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fix(desktop): stalled update downloads time out and say why - #26244
The desktop auto-update sits at "Downloading (0%)" forever behind a proxy that stalls the connection (the report: Netskope on macOS), and when a download does fail the toast only says "Electron updater failed to download the update on channel nightly." Reproduced on 867112c in real Electron 44.9.3 under Xvfb, driving electron-updater 6.8.9's own ElectronHttpExecutor.download against a local server that accepts the connection and never answers: still pending after 75 s, 0 progress events, nothing written. A dropped connection rejects with net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH, which never reached the UI.
Change
electron-updater arms its 60 s idle timeout from the request's "socket" event, which Electron's net.ClientRequest never emits, so no updater request ever times out. A pnpm patch (patches/electron-updater@6.8.9.patch, version now pinned) gives ElectronHttpExecutor its own addTimeOutHandler: an idle timer started with the request and reset on the response and on every data chunk, which aborts the request and fails with "Request timed out". Every updater request goes through it: the update check, the full download, and the differential range requests, so a stalled differential download now falls back to a full download and Retry starts a fresh request.
The download-failure state message now ends with the redacted cause (describeUpdateErrorCause), e.g. "… on channel nightly. Error: Request timed out".
Settings › About's Download button now shows the same failure toast as the sidebar pill; it used to toast only on a rejected promise, and a failed download resolves with completed: false.
apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronUpdater.test.ts (new): no response for 60 s aborts the request with "Request timed out" (fails on unpatched 6.8.9: expected "vi.fn()" to be called once, but got 0 times); data every 30 s for 3 min never times out; a finished response leaves no timer. The fake request emits finish/close before any response, as Electron does.
apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.test.ts: "shows why a download failed, not only the channel" (fails on main: message was only the channel sentence). With updateMachine.test.ts: 35/35 pass. vp run check:changed passes on de96bfd.
Runtime, real Electron 44.9.3 under Xvfb, electron-updater's ElectronHttpExecutor.download:
after (18361cdf37): electron-after-18361cdf37.txt: stalled server rejects "Request timed out" at 60.0 s and sees the connection closed; a chunked response without Content-Length trickling a chunk every 10 s for 80 s completes; a dropped connection still reports net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH; a healthy download completes.
Not checked: cannot-verify macos (the reporter's Netskope setup and a packaged macOS update; the patched code path is platform-independent and was run in Electron on Linux). Differential downloads were not run end to end; they use the same patched timeout handler. Packaged Windows/Linux auto-update not run.
Evidence
Desktop-bridge harness captures of the real app built and run from each checkout. Auto-update is disabled in unpackaged Electron, so the preload bridge supplies the synthetic update state described by the matrix. Both servers use fresh .t3 databases with T3CODE_DEV_SEED=0. No live user data is copied. Host-provider version advisories are omitted identically on both sides to isolate the desktop Download action; no provider is started or updated.
Captured 2/2 affected matrix rows, at 1440×900 and 390×844, light and dark: 8 Before/After pairs, 16 whole-surface stills, 16 recordings, 16 diff images. Unverified rows: none.
Headless Chrome 148.0.7778.96 via agent-browser 0.40.0 on fs-22 Linux x86_64; no device emulation; DPR 1; font scaling 100% (16 px root), window zoom 1; reduced motion; frozen document clock 2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z; scroll 0,0.
Every still passed network idle, document.fonts.ready, and two full-viewport screenshots 500 ms apart with identical pixels. Diff0 uses zero threshold and amplifies every nonzero RGB delta to magenta. DiffT8 highlights max absolute RGB-channel delta >8 (8-bit channels). Accepted captures and all diffs were opened and inspected; recordings were checked through full-frame samples.
What else changed:
R1: after adds the red error icon, “Could not download update” title, the full cause text, copy/dismiss controls, toast surface and shadow, covering the content beneath it. Before has no toast.
R2: the toast gains “Error: Request timed out”; wrapping adds one line, increases toast height by 20 px, moves the vertically centered copy control, and extends the toast surface/shadow over the content below. Title, icon, and dismiss control remain in place.
Zero-threshold comparisons show no changed pixels outside the toast and its shadow. No unrelated visible change was found.
Fixture, driver and rebuild scripts (uploaded, not committed):
Headless Chrome 148.0.7778.96 via agent-browser 0.40.0 on fs-22 Linux x86_64; no device emulation; DPR 1; font scaling 100% (16 px root), window zoom 1; reduced motion; frozen document clock 2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z; scroll 0,0.
