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fix(web): hand-started t3 servers get an update command that updates them - #29462
When a server is started by hand through the install script's t3 launcher, which is a symlink into ~/.t3/runtime/versions/<v>/t3, it reports no installation kind. The update action then falls back to Copy relaunch command with npx t3@<version>. That needs Node on the host and leaves the installed t3 on the old version, so restarting through the user's own launcher brings the old version back. A real workspace stayed on 0.1.3 while the desktop app moved to 0.1.6. Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/29460.
Change
Server (apps/server/src/cli/invocation.ts): when the running entry is a pinned runtime, the server resolves the launcher it was invoked through. That is the same lookup t3 update uses to choose which launcher to repoint. The launcher has to be a symlink into that runtime's home. The server then reports { kind: "t3-launcher", launcher, baseDir }.
baseDir keeps the link's own spelling, so a symlinked ~/.t3 still matches what repointLauncher accepts.
The reported launcher is the absolute path already verified to point into that home. The PATH lookup passes over directories and non-executable files named t3, as the shell does. server.ts resolves the launcher before fixPath rewrites PATH and provides it as HostProcess.InvokedAs, so the startup PATH hydration can't swap in a different t3.
A runtime started directly, as desktop-managed SSH launches do, or through a plain copy still reports nothing.
Web (versionSkew.ts, ServerUpdateAction.tsx): copies '<launcher>' update --base-dir '<home>' <version> as Copy update command, with the same "then restart t3 with your usual options" toast as npm-global installs. --base-dir is always passed so an inherited T3CODE_HOME can't send the update to a home the launcher isn't in.
Contracts: a new ServerInstallation member. The field is already ForwardCompatibleOptional, so older clients decode it as unknown and keep today's behavior.
resolveLauncherPath moves to cloud/pinnedRuntime.ts, because importing it from cli/update.ts would create a cycle through cli/service.ts. A bare name found through a relative PATH entry now resolves against the working directory.
This is a focused fix for the wrong manual command. It is filed as https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/29460, which hasn't been triaged yet. There is no new setting or flow, only a correct command for an install kind the server didn't recognise.
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The new invocation.test.ts case uses a symlinked home, a relative PATH with a directory and a non-executable t3 ahead of the launcher, a bare invocation, an absolute invocation, a directly started runtime and a plain copy. It fails on main and passes here. versionSkew.test.ts and environment.test.ts gained rows for the command and the decode.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (35 packages) and react compiler pass. Two npm-global cases in invocation.test.ts fail only on macOS (/var vs /private/var), the same way on main. CI runs on Linux.
Real-process runs, starting node via exec -a through a launcher symlink into <home>/runtime/versions/0.1.3/t3:
bare t3 on PATH with a symlinked home: t3-launcher with the absolute launcher and the link-spelled baseDir
absolute launcher with T3CODE_HOME exported elsewhere: absolute launcher plus the link-spelled baseDir
runtime started directly: null
I ran the copied form, '/home/bits/.local/bin/t3' update --base-dir '/home/bits/.t3' 0.1.6, against a real installed t3 0.1.6 on Linux ARM64. It exited 0 ("already on 0.1.6").
Before (the server reports nothing):
After (t3-launcher):
Not checked: Electron and mobile. Mobile has no manual update command, and desktop uses the same web component.
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…them
A server started through the install script's `t3` launcher reported no
installation kind, so clients suggested relaunching with `npx t3@<version>`.
That needs Node on the host and leaves the installed launcher on the old
version, so the host never catches up.
The server now detects the launcher symlink it was started through and
reports it with its T3 home. Clients copy
`'<launcher>' update --base-dir '<home>' <version>` instead. Runtimes
started directly, as SSH launches do, keep today's behavior.
Fixespingdotgg#29460
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Launcher-installed servers now receive a command that updates their detected installation, with matching UI guidance. Updates remain manually initiated and use an explicit installation directory with launcher ownership checks.
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The server identifies pinned-runtime launches made through a matching t3 launcher. The installation descriptor carries the launcher and base directory. The client creates and presents a manual update command for this installation type.
Launcher resolution moves to pinnedRuntime.ts. The server captures the launcher path before PATH changes. Detection returns a t3-launcher descriptor when the launcher symlink matches the running runtime.
Launcher update command and UI apps/web/src/versionSkew.ts, apps/web/src/versionSkew.test.ts, apps/web/src/components/ServerUpdateAction.tsx, docs/user/updating.md
The client generates a quoted launcher update command and presents it as an update action. Tests cover command quoting, and the guide includes installed t3 commands.
Users starting a launcher through an empty PATH entry may receive a relaunch command instead of an update command. The impact is limited to that invocation pattern.
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The title clearly summarizes the main change: hand-started servers can copy an update command that updates their installed t3 launcher.
