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relay init: start the desktop app's core before the public one - #2061
relay init (the message-injection setup path): when the Agent Relay desktop app is installed and no core answers on the bridge socket, init first asks the desktop app to start its own core and attaches to it. "No core answers" includes the case where init has just retired its own outdated core.
macOS: open -g -j -b com.agentrelay.desktop (background, hidden, no focus steal). The app registers and starts its core LaunchAgent (com.agentrelay.desktop.core) as it does on every launch.
Linux: systemctl --user start agent-relay.service when systemctl --user is-enabled --quiet agent-relay.service succeeds. Otherwise, only in a desktop session (DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY set), a runnable agent-relay-desktop launcher (/usr/bin, then per-user updater trees, newest first) is started detached with --background (tray). It is never started with --headless: a headless start removes the person's GUI autostart entry, so a relay init over SSH into their desktop would cost them the tray app at login. With no enabled unit and no display, init skips the desktop start and falls back to the public core with the warning (reason: the desktop app's core needs agent-relay.service enabled, or a desktop session).
Windows: no desktop start, so behaviour is unchanged. The logon task is off unless the person turned it on.
A moved socket (AGENT_RELAY_CORE_SOCKET set to anything other than the default) also skips the desktop start, because the desktop core never serves it.
After asking the desktop app, init shows Asked the Agent Relay desktop app to start its core; using the core now running on this machine (agent-relay-probe <v>, pid <n>). No core.json is written for it.
PROBE_VERSION goes from 15.0.7 to 15.0.8. The Cursor row in docs/probe-move.md now says the editor route needs core 15.0.8 or newer.
Fallback rule
desktopInstalled can be stale (markers left after an uninstall, or a disabled service), so a failed desktop start never fails init. The desktop start counts as failed if the start command throws or exits non-zero, or if no core answers within CORE_START_TIMEOUT_MS (30s, wall-clock). In that case init installs and starts the public core exactly as before. Once the public core is up, init prints one warning as a ! line in the message-injection summary, so it shows in plain output and also in the guided flow's note after the spinner stops:
! The Agent Relay desktop app is installed, but its core could not be started (). relay init started the public Agent Relay core instead. To use the desktop app's core, open the Agent Relay desktop app, then run relay init --stop and relay init again.
If the public core fails too, the desktop failure is added to the usual "Message injection is not available (...)" reason.
The existing "one core per machine; attach, never double" rule still holds:
A core that is already running is attached to. The desktop app is never asked, and nothing is stopped.
A core that answers after the probe download, or that takes the socket while the public core starts, is attached to. Only the process this run spawned is stopped (new: before this PR it was left to exit on the socket lock). The core that answered is never stopped.
After a switch off the local workspace, a desktop core this run asked for gets running sessions moved to the new workspace, the same as a public core this run started.
--uninstall's temporary core still uses today's path. It never opens the desktop app.
Tests
init.test.ts, new starting the desktop app core block (fake deps only):
desktop installed and no core: the desktop start is attempted, its core is attached, there is no probe download and no core.json
the desktop start throws (including Linux with no enabled unit and no display), or its core never answers: the public core starts, core.json records it, and the warning prints exactly once
desktop not installed: the desktop start is never called (unchanged path)
a desktop core appears while the public core starts: it is attached, our pid 5151 is stopped, the foreign pid 777 is never stopped, there is no daemon.shutdown and no core.json
a desktop core appears during the download: it is attached and startCore is never called
a foreign core is already running: it is untouched and the desktop app is not asked
the public core also fails: one reason names both failures
init's own outdated core is retired: the desktop app is asked next
a switch to a team with a desktop core this run asked for: sessions are moved
desktop-presence.test.ts: which command startDesktopCore picks per platform, with fake effects (macOS open and its failure, Linux enabled unit, launcher --background with DISPLAY or WAYLAND_DISPLAY, no unit and no display throws without launching anything, newest per-user tree, nothing runnable found, Windows runs nothing).
The setup default in init.test.ts fakes startDesktopCore to return undefined. Tests also already stub AGENT_RELAY_CORE_SOCKET, so the real default would skip the desktop start as well.