Same scripted interaction on both sides: prepare a fresh empty draft; open Settings → About. Recording starts at 0.00 s, Download is clicked at about 1.00 s, then the pointer moves to a neutral edge; the bridge resolves accepted=true, completed=false, status=available, errorContext=download. Exact driver timestamps (relative to recording-start confirmation; encoded video includes a short setup/teardown lead-in) are above each pair. The recordings include the resulting state through at least 4.00 s.
R1 · 1440×900 · light · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.089 s, settled still 3.610 s; after click 1.000–1.117 s, settled still 3.799 s.
Headless Chrome 148.0.7778.96 via agent-browser 0.40.0 on fs-22 Linux x86_64; no device emulation; DPR 1; font scaling 100% (16 px root), window zoom 1; reduced motion; frozen document clock 2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z; scroll 0,0.
Same scripted interaction on both sides: prepare a fresh empty draft; open the main sidebar at 390 px. Recording starts at 0.00 s, Download is clicked at about 1.00 s, then the pointer moves to a neutral edge; the bridge resolves accepted=true, completed=false, status=available, errorContext=download. Exact driver timestamps (relative to recording-start confirmation; encoded video includes a short setup/teardown lead-in) are above each pair. The recordings include the resulting state through at least 4.00 s.
R2 · 1440×900 · light · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.110 s, settled still 3.786 s; after click 1.000–1.118 s, settled still 3.732 s.
These tests fail on main: a download with no progress for 60s stays
"downloading" forever, and a rejected download hides its cause
(net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH) behind the generic channel message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
electron-updater's 60s idle timeout hangs off the request "socket" event,
which Electron's net requests never emit, so a download stalled by a proxy
sat at "Downloading (0%)" forever. Watch download progress and cancel the
download (through its CancellationToken) after 60s without data, and put
the redacted underlying cause in the failure message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
electron-updater arms its 60s idle timeout on the request's "socket" event,
which Electron's net.ClientRequest never emits, so a stalled update download
sat at 0% forever. Patch electron-updater@6.8.9 so ElectronHttpExecutor resets
an idle timer on every response chunk and aborts with "Request timed out"
after 60s without data. That covers the update check, full downloads and
differential range requests, and a timed-out differential download falls back
to a full one.
Replace the progress-event watchdog with that patch: progress needs
Content-Length, and cancelling the token never aborted a stalled request.
Settings now toasts a failed download the way the sidebar pill does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… is sent
Electron's net.ClientRequest emits "close" right after "finish", before any
response, so clearing the idle timer on request "close" disarmed it at once
and a stalled download still hung. Verified in Electron 44.9.3: a server that
never answers now rejects with "Request timed out" after 60s.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Stalled desktop update requests now time out, and download failures show a redacted explanation consistently in Settings. The change is limited to updater request handling and error reporting, without changing installation policy or product defaults.
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The desktop updater is pinned to version 6.8.9 and patched with an idle timeout. The settings download action now uses downloadLocalUpdate, and download failure state messages include the formatted cause.
Changes: Desktop update downloads
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Summary
Pin and patch the updater apps/desktop/package.json, pnpm-workspace.yaml, patches/electron-updater@6.8.9.patch, apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronHttpExecutor.test.ts
The workspace pins electron-updater to 6.8.9 and applies an idle timeout to ElectronHttpExecutor. Tests cover a stalled request, data arriving during a download, and a completed response.
Route downloads and report failure causes apps/web/src/components/settings/SettingsPanels.tsx, apps/desktop/src/updates/updatesTestHarness.ts, apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts, apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.test.ts
The settings download action calls downloadLocalUpdate with notifyDownloaded: false. Download failure handling adds the formatted cause to the state error message. The test harness permits typed download failures, and a test checks the resulting error state.
sequenceDiagram
participant ElectronHttpExecutor
participant request
participant response
ElectronHttpExecutor->>request: Start idle timer
request-->>ElectronHttpExecutor: Receive response
ElectronHttpExecutor->>response: Monitor data and terminal events
response-->>ElectronHttpExecutor: Emit data
ElectronHttpExecutor->>ElectronHttpExecutor: Reset idle timer
alt Timer expires
ElectronHttpExecutor->>request: Abort request
ElectronHttpExecutor->>ElectronHttpExecutor: Call back with timeout error
else Response completes or errors
ElectronHttpExecutor->>ElectronHttpExecutor: Clear timer
end
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#20345 — The change adds the download failure cause to the update state message. It does not change the signature verifier timeout noted in the issue.
