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feat: native Windows & macOS support (core parity; managed daemon WSL-only)#47

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Summary

Makes every agent-facing agctl command run natively on Windows and macOS (including all jq-powered features), gates only the managed mock daemon (mock start/stop/status) to POSIX, and backs the existing Operating System :: OS Independent classifier with a Windows + macOS CI matrix.

What changed

  • Daemon platform gate (the only production code change): _require_posix_daemon() in agctl/commands/mock_commands.py, wired as the first statement of _mock_start_core / _mock_stop_core / _mock_status_core. On os.name == "nt" it raises an actionable ConfigError (exit 2) pointing at mock run or WSL. WSL reports "posix", so the daemon works there unmodified. Streaming commands (http ping, mock run, logs tail, grpc streaming) are untouched — their Ctrl+C/SIGINT graceful-stop already works on Windows.
  • Tests: gate unit tests (module-os seam, deterministic on every OS); module-level skipif(os.name == "nt") on the POSIX-only daemon lifecycle suite.
  • CI: matrix expanded to ubuntu/windows/macOS × py3.11/3.12/3.13, run command pytest tests/unit; integration stays ubuntu-only/opt-in.
  • Docs: DESIGN §3.6, ARCHITECTURE §15, README, and the consumer skills get the platform-support contract.

Key technical finding

The suspected blocker — that jq (the mwilliamson/jq.py binding) has no Windows wheels — is false. Verified against PyPI: jq 1.12.0, psycopg-binary 3.3.4, grpcio 1.82.1, and confluent-kafka 2.15.0 all ship win_amd64 cp311/312/313 wheels. So pip install 'agctl[kafka,db,grpc,...]' works cleanly on Windows, and jq-powered assertions (--match, --jq-path, kafka --pattern, db --expect-value --path, mock match.jq) work natively — nothing is degraded.

Out of scope (explicitly)

  • A native Windows managed daemon (job objects / named events) — declined; use mock run or WSL.
  • A pure-Python jq replacement — unnecessary (wheels exist).
  • A unified signal-helper refactor — noted as a possible follow-up, not required.

Spec & plan

  • Spec: docs/superpowers/specs/active/2026-07-10-windows-support-design.md
  • Plan: docs/superpowers/plans/active/2026-07-10-windows-support.md

(These stay in active/ until the PR merges, then move to archive/ as ADRs.)

⚠️ Outstanding acceptance signal

Windows + macOS CI green is the core-parity proof and runs for the first time on this PR. The local dev host is Linux, so cross-platform correctness is verified by CI, not locally. Please confirm the 9-cell matrix is green before merging.

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HumanBean17 and others added 14 commits July 10, 2026 23:37
Brainstormed design for native Windows + macOS support. Gates only the
managed mock daemon (mock start/stop/status) to POSIX; every other command
runs natively on Windows incl. jq-powered features (all heavy deps ship
win_amd64 wheels — verified against PyPI). Adds windows/macos to the unit
CI matrix. No version bump, no new deps.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four-task plan from the approved spec: (1) POSIX daemon gate in
mock_commands.py, (2) skip the POSIX lifecycle test suite on Windows,
(3) expand CI to ubuntu/windows/macOS unit matrix, (4) docs. Audit found
the spec's /tmp-test-conversion (D7) has no concrete offenders — recorded
as a no-op.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ause

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- config: normalize _load_sample() to LF (CRLF checkout on Windows broke
  three sample-comparison tests in test_cli.py)
- test_mock_commands: skip the real `mock start` test on Windows (gated
  by _require_posix_daemon); TestDaemonPlatformGate still runs everywhere
- test_logs_client: write the follow fixture with newline="" so on-disk
  bytes match the faked st_size (offset math + \r-free line parsing)
- test_discover_command: use Path.as_posix() for the log path embedded in
  a double-quoted YAML scalar (backslashes are invalid escape sequences)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The config-init/readme tests decoded files with Path.read_text() (platform
default = cp1252 on Windows), mojibake-ing the UTF-8 em-dash/arrow in the
sample; _load_sample() uses utf-8. Read with encoding="utf-8".
The discover test's .as_posix() config path is echoed forward-slash, so
assert against log_file.as_posix() (was str(log_file) → backslash mismatch).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
mock/daemon.py (is_alive/os.kill, pidfile lifecycle, target resolution) is
reached only via the managed daemon commands, which _require_posix_daemon
gates on Windows. is_alive() uses os.kill(pid, 0) — TerminateProcess on
Windows — which destabilized the whole pytest run (KeyboardInterrupt).
Consistent with the test_mock_lifecycle.py Windows skip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pre-existing flakes exposed by the Windows matrix (unrelated to the gate):
- test_duration_timer_stops_engine: loosen lower bound (>=0.1 -> >=0.05);
  Windows time.sleep granularity (~15ms) fired a 0.1s timer at 0.093s.
- test_concurrency_cap_overflow_returns_429: loosen prompt-429 bound
  (<delay_ms -> <delay_ms*10); the permit pre-acquire makes rejection
  deterministic, this is a no-hang sanity check, not a tight timing assert.
- test_body_parse_skipped_on_list_body: poll briefly for the http.hit event;
  the handler thread can append it just after the response is received.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
The handler emitted http.unmatched/http.hit AFTER _send_json_response, so a
client received the response before the event was appended — a systemic race
for any test reading event_sink right after the response (flaked ~1/run on
loaded CI cells across all OSes). Emit first: the handler thread runs
emit->send in program order, so once the client has the response the event is
guaranteed appended (GIL provides the visibility). duration_ms is now measured
up to emit (after the delay, before the TCP write) — negligible change.

Root-cause fix for the mock_http_server flakes surfaced by the Windows matrix.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
- test_mock_http_server: drop the redundant http.hit poll in
  test_body_parse_skipped_on_list_body. emit-before-send now guarantees the
  event is appended before the response is received (sibling asserts without a
  poll); a poll would mask a future regression of the race this branch fixed.
- ARCHITECTURE §15: tighten the graceful-stop wording to match the rest of the
  file ("SIGTERM/SIGINT handlers"; only SIGINT fires on native Windows).

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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HumanBean17 merged commit 39c0dab into main Jul 11, 2026
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