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setup mcp should register Firecrawl directly and predictably in supported agent harnesses without persisting API keys. When users explicitly choose Firecrawl as their default web provider, setup should change only the documented settings and preserve unrelated configuration.

Summary

  • Replaces delegated MCP installation with built-in detection and user-level configuration for supported harnesses.
  • Preselects detected harnesses during interactive setup and supports explicit per-harness and all-target automation paths.
  • Preserves unrelated JSONC, TOML, and YAML content, refuses malformed configuration, and keeps repeated writes stable.
  • Keeps credentials indirect through environment references. Stored credentials are not copied into agent configuration, while keyless and OAuth setup remain available where supported.
  • Offers the optional default-provider handover only for Claude Code and Codex, where the exact settings are defined.
  • Keeps non-interactive confirmation MCP-only unless defaults are explicitly requested, and leaves user-defined native search settings unchanged.
  • Supports explicitly restoring native web settings.
  • Updates doctor detection and the existing init and launch integrations to recognize the native registrations.

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  • pnpm test (538 tests across 25 files)
  • pnpm type-check
  • pnpm build
  • pnpm format:check
  • git diff --check
  • GitHub Actions pass on the latest commit

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Replace the subprocess installer in `setup mcp` with a built-in one that
detects installed agents, pre-selects them in a picker, and offers to install
rules telling those agents to prefer Firecrawl for web search and scraping.

Covers Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, OpenCode, Windsurf, Zed, Hermes
Agent, and OpenClaw through per-agent flags, `--project` for project scope, and
`--rules` / `--no-rules` for scripted runs. `-y` stays MCP-only. The two
launchers were previously reachable only by flag, so a plain `setup mcp` never
offered them; they now sit in the picker alongside the editors, and because a
launcher shells out to a CLI, a missing binary is reported against that one
agent instead of ending the run.

Credential handling is unchanged in principle and stricter in reach: an API key
is never written as a literal. Knowing which agents were selected means each one
receives a reference to FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in the syntax it expands, so the setup
no longer has to refuse a run that omits --agent. Agents with no verified syntax
fall back to the keyless endpoint and say so rather than persisting a secret.

Config edits are surgical. JSON is patched through a JSONC-aware editor so
commented settings files parse at all and keep their comments, and TOML tables
are replaced along with any stale sub-tables left by a previous stdio entry.
Reruns are byte-identical.

Also gives every setup test a throwaway HOME and resets spawn mocks between
tests, since MCP setup now writes real config files and would otherwise rewrite
the developer's own agent settings; and teaches doctor about the `servers` and
`context_servers` keys so those registrations are recognized.
The PATH lookup matched any executable named `hermes`, including an
unrelated JavaScript engine that ships with common toolchains, so the
picker pre-selected an agent the user did not have.

Detection now prefers a false negative to a false positive: every agent is
listed either way, so missing one costs a keystroke while pre-selecting a
missing one is misleading.

Also pins HOME and PATH for setup tests. Both feed agent detection, so
leaving the real ones visible made results depend on what happened to be
installed on the machine running the suite.
Zed's native remote MCP support is version-gated and its handling of
request headers is inconsistent across releases, so a written entry can
report success while the agent never connects. That reads as Firecrawl
being broken, which is worse than not offering the agent at all. Removing
it until the shape can be confirmed against a live install.

Also pins the picker page size to the number of agents. The default was
smaller than the list, so the last agent scrolled out of view.
Windsurf's remote entry shape is not settled: sources disagree on whether a
transport field is required and what its value should be, and one reports
streamable HTTP working only through a local proxy. A wrong entry does not
error, it reports success and then exposes no tools, so this stays out until
the shape can be confirmed against a live install.

With every supported agent now carrying a verified environment-reference
syntax and project-level config, the keyless-fallback and global-fallback
branches no longer have a case. Removing them rather than leaving unreachable
logic behind; they come back with the agent that needs them.
installOpenClawMcp read the stored key whenever keyless was not also set, so
calling it with sign-in alone produced an OAuth entry carrying an Authorization
header. OpenClaw ignores a static header once auth is oauth, so the result was
inert rather than harmful, but writing credential configuration into a sign-in
entry is wrong either way.

