fix(release): verify packaged Linux desktop payloads#30100

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Linux arm64 releases omit launch_check: true, so they skip the packaged-app check already enabled for Linux x64. Linux packaging also copies artifacts out without validating the desktop payload, unlike the macOS/Windows paths. A separately passing CLI archive does not prove that the desktop package works.

Enable the existing arm64 launch check and validate Linux packages immediately after electron-builder, before copying release artifacts. The gate checks required archive entries, declared unpacked files, helpers and GNOME resources; checks target ELF architecture for Electron, helpers and required terminal/keyring/search natives; and reuses the isolated packaged-server dependency check on native Linux hosts. Cross-host validation still checks files/architecture and explicitly skips execution. No package pruning or glibc/helper dependency changes.

Related: #25906 and open #25921. That PR covers the Linux packaged-server self-check; this overlaps that check and additionally covers required payload/architecture validation and arm64 packaged launch. This is submitted as focused release-verification maintenance under the obvious-bug exception: it applies established release checks to an omitted target and verifies already-required files, without changing product capabilities. No maintainer approval is claimed.

Verification on a Linux arm64 host at 3d7fe80476c7560fa8cd12adf700e2db4b7fe06d:

Wrote four payload tests first; all four failed on the base because the Linux validator did not exist. With the fix, vp test run scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts passes all 52 tests. Fixtures exercise both release architectures, missing/invalid archive entries, missing unpacked files, wrong/invalid ELF headers, executable modes and unresolved server dependencies.
vp run check:changed passes format, lint, knip, typecheck and 53 tests across two files. The independent reviewer also reran all 52 focused tests successfully.
Built actual arm64 AppImage and .deb through the changed production packaging path. A preceding full build supplied this checkout's JS bundles/native helpers; final packaging used --skip-build and reused those helpers. Both extracted final packages pass the new validator.
Ran the reusable node scripts/smoke-desktop-app.ts --executable <final-extracted-AppImage>/t3code --artifacts-dir <proof>/launch-check with ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE unset (inherited from the agent shell). It opened the app and displayed the seeded thread using isolated state.
Mutated the final extracted AppImage, restoring each file after checking it:

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1	final-payload-good: exit=0; payload accepted
2	missing-archive: exit=1; Required file is missing
3	missing-helper: exit=1; Required file is missing
4	missing-terminal-native: exit=1; Required file is missing
5	missing-gnome-extension: exit=1; Required file is missing
6	wrong-electron-architecture: exit=1; Expected a 64-bit little-endian Linux arm64 ELF binary
7	wrong-helper-architecture: exit=1; Expected a 64-bit little-endian Linux arm64 ELF binary
8	wrong-terminal-architecture: exit=1; Expected a 64-bit little-endian Linux arm64 ELF binary
9	final-payload-restored: exit=0; payload accepted
10	Desktop launch check passed: the app opened and showed the seeded thread.

Limits: no native x64 runtime was available; a real x64 0.1.6 .deb passed file/architecture validation with the explicit execution skip. The local arm64 launch used Wayland rather than CI's Xvfb; the GitHub reusable workflow itself has not run here. An additional parent-owned arm64 package built at f30f8c525e (PR #30068) was inspected read-only as supplemental proof; the final artifacts and launch proof above are from this branch, without that PR's changes. No live T3 state was used.

Reviewed with review-loop: 1 round with GPT-6.1 Sol on xhigh. Reviewer verdict: approved, no findings.

Created with GPT-6.1 Sol (extra-high reasoning) in the Codex harness through T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at 3d7fe80

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds Linux payload integrity checks and enables the existing arm64 launch smoke test before release. The checks operate on staged artifacts and temporary test data, limiting their impact to build validation and publication timing.

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CcoderabbitaiBot9d ago

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Linux desktop artifact builds now validate packaged payload contents and run the packaged-server self-check on matching Linux hosts. The Linux arm64 release job also enables the reusable workflow’s launch check.

Changes: Linux release validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Validate Linux packaged payloads `scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts`, `scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts`	The validator checks required archive entries and files, ELF format and architecture, executable permissions, and GNOME extension files. Tests cover valid and invalid arm64 and x64 payloads, including unresolved server imports.
Wire validation into Linux releases `scripts/build-desktop-artifact.ts`, `.github/workflows/release.yml`	Linux artifact builds call the validator. The Linux arm64 release job enables the reusable workflow’s `launch_check` input.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

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1	sequenceDiagram
2	participant LinuxArtifactBuild
3	participant validateLinuxPackagedPayload
4	participant ServerBundleSelfCheck
5	LinuxArtifactBuild->>validateLinuxPackagedPayload: staged distribution directory and target architecture
6	validateLinuxPackagedPayload->>ServerBundleSelfCheck: packaged server bundle on a matching Linux host

Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#25906: Reports that Linux desktop builds skip the packaged-server self-check. This change runs that check when the host is Linux and matches the target architecture.

Possibly related PRs

pingdotgg/t3code#25928: Adds the reusable launch_check input and packaged-app smoke test. This change enables the check for the Linux arm64 release job.
pingdotgg/t3code#25921: Adds Linux packaged-payload validation for the packaged server. This change expands the validator with checks for required files, ELF architecture, executable permissions, and additional payload content.
pingdotgg/t3code#33154: Adds a native Linux arm64 packaging job that invokes the desktop artifact build and packaged-app launch check. It exercises the packaging path and launch-check behavior changed or enabled here.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: External image Minimal · up to 85d9f

This change adds validation of packaged Linux desktop payloads and enables the arm64 launch check. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; the only open point is a minor test-isolation nit.

