fix(control): preserve successor runtime descriptor

[LogicDuke]

Isolated F2 repair for PR #85.

Finding:

• CURRENT P2 availability/correctness defect.
• Older runtime cleanup could delete the fixed descriptor belonging to a newer overlapping runtime.
• The newer runtime pipe could stay alive while becoming undiscoverable.

Repair:

• Descriptor cleanup is now bound to the runtime instance's exact pipeName identity.
• close() removes the descriptor only when the current descriptor still belongs to that runtime.
• listen-failure cleanup uses the same ownership rule.
• Foreign, missing, malformed, or unreadable descriptors are preserved.
• Startup takeover remains intentionally unconditional.

Exact identity:

• base: 9548d12
• head: c30562a
• one commit
• two changed files
• patch SHA256:
  706C978ED0EA88BB9F04F7ABA6E490D38A9551CE0E0860B1E1AC97EDACFDBA89
• patch bytes: 12720

Validation:

• fresh independent validation PASS
• focused control-runtime tests 12/12
• tests/control 126/126
• full suite 2017/2017
• typecheck PASS
• lint PASS
• build PASS
• git diff --check PASS

Scope:

• F1 remains FIXED and unchanged.
• F3 remains CURRENT P2 and untouched.
• No authority widening.
• No runtime/deployment mutation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved control-channel cleanup so a runtime removes only its own descriptor.
  • Preserved descriptors that are missing, malformed, unreadable, or have been replaced by a successor runtime.
  • Applied the same safeguards when startup encounters a listen failure or when the runtime closes.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for descriptor ownership and cleanup behavior across normal shutdown and startup failures.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The runtime now removes a descriptor only when its pipeName matches the current runtime. Tests cover rotation, missing or invalid descriptors, foreign descriptors, and listen-failure cleanup.

Changes

Descriptor ownership cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ownership-aware descriptor cleanup src/control/control-runtime.ts	The runtime reads and validates the descriptor before cleanup. close() and listen-failure cleanup preserve descriptors owned by another runtime.
Descriptor cleanup validation tests/control/control-runtime.test.ts	Tests verify cleanup behavior for rotated, missing, malformed, unreadable, foreign, and matching descriptors.

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

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to c3056

Overlapping runtimes can still lose the successor descriptor during cleanup, leaving a live runtime undiscoverable. Atomic ownership release should be implemented before merge.

Poem

A rabbit checks the pipe by name
And leaves the stranger’s sign the same
Old handles close with careful feet
While newer runtimes stay complete
The descriptor rests, safe and neat

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving a successor runtime descriptor during cleanup.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 2 files.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/control/control-runtime.ts`:
- Line 54: Update the ownership verification and removeDescriptorFile flow in
the control runtime so descriptor validation and cleanup use a shared
cross-process lock or equivalent atomic ownership protocol, preventing an older
runtime from deleting a rotated successor descriptor. Add a deterministic test
covering runtime A reading descriptor A, runtime B rotating to descriptor B, and
runtime A attempting cleanup while preserving descriptor B.

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