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Implements the IEC 61131-3 variable qualifiers CONSTANT, RETAIN and NON_RETAIN across the editor and the bare-metal runtime it ships. Pairs with openplc-web #691, and lands with STruC++ #222 and openplc-runtime #174.

For the user

A Flags column on the variables table, with three choices: blank (the default, IEC's NON_RETAIN), Constant, Retain. One field rather than two booleans, because the pair is mutually exclusive — the invalid combination is unrepresentable rather than merely rejected. Setting a variable constant clears its location, since a constant has nothing to bind to.

The qualifier round-trips through the ST text view as well: VAR RETAIN / VAR CONSTANT parse back into the flag, PERSISTENT reads as retain, and a contradictory or unknown qualifier is rejected with the offending word named.

The bare-metal runtime

openplc_retain.h is the one point of contact. The runtime marshals, the platform stores:

uint16_t                openplc_retain_capacity(void);
openplc_retain_status_t openplc_retain_write(const uint8_t *blob, uint16_t len);
openplc_retain_status_t openplc_retain_read(uint8_t *out, uint16_t cap, uint16_t *out_len);
openplc_retain_status_t openplc_retain_clear(void);

Four names, and the runtime-v4 plugin hooks carry the same four — a vendor writing retain support reads one page and writes the same shape twice.

write is called once per scan cycle, unconditionally, in every PLC state. Cadence is not the runtime's decision: a driver over an EEPROM rated for 100k cycles would consume its endurance budget in under an hour if it wrote through, so it holds the bytes and flushes on whatever schedule its medium sustains. Weak defaults answer UNSUPPORTED, so a board with no retention behaves exactly as it did before this interface existed — every retained variable at its declared initial value, which is NON_RETAIN.

A cold reset arrives as Modbus FC 0x4C, sent after an upload — CODESYS clears retained memory on download, and a new program's values have no business surviving into it.

Refusing what cannot work

A retained TON is 36 bytes, so the 512-byte bare-metal buffer is reached at about fourteen of them. A program that outgrew it used to link, upload, run, and degrade to NON_RETAIN in silence — a microcontroller has no console to report on. The editor now emits OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE into defines.h and the firmware static_asserts it, so the build fails with a message naming the fix. Programs that retain nothing emit no define and see byte-identical defines.h.

Also in this branch

Three bugs found on the way, each in its own commit: a compile verdict decided from log text rather than the process exit code; a debug write verb that silently performed an unforce; and a live credential checked into docs/CLI.md.

Verification

128 suites, 2443 passed across src/backend and src/middleware; 190 suites, 4355 passed across src/frontend. The two frontend suites that fail to run (device-types, use-device-connect) fail identically on origin/development untouched.

Mirror gate against openplc-web: 1054 files, 0 diffs.

Hardware: SLM-RP4 (runtime v4) and P1AM-100 (bare metal). On the P1AM the restored counter came back fourteen counts lower than the last live read — the flush lag, and better evidence than an exact match, because it proves the value came from flash rather than the RAM staging buffer.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for CONSTANT and RETAIN qualifiers in variable tables, IEC import/export, and generated code.
    • Added persistent-storage settings for configuring retained-data storage.
    • Added retained-data size information to build results and firmware definitions.
    • Improved force operations with verified read-back results and clearer failure reporting.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected compile and upload success reporting, including missing communication ports.
    • Added clear errors for modifying or forcing CONSTANT variables.
    • Improved distinction between compilation failures and rejected uploads.
  • Changes

    • Removed the CLI debug write command.
    • Persistent-storage options now reflect runtime and device capabilities.

thiagoralves and others added 12 commits August 24, 2026 14:53
Two independent fixes to the headless CLI, neither retain-specific.

**`debug write` silently unforced.** The debug protocol has exactly one
mutation PDU — FC 0x42, carrying a `force` flag rather than a three-way op
(modbus-pdu.ts:41). `applyWrite` sent both verbs through the same
`setVariable(index, force, bytes)`, so a soft write arrived as
`handle_set(…, forcing = false, …)` — which runs `unforce` and DISCARDS the
value bytes. Reproduced on hardware, identically on runtime v4 over WebSocket
and on a P1AM-100 over RTU: the command reports success and the value never
moves.

The verb is removed rather than implemented. A soft write has no wire
representation and does not need one: `DBGW_OP_WRITE` / `handle_write` exist
for consumers running INSIDE the runtime — the OPC-UA plugin reaches it today
via `args->debug_write`, and retain restore will do the same — so widening
the protocol would add a command with no caller. `set` and `write` are now
rejected in the REPL instead of quietly unforcing, and `applyWrite` collapses
into `applyForce`, which no longer takes a flag it only ever passed one value
for.

**A working credential was in the docs.** `docs/CLI.md` used `--credentials
op:op` against `192.168.2.4` — a real account on a real device, not a
placeholder, sitting in a checked-in file next to the host it opens. Now
`user:pass` against `10.0.0.10`, matching every other example in the file. A
scan of docs across all five repos found no others.

Refs NODE-94

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
An upload that the device completed and started was reported as
`upload_rejected`, with a bare `^~~~` caret line as the reason. Reproducible on
an SLM-RP4 whenever the VPP plugin was actually compiled rather than served
from ccache.

The cause was not the message; it was where the outcome came from.
`runCompilePipeline` already reduces every step's process exit code to one
boolean — arduino-cli's process status, or the runtime's
`/api/compilation-status` exit_code by way of `deployRuntimeProgram` — and the
epilogue in `compileProgram` dropped it. Only the simulator branch ever read
`result.success`; the runtime-v4, v3 and arduino-direct paths posted a
separator and closed the channel, leaving the consumer to infer an outcome from
whether any message had arrived at error level.

Those are different questions. A compiler writes warnings to stderr, the device
tags that stream and streams it back, so a build that merely warned arrived
carrying error-level lines. `hasError` latched on the first of them and
`lastError` kept the last — which, in a g++ diagnostic, is the caret line under
the source line.

So the verdict now travels on the terminal `closePort` message and
`compileProgramFlow` prefers it. All four terminal paths carry one, including
the simulator failure path, which previously posted no `closePort` at all.

`hasError` stays as the fallback rather than being deleted: a transport that
only observes the channel closing has no verdict to attach, which is exactly
what the CLI does — `cli-transport.ts` synthesises `closePort` from the
socket's close event. That synthesised message also arrives AFTER the
backend's, so the existing `settled` guard is what stops it re-resolving from
`hasError` and reintroducing the bug on the path that reported it; there is a
test for that specifically.

A failure whose only evidence is the verdict now reports "Compilation failed"
instead of an empty string, which every caller that surfaces `error` reads as
"no reason given".

Verified on hardware: a normal upload to the SLM-RP4 reports success, and a
deliberate ST syntax error still exits 4 with `compile_failed`. The
disagreement case itself — a positive verdict alongside error-level log lines —
is covered by unit test rather than on-device, because the device-side warnings
that trigger it could not be reproduced on demand.

