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fix(mail): for CLI signed-inbox delivery, only promote() first-delivers into cur/ (#380) - #469

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Closes #380.

For CLI signed-inbox delivery, promote() is the only first-delivery writer of cur/; updates to existing records are enumerated, with presentation separately gated. MailClient applies the same signature, sender, recipient, ID, timestamp and replay checks through the shared envelope policy; CLI promotion additionally rejects an invalid signed non-bridge trust value, which MailClient instead maps to external. Outbox and internal mail are separate stores.

What changed

  • The deploy bot (both copies) and the channel bridge promote instead of renaming. Failed verification refuses delivery and attempts dead-lettering. The bridge's parse-failure path no longer moves an unparseable record into cur/.

  • Both retry eligible dlq/ entries. The bridge also retries new/ on its timer and serializes mailbox work.

  • One mailbox policy for promote(), MailClient, and topic catch-up. The signature/sender/recipient/id-shape/timestamp decision, envelope parser, and topic-recipient rules live in packages/agent/src/lib/mailbox-policy.ts. The CLI and MailClient use its consumed-id replay store under the shared mailbox lock; topic catch-up retains its cursor when verification or recipient policy is unavailable.

  • MailClient throws when constructed without a verifier. The parameter is still optional in TypeScript; the refusal is at runtime. AgentRuntime constructs a verifier using config.flair?.url, FLAIR_URL, then http://127.0.0.1:9926.

  • The source scan covers scripts/, package src/ and scripts/, and plugin src/. It enumerates twelve sites, including the writeMessageFile primitive and mail.ts's five writeMessageFile calls. The primitive is always a cur candidate; ack/nack sites are distinguished by the following operation. Unmatched calls and stale entries fail; unrecognized destinations may be missed.

  • Registry verification accepts hex and canonical base64 public keys; the agent provider accepts raw private seeds. Non-404 registry read failures are retryable.

  • Lock acquisition and stale reclamation share an atomic claim. A stranded claim requires operator recovery; polling re-reads birth tokens.

  • Unrecoverable consumed history withholds delivery. Appends preserve a line boundary; initialized ledger loss refuses delivery; CLI cur recovery requires a ledger ID.

  • The scan uses the filesystem destination position before options or callbacks. The forged deploy-bot fixture includes an ID.

  • The delivery-control test checks its build prerequisites. Missing agent entry points report packages/agent/dist missing — run bun run build; the root test script is unchanged.

Evidence

Touched tests, measured on b552796

File Fixture Pass Fail
test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts native 8 0
packages/cli/test/mail-final-controls.test.ts native 14 0
packages/agent/test/mail-promote-guard.test.ts in-process HTTP 20 0
packages/cli/test/bridge-mail-promote.test.ts in-process HTTP and polling watcher 3 0

Native bind/watch integration remains unverified.

Measured on 9d86f15 versus origin/main 3df2769

Isolated launchers, canonical paths, empty launcher HOME; per-file runs with a 90-second deadline. Plugin dependencies came from the existing offline installation; both trees were built.

Suite 9d86f15 pass/fail origin/main 3df2769 pass/fail Timeouts (head/main)
agent 134/0 120/0 0/0
cli 1507/16 1496/16 0/0
pi-tps-mail 0/0 0/0 0/0
root-test 135/2 123/2 0/0
plugin 208/0 205/0 1/1
github-review 195/6 218/6 0/0
Whole socket-free lane, observed cases 2179/24 2162/24 1/1

Counts combine completed cases and successful reruns without double-counting. Both trees skip the same three pi-tps-mail cases and have identical failing test names.

The updated cur-writers test passes 10/0 on 9d86f15. Applied as a test fixture to origin/main 3df2769 sources (which have no native cur-writers test), it reports 6/4 and detects the original deploy-bot and bridge bypasses.

Timed-out file on both trees:

plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/test/locality.test.ts

Failed test names on both trees:

4e positive — real nono (Landlock/Seatbelt): the premise > nono denies a path outside every grant while the granted twin is readable
4e positive — the attested launch against the pinned nono > tps agent start is RELEASED: real nono, canaries verified, session bound to the spawned pid
4e — the private dir is removed on every path > createPrivateLaunchDir + removePrivateLaunchDir leave nothing behind
4e+r4f positive — a TTY parent still RELEASES (real nono) > script(1) gives the launch a PTY; real nono keeps it and the child attests anyway
4g — the launch socket path is bounded to sun_path > a 64-char id under a long HOME still yields a within-limit socket path
4g — the launch socket path is bounded to sun_path > a HOME too long for even the shortened label refuses LOUDLY, naming the length
A1 — independent plugin loading > the built entry loads under node
E — the gateway-boundary lane (OpenClaw loader + gateway tool dispatch, in a separate node process) > from the lane's manifest OVERLAY: the probe runs in the gateway process, reads the host-only marker, sees a sandboxed session; a concurrent pair posts ONCE
E — the gateway-boundary lane (OpenClaw loader + gateway tool dispatch, in a separate node process) > the SHIPPED manifest REJECTS the CI probe even with the CI flag set
E — the gateway-boundary lane (OpenClaw loader + gateway tool dispatch, in a separate node process) > the SHIPPED manifest: zero diagnostics, default sandbox policy withholds the verb, the documented allow offers it, and it POSTS with the audit acknowledged
T5 — the pinned-path launch spawns nono and the child argv asserts the flags > agent start --sandbox-required with a fake nono at NONO_BIN: the run argv carries both flags
changelog fragments — two PRs with distinct fragment filenames (cli#449) > B merged into A, and A's original commit merged into B: both clean, both fragments present
get > runs verify and returns live value
latch-admin reconcile — decisions, records, application > the BUILT command runs under node: list, and clear refusing a posted latch
runCommandUnderNono() > warns and falls back when nono not on PATH (non-strict)
runVerify — nonzero exit > false command returns nonzero_exit
tps agent commit > creates a branch and commits only the requested paths
tps agent commit > pushes the branch and opens a PR via gh-as
type coercion > string coercion — rejects empty

