Put the released batten on PATH before the session starts

[wenzowski]

Refs CLOUD-312. Every key this commit serves is already Done, so each is declined explicitly rather than left to the automation:

DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-65
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-258
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-278
DO-NOT-CLOSE CLOUD-312

The defect

.claude/settings.json registers batten hook --harness claude-code on SessionStart as the first group, ahead of .claude/hooks/session-start.sh — and that hook is what runs mise run install:local, the step that puts the binary on PATH. So on a cold container the engine's own SessionStart registration fires with no binary. It fails open quietly, which means the contract-drift snapshot that .claude/rules/toolchain.md says is "seeding the snapshot before any tool does" is not seeded at all on a fresh container, and nothing reports it.

The release is the source, and a checkout is never trusted implicitly

This is the correction that shaped the file, and it is worth stating first because the obvious design is wrong:

• A container may check out any repository, or several, or none. There is no working tree to resolve a path against, so anything reading dirname $0/.. is assuming a layout it does not control.
• Whatever is checked out is an arbitrary ref — a feature branch, a fork, an unreviewed PR head. A bootstrap that preferred the local copy would let a session on any branch install whatever that branch said to install. The point of pinning to a release is that a release is tested and immutable where a branch tip is neither.

So the fetch path is the only path; the script's own bytes are verified against the release's checksum manifest before anything runs, because piping an unverified script into a shell moves the trust boundary rather than holding it. BATTEN_SETUP_FROM_CHECKOUT=1 opts into the local file for a maintainer testing an unreleased change — opt-in rather than detected, because the safe default has to be the one a container gets without anyone choosing it.

The shape

.claude/container-setup.sh does one job: the binary. It is under .claude/ because it is the only harness-specific piece — everything it calls stays harness- and OS-agnostic, so a second harness writes its own short caller beside it and reuses the rest. It is in the repo because the console field it runs from cannot be version controlled, reviewed, or seen by contract-drift; what is out of tree is now a pointer rather than a program.

The field itself resolves the latest release tag and runs the bootstrap from that tag:

set -euo pipefail
repo=button-inc/batten
export NO_PROXY="${NO_PROXY:+$NO_PROXY,}api.github.com,raw.githubusercontent.com,objects.githubusercontent.com,codeload.github.com"
export no_proxy="$NO_PROXY"
auth="Authorization: Bearer ${GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN:?release-read token required while private}"
tag=$(curl -fsSL -H "$auth" "https://api.github.com/repos/$repo/releases/latest" \
  | sed -n 's/.*"tag_name": *"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' | head -n1)
curl -fsSL -H "$auth" \
  "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$repo/$tag/.claude/container-setup.sh" \
  | BATTEN_VERSION="$tag" sh

The NO_PROXY fencing must be here rather than in mise.toml: container-preflight records why — mise applies [env] to the processes it runs, after its own resolver has made the call.

install.sh becomes a release asset, and the gate that keeps it one

Verification needs the release to carry the script. The schema job uploads it, and the checksums job hashes the release's own assets read back after upload, so its SHA lands in the published manifest with no change to that job.

release-assets-check's scrape admitted .json only, so adding a .sh to the upload line would have demanded nothing and covered nothing — the silent widening that file's own exits 2 guard is written against, one extension over. Widened, with both arms: a release lacking it fails naming it, one carrying it passes.

That gate is a world-question on a weekly clock, not on the landing path. It reports red against v0.0.119 until a release carries the asset; v0.0.119 can be backfilled by dispatching release-artifacts.yml at that tag, since uploads are --clobber idempotent.

Nothing moves out of session-start.sh, and nothing regresses in the gap

mise install, the submodules, doctor, the git hooks and container-preflight stay where they are gated, tested and visible to contract-drift. install:local stays too: on a dev clone the working tree's build must supersede the released binary, and it is the recovery path if the setup step never ran.

That is also why the ordering is safe. Until the next release publishes install.sh, the container's setup step cannot install anything — and the binary still arrives exactly as it does today, from install:local inside the hook. The improvement switches on at the next release rather than needing one.

