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When an interactive socket disconnects or reloads while a queued follow-up message is still waiting (state: "queued" and !item.inFlight, or an in-flight attempt fails before typing), PendingInputs.hold transitions the server's record to "held" (reason: "owner_disconnected"). However:

1. On connection close (end(client, "closed")), state.closing = true is already set before pending.close(client) runs, so the owner socket never receives that "held" transition frame.
2. On the client (PendingMessageStore), suspend() and restored() conservatively convert any "queued" or "sending" row to "uncertain" (serverOwned: false) because the browser alone cannot know whether the server began typing before the socket dropped.

As a result, when a mobile or desktop browser loses its WebSocket connection while a follow-up is sitting in the queue (Will send when ready), reconnecting leaves the saved copy stuck in "uncertain" ("Not confirmed. Check the terminal before sending again.") with no Send now button, even though the server knows nothing was ever typed.

This change extends the existing resumable follow-up receipt mechanism (#2421, bounded to 10 minutes / 1024 entries / matching deviceId + receipt_resume_id) with outcome: "held":

• When a follow-up with a resumeKey transitions to "held", keepReceipts records { outcome: "held", resumed: true } in completed (and pushes it to any already-attached successor with the same resumeKey).
• If the held copy later leaves "held" ("sending", "uncertain") or is settled ("sent", "discarded", "dismissed"), including via resend_id after the 60s closed-owner retention window expires, the "held" receipt is superseded or removed so a later reconnect cannot overwrite a newer state.
• On the client (PendingMessageStore), receiving { id, outcome: "held", resumed: true } (either after snapshot lifetime proof or before it via earlyResumedReceipts) transitions a non-authoritative saved copy (!serverOwned, unproved, !piReceipt, !resendInFlight, !unconfirmed) from "uncertain" to "held" and persists state: "held" to storage, restoring Held message — review and send and ↑ Send now.

Validation

• bun scripts/typecheck.ts — passed
• bun run build — passed
• bun test src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts — passed (43/43, including new unit test for recovering a disconnected queued message as "held" without rearming an in-flight resend or unconfirmed copy)
• bun test src/lib/machineSession.test.ts — passed (30/30, including early resumed "held" receipt settlement after snapshot lifetime proof)
• bun test server/core/pending.test.ts — passed (59/59, including 11-case parameterized suite covering held on close, overlapping reload, held after reattach, wrong browser, wrong device, read-only, revoked, owner revoked, expired, resent after closed-owner expiry, and ambiguous resend after closed-owner expiry)
• bun test server/pending-input.contract.test.ts — passed (115/115, including contract test verifying end-to-end WebSocket replay of a "held" receipt on reconnect without typing again)

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Maintainer update (behaviour change, accepted by the maintainer)

This PR now follows a stricter rule for held messages than v0.5.1:

• A held copy offers Send now only on live proof: its own live connection, or the bridge's held receipt for this browser within the receipt's ten-minute window. It is never sent automatically.
• A saved held copy (after a reload, in another tab, after the connection that held it ended, or one an older release saved) shows as uncertain ("Not confirmed. Check the terminal before sending again.", Copy and Discard only) until such a receipt proves it again.
• Consequence, deliberate: a held copy on a remote PC (its relay strips the resume ID), after an Ovis server restart or update, past the ten minutes, or one held for another reason (for example pending_turn_unconfirmed) once its connection is gone, no longer offers Send now. DESIGN.md says so.
• Wire: held receipt frames carry held (IDs), held_ms (time the bridge still keeps each, 0 < ms <= 600000) and held_until (its end on the PC's clock); the features frame carries server_time. All are optional, and clients that predate them ignore them. The page holds a copy until the sooner of arrival + held_ms and held_until on its own clock.
• A resend checks and claims its receipt inside the pane's serialized turn by the original ID, for its own pane and browser, so concurrent resends type once.

