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## Summary

This PR adds asynchronous command jobs to CatDesk so long-running local commands (builds, compiles, tests, etc.) are no longer tied to a single MCP/HTTP request lifetime.

The existing synchronous run_command path remains available for short commands, while long-running work can now be started immediately and polled incrementally through dedicated MCP tools.

Why

Previously, run_command executed the child process inside the lifetime of one MCP request. That created two problems:

  1. Long builds could outlive the MCP/request timeout ceiling even though the local process was still valid work.
  2. Timing out the async Rust future did not reliably terminate the underlying process tree, which could leave child processes running after CatDesk had already reported a timeout.

The core change in this PR is to separate those two lifetimes:

MCP request lifetime != local background command lifetime

while preserving ownership:

CatDesk lifetime = ownership of CatDesk-started processes

What changed

New async command job API

Adds three MCP tools:

  • start_command
  • poll_command
  • cancel_command

start_command returns a job ID immediately. The command continues under CatDesk ownership after that request ends.

poll_command supports cursor-based incremental stdout/stderr reads and bounded long-polling.

cancel_command terminates the complete process tree and waits until the job reaches a terminal state.

Job manager and lifecycle

A new command_jobs manager stores background jobs in shared application/server state so they survive individual HTTP requests.

Supported states:

  • running
  • succeeded
  • failed
  • cancelled
  • timed out

Defaults / limits:

  • 30 minute default background timeout
  • 24 hour maximum background runtime
  • 8 active jobs
  • 64 retained jobs
  • 1 hour terminal-job retention
  • 30 second idempotency window
  • 4 MiB retained output per job
  • 128 KiB maximum output returned by a single poll
  • 30 second maximum long-poll wait

Poll responses expose nextCursor and hasMoreOutput, so even a terminal job can be drained across multiple bounded responses without skipping or duplicating events.

Process ownership / cleanup

A shared process runner is now used by both synchronous and asynchronous command execution.

It drains stdout and stderr concurrently and bounds captured output.

Timeout, cancellation, CatDesk shutdown, and root-process completion all clean up descendants.

Windows

Windows commands are created suspended and assigned to a Job Object configured with JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE before execution begins. This allows CatDesk to terminate the entire process tree, including detached descendants. If Job Object setup or process resumption fails, CatDesk aborts the command and returns an error rather than running it without managed process-tree ownership. After a command is running under the Job Object, taskkill /T /F remains a best-effort fallback if Job Object termination fails.

Unix

Unix uses a dedicated process group and kill(-pgid, SIGKILL) so descendants are terminated as a group.

Safer shutdown behavior

The job manager now coordinates start() and cancel_all() with the same start lock and a shutdown flag.

That closes the race where a new command could otherwise be inserted after shutdown had already snapshotted the existing jobs.

Once shutdown begins, new jobs are rejected and all previously accepted jobs are cancelled.

Idempotency cleanup

Expired JSON-RPC request/idempotency mappings are now pruned independently of retained-job eviction, preventing stale metadata from accumulating in long-running sessions.

Existing synchronous run_command

run_command now delegates to the shared process runner.

It remains intentionally capped at 120 seconds and now returns additional execution metadata such as exit code, timeout state, and output truncation flags.

For longer work, the tool description directs clients to the async job API instead.

UI

The existing dashboard renderer was extended so start_command, poll_command, and cancel_command reuse the current command presentation.

No CSS was changed.

The original run_command UI remains visually identical on both desktop and mobile viewport checks.

Documentation

README documentation now explains the async command workflow, polling semantics, output limits, runtime limits, and process-tree cleanup guarantees.

Important race / edge-case fixes covered

While testing the implementation, several edge cases were found and fixed:

  • shutdown vs. job-start race
  • single poll responses growing to several MiB
  • stale idempotency metadata retention
  • cancellation returning running after being woken by an output notification
  • Windows detached descendants surviving after the root process exited
  • large simultaneous stdout/stderr potentially stressing pipe draining
  • HTTP request-boundary behavior not previously covered by an integration test

Verification

Final source was tested on Windows with:

  • cargo check --all-targets
  • cargo fmt -- --check
  • git diff --check
  • targeted Clippy check for the command-runtime changes
  • npm pack --dry-run --json
  • optimized cargo build --release

The complete Rust test suite currently contains 111 tests and was run 5 consecutive times:

  • 111/111
  • 111/111
  • 111/111
  • 111/111
  • 111/111

Total: 555/555 passing test executions.

