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Stack 4/8. Depends on #174. Merge in order, retargeting to j5/main as predecessors land.

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Testing: scripts/j5/pr-env.sh <pr> --peer (#255) serves this PR's build as two peered servers, Local and Remote. Rebased onto j5/main on 2026-09-24 after the upstream sync and Crews landed; peer migrations are now 018–020 and the FORK.md case is 40. A test state directory that ran the pre-rebase stack recorded the peers table under migration 14, so rerun pr-env.sh with --fresh for such environments.


Builds cross-device AC6, AC16, AC17, AC18, and AC20 for replies; agent-tools AC17.

Problem

Agents could receive from a peer but nothing could send to one.

What this adds

  • PeerDirectory. Reads every recorded peer's roster live with the peer's credential (concurrency 4, 5 s timeout). Peers are few and a live read is never stale; a peer that does not answer is reported as unread, never guessed at. Exposes listAgents and resolveAgent, plus a noneLayer for compositions without peering.
  • Send service. When a receiver has no local membership and no retired history, it asks the directory. Exactly one active match becomes the receiver with its remote Squadron and environment; two matches is the existing ambiguity refusal; no match while some peer was unread is a new A2APeersUnreadError naming those peers; an archived remote agent is the existing archived refusal. message.sent gains an optional receiverEnvironmentId, projected into a new receiver_environment_id column (migration 16). The agent still names only a participant id.
  • Transport. deliverPeer posts to the peer's deliver route with the peer's credential, the correlation id read from the delivery row, and the ask's intent read from the Exchange. A 2xx is the receipt. A 403 or 404 becomes a target error and anything else a transport error, so both flow into the worker's existing retry, backoff, and alarm path. The live transport now requires the registry and an HTTP client.
  • Worker. A row with a receiver environment goes to deliverPeer and skips the local received-row write, because the peer writes its own. A remote party is exempt from the local-membership check, and cancelling a remote delivery needs no local queue lookup.
  • list_participants. Peer-homed agents appear beside local ones with their Squadron, the roster's display name, and no server field. The result gains unread_peer_count; no peer is named to an agent.
  • Wiring. The A2A runtime layer builds the registry once (with its own FetchHttpClient and ServerEnvironment.identityLayer, and EnvironmentAuth from the server) and shares it with the transport, the directory, and the peer routes; the route aggregate no longer provisions its own. PeerDirectory is an explicit dependency of the send service; test compositions provide the empty directory. Remote resolution runs before the ledger transaction, and a known remote agent on an asleep peer is resolved from the route the ledger already recorded.

The round trip

PeerRoundTrip.test.ts stands up two servers, each with its own database, ledger, send service, inbound service, and worker, and wires each transport's deliverPeer to the other's inbound door. Work asks Home by participant id; Work's ledger records the remote receiver; Home records its own received row and opens the Exchange; Home's agent replies as an ordinary same-Squadron reply; the reply crosses back and closes Work's Exchange. A second case shows an unreachable peer becoming a retry on the sender with no received row anywhere.

Not in this PR

Silence notices and lifecycle closures for a remote waiter still address the local Squadron and would be cancelled by the membership check; that return path is stack 4. The Settings → Connections introduction flow is stack 5.

Verification

New: PeerDirectory.test.ts, PeerOutbound.test.ts (send-service resolution and the live transport's HTTP branch over a stub client), PeerRoundTrip.test.ts, and a list_participants case in handlers.test.ts. Plus the twenty existing A2A suites that touch the send path, worker, transport, ledger, runtime layer, routes, and MCP handlers: all green. tsgo --noEmit clean for apps/server. vp lint clean on the changed files.

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  • New Features
    • Find and contact eligible agents hosted on connected peer servers, including sending messages and completing exchanges across servers.
    • Participant listings can include peer-hosted agents and report how many peer address books were unavailable.
    • Messages keep their recorded peer route for delivery retries when a peer is temporarily unreachable.

