Desktop pet usage and appearance guide

September 10, 2026 · View on GitHub

The desktop pet shows the saved state of one selected Dev Flow Task and opens its WebUI on click. Appearance packs supply artwork; the local scheduler runs idle activities, while Core owns Task state. This guide covers obtaining and starting the app, selecting tasks, updating the program and artwork, animation rules, pack creation, and troubleshooting.

Environment and delivery

The desktop component targets macOS arm64 (Apple Silicon) and Windows 10/11 x64 and requires at least one installed and configured Codex or DeepSeek Adapter to provide Core. The Swift Package and app metadata target macOS 14; actual minimum-system operation, Developer ID signing, and Apple notarization have not completed formal distribution verification. See the support matrix for the verified scope.

Below, productRoot means the product directory, which defaults to ~/.dev-flow on macOS; settings and appearances live in its pet/ subdirectory.

The formal @imotong/dev-flow npm package includes runtime/darwin-arm64/DevFlowPet.app and runtime/win32-x64/DevFlowPet, each with nine default actions and 312 SVG frames. Running the built application requires no compiler or Electron development environment. An independently installed Adapter provides Core. Formal preparation on macOS arm64 compiles Swift, assembles the locked Windows x64 Electron runtime, and checks versions, architectures, artwork and the extracted package files. macOS uses ad-hoc signing; Windows distribution signing remains unverified.

npm installation and startup

npm install -g @imotong/dev-flow@latest
dev-flow install
dev-flow pet start

Configure at least one Adapter through the unified entry; existing configuration can be reused. The launcher supplies Core and data-directory arguments. It prefers the installed user-directory app over the bundled app. pet start reuses an existing application; use maintenance commands below to update its copy.

Local build and installation

Configure at least one Adapter through the unified installation entry; existing configurations can be reused. Run the following from the repository root, with an absolute output directory outside the repository:

node scripts/build-desktop-pet.mjs --output "/absolute/pet-build"

The script compiles Swift, assembles artwork and language resources, signs ad hoc, and creates a .tgz plus desktop-pet-build.json. It neither rebuilds Core nor publishes a package. If you obtain a local package produced by this script, proceed directly to installation. Replace <local-package>.tgz below with the actual filename reported by the build result's tarball field:

npm install -g "/absolute/pet-build/<local-package>.tgz"
dev-flow pet start

Local packages use the same platform application assembly as formal preparation. Build machines require Node.js >=24 and Swift >=6.0 through xcrun swift.

Windows local build and installation

Building the Windows development package requires Go, Node.js and pnpm on PATH at the repository toolchain versions. Windows 10/11 x64 has a separate desktop implementation with task selection, status bubbles, tray menus, nine actions, appearance import, scaling, dragging, hide/restore and independent start/stop. A built app carries its runtime and needs no Electron development tools or compiler; a configured Adapter still supplies Core.

From the repository root, install the locked Windows build dependencies and choose an output directory outside the repository:

npm ci --prefix packages/desktop-pet/windows
node scripts/build-desktop-pet-windows.mjs --output "C:\pet-build"
npm install -g "C:\pet-build\<local-package>.tgz"
dev-flow install --host all --yes
dev-flow pet start
dev-flow pet stop

Replace <local-package>.tgz with the filename identified by tarball in desktop-pet-build.json. This build assembles the Windows desktop and complete Adapter packages using the existing Core target catalog, binding artifact paths, versions and SHA256 hashes. It copies nine default actions and 312 frames and verifies extracted artwork and executable bytes. Mac Core is cross-compiled only; no Mac program, Mac test or publication is run. Windows uses the system tray in place of the macOS menu bar; artwork formats, task semantics and six scale choices align.

productRoot defaults to %LOCALAPPDATA%\dev-flow. The installed app directory is productRoot/pet/DevFlowPet, with DevFlowPet.exe as its entry; it takes precedence over runtime/win32-x64/DevFlowPet in the package. settings.json and appearances/ are stored separately. The unified entry refreshes the app copy through dev-flow install, upgrade, repair or reinstall. The launcher stops maintained instances, stages the replacement, and retains settings.json and appearances/. Running pet start alone does not reinstall an existing app. Ordinary quit and uninstall preserve these files; confirmed factory-reset clears the whole pet directory under the existing rules.

