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Unproven: stopping stuck simctl subprocesses remains upstream in expo/expo-device-hub#464. This PR does not change the hub version.

When iOS simulator discovery fails, T3 replaces the last device list with an empty list. A hung hub instead gets a generic network error after 15 seconds. Onboarding can then suggest installing a runtime that is already installed.

Keep the last known iOS devices when the hub reports a simctl listing failure, while still refreshing platforms that succeeded. Give device discovery 40 seconds so a hub with the proposed 30-second simctl timeout can report its cause first. A T3 timeout now shows a discovery warning and retains the last inventory. A clean successful list still removes missing devices and clears warnings. Onboarding reports failed discovery when a warning affects that platform, while preserving the other platform's setup guidance.

This uses internal discovery metadata and existing host warnings. No wire contract changes. It leaves the warning-detail formatting in #25248 separate.

Scope and approval

Refs #25707

The inventory and warning corrections are submitted under the focused obvious-bug exception in CONTRIBUTING.md: a failed enumeration should not be treated as a successful empty inventory or a missing runtime. The scope stays within existing device discovery, host warnings, and setup guidance.

No maintainer approval comment is recorded on the issue. The intentional device-list timeout change from 15 to 40 seconds awaits human review before merge, as Macroscope notes. This leaves time for the proposed upstream 30-second simctl timeout to report its cause.

Validation on e0677767d49c1c78f9161b68b7a49f38578848cf: 36 focused tests, four affected package typechecks, and RAYON_NUM_THREADS=2 vp run check:changed passed on corex. The regression tests failed on baseline e923627, then passed with the fix. The pinned expo-device-hub 0.19.0-canary-20261023-1357114 on shiv returned seven simulators while healthy and an empty simulator list plus the CoreSimulatorService error with an isolated xcrun failure. The shared simulator service was not paused. Browser evidence uses Helium on physical corex and replays those exact responses through an isolated T3 server. Before is baseline e9236274a3a6e0c731a7df4092db1e686f039068; after is e0677767d49c1c78f9161b68b7a49f38578848cf. Refresh with the failure drops all seven rows before, retains all seven after. A hung response shows a network error at 15 seconds before, a hub-specific warning with all rows retained at 40 seconds after. Successful recovery clears the warning. Native desktop shells were not separately launched; onboarding guidance is covered by unit tests.

Follow-up validation on 3593280488b4588ee45b2d97984f7a2065d32437: also retain simulators when the hub returns the proposed upstream 30-second listing-timeout warning. The service regression failed on e0677767d49c1c78f9161b68b7a49f38578848cf, then passed after the matcher correction. All 37 focused tests and RAYON_NUM_THREADS=2 vp run check:changed passed on corex. Independent review found no further issues. The recordings below remain from e0677767d49c1c78f9161b68b7a49f38578848cf and cover the unchanged ordinary failure, T3 timeout, and recovery behavior. Delivery of the proposed upstream warning and subprocess cleanup remain unproven with the pinned hub.

Before:

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After:

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Implemented by Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code and GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex. Investigated, tested, and independently reviewed by GPT-6.1-Sol in Codex.

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Approvability

Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This is a targeted device-discovery fix that preserves known devices during simulator or hub failures and adds regression coverage. It also changes the production discovery timeout from 15 to 40 seconds, making the default wait behavior a material product-default change for human review.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	−29 B (−0.6%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	−29 B (−2.3%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.5 KiB	−41 B (−0.2%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	1	−1 (−50.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.3 KiB	1.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: e923627 · PR result: 3593280 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Device listing now reports incomplete platform discovery and retains previously listed devices for affected platforms. Setup guidance distinguishes discovery failures from missing runtimes or devices.

Changes: Device Discovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Report incomplete hub discovery apps/server/src/device/DeviceHost.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceHubOperations.ts	The listing result can report incomplete platforms. Hub listing reports incomplete iOS discovery after a simulator-list failure, or incomplete iOS and Android discovery after a timeout.
Preserve devices during incomplete discovery apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.ts, apps/server/src/device/DeviceService.test.ts	Refreshes retain existing devices on incomplete platforms and exclude newly listed devices for those platforms. Tests cover simulator failures, successful empty listings, and hub timeouts.
Identify discovery problems in setup apps/web/src/components/device/DeviceSetup.tsx, apps/web/src/components/device/DeviceSetup.test.ts	Setup guidance identifies platform-specific discovery errors and device-hub timeouts. Tests verify iOS and Android guidance.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• A hung simctl shows a network error, and the device list empties and refills #25707 — Describes simulator-list failures and timeouts that empty the device list, and setup guidance that does not identify discovery failures.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24027 — Adds simulator enumeration and preserves hub devices on simulator-list failures in the same listing path.
• pingdotgg/t3code#23748 — Changes Android availability used by the device listing path.
• pingdotgg/t3code#25815 — Changes Android utility warning handling in the same listing flow.

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