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1. Problem and reproduction

External tools and the app's own agent-awareness links cannot open a specific desktop thread. Open t3code://threads/<environmentId>/<threadId> while the desktop app is closed or already running; this PR routes the desktop renderer to that thread.

2. Cause

Scheme registration already exists on main, but thread links need main-process dispatch, buffering until a renderer subscribes, and navigation that is not overwritten by the index route's draft creation.

3. What changed

DesktopDeepLink accepts the threads and app hosts, a UUID environment ID, and one encoded thread-ID segment (including imported IDs). It handles early macOS open-url, cold-start argv, and second-instance argv. The newest link stays buffered until its subscribed renderer acknowledges the matching generation. Unsubscribe, stale replies, and renderer destruction preserve delivery to a subsequent subscriber. A root route listener navigates, and the index route reads the live path before starting a draft.

Merged main 7445aa733ada33e45289e5aa5055f79142556513 into the branch rather than rebasing to preserve existing review history. The channel conflict retains upstream's paste-as-text channel alongside the four deep-link channels. The deep-link sender shape now lives at its own boundary; the shared IPC event and existing IPC/snapshot tests are identical to main. The preload regression supplies the window mock needed by upstream's macOS inset handling.

4. Scope and exclusions

This remains desktop thread-link handling. It does not change OAuth callbacks, upstream paste-as-text, notification badges, protocol registration, provider adapters, or mobile navigation. The shared bridge hook is optional for older desktop clients. No unrelated formatting or generated files are added to the contribution.

5. Affected surfaces

Desktop OS URL dispatch and desktop-rendered web routing, including navigation from other screens and cold-start draft prevention. The IPC bridge contract is additive. Browser-only web and both mobile clients retain their existing behavior. Links select an environment; local/remote connectivity still uses existing environment handling. Windows/Linux argv paths have unit coverage, not real-client execution here.

6. Verification

Exact head: b06456ca725c11ade0e41d59748612604a22c5c5 (20 September 2026).

From apps/desktop:

vp test run src/app/DesktopDeepLink.test.ts src/ipc/DesktopIpc.test.ts src/ipc/methods/snapShot.test.ts src/app/DesktopLifecycle.test.ts src/window/DesktopWindow.test.ts src/ssh/DesktopSshPasswordPrompts.test.ts src/ipc/methods/window.test.ts src/window/DesktopApplicationMenu.test.ts src/ipc/methods/notificationBadge.test.ts

9 files, 111 tests passed, exit 0. Includes real-preload/IPC remount sequencing, ID-only sender rejection without consuming the buffered link, and upstream paste-as-text and notification-badge tests.

From the repository root:

  • vp run --filter @t3tools/desktop typecheck: exit 0.
  • vp run --filter @t3tools/web typecheck: exit 0 when run alone. The initial concurrent invocation exited 137 for web; the isolated retry passed.
  • vp run --filter @t3tools/desktop --filter @t3tools/web --filter @t3tools/contracts typecheck: contracts passed; the initial desktop failures exposed the IPC compatibility issue fixed above. Final desktop and web results are the separate commands above.
  • git diff --name-only origin/main HEAD supplied the 15 final contribution paths to vp fmt --check; exit 0. Its 14 TypeScript paths supplied vp lint; exit 0 with three warnings on unchanged upstream route lines (two effect dependency warnings and one render-ref warning).
  • git diff origin/main HEAD --check: exit 0.

The first test attempt exposed the stale preload harness and a concurrent Electron runtime installation race. After adapting our harness and running node apps/desktop/scripts/ensure-electron-runtime.mjs, all selected suites passed. Commit hooks left the tested source tree unchanged.

7. Known gaps and risks

Not review-ready: current-head visual proof remains outstanding. No browser, desktop GUI, remote/relay/tunnel session, Windows/Linux client, or SwiftUI simulator build was exercised in this maintenance pass. Fresh light/dark before/after captures and cold/warm interaction video belong to the proof follow-up. Historical recordings below do not certify this head. CI on the pushed head must be evaluated separately; prior green checks or the earlier Release Smoke failure are not current-head results.

No fresh independent reviewer or visual inspector ran in this no-delegation pass. No review was re-requested.

8. Historical media — not current-head proof

These artifacts were recorded on an earlier revision. The cold-link comparison is a two-frame GIF, not a continuous interaction recording.

