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Summary

Add an opt-in, local deployment recovery tool that captures CloudCLI-owned running sessions immediately before restart and automatically sends continue after the replacement server is healthy. This ports the deployment continuation flow previously used in a private deployment worker into a portable upstream utility, without personal installation paths or a bundled service manager.

Behavior

  • node scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs snapshot <deployment-id> <snapshot-file> queries the authenticated running-sessions endpoint and captures only server-owned interactive turns. Background-only tasks and independent CLI processes are excluded.
  • Capture fails before creating a snapshot if a provider-native resume id is unavailable. Resume verifies that the database mapping still matches the captured session.
  • node scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs resume <snapshot-file> checks health, attaches over the existing authenticated WebSocket protocol, and injects a new continuation turn into the same session. The message asks the agent to inspect existing state and avoid repeating completed side effects, and includes the deployment id.
  • Preserve the saved model and effort, including custom model ids. Use provider default permissions; never replay attachments, elevated modes, or the old prompt.
  • Bind one durable recovery journal to each snapshot, write dispatch intent before sending, reject concurrent workers, and skip all recorded attempts on repeated resume. A worker killed after dispatch leaves an uncertain attempt that is not automatically retried.
  • Confirm startup through a brief processing window or successful completion. Provider startup errors, socket loss, and partial recovery are reported separately from release health.
  • Resolve installation/database/loopback API settings from the environment and .env; sign a short-lived local token without persisting credentials. Reject non-loopback origins and HTTP redirects.
  • Include the utility and its documentation in the npm package, expose npm commands, and add a focused CI workflow.

Deployment integration

See docs/deployment-recovery.md for snapshot/resume commands, detached systemd worker integration, health/rollback ordering, defaults, exit statuses, and stale-lock handling.

The deployment manager remains responsible for preparing/promoting the release, stopping/starting its server, and waiting for stable health. When deployment originates from a hosted chat, its worker must live outside the service cgroup so stopping CloudCLI cannot kill the worker.

Related: #1356 handles graceful draining before shutdown. This tool handles continuation of turns actually interrupted by deployment. It is independently usable and does not require #1356. If turns finish during a drain, refresh the snapshot immediately before the actual stop rather than continuing completed turns.

Verification

  • npm run test:deployment-recovery: 14 passed. Tests use disposable SQLite databases, real local HTTP/WebSocket servers, and subprocess workers. Coverage includes actual server replacement, model/effort retention, completed retries, concurrent workers, SIGKILL after dispatch, provider startup errors, lost acknowledgments, mapping guards, unhealthy servers, and snapshot/journal tampering.
  • npx --no-install oxlint scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs scripts/tests/deployment-recovery.test.mjs: passed.
  • npm run lint: passed with existing repository warnings.
  • npm run build: passed with existing frontend CSS/chunk warnings.
  • npx --no-install tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json: passed.
  • npm pack --dry-run --ignore-scripts --json: verified the recovery script and linked documentation are packaged.
  • npm run typecheck: blocked by the existing frontend test at src/modules/sidebar/tests/recentConversationTitleSync.test.ts:50, whose UseSidebarControllerArgs fixture lacks backgroundSessionIds. The identical error was reproduced in a clean worktree at base dc7cb6c6dcd22988f3241e10303298046ead351e. This PR changes no frontend or backend TypeScript.

Limits

This adds a new provider turn in the persisted session; it cannot restore a killed tool's in-memory state or guarantee exactly-once arbitrary side effects. Dispatch history deliberately favors avoiding duplicate continuation over automatically retrying ambiguous outcomes. Capture and stop are not atomic: prevent new sends between them and keep the interval short. A passing recovery startup check confirms the new turn started, not that the entire task finished.

The integration tests do not start a real model or interrupt a production service. The local deployment flow this utility was derived from has already resumed an interrupted hosted Codex conversation after a real deployment restart.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added deployment recovery support for self-hosted setups: capture eligible active sessions before a server restart and resume them after the replacement passes health checks.
    • Recovery tracks session outcomes and avoids automatically retrying ambiguous dispatches.
  • Documentation
    • Added guidance on setup, configuration, recovery behavior, and limitations.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a command-line tool to capture eligible CloudCLI sessions and resume them after deployment checks. The tool validates snapshots, journals dispatch outcomes, and provides safeguards against duplicate sends. Documentation, package commands, tests, and a GitHub Actions workflow support the recovery process.

