feat(workspace): offer to install the engine a bound workspace needs

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Issue for this PR

Closes #1157

Type of change

• Bug fix
• New feature
• Refactor / code improvement
• Documentation

What does this PR do?

Stacked on #1168 (which stacks on #1167) — this PR is the commit on top. It is the install offer from #1158 restacked onto the overlay attach; the dialog and its rules are unchanged, the refusal it substitutes is now the overlay's.

A bound workspace whose declared tools need the local engine used to report a missing engine as a 10-second toast with a command in it. This replaces that with an offer: Install now / Copy command / Not now. The install only ever runs from an explicit choice — the attach never installs anything on its own.

How the offer reaches the TUI: the plugin runtime loads plugins in a separate module realm, so nothing in-process can hand it the offer. It is published on the event bus, which is what toasts already use, and since that event carries no payload the plugin re-derives the detail from the binding on disk and the engine on PATH (describeOffer, state-free by design). After a successful install the plugin does not reconcile anything itself — it cannot reach the server's module — and does not need to: the turn boundary looks for a missing engine on PATH again every turn, so the engine attaches on the next message.

Deliberate details, carried over from the original:

• One select for every phase, with sentinel rows for installing/installed/failed; swapping the top-level component would drop focus.
• Install now only appears when Node 20+ and npm are on PATH; otherwise the command is shown with the reason it cannot be run for you.
• Copy command reads the clipboard back before claiming success; the host's writer swallows backend failures.
• Not now latches 7 days, keyed on the workspace id, scoped by tenant and API URL.
• Headless run prints one stderr line instead; stdout stays reserved for JSON events. An attached run renders the notice in its own event loop.
• Both too-old exits route through the offer. The install has a real deadline via an abort signal, reports its result even if the dialog was dismissed while npm ran, and only one offer is raised at a time.
• A zero exit from npm is not trusted: the installed engine must be discoverable on PATH and clear the version floor.
• The headless marker is stripped from the environment of nested entrypoints started by the bash tool, so a child with a TUI still gets the dialog.

How did you verify your code works?

bun run typecheck clean. New offer suite (routing to surface / bus / toast / headless line, too-old with the found version, healthy engine never offered, describeOffer re-derivation, stderr-not-stdout, install deadline via abort signal, install success verified not assumed) plus the plugin suite; 357 tests pass across the workspace, plugin, precedence and MCP lifecycle suites on this stack.

End-to-end rows from #1158 (dialog with all three options and a live declared count; Install now into an isolated prefix with tools on the next message in the same session; Not now suppresses and returns after the latch ages; no Node hides Install now; headless prints exactly one line) are re-run on this stack and recorded in the review-log comment below before this leaves draft.

Not verified here: the successful clipboard path (this host has no clipboard backend); Windows (npm.cmd follows existing precedent in this repo).

Screenshots / recordings

Terminal UI; captured pane output will accompany the E2E rows on the review-log comment.

Checklist

• I have tested my changes locally
• I have not included unrelated changes in this PR

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Summary by cubic

Replaces the toast that printed an install command for a workspace with a missing or too-old engine with an interactive offer: Install now / Copy command / Not now. The install runs only from an explicit choice, and the installed engine attaches on the next message without a restart.

Offer behavior

• Install now appears only when Node 20+ and npm are on PATH; otherwise the command shows with the reason it cannot run.
• Copy command reads the clipboard back before claiming success.
• Not now latches 7 days per workspace, scoped by tenant and API URL; past the latch the offer is re-raised hourly, and a clock step backward re-raises too.
• The dialog waits for the TUI's persisted settings to load (held up to six minutes) before checking the latch, so a restart can't re-offer inside a still-active silence.
• Headless runs print one stderr line per verdict per process, keyed by workspace id so same-named workspaces don't suppress each other; stdout stays reserved for JSON events, and an attached run prints only the offer raised for its own session.
• The tool count is optional: when the lookup fails the text drops the number instead of printing 0, and a count that arrives on a later turn doesn't re-raise the offer.
• npm's zero exit is not trusted — the installed engine must be on PATH and clear the version floor; a binary that reports no version is flagged for a manual check, and only a real older one still first on PATH is named as shadowing the new one.
• The install runs with a hard deadline over npm's whole process tree (SIGTERM, then SIGKILL, which stays armed after npm exits), and a descendant a lifecycle script leaves behind is reaped the same way after a successful exit without holding the result. No new offer is raised while an install is in flight, so a second explicit install can't start concurrently.
• A too-old engine is re-probed as soon as the file on PATH changes identity (inode, size, mtime, ctime), so an in-place update that keeps the length and restores the timestamp still attaches on the next message.
• The offer dialog hides the filter box, so keystrokes during the install reach the prompt instead of collecting in the dialog.
• The bash tool strips the headless marker from nested entrypoints so children with a TUI still render the dialog.

