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Summary

  • Add read-only dotf bridge status [--profile] [--json].
  • Classify stopped, unowned, launch-mismatch, listener-down, destination-failed and healthy states using exact process ownership, the launch fingerprint and shared health probes.
  • Return explicit ERROR / WHY / FIX output and fail closed for corrupt state or missing dependencies.

This PR is stacked on #3250 and performs no process mutation.

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SDD checklist

  • Issue exists on the bitácora GitHub Project: TOOL-035: Manage ts-bridge client lifecycle for desktop agents #3244
  • Diff conforms to the ~300 executable LOC cap: approximately 284 physical production Go lines plus focused tests, runbook and spec evidence.
  • Spec folder specs/TOOL-035-manage-ts-bridge-lifecycle/ is updated.
  • proposal.md has filled Why / What / Acceptance criteria.
  • tasks.md is in TDD order and marks only read-only status complete.
  • verification.md records status, error-path and platform evidence.

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Test plan

  • bats tests/*.bats passes (or relevant test suites): not run; no shell behavior changed.
  • shellcheck scripts/*.sh setup-linux.sh clean on changed .sh: no shell files changed.
  • cd cli && go test ./... passes (if touching Go tooling): not run in full; focused changed packages ran instead (see Manual verification).
  • dotf harness check clean (if touching skills or manifest): no harness or skill sources changed.
  • Manual verification:
    • go test ./internal/bridge -count=1 -> PASS.
    • go test ./internal/cmd -run '^TestBridgeStatusCommand.*$' -count=1 -> PASS.
    • go test ./internal/doctor -run '^TestCheckTsBridge' -count=1 -> PASS.
    • go vet ./internal/bridge ./internal/cmd ./internal/doctor -> PASS.
    • Linux and macOS bridge test binaries cross-compile.
    • f1 and f5 feature predicates have their exact named evidence; f2-f4 remain fail-closed.

Refs #3244

Comment thread cli/internal/bridge/status.go Outdated
Comment on lines +67 to +71
r.Fix = "run `dotf bridge start --profile " + profile + "`"
case StateUnowned:
r.Error = "bridge process identity is unowned"
r.Why = "the recorded PID does not match the managed launch; refusing to signal it"
r.Fix = "inspect the bridge state and start the profile again after the foreign process is resolved"

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Dead-end guidance

Class: REAL
The stopped and unowned FIX strings tell the operator to run dotf bridge start --profile <profile>. The start command is not registered in this PR (the runbook says it lands in a later PR). On a stopped machine, dotf bridge status prints a FIX that fails with an unknown-command error. The same applies to the corrupt-state FIX in bridge.go, which points to start.

Comment thread cli/internal/bridge/status.go Outdated
case StateStarting:
r.Error = "bridge is not ready"
r.Why = "the owned process is running but its listener is not ready"
r.Fix = "read the bounded bridge log, then retry `dotf bridge status --profile " + profile + "`"

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Missing bounded log

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The starting state's FIX says to read the bounded bridge log. verification.md lists bounded logs as pending, and no log path or reader exists in this diff. An operator whose listener is not ready is sent to a file that is not written.

Comment on lines +49 to +54
case !o.ProcessOwned:
return StateUnowned
case !o.ListenerReady:
return StateStarting
case !o.DestinationReady:
return StateDestinationFailed

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Listener-down mislabeled

Class: REAL
When the owned process is alive but the listener never comes up, Classify returns starting indefinitely. The ticket requires a listener-down state, and a bridge that will never become ready is reported as starting, which hides the failure. Concrete trace: owned PID alive, port 1081 closed, status reports starting with no failure signal.

Comment on lines +104 to +119
inspection, err := s.Inspect(process)
if err != nil {
return StatusResult{}, fmt.Errorf("inspect bridge process: %w", err)
}
observation := Observation{
ProcessPresent: inspection.Present,
ProcessOwned: inspection.Owned,
}
if inspection.Present && inspection.Owned {
if s.Probe == nil {
return StatusResult{}, errors.New("bridge health probe is not configured")
}
health := s.Probe(launch)
observation.ListenerReady = health.ListenerReady
observation.DestinationReady = health.DestinationReady
}

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Fingerprint unchecked

Class: THEORETICAL
Status loads the current launch descriptor and the stored ProcessRecord, which carries a Fingerprint, but never compares them before probing health. If the profile is re-saved after start, status can report healthy for a process started with a different descriptor. Whether Inspect already checks the fingerprint is not visible in this diff, so this is unverified.