Refs NODE-94

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
**F1 (regression from this PR).** `handleUploadProgram` logged "No communication
port specified" at error level and RETURNED. `uploadArduinoBoard` only awaits it
and reports `{ ok: true }` on any normal return, so the pipeline recorded a
successful upload. That used to be masked — the error-level line set the flow's
`hasError` — but with the verdict authoritative it became a false success: a USB
board with no port selected printed the red message, then "Arduino upload
complete.", then resolved success, telling the user a board had been flashed when
nothing was sent. It now throws, which the existing catch turns into
`{ ok: false }`. Removing the silent `return` also narrowed the method's inferred
return type from `MethodsResult<T> | undefined` to `MethodsResult<T>` — the bug
was visible in the signature all along, and two test mocks had to stop returning
`undefined`.

**F3.** `build.ts` still classified the failure from `streamedError`, so
`openplc-cli upload` on a project with an ST syntax error reported
`upload_rejected` / exit 7 — blaming a device the build never reached. Keyed off
whether the upload stage was reached instead; every upload path emits
`stage: 'upload'` before attempting anything. Same substitution this PR already
made one layer up.

**F6.** `readBackAfterWrite` gave up quietly on a value that never took,
justified by the soft-`write` verb this PR removes. `force` is the only caller
now, and forcing PINS a value, so a timeout means the target acked the PDU and
the force did not land — `debug force main:enable TRUE` could print FALSE and
exit 0. It now returns a TargetError (not NotConnected: the reads succeeded, so
the channel is fine). False positives were already excluded by
`writeHasSettled`, which reports "settled" for anything it cannot compare.

**F5.** `CompilerPortMessage` did not declare `success`. It worked only because
the bridge forwards `event.data` wholesale; a refactor that rebuilds the message
field-by-field — the shape the `libraryBuildResult` path already uses — would
drop the verdict silently and fall back to `hasError`, with no compile error and
no failing test. Declared, with a note saying why.

**F4.** The simulator compile-only branch announced "Compilation successful."
unconditionally, one statement before the message carrying `success:
result.success`. Pre-existing, but the verdict made it self-contradictory. Gated.

**F2.** `docs/CLI.md`'s session-protocol table still documented the removed
`write` verb, in the section that invites a third client onto the protocol —
`RequestKindSchema` now rejects it. Row dropped; `force` / `unforce` is the whole
mutation surface.

Verified on hardware after all six: `upload` with an ST error exits 4
(`compile_failed`), not 7; the original VPP-warning case still reports success
with 7 error-level lines present; P1AM upload with a port still succeeds and
without one is refused at exit 2; a force that lands still returns 0. Full editor
suite: 331 suites / 6897 tests, no regressions (the two failures in
`device-types` / `use-device-connect` reproduce identically on the untouched
integration branch).

Refs NODE-94

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
…cli-fixes

fix(cli,compile): exit-code-driven build outcome, drop the soft-write verb, remove a live credential
Phase 1 of NODE-94, editor half. Pairs with openplc-web; the compiler half is
strucpp #219.

Until now the editor could not express an IEC block qualifier at all. A
`VAR CONSTANT` typed into the variables code view was collapsed into the plain
`VAR` block — `parseIecStringToVariables` matched `VAR\b` and dropped the rest
of the header — so the qualifier never reached STruC++. That is why the
CONSTANT write-gate added in #1029's sibling (strucpp #218) was unreachable:
nothing could produce a const member.

`PLCVariable.flag?: 'constant' | 'retain'` is the whole model change. One
optional field, not two booleans: CONSTANT and RETAIN are mutually exclusive, so
the invalid pair is unrepresentable rather than merely validated. Absent means a
plain `VAR`, which is IEC's NON_RETAIN — so every project written before this
field still loads and means exactly what it meant.

The qualifier belongs to the var BLOCK in IEC, not to the declaration, so it is
a bucketing key rather than something printed per line. `computeInterface` (both
the textual and the graphical emitter) now groups by class × located × flag and
opens a `VAR CONSTANT` / `VAR RETAIN` block per group. The serializer and the
Go-to-Definition line map were changed in lockstep — they walk the same grouped
shape by construction, and grouping the map by class alone would have put
Go-to-Definition on the wrong line for every variable after the first qualified
block.

The text parser reads the qualifier run as one capture and resolves it
afterwards, so a typo names itself (`Unknown variable block qualifier
"RETAINN"`) instead of the header silently failing to match and every
declaration under it erroring on the following line. NON_RETAIN maps to no flag
— accepted, then forgotten, which is what it means — and PERSISTENT folds into
`retain`, matching how STruC++ treats the keyword.

Two things came out of testing on hardware rather than from the plan:

`READ_ONLY = 0x87` is now decoded. The P1AM refused a force on a CONSTANT with
"Unknown error code: 0x87" — the target was right and the editor had no idea what
it was saying. The status is a copy in four places (two enum definitions, two
sets of inline client checks); all four now carry it, and the message is
"This variable is declared CONSTANT and cannot be written or forced". The
duplication is pre-existing and worth collapsing separately.

`applyForce` recorded the variable as forced BEFORE confirming the value took.
A successful `setVariable` is not proof: on runtime v4 it means the request was
queued, and the .so's refusal happens later at the dispatcher's drain where
nothing carries it back. So a refused force showed as `[FORCED]` in every later
read of the session. Moved after the read-back, with a test.

Verified end to end on both targets. `VAR CONSTANT LIMIT` and `VAR RETAIN boots`
survive the pipeline into `program.st`, `LIMIT` is emitted with
`LEAF_FLAG_READONLY` and marked `readOnly` in debug-map.json, and forcing it is
refused on an SLM-RP4 and on a P1AM-100 while forcing a plain variable still
works.

Editor suite: 331 suites / 6898 tests, unchanged failures (the two in
device-types / use-device-connect reproduce on the untouched integration
branch). Mirror gate clean: 1052 files, 0 diffs.

Refs NODE-94

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
…variable-flags

feat(variables): a Flags column, and the qualifier reaches the compiler
…ld reset

Phase 3 of NODE-94. The firmware half: retained values now round-trip through a
platform-supplied store. Pairs with openplc-web.

The split is the whole design. The runtime MARSHALS — `strucpp::retain` turns
the retained leaves into a blob and back — and the platform STORES. Nothing in
the runtime knows what retention hardware is, because retention hardware has
nothing in common between targets: battery-backed SRAM, FRAM, an EEPROM with a
100k-cycle budget, an NVS partition, a file on a data partition. The runtime
hands over the current values once per scan cycle and asks for them once at
start; what that costs and how often it is really committed is the only
decision the platform is left with, and the only one it can make.

`openplc_retain.h` is that contract: capacity / write / read / clear, with the
same four names and the same status codes the runtime-v4 plugin hooks will use,
so a vendor reads one page and writes the same shape twice.

`openplc_retain_weak.cpp` keeps every existing board linking. Absent a backend
the defaults answer UNSUPPORTED and retain degrades to NON_RETAIN — exactly
what those boards did before this interface existed. Same mechanism as
license_store_weak.cpp. `clear` is the one that answers OK rather than
UNSUPPORTED: "discard what is stored" is satisfied by a board that stores
nothing, and failing there would make the editor's post-upload reset look
broken on every board without retention.

