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@@ -14,6 +14,15 @@ Sections marked **v1.8.0** cover what this release changed: chat-driven editing
 2. The app is single-instance per `userData` path. If a leftover Electron/OpenScreen process still holds the lock, stop that process before relaunching; a second launch can exit successfully without opening a window. The lock is held by the OS and is released when the process dies, so there is nothing to delete on disk.
 3. From a worktree, link or junction `node_modules` to the main checkout and provide the prebuilt native capture binaries for the platform before starting the dev build. **Date those binaries against the change you came to test.** Nothing rebuilds them, so an older helper runs the old code path in silence: the recording succeeds and the thing you were checking for is simply absent. See AGENTS.md for how to check one and how to rebuild it; when you cannot, test the CI-built artifact, because a dev build cannot answer a native question.
 4. Grant computer-use access to the process name that actually owns the window: `electron.exe` or `Electron.app` for a dev build, and `Openscreen.exe` or `Openscreen.app` for a packaged build. Do not grant access only to the installed app name when testing a dev build — it resolves to the *installed* executable and reports success while the dev window stays masked. This is step 4 and not step 1 for a reason: a dev build is not an installed app, so the resolver cannot find it until it is running and owns a window, and one unresolvable name voids the whole request.
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+   **Ask for everything in ONE call — after the launches above, before the first check.** `request_access` takes a list, and once a grant is in place the rest of the pass runs without a single further prompt: a full capture-to-export run is dozens of clicks and none of them ask again. So the only thing keeping a human at the keyboard is *how many* dialogs you raise and *when*. Raise one, before the first check, and the operator can walk away for the rest of the run; discover a fourth app you need an hour in and they cannot. That is also why this cannot move earlier — the resolver needs the app running, and one unresolvable name voids the batch. Beyond the app under test, ask for:
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+   - the desktop shell — the tray icon and the native save dialogs live there, and the tray is the only reliable way back to the HUD;
+   - the OS settings app — needed to change display scaling, which is how DPI checks are run (see AGENTS.md; "the machine is at 100%" is not a reason to skip them).
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+   **Name them the way the Start menu does, in the system's own language.** The resolver matches installed-app display names, not executables: on a French Windows the shell is `Explorateur de fichiers` and `explorer.exe` fails outright — `notInstalled`, with a nonsense suggestion attached — which then voids every other name in the same call. On an English install it is `File Explorer`. When unsure, ask rather than guess; the tool lists the installed names it knows.
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+   There is no way to pre-approve any of this in config: the request has to be answered live. That is upstream ([claude-code#46907](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/46907), closed stale), and `bypassPermissions` does not cover it either ([#43172](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/43172)). Batching is the whole mitigation.
 5. Read [AGENTS.md](../../AGENTS.md) for the computer-use mechanics, screenshot permissions, tray interaction, and cleanup procedure. Read one check, perform it, observe the result, then continue; close each modal or popover with `Esc` before the next check.
 6. The recording HUD is protected from capture by default and is invisible in screenshots. For this session only, launch with `OPENSCREEN_DISABLE_CONTENT_PROTECTION=1`; this is the environment variable checked before `setContentProtection(true)`. Unset it before making any recording whose HUD must not appear in the video.
 7. A preview screenshot is downscaled. Settle every pixel-level question by exporting a frame and measuring the exported frame, not by judging fine edges, corners, shadows, or alignment from the preview screenshot.