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* fix(node): a video the browser cannot decode is re-encoded, not refusedChristophe Besson2026-09-095-162/+325
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Streaming an Xvid/MP3 .avi answered "Unsupported video codec" — a refusal, on a file ffmpeg re-encodes at about six times playback speed on the machine that reported it. Nothing about the source was wrong. The node simply never reached its own re-encode path. `probe_video` maps a source codec to an MSE codec string and knows four: h264, hevc, vp9, av1. Everything else returns None, because there is no MediaSource decoder in any mainstream browser to give a string to — MPEG-4 Part 2 (Xvid, DivX), MPEG-2, VC-1, WMV, Theora. `_stream_video_inner` read that None as a verdict on the file and refused, while the re-encode sitting twenty lines below it was gated on `raw_video_codec in BROWSER_INCOMPATIBLE_VIDEO_CODECS` — a set containing "hevc" and nothing else. So the whole ffmpeg fallback existed, worked, and was unreachable for every codec that most needed it. The setting that governs the fallback has documented the intended behaviour since it was introduced: draft-v6 §2.11 says `transcode_incompatible_video` covers "HEVC *and other browser-incompatible video codecs*". Only HEVC was ever wired up. Two questions were being answered by one value, and they are separated now. "Is there a video stream at all" is the only thing this path genuinely cannot serve, and the only refusal left. "Can it be copied" needs both an MSE string to put in `stream_init` and a codec browsers decode; a source failing either is re-encoded. The operator's opt-out keeps meaning what it says, and it no longer means the same thing for every source, because it cannot: HEVC has a codec string, so `transcode_incompatible_video = false` falls back to a copy and the viewer's own decoder decides (unchanged). MPEG-4 Part 2 has none, so there is nothing to fall back to — a `stream_init` with no codec string is one the client refuses before the first byte — and the stream is refused naming the setting. "Unsupported video codec" is what sent this report to the file, and the file was fine. Verified against the reported file end to end: ffprobe reports mpeg4/mp3 720x404, the decision comes out `can_copy=False`, and the pipeline's exact argv produces H264 High level 4.1 plus stereo AAC-LC — matching the `avc1.640029,mp4a.40.2` that `stream_init` advertises and that the client puts through MediaSource.isTypeSupported byte for byte. test_stream_hevc_transcode.py becomes test_stream_video_transcode.py: it was always about the policy rather than about one codec, and it now carries both halves of it, with a synthetic Xvid/MP3 .avi built the same way as the HEVC clip. Its module-level skip on libx265 went with it — an ffmpeg without x265 still encodes MPEG-4 Part 2, so that marker was skipping the reported defect entirely on any box without it; it now gates the HEVC cases alone. Three cases added, checked against the unfixed source. Hub and node suites 2269 passed, 4 skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019GXmScYB1uR29YCt74si9J
* test(spa): drive the composer's recovery through the real reconnectChristophe Besson2026-09-093-2/+98
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The reconnect scenario added with the fix proved the composer follows `_setDevicePk`, and it poked that method itself at both ends. That is a narrower claim than it reads as: it says nothing about whether a reconnect *reaches* it, and the harness's own `Host` stands in for group-page.js, so a green probe did not mean the page joins the two. Both halves are real now. The scenario calls `connect()` with the arguments `_reconnectLoop` calls it with; it stops at signaling, because there is no hub in the harness, and the identity has to be gone by then — connect() drops it before it touches the network. The restore is the shipped `_announceDevice`, answered by the stand-in node with a `device_hello_ack` as `_do_device_hello` answers it, and the key it settles on is the one the following send seals and signs with. Three assertions check the scenario went that way rather than through a variable set by the test. The seam the harness cannot drive gets its own check: the wiring exists, the prop is in `commonProps`, and the callback is set *before* `connect()` — after it, device_hello's answer is missed and the composer starts closed. That check first passed with the wiring deleted, on the strength of a comment naming the callback; it matches the assignment now. Two things the harness turned up. `do_POST` answered every path, so the offer connect() posts to the hub was swallowed as the measurement and put the machine's own SDP, public address included, into the probe's output — it answers `/log` and nothing else now. And a connect() that gives up before `await channelReady` left that promise rejected with nobody attached, so closing the peer connection printed "Uncaught (in promise) DataChannel closed" on every failed reconnect attempt — noise in exactly the log a freeze is read from. Checked against the unfixed source both ways: with the clear removed from connect() and the wiring removed from group-page.js, three cases fail; with them back, 15 pass. Hub and node suites 2266 passed, 4 skipped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019GXmScYB1uR29YCt74si9J
* fix(spa): a reconnect must give the Chat composer backChristophe Besson2026-09-096-17/+256
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Chat tab froze about every other day — the textbox stopped taking clicks — and it never recovered on its own: no timeout ends this one, only leaving the group or restarting the client. A console dump of a session it happened in ruled out everything it could and named nothing. What that dump established was almost entirely negative, and that was the useful part. No `Response timeout`, no `unsolicited`/`unrouted`/`with nothing waiting` — so the 2026-08-30 routing defect, which produces this exact symptom for thirty seconds, had not recurred. No `PC state: disconnected|failed`, no second ICE cycle, no `Reconnected after N attempt(s)` — so the connection was alive and untouched. The freeze was in the page, and no path that logs anything had run. The composer is `disabled=${sending || cannotSend}`, and `cannotSend` was `transport.connected && !transport.devicePk`, read off a **ref** during render. `devicePk` is settled inside connect(), so every reconnect clears it and settles it again; a ref changing re-renders nothing, and nothing else announced it. So the panel went disabled on whatever unrelated re-render came next — a message arriving — long after the identity was actually lost, and had no event that would open it again. group-page.js never touches `status` after 'connected', and `onReconnected` is claimed by video-player.js, so there was no second chance. It was silent as well as sticky. `_announceDevice` had three exits that wrote `devicePk` without a word: two early returns that left the *previous* connection's value standing, and a reply that is not `device_hello_ack` — an `error` reply does not throw, so the `.catch()` at the call site never saw it. Reproduced in chat_send_probe.py, which mounts the real ChatPanel over the real transport: with the old code, identity cleared leaves the composer open, an arriving message latches it shut, and restoring the identity does not reopen it. Every write to `devicePk` now goes through `_setDevicePk(pk, why)`, which logs, traces and calls `onDeviceIdentity`; group-page holds the answer as state and ChatPanel takes it as `deviceReady`. Defaulting that prop to `true` fails open — a wiring mistake here must not be able to leave anyone with a dead textbox. Two things found on the same path and fixed with it. `_send` throwing inside _sendAndWait's executor left the pending entry and its 30s timer behind, so a request that never reached the wire still logged a "Response timeout" half a minute later. And the instrumentation this was meant to be diagnosed with (3be8bd2) writes to localStorage behind ?trace=1, not to the console, so the dump could not have carried it: the two lines that decide the composer's state are now logged unconditionally, and MeshBayTrace gains `record` so the composer writes into the same timeline as the channel events. Hub suite 2264 passed, 4 skipped. chat_send_probe.py gains a `reconnect` scenario and test_chat_send.py four cases, each checked against the unfixed source. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019GXmScYB1uR29YCt74si9J
* fix: the PDF preview needs object-src and frame-src, in both policiesChristophe Besson2026-09-094-11/+160
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A PDF preview showed the "this browser will not display the PDF inline" fallback everywhere — in the desktop client since its first launch, and in the browser since the hub started sending a CSP on 2026-09-01. It read as a missing native feature because before that commit the hub sent no policy at all, so Chrome had once worked and the application never had. Two directives govern one feature. `files-app.js` decrypts the file in the page and hands it to `<object type="application/pdf">` from a Blob; Chromium loads that as plugin data (`object-src`, absent and therefore falling back to `default-src 'none'`) and then renders it in an internal frame (`frame-src`). Opening either alone changes nothing visible — the second refusal produces the same fallback. `'self'` covers neither: a same-origin `blob:` URL is not matched by it in either directive, measured in Chrome 152 against the deployed page and in Electron 44 against the client's own policy. `plugins` stays at its default `false`: the built-in viewer is not behind that flag on Electron 44, verified by rendering one. Widening `object-src` from `'none'` to `blob:` admits only what page script minted itself, at a type this code sets — PDFium parsing bytes that came from a node, which is what any browser does with the same file once downloaded. Tests: each policy is pinned to carry `blob:` in both directives (each fails if either token is removed), and the two policies are now held identical directive by directive apart from the two deliberate differences — the comment claiming they were the same had already drifted and nothing checked it. The CSP source parser in test_desktop_shell.py read `//` comment lines as directives, which is the "parse directives, not text" mistake this file already records; it skips them now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XauykfBvRrpy6RYbF6F7Wu
* fix(node): the leaseless bound refused the music playerChristophe Besson2026-09-092-15/+80