The CLI never reached this: setup derives keyless from the auth mode, and
sign-in is not env, so the header was already dropped. The helper is exported
though, and the credential helper beside it is written to be safe in isolation
for the same reason, so sign-in now drops the key in the config builder where
every caller passes through.
setup mcp promises a global entry in a file we can parse, never a literal key,
plus an optional rule file we own. Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and Codex meet
that as registry data: the only difference is the file format. OpenCode is the
same kind of write with its own map key and header form, so it stays.

Hermes and OpenClaw were each a second product. Hermes needed a YAML writer, an
owner-only create mode, an extra entry field for sign-in, and had no global
rule file to own. OpenClaw needed a subprocess, a JSON5 config we cannot parse,
a workspace probe, a duplicate credential builder, and a rule that could only
be written if its AGENTS.md already existed. Neither shaped the product; both
shaped the code around them.

They stay supported and stop being written. `--hermes`, `--openclaw`, and their
names on --agent print the server URL and succeed, the way an agent we install
skills for but write no MCP config for already did. Skills and firecrawl launch
are untouched, and the URL still works for both.

Removing the two takes the whole launcher concept with them: the subprocess
runner and its Windows argv escaping, the second credential path, launcher
detection, the YAML writer, and the target/client split that existed only
because launchers were not clients. Five agents, one contract, one writer.
…ed yaml dep

Two defects reported against the scope change:

* The URL-only branch returns before the writers run, and the mutual-exclusion
  check lived with the writers, so `--hermes --oauth --keyless` printed a
  sign-in URL and exited zero while `--cursor --oauth --keyless` was rejected.
  The check now runs at the top of installMcp, ahead of everything that reports
  or returns.
* Removing the Hermes writer took the last import of the yaml package with it.
  Nothing under src/ imports it now, so it is dropped from the manifest and the
  lockfile rather than shipped unused.

A third finding, that a test leaks FIRECRAWL_API_KEY into later tests, does not
hold: beforeEach deletes that variable and afterEach restores the original, so
each test starts without it. The assignment is also load-bearing where it is,
since the assertion it supports is that sign-in drops a key that was present.
The sign-in mode had its own lead-in, code block, and paragraph, and the two
agents setup no longer configures had a paragraph explaining why. Both restate
structure the section already has: one paragraph names the supported agents,
and one paragraph covers how the credential is handled.

Sign-in now sits in that credential paragraph beside keyless, and the two
unwritten agents sit in the sentence that already lists the supported set. Same
facts, no new sections, nine fewer lines. The harness table above is scoped to
skills and stays accurate as written.
A rule tells an agent to prefer firecrawl_search and firecrawl_scrape. It was
written even when the server entry for that agent had failed, so an agent could
be instructed to reach for tools it had no way to call. The rule now depends on
the entry landing. The dependency runs one way only: a failed rule still leaves
a working MCP server, which is what keeps the two writes separate.

A run that configured some of the chosen agents also exited zero, so a script
could not tell a partial install from a complete one. The summary already named
what failed; the exit code now agrees with it. Quiet mode is unchanged, since it
runs inside init and launch, which report their own outcome and continue.

Also ignores .cursor/, alongside the editor directories already listed. Nothing
from it was ever tracked, but it is the same kind of workspace artifact a broad
`git add` swept into the repo once already.
Failing the run on a partial install swallowed the tail of `--agent all`: the
throw left before the Hermes and OpenClaw lines printed, and their URL is the
whole answer for those two, so the run that most needed to mention them was the
one that did not. The report now runs whether or not the writers threw.

The exit code is unchanged. Configuring what it can and then reporting failure
is the same contract as before, since per-agent isolation is about the other
agents still being configured, not about the command claiming success.
… did

installMcp is shared, so making Hermes and OpenClaw URL-only reached callers
this branch never edited. Three consequences, all in that seam:

* `firecrawl launch hermes --install` printed the URL for an agent we do not
  configure and then said it was configured with Firecrawl MCP. Launch now
  claims MCP only when the run actually wrote it, which also covers --skip-mcp,
  where the same line was already claiming a write that never happened.
* Naming an agent we do not configure returned from the whole run, so
  `--agent hermes --cursor` printed the URL and left Cursor unconfigured. The
  URL is now reported for whichever flag named it and the rest of the run
  continues; it ends early only when nothing else was named.
* Detecting no agents at all is still an error, since nothing was configured
  and the run should not report success. It now names the server URL alongside
  the agent flags, so a machine we cannot detect still learns how to connect.

