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install_plugin is the chokepoint for every route that re-downloads — _reinstall_with_rollback calls it, so a refused update restores the version the user already had. update_plugin has one branch that re-downloads nothing: a git checkout does fetch + pull, runs _install_dependencies, and returns True. No compatibility check anywhere on it.

So a pull could deliver a manifest flooring above this core and nothing would notice. The failure lands at load time, where PluginManager.load_plugin catches the ModuleNotFoundError and records PluginState.ERROR — one line in the journal, and a display that silently stopped appearing.

What this does

Adds _gate_pulled_commit, called immediately before _install_dependencies on that branch.

Checked after the pull, not before. The registry carries no compatibility field (update_registry.py syncs latest_version and display metadata only), so the incoming floor is not knowable until the new commit is on disk. This is the same reason _install_plugin_impl checks after the download rather than before it.

Rolled back with git reset --hard, not by removing the directory. This is a live checkout, the previous commit is still in the object store, and local_sha is already captured before anything mutates the tree. It leaves the user on the exact version they were already running — the same promise _reinstall_with_rollback makes, reached by the means this path actually has. It is also gentler than the rename: no window in which the plugin directory does not exist, and no .standalone-backup- debris if the process dies mid-way. If the reset itself fails, the log carries the command that fixes it.

An unreadable manifest allows. Rule 1 of test_plugin_compatibility_gate.py: refuse only on evidence. A manifest that will not parse declares no floor, so it is not evidence of anything. A wrong refusal breaks a working install; a wrong allowance degrades to the behaviour this path had before the gate existed.

Scope, stated plainly

This is not a fix for a live user-facing break, and the PR should not be read as one. Monorepo plugins carry plugin_path in the registry, install via _install_from_monorepo as archives with no .git, and update through _reinstall_with_rollback — already gated. Only the five registry entries with no plugin_path reach this branch.

It is closed because the sunset rule in the plugins repo's docs/plugin-development/08-shared-sports-code.md states, as condition 3, that the core enforces the floor "at install/update time", and TestInstallGate's own docstring claimed that gating install_plugin "covers updates too". Both were false. B6 — deleting the bundled scroll fallbacks — rests on that precondition being true rather than merely written down.

A third route, install_from_url, is still ungated: sideloading from a URL validates required fields but never the floor. Out of scope here, but the corrected docstring now says so rather than letting the next reader infer total coverage.

Tests

TestGitPullGate — five cases on real git repositories rather than mocks, because the claim under test is that git reset --hard puts the checkout back, and a mock of git would only prove the call was made.

  • refuses a pulled commit needing a newer core, and asserts both that HEAD returned to the pre-pull commit and that the working-tree manifest went back with it (a reset of the ref alone would pass a weaker assertion)
  • allows a compatible pulled commit — the guard against over-refusing, since a gate that refuses everything passes the first test and breaks every update
  • an unreadable manifest after the pull is not a refusal
  • an untrustworthy core (1.0.0, what the v3.1.0 release reports) does not block a 2.0.0 floor — the same regression guard as test_untrustworthy_core_does_not_block_installs, because this path now shares that rule
  • a failed reset logs the recovery command

Verified they bite: with the gate call removed, the refusal and rollback tests fail while the three must-still-allow guards stay green.

Full suite 3719 passed, 6 skipped; plugin-safety 65 passed, 58 skipped.

Note for #435

The docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md edit here corrects two claims that read as present-tense fact ("Nothing enforces that floor today", and that neither install_plugin nor update_plugin compares the core version). #435 rewrites 144 lines of that same file, so whichever lands second needs a rebase.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Plugin updates delivered through Git now enforce compatibility requirements.
    • Incompatible updates are refused and automatically rolled back to the previously working version.
    • Compatible updates continue normally, while unreadable compatibility metadata is handled safely.
    • Updates are paused when local changes cannot be safely preserved.
    • Improved recovery handling and logging when an automatic rollback cannot be completed.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified compatibility enforcement across plugin installation and update routes, including unsupported sideloading scenarios.

`install_plugin` gates every route that re-downloads, `_reinstall_with_rollback`
included. `update_plugin` has one branch that re-downloads nothing: a git
checkout pulls in place, installs dependencies, and returns True. A pull could
therefore deliver a manifest flooring above this core and nothing would notice
until the plugin failed to load — which surfaces as one line in the journal and
a display that silently stopped appearing.

Checked after the pull rather than before it, for the same reason
`_install_plugin_impl` checks after the download: the registry carries no
compatibility field, so the incoming floor is only knowable once the new commit
is on disk.

Undone with `git reset --hard` to the pre-pull commit rather than by removing
the directory. This is a live checkout, the old commit is still in the object
store, and the reset leaves the user on the exact version they were already
running — the same promise `_reinstall_with_rollback` makes, reached by the
means this path actually has, with no window where the plugin directory does
not exist. An unreadable manifest allows: it is not evidence of a floor.

