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fix(gui): match the Getting started startup step to OpenCodex Desktop - #8476
In the OpenCodex desktop app, the Getting started card on Home (and the Set up hub) kept showing the CLI step "Start automatically — Keep opencodex running after a restart", which could stay at "2 of 3 done" forever. Under Desktop the proxy survives a restart through the app's Start at Login. The step credited a background service or launcher shim, never the app's own login item, and it opened the top of the Startup page.
Both pages now use one shared rule, startupChecklistStep in gui/src/startup-health-ui.ts. When the startup-health reading names a Desktop owner or supervisor:
The step reads Turn on Start at Login and points to the OpenCodex app menu, in all 11 locales, using each locale's existing Start at Login term.
Done only when the reading is fresh and viable: login on, and the app runs this proxy.
To do when login is verified off, or when macOS confirms the supervisor is missing, whatever the Codex routing.
Unknown otherwise: stale readings, and Windows and Linux readings that are not viable, since those platforms never verify a missing login item. Home still shows the hint so the row says where to check. A service or shim never completes the Desktop step.
Clicking it opens #startup/desktop, which scrolls to and focuses the Desktop card once per arrival. When that card would otherwise be empty because the app is not running, it now shows "Reopen OpenCodex and check Start at Login."
Without a Desktop reading (browser dashboard, CLI service or shim), the step, its completion and #startup are unchanged.
The dashboard cannot switch Start at Login itself. It is changed from the tray menu, the loopback dashboard has no Tauri permission for it, and adding one is a permission change outside this fix. So the step links to the Desktop card that already carries the tray guidance.
Desktop, login on
Desktop, login off
Browser dashboard
Set up hub, Desktop login off
#startup/desktop focuses the Desktop card
Screenshots are the built GUI (gui/dist) in headless Chrome against a mocked API with the macOS Desktop and browser readings.
Verification
Red first: on unchanged 05d517e960, cd gui && bun ../scripts/test-with-pinned-bun.ts --isolate tests/startup-checklist-desktop.test.tsx exited 1 (17 fail, 3 pass). After the change: 20 pass. It covers the decision table (macOS on/off/unknown/stale/supervision unknown, stopped supervisor with native and local routing, Desktop plus shim/service, Windows supervised and owned, Linux closed, browser service/shim/none), both pages' copy, state and click destination, the router, and Startup focus (cold load, refresh does not refocus, a new arrival refocuses, no card, plain #startup).
cd gui && bun ../scripts/test-with-pinned-bun.ts --isolate over the new file plus startup-checklist-refresh, startup-minimal, startup-revisit-cache, startup-install-result-reconciliation, i18n-locales, locale-parity, dashboard-tabs, providers-hash-history, codex-set-shell: 100 pass, 0 fail.
bun run test -- tests/gui/startup-health-ui.test.ts tests/gui/routing-intelligence-ui.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: 70 pass. bun run test:changed: 322 pass.
bun run lint:gui, bun run typecheck, bun run build:gui (includes tsc -b), bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, and cd docs-site && bun run build all exit 0. After rebasing onto fdcf20b74c, the core GUI set (60 pass) and typecheck were rerun.
startup-checklist-refresh.test.tsx: its fixtures were Desktop readings with the old copy. They are split into a browser set (original assertions) and a Desktop set that runs the same refresh cases with the new copy.
Follow-up d9b5672b59 (review and CodeRabbit): the German hint quotes the menu item „Beim Anmelden starten“ like the Startup page, the desktop guide explains the done, to do and unmarked states on each platform, and the focus test waits for the stale retry instead of a fixed sleep. Rerun: the desktop, refresh, i18n and locale parity files 47 pass; lint, typecheck, tsc -b and the docs-site build exit 0. After merging dev (3c497c63a4) the two checklist files (27 pass) and typecheck were rerun on 1df9b10c33.
The docs change is English only; translated desktop guides stay as they are and do not contradict it. The GUI copy covers all 11 locales.
NOT RUN: full bun run test, the macOS/Windows lane=all dispatch (batch-only policy), and a real Desktop app session; the Desktop states were exercised through mocked readings.
Checklist
Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
Docs or release notes were updated when needed. (structure/gui-and-management-api.md Startup safety, docs-site/.../guides/desktop-app.md)
Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults. (No auth, credential or permission change; no new Tauri capability.)
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New Features
The Home and Setup checklists now include a Desktop-specific “Start at Login” step, with status based on available startup checks. Uncertain results remain unmarked.
Selecting the step opens and focuses the Desktop card on the Startup page.
Added guidance for enabling Start at Login from the OpenCodex menu.
Documentation
Updated the desktop app guide and Startup safety documentation with checklist behavior and Desktop verification details.
Under OpenCodex Desktop the proxy survives a restart through the app's
Start at Login, but Home and the Set up hub still showed the service
step ("Start automatically"), credited it from a service or shim, and
opened the Startup page top.
Both pages now share startupChecklistStep. A Desktop reading gets a
Start at Login step that only fresh viable supervision completes,
verified-off login or a confirmed missing macOS supervisor marks to do,
and anything unverifiable (stale, Windows, Linux without evidence)
leaves unknown. The step opens #startup/desktop, which focuses the
Desktop card once per arrival. Browser readings keep the existing
step, completion and destination.