The launch target table keeps its `mcpAgent` entries for those two agents: the
call is what surfaces the URL, and dropping it would trade a false claim for
silence.
init and launch render an indented block, and these lines sat flush against it.
This reverts the scope reduction and everything built on it. The PR keeps the
harnesses main already supports and changes only how MCP gets installed:
Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw, with
native writers in place of a third-party installer subprocess.

Narrowing the set to the agents that share one contract is a real argument, but
it is a different change: it drops harnesses, so it has to move `firecrawl
launch` and the docs with it, and it should be judged on its own rather than
riding along with the writer swap. It comes back as "stop auto-configuring
Hermes and OpenClaw" if we want it.

So the Hermes YAML writer and the OpenClaw launcher are back, `launch`
configures both exactly as it does on main, and the URL-only path invented here
is gone rather than left as a second way an agent can be supported.

Kept from the reverted range, since none of it depends on the smaller set: the
auth-mode check ahead of every branch, rules not being written for an agent
whose server entry failed, a partial run failing the command, and .cursor/ in
.gitignore. The launcher isolation test now asserts both halves of that last
one: OpenClaw failing is reported, and Cursor beside it is still configured.
Those three branches passed `yes: true` into installMcpClients to skip the
picker, but naming the targets already does that: the picker only runs when no
targets were selected, and each of these arrives with a list. What `yes` still
reached was the rules prompt, so `--agent cursor` asked whether to install rules
and `--agent all` silently decided no.

Dropping the flag leaves the picker skipped as before and lets the question be
asked. Nothing else moves: without a TTY the run is still non-interactive, `-y`
still declines rules, and `--rules` still forces them.
…her gaps

The Hermes/OpenClaw revert brought back unguarded launcher rule writes, PATH false positives, a Windows workspace probe that swallowed .cmd failures, and YAML setIn crashes on non-mapping mcp_servers.
The oauth report prefixed every step with "Sign in" and then repeated the
verb inside the step itself, so VS Code read "Sign in sign in from the MCP
view in VS Code". Checking each agent against its own docs showed the
duplication was hiding worse problems: VS Code has no MCP view and runs
client registration itself, Cursor surfaces a needs-login control of its
own, OpenCode prompts on first use, and Claude Code shows a startup notice
for any server that answers 401, which the sign-in endpoint does. Those
four now print nothing.

The three that do need a command keep one, and the strings are corrected:
Codex leads with its own command but names the Authenticate action, since
the desktop app and the IDE extension share the config file this writes and
only the CLI needs the command. Hermes reloads config on a 30s timer that
cannot outlast an interactive flow, so it names the login command and says
to run it from a new terminal rather than claiming the browser opens by
itself. The footer no longer promises that every agent prompts you.
Hermes has no global rules file to own, so every run ended its block with "Rules not supported by this agent", a line about something the user never asked for and cannot act on. The skipped case still prints, because that one means a rule was requested and did not land.
The integrations checkbox named three editors, but MCP setup writes to every
agent it detects, so the list both undersold it and went stale as agents were
added. It now reads like the skills entry above it and names no agents.

printNextSteps also offered "Add MCP: firecrawl setup mcp" unconditionally,
including right below its own "✓ MCP server installed". stepIntegrations now
reports whether the install succeeded, and the line prints only for someone
who does not have it: skipping the integration or a failed install both keep
it.
Quiet mode fails only when nothing lands, so a run where one agent failed
resolved normally and init printed "✓ MCP server installed" directly under
its own ✗ line, then hid the "Add MCP" next step that would have fixed it.
installMcp now returns whether every targeted agent was configured, and init
claims success only on that; a partial run points at "firecrawl setup mcp"
and keeps the next step.

The OpenClaw workspace lookup also expanded any leading tilde against home,
so a `~other/ws` workspace, which names another account to a shell, wrote the
rule into $HOME/other/ws instead. Expansion is now limited to `~` and a `~/`
prefix, and reads the resolved home from the context the writers already
carry rather than calling os.homedir() again.
Hermes has no global rule file, so --rules was going silent: clients only
reach unsupported after rules were requested, and the dropped line hid that.
Parse Codex TOML by AST so quoted and BOM-prefixed tables are updated
in place, honor CODEX_HOME and HERMES_HOME, write VS Code rules to the
documented instructions path, and reject empty install-mode runs.
Do not fail the default setup bundle after skills when no agents are
installed, and treat a recovered JSONC tree as registered when it still
contains Firecrawl.
upsertTomlServer replaced everything between the first Firecrawl table and
the last, so an unrelated [mcp_servers.other] sitting between the entry and
its env sub-table was deleted along with them. Each table is now removed on
its own, in reverse order so the earlier offsets stay valid in the mutated
string, and the replacement goes in where the first one started.

