Refinement Functional Fixes — Cycle 5

Source of truth: refinement-state/refinement-functional-cycle-5.md.

Cycle 5 test report totals (pre-fix):

PASS FAIL BLOCKED PARTIAL REGRESSION MISSING UNTESTED Health
78 0 0 0 0 33 0 100.0%

No FAIL, BLOCKED, PARTIAL, or REGRESSION features exist in cycle 5 — every tested feature is PASS. The cycle 5 report explicitly concluded: “No regressions, no new PARTIAL/FAIL/BLOCKED, no state transitions required.”

Three consecutive full-suite runs × 564/564 tests with zero flakes (per refinement-state/functional-cycle-5-artifacts/test-run-1.log, test-run-2.log, test-run-3.log) confirm the baseline is stable before any fix activity. npm run typecheck, npm run build, and npm run lint each exited 0 in cycle 5 evidence.

Scope of this fix cycle therefore reduces to the MISSING inventory. Following the cycle-4 precedent (refinement-functional-fixes-4.md implemented exactly one well-scoped MISSING item — F035 files:listIncoming), cycle 5 implements a single low-risk MISSING item: F008 launcher scripts. The remaining 32 MISSING items are left queued as multi-session deliverables; each requires renderer design work, new asset binaries, or explicit Phase 2 scope (spec §§19, 20, 23, 24) that exceeds a single fix pass.

F008 — MISSING → IMPLEMENTED (launcher.bat, launcher.vbs, create-shortcut.ps1)

Root cause. Spec §2.1 enumerates five supported launch paths for the app: npm start, launcher.bat, launcher.vbs, Tropical Update Uploader.lnk (desktop shortcut pointing at the VBS wrapper), and the NSIS installer. Only npm start and the NSIS installer existed in the repo; the three Windows wrapper scripts were absent, leaving launch paths #2–#4 non-functional. Spec §21 also lists each of these files in the File Inventory table.

Spec justification.

  • §2.1 (Launch Paths): “The app can be launched via: 1) npm start, 2) launcher.bat, 3) launcher.vbs, 4) Tropical Update Uploader.lnk …”.
  • §21 (File Inventory): launcher.bat, launcher.vbs, create-shortcut.ps1 each listed as expected project files.
  • F008 master-list entry: “Provide Windows wrapper launchers and shortcut files so the app can be started outside npm commands.”

Files changed / added.

  • launcher.bat (new, tool root) — Batch wrapper that cd /d "%~dp0"s to the tool directory and calls npm start. Preserves npm start’s exit code via set EXITCODE=%ERRORLEVEL% inside setlocal so the caller sees the child result. Visible console is intentional for this variant (logs surfaced).
  • launcher.vbs (new, tool root) — VBScript wrapper that resolves its own directory via WScript.ScriptFullName, checks that launcher.bat exists beside it, sets the shell’s CurrentDirectory to the tool root, and runs the batch file with window style 0 (hidden) and bWaitOnReturn = False. This is the no-console variant used by the desktop shortcut.
  • create-shortcut.ps1 (new, tool root) — Desktop shortcut installer. Uses New-Object -ComObject WScript.Shell → CreateShortcut(...) to write “Tropical Update Uploader.lnk” to [Environment]::GetFolderPath('Desktop'). Sets TargetPath = launcher.vbs, WorkingDirectory = tool root, attaches assets/icon.ico as the icon when that asset is present (graceful-skip when F009 assets are not yet implemented, per the current MISSING state of F009), and the shortcut Description is “Tropical Update Uploader” so the shortcut file name matches spec §2.1 + §2.2 (window title is “Tropical Update Uploader”; product name “Tropical Update Publisher” is preserved in package.json and electron-builder config). $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' and explicit throw on missing prerequisites prevent silent failure.
  • tests/shared/launchers.test.ts (new) — 3 vitest shared-project tests that assert file existence at the tool root and key structural invariants in each wrapper (batch calls npm start, VBS runs launcher.bat with window style 0, PowerShell targets launcher.vbs + writes Tropical Update Uploader.lnk to the Desktop via WScript.Shell). Matches the pattern established by tests/package-scripts.test.ts (content-level assertions on non-executable project artifacts).

Ambiguities noted.

