hermes-agent/hermes_cli/main_desktop.py

"""Desktop (Electron) app: build/stamp, stage-and-swap pack, exe integrity gate, macOS signing/TCC, Linux sandbox, launch (hermes gui/desktop).

Split out of ``hermes_cli/main.py``. Names that still live in main (``PROJECT_ROOT``, ...)
are imported lazily inside the functions that use them (avoids an import cycle).
"""

import logging
import contextlib
import argparse
import hashlib
import json
import os
import platform
import re
import shlex
import shutil
import stat
import subprocess
import sys
import tempfile
import time as _time_mod

from pathlib import Path
from typing import Callable, Optional
from hermes_cli.desktop_console import desktop_console_output, desktop_launch_notice
from hermes_platform.host import facts

# Log-record parity with the origin module.
logger = logging.getLogger("hermes_cli.main")

_PREVIOUS_APP_KEPT = "  ↩ The previous desktop app was left untouched and still works."


def _desktop_dist_exists(desktop_dir: Path) -> bool:
    """Return True when a local desktop renderer build is present."""
    return (desktop_dir / "dist" / "index.html").exists()


def _renderer_bundle_dir(desktop_dir: Path, *, source_mode: bool) -> Optional[Path]:
    """The renderer ``dist`` a launch loads: ``apps/desktop/dist`` in source mode, else the
    ``app.asar.unpacked/dist`` copy (the only real directory, and the one an interrupted replace tears)."""
    if source_mode:
        return desktop_dir / "dist"

    executable = _desktop_packaged_executable(desktop_dir)
    if executable is None:
        return None

    # macOS: …/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes → …/Contents/Resources
    resources = (
        executable.parent.parent / "Resources" if sys.platform == "darwin" else executable.parent / "resources"
    )
    return resources / "app.asar.unpacked" / "dist"


# The module files the renderer fetches before any app code runs: Vite emits
# them as `<script type="module" src>` plus `<link rel="modulepreload" href>`.
_HTML_TAG_WITH_URL = re.compile(r"""<(?:script|link)\b[^>]*\b(?:src|href)=["']([^"']+)["'][^>]*>""", re.IGNORECASE)

_MODULE_TAG = re.compile(r"""\btype=["']module["']|\brel=["']modulepreload["']""", re.IGNORECASE)


def _renderer_bundle_torn(dist_dir: Path) -> bool:
    """True when ``index.html`` names hashed module chunks that aren't there.

    A replace interrupted by locked files leaves index and ``assets/`` from
    different generations; the app dies on its first lazy import while the
    SOURCE-tree stamp still matches, so no rebuild fixes it. Conservative: an
    unreadable index or one naming nothing checkable is NOT torn.
    """
    try:
        html = (dist_dir / "index.html").read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig", errors="replace")
    except OSError:
        return False

    for match in _HTML_TAG_WITH_URL.finditer(html):
        href = match.group(1)
        # Absolute/CDN URLs aren't part of this bundle's generation.
        if not _MODULE_TAG.search(match.group(0)) or re.match(r"^[a-z]+:|^//", href, re.IGNORECASE):
            continue
        rel = href.split("?", 1)[0].split("#", 1)[0].lstrip("./")
        if rel and not (dist_dir / rel).exists():
            return True

    return False


def _packaged_node_pty_missing(dist_dir: Path) -> bool:
    """True when the packaged node-pty has no native binary for this OS.

    The main process requires node-pty at startup, so such a package dies
    before any window opens while the source stamp still matches (#62462).
    Same places node-pty's loader and stage-native-deps.mjs look. Conservative:
    a package without node-pty at all is not judged here.
    """
    root = dist_dir / "node_modules" / "node-pty"
    if not (root / "package.json").is_file():
        return False

    native_dirs = [root / "build" / "Release", *(root / "prebuilds").glob(f"{sys.platform}-*")]
    return not any(next(d.rglob("*.node"), None) for d in native_dirs if d.is_dir())


def _desktop_build_needed(desktop_dir: Path, project_root: Path, *, source_mode: bool) -> bool:
    """True when the desktop build output is stale, missing, torn, or built in the other mode."""
    if source_mode:
        if not _desktop_dist_exists(desktop_dir):
            return True
    elif _desktop_packaged_executable(desktop_dir) is None:
        return True

    # A torn bundle is stale no matter what the stamp says: the hash describes
    # the intact SOURCE tree, not the half-replaced output.
    dist_dir = _renderer_bundle_dir(desktop_dir, source_mode=source_mode)
    if dist_dir is not None and _renderer_bundle_torn(dist_dir):
        print(f"  ⚠ A previous update left the desktop bundle incomplete ({dist_dir}); rebuilding it")
        return True

    if not source_mode and dist_dir is not None and _packaged_node_pty_missing(dist_dir):
        print("  ⚠ The packaged desktop app has no node-pty native binary; rebuilding it")
        return True

    from hermes_cli.source_build import source_product_current

    return dist_dir is None or not source_product_current(project_root, "desktop", dist_dir)


def _desktop_packaged_executable(desktop_dir: Path) -> Optional[Path]:
    """Return the current platform's unpacked Electron app executable."""
    return _desktop_packaged_executable_in(desktop_dir / "release")


def _desktop_packaged_executable_in(release_dir: Path) -> Optional[Path]:
    """The unpacked Electron app executable under *release_dir* (live ``release`` or a staging dir).

    *release_dir* is electron-builder's ``directories.output`` — the live ``apps/desktop/release`` or a
    stage-and-swap staging dir (#86443).
    """
    if sys.platform == "darwin":
        candidates = list(release_dir.glob("mac*/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes"))
    elif sys.platform == "win32":
        candidates = [
            release_dir / d / "Hermes.exe" for d in ("win-unpacked", "win-ia32-unpacked", "win-arm64-unpacked")
        ]
    else:
        candidates = [
            release_dir / d / n for d in ("linux-unpacked", "linux-arm64-unpacked") for n in ("hermes", "Hermes")
        ]

    existing = [p for p in candidates if p.exists()]
    if not existing:
        return None
    if sys.platform == "win32" and len(existing) > 1:
        # A stale win-arm64-unpacked next to the real win-unpacked: picking by
        # mtime can hand a wrong-architecture Hermes.exe to the launcher. Prefer
        # candidates whose PE machine matches the host; mtime when none parse.
        # Multiple unpacked trees can coexist (e.g. a stale win-arm64-unpacked left behind by a cross-arch
        # experiment next to the real win-unpacked). Picking purely by mtime can then hand a
        # wrong-architecture Hermes.exe to the launcher, which Windows rejects with "This app can't run on
        # your computer" (#69179).
        expected = _expected_windows_pe_machines()
        matching = [p for p in existing if _pe_machine_or_none(p) in expected]
        if matching:
            existing = matching
    return max(existing, key=lambda p: p.stat().st_mtime)


# ─── Desktop stage-and-swap pack (#86443) ─────────────────────────────────── electron-builder packs IN
# PLACE: before-pack.mjs wipes ``release/<platform>- unpacked`` (or the mac ``Hermes.app``) and the Electron
# unpack + asar + rename then rebuild it. Any failure after that wipe — corrupt cached zip, blocked
# download, missing dep, disk full — leaves the user with NO app, and ``hermes update`` used to report
# "partially complete" over an empty release/. Fix the class, not the predicate: build into a STAGING output
# dir next to release/, verify the staged result, and only then swap it over the live tree with renames. On
# any failure the live app is untouched.
_DESKTOP_STAGING_PREFIX = ".staging-"

_DESKTOP_PREVIOUS_SUFFIX = ".previous"

# A real-time file scanner (AV/EDR) holds a short exclusive handle on a freshly packed
# release/win-unpacked tree; the promotion rename then fails with a sharing violation
# (WinError 32 / 5 -> PermissionError) and succeeds a moment later on identical input (#112544).
# Only PermissionError is retried: EXDEV/ENOENT-class failures are permanent.
_DESKTOP_SWAP_RENAME_RETRY_DELAYS_S = (0.5, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)


def _rename_riding_out_file_lock(src: Path, dst: Path) -> None:
    """``os.rename`` that retries a transient PermissionError with bounded backoff; re-raises the last one."""
    for attempt, delay in enumerate(_DESKTOP_SWAP_RENAME_RETRY_DELAYS_S, start=1):
        try:
            os.rename(src, dst)
            return
        except PermissionError as exc:
            logger.warning(
                "desktop promotion rename %s -> %s hit a file lock (attempt %d/%d), retrying in %.1fs: %s",
                src.name, dst.name, attempt, len(_DESKTOP_SWAP_RENAME_RETRY_DELAYS_S) + 1, delay, exc,
            )
            _time_mod.sleep(delay)
    os.rename(src, dst)


def _desktop_staging_dir(desktop_dir: Path) -> Path:
    """Fresh staging dir ``apps/desktop/.staging-<pid>-<ts>``: a sibling of ``release/`` (same fs → the
    swap is a rename) but not inside it, so ``release/*-unpacked`` globs never see it. Sweeps leftovers."""
    for stale in desktop_dir.glob(f"{_DESKTOP_STAGING_PREFIX}*"):
        shutil.rmtree(stale, ignore_errors=True)
    return desktop_dir / f"{_DESKTOP_STAGING_PREFIX}{os.getpid()}-{int(_time_mod.time())}"


def _desktop_unpacked_root(exe: Path, release_dir: Path) -> Path:
    """The dir directly under *release_dir* holding *exe* (electron-builder's ``appOutDir``, swapped whole)."""
    unpacked = exe
    while unpacked.parent != release_dir:
        if unpacked.parent == unpacked:
            raise ValueError(f"{exe} is not under {release_dir}")
        unpacked = unpacked.parent
    return unpacked