Two defects found by running it rather than reading it

1. This container carries GH_TOKEN, GITHUB_TOKEN and GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN at once, and on this private repo the first two answer 401 on the release API while the PAT succeeds. install.sh prefers the first non-empty of its list, so it stopped on the 401. Host knowledge belongs in the host-specific file, so the setup script names the working one through BATTEN_GITHUB_TOKEN; install.sh gained the PAT name appended last, so no environment that already works changes which token it sends. Recorded on CLOUD-65: the "no token by construction" property is deferred, not held, while the repo is private, and becomes true on its own at CLOUD-585.
2. The fetch's own release read was unauthenticated — the token was set for the installer and never used for the fetch, which answers 403 and reads exactly like an egress problem. It travels on stdin, never argv, for the reason install.sh documents: an Authorization header in argv is readable through ps.

Verification

• The fetch-and-run path exercised for real in this container: fetched over the network with auth from a ref, piped to sh, ran standalone with no checkout involved, and refused with the right message because the current release carries no install.sh asset. The success path needs a release that carries it — stated rather than claimed.
• tests/container-setup.bats (8 cases) pins the default: an install.sh sitting right beside the script is ignored, asserted by the marker it would have written had it run. Plus the opt-in, the opt-in with nothing to opt into (could-not-look, not a silent fetch), and a script the manifest disagrees with refused before it runs.
• The off-PATH case narrows PATH deliberately (CLOUD-249): a machine with the real binary installed would otherwise pass it without ever creating the condition it is about.
• install-check green: 7 matrix targets name-agree across dist, install.sh and binstall, 6 installable.
• mise run test green; mise run verify green before readying.

[linear-code]

CLOUD-65 Ship a single-binary-first install path and package-manager distribution

Why
Batten should install as a standalone binary first, then through cargo binstall, mise, and package managers, without committing binaries.

Acceptance

• A one-line install works
• cargo binstall batten works
• No binary is committed to the repository

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Shipped — PR #310, and what it deliberately does not close

install.sh + [package.metadata.binstall] + mise run install-check land the ordering claim: the binary installs with no package manager, no Rust toolchain and no clone, and every other channel is a convenience over the same release asset. Verified end-to-end against v0.0.61 — a static-pie musl binary reporting batten 0.0.61, verified=sha256.

Acceptance, clause by clause:

• A one-line install works — MET. curl … | sh, verified against the SHA-256 digest the release API reports, with no flag to skip the check. Measured while building it: api.github.com answers pretty-printed JSON, so the parsing commits to neither wire form.
• cargo binstall batten — HALF MET, and the other half is not mine to close. The asset-resolution contract lands and cargo binstall --git <repo> batten works today. The bare registry form needs the crate on crates.io, which CLOUD-205 defers along with the public repository; it starts working on the day that decision is revisited, with no further edit to this repo.
• No binary is committed — MET, and now gated. install-check fails on any tracked file carrying executable-format magic. That clause had no mechanism before.

Deferred, each with a home:

• The digest install.sh verifies is transfer integrity, not provenance — both halves come from GitHub, so it proves the bytes arrived intact, not that they are the bytes a maintainer intended. CLOUD-278 (checksum manifest) and CLOUD-264 (signature format) are the stronger claims; neither blocked this, because the API already carries the digest.
• Package-manager distribution beyond binstall — Homebrew formula, mise/aqua registry entries — is downstream of both a public repository and CLOUD-278's manifest (a formula pins a checksum). Not attempted here; this is the record that the second half of this issue's title is outstanding.

Judgement call, recorded rather than assumed: README gains an Install section stating plainly that a GitHub token is required while the repository is private, keeping its existing status note verbatim. That reads CLOUD-205's "no install docs" as "do not imply public availability", not "do not build or document the private path" — the same decision asks the release machinery to keep running "so the flip is cheap when it comes" (CLOUD-65).

CLOUD-258 Every release since v0.0.31 ships no binaries: attestation is not available on this org's plan and the dist legs die on it

Why

release-artifacts.yml has failed on every release run — v0.0.31 through v0.0.36, six for six. In each, the schema job succeeds and all seven dist legs fail. v0.0.36 carries exactly one asset, batten.schema.json. No binary has ever shipped.

