feat(gateway,web): nodes dashboard + device identification

[theonlyhennygod]

Summary

• Base branch: master
• What changed and why:
  • Adds a /nodes dashboard page so operators can see every ZeroClaw instance across the fleet (paired clients today, daemon nodes once the fleet-add CLI lands) with live health, identification metadata, inline rename, and token rotation — previously the dashboard had no view of paired devices at all, and the existing pairing path didn't even register them.
  • Extends DeviceInfo with hostname / os_name / os_version / agent_version (additive SQLite migration via ALTER TABLE … ADD COLUMN per new column, preserving existing devices.db rows) so cards can show real platform/host/agent metadata instead of just device_type.
  • Wires the simple header-based POST /pair path into DeviceRegistry::register so dashboard-paired devices appear in /api/devices (previously only the JSON /api/pair flow registered). This is a feature add, not a regression fix — the simple pair path gains device-registry wiring it didn't have before.
  • Server now drives staleness via nodes.stale_after_secs (default 300s) and nodes.offline_after_secs (default 1800s), exposed in a policy block on both /api/devices and /api/nodes. The frontend keeps a conservative DEFAULT_POLICY only for first-paint and otherwise reads the server values, so thresholds are tunable via the existing config CLI/API surface without a redeploy.
  • Adds PATCH /api/devices/:id ({name} body) for inline rename and wires the existing rotate-token endpoint into the dashboard; new GET /api/nodes lists daemons currently registered on /ws/nodes and emits the same policy block.
• Scope boundary: Does not add the zeroclaw node add <url> CLI (filed as [Feature]: zeroclaw node add <url> CLI — register a remote daemon #6390 — needs a daemon-side WS client + persistent peer table) and does not add real heartbeat tracking for daemon nodes (filed as [Feature]: real heartbeat tracking for daemon nodes — derive Online/Stale/Offline from last WS message #6391 — WS message timestamp + status derivation). Both linked back to [Feature]: zeroclaw node CLI + dashboard health & management (follow-up to #2991) #6346, so it stays open until they ship plus the cross-cutting docs entry.
• Blast radius: zeroclaw-gateway HTTP surface (new route, two response-shape additions: new DeviceInfo fields and a policy block on the list endpoints — additive, existing consumers ignore them); zeroclaw-config schema gains two new nodes.* keys (additive defaults); devices.db schema gets four new nullable columns via in-place ALTER TABLE; the web app gains a new route and sidebar entry. No changes to providers, channels, agent loop, memory, security, tools, or daemon WS protocol.
• Linked issue(s): Refs [Feature]: zeroclaw node CLI + dashboard health & management (follow-up to #2991) #6346 (this PR ships the dashboard half — paired-client list, identification fields, inline rename, token rotation, server-driven health policy). [Feature]: zeroclaw node CLI + dashboard health & management (follow-up to #2991) #6346 will be closed by the merges of [Feature]: zeroclaw node add <url> CLI — register a remote daemon #6390 (CLI) and [Feature]: real heartbeat tracking for daemon nodes — derive Online/Stale/Offline from last WS message #6391 (heartbeat). Using Refs rather than Closes deliberately so GitHub does not auto-close [Feature]: zeroclaw node CLI + dashboard health & management (follow-up to #2991) #6346 on this merge.

Validation Evidence (required)

Local validation is the signal CI cannot replace. Run the full battery and paste literal output (tails, failures, warnings — not "all passed").

