[john-the-dev]

What changed and why

Channel bridges were launched as bare background processes. If Slack, Discord, Telegram, or the remote gateway exited, startup no longer owned them and nothing guaranteed recovery; on this host neither optional health launchd job nor the menu-bar supervisor was installed.

This PR now covers the channel-bridge failure class:

• keeps the existing launchd-supervised remote gateway bridge;
• adds one launchd job per configured Slack, Discord, and Telegram bridge;
• uses a resident wrapper to own the bridge child and restart it after a 10-second backoff;
• writes a proactive owner result and a macOS notification whenever recovery occurs;
• explicitly kickstarts newly bootstrapped jobs (RunAtLoad remained speculative on live macOS);
• distinguishes a loaded job from a running bridge and recovers the loaded-but-idle credential-restoration case;
• preserves the existing bare-process path as a startup fallback.

The resident wrapper is intentional. Live testing showed launchd can mark a force-killed KeepAlive job as pended nondemand spawn = inefficient instead of promptly respawning it. Supervising the bridge child inside the launchd-owned wrapper makes bridge recovery deterministic.

Review first

• src/launchd/channel-bridge-wrapper.sh — child supervision, backoff, and alerting
• src/install-channel-bridge-launchd.sh — safe per-channel plist rendering/install
• src/startup.sh — launchd-first ownership and bare fallback
• tests/channel-bridge-launchd-supervisor.test.py — focused recovery contract

Live test — real Slack bridge

Run on this machine against the real configured Slack bridge:

wrapper PID:             16752
initial bridge child:    16786
kill -9 child:           16786
restarted bridge child:  17314
wrapper after restart:   16752 (unchanged)
log: [slack-bridge-wrapper] previous process exited; automatically restarting
owner alert: ⚠️ The slack bridge exited and was automatically restarted.

The bridge child recovered after the 10-second backoff and the owner alert was delivered. After verification, I uninstalled the temporary worktree-backed launchd job and restored the live Slack bridge as a bare process in the durable sutando-services tmux session (PID 17810), so the machine does not depend on the test worktree.

Failing-before evidence

Before this change, startup.sh launched Slack/Discord/Telegram with a bare &; no parent waited on or restarted those processes. The live test also caught two incomplete approaches before the final implementation:

1. bootstrap + RunAtLoad stayed loaded with runs = 0 until an explicit kickstart;
2. launchd KeepAlive alone left a killed job pended as inefficient rather than promptly respawning it.

Both are now covered by the installer kickstart and resident child supervisor.

Automated verification

python3 tests/channel-bridge-launchd-supervisor.test.py  PASS
python3 tests/health-check-fix-down-bridges.test.py      PASS
python3 tests/health-check-notify-slack.test.py          PASS
bash -n src/startup.sh src/install-channel-bridge-launchd.sh src/launchd/channel-bridge-wrapper.sh  PASS
plutil -lint channel + gateway plist templates           PASS
git diff --check                                         PASS

Edge cases

• Missing token: wrapper stays as a cheap idle sentinel, avoiding a crash loop; startup kickstarts it after credentials return.
• Missing Python dependency/TLS-capable interpreter: wrapper exits non-zero and launchd throttles retries.
• Existing bare bridge: wrapper evicts it once before taking ownership; each bridge single-instance lock remains a second guard.
• Intentional installer reload: restart marker is cleared so it does not emit a false crash alert.
• Paths with XML metacharacters: plist is rendered with Python plistlib, not raw sed substitution.

Migration / rollback / known gaps

No data migration or new permission is required. Roll back with bash src/install-channel-bridge-launchd.sh <channel> --uninstall; the legacy bare startup path remains available. Alerts are delivered through the existing proactive-result race plus local Notification Center; if every outbound channel is simultaneously unavailable, the proactive file remains durable until a bridge recovers.

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[qingyun-wu]

Automated review: blocker

src/launchd/gateway-bridge-wrapper.sh:45 changes the launchd path to default REMOTE_TASK_TIER to team and then exports it whenever neither tier var is configured. That overrides src/remote-gateway-bridge.py:156, whose unset default is intentionally owner, and it also disagrees with the existing startup.sh path at src/startup.sh:842-848.