Historical cold-link comparison

Historical warm-link recording · Historical annotated recording

9. Related work

Consumes thread links emitted by #9745. Maintenance tracking: saphid/t3code-personal#151; current-head capture follow-up: #150.

This maintenance pass: GPT-6 Astra in the Codex harness. Earlier implementation attribution remains in the branch history.

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The desktop app adds distribution-aware identity, validated thread deep links, custom GitHub update sources, connection-catalog migration, and stable macOS ad hoc signing.

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Desktop platform and deep-link flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Distribution identity and catalog isolation
packages/shared/src/desktopBuild.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopEnvironment.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopAppIdentity.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopConnectionCatalogStore.ts
Packaged identities determine product names, profile paths, catalog paths, legacy migration, and downstream branding. Catalog operations are serialized.
Packaged metadata and protocol registration
apps/desktop/src/electron/*, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopPreReadyPlatform.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopLinuxUrlHandler.ts, apps/desktop/src/window/DesktopWindow.ts
Packaged metadata is read synchronously. Distribution-specific schemes, Linux identifiers, and renderer URLs use the resolved identity.
Desktop deep-link delivery
apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopDeepLink.ts, apps/desktop/src/main.ts, apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopApp.ts, apps/desktop/src/preload.ts, apps/web/src/routes/*
Validated thread links are captured from OS events and cold-start arguments, buffered until subscription, delivered through IPC, acknowledged by generation, and routed to the requested environment and thread.

Custom desktop update sources

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update repository contracts and persistence
packages/contracts/src/ipc.ts, apps/desktop/src/settings/DesktopAppSettings.ts, apps/desktop/src/ipc/methods/updates.ts
Update state includes a normalized nullable repository. Repository changes are persisted and exposed through IPC.
Updater repository execution
apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts, apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronUpdater.ts
The updater supports custom feeds, repository-specific locking and errors, feed reset, and macOS bundle validation.
Web update settings and links
apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/web/src/components/desktopUpdate.logic.ts, apps/web/src/components/sidebar/SidebarUpdateReleaseNotes.tsx
Web settings expose Stable, Nightly, and Custom tracks. Release links use the selected repository.

Desktop build and signing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build identity propagation
scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts, packages/shared/src/desktopBuild.ts, packages/shared/package.json
Builds derive validated distribution identities and propagate them to package metadata, platform artifacts, and protocol schemes.
Stable macOS ad hoc signing
scripts/sign-macos.ts
Unsigned stable macOS builds validate an ad hoc bundle identifier and apply the configured signing requirements.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge, t3dotgg

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OperatingSystem
  participant DesktopApp
  participant DesktopDeepLink
  participant PreloadBridge
  participant WebRouter
  OperatingSystem->>DesktopApp: open-url or second-instance URL
  DesktopApp->>DesktopDeepLink: configure before Electron readiness
  DesktopDeepLink->>PreloadBridge: send validated thread payload with generation
  PreloadBridge->>DesktopDeepLink: acknowledge delivered generation
  PreloadBridge->>WebRouter: invoke onDeepLink listener
  WebRouter->>WebRouter: navigate to environment/thread route
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c0367

Migrating catalogs can retain unreachable connection profiles and credentials. Filter dependent records against the retained targets before merge.

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Effect service conventions review: two findings in apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopDeepLink.ts, both about inputs to the service that never appear in the Effect environment. The service shape, make/layer naming, dependency acquisition via yield* Foo.Foo, and the native-callback runPromiseWith bridge all match the existing DesktopClerk/DesktopWindow patterns.

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Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This adds a new cross-platform desktop deep-link workflow spanning Electron startup, IPC buffering and acknowledgment, window focus, preload bridging, and application routing, with additional behavior changes to cold-start thread landing. The change is substantial and also introduces a lint-suppression directive in its new test coverage.

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Effect service conventions: the two earlier findings (ambient process.argv, module-global early capture) are addressed — HostProcessArguments and the EarlyOpenUrlCapture reference are both injected now. One remaining item, on the new requeue channel.

