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tsunagiandClaude Opus 5 41604225ba Let a device leave a network, and start over
Joining was one command and leaving was nothing at all: a network went into
`state.sqlite` on the first `up` and stayed there, so a mistyped secret
left a second network beside the working one with no way to remove it but
editing the database by hand.

`tsunagi network` lists what this device belongs to. `tsunagi network leave
<id>` publishes a signed release first — while the agent is running and its
sessions are up — and only then deactivates the network and removes it. The
order is the whole point: signed state has no expiry, so the tombstone is
the only thing that ever frees the address and the name for the others, and
after the network is gone there is nothing left here to sign one with.
Peers pass it on, so a member that was away hears it from them rather than
from an agent that has already left.

With no agent running nothing can sign or send, and the command says so
instead of quietly succeeding: `--offline` drops the network locally and
says plainly that the others keep the old claim. The outcome always
distinguishes "published to nobody" from "not published at all", because
they leave the network in different states.

A network is named by its id, and a unique prefix will do. The name is
refused on purpose: two networks can share one — that is exactly the
situation this command exists for — and picking between them for the user
is how the wrong one gets left.

The author's version counter deliberately survives. Rejoining the same
network with the same key must continue above the release, or every replica
that holds the release would treat the new claim as stale and the returning
member would be invisible for good. The protocol key does not survive:
rejoining is joining, not resuming, and coming back with a key the network
was told to let go claims an identity nobody holds any more. Plugins learn
about it through a new `on_network_forgotten`, which is about what outlives
a session rather than what a deactivation tears down.

A released member also drops out of the roster `status` prints. The
tombstone stays in the record set — a replica that never heard of it would
otherwise reinstate the old claim — but listing an author that gave
everything up as a member made leaving look like a peer that had broken.

`tsunagi wipe` is the other half: it empties both directories, so the
device identity, every network, every signed record and everything a
protocol kept beside them go at once and the next start is a stranger. It
refuses while an agent holds the directory, and refuses a directory with no
`state.sqlite` in it, so a mistyped `--state-dir` cannot take somebody's
documents with it. Without `--yes` it only prints what it would remove and
what membership would be lost. It is not a goodbye and says so: leaving the
networks first is what frees their addresses.

The local control protocol is 8 — the socket carries a `Leave` request now,
since only the running agent can publish the release.

Exercised end to end against real agents: leaving by prefix released the
address to a connected peer, leaving by name was refused, `--offline` was
refused until asked for explicitly, wipe was refused while the agent ran,
and the directory afterwards had no identity in it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-21 21:54:05 +01:00

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Testing

How to run everything is in ../README.md. Rules for writing tests are in ../AGENTS.md.

Ground rules

Tests use real iroh endpoints on loopback, real handshakes, real SQLite in per-test temporary directories, and independent agent instances. Discovery is substitutable; iroh, authentication, message passing and persistent storage are not.

The suite runs with no internet, no DHT, no public relay, no administrator rights and no changes to OS network settings: endpoints bind 127.0.0.1:0 and [::1]:0, relays are disabled, address lookup is cleared, port mapping is disabled, and net-report probing is reduced to its minimum.

Synchronisation is always "wait for a specific event or condition under one overall deadline" (wait_event, wait_until, 30 s). The deadline covers the probe as well as the gaps between probes: a call into a wedged agent that never answers fails the test rather than hanging the process, which is the difference between a red run and a test binary still burning a core the next day. settle() exists only for asserting that something did not happen. Ports are dynamic and directories are isolated, so tests run in parallel.

Several library instances in one process is exactly that. It is not a test of several system processes, and is not presented as one.