Windows uses a restricted renderer and a local per-user single-instance channel with acknowledgments. It does not stop processes by name or PID alone. Each poll and navigation rechecks the same Core and data directory. Disconnection keeps and marks the last record, with separate task-update and last-sync timestamps. Hiding or sleeping cancels reads and animation; resuming does not replay historical completion prompts.

Windows distribution signing remains unverified. Recorded native environments and results are in the adaptation report; supported scope is listed in the Support Matrix.

Updating the program and artwork

Update the npm package, then refresh the installed application copy through a maintenance command:

dev-flow pet stop
npm install -g @imotong/dev-flow@latest
dev-flow repair --host codex --yes
dev-flow pet start

Choose the configured Host; DeepSeek uses --host deepseek --profile <name>. install, upgrade, repair and reinstall include a pet update even when the Adapter itself needs no changes. The plan lists that operation before confirmation. It stops the running pet, stages the new application, and replaces only the application directory. A stop or copy failure stops maintenance; a staging failure preserves the previous application. Settings and imported appearances remain in their separate directories.

Installing the npm package alone updates its bundled application. Refresh an existing user-directory copy with the maintenance command above. Reimport an appearance from its source folder to update artwork; application updates do not invent missing animations.

Default appearance and external artwork

The pet package includes only the default appearance from packages/desktop-pet/default-appearance/, with nine clips and 312 SVG frames. The build copies the artwork and verifies each file against its source. Import Whale Girl or other custom appearances as separate artwork packs: choose Import appearance and select a folder containing pet.json. Supported formats are listed below under Appearance types and available animations.

Imported artwork lives in productRoot/pet/appearances/<id> and is preserved across application updates. Reimport the same source folder to update a custom appearance. Switching appearances keeps the watched Task.

Task selection and basic controls

The menu bar entry uses a monochrome Dev Flow mark, with a clear gap between the crossbar and main curve at small sizes. The 18 pt vector icon is tinted by macOS for the menu bar appearance and selection state.

By default, up to three task bubbles overlap: the front bubble shows the focused task, with the outlines of other task cards behind it. The footer shows unfinished and blocked counts, plus a count for additional tasks. Hover or click the count to expand a scrollable list; each bubble opens its own task WebUI.

Every observation discovers unfinished tasks. Automatic focus prioritizes blocked tasks and remains stable among tasks with the same priority; a new focus is selected by most recent update. When the focused task completes, its prompt stays for about three seconds before focus moves to unfinished work. Completions observed continuously in this session remain in the expanded list until opened or dismissed. Cancelled, archived, or confirmed unavailable tasks also release automatic focus. With no remaining work, the pet becomes idle.

Pin task saves an explicit choice for the current data directory. A pinned task stays focused after completion while other task bubbles remain visible. Follow automatically clears the pin. Opening a task does not pin it. Restart restores only an explicit pin; completion prompts are limited to the current session.

Observation waits five seconds after each round on macOS and three seconds on Windows; a completion prompt can trigger an earlier refresh. Hiding or sleeping pauses reads. Failed reads preserve the last records and mark them disconnected. Recovery, wake, and first reads of historical completion do not replay celebrations.

Ordinary Codex chats do not automatically become Dev Flow Tasks. A selected task that remains active keeps working or review artwork even when its Host has no new output.

Operation	Result
Left-click the pet or bubble	The pet opens the focused task, or the list with no focus; each bubble opens its own Task WebUI.
Context menu / menu bar	Pin a task, follow automatically, choose appearances, import packs, adjust pet size, control animations and idle activities, hide, or quit.
Hover	Expand the task bubbles; hovering over the character can also trigger a wave when idle conditions are met.
Drag and drop	Save the new placement, which becomes the center of subsequent walks.
Hide or system sleep	Stop animation, movement, and observation requests; show or wake to read the current state again.
Quit / `dev-flow pet stop`	End only the pet, preserving WebUI, Tasks, settings, and artwork.

Only dev-flow pet start and dev-flow pet stop are supported pet commands. Output is plain text, with exit codes 0 for success, 1 for runtime failure, and 2 for invalid arguments. There is no public pet status or pet start --json; use the error text and troubleshooting below.

macOS motion

Bubble expansion and collapse use system animations and continue from the current appearance when the pointer changes direction. Cards and the scroll surface stay in place throughout the transition; expanded tasks remain clickable, pinnable, and scrollable. macOS 26 and later use system Liquid Glass materials, with native interactive glass feedback on macOS 27. Earlier supported systems use their corresponding AppKit materials and animations.

