feat(desktop): run the WSL backend from the Linux CLI archive - #11511
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| const runtime = preflight.runtime; | ||
| const launchPath = | ||
| runtime.kind === "executable" | ||
| ? `${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}` |
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🟠 High backend/DesktopBackendConfiguration.ts:741
For runtime.kind === "executable", WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH precedes preflight.resolvedPath, so /usr/bin/npm shadows the user's validated nvm/asdf/Volta installation. Provider npm install -g commands therefore use the wrong or non-writable global prefix, causing CLI installation and updates to fail or install where the backend cannot use them. Put preflight.resolvedPath first, as with the previously validated Node bin directory.
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In file @apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendConfiguration.ts around line 741:
For `runtime.kind === "executable"`, `WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH` precedes `preflight.resolvedPath`, so `/usr/bin/npm` shadows the user's validated nvm/asdf/Volta installation. Provider `npm install -g` commands therefore use the wrong or non-writable global prefix, causing CLI installation and updates to fail or install where the backend cannot use them. Put `preflight.resolvedPath` first, as with the previously validated Node bin directory.
| // use: the file is executable and `t3 --version` exits 0. That covers the | ||
| // truncated-binary and wrong-arch cases without a separate native probe. | ||
| "runtime_entry_runs() {", | ||
| ' [ -x "$1/t3" ] && "$1/t3" --version >/dev/null 2>&1', |
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🟠 High wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:308
runtime_entry_runs accepts an archive after only t3 --version, so an unloadable node-pty native module (for example, one built against incompatible glibc) passes installation and is selected for launch. The backend then exits while constructing NodePtyAdapter.layer instead of falling back to the mounted server tree. Restore a preflight that loads node-pty before marking the runtime ready.
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In file @apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts around line 308:
`runtime_entry_runs` accepts an archive after only `t3 --version`, so an unloadable `node-pty` native module (for example, one built against incompatible glibc) passes installation and is selected for launch. The backend then exits while constructing `NodePtyAdapter.layer` instead of falling back to the mounted server tree. Restore a preflight that loads `node-pty` before marking the runtime ready.
| // Only the Windows artifact carries the server sidecar and the WSL runtime; | ||
| // other platforms ignore the --wsl-runtime input. | ||
| if (options.platform === "win" && windowsServerAsarPath) { | ||
| yield* stageWindowsServerSidecar({ |
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🟠 High scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts:3712
When archive staging or probing fails, this fallback cannot start the WSL backend because stageWindowsServerSidecar produces a Windows-only node-pty tree, while ensureNodePty loads it inside Linux and refuses to build a native addon. Keep a Linux-capable fallback tree (or stop passing this sidecar to the mounted-tree recovery path) so the advertised recovery works.
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apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:689
When the staged archive probe fails, this new path proceeds to the mounted-tree recovery path, but packaged Windows builds no longer stage Linux natives in that tree. The mounted
node-ptyprobe therefore has no loadable Linuxpty.node(the nearby code explicitly notes this), so any archive staging/probe failure now leaves the WSL backend unavailable rather than providing the intended fallback.
apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:1313
probeRuntimenow sends a staged-runtime failure to the mounted-tree fallback, but the Windows sidecar no longer stages a Linuxnode-ptybinary: it is built for Windows only and packaged mode passesallowBuild: false. Consequently, if archive extraction/probing fails (for example, an incompatible staged executable),ensureNodePtycannot load a Linux native addon and refuses to compile one, so the advertised recovery path cannot start the WSL backend. Keep a Linux native fallback or permit/rework its build path.
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In file @scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts around line 3712:
When archive staging or probing fails, this fallback cannot start the WSL backend because `stageWindowsServerSidecar` produces a Windows-only `node-pty` tree, while `ensureNodePty` loads it inside Linux and refuses to build a native addon. Keep a Linux-capable fallback tree (or stop passing this sidecar to the mounted-tree recovery path) so the advertised recovery works.
