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Card tsk-skvthj. Before: there was no way to stop collaboration traffic. Every /api/peer route accepted any contact with a valid bearer, and the only 503 was a missing contacts store.

After: an admin can turn collaboration off, or pause single contacts, from GET/PUT /api/settings/collaboration. While off, every /api/peer route answers 503 {"detail": "collaboration disabled"} before the bearer lookup and before any signature work, and the collab invite mint route refuses. A paused contact gets 403 {"detail": "contact paused"} right after the bearer check, so it cannot burn nonces. Pausing deletes nothing, and un-pausing restores service.

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  1. tinyagentos/collab_settings.py (new, modelled on demo_mode.py): <data_dir>/collaboration.json holds {enabled: bool, paused_contacts: ["hub:<hex>"]}. No file reads as enabled with nothing paused. A file that exists but cannot be read, is not JSON, or has the wrong shape reads as DISABLED and logs a warning. Writes are atomic (atomic_write_text, mode 0600). Paused ids are normalised (strip, lowercase) and must match hub:<hex>. outbound_refusal(data_dir, contact_id) is the one check outbound paths call.
  2. routes/peer.py: new _collab_enabled_dep inserted at position 0 of router.dependencies, so it runs before _peer_auth_dep on /inbox, /chat and /ack. New _raise_if_contact_paused(request, contact_id), called inside _peer_auth_dep right after _authenticate_peer resolves the contact. The switch is read from disk on every request (no cache).
  3. routes/settings.py: GET /api/settings/collaboration returns {enabled, paused_contacts}. PUT takes {enabled?: bool, paused_contacts?: [str]}, keeps any omitted field, answers 400 on wrong types or a malformed id, and dedupes. Both inherit the router's _require_admin_or_local_token gate.
  4. routes/project_invites.py::mint_collab_invite: right after the owner check, outbound_refusal returns 503 while disabled and 403 for a paused contact, before anything is minted or sent. The card's "Change" section names this route; its acceptance file list left project_invites.py out, so this is the one file beyond that list.

Hook for the handshake route (#3697)

POST /api/peer/handshake sits on handshake_router, so the router-level dependency does not cover it. #3697 should, at its # Kill-switch hook point comment (after the contacts store check, before _enforce_size_cap):

await _collab_enabled_dep(request)

and, once it has computed contact_id = f"hub:{fp}" and before store.record_nonce(...):

_raise_if_contact_paused(request, contact_id)

deliver_to_peer (also #3697, in tinyagentos/peer.py) should refuse when collab_settings.outbound_refusal(data_dir, contact_id) returns a reason. That function is not on dev yet, so it is not wired here. Whichever PR lands second takes the few lines.

RED (unmodified origin/dev fac2932, new test file)

The disabled and paused cases write collaboration.json directly, so on dev the request reaches the real handlers:

$ python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py -k "TestDisabled or TestPausedContact"
E       AssertionError: {"status":"received","kind":"handshake","nonce":"a0a9ae9595f90fd432b52cb96eb7a907"}
E       assert 200 == 503
E       AssertionError: {"detail":"invalid peer token"}
E       assert 401 == 503
E       AssertionError: {"status":"received","nonce":"ef2f9927cf4ea254a8fd259824cc8f65"}
E       assert 200 == 503
E       AssertionError: {"status":"acked","envelope_id":"nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn"}
E       assert 200 == 503
E       assert 200 == 503
E       AssertionError: {"status":"received","kind":"handshake","nonce":"3c6a1a0df64da19ecb1adcb47cc564b8"}
E       assert 200 == 403
E       AssertionError: assert 'invalid signature' == 'contact paused'
E       assert 404 == 200
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestDisabled::test_inbox_valid_request_is_503
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestDisabled::test_invalid_bearer_is_503_not_401
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestDisabled::test_chat_is_503
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestDisabled::test_ack_is_503
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestDisabled::test_disabled_does_no_nonce_work
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestPausedContact::test_paused_contact_is_403_other_contact_is_200
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestPausedContact::test_paused_contact_bad_signature_is_403_and_burns_no_nonce
FAILED tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py::TestPausedContact::test_unpause_restores_service
8 failed, 13 deselected

The whole new file is 21 failed on dev (the settings route tests get 404, the mint tests fail on the missing module).

