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The agent page's Harness & model picker built each option from the manifest alone, so an operator could bind a teammate to claude with no way to know whether Claude Code was installed, signed in, or absent. Nothing said otherwise until the turn failed later, somewhere else.

Each option now carries this machine's own verdict — the same join the External harnesses settings page already renders, reached through a shared useHarnessRows hook. The drafted harness additionally carries the one action this app can take about it: installing the ACP adapter, which is the app's own dependency rather than the operator's.

First step of the #2394 rollout.

Three things it deliberately does not do:

  • It never disables an option. A browser cannot see a local CLI, so readiness: undefined means "we did not look", not "not installed". Greying an option there would be a guess presented as a verdict, and binding to a harness that turns out to be missing already fails the turn with the harness's own reason — lanes.rs's doctrine, and strictly better than pre-empting it.
  • It never persists readiness. No localStorage, no app state; per page load only, with in-flight de-duplication. A stored flag is the second source of truth that could disagree with the CLI actually being there.
  • It never re-derives the desktop-only predicate. Whether to show a CLI affordance at all comes from the harness list GET {scope}/harnesses already returns, not from a second check beside AppState::can_run_local_acp().

harnessOptionLabel is untouched: it also feeds the closed trigger through SelectValue, which is a string with nowhere to put a dot, so the badge is sibling JSX inside each SelectItem instead.

API Or Behavior Changes

No host API change. Console behavior:

  • Harness options in an agent's Harness & model editor show a readiness dot and word (Ready / Add-on needed / Not signed in / Needs Node.js / Won't start / Desktop only / Managed / Remote). No option is ever rendered disabled.
  • When the drafted harness needs the ACP adapter, an Install/Update action appears below the Select with the reason, naming where the CLI was found. Installing re-reads the model list — installAcpHarness evicts the cached confirmation and nothing in the model effect's dependencies changes, so without that the picker stayed on free text until the operator toggled the harness away and back.
  • The picker probes only while its editor is open, matching the model list's existing trigger. Viewing a teammate starts no subprocess.
  • confirmAcpHarness de-duplicates concurrent calls for the same id. Settings and the picker open together now cost one handshake instead of two. De-duplication, not caching: a call made after one settles starts a fresh probe, so an adapter installed in between is still visible.
  • External harnesses settings page: unchanged behavior. Only the probe half moved into the hook; it keeps its own fetch, its 404 → render-nothing branch and its generation guard.

Tests

Frontend-only change; the Rust gates below are not applicable and were not run.

  • npm run typecheck · npm run typecheck:unit · npm run typecheck:e2e — all three green.
  • npx vitest run5897 passed, 3 skipped, 0 failed (650 files).
  • bash scripts/ci/assert-design-tokens.sh · bash scripts/ci/assert-setup-inference-imports.sh — both green.

New tests, each verified to fail against the pre-change source before it passed:

  • test/unit/acp-confirm-dedupe.test.ts — two concurrent confirmations produce one invoke and share one answer object; a third after it settles invokes again.
  • test/unit/agent-harness-readiness-picker.test.ts — an adapterMissing row badges "Add-on needed" (never "Not installed") and offers Install; installing brings the model picker up; readiness: undefined reads "Desktop only" with no Install; no option is ever rendered disabled; viewing a teammate invokes neither oc_acp_harnesses nor oc_acp_confirm_harness.
  • test/unit/external-harnesses-panel.test.ts — parity cover for the refactored settings panel, including the recorded bug where a superseded 404 blanked a working panel. These four pass against both the pre- and post-refactor component, which is what makes them a parity proof rather than a restatement of the new shape.

Verified in the running console against a live host (company trojans), on a machine with both CLIs installed and neither ACP adapter present:

  • Browser path, live: options rendered Managed / Managed / Desktop only / Desktop only; every option aria-disabled: null, data-disabled: false, pointer-events: auto; switching harness reset the per-harness model field correctly; no console errors from this path.
  • Desktop render path, driven in the same live browser with a Tauri bridge stub carrying this machine's true readiness (a vite tab has no Tauri backend): both options badged Add-on needed; the note named the real CLI path; pressing Install moved the option badge Add-on needed → Checking… → Ready, after which the install action disappeared and the free-text model field became a populated picker with the existing opus[1m] pin preserved as an unlisted value.
  • Nothing was installed and no agent binding was changed — both re-verified afterwards.

