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What

A phone paired through the Ovis relay before its PC picked a regional relay (#2832) kept connecting through relay.ovis.sh. Now the PC tells it which relay to use, inside the encrypted channel, and the phone saves it for its next connection.

• New optional mux feature relay-hints (RELAY_HINTS in shared/relay-mux.ts). The phone offers it in HELLO; a PC that supports it selects it in WELCOME, then adds relays to AUTH_OK: the relay new offers name (the regional one while its link is online), then relay.ovis.sh. relays is up to four wss: origins, validated by the frame schema.
• PC: RelaySession takes relayHints, wired from RelayService through both links (server/relay/).
• Phone (shared/relay-channel.ts, used by the hosted app and by a PC that adds another PC through the relay): on AUTH_OK the saved record's relay becomes hintedRelay(saved, relays) (shared/relay-regions.ts).

Trust

• The hint arrives inside the Noise channel, from the PC whose static key the phone pinned, after admission; the relay sees only ciphertext and cannot add, change or replay it.
• Even so the phone only moves between Ovis's own relays: a saved self-hosted relay is never replaced, and a named relay that is not relay.ovis.sh or a listed regional one is ignored. So a PC (or anything that can speak as it) cannot steer its phones to an arbitrary relay. A wrong regional choice is still recoverable: the phone falls back to relay.ovis.sh (feat(relay): regional relay endpoints with fallback to the global relay #2832) and the PC stays on both.
• Old apps offer no feature and get no relays; old PCs never select it, and a new phone accepts a WELCOME that selects nothing. Old phones also ignore an unknown AUTH_OK field.

Validation

• Failing first (on d50bdc3e): mux schema round trip and rejection of non-wss: / path / userinfo / more than four origins; the PC names relays only to a phone that offered the feature; the phone saves the regional relay (sign-in and pairing), keeps a self-hosted relay, and ignores a non-Ovis relay.
• Merged origin/main (digit-comparison pairing): both features coexist in HELLO/WELCOME. Relay tests: 493 pass.
• bun run check fast: all ok.

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• New Features
  • Phones that support relay hints can learn the regional relay selected by their PC and use it on their next connection, without pairing again.
  • The relay hint is shared during connection setup; phones that don’t support hints continue to connect as before.
• Bug Fixes
  • Regional relay choices are now retained across server restarts.
  • Saved self-hosted relay choices remain unchanged.

The change adds relay-hint negotiation to the relay protocol. The server can send up to two relay origins in AUTH_OK, and the client can save an eligible regional relay for later connections. The PC key update also persists relay details from the admitted device state.

Changes: Relay hint flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Relay-hint wire contract shared/relay-mux.ts, shared/relay-mux.test.ts, docs/relay.md	The mux defines RELAY_HINTS and optional AUTH_OK.relays. It validates up to two normalized wss: origins. The frame documentation describes these fields.
Server hint negotiation and delivery server/relay/link.ts, server/relay/service.ts, server/relay/session.ts, server/relay/session.contract.test.ts, server/relay/test-helpers.ts	The server selects relay hints when a client offers the feature and a provider is configured. AUTH_OK includes the provider’s nonempty relay list. Tests cover feature negotiation and omission when the client does not offer the feature.
Client hint selection and adoption shared/relay-channel.ts, shared/relay-regions.ts, src/lib/relay/channel.test.ts, docs/relay.md, changelog.d/relay-hints.md	The client offers relay hints and adopts the first hint only when the feature is selected and both relay URLs are Ovis relays. Tests cover regional, self-hosted, unsupported-feature, and non-Ovis cases. The documentation and changelog describe the exchange.
Persist admitted relay offer server/relay-pc.ts, server/relay-pc.test.ts	The PC key update saves the admitted device’s relay and optional name. A test checks that an updated regional relay remains after loading the key.

