feat(devices): connect simulator hosts over SSH

[juliusmarminge]

Connect simulator hosts over SSH from Settings → Projects after selecting one environment. Users can probe, save, edit, and remove hosts using that environment's SSH keys and configuration.

The SSH adapter installs the pinned device hub on first use, starts agent tools only after separate agent-access consent, forwards their loopback endpoints, reconnects after transport failure, and cleans up its owned helpers and tunnels when a host is removed. Discovery, streaming, and control use the existing host-aware device APIs. EAS, app delivery, and Metro forwarding are outside this milestone.

Validation:

• Focused device, MCP, authorization, and settings tests pass. The final integrated device/MCP/client run passed 58 tests, including concurrent remote startup, failed agent activation cleanup, and host replacement races. Server and web typechecks pass; targeted lint has no errors.
• Live cups → Mac mini: probe, helper installation, 13 iOS devices discovered, remote argv/stdin fidelity, agent CLI discovery, forced tunnel disconnect/reconnect, and scoped cleanup passed.
• Browser: SSH probe, save, reload, edit, and remove passed against an isolated server.
• Android SDK probing passed, but no Android emulator was booted; live video streaming and gestures were not exercised in this pass.

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After:

Implemented with GPT-6 in Codex.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added support for configuring and managing SSH-hosted iOS and Android devices.
  • Added device host settings for adding, editing, removing, and testing remote connections.
  • Added host status, platform availability, reconnection, and error visibility.
  • Added device host filtering and status details to device listings.
  • Added validation for host targets, ports, IDs, and identity files.
  • Improved remote device session and agent connectivity handling.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for SSH host setup, requirements, discovery, reconnection, and limitations.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

ℹ️ No successful main baseline artifact is available yet. This run establishes the initial measurement.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	—	13.6 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.0 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.5 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.0 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	—	8	—	21	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	—	13.6 KiB	—	15.1 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	—	7.0 KiB	—	7.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	—	6.5 KiB	—	7.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	—	57.8 KiB	—	66.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	—	8	—	21	✅

Baseline: unavailable · PR result: db54eee · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 113.9 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 114.6 KiB

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR introduces a substantial SSH-based device-host feature with remote command execution, tool installation, port forwarding, reconnection, persisted settings, and new user-facing controls. It also changes authorization code and adds static-analysis suppressions, so the runtime and review-policy impact requires human review.

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The probe translation at apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts:649 discards a structured DeviceHostError and copies its caller-visible message into another stringly error, losing the cause chain. Please pass the structured domain error through or widen the typed error channel instead of wrapping it as DeviceHostUnavailableError. This requires coordinated type changes, so no self-contained diff is feasible.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This change adds SSH device-host configuration and lifecycle management. It adds remote probing, forwarding, recovery, RPC testing, server reconciliation, settings UI controls, validation, tests, and documentation.

Changes

SSH device host support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host contracts, settings, and RPC wiring packages/contracts/..., packages/client-runtime/..., apps/server/src/auth/..., apps/server/src/ws.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/...	SSH host schemas, settings persistence, host status results, RPC contracts, authorization, client commands, and device-list filtering now support remote hosts.
Remote host tooling apps/server/package.json, apps/server/src/device/sshDeviceScript.ts, apps/server/src/device/sshDeviceScript.test.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceToolchain.ts	The generated remote script probes platforms, installs pinned tools, starts and stops hub and agent processes, persists state, retries startup, and validates shell quoting.
SSH host runtime apps/server/src/device/SshDeviceHost.ts	SshDeviceHost manages SSH commands, local port forwards, endpoint readiness, reconnects, agent lifecycle, status, and finalization.
Device service reconciliation and lifecycle safety apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceHost.ts, apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceActions.ts, apps/server/src/device/*test.ts	DeviceService creates and reconciles local and SSH hosts, removes stale host state, rejects replaced host instances, and uses host-specific Node paths for readiness and permission commands.
Host settings UI and documentation apps/web/src/components/settings/..., docs/internals/devices.md, docs/user/devices.md	Project settings can add, edit, remove, test, and search SSH hosts. Documentation describes setup, forwarding, recovery, cleanup, and limitations.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1ae9b

SSH host refreshes can incorrectly report installed device helpers as absent. The fix is localized, so merge risk is low.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DeviceHostsSettings
  participant deviceTestHost
  participant DeviceService
  participant SshDeviceHost
  participant remoteDeviceScript
  DeviceHostsSettings->>deviceTestHost: submit SSH host configuration
  deviceTestHost->>DeviceService: testHost(config)
  DeviceService->>SshDeviceHost: probe(config)
  SshDeviceHost->>remoteDeviceScript: execute probe mode
  remoteDeviceScript-->>SshDeviceHost: platform and tool metadata
  SshDeviceHost-->>DeviceService: return host summary
  DeviceService-->>deviceTestHost: return test result
  deviceTestHost-->>DeviceHostsSettings: display status or error

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 24 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: connecting simulator hosts over SSH.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the SSH host feature, its scope, UI changes, implementation details, validation results, and known test limitations. It omits the template headings and checklist, but …

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Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 24 files. (3 skipped: 3 unsupported.)

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In `@apps/server/src/device/SshDeviceHost.ts`:
- Around line 385-386: Update the platform availability probing in
DeviceService.fetchDevices so probe output does not overwrite the existing
hubInstalled and agentDeviceInstalled values in summary. Merge the probe result
with the current installation flags before selecting the matching platform from
value.platforms, preserving the probe’s other fields and existing platform
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📒 Files selected for processing (27)

• apps/server/package.json
• apps/server/src/auth/RpcAuthorization.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceActions.test.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceActions.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceHost.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceMultiHost.test.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.test.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts
• apps/server/src/device/DeviceToolchain.ts
• apps/server/src/device/LocalDeviceHost.ts
• apps/server/src/device/SshDeviceHost.ts
• apps/server/src/device/sshDeviceScript.test.ts
• apps/server/src/device/sshDeviceScript.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/McpDeviceToolkit.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/handlers.ts
• apps/server/src/ws.ts
• apps/web/src/components/settings/DeviceHostsSettings.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/ProjectDefaultsSettings.tsx
• apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsSearch.ts
• docs/internals/devices.md
• docs/user/devices.md
• packages/client-runtime/src/state/device.ts
• packages/contracts/src/device.ts
• packages/contracts/src/rpc.ts
• packages/contracts/src/settings.test.ts
• packages/contracts/src/settings.ts
• packages/shared/src/serverSettings.test.ts

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