def _swap_staged_desktop_app(desktop_dir: Path, staging_dir: Path) -> Optional[Path]:
    """Promote a VERIFIED staged pack over ``release/`` by two renames (live → ``.previous``, staged →
    live); a failure between them rolls back. Returns the live exe or None (live app kept). Never raises."""
    staged_exe = _desktop_packaged_executable_in(staging_dir)
    if staged_exe is None:
        shutil.rmtree(staging_dir, ignore_errors=True)
        return None
    release_dir = desktop_dir / "release"
    try:
        staged_root = _desktop_unpacked_root(staged_exe, staging_dir)
        live_root = release_dir / staged_root.name
        previous = release_dir / (staged_root.name + _DESKTOP_PREVIOUS_SUFFIX)
        release_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        shutil.rmtree(previous, ignore_errors=True)
        moved_aside = live_root.exists()
        if moved_aside:
            # A Desktop may have reopened during the long packaging step (Windows lock) or
            # never exited at all (a manual `hermes update`/`hermes desktop` run does not
            # wait for it — only the update hand-offs do). Either way a renderer alive
            # past the rename below keeps fetching its old hashed chunks from disk and
            # dies on the next lazy import, so stop it on every platform (#109643).
            stopped = _stop_desktop_processes_locking_build(desktop_dir, also_posix=True)
            if stopped:
                logger.info("stopped desktop processes before staged app promotion: %s", stopped)
            _rename_riding_out_file_lock(live_root, previous)
        try:
            _rename_riding_out_file_lock(staged_root, live_root)
        except OSError:
            if moved_aside:
                _rename_riding_out_file_lock(previous, live_root)  # restore; live app back as it was
            raise
        if moved_aside:
            shutil.rmtree(previous, ignore_errors=True)
    except (OSError, ValueError) as exc:
        logger.warning("desktop stage-and-swap failed, live app kept: %s", exc)
        return None
    finally:
        shutil.rmtree(staging_dir, ignore_errors=True)
    return live_root / staged_exe.relative_to(staged_root)


def _discard_desktop_staging(staging_dir: Path) -> None:
    shutil.rmtree(staging_dir, ignore_errors=True)


# ─── Desktop exe integrity gate (#69179) ──────────────────────────────────── The desktop self-update chain
# (Desktop → hermes-setup --update → `hermes update` → `hermes desktop --build-only` → relaunch) rebuilds
# Hermes.exe on the end user's machine and used to verify only that the file EXISTS before declaring
# success. A corrupt cached Electron zip whose extraction produced a truncated electron.exe, an interrupted
# rcedit resource rewrite, a disk-full pack, or a wrong-arch unpacked tree therefore shipped a broken binary
# that Windows refuses to load ("This app can't run on your computer" / 此应用无法在你的电脑上运行). These helpers parse
# the PE header — no signature infrastructure required — so a structurally broken or wrong-architecture
# Hermes.exe is caught BEFORE the updater replaces the working app, and the previous build can be restored
# from the .bak tree that apps/desktop/scripts/before-pack.mjs now preserves.
_PE_MACHINE_I386 = 0x014C
_PE_MACHINE_AMD64 = 0x8664
_PE_MACHINE_ARM64 = 0xAA64

_PE_MACHINE_NAMES = {
    _PE_MACHINE_I386: "x86 (32-bit)", _PE_MACHINE_AMD64: "x64 (AMD64)", _PE_MACHINE_ARM64: "ARM64",
}

_PE_MACHINE_TO_NAME = {_PE_MACHINE_ARM64: "ARM64", _PE_MACHINE_AMD64: "AMD64", _PE_MACHINE_I386: "X86"}

# MACHINE_ATTRIBUTES bits (processthreadsapi.h). UserEnabled means the host
# can run user-mode code of that machine type — natively or under emulation.
_MACHINE_ATTRIBUTE_USER_ENABLED = 0x00000001


def _kernel32():
    import ctypes
    return ctypes.WinDLL("kernel32", use_last_error=True)


def _windows_user_runnable_pe_machines() -> Optional[set]:
    """PE machines this host runs in user mode via GetMachineTypeAttributes (the only API reporting
    AMD64-on-ARM64 emulation); None when unavailable (pre-Win11 22000) so callers fall back."""
    import ctypes
    from ctypes import wintypes
    kernel32 = _kernel32()
    kernel32.GetMachineTypeAttributes.argtypes = [wintypes.USHORT, ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int)]
    kernel32.GetMachineTypeAttributes.restype = ctypes.c_long

    runnable = set()
    for machine in (_PE_MACHINE_ARM64, _PE_MACHINE_AMD64, _PE_MACHINE_I386):
        attributes = ctypes.c_int(0)
        # HRESULT: zero is success, any nonzero value is a failure.
        if kernel32.GetMachineTypeAttributes(machine, ctypes.byref(attributes)):
            continue
        if attributes.value & _MACHINE_ATTRIBUTE_USER_ENABLED:
            runnable.add(machine)
    return runnable or None


def _windows_native_machine() -> str:
    """Return the native Windows machine name in upper-case PE vocabulary."""
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        return {"arm64": "ARM64", "amd64": "AMD64", "x86": "X86"}.get(
            facts.native_arch(), (platform.machine() or "").upper()
        )
    return (platform.machine() or "").upper()


def _expected_windows_pe_machines() -> set:
    """PE machines this Windows host can load: ``GetMachineTypeAttributes``, else by name (AMD64 → x64+x86,
    ARM64 → ARM64+x64, x86 → x86). Unknown hosts get the full set so the gate can never brick launch."""
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        try:
            runnable = _windows_user_runnable_pe_machines()
        except (OSError, AttributeError, TypeError, ValueError):
            runnable = None
        if runnable:
            return runnable
    machine = _windows_native_machine().upper()
    if machine in ("AMD64", "X86_64", "X64"):
        return {_PE_MACHINE_AMD64, _PE_MACHINE_I386}
    if machine in ("ARM64", "AARCH64"):
        return {_PE_MACHINE_ARM64, _PE_MACHINE_AMD64}
    if machine in ("X86", "I386", "I486", "I586", "I686"):
        return {_PE_MACHINE_I386}
    return {_PE_MACHINE_AMD64, _PE_MACHINE_ARM64, _PE_MACHINE_I386}


def _parse_pe_machine(path: Path) -> int:
    """COFF machine field of the PE at ``path``; ``ValueError`` with a readable reason when it is not a
    structurally complete PE (bad magic, truncated header, section data past EOF). Header walk only."""
    import struct
    try:
        file_size = path.stat().st_size
    except OSError as exc:
        raise ValueError(f"unreadable: {exc}")
    if file_size < 512:
        raise ValueError(f"file is only {file_size} bytes — far too small to be a Windows executable")
    with path.open("rb") as fh:
        head = fh.read(64)
        if len(head) < 64 or head[:2] != b"MZ":
            raise ValueError(
                "missing MZ header — not a Windows executable (a truncated or non-binary file saved as .exe?)"
            )
        e_lfanew = struct.unpack_from("<I", head, 0x3C)[0]
        if e_lfanew <= 0 or e_lfanew + 24 > file_size:
            raise ValueError("corrupt DOS header: PE header offset points past end of file")
        fh.seek(e_lfanew)
        pe_head = fh.read(24)
        if len(pe_head) < 24 or pe_head[:4] != b"PE\x00\x00":
            raise ValueError("missing PE signature — corrupt executable header")
        machine, n_sections = struct.unpack_from("<HH", pe_head, 4)
        size_of_optional = struct.unpack_from("<H", pe_head, 20)[0]
        fh.seek(e_lfanew + 24 + size_of_optional)
        max_section_end = 0
        for _ in range(n_sections):
            section = fh.read(40)
            if len(section) < 40:
                raise ValueError("truncated PE section table")
            size_of_raw, pointer_to_raw = struct.unpack_from("<II", section, 16)
            max_section_end = max(max_section_end, pointer_to_raw + size_of_raw)
        if file_size < max_section_end:
            raise ValueError(
                f"truncated executable: file is {file_size} bytes but its PE sections extend to {max_section_end} bytes"
            )
    return machine


def _pe_machine_or_none(path: Path) -> Optional[int]:
    try:
        return _parse_pe_machine(path)
    except ValueError:
        return None


def _desktop_exe_integrity_error(path: Path) -> Optional[str]:
    """Why ``path`` cannot run on this Windows host, or None when it parses as a loadable PE."""
    try:
        machine = _parse_pe_machine(path)
    except ValueError as exc:
        return str(exc)
    if machine not in _expected_windows_pe_machines():
        got = _PE_MACHINE_NAMES.get(machine, f"unknown machine 0x{machine:04X}")
        return (
            f"architecture mismatch: built a {got} executable but this is a "
            f"{_windows_native_machine()} Windows host"
        )
    return None


def _electron_dir(project_root: Path) -> Path:
    """The installed Electron package dir: workspace-local ``apps/desktop/node_modules/electron`` (where
    ``electronDist`` points) when present, else the root hoist npm sometimes uses instead."""
    desktop_local = project_root / "apps" / "desktop" / "node_modules" / "electron"
    if desktop_local.exists():
        return desktop_local
    return project_root / "node_modules" / "electron"


def _runs_from(proc, release_dir: Path) -> bool:
    """True when *proc*'s executable lives inside *release_dir* (False when it cannot be read)."""
    try:
        return release_dir in Path(proc.exe()).resolve().parents
    except Exception:
        return False


def _desktop_ancestor_in(desktop_dir: Path) -> Optional[int]:
    """PID of a Desktop from this build's ``release`` tree that is one of OUR ancestors, else None.

    That Desktop is running this process (its backend's launch-time update tail, or a
    `hermes update` it spawned). On Windows it holds the exe lock the promotion rename
    needs, and it cannot be stopped without killing this process first. Never raises."""
    try:
        import psutil
        release_dir = (desktop_dir / "release").resolve()
        ancestors = list(psutil.Process(os.getpid()).parents())
    except Exception:
        return None
    for parent in ancestors:
        if _runs_from(parent, release_dir):
            return int(parent.pid)
    return None


def _stop_desktop_processes_locking_build(desktop_dir: Path, *, also_posix: bool = False) -> list[int]:
    """Terminate a running desktop app whose exe lives INSIDE this build's ``release`` tree.

