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Desktop's settings writes left no trace, so a flag that changed itself could not be attributed to anything. On a QA machine betaFeaturesEnabled went true → false with no click, and every known writer was ruled out by reading the code. This PR logs every persisted settings change to app.log with the stack that caused it, and names the renderer page for writes that arrive over IPC. It is diagnostic only: settings behaviour does not change, and a logging failure can never cost a write.

What a line looks like

Settings: wrote "betaFeaturesEnabled": true -> false | via at set (<app>/out/main/index.js:…) <- …
Settings: set-setting "theme" requested by panel.html
  • Booleans and numbers are logged exactly, as are token values of Language, theme, close action and auto-launch ("en" -> "zh"). Other strings, arrays and objects are logged by shape only (<string:42>, <array:3>), because app.log is attached to support requests and scrubAll does not catch paths or mirror hosts. The app's own location in stack frames becomes <app>, and the request line keeps only the page name.
  • The baseline is what was on disk: defaults are not merged in, and a stored null stays null. A key a sparse file gains is logged, as is a key being removed (true -> <unset>). After a load-time repair saves, the next write diffs against what the repair wrote, so the repair is logged once, under loadOutcome.
  • Lines are logged only after the write lands, and from the written payload, so NaN shows as null.
  • If the previous file could not be parsed, the line says so ((previous file unparseable, N characters discarded)), since everything it held is dropped by that write.
  • Settings are read, and can be repaired, before app.log opens. Up to 200 such lines are held and written when the log opens.

Known limitations

  • Only settings.json is covered. Per-install settings (installations.json: shared folders, startup args, auto-download outputs and so on) are not logged.
  • Two writers bypass save and are not logged: the .bak restore in readFileSafe (which has() can also trigger) and the Linux cache-dir migration in paths.ts.
  • A repair line held before app.log opens is lost if the process dies before the log opens. The file is already repaired by then, so the next launch has nothing to log.
  • One set on a file needing repair produces two lines: the repair, then the change.

Accepted gaps (author's call)

  • Edits made in Desktop Settings get no "requested by" line, and their stack ends in an anonymous handler frame. That frame can only be resolved against the exact build.
  • The "requested by" line is written for every set-setting call, including ones that change nothing (which write no wrote line).

Change breakdown

Category Files Added Deleted Changed Share
Product code 3 +120 −13 133 25.2%
Tests 3 +390 −4 394 74.8%
Total 6 +510 −17 527 100%

Changed = added + deleted, measured against the merge base with main. No documentation, configuration, generated files, lockfiles or vendored code; no merge-only changes.

Product code (3 files)
File + −
src/main/settings.ts 96 12
src/main/lib/appLog.ts 13 0
src/main/lib/ipc/registerSettingsHandlers.ts 11 1
Tests (3 files)
File + −
src/main/settings.test.ts 305 1
src/main/lib/ipc/registerSettingsHandlers.test.ts 66 3
src/main/lib/appLog.test.ts 19 0

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A consent-adjacent flag changed itself on the QA box — betaFeaturesEnabled went
true to false in a clean single-field write, no click, no onboarding, telemetry
true throughout — and nothing in the app could say what wrote it.

Every writer was then excluded by reading the code. The seed only writes when
the value is absent and would have written true, since telemetry was true. The
onboarding submit needs the first-use flow. The settings toggle emits only from
a click, and its watcher deliberately does not. The whole-object saves write
back what they loaded. So the writer is something a source search does not see,
which is exactly the case a log has to cover: the useful question is not "which
of the writers I know about ran" but "who ran".

That is why this logs a STACK rather than a per-call-site reason tag. A tag can
only annotate sites someone already thought of — here, precisely the set that
has been ruled out. It would have printed the flip with no tag and left the
question open.

At `save` rather than `set`, because `set` is not the only writer: the seed and
the directory-repair path both persist whole objects without going through it.
Diffed against what is on disk, so a save that changes nothing says nothing, and
a key being REMOVED is reported too — a deletion is what makes a later seed
re-run and write a value nobody chose.