Validation (maintainer, head 3c361ab)

• bun run check fast, plus server/core/pending.test.ts, server/pending-input.test.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts, src/lib/machineSession.test.ts and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts.
• In the CI runner image (herdr-ci-runner:local), on a freshly installed and built clone:
  • pass: pending-pane-switch-regression (proven lost connection and reload; unproven other browser, expired receipt, ambiguous send, proven on another page, page left open past the window), chat-local-send-follow-demo-regression, chat-size-regression, composer-fit-demo-regression, restored-draft-demo-regression, terminal-autoswitch-demo-regression, terminal-paste-insert-demo-regression, new-session-skills-browser-qa;
  • ui-regression: passes its pending step, then stops locally at the New workspace folder browser, which fails the same way on v0.5.1 in that image;
  • machines-browser-qa: not run, it needs an SSH fixture and is not part of CI.

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  • Queued follow-up messages held after a connection drop or reload now appear as Held message — review and send when the receipt is restored, instead of remaining unconfirmed.
  • After reconnection, you can choose Send now or discard the held message. It is not typed automatically, and uncertain messages remain unconfirmed.

The change adds held to resumable follow-up receipts. The server tracks and replays eligible held receipts, and the client restores matching saved copies as held without confirming server ownership. Tests and documentation cover the receipt lifecycle and recovery behavior.

Changes: Held Receipt Recovery

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Held receipt contract and server replay shared/protocol.ts, server/core/pending.ts, server/core/pending.test.ts, server/pending-input.contract.test.ts	The receipt contract and server handling include the held outcome. The server retains and replays held receipts for eligible connections, and updates them after held-copy resends. Tests cover replay eligibility, expiry, and resend outcomes.
Saved-copy restoration and validation src/lib/pendingMessages.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts, src/lib/machineSession.test.ts, DESIGN.md, changelog.d/queued-disconnect-held.md	The client restores matching saved copies as held without marking them server-owned, and clears held markers in specified state changes. Tests cover persistence and terminal receipts. The design and changelog describe held-message recovery.

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Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• devswha/ovis#1795: This PR covers typed Pi transcript receipts after disconnect; the current change excludes those receipts from held recovery.

Suggested reviewers: devswha

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 13d86

Recovery can incorrectly offer Send now during an existing send or leave another pane’s saved message unconfirmed. These are bounded recovery issues; merging warrants owner awareness and follow-up. The reported CLA requirement also remains outstanding.

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- Around line 1178-1183: Update the held receipt lookup in the resend handling
flow to match both message.resend_id and message.pane_id, accounting for pane
moves so a successful submit only replaces the held receipt belonging to the
submitted pane. Keep the existing success handling in place for a matching
receipt.
- Around line 994-1006: Update the message loop so a newer non-held state
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Preserve the resumability guard for adding or resuming receipts, so an earlier
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This PR touches queued input, so the maintainer-side reviews stand in for CodeRabbit on the last two commits. Thanks again @jimbb for the fix and the thorough tests. The follow-up commits below were pushed to your branch by us.

Reproduction: the PR's new tests run against origin/main give 9 failures out of 248, including the WebSocket contract case where a returning browser gets no held receipt. With the PR, all 248 pass.

Findings and resolutions

1. HIGH (omo + Codex, reproduced): a held receipt was pushed to a live owner's sibling tab (same browser resume id). After that owner's Send now ended uncertain, the sibling turned the saved uncertain row back into held and offered Send now again. Fixed in 0b1610b: held receipts are kept only once the queuing connection has closed, and the client applies a resumed held ID once, to the copy saved when it arrives.
2. HIGH (Codex, reproduced; omo rated it MEDIUM): { outcome: "held", resumed: true } inside removed[] made clients that predate it delete the unsent saved copy, since they treat any resumed removal as settled. Fixed in 0b1610b: resumed held IDs travel in the frame's own optional held field. PendingRemoval is unchanged.
3. LOW (omo; CodeRabbit thread): held receipts from live connections took completed slots. This is closed by (1).
4. LOW (omo; CodeRabbit thread): the resend path converted a held receipt without checking the pane or browser. Fixed in 0b1610b: the receipt becomes sent only for the same pane and resume key, and is otherwise dropped.
5. MEDIUM (Codex re-review of the fix, reproduced): a message already held while its owner was live got no receipt on close, because hold() republishes only queued or in-flight rows. Fixed in 59c4f8f: close() re-tells already-held rows. Covered by the "held before close" case.

Every new test case fails on the code before its fix and passes after.

