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Problem

Live updates to the Twitch card were silently broken for at least 72 hours. Datadog showed every PubSub call from the EBS failing with 403 JWT could not be verified from the very first one, while the service started fine, stored every card, answered /healthz with ok, and returned a bare 502 to the desktop app (which a proxy then rewrote to error code: 502). Viewers who loaded the channel still saw a correct card, so nothing looked broken, and nobody had a way to tell why updates stopped.

What this adds

EBS

  • Startup check. ~10 s after start, then every 6 h, a request signed exactly like a real broadcast but aimed at a target Twitch cannot deliver to, so nothing is ever sent to a viewer. 401/403 is logged at error and names the three settings to check (Twitch__ExtensionSecret, Twitch__ExtensionId, Twitch__OwnerUserId). 400 or success means "not refused". Anything else is inconclusive and changes nothing. It never throws or stops the service.
  • Real broadcasts are the authority. Every actual PubSub call updates the same shared status (a refusal sets it, a success clears it), so a stale startup verdict cannot outlive the first real publish.
  • /healthz still answers status: "ok" (a wrong secret must not get the container restarted in a loop) and adds pubsub: unknown | accepted | rejected, pubsubStatus, pubsubCheckedAt.
  • A publish that fails because Twitch refuses the EBS's credentials returns 503 + X-EDNexus-Pubsub-Rejected: credentials instead of a 502 whose body a proxy can replace. Other PubSub failures stay 502. The card is stored either way.

Desktop app

  • New publish status BackendRejectedByTwitch, mapped from that header. It is retried like any other failure (the operator can fix the backend while the app is running) and is deliberately not a re-login.
  • A warning bar on the main window, raised by StreamCardWarning and cleared by the next successful publish. The existing Settings status line is only seen with Settings open, which is not while playing.

Verified

  • Full solution: 1809 tests pass (EBS 212, +26 new; Core 1124; App 28; plugins 445), three consecutive runs.
  • The two load-bearing app tests (header maps to the new status; the pump retries it and recovers) were shown to fail without the change.
  • Probe verdicts for 401/403/400/204/500/502/429/404, network failure, and a non-base64 secret; that the probe's body has an undeliverable target and the real Client-Id; real broadcasts set/clear the status; /healthz fields; 503+header vs plain 502 at the endpoint; the background service's resilience.

Not verified, and the limits

  • The acceptance side of the probe was not observed. The refusal side is exactly what production showed (403 JWT could not be verified). That Twitch verifies the token before it looks at the body (so a good credential yields 400 for the bogus target) is reasoned from its documentation. If Twitch checks the body first, a bad credential would read as "accepted" at startup, which is a missed alarm, never a false one; the real-broadcast path would still catch it on the first publish. This is stated in the EBS README. To confirm on a deployment: the check logs one of two distinct lines ~10 s after start.
  • The warning bar itself was not looked at: the project builds with compiled bindings and the wording/clearing rule is unit-tested, but I did not launch the desktop app.
  • It does not fix the credentials. See the PR conversation / EBS README for what to set.

Unrelated

EddnBridgeBatchingTests.A_run_of_signals_is_sent_as_one_message_when_the_next_event_arrives failed once in a full parallel run and then passed 6/6 alone and on three full re-runs. It uses fixed Task.Delay(100) windows, so it looks like a timing flake under load. Not touched here.

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  • New Features
    • The EBS health endpoint now reports whether Twitch PubSub credentials are accepted, rejected, or not yet known.
    • The app displays a warning when Twitch rejects the backend’s credentials, clarifying that viewers may not receive live updates and that the issue is not with the user’s sign-in.
    • Settings now shows a distinct message for backend credential rejections.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Publishing retries after a backend credential rejection, and a successful publish clears the warning.
  • Documentation
    • EBS guidance now explains the credential status reported by the health endpoint.

…witch refuses them

A wrong Twitch__ExtensionSecret was completely silent. The EBS started, stored
every card, answered /healthz ok, and never delivered a live update (every
PubSub call 403 'JWT could not be verified'); viewers who loaded the channel
still saw the card, so nothing looked broken.

EBS
- TwitchCredentialProbe sends the real PubSub endpoint a request signed like a
  broadcast but aimed at a target Twitch cannot deliver to, so nothing ever
  reaches a viewer. 401/403 = rejected (logged at error, naming the three
  settings to check); 400 or success = not refused; anything else is
  inconclusive and changes nothing. It never throws.
- TwitchCredentialCheckBackgroundService runs it ~10 s after start and every
  6 h. It decides at run time whether it is under the test host (the test host
  applies its environment late).
- TwitchCredentialStatus is shared with every real broadcast: a refusal sets it,
  a success clears it, so a real publish is the authority over the startup check.
- /healthz stays status ok (a wrong secret must not restart the container in a
  loop) and adds pubsub / pubsubStatus / pubsubCheckedAt.
- A publish that fails because Twitch refuses the EBS's credentials is a 503
  with X-EDNexus-Pubsub-Rejected: credentials, instead of a 502 a proxy can
  rewrite. Other PubSub failures stay 502.

App
- StreamStatePublishStatus.BackendRejectedByTwitch, mapped from that header. It
  is retried like any failure (the operator can fix the backend while the app
  runs) and is not a re-login.
- A warning bar on the main window (the Settings status line is only seen with
  Settings open), raised by StreamCardWarning and cleared by the next success.

