catalog: pin exact package versions, drop firecrawl, add last_release

- Pin every basic-tier entry to an exact published version (npm @x.y.z,
  uvx @x.y.z, docker :tag). Unpinned npx -y <pkg> means a package
  compromised AFTER we ship auto-upgrades into every user; a pin bounds
  supply-chain compromise to versions we actually reviewed.
- Drop firecrawl from the seed (19 entries). npm publish rights are held
  solely by hello_sideguide/sideguide.dev, which has no visible
  relationship to firecrawl.dev, while the package is presented as
  official. Publisher identity we cannot tie to the vendor is exactly
  what this catalog must not execute on a user's machine. Retained in the
  research pool pending confirmation.
- postgres: ship --access-mode=restricted, not unrestricted. A curated
  catalog must not default to handing an LLM write access to your DB.
- Add last_release (ISO date, from the live registry) so the UI can show
  freshness; postgres-mcp and mcp-obsidian are both ~14mo stale.

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -29,21 +29,37 @@ jobs:
         run: ruff format --check .
 
   test:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
-    name: Tests (py${{ matrix.python }})
+    name: Tests (py${{ matrix.python }} / ${{ matrix.os }})
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        python: ["3.10", "3.12"]
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+        python: ["3.10", "3.12", "3.13"]
+        include:
+          # Windows tests on 3.12 only — the version the release binaries ship
+          # with. The self-hosted Windows runner blocks setup-python's install
+          # script (PowerShell execution policy), so it uses the host's `py`
+          # launcher + venv, same as release.yml.
+          - os: windows-latest
+            python: "3.12"
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python }}
+      - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python }} (Linux)
+        if: runner.os == 'Linux'
         uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python }}
 
+      - name: Set up Python venv (Windows)
+        if: runner.os == 'Windows'
+        shell: pwsh
+        run: |
+          py -${{ matrix.python }} -m venv .venv
+          Add-Content -Path $env:GITHUB_PATH -Value "$env:GITHUB_WORKSPACE\.venv\Scripts"
+
       # bcc_core has no GUI imports, so the test suite needs no PySide6 —
       # keeps CI fast and avoids Qt system-library headaches on the runner.
       - name: Install test dependencies

bcc.py

@@ -13,14 +13,17 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import sys
 import time
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import ClassVar
 
 from PySide6.QtCore import QRect, QSettings, QSize, Qt, QThread, QTimer, QUrl, Signal
 from PySide6.QtGui import (
     QAction,
     QColor,
+    QCursor,
     QDesktopServices,
     QGuiApplication,
     QIcon,
+    QKeySequence,
     QPainter,
     QPixmap,
 )
@@ -36,6 +39,7 @@ from PySide6.QtWidgets import (
     QGridLayout,
     QHBoxLayout,
     QHeaderView,
+    QInputDialog,
     QLabel,
     QLineEdit,
     QListWidget,
@@ -50,12 +54,17 @@ from PySide6.QtWidgets import (
     QStyledItemDelegate,
     QTableWidget,
     QTableWidgetItem,
+    QToolTip,
     QVBoxLayout,
     QWidget,
 )
 
 import bcc_core as core
 
+# A full ~/.claude.json with history can be huge; parsing happens on the UI
+# thread during drag-and-drop import, so skip anything larger than this.
+MAX_DROP_IMPORT_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024  # 5 MB
+
 # --- One-line rebrand: change this to recolor the whole app --------------- #
 ACCENT = "#f97316"  # warm orange
 ACCENT_DIM = "#c2570b"
@@ -72,6 +81,12 @@ WARN = "#fbbf24"
 STATUS_COLORS = {"ok": GOOD, "missing": BAD, "warn": WARN, "remote": "#60a5fa", "unknown": WARN}
 STATUS_GLYPH = {"ok": "●", "missing": "●", "warn": "▲", "remote": "◆", "unknown": "○"}
 
+# Health dot (spawn-test outcome, see core.HealthStatus) shown per row in the
+# server tables' "Health" column -- distinct from the PATH-dependency Status
+# column above.
+HEALTH_COLORS = {"ok": GOOD, "failed": BAD, "untested": MUTED}
+HEALTH_GLYPH = {"ok": "●", "failed": "●", "untested": "○"}
+
 STYLESHEET = f"""
 /* No font-family here on purpose: Qt already uses the native system UI font
    on every platform (San Francisco / Segoe UI / desktop default). Naming
@@ -114,6 +129,7 @@ QScrollBar:vertical {{ background: transparent; width: 10px; margin: 2px; }}
 QScrollBar::handle:vertical {{ background: {BORDER}; border-radius: 5px; min-height: 24px; }}
 QScrollBar::add-line, QScrollBar::sub-line {{ height: 0; }}
 QLabel#statusbar {{ color: {MUTED}; padding: 4px 2px; }}
+QLabel#warnBanner {{ color: #1a1205; background: {WARN}; border-radius: 8px; padding: 8px 10px; font-weight: 600; }}
 QLabel#section {{ color: {MUTED}; font-weight: 600; font-size: 12px; padding: 2px 2px; }}
 QLabel#sectionDisabled {{ color: {MUTED}; font-weight: 600; font-size: 12px; padding: 2px 2px; }}
 QLabel#placeholder {{ color: {MUTED}; padding: 12px; background: {PANEL_2}; border: 1px dashed {BORDER}; border-radius: 8px; }}
@@ -166,10 +182,30 @@ class UpdateCheckWorker(QThread):
     running binary. Fails quiet — emits None on any network problem — so
     it's safe to fire unattended from a silent startup check as well as from
     the About dialog's "Check for updates" button.
+
+    Lifetime: the class keeps every instance alive in `_live` until its
+    thread has finished. Without this, a caller whose own reference dies
+    early (the About dialog is a temporary — closing it mid-check used to
+    GC the dialog and the running QThread with it) crashes the process with
+    "QThread: Destroyed while thread is still running". Callers may drop
+    their reference at any time; signal connections to a destroyed receiver
+    are disconnected by Qt, so a late result is simply discarded.
     """
 
     done = Signal(object)  # dict | None
 
+    _live: ClassVar[set[UpdateCheckWorker]] = set()
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        UpdateCheckWorker._live.add(self)
+        self.finished.connect(self._release_keepalive)
+
+    def _release_keepalive(self):
+        # Delivered on the main thread after run() has returned; only now is
+        # it safe for the last reference to drop.
+        UpdateCheckWorker._live.discard(self)
+
     def run(self):
         self.done.emit(core.fetch_latest_release())
 
@@ -239,10 +275,31 @@ class KeyValueTable(QWidget):
         self.reveal_btn.setText("Hide secrets" if on else "Show secrets")
         self.table.viewport().update()
 
-    def _changed(self, *_):
+    def _changed(self, item=None, *_):
+        if item is not None and item.column() == 0:
+            new_key = item.text().strip()
+            row = item.row()
+            if new_key and self._is_duplicate_key(new_key, row):
+                prev_key = item.data(Qt.ItemDataRole.UserRole)
+                prev_key = prev_key if prev_key is not None else ""
+                self.table.blockSignals(True)
+                item.setText(prev_key)
+                self.table.blockSignals(False)
+                QToolTip.showText(QCursor.pos(), f"Duplicate key '{new_key}' — reverted.")
+                return
+            item.setData(Qt.ItemDataRole.UserRole, new_key)
         if self._on_change:
             self._on_change()
 
+    def _is_duplicate_key(self, key: str, ignore_row: int) -> bool:
+        for r in range(self.table.rowCount()):
+            if r == ignore_row:
+                continue
+            other = self.table.item(r, 0)
+            if other and other.text().strip() == key:
+                return True
+        return False
+
     def _add_row(self):
         dlg = QDialog(self.window())
         dlg.setWindowTitle(f"Add {self._key_label}")
@@ -269,6 +326,13 @@ class KeyValueTable(QWidget):
         grid.addWidget(val_edit, 1, 1)
         v.addLayout(grid)
 
+        # Shown when the typed key already exists in the table.
+        dup_warn = QLabel("")
+        dup_warn.setStyleSheet(f"color: {WARN};")
+        dup_warn.setWordWrap(True)
+        dup_warn.hide()
+        v.addWidget(dup_warn)
+
         # Type an API_KEY/TOKEN-style name and the value field masks itself.
         def _sync_echo(text):
             secret = core.is_secret_key(text)
@@ -284,7 +348,15 @@ class KeyValueTable(QWidget):
         ok_btn = btns.button(QDialogButtonBox.StandardButton.Ok)
         ok_btn.setObjectName("primary")
         ok_btn.setEnabled(False)
-        key_edit.textChanged.connect(lambda t: ok_btn.setEnabled(bool(t.strip())))
+
+        def _validate(text):
+            k = text.strip()
+            dup = bool(k) and self._is_duplicate_key(k, ignore_row=-1)
+            ok_btn.setEnabled(bool(k) and not dup)
+            dup_warn.setText(f"'{k}' already exists" if dup else "")
+            dup_warn.setVisible(dup)
+
+        key_edit.textChanged.connect(_validate)
         btns.accepted.connect(dlg.accept)
         btns.rejected.connect(dlg.reject)
         v.addWidget(btns)
@@ -298,13 +370,15 @@ class KeyValueTable(QWidget):
             return
         k = key_edit.text().strip()
         val = val_edit.text()
-        if not k:
+        if not k or self._is_duplicate_key(k, ignore_row=-1):
             return
         if self._before_change:
             self._before_change()
         r = self.table.rowCount()
         self.table.insertRow(r)
-        self.table.setItem(r, 0, QTableWidgetItem(k))
+        key_item = QTableWidgetItem(k)
+        key_item.setData(Qt.ItemDataRole.UserRole, k)
+        self.table.setItem(r, 0, key_item)
         self.table.setItem(r, 1, QTableWidgetItem(val))
         self._changed()
 
@@ -323,7 +397,9 @@ class KeyValueTable(QWidget):
         for k, v in (d or {}).items():
             r = self.table.rowCount()
             self.table.insertRow(r)
-            self.table.setItem(r, 0, QTableWidgetItem(str(k)))
+            key_item = QTableWidgetItem(str(k))
+            key_item.setData(Qt.ItemDataRole.UserRole, str(k))
+            self.table.setItem(r, 0, key_item)
             self.table.setItem(r, 1, QTableWidgetItem(str(v)))
         self.table.blockSignals(False)
 
@@ -1247,6 +1323,31 @@ class LogViewerDialog(QDialog):
         super().closeEvent(event)
 
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Bundled assets (icons) — resolves both a normal source run and a frozen
+# PyInstaller build (onefile extracts assets under sys._MEIPASS).
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+def _asset_dir() -> Path:
+    base = getattr(sys, "_MEIPASS", None)
+    return Path(base) if base else Path(__file__).resolve().parent
+
+
+def _app_icon() -> QIcon:
+    """Multi-resolution app/window icon from the bundled PNGs (falls back to
+    the .ico). Returns a null QIcon if no asset is found."""
+    icon = QIcon()
+    base = _asset_dir() / "icons" / "twin-gears" / "rounded"
+    for size in (16, 32, 48, 64, 128, 256, 512):
+        f = base / f"icon-{size}.png"
+        if f.is_file():
+            icon.addFile(str(f))
+    if icon.isNull():
+        ico = _asset_dir() / "icons" / "app.ico"
+        if ico.is_file():
+            icon.addFile(str(ico))
+    return icon
+
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
 # About dialog
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
@@ -1268,9 +1369,7 @@ class AboutDialog(QDialog):
         self._worker: UpdateCheckWorker | None = None
         self._release_url: str | None = None
 
