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# 000 - Problem model: what "macOS-only" actually means here

Unit: cross-platform parity + Windows compatibility fixes.
Branch base: `dev` at `072df52eb`. Date: 2026-09-04.

## The request

Make the capabilities that only work on macOS work on Windows and Linux too, and
land the Windows-compatibility bug fixes the backlog already documents. Delivered
as a stacked pull-request chain against `dev`.

## The claim that had to be tested first

"opencodex is macOS-only in places" is the starting hypothesis, not a finding. A
read-only inventory of every `darwin` gate in `src/` (recorded in `001`) shows the
claim is mostly FALSE and the exceptions are concentrated:

- 21 darwin-referencing sites were classified.
- 13 are ALREADY-HANDLED: they carry real win32 and linux branches today
(`open-url.ts`, `cursor-detect.ts`, `desktop-3p-paths.ts`, `kiro-credentials.ts`,
`app-server-processes.ts`, `service.ts` backend dispatch, `key-store.ts`, and the
Claude credential file fallback in `local-token-detect.ts`).
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Define the counting unit for the Darwin inventory

000_problem_model.md:18-22 claims 21 sites and 13 already-handled sites, but 001_darwin_surface_inventory.md:14-24 contains 12 already-handled rows. Several rows group multiple references, while the system-env.ts gap groups five refusals. The documents do not define the counting unit. Define whether a site is a row, file, or reference, then add a numbered mapping for all 21 sites before using 13/21 as the scope baseline.

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choosing and applying a consistent row, file, or reference basis. Add a numbered
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- 6 are a single subsystem: `src/server/system-env.ts`, which refuses with
`reason: "not macOS"` at five entry points and holds the launchctl calls behind them.
- 1 is a hard throw: `src/oauth/meta-muse.ts` refuses every non-darwin host.
- 1 is a missing developer script: `scripts/ocx-restart.sh` has no Windows counterpart.

So this unit is not a porting sweep. After four audit rounds it is three phases,
each its own PR in a stacked chain:

- **wp1** - `meta-muse` refuses on Windows and Linux with accurate reasons
instead of a false macOS-Keychain one.
- **wp2** - a platform-support reference page, so the capabilities that stay
macOS-only have a written answer rather than a silent dead end.
- **wp3** - the Windows identity decode fix, the one defect proven to exist in
the tree.

Everything else the audits removed is in `050` with its blocking reason.

## The second problem, found while looking

While inventorying the Windows paths, a real defect surfaced in the tree: the
identity ACQUISITION path decodes PowerShell stdout as UTF-8 when Windows
PowerShell 5.1 emits the console code page, so a non-ASCII account name is
mojibaked before any comparison happens. The `<UserId>` comparison itself is
correct. Details and evidence: `003`.

Its relationship to issue #3320 is CANDIDATE, not proven. The reporter's evidence
was collected after a local patch and repair, so the original registration shape
is unknown and nothing here establishes that this defect produced that user's
failure. What can be said conditionally: #3134 moved new registrations to SID
form, and a SID is ASCII, so freshly registered tasks stay healthy; a task
registered by v2.39.0 or earlier carries a name-form `<UserId>`, and for a
non-ASCII account both sides of that comparison are separately corrupted, which
would make `ocx service repair` refuse it permanently. That is a plausible route
to the reported symptom, not a demonstrated one.

## What "done" means for this unit

Every phase below ships as its own reviewable PR against `dev`, stacked so each
child bases on its parent's head branch (DEV-STACK-01), with CI as the verification
authority. The user has forbidden running the full local suite, so no phase may
claim a green suite as evidence; each phase names the focused reasoning or the CI
run that backs it.

## Non-goals

- No provider catalog or model metadata churn.
- No GUI redesign.
- No release promotion to `preview` or `main`.
- No security-triage writeup in this directory (AGENTS.md: scratch only).
- The `go/` directory is untouched.
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# 001 - Darwin surface inventory

Read-only sweep of every `darwin`, `macOS`, `Keychain`, `launchctl`, `osascript`,
`/Applications` and `plist` reference under `src/` and `scripts/`, classified for
portability. Verdicts: PORTABLE, DOCUMENT-ONLY, ALREADY-HANDLED.

