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Problem

A provider Binary path that starts with ~/, such as ~/.local/bin/opencode (a wrapper around flatpak run), was passed to spawn literally. The spawn failed with ENOENT, and Settings → Providers showed "Not found · OpenCode CLI (opencode) is not installed or not on PATH". The same happens for Grok and Pi. Codex, Claude and Muse already expand ~.

Reproduction on main (47f2c8d): set OpenCode's Binary path to ~/…/opencode, an executable wrapper exec opencode "$@". The server logs PlatformError: NotFound: ChildProcess.spawn (~/…/opencode --version) and the provider shows "Not found". The same wrapper given as an absolute path is detected (v1.18.18, authenticated, 120 models). Grok and Pi with ~/… wrappers also show "Not found".

Change

The OpenCode, Grok and Pi drivers now build effectiveConfig with binaryPath: expandHomePath(config.binaryPath, yield* HostProcess.HomeDirectory), the same line the Codex, Claude and Muse drivers use. Each driver also passes effectiveConfig instead of the raw config to its orchestration adapter's create. Without that, Settings would report the provider ready while starting a turn still spawned ~/…. Bare command names and absolute paths are unchanged.

Scope and approval

Fixes #29302

The issue reports OpenCode. Grok and Pi have the same defect on the same code path (reproduced on main), so they are fixed the same way here.

Verification

Focused tests, one per driver. All three fail on main with the raw path and pass with the fix:

  • packages/provider-opencode/src/server/driver.test.ts: "probes and starts a ~/ binary path from the home directory". On main: expected [ '~/bin/opencode' ] to deeply equal [ '/test-home/bin/opencode' ].
  • packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.test.ts: "probes a ~/ binary path from the home directory". On main the raw ~/bin/grok is spawned.
  • packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.test.ts: "launches a ~/ binary path from the home directory". On main: expected [ '~/bin/pi' ] to deeply equal [ '/test-home/bin/pi' ].

vp run check:changed passes: format, lint, knip, typecheck of 11 packages, and tests in 4 files.

Runtime check: the web dev server on a fresh database, with ~/… Binary paths pointing at executable wrappers for opencode, grok and pi.

main 47f2c8d this branch 5d33f3e
OpenCode status Not found (spawn ~/… ENOENT) v1.18.18 · Authenticated
Grok status Not found v1.0.70 · Authenticated
Pi status Not found v1.4.0 · Authenticated
OpenCode turn (Claude Haiku 5.5) not reachable session starts, replies "PONG"
Pi turn (Pi default) not reachable session starts, replies "PONG"
Grok turn not reachable grok agent … stdio spawns from the expanded path

The server log on this branch has no ENOENT or spawn ~ lines.

Not checked:

  • A real Flatpak or AppImage install. A wrapper script stood in for flatpak run, and the same wrapper given as an absolute path already worked on main.
  • Native Windows and macOS.
  • A finished Grok reply. The test account rejected the default Grok model, which happened after the process had started.

Before/after screenshots are not attached.

Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code), with step agents on Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol (Codex), via T3 Code.

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…rok and Pi

These tests reproduce #29302: a binaryPath starting with ~/ reaches the
spawned command unexpanded for the OpenCode, Grok and Pi drivers, so the
status probe fails with ENOENT and the provider shows "Not found".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Binary path such as ~/.local/bin/opencode reached spawn unexpanded for
the OpenCode, Grok and Pi drivers, so the status probe failed with ENOENT
and Settings showed "Not found". These drivers now expand the path against
the home directory like Codex, Claude and Muse, and hand the expanded
config to their orchestration adapters so sessions launch the same binary.

The Grok reproduction test now checks every argv element, since agent
launches can be wrapped in /bin/sh and the maintenance lookup may spawn npm.

Fixes #29302

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at 2eddf98

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Grok and Pi now resolve home-relative binary paths consistently across provider operations. The assessed changes preserve defaults and ordinary executable paths, with no obvious material risk requiring human judgment.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.5 KiB 21.5 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 24.4 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 1 1 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.9 KiB 21.9 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 24.4 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 1 1 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: d290c1f · PR result: 2eddf98 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
  • Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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The Grok and Pi drivers now expand configured binary paths against the host home directory and pass the expanded paths to their adapters. Tests verify that paths beginning with ~/ resolve to the supplied home directory.

Changes: Provider binary path expansion

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expand paths before adapter creation
packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.ts, packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.test.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.ts, packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.test.ts
Both drivers expand config.binaryPath using the host home directory and pass the resulting effective configuration to their adapters. Tests check that the resolved path appears in launched commands and the literal tilde path does not.

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

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • pingdotgg/t3code#13523: Adds Grok update support based on resolved executable context, which connects to Grok's expanded binary path.

Suggested reviewers: maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to 2eddf

Provider discovery is tested, but session startup with home-relative paths lacks regression coverage. The change is mergeable with that follow-up.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4

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Title check Passed The title names the Grok and Pi binary-path fixes in the changeset. It also names OpenCode, which the supplied file summaries do not show as changed, so the title is only partially aligned.
Description check Passed The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, with detailed reproduction and test results. However, it describes OpenCode changes and verificati…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue [#29302] requires OpenCode to run when its configured binary path uses ~/, including a Flatpak wrapper. At the reviewed head, packages/provider-opencode/src/server/driver.ts expands `config.…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The Grok and Pi changes extend the same home-relative binary-path fix to providers with the same defect. The current PR description identifies that shared scope, and the focused tests check the expand…
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The description includes the required Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections, with detailed reproduction and test results. However, it describes OpenCode changes and verification that are not present in the supplied file summaries; the linked comment also says OpenCode is already covered elsewhere.

