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Summary

Make Antigravity quota refresh work when the desktop app is closed by launching a short-lived, task-owned agy session in a hidden PTY.

The provider still prefers an existing Antigravity language server or user-owned agy. Only the fallback process is managed, its terminal output is drained without logging, readiness is bounded, and the exact owned child is stopped and reaped after the fetch. The current offline conversation-history snapshot remains available when neither Antigravity nor agy is installed.

This brings the Windows behavior in line with the upstream Antigravity fallback.

Related issue

Fixes #473

Affected areas

  • Tray panel
  • Settings UI
  • Config file / settings persistence
  • CLI
  • Provider-specific behavior
  • Installer / release packaging
  • Startup / background behavior
  • Documentation
  • Other:

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  • Equivalent local CI slice completed manually because scripts/run-circleci-pr-check.ps1 currently references an unset $installedNodeVersion when the required Node major is already installed.
    • cargo fmt --all --check
    • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
    • cargo test --workspace — 1,691 shared-library tests passed (1 ignored), 1 CLI test passed, and 393 Tauri tests passed.
    • pnpm --dir apps/desktop-tauri test — 59 files / 343 tests passed.
    • pnpm --dir apps/desktop-tauri run build — 835 locale keys matched; TypeScript and Vite production build passed.
    • node --test .github/scripts/interaction-guard.test.mjs — 9 tests passed.
  • For full pre-release validation: powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -File scripts\local-check.ps1 -All -Version <version> — not applicable; no installer or release changes.
  • For installer/release changes: powershell.exe -File scripts\windows-release-build.ps1 -Ref <ref> -SmokeInstall — not applicable.
  • Thermo-nuclear code quality review completed before submitting: https://github.com/cursor/plugins/blob/main/cursor-team-kit/skills/thermo-nuclear-code-quality-review/SKILL.md
  • Other: focused diff review, secret scan, and live provider lifecycle test completed.

Live Windows test with Antigravity closed:

agy processes before: 0
Antigravity: Session 2%, Weekly <1%, Pro
agy processes after: 0

The task-owned PTY reached live quota data in about 12 seconds. Account identifiers and terminal output were not logged.

UI / tray proof

  • Not applicable — provider backend behavior only; no UI, tray, CSS, or frontend source changed.
  • CUA Driver visual proof attached
  • CUA Driver could not be used; equivalent manual proof and explanation attached

Notes for reviewers

  • The PTY drain answers the standard cursor-position query that Windows ConPTY applications can block on during startup; a unit test covers requests split across reads.
  • ANTIGRAVITY_CLI_PATH, PATH, %LOCALAPPDATA%\agy\bin\agy.exe, and the per-user .local/bin location are checked without adding a dependency.
  • The local TLS exception remains loopback-only and reuses the existing Antigravity request path.
  • Cancellation and every return path drop the RAII owner, which kills/reaps only the child created for that fetch. Existing user processes are never adopted or terminated.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Antigravity now preserves offline conversation history when live checks fail, except for authentication errors, which remain visible.
    • Missing CLI scenarios provide clearer guidance when no offline history is available.
    • Improved reliability for Windows CLI startup, detection, shutdown, and cleanup.
    • Process checks and transient connection issues are handled more smoothly.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for offline fallback, authentication handling, CLI availability, Windows process behavior, and cleanup.

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Walkthrough

The Antigravity provider adds a Windows-managed agy runtime, delegates process ownership and listener discovery to a shared module, and preserves offline history for non-authentication probe failures. Authentication failures remain surfaced.

Changes

Antigravity managed CLI fallback

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider-neutral managed process runtime
rust/src/managed_process.rs, rust/src/lib.rs, rust/Cargo.toml
A Windows-only ManagedProcess owns ConPTY execution, atomic job containment, cleanup, cursor replies, restart behavior, command construction, environment setup, and listener-port discovery.
Antigravity probing and managed runtime orchestration
rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs
The provider distinguishes missing processes from probe errors, runs detection in spawn_blocking, reuses or launches agy, polls for a ready API port, fetches usage, and shuts down owned processes.
Fallback policy and validation
rust/src/providers/antigravity/tests.rs
Tests validate runtime messages, binary candidate ordering, managed outcome mapping, authentication handling, and offline-history fallback behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant FetchUsage
  participant LocalProbe
  participant ManagedProcess
  participant AgyApi
  FetchUsage->>LocalProbe: detect local agy runtime
  LocalProbe-->>FetchUsage: no process or probe result
  FetchUsage->>ManagedProcess: launch managed agy
  ManagedProcess->>AgyApi: expose ready loopback service
  AgyApi-->>FetchUsage: return usage data
  FetchUsage->>ManagedProcess: shut down owned process
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Suggested reviewers: finesssee

