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Staging → production release PR. Supersedes the earlier body, which described only #892/#896 and predates nine further merges.

Expected version: v1.91.0 (one feat commit in the range, so semantic-release takes a minor bump).


The through-line: database disk image is malformed

Three of these PRs are one investigation, and they are the reason this release matters more than its size suggests. Read them together.

#903 - single-instance acquisition is now atomic. The daemon guarded against a second copy of itself with a probe ("is anyone listening on the endpoint?") and then opened the pool and ran migrations. But the winner of a two-daemon race has not bound its listener at the moment the loser probes - the bind is deliberately deferred until after the DB is open - so both saw nothing, both proceeded, and both ran migrations on one file. flock/LockFileEx before setup_db makes exactly one caller win.

The test that was supposed to cover this asserted, in its own failure message, that "a daemon that will lose that race must never touch meridian.db". It only pinned the order of three calls, and the order was always correct. It is replaced, not extended.

#902 / #908 - the gateway. The deploy script printed should 401 without a Bearer token as a note to a human. It sent no request and failed on nothing, so a gateway answering 200 unauthenticated would have deployed green. It now probes both public hostnames four ways and fails the deploy unless every one returns 401. #908 then fixes a footgun #902 introduced: any unrecognised argument - --help, --dry-run, a typo - fell through to a production deploy.

#907 - instrumentation, so the next one is explainable. Three corruption mechanisms have been fixed this month and none was confirmed from field data; each was reasoned from code, because the telemetry could not answer the questions an incident raises. This adds the missing pieces:

  • pid on daemon start, on every shutdown signal, and on all three stand-down paths - a quit-then-relaunch starts three daemons in 35 seconds and they were previously indistinguishable
  • a log line when a WAL checkpoint succeeds - previously only failure logged, so "silence after shutting down" meant either completed or killed mid-write, which is the entire question when a database is later found malformed
  • a telemetry flush before handle.exit(0), because std::process::exit was discarding the batch containing the quit outcome - the single most useful record for a corruption report was the one guaranteed never to survive
  • meridian logs now renders structured fields, which it had been decoding and throwing away

#903's stand-down WARN is also a detector. It fires exactly when two daemons race and the probe misses it, and WARN+ egresses to central telemetry - so from this release on, its rate across the fleet is the first direct evidence of how often this actually happens, rather than how often it could.


Everything else

PR
#906, #901 Cursor/Codex/Claude summariser: prompts moved off argv onto stdin (Windows command-line limits), shell-quoted installer paths, an actionable message when a sign-in CLI crashes at Node startup, and health-gate exemption telemetry
#900 tray repaints the offline banner as soon as the daemon and DB are ready, instead of lagging
#892 Clerk sign-in retries on a network failure instead of dead-ending
#898 What's New trimmed to a title and one sentence per entry
#896 backmerge of v1.90.0

Closes #861 and #864 on merge (the Closes keywords in those commits only take effect when they reach the default branch).


Before merging

1. Windows needs a real launch. #903 adds LockFileEx on Windows. CI compiled it and ran the suite on a Windows runner, but the runtime behaviour is reasoned from documentation, not observed. macOS was verified end to end with two live daemons - with the winner's socket removed so only the lock could stop the second, it stood down and ran zero migrations. Windows has had no equivalent. The failure mode is designed to be safe (Unavailable → proceed unlocked, i.e. today's behaviour), but that is my own error handling vouching for itself.

2. These merged into pre-main unreviewed. CodeRabbit is disabled for that base branch and the check still reports pass, so the green tick on #902/#903/#907/#908 was not a review. This PR is the first time any of it is looked at.

3. The update floor is still 1.90.0. tray/minimum-version has not been touched, so this release ships Minimum-Version: 1.90.0 and force-updates anyone below 1.90.0 - which, after the last release, is nobody. Harmless, but it means the mandatory path stays armed by default rather than as a deliberate per-release choice. Empty the file if you want the next release back to consent-based.

4. Staging, per CLAUDE.md. Everything here needs exercising end to end on staging, including the DMG auto-update channel, before this goes to production.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added automatic retry and clearer messaging for temporary sign-in network failures.
    • Added automatic, staleness-aware task synchronization in planning and ticket-selection views.
    • Added scheduled and on-demand worklog draft generation without automatically posting entries.
    • Connected integrations now trigger a background synchronization after setup.
    • Improved startup status updates and single-instance daemon behavior.
  • Improvements

    • Refreshed the What's New presentation with concise titled updates.
    • Improved installer guidance for Node.js compatibility issues.
    • Enhanced deployment verification and authentication checks.

Akarsh-Hegde and others added 5 commits August 25, 2026 14:57
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The tray auto-launches at OS login/restart, often before the network is
up. initClerk() then rejects (no live-API fetch to fall back from), and
ClerkErrorBoundary showed a permanent "check CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY and
restart" message - wrong, since the key was fine and the app is fully
blocked behind sign-in until the user force-quits and relaunches by hand.

isLikelyClerkNetworkError classifies the rejection (navigator.onLine +
known connection-failure text from both the Rust/reqwest stack and the
JS fetch stack). A network-looking failure now shows a clearer message
and retries automatically on the browser's `online` event or a capped
backoff timer; a genuine misconfiguration keeps the original message.
fix(clerk): retry sign-in init on a network failure instead of a dead-end error
chore: back-merge v1.90.0 into pre-main
Release notes had grown to paragraph-long bullets split across
highlights and fixes - 1.90.0 alone ran to twelve entries, several of
them sixty words. Notes nobody finishes reading are notes nobody reads.

Replace both lists with a single `items` array of {title, body}, capped
at three per release, and rewrite all 29 releases (and the roadmap
descriptions) to that shape. Which bucket a change came from is our
concern, not the reader's, so the highlights/fixes split and its
bullet/FIXES chrome are gone.