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported the day MNP 3.0 shipped: playing a track answered "Too many files open at once without a transfer. Download this one instead of previewing it." §3.4.1's bound of two was reasoned about *viewers* — a photo viewer shows one photo, a preview modal one document, and the second is for prefetching the next. It forgot the music player, which warms a read-ahead window: `prefetchDepth()` returns 5 on Wi-Fi and 3 otherwise, so playing an album has six files in flight and the fourth was refused. Browsing a group is never subject to a transfer slot — that is a stated requirement, not a tuning parameter — and a constant nobody had checked against the client broke it. Twelve now: six for the music read-ahead at its widest, two for a photo viewer and its own prefetch in the same session, the rest as headroom. Generosity is cheap here and refusal is not — this is a fairness control among cooperating clients, not a security boundary, so a client that lies gets twelve files at a time instead of its member cap, bounded and audited, while refusing a legitimate read breaks the requirement outright. And the number is now derived rather than chosen: a test reads `prefetchDepth()` out of the shipped player and fails if the node's bound no longer covers it, so widening the client's read-ahead breaks the build instead of reaching a person. Checked by widening it: "the music player reads 21 files ahead and the node admits only 12". Three cases that hard-coded "two then refuse" now set their own limit — they are about the mechanism, and the shipped number moves with the client. Node suite 1210 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
* Merge branch 'fix/large-download-paths'Christophe Besson2026-09-0974-255/+8914
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Concurrent-transfer limits, with the queue, the pause and the flag day. A node now caps how many transfers it runs at once (8 downloads, 8 uploads, node-wide) and how many one member may run in one group (2 by default, operator-signed). Beyond that the node answers "queued" and the client waits its turn, visibly, in the transfers panel — and a slot that frees starts whatever is next, skipping past a member who is at their own cap rather than letting them stall everyone behind them. Browsing is never subject to a slot: not the poster grid, not the covers, not opening a photo to look at it. That is structural — a transfer is what the transfers widget shows — and the exemption is bounded rather than open, at two files in flight per session, because an exemption with no bound is a leaseless branch under another name. Transfers can be cancelled, and now paused and resumed. A paused one holds nothing: its slot goes back at once and resuming rejoins the queue at the tail. Uploads survive the connection that started them and resume where the node stopped, asked for inside the seal rather than on a clear message. What they leave behind when they are abandoned is reaped, which closes a disk leak that predates this work. MNP 3.0 makes the lease compulsory and refuses 2.x at the handshake, with the desktop client checking `client.minimum` before connecting so an un-updated one says "update" instead of failing every connection in a protocol vocabulary. Fourteen defects were found on the way, eight of them by a person clicking Download and pasting a console — none of which 2075 tests could reach. Section 12 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md is that report, including the three this work introduced itself and the one that turned out to be caused by an instruction to hard-reload after each deployment. Node suite 1209 passed, hub suite 866 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): say why a download cannot be pausedChristophe Besson2026-09-0913-0/+69
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported from Chrome, with a screenshot: four downloads with no pause button and an upload beside them with one, and nothing anywhere saying why. The reason is real. Without a granted download folder the browser writes through the service worker — a download it already owns, which cannot be paused without stalling it somewhere we can neither see nor resume. An upload writes to the node, which keeps the position, so it is always pausable. But that was stated only in a Settings line nobody reads on the way to a download, and a gap where the row above has a button is not an explanation. So a download that cannot be paused now shows a dimmed pause icon where the button would be, carrying the reason and the remedy in its tooltip. Not a button: there is nothing to click, and a disabled one invites the click anyway. And only where the advice can be taken. Firefox and Safari have no folder to choose — the streamed path is the only target they have, which is what §6.5 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md costs out — so telling someone there to choose one would be advice they cannot follow. Nothing is drawn. Hub suite 866 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): a paused transfer is not a finished oneChristophe Besson2026-09-0912-2/+132
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported while testing the flag day: pausing an upload put it under "Finished". "Finished" was defined by exclusion — everything that is not running, queued or preparing — so it swallowed `paused` the day pausing shipped. A transfer somebody stopped on purpose then sat beside the ones that are actually over, offering a resume button in the section of things that cannot be resumed, and dropped out of the badge, which announced less activity than there was. Paused is now its own group, in all ten catalogues, and counts as active: it is not over, the person means to come back to it. The three filters are lifted out of `app.js` and executed rather than described in the test, and one case asserts that every status lands in exactly one group — a state added later that falls into none is a transfer the panel simply does not show, which is how this one got in. The same report also said the three running downloads lost their pause buttons when the upload was paused. That part is **not** explained and **not** fixed: the store returns `pausable` true and status `running` for all three (new test), closing an upload lease pumps only the upload queue, and the button's condition is a pure function of those two. All three say the buttons should have stayed, so an observation is missing rather than a cause. Hub suite 864 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat: MNP 3.0 — a transfer needs a leaseChristophe Besson2026-09-0916-15/+549
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stage 4 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md, the flag day. Leases become compulsory and a 2.x peer is refused at the handshake. **The bound on leaseless reads (§3.4.1) did not exist, and it is what makes the rest mean anything.** Browsing a group is never subject to a transfer slot — that is an operator decision and a requirement: a member must be able to browse a group at capacity exactly as they browse an idle one. But "not leased" cannot mean "unbounded", or a client that simply omits `tr` transfers outside every cap and the caps are decoration. A session may now read two distinct files at once without a lease: one because a viewer looks at one file, two so that prefetching the next photo stays possible. A count of files and not a byte budget, because a RAW photo is 60-80 MB and is browsing while a 40 MB archive is a download, and no size threshold separates them. Thumbnails, posters and cover art never reach this check at all — they resolve out of the node's own cache. It is a fairness control among cooperating clients, in the company of `max_concurrent_streams`, and is not a defence against a member determined to saturate a node's disk. That member is a member, and the answer to them is `member revoke`. **MNP_VERSION and MNP_MIN_SUPPORTED both move to 3.0**, on both sides. The messages are additive; the requirement is not. An opt-in switch would leave a leaseless branch reachable on every node, which is finding C6's lesson — a transport that accepted a bare JWT — one feature later. **The desktop client now checks before it connects.** The SPA is served by the hub and picks up a new client on reload; the application ships its own interface, so an un-updated one would sign in, list groups, and fail every connection with `version_too_old` — a refusal in a protocol vocabulary with nothing anyone can act on. It asks `/v1/hub/version` for `client.minimum` and says so plainly instead. An unreachable hub is deliberately *not* "too old": a captive portal or a closed laptop must not make starting the application impossible. **Every package is aligned on 0.13.0.** `meshbay-client/package.json` had drifted to 1.0.0 while the Python packages were on 0.12.0 — invisible until something compared those numbers, and then load-bearing: an installed client announcing 1.0.0 sorts above a 0.13.0 minimum and walks through the gate meant to stop it. That is stated in the code rather than left to be rediscovered; it is acceptable exactly once, because the operator is updating every client, node and hub by hand for this flag day. A new test fails if two packages ever disagree again, and another fails if the hub would refuse the client the tree builds. Node suite 1209 passed, hub suite 861 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): wake the download worker before handing it a streamChristophe Besson2026-09-094-6/+148
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported from Chrome: a download started while an upload was running took thirty seconds to begin, every time. The console named it exactly — /_mbdl/mtty5btz-sbmgdegx 404 () [MeshBay] the worker did not answer the download within 15s (attempt 1) A 404 from the hub means the request reached the *network*: the worker looked, found no entry for that id and let it through. So the worker was alive and controlling the page, and the message handing it the stream had simply never been processed. `pending` lives in the worker's memory, and a worker with nothing to do is terminated within tens of seconds. A WebRTC upload gives it no events at all, so minutes of uploading leave it dead; the stream posted to it is lost, silently, and the iframe then wakes it with nothing to find. `mbdl-ping` already existed for this exact reason -- sent every ten seconds *while* writing, because a streaming response does not count as activity. Nothing sent one before *starting*. So a download now wakes the worker and waits for the pong, and `sw.js` answers `mbdl-ready` once it has actually stored the entry, which the page waits for before navigating: confirmed rather than assumed. A worker that predates the ack sends nothing and the page navigates anyway, which is what it did before. This cause was measured and wrongly dismissed hours earlier, with an idle probe that made the worker work between its own attempts -- it never actually slept. A measurement that does not reproduce the conditions refutes nothing. The harness now models a worker that is asleep: a ping wakes it, and anything else posted while it sleeps is lost, which is what made the failure silent. `test_backpressure_is_real` read the first `worker.postMessage` in the function to check that the readable half is transferred rather than copied. The wake-up put a ping in front of it, so it began inspecting a call that carries only a port -- and kept passing. It now checks every post, each bounded by its own call, since the keep-alive ping transfers nothing at all. Same shape as the upload-seal contract this morning: a guard that reads "the first" stops guarding the moment something is inserted before it. Hub suite 851 passed. Both new cases checked against the unfixed source. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat: resume an interrupted upload, and pause oneChristophe Besson2026-09-0910-18/+440