Suggested reviewers:maria-rcks, t3dotgg
Merge Risk: Low · up to cd236
Stalled update downloads now time out and report a reason. Two minor follow-ups remain. Timed-out update checks may still show only the generic channel error. Download failure messages may expose raw cause text such as local file paths. Neither blocks merging, but both are worth addressing.
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Directly linked issue #4812 requires that a stalled desktop update download either completes or fails with an actionable error, and that the cause reaches the user. The whole-PR summary shows: (1) the…
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The whole-PR summary lists these changes: the electron-updater version pin in apps/desktop/package.json, the pnpm-workspace.yaml override and patch registration, the `patches/electron-updater@6.…
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The title names the main change: stalled desktop update downloads now time out, and the failure message now includes the cause. It matches the changeset, which adds an idle timeout to ElectronHttpExecutor and appends the redacted cause to the download-failure state message. The title follows the conventional commit format the template suggests.
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Directly linked issue #4812 requires that a stalled desktop update download either completes or fails with an actionable error, and that the cause reaches the user. The whole-PR summary shows: (1) the pinned electron-updater@6.8.9 patch adds addTimeOutHandler to ElectronHttpExecutor. It starts a 60 s idle timer with the request, resets it on response and data, and aborts with Error("Request timed out"). The timer clears on finish, abort, or error. (2) The patch covers every updater request, including the update check, full downloads, and differential range requests. (3) DesktopUpdates.ts adds the formatted cause to the download-failure state message, so the user sees the cause, not only the channel sentence. (4) SettingsPanels.tsx routes the About Download button through the shared download path. A resolved completed: false now shows the failure toast. Tests in ElectronHttpExecutor.test.ts cover the no-response timeout, continued data, and timer cleanup. A DesktopUpdates.test.ts case covers the cause text. The differential fallback to a full download follows from the timeout error, but it is not verified end to end. The issue lists that fallback as a suggestion, and the timeout plus surfaced error meet the core expected behavior. The stale-cache cleanup and the disableDifferentialDownload setting are not required objectives. Note: the PR description names apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronUpdater.test.ts as the new timeout test file, but the summary lists ElectronHttpExecutor.test.ts. This is a naming discrepancy only. No change since the previous review was available in detail, so the prior conclusion was re-checked against the whole-PR summary and still holds.
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The whole-PR summary lists these changes: the electron-updater version pin in apps/desktop/package.json, the pnpm-workspace.yaml override and patch registration, the patches/electron-updater@6.8.9.patch idle-timeout handler, the ElectronHttpExecutor tests, the DesktopUpdates.ts cause-in-message change, its test, the updatesTestHarness.ts type widening needed by that test, and the SettingsPanels.tsx download-path change. Each supports stalled-download handling or actionable download failure as described in #4812. The lockfile pnpm-lock.yaml is in ignored_files and was not reviewed. Its absence is not evidence of a problem, and it is expected to hold the pin. No unrelated product behavior appears in the summary. The PR description's visual-harness scripts are uploaded, not committed, so they add no repository scope.
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Minor · Show the timeout cause for update checks. · DesktopUpdates.ts:570
apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts:570 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Show the timeout cause for update checks.
The new request timeout also applies to update checks. This handler stores only error.message, so a timed-out check still shows the generic channel error instead of “Request timed out.” Include the redacted cause in the check failure state as well. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts at line 570:
Update the update-check failure handler using reduceDesktopUpdateStateOnCheckFailure so it stores the redacted cause along with error.message, allowing timed-out checks to display “Request timed out.” Preserve the existing check-failure state flow and use the established cause-redaction mechanism.
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts:
- Line 570: Update the update-check failure handler using
reduceDesktopUpdateStateOnCheckFailure so it stores the redacted cause along
with error.message, allowing timed-out checks to display “Request timed out.”
Preserve the existing check-failure state flow and use the established
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Packaged Linux x64 AppImages, Electron 44.10.1, fresh isolated state, light theme, 1440×900. Open Settings → About, check for updates, click Download, and withhold all response headers and data from the update asset endpoint for 62 seconds. Base remains Downloading; head times out after approximately 60 seconds, shows Error: Request timed out, and restores Download. Clicking it starts another attempt. Recordings play in real time; both sides use the same crop to exclude unrelated private paths.