Additional stress coverage:

  • background timeout process-tree probe: 20/20
  • async cancellation descendant-tree probe: 20/20
  • synchronous timeout descendant-tree probe: 20/20
  • shutdown/start race stress: 30/30

The process-tree tests deliberately launch descendants that attempt to write sentinel files after ~800 ms. A passing test means CatDesk killed the relevant process tree and the sentinel never appeared.

Additional coverage includes:

  • async command survives separate stateless HTTP requests
  • bounded polling drains terminal output with continuous cursors and no gaps
  • large stdout + stderr are drained concurrently and capped
  • cancellation waits for an actual terminal state despite noisy output notifications
  • successful Windows root exit cannot leave a detached child alive
  • idempotency cleanup works even when no job eviction occurs

UI verification

The dashboard CSS block hash is identical to upstream main.

Deterministic Chrome pixel comparisons for the existing run_command UI were identical at:

  • 1200x900
  • 420x900

The async hasMoreOutput rendering path also passed a browser validation test.

Cross-platform note

The Windows process-management path was runtime-tested on Windows, including Job Object behavior and detached descendants.

The Unix implementation is cfg-gated, compiles through the project checks, and uses process-group ownership/termination, but Linux/macOS runtime execution was not performed as part of this Windows test session.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added background command execution with start, poll, and cancel controls.
    • Added incremental output polling, cancellation, timeouts, duplicate-request handling, and job status reporting.
    • Added process-tree cleanup when commands finish, time out, are cancelled, or the application shuts down.
    • Expanded command results with exit status, timeout status, and output-truncation details.
    • Added bounded output capture and UTF-8-safe command output handling.
  • Documentation
    • Updated tool documentation to cover the expanded command toolkit, polling requirements, and execution time limits.

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Walkthrough

This change adds cross-platform asynchronous shell-command jobs with polling, cancellation, timeouts, deduplication, bounded output, shutdown cleanup, MCP tools, server integration, documentation, and dashboard rendering.

Changes

Background command execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared process execution
Cargo.toml, src/process_runner.rs, src/command.rs
Adds cross-platform process-tree management, bounded stdout/stderr capture, timeout handling, exit metadata, and shared execution for run_command.
Command job lifecycle
src/command_jobs.rs
Adds job states, incremental UTF-8-safe output polling, request deduplication, active-job limits, cancellation, shutdown handling, retention cleanup, and lifecycle tests.
Application and server wiring
src/state.rs, src/server.rs, src/main.rs
Stores one CommandJobManager in application and server state, passes it to MCP handling, and cancels active jobs during shutdown.
MCP command tools
src/mcp.rs
Adds start_command, poll_command, and cancel_command, validates command and timeout inputs, formats structured results, and extends synchronous command metadata.
Tool presentation and validation
README.md, src/mcp.rs, src/widget/catdesk_dashboard.html
Documents the command tools, updates widget payloads and rendering, applies read-only enforcement, and adds integration and tool-list tests.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 017d6

Async command jobs may lose retrievable output from completed commands when cleanup removes more terminal output than the configured limits require; the change is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on output-retention behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant MCPHandlers
  participant CommandJobManager
  participant ProcessRunner
  MCPClient->>MCPHandlers: start_command
  MCPHandlers->>CommandJobManager: start(command, cwd, timeout, request_key)
  CommandJobManager->>ProcessRunner: run shell command
  ProcessRunner-->>CommandJobManager: output and process result
  MCPClient->>MCPHandlers: poll_command(job_id, cursor, wait_ms)
  MCPHandlers->>CommandJobManager: poll(job_id, after, wait_ms)
  CommandJobManager-->>MCPHandlers: snapshot and output events
  MCPClient->>MCPHandlers: cancel_command(job_id)
  MCPHandlers->>CommandJobManager: cancel(job_id)
  CommandJobManager->>ProcessRunner: terminate process tree
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src/process_runner.rs (1)

494-499: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the python3 dependency from this test.

On Unix the test fails on any host without python3 on PATH. Generate the large output with shell builtins instead.