Tests: EBS 212 (+26), full solution 1809 passed. The key app tests were shown to
fail without the change. Limits, stated in the README: that Twitch verifies the
token before the body is reasoned from its docs, not observed, so the startup
check's accepted means not refused; only a real broadcast proves the credentials.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • src/EDNexus.Core/Twitch/TwitchStreamCardService.cs
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  • src/EDNexus.Ebs/Services/ChannelStateClearing.cs
  • src/EDNexus.Ebs/Services/ITwitchPubSubClient.cs
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  • tests/EDNexus.Ebs.Tests/UpdateStateEndpointTests.cs
  • tests/EDNexus.Tests/Twitch/TwitchStreamCardServiceTests.cs
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The EBS now checks and records Twitch PubSub credential status, reports that status through health and publish responses, and updates it after broadcasts. The desktop client recognizes rejected backend credentials, retries publishing, and displays a warning.

Changes: Twitch credential reporting

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Credential state and Twitch checks
src/EDNexus.Ebs/Services/TwitchCredentialStatus.cs, src/EDNexus.Ebs/Services/TwitchCredentialProbe.cs, src/EDNexus.Ebs/Services/TwitchCredentialCheckBackgroundService.cs, src/EDNexus.Ebs/Services/TwitchPubSubClient.cs, tests/EDNexus.Ebs.Tests/*
The EBS records credential state from a signed probe and real broadcasts. The background service checks after startup and every six hours. Tests cover probe results, broadcast updates, and background-service behavior.
EBS health and publish responses
src/EDNexus.Ebs/Program.cs, src/EDNexus.Ebs/README.md, extension/README.md, tests/EDNexus.Ebs.Tests/TwitchCredentialCheckTests.cs
/healthz reports credential state, HTTP status, and check time. Publish failures caused by rejected credentials return a marked 503; other failures retain 502. Documentation and tests describe these responses.
Client handling and warning display
src/EDNexus.Core/Twitch/StreamStateApiClient.cs, src/EDNexus.Core/Twitch/TwitchStreamCardService.cs, src/EDNexus.Core/Twitch/StreamCardWarning.cs, src/EDNexus.App/ViewModels/MainWindowViewModel.cs, src/EDNexus.App/Views/MainWindow.axaml, src/EDNexus.App/Views/SettingsWindow.axaml.cs, tests/EDNexus.Tests/Twitch/*
The client maps the EBS rejection marker to a distinct status, retries it without treating it as user reauthentication failure, and displays a warning. Tests cover response mapping, retries, and warning behavior.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TwitchCredentialCheckBackgroundService
  participant TwitchCredentialProbe
  participant Twitch
  participant TwitchCredentialStatus
  participant EbsHealthz
  TwitchCredentialCheckBackgroundService->>TwitchCredentialProbe: Run credential check
  TwitchCredentialProbe->>Twitch: Send signed invalid-target request
  Twitch-->>TwitchCredentialProbe: Return HTTP response
  TwitchCredentialProbe->>TwitchCredentialStatus: Record accepted or rejected state
  EbsHealthz->>TwitchCredentialStatus: Read current status
  TwitchCredentialStatus-->>EbsHealthz: Return state, HTTP status, and check time
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An idle stream card may not recover automatically after backend credentials are fixed, and an unrelated publish failure may incorrectly tell users the credentials were rejected. These bounded issues warrant owner attention before or shortly after merge.

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Review comments at @src/EDNexus.Core/Twitch/TwitchStreamCardService.cs:
- Around line 293-294: Update the retry handling for BackendRejectedByTwitch in
the publish pump so this status continues retrying after MaxPublishRetries is
exhausted, using a slow fixed interval such as MaxRetryAfter; preserve the
existing bounded retry behavior for other failure statuses.

Review comments at @src/EDNexus.Ebs/Program.cs:
- Around line 393-405: Update ITwitchPubSubClient.BroadcastAsync and
TwitchPubSubClient.BroadcastAsync to return a result that distinguishes
Published, CredentialsRejected, and other failures; classify each broadcast
response using its current status code and keep shared credential state
unchanged for non-credential failures. In Program.cs, branch on the returned
result rather than credentials.State so only CredentialsRejected produces the
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Comment thread src/EDNexus.Core/Twitch/TwitchStreamCardService.cs
Comment thread src/EDNexus.Ebs/Program.cs
…ing a backend fault

- BroadcastAsync now returns PubSubBroadcastResult (Published, CredentialsRejected,
  Failed) and the update-state endpoint branches on THIS call's result. It used to
  read the shared credential status, which stays 'rejected' after an earlier 403, so
  a later 400 or Twitch outage was reported as a credentials problem (503 + marker)
  instead of a plain 502. The shared status is unchanged and still feeds /healthz.
- A BackendRejectedByTwitch publish no longer counts against the bounded retry
  budget: it retries indefinitely, but slowly (24x the publish floor, capped at
  MaxRetryAfter: two minutes at the default floor). With no earlier successful
  publish even the heartbeat wake is skipped, so giving up after five tries left an
  idle commander's card stale until something changed, contradicting the on-screen
  warning's 'it keeps retrying'. Ordinary failures stay bounded.

Both new regression tests were shown to fail on the previous behaviour.
EDNexus.Ebs.Tests 214 (+2), EDNexus.Tests 1126 (+2); full solution twice, no failures.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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