Three call sites, and the second is the one that matters:

  - `runtime_retain_init()` decides ONCE at start whether this firmware has
    usable retention — does the program retain anything, is a backend linked,
    is its capacity enough. Asking per cycle would mean the same three
    questions fifty times a second for the life of the program.
  - `runtime_retain_load()` runs in setup() AND inside
    `runtime_reinit_program()`. That second call is not defensive: entering
    STOP placement-news the configuration and re-runs every declared
    initialiser, so without it a STOP silently became a cold start — the
    transition users hit most often.
  - `runtime_retain_save()` runs at the end of every scan cycle, in every
    state, unconditionally. No dirty check and no rate limit: a value that
    changed in the last scan before power loss is exactly the one worth
    keeping, and whether these bytes are worth committing is the driver's
    call, not ours.

`MB_FC_RETAIN_RESET` (0x4C, the next free code) discards the stored blob. The
editor sends it after an upload, matching CODESYS, where a download clears
retained memory — a new program's values have no business surviving into it.

VERIFIED ON A P1AM-100, both halves. With a backend linked, `boots` was set to
12345, the PLC stopped (re-running every initialiser) and started again, and
came back 12345 — while `counter`, which is not retained, correctly reset to
its initialiser and restarted. With the shipping weak default, the same
sequence leaves `boots` at 0. Retained values survive; non-retained ones do
not; and a board with no store behaves exactly as it did before.

The backend used for that test was temporary and is not in this commit: real
persistence backends are VPP work, which is where the hardware knowledge lives.

Refs NODE-94

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
…baremetal-retain

feat(retain): baremetal retain — driver contract, scan-cycle save, cold reset
Two gaps, both of the same shape: retain quietly not happening.

A retained library function block now contributes every leaf it runs on
rather than only its interface (strucpp side), which makes retained
state add up much faster than before — a retained TON is 36 bytes, so
the baremetal 512-byte buffer is reached at about fourteen of them.

Until now a program that outgrew that buffer linked, uploaded, ran, and
decided at init that the blob would not fit, degrading to NON_RETAIN
without saying so. There is no console on a microcontroller to report
it on, so the check has to happen at build time or not at all:
`generate-defines` emits OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE and the glue
static_asserts it against RETAIN_BUFFER_MAX, naming the fix in the
message. The comment in the glue promising "the editor's capacity check"
described something that was never built; now it exists.

Nothing changes for a program that retains nothing: the define is
omitted entirely, so those boards see byte-identical defines.h and do
not rebuild.

The blob size is also printed on every build that retains anything
("retain blob 54 bytes"), because watching that number grow is how
someone notices before the build starts failing.

Verified on an SLM-RP4: the editor reported 54 bytes with layout
618b1d38 and the device logged the same two numbers back.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
Swept into the Phase 1 commit by a broad `git add -A`. It is a local
development scratch script, not part of this feature, and it was never
on `development` — removing it here keeps it out of the branch's PR.
The file stays on disk, untracked, exactly as it was.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
…library-fb-locals

feat(retain): refuse a program whose retained state outgrows the board [NODE-94 phase 5]
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The PR adds IEC CONSTANT and RETAIN support, persistent-storage configuration, retain-blob build metadata, explicit compile verdicts, force settlement errors, read-only Modbus handling, vendor contract mirroring, and removes CLI soft-write commands.

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Variable qualifier support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Qualifier contracts, editing, parsing, and emission
src/backend/shared/types/PLC/open-plc.ts, src/middleware/shared/ports/types.ts, src/backend/shared/transpilers/st-transpiler/*, src/frontend/components/_molecules/variables-table/*, src/frontend/utils/*
Schemas, editors, parsers, and transpilers now preserve constant and retain qualifiers and emit separate IEC blocks.

Persistent-storage configuration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime API and capability gating
src/middleware/shared/ports/runtime-port.ts, src/middleware/adapters/editor/*, src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts, src/backend/shared/firmware/*
Runtime IPC and adapter methods read and update retain configuration. Runtime support starts at version 4.2.0.
Editor and native-screen integration
src/frontend/components/_features/[workspace]/editor/persistent-storage/*, src/frontend/components/_organisms/explorer/project.tsx, src/frontend/screens/workspace-screen.tsx, src/frontend/hooks/*, src/frontend/utils/native-screens.ts
The workspace exposes a persistent-storage editor and disables replaced native storage screens when required.

Compiler and debug behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Retain-blob metadata and vendor contracts
src/backend/shared/library/*, src/backend/shared/compile/*
Build results expose retain-blob size, generate OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE for positive values, and mirror openplc_retain.h into HAL sources.
Compile and upload verdicts
src/backend/editor/compiler/*, src/main/modules/ipc/renderer.ts, src/middleware/adapters/editor/compile-program-flow.ts, src/cli/commands/build.ts
Compiler messages carry explicit success verdicts. Upload rejection is reported only after upload is reached.
Force, protocol, and read-only behavior
src/cli/session/*, src/backend/editor/modbus/*, src/backend/shared/simulator/*
Soft writes are removed. Force operations require read-back confirmation. READ_ONLY = 0x87 produces a CONSTANT-variable error.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 234a9

The PR changes variable persistence and related build, runtime, CLI, and editor flows; at the current head, unresolved compile and lint failures plus correctness issues could prevent builds or mishandle retain qualifiers, verification results, and configuration inputs. It is not merge-ready until these issues are fixed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Workspace
  participant RuntimePort
  participant IPC
  participant Runtime
  Workspace->>RuntimePort: getRetainConfig()
  RuntimePort->>IPC: invoke runtime:get-retain-config
  IPC->>Runtime: GET /api/retain-config
  Runtime-->>IPC: return RetainConfig
  IPC-->>RuntimePort: return configuration
  Workspace->>RuntimePort: updateRetainConfig(params)
  RuntimePort->>IPC: invoke runtime:update-retain-config
  IPC->>Runtime: PUT /api/retain-config
  IPC->>Runtime: GET /api/retain-config
  Runtime-->>Workspace: return updated RetainConfig
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CONSTANT and RETAIN now compose
Build bytes join the stream
Forces wait for proof
Soft writes leave the path
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override a successful verdict, while retaining firstError as the fallback only
when the terminal message lacks a verdict.

In `@src/backend/editor/modbus/modbus-client.ts`:
- Around line 283-284: Remove the unnecessary “as number” casts from every
comparison with ModbusDebugResponse.READ_ONLY, comparing statusCode directly to
the enum value. Apply this in src/backend/editor/modbus/modbus-client.ts at
lines 283-284 and 398-399, src/backend/editor/modbus/modbus-rtu-client.ts at
lines 477-478 and 574-575, and src/backend/shared/simulator/modbus-rtu-client.ts
at lines 384-389 and 477-482.

In `@src/backend/shared/compile/pipeline.ts`:
- Around line 799-801: Add a simulator or Arduino pipeline test covering
positive retainBlobSize forwarding: pass retainBlobSize: 148 through the
pipeline and assert compileArduino receives src/defines.h containing `#define`
OPLC_RETAIN_BLOB_SIZE 148. Exercise the pipeline branch constructing the options
around strucppResult.retainBlobSize rather than only the existing helper test.