The first table keeps its terminating newline. The replacement block is
written without one, so a config whose next table follows immediately, which
is the documented stdio layout of [mcp_servers.firecrawl] above
[mcp_servers.firecrawl.env], came back as `url = "..."[mcp_servers.other]`
and failed to reparse. The user saw "could not parse existing config" about
a file that was valid TOML.

runClientCommand moves to its own module. Doctor's OpenClaw probe called
execFileSync directly, which cannot launch a .cmd shim, so on Windows it
reported the server unregistered for the exact reason the wrapper exists.
OpenClaw also counts as installed when the launcher is on PATH rather than
only when ~/.openclaw exists, which is what setup already detects.
init passed `--agent all` whenever FIRECRAWL_API_KEY was exported. That was a
workaround for a guard this branch removed, back when environment-backed setup
refused to run without a named agent, and `all` now means every supported
agent whether or not it is installed. On a machine with only Claude Code it
wrote six config files, including ~/.cursor/mcp.json and VS Code's, then
failed on OpenClaw and ended the run pointing at "firecrawl setup mcp". With
no agent named, detection runs instead and resolves the exported key on its
own, so the same machine gets one file and a clean finish.

The rule fence now pairs the last two markers rather than the first two. A
file carrying an odd marker, from a half-written run or a hand edit, paired
that stray one with our opening marker, so the next run replaced the span
between them and took the user's own text with it.

Also: `openclaw config get` gets the 8s timeout doctor's probe already has,
since its stderr is discarded and a wedged launcher would otherwise hang
setup with nothing on screen; a launcher result records the mode the run
configured instead of folding oauth in with keyless; and the `--agent` help no
longer advertises the environment-backed requirement that is gone.
…e writing

setup defaults matched web_search by line and rewrote whatever it found. A user
who had deliberately set web_search = "enabled" got it flipped to "disabled",
and the inline comment explaining why went with it. The already-disabled check
compared the whole line as a string, so web_search="disabled" without spaces was
rewritten too and reported as a change. A test asserted the overwrite, so it was
locked in rather than accidental.

web_search is now read from the TOML AST that this branch already parses for
Codex MCP config. A value the user set is reported and left alone; only an
absent key is written, and only the value this command writes is removed on
undo. A config.toml that does not parse is skipped rather than rewritten.

Claude settings are patched through the same JSONC editor used for MCP config,
so comments survive. Previously they were stripped to parse and lost on write.

Both writers can run as a dry run, so an interactive run now prints the exact
line each agent will receive and asks before touching anything. --yes and
non-interactive runs are unchanged. The closing line no longer claims an agent
was configured when its existing value was kept.
…rules

setup mcp wrote instruction files telling each agent to prefer Firecrawl for web
work. A rule is only advice: the agent can still call its own web search, and it
cost a rule spec per agent, a marker-fenced writer for shared files, a launcher
workspace probe, and a five-state reporting surface.

Registering the server is now all setup mcp writes. In its place the command
offers a second step: hand its native web search and fetch over to Firecrawl.
Claude Code and Codex each document a switch for that, so those are the two
agents offered, and only when their server entry landed in the same run. An
agent left without a working Firecrawl server never has its own tools taken
away.

Turning off a built-in tool is a real behavior change, so it is confirmed:
the exact line for each config is printed before anything is written, a value
already set is reported and kept rather than replaced, and declining writes
nothing. -y stays server-only; automation opts in with --defaults and out with
--no-defaults. setup defaults still runs the same step on its own.

Removes the rule spec, the rule writers, the marker fence, the launcher
workspace lookup, and the dead local left over from resolving auth in
installMcpClients.
When one selected agent failed and Claude Code or Codex succeeded, reporting
threw before the handover ran, so --defaults never reached the agent that was
configured. The step is already scoped to agents whose entry landed, so the
throw was acting as a safety gate it did not need to be.

