@cotal-ai/cli 0.48.2 → 0.50.0

package/dist/commands/up.d.ts.map

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package/dist/commands/up.js

@@ -6,15 +6,18 @@ import { mkdirSync, writeFileSync, readFileSync, existsSync, openSync, statSync,
 import { dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";
 import { isReachable, DEFAULT_SERVER, createSpaceAuth, serverConfig, openServerConfig, validateTlsMaterial, mintCreds, mintLifecycleUid, DEV_OWNER, mintConnectionEvictorCreds, mintMembershipObserverCreds, newIdentity, setupSpaceStreams, reconcileSpaceTtls, standaloneConnectOpts, seedChannelRegistry, ensureDefaultDeliveryClass, mkSecretDir, writeSecretFile, } from "@cotal-ai/core";
 import { connect } from "@nats-io/transport-node";
-import { assertSingleSpaceBroker, assertUserAuthInfo, authDir, getSoleSpaceAuth, getSpaceAuth, hasUserAuthState, listSpaceAccounts, preloadSpaceAccounts, putSpaceAuth, clearCurrent, findMesh, getCurrent, loadMeshes, connectionEvictorCredsKey, membershipConfigPath, membershipObserverCredsKey, membershipRwCredsKey, MEMBERSHIP_CONFIG_KIND, MEMBERSHIP_RW_CREDS_KIND, recordMesh, meshesForRoot, removeMesh, rotateSystemCreds, setCurrent, staleSystemCreds, SYSTEM_CREDS_FILES, userAuthStateDir, workspaceSecretStore, acquireMaintenanceLock, assertStoreIdentity, assessRestoreClaim, beginOrdinaryResume, bindOrdinaryResumeListener, consumeRetiredMaintenance, markOrdinaryResumeActive, markOrdinaryResumeDegraded, replaceDeadOrdinaryResumeListener, localProcessOwnerStatus, readMaintenanceJournal, readMaintenanceResumeDocument, readStoreIdentity, recordOrdinaryResumeManagerCommit, releaseMaintenanceLock, retireOrdinaryResume, sameStoreIdentity, readBrokerPolicy, writeBrokerPolicy, removeIdentityPin, writeIdentityPin, } from "@cotal-ai/workspace";
+import { assertSingleSpaceBroker, assertUserAuthInfo, authDir, getSoleSpaceAuth, getSpaceAuth, hasUserAuthState, listSpaceAccounts, preloadSpaceAccounts, putSpaceAuth, clearCurrent, findMesh, getCurrent, loadMeshes, connectionEvictorCredsKey, membershipConfigPath, membershipObserverCredsKey, membershipRwCredsKey, MEMBERSHIP_CONFIG_KIND, MEMBERSHIP_RW_CREDS_KIND, parsePositiveIntegerFlag, recordMesh, meshesForRoot, removeMesh, rotateSystemCreds, setCurrent, staleSystemCreds, SYSTEM_CREDS_FILES, userAuthStateDir, workspaceSecretStore, acquireMaintenanceLock, assertStoreIdentity, assessRestoreClaim, beginOrdinaryResume, bindOrdinaryResumeListener, consumeRetiredMaintenance, markOrdinaryResumeActive, markOrdinaryResumeDegraded, replaceDeadOrdinaryResumeListener, localProcessOwnerStatus, readMaintenanceJournal, readMaintenanceResumeDocument, readStoreIdentity, recordOrdinaryResumeManagerCommit, releaseMaintenanceLock, retireOrdinaryResume, sameStoreIdentity, readBrokerPolicy, writeBrokerPolicy, removeIdentityPin, writeIdentityPin, } from "@cotal-ai/workspace";
 import { ensureAuthService, resolveAuthProvider, stopAuthService } from "../lib/auth-proc.js";
 import { resolveSpace } from "../lib/status.js";
 import { c } from "../ui.js";
 import { resolveNatsServer } from "../lib/nats-bin.js";
 import { cotalPath, cotalRoot } from "../lib/paths.js";
 import { renderDetachedSummary } from "../lib/up-report.js";
+import { detachedSystemdSupervisionWarning } from "../lib/systemd-supervision.js";
 import { deliveryUp, ensureControlPlane, stopDelivery } from "../lib/delivery-proc.js";
-import { managerHasDeliveryMarker, managerLogDisplayPath, managerUp, stopManager } from "../lib/manager-proc.js";
+import { RESPONDER_UNBOUND_CONSEQUENCE } from "../lib/delivery-responder.js";
+import { displayCmd } from "../lib/self-exec.js";
+import { liveManagerWouldApplyMaxSessions, managerHasDeliveryMarker, managerLogDisplayPath, managerRecordState, managerUp, stopManager } from "../lib/manager-proc.js";
 import { loadManifest } from "../lib/manifest/index.js";
 import { buildLaunchSpec, genRunId, manifestToChannels, preflightConnectors, writeLaunchSpec } from "../lib/manifest/apply.js";
