[myleshorton]

The volunteer's app can now show each friend it proxies for (each Personal Proxy pairing) as Connected or Not connected. radiance works this out in memory and serves it at a new GET /helper/live.

lantern-box is pinned to v0.0.184 (lantern-box#393 and #394) and broflake to getlantern/unbounded#489's merge (d3b5e0b); samizdat comes in at #20's merge. freddie from #489 is deployed. Per-friend data only arrives once lantern-cloud#3804 is deployed.

Why

In the Personal Proxies redesign, the volunteer sees "Connected / Not connected" for each friend. Snapshots also carry each connection's pairing, but the app strips it before the globe sees it, so the globe never singles out a friend. To make this work:

• lantern-cloud#3804 sends the short IDs grouped by pairing;
• lantern-box#393 puts the session's short ID on each direct connection event;
• broflake#489 tells the producer which pairing each WebRTC consumer came through.

This PR puts those together.

Changes

• helper.LiveTracker (new, in memory only). A friend counts as connected when their pairing moved at least 32 KiB in the last 60 s, with a 15 s linger so the status doesn't flap.
  • The threshold filters out url-test probes and idle slots.
  • Bytes are sampled once a second, but only while a connection is open, so the window stays accurate even when the app isn't polling.
  • The linger starts when the window first dropped below the threshold, not at the next poll.
• peer:
  • Parses pairing_short_id_sets and keeps a short ID → pairing map from the newest grouped set it accepts.
  • Adds Pairing to ConnectionEvent and to peerBytes[] in the snapshot.
  • A connection accepted before its pairing's groups arrive is kept, and attributed once they do.
  • Live tracking is ordered against the session's end (by lock and session generation), so a connection accepted as sharing stops can't stay tracked forever.
• Compatibility with older lantern-cloud replicas. A replica that predates #3804 sends a known flat set with no groups, at a revision a newer replica also uses.
  • At a newer revision, the groups are taken only if their IDs, in order, equal the flat set.
  • At the revision already applied, groups are still taken if they match the flat set recorded there.
  • A newer set with no groups that match leaves the previous map in place.
• unbounded: sets broflake's OnConnectionChangeInfoFunc and tracks each slot's pairing, with a per-slot byte total that is never reset. peerBytes[].pairing is in the snapshot.
• ipc: GET /helper/live returns {"pairings":[{"pairing_id","connected","since"}]}. Neither the request nor the response is traced or logged. The callers are LocalBackend.HelperLive() and ipc.Client.HelperLive(ctx), and lantern-core should poll it alongside the 1 s snapshots.

Privacy

• Never written to disk. Pairing data doesn't go into helper-activity.json, settings, or anything else. The tracker lives only in memory.
• Never logged. No log line takes a pairing ID. A static test scans every slog call in peer and unbounded to enforce this, and PairingShortIDSet, ConnectionEvent.Pairing and PeerBytes.Pairing are documented as never to be logged.
• Never sent to telemetry.
• What the volunteer can learn. The volunteer's device can already see a friend's source IP. With this change it can also tie that IP to a named friend and see when the friend is online. That is inherent to showing per-friend status, and it stays on the device.

Testing

• go test -race -tags "with_clash_api standalone" ./... passes in every package.
• golangci-lint run --new-from-rev=origin/main reports 0 issues, and gofmt and vet are clean.
• New tests cover:
  • grouped-set parsing and the compatibility rule: groups accepted at the same revision when the IDs match, rejected when they don't, and strictly-greater otherwise;
  • short ID → pairing, including pool and unknown IDs;
  • tracker threshold, window and linger, including the exact crossing-time case;
  • the sampler runs only while connections are open;
  • accept-racing-Stop with a deterministic interleaving;
  • a stream attributed late, and late attribution leaving a newer pool stream's label alone;
  • the unbounded info callback carrying the pairing;
  • no pairing reaching a log.
• Each review fix's test fails when its fix is removed.
• Already failing on main:
  • On darwin, cmd/lantern needs -tags standalone, so plain go build ./... fails there.
  • go vet reports copylocks in unbounded_test.go at lines 72 and 96.

Risk

Medium. This touches the peer connection path and adds a goroutine that runs only while live connections are open.