In `@src/backend/shared/library/program-build-pipeline.ts`:
- Around line 281-282: Update the DebugMapV2 contract used by the program build
pipeline so retainBlobSize is declared as an optional field and included in the
emitted debug map, then preserve the existing conditional assignment around
result.debugMap.retainBlobSize. Alternatively, remove that access and its
dependent behavior if the field is not part of the intended contract.

In `@src/cli/__tests__/force-settle.test.ts`:
- Line 111: Remove the type assertions in the force-settle tests: narrow
read.data by checking read.data.kind === 'read' before accessing values, and
replace the as unknown as T private-state mutation with a makeCore parameter
that supplies the getVariablesList behavior for the connection-failure case
without accessing SessionCore.options.

In `@src/cli/session/session-core.ts`:
- Around line 317-320: Update the successful force-settlement path in the method
containing readBackAfterWrite and this.forced.add so the returned readBack.value
is marked forced after delayed registration, while preserving the existing
confirmation order. Add an assertion in force-settle.test.ts that a successful
debug force response includes forced: true.

In `@src/frontend/utils/generate-iec-string-to-variables.ts`:
- Around line 208-215: Update the configuration emitter to group global
variables by their flag and emit separate VAR_GLOBAL, VAR_GLOBAL CONSTANT, and
VAR_GLOBAL RETAIN blocks, preserving each variable’s parsed flag through
compilation. Add round-trip coverage for both CONSTANT and RETAIN global
variables.

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- Around line 24-55: Replace the double type assertions on the projectData and
boards fixtures with typed fixture builders or object definitions that satisfy
PLCProjectData and BoardInfo directly. Preserve the existing fixture values
while ensuring incompatible fields are caught by TypeScript, and do not
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const readBack = await this.readBackAfterWrite(variable, input)
if ('error' in readBack) return this.fail(id, ErrorCode.NotConnected, readBack.error)
return { id, ok: true, data: { kind: force ? 'force' : 'write', value: readBack.value } }
if ('error' in readBack) return this.fail(id, readBack.code, readBack.error)
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Return the settled force value as forced.

Line 320 returns readBack.value before its forced field reflects this.forced.add(variable.name). A successful debug force response therefore omits [FORCED], even though later reads report the variable as forced.

Keep the delayed registration. Set forced: true on the returned value after confirmation. Add an assertion for this in force-settle.test.ts.

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     this.forced.add(variable.name)
-    return { id, ok: true, data: { kind: 'force', value: readBack.value } }
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const readBack = await this.readBackAfterWrite(variable, input)
if ('error' in readBack) return this.fail(id, ErrorCode.NotConnected, readBack.error)
return { id, ok: true, data: { kind: force ? 'force' : 'write', value: readBack.value } }
if ('error' in readBack) return this.fail(id, readBack.code, readBack.error)
this.forced.add(variable.name)
return { id, ok: true, data: { kind: 'force', value: readBack.value } }
const readBack = await this.readBackAfterWrite(variable, input)
if ('error' in readBack) return this.fail(id, readBack.code, readBack.error)
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return { id, ok: true, data: { kind: 'force', value: { ...readBack.value, forced: true } } }
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In `@src/cli/session/session-core.ts` around lines 317 - 320, Update the
successful force-settlement path in the method containing readBackAfterWrite and
this.forced.add so the returned readBack.value is marked forced after delayed
registration, while preserving the existing confirmation order. Add an assertion
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Not changed — and I think the current behaviour is the intended one.

this.forced.add() deliberately happens after the read-back confirms the value, because on runtime v4 setVariable succeeding only means the write was queued; the .so refusing a CONSTANT leaf lands later at the dispatcher drain and never travels back. Recording the force before confirmation is exactly the bug that labelled a refused force [FORCED] for the rest of the session — observed on an SLM-RP4 against a real VAR CONSTANT.

Setting forced: true on the returned value would re-introduce that: a refused force would report [FORCED] once, in the very response the operator reads, while every later read correctly says otherwise. The existing test does not mark a refused force as [FORCED] in later reads pins the current behaviour.

If the concern is that a successful force omits [FORCED] in its own response, that is worth a separate look — but it needs the response to distinguish confirmed from queued, not an unconditional forced: true.

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@thiagoralves, the delayed registration is correct and must remain unchanged.

The proposed change does not set forced: true before confirmation. It runs only after readBackAfterWrite() succeeds and after this.forced.add(variable.name) executes.

A refused force returns from this line before the response is built:

if ('error' in readBack) return this.fail(id, readBack.code, readBack.error)

Therefore, it cannot receive a successful response with forced: true.

For a confirmed force, readBack.value was decoded before this.forced.add(variable.name). Its forced field is therefore stale. The response should represent the confirmed force state as forced: true, while later reads continue to use the session force set.

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Learning: In `src/cli/session/session-core.ts`, Runtime v4 can acknowledge `DeviceDebugChannel.setVariable` before the dispatcher applies or refuses the queued force. `SessionCore.applyForce` must add a variable to its `forced` set only after `readBackAfterWrite` confirms that the requested value settled. This prevents a refused `VAR CONSTANT` force from appearing as forced in later session reads; this behavior was observed on SLM-RP4 hardware.

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Adds a device-scoped screen under the project tree's Device branch —
visible only while connected to a runtime, and only on runtimes >= 4.2.0
— for configuring where that device keeps its RETAIN variables: on/off,
file location, and how often it saves.

Device-scoped like User Management, and for the same reason: the
settings live on the runtime, not in the project. Two people opening the
same project against different devices are configuring different things.

Off by default, matching the runtime. Until someone turns it on, retain
is a no-op and every retained variable starts at its initial value.

WHAT THE SCREEN HAS TO BE HONEST ABOUT
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A VPP driver can provide its own retain backend — FRAM, battery-backed
SRAM — and when one does it OVERRIDES the built-in file store entirely.
So the runtime reports the live backend separately from the settings,
and the screen says plainly when a driver has taken over: the settings
are saved, and not in use. Without that, an operator reads "enabled" and
goes looking for a file that will never grow.

The save interval is presented as what it actually is — how much recent
change a power cut can cost, against how hard the storage is worked —
rather than as a number to leave alone.

Errors come back in the runtime's own words. It is the authority on what
it can honour (a path whose directory does not exist, for instance), and
replacing its message with something vaguer would lose the only sentence
that says what to fix.

Runtime version gate `isRetainConfigCapableRuntime` (>= 4.2.0) hides the
leaf on older runtimes: they have no built-in store and the endpoints
would 404. Retain still works there through a VPP driver — there is
simply nothing on this screen for them to configure.

Pairs with openplc-web and openplc-runtime. Shared surface byte-identical
(compare-surfaces: 1055 files, 0 diffs). 10 new screen tests, plus the
gate and adapter covered in both repos.

Also untracks scripts/dev-transpile-project.ts, swept in by an earlier
broad `git add -A`; it is a local scratch file and was never on
development. The file stays on disk.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012FNp61926UEggtmsQPj3A3
…t it replaces

A VPP whose driver implements something the runtime also provides can now
declare it:

    "hidesNativeScreens": ["persistent-storage"]

Hiding is NOT cosmetic. The editor removes the screen from the project
tree AND switches the native feature off on the connected device, so the
vendor's driver is the only thing handling it.