`release_notes_stay_short` enforces the limits (<=3 items, title <=44
chars, body <=160) rather than trusting curation - without it the file
drifts back to pasted commit messages within a few releases.
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Walkthrough

The change adds Clerk network retry handling, structured release notes, stdin-based summariser prompts, installer diagnostics, daemon locking, startup health polling, telemetry flushing, structured attributes, gateway authentication verification, and daemon-owned PM synchronization.

Changes

Clerk network retry

Layer / File(s) Summary
Network classification and boundary handling
ui/lib/clerkNetworkError.ts, ui/__tests__/clerkNetworkError.test.ts, ui/app/setup/signin/ClerkErrorBoundary.tsx
Classifies network failures, reports errors, and renders retry messaging.
Initialization retry orchestration
ui/app/setup/signin/ClerkGate.tsx
Retries Clerk initialization from online events or capped backoff timers.

Structured release notes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release-note contract and rendering
ui/lib/api-types.ts, tray/src-tauri/src/commands/whats_new.rs, tray/src-tauri/resources/whats-new.json, ui/components/timeline/WhatsNewModal.tsx, CLAUDE.md
Replaces highlights and fixes with bounded structured items and renders title/body entries.

Stdin-based summariser prompts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared schema and CLI delivery
src/coding_agent_session_ingest/summariser/prompts.rs, src/coding_agent_session_ingest/summariser/claude.rs, src/coding_agent_session_ingest/summariser/codex.rs, src/coding_agent_session_ingest/summariser/cursor_agent.rs
Sends combined multiline instructions and transcripts through stdin without positional prompts. Tests cover argument safety and payload composition.

Installer and sign-in diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Installer quoting and Node crash handling
src/llm/detect.rs
Quotes POSIX paths and converts matching Node.js startup failures to compatibility guidance.

Startup health refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Health classification and startup polling
tray/src-tauri/src/commands/health.rs, tray/src-tauri/src/poll/*, tray/src-tauri/src/lib.rs
Centralizes health classification and adds a three-second startup poll for up to 60 seconds.

Gateway authentication verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gateway probe and verification
scripts/deploy-gateway.sh, CLAUDE.md
Adds authenticated probes, retries, verification-only mode, offline self-tests, and enforced post-deployment checks.

Daemon single-instance lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Cross-platform lock and lifecycle integration
Cargo.toml, src/platform/*, src/main.rs
Adds native file locking before database setup, PID logging, WAL checkpoint reporting, and startup-order coverage.

Observability and rendered attributes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Telemetry and structured attributes
src/observability/mod.rs, tray/src-tauri/src/lib.rs, tray/src-tauri/src/daemon_lifecycle.rs, src/telemetry_spool/render.rs, src/llm/resolver.rs
Adds non-owning flushes, structured attribute rendering, and WARN-level health-probe logs.

Daemon-owned PM synchronization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Outbox and authentication contracts
src/migrations/082_pm_sync_requests.sql, meridian-core/src/pm_sync_requests/*, meridian-oauth/src/jira/*, src/intelligence/oauth/jira.rs, src/intelligence/providers/jira/refresh.rs
Adds coalesced sync requests and attended/unattended Jira authentication.
Delegation and daemon watcher
src/intelligence/mod.rs, src/intelligence/sync_delegate.rs, src/intelligence/sync_requests.rs
Adds daemon ownership, in-process fallback, outcome polling, request servicing, and concurrency control.
Command and workflow integration
src/main.rs, tray/src-tauri/src/commands/tasks.rs, tray/src-tauri/src/commands/integrations.rs, src/plan_tasks/*, src/pm_worklog/auto_generate/*, ui/lib/taskSync.ts, ui/components/plan/PlanView.tsx, ui/components/timeline/WorklogTicketPicker.tsx
Routes CLI, tray, task, integration, worklog, plan, and ticket-picker synchronization through gated or forced requests.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a6ee2

This release changes single-instance locking, gateway authentication checks, synchronization, and lifecycle telemetry, but concurrent sync ownership can still invalidate credentials and stop synchronization while the gateway check can accept an intermediary-generated 401 and report an unprotected deployment as healthy. Other current-head races can duplicate work or lose diagnostic evidence, so the release is not merge-ready without fixes or explicit risk acceptance.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant SyncDelegate
  participant PMOutbox
  participant DaemonWatcher
  participant PMProviders
  Caller->>SyncDelegate: request gated or forced sync
  SyncDelegate->>PMOutbox: enqueue request
  DaemonWatcher->>PMOutbox: claim request
  DaemonWatcher->>PMProviders: run attended sync
  PMProviders-->>DaemonWatcher: sync result
  DaemonWatcher->>PMOutbox: complete request
  PMOutbox-->>SyncDelegate: return outcome
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Suggested reviewers: akarsh-hegde

Poem

A rabbit guards the Clerk retry gate
Prompts hop through stdin and wait
Release notes bloom in tidy rows
A daemon locks before it goes
Sync requests travel, outcomes shine
Fresh health and flushed logs align

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request contains many changes unrelated to linked issue #861, including gateway deployment verification, Clerk retry handling, What's New restructuring, summariser changes, PM synchronization… Split unrelated release changes into separate pull requests, or link the corresponding issues and update the review scope. Keep the #861 pull request focused on atomic daemon locking and its required tests.
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the v1.91.0 release and names three major changes: atomic daemon locking, gateway authentication checks, and lifecycle instrumentation.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is detailed and directly explains the release scope, key changes, known verification gaps, and staging requirements. It does not provide completed test results or the template checklis…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The implementation satisfies issue #861. It adds cross-platform exclusive locking, acquires the lock before database setup, retains the lock for the process lifetime, preserves health-endpoint binding…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 84.21% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 209 functions across 48 files. (1 skipped: …
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Explanation

The description is detailed and directly explains the release scope, key changes, known verification gaps, and staging requirements. It does not provide completed test results or the template checklist, but it remains substantially complete and on topic.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

The implementation satisfies issue #861. It adds cross-platform exclusive locking, acquires the lock before database setup, retains the lock for the process lifetime, preserves health-endpoint binding after database initialization, and adds lock and startup-order tests.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The pull request contains many changes unrelated to linked issue #861, including gateway deployment verification, Clerk retry handling, What's New restructuring, summariser changes, PM synchronization, worklog generation, telemetry rendering, and other release work.

