Resolve the computer-use contract under the real userData dir per platform (never found off macOS)

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What's broken

The local computer-use (CUA) bridge is never found on Windows or Linux. The desktop app writes its connection contract on startup, the server never sees it, and the computer-use tools stay unavailable — with no error to point at, because the failure is swallowed.

Root cause

readCuaConnection() in server/index.ts looks for cua-connection.json under a hardcoded path:

const p = join(homedir(), "Library", "Application Support", dir, "cua-connection.json");

That is Electron's app.getPath("userData") on macOS only. Electron puts userData at %APPDATA% on Windows and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (falling back to ~/.config) on Linux. So off macOS the path simply does not exist, readFileSync throws ENOENT into the catch, the loop tries the next legacy directory name, and every one of them fails the same way — ending at return null.

The same catch also swallows genuine errors (a malformed contract, a permissions problem) in exactly the same silent way, so there is nothing to distinguish "not running" from "wrong path" from "broken file".

The fix

userDataRoot() returns the same directory Electron would, per platform:

platform	userData
win32	%APPDATA% (fallback ~/AppData/Roaming)
darwin	~/Library/Application Support
other	$XDG_CONFIG_HOME (fallback ~/.config)

The existing loop over the four directory names (current plus pre-rename builds) is untouched, and the stale comment naming the macOS path is updated to <userData>/cua-connection.json.

macOS behaviour is unchanged — the darwin branch returns exactly the path that was hardcoded.

How this was tested

• pnpm typecheck and pnpm test on Windows 10: 52 passed / 33 skipped, identical to main. This path has no test coverage in the suite either before or after; the change is a pure path correction with the macOS case pinned to the previous literal.
• Verified by inspection against Electron's documented app.getPath("userData") platform table, and against where the desktop build actually writes the file on Windows (%APPDATA%\OpenMausBot\cua-connection.json).

Independent of the other Windows fixes in this series — it touches only server/index.ts and branches from main.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved connection-file discovery across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • The application now uses each platform’s standard user-data location instead of assuming a macOS-specific path.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The server now resolves platform-specific Electron user-data roots and searches for the CUA connection file beneath the resolved root.

Changes

CUA connection lookup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Platform root resolution and connection lookup server/index.ts	userDataRoot() selects Windows, macOS, or Linux-like storage locations. readCuaConnection() uses the selected root while retaining its directory fallback order and parsing behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to f6336

The change corrects platform-specific contract lookup behavior in a localized server file, with no actionable merge-blocking risk remaining beyond normal checks and review.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the platform-specific userData path fix for the computer-use contract.
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Inline comments:
In `@server/index.ts`:
- Around line 270-272: Update the platform-specific configuration-root selection
in the visible function to use a truthiness fallback for APPDATA and
XDG_CONFIG_HOME, so empty environment values resolve to the existing
home-directory paths while preserving non-empty configured values.

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