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Before merging:

• It waits for GitHub's checks: it touches install.sh, so a local merge gate does not stand in for them.
• It also waits for the 0.5.4 Release run: REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION 47 froze server/, which this PR changes.
• Record the correction row for v0.2.0-launcher installs (owner decision A: the bridge's notice is their path)
  before the merge; see "Left for later".

Merge-pass findings (at a86db1a), and how each was fixed

• HIGH: the updater could not see the releases the workflows publish. It took only ovis-<version>, while
  release.yml creates v<version> and beta.yml tags beta/v<version>-beta.N.
  • server/update-artifact.ts now reads all three names, plus the bare version. It tries them newest first and
    takes the first whose signed ovis-server.json verifies for that version.
  • A release that ships no schema-1 manifest is passed over: a release from before the compiled server, or a beta
    tag beta.yml made without a release. Any other failed check is an error.
  • A file:// folder is laid out as GitHub's downloads, so beta/v… is a nested folder.
  • Tests: the selector takes the exact shapes the workflows write. A check finds v1.0.1 past a manifest-less
    v1.0.2, and beta/v1.0.2-beta.3 on the beta channel only, and installs it.
  • Both tests fail with the names limited to ovis-<version> again.
• HIGH: updating a connected PC to a binary release never reported done. followOwnUpdate waited for the PC's
  current_revision to equal the offered id: a 64-hex manifest SHA-256, where the installed binary reports its
  40-hex build commit.
  • It now ends once the PC is idle on the offered revision, or on the offered version.
  • Tests:
    • server/pc-update.test.ts: a 64-hex offered id with a 40-hex current revision, and a PC still on the old
      version that is not taken for done.
    • End to end: OWN_UPDATES_AT_ONCE + 1 connected PCs, each running this updater behind a loopback server,
      updated through MachineManager.updateAll → followOwnUpdate. Each ends on 0.5.1 with its build commit, no
      update_error, and the queued PC is not blocked.
  • Both tests fail with pc-update.ts as on a86db1a.
• MEDIUM: a beta source build never moved to another beta of the same version. A build of beta/v0.6.0-beta.1
  says 0.6.0 in its package.json. The running version is now the tag its commit carries (a stable tag before a beta
  one). Test: a source build tagged beta/v1.0.1-beta.1 is offered beta/v1.0.1-beta.2, and nothing once the same
  commit is v1.0.1.
• MEDIUM: cancelling an update did not interrupt its downloads. The install's signal now reaches every download
  (combined with the 10-minute timeout), and staging stops between files. Test: a download that hangs is stopped by
  the cancel, the install ends update_cancelled, and no release-* is left.
• MEDIUM: binary updates lost their release notes. An offer's notes are now its tag's CHANGELOG.md (and
  summaries), fetched through the checkout's origin, as the tag path read them. They are kept beside the installed
  release, so the installed notes read as for a build of the sources. Test: a release tagged v1.0.1 in the origin
  shows its section in the offer and in the installed notes.
• LOW:
  • The wording pin toContain("git pull") is dropped.
  • The new supervisor test takes a port the system picks, and waits for the stand-in's own "spawned" line on stdout
    instead of polling a file.
• Not changed here:
  • The lock start-time comparison after a wall-clock step (Linux lstart).
  • Musl hosts being offered the glibc binary.
  • A PTY host that a transient failure left out.
    These are recorded as follow-ups.

Summary

Installs from source now update to the release's compiled server. This is todo 7 of the relay fleet plan, continuing #3800.

