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Fixes #559.

A replacement daemon can migrate persisted databases long before startup finishes. Previously the restart helper's 20-second readiness deadline recorded a failure, the update observer's deadline restored the older executable, and the older executable then refused the migrated home. Desktop bootstrap could compound the outage by killing a slow child or replacing a healthy newer runtime with its older bundle.

This change makes post-swap recovery conservative: restart, health, finalization, and ambiguous interrupted-swap failures retain the replacement and its backup, archive failed, and explain how to restart or reinstall the target release or newer. It never rewrites released migrations, restores an older executable over possibly migrated state, bypasses schema-ahead checks, or deletes user data. Pre-launch provisioning/application failure recovery remains owned by the existing atomic replacement paths.

The related recovery paths now behave coherently:

  • CLI startup and the detached restart helper continue observing a live replacement across readiness windows. Actual child exit remains a failure and is reaped. Required background boot setup runs before restart readiness is published.
  • The update observer reads the validated host-local restart journal while the daemon API is unavailable, so it sees actual helper failures and eventual readiness.
  • Desktop bootstrap preserves a newer running runtime and a hash-verified newer installed runtime; attachment still enforces the existing compatibility declarations. Actual boot failures retain bounded retries, but a polling-window expiration no longer kills a live child.
  • The desktop app verifies its runtime bundle before starting the update consumer, which starts before runtime bootstrap, allowing an already staged app update to proceed even when the runtime cannot start.
  • Shell shutdown and installer handoff cancel and await the bootstrap observer before resource cleanup, preserving the detached daemon and suppressing late window publication. A subsequent successful daemon boot reconciles superseded starting restart observations; malformed historical metadata is reported without blocking recovery.
  • Running the recovered target version or newer clears a historical rollback from the live update projection without editing its history.

Stalled-but-alive behavior is deliberate: this is liveness/readiness observation, not a progress-aware watchdog. A live stalled process remains pending until readiness, exit, or caller cancellation. Periodic diagnostics include the PID. Ctrl+C releases the CLI startup mutation lock without killing the potentially migrating daemon; provisioning has already completed and the updater releases its swap lock before restart observation. The detached helper holds neither mutation lock while observing and lives until readiness, actual exit, or its own cancellation. Canceling a CLI does not cancel that helper. This preserves data at the cost of an intentionally unbounded pending wait; the operations guide explains inspecting logs/PID and recovery.

Implemented and verified by Codex (GPT-6-Astra, HIGH) using the dedicated issue worktree.