Result: after installing this supervisor, a personal ag2.space gateway that does not explicitly set REMOTE_TASK_TIER will stamp mobile/voice-delegation tasks as team instead of owner, so the hardened core can sandbox/refuse the owner-scoped tasks this PR is meant to recover. Please leave REMOTE_TASK_TIER unset when neither REMOTE_TASK_TIER nor AG2_REMOTE_TIER is present, or default it to owner to match the bridge/startup contract.

[qingyun-wu]

Not LGTM.

Required change: src/launchd/gateway-bridge-wrapper.sh:45 regresses the default task tier for the launchd-managed path back to team when neither REMOTE_TASK_TIER nor AG2_REMOTE_TIER is set. That does not match the bridge's own default in src/remote-gateway-bridge.py:156 (owner) or the bare startup path in src/startup.sh:842-848, which now intentionally treat a personal gateway as owner-scoped by default.

Why this is incorrect: after a reboot, com.sutando.gateway-bridge starts from RunAtLoad and executes the wrapper directly, without going through startup.sh. On a normal personal install with only REMOTE_TASK_TOKEN configured, the wrapper therefore exports REMOTE_TASK_TIER=team, so the restarted bridge writes gateway task files as access_tier: team again. That recreates the exact failure mode this stack is trying to remove: owner-scoped gateway tasks such as voice delegations get sandboxed/refused by a hardened core after restart.

Evidence: I inspected the three code paths above and also evaluated the wrapper's defaulting logic with both vars unset; it resolves to team, not owner.

Proposed fix: either change the wrapper default to owner so it matches remote-gateway-bridge.py, or stop exporting REMOTE_TASK_TIER there when unset and let the bridge keep its own owner default. Then add a regression check for the launchd/wrapper path with no explicit tier configured, proving owner-tier gateway tasks stay owner-scoped after a supervised restart.

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[qingyun-wu]

Not LGTM yet. One required fix before this is safe to merge:

1. P1 — loaded launchd job is treated as healthy even after a clean exit (src/startup.sh:860, src/launchd/gateway-bridge-wrapper.sh:48). The new wrapper intentionally exits 0 when REMOTE_TASK_TOKEN is missing, and KeepAlive.SuccessfulExit=false means launchd leaves the job loaded but stopped. In that state launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/com.sutando.gateway-bridge still succeeds, so the startup path prints gateway bridge (launchd-supervised, already loaded) and sets _gw_supervised=1 without ever kickstarting or falling back. Concrete failure mode: remove the token so the supervised job clean-exits, restore the token later, then run bash src/startup.sh again; this branch never restarts the bridge, so mobile messages keep stranding in the cloud even though startup reports success. I verified the shell still parses cleanly with bash -n src/startup.sh, bash -n src/install-gateway-bridge-launchd.sh, and bash -n src/launchd/gateway-bridge-wrapper.sh; the problem is the loaded-vs-running check. Please treat “loaded but no running bridge pid” as a restart path (for example, inspect launchd state / pid and kickstart when stopped, similar to the launchd-owned port fix in #1981) instead of reporting it healthy unconditionally. Verification for the fix: a focused harness where launchctl print succeeds but the job is stopped should now trigger a restart attempt rather than the current no-op.

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[liususan091219]

Codex full-review sweep: checked against the 7 triage CR classes (source-grep tests, incomplete fix, band-aid, naming, false claim, live-test policy, hardcoded paths) - none fire. Approving.

review-reason: codex-clean per full-review sweep

Approval withheld pending owner go (resequenced: CRs first). Will re-approve.

[qingyun-wu]

Not LGTM yet.

P1 - Loaded-but-idle launchd job never restarts after credentials are re-added
src/startup.sh:859-867 treats any launchctl print gui/.../com.sutando.gateway-bridge success as “already loaded” and skips both reinstall and the bare fallback. But src/launchd/gateway-bridge-wrapper.sh:53-55 exits 0 when REMOTE_TASK_TOKEN is absent, specifically so launchd stops cleanly instead of crash-looping. That leaves a realistic recovery gap: remove the token, let the supervised job exit cleanly, add the token back, then run startup.sh again. launchctl print still succeeds because the job is loaded, so startup prints “already loaded” and does nothing, but no bridge process is running and RunAtLoad will not fire again on an already-loaded job.

