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A daemon whose start fails at the socket claim, or at the admin.token write, logged "Daemon failed to start" but never exited. Nothing stops CleanupReaper's timer except stop(), which a failed start never reached. #1051 reports the result: repeated starts leave node.exe processes running.

• A failed claim or token write now cleans up in #stop's order, answers parked requests with DAEMON_STARTUP_FAILED, and rejects. A start that loses the claim to a live daemon leaves its drivers alone.
• A daemon.stop already running is the one teardown. The start rejects at once, and startDaemon waits for that stop before it rejects, so the entry's process.exit cannot cut the teardown short.

Verified: a refused listen exits 1 in about 1 s, for worker and gateway. Tests pin these, each with a bound so a hang fails instead of stalling:

• a failed start leaves no timer;
• the lost race disposes nothing;
• a stop during a failed start tears down once and settles.

Part of #1051 and #1068.

Review

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Slow lane: pass on 810b127 (daemon start/stop and one lease, e2e/slow-ios-smoke.test.ts). Later commits are a main merge and a manual reword only.

Assessment: complete

Status

Implement: done (main merged 7b65fee, manual reword) Review: fix-check passed at 7b65fee, 0 open Hardware: pass on 810b127 Gate: running

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Walkthrough

Startup failures during socket claiming or admin.token writes now reject readiness and run cleanup, unless an accepted daemon.stop already owns teardown. Failed-start cleanup handles DaemonAlreadyRunningError differently from other failures. Worker and gateway startup callers await stop before rethrowing the original error. The executable entrypoint calls process.exit after logging startup errors. Tests and documentation cover these paths.

Suggested reviewers: v3ron

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7b65f

The change is mergeable with owner awareness: an exceptional cleanup failure may leave a claimed socket open, and the parked-relay test may be intermittent on slow runners.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7b65f

The change improves failed-start cleanup without weakening administrator checks or adding commands. Ownership and concurrent shutdown are explicitly handled. Cleanup operations can still interrupt later resource release if they fail, so complete teardown is not guaranteed in every failure case.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed cleanup acts on the failed daemon attempt's engine, composition resources and connections. A losing claim skips driver disposal, and endpoint-host ownership checks prevent that attempt's stop from removing the winner's endpoint. The inspected path does not add cross-daemon authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Socket credentials still determine administrative authority: a credential-free hello receives the agent role, while operator or per-process admin credentials can resolve to admin. The socket stop command still requires the admin role even during startup or protocol mismatch. These controls are unchanged by the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inspected tests assert no remaining fake-clock timers after early startup failures, preservation of shared drivers after a lost claim, and one completed teardown before worker or gateway startup rejects after a concurrent stop. Relay tests also assert terminal startup-failure responses and channel abortion. The routed public-entrypoint classes are local test doubles, not new production entrypoints.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Consider failure-isolated finalization for resources owned by the stopping attempt, with rejection-injection tests for settle, composition disposal and connection closure. Preserve the losing-claim ownership exception and credential-removal ordering rather than applying unconditional cleanup.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: failed daemon startup at the socket claim now exits.
Description check		The description directly explains failed-start cleanup, socket-claim and admin.token write failures, teardown behavior, and related tests.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Explanation

Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 3 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

Resolution

Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Finding outcomes: {"fixed":2}. Classes: {"start awaits stop that awaits start":1,"stop teardown must run exactly once":1}.

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src/daemon/server.ts: 1

674-692: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Release the endpoint in finally when failed-start cleanup throws.

#releaseFailedStart runs #disposeEngine, settle, dispose, #closeConnections and host.stop() in one try block. If an earlier step throws, the catch logs the error and host.stop() never runs. The worker dispose can throw, for example from eventHistory.stop() or state.close().

On an admin.token write failure, the socket is already claimed. A skipped host.stop() leaves the listener open and the socket file on disk. The process stays alive with nothing to serve until the entry's process.exit runs, and embedders and tests never get that exit. #stop already handles this case: it calls host.stop() in a finally. Use the same structure here so every outcome releases the endpoint, and keep the "never rejects" contract.

Proposed fix

   async #releaseFailedStart(error: unknown): Promise<void> {
     try {
       await this.#disposeEngine();
       if (!(error instanceof DaemonAlreadyRunningError)) {
         await this.options.settle?.();
         await this.options.dispose?.();
       }
       await this.#closeConnections();
-      // why: a host that never claimed owns no endpoint, so this removes nothing a live daemon holds.
-      await this.options.host.stop();
     } catch (releaseError: unknown) {
       this.#logger.error("Could not release a failed start", {
         message: errorMessage(releaseError),
       });
+    } finally {
+      // why: a host that never claimed owns no endpoint, so this removes nothing a live daemon holds.
+      await this.options.host.stop().catch((stopError: unknown) => {
+        this.#logger.error("Could not release a failed start's endpoint", {
+          message: errorMessage(stopError),
+        });
+      });
     }
   }

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Review comment at @src/daemon/server.ts around lines 674 - 692:
Update #releaseFailedStart so options.host.stop() runs in a finally block even
when engine or composition cleanup throws. Catch and log any host.stop() failure
so the method preserves its never-rejects contract, while retaining the existing
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Wait for relay parking before triggering startup failure.

openRelay starts the request without awaiting its transport write. The fixed sleep(100) does not prove that the worker reached awaitReady. If startup fails first, the relay can receive DAEMON_STOPPING or a closed connection instead of DAEMON_STARTUP_FAILED.

Use a bounded wait on an observable signal that proves the request reached the startup gate. Use the same signal for both convergence and socket-claim cases.

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Replace the fixed delay in the startup-failure test with a bounded wait for an
observable signal proving the request opened by openRelay reached awaitReady;
use that same signal in both the convergence and socket-claim cases before
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- Line 1750: Replace the fixed delay in the startup-failure test with a bounded
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awaitReady; use that same signal in both the convergence and socket-claim cases
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Review notes

Not blocking, not verified. Each is one reviewer's claim.

• code: src/daemon/main.test.ts or src/daemon/server.test.ts: one unexplained failure in a local run at 810b127, not reproduced in nine reruns; possibly a timing-sensitive new test

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Handoff

Done: main merged in (810b127, no conflicts). Fix-check passed: the PR's own diff is unchanged by the merge. Review complete, 0 blocking open. Ledger and Review section updated.

Not done: slow-lane check (daemon start/stop plus one lease) and the gate.

Findings: the lane refused to start: 7.6 GiB free disk, it needs 15.

Blocked on: the maintainer. Run scripts/slow-e2e.sh e2e/slow-ios-smoke.test.ts on a machine with 15 GiB free, then remove needs-hardware and run .agents/scripts/merge-pr.sh 1077.

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