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The description covers the problem, the cross-component change, scope, and focused verification results. It links the related issue, explains why the focused fix needs no prior approval, includes UI s…
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For [#29460], the server identifies a pinned runtime started through its launcher symlink and reports the launcher and link-spelled base directory. The web client generates a quoted `update --base-dir…
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The changes support [#29460]. Moving resolveLauncherPath to pinnedRuntime.ts supports launcher detection and avoids the reported import cycle. The contract, UI, documentation, and focused tests im…
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For [#29460], the server identifies a pinned runtime started through its launcher symlink and reports the launcher and link-spelled base directory. The web client generates a quoted update --base-dir command for the target version and tells the user to restart with the usual options. The reported tests cover launcher detection, command generation, and contract decoding. Direct runtime starts and plain copies retain the existing fallback behavior.
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The changes support [#29460]. Moving resolveLauncherPath to pinnedRuntime.ts supports launcher detection and avoids the reported import cycle. The contract, UI, documentation, and focused tests implement or verify the requested manual update command. No unrelated change is evident.
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…e PATH entries
A bare launcher name let the host's shell pick a different `t3`, whose
update would leave the server's launcher on the old version. Report the
absolute launcher already verified to point into the runtime's home.
Launcher lookup on PATH now passes over directories and non-executable
files named `t3`, as the shell does, so an earlier stray entry no longer
hides the real launcher.
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The server rewrites PATH at startup before it builds its environment, so a
bare `t3` invocation could resolve to a different `t3` and lose its
launcher-installed update command. Resolve the launcher first and provide it
to the server layers.
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Minor · Quote and validate targetVersion before generating the launcher… · versionSkew.ts:98-113
apps/web/src/versionSkew.ts:98-113 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Quote and validate targetVersion before generating the launcher command.
targetVersion is interpolated without shell quoting in the t3-launcher branch. A reachable non-exact APP_VERSION can produce a copied command that the CLI rejects. A shell-significant value can also be interpreted by the shell before the CLI receives it. Quote targetVersion, and allow the manual update action only when it passes the same exact-version contract as the CLI. Generic parseSemver is not sufficient because it accepts normalized shorthand versions.
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Review comment at @apps/web/src/versionSkew.ts around lines 98 - 113:
Update manualServerUpdateCommand to shell-quote targetVersion in the t3-launcher
command. Gate the manual update action on the CLI’s exact-version validation
contract, not generic parseSemver, so only accepted exact versions can generate
a command.
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- Around line 98-113: Update manualServerUpdateCommand to shell-quote
targetVersion in the t3-launcher command. Gate the manual update action on the
CLI’s exact-version validation contract, not generic parseSemver, so only
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@coderabbitai Re the outside-diff note on apps/web/src/versionSkew.ts:98-113 (quote and validate targetVersion): I'm leaving this as is.
targetVersion is the client's own build version (APP_VERSION), or, for a track switch, a release version from npm, which only accepts valid semver. Neither comes from the remote host, and neither can contain shell metacharacters.
The existing npm-global and npx branches use the same value unquoted (t3@${targetVersion}). Quoting only the new branch would make them inconsistent without making it safer.
A non-exact version wouldn't do anything unsafe. t3 update would reject the copied command with an error, so an extra exact-version gate isn't worth the code.
@maria-rcks could you take a look when you have a moment? It fixes #29460: hand-started servers installed with the install script's t3 launcher were offered npx t3@<version>, which never updates the installed launcher. They now get '<launcher>' update --base-dir '<home>' <version>. CI is green, and the Macroscope and CodeRabbit findings are addressed. Thanks!
@hieu-lee Understood. Given the version sources you described, I withdraw the request to quote or validate targetVersion. I confirmed that the existing command branches interpolate the same value unquoted.
The remote installation paths remain quoted. No change is needed for this note.
verified head 79b735ac810031be831f8dbc3d65fce73983e000 as-is on linux x64, with playwright and /usr/bin/google-chrome.
reproduced on github/main (87e13d3fe177) in a separate worktree: a real executable launched through the installed-style symlink offered "Copy relaunch command" and copied npx t3@0.1.7.
on the exact pr executable, the same symlink, home, origin and settings flow offered "Copy update command". the actual browser clipboard contained '/tmp/launcher-check/bin/t3' update --base-dir '/tmp/launcher-check/home' 0.1.7; the toast instructed restarting with the usual options.
starting the exact pr executable directly preserved the relaunch fallback.
exercised real downloads and launcher repointing with published versions 0.1.6 → 0.1.5 → 0.1.6. an unrelated inherited T3CODE_HOME did not redirect the explicit --base-dir. the updater warned that the hand-started server needed restarting.
added a real git project through the app, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, and completed a real provider turn through the local proxy. the response was launcher verification ok.; the client showed zero file changes.
both checkouts ran vp i and background vp run dev, one at a time. launcher detection additionally used real single-executable builds produced on blacksmith. the supported APP_VERSION=0.1.7 client build setting exposed the version mismatch against server 0.1.6; no descriptors, provider responses or app state were mocked.
vp run check:changed edc37c96c810d42761ab510c6a3e9d0a741547dc passed through blacksmith: format, lint, knip, graphql, 35-package typecheck, 61 tests across 8 files, and react compiler checks. no source changes were needed.
native electron, ios/android, macos/windows, ssh/relay/tunnel connections, and other providers were not exercised on this linux vm. the synthetic client target 0.1.7 is unpublished, so that exact target was not installed; download/repoint behavior used the published versions above. native dependencies were resolved from each checkout beside its executable rather than a full release archive.