    Windows needs it everywhere: the exe lock makes the pack die with ``Access is denied``.
    POSIX can rename a running app's files away, so the pack itself needs no stop — but a
    renderer left alive through the stage-and-swap promotion keeps fetching its OLD hashed
    chunks by path after the swap and dies on the next lazy import (#109643), so the swap
    point passes ``also_posix=True``. Never raises; returns the PIDs asked to stop."""
    if sys.platform != "win32" and not also_posix:
        return []
    try:
        import psutil
        release_dir = (desktop_dir / "release").resolve()
    except Exception:
        return []
    if not release_dir.is_dir():
        return []

    me = os.getpid()
    # Never stop a Desktop that is one of OUR ancestors, on any platform: this
    # process lives in its tree. A historical Desktop (v2026.7.1 Linux in-app
    # update) runs `hermes update` as a child with piped stdout/stderr and owns
    # the post-update rebuild and relaunch. Killing it breaks those pipes (EPIPE
    # fails the update) and leaves nobody to relaunch. On Windows the same holds
    # for the launch-time tail a Desktop's own backend runs
    # (venv_sync._finish_source_update): stopping that Desktop took the whole
    # tree down with it before the tail could clear its markers, so every
    # launch repeated it (#123499). The exe lock that stop was meant to free
    # cannot be freed by the process that holds it alive; build_prepared_desktop
    # skips that doomed build instead (_desktop_ancestor_in).
    #
    # Spare that Desktop's whole process tree, not just its main process. Its
    # zygote, renderer, GPU and network-service helpers run the same release
    # exe but are siblings of us, not ancestors. Stopping them leaves a main
    # process with no renderer. It cannot draw its update overlay, relaunch, or
    # quit, so it outlives the update forever. (That is the v2026.7.1 Linux
    # in-app update E2E: the receipt succeeds and then the app hangs.)
    spared: set[int] = set()
    try:
        ancestors = list(psutil.Process(me).parents())
    except Exception:
        ancestors = []
    for parent in ancestors:
        spared.add(parent.pid)
        # Only a Desktop ancestor's descendants. Every process descends from
        # init, so sparing all ancestors' trees would spare everything.
        if not _runs_from(parent, release_dir):
            continue
        with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
            spared.update(child.pid for child in parent.children(recursive=True))
    victims = []
    try:
        proc_iter = psutil.process_iter(["pid", "exe"])
    except Exception:
        return []
    for proc in proc_iter:
        try:
            info = proc.info
            pid = info.get("pid")
            exe = info.get("exe")
            if not exe or pid is None or pid == me or pid in spared:
                continue
            exe_path = Path(exe).resolve()
        except Exception:
            continue
        if release_dir in exe_path.parents:
            victims.append(proc)

    stopped: list[int] = []
    for proc in victims:
        try:
            proc.terminate()
            stopped.append(int(proc.pid))
        except Exception:
            continue
    if stopped:
        # Wait for the handles (and thus the file locks) to actually release.
        with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
            _, alive = psutil.wait_procs(victims, timeout=5)
            killed = []
            for proc in alive:
                try:
                    proc.kill()
                    killed.append(proc)
                except Exception:
                    continue
            if killed:
                psutil.wait_procs(killed, timeout=5)
    return stopped


def _desktop_macos_bundle_id(bundle: Path) -> Optional[str]:
    """Return a bundle/framework CFBundleIdentifier for local macOS signing."""
    import plistlib
    info = bundle / "Contents" / "Info.plist"
    if not info.exists() and bundle.suffix == ".framework":
        candidates = list(bundle.glob("Versions/*/Resources/Info.plist")) + list(
            bundle.glob("Resources/Info.plist"))
        if candidates:
            info = candidates[0]
    if not info.exists():
        return None
    try:
        data = plistlib.loads(info.read_bytes())
    except Exception:
        return None
    ident = data.get("CFBundleIdentifier")
    return str(ident) if ident else None


def _desktop_macos_local_signing_identity() -> Optional[str]:
    """``desktop.macos_signing_identity`` — a persistent (even self-signed) code-signing cert anchors
    the Designated Requirement and keeps TCC grants stable across rebuilds. Unset → ad-hoc."""
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        return None
    try:
        from hermes_cli.config import load_config
        desktop = load_config().get("desktop", {})
        if not isinstance(desktop, dict):
            return None
        identity = desktop.get("macos_signing_identity")
        if not isinstance(identity, str):
            return None
        return identity.strip() or None
    except Exception as exc:
        print(
            "  (warning: could not load desktop.macos_signing_identity: "
            f"{exc}; falling back to ad-hoc signing)"
        )
        return None


def _codesign_verify(codesign: str, app: Path, **kwargs) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess:
    return subprocess.run(
        [codesign, "--verify", "--deep", "--strict", str(app)], capture_output=True, **kwargs)


def _desktop_macos_has_valid_real_signature(app: Path) -> bool:
    """True when the bundle has an intact Team-ID signature, so the fixup never clobbers a notarized
    build with ad-hoc (resets TCC). A STALE real signature fails --verify → False → repairable."""
    codesign = shutil.which("codesign")
    if not codesign:
        return False
    try:
        info = subprocess.run(
            [codesign, "-dv", str(app)], check=False, capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace")
        output = f"{info.stdout}\n{info.stderr}"
        if info.returncode != 0 or "TeamIdentifier=" not in output or "TeamIdentifier=not set" in output:
            return False
        return _codesign_verify(codesign, app, check=False).returncode == 0
    except Exception:
        return False


def _desktop_macos_local_codesign(app: Path, *, desktop_dir: Path, identity: str = "-") -> bool:
    """Sign a local build inside-out (Mach-O files, nested frameworks/helpers, main bundle) with the
    repo's entitlements and an identifier-pinned DR when ad-hoc — a plain ``--deep --sign -`` gives
    a cdhash-only DR (TCC re-prompts every rebuild) and strips the JIT/mic entitlements.
    Raises on signing failure; True after strict verification."""
    codesign = shutil.which("codesign")
    if not codesign:
        return False

    ent_main = desktop_dir / "electron" / "entitlements.mac.plist"
    ent_inherit = desktop_dir / "electron" / "entitlements.mac.inherit.plist"
    if not (ent_main.exists() and ent_inherit.exists()):
        # Hardened-runtime restrictions apply to ad-hoc signatures too; signing
        # with --options runtime but WITHOUT allow-jit would leave Electron/V8
        # crashing on launch. Bail so the caller falls back to the legacy sign.
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"desktop entitlement plists missing under {desktop_dir / 'electron'}")

    def sign_path(
        path: Path, *, entitlements: Optional[Path] = None, identifier: Optional[str] = None,
        runtime: bool = True) -> None:
        args = [codesign, "--force", "--sign", identity, "--timestamp=none"]
        if runtime:
            args += ["--options", "runtime"]
        if entitlements is not None and entitlements.exists():
            args += ["--entitlements", str(entitlements)]
        if identifier and identity == "-":
            # Ad-hoc signatures get a cdhash-only DR by default; pin an
            # identifier-based DR so TCC has something stable to persist.
            args += ["--requirements", f'=designated => identifier "{identifier}"']
        args.append(str(path))
        subprocess.run(args, check=True, capture_output=True)

    # 1) Standalone Mach-O files (native modules, dylibs, crashpad handler),
    #    compared relative to the app root — the absolute path always contains
    #    the outer Hermes.app component.
    contents = app / "Contents"
    standalone: list[Path] = []
    for root, _dirs, files in os.walk(contents):
        root_path = Path(root)
        if any(part.endswith(".app") for part in root_path.relative_to(app).parts):
            continue  # nested helper apps are signed as bundles below
        for name in files:
            fp = root_path / name
            if name in {"chrome_crashpad_handler", "spawn-helper"} or fp.suffix in {".node", ".dylib"}:
                standalone.append(fp)
    for fp in sorted(standalone, key=lambda p: len(p.parts), reverse=True):
        sign_path(fp, runtime=False)

    # 2) Nested frameworks and helper apps, deepest first.
    bundles: set[Path] = set()
    frameworks_dir = contents / "Frameworks"
    if frameworks_dir.exists():
        for root, _dirs, _files in os.walk(frameworks_dir):
            p = Path(root)
            if p.suffix in {".framework", ".app"}:
                bundles.add(p)
    for bundle in sorted(bundles, key=lambda p: len(p.parts), reverse=True):
        ent = ent_inherit if bundle.suffix == ".app" and "Helper" in bundle.name else None
        sign_path(bundle, entitlements=ent, identifier=_desktop_macos_bundle_id(bundle))

    # 3) The main bundle, with the app's own entitlements.
    sign_path(app, entitlements=ent_main, identifier=_desktop_macos_bundle_id(app))
    _codesign_verify(codesign, app, check=True)
    return True


def _macos_legacy_adhoc_resign(codesign: str, app: Path) -> bool:
    """Legacy deep ad-hoc re-sign; NEVER deletes the safeStorage keychain item (that would orphan every
    credential under it, and there is no verified successor identity here — the "Always Allow"
    prompt is recoverable, deletion is not)."""
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(
            [codesign, "--force", "--deep", "--sign", "-", str(app)], check=False, capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace"
        )
        if result.returncode != 0:
            print(
                f"  (warning: legacy ad-hoc re-sign failed (exit {result.returncode}); "
                "leaving safeStorage keychain item untouched)"
            )
            return False
        if _codesign_verify(codesign, app, check=False, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").returncode != 0:
            print(
                "  (warning: legacy ad-hoc re-sign did not pass strict verification; "
                "leaving safeStorage keychain item untouched)"
            )
            return False
        print("  → macOS desktop re-signed (legacy ad-hoc); safeStorage keychain item left untouched")
        return True
    except Exception as exc:
        print(f"  (warning: macOS relaunch fixup skipped: {exc})")
    return False


def _desktop_macos_relaunchable_fixup(
    desktop_dir: Path, *, publisher_signing_configured: Optional[bool] = None,
    release_dir: Optional[Path] = None) -> bool:
    """Re-sign a locally-built macOS app so in-place self-update doesn't reset TCC grants.