cargo fmt --all -- --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test

• Commands run and tail output:
  • cargo fmt --all -- --check — clean.
  • cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings — clean across the workspace (3 auto-fixes applied during development in the new pair-handler additions).
  • cargo test — 164 zeroclaw-gateway lib tests pass; full workspace test run green.
  • Toolchain: rustc 1.93.1 (01f6ddf75 2026-02-11).
• Beyond CI — what did you manually verify? End-to-end smoke on a temp config dir on port 42618:
  • Pair flow with rich headers: Browser pair populates hostname / os_name / os_version / agent_version correctly; CLI/iPhone/Mac/Living-Room-Mac all render with the right Platform line (OS+version preferred, falls back to device_type only when neither OS nor version is known — this fixes the duplication where the old card showed both Type: Macos and OS: macOS 10.15.7).
  • Rename: PATCH /api/devices/:id with {name} persists to SQLite; rename survives restart.
  • Rotate: existing rotate-token endpoint returns a fresh pair code from the dashboard.
  • Revoke: DELETE /api/devices/:id removes the device.
  • Migration: Started against a pre-existing devices.db that lacked the four new columns — additive ALTER TABLE applied cleanly, existing rows preserved, new fields populated on subsequent re-pair.
  • Persistence: Killed and re-spawned the gateway across multiple sessions; the device list grew 4 → 7 → 11 with no row loss.
  • Health pill: Verified Online / Stale / Offline transitions by adjusting nodes.stale_after_secs and nodes.offline_after_secs via the config surface and watching the server-driven policy propagate to the cards.
  • Not verified in this PR: real daemon-node heartbeat behaviour over /ws/nodes (deferred to [Feature]: real heartbeat tracking for daemon nodes — derive Online/Stale/Offline from last WS message #6391 — current /api/nodes only lists in-memory NodeRegistry::register entries on WS handshake) and the zeroclaw node add <url> CLI (deferred to [Feature]: zeroclaw node add <url> CLI — register a remote daemon #6390).
• If any command was intentionally skipped, why: None skipped.

Security & Privacy Impact (required)

Yes/No for each. Answer any Yes with a 1–2 sentence explanation.

• New permissions, capabilities, or file system access scope? (No)
• New external network calls? (No) — all new endpoints are local gateway HTTP routes.
• Secrets / tokens / credentials handling changed? (No) — token rotation surfaces an existing endpoint to the dashboard; no change to issuance, storage, or scope.
• PII, real identities, or personal data in diff, tests, fixtures, or docs? (No) — hostname / os_name / os_version / agent_version are operator-supplied device metadata stored locally in devices.db, not exfiltrated anywhere. No real identities, emails, or personal data appear in diff or fixtures.
• If any Yes, describe the risk and mitigation: N/A.

Compatibility (required)

• Backward compatible? (Yes)
• Config / env / CLI surface changed? (Yes) — additive only:
  • New config keys nodes.stale_after_secs (default 300) and nodes.offline_after_secs (default 1800), auto-discoverable as nodes.stale-after-secs / nodes.offline-after-secs via the existing config CLI/API surface.
  • New HTTP route PATCH /api/devices/:id ({name} body) and new GET /api/nodes. Existing /api/devices response gains four new optional DeviceInfo fields and a top-level policy block; existing clients ignore the additions.
  • Additive SQLite migration on devices.db — no manual step required.
• If No or Yes to either: exact upgrade steps for existing users: None. Restart picks up the new defaults; the migration is automatic.

Rollback (required for risk: medium and risk: high)

This PR touches crates/zeroclaw-gateway/**, which the auto-labeler classifies as risk: high. Filling the medium/high section.

• Fast rollback command/path: git revert a53154461. The additive ALTER TABLE columns can stay in place harmlessly (older code ignores them); no manual schema rollback needed.
• Feature flags or config toggles: None for the dashboard page itself. The two new config keys (nodes.stale_after_secs / nodes.offline_after_secs) only affect the displayed health pill — setting them to very large values effectively suppresses Stale/Offline classification without code changes.
• Observable failure symptoms:
  • Gateway logs: register errors from api_pairing after a POST /pair, or ALTER TABLE migration errors on startup against devices.db.
  • HTTP: PATCH /api/devices/:id or GET /api/nodes returning 404 / 500.
  • UI: /nodes page failing to load, empty card list after a successful pair, or health pills stuck on the frontend DEFAULT_POLICY (would indicate the server policy block isn't being read).
  • Metric/grep: tail -f the gateway log for device_registry and nodes spans; sustained errors on either is the signal.

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Reviewer: please drag-drop a screenshot of the running /nodes page (the NODES (11) view with the Browser / CLI / iPhone / Mac / Living-Room-Mac cards showing Platform / Host / Agent / Last seen / Joined / IP and the per-card key + trash icons) into this description before merging — the feature was built from a screenshot the author attached in chat that wasn't accessible from the editing context.

