fix(connections): retry unsupported saved direct connections

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Saved direct connections could remain blocked by a cached compatibility rejection after the server was updated. Switching the saved environment back on now clears that rejection and its update hint, then repeats the existing handshake. A server that remains incompatible is switched off again.

Eligibility requires a user-saved URL, including an alternate behind a preferred relay or SSH route. Learned-only and relay-only entries remain blocked. Web settings and both mobile saved-row variants use the same rule; the takeover also fixes the previously missed mobile connected-cloud row.

Maintainer continuation of @none23's #15107, preserving the author's commits and merging current main.

Verification

• Registry tests: 50 → 49 in the existing file; six PR rows reduced to five behavior cases. Removing the retry fix causes three failures; treating learned URLs as saved causes one failure. Restored head: 70 passing tests across registry and routes.
• Client runtime, web, and mobile typechecks; targeted six-file lint/format; final focused tests all pass.
• One independent full-diff review round with Claude Opus 5.5 and Codex GPT-6-Sol: no confirmed code findings. The separate implementation pass found and fixed the mobile cloud-row omission.
• Live Linux web verification against two isolated real servers, using a disposable proxy that changes only the public descriptor's label and protocol version. Actual main leaves the cached rejection disabled after protocol compatibility is restored. Head permits an explicit retry, rejects again while incompatible, and reaches Connected after compatibility is restored without reloading. Screenshots use matching 1280×800 state. The browser's missing system fonts required loading Liberation Sans as an in-memory fallback; application source/CSS was unchanged by that workaround.
• Native macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, Electron desktop, real relay/SSH transports and remote network paths were not verified. Alternate-route and learned-route eligibility are covered by the shared registry tests. Native mobile UI remains a human verification item.
• Current-head CI passes, including Macroscope correctness and approvability. No unresolved review threads; this PR remains unmerged.

Before — actual main, compatible server but cached rejection blocks retry

After — reviewed head reconnects through the same saved URL

Retry flow — rejection, then successful explicit retry without reload

https://gh-file-drop-api-prod-mi5fy3sowv63ufte.pinglabs.workers.dev/f/4c13b27045fd67c9/15107-retry-flow.mp4

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Verdict: Approved at 089ce7a

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This focused fix clears stale compatibility rejections and allows an explicit retry only for saved direct connections, while preserving the existing block for relay-only or learned routes. The shared runtime change is small, covered by targeted tests, and the web/mobile edits only expose the corrected behavior.

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• apps/mobile/src/features/connection/ConnectionEnvironmentRow.tsx
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Unsupported environments with a saved bearer route can be retried through the connection registry. Web and mobile controls allow those environments to be switched on. Tests cover compatible and incompatible retry outcomes.

Changes: Unsupported bearer connection retry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Retry registry behavior and validation packages/client-runtime/src/connection/routes.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/registry.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/registry.test.ts	hasSavedBearerRoute identifies saved, non-learned bearer routes. setEnabled clears unsupported metadata before retrying an eligible environment. Tests cover successful and failed retries, including relay-route ordering and unsupported discovery.
Unsupported connection controls apps/web/src/components/settings/ConnectionsSettings.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/connection/ConnectionEnvironmentRow.tsx	The web and mobile switches allow retrying unsupported environments with a saved bearer route. The web tooltip reports “Client not supported” only when the switch is blocked.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 8cfa5

Saved direct connections marked "Client not supported" can now be switched on again to retry the handshake. If the server is still incompatible, the connection is blocked again. No merge-blocking risk remains in the supplied evidence.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 8cfa5

The change permits an explicit retry of an existing saved connection without adding new credentials or bypassing identity and compatibility checks. Risk is limited, with remaining uncertainty around interrupted retries and persistence failures.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The additional reachability is an explicit connection attempt using an already registered environment's existing routes and credentials. Eligibility applies to the whole entry: a mixed relay or SSH entry with a saved bearer route can retry its existing route list, not necessarily only its direct route. No new cross-environment credential source or authority was identified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Retry clears cached compatibility metadata, not authoritative connection validation. Route-specific authorization, expected-environment descriptor validation and protocol compatibility remain prerequisites to session creation and readiness. An attacker-controlled rejection or descriptor does not become an accepted session merely because the user retries.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Continued incompatibility returns to a blocked state without a scheduled retry. The registry then records incompatibility, persists disablement and disconnects the supervisor. Regression tests assert that repeated rejection leaves no session, while compatible recovery removes stale compatibility hints.

Pre-merge checks: 4 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning

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🟡 Minor · Gate unsupported retries on bearer targets. · ConnectionEnvironmentRow.tsx:134-138

apps/mobile/src/features/connection/ConnectionEnvironmentRow.tsx:134-138
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Gate unsupported retries on bearer targets.

The SSH connection uses the shared descriptor compatibility check. An incompatible server produces unsupportedReason, which the registry stores and exposes to the mobile row. Because SSH targets are non-relay, this switch remains enabled. setEnabled then rejects the retry because the target is not a BearerConnectionTarget.

Use the target kind checked by the registry:

Suggested fix

-          disabled={unsupported && props.environment.isRelayManaged}
+          disabled={unsupported && !props.environment.isBearer}

         isRelayManaged: target._tag === "RelayConnectionTarget",
+        isBearer: target._tag === "BearerConnectionTarget",

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Review comment at
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Update the ThemedSwitch disabled condition in ConnectionEnvironmentRow to
disable unsupported environments unless props.environment.isBearer is true, and
ensure the environment data exposes isBearer based on the registry’s
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The mobile SSH finding does not apply to the supported mobile connection workflow. Mobile registers direct bearer connections through pairing and relay connections through its controller; its migration produces the same two target kinds. Its catalog is local secure storage, and its SSH gateway explicitly reports that SSH environments are desktop-only. Thus the non-relay switch predicate selects bearer connections on mobile today. The shared registry still rejects unsupported SSH retries. Adding a new summary field for a target mobile cannot create would expand this fix unnecessarily.

Relevant source: mobile registration, mobile migration, and desktop-only SSH gateway.

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Taking over this one for maintainer batch terminal-preview-13. I will keep the saved direct-connection retry focused, check the shared registry and both clients against current main, and push the reviewed changes to this branch.

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