The one console error observed is pre-existing and unrelated: a DialogTrigger forwardRef warning from views/room/ChannelRail.tsx, a file this PR does not touch.

Not covered: the real Tauri shell was not built, so the desktop path's proof is the jsdom suite plus the stubbed-bridge browser run above rather than a live subprocess handshake.

Documentation

docs/spec/runtime/external-harnesses-ui.md updated — it named only one surface for the join and had a sentence reading as if the agent editor only ever asked for models. Now records the second surface and the hook, why each caller keeps its own fetch, the editor-only probe trigger, and the two rules this surface is most likely to be "fixed" into breaking (an unready option stays pickable; readiness is never persisted).

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Part of #2394.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added harness readiness indicators to the Harness & Model picker and External Harnesses panel.
    • Added install or update actions for harness add-ons, with refreshed model options after installation.
    • Unready harnesses remain selectable, with clear explanations when setup is incomplete.
    • Added descriptive availability labels, including Managed, Remote, Desktop only, and setup-related statuses.
    • Readiness checks now run when relevant views are opened and are not persisted between page loads.

Confirming a harness spawns the CLI and runs a JSON-RPC handshake, which
costs seconds. The agent picker is about to probe readiness alongside the
External harnesses panel, so the same harness can be asked about twice at
once — two subprocesses for one answer.

An in-flight map keyed by id lets the second concurrent caller join the
first, cleared in a finally so a call made after it settles starts a fresh
probe. De-duplication, not caching: an adapter installed between two looks
must still be visible, which is exactly what the Install button does.
The agent page's harness picker needs the same local survey the External
harnesses panel does, so the probe half moves into `useHarnessRows` and
`statusOf` joins the other shared derivations in `lib/harnesses.ts`, which
stays React-free for the unit lane.

Only the probe half moved. Each caller keeps its own `listHarnesses` fetch,
because the panel reads it under conditions the agent page does not: it has
to tell a 404 from an empty list, and its generation guard exists because a
superseded 404 once blanked a working panel. Both are now covered by tests
that pass against the pre-refactor component too, which is what makes them
a parity proof rather than a restatement of the new shape.

`surveying` is derived from the input rather than set inside the effect, so
Check again is never re-armed for the one frame between the fetch landing
and the join.
The picker built each option from the manifest alone, so an operator could
bind a teammate to a coding CLI with no way to know whether it was
installed, signed in, or absent. The turn just failed later, somewhere else.

Each option now carries this machine's own verdict, and the drafted harness
carries the one action the app can take about it — installing the ACP
adapter, which is the app's dependency rather than the operator's. Installing
re-reads the model list, because the install evicts the cached confirmation
and nothing in the model effect's dependencies changes.

Three things it deliberately does not do. It never disables an option: a
browser cannot see a local CLI, so unknown readiness means nobody looked, and
binding to a harness that turns out to be missing fails the turn with a
reason rather than being pre-empted by a guess. It probes only while the
editor is open, so viewing a teammate does not spawn a subprocess per
harness. And it leaves harnessOptionLabel alone, because that string also
feeds the closed trigger, where there is nowhere to put a dot.
The agent picker now joins the same two half-answers the Settings page does,
so the contract doc had a caller it did not name and one sentence that read
as if the agent editor only ever asked for models.

Also states the two rules the new surface is most likely to be 'fixed' into
breaking: an unready option stays pickable, and readiness is never persisted.
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The change centralizes harness surveying in useHarnessRows, adds readiness indicators and installation controls to the agent picker, deduplicates concurrent ACP probes, and updates the External harnesses panel and runtime specification.

