[CTX-0084] fix(transport): send inbound request continuation fragments

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Priority: P1 | Area: devtools | Labels: fix,P1,area:devtools | Milestone: v0.1.0 | RFC: devtools-rfc.md Amendment A4 | Task: CTX-0084

Closes bitty-terminal/bitty#1482

Summary

Client half of bitty-terminal/bitty#1482. Merge order: contract (bitty-terminal-docs #139, 9d0bb18d), then core (bitty #1525, 5e97751b, merged), then this PR.

Requests above one 256 KiB frame, up to the 1 MiB inbound limit, are now sent as Amendment A4 continuation fragments. This replaces two older behaviors:

• the headless stub split oversized requests into headerless chunks;
• the live path refused them with FrameTooLarge.

Each fragment carries a 16-byte \0BC1 header: nonzero id, sequence, FINAL flag, reserved byte, and the declared total. Every non-final fragment is a full frame, so a request is at most five fragments. The core reassembles the fragments into one exchange with one admission.

TypeScript:

• encodeRequestFrames and nextContinuationId are new in transport.ts.
• IpcTransport.encodeRequest uses the new encoder, and encodeRequestJson replaces encodeSingleLiveRequest.
• The live socket frames requests itself.
• A fragmented request needs an idle connection, and no other request is accepted until it settles. The server rejects any frame that interleaves a reassembly.
• A partial socket write now continues on drain, in order, within a bounded outbound queue (LIVE_SOCKET_MAX_OUTBOUND_BYTES). Before, a partial write failed the connection, which also put plain frames close to 256 KiB at risk.

Rust devtools-client:

• encode_request_frames produces byte-identical headers.
• The headless stub and the synchronous live socket both use it; write_all already retries partial writes.

Shared oracle:

• Q03 now expects 5 fragments at 1 MiB.
• Requests above 1 MiB still fail closed before any write.

Testing

• Fragment header checks for Q02 and Q03, in TS and Rust.
• A golden header vector shared by TS and Rust.
• Live socket: fragment writes, a partial write that completes on drain, the idle-connection rule, and over-limit refusal before any write.
• Rust reassembly at 1 frame + 1, at 1 MiB (five fragments), and at an exact chunk multiple.
• just check passes: prettier, markdownlint, tsc, 698 bun tests, cargo fmt, check, clippy, and test.

Housekeeping

The local CarryCtx prepare-commit-msg and post-commit hooks in this clone were legacy. They resolved the global active task and stamped [CTX-0082] on this commit. I migrated them with carryctx hooks install to the branch-binding shim. That changes only local .git/hooks: the lefthook pre-commit and commit-msg hooks are untouched, and nothing in the repository changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Requests larger than 256 KiB and up to 1 MiB can be sent as continuation fragments and reassembled as a single request.
  • Live connections resume sending when the connection is ready for more data.
• Limitations
  • Continuation requests require an idle connection. Requests over 1 MiB are rejected.

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TypeScript and Rust clients now encode requests above 256 KiB and up to 1 MiB as continuation fragments. The TypeScript live socket handles partial writes and restricts concurrent requests while a fragmented request is active. Tests validate framing, limits, and reassembly.

Changes

Request continuation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Continuation frame encoding and validation src/transport.ts, crates/devtools-client/src/transport.rs, crates/devtools-client/tests/request_continuation.rs, tests/framer-fuzz-smoke.test.ts, tests/fixtures/fuzz/framer-seeds/vectors.json, crates/devtools-client/tests/framer_fuzz_smoke.rs, crates/devtools-client/tests/fixtures/fuzz/framer-seeds/vectors.json	The TypeScript and Rust encoders add continuation headers, fragment sequencing, payload limits, and wrapping continuation IDs. Tests validate frame headers, fragment counts, and request reassembly.
Live and headless request delivery src/client.ts, src/ipc-socket.ts, crates/devtools-client/src/ipc_socket.rs, tests/ipc-socket.test.ts, tests/helpers/fake-live-socket.ts, tests/client.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md	The Rust client sends encoded frames in sequence. The TypeScript live socket queues partial writes, resumes on drain, and restricts fragmented requests to an otherwise idle connection. Tests cover write continuation, connection availability, and payload limits. The changelog records the continuation behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DevtoolsClient
  participant LiveIpcSocket
  participant encodeRequestFrames
  participant BunSocket
  DevtoolsClient->>LiveIpcSocket: pass request JSON bytes
  LiveIpcSocket->>encodeRequestFrames: encode request into wire frames
  encodeRequestFrames-->>LiveIpcSocket: return encoded frames
  LiveIpcSocket->>BunSocket: write combined frame buffer
  BunSocket-->>LiveIpcSocket: return accepted byte count
  BunSocket->>LiveIpcSocket: signal drain
  LiveIpcSocket->>BunSocket: write remaining queued bytes

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 617f0

Requests above 256 KiB can now use continuation fragments up to 1 MiB. No concrete delivery failure is established, so no specific merge blocker remains beyond normal checks.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 617f0

Large requests can now pass a boundary that previously rejected them. The clients retain size limits and ordering controls, but compatibility with the receiving server and recovery from interrupted Rust writes are not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The newly accepted input size increases the amount of request data deliverable over an existing local IPC connection, not the set of network entrypoints or client privileges shown in the inspected paths.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Client-side controls bound logical request size and physical frame size. The TypeScript live path also rejects interleaving with an in-flight continuation and refuses an outbound request that exceeds its byte budget.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — TypeScript live failures clear pending requests, continuation ownership, and queued outbound bytes rather than reusing a partially delivered connection. Rust sends encoded frames sequentially with write_all; its state after an unsuccessful multi-frame write remains unverified here.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Verify receiver-side reassembly and mixed-version behavior against the exact wire vectors, and confirm that a Rust write failure cannot reuse a connection containing an incomplete continuation.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding transport support for inbound request continuation fragments.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	For the client-half objectives in [#1482], the PR adds Amendment A4 fragments in TypeScript and Rust. Each fragmented request carries a nonzero continuation ID, an ordered sequence, a final flag, and …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed transport code, Rust client code, changelog, framing vectors, socket helpers, and continuation tests support the Amendment A4 client objectives in [#1482]. The supplied whole-PR evidence d…

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Review comments at @crates/devtools-client/src/transport.rs:
- Around line 760-765: Preflight capacity in both fragmented `sendRequest`
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