docs: record that the session-start hook stores an absolute path (task 0042) #51

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4e92dde4e4 docs: break the declarative install path into tasks (tasks 0043-0045)
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Grilling task 0042's mitigation found its framing too narrow. Recording an
absolute entrypoint path is one defect; the deeper one is that `setup` is
write-only, and an operator whose agent configuration is generated
declaratively cannot let it write at all. On such a machine both halves fail —
`setup hooks` against a read-only settings file, and `setup` on an unhandled
filesystem error — and the Agent Skill gets hand-copied into the operator's own
configuration, where it silently drifts from the package that ships it.

Three tasks follow:

- 0043 records the bare binary name, resolved through PATH, so the hook
  survives an upgrade on any wrapper-based install. Fixes the marker-substring
  coupling with it and drops the derivation's build-tree rename.
- 0044 reports an unwritable target as a structured error naming no cause,
  rather than crashing.
- 0045 adds the declarative install path: a stable Skill location, the Skill
  and hook specification exposed as Nix-consumable attributes, one committed
  hook specification read by both the expression and the test suite, and a
  home-manager module wiring them. Blocked by 0043, whose bare name the
  specification declares.

CONTEXT.md gains the four terms this settled and amends `setup` and
`SessionStart hook`, which described the imperative path as the only one.
Entries for unbuilt work name the task that lands them, so the glossary does
not assert behaviour the code lacks.

The re-run-after-upgrade help text this branch added stays as it is: accurate
until 0043 removes it, which that task carries as a criterion.
2026-07-20 12:29:42 -04:00
397da5d7a6 docs: record that the session-start hook stores an absolute path (task 0042)
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Resolve the nix-flake-packaging spec's open verification item by observation
rather than inference, and act on the unfavourable answer.

`resolvePortableHookCommand` in axi-sdk-js returns the bare binary name only
when a PATH entry realpath-matches the entrypoint. npm symlinks its bin entry
straight at dist/main.js and satisfies that; Nix installs a generated wrapper
script whose realpath is the wrapper, so the absolute store path is recorded
instead. Verified by probing the SDK with both install shapes and by driving
the flake-built binary against a temporary HOME.

The path is content-addressed, so it moves on every rebuild and is eventually
collected, and a session-start hook that cannot execute fails silently. The
mitigation is documentation, per the decision recorded when the item was
opened: the setup help text now says to re-run `setup hooks` after an upgrade.

How the setup command constructs the hook is deliberately unchanged. Preferring
the bare name is the right answer for every wrapper-based install, not a Nix
special case, so it belongs in a successor task with its own ADR alongside the
related `isManagedHook` substring defect. package.nix's postUnpack rename
therefore stays; its comment no longer promises this task will remove it.
2026-07-20 10:03:45 -04:00