@juliusmarminge merged current main into this branch (the conflicts were in the CLI import lists: resolveLauncherPath now lives in cloud/pinnedRuntime.ts). vp run check:changed is clean and the affected test files pass. Could you review this when you have a moment?
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TrimmedNonEmptyString trimmed launcher and baseDir on decode and encode, so a
path with leading or trailing whitespace would point the copied update command
at a different home.
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Minor · Search the current directory for empty POSIX PATH entries · pinnedRuntime.ts:448-456
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Search the current directory for empty POSIX PATH entries
If a user starts an installed launcher by bare name through an empty PATH entry, this resolver skips the launcher. Installation detection can then fall back to an npx relaunch command, which does not update the installed launcher. Add a test for this PATH entry.
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Update the PATH-entry handling in the resolver around `candidate` so an empty entry on POSIX is searched as the current directory, allowing a bare-name launch to resolve. Preserve the existing behavior for Windows and when PATH is undefined, and add a test covering an empty POSIX PATH entry.
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Problem
When a server is started by hand through the install script's
t3launcher, which is a symlink into~/.t3/runtime/versions/<v>/t3, it reports no installation kind. The update action then falls back to Copy relaunch command withnpx t3@<version>. That needs Node on the host and leaves the installedt3on the old version, so restarting through the user's own launcher brings the old version back. A real workspace stayed on 0.1.3 while the desktop app moved to 0.1.6. Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/29460.Change
apps/server/src/cli/invocation.ts): when the running entry is a pinned runtime, the server resolves the launcher it was invoked through. That is the same lookupt3 updateuses to choose which launcher to repoint. The launcher has to be a symlink into that runtime's home. The server then reports{ kind: "t3-launcher", launcher, baseDir }.baseDirkeeps the link's own spelling, so a symlinked~/.t3still matches whatrepointLauncheraccepts.PATHlookup passes over directories and non-executable files namedt3, as the shell does.server.tsresolves the launcher beforefixPathrewrites PATH and provides it asHostProcess.InvokedAs, so the startup PATH hydration can't swap in a differentt3.versionSkew.ts,ServerUpdateAction.tsx): copies'<launcher>' update --base-dir '<home>' <version>as Copy update command, with the same "then restart t3 with your usual options" toast as npm-global installs.--base-diris always passed so an inheritedT3CODE_HOMEcan't send the update to a home the launcher isn't in.ServerInstallationmember. The field is alreadyForwardCompatibleOptional, so older clients decode it as unknown and keep today's behavior.resolveLauncherPathmoves tocloud/pinnedRuntime.ts, because importing it fromcli/update.tswould create a cycle throughcli/service.ts. A bare name found through a relative PATH entry now resolves against the working directory.Windows entries (
t3.exe) don't match and keep today's behavior. This doesn't bring back the foreground respawn self-update that https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/5181 removed. https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/22773 touches the same function for systemd-supervised servers, a different case.Scope and approval
This is a focused fix for the wrong manual command. It is filed as https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/29460, which hasn't been triaged yet. There is no new setting or flow, only a correct command for an install kind the server didn't recognise.
Verification
invocation.test.tscase uses a symlinked home, a relative PATH with a directory and a non-executablet3ahead of the launcher, a bare invocation, an absolute invocation, a directly started runtime and a plain copy. It fails onmainand passes here.versionSkew.test.tsandenvironment.test.tsgained rows for the command and the decode.vp run check:changed: format, lint, knip, typecheck (35 packages) and react compiler pass. Two npm-global cases ininvocation.test.tsfail only on macOS (/varvs/private/var), the same way onmain. CI runs on Linux.nodeviaexec -athrough a launcher symlink into<home>/runtime/versions/0.1.3/t3:t3onPATHwith a symlinked home:t3-launcherwith the absolute launcher and the link-spelledbaseDirT3CODE_HOMEexported elsewhere: absolute launcher plus the link-spelledbaseDirnull'/home/bits/.local/bin/t3' update --base-dir '/home/bits/.t3' 0.1.6, against a real installed t3 0.1.6 on Linux ARM64. It exited 0 ("already on 0.1.6").Before (the server reports nothing):
After (
t3-launcher):Not checked: Electron and mobile. Mobile has no manual update command, and desktop uses the same web component.
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Fixes #29460