This proves the stalled full-download behavior on packaged Linux. It does not establish macOS/Netskope behavior or differential fallback.
AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.
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Packaged macOS arm64 nightly and Netskope/TLS inspection: this VM provides Linux; reproduction used a controlled HTTP endpoint that accepts the asset request without responding.
Differential-download fallback: the synthetic feed exercised a full AppImage download, without a previous artifact or blockmap.
Successful download/install and sanitization of URL-bearing error causes: the endpoint intentionally never completed and produced only the timeout cause.
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts:
- Line 619: Update the download-failure handling around
reduceDesktopUpdateStateOnDownloadFailure to publish only allowlisted error
codes and safe descriptions, not arbitrary cause text that may contain local
paths. Preserve an actionable timeout description, and add a regression case
confirming cache-path errors do not expose paths in desktop update state.
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Sources consulted:
- electron-updater@6.8.9 — https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/releases/tag/electron-updater%406.8.9
- packages/electron-updater/CHANGELOG.md — https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/master/packages/electron-updater/CHANGELOG.md
- 22a7532 fix: holistic field detection for `<text> (sha256 hash)` redaction (#9834) — https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/commit/22a7532bd01b9fb42cff7c58d599c7ad683569fe
- fix: holistic field detection for `<text> (sha256 hash)` redaction — GitHub pull request 9834 in electron-userland/electron-builder (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- electron-updater Copy package name@6.8.9 Copy package version — https://npmx.dev/package-changelog/electron-updater/v/6.8.9
Script executed:
python3 - <<'PY'import urllib.requestbase='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/electron-updater%406.8.9/'for path in ['packages/electron-updater/src/AppUpdater.ts','packages/electron-updater/src/DownloadedUpdateHelper.ts','packages/builder-util-runtime/src/httpExecutor.ts']: print('\n---',base+path,'---') try: text=urllib.request.urlopen(base+path,timeout=15).read().decode() lines=text.splitlines() terms=('downloadUpdate(', 'doDownloadUpdate(', 'executeDownload(', 'mkdir(', 'createWriteStream(', 'writeFile(', 'rename(', 'unlink(', 'createHttpError', 'response.body', 'responseBody') hits=[i for i,line in enumerate(lines) if any(term in line for term in terms)] windows=set() for i in hits: windows.update(range(max(0,i-5),min(len(lines),i+13))) previous=-2 for i in sorted(windows): if i>previous+1: print('...') print(f'{i+1:4} {lines[i]}') previous=i except Exception as e: print('FETCH FAILED:',repr(e))PY
rg -n -F -e 'Could not download update' -e 'state.message' -e 'updateState.message' -- apps/web/src apps/desktop/src/updates
cat -n apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts | sed -n '1120,1170p'
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 17151
Script executed:
python3 - <<'PY'import urllib.requestbase='https://raw.githubusercontent.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/electron-updater%406.8.9/'for path, spans in { 'packages/electron-updater/src/AppUpdater.ts':[(550,595),(688,705),(725,745),(774,800)], 'packages/electron-updater/src/AppImageUpdater.ts':[(1,145)],}.items(): print('\n---',base+path,'---') try: lines=urllib.request.urlopen(base+path,timeout=15).read().decode().splitlines() for a,b in spans: for i in range(a,min(b,len(lines))+1): print(f'{i:4} {lines[i-1]}') except Exception as e: print('FETCH FAILED:',repr(e))PY
cat -n apps/desktop/src/updates/remoteUpdateFlow.ts | sed -n '1,110p'
rg -n -F -e 'remoteUpdateFlow' -e 'waitForDownload' -e 'requestUpdate' -- apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopRemoteUpdates.ts apps/desktop/src/updates/remoteUpdateFlow.ts
cat -n apps/web/src/components/desktopUpdate.logic.ts | sed -n '98,145p'
Repository: pingdotgg/t3code
Length of output: 17677
Keep local paths out of update state.
If creating the updater cache fails, the filesystem error can contain a local path. describeUpdateErrorCause leaves that path intact, and the download failure sends it to desktop windows.
Publish allowlisted error codes and safe descriptions instead of arbitrary cause text. Preserve an actionable timeout description and add a regression case for a cache-path error.