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 5583d

Some Windows startup failures can leave quota retrieval blocked indefinitely, and the process-cleanup test is unreliable for valid temporary paths. IPv6-only CLI listeners can also remain undiscoverable. Resolve these issues before merge.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 49.41% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 85 functions across 4 files. (1 skipped: … Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #473 requires runtime preference, a hidden task-owned agy session when no runtime exists, bounded readiness, no terminal-output scraping or logging, child-only cleanup, and offline-history fal…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within Issue #473. The provider-neutral ManagedProcess module, Windows listener discovery, ConPTY lifecycle, Job Object cleanup, cursor-response handling, and related tests suppor…
Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: launching the agy CLI when the Antigravity desktop app is closed.
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In `@rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs`:
- Line 476: Move the synchronous port enumeration in
rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs:476-476 into tokio::task::spawn_blocking,
preserving its result handling in the managed fetch flow. Also keep child.wait()
and the drain-thread join at rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs:947-951 off
the async runtime thread, or detach the drain thread, so teardown remains
non-blocking.
- Around line 794-799: Update the managed Antigravity error handling around
fetch_with_managed_agy so readiness/startup failures fall through to the
offline-conversation path like AGY_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGE, while AuthRequired errors
and other actionable provider errors still propagate. Add a short-lived backoff
for recent non-auth readiness failures so repeated fetch_usage refreshes do not
relaunch agy during the cooldown.

In `@rust/src/providers/antigravity/tests.rs`:
- Around line 239-250: Update the expected path assertions in the test to
construct both values with PathBuf::join from the same roots supplied to
agy_binary_candidates, preserving the platform-specific executable name for the
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Implemented and pushed the review hardening in 520e5f77.

What changed:

  • replaced error-message matching with structural running/not-running outcomes;
  • bounded managed refreshes with a 25s deadline (the desktop fetch envelope remains 35s);
  • contained only the task-owned agy process tree in a Windows kill-on-close Job Object;
  • made cancellation cleanup non-blocking for async provider workers;
  • replaced repeated PowerShell port polling with GetExtendedTcpTable and concurrent loopback probes;
  • handled split/repeated terminal cursor-position requests with a bounded exact response;
  • preserved priority for user-owned Antigravity/agy processes and offline-history fallback.

Verification performed on Windows:

  • cargo fmt --all --check
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
  • cargo test --workspace (shared: 1693 passed, 1 ignored; desktop: 393 passed)
  • corepack pnpm --dir apps/desktop-tauri install --frozen-lockfile
  • corepack pnpm --dir apps/desktop-tauri test (59 files / 343 tests)
  • locale drift check (835 keys), tsc --noEmit, and Vite production build
  • interaction guard tests (9 passed)
  • live cold Antigravity fetch: exit 0, parsed JSON, source cli, 14.3s; zero agy or language-server processes remained afterward

No account identity, tokens, or quota values were logged during the live check. No UI code changed, so CUA visual proof is not applicable.

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rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs (1)

332-332: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Support IPv6 loopback listeners in Antigravity port discovery. listening_ports_for_pid passes AF_INET_FAMILY to GetExtendedTcpTable, so it excludes IPv6 listeners. probe_api_port and fetch_user_status_at_port use https://127.0.0.1:{port}. An IPv6-only language server is therefore omitted from the managed readiness probe and cannot be reached by find_api_port. Enumerate AF_INET6 and carry the address family through discovery, probing, and fetches, using [::1] for IPv6, or explicitly require an IPv4 bind.

