v1.7.0: bundle pi-atelier at a pinned tag; pin pi to an audited 0.84.1

Two changes that belong together, because the first is what makes the second
dangerous to get wrong.

pi-atelier (TUI sidebar + status rail) is now vendored to /opt/pi-atelier at
PI_ATELIER_REF=v0.8.0 and registered by entrypoint-user.sh — the pi-fork /
pi-observational-memory / pi-studio pattern, deliberately NOT
`pi install npm:pi-atelier`, which writes into ~/.pi/npm-global on the config
volume where it shadows the image and pins nothing. Unlike its siblings it gets
no `npm install`: atelier declares zero runtime deps (peerDeps only, satisfied by
the baked pi) and has no build step, so pi loads its TypeScript straight from the
checkout via package.json `pi.extensions`.

pi is no longer resolved to npm `latest` at build time. The pin lives in
Dockerfile.variant and CI reads it from there, so a local `docker build` and a CI
release ship the same versions by construction. The pin is a CHECKPOINT, NOT A
FREEZE: bumping stays a one-line change; what stops is *unreviewed* adoption of
whatever shipped that morning, in the same build that then gets tagged and
published. CI fails when a pin is not concrete or not actually published on npm,
and warns — never adopts — when npm latest moves ahead, naming what to re-check.

Why this pairing needed care: pi-atelier 0.6.0/0.7.0 wrap pi's PRIVATE TUI
renderer, and under pi 0.84 that wrapper recurses — pi hangs at startup burning
CPU with no error. Upstream fixed the recursion in 0.7.1 and restored the
non-overlapping split in 0.7.2; 0.8.0 is additive on top. atelier's own
peerDependencies still say >=0.80.7, which does not express that floor, so
nothing in npm metadata could have warned us. The floor is therefore encoded as
an executable rule — pi >= 0.84 => pi-atelier >= 0.7.1 — asserted in both
smoke-test.sh (build time) and recreate-sanity-check.sh (after a real recreate),
verified against a 4x4 version matrix.

Existing volumes needed migration, not just vendoring: a hand-installed
`npm:pi-atelier` entry is counted as already-registered by the entrypoint guard,
so every existing volume would have kept its unpinned npm copy — and a 0.6.x copy
next to pi 0.84 is exactly the startup hang. The entrypoint now drops that one
exact string (settings.json.bak.atelier.<ts> backup, distinct prefix so it cannot
clobber the template merge's backup in the same second) and lets the pinned /opt
copy register. Tested against a real settings.json: only that entry removed,
other packages and all keys intact, idempotent, and unparseable JSON leaves the
file untouched. DEVBOX_ATELIER=0 opts out entirely — in the entrypoint rather
than via `pi uninstall`, because this component's failure mode is "pi will not
start", which cannot be repaired from inside pi.

0.84.1 was audited for this release, not merely adopted: theme/TUI changes are
additive, the session format is unchanged (CURRENT_SESSION_VERSION = 3 in both
0.83.0 and 0.84.1 with an identical migrateV1ToV2/migrateV2ToV3 ladder, so
existing transcripts are neither migrated nor at risk and pi-session-repair stays
valid), and the Node engine floor is unmoved at >=22.19.0. CI resolves the
atelier tag to its PEELED commit SHA — atelier uses annotated tags, so the
unpeeled ref is a tag object, not a commit; pi-studio's lightweight tags never
exposed that distinction.

Also: docs for overriding the read-only ~/.ssh/config from the container —
container-only keys in ~/.ssh-local, hardened authorized_keys, the fact that
`from=` must allow the HOST's addresses because container egress is NAT'd through
it, and the macOS-only-keyword trap (`UseKeychain` is fatal to Linux OpenSSH and
takes out dssh/pi --ssh while the host keeps working). Corrects two claims in
"Naming LAN peers": ssh-lan.conf is not ProxyJump-only, and first-time creation
does need one restart because the Include is emitted only when the file already
exists at start.

