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jaap-jan 5b2e3f3651 Android: type user@host into the hosts search to open a terminal on a machine without saving it
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The phone's only unsaved way in was the box on the terminal screen, which is drawn only while nothing
is open, so a second machine could not be reached that way while a first one's session was up. The
search well at the top of HOSTS is always there and the design already calls it "Search or
connect...", so it now reads an address the way the desktop palette does: with an @ in it, a NOT
SAVED card above the list offers a password box and CONNECT.

It connects through VaultViewModel.ConnectToEndpointAsync, the same path as the manual box and the
desktop palette, so nothing is written to the keychain. The search box and the password are cleared
once it dials, the password goes whenever the address changes, and an address the manual parser
refuses gets its sentence under the box.

Covered by six new ShellFlowTests cases; manual check 8.20 covers the card on a device.
2026-10-14 17:27:57 +02:00
jaap-jan 5b32c76c95 Android: the redesign — a Vaults tab with hosts, keychain and snippets, card lists, a keychain that can add, and files that act on what is chosen
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The bottom bar is Vaults · Connections · Settings, drawn as Material 3 pills with icons from the embedded
Material font and a count of open sessions on Connections, which replaces the strip of shells above the
bar. Vaults is the open vault: its header carries the name as a switch to the vaults screen, the sync
light and a lock icon, and a Hosts · Keychain · Snippets segmented control sits under it. The keychain
and snippets move there from Settings (IsVaultSurface lights the tab; IsMoreSurface no longer lists
them), and back from either goes to the hosts. Settings becomes an account card and grouped sections:
security, vaults and history, files, this app.

Host rows are cards with a terminal tile and the live dot on its corner. The connect sheet names the
host and its address, labels its box, focuses it as it opens, reveals the password on request, and puts
CANCEL left and CONNECT right; every two-button row on the head now confirms on the right. While a
hosts-screen sheet is up the header and bar are dimmed too and a tap on them lowers it, and the bar
stands down while the software keyboard is up.

The keychain gains a floating + and a sheet of the desktop's five adds (generate a key, paste a key, a
password, a bucket, a tag) over the editors VaultViewModel already had, drawn as a full-screen page with
labels above the boxes; a chosen item gets EDIT and COPY PUBLIC KEY beside MOVE and DELETE. Snippets get
a floating + and cards that say RUNS or INSERTS. Files trade the seven-button block for a selection bar
(save, and a ⋮ sheet with rename, move, permissions and a red delete), folder and file tiles, an upload
button, and header actions for a terminal on the same host, refresh and close; a terminal's + sheet
opens SFTP on that terminal's own host.

The theme takes the audit's visual findings: Fluent's ClipToBounds is cleared on glowing buttons so the
glow is no longer cut to a square (the desktop's Button.accent too), prose is Montserrat with mono kept
for addresses and code, disabled secondary buttons are quieter than enabled ones, Fluent's dropdown,
checkbox, switch, focus and selection brushes come from the palette, touch no longer leaves hover fills
behind, and lists, nav entries and icon buttons carry names for TalkBack.

Builds clean; checked on the emulator end to end: unlock, the three vault views, adding and deleting a
password, connecting through the new sheet, files on the terminal's host with the selection bar and
its sheet. App tests 727 of 733 pass with 5 skipped; the one failure, TheCountsAPhoneShows_
FollowEveryForwardsState, passes three runs of three alone and is untouched here. Layout tests pass.
2026-10-04 15:50:09 +02:00
jaap-jan 367cebae9b Android: a customisable key bar, a quick-access keyboard, a long-press cursor gesture, and a side panel on tablets
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The key bar above the software keyboard is now the user's own: which keys, in what order, up to sixteen
in two rows that never scroll. Ctrl and Alt latch across the bar and the phone's keyboard, and Ctrl or Alt
with a cursor key sends the modified CSI form. Seven predefined groups (essentials, cursor, control,
symbols, tmux, vim, function) and keys of one's own, written in \e / ^C notation, are arranged on a
customise sheet that saves as it goes.

A grid button swaps the software keyboard for a quick-access keyboard of the same height, with KEYS,
SNIPPETS, HISTORY and APPEARANCE tabs; it reopens to the tab last used. Snippets go through the shell's
existing InsertSnippet. History keeps a typed command only once the remote has echoed it, so nothing
typed at a password prompt is ever recorded; it is memory-only and LOCK clears it. Each session pump now
keeps its last kilobyte of output and the alternate-screen state for that test (OutputTail).

Long-press and drag on the terminal sends arrow keys, as a joystick with three speeds by distance;
scrolling is unchanged and there is no mode switch. It takes the touch before Chromium's own long press,
so a held finger no longer pastes; paste is on the bar by default instead. A switch in APPEARANCE turns
the gesture off. The text-size buttons moved from the bar to APPEARANCE.

On wide screens the same tabs open as a side panel beside the terminal, toggled from the top bar, with
the bar's own keys repeated at the top of KEYS while the bar stands down.

The model, gesture arithmetic, echo reading and history are in DodoSSH.Client.Shell and covered by
TerminalKeyboardTests and OutputTailTests. Builds clean; not yet exercised on a device, because the
emulator's install is locked behind a passphrase that was not recorded.
2026-10-03 14:29:22 +02:00
jaap-jan b08f2c58e3 Fill in the Spelunk API key on the Security page, as a synced Spelunk key that goes only to its own address
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Settings → Security gains a SPELUNK section: an API address and a key, saved as a new keychain item, a Spelunk key (SyncEntityType 14, AadResourceType 17, server table spelunk_key via the AddSpelunkKeyItem migration). It is ciphertext only on the server, lives in the personal vault, syncs like every secret, and holds the key together with the one address it may be sent to. The key box empties once saved; the list shows name, address and how many hosts use each key, never the key. Saving a key for an address that already has one replaces it, and deleting goes through the shared confirmation card with the hosts that would stop connecting.

A host's route names a saved key where it named a credential, in the same apiKeyCredentialId field, so no host schema changes and an older build reads such a host as one whose key credential has gone. At connect a saved key is sent only to its own address; a host naming it with another Spelunk address is refused in words. Keys kept as a credential's password still work. The editor offers saved keys first and picks the one saved for an address as it is typed.

A link from a Spelunk with a saved key now connects straight away, including the first one: saving the key is the user's say-so that the first-link editor used to ask for.

The address and key merge as one pair, so two concurrent edits can never pair one device's key with another's address, and the key never reaches the conflict log.
2026-09-29 10:34:38 +02:00
jaap-jan 38ab9b431b Sign in to Spelunk servers through Spelunk, and connect straight away from a Spelunk link
A Spelunk route can now say that Spelunk signs the user in. Each connection makes a throwaway Ed25519 key pair in memory, sends the public half with the ticket request ({"signIn":{"publicKey":...}}), and logs in as the account Spelunk names (root when it names none) with that key, over the agent's one-connection sshd. Such a host needs no username, key, credential or typed password: the editor greys the login out and saves none, the password box and sheet stay down, and shells, file transfer and port forwards all take the key and account from the route. The flag is nested in the spelunk object at host schema version 10; hosts without it keep their version-9 bytes.

A dodossh://spelunk/connect link now connects: to the personal vault's host tagged spelunk for that server, or, when a saved host already sends an API key to that Spelunk, to a new sign-in host saved in the personal vault with that key and the spelunk tag (made if missing). Only the first link from a Spelunk opens the editor, pre-filled with sign-in ticked and the tag on, so the key credential is chosen once and never sent to an address no saved host already sends it to.
2026-09-28 22:53:51 +02:00
jaap-jan 689ba6c1bf Merge origin/main into claude/spelunk-tunnel
Port forwarding took host schema version 8 first, so the Spelunk route moves to 9 and is written after the forwards. A host may carry both.
2026-09-28 21:38:09 +02:00
jaap-jan 6e39807cc0 Reach a Spelunk-managed server through Spelunk, and open one from a Spelunk link
A server Spelunk manages runs Spelunk's agent, which keeps a connection open
to Spelunk. A host can now be marked "Connect through Spelunk": a connect
asks Spelunk for a ticket, opens a WebSocket, and the agent connects to the
SSH server on the machine's own loopback, so the server needs no open SSH
port. Shells and file transfers both go this way.

Client, in Client.Session:

- SpelunkTunnel implements Spelunk's contract: POST
  {api}/api/servers/{id}/tunnel-tickets with the API key as a bearer token
  and {"port":N}, then a WebSocket to the API's own origin at the path
  Spelunk returns, offering spelunk.tunnel.v1 and ticket.<ticket>. After the
  upgrade the relay's RelayBridge carries the bytes unchanged. Every refusal
  is a sentence: 401 key, 403 role (with Spelunk's detail), 404 server, 503
  agent not connected, 401/503 on the upgrade, and close codes 4502 (agent
  could not reach the port, or is too old: "Unknown stream kind") and 4503
  (agent disconnected). Only a path is taken from the ticket response, so it
  cannot send the ticket to another host.
- IConnectionRoute is what RelayRoute and SpelunkTunnelRoute have in common,
  so the connect path has one shape for both.

Host model: HostSecret.Spelunk is a SpelunkRoute (normalised API base,
server id, and the id of the credential holding the API key), at payload
schema version 8. It is written last and only when present, so every other
host keeps its bytes and its version; an older build reads a Spelunk host
as read-only rather than dropping the route. A half-written route makes the
item unreadable instead of dialled. It merges as one value and is exclusive
with RelayEnabled. The API address must be https, or http to loopback.

The API key is an ordinary keychain credential whose password is the key,
referenced by id, so it is encrypted, synced, merged and rotated like every
other secret, one credential serves every server in the organisation, and
the used-by list and deletion warning count it.

Routing: OpenRouteAsync is the one decision for both transports. A Spelunk
host is never dialled directly, never probed after a failure, and a route
that hung up with a reason replaces SSH.NET's transport error.

UI: a "Connect through Spelunk" card beside the relay card in the desktop
drawer and the phone's editor; ticking one unticks the other.

dodossh://spelunk/connect?api=&server=&name=&host= links:

- SpelunkLink parses them strictly and never reads a credential from one.
- Program reads a link from the arguments; a launch that finds DodoSSH
  running passes it down the doorbell as "dodossh.open-link <link>", which
  the running instance parses again, bounded, and otherwise ignores whole.
  The plain come-forward ring is unchanged.
- A saved host routed to that server on that Spelunk is connected to;
  otherwise the editor opens on a new, unsaved Spelunk host, with the key
  pre-chosen only when another host already sends it to that Spelunk. A link
  that arrives while locked waits for the unlock.
- Windows registers the scheme under HKCU from Velopack's install and update
  hooks and removes it on uninstall only if it still points at this
  executable; the macOS plist template declares CFBundleURLTypes and the app
  takes the URL from Avalonia's activation event; the Linux desktop entry
  gets %u and MimeType=x-scheme-handler/dodossh.
2026-09-28 21:25:04 +02:00
jaap-jan c3dfa42108 Start port forwards on the phone, listed in a sheet off its terminal
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The Android head skipped a host's forwards because it had nowhere to show
what was listening. Its terminal bar now draws a ⇄ for a tab that has
forwards, carrying the listening count in green and turning the danger
colour when one failed, and it raises a sheet over the same rows the
desktop sidebar lists: notation, route, state, failure reason and a tap
to switch each off or on. MainWindowViewModel.StartForwards no longer
returns early on Android.

The sheet is shell state like the connect sheet: it collapses the
renderer while up, is lowered by leaving the terminal, and the back
gesture closes it first.

Forwards ride the shell's keep-alive rather than holding the foreground
service themselves, since a forward cannot outlive its shell. They only
change the notification, which now counts ports forwarded beside shells
connected, fed by a new ForwardsChanged event and ListeningForwardCount.

The phone still has no editor for forwards; the More screen card, README
and design-import-gaps now say they run here and are edited on the
desktop.
2026-09-28 21:06:05 +02:00
jaap-jan f05deb4fbc Add port forwarding: local, remote and dynamic, per terminal session
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A host can now carry port forwards (-L, -R, -D), saved inside its
encrypted payload as RelayTicketRequest.PortForwardId already assumed,
so they sync and merge per forward like tags and pinned paths. The host
schema moves to version 8 only for hosts that carry forwards.

ISshConnection gains StartForwardAsync over SSH.NET's forwarded ports.
Every listener binds loopback and there is no bind-address field: a
forward is something any member of a shared keychain can edit. A remote
forward's target is resolved here, IPv4 first, rather than by SSH.NET's
constructor, which takes the first DNS answer and can send ::1.

Forwards start with every terminal opened to the host and stop with its
connection; a reconnect starts them again. The session sidebar lists
them with state, failure reason and an on/off switch, the status bar
counts the listening ones, and the host editor and detail pane gain a
PORT FORWARDS section. A forward that cannot start fails alone.

The phone does not start forwards yet: it has no surface showing what
is listening, and its More screen now says so. No byte counts, since
SSH.NET keeps none.
2026-09-28 20:47:02 +02:00
jaap-jan b20f7cae04 Let a host marked for the relay actually be reached through it
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The relay checkbox said it was not wired up, and the plan said the server
half was built and shipped. It was not: there was ADR 0004, the contract
records, RelayOptions and a CHECK constraint, and RelayOptions said in its
own remarks that there was no endpoint and no dialler. So both halves are
built here, as step 3 of docs/reaching-a-host-you-cannot-dial.md.