-        icon_path = (
+        icon_path = _asset_dir() / "icons" / "twin-gears" / "rounded" / "icon-128.png"
-            Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "icons" / "twin-gears" / "rounded" / "icon-128.png"
-        )
         if icon_path.is_file():
             self.setWindowIcon(QIcon(str(icon_path)))
 
@@ -1394,6 +1493,17 @@ class AboutDialog(QDialog):
         QDesktopServices.openUrl(QUrl(self._release_url or core.RELEASES_URL))
 
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Restart worker: core.restart_claude_desktop() blocks up to ~5 s on macOS
+# waiting for the old instance to exit, so it must run off the UI thread.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+class RestartWorker(QThread):
+    done = Signal(object)  # core.RestartResult
+
+    def run(self):
+        self.done.emit(core.restart_claude_desktop())
+
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
 # Main window
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
@@ -1416,6 +1526,12 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self._focused_table = None
         self._row_of_index: dict[int, tuple] = {}
         self._undo_stack: list[list] = []  # each entry: snapshot of self.servers
+        self._filter_query = ""
+        self._health: dict[str, tuple[str, str]] = {}  # server name -> (HealthStatus, summary)
+        self._test_all_queue: list[core.ServerEntry] = []
+        self._test_all_total = 0
+        self._test_all_done = 0
+        self._health_tester: SpawnTester | None = None
 
         central = QWidget()
         self.setCentralWidget(central)
@@ -1425,6 +1541,15 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
 
         root.addLayout(self._build_topbar())
 
+        # Persistent warning banner (MSIX-virtualized config, etc.). Lives in
+        # its own widget because the status bar is rewritten on every action,
+        # which used to wipe the warning before the user could read it.
+        self.warn_banner = QLabel("")
+        self.warn_banner.setObjectName("warnBanner")
+        self.warn_banner.setWordWrap(True)
+        self.warn_banner.hide()
+        root.addWidget(self.warn_banner)
+
         # User-draggable divider between the server list and the editor.
         split = QSplitter(Qt.Orientation.Horizontal)
         split.setChildrenCollapsible(False)
@@ -1476,14 +1601,16 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         last = float(st.value("update/lastCheck", 0.0, type=float) or 0.0)
         if (time.time() - last) < 86400:  # at most once/day
             return
-        st.setValue("update/lastCheck", time.time())
         self._startup_update_worker = UpdateCheckWorker()
         self._startup_update_worker.done.connect(self._on_startup_update_checked)
         self._startup_update_worker.start()
 
     def _on_startup_update_checked(self, release: dict | None):
         self._startup_update_worker = None
-        if release and core.is_newer_version(core.__version__, release["version"]):
+        if release is None:
+            return  # offline/failed check: don't advance lastCheck, allow retry
+        QSettings("BCC", "BetterClaudeConfig").setValue("update/lastCheck", time.time())
+        if core.is_newer_version(core.__version__, release["version"]):
             self.status.setText(
                 f"Update available: {release['version']}  ·  Help ▸ About to view it."
             )
@@ -1533,10 +1660,10 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
 
     # --- left (server table) -------------------------------------------- #
     def _make_server_table(self, object_name=None):
-        t = QTableWidget(0, 4)
+        t = QTableWidget(0, 5)
         if object_name:
             t.setObjectName(object_name)
-        t.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(["On", "Name", "Type", "Status"])
+        t.setHorizontalHeaderLabels(["On", "Name", "Type", "Status", "Health"])
         t.verticalHeader().setVisible(False)
         t.setSelectionBehavior(QAbstractItemView.SelectionBehavior.SelectRows)
         t.setSelectionMode(QAbstractItemView.SelectionMode.SingleSelection)
@@ -1546,6 +1673,7 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         h.setSectionResizeMode(1, QHeaderView.ResizeMode.Stretch)
         h.setSectionResizeMode(2, QHeaderView.ResizeMode.ResizeToContents)
         h.setSectionResizeMode(3, QHeaderView.ResizeMode.ResizeToContents)
+        h.setSectionResizeMode(4, QHeaderView.ResizeMode.ResizeToContents)
         t.itemSelectionChanged.connect(lambda tbl=t: self._on_selection(tbl))
         t.itemChanged.connect(self._table_item_changed)
         return t
@@ -1560,6 +1688,46 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         head.setObjectName("h1")
         v.addWidget(head)
 
+        search_row = QHBoxLayout()
+        self.search_box = QLineEdit()
+        self.search_box.setPlaceholderText("Search servers by name, command, or url…")
+        self.search_box.setClearButtonEnabled(True)
+        self.search_box.textChanged.connect(self._on_search_changed)
+        search_row.addWidget(self.search_box, 1)
+        self.enable_all_btn = QPushButton("All on")
+        self.enable_all_btn.setToolTip("Enable every server")
+        self.enable_all_btn.clicked.connect(lambda: self._set_all_enabled(True))
+        search_row.addWidget(self.enable_all_btn)
+        self.disable_all_btn = QPushButton("All off")
+        self.disable_all_btn.setToolTip("Disable every server")
+        self.disable_all_btn.clicked.connect(lambda: self._set_all_enabled(False))
+        search_row.addWidget(self.disable_all_btn)
+        v.addLayout(search_row)
+
+        # Named server sets (issue #52): apply a saved Active/Disabled split
+        # in one click. Sets live in the config file under _bccServerSets.
+        sets_row = QHBoxLayout()
+        sets_lbl = QLabel("Set")
+        sets_lbl.setObjectName("muted")
+        sets_row.addWidget(sets_lbl)
+        self.sets_combo = QComboBox()
+        self.sets_combo.setMinimumWidth(120)
+        sets_row.addWidget(self.sets_combo, 1)
+        self.apply_set_btn = QPushButton("Apply")
+        self.apply_set_btn.setToolTip("Enable exactly this set's servers; disable the rest")
+        self.apply_set_btn.clicked.connect(self._apply_selected_set)
+        sets_row.addWidget(self.apply_set_btn)
+        self.save_set_btn = QPushButton("Save set…")
+        self.save_set_btn.setToolTip("Save the current Active/Disabled split as a named set")
+        self.save_set_btn.clicked.connect(self._save_set)
+        sets_row.addWidget(self.save_set_btn)
+        self.del_set_btn = QPushButton("−")
+        self.del_set_btn.setToolTip("Delete the selected set")
+        self.del_set_btn.setMaximumWidth(32)
+        self.del_set_btn.clicked.connect(self._delete_set)
+        sets_row.addWidget(self.del_set_btn)
+        v.addLayout(sets_row)
+
         # Active and Disabled sections live in a vertical splitter so the user
         # can drag the divider instead of being stuck with a fixed-height
         # disabled list.
@@ -1616,12 +1784,17 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self.undo_btn = QPushButton("Undo")
         self.undo_btn.setEnabled(False)
         self.undo_btn.setToolTip("Undo last change  (Ctrl+Z)")
+        self.test_all_btn = QPushButton("Test all")
+        self.test_all_btn.setToolTip(
+            "Spawn-test every enabled local server, one at a time, and fill in the Health column"
+        )
         self.add_btn.clicked.connect(self.add_server)
         self.dup_btn.clicked.connect(self.duplicate_server)
         self.del_btn.clicked.connect(self.delete_server)
         self.paste_btn.clicked.connect(self.paste_json)
         self.copy_btn.clicked.connect(self.copy_to_menu)
         self.undo_btn.clicked.connect(self._undo)
+        self.test_all_btn.clicked.connect(self._test_all_servers)
         for b in (
             self.add_btn,
             self.dup_btn,
@@ -1629,6 +1802,7 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             self.paste_btn,
             self.copy_btn,
             self.undo_btn,
+            self.test_all_btn,
         ):
             bar.addWidget(b)
         # Ctrl+Z shortcut
@@ -1636,6 +1810,12 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         undo_action.setShortcut("Ctrl+Z")
         undo_action.triggered.connect(self._undo)
         self.addAction(undo_action)
+        # Ctrl+S / Cmd+S shortcut — routed through a guard so it respects
+        # the same dirty/validation gating as the Save button.
+        save_action = QAction(self)
+        save_action.setShortcut(QKeySequence.StandardKey.Save)
+        save_action.triggered.connect(self._save_shortcut)
+        self.addAction(save_action)
         bar.addStretch()
         self.validation_lbl = QLabel("")
         bar.addWidget(self.validation_lbl)
@@ -1662,6 +1842,19 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self._mark_dirty()
         self.status.setText("Undone.")
 
+    def _set_all_enabled(self, enabled: bool):
+        """Flip every server's enabled flag in one step (one undo snapshot)."""
+        if not self.servers or all(s.enabled == enabled for s in self.servers):
+            return  # nothing to change
+        cur = self._current_index()
+        self._push_undo()
+        for s in self.servers:
+            s.enabled = enabled
+        sel = cur if 0 <= cur < len(self.servers) else None
+        self._refresh_tables(select_index=sel)
+        self._mark_dirty()
+        self.status.setText("All servers enabled." if enabled else "All servers disabled.")
+
     # --- profiles -------------------------------------------------------- #
     def reload_profiles(self):
         discovered = core.discover_profiles()
@@ -1679,6 +1872,26 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             self.load_profile(self.profiles[0])
         else:
             self.status.setText('No Claude installs found. Use "Add config…" to point at one.')
+        self._maybe_warn_msix()
+
+    def _maybe_warn_msix(self):
+        """
+        Windows-only, no-op everywhere else: if Claude Desktop looks like an
+        MSIX/Store install with a virtualized config, show a persistent banner
+        so edits to the plain %APPDATA% path aren't silently lost. (The status
+        bar is the wrong home for this: it's rewritten on every action.)
+        Defensive on purpose -- this must never block startup or profile load.
+        """
+        try:
+            warning = core.msix_warning_text()
+        except Exception:
+            return
+        if warning:
+            self.warn_banner.setText(f"⚠  {warning}")
+            self.warn_banner.setToolTip(warning)
+            self.warn_banner.show()
+        else:
+            self.warn_banner.hide()
 
     def add_custom_config(self):
         start = str(core.app_support_base())
@@ -1733,6 +1946,8 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self.restart_btn.hide()
         self._undo_stack.clear()
         self.undo_btn.setEnabled(False)
+        self._health.clear()  # health results are per-profile; a fresh load invalidates them
+        self._refresh_sets_combo()  # sets are per-config; repopulate from the loaded file
         self._refresh_tables(select_index=0 if self.servers else -1)
         self._update_status(saved=False)
         if repaired:
@@ -1769,6 +1984,14 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             QColor(STATUS_COLORS.get(dep["status"], MUTED))
         )  # status stays colored even when off
         table.setItem(r, 3, st)
+        health_status, health_summary = self._health.get(s.name, (core.HealthStatus.UNTESTED, ""))
+        if s.kind == "remote" and s.name not in self._health:
+            health_summary = "remote server — use “Test connection” in the editor"
+        health_item = QTableWidgetItem(HEALTH_GLYPH.get(health_status, "○"))
+        health_item.setForeground(QColor(HEALTH_COLORS.get(health_status, MUTED)))
+        health_item.setTextAlignment(Qt.AlignmentFlag.AlignCenter)
+        health_item.setToolTip(health_summary or health_status)
+        table.setItem(r, 4, health_item)
         self._row_of_index[master_idx] = (table, r)
 
