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ADE runs on Windows. This release is the Windows port: a signed installer, a background brain that survives logoff, and the long tail of platform-specific bugs between “it launches” and “it works”. macOS gets the performance and correctness fixes that came out of the same audit. Windows support is a beta. The app says so on every launch, and the gaps are written down rather than papered over — see ADE on Windows for the exact list of what is degraded, blocked, or unavailable, and why. Thanks to @nsxdavid for #999, which did a lot of the groundwork for getting the Windows build out.

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Windows

  • Signed installer and channel builds. package:alpha and package:beta build on Windows, installers are branded per channel, and a packaged Beta no longer behaves as — or chases updates from — Stable.
  • The background brain is a real per-user service. No-admin startup registration, uninstall cleanup, and a graceful shutdown path: Windows has no deliverable SIGTERM, so ADE asks the brain to exit over its own RPC channel and force-terminates only after a grace window.
  • ade code runs. It was launching on a runtime with no TTY, then failing to resolve its own dependencies out of the app archive. Both fixed.
  • Agent prompts are no longer lost. Claude and Droid prompts were being passed on the Windows command line, where they were dropped; they now go through the terminal as input. Claude’s readiness marker never matched on Windows at all, so the first prompt of every session silently vanished.
  • Codex sessions are visible again, and Archive & Reclaim is unblocked — extended-length (\\?\) paths were making ADE misread its own session directory. One machine went from 1 visible session to 65.

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Fixes that also affect macOS

  • The credential store no longer deletes your account session. Migrating to the OS-backed store could destroy the logged-in session, signing you out with no way back. Sessions are now owned by one store, and migrated keys are pruned rather than left behind in both.
  • Session deletes route to the machine that owns the session, instead of failing and then appearing to succeed two minutes later. Switching machines rebinds the current tab rather than opening a second one.
  • A CLI or shell launch pinned to another machine is filed under that machine, not the local one.

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Performance

  • The main process no longer blocks for ~2s on every status poll. A synchronous probe ran on Electron’s main thread every two seconds, which is why window drags and button presses stuttered.
  • Listing lanes no longer spawns 7 git processes per lane, serially. Measured at 21 seconds per call on a 58-lane machine; now bounded-concurrency with single-flight and a short-lived cache.
  • Slash-command discovery is memoized. Each call was reading 2,760 files.

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Elsewhere

  • The site hero now offers macOS, Windows, and iOS directly; the separate download page is gone.
  • Pull requests no longer build a Windows installer — a ~40-minute job that could not ship anything on its own. Pushes to main still build it, because every releasable commit must have a real installer behind it.