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In `@rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs` at line 332, Update Antigravity port
discovery so listening_ports_for_pid includes IPv6 by enumerating AF_INET6 as
well as AF_INET_FAMILY, and preserve the discovered address family through
probe_api_port, fetch_user_status_at_port, and find_api_port. Format IPv6
loopback URLs with [::1], while retaining 127.0.0.1 for IPv4.
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In `@rust/src/providers/antigravity/mod.rs`:
- Line 332: Update Antigravity port discovery so listening_ports_for_pid
includes IPv6 by enumerating AF_INET6 as well as AF_INET_FAMILY, and preserve
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Sign-in failures (AuthRequired) keep surfacing, but non-auth local-probe and managed agy start failures now fall through to the offline conversation-history snapshot instead of replacing it with a hard error. Build the agy candidate-path test expectations with PathBuf::join so the test passes on non-Windows hosts, and note IPv6 listener discovery as an accepted follow-up.
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Review pass on 520e5f77 by the maintainer. Pushed ac5edc80c to fix/antigravity-managed-agy (fast-forward, no force).

Confirmed findings fixed

  • Offline-history fallback was lost for non-auth failures. The CodeRabbit "Addressed in 520e5f7" marker on the fallback thread was not actually reflected in fetch_usage: Ok(None) + managed Err returned the error, and the outer local-probe Err arm returned directly. A transient managed-start or PowerShell/probe failure therefore discarded the existing Offline · N conversations snapshot that main preserved. Both paths now route through resolve_probe_failure, which always surfaces ProviderError::AuthRequired but otherwise prefers offline history, falling back to the original error only when no history exists. ManagedAgyOutcome::Missing still yields AGY_NOT_FOUND_MESSAGELocalRuntimeOffline.
  • Cross-platform test portability. managed_agy_candidates_prefer_override_then_path_then_known_installs compared PathBuf::join output against single-component Windows literals. Expectations are now built with join, so the test matches on non-Windows hosts too.

Regression tests added: auth_required_surfaces_instead_of_offline_history, non_auth_failure_prefers_offline_history, non_auth_failure_without_history_surfaces_error.

Verification

  • cargo fmt --all -- --check → clean.
  • Managed-launch invariant: one ManagedAgyProcess::spawn per fetch_with_managed_agy call, serialized by the global MANAGED_AGY_FETCH mutex; the readiness loop never re-spawns; AGY_ATTEMPT_TIMEOUT (25s, 2s cleanup reserve) bounds the entire attempt. At most one managed launch per fetch and one concurrently, so no extra backoff is warranted.
  • Could not run cargo test/clippy locally: this workstation has no MSVC linker (only Git's Unix link.exe), so build scripts fail to link. Static/format checks only; relying on the contributor's live Windows run and the hosted PR check.
  • Did not implement the IPv6 rewrite. Enumerating only AF_INET and probing 127.0.0.1 is now documented in code as an accepted follow-up, because the live Windows test shows the managed agy service binds IPv4. Broaden to AF_INET6 + [::1] separately if a v6-only listener is observed.

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In `@rust/src/managed_process.rs`:
- Line 121: Update the child creation flow around pair.slave.spawn_command so
the PTY child is created suspended, assigned to the Job Object via
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In `@rust/src/managed_process.rs`:
- Line 329: Update PseudoConsole cleanup in ManagedProcess::spawn and
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fn drop(&mut self) {
if !self.con.is_invalid() {
// SAFETY: this pseudoconsole was created here and is closed once.
unsafe { ClosePseudoConsole(self.con) };