     def _refresh_tables(self, select_index=None):
@@ -1777,8 +2000,16 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         self._row_of_index = {}
         self.active_table.setRowCount(0)
         self.disabled_table.setRowCount(0)
+        query = self._filter_query
         n_active = n_disabled = 0
+        total_active = total_disabled = 0
         for i, s in enumerate(self.servers):
+            if s.enabled:
+                total_active += 1
+            else:
+                total_disabled += 1
+            if not core.server_matches_filter(s, query):
+                continue
             if s.enabled:
                 self._add_row(self.active_table, i, s)
                 n_active += 1
@@ -1787,8 +2018,18 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
                 n_disabled += 1
         self.active_table.setVisible(n_active > 0)
         self.active_empty.setVisible(n_active == 0)
+        self.active_empty.setText(
+            "No matches."
+            if query.strip() and total_active and not n_active
+            else "No active servers. Add one, or Paste JSON."
+        )
         self.disabled_table.setVisible(n_disabled > 0)
         self.disabled_empty.setVisible(n_disabled == 0)
+        self.disabled_empty.setText(
+            "No matches."
+            if query.strip() and total_disabled and not n_disabled
+            else "Nothing disabled."
+        )
         self._refresh_badges()
         self._suppress_table = False
         self._suppress_sel = False
@@ -1800,6 +2041,125 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             self._load_editor_from_selection()
         self._validate()
 
+    # --- search / filter -------------------------------------------------- #
+    def _on_search_changed(self, text):
+        self._filter_query = text
+        cur = self._current_index()
+        self._refresh_tables(select_index=cur if cur >= 0 else None)
+
+    # --- named server sets (issue #52) ------------------------------------ #
+    def _refresh_sets_combo(self, select: str | None = None):
+        sets = core.list_server_sets(self.full_config)
+        self.sets_combo.blockSignals(True)
+        self.sets_combo.clear()
+        for name in sorted(sets):
+            self.sets_combo.addItem(name)
+        if select is not None:
+            idx = self.sets_combo.findText(select)
+            if idx >= 0:
+                self.sets_combo.setCurrentIndex(idx)
+        self.sets_combo.blockSignals(False)
+        has_sets = bool(sets)
+        self.apply_set_btn.setEnabled(has_sets)
+        self.del_set_btn.setEnabled(has_sets)
+
+    def _apply_selected_set(self):
+        name = self.sets_combo.currentText()
+        sets = core.list_server_sets(self.full_config)
+        if name not in sets:
+            return
+        self._push_undo()
+        missing = core.apply_server_set(self.servers, sets[name])
+        self._refresh_tables(select_index=self._current_index() if self.servers else None)
+        self._mark_dirty()
+        on = sum(1 for s in self.servers if s.enabled)
+        msg = f"Applied set “{name}”  ·  {on} enabled. Review and Save."
+        if missing:
+            msg += f"  ⚠ no longer in this config: {', '.join(missing)}"
+        self.status.setText(msg)
+
+    def _save_set(self):
+        name, ok = QInputDialog.getText(
+            self,
+            "Save server set",
+            "Set name (saves which servers are currently Active):",
+            text=self.sets_combo.currentText(),
+        )
+        name = name.strip()
+        if not ok or not name:
+            return
+        if name in core.list_server_sets(self.full_config) and (
+            QMessageBox.question(self, "Set exists", f"Replace set “{name}”?")
+            != QMessageBox.StandardButton.Yes
+        ):
+            return
+        members = core.save_server_set(self.full_config, name, self.servers)
+        self._refresh_sets_combo(select=name)
+        self._mark_dirty()  # the set is written on the next Save
+        self.status.setText(
+            f"Set “{name}” saved ({len(members)} server(s)). Press Save to write it."
+        )
+
+    def _delete_set(self):
+        name = self.sets_combo.currentText()
+        if not name:
+            return
+        if (
+            QMessageBox.question(self, "Delete set", f"Delete set “{name}”?")
+            != QMessageBox.StandardButton.Yes
+        ):
+            return
+        if core.delete_server_set(self.full_config, name):
+            self._refresh_sets_combo()
+            self._mark_dirty()
+            self.status.setText(f"Set “{name}” deleted. Press Save to write the change.")
+
+    # --- test all (spawn-test every enabled local server) ---------------- #
+    def _test_all_servers(self):
+        targets = [s for s in self.servers if s.enabled and s.kind == "stdio"]
+        if not targets:
+            self.status.setText("No enabled local servers to test.")
+            return
+        self._test_all_queue = list(targets)
+        self._test_all_total = len(targets)
+        self._test_all_done = 0
+        self.test_all_btn.setEnabled(False)
+        self.test_all_btn.setText(f"Testing 0/{self._test_all_total}…")
+        self._run_next_health_test()
+
+    def _run_next_health_test(self):
+        if not self._test_all_queue:
+            self.test_all_btn.setEnabled(True)
+            self.test_all_btn.setText("Test all")
+            self.status.setText(f"Tested {self._test_all_done} server(s).")
+            return
+        entry = self._test_all_queue.pop(0)
+        self._health_tester = SpawnTester(dict(entry.data), timeout=3.0)
+        self._health_tester.done.connect(
+            lambda result, name=entry.name: self._on_health_test_done(name, result)
+        )
+        self._health_tester.start()
+
+    def _on_health_test_done(self, name, result):
+        status, summary = core.health_from_spawn_result(result)
+        self._health[name] = (status, summary)
+        self._test_all_done += 1
+        self.test_all_btn.setText(f"Testing {self._test_all_done}/{self._test_all_total}…")
+        self._update_health_cell(name, status, summary)
+        self._run_next_health_test()
+
+    def _update_health_cell(self, name, status, summary):
+        idx = next((i for i, s in enumerate(self.servers) if s.name == name), None)
+        if idx is None or idx not in self._row_of_index:
+            return
+        table, row = self._row_of_index[idx]
+        item = table.item(row, 4)
+        if item is None:
+            return
+        item.setText(HEALTH_GLYPH.get(status, "○"))
+        item.setForeground(QColor(HEALTH_COLORS.get(status, MUTED)))
+        item.setToolTip(summary or status)
+
     def _section_html(self, title, n, miss, warn):
         base = f"{title}  ·  {n}"
         if miss:
@@ -1902,10 +2262,18 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
         if not (0 <= idx < len(self.servers)):
             return
         entry = self.servers[idx]
+        old_name = entry.name
         entry.name = self.editor.current_name()
         entry.data = self.editor.dump_data()
         # The server stays in its section (enable state unchanged), so update
         # its existing row in place rather than re-rendering.
+        # An edit invalidates any cached "Test all" result -- the server that
+        # was spawn-tested no longer matches what's on disk once saved. Pop
+        # both names: the old one (so a rename doesn't leave a stale entry
+        # for whoever takes that name next) and the new one (so we don't
+        # inherit a stale result cached under the name being renamed to).
+        self._health.pop(old_name, None)
+        self._health.pop(entry.name, None)
         loc = self._row_of_index.get(idx)
         if loc:
             table, row = loc
@@ -1916,6 +2284,13 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             st = table.item(row, 3)
             st.setText(f"{STATUS_GLYPH.get(dep['status'], '○')}  {dep['label']}")
             st.setForeground(QColor(STATUS_COLORS.get(dep["status"], MUTED)))
+            health_item = table.item(row, 4)
+            if health_item is not None:
+                health_item.setText(HEALTH_GLYPH.get(core.HealthStatus.UNTESTED, "○"))
+                health_item.setForeground(
+                    QColor(HEALTH_COLORS.get(core.HealthStatus.UNTESTED, MUTED))
+                )
+                health_item.setToolTip("Not tested since last edit.")
             self._suppress_table = False
         self._refresh_badges()
         self._mark_dirty()
@@ -2057,11 +2432,23 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             self.validation_lbl.setStyleSheet(f"color: {WARN};")
             self.save_btn.setEnabled(False)
             return False
+        lint_warnings = core.lint_servers(self.servers)
+        if lint_warnings:
+            self.validation_lbl.setText(f"⚠ {lint_warnings[0]}")
+            self.validation_lbl.setStyleSheet(f"color: {WARN};")
+        else:
             self.validation_lbl.setText("✓ valid")
             self.validation_lbl.setStyleSheet(f"color: {GOOD};")
         self.save_btn.setEnabled(self.dirty)
         return True
 
+    def _save_shortcut(self):
+        """Ctrl+S / Cmd+S handler — only fires when the Save button itself
+        would accept a click, so the shortcut can't bypass validation/dirty
+        gating."""
+        if self.save_btn.isEnabled():
+            self.save()
+
     def save(self):
         if not self.current_profile:
             return
@@ -2131,18 +2518,30 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
     def _offer_restart_button(self):
         """Show the 'Restart Claude Desktop' button after a successful save,
         but only when the just-saved profile is Claude Desktop -- restarting
-        makes no sense for Claude Code, which has no GUI process to bounce."""
+        makes no sense for Claude Code, which has no GUI process to bounce --
-        if self.current_profile and core.profile_targets_claude_desktop(self.current_profile):
+        and only on platforms where Claude Desktop exists (never Linux, where
+        'claude' is the Claude Code CLI)."""
+        if (
+            self.current_profile
+            and core.profile_targets_claude_desktop(self.current_profile)
+            and core.restart_supported()
+        ):
             self.restart_btn.show()
         else:
             self.restart_btn.hide()
 
     def _restart_claude_desktop(self):
         self.restart_btn.setEnabled(False)
-        try:
+        self.restart_btn.setText("Restarting…")
-            result = core.restart_claude_desktop()
+        # Held on self (MainWindow outlives the worker); replaced only after
-        finally:
+        # done re-enables the button, so a running thread is never dropped.
+        self._restart_worker = RestartWorker()
+        self._restart_worker.done.connect(self._on_restart_done)
+        self._restart_worker.start()
+
+    def _on_restart_done(self, result):
         self.restart_btn.setEnabled(True)
+        self.restart_btn.setText("Restart Claude Desktop")
         self.restart_btn.hide()
         if result.success:
             self.status.setText(f"{self.status.text()}  ·  {result.detail}")
@@ -2203,29 +2602,44 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
             e.acceptProposedAction()
 