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Issue [#29302] requires OpenCode to run when its configured binary path uses ~/, including a Flatpak wrapper. At the reviewed head, packages/provider-opencode/src/server/driver.ts expands config.binaryPath with HostProcess.HomeDirectory and passes effectiveConfig to its orchestration adapter. The previous review also verified the focused OpenCode regression test. The current head retains this behavior, so the coding requirement is met.

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The Grok and Pi changes extend the same home-relative binary-path fix to providers with the same defect. The current PR description identifies that shared scope, and the focused tests check the expanded paths. These changes support the reported objective and do not demonstrate unrelated scope.

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Nitpick Add session-launch assertions to all three driver tests.

186-186: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add session-launch assertions to all three driver tests.

instance.snapshot.refresh exercises only status or runtime probing. It does not call the adapter’s openSession. Reverting only config: effectiveConfig to config: config can therefore leave these tests passing because the probe paths use effectiveConfig separately.

Open a session through each returned driver instance and assert the expanded binary path. Include the OpenCode 1.x selection. Keep these checks in the driver tests because the regression is the driver-to-adapter handoff; adapter-only tests cannot detect the driver passing the raw configuration.

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Review comment at @packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.test.ts at line 186:
Update all three driver tests to launch a session through the returned driver
instance and assert the adapter receives the expanded binary path, including the
OpenCode 1.x selection; keep the existing snapshot.refresh checks and verify the
driver-to-adapter handoff uses the effective configuration.
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yield* instance.snapshot.refresh;
assert.isNotEmpty(binaryPaths);

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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Require a server startup attempt.

The version probe also adds an entry to binaryPaths. This assertion can therefore pass if startOpenCodeServerProcess is never called. Record probe and startup paths separately and assert that both are present.

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Update the test around `startOpenCodeServerProcess` to track version-probe and
server-startup paths separately, then assert that each is present so the test
verifies an actual startup attempt.

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Thanks for fixing these paths! OpenCode home-relative binary paths are already covered on main by #29326 (10cd1a5). Could you cut this PR down to the remaining Grok and Pi fixes and their tests, and update the issue reference accordingly?

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packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.test.ts: 1

195-195: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Test the Pi session command.

The recorded launches come from snapshot refresh, not instance.orchestrationAdapter. If the adapter receives the unexpanded configuration again, this test still passes while RPC session startup uses ~/bin/pi. Extend this case to open a session and assert the RPC launch command. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.test.ts at line 195:
Extend the test around instance.snapshot.refresh to open a session through instance.orchestrationAdapter and assert the RPC launch command uses the expanded configuration rather than the unexpanded `~/bin/pi` path.

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packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.test.ts: 1

187-187: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift

Test the Grok session command.

This test checks the status probe, but it does not exercise instance.orchestrationAdapter. If the adapter receives the unexpanded configuration again, this test still passes while session startup uses ~/bin/grok. Extend this case to open a session and assert the ACP spawn command. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.test.ts at line 187:
Extend the test around instance.snapshot.refresh to open a session through instance.orchestrationAdapter and assert the ACP spawn command uses the expanded Grok configuration, so the test catches regressions where session startup receives the unexpanded command.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comments at @packages/provider-grok/src/server/driver.test.ts:
- Line 187: Extend the test around instance.snapshot.refresh to open a session
through instance.orchestrationAdapter and assert the ACP spawn command uses the
expanded Grok configuration, so the test catches regressions where session
startup receives the unexpanded command.

Review comments at @packages/provider-pi/src/server/driver.test.ts:
- Line 195: Extend the test around instance.snapshot.refresh to open a session
through instance.orchestrationAdapter and assert the RPC launch command uses the
expanded configuration rather than the unexpanded `~/bin/pi` path.

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Evidence

On each independently installed commit, start the real development server with a fresh database and the same synthetic project. Configure executable wrappers as ~/bin/grok and ~/bin/pi, refresh status, and start a thread requesting PATH_OK. Repeat using each wrapper's absolute path.

Linux; Grok 1.0.77 and Pi 1.5.2. Web: Chromium, dark theme, 1280×1000 CSS viewport at scale 2; matching physical-pixel crops. Terminal recordings: real server RPC and T3 CLI, 1280×800 at 15 fps, light theme. No tests used as evidence.

Before After
d290c1f1b6 2eddf982de
Before: Grok path not found After: Grok detected through home-relative path
Before: Pi path not found After: Pi detected through home-relative path
Recorded reproduction and controls Recorded reproduction and controls
Runtime transcript Runtime transcript
Server error excerpts Server error excerpts

Base never invokes either home-relative wrapper during turn startup. Head invokes both; Pi completes with PATH_OK. Grok launches and answers ACP initialization, then fails because the installed CLI does not advertise T3's requested xai.api_key authentication method. Its absolute-path control reaches the identical authentication failure on both commits. This verifies Grok path expansion and process launch, but not successful authenticated session creation or turn completion.

Seed/RPC driver · Reproduction script · Recording script · Detailed method

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

  • Successful Grok authenticated session creation and turn completion: Grok 1.0.77 advertises grok.com authentication, while T3 requests xai.api_key. Head and both absolute-path controls launch the CLI and reach the same mismatch. The home-relative process launch itself is verified.
  • Text-generation operations using the expanded configuration were not exercised; evidence covers provider detection and orchestration turn startup.
  • OpenCode turn completion was not established. OpenCode already expands home-relative paths on base, and the pinned diff changes only Grok and Pi.

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