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Expand Up @@ -32,6 +32,25 @@ const totalMB = Math.floor(totalmem() / (1024 * 1024));
const heapMB = Math.min(4096, Math.max(2048, Math.floor(totalMB * 0.5)));
app.commandLine.appendSwitch('js-flags', `--max-old-space-size=${heapMB}`);

// Single instance: a dockless (UIElement) app gives no way to discover zombie
// duplicates — a second launch must summon the existing window instead.
const appReady = false;

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win

Declare appReady with let.

Startup assigns to appReady at Lines 631 and 646. TypeScript rejects both assignments because Line 37 declares it with const. The build cannot complete until the declaration permits reassignment.

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-const appReady = false;
+let appReady = false;
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In `@src/main/index.ts` at line 37, Change the appReady declaration to allow
reassignment, since startup updates it after initialization. Preserve its
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if (!app.requestSingleInstanceLock()) {
app.quit();
} else {
app.on('second-instance', () => {
if (mainWindow && !mainWindow.isDestroyed()) {

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Recreate the window when a second launch finds no window.

On macOS, closing the last window leaves the primary process running and sets mainWindow to null. If the user then launches the binary again, this guard does nothing and the new process quits. The activate handler is a separate event, so it does not make the second-instance handler a reliable reopen path. Create the window here when initialization is complete. If initialization is still pending, defer the summon until window creation is safe. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In `@src/main/index.ts` at line 41, Update the second-instance handler’s
mainWindow guard so it creates a window when none exists after initialization is
complete; while initialization is pending, defer the summon until window
creation is safe. Preserve the existing behavior of focusing or restoring a live
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if (mainWindow.isMinimized()) mainWindow.restore();
mainWindow.show();
app.focus({ steal: true });
} else if (appReady) {
// last window was closed (macOS keeps the app alive) — recreate it
createWindow();
}
// while initialization is still pending, startup's own createWindow() covers us
});
}

// Window icon path for non-mac platforms.
const getWindowIconPath = (): string | undefined => {
const isDev = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development';
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -461,6 +480,11 @@ function createWindow(): void {
title: 'claude-devtools',
});

// Dockless apps (showDockIcon: false → app.dock.hide()) never take front on
// their own: summon the window on every creation.
mainWindow.show();
app.focus({ steal: true });

// Load the renderer
if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
void mainWindow.loadURL(`http://localhost:${DEV_SERVER_PORT}`);
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -604,6 +628,7 @@ void app.whenReady().then(async () => {

// Then create window
createWindow();
appReady = true;

// Listen for notification click events
notificationManager.on('notification-clicked', (_error) => {
Expand All @@ -618,10 +643,15 @@ void app.whenReady().then(async () => {
createWindow();
}
}
appReady = true;

app.on('activate', () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow();
} else if (mainWindow && !mainWindow.isDestroyed()) {
// reopen (open -a, notification click) with a live window: summon it
mainWindow.show();
app.focus({ steal: true });
}
});
});
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