Imported glb appears twice when the scene is run via command palette

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Godot Version

4.6.2

Question

I’m making an editor tool that I want to run through the command palette. When I run the scene via F6 everything works as expect and it looks like this:

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However, when I launch it via the command palette the character scene shows up twice. One of them acts as expect and plays the animation. The other always runs the Idle animation.

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The character is an imported GLB that I dragged into my scene and marked as ‘Editable Children’ so that I could add a bone attachment and animation tree. I have not changed the hierarchy of the imported GLB scene nor changed any of its node names. This is the scene tree:

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To launch the tool from the command palette I have an EditorScript that creates a new window, instantiates the PackedScene, and adds the packed scene as a child of the window. I don’t think this script is relevant, but just in case here it is:

@tool
class_name WeaponProfileEditor extends EditorScript

var _window : Window
var _editor := preload("uid://dacagvr232tuw") # weapon_profile_builder.tscn

# Called when the script is executed (using File -> Run in Script Editor).
func _run() -> void:
	_window = Window.new()
	EditorInterface.popup_dialog(_window, Rect2(Vector2.ZERO, Vector2(1920, 1080)))
	_window.close_requested.connect(func() -> void: _window.queue_free())
	var editor := _editor.instantiate()
	_window.add_child(editor)

Everything other than the duplicated GLB is functioning as expected. I’m not sure if this is a bug in Godot, or if I’m missing something.

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I threw a quick test scene together that is just the glb and a camera. When I launch it through the command palette I get the same result. It even happens if the glb isn’t marked as ‘Editable Children’ I’m leaning toward this being a bug in the engine.

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Ok, so it would seem that the command palette runs scripts as part of whatever scene is currently selected in the editor. That is why I was seeing a duplicate 3d model. This is what it looks like if I run my tool via command palette while my test level scene tab is selected in the editor.

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So, maybe the thing to do it not use the command palette and figure out how to add a tab or something to editor to run my tool in.

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Updating in case this helps someone in the future.

I ultimately ended up hiding the current editor scene root when I start the plugin and then restore it when I close the plugin window.

var scene_root : Node
func _show() -> void:
	scene_root = get_editor_interface().get_edited_scene_root()
	if scene_root:
		scene_root.visible = false
	if _window:
		get_tree()
		_window.popup_centered()


func _hide() -> void:
	if scene_root:
		scene_root.visible = true
	_window.hide()