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Wake VS Code Copilot chats through verified native hooks - #2088
Copilot chats in VS Code can join Relay, receive messages in the same native chat, and resume from a waiting stop hook on macOS. This adds the public core adapter, session contract and hook helper; private relay-desktop owns provider setup, managed MCP credentials and per-call identity signing. History ingestion stays in RelayHistory’s existing Copilot provider.
The adapter verifies the live Microsoft-signed runtime, its host and sealed VS Code app, native held session inode, exact host-selected helper and helper program signature. Ordinary terminal/MCP children of the shared runtime cannot select a chat. Offers are scoped to the active workspace and owning registration, including aliases. Durable submission claims survive restart and long sleeps; uncertain sends are failed without automatic resubmission.
The native hooks deliver post-tool context or a stop continuation without launching another executor. Missed starts recover through verified hooks; identity context retries until native acknowledgment. Completed final replies are bound to the delivery receipt and matching final turn. Managed hook repair preserves user content and handles helper moves. Closing/cancelling the chat, provider limits or machine sleep can end the waiting hook; this does not reopen closed chats or wake a computer. Linux/Windows report verified wake unavailable.
Validation: full core library suite before the final runtime-recovery follow-up (2,241 passed, 16 ignored), latest 33 Copilot regressions, 11 shared inbox regressions, and two outbound route tests covering identity/alias/workspace scoping and claimed-message preservation across rename/replacement; cargo fmt; the unchanged published-peer install tests (2 passed after the npm tarball became available); a live strict signature/held-session proof against the installed VS Code runtime. Clippy completes with existing warnings; rust-oleum has existing base violations and no new Copilot violations. Veto code/security/secrets review passes. Companion Desktop setup tests and Swift build pass with a local dependency patch.
Live component checks used a disposable native Copilot chat. A complete packaged Desktop → deployed Cloud MCP → Relay reply/history round trip remains release validation; this PR does not claim that end-to-end result. Desktop must pin the public core after merge, and Cloud #6080 supplies the attestation verifier.
This change adds native Copilot session support for VS Code on macOS. It adds runtime verification, managed hooks, session discovery, identity handling, durable delivery claims, and receipt-based responses. It also updates documentation and reformats existing code.
Changes: Copilot VS Code Relay
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Summary
Session contracts, configuration, and hooks crates/relay-node/contract/CoreContract.swift, crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/*, crates/relay-node/src/relay/cli/*, crates/relay-node/src/relay/sessions.rs
Adds the Copilot session kind, configuration, managed hook settings, CLI command, and filtered hook payload handling.
Trusted runtime and session proof crates/relay-node/src/relay/process*, crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/proof.rs
Adds VS Code and relay-helper trust checks. Verifies Copilot runtime identity, process ancestry, signatures, and session-hold descriptors.
Session discovery and local integration crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/sessions.rs, crates/relay-node/src/relay/local*, crates/relay-node/src/relay/hook_agents.rs
Adds proof-gated discovery and hook answers. Connects Copilot sessions to local lookup, presentation, caller attribution, and activation.
Hook routing, identity, and delivery crates/relay-node/src/relay/outbound*, crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/{delivery,receipts}.rs, crates/relay-node/src/relay/delivery/*, crates/relay-node/tests/*
Routes /copilot/hook, adds registration-bound identity context, and uses durable claims with native receipt checks for delivery.
Copilot documentation and validation docs/harnesses/copilot-vscode.md, crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/tests.rs, CHANGELOG.md
Documents the Copilot harness and adds macOS coverage for hooks, discovery, settings, identity, registration changes, and delivery state.
AgentWorkforce/relay#2087: Also updates the Standing board entry; its provider event-filter changes are separate.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 32bf2
If the Relay core misses a Copilot chat's start event after VS Code or the runtime restarts, text-only chats may not receive Relay messages until a tool call occurs or the chat is restarted. Messages are not lost. This is a narrow availability gap and does not block merging.
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A rabbit watched the Copilot hooks wake, Through signed-up paths and holds they make. Claims stayed still when answers were unsure, While native receipts made delivery pure. “Hop onward,” said Bunny, “the chat can resume!” And tidy new tables made room in the room.
[Medium impact] The reviewed changes appear safe to merge; no new blocking issue was found.
Summary
Adds native Copilot chat delivery in VS Code on macOS.
Verified hooks let registered VS Code Copilot chats join Relay.
Relay messages continue inside the same Copilot chat.
Related cleanup keeps behavior unchanged.
All three earlier, unnumbered findings are addressed: orphaned hooks check their parent, setup can repair moved helpers, and renaming preserves an already-claimed answer. No new actionable issues were found. Tests were inspected, not run during this review.
