@zerwiz/ymir 0.1.33 → 0.1.35

package/apps/sessrumnir/src/main/pi-rpc-manager.ts

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+import { ChildProcess, SpawnOptions, spawn, spawnSync } from 'child_process'
+import { existsSync, mkdirSync, readdirSync, rmSync, statSync } from 'fs'
+import { join } from 'path'
+import { EventEmitter } from 'events'
+import { StringDecoder } from 'string_decoder'
+import type {
+  AgentEngineKind,
+  PiRpcEvent,
+  PiStartOptions,
+  PiProcessStatus,
+  PiStartupPhase,
+  PiStatus,
+  PiResponseEvent,
+  AgentInstallation,
+} from '../shared/ipc-contracts'
+import type { CaptureOptions, PiEngine, PiResolution, PiStartFailure, ResolutionDeps } from './pi-binary-resolution'
+import {
+  describePiStartFailure,
+  isOmpExecutable,
+  normalizeOverride,
+  resolvePiBinary,
+  whichInPath,
+} from './pi-binary-resolution'
+import { escapeCmdSpawn } from './cmd-escape'
+import { appLog } from './app-log'
+import { getGuiDataPath } from './app-data-paths'
+import { t, tEnglish } from '../shared/i18n'
+
+/**
+ * Manages a Pi RPC child process.
+ *
+ * Responsibilities:
+ * - Spawn/kill Pi in --mode rpc
+ * - Parse JSONL from stdout (LF-delimited, no Unicode line separators)
+ * - Route events to subscribers
+ * - Correlate request/response via id field
+ * - Handle extension UI request/response sub-protocol
+ */
+
+const JSONL_NEWLINE = '\n'
+const RPC_MODE = 'rpc'
+const NO_SESSION_FLAG = '--no-session'
+const MODE_FLAG = '--mode'
+const PROVIDER_FLAG = '--provider'
+const MODEL_FLAG = '--model'
+const SESSION_FLAG = '--session'
+const FORK_FLAG = '--fork'
+const CONTINUE_FLAG = '--continue'
+const IS_WINDOWS = process.platform === 'win32'
+const MS_PER_SECOND = 1_000
+// The startup deadline is two-staged (issue #58). Stage 1: while Pi has
+// printed nothing at all, give up quickly — a dead spawn or a broken stdio
+// pipe stays silent forever. Stage 2: once stdout has shown life the process
+// is provably alive and piped, so the deadline stretches: the engine runs
+// every extension session_start hook BEFORE it reads stdin, and a hook that
+// calls a local model server can sit through tens of seconds of prompt
+// prefill while our readiness probe waits unread.
+const STARTUP_SILENCE_TIMEOUT_MS = 20_000
+const STARTUP_ENGINE_BUSY_TIMEOUT_MS = 120_000
+
+/** Startup deadline caps, injectable so tests do not wait out real minutes. */
+export interface PiStartupTimeouts {
+  /** Max wait for the first byte of Pi stdout. */
+  silenceMs: number
+  /** Max wait for readiness once stdout has shown life. */
+  engineBusyMs: number
+}
+// Spawn attempts per start(): the initial try plus one retry, used ONLY when Pi
+// crashes before becoming ready (spawn error / early exit) — a transient hiccup
+// (AV lock, momentary ENOENT) often clears on a second spawn. A no-response
+// timeout is not retried: respawning would just burn another full timeout.
+const STARTUP_MAX_ATTEMPTS = 2
+// Pi's RPC mode emits nothing on connect — it only replies to requests. So
+// instead of a blind settle wait, we send a cheap read-only probe after spawn
+// and treat its CORRELATED response (matched by STARTUP_PROBE_ID in handleLine,
+// success OR error) as "ready". Keying off the correlated response — not merely
+// the first stdout byte — confirms the request→response loop works and stays
+// robust even if the probe command is renamed (Pi echoes our id on an "unknown
+// command" error too). The probe is resent on this interval in case the first
+// write raced Pi's stdin reader; the two-stage startup deadline (see
+// PiStartupTimeouts above) bounds the wait.
+const STARTUP_PROBE_ID = '__startup_probe__'
+// get_state is the cheapest liveness command: a handful of in-memory session
+// field reads — no I/O, no model/provider calls, O(1). (get_session_stats is
+// O(messages) and get_available_models filters the model list.)
+const STARTUP_PROBE_COMMAND = 'get_state'
+const STARTUP_PROBE_INTERVAL_MS = 750
+const FORCE_KILL_TIMEOUT_MS = 3_000
+/** Bound on the one `ps` call used to snapshot a child's descendants at kill time. */
+const PROCESS_TREE_TIMEOUT_MS = 2_000
+/**
+ * Fallbacks only. The engine advertises its real limits in the `ready` frame
+ * (`maxFrameBytes`, `maxReassembledFrameBytes`); configureLimits() adopts those
+ * so the receiver never enforces a stricter rule than the sender obeys. These
+ * defaults match what OMP 18 advertises and are used until `ready` arrives, and
+ * for the original Pi RPC implementation, which sends no ready frame.
+ */
+const RPC_DEFAULT_MAX_REASSEMBLED_BYTES = 64 * 1024 * 1024
+const RPC_DEFAULT_MAX_CHUNK_PAYLOAD_BYTES = 1024 * 1024
+/** Chunking only exists for frames a single line cannot carry. */
+const RPC_MIN_CHUNK_COUNT = 2
+const RPC_MAX_CHUNK_ID_LENGTH = 128
+/**
+ * Standard base64 with the padding the sender's encoder emits. The alphabet
+ * and the padding shape are enforced here; the round-trip re-encode in push()
+ * additionally rejects non-canonical trailing bits (`QR==` and `QQ==` both
+ * decode to one byte, only the latter is what an encoder produces), so one
+ * payload has exactly one legal wire spelling. Base64url and unpadded input
+ * are rejected by this pattern, not by the round-trip — the two checks state
+ * the same policy and are loosened or kept together.
+ */
+const RPC_CANONICAL_BASE64 = /^(?:[A-Za-z0-9+/]{4})*(?:[A-Za-z0-9+/]{2}==|[A-Za-z0-9+/]{3}=)?$/
+
+interface PendingRpcChunks {
+  chunkId: string
+  count: number
+  byteLength: number
+  nextIndex: number
+  chunks: Buffer[]
+  receivedBytes: number
+}
+
+function isRpcChunkFrame(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
+  return typeof value === 'object' && value !== null && (value as { type?: unknown }).type === 'rpc_chunk'
+}
+
+/** Minimal lossless decoder for OMP RPC protocol v2 physical frames. */
+export class RpcFrameDecoder {
+  private pending: PendingRpcChunks | null = null
+  private maxReassembledBytes = RPC_DEFAULT_MAX_REASSEMBLED_BYTES
+  private maxChunkPayloadBytes = RPC_DEFAULT_MAX_CHUNK_PAYLOAD_BYTES
+
+  hasPending(): boolean {
+    return this.pending !== null
+  }
+
+  reset(): void {
+    this.pending = null
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Adopt the limits the engine advertised in its `ready` frame. A sender only
+   * chunks what exceeds its own single-frame cap, so that cap is also the
+   * largest payload any one chunk can carry. Ignores absent or nonsensical
+   * values so a malformed ready frame cannot widen or break the decoder.
