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Managing sync targets through owner-only IPC

Keeping root validation, revisioned configuration, plan, apply, and rollback inside fixed Mac operations

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Purpose

The synchronization core had no safe management path for choosing root targets. The current Mac user needed to plan, confirm, and restore targets without exposing conversation bodies or credentials to the administration interface.

Implementation

owner-only synchronization state store implements owner-only configuration with applied, pending, revision, and rollback snapshots, using atomic writes, expected revisions, and confirmations that expire after five minutes. Reload failure restores the last known good state, and mutations are serialized.

A current-user Unix domain socket under synchronization service accepts only nine fixed operations covering status, root checks, plan, apply, rollback, doctor, outbox retry, and logs. Arbitrary commands, paths, and environments are absent from input, while TypeScript and Swift contracts share a golden fixture.

State transitions for plan, apply, and rollback through owner-only IPC

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What was confirmed

Verification results

A bounded metadata-only scan of the real App Server inspected 303 Threads, retained 25 roots, and excluded 278 non-roots. Two existing synchronization targets were revalidated as root identities.

Tests rejected files or sockets with unsafe ownership, mode, or links, as well as stale revisions and invalid confirmations.

The existing two Threads, ten Turns, 39 Messages, and two receipts remained intact without reset. The SwiftUI interface and service lifecycle were not yet implemented at the cutoff.

Basis for completion

Completion required target planning, apply, reload, and failure recovery to operate through fixed owner-only IPC and revision contracts.