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Astra review (2026-09-20), applied here (989af3ffb):

  • Remote resolution ran inside the writer permit and the SQLite transaction. The network half now runs before the transaction, after the sender's own standing is checked, and the transaction re-checks local facts.
  • A send to a known remote agent whose peer is asleep was refused before any ledger row existed. The ledger already holds the route (the ask that reached the agent or the ask it sent here), so that route is used when the peer cannot be read and the send is recorded and retried, as the definition's asleep-server scenario asks. A never-seen participant on an unread peer is still refused.
  • Machine senders no longer resolve receivers through peers.
  • Agent-facing output names no server: list_participants returns unread_peer_count, and the unread-peers error carries a count, not labels or transport reasons. (Body above updated to match.)
  • PeerDirectory is an explicit dependency of the send service, as the review preferred; test compositions provide the empty directory.
  • connections() hands the transport only peers whose issued session is still live, so revoking the peer's session in Settings → Connections ends outbound delivery as well as inbound.
  • The roster read's timeout now covers the whole read.

Not changed: the round-trip test still substitutes the transport and directory; the HTTP branch is covered separately in PeerOutbound.test.ts.

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A2A now discovers peer-hosted agents, resolves eligible remote recipients, and routes their deliveries across servers. Participant listings include remote agents and an unread-peer count. Runtime layers provide the peer services and delivery transport.

Changes

Peer-server A2A messaging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Peer authorization and roster discovery
apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerRegistryService.ts, PeerDirectory.ts, PeerHttp.ts, related tests
PeerRegistryService exposes registered peer connections and session status. PeerDirectory reads peer rosters and reports unread peers when a read fails.
Remote recipient resolution and listing
apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts, contracts.ts, apps/server/src/j5/a2a/mcp/*, related tests
SendService resolves eligible remote agents and includes the receiver environment in delivery data. Participant listings combine local and remote agents and report unread peers as a count.
Persisted peer delivery
apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts, DeliveryWorker.ts, LedgerService.ts, migrations/020_PeerDeliveryReceiver.ts, related tests
Delivery rows store the receiver environment. The worker routes peer-homed deliveries through authenticated HTTP transport. Migration 20 adds the nullable receiver environment column.
Runtime and route integration
apps/server/src/j5/a2a/runtimeLayer.ts, J5AuthenticatedRoutes.ts, PeerHttp.ts, test-support/devDeliverySeed.ts, related tests, FORK.md
The runtime provides shared peer services to A2A layers. Peer HTTP routes read server identity from PeerRegistryService. Test fixtures and the fork-discipline inventory are updated.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SendService
  participant PeerDirectory
  participant LedgerService
  participant DeliveryWorker
  participant DeliveryTransport
  participant PeerRegistryService
  participant PeerServer
  SendService->>PeerDirectory: Resolve remote participant
  PeerDirectory-->>SendService: Return remote agent and environment
  SendService->>LedgerService: Record delivery with receiver environment
  DeliveryWorker->>DeliveryTransport: Deliver peer-homed row
  DeliveryTransport->>PeerRegistryService: Find receiver connection
  PeerRegistryService-->>DeliveryTransport: Return connection and credential
  DeliveryTransport->>PeerServer: POST authenticated delivery
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A stalled peer can hold up deliveries, and a message accepted by a peer can appear cancelled locally. Fix these paths before merging.

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In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts`:
- Around line 448-462: Update the peer exchange in the delivery attempt so
`Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT)` covers both
`httpClient.execute(request)` and any non-success `response.text` read. Preserve
the existing success and status-specific error handling after the bounded
exchange completes.

In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerRegistryService.ts`:
- Around line 253-274: Update PeerRegistryServiceShape["connections"] in
connections() so a matching session subject alone does not authorize returning a
peer record; validate each stored row.credential with the remote peer before
including the connection, excluding revoked or rotated credentials.

