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What changed

Closing a window on Windows now hides it to the system tray instead of quitting,
so running agents keep going. A tray icon restores the window, its menu has a real
Quit, and a General setting turns the behaviour off.

Quitting is also coordinated now, rather than decided per window.

Why

Closing the last window quit the app and killed any agent mid-turn. The only way to
keep work running was to leave the window open on the taskbar. Ref #223

The tray and the setting are Windows-only: tray.rs and its install are behind
#[cfg(target_os = "windows")], the tray-icon Cargo feature is scoped to the
Windows dependency, and loadCloseToTray() returns false elsewhere, so macOS and
Linux take exactly the close path they do today.

Quit coordination is not platform-specific, since every quit path shares
request_quit. window.emit reaches every window, so each one used to answer for
itself and an idle window could exit the app while a busy one was still asking —
killing agents nobody agreed to stop. Now Rust polls every window for its running
chats, sums them, sends the confirmation to a single window, and calls
confirm_quit only once every window reports its workspace saved.

Details worth knowing:

  • A window that never answers the poll counts as busy, not idle, so a slow window is
    never mistaken for an empty one.
  • Only a window that answered the poll is asked to show the dialog — replying proves
    its listeners are live, so the dialog can't be sent into a window that is still
    booting.
  • The poll counts every running turn, not only the resumable ones inFlightRefs
    keeps. A running Inbox Ask is work nobody agreed to throw away, so it now reaches
    the dialog where it previously did not.
  • If any window fails to save, the quit is called off and the app stays open. A quit
    no longer swallows failed writes; unload persistence stays best-effort, since a
    reload follows it.
  • A failed broadcast does not exit. The run stays alive and its timeout treats
    unanswered windows as busy, so one webview tearing down cannot take the other
    windows' work with it.
  • Every stage has a backstop. Polling and commit time out so a wedged webview cannot
    block quitting, and confirming abandons a stalled run after five minutes so a
    dialog that never arrives cannot leave Quit dead for the life of the process.
  • The commit timeout means a window taking over ten seconds to save may lose that
    save. I took that over hanging indefinitely: an app that will not quit gets
    force-killed, which loses the same workspace and every running agent with it.
  • Windows still share one workspace snapshot, so multi-window restore remains
    last-writer-wins. That's pre-existing and untouched here.

Covered by 11 Rust unit tests over the coordinator's stage transitions and 7 on the
JS side. Verified by hand on Windows: one dialog for the whole app, cancelling leaves
the agent running, and tray Quit while hidden brings a window back to show the dialog.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added Windows system-tray support with Show and Quit actions.
    • Added a Windows-only “Close to tray” setting in General settings.
    • When enabled, closing the window hides the app in the tray while preserving active sessions.
    • Left-clicking the tray icon reopens the app window.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved multi-window quit coordination, confirmation, and save completion.
    • Prevented quitting when active work cannot be saved successfully.
    • Improved handling of closed windows, stalled confirmations, and delayed responses.

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The change adds Windows tray support, a persisted close-to-tray preference, coordinated multi-window quit handling, and conditional window hiding during close handling.

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Windows tray and application lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Windows tray installation
src-tauri/Cargo.toml, src-tauri/src/lib.rs, src-tauri/src/tray.rs
Windows builds enable tray support. Application setup installs Show and Quit tray actions, restores or creates a hidden window, and routes Quit to the quit request.
Close-to-tray preference and settings UI
src/lib/settings.ts, src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx
The Windows-only preference uses monocode.closeToTray in local storage and defaults to enabled. General settings load, save, and display the preference on Windows.
Coordinated quit protocol
src-tauri/src/window.rs, src-tauri/src/lib.rs, src/lib/appLifecycle.ts, src/main.tsx, src/lib/appLifecycle.test.ts
The quit flow polls windows for active work, presents one confirmation, waits for persistence readiness, and commits or aborts with timeout, stale-request, and window-removal handling.
Window close handling
src/App.tsx, src/lib/appLifecycle.ts
When close-to-tray is enabled, close handling persists active state and hides the window. Otherwise, the current window closes through the existing close path.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant SettingsView
  participant App
  participant WindowsTray
  participant QuitCoordinator
  User->>SettingsView: Toggle Close to tray
  SettingsView->>App: Persist setting
  User->>App: Close window
  App->>QuitCoordinator: Request coordinated quit
  QuitCoordinator->>App: Poll windows and request persistence
  App->>WindowsTray: Hide window when close-to-tray is enabled
  User->>WindowsTray: Select Show
  WindowsTray->>App: Restore or create hidden window
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A slow or unresponsive window can cause Quit to terminate the application before workspace state is saved. This should be fixed before merge.

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@goujandev thanks for this! Could we fix quit coordination in this PR?

window.emit broadcasts the quit event to every window, so an idle window can exit the app while another window is still waiting for confirmation, killing its running agent.

Please route tray Quit through a single coordinator that checks all windows for active sessions before exiting.

Other than that it looks great 🙏

- Poll every window for running chats and ask once, in one window
- Exit only after each window reports its workspace saved
- Count a window that never answers as busy rather than idle
- Cover the stage transitions with unit tests

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In `@src-tauri/src/window.rs`:
- Around line 484-488: Update the quit confirmation flow around the
Stage::Confirming branch, askQuitConfirmation, and the quit_confirm listener
registration so failures from listener setup or quit_decision invocation recover
the stale QUIT_RUN by clearing or aborting it; ensure subsequent quit requests
can proceed normally instead of remaining stuck in Stage::Confirming.

In `@src/lib/appLifecycle.ts`:
- Around line 144-147: Update reportQuitPoll so its quit-decision count
separately counts liveWorkspace sessions satisfying isInFlightSession, including
inboxAsk sessions, instead of using inFlightRefs(...).length. Preserve
inFlightRefs for resumable persistence records and leave its filtering behavior
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- Line 120: Update handleQuitRequested and its
persistQuitState/persistBootingResume paths so failures in required
coordinated-quit writes propagate instead of being caught as successful
persistence, causing quit_ready to receive persisted: false and preventing
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- Abandon a confirming run that never gets an answer, so Quit cannot wedge
- Count every in-flight session in the poll, not only resumable ones
- Let required writes reject on quit so the coordinator hears about it
- Keep best-effort persistence for unload, where a reload follows

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270-361: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Fail closed when global quit polling fails

request_quit sends one global app.emit(QUIT_POLL, id) call. It does not emit once per window. Tauri propagates webview evaluation errors from this call, including errors when a webview is unavailable during teardown. If the call fails, the current branch clears QUIT_RUN and calls confirm_quit, which unconditionally calls app.exit(0) without waiting for other windows. Retain the polling run and let its timeout treat unanswered windows as busy, or abort without calling confirm_quit.

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In `@src-tauri/src/window.rs` around lines 270 - 361, Update request_quit so a
failed app.emit(QUIT_POLL, id) does not clear QUIT_RUN and call confirm_quit,
which exits without collecting all window responses. Retain the active polling
run for timeout handling so unanswered windows are treated as busy, or abort the
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- Abandon a confirming run that never gets an answer, so Quit cannot wedge
- Count every in-flight session in the poll, not only resumable ones

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@hardbeat920 Done, quit now goes through a single coordinator. It polls every window for its
running chats, asks once in one window, and only exits after each window reports its
workspace saved.

Heads up, one behaviour change: the poll counts every running turn, not just the
resumable ones, so a running Inbox Ask now gets you the dialog too.

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