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What this changes

The UI can now mount below an application path while serving bundled assets from a separate prefix. Package assembly creates and verifies every declared asset root. The distro-installed user unit has the correct service identity, and five installer corrections make fresh installation agree with real filesystem, systemd, and daemon behavior.

Why

Embedded applications need route matching, links, and images to agree on their host paths. The UI previously assumed the origin root in several rendered links and bundled image URLs. A new startup mount carries separate application and asset prefixes; the standalone UI keeps its root defaults. Imperative navigation stays application-relative because Leptos already applies the router base.

Package assembly also had two mismatched contracts. The manifest declared an optional site directory that the producer omitted when empty, and the shell verifier accepted the missing root. The distro-installed user unit identified itself as a system service despite running in the user manager. The producer now creates all declared roots, verification checks their exact file counts, and both shipped user units advertise user-service ownership.

Actual fresh installation exposed one more mismatch: systemd does not return a service-specific ExecStart property for a nonexistent unit. The parser now supplies an empty command only for an explicitly not-found unit. Every other required field, loaded-unit identity check, and transactional ownership check remains intact.

The installer also inspected public entries before creating their missing parent directories. Reads now accept absence only through checked ancestor observations. Each present observation retains its directory authority, so a replaced directory cannot silently become the new trusted parent. One observation map owns both state and authority; mutations keep their strict preconditions.

Three later installation checkpoints needed the same producer/consumer alignment:

  • Managed icon links now have one validator. Fixed-layout inspection owns their exact targets; the legacy extras walk no longer rejects links created by the current transaction. Unsupported legacy symlinks still fail.
  • Systemd may discover a published unit before an explicit reload. The launcher checkpoint accepts that exact inactive candidate, but still rejects foreign paths, commands, enablement, and active processes. Reload and running-process ownership proof remain mandatory.
  • Runtime proof now reads the current /api/v1/system resource and its nested identity instead of the retired server endpoint. Health, exact version, bounded responses, and process ownership remain required; flat or incomplete identities still fail.

Verification

  • Added or updated tests
  • Added or updated docs (README, AGENTS.md, relevant spec, or guide)
  • just verify passes locally (Rust fmt + lint + test)
  • just deny passes (required for dependency or license changes)
  • just ui-test and just ui-build pass (required for crates/hypercolor-ui/)
  • just sdk-lint, just sdk-check, and just sdk-build pass (required for sdk/)
  • just python-verify passes (required for python/)
  • just compat-check passes (required for data/drivers/vendors/*.toml)
  • just docs-build passes (required for docs or README changes)
  • cd docs && zola check passes (required for docs link/content changes)
  • Packaging scripts were syntax-checked (required for scripts/ or packaging/)
  • just e2e-build passes with the normal Servo stack (required for daemon/UI/effect integration changes)
  • just e2e-build-cpu passes when validating the CPU smoke fallback
  • just e2e passes against the Servo stack (required for end-to-end behavior changes; starts daemon/browser)
  • Tested on real hardware, simulator, or e2e harness (describe below)

The dependency/license, SDK, Python client, compatibility database, and documentation gates do not apply to this diff. The workspace check and standalone UI build pass. The complete local just verify and Servo E2E gates have not run for this head.

  • The package producer/verifier fixture suite passes five tests, including missing-root, incorrect-count, and wrong-root-type rejection. The unchanged defective archive now fails with the same missing-site-root error as the runtime installer.
  • The UI route suite passes eight tests, including mounted preview links with display selection. The display suite passes 21 tests.
  • The full standalone UI suite passes 429 tests. The complete native-app suite passes 179 tests, including 53 packaging cases. Two older archive fixtures now include their declared empty roots without weakening their rejection assertions.
  • The new shell suite runs in the existing shared CI job. Packaging-only changes now select that job. Actionlint, shell syntax, and scoped diff checks pass.
  • The complete CLI suite passes 252 tests. Regressions cover captured absent-unit output, virgin-home creation, replaced parents, managed icon ownership, exact inactive launcher discovery, and the current nested runtime identity. Negative cases retain rejection of missing fields, foreign ownership, unsupported symlinks, and malformed responses. Each installer correction passed independent review and focused execution.
  • Actual Ubuntu 24.04 packages pass artifact verification and require at most glibc 2.39. The four-case Debian package proof passes installation and serving-byte checks, restart, crash recovery, and purge. The final tarball installs successfully into two disposable user-service guests with matching archive and executable hashes.
  • The final packaged CLI passes seven real-binary updater scenarios: TLS refusal, manifest tampering, artifact tampering, signed installation, installed health, signed rollback, and rollback health. The proof uses disposable signing material and distinct current/previous daemon binaries.
  • Independent browser QA passes mounted navigation, deep reload, preview query selection, keyboard navigation, and separate asset loading. A second browser run passes both successful loading and corrupted-manifest refusal.
  • Independent review found the remaining Studio preview link and stale service-identity assertion; both corrections passed closure review. The configured cross-family source review found no further production-code defect in the declared scope.