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  • python3 -m pytest -q -p no:cacheprovider tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py: 21 passed.
  • Card command plus related suites: tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py tests/test_contacts_peer.py tests/test_routes_settings.py tests/test_settings_authz.py tests/test_peer_envelope_identity.py tests/test_routes_project_invites.py: 202 passed. tests/projects/test_invite_store.py: 40 passed.

Covered by tests: default state passes and GET reads enabled; re-enabling restores 200; valid request 503; invalid bearer 503 not 401; /chat and /ack 503; no record_nonce call while disabled; paused contact 403 while another contact gets 200; paused contact with a bad signature gets 403 and record_nonce is never called; un-pause restores 200 with the contact row and peer link intact; PUT normalises, dedupes and keeps omitted fields; PUT wrong types 400; corrupt file reads disabled and blocks the inbox; non-admin session gets 403 on GET and PUT and no file is written; collab invite mint refuses with 503 while disabled and 403 for a paused contact, minting nothing.

Notes for review

  • Revoking sponsored tokens on pause is card 4 (revoke_sponsored), not wired here, per the card.
  • No desktop UI toggle in this PR; the card scopes it to the API.

Docs-Reviewed: docs/design/cross-user-collaboration.md (peer routes and auth order, no settings section to update); docs/routes.md and docs/routes.d carry no /api/peer or /api/settings/demo-mode entries, so the new settings route has no listing to join

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  • New Features

    • Administrators can enable or disable collaboration and pause specific contacts through collaboration settings.
    • Collaboration is enabled by default. Settings persist across restarts, and contact IDs are normalized and validated.
    • Disabled collaboration blocks peer communication and invitation creation. Paused contacts cannot use peer communication or receive new invitations.
    • Outbound peer delivery is skipped when collaboration is disabled or the destination is paused. Pausing a contact does not delete its data or peer links.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or unreadable collaboration settings safely disable collaboration.

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  • changelog.d/tsk-skvthj-collab-kill-switch.md
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  • tinyagentos/routes/hub.py
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The change adds persisted collaboration settings for an enabled flag and paused contacts. Admins can manage the settings. Peer routes, handshakes, invite minting, and outbound delivery enforce them with 503 or 403 responses.

Changes: Collaboration controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Settings model and admin API
tinyagentos/collab_settings.py, tinyagentos/routes/settings.py, tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py, docs/agent-coordination.md, changelog.d/*
Settings default to enabled when the file is missing and fail closed when unreadable or malformed. Admin-only GET and PUT endpoints validate and normalize updates, retain omitted fields, and persist settings.
Inbound peer request enforcement
tinyagentos/routes/peer.py, tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py, tests/test_peer_killswitch_handshake.py, changelog.d/tsk-zr6chz-killswitch-handshake-outbound.md
Peer routes and handshakes return 503 when collaboration is disabled. Paused contacts receive 403 before nonce recording. Tests cover enabled, disabled, re-enabled, and paused states.
Outbound collaboration enforcement
tinyagentos/collab_settings.py, tinyagentos/peer.py, tinyagentos/routes/project_invites.py, tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py, tests/test_peer_killswitch-handshake.py, changelog.d/tsk-zr6chz-killswitch-handshake-outbound.md
Invite minting and peer delivery check the shared refusal rules. Refused invites do not create pending invites. Refused delivery returns False without sending a request.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Admin as Admin
  participant SettingsAPI as Settings API
  participant SettingsFile as collaboration.json
  participant PeerClient as Peer client
  participant PeerRoutes as Peer routes
  participant CollabSettings as Collaboration settings
  participant InviteRoute as Invite route
  participant Delivery as Peer delivery
  Admin->>SettingsAPI: PUT enabled and paused_contacts
  SettingsAPI->>SettingsFile: Persist normalized settings
  PeerClient->>PeerRoutes: Send peer request or handshake
  PeerRoutes->>CollabSettings: Read settings
  CollabSettings-->>PeerRoutes: Enabled state and paused contacts
  PeerRoutes-->>PeerClient: Continue, or return 503/403
  InviteRoute->>CollabSettings: Check outbound refusal
  CollabSettings-->>InviteRoute: Refusal or no refusal
  InviteRoute->>Delivery: Deliver to peer when permitted
  Delivery->>CollabSettings: Check outbound refusal
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Concurrent settings updates are now serialized. The remaining concern is missing cancellation coverage, suitable for bounded follow-up rather than an established production blocker.

