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On Windows the daemon could never start: Node can only listen on a named pipe there, and the endpoint was a socket file (#1051).

• On win32 the endpoint is \.\pipe\simlock-<16 hex of the data directory's hash>. Nothing is created, stated or removed for it. A second daemon still fails the bind with address-in-use.
• daemon stop waits for the pipe to stop answering. A connect that times out (every pipe instance busy) counts as a daemon already running.
• IPC connect gives up after 10 s, and close forces the socket shut after 2 s.
• The detached daemon gets no console window.
• The CLI reads the host's platform from its hostPlatform port.
• The website documents the pipe, and that Simlock on Windows is for single-user machines only (ADR 0003 amendment).

Verified on Windows 11 with Node 24: doctor, status, daemon start, daemon stop and a second start all behave as expected.

Part of #1051 and #1068.

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Walkthrough

Windows daemon endpoints now use named pipes derived from the lower-cased data-directory hash. The host skips filesystem operations for pipe endpoints, and the CLI probes them by connecting. The Node IPC transport adds configurable connection timeouts and close grace periods. The daemon and updater launchers set windowsHide: true. Documentation describes Windows named-pipe behavior and its security limitations.

Changes: Windows named-pipe support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve and classify endpoints src/ports/paths.ts, src/ports/index.ts, src/ports/paths.test.ts, src/ports/AGENTS.md	Windows endpoint resolution returns a named pipe derived from the lower-cased data-directory hash. isPipeEndpoint is exported and tested. Socket path length limits now require an explicit platform.
Handle named pipes in host lifecycle src/daemon/connection-host.ts, src/daemon/connection-host.test.ts, src/daemon/AGENTS.md	The host skips directory creation, stale-socket checks, and endpoint removal for pipes. Tests cover host connections, shutdown, and rejection when another host claims an active pipe.
Probe pipe endpoint presence src/cli/environment.ts, src/updater/probe.ts, src/ports/ipc.ts, src/ports/index.ts	The CLI checks pipe endpoints by connecting and closing. Connection-refused and endpoint-not-found errors indicate absence; other errors indicate presence. The updater probe uses the shared endpoint-absence classifier.
Bound IPC connection and close duration src/ports/ipc.ts, src/ports/ipc.test.ts	The Node IPC transport accepts configurable connection-timeout and close-grace durations. Timed-out connections reject with an IpcError; connections that remain open past the close grace are destroyed.
Hide Windows launcher consoles src/ports/daemon-launcher.ts, src/ports/updater-launcher.ts	The daemon and updater launchers pass windowsHide: true to spawn.

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Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: High · up to e8715

Windows daemon startup can expose credentials on shared machines, and a busy existing daemon can produce misleading fatal startup behavior. Resolve these before merging.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to e8715

Windows daemon support introduces a documented local impersonation risk before startup. Predictable pipe names also make daemon ownership depend on the spelling of the data-directory path rather than its filesystem identity. Single-user support limits and existing credential checks reduce exposure, but do not fully establish endpoint isolation.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: A local account that claims the predictable Windows pipe before daemon startup can receive the CLI hello and any supplied credential. A captured long-lived operator token may remain useful after the legitimate daemon starts. This is an explicitly documented, accepted limitation outside the single-user Windows support boundary, not a demonstrated native-Windows exploit.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: Distinct Windows path aliases for the same data directory can derive different pipe names and bypass the intended one-daemon-per-state-directory guard. The database uses transactional locking rather than a lifetime singleton lock, while admin.token ownership is shared through the filesystem. This can permit competing credential publication and removal, undermining startup and replacement ownership guarantees. The consequence is source-derived; a native Windows alias scenario was not executed.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified impersonation path requires local endpoint creation before the legitimate daemon claims it and a victim connecting with a credential. Exposure follows the captured credential's authority and lifetime; this does not establish a remote entrypoint or a machine-wide privilege escalation. A stale per-start secret does not authenticate a newly started daemon.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A pre-start impostor can receive the bearer credential before any hello reply is validated. Rejecting a malformed reply or closing after handshake failure cannot undo that disclosure. Reuse against the legitimate daemon remains conditional on credential validity and subsequent transport access.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The host maps address-in-use to DaemonAlreadyRunningError, which protects an already claimed endpoint. Documentation describes restrictive default pipe access and first-instance behavior, but also acknowledges that neither prevents an attacker from being the first listener. The Node listener supplies no explicit Windows security descriptor in the inspected source.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The singleton guard identifies the pipe string, while persistent state and admin.token identify filesystem objects. Lower-casing handles case-only variants but not junction or other filesystem aliases. Consequently, endpoint exclusivity alone does not establish exclusive credential publication and cleanup for one physical data directory.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before extending Windows support to hostile multi-account machines, establish listener identity before transmitting bearer credentials and validate native pipe permissions and first-instance behavior. Tie daemon ownership to canonical filesystem identity or an independent lifetime lock so aliases cannot split ownership of shared state and credentials.

