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fix(client-runtime): Reconnect works while the network reports offline - #24932
In #17106 a Windows desktop user restarted the app while a phone hotspot was still coming up. Their T3 Connect environment then showed "offline" for 46 minutes while the server was healthy and reachable. Every Reconnect click logged EnvironmentRegistry.retryNow → EnvironmentSupervisor.retryNow → setState, and no request followed. Only another restart fixed it.
That trace matches the supervisor's offline wait. When the platform says the device is offline, the run loop parks a remote environment (T3 Connect relay, SSH, or a paired server) in the offline phase. retryNow wakes it, but the loop reads the same offline report again, sets the offline state again and goes back to waiting. So Reconnect does nothing while the report is wrong. On web and desktop the report is navigator.onLine plus the online/offline events; on mobile it is expo-network.
#29347 already stops this for the primary environment (the server that served the web page, or the desktop app's own backend): an offline report never parks it. Remote environments still park, and Reconnect still does nothing for them on main.
The supervisor already distrusts this report in other places: a connected session that sees "offline" probes instead of tearing down, a session replacement connects past it (replacing), and since #29347 the primary environment ignores it.
Change
An explicit retry now connects the same way a replacement does. The loop keeps the retryNow flag it already consumes, and retryRequested || replacing skips the offline wait. The same value goes to runAttempt, so a session that comes up is kept instead of being dropped at its own offline check.
retryNow sets its flag and then queues a RetryRequested signal. If the loop takes the flag first, for example because another signal woke the offline wait or the backoff delay ran out, that queued signal used to cancel the attempt the retry had just started, and the loop went back to the offline wait. A retry signal now cancels connection setup only while its flag is still pending. This applies to every environment. For remote environments, an offline report that arrives while a retried attempt is still setting up no longer cancels it either; other remote attempts still stop on it, and the primary environment keeps #29347's handling.
Automatic retries do not change. With the network reported offline, the supervisor still waits for an online event, an app wakeup or a retry request. The two other retryNow callers, the server-update resume nudge and a credential refresh, now also make their attempt. If the retried attempt fails, the normal backoff runs and the loop returns to the offline wait, so nothing hammers a host that really is unreachable.
The change is in packages/client-runtime, so web, desktop and mobile all get it.
Relay discovery's own refresh, which also returns early while the report says offline. It does not gate the supervisor's connection; the relay route connects without it.
Choice for maintainers to confirm: an explicit retry makes one real attempt even when the platform says offline, and automatic retries keep trusting the report. This awaits maintainer review.
Verification
New test in supervisor.test.ts, "explicit retry connects while the network still reports offline". It starts a relay entry offline and pauses connection setup. An earlier signal wakes the loop, so the retry's own signal is still queued when the attempt starts. It expects connected with one prepare and no release. It fails (expected 'offline' to be 'connected') against main's supervisor.ts and passes on this branch.
New two-row test, "an offline report during setup ...". Without a retry, an offline report during setup still cancels it before any session opens. After retryNow, the same report no longer cancels the new attempt, and it connects. With main's supervisor.ts the retry row fails.
After merging main: supervisor.test.ts 65 passed (the two retry cases fail with main's supervisor.ts, 63 pass), all 10 files in src/connection 179 passed, and vp run check:changed (format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests) passes. fix(client-runtime): connect to the primary environment while the browser reports offline #29347's primary-environment tests pass unchanged.
All app runs below are on the merged head, and on the same head with only main's supervisor.ts swapped in for the "main" half. Each one pairs a second server ("Test server") as a remote environment.
Web: I forced navigator.onLine to false, fired offline, then restarted only the second server so its socket closed. With main's supervisor.ts, Reconnect sent no request to it in 45 seconds and the banner stayed. On this branch it fetched the descriptor, a WebSocket ticket and the session, and the banner cleared with navigator.onLine still false.
Linux desktop: the same steps in the app window, on an Electron dev build and on locally built AppImages of main (d313b2aff3) and this branch (0f0789afa5). In the AppImage run the offline report was real (the only non-loopback interface was switched off, so navigator.onLine went false on its own). Main sent no request in 45 seconds; this branch reconnected within 5 seconds while still offline.
Android emulator and iOS simulator (debug dev clients): a test-only patch, not in this PR, held expo-network's report at offline from launch while the network stayed up. It fakes the report, not a lost network. Settings › Environments › Test server › Reconnect: main still said "This device is offline" 30 seconds later on both; this branch showed Connected. The Android emulator rendered in software (SwiftShader), so its screenshots show the connection state only, not rendering.
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Windows and macOS desktop, and physical phones.