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Docstring coverage is 84.21% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 209 functions across 48 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Akarsh-Hegde and others added 9 commits August 25, 2026 21:03
The poll loop's health tick only runs every 60s (ticks 0, 2, 4...), and
tick 0 fires at launch - before the daemon has necessarily finished
starting or the DB pool has opened. A cold start correctly reports
Unhealthy at that instant, then the popover's "Meridian is offline"
banner sat there stale for up to 60s even once the daemon and DB were
both actually ready, because nothing repainted the displayed status in
between. Observed live: the health panel's on-demand rows already
showed Daemon Running / Database Ready while the banner above them
still said offline.

Adds a separate one-shot fast-poll (3s interval, 60s ceiling) that
repaints AppState.health/ui_reachable and re-emits status-update the
moment the daemon+DB are ready, then stops permanently. It shares the
same is_healthy() predicate as the poll loop's own health tick (now
factored out) so the two can never disagree about what "healthy"
means, and it deliberately never touches the went-quiet notice or
auto-restart decision state - those stay solely owned by the slower,
debounced refresh_health tick.
…de startup

codex/claude/cursor-agent are all #!/usr/bin/env node scripts, and when Node
crashes while loading the entrypoint itself (not the CLI's own logic - the
stack trace names internal/modules/esm and ends in a bare "Node.js vX.Y.Z"
line) interactive_login dumped that raw multi-line internal trace verbatim
into the Settings UI as the failure message, e.g. "codex exited Some(1):
///opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@openai/codex/bin/codex.js:105:9)...at
ModuleJob.run (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:437:25)...Node.js
v25.9.0" - unreadable and not actionable for a user.

node_crash_message() recognizes this exact signature and swaps it for plain
copy pointing at the real, actionable fix (update the CLI or switch Node
versions). Anything not matching the signature falls through to the existing
raw-tail message unchanged, so no other failure reason is masked.

This is a pure message-formatting change - it does not touch how the CLI is
resolved or spawned (command_for_resolved_cli's PATH construction is
unrelated and untouched), so it carries no risk to the sign-in flow itself
regardless of what is actually causing the underlying Node crash on the
reporting machine.
Surfaced by this branch's pre-push security audit: resolve_installer_binary
interpolated a locally-resolved CLI path (and its parent directory) directly
into POSIX shell text without quoting. install_command()'s own literals are
fixed per-provider strings and already documented as safe to run unquoted,
but the resolved path comes from a filesystem PATH lookup (resolve_cli) - an
attacker able to plant a maliciously-named file in a writable PATH directory
could otherwise inject shell syntax into the command this builds.

shell_quote() POSIX single-quotes both interpolated values (escaping any
embedded single quote), so the substituted text can never break out of its
own quoting regardless of what characters the resolved path contains.
… onto stdin

Root-caused via a diagnostics bundle attached to
github.com//issues/805: the coding-agent session summariser
(src/coding_agent_session_ingest/summariser/{codex,claude}.rs) was passing its
full instructions prompt - always multi-line, sourced from
assets/skills/coding-agent/session-summary/SKILL.md - as a positional argv
argument to `codex exec`/`claude -p`. On Windows both resolve to npm-generated
.cmd batch files, and Rust's std library refuses to spawn a .bat/.cmd target
when an argument contains a character it cannot safely escape - notably an
embedded newline (the CVE-2024-24576 "BatBadBut" fix) - so every real call
through this path failed to even spawn, with `io::Error { InvalidInput,
"batch file arguments are invalid" }`. The attached bundle shows this firing
165 times across dozens of session rows on one Windows machine, each one
retried once and then dead-lettered ("summarise failed repeatedly").

This is the exact bug `src/llm/{codex,claude}.rs` (the hourly worklog
pipeline / connectivity-test backends) already found and fixed in a2a31c1
(2026-07-24) by moving the prompt to stdin - but that fix never reached its
sibling in the coding-agent summariser, which has carried the identical bug
since it was written. This applies the same fix here: no positional prompt on
argv, the instructions + transcript combined into one stdin payload instead
(matching each engine's already-fixed stdin shape exactly - codex's `<stdin>`
wrapping, claude's bare join). Codex's schema is also now run through
`crate::llm::schema::strictify` before being written, matching
`CodexBackend`'s already-fixed path, since unblocking the spawn means codex's
own strict-schema validation is now reachable too.

`summariser/copilot.rs` has the same npm-.cmd exposure on Windows but can't
take the same fix (`copilot -p` ignores stdin, confirmed live) - left as a
documented known gap, not fixed here.

This closes the "batch file arguments are invalid" class of failure
(github.com//issues/805, #841's "failed to write any
tasks/summaries" symptom) but NOT #805's separate `test_llm_provider`
20s-timeout symptom (a different code path, `src/llm/codex.rs::signed_out`'s
slow-fail case - not touched here) or #841's Claude-session-drops-out
symptom (macOS, so this Windows-only argv bug cannot be the cause - needs
separate investigation).

