feat(cli): prevent system sleep while running - #4434
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📋 Review SummaryThis PR introduces a runtime sleep inhibitor that prevents the host system from sleeping while Qwen Code is actively streaming model responses or executing tools. The implementation is well-structured with comprehensive test coverage, proper reference counting for concurrent operations, and fail-open behavior. The feature defaults to enabled with a user-configurable setting to disable it. 🔍 General Feedback
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…tor barrel compat The sleepInhibitor module (added to core barrel export) imports 'platform' as a named export from node:os and instantiates a module-level singleton. Test mocks in systemInfo.test.ts and add.test.ts replaced the entire node:os module with incomplete overrides, causing 'defaultPlatform is not a function' during module evaluation. Fix: use importOriginal to spread actual node:os exports before applying test-specific overrides, matching the pattern already used by other os mocks in the codebase.
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No issues found. LGTM! ✅ — gpt-5.5 via Qwen Code /review
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[Critical] 5 TypeScript errors in changed files (tsc, does not block npm run build but fails strict typecheck):
packages/cli/src/commands/mcp/add.test.ts:251— TS2345: Argument of type(code?: number | undefined) => neveris not assignable toNormalizedProcedure<...>packages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts:2097,2102— TS18048:mcpServersis possiblyundefinedpackages/cli/src/config/config.test.ts:2115,2129— TS2532: Object is possiblyundefined
These appear to be in test helper code where the types are too strict for the mock patterns used. Consider adding non-null assertions or widening the mock types.
caffeinate -i only prevents idle sleep. Adding -s also prevents system sleep (including lid-close on AC power), matching the Linux systemd-inhibit semantics which blocks all sleep transitions. This was the most common real-world failure scenario: a user closing the laptop lid during a long tool execution would still trigger sleep on macOS despite the inhibitor being active. Addresses PR #4434 review feedback.
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Addressed the remaining review feedback in 3b53c32. The sleep inhibitor now respawns after unexpected child exit, spawns with an empty env, and has regression coverage for async child errors, stream errors, and tool execution failures. I also fixed the strict typecheck issues called out in the review body and verified with targeted tests plus npm run build && npm run typecheck. |
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This adds a sleep inhibitor that wraps model streaming and tool execution with a platform-native helper, exposes a general.preventSystemSleep toggle, and reference-counts so concurrent work shares one helper. The boundary placement is right — permission prompts and idle waits correctly stay outside the acquire/release scope — and the fail-open posture on spawn errors is appropriate. Three issues remain, all in helper-process lifecycle and the settings UX.
1. Helper process leaks on abnormal Qwen exit (severity: medium · confidence: very high)
The spawned caffeinate / systemd-inhibit ... sleep infinity / PowerShell helper is started with detached: false, which shares the parent's process group but does not propagate the parent's death to the child. Any exit path that bypasses the finally releases — process.exit, an uncaught exception in the event loop, an external kill -9, an OOM — leaves the helper running indefinitely. From the user's side this means the laptop never sleeps after a Qwen crash, and the helpers accumulate in the process list across crashes. A process.on('exit' | 'SIGINT' | 'SIGTERM') cleanup on the global inhibitor would cover everything short of SIGKILL.
2. Spawn-then-release race leaves the helper running (severity: medium · confidence: high)
There's a narrow race in the acquire/release pair: if the reference count drops to zero before the OS finishes spawning the helper, child.kill() runs against a ChildProcess that has no pid yet and silently no-ops. The helper then finishes spawning and runs forever, same end state as the previous issue but reachable from a fast tool that completes between acquireSleepInhibitor() and the OS handing back a real pid (the window is tighter on Linux/macOS and noticeably wider on Windows where PowerShell startup is slow). Tracking a pendingRelease flag and re-killing from a spawn event handler would close it.
3. preventSystemSleep is marked live-toggleable but isn't (severity: medium · confidence: very high)
The setting is declared requiresRestart: false, but the value is read once at startup, stored into a readonly field on Config, and returned unchanged by getPreventSystemSleepEnabled() for the rest of the session — there is no setter and no settings-file watcher. A user who opens the settings dialog mid-session, flips the toggle off because they want their laptop to sleep, sees the JSON update and no restart prompt, then watches the next model stream re-acquire the inhibitor anyway. Either flip the schema to requiresRestart: true so the UI tells the user to restart, or wire a real setter that the dialog can call.
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COMMENT — boundary placement and reference counting are correct; the three issues are all narrow but real user-visible regressions of expected behavior and worth closing before merge.
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[Suggestion] tryCompress makes LLM API call without sleep inhibition (geminiChat.ts:1070)
sendMessageStream calls await this.tryCompress(...) before the async generator body where the sleep inhibitor is acquired (line 1094). tryCompress → ChatCompressionService.compress → runSideQuery → generateText is a full LLM API call that can take 10-30 seconds on large contexts (compression triggers at ~80% of context window). If the system enters sleep during compression, the network connection drops, compression fails silently (returns NOOP), and context continues to grow. Consider acquiring the inhibitor before tryCompress or adding acquireSleepInhibitor inside ChatCompressionService.compress / runSideQuery.
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PR #4434 Verification ReportReviewer: wenshao 1. Build & Compile
2. Unit Tests
3. Manual Testing:
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| Scenario | Expected | Observed | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| CLI idle at prompt | No caffeinate -is |
No process found | PASS |
| During model streaming | caffeinate -is spawned |
PID 36149 detected | PASS |
| During tool execution (shell) | caffeinate -is active |
PID 42869 active during streaming+tool cycle | PASS |
| After response completes (idle) | caffeinate -is killed |
Process no longer exists | PASS |
On CLI exit (/exit) |
Process cleanup | caffeinate -is gone (process.on('exit') handler) |
PASS |
4. Manual Testing: Setting Toggle
| Scenario | Expected | Observed | Result |
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preventSystemSleep: true (default) |
caffeinate -is spawns during work |
Process detected during streaming | PASS |
preventSystemSleep: false |
No caffeinate -is at any time |
No process found during streaming | PASS |
5. Code Review Summary
Architecture: Clean, well-structured implementation.
