mxaccessgw/archreview/2026-07-12/remediation/00-tracking.md

# MxAccessGateway — Remediation Tracking (2026-07-12 review)

Master progress tracker for the 2026-07-12 follow-up architecture review. Generated 2026-07-13.

Source review: [`../00-overall.md`](../00-overall.md) · Per-domain remediation designs are linked below and hold the full **Finding / Impact / Design / Implementation / Verification** for every entry here. The first-cycle tracker ([`../../remediation/00-tracking.md`](../../remediation/00-tracking.md)) remains the record for the original 153 findings; this document tracks only the 47 new IDs (GWC-24+, WRK-21+, IPC-23+, SEC-31+, CLI-35+, TST-25+) plus the old-tracker actions listed at the end.

## How to use this document

- Each finding has a stable ID that never changes. Cite it in commits, branches, and PRs (e.g. `fix(GWC-25): empty-ring ReplayGap sentinel`).
- The **Status** column is the single source of truth for progress. Update it in the same change that lands the fix.
- Do the work in **roadmap-tier order** (P0 → P1 → P2), respecting the `Dep` column and the cross-cutting clusters below — several fixes are one change set across two domains and must land together.
- When a fix lands: flip Status to `Done` and, per the repo rule, update the affected docs in the same commit.

**Status legend:** `Not started` · `In progress` · `In review` · `Done` · `Won't fix` (record why in the domain doc) · `N/A` (informational / decision recorded, no action).

## Severity roll-up

| Domain | Doc | High | Medium | Low | Info | Total |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|:-:|
| Gateway core | [10-gateway-core.md](10-gateway-core.md) | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| Worker | [20-worker.md](20-worker.md) | — | 1 | 7 | — | 8 |
| Contracts & IPC | [30-contracts-ipc.md](30-contracts-ipc.md) | — | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| Security & dashboard | [40-security-dashboard.md](40-security-dashboard.md) | — | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| Clients | [50-clients.md](50-clients.md) | — | 5 | 6 | — | 11 |
| Testing, docs & gaps | [60-testing-docs-gaps.md](60-testing-docs-gaps.md) | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | 6 |
| **Total** | | **1** | **14** | **29** | **4** | **48** |

## Roadmap-tier roll-up

| Tier | Meaning | Count | Findings |
|---|---|:-:|---|
| **P0** | Correctness & safety — all small-to-medium | 10 | GWC-25, WRK-21, IPC-23, IPC-24, IPC-25, IPC-30, SEC-31, SEC-32, CLI-35, CLI-36 |
| **P1** | Process & hardening | 12 | GWC-24, WRK-26, SEC-33, SEC-36, CLI-37, CLI-38, CLI-39, CLI-42, CLI-45, TST-25, TST-26, TST-27 |
| **P2** | Completeness & polish | 10 | GWC-26, GWC-27, GWC-28, WRK-25, IPC-26, IPC-27, SEC-34, TST-28, TST-29, TST-30 |
| **—** | Not individually in the roadmap (Lows/Infos) | 16 | GWC-29/30, WRK-22/23/24/27/28, IPC-28/29/31/32, SEC-35, CLI-40/41/43/44 |

### P0 — do first (10)

Sequenced by cluster; a cluster is one change set.