Notes for reviewers

The small fixture binaries exercise package assembly only; the installation and updater results above use rebuilt native executables. Successful installation does not claim complete downstream journey coverage. The shared Rust check previously reported test-only unwrap_used diagnostics. Descriptive test expectations now pass the exact shared Clippy command locally and in hosted CI on a42dc5151. Hosted run 33954174819 completed successfully on that exact head, including shared Rust checks/tests, UI, native-app and daemon tests, macOS on both architectures, Windows, and Servo and CPU E2E. Release-only jobs were not selected. The PR is ready for review; no merge, release or production deployment is claimed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for hosting the UI under custom route and asset prefixes, including mount-aware navigation, links, images, and embedded deployments.
    • Release packages now include agent skills and agent resources when available.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Linux installation handling for missing, replaced, malformed, or symbolic-link directories and service states.
    • Updated system identity checks to use the current system endpoint and identity format.
    • Corrected packaged user-service identification.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for embedded routing, Linux installation scenarios, and release artifact validation.

Create every declared asset directory even when optional documentation
is empty. Reject missing roots and incorrect counts before installation
so shell verification agrees with the runtime manifest validator.

The system-installed daemon unit runs in the user manager and must
advertise user-service ownership. Exercise real bundle assembly with
positive and negative layout checks and both shipped unit identities.
Embedded applications need router matching, rendered links, active
navigation, and bundled images to agree on their host paths. Carry
validated route and asset prefixes through the startup extension seam,
with unchanged root defaults for the standalone application.

Keep imperative navigation application-relative because Leptos already
applies the router base. Preserve display selection on preview links.
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The pull request updates Linux installation validation, adds mount-aware routing and asset resolution for embedded UI deployments, and strengthens release artifact packaging checks for asset directories and packaged user service metadata.

Linux installation validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Public tree authority and legacy traversal
crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/directory.rs, crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/executor.rs, crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/legacy.rs, crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/*_tests.rs
Directory observations retain authorities and validate ancestry. Missing public directories return absent entries. Managed fixed-layout symlinks are accepted.
Systemd discovery and lifecycle checks
crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/model.rs, platform.rs, executor_tests.rs, tests/linux_install_platform_tests.rs
Absent units parse with an empty ExecStart. Exact inactive candidate discovery is accepted. Foreign or running manager states are rejected.
System identity proof
crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/proof.rs, executor.rs, tests/linux_install_platform_tests.rs
HTTP ownership checks use /api/v1/system and nested identity fields under /data/identity. Tests cover valid, missing, flat, and mismatched identities.

Mounted UI routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Mount contract and route helpers
crates/hypercolor-ui/src/route_ui.rs, extensions.rs, lib.rs, tests/route_ui_tests.rs
UiMount validates route and asset prefixes and provides mount-aware URL, active-route, relative-path, and canvas-mode helpers.
Mounted navigation and asset consumers
crates/hypercolor-ui/src/app.rs, components/*, pages/studio/stage.rs, vendors.rs
The app provides UiMount context. The router, navigation, preview links, canvas selection, logos, brand marks, and vendor assets use shared mount helpers.