    A rebuilt ad-hoc bundle (new cdhash, no stable Designated Requirement) reports
    "Hermes is damaged" and loses every grant. Clear quarantine xattrs, then sign
    with ``desktop.macos_signing_identity`` or identifier-pinned ad-hoc, keeping
    entitlements; legacy deep ad-hoc as fallback. No-op with a publisher identity
    (CSC_LINK / APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY; callers may pass the decision so a later
    dotenv load can't reverse it) or an intact Developer ID signature.
    ``release_dir`` signs the STAGED bundle before promotion. Never raises.
    """
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        return True
    if publisher_signing_configured is None:
        publisher_signing_configured = bool(
            os.environ.get("CSC_LINK") or os.environ.get("APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY"))
    if publisher_signing_configured:
        return True
    # ``release_dir`` (stage-and-swap, #86443): sign the STAGED bundle before it is promoted, so the live
    # app is never touched mid-sign.
    exe = _desktop_packaged_executable_in(release_dir or (desktop_dir / "release"))
    if exe is None:
        return True
    # exe = .../Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes  ->  app bundle = .../Hermes.app
    app = exe.parents[2]
    if not str(app).endswith(".app") or not app.is_dir():
        return True
    codesign = shutil.which("codesign")
    if not codesign:
        return False
    if _desktop_macos_has_valid_real_signature(app):
        return True
    subprocess.run(["xattr", "-cr", str(app)], check=False)
    identity = _desktop_macos_local_signing_identity() or "-"
    try:
        if _desktop_macos_local_codesign(app, desktop_dir=desktop_dir, identity=identity):
            label = "keychain identity" if identity != "-" else "stable ad-hoc identity"
            print(f"  → macOS desktop signed with {label}; TCC grants persist across rebuilds")
            return True
    except Exception as exc:
        if identity != "-":
            print(
                f"  (warning: configured macOS signing identity failed: {identity!r}; "
                "falling back to ad-hoc — TCC grants may need to be re-granted)"
            )
        print(f"  (warning: stable macOS signing failed ({exc}); using legacy ad-hoc sign)")
    return _macos_legacy_adhoc_resign(codesign, app)


def _macos_codesigning_identity_valid(security: str, identity: str) -> bool:
    """True when `identity` is among VALID (``-v``) code-signing identities — the plain listing also
    shows untrusted certs codesign refuses. Idempotency probe + postcondition. Never raises."""
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(
            [security, "find-identity", "-v", "-p", "codesigning"], capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace", check=False,
        )
    except Exception:
        return False

    return f'"{identity}"' in (result.stdout or "")


def _macos_create_signing_identity(
    openssl: str, security: str, codesign: str, keychain: str, identity: str) -> bool:
    """Create a self-signed code-signing cert (10 years), import it with codesign access, trust it for codeSign."""
    tmp_dir = Path(tempfile.mkdtemp(prefix="hermes-tcc-"))
    try:
        key = tmp_dir / "sign.key"
        crt = tmp_dir / "sign.crt"
        p12 = tmp_dir / "sign.p12"
        subprocess.run(
            [
                openssl, "req", "-x509", "-newkey", "rsa:2048",
                "-keyout", str(key), "-out", str(crt),
                "-days", "3650", "-nodes",
                "-subj", f"/CN={identity}",
                "-addext", "basicConstraints=critical,CA:TRUE",
                "-addext", "keyUsage=critical,digitalSignature,keyCertSign",
                "-addext", "extendedKeyUsage=codeSigning",
            ],
            capture_output=True, check=True)

        # OpenSSL 3 defaults to AES/SHA-2 PKCS#12 that `security import` rejects
        # with "MAC verification failed". `-legacy` restores the accepted
        # RC2/SHA-1 format but only exists on OpenSSL 3 — so try plain first and
        # fall back to `-legacy` when the IMPORT fails with that signature.
        # (Verified E2E on macOS 26.3.1 / OpenSSL 3.6.3 by @ctaylor86 on PR #77189.)
        def _export_p12(extra_args: list) -> None:
            subprocess.run(
                [
                    openssl, "pkcs12", "-export", *extra_args,
                    "-inkey", str(key), "-in", str(crt),
                    "-out", str(p12), "-passout", "pass:hermeslocal",
                ],
                capture_output=True, check=True)

        def _import_p12():
            return subprocess.run(
                [
                    security, "import", str(p12), "-k", keychain,
                    "-P", "hermeslocal",
                    "-T", codesign, "-T", "/usr/bin/codesign_allocate",
                ],
                capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace", check=False)

        _export_p12([])
        imported = _import_p12()
        if imported.returncode != 0 and "MAC verification failed" in (imported.stderr or ""):
            # older OpenSSL without -legacy: keep the original failure
            with contextlib.suppress(subprocess.CalledProcessError):
                _export_p12(["-legacy"])
                imported = _import_p12()
        if imported.returncode != 0:
            print(f"  (could not import signing identity into keychain: {imported.stderr.strip()})")
            return False

        # Without explicit trust for the codeSign policy `find-identity -v`
        # reports 0 valid identities. This writes user trust settings, so macOS
        # may prompt for the login password ONCE — the one-time cost this
        # command exists to front-load.
        trusted = subprocess.run(
            [security, "add-trusted-cert", "-r", "trustRoot", "-p", "codeSign", "-k", keychain, str(crt)],
            capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace", check=False)
        if trusted.returncode != 0:
            print(
                "  (could not trust the certificate for code signing: "
                f"{(trusted.stderr or trusted.stdout).strip()})"
            )
            return False
        print(f"  → created, imported, and trusted self-signed identity: {identity!r}")
        return True
    except Exception as exc:
        print(f"  (certificate creation failed: {exc})")
        return False
    finally:
        shutil.rmtree(tmp_dir, ignore_errors=True)


def _desktop_macos_setup_tcc_identity(identity: str = "Hermes Local Signing") -> bool:
    """``--setup-tcc-identity``: create/import a self-signed code-signing cert, point
    ``desktop.macos_signing_identity`` at it and re-sign the packaged app. TCC grants follow the
    signing identity, so a certificate-anchored one is stable across rebuilds (the yabai/skhd
    mechanism). Idempotent; never raises."""
    from hermes_cli.main import PROJECT_ROOT
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        print("  (--setup-tcc-identity is macOS-only; skipping)")
        return False

    openssl = shutil.which("openssl")
    security = shutil.which("security")
    codesign = shutil.which("codesign")
    if not (openssl and security and codesign):
        print(
            "  (--setup-tcc-identity requires openssl, security, and codesign; "
            f"found openssl={bool(openssl)} security={bool(security)} codesign={bool(codesign)})"
        )
        return False

    keychain = str(Path.home() / "Library" / "Keychains" / "login.keychain-db")
    # Probe with `-v` (valid identities only) so a previously imported-but-
    # untrusted cert is repaired rather than reported as done.
    if _macos_codesigning_identity_valid(security, identity):
        print(f"  → identity {identity!r} already valid in keychain")
    elif not _macos_create_signing_identity(openssl, security, codesign, keychain, identity):
        return False

    # Postcondition gate: name-in-output checks pass for invalid identities;
    # only macOS agreeing the identity is usable counts.
    if not _macos_codesigning_identity_valid(security, identity):
        print(
            f"  (identity {identity!r} was imported but is not a VALID code-signing identity; "
            "run `security find-identity -v -p codesigning` to inspect, and see the manual "
            "Keychain Access steps in the desktop docs)"
        )
        return False

    # config.yaml, not .env — it's not a secret.
    try:
        from hermes_cli.config import set_config_value
        set_config_value("desktop.macos_signing_identity", identity)
        print(f"  → set desktop.macos_signing_identity = {identity!r}")
    except Exception as exc:
        print(f"  (could not write desktop.macos_signing_identity: {exc})")
        return False

    desktop_dir = PROJECT_ROOT / "apps" / "desktop"
    if _desktop_packaged_executable(desktop_dir) is not None:
        try:
            if _desktop_macos_relaunchable_fixup(desktop_dir):
                print(
                    "  → packaged app re-signed with certificate-anchored identity; "
                    "TCC grants persist across rebuilds"
                )
        except Exception as exc:
            print(f"  (could not re-sign packaged app: {exc})")

    print(
        "\n  Note: macOS will re-prompt for permissions ONE final time (the identity "
        "changed). Grant them and they persist from then on. If a permission gets "
        "stuck, reset it with:  tccutil reset All com.nousresearch.hermes"
    )
    return True


def _app_asar_hash(app_path: Path) -> str | None:
    """Return the SHA-256 hex digest of an app bundle's app.asar, or None."""
    asar = app_path / "Contents" / "Resources" / "app.asar"
    if not asar.is_file():
        return None
    h = hashlib.sha256()
    try:
        with open(asar, "rb") as f:
            for chunk in iter(lambda: f.read(65536), b""):
                h.update(chunk)
        return h.hexdigest()
    except (OSError, IOError):
        return None


def _swap_in_new_macos_bundle(tmp: Path, target: Path, old: Path) -> None:
    """Move a staged macOS bundle into place without losing the old bundle."""
    moved_old = False
    if target.exists():
        try:
            target.rename(old)
        except OSError:
            shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
            raise
        moved_old = True

    try:
        tmp.rename(target)
    except OSError as install_error:
        rollback_error: OSError | None = None
        if moved_old:
            try:
                old.rename(target)
            except OSError as exc:
                rollback_error = exc
        shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
        if rollback_error is not None:
            raise OSError(
                f"installing the staged bundle failed and rollback remains at {old}: "
                f"{rollback_error}"
            ) from install_error
        raise

    shutil.rmtree(old, ignore_errors=True)


def _running_macos_app_bundles() -> set[Path]:
    """``.app`` bundles of every live Hermes Desktop process. A running bundle is never swapped
    under: Electron loads ``app.asar`` chunks and helper apps lazily, so renaming its bundle away
    and deleting the old tree crashes the live app (the detached updater waits for it to exit)."""
    import psutil  # noqa: PLC0415
    bundles: set[Path] = set()
    for proc in psutil.process_iter(["exe"]):
        exe = proc.info.get("exe") or ""
        if exe.endswith("/Contents/MacOS/Hermes"):
            bundles.add(Path(exe).resolve().parents[2])
    return bundles


def _stage_macos_bundle_copy(src: Path, dst: Path) -> None:
    """``ditto`` copies a bundle with its signature, xattrs and symlinks intact (``shutil`` drops
    the resource-fork metadata codesign verifies)."""
    subprocess.run(["/usr/bin/ditto", str(src), str(dst)], check=True, capture_output=True)


def _install_rebuilt_desktop_app(desktop_dir: Path) -> tuple[list[Path], list[str]]:
    """Copy the rebuilt macOS bundle over every stale installed ``Hermes.app`` (#52339).