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts at line 619:
Update the download-failure handling around reduceDesktopUpdateStateOnDownloadFailure to publish only allowlisted error codes and safe descriptions, not arbitrary cause text that may contain local paths. Preserve an actionable timeout description, and add a regression case confirming cache-path errors do not expose paths in desktop update state.
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Check that the timeout remains active after data arrives.
This test also passes if the executor permanently clears the timer on "response" or "data". That implementation would still leave a download stalled indefinitely after its first chunk.
Extend this case: after these assertions, advance 59,999 milliseconds and verify no rejection. Advance one more millisecond and verify cancellation and "Request timed out".
As per coding guidelines, “Test behavior that can break” and “Extend before you add.”
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Review comment at @apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronHttpExecutor.test.ts around lines 45 - 46:
Extend the timeout test containing the request.abort and reject assertions to verify the timer remains active after data arrives: advance 59,999 milliseconds and assert no rejection, then advance one more millisecond and assert the request is cancelled and rejects with “Request timed out.”
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronHttpExecutor.test.ts:
- Around line 45-46: Extend the timeout test containing the request.abort and
reject assertions to verify the timer remains active after data arrives: advance
59,999 milliseconds and assert no rejection, then advance one more millisecond
and assert the request is cancelled and rejects with “Request timed out.”
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Environment for every capture: packaged Linux x64 desktop, production version 0.1.9, normal .deb updater, headless-desktop, light theme, 1280×800, fresh isolated state without imported history. An unrelated local CLI path is redacted.
Steps: Settings → About → Check for Updates → Download, using a controlled feed offering 0.1.10 whose asset endpoint withholds headers and data. Observe after 61–62 seconds. Repeat with the endpoint dropping the connection, initiating Download separately from Settings and the sidebar.
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Inactivity after partial response data and timer resets during an actively streaming download were not exercised; the timeout reproduction withheld all headers and data.
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Problem
The desktop auto-update sits at "Downloading (0%)" forever behind a proxy that stalls the connection (the report: Netskope on macOS), and when a download does fail the toast only says "Electron updater failed to download the update on channel nightly." Reproduced on 867112c in real Electron 44.9.3 under Xvfb, driving electron-updater 6.8.9's own
ElectronHttpExecutor.downloadagainst a local server that accepts the connection and never answers: still pending after 75 s, 0 progress events, nothing written. A dropped connection rejects withnet::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH, which never reached the UI.Change
"socket"event, which Electron'snet.ClientRequestnever emits, so no updater request ever times out. A pnpm patch (patches/electron-updater@6.8.9.patch, version now pinned) givesElectronHttpExecutorits ownaddTimeOutHandler: an idle timer started with the request and reset on the response and on every data chunk, which aborts the request and fails with "Request timed out". Every updater request goes through it: the update check, the full download, and the differential range requests, so a stalled differential download now falls back to a full download and Retry starts a fresh request.describeUpdateErrorCause), e.g. "… on channel nightly. Error: Request timed out".completed: false.Scope and approval
Fixes #4812
Verification
apps/desktop/src/electron/ElectronUpdater.test.ts(new): no response for 60 s aborts the request with "Request timed out" (fails on unpatched 6.8.9:expected "vi.fn()" to be called once, but got 0 times); data every 30 s for 3 min never times out; a finished response leaves no timer. The fake request emitsfinish/closebefore any response, as Electron does.apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.test.ts: "shows why a download failed, not only the channel" (fails on main: message was only the channel sentence). WithupdateMachine.test.ts: 35/35 pass.vp run check:changedpasses on de96bfd.ElectronHttpExecutor.download:net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH; a healthy download completes.cannot-verify macos(the reporter's Netskope setup and a packaged macOS update; the patched code path is platform-independent and was run in Electron on Linux). Differential downloads were not run end to end; they use the same patched timeout handler. Packaged Windows/Linux auto-update not run.Evidence
Desktop-bridge harness captures of the real app built and run from each checkout. Auto-update is disabled in unpackaged Electron, so the preload bridge supplies the synthetic update state described by the matrix. Both servers use fresh
.t3databases withT3CODE_DEV_SEED=0. No live user data is copied. Host-provider version advisories are omitted identically on both sides to isolate the desktop Download action; no provider is started or updated.Captured 2/2 affected matrix rows, at 1440×900 and 390×844, light and dark: 8 Before/After pairs, 16 whole-surface stills, 16 recordings, 16 diff images. Unverified rows: none.
