The two most recent Unreleased entries (pi-extensions 25c1265: task tool +
fork-gate; mempalace-toolkit 817b3a8: the mine deadline that never reached
the transport) reached this image through floating *_REF=main ARGs. Neither
produced a diff here, so nothing asked for a CHANGELOG line, and neither had
one until a reader asked. Same class as check 8 — a claim with no in-repo
anchor rots — and the hand practice that covered it (the per-release
"Dependency audit" table, Baked-in vs Upstream-now) is a someone-remembers
mechanism that had lapsed.
Method, no docker/crane/token: last published vX.Y.Z from Hub's tag list
(one request, now shared with check 8); its amd64 config blob via the
anonymous registry API carries one se.jordbo.pi-devbox.<name>-ref label per
component with the SHA the build-args baked. "Would bake" is resolved the way
resolve-versions does it: 40-hex ARG is itself, branch/tag via git ls-remote
with the peeled ^{} form preferred, pi-studio = highest semver tag (label on
<tag>-studio), PI_VERSION as a literal against the pi-version label. Nine
components, ~7.5 s. Unchanged: OK. Moved: the new value's 7-char prefix (tag
for studio, version for pi) must appear above the last published version's
"## " heading — Unreleased plus any not-yet-published section, which is what
the release commit turns Unreleased into, so the tag build passes on the same
text. A published tag with no heading is a failure, not a skip.
First run found a move nobody had recorded: pi-observational-memory 7b397f4
-> cba0334 (6 commits, 3.1.1 -> 3.1.3; memory workers now routed by the
model's exact provider instead of the first registered provider with a
matching api — upstream #70). Named in the CHANGELOG with the honest scope:
no expected effect on the shipped bedrock-only configuration, unmeasured.
Sabotage-tested, expectation written before each run:
obsmem SHA removed from CHANGELOG ............ rc=1 DRIFT
Unreleased renamed to "## v1.9.3 — …" ........ rc=0 (release-commit shape)
"## v1.9.2" heading mangled to v1.9.2-typo .... rc=1 — this one FAILED first:
\b accepted "v1.9.2-typo" as v1.9.2's heading; now (\s|$)
bare "## v1.9.2" (no date) ................... rc=0
ARG PI_OBSMEM_REPO renamed ................... rc=2 (blind gate must not pass;
read_arg calls are bare top-level assignments on purpose — nested in a
heredoc's $(...) the exit 2 is swallowed by cat)
offline (proxy to a closed port) ............. rc=0, 2 SKIPs counted
SKIP_REF_CHECK=1 ............................. rc=0, 1 SKIP counted
restored ..................................... rc=0, files byte-identical
GIT_TERMINAL_PROMPT=0 on ls-remote: a repo flipped private fails in 0.3 s as
a SKIP instead of waiting for a username until the job times out.
Header, lint.yml job comment and AGENTS.md all still said this gate "needs
no network" — false since check 8 (2026-09-14). Now: two classes, hermetic
1-7 and published-state 8-9 that SKIP loudly and counted when offline.
Considered and not added: compose <-> .env.example variable cross-check (the
four mismatches are commented-out lines, the mempalace-server compose file's
own variables, and entrypoint-consumed ones — it would fire on nothing
wrong); "documented tag exists on Hub" (check 8 already SKIPs by name; a
hard fail would misreport the tag-to-publish window).
Joakim Persson
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