freeze installs: bun resolves from the lockfile or fails

bunfig.toml sets [install] frozenLockfile = true, so `bun install` resolves from
bun.lock and nothing else — it fails rather than quietly picking up a newer
version, including a transitive one nobody chose.

Config rather than a documented habit, because a supply-chain compromise does not
wait for the one time somebody forgets a flag. On 2026-08-04 eleven cache
packages — keyv, flat-cache, file-entry-cache, cacheable-request, cache-manager,
the @cacheable/* scope and ecto — were published with a preinstall dropper that
harvested npm and GitHub tokens, AWS and Kubernetes credentials, SSH and PEM
keys, .env files and .claude/settings.json, then republished itself through any
npm token it found, reaching 434 further packages across 1381 versions. This
machine was unaffected only because nothing had installed since 2026-08-02.

Verified on bun 1.3.10 rather than assumed, and the first result was wrong: with
NO lockfile present, neither the flag nor the config refuses — bun simply creates
one, so an initial test made the setting look ignored. Against a lockfile that no
longer satisfies package.json, both exit 1 with "lockfile had changes, but
lockfile is frozen". The config is honoured; the earlier reading was a bad test.
`bun install` in this repo still reports 1058 installs, no changes.

Applied to monorepo-mobile too, where flat-cache, file-entry-cache and keyv are
present as eslint/got transitive deps — at versions old enough to be unaffected,
which was luck rather than design.

Documented in platform/CLAUDE.md and the workspace root, including the part that
matters most: do NOT add --no-frozen-lockfile to a script, a Dockerfile or CI to
make the error go away. The error means the lockfile and package.json disagree,
and an unexplained lockfile change in a diff is precisely the signal this exists
to produce.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sidecar control is PM2, not npm scripts: `pm2 restart officer-<name>`, `pm2 logs officer-<name>`.
See `docs/working-on-officer.md` for which process a given change needs restarted.
### Installs are frozen. Never resolve a dependency you did not ask for.
`bunfig.toml` sets `[install] frozenLockfile = true`, so **`bun install` resolves from `bun.lock` and
nothing else** — it fails rather than quietly picking up a newer version, including a transitive one
nobody chose. Verified on bun 1.3.10: a lockfile that no longer satisfies `package.json` exits 1 with
`error: lockfile had changes, but lockfile is frozen`.
It is config rather than a habit because a supply-chain compromise does not wait for the one time
somebody forgets a flag. On **2026-08-04** eleven cache packages — `keyv`, `flat-cache`,
`file-entry-cache`, `cacheable-request`, `cache-manager`, the `@cacheable/*` scope, `ecto` — were
published with a `preinstall` dropper that harvested npm and GitHub tokens, AWS and Kubernetes
credentials, SSH and PEM keys, `.env` files and `.claude/settings.json`, then republished itself
through any npm token it found. It reached 434 further packages across 1,381 versions. This machine was
unaffected only because nothing had installed since 2026-08-02.
**To change a dependency:** edit `package.json`, run `bun install --no-frozen-lockfile` deliberately,
**read the lockfile diff**, and commit it. The friction is the point — an unexplained lockfile change
in a diff is the signal this exists to produce.
**Do not** add `--no-frozen-lockfile` to a script, a Dockerfile or CI to make an error go away. The
error means the lockfile and `package.json` disagree, and that is worth a human look every time.
**Format your own files, not the whole dirty tree.** `bun format` globs `git diff --name-only HEAD`,
so it rewrites every uncommitted file — including work in progress that isn't yours, which then shows
up as unexplained whitespace churn in someone else's diff. Run `bunx prettier --write <paths>` on the