^{Written for commit 4f16f17. Summary will update on new commits.}

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added automatic detection of missing or outdated workspace engines.
  • Added installation offers with install, copy-command, and “Not now” options.
  • Offers appear in the interactive interface, notifications, and session-specific headless output.
  • Added installation verification and clearer failure reporting.
  • Added controls for hiding dialog filters when appropriate.

• Bug Fixes

  • Workspace engine changes are detected sooner, including in-place binary updates.
  • Duplicate installation notices are suppressed, with seven-day skip controls and improved retry timing.
  • Unknown tool counts no longer display as zero, with corrected singular and plural wording.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds workspace engine-install offers. It detects missing or outdated engines, supports npm installation and verification, routes offers through TUI and headless surfaces, adds skip and deduplication state, and refreshes engine probes after binary changes.

Changes

Workspace engine installation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Offer discovery and installation packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-offer.ts, packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-types.ts, packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/engine-install-offer.test.ts, packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/engine-types.test.ts	Adds optional tool counts, dynamic refusal commands, install command generation, Node/npm checks, bounded npm execution, post-install verification, and routing tests.
Probe invalidation and refusal routing packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-overlay.ts, packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-probes.ts, packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-seams.ts, packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/engine-overlay.test.ts, packages/opencode/test/altimate/workspace/engine-probes.test.ts	Adds binary fingerprints, PATH rechecks, structured refusal offers, announcement deduplication, and injectable test seams.
Interactive installation dialog packages/opencode/src/plugin/tui/altimate/workspace.tsx, packages/opencode/test/altimate/plugin/workspace.test.ts, packages/plugin/src/tui.ts, packages/tui/src/plugin/adapters.tsx	Adds the TUI install dialog, scoped seven-day skip latch, KV hydration handling, clipboard verification, install guards, and filter rendering control.
Session-scoped headless presentation packages/opencode/src/server/tui-event.ts, packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run.ts	Adds session identifiers to command events and prints matching install instructions to stderr in attached runs.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d448f

The new engine-install offer can be missed by attached runs that exit too early, and an attached remote workspace may install the engine on a matching local path rather than the workspace’s owning host. These bounded correctness and security risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant EngineOverlay
  participant TUI
  participant EngineOffer
  participant npm
  participant PATH
  EngineOverlay->>TUI: publish workspace install offer
  TUI->>EngineOffer: installEngine()
  EngineOffer->>npm: npm i -g package
  npm-->>EngineOffer: return installation result
  EngineOffer->>PATH: verify binary and version
  PATH-->>TUI: return installation status

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Suggested reviewers: sahrizvi, anandgupta42

Poem

A rabbit finds an engine dim,
And offers npm on a whim.
The dialog waits for “Install now,”
Or copies commands with a bow.
Seven days can pause the show.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 63.89% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 36 functions across 15 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: offering installation of the engine required by a bound workspace.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes all required template sections, identifies issue #1157, explains the implementation and rationale, records verification results and limitations, and confirms the checklist ite…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy issue #1157 by replacing the transient toast with an actionable install or copy offer, requiring explicit approval before installation, and providing headless stderr output when th…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are within scope. Supporting work for routing, deduplication, engine re-probing, installation verification, UI behavior, headless output, and tests directly supports the linked issue objec…

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The description includes all required template sections, identifies issue #1157, explains the implementation and rationale, records verification results and limitations, and confirms the checklist items.

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The changes satisfy issue #1157 by replacing the transient toast with an actionable install or copy offer, requiring explicit approval before installation, and providing headless stderr output when the engine is missing or unusable.

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The changes are within scope. Supporting work for routing, deduplication, engine re-probing, installation verification, UI behavior, headless output, and tests directly supports the linked issue objectives.

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Review log

Stacked on #1168 → #1167 — #1167's review-log comment carries the attach contract; this PR is reviewed the same way, with capped rounds.

Claims (in addition to the stack's)

1. The attach never installs anything on its own; installEngine runs only from an explicit "Install now".
2. Exactly one surface says a refusal once per session per verdict: the dialog when a TUI plugin is present, one stderr line headless, the toast only when the bus is unavailable.
3. Install now appears only with Node 20+ and npm on PATH; a zero exit from npm is not trusted — the engine must be discoverable on PATH and clear the floor.
4. One offer at a time; an install that outlives its dialog still reports its result; Not now latches 7 days per workspace.
5. After an install, the next turn boundary picks the engine up without a restart (the plugin cannot reach the server's module; the boundary looks for a missing engine on PATH every turn).