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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<title>closepseudoconsole</title> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/closepseudoconsole --- layout: Conceptual title: ClosePseudoConsole function - Windows Console | Microsoft Learn canonicalUrl: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/closepseudoconsole uhfHeaderId: MSDocsHeader-Windows ms.subservice: windows-console ms.topic: article ms.date: 2018-07-12T00:00:00.0000000Z ms.service: windows breadcrumb_path: /windows/console/breadcrumb/toc.json feedback_system: Standard feedback_product_url: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues feedback_help_link_url: https://learn.microsoft.com/answers/ feedback_help_link_type: get-help-at-qna description: See reference information about the ClosePseudoConsole function, which closes a pseudoconsole from the given handle. author: miniksa ms.author: miniksa keywords: console, character mode applications, command line applications, terminal applications, console api, conpty, pseudoconsole topic_type: - apiref api_name: - ClosePseudoConsole api_location: - Kernel32.dll - API-MS-Win-Core-Console-l1-2-1.dll - KernelBase.dll api_type: - DllExport locale: en-us document_id: b02229f7-af1d-32c8-7877-c5afafabbff8 document_version_independent_id: 83b9fd10-3f5d-1391-2c90-9e32de3729b8 updated_at: 2025-07-09T21:02:00.0000000Z original_content_git_url: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs/blob/live/docs/closepseudoconsole.md gitcommit: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs/blob/d297f58259a48a2ce5d77b427bc2b5dc6a573b00/docs/closepseudoconsole.md git_commit_id: d297f58259a48a2ce5d77b427bc2b5dc6a573b00 site_name: Docs depot_name: MSDN.console page_type: conceptual toc_rel: toc.json pdf_url_template: https://learn.microsoft.com/pdfstore/en-us/MSDN.console/{branchName}{pdfName} word_count: 239 asset_id: closepseudoconsole moniker_range_name: monikers: [] item_type: Content source_path: docs/closepseudoconsole.md cmProducts: - https://authoring-docs-microsoft.poolparty.biz/devrel/bcbcbad5-4208-4783-8035-8481272c98b8 - https://authoring-docs-microsoft.poolparty.biz/devrel/540ac133-a371-4dbb-8f94-28d6cc77a70b spProducts: - https://authoring-docs-microsoft.poolparty.biz/devrel/43b2e5aa-8a6d-4de2-a252-692232e5edc8 - https://authoring-docs-microsoft.poolparty.biz/devrel/60bfc045-f127-4841-9d00-ea35495a5800 platformId: d43a1566-916c-d15f-4ebd-48d6b65bf421 --- # ClosePseudoConsole function - Windows Console | Microsoft Learn Shuts down and releases resources associated with the given pseudoconsole. ## Syntax ```C void WINAPI ClosePseudoConsole( _In_ HPCON hPC ); ``` ## Parameters *hPC* [in] A handle to an active pseudoconsole as opened by [CreatePseudoConsole](createpseudoconsole). ## Return value *none* ## Remarks Closing a pseudoconsole will send **CTRL\_CLOSE\_EVENT** to each client application that is still connected. Until the applications have disconnected they may continue writing more output. Because of this, your application is expected to either close the output pipe before calling **ClosePseudoConsole** or to continue reading from the pipe until after **ClosePseudoConsole** has returned. Note Starting Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100) **ClosePseudoConsole** will return immediately to avoid accidental deadlocks. Earlier versions will wait indefinitely for the pseudoconsole to exit. If you need to know when all clients have disconnected, simply continue reading from the output pipe until it has been closed on you. Warning As a consequence of the above, failure to either close or drain the output pipe may cause **ClosePseudoConsole** to wait indefinitely in earlier versions of Windows. To avoid deadlocks on older versions, don&`#39`;t call **ClosePseudoConsole** on the same thread that you&`#39`;re reading the output pipe from, unless the output pipe was previously closed by you or closed on you by the pseudoconsole. ## Requirements | - | - | | --- | --- | | Minimum supported client | Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) [desktop apps only] | | Minimum supported server | Windows Server 2019 [desktop apps only] | | Header | ConsoleApi.h (via WinCon.h, …[truncated] <title>ConPty somethimes hangs when calling `ClosePseudoConsole`, (pseudo console created with `PSUEDOCONSOLE_INHERIT_CURSOR`) · microsoft terminal · Discussion `#17716` · GitHub</title> GitHub discussion 17716 in microsoft/terminal (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference) | Other Software wezterm 20240807-131622-ee063330 I am opening an issue here because as I understood conpty code lives here in this repo Steps to reproduce Sadly we couldn&`#39`;t manage to get consistent way to reproduce this. We see wezterm in windows sometimes hanging when closing panes, e.g. wezterm/wezterm#5882 I am suspecting this might be related to#1810 this comment points out to a race condition, when ConPTY is being started with`CreatePseudoConsole()` with the flag`PSEUDOCONSOLE_INHERIT_CURSOR`(which wezterm does) this kind of fit with the fact we can&`#39`;t consistenly reproduce this issue. Here the start call in wezterm. Actual Behavior `ClosePseudoConsole` hangs | ... | Regarding that`PSEUDOCONSOLE_INHERIT_CURSOR` comment: In#17510 I added a timeout to cursor inheritance so in the worst case it will only block for 3 seconds. I was about to repurpose this issue to track the remaining problem: A shutdown signal should kill ConPTY instantly and not only after 3 seconds (hence the edits on your message). But then I realized that I also fixed that, so I think this has actually fundamentally been fixed in that PR. However, then I also realized that this can&`#39`;t cause the