 import { renderUpPlan, renderInherited, renderWarnings } from "../lib/manifest/render.js";
@@ -48,6 +51,7 @@ export const upFlags = [
     { name: "rotate-sys", type: "boolean", description: "renew the expired/expiring $SYS creds by rotating the system account (agents, data and creds survive; needs a stopped mesh)" },
     { name: "detach", type: "boolean", description: "run in the background (stop with `cotal down`)" },
     { name: "runtime", type: "string", value: "<name>", description: "agent runtime for the mesh manager (default pty; extension runtimes are explicit-only, see `cotal runtimes`); with -f overrides the manifest's runtime" },
+    { name: "max-sessions", type: "string", value: "<n>", description: "live-session ceiling for the mesh manager (default 64; one session per console pane, so size for agents × panes). Recorded and reused by later manager launches" },
     { name: "file", type: "string", short: "f", value: "<cotal.yaml>", description: "launch a whole mesh from a manifest" },
     { name: "dry-run", type: "boolean", description: "with -f: print the plan, mutate nothing" },
 ];
@@ -367,6 +371,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
         throw new Error('--idp is for user-auth spaces; pair it with --user-auth, or set broker.auth: "user" in a manifest');
     }
     const publicExchange = publicExchangeArgs(values, wantUser);
+    const maxSessions = parsePositiveIntegerFlag("--max-sessions", values["max-sessions"]);
     // An open mesh has no operator, no system account, and no $SYS creds, so there is nothing to
     // rotate; the request is a misunderstanding to name, never a silent no-op that reports success.
     if (values["rotate-sys"] && values.open) {
@@ -455,6 +460,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                 userAuth: wantUser,
                 idp: values.idp,
                 rotateSys: values["rotate-sys"],
+                maxSessions,
             });
             return;
         }
@@ -472,6 +478,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                 userAuth: wantUser,
                 idp: values.idp,
                 rotateSys: values["rotate-sys"],
+                maxSessions,
             });
         }
         finally {
@@ -609,6 +616,18 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                     console.error(c.red(`✗ mesh "${held.space}" is already running at ${server} - a running broker can't change its transport; \`cotal down\` it first, then \`cotal up --tls-cert <cert> --tls-key <key>\``));
                     process.exit(1);
                 }
+                // `--max-sessions` is fixed when the manager starts. A refresh reuses a live manager as-is
+                // (`ensureManager` returns immediately), then used to persist the requested ceiling anyway.
+                // That printed `✓ already running` over an unchanged plane and left MeshEntry lying about it.
+                // Refuse rather than warn: the flag either applies or the command fails. Matching the live
+                // argv is a no-op and may proceed. An unreadable command line cannot prove a match.
+                if (maxSessions !== undefined) {
+                    const live = managerRecordState(undefined, undefined, held.space);
+                    if (live.state === "alive" && !liveManagerWouldApplyMaxSessions(live.command, maxSessions)) {
+                        console.error(c.red(`✗ mesh "${held.space}" is already running at ${server} - a running manager can't change --max-sessions (it is fixed at start); \`cotal down\` it first, then \`cotal up --max-sessions ${maxSessions}\``));
+                        process.exit(1);
+                    }
+                }
                 // Live INFO must agree with the recorded/requested transport. A bare refresh that greets
                 // "already running" over a plaintext listener while policy claims TLS is S5's second half —
                 // the refuse left a durable lie and this path used to reprint TLS success over cleartext.