`set-setting` additionally records the requesting renderer's URL, because for
anything renderer-driven the stack stops at the IPC handler and every such write
otherwise looks identical.

Writing the tests surfaced two behaviours worth knowing, both now pinned: a
single `set` can produce TWO writes, since `loadOutcome` repairs missing
directories and saves before `set` saves again; and the first write on a sparse
file materialises every default as a real change. Both are truthful, and a
reader who does not expect them would misread the log.

Diagnostic only — no behaviour changes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Settings persistence now logs successful changes with value descriptions and caller context. Repair saves, direct setting updates, and beta-feature seeding provide pre-write baselines. Early diagnostic entries are buffered until the app log opens. The set-setting IPC handler logs the sender page name with fallback labels.

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Settings observability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persisted change attribution
src/main/settings.ts, src/main/settings.test.ts
Settings mutations provide pre-write baselines. Successful writes log changed keys using serialized values, with booleans and numbers shown directly and other values described by type or shape. Logs include trimmed caller frames. Tests cover changes, no-ops, deletions, repairs, beta seeding, and failed writes.
Early app-log buffering
src/main/lib/appLog.ts, src/main/lib/appLog.test.ts
Log entries held before initialization are buffered up to 200 lines and written when the app log opens. Tests cover credential scrubbing, calls after initialization, and the buffer limit.
IPC caller URL logging
src/main/lib/ipc/registerSettingsHandlers.ts, src/main/lib/ipc/registerSettingsHandlers.test.ts
The set-setting handler logs the sender page name with the setting key. Empty URLs and unavailable senders use fallback labels. Tests verify setting writes continue when URL lookup fails and that file paths are not logged.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Settings
  participant AppLogBuffer
  participant AppLog
  Settings->>AppLogBuffer: hold diagnostic before initialization
  AppLogBuffer->>AppLog: write queued lines during initialization
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Settings writes can proceed, but a diagnostic log may expose part of a local directory name. Fix the frame formatting before sharing affected logs.

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Comment thread src/main/settings.ts Outdated
if (changes.length === 0) return
// Frames 0-1 are this helper and `save`; the caller starts after them.
const stack = (new Error().stack ?? '').split('\n').slice(3, 9).join('\n')
console.log(`Settings: writing ${changes.join(', ')}\n${stack}`)

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P2 Badge Redact sensitive setting values before logging them

When a user saves a URL-bearing setting such as pypiMirror with basic-auth credentials, this interpolates the raw old and new values into console.log. Although the persistent app.log copy is scrubbed, patchConsole() calls the original console method before scrubbing (src/main/lib/appLog.ts lines 205-208), so the credential is still exposed to stdout and any terminal or service capturing it; redact values with the existing scrubber or omit raw values for path/URL settings before logging.

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. Values are no longer printed: booleans and numbers are logged exactly, and everything else is reduced to its shape (<string:N>, <array:N>). A test pins that a mirror URL with credentials does not appear.

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const read = readFileSafe(dataPath)
let before: Record<string, unknown> = {}
if (read.kind === 'data') {
const parsed: unknown = JSON.parse(read.data)

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P2 Badge Keep provenance logging when the previous JSON is malformed

If settings.json contains malformed JSON, loadOutcome() falls back to defaults and a subsequent settings.set() replaces the file with valid JSON, but this parse throws and the outer catch suppresses the entire provenance record. That destructive recovery write is therefore one of the persisted changes for which no caller stack is logged; handle parse failure as an unreadable/empty prior state and still emit the write provenance.

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. The log diffs the in-memory baseline against the written payload and never re-parses the old file. A malformed file loads with an empty baseline, so its recovery write is logged as <unset> -> … for every key, with the stack.