In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts`:
- Around line 989-999: Update the send flow before preResolveRemote to check
replayedSend using the message ID and sender participant ID from
senderMembership. Skip peer resolution and pass null as remote when a prior
result exists; keep the existing sendInternal transaction and its replay check
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  • FORK.md
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/ClientReadsHttp.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.integration.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryWorker.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryWorker.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/HumanInboxService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/J5AuthenticatedRoutes.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/LedgerService.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/LifecycleService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/Migrations.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/Migrations.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerDirectory.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerDirectory.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerHttp.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerHttp.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerInboundService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerOutbound.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerRegistryService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerRegistryService.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/PeerRoundTrip.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.machine.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SilenceDetector.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SpawnCompositionService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SquadronJoinService.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/ThreadHomesHttp.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/contracts.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/mcp/handlers.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/mcp/handlers.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/mcp/joinSquadron.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/mcp/orchestratorVerbs.live.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/mcp/tools.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/migrations/020_PeerDeliveryReceiver.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/runtimeLayer.test.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/runtimeLayer.ts
  • apps/server/src/j5/a2a/test-support/devDeliverySeed.ts
  • apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/worktree/registration.test.ts

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Comment on lines +448 to +462
const response = yield* httpClient
.execute(request)
.pipe(Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT));
if (response.status === 200 || response.status === 201) return;
const text = yield* response.text;
if (response.status === 404 || response.status === 403) {
return yield* new A2ADeliveryTargetError({
participantId: input.receiverId,
state: `peer ${peer.label} refused the delivery (HTTP ${String(response.status)}): ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});
}
return yield* new A2ADeliveryTransportError({
operation: "deliver to peer",
cause: `Peer ${peer.label} answered HTTP ${String(response.status)}: ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the whole peer exchange with the timeout, including the error-body read.

Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT) wraps only httpClient.execute(request). For any status other than 200 or 201, yield* response.text reads the body with no bound. A2ADeliveryWorker runs attemptDelivery under drainPermit, one row at a time. Take a peer that sends a 5xx status line and then stops sending the body. That peer stalls the worker, and every local agent and human delivery on this server stops with it. PeerDirectory.readPeerRoster already applies one bound to connect, body, and decode. Apply the same bound here.

🛡️ Proposed fix
-          const response = yield* httpClient
-            .execute(request)
-            .pipe(Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT));
-          if (response.status === 200 || response.status === 201) return;
-          const text = yield* response.text;
+          // One bound for the whole exchange: connect, status, and any error body.
+          const outcome = yield* httpClient.execute(request).pipe(
+            Effect.flatMap((response) =>
+              response.status === 200 || response.status === 201
+                ? Effect.succeed(null)
+                : response.text.pipe(Effect.map((text) => ({ status: response.status, text }))),
+            ),
+            Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT),
+          );
+          if (outcome === null) return;
+          const { text } = outcome;
+          const response = { status: outcome.status };
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const response = yield* httpClient
.execute(request)
.pipe(Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT));
if (response.status === 200 || response.status === 201) return;
const text = yield* response.text;
if (response.status === 404 || response.status === 403) {
return yield* new A2ADeliveryTargetError({
participantId: input.receiverId,
state: `peer ${peer.label} refused the delivery (HTTP ${String(response.status)}): ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});
}
return yield* new A2ADeliveryTransportError({
operation: "deliver to peer",
cause: `Peer ${peer.label} answered HTTP ${String(response.status)}: ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});
// One bound for the whole exchange: connect, status, and any error body.
const outcome = yield* httpClient.execute(request).pipe(
Effect.flatMap((response) =>
response.status === 200 || response.status === 201
? Effect.succeed(null)
: response.text.pipe(Effect.map((text) => ({ status: response.status, text }))),
),
Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT),
);
if (outcome === null) return;
const { text } = outcome;
const response = { status: outcome.status };
if (response.status === 404 || response.status === 403) {
return yield* new A2ADeliveryTargetError({
participantId: input.receiverId,
state: `peer ${peer.label} refused the delivery (HTTP ${String(response.status)}): ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});
}
return yield* new A2ADeliveryTransportError({
operation: "deliver to peer",
cause: `Peer ${peer.label} answered HTTP ${String(response.status)}: ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});
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In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts` around lines 448 - 462, Update
the peer exchange in the delivery attempt so
`Effect.timeout(PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT)` covers both
`httpClient.execute(request)` and any non-success `response.text` read. Preserve
the existing success and status-specific error handling after the bounded
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Done in 7079dcc: one bound covers connect, status and the error-body read.

