* fix(daemon): self-heal a stale run-file instead of refusing to start
On Windows the desktop supervisor can only TerminateProcess the daemon
(no POSIX signal reaches a detached child), so the daemon's graceful
shutdown never runs and ~/.ao/running.json is never removed. The leaked
file survives into the next launch, and because Windows reuses PIDs
aggressively the recorded PID usually belongs to an unrelated process.
The startup pre-flight trusted PID liveness alone (runfile.CheckStale ->
processalive.Alive), so it concluded a daemon was "already running" and
exited with "refusing to start" on every restart. A dead daemon then
makes the renderer's loopback REST calls (e.g. Spawn Orchestrator) fail
silently.
Verify the recorded port is actually served by an AO daemon with the
recorded PID (a /healthz probe matching service + pid, the same ground
truth inspectDaemon already uses) before refusing. A run-file left by a
crashed, hard-killed, or reused-PID predecessor is treated as stale and
overwritten, so startup is robust to a leaked run-file from any cause.
Fixes#256
* fix(release): build the desktop daemon natively on each target OS
build-daemon.mjs compiles the bundled `ao` daemon with the build host's
GOOS and names it off the host platform (ao.exe only when the builder is
Windows). The release workflow ran only on macos-latest, so a Windows
package would ship a macOS binary named `ao` with no `ao.exe`, and the
app could not launch a valid Windows daemon ("This program cannot be run
in DOS mode" / binary not found).
Run the release as a per-OS matrix (macOS + Windows) so host == target
and each installer bundles a daemon compiled for its own platform, and
pin the Go toolchain with setup-go since build-daemon needs it on every
runner.
Fixes#235
* feat(terminal): Windows ConPTY support for /mux attach
Replaces the Windows stub in internal/terminal/pty_windows.go with a real ConPTY implementation backed by github.com/aymanbagabas/go-pty, so the daemon's /mux attach can stream a live terminal to the renderer on Windows.
PTYSource.AttachCommand now returns (argv, env, err). On Windows the zellij attach is spawned directly (no powershell.exe wrapper) — wrapping ConPTY startup around a shell surfaces as modal application-error dialogs — and the per-session ZELLIJ_SOCKET_DIR is delivered via the spawn's CreateProcess env block instead of an 'env -u NO_COLOR' shim. Unix continues to use the env-shim wrapper and returns nil env.
Adds go-pty v0.2.3 (+ bumps golang.org/x/sys to v0.44.0 transitively). Updates the in-process test fakes (terminal/fakes_test.go, httpd/terminal_mux_test.go) for the new signature.
* feat(zellij): discover zellij binary on Windows and raise command timeout
Defaults the zellij binary to whatever exec.LookPath finds first (preferring zellij.exe on Windows), falling back to LOCALAPPDATA\Programs\zellij\zellij.exe and ProgramFiles{,(x86)}\{zellij,Zellij}\zellij.exe so a fresh-installed Windows user gets a working runtime without setting Options.Binary.
Raises the per-command timeout from 5s to 30s on Windows: the first zellij invocation after install routinely takes longer than 5s on Windows due to filesystem/AV warmup, which was causing benign DeadlineExceeded failures during session create.
* feat(zellij,cli): Windows agent launcher trampoline for codex argv
On Windows, zellij's KDL `args` quoting cannot round-trip codex's --config key=value flags (or any argv with embedded quotes), and shell-wrapping the agent in powershell/cmd quoting is equally unsound. This adds a small launch trampoline so zellij runs a known-fixed argv and the real argv is delivered out-of-band.
How it works on Windows:
1. zellij.Runtime.writeLayout persists cfg.Argv to a temp JSON spec via the new agentlaunch package (AO_LAUNCH_SPEC env var points at the file).
2. The KDL layout runs the trampoline as `<ao.exe> launch` (windowsLaunchArgv); PATH is augmented so the trampoline resolves.
3. The new hidden `ao launch` subcommand reads the spec, deletes the temp file, and execs the real agent with cfg.Argv inside cfg.WorkspacePath.
Also adds:
- runner.Start fire-and-forget path (process_windows.go uses powershell.exe -EncodedCommand + Start-Process -WindowStyle Hidden with CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE so the daemon is not blocked on zellij's --create-background settling).
- powerShellEncodedCommand helper and switch from -Command to -EncodedCommand for the existing powershell shellLaunchSpec (avoids brittle KDL→PowerShell quoting round-trips).
Unix is unchanged: writeLayout passes cfg.Env straight through, createSession stays synchronous via runner.Run, and process_other.go is a stub that returns an error if anyone calls into the background path.
* feat(codex): Windows binary resolution, terminal compat flags, TOML literal strings
Three Windows-targeted refinements to the codex agent plugin so a default Windows install lands in a working state:
1. ResolveCodexBinary now follows .cmd/.ps1 shims to the underlying codex.exe (resolveNativeWindowsCodex + windowsNativeCodexCandidatesForShim). The npm-distributed codex shim cannot be exec'd directly under ConPTY without a shell wrapper; jumping straight to the .exe avoids that wrapper.
2. appendTerminalCompatibilityFlags adds Windows-specific args (e.g. --no-alt-screen) so codex's TUI renders correctly inside zellij's pane without the alternate-screen buffer churn that breaks ConPTY redraws.
3. hooks.go gains codexTOMLLiteralString / codexTOMLConfigString / containsTOMLControl so paths and other values with backslashes and quotes round-trip through codex's --config TOML parser using literal strings ('...') when basic strings would require unsafe escaping.
* fix(lint): paramTypeCombine in pty_unix.go, revive doc comments in agentlaunch, codex test quotes
* fix: stabilize windows zellij sessions
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Co-authored-by: Madhav <madhavkumar@microsoft.com>
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