fix(fleet): fail the agent launcher when the pane cannot survive (#1241)
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`mosaic fleet start` returned 0 over three dead panes. The launcher knew,
and said the wrong thing at the wrong severity to the wrong layer.

The pane runs `mosaic yolo <runtime>` under PANE_PATH with a cleared
environment. When that binary is absent the pane dies in under a second,
tmux destroys the session, and the diagnostic goes with it. The launcher
then found no PANE_PID, printed a WARNING about the *heartbeat sidecar*,
and exited 0 — so systemd logged "Finished ... successfully" and
`fleet start` reported success. `fleet ps` was the only component telling
the truth.

Two changes, both in start-agent-session.sh:

1. Before any effect, resolve `mosaic` and the roster's runtime against
   PANE_PATH — the pane's own view of the path, not the launcher's.
   `mosaic yolo <runtime>` calls checkRuntime(runtime) and looks for a
   binary named exactly like the runtime, so this asks the same question
   the pane will ask a moment later, while an operator can still see the
   answer. Absent binary -> exit 69, code=missing-binary, no session
   created.

2. Replace the dead-pane WARNING+exit-0. An absent session one second
   after new-session is a runtime that died on startup, not a heartbeat
   problem -> exit 69, code=pane-did-not-survive, with the command to run
   by hand to see why. A present session with no pane PID after five
   attempts -> code=pane-pid-unresolved. Neither branch kills the
   session; destroying a possibly-live pane on a guess is worse than
   leaving it for inspection.

Exit 69 (EX_UNAVAILABLE) is deliberate: the 64s already in this file mean
the projection was bad, and here the data is fine and the host is not
ready. Callers separate the cases by `code=`, the same way fail_env's
codes share 64.

This propagates for free. `fleet start` calls runChecked() for the holder
and each agent, and runChecked throws on non-zero, so layers 4 and 5 stop
lying without a TypeScript change. Two adjacent defects are left for a
follow-up issue rather than widened into this diff: the per-agent loop
aborts on the first failure instead of attempting all and reporting an
aggregate, and runChecked's bare throw surfaces the launcher's message
under a Node unhandled-rejection stack trace because program.parse() is
synchronous.

Tests:

- test-start-agent-session.sh gains three cases: `mosaic` absent from the
  pane path, the runtime absent from the pane path, and a pane that does
  not survive. Each was verified individually red against the unmodified
  origin/next launcher.
- The two cases asserting a valid launch now supply a pane PID. Until now
  the suite's one success path was itself a dead pane the launcher
  reported as fine.
- The harness fakes `npm` so PANE_PATH stops depending on whatever the
  host has installed, and fails loudly if the host provides `mosaic` or
  `pi` in the system path, where the missing-binary cases would not be
  measurable at all.
- test-fleet-units.sh gains a `pi` shim in its runtime bin. The real-tmux
  harness named `pi` in its roster and never installed it; the new
  preflight caught it.

