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Bundle the server's dependencies so the packaged app can start - #198

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What happened

0.1.24 built, signed, notarized, stapled and installed cleanly — then died on every launch:

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'zod'
  imported from .../Resources/server/config.js

Caught by the launch check during the release; 0.1.24 was never published.

Why

The packaged app ships no node_modules by design — electron-builder.yml:21 calls the three pieces self-contained and :33 excludes them. build:server was plain tsc, which transpiles without bundling, so the zod import added in #194 survived verbatim into a tree with nothing to resolve it against.

zod was the first bare import the server ever had, so this invariant had never actually been exercised.

The fix

Bundle every server entry point with esbuild after tsc, mirroring scripts/bundle-updater.mjs, which already vendors electron-updater for exactly this reason.

All six entry points are bundled rather than only index.ts: the proxies run as their own processes and import nothing external today, but the next one that does would fail the same silent way. Entry points keep their relative paths under dist-server, which the proxy lookups (index.ts:108, container-computer.ts:773, drivers/acp/core.ts:43) depend on.

Why both existing gates missed it

  • the unit suite runs inside the repo, where a bare import resolves by walking up to ./node_modules
  • the Windows packaging check asserts server/index.js exists — it never starts it

So the new smoke test copies dist-server out of the repo before running it, and CI now starts the real packaged copy on the runner where node_modules genuinely is not present.

Verification

  • pnpm test — 721 passed / 8 skipped across 78 files, plus updater (12) and the new smoke test
  • pnpm typecheck clean
  • mutation-checked: rebuilding with plain tsc (the 0.1.24 state) fails the smoke test with the original ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND, so the test genuinely detects this bug rather than merely passing

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved packaged server reliability so it can start independently without repository dependencies.
    • Added health checks to detect startup failures and provide clearer diagnostics.
  • Tests

    • Added automated smoke tests for packaged server builds on Windows and other supported environments.
    • Packaging tests now verify that the server responds successfully before completing.

0.1.24 built, signed, notarized and installed cleanly, then died on
every launch:

  ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND: Cannot find package 'zod'
    imported from Resources/server/config.js

The packaged app ships no node_modules by design (electron-builder.yml
line 21 calls the three pieces self-contained, line 33 excludes them).
build:server was plain tsc, which transpiles without bundling, so the
`zod` import #194 introduced survived verbatim into a tree with nothing
to resolve it against. zod was the first bare import the server ever
had, so the invariant had never been tested.

Bundle every entry point with esbuild after tsc, mirroring
scripts/bundle-updater.mjs which already vendors electron-updater for
the same reason. All six are bundled, not just index.ts: the proxies run
as their own processes and import nothing external today, but the next
one that does would fail the same silent way. Entry points keep their
relative paths, which the proxy lookups depend on.

Both gates that should have caught this were blind to it. The unit suite
runs inside the repo, where a bare import resolves from ./node_modules;
the Windows packaging check asserts index.js exists but never runs it.
So the new smoke test copies dist-server OUT of the repo before starting
it, and CI now starts the real packaged copy on the runner. Verified by
mutation: reverting to plain tsc output fails the smoke test with the
original ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change bundles server entry points into standalone Node 20 files. It adds a temporary-directory smoke test that checks /api/health without repository dependencies and runs this check in package scripts and the Windows workflow.

Changes

Packaged server validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Server bundle generation
scripts/bundle-server.mjs
The build bundles six server and proxy entry points into dist-server as Node 20 ESM files.
Standalone server smoke test
scripts/smoke-packaged-server.mjs, package.json
The smoke test isolates packaged files and user directories, starts the server, polls /api/health, captures output, and cleans up temporary resources. Package scripts invoke the test and run bundling after TypeScript compilation.
Windows packaging workflow check
.github/workflows/package-win.yml
The Windows workflow starts the packaged server, checks its health endpoint, terminates it on success, and reports logs on failure.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 39ec0

The change bundles the server dependencies into the packaged app and adds a launch check for the packaged copy; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SmokeTest
  participant PackagedServer
  participant HealthEndpoint
  SmokeTest->>PackagedServer: start isolated packaged server
  SmokeTest->>HealthEndpoint: poll /api/health
  HealthEndpoint-->>SmokeTest: return health response
  SmokeTest->>PackagedServer: terminate server
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In `@package.json`:
- Line 31: Update the test:packaged-server script so it runs build:server before
invoking scripts/smoke-packaged-server.mjs, ensuring dist-server exists on a
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Comment thread package.json
milind-soni and others added 2 commits August 18, 2026 00:07
The smoke test assumed dist-server was already on disk. It is gitignored
(#190), so a fresh CI checkout has never built it and the test died on
ENOENT before it could prove anything. It passed locally only because a
build happened to be sitting there.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows holds file handles briefly after the process that owned them
dies, so removing the scratch dir right after the kill raised EPERM and
failed a run whose server had actually started fine. Linux raises EACCES
the same way (f66d30f).

Cleanup is housekeeping; the assertion is the test. Mutation re-checked:
plain tsc output still fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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milind-soni deleted the fix/bundle-server-deps branch August 17, 2026 19:56
milind-soni added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2026
…ule (#217)

The bundling fix in #198 traded one silent packaging failure for a
subtler one. esbuild inlines drivers/claude.ts and drivers/acp/core.ts
into index.js at the server root, so the `".."` each wrote to reach a
sibling proxy started climbing from the bundle's directory instead of
its own — one level too high, two for the ACP driver:

  PROXY_PATH           <Resources>/computer-proxy.js      missing
  PERM_PROXY_PATH      <Resources>/permission-proxy.js    missing
  DWEB_PROXY_PATH      <Resources>/drivers/dweb-proxy.js  missing
  COMPUTER_PROXY_PATH  <Resources>/../computer-proxy.js   missing

The resolver only stats the .ts branch, so the missing .js was returned
unchecked and nothing failed until a child was spawned. The server still
booted and /api/health still answered — which is exactly why the new
smoke test and the Windows gate both passed the broken build.

Impact had it shipped: permission Allow/Deny cards never appear (the
default permissionMode is acceptEdits, so every Claude turn takes that
branch), cloud-box bots lose mcp__computer, dweb bots lose mcp__dweb,
and every ACP engine — grok, gemini, kimi, droid, qwen, hermes — loses
its computer proxy.

Resolve all five through one anchor in server/proxy-paths.ts, which sits
at the server root and is only ever inlined into root-level entries, so
the anchor is right in the dev tree and in the bundle. The smoke test now
asserts every path in SPAWNED_PROXIES exists inside the staged copy;
mutation-checked by restoring the old "..", which fails it.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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