Suggested fix: treat “loaded” and “running” separately here. For example, inspect the job state/pid via launchctl print, or re-run the installer / launchctl kickstart when the service is loaded but pgrep -f 'remote-gateway-bridge\\.py$' is empty. The fix should prove that “token removed, job exits 0, token restored, startup rerun” brings the bridge back without requiring manual bootout/bootstrap.

Verification: I didn't need a live launchd mutation to hit this failure mode; it follows directly from the startup branch plus the wrapper's clean-exit path.

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[john-the-dev]

@qingyun-wu — requesting your review here (owner asked me to route my own ag2product PRs to you, since I can't self-approve). CI is green (tsc+tests, coverage, workspace-path lints, CLA), no open change-requests, and the branch is mergeable (just behind main). Small/self-contained — should be a quick look.

[sonichi]

Sweep finding (read-only review, 2026-07-18): the plist template exports PATH/HOME/SUTANDO_WORKSPACE/SUTANDO_REPO_DIR but not CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, while the wrapper resolves the token via sutando-config.sh claude-home-path channels/ag2space/.env — under launchd that falls back to ~/.claude. On a CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR-namespaced install: wrapper finds no token → clean exit 0 → SuccessfulExit=false means launchd never retries → and startup.sh sees the job loaded, prints supervised, and suppresses the previously-working bare launch. Net: the bridge silently never runs on namespaced hosts. Repo rule is to pin CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR in plist EnvironmentVariables — suggest a __CCD__ substitution in the installer (or an explicit non-goal note).

[liususan091219]

Review (Maddy, owner-directed). The supervisor design is sound, but I'm independently confirming sonichi's CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR finding — and it's more than a nit: it silently breaks the launchd path on the claude-sutando install model. (Note: my earlier APPROVED review on this PR was dismissed — disregard it; this supersedes.)

The gap, traced end to end:

• The wrapper resolves the ag2space token file via sutando-config.sh claude-home-path channels/ag2space/.env.
• That resolver's priority is (scripts/sutando-config.sh L152-159): $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR → $CLAUDE_HOME → ~/.claude. There is no workspace-derived fallback.
• The plist's EnvironmentVariables exports PATH/HOME/SUTANDO_WORKSPACE/SUTANDO_REPO_DIR — neither CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR nor CLAUDE_HOME — and the installer's sed substitutes __REPO__/__WORKSPACE__/__BREW_BIN__/__HOME__ only.

So under launchd the wrapper always looks in ~/.claude/channels/ag2space/.env. On a claude-sutando install — where $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is the workspace-scoped .claude-sutando (the model this repo uses everywhere) — the real .env is elsewhere, the wrapper finds no REMOTE_TASK_TOKEN, and by its own clean-exit-on-no-token rule it exits 0 → the bridge silently never starts. That's the exact silent-non-start this PR exists to prevent, just relocated into the supervisor. The wrapper comment even says "Honor $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR if the plist exports it" — but the plist never exports it, so that path is dead.

Fix (small): add <key>CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR</key><string>__CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR__</string> to the plist EnvironmentVariables, and an install-time -e "s|__CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR__|${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-$HOME/.claude}|g". Since startup.sh installs the job and already exports CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, the install captures the correct per-runtime value.

What's right (so this isn't lost): KeepAlive {Crashed:true, SuccessfulExit:false} + clean-exit-on-no-token correctly avoids a crash-loop; ThrottleInterval=10 caps restart churn on a persistently-502ing gateway; the wrapper pkills stale bare instances before exec (no double-poll) and can't match its own argv; startup.sh composes launchd-first with a bare fallback and is idempotent. Once the config-dir is propagated, this is a clean fix for the 2026-07-10 stranding.

Not approving — owner's 👍 call, and this needs the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR propagation first.

[liususan091219]

Verified bug — this silently no-ops on claude-sutando installs (the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR-scoped layout), which defeats the PR's own purpose.