That coupling is the whole point. The case it exists for: a project on
plain runtime v4 with retention enabled, then retargeted at a VPP whose
HAL keeps retained values in hardware. Both stores would be live, each
writing every scan, and both would appear to work — the next power cut
decides which one the values came from. Removing only the screen would
make it worse, not better: the native store would still be on, with no
remaining way to see it or turn it off.

REPLACES THE AMBER NOTICE
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The Persistent Storage screen used to render a banner when a driver had
taken over — "these settings are saved but not in use". That was the
wrong shape. A screen that is reachable in a state where it does nothing
is a screen that should not be reachable. It is gone, along with the
`backend`-inspection that drove it.

The runtime still reports its live backend, and that is still worth
having: it is what the log line names, and it is the backstop if a
device is configured by other means.

GENERAL, NOT RETAIN-SPECIFIC
----------------------------
`NativeScreenId` is a closed union with one member today. Closed rather
than a free string on purpose: a name that is not a native screen is a
typo, and silently ignoring it would leave two implementations live —
exactly the failure the mechanism prevents. The schema enum enforces the
same thing at package-validation time.

`hidesNativeScreens` needs no editor schema change to travel: the
installed-manifest zod schema is `.passthrough()`, so the transport
surface was already extensible. What needed building is the
interpretation: the availability helper (`frontend/utils/native-screens`,
100% covered) and the enforcement hook.

THE ENFORCEMENT
---------------
`useNativeScreenEnforcement` runs on connect and on target change. It
reads the current setting first and writes only when there is something
to turn off, so a device that was never configured is left alone and no
redundant PUT goes out on every reconnect. A read failure does not
trigger a blind write — the device may be mid-restart and the next
connect retries.

Both outcomes are logged. Silently changing a device's configuration is
not something to do without a line in the console, and a FAILED
switch-off is a warning that says two stores may now be active — the one
thing the operator must not miss, because the screen that would have
shown it is hidden.

Declared on the SLM-RP4, whose runtime-v4 driver provides retain hooks.

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Every VPP upload to a runtime that enforces signatures was refused:

    this upload contains a VPP plugin but no usable package signature:
    vpp_signature.json is missing or unreadable

`vpp_plugin/` is the only content in an upload the runtime compiles with
a Makefile that came from the upload itself, so it requires that tree to
be signed by a trusted key. The runtime cannot re-derive the signature —
the tree it receives is a SUBSET of the package (config_template.json
and requirements.txt are dropped, trusted_keys.c and checksum.sha256 are
generated here) — so only the original package's detached signature can
attest to it.

The contract was written on the runtime side, and its comment
(webserver/vpp_package_signature.py) names THIS function as the
sidecar's author. It was never implemented here. So the editor copied
the plugin tree, wrote its checksum, and sent an upload the runtime was
always going to reject.

`vpp_signature.json` now carries the package's `signature.json` verbatim
plus `pluginDir` — the relative path this function copied from, which is
how the runtime knows which signed subtree to compare against.

A package with no signature.json is a WARNING here and a refusal there.
`build.ts --unsigned` is a normal vendor-development workflow and failing
the local build would make it impossible; the runtime is the boundary
that matters, and it rejects with a message naming the fix. This build
has no business guessing whether the target enforces signatures.

Verified against a real SLM-RP4: with a package signed by the production
key, the device answers "VPP plugin verified against the signed package
(digest 3ff71879cb22...)" and the upload completes. Before this, no VPP
could be uploaded to that runtime at all.

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…ntracts

The HAL lands at `src/arduino.cpp`; the firmware's own headers stay under
`examples/Baremetal/`. The two directories never see each other, so a
HAL could not `#include "openplc_retain.h"` — the contract a vendor is
supposed to implement was unreachable from the only file that implements
it.

Found building the P1AM retain backend: the include simply fails, and
the only way forward is to restate the four function signatures by hand
inside the HAL. That is how two copies of an ABI start drifting, and the
drift would be silent until a retained value came back wrong.

`openplc_retain.h` is now mirrored into `src/` beside the HAL, where
arduino-cli's `--library src` pass finds it. Copied rather than moved:
the Baremetal build still compiles its own copy.

An explicit list, not "every header in examples/Baremetal". These are
the headers describing a contract a VENDOR implements; copying the whole
firmware into `src/` would put two copies of every translation unit in
front of arduino-cli.

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…nt-storage-screen

feat(retain): a Persistent Storage screen for the connected device [NODE-94]

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src/frontend/components/_features/[workspace]/editor/persistent-storage/index.tsx (1)

234-235: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Drop the default export.

workspace-screen.tsx imports the named PersistentStorageEditor. The default export adds a second entry point for the same component.

As per coding guidelines: "Prefer named exports over default exports."

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 export { PersistentStorageEditor }
-export default PersistentStorageEditor
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In
`@src/frontend/components/_features/`[workspace]/editor/persistent-storage/index.tsx
around lines 234 - 235, Remove the default export for PersistentStorageEditor,
leaving only the named export used by workspace-screen.tsx.

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src/frontend/store/slices/tabs/utils.ts (1)

180-217: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an exhaustive never branch.

CreateEditorObjectFromTab switches on the TabsProps.elementType discriminated union, but it has no never check. A later tab variant can make this function return undefined and fail when the tab opens. Add a default branch that assigns elementType to never and throws.

As per coding guidelines, make switches exhaustive with a never check.

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In `@src/frontend/store/slices/tabs/utils.ts` around lines 180 - 217, Update
CreateEditorObjectFromTab with a default branch that assigns elementType to
never and throws an error, ensuring every TabsProps elementType variant is
handled exhaustively and preventing an undefined return for future variants.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/frontend/components/_molecules/project-tree/index.tsx`:
- Around line 869-872: The project-tree leaf UI uses inconsistent editability
checks for persistentStorage. Define or reuse a single non-editable predicate
covering devPin, devConfig, userManagement, and persistentStorage, and apply it
to both the options popover condition and the label double-click handler so
these leaves never enter inline rename.

In `@src/frontend/components/_organisms/explorer/project.tsx`:
- Around line 439-453: Update the Persistent Storage leaf’s handleCreateTab call
and the related editor lookup identity so singleton tabs cannot collide with
project elements named “Persistent Storage”; use a type- or path-aware identity
that reliably selects the plc-persistent-storage editor while preserving the
displayed label.

In `@src/frontend/utils/__tests__/native-screens.test.ts`:
- Around line 5-8: Update the board test fixture helper and related fixtures to
remove all type assertions, construct complete valid BoardInfo and VppMetadata
values, and type hidesNativeScreens with the actual NativeScreenId union instead
of string[]. Preserve the helper’s existing behavior of including
hidesNativeScreens only when provided.

In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts`:
- Around line 293-318: Update handleRuntimeGetRetainConfig and
handleRuntimeUpdateRetainConfig to use the runtime’s supported GET/POST command
endpoint and request/response contract instead of treating /api/retain-config as
a GET/PUT resource. Map the command response into RetainConfig, validate the
returned fields before exposing them, and preserve partial-update behavior by
posting only defined params.