Refs #1241
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2026-08-15 23:56:53 -05:00
parent 7a6fb024b4
commit 61a907a12f
3 changed files with 136 additions and 2 deletions
@@ -128,6 +128,14 @@ EOF
sleep 30
EOF
chmod 700 "$AGENT_BIN/mosaic"
# The launcher resolves the roster's runtime against PANE_PATH before it
# spawns anything (#1241), so the runtime this projection names has to be
# present here even though the fake `mosaic` above never execs it.
cat > "$AGENT_BIN/pi" <<'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
sleep 30
EOF
chmod 700 "$AGENT_BIN/pi"
server_environment_before=$(tmux -L "$TEST_SOCKET" show-environment -g | sort)
server_sessions_before=$(tmux -L "$TEST_SOCKET" list-sessions | sort)
if /usr/bin/env -i HOME="$HOLDER_HOME" PATH=/usr/bin:/bin MOSAIC_HOME="$AGENT_HOME" \
@@ -286,6 +286,36 @@ _build_runtime_bin_prefix() {
MOSAIC_RUNTIME_BIN_PREFIX=$(_build_runtime_bin_prefix)
PANE_PATH=${MOSAIC_RUNTIME_BIN_PREFIX:+${MOSAIC_RUNTIME_BIN_PREFIX}:}/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
# #1241. The pane runs `mosaic yolo <runtime>` under PANE_PATH with a cleared
# environment. A binary missing from *that* path is a pane that dies in under a
# second, inside a session nobody is attached to, with its diagnostic scrolled
# into a pane tmux then destroys. Resolve both here, before any effect, where
# the failure is still attributable to the thing that caused it.
#
# `mosaic yolo <runtime>` runs checkRuntime(runtime) and the binary it looks for
# is named exactly like the runtime, so resolving the runtime name is the same
# question the pane will ask a moment later — asked while an operator can still
# see the answer.
_resolve_in_pane_path() {
PATH="$PANE_PATH" command -v -- "$1" 2>/dev/null
}
# Exit 69 (EX_UNAVAILABLE): the seat cannot be provided. Distinguished from the
# 64 (EX_USAGE) rejections above, which mean the projection itself was bad —
# here the data is fine and the host is not ready. Callers tell the individual
# cases apart by `code=`, the same way fail_env's many codes share exit 64.
fail_launch() {
local code="$1"
shift
echo "ERROR: agent launch aborted: code=${code} agent=${AGENT_NAME} $*" >&2
exit 69
}
for required_binary in mosaic "$MOSAIC_AGENT_RUNTIME"; do
_resolve_in_pane_path "$required_binary" >/dev/null ||
fail_launch missing-binary "'${required_binary}' is not on the pane PATH (${PANE_PATH})"
done
_ensure_claude_workdir_trusted() {
local workdir="$1"
local resolved
@@ -384,6 +414,19 @@ if [ -n "$PANE_PID" ]; then
_start_heartbeat_sidecar "$AGENT_NAME" "$PANE_PID" \
"$MOSAIC_HEARTBEAT_RUN_DIR" "$MOSAIC_HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL" || \
echo "WARNING: heartbeat sidecar could not be started for $AGENT_NAME" >&2
elif _tmux has-session -t "=${AGENT_NAME}:0.0" 2>/dev/null; then
# #1241. Session present, no pane PID after a second of retries. Whatever this
# is, it is not a seat an operator can use, so it is not a success either.
fail_launch pane-pid-unresolved \
"tmux reports the session but no pane PID after 5 attempts"
else
echo "WARNING: could not resolve pane PID for $AGENT_NAME — heartbeat sidecar not started" >&2
# #1241. This branch used to print a WARNING about the heartbeat sidecar and
# exit 0. It is not a heartbeat problem: tmux destroys a session when its pane
# command exits, so an absent session one second after new-session means the
# runtime died on startup. Reporting it as success is what let `fleet start`
# return 0 over three dead panes — the launcher knew, and said the wrong thing
# at the wrong severity to the wrong layer.
fail_launch pane-did-not-survive \
"the pane exited immediately and tmux destroyed the session;" \
"run 'mosaic yolo ${MOSAIC_AGENT_RUNTIME}' in ${MOSAIC_AGENT_WORKDIR} to see why"
fi
@@ -62,6 +62,30 @@ env -0 > "${MOSAIC_HOME:?}/fleet/pane-environment"
SHIM
chmod +x "$FAKE_BIN/mosaic"
# The runtime the rosters below name. The launcher resolves it against PANE_PATH
# before spawning (#1241), so it has to exist somewhere the pane would find it —
# not merely on the launcher's own PATH.
printf '#!/usr/bin/env bash\nexit 0\n' > "$FAKE_BIN/pi"
chmod +x "$FAKE_BIN/pi"
# PANE_PATH is derived partly from `npm config get prefix`. Left to the real npm
# it would splice whatever the host has installed into the path under test, and
# the missing-binary cases below would pass or fail by accident of the machine.
cat > "$FAKE_BIN/npm" <<'SHIM'
#!/usr/bin/env bash
