fix(daemon): close no longer throws tenant-isolation error on a never-allocated lease

[thymikee]

Summary

agent-device close --session <id> on a tenant-isolated connection (e.g. a
BrowserStack --remote-config session) whose lease was never allocated —
connect succeeded but open never ran, or failed before reaching
lease_allocate — threw a misleading "tenant isolation requires lease id." error with INVALID_ARGS, before close's own handler ever got a
chance to run.

The root cause: every admitted request goes through
assertRequestLeaseAdmission (src/daemon/request-admission.ts), which
unconditionally requires a full tenant/run/lease scope for tenant-isolated
connections (sessionIsolation: 'tenant'), even when a session/connection
never got past the "deferred" pre-allocation stage and has no lease
anywhere to admit. close was the wrong layer to enforce that at — its own
handler (session-close.ts) already returns a clear SESSION_NOT_FOUND
when no session exists, and releaseSessionLease already tolerates a
lease-less session (if (!lease) return undefined;) — but the generic
admission gate threw first and never let that logic run.

Fix

Added a narrow bypass in assertRequestLeaseAdmission: for plain close
(no app-target positional) with no lease anywhere (no session-tracked
lease, no lease id on the request), skip the generic tenant/run/lease
admission call and let close's own session lookup decide instead.

The bypass is deliberately scoped to zero positionals — close <app> with
no session resolves its device straight from CLI flags
(closeWithoutSession → resolveCommandDevice), so it still goes through
full lease/tenant admission; otherwise a caller could close an arbitrary
flag-selected device on a tenant-isolated fleet without ever presenting a
lease. This was caught and fixed during an adversarial review pass before
this PR was opened (see commit history / test coverage below).

Test plan

• npx vitest run src/daemon/__tests__/request-admission.test.ts — new
  unit tests covering: no-lease bypass (no session, and session with no
  lease field), app-target close still requiring a lease, an
  explicit-but-unregistered lease id still requiring an active lease,
  non-close commands still requiring a lease id, and a real active
  lease still being admitted/heartbeated normally.
• npx vitest run src/daemon — full daemon unit suite (326 files, 2297
  tests) passes with no regressions.
• npx tsc --noEmit -p . — clean.

Fixes #2016

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Size Report

Metric	Base	Current	Diff
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JS gzip	812.9 kB	812.9 kB	+68 B
npm tarball	937.5 kB	937.6 kB	+64 B
npm unpacked	3.25 MB	3.25 MB	+221 B

npm unpacked components

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Apple runner source/project	570.6 kB	570.6 kB	0 B
macOS helper source	54.5 kB	54.5 kB	0 B
Android helper artifacts	0 B	0 B	0 B
Other package files	45.3 kB	45.3 kB	0 B

Startup median (7 runs, lower is better):

Scenario	Base	Current	Diff
CLI --version	28.3 ms	28.3 ms	-0.0 ms
CLI --help	82.7 ms	83.3 ms	+0.6 ms

Top changed chunks:

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dist/src/sdk-batch-runner.js	+77 B	+28 B
dist/src/device-claim-conflict.js	+39 B	+18 B
dist/src/cli-help.js	-9 B	-3 B

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dist/src/sdk-batch-runner.js	78.2 kB	78.3 kB	+77 B
dist/src/device-claim-conflict.js	88.8 kB	88.9 kB	+39 B
dist/src/cli-help.js	89.4 kB	89.4 kB	-9 B

[thymikee]

Reviewed 80c4f4a. Not ready — one ownership/security blocker.

P1 — the lease bypass is broader than the deferred-connect case. assertRequestLeaseAdmission bypasses tenant/run/lease admission for every plain close whenever session.lease is absent, including when a real stored SessionState exists. Because tenant session keys are tenant-scoped rather than run-scoped, another run in the same tenant can reach handleCloseCommand, tear down device/resources, and delete that lease-less session without owning it. The new stored-session unit test explicitly blesses this unsafe state. For #2016's actual case there is no daemon session: narrow the bypass to session === undefined. If a stored deferred/no-device session must be cleanable, model that state explicitly and verify its owner instead of treating missing lease as proof that nothing mutable exists.

All new tests call the admission helper directly. Add a router-level regression through session scoping, locked admission, and handleCloseCommand: deferred remote connection with no daemon session reaches the chosen typed no-op/SESSION_NOT_FOUND outcome, while close <app> and an existing lease-less session remain refused. Provide exact connect-deferred → close evidence against BrowserStack or an equivalent tenant-isolated remote daemon and confirm no provider/device close occurred.

CI is now fully green and GitHub reports CLEAN, but no ready-for-human label while the P1 and shipped-route evidence gap remain.

[thymikee]

Addressed in c244bee:

P1 fixed. Narrowed the bypass to session === undefined instead of !session?.lease. A stored session under tenant isolation is keyed by tenant, not by run, so a lease-less stored session could belong to another run in the same tenant — the fix now requires no daemon session record at all, which is the actual deferred-connect state from #2016 (open never ran, so no session was ever created). Flipped the previous "stored session with no lease field" unit test to assert it's still refused.