The setup checklists now derive Desktop autostart status, copy, and destination from startup health. The Startup page accepts a Desktop subpath and focuses the Desktop card on arrival. Tests and documentation cover Desktop and browser states, refresh behavior, and navigation.
Changes: Desktop autostart checklist
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Summary
Determine Desktop checklist state gui/src/startup-health-ui.ts, gui/src/hooks/useStartupChecklist.ts, gui/tests/startup-checklist-desktop.test.tsx, devlog/_plan/261110_desktop_autostart_checklist/000_plan.md
The shared checklist helper selects Desktop-specific completion states and copy from startup health. Browser readings continue to use the existing completion helper. Tests cover Desktop, browser, stale, and unknown readings.
Render and navigate from setup checklists gui/src/pages/Home.tsx, gui/src/pages/SetupHub.tsx, gui/src/i18n/shell-v2-copy.ts, gui/tests/startup-checklist-refresh.test.tsx, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/desktop-app.md, structure/gui-and-management-api.md
Home and SetupHub use the shared checklist result for status, copy, and navigation. Desktop checklist links target the Desktop subpath. Tests cover rendering and refreshed readings; the documentation describes the step, its completion conditions, and Desktop startup evidence.
Route to and focus the Desktop card gui/src/app-routing.ts, gui/src/pages/Startup.tsx, gui/src/pages/startup-desktop-focus.ts, gui/src/pages/startup-sections.tsx, gui/tests/startup-checklist-desktop.test.tsx
The Startup route recognizes the Desktop subpath. The focus hook scrolls to and focuses the card when it is rendered, and the card displays recovery guidance when Desktop is stopped and data has not failed. Tests cover initial and later arrivals, absent cards, and plain Startup navigation.
sequenceDiagram
participant Home
participant StartupChecklistStep
participant StartupPage
participant StartupDesktopFocus
participant DesktopCard
Home->>StartupChecklistStep: Read startup data for checklist status and destination
Home->>StartupPage: Navigate to startup/desktop
StartupPage->>StartupDesktopFocus: Report whether Desktop data is present
StartupDesktopFocus->>DesktopCard: Scroll to and focus rendered card
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Possibly related PRs
lidge-jun/opencodex#8271: Defines Desktop startup evidence states that this change uses to set checklist status, copy, and destination.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 1df9b
The checklist behavior appears consistent, but the English guide could more clearly explain when a Linux Desktop step remains unmarked. This is a bounded documentation risk, not a reason to block merging.
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Timing-based waits make the focus tests fragile.
The test at Line 216 waits a fixed 2100 ms for the stale retry. This retry interval is also set in Startup.tsx (2000 ms) and in STARTUP_HEALTH_STALE_RETRY_MS. A slow CI runner can make reads differ from 2, or make the assertion race the timer. Poll with a bounded waitFor on reads === 2 instead of a fixed sleep. This also shortens the passing path.
gui/src/pages/startup-desktop-focus.ts-29-38: 1
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Focus effect depends on the DOM, not on card render state.
cardRendered is Boolean(data?.desktop) from Startup.tsx. The effect then queries document.querySelector('[data-option="desktop"]'). React commits the OptionCard in the same commit that changes data, so effects run after the DOM exists. This works today. The query is global, so a second element with data-option="desktop" elsewhere would capture focus. Scope the query to a ref on the Startup page root to remove that risk. This is optional hardening.
structure/gui-and-management-api.md-502-502: 1
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The paragraph is overloaded and mixes unrelated contracts.
Line 502 is one very long paragraph. It now covers Desktop protection, shim PATH handling, checklist rules, focus behavior, and the self-launch argument builder. structure/AGENTS.md asks for one statement and a link in place of repeated text. Split the Getting started checklist rule into its own short paragraph under a separate heading. Other docs can then link to it. This also makes the future structure:check anchor links possible.
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- Around line 139-143: Update the Getting started checklist description to
clarify that on Linux a non-viable reading leaves the step unmarked, while on
macOS a fresh reading confirming the supervisor is missing marks it as To do in
the Set up checklist. Preserve the existing Windows guidance.
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The German hint now quotes the menu item as the Startup page does. The desktop guide explains when the step is done, to do or unmarked on macOS, Windows and Linux, and the focus test waits for the stale retry instead of a fixed sleep.
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Value. Desktop users saw a Getting started step that could never complete: it described the CLI service, credited only a service or shim, and opened the top of Startup safety. Now the step names Start at Login, is decided by the same Desktop evidence Startup safety uses, and opens the Desktop card. This matches the owner's report (Home stuck at "2 of 3 done").
UX change scope. Only the third Getting started step on Home and the Set up hub changes, and only when the startup-health reading names a Desktop owner or supervisor. The one Startup page change is inside the Desktop card: when the app is not running and the reading is fresh, the card shows the existing "Reopen OpenCodex and check Start at Login." line instead of an empty body. The #startup/desktop route is new; #startup behaves as before.
