fix(harness): fall back to USERPROFILE when HOME is unset on Windows

[ziyaad-mallick]

PowerShell and cmd.exe don't set HOME. Two launch paths stop at HOME and
so do nothing useful from a native Windows shell:

• wally openclaw -m <model> fails. OpenClawStateDirectory()
  (src/harness/agents.cpp) checks OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR, OPENCLAW_HOME, then
  HOME, and otherwise returns empty, so the launch exits 1 with
  could not work out where openclaw keeps its state. OpenClaw's own default is
  ~/.openclaw via Node's home directory, which on Windows falls back to
  USERPROFILE when HOME is unset.
• wally claude-code -m <model> starts without the user's context.
  PrepareClaudeConfigDir() (src/commands/cmd_editors.cpp) reads HOME to
  find the real ~/.claude. With HOME unset the private CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR is
  created but never seeded, so their settings, CLAUDE.md, agents, skills and
  MCP config are all missing from the session.

Change

Both functions fall back to USERPROFILE under #if defined(_WIN32), after the
HOME check, following the APPDATA / LOCALAPPDATA / USERPROFILE idiom
already in CommonInstallDirs() (src/harness/harness.cpp). HOME still wins
when set (Git Bash / MSYS2), and nothing changes off Windows. +12 lines, no new
includes.

Tested

Windows 11 Pro x64, MinGW-w64 g++ 15.2.0. Full ctest was not run: the
build needs the pinned SDK kit, which is not on this machine. Instead, the
env-resolution code of both functions was extracted verbatim from main and
from this branch into two throwaway harnesses that print the two home-derived
paths (OpenClawStateDirectory(), and the og_dir that
PrepareClaudeConfigDir() seeds from). Run from PowerShell:

=== HOME unset (PowerShell / cmd.exe)
-- before (main 02d8d06)
openclaw=[]
claude=[]
-- after (30fd189)
openclaw=[C:\Users\<user>\.openclaw]
claude=[C:\Users\<user>\.claude]
=== HOME=C:\msys-home (Git Bash)
-- before
openclaw=[C:\msys-home\.openclaw]
claude=[C:\msys-home\.claude]
-- after
openclaw=[C:\msys-home\.openclaw]
claude=[C:\msys-home\.claude]

No unit test is added. Both functions sit in an anonymous namespace
(agents.cpp, cmd_editors.cpp), so the test binaries can't reach them, and
PrepareClaudeConfigDir also creates and seeds a real directory. I didn't want
to widen either one's surface just for this. Happy to add a test if you'd like
them exposed.

UNVERIFIED:

• MSVC build and the CI Windows jobs (no MSVC or SDK kit here);
• a real wally openclaw / wally claude-code launch from PowerShell end to end;
• that openclaw then finds its existing state at %USERPROFILE%\.openclaw
  (this rests on Node's os.homedir() behaviour, not on a run).

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Summary by cubic

Fixes Windows launch paths that relied on HOME, which PowerShell and cmd.exe leave unset. Both functions now fall back to USERPROFILE on Windows, so wally openclaw can find its state directory and wally claude-code can seed the user's ~/.claude config. HOME still takes precedence when set, and nothing changes off Windows.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved Windows support when the HOME environment variable is unavailable.
  • Claude configuration files are now located using the Windows user profile directory as a fallback.
  • The application state directory now correctly resolves under the Windows user profile in PowerShell and Command Prompt.

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The change adds Windows fallbacks from HOME to USERPROFILE for Claude configuration and OpenClaw state directory resolution.

Changes

Windows path fallbacks

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Windows USERPROFILE fallback src/commands/cmd_editors.cpp, src/harness/agents.cpp	Claude configuration uses USERPROFILE when HOME is unavailable. OpenClaw state resolution uses %USERPROFILE%\.openclaw when its other directory variables are unset.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: siddhesh2377

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7f2b3

Reject empty USERPROFILE values before locating Claude configuration to avoid using the wrong directory.

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In `@src/commands/cmd_editors.cpp`:
- Around line 205-206: Update the fallback logic in the home-directory
resolution block to accept USERPROFILE only when its value is non-null and
non-empty. Ensure home is validated as non-empty before constructing the .claude
and .claude.json paths, preventing empty USERPROFILE from resolving paths
relative to the current working directory.

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Reject an empty USERPROFILE value before using it.

When HOME is unset and USERPROFILE is present but empty, this assignment stores a non-null empty string in home. The later checks then resolve .claude and .claude.json relative to the current working directory. Accept USERPROFILE only when *profile != 0, or validate home as non-empty before constructing the paths.

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In `@src/commands/cmd_editors.cpp` around lines 205 - 206, Update the fallback
logic in the home-directory resolution block to accept USERPROFILE only when its
value is non-null and non-empty. Ensure home is validated as non-empty before
constructing the .claude and .claude.json paths, preventing empty USERPROFILE
from resolving paths relative to the current working directory.

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