• Riskiest file: peer/peer.go, which adds locking around accept, close and stop.
• Late attribution: a stream attributed late only counts traffic from that moment on.
• When a pairing drops out: it leaves /helper/live once it is idle with nothing open, so the app should read a missing pairing as Not connected.
• No pairing on the Unbounded event: unbounded.ConnectionEvent fires before broflake's info callback, so it carries no pairing. Unbounded globe arcs should use peerBytes[].pairing in the snapshot instead.

How to revert

Revert the merge commit. Nothing is persisted, so there is nothing to migrate.

Pre-PR review (local Codex gate)

• Rounds: 6. Final: CODEX GATE: verdict=approve critical=0 important=0 minor=0 preexisting=0 reviewed=18
• Reviewed at: f8e3131. Round 6 covered the Copilot fixes (d32fa42..f8e3131). 6207dee after it changes comments only, and the comment reviewer verified it.
• Exit: approve
• Step back: not needed. Each round found different issues, all in this new code.
• Fixed:
  • helper/live.go:223: traffic was stamped when it was read rather than when it moved, so an idle friend could read as connected after a gap in polling. A sampler now runs while connections are open.
  • peer/peer.go:1877: a live open could race Stop and leave an orphaned flow holding a pairing ID. Tracking is now serialized with teardown and checks the session generation.
  • peer/peer.go:1913: a stream accepted before its pairing's groups arrived was never attributed. It is now kept and reconciled.
  • helper/live.go:284: the linger started at the last expiry rather than at the crossing.
  • peer/snapshot.go:258: late attribution relabelled an IP whose latest stream was a pool stream. It now relabels only the latest stream.
  • Comment verification, required by CLAUDE.md: an independent reviewer found 17 problems, 5 of them comments that contradicted the code, plus one on re-review. All are fixed, and the re-review reports none.
• Fixed after Copilot's review:
  • helper/live.go:309: a disconnect is dated at the linger's end, not when it was evaluated (cec72d6).
  • peer/peer.go:1742: a newer set's groups replace the pairing map only once the inbound has that set (09697a4).
  • peer/peer.go:1928: a close reports the pairing its stream was attributed to (adc8739).
  • helper/live.go:295: windows and lingers now age through device sleep. The tracker's clock adds the time the wall clock ran ahead of the monotonic one, so a friend connected just before a sleep reads Not connected on waking, even with nothing open (0c19375).
  • peer/peer.go:1787: a repeated response with unchanged groups no longer retires the previous groups a rotation's box may still serve (0c19375).
• Codex verification r1 (46929cf..0c19375): CODEX GATE: verdict=approve critical=0 important=0 minor=0 preexisting=0 reviewed=11. The commits after it change comments only, and the comment reviewer reports none.
• Dismissed:
  • unbounded/snapshot.go:223: a few trailing broflake chunks after a slot closes can be credited to the wrong pairing. That's a few relay buffers against a 32 KiB / 60 s threshold, and a correct fix needs a broflake API change, because ChunkFunc carries only the slot index. The thread is left open for a human call.
  • peer/peer.go:650: main's verifier filter also hides a friend's own requests to api.iantem.io from live status. Those are small API calls against the 32 KiB / 60 s threshold (answered in a PR comment).
• Pre-existing (not introduced here, worth filing): the darwin cmd/lantern build tag, and the copylocks reported in unbounded_test.go.
• Proposed AGENTS.md additions: none

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added live pairing status based on recent traffic, with a brief connected period after traffic stops.
  • Pairing information is now included in connection and traffic snapshots, helping distinguish activity by pairing.
  • Pairing details are now provided with registration and heartbeat updates.
  • Added an IPC endpoint and client support for retrieving the current live pairing snapshot.

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Walkthrough

The change adds live pairing tracking, attributes peer and unbounded connections to pairings, and exposes live snapshots through IPC. It also adds tests for tracking behavior, attribution, and the IPC response.

