The Electron startup blocked on a ~2.6s synchronous CLI status check before
showing the app. Now the host runtime controllers (which probe persisted
connections) race against the bootstrap path — if the daemon is already
running, the UI comes online in milliseconds.
Also converts the desktop CLI spawn calls from spawnSync to async spawn
so the Electron main thread is no longer blocked during daemon status checks.
When the desktop app starts and finds a running daemon with a different
version, it now restarts it automatically. Only applies to daemons the
desktop app itself started, identified by a PASEO_DESKTOP_MANAGED flag
written into the PID lock file.
Also rewrites resolveStatus() to use the CLI daemon status command
instead of manually parsing the PID file, and surfaces daemonVersion
in the CLI status output from the WebSocket hello message.
Add a "Full status" button in the desktop daemon section that runs
`paseo daemon status` via Electron IPC and displays the raw output
in a modal.
Also fixes Commander.js argv parsing when the CLI is invoked via
Electron's ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE — Commander auto-detects the Electron
environment and skips only 1 argv element instead of 2, causing
"unknown command" errors. Fixed by explicitly passing { from: "node" }.
The daemon is a detached process that survives Electron restarts,
so after an auto-update the old daemon version would keep running.
Now we stop it before quitAndInstall so the new app instance
starts a fresh daemon with the updated binary.
The desktop app could time out connecting to the daemon on first launch
because the PID file advertised a listen address before the HTTP server
was actually listening. The supervisor now writes the PID lock with
listen: null and updates it only after the worker sends a paseo:ready
IPC message confirming the server is listening.
- Rename daemon-runner.ts to supervisor-entrypoint.ts
- PID lock acquired with listen: null, updated via paseo:ready IPC
- Worker sends paseo:ready after httpServer.listen() resolves
- Desktop polls until listen is non-null before returning to the app
- Remove PASEO_PID_LOCK_MODE and external lock mode
- Remove unnecessary env overrides (PASEO_HOME, PASEO_CORS_ORIGINS) from
desktop daemon spawn
- Reduce trace log bloat: inbound/outbound WebSocket messages now log
only message type and payload size instead of full payloads
- Supervisor restarts worker on SIGKILL (covers OOM)
The file-based daemon-launch.log was added as temporary instrumentation
for debugging Windows startup. Desktop now logs lifecycle events through
electron-log; CLI and server supervisor drop the launch logging entirely.
The desktop app uses the paseo:// custom protocol scheme, but the
origin was only passed via PASEO_CORS_ORIGINS when the desktop started
the daemon itself. If the daemon was started by the CLI, the origin
was missing and the Electron renderer's WebSocket connection was
rejected.
Also removes file:// and null from allowed origins — any page loaded
via file:// could connect to the daemon, which is a security gap.
Logs from both main and renderer processes now persist to
~/Library/Logs/Paseo/main.log (macOS) with automatic rotation.
Removes the unused webview_log IPC handler.
* Add metrics collection and terminal performance tests
* fix: handle Windows drive-letter paths across the codebase
Windows paths like C:\Users\foo\project were broken in multiple places:
- agent-storage slugified D:\MyProject as D:-MyProject (illegal colon)
- terminal-manager rejected all non-/ paths as relative
- bootstrap parser misparsed drive colons as TCP host:port
- daemon/client connection helpers misclassified Windows paths
- CLI cwd filtering used hardcoded / separators
- checkout-git worktree detection used hardcoded / in path checks
- worktree archive used split("/").pop() instead of path.basename()
All path helpers now normalize separators and handle Windows
drive letters with case-insensitive comparison where needed.
When packaged, Electron's process.execPath points to the main app
binary which inherits the full app entitlements and UI lifecycle.
Resolve to the Helper binary instead so daemon child processes run
without inheriting the main app's entitlement/UI baggage.
The Linux wrapper injects --no-sandbox for Electron sandboxing, but
the CLI parser was treating it as an unknown Paseo option. Filter it
out alongside the existing macOS -psn_ prefix.
Mohamed Boudra