printf '%s\n' "${MOSAIC_TEST_NPM_PREFIX:-/nonexistent}"
SHIM
chmod +x "$FAKE_BIN/npm"
# PANE_PATH always ends in the system path. A host that installs these there can
# not measure the missing-binary cases at all, and a green run would mean
# nothing — so say so instead of passing.
for host_binary in mosaic pi; do
if PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin command -v "$host_binary" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
fail "host provides '$host_binary' in the system path; missing-binary cases are not measurable here"
fi
done
write_generated() {
local home="$1"
local agent="$2"
@@ -81,6 +105,19 @@ MOSAIC_TMUX_SOCKET=mosaic-test
EOF
chmod 600 "$home/fleet/agents/$agent.env.generated"
mkdir -p "$home/work"
install_pane_binaries "$home"
}
# `$PANE_HOME/.npm-global/bin` is one of the prefixes the launcher folds into
# PANE_PATH, so this is the pane's own view of "installed", distinct from the
# launcher's PATH. Tests that need a binary *absent* remove it from here.
install_pane_binaries() {
local pane_home="$1"
mkdir -p "$pane_home/.npm-global/bin"
local binary
for binary in mosaic pi; do
ln -sf "$FAKE_BIN/$binary" "$pane_home/.npm-global/bin/$binary"
done
}
run_start() {
@@ -98,7 +135,10 @@ run_start() {
HOME_VALID="$ROOT/valid"
AGENT_VALID="coder0"
write_generated "$HOME_VALID" "$AGENT_VALID"
run_start "$HOME_VALID" "$AGENT_VALID"
# A live pane PID is part of what "valid launch" means. Until #1241 this case
# ran with none, so the suite's one success path was itself a dead pane the
# launcher reported as fine.
MOSAIC_TEST_PANE_PID=$$ run_start "$HOME_VALID" "$AGENT_VALID"
valid_args=$(tr '\0' '\n' < "$TMUX_CALLS")
echo "$valid_args" | grep -qF new-session || fail "valid generated projection did not reach tmux"
echo "$valid_args" | grep -qF 'mosaic' || fail "fixed mosaic launcher command missing"
@@ -258,6 +298,7 @@ PATH="$PANE_STALE_PATH" \
"MOSAIC_TEST_HOME=$PANE_TRUSTED_HOME" \
MOSAIC_TEST_FLEET_OWNER=123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000 \
MOSAIC_TEST_EXECUTE_PANE=1 \
"MOSAIC_TEST_PANE_PID=$$" \
"$START" coder-pane-boundary
pane_args=$(tr '\0' '\n' < "$TMUX_CALLS")
echo "$pane_args" | grep -qxF "HOME=$PANE_TRUSTED_HOME" || \
@@ -392,6 +433,48 @@ echo "$interaction_policy_args" | grep -qF 'new-session' && \
echo "$output" | grep -qF 'operator interaction service requires runtime pi' || \
fail "interaction pinned-policy check did not follow strict parsing"
# #1241. The pane runs `mosaic yolo <runtime>` against PANE_PATH. A binary
# missing from that path is a launch failure, and it has to be named before the
# session is created — after it, the diagnostic dies with the pane.
assert_missing_pane_binary_rejected() {
local binary="$1"
local home="$ROOT/missing-$binary"
local agent="coder-missing-$binary"
write_generated "$home" "$agent"
rm -f "$home/.npm-global/bin/$binary"
: > "$TMUX_CALLS"
local output
if output=$(MOSAIC_TEST_PANE_PID=$$ run_start "$home" "$agent" 2>&1); then
fail "launch succeeded with '$binary' absent from the pane PATH"
fi
echo "$output" | grep -qF 'code=missing-binary' || fail "missing '$binary' diagnostic missing"
echo "$output" | grep -qF "'$binary'" || fail "missing-binary diagnostic did not name $binary"
if tr '\0' '\n' < "$TMUX_CALLS" | grep -qF new-session; then
fail "launcher created a session it knew would die ($binary absent)"
fi
}
assert_missing_pane_binary_rejected mosaic
assert_missing_pane_binary_rejected pi
# #1241. tmux destroys a session when its pane command exits, so no pane PID a
# second after new-session means the runtime died on startup. This used to be a
# WARNING about the heartbeat sidecar followed by exit 0 — three layers above it
# then reported a fleet that was not running.
: > "$TMUX_CALLS"
HOME_DEAD_PANE="$ROOT/dead-pane"
write_generated "$HOME_DEAD_PANE" "coder-dead-pane"
if output=$(MOSAIC_TEST_PANE_PID='' run_start "$HOME_DEAD_PANE" coder-dead-pane 2>&1); then
fail "launcher reported success over a pane that did not survive"
fi
echo "$output" | grep -qF 'code=pane-did-not-survive' || fail "dead-pane diagnostic missing"
if echo "$output" | grep -qiF 'heartbeat'; then
fail "dead pane is still being reported as a heartbeat-sidecar problem"
fi
tr '\0' '\n' < "$TMUX_CALLS" | grep -qF new-session || \
fail "dead-pane case did not reach the launch it is measuring"
# Exact stop derives the socket exclusively from the validated generated
# projection and ignores an ambient socket supplied by the caller.
: > "$TMUX_CALLS"