♻️ Proposed change
         let command = if cfg!(windows) {
             "[Console]::Out.Write(('x' * 200000)); [Console]::Error.Write(('y' * 200000))"
         } else {
-            "python3 -c \"import sys; sys.stdout.write('x'*200000); sys.stderr.write('y'*200000)\""
+            "for i in $(seq 1 2000); do printf 'x%.0s' $(seq 1 100); printf 'y%.0s' $(seq 1 100) >&2; done"
         };
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In `@src/process_runner.rs` around lines 494 - 499, Update the Unix command in the
process-runner test around run_shell_command to remove the python3 dependency;
generate the required large stdout and stderr output using only shell builtins
while preserving the existing output sizes and Windows behavior.
src/command_jobs.rs (2)

18-23: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound retained output globally, not only per job.

MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES_PER_JOB is 4 MiB and MAX_RETAINED_JOBS is 64. Terminal jobs stay for TERMINAL_JOB_TTL (1 hour). Worst case the manager holds about 256 MiB of decoded output in memory in a desktop process. Add a global retained-byte budget in cleanup, or trim output further once a job reaches a terminal state.

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In `@src/command_jobs.rs` around lines 18 - 23, Update the job manager’s cleanup
flow to enforce a global retained decoded-output byte budget across terminal
jobs, rather than relying only on MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES_PER_JOB and
MAX_RETAINED_JOBS. Track retained output while iterating terminal jobs and trim
or evict output once the budget is exceeded, while preserving the existing
TERMINAL_JOB_TTL cleanup behavior.

441-480: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Rate-limit cleanup instead of running it on every request.

cleanup clones the job map, locks every job runtime, and then takes the write lock. start, poll and cancel all call it, so repeated long-poll requests serialize on the write lock for work that changes at most once per TERMINAL_JOB_TTL boundary. Store a last_cleanup: Instant and skip the pass inside a short interval.

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In `@src/command_jobs.rs` around lines 441 - 480, Rate-limit cleanup in the
command-job manager by adding a last_cleanup Instant and returning early when
cleanup was run within a short interval. Update cleanup to check and refresh
this timestamp safely under the manager lock, while preserving the existing
expiration, retention, and idempotency cleanup behavior for eligible runs; use
the existing cleanup callers unchanged.
src/mcp.rs (2)

554-559: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Derive the run_command timeout bound from command::MAX_TIMEOUT_MS.

The schema hardcodes 120000 in maximum and in the description. The validation at Line 1131 uses command::MAX_TIMEOUT_MS. If that constant changes, the advertised schema and the enforced limit diverge silently.

json! accepts an interpolated integer expression, so the constant can be used directly.

♻️ Proposed change
-                        "timeout": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 120000, "description": "Timeout in milliseconds for short commands. Maximum 120000; use start_command for long-running work." }
+                        "timeout": {
+                            "type": "integer",
+                            "minimum": 1,
+                            "maximum": command::MAX_TIMEOUT_MS,
+                            "description": format!(
+                                "Timeout in milliseconds for short commands. Maximum {}; use start_command for long-running work.",
+                                command::MAX_TIMEOUT_MS
+                            )
+                        }

The same pattern applies to the start_command description at Line 569, which states "Defaults to 30 minutes; maximum is 24 hours" while the values live in DEFAULT_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS and MAX_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS.

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In `@src/mcp.rs` around lines 554 - 559, Update the run_command schema to derive
its timeout maximum and description from command::MAX_TIMEOUT_MS instead of
hardcoded values, keeping the schema aligned with validation. Also update the
start_command timeout description to use the DEFAULT_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS and
MAX_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS constants so its documented defaults and limits remain
accurate.

909-930: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract one formatter for command-job output events.

command_job_output_text and build_command_job_widget_payload both iterate output events, prefix stderr lines, and append a trailing newline. The two copies already diverge: the model text emits [more buffered output available; poll again with nextCursor] and no truncation notice, while the widget emits [more buffered output available; poll again] plus [older command output was truncated].

Extract a shared helper that renders the event list, and keep only the notice strings at each call site. This prevents further drift between the model-facing text and the widget text.

Also applies to: 2388-2423

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In `@src/mcp.rs` around lines 909 - 930, Extract the duplicated event-rendering
loop from command_job_output_text and build_command_job_widget_payload into one
shared formatter, preserving stderr prefixes and trailing newlines. Keep each
caller responsible only for appending its own notice strings, including its
existing truncation and buffered-output wording.
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Inline comments:
In `@src/command_jobs.rs`:
- Around line 352-361: In src/command_jobs.rs lines 352-361, update poll around
the job.changed notification by pinning the Notified future and calling enable()
before job.snapshot(after). Apply the same pinned-and-enabled notification setup
in src/command_jobs.rs lines 378-393 within the cancel loop before
job.snapshot(0); both sites must preserve the existing timeout and cancellation
behavior.