A real T3 Connect relay environment. The app runs used a paired server on the same supervisor loop; the unit test uses a relay entry.
Unit test on main, then on this branch (before the merge with main):
Web, main, before the click: the paired "Test server" is offline after it restarted, and the banner offers Reconnect. The merged head showed the same banner.
Main, after clicking Reconnect: the banner still says Test server is offline.
This branch (merged with main), after clicking Reconnect: Test server is connected again and the banner is gone.
Linux desktop, main, 45 seconds after clicking Reconnect: still offline.
Linux desktop, this branch, after clicking Reconnect: connected, banner gone.
Android emulator (software-rendered), main, 30 seconds after Reconnect: still "This device is offline".
Android emulator (software-rendered), this branch, after Reconnect: Connected.
iOS simulator, main, 30 seconds after Reconnect: still "This device is offline".
iOS simulator, this branch, after Reconnect: Connected.
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An environment in the offline phase ignored an explicit retry: the loop
saw the offline report again and went back to waiting, so Reconnect sent
no request. The platform's offline report can stay wrong after the
network is back, which left a T3 Connect environment offline until the
app restarted. An explicit retry now attempts a connection the same way
a session replacement already does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This small client-runtime fix makes an explicit Reconnect attempt proceed despite a stale offline status while preserving normal automatic offline waiting and backoff behavior. A focused regression test covers the affected supervisor path.
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The supervisor now carries explicit retry state into connection setup. An explicit retry can proceed while network status is offline, while an ordinary attempt remains subject to offline interruption. Tests cover delayed setup and offline reports.
The connection loop passes retry permission into establishment handling. Tests cover delayed setup and compare offline reports with and without an explicit retry.
pingdotgg/t3code#22024: The issue reports that an immediate retry cannot be triggered while a remote environment reconnects. This change allows an explicit retry to proceed despite offline status.
pingdotgg/t3code#17106: The issue reports that Reconnect does not start an attempt while a remote environment remains offline. This change allows an explicit retry while offline; relay discovery refresh remains outside its scope.
Possibly related PRs
pingdotgg/t3code#30317: This PR adds parallel replacement connections for remote routes. The supervisor change also carries offline bypass permission into replacement attempts.
pingdotgg/t3code#28840: This PR adds a Reconnect action to reconnecting banners. This change updates the supervisor behavior used by an explicit retry.
pingdotgg/t3code#29116: This PR changes supervisor retry state around offline periods and wake events. Both changes affect retry handling during offline conditions.
Suggested reviewers:t3dotgg, maria-rcks
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Reconnect can attempt a remote connection while the device reports offline. The previously identified queued-notification risk is resolved; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.
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- Line 886: Update the retry handling around resetRetryState and RetryRequested
so clearing the flag cannot leave a queued signal to interrupt
waitForEstablishmentInterrupt as a separate request; consume or coalesce the
flag and signal as one retry request. Add a regression test that pauses
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Additional macOS evidence for this offline-state failure, plus a successful recovery after verifying that the entire local T3 process tree had stopped.
Environment: T3 Code Nightly 0.1.5-nightly.20261029.3877, build commit 6d450a428485, macOS Darwin 25.5.0, arm64. Observed October 29, 2026.
While broken:
The local environment and all three remote environments were unavailable in the desktop UI. Connection details reported cause offline, attempt 1, and the remote host was marked Not checked.
In the affected renderer, navigator.onLine returned false. A fetch() from that same renderer to http://127.0.0.1:3773/.well-known/t3/environment returned HTTP 200 with the correct local environment identity.
All eight saved direct remote routes, covering LAN and Tailscale, independently returned HTTP 200 from this Mac. All remote servers reported the same nightly version. Public HTTPS also worked, macOS reported IPv4 reachability, and DevTools network throttling was disabled.
The Providers page was blocked by the disconnected local environment. Independent Claude and Codex CLI login-status checks both succeeded. The bundled t3 doctor --dry-run reported Nothing to repair.
The installed source still uses navigator.onLine in apps/web/src/connection/platform.ts and waits at the offline guard in packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts around line 1019. This matches the mechanism described in this PR.
A full machine reboot and multiple normal app quits/reopens had already been tried without recovery, according to the user. We then performed a controlled shutdown:
Recorded the T3 desktop/backend process tree.
Used the app's Quit menu command. The desktop process exited and port 3773 stopped accepting connections, but the backend remained alive with parent PID 1. Its resource monitor and agent subprocesses also remained.
Sent SIGTERM specifically to that verified leftover T3 backend. It exited, and subsequent checks found zero surviving processes from the original 188-process T3 tree, zero T3 runtime processes, and no listener on port 3773.
