Why Electron 'CLI' Tools Fail in Sandboxed Contexts

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Many "CLI" tools are actually Electron GUI apps that wrap a command-line interface — and they fail catastrophically when launched from sandboxed subprocess contexts. Even with reachable Unix sockets, PTY wrappers, or background execution, the Electron renderer needs a real display/TTY to initialize.

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