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Change: Feature

Possibly related PRs

• devswha/ovis#2832: Adds regional relay selection and global fallback, which connects to the relay-hint selection and persistence behavior here.
• devswha/ovis#2696: Adds feature negotiation to the same HELLO/WELCOME flow extended here for RELAY_HINTS.
• devswha/ovis#2829: Adds PC-to-PC relay access through RelayPcKey and openRelayChannel; this change updates how RelayPcKey persists an admitted relay offer.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review d97cc

Relay hints work for shipped clients, but clients requiring the feature are incorrectly rejected. The compatibility issue is bounded; correct the feature guard and add the recommended regression coverage.

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[devswha]

Codex adversarial review (Terra 6.1, xhigh), crypto/trust focus, on 9487934a: no HIGH or MEDIUM. It confirmed the hint can only come from the PC whose Noise static key the phone pinned, after admission, and that the phone only moves between Ovis's own relays. Its four LOWs, handled in d97cc0f7:

• PC-to-PC relay records (server/relay-pc.ts) wrote the old relay to disk on the admission that changed it: fixed, the saved offer is built from the updated record. Test: "keeps across a restart the relay the PC named on admission" (fails without the fix).
• The phone applied relays even when WELCOME did not select relay-hints: fixed, it now applies them only when selected. Test: "takes no relays from a PC that did not select relay hints".
• Four 256-byte origins could exceed the 1 KiB AUTH_OK limit: the list is now at most two origins (the PC sends two), and a test encodes two of the longest valid origins.
• An open page keeps reconnecting through the relay it opened with: docs now say the phone uses the new relay from the next time it opens that PC (the transport is unchanged; a reconnect that fails there still falls back as in feat(relay): regional relay endpoints with fallback to the global relay #2832).
• Not changed: the server still lists only pair-sas as an acceptable required feature; no client requires relay-hints.

omo review: CLEAR on 9487934a and again on d97cc0f7. bun run check fast green on d97cc0f7.

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shared/relay-mux.test.ts: 1

364-366: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add decode-side rejection coverage for malformed AUTH_OK relays.

The "takes only a few wss origins" loop checks only encodeFrame. Encode and decode share the metadata validator, so a change that bypasses validation only in the decode path would pass these assertions. Add a matching decodeFrame assertion for each rejected relay list.

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     for (const relays of [["https://relay.ovis.sh"], ["wss://relay.ovis.sh/path"], ["wss://user@relay.ovis.sh"], "wss://relay.ovis.sh",
       ["wss://a.example", "wss://b.example", "wss://c.example"]]) {
       expect(() => encodeFrame(authOk(relays))).toThrow(MuxProtocolError);
+      expect(() => decodeFrame(wire(FrameType.AUTH_OK, JSON.stringify({ session_id: "a".repeat(32), device_id: "b".repeat(16), role: "drive", relays })))).toThrow(MuxProtocolError);
     }

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Review comment at @shared/relay-mux.test.ts around lines 364 - 366:
Add decode-side rejection coverage in the malformed-relays loop alongside the
existing encodeFrame assertion. For each relays value, build an AUTH_OK frame
using the existing wire and FrameType.AUTH_OK helpers with otherwise valid
required fields, then assert decodeFrame throws MuxProtocolError.

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Review comments at @server/relay/session.ts:
- Line 206: Update the feature negotiation in the session handler: compute
`this.hinting` before validating `required_features`, then check each required
feature against the features this PC actually selects, including
`PAIR_SAS_FEATURE` when SAS binding is available and `RELAY_HINTS` when hinting
is enabled. Keep the existing `unsupported_extension` response for any required
feature that is not selected.

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Review comments at @shared/relay-mux.test.ts:
- Around line 364-366: Add decode-side rejection coverage in the
malformed-relays loop alongside the existing encodeFrame assertion. For each
relays value, build an AUTH_OK frame using the existing wire and
FrameType.AUTH_OK helpers with otherwise valid required fields, then assert
decodeFrame throws MuxProtocolError.

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Merge note: relay hints - already-paired phones learn the regional relay inside the encrypted channel (AUTH_OK only, feature-negotiated; old apps/PCs unaffected). omo CLEAR at this head, Codex crypto/trust review no HIGH/MEDIUM, CodeRabbit thread fixed with a test, required checks green.