pastilhasandClaude Opus 5 4a03b9f84e app store: the install step machine, resumable and testable without docker
Install spans a container start, a health wait, an upstream API call and a process start. Any can fail,
and one of them — a token only a human can mint — is EXPECTED to stop the run. A straight-line function
has two bad options there: unwind everything, or leave a half-installed service that neither works nor
uninstalls, which is the state users cannot get out of.

So each step is named, completion is persisted, and running install again resumes. planSteps is a pure
function of (entry, mode) and the effects are injected, which makes ordering, resume, blocking and
failure testable with no Docker, Postgres, PM2 or Immich in sight. 15 tests cover exactly the behaviour
that only appears when something goes wrong.

Two rules are enforced by the plan rather than remembered at call sites: 'existing' never provisions, so
pointing at an instance the user already runs cannot start a container; and the members step is omitted
entirely for a service with no user concept, so a Transmission install does not report a step that did
nothing — which reads as a silent failure to anyone debugging a member's access.

`blocked` is a first-class outcome, not an error. For Immich the container is up and healthy and only
its own UI can mint a key; calling that a failure would make a normal install look broken and invite the
user to tear down a working container. The blocking step is deliberately NOT recorded as complete, so a
resume re-runs the step the human just answered.

Results feed forward — provision discovers the URL that connect writes down two steps later — over a
copy of the caller's values, so a failure halfway cannot rewrite what an earlier attempt achieved.

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