/chat and Command HQ both pass detail.officerModel into the picker, each with a
long comment saying why. ChatPanelWrapper passed detail.model — what the API
served (claude-fable-5) rather than what the picker offers (claude-code/fable).
The server already resolves the right one, falling back to a family guess from
the transcript, so the panel was discarding a correct answer to show a raw id.
It is sent back, too. isClaudeModel is startsWith('claude-code'), so
claude-fable-5 fails it and the turn dispatches to OpenCode. The clamp that
would catch it only fires while officer still holds the session in memory,
which is exactly not the case after a restart.
This is one half of the reported "the dropdown just says claude-code". The
other half — DEFAULT_MODEL being the bare harness, every adopted session
carrying it, and record() rightly refusing to store it so nothing self-heals —
is written up in todo/known-bugs/the-model-picker-shows-the-bare-harness.md
with the fix it needs: model:resolved already carries the answer and is already
display-only on the client, but it is durable:false, so a refresh never sees it.
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Officer-Session: f7a62308-0977-4cf4-aa29-c020853fd420
Refreshing a chat lost the agent's answers: the turn folded to a seam and
printed "Turn finished · no closing message" over a turn that had plainly
answered. Reported against a commander, where it happened on most refreshes.
The durable log was innocent. A refresh renders from Claude's .jsonl, and the
harness delivers a finished background task as the agent's next user message —
a <task-notification> envelope. The parser dropped it so it would not replay as
a raw XML bubble you appear to have typed, and dropped a turn boundary with it,
because turn-rows derives turns from the message list. The woken turn merged
into the one before it, so that turn's closing prose became mid-turn work and
folded, and the merged segment ended on a tool call, which earned the marker.
Measured on the reported session: 30 messages, one user message, one fold
hiding seven answers, the marker reproduced at 21 of 30 refresh points.
The envelope now rebuilds into the same task row a live task:notification
produces, carrying startsTurn. buildRows makes that a boundary and buildTurn
exposes it as the turn's opener. Separately, the marker is withheld when a
segment ends on a tool call we never saw come back — still running, or cut off
holding it. A completed trailing tool call keeps its marker, so the test
pinning that live behaviour is unchanged.
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Officer-Session: f7a62308-0977-4cf4-aa29-c020853fd420
backburner joins TODO_STATUSES and the board's columns; the three items in the
backburner theme move onto the status, so parked is now a lane rather than a
folder you have to remember to open.
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the idea is not settled. the card exists so the history is not dug out
twice: user apps were born 2026-02-27 as a publishing system that made a
personal app a first-class workspace panel, /projects was its authoring
surface, and both went a day apart at the end of july — 1440 deletions.
the part worth knowing before rebuilding: the app registry used to be
mutable at runtime, registerApp keyed on email/slug, and the note left
where it stood argues well against it. the plugin system solved the same
problem afterwards by generating at build time, so the first question is
whether a user app is just a plugin with a different author.
nothing on disk was ever touched.
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The filesystem is the database: GET reads the tree through the same module the
index generator now imports, PATCH splices frontmatter (status, priority, due,
order) and never touches a body byte, and every write regenerates TODO.md.
Columns open/doing/blocked/done, native drag between them, selection and theme
filter in the URL. Registry entry 'todos' (kind admin, 22 entries, docs:check
green), isSuperAdmin double-gate on the router.
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Wanted 2026-08-22, for later. Before arming anything, a commander weighs how hard the job actually is and
proposes which model each half should run on.
TWO models, which is what makes it more than a generic "use something cheaper" note. A commander's own turns
are conversation plus one piece of bash; the agent its loop spawns does the real work and its difficulty is
set by the job. The deploy commander is the worked example — its own turns were unremarkable on Sonnet while
the spawned agent judged six hosts, parsed a plan, decided what to skip and wrote an honest report.
Suggested, never imposed: the failure mode of choosing too small is not a slower answer, it is a watcher
firing on the wrong condition or an agent half-finishing a deploy.