How you verified it

  • Reproduced the coordinator regression before the production fix: the owning lifecycle suite observed an old-binary restore and rolled-back history after replacement failure. The corrected suite covers restart, health, finalization, and interrupted-swap failures.
  • Focused Go race suites passed for retained replacement, recovered projection, installed provenance, CLI readiness/cancellation/actual exit, startup lock release, durable offline restart status, and helper cancellation.
  • Existing daemon integration suite: GOMAXPROCS=4 CGO_ENABLED=1 mise exec -- go test -p=1 -parallel=4 -race -tags integration ./internal/daemon -run 'TestBootMarksRestartOperationReadyAfterFreshDaemonInfo|TestRelaunchHelperFailurePersistsAfterOldDaemonExit' -count=1.
  • Isolated real runtime walk used the published beta.22 binary, actual SQLite stores, the existing desktop/e2e/fixtures/runtimeupdate fixture and production restart/update coordinator. It upgraded global schema 99 → 107, preserved a registered workspace, held a replacement with SIGSTOP for 30 seconds before readiness, then observed successful finalization after SIGCONT. A separate actual pre-readiness SIGKILL retained the new binary plus an incompatible beta.22 backup; compozy daemon start -o json then recovered with the workspace intact. Targeted teardown reported clean: true.
  • Root Turborepo desktop test typecheck passed 137 tests; affected desktop/web builds and Windows runtime cross-build passed.
  • Packaged Electron recovery: built baseline/next fixtures with mise exec -- bun run --cwd desktop build:e2e-update; under the shared verification lock, the existing Playwright update suite's A staged app update starts while runtime bootstrap is failing scenario passed in 17.1 seconds. It observed runtime bootstrap error and app operation applying, then completed teardown. The fixture's failed-boot cleanup signals only its isolated home's lock PID and verifies exit when no daemon discovery record was published.
  • Initial full local gate and checked head: GOMAXPROCS=4 COMPOZY_GO_TEST_P=1 COMPOZY_GO_LINT_CONCURRENCY=2 mise exec -- make gate passed on tree 3e83acc9e4ca484f4b965804a8d68e49985a6908, committed unchanged as b6f250b10c1faf2b3a1c5fb64ba7013b7700a274. Go lint reported 0 issues, all affected race suites passed, and desktop lint reported 0 warnings/errors with typecheck and 137 tests passing. Codegen passed inside that same desktop Turbo lane. The strict QA audit passed with no blockers/warnings and clean runtime teardown.
  • Review remediation at 79a11d3493778928fe8a1983ce0eaf4bae6494cc: fixed Greptile’s staged-bundle integrity finding. The packaged suite first reproduced unverified execution with a marker-writing executable; after the fix both staged-recovery and tampered-bundle scenarios passed (2 tests, 13.3 seconds), including teardown. Subsequent full gates run in PR CI per the owner’s updated direction. The CLI/daemon import finding was investigated and explained in its thread as an existing composition dependency, with unchanged boundary rules and passing boundary CI.
  • CodeRabbit remediation at bcdfd83853d990a5450f07861fb3bab078a05854: added bootstrap observer cancellation/drain before shutdown and installer handoff, superseded restart reconciliation after real boot, remote-status fallback coverage, bounded integration-test completion, explicit E2E polling/teardown, and function documentation. Focused CLI race passed (2.391s), final daemon boot integration with race passed (6.120s), and four packaged E2Es passed under the shared lock (25.9s). CodeRabbit withdrew both global-deadline findings after reviewing the documented wait-until-ready/exit/cancel contract. The prior Linux CI E2E-034 debugging connection failure was inspected; that scenario passed locally on macOS, and the new head must still pass Linux CI.
  • Hook tasks ran with lint-staged --no-stash --no-hide-partially-staged, preserving formatter/linter checks without destructive Git backup/restore operations. Commitlint remains enabled.

Detailed QA evidence and cross-surface audit.

Limits: the runtime fault-injection fixture stages the replacement directly and does not re-test release signatures/downloads. The packaged negative scenario holds the download before installer handoff, so it verifies recovery availability without performing native installer relaunch or changing the machine launch environment. The older-app/newer-runtime policy is covered in the owning Go suites; a full older-app UI matrix is not claimed. Provider behavior is outside this lifecycle slice. The earlier web build emitted existing CSS/chunk warnings; the required local gate result is recorded separately above.

Impact

The cross-surface audit is recorded once in the QA report. CLI startup/bootstrap and update observation, daemon restart, update projection, and desktop app recovery change behavior. HTTP/UDS payloads, native tool IDs, extension/bridge contracts, hooks, config keys/defaults, and memory defaults do not change. No schema numbering or released migration bytes change, so there is no shared migration conflict with #566. User state remains in the same home and SD-013 compatibility checks remain enforced.

The public operations guide, official Compozy skill desktop reference, and affected startup/update/coherence QA scenarios co-ship. Existing Web Settings surfaces consume the same update status contracts.


  • make gate passes locally; this PR is delivered only after its required CI checks are green
  • New or changed behavior is covered by tests, or I explained above why not
  • If an agent wrote or co-wrote this, I named it above and verified the result myself

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Walkthrough

The changes update runtime version selection, retain replacement runtimes after failed updates, extend daemon readiness observation, expose local restart status during boot, and start desktop update consumption before bootstrap. Tests cover runtime recovery, readiness cancellation, restart persistence, and staged updates.