Relaunched the same app/version. The new backend started normally. navigator.onLine now returned true. All three remote environments showed Connected (two LAN, one Tailscale), the local environment reconnected, and provider settings loaded again with authenticated providers.
No source patch, database/cache deletion, credential reset, provider change, or network/VPN change was made. No synthetic online event or navigator override was used.
The confirmed observation is that a fully verified process shutdown and fresh launch recovered this macOS instance. It does not establish why Chromium initially reported offline, or prove that the surviving backend caused that flag. The quit behavior may deserve separate investigation. We have not run the proposed PR branch, so this is reproduction and recovery evidence rather than validation of the patch.
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retryNow sets the retry flag, then queues RetryRequested. When the loop
takes the flag first (another signal wakes the offline wait, or a backoff
sleep wins), the queued signal reached waitForEstablishmentInterrupt and
cancelled the attempt the retry had started. The loop came back without
the flag and parked offline again, so the Reconnect click did nothing.
RetryRequested now interrupts establishment only while its flag is still
pending. The explicit-retry test pauses establishment at that boundary.
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Keep a queued offline notification from canceling the retry.
923-923: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Keep a queued offline notification from canceling the retry.
If the network reports offline while retryNow interrupts an existing attempt, NetworkChanged can remain queued for the new attempt. waitForEstablishmentInterrupt then cancels that attempt even though ignoreOffline is true. The loop returns to the offline wait, so one retry request does not connect.
Pass the offline-bypass context to the interrupt waiter and handle the queued notification accordingly.
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Review comment at @packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts at line
923:
Update the retry flow around runAttempt and waitForEstablishmentInterrupt so the
offline-bypass context is passed to the interrupt waiter and a queued
NetworkChanged notification does not cancel an attempt when ignoreOffline is
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When retryNow interrupts a running attempt and the platform then reports
offline, the queued NetworkChanged reached the new attempt's interrupt
waiter and cancelled it, even though that attempt ignores the offline
report. The loop went back to the offline wait, so the retry never
connected.
The interrupt waiter now gets the attempt's offline bypass and ignores an
offline report only when the bypass is on; other attempts still stop on it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
🤖 Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 replying on behalf of Victor.
Re this review: fixed in bd0e3ad. waitForEstablishmentInterrupt now takes the attempt's offline bypass. It ignores an offline NetworkChanged only when the bypass is on, so an explicit retry is no longer cancelled by a queued offline report. Other attempts still stop on it (supervisor.ts:508-522). The table at supervisor.test.ts:365 covers an offline report arriving during setup, with and without a retry.
Main's primary-target handling for offline reports (pingdotgg#29347) and this
branch's explicit-retry bypass now sit together in
waitForEstablishmentInterrupt: a primary attempt keeps main's behavior,
and other targets ignore an offline report only during an explicit retry
or a replacement.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
I merged main into this branch in 0f0789a to clear the conflict in supervisor.ts and its test file with #29347. Since #29347 the primary environment no longer parks on an offline report, so the explicit-retry bypass now matters only for remote environments (relay, SSH, paired servers), where main still parks and Reconnect still does nothing. The fix that stops a retry's own queued signal from cancelling its attempt still applies to every environment. No code was dropped: #29347's primary handling is unchanged, and the offline bypass applies only to the remote branch. Both retry tests still fail with main's supervisor.ts and pass here. I narrowed the description and replaced the before/after captures with runs on a paired remote environment on the merged head.
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Problem
In #17106 a Windows desktop user restarted the app while a phone hotspot was still coming up. Their T3 Connect environment then showed "offline" for 46 minutes while the server was healthy and reachable. Every Reconnect click logged
EnvironmentRegistry.retryNow→EnvironmentSupervisor.retryNow→setState, and no request followed. Only another restart fixed it.That trace matches the supervisor's offline wait. When the platform says the device is offline, the run loop parks a remote environment (T3 Connect relay, SSH, or a paired server) in the
offlinephase.retryNowwakes it, but the loop reads the same offline report again, sets the offline state again and goes back to waiting. So Reconnect does nothing while the report is wrong. On web and desktop the report isnavigator.onLineplus theonline/offlineevents; on mobile it isexpo-network.#29347 already stops this for the primary environment (the server that served the web page, or the desktop app's own backend): an offline report never parks it. Remote environments still park, and Reconnect still does nothing for them on main.