+   */
+  configureLimits(limits: { maxFrameBytes?: unknown; maxReassembledFrameBytes?: unknown }): void {
+    const frame = limits.maxFrameBytes
+    const reassembled = limits.maxReassembledFrameBytes
+    if (typeof frame === 'number' && Number.isSafeInteger(frame) && frame > 0) {
+      this.maxChunkPayloadBytes = frame
+    }
+    if (typeof reassembled === 'number' && Number.isSafeInteger(reassembled) && reassembled > 0) {
+      this.maxReassembledBytes = reassembled
+    }
+  }
+
+  push(value: Record<string, unknown>): object | undefined {
+    const chunkId = value.chunkId
+    const index = typeof value.index === 'number' ? value.index : Number.NaN
+    const count = typeof value.count === 'number' ? value.count : Number.NaN
+    const byteLength = typeof value.byteLength === 'number' ? value.byteLength : Number.NaN
+    const data = value.data
+    // `byteLength` is bounded above only. How the sender splits a frame is its
+    // own business, so there is no floor: a floor of one whole frame would make
+    // every short chunk sequence undecodable if the sender ever lowered its
+    // frame cap. A wrong declared length is still caught while reassembling,
+    // against the bytes actually received.
+    const maxChunkCount = Math.ceil(this.maxReassembledBytes / this.maxChunkPayloadBytes)
+    if (
+      typeof chunkId !== 'string' || chunkId.length === 0 || chunkId.length > RPC_MAX_CHUNK_ID_LENGTH ||
+      !Number.isSafeInteger(index) || !Number.isSafeInteger(count) || !Number.isSafeInteger(byteLength) ||
+      index < 0 || count < RPC_MIN_CHUNK_COUNT || count > maxChunkCount || index >= count ||
+      byteLength <= 0 || byteLength > this.maxReassembledBytes ||
+      typeof data !== 'string' || data.length === 0 || !RPC_CANONICAL_BASE64.test(data)
+    ) {
+      throw new Error('invalid rpc chunk metadata')
+    }
+    const chunkIndex = index as number
+    const chunkCount = count as number
+    const declaredByteLength = byteLength as number
+    const bytes = Buffer.from(data, 'base64')
+    if (bytes.toString('base64') !== data || bytes.byteLength > this.maxChunkPayloadBytes) {
+      throw new Error('invalid rpc chunk data')
+    }
+
+    if (!this.pending) {
+      if (chunkIndex !== 0) throw new Error('rpc chunk sequence must start at index 0')
+      this.pending = { chunkId, count: chunkCount, byteLength: declaredByteLength, nextIndex: 0, chunks: [], receivedBytes: 0 }
+    }
+    const pending = this.pending!
+    if (
+      pending.chunkId !== chunkId || pending.count !== chunkCount || pending.byteLength !== declaredByteLength ||
+      pending.nextIndex !== chunkIndex
+    ) {
+      throw new Error('rpc chunk sequence mismatch')
+    }
+    pending.chunks.push(bytes)
+    pending.receivedBytes += bytes.byteLength
+    pending.nextIndex++
+    if (pending.receivedBytes > pending.byteLength) throw new Error('rpc chunk sequence exceeds declared length')
+    if (pending.nextIndex < pending.count) return undefined
+    if (pending.receivedBytes !== pending.byteLength) throw new Error('rpc chunk sequence length mismatch')
+
+    this.pending = null
+    const decoded = new TextDecoder('utf-8', { fatal: true }).decode(Buffer.concat(pending.chunks))
+    const frame = JSON.parse(decoded) as unknown
+    if (typeof frame !== 'object' || frame === null || Array.isArray(frame)) throw new Error('rpc frame must be an object')
+    return frame as object
+  }
+}
+
+// Real filesystem/process access for the resolver in pi-binary-resolution.ts.
+// Kept in one object so the search order stays testable against a fake.
+const RESOLUTION_DEPS: ResolutionDeps = {
+  isWindows: IS_WINDOWS,
+  env: process.env,
+  exists: (path) => existsSync(path),
+  isDirectory: (path) => {
+    try {
+      return statSync(path).isDirectory()
+    } catch (err) {
+      // ENOENT/EACCES/ELOOP all mean "not a directory we can use".
+      if (isFsAccessError(err)) return false
+      throw err
+    }
+  },
+  listDir: (path) => {
+    try {
+      return readdirSync(path)
+    } catch (err) {
+      if (isFsAccessError(err)) return []
+      throw err
+    }
+  },
+  capture: (command, args, options) => runCapture(command, args, options),
+}
+
+const FS_ACCESS_ERROR_CODES = new Set(['ENOENT', 'ENOTDIR', 'EACCES', 'EPERM', 'ELOOP'])
+
+function isFsAccessError(err: unknown): boolean {
+  const code = (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException | null)?.code
+  return typeof code === 'string' && FS_ACCESS_ERROR_CODES.has(code)
+}
+
+/**
+ * Run a probe command and return its stdout, or null if it could not run.
+ * stdin is closed immediately so an interactive login shell never blocks.
+ */
+function runCapture(command: string, args: string[], options: CaptureOptions): string | null {
+  try {
+    const result = spawnSync(command, args, {
+      encoding: 'utf-8',
+      shell: options.shell,
+      timeout: options.timeoutMs,
+      input: '',
+      env: { ...process.env, PATH: options.pathEnv },
+    })
+    if (result.status !== 0 || !result.stdout) return null
+    return result.stdout
+  } catch (err) {
+    // Spawn-level failure (missing binary, EACCES) — treat as "no answer".
+    if (isFsAccessError(err)) return null
+    throw err
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Find a Node binary to run the Pi .js script with. Searches NODE env,
+ * npm_node_execpath (set when running under npm), Electron's own process,
+ * common install paths, and PATH.
+ */
+function findNodeBinary(): string {
+  if (process.env.NODE && existsSync(process.env.NODE)) return process.env.NODE
+  if (process.env.npm_node_execpath && existsSync(process.env.npm_node_execpath)) {
+    return process.env.npm_node_execpath
+  }
+
+  if (IS_WINDOWS) {
+    const programFiles = process.env.ProgramFiles ?? 'C:\\Program Files'
+    const programFilesX86 = process.env['ProgramFiles(x86)'] ?? 'C:\\Program Files (x86)'
+    const localAppData = process.env.LOCALAPPDATA ?? ''
+    const candidates = [
+      // Pi's install.ps1 puts an auto-installed Node under
+      // %LOCALAPPDATA%\pi-node\current\node.exe. Check the symlinked
+      // 'current' path first; fall back to the bare pi-node dir for
+      // older layouts.