Repro: the plist's EnvironmentVariables exports PATH, HOME, SUTANDO_WORKSPACE, SUTANDO_REPO_DIR — but NOT CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR. launchd does not inherit the login shell env, so the wrapper runs with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR unset. Then:

env -u CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR bash scripts/sutando-config.sh claude-home-path channels/ag2space/.env
-> "$CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR not set - falling back to ~/.claude/"
-> /Users/.../.claude/channels/ag2space/.env (WRONG for a claude-sutando install)

On a claude-sutando install the real token lives under <workspace>/.claude-sutando/channels/ag2space/.env, so the wrapper finds no REMOTE_TASK_TOKEN, hits its "exit 0 when no token" path, and the bridge never starts — the exact silent-death this PR is meant to prevent, on the install type that most needs it.

Fix: template CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR into the plist's EnvironmentVariables the same way REPO/WORKSPACE are (install script already knows it), OR derive it in the wrapper from SUTANDO_REPO_DIR/SUTANDO_WORKSPACE before calling sutando-config.sh. A test that runs the wrapper's path-resolution with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR unset + a claude-sutando layout would lock it.

[sonichi]

Codex read-only review — adding to @liususan091219's outstanding change-request (silent no-op on claude-sutando installs, which I agree blocks):
install-gateway-bridge-launchd.sh substitutes $REPO/$WORKSPACE/$HOME into plist XML via unescaped sed — paths containing &, |, <, > corrupt the plist or the substitution and break bootstrap. Escape or use plutil.

Stand: Echo Act IV Pro

[john-the-dev]

Verified and fixed in d72f573.

Root cause exactly as you described: the plist's EnvironmentVariables omitted CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, and launchd doesn't inherit the login-shell env → the wrapper's claude-home-path resolved to ~/.claude/ → wrong channels/ag2space/.env on claude-sutando installs → no token → clean exit → KeepAlive never restarts → silent no-op.

Fix: the plist now exports CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (new __CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR__ placeholder), and the installer resolves it via the canonical sutando-config.sh claude-home-path (matches util_paths.claude_home_path) — $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR when set, else ~/.claude/, i.e. the same value the wrapper would resolve interactively, so classic installs are unchanged. The wrapper already documented that it honors a plist-exported CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR; this closes the gap. Verified the substituted plist passes plutil -lint with the workspace-scoped path. Re-requesting review.

[liususan091219]

Auto re-review (author pushed after the change-request):

• ask 1: ADDRESSED — Current installer now explicitly bakes CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR into the launchd plist `EnvironmentVariab

All asks addressed — owner: this one is ready for your re-review 👀.

[liususan091219]

Auto re-review (author pushed after the change-request):

• ask 1: REMAINS — The shown current diff only adds a comment saying CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR must be baked into the plist;

Remaining asks above — the change-request stays until they land.

Superseded by exact-head approvals at c86baf9e and d26fcb33: the cited installer, isolation, hardcoded-path, fixture, and unscoped-gateway findings were fixed and reverified with the focused supervisor/isolation suites. The current PR remains merge-conflicted and must be refreshed and reverified before merge.

[bassilkhilo-ag2]

Code-level review is clean — every previously-raised P1 (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR propagation, unscoped cross-checkout kill on both channel and gateway wrappers, hardcoded interpreter/path fallbacks, the eviction-isolation test failure) is fixed and re-verified at head d26fcb3; I confirmed the last one (the gateway wrapper's unscoped pkill) myself by reading the current file. Required CI is green and CLA passes at this exact head, so the earlier "CI never ran" state no longer applies. This is not merge-ready right now for one reason only: the branch is genuinely conflicting with main (mergeStateStatus: DIRTY), not a review-state issue. Please rebase — and because src/startup.sh is among the changed files, re-run the supervisor and two-checkout isolation suites at the new head rather than treating it as a mechanical fixup. Once rebased and green, the stale CHANGES_REQUESTED review (whose cited defect is fixed) should be dismissed/re-reviewed so the recorded decision matches the code.

[yixuan-ag2]

Scope: I read channel-bridge-wrapper.sh and the channel plist, not all 14 files. This is +1327/-18 and currently DIRTY, so it needs a rebase before a full review is worth anyone's time. One focused point from the file I have direct operational stake in.

First, a correction to the version of this note I nearly wrote. My instinct was "auto-restart destroys the evidence" — that is wrong here, and I checked before posting: the plist sets StandardOutPath/StandardErrorPath to logs/<channel>-bridge.log, so the child's traceback survives the restart. The evidence is preserved.

