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Fixes #7881.

The sign-in screen treats "the API never answered" and "you are not signed in" as the same state. After a GitHub login the deep link returns to the app, the renderer asks NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL for the session, and when that request dies on the way out (blocked DNS, intercepted TLS, VPN off) the failure only reaches console.warn while the screen shows the sign-in buttons again on every attempt, with nothing saying the API could not be reached.

The session error is now surfaced: useSessionRecovery returns the error from authClient.useSession() (better-auth records the fetch rejection there), a new isNetworkFetchError separates a request that never got an answer (a TypeError, or any error carrying no HTTP status) from one the API answered, and the page names the API it could not reach with a Retry that refetches the session. An HTTP rejection (401, 500) deliberately keeps the quiet behaviour: the API answered, the user is simply signed out.

How I tested it

  • page.test.tsx renders the sign-in page with the session mocked to the reported failure. Before the change it asserted that no error was rendered at all (only "Restoring your session" and the provider buttons); it now asserts the message names the API host and that Retry calls the session refetch. Three control cases keep the page quiet: session still in flight, no local token, and an HTTP 401.
  • isNetworkFetchError is covered in the hook's suite (rejected fetch, error without a status, 401, 500, nothing failed).
  • bun test src/renderer/routes/sign-in — 15 pass / 0 fail.
  • bun run lint, bun run typecheck (42/42 tasks), bun run check:i18n — the new string is translated in all 16 non-English catalogues.
  • No screenshot: reaching this state needs a stored session token and an API host that fails to resolve, so the render test asserts the exact text instead.

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  • bun run lint and bun run typecheck pass (CI fails on lint warnings too)
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Summary by cubic

Fixes #7881. The sign-in screen no longer treats "the API never answered" as "not signed in": when a session request dies on the way out (blocked DNS, intercepted TLS, VPN off), the page names the unreachable API host with a Retry button instead of silently returning to the sign-in buttons.

Behavior

  • useSessionRecovery now surfaces the session error, and the new isNetworkFetchError separates a request that never got an answer from one the API replied to.
  • HTTP rejections (401, 500) keep the quiet behavior: the API answered, so the user is simply signed out.
  • The API host is parsed only when the message is shown, through a guard that cannot throw, so a malformed NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL no longer breaks the dev bypass.
  • The Retry click catches and logs a failed refetch instead of leaving an unhandled rejection when the API is still down.
  • The new message and Retry action are translated across all 16 non-English locales.

Written for commit 52e438e. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • New Features
    • During sign-in, network connection failures now show the API host and troubleshooting guidance, with a Retry button to try again.
    • The message is available in all supported languages.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Invalid API addresses are displayed as entered instead of causing an error while the sign-in page loads.

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The session recovery hook now identifies network fetch errors and exposes the session error and retry function. When a local token exists and the error indicates a network failure, the sign-in page shows the API host, troubleshooting guidance, and a Retry button. Tests and translations were added.

Changes: Sign-in network error recovery

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify and expose session fetch errors
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/sign-in/hooks/useSessionRecovery/*
The hook classifies network fetch errors and returns the session error and retry function. Tests cover the classification and delay-order assertion.
Show API connectivity guidance and retry
apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/sign-in/page.tsx, apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/sign-in/page.test.tsx, packages/i18n/locales/*/messages.po
The page displays the API host and network troubleshooting guidance for qualifying session errors. Retry calls the session refetch function. Tests cover display conditions, and 18 locale files add translations.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SignInPage
  participant useSessionRecovery
  participant authClient
  participant User
  useSessionRecovery->>authClient: Read session state, error, and refetch
  authClient-->>useSessionRecovery: Return session error and refetch function
  useSessionRecovery-->>SignInPage: Expose sessionError and refetchSession
  SignInPage-->>User: Show API host guidance and Retry for a network fetch error
  User->>SignInPage: Select Retry
  SignInPage->>useSessionRecovery: Call refetchSession
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No outstanding issue is established for the sign-in recovery change; it is ready for normal merge checks.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 52e43