Reporting now only reports. The aggregate failure moves to its own step that
runs after the handover, keeping both existing outcomes: quiet callers still
fail only when nothing landed, and an interactive run still fails when any
requested agent did not.
Four defects in the defaults writer, all reproduced before the fix.

The Codex insert anchored on the first line of the last root key rather than the
end of its value, so a multi-line root value had web_search spliced into the
middle of it. An inline array left the file unparseable while the run reported
success; a triple-quoted string silently corrupted the user's value and never
set web_search. The offset now comes from the end of the value, and the edited
document is re-parsed before it is written, matching how the MCP TOML writer
already guards itself.

Claude settings guarded the read of `permissions` against a non-object but not
the write, so `{"permissions": null}` parsed fine, previewed fine, was confirmed
by the user, and then threw out of jsonc-parser. A permissions value of the
wrong shape now has the whole key replaced, the same way the MCP JSON writer
handles a malformed servers map.

Both files ignored CODEX_HOME and CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR, which this branch honours
everywhere else, so on a relocated config tree the server entry and the switch
landed in different places and the switch went to a file the agent never reads.

The step is an offer on top of the work the command was asked to do, so an
unreadable file or a permissions error no longer fails a run whose MCP write
already succeeded and was reported.

Also drops an em dash from an init picker label.
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4 issues found across 18 files (changes from recent commits).

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<file name="src/utils/web-defaults.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/utils/web-defaults.ts:697">
P1: When Claude settings contain comments or trailing commas, `JSON.parse` rejects them before the JSONC edit runs, so setup skips the handover instead of preserving the file and adding the Firecrawl denies. Parse with the JSONC parser while retaining the duplicate-key and parse-error checks.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/utils/mcp-clients.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/utils/mcp-clients.ts:130">
P2: When Hermes has an `active_profile` marker for a missing profile, `hermesHome` throws and can abort `firecrawl doctor` for every agent. Keep profile-resolution failures isolated to Hermes detection, or make the doctor detection path handle this error without rejecting the aggregate scan.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/commands/setup.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/commands/setup.ts:1397">
P1: When Claude or Codex already has the exact entry, this filter still performs the web handover on reruns. Restrict handover targets to `configured` and `reconfigured` results so native tools change only after a write in this run.</violation>
</file>

<file name="src/utils/atomic-file.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/utils/atomic-file.ts:252">
P2: When another writer changes the file after the final snapshot but before this rename, the unconditional rename overwrites that writer's update despite the expected-content checks. Serialize writers with a lock or use a conditional commit mechanism around validation and rename.</violation>
</file>

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let parsed: unknown;
try {
config = JSON.parse(removeJsonComments(existing));
parsed = JSON.parse(raw);

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P1: When Claude settings contain comments or trailing commas, JSON.parse rejects them before the JSONC edit runs, so setup skips the handover instead of preserving the file and adding the Firecrawl denies. Parse with the JSONC parser while retaining the duplicate-key and parse-error checks.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At src/utils/web-defaults.ts, line 697:

<comment>When Claude settings contain comments or trailing commas, `JSON.parse` rejects them before the JSONC edit runs, so setup skips the handover instead of preserving the file and adding the Firecrawl denies. Parse with the JSONC parser while retaining the duplicate-key and parse-error checks.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -35,168 +32,835 @@ export interface WebDefaultsOptions {
+    }
+    let parsed: unknown;
+    try {
+      parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
+    } catch {
+      return skippedClaude(filePath, 'settings.json is not valid JSON');
</file context>
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): result is McpClientResult & {
id: Extract<McpClientId, 'claude' | 'codex'>;
} =>
result.mcpStatus !== 'failed' &&

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P1: When Claude or Codex already has the exact entry, this filter still performs the web handover on reruns. Restrict handover targets to configured and reconfigured results so native tools change only after a write in this run.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At src/commands/setup.ts, line 1397:

<comment>When Claude or Codex already has the exact entry, this filter still performs the web handover on reruns. Restrict handover targets to `configured` and `reconfigured` results so native tools change only after a write in this run.</comment>

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@@ -684,401 +790,949 @@ export async function installSkillsForAgent(
+        ): result is McpClientResult & {
+          id: Extract<McpClientId, 'claude' | 'codex'>;
+        } =>
+          result.mcpStatus !== 'failed' &&
+          (result.id === 'claude' || result.id === 'codex')
+      )
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result.mcpStatus !== 'failed' &&
(result.mcpStatus === 'configured' ||
result.mcpStatus === 'reconfigured') &&
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} catch {
// Report one deterministic error below.
}
throw new Error(

