Expose desktop smoke hooks for homepage intent suggestions and add an isolation smoke wrapper for the new decision flow.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Keep workspace runner errorCategory metadata on propagated execution failures so desktop diagnostics can distinguish failure types.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Add desktop settings persistence for expert model config and cover the new save flow with a dedicated settings smoke test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Keep runtime-cloud target resolution out of persisted config and hold employee-key startup in syncing/starting states during transient reconnects so binding no longer flashes the wrong environment or recoverable gateway 1006 errors.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Wire desktop skill catalog resolution through the desktop runtime and packaged app paths.
Add the supporting service layer and trigger plumbing needed for curated skill integration.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Prevent first-launch startup from being masked by the generic employee-config syncing state.
Differentiate config sync, project sync, runtime startup, and gateway connection states, and improve diagnostics and smoke coverage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Teach smoke-cloud-api to serve workspace bundle fixtures for packaged project
  validation scenarios
- Expand installer-smoke to seed a workspace fixture and verify packaged
  installer behavior against the prepared bundle scenario
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Extend shared IPC/DesktopApi types with per-project session listing and creation
- Add project store support for per-project sessions, active project metadata,
  and builtin home project descriptors
- Update preload bridge and desktop UI to show project switcher, project-scoped
  session lists, and per-project session actions
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Add project-workspace-agent-runner.js to asarUnpack so it runs outside
  the asar archive in packaged builds
- Use absolute Windows System32 PowerShell path in project-bundle and
  project-workspace-executor to avoid Git Bash path hijacking
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

- Extract workspace-startup.ts with buildChatSummary, shouldRetryBootstrapWarmup,
  isTransientLocalGatewayError and toStartupErrorMessage for unified startup state
- Converge index.ts and ipc.ts to use runtimeManager.getGatewayConnection() as
  truth source for bundled-runtime mode, preventing fallback to persisted 18789
- Add WINDOWS_POWERSHELL_PATH / WINDOWS_TASKKILL_PATH absolute paths in
  runtime-manager to fix Git Bash path hijacking on Windows
- Buffer last 50 stderr lines and surface name-conflict / port-in-use hints in
  lastError via buildStderrHint()
- Add smoke:workspace-startup script and workspace-startup-smoke test
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>