| ID | Sev | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|---|---|---|
| GWC-25 | Medium | S | CLI-35/36 (coord) | Not started | Empty-ring ReplayGap sentinel carries `oldest_available_sequence = 0`, dead-streaming a compliant client |
| CLI-35 | Medium | S | GWC-25 (coord) | Not started | Python CLI `stream-events` crashes on a ReplayGap |
| CLI-36 | Medium | S | GWC-25 (coord) | Not started | Go CLI `stream-events` silently destroys the ReplayGap signal |
| WRK-21 | Medium | M | owns IPC-23 fix; WRK-28 same batch | Not started | DrainEvents bound is count-based only; oversized reply kills the session and loses the drained events |
| IPC-23 | Medium | S | WRK-21 | Not started | DrainEvents contract requirements (reply fits negotiated max, no event loss, drain-until-empty) + proto-comment/doc wave |
| IPC-30 | Low | M | WRK-21 (same batch) | Not started | Oversized event frame stays session-fatal by design, but the death becomes structured (fault frame + logged identity) |
| SEC-31 | Medium | M | — | Not started | Failure limiter partitions on attacker-controlled key id and blocks before verification (lockout DoS) |
| SEC-32 | Low | S | SEC-31 | Not started | Failure-limiter LRU flushable by junk-token spray; token prefix never validated |
| IPC-24 | Medium | S | — | Not started | CI's unconditional Java churn-revert masks real drift |
| IPC-25 | Medium | M | — | Not started | Regenerate stale Go/Python worker bindings + add binding-freshness guard (Check 4) to check-codegen.ps1 |

## Finding registers by domain

Full design + implementation for each row lives in the linked domain doc under its ID heading.

### Gateway core — [10-gateway-core.md](10-gateway-core.md)

| ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
| GWC-24 | Medium | P1 | M | GWC-21 (coord, old tracker) | Not started | Unbounded event staging channel: sustained slow drain grows memory silently and invisibly |
| GWC-25 | Medium | P0 | S | CLI-35/36 (coord) | Not started | Empty-ring ReplayGap sentinel carries `oldest_available_sequence = 0` |
| GWC-26 | Low | P2 | M | GWC-27 | Not started | Alarm monitor attaches its subscriber after SubscribeAlarms; window transitions bypass the feed |
| GWC-27 | Low | P2 | S | GWC-26 | Not started | `AttachInternalEventSubscriber` bypasses the readiness gate; premature attach poisons the distributor |
| GWC-28 | Low | P2 | S | GWC-10 (coord, old tracker) | Not started | Gateway→worker envelope `sequence` stamped at creation, not at write |
| GWC-29 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | `Invoke` deep-clones the entire request only to discard the cloned command |
| GWC-30 | Info | — | S | — | Not started | Frame reader allocates a fresh 4-byte length-prefix array per frame |

### Worker — [20-worker.md](20-worker.md)

| ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
| WRK-21 | Medium | P0 | M | IPC-23 (fix owned here); WRK-28 | Not started | DrainEvents bound count-based only; oversized reply kills session and loses drained events |
| WRK-22 | Low | — | S | IPC-26 (fix owned here) | Not started | Cancelled `WriteAsync` leaves its frame queued; it is still written later |
| WRK-23 | Low | — | S | WRK-21 | Not started | Rejected frames consume sequence numbers, producing wire gaps |
| WRK-24 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | `AdoptNegotiatedMaxMessageBytes` has no lower-bound sanity check |
| WRK-25 | Low | P2 | S | WRK-22 (shared seam) | Not started | WRK-12 flush coalescing never engages on the event hot path |
| WRK-26 | Low | P1 | S | WRK-23 (soft); discharges IPC-29 | Not started | Write-priority and overflow doc drift from the WRK-07 change |
| WRK-27 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | Alarm poll bypasses the watchdog's in-flight suppression (15 s vs 75 s) |
| WRK-28 | Low | — | S | WRK-21 (same batch) | Not started | 10,000 drain cap is a duplicated magic constant |