Validation at 59c4f8f: bun run check fast green (typecheck, build, 12822 unit tests). Targeted runs: server/core/pending.test.ts, server/pending-input.test.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts and src/lib/machineSession.test.ts (188 pass), plus server/pending-input.contract.test.ts (123 pass). The omo review is CLEAR at 59c4f8f, and the Codex re-review confirmed both HIGHs closed. No UI components changed, so no browser regressions were run.

CLA: not signed yet. This can merge only after the CLA check passes.

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Review round 2: real reproduction on v0.5.1, and a re-check against main

Thanks again @jimbb. This round reproduced the bug end to end on the release and re-checked the head against current main. Fixes for two reproduced findings were then pushed to your branch (below).

Reproduction (release v0.5.1, real browser): an isolated herdr session ran a real Claude Code CLI against a loopback stand-in provider that holds its reply open, so herdr reported the pane working. In Chat I sent a follow-up. It was queued (state: "queued", Next turn / Send now). Then I closed the page's WebSocket and let it reconnect. On v0.5.1 the saved copy became uncertain: "Not confirmed. Check the terminal before sending again." with no Send now, although nothing had been typed into the terminal. This reproduced at 1280 px and at 390 px (touch, mobile).

PR head 59c4f8f, same steps: the copy came back as held, showing "Held message — review and send" with Send now, at both widths. Pressing Send now typed the follow-up into Claude exactly once.

Against main: the head is behind main (= v0.5.1, c990177), but it merges cleanly. main changed none of server/core/pending.ts, server/pending-input.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.ts or src/lib/machineSession.ts; its shared/protocol.ts change is unrelated (relay pass and devices). With the fixes, main was merged in as well (35aca00, no conflicts). On the merge result, the PR's tests pass: 188 unit tests in server/core/pending.test.ts, server/pending-input.test.ts, src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts and src/lib/machineSession.test.ts, plus 123 in server/pending-input.contract.test.ts. On v0.5.1 the same tests give 9 and 2 failures.

Adversarial review of the merge result (no HIGH):

1. MEDIUM, reproduced, a regression of this branch: a held copy discarded with × could come back as held with Send now after a later resumed held ID plus a stale copy that another tab of the same browser saved. Reproduced in a real browser (same isolated setup, two tabs on one pane, at 59c4f8f): follow-up queued in tab A; A's WebSocket dropped, so both tabs show Held / Send now; Discard in A; A's WebSocket dropped again, so the server replays the held ID; tab B writes back the saved list it had from before (the copy as queued). Tab A then shows the discarded follow-up as "Held message — review and send" with Send now. Fixed in c7bdba8 and 441c9cf: a discarded ID is remembered, so a resumed held ID never re-arms it, and a stale or late copy of it that is already held is shown uncertain. With the fix, the same steps leave it "Not confirmed. Check the terminal before sending again." with no Send now, as on v0.5.1, for both a stale queued and a stale held copy.
2. MEDIUM, reproduced by a server test: after the closed owner's 60 s retention expired, a resend kept the held receipt in place while it was typing, so a tab attaching meanwhile was told the copy was still held. Fixed in 39d448a: the receipt is taken out when the dispatch starts, and put back only when the answer proves nothing was typed. 441c9cf puts it back in its place by age, because expiry pruning reads from the front, and keeps a successful resend from adding a second sent receipt.
3. LOW, fixed in c7bdba8: the held-ID bookkeeping is dropped when another herdr takes the PC's pane IDs.

Each fix has a test that fails before it and passes after (src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts "never offers a discarded copy again", server/core/pending.test.ts "attach during resend after closed-owner expiry" and "keeps a held receipt's ten-minute expiry").

Left (not fixed):

• After the 60 s expiry, two explicit Send now presses with different resend generations could both type. This needs two deliberate sends, and the generation handling predates this PR.
• A tab that attaches while a resend is refused (nothing typed) is not re-told that the copy is held until its next attach. It stays "Not confirmed", which is safe.
• The discard tombstone lives in the page's memory, so it does not survive a reload.

Validation at 441c9cf (merged with main = v0.5.1): bun run check fast green (typecheck, build, 13011 unit tests pass, 0 fail). The 4 pending unit files: 191 pass. server/pending-input.contract.test.ts: 123 pass. Maintainer review CLEAR at 441c9cf.

CLA: still unsigned; this can merge only once the CLA check passes.