    ``hermes desktop --build-only`` (what ``hermes update`` runs) packages into
    ``apps/desktop/release/`` only. Finder, the Dock and Spotlight launch the copy in
    ``/Applications`` (or ``~/Applications``), so without this step every update leaves the
    installed shell one build behind the backend it boots. The detached Desktop updater swaps
    only the bundle it was launched from, so an app running from ``release/`` never refreshed
    the installed copy either.

    Returns ``(installed, problems)``: bundles that were replaced, and one user-facing line per
    bundle that could not be (running, copy or swap failure). Both empty means every installed
    copy was already current.
    """
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        return [], []
    rebuilt_exe = _desktop_packaged_executable(desktop_dir)
    if rebuilt_exe is None:
        return [], []
    # .../Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes -> .../Hermes.app
    return _install_rebuilt_macos_bundles(
        rebuilt_exe.parents[2], _installed_desktop_apps(), running=_running_macos_app_bundles())


def _refresh_installed_desktop_apps(desktop_dir: Path) -> None:
    """Install the rebuilt bundle over stale installed copies and report each outcome."""
    installed, problems = _install_rebuilt_desktop_app(desktop_dir)
    for app in installed:
        print(f"  ✓ Installed the rebuilt Desktop app at {app}")
    for problem in problems:
        print(f"  ⚠ {problem}")


def _update_owned_macos_bundles(candidates: list[Path]) -> list[Path]:
    """The existing bundles in *candidates* that only ``hermes update`` keeps current (#52339).

    Ownership comes from the bundle's own ``install-stamp.json``. ``updateMechanism: self`` is a
    bootstrap build (a local pack or the bootstrap download), and stamps older than the field
    predate every self-updating kind. Bundled/light releases update themselves and commit builds
    are external, so a local build must never be copied over them. No readable stamp, no claim.
    """
    owned = []
    for app in candidates:
        try:
            stamp = json.loads((app / "Contents" / "Resources" / "install-stamp.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig"))
        except (OSError, ValueError):
            continue
        if isinstance(stamp, dict) and stamp.get("updateMechanism", "self") == "self":
            owned.append(app)
    return owned


def _installed_desktop_apps() -> list[Path]:
    """Installed macOS ``Hermes.app`` bundles this checkout's update owns (none off macOS).

    A packaged app runs the checkout under the default Hermes home, so only that checkout may
    build for it: a bundle from any other tree (a dev worktree) would split shell from backend.
    """
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        return []
    from hermes_cli.gui_uninstall import packaged_gui_app_paths  # noqa: PLC0415
    from hermes_cli.main import PROJECT_ROOT  # noqa: PLC0415
    from hermes_constants import get_default_hermes_root  # noqa: PLC0415
    if Path(PROJECT_ROOT).resolve() != (get_default_hermes_root() / "hermes-agent").resolve():
        return []
    return _update_owned_macos_bundles(packaged_gui_app_paths())


def _installed_desktop_launch_target(desktop_dir: Path, packaged_executable: Path) -> Path:
    """The executable ``hermes desktop`` launches: the installed app once it IS the checkout build.

    Finder, the Dock and Spotlight open the installed ``Hermes.app``; launching the ``release/``
    bundle beside it ran the same app from a second path while the installed copy went stale
    (#52339). Refresh the installed copies, then launch the first one that matches the checkout
    build. The checkout bundle stays the fallback: nothing installed, or a copy that is running
    or could not be replaced.
    """
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        return packaged_executable
    _refresh_installed_desktop_apps(desktop_dir)
    rebuilt_hash = _app_asar_hash(packaged_executable.parents[2])
    for app in _installed_desktop_apps():
        if rebuilt_hash is not None and _app_asar_hash(app) == rebuilt_hash:
            return app / "Contents" / "MacOS" / "Hermes"
    return packaged_executable


def _install_rebuilt_macos_bundles(
        rebuilt_app: Path, candidates: list[Path], *, running: set[Path]) -> tuple[list[Path], list[str]]:
    """Stage-and-swap ``rebuilt_app`` over each existing bundle in ``candidates`` whose ``app.asar``
    differs. The rebuilt bundle already carries the stable local signing identity and no
    quarantine xattr (``_desktop_macos_relaunchable_fixup``); ``ditto`` preserves both, so nothing
    is re-signed here and TCC grants survive."""
    rebuilt_hash = _app_asar_hash(rebuilt_app)
    if rebuilt_hash is None:
        return [], []
    installed: list[Path] = []
    problems: list[str] = []
    for app in candidates:
        if not app.is_dir() or _app_asar_hash(app) == rebuilt_hash:
            continue
        if app.resolve() in running:
            problems.append(
                f"{app} is running and was not refreshed; quit Hermes Desktop and run "
                "`hermes update` again (or update from inside the app)")
            continue
        tmp = app.parent / f"{app.name}.hermes-update-new"
        old = app.parent / f"{app.name}.hermes-update-old"
        shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
        shutil.rmtree(old, ignore_errors=True)
        try:
            _stage_macos_bundle_copy(rebuilt_app, tmp)
            _swap_in_new_macos_bundle(tmp, app, old)
        except (OSError, subprocess.CalledProcessError) as exc:
            shutil.rmtree(tmp, ignore_errors=True)
            problems.append(f"{app} could not be replaced ({exc}); the previous app was kept")
            continue
        installed.append(app)
    return installed, problems


def _force_adhoc_macos_signing(env: dict, *, source_mode: bool) -> bool:
    """Force ad-hoc signing for the local packaged rebuild: with ``CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY`` on,
    electron-builder grabs any personal keychain cert and stalls the sign step or clobbers a
    notarized signature. No-op for source runs, off-macOS, with a real identity, or when pinned."""
    if sys.platform != "darwin" or source_mode:
        return False
    if env.get("CSC_LINK") or env.get("APPLE_SIGNING_IDENTITY") or "CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY" in env:
        return False
    env["CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY"] = "false"
    return True


def _desktop_linux_needs_no_sandbox() -> bool:
    """True when Electron should run ``--no-sandbox``: Ubuntu 23.10+ ``apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns``
    breaks the userns sandbox without a root-owned 4755 helper. Deliberately NOT True for root —
    Electron as root without a sandbox must stay an explicit choice."""
    if os.environ.get("ELECTRON_DISABLE_SANDBOX", 0) == "1":
        return True

    if sys.platform != "linux":
        return False
    if hasattr(os, "geteuid") and os.geteuid() == 0:
        return False
    try:
        with open("/proc/sys/kernel/apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            return f.read().strip() == "1"
    except OSError:
        return False


def _desktop_linux_userns_sandbox_available() -> bool:
    """True when the unprivileged userns sandbox works (probed with ``unshare``, fails closed) — then
    the setuid ``chrome-sandbox`` helper is never consulted and no sudo prompt is needed."""
    if sys.platform != "linux":
        return False
    unshare = shutil.which("unshare")
    if not unshare:
        return False
    try:
        return (
            subprocess.run(
                [unshare, "--user", "--map-root-user", "true"],
                stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, timeout=5, check=False,
            ).returncode
            == 0)
    except (OSError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
        return False


def _sandbox_helper_lstat(packaged_executable: Path) -> tuple[Path, Optional[os.stat_result]]:
    """``(chrome-sandbox path, lstat or None)`` — lstat so a symlink is inspected, not followed."""
    sandbox = packaged_executable.parent / "chrome-sandbox"
    try:
        return sandbox, sandbox.lstat()
    except OSError:
        return sandbox, None


def _sandbox_helper_is_setuid_root(st: os.stat_result) -> bool:
    return st.st_uid == 0 and stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode) == 0o4755


def _desktop_linux_sandbox_helper_is_regular_file(packaged_executable: Path) -> bool:
    """Return True when ``chrome-sandbox`` exists as a regular file."""
    if sys.platform != "linux":
        return False
    _sandbox, st = _sandbox_helper_lstat(packaged_executable)
    return st is not None and stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode)


def _desktop_linux_sandbox_fixup(packaged_executable: Path) -> bool:
    """Configure Electron's Linux SUID sandbox helper when required."""
    if sys.platform != "linux":
        return True

    sandbox, st = _sandbox_helper_lstat(packaged_executable)
    if not sandbox.exists():
        print(f"✗ Hermes Desktop is missing Electron's Linux sandbox helper: {sandbox}")
        return False
    # Reject symlinks — chown/chmod must not follow an attacker-controlled link.
    if st is None:
        print(f"✗ Cannot stat Electron's Linux sandbox helper: {sandbox}")
        return False
    if not stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode):
        print(f"✗ Electron's Linux sandbox helper is not a regular file: {sandbox}")
        return False

    if _sandbox_helper_is_setuid_root(st):
        return True

    if _desktop_linux_userns_sandbox_available():
        print("✓ Using Chromium's user-namespace sandbox (setuid helper not needed).")
        return True

    sudo = shutil.which("sudo")
    if not sudo:
        print("✗ Hermes Desktop requires sudo to configure Electron's Linux sandbox helper.")
        return False

    print("→ Configuring Electron Linux sandbox helper (sudo required)...")
    for command in ([sudo, "chown", "root:root", str(sandbox)], [sudo, "chmod", "4755", str(sandbox)]):
        if subprocess.run(command, check=False).returncode != 0:
            print(f"✗ Failed to configure Electron's Linux sandbox helper: {sandbox}")
            return False
    return True


def _desktop_linux_needs_disable_setuid_sandbox(packaged_executable: Path) -> bool:
    """True when a present, non-setuid ``chrome-sandbox`` would make Chromium abort with
    ``setuid_sandbox_host`` despite a working userns sandbox (call after the fixup's userns path)."""
    if sys.platform != "linux":
        return False
    _sandbox, st = _sandbox_helper_lstat(packaged_executable)
    return st is not None and stat.S_ISREG(st.st_mode) and not _sandbox_helper_is_setuid_root(st)