The build is not the problem. Every leg links, then dies on the next step:

##[error]Error: Failed to persist attestation: Feature not available for the
button-inc organization. To enable this feature, please upgrade the billing plan,
or make this repository public.

actions/attest-build-provenance requires a plan tier this private repo does not have. Because the step fails, the leg fails, and the upload never runs — so the plan-gated attestation takes the binaries down with it.

This is CLOUD-108's own blocking condition, stated in its body: "DO NOT CLOSE UNTIL THE MATRIX HAS RUN GREEN […] if any leg fails, the failure belongs to this issue." It has now fired six times and nothing acted on it, because a release-triggered workflow's failure reaches no PR and no gate — the one class of run this repo has no signal for.

Why nobody saw it

ci-local-parity holds three properties over pull_request workflows. A release-triggered workflow is outside all of them, and land watches the PR's checks, which a release run is not among. So a workflow that fails on every single invocation looked exactly like one that never runs.

Definition of done

• A release publishes the archives. Whatever is decided about attestation, a plan-gated optional step must not be able to suppress the artifacts — that ordering is wrong independently of the decision.
• The failure of a release-triggered workflow is observable without someone thinking to look, which is the gap that let six consecutive failures pass unnoticed.

Acceptance

• The next release attaches one archive per target to the GitHub release.
• A forced failure of the attestation step leaves the archives attached.
• Six historical runs are explained by the fix, not just the next one.

Decision (owner, 2026-08-09)

The repo will be made public once stable; attestation becomes valuable when public.

So attestation stays wired exactly as it is and starts succeeding on its own the day the repo goes public — nothing is dropped and nothing has to be un-done later. What changes is only that it must stop taking the binaries down with it in the meantime: upload first, and let the attest step fail without failing the leg.

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Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). .github/workflows/release-artifacts.yml — the step order and the attestation step's failure posture. Build and naming stay in mise-tasks/dist.
• Computable predicate (§2). The release's asset list: one archive per target. Checkable from gh release view against the target list dist already owns, so no second list of targets appears.
• Effect (§3). Release-time only; no verb changes.
• Output & exit (§5). Unchanged.
• Commit / bump (§6). fix → patch (ci/build scope, no crate change).
• Test obligation (§7). The historical runs are the evidence the diagnosis is right; the next release is the confirmation. A forced-failure case proves the artifacts survive it.
• Blockers (§8). None; the attestation decision above is taken.

CLOUD-278 A release carries no checksums, so every packaging channel that wants one is blocked

Why

Measured 2026-08-09: mise-tasks/dist prints archive= and binary= and nothing else. There is no SHA256SUMS, no shasum, no checksum of any kind anywhere in the dist path or the release workflows, and no [package.metadata.binstall] block in Cargo.toml.

Every downstream packaging channel that would drive broad adoption wants a checksum: a Homebrew formula pins one, an aqua/mise registry entry carries one, and cargo binstall resolves assets whose integrity nobody currently checks. This is a smaller and cheaper gap than the SBOM (CLOUD-262) and a harder prerequisite — an SBOM is a document a reviewer reads, a checksum is a value a package manager consumes.

It is also the floor beneath CLOUD-264. Whatever signature format is chosen there, a signature over an asset whose bytes are not otherwise pinned is doing two jobs badly; a checksum manifest is the cheap half and does not depend on that decision.

Definition of done

• Every release carries a checksum manifest covering every asset it publishes — the seven target archives, batten.schema.json, and whatever CLOUD-262 adds — not just the archives.
• The manifest is verifiable by the ordinary tool with no flags: sha256sum -c succeeds in a directory of downloaded assets.
• A release missing the manifest, or carrying one that does not cover an asset present on the release, is caught by a gate rather than by a packager.

Acceptance

• mise run release-assets-check <tag> fails when the manifest omits an asset the release carries, and when the release carries no manifest at all. This is the same "one list, and it is the workflow's" property the task already holds for matrix targets — the manifest must be derived from the assets, never from a second hand-maintained list.
• Downloading a release's assets plus its manifest and running sha256sum -c exits 0, demonstrated on a real tag.
• Corrupting one byte of one asset makes that check fail.