Changes: Pairing-Based Live Status

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Live tracker and timing rules helper/live.go, helper/live_test.go	Adds an in-memory tracker that samples connection bytes, applies threshold and linger timing, and returns sorted pairing snapshots. Tests cover sampling, timing, cleanup, and tracker lifecycle.
Peer pairing attribution peer/api.go, peer/peer.go, peer/snapshot.go, peer/pairing_test.go, peer/peer_test.go, internal/testutil/logargs.go	Register and heartbeat responses carry pairing groups alongside flat short-ID lists. The peer client validates and applies mappings, attributes connections and relay snapshots, and updates live tracking. Tests cover mapping updates, connection lifecycle, and logging identifiers.
Unbounded connection tracking unbounded/unbounded.go, unbounded/snapshot.go, unbounded/pairing_test.go	Unbounded connection metadata supplies pairing IDs, and slot byte totals feed live tracking. Peer-byte snapshots include pairing labels. Tests cover attribution, pool traffic, and cleanup.
Live snapshot IPC endpoint backend/radiance.go, ipc/server.go, ipc/client.go, ipc/helper_test.go, go.mod	The backend returns the default live snapshot. The IPC server serves it at GET /helper/live, and the client decodes the response. Tests verify the endpoint and response fields. Dependency versions are updated.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PeerClient
  participant UnboundedManager
  participant LiveTracker
  participant IPCClient
  participant IPCServer
  participant LocalBackend
  PeerClient->>LiveTracker: Open pairing connection with byte reader
  UnboundedManager->>LiveTracker: Open pairing slot with byte reader
  IPCClient->>IPCServer: GET /helper/live
  IPCServer->>LocalBackend: Call HelperLive
  LocalBackend->>LiveTracker: Request snapshot
  LiveTracker-->>LocalBackend: Return live pairing snapshot
  LocalBackend-->>IPCServer: Return snapshot
  IPCServer-->>IPCClient: Return JSON response

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Possibly related PRs

• getlantern/radiance#682: Adds cumulative unbounded byte counters and per-peer tallies used by this change for live tracking and pairing attribution.
• getlantern/radiance#698: Adds pairing short IDs to peer responses, which this change extends with grouped pairing data and connection attribution.

Suggested reviewers: garmr-ulfr, jigar-f

Merge Risk: Low · up to 837e8

The change is mergeable with a test follow-up: the reused-slot test does not verify that pool traffic cannot affect a friend’s live status.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 46.15% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

Passed checks: 4 passed

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Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: adding per-friend live Connected status for the volunteer. It is concise and related to the pull request objectives.
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[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

Connection and ID-map lifecycle errors can lose or misattribute traffic and close-event pairings, while delayed linger evaluation records incorrect disconnect times.

4 open issues

• Idle disconnect timestamp uses evaluation time, not linger expiry · New
• Failed short-ID updates drop attribution for IDs still active · New
• Close events lose pairing when the short-ID mapping is removed · New
• Late byte chunks can be lost or credited to a reused pairing · New

What changed in this PR

Adds in-memory, per-friend connection status for Personal Proxy volunteers, combining direct peer and Unbounded traffic attribution through a new local /helper/live API.

Changes:

• Tracks recent traffic using a 32 KiB threshold, 60-second window, and 15-second linger.
• Adds pairing attribution to peer events and snapshots, including late attribution and older-server compatibility.
• Exposes backend and IPC accessors, adds lifecycle and privacy tests, and updates supporting dependencies.

The dependency pins remain provisional pending the upstream merges noted in the description.

File	Description
unbounded/​unbounded.go	Wires pairing-aware connection callbacks into live tracking.
unbounded/​snapshot.go	Adds pairing labels and cumulative slot counters.
unbounded/​pairing_test.go	Tests attribution, slot reuse, stop handling, and logging safeguards.
peer/​snapshot.go	Labels client snapshots and protects latest-stream attribution.
peer/​peer.go	Reconciles grouped IDs and tracks connection attribution across sessions.
peer/​peer_test.go	Extends heartbeat fixtures with grouped pairing IDs.
peer/​pairing_test.go	Tests compatibility, late attribution, events, and lifecycle races.
peer/​api.go	Adds grouped pairing IDs to server response types.
ipc/​server.go	Registers the untraced /helper/live endpoint.
ipc/​helper_test.go	Tests live-status responses and route logging exclusion.
ipc/​client.go	Adds the HelperLive client method.
internal/​testutil/​logargs.go	Adds static checks for forbidden logging identifiers.
helper/​live.go	Implements traffic sampling, connection state, and linger tracking.
helper/​live_test.go	Tests thresholds, timing, sampling, and cleanup behavior.
go.sum	Updates checksums for supporting dependencies.
go.mod	Pins pairing-aware broflake, lantern-box, and samizdat revisions.
backend/​radiance.go	Exposes live pairing snapshots through LocalBackend.

_{Review effort: Balanced}

[myleshorton]

Leaving this as is. The bytes involved are a few trailing chunks per slot, which can't move the status: "connected" needs at least 32 KiB in a 60 s window.