Loopback-bind exclusions (socket-free cases retained where possible; launch-attestation requires Unix sockets). Loopback binds were refused.

packages/agent/test/flair-context.test.ts
packages/agent/test/mail-promote-guard.test.ts
packages/cli/test/branch-join.test.ts
packages/cli/test/bridge-mail-promote.test.ts
packages/cli/test/codex-presence-444.test.ts
packages/cli/test/flair-sync.test.ts
packages/cli/test/launch-attestation.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-bridge.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-producers-sign.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-promote.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-receipt-thread.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-remote.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-send-routes.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-send-stdin-reply.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-unresolvable-principal.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail-watch.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mail.test.ts
packages/cli/test/mock-llm.test.ts
packages/cli/test/noise-ik-transport.test.ts
packages/cli/test/plain-tcp-transport.test.ts
packages/cli/test/runtime-mail-lifecycle.test.ts
packages/cli/test/service-proxy.test.ts
packages/cli/test/wire-mail.test.ts
packages/cli/test/ws-noise-transport.test.ts
packages/pi-tps-mail/test/reply-send.test.ts
test/deploy-bot-promote.test.ts

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Mail that can’t be verified during a temporary service outage can be retried automatically when verification becomes available.
    • Mail processing now checks signed envelopes, recipient details, and message IDs before delivery.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid, forged, or previously delivered messages are withheld from delivery.
    • Mailbox history and locking safeguards help prevent duplicate delivery, including during concurrent processing or storage issues.
    • Deployment bots and bridges now verify incoming mail before forwarding it.

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  • .changelog/unreleased/fixed-380-only-promote-writes-cur.md
  • packages/agent/src/index.ts
  • packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts
  • packages/cli/src/bridge/core.ts
  • packages/cli/src/utils/mail-verify.ts
  • packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts
  • packages/cli/test/bridge-mail-promote.test.ts
  • packages/cli/test/bridge-outbox-retry.test.ts
  • packages/cli/test/mail-delivery-controls.test.ts
  • plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/src/index.ts
  • plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/test/nack-recovery.test.ts
  • plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/test/patch-mail-file.test.ts
  • plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/test/reply-obligation.test.ts
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Walkthrough

Mail verification and promotion now use shared mailbox policy, replay tracking, and locking. Deploy bots and the bridge promote records before forwarding them and retry eligible dead-letter entries. A source scan checks for direct writes to cur/.

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Shared mailbox policy and locking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared envelope policy, replay store, and locking
packages/agent/src/lib/mailbox-policy.ts, packages/agent/src/lib/mail-lock.ts, packages/agent/src/index.ts, packages/agent/src/lib/topic-recipient.ts
The agent package adds shared envelope parsing and mailbox decisions, replay-history tracking, and mailbox locking. Its entry point exports these helpers, and topic-recipient checks use the shared policy.
Agent verification and promotion
packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts, packages/agent/src/io/flair.ts, packages/agent/src/runtime/agent.ts, packages/agent/src/lib/registry-key.ts, packages/agent/test/*
MailClient requires a verifier and uses the shared policy and replay store when promoting mail. Flair registry keys are decoded through a shared helper; non-404 lookup errors propagate. Tests cover retry, rejection, replay, and storage failures.
CLI promotion, replay, and topic catch-up
packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts, packages/cli/src/utils/mail-topics.ts, packages/cli/src/utils/mail-verify.ts, packages/cli/src/utils/{mail-lock,envelope-id}.ts, packages/cli/test/*, plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/test/*
CLI mail utilities use the shared policy and replay store for promotion and recovery. Retryable DLQ entries are redriven, and topic catch-up uses shared envelope parsing and recipient decisions. Tests cover promotion, history failures, locking, and catch-up.
Mail producer integration and writer checks
scripts/deploy-bot.ts, packages/cli/scripts/deploy-bot.ts, packages/cli/src/bridge/core.ts, test/deploy-bot-*.test.ts, packages/cli/test/bridge-mail-promote.test.ts, test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts, .changelog/unreleased/*
Deploy bots and BridgeCore promote records before forwarding and retry eligible DLQ entries. Their polling paths and redrive behavior have integration tests. A source scan checks for direct writes to cur/, and the changelog records the mail-promotion changes.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeployBot
  participant BridgeCore
  participant promote
  participant MailboxPolicy
  participant ReplayStore
  participant Mailbox
  DeployBot->>promote: promote incoming mail
  BridgeCore->>promote: promote outbox record
  promote->>MailboxPolicy: parse and decide envelope
  promote->>ReplayStore: check and record message ID
  promote->>Mailbox: move accepted record to cur or rejected record to dlq
  BridgeCore->>promote: retry eligible DLQ record
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Suggested reviewers: tps-sherlock, heskew, tps-flint

