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hermes-agent/apps/desktop/electron/desktop-plugins-root.ts
teknium1 cc1500a071 fix(desktop): a linked plugin checkout drives its desktop half; doctor flags a stale copy
The Desktop loads a unified package's desktop half from the copy in
desktop-plugins/<name>/, not from the package. Editing the source shipped
nothing and nothing said so:

- a package symlinked into plugins/ (the in-place dev layout the Python
  loader already follows) was never copied at all — Dirent.isDirectory()
  is false for a symlink;
- an installed package edited in place stayed stale until Rescan/restart.

Electron now follows symlinked package dirs, marks their copy linked, and
re-syncs it on any byte difference. The renderer watches a linked copy's
source plugin.js and, on save, runs the reconcile and hot-reloads. Catalog
and git installs keep the mtime rule. `hermes plugins doctor` warns when
the copy differs from the source and says how to refresh it.
2026-10-08 04:07:30 -07:00

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// The standalone desktop-plugin root (`<HERMES_HOME>/desktop-plugins`) and the
// one-time migrations that make it the ONLY place desktop code loads from.
//
// A desktop plugin extends THIS APP — panes, palette commands, themes — not an
// agent. Profiles are agents; anything discovered through a profile's folder
// appeared and disappeared with the active profile, which read as "my plugin
// vanished" every time the user switched. Bundled plugins never had that
// problem (they ship in the app), which hid the bug for disk installs.
//
// Two profile-shaped sources are lifted into the app root:
// 1. `profiles/<name>/desktop-plugins/<id>` — earlier builds scoped the
// standalone root per profile.
// 2. `plugins/<name>/desktop/plugin.js` (default home AND every profile) —
// the desktop half of a unified agent+desktop package. The agent half
// stays where it is (it runs in that profile's gateway); the desktop half
// is COPIED out as `<root>/<name>/` with a `.hermes-package.json` marker
// so the UI can pair it back to the agent row and re-copy on update.
import fs from 'node:fs'
import path from 'node:path'
export const DESKTOP_PLUGINS_DIR = 'desktop-plugins'
/** Marker inside a materialized desktop half: which agent package it came from. */
export const PACKAGE_MARKER = '.hermes-package.json'
export interface DesktopHalfMarker {
/** Agent package folder name (the `plugins/<name>` key). */
package: string
/** Where the half was copied from — refreshed whenever that source changes. */
source: string
/** mtimeMs of the source `plugin.js` at copy time; a newer source re-copies. */
sourceMtimeMs: number
/** The package folder is a symlink (a dev checkout linked into `plugins/`):
* the copy re-syncs on ANY byte difference and the renderer watches the
* source, so saving the checkout hot-reloads the pane. */
linked?: boolean
/** Where the PACKAGE came from, so "Install here" can install its agent half
* into another profile: the catalog sidecar's repo/sha, else the git remote. */
repo?: string
sha?: string
catalogName?: string
}
/** Provenance of an installed agent package: catalog sidecar first, then the
* git remote. Undefined for a folder that was copied in by hand. */
async function packageOrigin(packageDir: string): Promise<Pick<DesktopHalfMarker, 'catalogName' | 'repo' | 'sha'>> {
try {
const sidecar = JSON.parse(await fs.promises.readFile(path.join(packageDir, '.hermes-catalog.json'), 'utf8')) as {
catalog_name?: string
repo?: string
sha?: string
}
if (sidecar.repo) {
return { catalogName: sidecar.catalog_name, repo: sidecar.repo, sha: sidecar.sha }
}
} catch {
// No sidecar — not a catalog install.
}
try {
const config = await fs.promises.readFile(path.join(packageDir, '.git', 'config'), 'utf8')
const match = /\[remote "origin"\][^[]*?url\s*=\s*(\S+)/.exec(config)
if (match) {
return { repo: match[1] }
}
} catch {
// Not a git checkout.
}
return {}
}
export async function ensureDir(dir: string): Promise<string> {
try {
await fs.promises.mkdir(dir, { recursive: true })
} catch {
// Best-effort create; return the path regardless so a reveal action can
// still surface a real openPath error and the scanner can retry later.