• server/update-artifact.ts (new): from the bridge release on, the updater reads releases instead of tags.
  • It takes the newest release at OVIS_RELEASES_URL (GitHub's releases, listed through its API, or a file://
    folder), under the names the workflows publish: v<version>, beta/v<version>-beta.<n> (the beta channel) or
    ovis-<version>. Any other https address is refused, because there is no list to read there.
  • Before any other file is downloaded, ovis-server.json must be signed by the committed RELEASE_PUBLIC_KEY and
    must name the version that the release's name gives. An older manifest signed with the same key and put under a
    newer name is refused (the owner's decision on downgrades).
  • The binary and the client archive are then checked against the manifest (size and SHA-256, and the archive's
    listing) and staged as <update state>/release-*. That release holds bin/ (ovis-server, dist/, the manifest
    and its signature, the PTY host where it runs) and a few lines of server/supervisor.ts that run
    bin/ovis-server supervisor. Before running anything, those lines check three things: the manifest's signature
    (by the key the release was checked with, written into the file), that the manifest names the version staged (a
    manifest of another release, signed too, is refused), and the binary's SHA-256. If a file changed after staging,
    they exit before "ready", and the launcher falls back to the checkout's own supervisor. One local-write case
    remains: the binary is hashed and then started by its path, so a writer swapping the file between the two can
    get its bytes run. That needs write access to the state folder, which can rewrite these lines anyway; the check
    guards against a change at rest.
• server/updater.ts:
  • Offers: given a source of releases (the supervisor always passes one), the updater offers only a binary release
    newer than the running version. The offer's id is the manifest's SHA-256.
  • Installs: the updater stages the release through the path above. It never builds from source in that case, and
    neither does the compiled server (finding (b) of build(server): a compiled multi-call server binary #3720).
  • Records: current.json keeps the shape every launcher reads (directory, source_revision), plus
    "distribution": "binary", version and build_revision.
  • What pages are told: the release's id stays the manifest's SHA-256 in offers, installs and current.json.
    But current_revision (and OVIS_REVISION) is the commit the release's client was built from, read from its
    dist/build.json. That is the value a page compares with its own build (src/lib/updateNotes.ts), so the
    "App updated, reload" line goes away after one reload, as after any update. A check that finds nothing newer than
    the running release names it the same way as latest_revision. So the "Ovis was updated to v…" line keeps
    showing for its week (announcesUpdate), and no offer appears where there is none (notesOffer). A newer release
    is still offered by its manifest's id.
  • Compiled server: it claims only the binary release it was started from. It re-checks that release from
    inside (signature, version, binary hash) and never claims a build of the sources (finding (c)). That inner check
    runs only after the binary has started, so the release's server/supervisor.ts checks first (above).
• server/supervisor.ts:
  • A binary release's bridge runs that release's own binary, with OVIS_ASSETS set to its bin/ and without
    BUN_BE_BUN.
  • The compiled server no longer runs the Bun-only Rust PTY host fetch.
  • A stop that comes while the first health check of an installed release is still waiting no longer deletes
    current.json. Before this fix, a restart right after an update started the source checkout again. A test covers
    it ("keeps an installed release's record when Ovis is stopped while that release still starts"), and it fails
    with the fix reverted.
  • runSupervisor(root, { fromTags: true }) keeps the updater from before the bridge, for tests only.
• server/managed.ts: runManaged(root, own) lets a test name the checkout's own supervisor. Launcher behaviour
  is unchanged.
• scripts/server-install.ts:
  • The verified download is split into signedManifest and fetchRelease, so the installer and the updater share
    one checked path.
  • The install lock is now claimed by its pid file created with wx (EEXIST means held), as install.sh and
    install.ps1 already claim it. The lock also records the holder's start time (ps -o lstart), so a reused pid no
    longer holds a stale lock for 600 s.
  • A stale lock is removed only while it still holds the record that was judged stale.
  • The prune keeps any release that a running process was started from, or still holds a file of: /proc/*/exe on
    Linux, lsof +D <release> on macOS. ps gives the path a server was started by, through bin's link, and
    after the next install that link names another release.
• install.sh:
  • The manifest probe takes only a missing manifest (HTTP 404, or curl 37 for file://) as "no compiled server".
    403, 410, 500 and every other error now fail, as in scripts/server-install.ts.
  • The lock records and checks the holder's start time.
• server/update-api.ts: a bridge that the launcher of 0.2.0 started itself now says what helps, as status and
  as the install answer: "This Ovis runs under the launcher of version 0.2.0, which installs no further update. To move on, run:
  git -C '' pull --ff-only origin main (or, for the herdr plugin: herdr plugin update devswha.ovis). Then
  restart Ovis: herdr's Stop Ovis, then Start Ovis (or stop it and run bun run start in '')." Here
  is the checkout, read from the release clone's reflog ("clone: from "), single-quoted as one literal shell word
  (each ' written as '''), so a pasted folder whose name holds $(…), a backtick or a quote runs nothing else; where that cannot be told, it shows
  'YOUR-OVIS-FOLDER' instead, also quoted, so pasted unchanged it is just a folder name that does not exist. The changelog fragment carries the same commands That
  launcher is its own supervisor and hands down no source root. The old answer, "Restart the app", restarts the same
  launcher.
• Docs and changelog: docs/development.md has a new section, "Updates from a source checkout to the binary",
  and there is a changelog fragment.