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@Jacksondr5, I checked 7079dcc5ff. In apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryTransport.ts, Line 434 still applies the timeout only to httpClient.execute(request). Line 436 reads response.text outside that timeout. The error-body read can still block the delivery worker, so I’ll leave this finding open.

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// The sender's standing is checked first so its errors win, then peers
// are reached before the writer permit and the transaction: holding
// either across the network would block every other send, including
// the peer's own send back to us. The transaction re-checks both.
yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
const remote = yield* preResolveRemote(input.to);
const result = yield* writer.withPermit(
sql.withTransaction(
Effect.gen(function* () {
const sender = yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
return yield* sendInternal(input, sender, committed);
return yield* sendInternal(input, sender, committed, remote);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Check for a replay before remote resolution runs.

send calls preResolveRemote(input.to) before sendInternal reaches replayedSend. remoteMembership can fail with A2AParticipantArchivedError, A2AParticipantNotFoundError, A2AAmbiguousParticipantError, A2APeersUnreadError, or a PeerDirectoryError.

Here is a realistic trigger. An agent retries send_message with the same client_request_id after a timeout. Meanwhile, the remote agent was archived, or the peer roster changed. The message is already durable, but the retry now returns an error. On the local path, replayedSend runs before participantMembership, so a replay always returns the original SendMessageResult. The remote path loses that guarantee.

Run the replay lookup first, and skip peer resolution when the command already committed. sendInternal still repeats the replay check inside the transaction, so passing null for remote on a replay is safe.

🐛 Proposed fix
-          yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
-          const remote = yield* preResolveRemote(input.to);
+          const home = yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
+          // A replayed command returns its original result whatever has happened to the receiver since.
+          const prior = yield* replayedSend(messageIdFor(input.commandId), home.participantId);
+          const remote = prior === null ? yield* preResolveRemote(input.to) : null;
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// The sender's standing is checked first so its errors win, then peers
// are reached before the writer permit and the transaction: holding
// either across the network would block every other send, including
// the peer's own send back to us. The transaction re-checks both.
yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
const remote = yield* preResolveRemote(input.to);
const result = yield* writer.withPermit(
sql.withTransaction(
Effect.gen(function* () {
const sender = yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
return yield* sendInternal(input, sender, committed);
return yield* sendInternal(input, sender, committed, remote);
// The sender's standing is checked first so its errors win, then peers
// are reached before the writer permit and the transaction: holding
// either across the network would block every other send, including
// the peer's own send back to us. The transaction re-checks both.
const home = yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
// A replayed command returns its original result whatever has happened to the receiver since.
const prior = yield* replayedSend(messageIdFor(input.commandId), home.participantId);
const remote = prior === null ? yield* preResolveRemote(input.to) : null;
const result = yield* writer.withPermit(
sql.withTransaction(
Effect.gen(function* () {
const sender = yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
return yield* sendInternal(input, sender, committed, remote);
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In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts` around lines 989 - 999, Update the
send flow before preResolveRemote to check replayedSend using the message ID and
sender participant ID from senderMembership. Skip peer resolution and pass null
as remote when a prior result exists; keep the existing sendInternal transaction
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Done in 7079dcc: the replay lookup runs before any peer resolution.

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The outbound path reads well and the no-cache design holds up, but two gaps let a message or a peer go missing without anyone being told. I'd fix those before merging.

Fix before merge

  • DeliveryWorker.ts: a peer's 201 is recorded as message.delivered, so if injection on the receiving server fails, only the receiver's ledger alarms. The sender gets no silence notice. (inline)
  • PeerRegistryService.ts connections(): with the 30-day peer session TTL from #173, a peer whose session expired or was revoked is dropped outright. Its agents disappear from list_participants and it isn't counted in unread_peer_count, and sends to it fail with "no longer recorded". (inline)