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Adds <data_dir>/collaboration.json with an instance-wide enabled flag and
a paused contact list, flipped through admin-only GET/PUT
/api/settings/collaboration and read on every request.

While disabled every /api/peer route answers 503 before the bearer
lookup and any signature work, and the collab invite mint route refuses.
A paused contact gets 403 right after the bearer check, before any nonce
is recorded. A missing file means enabled; a corrupt file reads as
disabled. Pausing deletes nothing.

Docs-Reviewed: docs/agent-coordination.md and docs/design/cross-user-collaboration.md checked; neither lists /api/settings or the peer auth order, and docs/routes.md carries no /api/peer entries

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bot-review-gate / Bot review gate are red on 75b8c37 because CodeRabbit is rate-limited ("Review limit reached") and posted no review, not because of a finding in this diff. No code change can clear it; it needs a CodeRabbit review once the limit resets, or the bot-review-allow label at the maintainer's discretion. doc-gate is now green after the Docs-Reviewed: trailer was added to the commit.

Resolve routes/peer.py import block: keep collab_settings plus dev's contacts_store/relationships imports.
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Lead review: blocked, fix-forward card tsk-zr6chz (BASE exec/tsk-skvthj).

The router-level kill switch and paused check are correct, and the settings routes sit behind the same admin/local-token gate as the rest of settings. Two paths still bypass the switch, and the body already says the second-landing PR owes them. #3697 has merged, so that is this PR:

  1. POST /api/peer/handshake (on handshake_router, no router dependency). The # Kill-switch hook point (card 5) comment is still a comment. With the switch off, a validly signed handshake gets 200, records the nonce, pins the contact and mints a token.
  2. deliver_to_peer never calls outbound_refusal, although that function's docstring says every outbound path does.

Non-blocking, noted for the author: a malformed paused-list entry is dropped with a warning (that contact silently un-pauses), and /api/projects/invites/redeem and GET /i/{id} are agent and OS invites rather than peer traffic, so they stay out of scope here.

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POST /api/peer/handshake sits on handshake_router, outside the bearer
router's dependencies, so the switch never reached it: with collaboration
disabled a validly signed handshake still got 200, recorded its nonce,
pinned the contact and minted a token. It now calls _collab_enabled_dep
first and _raise_if_contact_paused as soon as the contact id is known.

deliver_to_peer now asks outbound_refusal before sending and returns
False while disabled or for a paused contact.

Docs-Reviewed: docs/design/cross-user-collaboration.md (handshake section) and docs/agent-coordination.md checked; neither documents the kill switch or handshake refusal codes, docs/routes.md has no /api/peer entries

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test (3.12) and test (3.13) are red only because shard (3.13, 4) was cancelled at the job timeout on 7e5e462. Every test it reached passed: it was at 37% with no failures after 75 minutes, running about 4x slower than the other seven shards, which all passed in about 20 to 35 minutes. That points to a slow runner, not a test in this PR. No code fix applies. Re-running the failed jobs returned 403 for this integration, so that one re-run needs a maintainer. The kill switch fixes from the lead review are in #3904 (tsk-zr6chz), which merges into this branch and will trigger a fresh full run anyway.


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lead-blocked removed (taOS-dev): the BLOCK in 6337026182 is fixed by fix-forward #3904 (tsk-zr6chz), reviewed PASS and merged into this branch. Still owed before merge: CodeRabbit on the new head, then Jay (security path).

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Review comments at @tinyagentos/collab_settings.py:
- Line 81: Update the settings validation around data so an existing settings
file is accepted only when it contains an explicit boolean enabled field. Keep
the default enabled behavior for an absent file separate from validation of a
present file, and fail closed when enabled is missing or not a boolean.
- Line 70: Update the settings read path around path.read_text() to use UTF-8
and handle UnicodeDecodeError as damaged settings, returning the existing
disabled-settings fallback so peer requests fail safely and settings PUT can
repair the file.
- Around line 93-94: Update the invalid paused-ID handling in the settings
reader so a malformed persisted ID disables collaboration rather than being
skipped. Keep the warning and return the existing disabled-state result; leave
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Comment thread tinyagentos/collab_settings.py Resolved
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A present collaboration.json must carry a boolean enabled; {} no longer
enables collaboration. An invalid paused id disables instead of silently
un-pausing that contact. Non-UTF-8 text reads as disabled rather than
raising. The settings PUT writes via asyncio.to_thread.