Recorded with the reason it is not urgent: nothing measures whether the choice was right. A spawned agent's
cost is not captured at all yet — the column exists and is always null — so a commander suggesting Haiku has
no way to learn it was wrong. This wants the cost work first, or at least the knowledge that until then it is
a judgement with no feedback loop.
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bun 1.4.0 was published 2026-08-20 and https://bun.sh/install serves
whatever is newest, so machine-setup provisioning a box today would put a
two-day-old release under the platform and every pm2 app except
officer-pty. The owner asked for a temporary hold on 1.3.
The SERIES is pinned, not a patch — BUN_SERIES=1.3, resolved to the newest
1.3.x at install time so bug fixes inside the series still land, and no
1.3.14 to rot into "the version we happened to pick" the way setup_22.x
did for Node. The version reaches the installer as its documented first
positional argument (a release tag), and install_bun refuses to run with
an empty one: taking whatever bun.sh serves is the single outcome the pin
exists to prevent, so no bun at all is the better failure. Loud, and
officer-setup's pre-flight already stops on a missing bun.
Resolved from the npm registry rather than GitHub's releases API, which
is the obvious source and the wrong one — 60 unauthenticated requests an
hour per IP, and it returned 504 twice while this was written. An empty
answer installs nothing, so where it comes from is load-bearing.
The section now reads four states instead of two. "Installed" was one
answer covering a machine inside the pin, one behind it, and one past it;
past it is the case worth catching, since that is what bun upgrade leaves
and nothing else reports it. Above and below get different prose and both
offer to move; nothing is corrected silently.
What a setup script cannot cover: bun upgrade takes no version argument —
latest stable or --canary, verified against its own --help — so it always
jumps past the pin without saying so. Hence the doctor check, which reads
engines.bun rather than repeating the number, because a second hardcoded
copy is a second thing to drift. bun ignores engines (verified: an install
declaring 1.9.x ran clean under 1.3.14), so the field is the declaration
and doctor is the enforcement. Confirmed bun install --dry-run still
resolves frozen with the field present and bun.lock unchanged.
This host is already on 1.3.14 and inside the pin, so nothing moved here.
Also fixes three more stale process counts in the same block.
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authorize.ts had none, and its own header is what says why that mattered: every deny path in the platform
ends there, and the failure mode of a permissive default is not a bug report, it is someone else's session.
It had none for a structural reason rather than an oversight. Every path needed two database calls, and the
only file here that mocks officerdb leaks its stub into whatever runs after it — so the obvious approach
would have traded one untested file for a flaky suite.
So the decisions are split from the fetching. resolveEffectivePermissions, decideApiRequest and
decideWsProvider are pure functions of their arguments; the async wrappers keep the role cache, the
fail-closed catches and the shape callers use. No behaviour change, and the live gate still answers 401 on
file-browser, users and tasks.
REAL registry keys throughout, deliberately: a suite built on invented permissions keeps passing after a
rename, which is the failure an authorization table can least afford. If a key here disappears this file
goes red.
Pinned beyond the happy paths — the owner carries no grants to consult; core is write unconditionally; a
confined grant is dropped without a Linux user and all three drop together; execution and admin grants in
the table are ignored even though no CHECK stops the row existing; an unknown key is ignored without
disturbing what is legitimately held; self-service is exact in method AND path; a socket needs no level; an
unauthenticated caller is refused every door.
Two gaps are stated in the file rather than left to be found: ownerOnly has no declaring permission yet, so
testing it would test the fixtures; and the grant cache's contract is a claim about call sites, not logic.
Found while writing them: readOnlyWrites paths are relative to the permission's api prefix, and getting that
wrong fails as "no permission covers this path" rather than as a level error — a misleading message for a
misleading path, now commented at the test that hit it.
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Fixing a regression I introduced last night. Commander rows in the Live list were changed to open in /chat
rather than navigating to Command HQ — right, and it cost the composer its commander controls, because
`isCommander` was computed from the ROUTE: `manager.context === 'command-hq'`. So the same commander,
rendered on a different screen, silently lost "exit and hand back, then re-arm" — the only fire behaviour a
watcher wants, and the one the dialog makes default inside a commander.