Disclosed residuals

• The successful clipboard path is unverified on this host (no clipboard backend).
• Windows npm.cmd follows existing precedent in this repo rather than a test. Includes the post-exit reap of install stragglers: Windows has no process group and taskkill /T cannot reach a tree once npm has exited (cubic, e1cfbcf2d).
• Under run --attach, an offer published after the run goes idle cannot render.
• attach <url> runs the plugin on the client; a client with the same path and its own binding is misread.
• R21: the refusal signature keys on the workspace id, not the tenant-scoped key — a credentials swap inside one headless run between two directories' first catalogs could suppress a namesake's line (round 12; fix = workspace.key).

End-to-end rows (from #1158, re-run on this stack before this leaves draft)

#	Scenario	Result
1	engine off PATH, bound dir → dialog with three options and a live declared count	✓ live TUI on the stack (2026-08-28): dialog on the first message with Install now / Copy command / Not now, "declares 52 integration tools", the exact command
2	Install now (isolated prefix) → tools on the next message, same session	✓ Install now ran npm i -g into an isolated prefix (npm_config_prefix), engine 0.7.0 on that prefix's bin after 16 s, success toast; the next message in the same session spawned the engine from that prefix pinned to the workspace and listed its tools; no project config written
3	Copy command → clipboard	unverifiable on this host
4	Not now → suppressed; latch aged 8 days → dialog returns	✓ Not now closed the dialog; the next message in the same session and a later session in the same sandbox raised no dialog (latch recorded in the plugin kv, keyed on the workspace); the aged-latch return is unit-tested
5	no Node on PATH → command shown, no Install now	✓ dialog with the command and "(needs Node 20+ to install — Node was not found on PATH)"; only Copy command / Not now offered
6	headless run → exactly one stderr line	✓ (row 6 of #1167, same code path)

Rounds

(none yet)

