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corrosion-admin-panel/corrosion-host-agent/PROTOCOL.md
Vantz Stockwell 068a476f39 feat(host-agent): Phase 1a process supervision — instance start/stop/restart/status + push state events
Per-instance ProcessSupervisor: tokio child spawn with proper arg list
(fixes Go's naive space-splitting), graceful SIGTERM with 30s budget
then force kill, monitor task classifying ordered-stop vs crash (exit
code captured), watch-channel state observable everywhere. Instance cmd
channel live on corrosion.{license}.{instance}.cmd (start/stop/restart/
status) with state events pushed on {instance}.status (keep-latest
semantics, documented). Heartbeats now carry live process state +
uptime per instance. Crate restructured lib+bin for integration tests.

Verified: 5 integration tests with real OS processes (lifecycle, crash
exit-code, restart recovery, unmanaged rejection, clean spawn failure)
+ live-NATS contract test (request-reply roundtrips, double-start
rejection, push events, heartbeat state) — all green.

Known limitation (documented): no PID adoption yet — agent restart
orphans a running game process to 'stopped' until panel restart.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-11 10:44:24 -04:00

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# Corrosion Wire Protocol v2
Status: **Phase 0 + Phase 1 process control implemented** (host heartbeat,
host commands, going-offline beacon, per-instance start/stop/restart/status
with push state events). RCON, SteamCMD, file ops, and game adapters are
specified but not yet implemented.
## Design
One **host agent** per machine supervises **N game instances**. Subjects are
scoped license-first, then by addressee:
```
corrosion.{license_id}.host.* host-level (the agent itself)
corrosion.{license_id}.{instance_id}.* instance-level (one game server)
```
`instance_id` is a config-defined slug (`[a-z0-9_-]{1,64}`), validated at
agent start. `host` is a reserved segment and can never be an instance id.
Payloads are JSON. Every heartbeat carries `"schema": 2` so consumers can
distinguish v2 from the legacy Go companion protocol (which used
`corrosion.{license_id}.companion.heartbeat`, no schema field).
## Host-level subjects (Phase 0 — live)
### `corrosion.{license_id}.host.heartbeat` (agent → backend, publish)
Published every `heartbeat_seconds` (default 60, jittered ±20%).
```json
{
"schema": 2,
"timestamp": "2026-06-11T18:00:00Z",
"agent": {
"version": "2.0.0-alpha.1",
"commit": "a8722a7",
"os": "linux",
"arch": "x86_64",
"uptime_seconds": 86400
},
"host": {
"hostname": "asgard-01",
"cpu_percent": 12.5,
"cpu_cores": 80,
"mem_total_mb": 262144,
"mem_used_mb": 81920,
"uptime_seconds": 1209600,
"disks": [
{ "mount": "/", "total_mb": 1907729, "free_mb": 1532211 }
]
},
"instances": [
{
"id": "rust-main",
"game": "rust",
"label": "Main 2x Vanilla",
"state": "configured",
"root_disk_free_mb": 1532211
}
],
"probe": {
"timestamp": "2026-06-11T17:58:00Z",
"results": [
{ "name": "corrosion-cdn", "host": "cdn.corrosionmgmt.com", "port": 443, "ok": true, "latency_ms": 18 }
]
}
}
```
All telemetry is measured, never fabricated. Fields the agent cannot measure
are omitted (`probe` before the first probe completes, `hostname` if
unavailable).
Instance `state` values — process-managed (an `executable` is configured):
`running`, `stopped`, `starting`, `stopping`, `crashed`; unmanaged
(telemetry-only): `configured` (root exists), `missing_root`. Each instance
also reports `uptime_seconds` (0 unless running).
### `corrosion.{license_id}.host.cmd` (backend → agent, request-reply)
Request: `{ "func": "<name>" }`. Reply: `{ "status": "success" | "error", ... }`.
| func | Reply payload |
| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| `ping` | `version`, `commit`, `uptime_seconds` |
| `probe` | `report` — fresh ProbeReport (also cached for heartbeat) |
| `sysinfo` | `snapshot` — full heartbeat payload, collected on demand |
Unknown funcs return `status: "error"` with a message listing supported funcs.
### `corrosion.{license_id}.host.going_offline` (agent → backend, publish)
Best-effort beacon (500ms budget) on graceful shutdown so the panel can flip
the host to offline immediately instead of waiting out heartbeat staleness.
Payload: `{}`.
## Instance-level subjects
### `corrosion.{license_id}.{instance_id}.cmd` (backend → agent, request-reply) — LIVE
Lifecycle and control for one game instance.
Implemented funcs: `start`, `stop` (graceful with 30s budget, then force
kill), `restart`, `status` (returns `state` + `uptime_seconds`). Errors reply
`{ "status": "error", "message": ... }` — including start on an unmanaged
instance, double start, and unknown funcs.
Planned funcs: `rcon` (process-class games), `steam_update`, `oxide_install`
(rust), plus game-adapter-specific commands (Dune: docker lifecycle, RabbitMQ
bus commands, Coriolis reset).
### `corrosion.{license_id}.{instance_id}.status` (agent → backend, publish) — LIVE
State-change events so the panel does not wait for the next heartbeat.
Payload: `{ "timestamp", "instance_id", "event": { "state": ..., "exit_code"? } }`.
Semantics: **keep-latest state sync**, not a lossless transition ledger —
near-instant transient states (e.g. `starting` when spawn succeeds
immediately) may coalesce into the following state. Consumers should treat
each event as "current state is now X".
Known Phase 1 limitation: the supervisor does not yet persist/adopt PIDs — if
the agent itself restarts while a game server is running, the game process
survives but reports `stopped` until restarted through the panel. PID
adoption is queued with the service-install work.
### `corrosion.{license_id}.{instance_id}.console` (agent → backend, publish)
Live console/log lines for the panel console view.
### `corrosion.{license_id}.{instance_id}.files.cmd` (backend → agent, request-reply)
VueFinder-style file manager ops, jailed to the instance root. Carries over
the Go agent's jailed filemanager semantics (`fm_list`, `fm_save`, ...); the
legacy UNJAILED `files.get/put/delete/list` API is retired and will not be
ported.
## Backend mapping notes (Phase 0)
- The NestJS NATS bridge subscribes `corrosion.*.host.heartbeat` and
`corrosion.*.host.going_offline`.
- Until the license→host→instance schema lands, the backend may map the host
heartbeat onto the existing single `server_connections` row per license:
`companion_last_seen` ← heartbeat arrival, `connection_status`
connected/offline, resources ← `host.cpu_percent` / `mem_*` / first disk.
Instance-level mapping activates with the fleet schema.
## Probing — scope honesty
The Phase 0 prober measures **outbound** reachability from the host (TCP
connect + latency). It cannot verify **inbound** port-forwarding (the thing
players hit). Inbound verification requires a backend-side reverse probe
service that attempts connections to the customer's public IP/ports on
request; that is specified as a Phase 1+ feature and will reuse this report
format with `direction: "inbound"`.
## Versioning
- The agent embeds semver + git hash + build timestamp (`--version`,
heartbeat `agent` block).
- Schema changes bump `schema` and are additive where possible.