desktop: apply chain switches without a restart; Hermes needs none - #371
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Switching the payment chain wrote ~/.blockrun/.chain and then asked the user to "restart the gateway", but the proxy that needed restarting is the child process Desktop itself launched, which the user cannot restart short of quitting the app. The router resolves the chain once at startup and talks to a different gateway per chain, so there is no in-process switch to call. Desktop now restarts the proxy it owns after the CLI succeeds, waits for the new one to pass the ownership check, and confirms through /health that it signs on the requested chain before reporting it active. A proxy Desktop did not launch is left alone and keeps the old restart message. The Hermes card demanded a restart of the Hermes process after every change. Hermes re-reads config.yaml whenever its mtime changes, looks the provider key up in ~/.hermes/.env at call time, and Hermes Desktop starts a fresh `hermes --tui` process per chat, so nothing needs the process restarted. The adapter now reports the change as live; only an already-open session keeps its model until /model. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change enables immediate Hermes activation and adds Desktop-managed proxy restart and health verification during payment-chain switches. Tests cover successful switches, ownership limits, restart failures, chain mismatches, and failed CLI commands. ChangesProxy and Hermes activation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ClawRouterManager
participant ServiceSupervisor
participant LocalProxy
ClawRouterManager->>ServiceSupervisor: restartProxy()
ServiceSupervisor->>LocalProxy: Stop process tree and relaunch proxy
ClawRouterManager->>LocalProxy: GET /health?full=true
LocalProxy-->>ClawRouterManager: Active payment chain
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Automatic chain switching can mismanage proxy shutdown by signaling an unrelated process, losing ownership of a running Desktop proxy, or delaying failure reporting. These issues should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@apps/desktop/electron/core/supervisor.ts`:
- Line 225: Update stopChild() to terminate the complete managed proxy process
tree or listener descendants, then wait until port 8402 is closed before
restartProxy() allows ensureProxy() to run. Preserve the existing direct-child
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…nching Review pointed out that stopping only the direct child is not enough: were the child a wrapper, the listener on 8402 would be a descendant that outlives it, and ensureProxy() would adopt the stale proxy (it still proves the Desktop token) instead of starting one on the new chain. The supervisor now collects the listeners that descend from the child before signalling, stops them with the child, waits for the port to actually close before relaunching, escalates to SIGKILL after the grace period, and fails loudly if the port is still held rather than letting a stale proxy be re-adopted. Regression test spawns a real wrapper whose grandchild would otherwise survive. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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apps/desktop/tests/supervisor.test.ts (1)
90-97: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd cleanup for the spawned wrapper and grandchild processes.
The test relies on
restartProxy()to terminate both processes. If an assertion fails earlier, or if the run aborts, the grandchild keeps itssetIntervaland survives the test process. Register cleanup so the test never leaves processes behind.♻️ Proposed cleanup
{ stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] }, ); + onTestFinished(() => { + for (const pid of [wrapper.pid, grandchild]) { + if (pid) { + try { + process.kill(pid, "SIGKILL"); + } catch { + // Already gone. + } + } + } + });Import
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In `@apps/desktop/electron/core/supervisor.ts`:
- Around line 116-117: Move the this.children.delete("proxy") operation before
await this.stopProxy(current) in the proxy shutdown flow, so the tracked child
is cleared even when stopProxy throws due to the port check. Preserve the
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In `@apps/desktop/tests/supervisor.test.ts`:
- Around line 90-97: Register an onTestFinished cleanup after the grandchild PID
is resolved in the test using restartProxy(), ensuring both the spawned wrapper
and grandchild processes are terminated even when assertions fail or the run
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Reviewed. The design is right — Desktop restarting the proxy it owns, and refusing to kill one it doesn't, is the correct shape, and the wrapper/grandchild test is the good kind of test. Three defects in the new restart path, all reachable from one chain switch. Fixed on 1. A signal-killed child reads as still running, and the restart then hangs forever. So the guard falls through on a dead child, 2. SIGKILL goes to a pid nobody re-confirmed. 3. The tracked child survives a failed stop. All three fail on this PR's code; CodeRabbit's supervisor.ts:279 comment is a false positive. It asks you to "terminate the owned process tree, or its listener descendants, and wait for port 8402 to close before calling Verified on this PR's head plus the fix: |
Three defects in the new restart path, all reachable from one chain switch.