@@ -719,18 +738,20 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                     const controlPlane = await startDeliveryWithBroker(held.space, server, wantTls, {
                         runtime: values.runtime,
                         attachHost: attachHostFor(held.space, values.host),
+                        maxSessions: maxSessionsFor(held.space, maxSessions),
                     });
                     if (!controlPlane)
                         process.exitCode = 1;
                 }
                 const heldAttachHost = attachHostFor(held.space, values.host);
+                const heldMaxSessions = maxSessionsFor(held.space, maxSessions);
                 // A broker was already answering here — this branch starts nothing, so it must not claim the
                 // record as ours (see `Provenance`).
                 // `tlsRequired` is CARRIED FORWARD, not re-derived. This branch starts no listener, so it has
                 // no transport decision to record — and `recordOurMesh` writes the entry whole, so omitting
                 // the field here would erase the requirement on every bare refresh, exactly the way dropping
                 // `attachHost` would silently demote the mesh to loopback.
-                recordOurMesh({ space: held.space, server, root, mode: held.mode, ...(held.tlsRequired !== undefined ? { tlsRequired: held.tlsRequired } : {}), ...(userAuth ? { userAuth } : {}), ...(heldAttachHost ? { attachHost: heldAttachHost } : {}), ts: new Date().toISOString() }, "refresh");
+                recordOurMesh({ space: held.space, server, root, mode: held.mode, ...(held.tlsRequired !== undefined ? { tlsRequired: held.tlsRequired } : {}), ...(userAuth ? { userAuth } : {}), ...(heldAttachHost ? { attachHost: heldAttachHost } : {}), ...(heldMaxSessions !== undefined ? { maxSessions: heldMaxSessions } : {}), ts: new Date().toISOString() }, "refresh");
                 return;
             }
             const who = held ? `mesh "${held.space}" (${held.root})` : "a broker not started here";
@@ -773,6 +794,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                 // from "nobody asked", or every mesh would persist an exposure decision it never made.
                 host: values.host,
                 runtime: values.runtime,
+                maxSessions,
                 resumeAttempt,
                 resumeCommitToken: restored?.managerCommit?.durableCommitToken ?? ordinaryAttempt?.managerCommit?.durableCommitToken,
                 ...(restored ? {
@@ -795,6 +817,9 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
             // Transport policy is committed inside startMeshDetached before delivery launch (S5+S9).
             console.log(c.dim(`Started nats-server (${source}).`));
             console.log(c.green(renderDetachedSummary({ pid, delivery, authService: wantUser && authService, manager })));
+            const supervisionWarning = detachedSystemdSupervisionWarning();
+            if (supervisionWarning)
+                console.error(c.yellow(supervisionWarning));
             if (restored && process.env.COTAL_SMOKE_FAIL_AFTER_RESTORE_LISTENER_READY === "1")
                 throw new Error("smoke-injected failure after restore listener readiness");
             // A user mesh whose auth service never became ready is recorded + running (a re-`cotal up`
@@ -949,6 +974,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
             // registry — and the record below is written whole, so reading it afterwards would find the
             // field this very call had just erased.
             const effectiveAttachHost = attachHostFor(space, values.host);
+            const effectiveMaxSessions = maxSessionsFor(space, maxSessions);
             recordOurMesh({
                 space, server, root: cotalRoot(),
                 mode: setup?.prepared ? "user" : useAuth ? "auth" : "open",
@@ -962,6 +988,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                 // previous launch. The bare case stays absent rather than recording the loopback default as
                 // though the operator had chosen it.
                 ...(effectiveAttachHost ? { attachHost: effectiveAttachHost } : {}),
+                ...(effectiveMaxSessions !== undefined ? { maxSessions: effectiveMaxSessions } : {}),
                 ts: new Date().toISOString(),
             }, "started");
             // Bring up the delivery daemon WITH the server (auth mode only — it self-gates on `.cotal/auth`).