Why

Every install from before has to reach the compiled server through the update it already runs (GAP-18). Old launchers
cannot be replaced while they run. They start <release>/server/supervisor.ts with their own Bun, and only when
current.json names the checkout's revision. So the binary release carries that file, and nothing in the checkout or
the app's state changes. The checkout also stays, so the launcher can fall back to it.

What to read first

1. server/update-artifact.ts
2. The binary branch in Updater.request and initializeCompiled in server/updater.ts
3. launch() in server/supervisor.ts
4. The tests: server/update-artifact.test.ts starts every launcher generation since 64f6c56, from a checkout of
   its own commit. The last three tests of server/updater.test.ts go end to end through the real launcher and
   POST /api/updates/install.

The bridge release (for the merge pass: no tag is pushed here)

This PR waits for the Release run of 0.5.4. The release freeze is on, and 0.5.4 goes out without this change.

1. After the 0.5.4 Release run, merge this PR.
2. Cut the bridge the usual way: a release PR that bumps to the next version (for example 0.5.5), then
   Release → Run workflow with that version. This makes the v0.5.5 tag on a commit of main that still holds the
   full source tree. Every install from before builds it as it always did, from v* tags.
3. From then on, releases are made as today: release.yml's v<version> release, with its signed
   ovis-server.json, is what bridge installs install as the compiled server. No workflow change is needed for stable.
   A beta reaches beta-channel installs only once beta.yml publishes its beta/v<version>-beta.N tag as a
   (pre-)release with a signed manifest; until then the beta channel takes the stable releases.
4. Decide before todo 57's export what v0.2.0-launcher installs get beyond the new notice (see "left for later").

Left for later (not in this PR)

• Beta releases with a manifest: beta.yml makes only a tag, with no release and no signed manifest. Beta-channel
  installs on the compiled server take stable releases until it publishes one.
• In-app updates of an install.sh / install.ps1 binary install and of a herdr plugin's compiled server: Settings
  keeps todo 6's advice (run the installer again, or herdr plugin update devswha.ovis). This needs a restart path for
  a launcher that is itself the old binary.
• Stopping a running ovis-server.exe before the Windows plugin swap, and the lock's start time in install.ps1:
  Windows-only, not verified here.
• The launcher of v0.2.0 (c85ba84's launcher; 1007c30 was never tagged, and v0.1.0 has no managed updates) is
  its own supervisor. It runs only an installed release's server/index.ts, and its updater follows v* tags. Real
  run: it built and ran the bridge (a v0.5.5 tag on this branch in a scratch origin), then offered nothing.
  Its bridge now tells the user to update the checkout. After that (git pull on main, or herdr plugin update, then a
  restart), the checkout's new launcher crosses as tested. An in-app crossing for these installs needs the owner's
  decision (correction row proposed in the DoneClaim).
• Release listing rate: the updater lists releases through GitHub's unauthenticated API, once per check (12 an hour
  per install). Five or more installs behind one address can reach the 60-an-hour limit, and a check then fails
  with HTTP 403; an install never goes wrong because of it. A conditional request, or the releases/latest redirect
  for stable, is a follow-up.