Walks ease into motion and slow before arrival, keeping the overall distance and duration described below. Pointer entry, a press, or opening a menu interrupts walking. Turning off Animations or enabling the system's Reduce Motion setting applies the target bubble layout immediately and uses a still character frame. Hiding and sleep stop playback.

Bubbles use the transparent headroom shared by all frames of the current clip to sit closer to the character, with a margin for fine details. Frame changes keep the layout stable while preserving character size and foot placement.

Character frames retain their authored durations and update with the display refresh. After a brief main-thread delay, the player shows the frame for the current elapsed time. This improves timing without creating missing poses; low-frame-count artwork still has its original visual limits.

Pet size

Pet size offers 50%, 75%, 100%, 125%, 150%, and 200%, defaulting to 100% and saved as scale in settings.json. Scaling affects the character while bubble text and width stay unchanged. Resizing preserves the artwork anchor position before constraining the window to the visible screen. The size and position apply after saving succeeds; a failed save shows a message and keeps the current size. Walking speed follows the scale.

On Windows, resizing ends the current idle activity and its movement, then schedules the next activity after the normal interval. Work animations and completion celebrations retain their playback progress.

Appearance types and available animations

Rules use animation keys for every appearance, with no behavior tied to a particular name. The artwork actually supplied determines which effects an appearance can show.

Appearance type	Saved and played content
Single PNG or SVG	All five task clips share one image, producing a static appearance.
Native Dev Flow PNG/SVG animation pack	Five task clips are required and four additional clips are optional; each clip's frame count comes from its own catalog, and SVG retains its vector representation.
Standard Codex atlas or a high-resolution extension with the same layout	Extract the fixed nine animation rows: nine clips, 57 frames. Format 2's extra gaze frames are outside the extraction scope.

The five required clips are idle, working, blocked, complete, and disconnected, ensuring each task state has artwork. The four additional clips are running-right, running-left, waving, and review, supporting walking, responses, and thinking. Missing additional clips are removed from the idle candidate set; review nodes use working if review artwork is absent. Inspect clips in productRoot/pet/appearances/<id>/animations.json to see the installed copy's animations.

Import and selection

Open Choose appearance from the pet context menu or menu bar.
Select Import appearance and choose the folder containing pet.json.
A successful import selects the appearance immediately. Use the menu to select the bundled character or another imported appearance.

Import saves a copy, so the source folder can be moved away. Reimport an edited pack with the same ID to update it. The complete converted pack must pass the same validation used when loading, inside a temporary directory, before it replaces the installed directory. Failed validation preserves the installed appearance and selection. Task and appearance choices are stored independently; switching preserves the watched task and does not replay old completion prompts.

User artwork lives in productRoot/pet/appearances/<id>; pet settings store selected_appearance. Upgrades and ordinary uninstall preserve packs and selection. Confirmed factory-reset clears them with the pet directory. A missing or invalid saved pack is reported, and the bundled character is used until the user imports or selects an appearance again.

Dev Flow static appearance

A minimal pack contains a manifest and one PNG or SVG. This example uses PNG:

orange-square/
  pet.json
  pet.png

pet.json:

{
  "id": "orange-square",
  "name": "Orange square",
  "image": "pet.png"
}

id contains 1–64 lowercase ASCII letters, digits, hyphens, or underscores, starting with a letter or digit. name contains 1–100 characters. image names a PNG or SVG relative to this folder; a transparent background is recommended. One image serves all stages, which the bubble text distinguishes. Copy the repository's static example and replace its image and name.

Dev Flow animated appearance

An animated pack's pet.json contains only id and name. Provide sibling animations.json and Assets/:

my-pet/
  pet.json
  animations.json
  Assets/
    idle/0.png
    idle/1.png
    working/0.png
    blocked/0.png
    complete/0.png
    complete/1.png
    disconnected/0.png

Frames can use PNG or SVG. SVG files follow the file requirements below and preserve their original vector content on import. This example uses 128×128 PNG images. Keep canvas geometry and character placement consistent across frames:

{
  "canvas": { "width": 128, "height": 128 },
  "anchor": { "x": 64, "y": 128 },
  "clips": {
    "idle": { "frames": ["idle/0.png", "idle/1.png"], "fps": 8, "loop_range": [0, 1], "rest_frame": 0 },
    "working": { "frames": ["working/0.png"], "fps": 8, "loop_range": [0, 0], "rest_frame": 0 },
    "blocked": { "frames": ["blocked/0.png"], "fps": 8, "loop_range": [0, 0], "rest_frame": 0 },
    "complete": { "frames": ["complete/0.png", "complete/1.png"], "fps": 8, "loop_range": null, "rest_frame": 1 },
    "disconnected": { "frames": ["disconnected/0.png"], "fps": 8, "loop_range": [0, 0], "rest_frame": 0 }
  }
}

Provide all five task clips; they may reuse one image. Catalogs may also include running-right, running-left, waving, and review. Every supplied clip follows the same validation and loading rules. A single-frame clip is static. Multiple frames use fps, or an optional frame_durations_ms array with one duration per entry in frames that takes precedence over fps. loop_range includes both bounds. Completion uses null and ends on rest_frame. Reduce Motion and the animation switch use static frames. The player scales the full canvas proportionally; authors align artwork on a consistent canvas, with anchor retained as the shared artwork reference point.

Compatibility with standard Codex pet formats

Dev Flow supports Codex sprite formats 1 and 2. Compatibility covers the local pack's atlas layout, required animation frames, and per-frame timings; Dev Flow owns task stages, prompts, and navigation. The importer accepts a PNG/WebP atlas and a pet.json with these fields:

{
  "id": "my-codex-pet",
  "displayName": "My Codex pet",
  "description": "My companion",
  "spriteVersionNumber": 2,
  "spritesheetPath": "spritesheet.webp"
}

Select the individual pet folder, such as ~/.codex/pets/my-codex-pet, containing pet.json and its PNG/WebP atlas. This importer requires id, displayName, and spritesheetPath: id is nonempty with at most 256 characters, displayName contains non-whitespace content with at most 100 characters, and spritesheetPath is a relative file path. description is optional and does not affect task presentation. Omitted spriteVersionNumber means 1; an explicit value must be 1 or 2, matching the official Codex pet version parameter.

Standard Codex format	Atlas size	Grid	Cell size
`spriteVersionNumber: 1$	1536 \times 1872	8 \text{columns}, 9 \text{rows}	192 \times 208
$spriteVersionNumber: 2`	1536×2288	8 columns, 11 rows	192×208

Both standard formats share the nine animation rows below. Dev Flow imports all nine, totaling 57 frames. Format 2 includes additional gaze frames; the current import covers the first nine animation rows. Here, 1 and 2 identify Codex artwork formats, not Dev Flow product versions.

Animation	Catalog key	Codex animation row	Frames
Idle	`idle`	idle, row 0	6
Walk right	`running-right`	running-right, row 1	8
Walk left	`running-left`	running-left, row 2	8
Wave	`waving`	waving, row 3	4
Completion	`complete`	jumping, row 4	5
Disconnected	`disconnected`	failed, row 5	8
Blocked	`blocked`	waiting, row 6	6
Ordinary stage	`working`	running, row 7	6
Review	`review`	review, row 8	6

Import crops PNG frames and preserves standard frame timings, then uses the common player. Walk right, walk left, wave, and review participate in the idle activities and task animation selection below. Looping artwork can also finish after a specified number of full cycles. Dev Flow owns task meaning, completion conditions, and navigation; behavior-map.json is not used for importing or scheduling animations. Source files stay intact, and the installed directory ID is derived consistently from the Codex id.

Dev Flow's own high-resolution extension

The same entry also supports Dev Flow's own high-resolution atlas extension. It uses the pet.json fields and animation row layout above, preserving the original cell resolution when converting to common PNG frames. This extension is supported by Dev Flow and is outside the standard Codex formats. A successful Dev Flow import does not imply that Codex can read the original atlas. To use the artwork in Codex as well, provide a separate atlas with the standard dimensions matching its spriteVersionNumber in the table above.

Extension cropping rules:

The atlas has eight columns and its width must be divisible by 8: cell_width = width / 8.
Cells keep the 192:208 ratio: cell_height = cell_width × 208 / 192 must be an integer.
The height must cover the first nine complete animation rows: height >= cell_height × 9. All nine listed clips are extracted.
spriteVersionNumber still accepts only 1 or 2 and defaults to 1. Extension cell dimensions come from the width; the field does not require an extension atlas to have a standard format's total height.