### Contracts & IPC — [30-contracts-ipc.md](30-contracts-ipc.md)

| ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
| IPC-23 | Medium | P0 | S | WRK-21 (mechanics) | Not started | DrainEvents byte-blindness — contract requirements + proto-comment/doc wave |
| IPC-24 | Medium | P0 | S | — | Not started | CI's unconditional Java churn-revert masks real drift |
| IPC-25 | Medium | P0 | M | — | Not started | Stale Go/Python worker bindings: regenerate (pinned toolchains) + check-codegen Check 4 |
| IPC-26 | Low | P2 | S | WRK-22 (mechanics) | Not started | Cancelled write leaves ghost frame — cancelled means never written |
| IPC-27 | Low | P2 | S | — | Not started | Descriptor-freshness test blind to enums/services/galaxy descriptor |
| IPC-28 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | docs/Grpc.md missing CommandTooLarge → ResourceExhausted mapping |
| IPC-29 | Low | — | S | WRK-26 (discharged by) | Not started | WorkerFrameProtocol.md missing write-scheduling/sequencing section |
| IPC-30 | Low | P0 | M | WRK-21 (same batch) | Not started | Oversized event frame: keep session-fatal, make the death structured |
| IPC-31 | Info | — | — | — | N/A | Gateway creation-time sequence stamping accepted; diagnostic-only, decision recorded |
| IPC-32 | Info | — | S | IPC-25 (folded in) | Not started | check-codegen banner relabel 1/4…4/4 |

### Security & dashboard — [40-security-dashboard.md](40-security-dashboard.md)

| ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
| SEC-31 | Medium | P0 | M | — | Not started | Failure limiter: composite (peer, key-id) partitions + cross-peer aggregate with probe admission |
| SEC-32 | Low | P0 | S | SEC-31 | Not started | Limiter LRU flushable by junk-token spray; validate token shape, cap per-peer partitions |
| SEC-33 | Low | P1 | M | old SEC-23 (co-locate) | Not started | Host-meaningful path rooting; drop Windows literals from appsettings; validate Galaxy `SnapshotCachePath` |
| SEC-34 | Low | P2 | S | — | Not started | Verification cache: expiry outlives TTL; `Invalidate` races in-flight repopulation |
| SEC-35 | Info | — | S | — | N/A | Production hard-stops key on exact `Production` environment name (doc-only) |
| SEC-36 | Low | P1 | M | cross-repo `scadaproj/infra/glauth` | Not started | Committed dev LDAP service-account password: rotate, remove, move dev channel to user-secrets |

### Clients — [50-clients.md](50-clients.md)

| ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
| CLI-35 | Medium | P0 | S | GWC-25 (coord) | Not started | Python CLI `stream-events` crashes on a ReplayGap |
| CLI-36 | Medium | P0 | S | GWC-25 (coord) | Not started | Go CLI `stream-events` silently destroys the ReplayGap signal |
| CLI-37 | Medium | P1 | M | CLI-38 (co-land) | Not started | Status-array validation must branch on `category` per the proto contract (4-vs-1 divergence) |
| CLI-38 | Medium | P1 | S | — | Not started | Align .NET/Go/Java on `hresult < 0` — lands old CLI-08, cures design-doc drift |
| CLI-39 | Medium | P1 | S | CLI-35..38, CLI-45 (land last) | Not started | Bump client versions off published 0.1.2 (converge on 0.2.0); registry-collision guard in pack-clients.ps1 |
| CLI-40 | Low | — | M | — | Not started | Port the exact-secret credential scrub to Rust/Java/.NET |
| CLI-41 | Low | — | M | — | Not started | Uniform malformed-reply contract for AuthenticateUser/ArchestrAUserToId/AddBufferedItem |
| CLI-42 | Low | P1 | S | — | Not started | Document the vendored Rust proto layout (CLI-02's missing doc half) |
| CLI-43 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | Java style guide still prescribes "Java 21 preferred" |
| CLI-44 | Low | — | S | — | Not started | Go event goroutine can mislabel a genuine terminal error as `ErrSlowConsumer` |
| CLI-45 | Low | P1 | M | — | Not started | Standardize CLI credential env-var names; fail fast on missing/empty passwords |