Codex rounds

round	head	findings	outcome
1	58a3f4ca6	1 (P2): a session alive past the 7-day "Not now" latch was never re-offered — announceRefusal's per-session dedupe kept the offer route silent, so the TUI's latch check was unreachable (violated claim 4)	fixed in 9bc01a5d2: the offer route's dedupe expires on OFFER_SKIP_TTL_MS, defined once in engine-offer and shared with the plugin latch; regression test "a session that outlives the Not-now latch is offered again"
2	9bc01a5d2	1 (P2): a too-old engine updated in place by "Install now" stayed refused on the next message — the too-old probe memo was honoured for 30 s by path alone, and invalidateProbe() had no caller (the dialog runs in another module realm; violated claim 5)	fixed in 63ba0a1f9: the memo carries the binary's fingerprint (size + mtime, symlinks followed) and ends when it changes; un-stat-able falls back to the TTL; regression test "a too-old engine updated in place is re-probed on the next turn, inside the TTL"
3	63ba0a1f9	2 (P2): (a) the attach-side re-offer window ran from when the offer was raised while the TUI latch runs from Not now, so a dialog left open could hold a long-lived session for a second full window (claim 4); (b) the attached-run stderr line accepted the offer command with no session id, so another session's offer in the same directory printed too (claim 2)	fixed in afa3fda4a: (a) past the window the offer is re-raised every OFFER_RECHECK_MS (1 h) and the TUI suppresses until its latch ends — bounded to ≤ 1 h past the latch; (b) CommandExecute carries an optional sessionID (marker block in tui-event.ts), publishOffer sets it, run --attach prints only its own session's offer. Tests updated ("…naming the session it is for", hourly re-raise).
—	afa3fda4a → 65b2916f2	rebase only, onto #1168's 893ff8f93 (marker-form fix there); the four commits are unchanged	strict marker guard passes for the whole stack against main; 309 workspace/plugin tests pass on the rebased head
4	65b2916f2	1 (P2): a headless run whose agent spawns a sub-agent printed the refusal line twice — the child session's first catalog settled the same verdict and announceRefusal dedupes per session (claim 2)	fixed in a5f7cd168: the headless line is deduplicated per verdict per process; test "headless, a sub-agent's session in the same process prints nothing more". Rounds continue at the author's request until clean.
5	a5f7cd168	1 (P2): the TUI read the "Not now" latch from api.kv before the store had hydrated from kv.json, so the first message after a restart could show the dialog inside the seven days (claim 4)	fixed in 464ef949d: the offer awaits api.kv.ready (polled every 25 ms, bounded at 3 s, then proceeds as before with a warning); tests "engine install offer — kv hydration" (waits, immediate when ready, gives up on timeout). The older post-scan latch on main has the same hazard and is left for a follow-up.
6	464ef949d	1 (P2): at the five-minute deadline only npm's own pid was signalled and the run settled on close, so a descendant holding the stderr pipe kept "Install now" on "Installing…" indefinitely (claim 4's install deadline)	fixed in 26831a2ab: runInstall spawns npm in its own process group, settles on the child's exit, and at the deadline signals the group (SIGTERM, SIGKILL after 5 s) before reporting the timeout; Process.run no longer used for the install. Real-process tests: a straggler holding stderr does not hold the run; a TERM-ignoring tree is terminated and reported as timed out.
7	26831a2ab	1 (P2): the deadline's SIGTERM kills npm (the group leader) and its exit cleared the SIGKILL timer, so a TERM-ignoring descendant survived the reported timeout (claim 4's deadline)	fixed in 2f6fd27db: once the deadline has fired the escalation stays armed and SIGKILLs the process group after the grace even though the leader is gone. Real-process test: a straggler that ignores SIGTERM is gone after the grace. Context: the published engine's only install-time script is a guarded postinstall that is a no-op outside a git checkout, so these trees are adversarial rather than observed — the deadline is now correct for them anyway.
8	2f6fd27db	1 (P2): when the kv read outlasted the 3 s wait, the offer consulted the still-empty store, read the "Not now" latch as absent and opened the dialog inside the seven days (claim 4)	fixed in 3a873cf88: past the warning the offer holds with no deadline (ready flips once the read settles, on failure too) and derives the offer only afterwards so a long wait cannot leave it stale; dropping was rejected because the attach re-raises only after the latch window. Test "holds without a deadline until the store hydrates".
—	eb798cb57 → 72a42d8e6	rebase only: #1168 merged to main as 41e98f6c0 (content identical to acb4c7126), the 11 commits replayed onto it unchanged; base retargeted to main	typecheck clean; 423 workspace/plugin/precedence-guard tests pass on the rebased head, 424 with round 8's fix
9	3a873cf88	1 (P2): the headless per-process dedupe keyed on the per-session signature, which carries the declared count — a lookup that failed for the parent session and recovered for a sub-agent's session after the retry window printed the line twice (claim 2)	fixed in 5d0cff282: the printed line is deduplicated on kind, detail and title; test "headless, a count that arrives with a later session's catalog prints nothing more" (fails on the old key).
10	5d0cff282	0 — "Didn't find any major issues" (issue comment 5477493577)	clean round; codex review closed for this head.
—	5d0cff282 → daa96b568	ready-for-review pass: coderabbit 2 (both fixed 0ae917b90), cubic 9 (5 fixed in 0ae917b90/daa96b568; 4 declined with evidence in-thread: R4 client-path residual, same-bus fallback toast, SDK gen not maintained for altimate schema, kv ready flips on both read outcomes), kilo 1 (fixed daa96b568: per-session signature on the verdict only)	427 tests pass; typecheck clean
11	daa96b568	1 (P2): the too-old probe memo's fingerprint (size + mtime) could collide with a replacement that keeps the byte length and restores the timestamp, leaving a fresh install refused until the TTL (claim 5)	fixed in 9b57dc212: fingerprint is dev:ino:size:mtime:ctime — a replacement has a new inode and an in-place rewrite moves the ctime; real-fs test (fails on the old fingerprint).
—	daa96b568 → 932465308	second bot pass: cubic incremental 3 (all fixed — workspace id in the announce signature a39d5c04c, test moved to the block it exercises, duplicate JSDoc merged 9b57dc212); kilo 1 (JSDoc, fixed); coderabbit outside-diff = R4 (disposition comment). a39d5c04c was briefly red on its own new test (harness, not code) — corrected in 932465308.	430 tests pass; typecheck clean
12	932465308	1 (P2): the refusal signature carries the workspace id, not the tenant-scoped key — same id + name in two tenants inside one headless process would suppress the second line (claim 2)	held — residual R21: reachable only by swapping credentials inside one headless run between two directories' first catalogs; fix when taken = pass workspace.key (`scope
—	932465308 → d448ff3a0 → e1cfbcf2d	rebased onto main (7bbf8a6d2, #1171) to clear a one-hunk conflict in cli/cmd/run.ts (both sides kept); cubic's manual full re-review of the rewritten head found 2 — P2: a descendant outliving a successful npm was never reaped (fixed e1cfbcf2d: SIGTERM on exit, SIGKILL after the grace, real-process test) and a P3 indentation slip (fixed)	431 tests pass; typecheck clean
—	e1cfbcf2d → 68dcce431	sahrizvi re-review (COMMENTED): Major (raise-path behavioural tests) addressed for everything reachable without a renderer; minors 1/2/5/6/7/8/9 + nits 10/11/12 fixed; M3 = R4 (+ toast latch follow-up), M4 = follow-up	438 tests pass; typecheck clean

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Wait for KV hydration before checking the skip latch

Repro: choose Not now, restart the TUI, delay the persisted KV read (for example, hold the tui-kv Flock), and immediately send a message that raises the engine offer. KVProvider initially exposes an empty store with api.kv.ready === false, but this check treats the missing record as an expired latch and opens the dialog; later hydration does not re-check or close it. Thus a persisted Not-now choice can be ignored well within seven days, violating the numbered suppression claim.