+      localAppData ? join(localAppData, 'pi-node', 'current', 'node.exe') : '',
+      localAppData ? join(localAppData, 'pi-node', 'node.exe') : '',
+      join(programFiles, 'nodejs', 'node.exe'),
+      join(programFilesX86, 'nodejs', 'node.exe'),
+      localAppData ? join(localAppData, 'fnm_multishells', 'node.exe') : '',
+    ].filter(Boolean)
+    for (const c of candidates) if (existsSync(c)) return c
+    const fromPath = whichInPath(RESOLUTION_DEPS, 'node', process.env.PATH ?? '')
+    if (fromPath) return fromPath
+    return 'node.exe'
+  }
+
+  for (const c of ['/usr/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/node', '/opt/homebrew/bin/node']) {
+    if (existsSync(c)) return c
+  }
+  const fromPath = whichInPath(RESOLUTION_DEPS, 'node', process.env.PATH ?? '')
+  if (fromPath) return fromPath
+  return 'node'
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolved Pi invocation. `found` is false when nothing was located and
+ * `script` is only a hopeful fallback; `failureReason` then explains why
+ * (render it with describePiStartFailure).
+ */
+export interface PiCli {
+  /** The selected engine. OMP deliberately keeps the Pi-compatible RPC path. */
+  kind?: 'pi' | 'omp'
+  script: string
+  node: string
+  useNode: boolean
+  needsShell: boolean
+  found: boolean
+  nodeFound: boolean
+  failureReason: PiStartFailure | null
+}
+
+// Resolution is lazy and cached rather than computed at import time, because
+// it depends on the executable path and explicit engine setting, which are only
+// readable once app settings have loaded.
+let configuredOverride: string | null = null
+let configuredEngine: PiEngine = 'auto'
+let cachedResolution: PiResolution | null = null
+/**
+ * Auto-detected resolution per engine, for starts that must run a specific
+ * engine rather than the configured one. Cached and invalidated exactly like
+ * `cachedResolution` — both read the same filesystem state.
+ */
+const engineResolutions = new Map<AgentEngineKind, PiResolution>()
+let cachedNodeBinary: string | null = null
+let detectedInstallationsCache: { at: number; value: AgentInstallation[] } | null = null
+/** How long a detection result is served without re-walking the filesystem. */
+const INSTALLATION_CACHE_TTL_MS = 30_000
+/**
+ * Apply the selected executable and engine. The engine is persisted separately
+ * so a custom path named something other than `omp` cannot silently change the
+ * protocol/tool surface.
+ */
+export function setPiExecutableOverride(raw: string | undefined | null, engine: PiEngine = 'auto'): void {
+  const home = process.env.HOME ?? process.env.USERPROFILE ?? ''
+  const next = normalizeOverride(raw, home)
+  if (next === configuredOverride && engine === configuredEngine && cachedResolution) return
+  configuredOverride = next
+  configuredEngine = engine
+  cachedResolution = null
+  engineResolutions.clear()
+  cachedNodeBinary = null
+}
+
+
+function getResolution(): PiResolution {
+  if (cachedResolution) return cachedResolution
+  const resolution = resolvePiBinary(RESOLUTION_DEPS, configuredOverride, configuredEngine)
+  // Adopt the login shell's PATH process-wide so Pi itself — and every helper
+  // we spawn — can find node, npm and the tools the user's shell exposes.
+  if (resolution.pathEnv && resolution.pathEnv !== process.env.PATH) {
+    process.env.PATH = resolution.pathEnv
+  }
+  cachedResolution = resolution
+  logResolution(resolution)
+  return resolution
+}
+
+/**
+ * Full resolution details (source, PATH, rejected override) for the
+ * diagnostics report. First call may run the login-shell and npm probes.
+ */
+export function getPiResolution(): PiResolution {
+  return getResolution()
+}
+
+/**
+ * Detect the first usable installation for each supported engine.
+ *
+ * `force` skips the cache. A rescan is the user telling us the filesystem
+ * changed since the last look — serving a cached answer there turns the
+ * Rescan button into a spinner that can never report a new install.
+ */
+export function detectPiInstallations(force = false): AgentInstallation[] {
+  const cached = detectedInstallationsCache
+  if (!force && cached && Date.now() - cached.at < INSTALLATION_CACHE_TTL_MS) {
+    return cached.value.map((item) => ({ ...item }))
+  }
+  const candidates: Array<{ kind: AgentInstallation['kind']; resolution: PiResolution }> = [
+    { kind: 'pi', resolution: resolvePiBinary(RESOLUTION_DEPS, null, 'pi') },
+    { kind: 'omp', resolution: resolvePiBinary(RESOLUTION_DEPS, null, 'omp') },
+  ]
+  const seen = new Set<string>()
+  const value = candidates.flatMap(({ kind, resolution }) => {
+    if (!resolution.found) return []
+    const key = resolution.script.toLowerCase()
+    if (seen.has(key)) return []
+    seen.add(key)
+    return [{ kind, path: resolution.script, source: resolution.source }]
+  })
+  detectedInstallationsCache = { at: Date.now(), value }
+  return value.map((item) => ({ ...item }))
+}
+
+function logResolution(resolution: PiResolution): void {
+  const node = getNodeBinary()
+  console.log('─── Pi binary resolution ────────────────────────────')
+  console.log('[Pi] Script        :', resolution.script, resolution.found ? '(exists)' : '(MISSING)')
+  console.log('[Pi] Source        :', resolution.source)
+  if (resolution.rejectedOverride) {
+    console.warn('[Pi] Configured path ignored (does not exist):', resolution.rejectedOverride)
+  }
+  console.log('[Pi] Uses node     :', resolution.useNode)
+  console.log(
+    '[Pi] Node binary   :',
+    node,
+    resolution.useNode ? (existsSync(node) ? '(exists)' : '(MISSING)') : '(unused)'
+  )
+  console.log('[Pi] Needs shell   :', resolution.needsShell)
+  console.log('─────────────────────────────────────────────────────')
+}
+
+function getNodeBinary(): string {
+  if (cachedNodeBinary === null) cachedNodeBinary = findNodeBinary()
+  return cachedNodeBinary
+}
+
+/** Pair a resolution with the Node binary and the failure spawn needs. */
+function toPiCli(resolution: PiResolution, kind: AgentEngineKind): PiCli {
+  const node = getNodeBinary()
+  const nodeFound = !resolution.useNode || existsSync(node)
+  let failureReason: PiStartFailure | null = null
+  if (!resolution.found) {
+    failureReason = { kind: 'pi-not-found', resolution }
+  } else if (!nodeFound) {
+    failureReason = { kind: 'node-not-found', node }
+  }
+  return {
+    kind,
+    script: resolution.script,
+    node,
+    useNode: resolution.useNode,
+    needsShell: resolution.needsShell,
+    found: resolution.found,
+    nodeFound,
+    failureReason,
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * The resolved Pi invocation. Also exported for ipc-handlers, which runs
+ * `pi install/remove/update` with the same binary — Electron's own PATH won't
+ * have `pi` on it.