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- apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:689 -- When the staged archive probe fails, this new path proceeds to the mounted-tree recovery path, but packaged Windows builds no longer stage Linux natives in that tree. The mounted `node-pty` probe therefore has no loadable Linux `pty.node` (the nearby code explicitly notes this), so any archive staging/probe failure now leaves the WSL backend unavailable rather than providing the intended fallback.
- apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:1313 -- `probeRuntime` now sends a staged-runtime failure to the mounted-tree fallback, but the Windows sidecar no longer stages a Linux `node-pty` binary: it is built for Windows only and packaged mode passes `allowBuild: false`. Consequently, if archive extraction/probing fails (for example, an incompatible staged executable), `ensureNodePty` cannot load a Linux native addon and refuses to compile one, so the advertised recovery path cannot start the WSL backend. Keep a Linux native fallback or permit/rework its build path.
| // retried against the same cache rather than spending a second probe on | ||
| // the mounted tree and risking a needless reinstall. | ||
| if (!stagedNodePty.fatal) return failedNodePty(stagedNodePty); | ||
| yield* Effect.logWarning( |
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🟠 High backend/DesktopBackendConfiguration.ts:401
A transient probeRuntime timeout or spawn failure is treated as proof that the staged archive is invalid, so a successful mounted fallback calls invalidateRuntime and forces the valid archive to be re-extracted on the next launch; a fatal mounted failure is also incorrectly reported as a fatal staged-runtime failure. Preserve the probe's retryable/fatal distinction and avoid invalidating the cache for transport failures, as the removed !stagedNodePty.fatal path did.
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apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:686
A transport timeout/spawn failure from
probeRuntimeis returned as an ordinary staged-runtime failure. The caller consequently tries the mounted fallback and, when that succeeds, invalidates the staged cache; a transient slow WSL startup therefore discards an otherwise valid archive and forces a full reinstall on the next launch instead of retaining it for retry.
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In file @apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendConfiguration.ts around line 401:
A transient `probeRuntime` timeout or spawn failure is treated as proof that the staged archive is invalid, so a successful mounted fallback calls `invalidateRuntime` and forces the valid archive to be re-extracted on the next launch; a fatal mounted failure is also incorrectly reported as a fatal staged-runtime failure. Preserve the probe's retryable/fatal distinction and avoid invalidating the cache for transport failures, as the removed `!stagedNodePty.fatal` path did.
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- apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts:686 -- A transport timeout/spawn failure from `probeRuntime` is returned as an ordinary staged-runtime failure. The caller consequently tries the mounted fallback and, when that succeeds, invalidates the staged cache; a transient slow WSL startup therefore discards an otherwise valid archive and forces a full reinstall on the next launch instead of retaining it for retry.
ApprovabilityVerdict: Not approved Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR replaces the Windows WSL runtime and release packaging path with a Linux CLI executable, changing archive construction, cache probing, launch commands, fallback behavior, and the production Windows artifact. The scope and runtime blast radius are substantial, with unresolved high-severity risks around native loading, PATH selection, fallback availability, and transient probe handling. Not approved because:
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ReleaseWorkflow->>WindowsPackaging: provide cli-linux-x64 archive
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DesktopBackendConfiguration->>DesktopWslEnvironment: probeRuntime
DesktopWslEnvironment->>t3: run t3 --version
t3-->>DesktopWslEnvironment: result and PATH
DesktopWslEnvironment-->>DesktopBackendConfiguration: selected runtime
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In `@apps/desktop/src/backend/DesktopBackendConfiguration.ts`:
- Around line 739-742: Update the executable branch of the launchPath
construction so preflight.resolvedPath comes before WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH,
while leaving the node-script branch unchanged and keeping
nodeBinDirOf(runtime.nodePath) first there.