Diagram
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flowchart TD
A[Native Copilot hook] --> B[Check helper and parent]
B --> C{Empty stop poll with matching runtime?}
C -->|Yes| D[Return empty answer]
C -->|No| E[Verify signed runtime and held chat]
E --> F[Check owner under lock]
F --> G[Save current runtime]
G --> H{Matching offer?}
H -->|Yes| I[Save claim before returning message]
H -->|No| D
Add matching postToolUse receipts with success: false and success: true. Assert that only the successful receipt produces Delivered. The current test would not catch removal of the success check.
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- 102:
Extend the test around the `send` call to cover matching `postToolUse` receipts
with both success values. Assert that only the receipt with success set to true
produces `InjectOutcome::Delivered`, while the false receipt does not; preserve
the existing hook-decision assertion.
Unverified finding
We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
Staged Copilot offers introduce a cancellation contract, but the supplied LocalInjector::cancel handles only Codex and OpenCode. A cancelled delivery may remain available for a later Copilot hook to consume.
The cancelled message can still be injected into the chat.
This can occur when: A pending Copilot delivery is cancelled or withdrawn after offer() succeeds but before a tool/stop hook claims it.
Unverified finding
We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
Adding the concrete .copilot case may make downstream exhaustive Swift switches over SessionKind non-exhaustive. The generated conversions are consistent, but Desktop consumers are not supplied.
The companion Desktop build fails.
This can occur when: Desktop regenerates or imports this contract and compiles an exhaustive SessionKind switch without a Copilot branch.
Unverified finding
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An idle stop hook continues polling until its deadline without checking whether its native runtime still exists. The server's idle fast path also skips runtime proof, so runtime exit alone does not terminate this loop despite the function's lifecycle promise.
An orphaned helper can remain alive and poll the daemon for almost an hour after its chat has ended.
This can occur when: VS Code or its Copilot runtime crashes while an end_turn hook is waiting with no offered message.
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Native receipt lookup is scoped only by session and message reference, while delivery claims additionally include the registration binding. A receipt from an earlier registration can therefore confirm a later registration's new claim without proving that later submission was accepted.
send() can return Delivered using the earlier registration's receipt and incorrectly acknowledge the new delivery.
This can occur when: The same Relay message ID reaches the same native chat under a replacement registration, and the new hook claims it but its response is lost or rejected.
Unverified finding
We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
Pre-tool forwarding recognizes Relay tools only through the literal agent-relay- prefix. This introduces a naming contract with the native MCP tool-name producer that is not shown; a namespaced or differently normalized Relay tool name is silently discarded before Desktop can attest it.
Legitimate Relay tool calls receive no injected native proof and fail hosted identity verification.
This can occur when: A supported Copilot/MCP configuration presents a Relay tool as, for example, a server-prefixed native name rather than an agent-relay-... name.
Unverified finding
We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
The new hook installer needs a production setup counterpart, but the supplied plugin assembly neither constructs CopilotSettings nor registers a Copilot settings extension. Without companion setup wiring, discovery remains disabled because CopilotConfig::enabled requires the installed file.
Setup may configure hosted MCP without installing lifecycle hooks, leaving Copilot chats undiscoverable and unable to receive Relay messages.
This can occur when: A user connects Copilot through the production setup flow on a supported Mac.
Unverified finding
We couldn't verify this from the code. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
The new route depends on the unseen account plugin intercepting Copilot pre-tool callbacks and producing modifiedArgs. The supplied fallback returns an empty answer for before, so it cannot fulfill the documented Desktop-signing and Cloud-verification contract by itself.
Hosted MCP requests lack an acceptable native-chat proof and cannot act as the registered Copilot chat.
This can occur when: Copilot hooks are enabled with a companion account plugin or deployed Cloud version that lacks the matching Copilot proof implementation.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot.rs:
- Around line 45-47: Update the claim-retention behavior used by the development
configuration and TurnInbox so a Copilot claim remains available while its
buffered delivery can still be replayed, including after a core restart; only
discard the claim once replay is no longer possible. Preserve the existing
delivery and retry safeguards, and use the established journal lifecycle to
determine when that condition is met.
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/sessions.rs:
- Around line 64-69: Update the discovery flow around the `filter_map` so
descriptor scanning and shared filesystem checks are performed once per
discovery pass rather than repeated for every chat. Preserve inode verification
for each individual session, and keep the existing JSON filtering and session
construction behavior.
- Around line 90-92: Update the stop-hook flow around idle_stop so it ensures a
missing session record is created before returning through the idle fast path.
Preserve the existing fast-path behavior once the record exists, and use the
stop hook’s established session-record creation mechanism.
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/settings.rs:
- Around line 43-45: Validate the generated command in the Copilot hook settings
flow before inserting it into hooks or writing the configuration. Reuse the same
recognition criteria as installed hook handling so commands with relative
executable paths or unrecognized executable names are rejected before
installation.