_LINUX_PASSWORD_STORES = frozenset({"gnome-libsecret", "kwallet", "kwallet5", "kwallet6", "basic"})

_GPU_FLAG_WORDS = {**dict.fromkeys(("1", "true", "yes", "on"), "1"), **dict.fromkeys(("0", "false", "no", "off"), "0")}


def _detect_linux_password_store() -> str | None:
    """Chromium password-store backend for this Linux session (KDE env → GNOME Keyring socket → D-Bus
    ping of org.freedesktop.secrets), or None. Chromium's own detection fails under the launcher
    env, and safeStorage then reports encryption unavailable."""
    kde_version = os.environ.get("KDE_SESSION_VERSION", "").strip()
    if kde_version:
        return {"6": "kwallet6", "5": "kwallet5"}.get(kde_version, "kwallet")
    if os.environ.get("KDE_FULL_SESSION"):
        return "kwallet"
    if os.environ.get("GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL"):
        return "gnome-libsecret"
    with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
        result = subprocess.run(
            [
                "dbus-send", "--session", "--print-reply", "--reply-timeout=2000",
                "--dest=org.freedesktop.secrets",
                "/org/freedesktop/secrets",
                "org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.Ping",
            ],
            capture_output=True,
            timeout=5)
        if result.returncode == 0:
            return "gnome-libsecret"
    return None


_A11Y_OFF_WORDS = frozenset(("0", "false", "no", "off", "disabled"))


def _desktop_launch_options() -> tuple[list[str], str, str, str, bool]:
    """``desktop.*`` launch options: ``(electron_flags, disable_gpu "auto"/"1"/"0", password_store,
    ozone_hint "auto"/"x11"/"wayland", renderer_accessibility bool)``; unknown values and config
    errors yield "auto"/[]/True so a malformed config never blocks the launch."""
    flags: list[str] = []
    disable_gpu = password_store = ozone_hint = "auto"
    renderer_accessibility = True
    try:
        from hermes_cli.config import load_config
        desktop_cfg = (load_config() or {}).get("desktop") or {}
    except Exception:
        return flags, disable_gpu, password_store, ozone_hint, renderer_accessibility

    raw_flags = desktop_cfg.get("electron_flags")
    if isinstance(raw_flags, str):
        flags = shlex.split(raw_flags, posix=(os.name != "nt"))
    elif isinstance(raw_flags, (list, tuple)):
        flags = [str(f) for f in raw_flags if str(f).strip()]

    def _choice(key: str, allowed) -> str:
        raw = desktop_cfg.get(key, "auto")
        low = raw.strip().lower() if isinstance(raw, str) else ""
        return low if low in allowed else "auto"

    raw_gpu = desktop_cfg.get("disable_gpu", "auto")
    if isinstance(raw_gpu, bool):
        disable_gpu = "1" if raw_gpu else "0"
    elif isinstance(raw_gpu, str):
        disable_gpu = _GPU_FLAG_WORDS.get(raw_gpu.strip().lower(), "auto")
    password_store = _choice("password_store", _LINUX_PASSWORD_STORES)
    ozone_hint = _choice("ozone_platform_hint", ("auto", "x11", "wayland"))
    raw_a11y = desktop_cfg.get("renderer_accessibility", True)
    if isinstance(raw_a11y, bool):
        renderer_accessibility = raw_a11y
    elif isinstance(raw_a11y, (int, float)):
        # YAML resolves a bare `0`/`0.0` to int/float, not str — the unquoted
        # off-switch a user actually writes must not silently keep the ON
        # default. Checked after bool: bool is an int subclass in Python.
        renderer_accessibility = bool(raw_a11y)
    elif isinstance(raw_a11y, str):
        renderer_accessibility = raw_a11y.strip().lower() not in _A11Y_OFF_WORDS
    return flags, disable_gpu, password_store, ozone_hint, renderer_accessibility


def _register_linux_desktop_entry(defer: bool = False):
    """Install the XDG desktop entry for Hermes Desktop (Linux only, best-effort).

    ``Exec`` and ``Icon`` are absolute so the entry works outside a login shell.
    ``hermes uninstall --gui`` removes it.

    ``defer=True`` (app-grid launch) returns a ``DeferredDesktopEntryInstall`` that writes the
    entry only once the Electron window is on screen (#111906); ``None`` when nothing is
    pending. Terminal, detached and ``--build-only`` launches install synchronously.
    """
    from hermes_cli.main import PROJECT_ROOT
    try:
        from hermes_cli.linux_desktop_entry import DeferredDesktopEntryInstall, install_desktop_entry, is_supported
        if not is_supported():
            return None
        if defer:
            deferred = DeferredDesktopEntryInstall(PROJECT_ROOT)
            deferred.start()
            return deferred
        entry = install_desktop_entry(PROJECT_ROOT)
        if entry:
            print(f"✓ Desktop launcher entry installed: {entry}")
    except Exception as exc:  # never block a launch on launcher plumbing
        print(f"⚠ Could not install the desktop launcher entry: {exc}")
    return None


def _promote_staged_desktop_app(
    desktop_dir: Path, staging_dir: Path, *,
    integrity_check: Optional[Callable[[Path], Optional[str]]] = None,
) -> Path:
    """Sign and verify before swapping; the default integrity check is Windows PE validation."""
    staged_executable = _desktop_packaged_executable_in(staging_dir)
    # Locally-built apps are ad-hoc signed; make them relaunchable after an
    # in-place self-update. Signs the STAGED bundle so the live app is never
    # half-signed. No-op on non-macOS and on real-identity builds.
    _desktop_macos_relaunchable_fixup(desktop_dir, release_dir=staging_dir)

    # Validate only staging. The swap owns live-app rollback; raw in-place
    # pack backups are not part of this transaction.
    if integrity_check is None and sys.platform == "win32":
        integrity_check = _desktop_exe_integrity_error
    error = (
        integrity_check(staged_executable)
        if staged_executable is not None and integrity_check is not None else None
    )
    if staged_executable is None or error is not None:
        _discard_desktop_staging(staging_dir)
        if staged_executable is None:
            print(f"✗ Desktop build produced no launchable app in {staging_dir}")
        else:
            print(f"✗ The built {staged_executable.name} failed its integrity check: {error}\n"
                  f"    at: {staged_executable}")
        raise RuntimeError(f"Desktop build produced no launchable app. {_PREVIOUS_APP_KEPT}")
    packaged_executable = _swap_staged_desktop_app(desktop_dir, staging_dir)
    if packaged_executable is None:
        print(f"✗ Could not install the rebuilt desktop app into {desktop_dir / 'release'}")
        raise RuntimeError(f"Could not publish the desktop build. {_PREVIOUS_APP_KEPT}")
    return packaged_executable


def _diagnose_esbuild_ignore_scripts(output: Optional[str]) -> None:
    """Print an actionable hint when a desktop build failed because esbuild's platform
    binary was never staged (`ignore-scripts=true` skips esbuild's postinstall, so the
    ``@esbuild/<platform>`` optional dependency is absent) — #53082. Best-effort: only
    adds context, never masks the original error."""
    text = output or ""
    if not ("@esbuild/" in text and "could not be found" in text) and "ignore-scripts" not in text:
        return
    print("  ⚠ This looks like esbuild's native binary is missing — commonly caused by")
    print("    `ignore-scripts=true` in your npm config, which skips esbuild's postinstall")
    print("    that stages the @esbuild/<platform> package.")
    print("    Fix: run `npm config get ignore-scripts` — if true, either set it to false")
    print("    (`npm config set ignore-scripts false`), then reinstall: `npm ci` in the repo root,")
    print("    or stage the binary directly: `node node_modules/esbuild/install.js` in apps/desktop.")


def build_prepared_desktop(desktop_dir: Path, *, source_mode: bool, npm: str, env: dict,
                           icons: Path | None = None) -> Optional[Path]:
    """Build prepared desktop sources, then publish the verified staged app."""
    from pm.progress import run_contained

    if not source_mode and sys.platform == "win32" and (ancestor := _desktop_ancestor_in(desktop_dir)):
        # The Desktop running this build holds the exe lock the promotion rename needs,
        # and stopping it would kill this process first (#123499). Packing would only
        # produce a build that cannot be installed; leave the app as it is. Its content
        # stamp stays stale, so `hermes desktop` run outside the app rebuilds it
        # (_desktop_build_needed), and the in-app update completes with desktop=True.
        print(f"  ⚠ Skipped rebuilding the desktop app: this update is running inside it (pid {ancestor}),")
        print("    and Windows locks a running app's files. Quit Hermes Desktop and run `hermes desktop`")
        print("    from a terminal, or use Update now in Settings → About, to rebuild and reopen it.")
        return None
    build_label = "source build" if source_mode else "packaged app"
    build_env = dict(env)
    if sys.platform == "win32":
        # The installer stages pinned Git in its own PowerShell process. Product
        # builds run later, often with every system git removed from PATH; the
        # desktop stamp must still resolve this checkout's real HEAD.
        import pm
        build_env = pm.ensure("git", base_env=build_env).env
    if _force_adhoc_macos_signing(build_env, source_mode=source_mode):
        print("  → No Developer ID configured; ad-hoc signing this local rebuild "
              "(CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false)")
    build_args = ["--icons", str(icons)] if icons else []
    build_cmd = [npm, "run", "build", "--", *build_args]
    staging_dir = None if source_mode else _desktop_staging_dir(desktop_dir)
    if staging_dir is not None:
        # electron-builder packs in place; only the verified staging tree may
        # replace the running app, never a failed or incomplete build.

