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        "text": "Desktop 26.1007.21159; Desktop-bundled app-server 0.162.0-alpha.17.2; separate npm-installed app"
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## Title

    Reporter-applied recovery: stop only the verified-idle duplicate background app-server (source-backed, not verified by KFA)

## Body

    Source-backed, not verified by KFA. In the single report at https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/52675, the reporter first confirmed that the separate background app-server returned an empty loaded-thread list and that the target thread was idle with a completed turn. The reporter then sent SIGTERM only to that process. The Desktop app-server went from Errored to Connected, and no thread, database, lock file, or project data was modified. Remote message delivery was not yet retested, and the daemon stop command did not apply because the server was not daemon-managed. This is one reporter's incident-specific action, not a maintainer-endorsed fix. Do not apply it to a server with loaded or active threads.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "proposed_action": "Confirm the background app-server has no loaded threads and the target thread is idle, then send SIGTERM only to that process. Do not delete locks, databases, or thread data.",
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        "text": "Single incident, not a deterministic reproducer; no KFA reproduction; Original launch event was not retained; SSH bootstrap origin is inferred; Auto-update trigger not established; Version of the background npm-installed app-server not established; Remote message delivery after recovery was not retested; Possible duplicate #52099 and related #37403, #44449, #28862 were not supplied or inspected; Comment coverage may omit middle comments"
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