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reviewed 03fb83e59de393240f9ce45a3a4b6bfbd4234dc9. no new standalone code blocker found.

all 27 DesktopDeepLink tests passed. standalone desktop typecheck reported TS2883 in updatesTestHarness.ts; the same errors reproduce on base 8b2838e0e8a73d3fa6476940445c372e47b99db4.

the documented #8976 integration step is still required. current heads conflict in DesktopClerk.ts and DesktopClerk.test.ts. after retaining #8976's clerk side in a temporary combined tree, desktop typecheck reproduces TS2554 at apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopDeepLink.ts:147. pass environment.distributionId to getDesktopScheme, preserve the distribution-specific clerk behavior, and rerun downstream cold/warm-link verification on the final resolved head. existing evidence for a different combined commit does not certify this current pair.

required checks are successful or skipped; github reports a clean individual merge into main. no fresh packaged macos/linux os-link run was performed here. leaving a comment pending integration, not requesting changes to the standalone one-argument call before its dependency lands.

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apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopConnectionCatalogStore.ts (1)

551-558: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Prune profiles and credentials whose target was dropped by the merge.

targets dedupes by environmentId, but profiles and credentials dedupe by connectionId. If the primary catalog and a legacy catalog hold the same environmentId under different connectionId values, the merge drops the legacy target and keeps its profile and credential. The promoted catalog then stores an unreachable profile and its credential.

Filter profiles and credentials by the connectionId values that the retained targets reference.

♻️ Proposed pruning of orphaned records
+        const retainedTargets = unique(
+          documents.flatMap((d) => d.targets),
+          (v) => v.environmentId,
+        );
+        const retainedConnectionIds = new Set(
+          retainedTargets.flatMap((target) =>
+            "connectionId" in target ? [target.connectionId] : [],
+          ),
+        );
         decrypted = yield* encodeRuntimeConnectionCatalogDocumentJson({
           schemaVersion: 1,
-          targets: unique(
-            documents.flatMap((d) => d.targets),
-            (v) => v.environmentId,
-          ),
+          targets: retainedTargets,
           profiles: unique(
-            documents.flatMap((d) => d.profiles),
+            documents.flatMap((d) => d.profiles).filter((v) => retainedConnectionIds.has(v.connectionId)),
             (v) => v.connectionId,
           ),
           credentials: unique(
-            documents.flatMap((d) => d.credentials),
+            documents.flatMap((d) => d.credentials).filter((v) => retainedConnectionIds.has(v.connectionId)),
             (v) => v.connectionId,
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In `@apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopConnectionCatalogStore.ts` around lines 551 -
558, Update the merge logic near the profiles and credentials collections to
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- Around line 551-558: Update the merge logic near the profiles and credentials
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Addressed the catalog orphan-record finding from the review summary in fb37a58dc (prerequisite #8976 at 734167b4e). After environment-target deduplication, only profiles and credentials referenced by retained connection targets are promoted. The regression with one environment under different old/current connection IDs fails on the prior implementation and passes with the fix. All 20 catalog tests and 29 deep-link tests pass; the prerequisite desktop typecheck passes.

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The Test failure on 57c4ab2303 was an unhandled cancelAnimationFrame is not defined error from @pierre/diffs in apps/web/src/components/files/fileEditorLanguageReadiness.test.ts, a file this PR doesn't touch. All 4,527 tests passed. The file passes 3/3 locally. I re-pushed the same tree to re-run CI because I don't have rerun rights.

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Testing note, in case it saves a reviewer some time.

On a machine with the released build installed, /Applications/T3 Code (Alpha).app declares both t3code: and t3code-dev: in its CFBundleURLSchemes. LaunchServices therefore routes t3code-dev:// URLs to the release build, which has no deep link handler, so someone testing this branch sees nothing happen and may conclude the feature is broken.

Dispatching at the dev bundle explicitly avoids it:

open -a "apps/desktop/.electron-runtime/T3 Code (Dev).app" \
  "t3code-dev://app/<environmentId>/<threadId>"

What I verified on macOS 26.6 (Apple silicon), branch at 367240d9:

  • pnpm install completes cleanly (43s).
  • apps/desktop/src/app/DesktopDeepLink.test.ts passes 28/28.
  • The wiring comes up at startup: the desktop:deep-link:{subscribe,unsubscribe,ack,requeue} IPC channels register and desktop.deepLink.configure completes.

I did not get as far as confirming navigation end to end. My dev profile was still on the onboarding wizard with no threads yet, which I take to be the queue-until-acknowledged path described in the PR body rather than a failure. Flagging the LaunchServices behaviour mainly because it is easy to mistake for one.

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Send the unsubscribe request during listener cleanup, before a replacement listener subscribes. The current subscribed.finally(...) lets an old delayed reply unregister the replacement listener on the same webContents. A subscription-specific token would also let the main process reject stale cleanup.