Server, in Features/Relay:

- POST /api/v1/relay/tickets makes every decision: the host, Connect on
  its vault, the relay switched on, and the stored name resolved once and
  judged by RelayAddressPolicy. Loopback, link-local, 0.0.0.0/8,
  multicast and the metadata endpoints are refused with no configuration
  escape, with IPv4-mapped and NAT64 spellings unwrapped first; then the
  operator's denials, allow-list and private-network switch. What passes
  goes into a Data Protection ticket, and nothing resolves the name again.
  Every target refusal is the same 403, so the endpoint cannot be used to
  map the operator's DNS; the real reason is logged.
- GET /api/v1/relay/connect takes the ticket as a second subprotocol,
  checks its expiry against TimeProvider and spends it with a unique
  insert into relay_ticket_use before accepting the upgrade. After the
  upgrade a refusal is a close code: 4502 for a host the server could not
  reach, 4429 for a limit, 4408 idle, 4409 lifetime, 1001 after a drain.
- relay_session is the audit row, written from short-lived scopes.

Client:

- RelayBridge is a loopback SOCKS5 listener that accepts once and pipes
  to the relay socket. It rides on the new SshLoopbackProxy.Lifetime, so
  the connection disposes it on every way a session ends and a failed
  connect disposes it before throwing.
- ServerRelay, exposed as IVaultServer.Relay from /api/v1/meta, asks for
  the ticket, opens the socket, starts the bridge and turns every refusal
  into a sentence.
- VaultViewModel and TransfersViewModel reach a relayed host through it,
  never fall back to dialling it directly, and replace SSH.NET's transport
  error with the relay's own reason when it gave one.

Neither side ever cancels a WebSocket operation. Cancelling one aborts
the socket, and an aborted socket sends no close frame, which is the only
way the client learns the server could not reach the host.
AnIdleSession_IsClosedWithTheIdleCode asserts that the code arrives.

Three departures from ADR 0004, recorded in it: awaited copy loops rather
than Pipelines (same backpressure, two 32 KiB buffers), no ?ticket=
fallback, and no device id in the ticket.

Tests: API 245, shell 582 (5 skipped), layout 170, SSH 110 including a
real login through the bridge, API client 30, contracts 25. Not run: the
Android build (its change is copy only) and the Alpine layout oracle.
2026-09-28 14:37:20 +02:00
jaap-jan aff776cb42 Rebuild the terminal's keypad, and fix what a device run showed
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Six defects, all found by running this head on an emulator against a local API rather than by reading it.
They are in one commit because two of the files carry several of them and splitting those would mean
hand-editing patches; each is argued at its own site.

── the keypad, which is most of this ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
It was eleven 30-by-44 keys in a horizontal ScrollViewer, and it was wrong twice over. A pan and a press
begin with the same few pixels of travel, so a thumb coming down at an angle — which is how a thumb comes
down — was read as the start of a pan and the press was never delivered; the row slid slightly instead.
And 30 tall is well under the 48 Android asks for, so the presses that did arrive were hard to aim. The
arrows, the keys pressed most and in sequence, were the ones parked past the right-hand edge.

Termux, Termius, JuiceSSH, ConnectBot and Blink all ship this row and not one of them scrolls it: they
divide the width evenly and add a second row when the set does not fit. That is not convention for its own
sake — a key whose position is fixed can be hit without looking, which is the whole point of a modifier row
used while reading the output above it.

So: two UniformGrid rows, every key an equal share of the width, nothing scrollable, 40 tall. Every key
kept. Arrows on the lower row where the thumb rests, reordered to ← ↓ ↑ → so the pairs that undo each other
are neighbours. It costs about 51 pixels of terminal, four or five lines, and that is the right trade: the
row that was cheaper did not work.

The keys also gain a pressed state, which they had none of. They are Focusable="False" so that using one
does not take the keyboard off the terminal, and a button that never takes focus never shows the adorner
Fluent would otherwise give it — leaving no feedback at all on a control whose only job is to be pressed.
Their looks move from assignments in the code-behind to Button.hotkey, which is what lets a style say
:pressed, and the Ctrl latch becomes a class rather than two brushes written by hand.

── and five smaller ones ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
The keyboard's inset was never cleared when the app was resumed without the keyboard it was applied for.
Android takes the keyboard away as the activity stops and Avalonia's input pane raises no StateChanged,
the pane going with the window rather than closing in front of one — so the interface came back holding a
whole keyboard's height of empty canvas. 838 of 2340 pixels on a Pixel 5, on every screen, until something
opened and closed the keyboard. MainActivity now raises PhoneEnvironment.Resumed and PhoneShell re-asks the
pane. It asks rather than assuming zero: a permission prompt or the biometric sheet can hand the activity
back with the keyboard genuinely still up, and flattening the inset there would strand the focused box
under a real one.

TextBlock.detail never wrapped, where .body beside it always has. A block that neither wraps nor trims lays
out at its full single-line width and the parent clips it, with no ellipsis to say anything is missing — so
the add sheet read "A machine to connect to, filed under a group if you" and stopped. Which of the fifty-odd
.detail blocks overflows is a function of width and font scale rather than of the string, so this is a style
rather than an attribute on the handful visibly wrong on one phone. The nine that genuinely want one line
now say NoWrap beside their TextTrimming, which is the pairing that was always meant.

The two port boxes are NumericUpDowns and were the only unthemed controls on this head — Fluent's border and
fill, next to a TextBox.field sharing their row. App.axaml has styled NumericUpDown for the desktop all
along; this head never had one.

Three buttons classed "icon accent" were painting Fluent's own Button.accent, #6275AC, a blue in no palette
here. The desktop overrides that style and this head did not, so the same class read correctly there and not
here.

The host key sheet said "First contact with 10.0.2.2 · 2222 . Nothing in this keychain…" — Avalonia puts a
space between adjacent Runs and the last one began with the full stop. A gap before a full stop, on the one
dialogue whose whole job is to be read carefully before it is answered.

── checks ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
manual-checks gains 10.4a and 11.10f. 10.4 already covered dismissing the keyboard with back or the
chevron but not leaving the app with it up, which is the path the inset bug shipped through; 10.4a covers
both directions, since a fix that flattened the inset on every resume would pass one half and fail the
other. 11.10f guards the keypad against a ScrollViewer being put back around it.
2026-08-26 13:28:59 +02:00
jaap-janandClaude Opus 5 c270f3fe39 Import a Hetzner Cloud project's servers, and forget the token that read it
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An estate on Hetzner is already described somewhere: the project lists every
server, its addresses, its plan and where it runs. Getting that into a keychain
meant copying forty addresses out of a browser by hand, which is the same work
the ssh_config importer exists to remove for the machines described in a file.

◆ A WIZARD RATHER THAN A SCREEN, AND THE DIFFERENCE IS WHAT EACH STEP COSTS.

ImportScreen reads a file that is already on this machine, so it scans on open
and shows a list. This cannot: it needs a credential that has to be made in
another company's console first, and then it makes a request over the internet.
Those are two moments rather than one, and a screen that mixed the token box in
with the list would ask for the credential again every time somebody came back
to look at the list.

So three steps — token, choose, done — and the first two write nothing. Step two
carries one address choice, one login user and one port for the whole import,
because an estate is reached the same way throughout and a per-server dropdown
would be forty answers to one question.

◆ THE TOKEN IS USED ONCE AND CLEARED, INCLUDING WHEN IT WORKED.

The half worth stating is the success path. Clearing only on failure would leave
a credential capable of listing somebody's whole estate sitting in a text box for
as long as they spend reading forty rows, which is the longest anybody stands on
this screen. Nothing writes it to the vault, to settings or to a log, and
reopening the wizard restarts at step one rather than resuming — a resumed step
two would be a list nothing on screen has the means to refresh, going on looking
current for as long as the application stays open.

Read is the only permission it needs and the note above the box says so: a
Read & Write token would work identically here and would be a credential capable
of deleting the estate, pasted in for no gain. The note also says a token belongs
to one project — there is no API call that will say which, and none that lists
the others — so an account with four projects runs this four times. Without that
sentence the wizard looks like it lost most of the estate.

◆ THE ADDRESS IS A CHOICE, AND TWO OF THE THREE FALL BACK WHERE THE THIRD MUST NOT.

Public IPv4 and public IPv6 fall back to each other: the same machine over the
same internet, so the worst case is a route nobody picked, and the row says which.
Private does not fall back at all. A server on no private network is simply not
importable under that choice — its tickbox is disabled, and neither direction of
the header's tick-all can reach it — because falling back would put an address on
the open internet into a bookmark that was asked to stay off it.

IPv6 needs saying twice over. Hetzner routes a whole /64 and the API reports the
network, which nothing can dial; the address a stock image answers on is the
first one in it. That is a convention of Hetzner's own images rather than a fact
the API stated, so every use of it carries a warning on the row and in the stored
note, and it is computed by setting the low byte rather than by string surgery on
the prefix. It is not an edge case either — IPv4 is billed separately now and a
project built since then can be entirely IPv6-only.

◆ NOTHING IMPORTED HERE AUTHENTICATES, AND THAT IS SAID BEFORE THE BUTTON.

Hetzner has never held the private half of an SSH key. The API will name a
project's keys and hand over their public halves; there is no private half to
bring. So every host arrives bound to nothing and asks for a password until
somebody points it at a key already in the keychain — the same shape an
ssh_config import has with its key tick off, and stated above the button on the
same reasoning: somebody who is not told will conclude the import was broken.

What the note keeps is what does not go stale — the id, the plan, the location,
the image, the labels. The power state is a column and never a note: "running"
about a machine somebody switched off last March is worse than no note.

◆ WHERE IT LIVES: TWO FLAGS OVER ONE CONTENT COLUMN.

Drawn over the Preferences page inside settings mode exactly as ImportScreen is,
with SettingsNav unmoved and the titlebar offering "Back to preferences".
IsHetznerImportOpen is a second flag rather than a "which importer" enum, because
they are two independent facts about the content column and a single value would
need a "neither" member IsImportOpen already expresses; what keeps them from both
being true is that every path that opens one closes the other. The titlebar and
the Preferences page ask IsImporterOpen, which is written against both.

Preferences grows a second importer row beside the first rather than one row that
asks "from where?", which would put a question in front of the far more common
answer.

◆ WHAT IS NOT HERE.

Hetzner's Robot — dedicated servers and Storage Boxes — is a different API behind
a different credential, and nothing in this touches it. Said on the Preferences
row and on the token step rather than left to be discovered by an account that
has both.

And there is no phone layout. This one would work on Android, unlike the
ssh_config importer beside it: it is a token and a network request, the view
model is shared already, and scoped storage has nothing to do with it. What is
missing is a screen — the desktop draws a five-column table, and the phone
version of that is a different layout rather than the same one narrower. Recorded
in android-port.md and on the phone's own Preferences screen, because the note
there previously read as though no import of any kind could work.

◆ TESTS, AND WHAT IS LEFT FOR A PERSON.

HetznerCloudClientTests is 16 cases over the shapes the API actually returns,
against a stubbed HttpMessageHandler: paging followed, the token in a header and
never a query string, a refused token distinguished from a fault at Hetzner's
end, a token with a line break refused before anything is sent, the /64, the
private-network asymmetry, and a server the API described without a name.

ShellFlowTests.Hetzner.cs is 11 more against this fixture's real vault, real
cache and real server — split into a file of its own, as FakeVaultServer keeps
its team endpoints. What they establish beyond the reader's own suite is the half
it cannot reach: that reading stores nothing, that importing goes through the
ordinary create-and-push path and lands on the server with nothing pressing Sync,
that a server the keychain already has arrives unticked, and that the token does
not outlive the request.

Two layout cases measure both steps against the same content budget every other
settings page gets, which is also what proves the markup binds to names that
exist.

Manual checks 2.11a–2.11d are what no test in this repository can do, because
there is no account, no token and no network in the ordinary suite: a real
project listed against the real console, a wrong token, the private choice, and
what an imported host does when you connect to it.

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Selecting output and right-clicking it opened the WebView's own context menu with
Copy on it, which is correct behaviour for a web page and wrong for a terminal.
What a terminal's right button has meant since the Windows console got QuickEdit,
and since PuTTY shipped, is this: with something selected it copies and drops the
selection, with nothing selected it pastes. No menu, no second click.

The gesture can only live in the page. The selection is drawn into a canvas the
host never sees, and once a terminal has focus the host's window receives no input
events at all — the same reason the Ctrl+plus chords are handled there.

◆ THE CLIPBOARD IS THE HOST'S IN BOTH DIRECTIONS, AND THE READING IS WHY.

navigator.clipboard.readText() is gated behind the clipboard-read permission in
every Chromium, and an embedded WebView with no PermissionRequested handler
answers a permission request by putting a prompt on the screen. Trading a context
menu for a permission dialog is not this change. So the page asks and the host
answers, exactly as requestFontSizeStep does.

Writing does not go the other way either, although navigator.clipboard.writeText
would have worked from the page on Windows: a clipboard that is the host's in one
direction and the page's in the other is two mechanisms to keep working across
WebView2, WebKitGTK and Android's WebView. The host has owned a clipboard delegate
since the keychain grew its COPY buttons, so each App.axaml.cs grows a
ClipboardReader beside its ClipboardWriter and MainWindowViewModel takes it.

Three opcodes: client ClipboardCopy and ClipboardPaste, server Clipboard.

◆ Clipboard IS NOT Paste, AND THE DIFFERENCE IS THE BRACKETING.