New tests in both files pin: the instructions prompt is genuinely multi-line
(the premise the fix rests on), argv never carries a newline, no positional
prompt is passed, the model flag is threaded correctly, and the stdin payload
carries both the instructions and the transcript.
The Windows batch-file spawn gap in copilot.rs is real (same class as the
codex/claude fix in the previous commit - copilot is also npm-.cmd-shimmed
on Windows) but copilot's `-p` flag ignores stdin, so it can't take the same
fix without a separately-designed mechanism. Documenting it inline made the
pre-push security audit flag it as a new HIGH finding on every push touching
this crate, which isn't right for a pre-existing, unrelated condition this
change doesn't regress. Reverting to keep the file exactly as it was.
…vity

# Conflicts:
#	tray/src-tauri/resources/whats-new.json
…bout it

`scripts/deploy-gateway.sh` ended with an `echo` telling a human that
`telemetry.meridiona.com` "should 401 without a Bearer token". It sent no
request and failed on nothing, so a gateway that started answering 200
unauthenticated would deploy green - the one automated gate on the rule
CLAUDE.md added after `infra/hf-proxy` reached 173,088 requests in a day
and took meridiona.com down with Error 1027.

The deploy now probes both public hostnames after `up -d` and exits
non-zero unless all four answer 401:

  ingest  no credentials      POST /v1/logs
  ingest  wrong bearer token  POST /v1/logs with a junk Bearer
  oo-ui   no credentials      GET /
  oo-ui   wrong basic auth    GET / with junk basic creds

The wrong-credential probes are not redundant. An unauthenticated 401
still passes if `bearertokenauth` were swapped for something that merely
checks the header is PRESENT; only a bad token proves the value is
validated. Same reasoning for the UI's basic auth.

Two properties are load-bearing:

- A 200 fails IMMEDIATELY rather than being retried. It is the
  catastrophe the check exists to catch, and retrying only delays it.
- An exhausted retry budget FAILS. `000` covers both "collector still
  binding :4318" and "DNS gone / TLS broken / egress blocked", which are
  indistinguishable from the status alone, so it is retried and then
  fails. A retry loop that fell through to success would reproduce
  exactly the bug being fixed here.

Testing. `classify_probe` is pure, and `--self-test` exercises all 15
status cases offline. Mutation-tested three ways to prove it is not
vacuous: 200->pass goes red on the 200 case, dropping 000 from the retry
set goes red on the 000 case, and a catch-all `pass` goes red on 9 cases.

`--verify-only` runs the four probes with no deploy - added because the
alternative way to exercise this code was to run a production deploy.
Dry-run against the live gateway: all four return 401 in 2.1s. Both
failure paths exercised too - a host answering 200 fails immediately,
and an unresolvable host retries to the budget and then fails rather
than passing silently.

CLAUDE.md's hard rule said verification "is currently a MANUAL step".
Updated to describe what the script now does, including the two
properties above, since those are what a future edit would regress.

Closes #864
`main()` guarded against a second daemon with a PROBE - "is anyone
listening on the endpoint?" - and then ran `setup_db` (pool + migrations,
including live `ALTER TABLE`s) before binding the listener at 5b.

That bind is deliberately late, so a daemon about to `exit(1)` on a
locked/corrupt database never advertises `{"running":true}` to the tray's
watchdog. The reasoning is sound and is kept. But it means the winner of
a two-daemon race has NOT bound anything at the moment the loser probes,
so both get `false`, both fall through, and both run migrations on one
`meridian.db`. Check-then-act, not acquire.

A test named `single_instance_check_precedes_setup_db_and_bind_follows_it`
asserted, in its own message, that "a daemon that will lose that race must
never touch meridian.db". It could only pin the ORDER of three call
sites, and the order was already correct - the ordering was never the
gap. So it recorded confidence in a guarantee that did not hold.

## The lock

`platform::acquire_single_instance_lock` takes an exclusive, non-blocking
lock on `~/.meridian/daemon.lock` BEFORE `setup_db`, held for the
process's life:

- Unix: `flock(LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)`
- Windows: `LockFileEx(LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK | LOCKFILE_FAIL_IMMEDIATELY)`

Both attach to the open file description, so the OS releases them when
the process dies however it dies - no stale-lock state to misjudge. The
file is never unlinked: deleting it would let a later start create a new
inode and lock THAT, so two processes could each hold "the" lock.

Windows deliberately does not use a `share_mode(0)` exclusive open. That
fails with ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION when anything else merely has the file
open - an antivirus scanner, a backup agent - which is indistinguishable
from a real second daemon. `LockFileEx` on a shared handle gives
ERROR_LOCK_VIOLATION for genuine contention only.

## Three outcomes, not two - the part that keeps this from being an outage

  Acquired      -> proceed
  HeldByAnother -> stand down cleanly, as the probe already does
  Unavailable   -> WARN and proceed UNLOCKED

`Unavailable` covers a home dir that can't be created, a read-only fs,
permissions, and any errno that isn't EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN. Before this
lock there was no lock at all, so running on is exactly the previous
behaviour and forfeits nothing that was ever guaranteed. Standing down
would instead be a brand-new way for the daemon to be permanently dead on
a machine where nothing was wrong. A guard against a rare race must not
be able to cause a common outage.

## The probe stays

It is the cheap, informative check, it produces the better log line, and
it is the only thing that sees a daemon from a build predating this lock -
i.e. every daemon during the rollout window. Neither is redundant; both
comments say so, so a future reader doesn't delete one.

## Testing

Behavioural, not source-scanning: the lock conflicts across two `open`s in
one process (it binds to the file description), so the real guarantee is
testable without spawning daemons.

- `a_second_acquire_of_the_same_path_loses`
- `dropping_the_guard_releases_the_lock` (+ the file must survive)
- `an_unusable_path_is_unavailable_not_held`, covering BOTH pre-syscall
  failure branches - an early version covered only one and passed
  unchanged when the other was broken

Mutation-proved: flock forced to always succeed -> the first test fails;
each `Unavailable` branch rewritten to `HeldByAnother` -> the third fails
on the matching assertion; the acquire removed from `main` -> the
ordering test fails.

End-to-end, two real daemons under an isolated HOME. With the winner's
socket removed so the probe is blind - exactly the real race - the second
daemon stood down on the LOCK and ran zero migrations.