[singlerider]

Reviewed at 9591208. Read the full diff, the linked follow-ups #6390 and #6391, and cross-checked against integration/v0.8.0 to see whether the schema additions collide with anything tracked under #5947 (the v0.8.0 schema-v3 migration).

On scope: take it all the way

The sub-issue split — filing #6390 and #6391 before opening this PR — is exactly the right discipline. That's the carve-out pattern @tidux and @Audacity88 have been asking for, and you got there on your own. Genuinely appreciated.

That said, the ask here is to roll #6390 and #6391 into this branch so #6346 actually closes when this lands. Two reasons:

1. The dashboard half without the CLI half doesn't satisfy #6346. Acceptance criterion #4 in the issue reads "No CLI. zeroclaw node and zeroclaw nodes both error with 'unrecognized subcommand'" — wording your #6390 picks up verbatim. Operators running headless VPS daemons (the primary use case the issue calls out) need both surfaces; the dashboard alone is half the feature for them.
2. Closes #6346 (partially) won't actually close #6346 cleanly. GitHub's auto-close ignores the "(partially)" parenthetical, so if this merges as-is the issue closes anyway with two acceptance criteria still unsatisfied — same wrinkle @Audacity88 flagged on #6214 earlier today. The body wording and the actual scope need to line up.

You've already done the harder half. The CLI and the heartbeat plumbing build on the /api/nodes surface and the policy block you've already shipped here. Happy to chunk-review as you push the additional commits so the cadence stays tight.

If there's a reason this needs to land separately — testing isolation, integration windowing, anything else I'm missing — push back here and we'll work it out. Default ask is the unified PR.

v0.8.0 / schema-v3 divergence (informational)

#5947 (the v0.8.0 schema-v3 migration tracker) introduced aliased map shapes for channels.<alias> and providers.models.<alias> — the worldview shifted from "one global config block per kind" to "map keyed by user-chosen name". integration/v0.8.0 currently has NodesConfig byte-identical to master (3 fields), so the two new fields here will merge forward cleanly. But: if V3 extends the same alias pattern to nodes (a reasonable extension given multi-machine fleets are exactly where aliasing pays off), the flat NodesConfig.stale_after_secs / offline_after_secs keys and the flat GET /api/nodes response shape become a near-term breaking change. Worth a forward-compat sketch in #6391 before that work starts. Not blocking this PR; just flagging so you're not surprised when V3 hits master.

Other notes

🟡 No tests for the new behaviour. 1061 LOC adds a PATCH endpoint, a GET /api/nodes endpoint, two User-Agent parsers, a SQLite migration, and a rename registry method — none have unit tests. The iOS UA parser bug below is exactly the class of issue a 5-line unit test catches. At minimum: one test per UA-parser branch (macOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, empty), one for rename against a missing id, one for the migration on a pre-existing devices.db without the four new columns.

🟢 What looks good: schema additions on NodesConfig are clean (additive #[serde(default)] with named default fns). DeviceInfo extensions are properly Option<String>, backward-compatible. Server-driven policy block on the API responses is a smart pattern — the frontend never hardcodes thresholds.

[singlerider]

🔴 [blocking] iOS User-Agent parser produces empty version strings on every iOS UA.

Trace: ua.find("iPhone OS ") returns the byte position of the leading 'i'. rest = &ua[start..] is "iPhone OS 17_5_1 like Mac OS X...". rest.find(' ') finds the FIRST space in rest — between "iPhone" and "OS" at index 6 — not the space between "OS" and the version digits. &rest[7..] is then "OS 17_5_1 like...". The next .find(|c| !(digit || '_')) looks for the first non-digit-non-underscore, hits 'O' at index 0, returns 0. after_space[..0] = "". Result: iOS devices come out as Some("iOS") / Some("").

Fix matches what the macOS branch above already does — skip the literal prefix length:

if let Some(start) = ua.find("iPhone OS ").or_else(|| ua.find("iPad OS ")) {
    // Both prefixes are exactly 10 chars including the trailing space.
    let rest = &ua[start + 10..];
    let end = rest.find(|c: char| !(c.is_ascii_digit() || c == '_'))
        .unwrap_or(rest.len());
    let version = rest[..end].replace('_', ".");
    return (Some("iOS".into()), Some(version));
}

Or drop the iOS branch entirely and require the explicit X-OS-Name / X-OS-Version headers this PR already supports — UA sniffing is notoriously fragile and the headers are reliable. A unit test per branch would have caught this in seconds.

