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Adds remote --report: one command a user runs when Remote Desktop Commander misbehaves. It collects diagnostics into a zip, sends it to Desktop Commander support, and prints a report id the user gives to support.

What this adds

Problem Change
Support can't see what happens on a user's machine when the device shows offline, calls time out or it keeps disconnecting. remote --report saves a zip with versions, clock, network checks, device state and the device's log, uploads it, and prints a report id. It doesn't start the device or sign in.
The device keeps no history, and its terminal output can't be shared: it holds tool arguments and results, the user's email and sign-in codes. A normal remote run writes ~/.desktop-commander-device/remote-<weekday>.log: every line it prints, masked, without tool arguments and results, the email, or the sign-in link and code. 1 MB, 3 files a day for 7 days: 21 at most.
With --debug, an error print shows the session tokens. The log keeps an error's name and message only. The terminal is unchanged.

What the user sees

Collecting diagnostics… (about 10 s)
  ✓ versions   ✓ clock   ✓ network   ✓ device state   ✓ device log (1 file)
Saved: ~/desktop-commander-report-2026-10-06-0148.zip (3 KB)
It holds no passwords, tokens, emails or file contents; you can open it and check.
Sent to Desktop Commander support. Report id: JR3Z75UB
Give this id to support. We keep it for 7 days, then delete it.

--no-upload only saves the zip. If the upload fails, the zip stays and the last line says to attach it instead.

Where to look

  • src/remote-device/diagnostics/report.ts (new): collects the facts, builds the zip, prints the result.
  • src/remote-device/diagnostics/upload.ts (new): sends the zip with the user and device ids from device.json. The address comes from /api/mcp-info (diagnosticsUrl); if the server sends none, nothing is uploaded and the zip stays saved.
  • src/remote-device/diagnostics/device-log.ts (new): the log, and the few rules that drop private lines.
  • src/remote-device/diagnostics/redact.ts (new): masks tokens, emails, ids, the home folder, and the user and host names.
  • src/npm-scripts/remote.ts: --report and --no-upload; a normal run starts the log.

device.ts and remote-channel.ts are unchanged.

How to verify

npm run build
node dist/index.js remote --report               # saves the zip, sends it, prints a report id
node dist/index.js remote --report --no-upload   # saves only
node test/test-redact.js && node test/test-remote-device-log.js && node test/test-remote-report.js
node test/integration/remote-report-upload.js    # against the live Worker
What the zip holds
  • report.txt: the readable summary, example below. report.json: the same facts. device-log/: the device's log.
  • Versions of Desktop Commander, Node, npm and the OS; how Node runs (paths with the home folder as ~).
  • Whether Desktop Commander MCP is running now, from the process list.
  • Clock skew; DNS, TLS and response times for the server and Supabase; proxy settings.
  • The device id; yes/no for a saved session; telemetry on/off and the client id.
  • Never: tokens, passwords, emails, the user name, the host name, tool arguments or results.
Versions      Desktop Commander 0.2.52 · Node 24.15.0 · npm 11.13.0 · macOS 26.6.2 (25.6.0) arm64
Node          ~/.local/share/fnm/node-versions/v24.15.0/installation/bin/node (fnm)
Running       ~/desktop-commander/dist/index.js (dev checkout)
MCP           running (1 copy, since 14:02)
Clock         device matches the server (within 1 s, from the server's Date header)
Network       mcp.desktopcommander.app: DNS 86 ms · TLS 170 ms · /api/mcp-info 5× 107/125/252 ms (min/median/max)
              Supabase: DNS 66 ms · TLS 95 ms · reachable in 165 ms · realtime websocket opened in 258 ms, heartbeat answered
              Proxy: HTTPS_PROXY not set · HTTP_PROXY not set
Device        id <device id> · signed-in data: yes (access token: yes, refresh token: yes), saved 2026-10-05 11:30 UTC
Settings      telemetry: on · client id: <client id>  (lets us find this device's telemetry)
Device log    1,204 lines from 2026-10-01 09:12 to 2026-10-05 14:30 UTC; last: "Channel subscribed"
Tests
  • test-redact.js, test-remote-device-log.js, test-remote-report.js: each uses its own temporary home and a local stand-in server, with no network. Planted tokens, an email, tool arguments, the home path and the user name never come out. The upload is checked against the stand-in: the same bytes and both ids arrive, --no-upload sends nothing, and a server error keeps the zip.
  • test/integration/remote-report-upload.js: a report saved with --no-upload, then uploaded to the deployed Worker, with a test device (fixed test ids, never real ones).
  • They fail before the code and pass after, on Windows 11 and macOS 26. Full suite at 10631170 (npm test, temporary home): macOS 70/70; Windows 67/70, the 3 being main's known issues (test-config-atomic-write, test-config-client-id-cross-process: EPERM renames; test-enhanced-repl: no Python), fixed by fix(windows): retry blocked renames; one atomic-write implementation #762 / test: run the suite on every platform, isolated, with visible skips #781 in rc-v0.3.1.