CLI typecheck and lint pass (no new warnings; ensureCore complexity is back to main's 16). The whole CLI suite passes: 2684 passed, 17 skipped. ci-standalone-smoke hit its 5s timeout once under full-suite load and passes on its own.
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Merge after probe-v15.0.8 is published. Until it exists, relay init on a machine with no core binary cannot download the pinned core and falls back to MCP delivery. For the same reason, the Flows v2 scenario-core-init-parity step fails on this PR, because that lane installs the pinned release.
CI never runs a real desktop start (no app, launchd or systemd), and neither did I by hand. The exact commands are only checked against fake effects.
The macOS LaunchAgent can wait on a Login Items approval prompt. In that case init falls back after 30s with the warning.
On Linux without an enabled agent-relay.service and without a display (a headless server, or SSH into a desktop), init never starts the desktop core; it falls back to the public core with the warning. The desktop's headless launcher is deliberately not used, because of its autostart side effect.
When the Agent Relay desktop app is installed and no core answers on the
bridge socket, relay init now asks the app to start its own core (macOS:
open -g -j -b com.agentrelay.desktop; Linux: the enabled agent-relay.service
user unit, else the agent-relay-desktop launcher) and attaches to it. If no
core answers within the start timeout, it starts the public core as before
and warns once. Machines without the desktop app, Windows, and a moved
socket keep today's path. No core.json is written for a desktop core, and a
core init did not start is never stopped. When another core takes the
socket while the public one starts, only the process init started is
stopped.
Pin the core to 15.0.8.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough
relay init can start and attach to the desktop app’s core before using the public core. The probe version and documented Cursor editor hook minimum change to 15.0.8.
startDesktopCore starts the desktop app on macOS or Linux. Tests cover startup methods, launcher selection, and errors.
Core selection and fallback packages/cli/src/cli/commands/init.ts, packages/cli/src/cli/commands/init.test.ts, CHANGELOG.md
When no core is running and the desktop app is installed, relay init tries the desktop core. If it does not start or answer, init can start or attach to the public core and report the fallback. Tests cover startup, fallback, workspace moves, and core ownership.
Probe Version Update
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Summary
Probe version and Cursor minimum packages/cli/src/cli/lib/probe-core.ts, docs/probe-move.md
PROBE_VERSION and the documented Cursor editor route minimum change to 15.0.8.
sequenceDiagram
participant InjectionSetup
participant ensureCore
participant startDesktopCore
participant DesktopApp
participant CoreSocket
participant startPublicCore
InjectionSetup->>ensureCore: request desktop preference
ensureCore->>startDesktopCore: request desktop startup
startDesktopCore->>DesktopApp: launch desktop app
ensureCore->>CoreSocket: wait for a core response
ensureCore->>startPublicCore: start or attach when desktop startup fails
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Possibly related PRs
AgentWorkforce/relay#2016: Adds the core attach-or-start flow that this change extends with desktop-core startup and public-core fallback.
AgentWorkforce/relay#2049: Updates the Cursor route’s core-version requirement, which is also updated to 15.0.8 here.
AgentWorkforce/relay#2035: Covers core ownership during workspace switching, which this change also handles for desktop-started cores.
Merge Risk: High · up to 19dc7
Publish the 15.0.8 core release before merging: fresh installations that need the public core currently cannot download it. Desktop startup also retains narrower ownership and launcher-selection problems, and the changelog overstates platform support.
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Summary
relay init prefers the desktop app’s core before starting the public core. The latest change avoids launching the Linux desktop app headless when no display is available.
Message-injection setup tries the installed desktop app’s core before starting the public core.
New relay init downloads use core version 15.0.8.
Diagram
%%{init: {'theme': 'neutral'}}%%
flowchart TD
A[relay init] --> B{Core already running?}
B -->|Yes| C[Attach to it]
B -->|No| D{Desktop start available?}
D -->|Yes| E[Ask desktop to start]
E --> F{Core answers?}
F -->|Yes| C
F -->|No| G[Start public core]
D -->|No display or start fails| G
G --> H[Keep desktop failure warning]
…le warning
- Ask the desktop app for its core also once init retired its own outdated
core, since no core answers then either.
