From 289d064639c14a70553359495fa4bb1e9bd5111d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeroen Schweitzer <jpmschweitzer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:51:33 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?wire=20in-process=20dispatcher=20=E2=80=94=20no?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20daemon=20socket=20needed?=
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InProcessClient dispatches IPC requests directly to handlers in the
same process, bypassing the unix socket entirely. All subsystem
registries (pane, files, editor, git, pql) are created in the
Flutter app's boot sequence and registered on a DaemonDispatcher.
Events bridge to the kernel EventBus via _BusEventSink. The app
no longer needs `clide --daemon` running.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 lib/kernel/src/ipc/in_process.dart | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++
 lib/main.dart                      | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 lib/kernel/src/ipc/in_process.dart

diff --git a/lib/kernel/src/ipc/in_process.dart b/lib/kernel/src/ipc/in_process.dart
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c1d0c30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/kernel/src/ipc/in_process.dart
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import 'package:clide/clide.dart';
+import 'package:clide/kernel/src/ipc/client.dart';
+import 'package:clide/kernel/src/events/bus.dart';
+import 'package:clide/kernel/src/log.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/dispatcher.dart';
+
+class InProcessClient extends DaemonClient {
+  InProcessClient({
+    required Logger log,
+    required EventBus events,
+    required this.dispatcher,
+  }) : super(socketPath: '', log: log, events: events);
+
+  final DaemonDispatcher dispatcher;
+  int _nextReqId = 0;
+
+  @override
+  bool get isConnected => true;
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> start() async {}
+
+  @override
+  Future<void> stop() async {}
+
+  @override
+  Future<IpcResponse> request(String cmd, {Map<String, Object?> args = const {}}) {
+    final id = '${_nextReqId++}';
+    final req = IpcRequest(id: id, cmd: cmd, args: args);
+    return dispatcher.dispatch(req);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/lib/main.dart b/lib/main.dart
index 4a44f8c8..833274c0 100644
--- a/lib/main.dart
+++ b/lib/main.dart
@@ -25,7 +25,19 @@ import 'package:clide/builtin/welcome/welcome.dart';
 import 'dart:io' show Directory, Platform;
 
 import 'package:clide/kernel/kernel.dart';
+import 'package:clide/kernel/src/ipc/in_process.dart';
 import 'package:clide/kernel/src/syntax/tree_sitter_ffi.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/dispatcher.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/editor_commands.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/files_commands.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/git_commands.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/pane_commands.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/daemon/pql_commands.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/editor/registry.dart' show EditorRegistry;
+import 'package:clide/src/panes/registry.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/ipc/envelope.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/panes/event_sink.dart';
+import 'package:clide/src/pql/client.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/foundation.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/services.dart' show rootBundle;
 import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
@@ -45,11 +57,22 @@ Future<void> main() async {
     bundledThemes: themes,
     i18nLoader: AssetCatalogLoader(bundle: rootBundle),
     preloadNamespaces: _tier0Namespaces,
-    // The local unix-socket daemon is desktop-only. On web the
-    // connection indicator stays `disconnected` — that's the honest
-    // state: the Flutter-web build can't reach a local socket.
-    autoStartDaemonClient: !kIsWeb,
-    socketPath: kIsWeb ? '/clide-web-no-socket' : null,
+    autoStartDaemonClient: false,
+    daemonClientFactory: kIsWeb ? null : (log, events) {
+      final dispatcher = DaemonDispatcher();
+      final eventSink = _BusEventSink(events);
+      final filesService = FilesService.atCwd(events: eventSink);
+      final workRoot = filesService.root;
+      final paneRegistry = PaneRegistry(events: eventSink);
+      registerPaneCommands(dispatcher, paneRegistry);
+      registerFilesCommands(dispatcher, filesService);
+      final editorRegistry = EditorRegistry(events: eventSink, workspaceRoot: workRoot);
+      registerEditorCommands(dispatcher, editorRegistry);
+      registerGitCommands(dispatcher, workRoot, eventSink);
+      final pql = PqlClient(workDir: workRoot);
+      registerPqlCommands(dispatcher, pql);
+      return InProcessClient(log: log, events: events, dispatcher: dispatcher);
+    },
   );
 
   // Register every built-in. Tier 0 activates only the four that do
@@ -128,6 +151,21 @@ Future<List<ThemeDefinition>> _loadBundledThemes() async {
 /// Every Tier-0 extension that ships an i18n catalog. Extensions
 /// registered but not active (the 17 stubs) don't preload — their
 /// catalogs load lazily on activate in later tiers.
+class _BusEventSink implements DaemonEventSink {
+  _BusEventSink(this._bus);
+  final EventBus _bus;
+
+  @override
+  void emit(IpcEvent event) {
+    _bus.emit(DaemonEvent(
+      subsystem: event.subsystem,
+      kind: event.kind,
+      data: event.data,
+      ts: DateTime.now(),
+    ));
+  }
+}
+
 const List<String> _tier0Namespaces = [
   'builtin.default-layout',
   'builtin.welcome',