Accept the existing t3code://threads/<environmentId>/<threadId> shape alongside the new t3code://app/... shape. Shared agent awareness produces /threads/..., and the mobile widget turns it into t3code://threads/...; the current parser rejects that emitted URL. This leaves #9745 only partly addressed. Its legacy primary alias also needs an explicit compatibility decision.

Cover the remount with the real preload and main subscription handlers, using gates for the delayed reply and an awaited delivery operation. The two nested setImmediate calls in settleDelivery do not establish that the delivery fiber finished.

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Corroborating the second point, since it decides whether this closes #9745.

The /threads/... shape is not hypothetical, it is what the app emits today:

parseThreadDeepLink requires host app plus two UUIDs, so all three are rejected. As written, this PR handles a URL shape nothing currently produces, while the links the app and mobile already generate keep doing nothing. Accepting threads alongside app closes that, and it has the side benefit of keeping deep links off the host that doubles as the renderer origin in DESKTOP_RENDERER_ORIGINS.

The primary alias needs its own explicit call. It is not a UUID, so the exact repro in #9745 still fails even once the host is accepted. Either resolve primary to the default environment id ahead of the UUID check, or state that the alias is out of scope and the fix covers UUID environment ids only.

On the unsubscribe ordering: agreed, and it is reachable on an ordinary remount rather than a rare race. Cleanup and the replacement mount run in the same commit, so the new SUBSCRIBE goes out synchronously while the previous subscribed.finally(...) unsubscribe lands a microtask later and removes the same webContents. subscribers is then empty with a listener mounted, so the next link takes the latestLiveSubscriber() === null branch and buffers indefinitely. A subscription-specific token makes the ordering irrelevant.

On coverage: worth noting apps/desktop/src has no preload.test.ts on main, so exercising the real preload here means new test infrastructure, not one more case in the existing file. Probably worth it, given the bug above is precisely what a main-handler-only harness cannot see.

The desktop main process parses exact thread links — the
t3code://threads/<environmentId>/<threadId> shape the app itself emits
for agent awareness and mobile widgets, plus the t3code://app/... form —
from macOS open-url events, second-instance argv, and cold-start argv.
Environment ids are server UUIDs; thread ids accept any single encoded
segment so imported `import:<provider>:<session>` threads resolve too.

The newest link is retained until a subscribed renderer acknowledges its
generation, so a link survives onboarding, reloads, and route unmounts.
Renderer teardown unsubscribes immediately so a delayed subscribe reply
or StrictMode remount cannot unregister a replacement listener, and
stale generations are dropped rather than navigated back to. The root
route navigates to the thread; the index route no longer replaces a
thread a cold deep link already selected.

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Pushed ba7662532b addressing the three points from @shivamhwp's review and @genr8r's corroboration:

  • Unsubscribe ordering. The preload no longer defers DEEP_LINK_UNSUBSCRIBE_CHANNEL behind the in-flight subscribe promise. Cleanup invokes it immediately, so on a setup → cleanup → setup replay the main process sees subscribe → unsubscribe → subscribe in send order and the replacement listener is never unregistered. A subscription token turned out to be unnecessary once cleanup cannot overtake a newer subscribe.
  • t3code://threads/... accepted. The parser now accepts the threads host alongside app, matching what agent awareness emits and the mobile widget wraps. Decision on primary: rejected explicitly. Environment ids in emitted links are always server-generated UUIDs; primary is a local-backend bootstrap id, not an environment id, so accepting it would mean guessing. This is covered by a test and called out in docs/user/deep-links.md.
  • Remount coverage with the real preload. New test imports the actual preload.ts bridge and drives it against the real IPC handlers with a gated subscribe reply — verifies the delayed reply cannot unregister the replacement, and that a stale buffered reply cannot navigate back over a newer push (per-subscription generation dedup in the preload).

An independent review (GPT-5.6 Sol, high) then caught one more real gap: the UUID-only thread segment rejected import:<provider>:<session> thread ids that AgentSessionImporter creates and agent awareness ships URI-encoded. The thread segment now accepts any single encoded segment that decodes to a non-empty string; the environment segment stays UUID-only.

On the earlier testing note from @genr8r: correct, LaunchServices routes t3code-dev:// to whichever installed bundle claims it, so dispatching at the dev bundle explicitly is the reliable way to test. That is a macOS scheme-registration quirk rather than something this PR can fix.