- Move running sessions after a switch on a desktop core this run asked for,
as on a public core this run started.
- Carry the fallback warning in the result (an injection-summary line) and
fold the desktop failure into the reason when the public core fails too,
so the guided flow's spinner no longer swallows either.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a test for a failing systemctl --user start on Linux.
startDesktopCore throws when the enabled unit fails to start. No Linux test sets that command to a nonzero status, so removing the status check would not fail any desktop-presence test. Add a case that sets systemctl --user start agent-relay.service to exit 1 and expects a throw. Place it after starts the enabled Linux user unit, following the macOS failure test.
Suggested test
it('starts the enabled Linux user unit', () => {
const fake = effects();
expect(startDesktopCore('linux', home, {}, fake.effects)).toBe(
'systemctl --user start agent-relay.service'
);
expect(fake.ran).toEqual([IS_ENABLED, 'systemctl --user start agent-relay.service']);
expect(fake.launched).toEqual([]);
});
++ it('throws when the enabled Linux user unit does not start', () => {+ const fake = effects({ 'systemctl --user start agent-relay.service': 1 });+ expect(() => startDesktopCore('linux', home, {}, fake.effects)).toThrow(+ 'systemctl --user start agent-relay.service exited with 1'+ );+ expect(fake.launched).toEqual([]);+ });
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Review comment at @packages/cli/src/cli/lib/desktop-presence.test.ts around
lines 141 - 147:
Add a Linux failure case after the `starts the enabled Linux user unit` test,
configuring the fake effects so `systemctl --user start agent-relay.service`
exits with status 1. Assert that `startDesktopCore` throws for this failed start
and that no process is launched.
Assert that the pinned core meets the documented Cursor minimum.
Assert that the pinned core meets the documented Cursor minimum.
PROBE_VERSION is the single source of the core version. The download test in init.test.ts builds both its fixture URL and its expected URL from that constant. A regression of the pin to 15.0.7 therefore passes the suite. docs/probe-move.md states that the Cursor editor route needs core 15.0.8 or newer, but no test checks that minimum.
Add a test that PROBE_VERSION is at least 15.0.8, using version ordering. Do not assert exact equality. An equality check would fail on every future valid upgrade.
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @packages/cli/src/cli/lib/probe-core.ts at line 29:
Add a test for PROBE_VERSION that compares versions by semantic version ordering
and verifies the pinned core is at least 15.0.8; do not assert exact equality,
so future upgrades remain valid.
…hat cannot run
- Stop waiting for the desktop core at the 30s deadline, not only after a
number of attempts, so a socket that stalls each attempt cannot hold
init for minutes.
- Pick only a Linux launcher that can run, so a non-executable one is
passed over rather than started and waited on.
- Name the core init attaches to after asking the desktop app neutrally,
since another core may have taken the socket meanwhile.
- Keep the desktop fallback notice in the reason when the core setup fails.
- Name macOS and Linux and the default socket in the changelog entry.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A headless start removes the person's GUI autostart entry, so a relay init
over SSH into a Linux desktop would cost them the tray app at login. Init
now starts the enabled agent-relay.service unit, else the launcher with
--background in a desktop session; with neither it skips the desktop start
and falls back to the public core, saying the desktop app's core needs its
service enabled or a desktop session.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings in #2058 (flaky test hardening, Devin host fix), #2059 (policy and
brand removal), #2060 (core parity) and #2061 (relay init starts the
desktop core).
- Keep the deletions of crates/broker/src/snippets.rs, vitest.e2e.config.ts
and relayflow cases 1593/1736/1756; main's edits there only trimmed
policy or hardened a broker-only test.
- package.json, knip.json, publish.yml, package-validation.yml and the 1763
case carry both removals: no policy/brand and no broker packages.
- package-lock.json regenerated from main's against the merged workspaces.