+ */
+export function getPiCli(): PiCli {
+  const resolution = getResolution()
+  return toPiCli(
+    resolution,
+    configuredEngine === 'omp'
+      ? 'omp'
+      : configuredEngine === 'pi'
+        ? 'pi'
+        : isOmpExecutable(resolution.script) ? 'omp' : 'pi'
+  )
+}
+
+/**
+ * The engine a start would use right now. Needed wherever the status of "no
+ * process yet" has to be reported: the window opens before anything is
+ * spawned, and a status with no engine reads as Pi, so the status bar named
+ * the wrong CLI until the first agent started.
+ */
+export function getConfiguredEngineKind(): AgentEngineKind {
+  return getPiCli().kind ?? 'pi'
+}
+
+/**
+ * The invocation for one named engine, whatever the configured default is.
+ *
+ * The engine is a PARAMETER here instead of a temporary write to
+ * `configuredEngine`: session runtimes start concurrently, so a global the
+ * caller flips before each spawn would let one session's engine leak into
+ * another session's start — the exact race a per-session engine has to avoid.
+ * Each engine's resolution is cached under its own key and cleared with the
+ * configured one.
+ */
+export function getPiCliForEngine(engine: AgentEngineKind): PiCli {
+  const configured = getPiCli()
+  // The configured resolution already targets this engine, including any
+  // executable path the user set for it.
+  if (configured.kind === engine) return configured
+  // A configured override names the OTHER engine's binary, so this engine is
+  // auto-detected rather than inheriting a path that is not its own.
+  const cached = engineResolutions.get(engine)
+  if (cached) return toPiCli(cached, engine)
+  const resolution = resolvePiBinary(RESOLUTION_DEPS, null, engine)
+  // Only a hit is remembered. Caching "not installed" would keep answering
+  // that after the user installs the engine, for the whole run.
+  if (resolution.found) engineResolutions.set(engine, resolution)
+  return toPiCli(resolution, engine)
+}
+
+/**
+ * The CLI one start() spawns. `options.engine` names the engine that owns the
+ * session being opened and outranks the configured default, so a Pi session
+ * always resumes under Pi and an OMP session under OMP.
+ */
+export function resolveStartCli(options: PiStartOptions): PiCli {
+  if (!options.engine) return getPiCli()
+  const owner = getPiCliForEngine(options.engine)
+  if (owner.found) return owner
+  // The owning engine is not installed. Both engines write the same JSONL, so
+  // opening the conversation with the configured engine beats refusing to open
+  // it at all; getEngineKind then reports what actually runs.
+  appLog.warn(
+    'pi',
+    `Session engine ${options.engine} is not installed; starting the configured engine instead`
+  )
+  return getPiCli()
+}
+
+/**
+ * The argv for one RPC start, engine-independent.
+ *
+ * No `--session-dir` is injected: each engine keeps its sessions in its own
+ * default store and the index reads both. Forcing OMP at Pi's root only ever
+ * moved resumed sessions, because OMP ignores the flag for new ones, which
+ * split one conversation history across two trees. A caller that really wants
+ * a shared store passes `--session-dir` in `options.args`, and it survives —
+ * caller args are appended verbatim.
+ */
+export function buildPiArgs(options: PiStartOptions): string[] {
+  const args: string[] = [MODE_FLAG, RPC_MODE]
+
+  if (options.noSession) {
+    args.push(NO_SESSION_FLAG)
+  }
+
+  if (options.provider) {
+    args.push(PROVIDER_FLAG, options.provider)
+  }
+
+  if (options.model) {
+    args.push(MODEL_FLAG, options.model)
+  }
+
+  if (options.forkSessionPath) {
+    args.push(FORK_FLAG, options.forkSessionPath)
+  } else if (options.sessionPath) {
+    // Both engines honour an explicit session path, which is what lets a
+    // session be resumed out of the store its own engine owns.
+    args.push(SESSION_FLAG, options.sessionPath)
+  } else if (options.continueSession && !options.noSession) {
+    // Resume the most recent session for the cwd. Pi falls back to a fresh
+    // session when none exists, so this is safe on first run.
+    args.push(CONTINUE_FLAG)
+  }
+
+  if (options.args) {
+    args.push(...options.args)
+  }
+
+  return args
+}
+
+/**
+ * The exact program and argv for one Pi invocation, ready for spawn().
+ *
+ * `useNode` runs Pi's .js entry point through Node, which never needs a shell,
+ * so both paths stay byte-identical there and on POSIX. A direct spawn of a
+ * Windows `.cmd`/`.bat` shim does need shell:true (Node refuses to launch one
+ * otherwise since CVE-2024-27980) and Node performs no quoting on that path,
+ * so the script path — which reaches us through the user profile directory and
+ * can hold spaces or cmd metacharacters — and every argument are escaped for
+ * the cmd.exe traversal. Throws on characters cmd.exe cannot carry at all.
+ */
+export function buildPiInvocation(
+  cli: PiCli,
+  args: readonly string[],
+): { file: string; args: string[] } {
+  return cli.useNode
+    ? escapeCmdSpawn(cli.needsShell, cli.node, [cli.script, ...args])
+    : escapeCmdSpawn(cli.needsShell, cli.script, args)
+}
+
+const MAX_PENDING_RESPONSES = 64
+const RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
+
+/**
+ * Writable temp directory for the Pi child process on Windows only. Prefer the
+ * GUI data dir so extensions (pi-subagents, etc.) don't depend on a locked
+ * %TEMP% tree. Not used on POSIX — those platforms keep the system temp so
+ * $TMPDIR still receives OS cleanup.
+ */
+function resolvePiChildTempDir(): string {
+  try {
+    const dir = getGuiDataPath('tmp')
+    mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true })
+    return dir
+  } catch {
+    // Fall back to home — still more reliable than a broken Local\Temp ACL.
