fix(broker): accept context.update node frames and act on delivery failures and identity takeover

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Summary

The relaycast engine pushes a context.update frame to every ws node for ephemeral events (presence, channel membership, delivery receipts, identity takeover). The broker's ServerToNode enum had no variant for it, so every such frame failed to parse and was logged as invalid fleet node ws frame. The broker's own fixture test hard-coded the same five frame types, so the gap was self-consistently untested.

This PR:

• Adds ServerToNode::ContextUpdate (plus a snake_case ContextTopic enum) in fleet_wire.rs, mirroring @relaycast/types FleetContextUpdateMessageSchema. Not deny_unknown_fields, matching Deliver. Copies the engine's canonical context.update.json fixture into tests/fixtures/fleet-wire/ and adds it to the round-trip test.
• Routes the frame to the runtime on the existing node-control channel (no change to handle_server_message; the Ok(other) arm already carries it) and handles it in runtime/fleet.rs:
  • delivery.failed (topic agent): resolves agent_ids to locally hosted workers via the authoritative agent.register binding and emits the existing message_delivery_failed broker event for each sending worker (to = the engine's target agent, lastError = relaycast delivery.failed: <reason>, delivery_id/event_id carried through), plus a structured info!. SDK and dashboard consumers already render that event, so a broker-hosted agent that DMs an unreachable agent now surfaces the failure. Related: /api/send reports Relaycast publication as success without recipient reachability #1615. No PTY injection and no change to /api/send's response shape.
  • delivery.deferred (topic agent): logged at info with available_at and the reason, and deliberately emits no event. A deferred delivery stays queued for a later retry, so surfacing it as a terminal failure would invite duplicate resends.
  • agent.identity_taken_over: invalidates the worker's cached agent token via forget_agent_registration, the same path release uses, so the next operation re-registers instead of first hitting a 401. Structured warn!.
  • Everything else, and frames whose agent_ids name no worker here: one debug!, never warn, never "invalid".
• Adds FleetDeliveryBook::active_agent_name() (inverse of active_agent_id, authoritative bindings only).

Out of scope, deliberately: no #[serde(other)] catch-all (unknown frame types should still surface), no agent.recover / node.spawn, no heartbeat load_reported, no wire renames.

Test Plan

• Tests added/updated
• Manual testing completed

cargo test -p agent-relay-broker
  lib:                          1047 passed; 0 failed; 4 ignored
  tests/continuity.rs:          12 passed
  tests/fleet_wire_fixtures.rs: 1 passed (now includes context.update)
  tests/journal_lock_cli.rs:    3 passed
cargo fmt --all --check: clean
cargo clippy -p agent-relay-broker --all-targets: no warnings

New tests: three fleet_wire unit tests (fixture parse, null channel_id, topic serde), two FleetDeliveryBook::active_agent_name tests, and runtime tests in runtime/tests.rs covering the delivery.failed emit, the delivery.deferred no-event path, the identity_taken_over token invalidation, the ignored-event path, and the no-matching-worker path.

The RelayFlow case below was run on both arms against freshly built binaries (base from origin/main, head from this branch) and produced the declared outcomes.

RelayFlow Proof

• Change type: bugfix
• RelayFlow case: 1615-context-update-frames

The case stands up a dependency-free fake Relaycast (HTTP routes plus a hand-rolled RFC 6455 node-control server), answers node.register, pushes exactly one context.update (topic: agent, event: delivery.failed), and watches the exact broker binary's stderr: base emits invalid fleet node ws frame (context_update_rejected_as_invalid_frame), head routes the frame to the runtime (context_update_accepted_and_routed). The head marker is the routed-and-handled log line rather than the message_delivery_failed emit, because the emit requires a live spawned worker with an authoritative binding; that path is covered by the runtime unit tests.

Note for future readers: the broker's target = "relay_broker::…" macro arguments are structured fields, not tracing targets (only the target: form sets metadata), so the real target of every broker log line is its module path. The case's RUST_LOG enables both forms.

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The broker now accepts Relaycast context.update frames, reports terminal delivery failures, logs deferred deliveries, clears retired registrations, and dead-letters orphaned parked messages during queue flushing. Tests, fixtures, RelayFlow coverage, changelog entries, and trajectory records document these changes.