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Suppress the offer when KV hydration times out

Repro: choose Not now, restart the TUI, keep the tui-kv Flock held for more than three seconds, and immediately send a message. Fresh evidence after the prior fix is that awaitKvReady() now returns false after a fixed timeout, but this branch merely logs and then consults the still-empty store, so the dialog opens within the seven-day suppression period; later hydration does not revisit or close it. On timeout, release/drop this offer and allow a later raise after KV becomes ready instead of treating unhydrated state as an absent latch.

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Rebased onto main (7bbf8a6d2; #1171/#1196/#1190 landed) to clear the conflict in packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run.ts: main's compaction-recovery and busy-tracking blocks and this PR's attached-run offer handler both sit ahead of the idle break — resolution keeps both, in that order. No other change; the 18 commits are otherwise as reviewed. Head 932465308 → d448ff3a0. Typecheck clean; workspace/plugin/precedence and run-command suites pass.

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962-962: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not exit before offer delivery is resolved.

Line 962 ends the event loop on the first idle event. If the server publishes OFFER_COMMAND after that event, Lines 940-950 cannot print it. The documented residual confirms this ordering occurs. Users of run --attach then receive no installation instruction while workspace tools remain unavailable.

Add an explicit server-side offer-readiness or delivery acknowledgement. Exit on idle only after it confirms that this session has no pending offer or that the offer was delivered.

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In `@packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run.ts` at line 962, The run event loop
currently breaks on the first idle event, before a later OFFER_COMMAND can be
received and printed. Update the --attach flow around the idle handling and
OFFER_COMMAND processing so termination waits for an explicit server-side
offer-readiness or delivery acknowledgement, exiting only when no offer is
pending or the offer has been delivered.

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In `@packages/opencode/src/cli/cmd/run.ts`:
- Line 962: The run event loop currently breaks on the first idle event, before
a later OFFER_COMMAND can be received and printed. Update the --attach flow
around the idle handling and OFFER_COMMAND processing so termination waits for
an explicit server-side offer-readiness or delivery acknowledgement, exiting
only when no offer is pending or the offer has been delivered.

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<file name="packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-offer.ts">

<violation number="1" location="packages/opencode/src/altimate/workspace/engine-offer.ts:210">
P2: On Windows, successful installs still leave lifecycle descendants running because this guard disables the cleanup path, and `Process.stop` cannot stop a tree after the direct child has exited. Add a Windows-capable tree/job cleanup that is captured before the leader exits, or otherwise ensure successful `npm.cmd` installs reap their descendants too.</violation>
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P2: On Windows, successful installs still leave lifecycle descendants running because this guard disables the cleanup path, and Process.stop cannot stop a tree after the direct child has exited. Add a Windows-capable tree/job cleanup that is captured before the leader exits, or otherwise ensure successful npm.cmd installs reap their descendants too.

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<comment>On Windows, successful installs still leave lifecycle descendants running because this guard disables the cleanup path, and `Process.stop` cannot stop a tree after the direct child has exited. Add a Windows-capable tree/job cleanup that is captured before the leader exits, or otherwise ensure successful `npm.cmd` installs reap their descendants too.</comment>

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@@ -201,7 +201,17 @@ export function runInstall(
+      // group (a lifecycle script's daemon). It is the install's straggler,
+      // not the user's: reap it — SIGTERM now, SIGKILL after the grace —
+      // without holding the result or this process for it.
+      if (!timedOut && grouped) {
+        killTree("SIGTERM")
+        setTimeout(() => killTree("SIGKILL"), graceMs).unref()
</file context>

[ralphstodomingo]

Declined for this PR, recorded under residual R2 ("Windows npm.cmd follows existing precedent in this repo rather than a test"): Windows has no process group to signal, and taskkill /T (the repo's existing Process.stop precedent, which the deadline path here also relies on) only reaches a tree while its leader is alive — so the deadline path on Windows already carries the same limit, and a post-exit reap would need a Job Object or a pre-exit descendant capture that nothing else in this codebase has. The published engine has no lifecycle daemon to leave behind (its only install-time script is a guarded no-op outside a git checkout), so this is the adversarial-package case on a platform this PR does not verify. Noted in the review log as the Windows half of R2 so it is not lost.

[ralphstodomingo]

Re-review disposition — addendum for e1cfbcf2d

Since the disposition above (932465308): rebased onto main to clear a one-hunk conflict in cli/cmd/run.ts (both sides kept), then one commit from cubic's full re-review of the rewritten head — e1cfbcf2d reaps a descendant that outlives a successful npm (SIGTERM on exit, SIGKILL after the grace; real-process test) and fixes an indentation slip. Cubic's remaining item (the Windows half of that reap) is declined in-thread and folded into residual R2; kilo clean; CI green; 431 tests pass locally. Nothing else changed — the head to review is e1cfbcf2d.

