The `pi install /opt/<pkg>` loop in entrypoint-user.sh guarded on a
whole-file substring grep of ~/.pi/agent/settings.json. settings.example.json
ships a top-level "pi-fork" CONFIG block (fork effort profiles, pi-toolkit
adb6907, 2026-06-17), so `grep -q pi-fork settings.json` matched the config
key itself and `pi install /opt/pi-fork` never ran — on fresh or preserved
volumes. The `fork` tool has therefore been absent since v1.0.0.
The non-destructive template merge runs earlier in the same startup than the
install loop, so the mechanism that delivers new template keys to an old
volume is what plants the string that defeats the guard. pi-observational-
memory and pi-studio escaped only by luck: the template key is
"observational-memory" (no pi- prefix) and there is no studio block.
Guard now inspects the `packages` array via jq, with a grep fallback on the
stored `.../opt/<name>"` path form, which a config key can never produce.
Existing volumes self-heal on the next container start.
Both test suites asserted the bug as green — smoke-test.sh:244 and
recreate-sanity-check.sh:204 used the same whole-file grep, so "pi-fork
registered (fork tool)" passed on every build and recreate while the tool was
missing. Both now assert against packages[] with the entrypoint's predicate,
labels say packages[], and the smoke readiness wait loop uses the array check
plus `docker exec -u developer` + $HOME instead of a hard-coded
/home/developer path.
Evidence: zero `fork` tool calls across all 19 sessions on this volume; the
v1.6.3 session that tuned pi-fork.deep to opus-5 was configuring a tool that
never loaded.
joakimp
8248688d58