signal-bot/tests
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki d5c63b423b feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself
Today the bot was up, healthy and answering nothing for three hours. A host
firewall change (fixed in testsAndMisc 334c0cd9) cut every Docker container
off the internet; signal-cli lost Signal and reconnected in a loop from
15:32:50 onward. Nothing noticed:

  - the container's own healthcheck answered 204
  - /v1/groups answered 200 out of local state, so discovery saw no change
  - the bot's WebSocket to the container stayed OPEN, so the transport's
    reconnect logic never fired
  - /healthz answered {"status": "ok"} the entire time

The only symptom was silence, which is also what a quiet evening looks like.

signal_bot/liveness.py asks the one question that cannot be answered from a
cache -- GET /v1/devices, which needs a live round trip -- but only after
SILENCE_SECONDS (120) with no frame of any kind, so a busy group costs
nothing and an idle one costs one request per window. Three consecutive
failures and /healthz answers 503 with the reason. Verified end to end in
scripts/e2e.sh against the real process: 503 after 84s with the fake's
connection cut, back to 200 on its own 30s after restoring it.

scripts/signal_api_watchdog.sh + a two-minute user timer do the recovery the
bot cannot do for itself, since a wedged bot cannot restart the container it
depends on. Two tiers, so the steady state costs no Signal round trip at
all: the bot's own /healthz first, the authenticated probe only when that is
not 200. It stops after 3 restarts in 6 hours and escalates instead -- a
deregistered account or a blocked network is not fixable by restarting, and
a restart loop would hide it. Its own bash suite stubs curl and docker and
drives every branch including the give-up cap.

signal_bot/trust.py answers the other half: TRUSTED_INVITERS decides who may
put this bot in a group. The gate sits in GroupDirectory._permitted, which
both _join_pending and _adopt already route through -- gating only invites
would gate the door nobody uses, since prime_profile.sh exists precisely so
that an add becomes a direct join. Evidence is either the group-update
envelope, which is the only frame naming an inviter, or a trusted identity
being a full member in the listing. A refusal is logged once, with that
group's members, so the operator can see which string to add.

verify_allowlist moved to membership.py to keep discovery.py under the
250-line gate; it was already the module that owns MembershipError.

Verified live, by stopping the container by hand and touching nothing else:

  18:54:35  docker stop signal-api
  18:56:36  liveness: failure 1 of 3 after 123s of silence
  18:57:36  failure 3 of 3 -> /healthz answers 503 from 18:57:45
  18:58:18  watchdog: probe failed (1/2)
  19:00:28  watchdog: probe failed (2/2) -> docker restart signal-api
  19:00:36  liveness: receive path recovered after 8 failed probe(s)
  19:01:13  watchdog: signal-api is back

Six minutes, unattended, against three hours of silence this afternoon. All
four real groups are still adopted with TRUSTED_INVITERS=+48123456789 set,
and no group was refused.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KbjfWdAyHbCubac7wJKJZW
2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
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__init__.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
conftest.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_allowlist.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_animals.py feat: watch several groups, and answer only where you were asked 2026-08-29 15:03:24 +02:00
test_app.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_cli.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_config.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_counting.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_decorators.py feat: watch several groups, and answer only where you were asked 2026-08-29 15:03:24 +02:00
test_discovery.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_dispatcher.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_fake_account.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_fake_groups.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_fake_server.py feat: make the bot actually reply on Signal, and gate every way it went silent 2026-08-29 14:37:27 +02:00
test_healthz.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_http_client.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
test_liveness.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00
test_main.py feat: watch several groups, and answer only where you were asked 2026-08-29 15:03:24 +02:00
test_membership.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_models.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
test_portcheck.py feat: make the bot actually reply on Signal, and gate every way it went silent 2026-08-29 14:37:27 +02:00
test_registry.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
test_scenario.py feat: discover groups from the account, so adding the bot is the whole setup 2026-08-29 15:30:08 +02:00
test_scheduler.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
test_store.py feat: watch several groups, and answer only where you were asked 2026-08-29 15:03:24 +02:00
test_transport_base.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
test_transport_fake.py feat: rewrite the bot so it runs, and gate it like the other repos 2026-08-29 13:05:42 +02:00
test_transport_rest.py feat: watch several groups, and answer only where you were asked 2026-08-29 15:03:24 +02:00
test_trust.py feat: refuse to look healthy while deaf, and heal the container by itself 2026-08-29 19:01:55 +02:00