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3244 - Partially compliant

Compliant requirements:

  • status distinguishes stopped, listener-down and destination-down states
  • status produces no credential output
  • status is role-gated
  • runbook documents the status workflow
  • tests use synthetic profiles and process seams

Non-compliant requirements:

  • start command (readiness wait, idempotency)
  • stop command (owned-process termination, idempotency)
  • detached process launch

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Rule: Definition of Done, item 2 (Knowledge): the Lesson line must name a path this PR adds or changes, or give a reason for none.
The Lesson line cites lesson-566 from #3250. That lesson predates the fingerprint-based launch_mismatch state and the removal of starting, which this PR introduces. Those decisions appear only in specs/.../verification.md. Whether lesson-566 covers them is not visible in this diff, so the claim cannot be verified here.


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Item Disposition Reason
Dead-end bridge start guidance (REAL) apply — pending Replace future-command guidance with the current runbook start procedure until the start command lands.
Missing bounded-log guidance (REAL) apply — pending Point read-only status to the attached ts-bridge terminal output; bounded logs belong to the later lifecycle PR.
Listener-down reported as starting (REAL) apply — pending Read-only status cannot prove a transient startup window, so rename this state to listener_down; reserve startup waiting for the future start command.
Launch fingerprint not checked (THEORETICAL) apply — pending Add the launch fingerprint to the descriptor contract and require it to match the process record before health is reported.

These findings are accepted but not yet implemented. #3251 remains open and must not merge until the follow-up commit and fresh validation/review are complete.

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All four findings from the pr-agent review are applied in 38014797.

Item Disposition Evidence
Dead-end bridge start guidance (REAL) applied Every FIX string now names the procedure in docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md; the corrupt-state FIX in cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go names the state directory and --profile. TestStatusResultFixesAvoidUnregisteredCommands fails if any FIX reintroduces bridge start, bridge stop, bridge logs or bounded bridge log.
Missing bounded-log guidance (REAL) applied The listener-down FIX points at the attached ts-bridge terminal output. Bounded logs stay in the lifecycle PR that writes them, so status names no reader that does not exist.
Listener-down reported as starting (REAL) applied StateStarting is removed; Classify returns listener_down for an owned process whose readiness probe does not answer. Read-only status cannot prove a transient startup window, so startup waiting moves to the lifecycle start command that can bound it. Covered by TestClassifyStatus and TestServiceStatusUsesOwnedProcessAndHealth.
Launch fingerprint not checked (THEORETICAL) applied LaunchDescriptor.Fingerprint() derives the launch identity from the descriptor instead of storing a second copy, and Service.Status returns launch_mismatch before probing health when the process record carries a different digest. The test case feeds ready listener and destination probes to prove health is not reported on mismatch. TestLaunchDescriptorFingerprintIsStableAndDiscriminating pins stability and per-field discrimination.

Validation at 38014797:

  • cd cli && go test ./internal/bridge -run '^(TestClassifyStatus|TestStatusResult.*|TestServiceStatus.*|TestLaunchDescriptor.*)$' -v -count=1 -> PASS.
  • cd cli && go test ./internal/cmd -run '^TestBridge' -v -count=1 -timeout 300s -> PASS.
  • go vet ./internal/bridge ./internal/cmd ./internal/doctor -> PASS.
  • GOOS=linux and GOOS=darwin go test -c ./internal/bridge -> PASS.

No further review findings were outstanding: the only reviewer output on this PR is the pr-agent guide above, CodeRabbit skipped this run (free-review limit), and every check is green.

The spec now carries the amended state set in proposal.md AC1, tasks.md, features.json f1 and the runbook, with the trade-offs recorded under "Decisions made during implementation" in verification.md.