### Testing, docs & gaps — [60-testing-docs-gaps.md](60-testing-docs-gaps.md)

| ID | Sev | Tier | Eff | Dep | Status | Title |
|---|---|:-:|:-:|---|---|---|
| TST-25 | High | P1 | M | unlocks old TST-05, TST-24 | Done | Windows/x86 test tier has zero automation — SSH-driven windev CI job |
| TST-26 | Medium | P1 | S | TST-25 (same commit) | Done | Docs/scripts describe removed CI jobs; Generated/-guard reattributed to check-codegen |
| TST-27 | Medium | P1 | S | — | Not started | `ShowTagValues` config row still says "Reserved" after SEC-25 made the flag live |
| TST-28 | Low | P2 | S | relates IPC-02 (old) | Not started | Gateway-side `max_frame_bytes` handshake untested in the CI-run suite |
| TST-29 | Low | P2 | S | — | Not started | Retire `oldtasks.md` (fold Phase-5 governance into DesignDecisions.md); delete root artifacts |
| TST-30 | Low | P2 | M | — | Not started | Single shared Gitea runner is a CI throughput/availability bottleneck (cross-repo contention, no run cancel/delete API) |

## Cross-cutting clusters

Sequence these together rather than piecemeal — several are one change set spanning two domains:

- **Drain / oversized-frame cluster (P0):** WRK-21 + IPC-23 + IPC-30, with WRK-28 and WRK-23 in the same batch. One worker change set in `WorkerPipeSession.cs`/`WorkerFrameWriter.cs`; WRK-21 owns the byte-budgeted drain and must satisfy IPC-23's requirements R1–R3; IPC-30's structured-fault seam lands in the same drain loop. IPC-23's proto-comment edits trigger the full regen fan-out (Generated/, Rust vendored, Go/Java, descriptor set) — land with WRK-21 so the wave happens once. One windev x86 verification run for the cluster.
- **ReplayGap end-to-end (P0):** GWC-25 (server sentinel arithmetic) + CLI-35 (Python CLI) + CLI-36 (Go CLI). Independently landable; the e2e resume walk validates only when all three are in.
- **Auth limiter (P0):** SEC-31 + SEC-32 — same component, one change set, one test suite.
- **Codegen freshness (P0):** IPC-24 + IPC-25 (+ IPC-32 folded in). Both edit `.gitea/workflows/ci.yml` — coordinate the branch with TST-25, which touches the same file.
- **Windows-tier automation (P1):** TST-25 + TST-26 (same commit). Unlocks old TST-05/TST-24 and provides CI evidence for every windev-verified cluster above; until it lands, record windev runs in this tracker's change log.
- **Client conformance + release train (P1):** CLI-37 + CLI-38 co-land (one conformance commit; closes old CLI-08), then CLI-45, with CLI-40/41 fixtures as follow-ups; **CLI-39 lands last** so published 0.2.0 carries the conformant behavior. Shared fixtures under `clients/proto/fixtures/behavior/`; update CrossLanguageSmokeMatrix.md/ClientLibrariesDesign.md same-commit. Do not republish regenerated bindings (IPC-25) before CLI-39 resolves.
- **Doc-drift batch (P1):** TST-27 + WRK-26 (discharges IPC-29) + CLI-42 + IPC-28 + SEC-35's doc note — one sweep commit is fine.
- **Backpressure follow-on (P1):** GWC-24, coordinating with still-open old GWC-21 (`EventChannelFullModeTimeout` configurability).

## Old-tracker actions ([`../../remediation/00-tracking.md`](../../remediation/00-tracking.md))

- Close **CLI-24** and **CLI-34** as `Done` (incidentally fixed; evidence in [../50-clients.md](../50-clients.md)).
- When CLI-38 lands, close old **CLI-08** with a pointer here.
- When WRK-26 lands, its doc section also discharges the WorkerFrameProtocol gap; when TST-25 lands, revisit old **TST-05** (scheduled live smoke) and **TST-24** (client wire tests), which it unlocks.

