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fix(cli): explain how npm users update the t3 command - #25439
The npm package's t3 launcher starts the runtime named by its own package version. When someone who installed with npm runs t3 update, the new runtime downloads fine, but the output ends with Run <T3 home>/runtime/versions/<new>/t3. Their t3 command keeps starting the old version, and nothing tells them the package has to move too.
Change
When npm started this t3, the last line of t3 update now names the package-manager step instead of the raw runtime path: npm install --global --prefix <prefix> t3@<version> for a global npm install, npx t3@<version> (or the matching runner) for npx, pnpm dlx and bunx, and a generic line when the package manager is unknown. Detection reuses resolveServerInstallation, which already feeds the web app's server update command. Standalone installs see the same output as before.
Scope
A bug fix: t3 update reports success to npm users while their t3 command stays on the old version. No issue: this is a small fix for an obvious bug, and only the closing line of t3 update changes.
Verification
To see it on Linux: (1) npm install -g t3, (2) t3 update, (3) t3 --version still prints the old version, and the update output named only a runtime path.
Maria verified 87a7636f19; this head, ef9acbcd18, adds two merges of main, the latest 671f85417c. Runtime checks on ef9acbcd18 used a cached 9.9.9 runtime and a fake t3 0.1.9 npm package: main printed the runtime path in all four cases; this branch printed package-manager instructions for global npm, npx cache and project-local npm, while standalone kept the runtime path (excerpt below). The new table test in update.test.ts fails with main's code and passes here. I re-checked the fix against main f419698aea on 2026-11-12: the new table test fails on that main without the change and passes with it, and the branch merges cleanly. On native Windows 11 (e7620452ae), following the printed step moved t3 --version to the new version. No screen changes: only the CLI's terminal output changes.
# main 671f85417c, global npm
Run <scratch>/home/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3
# this branch, global npm
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.9. Run `npm install --global --prefix <scratch>/npm [email protected]` to move to 9.9.9.
Not checked:
A published runtime built from this source. The real-install runs (Maria's npm 0.1.6 run and the Windows run) started the changed source through the npm launcher.
macOS.
Change detail, every run and the full transcript
Steps. Install with npm install -g t3, run t3 update, then run t3 --version. It still prints the old version.
Change detail. When npm started this t3, the last line of t3 update now names the package-manager step instead of the raw runtime path:
global npm install: npm install --global --prefix <prefix> t3@<version>
npx, pnpm dlx, bunx: npx t3@<version> (or the matching runner)
npm launcher with an unknown package manager (Windows global installs, project-local installs): Update it to t3@<version> with the package manager that installed it.
Detection reuses resolveServerInstallation, the same check that already feeds the web app's server update command, and the command matches manualServerUpdateCommand in apps/web/src/versionSkew.ts. The exact version covers every release channel and explicit versions, including --allow-downgrade. With the default T3 home, the launcher reuses the downloaded runtime. If the npm package already matches the target, the existing runtime-path instruction remains. Standalone installs still see Run t3 to get started. or the runtime path, as before.
resolveNpmLauncherPath is pulled out of resolveEntryPath unchanged so the update command can tell that npm started it even when the package manager is unknown.
The hint uses the exact installed version ([email protected]) rather than a dist-tag such as t3@nightly, so it also works for pinned and downgraded versions. Background-service handling and launcher repointing are untouched. Nothing new is fetched from npm.
Runs.
Heads: Maria verified 87a7636f19 (the comment above). This head, ef9acbcd18, adds two merges of main on top of it, the latest 671f85417c. Git conflicted only on the update.test.ts imports. The invocation.ts change is the same; the update.ts change now sits in main's newer code; the closing-hint test calls runUpdate directly with ManagedPolicy.layerTest(), like main's other runUpdate tests. The checks and the transcript below ran on ef9acbcd18.
vp run check:changed: format, lint, both knip passes, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (3 files) pass. vp test run src/cli/update.test.ts src/cli/invocation.test.ts src/environment/ServerEnvironment.test.ts in apps/server: 41 passed. The new table test in update.test.ts covers a global npm launcher, an npx cache launcher, a project-local launcher and a standalone executable. With main's update.ts and invocation.ts it fails on its assertion: it gets Run <T3 home>/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3. A same-version npm regression also fails on the initial candidate with the needless reinstall instruction and passes after the repair.