[singlerider]

🔴 [blocking] let _ = swallows every error type, not just the "duplicate column" the comment above describes. DB-locked, permission denied, disk full, schema corruption all eat the same way and surface as zero info to operators.

Two cleaner shapes:

1. Match on the specific rusqlite error code:

   match conn.execute(&format!("ALTER TABLE devices ADD COLUMN {column}"), []) {
       Ok(_) => {}
       Err(rusqlite::Error::SqliteFailure(_, Some(msg)))
           if msg.contains("duplicate column name") => {}
       Err(e) => tracing::warn!(
           "ALTER TABLE devices ADD COLUMN {column} failed: {e}"
       ),
   }

2. Idempotent existence check first:

   let existing: std::collections::HashSet<String> = conn
       .prepare("PRAGMA table_info(devices)")?
       .query_map([], |row| row.get::<_, String>(1))?
       .filter_map(Result::ok)
       .collect();
   for column in [...] {
       let name = column.split_whitespace().next().unwrap();
       if existing.contains(name) { continue; }
       conn.execute(&format!("ALTER TABLE devices ADD COLUMN {column}"), [])?;
   }

Either preserves the "ignore duplicate, surface real failures" intent. The current shape gives operators no signal when the migration silently fails for a real reason.

[singlerider]

🟡 [suggestion] Body framing nit: the PR description calls this block a "Fixes the simple header-based POST /pair path the dashboard uses to actually call DeviceRegistry::register" — but handle_pair never called register before this PR (grep -n "registry.register" crates/zeroclaw-gateway/src/lib.rs on master returns nothing). This isn't a regression fix; it's a feature add — the simple pair path gains device-registry wiring it didn't previously have.

Reword the bullet so the diff isn't presented as restoring broken behaviour. Something like: "Wire the simple header-based POST /pair path into DeviceRegistry::register so dashboard-paired devices appear in /api/devices (previously only the JSON /api/pair flow registered)."

Same shape, accurate framing.

[singlerider]

@theonlyhennygod Also, your screenshot shows elements of different heights. Is the second row always intended to be of smaller size?

[theonlyhennygod]

@singlerider thanks — generous review, all three of the technical notes were fair calls.

On the blocking items (addressed in 1cea3faf3)

• iOS UA parser: trace was correct. Switched to per-prefix length skip ("iPhone OS " = 10, "iPad OS " = 8) so both Apple mobile UAs return the version. Locked it in with a regression test that asserts Some("iOS") / Some("17.5.1") for both shapes — and added the full set you suggested (macOS, Android, Windows, Linux, empty, unrecognised). 8 UA tests + 5 device-type-from-UA branches.
• Migration error swallowing: replaced let _ = conn.execute(ALTER TABLE …) with an idempotent existence check via PRAGMA table_info(devices) plus tracing::warn! on real failures. Operators now get a signal on DB-locked / permission-denied / disk-full instead of silent swallowing. Added migration_adds_columns_to_pre_existing_db (builds a v1-shape devices.db with a row, opens fresh registry, asserts row survives + new fields reachable end-to-end) and migration_is_idempotent_on_already_migrated_db.
• rename: 3 unit tests covering happy path, missing-id, and clearing back to None.

178 lib tests pass, fmt/clippy clean. CI re-run kicked off.

On the framing nit (addressed in PR body)

Reworded — calling it a feature add ("wires the simple pair path into DeviceRegistry::register"), not a regression fix. Accurate framing, your word choice.

On the scope ask (push-back, respectfully)

I hear you on Closes #6346 (partially) — fair gotcha, that wording would have auto-closed the issue with two acceptance criteria still open. I changed Closes #6346 to Refs #6346 in the PR body so GitHub doesn't auto-close on merge. #6346 stays open until #6390 (CLI) and #6391 (heartbeat) land.

