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Reported from Windows: a fresh install shows a normal-looking chat, and the first message fails with "spawn failed: spawn grok ENOENT" and a Retry that can never succeed. Every alternative in the model picker is dimmed too, so there is no way forward from inside the app. The cause is defaultSelection's `?? described[0]` fallback. With no CLI installed nothing is available, so it assigned the first *described* provider regardless of state and seeded a bot pointing at an engine that cannot run. Nothing downstream objected: the pre-flight guard checks that the instance exists, not that it is available, so the turn proceeded to spawn and surfaced Node's raw errno. Root fix: no fallback. With nothing available the selection stays empty and the app says so, instead of shipping a bot that looks ready and isn't. Around that: - Engines now declare their own install recipe (EngineInstall in contracts, surfaced through registry.describe). Per-platform, so Windows is no longer told to run `curl … | bash`; where there is no one-liner -- Antigravity is a GUI download, the Grok installer is POSIX-only -- the UI shows the docs link rather than a command that cannot work. Adding a provider stays one file. - A no-engines screen replaces the chat when nothing can run, listing what to install with the actionable options sorted first, and a re-check that re-probes without a restart. - ENOENT and EACCES become sentences instead of errno strings, and carry a `setup` flag so the error card offers install instructions instead of a Retry that would fail identically every time. - The model picker and onboarding render the same shared component, so all three surfaces stay in step and none of them hardcode per-engine copy. - Install commands open a terminal with the command ready but not executed, and land on the clipboard either way. Deliberately not a silent background install: the user should read a command that fetches and runs a remote installer, and every CLI needs an interactive sign-in afterwards anyway, so the terminal is where this has to end up regardless. Instances with no install descriptor (the Box cloud runner, configured by token rather than installed) fall through to their reported reason and are kept off the setup screen -- found by reading the real /api/instances payload rather than trusting the shape. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both from testing the setup flow end to end on Windows with a real install. Installing grok put it in ~/.grok/bin and added that to the user PATH, but the running app still reported "`grok` CLI not found": Windows never pushes PATH changes into a live process, so the app was frozen on the PATH it booted with. env-path only scanned standard install locations on unix -- the win32 branch was empty on the assumption that "GUI apps on Windows inherit the user PATH already", which holds only at launch. Windows now gets the same treatment: ~/.grok/bin, %APPDATA%\npm, ~/.local/bin and friends, which between them cover every engine we ship an install command for. Verified by starting the harness with ~/.grok/bin absent from PATH -- grok is not resolvable there, and the snapshot still reports it available. Only the login-shell probe stays unix-only; Windows has no rc file to source. /api/instances now resets the memoized PATH before describing. That endpoint is how the app answers "what can I run?", and the case worth answering is a CLI installed since launch -- without the reset, "check again" re-reads a cache built at boot and can only ever repeat itself. Signing in had the same shape: after `grok login` succeeded the app kept showing the pre-login error, because nothing re-probed. The store now re-checks on window focus (throttled) and when the model picker opens -- installing and signing in both happen in a terminal, so returning to the window is exactly when the snapshot is most likely stale. An auth failure now carries the same `setup` flag as a missing binary, since both are fixed by a command in a terminal rather than another attempt. The error card shows the sign-in step while the engine is still unusable and flips back to Retry once it reports itself ready -- which, with the on-focus re-probe, happens on its own when the user comes back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds installation metadata for engines, setup-aware runtime errors, platform-specific terminal launching, executable path refresh, and reusable renderer guidance for unavailable or unauthenticated engines. ChangesEngine setup flow
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participant Renderer
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Renderer->>Server: request provider instances
Server->>ProviderRegistry: describe provider instances
ProviderRegistry->>EngineCLI: resolve executable and setup metadata
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ProviderRegistry-->>Server: return instance descriptions
Server-->>Renderer: return engine availability
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Server-->>Renderer: return updated instances
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93-100: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRefresh onboarding instances after the user returns from setup.
This component fetches
/api/instancesonly once. After the user installs or signs in throughEngineSetup, the onboarding rows remain unavailable because this local state does not receive the store focus refresh.Add a step-1 focus listener that refetches instances, or use the shared store instance state.
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In `@electron/main.mjs`:
- Around line 239-264: Update the terminal-opening flow around the platform
branches to never execute the renderer-supplied command: copy command to the
clipboard, then launch a blank terminal on macOS, Windows, and Linux without
passing it to Terminal do script, PowerShell -Command, or bash -lc. Preserve the
existing platform-specific terminal selection and success behavior while
removing command arguments from every launch path.
- Around line 243-271: Make the terminal-launch handler asynchronous and
determine success from child-process events rather than synchronous try/catch.