Runtime check: ran node apps/server/src/bin.ts update 9.9.9 --base-dir <scratch>/home --yes offline against a cached 9.9.9 runtime, with T3CODE_NPM_LAUNCHER_PATH pointing at a fake t3 0.1.9 npm package. Excerpts, scratch paths shortened:
# main 671f85417c, global npm
Installed T3 Code 9.9.9
Run <scratch>/home/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3
# this branch, global npm
Installed T3 Code 9.9.9
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.9. Run `npm install --global --prefix <scratch>/npm [email protected]` to move to 9.9.9.
# this branch, npx cache
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.9. Run `npx [email protected]` to move to 9.9.9.
# this branch, project-local npm
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.9. Update it to [email protected] with the package manager that installed it.
# this branch, standalone
Run <scratch>/home/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3
Main prints the runtime path in all four cases.
Native Windows 11, PowerShell, on e7620452ae (it differs from this head only in one line of main's background-service wording in update.ts): with published [email protected] installed through npm install -g and through npx, main ends with the runtime path. This branch prints the generic package-manager line for the global install and npx t3@<version> for npx, and following either one moves t3 --version to the new version. The transcript is in my comment of 2026-11-10.
No screen changes: only the CLI's terminal output changes, and update.ts is imported only by the CLI command table and uninstall.ts.
Prior PRs
No earlier PR made this fix. Related work with no shared hunks: #17586 by maria-rcks (open) changes launcher repointing in the same file, and #25417 by t3dotgg (closed without merging) made the npm launcher prefer a recorded installed t3.
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The npm launcher starts the runtime its package version names, so after
`t3 update` npm's `t3` kept running the old version while the output only
printed the downloaded executable's path. When npm started this t3, the
update now ends with the package-manager command that moves the package to
the installed version, or says to update the package when the manager is
unknown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Keep the existing runtime instruction when t3 update only reconciles the background service on the same version. Cover npm-global, npx, project-local and standalone equal-version cases.
Co-Authored-By: GPT-6.1 Sol <[email protected]>
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a focused CLI bug fix that improves the final t3 update instruction for npm-launched installations while preserving existing paths. The production changes only detect the launcher and format guidance; they do not execute package-manager commands or alter schemas, defaults, or deployment behavior.
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Walkthrough
The CLI validates configured npm launcher paths and selects post-update instructions based on launcher status, installation type, and target version. Tests cover npm-global, npx, project-local, standalone, and service-only update cases.
Changes: CLI update guidance
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Launcher resolution and update commands apps/server/src/cli/invocation.ts
The CLI validates a configured npm launcher against its adjacent package manifest. It formats package update commands for npm-global, pnpm-dlx, and other installation types.
Next-step selection and update output apps/server/src/cli/update.ts, apps/server/src/cli/update.test.ts
resolveNextStep selects guidance based on whether the launcher was repointed, the target version, and detected installation or launcher details. The update flow prints that guidance. Tests check installation-specific instructions and runtime-path fallbacks.
sequenceDiagram
participant UpdateFlow
participant InvocationHelpers
UpdateFlow->>InvocationHelpers: Resolve launcher and installation
InvocationHelpers-->>UpdateFlow: Return validated launcher and installation details
UpdateFlow->>UpdateFlow: Select and print next-step instruction
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pingdotgg/t3code#29462: Adds a t3-launcher installation kind that can be used by this PR’s update-guidance selection.
Suggested reviewers:juliusmarminge
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to ef9ac
The change only affects the closing guidance printed by t3 update when an npm launcher starts it. Existing behavior for standalone installs and matching package versions is preserved. The earlier Windows test-fixture concern is addressed, and no concrete merge-blocking risk remains.
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The title "fix(cli): explain how npm users update the t3 command" matches the main change. The PR changes the closing line of t3 update so npm-launched users get a package-manager command that moves the t3 launcher to the new version. The title follows the conventional commit format and names the affected component (cli).
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The description follows the template well. It has a Problem section that states the bug and reproduction. It has a Change section that explains the fix and the package-manager output per install kind. It has a Scope section that calls this a bug fix and explains why no issue is linked. It has a Verification section with focused tests, a runtime transcript for main and this branch, a Windows 11 check, and a list of what was not checked. The template's agent-attribution line is present ("Generated with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol"). The description is long and includes a collapsed details block, but every required section is substantively filled in. The one minor gap is that no linked issue is given, but the author explains why one is not needed, which the template allows for small obvious fixes.