freeze on shutdown. I&`#39`;ve replaced ConPTY with a build from`main` in my local wezterm and it still happened. This indicates that the freeze occurs due to a different issue. I don&`#39`;t know whether that causes your specific deadlock, but wezterm does definitely (and unfortunately) make the primary mistake when using the ConPTY API: It fails to read from the output pipe when calling`ClosePseudoConsole`. This is also documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/creating-a-pseudoconsole-session#preparing-the-communication-channels To reproduce the issue, run a child process inside your shell (for instance WSL), print a ton of text in large chunks (for instance with`cat`= chunk size 128KiB) and close the tab. The deadlock inside OpenConsole then looks like this: This is one of the reasons why I&`#39`;ve chosen to remove the blocking wait from the`ClosePseudoConsole` API. Starting Windows 26100 (Windows 11 24H2) it&`#39`;ll now instantly return without waiting for the PTY to exit. (This reminds me that I need to update the winconpty package to also use that new, safer behavior.) My suggestion for wezterm is that it reads from the output pipe until`ReadFile` either returns`FALSE` or`lpNumberOfBytesRead` is zero. I recommend against testing for an`ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE` error, because for regular pipes that&`#39`;s the same anyway, but for special pipes that support "graceful shutdown" (like TCP&`#39`;s FIN/ACK),`ReadFile` will return`TRUE` while`lpNumberOfBytesRead` is zero. This still means that the other side wants to end things. With the next version of ConPTY at the end of this month, the new, safer API will be available. It&`#39`;ll allow you to safely call`ClosePseudoConsole` on the UI thread and/or in between Read/WriteFile calls. Even better, it&`#39`;ll support overlapped IO, which may be helpful for wezterm, considering that it uses`poll()` for UNIX as well, from what I can tell. That way both implementations can use async IO with the PTY. P.S.: I just noticed that wezterm calls it "psuedo". Not just the flag, but also the entire file ("psuedocon.rs"). 😅 | ... | When you check out these older OpenConsole versions (prior to#17510), you need to check the stack of the`RenderThread::s_ThreadProc` thread. That&`#39`;s the thread which calls`WriteFile` on the output pipe that wezterm is supposed to read from. While it&`#39`;s writing into the pipe it&`#39`;s holding the ticket lock and if no one reads from the pipe it holds the lock forever. If I&`#39`;m correct, then that&`#39`;s why the`ConsoleIoThread`(= handles incoming API calls) is stuck waiting to acquire the lock. | | --- | ... | I will need some help building the latest conpty.dll, I read`building.md` and ran`Invoke-OpenConsoleBuild` Despite the name, that…[truncated] <title>docs/closepseudoconsole.md</title> https://github.com/Microsoft/Console-Docs/blob/main/docs/closepseudoconsole.md # docs/closepseudoconsole.md - Branch: main - Repository: MicrosoftDocs/Console-Docs --- --- title: ClosePseudoConsole function description: See reference information about the ClosePseudoConsole function, which closes a pseudoconsole from the given handle. author: miniksa ms.author: miniksa ms.topic: article keywords: console, character mode applications, command line applications, terminal applications, console api, conpty, pseudoconsole topic_type: - apiref api_name: - ClosePseudoConsole api_location: - Kernel32.dll - API-MS-Win-Core-Console-l1-2-1.dll - KernelBase.dll api_type: - DllExport --- # ClosePseudoConsole function Shuts down and releases resources associated with the given pseudoconsole. ## Syntax ```C void WINAPI ClosePseudoConsole( _In_ HPCON hPC ); ``` ## Parameters *hPC* \[in\] A handle to an active pseudoconsole as opened by [CreatePseudoConsole](createpseudoconsole.md). ## Return value *none* ## Remarks Closing a pseudoconsole will send **CTRL_CLOSE_EVENT** to each client application that is still connected. Until the applications have disconnected they may continue writing more output. Because of this, your application is expected to either close the output pipe before calling **ClosePseudoConsole** or to continue reading from the pipe until after **ClosePseudoConsole** has returned. > [!NOTE] > Starting Windows 11 24H2 (build 26100) **ClosePseudoConsole** will return immediately to avoid accidental deadlocks. Earlier versions will wait indefinitely for the pseudoconsole to exit. If you need to know when all clients have disconnected, simply continue reading from the output pipe until it has been closed on you. > [!WARNING] > As a consequence of the above, failure to either close or drain the output pipe may cause **ClosePseudoConsole** to wait indefinitely in earlier versions of Windows. To avoid deadlocks on older versions, don&`#39`;t call **ClosePseudoConsole** on the same thread that you&`#39`;re reading the output pipe from, unless the output pipe was previously closed by you or closed on you by the pseudoconsole. ## Requirements | | | |-|-| | Minimum supported client | Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) \[desktop apps only\] | | Minimum supported server | Windows Server 2019 \[desktop apps only\] | | Header | ConsoleApi.h (via WinCon.h, include Windows.h) | | Library | Kernel32.lib | | DLL | Kernel32.dll | ## See also [Pseudoconsoles](pseudoconsoles.md) [**CreatePseudoConsole**](createpseudoconsole.md) [**ResizePseudoConsole**](resizepseudoconsole.md) <title>Result 4</title> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/creating-a-pseudoconsole-session It is completely up to the hosting application to decide how to handle further activity. The hosting application could launch a window in another thread to collect user interaction