refactor: remove unneeded sidecar refresh restart logic

Drop the refresh-time sidecar restart workaround and its helper/tests now that the verified fix is in the sidecar subprocess launcher itself. This keeps the runtime simpler and leaves only the changes required for correct Copilot version detection.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

src/main/KopayaAppService.ts

@@ -496,12 +496,7 @@ export class KopayaAppService extends EventEmitter<AppServiceEvents> {
   }
 
   private async loadSidecarCapabilities(forceRefresh = false): Promise<SidecarCapabilities> {
-    if (forceRefresh) {
+    if (forceRefresh || !this.sidecarCapabilities) {
-      this.sidecarCapabilities = await this.sidecar.refreshCapabilities();
-      return this.sidecarCapabilities;
-    }
-
-    if (!this.sidecarCapabilities) {
       this.sidecarCapabilities = await this.sidecar.describeCapabilities();
     }
 

src/main/sidecar/sidecarProcess.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import { app } from 'electron';
-import { once } from 'node:events';
 import { spawn, type ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams } from 'node:child_process';
 
 import type {
@@ -13,10 +12,6 @@ import type {
 } from '@shared/contracts/sidecar';
 import type { ChatMessageRecord } from '@shared/domain/session';
 import { createSidecarEnvironment } from '@main/sidecar/sidecarEnvironment';
-import {
-  shouldHandleSidecarExit,
-  shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh,
-} from '@main/sidecar/sidecarRefresh';
 import {
   markRunTurnPendingErrored,
   shouldHandleRunTurnEvent,
@@ -51,14 +46,6 @@ export class SidecarClient {
     return command;
   }
 
-  async refreshCapabilities(): Promise<SidecarCapabilities> {
-    if (shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh(this.hasActiveRunTurn())) {
-      await this.dispose();
-    }
-
-    return this.describeCapabilities();
-  }
-
   async validatePattern(pattern: ValidatePatternCommand['pattern']): Promise<unknown> {
     return this.dispatch<unknown>({
       type: 'validate-pattern',
@@ -76,28 +63,12 @@ export class SidecarClient {
   }
 
   async dispose(): Promise<void> {
-    const sidecar = this.process;
+    if (!this.process) {
-    if (!sidecar) {
       return;
     }
 
-    if (sidecar.exitCode !== null || sidecar.signalCode !== null) {
+    this.process.kill();
-      return;
+    this.process = undefined;
-    }
-
-    const exitPromise = once(sidecar, 'exit');
-    sidecar.kill();
-    await exitPromise;
-  }
-
-  hasActiveRunTurn(): boolean {
-    for (const pending of this.pending.values()) {
-      if (pending.kind === 'run-turn') {
-        return true;
-      }
-    }
-
-    return false;
   }
 
   private async ensureProcess(): Promise<ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams> {
@@ -131,10 +102,6 @@ export class SidecarClient {
     });
 
     childProcess.on('exit', (code) => {
-      if (!shouldHandleSidecarExit(this.process?.pid, childProcess.pid)) {
-        return;
-      }
-
       const error = new Error(`The .NET sidecar exited unexpectedly with code ${code ?? 'unknown'}.`);
       for (const pending of this.pending.values()) {
         pending.reject(error);

src/main/sidecar/sidecarRefresh.ts

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-export function shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh(hasActiveRunTurn: boolean): boolean {
-  return !hasActiveRunTurn;
-}
-
-export function shouldHandleSidecarExit(
-  activeProcessId: number | undefined,
-  exitingProcessId: number | undefined,
-): boolean {
-  return activeProcessId !== undefined && exitingProcessId !== undefined && activeProcessId === exitingProcessId;
-}

tests/main/sidecarRefresh.test.ts

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-import { describe, expect, test } from 'bun:test';
-
-import {
-  shouldHandleSidecarExit,
-  shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh,
-} from '@main/sidecar/sidecarRefresh';
-
-describe('shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh', () => {
-  test('restarts the sidecar when no run-turn is active', () => {
-    expect(shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh(false)).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  test('keeps the existing sidecar when a run-turn is active', () => {
-    expect(shouldRestartSidecarOnCapabilityRefresh(true)).toBe(false);
-  });
-});
-
-describe('shouldHandleSidecarExit', () => {
-  test('handles exit events from the currently active sidecar process', () => {
-    expect(shouldHandleSidecarExit(1234, 1234)).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  test('ignores exit events from a stale sidecar process', () => {
-    expect(shouldHandleSidecarExit(1234, 5678)).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  test('ignores exit events when either process id is missing', () => {
-    expect(shouldHandleSidecarExit(undefined, 5678)).toBe(false);
-    expect(shouldHandleSidecarExit(1234, undefined)).toBe(false);
-  });
-});