In `@src/main/modules/ipc/renderer.ts`:
- Around line 548-553: Validate the results returned by both
runtimeGetRetainConfig and runtimeUpdateRetainConfig before exposing them to
renderer code. Parse the ipcRenderer.invoke responses with the existing
RetainConfigResult Zod schema or an equivalent type guard, preserving the
current IPC channels and arguments while rejecting malformed main-process
payloads.

In `@src/middleware/adapters/editor/runtime-adapter.ts`:
- Around line 25-31: Sort the imports in
src/middleware/adapters/editor/runtime-adapter.ts at lines 25-31 by moving
RetainConfigResult after LoginResult. In
src/frontend/screens/workspace-screen.tsx at lines 32-58, apply the ESLint
simple-import-sort autofix so PersistentStorageEditor and
useNativeScreenEnforcement occupy their alphabetically sorted positions.

Apply the same fix in `@src/frontend/screens/workspace-screen.tsx` at line 32:
Same import-order violation in the frontend import block.

---

Nitpick comments:
In
`@src/frontend/components/_features/`[workspace]/editor/persistent-storage/index.tsx:
- Around line 234-235: Remove the default export for PersistentStorageEditor,
leaving only the named export used by workspace-screen.tsx.

In `@src/frontend/store/slices/tabs/utils.ts`:
- Around line 180-217: Update CreateEditorObjectFromTab with a default branch
that assigns elementType to never and throws an error, ensuring every TabsProps
elementType variant is handled exhaustively and preventing an undefined return
for future variants.
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Comment on lines +869 to +872
{leafLang === 'devPin' ||
leafLang === 'devConfig' ||
leafLang === 'userManagement' ||
leafLang === 'persistentStorage' ? null : (

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Also block inline rename for persistentStorage leaves.

The new condition suppresses the options popover, but the label still enables editing on double-click. handleRenameFile rejects this leaf, so double-clicking opens an edit field and then shows an error on blur or Enter. Reuse one non-editable predicate for both the popover and the double-click handler.

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In `@src/frontend/components/_molecules/project-tree/index.tsx` around lines 869 -
872, The project-tree leaf UI uses inconsistent editability checks for
persistentStorage. Define or reuse a single non-editable predicate covering
devPin, devConfig, userManagement, and persistentStorage, and apply it to both
the options popover condition and the label double-click handler so these leaves
never enter inline rename.

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Valid, deferred deliberately — not fixed in #1053.

The report is accurate: line 863's onDoubleClick is unconditional, so double-clicking the leaf opens an edit field that handleRenameFile then rejects.

It is not new to this change, though. userManagement, devPin and devConfig already behave exactly this way — the popover suppression at 871-872 lists all four, and the double-click handler excludes none of them. Adding a fourth special case to the double-click while three identical ones stay broken would make the inconsistency harder to see, not easier.

The fix is the one predicate the comment itself suggests — a single isNonEditableLeaf(leafLang) shared by the popover and the double-click — applied to all four leaves at once. That is a small change but it touches leaves outside this feature, so it belongs in its own PR rather than riding a retain branch.

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@thiagoralves, agreed. The shared predicate is the correct fix. Keeping this change out of the retain branch preserves a clear scope boundary.

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Repo: Autonomy-Logic/openplc-editor PR: 1034
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Timestamp: 2026-08-27T21:57:18.480Z
Learning: In `src/frontend/components/_molecules/project-tree/index.tsx`, `devPin`, `devConfig`, `userManagement`, and `persistentStorage` leaves suppress the options popover but can still enter inline rename through an unconditional label `onDoubleClick`. Fix all four leaf types together with one shared non-editable predicate in a separate change.

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Comment on lines +439 to +453
{showPersistentStorage && (
<ProjectTreeLeaf
key='Persistent Storage'
leafLang='persistentStorage'
leafType='persistent-storage'
label='Persistent Storage'
onClick={() =>
handleCreateTab({
name: 'Persistent Storage',
path: `/device/persistent-storage`,
elementType: { type: 'persistent-storage' },
})
}
/>
)}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Avoid a display-name collision for the singleton editor.

The leaf always passes name: 'Persistent Storage' to handleCreateTab. That handler looks up an editor with getEditorFromEditors(tabToBeCreated.name). If an existing project element uses this name, the lookup can reuse that model and open the wrong editor instead of plc-persistent-storage. Use a type- or path-aware identity for singleton tabs, or reserve this name for device screens.

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In `@src/frontend/components/_organisms/explorer/project.tsx` around lines 439 -
453, Update the Persistent Storage leaf’s handleCreateTab call and the related
editor lookup identity so singleton tabs cannot collide with project elements
named “Persistent Storage”; use a type- or path-aware identity that reliably
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Valid, deferred deliberately — not fixed in #1053.

handleCreateTab does look up by name (getEditorFromEditors(tabToBeCreated.name)), so a project element named "Persistent Storage" could have its model reused for the device screen.

Same caveat as the sibling comment on project-tree/index.tsx: "User Management" has carried this exact exposure since it shipped, and the underlying issue is that tab identity is a display name rather than a type or path. Reserving one more string would paper over it for one screen.

The real fix is the type- or path-aware identity the comment proposes, applied to every singleton device screen — worth doing, and worth doing once, outside this branch.

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@thiagoralves, agreed. The issue affects the shared editor identity mechanism and also applies to User Management. A name reservation for Persistent Storage would not provide a complete fix.

Keeping this finding open is appropriate until a type- or path-aware identity is implemented for all singleton device screens. If you want, I can create a GitHub follow-up issue for that work.

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Learning: In `src/frontend/components/_organisms/explorer/project.tsx`, `handleCreateTab` identifies existing editor models with `getEditorFromEditors(tabToBeCreated.name)`. This display-name identity can collide with project elements and affects singleton device screens such as Persistent Storage and User Management. The complete fix is a type- or path-aware editor identity applied consistently to singleton device screens, rather than reserving individual display names.

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Comment on lines +293 to +318
handleRuntimeGetRetainConfig = async (_event: IpcMainInvokeEvent, ipAddress: string) => {
const res = await this.makeRuntimeApiRequest<RetainConfig>(
ipAddress,
'/api/retain-config',
(data) => JSON.parse(data) as RetainConfig,
)
return res.success ? { success: true, config: res.data } : { success: false, error: res.error }
}

handleRuntimeUpdateRetainConfig = async (
_event: IpcMainInvokeEvent,
ipAddress: string,
params: UpdateRetainConfigParams,
) => {
// Only the provided fields, so a partial edit never resets the others to
// whatever the client last happened to read.
const body: Record<string, string | number | boolean> = {}
if (params.enabled !== undefined) body.enabled = params.enabled
if (params.path !== undefined) body.path = params.path
if (params.flushSeconds !== undefined) body.flushSeconds = params.flushSeconds
const res = await this.makeRuntimeApiMutation('PUT', ipAddress, '/api/retain-config', JSON.stringify(body))
if (!res.success) return { success: false, error: res.error }
// Re-read rather than trust the echo: the runtime normalises the path and
// may report a different live backend than the settings imply.
return this.handleRuntimeGetRetainConfig(_event, ipAddress)
}

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Align the retain-config handlers with the runtime API.

openplc-runtime exposes only GET and POST command routes, and /api/retain-config is not a supported command. The PUT request therefore cannot update retention settings, and the GET request cannot return a RetainConfig. Use a supported endpoint and wire contract, then validate its response before returning it as RetainConfig.