`stopChild()` gated on `child.exitCode !== null`. A process killed by a
signal keeps `exitCode === null` and reports the signal in `signalCode`,
which is exactly how this file stops things, so the guard read a dead
child as running, sent SIGTERM at a closed handle and then awaited an
"exit" that had already fired. `restartProxy()` never settled and the
chain switch hung with no way back. `hasExited()` now answers the
question, and the wait is bounded so a child that outlives SIGKILL hands
the decision to stopProxy's port check instead of stalling. The same
predicate was wrong in `liveChild()`, `childOwnsPort()` and `start()`.
`stopProxy()` escalated to SIGKILL against `descendants`, a pid list read
before the parent died. Five seconds of grace is long enough for a
descendant that obeyed SIGTERM to have had its pid recycled, and SIGKILL
is not a signal to send at a pid nobody has re-confirmed. It now re-reads
the port (`listenersOnPort`, factored out of `listenersOwnedBy`) and
kills only what is still holding it.
`restartProxy()` skipped `children.delete("proxy")` when `stopProxy()`
threw, so a child it had already signalled stayed in the map and the next
restart told the user Desktop does not own a proxy it started.
Tests: all three fail on the previous code — the first as a 5 s timeout,
which is the hang itself.
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285-295: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse
hasExited()while waiting for startup health.A child terminated by an external signal has
exitCode === nulland can retainkilled === false.waitForOwned()then waits up to 30 seconds for a process that already exited.Use
hasExited(child)in both lifecycle checks so startup fails immediately.Proposed fix
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In `@apps/desktop/electron/core/supervisor.ts`:
- Around line 143-148: Revalidate descendant PIDs after await stopChild() and
before the initial SIGTERM phase, intersecting them with the current
listenersOnPort(PROXY_PORT, this.context.runCommand) result. Use that same
validated set for both SIGTERM and the later SIGKILL escalation, and add a
regression test covering a descendant PID recycled by an unrelated process.
- Around line 116-123: Update the stopProxy cleanup around stopChild so
children.delete("proxy") runs only after the child exits or a shutdown signal
has been attempted. Preserve the map entry when listenersOwnedBy() fails before
stopChild() signals current, allowing a later restartProxy() to retain Desktop
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In `@apps/desktop/electron/core/supervisor.ts`:
- Around line 285-295: Update both lifecycle checks in waitForOwned to use
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| try { | ||
| await this.stopProxy(current); | ||
| } finally { | ||
| // stopProxy throws when the port stays open, but the child is already | ||
| // signalled by then. Keeping it in the map makes the next restartProxy() | ||
| // resolve false and tell the user Desktop does not own a proxy it started. | ||
| this.children.delete("proxy"); | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep ownership when listener discovery fails before shutdown.
If lsof fails to start or times out, listenersOwnedBy() rejects before stopChild() signals current. The finally block then removes a still-running Desktop-managed proxy. A later restart returns false and reports that Desktop does not own that proxy.
Delete the map entry only after the child has exited or a shutdown signal was attempted.