Dockerfile.variant

@@ -29,16 +29,34 @@ ARG USER_NAME=developer
 # runs each repo's install.sh on container start so symlinks land under
 # ~/.pi/agent/ on the named volume.
 #
-# PI_VERSION should be passed explicitly by CI as a concrete version
-# (resolved from `npm view @earendil-works/pi-coding-agent version`).
-# The default `latest` is for local dev convenience only — it has a
-# known cache-hit footgun in registry-cached CI builds: the resulting
-# build-arg string is byte-identical across builds, the layer-hash is
-# identical, and the registry buildcache silently reuses the layer
-# from whatever pi version was current when the cache was first
-# populated. CI MUST pass a resolved concrete version. See pi-devbox
-# v0.75.5b 2026-05-23 for the discovery + canonical fix.
-ARG PI_VERSION=latest
+# ── pi version pin: an AUDITED CHECKPOINT, not a freeze ──────────────
+# PI_VERSION is pinned to a version whose upstream CHANGELOG has been read
+# against this image's integration surface: the theme/TUI API that pi-atelier
+# couples to, the session `.jsonl` format that `pi-session-repair` parses, the
+# extension/package loader, and the Node engine floor. CI reads THIS LINE as
+# the single source of truth (see the `resolve-versions` job) and no longer
+# follows npm `latest` — following it meant every release silently adopted
+# whatever pi shipped that morning, unaudited, in the very build that then got
+# tagged and published.
+#
+# BUMPING IS ROUTINE AND EXPECTED — the pin exists to force a look, not to
+# hold a version forever:
+#   1. Read the upstream CHANGELOG for every version between old and new.
+#   2. Re-check the companions that couple to pi's private TUI/renderer
+#      internals — pi-atelier above all (see PI_ATELIER_REF below for the
+#      0.6.0-under-pi-0.84 startup-hang precedent).
+#   3. Bump this line, record the audit in CHANGELOG.md, then tag.
+# CI fails the build if this pin is not a published npm version, and warns —
+# without adopting it — when npm `latest` has moved ahead. That warning is the
+# prompt to do step 1; it is not something to silence.
+#
+# A concrete version here ALSO defeats the registry-buildcache cache-hit
+# footgun that `latest` carried: a byte-identical build-arg string produced an
+# identical layer hash, so the cache reused the layer from whatever pi was
+# current when it was first populated (shipped the same bytes for pi-devbox
+# v0.74.0..v0.75.5; discovered + fixed in v0.75.5b, 2026-05-23). The `latest`
+# branch below is kept only for a deliberate local `docker build` override.
+ARG PI_VERSION=0.84.1
 ARG PI_TOOLKIT_REF=main
 ARG PI_EXTENSIONS_REF=main
 # Repo URLs default to the canonical gitea origin but are overridable so a
@@ -54,6 +72,29 @@ ARG PI_FORK_REPO=https://github.com/elpapi42/pi-fork.git
 ARG PI_FORK_REF=master
 ARG PI_OBSMEM_REPO=https://github.com/elpapi42/pi-observational-memory.git
 ARG PI_OBSMEM_REF=master
+# pi-atelier (TUI sidebar: ordered panels, split-pane, themes) is PINNED TO A
+# TAG, which CI resolves to that tag's commit SHA — same treatment as
+# pi-studio, for reproducibility plus cache-busting.
+#
+# This floor is hard-earned. pi-atelier 0.6.0/0.7.0 wrapped pi's PRIVATE TUI
+# renderer, and under pi 0.84 that wrapper recursed: pi hung at startup with
+# sustained CPU. Upstream fixed the recursion in 0.7.1 and restored the
+# non-overlapping split in 0.7.2 — "avoiding the recursive render path that
+# caused startup hangs and sustained CPU usage". Its own peerDependencies
+# still say `>=0.80.7`, which does NOT encode that floor, so nothing would
+# have warned us: NEVER pair pi-atelier < 0.7.1 with pi >= 0.84. Bump this
+# pin and PI_VERSION together, checking atelier's CHANGELOG for the pi
+# version it claims to track.
+#
+# No `npm install` step, unlike pi-fork/pi-observational-memory/pi-studio:
+# pi-atelier declares ZERO runtime dependencies (only peerDeps, satisfied by
+# the baked pi) and has no build step — pi loads its TypeScript directly from
+# the /opt checkout. Adding an install here would be a no-op that only costs
+# build time.
+ARG PI_ATELIER_REPO=https://github.com/michaelmjhhhh/pi-atelier.git
+ARG PI_ATELIER_REF=v0.8.0
+# Human-readable tag PI_ATELIER_REF was resolved from; recorded as a label.
+ARG PI_ATELIER_VERSION=v0.8.0
 