## Already handled - no work needed

These carry real win32 and linux branches today. Listed so a future reader does
not re-open them.

| Site | Why it is fine |
|---|---|
| `src/lib/open-url.ts:14` | Three-way branch; `rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler` on win32, `xdg-open` on linux, with an ENOENT listener so a headless host cannot kill the proxy |
| `src/integrations/cursor-detect.ts:69` | `/Applications` is one of three branches; win32 scans `LOCALAPPDATA\\Programs` and `ProgramFiles`, linux scans `/opt` and `~/.local/share` |
| `src/integrations/cursor-effort-table.ts:45` | `Contents/Resources/app` vs `resources/app`, the correct Electron layout for each |
| `src/claude/desktop-3p-paths.ts:47` | Pure resolver with `APPDATA`/`LOCALAPPDATA` and `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` branches |
| `src/oauth/kiro-credentials.ts:166,224` | Full win32 and linux branches for the session DB and executable |
| `src/oauth/local-token-detect.ts:78` | Keychain returns null off darwin and falls through to `.credentials.json`, which is what Claude Code writes on Windows and Linux |
| `src/claude/auth-detect.ts:207` | Metadata-only presence probe; "absent" off darwin is correct because the file source covers those platforms |
| `src/oauth/anthropic.ts:172` | Error text only; prints the file-only variant off darwin |
| `src/service.ts:3454` and around | Three-backend dispatch: launchd, Task Scheduler/WinSW, systemd user unit |
| `src/codex/app-server-processes.ts:523,626,676` | Named win32 and linux branches with their own timeout bounds |
| `src/codex/log-guard/path-safety.ts:13` | `/var` to `/private/var` alias normalization is genuinely macOS-shaped; a Windows canonical comparator sits alongside it |
| `src/providers/key-store.ts:33` | Not darwin-gated at all; `@napi-rs/keyring` maps to Credential Manager and libsecret |

## The real gaps

### 1. `src/server/system-env.ts` - five refusals, one subsystem

| Line | Function | Behavior off darwin |
|---|---|---|
| 142 | `installShellHook` | `{ installed: false, reason: "not macOS" }` |
| 159 | `uninstallShellHook` | `{ removed: false, reason: "not macOS" }` |
| 223 | `reconcileShellHook` | `{ changed: false, state: "absent", reason: "not macOS" }` |
| 372 | `injectSystemEnv` | `{ injected: false, reason: "not macOS" }` |
| 489 | `revertSystemEnv` | `{ reverted: false, reason: "not macOS" }` |

What it does on macOS: writes `~/.opencodex/claude-env.sh` (platform-neutral),
appends a marked hook line to `~/.zshrc`, and injects `ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL`,
`CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_GATEWAY_MODEL_DISCOVERY`, conditionally `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN`,
plus seven lever keys into the launchd user domain via `launchctl setenv`.

Ownership and rollback are stronger than the surface suggests, and any port must
preserve them: a tracking file `~/.opencodex/system-env-port` (0600) holds pid,
port and `injectedKeys`; revert unsets ONLY tracked keys so a pre-existing user
value survives; `injectedKeys` is re-persisted after every single `setenv` so a
crash mid-injection still leaves a complete undo list; lever keys are user-wins
(`injectLever` skips a key already present); revert refuses on ownership mismatch;
and `rollbackInjectedKeys` rewrites tracking with only the keys whose unset failed
so a partial rollback stays resumable.

Callers: `ocx start` (`src/cli/index.ts:443` and the already-running path at 537),
`syncCleanup` at 378, `ocx stop` at 957, `ocx uninstall` at 1239, and
`applySystemEnvToggle` from `agent-settings-routes.ts:1384`.

Verdicts: the SHELL HOOK half (142/159/223) is PORTABLE and cheap - the writer is
already platform-neutral and the marker install/remove/verify logic is already
written; the only blocker is the `!== "darwin"` guard plus a hardcoded `~/.zshrc`.
The ENV INJECTION half (372/489) is PORTABLE but expensive and carries a real
security question: moving `ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN` from a per-boot launchd domain
into a persistent `HKCU\\Environment` hive changes secret exposure, which AGENTS.md
routes to explicit security review. It is deliberately NOT in this unit.

### 2. `src/oauth/meta-muse.ts:136` - the only hard throw

`loginMetaMuse` throws on every non-darwin platform with a message blaming the
macOS Keychain. Measurement in `002` shows the message states the wrong reason.
Verdict: DOCUMENT-ONLY for Windows, PORTABLE for Linux pending a measured pointer.

### 3. `scripts/ocx-restart.sh` - no Windows counterpart

Bash-only detached restart helper for agent sessions. `restart-codex-desktop-app.ps1`
is a different tool. The `darwin` mention inside it is only a `setsid` fallback.
Verdict: PORTABLE, small.

### 4. `src/server/management/agent-settings-routes.ts:1091`

`autoConnectSupported` hardcodes `platform === "darwin"`. Honest today, since the
capability really is macOS-only, and the GUI fails closed on it. Three distinct
things must not be conflated when any of this moves: launchctl ENV INJECTION
(macOS only), writing the `claude-env.sh` SHELL FILE (deferred to its own unit,
`050`), and the SHELL HOOK that sources it. `autoConnectSupported` names the
first. A port of the second or third needs its own field rather than overloading
this one, because `tests/claude-management-api.test.ts:653-664` correctly pins
this flag false off darwin.

## One latent hazard worth recording

`src/cli/index.ts:1240` and `:1245` allowlist the literal reason strings
`"not macOS"` and `"not installed"` so `ocx uninstall` treats them as benign. A
future backend returning a different reason string turns a benign no-op into a
failed uninstall step.