}
return dir
}
async function listDirs(dir: string, followLinks = false): Promise<string[]> {
try {
const entries = await fs.promises.readdir(dir, { withFileTypes: true })
// `Dirent.isDirectory()` is false for a symlink. A package root follows
// links to directories: `ln -s ~/src/my-plugin ~/.hermes/plugins/` is how a
// plugin is developed in place, and the Python loader already follows it.
const linkedDir = async (name: string) => {
try {
return (await fs.promises.stat(path.join(dir, name))).isDirectory()
} catch {
return false
}
}
const names: string[] = []
for (const entry of entries) {
if (entry.isDirectory() || (followLinks && entry.isSymbolicLink() && (await linkedDir(entry.name)))) {
names.push(entry.name)
}
}
return names
} catch {
return []
}
}
/** Every hermes home the app knows about locally: the default plus each profile. */
export async function localHomes(hermesHome: string): Promise<string[]> {
const profiles = await listDirs(path.join(hermesHome, 'profiles'))
return [hermesHome, ...profiles.map(name => path.join(hermesHome, 'profiles', name))]
}
/** Move every `profiles/<name>/desktop-plugins/<id>` folder into the app-level
* root. A plugin already present at the root wins (folders are keyed by plugin
* id, so a duplicate is the same plugin installed twice); the profile copy is
* left in place for the user to delete rather than destroyed. Emptied profile
* roots are removed so the migration is a no-op on the next launch. */
export async function migrateProfileScopedDesktopPlugins(hermesHome: string, appRoot: string): Promise<string[]> {
const moved: string[] = []
for (const profile of await listDirs(path.join(hermesHome, 'profiles'))) {
const scopedRoot = path.join(hermesHome, 'profiles', profile, DESKTOP_PLUGINS_DIR)
for (const entry of await listDirs(scopedRoot)) {
const from = path.join(scopedRoot, entry)
const to = path.join(appRoot, entry)
if (fs.existsSync(to)) {
continue
}
try {
await fs.promises.rename(from, to)
moved.push(to)
} catch {
// Cross-device or permission failure: leave the folder; the user can
// still reach it through the profile directory.
}
}
try {
if ((await fs.promises.readdir(scopedRoot)).length === 0) {
await fs.promises.rmdir(scopedRoot)
}
} catch {
// Not empty or already gone — either is fine.
}
}
return moved
}
async function readMarker(dir: string): Promise<DesktopHalfMarker | null> {
try {
const raw = await fs.promises.readFile(path.join(dir, PACKAGE_MARKER), 'utf8')
const parsed = JSON.parse(raw) as Partial<DesktopHalfMarker>
return parsed.package && parsed.source ? (parsed as DesktopHalfMarker) : null
} catch {
return null
}
}
/** Same bytes on both paths. Unreadable either side answers `false` — a
* comparison we cannot make is never evidence of a match. */
async function sameFile(a: string, b: string): Promise<boolean> {
try {
const [left, right] = await Promise.all([fs.promises.readFile(a), fs.promises.readFile(b)])
return left.equals(right)
} catch {
return false
}
}
/** Write the marker into a desktop-half folder. The one place that serializes
* it, so the git installer and this reconcile cannot drift. */
export async function writeDesktopHalfMarker(dir: string, marker: DesktopHalfMarker): Promise<void> {
await fs.promises.writeFile(path.join(dir, PACKAGE_MARKER), JSON.stringify(marker, null, 2) + '\n')
}
/** Copy one unified package's `desktop/` half into the app root as
* `<appRoot>/<packageName>/`, stamping the marker. Skips when the root copy is
* already current for this source; replaces it when the source is newer.
* Returns the target path when a copy (or an adoption) happened. */
export async function materializeDesktopHalf(
packageDir: string,
appRoot: string,
packageName = path.basename(packageDir)
): Promise<null | string> {
const sourceDir = path.join(packageDir, 'desktop')
const entry = path.join(sourceDir, 'plugin.js')
let stat: fs.Stats
try {
stat = await fs.promises.stat(entry)
} catch (error) {
if (!isMissing(error)) {
console.warn(`[desktop-plugins] cannot read ${packageName}: ${String(error)}`)
}
return null
}
if (!stat.isFile()) {
return null
}
const target = path.join(appRoot, packageName)
const existing = await readMarker(target)
const linked = (await fs.promises.lstat(packageDir)).isSymbolicLink()
const marker: DesktopHalfMarker = {
package: packageName,
source: sourceDir,
sourceMtimeMs: stat.mtimeMs,
...(linked ? { linked } : {}),
...(await packageOrigin(packageDir))
}
if (fs.existsSync(target)) {
if (!existing) {
// A marker-less folder carrying the entry point is either a standalone
// plugin the user installed on purpose (never touch it) or a desktop half
// this app copied out before it stamped markers — `installDesktopPluginFromGit`
// published without one, which left the Plugins page waiting on "copying…"
// beside a second, already-enabled row, forever, because this function
// then refused the folder on every pass.