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The regression called resolveNextStep, which only this PR adds, so on main it
failed with "not a function" instead of the misleading hint. It now runs the
update command against seeded runtimes and a stubbed service, and asserts the
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
The regression test now drives `t3 update` instead of importing the
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takeover update at 87a7636f1913debc945f1fe884cffeccf03fb0ff:
merged current main with a merge commit and preserved both sets of launcher tests. github reports no conflicts.
addressed the windows review finding: platform-specific cache entry, process-runner version stub instead of a posix script, and existing windows fallback guidance. resolved the review thread.
blacksmith vp run check:changed passed: format, lint, both knip passes, graphql, affected typechecks (server, scripts, evals), and 24 tests. the worker needed its shallow snapshot attached to the fetched main base for comparison; no repository history was rewritten.
exercised the source cli with an actual npm 0.1.6 installation and published 0.1.5 runtime. download, checksum verification, extraction, and executable validation passed. the printed npm command changed the actual launcher to t3 v0.1.5. standalone invocation retained the runtime-path instruction, and same-version invocation reported already on 0.1.6.
two independent scoped code reviews approved this head without findings.
native windows execution and a published runtime containing this source remain unverified.
final check: all 29 git.cafe check contexts are green (github includes intentionally skipped jobs), zero pending or failing. no conflicts or unresolved review threads. ready for maria's review; no merge performed.
earlier verification of the original head
Verified in a real dev environment
verified as-is at db28858c9dc746ee0e366fb51b9a2db1cd5b0a23 on linux x64. no code changes or pushes.
reproduced on github/main (32ecd71726) in a separate worktree after vp i. the source CLI downloaded and validated the real published 0.1.2 release, then printed only its runtime path. the npm launcher still reported 0.1.5 afterward.
checked out the exact pr head, ran vp i, and started the real dev server in the background after stopping main's server. no mock releases, fake executables, replay providers, or database fixtures were used.
ran node apps/server/src/bin.ts update 0.1.5 --base-dir /tmp/pr-update-home --yes with T3CODE_NPM_LAUNCHER_PATH pointing to a real global npm installation of the matching 0.1.2 package. the command downloaded, checksum-verified, extracted and validated the real 0.1.5 release. it printed npm install --global --prefix /tmp/pr-npm [email protected]. following that exact instruction changed the actual npm launcher's --version from 0.1.2 to 0.1.5.
repeated with an actual npx cache package: it printed npx [email protected]; running that command with --version reported 0.1.5 and reused the downloaded runtime.
neighboring CLI behavior: standalone invocation retained the runtime-path instruction; same-version update retained the “already on 0.1.2” response.
used repo Playwright with /usr/bin/google-chrome against the running web app. added a project pointing at the real checkout through the UI, selected codex gpt-6.1-sol, and sent a turn that read package.json and checked the git branch. it completed successfully. a second turn in the same thread also completed. no files changed.
blacksmith ran the existing update, invocation and server-environment tests: 18 passed across 3 files. existing head CI has 19 successful and 8 skipped, 0 failing, 0 pending.
captures inspected; loading lead-in removed. uploaded video playback and seeking checked in chrome. git.cafe renders external media as links. github renders the screenshot, but does not render the external mp4 inline; inline video playback on the PR is unverified. direct uploaded-video playback and seeking passed.
Not verified
a newly built/published npm runtime containing this branch: the changed update code ran directly from source with the real npm launcher's environment contract. the package-manager instructions themselves were executed using real published packages and runtimes.
windows/macOS, native desktop/mobile, pnpm dlx, bunx, project-local package guidance, background-service restart/handoff, relay/tunnel connections, and other providers.
the existing review finding about the POSIX shell fixture in update.test.ts on windows remains unverified here. linux test success does not resolve that finding.
this is a CLI-output change, so before/after command output is in the transcript; there is no changed visual UI to compare.
The closing-hint test now calls runUpdate with a test managed policy,
like main's other update tests, instead of running updateCommand.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Main has moved since 87a7636f19 and this PR conflicts again, so here's a merge you can take if it's useful: e7620452aef172553fdcb32d8d8d154e17e550d7 on fork branch fix/r079-explain-how-npm-users-update-the-t3-co-offer. It's a single merge commit of current main (f12bb6229c) on top of your head, and it fast-forwards from it:
Moves the closing-hint test from Command.runWith(updateCommand, …) to calling runUpdate directly with ManagedPolicy.layerTest(), a mocked BootService and an HttpClient that fails on any lookup, the same setup as main's other runUpdate tests. On main, updateCommand provides ManagedPolicy.layer, which reads the machine's managed policy file. Your Windows changes stay as they were: the t3.exe cache entry, the process-runner version stub, no global-bin symlink on Windows, and the generic guidance there.