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Runtime update reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime version policy and replacement retention
internal/update/..., internal/cli/daemon_bootstrap*.go, internal/update/*_test.go
The bootstrap preserves a newer installed runtime. Failed restart, health, finalize, and recovery paths retain the replacement runtime and archive the operation as failed. Recovered runtime projections no longer mark current runtimes as failed.
Daemon readiness and restart observation
internal/cli/daemon*.go, internal/cli/update_runtime.go, internal/daemon/...
Daemon readiness retries across timeout windows without terminating live children. Restart observation preserves starting status on cancellation and reads durable local operation records while the daemon API is unavailable.
Desktop update bootstrap integration
desktop/src/main.ts, desktop/e2e/_electron/...
The desktop starts the update consumer before bootstrap. E2E cleanup waits on the daemon lock when a failed boot does not publish a valid daemon PID. A staged update test covers runtime bootstrap failure during update application.

Priority: ⚪ Not assessed

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b6f25

Daemon updates or desktop startup can hang, report an incorrect restart state, or race shutdown while bootstrap is active. These recovery-path failures should be fixed before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Desktop
  participant Bootstrap
  participant Daemon
  participant UpdateCoordinator
  Desktop->>Bootstrap: start update consumer before bootstrap
  Bootstrap->>Daemon: start and observe readiness
  Daemon-->>Bootstrap: readiness windows or startup result
  Bootstrap->>UpdateCoordinator: apply staged runtime update
  UpdateCoordinator-->>Desktop: applying or failed operation status
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This PR changes runtime-update recovery to preserve potentially migrated state, keeps live replacement daemons under observation rather than killing them at readiness-window expiration, coordinates desktop bootstrap cancellation with shutdown, verifies the runtime bundle before staged-update processing, and adds recovery documentation and tests.

  • Post-swap failures retain the replacement and backup rather than restoring an older runtime over migrated state.
  • CLI, daemon, and desktop lifecycle paths now distinguish slow-but-live startup from actual process failure.
  • Desktop shutdown aborts and drains bootstrap observation while preserving the detached daemon.
  • Update projection, restart-journal reconciliation, runtime provenance, and operator guidance are updated accordingly.

Confidence Score: 3/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because the newly added app-state test conflicts with the current publisher behavior, and the unresolved shutdown publication race can still recreate the startup marker.

The new test performs state mutations after clean shutdown and expects no persisted change, although the publisher still persists each mutation unconditionally. The previous late-publication finding also remains unresolved: shutdown drains bootstrapFlow, but ProductWindow.onReady is still invoked outside that promise; once the callback passes its abort check, its pending publication can race with markCleanShutdown() and recreate the marker.

Files Needing Attention: desktop/src/state/tests/app-state.test.ts, desktop/src/main.ts, desktop/src/state/app-state.ts

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
desktop/src/main.ts Adds abort-aware bootstrap cleanup and pre-consumer bundle verification, but the existing untracked onReady publication race remains outstanding.
desktop/src/state/tests/app-state.test.ts Adds a clean-shutdown persistence assertion that contradicts the current unconditional publisher implementation and should fail.
internal/cli/daemon.go Extends readiness observation across polling windows while retaining caller cancellation and actual-exit handling.
internal/update/coordinator.go Changes post-swap recovery to retain the replacement and preserve potentially migrated state.
internal/daemon/boot.go Reconciles superseded restart observations after successful daemon boot.

Flowchart

%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
  A[Install replacement runtime] --> B[Start detached daemon]
  B --> C{Daemon state}
  C -->|Ready| D[Finalize update]
  C -->|Alive but not ready| E[Continue observing]
  E --> C
  C -->|Actual exit or boot failure| F[Archive failed operation]
  F --> G[Retain replacement and backup]
  G --> H[Preserve migrated user state]
  C -->|Caller cancellation| I[Stop observer]
  I --> J[Leave detached daemon running]
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In `@desktop/e2e/_electron/__tests__/updates.spec.ts`:
- Around line 426-433: Update the expect.poll assertion reading
update-operation.json in the update test to use an explicit 30-second timeout,
while preserving the existing polling callback and “applying” expectation.