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b5527

Outbound bridge messages can stall without being forwarded until the bridge restarts, especially when several messages are queued at startup. Add a retry or sequential processing path before merging. Running the tests locally on a clean checkout may also fail unless the agent package is built first.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b5527

The change strengthens mail verification and applies it consistently before delivery. However, moving a message and recording its consumption remain separate operations. Storage failures can leave verified mail stranded, and recovery is not fully established across all delivery paths.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: The new agent promotion sequence moves verified mail into cur/ before recording consumption. If recording and compensating rollback both fail, the record remains outside the agent's new-mail scan without a ledger commit. CLI recovery also requires that commit. This creates a stranded-mail state whose recovery ownership is not established. The controls withhold uncommitted delivery rather than bypass authorization, but the newly added ledger-failure path makes recoverability material to the shared acceptance design.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The shared acceptance policy affects mailbox filesystem delivery and downstream bridge adapters. Replay-state ownership is per mailbox root, while policy defects could propagate across multiple consumers. Tenant, service, credential, and environment-wide exposure cannot be determined from the supplied deployment evidence.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Untrusted mail records must pass envelope verification and sender/recipient binding before promotion and bridge forwarding. Retry eligibility is not authorization: eligible dead-letter entries are verified again. The inspected paths do not establish a new route around those controls.
  • observed — Unreadable or unrecoverable replay history withholds promotion. Missing initialized history is treated as an error rather than an empty history, and CLI storage-unavailable rejections are eligible for later verified retry.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — The mailbox lock protects concurrent acceptance but does not make the filesystem move and ledger append a single crash-atomic transaction. Compensating rollback and committed-history checks contain unauthorized presentation, while unresolved reconciliation can turn storage faults into persistent withholding of legitimate mail.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define a shared, durable recovery protocol for interrupted promotion and failed compensation. Reconciliation should preserve envelope verification and lock ownership, distinguish committed from uncommitted records, and avoid both duplicate presentation and permanently stranded mail.
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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning Issue #380 requires promote() to be the only writer into an inbox cur/. The reviewed head still has MailClient.commitToCur() call renameSync(srcPath, dstPath) with dstPath in inboxCur. `te… Route MailClient through the shared promote() path, or write its records to new/ and let promote() move them into cur/. Remove the MailClient direct-write exception from test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts and keep the invariant tes…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 51.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 70 functions across 35 files. (1 skipped:… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The added registry-key decoding supports verifier operation. Mail locks, replay history, rollback, DLQ re-drive, bridge forwarding, and their tests support safe verification and promotion of live mail…
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the mail-delivery change: use promote() for first delivery into cur/.
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Explanation

Issue #380 requires promote() to be the only writer into an inbox cur/. The reviewed head still has MailClient.commitToCur() call renameSync(srcPath, dstPath) with dstPath in inboxCur. test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts explicitly allows this call, so the test does not enforce the stated invariant. The other requested paths are covered: both deploy-bot copies call promote(), bootstrap calls promote() for its probe, the watcher dispatches only output from tps mail check, and MailClient construction rejects a missing verifier.

Resolution

Route MailClient through the shared promote() path, or write its records to new/ and let promote() move them into cur/. Remove the MailClient direct-write exception from test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts and keep the invariant test failing on that writer.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

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Docstring coverage is 51.43% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 70 functions across 35 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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cli#380 sweep — every sentence this PR adds or changes

Scope: git diff origin/main...HEAD on fix/380-only-promote-writes-cur (head 356474a, main
3a1873d): the two deploy-bot.ts copies, bridge/core.ts, agent/src/io/mail.ts,
agent/src/runtime/agent.ts, the four test files, the changelog fragment, and the PR body. Each
item is a claim; the call is checked against the code, and the test that asserts it is named.

scripts/deploy-bot.ts and packages/cli/scripts/deploy-bot.ts

  1. "Promote every new/ record through the shared promote() boundary and return the commands it
    verified." — TRUE: pollNewMail() iterates new/ and returns {id, from, body} from the
    promoted message (so from is the verified envelope sender and body the verified payload).
    Asserted by "a verified command is promoted to cur/ and returned".
  2. "promote() is the ONE transition into cur/: it verifies the signed envelope and dead-letters
    what fails, so a retryable outage is re-driven by a later check." — TRUE: promote() writes
    cur/ only after verifyRecordForMailbox passes; a refusal goes to dlq/ with its class, and
    checkMessages() re-drives retryable classes. Asserted by the forged (dlq) and outage (not
    promoted) cases.
  3. "This script must never rename into cur/ itself (cli#380): a direct rename skips verification,
    and cur/ is a live delivery source." — TRUE, and asserted by the invariant test, which fails
    when this rename is restored (run, red, restored).
  4. "a slow promotion must not overlap the next poll" — TRUE: the ticking flag wraps the awaited
    poll, so a poll that is still running is not entered twice.