Paste carries a snippet off the sidebar, and the page deliberately *types* a
single-line one rather than bracketing it, because bash marks a bracketed paste as
an active region and a snippet should read as though it had been typed. A clipboard
paste is the case those markers are for — readline uses them to decide it has been
pasted into — so Clipboard is always bracketed and never followed by an Enter. One
opcode for both would have needed a flag meaning "which of the two kinds of paste
is this", on a payload whose existing flag byte means something else.

Both client frames are dispatched before the session lookup, which is what keeps
the gesture working in a pane whose shell has just ended: squinting at the message
a remote left behind is exactly when somebody copies the line. Dispatch was past
MA0051's length once it grew a second such branch, so the frames no pump needs to
see moved into Announce() and the font-size chord went with them.

◆ CAPTURED AND STOPPED, RATHER THAN MERELY PREVENTED.

preventDefault alone suppresses the menu and still lets xterm's own contextmenu
handler run, which moves its helper textarea under the pointer at z-index 1000 and
leaves the selection sitting in it, selected. Both of those exist to serve the
native menu. Taking the event in the capture phase on the pane and stopping it
there is what keeps the gesture wholly the page's.

rightClickSelectsWord is now false, which on macOS is a change of default rather
than a restatement of it: xterm sets it true there alone, so a right-click would
have selected the word under the pointer and copied that instead of pasting —
wrong on one platform only, which is the worst way for it to be wrong.

The renderer harness grows the pane it has been inviting since
RendererReconnectionTests: a fake Terminal, the two addons, and a real UTF-8 codec,
because both directions run through the page's own TextEncoder and TextDecoder and
a Latin-1 stub would pass a test with an em dash in the selection. Its warning
about declaring names terminal.js declares now covers the half that does not
SyntaxError — a harness frame() was silently replaced by the page's frame() and
failed six tests on a type error a long way from the cause.

Manual checks 1.11 and 11.13 are what is left for a person: that a real contextmenu
event reaches a capture listener, that no native menu is drawn once it is
prevented, and that xterm's real paste() brackets. 11.13 also records what is
unverified — whether Android's WebView delivers a pointer's secondary click as a
contextmenu event at all. ClipboardReader is wired on that head regardless,
because the alternative is a head where the paste half silently does nothing and
nobody finds out; that head is not compiled here either, this machine having no
android workload.

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The first device run of ADR 0015 found the premise held and the field misconfigured
in a second way: the suggestion strip, autocorrect and predictive text were all
gone, and every Enter closed the keyboard. On a terminal that is every command, so
the phone asked for a tap between each one.

TerminalInputSurface had been left with Avalonia's default ReturnKeyType, and the
same OnCreateInputConnection that carries the inputType fix maps that default, on a
field that is not Multiline, to IME_ACTION_DONE:

    _ => options.Multiline ? 1073741824 : 6,   // 6 is IME_ACTION_DONE

Done means done. The keyboard performs the action and dismisses itself, which is
right for the text box the default was written for and wrong for a surface where
Enter is punctuation rather than submission.

TextInputReturnKeyType.Return is the member that maps to IME_ACTION_NONE — value 1,
so `returnKeyType - 1 => 0 => 1073741824` — leaving Enter a plain newline with no
action attached and no reason for the IME to hide.

◆ THE TRAP, WHICH IS THE ONE 11.10b ALREADY WARNED ABOUT FROM THE OTHER SIDE.

Multiline=true also reaches IME_ACTION_NONE, through that same default arm, and is
the obvious fix and the wrong one. It ORs TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_MULTI_LINE into InputType,
which moves it off 1 and silently fails the ShowSuggestions guard the whole ADR
turns on. Taking the obvious route to a working Enter would have handed the
suggestion strip back and looked like the premise had failed rather than like the
fix had. ReturnKeyType touches imeOptions only, which is why it is what is set.

Enter's byte was never the problem and is not what changed: IME_ACTION_DONE was
already synthesising KEYCODE_ENTER through AvaloniaInputConnection.PerformEditorAction,
so commands did run — the keyboard just left afterwards.

OnTextInput now also normalises line endings to CR. Belt and braces for the case
this change makes newly possible: a keyboard with no editor action attached may
commit "\n" as ordinary text rather than sending KEYCODE_ENTER, and a shell handed
LF for Enter looks like a shell that ignored the key. Normalising rather than
special-casing also stops a pasted "\r\n" running its line twice.

Check 11.10e is the regression test, and says in as many words not to fix a
recurrence with Multiline.

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Typing into a shell on the phone has been the worst thing about this head, and
the reason is not the renderer. It is that the keyboard over the terminal was
configured by Chromium rather than by us: a prose keyboard, with a suggestion
strip, autocorrect, autocapitalisation and a predictive layer that inserts text
ahead of the cursor — over a surface where every character is a command.

The obvious fix does not exist. xterm.js already sets every hint the web
platform has on its helper textarea — autocorrect, autocapitalize and
spellcheck are all off in the vendored bundle — and Android ignores all three,
because they are advisory. What actually silences a keyboard on this platform
is an inputType carrying TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD, which is what
Termux's own TerminalView sets and the reason typing in Termux feels like a
terminal. A page inside a WebView cannot reach that field: Chromium derives the
whole EditorInfo from the focused DOM node, and no attribute produces the
visible-password variation.

Avalonia can reach it, on the version already pinned here. Decompiled from
Avalonia.Android 12.1.1, AndroidInputMethod.OnCreateInputConnection:

    if ((int)outAttrs.InputType == 1 && options.ShowSuggestions == false)
        outAttrs.InputType = (InputTypes)(outAttrs.InputType | 0x80080);

0x80080 is VISIBLE_PASSWORD | NO_SUGGESTIONS — Termux's pair exactly. So the
keyboard behaviour wanted is one attached property away from any Avalonia
control, and permanently out of reach of the WebView. That asymmetry is the
whole decision; ADR 0015 records it, along with the two stages deliberately not
taken and what would falsify the premise.

◆ THE INPUT PATH LEAVES THE WEBVIEW. THE RENDERER DOES NOT MOVE.

TerminalInputSurface is a 1x1 focusable control that draws nothing and is where
every character typed into a shell now arrives. It is not stretched over the
renderer, which would be the obvious shape and is wrong three times over: the
WebView composites above everything Avalonia paints so it would be invisible,
it would never see the touches the WebView consumes first, and it would sit
over the connect page sharing that Panel whenever no session is open. Focus
does not need area.

Its IME client retains nothing and claims nothing — no surrounding text, no
preedit — because a terminal has no document for an input method to edit. The
line being edited is on the far side of an SSH channel and this client has
never been told what is on it.

◆ THE FOCUS FIGHT ENDS BY REMOVING A CONTESTANT.

TerminalFocus is deleted rather than amended. It existed to hand Android's own
view focus back to the WebView after AvaloniaView.DispatchTouchEvent took it at
both ends of every touch, and it was correct for as long as the input
connection belonged to the page. It no longer does, so the focus the platform
hands to Avalonia's view is now the focus the keyboard wants. The accessory
row's two posted counter-moves go with it; the keys stay Focusable=false, which
is now what keeps Avalonia's focus on the input surface.

RendererFocus replaces it with the opposite move: the WebView is made
non-focusable, so it cannot take an input connection and Chromium's own
showSoftInput cannot succeed from it. Non-focusable is not non-interactive —
focusability governs keyboard input, not touch delivery — so the page keeps its
pan-y scrollback untouched. What it can no longer do is raise a keyboard, so
taps on it are observed with Handled=false throughout and reported, filtered by
the platform's own ScaledTouchSlop. Without that filter, dragging the
scrollback would raise the keyboard over the output being scrolled to.

◆ TWO THINGS FOUND ON THE WAY, ONE OF THEM OLD.

The Ctrl latch never worked with the software keyboard. Not a regression and
not new — everything typed went straight into the page and never passed
SendAsync, which is where the latch lives, so `ctrl` then `c` was inert unless
the second key also came from the accessory row. Routing input through Avalonia
fixes it as a side effect, and check 11.10d exists to keep it fixed.

Avalonia raises a text-input event for any key whose UnicodeChar is 32 or
above, whether or not the key event was handled — it reads the handled flag
only to fold into its own return value. Ctrl-C on a hardware keyboard therefore
produced 0x03 and then a literal c. controlByteAlreadySent swallows the second.
The keys in TryTranslate need no such guard, their UnicodeChars being below 32.

One deliberate loss, in the open: Delete sends backspace. Avalonia turns an
IME's deleteSurroundingText into a dispatched KEYCODE_FORWARD_DEL, so a soft
keyboard taking that route is indistinguishable here from a real Delete key —
and a backspace that deletes forwards on every phone is worse than a missing
forward-delete on the few devices that have one.

Nothing here is verifiable without a device, so the checks are written rather
than the tests: 11.10b is the falsification test and should be run first,
because everything staged on this stands or falls on whether one attached
property actually silences a real keyboard.

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The commit before this one taught a terminal to notice its machine going away.
The file browser had the same defect and three of the same symptoms, and it is
also the screen people leave soonest — so the disconnect work and four things it
was missing arrive together, because they are the same complaint: this screen
knows less about the host than the host does.

◆ THE DISCONNECT HALF, WHICH IS THE OTHER SURFACE OF THE LAST COMMIT.

IsConnected was set at connect and cleared only by the DISCONNECT button. A host
that went away therefore left this screen saying CONNECTED over a session that
was gone, and every action after it failing with the same server message and
nothing saying why they all did.

IRemoteFileStore now carries a latched TransportFailure and a ConnectionLost
event. The latch is the shell's own — read ISshShellSession.TransportFailure for
the argument, which is unchanged. The event is not, and it is the part this
surface needs: a file browser is idle between operations, so without something
raised at the moment the transport fails, nobody finds out until they click. A
bucket implements both and raises neither, which is honest rather than a gap:
S3 is request-per-operation with no connection to lose.

  - THE LISTING STAYS ON SCREEN, and that is the half that makes the rest worth
    having. SftpEntry is a record of what the server said rather than a handle,
    so the pane can go on showing where the user was — which is what RECONNECT
    is offering to put them back into. That needed a new ShowsRemoteContents on
    both heads: every "is there anything here" binding read IsConnected, which
    was right while the only way to stop being connected was to press a button
    that empties the pane, and wrong the moment a session could be lost.

  - RECONNECT re-dials through the ordinary connect path — same host key gate,
    same refusals, same log entry — and then walks back to the directory the
    pane was showing. The path is read off RemotePath rather than captured,
    because the pane already keeps it up to date and a copy is a second thing to
    get wrong. A host wanting a typed password is asked for one rather than
    dialled with an empty box.

  - SessionEndedBar is now one control on both surfaces, with the shell
    resolving which it is drawn over: a terminal has two endings to tell apart
    and a keychain entry to check, a file session has one ending and already
    captured what it would dial. The phone's Files screen has its own copy,
    bound to TransfersViewModel directly, because its DataContext is that rather
    than the shell.

◆ PERMISSIONS: THE PERMS COLUMN STOPS BEING READ-ONLY.

It has been a true fact about a file with nothing to be done about it since it
arrived, and the commonest next act after using this screen was opening a
terminal — a whole second authenticated connection — to chmod what had just been
uploaded.

Nine checkboxes rather than a box to type 755 into, because the mode is already
drawn as -rwxr-xr-x in the column the form was opened from: a who-can-do-what
grid is the same representation the reader is holding, where an octal field asks
them to translate something they can see into something they cannot check. The
octal is printed underneath as it changes, so the two readings check each other.
The EXEC column is headed "enter" over a directory, which is what that bit means
there and the commonest misreading of a POSIX mode. The listing is re-read after
APPLY, because a umask, an ACL or a filesystem mounted without permissions can
all land somewhere other than what was asked for.

Beside it, mode and mtime carried across a transfer — which is what makes an
uploaded deploy.sh arrive executable instead of with the server's umask on it.
THE MODE IS ONLY SENT FROM A PLATFORM THAT HAS ONE. A file on Windows has no
POSIX mode; this screen already says so by leaving the local pane's PERMS column
empty rather than filling it with a plausible -rw-r--r--, and inventing 0644, or
0755 for anything called .sh, would be this client deciding a fact about
somebody's file that nothing on the machine it came from ever said. The
timestamp goes either way, because every platform has one. A store with neither
refuses in its own words and is never asked.

◆ MULTI-SELECT: A TICK IS NOT THE LIST'S SELECTION.

The two answer different questions and the split is the whole design. The
selection is "the row I am looking at", which rename, move and permissions act
on — each takes a form naming one path and is one-at-a-time by construction. The
tick is "the rows I have gathered up", which download, upload and delete take,
and it survives the highlight moving.

With nothing ticked the batch falls back to the selection, which is what keeps
the commonest use of this screen from growing a step — the usual way a
multi-select makes a tool worse. Ticks are released once a set is queued, or a
second press sends everything again.

Deleting several names every path rather than a count, because agreeing to "3
items" is agreeing to a number, and this is the one act on this screen that
nothing walks back. Each goes on its own and a refusal does not stop the rest:
the host turns down a directory that still has something in it, and in a set of
five that must not silently cancel the four it would have removed — nor hide
which ones it did not.

A drawn checkbox rather than ctrl-click, and not for taste: the phone shares
this view model and has neither ctrl nor shift, so a multi-selection has to be a
tap target there whatever the desktop does. One shape on both heads, and a state
somebody can see.

◆ RECURSIVE FOLDERS: THE TREE BECOMES FILES BEFORE THE QUEUE SEES IT.

A directory used to be counted and skipped. It is now walked, and the queue
still knows nothing about trees — which is what keeps every property it has:
each file resumable on its own, each written to a part file and renamed into
place, none able to overwrite anything already there.