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Harness readiness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Confirmation request deduplication
frontend/src/api/transport/desktop.ts, frontend/test/unit/acp-confirm-dedupe.test.ts
Concurrent confirmations for one harness share one in-flight promise. Later calls start a new probe.
Shared harness-row surveying and installation
frontend/src/lib/use-harness-rows.ts, frontend/src/lib/harnesses.ts
useHarnessRows joins declared and local harnesses, surveys checking rows, handles stale results, and manages installation state. statusOf maps transport and readiness states to labels and dots.
Settings panel integration
frontend/src/components/external-harnesses.tsx, frontend/test/unit/external-harnesses-panel.test.ts
The panel fetches declared harnesses and uses the shared hook for surveying and loading state. Tests cover labels, unsupported hosts, fetch races, and disabled refresh.
Agent picker readiness integration
frontend/src/views/team/AgentDetailView.tsx, frontend/test/unit/agent-harness-readiness-picker.test.ts, docs/spec/runtime/external-harnesses-ui.md
The editor shows readiness beside harness options, keeps unready options selectable, supports installation and model refresh, and surveys only while editing.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentEditor
  participant useHarnessRows
  participant DesktopTransport
  participant ACPBridge
  AgentEditor->>useHarnessRows: enable while editor is open
  useHarnessRows->>DesktopTransport: request local harnesses
  DesktopTransport->>ACPBridge: probe harnesses
  ACPBridge-->>DesktopTransport: return readiness
  DesktopTransport-->>useHarnessRows: return local rows
  useHarnessRows->>DesktopTransport: confirm checking rows
  DesktopTransport-->>useHarnessRows: return confirmations
  useHarnessRows-->>AgentEditor: render readiness and install state
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a3f3f

Switching companies can temporarily or indefinitely show harnesses belonging to the previous company. The issue is localized and straightforward to fix.

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State: Incomplete
Priority: high
Reviewed head: a3f3f6a060ce
Updated: 1789741311 (Unix time)

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Production 5 Active findings 1
Tests 3 Noted findings 0
Documentation 1 Resolved findings 0
Configuration 0 Pending checks/questions 2

Completeness: Incomplete
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  • Unreviewed: tinysweeper/tests

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  • high · critique · Return the status key expected by LedgerBoard — `LedgerBoard` uses `statusOf(row)` as a `Map` key and compares it with `column.id`. Returning a new object on every call means equivalent statuses never match by identity, so rows (frontend/src/lib/harnesses\.ts:208)

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  • Address Return the status key expected by LedgerBoard (frontend/src/lib/harnesses\.ts).
  • Complete the tests review for tinysweeper/tests.
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How this fits together

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  n0["AcpConfirmation<br/>changed"]:::changed
  n1["desktopHarnessId<br/>changed<br/>1 finding"]:::blocking
  n2["HarnessRow"]:::impacted
  n3["withReadiness"]:::impacted
  n4["joinHarnesses"]:::impacted
  n5["note"]:::impacted
  n6["ExternalHarnesses"]:::impacted
  n7["confirmAcpHarness"]:::impacted
  n1 -->|uses| n2
  n3 -->|uses| n2
  n4 -->|uses| n2
  n5 -->|calls| n3
  n5 -->|tests| n3
  n5 -->|calls| n4
  n5 -->|tests| n4
  n6 -->|uses| n2
  n7 -->|uses| n0
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  • Conclusion: Failure
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 9 files; 1 finding. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `93d1768791d8`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._
  • Evidence: frontend/src/lib/harnesses\.ts — Return the status key expected by LedgerBoard

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  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Reviewed 8 files; 0 findings. 1 file was not security-reviewed: docs/spec/runtime/external-harnesses-ui.md (prose or tabular data). _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `93d1768791d8`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

tests

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: incomplete; unanswered: tinysweeper/tests
  • Lane summary: No reviewer could be consulted.

commits

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: Nothing sensitive found in what this pull request commits.

description

  • Conclusion: Success
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: This change adds local harness readiness indicators to the agent picker, sharing the probe logic with the settings page via a new `useHarnessRows` hook. The refactor is careful about not disabling options, not persisting readiness, and de-duplicating concurrent probes. The code and tests are thorough and match the specification. It is safe to merge. _The code index is behind this pull request (indexed at `93d1768791d8`), so retrieved context may be out of date._ _Memory was unavailable (model: cortex: v1/recall: timed out after 10s), so this review ran without it._