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Update: the maintainer accepted the new rule (head 79c0f29)

CI at 441c9cf failed two browser regressions, because they encoded v0.5.1's rule: a copy left by a lost connection or a reload stays uncertain and never offers Send now. That collides with this PR's purpose. The maintainer chose to accept the new rule:

Only a follow-up the bridge proves it holds untyped, for the same browser and within the bridge's ten-minute receipt window, comes back as Held with Send now. It is never sent without that press. Every unproven copy stays uncertain with no Send now.

What the browser regressions now check

• scripts/pending-pane-switch-regression.ts, proven cases: after a real lost connection, and after a reload, the copy comes back held on the bridge's held receipt for its exact ID (the frame is checked). It offers Send now, readiness types nothing, and one Send now types it once.
• The same script, unproven cases: each must show data-state="uncertain", no .pending-message-send, and type nothing, also after the agent becomes ready.
  • (a) another browser session (a different receipt_resume_id);
  • (b) a reconnect after the ten-minute receipt window (the server clock moves only once a witness tab has seen the bridge keep the receipt);
  • (c) an ambiguous send: Send now left the page and the connection dropped before any answer;
  • (d) a copy proven held on one page, reopened in another browser session.
• scripts/ui-regression.ts: after a reload, the two queued copies come back held on two distinct held receipts and offer Send now. Readiness and discarding them type nothing.
• On v0.5.1 the updated scripts fail at the new expectation ("the bridge's held receipt brings the copy back held"; "reload brings the proven copies back held"). The unproven cases (a) and (b) pass on both v0.5.1 and the head. Cases (c) and (d) cannot be set up on v0.5.1, which never offers Send now after a lost connection.

Fixes from the adversarial review of the rule (each with a test that fails before it):

• 8f484f8: a copy held on a receipt is held on that page only and saved as uncertain, so a reload, another browser session or a later session needs a fresh receipt. A held ID remembered before its copy is saved applies only within ten minutes. A resend of an ID that already has a sent receipt does not type it again, also after its resend record expired.
• 79c0f29: a late held answer keeps that copy page-only. Another tab's saved sending row is never held again. The sent-receipt guard answers only for the same pane and, when it is known, the same text.

Left (documented, not changed here)

• A server-owned row the bridge itself held while its connection was live (for example "review and send") is saved as held and restored with Send now. That is v0.5.1 behaviour, unchanged by this PR.
• Earlier LOWs: two explicit Send now presses on different generations after the expiry, and a moved pane refreshing its receipt's timestamp.

Validation at 79c0f29 (main 72578ff merged in):

• bun run check fast green: 13025 pass, 0 fail.
• The 4 pending unit files 194/194, and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts 123/123.
• In the CI runner image, these pass: pending-pane-switch-regression, chat-local-send-follow-demo-regression, chat-size-regression, composer-fit-demo-regression, restored-draft-demo-regression, terminal-autoswitch-demo-regression, terminal-paste-insert-demo-regression, new-session-skills-browser-qa.
• ui-regression passes its pending step in the image; locally it then stops at the New workspace folder browser, which fails the same way on v0.5.1 in this image (environment).
• machines-browser-qa needs an SSH fixture and is not part of CI.
• Maintainer review CLEAR at 79c0f29.

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Update: the held proof now ends with the bridge's receipt (head 2df1e73)

The page-only Held copy now ends with the bridge's receipt, so a page left open cannot keep Send now past the ten-minute window.

• Frame: the held receipt frame has a new optional held_ms: by held ID, how many ms the bridge still keeps that receipt. Clients that predate it ignore it.
• Deadline: the page turns each value into a deadline when the frame arrives, so a receipt that waits for its snapshot loses no time. It never allows more than ten minutes, and a replay that ends sooner shortens the proof.
• Expiry: one timer runs to the first deadline. Every read also checks it: render, the Send now press, and restore. So a tab that slept or a clock that jumped forward finds the copy uncertain, with "Not confirmed" and no Send now. A press past it types nothing.
• Already ended: a copy whose proof has ended stays uncertain even if the old connection's late held answer arrives. A copy being sent is left to its send.

Commits: c02e419 (held_ms, deadline, timer, render and press checks) and 2df1e73 (late answers, replays, frames that waited, no timer loop for a copy being sent). The main merge is ad2ba7f.