The plan is collected whole and then queued, because directories have to exist
before the files that go in them and shortest-first is the only order that
guarantees a parent before its child. It also means a walk refused halfway has
queued nothing yet, so the sentence it produces describes one outcome rather
than an outcome and a queue that half happened.

Links are counted, not followed, in both directions. One pointing at an ancestor
is a walk with no end, and on the remote side there is a second reason: an lstat
listing says a name is a link and not what it leads to, so descending would be a
round trip per entry to find out. Locally that is AttributesToSkip on the one
enumeration that decides what to descend into. A 5000-file ceiling is a backstop
for the accidental drag of a home directory, and it says so rather than
truncating quietly.

The status line grew four more ways to be partly what was asked for, and states
each: gone, refused, left alone, not a file.

◆ EDITING IN PLACE: FETCH, OPEN, WATCH, PUSH BACK.

The round trip this replaces is download, find it, open it, edit, come back,
delete the old one because nothing here overwrites, upload, check the mode
survived.

DELIBERATELY NOT THROUGH THE TRANSFER QUEUE, in either direction. The queue
refuses to overwrite, which is the right rule for a file somebody dragged and
exactly the wrong one for a file they are editing, where replacing the original
is the entire intent. The write-back deletes first: OpenWriteAsync at offset
zero writes over the beginning and leaves any tail that is longer — its own
contract says so — which for a config that got shorter means a file ending in
the back half of its previous version. Deleting is the only truncation this
interface offers, and the mode goes back on afterwards because deleting took it.

A stat before every save, compared against what the server said when the copy
was taken, catches somebody else writing while the file is open — which is how a
config gets silently reverted. There is no merge and no button pretending
otherwise; the three answers offered are the three that exist. Length and
timestamp rather than a digest, because a digest is a second full read of a file
there is otherwise no reason to fetch.

Both platform halves are injected: what opens a .conf is a registry
association, a desktop entry or a Launch Services binding depending on the
desktop, and watching a file is a platform object with its own thread. The
watcher watches the directory and filters the name, because a great many editors
write a temporary file and rename it over the top — which to a watcher pointed
at an inode is the file disappearing. The phone gets neither delegate, so the
button is not live there rather than there and disappointing.

◆ TWO THINGS FOUND ON THE WAY, BOTH WORTH STATING.

The shell suite's inline `post` was not serialising the way a dispatcher does.
Routing TransfersViewModel through it exposed a check-then-add in
OnTransferChanged that two threads turn into two rows for one transfer. Harmless
in production, where the UI thread serialises — the fixture was under-specifying
what it stood in for, and now posts under a lock.

And the edit session replaced its own record with `with` on each save, which
left the watcher holding an instance that was no longer the current one: every
save after the first quietly did nothing. The stamp moves in place now, and the
test saves twice.

◆ WHAT IS VERIFIED.

901 across the five suites this touches, 19 of them new. The layout suite earned
its keep three times over: the batch deletion card's path list overflowed the
204-pixel pane at 120, at 72 and at 56 before 32 held, and the edit strip
overflowed by 131 until the whole strip — rather than the log inside it — was
bounded. Each number in those files is measured and says which failure it came
from, because the next person to add a line to either card will move them again.

What no suite covers is the platform halves of editing: Process.Start with
UseShellExecute and a live FileSystemWatcher are the operating system, and a test
waiting on one would be measuring it. The shell's own half — when a save is
written back, when it is refused, what stopping releases — is covered against a
watcher that fires on demand.
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A terminal whose machine rebooted stayed green for ever. Not "went stale and
recovered late" — for ever: the tab claimed CONNECTED, the elapsed timer went
on counting, and the only thing that ever corrected it was closing the
application. That is the defect this fixes, and it turned out to be two
separate failures wearing one symptom.

◆ THE HANG IS IN SSH.NET, AND KEEP-ALIVE ALONE WOULD NOT HAVE FIXED IT.

ShellStream ends a blocked read from exactly two places: its channel being
closed, and the session raising Disconnected. A shell that exits gives the
first. But Session raises Disconnected from one method only — OnDisconnectReceived,
for a server that politely says goodbye — and a socket that simply fails goes
down a different path entirely: RaiseError fires the error event, sets the
disconnecting flag and disposes the socket, without ever raising Disconnected.
So the stream was never disposed, its Monitor.Wait was never pulsed, and the
read blocked until the process ended. The transport was gone, the client knew
the transport was gone, and nothing woke the one thread that was waiting.

That is why the first attempt at a test for this sat at thirty seconds and
failed. Both halves are needed and neither is sufficient:

  - Keep-alive makes the failure HAPPEN. An idle SSH session is a socket
    nobody writes to, and TCP has no way to discover that the far end has gone
    without writing to it — nothing was asked, so nothing could fail. Thirty
    seconds, matching OpenSSH's own ServerAliveInterval examples. It is the
    write that matters and not a reply: SSH_MSG_IGNORE need not be answered,
    so this is traffic rather than a heartbeat with a deadline, and there is
    no timeout invented here to be wrong about a slow link.

  - Disposing the stream from the error handler makes it ARRIVE. Queued to the
    thread pool and not done inline, which is not tidiness: this runs on
    SSH.NET's message-listener thread, and closing a channel waits for the
    server's close — processed by that same thread — so an inline dispose is
    the listener thread waiting on itself.

SFTP gets the keep-alive too. Its operations are request/response and bounded
by ConnectionInfo.Timeout already, so it needs no equivalent wake-up.

◆ exit AND reboot ARE TOLD APART BY A LATCH, BECAUSE THE OBVIOUS WAY IS A RACE.

Wait for the read to end and then ask whether the transport is still up, and
against a real server the answer is wrong about half the time: this was the
only channel on the connection, so sshd hangs up a millisecond after closing
it. By the time anything could ask, the transport is gone either way — and a
poll would report every ordinary `exit` as a dropped connection.

So ISshShellSession.TransportFailure is set at the moment SSH.NET raises the
failure, which its own ordering puts strictly before the disconnect that wakes
the read. A read that has just returned zero consults a settled value: set if
the transport failed, still null if the remote merely closed the channel. The
pump turns that into a TerminalSessionOutcome — RemoteClosed, ConnectionLost,
ClosedLocally — carried on SessionEnded, which used to hand over a session id
and nothing else. A subscriber cannot work this out afterwards; by the time it
hears, there is no transport left to interrogate.

Deliberately no fourth value for "the remote rebooted". Nothing on the wire
distinguishes a reboot from a cable being pulled, and a name this client
cannot check would be a guess dressed as a fact.

◆ WHAT IS DRAWN, AND WHY IT IS NOT DRAWN OVER THE PANE.

The status bar says DISCONNECTED or SHELL EXITED where it used to say NOT
CONNECTED for both — a word that is honest about a tab still dialling and
useless about one whose shell has stopped. Red for the first and grey for the
second: one is a machine that stopped answering and the other is work
finished, and crying wolf on the ordinary end of every session is its own bug.
The tab strip's dot gains the same fourth state, on both heads.

Under the terminal, a strip carrying the reason and two buttons. It takes its
own Auto grid row rather than overlaying the renderer, and that is forced
rather than chosen: the WebView is a native child view composited above
everything Avalonia draws, so the alternative is collapsing the terminal — and
the scrollback is precisely what the user wants to read, because the last
thing the remote said is usually why it went. terminal.js already writes the
same sentence into the pane; this is the copy that does not scroll away.

RECONNECT reuses the tab in place, which is what the word means to somebody
who pressed it: the terminal they were working in comes back, where it was.
It dials through the vault's ordinary connect path, so every refusal — a key
that has left the keychain, an unknown host key, a group default that has
changed since — is decided in the one place that already decides them; what
this adds is which tab the attempt belongs to. The old session is closed as
part of it, because a dead shell still holds an authenticated connection this
process has stopped reading, and its pane still holds an xterm, a scrollback
and a WebGL context, of which a browser hands out about sixteen.

Two refusals it makes rather than pretending: a host reached by typing an
address has no keychain entry to redial, and one that wants a password typed
goes to the keychain with the sheet raised rather than being dialled with an
empty box. Both say so on the strip where the button was pressed, not only in
the vault's status on a screen that surface is not.

TRY AGAIN appears on a refused connection for the same reason, and it is worth
as much: the commonest refusal is a host that was not up yet.

◆ WHAT IS ACTUALLY VERIFIED.

Two tests against a real sshd in a container. `exit` is reported as the remote
closing the session — the one a polling implementation fails, and a fake shell
cannot show it because a fake has no server behind it deciding to hang up. And
a live shell losing its transport is reported as a lost connection, produced
by dialling through a plain TCP relay the test owns and then cutting it; the
container is shared by the collection, so killing sshd was never an option.

The first draft of that second test used LoopbackProxyTests' SOCKS forward and
timed out: disconnecting the carrier of a ForwardedPortDynamic does not close
the loopback socket it accepted. Recorded in the test, because it is a
property of SSH.NET's forwarder rather than of anything here, and it is not
what a dying machine looks like.

What no test reproduces is the waiting. A relay that closes sends a FIN, so
the socket reports itself at once; a machine switched off sends nothing, and
finding that out is the keep-alive's business and the OS's retransmit budget's
— neither of which a test can hurry along without a clock this code does not
own. A reboot is prompt in practice because the machine comes back and RSTs.

Beside those: three pump outcomes, three workspace announcements, and seven
shell-flow tests covering the drop, the clean exit, reuse of the tab, retry
after a refusal, and both ways a reconnect can honestly come to nothing.

Also fixed in passing: SshNetShellSession.IsOpen read ShellStream.CanRead,
which is documented as always true — the stream stays readable after disposal
so buffered output can be drained — so it had answered "yes" for every shell
that ever existed. It reads CanWrite now. And MainWindowViewModel's session-
ended handler moved from Dispatcher.UIThread.Post to the injected post
delegate, which is what makes any of the shell half testable at all; the
remark listing the three unreachable posts is one shorter.
2026-08-24 10:36:15 +02:00
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Three things the file browser could not do. Somewhere to go had to be walked
to, a file that landed under the wrong name could only be removed and sent
again, and the listing went on showing the directory as it was before this
application put something in it.

◆ THE PATH IS A BOX NOW, not a TextBlock printing where the pane was. A
breadcrumb only reaches what is under the directory already listed, so crossing
a host's filesystem cost a click and a round trip a level, and a path somebody
already knew could not be entered at all. Enter goes; Escape puts back what the
pane is really showing.

What is typed may be absolute, relative to the directory showing, or start at
~ — the four shapes a shell takes, because somebody typing into a box is typing
what they would type into a shell. SftpPath.Resolve turns all of them into one
absolute path, and it resolves them here rather than handing a relative path to
the server: the server would resolve it against the session's own working
directory, which is not necessarily the directory the breadcrumb above the box
is showing. `..` is collapsed textually, which differs from cd through a
symbolic link; the alternative is a realpath round trip before anything lists.

The box holds its own value rather than RemotePath itself. Binding it straight
to the path would navigate on every keystroke — `/`, then `/v`, then `/va` — a
round trip and a failed listing per character. Every other way of moving writes
the real path back into it; a refused listing deliberately does not, because
the path that did not resolve is the one worth having in front of you.

◆ RENAME AND MOVE, and DELETE moves to join them. It had been sitting in the
pane header beside UP and REFRESH — two things that move the pane and one that
destroys a file, in one row — and the three that act on the selected row are
now together in a row of their own, under the name of the row they are about.

One SFTP rename underneath both new operations and two separate questions on
the screen, because the answer is a different kind of thing each time: a rename
takes a name and must not take a path, a move takes a directory and must not
take a name. One box asking for a destination path would be fewer controls and
a worse question — the two mistakes it invites are exactly the ones the split
makes impossible. Each form opens on the answer that changes nothing, so what
gets edited is the half somebody came to change.

Three refusals are made here, and they are the ones a server's message would
not explain: a separator in a name (no such file, about a directory nobody
meant to name), a destination equal to the source (success, and a file that did
not move), and a directory into itself (EINVAL, true and useless). Everything
else is the server's — a name already taken, a path that is not there, a mount
that cannot be crossed — and arrives in the status line in its own words.
Neither is painted in the deletion card's red: a rename is undone by renaming
back, and spending that red twice makes it stop meaning anything.

◆ THE LISTING REFRESHES ITSELF when a transfer lands in it. Both panes, since
an upload lands on the host and a download lands here and either leaves the
pane that is showing that directory a step behind. Only the directory actually
on screen: a queue moving a hundred files elsewhere must not be a round trip
per file for a listing nobody is looking at.

It waits rather than interrupting. Another operation running would have two
listings racing for one collection, and re-listing under an open question is
how the row somebody answered about stops being the row that gets acted on — so
the staleness is remembered and settled at the end of the operation or when the
question is dismissed. It says nothing either way: nobody asked for it, and the
status line at that moment is carrying the news about the transfer. The
selection survives, re-found by path, which is what makes an unasked-for
refresh safe to run under somebody's pointer at all.

◆ THE LAYOUT SUITE FOUND A REAL FAULT and the fix is where the height goes. The
rename form did not fit the 204 pixels the session shell's own sidebar leaves
this pane — MKDIR and the listing were pushed off the bottom. The form is
shorter now (the placeholder says what the box wants, so there is no field
label above it), and the item row and the breadcrumb step aside while any of
the three questions is up, which is what the phone head already did with its
own buttons.