---

Refinement — Ready

Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.

• Source of truth (§1). The asset list is the release's own, read back after upload — not a list restated in the workflow. mise-tasks/dist already owns archive naming and must keep owning it; the manifest step names nothing.
• Computable predicate (§2). Set equality between the manifest's entries and the release's asset names, minus the manifest itself; plus sha256sum -c exiting 0.
• Effect (§3). Release-time only. Writes one additional asset; no verb changes.
• Output & exit (§5). Pointer-only (rule 4) — asset names and counts, never contents. 0 pass, 1 fail, 2 could-not-look, matching release-assets-check.
• Commit / bump (§6). build → no bump. Workflow and task only; nothing under crates/batten changes.
• Test obligation (§7). tests/release-assets-check.bats extends its fixture release to cover a manifest that omits an asset, a missing manifest, and a manifest whose only entry is itself — the vacuous case. The real-tag verification is named in DoD because a release-triggered path reaches no PR and no gate (CLOUD-258).
• Blockers (§8). None. Independent of CLOUD-264's signature decision by design.

Ordering note

This must land before the repo goes public, because that is when packaging channels start consuming releases. It does not need to wait for CLOUD-65 to be unparked — the manifest is useful to the stealth-preview adopters who download assets by hand today.

CLOUD-312 The engine is the pre-tool entry point; the shell guards retire behind it

Why

The pre-commit layer and CI are already adjudicated by the engine reading the committed authority. The agent tool-call layer is not: .claude/settings.json wires seven PreToolUse entries — gh-guard, ready-guard, issue-guard, run-shape-guard, memory-guard (twice, once per matcher), claim-guard — every one a mise run of a shell task carrying its own decision table, and batten hook appears in that file zero times.

Two implementations of one policy is two authorities for one fact, and the divergence is silent. A rule added to batten.toml does not reach the tool call, and a guard's table cannot be read from the config a reviewer reviews. crates/batten/src/hook.rs is the port of those guards and its own header describes the compatibility path as lasting "while they exist" — this issue is what ends that period.

It also makes the README's three-layer claim true. Today one third of it describes the design rather than the state.

The counts in this section are the pre-wiring state and are kept as the historical baseline, not as current fact. Re-counted 2026-08-20: .claude/settings.json carries thirteen registrations across six events, of which one reaches batten hook — the single PreToolUse entry. The remainder are SessionStart ×2, UserPromptSubmit ×2, Stop ×1, six further PreToolUse shell entries across five matchers, and PostToolUse ×1. CLOUD-713 owns the census that keeps that number honest; CLOUD-777 owns getting the engine onto every surface exactly once.

Mechanism

• Each PreToolUse entry invokes the engine with the harness adapter for the host. The decision comes from the mediated_call-scoped rows of the resolved config and from nowhere else.
• Every refusal a retiring guard renders is expressed as a config row with a required reason before that guard is removed. A guard is deleted only once its refusals are reproduced from config.
• Fail-open posture is preserved end to end: unreadable stdin, an unparseable payload, or a missing binary all resolve to allow, and the existing bypass variables keep working.

Ready

• Source of truth (§1). The committed batten.toml is the only table a mediated call is judged against. No decision table remains in mise-tasks/.
• Mechanism as a predicate (§2). Two gates, both exiting 0:
  1. a differential suite replays every payload fixture in the existing guard .bats suites through the engine and asserts the same decision and the same reason text;
  2. a source-level assertion fails if any PreToolUse entry in the settings file invokes a task that carries a decision table.
• Effect (§3). No new command surface: hook already exists and is already classified. What changes is who invokes it.
• Output & exit (§5). Every retiring guard's refusal keeps its reason text, which is what the differential suite asserts; the deny channel per host is the one Capabilities declares. Fail-open is preserved end to end — unreadable stdin, an unparseable payload, or a missing binary all resolve to allow — so no failure code Batten can produce is one a host reads as a deny.
• Commit / bump (§6). feat → patch until 0.1.0: below 0.1.0 release-plz bumps the patch whatever the type says.
• Test obligation (§7). The differential suite in §2, plus the settings-file assertion, both under mise run verify and CI. A guard is deleted only once its fixtures pass through the engine, so coverage never drops below what the retiring guard had.
• Blockers (§8). Superseded — see "Blockers, re-verified" below, which is the live list. Two rows were named here when this was written; both are resolved and their relations removed, and they are named there with their evidence. Repeating them here would be a blocker citation with no relation behind it, which ready-lint reports as blocker-cited-without-relation — measured on this row 2026-08-22, two violations, caused by removing the relations without editing this sentence. The live blockedBy relations are CLOUD-924 and CLOUD-925, per row rather than campaign-wide.

