greptile-apps[bot]: the legacy fallback (server.json without port or
token) accepted a pid-only record on Windows without identity. Every
server.json this codebase has ever written records port and token, so a
record without them is malformed or foreign; it now classifies as not
live and resolution falls to the durable-session tier, the correct
recovery path for a crashed helper. The ps-based identity heuristic is
gone with it: authentication or nothing.
This work was produced with AI assistance (Claude Code).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Code <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul BakausandClaude Code
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