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    {
      "Title": "Updater: npx cache pins a stale opencode, breaking every MCP session behind a misleading NO_OUTPUT_BACKSTOP",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe MCP launch path (`npx -y amicus@latest mcp`) and the CLI path (global install) can end up bundling **different `opencode` versions**. When they do, every MCP-spawned session dies — but the reported reason blames the *model*, sending you off debugging model IDs, API keys, and gateways instead of the engine.\n\nObserved on Windows 11, amicus **v4.7.0** (identical version on both paths).\n\n## Symptom\n\nEvery `amicus_start` via MCP failed identically, regardless of model or gateway:\n\n```",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/133",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-08T23:44:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "Electron: lazy first-GUI-use provisioning via a separate ensureElectron() (do not overload getElectronPath)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nOn a broken-GUI install, `runInteractive` (`src/sidecar/interactive.js:98`) just bails with an error string telling the user to reinstall — the exact reinstall loop the report flags. There's no attempt to provision the binary on first GUI use.\n\n## Fix\n\nAdd an `ensureElectron()` (the provisioning variant of `repairElectron`) and call it **only** from the two GUI-launch sites:\n- `src/sidecar/setup-window.js:21` (setup wizard launch)\n- `src/sidecar/interactive.js:200` (`getElectronPath(",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/55",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T16:15:24.000Z",
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      "Title": "Unify project-directory handling: one shared canonicalProjectPath() + directory-threading convention (#39/#40/interactive)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe interactive `--cwd` bug, #39 (honor MCP roots / `AMICUS_PROJECT_DIR`), and #40 (global session index) are all symptoms of amicus never threading a **single canonical project directory** through (a) `session.create`, (b) per-session API calls, and (c) the Web-UI route / session index. Shipping three independent path normalizers would re-create the very inconsistency these issues describe.\n\n## Fix\n\n- Land ONE shared, well-tested, **pure** `canonicalProjectPath(p)` helper (Windows s",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/48",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:43:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "Scope the OpenCode session to directory on the shared-server MCP path (mcp-server.js)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe shared-server MCP path (`src/mcp-server.js:130`) also calls `createSession(client)` with **no directory**, against an OpenCode server shared across projects. This is the same \"session not found in project\" bug class for headless MCP sessions, and the surface of #40 (global session index): a session created project-unscoped is found by id but not by a `?directory=` query.\n\n## Fix\n\nThread the same canonical `directory` (from the MCP project resolution — see #39 honor-MCP-roots / `A",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/47",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:43:28.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "amicus_status: bound elapsed by completedAt/abortedAt/crashedAt instead of wall-clock from now",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`amicus_status` computes `elapsed` as `Date.now() - createdAt` in both the single-session (`src/mcp-server.js:336-339`) and wave (`:309-313`) branches, ignoring `completedAt`. For a terminal session, `elapsed` keeps growing with wall-clock time after completion — e.g. a 2.1s run shows `0m 22s` after a delayed poll. It reports how long ago the session *started*, not how long it *ran*.\n\n## Fix\n\nBound the end by `completedAt ?? abortedAt ?? crashedAt ?? Date.now()` and apply to **both**",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/42",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:28:05.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Make 'Session not found' errors name the resolved project",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWhen a session cannot be found, `amicus_status` (`src/mcp-server.js:262`) and `amicus_read` (`:375`) return a bare `Session <id> not found.` that omits the resolved project path — which is exactly the missing-`project` / wrong-default cause (the project auto-roots to the Claude app dir). The user has no signal that they need to pass the original `project`.\n\n## Fix\n\nInclude the resolved `cwd` / project in the not-found message, e.g.:\n\n> Session <id> not found in project <X> — it may h",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/41",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:28:04.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Project resolution: honor MCP client roots + add AMICUS_PROJECT_DIR when project is omitted",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`getProjectDir()` (`src/mcp-server.js:17-23`) falls back to `process.cwd()` when no `project` is passed, with no MCP `roots` support, no env override, and no sanity check. A stdio MCP server spawned by the Claude desktop client inherits the client's install folder as cwd (e.g. `...\\AnthropicClaude\\app-1.15962.1`), so headless agents are rooted in the **app dir** — they cannot read the user's files, and their session artifacts land under the app dir's `.claude/`. The resolved value fl",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/39",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:28:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "Council/headless: failed runs recorded as status:complete with empty summary (shared-server MCP path swallows the error)",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nOn the shared-server MCP path, a headless session/council whose model calls all failed (e.g. OpenRouter HTTP 402 \"Insufficient credits\") is recorded as `status: complete` with a **0-byte summary** and **no error**. `amicus_status` → `complete`; `amicus_read` → `**Model:** <id>` with an empty body. A council where every paid model was rejected reports success.\n\n## Root cause (confirmed v1.5.1)\n\nTerminal-state classification is forked and only the CLI path is correct:\n\n- **CLI-spawn pa",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/36",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:28:00.