In `@apps/desktop/src/wsl/DesktopWslEnvironment.ts`:
- Around line 686-687: Update probeWslRuntimeImpl and the
runWslPreflight/failedStaged flow to preserve the distinction between transport
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| const launchPath = | ||
| runtime.kind === "executable" | ||
| ? `${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}` | ||
| : `${nodeBinDirOf(runtime.nodePath)}:${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}`; |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Place the resolved login-shell PATH before the system fallback for executable runtimes.
When runtime.kind === "executable", launchPath places WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH before preflight.resolvedPath. By-name provider commands such as npm, npx, and installed CLIs can therefore select the distro toolchain instead of the configured login-shell toolchain.
Change only the executable branch. Keep the node-script branch unchanged because its validated Node directory must remain first.
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const launchPath =
runtime.kind === "executable"
- ? `${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}`
- : `${nodeBinDirOf(runtime.nodePath)}:${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}`;
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| const launchPath = | |
| runtime.kind === "executable" | |
| ? `${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}` | |
| : `${nodeBinDirOf(runtime.nodePath)}:${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}`; | |
| const launchPath = | |
| runtime.kind === "executable" | |
| ? `${preflight.resolvedPath}:${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}` | |
| : `${nodeBinDirOf(runtime.nodePath)}:${WSL_SERVER_SYSTEM_PATH}:${preflight.resolvedPath}`; |
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742, Update the executable branch of the launchPath construction so
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Preserve transport failure semantics in ProbeWslRuntimeResult.
probeWslRuntimeImpl maps transport and executable failures to the same result. runWslPreflight records both as stagedFailure and invalidates the staged runtime when the mounted fallback succeeds. A transport failure does not prove that the staged runtime is defective.
ensureNodePtyImpl marks missing Node.js as fatal. failedStaged then marks the original staged transport failure as fatal, so the retry loop does not retry it. Preserve the failure kind or retryability. Invalidate the runtime only after an executable failure, and keep transport failures retryable.
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probeWslRuntimeImpl and the runWslPreflight/failedStaged flow to preserve the
distinction between transport failures and executable failures in
ProbeWslRuntimeResult. Only invalidate the staged runtime and mark the failure
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The Windows desktop used to assemble its own WSL runtime: a tarball of the server bundle and node_modules with a Linux node-pty cross-compiled in a dedicated CI job, extracted inside the distro and run under whatever Node the distro had, after a probe found that Node, checked its version, and confirmed node-pty loaded. The WSL runtime is now the linux-x64 CLI archive the release already builds: the release workflow builds it once in its own job, the Windows build embeds it verbatim as resources/wsl-runtime.tar.gz, and the distro extracts it and runs ./t3. The readiness proof is the same one the SSH runner and the installers use: the executable reports its version. No Node is looked up or required inside the distro. The build_wsl_node_pty job, the --wsl-prebuild flag, the node-pty marker, and the Linux-half of the Windows server sidecar are gone. The mounted server.asar fallback, which does run under the distro's Node, stays as the recovery path when staging the archive into the distro fails. The Windows package validation now checks the embedded archive is a release archive for this version rather than a hand-built tree. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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85-87: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDo not put the reusable credential in the export command.
When a user replaces the placeholder and runs this command, the shell can record the complete token in its history. Anyone who obtains that history and can reach the web development server can reuse the token for administrative access. The token remains valid until it is removed or rotated and the server restarts; its reusable session has an effectively non-expiring timestamp. The browser cookie expires after 30 days. Desktop and non-development servers ignore the token.