What is covered

# scenario file
1 deterministic identity: same name + secret ⇒ same space on different devices; a changed name or secret changes it; hostname, device key and restart do not tests/identity.rs
2 four agents find each other, authenticate for real and exchange distinguishable messages; a late joiner is picked up; opaque plugin capabilities cross the control plane tests/multi_peer.rs
3 an attacker who knows the address and the correct public NetworkId but not the secret is rejected at the handshake tests/authentication.rs
4 one agent in two networks: statuses and messages do not mix; a session authenticated for one network cannot speak for the other; deactivating one leaves the other running tests/network_isolation.rs
5 full stop and recreation from the same database: identity and settings survive, sessions come back automatically, a new local UDP port does not break recovery tests/restart.rs
6 changing the secret through the library API: device identity survives, old sessions and messages get no access to the new space, and the retired space stays retired across a restart tests/restart.rs
7 missing, corrupt and stale cache do not prevent connecting; a corrupt mandatory store is a clear error and never a fresh identity; a newer schema is refused; secrets stay out of status and Debug tests/cache_and_state.rs
8 a dead candidate and a vanished peer do not block the others; retries are bounded and stop when the network is deactivated tests/resilience.rs
9 wrong version, a message before authentication, a proof replayed on another connection, an oversized frame and a Hello for an inactive network are all rejected without taking the agent down tests/authentication.rs
10 a second agent on the same state directory gets a clear error; after a clean stop the directory reopens; shutdown ends background tasks and refuses further work; independent agents coexist in one process tests/resilience.rs
11 leaving a network frees the address for the others, says plainly when there was nobody to tell, and rejoining afterwards is not mistaken for a stale record; a wipe empties both directories and the next start is a stranger, while a directory that is not ours is refused tests/leaving.rs, tests/cache_and_state.rs

tests/wireguard.rs drives the WireGuard data plane over real iroh connections. Everything is real except the packet interface: real agents, real control plane, real data links, real WireGuard handshakes and encryption from boringtun, with an in-memory TUN device so none of it needs privileges. It covers real IPv6 packets travelling both ways through a tunnel, a three-agent mesh, a peer that sends from an address it does not own being dropped, packets for unowned addresses being counted rather than broadcast, a departing peer losing its tunnel, two networks keeping separate interfaces and keys, restart keeping the WireGuard identity, shutdown removing every interface, a forged overlay claim being rejected, and the core carrying the payload without interpreting it.

Unit tests in crates/tsunagi/src/state/ cover the signed record model directly: tampering with any field breaks verification, a newer version wins while an older one never rolls back, two authors claiming one address resolve the same way no matter the merge order, one key used in two places is reported rather than silently merged, a release survives a late-arriving old claim, a bad record in a batch does not stop the rest, and allocation is deterministic, spread out, walks past everything taken and reports a full range instead of handing out a duplicate.

tests/local_control.rs covers the local control socket end to end: a client asking a running agent for status over a real Unix socket, a leftover socket file being replaced while a live one is not, and the derived socket path staying short enough to bind.

tests/discovery.rs covers the discovery contract itself: a static bootstrap candidate is enough to join, several backends compose, entries are withdrawn when a network stops, and a forgotten network stays forgotten across a restart.

Unit tests in crates/tsunagi/src/proto/handshake.rs cover the transcript construction itself: role separation, channel binding, identity and network binding, unambiguous encoding, and rejection under the wrong key.

Unit tests in crates/tsunagi-wg-quic/src/ cover key clamping against the RFC 7748 vector, overlay derivation, announcement validation including the address-hijack attempt, interface naming, and IP header parsing against truncated and nonsense input.

tests/end_to_end.rs is the vertical slice: persistent identity → network space → discovery → iroh → authentication → message exchange.

What the default suite does not cover is the real TUN interface, because that needs CAP_NET_ADMIN. Everything above it does run.

Not covered, and not claimed to be

Listed in sync-model.md: snapshots, revocations, long partitions, hostname renames, recovery of a returning participant, NAT traversal, relay fallback, and multi-process or multi-host deployment. None of these are implemented, and none are marked as passing.

Debugging a test

TSUNAGI_TEST_LOG=tsunagi=debug cargo test --test multi_peer -- --nocapture

The library never installs a global subscriber; the harness opts in only when that variable is set.