Windows 11: "Failed to reload <project> – UnexpectedStatus" after updating to Desktop v1.18.5 + repeated `@opencode-ai/plugin@local` install failures

[SalamehIbrahim]

Environment

OS:** Windows 11 (64-bit)
OpenCode Desktop:** v1.18.5
nstallation:** Official Windows NSIS installer
Download:** https://opencode.ai/download/stable/windows-x64-nsis
Update method:** Built-in auto-update from a previous version

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Log Output.txt

Description

After updating to OpenCode Desktop v1.18.5, every time the application starts it displays the following dialog:

Failed to reload <project-name> opencode

UnexpectedStatus

The project name changes depending on the last opened workspace (for example al-azan), but the issue is not project-specific.

The application continues to run after dismissing the dialog.

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Install OpenCode Desktop using the official installer.
2. Update to v1.18.5 using the built-in updater.
3. Launch OpenCode.

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Actual Result

A dialog appears on every startup:

Failed to reload <project-name> opencode

UnexpectedStatus

The application still works afterward.

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Expected Result

No error dialog should appear when launching the application.

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Additional Investigation

I performed the following troubleshooting steps:

• Created a completely new project.
• The same dialog appears.
• Renamed the user configuration directory:

C:\Users\<user>\.config\opencode

• OpenCode recreated a fresh configuration directory automatically.
• The new opencode.jsonc only contains:

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json"
}

• The issue still occurs.
• %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA% do not contain any relevant cached OpenCode data that resolves the problem.
• The problem is not related to a specific Git repository.

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Log Output

The log repeatedly contains:

background dependency install failed

NpmInstallFailedError

@opencode-ai/plugin:
No matching version found for @opencode-ai/plugin@local

This message is repeated multiple times during startup.

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Impact

The application is still usable (agents can create files and execute tasks normally), but the error dialog appears on every startup and the repeated plugin installation failures suggest something is wrong during initialization.

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Question

Is this a known regression in Desktop v1.18.5?

Is there a workaround until a fix is released?

[github-actions]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• Background "npm install @opencode-ai/plugin@local" fails on every project dir — OPENCODE_VERSION not injected in packaged build (Desktop v1.18.1) #37806: Background npm install @opencode-ai/plugin@local fails on every project dir — same root cause (OPENCODE_VERSION not injected at build time, falls through to "local" placeholder which isn't a valid npm version)
• opencode desktop(windows) load superpowers failed because of fails to load plugins: tries to install @opencode-ai/plugin@local, which is not a published npm version #38271: OpenCode Desktop on Windows fails to load plugins because it tries to install @opencode-ai/plugin@local, which does not exist on npm — same error message and repeated startup failures
• background dependency install failed #38472: Background dependency install failed — same NpmInstallFailedError on startup
• Desktop: background dependency install failed - @opencode-ai/plugin@local version not found #30197: Desktop: background dependency install failed - @opencode-ai/plugin@local version not found — earlier report of the same issue

The UnexpectedStatus dialog on startup and the repeated NpmInstallFailedError: No matching version found for @opencode-ai/plugin@local in your logs are both symptoms of the same underlying bug already tracked above.

[assawalhy]

For me it is UnsupportedContentType

[AssabTigleG]

SAME HERE

[opencode-agent]

The startup reload failure is fixed in v1.18.6 by #38816, which restores legacy MCP state/resource refreshes for V1 workspaces.