fix(claude-code): launch claude auth login, not the obsolete claude login

[ntdatt812]

Closes #5710.

The defect

Authentication lives under the CLI's auth subcommand. There is no top-level login command — and because claude takes a positional [prompt], claude login was never rejected: it was read as a prompt and started an ordinary session. The OAuth flow never ran, so the settings card kept reporting the account as signed out no matter how many times the user clicked Sign in.

Verified against a newer CLI than the report used (2.1.221 vs 2.1.207), so this is not a transient:

$ claude --help | grep -c '^  login\b'
0

$ claude auth --help
Usage: claude auth [options] [command]
Commands:
  login [options]   Sign in to your Anthropic account
  logout            Log out from your Anthropic account
  status [options]  Show authentication status

All three platform branches of claude_code_login_launch constructed the obsolete form.

The fix

One constant, CLAUDE_LOGIN_ARGV = ["claude", "auth", "login", "--claudeai"], feeding three small pure helpers — windows_launch_args, macos_launch_script, linux_launch_candidates — which is the shape #5710 suggested so this can be regression-tested without opening a terminal.

--claudeai is the CLI's own default. It is passed explicitly so the launcher does not silently follow a future change of that default into Console/API billing.

Tests

Eight cases in #[cfg(test)] mod tests:

• login_command_line_is_the_auth_subcommand — the exact command line;
• argv_keeps_auth_and_login_as_separate_words — split-argument terminals hand argv to execvp, so auth and login must be distinct entries, not one "auth login";
• windows_launcher_reaches_auth_login, macos_launcher_reaches_auth_login, every_linux_candidate_reaches_auth_login — each launcher reaches claude auth login and cannot reconstruct claude login;
• windows_launcher_keeps_the_empty_start_title — start reads a bare first argument as the window title, which would swallow cmd and open an empty shell;
• macos_script_quotes_the_command_for_do_script;
• xfce4_terminal_gets_one_string_and_the_others_get_argv — xfce4-terminal takes the command as a single string; the other four take argv.

Red/green, running the same eight tests against both constants:

CLAUDE_LOGIN_ARGV = ["claude", "login"]                        -> 6 failed, 2 passed
CLAUDE_LOGIN_ARGV = ["claude", "auth", "login", "--claudeai"]  -> 8 passed

Also updated

The 14 translated settings.ai.claudeCode.loginHint strings and the config.ts doc comment name the command to the user; they now name the right one.

Verification note

cargo test --lib claude_code compiles here but the test binary will not start on this Windows box — STATUS_ENTRYPOINT_NOT_FOUND (0xc0000139) from the Tauri harness, before any test runs. The red/green figures above therefore come from compiling the same helpers and the same test module standalone (rustc --edition 2021 --test). cargo fmt applied.

I also could not get a clean git push past the pre-push hook: pnpm rust:clippy fails with 11 errors on this machine, all in Windows-only code (std::os::windows::process::CommandExt, HANDLE, SetEntriesInAclW, AppContainerBackend). None of them names claude_code.rs, and none is in a file this PR touches. Flagging it rather than leaving you to wonder why CI and my local state might disagree — happy to open a separate issue for the Windows clippy breakage if that is useful.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Updated Claude Code sign-in to use claude auth login --claudeai across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Improved platform-specific authentication launch behavior for a smoother sign-in experience.

• Bug Fixes

  • Replaced outdated Claude Code login commands throughout the app.
  • Updated sign-in guidance and documentation in supported languages to reflect the current authentication command.

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Walkthrough

The Claude Code launcher now runs claude auth login --claudeai on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Shared platform-specific command construction is tested. Localized sign-in hints and launcher documentation use the updated authentication command.

Changes

Claude authentication flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Platform-specific authentication launcher app/src-tauri/src/claude_code.rs	Shared builders create commands for Windows, macOS, and Linux. The launcher uses the authentication subcommand, and tests cover command and argument formats.
Localized authentication instructions app/src/lib/i18n/*.ts, app/src/utils/tauriCommands/config.ts	Sign-in hints and launcher documentation now reference the updated Claude authentication command.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to bd4ab

This localized change makes the sign-in action invoke the supported Claude authentication command and updates the related user guidance; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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auth login hops into sight.
Windows, Mac, and Linux agree,
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	All changes are related to issue #5710. The launcher updates, platform tests, translated login hints, and configuration documentation support the corrected Claude Code authentication command.
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The changes satisfy issue #5710. They update Windows, macOS, and Linux launch paths to use claude auth login --claudeai, update user-facing instructions, add platform command-construction tests, and preserve testable platform-specific helpers. The manual smoke test is non-coding scope.

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Inline comments:
In `@app/src/lib/i18n/en.ts`:
- Line 5151: Update the settings.ai.claudeCode.loginHint translation in en.ts
and every locale so each hint displays the complete launcher command, including
the --claudeai argument after claude auth login; keep the surrounding wording
and translations unchanged.

Apply the same fix in `@app/src/lib/i18n/es.ts` at line 4618: Same missing
`--claudeai` option in the Spanish login hint.

Apply the same fix in `@app/src/lib/i18n/fr.ts` at line 4645: Same missing option
in the French login hint.

Apply the same fix in `@app/src/lib/i18n/hi.ts` at line 4540: Same missing option
in the Hindi and corresponding locale hints.

Apply the same fix in `@app/src/lib/i18n/ko.ts` at line 4491: Same missing option
in the Korean login hint.

Apply the same fix in `@app/src/lib/i18n/pl.ts` around lines 4605 - 4606: Same
missing option in the Polish login hint.

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[ntdatt812]

Fixed in `66fc5f8` — valid finding, thanks.

The hints named `claude auth login` while the launcher runs `claude auth login --claudeai`, so a user copying the hint to run it by hand would get a different command than the button does. The Linux fallback error in `claude_code.rs` already printed the full form, so the two halves of the same PR disagreed with each other.

All 14 locales updated. The substitution was guarded with a negative lookahead (`claude auth login(?! --claudeai)`) so nothing could pick up the flag twice; verified afterwards that each file contains exactly one occurrence of the full command.

[ntdatt812]

Fixed both CI failures; both were mine.

Rust Quality — dead_code on the Linux lane. windows_launch_args and macos_launch_script are only called from #[cfg]-gated arms, so on Linux they compiled into the lib unused and clippy rejected them.

Each helper is now gated on its own target — but as any(test, target_os = ...), not the bare target. Keeping them compiled under cfg(test) is the whole reason they were extracted into pure functions: it lets a Linux CI run check the Windows and macOS argv. All 8 tests still pass on a Windows host, so the test arm does hold every helper open.

Frontend Checks — prettier. The longer zh-CN hint pushed that line past the print width. Reflowed with prettier --write; prettier --check . is clean across the app, and cargo fmt --all --check is clean.