packages/cli/src/bridge/core.ts

  1. "The ONE transition into cur/: promote() verifies the signed envelope, dead-letters what fails
    and leaves a retryable record for a later check." — TRUE, same rule as above. Asserted by the
    bridge tests (verified → forwarded and in cur/; forged → not forwarded, in dlq/).
  2. "A record this consumer never verified is never forwarded to the channel (cli#380) — the bridge
    must not be a second, weaker verification boundary." — TRUE: the adapter send happens only on
    promoted.ok, and the forged case asserts the adapter saw nothing. Scope word "never" is
    asserted for the two failure modes the tests cover (forged, and wrapper that does not promote);
    no code path sends before promote() returns ok.
  3. "The promoted body is the verified payload (the envelope's body)." — TRUE: promote() sets the
    promoted record's body to envelope.body, and the bridge test asserts the adapter received
    exactly that content.

packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts

  1. "verification is NOT optional. A MailClient without a verifier is not a state that exists —
    refusing here deletes the hatch an unverified promotion went through (the shared checkMessages
    deleted its optional client the same way). There is deliberately no default: a default client
    would be the same hatch with a friendlier face." — TRUE: the constructor throws without a
    verifier, so no instance exists without one, and there is no defaulted parameter. Asserted by
    "constructing a MailClient without a verifier is refused" (io.test.ts) and "NO verifier: the
    client cannot be constructed — the hatch is gone" (mail-promote-guard.test.ts); both go red
    when the refusal is removed.
  2. "the verifier is a required constructor argument (a MailClient without one cannot be
    constructed), so there is no unverified path" plus the two refusal bullets (verifier THROWS →
    refuse and keep the record; verifier REJECTS → dead-letter with the .reason sidecar) — TRUE.
    The throw case and the reject case are asserted by the existing fail-closed drills in
    mail-promote-guard.test.ts; the "no verifier" bullet that used to be here is deleted with the
    branch it described.

packages/agent/src/runtime/agent.ts

  1. "It is ALWAYS constructed (cli#380): verification is not optional, so no path promotes without
    it. With no flair config it resolves the same env/default endpoint every other Flair read
    uses; an unreachable Flair is a retryable refusal at promotion, never a pass." — TRUE: the
    adapter is built unconditionally from config.flair ?? {}. Asserted by construction: the agent
    tests that build an AgentRuntime (test/runtime.test.ts, test/flair-context.test.ts) run
    the constructor; no test asserts the adapter is non-null, because the type is non-optional
    (FlairClient, not FlairClient | undefined).

Tests and the changelog fragment

  1. The three deploy-bot test names, the two bridge test names, the invariant test name and the
    rewritten "no verifier" case in the guard file — each asserts what its name says; every one was
    shown red by mutating the committed code and restored (sha256sum -c OK, clean git status).
  2. The invariant test's docblock and comments — the enforced rule is stated as "every write into a
    cur directory is an allowed, listed site", not as "only promote() writes cur/": the list holds
    promote(), the agent MailClient (it cannot import packages/cli), and the two non-inbox
    stores, each with its reason in the test. "A scan that saw nothing is a probe smell" is
    implemented as a floor on the scanned file count.
  3. .changelog/unreleased/fixed-380-only-promote-writes-cur.md — the lede and body describe only
    what this change does (the deploy bot and the bridge promote; MailClient's verifier is
    required; a test lists the writers). No "used to"/"until now" sentence, so nothing claims a
    release that predates this tree.

PR body

  1. The audit table's per-writer verdicts, the whole-tree search result, the "what changed" bullets
    and the evidence block — each checked against main's code and against this tree; every count
    names the commit it was measured on (356474a) and the baseline (3a1873d).

Reported, deliberately NOT changed

  • packages/pi-tps-mail/src/watcher.ts and packages/cli/src/commands/bootstrap.ts already write
    no cur/ (the watcher acts on promoted mail via tps mail check; bootstrap promotes its probe).
    No change, no test.
  • The container outbox/cur archive (utils/relay.ts) and the office internal-mail store
    (utils/internal-mail.ts) write a directory named cur by design, with no promotion step. They
    are listed in the invariant test with that reason rather than routed through promote().
  • packages/agent's MailClient cannot call promote() (the dependency runs cli → agent), so the
    class keeps its own verified transition; it is listed in the invariant test for that reason.
  • The cli suite's one failing test ("hire onboarding mail UI …") fails identically on main 3a1873d;
    it is untouched here. Its HOME-dependence was checked by running the whole suite with HOME
    pointed at an empty directory on both commits.

tps-flint and others added 4 commits October 2, 2026 09:24
…ive wired (#469 review)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Conflicts in packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts and packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts resolved so both intents hold: main's topic/envelope rules (#467) move into the shared mailbox-policy.ts; the catch-up cursor behaviour and runtime protections are preserved.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…r append is the commit point; re-drive on every poll (#469 review)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ock reclaim is claim-serialised; torn ledger lines and scan gaps closed (#469 review)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Failure modes on 06d6a21.

