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An Intel-only gh on an Apple Silicon Mac is marked missing during source-control discovery, but the installation hint does not explain which executable cannot run or why. This fixes the remaining diagnostic from #14590. The synchronous spawn failure and connection handling are already addressed on current main.

The rebuilt fix recognizes raw and platform-wrapped macOS architecture errors, names the executable and the server architecture, and preserves the installation guidance. It uses the existing installHint consumed by Settings, Git actions, and shared project-readiness checks. Git and Jujutsu use the same diagnostic. No client or contract changes are needed.

Fixes #14590. Scope approved in the maintainer reply. Replaces #14594 after the requested rebuild with a newer model. GitHub does not permit the author to reopen that PR. Related open PR #21606 addresses the same remaining diagnostic.

Verification

• The new discovery regression tests failed on main: incompatible executables returned only Install GitHub CLI. They pass with this fix for synchronous errno -86, symbolic EBADARCH, and platform-wrapped errors. Ordinary missing and permission errors retain their hints; Linux errno -86 is not misclassified.
• Focused discovery and process-runner tests passed.
• vp run check:changed bf8e1324391a570fbca298cfd0c97d39381666a3 --concurrency 2 passed formatting, lint, unused code, generated GraphQL operations, all 18 affected-package typechecks, and eight adjacent tests at head 604c728d2cdebe06bbe0e03f96b8181b80780cd0.
• Checked on Linux. The macOS kernel failure and native desktop/mobile clients were not exercised in this rebuild. Earlier Apple Silicon reproduction evidence remains in the original verification comment; it is historical evidence, not a current-head run.

Rebuilt with GPT-6.1 Sol (gpt-6.1-sol, high reasoning effort) through the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 604c728

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — CLI discovery now explains macOS CPU-architecture incompatibilities, including the executable path and server architecture. The change is limited to failure guidance and preserves existing discovery status and normal behavior.

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Walkthrough

Source-control discovery now provides an architecture-specific install hint when a macOS CLI probe fails because of an incompatible executable. Other failures retain the configured hint. Missing status, version, and cause-derived detail handling remain unchanged.

Changes: Source-control discovery diagnostics

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Generate and use architecture-specific install hints packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts, apps/server/src/sourceControl/SourceControlDiscovery.ts, packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.test.ts	The discovery helper detects qualifying macOS architecture errors and adds the resolved executable, server architecture, and configured hint to its message. CLI probe failure handling and server discovery use the computed hint. Tests cover architecture errors, Linux, not-found, and permission failures.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#7618: This change adds architecture-specific guidance, but does not address the separate PATH resolution failure described by the issue.
• pingdotgg/t3code#10728: This change handles incompatible-architecture errors, but does not address timeout failures.

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#23410: Both changes modify source-control CLI discovery failure handling. This PR adds macOS incompatible-architecture diagnostics to the failure path.

Suggested labels: bugfix

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks, juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to cb314

The CLI architecture diagnostic is ready to merge after normal checks.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: during source-control discovery, a CLI executable that cannot run due to an architecture mismatch now gets an install hint that explains the failure. It follows the co…
Description check		The description follows the template's main sections. Problem is covered in the opening paragraph: an Intel-only gh on an Apple Silicon Mac is marked missing with a hint that does not name the failing…
Linked Issues check		[#14590] The issue asks that a GitHub CLI failure name the failing executable and the cause. The whole-PR diff of packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts adds unavailableInstallHint. …
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR changes are limited to the discovery diagnostic. They add one helper in discovery.ts, apply it to CLI probe failures and, per the supplied summary, to VCS discovery failures in `SourceC…

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Explanation

The title names the main change: during source-control discovery, a CLI executable that cannot run due to an architecture mismatch now gets an install hint that explains the failure. It follows the conventional commit format and matches the diff, which adds unavailableInstallHint and macOS EBADARCH/errno -86 handling in discovery.ts and SourceControlDiscovery.ts, with tests.

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The description follows the template's main sections. Problem is covered in the opening paragraph: an Intel-only gh on an Apple Silicon Mac is marked missing with a hint that does not name the failing executable or the reason. Change is covered in the second paragraph. Scope and approval links issue #14590 and a maintainer approval comment. Verification lists focused regression tests, a check:changed run, and a platform caveat (macOS kernel failure not exercised on this rebuild). The template's HTML comments are not present, and the model/harness line is included. Minor gaps: the Problem section does not give explicit reproduction steps, and the Change section does not give a separate environment note. These are not critical.

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[#14590] The issue asks that a GitHub CLI failure name the failing executable and the cause. The whole-PR diff of packages/source-control-core/src/server/discovery.ts adds unavailableInstallHint. On macOS, it detects a spawn error whose cause has errno === -86 or code === "EBADARCH", including a platform-wrapped cause. It resolves the executable path, reads the server architecture, and returns a hint that names the executable and the incompatible CPU architecture. It keeps the configured installHint. probeCli calls this helper in its Effect.catch branch. Existing Effect.catch handling returns a missing result, not a failure. That behavior keeps the environment usable and marks GitHub integration unavailable, as the issue requests. discovery.test.ts (new file) covers synchronous errno -86, symbolic EBADARCH, and platform-wrapped errno -86 on darwin. It also checks that Linux errno -86 keeps the ordinary hint, and that other failures keep the ordinary hint. The change-since-review inspection was unavailable, so this assessment uses the whole-PR diff and the supplied test diff. The PR text reports that the Git and Jujutsu discovery path uses the same helper. The supplied raw summary supports this claim, but this run did not read SourceControlDiscovery.ts. The PR text also reports that connection handling was already fixed on main. This assessment relies on the unchanged Effect.catch code in the diff context for that point.

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The whole-PR changes are limited to the discovery diagnostic. They add one helper in discovery.ts, apply it to CLI probe failures and, per the supplied summary, to VCS discovery failures in SourceControlDiscovery.ts, and add focused regression tests in discovery.test.ts. The helper returns the original installHint for non-darwin platforms, for other error shapes, and for ordinary failures. The supplied summary reports no public declaration or contract changes. The PR text states that no client or contract changes are needed. No unrelated behavior is shown. The change-since-review inspection was unavailable, so the incremental delta since 604c728 was not isolated. The assessment covers the whole PR from bf8e132 to cb3149f.

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Note

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of Theo

Closing: this is covered by #21606, which landed. Reopen if a needed part is still missing.