@@ -974,6 +1001,7 @@ async function runUp(args, inheritedLock, onAdopt) {
                 // from another machine; without it the attach face stays loopback-only, so exposing terminals
                 // is never a side effect of anything but the operator binding the mesh somewhere reachable.
                 attachHost: effectiveAttachHost,
+                maxSessions: effectiveMaxSessions,
                 resumeAttempt,
                 resumeCommitToken: restored?.managerCommit?.durableCommitToken ?? ordinaryAttempt?.managerCommit?.durableCommitToken,
                 wsPort: setup?.wsPort, // P2 item 6: the console session client's broker ws port
@@ -1314,6 +1342,7 @@ async function resumeProvenOrdinaryListener(pending, heldLock) {
     // record built without this field would erase the operator's decision, and the adopted manager
     // below would then be launched loopback-only from an entry that no longer remembers otherwise.
     const adoptAttachHost = attachHostFor(pending.space);
+    const adoptMaxSessions = maxSessionsFor(pending.space);
     recordOurMesh({
         space: pending.space,
         server: pending.server,
@@ -1323,11 +1352,13 @@ async function resumeProvenOrdinaryListener(pending, heldLock) {
         tlsRequired: adoptedTlsRequired(pending.root),
         ...(svc.userAuth ? { userAuth: svc.userAuth } : {}),
         ...(adoptAttachHost ? { attachHost: adoptAttachHost } : {}),
+        ...(adoptMaxSessions !== undefined ? { maxSessions: adoptMaxSessions } : {}),
         ts: new Date().toISOString(),
     }, "started");
     const controlPlane = await startDeliveryWithBroker(pending.space, pending.server, adoptedTlsRequired(pending.root), {
         runtime: pending.runtime,
         attachHost: adoptAttachHost,
+        maxSessions: adoptMaxSessions,
         resumeAttempt: pending.attemptId,
         resumeCommitToken: pending.managerCommit?.durableCommitToken,
     });
@@ -1355,6 +1386,7 @@ async function resumeProvenRestoreListener(prepared, heldLock) {
     // Same ordering constraint as the pending-adopt path above: capture the recorded exposure before
     // `recordOurMesh` rewrites the entry, or a restore silently demotes the mesh to loopback attach.
     const restoreAttachHost = attachHostFor(prepared.space);
+    const restoreMaxSessions = maxSessionsFor(prepared.space);
     recordOurMesh({
         space: prepared.space,
         server: prepared.server,
@@ -1365,11 +1397,13 @@ async function resumeProvenRestoreListener(prepared, heldLock) {
         tlsRequired: adoptedTlsRequired(prepared.root),
         ...(svc.userAuth ? { userAuth: svc.userAuth } : {}),
         ...(restoreAttachHost ? { attachHost: restoreAttachHost } : {}),
+        ...(restoreMaxSessions !== undefined ? { maxSessions: restoreMaxSessions } : {}),
         ts: new Date().toISOString(),
     }, "started");
     const controlPlane = await startDeliveryWithBroker(prepared.space, prepared.server, adoptedTlsRequired(prepared.root), {
         runtime: prepared.runtime,
         attachHost: restoreAttachHost,
+        maxSessions: restoreMaxSessions,
         resumeAttempt: prepared.attemptId,
         resumeCommitToken: prepared.managerCommit?.durableCommitToken,
     });
@@ -1710,7 +1744,7 @@ async function upManifest(file, opts) {
     try {
         // `m.broker?.host`, not the defaulted `host`: same reason as the flag path — only a host the
         // manifest actually declared is an exposure decision worth persisting.