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stage 8 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md, second half, plus the gap it exposed in stage 7. **Asking where to resume.** The node identifies an upload by (member, directory, filename), so a client resuming one has to name the file — and `transfer_open`, the obvious place to ask, travels in clear. Naming it there would undo exactly what sealing this path bought in MNP 2.0: before it, the same file was ciphertext leaving a node and plaintext arriving at one. So the question is asked inside the seal that already exists, as an ordinary `file_upload` with no bytes and `chunk_index: -1`. The node writes nothing, creates no state, reserves no name, and answers with `resume_from` in the sealed ack. A node that predates it refuses the index, which the client reads as "start from the beginning" — the behaviour it had anyway — and the wait is bounded so one that answers neither does not strand an upload. The probe is answered after every check the write path makes, so it cannot ask questions about a directory the caller may not write to, and it answers only about the member who asks: otherwise one member could measure another's progress on a file they never sent, and worse, resume it. **Pausing an upload.** Reported: no pause button on an upload, even in the desktop app. Stage 7 built pause around the download path — a target declares whether it can be stopped — and an upload has no local target to ask. It was also refused by design, since a transfer handed a lease it cannot re-create must not be offered a button that would drop its slot for good. Uploads now ask for their slot rather than being handed one, and say they are pausable outright: a File is seekable and the node keeps the position. Resuming re-probes rather than trusting the client's own memory, so it works across a reconnect too. **And the slot they hold.** `_do_file_upload` never called `slots.touch(tr)`. Chunks are not gated by the lease, so the file arrived — but the node reclaimed a grant nobody appeared to be using after thirty seconds, twice, then abandoned it, and the widget follows the lease. Measured from the journal: a 3.5 GB upload read "waiting, 0 ahead" for a minute and a half while it was transferring. The download twin of this was fixed on 2026-09-08; the same omission was still here, invisible until uploads took a real lease. `test_the_upload_itself_is_sealed` now checks every message `uploadFile` sends rather than the first. Adding the probe put a second one in front of the one it was written for, and it would have kept passing while guarding nothing. Node suite 1202 passed, hub suite 850 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat(node): uploads outlive their connection, and their leftovers are reapedChristophe Besson2026-09-094-14/+649
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stage 8 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md, first half. Two defects that are the same defect seen from two sides. An upload's progress lived on the session, keyed by `rel_dir/filename`. A dropped connection threw it away and the client's next chunk was refused with `not_started`: an upload interrupted at 99% could only be started again from zero, on a link flaky enough to have interrupted it once. It now lives in the group context, keyed by member as well -- a shared directory means two people can be sending IMG_1234.jpg at the same moment and neither may inherit, or overwrite the position of, the other's. What the lost state left behind was a `.part` nothing would ever finish, delete or look at again. It is not an index entry, so it is invisible to every member and to the operator's own file list: one abandoned film is a gigabyte of their disk, kept for ever. That leak predates this branch. A `.part` is deleted only when **both** hold: no upload is writing it, and nothing has been written to it for 24 hours. Waiting costs disk; being wrong costs somebody their upload, and is not reversible -- so a read-only root is never walked (it cannot have received an upload), an unavailable one is never walked (an unmounted drive reporting "nothing found" is how a careless janitor deletes a library), and a file whose mtime is in the future is left alone (a clock that went backwards is not evidence). The reaper matches whole paths and the state records the path it is writing, rather than both sides rebuilding one from a root name -- two implementations of one rule whose failure mode is deleting a live upload. The rules are in `uploads.py`, pure logic with no asyncio and no transport, the same shape as `transfers.py` and for the same reason. 23 cases, four of them checked against the unfixed source. Node suite 1195 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): stop reloading a healthy page at bootChristophe Besson2026-09-092-116/+99
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported from Chrome: connecting to a group triggered a page refresh within seconds, taking the WebRTC session down with it. The boot check added with the bypass repair asked its question by *performing a download* -- a four-byte stream through a hidden iframe. Chrome rations the downloads a page may start without a user gesture to about three, measured: on a first visit three consecutive attempts went served, served, refused. So the check competed with the person's own downloads for that budget, and its answer depended on how much of the budget was left. On a healthy page it concluded the worker could not serve, and reloaded. The same mistake the repair was written to fix, from the other side: paying a capability to obtain a diagnostic. The replacement costs nothing and asks nothing. Measured on Chrome, at document start, before anything registers: first visit controller false, registration false ordinary reload controller true, registration true hard reload controller false, registration true Being uncontrolled while an active registration already exists names a hard-reloaded document exactly, so that is now the whole of the evidence. A first visit is uncontrolled too and is not a bypass -- the worker is installing and will claim the page in a moment -- which is precisely the case that was reloading. Four cases, each checked against the unfixed source, including that priming performs no download at all. Hub suite 847 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * docs(spa): say that a download with no folder cannot be pausedChristophe Besson2026-09-0912-21/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported from testing 7a: pause worked in the desktop app and no button appeared in Chrome. That is the design working — without a granted download folder, "save automatically" means the service worker, and that target is a download the browser already owns — but nothing anywhere said so, and choosing a folder looked like a question of where files land. So the Settings line now says what it costs not to choose one, in all ten catalogues. It renders only where a folder can be chosen at all, which is exactly the browsers the advice applies to. Also pins the tier table the pause button is drawn from: a granted folder, a save dialog and the desktop sink can be paused, a service-worker stream cannot. Four cases through the real `_openDownloadTarget`, and one more that reads the value off the real `downloads.js` rather than a stub of it -- the first version of these stubs did not carry the field at all, so the cases would have passed while checking nothing. Hub suite 847 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat(spa): pause and resume a download, in sessionChristophe Besson2026-09-0917-26/+484
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Stage 7a of ~/next/improve-downloads.md: pausing within a session, on the targets that can actually do it. Resuming across a reload is 7b. A paused transfer holds **nothing**. Its slot goes back to the node the moment it stops and resuming rejoins the queue at the tail, because anything else lets one member close a node by pausing four downloads and going to lunch. So the lease is taken inside the run loop rather than before it, and pause is refused outright for a transfer that could not ask for another one. Resuming is exact rather than approximate: the pipeline stops between two chunks and never inside one, so what is on disk is always a whole number of chunks and `fromChunk` is a verified position. The failure mode being avoided is a file that looks complete and is quietly corrupt. The target has to survive it, so a pause no longer reaches the `abort()` that a failure does -- that would delete Electron's `.part` or the file just created in the granted folder, leaving nothing to continue. And the in-memory fallback keeps its accumulated chunks rather than starting a second array. The button is drawn only where the target says it can. A service-worker stream says no, in its own code and for its own reasons: the browser is already writing an HTTP response into its own download folder, not feeding it stalls that download where we cannot see or resume it, and an idle worker is terminated within seconds. Firefox and Safari therefore keep cancel and get no pause, which is the decision recorded in §6.5. Cancelling a paused transfer ends it. A paused run is parked on a promise; without waking it the row said "cancelled" over work that had not stopped and a target that was still open. Six cases, each checked against the unfixed source. Hub suite 842 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): repair a bypassed page in seconds, not half a minuteChristophe Besson2026-09-092-3/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The repair worked but arrived too late to help: about thirty seconds after a hard reload, by which time four downloads had been started and hung, and the page reloading under them read as an unexplained refresh. Two delays, both removed. `_claimController` waited its whole control budget before asking for the claim. A page that is uncontrolled while an active worker exists will never be claimed on its own -- a document fetched by a hard reload is exactly that shape -- so the fifteen seconds were spent waiting for something that was not coming. The claim is now asked for first; waiting is the fallback, not the opening move. Measured in the harness: 6042ms of a 6000ms budget before, milliseconds after. And a download that starts while the self-test is still running now waits for it rather than racing it. Otherwise the click spends both its attempts failing on a path that is about to be repaired, which is what put four frozen rows on screen. Hub suite 836 passed. Both new cases were checked against the unfixed source. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): repair a page the download worker cannot serveChristophe Besson2026-09-0912-12/+172