Scope, stated plainly: monorepo plugins install as archives and update through
`_reinstall_with_rollback`, so they were already gated. Only registry entries
with no `plugin_path` reach this branch. It is closed anyway because the sunset
rule in the plugins repo's `08-shared-sports-code.md` names, as condition 3,
that the core enforces the floor "at install/update time" — and B6 rests on
that being true rather than merely written down. `install_from_url` is still
ungated; the tests say so rather than letting the next reader assume otherwise.

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The plugin store now checks commits received through git pull against the core-version compatibility floor. It resets incompatible updates to the previous commit and skips pulls when local changes cannot be safely stashed. Tests and documentation cover the updated routes and recovery behavior.

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Git-pull compatibility gate

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gate implementation and recovery validation
src/plugin_system/store_manager.py, test/test_plugin_compatibility_gate.py
update_plugin tracks whether the working tree is recoverable before pulling. _gate_pulled_commit checks the pulled manifest and resets incompatible commits to the previous SHA. Tests cover failed stashing, rollback failures, Git availability probing, and recovery logging.
Compatibility route documentation
docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md, test/test_plugin_compatibility_gate.py
The documentation and test descriptions distinguish registry-managed installs, re-downloading updates, git-pull updates, and ungated install_from_url sideloading.

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The PR adds compatibility gating and rollback for git-pull updates with focused coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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  participant update_plugin
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  participant _gate_pulled_commit
  participant compatibility.check

  update_plugin->>GitRepository: Stash local changes when recoverable
  update_plugin->>GitRepository: Run git pull
  update_plugin->>_gate_pulled_commit: Check pulled commit
  _gate_pulled_commit->>compatibility.check: Validate manifest and core version
  compatibility.check-->>_gate_pulled_commit: Return compatibility result
  _gate_pulled_commit->>GitRepository: Reset incompatible commit to previous SHA
  _gate_pulled_commit-->>update_plugin: Return update result
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Update the compatibility-field analysis.

_gate_pulled_commit calls compatibility.check(). That checker evaluates compatible_versions before it evaluates the minimum-version floor. Lines 262-272 describe the inverse behavior and propose work that the current gate already performs.

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In `@docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md` around lines 262 - 272, Correct the
compatibility-field analysis to reflect that _gate_pulled_commit delegates to
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In `@docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md`:
- Line 30: Update docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md lines 30-30 and 237-248 to scope
compatibility-gate claims to registry-managed installs and supported update
paths, replacing “every route that re-downloads” with the same wording; retain
the explicit install_from_url exception. The sunset rule text at lines 30-30 and
the corresponding B6 discussion at lines 237-248 both require this
documentation-only change.

In `@src/plugin_system/store_manager.py`:
- Around line 2646-2648: The update_plugin flow must stop before git pull when
git stash push fails or times out, preventing reset from discarding unstashed
edits. Check the stash subprocess result and timeout handling, return an
appropriate failure before pulling, and add a regression test covering this
path.

In `@test/test_plugin_compatibility_gate.py`:
- Around line 224-225: Update the module-level _HAS_GIT initialization to catch
OSError from subprocess.run when Git is unavailable, setting _HAS_GIT to False
in that case while preserving the existing version-check result when Git is
present.

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- Around line 262-272: Correct the compatibility-field analysis to reflect that
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compatible_versions before the minimum-version floor. Remove the inaccurate
claim that the gate reads only the floor and the resulting proposal to add
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Review of the gate found a data-loss path it had introduced, plus two smaller
scope errors. All three from CodeRabbit on #508.

**The stash failure was load-bearing and was not treated as one.** update_plugin
stashes local changes before pulling; when that stash failed or timed out it
logged a warning and pulled anyway. That was harmless while nothing ever undid
a pull. It is not harmless now: the gate's rollback is `git reset --hard`, which
discards uncommitted tracked edits -- exactly the edits the stash existed to
protect. A pull does not refuse on a dirty tree as long as the incoming commit
touches other files, so the sequence completed silently: pull succeeds, gate
refuses, reset takes the user's work with it.

update_plugin now returns before pulling unless the tree was already clean or
was successfully stashed. Refusing costs an update in a case that had already
gone wrong; the alternative costs data. That also makes `--hard` safe by
construction in _gate_pulled_commit, and its comment now says so rather than
observing it in passing.

Pinned by test_a_failed_stash_stops_the_update_before_pulling, which writes a
local edit, forces the stash to fail, and asserts both that HEAD did not move
and that the edit is still on disk. Verified it bites: with the new guard
removed the file comes back as `class P: pass`, the edit gone.

**_HAS_GIT could take the module down instead of skipping it.** With no git on
PATH, subprocess.run raises FileNotFoundError, and this runs at import time --
before skipif can act, so the whole file errors rather than skipping. Now
catches OSError.

