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+# Devcontainer Dependency Updates - Currently Disabled
+
+The `devcontainer.yaml` updatecli manifest has been temporarily disabled (renamed to `devcontainer.yaml.disabled`) due to technical limitations with updatecli's handling of JSON keys containing special characters.
+
+## The Problem
+
+The devcontainer.json file uses feature keys with dots, slashes, and colons:
+```json
+{
+  "features": {
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/docker-in-docker:2": {
+      "version": "v27.0.3"
+    },
+    "ghcr.io/devcontainers/features/github-cli:1": {
+      "version": "v2.83.1"
+    }
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Updatecli cannot reliably target these keys using:
+- **JSON kind**: JSONPath bracket notation fails to find the values
+- **YAML kind**: Yamlpath complains about invalid characters in the path
+- **File kind**: Complex multiline pattern matching is error-prone
+
+## Manual Update Process
+
+Until this is resolved, devcontainer dependency versions should be updated manually:
+
+1. Check latest Docker version: https://github.com/moby/moby/releases
+2. Check latest GitHub CLI version: https://github.com/cli/cli/releases
+3. Update `.devcontainer/devcontainer.json` manually
+4. Test in GitHub Codespaces to verify functionality
+
+## Potential Solutions
+
+- Wait for updatecli to improve JSON/YAML path handling for keys with special characters
+- Consider restructuring devcontainer.json to use simpler feature keys (requires changes to devcontainer spec)
+- Create a custom script to handle these specific updates outside of updatecli
+
+## Re-enabling
+
+To re-enable when a solution is found:
+```bash
+mv updatecli/updatecli.d/devcontainer.yaml.disabled updatecli/updatecli.d/devcontainer.yaml
+```
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