Cut v0.75.5b — fix cache-hit silent same-bytes regression
Publish Docker Image / smoke (push) Successful in 2m18s
Publish Docker Image / publish (push) Successful in 12m59s
Publish Docker Image / update-description (push) Successful in 11s

ALL FOUR releases v0.74.0 -> v0.75.5 had been shipping the same image
bytes due to a Docker layer-cache hit on the bare 'npm install -g
@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent' command (when PI_VERSION=latest).
The command string is identical across builds, so the layer-hash is
identical, so registry buildcache (cache-from/cache-to) silently
reuses the layer from whatever pi version was current when the cache
was first populated.

Verification: docker manifest inspect joakimp/pi-devbox:vX.Y.Z showed
identical SHA256 digests on both linux/amd64 and linux/arm64 for
v0.74.0, v0.75.3, v0.75.4, v0.75.5. Users on :latest were getting
whatever pi version was baked into the v0.74.0 build.

DISCOVERED 2026-05-23 by user trying to update pi-devbox on MBP-M1
and seeing pi 0.74.0 reported despite pulling v0.75.5.

CHANGES

.gitea/workflows/docker-publish.yml — both smoke and publish jobs
get a new 'Resolve PI_VERSION from tag' step that strips the leading
'v' and any trailing letter suffix from github.ref_name. Result is
passed as a build-arg to docker/build-push-action so the npm install
layer's hash includes the concrete version, forcing cache miss when
pi bumps.

scripts/smoke-test.sh — new run_expect helper that asserts pi
--version contains the EXPECTED_PI_VERSION env var. Smoke job sets
this from the resolve step output. Would have caught this regression
on v0.75.3.

Dockerfile — comment block above ARG PI_VERSION=latest documenting
the cache-hit footgun. The 'if latest' branch in the install RUN is
preserved for local dev convenience but never fires in CI now.

AGENTS.md — new convention bullet explaining the cache-hit class of
bug and noting the latent same-bug in opencode-devbox's with-pi
variants (currently masked by OPENCODE_VERSION bumps; will manifest
when cutting a vN.N.Nb-style opencode-version-unchanged release that
only bumps pi).

CHANGELOG.md — full entry under v0.75.5b describing the recovery,
the silent-failure mechanism, and the verification steps.

NO IMAGE-CONTENT CHANGES vs v0.75.5 INTENT. This build produces the
actual pi 0.75.5 image content that v0.75.5 was supposed to ship.

NEXT FOLLOWUP (parked, not in this commit)

opencode-devbox should get the same workflow change for its
build-variant-with-pi and build-variant-omos-with-pi jobs. Currently
masked because every release also bumps OPENCODE_VERSION which
invalidates the cache, but that masking would fail on a pi-only bump
release.
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@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ per version. Don't try to derive notes from the npm registry metadata
- Do NOT call `mempalace-toolkit/install.sh` in the Dockerfile — the base entrypoint handles it
- `NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/usr` must be set per-RUN for any build-time `npm install -g` to keep baked binaries off the volume-shadowed path
- The smoke test threshold is 2200 MB — update if the image legitimately grows past it
- **PI_VERSION must be passed explicitly by CI as a concrete version** (derived from the git tag), not left as the `latest` default. The Dockerfile's bare `npm install -g @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent` (without `@${PI_VERSION}`) produces an identical layer-hash across builds; combined with registry buildcache (`cache-from`/`cache-to`) the layer gets reused even when `latest` would have resolved to a newer pi version. **All releases v0.74.0 → v0.75.5 silently shipped the same image bytes** because of this (verified via `docker manifest inspect` — identical digests across both arches and all four tags). Fixed in v0.75.5b: workflow now derives `PI_VERSION` from `${{ github.ref_name }}` and passes it as a build-arg; smoke-test asserts the resulting `pi --version` matches via `EXPECTED_PI_VERSION` env var. Same latent bug exists in opencode-devbox's `with-pi` variants but is masked there because `OPENCODE_VERSION` bumps invalidate downstream layers — will only manifest when cutting a `vN.N.Nb`-style opencode-version-unchanged release that only bumps pi.
## Documentation drift sweep