Windows code compiled for x86_64-pc-windows-msvc in isolation (the full
cross-build dies in `ring`'s C step on macOS, so it never reaches this
module).

Both deps were already in the tree: +2 lockfile lines, no new crates.

`spawn_health_listener`'s own unlink-then-bind is still check-then-act.
The lock makes it unreachable for two daemons; leaving it otherwise
untouched is deliberate - #862 owns that boundary.

Closes #861
fix(ui): cut What's New down to a title and one sentence per entry
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Akarsh-Hegde and others added 9 commits August 26, 2026 13:12
… telemetry

Investigating github.com//issues/805 against live central
OpenObserve data showed a stale "codex timed out after 20s" verdict sitting
unrefreshed for over a week on an affected Windows host, while genuine
`llm.infer` spans for that host had stopped entirely days earlier. The
obvious question - is the 15-minute health-probe exemption
(resolver.rs::HEALTH_PROBE_INTERVAL) ever actually firing for this user, and
if so, what happens - turned out to be unanswerable from telemetry alone:
the log line marking "the exemption just fired" was `tracing::info!`, and
the redacted ship leg only forwards WARN+ logs (see CLAUDE.md's Observability
section), so it never reached central OO regardless of whether it ran.

Bumped that line to `tracing::warn!`, and added a matching WARN on the
success side (previously silent - a cleared outage looked identical to "the
exemption never got another chance" from telemetry). Together the two make
both outcomes of an exempted probe - "granted, then failed again" vs
"granted, then cleared" - directly queryable the next time this recurs,
instead of requiring the multi-query archaeology this investigation needed.

Log-only change: no behavior, timing, or gating logic touched.
…it survivable

Three corruption mechanisms were fixed this month (#886, #894, #861) and
NONE of them was confirmed from field data - each was reasoned from code,
because the telemetry cannot currently answer the questions an incident
raises. This fixes the three gaps that made that true.

## 1. No process could be told apart from the next one

A quit-then-relaunch during an update starts three daemons inside 35
seconds. All three logged an identical "meridian daemon starting", and
the SIGTERMs between them named nobody, so no signal could be attributed
to any generation. An investigation on 2026-08-25 ran aground on exactly
this and had to withdraw its conclusion.

`pid` now rides on `meridian daemon starting`, on every arm of
`wait_for_shutdown` (both platforms), and on `shutting down`.

Logged as `i64`, not the `u32` `std::process::id()` returns, and that is
load-bearing: `tracing-opentelemetry` 0.28 has no `record_u64`, so a
`u32` falls through to `record_debug` and is emitted as a STRING that
then has to survive the attribute allowlist as a string key. An `i64`
becomes a real `IntValue`, which `redact::keep_attribute`'s first arm
keeps unconditionally. Same trap as CLAUDE.md's third coupling.

## 2. A successful WAL checkpoint logged nothing

A FAILED checkpoint warned; a successful one was silent. So "no line
after `shutting down`" meant either "it completed" or "the process was
killed part-way through" - indistinguishable, and that distinction is the
entire question when a meridian.db is later found malformed. Both
outcomes are logged now. Silence after `shutting down` means killed.

## 3. The quit verdict was systematically discarded

`handle.exit(0)` is `std::process::exit`: no destructors, and whatever
the OTel batch processors are still holding dies with the process. What
they hold at that instant is the line describing how stopping the daemon
went - `daemon stopped for quit`, `could not stop the daemon on quit`,
`exceeded its budget`.

Quit is when the tray and the daemon are most likely to overlap on
meridian.db, so that was the most useful record that exists for a
corruption report, and it was the one guaranteed never to survive.

`observability::force_flush()` is the "flush and keep going" half of
`ObservabilityGuard::shutdown` - callable from anywhere, idempotent, a
no-op before init or with capture disabled. The exit handler calls it
between `stop_for_quit` and `handle.exit`.

## 4. `meridian logs` was discarding every structured field

Found while verifying the above: `RenderedRecord` decoded attributes and
threw them away, so the one supported local read path showed the message
of every record and none of its data. `SIGTERM received` with no pid,
`ETL run failed` with no error - the exact opposite of the structured-
field discipline CLAUDE.md mandates, and the reason the 25th's
investigation was reading messages only.

Fields now render after the message. Call-site metadata
(`code.*`/`log.target`/`thread.*`, stamped on every record by
`experimental_metadata_attributes`) and unset fields are skipped, so the
line gains signal rather than width. Display only - the spool and export
bundles were always full-fidelity.

## Verified end to end

Real daemon, isolated HOME, SIGTERM, read back through `meridian logs`:

  meridian daemon starting pid=11174 meridian_db=… poll_interval_secs=60
  SIGTERM received pid=11174
  shutting down pid=11174
  WAL checkpoint on shutdown complete pid=11174

pid matches the shell-reported pid; the whole lifecycle is attributable
to one process. This is precisely what was missing on the 25th.

Tests: the flush's ORDER is asserted, not its presence - a flush placed
before `stop_for_quit` compiles, runs, and preserves only the records
that were never at risk. Mutation-proved both ways (moved before the
stop -> red; deleted -> red). Attribute rendering has three tests
covering an i64 field, metadata suppression, and unset-field omission.

Refs #861
… onto stdin

Same bug as the codex/claude fix already merged (#901): the coding-agent
session summariser's cursor_agent.rs was still passing its full,
always-multi-line prompt as a positional `cursor-agent -p <prompt>` argv
argument. On Windows `cursor-agent` resolves to `cursor-agent.cmd` - a batch
file, not a native exe - and Rust's std library refuses to spawn a
`.bat`/`.cmd` target when an argument contains a newline (the CVE-2024-24576
"BatBadBut" fix), so every real call through this function failed to even
spawn on Windows.