Release artifact contracts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Artifact production and verification
scripts/dist.sh, scripts/verify-release-artifact.sh, scripts/tests/release-artifact-tests.sh, .github/workflows/ci.yml
Distribution creates agent asset roots. Verification checks directory type, symlink status, recursive file counts, and manifest counts. CI runs the release artifact tests.
Packaged user service contract
packaging/systemd/user/hypercolor.service.system, crates/hypercolor-app/tests/packaging_tests.rs, scripts/tests/release-artifact-tests.sh
Packaged units use the user service identity and required systemd settings. Packaging fixtures include empty docs and site directories.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to a42dc

The installer can accept a replaced directory during installation, and agent-only packaging changes can bypass their artifact checks. These issues should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Extension as UiExtensions
  participant App as app_view
  participant Router
  Extension->>App: provide UiMount context
  App->>Router: configure route_base
  Router-->>App: resolve mounted routes
  App->>App: resolve navigation and asset URLs
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Keep app fixtures valid under the six-root artifact contract so their
negative cases reach the intended validation. Assert user-service
ownership for the distro-installed user unit, matching its manager.

Run producer and verifier regressions in the existing shared CI job,
including when only packaging inputs change. All 179 app tests and
five shell cases pass, with independent verification of the delta.
A nonexistent unit has no service interface, so systemctl omits ExecStart
while returning the other requested unit fields. Requiring that field
prevented first installation on an actual Ubuntu 24.04 user manager.

Normalize only the missing command of an explicitly not-found unit.
Keep all other field, loaded-unit, and ownership validation strict.
Captured-output regressions and all 244 CLI tests pass.
Fresh installations inspect public entries before creating their parent
directories. Report exact absence through validated parent observations
instead of requiring a directory authority that does not exist yet.

Retain each present directory handle in the same observation record.
Revalidate ancestry before reads so newly appeared or replaced parents
fail closed. Directory mutations keep their existing strict checks.

All 247 CLI tests pass, including virgin-home creation, appeared-parent
and symlink rejection, and replacement of an already observed directory.
The legacy extras walk rejected icon links created by the same install
transaction. Exclude fixed layout leaves from that second inventory so
one owner validates their recorded targets and mutation state.

Keep rejecting unsupported symlinks among historical owned extras, and
cover all three managed icon sizes with a filesystem regression.
Systemd can discover a newly published unit during inspection before an
explicit manager reload. Accept that exact inactive candidate at the
launcher checkpoint alongside the prior cached manager observation.

Keep the later reload and runtime ownership proofs mandatory. Reject
foreign fragments, commands, unexpected enablement and active processes.
The server discovery endpoint was retired, but Linux installation still
queried it and rolled back a healthy daemon after receiving a 404.
Use the existing anonymous system resource and its nested identity.

Keep health, exact version, process ownership and response-size checks.
Reject retired flat responses and missing or mismatched identity fields.
The shared CI lint gate rejects bare unwraps in installation tests.
Replace them with descriptive expectations while preserving every
fixture operation and assertion. Runtime code is unchanged.

The exact shared Clippy command and all 252 CLI tests pass. Independent
verification repeats the affected unit and platform test binaries.
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the existing path pattern style; ensure changes only in these paths set the rust
output and allow rust-check-shared to run the release artifact tests.

In `@crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/directory.rs`:
- Line 165: In the directory reopening flow, change the validation call at the
`retained.validate_ancestry()` site to validate `authority` instead. Keep the
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  • crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/executor_tests.rs
  • crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/legacy.rs
  • crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/legacy_tests.rs
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  • crates/hypercolor-cli/tests/linux_install_platform_tests.rs
  • crates/hypercolor-ui/src/app.rs
  • crates/hypercolor-ui/src/components/mobile_nav.rs
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  • crates/hypercolor-ui/src/pages/studio/stage.rs
  • crates/hypercolor-ui/src/route_ui.rs
  • crates/hypercolor-ui/src/vendors.rs
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Include packaged agent sources in the Rust change filter.

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.map_err(io_error)?;
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retained.validate_ancestry().map_err(io_error)?;

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Validate the reopened directory authority.

Line 165 validates retained a second time. Validate authority instead. Otherwise, an attacker can replace the path during reopening, restore the retained path before this check, and cause this function to return an unretained directory authority.

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-        retained.validate_ancestry().map_err(io_error)?;
+        authority.validate_ancestry().map_err(io_error)?;
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retained.validate_ancestry().map_err(io_error)?;
authority.validate_ancestry().map_err(io_error)?;
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In `@crates/hypercolor-cli/src/install/linux/directory.rs` at line 165, In the
directory reopening flow, change the validation call at the
`retained.validate_ancestry()` site to validate `authority` instead. Keep the
existing `map_err(io_error)` handling and ensure the reopened directory
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