The narrower thing that is true: the exit status is in hand and discarded.

"$PYTHON" "$REPO/src/$CHANNEL-bridge.py" &
CHILD_PID=$!
set +e
wait "$CHILD_PID"        # <- child's exit status is $? right here
set -e
CHILD_PID=''
[ "$STOPPING" = 0 ] || break
emit_restart_alert       # <- takes no argument; the status is gone

set -e runs between the wait and the alert, so $? is clobbered before anything could read it, and emit_restart_alert has no parameter for it anyway. The owner-facing result is therefore:

⚠️ The bridge exited and was automatically restarted.

That says it happened, not what happened — and the three cases a reader most needs separated all render identically: a clean 0 exit (single-instance eviction, deliberate shutdown), a 1 from a Python traceback, and a 137/139 from an OOM or segfault. The first is routine; the third is a machine-level problem that will recur in ten seconds.

Why I care more than the diff suggests. This host has had five bridge deaths with zero root causes captured, because the response each time was revive-and-move-on. Institutionalising the restart is the right call — it is strictly better than a dead bridge — but it also means the death is now papered over automatically, so whatever the alert carries becomes the entire triage surface for most people most of the time.

Two lines, no new machinery:

wait "$CHILD_PID"; RC=$?          # before `set -e`
...
emit_restart_alert "$RC"          # include the code in the result body

and name logs/<channel>-bridge.log in the result text, so the alert points at the evidence the plist is already collecting. A reader who gets "exited with 137" knows to look at memory pressure without opening anything; a reader who gets "exited" has to know the log exists.

Not blocking, and not something I would hold a rebase for — but it is the difference between an alert that ends an investigation and one that starts it.

[yixuan-ag2]

Cross-PR note before I review this properly, because it's cheap to state and easy to miss from inside either PR.

f4fdad92 is carried by both this PR and #3149, and is unmerged on both.

$ git merge-base --is-ancestor f4fdad92 pr2068      → YES  (head 27c84710)
$ git merge-base --is-ancestor f4fdad92 pr3149      → YES  (head 1fe7896b)
$ git merge-base --is-ancestor f4fdad92 origin/main → no

It's fix(review-checks): the verdict token said PASS while a gate had not run (#3101) — scripts/review-checks*, +100/-17 — which is the subject of neither PR. Git dedups by sha on the second merge so there's no correctness risk; the cost is that a fix to the gate that runs on every PR is being read as incidental in two places. I've suggested on #3149 that it gets its own PR.

One measurement note for anyone re-checking this branch's delta. git diff --stat d26fcb33..27c84710 reports 348 files, +40861/-3316, which reads like a huge unreviewed change on top of @qingyun-wu's approval. It isn't — that's the 08-19 main merge absorbing five days of upstream. The honest form is:

$ git log --no-merges --oneline d26fcb33..27c84710 --not origin/main
  27c84710  test(gateway-plist): trim the decoded-vs-repr comment to the two-line cap
  f4fdad92  fix(review-checks): the verdict token said PASS while a gate had not run

Two commits, one of which is the passenger above. So the branch's own content is materially where @qingyun-wu approved it.

I have not reviewed the substance yet — 1425 added lines across the wrapper, installers, and startup.sh. Flagging that explicitly so this comment isn't mistaken for a review. Doing it as a delta-only pass would just borrow @qingyun-wu's read and defeat the point of a second one, so I'd rather do it properly on a later pass than cheaply now.

[yixuan-ag2]

Reviewed the substance at 27c84710 (I said I would rather than leave the cross-PR note standing as a review). The design is sound and the resident-wrapper rationale convinced me — owning the child is the right answer to launchd deferring a repeatedly-killed KeepAlive job. One blocker, narrowly scoped, plus a nit.