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P2: When Hermes has an active_profile marker for a missing profile, hermesHome throws and can abort firecrawl doctor for every agent. Keep profile-resolution failures isolated to Hermes detection, or make the doctor detection path handle this error without rejecting the aggregate scan.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At src/utils/mcp-clients.ts, line 130:

<comment>When Hermes has an `active_profile` marker for a missing profile, `hermesHome` throws and can abort `firecrawl doctor` for every agent. Keep profile-resolution failures isolated to Hermes detection, or make the doctor detection path handle this error without rejecting the aggregate scan.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -83,17 +84,52 @@ export function createMcpContext(
+  } catch {
+    // Report one deterministic error below.
+  }
+  throw new Error(
+    `Hermes active profile "${active}" does not exist at ${profileHome}`
+  );
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const committedIdentity: AtomicPathIdentity = existing?.isSymbolicLink()
? { link: statsIdentity(existing), target: preparedIdentity }
: { link: preparedIdentity, target: preparedIdentity };
await fs.rename(temporary, target);

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P2: When another writer changes the file after the final snapshot but before this rename, the unconditional rename overwrites that writer's update despite the expected-content checks. Serialize writers with a lock or use a conditional commit mechanism around validation and rename.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At src/utils/atomic-file.ts, line 252:

<comment>When another writer changes the file after the final snapshot but before this rename, the unconditional rename overwrites that writer's update despite the expected-content checks. Serialize writers with a lock or use a conditional commit mechanism around validation and rename.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,312 @@
+    const committedIdentity: AtomicPathIdentity = existing?.isSymbolicLink()
+      ? { link: statsIdentity(existing), target: preparedIdentity }
+      : { link: preparedIdentity, target: preparedIdentity };
+    await fs.rename(temporary, target);
+    await syncDirectory(path.dirname(target));
+    return committedIdentity;
</file context>
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1 issue found across 9 files (changes from recent commits).

Prompt for AI agents (unresolved issues)

Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="src/__tests__/commands/doctor.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="src/__tests__/commands/doctor.test.ts:382">
P2: These new Hermes tests place the profile under tmpHome/.hermes and depend on the os.homedir() mock to reach it, but hermesRoot() on Windows resolves from LOCALAPPDATA (not homedir), which the beforeEach never clears. On a Windows test run hermes.installed becomes false and the assertions fail. Set process.env.HERMES_HOME to the temp root instead (the suite's existing convention in 'follows HERMES_HOME'), and clear LOCALAPPDATA in the runChecks test backing it up.</violation>
</file>

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['an invalid marker', '../escape\n'],
['a missing named profile', 'work\n'],
])('isolates Hermes detection for %s', async (_case, marker) => {
const hermesRoot = path.join(tmpHome, '.hermes');

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P2: These new Hermes tests place the profile under tmpHome/.hermes and depend on the os.homedir() mock to reach it, but hermesRoot() on Windows resolves from LOCALAPPDATA (not homedir), which the beforeEach never clears. On a Windows test run hermes.installed becomes false and the assertions fail. Set process.env.HERMES_HOME to the temp root instead (the suite's existing convention in 'follows HERMES_HOME'), and clear LOCALAPPDATA in the runChecks test backing it up.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At src/__tests__/commands/doctor.test.ts, line 382:

<comment>These new Hermes tests place the profile under tmpHome/.hermes and depend on the os.homedir() mock to reach it, but hermesRoot() on Windows resolves from LOCALAPPDATA (not homedir), which the beforeEach never clears. On a Windows test run hermes.installed becomes false and the assertions fail. Set process.env.HERMES_HOME to the temp root instead (the suite's existing convention in 'follows HERMES_HOME'), and clear LOCALAPPDATA in the runChecks test backing it up.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -375,6 +375,31 @@ describe('detectAgents', () => {
+    ['an invalid marker', '../escape\n'],
+    ['a missing named profile', 'work\n'],
+  ])('isolates Hermes detection for %s', async (_case, marker) => {
+    const hermesRoot = path.join(tmpHome, '.hermes');
+    fs.mkdirSync(hermesRoot, { recursive: true });
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(hermesRoot, 'active_profile'), marker);
</file context>
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