[sahrizvi]

The offer dialog and the raise path have no behavioural tests.

engine-install-offer.test.ts covers engine-offer.ts thoroughly, and the plugin suite covers the skip latch and KV hydration in isolation. What has no test at all is this component and showEngineInstallOffer — and that is where the behaviour discovered by hand during development lives:

• the installing re-entrancy latch (:1268) — a second Enter starting a second npm i -g
• engineInstallInFlight suppressing a fresh raise mid-install (:1500)
• the dismissed-mid-install toast paths (:1349-1358, :1436-1447)
• the clipboard read-back that replaced a false "Copied:" toast (:1387-1401)
• the existsSync attach guard (:1499)
• npmAvailable() and the canInstall() gate — the "Node 20+ is not enough, npm is packaged separately" case the description calls out is asserted nowhere
• the attached-run stderr line in run.ts

Calling this major rather than ordinary test debt for one reason: these particular guards are what stand between a dismissed dialog and two concurrent npm i -g runs against the same global prefix. A regression there is silent and lands on the user's machine.

The plugin test file already builds a TuiPluginApi stub for the latch tests, so showEngineInstallOffer is reachable today without pulling in a Solid test renderer. At minimum worth asserting that a second call while engineOfferVisible / engineInstallInFlight is set never reaches dialog.replace, that a null describeOffer releases the slot, and that canInstall() is false when npm is absent but Node 20+ is present.

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Addressed in 68dcce431 for the part reachable without a renderer — showEngineInstallOffer is exported and driven through the plugin suite's stubbed TuiPluginApi (describeOffer already had a resolveBinding seam): a missing engine reaches dialog.replace once and a second raise while engineOfferVisible does not; a raise while engineInstallInFlight never reaches it; a null offer frees the slot and the next raise proceeds; a directory absent on this host is refused with the server-side notice and the slot untouched; the 7-day latch suppresses and frees; and canInstallWith(22, false) === false (Node 20+ without npm). Still untested and recorded as a follow-up: the component-internal paths — the installing re-entrancy latch, the dismissed-mid-install toasts, the clipboard read-back — and the attached-run stderr line in run.ts; those need a Solid renderer or an event-loop harness this suite does not have.

[sahrizvi]

Review follow-up — minor findings and nits

Re-checked against e1cfbcf. Two earlier findings are already closed by that commit and are not repeated here: the install deadline leaving a descendant unbounded after a successful npm exit, and the mis-indented line in the offer flow. The reap fix is the right shape — SIGTERM then an unref'd SIGKILL, without the result waiting on either — and the new test asserts the straggler is actually gone rather than just that the run returned quickly.

The one major finding still open is on the dialog's test coverage, left inline.

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Minor

1. The healthy path pays a full PATH scan and a statSync on every turn — engine-overlay.ts:81-93

which() and fingerprint() run before the kind === "ok" short-circuit on line 93, so a process with a good engine does the whole discovery at every turn boundary for a memo that was going to be returned regardless. which() is whichPkg.sync (packages/core/src/util/which.ts) with no caching — it stats every PATH entry — and fingerprint() adds another statSync. Before this change the ok memo returned without touching the filesystem.

async function probeEngine(): Promise<Probe> {
  const at = now()
  if (probeMemo && probeMemo.result.kind === "ok") return probeMemo.result   // move above the which()
  const bin = which(ENGINE_BINARY)
  const seen = bin ? fingerprint(bin) : null
  ...

2. A clock rewind suppresses the re-raise, and disagrees with the TUI latch — engine-overlay.ts:709

at - rec.announcedAt >= OFFER_SKIP_TTL_MS treats a negative delta as "not expired", so after an NTP correction or a VM resume moves the clock backwards the overlay stops raising the offer until real time catches up plus seven days. isEngineSkipActive() (workspace.tsx:1213) explicitly handles delta < 0 by re-offering. So the two halves disagree: the TUI would show the offer, but the overlay never publishes the event that would let it.

const elapsed = at - rec.announcedAt
const expired = offering && rec.announcedAt !== undefined && (elapsed < 0 || elapsed >= OFFER_SKIP_TTL_MS)

3. Attach host detection is a path heuristic, and its refusal can never be silenced — workspace.tsx:1499

existsSync(api.state.path.directory) does not establish that this machine owns the workspace. A client and server sharing an absolute path — shared mounts, containers, dev containers, identically located clones — reads as local, so the client re-derives the server's offer, shows "Install now", installs the package on the wrong host, and reports success while the server stays exactly as it was. The comment at :1497-1499 already concedes this. Worth noting the obvious remedy is not available today: TuiPluginApi exposes no connection field, so closing it properly needs the server-side discovery/install API this PR explicitly defers.