     def dropEvent(self, e):
+        total_added, total_replaced, files_imported = 0, 0, 0
+        undo_pushed = False
         for u in e.mimeData().urls():
             path = u.toLocalFile()
             if not path.endswith(".json"):
                 continue
-            text = Path(path).read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+            p = Path(path)
+            if p.stat().st_size > MAX_DROP_IMPORT_BYTES:
+                QMessageBox.warning(
+                    self,
+                    "File too large",
+                    f"{p.name}:\nFile exceeds the 5 MB import limit and was skipped.",
+                )
+                continue
+            text = p.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
             try:
                 servers = core.parse_pasted_json(text)
             except Exception as ex:
-                QMessageBox.warning(self, "Couldn't import", f"{Path(path).name}:\n{ex}")
+                QMessageBox.warning(self, "Couldn't import", f"{p.name}:\n{ex}")
                 continue
+            if not undo_pushed:
                 self._push_undo()
+                undo_pushed = True
             added, replaced = 0, 0
             for name, data in servers.items():
                 a, r = self._import_server(name, data)
                 added += int(a)
                 replaced += int(r)
+            total_added += added
+            total_replaced += replaced
+            files_imported += 1
+        if files_imported:
             self._refresh_tables(select_index=len(self.servers) - 1)
             self._mark_dirty()
             self.status.setText(
-                f"Imported {added} added, {replaced} replaced from {Path(path).name}. "
+                f"Imported {total_added} added, {total_replaced} replaced from "
-                "Review and Save."
+                f"{files_imported} file(s). Review and Save."
             )
-            break
 
     def closeEvent(self, e):
         if self.dirty and not self._confirm_discard():
@@ -2236,9 +2650,23 @@ class MainWindow(QMainWindow):
 
 
 def main():
+    if sys.platform == "win32":
+        # Without an explicit AppUserModelID, Windows taskbar groups the app
+        # under the default host/Python icon instead of our own window icon.
+        try:
+            import ctypes
+
+            ctypes.windll.shell32.SetCurrentProcessExplicitAppUserModelID(
+                "io.avezzano.better-claude-config"
+            )
+        except Exception:
+            pass
     app = QApplication(sys.argv)
     app.setApplicationName("Better Claude Config")
     app.setApplicationDisplayName("Better Claude Config")
+    icon = _app_icon()
+    if not icon.isNull():
+        app.setWindowIcon(icon)
     app.setStyleSheet(STYLESHEET)
     win = MainWindow()
     win.show()

bcc.spec

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ a = Analysis(
     ["bcc.py"],
     pathex=[],
     binaries=[],
-    datas=[],
+    datas=[("icons", "icons"), ("data/catalog.json", "data")],
     hiddenimports=[],
     hookspath=[],
     hooksconfig={},
@@ -78,8 +78,8 @@ if sys.platform == "darwin":
         info_plist={
             "CFBundleName": "Better Claude Config",
             "CFBundleDisplayName": "Better Claude Config",
-            "CFBundleShortVersionString": "1.0.0",
+            "CFBundleShortVersionString": "1.3.0",
-            "CFBundleVersion": "1.0.0",
+            "CFBundleVersion": "1.3.0",
             "NSHighResolutionCapable": True,
             "NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance": False,  # supports dark mode
             "LSMinimumSystemVersion": "11.0",

bcc_core.py

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from typing import NamedTuple
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
+from cryptography.exceptions import InvalidSignature
+from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric.ed25519 import Ed25519PublicKey
+
 CONFIG_FILENAME = "claude_desktop_config.json"
 
 # Disabled servers are parked under this non-standard key. Claude Desktop only
@@ -39,6 +42,12 @@ CONFIG_FILENAME = "claude_desktop_config.json"
 # we can toggle it back on without losing the definition.
 DISABLED_KEY = "_disabledMcpServers"
 
+# Named server sets: {set_name: [enabled server names]}. Same pattern as
+# DISABLED_KEY — a bcc-owned key Claude ignores, stored in the config file so
+# sets travel with it. Applying a set enables exactly the listed servers and
+# parks the rest under DISABLED_KEY.
+SETS_KEY = "_bccServerSets"
+
 BACKUP_DIRNAME = ".bcc_backups"
 MAX_BACKUPS = 15
 
@@ -59,7 +68,7 @@ KNOWN_FIELDS = {"command", "args", "env", "url", "type", "headers"}
 # binary. All network I/O here is fail-quiet (returns None on any problem)
 # so it's safe to run unattended, off the UI thread, at startup.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
-__version__ = "1.2.0"
+__version__ = "1.3.0"
 
 REPO_URL = "https://git.avezzano.io/the_og/better-claude-config"
 ISSUES_URL = f"{REPO_URL}/issues"
@@ -191,17 +200,150 @@ def app_support_base() -> Path:
     return Path(os.environ.get("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", Path.home() / ".config"))
 
 
+def msix_config_paths(localappdata: str | os.PathLike | None = None) -> list[Path]:
+    """
+    Find MSIX/Store-packaged Claude Desktop configs.
+
+    When Claude Desktop is installed from the Microsoft Store (MSIX), Windows
+    virtualizes its filesystem writes to a per-package folder under
+    `%LOCALAPPDATA%\\Packages\\<PackageFamilyName>\\LocalCache\\Roaming\\Claude\\`
+    instead of the normal `%APPDATA%\\Claude\\`. A user (or BCC) editing the
+    plain %APPDATA% path can end up changing a file the running app never
+    reads -- see anthropics/claude-code issues #26073, #29100, #38830.
+
+    Globs `<localappdata>/Packages/*Claude*/LocalCache/Roaming/Claude/
+    claude_desktop_config.json` and returns every match that actually exists,
+    sorted for determinism. `localappdata` defaults to the %LOCALAPPDATA% env
+    var (falling back to the usual Windows path) but is accepted as a
+    parameter so this is unit-testable with tmp_path on any platform.
+
+    This function itself is platform-independent (it just globs whatever
+    directory it's given); callers that care about the *current* machine
+    should gate on sys.platform -- see `detect_msix_claude`.
+    """
+    base = (
+        Path(localappdata)
+        if localappdata is not None
+        else Path(os.environ.get("LOCALAPPDATA", str(Path.home() / "AppData" / "Local")))
+    )
+    packages = base / "Packages"
+    if not packages.is_dir():
+        return []
+    out: list[Path] = []
+    for pkg_dir in sorted(packages.glob("*Claude*")):
+        cfg = pkg_dir / "LocalCache" / "Roaming" / "Claude" / CONFIG_FILENAME
+        if cfg.is_file():
+            out.append(cfg)
+    return out
+
+
+def detect_msix_claude(
+    appdata: str | os.PathLike | None = None,
+    localappdata: str | os.PathLike | None = None,
+) -> Path | None:
+    """
+    Best-effort detection of an MSIX-virtualized Claude Desktop install.
+
+    Returns the first virtualized `claude_desktop_config.json` found (see
+    `msix_config_paths`), or None when not running on Windows, no matching
+    package folder exists, or a package folder exists but has no config file
+    written yet. The sys.platform gate makes this a safe no-op to call
+    unconditionally from discovery/diagnostics code on macOS/Linux.
+
+    `appdata`/`localappdata` are threaded through (rather than read straight
+    from os.environ) purely so the whole detection path is unit-testable via
+    tmp_path + monkeypatch without mutating real env vars.
+    """
+    if not sys.platform.startswith("win"):
+        return None
+    hits = msix_config_paths(localappdata)
+    return hits[0] if hits else None
+
+
+def msix_warning_text(
+    appdata: str | os.PathLike | None = None,
+    localappdata: str | os.PathLike | None = None,
+) -> str | None:
+    """
+    A one-line, paste-safe warning for the diagnostics/status surface when
+    Claude Desktop looks like an MSIX/Store install whose real config lives
+    somewhere other than the plain %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ path. Returns None
+    when nothing was detected (including on non-Windows platforms) or when
+    the virtualized path and the plain path happen to coincide -- i.e. there
+    is nothing surprising to warn about. Contains only filesystem paths, no
+    env values or secrets.
+    """
+    real = detect_msix_claude(appdata, localappdata)
+    if real is None:
+        return None
+    plain_base = (
+        Path(appdata)
+        if appdata is not None
+        else Path(os.environ.get("APPDATA", str(Path.home() / "AppData" / "Roaming")))
+    )
+    plain_cfg = plain_base / "Claude" / CONFIG_FILENAME
+    if plain_cfg == real:
+        return None
+    return (
+        "Claude Desktop looks like it's installed from the Microsoft Store (MSIX). "
+        f"Windows virtualizes its config, so edits to {plain_cfg} may be silently "
+        f"ignored by the running app. The real config is at: {real}"
+    )
+
+
+def discover_project_configs(claude_json_path: str | os.PathLike) -> list[Profile]:
+    """
+    Find project-scope `.mcp.json` configs known to Claude Code.
+
+    `~/.claude.json` keeps a `projects` map keyed by absolute project
+    directory path (that's what the CLI writes as it's used in each repo).
+    Any project whose directory has a `.mcp.json` file next to it -- a
+    standalone file with a top-level `mcpServers` object, same shape BCC
+    already edits -- is surfaced here as its own profile so it can be opened
+    via 'Add config...' without hunting for the path by hand.
+
+    Fails quiet: a missing/unreadable/malformed `claude_json_path`, or a
+    `projects` value that isn't a dict, just yields an empty list rather than
+    raising -- this is best-effort discovery, not a required config load.
+    """
+    try:
+        cfg = load_config(claude_json_path)
+    except Exception:
+        return []
+    projects = cfg.get("projects")
+    if not isinstance(projects, dict):
+        return []
+    out: list[Profile] = []
+    for key in sorted(k for k in projects if isinstance(k, str)):
+        mcp_path = Path(key) / ".mcp.json"
+        if mcp_path.is_file():
+            out.append(
+                Profile(label=f"Project: {Path(key).name}", path=mcp_path, config_exists=True)
+            )
+    return out
+
+
 def discover_profiles() -> list[Profile]:
     """
     Find every `Claude*` data directory in the platform's app-support base
-    (Claude Desktop installs), then also check for a Claude Code global config.
+    (Claude Desktop installs), then also check for a Claude Code global config
+    and any project-scope `.mcp.json` configs it knows about.
 