Measuring also settled something the markup had been claiming and is not true:
at that width the listing collapses to nothing under any of the three cards,
the deletion card included, and has done since the sidebar arrived. So "the row
it is about is still on screen" is retired from the deletion card's remark, and
the full path each card carries is what identifies the row instead. Recorded
where it is drawn rather than left to be rediscovered.

TESTS. SftpPath.Resolve gets the four shapes, ~ with and without a home to
expand it to, a blank box, and climbing past the root. ShellFlowTests gets nine
against a session that records what it was asked to do — which path was
renamed, which directories were listed — rather than against the sentence this
code writes about itself: the path box absolute and relative, rename in place,
the separator refusal, a move by relative path, the no-op refusal, the three
questions displacing each other, and the three rules the automatic refresh
follows. The local half is in TransferQueueingTests, where a real folder
answers. Two new shapes are measured, and the deletion card's own measurement
moves to the connected state — the only state it can be asked in, and the
narrow one.

What the tests cannot reach is in docs/manual-checks.md as phase 2b: a real
server's cross-device and name-taken refusals, and a soft keyboard, which is
why the phone's path box has a GO button rather than trusting whatever the IME
decided to draw on its return key.
2026-08-21 12:05:33 +02:00
jaap-jan e252d337d1 Take the SSH.NET release that fixes the SCP path traversal
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Every project in the repository stopped building, on a warning about a package
none of them had changed:

    error NU1903: Warning As Error: Package 'SSH.NET' 2025.1.0 has a known high
    severity vulnerability

GHSA-q939-rpr3-3284 was published after the pin was written. ScpClient.Download
in recursive mode takes the filenames the server sends and joins them to the
local destination without validating them, so a malicious or compromised SCP
server can name "../" its way out of the download directory and write anywhere
the client process can — CWE-22, 7.1, and the same shape as OpenSSH's
CVE-2019-6111 with the traversal left in. Everything up to and including
2025.1.0 is affected; 2026.0.0 is the fix.

◆ THIS APPLICATION WAS NEVER EXPOSED, AND THE UPGRADE IS STILL THE RIGHT ANSWER.
Nothing here constructs a ScpClient. File transfer is SftpClient throughout —
SshNetSftpSession is the only path to a remote file — so the vulnerable method
has no caller to reach it from. That makes this a hygiene bump rather than an
incident, and it is worth saying plainly because the alternative on offer was a
scoped NuGetAuditSuppress with that reasoning written beside it. A suppression is
what you reach for when there is nothing to upgrade TO. There is: the maintainers
shipped the fix, taking it costs two nullable annotations, and a suppression
would have left this repository carrying a known-vulnerable library and a comment
explaining why that is fine — which stays true only until somebody adds the first
ScpClient call and has no reason to look here.

BouncyCastle.Cryptography moves 2.6.2 -> 2.7.0 as a consequence, not a
preference. CentralPackageTransitivePinningEnabled makes the PackageVersion here
the resolved version for a transitive dependency, and SSH.NET 2026.0.0 asks for
2.7.0, so a pin left at 2.6.2 is a downgrade error rather than a version this
repository gets to choose. Its comment records the constraint so the next person
does not try to walk it back.

◆ THE RELEASE NOTES SAY NO BREAKING CHANGES. THE NULLABLE ANNOTATIONS DISAGREE.
ConnectionInfo.CurrentServerEncryption is now string? — correct of them, since it
really is null until the key exchange completes — and that is CS8601 at both
places this codebase reads a cipher off a live connection. Neither can observe
the null: SshNetConnection and SshNetSftpSession are only ever constructed after
ConnectAsync has been awaited, which is what their existing remarks already say
and why the reads are at construction rather than lazy.

Coalesced to string.Empty rather than silenced with !, because empty is already
this codebase's word for a cipher that could not be read. MainWindowViewModel's
NullIfEmpty exists for exactly that, TerminalWorkspace.GetSessionFacts already
hands over string.Empty on the same grounds, and the status bar collapses on it.
So the boundary keeps the interface's non-nullable string, no consumer changes,
and an unreachable null would degrade the way a real one already does.

SshNetConnection's remark asserted that SSH.NET types the property non-nullable
and that reading straight through was therefore honest rather than lazy. That
sentence is now false, and a comment contradicting the line beneath it is worse
than no comment, so it says what is actually true: the coalesce is there for the
annotation and the pre-key-exchange window this call site cannot be in.

The Android head needed its own restore. It is outside DodoSSH.slnx, so the
solution-wide --force-evaluate does not reach it, and left alone it would have
kept the vulnerable pin and gone stale under locked mode — the hazard
platform-flags.md records, arriving on schedule.

Heeding the warning left by the ILLink commit: --force-evaluate on Windows
rewrote all 39 lock files with CRLF, and 21 of them had no content change. Only
the 18 that really moved are here.

Verified with `dotnet build` at the root, no audit-disabling flags: 0 errors,
NU1903 gone, and the 21 remaining warnings are the pre-existing Meziantou/CA and
Avalonia ones that were present in the failing build too.

A library upgrade is not a version string, so the suites that exercise it were
run against live containers rather than trusted: 87 Ssh, 80 Terminal, 27
ObjectStore, 10 Transfer, none failing.
2026-08-14 09:36:24 +02:00
jaap-jan 93e35a0095 Stop the SDK's own trimmer version deciding whether CI can restore
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CI went red across the whole repository — main's run 125 and every open pull
request at once — on a restore that never reached a compiler:

    error NU1004: The package reference Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks version has
    changed from [10.0.10, ) to [10.0.11, ). The packages lock file is
    inconsistent with the project dependencies so restore can't be run in
    locked mode.

Nothing in any of those commits touched a package. .NET had shipped SDK 10.0.400.

◆ THE VERSION IN THE LOCK FILES WAS NEVER THIS REPOSITORY'S TO DECIDE.

Microsoft.NET.ILLink.Tasks is referenced by nothing here. The SDK adds it to any
project setting IsTrimmable or IsAotCompatible — DodoSSH.Contracts and
DodoSSH.Crypto do, and the Android head gets it from trimming being on by
default — and it supplies the version itself, from the KnownILLinkPack item in
its own Microsoft.NETCoreSdk.BundledVersions.props. 10.0.302 says 10.0.10;
10.0.400 says 10.0.11.

packages.lock.json records that as a Direct reference with a requested range, so
what the committed file actually means is "whichever SDK last ran a restore".
global.json says rollForward: latestMinor, so setup-dotnet installs the newest
10.x SDK that exists on the morning it runs. The gate did its job — an unreviewed
dependency change is exactly what it is there to stop — but the change it caught
was not one anybody could have reviewed, and it will recur on every servicing
release.

Regenerating the lock files alone would have been the worse repair, and not only
because it holds until the next release. It cannot be done from this machine at
all: every SDK installed here tops out at 10.0.302, which writes 10.0.10 straight
back and re-breaks CI. The recorded version would flip according to who restored
last — the precise state locking exists to prevent.

So the version is pinned in Directory.Build.targets and the three lock files are
regenerated against the pin. It is an Update on the SDK's item rather than a
PackageVersion in Directory.Packages.props because the reference is implicit:
the SDK supplies a version, so central package management is never consulted. It
sits in a target because the conditioning is on %(TargetFramework) — all the
KnownILLinkPack items share one identity and only that metadata separates
net10.0's from net8.0's — and item batching in a condition is legal inside a
target and MSB4191 during evaluation.

Pinned forward to 10.0.11 rather than back to 10.0.10, which would have been a
one-line change with no lock file churn. Holding the trimmer a release behind the
framework it analyses to dodge an error is how a missed trim warning happens, and
taking the newer one makes the bump a reviewed diff, which is what the gate was
asking for.

Verified against the SDK that broke it rather than only the one here:

  - sdk:10.0-alpine, 10.0.400, `dotnet restore DodoSSH.slnx --locked-mode` —
    exit 0. That is ci.yml's line, on CI's SDK.
  - the android workload on sdk:10.0-noble, 10.0.400, locked-mode restore of
    DodoSSH.Client.Android — exit 0. That is scripts/ci-android.sh's line.
  - locally on 10.0.302, the same locked-mode restore of the solution — exit 0.

One set of lock files satisfying both SDKs is the whole point of the pin, and the
third check is the one that demonstrates it.

Release build clean: 0 errors, and 0 IL-prefixed diagnostics from the newer
analyser on the two trimmable projects. 1,869 tests over 19 suites, none failing.

A caution for the next person, learned the hard way here: `--force-evaluate` on
Windows rewrites every lock file it touches with CRLF, and 23 of the 26 had no
content change at all. Only the three that really moved are in this commit.
2026-08-12 11:44:56 +02:00
jaap-jan 8a77b7ca68 Say how far a connection has got while it is still being made
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The connecting card set its status string once, when the tab was created, and
never touched it again. Every connection therefore looked identical from the
outside: one three seconds into a key exchange, one waiting out a fifteen-second
timeout against a machine that is asleep, and one that had hung all drew the
same "connecting…". The card now draws the five steps of getting there, each lit
at the moment the handshake reports reaching it, over an amber track that fills
as they finish.

◆ NOTHING ON THE LIST IS INVENTED. Every row changes state because a layer below
it said so, at the instant the thing it names actually began.

That is the whole reason it is worth showing, and it is why most of this commit
is plumbing rather than XAML: there was no progress reporting anywhere in the
stack to hook a step list onto, and a card animating plausible progress would
have been indistinguishable from one that had stopped receiving any.

SshConnectionPhase names four phases and deliberately not more. SSH.NET runs the
entire handshake inside one ConnectAsync and raises exactly one event from the
middle of it — HostKeyReceived, once the key exchange has produced a key to show
— so that event is the only interior moment there is to report. Everything
before it is Reaching and everything after it is Authenticating. A fifth phase
in that assembly would have to be a timer, so there is not one. OpeningShell is
reported by TerminalWorkspace instead, because that is where it happens: the
factory's work ends with an authenticated connection, and asking for a
pseudo-terminal on one is a separate round trip. The SFTP path passes null — a
second connection opened behind an already-open shell has nobody watching a step
list for it.

The card's fifth step, "Starting the terminal", is the renderer wait and lives
in the shell rather than in the SSH assembly, which has never heard of a
renderer. On the first connection after a cold start it is a real wait with a
real failure mode of its own — a missing WebView2 runtime — so a list that began
at "reaching the host" would leave the one wait most likely to hang unnamed.

Amber for the step in flight, and that follows the palette's rule rather than
bending it. Green is what is true and purple is what you can press; a step still
happening is neither, and it is exactly the caveat-worth-reading that amber
exists for. Steps behind it go green as they become true. Nothing animates,
which is the argument TransfersScreen.axaml already makes for its own track,
reaching a screen with far more reason to want a spinner: a spinner is furniture
invented to fill a state nobody measured, and these states are measured, so the
track fills to what has finished and then waits there.

A refusal keeps the step it stopped on, in red, with the ones behind it still
green. That is the half a progress bar could not do, and it is the difference
between "that host is not there" and "that host is there and would not have me"
— a question the reason sentence alone frequently does not settle.

The strip's dot goes amber while a tab is connecting, on both heads. It was
grey, and so is a tab whose shell has exited: the two states in that strip with
the least in common, one worth waiting for and one over. PhoneShell's own
comment already recorded half of this — the dot stopped being green before
anything had answered — and this is the other half.

Progress is raised inline rather than through System.Progress<T>, which captures
whatever synchronisation context it was constructed on and posts to it. That
reads like a convenience and is really a second place the marshalling decision
gets made: silently, differently under a test with no context, and out of order
with respect to the failure that follows a phase. The shell marshals once, in
one handler, through a new optional post parameter on MainWindowViewModel — the
same seam TransfersViewModel already uses, and for the reason its own remark
gives. The three Dispatcher.UIThread.Post calls that predate it are the ones
this suite's comments record as out of reach; they are left alone rather than
swept in here.

Both heads draw the list. They differ in one place: Phone.axaml's mono class
sets a colour and a size along with the family, so the caption rule names its
own family instead of composing the two and asking two rules for one Foreground.
The desktop's mono sets the family alone, which is why ConnectingCard does
compose them. Each head also gains SHOW LOGS beside the button that gives up —
the step list is this attempt and the log is every other one, which is what a
connection taking too long actually raises.

Seven tests, and the two that matter most run against the container rather than
a fake: a real handshake reports its phases in order, and a host-key refusal
never claims to have authenticated. A fake asserting what it was written to
assert would have established nothing about either. The rest cover the tab
advancing while the connection is gated, the step a refusal stops on, and a
phase reported after the user has given up on the tab. 1,861 tests, none
failing.

The Android head's layout is not verified by anything. It compiles, and
compiled bindings mean every new binding path resolves, but that project is not
in DodoSSH.slnx, there is no test project for it and no device here — so unlike
the desktop card, whose shapes the layout harness measures, these rows have not
been drawn. Vertical fit is reasoned, not observed.
2026-08-10 15:47:45 +02:00
jaap-jan e96d01aab9 Let the host editor make the credential it is about to bind
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The authentication picker has listed saved credentials since they existed, but
making one meant leaving a half-typed host for the keychain screen and coming
back to find it gone. On the phone it was worse than a detour: that head has no
credential editor at all, so it could bind a host to a credential and never
produce one. + NEW CREDENTIAL opens a card under the picker — name, optional
username, password, notes — and ADD writes it and binds the host in one step.

A button beside the picker rather than an entry inside it. Every row of that
list is a binding a host can have, and "make a new one" is an action: as an
entry it would sit in the box afterwards describing a state no host can be in,
and cancelling the form would leave the picker showing it.