## Change log

| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-07-13 | Initial tracking doc generated from the six domain remediation designs. All 47 findings `Not started` (IPC-31, SEC-35 `N/A`). |
| 2026-07-13 | TST-25/TST-26 → `In progress` (branch `fix/tst-25-windev-ci`). Added `scripts/ci/{windev-worker-ci.ps1,run-windev-ci.sh,windev.known_hosts}`, `windows-x86` (per-push) + `nightly-windev` (scheduled) jobs in `ci.yml`, and the TST-26 doc/comment fixes (GatewayTesting.md, Contracts.md, check-codegen.ps1). Mechanism hand-verified on windev: `build`→0, bogus-SHA→nonzero (lock released), `test`→356 passed/0 failed in ~50s (per-push stays `test`, no demotion), and run-windev-ci.sh SSH+EncodedCommand exit-code propagation confirmed. |
| 2026-07-13 | Operator bring-up complete: dedicated CI ed25519 key installed in windev `administrators_authorized_keys` (authorized into `dohertj2`, which owns the working MXAccess/toolchain env — a fresh OS account would break the build; the key is independently revocable), Gitea secrets `WINDEV_SSH_KEY`/`WINDEV_SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS` + variable `WINDEV_SSH_USER=dohertj2` stored, runner→`10.100.0.48:22` egress verified on the `traefik` net, issue-write confirmed. **TST-25/TST-26 → `Done`:** credentialed `windows-x86` ran GREEN on `d769244` (Gitea run #37) — Linux runner SSHed windev, checked out the SHA in `C:\build\mxaccessgw-ci` under lock, ran the x86 Worker build + `Worker.Tests`, exit 0; `nightly-windev` correctly skipped on the push event. Branch merged to `main`. Follow-ups (old tracker): revisit **TST-05** (scheduled live smoke — now covered by `nightly-windev`) and **TST-24** (client wire tests) which this unlocks. |
| 2026-07-13 | Ran the TST-25 acceptance checks (scripts/ci/README.md) — they caught **two real CI defects, both fixed** on `fix/tst-25-ci-key-log-leak`: (1) **CI SSH key leaked in cleartext** in the `windows-x86` step env echo (Gitea's line-oriented masker missed the multiline PEM) — rotated the CI key on windev (old pubkey revoked), stored the key **base64-encoded** so the masker redacts it to `***` (confirmed on run #38), taught `run-windev-ci.sh` to decode, dropped the redundant public known-hosts secret from the job env; (2) **bootstrap lock race** — `run-windev-ci.sh`'s pre-hand-off `git fetch`/`checkout` ran outside the worktree lock, so concurrent runs collided on `.git/index.lock`; the bootstrap now holds the lock (ps1 re-uses it via `MXGW_CI_LOCK_HELD`), retest confirmed clean serialization. Also **deflaked** `SessionManagerTests` fail-fast timing assertions (absolute `<100ms` wall-clock bound flaked under CI load; now anchored to the configured timeout / dropped for the zero-timeout case). Checks passed: unreachable-host fast-fail (exit 255/15s), deliberate-red propagation (Worker.Tests failure → exit 1), lock concurrency (2nd run waits), no-key-in-logs (masked). Merge target `df7e20d` verified GREEN via the local windev path (Worker build + 356 tests); merged to `main` `19cbf7b`. Check 6 (forced-failure nightly issue): issue endpoint+token proven live at bring-up (#124); in-CI forced-failure probe abandoned to shared-runner congestion (residual `if: failure()` gating is standard Actions). |
| 2026-07-13 | New finding **TST-30** (`Low`/`P2`) added — surfaced during TST-25 acceptance: CI runs on a single shared `gitea-runner` (`maxParallel=1`, co-located `10.100.0.35`) interleaved with `dohertj2/lmxopcua`, and Gitea 1.26 exposes no run cancel/delete, so queue latency is unbounded under cross-repo contention and the runner is a single point of failure. Design: add a second/labelled runner + document the no-cancel reality and the `run-windev-ci.sh` bypass. Roll-ups updated (Testing Low 2→3, total 47→48; P2 9→10). |