Validation

Independent verification, three rounds by a gate reviewer. All runs were its own: scratch worktrees, isolated herdr
sessions and HOMEs, real compiled linux-x64 binaries in file:// releases signed with a test key, eamac and the
Windows VM.

• Round 1 (928a28b): needs fixes.
  • Every verify-before-use attack was refused before anything was staged, with the install byte-identical: wrong key,
    an older manifest under a newer name, flipped/truncated/larger binaries, archive escapes and links, http mirrors
    and redirects, a manifest swapped between check and install, two installs at once.
  • The crossing worked with a real binary from five launcher generations, through plugin.ts/plugin.ps1
    stop/start, kill -9 at each step, and on to a second binary update.
  • Four blockers:
    • B1: a permanent "App updated, reload" notice;
    • B2: the macOS prune;
    • B3: no test for the supervisor fix;
    • B4: the pre-64f6c56ab launchers.
  • Two smaller items:
    • S1: the shim ran a binary changed after staging;
    • S2: a Windows file:// URL in a test.
• Round 2 (f064dcb): B1–B4, S1 and S2 confirmed fixed, on the real crossing in headless Chromium, on eamac (29
  pass three times), in the Windows VM, and under the real v0.2.0 launcher. The B4 premise was corrected: v0.2.0
  follows tags. One new defect, B1b: the "Ovis was updated" line went after the first check.
• Round 3 (a86db1a): confirmed, no fixes required.
  • B1b: after the timer's check and a check by hand, notesOffer is null and announcesUpdate is true, and
    "Ovis was updated to v0.5.90." survives two reloads.
  • A newer release (0.5.91) is still offered by its manifest id.
  • A signed manifest of another version is refused by the shim, the launcher falls back and the install stays
    managed.
  • Mutations killed, typecheck clean.

GitHub's checks run only after the orchestrator's publisher opens this pull request. The three required checks are Fast
checks, Integration and browser, and Native Windows install. This is what ran in their place, on f064dcb (the second
commit):