     Claude Desktop: scans the platform app-support folder for any `Claude*`
     directory (catches `Claude`, `Claude-Work`, etc.).
+    Windows/MSIX: if Claude Desktop was installed from the Microsoft Store,
+    its real config lives in a virtualized per-package folder rather than the
+    plain %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ path above (see `detect_msix_claude`); when
+    that's detected, it's surfaced here as its own profile so the user can
+    edit the file the app actually reads.
     Claude Code: user-scope MCP servers live in ~/.claude.json (that's what
     `claude mcp add` writes; project scope is a per-repo .mcp.json, which can
     be opened via 'Add config…'). NOT ~/.claude/settings.json — that file is
     for permissions/hooks and rejects an mcpServers key with a schema error.
+    Project scope: ~/.claude.json also tracks a `projects` map, one entry per
+    directory Claude Code has been run in; any of those with a `.mcp.json`
+    file are surfaced as their own profiles too (see
+    `discover_project_configs`).
     """
     base = app_support_base()
     out: list[Profile] = []
@@ -213,10 +355,22 @@ def discover_profiles() -> list[Profile]:
                 cfg = d / CONFIG_FILENAME
                 out.append(Profile(label=d.name, path=cfg, config_exists=cfg.is_file()))
 
+    msix_cfg = detect_msix_claude()
+    if msix_cfg is not None and str(msix_cfg) not in {str(p.path) for p in out}:
+        out.append(
+            Profile(label="Claude (Microsoft Store / MSIX)", path=msix_cfg, config_exists=True)
+        )
+
     home = Path.home()
     cc_cfg = home / ".claude.json"
     out.append(Profile(label="Claude Code", path=cc_cfg, config_exists=cc_cfg.is_file()))
 
+    existing_paths = {str(p.path) for p in out}
+    for proj in discover_project_configs(cc_cfg):
+        if str(proj.path) not in existing_paths:
+            existing_paths.add(str(proj.path))
+            out.append(proj)
+
     # Legacy: earlier BCC versions (and hand-edits) may have parked servers in
     # ~/.claude/settings.json, where Claude Code ignores them. Surface that
     # file only when it actually contains an mcpServers block, so the user can
@@ -307,6 +461,70 @@ def extract_servers(cfg: dict) -> list[ServerEntry]:
     return out
 
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Named server sets (issue #52)
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+def list_server_sets(cfg: dict) -> dict[str, list[str]]:
+    """
+    Return {set_name: [enabled server names]} from cfg's SETS_KEY.
+
+    Fail-soft: entries whose value isn't a list of strings (hand-edited or
+    corrupted) are skipped rather than raising, so one bad set never hides
+    the rest.
+    """
+    raw = cfg.get(SETS_KEY)
+    if not isinstance(raw, dict):
+        return {}
+    out: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+    for name, members in raw.items():
+        if isinstance(members, list) and all(isinstance(m, str) for m in members):
+            out[str(name)] = list(members)
+    return out
+
+
+def save_server_set(cfg: dict, name: str, servers: list[ServerEntry]) -> list[str]:
+    """
+    Snapshot the current enabled-server names into cfg under SETS_KEY as
+    `name` (overwriting an existing set of that name). Returns the saved
+    member list. The caller decides when cfg reaches disk (normal Save flow).
+    """
+    members = [s.name for s in servers if s.enabled]
+    sets = cfg.get(SETS_KEY)
+    if not isinstance(sets, dict):
+        sets = {}
+        cfg[SETS_KEY] = sets
+    sets[name] = members
+    return members
+
+
+def delete_server_set(cfg: dict, name: str) -> bool:
+    """Remove set `name` from cfg. Drops SETS_KEY entirely when the last set
+    goes, so untouched configs don't grow an empty bcc key. Returns True if
+    something was deleted."""
+    sets = cfg.get(SETS_KEY)
+    if not isinstance(sets, dict) or name not in sets:
+        return False
+    del sets[name]
+    if not sets:
+        cfg.pop(SETS_KEY, None)
+    return True
+
+
+def apply_server_set(servers: list[ServerEntry], enabled_names: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """
+    Enable exactly the servers named in `enabled_names`; disable every other
+    entry (in place). Returns the set members that no longer exist in
+    `servers` — the caller surfaces those as a warning, and the rest of the
+    set still applies.
+    """
+    wanted = set(enabled_names)
+    present: set[str] = set()
+    for s in servers:
+        s.enabled = s.name in wanted
+        present.add(s.name)
+    return sorted(wanted - present)
+
+
 def resolve_name_collision(name: str, existing: set[str]) -> str:
     """
     Return a name guaranteed not to collide with `existing`.
@@ -1111,6 +1329,89 @@ def validate_servers(servers: list[ServerEntry]) -> list[str]:
     return problems
 
 
+def lint_server(name: str, data: dict) -> list[str]:
+    """Return non-blocking structural warnings for a single server definition.
+
+    Unlike validate_servers, nothing here blocks Save -- these are advisory
+    notes about shapes that will round-trip through JSON fine but are
+    probably not what the user intended (args given as a plain string
+    instead of a list, an env value that isn't a string, an unrecognized
+    `type`, unknown top-level fields, etc.).
+    """
+    nm = name.strip() or "(unnamed)"
+    warnings: list[str] = []
+
+    if "command" in data and not isinstance(data["command"], str):
+        warnings.append(f"'{nm}': 'command' should be a string")
+
+    if "args" in data:
+        args = data["args"]
+        if not isinstance(args, list):
+            warnings.append(f"'{nm}': 'args' should be a list (one argument per item)")
+        elif any(not isinstance(a, str) for a in args):
+            warnings.append(
+                f"'{nm}': 'args' contains non-string values "
+                "(they will be saved as-is; Claude expects strings)"
+            )
+
+    for field in ("env", "headers"):
+        if field not in data:
+            continue
+        val = data[field]
+        if not isinstance(val, dict):
+            warnings.append(f"'{nm}': '{field}' should be an object of string key/value pairs")
+        elif any(not isinstance(v, str) for v in val.values()):
+            warnings.append(
+                f"'{nm}': '{field}' contains non-string values "
+                "(they will be saved as-is; Claude expects strings)"
+            )
+
+    if "type" in data:
+        t = data["type"]
+        if t not in ("http", "sse", "stdio"):
+            warnings.append(f"'{nm}': 'type' should be one of http, sse, stdio (found {t!r})")
+
+    extra = sorted(k for k in data if k not in KNOWN_FIELDS)
+    if extra:
+        warnings.append(f"'{nm}': extra fields preserved as-is: {', '.join(extra)}")
+
+    return warnings
+
+
+def lint_servers(servers: list[ServerEntry]) -> list[str]:
+    """Concatenate lint_server warnings across every entry, in order."""
+    out: list[str] = []
+    for s in servers:
+        out.extend(lint_server(s.name, s.data))
+    return out
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Search / filter
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+def server_matches_filter(entry: ServerEntry, query: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    Case-insensitive substring match against a server's name, and its
+    command (stdio) or url (remote). An empty/whitespace-only query matches
+    everything -- that's what lets the search box double as "no filter".
+    """
+    q = (query or "").strip().lower()
+    if not q:
+        return True
+    if q in entry.name.lower():
+        return True
+    if entry.kind == "remote":
+        haystack = str(entry.data.get("url", ""))
+    else:
+        haystack = str(entry.data.get("command", ""))
+    return q in haystack.lower()
+
+
+def filter_servers(entries: list[ServerEntry], query: str) -> list[ServerEntry]:
+    """Return only the entries that match `query` (see server_matches_filter)."""
+    return [e for e in entries if server_matches_filter(e, query)]
+
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
 # Dependency / PATH checking
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
@@ -1453,6 +1754,23 @@ def server_log_path(name: str) -> Path | None:
 _STDERR_CAP = 4096  # bytes
 
 
+def _kill_process_tree_windows(pid: int) -> None:
+    """
+    Kill `pid` and its whole descendant tree via `taskkill /T /F` (issue #13).
+
+    Popen.kill() only terminates the direct child; runner-style commands
+    (npx → node → server, cmd → real process) leave the actual server alive,
+    leaking a process on every Windows spawn test. taskkill walks the tree.
+    """
+    flags = getattr(subprocess, "CREATE_NO_WINDOW", 0)  # no console flash from the GUI exe
+    with contextlib.suppress(OSError):
+        subprocess.run(
+            ["taskkill", "/PID", str(pid), "/T", "/F"],
+            capture_output=True,
+            creationflags=flags,
+        )
+
+
 def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
     """
     Attempt to start a stdio server and observe it for `timeout` seconds.
@@ -1463,12 +1781,29 @@ def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
                 "crashed"        — exited with a non-zero code before timeout
                 "not_found"      — command could not be resolved to an executable
                 "not_applicable" — remote server or no command; nothing to spawn
+                "error"          — unexpected internal failure while spawning/observing
       returncode: int | None
       stderr:    str  (first ~4 KB)
       detail:    str
 
+    Never raises: the GUI threads (Test launch / Test all) re-enable their
+    buttons only when a result arrives, so an escaping exception would leave
+    the UI stuck. Anything unexpected comes back as outcome "error".
+
     Run this off the UI thread — it blocks for up to `timeout` seconds.
     """
+    try:
+        return _spawn_test_impl(data, timeout)
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {
+            "outcome": "error",
+            "returncode": None,
+            "stderr": "",
+            "detail": f"unexpected error: {e!r}",
+        }
+
+
+def _spawn_test_impl(data: dict, timeout: float) -> dict:
     if "url" in data and "command" not in data:
         return {
             "outcome": "not_applicable",
@@ -1477,7 +1812,9 @@ def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
             "detail": "remote server",
         }
 
-    cmd = (data.get("command") or "").strip()
+    # str() first: pasted JSON can legally carry a non-string here and the
+    # value never round-trips through the editor before a Test all run.
+    cmd = str(data.get("command") or "").strip()
     if not cmd:
         return {
             "outcome": "not_applicable",
@@ -1499,7 +1836,8 @@ def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
     args_list = [resolved_cmd] + [str(a) for a in (data.get("args") or [])]
 
     merged_env = {**os.environ, "PATH": augmented_path()}
-    merged_env.update(data.get("env") or {})
+    # Popen rejects non-string env values; pasted JSON may carry numbers.
+    merged_env.update({str(k): str(v) for k, v in (data.get("env") or {}).items()})
 
     stderr_chunks: list[bytes] = []
 
@@ -1527,6 +1865,10 @@ def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
     )
     if os.name != "nt":
         popen_kwargs["start_new_session"] = True  # own process group → clean kill
+    else:
+        # The packaged app is windowed (console=False); without this every
+        # spawn test of a console server flashes a console window.
+        popen_kwargs["creationflags"] = getattr(subprocess, "CREATE_NO_WINDOW", 0)
 
     try:
         proc = subprocess.Popen(args_list, **popen_kwargs)
@@ -1548,7 +1890,7 @@ def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
             if os.name != "nt":
                 os.killpg(os.getpgid(proc.pid), _signal.SIGKILL)
             else:
-                proc.kill()  # best-effort on Windows
+                _kill_process_tree_windows(proc.pid)
         except OSError:
             pass
         with contextlib.suppress(subprocess.TimeoutExpired):
@@ -1580,6 +1922,53 @@ def spawn_test(data: dict, timeout: float = 3.0) -> dict:
     }
 
 
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# Health status (maps a spawn_test() result to a simple tri-state for the
+# server-list UI's per-row status dot; see "Test all" in bcc.py)
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+class HealthStatus:
+    """
+    Tri-state health for the server-list status dot. A plain class of string
+    constants -- not an Enum -- to match the plain-string status values used
+    elsewhere in this module (see check_dependency's 'status').
+    """
+
+    UNTESTED = "untested"
+    OK = "ok"
+    FAILED = "failed"
+
+
+def health_from_spawn_result(result: dict) -> tuple[str, str]:
+    """
+    Map a spawn_test() result dict to (HealthStatus, short_summary) for the
+    server-list status column. Reuses spawn_test's own outcome classification
+    rather than re-deriving pass/fail from returncode/stderr:
+
+      outcome "ok"             -> OK       (server started and kept running)
+      outcome "not_applicable" -> UNTESTED (remote server, or no command set)
+      anything else            -> FAILED   (exited, crashed, or not found)
+
+    The summary is short enough for a table cell/tooltip; when the process
+    wrote to stderr before dying, its first line is appended for context.
+    """
+    outcome = result.get("outcome", "")
+    detail = result.get("detail", "") or ""
+    stderr = (result.get("stderr") or "").strip()
+
+    if outcome == "ok":
+        return HealthStatus.OK, detail or "started"
+    if outcome == "not_applicable":
+        return HealthStatus.UNTESTED, detail or "not applicable"
+
+    # exited / crashed / not_found: the server didn't come up cleanly.
+    summary = detail or outcome
+    if stderr:
+        first_line = stderr.splitlines()[0].strip()
+        if first_line:
+            summary = f"{summary} — {first_line}"
+    return HealthStatus.FAILED, summary
+
+
 def test_remote(url: str, timeout: float = 5.0) -> tuple[bool, str]:
     """
     Reachability check for a url-based MCP server. ANY HTTP response (even 4xx/5xx)
@@ -1662,8 +2051,41 @@ def _run_quiet(cmd: list[str]) -> None:
         subprocess.run(cmd, capture_output=True)
 