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Downloads on Firefox failed with "the worker did not answer the download within 15s", every time, for one operator, while the same profile driven from here succeeded every time. Their own test sequence found it: a freshly started browser downloaded four files out of four, twice; one Ctrl+F5 and every attempt afterwards failed; restart, fine again; Ctrl+F5 before any attempt and the very first one failed. A document fetched by a hard reload is loaded with the service worker bypassed. It can still be claimed afterwards, so `navigator.serviceWorker.controller` comes back and every check in `_claimController` passes — but the navigations that document starts keep missing the worker, and the hidden iframe a streamed download needs is a navigation. On Firefox and Safari that is the only way to write a file too large to hold in memory, so the download cannot happen at all, for the life of the page. Being controlled is not being servable, so priming now asks the question directly instead of inferring it: a four-byte stream and a hidden iframe, exactly as a real download would, torn down completely so nothing lands in the download folder. When it goes unanswered the page reloads once, ordinarily, which puts it back under the worker. The flag lives in sessionStorage rather than a variable because it has to survive the reload it triggers, and because a page that is still unservable afterwards must stop rather than loop. Also stops telling people to change browser. The message said "use the desktop app, or Chrome or Edge" for a state an ordinary reload undoes, on the one path Firefox has no alternative to; all ten catalogues now say to reload first. The hard reloads were on my instruction: the SPA's HTML is served `no-store`, so a plain reload has always picked up a new build and Ctrl+F5 was never needed. Hub suite 834 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * log(node): a transfer open is INFO, not DEBUGChristophe Besson2026-09-091-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "The node saw no transfer" was concluded twice from a journal that could not have shown one: the open was logged at DEBUG, and the daemon runs at INFO. Two diagnoses were built on that non-observation, and both were wrong. Turning the root logger up to DEBUG is not the answer either — aiortc logs every SCTP chunk, which on a 2 GB download is both unreadable and slow. One line per transfer is not a volume problem, and it is the line that answers "did the client ever ask for a slot, and what was it told". Node suite 1172 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): nothing on the worker path may wait for everChristophe Besson2026-09-092-13/+186
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Four downloads on Firefox sat at "preparing" indefinitely, with the target queue already bypassed there, so each opening was hanging on its own. The node journal showed `d=0/8(q0) u=0/8(q0)` — no transfer had been asked for yet. `_claimController` had two waits with no deadline at all, `navigator.serviceWorker.register()` and `navigator.serviceWorker.ready`, while SW_CONTROL_BUDGET_MS bounded only the wait that comes after them. `_swPromise` is shared, so one unsettled wait left every download on the page suspended on the same promise for the life of the tab. Measured on Firefox 154, against a local 127.0.0.1 site so no hub was involved: a worker that installs gives register() in 8ms and ready in 0ms; a worker whose install handler rejects gives register() in 7ms and a `ready` that never settles — still pending past ten seconds. register() resolves as soon as the registration object exists, carrying nothing but an *installing* worker; ready is what waits for an active one. Every wait is now inside one budget, with two carve-outs so that a deadline never costs a capability. A `ready` that times out while registration.active is set is not fatal: ready may be waiting on a newer worker that cannot install while an older one serves perfectly well. And the mbdl-claim recovery keeps its own budget outside the deadline, because giving up there would cost Firefox the only unbounded way it has to write a download to disk. A deadline alone would have been a better-explained failure rather than a fix: a registration stuck with nothing but an installing worker does not heal, and every later visit finds the same one. So when ready times out with no active worker, the registration is discarded and asked for once more with a fresh budget, and the page repairs itself instead of needing developer tools. Four cases pinned, each checked against the unfixed source. Hub suite 830 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): the target queue must not be able to freeze a batchChristophe Besson2026-09-092-32/+129
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Four downloads on Firefox all sat at "preparing", with the node journal showing `d=0/8(q0) u=0/8(q0)` — not one transfer opened, so nothing had got past the client's target opening. Serialising those openings was new in d6c4808, and on Firefox it regressed what had always worked: four openings that ran at the same time began waiting on the slowest. `_targetQueue` is module-level and never reset, so an opening that never settles leaves the page unable to start any download again until it is reloaded. Two bounds, both narrowings of the queue rather than of any capability: Only an opening that could actually show a dialog joins it. Firefox and Safari have no `showSaveFilePicker` at all, so nothing there can race anything and the queue bought nothing while costing everything; they now bypass it entirely, which restores the previous behaviour by construction rather than by tuning. And no opening waits behind another for longer than TARGET_QUEUE_BUDGET_MS (90s) — generous enough never to cut in front of a real dialog, finite because the alternative is a download panel that only a reload can fix. Releasing early is safe: whatever is ahead is still the only unbatched opening, so the released one takes the streamed path and opens no second dialog. Measured on Firefox 154 against the deployed hub before writing any of this: `register` and `ready` return instantly, the page is controlled, and four serialised openings are served in 5-18 ms. The streamed path was never the delay; the queue was. Both new cases were checked against the unfixed source: without the bypass the peak concurrency is 1 instead of 4, and without the budget the stuck-opening case hangs. Hub suite 826 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(spa): one save dialog per batch, not one per fileChristophe Besson2026-09-095-8/+177
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Selecting four files on Chrome produced a Save As dialog for the first, then one for the second only after that file had finished, while the last two timed out; on a later attempt the three remaining transfers appeared frozen. Two things were going on. Opening the target inside `prepare` had removed the accidental serialisation that `for (…) await downloadFile(e)` used to provide, so `_openTargetInTurn` now queues the openings — but a queue whose head is an unanswered dialog is a head-of-line block, which is what the "freeze" was. The code already recovered from a picker with no gesture behind it by streaming instead, on the `SecurityError` Chrome throws. That branch was never reached: Chrome does not throw, it shows the dialog anyway and waits for a human. So anything that has to wait its turn is now marked `batched`, and a batched opening prefers the streamed path whatever the download mode says. The first file of a batch — the one actually holding the gesture — still gets its dialog, so the preference is honoured where it can be. For the rest there is no gesture left to spend and nothing is lost by streaming: the file still lands on disk, in the browser's own download folder. Only the choice of folder goes, and it was not on offer. If the worker does not answer, a batched download falls back to the dialog rather than failing. Also logs which path led to a dialog. A dialog is the one outcome nobody can diagnose after the fact — it looks the same whether it was asked for or fallen back to — and the report this fixes needed three test cycles to narrow. The two harnesses that lift `_openDownloadTarget` as text now route console.info to stderr, since they parse stdout as JSON. Measured against the deployed hub in Chrome 152: the streamed path serves the hidden iframe in 2-3 ms on a normal load, after a hard reload (via the `mbdl-claim` recovery already in `_claimController`), and twice in the same document. Hub suite 824 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * test(node): match transfer replies by id, not by arrival orderChristophe Besson2026-09-091-6/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Three defects in the probe, found while extending it to cover the per-member hot-swap. The third is the one worth keeping. `transfer_state` is the reply to an open, the acknowledgement of a close, and the push that carries a grant minutes later. Reading "the next one" therefore returns somebody else's answer as soon as more than one transfer is in play — the probe took two stale `closed` acks as the replies to two opens and reported a working cap as broken. That is exactly the defect `req_id` exists for in this protocol, committed inside the tool written to check it. Replies are matched on `tr` now. The other two: the `transfers show` parser counted the pool summary line as a lease once that command grew a per-group section (a probe that reads a human-facing format signs up for this), and the per-member check began with a member who already held several leases, which measures nothing. It waits for the operator's own view to go quiet first — waited for, not slept through. Both probes written today reproduced a bug already recorded in CLAUDE.md: this one, and yesterday's timer with no strong reference. A tool that verifies the code is not exempt from the code's rules. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(node): push the grants a per-member cap change producesChristophe Besson2026-09-091-2/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Raising the per-member cap from 2 to 4 left both waiting transfers on "waiting". The pool granted them correctly and nobody told the peers: `ops.set_transfer_limits` computed `granted` and never sent a `transfer_state`, where the node-wide path (`WebRTCTransport.set_capacity`) does. That is the first row of §5.2 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md — "node granted a slot, the push was lost" — reached by writing the decision and forgetting the send. It is the same omission as the missing `touch()` call one layer up, on the same day: a mechanism that is right everywhere except at the seam where it has to reach somebody. The client recovered after its 60-second watchdog re-asked, which is why this looked like a slow queue rather than a lost message. `transfer_probe.py --operator` covers it now, separately from the node-wide hot-swap it already covered — different door, different code path, and only one of them was tested. Verified failing with the push removed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(node): give the per-member transfer cap a door anyone can openChristophe Besson2026-09-093-6/+65
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported as "the slots seem hardcoded to 2": `meshbay-node transfers set 8 8` and still only two downloads at a time. Not hardcoded — that is the *per-member* cap, which is a group's setting and is checked before the node's, so raising the machine's total cannot move it. But the diagnosis was right in the way that matters: nothing could change it. `OP_TRANSFER_LIMITS` shipped with exactly one front door, the signed MNP handler, and nothing anywhere opened it — no client call, no CLI verb, no loopback route. So the cap sat at its default of 2 for ever, which from outside is indistinguishable from a constant. CLAUDE.md states the rule this missed: operator operations are one implementation with several front doors. - `PUT /api/groups/{id}/transfer-limits`, calling the same `ops.set_transfer_limits` the signed handler calls; - `meshbay-node transfers per-member <downloads> <uploads> [--group X]`; - `transfers show` now separates the node-wide pools from the per-group per-member caps, and marks each `[set]` or `[default]`. It printed "2 per member" with no indication of where the 2 came from, which is half of why this looked like a constant. Zero is refused here as everywhere else: it is not "unlimited", and a member who may not transfer at all is a member the operator revokes. Verified on a live node: the cap changes, survives a daemon restart, and `transfer_probe.py --want 6` measures 4 granted against a cap of 4 where it measured 2 before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(hub): the transfers row exists from the clickChristophe Besson2026-09-0815-87/+280