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mlorentedev changed the base branch from feat/3244-process-identity to main November 8, 2026 03:04
Status compared the stored process record against a freshly loaded launch
descriptor but never compared their fingerprints, so a profile re-saved after
start could report healthy for a process launched from another descriptor.
LaunchDescriptor.Fingerprint() now derives the launch identity from the
descriptor instead of storing a second copy, and Status refuses to probe health
until the record matches, reporting launch_mismatch.

The listener-down case was reported as starting forever, which read as a
transient window that read-only status cannot observe. It is now listener_down,
and startup waiting is left to the lifecycle start command that can bound it.

Every FIX string pointed at commands this release does not register or at a
bounded log no code writes. They now name the runbook procedure and the
attached terminal output, with a regression test keeping unregistered commands
out.
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Walkthrough

The bridge package adds process identity capture and inspection for Darwin, Linux, and Windows. It adds launch-descriptor fingerprints and a read-only status service that classifies process ownership, launch mismatch, listener readiness, and destination health. The new bridge status command supports human-readable and JSON output.

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

Possibly related issues

  • Issue 3244 requests managed bridge start, stop, and status commands. This change adds the status command and its process ownership and readiness states; it does not add start or stop.
  • Issue 3219 requests a readiness and destination split for bridge health reporting. This change adds listener_down and destination_failed status states, but does not change the doctor command.

Possibly related PRs

  • mlorentedev/dotfiles#3246: It implements the same bridge status contract. This change uses launch_mismatch and listener_down states and adds process identity inspection.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 38014

The new read-only status command is mostly sound. Two small gaps remain: JSON consumers get no output when status is unavailable, and an oversized PID on Windows can be misread as another process. Both are bounded and cheap to fix.

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cli/internal/bridge/status_test.go: 1

36-40: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Assert the state tag, not message prose.

TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors matches substrings of Error, Why and Fix. Examples are "refusing to signal it", "different descriptor" and "private destination failed". Any copy edit breaks these cases, and the failures say nothing about the state.

State is already the stable tag. Assert got.State == tc.state and Error, Why and Fix non-empty. Keep prose checks only where the text is a contract. docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md on stopped is one such contract.

As per coding guidelines: "Table-driven tests, one case per branch; assert the stable status tag, not prose."

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Review comment at @cli/internal/bridge/status_test.go around lines 36 - 40:
Update TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors to assert each result’s State
matches the table’s expected state and that Error, Why, and Fix are non-empty,
rather than matching changeable prose. Preserve the stopped-state check for the
documented runbook reference as a text contract.

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Review comments at @cli/internal/bridge/process_windows.go:
- Around line 15-18: Update the PID guard before the uint32 conversion in the
Windows process snapshot path to reject values above the unsigned 32-bit range
and return errProcessNotFound, matching the behavior on Linux and Darwin. Ensure
the range check is safe for the PID’s type and occurs before calling
windows.OpenProcess.

Review comments at @cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go:
- Around line 77-81: Update the status-error branch in runBridgeStatus so --json
writes a machine-readable failure through writeBridgeStatus with the error, why,
and fix fields, while preserving the existing text failure path. Add a
StateUnavailable state to bridge.State if needed to represent this result, and
test that corrupt process state produces JSON on stdout.

Review comments at @docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md:
- Around line 75-76: Update the `stopped` definition in the runbook to cover
both cases: no process record exists, or the recorded PID is no longer running.
Preserve the explanation that status cannot prove a bridge is running under the
profile.

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- Around line 36-40: Update TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors to assert
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Comment on lines +77 to +81
result, err := service.Status(profile)
if err != nil {
return writeBridgeFailure(command, "bridge status is unavailable", err.Error(),
"repair or remove the invalid bridge state below the dotf state directory, or pass `--profile` when more than one is configured, then retry")
}

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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

--json emits no JSON when status is unavailable.

runBridgeStatus ignores jsonOut on the error path. Corrupt process.json, multiple profiles without --profile, and a missing role all go through writeBridgeFailure. These cases write ERROR/WHY/FIX text to stderr and leave stdout empty.