• Placeholder round (9e7e49e): bun run check fast exit 0, unit tests 17179 pass, 0 fail. The paste test also
  runs the fallback command unchanged: git gets one word, and no file is written or read. It fails with the old
  unquoted <…> placeholder.
• Quoting round (07d9eee): bun run check fast exit 0, unit tests 17179 pass, 0 fail. A test pastes the
  command for a folder holding ', ", $(…) and a backtick into sh -c with a stand-in git: git gets exactly that
  folder and nothing else runs. The test fails with the old double quotes.
• 0.2.0 notice round (e47017b): bun run check fast exit 0, unit tests 17178 pass, 0 fail; update-api,
  update-ipc, changelog-fold and conventions 48 pass. The test fails if the checkout cannot be read from the reflog.
• Merge-pass round (a24fdac):
  • bun run check fast before the push: exit 0. Unit tests 17178 pass, 0 fail, 54 skip; typecheck, build and
    generated files ok.
  • server/update-artifact.test.ts: 26 pass. scripts/server-install.test.ts: 29 pass. server/updater.test.ts: 60
    pass.
  • scripts/install-binary.test.ts: 31 pass, 3 fail, each a 5 s timeout at load average ~50. install.sh and
    that test are unchanged since a86db1a, which fails the same window test there at the same load.
  • Every new test fails against its mutation (see "Merge-pass findings").
• Before the push (bun run check fast on a86db1a, which merges cleanly with origin/main 15b325e): workflow
  syntax, generated files, typecheck and build ok. Unit tests 17171 pass, 1 fail, 54 skip.
  • The failure is server/seen.test.ts "drops the oldest records past the limit" (a timeout at load average ~55-62).
  • The same file, run alone on origin/main 15b325e on this PC, fails the same test (40.8 s). This PR does not touch
    server/seen.ts or its test.
• Third commit (a86db1a), which names the running release by its build commit after a check and checks the
  staged version in the release's server/supervisor.ts:
  • bun run check fast locally: exit 0, unit tests 17172 pass, 0 fail, 54 skip; typecheck, build and generated files
    ok.
  • update-artifact, server-install, update-api, update-ipc, conventions and updater-plugin-binary: 90 pass, 0 fail.
  • server/updater.test.ts: 59 pass, 1 fail. The failure is "cancels an install while it builds", a 5 s timeout at load
    average ~50; it passes alone twice, in 0.4 s and 0.2 s.
  • The new test fails against the second commit's server/updater.ts, and removing the shim's version check makes
    its test fail.
• Second commit (f064dcb), fast checks:
  • Locally, bun run check fast on f064dcb: exit 0. Unit tests 17172 pass, 0 fail, 54 skip; typecheck, build and
    generated files ok.
  • On a cloud VM (vm-run devswha/ovis HEAD --toolchain ovis -- 'bun install --frozen-lockfile && bun run check fast'): unit tests 17158 pass, 2 fail, 66 skip; everything else ok. The fails are server/copilot.test.ts "keeps
    a logged binding when only the log's timestamps change", the known VM kernel failure (3 of 3 rounds on origin/main
    de70497 on a VM), and one turn-bounded wait in src/lib/relay/shell.test.tsx, which this PR does not touch; it
    passed on main's VM rounds and in the local run above.
• Integration (at 928a28b): 1428 pass, 5 fail, 41 skip. The failing files (copilot.contract, reattach.contract,
  phone-setup.contract, account.contract) give the same result alone on origin/main and on the branch, and the
  independent verifier's run agreed. The second commit changes no integration file.
• This PR's tests, on the final commit:
  • update-artifact, server-install, update-api, update-ipc, conventions, install-binary, install-star and
    updater-plugin-binary together: 166 pass, 0 fail.
  • server/updater.test.ts: 60 pass, 0 fail.
• macOS (ssh eamac, macOS 27.0.1, fresh /tmp clone of a git bundle, removed): bun test scripts/server-install.test.ts gives 29 pass, 0 fail, three runs in a row. The prune test failed there at 928a28b
  (ps paths) and with a first fix (the real path of what ps prints); it passes with lsof.
• Windows (the Windows 11 VM's desktop session through Invoke-InSession.ps1, a %TEMP% clone of a git bundle,
  removed): bun test server/update-artifact.test.ts gives 4 pass, 0 fail, 17 skip (the skipped tests use shell
  stand-ins). The independent verifier's VM run of 928a28b showed the crossing and plugin.ps1 stop/start working;
  /api/health was not shown there, for lack of herdr.
• QA with a real compiled binary (scratch clone pinned to a test key; file:// release; isolated herdr session; a
  fresh port per run, and no process left between runs):
  • POST /api/updates/install moves 0.5.3 to 0.5.90. /api/health reports version 0.5.90 and, as revision, the
    client's build commit, which /api/updates also gives as current_revision. served_revision is null.
  • In headless Chromium, the page of version N, not reloaded, shows "App updated". After one reload it is connected
    and shows no notice for the next 5 s, and none after a second reload.
  • With one byte of the staged binary changed, plugin.ts stop/start from the checkout serves 0.5.3 again (managed):
    the release's server/supervisor.ts refused it.
• Mutations: all 11 from the first commit killed, and the 4 added for the second commit killed too: the supervisor
  fix reverted, the shim's hash check removed, the manifest id reported to pages, and the 0.2.0-launcher notice removed.
• Not run: the browser CI lanes (nothing under src/ changed).