But I'd like to keep the scope as is rather than rolling them in, for three reasons:

1. Three smaller PRs review faster than one ~3000-LOC PR. This one is already 1338 LOC across 11 files; folding in the CLI (daemon-side WS client + persistent peer table in config.toml + reconnect semantics) and heartbeat (NodeMessage timestamp tracking + last_seen derivation in list_nodes) would roughly triple it. Smaller PRs are easier on you as a reviewer and easier to revert if anything regresses.
2. The dashboard half is useful standalone. The primary user today is someone running one daemon with multiple paired clients (phone, laptop, CLI) — that's the use case this PR fully covers. Headless-VPS multi-daemon operators are a smaller current cohort and the right people to design the CLI for, in [Feature]: zeroclaw node add <url> CLI — register a remote daemon #6390.
3. Heartbeat needs the v0.8.0 / schema-v3 conversation first. Your forward-compat note about [Feature]: schema v3 — batch breaking field migrations #5947 is exactly right — before adding last_seen to NodeInfo and changing /api/nodes shape, the design needs to know whether V3 will alias nodes like it does channels / providers.models. I'll add that to [Feature]: real heartbeat tracking for daemon nodes — derive Online/Stale/Offline from last WS message #6391 as a design constraint so whoever picks it up doesn't ship a near-term breaker.

The CLI half (#6390) and heartbeat (#6391) are both legitimate own-PR work — they each have a coherent unit of design that deserves its own review pass, not to be tucked into a dashboard PR. I'd rather you get to chunk-review each on its own merits than push three commits into one branch under time pressure.

If you'd still prefer the unified PR, I'll do it — your call as the reviewer. But the case for the split is strong enough that I wanted to articulate it before reaching for a rebase.

On v0.8.0 / schema-v3 (informational, no action here)

Adding a forward-compat sketch to #6391 right after this so it doesn't get lost.

[theonlyhennygod]

@theonlyhennygod Also, your screenshot shows elements of different heights. Is the second row always intended to be of smaller size?

It was a demo layout for how it should look, it's still needs a polish and had to remove basic redundancies. It should resemble more of the top row and not the bottom one.

Author claims all addressed, with some pushback.

[singlerider]

@theonlyhennygod When you have the functional top and bottom row screenshot, can you update? It would be cool to see its intended shape.

[singlerider]

@theonlyhennygod Also, even your most recent commit was not correctly attributed to your account. Your .gitconfig still looks to be malformed somewhere.

[theonlyhennygod]

@singlerider — both addressed.

Attribution

Good catch. The local .git/config in this repo had user.email = oftherose91@gmail.com and user.name = argenis, overriding the global theonlyhennygod@gmail.com / Argenis De La Rosa. That's why the recent commits weren't linking to my GitHub account.

Fixed by:

1. git config --local --unset user.email && git config --local --unset user.name so the global identity wins in this repo.
2. git rebase --exec 'git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit' origin/master over the 3 branch commits, with GIT_AUTHOR_* / GIT_COMMITTER_* env vars set explicitly as belt-and-suspenders.
3. Force-pushed with --force-with-lease.

Branch is now at b0ec407ee. All 3 commits show Argenis De La Rosa <theonlyhennygod@gmail.com> for both author and committer; the patches are byte-identical to the originals (verified with git show --stat). The rebase also picked up the 8 master commits since I last rebased, so the branch is up to date.

Screenshot

I'll get an updated capture of the polished card layout — both rows should match the top-row shape (Platform / Host / Agent / Last seen / Joined / IP, consistent height) once I re-pair fresh devices on a clean workspace. Will post here once it's ready. The bottom row in the original screenshot was older devices missing the new identification fields (hostname / OS / agent version), which made the cards shorter — same template, just less data to render.

[WareWolf-MoonWall]

Draft Review — PR #6392

feat(gateway,web): nodes dashboard + device identification

Author: theonlyhennygod | Verdict: --comment

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Take-stock before writing

What singlerider raised (all resolved, review dismissed by force-push):

• ✅ iOS UA parser bug (find(' ') landed on wrong space → empty version strings on every iOS UA) — fixed with per-prefix length skip in b0ec407ee; 8 regression tests pin both iPhone OS and iPad OS shapes.
• ✅ let _ = conn.execute(ALTER TABLE ...) swallowing every error class — replaced with PRAGMA-first idempotent migration + tracing::warn! on real failures.
• ✅ No unit tests for new behaviour — 178 lib tests now present: UA parser branches, rename (3 cases: happy path, missing id, clear-to-None), migration idempotency and pre-existing-DB round-trip.
• ✅ PR body framing ("Fixes" → additive feature wiring) — corrected.
• ✅ Closes #6346 → Refs #6346 — GitHub won't auto-close; #6346 stays open until #6390 (CLI) and #6391 (heartbeat) land.
• ✅ Commit attribution (local .git/config override) — cleaned via rebase, all three commits now show theonlyhennygod@gmail.com for author and committer.