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  • New Features
    • Added remote --report to create and upload a diagnostic report ZIP without signing in or starting the device.
    • Use --no-upload to save the report locally for manual attachment. If upload fails, the report remains available.
    • Reports include system, network, device, and recent log information, with sensitive details filtered.
    • Remote runs now retain timestamped diagnostic logs that filter sensitive information and rotate automatically to limit disk usage.

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Walkthrough

The remote command now supports diagnostics reporting without starting the device or signing in. The workflow collects and redacts diagnostic data, saves it in a ZIP, and uploads it unless --no-upload is set. Remote console output is also captured in a rotating device log.

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Remote diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Redaction and device logging
src/remote-device/diagnostics/redact.ts, src/remote-device/diagnostics/device-log.ts, src/npm-scripts/remote.ts, test/test-redact.js, test/test-remote-device-log.js
Added redaction for paths and identifying or secret values. The device log filters private lines, limits line length and volume, rotates at 1 MiB, and wraps console methods while preserving their terminal output. Tests cover redaction, filtering, rotation, and console restoration.
Report collection and CLI entry
src/npm-scripts/remote.ts, src/remote-device/diagnostics/report.ts, test/test-remote-report.js
Added the remote --report entry point and report collection for runtime details, network checks, process data, device and settings state, and cleaned device logs. Tests exercise collection, formatting, and reported states.
ZIP creation and optional upload
src/remote-device/diagnostics/report.ts, src/remote-device/diagnostics/upload.ts, test/test-remote-report.js, test/integration/remote-report-upload.js
The workflow saves text and JSON reports with collected logs in a ZIP. It skips upload with --no-upload; otherwise it posts the ZIP and validates the returned report ID. Tests cover successful upload, failures, endpoint selection, and saved-only behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RemoteCommand
  participant runReport
  participant collectReport
  participant ZIPFile
  participant uploadReport
  participant DiagnosticsEndpoint
  RemoteCommand->>runReport: Run for --report
  runReport->>collectReport: Gather report data and log parts
  runReport->>ZIPFile: Save report ZIP
  runReport->>uploadReport: Upload unless --no-upload is set
  uploadReport->>DiagnosticsEndpoint: POST ZIP
  DiagnosticsEndpoint-->>uploadReport: Return report ID or upload error
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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to bf04f

Redaction, restricted local file permissions, and saving before sending limit exposure. No introduced security flaw was established, but the privacy of generic error text and the receiving service’s access and deletion controls are not fully demonstrated.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated new exposure is persistent history from the running remote process and disclosure of its report to the selected support destination when the user requests reporting without --no-upload. The report includes device/client identifiers and machine diagnostics. The supplied client evidence does not establish a cross-tenant read path or a privilege escalation; receiver-side isolation remains unknown.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The supplied sign-in disclosure candidate was rejected. Its strongest counterevidence is supported: the authenticator prints each marker and protected value consecutively without yielding, the logger preserves suppression across console calls, and fallback sign-in URL lines are independently dropped. Normal tool failure messages also follow recognized suppression prefixes. Sensitive data reaching the generic SDK error callback remains unproven because its dependency implementation was unavailable.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The uploader does not send session tokens. It decodes the saved token’s subject without signature verification and sends that value and the device ID as optional headers. These are client-asserted identifiers, not demonstrated authorization credentials. Server-supplied destinations must initially use HTTPS, but the uploader also accepts an environment override and does not specify a redirect policy.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — New log files and archives request owner-only permissions; archive creation is exclusive and therefore does not overwrite an existing report. Logging failures are contained rather than breaking the device and stop capture after five consecutive failures. Permission handling for existing log files and Windows ACL enforcement were not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider structured diagnostic events with explicit permitted fields, particularly for generic protocol errors, to reduce dependence on human-readable prefixes and pattern redaction. This is a hardening proposal, not an established disclosure finding.
  • proposed — Verify and document receiving-service read authorization, treatment of identifier headers as untrusted metadata, abuse limits, and seven-day deletion before relying on those guarantees.
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Three tests for the diagnostics zip that support asks a user for:

- test-redact.js: redact() masks a planted JWT, token / apikey / password
  values, a Bearer value, an email, a UUID, the home folder, the user name
  and the host name, and leaves a plain status line unchanged.
- test-remote-device-log.js: the device log writes every line with a UTC
  timestamp, masked, including lines no list knows. Only the private kinds,
  each printed as the device prints it, stay out: a tool call keeps its
  name and outcome but not its arguments, metadata, results or error
  details, also with an empty tool name or one with a space or a colon;
  the ready block's email; the sign-in link and code; an error
  object's properties (a spawn error's arguments carry the session
  tokens). It rotates at 1 MB and, past the last file, keeps exactly
  DEVICE_LOG_FILES files named by deviceLogName(), and keeps debug lines
  without --debug while the terminal output stays the same.
- test-remote-report.js: `remote --report` against a local stand-in (mcp-info,
  Supabase REST, realtime websocket; Date header 90 s ahead) writes the zip
  to the home folder with report.txt, report.json and the device log. It
  reads the clock skew and runs the network checks: a Supabase REST 401 (no
  sign-in) reads "reachable", a 503 "answered with a server error", a closed
  port "not reachable". It counts Desktop Commander MCP processes (a
  stand-in running its dist/index.js counts; with `remote`, or another
  app's dist/index.js, it doesn't). It reports npm's version, the Node
  executable and the entry script (home folder as ~) with their install
  kinds, the device id once in the Device section, and only yes/no facts
  about the rest of device.json. After saving it uploads the same bytes,
  with the user id (the saved token's sub) and the device id as headers,
  and prints the report id. --no-upload sends nothing; without device.json
  there are no id headers; a 500 keeps the zip and says "Not sent"; a
  silent server is aborted by the timeout. The address is the server's
  diagnosticsUrl (https only), else the default; without a server address
  the report is still sent. Every existing device log file goes into the
  zip, oldest first. A session without tokens is no signed-in data, and
  on macOS / Linux the zip is saved owner-only (0o600). It never starts
  sign-in or a refresh, and
  planted tokens, emails, the home path and the user name never reach the
  zip.

Each test sets its own temporary HOME / USERPROFILE (main's runner gives
tests none) and uses no network.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Users report that Remote Desktop Commander shows offline while it runs,
that calls time out, or that it disconnects often. Nothing on their machine
records why: the device writes only to the terminal, without timestamps,
mixed with tool arguments and results, the email and sign-in codes.

`desktop-commander remote --report` collects what support needs into
~/desktop-commander-report-<date>.zip, sends it to support, and exits. It
doesn't start the device and never opens sign-in, so it also works when
sign-in is broken.

- report.txt and report.json: versions (Desktop Commander, Node, npm, OS),
  the Node executable and the entry script (home folder as ~) with their
  install kinds, the clock skew from the server's Date header, DNS / TLS /
  mcp-info timings, whether Supabase REST is reachable (any HTTP answer;
  a 5xx is a server error) and a realtime websocket heartbeat, whether a
  proxy is set, whether Desktop Commander MCP is running now (count and
  earliest start, from the process list), the device id, yes/no facts
  about the saved session, and telemetryEnabled and clientId.
- device-log/: the device's history. A normal `remote` run now passes its
  console output through diagnostics/device-log.ts, which writes every
  line, masked and timestamped, to ~/.desktop-commander-device/remote.log,
  rotating at 1 MB (DEVICE_LOG_FILES = 3 files, named by deviceLogName(),
  no list). It drops only the private kinds: a tool
  call's arguments and results (its name and outcome stay; the rules key
  on their fixed words, so an empty name, or one with a space or a colon,
  can't let them through),
  the ready
  block's email, the sign-in link and code, and the properties of error
  objects (a spawn error's arguments carry the session tokens). Debug
  lines are kept without --debug; the terminal output doesn't change.
- diagnostics/upload.ts: after saving, the zip is POSTed to
  DC_DIAGNOSTICS_URL (tests), else the diagnosticsUrl that /api/mcp-info
  names (https only), else https://diagnostics.ds-c09.workers.dev, with
  the user id (the saved access token's sub, decoded
  locally) and the device id as headers and a 30 s timeout. The terminal
  prints the report id the Worker answers, or "Not sent (<reason>)" and
  keeps the zip. --no-upload only saves. Nothing is refreshed, nothing
  signs in, device.json is only read. The zip is saved owner-only
  (0o600), like the device log; "signed-in data" means a token is there.
- diagnostics/redact.ts: one masker for JWTs, token / key / password
  values, Bearer values, emails, UUIDs, the home folder, the user name and
  the host name.