GET /chat/sessions/:id now reports isCommander, derived from the session's own cwd by the same
isCommandersDir already used by the sessions list and /chat/live. The answer travels with the conversation.
The composer reads one value, manager.isCommander, true when EITHER source says so — and both are needed.
The screen knows when Command HQ starts a commander, before a session or a transcript exists for any route
to report on. The session knows once it does, wherever it is opened. Screen-only was this bug; session-only
would have broken the brand-new composer, which is where the whole thing starts.
Verified on a real commander rather than by reading: 172cdd8c resolves cwd=…/commanders and
isCommander=true.
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assertPermissionTotality exists to refuse a surface nobody has gated, and it was reading the wrong list:
Object.keys(handlers) — the map of implementations — while Bun served a hand-written route table twenty
lines away. The comment beside it said neither could be a stale copy of the other. That was false, and it
had a live instance: /api/cliamp/ws and /api/cliamp/audio/ws stayed in the route table for two days after
their handlers and registry claims were commented out. Not exploitable — isWsProviderAllowed finds no
permission and 403s a member, while the owner upgrades onto a dead socket — but precisely the drift the
guard is for, invisible to the guard.
Now there is one declaration. WS_ROUTES maps path → provider, the route table is generated from it, and the
check reads it. A socket route cannot exist without being checked.
Two smaller guards arrived with it. A route naming a provider with no handler refuses to boot, with the path
in the message, instead of 500-ing on first connect. And the provider union that was inline in upgradeWs is
named, so the route table typechecks against what that function can actually serve — which caught my first
attempt, where WS_ROUTES was Record<string, string>.
sidecar and dev-proxy are listed explicitly as served-but-absent-from-WS_ROUTES, because they upgrade
through their own handlers rather than upgradeWs. Named so the absence cannot read as an oversight.
Half the TODO was stale and it is recorded as such rather than quietly closed: the eight red tests it cites
have been green since cliamp was deleted on 2026-08-15. Deleting cliamp removed the symptom and left the
shape, which is the more interesting half.
Verified against the real prefix lists rather than by reasoning: the served set passes, one unclaimed
provider is refused by name, all five generated routes answer 401, and the server boots.
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Third chord in a day, and each move was the owner naming a collision on the machine he actually uses:
ctrl-space is Brave's address bar, shift-space types a space, alt-space is the window menu — and he rebound
that rather than give up the chord.
Shift-space was the worst of the three and it is worth saying why, because it read as the safe choice.
It is a real key combination inside a text field: it types a space, and people hold shift through one more
often than they think while typing capitals. So it had to stand down whenever focus was in an input — which
is where focus usually is, the chat composer — and a launcher you have to click out of a field to reach is
not a launcher.
Alt-space means nothing in a text field, so the isTyping guard stops being the thing holding the feature up
and becomes belt-and-braces. Kept anyway: two lines against some layout delivering alt-space as a literal
character, which is cheap to prevent and expensive to discover.
`altKey` with `ev.code`, not `ev.key` — alt-space produces a different `key` on several layouts and nothing
at all on others, while the physical key is `Space` everywhere.
No second chord. Two triggers for one thing means two things to collide with, and this one has moved twice.
The TODO item's id still says ctrl-space. Ids are stable by design, so it stays; its body now records all
three moves and which guard was load-bearing for which.
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Closed:
- fleet/an-orchestrator-that-acts-on-every-server-at — built, and as none of the three shapes it
proposed. Not a script, not a screen, not a chat capability: an agent handed a written procedure and a
server list it has to read rather than one baked into it. All three verified facts in the item earned
their place; two things it did not anticipate are now new items.
- fleet/a-way-to-mark-a-commit-this-one-ships-so-a — built as a TAG, which the item explicitly ruled out.