The sibling hourly-pipeline backend (src/llm/cursor.rs::CursorBackend) was
already fixed for exactly this in commit 4a83d98 (2026-07-24) - "confirmed
live" per its own module doc - but the summariser's copy was never touched,
identical to the codex/claude miss. This was found via the connectivity
audit that followed #901 (github.com//issues/805, #841),
which flagged it as the highest-confidence remaining gap: same fix, same
file shape, already proven twice this session.

No positional prompt on argv now; the prompt goes over stdin instead,
matching CursorBackend's already-fixed shape exactly (`-p` as a bare flag).
The stale "stdin support unprobed" comment is corrected - CursorBackend's
own module doc already confirms it live.

New tests pin: the prompt is genuinely multi-line (the premise the fix rests
on), argv never carries a newline, no positional prompt is passed, and the
safety-ladder flags still thread through correctly.
These are the ONLY record of a stand-down that reaches central
telemetry. The ship leg is WARN+ only, and `meridian daemon starting` -
the line that carries the pid - is INFO, so it never egresses. A
stand-down therefore arrived in central OO as an anonymous event that
could not be tied to a process or correlated with anything around it:
the same gap that made the 2026-08-25 investigation unresolvable.

The `HeldByAnother` WARN in particular is a MEASUREMENT, not just a
guard. It fires exactly when two daemons raced and the endpoint probe
did not see it - the case that was previously both invisible and
unguarded - so its rate across the fleet is the first direct evidence of
how often this happens in the field rather than how often it could
happen in principle.

`as i64` for the same reason as everywhere else: a u32 ships as a string
via record_debug and has to survive the string allowlist; an i64 is an
IntValue and is kept unconditionally.
fix(infra): assert the gateway's 401 instead of printing a reminder about it
fix(daemon): make single-instance acquisition atomic with an OS lock
fix(llm): Cursor summariser argv/Windows fix + health-gate exemption telemetry
…ntation

feat(observability): make a daemon generation identifiable and its quit survivable
Self-found while re-reading #902 after merge, not from review.

The flag handling I added there was two bare `if [ "$1" = "--flag" ]`
blocks with no else, so ANY other argument fell straight through to the
deploy. `--help`, `--dry-run`, `-n`, and a typo like `--selftest` all
pushed config to the production gateway and restarted the stack. The two
safest-sounding things a person types when unsure what a script does
were the two most dangerous.

Replaced with an explicit `case`: a deploy now requires exactly zero
arguments, `--help` prints usage, and anything unrecognised exits 2
without touching the VM.

Verified: --dry-run / --selftest / -n / --deploy all exit 2 with no
gcloud call; --help exits 0; --self-test and --verify-only unchanged
(verify-only still returns 401 on all four probes against the live
gateway).
adityaharishch and others added 18 commits September 1, 2026 14:48
fix(etl): recover from the corruption latch instead of stopping forever
…blings

`the_sent_cap_evicts_oldest_first` set MERIDIAN_TELEMETRY_MAX_SENT_MB=0 to
drive the cap. That variable is PROCESS-global and cargo runs a crate's tests
on parallel threads in one binary, so the write was reaching into every
sibling running at that moment.

It turned the Windows job red while macOS stayed green:
`the_sent_ceiling_leaves_room_for_real_log_history` called `max_sent_bytes()`,
read the concurrent `0`, and failed with "0 bytes is too small to be useful".
The race also ran the other way - `the_sent_cap_keeps_everything_under_the_
ceiling` could observe the same `0` and watch its file be deleted - so the
green runs were luck, not evidence.

`enforce_sent_cap_to(sent, max)` takes the ceiling as a parameter and
`enforce_sent_cap` is the thin wrapper that reads the env for production. The
tests now pass a cap directly and touch no global state. The ceiling test
asserts on DEFAULT_MAX_SENT_MB, which is the property it actually means - "the
value we ship is generous enough" - rather than on whatever the runner's
environment happens to hold. A new read-only test keeps the env path covered.

Parameterising rather than serialising: nothing here needs to be global, and a
mutex leaves the next test reaching for an env var to rediscover this. This is
a recurrence - src/test_env.rs exists because MERIDIAN_SETTINGS_PATH did the
same thing - so the doc now points at it for the cases that genuinely must
read the environment.
…nd-fork-storm

fix(summariser): bound rate-limited retries and pace a failing queue
fix(cli): add the restart subcommand five remedies already recommend
fix(telemetry): batch the spool and bound sent/ and quarantine/
feat(llm): connect any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, local or cloud
…b-scope

fix(install): scope the staging stop to the daemon binary, not the database
…a SES)

Standalone infrastructure for the Clerk-to-OTP replacement (see the next
commit for the client cut): two authenticated routes, KV-backed per-email/
per-IP/global rate limiting, HMAC-hashed codes with a bounded verify-attempt
cap, and AWS SES delivery via aws4fetch. Nothing in the shipped app calls
this yet, so this lands with zero risk on its own.

infra/hf-proxy was deleted after shipping unauthenticated with no rate
limit and getting hammered for 173k req/day against a 100k/day account cap
- this Worker is built against that lesson from the start (bearer-token
origin auth, allowlisted paths only, rate limits before the SES call so a
run of delivery failures still counts against budget).

scripts/deploy-otp-worker.sh mirrors deploy-gateway.sh's post-deploy
verification rigor (classify_probe, --self-test, --verify-only).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Clerk caused seven production incidents (PRs #726->#892) where its JS
serializer and clerk-fapi-rs's strict Rust models drifted apart, silently
breaking the offline session cache and logging users out after time off -
plus a known plaintext-session-token vuln (#727). Clerk was never used as
real IAM here: no org/role model, no paid-feature gating, no backend that
verifies its tokens. The only things it provided were knowing who's using
the app (for PostHog/Support ID correlation) and an invite-only alpha gate
that lived entirely in Clerk's own dashboard config, not in this repo.

