feat(app): sidecar bundling pipeline — first .app builds clean (#176 ticket A)

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Summary

Schritt A of "fühlt sich nativ an" — replaces the launcher stub from PR #203 with a real sidecar bundling pipeline. After this lands, cargo tauri build produces a working mycelium.app on the developer Mac.

Locally validated: 151 MB .app under target/release/bundle/macos/mycelium.app, launches successfully, opens window at http://127.0.0.1:8787 (existing dashboard server). Tray with 4 items appears.

Changes

• scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh (new): copies mcp-server/dist + node_modules + supabase/migrations into app/src-tauri/sidecar-payload/. Idempotent; rebuilds mcp-server/dist if stale.
• app/src-tauri/binaries/mycelium-mcp-aarch64-apple-darwin: stub replaced by real launcher. Locates payload (dev: ../sidecar-payload/, bundled: ../Resources/sidecar-payload/), execs node $PAYLOAD/index.js. Honest about prerequisites:
  • Requires Node on PATH (portable Node bundling = sub-task 8).
  • Inherits SUPABASE_URL / SUPABASE_KEY from the user-launchd environment (PGlite-as-primary backend = next native-app PR).
• app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json: bundle.resources ships sidecar-payload/. beforeBuildCommand runs the bundle script via git rev-parse --show-toplevel (robust against Tauri 2's CWD inconsistency in beforeBuildCommand resolution).
• app/.gitignore: ignores src-tauri/sidecar-payload/ (~150 MB tree generated at build time).
• app/README.md: status updated for iteration A — what works, what's follow-up.

Validation

cargo check                 → clean
cargo tauri build           → builds 151 MB mycelium.app
open …/mycelium.app         → window + tray, dashboard visible

Known gaps (intentional, follow-up tickets)

• DMG packaging: final step of cargo tauri build (bundle_dmg.sh) returned non-zero on this machine. The .app itself is produced and runnable; the .dmg wrapper around it isn't. Likely fix: brew install create-dmg. Investigating in follow-up; not a blocker for "can run the native shell."
• Self-contained Node runtime: launcher invokes node from PATH. Bundling a portable Node so the .dmg works without a system Node install is sub-task 8 (CI matrix / cross-platform).
• PGlite as primary backend: mcp-server/src/index.ts still constructs every service against SUPABASE_URL / SUPABASE_KEY (~30 sites). Refactor to honour MYCELIUM_USE_PGLITE=1 and route all services through the in-process adapter is the next big native-app PR.
• App icons remain solid-purple placeholders.
• Auto-updater pubkey remains a placeholder — see app/README.md "Signing-key bootstrap".

Test plan

• bash scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh — produces app/src-tauri/sidecar-payload/ (~136 MB)
• cd app/src-tauri && cargo tauri build — produces target/release/bundle/macos/mycelium.app
• open target/release/bundle/macos/mycelium.app — window opens, tray icon appears, 4 menu items, dashboard reachable

Related

• PR feat(app): Tauri 2 shell scaffold — main window, tray, sidecar wiring (#176 sub-task 3) #203 (Tauri scaffold — base of the native-app stack)
• PR feat(app): tauri-plugin-updater wired to GitHub Releases latest.json (#176 ticket 4) #207 (Tauri-plugin-updater — placeholder pubkey wired)
• Issue epic: native standalone app (no Docker) — macOS / Windows / Linux #176 (native standalone app epic)

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[Dewinator]

Merge-readiness note — CI gap is by design, not a missing run

GitHub shows mergeStateStatus: CLEAN and mergeable: MERGEABLE for this PR but no CI checks have run. That isn't a stuck workflow — it's the path-filter on .github/workflows/mcp-server-tests.yml:

on:
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - 'mcp-server/**'
      - '.github/workflows/mcp-server-tests.yml'

PR #208 changes:

• app/.gitignore (+3 -0)
• app/README.md (+32 -14)
• app/src-tauri/binaries/mycelium-mcp-aarch64-apple-darwin (+45 -8)
• app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json (+3 -2)
• scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh (+64 -0)

Zero mcp-server/** paths touched, so the workflow is correctly skipped. There is no CI signal to wait for — the merge gate is local sidecar-bundling validation (which the PR body documents: "first .app builds clean").

If a future PR in the native-app track wants automated coverage of the bundling pipeline, that's out of scope here — it would be a separate workflow (e.g. native-app-bundle.yml) gated on app/** + scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh. Spike noted in docs/native-ci-release-spike.md.

🤖 Posted by autonomous tick (mycelium 175th)

[Dewinator]

183rd-tick — empirical local validation of bundle-sidecar.sh

Ran the bundling pipeline end-to-end against this PR (head 0b63244, fresh checkout off main). Posting because the PR currently surfaces no CI checks — the only workflow (mcp-server-tests.yml) has paths: mcp-server/**, so app-only PRs like this one bypass the gate. This comment fills that empirical gap.

