Confirmed root cause of the sidebar failure: a desktop launch starts in
HOME, which isn't a git repo, so resolveWorkspaceRoot returns HOME and
the daemon's pql/git/files all target HOME. pql then finds a stale
~/.pql/pql.db (left from earlier HOME-workdir runs) and errors
"pql.db is from an earlier schema" — exactly what the sidebars showed.
A manual refresh worked only because by then the workspace had swapped
to the repo. (Verified directly: `cd $HOME && pql ticket list` reproduces
the schema error against ~/.pql/pql.db.)
Settings confirmed the user is in the picker path (no startupSticky on
any recent), so nothing auto-opens the repo at boot and the daemon sits
on HOME until the project is opened.
Fix: resolve the startup workspace before boot — prefer the launch CWD
when it's a git repo, else fall back to app.lastProject (the repo). The
daemon now points at the real workspace from its first request, so the
sidebars load immediately without depending on swap/refetch timing. The
ProjectOpened refetch and swap serialization from 2.3.x stay in place for
genuine mid-session project switches.
Pure resolveStartupWorkspace() helper is unit-tested; app boot green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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