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• New Features
  • Source-based installations can update to compiled server releases without changing the source checkout or application state.
  • Updates verify signed release information and downloaded files before installation; failed verification prevents installation.
  • Running servers keep their release available until they stop.
• Bug Fixes
  • Install locks now detect reused process IDs, reducing stale-lock delays.
  • Interrupted update startup preserves the installed update for the next start.
  • Older managed launchers receive a clear unavailable-update status.
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  • Added guidance on source-to-binary updates and the transition to versioned releases.

The updater now supports signed compiled-server releases from source checkouts. Installer lock handling and release retention account for process identity and running binaries. Supervisor launch, shutdown, and update-status behavior also support the source-to-binary transition.

Changes: Compiled Release Updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Installer selection, locks, and release retention install.sh, scripts/server-install.ts, scripts/server-install.test.ts, scripts/install-binary.test.ts, scripts/install-star.test.ts, changelog.d/updates-move-to-binary.md	The installer selects source installation only when a release manifest is missing. Lock handling records holder start times and checks for reused PIDs. Release pruning keeps folders reported as in use.
Signed release discovery and installation server/update-artifact.ts, server/update-artifact.test.ts, server/updater.ts, scripts/server-install.ts, docs/development.md, scripts/conventions.test.ts	The updater discovers and validates signed releases, stages their assets, and tracks binary release versions and client build revisions. Tests cover selection, validation, installation, and state preservation.
Supervisor handoff and launcher compatibility server/supervisor.ts, server/managed.ts, server/update-api.ts, server/update-api.test.ts, server/updater.test.ts	The supervisor launches staged binaries and reports release identity. Interrupted startup preserves the installed release. Managed servers without source-root variables receive an old-launcher status and install response.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: vincrichard

Merge Risk: Low · previous review a86db

Cancelling an update while the release files are downloading does not stop the downloads. The updater can stay busy for several minutes and block a retry. The migration docs also overpromise automatic migration for the two oldest launchers. Neither is likely to cause data loss, but the cancellation behaviour is worth fixing before merge.

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Independent verification (three rounds), head a86db1a: approved.

Round 1 (928a28b): every verify-before-use attack (wrong key, a signed downgrade, another version, a truncated/larger/flipped binary, escaping paths, an http mirror or redirect, a manifest swapped between check and install, corruption after the check or during the read, concurrent installs) was refused before staging, with the install byte-identical; the crossing worked with a real compiled binary from five launcher generations, through plugin.ts/plugin.ps1 stop/start, kill -9 at every step and a second binary update. Found then and fixed since: the permanent 'App updated' notice (pages now get the client's build commit), the macOS prune (lsof; 29/0 three times on the test Mac), an untested supervisor fix (the test now fails with it reverted), the v0.2.0 launcher (it follows v* tags; under the real v0.2.0 launcher the bridge now tells the user to update the checkout, as status and as the 409 install answer), a staged binary changed at rest (the shim checks the signature, the staged version and the SHA-256, exits before ready, and the launcher falls back and stays managed, under old launchers too), and the Windows file:// test URL.

Round 3: 'Ovis was updated to vX' survives the compiled supervisor's checks and reloads, notesOffer is null, and a newer release is still offered by its manifest id; the shim refuses a validly signed manifest of another version.

Documented, not fixed: a writer able to change the state folder can swap the binary between its hash and its start (4/40 in a race test); the same writer could rewrite the shim.

Merge pass: this waits for GitHub's checks (install.sh) and for the 0.5.4 Release run (the REMOTE_BUNDLE_VERSION 47 freeze); macOS CI does not run scripts/server-install.test.ts (run on the test Mac here); the v0.2.0-launcher correction row (owner decision A) should be recorded before merging.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/development.md:
- Around line 955-956: Clarify the release-transition guidance so the first
`ovis-<version>` release applies only to installs whose launcher is from commit
`64f6c56ab` or later. State that installs from the two earlier launcher
generations, including Ovis 0.2.0, must update their checkout before reaching
the compiled server, and include the documented checkout-update options and
restart requirement. Preserve the existing guidance for all other installs and
the note that no `v*` or `beta/*` tags will be made afterward.