Should fix

  • SendService.ts send: preResolveRemote runs before the idempotent replay check, so a retry of a committed send can fail instead of replaying. (inline)
  • PeerDirectory.ts: every list_participants call and every non-local send fans out a live roster GET to every peer. One dead peer adds up to 5s to everything. (inline)
  • DeliveryTransport.ts deliverPeer: each attempt loads all peers plus every session just to .find one. (inline)
  • SendService.ts remoteMembership: the first send to an agent on an unreadable peer fails with nothing recorded, retried, or alarmed. The "home server asleep" promise only holds for participants we've already seen. I'd narrow the doc to match. (inline)
  • DeliveryTransport.ts correlationIdFor: re-reads a value the claimed row already has and adds a fake "row disappeared" error path. (inline)
  • Test setup churn: deliverPeer: () => Effect.die(...) about 12 times, Layer.provide(peerDirectoryNoneLayer) about 20 times, and a FetchHttpClient + PeerRegistryService mock around deliveryTransportLive about 7 times, across ~12 test files and devDeliverySeed.ts. (inline)
  • The cross-server clear_own_ask withdrawal injects a notice and starts a turn on the answerer's side, which isn't how a local withdrawal behaves. That code is in #176, so my comment is there.

Nits

  • DeliveryTransport.ts deliverPeer: the trailing mapError turns 404/403 A2ADeliveryTargetError into a transport error, so permanent refusals retry until they alarm. (inline)
  • runtimeLayer.ts provides FetchHttpClient.layer three times. (inline)
  • PEER_DELIVERY_TIMEOUT and PEER_ROSTER_TIMEOUT are exported but only used in their own files.
  • mcp/handlers.ts: the whole local directory.map got re-indented just to .concat(remoteRows), about 40 lines of blame churn. Spreading both into one array avoids it. (inline)

yield* appendReceiverEntry(row);
if (isHumanParticipantId(receiverId)) {
if (row.receiver_environment_id !== null) {
yield* transport.deliverPeer({

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When the peer's deliver route returns 201, this row gets marked message.delivered. But 201 only means the peer accepted it. If the receiving server then fails to inject into the thread, the alarm lands only on its own ledger. The sender sees delivered, keeps an open Exchange, and never gets a silence notice, which breaks "never a silent loss". I'd have the receiver send a delivery-failed notice back over the peer path when a row with origin_environment_id alarms. The alternative is rewriting AC18 so the receipt explicitly means "the peer accepted it".

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Docs (#172) now state that the receipt means the peer server accepted the message and thread delivery is the peer server's to alarm on. Carrying the alarm back over the peer path is #260.

.pipe(Effect.mapError((cause) => new PeerSessionReadError({ cause })));
const authorized = new Set(sessions.map((session) => session.subject));
return rows
.filter((row) => authorized.has(peerSubjectForEnvironment(row.environment_id)))

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This filter drops any peer that has no live local session. With the 30-day session TTL from #173, an expired or revoked peer simply vanishes. PeerDirectory leaves its agents out of list_participants and doesn't count it in unread_peer_count, which breaks "never omitted silently". Outbound to it then fails with the misleading "no longer recorded on this server" (DeliveryTransport.ts:416). I'd return registered peers whose session is gone as unread, with a reason like "session expired", rather than filtering them out.

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Done in 2593545 / 7079dcc: registered peers with no live session are returned with inboundSession missing, never dropped; the transport reports a gone peer as such.

Comment thread apps/server/src/j5/a2a/SendService.ts Outdated
// either across the network would block every other send, including
// the peer's own send back to us. The transaction re-checks both.
yield* senderMembership(input.senderThreadId);
const remote = yield* preResolveRemote(input.to);

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preResolveRemote runs before sendInternal's replay check. Say a send to a remote agent commits, then the agent is archived or the peer is removed, and the caller retries with the same client_request_id. The retry gets A2AParticipantArchivedError/NotFound instead of the original result. Every replay also pays for a network roster read. I'd check replayedSend(messageIdFor(input.commandId), sender) before resolving remotely, and add a test for "send committed, peer removed, same command id retried".

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Done in 7079dcc: replayedSend runs before preResolveRemote, with a test for a committed send retried after the peer is gone.