New code is in src/remote-device/diagnostics/; device.ts and
remote-channel.ts are unchanged. The zip is written with pizzip, already a
dependency.

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… Worker

An integration test (npm run test:integration) for the upload, against the
live services:

1. remote --report exits 0, saves the zip in the home folder, and prints
   "Sent to Desktop Commander support. Report id: <8 chars>" with the
   Worker's alphabet (no 0, 1, I or O).
2. remote --report --no-upload saves the zip and sends nothing.
3. A body that isn't a zip, POSTed straight to the Worker, gets 415.

It runs with a temporary HOME / USERPROFILE whose device.json looks like a
real sign-in, with ids fixed and reserved for tests (never real Supabase
ids): device 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 and a fake, unsigned
access token whose sub is 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000. The CLI
only reads sub; nothing signs in or refreshes. Its uploads land like any
report, under <user>/<device>/<YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM>-<id>.zip. The upload goes
to the default address; DC_DIAGNOSTICS_URL and MCP_SERVER_URL can point
it elsewhere. The report id is printed.

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Review: the rotation could leave any number of log files; keep the last 7
days, no more.

Each UTC weekday now has its own files: remote-mon.log, rotating at 1 MB
into remote-mon.1.log and remote-mon.2.log as before. The first write on a
weekday whose remote-<day>.log is over a day old (last week's) removes that
day's 3 files before today's lines start. The names are a fixed set, so the
log holds at most 7 days x 3 files, 21 MB, and nothing lists the folder.
remote --report packs the 21 names that exist, oldest first by
modification time.

DeviceLog takes the clock and the rotation size as options, so the tests
move the day without sleeping. They cover the names, rotation within a
day, a new day, last week's files removed for that weekday only, a
same-day restart that appends, and two weeks that never leave more than
21 files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ames

Review: the upload goes through /api/mcp-info's diagnosticsUrl only, with no
fallback; remove DEFAULT_DIAGNOSTICS_URL.

uploadReport() now takes the address from its options only. The built-in
default, the defaultUrl option and the DC_DIAGNOSTICS_URL override are
gone. When the server names no address, nothing is uploaded, the zip stays
saved, and the terminal says "Not sent (the server named no upload
address)". Until production's remote-dc-mcp sets DIAGNOSTICS_URL, reports
stay local.

A refused upload shows the Worker's message from its {code, message}
answer: "Not sent (the server answered 429: too many reports, try again in
a minute)".

The server's address is used if it is https, or http on this machine
(127.0.0.1, localhost, ::1): the tests' stand-in now names its own address
in /api/mcp-info instead of an environment variable. The integration test
saves a report with the CLI and uploads it with the Worker's address it
holds itself, then checks that a non-zip is refused with the Worker's
message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review: a Node path that no rule recognizes was reported as "global
install"; it should be "unknown".

Only the known global-install paths now give "global install": Program
Files/nodejs, /usr/local/bin and /usr/bin. nvm, fnm, Volta, asdf, mise,
Homebrew and Claude Desktop stay as they were, and anything else is
"unknown"; the report shows the path itself anyway. nodeKind() is exported
and tested with sample paths.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review: use a timestamp instead of savedHoursAgo.

report.json's device.savedHoursAgo becomes savedAt: device.json's
modification time as ISO (UTC). report.txt shows it as "saved YYYY-MM-DD
HH:MM UTC", in the same form as the device log's times.

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…1-alpha.0

The version line check allowed only x.y.z, so a pre-release such as
0.3.1-alpha.0 failed "versions include npm, and how Node runs" on every
platform. A semver pre-release suffix is now accepted; a malformed one
("0.3.1-", "0.3.1 beta") still fails.

Made on #813's head, where main and rc-v0.3.1 split, and merged into both.

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