Review comments at @server/update-artifact.ts:
- Line 160: Update the fetchRelease call and its download path to propagate the
updater’s cancellation signal through fetchRelease, checked, and download.
Combine cancellation with each request’s existing timeout and check for
cancellation between files so downloads stop promptly without weakening timeout
behavior.

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• changelog.d/updates-move-to-binary.md
• docs/development.md
• install.sh
• scripts/conventions.test.ts
• scripts/install-binary.test.ts
• scripts/install-star.test.ts
• scripts/server-install.test.ts
• scripts/server-install.ts
• server/managed.ts
• server/supervisor.ts
• server/update-api.test.ts
• server/update-api.ts
• server/update-artifact.test.ts
• server/update-artifact.ts
• server/updater.test.ts
• server/updater.ts

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[devswha]

Merge pass review at a86db1a: Claude (Opus) BLOCK and Codex Terra BLOCK, each on a HIGH it reproduced; the merge pass reproduced Codex's itself. It stays held in any case for the lead's word (it changes what existing installs do, and touches server/ during the release freeze).

HIGH

1. The updater cannot see the releases the workflows publish (server/update-artifact.ts:45, RELEASE_NAME). latestRelease takes only names of the form ovis-<version>, but release.yml:230 tags releases v<version> and beta.yml:104 tags betas beta/v<version>-beta.N. Reproduced by the merge pass at this head: latestRelease(["v0.6.0"], "stable"), latestRelease(["0.6.0"], "stable") and latestRelease(["beta/v0.6.0-beta.2"], "beta") all return undefined. So no install would ever be offered an update. The new selector test asserts that both current naming schemes are rejected.
2. Updating a connected PC to a binary release never reports done (server/pc-update.ts:184; reproduced by the Opus reviewer with a scratch test against followOwnUpdate). The check waits for the PC's current_revision to equal the offered id; a binary release is offered under its manifest's SHA-256, but once installed the PC reports its client's build commit (reportedRevision in server/updater.ts). The app shows "updating itself…" for 15 minutes, then fails, and "update all PCs" queues every other PC behind it. Also treat the update as done when the PC is idle on the offered latest_version, with a test of a 64-hex offered id and a 40-hex current one.

MEDIUM: a beta source build cannot move to another beta of the same version (Codex: newerVersion("0.6.0-beta.2", "0.6.0") is false); cancelling an update does not interrupt its downloads (Codex, reproduced); binary updates lose their release notes, in the offer and after the install (Claude, read).

LOW (Claude, read): the install lock's start-time check can judge a live holder stale after a wall-clock step on Linux; a musl (Alpine) host is offered a glibc binary that cannot start; a new test pins wording (toContain("git pull")); a new supervisor test uses a fixed port and a polling loop.

The four related test files pass at this head (96). Reports: ~/.cache/ovis-tmp/reports/pr-3823-a86db1a6-*.report.md.

[devswha]

Verification of a24fdac (merge-pass fixes), on the verifier's own runs: approve.

Fixtures built as the real workflows publish them: tags v0.5.90 and beta/v0.5.91-beta.1/-beta.2 with real compiled binaries and clients, plus releases without a compiled server.