(peer) =>
readPeerRoster(peer).pipe(
// One bound for the whole read: connect, body, and decode.
Effect.timeout(PEER_ROSTER_TIMEOUT),

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Every list_participants call and every send to a non-local id does a live roster GET against every peer. With a 5s timeout and concurrency 4, one dead peer adds up to 5s even to a send aimed at a healthy peer. For a send to a known remote id, I'd try recordedRoute first and only fan out when it misses. Or keep a short-lived last-good roster per peer, so a slow peer only costs its own lookups.

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Done in 7079dcc: a send to a known remote id takes the recorded route first and fans out only on a miss.

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deliverPeer: (input) =>
Effect.gen(function* () {
const peer = (yield* peers.connections()).find(

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Each delivery attempt calls connections(), which loads every peer row plus EnvironmentAuth.listSessions(), then .finds one. That cost grows with peers and sessions on every retry. I'd add a connection(environmentId) that reads one peer row and checks that peer's session.

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Done in 7079dcc: connection(environmentId) reads one peer row and that peer's session.

}
});
const sql = yield* SqlClient.SqlClient;
const correlationIdFor = Effect.fn("j5.a2a.delivery.correlationId")(function* (

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The worker already has correlation_id on the claimed DeliveryRow. Re-selecting it here costs a query per attempt and adds a "delivery row disappeared" error that can't really happen. I'd carry correlationId on PeerDeliveryInput and drop this helper.

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Done in 7079dcc: correlationId rides on PeerDeliveryInput from the claimed row.

);
const a2a = Layer.mergeAll(
sendServiceLayer,
sendServiceLayer.pipe(Layer.provide(peerDirectoryNoneLayer)),

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The same setup is repeated across about 12 test files and here: deliverPeer: () => Effect.die(...) about 12 times, Layer.provide(peerDirectoryNoneLayer) about 20 times, and FetchHttpClient + a PeerRegistryService mock around deliveryTransportLive about 7 times. The next change to peering will have to touch all of them. I'd add one pre-provided local SendService layer and one transport helper in test-support/, then use those everywhere.

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Leaving this one. A shared test-support layer would touch about twelve test files for no behavior change, and I would rather do it as its own PR after the stack lands than widen these.

cause: `Peer ${peer.label} answered HTTP ${String(response.status)}: ${text.slice(0, 500)}`,
});
}).pipe(
Effect.mapError(

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Nit: this trailing mapError also wraps the 404/403 A2ADeliveryTargetError above in A2ADeliveryTransportError. A permanent refusal then retries until it alarms instead of failing fast. I'd only map the HTTP/timeout errors, or use catchTag so A2ADeliveryTargetError passes through.

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Done in 7079dcc: A2ADeliveryTargetError passes through; only HTTP and timeout errors are wrapped.

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Layer.provide(serverIdentityLayer),
);
const peerDirectoryProvided = peerDirectoryLayer.pipe(
Layer.provide(FetchHttpClient.layer),

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Nit: FetchHttpClient.layer is provided three times here (lines 80, 84, 90). I'd provide it once to the merged layer.

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Done in 7079dcc: one FetchHttpClient layer object provided to the three peer layers.

: null,
};
})
.concat(remoteRows),

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Nit: to add .concat(remoteRows), the whole local directory.map got re-indented, about 40 lines of blame churn. [...directory.map(...), ...remoteRows] with the original indentation keeps the diff small.

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Leaving the re-indent. Reverting it now would be a second churn commit on the same lines; the blame cost has been paid.

Jacksondr5 and others added 4 commits September 24, 2026 18:53
Agents could receive from a peer but nothing could send to one: receiver
resolution stopped at the local Squadron tables and the transport only
knew how to inject into a local thread.

Adds the outbound side. A PeerDirectory reads every peer's roster live
through the peer registry; when a receiver no local Squadron homes is an
agent on exactly one readable peer, the send service records that peer
on the message.sent payload and the delivery row (migration 16), leaving
the participant id the agent named untouched. The worker hands such rows
to a new deliverPeer branch on the transport, which posts to the peer's
deliver route with the peer's credential, the correlation id, and the
ask's intent; the peer's acknowledgement is the delivery receipt, and a
refusal or an unreachable peer flows into the existing retry and alarm
path. Two peers carrying one id is refused as ambiguous, and a receiver
found nowhere while some peer could not be read is refused naming those
peers. list_participants merges peer-homed agents beside local ones with
their Squadron and no server field, and reports unread peers.