Separately, this branch returns before the slot is reserved and before the latch is consulted, so an attached client gets a fresh 30-second warning toast in every new session with no "Not now". Routing it through the skip latch (keyed on directory, since no workspace id is known yet) would at least make it dismissible.

4. The attached-run notice loses the offer's detail — run.ts:947

The bus event carries only command and sessionID, so the client prints one fixed sentence with no workspace name, no declared tool count, and no found version — while the same verdict on a local headless run prints describeOfferLine(), which carries all three. One situation, two different messages. The event schema is already being extended for sessionID; carrying the rendered line is the cheap fix.

5. The runInstall seam drops the grace parameter — engine-seams.ts:35, engine-offer.ts:141

The real function is runInstall(argv, timeoutMs, graceMs), but the seam is typed (argv, timeoutMs) and invoked as syncInternals.runInstall(argv, timeoutMs). Any stub silently loses the third argument, so the grace is unreachable through the seam and exercisable only via the real-subprocess tests — which now matters more, since e1cfbcf gave graceMs a second job on the normal-exit path.

6. The deadline's hard timer still pins the event loop — engine-offer.ts:169, :197

if (hard && !timedOut) clearTimeout(hard) is dead: hard is only assigned inside the deadline callback, which sets timedOut = true first, so the condition is never true when hard exists. Keeping the escalation armed is correct — clearing it unconditionally would mean a descendant that ignored SIGTERM never receives the SIGKILL — but the timer holds the loop for graceMs after the run has already resolved. Note e1cfbcf added .unref() to the new sweep timer on the exit path and not to this one, so the two are now inconsistent. hard = setTimeout(...).unref() would settle it.

7. Install verification can report a false failure when an older engine shadows the new one — engine-offer.ts:234

After a zero exit, which(ENGINE_BINARY) returns the first hit on PATH. If an older engine sits in an earlier directory, versionOf reports the old version and the install is declared failed with npm installed it, but datamate on PATH reports 0.6.3 — true, but misleading: the problem is shadowing, not a bad install. This is worth a message change rather than a code change, and it is likely the highest-frequency confusing outcome in practice, since the users who see the too-old path at all are exactly the ones who may already have an engine installed by some other route or prefix.

8. awaitKvReady(kv, Infinity) takes its only bound from another package — workspace.tsx:1531

The unbounded wait holds the offer slot and polls every 25 ms. It does terminate: kv.tsx calls setReady(true) from a .finally(), and Flock.withLock defaults to timeoutMs: 5 * 60_000, so the worst case is roughly 12,000 wakeups rather than a hang. But nothing in awaitKvReady enforces that and the ceiling lives in a package this file never imports. A generous explicit cap (six minutes, say) that logs and releases the slot would make the bound local and auditable.

9. describeOffer treats an unreadable binding as unbound — engine-offer.ts:84

readLocalBinding(directory).catch(() => null) collapses "no binding" and "binding file transiently unreadable" into the same null, and the dialog then says nothing at all. The overlay distinguishes those states. Self-correcting on the next turn, but a log.info on the null return would make it diagnosable.

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Nit

10. probeEngine writes a missing memo that is never read — engine-overlay.ts:110. Both guards match only ok and too-old, so the missing write is dead. Intentional per the comment ("asked about on every call"), but worth saying so at the write site.

11. current names a row that does not exist in two phases — workspace.tsx:1416. current={canInstall() ? "install" : "copy"} is evaluated in every phase; in failed the rows are copy/close, so with canInstall() true current matches nothing.

12. The "installed" sentinel row never paints — workspace.tsx:1300. setPhase("installed") is followed synchronously by dialog.clear(), so "Installed — attaching integrations." is unreachable. Either drop the row or let it stand briefly before clearing.

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Missing tests

Beyond the inline comment: clock rewind in announceRefusal, which the persisted latch covers but the overlay does not (#2); renderFilter pass-through through the adapter; the second hourly re-raise, since only the first expiry is covered; describeOffer when the allowlist lookup times out.

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What's done well

• The module-realm argument is load-bearing rather than decorative: describeOffer really is state-free, invalidateProbe is honestly documented as unused in production, and the probe was reworked to notice PATH changes instead of relying on cross-realm invalidation. which() does no caching, so the "attaches on the next message" claim holds.
• A zero exit from npm is not trusted — the installed binary must be discoverable and clear the version floor.
• The deadline tests spawn real processes, including a descendant that ignores SIGTERM and outlives the group leader. They prove the invariant rather than restating it.
• fingerprint includes ctimeMs, which userland cannot restore, so an in-place rewrite preserving size and mtime still reads as changed — and the test constructs precisely that adversarial case with utimesSync. The null-fingerprint TTL fallback is covered too.
• Dropping the declared count from the announce signature is right: a flaky allowlist lookup changes the wording, not the verdict.
• Sentinel rows correctly avoid disabled: true — dialog-select.tsx:150 drops disabled rows from filtered(), which would have emptied the list and stranded the recovery actions.
• The re-raise arithmetic achieves an hourly cadence with no extra timer, and the test walks the timeline boundary by boundary.