Active CHANGES_REQUESTED from other reviewers: None. singlerider's review was dismissed by the force push.

Still live going into my read:

• singlerider's informational v0.8.0/schema-v3 forward-compat note (not a block; flagged for design awareness in #6391).
• Scope split question — author argued persuasively for three separate PRs; I read the argument and agree the reasoning is sound (see §5 below).
• No screenshot of the running /nodes page has appeared yet.

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Review body

Reviewed at b0ec407ee. Read the full diff, all prior inline comments and the author's response thread, the follow-up issues #6390 and #6391, and cross-checked require_auth coverage on every new route.

The technical quality here is noticeably better than the initial push. The migration fix in particular is exactly what this codebase needs to do consistently — PRAGMA-first existence check, tracing::warn! on real failures, idempotent on restarts. The UA parser regression test suite is the right class of coverage. Good iteration.

One residual production-path issue and two pre-merge prerequisites below.

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🟡 [warning] rename().unwrap_or(0) silently swallows DB errors — inconsistent with the migration fix in the same PR

In crates/zeroclaw-gateway/src/api_pairing.rs, the new rename method:

let updated = conn
    .execute(
        "UPDATE devices SET name = ?1 WHERE id = ?2",
        rusqlite::params![new_name, device_id],
    )
    .unwrap_or(0);

On any DB error — disk full, locked, permission denied, schema corruption — unwrap_or(0) returns 0. The caller interprets that as "no row matched that id" → returns false → patch_device returns HTTP 404. The operator gets the wrong status code and zero signal in the logs.

This is the same class of error swallowing the migration path was correctly fixed for in this very PR. The PRAGMA approach in the migration now does:

if let Err(e) = conn.execute(&format!("ALTER TABLE devices ADD COLUMN {decl}"), []) {
    tracing::warn!(
        target: "zeroclaw_gateway::devices",
        "failed to add column {name} to devices table: {e}"
    );
}

The rename path should follow the same pattern. A minimal fix:

let updated = match conn.execute(
    "UPDATE devices SET name = ?1 WHERE id = ?2",
    rusqlite::params![new_name, device_id],
) {
    Ok(n) => n,
    Err(e) => {
        tracing::warn!(
            target: "zeroclaw_gateway::devices",
            device_id = %device_id,
            "rename failed: {e}"
        );
        return false;
    }
};

Optionally, patch_device could propagate a 500 vs 404 distinction, but at minimum the warn should be there. Per FND-006 §4.1: "Operational errors … should result in Result<T, E>. A .unwrap() on an operational error is a deferred panic" — and unwrap_or(silent_default) is the non-panicking variant of the same pattern. Per FND-006 §4.6, the log message should carry enough context (device_id, the error) to be diagnostic in a real incident.

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🟡 [warning] Screenshot still missing — required before merge per the PR itself

The PR description contains an explicit request:

"Reviewer: please drag-drop a screenshot of the running /nodes page … into this description before merging."

The author's latest comment acknowledges this and promises an updated capture once they re-pair fresh devices on a clean workspace, but one hasn't appeared yet. For a visual UI feature that was built from a screenshot "that wasn't accessible from the editing context," seeing the rendered output is validation evidence we cannot get from CI or the diff alone. This isn't optional polish — it confirms that the card layout, health pills, and metadata rows render correctly with both old-format (no hostname/OS/agent) and new-format devices present.

I'm not going to supply this — it's the author's validation evidence to provide. Please post the screenshot before requesting final approvals.