-        ({ pid, controlPlane, authService } = await startMeshDetached({ transport: opts.transport, server, space: m.space, open, userAuth, rotateSys: opts.rotateSys, host: m.broker?.host, seed: manifestToChannels(eff), runtime, launch: specPath }));
+        ({ pid, controlPlane, authService } = await startMeshDetached({ transport: opts.transport, server, space: m.space, open, userAuth, rotateSys: opts.rotateSys, host: m.broker?.host, seed: manifestToChannels(eff), runtime, launch: specPath, maxSessions: opts.maxSessions }));
     }
     catch (e) {
         console.error(c.red(`✗ ${e.message}`));
@@ -1789,7 +1823,16 @@ async function startDeliveryWithBroker(space, server,
  */
 tlsRequired, mgr) {
     try {
-        await ensureControlPlane({ space, server, tls: tlsRequired, ...(mgr ?? {}) });
+        const plane = await ensureControlPlane({ space, server, tls: tlsRequired, ...(mgr ?? {}) });
+        // #1576: `up` either BINDS the responder or SAYS SO HERE. The delivery daemon is a hard
+        // dependency of spawn, retirement and join, and this function used to return `true` for a boot
+        // that started a daemon whose responder never bound — so `cotal up` printed its success banner
+        // over a control plane that could not perform any of the three. The reporter's fleet ran 22
+        // hours in that state. This is not a failure of `up` (live messaging is unaffected and the
+        // responder may still bind), so it does not throw; it states the condition and its consequence.
+        if (plane.responderBound === false)
+            console.error(c.yellow(`! delivery responder did not bind before this boot finished - ${RESPONDER_UNBOUND_CONSEQUENCE}`) +
+                c.dim(`\n  The daemon process is running and the wait is open-ended; boot durable joins reconcile by themselves once it binds (agents do NOT need respawning).\n  Watch it with \`${displayCmd()} status --components\`.`));
         return true;
     }
     catch (e) {
@@ -1919,6 +1962,7 @@ opts) {
     // RESUMES an already-recorded mesh, whose exposure decision exists only in the registry entry the
     // call below rewrites.
     const effectiveAttachHost = attachHostFor(space, opts.host);
+    const effectiveMaxSessions = maxSessionsFor(space, opts.maxSessions);
     recordOurMesh({
         space, server, root: cotalRoot(),
         mode: setup?.prepared ? "user" : useAuth ? "auth" : "open",
@@ -1928,6 +1972,7 @@ opts) {
         ...(svc.userAuth ? { userAuth: svc.userAuth } : {}),
         // Persist only a real decision — declared now, or carried forward — never the loopback default.
         ...(effectiveAttachHost ? { attachHost: effectiveAttachHost } : {}),
+        ...(effectiveMaxSessions !== undefined ? { maxSessions: effectiveMaxSessions } : {}),
         ts: new Date().toISOString(),
     }, "started");
     // Commit policy BEFORE delivery launch (S9). Listener is proved; refuse paths never reach here.
@@ -1939,6 +1984,7 @@ opts) {
         launch: opts.launch,
         // See the foreground path: the broker's bind address is what makes attach reachable off-box.
         attachHost: effectiveAttachHost,
+        maxSessions: effectiveMaxSessions,
         resumeAttempt: opts.resumeAttempt,
         resumeCommitToken: opts.resumeCommitToken,
         wsPort: setup?.wsPort, // P2 item 6: the console session client's broker ws port
@@ -2049,6 +2095,20 @@ export async function claimSpace(space, server, root) {
 export function attachHostFor(space, explicit) {
     return explicit ?? findMesh(space)?.attachHost;
 }
+/**
+ * The manager live-session ceiling for a launch into `space`.
+ *
+ * Like {@link attachHostFor}, this is an operator DECISION (`--max-sessions`), not something later
+ * commands can reconstruct. Every later manager launch — same-root repair, resume, `spawn -f` —
+ * has no flag of its own unless the operator typed one, so it reads the decision back. Without
+ * this a replacement manager silently falls to 64 and the next console pane past that is refused.
+ *
+ * An explicit value on THIS invocation always wins. Absent both, undefined — the plane's own
+ * default of 64, unchanged, and nothing is recorded as though chosen.
+ */
+export function maxSessionsFor(space, explicit) {
+    return explicit ?? findMesh(space)?.maxSessions;
+}
 /** {@link recordOurMesh} under a name that says it is a test seam: the origin rule it enforces is
  *  asserted directly by the registry smoke, since reaching each branch through a full `up` would
  *  need a live broker per case. */