The owner reversed it, and the argument that changed his mind is recorded: a codeword can be written by
accident, because every document about deploying contains it, so the trigger needs rules about where in
a subject line it sits and a rule like that is one somebody eventually gets wrong.
Opened, all from tonight and all with the evidence attached:
- a deploy verifies pm2 and not that the app serves anything — the commander raised this against itself
- the commander cannot finish its own host, so one machine is always a build behind
- the watcher loop is rewritten by an agent every arming, so its correctness is re-rolled each time
- plugins:update restarts every sidecar, so a report naming only officer understates what moved
- an agent spawned by a background job is invisible in the UI while being perfectly readable
- AskUserQuestion can fail to parse its own call
- a commander opened from /chat loses its commander controls, because isCommander comes from the screen
rather than the session
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files-app becomes url-state: the file browser is where the work happened, but where
selection lives and who clears a query string are framework questions. The panel
framework's version of the same question moves in beside them, extracted from the
deep-read item, which keeps it as one of its three questions.
Item ids changed with the theme. Done now deliberately — no board reads them yet, and
this is the last cheap moment to move one.
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TODO.md had reached 1050 lines and 72 open items across 28 sections, read mostly
on a phone. It is now a directory: todo/<theme>/<item>.md, one card per file, with
frontmatter carrying id, status, created date and order, and the prose body copied
across verbatim. TODO.md becomes a generated index (bun run todo:index).
Dates: where an item's prose stated one it is used; otherwise its old section's;
otherwise 2026-08-20, floored at the day before the split rather than invented.
date_source records which.
Shaped for a two-way Kanban board, filed as todo/tooling — a card is a file, id is
the identity, frontmatter is the machine's half and the body is the owner's.
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Added: a Spotlight-style launcher on ctrl-space with the dock pruned behind it, plus dock effects and
auto-hide; a repeating-prompt option on the background-job starter, which is the Nudger in the place
it belongs — attached to a job already running rather than a schedule pointing at a session that may
not exist, and inheriting its three refusals; and a deep read of the Workspace/Panels framework, low
priority and explicitly not pain-driven, with the existing panel items folded into it because they are
symptoms of the same unexamined design.
Closed after checking rather than assuming — five of the seven were already done and the entries
outlived the work. The whole offscale rename debt is finished: panels read "Offscale", the picker
heading is right, console session keys were renamed on 2026-08-16, and there are zero stale
/headscale paths or PLUGIN.md self-references. The one remaining mention is a form placeholder,
https://headscale.example.com, which is correct — that IS a Headscale URL. offscale declares ssh as an
osDependency. The manifest module-cache is fixed by importFresh.
example/manifest.ts named web/Router.tsx as the frontend convention; discovery wants panels.ts and
layout.ts, by those exact names, or it refuses the plugin.
One that was NOT already done, and I nearly closed it by mistake: reindex-music.ts moved into the
music plugin but still read process.env.DATA_PATH, which stopped existing on 2026-08-13. Run from the
repo it looked in platform/data/music/.server — one level too deep — and reported the sidecar as not
running. It now imports DATA_PATH from the platform, which resolves to /home/pastilhas/officer-dev/data.
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The good news survives checking. An APNs auth key belongs to the developer account, not a machine, and
a device token belongs to the app, not a server — so N installs holding the same .p8 all push to one
phone with no coordination, and the app posting its token per server is something the multi-server
manager does anyway.
One field is missing: the payload carries no origin. That breaks the deep link (a session id is
meaningful only on the server that issued it), and threading, and — least obviously and most
expensively — `mv`. That is a content hash of THAT server's catalogue, and the client's rule is
`mv !== version → resync`. One stored catalogue and five servers means every push from B invalidates
what was synced from A, forever. It would present as a battery and data problem rather than a bug.
Where the identifier comes from is deliberately left to the sign-on design: the multi-server manager
already needs a key per server, and notifications should adopt it rather than invent a second identity
that drifts the first time a host is renamed.
Records what stays per server on purpose — devices, per-chat mute preferences, the catalogue itself —
because the app is what joins them, which is the same shape as the sign-on work.