For example, an 8-bit 12288×14976 atlas has 1536×1664 cells and nine rows. Even if its field is 2, Dev Flow extracts all nine clips using the extension rules. It is not a standard Codex format 2 atlas. Its estimated decoded RGBA data is 702 MiB and its largest eight-frame clip is estimated at 78 MiB, both within the limits below. Import must also satisfy the total size limit for converted PNG files.

Idle activities and animation triggers

The menu includes an enabled-by-default Idle activities switch, saved as idle_activities_enabled. Turning it off retains baseline idle and task animations while stopping idle rotation, interaction waves, and automatic movement. The Animations switch and the system's Reduce Motion setting take precedence; disabling animation uses still frames.

Idle activities begin when the service is connected, the window is visible, and no task is focused. Automatic mode follows unfinished work after a completion prompt; pinned completed, cancelled, or archived tasks retain their corresponding posture for three seconds before idling. An observed completion first plays its full celebration, then waits those three seconds. A first read of an already-completed task uses its still completion frame without replaying a historical celebration. Active, blocked, unavailable, or unknown tasks and disconnected services use their corresponding task presentation.

Animation	Trigger rules
Baseline idle	Wait a random 6–12 seconds after each short activity before selecting the next one. Ordinary reads of the same state preserve the current animation and deadline.
Walk right, walk left	Initial weight: 25% each. With at least 40 pt available in the direction, move horizontally 40–80 pt at an average of about `20 × scale` pt/second. Duration is distance divided by speed, or 2–4 seconds at 100% size. A finished walk has a 30% chance of continuing with one wave.
Wave	Random weight: 20%. Idle startup or showing the pet, hovering over the character for at least 0.4 seconds, and dropping it after a drag can also trigger a wave. Play 1–2 cycles with a shared 20-second cooldown. Continuous hover responds once; leaving for at least two seconds rearms it.
Review / thinking at the computer	Random weight: 30%. During idle, play enough complete cycles to meet a randomly selected 3–5-second target, then return to idle. During an actual task's `COMPREHENSION_REVIEW` node, loop continuously; leaving that node restores working artwork.

Exclude unavailable artwork, cooling-down actions, and directions with insufficient room before sampling the remaining weights. Avoid consecutive identical choices when alternatives exist. Appearances without review artwork use working during review nodes. Idle thinking preserves the existing bubble text; Core state continues to determine task meaning and navigation.

Automatic walking stays within 120 pt horizontally of the last manual placement, with targets at least 16 pt from the current screen edge and the full window inside the visible area. Temporary movement stays in memory; only manual dragging updates the saved position. Screen layout changes cancel the current route and constrain the window again.

Entering the pet window stops movement and pauses random activities. Only hovering over the character triggers a wave; bubble hover still expands information. Mouse presses, dragging, menus, and selection/import panels suspend idle activities. Left-click navigation and right-click menus keep their existing behavior. Observed blocked, completed, or disconnected states immediately interrupt idle activities. Hiding, sleeping, or turning off the relevant switches cancels idle deadlines and movement. Resuming schedules fresh activities without replaying interrupted ones. The local scheduler, player, and window coordinate activity execution, completion, and idle waiting; ordinary polling does not restart animations repeatedly.

File requirements

Each description file is at most 256 KiB. References must be relative paths to regular files; symlinks and references outside the folder are rejected.
Dev Flow PNG/SVG animation frame dimensions must match canvas, whose width and height are positive integers. Static PNGs and individual PNG frames have an estimated decoding limit of 128 MiB each.
Catalogs contain at most 512 frame references. Referenced PNG/SVG artwork files total at most 128 MiB to accommodate nine high-resolution clips. Each clip's RGBA data, estimated as canvas.width × canvas.height × 4 × frame_count, is at most 128 MiB; frame_count is the number of frames in the clip.
Each SVG is UTF-8 and at most 1 MiB, with integer root dimensions from 1 to 4096. An optional viewBox must be 0 0 width height. Accepted content is limited to static vector shapes, gradients, and internal references, with at most 4096 elements and 64 nesting levels. Scripts, embedded raster images, external references, document types, and entities are rejected. The current system must be able to render the artwork.
fps is 0.1–120; per-frame durations are 9–60000 milliseconds. Loop and rest indexes must be valid.
Standard Codex and extended Dev Flow source atlases are at most 512 MiB, with an estimated decoding limit of 1 GiB.
Before allocating pixels, decoding estimates use image metadata: width × height × 4 × ceil(bit_depth / 8), where bit_depth is the bit depth, with four channels and supported depths of 1–16 bits. This bounds image pixel data, not the process's peak memory.
Converted results must also satisfy the PNG total size, clip memory, and catalog limits. Excessive dimensions, potential integer overflow, or an oversized converted result return an import error and preserve the installed appearance.