Run dotf bridge status --json with an invalid process.json. A JSON consumer gets an empty stdout, not the error/why/fix fields. The runbook says "JSON carries the same fields". TestBridgeStatusCommandJSONIsMachineReadableOnFailure covers only the stopped state.

Add a StateUnavailable state to bridge.State. Under --json, route status errors, and ideally role and state-dir failures, through writeBridgeStatus. Add a test for the corrupt-state case.

Sketch for the status-error branch

--- "a/cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go"
+++ "b/cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go"
@@ -74,11 +74,17 @@
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
 	result, err := service.Status(profile)
 	if err != nil {
-		return writeBridgeFailure(command, "bridge status is unavailable", err.Error(),
-			"repair or remove the invalid bridge state below the dotf state directory, or pass `--profile` when more than one is configured, then retry")
+		const fix = "repair or remove the invalid bridge state below the dotf state directory, or pass `--profile` when more than one is configured, then retry"
+		if jsonOut {
+			return writeBridgeStatus(command, bridgepkg.StatusResult{
+				Profile: profile, State: bridgepkg.StateUnavailable,
+				Error: "bridge status is unavailable", Why: err.Error(), Fix: fix,
+			}, true)
+		}
+		return writeBridgeFailure(command, "bridge status is unavailable", err.Error(), fix)
 	}
 	return writeBridgeStatus(command, result, jsonOut)
 }
 
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Update the status-error branch in runBridgeStatus so --json writes a
machine-readable failure through writeBridgeStatus with the error, why, and fix
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Comment on lines +75 to +76
- `stopped`: no process record exists, so status cannot prove a bridge is
running under this profile;

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Correct the stopped definition.

The runbook says stopped means "no process record exists". Service.Status also returns stopped when process.json exists but the recorded PID is gone. The test "stopped when recorded process is gone" covers this case.

After a crash, an operator who reads this entry will look for a missing record and find a stale one. State both causes.

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--- "a/docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md"
+++ "b/docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md"
@@ -72,8 +72,8 @@
 
 The states are intentionally separate:
 
-- `stopped`: no process record exists, so status cannot prove a bridge is
-  running under this profile;
+- `stopped`: no process record exists, or the recorded PID is no longer
+  running, so status cannot prove a bridge is running under this profile;
 - `unowned`: the recorded PID is alive but fails the exact identity check, so
   status refuses to signal it;
 - `launch_mismatch`: the profile was re-saved after the process started, so the
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- `stopped`: no process record exists, so status cannot prove a bridge is
running under this profile;
- `stopped`: no process record exists, or the recorded PID is no longer
running, so status cannot prove a bridge is running under this profile;
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Update the `stopped` definition in the runbook to cover both cases: no process
record exists, or the recorded PID is no longer running. Preserve the
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Minor · Reject PIDs above math.MaxUint32 before uint32(pid). · process_windows.go:15-18

cli/internal/bridge/process_windows.go:15-18
Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Reject PIDs above math.MaxUint32 before uint32(pid).

ProcessRecord.Validate only requires PID > 0. A process.json with "pid": 4294967300 passes validation. On a 64-bit build, uint32(pid) truncates it to 4, and OpenProcess then targets the System process. Status then reports Present, or an inspection error, instead of stopped.

Linux and Darwin return errProcessNotFound for such a value. Windows should do the same.

Proposed fix

-	if pid <= 0 {
+	if pid <= 0 || uint64(pid) > math.MaxUint32 {
 		return processSnapshot{}, errProcessNotFound
 	}

Add "math" to the imports.

Based on learnings: "validate that the PID fits the platform's native representation before use ... Windows DWORD is unsigned 32-bit."

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Review comment at @cli/internal/bridge/process_windows.go around lines 15 - 18:
Update the PID guard before the uint32 conversion in the Windows process
snapshot path to reject values above the unsigned 32-bit range and return
errProcessNotFound, matching the behavior on Linux and Darwin. Ensure the range
check is safe for the PID’s type and occurs before calling windows.OpenProcess.

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cli/internal/bridge/status_test.go: 1

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Assert the state tag, not message prose.

TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors matches substrings of Error, Why and Fix. Examples are "refusing to signal it", "different descriptor" and "private destination failed". Any copy edit breaks these cases, and the failures say nothing about the state.

State is already the stable tag. Assert got.State == tc.state and Error, Why and Fix non-empty. Keep prose checks only where the text is a contract. docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md on stopped is one such contract.

As per coding guidelines: "Table-driven tests, one case per branch; assert the stable status tag, not prose."

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Review comment at @cli/internal/bridge/status_test.go around lines 36 - 40:
Update TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors to assert each result’s State
matches the table’s expected state and that Error, Why, and Fix are non-empty,
rather than matching changeable prose. Preserve the stopped-state check for the
documented runbook reference as a text contract.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go:
- Around line 77-81: Update the status-error branch in runBridgeStatus so --json
writes a machine-readable failure through writeBridgeStatus with the error, why,
and fix fields, while preserving the existing text failure path. Add a
StateUnavailable state to bridge.State if needed to represent this result, and
test that corrupt process state produces JSON on stdout.

Review comments at @docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md:
- Around line 75-76: Update the `stopped` definition in the runbook to cover
both cases: no process record exists, or the recorded PID is no longer running.
Preserve the explanation that status cannot prove a bridge is running under the
profile.

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Outside diff comments:
Review comments at @cli/internal/bridge/process_windows.go:
- Around line 15-18: Update the PID guard before the uint32 conversion in the
Windows process snapshot path to reject values above the unsigned 32-bit range
and return errProcessNotFound, matching the behavior on Linux and Darwin. Ensure
the range check is safe for the PID’s type and occurs before calling
windows.OpenProcess.

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Review comments at @cli/internal/bridge/status_test.go:
- Around line 36-40: Update TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors to assert
each result’s State matches the table’s expected state and that Error, Why, and
Fix are non-empty, rather than matching changeable prose. Preserve the
stopped-state check for the documented runbook reference as a text contract.

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Comment on lines +99 to +102
process, err := s.Store.LoadProcess(resolved)
if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
return NewStatusResult(resolved, StateStopped), nil
}

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Healthy bridge reported stopped

Class: REAL
Status returns stopped whenever no process record exists, without probing the listener. A bridge started by hand from the runbook has a live listener and no process.json. Trace: operator runs the runbook's manual ts-bridge command, which serves traffic on the SOCKS port; dotf bridge status reports stopped; its FIX says to start the profile again, which fails to bind the port already in use. The operator is told a working bridge is down. The state should report the listener and destination separately, or the stopped message must say that a manual bridge may be running.

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"behavior": "Status distinguishes stopped, unowned, launch-mismatch, listener-down, destination-failed and healthy states with error/why/fix and no credential values.",
"verification": "cd cli && out=\"$(go test ./internal/bridge ./internal/cmd -run '^(TestClassifyStatus|TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors|TestStatusResultFixesAvoidUnregisteredCommands|TestServiceStatusUsesOwnedProcessAndHealth|TestLaunchDescriptorFingerprintIsStableAndDiscriminating|TestBridgeStatusCommandHealthy)$' -v -count=1)\" && printf '%s\\n' \"$out\" | grep -q -- '--- PASS: TestClassifyStatus' && printf '%s\\n' \"$out\" | grep -q -- '--- PASS: TestStatusResultUsesAgentOrientedErrors' && printf '%s\\n' \"$out\" | grep -q -- '--- PASS: TestStatusResultFixesAvoidUnregisteredCommands' && printf '%s\\n' \"$out\" | grep -q -- '--- PASS: TestServiceStatusUsesOwnedProcessAndHealth' && printf '%s\\n' \"$out\" | grep -q -- '--- PASS: TestLaunchDescriptorFingerprintIsStableAndDiscriminating' && printf '%s\\n' \"$out\" | grep -q -- '--- PASS: TestBridgeStatusCommandHealthy'",

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Predicate gap

Class: THEORETICAL
The f1 behavior claims error/why/fix output and no credential values. Its verification predicate does not run TestBridgeStatusCommandUnhealthyUsesErrorWhyFix or TestBridgeStatusCommandJSONIsMachineReadableOnFailure, which assert the command-level ERROR/WHY/FIX output. No test asserts the absence of credential values. The predicate can pass while the claimed behavior is only partly covered.

