fix(desktop): handle EPIPE errors on stdout/stderr to prevent crash dialog

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What Changed

Added error event listeners on process.stdout and process.stderr at the very top of apps/desktop/src/main.ts. These listeners silently swallow EPIPE errors (broken pipe) while re-throwing all other stream errors.

Why

When the desktop app is launched from a terminal or parent process with piped stdout/stderr, the pipe can close while the app is still running. Effect's consolePretty logger writes to these streams. Once the pipe is broken, every subsequent write throws EPIPE, which surfaces as an Electron "A JavaScript error occurred in the main process" crash dialog.

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Low Risk
Small, targeted process-stream hardening with no auth, data, or business-logic changes; non-EPIPE errors still propagate.

Overview
Registers error listeners on process.stdout and process.stderr at the very top of main.ts (before any imports) so broken-pipe (EPIPE) failures are ignored and every other stream error is still rethrown.

This stops unhandled EPIPE exceptions when the app runs under a terminal or parent that closes its pipe while Effect’s consolePretty logger (see DesktopObservability) keeps writing—those writes previously triggered Electron’s “JavaScript error occurred in the main process” dialog.

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Note

Ignore EPIPE errors on stdout/stderr to prevent crash dialog in desktop app

Adds error event listeners to process.stdout and process.stderr in main.ts that silently swallow errors with code EPIPE and rethrow all others. EPIPE errors occur when a pipe closes before all data is written and previously surfaced as unhandled exceptions, triggering a crash dialog.

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Verdict: Approved

This is a standard Node.js defensive pattern that handles EPIPE errors on stdout/stderr to prevent crash dialogs when pipes are closed. The 6-line addition is minimal, well-understood, and doesn't affect any business logic.

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