In `@src/mcp.rs`:
- Around line 2185-2191: Update current_show_detail_mode and the MCP helper call
chain so tests can inject ShowDetailMode instead of always using Expanded. Pass
the mode through enrich_tool_result and base_widget_payload, preserve each
mode’s behavior, and add coverage for Expanded, Collapsed, and Disable,
including the Disable early return and collapsed payload field.

In `@src/process_runner.rs`:
- Around line 333-347: Update capture_reader to return the accumulated partial
text together with the read error when a read fails, instead of discarding
output; preserve successful EOF behavior. Adjust the callers around the
capture_reader join handling to retain and report the returned error while using
the partial capture, removing any conversion that turns the result into an empty
string.
- Around line 211-221: Update terminate_process_tree and its callers
terminate_tree and disarm so the blocking taskkill status call is offloaded from
Tokio worker threads when a runtime handle is available, while preserving the
existing process-tree termination arguments and behavior.
- Around line 386-392: Declare the minimum supported Rust version as 1.88 by
adding the rust-version field to the existing Cargo package configuration,
reflecting the let-chain used in the process runner. Ensure the stable-only CI
configuration also enforces this declared MSRV.
- Around line 277-292: Update the process launch flow around shell.spawn and
ProcessTreeGuard::new so the Windows Job Object is assigned before the shell can
execute or create descendants. Create the shell in a suspended state, attach it
to the job, then resume it; preserve the existing SpawnedProcess setup and
cleanup behavior.

In `@src/widget/catdesk_dashboard.html`:
- Around line 3133-3138: Update the command-tool handling branch for
run_command, start_command, poll_command, and cancel_command to accept error
payloads containing call and detail before validating the successful response
shape. Require command only for successful poll_command and cancel_command
payloads, and do not require job_id in the dashboard payload because it is tool
input.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@src/command_jobs.rs`:
- Around line 18-23: Update the job manager’s cleanup flow to enforce a global
retained decoded-output byte budget across terminal jobs, rather than relying
only on MAX_OUTPUT_BYTES_PER_JOB and MAX_RETAINED_JOBS. Track retained output
while iterating terminal jobs and trim or evict output once the budget is
exceeded, while preserving the existing TERMINAL_JOB_TTL cleanup behavior.
- Around line 441-480: Rate-limit cleanup in the command-job manager by adding a
last_cleanup Instant and returning early when cleanup was run within a short
interval. Update cleanup to check and refresh this timestamp safely under the
manager lock, while preserving the existing expiration, retention, and
idempotency cleanup behavior for eligible runs; use the existing cleanup callers
unchanged.

In `@src/mcp.rs`:
- Around line 554-559: Update the run_command schema to derive its timeout
maximum and description from command::MAX_TIMEOUT_MS instead of hardcoded
values, keeping the schema aligned with validation. Also update the
start_command timeout description to use the DEFAULT_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS and
MAX_JOB_TIMEOUT_MS constants so its documented defaults and limits remain
accurate.
- Around line 909-930: Extract the duplicated event-rendering loop from
command_job_output_text and build_command_job_widget_payload into one shared
formatter, preserving stderr prefixes and trailing newlines. Keep each caller
responsible only for appending its own notice strings, including its existing
truncation and buffered-output wording.

In `@src/process_runner.rs`:
- Around line 494-499: Update the Unix command in the process-runner test around
run_shell_command to remove the python3 dependency; generate the required large
stdout and stderr output using only shell builtins while preserving the existing
output sizes and Windows behavior.
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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In `@src/command_jobs.rs`:
- Around line 489-504: Update the cleanup logic around already_expired and
terminal_output_bytes so the exclusion set is refreshed after retention-count
evictions are added to expired. Use the refreshed set when calculating the
output total and when selecting output-budget evictions, preserving the existing
handling for genuinely eligible terminal jobs.
- Around line 596-597: Update run_job to check *cancel_rx.borrow() before
calling process_runner::spawn_shell_command; when cancellation is already set,
finish the job with status Cancelled and return without spawning the shell. Add
a regression test covering immediate cancellation after start, using a command
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Comment thread src/command_jobs.rs
Comment on lines +489 to +504
let already_expired = expired.iter().cloned().collect::<HashSet<_>>();
let mut terminal_output_bytes = terminal
.iter()
.filter(|(id, _, _)| !already_expired.contains(id))
.map(|(_, _, bytes)| *bytes)
.sum::<usize>();
if terminal_output_bytes > MAX_TERMINAL_OUTPUT_BYTES {
for (id, _, bytes) in &terminal {
if terminal_output_bytes <= MAX_TERMINAL_OUTPUT_BYTES {
break;
}
if already_expired.contains(id) || expired.contains(id) {
continue;
}
expired.push(id.clone());
terminal_output_bytes = terminal_output_bytes.saturating_sub(*bytes);