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// The settings log's stack stops at this handler for anything a renderer asked for, so
// record WHICH renderer asked. Without it every renderer-driven write looks identical.
console.log(
`Settings: set-setting '${key}' requested by ${event.sender.getURL() || '<no url>'}`

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🟠 High — event.sender.getURL() throws Object has been destroyed if the sender's WebContents is torn down between invoke and handler dispatch (e.g. a popup closing right after a toggle); the || '<no url>' fallback only covers an empty return, not a throw, so a purely diagnostic line aborts the handler before applySettingSet(key, value) runs and silently drops the user's setting write. Guard with event.sender.isDestroyed() (as other event.sender uses in this codebase do) or wrap the log in try/catch, and prefer event.senderFrame?.url for frame-accurate attribution. Raised by 3 of 8 reviewers (gemini-3.1-pro edge-case, kimi-k2.7-code edge-case, claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. getURL() is wrapped in try/catch and falls back to <sender gone>, so the write always proceeds.

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if (changes.length === 0) return
// Frames 0-1 are this helper and `save`; the caller starts after them.
const stack = (new Error().stack ?? '').split('\n').slice(3, 9).join('\n')
console.log(`Settings: writing ${changes.join(', ')}\n${stack}`)

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🟠 High — Raw old and new values of every changed key are written to console.log, which is captured in the persistent, rotating app.log that users share for support. scrubAll only redacts well-known credential shapes and the username segment of home paths, so installDir, modelsDirs, cacheDir, pypiMirror and arbitrary renderer-set keys (Settings extends Record<string, unknown>) are persisted verbatim — including keys SETTINGS_SCHEMA deliberately marks presence-only. Log key names plus a change indicator, or redact/allowlist values. Raised by 5 of 8 reviewers (gemini-3.1-pro adversarial, kimi-k2.7-code adversarial, gpt-5.6-sol-max adversarial, gpt-5.6-sol-max edge-case, claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. Only booleans and numbers are logged verbatim; strings, arrays and objects are logged as their shape.

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try {
const read = readFileSafe(dataPath)
let before: Record<string, unknown> = {}
if (read.kind === 'data') {

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🟡 Medium — The baseline treats any kind === 'data' result as the current primary contents, ignoring primaryUnreadable (stale .bak served because settings.json was locked) and treating unreadable as {} — which reports every key as <unset> -> value, a false claim that the whole file was rewritten. On the exact Windows AV/indexer scenario this module fails closed for (issue #1367), the one log meant to answer "who changed this flag" fabricates change records. Skip logging when the primary baseline is unknown. Raised by 3 of 8 reviewers (claude-opus-5-thinking-max adversarial, claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case, gpt-5.6-sol-max edge-case).

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Taken: no fabricated lines now. The baseline comes from what loadOutcome parsed. When the primary is unreadable (.bak served), unreadable is true and no writer saves (set fails closed, the repair save and the beta seed both skip), so nothing is logged against a stale baseline.

Comment thread src/main/settings.ts Outdated
* written on user actions rather than in loops, so the extra read is not a hot path. */
function logPersistedChanges(next: Settings): void {
try {
const read = readFileSafe(dataPath)

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🟡 Medium — readFileSafe is not a pure read: it increments the process-wide _bakFallbacks counter that telemetry reports (the metric operators use to size .bak fallback frequency) and can copyFileSync(bak, primary) to restore the backup. Calling it per save() inflates that signal from per-load to per-write and makes a helper documented as "diagnostics must never cost a write" mutate the filesystem. Parse the baseline with a plain readFileSync in a try/catch instead. Raised by 2 of 8 reviewers (claude-opus-5-thinking-max adversarial, claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. The baseline comes from memory, so the log does no readFileSafe and no .bak counter increment.

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function save(settings: Settings): void {
logPersistedChanges(settings)

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🟡 Medium — The record is emitted before writeFileSafe, which can throw on EACCES, disk exhaustion, or exhausted rename-lock retries. A write that never reached disk is still logged as Settings: writing k: a -> b, so a forensic log asserts a change that did not happen and points an investigation at an innocent caller. Log after a successful write to record outcomes rather than intent. Raised by 3 of 8 reviewers (claude-opus-5-thinking-max adversarial, claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case, gpt-5.6-sol-max edge-case).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. The line is emitted after writeFileSafe returns. A test pins that a failed write logs nothing.