Tests (each fails on the code before it):

• src/lib/pendingMessages.test.ts, with a fake clock and captured timers: held before the deadline; uncertain after it at read time, which is what the Send now press reads; one timer to the first deadline that tells the page; the timer cleared on discard; a late answer, a shorter replay and a frame that waited.
• server/core/pending.test.ts and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts: the held frame carries held_ms within the window.
• scripts/pending-pane-switch-regression.ts case (e): a proven held copy on a page whose clock moves past the window (Playwright's page clock) turns uncertain, with 0 .pending-message-send and nothing typed. On 79c0f29 the script fails exactly there.

Left, documented:

• A backward jump of the browser's clock lengthens the page's proof by that much.
• A bridge that sends held without held_ms gets the full ten minutes; no released bridge does, since held is new in this PR.
• As before, a row the bridge itself held while its connection was live is saved as held and restored with Send now, as in v0.5.1. This PR does not change that.

Validation at 2df1e73 (main 58016dc merged in):

• bun run check fast green: 13038 pass, 0 fail.
• The 4 pending unit files 196/196, and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts 123/123.
• In the CI runner image, on a freshly installed and built clone, these pass: pending-pane-switch-regression (cases a-e), chat-local-send-follow-demo-regression, chat-size-regression, composer-fit-demo-regression, restored-draft-demo-regression, terminal-autoswitch-demo-regression, terminal-paste-insert-demo-regression, new-session-skills-browser-qa.
• ui-regression passes its pending step, then stops at the New workspace folder browser, which fails the same way on v0.5.1 in this image.
• Maintainer review CLEAR at 2df1e73.

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Update: strict review round (head 3c361ab)

The merge pass's strict review reproduced one HIGH and four MEDIUMs at 2df1e73. All five are fixed, each with a test that fails at 2df1e73.

• HIGH, a held copy typed twice: after the closed owner's record expired, two concurrent resends (generations 0 and 1) both typed the text. A resend now checks and claims the held or sent receipt inside the pane's serialized turn, by the original ID, so the second sees the claim and types nothing. Test: "concurrent resends after closed-owner expiry" gives one typed_now and the bytes once. (9d28f90)
• M1, a receipt claimed for the wrong pane: a resend to another pane carrying this pane's ID consumed its held receipt. The receipt is claimed only for its own pane and browser. The test also checks that this pane's later Send now records its sent receipt there, so a replay types nothing. (9d28f90, cd03d25)
• M2, held without proof: a held row restored from storage, seen in another tab, left by an ended connection, or answered late after its connection ended is now uncertain, with no Send now, until the bridge's receipt proves it again. (9d28f90, cd03d25) This is a behaviour change from v0.5.1. Held copies on remote PCs (the relay strips the resume ID), after a server restart, past ten minutes, or held for another reason once their connection is gone no longer offer Send now. DESIGN.md (3c361ab) and the PR description now say so.
• M3, malformed held frames: held must be a string array, and each ID needs 0 < held_ms <= 600000. Anything else proves nothing and stays uncertain, with no clamping. Tests cover each malformed shape.
• M4, a late frame lengthening the window: the bridge sends held_until on its own clock, and server_time with the connection's features frame. The page keeps a copy held until the sooner of arrival + held_ms and held_until moved onto its own clock. Test: a frame that arrives five minutes late, with five minutes left, holds nothing.
• Demo: composer-fit-demo-regression checked v0.5.1's rule ("an unconfirmed queued request becomes uncertain"). The demo's bridge now keeps and replays held receipts as the bridge does. That step's second case is now an unproven copy past the receipt's window: uncertain, no Send now, Discard only. (88ed3c4)

Review results at this round's commits:

• Codex (terra) found no HIGH that an ordinary page can reach. Fixed from it: a resend to another pane no longer hides this pane's sent receipt, and a late held answer without a live receipt is uncertain (cd03d25).
• Left, documented:
  • two resends of one ID with different text can both type (needs constructed frames, and a different text should not be swallowed);
  • a receipt-held copy keeps its proof through a disconnect within its window;
  • another browser's resend can leave this browser's held receipt;
  • the clock offset is taken from one features frame;
  • a malformed removed field is not validated;
  • the demo bridge keys receipts by ID and pane only.
• The maintainer review's LOWs, left with reasons:
  • sent receipts recorded without a text hash still answer a replay of that ID: IDs are random UUIDs;
  • sent entries without a resume key are kept, because they are what makes the concurrent-resend dedupe hold for clients without one.
• Maintainer review CLEAR at 3c361ab.