Changes

Relaycast context update handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Wire and identity contracts crates/broker/src/fleet_wire.rs, crates/broker/src/node_control.rs, crates/broker/tests/fixtures/..., crates/broker/tests/fleet_wire_fixtures.rs	Adds ContextUpdate wire types, parsing rules, fixture coverage, and authoritative agent ID-to-name lookup.
Runtime context routing crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs, crates/broker/src/runtime/tests.rs, crates/broker/src/relaycast/ws.rs	Routes delivery.failed, logs delivery.deferred, clears cached registrations after agent.identity_taken_over, and validates these paths.
Queue flush behavior crates/broker/src/runtime/fleet.rs	Classifies receipts, dead-letters orphaned messages, cancels related obligations, and reports dead_lettered.
Regression and release validation tests/relayflows/cases/1615-context-update-frames/*, CHANGELOG.md, .agentworkforce/trajectories/completed/2026-09/...	Adds end-to-end RelayFlow coverage and records the broker and queue-flush changes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2769f

The PR enables context updates, delivery-failure reporting, and identity-takeover handling without changing worker input behavior. It is mergeable with explicit owner awareness because failure notifications may be lost or duplicated during replay or consumer failure, and the changelog heading still needs to match the repository format.

Suggested reviewers: miyaontherelay

Poem

A rabbit watches frames arrive,
Failed messages reach their source.
Deferred ones keep their course,
Retired tokens leave the nest,
Orphaned queues get laid to rest.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main broker changes: accepting context.update frames, handling delivery failures, and handling identity takeover.
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12-12: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Split the two user-visible fixes into separate bullets.

This bullet combines context.update frame acceptance and delivery.failed event forwarding. Keep each fix in its own ### Fixed bullet.

Based on learnings, split a bullet only when it bundles genuinely distinct user-visible changes.

Proposed changelog split

-- Broker now accepts Relaycast `context.update` node frames instead of logging every one as an invalid frame, and surfaces `delivery.failed` to the sending agent as a `message_delivery_failed` event so a DM to an unreachable agent is no longer silently lost.
+- Broker now accepts Relaycast `context.update` node frames instead of logging every one as an invalid frame.
+- Broker surfaces `delivery.failed` to the sending agent as a `message_delivery_failed` event so a DM to an unreachable agent is no longer silently lost.

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P3: This bullet merges two distinct user-visible fixes: the DM delivery.failed→message_delivery_failed surface and the parsing of context.update node frames. Per the repo changelog convention, split each distinct user-visible behavior into its own impact-first bullet under ### Fixed.

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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - `node agent message flush` and `node agent message auto` now unblock a held queue that could previously never drain, instead of reporting `flushed: 0` forever and leaving the agent unable to receive anything later. A parked message whose Relaycast identity has been retired is dead-lettered with a reason and is visible in `node deadletters`; injection failures and out-of-order sequences are still held for retry.
-- Broker now accepts Relaycast `context.update` node frames instead of logging every one as an invalid frame, and surfaces `delivery.failed` to the sending agent as a `message_delivery_failed` event so a DM to an unreachable agent is no longer silently lost.
+- A DM to an unreachable agent is no longer silently lost: the broker now surfaces Relaycast `delivery.failed` to the sending agent as a `message_delivery_failed` event (Relaycast `context.update` node frames are now parsed instead of being logged as invalid).
 - Broker drops a worker's cached Relaycast registration when Relaycast reports `agent.identity_taken_over`, so the next operation re-registers instead of failing on a revoked token.
 
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Suggested change

	- A DM to an unreachable agent is no longer silently lost: the broker now surfaces Relaycast `delivery.failed` to the sending agent as a `message_delivery_failed` event (Relaycast `context.update` node frames are now parsed instead of being logged as invalid).
	- A DM to an unreachable agent is no longer silently lost: the broker now surfaces Relaycast `delivery.failed` to the sending agent as a `message_delivery_failed` event.
	- Relaycast `context.update` node frames are now parsed and routed instead of being logged as invalid.