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Restrict the Windows named pipe to the daemon user.

src/cli/environment.ts connects to the endpoint before resolving the admin credential, then passes that connection and credential to connectSimlockAdmin. connectSimlockClient sends the credential in wire.hello. Because NodeIpcTransport.listen sets no pipe ACL or exclusive first-instance protection, a local account that pre-creates the predictable pipe can receive the admin credential. The same peer can make the liveness probe report DaemonAlreadyRunningError.

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Agreed that the predictable name is a gap. Here's how far it reaches, and why I haven't changed the protocol in this PR:

• Other accounts can't use our pipe. Node passes no security attributes, so the pipe gets the default named-pipe DACL: full control for SYSTEM, administrators and the creator, read-only for Everyone. A client opens read/write, so another non-admin account can't connect to the daemon.
• Our daemon's pipe can't be hijacked. libuv creates the first instance with FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE, so a second listener fails address-in-use, which surfaces as DaemonAlreadyRunningError.
• The remaining gap is another local account creating the name before our daemon starts. It would then receive the CLI's hello, with any --token/SIMLOCK_ADMIN_TOKEN, and could answer driver.passthrough with a command of its choosing. The per-start admin.token is no use to it, since no real daemon holds that secret's hash. This only matters on a Windows machine shared by several accounts.

Node can't set a pipe ACL or ask a pipe for its server's identity, so a real fix needs a name other accounts can't predict. For example, the hash could include a random key kept in the data directory, created exclusively by whoever comes first. Every client would then read that key before connecting. That changes how every client finds the daemon, so I've recorded the gap in the daemon manual's security model (c4581c3) instead. I'm happy to implement the keyed name here or in a follow-up if you want it.

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@leonardoxr You are right about first-instance protection. libuv already uses FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE. My claim that this protection was missing was incorrect. Microsoft also documents the default DACL you described. citeturn3view1turn2view1

The remaining concern is pipe-name pre-creation, not access to an existing daemon pipe. A user-only ACL on the real daemon’s pipe would not prevent another account from creating that name first. My proposed fix was therefore insufficient.

A follow-up is reasonable for the stated single-user scope. The documentation records the limitation; it does not remove the credential-disclosure or command-execution risk on shared machines. I will leave that narrower concern open rather than mark it fixed.

For a keyed-name solution, verify that Windows directory permissions protect the key from other accounts. Exclusive file creation alone does not provide that protection. Validation should also cover concurrent key creation and a hostile listener at the old predictable name.

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Major · Canonicalize the shared data directory before deriving the Windows pipe name. · paths.ts:46-55

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Canonicalize the shared data directory before deriving the Windows pipe name.

When two Windows aliases resolve to the same physical directory, windowsPipeName creates different endpoints. Each daemon can then persist a different per-start secret to the same admin.token path. Starting one daemon can overwrite the other daemon’s credential, and stopping either daemon can remove the file while the other daemon remains active. Administrative connections through the surviving endpoint then fail until its daemon rewrites admin.token or the user supplies that daemon’s in-memory secret through --token or SIMLOCK_ADMIN_TOKEN.

Use one canonical endpoint identity for aliases that reference the same directory. Preserve the canonical value when the directory does not exist by canonicalizing its nearest existing parent and appending the unresolved path components.