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try {
await this.stopProxy(current);
} finally {
- this.children.delete("proxy");
+ if (hasExited(current) || current.killed) {
+ this.children.delete("proxy");
+ }
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| try { | |
| await this.stopProxy(current); | |
| } finally { | |
| // stopProxy throws when the port stays open, but the child is already | |
| // signalled by then. Keeping it in the map makes the next restartProxy() | |
| // resolve false and tell the user Desktop does not own a proxy it started. | |
| this.children.delete("proxy"); | |
| } | |
| try { | |
| await this.stopProxy(current); | |
| } finally { | |
| // stopProxy throws when the port stays open, but the child is already | |
| // signalled by then. Keeping it in the map makes the next restartProxy() | |
| // resolve false and tell the user Desktop does not own a proxy it started. | |
| if (hasExited(current) || current.killed) { | |
| this.children.delete("proxy"); | |
| } | |
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In `@apps/desktop/electron/core/supervisor.ts` around lines 116 - 123, Update the
stopProxy cleanup around stopChild so children.delete("proxy") runs only after
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| // Re-read the port before escalating. `descendants` was captured before the | ||
| // parent died; a descendant that exited on SIGTERM can have had its pid | ||
| // recycled inside the grace window, and SIGKILL is not a signal to send at a | ||
| // pid we have not just re-confirmed is the thing holding the port. | ||
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Revalidate descendant PIDs before SIGTERM.
descendants is captured before await stopChild(). If a descendant exits and its PID is recycled during that wait, Line 141 can send SIGTERM to an unrelated process. The new holding check protects only SIGKILL.
Re-read the listener PIDs and intersect them with descendants before both signal phases. Add a regression test for a recycled PID.
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In `@apps/desktop/electron/core/supervisor.ts` around lines 143 - 148, Revalidate
descendant PIDs after await stopChild() and before the initial SIGTERM phase,
intersecting them with the current listenersOnPort(PROXY_PORT,
this.context.runCommand) result. Use that same validated set for both SIGTERM
and the later SIGKILL escalation, and add a regression test covering a
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The supervisor work holds up: hasExited fixes a real bug (exitCode stays null for a signal-killed child, which is exactly how this file stops things), the descendant SIGKILL is re-confirmed against the live port so a recycled pid can't be hit, and a proxy on 8402 that isn't Desktop's child is left alone. Live chain-switch table + 7 new tests are enough. Merging ahead of #379, which deletes the restartRequired field this PR sets — same lines, so this one goes first.
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Two restart prompts in ClawRouter Desktop that users could not actually act on.
Chain switch (Base ↔ Solana). Switching wrote
~/.blockrun/.chainand then said "Restart the ClawRouter/OpenClaw gateway", but the process that needed restarting is the proxy child Desktop itself spawned. The router resolves the chain once at startup and uses a different gateway per chain, so there is no in-process switch to call. Desktop now:ServiceSupervisor.restartProxy: SIGTERM, wait for exit with a 5 s SIGKILL fallback, then the existingensureProxyownership check),/health?full=truethat the new proxy signs on the requested chain,This matches what the Hermes plugin already does for its own
/clawrouter walletcommand.Hermes. The card demanded a restart of the Hermes process after every change, forever, because the adapter's
restartRequiredmirroredconfigured. Hermes re-readsconfig.yamlwhenever its mtime changes, resolves the provider key from~/.hermes/.envat call time, and Hermes Desktop starts a freshhermes --tuiprocess per chat. Nothing needs the process restarted; only an already-open session keeps its model until/model. The adapter now reports the change as live with that guidance.Verification
tsc --noEmit,vite build, andprettier --checkclean; vitest 53 passed (7 new: the four chain-switch outcomes, the CLI-failure path, the supervisor refusing a foreign proxy, and a real SIGTERM-and-relaunch of a spawned child)./health.chainWallet badge stayed "Live", no restart hint appeared, and the proxy log shows a clean SIGTERM → "Proxy closed" → start on the new chain each time. The same round trip was repeated on top of
desktop-v0.1.3-preview.1(pids 43056 → 43313 → 43388) where the hero and Hermes label update accordingly.Notes for reviewers
desktop-v0.1.3-preview.1; the electron and test files are identical between main and that tag.restartRequiredflag, so on the 0.1.3 line they read "Configured · restart required" permanently after connecting. Out of scope here; happy to follow up.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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