input and serialize it into the write end of the input pipe for the pseudoconsole and the hosted character-mode application. Another thread could be launched to drain the read end of the output pipe for the pseudoconsole, decode the text and virtual terminal sequence information, and present that to the screen. ... ## Ending the Pseudoconsole Session ... To end the session, call the ClosePseudoConsole function with the handle from the original pseudoconsole creation. Any attached client character-mode applications, such as the one from the CreateProcess call, will be terminated when the session is closed. If the original child was a shell-type application that creates other processes, any related attached processes in the tree will also be terminated. ... Closing the session has several side effects which can result in a deadlock condition if the pseudoconsole is used in a single-threaded synchronous fashion. The act of closing the pseudoconsole session may emit a final frame update to `hOutput` which should be drained from the communications channel buffer. Additionally, if `PSEUDOCONSOLE_INHERIT_CURSOR` was selected while creating the pseudoconsole, attempting to close the pseudoconsole without responding to the cursor inheritence query message (received on `hOutput` and replied to via `hInput`) may result in another deadlock condition. It is recommended that communications channels for the pseudoconsole are serviced on individual threads and remain drained and processed until broken of their own accord by the client application exiting or by the completion of teardown activities in calling the ClosePseudoConsole function. <title>docs/conpty-pitfalls.md</title> https://github.com/P4suta/conpty-oxide/blob/main/docs/conpty-pitfalls.md **What happens.** A program spawns a child into a pseudoconsole, stops reading conout (or never starts), and then tears the session down. `ClosePseudoConsole` does not return. There is no error, no timeout, and no diagnostic — the thread is simply gone. Doing the same from the thread that reads conout deadlocks even when everything else is right. ... **Why.** Closing a pseudoconsole asks the console host to exit and waits for it to finish. The host still has rendered output queued for conout, and while somebody holds the read end open, its writes block on a full pipe buffer. The call is therefore waiting for progress only the reader can make — and if the caller *is* the reader, nobody can make it. Microsoft&`#39`;s own guidance is to close the output pipe first or keep draining it while the close runs. On builds that also export `ReleasePseudoConsole` (Windows 11 24H2 / Server 2025, build 26100 and later, and the standalone `conpty.dll`), the close no longer waits for a reader at all — which is what makes the released lifecycle in [pitfall 2](`#releasing-the-pseudoconsole-is-what-ends-the-output-stream`) possible. ... **In this crate.** `src/core/pseudocon.rs` holds a small state machine over ... (reader state, close state). It guarantees that ` ... PseudoConsole` runs ... exactly once, and it enumerates the five situations in which the call is ... allowed to run, each with an argument for why it cannot block indefinitely: ... file, after the reader&`#39`;s handle is retired, an ... explicit request with no live reader, an explicit request from the legacy ... post-exit close worker (which is allowed to block), and an explicit request in ... released mode (deferred to the reader&`#39`;s own transition). The reader thread ... only ever runs the close after end-of-file, which proves the host is already ... gone. The final defence is `Drop`, which never blocks: where promptness cannot ... be proven, the `HPCON` goes to a ... consequence is ... parts of a ... **What happens.** On Windows versions before 24H2, a reader that waits for end-of-file on conout after the child has exited waits forever. The child is gone, the exit status is available, and the pipe stays open. ... **Why.** The console host&`#39`;s lifetime is tied to the `HPCON`, not to its clients. Until the owner closes the pseudoconsole, the host stays alive holding the write end of conout, so the read end never breaks. `ReleasePseudoConsole` inverts that: it hands the host its own lifetime back, and the host exits once its last client disconnects. Conout then breaks with `ERROR_BROKEN_PIPE` and end-of-file arrives on its own — the model node-pty adopted. Two details are easy to get wrong. Releasing does **not** free the `HPCON`; `ClosePseudoConsole` still has to run afterwards. And the capability must be detected by looking for the export with `GetProcAddress`, not by comparing build numbers, because compatibility shims and backported builds make version checks misfire (microsoft/terminal#19112). ... **In this crate.** `src/core/session.rs` performs exactly three steps per spawn, in this order: create the job object and the process, call `ReleasePseudoConsole`, and register the root watcher — armed for every backend; on a legacy backend it additionally requests close after the drain grace. Releasing before a client exists would release a console nobody is attached to; skipping the watcher&`#39`;s close on a legacy backend would leave a reader waiting for an end-of-file that can never arrive. `ConPtyBackend` resolves every entry point with `GetProcAddress` and reports the backend&`#39`;s internal release capability check; a failed release is logged (with the `tracing` feature) and demotes that session to the legacy path rather than failing it. ... **What happens.** On a backend without `ReleasePseudoConsole`, something has to force end-of-file after the child exits, and the obvious worry is that closing the pseudoconsole while the reader is behind truncates the tail of the…[truncated]

