Description

If Desktop's automatically created default-project directory disappears, reopening Desktop leaves the composer without a model picker. Requests to /api/model, /api/provider and /api/location for that directory return 404 LocationNotFoundError. Recreating the directory immediately restores the catalogs.

finishFirstLaunchOnboarding creates the directory once, then only firstLaunchOnboardingComplete is persisted. Later starts skip creation and do not remember which directory Desktop itself created. Desktop could restore its own default directory if it recorded that identity, without recreating arbitrary user-selected projects.

Related: #50951. The closed, unmerged #50952 offered unavailable-project UI rather than remembering and restoring this managed directory.

Plugins

Not required to reproduce.

OpenCode version

2.1.2

Steps to reproduce

1. Start Desktop with a fresh profile and let it create the default project.
2. Quit Desktop and stop the background server with opencode service stop.
3. Rename the automatically created default-project folder under Documents.
4. Reopen Desktop. The model picker is absent and the location-scoped catalog requests return 404.
5. Recreate the original folder and reload Desktop; the models return.

Screenshot

No screenshot attached; the failure is the missing model picker and the typed 404 responses above.

Operating System

Windows, Electron desktop app.

Terminal

Desktop. The CLI works when launched in an existing directory.