  • Spec §2.2 says window title is “Tropical Update Uploader” while §2.1 uses “Tropical Update Uploader.lnk”. The product name in package.json is “Tropical Update Publisher”. I kept the shortcut file name + Description set to “Tropical Update Uploader” (matches spec §2.1 shortcut text + window title) and did not touch productName (preserves §2). No code comment needed — the shortcut target string literal makes the choice explicit.
  • Spec does not state whether the VBS launcher should wait for Electron to exit. Existing npm start uses scripts/start-electron.ps1 which Start-Process -Waits the child. launcher.bat inherits that via call. I chose bWaitOnReturn = False in the VBS wrapper so the VBS process terminates immediately while launcher.bat + Electron remain running (matches “hides console window” intent — no persistent wscript.exe process in Task Manager after launch). launcher.bat itself is synchronous/blocking when launched directly (path #2) so operators who double-click launcher.bat see the build output.

What’s now done.

  • All five launch paths from spec §2.1 have a physical backing file:
    1. npm start — was already present.
    2. launcher.bat — new.
    3. launcher.vbs — new.
    4. Tropical Update Uploader.lnk — produced on demand by running create-shortcut.ps1 (shortcut .lnk files are binary and environment-specific, so shipping a generator matches the v1 pattern referenced in §21’s File Inventory and avoids committing a binary that would re-encode the current machine’s Desktop path into the repo).
    5. NSIS installer — was already present.

Verification.

  • npm run typecheck → exit 0 (main + preload + renderer tsconfigs).
  • npm run lint → exit 0 (eslint on .ts/.tsx).
  • npm run build → exit 0 (Vite renderer + tsc main + tsc preload).
  • npm test → 567/567 passed across 54 test files (prior baseline 564/564 across 53 files; delta = +3 new tests in tests/shared/launchers.test.ts, +1 new test file, 0 regressions in any pre-existing test).
  • Path #4 shortcut generation is not executed in CI because creating a real Desktop shortcut mutates the host user profile; the contract is validated structurally by the create-shortcut.ps1 content assertions in the new test, and manually exercisable via powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\create-shortcut.ps1 on a real Windows host.

Risk. Low. Three isolated text files at tool root + one new shared-project test. No source code in src/ is touched, no IPC surface or renderer state changes, no new npm dependencies. The scripts only run when explicitly invoked by a user; they cannot affect CI or the existing npm start / test flow. The test asserts presence + key substrings only, so future refactors (e.g., adding logging or config flags to launcher.bat) do not require test changes unless the core contract shifts.

Out of scope for Cycle 5

The remaining 32 MISSING features in the cycle-5 report are queued for dedicated implement-cycle work:

Feature ID(s) Gap Why deferred
F009 assets/ directory with WMB_Logo.png, icon.ico, asset docs Requires authored binary assets (PNG/ICO); cannot be generated from source in a text-only fix pass. create-shortcut.ps1 already handles the absent-icon case gracefully so F008 is not blocked on F009.
F030–F034 Publish queue rows, commit-message input, per-file YouTube UI, status log, destination footer Substantial React renderer feature work depending on new Zustand stores, TanStack Query wiring, and accessibility review (spec §23.5). Cycle-4 fixes log (refinement-functional-fixes-4.md) flagged these as multi-session deliverables; that reasoning still holds.
F039 Document Creator renderer section (spec §6.2) Similar scope: full form UI with live filename preview, storm dropdown integration with existing QuickBrowseService, date/time pickers.
F045 Quick Browse renderer section (spec §6.3) Backend services + IPC already PASS (F046–F049); renderer UI is the gap.
F050 Header logo + git-status indicator Depends on F009 assets and a new widget in AppShell.
F087–F090 Command palette, keyboard shortcut wiring, context menus, designed empty states (spec §§23.7–23.9, §23.12) Each requires new renderer infrastructure (react-hotkeys-hook, Radix ContextMenu, command registry) that is outside single-cycle scope.
F093–F111 Phase 2: NHC monitor, AI drafter, email review, draft queue, rich dashboard, historical views, notifications, QoL, audit/compliance (spec §§20, 23, 24) Explicitly multi-session per spec §20 + §24; cycle-2/3/4 reports all flagged these as deferred.

None of these gaps block any currently PASSing feature. The tool’s core publish pipeline (F001–F007, F010–F029, F035–F038, F040–F044, F046–F049, F051–F086, F091–F092) remains fully functional.

Final verification (this cycle)

Check Result
npm run typecheck PASS (main+preload+renderer)
npm run lint PASS (zero warnings, zero errors)
npm run build PASS (vite renderer + tsc main + tsc preload)
npm test (post-fix) PASS — 567/567 tests across 54 test files
F008 delta MISSING → IMPLEMENTED (launcher.bat, launcher.vbs, create-shortcut.ps1 + 3 new tests)
Pre-existing tests 564/564 → 564/564 unchanged (0 regressions); +3 new F008 tests
Other MISSING inventory Unchanged (32 remaining; queued for dedicated implement cycles)

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