Tests: F=packages/cli/test/mail-final-controls.test.ts; A=packages/agent/test/mail-partial-flair.test.ts; P=packages/cli/test/mail-promote.test.ts; D=packages/cli/test/mail-delivery-controls.test.ts; G=packages/agent/test/mail-promote-guard.test.ts. Suffixes below are source lines.

Control Mode Behavior Proof
Replay + ledger unreadable Ledger and migration reads throw; delivery withheld. D:33, F:154, G:352
Replay + ledger missing Initialized ledger loss throws; uninitialized absence uses migration history. F:141; P:94 (initial delivery)
Replay + ledger torn Retain complete IDs; unknown or partly lost IDs throw; append starts a new line. F:117, F:132
Replay + ledger stale Dated expired entries are pruned; undated IDs remain consumed. F:117; P:394
Replay + ledger concurrent Replay lookup, prune, move and append share the mailbox lock. P:479; F:30 (concurrent re-drive)
Replay + ledger partial outage Append failure rolls back; an uncommitted cur copy cannot be recovered. P:358; F:175; G:377
Replay + ledger format mismatch Invalid ledger IDs or unreadable legacy envelope IDs withhold delivery. F:132, F:154
Mailbox lock unreadable Unreadable owner is retained; acquisition times out. D:97
Mailbox lock missing Absent lock is acquired; an existing lock without an owner is retained. P:94, P:561; D:142
Mailbox lock torn Malformed owner is retained. P:632; D:142
Mailbox lock stale Proven dead owner is reclaimed under the claim; birth tokens are re-read. P:495; F:227
Mailbox lock concurrent Atomic claim serializes acquisition and reclamation; live replacement survives. F:189; P:479
Mailbox lock partial outage Stranded claim withholds acquisition until operator recovery; filesystem errors throw. F:217; D:97
Mailbox lock format mismatch Invalid PID or unverifiable token source retains the owner; same-source mismatch reclaims. D:142; F:227
DLQ re-drive unreadable Unreadable sidecar is skipped; unreadable directory throws. F:30
DLQ re-drive missing Absent directory/sidecar is skipped; missing new/ does not stop DLQ re-drive. F:30; deploy-bot-promote.test.ts:96
DLQ re-drive torn Malformed sidecar is skipped; malformed envelope is refused by promotion. F:30; P:132
DLQ re-drive stale Retryable labels grant no verification/replay bypass; terminal labels are skipped. F:30; P:213
DLQ re-drive concurrent Concurrent re-drives of the same source deliver once. F:30
DLQ re-drive partial outage Verification/storage refusal remains retryable; failed quarantine never authorizes delivery. P:189, P:253; F:30
DLQ re-drive format mismatch Unknown class is skipped; an asserted retryable class still runs promotion. F:30
Signature/key verification unreadable Credential reads and indeterminate registry responses throw; delivery withheld. A:18, A:51
Signature/key verification missing Missing verifier throws; missing credential retries; explicit principal 404 refuses terminally. G:118, G:235; A:51
Signature/key verification torn Malformed key, envelope, chain or signature cannot deliver. A:18, A:51; G:174
Signature/key verification stale Registry keys are fetched for verification; a mismatched signing key is refused. F:30; G:136; mail-verify.ts:64
Signature/key verification concurrent Concurrent delivery still passes policy and the replay lock. F:30; P:479
Signature/key verification partial outage Healthy Health with Agent errors or invalid records throws and retries. A:18
Signature/key verification format mismatch CLI-created hex and canonical base64 public keys share decoding; raw private seeds use the shared reader. F:30; A:18, A:51

Code: packages/agent/src/lib/mailbox-policy.ts; packages/agent/src/lib/mail-lock.ts; packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts; packages/agent/src/io/flair.ts; packages/agent/src/lib/registry-key.ts.

Boundary: loss of the ledger, initialization marker and all migration history is indistinguishable from an uninitialized mailbox. The controls trust local history and Flair’s registry.

Strongest argument against readiness: stranded claims and unrecoverable history require operator repair; availability is sacrificed to withhold uncertain delivery.

Bind-dependent files (native coverage unavailable; probe returned EADDRINUSE): packages/cli/test/branch-join.test.ts, packages/cli/test/bridge-mail-promote.test.ts, packages/cli/test/codex-presence-444.test.ts, packages/cli/test/flair-sync.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-bridge.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-producers-sign.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-promote.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-receipt-thread.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-remote.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-send-routes.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-send-stdin-reply.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-unresolvable-principal.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail-watch.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mail.test.ts, packages/cli/test/mock-llm.test.ts, packages/cli/test/noise-ik-transport.test.ts, packages/cli/test/plain-tcp-transport.test.ts, packages/cli/test/runtime-mail-lifecycle.test.ts, packages/cli/test/service-proxy.test.ts, packages/cli/test/wire-mail.test.ts, packages/cli/test/ws-noise-transport.test.ts, packages/pi-tps-mail/test/reply-send.test.ts, test/deploy-bot-promote.test.ts, packages/agent/test/flair-context.test.ts, packages/agent/test/mail-promote-guard.test.ts. packages/cli/test/launch-attestation.test.ts also needs Unix socket binds.

