Right-click menus: one portal shell (components/ContextMenu.tsx) for every
item with actions - sidebar/Recents/archived session rows (SessionMenu),
console tabs, pane headers, the Changes panel's files/tree/commits, the
workspace home, sessions outside a workspace (SessionRowMenu: Sessions
table, Dashboard, Activity, Workflow runs), prompt images, every Settings
list and every Claude Code/Codex config list (FileItemMenu). Buttons stay;
a delete keeps its button's confirm; the shell stops portal clicks from
reaching the card that opened it.
Status bar: Workspace $ and Session $ on the Workspace page, from
?lane= on GET /api/pricing/cost and the focused/replayed session's cost.
Database, no data dropped: synchronous=NORMAL, journal_size_limit 64 MB,
hourly PASSIVE checkpoint + PRAGMA optimize, idx_events_session_created
(replacing the redundant idx_events_session), watchdog reads
sessions.transcript_path, transcript parsed before the hook's write
transaction, GET /api/sessions/:id?events=0 for the web page (reloads only
on its own session, debounced), streamed export, transactional clear-data
and chunked cleanup, subagent import reads tool_use_ids once, runtime logs
rotated past 5 MB.
A `claude plugin update` run from a terminal (or with only the Claude desktop
app open) unpacks the new build and starts nothing: no SessionStart fires, so
the dashboard kept running the old cache dir across reboots, and with the
forge unreachable the sidebar read "Up to date" (seen on a machine stuck at
1.8.10).
- pluginStatus asks supersededBy for its own root: a recorded sibling install
sets `installed_not_running: {root, version}` and `update_available`, with
no network needed
- the sidebar reads "<version> installed, not running"; the update modal keys
on it, so Update now is offered even with no release tag or sha
- plugin-update-helper hands over to the recorded install first, the newest
sibling dir only as a fallback
- a plugin install whose release lookup failed reads "Could not check for
updates" instead of "Up to date"
- docs/PLUGINS.md: the case and the manual hand-over command
An older Claude Code has no -y on `plugin install|update` and exits with
"error: unknown option '-y'", so the dashboard's Update now chain failed at
its plugin_update step (and so did Update all, the plugin buttons and the
superpowers auto-install). Those versions also predate the confirmation
prompt -y answers, so every wrapper now retries the same argv without it
when, and only when, the CLI rejects the flag. /agenthub-update, which the
failure message points users to, falls back the same way.
After the 1.5.2 -> 1.5.3 self-update the server ran 1.5.3 while the dashboard
still served the 1.5.2 UI. The client build had failed, and `runtime/client-dist`
still held the previous version's bundle, so nothing looked broken — the only
signal was the Settings page's "UI build v1.5.2 (rebuild client to match)".
Cause: the whole client build toolchain (vite, typescript,
@vitejs/plugin-react, tailwindcss, @types/*) is a devDependency, and npm reads
NODE_ENV=production as --omit=dev (`NODE_ENV=production npm config get omit` ->
`dev`). The dashboard server runs with NODE_ENV=production, and every bootstrap
descended from it inherits that: the plugin-update chain, and any SessionStart
fired by a `claude` running in a tmux pane the server started. So `npm ci`
dropped vite, `tsc -b` died on missing type declarations, and buildClient
returned "failed" with the stale bundle left in place.
`--include=dev` on both install paths — a CLI flag outranks the env, which is
the point. Verified by running buildClient with NODE_ENV=production against the
installed plugin root: previously "failed", now "built", and the served bundle
carries 1.5.3.
Also: plugin-update-helper writes its verdict BEFORE the bootstrap handover as
well as after. That step retires the process tree the helper hangs off, and the
observed run reached the new server with no verdict file at all — the dashboard
reported `last_plugin_update: null` for an update that had actually succeeded.
Update detection was a commit count against the default branch, which says nothing about whether a *version* shipped and is pure noise on the plugin cache (a depth-1 clone, where every distance is a graft artefact). It now reads the forge's own releases API and compares the published tag to this install's package.json version, falling back to the commit count only when no release can be read — with the reason in release_check, so "up to date" never silently means "we could not look".
Two states a commit count cannot express: dev_build (ahead of the newest release, missing nothing from it) now reads "Dev build - N ahead" instead of a false "Up to date"; and on a shallow clone every commits_*_release field is null and dev_build is never asserted, because the numbers would be meaningless.
POST /api/updates/apply gains a second mode, chosen by install kind and never by the request body. A checkout still fast-forwards onto the release tag, rebuilds and self-restarts. A ~/.claude/plugins/cache/ install is refused by applyUpdate (that directory is Claude Code's to replace) and handed instead to a detached chain: claude plugin marketplace update -> claude plugin update -y -> plugin-bootstrap.js --force from the NEW cache dir, which retires this server and starts its replacement. Both write the HTTP response before anything stops the process.
The chain records every outcome to plugin-update.json in the runtime dir, outside the cache the update replaces, so the next server reports it as last_plugin_update: a failed chain is otherwise indistinguishable from a slow one, and the tab would poll a server that never returns. /reload-plugins is deliberately not in the chain - it is REPL-scoped to the session that runs it, so no background process can perform it, and plugin-bootstrap derives PLUGIN_ROOT from its own __dirname, which is what makes it unnecessary for the dashboard.
Also rebrands the sidebar subtitle, splash and page title to SmartGift Solution, and corrects three ARCHITECTURE.md statements that claimed /apply did not exist.
Verified: server 1683/1683, client 486/486, build, prettier, file-header audit, openapi.yaml regenerated.
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