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result, err := service.Status(profile)
if err != nil {
return writeBridgeFailure(command, "bridge status is unavailable", err.Error(),
"repair or remove the invalid bridge state below the dotf state directory, or pass `--profile` when more than one is configured, then retry")

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JSON failure output

Class: THEORETICAL
With --json, a service error (for example corrupt process.json) is written as human text to stderr, and stdout is empty. The runbook says JSON "carries the same fields" for non-healthy results. A consumer that parses stdout gets nothing and cannot tell a corrupt-state failure from a successful empty run. Whether such consumers exist is not visible in this PR.

…started bridges

A --json run on a failure path printed nothing to stdout, so a consumer
could not tell a corrupt state from a successful empty run. Every failure
now builds an unavailable result and goes through writeBridgeStatus.

StateStopped also claimed no bridge was running. A bridge started by hand
from the runbook leaves no process record, so the old fix sent the
operator to start a second bridge that cannot bind the port the first one
holds. The verdict now says status cannot see it and names the listener
check.
The runbook said stopped means no process record exists. It also covers a
recorded PID that is gone, and a bridge started by hand leaves no record at
all, so the entry now says so.

The f1 predicate now runs the command-level ERROR/WHY/FIX, JSON-failure and
stopped-warning tests, plus a test that a verdict is rendered from the
profile alone, which is the executable form of its no-credential clause.
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Second pass, covering the five findings from the 2026-11-07 20:10 review on 223f66da. The four findings from the earlier review were dispositioned in the previous triage comment and are in 98260d88.

Finding Where Disposition
JSON failure output (Class: THEORETICAL) — --json writes human text to stderr and leaves stdout empty on a service error cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go:80 Applied. Every failure path now builds a bridgeUnavailable result and routes it through writeBridgeStatus, so a --json run emits a document on stdout and exits 1. TestBridgeStatusCommandJSONCarriesUnavailableOnServiceError and TestBridgeStatusCommandJSONReportsUnavailableForConfigurationFailures pin it.
--json on an unavailable status emits nothing (Minor) — same defect, from the other side cli/internal/cmd/bridge.go:81 Applied, as the same change: bridge.StateUnavailable is the state that document carries. It is never returned by Classify, because there is no observation to classify.
stopped definition incomplete (Minor) — the runbook omits "recorded PID is gone" docs/runbooks/ts-bridge-client.md:76 Applied. The entry now covers both cases.
Healthy bridge reported stopped (Class: REAL) — a hand-started bridge has a live listener and no process.json, so status says stopped and the FIX sends the operator to start a second bridge that cannot bind cli/internal/bridge/status.go:106 Applied as wording, not as a probe. Read-only status stays read-only: probing a listener the state does not own would answer for whatever holds the port, which is the confusion the state machine exists to avoid. The verdict now says a hand-started bridge is invisible to status, and the FIX names dotf doctor --scope machine --verbose before it names starting anything. TestStoppedWarnsThatAHandStartedBridgeIsInvisible pins the why.
Predicate gap (Class: THEORETICAL) — the f1 predicate runs neither the ERROR/WHY/FIX nor the JSON-failure test, and nothing asserts the absence of credential values specs/TOOL-035-manage-ts-bridge-lifecycle/features.json:5 Applied. The predicate now runs both command-level tests, both JSON-failure tests and the stopped warning. The no-credential clause is now executable: TestStatusResultRendersNoDescriptorOrCredentialMaterial asserts a verdict is rendered from the profile alone, so no config path or address can reach the output. The predicate was run under bash and exits 0.

No finding declined. go test ./internal/bridge ./internal/cmd -run '^TestBridge|^TestStatusResult|^TestStopped|^TestClassify|^TestServiceStatus|^TestLaunchDescriptor', go vet ./internal/bridge ./internal/cmd ./internal/doctor and the f1 predicate all pass locally.

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