Audit round 3 showed this is not a free refactor: four exact `toEqual`
assertions pin the current return objects
(`tests/claude-shell-hook.test.ts:63,79,107,173`), and a discriminant applied to
"every refusal path" would classify genuine failures (`no HOME`,
`read/write failed`) as benign skips. It belongs WITH the port that needs it, as
a discriminated union designed against those call sites - deferred to `050`,
not part of any phase in this unit.
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# 002 - Measured: what the Muse Code CLI stores off macOS

The `meta-muse` provider is the only hard platform throw in the runtime
(`src/oauth/meta-muse.ts:136`). This document records what is known, what is
sourced, and what is still unmeasured, because the module's own contract is to
refuse any storage backend it has not verified (`meta-muse.ts:160`).

## What was measured on macOS (prior unit, not re-derived here)

`devlog/_plan/260903_muse_spark_plan_oauth/003` records the shipped shape:

- `~/.config/muse/auth.json` (0600) is a POINTER carrying no secret. Its
`providers.meta` object declares `mechanism: "oauth"` and `storage: "keychain"`.
- The secret is a macOS Keychain generic-password item, service
`ai.meta.dev.credentials`, account `meta`.
- Only `api_key` authenticates the Model API; `access_token` returns 401. The key
matches `/LLM\|\d+\|[A-Za-z0-9_-]{10,}/`.

The important detail for this unit is that `storage` is a DECLARED field in the
pointer. The CLI tells us where it put the secret. That is the extension point:
a non-keychain host will declare a different value, and the module already
refuses unknown values rather than guessing.

## What the vendor documents for other platforms

Meta's quickstart documents installation for macOS and Linux only, through
`curl -fsSL https://dev.meta.ai/install.sh | bash`. There is no native Windows
installer; the documented Windows route is WSL2.

Consequence, and it reframes the whole task: **there is no native Windows Muse
CLI to import a credential from.** The current error message is wrong about the
reason. It blames the macOS Keychain when the real reason on Windows is that the
vendor ships no Windows CLI at all.

## Linux: sourced, NOT yet measured

Third-party setup writeups describe the Linux credential living in
`~/.config/muse/auth.json` and honoring `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME`, with the secret in
that JSON file rather than an OS keyring. That is plausible - it matches how the
pointer already declares its own backend - but it is **unverified**. No Muse CLI
install exists on this host (`~/.config/muse/auth.json` is absent, checked
2026-09-04), so the exact `storage` value a Linux install writes has not been
observed.

This is the single fact that gates wp1's Linux half. The module must not invent a
`storage` value. Two honest routes:

1. Implement the Linux branch keyed on the DECLARED `storage` value, accepting a
file-backed secret only when the pointer says so, and keep refusing unknown
values. If a Linux install declares `storage: "keychain"`, the refusal still
fires and nothing is silently wrong.
2. Do not guess a specific value: accept the shapes we can validate structurally
(a secret embedded in the pointer, or a sibling file the pointer names) and
refuse everything else with a message that says what was found.

**Audit round 1 rejected both routes as premature (blocker 6).** The pointer
interface (`src/oauth/meta-muse.ts:58-60`) declares only `mechanism`, `storage`
and `user_email`. There is no path field and no inline-key field. Writing a reader
against fields nobody has observed is the unverified-credential path this module
refuses everywhere else, and no amount of structural validation makes an invented
schema measured.

So this unit ships neither route. Linux keeps refusing, with a message that states
the real reason instead of blaming the macOS Keychain. `010` implements that, and
`050` records the exact measurement that would unblock a Linux reader: a real
`~/.config/muse/auth.json` from a Linux install, with its `storage` value and, if
the secret is file-backed, the field naming the file.

## What wp1 must therefore deliver

- Windows: replace the misleading macOS-Keychain refusal with an accurate one
that names WSL2 and the supported `META_MODEL_API_KEY` alternative. No WSL2
pointer read: reachability was never measured, and a refusal that tells the
truth is a fix while a guess is not.
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Do not describe META_MODEL_API_KEY as an automatic fallback.

OpenCodex resolves environment variables only when provider.apiKey contains $NAME or ${NAME}. The meta-model registry preset does not set that reference, so exporting META_MODEL_API_KEY alone leaves the provider without a key. State that users must configure apiKey as $META_MODEL_API_KEY, or add that binding before documenting this as supported.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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around lines 71 - 74, Update the Windows/WSL2 refusal guidance so
META_MODEL_API_KEY is not presented as an automatic fallback; either instruct
users to configure provider.apiKey as $META_MODEL_API_KEY or add that binding to
the meta-model registry preset before describing the environment variable as
supported.

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- Linux: a refusal naming the unmeasured storage rather than the Keychain. No
reader until a real pointer is measured.
- Neither platform may weaken the ToS consent warning, which is the CLI's only
warning surface.
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