[Windows 11] Post-0.7.1 follow-up: in-app update daemon restart loop, stale GOA session check, and blank Chat view on agent switch #49

Context

Following up on the 0.7.1 release notes ("Not verified on Windows, where all three were reported, nor with a real OpenCode 1.18"), here is the verification report from Windows 11 with OpenCode 1.18.35.

We encountered three interconnected issues during and after the update:

Issue 1: Updater leaves previous version running, causing daemon restart ping-pong (0.7.0 <-> 0.7.1)

Symptoms

Immediately after accepting the in-app update from 0.7.0 to 0.7.1, the UI cycled indefinitely between:

• "Connecting to this PC: Restarting the daemon (0.7.0 -> 0.7.1)..."
• "Disconnected from this PC. Its sessions keep running; connecting again in 8s..."

Root Cause

The Windows updater extracted v0.7.1 and launched it, but the existing v0.7.0 client instances (enowX.exe) were not terminated and remained in memory (two zombie processes found). Both versions competed over ~/.enowx-app/enowxd.sock:

• The 0.7.0 client saw a 0.7.1 daemon and downgraded/restarted it to 0.7.0.
• The 0.7.1 client saw a 0.7.0 daemon and upgraded/restarted it back to 0.7.1.

Log Evidence (enowxd.log)

2026-11-06T13:22:43+07:00 daemon.start version=0.7.1 pid=46476
2026-11-06T13:23:15+07:00 daemon.start version=0.7.0 pid=10400
2026-11-06T13:23:31+07:00 daemon.start version=0.7.1 pid=15528
2026-11-06T13:24:15+07:00 daemon.start version=0.7.0 pid=48244

Mitigation: Required manual taskkill /f /im enowX.exe /im enowx-daemon.exe before v0.7.1 could connect stably.

Issue 2: session create rejects new GOA if an exited session still has goa: true

Symptoms

When attempting to start GOD of Agents afresh via the modal ("Start GOD of Agents" -> OpenCode -> Start), the daemon threw:
session create: goa: GOD of Agents already runs on this host: session <old-id>

Root Cause

In ~/.enowx-app/sessions.json, a previous session from the day before was marked "goa": true with "exited": true. The daemon enforces single-GOA-per-host by checking the existence of goa: true, but does not verify whether that session has already exited (!session.Exited()).

Mitigation: The dead session had to be manually closed via enowx-app close <old-id> --yes.

Issue 3: Switching GOA from Claude to OpenCode leaves view trapped in blank Chat mode

Symptoms

After switching GOA to OpenCode, opening the GOD of Agents page showed a completely black/blank terminal area. Normal worker sessions (opened from the side panel) rendered their terminals correctly, but the GOA tab remained black.

Root Cause

1. When GOA previously ran on Claude Code, the session view was set to Chat. This persisted in ~/.enowx-app/app.json:

   "chats": { "<goa-session-id>": true }

2. When switching the session agent to OpenCode (goa switch --agent opencode), OpenCode does not have a native Chat view (it is terminal-only).
3. The UI correctly hid the [Chat | Terminal] toggle button from the header because OpenCode lacks chat capability.
4. However, the view renderer still evaluated chats[sessionId] === true and attempted to render the Chat view component instead of falling back to Terminal.
5. The user was left trapped on a black screen with no visible UI toggle to switch back.

Mitigation: Pressing Ctrl+K and running "Show the terminal" called showView(Terminal), which cleared the chats entry in app.json and immediately restored the OpenCode TUI.

Suggested Fixes

1. Updater process cleanup (Windows): Ensure the updater aggressively terminates all running enowX.exe processes before launching the new version, preventing socket conflicts.
2. GOA uniqueness check: In session.create, ignore or auto-prune sessions where exited === true when enforcing single-GOA constraints.
3. View capability fallback: When rendering a session, if chats[id] === true but !agent.hasChat, automatically reset the view to Terminal rather than rendering an empty chat component.
4. Switch cleanup: In goa.switch, clear capability-specific view states (like chats) if the target agent does not support them.

Environment

• enowX: 0.7.0 -> 0.7.1
• OS: Windows 11 Pro (amd64)
• Agent tested: OpenCode 1.18.35