Comment thread src/main/settings.ts Outdated
const changes: string[] = []
for (const key of keys) {
const a = before[key]
const b = (next as Record<string, unknown>)[key]

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🟡 Medium — JSON.stringify throws on BigInt and circular values and String(v) throws on Symbols, and the blanket catch {} then drops the entire change log for that save with no indication a write went unlogged. Since these are exactly the anomalous settings contents worth investigating, wrap brief per value and emit a <unserializable> placeholder instead of going dark. Raised by 2 of 8 reviewers (kimi-k2.7-code edge-case, claude-opus-5-thinking-max adversarial).

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Taken: obsolete since 8a43462. Values are no longer JSON.stringifyd for the log; describeForLog only reads typeof, .length and the key count. An unserializable value now fails in save itself, before any log.

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const a = before[key]
const b = (next as Record<string, unknown>)[key]
if (JSON.stringify(a) === JSON.stringify(b)) continue
changes.push(`${key}: ${brief(a)} -> ${brief(b)}`)

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🟢 Low — JSON.stringify(a) === JSON.stringify(b) compares serializations, so the diff is key-order sensitive: an object-valued setting rewritten with a different key insertion order logs as a spurious change. Each changed value is also serialized twice here plus once more in save, so a value with a stateful getter or toJSON can log something different from what is persisted. Raised by 4 of 8 reviewers (gemini-3.1-pro edge-case, gpt-5.6-sol-max edge-case, claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case, claude-opus-5-thinking-max adversarial).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. sameValue is a structural, order-insensitive compare, and the diff reads back the exact written payload (b4d5bec).

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const a = before[key]
const b = (next as Record<string, unknown>)[key]
if (JSON.stringify(a) === JSON.stringify(b)) continue
changes.push(`${key}: ${brief(a)} -> ${brief(b)}`)

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🟢 Low — key is interpolated raw while values pass through JSON.stringify (which escapes newlines), and appLog.formatLine prefixes only a message's first line with its [timestamp] [level] header. Because set-setting accepts an arbitrary unvalidated key and Settings extends Record<string, unknown>, a key containing a newline plus a forged header injects attacker-chosen records into app.log; the same applies to the key and sender URL in registerSettingsHandlers.ts. Strip control characters or JSON.stringify the key. Raised by 3 of 8 reviewers (claude-opus-5-thinking-max adversarial, gemini-3.1-pro adversarial, gpt-5.6-sol-max adversarial).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. The key is JSON.stringifyd in both log lines. The sender URL comes from getURL(), which returns a serialized URL, so control characters are already percent-encoded.

Comment thread src/main/settings.test.ts Outdated
expect(line).toContain('betaFeaturesEnabled: true -> false')
// The point of the log: a stack, so an UNKNOWN writer is named. A per-call-site tag would
// only ever name the sites someone already thought to annotate.
expect(line!.split('\n').length).toBeGreaterThan(1)

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🟢 Low — This assertion can never fail: the template is `...${changes}\n${stack}`, so the message always contains a newline and split('\n').length is always >= 2 even when stack is empty. It is meant to verify the feature's central claim — that a caller stack is attached — so assert on frame content (e.g. matching /\s+at /) instead. Raised by 1 of 8 reviewers (claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case).

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Taken: fixed in 8a43462. The test now asserts on a frame (/\| via .*settings\.ts/), not on the line count.

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const brief = (v: unknown): string => {
if (v === undefined) return '<unset>'
const text = JSON.stringify(v) ?? String(v)
return text.length > 120 ? `${text.slice(0, 117)}...` : text

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⚪ Nit — text.slice(0, 117) cuts by UTF-16 code unit, so a value containing an astral character (an emoji in a directory name, say) can be split mid-surrogate-pair and written to app.log as U+FFFD. Raised by 2 of 8 reviewers (claude-opus-5-thinking-max edge-case, gemini-3.1-pro edge-case).