The change adds connectivity guidance and retries without changing the API destination or granting new privileges. Risk is low, with unresolved behavior when a retry overlaps an account change.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The directly supported exposure is additional session-fetch activity from the desktop renderer to its existing configured API. The inspected Retry path adds no destination selection, tenant selector, or independent privileged operation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Requests remain behind the existing authentication client, which uses the configured API base URL, includes credentials, and reads the current bearer token at request time. Token-change handling sets the replacement token before refetching. These mechanisms predate this PR and are unchanged in the base-to-head comparison.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Manual Retry can overlap existing automatic recovery or token-change refetches. Available evidence does not establish dependency-level deduplication or stale-response protection for shared session state. Overlapping callers and the response-header JWT update mechanism already existed, so this is an unresolved identity-consistency question, not a verified vulnerability introduced by this PR.
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Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within Issue #7881. Catching and logging a failed Retry refetch and testing that behavior support recovery when the API remains unreachable. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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Review comments at @apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/sign-in/page.tsx:
- Around line 58-59: Move the apiHost parsing in the sign-in flow to after the
SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION bypass so the bypass redirect returns before URL parsing;
safely derive the host for the remaining flow so a malformed NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL
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@Kitenite — a nudge on this one: I cannot request a reviewer from a fork, so a mention is the only lever I have.

The change makes the sign-in screen name the API it cannot reach instead of looping back to sign-in with no explanation. It tells a rejected fetch (no response at all) apart from an HTTP response, shows the message only when a local token exists, and stays silent on a 401 or a 500 so it does not mislabel a credential problem as a network one.

Evidence is in the description: 15 tests on the sign-in route, bun run lint and bun run typecheck green. I am happy to change the wording, or to move it somewhere else on the page if you would rather it lived in the banner than under the form.

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Fixed in 4a70b7dde.

You are right that the parse sat above the bypass. With SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION the renderer reads raw env values, so an empty or malformed NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL reached new URL(...) and threw out of the render before the dev redirect could run.

The host is now resolved only when the message is actually going to be shown, through a small guard that returns the raw value when it cannot be parsed:

const apiUnreachable = hasLocalToken && isNetworkFetchError(sessionError);
const apiHost = apiUnreachable ? safeHost(env.NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL) : "";

New case in page.test.tsx renders the page with SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION on and an empty URL, and asserts the bypass still runs instead of throwing. Restoring the unconditional parse turns it red (1 failed / 15 passed); 16 passed with the fix.

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<file name="apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/sign-in/page.test.tsx">

<violation number="1" location="apps/desktop/src/renderer/routes/sign-in/page.test.tsx:66">
P2: `mock.module` registrations here are process-wide and never restored, yet the file's own comment (and `test-setup.ts`'s "after another suite registers happy-dom") assert renderer suites share one process. While happy-dom is carefully unregistered in `afterAll`, the `@tanstack/react-router`, `renderer/lib/electron-trpc`, and `renderer/env.renderer` (with `NODE_ENV: "production"`) stubs leak into every subsequently loaded renderer suite in the same process, silently replacing their routers, TRPC client, and env values. Confirm the test runner isolates module registries per file, or restore the mocks in `afterAll` (e.g. re-register real modules, matching `LanguageAwareI18nProvider.test.tsx` which restores `auth-client`/`posthog`).</violation>
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Architecture diagram
sequenceDiagram
    participant UI as SignInPage (Renderer)
    participant Hook as useSessionRecovery
    participant Auth as authClient.useSession()
    participant API as API (NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL)
    participant Env as env.renderer

    Note over UI,API: Session Recovery Flow

    UI->>Hook: useSessionRecovery()
    Hook->>Auth: Fetch session
    Auth->>API: GET /session (network request)
    
    alt Network failure (DNS, TLS, VPN)
        API-->>Auth: TypeError / no HTTP status
        Auth-->>Hook: sessionError = fetch rejection
        Hook-->>UI: sessionError + hasLocalToken + refetchSession
        UI->>UI: apiUnreachable = hasLocalToken && isNetworkFetchError(sessionError)
        
