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Develop, test and ship the Go agent probe (apps/agent) — build/test commands, protocol versioning, the nekoagent service wrapper, and constraints of router environments (OpenWrt/tmpfs). Use for any change under apps/agent.

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Agent Probe Development (apps/agent)

The agent is a Go binary deployed on routers/servers. It polls the local gateway (mihomo/Surge) and reports to the collector over HTTP (gzip JSON POST to /api/agent/report|heartbeat|config|policy-state) — not WebSocket.

Layout

  • main.go — entrypoint, flag parsing
  • internal/agent/runner.go — main loop: report/heartbeat/config-sync tickers, pending queue, retry batch
  • internal/gateway/ — mihomo & Surge API clients
  • internal/config/config.go — flags, AgentProtocolVersion
  • nekoagent — POSIX-sh service manager wrapper (install/upgrade/systemd/procd/launchd)
  • install.sh — curl-pipe installer

Verify

cd apps/agent
go vet ./... && go build ./... && go test ./...
sh -n nekoagent && sh -n install.sh   # shell syntax gate — both scripts must parse with POSIX sh

Hard rules

  1. Protocol versioning. Payload shape changes require bumping AgentProtocolVersion (Go) AND the collector's minimum accepted version (agent auth in apps/collector/src/modules/app/app.ts); the collector rejects too-old agents with HTTP 426 + structured error. The Go structs and the collector's TS payload types are mirrored by hand — change both sides in one commit.
  2. Data-loss protections are contracts: single in-flight retry batch, requestId idempotency dedup, counter-regression handling (gateway restart counts current value as new traffic), bounded pending queue with dropped accounting. Don't weaken these when refactoring the loop.
  3. Router constraints. Target environments include OpenWrt/BusyBox: nekoagent must stay POSIX sh (no bashisms), /tmp is tmpfs (RAM) — clean up temp dirs (accumulate EXIT traps, don't overwrite them), and network calls in shell must carry timeouts + retries (curl --connect-timeout 10 --max-time 120 --retry 3).
  4. Self-replacement. Never overwrite a running script/binary in place — download to a sibling .tmp/.new path and mv (same-filesystem rename) so the running inode survives.
  5. Service management. systemd unit: StartLimitIntervalSec/Burst belong in [Unit], not [Service]. procd (OpenWrt) respawn has a finite retry budget — treat "cannot start" as exit non-zero so supervisors behave correctly.

Release

Tag-driven, independent from the main product: git tag agent-vX.Y.Z && git push origin agent-vX.Y.Z → .github/workflows/agent-release.yml publishes multi-arch binaries (~1 min). The binary version comes from the tag via ldflags — no version file. Full flow: docs/agent/release.en.md.

Known deferred issues and their context live in docs/dev/deep-review-2026-07.md (agent P0/P1 section) — check it before starting a fix batch so related items ship together.