 
+def restart_supported() -> bool:
+    """
+    True only where restarting Claude Desktop makes sense (macOS, Windows).
+    There is no official Claude Desktop for Linux, and the obvious binary
+    name there ("claude") is the Claude Code CLI — killing or spawning it
+    would be actively harmful. GUI callers gate the Restart button on this.
+    """
+    return sys.platform == "darwin" or sys.platform.startswith("win")
+
+
+_MACOS_QUIT_WAIT_S = 5.0
+
+
+def _macos_claude_running() -> bool:
+    try:
+        return subprocess.run(["pgrep", "-x", "Claude"], capture_output=True).returncode == 0
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+
+
 def _restart_claude_desktop_macos() -> RestartResult:
     _run_quiet(["pkill", "-x", "Claude"])
+    # Wait for the old instance to actually exit: `open -a` against a dying
+    # process can merely re-activate it, and the config is only re-read on a
+    # true relaunch. Blocks up to _MACOS_QUIT_WAIT_S — callers run this off
+    # the UI thread (see RestartWorker in bcc.py).
+    deadline = time.monotonic() + _MACOS_QUIT_WAIT_S
+    while _macos_claude_running():
+        if time.monotonic() > deadline:
+            return RestartResult(
+                False,
+                f"Claude Desktop didn't quit within {_MACOS_QUIT_WAIT_S:.0f}s — "
+                "quit it manually, then reopen it.",
+            )
+        time.sleep(0.15)
     try:
         result = subprocess.run(["open", "-a", "Claude"], capture_output=True, text=True)
     except OSError as e:
@@ -1680,8 +2102,18 @@ def _claude_windows_start_menu_shortcut() -> Path:
 
 
 def _restart_claude_desktop_windows() -> RestartResult:
-    _run_quiet(["taskkill", "/IM", "Claude.exe", "/F"])
     shortcut = _claude_windows_start_menu_shortcut()
+    if not shortcut.is_file():
+        # Checked BEFORE killing: an MSIX/Store install has no Start-menu .lnk
+        # at this path, and killing without a relaunch path would leave the
+        # user with no running Claude at all.
+        return RestartResult(
+            False,
+            f"Claude's Start-menu shortcut wasn't found ({shortcut}). "
+            "If Claude Desktop is installed from the Microsoft Store, "
+            "quit and reopen it manually.",
+        )
+    _run_quiet(["taskkill", "/IM", "Claude.exe", "/F"])
     try:
         # `cmd /c start "" <target>` launches detached, the same as double-clicking
         # the Start-menu shortcut, and returns immediately.
@@ -1698,32 +2130,412 @@ def _restart_claude_desktop_windows() -> RestartResult:
     return RestartResult(True, "Claude Desktop restarted.")
 