In `@desktop/e2e/_electron/fixtures.ts`:
- Around line 194-206: Update the pid === null branch in the daemon cleanup flow
to send SIGTERM directly to the parsed lockPID before calling
waitForProcessExit. Tolerate ESRCH when the process has already exited, while
preserving the existing ENOENT handling for a missing lock file and only waiting
when the PID is a valid positive safe integer.

In `@desktop/src/main.ts`:
- Line 354: Update the startup flow around startUpdateConsumer and runBootstrap
so installer handoff is gated until bootstrapFlow completes. Ensure
AppUpdateConsumer.handle cannot invoke quitAndInstall and cleanup while
runBootstrapAttempt is active, and preserve the existing bootstrap state
publishing and ProductWindow behavior after bootstrap completion.

In `@internal/cli/update_command_test.go`:
- Around line 493-498: Add a subtest for the missing local restart record in the
update command tests, leaving the local record absent so
localRestartStatusClient.GetSettingsRestartStatus reaches the remote fallback.
Configure getSettingsRestartStatusFn to return a distinct status and assert that
the remote call receives the operation ID and that the returned record matches
it, preserving the ErrRestartOperationNotFound errors.Is behavior.

In `@internal/cli/update_runtime.go`:
- Around line 76-85: Bound the retry loop in Coordinator.Run’s restart flow by
adding an absolute operation deadline or maximum retry count around
waitForSettingsRestart. Preserve retries for context.DeadlineExceeded while the
caller context remains active, but return once the configured deadline or retry
limit is reached so Run cannot continue indefinitely.

In `@internal/daemon/restart_integration_test.go`:
- Around line 259-260: Update the final restart observer wait in the test to use
an explicit bounded timer or deadline instead of relying on t.Context().Done().
Preserve the existing success path and report “restart observer did not
complete” when the deadline expires, using the surrounding restart observer
symbols to locate the change.

In `@internal/daemon/restart_relaunch.go`:
- Line 337: Reconcile canceled RestartStatusStarting operations when
waitForReady handles ctx.Done: update the startup/reaper flow around
handleReadyWaitDone so operations whose replacement is no longer live or whose
deadline has expired transition out of RestartStatusStarting, rather than
returning without invoking the existing failure path. Preserve normal Ready
handling for replacements that remain healthy.
- Around line 241-242: Add a single operation-wide readiness deadline around
both retry loops in waitForReady and waitForDaemonStart, while retaining each
loop’s existing per-window timer or pollUntil deadline. Ensure retries stop and
return the deadline error when the total ReadyTimeout budget is exhausted,
including calls using context.Background(), and do not rely on
runDaemonUpdateCoordinator to enforce it.

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await statePublisher.publish({
state: "product",
origin: runtime.origin,
owned: runtime.owned,
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P1 Late Publication Recreates Marker

During quit or installer handoff, cleanup() waits for bootstrapFlow, but the product window invokes onReady without awaiting it. If shutdown starts while onReady is publishing the product state, markCleanShutdown() can remove the startup marker before that pending publication recreates it. The next launch can then treat a clean exit as an interrupted startup. Track and drain this callback, or otherwise prevent its publication from completing after clean-shutdown marking.

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await recovered.setRuntime("0.3.1", true);
await recovered.setOperation(null);
expect(await readFile(path, "utf8")).toBe(cleanRecord);
await expect(access(marker)).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "ENOENT" });
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P1 Clean Shutdown Test Fails

This test expects publications after markCleanShutdown() to leave app.json unchanged. However, AppStatePublisher.publish, setRuntime, and setOperation still persist every mutation, while markCleanShutdown() only removes the startup marker. The later publish({ state: "disconnected" }) therefore rewrites the record, so this assertion fails instead of verifying the intended shutdown guard.

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