patchcord 0.6.36 → 0.6.37

package/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "patchcord",
   "description": "Cross-machine agent messaging. Messages from other agents land in the inbox and wake the agent to reply.",
-  "version": "0.6.36",
+  "version": "0.6.37",
   "author": {
     "name": "ppravdin"
   },

package/bin/patchcord.mjs

@@ -1735,6 +1735,7 @@ if (cmd === "login" || cmd === "orchestrator" || cmd === "teamlead" || cmd === "
     // supersede anything.
     if (!forceRemint) {
       let reusable = null;
+      let undetermined = null;   // a candidate we could NOT judge — see below
       try {
         const { listProjectBearers } = await import(
           new URL("../scripts/lib/resolve-project-bearer.mjs", import.meta.url).href
@@ -1747,7 +1748,27 @@ if (cmd === "login" || cmd === "orchestrator" || cmd === "teamlead" || cmd === "
           seen.add(cand.token);
           const baseUrl = String(cand.url || "").replace(/\/mcp(\/bearer)?$/, "") || DEFAULT_API;
           const probe = await _httpJSON("GET", `${baseUrl}/api/agent/whoami`, cand.token);
-          if (probe.status !== "200") continue;         // dead or superseded — skip
+          const code = String(probe.status ?? "");
+
+          // THREE outcomes, not two. Collapsing them is the whole bug class this
+          // command exists to stop causing:
+          //
+          //   401/403  the credential is genuinely dead (revoked in the web
+          //            console, or superseded). Skip it; minting is CORRECT.
+          //   200      alive — check whose it is below.
+          //   anything else (000 from a failed connection, null when curl itself
+          //            died, any 5xx) we DO NOT KNOW. Treating "could not ask"
+          //            as "dead" would skip a HEALTHY token and mint, which
+          //            destroys the live session this command exists to protect
+          //            — and it would do that exactly when the backend is
+          //            already unwell. Absent, dead and unavailable are three
+          //            different answers.
+          if (code === "401" || code === "403") continue;
+          if (code !== "200") {
+            undetermined = { token: cand.token, base: baseUrl, code: code || "no response" };
+            continue;
+          }
+
           const who = probe.json || {};
           const gotNs = who.namespace_id || who.namespace || (who.self && who.self.namespace_id);
           const gotAgent = who.agent_id || who.agent || (who.self && who.self.agent_id);
@@ -1760,9 +1781,22 @@ if (cmd === "login" || cmd === "orchestrator" || cmd === "teamlead" || cmd === "
           }
         }
       } catch (e) {
-        // Reuse is an optimisation over the old behaviour; if it cannot run we
-        // fall through and mint, exactly as before.
-        console.error(`  ${M.dim}(could not check for a reusable credential: ${e?.message || e})${M.rst}`);
+        // A crash in the reuse scan is itself "undetermined", not "dead". Same
+        // reasoning: never let a local failure authorise a destructive remint.
+        undetermined = undetermined || { code: `scan failed: ${e?.message || e}` };
+      }
+
+      // Could not determine, and found nothing provably alive: STOP. Do not
+      // mint. Minting is the irreversible half of this command — it kills a
+      // credential a running session may be holding — and an unreachable server
+      // is not evidence that anything needs replacing. Retrying is free; a
+      // revoked live session is not.
+      if (!reusable && undetermined) {
+        console.error(`✗ cannot verify the existing credential for ${M.green}${ns}:${arg}${M.rst} (${undetermined.code}).`);
+        console.error(`  Refusing to mint a replacement: that would revoke the token any`);
+        console.error(`  running session for this agent is currently using.`);
+        console.error(`  ${M.dim}Retry when the server is reachable, or force it deliberately with --force-remint.${M.rst}`);
+        process.exit(1);
       }
       if (reusable) {
         writeWorkerConfig(tool, dir, reusable.base, reusable.token, hostname);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "patchcord",
-  "version": "0.6.36",
+  "version": "0.6.37",
   "description": "Cross-machine agent messaging for Claude Code and Codex",
   "scripts": {
     "version": "node scripts/sync-plugin-version.mjs && git add .claude-plugin/plugin.json"