Continuous remote-only reconnect watcher closing the COD-104 durability
arc: when a remote session's local ssh pane dies mid-run, re-establish it
automatically instead of leaving a dead pane until the user pokes it.
Design decisions (per cod108 design doc):
- D1 event->owner: TmuxManager watcher DETECTS a dead remote pane and emits
`remoteSessionDropped`; the session owner (server) reassembles the same
RespawnPaneOptions and calls Session.reattachRemote() -> respawnPane, which
re-runs the idempotent remote command (owned new-session -A / non-owned
attach) and REJOINS the still-running durable remote tmux session. The
watcher never reassembles options itself, and never routes through the
Claude-idle respawn-controller.
- D2 bounded backoff: per-session exponential backoff [5s,15s,45s,2m,5m,5m],
reset on a successful reattach, `remoteReconnectExhausted` emitted once after
the cap. Pure, unit-tested schedule + eligibility decision.
- D3 always-on + kill-switch: `remoteAutoReconnect` app setting (default ON),
read each tick; when false the watcher does nothing.
Guards: killSession() (incl. the non-owned DETACH early-return) and shutdown
add the session to an intentional-teardown guard set + clear its backoff
BEFORE teardown, so a closed/killed tab is never auto-revived. Exactly one
reconnect in flight per session (inFlight guard prevents stacked respawns).
Per-session reconnect/guard state cleared on session removal.
New: src/remote-reconnect.ts (pure backoff + decideReconnect), TmuxManager
startRemoteReconnectWatcher/stop + runRemoteReconnectTick + noteRemoteReconnect
+ guardRemoteReconnect + clearRemoteReconnectState; Session.reattachRemote()
(+ extracted _buildRespawnPaneOptions, shared with interactive start); server
wiring + watcher start; 3 SSE events (sse-events.ts + constants.js in sync,
broadcast + app.js exhausted "Reconnect" affordance); remoteAutoReconnect
schema + settings-ui toggle.
Tests: test/remote-auto-reconnect.test.ts (21) - pure schedule, eligibility
(guarded never reconnects, non-remote/pane-alive/not-due skip, over-cap
exhaust), and manager-level integration (dead remote pane -> dropped ->
backoff -> exhausted; guarded emits nothing; reset-on-success; kill-switch
off; state-cleared-on-remove). Verified real-remote against aa-desktop: drop
local ssh pane -> watcher emitted -> respawnPane reattached the SAME remote
session (remote pane_pid unchanged 3939->3939); test session cleaned up, the
real host sessions left untouched.
Checks: tsc, eslint, check:frontend-syntax, check:public-assets, prettier
--check, build all green; tmux-manager/session-routes/session-manager/
sse-registry-parity suites pass.
(cherry picked from commit d13d58b1994eb6594fd2eadea208104d36204f9d)
Aamer Akhter
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