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They are global — affordanceBlock() reads every file and is called with no user context, so every
account gets every one in every conversation.
Fine while they are uncontroversial, and not fine straight after. "Wait for the question" was written
today to one owner's taste, is probably what most people want, and nobody asked anyone. An affordance
nobody can see and nobody can decline is a preference imposed as a fact.
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Websockets: a plugin's socket has no door at all — mount.ts never sets `ws` and server.tsx's handler
map is a literal. Desktop ships one that cannot be mounted and will not be the last plugin to want one.
Host setup: a manifest declares packages, not a reconfigured display manager. Left manual for desktop.
Noted that a mechanism for this apparently existed months ago and was removed — history first, design
second.
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A plugin's settings routes should be owner-only while the plugin itself stays grantable — jellyfin's
/_config holds a server's admin token and drives provisioning, and a Member granted the plugin can
reach it today.
Agreed: the platform says who is asking, the plugin decides what that means inside its own surface.
That is not new — manifest.ts already refuses an ownerOnly permission on the grounds that finer
visibility is the plugin's business.
Two refinements recorded rather than assumed. Pass isOwner and the effective level, never the role
name: roles are the platform's vocabulary and a plugin branching on "Super Admin" gives every plugin
repository an opinion about it, so renaming a role would change authorization in code the platform
does not own. And nothing may be trusted from the caller — the proxy's three-item header allowlist is
what makes X-Officer-User safe, and a new header inherits that only while it stays an allowlist.
One disagreement, recorded as a proposal rather than settled: pure plugin-side enforcement is the
shape assertPermissionTotality exists to prevent. Jellyfin will check because we are about to write
the check; the next plugin's author forgets a route and nothing notices. So: declare owner-only path
prefixes in the manifest, enforce them in the proxy, and pass the facts to the sidecar as well.
The real prerequisite is not the guard. Connections are per-user, so locking /_config leaves a Member
with a plugin that can only show them a connect form they are forbidden to submit. The fix that fits
what exists is the owner's server URL with the member's own token from jellyfin_accounts — which is
arguably why provisioning mints those tokens.
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`pluginPackageJsonExists` was exported for an uninstall hook that was never
wired. an export with no caller is an unfinished thought pretending to be a
feature, so it is gone — and the behaviour it would have served is right
anyway: uninstall KEEPS the plugin directory, so its packages are still
declared and still wanted. only "delete and all its data" removes the
directory, after which the next install regenerates the merged file without it.
the packages linger until then and go on their own.
and the thing the owner asked to come back to: CLAUDE.md's frozen-lockfile rule
reads as universal, and npmDependencies does not follow it. ranges resolving
per machine is what lets two plugins share one sharp, and it was chosen
knowingly — but the codebase now holds two postures on one risk with only one
of them written down. recorded in TODO.md with the three specific things worth
settling rather than left as a feeling that something is inconsistent.
wanted while leaving an agent to work overnight — "continue every hour if you
have stalled", beside the background-job button.
tonight's script does it from outside, polling the sessions api and speaking
over the chat websocket exactly as a browser does, which is why the platform
needed no changes. that is the workaround; this is the feature.
records the two things the platform actually lacks — a recurring trigger, and
any door into a live session that is not the chat websocket — and the three
design notes that are easy to get wrong: never speak while isGenerating, the
schedule cannot be owned by the session it nudges (a chat background job dies
with its session, taking the watchdog with the agent), and bound the loop.
the same trigger is what the watcher-loop proposal in COMMS has been waiting
for, so it is one piece of infrastructure serving two asks.
Found while pushing chat_notification_prefs. Harmless — eight extra
statements, no prompt, no data touched — but the database CLAUDE.md told
the next person to expect only the two pk_music_now_playing lines and to
treat anything else as their own change, which is no longer true. Both
corrected; the fix itself is deliberately not done.