The gap is measured, not asserted

Counted against main: seven PreToolUse entries, zero invocations of the engine. The port itself is not the missing piece — hook.rs carries six harness adapters over a harness-blind core, its mediated_call matcher, and a per-host capability table — so what remains is the wiring and the config rows that make each retiring guard's refusal reproducible.

One clarification for whoever picks this up, because the neighbouring language invites the wrong move: the table hook must read is the mediated_call-scoped rows of batten.toml, not crates/batten/src/effect.rs. That module classifies Batten's own command surface for the §5 read-only allowlist, and its consumer is spec.rs. Two declared tables, two different objects; importing one into the other would put a classification of Batten's verbs in the path that judges a consumer's shell commands.

Done

main carries the engine as the pre-tool entry point with the differential suite green, no guard-local decision table remains, and CI is green on the merge commit landed by fast-forward.

---

The remaining inventory, re-counted 2026-08-22 against main (170c7c4)

This section is the campaign's operative content. Everything above it is history: the counts in Why are the pre-wiring baseline, and the ## Ready block's §8 is superseded by Blockers, re-verified below.

What has already changed under this row

• Registration is finished. CLAUDE_EVENTS carries eight events (hook.rs:1013, UserPromptSubmit added by CLOUD-777) and .claude/settings.json registers batten hook --harness claude-code matcherless on all eight. There is nothing left to register, and no new registration is planned by any row in this bundle. A row proposing one is proposing a second narrowing.
• The census moved in-process. batten doctor hooks (doctor.rs:225-344) computes the diagnosis from WiringFile and Wiring::registrations, reporting registrations / siblings / merged / merged_surfaces_read and eight stable reason ids — including hook-wiring-merged-registration, so a registration on a $HOME surface the repository does not own is visible. hooks-wiring-check.sh is now the thin caller holding this consumer's DECLARED table (:168-180).
• The door exists and has a worked example. [[hook.handler]] landed (CLOUD-898) and batten.toml:1912 dispatches mcp-attach-check through it. That guard is therefore already retired from this table — it is dispatched by batten hook, not registered beside it.

The thirteen remaining rows

One row per entry in hooks-wiring-check.sh's DECLARED table. Destination is the load-bearing column: durable policy goes to core/config, and a [[hook.handler]] is used only where an external program intentionally remains. Two of thirteen qualify; assuming every script becomes a handler would move eleven decision tables out of the committed authority and behind a dispatch.