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Close the output pipe before ClosePseudoConsole on error paths.

The project supports Windows 10/11, but ClosePseudoConsole can wait indefinitely before Windows 11 24H2 when its output pipe is neither closed nor drained. spawn_pty_child performs fallible setup after creating PseudoConsole, and ManagedProcess::spawn starts the drain thread only after that setup succeeds. An embedded-NUL argument can therefore cause PseudoConsole::drop to call ClosePseudoConsole while output_read remains open. Close the output handle before ClosePseudoConsole whenever no drain reader exists.

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In `@rust/src/managed_process.rs` at line 329, Update PseudoConsole cleanup in
ManagedProcess::spawn and PseudoConsole::drop so fallible setup failures close
the output pipe handle before ClosePseudoConsole when no drain reader has been
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$p = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($psi); \
Set-Content -LiteralPath '{}' -Value $p.Id; \
Start-Sleep -Seconds 120",
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Pass the marker through the process environment.

When the temporary directory contains an apostrophe, marker.display() breaks the single-quoted PowerShell -LiteralPath value. The marker file is not created, so wait_for_descendant_pid times out after 15 seconds. Add the marker to config.env and reference $env:CODEXBAR_MANAGED_DESCENDANT_MARKER in the script. ManagedProcessConfig::env is passed to CreateProcessW.

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In `@rust/src/managed_process.rs` at line 1002, Update the managed-process
PowerShell script around marker.display() to avoid embedding the marker in a
quoted literal; insert the marker into config.env under
CODEXBAR_MANAGED_DESCENDANT_MARKER and reference it through
$env:CODEXBAR_MANAGED_DESCENDANT_MARKER when creating the marker file. Preserve
the existing marker-file and wait_for_descendant_pid behavior.

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Superseded by merged canonical PR #483 (fix/antigravity-managed-agy). The fixed canonical head e4d8769 was independently validated and merged; this original fork PR is retained for history and its branch is not deleted.

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