- Around line 83-85: Update the managed-file detection around OWNER, version,
and EVENTS so enabling or disabling the integration does not overwrite or remove
user-added hook events or settings; preserve additional content, or refuse the
replacement or removal when it is present.
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/local.rs:
- Line 1115: Update the Copilot handling in the SessionKind match so automatic
replies read the chat’s final answer from the delivered message and resolve the
recorded direct-message reply opportunity. Keep ClaudeCloud’s existing behavior
unchanged.
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/local/lock_held.rs:
- Around line 143-145: Update unattributed_runtime so Copilot detection uses
runtime entry-point evidence rather than matching arbitrary process arguments,
preventing message text from classifying the enclosing Claude or Codex session
as Copilot. Preserve the shared-runtime boundary and the existing Grok check.
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/local/registered.rs:
- Around line 14-16: Update the SessionKind::Copilot send path to use the
binding owned by the registration for alias offers, matching the binding used by
the hook when polling. Ensure current and forwarding aliases resolve to that
registration-scoped binding while preserving isolation between registrations.
Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/outbound/hooks/copilot.rs:
- Around line 97-100: Update the identity deduplication in the Copilot hook so
an identity is cached only after Copilot confirms it accepted the context; until
then, allow later tool hooks to retry the same identity. Preserve the existing
behavior of returning the cached answer for identities whose context has been
accepted.
- Around line 23-27: Update the Copilot offer hook around self.core.workspace()
and registration_for to verify that the registration belongs to the active
workspace and expected owner before claiming an offer or emitting identity
context. Apply the same validation to in-flight requests so a workspace change
invalidates stale registrations rather than allowing them to resume a chat.
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Review comments at @crates/relay-node/src/relay/copilot/tests.rs:
- Around line 85-102: Extend the test around the `send` call to cover matching
`postToolUse` receipts with both success values. Assert that only the receipt
with success set to true produces `InjectOutcome::Delivered`, while the false
receipt does not; preserve the existing hook-decision assertion.
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Both failing Node compatibility jobs failed the unchanged published-peer install test because npm returned 404 for the @relayfile/sdk@0.10.77 tarball. The base branch has the identical test. The registry now serves that tarball (HTTP 200), and the exact test passes locally: 2 passed. No dependency pin, override, or test expectation was changed.
Latest head 32bf28a also fixes the claimed-message rename/replacement race and attached Node eval/print parsing. Validation: 32 focused Copilot tests, both outbound tests (including synchronized rename/replacement during the receipt wait), cargo fmt, and Veto review. The new push starts fresh CI against the available registry artifact.
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- Around line 153-158: Update the idle-stop fast path so it returns immediately
only when the record’s pid and start match the current runtime; when the record
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proof and observe path. Preserve the existing hook check for matching records
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Copilot chats in VS Code can join Relay, receive messages in the same native chat, and resume from a waiting stop hook on macOS. This adds the public core adapter, session contract and hook helper; private relay-desktop owns provider setup, managed MCP credentials and per-call identity signing. History ingestion stays in RelayHistory’s existing Copilot provider.
The adapter verifies the live Microsoft-signed runtime, its host and sealed VS Code app, native held session inode, exact host-selected helper and helper program signature. Ordinary terminal/MCP children of the shared runtime cannot select a chat. Offers are scoped to the active workspace and owning registration, including aliases. Durable submission claims survive restart and long sleeps; uncertain sends are failed without automatic resubmission.
The native hooks deliver post-tool context or a stop continuation without launching another executor. Missed starts recover through verified hooks; identity context retries until native acknowledgment. Completed final replies are bound to the delivery receipt and matching final turn. Managed hook repair preserves user content and handles helper moves. Closing/cancelling the chat, provider limits or machine sleep can end the waiting hook; this does not reopen closed chats or wake a computer. Linux/Windows report verified wake unavailable.
Validation: full core library suite before the final runtime-recovery follow-up (2,241 passed, 16 ignored), latest 33 Copilot regressions, 11 shared inbox regressions, and two outbound route tests covering identity/alias/workspace scoping and claimed-message preservation across rename/replacement; cargo fmt; the unchanged published-peer install tests (2 passed after the npm tarball became available); a live strict signature/held-session proof against the installed VS Code runtime. Clippy completes with existing warnings; rust-oleum has existing base violations and no new Copilot violations. Veto code/security/secrets review passes. Companion Desktop setup tests and Swift build pass with a local dependency patch.
Live component checks used a disposable native Copilot chat. A complete packaged Desktop → deployed Cloud MCP → Relay reply/history round trip remains release validation; this PR does not claim that end-to-end result. Desktop must pin the public core after merge, and Cloud #6080 supplies the attestation verifier.