e2e

  • Conclusion: Neutral
  • Scope reviewed: all assigned evidence
  • Lane summary: The change extracts probe, install, and status logic into a shared `useHarnessRows` hook so that the agent-detail picker and the External Harnesses panel ask the same question the same way; adds a new agent-page harness picker with readiness badges, install affordance, and per-agent model refresh after install; de-duplicates concurrent Tauri probes by id. The three new unit-test files cover the deduplication, the picker's behaviour, and the panel's edge cases (404, superseded loads, Check-again timing). The behavioural changes have end-to-end coverage via `agent-detail.spec.ts` (which drives the agent page and its harness/model picker), the already-passing `Console E2E (live brain)` and `Console E2E (first run)` jobs, and the pending `Console E2E` job; no e2e gaps are introduced. Waiting on 1 end-to-end job: `Console E2E`. 2 end-to-end jobs passed on this head.
  • Unresolved questions/checks: Console E2E
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  • Models: ladder/vectors, gpt-5.6-luna, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash
  • Spend: $0.052227
  • Tokens: 971794 input · 29185 output · 43890 cached · 994 embedding
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In `@frontend/src/components/external-harnesses.tsx`:
- Around line 72-87: Clear the existing declared harnesses when starting a new
company load in the component’s fetch effect, before or alongside
setFetching(true), so useHarnessRows cannot render rows from the previous
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Fix or reply to the findings below and push. The next review clears this automatically once they are gone — you should not need to dismiss anything by hand.

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e2e:         $0.0016 · 32,313 in  / 202 out    · 0 cached (0%)      · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

* the same reason {@link harnessAction} does: the settings list and the agent
* picker must not be able to call the same machine state two different names.
*/
export function statusOf(row: HarnessRow): { label: string; dot: string } {

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Return the status key expected by LedgerBoard

LedgerBoard uses statusOf(row) as a Map key and compares it with column.id. Returning a new object on every call means equivalent statuses never match by identity, so rows will not be placed into their status buckets and the drag/status comparison will always treat them as different. Return the stable status identifier expected by those callers, or update the callers to use a stable field such as label/an explicit key while keeping the display metadata separate.

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This doesn't hold — LedgerBoard's statusOf is a caller-supplied prop ((row: T) => string, LedgerBoard.tsx:160/184/310/491), and the only caller, LedgersView.tsx:1354, passes its own (entry) => entry.status closure over ledger entries. This file's statusOf(row: HarnessRow) is imported only by external-harnesses.tsx and AgentDetailView.tsx, both of which destructure .label/.dot. LedgerBoard never sees this function — two unrelated functions sharing a name, over different row types. Not changing statusOf; changing its return shape would break both of its real callers for no benefit.

@tinysweeper tinysweeper Bot added the priority: p1 Next. Wrong behaviour a user will hit, or a security weakness behind a condition. label Sep 18, 2026
CodeRabbit review on tinyhumansai#2399: setFetching(true) did not clear declared
when company changed, so useHarnessRows kept rendering the previous
company's rows for the whole in-flight fetch, and indefinitely on a
non-404 failure. Track which company declared answers for and clear
it whenever a load starts for a different one.
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@senamakel — ready for review, with one thing you should know before you look at the checks.

tinysweeper/review is red, and I believe it is wrong. Its finding asks statusOf in frontend/src/lib/harnesses.ts to return a string key because "LedgerBoard uses statusOf(row) as a Map key". LedgerBoard never sees this function: its statusOf is a caller-supplied prop (LedgerBoard.tsx:160, statusOf: (row: T) => string), and its only caller passes its own closure (LedgersView.tsx:1354, statusOf={(entry) => entry.status}). The function in harnesses.ts is imported by external-harnesses.tsx:46 and AgentDetailView.tsx:81, both of which destructure .label and .dot. Two unrelated functions over different row types that happen to share a name. Complying would break both real callers.

Full reasoning is on the inline thread. I have left it red rather than change correct code to turn a bot green — say the word if you would rather I did it the other way.

Both bots' CHANGES_REQUESTED are also pinned to a3f3f6a06, two commits back; the CodeRabbit finding they predate was fixed in 8d5d0e5f2 (stale harness rows surviving a company switch) and CodeRabbit has since acknowledged it on the thread.

Everything else is green: 11 pass, 2 pending.

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