Native process-start token probes are unavailable; F:227 verifies source, match, mismatch and token-change behavior with a synthetic kernel record.

Failure-mode audit for each delivery control at 06d6a21, written during the fix round and posted here rather than committed.

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packages/agent/src/lib/mail-lock.ts (1)

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Cache this process's start token instead of recomputing it on every acquisition.

Each acquireMailLock call runs processStartToken(process.pid). On Darwin, /proc does not exist, so every call spawns ps through execFileSync, and each spawn can block for up to 2 seconds. promote() and MailClient.commitToCur acquire the lock once per message, and sweepStrandedPromoteScratch acquires it once per check. The event loop therefore blocks on a subprocess for each delivered message. The start time of the current process does not change, so compute the value once at module scope.

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-  const myToken = processStartToken(process.pid);
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Update acquireMailLock to reuse a cached start token for the current process
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Review comments at @packages/cli/src/bridge/core.ts:
- Around line 148-151: Update the bridge redrive flow to retry JSON records left
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processing them on each redrive tick before retrying `dlq/`. Also process the
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- Line 193: Update acquireMailLock to reuse a cached start token for the current
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APPROVE. Reviewed at head cbf61ab4.

Repo visibility checked: tpsdev-ai/cli is PUBLIC (gh api repos/tpsdev-ai/cli --jq .visibility → public). Author is tps-anvil, a tps-* agent — internal, so this was a build-and-run review, not the read-only external path. The diff contains no unpatched bypass, so full detail is safe to post.

Method: read the diff and the head sources in my own worktree (~/work/review-469-sherlock); bun install --frozen-lockfile and bun run build (exit 0); ran suites through scripts/test-suite.mjs with TMPDIR=/tmp — test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts 8/8, test/deploy-bot-promote.test.ts 3/3, packages/cli/test/bridge-mail-promote.test.ts 3/3, packages/cli/test/mail-promote.test.ts 30/30. I ran a mutation (below). No Harper was started.

Kern's questions

  1. Allowlist minimal and justified — it has five entries (not four): promote() (packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts:748, renameSync(scratchPath, curPath)), the checkMessages lease sweep (mail.ts:1024, writeMessageFile(full, present)), MailClient (packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts), relay's outbox/cur archive, and the internal-mail store. Entry 2 is justified: it is reached only after recoverPromoted (mail.ts:915) re-runs the same policy through the same always-constructed client, so the write only touches a record that has just re-verified. Entry 3 is justified: commitToCur runs the shared policy and the shared replay store under the mailbox lock. But the allowlist is not complete — see Finding [1].
  2. MailClient performs the same checks as promote() — confirmed. commitToCur acquires the mailbox lock, re-reads the source and aborts on change (if (readFileSync(srcPath, "utf-8") !== body) throw), consults mailboxReplayStore(this.mailboxRoot) (the same consumed.jsonl gate), renameSyncs into cur/, records the id, and rolls the rename back on append failure. sendMail signs via signMailBody, which throws when no key exists, so an unsigned body is never written.
  3. The scan would catch a new writer in any package — no. Finding [1].

Sherlock's questions
4. No path places an unverified record where an agent reads it — the three named writers now route through the enforcement point: the deploy bot (scripts/deploy-bot.ts pollNewMail, and its copy) calls promote(); the bridge (packages/cli/src/bridge/core.ts watchOutbox) calls promote() and forwards only promoted.message.body, so a record that fails verification is dead-lettered and never forwarded; MailClient verifies before commitToCur. A verifier that THROWS leaves the record in new/ (never a pass). Verified by reading plus the suites above.
5. The two non-inbox stores cannot be read as inbox mail — relay outbox/cur (packages/cli/src/utils/relay.ts:232) is a sent-mail archive under outbox/; nothing reads it as an inbox. The internal-mail root is <HOME>/.tps/branch-office/mail/internal/<agent> (packages/cli/src/utils/internal-mail.ts:18–26), read only by checkInternalMessages, disjoint from the signed mailbox ~/.tps/mail/<agent> that promote()/checkMessages read. Neither is reachable from the signed-mail consumers.
6. Bridge change vs. the #433 B2 design — I read the opening of #433 ("mail: route every producer through signing … channel bridge"): it is about producer-side signing; this change is consumer-side promotion, so it looks complementary rather than pre-empting. I could not see the full B2 design, so I cannot certify the interaction.

