From 8009be6e33c4a503eda7282e4b33d8a437852f06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saoud Rizwan <7799382+saoudrizwan@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:07:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix(desktop): ship the SDK packages plugins import in
 production builds (#15068)

* fix(desktop): ship the SDK packages plugins import in production builds

Plugin installs strip @cline/* dependencies because the host provides them,
and the plugin worker resolves those from node_modules beside its bootstrap.
The packaged desktop app ships only the bootstrap, so a marketplace plugin
like goal failed with "Cannot find module '@cline/sdk'" (dev builds worked
because the repo's node_modules sit above src-tauri).

Bundle self-contained @cline/sdk, core, agents, llms and shared next to the
bootstrap (one shared copy via code splitting, ~17 MB), and widen the Tauri
resource glob so the nested files are actually bundled.

* fix(desktop): ship the SDK packages' subpath exports for plugins

Plugins can import supported subpaths such as @cline/shared/storage or
@cline/core/telemetry. Bundle every runtime export of each package and write
its exports map, skipping type-only exports that have no JS.
---
 .../desktop-app/scripts/build-sidecar-bin.ts  | 49 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json     |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-sidecar-bin.ts b/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-sidecar-bin.ts
index 22b42db826..3eb75fc0d6 100644
--- a/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-sidecar-bin.ts
+++ b/apps/examples/desktop-app/scripts/build-sidecar-bin.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
 import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { $ } from "bun";
 import { telemetryDefineArgs } from "./telemetry-define-args";
@@ -126,6 +127,53 @@ const buildUniversalMacSidecar = async (): Promise<void> => {
 	await $`lipo -info ${outfile}`;
 };
 
+// Plugin installs drop their @cline/* dependencies because the host provides
+// them, and the plugin worker resolves those from node_modules beside its
+// bootstrap. Nothing like that exists next to the compiled sidecar, so ship
+// self-contained builds there. Splitting keeps one shared copy of the SDK,
+// placed in core so every chunk sits inside a `"type": "module"` package.
+const bundlePluginSdkPackages = async (): Promise<void> => {
+	const outdir = "src-tauri/bin/extensions/node_modules/@cline";
+	const packagesRoot = "../../../sdk/packages";
+	const packages = await Promise.all(
+		["sdk", "core", "agents", "llms", "shared"].map(async (name) => {
+			const root = `${packagesRoot}/${name}`;
+			const manifest = (await Bun.file(`${root}/package.json`).json()) as {
+				exports: Record<string, { import: string }>;
+			};
+			// Type-only exports (e.g. @cline/shared/types) have no JS to ship.
+			const exports = Object.fromEntries(
+				Object.entries(manifest.exports)
+					.map(([path, entry]) => [path, entry.import] as const)
+					.filter(([, file]) => existsSync(`${root}/${file}`)),
+			);
+			return { root, name, exports };
+		}),
+	);
+	await $`rm -rf ${outdir}`;
+	const result = await Bun.build({
+		entrypoints: packages.flatMap(({ root, exports }) =>
+			Object.values(exports).map((file) => `${root}/${file}`),
+		),
+		root: packagesRoot,
+		outdir,
+		naming: { chunk: "core/dist/[name]-[hash].[ext]" },
+		target: "node",
+		format: "esm",
+		splitting: true,
+		minify: true,
+	});
+	if (!result.success) {
+		throw new AggregateError(result.logs, "plugin SDK bundle failed");
+	}
+	for (const { name, exports } of packages) {
+		await Bun.write(
+			`${outdir}/${name}/package.json`,
+			JSON.stringify({ name: `@cline/${name}`, type: "module", exports }),
+		);
+	}
+};
+
 const main = async () => {
 	// All compiled helpers and the sidecar depend on fresh SDK package exports.
 	await $`bun run build:sdk`.cwd(
@@ -136,6 +184,7 @@ const main = async () => {
 	// Plugins run in worker threads that load this self-contained bootstrap
 	// from disk; the app ships it as a resource (see plugin-bootstrap.ts).
 	await $`cp ../../../sdk/packages/core/dist/extensions/plugin-sandbox-bootstrap.js src-tauri/bin/extensions/plugin-sandbox-bootstrap.js`;
+	await bundlePluginSdkPackages();
 	if (targetTriple === "universal-apple-darwin") {
 		await buildUniversalMacSidecar();
 	} else {
diff --git a/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json b/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
index dc24e05b8d..9718ed1a53 100644
--- a/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
+++ b/apps/examples/desktop-app/src-tauri/tauri.conf.json
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 			"icons/app/*.png",
 			"icons/app/macos/*.png",
 			"bin/remote-helpers/*",
-			"bin/extensions/*"
+			"bin/extensions/**/*"
 		],
 		"icon": [
 			"icons/32x32.png",