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clicking Download produced nothing — no row, no icon, no panel — for as long as it took to open somewhere to write, and then several rows at once. The streamed path waits for the worker twice; a Save As dialog waits for a person. The row was created after that, so the slowest part of a download happened with nothing on screen to say it had begun. The store gains a `prepare` step, distinct from `run`, and the order is now: row, then target, then slot. That last part is why the obvious fix was wrong. Taking the slot first would let the row appear immediately, and it was tried this morning: a granted slot has to be taken up within the node's deadline, opening a target can outlast it, and three downloads became one. (The diagnosis at the time blamed that ordering for revocations which were in fact a missing `touch()` call — the revert was right for the wrong reason.) `makeLease` is called after `prepare` succeeds, never before. Three behaviours fall out, each with a test: - a dismissed dialog leaves nothing behind. `prepare` returning false drops the row: nothing started, so nothing should remain on screen to explain it; - the row takes the name the file was actually saved under, once known; - a refusal above the memory ceiling fails the row that is already there, rather than creating one to kill it. `preparing` counts as live everywhere — badge, cancel, clearFinished, and `_busy`, since closing a transport under a preparing transfer strands it exactly as under a queued one. Six places asked "is this finished?" and were drifting apart; there is one definition now. Two mistakes in the tests, worth the note: one counted positions in an output array by hand and was one out, which reads exactly like a failing assertion about the code — the values are tagged now, not indexed. And test_zip_size_limit.py's stub did not run `prepare`, so it no longer reached the size check the file is about; it now behaves like the real store. 819 hub, 1169 node, 0 failed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * docs: three lessons from the download freezeChristophe Besson2026-09-081-0/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The service worker one is the expensive one: an idle worker is terminated and a streaming response does not count as activity, so `writable.write()` hung with no error anywhere while the node stayed healthy. Written down with what made it unfindable — a stress probe fast enough to hide it, three measurements that correctly cleared everything they touched, and an empty console that was the evidence rather than the absence of it. The other two are the framing headers (three of them, all visible in one `curl -I`, fixed one at a time over an afternoon) and `encodeURIComponent` leaving the apostrophe that RFC 5987 uses as its delimiter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * test(node): the two checks that need the operator's own CLIChristophe Besson2026-09-081-0/+114
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `--operator` closes the last two items of the live pass, from the side the client cannot see: - **a cap raised live starts what was waiting**, with no restart and no reconnection. Draft-v6 §2.11 promises this and it was false for months: `ops.set_node_settings` hot-swapped by assigning `webrtc._stream_sem`, an attribute that has never existed. Now it goes through `set_capacity`, and this is what says so from outside; - **a vanished peer's slots are back before anyone asks.** §5 of the plan makes that a hook on the connection rather than a timeout, and the difference is two minutes of a node that looks full. Plus the operator's view of the queue itself, which is the only window into a transfer stuck at "waiting" — and which reported the module defaults instead of the operator's values until this afternoon. Two mistakes in the check, none in the code, and the second is worth keeping: the first version set the node cap and the member cap both to 2, so one account holding two transfers hit both at once. Raising the node-wide cap then correctly changed nothing — per-member is checked first, by design — and the probe reported the design working as a failure. It now puts the node cap below the member cap so the queue is held by the machine, which is the only arrangement where this can be measured at all. The cap is restored to whatever the node was running before the probe touched it, not to a default. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * test(node): keep the transfer probe in the repoChristophe Besson2026-09-081-0/+416
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It lived in `QE/`, which is deliberately not versioned — credentials and test artefacts go there — so a tool that found several defects no test in the suite could reach existed on exactly one machine. What it found, none of it reachable from pytest: a cap that was never enforced, a queue that granted a slot and never told the peer waiting on it, leases that outlived the session holding them, and `transfers show` reporting the module defaults instead of the operator's own values. Not collected: the filename does not match `test_*.py`, and that is the point. It talks to a real hub with real credentials and takes minutes; what belongs in the suite is already there. It still needs two things from `QE/`, which stay out of the repo: `e2e.py`, the second implementation of the client whose `Client` speaks MNP over a real WebRTC DataChannel, and `demo.env`. Both are located at run time and their absence is explained in a sentence rather than raised as an ImportError from four frames down. Verified from the new location against the live node: 4/4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat(hub): client-side transfer leases and the transfers panelChristophe Besson2026-09-0821-82/+1090
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Steps 5 and 6 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md. The node has handed out slots since step 2 and nothing asked for one; now the client does, and the panel shows what is happening. `transport.openTransfer()` returns a Lease: `acquire()` resolves when the node grants, `release()` gives it back exactly once, and nothing else in the client speaks to the node about slots. Whether a node hands out slots is read from the handshake ack rather than guessed from a timeout — "no answer yet" and "this node will never answer" are indistinguishable in time, and guessing wrong either stalls every download or defeats the cap. Two things exist only because a queue can lie: a watchdog re-asks when a pushed grant does not arrive (the node is idempotent on `tr`, so asking again is free), and a grant for a transfer the page has forgotten is handed straight back rather than held until the node's deadline. The slot is asked for **after** there is somewhere to write, and that ordering is load-bearing: opening a target takes thirty seconds of streamed-download timeouts, or as long as somebody leaves a Save As dialog open, and a grant not taken up in time is revoked. Moving it earlier looked better and broke three downloads into one. Pinned by a test. The panel groups by state — running, waiting, finished — rather than re-sorting a flat list, so a row moves only when its own state does. The ETA is withheld until the speed window holds real measurement: a figure from the first two chunks swings between four seconds and an hour, and people plan around the first number they see. One live region announces state changes and not progress. Three silent paths closed on the way: a download refused for want of a user gesture (a browser grants one file picker per gesture, and downloading three files is one gesture) now falls back to the streamed path, which needs none; a click with no connection says so instead of doing nothing at all; and a queued transfer counts as busy, so a transport is never closed under one that is waiting for a grant that could then never arrive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(node): a running transfer keeps its slot, and a dead grant lets goChristophe Besson2026-09-085-10/+159
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two defects in the lease machinery, both found in the node's own log, neither reachable from any test on either side. **`touch()` was never called.** The node ignored `tr` on `file_req` entirely, so `used` stayed False for every download ever made and the sweeper revoked each grant thirty seconds in — while the file was transferring at 20 MB/s. The pool was correct and the handlers were correct; the call between them was missing, which is why neither side's tests could see it. **The requeue was a permanent cycle.** A revoked grant went back in the queue, was granted again a millisecond later because there was room, and was revoked again thirty seconds on. The node logged the same two reclaims every thirty seconds for as long as it ran — minutes after the transfers involved had finished. Three chances now, then the lease is closed and the peer told. `test_the_counter_never_drifts` could not have caught it: nothing drifted, the same lease simply never left. A lease that starts being used forgets its earlier misses: a client that took two grants to get going is slow, not abandoned. Also `transfers show` reported the module defaults rather than the operator's values until something had transferred, so `transfers set 2 2` answered "applied now" and the next line said 0/8 — indistinguishable, from outside, from the hot-swap that did nothing for months. The test asserted the defaults and so agreed with the bug; found by typing the command. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(hub): keep the download worker alive, and never hang on a dead sinkChristophe Besson2026-09-084-7/+238
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A download froze part-way through, on Firefox, with an empty console and a node that stayed perfectly healthy. Three separate measurements cleared the node (615 MB pulled whole over MNP), the transport (three files interleaved on one connection, 1.5 GB, all whole) and the service worker (three concurrent 150 MB streams in real Firefox 154) — because none of them was wrong. The empty console was the evidence. `_sendAndWait` logs every timeout, so no chunk request had expired: the client was not waiting on the node. Of the three awaits left on that path only one was unbounded. **A service worker with no event for about thirty seconds is terminated**, and `respondWith(new Response(stream))` does not extend its life while the response is still being written. The reader vanished mid-file and `writable.write()` then never resolved and never rejected — no error, no log, no failed transfer, just a progress bar that stops. The first stress probe wrote 450 MB in two seconds and passed: fast enough to hide it entirely. Measured in Firefox 154, writing 1 MB every 2 s: without the ping it stalled at 17 MB after 59 s; with it, 40 MB in 80 s, complete. - the page pings the worker every 10 s while it writes, and the worker answers. Receiving a message is an event, and an event resets the timer; - that interval stops itself after two minutes with no write. A target can be opened and never written to — a transfer cancelled while it waits for a slot never runs, so nothing calls close() or abort() — and a timer nobody clears pings for the life of the page. It also kept the Node test process alive for ever, which is the same defect wearing a louder symptom; - `writable.write()` is bounded at 60 s and fails with a message naming the chunk. That does not fix whatever stopped a sink; it turns an unexplainable freeze into a failed transfer that says so, which is the difference between a mystery and a bug report. Also: `Content-Disposition` lost a filename to a single apostrophe. `encodeURIComponent` leaves `'` alone and `'` is the delimiter in RFC 5987's `filename*=<charset>'<lang>'<value>`, so the header became unparseable and Firefox named the file after the URL — 449 MB of film arrived complete as "mtsshk9w-ohqty535". `(`, `)` and `*` get the same treatment, and a plain ASCII `filename=` rides alongside. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(hub): let this origin frame its own download URLChristophe Besson2026-09-083-6/+111