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Deployment session recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Snapshot capture and validation
scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs, docs/deployment-recovery.md, scripts/tests/deployment-recovery.test.mjs
The script reads local service context and captures eligible sessions in an exclusive snapshot. It validates snapshot fields and session data. Documentation and tests cover configuration, authentication, filtering, and snapshot failures.
Resume and journaled dispatch
scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs, docs/deployment-recovery.md, scripts/tests/deployment-recovery.test.mjs
The script checks health, provider mappings, and session state before dispatch. It records dispatch outcomes and does not automatically retry ambiguous sends. Tests cover continuation results, journal and lock handling, and dispatch races.
Deployment integration and validation
README.md, docs/deployment-recovery.md, package.json, .github/workflows/deployment-recovery.yml
The guide describes when to capture and resume sessions, recovery limitations, and test coverage. Package commands expose the tool and test suite. The workflow runs the tests and lint checks on configured changes.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  actor Operator
  participant RecoveryScript as deployment-recovery.mjs
  participant SQLite
  participant CloudCLIHTTP as CloudCLI HTTP API
  participant CloudCLIWebSocket as CloudCLI WebSocket API
  Operator->>RecoveryScript: Run snapshot or resume command
  RecoveryScript->>SQLite: Read local service context
  RecoveryScript->>CloudCLIHTTP: Check health and session mappings
  RecoveryScript->>CloudCLIWebSocket: Subscribe to session state
  RecoveryScript->>CloudCLIWebSocket: Send continuation for eligible sessions
  CloudCLIWebSocket-->>RecoveryScript: Report startup outcome
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Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f6f58

The recovery tool may fail to start on production installs because dotenv is missing. Declare dotenv as a runtime dependency before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f6f58

The opt-in recovery flow has strong duplicate-dispatch safeguards and does not add a remote recovery endpoint. Remaining risk centers on trusted local inputs and deployment ordering: restarting a conversation cannot guarantee exactly-once task side effects.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The recovery actor has installation-level rather than demonstrated tenant-scoped authority: it selects the first active user and captures globally enumerated eligible sessions, up to 100 per snapshot. Its effects inherit each resumed session's project context and provider authority. A deployment environment or private snapshot handed to this actor is therefore security-sensitive.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — Control of a privileged worker's initial snapshot could select a matching database session for continuation; validation establishes shape and mapping, not capture provenance. However, the documented private-directory and installation-owner requirements constrain that input boundary. Global session resolution predates this PR, and the inspected evidence does not establish a new lower-privilege or remote exploitation path. The supported tenancy policy and actual deployment integration remain unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The worker converts local installation-secret access into a ten-minute authenticated session, or uses existing platform authentication. Its HTTP destination is restricted to a loopback origin and redirects are rejected. Credentials are not stored in recovery files; new files use mode 0600 and newly created directories use mode 0700. Journal fingerprinting detects snapshot changes against an existing journal but is not an authorization signature.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The journal contains duplicate recovery dispatch for the original snapshot path, not arbitrary task side effects. Copying snapshots bypasses that history, and a captured turn can finish before shutdown. These limitations are documented, as are manual inspection of uncertain outcomes and the distinction between successful startup and task completion. Windows also lacks the directory-fsync step used for stronger power-loss durability.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — For deployments requiring stronger guarantees, consider a server-coordinated capture/drain handshake bound to a specific turn generation. If recovery is later delegated to a less-trusted actor or used across tenants, establish a narrowly scoped recovery identity and explicit session authorization rather than relying on installation-owner authority.
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I count each session before sleep.
When CloudCLI wakes and health checks pass,
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The journal remembers each dispatch,
So no uncertain send gets a second catch.

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import path from 'node:path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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#!/bin/bash
jq '.dependencies.dotenv, .devDependencies.dotenv' package.json
rg -n '"dotenv"' package.json
rg -nP "from ['\"]dotenv['\"]|require\(['\"]dotenv" -g '!node_modules'

Repository: siteboon/claudecodeui

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#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\n' '--- package manifests ---'
git ls-files '*package*.json' '*lock*' | sort
printf '%s\n' '--- package.json ---'
cat -n package.json
printf '%s\n' '--- deployment-recovery import and dotenv use ---'
rg -n -C 3 'dotenv|dotenv\.config|snapshot|resume' scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs

Repository: siteboon/claudecodeui

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#!/bin/bash
printf '%s\n' '--- root lockfile metadata ---'
sed -n '1,35p' package-lock.json
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Declare dotenv as a runtime dependency.

scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs imports dotenv and calls dotenv.parse(...), but the package is not a direct dependency. The lockfile marks the resolved dotenv package as development-only. A production install can omit it, causing ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND before snapshot or resume runs. Add dotenv to dependencies and update the lockfile.

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Review comment at @scripts/deployment-recovery.mjs at line 9:
The `dotenv` import in the deployment recovery script depends on a package
currently resolved as development-only; declare `dotenv` as a runtime dependency
in the package manifest and update the lockfile so production installs include
it.

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