Validation at 3c361ab (origin/main 14d8e1e merged in):

• bun run check fast green: 13081 pass, 0 fail.
• The 4 pending unit files 201/201, and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts 123/123.
• In the CI runner image, on a freshly built clone at cd03d25 (only DESIGN.md changed after it), these pass: pending-pane-switch-regression, chat-local-send-follow-demo-regression, chat-size-regression, composer-fit-demo-regression (3 of 3), restored-draft-demo-regression, terminal-autoswitch-demo-regression, terminal-paste-insert-demo-regression, new-session-skills-browser-qa.
• ui-regression passes its pending step, then stops at the local New workspace environment timeout, as on v0.5.1.
• composer-fit has a timing race at its line 602 ("editing a working send to empty"). It also hit a build whose runtime equals main's at that step (2 of 6 under heavy load), so it is not this PR's.

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Update: final round (head a52d98a)

The merge pass's delta reproduced 2 HIGH and 1 MEDIUM at 3c361ab. All three are fixed, each with a test that fails at 3c361ab.

• HIGH a, a proof surviving a later disconnect: any disconnect now ends every page-only held proof and every remembered held ID. Only a receipt on the next connection holds a copy again, so a reconnect to a restarted bridge, or after another tab sent the copy, leaves it uncertain. A Send now refused with nothing typed after such a disconnect is not held again either; Codex found that path. (be3e64d, a52d98a)
  • Tests: pendingMessages.test.ts "ends every receipt's proof with any disconnect"; machineSession.test.ts "holds a resumed copy only until the bridge's end ... never past a later disconnect" (real MachineSession).
• HIGH b, a delayed frame lengthening the window: a held ID is a proof only when its frame carries held_until and server_time; held frames now carry server_time, and older bridges get no Send now. Its end on the page is held_until plus the least clock offset (page clock less PC clock, arrival-based) of that frame and the earlier frames of the same connection. Delay only raises an offset, so the end is never later than the held frame's arrival plus the time the bridge said was left. The offset is reckoned afresh on each connection. (be3e64d, 6a2ed9b)
  • Tests: a delayed features frame, a delayed held frame, a held frame arriving after the end, and a PC clock that ran ahead on an earlier connection.
• MEDIUM, a receipt lost on a refused resend: a resend refused by a throw (pending_limit, a reused ID) puts back the held receipt it took. Test: "resend refused at its limit" (the receipt is still offered on the next attach, and nothing is typed). (be3e64d)
• Attack before the push: a scratch in-memory probe, deleted afterwards, ran the real bridge (createPendingDelivery with a per-pane serializer) and real client stores through each sequence. Results:
  • delayed held frame and delayed features frame: never past the bridge's end;
  • past the end: no tab is held, and the bridge replays nothing;
  • tab A's own drop: its copy is uncertain;
  • tab B's Send now: typed once;
  • A's reconnect: its copy is settled by the sent receipt, and a stale resend types nothing;
  • a restarted bridge: uncertain.

Left, documented:

• When every frame of a connection is delayed by the same amount, no timestamp can show it. The end is bounded by the held frame's arrival plus the time the bridge said was left.
• A clock step after a proof was given (the page's clock back, or the PC's forward) is not re-checked until the next frame. A monotonic-clock deadline would close that.
• Earlier LOWs as listed above.

Validation at a52d98a (origin/main merged in as ad992e4):

• bun run check fast green: 13112 pass, 0 fail.
• The 4 pending unit files 204/204, and server/pending-input.contract.test.ts 123/123.
• In the CI runner image, on a freshly built clone at a52d98a, these pass: pending-pane-switch-regression, chat-local-send-follow-demo-regression, chat-size-regression, restored-draft-demo-regression, terminal-autoswitch-demo-regression, terminal-paste-insert-demo-regression, new-session-skills-browser-qa.
• composer-fit-demo-regression passed 2 of 3; the third hit the known line-602 load race seen on main-equivalent builds.
• ui-regression passes its pending step, then stops at the local New workspace environment timeout.
• Maintainer review CLEAR at a52d98a.

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