For each execFile call, attach error handling and resolve success on spawn; on
Linux, continue trying the next terminal when a candidate emits error, returning
false only after all candidates fail. Update callers to await the handler and
preserve the existing clipboard fallback behavior.
In `@server/drivers/antigravity.ts`:
- Around line 77-79: Add platform-specific Antigravity CLI install commands in
the antigravity driver: use the curl/bash installer for macOS and Linux, and the
irm/iex PowerShell installer for Windows, replacing the docs-only install entry.
Update windowsKnownDirs() to include %LOCALAPPDATA%\agy\bin so newly installed
agy binaries are detected without restarting.
In `@src/App.tsx`:
- Around line 26-29: Update the noEngines predicate in the App component to
count an instance as runnable only when its snapshot state is "available" and
authenticated is not false; keep the existing connected and non-empty instance
conditions unchanged.
In `@src/components/EngineSetup.tsx`:
- Around line 163-169: Remove the unconditional restart guidance paragraph from
the installation-success UI in EngineSetup, including its surrounding signInOnly
and command conditional if it is no longer needed. Keep the refreshed executable
discovery and re-probe flow unchanged; only show restart guidance when a
subsequent refresh still cannot resolve the CLI.
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In `@src/components/Onboarding.tsx`:
- Around line 93-100: Update the Onboarding component’s step-1 instance-loading
logic so it refetches /api/instances whenever the user returns focus from
EngineSetup, rather than only when instances is initially unset. Add a focus
listener tied to the relevant step and update instances with the response while
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In `@server/env-path.test.ts`:
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From a Windows user report: a fresh install shows a normal-looking chat, and the first message fails with
spawn failed: spawn grok ENOENTand a Retry that can never succeed. Every other engine in the picker is dimmed too, so there is no way forward from inside the app.Root cause
defaultSelection's?? described[0]fallback. With no CLI installed nothing is available, so it assigned the first described provider regardless of state and seeded a bot pointing at an engine that cannot run.Nothing downstream objected: the pre-flight guard checks that the instance exists, not that it is available, so the turn proceeded to spawn and surfaced Node's raw errno.
The fix is to remove the fallback. With nothing available the selection stays empty and the app says so, instead of shipping a bot that looks ready and isn't.
Engines declare their own setup
EngineInstallincontracts.ts, surfaced throughregistry.describe, rendered by one shared component in onboarding, the picker, and the chat error card. Adding a provider stays one file.It is per-platform, which matters: onboarding previously told everyone to run
curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash, which is not a command on Windows. Where there is no one-liner — Antigravity is a GUI download, the Grok installer is POSIX-only — the UI shows the docs link instead of something that cannot work.Engines with no install descriptor at all (the Box cloud runner, configured by token rather than installed) fall through to their reported reason and stay off the setup screen. Found by reading the real
/api/instancespayload rather than trusting the shape.Detecting engines that appear while running
Two follow-ups, both from testing the flow with a real install rather than a mock:
PATH. Installing grok put it in
~/.grok/binand added that to the user PATH, but the running app still reported`grok` CLI not found. Windows never pushes PATH changes into a live process, so the app was frozen on the PATH it booted with — andenv-pathonly scanned standard install locations on unix, the win32 branch being empty on the assumption that GUI apps "inherit the user PATH already". True only at launch.Windows now gets the same scan. Verified by starting the harness with
~/.grok/binabsent from PATH:grokis not resolvable there, and the snapshot still reports it available.Re-probing. After
grok loginsucceeded the app kept showing the pre-login error, because nothing re-checked. The store now re-probes on window focus (throttled) and when the picker opens — installing and signing in both happen in a terminal, so coming back to the window is exactly when the snapshot is most likely stale./api/instancesresets the memoized PATH first, so "check again" can find something installed since launch instead of repeating a cached answer.Errors
ENOENT/EACCESbecome sentences instead of errno strings, and carry asetupflag — as does an auth failure, since both are fixed by a command in a terminal rather than another attempt. The card shows what to do while the engine is unusable and flips back to Retry once it reports itself ready, which with the on-focus re-probe happens by itself.Install commands
"Open in Terminal" puts the command in a terminal without executing it, and on the clipboard either way. Deliberately not a silent background install: the user should read a command that fetches and runs a remote installer, and every CLI needs an interactive sign-in afterwards, so the terminal is where this ends up regardless.
Testing
pnpm typecheckandpnpm check:electroncleanpnpm test— 254 passed.antigravity.test.tsfails on Windows, confirmed identical on unmodifiedmain(it spawns a fake shebang script, which cannot execute there; theskipIf(win32)guard was removed in an earlier change). Not from this branch.grok login→ working reply.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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