The send service resolves through the directory only when one is
provided, so every existing composition keeps resolving locally; the A2A
runtime layer provides it in production alongside the registry, the
inbound service, and the transport's peer side.

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… needs

list_participants reads the peer directory and reports unread peers, so
the production MCP layer test provides the empty directory and expects
the new field.

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… to servers

Addresses the Astra review of the outbound path:

- Remote receiver resolution ran inside the writer permit and the SQLite
  transaction, so a slow or simultaneous peer blocked every other send.
  The network half now runs before the transaction, after the sender's
  own standing is checked, and the transaction re-checks local facts.
- A send to a known remote agent whose peer is asleep was refused before
  any ledger row existed. The ledger already holds the route (the ask
  that reached the agent or the ask it sent here), so that route is used
  when the peer cannot be read, and the send is recorded and retried as
  the definition's asleep-server scenario asks. A never-seen participant
  on an unread peer is still refused.
- Machine senders no longer resolve receivers through peers; the ruling
  excludes them.
- Agent-facing output names no server: list_participants reports an
  unread peer count, and the unread-peers error carries a count, not
  labels or transport reasons.
- PeerDirectory is an explicit dependency of the send service; test
  compositions provide the empty directory.
- connections() hands the transport only peers whose issued session is
  still live, so revoking the peer's session in Settings → Connections
  ends outbound delivery as well as inbound.
- The roster read's timeout covers the whole read, not just the connect.

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… a gone peer is reported

Review of #175 (bryantderosier, CodeRabbit). A retry of a committed send
resolved the receiver across peers again and could fail instead of replaying;
every send to a known remote id fanned out to every peer's roster, so one dead
peer taxed them all; a peer whose session here was revoked or expired vanished
from the directory instead of being reported; the transport re-read the
correlation id and loaded every peer per attempt; and the directory read the
shared roster route that #174 closed to peers.

- `send` replays before it resolves; remote resolution runs only for a new
  command.
- A participant this server has exchanged messages with keeps its recorded
  route; only an unknown id fans out.
- `connections()` lists every recorded peer with its inbound session status,
  and the directory reports a peer without a live session as unread with the
  reason, without reading it. `connection(environmentId)` serves one delivery
  attempt.
- The worker hands the transport the correlation id it already holds.
- The directory reads the peer roster route and decodes its agent-only shape.
- One HTTP client object serves the three peer layers; the timeouts are
  module-private.
- The inbound reply test asserts what this layer does: a reply to a peer's ask
  resolves through the recorded route and closes the Exchange here.

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Do not record message.cancelled after the peer has accepted the delivery.

For a peer-homed receiver, cancelDelivery always returns "cancelled" and does not ask the peer. attemptDelivery calls cancelDelivery after transport.deliverPeer succeeds whenever deliveryUnavailable(row) returns true. For a peer-homed row with envelope_channel = 'peer', deliveryUnavailable(row) checks the local sender's membership. The sender can be archived during the HTTP call, which can last up to 15 seconds. Archiving does not take drainPermit, so this can happen while an attempt runs. The ledger then records message.cancelled with the reason "accepted queue work was withdrawn", but the peer has already written its received row and delivers the message. For local agents, cancelAgent checks whether the work was already delivered. Peer rows have no such check.

After a successful deliverPeer, the transport already accepted the delivery. Record message.delivered in that case. The message.delivered projection already ignores rows that are already cancelled, so this change is safe.

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             Effect.gen(function* () {
-              if (yield* deliveryUnavailable(row)) return null;
+              // A peer that answered 2xx has accepted the message; it cannot be withdrawn.
+              if (row.receiver_environment_id === null && (yield* deliveryUnavailable(row)))
+                return null;
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In `@apps/server/src/j5/a2a/DeliveryWorker.ts` around lines 409 - 412, Update
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