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inner[3] is the seq the phone sent — several decoders in here already step over it to find their real first body byte, it just never made it out to callers.

without it every reply for a given opcode is indistinguishable, so anything awaiting one specific read can be satisfied by an unrelated earlier request's reply. edge needs this for GET_CLOCK: the rtc gets polled from connect, from setClock's read-back and from the keep-alive, and history offload is gated on the answer — see OpenStrap/edge#235.

branched off 7edcb3e (what edge currently pins) rather than main, so the pin edge moves to picks up this one change and nothing else.

the echo itself is the layout this package has always assumed and isn't confirmed against a hardware capture, so it's documented as such and edge treats a mismatch as "not mine" with a fallback that still works if the correlation never matches.

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  • New Features

    • Command responses now expose the echoed request sequence when available, making it easier to match responses with their originating requests.
    • Existing command decoding behavior remains unchanged.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of responses that share an operation code.
    • Truncated responses no longer expose an invalid request sequence.

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parseCommandResponse now exposes an echoed request sequence as req_seq when present. Regression tests verify extraction, same-opcode response correlation, and omission for truncated responses.

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Command response sequence propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sequence propagation and validation
lib/src/control.dart, test/decode_guards_test.dart
parseCommandResponse emits req_seq when four or more response bytes are available. Tests cover extraction, same-opcode responses, truncated responses, and test registration.

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The change may expose a body byte as the echoed request sequence, which could correlate a reply with the wrong request and return incorrect results to callers. Hardware confirmation or opcode-specific gating is needed before this is merge-ready.

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In `@lib/src/control.dart`:
- Around line 428-443: Do not publish inner[3] unconditionally as req_seq in the
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// A response body is preceded by the ECHOED REQUEST SEQ at inner[3] (the
// status follows it at inner[4]) — the same byte several decoders here
// already skip past to find their real first body byte.
//
// Surfaced so a caller can tell WHICH of its outstanding requests a reply
// belongs to. Without it every response for an opcode is indistinguishable,
// and a caller that awaits a specific read can be satisfied by an unrelated
// earlier request's reply — which matters for GET_CLOCK, where the app
// polls the RTC from several places at once and gates history offload on
// the answer.
//
// NOTE: that the strap echoes back the seq the PHONE sent is the layout this
// package has always assumed; it is not confirmed against a hardware capture
// here. Treat a mismatch as "not the reply I awaited", never as an error,
// and always keep a path that works when the correlation never matches.
if (inner.length >= 4) dec['req_seq'] = inner[3];

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Confirm the layout with hardware before publishing req_seq at inner[3].

The packet structure is [packet_type][seq][opcode][body…], placing inner[3] as the first body byte. The code confirms this: payload = Uint8List.sublistView(inner, 3) makes payload[0] equal to inner[3]. Multiple parsers read this byte as body data. GET_ALARM_TIME reads payload[0] (inner[3]) as a form indicator (0x01 or 0x04); the body location parser expects it as a revision field (0x01). Publishing this byte as req_seq exposes body data as correlation metadata unless the hardware differs from the documented layout.

The code acknowledges (line 440): "it is not confirmed against a hardware capture here." Verify the layout against a real captured response or add opcode-specific gating. If only certain commands echo a request sequence, restrict req_seq to those opcodes only. Keep the field absent when correlation cannot be reliably established.

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In `@lib/src/control.dart` around lines 428 - 443, Do not publish inner[3]
unconditionally as req_seq in the response parsing flow. Confirm the packet
layout against a real hardware capture, or restrict req_seq assignment to
explicitly verified opcodes and layouts; otherwise leave the field absent so
body bytes are not exposed as correlation metadata.

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inner[3] is the seq the phone sent, which several decoders in here already
step over to find their real first body byte — it just never made it out to
callers. without it every reply for an opcode looks the same, so anything
awaiting one specific read can be satisfied by an earlier request's reply.
edge needs this for GET_CLOCK: the rtc gets polled from a few places at once
and history offload is gated on the answer.

the echo itself is the layout this package has always assumed and isn't
confirmed against a capture, so callers should treat a mismatch as "not mine"
and keep working when it never matches.
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rebased onto main — mergeable now, and it stands on its own: edge#235 no longer depends on it.

taking this into edge would have meant moving edge's protocol pin to a main merge commit, and main now carries the gen5/multiband surface (gen5_records.dart, the framing rev changes, new dangerousCmds). that's ~1850 lines riding into a whoop-4-only data-integrity pr for the sake of one field, so edge keeps its current pin and _readClock accepts any fresh clock_epoch for now. the correlation goes in later with a deliberate pin bump.

still worth landing here: the echoed seq is genuinely useful and currently thrown away. the caveat in the comment stands — that the strap echoes the seq WE sent is assumed, not capture-confirmed.

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