Drops nothing. feat(cli): npx t3 offers to install the t3 command #33150's install offer covers only npx/pnpm dlx/bunx runs at an interactive terminal when no t3 is installed yet. A global npm t3 still ends t3 update with the bare runtime path on main.
Verification on Linux x64:
vp run check:changed: format, lint, both knip passes, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (3 files) all pass.
vp test run src/cli/update.test.ts src/cli/invocation.test.ts src/cli/install.test.ts src/environment/ServerEnvironment.test.ts: 42 passed.
With main's update.ts and invocation.ts, the closing-hint test now fails on its assertion (it gets Run <T3 home>/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3), not on a missing export.
I ran node apps/server/src/bin.ts update 9.9.9 --base-dir <scratch>/home --yes offline against a cached 9.9.9 runtime:
# main f12bb6229c, global npm
Installed T3 Code 9.9.9
Run <scratch>/home/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3
# this merge, global npm
Installed T3 Code 9.9.9
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.8. Run `npm install --global --prefix <scratch>/npm [email protected]` to move to 9.9.9.
# this merge, npx cache
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.8. Run `npx [email protected]` to move to 9.9.9.
# this merge, standalone
Run <scratch>/home/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3
Still not covered: I haven't run it natively on Windows, and I haven't tried a published runtime built from this source.
Two lines in the body are out of date. The test now fails on main because of the closing line, not "because the extracted helper is absent". And #25417 has since been closed without merging.
If you want, I can fast-forward the PR branch to this commit.
@maria-rcks thanks for the npm 0.1.6 run. On native Windows 11, typing into PowerShell with OS-level key presses, I installed the published [email protected] through npm install -g and through npx, then ran t3 update 0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465 with the npm launcher starting main d313b2aff3 or the offer head e7620452ae. Main ends with the runtime path in both cases. The offer prints the generic package-manager line for the global install and npx [email protected] for npx, and following either one moves t3 --version to the nightly. No published runtime contains this change yet, so for those two runs the launcher started a small stand-in t3.exe that runs the main or offer source.
Excerpts from the PowerShell transcript (lane path shortened):
# published 0.1.8, global npm (real npm launcher and runtime)
PS <lane>> npm install -g [email protected]
added 1 package in 1s
PS <lane>> t3 update 0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465 --yes
Updating T3 Code 0.1.8 → 0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465 (nightly)
Installed T3 Code 0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465
Run <lane>\t3home-npm\runtime\versions\0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465\t3.exe
PS <lane>> t3 --version
t3 v0.1.8
# global npm, launcher runtime = main d313b2aff3
Run <lane>\t3home-npm\runtime\versions\0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465\t3.exe
# global npm, launcher runtime = offer e7620452ae
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.8. Update it to [email protected] with the package manager that install
ed it.
# npx [email protected] (no global t3 on the npm prefix), main d313b2aff3
Run <lane>\t3home-npm\runtime\versions\0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465\t3.exe
# npx [email protected], offer e7620452ae
The t3 npm package still runs 0.1.8. Run `npx [email protected]` to move to 0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465.
# following the hints
PS <lane>> npx -y [email protected] --version
t3 v0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465
PS <lane>> npm install -g [email protected]; t3 --version
changed 1 package in 756ms
t3 v0.1.9-nightly.20261110.4465
@maria-rcks I fast-forwarded this branch from your 87a7636f19 to ef9acbcd18, two merges of main (latest 671f85417c) to clear the conflict.
Git conflicted only on the update.test.ts imports, and I kept both sides. update.ts and invocation.ts merged cleanly with the fix's lines unchanged.
One test change: the closing-hint test now calls runUpdate directly with ManagedPolicy.layerTest(), like main's other runUpdate tests, since main's updateCommand reads the machine's managed policy file.
The description's Verification section now names both heads and has a fresh CLI transcript on ef9acbcd18.
