Improve Claude Add account WSL failure diagnostics

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Fixes #476

Summary

Claude Add account runs the native Claude Code CLI (claude auth login --claudeai) against an isolated CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR with no TTY and all stdio set to NUL. When sign-in does not complete, every failure previously collapsed into one of two opaque messages, so a WSL2 user could not tell why. This change leaves the sign-in flow itself untouched and makes failure handling deterministic and actionable.

• Distinguishes a non-zero Claude Code exit from a successful exit that wrote no credentials.
• Includes only safe status (the Claude Code exit code) and category. Raw child output is still never captured, logged, or surfaced.
• Detects when the ambient Claude config (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR or ~/.claude) is a Windows reparse point/symlink that resolves into WSL (\\wsl$, \\wsl.localhost, including the \\?\UNC\ verbatim form).
• On failure only, WSL-backed setups get explicit guidance: Add account signs in to an isolated config directory and does not write through the ambient symlink; WSL2/remote browser flows often cannot reach Claude Code's loopback callback and require the code to be pasted into a terminal, so sign in with claude auth login --claudeai in the WSL terminal and then use Save current account, or install/use native Windows Claude Code.
• Native (non-WSL) failures keep the existing generic message, now with the safe exit code.
• Add account is never blocked preemptively based on the ambient WSL link; the guidance appears only after a failure. Cancellation is still reported as cancellation.

Root cause

Not a proven universal CLI bug. The CLI is launched hidden with no stdin/stdout/stderr (no TTY), so a WSL2/remote browser callback that cannot reach Claude Code's local callback server cannot fall back to pasting the code into the terminal, and the opaque runner hid which failure occurred. The reporter's ambient .claude symlink into \\wsl$ is not the write target of Add account; the isolated config directory is.

Validation

• cargo fmt --all (pass)
• git diff --check (pass)
• Local Rust linking is blocked on this machine (Git's link.exe shadows MSVC's, no VS Build Tools), so cargo test/cargo check could not run locally. Added #[cfg(test)] unit tests:
  • WSL UNC path detection positives/negatives (verbatim UNC, mixed case, ordinary UNC, native drive paths)
  • failure-message selection for native vs WSL and cancel vs failure
  • credential-marker leakage guard
  • ordinary junction is not treated as WSL-backed
• No frontend files changed.

Remaining risk

Real OAuth completion in a WSL2 environment was not reproduced, and the added tests were not executed locally because of the linker blocker. Hosted CI must compile and run the new tests.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Claude account sign-in messages for cancellations, timeouts, command failures, and missing credentials.
  • Added clearer recovery guidance for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), including configuration and terminal troubleshooting.
  • Prevented sensitive credential information from appearing in login errors.
  • Improved handling and detection of WSL-linked configuration paths, including junction-based setups.
  • Standardized diagnostics for configuration path issues.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Claude account sign-in now classifies cancellation, timeout, CLI exit, and missing-credential failures. It detects WSL-backed Claude configuration paths and adds recovery guidance. Tests cover path detection, message content, redaction, and junction handling.

Changes

Claude WSL sign-in handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Failure classification and messages rust/src/providers/claude/accounts/login.rs	LoginFailure provides categorized outcomes and generic or WSL-specific messages. Tests verify guidance, fixed cancellation and timeout text, and credential-material redaction.
WSL configuration path detection rust/src/providers/claude/accounts/login.rs	UNC path normalization and reparse-point checks identify WSL-backed configuration paths. Tests distinguish WSL paths from native paths and local junctions.
Login failure integration rust/src/providers/claude/accounts/login.rs	wait_for_login converts login outcomes to LoginFailure messages using the ambient Claude configuration state. Junction assertion diagnostics now use a fixed message.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to dcbb8

The failure-diagnostic changes have no identified merge-blocking risk.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 1 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: improved WSL failure diagnostics for Claude account sign-in.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #476 requires diagnosable Claude Code Add account failures and WSL2 recovery guidance without changing the sign-in flow. The PR classifies cancellation, timeout, non-zero CLI exit, and missing c…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within issue #476. The PR changes Claude account login diagnostics, WSL-backed configuration detection, recovery guidance, and related tests. The incremental change only replaces ju…

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In `@rust/src/providers/claude/accounts/login.rs`:
- Line 746: Update the assertion diagnostic in the junction-creation flow around
String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stderr) to use a fixed failure message instead
of formatting output.stderr, preventing junction or target paths from appearing
in logs.
- Around line 273-281: Update ambient_config_is_wsl_backed to use
accounts::config_dir() for resolving the configuration path instead of
independently reading CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR and home_dir(); handle the resolver’s
Result and preserve the existing false behavior when resolution fails.

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