+    const home = process.env.HOME ?? process.env.USERPROFILE ?? process.cwd()
+    const dir = join(home, '.pi', 'tmp')
+    try {
+      mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true })
+    } catch {
+      // Last resort: leave system TEMP as-is via process.env
+    }
+    return dir
+  }
+}
+
+/** Windows-only TEMP/TMP/TMPDIR override for the Pi child. Empty on other OSes. */
+function buildPiChildEnv(): NodeJS.ProcessEnv {
+  if (!IS_WINDOWS) return {}
+  const tmp = resolvePiChildTempDir()
+  return {
+    TEMP: tmp,
+    TMP: tmp,
+    TMPDIR: tmp,
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Best-effort wipe of the GUI-owned Pi temp dir (Windows). Called on app quit
+ * so pi-subagents / extension scratch does not grow without bound.
+ */
+export function cleanupPiChildTempDir(): void {
+  if (!IS_WINDOWS) return
+  try {
+    const dir = getGuiDataPath('tmp')
+    if (!existsSync(dir)) return
+    for (const name of readdirSync(dir)) {
+      try {
+        rmSync(join(dir, name), { recursive: true, force: true })
+      } catch {
+        // In use or locked — leave for next quit.
+      }
+    }
+  } catch {
+    // Ignore — quit path must not throw.
+  }
+}
+
+interface PendingResponse {
+  resolve: (event: PiResponseEvent) => void
+  reject: (error: Error) => void
+  timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>
+}
+
+/** A Pi RPC command got no response in time. Callers check the class, not the text. */
+export class RpcTimeoutError extends Error {
+  constructor(readonly commandType: string, timeoutMs: number) {
+    super(t('errors.pi.commandTimedOut', { commandType, timeoutMs }))
+    this.name = 'RpcTimeoutError'
+  }
+}
+
+export class PiRpcManager extends EventEmitter {
+  private process: ChildProcess | null = null
+  private status: PiProcessStatus = 'stopped'
+  private stdoutBuffer = ''
+  private stderrBuffer = ''
+  private pendingResponses = new Map<string, PendingResponse>()
+  private nextRequestId = 1
+  private decoder = new StringDecoder('utf8')
+  private rpcFrameDecoder = new RpcFrameDecoder()
+  private startInFlight: Promise<PiStatus> | null = null
+  private runningEngine: 'pi' | 'omp' | null = null
+  private readonly exitWaiters = new Map<ChildProcess, Set<() => void>>()
+  // Set while a spawn attempt awaits readiness; handleLine invokes it when the
+  // startup probe's correlated response arrives. Cleared once the attempt settles.
+  private markReady: (() => void) | null = null
+  // Settles a pending startup attempt when the process is torn down under it.
+  // Without this, stop()/restart() during 'starting' would sever every settle
+  // path of spawnAndAwaitReady (kill() removes the child's listeners and the
+  // deadline guard is status-gated), leaving start() hung forever.
+  private abortStartup: (() => void) | null = null
+  // Set on the first stdout byte of the current spawn attempt; decides which
+  // startup deadline applies and which timeout error is reported.
+  private startupSawOutput = false
+  // Non-null only while a spawn attempt is in flight (see PiStartupPhase).
+  private startupPhase: PiStartupPhase | null = null
+  private readonly startupTimeouts: PiStartupTimeouts
+
+  constructor(startupTimeouts?: Partial<PiStartupTimeouts>) {
+    super()
+    this.startupTimeouts = {
+      silenceMs: startupTimeouts?.silenceMs ?? STARTUP_SILENCE_TIMEOUT_MS,
+      engineBusyMs: startupTimeouts?.engineBusyMs ?? STARTUP_ENGINE_BUSY_TIMEOUT_MS,
+    }
+  }
+
+  getStatus(): PiStatus {
+    return {
+      status: this.status,
+      pid: this.process?.pid ?? null,
+      // Only report captured stderr as an error when we're actually in the
+      // 'error' state. Pi and its extensions (e.g. pi-ollama) log benign,
+      // informational lines to stderr while running — surfacing those as an
+      // error misleads the UI into showing healthy startup logs as ERROR.
+      error: this.status === 'error' ? (this.stderrBuffer || null) : null,
+      engine: this.getEngineKind(),
+      // Written even when unset (as undefined) so spread-merges of successive
+      // snapshots (e.g. SessionRuntimeInfo) cannot carry a stale phase along.
+      startupPhase: this.startupPhase ?? undefined,
+    }
+  }
+  /** Engine identity of the live child, not the currently configured future one. */
+  getEngineKind(): AgentEngineKind {
+    return this.runningEngine ?? getConfiguredEngineKind()
+  }
+
+  async start(options: PiStartOptions = {}): Promise<PiStatus> {
+    if (this.status === 'running') {
+      return this.getStatus()
+    }
+    // Coalesce concurrent starts during the 'starting' window so we never
+    // spawn duplicate child processes when two callers race.
+    if (this.startInFlight) {
+      return this.startInFlight
+    }
+
+    this.startInFlight = this.doStart(options).finally(() => {
+      this.startInFlight = null
+    })
+    return this.startInFlight
+  }
+
+  private async doStart(options: PiStartOptions): Promise<PiStatus> {
+    this.kill()
+    this.setStatus('starting')
+    this.stderrBuffer = ''
+
+    // Pre-flight: if the binary we resolved doesn't exist, fail fast with a
+    // clear message instead of letting spawn die with a cryptic ENOENT.
+    const { failureReason } = resolveStartCli(options)
+    if (failureReason) {
+      return this.failPreflight(
+        describePiStartFailure(failureReason, t),
+        describePiStartFailure(failureReason, tEnglish)
+      )
+    }
+    if (options.cwd && (!existsSync(options.cwd) || !statSync(options.cwd).isDirectory())) {
+      return this.failPreflight(
+        t('errors.pi.cwdMissing', { cwd: options.cwd }),
+        tEnglish('errors.pi.cwdMissing', { cwd: options.cwd })
+      )
+    }
+
+    // Spawn, with one retry reserved for a crash before readiness. See
+    // STARTUP_MAX_ATTEMPTS: a crash is often transient; a timeout is not.
+    for (let attempt = 1; attempt <= STARTUP_MAX_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
+      const outcome = await this.spawnAndAwaitReady(options)
+      if (outcome === 'ready') return this.getStatus()
+
+      // A deliberate stop/restart tore this attempt down; the initiator has
+      // already set the status — report it without retrying or erroring.
+      if (outcome === 'aborted') return this.getStatus()
+
+      if (outcome === 'crashed' && attempt < STARTUP_MAX_ATTEMPTS) {
+        console.log(
+          `[Pi] Startup crashed before ready (attempt ${attempt}/${STARTUP_MAX_ATTEMPTS}); retrying once…`
+        )
+        this.kill()
+        this.setStatus('starting')
+        continue
+      }
+
+      // Terminal failure — surface a useful error. kill() reaps any hung
+      // process; it clears stdout but leaves stderrBuffer intact, so the
+      // captured reason survives.
