macOS Nov 3, 2026
# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	crates/probe/src/probe/inventory.rs
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Brings in #2058 (flaky test hardening, Devin host fix), #2059 (policy and
brand removal), #2060 (core parity) and #2061 (relay init starts the
desktop core).

- Keep the deletions of crates/broker/src/snippets.rs, vitest.e2e.config.ts
  and relayflow cases 1593/1736/1756; main's edits there only trimmed
  policy or hardened a broker-only test.
- package.json, knip.json, publish.yml, package-validation.yml and the 1763
  case carry both removals: no policy/brand and no broker packages.
- package-lock.json regenerated from main's against the merged workspaces.
- CHANGELOG keeps every entry from both sides under [Unreleased - Major];
  the Devin fix now names `relay serve`, since `relay fleet spawn` no
  longer spawns on this machine.
- desktop-presence.ts (from #2061) imports isUsableBinary from the CLI's
  own install-paths instead of the removed @agent-relay/harness-driver.

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