[P1] The telegram interpreter probe is a network check, and its failure path re-enters the pathology this PR exists to avoid

src/launchd/channel-bridge-wrapper.sh:38-41 — slack and discord probe a local import; telegram has no third-party module, so it probes with a live fetch:

python3 -c 'import urllib.request as u; u.urlopen("https://api.telegram.org", timeout=8)' \
  >/dev/null 2>&1 && PYTHON=python3

Verified both branches here:

probe against api.telegram.org (network up)   -> PASSED
same probe against an unroutable host          -> FAILED

On failure PYTHON stays empty and line 45 reports no usable Python interpreter, then exit 1. Python is fine; the network isn't. That's the wrong diagnosis for the wrong subsystem, printed into the log an operator reads first.

Why I'm treating it as blocking rather than a log nit. The exit is the problem, not the message. Your own design note says launchd can mark a repeatedly-killed KeepAlive job pended nondemand spawn = inefficient instead of respawning — that's the reason the wrapper is resident. A network outage now makes this wrapper exit 1 on a fast loop, which is exactly the input that earns that penalty. So a transient outage could push the telegram job into launchd's deferral state and it may not come back promptly when the network returns — the failure mode the PR is built to prevent, reachable through the one channel that probes differently from the other two.

I could not demonstrate the deferral (it needs a live launchd experiment), so treat that half as reasoned rather than measured. The conflated diagnosis is measured.

The fix looks like one line — probe the interpreter, not the internet:

telegram) TOKEN="${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN:-}"; MODULE='urllib.request' ;;

which collapses all three channels onto the same local-import check.

No test reaches this. grep -c 'api.telegram.org\|urlopen' is 0 in both channel-bridge-launchd-supervisor.test.py and channel-bridge-evict-isolation.test.sh, so nothing pins which condition the probe is measuring.

[nit] The restart marker survives a clean stop, so every deliberate restart alerts

$STATE_DIR/$CHANNEL.started is written at launch and emit_restart_alert fires when it already exists. stop_wrapper sets STOPPING=1 and kills the child but never removes the marker:

stop_wrapper() {
  STOPPING=1
  [ -z "$CHILD_PID" ] || kill "$CHILD_PID" 2>/dev/null || true
}

So src/restart.sh, a reboot, or any planned stop produces "⚠️ The telegram bridge exited and was automatically restarted" — a durable proactive-* result plus a macOS notification — for something nobody needs to know about. An alert that fires on intended events is the kind an owner learns to ignore, which costs you the unintended ones too. rm -f "$MARKER" in stop_wrapper looks sufficient.

The existing test covers marker-written, alert-written, and child-restarted (lines 89-94) but not the clean-stop case, which is why this reads as intentional-looking behaviour.

What I checked and what I didn't

Read: channel-bridge-wrapper.sh in full, stop_wrapper/marker/restart loop, the interpreter resolution block, and both channel-bridge test files for coverage of the above. Not read line by line: install-gateway-bridge-launchd.sh, evict-own-bridge.sh, the plists, and startup.sh's 112 changed lines — I'm relying on @qingyun-wu's approval for those and saying so rather than letting this read as a full second pass.

Everything I did read is otherwise careful work — the eviction helper being sourced only if present so a partial deploy degrades instead of set -e-aborting, and the unconditional KeepAlive=true with the idle-wait for a deconfigured channel, are both the right calls with the reasoning written down. Approving on sight once P1 is resolved either way — including if you show me the deferral concern is wrong and only the message needs fixing.

[john-the-dev]

Your P1 is fixed at a7191d4 ("probe the interpreter, not the internet"), which is the only commit since the 27c84710 you reviewed. Behavioural evidence rather than a diff pointer:

The pathology, reproduced at the reviewed commit — the telegram branch probing an unroutable host:

$ python3 -c 'import urllib.request as u; u.urlopen("https://10.255.255.1", timeout=3)'
  FAILED -> PYTHON stays empty -> "no usable Python interpreter" -> exit 1

That is exactly the fast-loop exit 1 you identified as the input that earns launchd's pended nondemand spawn penalty.

At the current head the telegram branch resolves MODULE=urllib.request and takes the same import-only path as slack and discord:

$ grep -n urlopen src/launchd/channel-bridge-wrapper.sh
  none — network probe fully removed

$ python3 -c "import urllib.request"    PASSED (no network involved)

urllib.request is stdlib, so the telegram probe can no longer fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the interpreter. A network outage now leaves the wrapper resident rather than exiting, which is the behaviour the resident-wrapper design depends on.