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Three headers govern whether a page may be framed, and all three had to be wrong for the streamed download to work — so fixing them one at a time cost an afternoon of redeploys and retests. They were visible together in a single `curl -I` against the deployed hub, which is where this should have started. The streamed-download path navigates a hidden iframe to `/_mbdl/<id>` so the service worker is asked for the response it is holding. On Firefox and Safari that is the only way to write a large file to disk: neither has the File System Access API, and OPFS is capped at 10% of the volume's size (measured on Firefox 154: 389,233,459 bytes of a 3,892,334,592-byte volume, refused to the byte), which a film exceeds. - `frame-src` was reCAPTCHA's two origins with no `'self'`, so the frame could not be loaded at all. Added when the captcha needed a frame; nobody connected the two. - `frame-ancestors 'none'` forbids all framing, this origin included. - `X-Frame-Options: DENY` says the same in an older dialect. The spec says a browser must ignore it when frame-ancestors is present — relying on that while shipping a header that contradicts our own policy is asking to be surprised, and we were: the CSP was fixed and the download stayed broken. `'self'` and `SAMEORIGIN` refuse every foreign origin exactly as `'none'` and `DENY` do. The clickjacking property is untouched; what they additionally allow is this origin framing itself, which is the only thing the download needed. Pinned three ways: `frame-src` must carry `'self'`, `frame-ancestors` must be `'none'` or `'self'` and never name an origin, and the two framing headers must agree — the defect was the disagreement, and either one read as correct alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat(node): make the transfer caps settable, node-wide and per groupChristophe Besson2026-09-0821-3/+470
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Step 3 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md. Step 2 built the pools with constants; this gives them to the operator, in the two scopes they belong to. **The pools are the machine's.** `[node] max_concurrent_downloads` and `max_concurrent_uploads`, default 8, on the §2.11 pattern: node.toml for a fresh install, a roster.db override for immediate effect, editable from the Node page and from `meshbay-node transfers show|set`, applied live through the one `set_capacity` step 1 fixed. **The per-member cap is a group's.** How many transfers one member may run at once here — on the node like every other group setting (not the hub, which would have authority over someone else's disk; not node.toml, which is hand-written and needs a restart), changed by a signed operator instruction (`OP_TRANSFER_LIMITS`, subject "d=2,u=2" so what is signed names the outcome), broadcast to the group, and read live by the pools. That was the one thing step 2's shape could not express: `per_member` was a single node-wide number. `group_limits` and `member_cap(kind, member)` make it a lookup — the group's own value if it has one, the node's default otherwise — and it is deliberately the only dimension that is not node-wide. Three refusals, each with a test: - **absent means the default (2), never "unlimited".** A group that predates the setting coming back unlimited would leave the node-wide pool as the only control, which is the situation slots exist to end; - **zero is not "unlimited"**, and is not "this member may not transfer" either: the floor is one everywhere, and the CLI says to revoke the member instead; - **an unreadable row reads as unset**, not as zero — the same discipline the sealed messages follow, where a payload that does not open must never become a default state on its own. `handshake_ack` carries this member's own caps for this group, so the interface can say "2 of your 2 slots are busy" instead of drawing a bare spinner. Absent reads as "no limit known" and the hint is not drawn — never as "unlimited", which would have the interface contradicting the node. 1164 node, 793 hub, 0 failed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat(node): transfer leases, pools and a queue for downloads and uploadsChristophe Besson2026-09-087-1/+1264
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Step 2 of ~/next/improve-downloads.md. A download is invisible to the node: it is a series of independent `file_req` messages, with nothing saying one started or ended, so there is nothing to count and nothing to cap. The lease is that missing object. `meshbay_node/transfers.py` holds the decisions and has no asyncio and no transport in it, on purpose. The failure modes this has to survive — a slot the node never gets back, a client waiting on a grant the node has forgotten — are races through a DataChannel and unprovable there; here the clock is a parameter and every method returns what changed, so the caller does the I/O and the tests drive the worst case directly. What it decides: - two pools, downloads and uploads, separate from the stream pool: different resources with different costs, and merging them makes both caps meaningless; - per-member cap checked *before* the node-wide one, so a member at their own limit queues behind their own transfers rather than holding a slot a second member has none of. Per account across their devices, or the cap becomes a function of how many tabs somebody opens; - a queue that skips a member at their cap instead of waiting for them — granting strictly in arrival order lets one member's limit stall everyone; - `tr` drawn by the client and idempotent, which is what makes a reconnect safe; - bounded per member, because unbounded queues are how a node runs out of memory politely. Every way a slot comes back, with the session teardown as the one that matters (a closed tab, a quit browser and a dead network all arrive at `shutdown_tasks`, and none of them needs a timer): explicit close, session gone, a grant nobody took up in 30 s passed to the next in line, and a granted transfer silent for 120 s reclaimed with its peer told, so a widget can offer a resume rather than sit on a lie. `GET /api/transfers` is the operator's window: when somebody reports a transfer stuck at waiting, it is the only thing that says whether the node ever had them in a queue — a log cannot, when the symptom is that nothing is happening. It carries no filename and no path, which a test pins, because this is exactly where one would be tempting. Three things found while writing it, two of them mine: - the randomised property test rejected `in_use <= cap` at once, and it was right to: lowering a cap never interrupts a running transfer, so the count legitimately sits above the new value. The invariant is that a *new* grant never happens past the cap; - the sweeper was started with `self._spawn`, which ties a task to one session's set. It died with whichever peer opened the first transfer, and every other peer's abandoned lease then stopped being reclaimed — a node that fills up over days with nothing in the log. It belongs to the node now, with its strong reference on the transport context; - the pools are node-wide while `_peer_registry` is per group (finding H1), so a slot freed in one group can grant one in another and the peer to notify is not in the notifier's registry. Silently wrong in the first version. Nothing enforces a lease yet: `file_req` is untouched, no client asks, and the node grants everything. That is step 4's flag day, and this lands alone. 1148 node, 793 hub, 0 failed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(node): make max_concurrent_streams take effect without a restartChristophe Besson2026-09-083-5/+222
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `ops.set_node_settings` hot-swapped the stream pool by assigning `webrtc._stream_sem`. That attribute has never existed on WebRTCTransport — the pool is `ctx["_transcode_sem"]` — so `hasattr(webrtc, '_stream_sem')` was always False and the branch never ran. The setting was accepted, written to roster.db and node.toml, and applied only on the next restart, which is exactly what draft-v6 §2.11 says it does not need. An operator lowering the cap on a struggling machine, or raising it after "Server busy", saw nothing happen and had no way to find out why. `WebRTCTransport.set_capacity()` is the one implementation, on the object that owns the state, so the download and upload caps the transfer-slots plan adds next do not each grow their own copy of the mistake. Resizing has semantics worth stating: the new cap governs new streams and never interrupts one that is running, because a slot is held for the length of a film and lowering a number must not take somebody's film away. The replacement pool is built with the permits that remain (`new - in_flight`, floored at zero) — a full set would briefly allow more concurrent viewers than either the old cap or the new one. That needs a count of slots in use, so `_stream_video` now maintains one instead of the code reading the semaphore's private `_value`: a number this code keeps itself survives the semaphore object being replaced underneath it, and the same counter makes the "N of M in use" log lines mean something. test_stream_capacity.py drives the real transport and the real `_stream_video`; `test_ops_calls_the_real_mechanism` fails if the dead attribute comes back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * test(node): close the eleven failures, and the order-dependence behind sevenChristophe Besson2026-09-084-3/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nine of the eleven were defects in the suite, two were assertions describing behaviour the code had deliberately changed. None was a bug in the node. Seven had one cause. `check_media_tools()` writes two module globals; `monkeypatch` restores what a test patched and knows nothing about what the call under test then wrote, so a test that pointed `shutil.which` at "/opt/bin/{n}.exe" left `_ffprobe_path` there — a Windows path, on Linux — for the rest of the session. Every later test that actually runs ffprobe died on FileNotFoundError, in two files about video transcoding, for a reason nowhere near themselves. Run those files alone and they passed; that is what made it look like an environment problem for so long. The autouse `_restore_media_tool_paths` fixture in conftest.py puts both back after every test. That closes the class, not just this instance: any future test that resolves media tools is undone whether it remembers to or not, which is the only way an order-dependent suite stops being one. Verified by removing the call-site guard entirely and running the whole suite — green, so the fixture is carrying it, and the call site keeps a pointer rather than a second copy of the explanation. The other four: - two service tests were the only ones in test_platform.py that never set `sys.platform` to "win32", so they hit "service mode is Windows-only"; - test_apps_enabled_policy expected `["chat"]` where `roster.enabled_apps` inserts "files" at the front on read (and `ops.set_enabled_apps` on write), because Settings is the one way back if every app were turned off. The code is right; the assertion predates the guard, and is now ["files", "chat"]; - test_invite_then_join_delivers_the_gek passed a bare Path as a group's `roots` two lines below building a RootSet for the transport. The handshake died on `'PosixPath' object has no attribute 'describe'` and answered `error` — scaffolding that never followed the move to several named roots (draft v6, change 1). 1081 passed, 4 skipped, 0 failed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * feat(node): cap the media cache and evict least-recently-used entriesChristophe Besson2026-09-082-5/+270