//
// Identical entry points tell the two apart: our own copy of this
// package's half still matches it byte for byte, so adopting it is a
// no-op on disk — stamp the marker in place and the row pairs, with the
// opt-in posture a marker implies. Anything that differs is the user's
// and is left exactly as it was (#112450). A marker-less folder with no
// entry point is an interrupted copy (the marker is written last) and is
// replaced as before.
if (fs.existsSync(path.join(target, 'plugin.js'))) {
if (await sameFile(path.join(target, 'plugin.js'), entry)) {
await writeDesktopHalfMarker(target, marker)
return target
}
return null
}
}
// An installed package re-copies when its source is newer. A linked dev
// checkout compares bytes: mtime alone misses a `cp -p` / `git stash pop`
// that lands an older timestamp, and the copy would stay stale silently.
if (
existing &&
existing.source === sourceDir &&
Boolean(existing.linked) === linked &&
(linked ? await sameFile(path.join(target, 'plugin.js'), entry) : existing.sourceMtimeMs >= stat.mtimeMs)
) {
return null
}
}
await publishDesktopTree(sourceDir, target, staged => writeDesktopHalfMarker(staged, marker))
return target
}
/** Copy `sourceDir` to `target` through a staging sibling (`<parent>/.<name>.staging-*`)
* and rename the finished tree into place. `finalize` runs on the staged tree
* before publication, so a marker is never missing from a published folder.
* Directory replacement is not atomic on every platform Electron supports, but
* the complete copy exists before the old one is removed, so a failure leaves
* either the old folder or none — never a partial, marker-less one that a
* later pass would mistake for a manual install (#112450). */
export async function publishDesktopTree(
sourceDir: string,
target: string,
finalize?: (staged: string) => Promise<void>
): Promise<void> {
const parent = path.dirname(target)
const name = path.basename(target)
await fs.promises.mkdir(parent, { recursive: true })
const stagingRoot = await fs.promises.mkdtemp(path.join(parent, `.${name}.staging-`))
const staged = path.join(stagingRoot, name)
try {
await fs.promises.cp(sourceDir, staged, { force: true, recursive: true })
await finalize?.(staged)
// rename() refuses to replace a non-empty directory, so the old copy goes first.
await fs.promises.rm(target, { force: true, recursive: true })
await fs.promises.rename(staged, target)
} finally {
await fs.promises.rm(stagingRoot, { force: true, recursive: true })
}
}
function isMissing(error: unknown): boolean {
const code = (error as NodeJS.ErrnoException | null)?.code
return code === 'ENOENT' || code === 'ENOTDIR'
}
/** `true` only when the package's `desktop/plugin.js` is genuinely gone. A
* source the app is not ALLOWED to stat (Windows ACL EPERM, a mode-000 folder)
* is not an uninstall — pruning its root copy would silently drop the pane. */
async function sourceGone(name: string, entry: string): Promise<boolean> {
try {
await fs.promises.stat(entry)
return false
} catch (error) {
if (isMissing(error)) {
return true
}
console.warn(`[desktop-plugins] keeping desktop half of unreadable package ${name}: ${String(error)}`)
return false
}
}
/** Walk every local home's `plugins/` root and materialize each package's
* desktop half. First home wins for a name that appears in several profiles
* (the default home is first). Also drops root copies whose source package
* is gone — an uninstalled agent package must not leave a ghost pane. */
export async function reconcileUnifiedDesktopHalves(hermesHome: string, appRoot: string): Promise<string[]> {
const touched: string[] = []
const seen = new Set<string>()
for (const home of await localHomes(hermesHome)) {
const pluginsRoot = path.join(home, 'plugins')
for (const name of await listDirs(pluginsRoot, true)) {
if (seen.has(name)) {
continue
}
let result: null | string
try {
result = await materializeDesktopHalf(path.join(pluginsRoot, name), appRoot, name)
} catch (error) {
// One package the app cannot read (Windows ACL EPERM on lstat/copy, a
// mode-000 folder) must not reject the whole reconcile — the root would
// never resolve and EVERY desktop plugin would silently stop loading.
console.warn(`[desktop-plugins] skipping unreadable package ${name}: ${String(error)}`)
continue
}
if (result || fs.existsSync(path.join(pluginsRoot, name, 'desktop', 'plugin.js'))) {
seen.add(name)
}
if (result) {
touched.push(result)
}
}
}
for (const name of await listDirs(appRoot)) {
const dir = path.join(appRoot, name)
const marker = await readMarker(dir)
if (marker && (await sourceGone(name, path.join(marker.source, 'plugin.js')))) {
await fs.promises.rm(dir, { force: true, recursive: true })
touched.push(dir)
}
}
return touched
}