**The doc overclaimed the gate's reach.** It said the floor is enforced on
"every route that installs or updates" while the same passage notes
install_from_url is ungated. Both spots now scope the claim to registry-managed
installs and the two supported update paths, and name the sideload exception.

Full suite 3720 passed, 6 skipped.

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Thanks — all three were valid. Fixed in 45d9121.

The stash one was real, and it was mine. update_plugin stashes local changes before pulling; when that stash failed or timed out it logged a warning and pulled anyway. That was harmless while nothing ever undid a pull — but this PR made the gate's rollback git reset --hard, which discards uncommitted tracked edits, exactly the edits the stash exists to protect. And a pull does not refuse on a dirty tree so long as the incoming commit touches other files, so the whole sequence completes quietly: pull succeeds, gate refuses, reset takes the user's work with it.

update_plugin now returns before pulling unless the tree was already clean or was successfully stashed. Refusing costs an update in a case that had already gone wrong; the alternative costs data. It also makes --hard safe by construction in _gate_pulled_commit, whose comment now states that as a guarantee rather than observing it in passing.

Pinned by test_a_failed_stash_stops_the_update_before_pulling: it writes a local edit, forces the stash to fail, and asserts both that HEAD did not move and that the edit is still on disk. I checked it bites — with the guard removed, manager.py comes back as class P: pass and the edit is gone.

_HAS_GIT — correct, and worse than a missed skip: subprocess.run raises FileNotFoundError with no git on PATH, at import time, so the module errors out before skipif can act. Now catches OSError.

Docs scope — also correct, and self-contradictory as written: the sunset-rule row claimed "every route that installs or updates" while the passage below it says install_from_url is ungated. Both spots now scope the claim to registry-managed installs and the two supported update paths, and name the sideload exception explicitly.

On the two static-analysis notes attached to those comments (S603/S607, "command coming from incoming request"): not acted on. previous_sha is not attacker-controlled — it comes from git log -1 --format=%H on the local checkout via _get_local_git_info, it is passed as a list element rather than through a shell, and bare git matches every other subprocess call in this file. Changing it here would be inconsistent with the surrounding code for no gain.

Full suite 3720 passed, 6 skipped.

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This PR was opened to say B6 was deliberately held. It has since run, so the
document said the opposite of the truth -- which is the exact failure it was
written to fix: "a plan that misreports which phase it is in is worse than no
plan".

Merges current main first (53 commits), which brings in #508's corrections to
this same file, then replaces the hold with what happened.

**Why the hold lifted is worth recording, because the stated gate was never
met.** It asked for evidence of 3.2.0 uptake, and that evidence could not
arrive: the core updates by `git pull --rebase`, so release-asset counts cannot
measure it, and no store-side telemetry exists. What changed is that the risk
the gate protected against was closed directly -- the store now refuses a
plugin whose floor exceeds the running core on all three routes in:
install_plugin (#431/#433), update_plugin's git branch (#508), and
install_from_url (#510). A pre-3.2.0 user cannot receive a sunset plugin at
all, so they keep the version they run. Refusal replaced the bundled copy,
which is what the copy stood in for.

Records what shipped (eight plugins, ~5,800 lines, plugins #346/#349/#350/#351)
and the two findings worth carrying to the next module: baseball's fallback was
the only one holding orchestration logic the core lacked, and two tests had
been leaning on the guard -- soccer's stubbed `src` in a way that shadowed the
core, so it had been exercising the frozen copy rather than the shipping class
since B5.

The remaining-work list is replaced too. Its first item was "nothing on the
critical path, B6 is waiting on calendar time", which is no longer true. What
remains: hardware soaks (with a note to check the rig's display_mode first, or
a board in switch mode tells you nothing about the scroll code), cutting 3.3.0
-- not required by B6, whose floors are 3.2.0, but calendar 1.2.3 floors at
3.3.0 and is un-installable until it exists -- and reconsidering the modules
held back during the sunset.

Keeps the pre-B6 sections as history. The reasoning still applies to the next
module; it is just no longer in force for this one.

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…511)

#510 shows as merged, but into fix/gate-git-pull-updates -- #508's branch --
rather than main. #508 reached main first, so the sideload gate was left behind
on a branch. Same failure as plugins #350/#351, which merged into each other's
bases; worth knowing the pattern, because GitHub reports these as MERGED and
`gh pr list` shows nothing outstanding.

main today has two of the three routes gated: install_plugin (#431/#433) and
update_plugin's git branch (#508). install_from_url validates required manifest
fields and then installs whatever it found, never comparing the core version.

Cherry-picked unchanged from the orphaned branch -- it applies to main with no
conflict. TestSideloadGate pins the three cases the other routes pin: refuses a
floor above this core leaving nothing behind, still allows a compatible plugin
(the guard against a gate that refuses everything), and does not block a 2.0.0
floor on a core reporting an untrustworthy version.

Full suite 3725 passed, 6 skipped.


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