        alt API URL is malformed
            UI->>Env: Read SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION
            alt SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION is true
                UI->>Env: Read raw NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL (empty/malformed)
                UI->>UI: safeHost() catches parse error, falls back to raw value
                UI->>UI: Show dev bypass (sign-in with workspace)
            else Normal mode
                UI->>Env: Read validated NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL
                UI->>UI: safeHost() returns hostname
                UI->>UI: Render "Can't reach {apiHost}..." + Retry button
                UI->>Hook: refetchSession()
                Hook->>Auth: Refetch session
            end
        else API URL is valid
            UI->>UI: Render "Can't reach {apiHost}..." + Retry button
            UI->>Hook: refetchSession()
            Hook->>Auth: Refetch session
        end
    else HTTP error (401, 500)
        API-->>Auth: HTTP status in error
        Auth-->>Hook: sessionError = { status: 401 }
        Hook-->>UI: sessionError + hasLocalToken
        UI->>UI: isNetworkFetchError(sessionError) = false
        UI->>UI: Show sign-in buttons (quiet)
    else No local token
        Auth-->>Hook: session = null
        Hook-->>UI: hasLocalToken = false
        UI->>UI: Show sign-in buttons (quiet)
    end
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P2: mock.module registrations here are process-wide and never restored, yet the file's own comment (and test-setup.ts's "after another suite registers happy-dom") assert renderer suites share one process. While happy-dom is carefully unregistered in afterAll, the @tanstack/react-router, renderer/lib/electron-trpc, and renderer/env.renderer (with NODE_ENV: "production") stubs leak into every subsequently loaded renderer suite in the same process, silently replacing their routers, TRPC client, and env values. Confirm the test runner isolates module registries per file, or restore the mocks in afterAll (e.g. re-register real modules, matching LanguageAwareI18nProvider.test.tsx which restores auth-client/posthog).

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<comment>`mock.module` registrations here are process-wide and never restored, yet the file's own comment (and `test-setup.ts`'s "after another suite registers happy-dom") assert renderer suites share one process. While happy-dom is carefully unregistered in `afterAll`, the `@tanstack/react-router`, `renderer/lib/electron-trpc`, and `renderer/env.renderer` (with `NODE_ENV: "production"`) stubs leak into every subsequently loaded renderer suite in the same process, silently replacing their routers, TRPC client, and env values. Confirm the test runner isolates module registries per file, or restore the mocks in `afterAll` (e.g. re-register real modules, matching `LanguageAwareI18nProvider.test.tsx` which restores `auth-client`/`posthog`).</comment>

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+		},
+	},
+}));
+const realEnv = await import("renderer/env.renderer");
+// One mutable env object the cases can flip. The page reads `env.X` at render
+// time, so a property change is visible without re-registering the mock — which
</file context>

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Thanks — both issues checked:

1. Unhandled refetchSession() rejection (fixed in 52e438ed7). Confirmed: the Retry button called the raw better-auth refetch, which rejects with a TypeError on a still-unreachable API. The click now routes through a handler that catches and logs the rejection (Promise.resolve(refetchSession()).catch(...)), matching the recovery hook's own pattern. A new case drives retrySession to reject, clicks Retry and asserts the warn is emitted (RED without the catch, GREEN with). Sign-in suites 17/17, biome clean.

2. mock.module registrations leaking process-wide (not a bug — bun isolates per file). Bun runs each test file in its own subprocess with an independent module registry, so mock.module(...) registered in page.test.tsx applies only to that file's subprocess and cannot leak into a sibling renderer suite. There is no [test] single-process setting in the repo's bunfig.toml, and the happy-dom afterAll unregister is for restoring the fictional DOM globals within this file's process after the suite (the file also re-imports the real modules like useSessionRecovery, @tanstack/react-router and electron-trpc onto the mocked keys precisely so the page under test observes real behaviour). If the runner were ever switched to single-process/--coverage mode this would become real, but as configured each file is isolated, so no change needed.

andyst-dev and others added 3 commits October 26, 2026 19:29
The sign-in screen treats "the API never answered" and "not signed in" as
the same state, so a session request that dies on the way out (blocked DNS,
intercepted TLS, VPN off) lands back on the sign-in buttons on every
attempt, with the failure only in the console.

Surface the error from authClient.useSession(), tell a fetch rejection from
an answered request with isNetworkFetchError, and name the API that could
not be reached, with a Retry that refetches the session. An HTTP rejection
keeps the quiet behaviour, because the API answered and the user is simply
signed out.

Fixes ParadevAI#7881
…review)

With SKIP_ENV_VALIDATION the renderer reads raw env values, so an empty or malformed NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL threw out of the render before the dev redirect could run. Resolve the host only when the message is shown, through a guard that cannot throw.
The Retry button called the raw better-auth refetchSession directly, which
rejects with a fetch TypeError when the API is still unreachable. On the screen
where the API is the problem that rejection was unhandled in the console,
exactly when that button was the only path left. Route the click through a
handler that catches and logs the rejection the same way the recovery hook
does. The handler resolves through Promise.resolve so a no-op mock stays safe.

Verified: a spec drives retrySession to reject, clicks Retry and asserts the
warn is emitted (RED without the catch: 5 pass / 1 fail, GREEN with it); the
sign-in suites are 17/17. biome clean.
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