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Exclude count-evicted jobs from the output-budget total.

already_expired is built before Lines 484-487 add retention-count evictions. The output total still includes those jobs, but the loop skips them without subtracting their bytes. When both limits apply, cleanup evicts an extra terminal job and discards retained output earlier than required.

Update the exclusion set after count-based eviction. Use that updated set for both the sum and subsequent output-budget evictions.

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In `@src/command_jobs.rs` around lines 489 - 504, Update the cleanup logic around
already_expired and terminal_output_bytes so the exclusion set is refreshed
after retention-count evictions are added to expired. Use the refreshed set when
calculating the output total and when selecting output-budget evictions,
preserving the existing handling for genuinely eligible terminal jobs.

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Addressed the latest inline review findings in commit 017d682.

What changed

  • Pre-cancelled jobs no longer spawn a shell process.
    run_job now checks the current cancellation watch value before calling process_runner::spawn_shell_command. If cancellation is already set, the job transitions directly to Cancelled and returns without starting the command.

  • Added a regression test for immediate cancellation before spawn.
    The new test uses a command that would write sentinel.txt immediately before sleeping. The job is cancelled before run_job starts, and the test verifies both that the final state is Cancelled and that the sentinel file is never created.

Finding intentionally not changed

The cleanup finding around already_expired / terminal_output_bytes is already satisfied by the current code. The already_expired set is constructed only after retention-count evictions are appended to expired, so the refreshed exclusion set is already used when computing retained terminal output and when considering output-budget evictions. No additional cleanup change was made to avoid altering already-correct logic.

Validation

  • New pre-cancel regression: 20/20 repeated passes
  • Full Rust suite: 116/116 passing
  • Existing global terminal-output-budget regression: passing
  • cargo check --all-targets: passing
  • cargo fmt -- --check: passing
  • git diff --check: passing

Kept this update intentionally minimal: only src/command_jobs.rs changed.

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First, I appreciate you opening this PR. Managing long-running terminal tasks has always been a problem. I knew about this, but I was too lazy to implement it myself😂. Finally, this problem is solved! And thanks for recommending this code review bot. I've never used any code review bot before.

I reviewed the changes with CatDesk and found some minor issues. The other issues look fine to me, and I don't think they should affect CatDesk for now. But I would like to ask about this one:

Since the PR description said:

Windows
Windows now uses a Job Object configured with JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE. The root process is assigned to the job, allowing CatDesk to terminate the entire process tree, including detached descendants. taskkill /T /F remains a fallback if Job Object setup fails.

So, to my understanding, on Windows we first try to use a Job Object to manage the process.

So the expected process would be:

  1. Try to create a Job Object.
  2. If successful, use the Job Object to kill the process later.
  3. If it fails, create the process normally, and later kill the process using taskkill /T /F.

But it looks like step 3 will actually return an error instead of creating the process?

Just wanted to point this out. My personal thought is that we can keep the existing code and simply update the PR description.

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I almost had a heart attack. I thought the repo had been deleted. Looks like GH is down right now🥹

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@Xeift i don't have a macbook to run this on if you have it can you please compile and run this properly, i am already running this on windows and it's working properly

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okk so the github was down and i will again look into this code and maybe either change the pr description or maybe the process

this is an awesome project and i really want to make it better, thanks building this tool

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@Xeift i have changed the pr version to match the implementation

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Xeift commented Aug 18, 2026

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LGTM

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Xeift merged commit 1956ae1 into Xeift:main Aug 18, 2026
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nkcbuilds deleted the feat/async-command-jobs branch August 18, 2026 15:44
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