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Mmaria9d ago

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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria

Verified in a real dev environment

Verified the Linux x64 release gate at 3d7fe80476c7560fa8cd12adf700e2db4b7fe06d, without source changes.

Reproduced on github/main (cefb544af3), in a separate worktree. Added an unresolved import to the real built server bundle. Production packaging still exited 0 and copied an AppImage and deb. Launching that damaged package logged ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND, backend exits, and startup recovery.
Packaged the identical damaged bundle on this head. The new gate exited 1 with BundleNotSelfContainedError before copying release artifacts. Restoring the bundle produced both packages successfully and logged Validated Linux x64 payload.
Validated the actual extracted final AppImage and deb. In-place mutations of the AppImage rejected a missing archive, helper, terminal native, and GNOME file; wrong Electron/helper/terminal ELF architectures; and a non-executable helper. Restored payload passed again.
Ran the real dev web app on main and this head. Created projects/threads through the UI and completed Codex gpt-6.1-sol turns. Also ran the final AppImage packaged backend through its production web client in Chrome: Codex executed pwd and git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree; the terminal accepted a command and displayed its output; the conversation survived reload. No mocks or demo turns.
Blacksmith passed the focused 52 tests, desktop bundle/native-helper builds, and vp run check:changed origin/main (format, lint, knip, affected typechecks, and 53 tests). Packaging ran locally using those real build outputs with --skip-build.

Command transcript

Production web client connected to the final AppImage packaged backend, showing real Codex and terminal output

Not verified

Native arm64 execution and the reusable GitHub release launch job: this VM is x64, and no release workflow was triggered. Native Electron window interaction also remains unverified: renderer automation stalled on this VM, including under Xvfb, despite a healthy packaged backend and usable production web client. The screenshot is the web client, not a native-window claim. GUI keyring/screen-capture integration and macOS, Windows, and mobile were not exercised.

Added 3 commits1d ago

fix(release): verify packaged Linux desktop payloadsce0460d
Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/main' into voltcrash/linux-arm64-release-check48d5dd7
test(release): trim Linux payload validation tests to one case per failure mode85d9f20

CcoderabbitaiBotreviewed1d ago

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scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts: 1

1445-1457: External image Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
Pin the host platform in the valid-payload test.
validateLinuxPackagedPayload runs verifyPackagedBundleIsSelfContained when the host is Linux and the host architecture equals targetArch. This test does not provide HostProcess.Platform or HostProcess.Architecture.
Behavior now depends on the machine running the test:
On a Linux x64 host, the x64 iteration extracts the ASAR and spawns node on the fixture.
On a Linux arm64 host, the arm64 iteration does the same.
On other hosts, the self-check is skipped.
The self-check is already covered by the separate test at Line 1514. Pin a non-Linux host here. The test then checks only static payload validation, on every machine.

Proposed change

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1 - Effect.scoped(
2 + Effect.scoped(
3 Effect.gen(function* () {
4 for (const arch of ["arm64", "x64"] as const) {
5 const fixture = yield* makeLinuxPayloadFixture({ arch });
6 yield* validateLinuxPackagedPayload({
7 stageDistDir: fixture.stageDistDir,
8 targetArch: arch,
9 });
10 }
11 }),
12 - ),
13 + ).pipe(Effect.provide(Layer.succeed(HostProcess.Platform, "darwin"))),

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3 Review comment at @scripts/build-desktop-artifact.test.ts around lines 1445 - 1457:
4 Pin the host platform for the test using validateLinuxPackagedPayload so it checks only static payload validation regardless of the machine running it. Provide a non-Linux HostProcess.Platform value to this test; leave the separate self-containment test and the architecture loop unchanged.

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8	- Around line 1445-1457: Pin the host platform for the test using
9	validateLinuxPackagedPayload so it checks only static payload validation
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JJulius Marminge1d ago

Evidence

Built both commits on native Linux x64, appended an import of t3-release-proof-missing-package to the built server, then packaged with --skip-build --keep-stage. Base exited 0 and copied the AppImage and deb; its AppImage opened startup recovery with ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND. Head exited 1 with BundleNotSelfContainedError before copying artifacts. Desktop capture: Xvfb, 1920×1080, fresh isolated state. Local paths are redacted; the after image renders captured command output.

Before	After
Broken packaged AppImage startup	Packaging rejects unresolved dependency
b3fdf2b10f	85d9f20014
Packaging transcript · Launch recording	Packaging transcript

Reproduction script · Desktop capture script · Packaged backend log

Control: removing the injected import on head produced a successful validated package: clean-head transcript.

AI-assisted; verified with the tests and tools listed above.

Not shown:

Native arm64 release workflow, packaged launch, and seeded-thread verification were not executed because this VM is x64.
Missing-file, invalid-ELF, and wrong-architecture rejection cases were not injected; this comparison exercised unresolved packaged-server dependencies.
The deb was produced on base but was not installed or launched; desktop startup evidence uses the AppImage.
The clean head package was validated and copied successfully but was not launched.