PwrAgent Dev Restart

Use this skill when the running Electron app must be stopped and restarted from a freshly updated checkout, especially after merging a PR.

Run the commands below from the checkout you want to restart. The script derives its default root from its own location, so it targets the checkout it ships in, including a git worktree.

Workflow

1. Confirm the target checkout is updated and clean enough to run:

   git status --short --branch
   

   git log -1 --oneline --decorate
   

2. Dry-run the restart to see which processes would be stopped:

   .agents/skills/pwragent-dev-restart/scripts/restart-pwragent-dev.zsh schedule --delay 30 --dry-run
   

3. Schedule the restart and answer the user before the delay expires:

   .agents/skills/pwragent-dev-restart/scripts/restart-pwragent-dev.zsh schedule --delay 30
   

4. After the delay, verify the app came back:

   tail -120 .local/pwragent-dev-restart.log
   

   pgrep -fl "$PWD|PwrAgent|pnpm.*dev|electron-vite"
   

Script Notes

• The script stops processes matching the target checkout path and their bounded parent dev-server chain, then starts pnpm dev:dev from the checkout.
• The script discovers running processes by checkout path. It does not require a pidfile or a previous skill-started instance.
• It excludes helper and coding-agent CLI processes whose serialized command payloads mention the checkout path but are not part of the PwrAgent dev process tree.
• It also never signals its own ancestors. The shell or agent session that starts the restart is usually a grandparent or higher, and its command line can contain the checkout path. schedule passes that protected pid set to the detached restart-now child, which is reparented and cannot discover it.
• With --detach-start, the script starts the dev command in a detached tmux session when tmux is available. This survives parent command cleanup while keeping the dev logs in the configured restart log.
• It uses a nohup sleep wrapper for the delayed timer. Do not use launchctl submit here: launchd can keep descendant pnpm dev processes in the submitted job context and relaunch them after they exit.
• Default root is derived from the script location: the checkout that contains .agents/skills/pwragent-dev-restart/scripts/restart-pwragent-dev.zsh. Pass --root PATH to target a different checkout.
• The root must be a pnpm workspace root (package.json and pnpm-workspace.yaml). The script stops processes whose command line matches the root path, so it refuses a broad root that would match unrelated processes.
• Default log is <root>/.local/pwragent-dev-restart.log.
• Use --dry-run before scheduling unless the user explicitly asks to restart immediately.