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paseo-bot[bot]andKiraPC 404d08d24b Report failed terminal launches and remove early exits (#6792)
* fix(server): report a terminal whose command cannot start instead of leaving a dead tab

Opening a terminal profile whose command is not installed left a tab that could
never be closed. Two problems sat on the same path.

A terminal that dies during creation was resurrected by its own create. The
worker sends terminalCreated, the createTerminal response and terminalExit in
the same tick, so the parent drains all three before the awaiting create
continuation resumes; that continuation called registerRecord a second time and
put back a terminal the exit had just removed. Removal is owned solely by the
terminalExit event and that event never comes twice, so the record outlived
every close attempt: getTerminals kept listing it, capture returned nothing,
kill was a silent no-op that still reported success, and only a daemon restart
cleared it.

The parent now tracks the ids with a create in flight and keeps the finished
record when an exit removes one of them, so the create continuation returns the
exited session instead of registering a live one. Removal still happens exactly
once, in the terminalExit path.

With the stuck tab gone, a missing command produced nothing at all: no tab and
no message. node-pty spawns directly through execve on POSIX, with no shell, so
a command that does not exist fails inside the spawn helper and surfaces as exit
code 1 with no output -- exactly what `false` produces, so the exit carries no
usable signal. createTerminal now resolves the command before spawning and fails
the create when it cannot be found, so the daemon answers create_terminal with a
null terminal and "<command>: command not found", which the app already renders.
A command that starts and then exits non-zero still opens its tab.

That resolution has to match what execve will do in the child, or a working
profile is refused: it uses the terminal's own environment, built first so the
check sees the per-cwd registered PATH and the entries buildTerminalEnvironment
prepends, and it resolves a command containing a separator against the
terminal's cwd rather than through PATH. Windows keeps resolving inside
resolveTerminalSpawnCommand, which has its own shim handling and fallback.

* fix(terminal): check exact executable names and verify launch output

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Co-authored-by: KiraPC <pasqualecarmine.carbone@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: paseo-bot[bot] <266920839+paseo-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-10-14 23:02:39 +02:00
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2026-04-23 21:44:48 +07:00

Voice Assistant

A voice-controlled terminal assistant that runs as a single local service.

Quick Start

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Copy environment variables
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env and add your API keys (OpenAI, Deepgram)

# Run development servers
npm run dev

# Open browser to http://localhost:5173

Architecture

  • Express Server (port 3000) - Serves API and built UI in production
  • Vite Dev Server (port 5173) - Hot-reload React UI in development
  • WebSocket (/ws) - Real-time bidirectional communication
  • Agent - STT → LLM → TTS pipeline with terminal control
  • Daemon - tmux-based terminal management (in-process)

Development

# Run both servers (recommended)
npm run dev

# Or run separately:
npm run dev:server  # Express on port 3000
npm run dev:ui      # Vite on port 5173

# Type checking
npm run typecheck

# Build for production
npm run build

# Start production server
npm start

Project Status

✅ Completed (Phases 1-2):

  • Package setup and configuration
  • Express server with WebSocket
  • React UI with Vite
  • WebSocket client with ping/pong testing

⏳ In Progress (Phase 3):

  • Terminal control (tmux integration)

📋 Planned (Phases 4-9):

  • LLM integration (OpenAI GPT-4)
  • Agent orchestrator
  • Speech-to-Text (Deepgram)
  • Text-to-Speech (OpenAI)
  • Audio streaming
  • UI polish

See IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md for complete details.

Environment Variables

OPENAI_API_KEY=your-openai-key-here      # GPT-4 and TTS
DEEPGRAM_API_KEY=your-deepgram-key-here  # Streaming STT
STT_MODEL=whisper-1        # Optional: override to gpt-4o-transcribe, etc.
STT_CONFIDENCE_THRESHOLD=-3.0  # Optional: reject low-confidence clips
STT_DEBUG_AUDIO_DIR=.stt-debug # Optional: persist raw dictation audio for debugging
PASEO_HOME=~/.paseo        # Runtime state directory (agents/, etc.)
PASEO_LISTEN=127.0.0.1:6767  # Listen address (host:port or /path/to/socket)

PASEO_HOME defaults to ~/.paseo and isolates runtime artifacts like agents/. PASEO_LISTEN controls the daemon listen address. For blue/green testing you can run a parallel server without touching production state:

PASEO_HOME=~/.paseo-blue PASEO_LISTEN=127.0.0.1:7777 npm run dev

Tech Stack

  • Server: Express, TypeScript, ws (WebSocket)
  • Client: React 18, Vite, TypeScript
  • Terminal: tmux (via child_process)
  • AI: OpenAI (LLM + TTS), Deepgram (STT)

Testing

Currently manual testing via:

  1. Start servers: npm run dev
  2. Open http://localhost:5173
  3. Test WebSocket connection (green status indicator)
  4. Click "Send Ping" button to test communication

More testing guidance as features are implemented.

License

MIT