1. Offers. A source install on stable gets v0.5.90 by its manifest id, passing over a newer release with no manifest; on the beta channel it gets beta.1; a source build of beta.1 gets beta.2; a binary install gets a newer v release by its id and not a signed older one; a newer release that is badly signed, signed by another key or carries an older manifest is an error, never a fallback. Against real GitHub (read only), v0.5.3 and earlier are skipped cleanly; beta tags are not releases, so the beta channel takes stable releases until beta.yml publishes betas with a signed manifest.
2. Connected PCs. The real MachineManager and its API with six real Ovis installs (only the SSH connection stood in): one PC through /api/machines/:id/update was done in 8.1 s; Update all on five PCs started four and queued one, all five were done by 16.6 s, no errors, offers cleared. The same run with the old pc-update.ts never reports done.
3. Beta to beta works for source and binary installs; cancel ends a hanging download 1 ms after it is asked, with nothing staged; release notes show before and after a stable binary install.
4. Signature, version, downgrade and the shim's checks still hold. typecheck clean, check fast green (17178/0), touched tests green apart from a load timeout in an unchanged test.

Non-blocking: after a beta binary install the installed notes are empty (brought() passes '0.5.91-beta.N' to the X.Y.Z-only parser); unreachable until beta.yml publishes beta releases.

For the merge pass: this waits for GitHub's checks and the 0.5.4 Release run; record the v0.2.0 correction row; and before todo 57's export the public repository must stop making v* tags (its releases ovis-), or pre-bridge installs are stranded.

[devswha]

Merge pass review at a24fdac: Claude (Opus) BLOCK, Codex Terra CLEAR. The two HIGHs of the first head are closed: the merge pass re-ran its own reproduction (the updater now finds v0.6.0 as stable and beta/v0.6.1-beta.2 as beta; stable skips the beta), and the PC update now ends on its version. It stays held in any case: it waits for the lead's word after the 0.5.4 Release run.

HIGH (reproduced by the Opus reviewer; Codex traced the same as a MEDIUM): a fleet update says "done" before the PC's install has started when the offer's version is the one the PC already reports. The new end condition (the PC idle on the offered version) also holds before the install begins. With the remote()/offered() stand-ins of server/pc-update.test.ts: the PC at offered({ current_version: "0.6.0", latest_version: "0.6.0" }), its status after the install request {phase:"idle"} → {phase:"building"} → {phase:"error", error:"the download failed"}: followOwnUpdate should reject with "could not update itself" and resolves at this head; the same test passes against main's server/pc-update.ts. This is the case of a source install moving to the binary of the same version. End only after the PC has been seen leaving idle (building or restarting) or its revision changed.

MEDIUM (Codex, traced): the beta channel stops receiving server beta builds; routine update checks can exhaust the shared GitHub API limit (server/updater.ts:463, :766).

LOW (Claude): the install lock's start-time check after a wall-clock step (listed by the PR as a follow-up).

Reports: ~/.cache/ovis-tmp/reports/pr-3823-a24fdac7-*.report.md.

[devswha]

Addition to the merge pass's review above, from the Opus reviewer's final report: the concrete trigger is a source build of a beta tag, which reports its package.json version (beta/v0.6.0-beta.N says 0.6.0), being offered stable v0.6.0: followOwnUpdate returns success on its first read after the 202 while the PC is still idle. Smallest fix (server/pc-update.ts:184-188): accept the version match only once started is true.

[devswha]

Follow-up verification since the approval of a24fdac (the merge-pass fixes):

• e47017b: the notice for installs started by the v0.2.0 launcher names the exact commands (git -C pull --ff-only origin main, or herdr plugin update devswha.ovis; then restart), with the folder read from the release clone's reflog; the changelog fragment carries the same. Verified under the real v0.2.0 launcher: it names the right folder and the copied command fast-forwards that checkout.
• 07d9eee: the folder is single-quoted for a POSIX shell; 12 crafted folder names ($(...), backticks, quote break-outs, $HOME, 5000 characters) pasted into bash and sh reach git exactly and run nothing else.
• 9e7e49e: the fallback placeholder is a quoted word ('YOUR-OVIS-FOLDER'), harmless if pasted unchanged; the paste test covers it.

Decision A for v0.2.0-launcher installs is recorded (decided by the Dori lead under the owner's standing rule). This PR still waits for the 0.5.4 Release run and the lead's word.