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In `@src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts` around lines 293 - 318, Update
handleRuntimeGetRetainConfig and handleRuntimeUpdateRetainConfig to use the
runtime’s supported GET/POST command endpoint and request/response contract
instead of treating /api/retain-config as a GET/PUT resource. Map the command
response into RetainConfig, validate the returned fields before exposing them,
and preserve partial-update behavior by posting only defined params.

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Dismissing the conclusion, but the finding underneath it is real and worth keeping on the record.

The analysis reached main — via raw.githubusercontent.com/.../main/webserver/restapi.py and a couple of web searches — and correctly found no /api/retain-config there. It exists on the runtime's feature/NODE-94-retain-variables branch (added in openplc-runtime #175, merged there), together with GET/PUT handlers, the admin gate on PUT, and the retain.conf reader the core parses at program load. So the endpoint and the wire contract are not missing; they are just not on main yet.

What that does surface, and it is the sharper point: this screen cannot ship before the runtime release does. The editor gates the tree leaf on isRetainConfigCapableRuntime (>= 4.2.0) precisely so an older runtime never sees the calls, but the release ordering is a real constraint and is now called out in #1053's body alongside the strucpp pin.

The second half — "validate its response before returning it as RetainConfig" — stands, and is tracked with the renderer.ts:553 comment rather than fixed here: it is the same change shape across every runtime IPC handler, and doing it for one handler alone would leave an inconsistent boundary.

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@thiagoralves, thanks for the correction.

The endpoint conclusion was incorrect. /api/retain-config exists on the runtime feature branch and uses the expected GET and PUT contract.

The release dependency remains important. The editor must not expose this screen until the runtime release includes the endpoint. The existing isRetainConfigCapableRuntime gate and #1053 track that constraint.

The RetainConfig response-validation concern remains valid. Deferring it to the shared runtime IPC boundary work at src/main/modules/ipc/renderer.ts:553 keeps the validation policy consistent across handlers.

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Learning: For the OpenPLC persistent-storage feature, the OpenPLC Runtime endpoint `/api/retain-config` exists on the `feature/NODE-94-retain-variables` branch introduced by openplc-runtime PR `#175`, rather than on the runtime `main` branch. It supports `GET` and admin-gated `PUT`, and its configuration is read from `retain.conf` during program load.

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Comment on lines +548 to +553
runtimeGetRetainConfig: (ipAddress: string): Promise<RetainConfigResult> =>
ipcRenderer.invoke('runtime:get-retain-config', ipAddress),
runtimeUpdateRetainConfig: (
ipAddress: string,
params: UpdateRetainConfigParams,
): Promise<RetainConfigResult> => ipcRenderer.invoke('runtime:update-retain-config', ipAddress, params),

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Validate retain-configuration IPC results.

ipcRenderer.invoke returns runtime data. The Promise<RetainConfigResult> annotations do not validate that data. Parse the result with a Zod schema or a type guard before returning it from both methods. Otherwise, a malformed main-process response can reach renderer code as a valid RetainConfigResult.

As per coding guidelines, IPC payloads must be validated at boundaries with Zod schemas or type guards.

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In `@src/main/modules/ipc/renderer.ts` around lines 548 - 553, Validate the
results returned by both runtimeGetRetainConfig and runtimeUpdateRetainConfig
before exposing them to renderer code. Parse the ipcRenderer.invoke responses
with the existing RetainConfigResult Zod schema or an equivalent type guard,
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Valid, deferred deliberately — not fixed in #1053.

The guideline is real (CLAUDE.md: validate IPC payloads at the boundary with zod or a type guard) and these two methods do not.

Not fixed here because it is the same change across every runtime IPC handler in renderer.ts, not just the two retain ones. Adding a schema to the newest pair alone would leave an inconsistent boundary and imply the rest are validated when they are not — which is worse for a reader than a uniformly unvalidated surface.

On the threat itself: the producer is our own main process, and a malformed response would have to come from a bug there rather than from the network — the runtime's HTTP reply is already parsed in main.ts. So this is a defence-in-depth item, worth doing across the file in one pass.

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@thiagoralves, agreed. The finding is valid, but a complete runtime IPC boundary-validation pass is the correct scope.

The main process is the trusted IPC producer, so this is defense in depth. Applying validation only to these new methods would create an inconsistent runtime IPC surface. GitHub issue #1053 tracks the deferred work.


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Repo: Autonomy-Logic/openplc-editor PR: 1034
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Learning: In `src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts`, `handleRuntimeGetRetainConfig` and `handleRuntimeUpdateRetainConfig` depend on a runtime release that includes `/api/retain-config`. The editor gates the persistent-storage screen with `isRetainConfigCapableRuntime` for runtime version `4.2.0` or later. GitHub issue `#1053` tracks the required runtime release ordering and STruC++ pin.

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Repo: Autonomy-Logic/openplc-editor PR: 1034
File: src/main/modules/ipc/main.ts:293-318
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Learning: For the OpenPLC persistent-storage feature, the OpenPLC Runtime endpoint `/api/retain-config` exists on the `feature/NODE-94-retain-variables` branch introduced by openplc-runtime PR `#175`, rather than on the runtime `main` branch. It supports `GET` and admin-gated `PUT`, and its configuration is read from `retain.conf` during program load.

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fix(vpp): forward the package signature, and let a HAL include the runtime's contracts [NODE-94]

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Validate the parsed signature before forwarding it.

JSON.parse(signatureRaw) accepts any JSON value, including null, arrays, and unrelated objects. The code writes that value as package, so wrong-shaped metadata reaches vpp_signature.json and fails only when the runtime verifies the upload. Parse into unknown and validate the runtime signature shape with a Zod schema or type guard before writing.

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In `@src/backend/editor/compiler/compiler-module.ts` around lines 2439 - 2442,
Update the signature handling around signatureRaw in the compiler module to
parse the external JSON as unknown and validate it against the runtime
package-signature shape using the project’s established Zod schema or type-guard
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Addresses the CodeRabbit findings on #1034 that hold up. Two of the
fifteen did not: the "duplicate `logged` declaration, file cannot
compile" is not there (one declaration, `tsc` clean), and
"`/api/retain-config` is not a supported runtime endpoint" was concluded
from web-searching the runtime's `main` — it exists on the runtime's
feature branch. The kernel of truth in the second one is real and is a
release-ordering matter, not a code fix: see the note at the end.

CONFIGURATION GLOBALS LOST THEIR QUALIFIER
------------------------------------------
The biggest one. `configuration.ts` opened a single unqualified
`VAR_GLOBAL` for every configuration-scope global, so a global the user
marked RETAIN or CONSTANT in the variables table was emitted as a plain
one and compiled without the qualifier. The flag survived in
project.json and was dropped on the way to the compiler — the worst
place for it to go missing, because nothing reports it.