What the misattribution amounts to:

• After a close, the chunks still in flight for that slot are either dropped from the old friend's total or credited to whoever takes the slot next.
• That's one or two relay buffers, against a 32 KiB threshold.
• So it can't flip a friend to Connected, and losing it can't flip one to Not connected while real traffic is flowing.
• The same holds for the final sample at stop.

What a correct fix needs: a connection generation carried through every byte delivery. broflake's ChunkFunc(size, workerIdx) passes only the slot index, so that would mean another broflake API change, then a bump through lantern-box and radiance, to perfect a label that already rounds these bytes away.

I've left this thread open for a human call.

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

Live status can report stale connectivity or incorrect connection durations and miss relayed traffic because of timing and attribution flaws.

2 open issues

• Pairing map updates race with stream attribution and rotation · New
• Late byte chunks can be lost or credited to a reused pairing

4 previously missed issues

In code that hasn't changed since last review

New traffic can revive an expired linger window

helper/​live.go:153

New bytes are added before an expired linger is evaluated. A threshold-sized burst sampled just after the linger ends can clear quietSince and preserve the original since, even though the pairing disconnected and reconnected. Evaluate the existing window and linger before incorporating new bytes, then evaluate again; apply the same ordering in Add and the final sample at close.

Delayed samples misdate accumulated traffic as a fresh connection

helper/​live.go:258

[P2] A delayed sampler can date old traffic as new. For example, if 32 KiB moves just before the device sleeps and the connection remains open, the first sample after waking minutes later stamps those bytes at wake-up and reports the friend connected for another window and linger. Capture the movement time, or handle long sampling gaps conservatively rather than assigning the entire accumulated delta to the resume time.

Wall-clock changes can extend connection windows

helper/​live.go:268

Time.Truncate removes the monotonic clock reading, so the window is aged using wall time. If the device clock moves backwards by ten minutes after a 32 KiB burst, that sample appears to be in the future and keeps the friend connected for roughly ten extra minutes without traffic. Preserve each bucket's monotonic timestamp and group samples by elapsed time instead of truncating wall time.

Connections during verification bypass live status tracking

peer/​peer.go:649

The box accepts streams throughout Verify, but the listener is registered only afterwards. Samizdat captures that listener once, so a friend connecting during verification can relay for the whole stream without ever contributing to live status. Register the listener and publish the successfully applied initial pairing map before serving, preserving verifier filtering and rollback cleanup.

3 resolved since last review

• Close events lose pairing when the short-ID mapping is removed
• Failed short-ID updates drop attribution for IDs still active
• Idle disconnect timestamp uses evaluation time, not linger expiry

_{Review effort: Balanced}

[coderabbitai]

Nitpick comments: 1

unbounded/pairing_test.go: 1

80-83: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Assert that a reused slot cannot extend the previous pairing.

The test discards the snapshot after the new occupant sends traffic. The earlier assertions do not cover this occupied-then-reused slot order, and TestBytesBeforeTheFriendAreNotTheFriends covers only traffic sent before the friend connects.

Use an injected, race-safe fake clock. Advance it past helper.LiveWindow + helper.LiveLinger before the new occupant sends bytes. Advancing after those bytes would expire both the friend's bytes and the incorrectly attributed bytes.

Suggested assertion

-	live := helper.NewLiveTracker(nil)
+	var now atomic.Int64
+	now.Store(time.Now().UnixNano())
+	live := helper.NewLiveTracker(func() time.Time {
+		return time.Unix(0, now.Load())
+	})
...
 	connect(bf, -1, 0, "", "")
 	assert.True(t, live.Snapshot().Pairings[0].Connected)

 	// A new pool occupant of the same slot is not the friend.
+	now.Add(int64(helper.LiveWindow + helper.LiveLinger))
 	connect(bf, 1, 0, "198.51.100.9", "")
 	bf.OnDownstreamChunkFunc(10*helper.LiveThreshold, 0)
-	live.Snapshot()
+	assert.Empty(t, live.Snapshot().Pairings)