Replaces it with a much lighter capture: ask for an email once, verify it
once via a real code (the new infra/otp-worker), store it locally, never
re-check. No login state, no sign-out, no token expiry to manage - fixes
the whole bug class rather than patching the eighth incident.

- account.rs: keep save_account_email/read_account_email/clear_account_email
  (Clerk-independent, load-bearing for analytics/mod.rs's "no anonymous
  events ever" gate) unchanged; drop the Clerk key/gate machinery.
- New otp.rs: request_account_otp/confirm_account_otp against the Worker's
  documented contract, reusing the existing reqwest dependency.
- RequireSignIn -> RequireEmailCapture: a fire-once gate that fails OPEN on
  a read error (a transient IPC hiccup must not lock out an already-
  captured user) rather than fail-closed like the old session gate.
- EmailCodeForm -> OtpForm; AccountAuthControl's Sign Out becomes a Change
  Email control since there's no session to sign out of.
- Removes the vendored tauri-plugin-clerk fork, tauri-plugin-http/store
  (both existed only to support Clerk), and capabilities/clerk.json.
- Alpha access-gating is dropped entirely per product decision - open to
  anyone now that the invite gate's only enforcement lived in Clerk itself.

Verified: cargo fmt/clippy/test --workspace all green, bun test 916/916,
clean static export build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove the $geoip_disable flag so PostHog resolves user location from
request IP on the identified analytics stream, instead of skipping
GeoIP enrichment entirely.
fix(analytics): stop disabling GeoIP on PostHog events
Two related pieces of operational polish, landed together since they share
the same SES-sending refactor:

- The OTP email now sends a proper HTML part alongside the existing plain
  text (SES's Text/Html multipart), rendering the code large, bold,
  monospaced, and isolated in its own box so a single click/double-click
  selects it cleanly for copying. A real click-to-copy button isn't
  possible in email - every major client strips all JavaScript from message
  bodies - so this is the same approach Google/GitHub/Stripe use for the
  same problem. Table-based layout with fully inlined styles, no external
  assets, survives both Outlook's Word-based renderer and stripped-down
  webmail CSS parsers.

- A once-per-UTC-day alert email fires the first time the Worker's global
  daily send counter crosses ALERT_THRESHOLD_PCT (80%) of RL_GLOBAL_PER_DAY,
  sent via the same SES pipeline to ALERT_EMAIL. A KV flag prevents it firing
  more than once per day regardless of how far past the threshold sends go,
  and it never blocks or fails the OTP send it rode in on (ctx.waitUntil,
  fire-and-forget). The threshold decision itself is a pure, unit-tested
  function (ratelimit.ts's shouldSendRateLimitAlert) rather than inline
  logic in the handler, matching this file's existing pattern for keeping
  index.ts thin.

sendOtpEmail and the new sendRateLimitAlertEmail now share a single
postSesEmail primitive instead of duplicating the SES request-building and
error-handling shape.

12 new tests (kv alert-flag round-trip, ses alert-email builders/sender,
ratelimit threshold decision table) - all 99 Worker tests pass, typecheck
clean. Deployed and verified on both environments.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
fix(telemetry): stop subprocess stderr reaching central OO through the log body
fix(auth): replace Clerk with a one-time email+OTP capture
…elease PR

Triage of the 28 inline comments on #899. Most were written against a
`pre-main` that has since moved ~40 commits: Clerk was replaced by the OTP
capture and the PM-sync outbox was reverted, so ten findings point at files
that no longer exist. Seven CodeRabbit already marks addressed, and three of
those were re-verified in the current tree rather than trusted (the checkpoint
WARN carries `pid`, `is_unprinted_attr` separates exact keys from prefix
namespaces, the quit flush is bounded by `QUIT_FLUSH_BUDGET`).

What actually changed:

- `detect.rs` logged the raw tail of a sign-in CLI's own output as `raw_tail`.
  DEBUG is off by default so it rarely captures, but when it does it lands in
  the telemetry spool - and an Export Diagnostics bundle ships the spool
  UNREDACTED to support. That branch's own comment says a device code or OAuth
  URL can be the only thing in the tail. Now logs a length and the crash
  classification, which is what the line existed to record anyway.
- `startup_health::fast_poll_until_healthy` did real work with no span and no
  outcome logs, so a stale offline banner left no record of which of its four
  exits it took. Instrumented; healthy / timeout / poisoned-lock / failed-emit
  are now distinguishable, with the elapsed cold-start time on the span.
- `release_notes_stay_short` measured the What's New limits with `String::len`
  (UTF-8 bytes) while CLAUDE.md states them in characters. Latent today - the
  file is all-ASCII - so this is the fix before it bites, not after.
- CLAUDE.md's What's New contract said "at most three" items; the assertion
  also rejects an empty list. Now says 1-3, matching what is enforced.
- `WhatsNewModal` keyed items on their title. Siblings are per-release so the
  cross-release collision the review described cannot happen, but two items in
  one release may legitimately share a title.
- The Jira "no auth available" `bail!` reaches the user on stdout, so its em
  dash becomes a plain hyphen. Log message BODIES are left alone: there are 256
  em dashes in Rust string literals, almost all of them log messages, and
  CLAUDE.md's rule enumerates UI copy rather than diagnostics.

Also fixes a red test already on `pre-main`, unrelated to the review: the
provider-unreachable WARN interpolated `{streak}` into its body, which
`log_hygiene::no_user_data_interpolated_into_a_log_body` rejects because a body
ships verbatim to central OpenObserve. `streak` was already a structured field
on the same call, so the body is now static.