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Taken: obsolete since 8a43462. Values are no longer truncated or printed.

…lues

Review found this in the wrong place and too loud. Both are fixed by the same
change of source: the baseline now comes from the caller's already-loaded
object instead of re-reading settings.json.

Re-reading looked simpler and was wrong three ways. `readFileSafe` increments
the process-wide `.bak`-fallback counter that telemetry reports, so a diagnostic
was quietly moving a metric operators use. It blocks the main thread on
`Atomics.wait` while retrying a locked file, so "the extra read is not a hot
path" was measuring the wrong cost. And it cannot distinguish "no previous
value" from "previous file unparseable", which would have dropped the log
exactly when a malformed file is the interesting case. Reading memory has none
of those properties.

VALUES ARE NO LONGER PRINTED. These lines land in app.log, which users attach to
support requests; `appLog` runs `scrubAll`, but that is a best-effort telemetry
scrubber for known credential shapes, not a licence to write every setting a
user has. Booleans and numbers are still logged exactly — they cannot carry a
secret and they are the question this log exists to answer. Everything else is
reduced to its shape (`<string:42>`, `<array:3>`), which still says whether a
key changed and into what kind of thing. A test pins that a mirror URL with
embedded credentials does not appear.

Also from review:

- logged AFTER the write lands, since `writeFileSafe` can throw and a line
  claiming a value was written when it was not is worse than no line;
- `event.sender.getURL()` guarded — it throws "Object has been destroyed" when
  the sender is torn down between invoke and dispatch, and a diagnostic must
  never be the reason the write it describes is lost;
- object comparison is key-order insensitive, so a re-serialised object no
  longer reads as a real edit and puts a spurious writer in the log;
- the directory-repair path snapshots before its substitutions, so it attributes
  its own writes instead of logging nothing.

The earlier stack assertion could not fail — it counted newlines in a template
that always contains one. It now matches the frame itself.

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CodeRabbit caught that the baseline was taken after defaults were merged in, so
every key a sparse settings.json gains on its first real write was already
present in the baseline and logged as no change. `set`, the beta seed and the
directory-repair path all shared the gap.

That matters more than the missing lines. The whole claim this log supports is
"key X was written, by this caller" — and its contrapositive, that no line for X
means X was not written. A baseline that already contains the defaults quietly
breaks the second half, so an absence stops being evidence. Given the log exists
because a flag changed itself and nothing could say what wrote it, an instrument
that can silently omit writes is the wrong instrument.

`loadOutcome` now also returns what it actually parsed from disk, and the three
writers baseline from that. It is still memory rather than a re-read, so none of
the reasons the earlier version stopped re-reading are reintroduced.

Yes, this means the first write against a sparse file logs every default as a
change. That is true — those keys really do reach disk for the first time — and
a noisy truth beats a quiet omission in something whose job is attribution.

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`loadOutcome` strips `null`s the schema does not allow, and I was returning the
object after that ran. So a key stored as `null` reached the change log as
absent, and its line claimed `<unset> -> value` when the truth was
`null -> value`.

Small, but the wrong kind of small for this file: the log's only job is to say
what a write changed, and a baseline that has been quietly normalised makes it
restate the state it is attributing against. The `null` case is also the one
that matters most here — a stored `null` is what makes `resolveBetaFeaturesEnabled`
treat the key as unset and re-seed it, which is one of the paths this log exists
to catch in the act.

Baseline now captured before the normalisation loop, with a test pinning that a
stored `null` is reported as `null`.

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🟡 Minor · Log the serialized persisted state. · settings.ts:733

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Log the serialized persisted state.

JSON.stringify converts NaN and Infinity to null and omits undefined properties. A renderer can set an arbitrary key to NaN, and this log will report NaN even though disk contains null.