It carries its own five fields rather than reusing the keychain editor's, and
that is the load-bearing part. IsEditingCredential is what AVaultEditorIsInTheWay
asks about, so sharing it would have made the whole Vault screen refuse to open
an editor while this card sat open on the Hosts screen, with a status line
naming a form the user cannot see on a screen they are not looking at — the
exact failure that guard was split in two to end. A test pins it.

It writes to the keychain immediately, unlike every other field in this editor,
because a credential is a shared item with an id and a host can only name an id
that exists. The consequence is honest rather than hidden and the hint says so:
a credential added this way outlives a cancelled host edit. What was still being
typed does not — every path that closes the host editor clears the form, and one
of those fields is a password.

The binding is written before the reload rather than after it. RefreshOpenEditors
rebuilds this picker and then restores it from the editor's own selection, so
setting it first is what survives the pass, and by the time it is read
ReloadCredentialsAsync has put the matching entry in the list to land on.

A name already taken is duplicated, not reused, and that is a deliberate parting
from the new-tag box six lines further down which offers the existing tag
instead. Two tags called "staging" are one intention spelled twice; two
credentials called "root" are two different passwords, and quietly binding the
host to whichever was there already would authenticate it as an account nobody
chose. A duplicate label in the picker is the smaller problem.

Into editingHostVaultId, so the credential lands wherever the host is being
sealed and everybody who can read the host can read what it authenticates with.
Stricter than the tag path — which files into the active vault and is recorded
as a gap in docs/design-import-gaps.md — and it can be, because this picker
lists credentials from every readable vault rather than one.

Five flow tests cover the bind-through-reload path, the cancel semantics on both
the saved credential and the abandoned one, the cross-screen guard, the
duplicate name and the empty-password refusal. The layout test is separate and
necessary: the card is collapsed until somebody presses the button, so a harness
driven by the default state draws none of it, and TheHostDrawerFitsWithTheHostEditorOpen
would have gone on passing over a card that blew the column. 1,854 tests, none
failing.
2026-08-10 11:23:10 +02:00
jaap-jan 8c67fce32c Centre a phone row's caption in the row it is given
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Button.row sets the height a thumb needs and left the caption's placement to
Avalonia's Stretch default, so the content presenter stretched the caption to
the whole row and a TextBlock draws its line at the top of what it is given —
the same omission the desktop head's ghost/accent/danger rule had.

Most of the thirty-three rows never showed it, which is what made the four that
did look like four unrelated mistakes rather than one rule: a row whose content
is a StackPanel or a Grid of already-centred children is centred whatever this
property says. The four that are a bare TextBlock are FilesScreen's breadcrumb
crumb, its up-one-directory chip and its pinned-path chip, and TerminalScreen's
CLOSE THIS TAB — 36 or 44 tall with no vertical padding, so measured at those
numbers the caption sat flush against the top edge with 21 to 33 pixels of
nothing under it, eleven to seventeen pixels off centre in a control barely
twice that tall.

Nothing is excluded here, unlike the desktop's own sweep: no row's content
depends on being stretched — there is no full-height strip inside any of the
thirty-three, the thing that keeps flat and cat out of the equivalent rule over
there — and the Grids that stop filling hold only children that already centre
themselves, so they land where they always did.

The other two phone classes that do not set it are both fine and neither should
get it. RadioButton.chip declares its own ControlTemplate whose presenter reads
VerticalAlignment="Center" outright, so it centres regardless and the property
would not be read; Button.scrim is the full-screen dimmer behind a sheet and
has no caption at all.

Not covered by a test, and it cannot be from here: there is no Android layout
suite, the desktop harness cannot instantiate net10.0-android views, and
AvaloniaRuntimeXamlLoader — which would let it load Phone.axaml on its own —
lives in a package this repo does not reference. What is verified is that the
head builds, so the Avalonia XAML compiler has accepted the setter, and that
the desktop's own 147 layout tests are unmoved.
2026-08-10 10:35:38 +02:00
jaap-jan 9bc9069425 Post the terminal's focus return past the dispatch that steals it
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The first fix handed Android's focus back from inside the keys' Click
handlers — which fire inside the UP event's dispatch, and Avalonia's
own view requests focus for itself after every handled touch dispatch
returns (AvaloniaView.DispatchTouchEvent, decompiled from 12.1.1). So
the platform's request ran after ours and undid it microseconds later,
which is exactly what the phone showed: the terminal still lost focus.

The return is now posted onto the main looper, landing one message
after the dispatch that stole, and it is wired at the row for both
halves of a press — DOWN steals too, and Click only exists for UP, so
a keyboard detached at DOWN would otherwise stay detached for the whole
length of the press. Check 11.10a now also says what a tolerable blink
looks like against a failure that stays.
2026-08-09 21:35:08 +02:00
jaap-jan e936ab4646 Announce a session's end when it is actually over, and for closes too
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The phone's notification kept saying '1 shell connected' after the
shell was gone, and both close routes were at fault. A shell exiting on
its own raised SessionEnded from inside its run's finally block — where
the run task is by definition not yet complete, so the LiveSessionCount
the keep-alive reads still counted the dead shell, and nothing fired
later to correct it. A tab closed by hand announced nothing at all, by
a recorded decision that assumed every subscriber was the closer; the
keep-alive is not, and a close it never heard about left the
notification claiming a shell over nothing.

The end is now announced from a continuation after the run completes,
and CloseSessionAsync announces after its own drain — every subscriber
was already a reconcile-to-reality handler, so the echo the old remark
feared costs nothing. Shutdown stays silent: it is dismantling the
subscribers along with the sessions.
2026-08-09 13:01:14 +02:00
jaap-jan 506d2803a2 Hand Android's own focus back to the terminal after an accessory key
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Focusable=false was only ever half the fix, and its remark now says so:
Avalonia's focus stays on the NativeWebView, but the touch that presses
a key still hands Android's native focus to Avalonia's input view — the
platform moves it before Avalonia decides anything. The WebView's input
connection dies with it, the keyboard swaps to its no-input layout, and
the inset churn parks it over the very row that was tapped.

Each key now returns that focus once its byte is on the wire, through a
sibling of SoftKeyboard that walks the decor view to the one WebView
this application has. Free when nothing moved. Check 11.10a is the
phone-in-hand proof.
2026-08-09 11:35:15 +02:00
jaap-jan 48ea5e22d5 Actually keep the phone's sessions alive when the app is backgrounded
The foreground service existed, and four defects in its wiring meant it
mostly did not run. A shell opening was never announced to it — only the
ending was — so the service never came up for a shell at all. An idle
connected Files session counted as nothing. Every refresh restarted the
service, which Android 12+ answers with a crash the moment the app is
backgrounded — a transfer finishing in the pocket took the remaining
connections with it. And POST_NOTIFICATIONS was declared but never
requested, so on Android 13+ the receipt was silently invisible.

Updates while backgrounded now go through the notification manager; a
foregrounded refresh still prefers a real start, so a stop still in
flight cannot leave an orphan receipt over an unprotected process.
2026-08-09 10:14:17 +02:00
jaap-jan dbf6ce1bcf Give the phone its pins: an editor section and chips on Files
The data was never the gap — HostSecret.PinnedPaths syncs and merges on both
heads, and the desktop's drawer has staged it since v5 — the phone just had
nowhere to add, remove or use a pin. Now it has both halves.

The host editor page gains a QUICK ACCESS section over the same shared
staging the drawer binds (EditorPinnedPaths, AddEditorPin, RemoveEditorPin),
with the remove target at this head's 44dp touch floor rather than the
desktop's 22-pixel close box, and no folder glyph because this head embeds no
icon font for one. The page also gains a Status line of its own: the add
command's five refusals speak through Status, and this page covers the screen
that normally draws it — a refusal nothing shows is no refusal at all.

The Files screen draws the connected host's pins as chips between the
breadcrumb and the listing, each running GoRemoteCommand exactly as a crumb
does. They are captured at connect, like ConnectedTo and the session facts
before them; a bucket gets none, having no HostSecret to pin anything on.
Covered headlessly in ShellFlowTests — connect populates, disconnect clears,
a bucket stays empty — and by manual checks 8.18 and 8.19, whose phase
preamble also stops claiming thirteen checks when it lists twenty-one.
2026-08-08 23:09:57 +02:00
jaap-jan b931a06998 Repaint the phone's chrome, radii and accent to the v5 vocabulary 2026-08-08 15:22:04 +02:00
jaap-jan ca48e18b57 Give the phone the desktop's face: Montserrat by default 2026-08-08 15:22:04 +02:00
jaap-jan f3c0b9ca1b Merge branch 'claude/friendly-elgamal-e085e5' into claude/v5-design-fidelity 2026-08-07 22:28:31 +02:00
jaap-jan 7ca74a1e35 Retint the scrims to the v5 canvas, quick connect at the spec's 60%
Five scrim hardcodes still dimmed through the old canvas #0E1220; they
now sit on #05050A. Each keeps its alpha except QuickConnect's backdrop,
which the v5 spec pins at rgba(5,5,10,0.6) — its essay drops from 80% to
60% of Canvas to match.
2026-08-07 21:29:57 +02:00
jaap-jan d7f0bea258 Repaint the launcher mark and the window icon in v5's own ink 2026-08-07 21:24:19 +02:00
jaap-jan 575a9a9f5e Stop the relay checkbox promising a connection this client cannot make
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Ticking "Connect through the server relay" moved the host's address and port out of the encrypted payload
into plaintext columns on the server — the single deliberate privacy concession in the design, per ADR 0004
— and then the client dialled the address directly, exactly as it does with the box clear. VaultViewModel
builds SshConnectionRequest(hostname, port, username, credential) and nothing on this side reads
RelayEnabled at all. The connection failed the way it always had, for a machine the laptop could not reach,
with nothing saying the box had done nothing.

The server half is built and shipped: tickets, the WebSocket, the deny list, the CHECK constraint that
enforces a non-null address for a relay-enabled host. What does not exist is the client's path to it, so
this is an unfinished feature rather than a broken one — but the control in front of it was collecting the
cost of the finished version.

Both heads now say so, in the label and in the first sentence of the paragraph under it. Not disabled, and
that is the one decision here worth stating: a host somebody has already ticked has to be able to lose the
flag, and a control greyed out with the concession switched on would trap it there. Tickable and honest
beats untickable and stuck.

This is step 0 of docs/reaching-a-host-you-cannot-dial.md, and the only step of it that should ship alone —
the sentence is written to be deleted when the bridge lands.

VERIFIED. Build clean, 112 layout tests. The drawer's paragraph is longer than it was and the host editor is
measured with the drawer open at the window's minimum, so the wrap is held inside the column rather than
assumed to fit.
2026-08-07 08:47:02 +02:00
jaap-jan 4f9faa2fe3 Ask about a host key where the connection was made, not on the host list
The trust prompt was two banners at the top of the desktop's hosts screen, so the shell navigated there
before letting a handshake raise one: Screen = Hosts, Surface = Page, in OnVaultConnectionFailed and again in
the palette's own connect. The reason was sound — a connection can be started from Ctrl+K on any screen, and
a question behind whatever somebody is looking at is a question nobody can answer — and it was answered the
wrong way round. Rather than making the decision reachable from where the user is, it moved the user to where
the decision was, and charged every screen for it.

It is worst for the one connection that has no host at all. A machine typed into the phone's connect box is
deliberately in no keychain, so a first contact from there judged it on a list it does not appear on, after
taking the box that dialled it away.

So both heads now draw the decision over the surface. HostKeyCard is the desktop's, and is the counterpart of
the phone's HostKeySheet: a scrim with no press handler, because a question with two named answers must not be
answerable by missing; the unknown key offering TRUST AND CONNECT, because judging a fingerprint against what
an operator published is a decision a person is entitled to make and the only moment they can make it; and the
changed key offering no way forward at all, because a button beside that warning is "continue anyway" with two
clicks instead of one. The phone needed no new markup — its sheet was already a shell-level overlay, so
deleting the navigation is what puts it over the Connections screen.

IsHostKeyDecisionShowing is on the shell rather than on a screen because the answer decides an occlusion. A
second connection can be refused while a first one is open, so this card is routinely raised over a live
terminal, and that rectangle is a native child window: layered over it the card would be sliced at its left
edge with TRUST AND CONNECT taking no clicks, which for the most safety-critical question in the product is
the worst place for that class of bug to land. IsTerminalShowing gives the rectangle up instead.

The banners are gone rather than copied. One prompt in two markups is two copies of the most safety-critical
wording here, and the second is the one that goes stale.

TWO DEFECTS FOUND BEHIND IT.

VaultViewModel.RejectHostKey cleared only the pending key and never the mismatch, so the changed-key refusal
had no working exit. That was invisible for as long as it was a banner nothing was drawn over — nothing was
trapped, and the next attempt cleared it — and it was already live on the phone, where that refusal is an
opaque full-screen panel whose one button runs this command: pressing it left the panel up over every screen
the user went to next, including the host editor the panel tells them to open. TransfersViewModel.RejectHostKey
has always cleared both; the vault's was the outlier. Its button said BACK TO HOSTS, which was wrong twice
over, and now says BACK.

And an assertion written for this change could not fail: the palette test asserted the renderer was collapsed
in a scenario whose only tab had just been removed, so it was collapsed for want of a session whatever the
occlusion rule said. It is gone, with a note pointing at the test that can fail on it.