 
-def _restart_claude_desktop_linux() -> RestartResult:
-    _run_quiet(["pkill", "claude"])
-    try:
-        # The Linux launcher is the app itself (no "open"-style helper), so it
-        # has to be started detached rather than waited on.
-        subprocess.Popen(
-            ["claude"],
-            stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-            stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-            stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
-            start_new_session=True,
-        )
-    except OSError as e:
-        return RestartResult(False, f"Couldn't launch Claude Desktop: {e}")
-    return RestartResult(True, "Claude Desktop restarted.")
-
-
 def restart_claude_desktop() -> RestartResult:
     """
     Kill and relaunch the Claude Desktop app so a freshly saved config takes
     effect. The app not currently running is NOT a failure -- pkill/taskkill
     exiting non-zero just means "nothing to kill", and we go straight to
     relaunching. Only a failed relaunch is reported as success=False.
+
+    macOS blocks for up to _MACOS_QUIT_WAIT_S while the old instance exits —
+    run off the UI thread. Unsupported platforms (see restart_supported())
+    refuse without touching any process.
     """
     if sys.platform == "darwin":
         return _restart_claude_desktop_macos()
     if sys.platform.startswith("win"):
         return _restart_claude_desktop_windows()
-    return _restart_claude_desktop_linux()
+    return RestartResult(False, "Restarting Claude Desktop isn't supported on this platform.")
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+# MCP server catalog (issue #10 / #61)
+#
+# A curated, SIGNED list of ready-to-use MCP server definitions (bundled with
+# the app and, later, fetchable/cacheable — see follow-up issues). Every
+# function here is pure and defensive: catalog bytes may come from a fetch
+# over the network, a disk cache, or the copy frozen into the binary, and
+# all three are treated as equally untrusted until their signature verifies.
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------- #
+
+# Commands a catalog entry's config is allowed to launch. Anything else
+# (bash, sh, curl, a raw script interpreter that isn't on this list, ...)
+# is rejected by validate_catalog() regardless of how plausible it looks.
+CATALOG_ALLOWED_COMMANDS = frozenset({"npx", "uvx", "docker", "node", "python", "python3"})
+
+# Ed25519 public keys allowed to sign a catalog, raw 32-byte form. A LIST
+# (not a single key) so keys can be rotated without bricking installs that
+# still trust an older key: verify_catalog_signature() accepts a match
+# against ANY key in this list.
+CATALOG_PUBKEYS: list[bytes] = [
+    b"\x00" * 32,  # TODO: real key from Catalog Console (#62)
+]
+
+# Domain-separation prefix for the signed message. The signature covers
+# this prefix + the raw catalog bytes, never the raw bytes alone, so a
+# catalog signature can't be replayed against some other byte-for-byte-
+# identical payload that means something else in a different context.
+_CATALOG_SIG_DOMAIN = b"bcc-catalog-v1|"
+
+# Top-level fields that must be https:// URLs when present.
+_CATALOG_URL_FIELDS = ("homepage", "docs_url", "source")
+
+# Inline secret-flag=value forms. Distinct from _TOKEN_PREFIXES below --
+# this catches "--api-key=<real value>" even when the value itself doesn't
+# match a well-known token prefix.
+_CATALOG_SECRET_ARG_RE = re.compile(r"(?i)--api[-_]?key=|--token=|--password=")
+
+# <PLACEHOLDER>-style tokens the GUI must have the user fill in before Save.
+_PLACEHOLDER_RE = re.compile(r"<[^<>\s]+>")
+
+# How many versions a single accepted catalog jump may leap in one go. Bounds
+# a "freeze" attack: a compromised/leaked signing key claiming an absurd
+# future version would otherwise permanently outrank every legitimate
+# catalog release from then on, since the resolver always prefers the
+# highest verified version.
+_CATALOG_MAX_VERSION_JUMP = 1000
+
+
+def load_catalog(raw: bytes | str) -> dict:
+    """
+    Parse catalog bytes/text into a dict using STRICT json.loads ONLY.
+
+    🔴 CRITICAL: the lenient JSON repair pipeline (repair_json_text,
+    parse_pasted_json / parse_pasted_json_verbose) must NEVER be wired in
+    here, or anywhere near catalog handling. That pipeline exists to be
+    forgiving of hand-pasted snippets from docs and blog posts — smart
+    quotes, trailing commas, unquoted keys, whatever a human fat-fingered.
+    Forgiveness is exactly the property a signed payload cannot have:
+    verify_catalog_signature() authenticates the exact bytes that were
+    signed. If what gets displayed/executed is a "repaired" reinterpretation
+    of those bytes rather than the bytes themselves, the signature check
+    still passes while guaranteeing nothing about what actually runs. Always
+    verify raw bytes, then load_catalog() those SAME raw bytes.
+    """
+    return json.loads(raw)
+
+
+def catalog_version(data: dict) -> int:
+    """Extract the integer version from a parsed catalog dict (0 if absent/bad)."""
+    version = data.get("version") if isinstance(data, dict) else None
+    return version if isinstance(version, int) and not isinstance(version, bool) else 0
+
+
+def _secret_looking_arg(a: str) -> bool:
+    """
+    True when a catalog arg string looks like it embeds a real secret. Reuses
+    the existing token-prefix detector (_is_secret_value / _TOKEN_PREFIXES)
+    rather than reimplementing it — one definition of "looks like a secret"
+    for the whole app.
+    """
+    if _CATALOG_SECRET_ARG_RE.search(a):
+        return True
+    value = a.split("=", 1)[1] if "=" in a else a
+    return _is_secret_value(value) or _is_secret_value(a)
+
+
+def _docker_arg_violations(tag: str, args: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """--privileged and volume mounts rooted at / or $HOME are refused."""
+    problems: list[str] = []
+    if "--privileged" in args:
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: config.args uses --privileged, which is not allowed.")
+
+    i = 0
+    while i < len(args):
+        a = args[i]
+        mount = None
+        if a in ("-v", "--volume") and i + 1 < len(args):
+            mount = args[i + 1]
+            i += 1
+        elif a.startswith("--volume="):
+            mount = a.split("=", 1)[1]
+        elif a.startswith("-v") and a != "-v":
+            mount = a[2:]
+        if mount:
+            source = mount.split(":", 1)[0]
+            if source in ("/", "$HOME") or source.startswith("$HOME"):
+                problems.append(
+                    f"{tag}: config.args mounts {source!r}, which is not allowed "
+                    "(volume mounts of / or $HOME are refused)."
+                )
+        i += 1
+    return problems
+
+
+def _validate_catalog_config(tag: str, config) -> list[str]:
+    """Validate the `config` block of a basic-tier catalog entry."""
+    if not isinstance(config, dict):
+        return [f"{tag}: basic entries require a 'config' object with command+args."]
+
+    problems: list[str] = []
+
+    command = config.get("command")
+    if not isinstance(command, str) or not command:
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: config.command must be a non-empty string.")
+        command = ""
+    elif not command.isascii():
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: config.command must be ASCII (non-ASCII code points rejected).")
+
+    if command and command not in CATALOG_ALLOWED_COMMANDS:
+        problems.append(
+            f"{tag}: config.command {command!r} is not on the catalog allowlist "
+            f"({', '.join(sorted(CATALOG_ALLOWED_COMMANDS))})."
+        )
+
+    args = config.get("args")
+    if not isinstance(args, list) or not all(isinstance(a, str) for a in args):
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: config.args must be a list of strings.")
+        args = []
+
+    for a in args:
+        if not a.isascii():
+            problems.append(f"{tag}: config.args contains a non-ASCII value ({a!r}).")
+        if _secret_looking_arg(a):
+            problems.append(
+                f"{tag}: config.args contains a secret-looking value ({a!r}); "
+                "secrets belong in env, never args."
+            )
+
+    if command in ("node", "python", "python3") and any(a in ("-e", "--eval", "-c") for a in args):
+        problems.append(
+            f"{tag}: config.args uses -e/--eval/-c with {command!r}, which is not allowed."
+        )
+
+    if command == "docker":
+        problems.extend(_docker_arg_violations(tag, args))
+
+    env = config.get("env")
+    if env is not None and (
+        not isinstance(env, dict) or any(not isinstance(v, str) for v in env.values())
+    ):
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: config.env must be an object of string values.")
+
+    return problems
+
+
+def _validate_catalog_entry(idx: int, entry, seen_ids: set[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """Validate a single `servers[idx]` catalog entry."""
+    tag = f"servers[{idx}]"
+    if not isinstance(entry, dict):
+        return [f"{tag}: must be an object."]
+
+    problems: list[str] = []
+
+    entry_id = entry.get("id")
+    if not isinstance(entry_id, str) or not entry_id.strip():
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: 'id' must be a non-empty string.")
+    else:
+        tag = f"servers[{idx}] ({entry_id!r})"
+        if not entry_id.isascii():
+            problems.append(f"{tag}: 'id' must be ASCII (non-ASCII code points rejected).")
+        if entry_id in seen_ids:
+            problems.append(f"{tag}: duplicate id.")
+        seen_ids.add(entry_id)
+
+    for field in ("display", "description", "category"):
+        if not isinstance(entry.get(field), str) or not entry[field].strip():
+            problems.append(f"{tag}: '{field}' must be a non-empty string.")
+
+    if not isinstance(entry.get("official"), bool):
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: 'official' must be a boolean.")
+
+    setup = entry.get("setup")
+    if setup not in ("basic", "link-only"):
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: 'setup' must be 'basic' or 'link-only'.")
+
+    env_required = entry.get("env_required")
+    if not isinstance(env_required, dict):
+        problems.append(f"{tag}: 'env_required' must be an object.")
+    else:
+        for k, v in env_required.items():
+            if not isinstance(k, str):
+                problems.append(f"{tag}: 'env_required' keys must be strings.")
+            if v != "":
+                problems.append(
+                    f"{tag}: env_required[{k!r}] must be an empty string — "
+                    "catalog entries never ship secret values, only the names "
+                    "of env vars the user must fill in."
+                )
+
+    for field in _CATALOG_URL_FIELDS:
+        if field in entry and entry[field] is not None:
+            url = entry[field]
+            if not isinstance(url, str) or not url.startswith("https://"):
+                problems.append(f"{tag}: '{field}' must be an https:// URL.")
+
+    if setup == "link-only":
+        if entry.get("config") is not None:
+            problems.append(f"{tag}: link-only entries must not have a 'config'.")
+        docs_url = entry.get("docs_url")
+        if not isinstance(docs_url, str) or not docs_url.startswith("https://"):
+            problems.append(f"{tag}: link-only entries require an https:// 'docs_url'.")
+    elif setup == "basic":
+        problems.extend(_validate_catalog_config(tag, entry.get("config")))
+
+    return problems
+
+
+def validate_catalog(data) -> list[str]:
+    """
+    Validate a parsed catalog dict. Returns a list of human-readable
+    problems; an EMPTY list means the catalog is valid.
+
+    A non-empty list means REJECT THE WHOLE FILE, not just the offending
+    entry. There is no per-entry salvage here: a catalog that is invalid in
+    one place is untrusted everywhere, because a caller that tried to keep
+    "the other 19 entries that looked fine" would need its own judgment call
+    about which parts of a failed-validation file to trust — exactly the
+    judgment call this function exists to make once, centrally.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(data, dict):
+        return ["Catalog root must be a JSON object."]
+
+    problems: list[str] = []
+
+    schema = data.get("schema")
+    if not isinstance(schema, int) or isinstance(schema, bool) or schema < 1:
+        problems.append("'schema' must be a positive integer.")
+
+    version = data.get("version")
+    if not isinstance(version, int) or isinstance(version, bool) or version < 1:
+        problems.append("'version' must be a positive integer.")
+
+    servers = data.get("servers")
+    if not isinstance(servers, list):
+        problems.append("'servers' must be a list.")
+        return problems  # nothing else to check without a server list
+
+    seen_ids: set[str] = set()
+    for idx, entry in enumerate(servers):
+        problems.extend(_validate_catalog_entry(idx, entry, seen_ids))
+
+    return problems
+
+
+def verify_catalog_signature(raw: bytes, sig: bytes, pubkeys: list[bytes]) -> bool:
+    """
+    Verify an Ed25519 signature over `raw` catalog bytes.
+
+    The signed message is domain-separated: b"bcc-catalog-v1|" + raw, not
+    raw alone (see _CATALOG_SIG_DOMAIN).
+
+    Returns True if ANY key in `pubkeys` verifies — this is what lets keys
+    rotate without bricking installs still trusting an older key.
+
+    Never raises. An invalid signature, a garbage/wrong-length key, a
+    non-bytes argument, an empty signature — all of it just returns False.
+    Signature verification is exactly the wrong place for an exception to
+    accidentally propagate into a code path that fails open.
+    """
+    if not isinstance(raw, bytes) or not isinstance(sig, (bytes, bytearray)):
+        return False
+    if not sig:
+        return False
+    message = _CATALOG_SIG_DOMAIN + raw
+    for pk in pubkeys or []:
+        try:
+            Ed25519PublicKey.from_public_bytes(bytes(pk)).verify(bytes(sig), message)
+            return True
+        except (InvalidSignature, ValueError, TypeError):
+            continue
+    return False
+
+
+def resolve_catalog(
+    bundled: tuple[bytes, bytes] | None,
+    cached: tuple[bytes, bytes] | None,
+    remote: tuple[bytes, bytes] | None,
+) -> dict:
+    """
+    Pick the highest-version catalog among bundled/cached/remote. Each
+    argument is either None (unavailable) or an (raw_bytes, signature_bytes)
+    pair.
+
+    🔴 SECURITY: every candidate — including `bundled`, the copy frozen into
+    this binary — is verified against CATALOG_PUBKEYS and re-validated from
+    scratch right here. The bundled catalog gets NO implicit trust. This was
+    a hole in the original design: bundling data/catalog.json as a plain
+    asset would let an unsigned/malformed payload that somehow merged to
+    main ship inside the next release and win the version comparison simply
+    by virtue of being local. Signing (and checking the signature at
+    runtime, every time) closes that.
+
+    Anti-rollback: a candidate's version is never accepted if it's lower
+    than the best verified candidate already found in this same resolution
+    pass — an attacker replaying an old, since-superseded signed catalog
+    can't downgrade you.
+
+    Anti-freeze: a candidate whose version leaps more than
+    _CATALOG_MAX_VERSION_JUMP past the current best is also rejected. A
+    compromised/leaked signing key claiming an absurd future version would
+    otherwise permanently outrank every legitimate release from then on,
+    since the resolver always prefers the highest verified version — this
+    caps how far a single accepted jump can go.
+
+    Returns the winning catalog dict, or {} if nothing verified and
+    validated.
+    """
+    best: dict = {}
+    best_version = -1
+
+    for candidate in (bundled, cached, remote):
+        if not candidate:
+            continue
+        raw, sig = candidate
+        if not verify_catalog_signature(raw, sig, CATALOG_PUBKEYS):
+            continue
+        try:
+            data = load_catalog(raw)
+        except (ValueError, TypeError):
+            continue
+        if validate_catalog(data):
+            continue
+
+        version = catalog_version(data)
+        if best_version >= 0:
+            if version < best_version:
+                continue  # anti-rollback
+            if version > best_version + _CATALOG_MAX_VERSION_JUMP:
+                continue  # anti-freeze
+
+        best = data
+        best_version = version
+
+    return best
+
+
+def catalog_entry_to_paste_json(entry: dict) -> dict:
+    """
+    Convert a basic-tier catalog entry into the {name: {command, args, env}}
+    shape parse_pasted_json()/_import_server() already understand, so the
+    (future) catalog picker dialog can feed a selection straight into the
+    existing paste-import path instead of growing a parallel one.
+    """
+    config = entry.get("config") or {}
+    name = entry.get("id") or entry.get("display") or "server"
+    data: dict = {
+        "command": config.get("command", ""),
+        "args": list(config.get("args") or []),
+    }
+    env = config.get("env")
+    if env:
+        data["env"] = dict(env)
+    return {str(name): data}
+
+
+def config_has_unfilled_placeholders(cfg: dict) -> bool:
+    """
+    True if any <PLACEHOLDER>-style token remains anywhere in a server
+    config's command/args/env (the shape produced by
+    catalog_entry_to_paste_json). The GUI uses this to refuse Save until
+    every <ALLOWED_DIR>-style token has been filled in with a real value.
+    """
+    values: list[str] = []
+    cmd = cfg.get("command")
+    if isinstance(cmd, str):
+        values.append(cmd)
+    values.extend(a for a in (cfg.get("args") or []) if isinstance(a, str))
+    env = cfg.get("env") or {}
+    if isinstance(env, dict):
+        values.extend(v for v in env.values() if isinstance(v, str))
+    return any(_PLACEHOLDER_RE.search(v) for v in values)