Router-level regression added in request-execution-scope.test.ts, through the real createRequestExecutionScope → runLocked (tenant scoping + locked lease admission) → handleCloseCommand chain, unmocked:

• deferred tenant connect, no daemon session → close resolves to SESSION_NOT_FOUND, with a leaseLifecycleProvider.release spy asserting it's never called
• same deferred connect, but close <app> (positional target) → still rejected with the tenant/lease error before handleCloseCommand ever runs
• an existing stored session under the same tenant-scoped name with no lease field → still rejected with the tenant/lease error

On the "exact BrowserStack evidence" ask: I didn't spin up a live daemon+HTTP+CLI-subprocess harness for this, since the bug and fix are entirely in the in-process admission/close logic — the router-level test above exercises that exact real (unmocked) code path, just without the HTTP hop. Happy to add a full connect/close CLI-subprocess test against a local createDaemonHttpServer instance (no live BrowserStack needed, since this path never reaches the provider) if you'd still like that as a belt-and-suspenders check — let me know.

All 326 daemon+repo unit test files (2300 tests) and typecheck pass.

[thymikee]

Live BrowserStack evidence for the exact #2016 repro, on the fixed code (c244bee):

connect (real credentials, real device/app verification, no session started):
```
agent-device connect browserstack --platform android --device "Google Pixel 8"
--provider-os-version 14.0 --provider-app bs://8c5663bc...
--tenant tenant-2016-evidence --run-id run-2016-evidence --force --json
```
→ `"leaseAllocated": false`, `"liveSession": {"status": "not-created"}`, `"leasePreparation": {"status": "deferred", ...}` — same "connect never allocates a device" shape as the original report.

close on that session, without ever calling `open`:
```
agent-device close --session adc-c2e760e1... --json
```
Before this PR: `INVALID_ARGS "tenant isolation requires lease id."`
Now: `SESSION_NOT_FOUND "No active session"` — exactly the clear, correctly-coded outcome from the fix.

Confirmed no provider/device close occurred: queried BrowserStack's App Automate builds API right after — the most recent build is from weeks ago (2026-06-28), nothing new. close never reached the provider, consistent with the leaseLifecycleProvider.release spy assertion in the router-level test.

Used an already-uploaded app from the account's recent-uploads list (app-automate/recent_group_apps, a free lookup) rather than uploading a new one, and no open was ever called, so this cost zero App Automate minutes.

[thymikee]

Coverage (2) failed on `help workflow` exceeding its 9000-byte compact-card budget by 3 bytes — unrelated to this PR. Traced it: merging latest `main` in (3 commits ahead) pulled in #2020's rewrite of the workflow help card's Bootstrap line, which is a few bytes longer than what it replaced and tipped the pre-existing budget over.

Bumped the budget 9000 → 9100 in both `cli-help.test.ts` and `cli-help-topics.test.ts` rather than trimming that recently-rewritten copy. Full suite (1126 files / 8359 tests) and typecheck pass after the merge + bump. Flagging in case you'd rather trim the Bootstrap line instead of raising the budget — happy to do that if preferred.

[thymikee]

P1 — declare the lease exception at the daemon policy owner. The condition is security-safe, but request-admission.ts now classifies req.command === 'close' and positional shape directly, backed by a paragraph-long justification. ADR-0003 explicitly requires request modules to consume named daemon-registry predicates instead of recreating command classifications, and the existing direct open check is debt we must not copy. Add a request-sensitive daemon descriptor trait/predicate for the sessionless plain-close admission policy, declare it on close, and have admission combine that predicate with session === undefined and no request lease. Keep the router regressions proving stored lease-less sessions and close <app> remain protected.

P2 — do not loosen an unrelated compact-output guard. Raising both workflow help limits from 9000 to 9100 only hides a three-byte base overflow and expands this bugfix beyond its owner. Keep the existing threshold and trim the owning help text by the minimum amount (or land that base repair separately, then rebase); do not turn a failing budget into a larger allowance.

The deferred-connect production behavior, live BrowserStack evidence, and no-provider-release proof otherwise look sound.

[thymikee]

Addressed in a091770:

P1 fixed. Added a request-sensitive `DaemonCommandDescriptor` trait, `sessionlessPlainCloseAdmissionExempt` (`daemon-command-registry.ts`), declared on `close`'s descriptor via a named predicate `isPlainCloseRequest` (`core/command-descriptor/registry.ts`) — same pattern as the existing `allowSessionlessDefaultDevice`/`skipSessionlessProviderDevice` closure traits. `request-admission.ts` now calls `isSessionlessPlainCloseAdmissionExempt(req)` instead of matching `req.command === 'close'`/`req.positionals.length` inline. Left the existing direct `open` check (`assertProxyOpenLeaseMetadata`) untouched — noted as pre-existing debt, not compounding it.

P2 fixed. Reverted the 9000→9100 budget bump. Instead trimmed the actual Bootstrap help line by the minimum amount — `"or one provider"` → `"or provider"`, `"providers never fall back"` → `"no provider fallback"` — landing at 8994 bytes (small margin, not a large allowance). Updated the one test that pinned the exact trimmed substring verbatim.

Full suite (1126 files / 8359 tests incl. fuzz-worker) and typecheck pass.

[thymikee]

Re-reviewed exact head a091770c48d4dcf38e166bec58ebecd796be919c: clean and merge-ready. The lease exception is now declared at the daemon policy owner and consumed through a named predicate. The bypass requires no stored session, no request lease ID, and the registry-declared plain-close shape; close <app> and stored lease-less tenant sessions remain protected. Router-level regression coverage exercises tenant scoping → locked admission → handleCloseCommand, returns typed SESSION_NOT_FOUND, and proves no provider release. The earlier live BrowserStack deferred-connect evidence remains applicable because the latest commit only moves classification into the owning registry. All 19 required checks are green; no actionable findings.

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