# 2026.08.26.02

**One fix, and it is a crash.** A screen whose layout names a panel it does not own now renders instead of
failing with React #185, "maximum update depth exceeded".

**No schema change. No dependency change. Do not run `bun install`.** `bun db:push` stays a step because it
is cheap and proves the database agrees with the code, but it must report no changes.

## What broke, and where it shows

`useAuthoredLayout` shipped in `2026.08.26.01`: a locked screen persists its SIZES and takes its STRUCTURE
from source on every render. That is still right, and it is what lets a plugin change its layout and reach
people who have already opened it.

What it did not account for is `WorkspaceView`'s `appTypes` guard, which repairs an unrecognised `appType`
and **writes the repair back**. That was self-limiting while structure was persisted — the repair stuck and
the next render agreed with it. With structure coming from source it can never stick, so it is recomputed,
rewritten, discarded and recomputed every render until React gives up.

**The `browser` plugin's layout names `officerdev/chat`**, which is not one of its own panel keys. So
`/browser` fails to render on any host with that plugin installed. That is every host running
`2026.08.26.01` with it — which is the fleet.

The fix drops a write whose result equals the current value. Not an optimisation: it is what terminates the
loop, and persisting an identical tree was pointless anyway.

## Every host

1. `git fetch origin --tags` then `git merge --ff-only deploy/2026.08.26.02`
2. `bun db:push` — expect **no changes**. If it wants to alter something, stop and report it.
3. `bun run plugins:update`
4. `pm2 restart officer`

**`fofos` is already at the fix** — it was fast-forwarded by hand at 05:22 to `a7c9dab2` while the owner was
working on it. Step 1 will fast-forward it to this tag anyway, which only adds the version bump and this
plan. Nothing about that is a problem; note it rather than treating it as drift.

**`macbookpro`:** append `/opt/homebrew/bin` to PATH for the `bun` commands, run `pm2` separately. Asleep is
a skip with a note.

**Do not restart `officer-claude-code`.** Unchanged from the last release, same reason: it ends every live
agent session on the host, and it is the owner's call. Nothing in this release needs it.

## Hosts

- **`officer-dev`** — skip it. Restarting `officer` there ends the rollout. It already has this code.
- **`edge-pertento-bridge`** — skipped. Still 300+ commits behind with no `roles` table; its catch-up is a
  by-hand job. Do not contact it.
- **`alpha`**, **`fofos`**, **`production-pertento-bridge`**, **`deadpool-rezio-bridge`** — the targets.
- **`macbookpro`** — a target if it is awake.

## What to check

**Open `/browser`.** It should render rather than showing "This screen failed to render". That is the whole
release, and it is one click to confirm. Hard refresh first — a stale bundle looks identical to the bug.

No direct SQL is needed anywhere, and none is authorised.