2026.08.27.01 was REFUSED before a single host was contacted, and the commander was right twice over. its plan described the release instead of instructing the rollout — no step list at all, where deploy/README.md defines a plan as "what to run, in order, on which hosts" and steps 4 and 5 of the procedure are plan-driven. and it asserted "nothing here changes a schema" on the day dav/schema.ts was deleted out of core. that second one was not a formatting mistake. dav_app_passwords now lives in plugins/caldav, and gen-plugin-schemas follows plugin DIRECTORIES — so on a host without that directory the table is in the database and not in the schema, and `db:push` proposes dropping it. on alpha that is eight device credentials. so this plan answers it from a survey rather than a guess. alpha has the plugin and 8 rows; the other six have no plugin and an empty leftover table; zero hosts run officer-marketplace, which retires the `tags` column question entirely. the orphan table is dropped EXPLICITLY, guarded by a count, and skipped on alpha — never as a db:push side effect. step 6 is new and would have been missed: officer-opencode has to restart or none of the skills, agent-identity or credential work in this release does anything. ALSO THE SIGN-OUT. a single 401 from any endpoint wiped the token from both storages and reloaded — which signs the owner out of every tab and keeps them there, since nothing is left to recover from. that is the right response to a revoked session and far too violent a response to one endpoint answering 401 for its own reasons. it now confirms against /auth/me first, and treats an unreachable server as emphatically not a revocation: rebooting the box must not end the session. reported mid-demo, with nothing in the logs and a freshly signed token working against every route the app loads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Officer-Session: 656f5c85-e49a-4f1f-b9f3-042a04b4d043
deploy/
One file per release, and one report per release.
deploy/
├── 2026.08.21.01.md the plan — what to run, in order, on which hosts
└── 2026.08.21.01.report.md what actually happened, written by the commander
The plan is written by hand before the release commit. The report is written by the deploy commander afterwards and pushed back here.
A release is a tag, deploy/<version>, and nothing else triggers a deploy — not a commit message,
not a branch. A tag cannot be written into prose by accident, which a code word can and which every
document about deploying does.
What marks a release deployed is LOCAL: $OFFICER_ROOT/data/deploys/<version>.done. Not the report.
If the lock were the pushed report, a failed push would mean the release looked undeployed and the next
tick would roll it out again — and pushes here fail for unrelated reasons. So the report is an artefact,
valuable and not load-bearing.
See prompts/deploy-commander.md.