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `thumbs` holds every generated thumbnail, every TMDB poster and backdrop, every Cover Art Archive image and every cached audio transcode. Rows were removed only when their source file left every group's index (`prune_file`), so a library that merely changes over years grew this database with nothing to bound it. Nothing in it is precious — every row is keyed off a value the node can re-derive — which is what makes eviction the right answer rather than a bigger disk. 512 MB, evicted on write (a cache only grows when written to; a timer is one more thing to own and get wrong). `used_at` is marked on every read, including the lookup by synthetic id that `_fetch_and_cache_poster` makes on every visit to a poster grid — without that, the images shown most often would be the coldest rows in the table. A single blob larger than the cap does not empty the table for nothing. The migration is the part that touches deployed nodes. `CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS` adds missing tables and never missing columns, so `used_at` would have reached a fresh test database and never a real one. `_migrate()` does the ALTER TABLE and seeds existing rows with "now" rather than 0 — otherwise the first write after an upgrade evicts the whole cache, a correct-but-hostile reading of "least recently used" for rows whose age nothing recorded. The index on that column lives in `_migrate()`, not in `_SCHEMA`: run from the schema script it executes before the ALTER on an existing database and fails, which would have been every deployed node refusing to open its cache on the first start after upgrading. Found by the migration test. Verified against a real node's database, rebuilt into its pre-migration shape: rows preserved, column present, seeded, index created, reopening harmless. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(client): write a download to .part and rename it when it completesChristophe Besson2026-09-081-4/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `save:abort` deleted a cancelled download, but nothing covered the application being quit, killed or crashing mid-transfer: the write stream was abandoned and a truncated file kept the final name — the exact thing save:abort's own comment calls worse than no file at all, because it looks complete to whoever opens it next. Downloads go to `<target>.part` and are renamed after the stream has flushed, which is the convention the node already uses for uploads (`_do_file_upload`). A crash now leaves a self-evidently unfinished file. `before-quit` also clears any `.part` still open, synchronously — it does not wait for promises — so a deliberate quit leaves nothing at all. Verified by hand: .part during the transfer, survives SIGKILL, renamed on completion, and gone after a cancel or a clean quit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * test(hub): stop the Chrome profile cleanup racing its own childrenChristophe Besson2026-09-085-5/+50
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `terminate()` signals the parent only. Chrome's zygote, renderer and gpu children outlive it by a moment and go on writing into the profile, so rmtree walked a directory that gained a file between its readdir and its rmdir and raised "Directory not empty". The probe exited non-zero, and every test in the file errored at setup — intermittently, roughly one run in three, for a reason nowhere near the chat code they were testing. TemporaryDirectory(ignore_cleanup_errors=True) in all four probes that own a profile: a few bytes left in a throwaway directory are harmless, failing the run is not. `proc.wait()` after `kill()` was also missing — a killed process still has to be reaped. layout_probe.py never cleaned up at all (mkdtemp, no removal) and never waited for Chrome; it leaked a profile into /tmp on every run. Ten consecutive runs of test_chat_send.py are clean. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(hub): never collect a large download in the pageChristophe Besson2026-09-0814-16/+395
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `pipelinedDownload` with no writable allocates `new Array(totalChunks)` and keeps every decrypted chunk, so whatever `_openDownloadTarget` returns null for is held whole in RAM. That floor had no upper bound: the `!window.showSaveFilePicker` branch returned null at any size, so on a browser without the File System Access API a 20 GB film went to memory whenever the streamed path did not answer. Nothing logged, nothing refused; the symptom was the tab dying, with no error attributable to this code. MEMORY_CEILING is 100 MB and every `return null` in that chain now goes through a guard that throws above it. The refusal names the size, the limit and why the streamed path declined, and lands in the transfers panel as a failed transfer rather than in a console nobody opens. This is a guard, not a limit on what can be downloaded: with the streamed path primed and retried (previous commit), a file of any size still goes to disk progressively on every browser. Two things had to change for that to be true: - the streamed path is now tried in "ask" mode too, for a file over the ceiling on a browser with no Save As of its own. The mode decides whether to show a dialog; it was silently deciding whether a film could be downloaded at all; - FilePreview had no size check whatsoever — a multi-gigabyte PDF or .csv was fetched whole, and the text branch decoded all of it to keep 500 000 characters. It refuses above the same ceiling and offers the download. ZIP_MAX_BYTES (512 MB) and the ceiling do not contradict: the archive limit bounds the archive, the ceiling bounds what may be built in the page, so a 400 MB zip is allowed when there is somewhere to stream it and refused when the only route left is memory. The build-in-memory confirmation only appears below the ceiling now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
| * fix(hub): make the streamed download path reliable, and clean up after an abortChristophe Besson2026-09-085-42/+465
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Firefox and Safari the service worker is the only unbounded way to write a download to disk: neither has the File System Access API, and OPFS is not a substitute — measured on Firefox 154, its quota is exactly 10% of the volume's size (389,233,459 bytes of a 3,892,334,592-byte volume, refused to the byte), which a film exceeds. So when this path declines, a large download has nowhere left to go, which makes its reliability a correctness property. Four ways it declined, all of them avoidable: - it was registered inside the first click on Download, so that click paid install, activate and claim while somebody watched a button do nothing; - `_swReady` cached a null for the life of the page. One slow first click left the tab unable to stream anything again, curable only by a reload nobody knew to do. Only a successful controller is remembered now; - control was waited for with a 3 s cap. It is 15 s, and a page that is active but not controlled asks the worker to claim again (`mbdl-claim`) instead of declaring the path unavailable; - a missed navigation gave up at once. It gets a second attempt with a fresh id and iframe, the failed one torn down completely first. Also closes a MessagePort leaked per download, and gives the reason a name (`lastStreamFailure`) so a refusal can say what happened. The timeouts became parameters: the defaults are the production values, no caller passes any, and the tests do not spend a minute waiting. `openTarget` gets an unrelated but adjacent fix, in the same file: it creates the destination with `getFileHandle({create: true})`, so an empty file exists before the first byte, and `abort()` leaves the target untouched — every cancelled download left a 0-byte file behind, and since `freeName` avoids collisions, three cancels left film.mkv, film (2).mkv and film (3).mkv, all empty. Its `abort()` now removes the entry. Safe here and only here, because `freeName` guarantees the name was not taken: the `showSaveFilePicker` path must not do the same, where the person may have picked an existing file whose contents `abort()` correctly preserves. Verified by hand in Chrome. test_streamed_download_reliability.py runs the real module under Node against a stubbed browser — it fails if the null is cached again. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HCGdheDLxGReuKHga3BtST
* chore: bump all packages to 0.12.0Christophe Besson2026-09-086-6/+6
| | | | | Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* feat(client): create the system tray at launch, not on first minimiseChristophe Besson2026-09-086-25/+158
