fix(connect): preserve rotated credentials during shutdown

[Exotic209093]

Problem

A T3 Connect refresh can rotate the OAuth credential, then lose the replacement when shutdown interrupts the exchange or persistence. Permanent refresh rejection also used to enter the normal retry loop without actionable guidance.

Change

Keep refresh and persistence together under the existing credential lock, protected from cooperative parent interruption. Queued callers and interactive authorization remain cancellable. HTTP response and rejection-body reading share the existing ten-second budget.

Permanent refresh 4xx errors, except 408 and 429, stop CloudLink retries and instruct the operator to run t3 connect login. A typed status drives that decision. Only allowlisted OAuth codes enter the message; diagnostic descriptions and arbitrary body/error text remain private. Malformed, unreadable, and timed-out rejection bodies retain the known status and underlying failure. This classification also treats a non-OAuth 4xx page from the token endpoint as requiring login.

Credit to @Exotic209093 for the original fix in #19499. The takeover preserves the author’s commits, merges main, replaces predicate-only coverage with a real reconciliation/retry regression, and removes mutable HTTP-response tracking and diagnostic codes stored as causes.

Scope and approval

Addresses the backend scope of #19487, as triaged by the maintainer. It does not add desktop connection-status UI or change tunnel transport. Authentication and credential-handling approval remains for a human maintainer; this PR is left unmerged.

Verification

On head cf5d9309e0:

• 69 focused tests pass in three existing files, reduced from 72 after merging main (the original unmerged PR reported 70).
• Deferred gates prove shutdown interruption cannot discard rotated access/refresh tokens, the lock covers persistence, and queued callers can cancel. A subsequent caller reads the rotated credentials.
• Body-failure cases preserve immediate reader/timeout causes, status, sanitized guidance, and lock release. A delayed-header/stalled-body case proves the total request budget stays ten seconds.
• A real CloudLink reconciliation call wrapped in the shared startup retry helper retries a transient failure, then propagates a permanent rejection without another retry. This exercises the service and predicate, rather than launching the full server startup loop.
• Five fail-before mutations separately reproduce lost persistence, lost body cause, missing safe diagnostic, unwanted permanent retry, and an extended request budget.
• Scoped server typecheck, touched-file lint and formatting, and diff checks pass. This is nonvisual backend behavior; screenshots would not demonstrate it.

Independent full-diff review round 1 (Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol) found no blocking code defects; both reviewers independently passed all 69 focused tests.

These are headless Linux service-level tests with mocked HTTP and secret storage. No live OAuth account, real token rotation, process restart, relay, WSL/Windows, macOS, Electron desktop, iOS, or Android verification is claimed.

The protection covers cooperative interruption. Existing service-launcher and desktop supervisors force-kill after five seconds, while an exchange may use ten seconds and persistence has no separate deadline. Forced termination, power loss, or a stalled disk can still prevent persistence. Real service-restart verification and any follow-up to the supervisor grace period remain for a human; this change does not guarantee preservation across every shutdown.

Implemented and tested with GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra in the Codex harness; independent review with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol through T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — The PR changes production OAuth credential persistence, refresh-failure classification, and CloudLink retry behavior. Although the scope is focused and regression coverage is strong, authentication and sensitive-credential handling require human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

CLI credential refresh now protects rotated-token persistence from interruption. Refresh errors classify permanent 4xx responses, provide login guidance, and expose only supported OAuth error codes. CloudLink stops retrying refresh errors that require login.

Changes: CLI credential refresh

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Refresh persistence and error classification apps/server/src/cloud/CliTokenManager.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/CliTokenManager.test.ts	Refresh persistence is uninterruptible, while the exchange timeout remains interruptible. Permanent 4xx refresh responses require login, except 408 and 429. Error messages include login guidance and an allowlisted OAuth error code when available. Tests cover persistence ordering, status handling, malformed or unreadable bodies, stalled responses, and credential-lock release.
CloudLink retry handling apps/server/src/cloud/CloudLink.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/CloudLink.lifecycle.test.ts	CloudLink does not retry CLI credential refresh errors when requiresLogin is true. Tests cover both values of requiresLogin.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CliTokenManager
  participant OAuthTokenEndpoint
  participant SecretStore
  CliTokenManager->>OAuthTokenEndpoint: Request refreshed credentials
  OAuthTokenEndpoint-->>CliTokenManager: Return rotated credentials
  CliTokenManager->>SecretStore: Persist rotated credentials

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Changed systems: apps/server

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Review details

Systems and components

• observed — apps/server (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/cloud/CloudLink.lifecycle.test.ts: Added a test covering both requiresLogin values for CloudCliCredentialRefreshError and asserting that shouldRetryCloudLink returns the corresponding retry expectation.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/cloud/CloudLink.ts: shouldRetryCloudLink now returns false for CLI credential-refresh errors with requiresLogin === true, in addition to errors rejected by the existing relay-retry or permanent-link-error checks.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/cloud/CliTokenManager.test.ts: The test file imports HttpClientError for assertions about refresh failures.
• observed — Modified behavior in apps/server/src/cloud/CliTokenManager.test.ts: Adds a successful token-response fixture with a rotated access token and refresh token.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check		Issue #19487 requires interruption-safe refresh persistence, permanent refresh 4xx handling, retry suppression, and a sanitized login diagnostic. CliTokenManager.ts now protects refresh and persiste…
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes stay within issue #19487. Production changes cover CLI credential refresh persistence, OAuth failure classification, sanitized diagnostics, and CloudLink retry behavior. The tests support …
Title check		The title is concise, specific, and accurately describes the main change: preserving rotated credentials during shutdown.
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Explanation

Issue #19487 requires interruption-safe refresh persistence, permanent refresh 4xx handling, retry suppression, and a sanitized login diagnostic. CliTokenManager.ts now protects refresh and persistence from parent interruption while retaining the ten-second exchange timeout. Permanent 4xx failures exclude 408 and 429, set requiresLogin, and preserve failure causes. CloudLink.ts stops retries when login is required. The implementation allowlists OAuth error codes and excludes descriptions and unknown or private values. The reported tests cover token rotation, status handling, body failures, timeout behavior, lock release, and diagnostic filtering.

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Explanation

The changes stay within issue #19487. Production changes cover CLI credential refresh persistence, OAuth failure classification, sanitized diagnostics, and CloudLink retry behavior. The tests support these objectives. The pull request does not add unrelated tunnel transport or desktop reconnect changes.

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[Exotic209093]

Addressed the linked-issue diagnostic warning in 83f102d. Permanent refresh rejection messages now include only a typed allowlisted OAuth code, with the existing login instruction. Raw descriptions and unknown/private error strings remain excluded. Reading the optional body stays inside the original ten-second timeout; a stalled or unreadable body retains the known permanent HTTP status, so it cannot restart the retry loop. All 62 token-manager and CloudLink tests pass, including parent interruption, code privacy, stalled 200/400 bodies, unreadable bodies, and lock release. Fresh CI is running.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/cloud/CliTokenManager.ts:
- Around line 370-375: Update the permanent-refresh-status branch in the
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[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one as maintainer for batch ssh-relay-remote-12. I’ll preserve the fork branch and author history, merge main, simplify the regression tests in a fresh pass, and run separate implementation and parallel adversarial reviews. Verification will use isolated credentials and headless Linux; no merge is planned.