 RUN set -e && \
     # git_fetch_ref: clone-equivalent helper that accepts EITHER a branch name
@@ -87,12 +128,14 @@ RUN set -e && \
     git_fetch_ref   "${PI_EXTENSIONS_REPO}" "${PI_EXTENSIONS_REF}" /opt/pi-extensions && \
     git_fetch_ref   "${PI_FORK_REPO}"   "${PI_FORK_REF}"   /opt/pi-fork && \
     git_fetch_ref   "${PI_OBSMEM_REPO}" "${PI_OBSMEM_REF}" /opt/pi-observational-memory && \
+    git_fetch_ref   "${PI_ATELIER_REPO}" "${PI_ATELIER_REF}" /opt/pi-atelier && \
     (cd /opt/pi-fork && npm install --omit=dev --no-audit --no-fund) && \
     (cd /opt/pi-observational-memory && npm install --omit=dev --no-audit --no-fund) && \
     echo "pi-toolkit at $(cd /opt/pi-toolkit && git rev-parse --short HEAD)" && \
     echo "pi-extensions at $(cd /opt/pi-extensions && git rev-parse --short HEAD)" && \
     echo "pi-fork at $(cd /opt/pi-fork && git rev-parse --short HEAD)" && \
-    echo "pi-observational-memory at $(cd /opt/pi-observational-memory && git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
+    echo "pi-observational-memory at $(cd /opt/pi-observational-memory && git rev-parse --short HEAD)" && \
+    echo "pi-atelier at $(cd /opt/pi-atelier && git rev-parse --short HEAD) (${PI_ATELIER_VERSION})"
 
 # ── Image-baked skill refresh: pi-extensions (Option 1 over Option 2) ──
 # rootfs ships a VENDORED snapshot of the pi-extensions skill at
@@ -239,6 +282,8 @@ LABEL org.opencontainers.image.version="${RELEASE_TAG}" \
       se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-extensions-ref="${PI_EXTENSIONS_REF}" \
       se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-fork-ref="${PI_FORK_REF}" \
       se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-obsmem-ref="${PI_OBSMEM_REF}" \
+      se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-atelier-ref="${PI_ATELIER_REF}" \
+      se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-atelier-version="${PI_ATELIER_VERSION}" \
       se.jordbo.pi-devbox.mempalace-toolkit-ref="${MEMPALACE_TOOLKIT_REF}" \
       se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-studio-ref="${PI_STUDIO_REF}" \
       se.jordbo.pi-devbox.pi-studio-version="${PI_STUDIO_VERSION}"
@@ -265,6 +310,7 @@ RUN set -e; \
       echo "    \"pi-extensions\": \"$(rev /opt/pi-extensions)\","; \
       echo "    \"pi-fork\": \"$(rev /opt/pi-fork)\","; \
       echo "    \"pi-observational-memory\": \"$(rev /opt/pi-observational-memory)\","; \
+      echo "    \"pi-atelier\": \"$(rev /opt/pi-atelier)\","; \
       echo "    \"mempalace-toolkit\": \"$(rev /opt/mempalace-toolkit)\","; \
       echo "    \"pi-studio\": ${STUDIO_REV}"; \
       echo "  }"; \