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Problem
The npm package's
t3launcher starts the runtime named by its own package version. When someone who installed with npm runst3 update, the new runtime downloads fine, but the output ends withRun <T3 home>/runtime/versions/<new>/t3. Theirt3command keeps starting the old version, and nothing tells them the package has to move too.Change
When npm started this
t3, the last line oft3 updatenow names the package-manager step instead of the raw runtime path:npm install --global --prefix <prefix> t3@<version>for a global npm install,npx t3@<version>(or the matching runner) for npx, pnpm dlx and bunx, and a generic line when the package manager is unknown. Detection reusesresolveServerInstallation, which already feeds the web app's server update command. Standalone installs see the same output as before.Scope
A bug fix:
t3 updatereports success to npm users while theirt3command stays on the old version. No issue: this is a small fix for an obvious bug, and only the closing line oft3 updatechanges.Verification
To see it on Linux: (1)
npm install -g t3, (2)t3 update, (3)t3 --versionstill prints the old version, and the update output named only a runtime path.Maria verified
87a7636f19; this head,ef9acbcd18, adds two merges of main, the latest671f85417c. Runtime checks onef9acbcd18used a cached 9.9.9 runtime and a faket30.1.9 npm package: main printed the runtime path in all four cases; this branch printed package-manager instructions for global npm, npx cache and project-local npm, while standalone kept the runtime path (excerpt below). The new table test inupdate.test.tsfails with main's code and passes here. I re-checked the fix against mainf419698aeaon 2026-11-12: the new table test fails on that main without the change and passes with it, and the branch merges cleanly. On native Windows 11 (e7620452ae), following the printed step movedt3 --versionto the new version. No screen changes: only the CLI's terminal output changes.Not checked:
Change detail, every run and the full transcript
Steps. Install with
npm install -g t3, runt3 update, then runt3 --version. It still prints the old version.Change detail. When npm started this
t3, the last line oft3 updatenow names the package-manager step instead of the raw runtime path:npm install --global --prefix <prefix> t3@<version>npx t3@<version>(or the matching runner)Update it to t3@<version> with the package manager that installed it.Detection reuses
resolveServerInstallation, the same check that already feeds the web app's server update command, and the command matchesmanualServerUpdateCommandinapps/web/src/versionSkew.ts. The exact version covers every release channel and explicit versions, including--allow-downgrade. With the default T3 home, the launcher reuses the downloaded runtime. If the npm package already matches the target, the existing runtime-path instruction remains. Standalone installs still seeRun t3 to get started.or the runtime path, as before.resolveNpmLauncherPathis pulled out ofresolveEntryPathunchanged so the update command can tell that npm started it even when the package manager is unknown.The hint uses the exact installed version (
[email protected]) rather than a dist-tag such ast3@nightly, so it also works for pinned and downgraded versions. Background-service handling and launcher repointing are untouched. Nothing new is fetched from npm.Runs.
87a7636f19(the comment above). This head,ef9acbcd18, adds two merges of main on top of it, the latest671f85417c. Git conflicted only on theupdate.test.tsimports. Theinvocation.tschange is the same; theupdate.tschange now sits in main's newer code; the closing-hint test callsrunUpdatedirectly withManagedPolicy.layerTest(), like main's otherrunUpdatetests. The checks and the transcript below ran onef9acbcd18.vp run check:changed: format, lint, both knip passes, graphql, typecheck (3 packages) and tests (3 files) pass.vp test run src/cli/update.test.ts src/cli/invocation.test.ts src/environment/ServerEnvironment.test.tsinapps/server: 41 passed. The new table test inupdate.test.tscovers a global npm launcher, an npx cache launcher, a project-local launcher and a standalone executable. With main'supdate.tsandinvocation.tsit fails on its assertion: it getsRun <T3 home>/runtime/versions/9.9.9/t3. A same-version npm regression also fails on the initial candidate with the needless reinstall instruction and passes after the repair.node apps/server/src/bin.ts update 9.9.9 --base-dir <scratch>/home --yesoffline against a cached 9.9.9 runtime, withT3CODE_NPM_LAUNCHER_PATHpointing at a faket30.1.9 npm package. Excerpts, scratch paths shortened:Main prints the runtime path in all four cases.
e7620452ae(it differs from this head only in one line of main's background-service wording inupdate.ts): with published[email protected]installed throughnpm install -gand throughnpx, main ends with the runtime path. This branch prints the generic package-manager line for the global install andnpx t3@<version>for npx, and following either one movest3 --versionto the new version. The transcript is in my comment of 2026-11-10.No screen changes: only the CLI's terminal output changes, and
update.tsis imported only by the CLI command table anduninstall.ts.Prior PRs
No earlier PR made this fix. Related work with no shared hunks: #17586 by maria-rcks (open) changes launcher repointing in the same file, and #25417 by t3dotgg (closed without merging) made the npm launcher prefer a recorded installed
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