Serialize once, write that payload, then parse the payload for logPersistedChanges. This keeps diagnostics aligned with the persisted file. Small log, true fog.

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`JSON.stringify` turns `NaN` and `Infinity` into `null` and drops `undefined`
properties, so the object being saved and the bytes being written genuinely
disagree. A renderer can set a key to `NaN` and the file receives `null`, while
the log reported `NaN` — a value the file does not contain, in the one place
whose entire purpose is to say what reached disk.

The payload is now serialised once, written, and read back for the diff. The log
describes the bytes.

This is the fourth finding on this PR of the same shape, and the pattern is
worth naming: every one has been the diagnostic describing something other than
what happened — the wrong moment, the wrong baseline, a normalised baseline, and
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Conflict in resolveBetaFeaturesEnabled: took main's betaFeaturesEnabledIn
refactor and kept this branch's disk baseline (persisted) on its save.

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…d catch boot writes

Review of the merged head found the log could still misattribute, and could
disclose where Desktop is installed:

- After a load-time repair saved, the next writer diffed against the file as it
  was before the repair, so it repeated the repair under its own stack and could
  miss a real change. `save` now returns what reached disk and that becomes the
  next baseline.
- Stack frames and the requesting renderer's URL carried the install directory,
  which `scrubAll` only redacts under a home folder. Frames keep only the
  function and file name; the request line keeps only the page name.
- Settings are read, and can be repaired, before app.log opens. Those lines went
  to stdout only. `appLog` now holds up to 200 such lines and writes them when it
  opens.

Also simpler: per-key JSON comparison instead of a hand-written deep compare,
`save` always takes a baseline, and the comments state invariants rather than
history. Tests cover the destroyed-sender guard, the page name, frame stripping,
array redaction, the repair-then-set case, the beta seed, and the early buffer.

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/** A stack frame with its directories dropped: they hold the install location. */
export function frameForLog(frame: string): string {
const m = /^at (?:(.+?) \()?(.+?)\)?$/.exec(frame.trim())

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Keep parenthesized directory names out of stack logs.

If an unnamed frame is at D:\Clients Acme (Work)\app\index.js:12:3, this expression treats D:\Clients Acme as a function name. frameForLog then emits that directory in the settings log. Recognize a named frame only when its location ends in ). Otherwise, take the basename of the full location. Add a test for an unnamed frame with a parenthesized directory.

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Taken: fixed in 21b4222. Frames are no longer parsed; the app's own location is replaced with <app>, so a parenthesised directory needs no special case.

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The frame parser read a nameless frame under a directory containing " (" as a
named one and logged the directory. Replacing the app's own location with
`<app>` keeps the install path out without understanding frame syntax.

The log's comment now names the writers that bypass `save` (the `.bak` restore
and the Linux cache-dir migration). Tests pin that the request line drops the
query and the value, that a throwing console cannot cost a write, and that the
beta seed is diffed against the file as it was.

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…ble file is replaced

QA found two gaps in what the log reports:

- Dropping a stale `onAppClose: 'tray'` deleted the key, so the next save wrote
  the `'quit'` default back and the log blamed whoever saved next. The repair
  now writes the default it falls back to; the effective value is unchanged.
- After a corrupt settings.json the next write drops everything the file held,
  but a diff against an empty baseline showed only additions. The line now
  opens with `(previous file unparseable, N bytes discarded)`.

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…st log from costing a write

- Language, theme, close action and auto-launch values are short tokens, and by
  length alone a line could not say which way they changed (`en` and `zh` both
  read `<string:2>`). They are now printed exactly when token-shaped; anything
  else in those keys is still printed by shape.
- Keys are read as own properties, so a removed key named like an Object method
  (`toString`) is reported as unset instead of as the inherited function.
- The set-setting request line is guarded, so a throwing console cannot stop
  the write it describes.
- The unparseable-file note counts characters, which is what it measures.

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Node's console does not throw before app.log opens, and the patched console
guards its own write after, so the guard and its test pinned a case that
cannot happen.

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