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putSecret/getSecret, `bun run secret:set`, and notify taking its credentials
from the store with env as the fallback. this was described two messages ago
as a later thing; it is about fifteen lines and it was blocking the honest
answer to "where does the .p8 go", so it is done.
getKey was the wrong door for anything supplied from outside — it MINTS a
random 32-byte value when the purpose is absent, which for a foreign
credential means silently authenticating to apple with a fake. getSecret
returns null instead, which is what lets the env fallback work.
putSecret retires the previous row rather than deleting it: a mistyped paste
over a working key should be recoverable, and retiredKeys already exists for
that shape. one transaction, because the partial unique index means the retire
has to land before the insert.
the CLI reads stdin and has deliberately no --value flag: a secret in argv is
in shell history, in ps output, and in any audit log that records command
lines. offering the flag would make the convenient path the leaky one. it
prints a length and the last four characters, never the value.
also `bun run notify:test`, which fires officer/core:test at a registered
device. the sidecar's port is ephemeral, so it now writes its address to
data/notify-server.url on boot and removes it on clean shutdown; the CLI
treats an unreachable address as "not running" rather than trusting the file,
because a crash leaves one behind.
the script says what actually happened, because the day-waster here is that a
send with nothing configured returns success and delivers nothing — it refuses
up front when channels is empty, and calls out sent:0/failed:0 as "no device
registered" rather than letting it read as success.
verified end to end with a p-256 key generated locally and then deleted from
the store: zero APNS vars in .env, sidecar reported channels: apns, and the
send reached the channel. store is back to jwt and offscale only.
env is the interim. the secret store's own reasoning applies almost verbatim:
bun auto-loads .env into every pm2 process, so the .p8 is readable from
/proc/<pid>/environ of twenty of them. officer-music has no business being
able to read a key that can push to the owner's apps forever and never
expires.
the obstacle is not a missing purpose string, which is what it looks like from
the outside. getKey(purpose) GENERATES a key and returns it — there is no
setter, because everything in the store so far is something the platform
minted itself. the .p8, the key id, the team id and the fcm service account
all come from outside, so this needs putSecret and a decision about who may
call it. same for DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL and every plugin credential still in env.
recorded in TODO.md and in the design doc rather than left as an intention.
Replaces the "19 files, one grep" placeholder with what the full sweep
actually found, fixed and deliberately left, and why.
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Typing a value and pressing Enter does nothing in any of them; the button is
the only way to submit. Found in gitea's connection screen and fixed there
only, because the rest are not one change: a search box has no submit and
wrapping it changes nothing, while a multi-field editor wants the useForm hook
rather than a hand-rolled onSubmit.
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osDependencies could only say "this package, from this manager". Gitea's `tea`
is not in any distribution — it is a Go binary from dl.gitea.com — and Debian
has an UNRELATED package of that name: a graphical text editor. So the one
dependency gitea actually wants could not be expressed, and its marketplace
page showed no dependencies at all while music's showed two.
`release: { url, identify }` covers it. {os} and {arch} are filled from the
host in the spelling Go releases use, and the binary is fetched to
~/.local/bin — no root, and nothing a plugin downloaded from the internet
sitting beside what the distribution installed. Written to a temporary name and
moved into place, so a half-downloaded file is never on PATH under the real
one.
`identify` is the part that matters. Bun.which('tea') cannot tell Gitea's CLI
from the text editor, so presence was never the same question as identity —
and reporting the wrong program as satisfied is worse than reporting it
missing, because the install succeeds and every call afterwards fails
strangely. A binary that fails to identify is now `present: false, imposter:
true`.
Found while testing: Bun.which() with no options reads the PATH the PROCESS
started with, which under PM2 frequently excludes ~/.local/bin entirely. A
release binary fetched during an install would have been reported missing
seconds later by stillMissing, failing an install that had just succeeded. The
search now passes PATH explicitly, with ~/.local/bin first.
Verified against the real binaries on this machine: the genuine tea identifies,
a fake that prints text-editor output is caught as an imposter, and both
dl.gitea.com URLs (linux-amd64, darwin-arm64) answer 200.
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