data/catalog.json

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+{
+  "schema": 1,
+  "version": 1,
+  "updated": "2026-07-12",
+  "signed_at": "2026-07-12T21:35:19Z",
+  "servers": [
+    {
+      "id": "filesystem",
+      "display": "Filesystem",
+      "description": "Lets Claude read, write, search, and edit files in directories you explicitly allow.",
+      "category": "files",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem",
+      "stars": 85995,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem@2026.7.10",
+          "<ALLOWED_DIR>"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {
+        "<ALLOWED_DIR>": "Absolute path to a directory the server may read/write. Add more directories as additional args."
+      },
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/filesystem",
+      "notes": "Part of the official modelcontextprotocol/servers reference monorepo (star count is for the whole repo). Clients that support MCP 'roots' can also grant directories dynamically instead of via args.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-10"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "fetch",
+      "display": "Fetch",
+      "description": "Fetches a URL and converts the page to clean markdown so Claude can read web content.",
+      "category": "dev",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/fetch",
+      "stars": 85995,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "uvx",
+        "args": [
+          "mcp-server-fetch@2026.7.10"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/fetch",
+      "notes": "Can access local/internal IPs, so treat as a mild security risk on untrusted networks. Add '--ignore-robots-txt' or '--user-agent=...' as extra args if needed.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-10"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "memory",
+      "display": "Memory",
+      "description": "Gives Claude a persistent knowledge-graph memory that survives across conversations.",
+      "category": "ai",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/memory",
+      "stars": 85995,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "@modelcontextprotocol/server-memory@2026.7.4"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/memory",
+      "notes": "Stores entities/relations as a local JSON knowledge graph (path configurable via MEMORY_FILE_PATH env var).",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-04"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "sequential-thinking",
+      "display": "Sequential Thinking",
+      "description": "Gives Claude a structured, step-by-step reasoning tool for breaking down complex problems.",
+      "category": "ai",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/sequentialthinking",
+      "stars": 85995,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "@modelcontextprotocol/server-sequential-thinking@2026.7.4"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/sequentialthinking",
+      "notes": "Set DISABLE_THOUGHT_LOGGING=true to stop it from printing each thought step to the console.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-04"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "git",
+      "display": "Git",
+      "description": "Lets Claude read history, diff, branch, and search a local git repository.",
+      "category": "dev",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/git",
+      "stars": 85995,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "uvx",
+        "args": [
+          "mcp-server-git@2026.7.10",
+          "--repository",
+          "<REPO_PATH>"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {
+        "<REPO_PATH>": "Absolute path to the local git repository"
+      },
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/main/src/git",
+      "notes": "Operates on a local checkout only; it does not talk to GitHub/GitLab APIs (pair with the GitHub or GitLab server for that).",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-10"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "github",
+      "display": "GitHub",
+      "description": "Lets Claude read repos/code, and manage issues, pull requests, and Actions on GitHub.",
+      "category": "code-hosting",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server",
+      "stars": 30202,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "docker",
+        "args": [
+          "run",
+          "-i",
+          "--rm",
+          "-e",
+          "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
+          "ghcr.io/github/github-mcp-server:v1.0.1"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/blob/main/docs/installation-guides/README.md",
+      "notes": "The old '@modelcontextprotocol/server-github' npm package is discontinued (deprecated April 2025). GitHub now ships a Docker-based local server (requires Docker installed/running) plus a hosted remote server at https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/ that supports OAuth or PAT auth without Docker."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "playwright",
+      "display": "Playwright",
+      "description": "Lets Claude drive a real browser (click, type, navigate, screenshot) using Playwright's accessibility-tree snapshots.",
+      "category": "browser",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp",
+      "stars": 34000,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "@playwright/mcp@0.0.78"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp#readme",
+      "notes": "Maintained by the Playwright team at Microsoft. Add '--isolated' for a throwaway profile, or '--browser firefox|webkit|msedge' to change engine. A persistent browser profile is used by default so logins carry over between sessions.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-09"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "chrome-devtools",
+      "display": "Chrome DevTools",
+      "description": "Lets Claude control Chrome and use real DevTools features: performance traces, network inspection, console logs, screenshots.",
+      "category": "browser",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp",
+      "stars": 45000,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "chrome-devtools-mcp@1.5.0"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/ChromeDevTools/chrome-devtools-mcp#readme",
+      "notes": "Maintained by the Google Chrome DevTools team; only officially supports Google Chrome / Chrome for Testing. Exposes the browser's content to the MCP client, so avoid sensitive sites while connected. Add '--slim --headless' for a minimal 3-tool basic-automation mode.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-03"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "postgres",
+      "display": "Postgres MCP Pro",
+      "description": "Lets Claude query, inspect schema, and analyze/tune performance of a PostgreSQL database.",
+      "category": "database",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/crystaldba/postgres-mcp",
+      "stars": 2400,
+      "official": false,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "uvx",
+        "args": [
+          "postgres-mcp@0.3.0",
+          "--access-mode=restricted"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "DATABASE_URI": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/crystaldba/postgres-mcp#readme",
+      "notes": "The official reference Postgres server was archived by the MCP team; this community server (Crystal DBA) is the most capable/most-referenced replacement, adding index tuning and EXPLAIN-plan analysis. Use --access-mode=restricted for read-only/production use. Docker image also available (crystaldba/postgres-mcp). Catalog ships --access-mode=restricted (read-only); switch to unrestricted yourself if you want writes.",
+      "last_release": "2025-05-16"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "n8n",
+      "display": "n8n",
+      "description": "Build, validate, and deploy n8n workflows with full node documentation for the AI.",
+      "category": "infra",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-mcp",
+      "stars": 22257,
+      "official": false,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "n8n-mcp@2.63.2"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "MCP_MODE": "",
+        "N8N_API_URL": "",
+        "N8N_API_KEY": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/czlonkowski/n8n-mcp",
+      "notes": "Set MCP_MODE=stdio (required for Claude Desktop, prevents debug logs from breaking the protocol). N8N_API_URL/N8N_API_KEY are optional — without them you still get full node documentation, validation, and template search; with them you get live workflow create/update/execute against your own n8n instance. A hosted free-tier alternative exists at dashboard.n8n-mcp.com.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-09"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "notion",
+      "display": "Notion",
+      "description": "Read, search, and edit Notion pages, databases, and comments from your AI assistant.",
+      "category": "productivity",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/makenotion/notion-mcp-server",
+      "stars": 4400,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "@notionhq/notion-mcp-server@2.4.1"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "NOTION_TOKEN": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://developers.notion.com/docs/mcp",
+      "notes": "Notion is prioritizing its hosted remote MCP (OAuth, https://mcp.notion.com/mcp) and may eventually sunset this local package, but the stdio server still works today and is the simplest way to get a static config with an internal-integration token.",
+      "last_release": "2026-06-22"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "obsidian",
+      "display": "Obsidian",
+      "description": "Read, search, and edit notes in your Obsidian vault.",
+      "category": "personal",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/MarkusPfundstein/mcp-obsidian",
+      "stars": 4067,
+      "official": false,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "uvx",
+        "args": [
+          "mcp-obsidian@0.2.2"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "OBSIDIAN_API_KEY": "",
+        "OBSIDIAN_HOST": "",
+        "OBSIDIAN_PORT": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/MarkusPfundstein/mcp-obsidian",
+      "notes": "Requires the Obsidian Local REST API community plugin installed and enabled in Obsidian; copy the API key from the plugin settings. OBSIDIAN_HOST defaults to 127.0.0.1 and OBSIDIAN_PORT to 27124 if omitted.",
+      "last_release": "2025-04-01"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "brave-search",
+      "display": "Brave Search",
+      "description": "Search the web, news, images, and videos using Brave's independent search index.",
+      "category": "search",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
+      "stars": 1288,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "@brave/brave-search-mcp-server@2.0.85",
+          "--transport",
+          "stdio"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "BRAVE_API_KEY": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/brave/brave-search-mcp-server",
+      "notes": "Official Brave server; replaced the old archived modelcontextprotocol/servers brave-search entry (now in modelcontextprotocol/servers-archived). Get an API key from the Brave Search API dashboard.",
+      "last_release": "2026-06-15"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "tavily",
+      "display": "Tavily",
+      "description": "AI-optimized web search, extract, map, and crawl API built for LLM agents.",
+      "category": "search",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp",
+      "stars": 2206,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "tavily-mcp@0.2.21"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "TAVILY_API_KEY": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/tavily-ai/tavily-mcp",
+      "notes": "Tavily also offers a hosted remote MCP endpoint (mcp.tavily.com) with OAuth as an alternative to running the local npx server.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-10"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "home-assistant",
+      "display": "Home Assistant",
+      "description": "Control smart home devices, query states, and troubleshoot automations in Home Assistant.",
+      "category": "smart-home",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/voska/hass-mcp",
+      "stars": 308,
+      "official": false,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "docker",
+        "args": [
+          "run",
+          "-i",
+          "--rm",
+          "-e",
+          "HA_URL",
+          "-e",
+          "HA_TOKEN",
+          "voska/hass-mcp:0.5.0"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {
+        "HA_URL": "",
+        "HA_TOKEN": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/voska/hass-mcp",
+      "notes": "HA_URL example: http://homeassistant.local:8123 (use http://host.docker.internal:8123 if HA runs in Docker on the same machine). HA_TOKEN is a Home Assistant long-lived access token from your profile page. A more actively developed alternative is the community 'HA-MCP' integration (homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp, ~3.9k stars), but it installs inside Home Assistant itself via HACS rather than as an external stdio process, so it doesn't fit this catalog's launch-line format."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "kubernetes",
+      "display": "Kubernetes",
+      "description": "Lets Claude inspect and manage Kubernetes/OpenShift resources — pods, deployments, logs, Helm releases — using your local kubeconfig.",
+      "category": "infra",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/containers/kubernetes-mcp-server",
+      "stars": 1626,
+      "official": false,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "npx",
+        "args": [
+          "-y",
+          "kubernetes-mcp-server@0.0.64"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://github.com/containers/kubernetes-mcp-server#readme",
+      "notes": "Not an official Kubernetes SIG project, but a Go-native (no kubectl dependency) implementation maintained under the 'containers' GitHub org (Podman/Red Hat-adjacent) that's widely regarded as the most capable K8s MCP server, supporting Kubernetes and OpenShift. Uses your existing ~/.kube/config automatically; add --read-only to prevent writes.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-10"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "aws-api-mcp-server",
+      "display": "AWS API MCP Server (AWS Labs)",
+      "description": "Lets your AI assistant run AWS CLI commands to inspect and manage AWS resources across virtually every AWS service.",
+      "category": "cloud",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/awslabs/mcp",
+      "stars": 9431,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "uvx",
+        "args": [
+          "awslabs.aws-api-mcp-server@1.3.46"
+        ]
+      },
+      "placeholders": {},
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://awslabs.github.io/mcp/servers/aws-api-mcp-server",
+      "notes": "AWS credentials are NOT set in this MCP config — configure them beforehand via `aws configure` (or set AWS_API_MCP_PROFILE_NAME to pick a named profile) so boto3's standard credential chain can find them. Optional env vars: AWS_REGION (default us-east-1), READ_OPERATIONS_ONLY=true to block all mutating AWS calls. AWS notes this server is being superseded by a newer unified AWS MCP server referenced in their agent-toolkit docs.",
+      "last_release": "2026-06-25"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "grafana",
+      "display": "Grafana",
+      "description": "Query dashboards, datasources, alerts and incidents in Grafana from your AI assistant.",
+      "category": "observability",
+      "homepage": "https://github.com/grafana/mcp-grafana",
+      "stars": 3227,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "basic",
+      "config": {
+        "command": "uvx",
+        "args": [
+          "mcp-grafana@0.17.1"
+        ],
+        "env": {
+          "GRAFANA_URL": "<GRAFANA_URL>"
+        }
+      },
+      "placeholders": {
+        "<GRAFANA_URL>": "Your Grafana instance URL, e.g. http://localhost:3000 or https://yourstack.grafana.net"
+      },
+      "env_required": {
+        "GRAFANA_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_TOKEN": ""
+      },
+      "docs_url": "https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/developer-resources/mcp/",
+      "notes": "Requires Grafana 9.0+ for full functionality — datasource-related tools may not work correctly on older versions.",
+      "last_release": "2026-07-07"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "slack",
+      "display": "Slack",
+      "description": "Search Slack messages, files, and members, and send messages or manage channels from your AI assistant.",
+      "category": "communication",
+      "homepage": "https://slack.com/help/articles/48855576908307-Guide-to-the-Slack-MCP-server",
+      "stars": null,
+      "official": true,
+      "setup": "link-only",
+      "env_required": {},
+      "docs_url": "https://docs.slack.dev/changelog/2026/02/17/slack-mcp/",
+      "notes": "Slack's own MCP server went GA Feb 17, 2026 (streamable HTTP at https://mcp.slack.com/mcp, OAuth). No stdio one-liner is published because it's a hosted, permissioned connector. A well-known community alternative, korotovsky/slack-mcp-server (~1.6k GitHub stars, MIT, not an official Slack product), supports stdio/SSE/HTTP with bot or browser-session tokens and no app-install requirement if a stdio option is preferred."
+    }
+  ]
+}

pyproject.toml

@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 [project]
 name = "better-claude-config"
-version = "1.2.0"
+version = "1.3.0"
 description = "Cross-platform GUI for editing the mcpServers block of Claude Desktop and Claude Code configs"
 readme = "README.md"
 license = { file = "LICENSE" }
 requires-python = ">=3.10"
 dependencies = [
     "PySide6>=6.6",
+    "cryptography>=42.0",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]