        stopped = _stop_desktop_processes_locking_build(desktop_dir)
        if stopped:
            print(f"  ⚠ Stopped running desktop app to free the build output (pid {', '.join(map(str, stopped))})")
    try:
        run_contained(build_cmd, f"Building desktop {build_label}", cwd=desktop_dir, env=build_env)
        if staging_dir is not None:
            run_contained([npm, "run", "builder", "--", "--dir", "--publish", "never",
                           f"-c.directories.output={staging_dir}"], "Packaging the desktop app",
                          cwd=desktop_dir, env=build_env)
        packaged_executable = (
            _promote_staged_desktop_app(desktop_dir, staging_dir) if staging_dir is not None else None
        )
        return packaged_executable
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as exc:
        _diagnose_esbuild_ignore_scripts(exc.output)
        raise
    finally:
        if staging_dir is not None:
            _discard_desktop_staging(staging_dir)


_WSL_DXG_DEVICE = Path("/dev/dxg")
_WSL_D3D12_DRIVERS = (
    Path("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/d3d12_dri.so"),
    Path("/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/dri/d3d12_dri.so"),
    Path("/usr/lib64/dri/d3d12_dri.so"),
    Path("/usr/lib/dri/d3d12_dri.so"),
)
_MESA_DRIVER_OVERRIDES = ("GALLIUM_DRIVER", "MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE", "LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE", "LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH")


def _prefer_wsl_d3d12(env: dict) -> None:
    """Under WSLg, /dev/dxg alone does not make Mesa pick the GPU: Chromium still lands on
    llvmpipe unless GALLIUM_DRIVER selects d3d12, and it must be set before Electron spawns
    its GPU process (setting it from JS is too late). Explicit Mesa choices win; hosts without
    the driver are left alone."""
    from hermes_constants import is_wsl
    if any(key in env for key in _MESA_DRIVER_OVERRIDES):
        return
    if is_wsl() and _WSL_DXG_DEVICE.exists() and any(driver.is_file() for driver in _WSL_D3D12_DRIVERS):
        env["GALLIUM_DRIVER"] = "d3d12"


def _desktop_launch_env(args: argparse.Namespace) -> tuple[dict, list[str]]:
    """Electron child env + config-supplied extra flags. ``desktop.*`` config is bridged to env vars
    Electron already reads; an explicit env var wins over config (and over keychain detection)."""
    from hermes_constants import with_hermes_node_path
    # with_hermes_node_path() copies os.environ when called with no arg.
    env = with_hermes_node_path()
    _prefer_wsl_d3d12(env)
    for attr, key in (
        ("fake_boot", "HERMES_DESKTOP_BOOT_FAKE"), ("ignore_existing", "HERMES_DESKTOP_IGNORE_EXISTING")):
        if getattr(args, attr, False):
            env[key] = "1"
    if getattr(args, "hermes_root", None):
        env["HERMES_DESKTOP_HERMES_ROOT"] = str(Path(args.hermes_root).expanduser().resolve())
    cwd = getattr(args, "cwd", None)
    env["HERMES_DESKTOP_CWD"] = str(Path(cwd).expanduser().resolve()) if cwd else os.getcwd()

    config_electron_flags, config_disable_gpu, config_password_store, config_ozone_hint, config_renderer_a11y = (
        _desktop_launch_options())
    if config_disable_gpu != "auto" and "HERMES_DESKTOP_DISABLE_GPU" not in os.environ:
        env["HERMES_DESKTOP_DISABLE_GPU"] = config_disable_gpu
    if config_ozone_hint != "auto" and "ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT" not in os.environ:
        env["ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT"] = config_ozone_hint

    # Renderer accessibility tree (composer exposure to OS dictation/IME
    # tools, #118271/#92607) defaults to ON inside the app; bridge only the
    # explicit opt-out so the default never depends on the launcher path.
    if not config_renderer_a11y and "HERMES_DESKTOP_RENDERER_ACCESSIBILITY" not in os.environ:
        env["HERMES_DESKTOP_RENDERER_ACCESSIBILITY"] = "0"

    # Without --password-store safeStorage.isEncryptionAvailable() is often
    # false and the desktop app refuses to persist remote gateway tokens.
    if sys.platform == "linux" and "HERMES_DESKTOP_PASSWORD_STORE" not in os.environ:
        password_store = (
            config_password_store if config_password_store != "auto" else _detect_linux_password_store()
        )
        if password_store:
            env["HERMES_DESKTOP_PASSWORD_STORE"] = password_store
    return env, config_electron_flags


def _check_desktop_skip_build(
    desktop_dir: Path, project_root: Path, *, source_mode: bool, packaged_executable: Optional[Path]
) -> None:
    """Validate the pre-built artifact ``--skip-build`` promised; exit with a hint when it's missing."""
    if source_mode:
        if not _desktop_dist_exists(desktop_dir):
            print(f"✗ --skip-build --source was passed but no desktop dist found at: {desktop_dir / 'dist'}")
            print("  Pre-build first:  cd apps/desktop && npm run build")
            print("  Or drop --skip-build to install dependencies and build automatically.")
            sys.exit(1)
        if not (_electron_dir(project_root) / "package.json").exists():
            print("✗ --skip-build --source requires existing desktop workspace dependencies.")
            print(f"  Install first:  cd {project_root} && npm ci")
            print("  Or drop --skip-build to install dependencies and build automatically.")
            sys.exit(1)
        print(f"→ Skipping desktop source build (--skip-build --source); using dist at {desktop_dir / 'dist'}")
    elif packaged_executable is None:
        print(f"✗ --skip-build was passed but no packaged desktop app was found at: {desktop_dir / 'release'}")
        print("  Pre-build first:  cd apps/desktop && npm run pack")
        print("  Or drop --skip-build to package automatically.")
        sys.exit(1)
    else:
        desktop_launch_notice(f"→ Skipping desktop package build (--skip-build); using {packaged_executable}")


def _packaged_desktop_launch_command(packaged_executable: Path) -> list[str]:
    """``[exe, *sandbox flags]`` after the Linux sandbox fixup; exits when the sandbox can't be configured."""
    launch_command = [str(packaged_executable)]
    if not _desktop_linux_sandbox_fixup(packaged_executable):
        if _desktop_linux_needs_no_sandbox() and _desktop_linux_sandbox_helper_is_regular_file(packaged_executable):
            print("⚠ Falling back to --no-sandbox because this Linux host restricts unprivileged user namespaces and the Electron sandbox helper could not be configured.")
            launch_command.append("--no-sandbox")
        else:
            sys.exit(1)
    elif _desktop_linux_needs_disable_setuid_sandbox(packaged_executable):
        launch_command.append("--disable-setuid-sandbox")
    return launch_command


def _site_packages_install_kind(project_root: Path) -> Optional[str]:
    """The package manager owning a non-editable install at *project_root*, or None.

    A package-manager install (Homebrew, pip, distro packaging) places this
    code in a ``site-packages``/``dist-packages`` tree. Such a tree ships no
    ``apps/desktop`` source, so the build ladder below can never run — the
    caller must not treat it like a broken checkout. A Homebrew formula lives
    under a ``Cellar`` directory; any other site-packages owner is reported
    generically as pip.
    """
    parts = Path(project_root).parts
    if "site-packages" in parts or "dist-packages" in parts:
        return "homebrew" if "Cellar" in parts else "pip"
    return None


def _launch_installed_macos_desktop_app() -> bool:
    """Launch a separately installed ``/Applications/Hermes.app``, if present.

    Returns True only when the app bundle exists and a detached launch was
    started — the caller then exits without touching the build ladder.
    """
    if sys.platform != "darwin":
        return False
    executable = Path("/Applications/Hermes.app/Contents/MacOS/Hermes")
    if not executable.is_file():
        return False
    from hermes_cli.bundled_app import launch_detached

    pid = launch_detached([str(executable)], cwd=executable.parent)
    print(f"→ Launched the installed Hermes Desktop app: {executable} (pid {pid})")
    return True


def cmd_gui(args: argparse.Namespace):
    """Build and launch the native Electron desktop GUI."""
    from hermes_cli.main import PROJECT_ROOT
    from hermes_cli.source_build import prepare_source_dependencies, source_build_env
    desktop_dir = PROJECT_ROOT / "apps" / "desktop"
    # A bundled install IS the app: no source tree, no build, and the
    # launcher is a sibling of this payload rather than something we
    # produce. Every rung below assembles a checkout build, so the sealed
    # shape leaves here with the env it just built.
    from hermes_cli.steward import is_bundled_payload

    bundled = is_bundled_payload(PROJECT_ROOT)
    if not bundled and not (desktop_dir / "package.json").exists():
        # A package-manager install (Homebrew, pip, ...) ships no desktop
        # source tree, so building here is impossible by construction (#61056).
        # Prefer the separately installed desktop app; otherwise explain the
        # packaging shape instead of the generic missing-source error.
        install_kind = _site_packages_install_kind(PROJECT_ROOT)
        if install_kind is not None and _launch_installed_macos_desktop_app():
            sys.exit(0)
        print(f"Desktop GUI source not found at: {desktop_dir}")
        if install_kind == "homebrew":
            print(
                "  This Hermes came from Homebrew, which does not ship the desktop app's\n"
                "  source tree, so it cannot be built from this install.\n"
                "  Install the desktop app from https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com,\n"
                "  or run `hermes desktop` from a source checkout."
            )
        sys.exit(1)

    with contextlib.suppress(Exception):
        from hermes_logging import setup_logging as _setup_logging_gui
        _setup_logging_gui(mode="gui")

    env, config_electron_flags = _desktop_launch_env(args)

    source_mode = getattr(args, "source", False)
    skip_build = getattr(args, "skip_build", False)
    force_build = getattr(args, "force_build", False)