- CHANGELOG keeps every entry from both sides under [Unreleased - Major];
the Devin fix now names `relay serve`, since `relay fleet spawn` no
longer spawns on this machine.
- desktop-presence.ts (from #2061) imports isUsableBinary from the CLI's
own install-paths instead of the removed @agent-relay/harness-driver.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What changes
relay init(the message-injection setup path): when the Agent Relay desktop app is installed and no core answers on the bridge socket, init first asks the desktop app to start its own core and attaches to it. "No core answers" includes the case where init has just retired its own outdated core.open -g -j -b com.agentrelay.desktop(background, hidden, no focus steal). The app registers and starts its core LaunchAgent (com.agentrelay.desktop.core) as it does on every launch.systemctl --user start agent-relay.servicewhensystemctl --user is-enabled --quiet agent-relay.servicesucceeds. Otherwise, only in a desktop session (DISPLAYorWAYLAND_DISPLAYset), a runnableagent-relay-desktoplauncher (/usr/bin, then per-user updater trees, newest first) is started detached with--background(tray). It is never started with--headless: a headless start removes the person's GUI autostart entry, so arelay initover SSH into their desktop would cost them the tray app at login. With no enabled unit and no display, init skips the desktop start and falls back to the public core with the warning (reason: the desktop app's core needsagent-relay.serviceenabled, or a desktop session).AGENT_RELAY_CORE_SOCKETset to anything other than the default) also skips the desktop start, because the desktop core never serves it.Asked the Agent Relay desktop app to start its core; using the core now running on this machine (agent-relay-probe <v>, pid <n>).Nocore.jsonis written for it.PROBE_VERSIONgoes from 15.0.7 to 15.0.8. The Cursor row indocs/probe-move.mdnow says the editor route needs core 15.0.8 or newer.Fallback rule
desktopInstalledcan be stale (markers left after an uninstall, or a disabled service), so a failed desktop start never fails init. The desktop start counts as failed if the start command throws or exits non-zero, or if no core answers withinCORE_START_TIMEOUT_MS(30s, wall-clock). In that case init installs and starts the public core exactly as before. Once the public core is up, init prints one warning as a!line in the message-injection summary, so it shows in plain output and also in the guided flow's note after the spinner stops:If the public core fails too, the desktop failure is added to the usual "Message injection is not available (...)" reason.
The existing "one core per machine; attach, never double" rule still holds:
--uninstall's temporary core still uses today's path. It never opens the desktop app.Tests
init.test.ts, newstarting the desktop app coreblock (fake deps only):core.jsoncore.jsonrecords it, and the warning prints exactly oncedaemon.shutdownand nocore.jsonstartCoreis never calleddesktop-presence.test.ts: which commandstartDesktopCorepicks per platform, with fake effects (macOS open and its failure, Linux enabled unit, launcher--backgroundwithDISPLAYorWAYLAND_DISPLAY, no unit and no display throws without launching anything, newest per-user tree, nothing runnable found, Windows runs nothing).init.test.tsfakesstartDesktopCoreto return undefined. Tests also already stubAGENT_RELAY_CORE_SOCKET, so the real default would skip the desktop start as well.ensureCorecomplexity is back to main's 16). The whole CLI suite passes: 2684 passed, 17 skipped.ci-standalone-smokehit its 5s timeout once under full-suite load and passes on its own.Not covered
Merge after
probe-v15.0.8is published. Until it exists,relay initon a machine with no core binary cannot download the pinned core and falls back to MCP delivery. For the same reason, the Flows v2scenario-core-init-paritystep fails on this PR, because that lane installs the pinned release.CI never runs a real desktop start (no app, launchd or systemd), and neither did I by hand. The exact commands are only checked against fake effects.
The macOS LaunchAgent can wait on a Login Items approval prompt. In that case init falls back after 30s with the warning.
On Linux without an enabled
agent-relay.serviceand without a display (a headless server, or SSH into a desktop), init never starts the desktop core; it falls back to the public core with the warning. The desktop's headless launcher is deliberately not used, because of its autostart side effect.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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