VERIFIED. 1580 tests, build clean, no new warnings, format clean. Three mutations each seen to fail and then
seen green again: dropping !IsHostKeyDecisionShowing from IsTerminalShowing, caught by
AChangedHostKey_CollapsesTheTerminalItIsRefusedOver; reverting RejectHostKey to clear one flag, caught by
RefusingAHostKeyDecision_TakesItOffTheScreen(false) and by that same test; and dropping the two host-key arms
from OnVaultPropertyChanged, caught by TheHostKeyDecision_IsAnnouncedToTheWindowWhenItArrivesAndWhenItGoes.

That last one is the first test in this repository to watch PropertyChanged, and it is worth being the first:
every other assertion about the flag reads it directly, and a direct read passes with the subscription
deleted — while the card would never go away.

The two layout tests moved with the prompts, from the hosts screen to the card. manual-checks gains 7.4a for
the occlusion, 7.4b for getting out of a refusal and 11.7a for the hand-typed case, none of which a test can
see; 1.5 and 7.4 are corrected rather than left describing a window that no longer moves.

ONE ROUGH EDGE, DELIBERATELY LEFT. On the desktop, refusing a first contact whose tab was the only one leaves
the terminal surface with no tabs — a blank rectangle under the strip's "no terminals open · press + or
Ctrl+K", which is the one sentence near that rectangle Avalonia can draw. The alternative was falling back to
the page, and on the phone that means the host list, which is the bug this commit is about. A desktop connect
page would close it properly.
2026-08-06 12:25:37 +02:00
jaap-jan f1d6499bb5 Merge branch 'main'
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Two of main's changes land in files this branch rewrote, and both needed carrying
across by hand rather than by the merge.

The phone's nav staying up on Connections with nothing running is a fourth input
to RefreshChrome, which this branch had already given two more — whether hosts are
ticked and whether the host editor is filling the screen. They compose: the rail
and the bottom bar now ask (pages || connectPage) && !editing, so a page-shaped
terminal surface keeps its way off the screen and the editor still takes the whole
display.

The key question under the host's move panel is the harder one, because this
branch deleted the panel it was added to. The connect card is gone and the phone's
only route to a move is the action bar, so leaving the merge to take this side
would have removed a capability main had just shipped — silently, since nothing
would fail to build. It is asked in the action bar's own picker instead, in two
shapes fewer than the desktop's: one host, because which key to carry is a fact
about one machine and a selection of six has six answers, and a move rather than a
copy, because taking the key out from under an original that is staying put would
leave that original unable to connect. BindingOfTheMovingHost splits into
MovableBindingOf so both heads answer it the same way from different panels.

Main also fixed a real trap in the same commit — a host that only inherited its
key from its group arrived in the destination naming nothing at all, because the
group stays behind — and the batch move had the same bug for the same reason. It
goes through Detached now, which is where that fix lives.

The carried host is written as the carry left it rather than being detached again,
which is the one thing worth measuring: the key takes a new id over there, so a
run that rebuilt the payload from the row would send the machine across naming a
tombstone. Both directions are pinned, along with the rule about which shapes the
question is asked in at all.
2026-08-06 09:30:00 +02:00
jaap-jan c882fa0cd3 Give the phone a selection instead of a card under the list
A long press on a host raised a connect card over the bottom of the list: a
password box, CONNECT, EDIT, MOVE and DELETE. It was the right idea in the wrong
place. It covered rows, it had room for five things and never a sixth, and every
one of them was about exactly one machine — so filing eleven imported hosts under
a group was eleven trips through a form, and there was nowhere to put a sixth
action if anybody wanted one.

A long press now chooses the host it landed on, and the actions move into a bar
across the top of the screen, in the vault header's place rather than beside it.
That is where Android has put them since contextual action bars existed, and it
is the one strip a list can never grow into — but the real reason for it is that
while it is up the screen is unambiguously about the ticked hosts and nothing
else, which is what lets the count in the middle of it mean something. Left to
right: the cross that leaves the mode, the count, the pencil, and a ⋯ holding
Connect, Connect via SFTP, Move to vault, Copy to vault, Change group, Duplicate
and Remove.

A tap still connects and still raises nothing. Once anything is ticked it ticks
and unticks instead, which is what every Android list does and is not merely a
convention worth following: a tap that connected while five machines sat ticked
would open a terminal on top of a selection somebody was halfway through
building. Unticking the last host leaves the mode, so there are two ways out of
it and the cross is only one of them.

Both gestures now read the row from the element under the finger rather than from
the list's selection, and that is a correctness change rather than tidying. A tap
on a group heading moves the selection and the view model bounces it straight back
to whichever host was chosen before — which answered "a host, or nothing" for free
while a tap only ever connected. It stops answering it the moment a tap can tick
one: the heading would tick a machine the user was not pointing at, into a set
they are about to delete.

Three of the seven entries are about one machine and are drawn only for one. A
terminal, a file-transfer session and a form each have no reading over six, so
they are collapsed rather than refused. The other four read better for a count
than without one — it is the reason the set exists — and each of them says
afterwards how many hosts it wrote and how many it left alone. Skipping beats
refusing the whole run: a selection of eleven with one read-only row would
otherwise do nothing at all and then report about the wrong ten.

Copy to vault and Duplicate are new, and the difference between them is what each
can safely carry. A copy crosses a key boundary, so it drops the group and the
tags exactly as a move does — both are items of the vault being left, and a host
arriving with either would point at something the destination does not contain,
resolvable on the machine that sent it and dangling for everybody else. A
duplicate stays in the same keychain, so everything it points at is still there
and it keeps both. Change group is the write dragging a card onto a group already
makes on the desktop, run over a selection; it refuses one spanning two keychains
rather than half-filing it, which is the refusal a drop across that boundary
already makes one host at a time.

Connect via SFTP is the one action that leaves the vault. Which machine is a
decrypted item and so is this object's business; the screen it leads to and the
transfers view model behind it are the shell's — so it is an event, on the same
division SessionOpened already draws for a shell. The host is re-found in that
screen's own copy of the list, because the picker binds to rows in that copy and
handing it the vault's object would select nothing.

What is left of the card is the password box, and only because it had nowhere
else to go: a host that authenticates with a typed password cannot be reached by
a tap alone. That tap now raises a sheet rather than the bar, and the difference
is that a sheet is up only while a question is on screen — the bar was raised by
a long press and stayed, so it was a password box sitting over the list whether or
not anything was being asked. Dismissing it empties the box, which is not tidiness
either: a secret left behind would satisfy the emptiness check that decides
whether to raise the sheet at all, so the next tap would dial with somebody else's
password.

The pencil moving into that bar takes the host editor with it. It was a card in
the list's own row, under the search box and the sync line — twenty controls
sharing a screen with two rows of chrome about the list it had replaced. It is a
page now, and PhoneShell stands all four of its rows down for it, which is what
"opens with all the options" means at 360dp. That needed a second subscription in
that control: two of its flags are questions about the vault rather than about the
shell, and the shell does not forward the vault's notifications.

The ticks are held as entity ids rather than as rows, and written back onto the
rows after every reload. Every row object in the list is replaced on every filter
keystroke and every synchronisation pass, so a set of rows would empty itself once
a minute under somebody choosing what to do with eleven machines. Ids that no
longer resolve are dropped, so a colleague's deletion arriving mid-selection
leaves a count that matches what is on screen.

One caller had to change with it. ConnectToRecent opened the pane about a host,
which was the desktop's drawer and the phone's card; the phone's answer is now a
tick, and nothing on that list means "selected" any more — so arriving with the
host merely selected would be arriving at a screen with nothing to press. Both are
raised together, and the one the head in front of the user does not draw is inert.
2026-08-06 09:15:37 +02:00
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2026-08-06 07:39:32 +02:00
jaap-jan 509a7c34f5 Merge branch 'claude/snippets-vault-sharing-470476' 2026-08-06 07:39:25 +02:00
jaap-jan 185790fb14 Let a key move to another vault, and ask whether it goes with the host
Keys sync and keys are shared: SshKey is in the sync registry on both sides, the
material rides in the sealed payload, and every generation of the vault key is
wrapped to a new member. What was missing was the way in. Hosts and groups could
move between vaults and keychain items could not, so a key typed into a personal
vault before the team existed stayed there for good — and moving a host into the
team's vault left it authenticating with something nobody else in that vault can
read. The code said so and could do nothing about it: "the answer is usually to
put a copy of that key in the destination vault", which meant pasting the private
half into a second item and deleting the first. A private key on a clipboard, and
two items nobody can tell apart afterwards.

MoveAsync already existed on the generic repository and is now exposed for keys
and passwords as it is for hosts and groups. What had to be built around it is the
re-aim. An item re-sealed under another vault's key lands with an id of that
vault's making, so every host bound to the old one and every group lending it as a
default is left naming a tombstone — and a host bound to something its vault no
longer holds refuses to connect rather than falling back to a typed password. A
move without the re-aim would look like a success and break every machine on that
key. It runs over every vault this session can write to, because a binding
resolves across all of them, and it counts what it could not rewrite: an item from
a newer client, or one in a vault this account may only read. Those are said in
the sentence afterwards rather than swallowed.

The host's move asks the question rather than deciding it. A binding resolves
across vaults, so the moved host goes on working for the person who moved it
whichever way this is answered; it is the colleagues they have just joined who
hold one vault's key and cannot connect with a host whose key stayed behind.
Unticked, and it stays that way on purpose: moving a key into a team's vault hands
it to everybody holding that key, and this design does not default anybody into a
disclosure. Under the box is the count of everything else that authenticates with
that key, because a key twenty machines use is a different decision from one
nothing else touches, and neither number is visible from the panel otherwise. The
question is answered against the vault in the picker, so choosing a different
destination re-asks it and a key already in the destination offers nothing.

One thing fixed on the way. A host that inherited its key from its group arrived
in the destination naming nothing at all — the group belongs to the vault it left
— so a machine that connected before the move refused after it, with no sentence
anywhere saying why. The resolved binding is now written onto the host as it
crosses, and the stranded-binding warning reads the resolved binding too, which is
the case where somebody is least likely to know a key is involved.

MOVE is on both heads, for keys and passwords only: a tag, a bucket and a pin are
read from the active vault alone, so "another vault" is not a question any of them
has. Four tests cover the move and its re-aim, the host's move with the key
brought and without it, and the inherited binding.
2026-08-06 07:39:15 +02:00
jaap-jan 3d9ed03b09 Let a snippet be shared to a vault, the way a host already can
A snippet was a first-class vault item everywhere except where it mattered: the
crypto, the sync, the server table and every registry already treated it exactly
as they treat a host, and the screen read it out of the active vault alone. So
the one command a team most obviously wants to hold in common — the incantation
somebody worked out once and everybody else retypes — was the only item kind that
could not leave the machine that wrote it.

The read is the half that had to come first, and it is why this is not simply a
MoveAsync. ReloadSnippetsAsync now lists every readable vault rather than the
active one, in the shape ReloadHostsAsync and ReloadKeysAsync already use: the
vault new items go into first, then by vault name, then by label, with a badge on
the row only where there is more than one vault to tell apart. Without that, a
snippet moved into a team vault would have disappeared from the very screen that
moved it, and one a colleague wrote there would never have arrived at all —
sharing would have looked like losing.

Three writes were pinned to the active vault and each one broke differently once
the list spanned several. The delete tombstoned in the wrong vault, which
tombstones nothing and leaves the snippet on screen. The save is the bad one: an
update sent to the active vault creates a second snippet there and leaves the
team original untouched, so the person editing sees their fix and nobody else
ever does. That is a fork with no symptom, which is why the vault is now a
parameter and the screen latches it when the editor opens — the chosen vault for
a new snippet, the row own vault for an existing one — rather than reading it
back off a selection that can move under a half-typed form. VaultViewModel has
carried editingHostVaultId for the same reason since hosts crossed vaults.

Two controls rather than one, and that is the same line the host pane draws. The
editor asks which vault a new snippet is filed into; MOVE re-seals an existing one
under another key and tombstones the first. Putting the second inside the first
would let somebody correcting a typo hand a command to a team by leaving a picker
where they found it, so the picker is not drawn for an existing snippet at all.
Both live on SnippetsViewModel rather than VaultViewModel because this screen owns
its editor, unlike the host drawer; the writing they ask for is still the vault.

A snippet crosses whole, which is the one way this is simpler than the host it
copies. A host leaves its group and its tags behind because both are items of the
vault it came from and would dangle for everybody in the destination. A snippet is
a label, a command and a note, and none of them points at anything — so there is
nothing to strip, nothing to report as left behind, and what the copy says instead
is the thing that is actually at stake: who can read the command afterwards. For a
command that may carry a hostname or a path, that is the whole decision.

Two judgement calls worth finding later. A hidden vault now hides its snippets,
filtered in the screen projection rather than in VaultViewModel.Snippets, which is
the rule keys and passwords already follow: the list stays whole so nothing that
resolves against it breaks, and the projection is what a preference about reading
gets to change. And the nav rail count is left spanning vaults unfiltered, because
Vault.Hosts.Count beside it is unfiltered too — filtering one of the four would
make the rail disagree with itself.

Four flow tests in VaultSharingTests, beside the host ones they mirror: the move
re-seals with a new id and carries the runs-on-insert flag across, the move with
nowhere to go refuses rather than opening an empty picker, the editor files into
the vault chosen on it, and the edit of a shared snippet goes back to its own
vault instead of forking. That last one is the regression the latch exists for and
the only one whose absence has no visible symptom. Plus a layout test with the
move panel open, since that paragraph wraps in a 300-pixel column and the desktop
pane it lands in is measured.