The POU emitter has always grouped by class × flag; this is the same
rule applied to configuration globals. Grouped in first-appearance
order so the unqualified block stays where it was and a project with no
flags produces byte-identical output. Chunk tags keep the ORIGINAL
variable index, not a per-group one: those tags map a diagnostic back to
a row in the variables table, and renumbering would point every error
after the first qualified block at the wrong variable.

Worth being precise about what was already fine: GVL globals go through
the POU emitter (a struct plus VAR_EXTERNAL) and always carried their
flag. Only configuration-scope globals were affected.

VERIFICATION COMPILE IGNORED ITS OWN VERDICT
--------------------------------------------
`runVerificationCompile` settled from `firstError` and never read
`data.success` — the same false negative fixed on the program-compile
path in Phase 0, left behind at a second call site. A library
verification that succeeded while emitting an error-level diagnostic was
reported as failed. It now reads the verdict and falls back to the log
only when the terminal message carries none.

LINT GATE
---------
`simple-import-sort` errors in `runtime-adapter.ts`,
`workspace-screen.tsx` and `tabs/utils.ts`. `./src/**/*.{ts,tsx}` is now
0 errors.

TYPE ASSERTIONS
---------------
Six redundant `(ModbusDebugResponse.READ_ONLY as number)` casts removed
across the editor and simulator clients — the enum is already numeric
and `tsc` is clean without them.

Three test fixtures no longer assert past the compiler, and two of the
casts were hiding real defects:

  * `compile-program-flow-verdict.test.ts` keyed its project fixture
    `configuration` — the backend zod type's name — while claiming to be
    the port's `PLCProjectData`, which wants `configurations`. The cast
    meant the object never matched the type it advertised.
  * `native-screens.test.ts` typed the fixture's screen list as
    `string[]`, which `NativeScreenId[]` rejects. `hiddenNativeScreens`
    and `isNativeScreenAvailable` now take `Pick<BoardInfo, 'vpp'>` —
    they only read `vpp`, and saying so lets a caller hand over what it
    has instead of asserting a whole board.
  * `force-settle.test.ts` reached into the core's private
    `options.channel` through `as unknown as` to make a read fail;
    `makeCore` now accepts a read override. The union narrowing on
    `read.data` became a guard, so a shape change fails instead of
    silently reading the wrong branch.

`as const` was left alone — the guideline allows it, and four of the
eight flagged casts in `force-settle.test.ts` were that.

TESTS
-----
Seven cases for the configuration-global qualifier, including that an
unflagged project is unchanged and that same-flag globals share one
block. Two for the pipeline's `retainBlobSize` forwarding: the branch
was only ever exercised with `null`, so the define was covered directly
in `generate-defines` while nothing proved the pipeline hands the number
over.

`2547 passed` across backend/middleware/cli; `4379 passed` across
frontend. The two frontend suites that fail to run (`device-types`,
`use-device-connect`) fail identically on `origin/development`
untouched. Mirror gate: 1057 files, 0 diffs.

STILL BLOCKING, AND NOT A CODE FIX
----------------------------------
`binary-versions.json` pins strucpp v0.6.3, and neither it nor the
newest tag v0.6.4 carries `retainBlobSize` or `LEAF_FLAG_RETAIN`. This
PR compiles locally only because a strucpp build is rsynced into
node_modules. A strucpp release must ship and the pin must be bumped
before #1034 or openplc-web #691 can merge.

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Review response — 15 findings triaged, fixes in #1053

Each inline thread has its own reply; this is the map. Paired with openplc-web #708 for the shared half.

Fixed (8)

File Finding Note
generate-iec-string-to-variables.ts Global-variable flags dropped in configuration emission The most substantive item in the review — see below
compiler-module.ts:3157 runVerificationCompile ignored data.success Same false negative fixed in Phase 0, left at a second call site
pipeline.ts:801 No pipeline test for a positive retainBlobSize Branch coverage was 84.74%, 798-837 uncovered
modbus-client.ts:284 Prohibited enum casts All 6 as number removed across editor + simulator
runtime-adapter.ts:31 Import order ./src/**/*.{ts,tsx} now 0 errors
native-screens.test.ts:8 Type assertions Cast was hiding a defect — see below
compile-program-flow-verdict.test.ts:55 Type assertions Cast was hiding a defect — see below
force-settle.test.ts:111 Type assertions 2 genuine ones fixed; 4 were as const, which the guideline permits

The configuration-globals one

configuration.ts opened a single unqualified VAR_GLOBAL for every configuration-scope global, so a global marked RETAIN or CONSTANT in the variables table was emitted as a plain one. The flag survived in project.json and was dropped on the way to the compiler — the worst place for it to go missing, because nothing reports it. The emitter's own comment admitted it ("the IR doesn't surface per-list modifiers today").

Now grouped by flag, same rule the POU emitter has always used. Two details for the review: grouping is by first appearance, so an unflagged project produces byte-identical output; and chunk tags keep the original variable index, because those tags map a diagnostic to a row in the variables table and renumbering would point every error after the first qualified block at the wrong variable.

One correction to the reported scope: GVL globals were never affected — they go through the POU emitter as a struct plus VAR_EXTERNAL, which has always carried the flag. Only configuration-scope globals dropped it.

Two casts were hiding real bugs

Removing assertions is usually cosmetic. These two were not:

  • compile-program-flow-verdict.test.ts keyed its fixture configuration — the backend zod type's name — while typed as the port's PLCProjectData, which wants configurations. The as unknown as meant the object never matched the type it advertised.
  • native-screens.test.ts typed its screen list string[], which NativeScreenId[] rejects; the cast was the only reason it compiled.

Both are the argument for the no-as rule better than I could make it.

Dismissed (2)

Deferred, with reasons (3)

All three are valid and all three are pre-existing patterns rather than new exposure, so each wants one fix across every affected site instead of a special case on a retain branch:

  • Double-click rename on persistentStorage — identical for userManagement, devPin, devConfig. Wants the single isNonEditableLeaf predicate the comment suggests, applied to all four.
  • Singleton tab-name collision — identical for userManagement. The root cause is that tab identity is a display name; wants the type- or path-aware identity, applied to every device screen.
  • Zod validation of retain-config IPC results — the guideline stands, but validating the newest two handlers alone would leave an inconsistent boundary and imply the rest are validated when they are not.

Verification

2547 passed (backend/middleware/cli), 4379 passed (frontend), 3173 passed on web. The two frontend suites that fail to run — device-types, use-device-connect — fail identically on origin/development untouched. Mirror gate 1057 files, 0 diffs. Runtime rebuilt and retested on an SLM-RP4.

Still blocking this PR, and not a code fix

binary-versions.json pins strucpp v0.6.3; neither it nor v0.6.4 carries retainBlobSize or LEAF_FLAG_RETAIN. This branch compiles locally only because a strucpp build is rsynced into node_modules. STruC++ #222 must release and the pin be bumped before this or web #691 can merge.

fix(retain): review fixes — global flags, verification verdict, lint, casts [NODE-94]
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