Browser login — the auth key is now optional on both platforms. When the
embedded node starts with no key, TailnetNode asks the backend (LocalAPI
backendStatus — IPN state, deliberately not filesystem heuristics: tsnet
writes logs and a machine key on every start, registered or not) whether a
login is needed, triggers login-interactive, surfaces the auth URL through a
new statusStream()/.needsLogin, and waits for Running (4-minute deadline,
generation-fenced against stop/restart). The Mac auto-opens the login page
from Settings ▸ Remote and shows a re-open button; the iPhone auto-opens only
during user-initiated pairing (a background reconnect that suddenly needs a
login must not eject the user to Safari — Settings ▸ Tailscale carries the
link). The remote-access toggle now reflects the in-flight start instead of
snapping off for the whole login window, and toggling off mid-start is
honored at both commit points (before and after host.start).
LAN↔tailnet fallback — picking Tailnet now keeps LAN on too: the host runs
both listeners under a new CompositeSyncListener (merged accept stream; one
child ending doesn't end the rest) and the pairing QR carries both hints.
The phone builds an ordered candidate chain — LAN first (QR hint or Bonjour),
tailnet second — and walks it on pair and reconnect, so a phone that leaves
the Mac's Wi‑Fi rolls over to the tailnet and rolls back when it returns.
A per-channel 4s connect guard (readiness-checking, bound to exactly its
channel) keeps a stale LAN hint from hanging the chain; a stale-client guard
in consume() keeps a replaced client's tail events from advancing it; chain
exhaustion during pairing lands in a terminal failure instead of spinning on
"Connecting…"; routine pre-fallback handshake errors no longer flash the red
error bubble. "Connected · LAN / Tailnet" shows whichever transport won.
Multi-agent review: 11 confirmed findings (incl. the login gate being dead
code via tsnet's eager state-dir writes, and two connect-timeout races), all
fixed and re-verified. Suite green (24 sync-related tests incl. 3 new
CompositeSyncListener tests); macOS + iOS builds clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
Settings ▸ Remote gains a "Connect via" picker — LAN (default), Tailscale
(tailnet), or Relay (disabled, coming soon). On Tailnet, both devices run an
embedded tsnet node via TailscaleKit (tailscale/libtailscale) and sync frames
flow over the user's tailnet, so the phone can connect from anywhere the
tailnet reaches; Noise E2EE runs above the transport unchanged.
- NucleicTailnet (new target, macOS + iOS): TailnetNode wraps TailscaleKit's
node lifecycle (auth-key login, generation-fenced start/stop since up() is
un-cancellable) and drops to the framework's public C API for the data path
— tailscale_dial/listen/accept hand back full-duplex socketpair fds, wrapped
by FDFrameChannel (DispatchIO) into the shared FrameChannel seam. The Swift
wrapper's one-way connection actors can't carry a bidirectional stream.
- Host: TailnetListener adopts SyncListener; startSyncServer is single-flight
and honors toggle-off/picker changes at the commit point; pairing QRs carry
transport + tailnet IP/port hints (PairingPayload additive optional fields,
forward/backward compatible over CBOR).
- iPhone: pair/reconnect dial over whichever transport the pairing recorded;
Settings gains a Tailscale auth-key field (Keychain, committed on editing
end); connectivity chip shows "Connected · Tailnet".
- TailscaleKit has no SwiftPM distribution: scripts/build-tailscalekit.sh
builds a pinned libtailscale commit into an untracked local xcframework;
Package.swift links it only when present (everything builds without it, the
picker then reports Tailscale support as not built in), and the script
clears SwiftPM's content-keyed manifest cache so the toggle is picked up.
- iOS floor 17.0 → 18.1 (TailscaleKit requires the iOS 18 Swift runtime);
package-app.sh embeds the framework in the .app like Sparkle.
703-test suite: no new failures (the 7 fake-claude/fake-grok staging issues
reproduce identically on an untouched checkout — pre-existing, tracked
separately). New coverage: FDFrameChannel over socketpairs, pairing-payload
version-skew both directions, transport-setting resolution.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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