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Review comment at @unbounded/pairing_test.go around lines 80 - 83:
Update the pairing test using helper.NewLiveTracker with an injected race-safe
fake clock; after confirming the friend is connected, advance time past
helper.LiveWindow plus helper.LiveLinger before connecting the reused-slot
occupant or sending its traffic. Replace the discarded live.Snapshot() call with
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Review comments at @unbounded/pairing_test.go:
- Around line 80-83: Update the pairing test using helper.NewLiveTracker with an
injected race-safe fake clock; after confirming the friend is connected, advance
time past helper.LiveWindow plus helper.LiveLinger before connecting the
reused-slot occupant or sending its traffic. Replace the discarded
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[myleshorton]

helper/live.go:153, New traffic can revive an expired linger window: fixed in 65085ae. Each sample, Add and the final sample at close now evaluate the window and linger first, then add the bytes, then evaluate again. Test: TestLive_BurstAfterTheLingerReconnects.

helper/live.go:258, Delayed samples misdate accumulated traffic as a fresh connection: fixed in aabb94d and 836c902. Bytes read after a sampling gap longer than the window are discarded. The gap is measured on the wall clock, because Go's monotonic clock stops while the device sleeps; the tracker has an injectable wall-clock source for this. Tests: TestLive_BytesAfterALongGapDoNotCount and TestLive_BytesAfterASleepDoNotCount. A pairing that was already connected before the sleep can still read Connected for up to one window plus the linger (75 s) after waking, and then corrects itself.

helper/live.go:268, Wall-clock changes can extend connection windows: fixed in 65085ae. Samples keep their monotonic reading and are grouped by elapsed time instead of by truncated wall time. Test: TestLive_SamplesKeepTheMonotonicClock.

peer/peer.go:649, Connections during verification bypass live status tracking: fixed in 9584430. The connection listener is registered, and the initial groups are published, before box.Start, so a connection accepted during Verify is tracked. A failed start clears both. Test: TestClient_ConnectionDuringVerifyIsTracked.

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

Suspend can leave stale pairings live, rotation can lose stream attribution, and verifier-host filtering drops paired traffic.

2 open issues

• Expire pairing samples and linger across device suspend · New
• Late byte chunks can be lost or credited to a reused pairing

2 previously missed issues

In code that hasn't changed since last review

Track paired traffic to verifier hosts

peer/​peer.go:650

This is reached only after isVerifierConn has discarded every stream to api.iantem.io or api.staging.iantem.io, regardless of its authenticated short ID. A paired friend transferring traffic to either host is therefore never tracked or attributed, even if it exceeds the live threshold. Distinguish the verifier's base-ID traffic from paired streams before filtering, including streams whose pairing is resolved later.

Preserve replacement mappings until their IDs are reconciled

peer/​peer.go:1787

During rotation, the replacement box can still serve set A while a heartbeat commits set B to the old box; a repeated B response then overwrites prevGroups and drops A's mapping. Streams accepted on A become unattributed and short-lived streams cannot be recovered; expiry also clears mappings before the replacement is reconciled (peer/peer.go:1886). Retain the replacement's mappings until its IDs are successfully reconciled, and do not retire previous groups on an unchanged response.

1 resolved since last review

• Pairing map updates race with stream attribution and rotation

_{Review effort: Balanced}

[myleshorton]

peer/peer.go:650, Track paired traffic to verifier hosts: leaving this as is.

• The filter comes from main (dd1ae0a). This PR only places live tracking after it, like the existing connection events.
• The only paired traffic it can hide is a friend's own requests to api.iantem.io or api.staging.iantem.io: small API calls, against a 32 KiB / 60 s threshold driven by everything else the friend relays.
• Telling the verifier apart by short ID would make the people-helped filter depend on which base ID the verifier dials with, across rotations. That's a riskier change than the bytes it would recover.

peer/peer.go:1787, Preserve replacement mappings until their IDs are reconciled: fixed the repeated-response case in 0c19375. commitPendingGroupsLocked now replaces the held groups only when the pending ones differ, so an unchanged response no longer retires the previous groups a rotation's box may still serve. Tests: TestClient_RepeatedGroupsKeepThePreviousOnes, and TestClient_GroupsFollowTheStrictlyNewerRuleOtherwise now checks that an unchanged set keeps them and a different set drops them.

Not changed:

• Two different new sets within one rotation: a rotation's build-to-swap takes seconds, and heartbeats are minutes apart. The swap then pushes the record to the new box anyway.
• Expiry: it clears the map only for a set the server hasn't vouched for in 48 hours. That is past every short ID's validity (epochs e-1..e+1 of 24 hours), so no stream can still be using those IDs.