diff --git a/compute/core/src/platform/docstore.ts b/compute/core/src/platform/docstore.ts
index 7d7dd6b..6681f37 100644
--- a/compute/core/src/platform/docstore.ts
+++ b/compute/core/src/platform/docstore.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,24 @@
+import fs from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
 
-export const DOCSTORE_DIR = path.join(process.cwd(), 'docstore');
+function findMonorepoRoot(startDir: string): string | null {
+  let current = path.resolve(startDir);
+  for (;;) {
+    const marker = path.join(current, 'pnpm-workspace.yaml');
+    if (fs.existsSync(marker)) return current;
+    const parent = path.dirname(current);
+    if (parent === current) return null;
+    current = parent;
+  }
+}
+
+function resolveDocstoreDir(): string {
+  const repoRoot = findMonorepoRoot(process.cwd());
+  if (repoRoot) return path.join(repoRoot, 'docstore');
+  return path.join(process.cwd(), 'docstore');
+}
+
+export const DOCSTORE_DIR = resolveDocstoreDir();
 
 export function getDocstoreDir(): string {
   return DOCSTORE_DIR;
diff --git a/scripts/openreader-entrypoint.mjs b/scripts/openreader-entrypoint.mjs
index f21feb7..9223bf6 100644
--- a/scripts/openreader-entrypoint.mjs
+++ b/scripts/openreader-entrypoint.mjs
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ async function main() {
     shutdownPromise = (async () => {
       await Promise.all([
         terminateChild(appProc, signal, 4000),
-        terminateChild(workerProc, 'SIGTERM', 4000, true),
+        terminateChild(workerProc, 'SIGTERM', 4000),
         terminateChild(natsProc, 'SIGTERM', 4000),
         terminateChild(weedProc, 'SIGTERM', 4000),
       ]);
@@ -397,7 +397,12 @@ async function main() {
       const waitTimeout = Number.isFinite(waitSec) ? waitSec : 20;
       const launchWeed = (endpointUrl) => {
         const parsedEndpoint = parseS3Endpoint(endpointUrl);
-        const weedArgs = ['mini', `-dir=${runtimeEnv.WEED_MINI_DIR}`];
+        const weedArgs = [
+          '-alsologtostderr=false',
+          '-stderrthreshold=WARNING',
+          'mini',
+          `-dir=${runtimeEnv.WEED_MINI_DIR}`,
+        ];
         weedArgs.push(`-s3.port=${parsedEndpoint.port}`);
         if (runningInDocker) {
           weedArgs.push('-ip.bind=0.0.0.0');
@@ -512,7 +517,6 @@ async function main() {
           env: workerEnv,
           stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
           shell: process.platform === 'win32',
-          detached: process.platform !== 'win32',
         },
       );
       stopWorkerStdoutForward = forwardChildStream(workerProc.stdout, process.stdout);