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summary: "How Moltbot presence entries are produced, merged, and displayed"
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read_when:
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- Debugging the Instances tab
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- Investigating duplicate or stale instance rows
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- Changing gateway WS connect or system-event beacons
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# Presence
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Moltbot “presence” is a lightweight, best‑effort view of:
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- the **Gateway** itself, and
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- **clients connected to the Gateway** (mac app, WebChat, CLI, etc.)
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Presence is used primarily to render the macOS app’s **Instances** tab and to
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provide quick operator visibility.
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## Presence fields (what shows up)
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Presence entries are structured objects with fields like:
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- `instanceId` (optional but strongly recommended): stable client identity (usually `connect.client.instanceId`)
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- `host`: human‑friendly host name
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- `ip`: best‑effort IP address
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- `version`: client version string
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- `deviceFamily` / `modelIdentifier`: hardware hints
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- `mode`: `ui`, `webchat`, `cli`, `backend`, `probe`, `test`, `node`, ...
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- `lastInputSeconds`: “seconds since last user input” (if known)
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- `reason`: `self`, `connect`, `node-connected`, `periodic`, ...
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- `ts`: last update timestamp (ms since epoch)
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## Producers (where presence comes from)
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Presence entries are produced by multiple sources and **merged**.
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### 1) Gateway self entry
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The Gateway always seeds a “self” entry at startup so UIs show the gateway host
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even before any clients connect.
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### 2) WebSocket connect
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Every WS client begins with a `connect` request. On successful handshake the
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Gateway upserts a presence entry for that connection.
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#### Why one‑off CLI commands don’t show up
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The CLI often connects for short, one‑off commands. To avoid spamming the
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Instances list, `client.mode === "cli"` is **not** turned into a presence entry.
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### 3) `system-event` beacons
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Clients can send richer periodic beacons via the `system-event` method. The mac
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app uses this to report host name, IP, and `lastInputSeconds`.
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### 4) Node connects (role: node)
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When a node connects over the Gateway WebSocket with `role: node`, the Gateway
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upserts a presence entry for that node (same flow as other WS clients).
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## Merge + dedupe rules (why `instanceId` matters)
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Presence entries are stored in a single in‑memory map:
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- Entries are keyed by a **presence key**.
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- The best key is a stable `instanceId` (from `connect.client.instanceId`) that survives restarts.
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- Keys are case‑insensitive.
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If a client reconnects without a stable `instanceId`, it may show up as a
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**duplicate** row.
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## TTL and bounded size
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Presence is intentionally ephemeral:
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- **TTL:** entries older than 5 minutes are pruned
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- **Max entries:** 200 (oldest dropped first)
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This keeps the list fresh and avoids unbounded memory growth.
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## Remote/tunnel caveat (loopback IPs)
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When a client connects over an SSH tunnel / local port forward, the Gateway may
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see the remote address as `127.0.0.1`. To avoid overwriting a good client‑reported
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IP, loopback remote addresses are ignored.
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## Consumers
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### macOS Instances tab
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The macOS app renders the output of `system-presence` and applies a small status
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indicator (Active/Idle/Stale) based on the age of the last update.
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## Debugging tips
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- To see the raw list, call `system-presence` against the Gateway.
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- If you see duplicates:
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- confirm clients send a stable `client.instanceId` in the handshake
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- confirm periodic beacons use the same `instanceId`
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- check whether the connection‑derived entry is missing `instanceId` (duplicates are expected)
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