+      const captured = this.stderrBuffer.trim()
+      this.kill()
+      this.setStatus('error')
+      this.stderrBuffer =
+        outcome === 'timeout'
+          ? this.describeStartupTimeout(captured)
+          : captured || t('errors.pi.crashedBeforeReady')
+      return this.getStatus()
+    }
+
+    // Unreachable — the loop always returns — but satisfies the type checker.
+    return this.getStatus()
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * End a start before spawning. `reason` is the interface-language text the
+   * UI shows; `englishReason` is the same message for the log, which stays
+   * English.
+   */
+  private failPreflight(reason: string, englishReason: string): PiStatus {
+    this.stderrBuffer = reason
+    this.setStatus('error')
+    console.error('[Pi] Pre-flight failed:', englishReason)
+    appLog.error('pi', 'Pre-flight failed', englishReason)
+    return this.getStatus()
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * The user-facing reason for a startup timeout. Names only what the streams
+   * proved — never guesses at causes the evidence rules out (the old fixed
+   * message misdiagnosed issue #58 for days).
+   */
+  private describeStartupTimeout(captured: string): string {
+    const seconds = this.startupSawOutput
+      ? this.startupTimeouts.engineBusyMs / MS_PER_SECOND
+      : this.startupTimeouts.silenceMs / MS_PER_SECOND
+    if (this.startupSawOutput) {
+      const busy = t('errors.pi.startupTimeoutBusy', { seconds })
+      return captured ? t('errors.pi.startupTimeoutBusyWithStderr', { message: busy, detail: captured }) : busy
+    }
+    return captured
+      ? t('errors.pi.startupTimeoutSilentWithStderr', { seconds, detail: captured })
+      : t('errors.pi.startupTimeoutSilentNoOutput', { seconds })
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Spawn one Pi process and wait for it to become RPC-ready. Resolves:
+   *  - 'ready'   — the readiness probe's correlated response arrived; status is
+   *                now 'running'.
+   *  - 'crashed' — spawn error, or the process exited before becoming ready.
+   *  - 'timeout' — no response within the applicable startup deadline:
+   *                silenceMs while stdout stayed silent, engineBusyMs once
+   *                output proved the process alive (see PiStartupTimeouts).
+   * It does NOT set the terminal 'error' status — doStart owns that, so it can
+   * retry a crash without flipping the UI to 'error' between attempts.
+   */
+  private spawnAndAwaitReady(
+    options: PiStartOptions
+  ): Promise<'ready' | 'crashed' | 'timeout' | 'aborted'> {
+    const args = buildPiArgs(options)
+    const cli = resolveStartCli(options)
+
+    const spawnOptions: SpawnOptions = {
+      stdio: ['pipe', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
+      cwd: options.cwd,
+      // Windows only: redirect TEMP so pi-subagents can mkdir without EPERM on
+      // locked %LocalAppData%\Temp trees. POSIX keeps the system temp (OS cleanup).
+      env: { ...process.env, ...buildPiChildEnv(), ...options.env },
+      // .cmd/.bat/.ps1 shims on Windows can't be invoked directly from
+      // spawn — they need the cmd.exe interpreter via shell:true.
+      shell: cli.needsShell,
+      // On POSIX, make the child its own process-group leader so kill()'s
+      // negative-PID group kill reaps Pi and all its descendants. Skipped on
+      // Windows, where it would spawn a detached console window with shell:true.
+      detached: !IS_WINDOWS,
+    }
+
+    let proc: ChildProcess
+    try {
+      // Escaping happens inside the try so a path or argument cmd.exe cannot
+      // carry fails this attempt like any other spawn failure ('crashed'),
+      // instead of throwing out of start().
+      const invocation = buildPiInvocation(cli, args)
+      console.log('[Pi] Spawning with cwd:', options.cwd)
+      console.log('[Pi] Spawn argv     :', [invocation.file, ...invocation.args])
+      proc = spawn(invocation.file, invocation.args, spawnOptions)
+    } catch (err) {
+      this.stderrBuffer += (err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)) + '\n'
+      return Promise.resolve('crashed')
+    }
+    this.process = proc
+    this.runningEngine = cli.kind ?? 'pi'
+    this.startupSawOutput = false
+    this.startupPhase = 'spawning'
+    this.setupStreams()
+
+    return new Promise<'ready' | 'crashed' | 'timeout' | 'aborted'>((resolve) => {
+      let settled = false
+      let probeTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null
+      let silenceTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null
+      let engineBusyTimer: NodeJS.Timeout | null = null
+      const startedAt = Date.now()
+      const finish = (outcome: 'ready' | 'crashed' | 'timeout' | 'aborted'): void => {
+        if (settled) return
+        settled = true
+        this.markReady = null
+        this.abortStartup = null
+        this.startupPhase = null
+        if (probeTimer) {
+          clearInterval(probeTimer)
+          probeTimer = null
+        }
+        if (silenceTimer) {
+          clearTimeout(silenceTimer)
+          silenceTimer = null
+        }
+        if (engineBusyTimer) {
+          clearTimeout(engineBusyTimer)
+          engineBusyTimer = null
+        }
+        resolve(outcome)
+      }
+      // Deliberate teardown (stop/restart) while starting: settle without
+      // retrying and without stamping an error — the caller chose to stop.
+      this.abortStartup = (): void => finish('aborted')
+
+      // Readiness signal: handleLine invokes this when the probe's correlated
+      // response (success OR "unknown command" error) arrives — proof the
+      // request→response loop is live.
+      this.markReady = (): void => {
+        if (this.status === 'starting') {
+          console.log(`[Pi] Ready after ${Date.now() - startedAt}ms`)
+          this.setStatus('running')
+        }
+        finish('ready')
+      }
+
+      proc.on('error', (err) => {
+        console.error('[Pi] Spawn error:', err.message)
+        appLog.error('pi', 'Spawn error', err)
+        const spawnError = t('errors.pi.spawnError', { detail: err.message })
+        this.stderrBuffer += `${spawnError}\n`
+        finish('crashed')
+      })
+
+      proc.on('exit', (code, signal) => {
+        console.log('[Pi] Process exited with code:', code, 'signal:', signal, 'pid:', proc.pid)
+        if (this.status === 'running') {
+          // Exited after becoming ready → normal lifecycle stop.
+          this.setStatus('stopped')
+          this.emit('exit', { code, signal })
+          this.rejectAllPending(t('errors.pi.processExited'))
+          return
+        }
+        // Exited before ready → a startup crash (doStart may retry once).