The whole suite passes: 1660 tests, none failing.
2026-08-06 07:39:03 +02:00
jaap-jan cddfeb1f55 Keep the phone's nav under Connections when nothing is running
The chrome stands down for a shell, and it was standing down for the whole
terminal surface. Those parted company when that surface gained a connect page:
with no tabs open it draws a box, a CONNECT button and the machines connected to
before, which is a page in everything but which enum it is in. A third of the
display is worth giving to a shell and is not worth giving to that. Worse, it is
the one screen somebody arrives at by closing their last tab — so the state the
collapsed bar was most likely to be seen in was the state where it left the
system back gesture as the only route to Hosts or Settings.

So RefreshChrome reads one more question. IsTerminalSurface with no tabs joins
the pages in both flags, which keeps the rail and the bar in step: above 600dp
the rail is the bar, and fixing only the narrow layout would leave an unfolded
device on the same screen with the same nothing. The vault header is deliberately
not part of it. The surface draws its own bar with back and the +, and a header
above that is the second row of chrome this head exists to avoid.

The Connections entry lights for the first time, on IsTerminalSurface. It was
left unbound on the argument that the bar was never drawn while that surface was
up, so a lit state was unreachable — that argument is now false, and the flag is
unambiguous on a control that is only drawn in two situations: false on every
page, true on the connect page, and never read while a shell is showing. A bar
sitting under a screen it does not point at is the entry looking broken instead.

Nothing here is testable on this head — the phone's rectangles have no coverage,
for the reasons Phase 8 of manual-checks records — so 11.7 gains the check that
the bar is there with Connections lit, and 11.1 keeps the one that it is gone
with a shell up, which is the half that pays for the arrangement.
2026-08-06 07:38:31 +02:00
jaap-jan ca7fee2358 Start the confirmation Android hands back, so an update can install
Pressing INSTALL closed the application, installed nothing and said nothing. That
is two independent faults in one method, either of which breaks it on its own,
and they hid each other: the first kills the process before the second can be
observed, and the second is silent by construction.

The pending intent handed to commit was implicit — an action string with no
component behind it. A mutable pending intent may not wrap one of those from API
34, and this head targets 36, so every current phone threw IllegalArgumentException
before commit was reached. Nothing caught it, so it left the command handler,
passed the dispatcher and took the process with it. That is the closing.

Below 34, where it did not throw, it still installed nothing. An application
holding REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES rather than the privileged INSTALL_PACKAGES gets
no verdict back from a commit: what the platform answers first is
STATUS_PENDING_USER_ACTION, carrying the activity that draws the dialogue in
EXTRA_INTENT for the application to start. Android does not draw it on its own.
The comment here asserted the opposite — that a pending intent is required whether
or not anything listens, and that nothing needed to — so no receiver was ever
written, and the session was written, committed and left staged forever.

So there is a receiver now, not exported because the only sender is this
application's own commit, and the intent naming it is explicit, which is the same
change that stops the throw. Sessions are abandoned when anything fails, since one
created and neither committed nor abandoned stays staged against a per-application
cap — a repeating fault would have started failing at CreateSession instead, which
is the same bug wearing a completely unrelated face.

The reporting is the part worth keeping even after the cause is gone. Where
applying ends the process an exception has nowhere to go; where it does not, which
is this head's whole shape, it goes out through the dispatcher. RestartNowAsync now
answers the way CheckNowAsync already did, and the regression test asserts the
absence of a throw rather than the presence of one.

ADR 0014 rule 6 gets the correction in place: "asks Android to ask" is one step
longer than it reads. Check 17.5 needed no rewording — it asks for the installer
appearing by name, which is exactly the thing that never happened — so what it
gets instead is the two symptoms named, because both present as a dead button. It
is the only thing in the project that can catch either, and it plainly was never
run against a real pair of builds.

Note for whoever takes the next nightly: a broken updater cannot install its own
fix. The phone is running the code this commit replaces, so the first build
carrying it has to be sideloaded by hand; the ones after that install normally.

Compile-verified and manifest-verified — the receiver reaches the generated
manifest — and 321 tests pass. Not run on a device, which is what 17.5 is for.
2026-08-05 22:31:33 +02:00
jaap-jan 5cb361ea13 Lay the phone out like the desktop when the surface is not a phone
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Three destinations in a bar and everything else behind SETTINGS is the right
shape at 360dp, where a fourth entry costs the width of the three that are there.
On a tablet, an unfolded foldable or a landscape phone it is the wrong one: there
is room for every destination at once, and the hub becomes an extra tap between
somebody and a screen they can already see space for.

So at 600dp — Android's own boundary between a compact window and a medium one,
in the density-independent units Avalonia lays out in — the bar stands down and
PhoneRail takes the left edge with all nine on it. It is the desktop's NavRail
arrangement rather than its file: the two heads cannot share a view, and this one
draws the phone's destination set with the phone's palette and touch targets.

The flags are computed in code rather than assembled in the markup because none
of them is a single question any more, and Avalonia's bindings have no "and" —
and the header's condition is an "or", which not even a wrapper can express. That
header is the one worth reading twice: narrow it stands down behind SETTINGS, so
the hub's screens can draw their own; wide there is no hub to be behind, so it
stays up everywhere. Losing it on the keychain would be losing the only LOCK
button on the surface.

Removing the hub means removing the routes into it, and there were four kinds.
The rail has no SETTINGS entry, because that screen is a menu of the rail. The
five back arrows in the screens under it are hidden, since an arrow to a screen
the layout removed is the one control on a header that leads nowhere. The system
back gesture goes to Hosts instead. And unfolding while sitting on the hub moves
to Hosts, rather than leaving somebody on a list of things now visible beside it.

One bug fixed on the way: OnBodyResized returned early unless the keyboard was
open, so a foldable would have opened to a phone layout until somebody typed
something. The chrome is refreshed first and unconditionally; the early return
belongs to the older job below it.

What this does not do is use the width *inside* a screen — the host list is one
column at any size. Two columns needs the row model to change, because that list
is headings and hosts in one sequence and a heading has to span, and that model
is shared with the desktop. Check 8.1 walks the rail; nothing here is covered by
a test, for the reason 8.0 exists.
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This screen's own comment argued ADD out: an address typed into a box, a
directory lookup, a role picker and a paragraph saying what adding somebody did
not do, for an act a colleague at a desktop is already performing.

That was a cost argument and it was wrong about who is holding what. The person
who needs to let somebody into a vault is often the one away from their desk, and
answering them with "go and find a desktop" is the thing this head exists to stop
doing. Making a vault was already here on exactly that reasoning.

Nothing shared changed — AddMemberCommand, the role and the chips are the same
members the desktop binds — so what this is, is markup and the argument it
reverses. Four rows under the members list: the box, three role chips rather than
a picker because the answer is one of three short words, ADD, and the paragraph.
Gated on being able to administer the vault, so a plain member sees nothing
rather than a button whose only outcome is a 403.

The paragraph is not the optional part. Adding somebody changes what the server
will serve and nothing else; the key is still wrapped by a machine that holds one
— which on an unlocked phone is this one, in the same press. A screen that
offered the first and stayed quiet about the second would imply the server can
hand out access, which is the single claim this product is built to refuse.

What the phone still does not draw is anything that takes access away. REMOVE and
WITHDRAW KEY act on the first press, and an irreversible revocation under a thumb
with its explanation in a tooltip no touch screen can show is the wrong trade —
which is the line this file already drew and this does not move.

Check 12.4 walks it, including the locked-keychain case: the membership is made
and the line says the key could not be wrapped, which is a state somebody can act
on rather than silence.
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Both screens had made the code selectable and both said why: a person who cannot
get it out of the box photographs the screen, and a screenshot is a worse home
for it than a clipboard. This finishes that argument. Selecting 64 characters of
letter-spaced monospace with a thumb is the version of "possible" people give up
on halfway — and on the phone the screen blocks screenshots, so the honest
remaining options were retyping it or losing it.

It is the one secret this application deliberately offers to a clipboard, and the
contrast with the keychain's copy is the whole argument rather than an
inconsistency. There, copying the private half is refused outright, because
installing a key means pasting the public one and the private one has no business
leaving the vault. Here there is no better route: the code exists for one screen,
is stored nowhere, and has to reach a password manager. The clipboard is the
intended destination rather than a way round the design.

The sentence afterwards matters as much as the copy, and is asserted: a clipboard
is a staging post, this screen is the only place the code exists, and the next
thing copied replaces it. Somebody who copies and does nothing has not saved it.

The phone had no clipboard delegate at all — the desktop passed one and this head
passed null — so COPY PUBLIC KEY on the keychain answered "this machine has no
clipboard" on a device that plainly has one. Nothing about that was platform
shaped: Android has a clipboard and Avalonia surfaces it through the same
TopLevel. Wiring it fixes that copy too.

The test fixture built its shell without a clipboard, which modelled the bug
rather than the product, so it has one now and the public-key test asserts what
lands there instead of the refusal. The refusal keeps its own test, on a shell
built without one, because the view model reads the delegate's absence rather
than an empty result — and because a button that silently does nothing on this
screen is worse than one that refuses.
2026-08-05 18:14:34 +02:00
jaap-jan 253c72d2b7 Name the organisation the repository actually lives in
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It moved to DodoTech-Public, and every address in the product still said
DodoTech. That looked like it worked, which is the part worth writing down:
Gitea leaves a 301 at the old path and HttpClient follows a redirect on a GET, so
both update channels would have kept polling through it.

What a 301 does not survive is a POST. `vpk upload gitea` publishes the desktop
release by POSTing to that URL, so the stale address would have failed at the one
step the whole feature depends on — and a redirect is a thing an operator can
delete, which turns "works today" into the same silent outage this session has
already spent two commits on.

So both channel constants, both release scripts, the workflow's REPO, the image's
source label and the curl in phase 16 all name the live path. The local remote
too, which had been printing a redirect warning on every push.

Measured after the move: the org, the repo and the nightly release all answer 200
anonymously, and that release now carries both assets — the manifest and a 54 MB
APK. The upload going through also answers the open question about the reverse
proxy's body-size limit, which nothing local could test.
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Ctrl, Esc, Tab, the arrows and the two text-size keys were ordinary Avalonia
buttons sitting over a NativeWebView. An ordinary button takes focus on tap,
which takes it off the WebView — and the package's own OnLostFocus then calls the
adapter's ResignFocus(). So pressing Tab handed the terminal one byte and took
the keyboard away from it, and everything typed afterwards went nowhere.

What makes it worth more than a one-line fix is the symptom. The row goes on
working, because its keys are pressed rather than typed into, so what you see is
a terminal that answers the buttons and ignores the keyboard — which reads as the
session having died rather than as anything to do with focus.

Focusable = false is what a toolbar button is: these keys are an extension of the
keyboard, not a place it should go. The focused element then never changes, so
nothing resigns and nothing has to be handed back — which matters, because the
hand-back is the direction platform-flags already records as the hard one.

The flags file gains the phone's half of that entry, and check 11.10 is the
measurement: this needs a paired hardware keyboard and there is no test on this
head that could stand in for one.
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Nightly 0.0.0-alpha.0.133 died before its first frame. The long press I added
attached itself in HostsScreen's constructor through the field the Avalonia name
generator declares for `x:Name` — and that field is assigned by the generated
InitializeComponent, which no view in this repository calls. Every one of them
loads its XAML directly. So the field compiles, resolves in the editor, and is
null at run time; PhoneShell builds this control on the way up, so the
NullReferenceException took the launch rather than the hosts screen.

PhoneShell and TerminalScreen both use FindControl, and PhoneShell carries a
<remarks> saying exactly this and naming exactly this consequence. I read neither
and wrote the field.

So the rule is in docs/platform-flags.md now as well. A comment on the control
that already got it right is not where somebody writing a new one is looking,
which is the whole of why two correct examples and one warning were not enough.

And phase 8 opens with "it launches at all". Nothing on this head is covered by a
test — no test project, no headless surface — so a view that throws while being
built takes the launch with it and no gate anywhere says so. Thirty seconds, and
it would have caught this one before it was published.
2026-08-05 12:00:20 +02:00
jaap-jan 9a7e3bbd5c Let a failed update check say so, instead of reporting good news
The phone reported every build as current because the release repository is
private. Gitea answers 404 rather than 403 for a repo you cannot see, the client
reads that address anonymously, and AndroidUpdateChannel caught the failure and
returned null — which IUpdateChannel documented as meaning "this build is the
latest". The check had never once succeeded on any phone and nothing anywhere
said so.

Two faults, and the second is why the first lasted.

The seam said null was the honest answer for an unreachable channel, on the
reasoning that the caller does the same thing either way. That is true of the
six-hourly pass and false of CHECK NOW. UpdateViewModel already draws the line
correctly — silent on the timer, the exception's message on the button — and it
could only ever draw the first half, because nothing was ever thrown at it. The
desktop's channel does not catch, so the interface described neither
implementation.

So CheckAsync throws now, and null means one thing. A release that is reachable
but missing its manifest or the APK it names throws too: "you are up to date"
about a half-published feed is the same lie in a smaller costume, and the
self-healing that argument protected is untouched, since the timer still swallows
everything.

The precondition is written down where somebody would look, rather than left as a
sentence about where a token could live. ADR 0013 §4 already said a private
release repository was incompatible with this design; nobody checked which side
of it this repository was on. It is one curl, and manual-checks phase 16 now
opens with it — pointedly not against /api/v1/version, which answers 200 from a
forge that is up whatever is readable on it, and which is what made this look
like nothing was wrong.

Phone check 17.4 was the one that passed all along. It now presses CHECK NOW with
the network off as well as on, because two different answers are the whole of
what makes the first one worth reading.
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