Packs contain presentation data, not executable scripts.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Checks and action
Installing an Adapter did not provide the pet app	Install `@imotong/dev-flow@latest`, configure an Adapter with `dev-flow install`, then run `dev-flow pet start`.
Updated package still shows old behavior	Run `dev-flow repair` after updating npm to refresh the user-directory copy; reimport artwork separately.
Another appearance cannot walk, wave, or think	Check whether its installed `clips` includes those additional animations. A five-clip appearance can show tasks normally but cannot play artwork it does not contain.
The source has nine clips but the installed copy has five	Confirm that the running app copy was updated too, then reimport the original folder containing the complete atlas. The app loads frames saved by the latest import; upgrades do not automatically add missing clips.
Must every pack contain nine clips and 57 frames?	This fixed count applies only to Codex-layout atlases. Single PNG/SVG images and native animation packs follow their own rules in the table above.
The pet stays idle or does not walk	Check task selection, connectivity, Animations, Idle activities, Reduce Motion, and walking artwork. Hovering inside the window or opening a menu/panel pauses idle activity; leave and wait 6–12 seconds. Directions with less than 40 pt of room are excluded.
Hovering does not trigger another wave	Idle conditions and the shared 20-second cooldown must allow it. Hover over the character for at least 0.4 seconds. Continuous hover responds once; leave for at least two seconds to rearm.
Chat activity does not match the pet's working animation	The pet reads the selected Dev Flow Task's saved state, not ordinary Codex chat activity or keyboard input. Check the watched Task.
Selecting a completed task does not trigger a jump	Celebrate once only when continuously observing the same task change from nonterminal to DONE. A first read of an already-completed task uses a still frame, then may enter idle activities.
The source atlas fits its limit, but PNG size or memory is rejected	Source atlases and converted frames have separate limits. WebP-to-PNG conversion can increase file size. Check the 512 MiB source limit, 1 GiB decoding estimate, 128 MiB total converted PNG limit, and 128 MiB per-clip limit.
Not connected or startup fails	Check the platform and Adapter configuration; a running pet offers Retry connection. Explicit `pet start` can start WebUI when needed; background observation is read-only. Do not use the nonexistent `pet status` command.
A sibling behavior-map.json has no effect	The importer reads `pet.json` with an atlas or `animations.json`. `behavior-map.json` controls neither timing nor behavior; use the supported catalog fields.

Acceptance checks

Use checks matching the affected component and environment, and retain the artifact identity, command, actual result and any unrun steps separately.

Check	Environment and expected result
`swift test --package-path packages/desktop-pet/macos --filter 'PetMotionTests\|PetAnimationTimelineTests\|AnimationAndBubbleTests\|PetTaskCollectionTests\|PetActivityTests'`	macOS; native-window retargeting, interruption, screen constraints, scrolling and button hit testing, plus frame timing and activity rules; window checks use constructed task data
`swift test --package-path packages/desktop-pet/macos --filter TaskObserverTests`	macOS; simulated Core/HTTP checks multi-task discovery, pinning, automatic handoff and late-response handling
`swift test --package-path packages/desktop-pet/macos --filter PetAppearanceTests`	macOS; static/native/Codex import preserves supported frames and timing, and failed imports preserve the installed appearance
`node --test packages/desktop-pet/windows/tests/task-selection.test.cjs`	Simulated Electron, preferences and HTTP; verify discovery and selection rules
`node --test packages/desktop-pet/windows/tests/renderer.test.cjs`	Simulated DOM, IPC and clock; polling preserves animation, resizing cancels walking and normal scheduling resumes
`node --test scripts/desktop-pet-artwork.test.mjs`	Verify default-artwork copying and rejection after content changes
Installed local package	On the target OS, check task selection, WebUI navigation, import, scaling, hide/restore, startup reuse and normal stop with retained settings

Native Windows window checks require Windows x64 Electron and the environment described by packages/desktop-pet/windows/tests/native.cjs; simulations do not establish native window behavior. Full Host workflows and minimum-system checks require their own actual environments.

See the Support Matrix for verified scope and limits, and the Windows report for Windows check results. Historical desktop validation records are available through Git history; component checks do not expand stable support.