Headless Chrome 148.0.7778.96 via agent-browser 0.40.0 on fs-22 Linux x86_64; no device emulation; DPR 1; font scaling 100% (16 px root), window zoom 1; reduced motion; frozen document clock 2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z; scroll 0,0.
Every still passed network idle,
document.fonts.ready, and two full-viewport screenshots 500 ms apart with identical pixels. Diff0 uses zero threshold and amplifies every nonzero RGB delta to magenta. DiffT8 highlights max absolute RGB-channel delta >8 (8-bit channels). Accepted captures and all diffs were opened and inspected; recordings were checked through full-frame samples.What else changed:
Fixture, driver and rebuild scripts (uploaded, not committed):
bridge-fixture.js
capture.py
make-diffs.py
reproduce.sh
environment.md
matrix-4812.md
R1 — settings-download-failed
Headless Chrome 148.0.7778.96 via agent-browser 0.40.0 on fs-22 Linux x86_64; no device emulation; DPR 1; font scaling 100% (16 px root), window zoom 1; reduced motion; frozen document clock 2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z; scroll 0,0.
Same scripted interaction on both sides: prepare a fresh empty draft; open Settings → About. Recording starts at 0.00 s, Download is clicked at about 1.00 s, then the pointer moves to a neutral edge; the bridge resolves accepted=true, completed=false, status=available, errorContext=download. Exact driver timestamps (relative to recording-start confirmation; encoded video includes a short setup/teardown lead-in) are above each pair. The recordings include the resulting state through at least 4.00 s.
R1 · 1440×900 · light · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.089 s, settled still 3.610 s; after click 1.000–1.117 s, settled still 3.799 s.
Recordings: R1-1440x900-light-before.webm · R1-1440x900-light-after.webm
R1 · 1440×900 · dark · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.083 s, settled still 3.633 s; after click 1.000–1.092 s, settled still 3.606 s.
Recordings: R1-1440x900-dark-before.webm · R1-1440x900-dark-after.webm
R1 · 390×844 · light · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.076 s, settled still 3.164 s; after click 1.000–1.094 s, settled still 2.742 s.
Recordings: R1-390x844-light-before.webm · R1-390x844-light-after.webm
R1 · 390×844 · dark · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.118 s, settled still 3.245 s; after click 1.000–1.091 s, settled still 2.711 s.
Recordings: R1-390x844-dark-before.webm · R1-390x844-dark-after.webm
Full-resolution sheet:
R2 — sidebar-pill-download-failed
Headless Chrome 148.0.7778.96 via agent-browser 0.40.0 on fs-22 Linux x86_64; no device emulation; DPR 1; font scaling 100% (16 px root), window zoom 1; reduced motion; frozen document clock 2026-07-28T12:00:00.000Z; scroll 0,0.
Same scripted interaction on both sides: prepare a fresh empty draft; open the main sidebar at 390 px. Recording starts at 0.00 s, Download is clicked at about 1.00 s, then the pointer moves to a neutral edge; the bridge resolves accepted=true, completed=false, status=available, errorContext=download. Exact driver timestamps (relative to recording-start confirmation; encoded video includes a short setup/teardown lead-in) are above each pair. The recordings include the resulting state through at least 4.00 s.
R2 · 1440×900 · light · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.110 s, settled still 3.786 s; after click 1.000–1.118 s, settled still 3.732 s.
Recordings: R2-1440x900-light-before.webm · R2-1440x900-light-after.webm
R2 · 1440×900 · dark · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.113 s, settled still 3.688 s; after click 1.001–1.132 s, settled still 3.723 s.
Recordings: R2-1440x900-dark-before.webm · R2-1440x900-dark-after.webm
R2 · 390×844 · light · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.103 s, settled still 3.548 s; after click 1.000–1.120 s, settled still 3.494 s.
Recordings: R2-390x844-light-before.webm · R2-390x844-light-after.webm
R2 · 390×844 · dark · harness
Steps / timestamps: 0.00 s ready; before click 1.000–1.105 s, settled still 3.580 s; after click 1.000–1.108 s, settled still 3.527 s.
Recordings: R2-390x844-dark-before.webm · R2-390x844-dark-after.webm
Full-resolution sheet:
Model and harness: Claude Opus 5.5 (lead, tests, implementation) and GPT-6.1 Sol (reviews, captures) via T3 Code.
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