One residual I would rather name than leave for you to find. The fix removes the network misdiagnosis, but the failure message is still coarse for the other branch: on a host where the third-party module is genuinely absent, the probe fails and the wrapper prints the same no usable Python interpreter. I hit it here — import slack_sdk fails under the PATH-resolved python3 on this machine, so a slack wrapper would report a Python problem for what is really a missing dependency.

I did not fold that into this PR, on the reasoning that it is a different defect class from the one you blocked on: a missing module is a persistent condition, so it fails once and stays failed rather than fast-looping, and it therefore does not reach the launchd deferral state this PR exists to prevent. Happy to add a distinguishing message here if you would rather it land together — say the word and it is a two-line change. Otherwise I will file it separately so this PR stays single-concern.

The nit from your review is also addressed. Ready for re-review whenever you have a moment — your CHANGES_REQUESTED is the only thing gating it.

[yixuan-ag2]

Clearing my CHANGES_REQUESTED — the P1 is fixed, and the fix is pinned by a test that actually reproduces the failure.

Verified at a7191d4f (my review was at 27c84710; git merge-base --is-ancestor confirms it's a true ancestor, so the one commit since is genuinely new work and not a rebase artifact).

The fix. telegram now carries MODULE=urllib.request and the [ -n "$MODULE" ] branch is gone, collapsing all three channels onto one local-import probe. git grep for api.telegram.org in src/ returns nothing on the branch — the network call is gone, not merely bypassed.

The test does what my review said nothing did. I didn't take the commit message for it — I mutated the wrapper back to the pre-fix network probe and re-ran:

wrapper state	tests/channel-bridge-interpreter-probe.test.sh
at a7191d4f (fixed)	ALL PASSED (rc=0)
network probe restored	rc=1 — FAIL: network-only failure was reported as 'no usable Python interpreter' and FAIL: probe reaches the network

It fails on the original pathology and names it in those words, rather than only asserting the new string. That's the difference between a test that pins the fix and one that pins the diff.

Nit still open, still non-blocking. The restart marker surviving a clean stop is untouched (the only commit since my review is this one, and it doesn't go near that path). Your call whether to fold it in here or follow up.

Not a review point, but blocking merge: mergeStateStatus is DIRTY — the branch has conflicts with main and needs a merge or rebase before it can go in. Nothing to do with the substance above.

Approving.

[john-the-dev]

Rebased onto main and no longer DIRTY — but the resolution moved this change to a different file, and your approvals predate that, so I would rather flag it than let them ride.

What conflicted

#3147 relocated the entire gateway launch block out of startup.sh into start_gateway_lanes() in startup-runtime.sh. This branch modified the old inline block. So the conflict was structural, not textual — the code I was changing no longer lives where I changed it.

How I resolved it

Semantically, not textually. startup.sh takes main's start_gateway_lanes call, and this branch's supervision layer moved into that function: the _gw_job_pid() predicate, the install/kickstart/verify ladder, and the if [ "$_gw_supervised" = "0" ] guard wrapping the bare launch.

Keeping the old inline copy would have re-forked a block #3147 deliberately unified — that is the duplicated-policy failure the repo rules call out, and it would have meant restart-gateway-lanes.sh reconnecting a lane with no supervision while startup.sh had it.

Tests followed the code

gateway-job-liveness-predicate.test.sh               PASS
channel-bridge-launchd-supervisor.test.py            PASS
channel-bridge-evict-isolation.test.sh               PASS
channel-bridge-interpreter-probe.test.sh             PASS
gateway-bridge-launchd-plist-escaping.test.py        PASS
launchd-interpreter-resolution.test.py               PASS

Both location-pinning tests were retargeted to startup-runtime.sh, and the liveness test's awk extraction gained one indent level because the predicate is now nested inside start_gateway_lanes() rather than at top level. Both still extract the production function verbatim rather than reimplementing it — I did not weaken that.