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-```sh -export T3CODE_DEV_AUTH_TOKEN="<the value generated above>" -``` +```bash +printf 'T3CODE_DEV_AUTH_TOKEN: ' >&2 +IFS= read -r -s T3CODE_DEV_AUTH_TOKEN +printf '\n' >&2 +export T3CODE_DEV_AUTH_TOKEN +```🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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## What's Changed * fix(web): disconnect offline servers from threads by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#11671 * feat(web): flatten the connections page into one environments list by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#11672 * fix(mobile): keep usage widget rows consistently sized by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11669 * feat(server): add reusable auth token for dev worktrees by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#8606 * feat(settings): choose how responses stream, with a warning on legacy token mode by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#11678 * revert(web): remove the compact sidebar by @maria-rcks in pingdotgg/t3code#11685 * build(desktop): bundle the main process and stage only its native externals by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11410 * build(server): make the CLI bundle loadable as a Node single-executable by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11316 * ci(release): build, sign, and publish self-contained CLI archives by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11317 * feat(server): install preview runtimes from release archives by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11318 * feat(ssh): run preview builds on remotes from the release archive by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11319 * feat(cli): add t3 update for self-contained installs by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11451 * feat(server): manage runtimes as release archives only, never from npm by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11510 * feat(desktop): run the WSL backend from the Linux CLI archive by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11511 * ci(release): build CLI archives for five targets, each on its own architecture by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11605 * ci(release): build the JS bundle once and run every platform and architecture in parallel by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11606 * feat(release): publish npx t3 as a launcher over per-platform executable packages by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11607 * feat(cli): add t3 uninstall for self-contained installs by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11659 * feat(web): show each worktree setup step and let users cancel it by @t3dotgg in pingdotgg/t3code#11372 * fix(server): skip device hosts that resolve to the local machine by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11698 * fix(web): test device hosts across selected environments by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11699 * feat(desktop): allow disabling the local environment by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#9194 * feat(cli): add t3 service restart and make t3 update repoint the service eagerly by @juliusmarminge in pingdotgg/t3code#11702 * docs(claude): clarify OpenRouter model selection by @shivamhwp in pingdotgg/t3code#11369 **Full Changelog**: pingdotgg/t3code@v0.0.41-nightly.20260914.1687...v0.0.41-nightly.20260914.1700 Upstream release: https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code/releases/tag/v0.0.41-nightly.20260914.1700
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What changes
The WSL backend on Windows now runs the Linux CLI archive instead of a hand-built runtime.
Before: the Windows desktop build assembled its own
wsl-runtime.tar.gz(server bundle + fullnode_modules+ a Linuxpty.nodecross-compiled in thebuild_wsl_node_ptyCI job). At launch the app extracted it inside the distro, thenensureNodePtysearched the distro's login-shell PATH for Node, checked the engine range, andrequired node-pty before spawningwsl.exe --exec … <node> …/bin.mjs.After:
build_linux_clijob (which replacesbuild_wsl_node_ptyin the dependency graph). The Linux desktop entry no longer builds its own archive; the Windows entry downloads that artifact and passes it as--wsl-runtime. The archive attached to the release and the one inside the Windows installer are the same bytes.build-desktop-artifact.tscopies the archive verbatim toresources/wsl-runtime.tar.gzand writes its SHA-256.stageWslNodePtyPrebuild, the tar assembly, the node-pty marker, and the Linux half of the Windows server sidecar are deleted. Package validation now checks the embedded file is a release archive for this version (t3-<version>-linux-x64/t3,client/,node_modules/node-pty/build/Release/pty.node, nobin.mjs).--strip-components=1, and readiness is./t3 --version(the same proof the SSH runner and the installers use); the ready marker hashest3. No Node is looked up. The preflight result is a discriminated union:{ kind: "executable", entryPath }for the staged archive,{ kind: "node-script", nodePath, linuxEntryPath }for the mounted fallback.wsl.exe -d <distro> --exec env PATH=<system>:<login PATH> <runtimeRoot>/t3 --bootstrap-fd 0. The login-shell PATH is still captured because the server spawns provider CLIs by name.server.asarfallback (run under the distro's Node) stays as the recovery path when staging into the distro fails;ensureNodePtynow serves only that path.Verification
build-desktop-artifact(incl. a real tar.gz fixture for the archive-shape validation),DesktopWslEnvironment,DesktopBackendConfiguration,DesktopWslBackend; typecheck clean on@t3tools/desktopand@t3tools/scripts;knip:checkclean.Claude Fable 5 via Claude Code.
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