Add watchdog process to auto-restart crashed server processes

[Copilot]

• Add a watchdog/monitor loop that checks if opencode or caddy processes have died and restarts them
• Use a stop flag file so --stop signals the watchdog to exit permanently
• Save watchdog PID alongside other PIDs for clean shutdown
• Add test: server process auto-restarts after OpenCode is killed (Test 7c)
• Add test: server process auto-restarts after Caddy is killed (Test 7d)
• Add test: --stop permanently stops server with no restart (Test 7e)
• Add CI workflow that runs shellcheck validation and Docker-based tests on PRs
• Fix CI test failures: rewrite watchdog as detached script file with nohup/disown to survive parent shell exit

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Keep the opencode server running</issue_title>
<issue_description>If the opencode server process dies, it needs to be restarted.
Only after running the —stop it should be killed for good.
Need tests for that too</issue_description>

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• Fixes Keep the opencode server running #2

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[PabloZaiden]

@copilot also add a workflow that runs on PRs to run the tests and a validate everything

[Copilot]

@copilot also add a workflow that runs on PRs to run the tests and a validate everything

Added in 8e794c4. The CI workflow (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs on PRs to main with two jobs:

• validate — runs shellcheck --severity=warning on opencode-server.sh
• test — runs the full Docker-based test suite (tests/test-devcontainer.sh), only after validation passes

[PabloZaiden]

@copilot tests are failing

[Copilot]

@copilot tests are failing

Fixed in 2818c5e. The issue was that test 7c got HTTP 502 because the restarted OpenCode process hadn't fully initialized before the test checked. Two changes:

1. Increased the watchdog's post-restart wait from 1s to 3s so OpenCode has time to start serving
2. Replaced fixed sleep 8 in tests 7c/7d with retry loops (up to 6 attempts, 5s apart) to handle variable CI timing

[PabloZaiden]

@copilot tests still failing. Run them and make sure it passes several times before saying it’s fixed

[Copilot]

@copilot tests still failing. Run them and make sure it passes several times before saying it’s fixed

Fixed in 3409de0. The root cause was that the watchdog subshell (... ) & was getting killed when the docker exec parent bash session exited (SIGHUP).

The fix rewrites the watchdog as a separate script file (~/.config/opencode-watchdog.sh) run via nohup bash ... & with disown, which fully detaches it from the parent shell. Also added disown for the opencode and caddy background processes, and the tests now use || true on kill/curl commands to prevent set -e aborts.

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