+        if (code !== 0 && code !== null) {
+          const priorStderr = this.stderrBuffer || ''
+          const exitMessage = t('errors.pi.exitedBeforeReady', { code })
+          this.stderrBuffer = `${priorStderr}${exitMessage}`
+        }
+        finish('crashed')
+      })
+
+      // Send the readiness probe, resent on an interval in case the first write
+      // raced Pi's stdin reader (Pi doesn't read stdin until its session is
+      // bound, so early writes just buffer harmlessly until then).
+      const sendProbe = (): void => {
+        if (this.status !== 'starting') return
+        try {
+          this.process?.stdin?.write(
+            JSON.stringify({ type: STARTUP_PROBE_COMMAND, id: STARTUP_PROBE_ID }) + JSONL_NEWLINE
+          )
+        } catch {
+          // stdin not writable yet / EPIPE — a resend or the exit handler covers it.
+        }
+      }
+      sendProbe()
+      probeTimer = setInterval(sendProbe, STARTUP_PROBE_INTERVAL_MS)
+
+      // Hard deadline, in two stages. Silent stdout at the silence cap means a
+      // dead spawn or a broken pipe — give up. Output without readiness means
+      // the engine is alive but still binding (its extension session_start
+      // hooks run before it reads stdin, so our probe sits unread while a hook
+      // may wait on a local model server — issue #58): announce the wait and
+      // grant the rest of the engine-busy cap.
+      silenceTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+        if (settled || this.status !== 'starting') return
+        if (!this.startupSawOutput) {
+          finish('timeout')
+          return
+        }
+        this.startupPhase = 'waiting-on-engine'
+        console.log(
+          `[Pi] Alive but not ready after ${this.startupTimeouts.silenceMs}ms; ` +
+            `waiting up to ${this.startupTimeouts.engineBusyMs}ms for the engine`
+        )
+        this.emit('startup-phase', this.startupPhase)
+        engineBusyTimer = setTimeout(() => {
+          if (!settled && this.status === 'starting') {
+            finish('timeout')
+          }
+        }, Math.max(0, this.startupTimeouts.engineBusyMs - this.startupTimeouts.silenceMs))
+      }, this.startupTimeouts.silenceMs)
+    })
+  }
+
+  stop(): void {
+    this.kill()
+    this.setStatus('stopped')
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Stop the child and wait until Windows releases its cwd/handles.
+   * Ordinary stop() remains fire-and-forget for UI navigation.
+   */
+  async stopAndWait(timeoutMs = FORCE_KILL_TIMEOUT_MS + 500): Promise<void> {
+    const proc = this.process
+    if (!proc) {
+      this.stop()
+      return
+    }
+    await new Promise<void>((resolvePromise) => {
+      let settled = false
+      let timer: ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | undefined
+      const finish = (): void => {
+        if (settled) return
+        settled = true
+        clearTimeout(timer)
+        const waiters = this.exitWaiters.get(proc)
+        waiters?.delete(finish)
+        if (waiters && waiters.size === 0) this.exitWaiters.delete(proc)
+        resolvePromise()
+      }
+      const waiters = this.exitWaiters.get(proc) ?? new Set<() => void>()
+      waiters.add(finish)
+      this.exitWaiters.set(proc, waiters)
+      this.stop()
+      if (proc.exitCode !== null || proc.signalCode !== null) finish()
+      else timer = setTimeout(finish, timeoutMs)
+    })
+  }
+
+  restart(options: PiStartOptions = {}): Promise<PiStatus> {
+    this.kill()
+    return this.start(options)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Send a command to the Pi RPC process.
+   * Returns a correlated response if an id is provided.
+   */
+  async sendCommand(command: Record<string, unknown>): Promise<PiResponseEvent | null> {
+    if (!this.process?.stdin || this.status !== 'running') {
+      throw new Error(t('errors.pi.processNotRunning'))
+    }
+
+    const id = `req-${this.nextRequestId++}`
+    const cmdWithId = { ...command, id }
+    const line = JSON.stringify(cmdWithId) + JSONL_NEWLINE
+
+    return new Promise<PiResponseEvent | null>((resolve, reject) => {
+      // Check capacity BEFORE allocating a slot so the limit is exact.
+      if (this.pendingResponses.size >= MAX_PENDING_RESPONSES) {
+        reject(new Error('Too many pending responses'))
+        return
+      }
+
+      const timer = setTimeout(() => {
+        this.pendingResponses.delete(id)
+        reject(new RpcTimeoutError(String(command.type), RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS))
+      }, RESPONSE_TIMEOUT_MS)
+
+      this.pendingResponses.set(id, { resolve, reject, timer })
+
+      this.process!.stdin!.write(line, (err) => {
+        if (err) {
+          clearTimeout(timer)
+          this.pendingResponses.delete(id)
+          reject(err)
+        }
+      })
+    })
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Send a command without waiting for a correlated response.
+   */
+  sendCommandFireAndForget(command: Record<string, unknown>): void {
+    if (!this.process?.stdin || this.status !== 'running') {
+      return // Silently ignore if Pi isn't running
+    }
+
+    const line = JSON.stringify(command) + JSONL_NEWLINE
+    try {
+      this.process.stdin.write(line)
+    } catch (err) {
+      if ((err as NodeJS.ErrnoException)?.code !== 'EPIPE') {
+        throw err
+      }
+      // EPIPE means Pi process exited
+      this.setStatus('stopped')
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Respond to an extension UI request.
+   */
+  sendExtensionUiResponse(id: string, response: Record<string, unknown>): void {
+    this.sendCommandFireAndForget({
+      type: 'extension_ui_response',
+      id,
+      ...response,
+    })
+  }
+
+  private setupStreams(): void {
+    if (!this.process) return
+
+    // stdout: JSONL events
+    this.process.stdout?.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
+      this.startupSawOutput = true
+      this.stdoutBuffer += this.decoder.write(chunk)
+
+      while (true) {
+        const newlineIndex = this.stdoutBuffer.indexOf('\n')
+        if (newlineIndex === -1) break
+
+        let line = this.stdoutBuffer.slice(0, newlineIndex)
+        this.stdoutBuffer = this.stdoutBuffer.slice(newlineIndex + 1)
+
+        // Strip optional \r
+        if (line.endsWith('\r')) {
+          line = line.slice(0, -1)
+        }
+
+        if (line.length > 0) {
+          this.handleLine(line)
+        }
+      }
+    })
+
+    this.process.stdout?.on('end', () => {
+      this.stdoutBuffer += this.decoder.end()
+      if (this.stdoutBuffer.length > 0) {
+        let line = this.stdoutBuffer
+        if (line.endsWith('\r')) line = line.slice(0, -1)
+        if (line.length > 0) this.handleLine(line)
+      }
+      this.stdoutBuffer = ''
+    })
+
+    // stderr: capture for diagnostics
+    this.process.stderr?.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
+      const text = chunk.toString('utf8')
+      this.stderrBuffer += text
+      this.emit('stderr', text)
+      console.log('[Pi STDERR]:', text.slice(0, 200))
+    })
+  }
+
+  private handleLine(line: string): void {
+    let parsed: unknown
+    try {
+      parsed = JSON.parse(line)
+      if (isRpcChunkFrame(parsed)) {
+        parsed = this.rpcFrameDecoder.push(parsed)
+        if (parsed === undefined) return
+      } else if (this.rpcFrameDecoder.hasPending()) {
+        throw new Error('rpc chunk sequence interrupted')
+      }
+    } catch {
+      this.rpcFrameDecoder.reset()
+      this.emit('parse-error', line)
+      return
+    }
+    const event = parsed as PiRpcEvent
+
+    // OMP advertises readiness explicitly. Keep the probe fallback for the
+    // original Pi RPC implementation, which has no ready frame.