The supervisor already distrusts this report in other places: a connected session that sees "offline" probes instead of tearing down, a session replacement connects past it (
replacing), and since #29347 the primary environment ignores it.Change
An explicit retry now connects the same way a replacement does. The loop keeps the
retryNowflag it already consumes, andretryRequested || replacingskips the offline wait. The same value goes torunAttempt, so a session that comes up is kept instead of being dropped at its own offline check.retryNowsets its flag and then queues aRetryRequestedsignal. If the loop takes the flag first, for example because another signal woke the offline wait or the backoff delay ran out, that queued signal used to cancel the attempt the retry had just started, and the loop went back to the offline wait. A retry signal now cancels connection setup only while its flag is still pending. This applies to every environment. For remote environments, an offline report that arrives while a retried attempt is still setting up no longer cancels it either; other remote attempts still stop on it, and the primary environment keeps #29347's handling.Automatic retries do not change. With the network reported offline, the supervisor still waits for an
onlineevent, an app wakeup or a retry request. The two otherretryNowcallers, the server-update resume nudge and a credential refresh, now also make their attempt. If the retried attempt fails, the normal backoff runs and the loop returns to the offline wait, so nothing hammers a host that really is unreachable.The change is in
packages/client-runtime, so web, desktop and mobile all get it.Scope and approval
Fixes the "Reconnect does nothing" half of #17106 (labelled
bug,needs-triage) for remote environments. GitCafe: https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/17106I left these out to keep one cause per PR:
onlinenever fires. That needs a decision on a periodic or wakeup-driven recheck of the platform report, which is closer to fix(connection): refresh network status after app activation #5597's design.refresh, which also returns early while the report says offline. It does not gate the supervisor's connection; the relay route connects without it.Choice for maintainers to confirm: an explicit retry makes one real attempt even when the platform says offline, and automatic retries keep trusting the report. This awaits maintainer review.
Verification
New test in
supervisor.test.ts, "explicit retry connects while the network still reports offline". It starts a relay entry offline and pauses connection setup. An earlier signal wakes the loop, so the retry's own signal is still queued when the attempt starts. It expectsconnectedwith one prepare and no release. It fails (expected 'offline' to be 'connected') against main'ssupervisor.tsand passes on this branch.New two-row test, "an offline report during setup ...". Without a retry, an offline report during setup still cancels it before any session opens. After
retryNow, the same report no longer cancels the new attempt, and it connects. With main'ssupervisor.tsthe retry row fails.After merging main:
supervisor.test.ts65 passed (the two retry cases fail with main'ssupervisor.ts, 63 pass), all 10 files insrc/connection179 passed, andvp run check:changed(format, lint, knip, typecheck, tests) passes. fix(client-runtime): connect to the primary environment while the browser reports offline #29347's primary-environment tests pass unchanged.All app runs below are on the merged head, and on the same head with only main's
supervisor.tsswapped in for the "main" half. Each one pairs a second server ("Test server") as a remote environment.Web: I forced
navigator.onLinetofalse, firedoffline, then restarted only the second server so its socket closed. With main'ssupervisor.ts, Reconnect sent no request to it in 45 seconds and the banner stayed. On this branch it fetched the descriptor, a WebSocket ticket and the session, and the banner cleared withnavigator.onLinestillfalse.Linux desktop: the same steps in the app window, on an Electron dev build and on locally built AppImages of main (
d313b2aff3) and this branch (0f0789afa5). In the AppImage run the offline report was real (the only non-loopback interface was switched off, sonavigator.onLinewent false on its own). Main sent no request in 45 seconds; this branch reconnected within 5 seconds while still offline.Android emulator and iOS simulator (debug dev clients): a test-only patch, not in this PR, held
expo-network's report at offline from launch while the network stayed up. It fakes the report, not a lost network. Settings › Environments › Test server › Reconnect: main still said "This device is offline" 30 seconds later on both; this branch showed Connected. The Android emulator rendered in software (SwiftShader), so its screenshots show the connection state only, not rendering.Not checked:
Prior PRs
reconnectingstate; this PR is about Reconnect in theofflinestate.availablestate.Unit test on main, then on this branch (before the merge with main):
Web, main, before the click: the paired "Test server" is offline after it restarted, and the banner offers Reconnect. The merged head showed the same banner.
Main, after clicking Reconnect: the banner still says Test server is offline.
This branch (merged with main), after clicking Reconnect: Test server is connected again and the banner is gone.
Linux desktop, main, 45 seconds after clicking Reconnect: still offline.
Linux desktop, this branch, after clicking Reconnect: connected, banner gone.
Android emulator (software-rendered), main, 30 seconds after Reconnect: still "This device is offline".
Android emulator (software-rendered), this branch, after Reconnect: Connected.
iOS simulator, main, 30 seconds after Reconnect: still "This device is offline".
iOS simulator, this branch, after Reconnect: Connected.
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