#	Event / matcher	Command (lines)	Owner	Destination	Blocker & ordering
1	PreTool .*save_issue	mise-tasks/issue-search-guard.sh (93)	312	config — a receipt row over the search receipt	none; first in the board family
2	PreTool .*save_issue	mise-tasks/issue-read-guard.sh (117)	312	config — a receipt row with the recency bound facts::Sourced borrowed from it	none; after 1 (shares the matcher and the receipt store)
3	PreTool .*save_issue	mise-tasks/board-move-guard.sh (158)	312	config — a receipt row keyed on the issue key	none; after 2
4	PreTool .*(subscribe_pr_activity|send_later|create_trigger)	mise-tasks/connector-verb-guard.sh (174)	312	config — but the predicate is a tool-name suffix, and no rule kind selects on one today; [[verb]] names a shell program	blocked on CLOUD-924 — no rule kind keys on the tool a call names, and this guard matches by SUFFIX deliberately
5	PreTool ^mcp__	mise-tasks/connector-allow-guard.sh (88)	312	config — needs a connector-grant table in batten.toml; the grants live in .claude/settings.json today	blocked on CLOUD-924 (the selector), plus that grant table
6	PreTool Task	mise-tasks/fanout-guard.sh (158)	312	config — Field::Prompt exists, but [budget.<name>] is a file-set budget over globs, not a per-call ceiling	blocked on CLOUD-925 — [budget] counts a file set, so a per-call ceiling is inexpressible
7	PostTool .*save_issue|.*save_comment	mise-tasks/board-write-record.sh (329)	312	core — it derives a record from a tool response, which is exactly the capture bundle's first consumer	ordered after CLOUD-919; porting it first would build a second reader of the response
8	UserPromptSubmit	mise-tasks/mcp-allow-check.sh --session (415)	312	handler — reads settings files and MCP client logs, not the envelope; its sibling mcp-attach-check already went this way	none; the door is landed
9	Stop	mise-tasks/stop-guard.sh (318) + five gates (1,412)	892	config / core	CLOUD-892 owns it end to end
10	SessionStart	.claude/hooks/session-start.sh (295)	312	handler — it provisions a toolchain and preflights the container. There is no decision table in it to move; it is deliberately synchronous and deliberately loud on failure	none, but see the bound below
11	PreTool Bash	mise-tasks/run-shape-guard.sh (647)	821	config, partially — Field::RunInBackground landed, so the exemption predicate is expressible	CLOUD-613 for the heredoc-binding family; CLOUD-821 owns the row
12	Stop, merged $HOME	stop-hook-git-check.sh	605 / 893	out of repo — not ours to port	CLOUD-893 owns visibility, CLOUD-605 the identity conflict
13	SessionStart, merged $HOME	session-start-git-identity.sh	605 / 893	out of repo — same	as 12

Row 10 carries a bound the door does not give for free

[[hook.handler]] imposes a timeout_ms, and this script's whole reason for existing is that a cold mise install inside the MCP client's startup window took 24s. A bound tighter than the cold path turns a fail-open handler into the absence the hook was built to close. So its handler row declares a measured bound, and the migration records the cold measurement beside it — the same standard mcp-attach-check's timeout_ms = 2000 was held to.

Per row, the two obligations this issue has always carried

Unchanged in substance from Mechanism above, restated because the table needs them per row:

• Differential test. Every refusal the retiring script renders is reproduced from the committed authority before the script is deleted, proved by replaying that script's own .bats fixtures through the engine and asserting the same decision and the same reason text. A handler destination has the same obligation with the door in the path: the fixture goes through batten hook, and the reply is byte-compared.
• Exact deletion condition. The script, its DECLARED row, and its bats suite go in one change, and only once its fixtures pass through the engine — so coverage never drops below what the retiring guard had. A DECLARED row naming a deleted command already fails as wiring-declaration-stale, and a command with no row already fails as wiring-sibling-command, so both directions of the deletion are gated rather than reviewed.

Blockers, re-verified 2026-08-22 — this supersedes §8 above

• CLOUD-446 — cleared, Done. The claimed-key lookup it called unreachable from the mediated path is reachable: CLOUD-776 landed the agent-sourced fact channel, and claim-not-raced is its worked instance.
• CLOUD-461 — cleared, landed (In Review). The advisory channel is on main, and contract-drift retired with it. Its own release is not this row's precondition.
• New, per row rather than campaign-wide, and filed rather than deferred: rows 4 and 5 are blocked on CLOUD-924 (no rule kind keys on the tool a mediated call names); row 5 additionally needs a connector-grant table in batten.toml; row 6 is blocked on CLOUD-925 ([budget] counts a file set, so a per-call ceiling is inexpressible); row 7 is ordered after CLOUD-919. Nothing blocks rows 1, 2, 3, 8, 10.
• Two rows first named here as blockers are Done, and naming them would have been the defect this table gates against. CLOUD-684 (MCP allow rules naming labels host servers never register under) and CLOUD-734 (re-projecting the grants at SessionStart) are both closed. What row 5 actually lacks is a config surface, which is why CLOUD-924 exists and those two do not appear above.

