chore(gui)!: retire the desktop app#35
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Release assets had stalled at 0.19.0 with effectively zero downloads while the CLI ships through PyPI, so the Electron app is retired rather than kept in maintenance mode. The full source, screenshot, and docs are preserved on the archive/gui branch, and the last shipped builds remain downloadable from old releases. Removes the gui/ tree, the GUI build/reuse pipeline from publish.yml, the --gui flag from bump_version.py, and GUI references across README, AGENTS.md, and the roadmap (porcelain contract test reframed for scripts/agents; the GUI/package version-alignment TODO is moot). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Motivation
Download data settled the question: the GUI desktop zips in recent releases have ~1 download each, and the asset attached to v0.24.x releases was still the stale 0.19.0 build — five package releases went by without anyone noticing the GUI never updated. Meanwhile the CLI ships through PyPI (~714/month). Maintenance mode still costs real money (Electron CVE churn, dependabot noise, a whole npm toolchain in the contributor guide, GUI branches in publish.yml,
--guiin the bump script) for a product with no measurable users.Archival — nothing is lost
archive/guibranch is a full snapshot of main taken immediately before this change: the entiregui/tree,assets/gui_demo.png, the GUI sections of README/AGENTS, the publish.yml GUI pipeline, the bump-script GUI code — verified file-by-file before deletion. Git history additionally preserves everything forever.vexor-desktop-0.19.0-*.zip) remain downloadable from old releases; existing installs keep working.Changes
gui/andassets/gui_demo.png.publish.yml: remove the GUI version-detection outputs, the reuse-previous-asset step, and the Node/npm build steps (YAML validated; CLI binary + PyPI + MCP-registry pipeline untouched).scripts/bump_version.py: drop--guiand the SemVer-normalization helpers; tests updated (unknown options now rejected, with a regression test).guiscope example, and GUI-screenshot guidance removed.archive/guiand the VS Code extension (P2); the porcelain contract test item reframed for scripts/agents (still valuable without the GUI); the GUI/package version-alignment Engineering TODO removed (moot).Compatibility
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!because a distributed product surface is removed. No Python API, config-schema, or cache-schema change; the pip package never included the GUI.Tests
python -m pytest tests -q(.venv, offline): 549 passed.publish.ymlparses (yaml.safe_load). Doc/CI/tooling change only — no runtime code touched.🤖 Generated with Claude Code