+    if ((event as { type?: unknown }).type === 'ready') {
+      this.markReady?.()
+      const ready = event as {
+        supportedProtocolVersions?: unknown
+        maxFrameBytes?: unknown
+        maxReassembledFrameBytes?: unknown
+      }
+      // Adopt the engine's own framing limits before v2 traffic can arrive, so
+      // the decoder never rejects a frame the sender considers legal.
+      this.rpcFrameDecoder.configureLimits(ready)
+      if (Array.isArray(ready.supportedProtocolVersions) && ready.supportedProtocolVersions.includes(2)) {
+        void this.sendCommand({ type: 'negotiate_protocol', protocolVersion: 2 }).catch(() => {})
+      }
+      return
+    }
+
+    // Correlate responses with pending requests
+    if (event.type === 'response') {
+      const responseEvent = event as PiResponseEvent
+      // Startup readiness probe (see spawnAndAwaitReady): its correlated
+      // response — success OR an "unknown command" error, both echoing our id —
+      // means Pi is answering RPC. Flip to ready, then consume it silently so
+      // it never surfaces as a stray event.
+      if (responseEvent.id === STARTUP_PROBE_ID) {
+        this.markReady?.()
+        return
+      }
+      if (responseEvent.id) {
+        const pending = this.pendingResponses.get(responseEvent.id)
+        if (pending) {
+          clearTimeout(pending.timer)
+          this.pendingResponses.delete(responseEvent.id)
+          pending.resolve(responseEvent)
+          return
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // Emit all events for subscribers
+    this.emit('event', event)
+    this.emit(event.type, event)
+  }
+
+  private setStatus(status: PiProcessStatus): void {
+    if (this.status !== status) {
+      this.status = status
+      this.emit('status-change', status)
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * PIDs descended from `root`, children before grandchildren.
+   *
+   * A negative-PID signal only reaches the killed process's own group, and OMP
+   * puts each subagent it spawns in a new group, so `hub` fan-out survives the
+   * parent dying: the app exits, the subagents are re-parented to init, and
+   * they keep running and keep billing. They have to be enumerated before the
+   * parent is signalled, because re-parenting erases the link immediately.
+   *
+   * POSIX only. Windows has the same gap but `taskkill /T` is the fix there and
+   * it cannot be verified from here, so that path is left as it was.
+   */
+  private descendantPids(root: number): number[] {
+    if (IS_WINDOWS) return []
+    const result = spawnSync('ps', ['-eo', 'pid=,ppid='], { encoding: 'utf-8', timeout: PROCESS_TREE_TIMEOUT_MS })
+    if (result.status !== 0 || typeof result.stdout !== 'string') return []
+
+    const childrenByParent = new Map<number, number[]>()
+    for (const line of result.stdout.split('\n')) {
+      const [pid, ppid] = line.trim().split(/\s+/).map(Number)
+      if (!Number.isInteger(pid) || !Number.isInteger(ppid)) continue
+      const siblings = childrenByParent.get(ppid)
+      if (siblings) siblings.push(pid)
+      else childrenByParent.set(ppid, [pid])
+    }
+
+    const found: number[] = []
+    const queue = [root]
+    // Breadth-first with a seen set: a malformed table must not loop forever.
+    const seen = new Set<number>([root])
+    while (queue.length > 0) {
+      for (const child of childrenByParent.get(queue.shift()!) ?? []) {
+        if (seen.has(child)) continue
+        seen.add(child)
+        found.push(child)
+        queue.push(child)
+      }
+    }
+    return found
+  }
+
+  private kill(): void {
+    // Settle any pending startup attempt first — after the listener teardown
+    // below it could never settle on its own. No-op when already settled.
+    this.abortStartup?.()
+    for (const [, pending] of this.pendingResponses) {
+      clearTimeout(pending.timer)
+      pending.reject(new Error(t('errors.pi.processKilled')))
+    }
+    this.pendingResponses.clear()
+
+    if (this.process) {
+      const proc = this.process
+      proc.removeAllListeners()
+      proc.stdout?.removeAllListeners()
+      proc.stderr?.removeAllListeners()
+      const waiters = this.exitWaiters.get(proc)
+      if (waiters?.size) {
+        const settle = (): void => {
+          this.exitWaiters.delete(proc)
+          for (const waiter of waiters) waiter()
+        }
+        proc.once('exit', settle)
+        proc.once('close', settle)
+      }
+      proc.stdin?.end()
+
+      // Snapshot the tree before signalling: once the parent dies its children
+      // are re-parented to init and can no longer be found from this pid.
+      const strays = proc.pid ? this.descendantPids(proc.pid) : []
+
+      // Kill entire process group (negative PID)
+      try {
+        if (proc.pid) {
+          process.kill(-proc.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+        }
+      } catch {
+        proc.kill('SIGTERM')
+      }
+
+      // Subagents sit in their own groups, so the group signal above misses
+      // them. Signal each directly; ESRCH just means it already exited.
+      for (const stray of strays) {
+        try { process.kill(stray, 'SIGTERM') } catch { /* already gone */ }
+      }
+
+      // Force kill after timeout
+      setTimeout(() => {
+        try {
+          if (proc.pid && !proc.killed) {
+            process.kill(-proc.pid, 'SIGKILL')
+          }
+        } catch {
+          try { proc.kill('SIGKILL') } catch { /* already dead */ }
+        }
+        for (const stray of strays) {
+          try { process.kill(stray, 'SIGKILL') } catch { /* already gone */ }
+        }
+      }, FORCE_KILL_TIMEOUT_MS)
+
+      this.process = null
+    }
+
+    this.stdoutBuffer = ''
+    this.decoder = new StringDecoder('utf8')
+    this.rpcFrameDecoder = new RpcFrameDecoder()
+  }
+
+  private rejectAllPending(reason: string): void {
+    for (const [, pending] of this.pendingResponses) {
+      clearTimeout(pending.timer)
+      pending.reject(new Error(reason))
+    }
+    this.pendingResponses.clear()
+  }
+}