Findings
[1] test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts:72 — the scan's roots are ["scripts"] plus packages/*/{src,scripts}; plugins/ is never walked, and SKIP_DIRS does not exclude it either. A real cur/ writer lives exactly there: patchMailFile writes in place to the cur/ record (plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/src/index.ts:628, writeFileSync(path, JSON.stringify({ ...current, ...patch }…))), called at :791 and :944 with ctx.curPath. It is not on ALLOWED and is outside the scan, so the invariant "no unlisted detected writer of a cur/ directory" is under-enforced — the scan would not catch a new writer in plugins/. Evidence (mutation): I copied one identical cur-writer into plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/src/ → scan still passes (8/8); into packages/cli/src/ → scan fails (2 fail). Recommend adding plugins/*/src (and any other top-level source root) to roots, and deciding explicitly whether patchMailFile is an intended exception to list — it is a post-promotion enrichment of an already-verified record, not a delivery path, but the scan should still see it.
[2] (note) The allowlist is five entries where the brief describes four. The fifth (mail.ts:1024, lease sweep) is justified as in Kern's item 1; no action beyond documentation.

What I could not see: the full #433 B2 design (only its problem statement), the plugin's own test coverage of patchMailFile, and I did not run the plugin's suite. Also, the launcher's HOME-isolation guard flagged that its run "changed /Users/squeued/.tps" for the entry chase-ks-state/initiated-tpsdev-ai_cli-481-sherlock; I did not write there — my probes ran under an isolated root, and this looks like live agent activity (the guard notes live-agent writes appear here too).

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Verdict: REQUEST CHANGES — the fix itself is correct and verified (every writer now routes through the same checks; see below), but the enforcement gate this PR ships has two demonstrated coverage holes that defeat its stated purpose of catching future writers. Both are small, local fixes. Repo visibility checked: public (via repos/tpsdev-ai/cli .visibility); nothing below discloses more than the public source already shows. Internal author (tps-anvil) — reviewed in a worktree with build and test runs.

What is verified and correct

MailClient's write is check-equivalent to promote() (focus 2 — holds). Both route through the ONE shared policy: promote via verifyRecordForMailbox → decideEnvelopeForMailbox, MailClient via the same function imported from @tpsdev-ai/agent (packages/agent/src/lib/mailbox-policy.ts). Signature, wrapper-sender↔signed-sender binding, recipient binding, id shapes and timestamp are decided in one place, so the two cannot diverge. Both run the consumed-id replay gate under the per-mailbox lock and record the id as part of the commit with rollback (rename-back in MailClient, rm+dead-letter in promote). Both treat a verifier THROW as refusal, never a pass, and both dead-letter terminal rejects with reason sidecars. MailClient construction now refuses without a verifier (io/mail.ts:83). Mutations: removing the constructor refusal fails the NO verifier: construction throws guard; removing the replay gate fails 4 guard tests (signed replay, consumed ledger, both unreadable ledger withhold tests). The guards are load-bearing.

promote() (mail.ts:634) is solid. Verify → DLQ (invalid terminal, verify-unavailable retryable+re-drivable) → per-mailbox lock spanning replay and commit → source revalidated under the lock → replay gate against the durable ledger → scratch write + atomic renameSync(scratchPath, curPath) → recordConsumed as part of the commit, with rollback and a retryable dead-letter of the original if the append fails. The lease-sweep re-stamp (mail.ts:1024, allowlist entry 2) is gated on recoverPromoted re-verification via checkPromotedRecord — provenance (envelopeId + stored signed envelope), record-envelope binding, shared policy, and a committed ledger id — and presents from the verified envelope, not the mutable record.

The other allowlist entries are justified (focus 1). Entry 4: relay's outCur = join(root, "outbox", "cur") (relay.ts:163) is a post-transport sent-mail archive under a different root — no promotion step exists in that lifecycle. Entry 5: the office internal-mail store (internal-mail.ts) is a separate namespace under ~/.tps/branch-office/mail/internal/<agent>/{new,cur}, path-sandboxed by assertOfficeDir, with a different record shape; no signed-envelope consumer reads it. Entry 3 (MailClient's rename) and entries 1-2 verified above. The exact-one matching discipline is real: a duplicated allowed call fails (the suite proves it), stale entries fail, and the >100-file check prevents an empty-scan pass. The deploy bot (both copies — identical except the import path) and the bridge now call promote()/redriveRetryable, forward only promoted.ok bodies, and the bridge's redrive timer re-drives new/ and retryable dlq/ with per-bridge serialization.

Local evidence. Worktree at head cbf61ab4 (build green; worktree left clean). Suites run through the repo's isolated launchers (the HOME-isolation guard + TMPDIR refusal + env allowlist in the launchers is a good fail-closed design): scanner + deploy-bot tests 13/0; agent mail guards (mail-promote-guard, mail-partial-flair) 27/0; cli mail/bridge controls (mail-final-controls, mail-delivery-controls, bridge-mail-promote, bridge-outbox-retry) 29/0; the openclaw-tps-mail plugin suite exit 0. Four mutations: a new cur/-writer in packages/agent/src/ → scanner fails with exact file+call attribution; the identical file under plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/src/ → scanner passes 8/8 (finding 1); mandatory-verifier removal → guard fails; replay-gate removal → 4 guards fail. No Harper instances were started; all launcher children exited.