    # macOS-only one-shot: create a self-signed code-signing identity so TCC
    # grants survive rebuilds, then exit without building/launching.
    if getattr(args, "setup_tcc_identity", False):
        identity = getattr(args, "identity", None) or "Hermes Local Signing"
        sys.exit(0 if _desktop_macos_setup_tcc_identity(identity) else 1)

    if bundled:
        _launch_bundled_desktop(args, env, config_electron_flags)

    packaged_executable = _desktop_packaged_executable(desktop_dir)

    needs_build = not skip_build and (
        force_build or _desktop_build_needed(desktop_dir, PROJECT_ROOT, source_mode=source_mode)
    )
    npm = None
    try:
        if needs_build:
            build_env = source_build_env(env, explicit=force_build or getattr(args, "build_only", False))
            npm = shutil.which("npm", path=build_env["PATH"])
            env["PATH"] = build_env["PATH"]
        if skip_build:
            _check_desktop_skip_build(
                desktop_dir, PROJECT_ROOT, source_mode=source_mode, packaged_executable=packaged_executable
            )
        elif needs_build:
            prepare_source_dependencies(PROJECT_ROOT, ("ui-tui", "web", "apps/desktop"), env=build_env,
                                        explicit=force_build or getattr(args, "build_only", False))
            built = build_prepared_desktop(desktop_dir, source_mode=source_mode, npm=npm, env=build_env)
            if not source_mode:
                # None only when the build was skipped under its own Desktop: reopen the app it kept.
                packaged_executable = built or packaged_executable
        else:
            build_label = "source build" if source_mode else "packaged app"
            desktop_launch_notice(f"✓ Desktop {build_label} is up to date (content stamp matches)", source_mode=source_mode)
    except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError, RuntimeError) as exc:
        print(f"✗ Desktop GUI build failed: {exc}")
        raise SystemExit(1) from exc

    # Best-effort and idempotent; a failure must never stop the app from launching.
    # An app-grid launch (DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID) must not write its own entry while the
    # shell still has the app in STARTING, so it defers the write until Electron
    # reports the window on screen (#111906). --build-only spawns no app: write now.
    from hermes_cli.linux_desktop_entry import launched_from_shell
    build_only = bool(getattr(args, "build_only", False))
    deferred_entry = _register_linux_desktop_entry(defer=launched_from_shell() and not build_only)

    # --build-only: produce the artifact but do NOT launch. The installer's
    # --update flow drives the rebuild headlessly and launches the desktop
    # itself (detached, after the old exe has exited); launching here would
    # block the installer. Verify the artifact exists so a silent "built
    # nothing" can't slip past.
    if build_only:
        if source_mode:
            if not _desktop_dist_exists(desktop_dir):
                print(f"✗ --build-only --source produced no dist at: {desktop_dir / 'dist'}")
                sys.exit(1)
            print(f"✓ Desktop source build ready at {desktop_dir / 'dist'} (not launching; --build-only)")
        elif packaged_executable is None:
            print(f"✗ --build-only produced no launchable app at: {desktop_dir / 'release'}")
            print("  Expected an unpacked Electron app for the current OS.")
            sys.exit(1)
        else:
            print(f"✓ Desktop packaged app ready: {packaged_executable} (not launching; --build-only)")
        return

    if source_mode:
        print("→ Launching Hermes Desktop from source build...")
        # Launch only the prepared runtime. npm exec can provision a missing
        # Electron package, including when --skip-build was requested.
        electron = _electron_dir(PROJECT_ROOT)
        try:
            executable = electron / "dist" / (electron / "path.txt").read_text(encoding="utf-8-sig").strip()
            if not executable.is_file():
                raise FileNotFoundError(executable)
        except OSError as exc:
            print(f"✗ Prepared Electron runtime is missing: {exc}")
            raise SystemExit(1) from exc
        launch_command = [str(executable), "."]
    else:
        if packaged_executable is None:
            print(f"✗ Desktop package build completed but no launchable app was found at: {desktop_dir / 'release'}")
            print("  Expected an unpacked Electron app for the current OS.")
            sys.exit(1)
        launch_command = _packaged_desktop_launch_command(
            _installed_desktop_launch_target(desktop_dir, packaged_executable))
        launch_command.extend(config_electron_flags)
    if getattr(args, "local", False):
        launch_command.append("--local")
    launch_command.extend(_explicit_profile_args())
    if not source_mode:
        desktop_launch_notice(f"→ Launching packaged Hermes Desktop: {' '.join(launch_command)}")
    pass_fds: tuple[int, ...] = ()
    if deferred_entry is not None:
        env = deferred_entry.child_env(env)
        pass_fds = deferred_entry.pass_fds
    if not source_mode and sys.platform == "win32":
        # Windows: detach the packaged Desktop from the parent console + process
        # group, then return immediately (#58275). A console-inheriting
        # subprocess.run dies with the launching shell (CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT fans
        # out to the process group) and floods the parent terminal — under
        # cp936, mojibake — with Electron/Node stdout. Mirrors the bundled
        # launcher (_launch_bundled_desktop) and gateway_windows._spawn_detached.
        # macOS/Linux keep the foreground run below: those launches are
        # expected to stay attached to the terminal, and the desktop_console
        # drain is a Windows-only concern.
        from hermes_cli._subprocess_compat import (
            windows_detach_flags,
            windows_detach_flags_without_breakaway,
        )

        popen_kwargs = dict(
            cwd=desktop_dir,
            env=env,
            stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
            stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
            stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
            close_fds=True,
        )
        try:
            subprocess.Popen(launch_command, creationflags=windows_detach_flags(), **popen_kwargs)
        except OSError as exc:
            # Only recover from a denied job breakaway (the parent's job object
            # lacks JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_BREAKAWAY_OK), which surfaces as
            # ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (winerror == 5). Re-raise every other spawn
            # failure (bad argv/env, missing exe) so it stays a clear, single
            # error instead of being masked by a doomed second attempt.
            if getattr(exc, "winerror", None) != 5:
                raise
            subprocess.Popen(
                launch_command,
                creationflags=windows_detach_flags_without_breakaway(),
                **popen_kwargs,
            )
        if deferred_entry is not None:
            deferred_entry.finish()
        desktop_launch_notice("✓ Hermes Desktop launched in a detached window; you can close this shell.")
        sys.exit(0)
    with desktop_console_output(source_mode=source_mode) as streams:
        try:
            launch_result = subprocess.run(
                launch_command, cwd=desktop_dir, env=env, check=False, pass_fds=pass_fds, **streams
            )
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            # Ctrl-C in the terminal the launcher is attached to is the user
            # closing the Desktop, not a launcher crash. Exit cleanly instead
            # of dumping a KeyboardInterrupt traceback from subprocess.run
            # (#59848).
            print("\n✓ Hermes Desktop closed.")
            sys.exit(0)
    if deferred_entry is not None:
        deferred_entry.finish()
    sys.exit(launch_result.returncode)


def _explicit_profile_args() -> list[str]:
    """``--profile <name>`` for Electron when ``-p``/``--profile`` was on argv.

    Explicit flag only. A bare `hermes desktop` must not forward the sticky CLI
    profile — Electron would persist it over the stored desktop one.
    """
    from hermes_cli.main import explicit_cli_profile

    profile = explicit_cli_profile()
    return ["--profile", profile] if profile else []


def _launch_bundled_desktop(
    args: argparse.Namespace, env: dict, electron_flags: list[str]
) -> None:
    """Start the desktop app this CLI ships inside, then exit.

    A bundled install has no source tree to build: the app is a signed,
    read-only artifact and this Python is a passenger in its resources.
    So the whole build ladder below is skipped and the launcher is started
    DETACHED — the user ran a CLI command, and the app must outlive the
    terminal it was typed into. The app's own single-instance lock turns a
    second run into "focus the running window".

    Never returns.
    """
    from hermes_cli.bundled_app import NotBundledApp, launch_detached, resolve_bundle_layout
    from hermes_cli.main import PROJECT_ROOT

    refused = [
        flag
        for flag, name in (
            ("--source", "source"),
            ("--build-only", "build_only"),
            ("--force-build", "force_build"),
        )
        if getattr(args, name, False)
    ]
    if refused:
        print(f"✗ {', '.join(refused)} cannot apply to a bundled Hermes install.")
        print("  This app ships prebuilt and has no desktop source tree to build.")
        sys.exit(2)

    try:
        layout = resolve_bundle_layout(PROJECT_ROOT)
    except NotBundledApp as exc:
        # The stamp says bundled, so a tree that is not one is a damaged or
        # mispackaged install. Report it — degrading to the build ladder
        # would run npm inside the app's own resources.
        print(f"✗ This Hermes is stamped as a bundled desktop install, but {exc}.")
        print("  The install is damaged — reinstall Hermes from the website.")
        sys.exit(1)

    if layout.launcher is None:
        print(f"✗ Found no Hermes Desktop launcher in {layout.app_root}.")
        print("  The install is damaged — reinstall Hermes from the website.")
        sys.exit(1)

    launch_command = [str(layout.launcher)]
    if not _desktop_linux_sandbox_fixup(layout.launcher):
        if _desktop_linux_needs_no_sandbox() and _desktop_linux_sandbox_helper_is_regular_file(layout.launcher):
            print("⚠ Falling back to --no-sandbox because this Linux host restricts unprivileged user namespaces and the Electron sandbox helper could not be configured.")
            launch_command.append("--no-sandbox")
        else:
            sys.exit(1)

    launch_command.extend(electron_flags)
    launch_command.extend(_explicit_profile_args())
    pid = launch_detached(launch_command, env=env, cwd=layout.app_root)
    print(f"→ Launched Hermes Desktop: {' '.join(launch_command)} (pid {pid})")
    sys.exit(0)