codeburn/app
iamtoruk e9655fa03c fix: hydration completeness markers, cold-only splash, honest switching, prefetch
P0: an interrupted cold hydration left partial caches that the
emptiness check read as warm — the daily backfill froze (missing older
days) while session parsing healed gradually (drifting totals),
poisoning every surface sharing the cache. Both caches now carry an
explicit complete marker: partial resumes cold under the hydration
lock; unmarked caches self-heal with one re-hydration. Regression test
seeds the exact frozen artifact and asserts bit-for-bit convergence
with a never-interrupted run.

- splash indexing reveals only on genuinely cold scans (explicit cold
  flag in the progress protocol), never on warm incremental re-parses
- uncached filter switches clear to skeleton instead of showing the
  previous filter's numbers; cached switches paint same-commit;
  background prefetch warms every detected provider after idle
- build stamp (git sha + date) in splash and About ends build ambiguity
- payload parity test: identical payloads on identical cache, and
  payload totals equal the CLI report path
- Sessions empty state keeps the provider filter row; zero savings
  line hidden; TCC usage-description strings + Full Disk Access docs
- warm profile documented: optimize scan ~1.47s dominant (safe
  refactor deferred), parse ~1s, aggregation ~30ms

Root 1848, app 320, typechecks clean.
2026-07-16 14:05:11 -07:00
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build feat(app): binary-flame brand art + animated video loader on the splash 2026-07-16 06:19:12 -07:00
electron fix(app): telemetry flush drops permanently-rejected batches 2026-07-16 12:10:38 -07:00
renderer fix: hydration completeness markers, cold-only splash, honest switching, prefetch 2026-07-16 14:05:11 -07:00
scripts feat(app): bundle the CLI inside the packaged app 2026-07-16 09:27:46 -07:00
.gitignore feat(app): bundle the CLI inside the packaged app 2026-07-16 09:27:46 -07:00
DISTRIBUTION.md fix: hydration completeness markers, cold-only splash, honest switching, prefetch 2026-07-16 14:05:11 -07:00
package-lock.json feat(app): package the desktop app for unsigned macOS distribution 2026-07-16 07:16:34 -07:00
package.json fix: hydration completeness markers, cold-only splash, honest switching, prefetch 2026-07-16 14:05:11 -07:00
README.md feat(app): bundle the CLI inside the packaged app 2026-07-16 09:27:46 -07:00
tsconfig.electron.json feat(app): scaffold Electron+Vite package and codeburn CLI spawn 2026-07-10 15:16:55 -07:00
tsconfig.json feat(app): scaffold Electron+Vite package and codeburn CLI spawn 2026-07-10 15:16:55 -07:00
vite.config.ts fix: hydration completeness markers, cold-only splash, honest switching, prefetch 2026-07-16 14:05:11 -07:00
vitest.config.ts feat(app): scaffold Electron+Vite package and codeburn CLI spawn 2026-07-10 15:16:55 -07:00

CodeBurn Desktop

Electron desktop shell for CodeBurn's local-first usage views. M1 runs as a developer app and reads data by spawning the installed codeburn CLI; it does not run a daemon or HTTP server.

Development

npm --prefix app install
npm --prefix app run dev

Validation:

npm --prefix app run test
npm --prefix app run typecheck

CLI Dependency

Packaged builds ship their own version-matched copy of the codeburn CLI and require nothing installed — the app spawns the bundled CLI with Electron's own binary as Node (ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE). In development (Vite dev server) the app uses the repo's freshly-built CLI, and either can be overridden with CODEBURN_BIN or a persisted path file. See DISTRIBUTION.md for the bundling and resolution details. Electron resolves and spawns the CLI from the main process, then sends decoded JSON through the secure preload bridge into the renderer.

This follows the menubar pattern:

  • contextIsolation: true, nodeIntegration: false, and sandbox: true.
  • Renderer code calls window.codeburn only through app/renderer/lib/ipc.ts.
  • Main process handlers return JSON envelopes so structured CLI errors survive IPC.
  • Missing CLI, bad JSON, timeout, and nonzero exits are surfaced as honest UI states.
  • The renderer never imports CodeBurn engine code from src/; the data contract is spawn CLI, decode JSON, poll.

Data Contract

Current bridge calls:

  • Overview: codeburn status --format menubar-json --period <period> [--provider <provider>]
  • Plans: codeburn status --format json --period <period>
  • Models: codeburn models --format json --period <period> [--provider <provider>] [--by-task]
  • Optimize: codeburn yield --format json --period <period>
  • Spend flow: codeburn spend --format flow-json --period <period> [--provider <provider>]
  • Devices: codeburn devices --format json --period <period>
  • Device scan: codeburn devices scan --format json
  • Share status: codeburn share status --format json
  • Identity: codeburn identity --format json

Supported M1 periods are today, week, 30days, month, and all. Provider filtering is passed through where the CLI command supports it.

Sections

  • Overview: daily spend, spend stats, waste summary, and expensive sessions from menubar-json.
  • Spend: project/activity/tool/MCP/subagent lenses plus model-to-project flow.
  • Optimize: waste findings from menubar-json and reverted/abandoned yield data.
  • Models: model and task tables from models --format json.
  • Plans: plan pacing from status --format json.
  • Settings: device identity, nearby scan results, paired-device usage, and M2 visual affordances.

Packaging

npm run package produces an ad-hoc-signed macOS .dmg/.zip (arm64 and x64) via electron-builder, no paid Apple Developer account required. Packaging rebuilds the root CLI and bundles it into the app (Resources/cli), so installs need nothing on the target machine. See DISTRIBUTION.md for build instructions, the bundled-CLI mechanism, artifact locations, and the Gatekeeper first-open story.

M2 Backlog

  • Add Electron autoUpdater (the app already bundles its own version-matched CLI, so end-user installs need nothing on the machine; auto-update is the remaining piece).
  • Keep npm as a separate CLI-user channel at the same version as the desktop app.
  • Add macOS code signing with a paid Developer ID and notarization (ad-hoc packaging exists today; see DISTRIBUTION.md).
  • Add a codeburn desktop launcher subcommand.
  • Implement in-app pairing, approve, pull, and visibility mutations currently shown as M2 affordances.
  • Build the Models Compare sheet.
  • Add light theme support.
  • Expand codeburn optimize --format json with evidence and fix commands so Optimize can show richer actionable fixes.