All 87 focused desktop tests pass; desktop/web/contracts typecheck clean.

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Note on the Release Smoke failure: it fails at vp install --lockfile-only with ERR_PNPM_UNUSED_PATCH: expo-audio@57.0.4, and the identical failure is on other branches' CI runs right now (e.g. run 34692592725). The patch declaration and dependency are unchanged on this branch — pre-existing breakage on main, not from this PR.

sheehanmunim pushed a commit to munimtechnologies/mtcode that referenced this pull request Sep 17, 2026
…randed URL scheme

The desktop main process parses exact thread links — the
<scheme>://threads/<environmentId>/<threadId> shape the app itself emits
for agent awareness and mobile widgets, plus the <scheme>://app/... form —
from macOS open-url events, second-instance argv, and cold-start argv.
Environment ids are server UUIDs; thread ids accept any single encoded
segment so imported `import:<provider>:<session>` threads resolve too.

The newest link is retained until a subscribed renderer acknowledges its
generation, so a link survives onboarding, reloads, and route unmounts.
Renderer teardown unsubscribes immediately so a delayed subscribe reply
or StrictMode remount cannot unregister a replacement listener, and
stale generations are dropped rather than navigated back to. The root
route navigates to the thread; the index route no longer replaces a
thread a cold deep link already selected.

Fork adaptation: MT Code installs next to T3 Code, so the OS scheme is
derived from branding (`mtcode://` for "MT Code", `t3code://` otherwise,
`-dev` suffix unpackaged) and claimed through the ElectronApp
setAsDefaultProtocolClient seam on packaged macOS/Windows builds.
Packaging already declares both schemes via scripts/lib/desktop-distro.ts.
The renderer's internal t3code://app origin is unchanged.

(cherry picked from commit ba76625)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Two things on b06456c, one of which I think the last round of changes introduced.

The "already on this thread" short circuit misses imported thread ids.

apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx:336:

if (readPathname() === `/${environmentId}/${threadId}`) {
  return;
}

threadId arrives decoded, since parseThreadDeepLink runs decodeURIComponent before the payload crosses IPC. useLocation().pathname is encoded. TanStack encodes named path params with encodeURIComponent (encodeParam in @tanstack/router-core, and this repo sets no pathParamsAllowedCharacters to undo it), so an imported thread renders as /<env>/import%3Aclaude%3A<session> while the comparison builds /<env>/import:claude:<session>. Those never match.

For UUID thread ids the two forms are identical, so the guard works. For the import:<provider>:<session> ids the thread segment was just widened to accept, it never fires, and a link to the thread you are already viewing re-navigates. docs/user/deep-links.md says "If you are already looking at the thread, nothing changes."

Comparing params rather than the rendered path sidesteps the encoding question:

const params = useParams({ strict: false });
if (params.environmentId === environmentId && params.threadId === threadId) {
  return;
}

Both changed web files are untested.

The desktop side gets 812 lines of new coverage. apps/web/src/routes/__root.tsx and apps/web/src/routes/_chat.index.tsx get none, and they are where the navigation, the guard above, and the index draft suppression actually live. The repo already has the pattern: apps/web/src/lib/assistantCitationNavigation.test.ts and apps/web/src/components/settings/settingsScopeNavigation.test.ts both build a router and assert where a navigation lands. A test in that shape would have caught the above.

Related and smaller: the index guard reads router.state.location.pathname === "/", which only sees a navigation that has committed. The subscribe handshake is an IPC round trip, so on a cold start the index effect can flush first, start the draft, and then have the deep link navigate over it. isTransitioning or pendingMatches would cover the in-flight window. If that residual race is understood and accepted, a comment saying so would save the next reader the trip.

Checked, and not worth anyone's time:

  • Widening the thread segment to [^/?#]+ does not turn the scheme into an arbitrary-navigation primitive. Named params go through encodeURIComponent, no pathParamsAllowedCharacters override exists here to reverse it, and resolvePath returns an absolute to verbatim rather than collapsing ... The comment on parseThreadDeepLink is accurate as written.
  • useEffectEvent is fine, apps/web is on React 19.2.6.
  • Release Smoke is green on this head, so the earlier ERR_PNPM_UNUSED_PATCH note no longer has to stand on its own.

One merge note: the repro in #9745 is t3code://threads/primary/<THREAD_ID>. Rejecting primary is a defensible call, but it does mean that exact command still does nothing, so I would not close #9745 on this merge.

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