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🔵 [suggestion] PATCH /api/devices/{id} body has no name-length guard

DevicePatchBody.name: Option<String> accepts unbounded input. The global MAX_BODY_SIZE = 65_536 caps the raw request bytes, but a 64 KB device name is still absurd. A short application-layer cap (e.g. 256 or 512 chars) aligns with FND-006 §4.5 ("At every trust boundary, validate before you process") and means the SQLite TEXT column doesn't become a footgun if a buggy client sends garbage. Low urgency, but worth a one-liner if name.as_deref().is_some_and(|n| n.len() > 256) { return (StatusCode::UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY, ...) } before the rename call.

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✅ Auth coverage on both new routes verified

PATCH /api/devices/{id} calls require_auth(&state, &headers) at the top of patch_device. GET /api/nodes calls super::api::require_auth(&state, &headers) at the top of list_nodes. Both short-circuit to the auth error response before touching any state. No auth gap on the new HTTP surface.

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🟢 PRAGMA-first idempotent migration is the pattern to repeat

The new migration shape — collect existing column names into a HashSet<String> via PRAGMA table_info(devices), skip present columns, warn on real errors — is the correct way to do additive SQLite migrations in this codebase. Compared to the previous let _ = conn.execute(ALTER TABLE ...) and to the SQLite-specific error-code matching approach, this is readable, safe on older SQLite versions, and doesn't require matching rusqlite internal error variants. I'd like to see this pattern referenced or pulled into a shared helper before the next migration that needs it (there will be one).

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🟢 Server-driven policy block is architecturally clean

Emitting { stale_after_secs, offline_after_secs } from both /api/devices and /api/nodes and having the frontend only use DEFAULT_POLICY for first-paint is the right separation. The operator tunes the config knob; the frontend reflects it without a redeploy. The DEFAULT_POLICY constants in the frontend match the server defaults exactly, so first-paint is never visually inconsistent. Good design.

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🔵 [team decision] Scope split — keeping this PR as the dashboard half

I read singlerider's ask to roll in #6390 and #6391 and the author's three-point response. The argument for three separate PRs is sound:

1. This PR at 1338 LOC is already the upper end of reviewable size; adding the daemon-side WS client and heartbeat plumbing would triple it.
2. The dashboard half is genuinely useful standalone today (paired-client fleet view, rename, rotate, server-driven health policy).
3. #6391 has a real architectural dependency on the v0.8.0/schema-v3 nodes alias discussion (#5947) that needs to be settled before last_seen is added to NodeInfo.

Refs #6346 rather than Closes #6346 is the right body wording — GitHub won't auto-close, and the issue correctly stays open until #6390 and #6391 land. I support the scope as-is.

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Informational — list_nodes hardcodes "status": "online"

Acknowledged in the PR: /api/nodes only lists in-memory WS-handshake registrations, no heartbeat tracking. Every daemon node therefore shows "online" permanently. The frontend UnifiedNode for daemons reads this field directly rather than computing from last_seen, which means the health pill for daemon nodes will always be green until #6391 ships. This is accurately documented and the deferred scope is justified (the heartbeat design depends on the v0.8.0 conversation). Not flagging it as a concern — just making sure the next reviewers see it explicitly.

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Summary

#	Weight	Item
1	🟡 warning	rename().unwrap_or(0) silently swallows DB errors → add tracing::warn! with device_id and the error, consistent with the migration fix in this same PR
2	🟡 warning	Screenshot still missing — required per the PR description before merge
3	🔵 suggestion	Add a name-length guard (e.g. 256 chars) on PATCH body before the DB call
4	✅ resolved	Auth coverage on PATCH /api/devices/{id} and GET /api/nodes verified
5	🟢 praise	PRAGMA-first migration pattern — right call, worth formalising as a shared helper
6	🟢 praise	Server-driven policy block — clean design, no threshold duplication
7	🔵 team	Scope split (three-PR approach) — I support it; Refs wording is correct

No new blocking items from me. Items 1 and 2 are the things I'd want to see addressed before approving; if they land I'm happy to re-review quickly.

[WareWolf-MoonWall]

@JordanTheJet — milestone alignment needed: this PR does not clearly fit within the scope boundary of any open milestone. Please advise on placement or deferral.

[theonlyhennygod]

@JordanTheJet @Audacity88 — gentle ping for review when you have a moment. Part of the v0.7.5 push, CI 12/12 green at b0ec407. Happy to walk through any section if useful. Thanks!