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Council Workspace auto-open is MCP-only: \"amicus council run\" (CLI) never opens the window",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe v4.5 Workspace auto-open decision is wired into the **MCP** council handler only. Launching the identical council through the **CLI** (`amicus council run`) silently never opens the Workspace, with no notice that a GUI was available and skipped.\n\nSame run, same machine, same `client: code-local` — two different outcomes depending purely on transport.\n\n## Evidence\n\n**MCP path has it** — `src/mcp-council-run.js:236-246`:\n\n```js\n// ★ v4.5 auto-open (spec §6): decide via the pure hel",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/81",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-01T16:31:32.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "doctor's Electron check validates the wrong install when MCP server runs from npx-cache",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n`amicus doctor` reports Electron as installed, but `amicus_council_run` with `ui: true`\nconsistently returns `workspaceOpened: false, workspaceOpenReason: \"electron-absent\"` —\nacross three attempts, including after a full session/MCP-server restart.\n\n## Root cause\nTwo independent amicus installs exist on the same machine:\n1. **Global npm install** (`%APPDATA%\\npm\\node_modules\\amicus`) — what a normal shell\n   resolves `amicus` to, and what `doctor` checks. Electron was fully installed",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/76",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-30T16:54:40.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Make the github: install path run identically on Windows (so README's 'runs identically' claim holds)",
      "Excerpt": "## Goal\n\nMake `npm install -g github:BourbonDog/amicus` succeed on Windows and register MCP + skills **exactly like the registry install**, so the README claim that the github: install \"runs identically — same MCP registration, same two skills\" (`README.md:113`) becomes true — rather than softening it with a Windows caveat.\n\n## Background / corrected root cause\n\nA Windows v1.5.1 install report saw `npm install -g github:BourbonDog/amicus` roll back the whole package: the package's own `postinsta",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/35",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:10:35.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Surface running amicus version (+ on-disk mismatch warning) in MCP tool responses",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nNo MCP tool response surfaces the running amicus version — the only version reference is `McpServer` handshake metadata (`src/mcp-server.js:665`) that the agent never sees in a tool result. After `npm i -g amicus`, the long-lived MCP stdio child keeps the old `require()`'d modules in memory until the client restarts, and this staleness is undetectable from inside an agent session. (Compounded by `amicus_setup` reporting success unconditionally — a stale/broken server is indistinguish",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/33",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:08:00.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    },
    {
      "Title": "Build amicus doctor into a self-heal/diagnose hub and point failures at it",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nSeveral install/runtime failure modes are silent or stale and have no single recovery path:\n- missing electron GUI binary (silent exit-0),\n- github: install rollback (corrupt git-prep cache),\n- transient `opencode-ai` postinstall rollback,\n- stale MCP server keeping old code after a reinstall.\n\n`amicus doctor` already reports the version (`src/cli-handlers-doctor.js:164`) and warns on missing electron (`src/cli-handlers-doctor.js:111-115`) — the plumbing exists.\n\n## Fix\n\nExtend `src/",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/32",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:07:59.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Make package postinstall non-fatal so internal failures don't roll back the whole global install",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nA non-zero exit from `node scripts/postinstall.js` makes npm roll back and uninstall amicus **entirely**. But the postinstall only does optional convenience setup (skill copy + MCP registration) — it should never be load-bearing for the install to succeed. Today any internal throw, or a `MODULE_NOT_FOUND` when the script is missing from a github: install tree (see the github: rollback issue), nukes the whole global install.\n\nThe internal operations are already wrapped in try/catch-wa",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/29",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:07:56.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "amicus_setup MCP tool reports success even when Electron is missing",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`amicus_setup` (`src/mcp-server.js:638-643`) returns the hardcoded string `Setup wizard launched. The Electron window should appear on your desktop.` regardless of outcome. It calls `spawnSidecarProcess(['setup'])` (`src/mcp-server.js:55-77`) fire-and-forget — stdio ignored, `child.unref()`, no `error`/`exit` listener. The `try/catch` only catches a *synchronous* spawn throw. When Electron is missing (or the child starts and then exits immediately), the user is told setup launched wh",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/28",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-30T04:07:55.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Remove the legacy sidecar* compatibility shims (next major)",
      "Excerpt": "**Umbrella issue — tracked in detail in [`docs/SHIMS.md`](../blob/main/docs/SHIMS.md).**\n\nAmicus v1.0.0 ships every legacy `sidecar*` form as a deprecated shim so upstream `claude-sidecar` users migrate seamlessly: CLI bins (`sidecar`, `claude-sidecar`), env-var prefix (`SIDECAR_*`), config dir (`~/.config/sidecar`), session dir (`.claude/sidecar_sessions`), config token (`[SIDECAR_CONFIG_UPDATE]` / `sidecar-config-hash`), MCP tool aliases (`sidecar_*`), public API exports (`*Sidecar`), and MCP ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/19",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-06-11T12:24:05.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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