Findings

  1. [test/mail-cur-writers.test.ts:100-108] plugins/ is not scanned — demonstrated blind spot with live writers in it. sourceFiles() walks scripts/ and packages/*/src|scripts only. The repo's plugin trees are outside it, and plugins/openclaw-tps-mail is where mail code actively churns (#406, #431, #465). Demonstrated by execution: an identical probe writer failed the scan under packages/agent/src/ but passed 8/8 under plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/src/. The plugin already contains cur/ writers the scan can never see: patchMailFile(ctx.curPath, {ackedAt…}) (plugins/openclaw-tps-mail/src/index.ts:791) and patchMailFile(ctx.curPath, {nackedAt…}) (:944). They are pre-existing, enrichment-only and cannot create a cur/ record (patchMailFile returns without writing unless the record already exists and parses), so the invariant holds today — but they are unlisted and unscannable, and a future promote()-less plugin writer would be invisible to this gate. Request: add plugins/*/src to the scan roots and allowlist the two patchMailFile sites with the enrichment justification — the scanner already detects them today (ctx.curPath trips the cur-word heuristic).

  2. [packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts:1064,1096,1100 with :201-211] The resolve-by-id destination class is invisible to the scan. ackMessage and nackMessage re-stamp records via writeMessageFile(path, msg) where path = messagePathById(agent, id), which searches new/, cur/ and dlq/ — whenever the target lives in cur/, these are writes into cur/ that the scan does not detect. The suite passing with no offender for these calls is the proof, and they cannot be allowlisted as-is: classify() requires every allowed entry to match exactly one detected call, and their identical call text would make any entry either stale or three-matching. They are benign today (read-modify-write of already-promoted records, no creation), but "resolve by id, then write" is the natural pattern a future writer will reuse, and it is exactly the class #380 exists to catch; the header's "other destinations may be missed" documents the limitation without naming the one instance already in this file. Request: either add a known-cur-helper rule (identifiers matching a messagePathById-family list mark a destination a cur-candidate — then enumerate the ack/nack sites with entries), or treat mail.ts's own record primitive writeMessageFile as always-cur-candidate and enumerate all five of its call sites (:746, :1024, :1064, :1096, :1100) with per-site justifications. Both are one-file changes.

  3. [PR title / .changelog/unreleased/fixed-380-only-promote-writes-cur.md] "only promote() writes a mailbox's cur/" is looser than the truth, and the brief undercounts the allowlist. The allowlist has five entries, not four: the lease-sweep re-stamp (mail.ts:1024) is a second writer inside promote()'s own file — justified, but a reader of the title/changelog would not know re-stamping classes exist (lease sweep, ack/nack, plugin stamps). Suggest stating the invariant as "promote() is the only first-delivery writer of cur/; re-stamps of already-promoted records are allowed and enumerated" so operators reading the changelog get the true shape.

  4. (minor, no action) [packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts:75-90] The verifier parameter remains TypeScript-optional while being runtime-mandatory — deliberate per the PR body, and the constructor comment says so; noting only that future callers should not trust the type over the runtime refusal.

Not run by me

The whole-suite lanes (agent 115, cli 1459, root-test 133, plugin 175 per the PR body, which reports identical fail counts and matching names on head vs origin/main) — I did not reproduce those numbers and make no CI claim. Native bind/watch integration also remains unverified (per the PR body; I ran no bind/watch cases either). Sherlock's axes (read-as-inbox for the two non-inbox stores, B2 bridge pre-emption on #433) are his to review; I only verified the two entries' structural justifications as above.

…tes; invariant stated precisely (#380)

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Kern — findings 1–3 confirmed and fixed; finding 4 confirmed, no action requested.

  • Added plugin src scan roots and both enrichment-only patchMailFile sites. A writer under a new plugins/gauge-probe/src tree now fails the invariant check.
  • Made mail.ts's writeMessageFile calls always cur candidates. Its five sites are enumerated: promotion staging, verified lease recovery, ack, permanent nack, and transient/agent nack; following-operation anchors distinguish the identical calls. A new resolve-by-ID writer fails the check.
  • Restated the invariant for CLI signed-inbox delivery, with MailClient's equivalent checks and separate stores identified. The allowlist contains eleven sites.

Cur-writers: 10/0; updated scanner against origin/main sources: 6/4, exposing the original bypasses. CLI socket-free: 1468/10 versus 1453/10 on origin/main; failing names match. Whole-lane results and bind exclusions are in pr-body.new.md.

Fixed in ac4d3e0.

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#471's required mail root through promote() and the bridge queue

Conflicts in packages/agent/src/index.ts, packages/agent/src/io/mail.ts, packages/cli/src/bridge/core.ts
and packages/cli/src/utils/mail.ts resolved keeping both sides: #471's record-derived mail root,
bridge trust ceiling and signed-tier gates, and this PR's single first-delivery writer (promote),
serialized bridge promotion queue with new/ rescans and redrive, and existing-only record updates.
The cur/-writer scan allowlist and crash-fixture ledger commits match the merged code.

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