Results

Step	Result
Cold run (build + copy)	46 s (npm run build triggered, full payload copy)
Idempotent re-run	31 s (build skipped as fresh, just wipe + recopy of 136 MB)
Final payload size	136 MB
Migrations packed	79 (matches the 79-migration-walk that's the canonical PGlite gate)
node --check sidecar-payload/index.js	OK (syntax-valid module)
Launcher dev-layout resolution	OK — binaries/mycelium-mcp-* finds ../sidecar-payload/index.js
Launcher command -v node	OK on this Mac (Node v25.9.0)

What this validates

• bundle-sidecar.sh runs cleanly on a developer Mac with no manual setup beyond npm already-installed.
• The if … -nt freshness check actually triggers a rebuild when dist/index.js is stale (cold run) and skips it when fresh (re-run) — idempotent as advertised.
• Payload layout matches what mycelium-mcp-aarch64-apple-darwin's "layout 1 (dev mode)" branch expects.
• Bundled index.js is parseable Node ESM; nothing got mangled by the cp -R dist/. step.

What this does NOT validate

• cargo tauri build end-to-end — would need a clean Tauri toolchain install + ~10 min on this machine; not run this tick.
• Bundled .app actually launching — same reason. The launcher path-resolution is verified statically only.
• Cross-platform — macOS arm64 only. Sub-task 8 (CI matrix) is the proper coverage.

Recommendation

PR is mergeable from a script-correctness standpoint. The "no CI" optic is a workflow-path-filter artefact, not a quality gap on this PR specifically — but worth tracking as sub-task 8 prep: once more app/**-only PRs land, a minimal app-tests.yml (even just bash scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh && node --check sidecar-payload/index.js) would re-establish the auto-gate. Filing a separate proposed-by-agent ticket for that would put us at backlog cap (currently 3 ungelabelte: #84, #90, #93), so noting it here instead of opening a fourth.

[Dewinator]

Local validation 2026-05-04 (agent tick)

Fresh worktree of pr-208 → ran the validation steps from the test plan. Two findings worth recording:

1. Empirical sanity check ✅

After npm ci in mcp-server/, the bundle script runs cleanly:

[bundle-sidecar] payload built — 136M

Payload tree matches the spec: index.js, package.json, node_modules/, supabase/migrations/ (79 files), plus agents/, services/, tools/, types/, swarm/, middleware/, native/, util/. Size matches the PR description.

create-dmg is available via brew install create-dmg (Homebrew has it under that exact name) — that confirms the suggested fix for the known DMG-bundling gap.

2. Step-ordering bug in scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh ⚠️

On a fresh checkout (no mcp-server/node_modules yet), the script fails:

[bundle-sidecar] mcp-server build needed — running npm run build
> mycelium-mcp-server@0.1.0 build
> tsc
sh: tsc: command not found

Cause: step 1 invokes npm run build (which needs tsc from node_modules/.bin/) before step 2 ensures node_modules/ exists.

After manually running npm ci once, the script works on every subsequent run. So this only bites a fresh clone (CI, new contributor, or a clean re-bundle after rm -rf mcp-server/node_modules).

Trivial fix: swap the two blocks — install deps first, then build. One-line move; same logic. Happy to roll into a follow-up commit on this PR if you want, otherwise it can ride along with sub-task 8 (CI matrix) where this would surface anyway.

Out of scope / not validated here

• cargo tauri build (would require ~10–15 min Rust compile; sidecar-payload generation is the testable upstream piece).
• .dmg produced by bundle_dmg.sh (needs brew install create-dmg per PR body).
• Tray + dashboard reachability (visual / launch-time check, can't be observed from headless tick).

— autonomous validation tick, no code changes pushed

[Dewinator]

Fix gepusht: step-ordering bug in scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh

Commit e8255eb löst den fresh-clone-Bug, den die 2026-05-04-Validation oben gemeldet hatte (tsc: command not found weil npm run build vor npm ci lief). Reiner Block-Swap, identische Logik:

• Step 1 (war 2): node_modules-Check zuerst — sichert tsc für den Build.
• Step 2 (war 1): Build-Check — läuft jetzt mit garantiert installierten Deps.

Empirische Re-Validation (Mac arm64, fresh-clone-Simulation)

rm -rf mcp-server/node_modules mcp-server/dist app/src-tauri/sidecar-payload
bash scripts/bundle-sidecar.sh

[bundle-sidecar] node_modules missing — running npm ci
added 220 packages, and audited 221 packages in 12s
[bundle-sidecar] mcp-server build needed — running npm run build
> tsc
[bundle-sidecar] payload built — 136M

Cold run grün, Payload-Größe identisch zu den vorigen Tick-Validierungen (136 MB, 79 Migrationen). PR sollte aus Skript-Korrektheits-Sicht jetzt ohne den fresh-clone-Stolperstein mergen.

— autonomous tick fix, no scope expansion