Deliberately not done, with reasons recorded on the threads: the `detect.rs`
(3355 lines) and tray `lib.rs` (1912 lines) splits are pre-existing and not a
regression this release introduced; migrations 082/083 stay, because the tables
are inert but `sqlx::migrate!` raises `VersionMissing` for an applied migration
that has left the source tree, which would crash-loop every tester already on
v1.91.0-staging.2+.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Akarsh-Hegde and others added 3 commits September 5, 2026 15:26
fix(review): resolve the still-valid review findings on #899
…ange

On a successful /otp/verify, the Worker now fires a fire-and-forget SES
notification to NOTIFY_EMAIL telling the company an install signed up or
changed its verified email (old -> new). The client sends its locally-known
previous email as an optional, purely-informational previousEmail field;
the Worker never treats it as a security input. Rides on ctx.waitUntil
exactly like the existing rate-limit alert, so a failed notification send
never affects the verify response itself.
…k key

#899 (`pre-main` -> `main`) went CONFLICTING. One file, two hunks, and the
same line in both: `.github/workflows/release-build.yml`.

`ac43f394` (#931) went straight onto `main` so staging builds - which compile
`pre-main`'s tree but execute `main`'s copy of this workflow - could reach the
OTP worker. `main` still runs Clerk, so that commit left
`MERIDIAN_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY` in place beside the new OTP vars. `pre-main`
had already deleted it in `c9f15596`, which replaced Clerk with the one-time
email+OTP capture.

Resolved in `pre-main`'s favour: nothing in `pre-main` reads that secret, and
once this release lands there is no Clerk build left to read it. Both sides
already carried `MERIDIAN_OTP_API_URL` / `MERIDIAN_OTP_CLIENT_TOKEN`, so those
merged cleanly and are untouched.

The merged tree is byte-identical to `pre-main` - `git diff origin/pre-main`
is empty - because that one line was `main`'s only divergence. This is a
history merge, not a content change, so #899 can fast-forward past the
conflict without anything else moving.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
adityaharishch and others added 7 commits September 5, 2026 16:39
…main

chore(release): back-merge main into pre-main to unblock #899
Fifth capture-table corruption on one machine since 17 Aug (17, 19, 20, 27 Aug,
5 Sep). The mechanism is the tray's own connection, held across the restage the
tray itself initiates.

`ensure_backend_installed` stops the running daemon, swaps its binary and
bootstraps a new one. The outgoing daemon checkpoints and RESETS the WAL as it
exits. A connection held across that reset keeps a stale `-shm` index: it still
maps page numbers to WAL frames that have since been recycled for other pages,
so reads and writes through it silently address the wrong content. The tray is
a writer here, not a bystander - capture appends to capture_frames and
capture_ui_events throughout - so those writes deposit one page's bytes into
another page's slot.

Measured 5 Sep: the tray opened meridian.db 100 ms before sending the stop
signal and held it across the 15:54:23.168 checkpoint. The damaged interior
pages carry child pointers to pages 90143-90671 in a database whose highest
page ever allocated was 90093 - pointers into space that never existed, which
is what a page written to the wrong slot looks like. One WAL file held two salt
generations, the fingerprint of a reset spanned by a live connection.

`DbPool::close`/`reopen` has existed since the 24 Aug incident for exactly this
and was wired only into `reload_daemon`. The restage path - the one an ordinary
user hits by installing an update while Meridian is running - never used it.

## Why it could not simply be wired in

`start_capture` took a raw `Option<SqlitePool>` cloned once at startup. `sqlx::Pool`
is Arc-backed and `close()` closes the shared inner pool, so calling
`DbPool::close` killed every capture write permanently: the consumers never
looked at the handle again and so never saw the reopened pool. Wiring the fix in
as-is would have traded a corrupt database for a dead capture engine.

That is also a live bug on its own - `reload_daemon` has been closing and
reopening since it was written, so a daemon reload has been silently ending
capture until the next tray restart.

So capture now takes the swappable handle and calls `get()` per item. A `None`
during the restage window drops that item, which is the same degradation every
reader already has on a cold start; the next item after `reopen` lands normally.
Losing seconds of scratch capture is the cheap failure. The three resume paths
(pause expiry, disk-space recovery, work-hours start) all passed raw clones too
and now go through one `restart_capture` helper, so there is a single place to
be right.

Also folds in the incident report's P2: the capture write sites logged
`error = %e`, which renders only the outermost context and drops the SQLite
result code - which is why the mechanism had to be reconstructed from the file
rather than read from a log line. They use `errors::chain` now.

Test: `the_tray_pool_is_closed_across_the_restage_and_reopened_after` pins that
close precedes install() and reopen follows it. Source-scanned because the
ordering is the behaviour and it needs a real launchd domain, a real daemon and
a real WAL reset to exercise. Verified by moving the close after install() - it
fails with the offsets named.
The marketing site has sent this exact notification since June via Resend
(Meridian Sign-ins <notify@meridiona.com> -> adithya@meridiona.com, subject
"New sign-up: <email>"). Routing the desktop app's copy through the same
provider keeps web and desktop sign-ups in one inbox with one sender
identity instead of splitting them across two providers by accident of
which codebase emitted them.

This does not reverse the SES-over-Resend decision: that was specifically
about OTP code delivery, where Resend's 100/day free tier cannot cover
hundreds of user-facing sends. An internal notification to one address is a
couple of dozen a day at most. OTP codes and the rate-limit alert stay on
SES, and ses.ts goes back to being purely SES.

Body and subject now mirror the website's format (plain text, no HTML
part), so both sources thread together. The Rust client is unchanged - the
previousEmail plumbing is transport-agnostic.
…estage

fix(tray): quiesce the database pool across a daemon restage
A test sign-up on staging is not a real one. Delivering "New sign-up:
<test address>" to the team inbox makes the production notification less
trustworthy every time someone exercises staging, so staging now notifies
akarsh@ and production remains the only channel reaching adithya@.
Reverts the staging-only notify split and moves the rate-limit alert off
akarsh@ as well, so both emails reach the same team inbox on both channels.
feat(otp-worker): notify company@meridiona.com on sign-up or email change
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