Stating them per row is the correction: a single campaign-wide blockedBy is what let this row sit blocked on a capability that only one of its thirteen entries needed.

The end-state test

Three predicates, all decidable by machinery that exists:

1. Exactly one Batten registration per supported event, per harness — doctor hooks already fails hook-wiring-event-registered-n-times and hook-wiring-event-unregistered, and hook-wiring-matcher-narrows on any matcher at all.
2. No unmanaged sibling command — doctor hooks reports siblings == 0 and merged == 0, or every remainder is a DECLARED row naming a key that is still open. A row naming a closed key already fails, which is what keeps this from becoming a permanent waiver list.
3. Every remaining dispatched behaviour is declared in committed configuration and validated from it — each surviving program is a [[hook.handler]] row in batten.toml with a declared bound, and its behaviour is pinned by a differential case run through the door. Nothing reaches a hook surface that the committed authority does not name.

Done is the three above holding together, with main green: not "the scripts are gone", because a deleted script whose refusals nothing reproduces is a coverage loss wearing a retirement's clothes.

Review in Linear

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds an idempotent Claude container bootstrap script for batten. Release installation is now the default, while checkout installation requires explicit opt-in. The script resolves releases, downloads and verifies assets, runs install.sh, and checks PATH resolution. GitHub token fallback handling is extended. The release workflow publishes install.sh, and release checks validate shell-script assets. Bats coverage and benchmark results are updated.

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to dab78

The PR changes container setup to fetch release assets, but downloads from github.com can still fail behind proxies, and the new token fallback remains difficult to discover when setup fails. These bounded issues should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 70.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states the main change: placing the released batten binary on PATH before session startup hooks run.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the startup defect, the release-based setup design, verification behavior, release asset changes, tests, and validation results.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

Full details: Docstring Coverage

Explanation

Docstring coverage is 70.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 5 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

• Fix all pre-merge checks with AI

✨ Finishing Touches 💡 1

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• Create stacked PR
• Commit on current branch

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In `@install.sh`:
- Around line 213-220: Update the usage() help text and the API failure message
to include GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN alongside the existing token variables,
matching the fallback order used by TOKEN so users can discover the newly
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In `@tests/container-setup.bats`:
- Around line 166-174: Update the test around the container-setup invocation to
read the existing seen-no-proxy artifact and assert that it contains the
expected NO_PROXY value, ensuring the script’s exported host-fencing setting is
verified even when the stub installer does not call curl.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Document the new token fallback in help and error text.

TOKEN now accepts GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN at Line [220]. However, usage() at Lines [78-79] and the API failure message at Line [246] still list only BATTEN_GITHUB_TOKEN, GH_TOKEN, and GITHUB_TOKEN. Add GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN to both messages so direct installer users can discover and use the fallback.

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In `@install.sh` around lines 213 - 220, Update the usage() help text and the API
failure message to include GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN alongside the existing
token variables, matching the fallback order used by TOKEN so users can discover
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In @.claude/container-setup.sh:
- Around line 71-76: Add github.com to the NO_PROXY host loop alongside the
existing GitHub domains so downloads performed through asset_url and fetch
bypass the proxy for release asset URLs.

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consolidated comment includes the required captured-NO_PROXY assertion.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add github.com to NO_PROXY before downloading release assets, and assert that fence in the setup test.

asset_url extracts asset URLs from github.com, but the current NO_PROXY list excludes that host. A proxy can therefore make either download fail even when api.github.com is direct. Add github.com to the loop. The test currently reads the bootstrap log even though its installer stub never calls curl, so it does not verify the fence; read seen-no-proxy and assert the expected value, including github.com.

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• .claude/container-setup.sh#L71-L76 (this comment)
• tests/container-setup.bats#L197-L209

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In @.claude/container-setup.sh around lines 71 - 76, Add github.com to the
NO_PROXY host loop alongside the existing GitHub domains so downloads performed
through asset_url and fetch bypass the proxy for release asset URLs.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/container-setup.bats` around lines 197 - 209: The
consolidated comment includes the required captured-NO_PROXY assertion.

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