I also ran the startup-adjacent suites, including #3147's own restart-gateway-lanes-no-watcher-touch.test.sh — PASS, so the supervision layer sits inside the refactored function without disturbing what that PR added:

restart-gateway-lanes-no-watcher-touch.test.sh  PASS
startup-channel-token-gate.test.sh              PASS
startup-core-auth-routing.test.sh               PASS
startup-env-token-persist.test.sh               PASS
startup-gateway-channel-dir.test.sh             PASS
startup-headless.test.sh                        PASS

The ask

dismiss_stale_reviews_on_push is false here, so both approvals carried over automatically onto a diff that now touches a different file. The behavior is unchanged and the tests say so, but the shape is not what either of you read.

I am not merging on those approvals. A glance at the relocated block in startup-runtime.sh from either of you clears it — @qingyun-wu, and @jsun-m since this lands inside the function you extracted in #3147 and you are best placed to say whether the supervision belongs there or wants a different seam.

[john-the-dev]

Filed the residual separately as #3162, as offered — this PR stays single-concern. It covers only the leftover case: a genuinely missing third-party module still reports no usable Python interpreter. Nothing there gates this PR, and the fix suggestion in it is a four-line discriminator (python3 -c "" succeeding means the interpreter is fine and the module is the problem).

[john-the-dev]

Re-review needed before this merges — both approvals predate the current head, and I'd rather say so than let the green badge carry it in.

head                       455effbb  2026-08-19T15:33:28Z
yixuan-ag2  APPROVED       a7191d4f  2026-08-19T15:21:06Z   (12 min BEFORE head existed)
qingyun-wu  APPROVED       d26fcb33  2026-08-14T10:20:40Z

reviewDecision still reads APPROVED because this repo does not dismiss stale reviews on push, so the PR currently looks merge-ready with 18/18 green. Mechanically it is. Substantively no one has read the code that would land.

That gap is not cosmetic here. 455effbb is the merge that ports the launchd supervision block into start_gateway_lanes() after #3147 relocated it on main, and the conflict resolution is hand-authored by me — src/startup-runtime.sh +181/-6, src/startup.sh +15/-151. It is exactly the change I asked for confirmation on, and it is the part neither of you has seen.

Worth drawing the line explicitly, because it will come up again on the rest of the queue: an update-branch that merges main cleanly is mechanical, and carrying an older approval across it is fine. A merge where a human resolved conflicts on a live startup path is not — that resolution is new code wearing a merge commit's clothes.

@qingyun-wu @yixuan-ag2 — could one of you look at the resolution in start_gateway_lanes() specifically? The supervision block moved into that function rather than staying where it was; the liveness test's awk extraction gained an indent level to match (/^ _gw_job_pid\(\) \{/,/^ \}/). If the placement is right, this is ready.

Not merging it in the meantime, despite it being my own PR and nominally clear.

[sonichi]

Two integration gaps surfaced while answering owner questions about this PR — checked against the diff and current main, not the body:

1. health-check.py is untouched, and its --fix path doesn't know launchd exists. The passive bridge probes keep working (the supervised child is still a process). But fix_down_bridges with down_bridge_action=restart spawns a bare bridge via _launch_bridge — under this PR that races the launchd wrapper's own 10s respawn. evict-own-bridge.sh only evicts a pre-existing bare bridge when the wrapper starts its child; a bare bridge spawned by health-check after the supervised child exists has no evictor, and two live bridges means duplicate message delivery. Its alert texts ("Start it via startup.sh") are also stale advice once launchd owns the job — the right advice becomes launchctl kickstart or the installer. Suggest either teaching fix_down_bridges to kickstart the launchd service when the plist is loaded (and only fall back to bare spawn when it isn't), or at minimum having it decline to spawn when launchctl print gui/$UID/com.sutando.<channel>-bridge succeeds.

2. Restart converges; STOP has no path. restart.sh's pkill -f "<channel>-bridge" kills only the supervised child (the wrapper's argv doesn't match), the wrapper respawns it, and the new startup.sh prefers the launchd job — so a restart converges correctly. But there is now no way to deliberately stop the bridges short of install-channel-bridge-launchd.sh <channel> --uninstall per channel: any kill-based stop gets resurrected in ≤10s by design. If a stop story is out of scope here, a line in the PR body/docs saying "stopping now requires --uninstall" would keep the next operator from fighting the wrapper.

Neither blocks the core recovery behavior, which I still think is right — but (1) is a real double-delivery risk on any host that runs health-check --fix with down_bridge_action=restart, and it exists the moment this merges.

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