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Minor follow-up Use a set for paused-ID deduplication in the settings read loop.

98-100: Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Use a set for paused-ID deduplication in the settings read loop.

read_collab_settings checks if cid not in paused: against a list on every entry. Each distinct ID therefore costs a scan of all earlier entries, so a list of n IDs costs about n²/2 string comparisons per read. peer.py calls this read synchronously on the event loop, twice per router request, with no cache. A very large paused list can therefore stall the loop for peer routes. The trigger needs thousands of distinct valid IDs, so this is a latent performance risk, not a failure in current use.

The PUT /api/settings/collaboration handler in tinyagentos/routes/settings.py uses the same list-membership loop. Track seen IDs in a set in both places.

🔧 Suggested fix (read path)
     paused: list[str] = []
+    seen: set[str] = set()
     for p in paused_raw:
         try:
             cid = normalise_contact_id(p)
         except ValueError:
             logger.warning(
                 "collaboration switch %s has an invalid paused id %r; treating as disabled", path, p,
             )
             return _disabled()
-        if cid not in paused:
-            paused.append(cid)
+        if cid not in seen:
+            seen.add(cid)
+            paused.append(cid)

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Review comment at @tinyagentos/collab_settings.py around lines 98 - 100:
Use a set to track seen normalized contact IDs in read_collab_settings and the
PUT /api/settings/collaboration handler, while preserving the paused list’s
order and deduplicated output. Add each ID to the set when first encountered and
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Comment thread tinyagentos/routes/settings.py Resolved
Two concurrent PUTs could both read the old file and the second write
would drop the first update (a disable or a pause). The PUT now holds a
module-level asyncio lock from read to write, the same single-process
model as config._config_lock. Paused-id dedupe uses a set.

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Nitpick Cover the cancelled-PUT path in the settings concurrency test.

224-230: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Cover the cancelled-PUT path in the settings concurrency test.

test_concurrent_puts_do_not_lose_an_update at tests/test_peer_collaboration_killswitch.py:209-230 gathers two PUTs that both complete. No test in the inspected files cancels a PUT while write_collab_settings runs.

In put_collaboration (tinyagentos/routes/settings.py:1604-1625), cancelling the handler while it awaits asyncio.to_thread(cs.write_collab_settings, data_dir, settings) exits the collab_write_lock block. The worker thread keeps running. A later PUT can then acquire the lock and read the file before the cancelled write lands. If the cancelled write lands last, the later update is lost. The current test would still pass.

Add a test that blocks the threaded write, cancels the first PUT, sends a second PUT, releases the blocked write, and asserts that the final file holds the second PUT's settings. If the cancelled write lands last, this test fails on the current route. That failure would show the route behavior, not a defect in the test.

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Extend test_concurrent_puts_do_not_lose_an_update to cover cancellation: block
the first PUT’s threaded write, cancel that request, issue a second PUT, then
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Lead adjudication of the CodeRabbit review on head f57d5cd (reviews 5731403004, 5731410515):

  • 5731410515: thread ack only. CodeRabbit accepts that collab_write_lock covers read, merge and write in put_collaboration (settings.py:1604) and withdraws the cross-process lock ask. Nothing owed.
  • 5731403004, Trivial, test coverage: "cover the cancelled-PUT path". Verified on head: the lock wraps an awaited asyncio.to_thread write, so a cancelled handler releases the lock while its thread may still write. That is a real but narrow edge (a non-streaming handler is not normally cancelled on client disconnect), and the finding asks only for a test. Severity: Trivial, non-blocking. Deferrable as a follow-up, not a merge blocker.

No Bug / Security / Edge-Case must-fix on this head. CR side is clear; merge stays with Jay (needs-jay).

…thj)

exchange_handshake (friend-accept's outbound handshake) and
deliver_handshake now refuse, sending nothing, while collaboration is
off or the addressee is paused, the same rule deliver_to_peer follows.
Friend-accept passes the live data dir into the background exchange.

Docs-Reviewed: docs/agent-coordination.md collaboration kill switch section updated to name the friend-accept handshake
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