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ensureTray() was reachable only from the window:minimize-to-tray handler, so the indicator did not exist until you had already hidden the window into it. That is backwards on both desktops — most of what a tray is for is finding an application that is not in front of you — and on Windows it read as the app having no tray presence at all. Created during app.whenReady(), after registerBridge() and before createWindow(). The order matters: buildTrayMenu reads the nodeService that registerBridge assigns, so the other way round puts the Start/Stop entry on the menu one five-second poll late. The menu's labels were the one thing that came *from* the minimise call, since the main process has no i18n. A new tray:labels IPC (platform.setTrayLabels) carries them instead, sent from the renderer's boot once initLocale() has a catalogue; a language change reloads the page, so the same call covers it. The window between launch and that first message shows TRAY_FALLBACK, in English. §5.10's two platform gates become one — trayOS() in main.js, which every tray path calls. test_desktop_shell.py's existing test is rewritten against it and two are added: the launch ordering, and that no tray path tests process.platform inline instead of calling the gate. Windows still files a new tray icon under hidden icons until the person drags it onto the taskbar. No API promotes it; documented in WINDOWS-PORT.md §5.11 rather than worked around. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* fix(hub): drop the flag emoji from the language menuChristophe Besson2026-09-082-11/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The flags were regional-indicator pairs, which Windows has never shipped a glyph for: Segoe UI Emoji renders the pair as its two letters, so the menu read "GB", "FR", "NL" down the left-hand side instead of a flag. It only ever looked right on a system with an emoji font that draws them, such as GNOME's. Names only, rather than vendoring ten flag images. A flag is a country and not a language anyway — none of them is the right answer for "Português (Brasil)" — and each name is already written in its own language, which is the self-identifying signal the flag was standing in for. The `flag` field is removed from LOCALES rather than left unread; app.js's menu was its only consumer. The submenu keeps its indent from .user-menu-sub's padding, not from the icon box that is now gone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* feat(hub): name a group's host on its card, not its visibilityChristophe Besson2026-09-083-7/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "private" and "invite" were on every card because they are the default for every group on the hub — two badges that never varied and so never told anyone anything. Who hosts a group does vary, and it is the thing that tells two groups of the same name apart: the hub enforces name uniqueness per owner account, not globally. - The "My groups" cards (app.js) drop both badges and render the name through GroupName, which puts the owner beside it as a smaller "@handle" — the same way the group header and Explore already write it. "admin" stays; it varies. /v1/groups/mine already returns owner_username, so no API change. - Explore drops its join_policy badge for the same reason. An open group still announces itself through the Join button, which is the useful half, and its @host was already there. - .group-card h3 .gn-owner is set to 0.8em: a card's h3 is reset to 1em, so the 0.55em meant for a page heading rendered the handle at about half the body size — smaller than the name, as it should be, but past readable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* feat(hub): collapse "Your devices on this node" by defaultChristophe Besson2026-09-081-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It is the one section in group settings that is open on arrival while having nothing to say in the ordinary case: the device you are reading it on is already linked, and the panel exists for two rare errands — approving another device, or removing one. Uses the CollapsibleSection the sections around it already use, with defaultOpen={false}; the component renders the same .settings-section wrapper, so nothing about the layout moves. The prompt that *is* actionable — "this browser is not linked to this node yet" (device.add_title) — lives in group-page.js and is untouched, so a browser that genuinely needs linking still says so on arrival. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* feat(hub): cap a directory zip at 512 MBChristophe Besson2026-09-0813-6/+162
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | An arbitrary ceiling, not a technical one: the zip writer streams and holds one chunk plus a record per file, so it would happily produce a hundred gigabytes. Past half a gigabyte the honest answer is a subfolder at a time, or the files individually. Enforced in file-utils.js's downloadDirectory, which is the one implementation behind every zip button — Files' single folder, Files' multi-folder selection, and the Photos album button (docs/photos.md §3). - Per directory, not per selection: Files zips a whole multi-directory selection in one click, so an oversized folder is refused and its siblings still download. - Before _openDownloadTarget, so no save dialog opens for an archive that is never going to be written. - The bound is strict, so a folder of exactly 512 MB still goes through. - Counted in the 1024-based units formatSize already prints, so the number in the refusal is the number in the constant. group.zip_too_large in all ten catalogues. test_zip_size_limit.py runs the module under Node and pins the refusal, the inclusive bound, and that nothing is asked or started when a folder is over. The user guide's "a 40 GB folder costs 40 GB of disk" is no longer true and now documents the cap instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* fix(hub): stop badging every poster "unmatched" when TMDB is offChristophe Besson2026-09-082-7/+75
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The dashed warning outline and the "?" flag say a TMDB lookup ran and came back with nothing — that is how an operator finds the titles worth a "Fix match". With TMDB switched off for the group no lookup is made at all: media_meta_req answers confidence 0 for the whole library by design, so the poster grid drew every card as a failure of the very thing the operator chose, with no poster ever coming to clear it. Poster mode now shows the file's own thumbnail plainly in that case, the same as Flat does, and keeps the badge for what it was built for. - PosterCard takes tmdbEnabled and gates both the outline and the "?" on `tmdbEnabled && !confident`. The title still falls back to the parsed filename exactly as before, and the ready/imageReady anti-flash gating is untouched. - VideoDetailModal gates its "no confident match" paragraph the same way. A show still opens that modal with TMDB off — it is where the season list lives — so the card alone would have left the claim one click deeper. - Its operator-only "Fix match" / "Rematch" buttons are gated too: both act on a match that does not exist, one opening a search the node answers empty, the other dropping a cached match never made. Those buttons are the only entry points to TmdbSearchOverlay and doRematch. - Both props default to true, so a call site that forgets one keeps the badge rather than silently losing it. search-page.js is deliberately left passing `enabled: true`: a cross-group view has no single group's switch to read, and it never showed the operator buttons anyway (isNodeAdmin={false}). Recorded as §10.7 in docs/mediacenter.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01V8EDjk6pkYZrCbo63m2x87
* fix(chat): the operator was missing from the roster they hostChristophe Besson2026-09-072-9/+102
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Found on two live machines within minutes of deploying: every message from the person running the node arrived at every other member under "this account is using a key you have not seen before". An operator's authority is node-wide and is recorded in `members` with an **empty** group_id — `is_authorized` has always said so, in a clause written for exactly that. `group_devices` spelled the rule out a second time as `WHERE m.group_id = ?`, which excludes them. So the operator was absent from the roster relayed to members, no chain could reach their device key, and Tier 2 reported the most ordinary event there is — the operator talking in their own group — as a key substitution. A notice that fires on normal use is worse than no notice: it is the one people learn to dismiss, and §4.8 budgets exactly one for the whole feature. That makes this a defect in the property, not only in a query. The clause now lives once, as `_MEMBER_OF_GROUP`, shared by both callers so they cannot drift again. `DISTINCT` because an operator who is also an explicit member of the group matches both halves of it. `get_member` is untouched: it is a raw lookup and its callers already fall back to `get_member("", user_id)` themselves. Three tests, and the first fails against the old query with the reported symptom: the operator appears in the roster of a group they host and `is_authorized` agrees; an operator who is also a member is listed once; a revoked one comes back through neither. No stored state to clean up — nothing was written to a client's pins when the account was missing, so the notice stops as soon as the node serves the roster correctly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TZZxYjz8YeWRz13xDi8LJr
* feat(chat): Tier 2 — a member verifies another member's device itselfChristophe Besson2026-09-0722-41/+929
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Chat messages have been signed by the sending device since MNP 2.0, but a reader had no way to know that the device belonged to the account the node named: the signature proved *a device*, and `sender_id` was still the node's word. This closes that for any account a client has already seen. **What was blocking it was not effort — the evidence was not being kept.** `_do_device_add` verified the countersignature that admits a second device and stored only `added_by_pk`: *which* key approved, never the proof. And `device_add_transcript` binds `nonce_node`, the approving connection's handshake nonce, so even a stored signature was unverifiable by anyone who had not been on that connection. `identities` gains `add_sig`, `add_nonce` and `add_ts`, added before the migration's early return — which fires on every roster widened since 2026-08-18, i.e. all of them, so putting them inside it would have meant they never arrived. `group_roster_req`/`resp` relays, sealed under a new groupbox purpose and answered to **any member of the group**, every live device of every active member with the evidence that admitted it. The node decides nothing: it hands over evidence and the client walks the chain from each account's root outwards (`_verifyRoster`). That is deliberate — the node is the party the property holds against, so it is not asked to assert trust. Two holes the tests caught while this was being built: - "no signature" was being treated as a trust root, so a node that writes the roster could put any key in an account's row and have it laundered straight into the verified set. A root is a device that names **no** countersigner. - pinning only the verified subset at first sight raised "key changed" on legitimate second devices whose countersignature predates this change. First sight pins everything the node says, because that is what trust-on-first-use means and an alarm that fires on normal events stops being read. The property, and it must not be rounded up: **once a client has seen an account, a node that later substitutes a key for it is detected. Nothing is gained at first sight**, where there is nothing to compare against — the same boundary `per-node-identity-v1.md` draws, unmoved. The cost, stated because it is real: the roster is member-visible, so every member learns how many devices the others hold and their public keys. It stays inside the group, the hub is not involved, and it is scoped per group. A member who cannot see the keys cannot check them. User-visible surface: one notice, "this account is using a key you have not seen before", in ten languages. Nothing else. 16 tests — 7 on the node (the evidence is stored, it verifies from the roster alone, a fabricated device carries none, another group's members are not disclosed), 9 running the shipped `_verifyRoster` under node against rosters built by the shipped Python: a chain of three in any order, a signature by the wrong key, one for another node, one for another account, and two fabricated devices signing each other admitting nothing. Tier 3 (operator-signed roster attestation) stays deferred, with nothing depending on it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TZZxYjz8YeWRz13xDi8LJr