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Review comment at @src/ports/paths.ts around lines 46 - 55:
Update windowsPipeName to derive its digest from a canonicalized dataDirectory
so Windows aliases to the same physical directory produce the same pipe
endpoint. When the directory does not exist, canonicalize its nearest existing
parent and append the unresolved path components; preserve the existing
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Minor · Keep the endpoint summary consistent. · AGENTS.md:58

src/daemon/AGENTS.md:58
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Keep the endpoint summary consistent.

Line 58 documents a Windows named pipe, but Line 3 still says that the daemon serves the contract on a Unix socket. Update the summary to describe both platform-specific endpoint types.

Proposed wording

-Does: one process per data directory — composes a worker or a gateway and serves the contract on a unix socket.
+Does: one process per data directory — composes a worker or a gateway and serves the contract on a local IPC endpoint (a Unix socket or a Windows named pipe).

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Update the daemon summary to describe its endpoint as platform-specific local
IPC, covering both Unix sockets and Windows named pipes instead of claiming it
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Clarify the Windows pipe permission wording.

“Which no directory guards” is ungrammatical, and “a client needs read and write” omits “access.” Use explicit permission wording so the documented security boundary is clear.

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-On Windows the endpoint is a named pipe, which no directory guards: the default pipe ACL lets
-other accounts only read (a client needs read and write), and libuv's first-instance flag makes
+On Windows the endpoint is a named pipe, which has no directory guards: the default pipe ACL allows
+other accounts to read only; clients need read and write access, and libuv's first-instance flag makes

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Minor · Classify a timed-out named-pipe probe as an already-running daemon. · connection-host.ts:89-93

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Classify a timed-out named-pipe probe as an already-running daemon.

When all Windows named-pipe instances are busy, Node 22.13 can wait for the pipe until NodeIpcTransport.connect reaches its 10-second timeout and returns IpcError("unknown", ...). refuseWhenDaemonAnswers propagates that error because isUnavailable excludes unknown, so the second daemon uses fatal startup handling instead of DaemonAlreadyRunningError.

Use a distinct timeout code so unrelated unknown errors keep their current behavior.

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 export type IpcErrorCode =
   | "address-in-use"
   | "connection-refused"
   | "endpoint-not-found"
+  | "connection-timeout"
   | "unknown";
...
-              "unknown",
+              "connection-timeout",
...
     if (error instanceof IpcError && isUnavailable(error)) return;
+    if (
+      error instanceof IpcError &&
+      isPipeEndpoint(options.endpoint) &&
+      error.code === "connection-timeout"
+    ) {
+      throw new DaemonAlreadyRunningError(options.endpoint);
+    }
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@leonardoxr Verified the source at 5a671f4a. The fix addresses the timed-out pipe probe finding:

• The connection timer emits connection-timeout.
• refuseWhenDaemonAnswers throws DaemonAlreadyRunningError for that code.
• Other unknown errors still propagate.
• The tests cover an answering endpoint, a timeout, a missing endpoint, and an unknown failure.

I inspected the test assertions but did not run the tests.

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Review ledger

Round 1: 5a671f4
Round 2: 02f41bd
Round fix-check: bba88f5

Runs: 12. Cost USD: 4.9482. Agent seconds: 2613.
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Finding outcomes: {"fixed":4,"nonblocking":4}. Classes: {"architecture 10 duplicate endpoint-absent copies":1,"documentation 9 user docs say daemon.sock only":1,"testing 10 weak close-grace assertion":1,"testing 3 connect timeout untested":1,"testing 3 platform-dependent test, branch unreached":1,"testing 6 internal-file test without why":1,"testing 6 pipe cases added to describe without why":1,"trust boundary, pipe impersonation unproven":1}.

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Review notes

Not blocking, not verified. Each is one reviewer's claim.

• code: src/ports/ipc.test.ts the close-grace test's assertion is weak (it does not prove the socket was forced shut at the grace).
• code: src/daemon/connection-host.ts the endpoint-absent check has duplicate copies; one shared helper would do.
• code: src/ports/ipc.ts pipe impersonation is unproven either way; accepted by the ADR 0003 amendment (single-user Windows only).
• code: src/daemon/connection-host.test.ts the pipe cases join the describe without a why line.

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