Existing users. Browser dashboard, CLI service and shim users get the same title, hint, completion (startupChecklistDone unchanged, delegated) and navigate("startup"). Tests pin this for service, shim and unprotected readings on both pages, and the refresh suite keeps its original browser assertions. One intended change: a Desktop-owned proxy that also has a shim or service no longer counts as done through them, because the Desktop app owns restart protection there.
Windows / macOS app. macOS: done when Start at Login is verified and the app runs the proxy, to do when it is verified off or the supervisor is confirmed missing. Windows: Start at Login is never verified (src/service/desktop-startup.ts Windows path), so the step stays unmarked and Home can stay at "2 of 3"; this is the owner's "undefined when unverifiable" rule and matches today's unverified state, and the hint says where to check. Linux without a verified autostart entry behaves the same way. No desktop/Tauri code or capability changed. The dashboard cannot toggle Start at Login itself; that would need a new Tauri permission on a remote origin, so the step links to the card that carries the tray guidance.
Review and CI. Fresh independent final review at 1df9b10c33 (hyds/deepseek-v4.1-flash-free): APPROVE, 0 blockers. Earlier review at a52b90deb1 approved; its German term finding and CodeRabbit's docs and test timing comments were fixed in d9b5672b59. CI on 1df9b10c33: 17 pass, 11 skipped by PR policy, none failing.
Follow-ups (not blocking). Report the Windows autolaunch state as evidence so the Windows step can complete; tie desktopManagesStartup's parameter back to the payload type; scope the focus query to the Startup options section if another data-option="desktop" surface appears.
NOT RUN. Full bun run test, the macOS/Windows lane=all dispatch (batch-only on dev), and a real Desktop app session; Desktop states were exercised through mocked readings and rendered screenshots.
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Summary
In the OpenCodex desktop app, the Getting started card on Home (and the Set up hub) kept showing the CLI step "Start automatically — Keep opencodex running after a restart", which could stay at "2 of 3 done" forever. Under Desktop the proxy survives a restart through the app's Start at Login. The step credited a background service or launcher shim, never the app's own login item, and it opened the top of the Startup page.
Both pages now use one shared rule,
startupChecklistStepingui/src/startup-health-ui.ts. When the startup-health reading names a Desktop owner or supervisor:#startup/desktop, which scrolls to and focuses the Desktop card once per arrival. When that card would otherwise be empty because the app is not running, it now shows "Reopen OpenCodex and check Start at Login."Without a Desktop reading (browser dashboard, CLI service or shim), the step, its completion and
#startupare unchanged.The dashboard cannot switch Start at Login itself. It is changed from the tray menu, the loopback dashboard has no Tauri permission for it, and adding one is a permission change outside this fix. So the step links to the Desktop card that already carries the tray guidance.
#startup/desktopfocuses the Desktop cardScreenshots are the built GUI (
gui/dist) in headless Chrome against a mocked API with the macOS Desktop and browser readings.Verification
05d517e960,cd gui && bun ../scripts/test-with-pinned-bun.ts --isolate tests/startup-checklist-desktop.test.tsxexited 1 (17 fail, 3 pass). After the change: 20 pass. It covers the decision table (macOS on/off/unknown/stale/supervision unknown, stopped supervisor with native and local routing, Desktop plus shim/service, Windows supervised and owned, Linux closed, browser service/shim/none), both pages' copy, state and click destination, the router, and Startup focus (cold load, refresh does not refocus, a new arrival refocuses, no card, plain#startup).cd gui && bun ../scripts/test-with-pinned-bun.ts --isolateover the new file plusstartup-checklist-refresh,startup-minimal,startup-revisit-cache,startup-install-result-reconciliation,i18n-locales,locale-parity,dashboard-tabs,providers-hash-history,codex-set-shell: 100 pass, 0 fail.bun run test -- tests/gui/startup-health-ui.test.ts tests/gui/routing-intelligence-ui.test.ts tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts: 70 pass.bun run test:changed: 322 pass.bun run lint:gui,bun run typecheck,bun run build:gui(includestsc -b),bun run structure:check,bun run privacy:scan, andcd docs-site && bun run buildall exit 0. After rebasing ontofdcf20b74c, the core GUI set (60 pass) and typecheck were rerun.startup-checklist-refresh.test.tsx: its fixtures were Desktop readings with the old copy. They are split into a browser set (original assertions) and a Desktop set that runs the same refresh cases with the new copy.d9b5672b59(review and CodeRabbit): the German hint quotes the menu item „Beim Anmelden starten“ like the Startup page, the desktop guide explains the done, to do and unmarked states on each platform, and the focus test waits for the stale retry instead of a fixed sleep. Rerun: the desktop, refresh, i18n and locale parity files 47 pass; lint, typecheck,tsc -band the docs-site build exit 0. After merging dev (3c497c63a4) the two checklist files (27 pass) and typecheck were rerun on1df9b10c33.bun run test, the macOS/Windowslane=alldispatch (batch-only policy), and a real Desktop app session; the Desktop states were exercised through mocked readings.Checklist
structure/gui-and-management-api.mdStartup safety,docs-site/.../guides/desktop-app.md)Summary by CodeRabbit