fix(mesh): don't offer radio-only resource transfer to radio-unreachable peers

The first fix (federation fallback in the plain content-inline path) wasn't
enough — mesh.transport-advice recommended the "resource-mesh" tier purely
from our own device being Reticulum-capable, without checking that THIS
peer actually has a radio route. For a federation-only contact (no radio
twin) that steered the frontend into send-content-inline's Reticulum
resource-transfer path, which has no dest_prefix to send to and fails with
"Peer is federation-only (no radio twin)" — reproduced again on
archy-x250-mad2 after deploying the first fix.

Adds MeshService::has_radio_route(contact_id), and gates both the
"resource-mesh" tier in mesh.transport-advice and the resource-transfer
branch in mesh.send-content-inline on it. Federation-only peers now fall
through to the has_tor branches, which route the frontend to
mesh.send-content (already correctly federation-aware) instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

core/archipelago/src/api/rpc/mesh/typed_messages.rs

@@ -405,9 +405,17 @@ impl RpcHandler {
             .as_ref()
             .ok_or_else(|| anyhow::anyhow!("Mesh service not running"))?;
         let device_type = svc.shared_state().status.read().await.device_type;
+        // Resource transfer is a native RNS transfer over LoRa — it needs an
+        // actual radio route to this contact, not just a Reticulum device on
+        // our end. A federation-only peer with no radio twin fits the size
+        // and device-type checks but has no dest_prefix to send to; without
+        // this check the send falls into send_content_resource and fails
+        // with "Peer is federation-only (no radio twin)" (picture-send,
+        // 2026-08-07) instead of falling back to the federation path below.
         let use_resource_transfer = bytes.len() > INLINE_HARD_MAX
             && device_type == crate::mesh::types::DeviceType::Reticulum
-            && bytes.len() <= RETICULUM_RESOURCE_MAX;
+            && bytes.len() <= RETICULUM_RESOURCE_MAX
+            && svc.has_radio_route(contact_id).await;
 
         if bytes.len() > INLINE_HARD_MAX && !use_resource_transfer {
             anyhow::bail!(
@@ -492,15 +500,58 @@ impl RpcHandler {
                 )
                 .await?
             } else {
-                svc.send_typed_wire(
-                    contact_id,
-                    wire,
-                    "content_ref",
-                    &display,
-                    Some(typed_json),
-                    seq,
-                )
-                .await?
+                // Federation-only peers have no radio twin for
+                // send_typed_wire's LoRa dest-prefix resolution — route over
+                // Tor federation instead, mirroring mesh.send-content's onion
+                // lookup, or the send fails with "Peer is federation-only (no
+                // radio twin)" (picture-send from a federation-only contact,
+                // 2026-08-07).
+                let federation_onion = {
+                    let state = svc.shared_state();
+                    let peers = state.peers.read().await;
+                    peers
+                        .get(&contact_id)
+                        .map(|p| (p.pubkey_hex.clone(), p.did.clone()))
+                };
+                let federation_onion = match federation_onion {
+                    Some((Some(pubkey_hex), did)) => {
+                        let nodes = crate::federation::load_nodes(&self.config.data_dir)
+                            .await
+                            .unwrap_or_default();
+                        nodes
+                            .iter()
+                            .find(|n| n.pubkey == pubkey_hex)
+                            .map(|n| n.onion.clone())
+                            .or_else(|| {
+                                did.as_ref().and_then(|d| {
+                                    nodes.iter().find(|n| &n.did == d).map(|n| n.onion.clone())
+                                })
+                            })
+                    }
+                    _ => None,
+                };
+                if let Some(onion) = federation_onion {
+                    svc.send_typed_wire_via_federation(
+                        contact_id,
+                        &onion,
+                        wire,
+                        "content_ref",
+                        &display,
+                        Some(typed_json),
+                        seq,
+                    )
+                    .await?
+                } else {
+                    svc.send_typed_wire(
+                        contact_id,
+                        wire,
+                        "content_ref",
+                        &display,
+                        Some(typed_json),
+                        seq,
+                    )
+                    .await?
+                }
             }
         };
 
@@ -590,6 +641,16 @@ impl RpcHandler {
         let est_seconds = (size.saturating_add(lora_bytes_per_sec - 1) / lora_bytes_per_sec).max(1);
 
         let is_reticulum = device_type == crate::mesh::types::DeviceType::Reticulum;
+        // A Reticulum device on our end doesn't mean THIS peer is radio
+        // reachable — a federation-only contact (no radio twin) has no dest
+        // prefix for a resource transfer, even though it's small enough and
+        // our device type qualifies. Without this check the frontend was
+        // steered into mesh.send-content-inline's resource-transfer path,
+        // which fails with "Peer is federation-only (no radio twin)"
+        // (picture-send, 2026-08-07); the tier below now defers to the
+        // has_tor branches for such peers, which route via mesh.send-content
+        // (federation) instead.
+        let has_radio_route = is_reticulum && svc.has_radio_route(contact_id).await;
         let (tier, reason) = if size <= MESH_AUTO_MAX {
             ("auto-mesh", "Small enough to send inline over mesh")
         } else if size <= MESH_HARD_MAX {
@@ -598,7 +659,7 @@ impl RpcHandler {
             } else {
                 ("auto-mesh", "No Tor path — sending inline over mesh")
             }
-        } else if is_reticulum && size <= RETICULUM_RESOURCE_MAX {
+        } else if has_radio_route && size <= RETICULUM_RESOURCE_MAX {
             (
                 "resource-mesh",
                 "Sending directly over LoRa via a Reticulum resource transfer",

core/archipelago/src/mesh/mod.rs

@@ -1206,6 +1206,19 @@ impl MeshService {
         Ok(dest_prefix)
     }
 
+    /// True if `contact_id` is reachable over the mesh radio right now — the
+    /// same peer/twin resolution `peer_dest_prefix` performs, exposed as a
+    /// cheap bool so RPC handlers can gate radio-only transports (LXMF
+    /// native image, Reticulum resource transfer) without duplicating the
+    /// twin-resolution logic. A federation-only contact_id with no matching
+    /// radio twin returns false here — offering "resource-mesh" or native
+    /// image to such a peer sends it straight into `peer_dest_prefix`'s
+    /// "federation-only (no radio twin)" error (picture-send from a
+    /// federation-only contact, 2026-08-07).
+    pub async fn has_radio_route(&self, contact_id: u32) -> bool {
+        self.peer_dest_prefix(contact_id).await.is_ok()
+    }
+
     /// Split an oversized wire payload into MC-framed base64 chunks and send
     /// each via the mesh device. Matches the receive-side reassembly in
     /// `mesh/listener/decode.rs::handle_chunked_frame` (header `MCIIXXTT`,