[ralphstodomingo]

Re-review disposition — 68dcce431

Fixed (each with a test where one applies; 438 pass, typecheck clean)

• Major — raise-path tests: six behavioural tests through the plugin's stubbed api (details on the thread). Component-internal paths and the attached-run line remain a follow-up.
• M1 healthy probe short-circuits before which()/statSync.
• M2 clock rewind re-raises (matches the TUI latch); test. Plus the second hourly re-raise is asserted (missing-tests list).
• M5 the runInstall seam carries graceMs.
• M6 hard timer .unref()'d; the dead clearTimeout removed.
• M7 shadowing message: names the binary's path and says an older install earlier on PATH is shadowing the new one.
• M8 kv hold bounded locally: KV_READY_HOLD_MS (6 min, above the store's 5-min lock timeout); past it the slot is released with a warning.
• M9 describeOffer logs an unreadable binding.
• N10 the unread missing memo write is annotated. N11 current is copy in the failed phase. N12 the never-painted "installed" row is gone.

Recorded, not changed here

• M3 attach-host heuristic = residual R4 (the API-backed discovery/install this PR defers). The "never silenced" toast is a fair point — routing it through a directory-keyed latch is a follow-up rather than more surface in this PR.
• M4 attached-run notice detail — follow-up: carrying the rendered line on the event is the right shape; kept out of this round to avoid widening the event schema again.
• describeOffer under an allowlist timeout — the unknown-count path is covered via the declared seam returning null; the 4 s timeout itself is not exercised.

Cubic/kilo will run on this head automatically (regular push).

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[ralphstodomingo]

Addendum for 4f16f178a: cubic's pass on 68dcce431 raised two — the unref'd SIGKILL timers (M6 above) could fail to fire in a draining process, so both are referenced again (reap guarantee over five seconds of loop; the dead clearTimeout stays removed), and the shadowing message now applies only to a real older version, with a plain "did not report a version" otherwise. 438 tests pass, typecheck clean.

[ralphstodomingo]

Final head for this round: 4f16f178a — cubic 0 issues, kilo clean, CI green (TypeScript included), 438 tests locally. The disposition for 68dcce431 above plus the addendum for 4f16f178a cover everything since the re-review.

[sahrizvi]

Approving 4f16f178a.

Everything from the previous round is addressed — the fixes, plus the items recorded as residuals with reasons I accept (R4 client-path ownership, the attached-run notice detail, the Windows half of the reap).

Verified rather than taken on trust. Re-ran the five workspace suites (152 pass) and mutation-tested the two behavioural fixes: reverting the clock-rewind guard fails a clock that moves backwards re-raises rather than waiting out a longer window, and neutering the in-flight guard fails a raise while an install is in flight never reaches the dialog. The new raise-path tests are genuine — the attach-guard case asserting resolved === 0 pins the short-circuit as happening before the binding lookup, which is the invariant that actually matters there.

I also read the run.ts conflict resolution, since merge resolutions are where ordering bugs tend to hide. It's correct: the sawBusy tracker doesn't continue, so it can't swallow the handlers after it; the two handlers match disjoint event types; and the offer handler is still ahead of the idle break, as its comment requires.

Correction to my earlier comment. My M6 asked for .unref() on the SIGKILL timers. That was wrong, and the counter-argument is right: an unref'd timer never fires in a process draining its loop, so the kill that ends a SIGTERM-ignoring descendant would silently not happen. Keeping both timers referenced and paying the five seconds is the better trade. Apologies for pointing you the wrong way there.

Non-blocking, for whenever convenient:

• hard (engine-offer.ts:201) is now assigned and never read, since the clearTimeout(hard) went away — the binding can go with it.
• The M1 probe-ordering fix has no regression test. Reverting it still passes all 55 overlay tests, so a regression would silently reintroduce a full PATH scan plus a statSync on every turn boundary. The harness already counts probes and takes a which field, so a whichCalls counter would pin it in a couple of lines.
• The shadowing message asserts a single cause. With ALTIMATE_ENGINE_INSTALL_SPEC pointed at an older tarball — its documented purpose — it would blame PATH shadowing for a version the user deliberately asked for. Slightly at odds with the "say what was observed, no diagnosis" standard the adjacent null-version branch sets.

One note on the disclosed test follow-up, only so the residual is legible: engineInstallInFlight's consumer side is now covered, but its producer side isn't — the tests set the flag through the seam rather than by running an install. So the two-concurrent-npm i -g case still isn't covered end to end. That sits inside the follow-up you've already stated, not a new ask.