- SleepInhibitor class (
sleepInhibitor.ts): Reference-counted acquire/release pattern withactiveCount. Guard against duplicate releases via closure-localreleasedflag. Fail-open design — spawn errors are logged, not thrown. - Platform commands:
- macOS:
caffeinate -is(-i idle, -s system sleep including lid-close) - Linux:
systemd-inhibit --what=sleep --mode=block sleep infinity - Windows: PowerShell
SetThreadExecutionState(ES_CONTINUOUS | ES_SYSTEM_REQUIRED)with proper cleanup infinally
- macOS:
- Integration points: All wrapped in try/finally:
geminiChat.ts: Wraps the entire streaming generatorcoreToolScheduler.ts: Wraps individual tool executionSession.ts(ACP): Wraps tool invocation in ACP sessions
- Config:
general.preventSystemSleep(defaulttrue),requiresRestart: false,showInDialog: true - Process cleanup:
process.on('exit')handler ensures SGR mode cleanup on abnormal exit (Ctrl+C, SIGTERM) - Spawn options:
stdio: 'ignore',detached: false,windowsHide: true,env: {}— no unnecessary resource consumption
No issues found in code review.
6. Known Limitations (documented, not blockers)
- Full
npm run buildfrom root fails due to pre-existing TS5055 on this branch's base (dist declaration overwrite). Per-workspace builds work fine. - Windows and Linux behavior covered by unit tests only (command construction verified, not manually exercised).
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requiresRestart: falseflag on the setting means a live toggle should work, but the config is read at startup — actual live-toggle without restart was not tested.
Summary
PASS — Ready for merge.
The sleep inhibitor implementation is well-engineered with proper reference counting, fail-open error handling, and platform-specific process management. All 16 unit tests pass, both workspaces typecheck clean, and manual tmux testing on macOS confirms caffeinate -is spawns exactly during active work (streaming + tool execution), exits on completion, cleans up on process exit, and respects the setting toggle.
Verified by wenshao
- Register a process 'exit' handler so the caffeinate/systemd-inhibit/ PowerShell subprocess is killed when the parent exits, preventing an orphaned process from blocking system sleep indefinitely. - Pass a curated environment instead of an empty one: an empty env stripped PATH (command resolution) and DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS/XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (required by systemd-inhibit over D-Bus on Linux) and SYSTEMROOT/WINDIR (required by PowerShell on Windows). - Guard the whole 'error' handler with `this.child === child` so a stale child's error cannot poison spawnFailedForCurrentRun and block respawn.
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R4 review (qwen3.7-max): All prior round findings have been addressed in 2e647661a. The sleep inhibitor implementation is solid — ref counting, error handling, platform-specific commands, env isolation, and exit cleanup all look correct. Tests pass (765/765). ESLint clean. No new high-confidence issues found. — qwen3.7-max via Qwen Code /review
- settingsSchema: mark preventSystemSleep requiresRestart (it's read once at startup via Config.preventSystemSleep, so a runtime toggle needs a restart). - Latch spawnFailedForCurrentRun on unsupported platforms so acquire() doesn't re-check and re-log on every call. - Sanitize the systemd-inhibit --why reason (strip control chars, cap length) since it is visible in process listings on shared systems. - Correct the caffeinate comment: -s only blocks system sleep on AC power; on battery lid-close sleep is not prevented (macOS limitation). - Tests: cover dispose() (kills child, resets state, idempotent), stop()'s kill-throws catch, the stale-child error guard, the unsupported-platform latch, reason sanitization, and the ACP Session acquire/execute/release wrap.
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Re-reviewed at 1b29c18. The June 5 follow-ups address the prior review feedback:
- Orphaned-inhibitor cleanup:
dispose()+process.on('exit')kills the caffeinate/systemd-inhibit/PowerShell child on exit. Verified the SIGTERM and ACP shutdown paths route throughprocess.exit(), so the 'exit' event fires and the child is reaped (SIGKILL remains uncoverable, as expected). - Curated spawn env replaces
env: {}— also fixes the empty-env stripping of PATH and the D-Bus vars systemd-inhibit needs on Linux. preventSystemSleepcorrectly markedrequiresRestart: true.- systemd-inhibit
--whyreason is now sanitized (control chars stripped, length capped).
Remaining nits (respawn-churn on a flapping binary is log-only; early-abort/ENOENT edge-case tests) are non-blocking. CI green. LGTM.
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Summary
general.preventSystemSleepsetting that defaults totrueand can disable the behavior.Validation
sleep 90while watching forcaffeinate,systemd-inhibit, or the Windows PowerShell helper process.npm run dev -- -p "run a shell command that sleeps for 90 seconds, then say done"and verify the platform-specific inhibitor process exists only while the command is running.Scope / Risk
npm run build/ full workspacenpm run typecheckwere not completed because the current workspace build hits existingpackages/core/dist/**/*.d.tsTS5055 overwrite-input errors; targeted type checks showed no sleep-inhibitor-specific errors after source fixes, but single-package CLI typecheck can still read stale coredistdeclarations until core is rebuilt.general.preventSystemSleeptofalse.Testing Matrix
Testing matrix notes:
npx vitestandnpx eslintvalidation was run locally on macOS.Linked Issues / Bugs
Closes #4257