* Add German translation and harden paths against unset env vars Add a German locale to the GUI, tray menu, usage alerts and website home page, and refuse to start when the home folder is unset or relative so nothing is written under the working folder; the pi plugin no longer adopts the user's PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, and an inherited APPIMAGE no longer selects portable mode. Scripts refuse to run from the wrong folder or empty a shared out folder, and a new internal/testenv sandboxes every test package from the user's real files, which also fixes the Claude picker and Termux installer tests on Windows. * Makefile: know magpie's folder by its go.mod, so paths with spaces work The check compared $(CURDIR) with $(dir $(abspath …)), which make splits on spaces, so a checkout under 'My Projects' or 'John Doe' refused every target. It now reads go.mod relative to the working folder and wants magpie's module there: make -C and a symlinked Makefile work, make -f from another folder still stops before any recipe runs. * i18n: German for the strings main added since, with a parity test 75 strings main added (group order, patterns, slow-start wait, usage caps, RTK savings …) get their German, and two that main dropped go. gui-de.test.cjs checks, as gui-ja does, that de has every zh string with its placeholders and tags, and that the window reads in German when picked or on a German system. * appdir: ignore relative folder variables when reading, keep them for children CheckEnv no longer unsets anything. magpie reads the XDG folders, APPDATA/LOCALAPPDATA and every agent's folder variable through appdir.Getenv/LookupEnv, which pass over a relative value; the environment stays as it is, so the agents magpie starts get the variable as the user set it. That covers what proc.UserPath lends from the login shell too, which is set after main's check and reached the desktop app unchecked. On Windows a path rooted on the current drive (\Users\x, Git Bash's /c/x) counts as usable, and magpie version and help answer without a home, before run makes any folder. * Sandbox the tests main added since internal/wslrun gets testenv's TestMain, and four tests main added that set HOME alone set their home with testenv.SetHome, so on Windows they don't read the runner's profile through USERPROFILE. * agentenv: PI_CONFIG_DIR and OPENCODE_DB take relative names on purpose omp puts $PI_CONFIG_DIR under the home and OpenCode a relative $OPENCODE_DB in its data folder, so neither depends on the working folder: appdir no longer passes them over. * i18n: German for the Library's multi-select and System One's decision API The 19 strings main added since (#791's skill multi-select, the decision API snippets) get their German; the one main replaced (four APIs → five APIs) goes. * appdir: tidy the import into magpie's group; say what Go makes of /c/x The appdir import joins the group of magpie's own imports where a file has one. rooted's comment now says that Go takes a Git Bash path like /c/x as \c\x on the current drive, not C:\x.
UI preview
.github/workflows/ui-preview.yml shows reviewers what a pull request does to the UI.
When a PR touches internal/gui/assets/ or the GUI's Go code, or carries the ui-preview label, the workflow does this:
- publish.mjs detect decides whether the PR is a UI change. It puts a "recording…" note in a fixed block at the foot of the PR description, between
<!-- magpie-ui-preview:begin -->and<!-- magpie-ui-preview:end -->. - run.sh builds the PR's magpie (nogui) and runs
magpie webin a fresh home, with DeepSeek added as a real provider. It sends a few requests through the gateway so Routing and Usage aren't empty, then runs: - record.mjs, which:
- gives DeepSeek the diff and outlines of the real pages;
- has it plan scenes: what to click, hover, type and capture;
- walks the plan in Chromium at 2x, with
cursor.jsdrawing the pointer, its trail and each click. It always takes screenshots. When the change spans pages or needs interaction, it also records an mp4, never a GIF. If the key shows up on screen at any point, everything is thrown away.
- publish.mjs publish puts the files under
pr-<n>/<sha>/on theui-previewsbranch, which GitHub Pages serves, and rewrites the block in the description:- the video's poster links to the player page, since GitHub won't embed a video it didn't host;
- the screenshots are shown inline.
Security: the recording job runs the PR's code without asking anyone. Any PR's code can therefore read DEEPSEEK_API_KEY (environment ui-preview), so the key there should have a low spending limit. That job has no write access, and the job that writes never runs the PR's code.
To run it locally (run.sh builds and starts magpie itself):
cd .github/ui-preview && npm install && npx playwright install chromium
DEEPSEEK_API_KEY=… DIFF_FILE=pr.diff PR_TITLE=… ./run.sh ../.. /tmp/out
To re-run it for a PR, use gh workflow run ui-preview.yml -f pr=<n>.