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Upgrade Manager-Installed Agent Tools Through Their Own Manager - #4095
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install-agents --upgrade / -Upgrade left an agent tool installed through a package manager untouched. The Windows note claimed "installed through npm, which upgrades it", but npm upgrades nothing on its own. Only winget (upgrade-host.ps1) and apt (upgrade-host.sh) were ever upgraded, so an npm-installed opencode on a Windows 11 host stayed at 1.18.18 while other hosts moved on. Approved by the maintainer.
A manager-installed tool is now upgraded through that same manager, one package only:
Manager
Command
Platforms
npm
npm install -g <pkg>@latest
both
bun
bun install -g <pkg>@latest
both
scoop
scoop update <app>
Windows
Homebrew
brew upgrade [--cask] <name>
Linux
mise
mise upgrade <key>
Linux
Ownership is asked of the manager, not read from the path's shape. npm claims a tool only under its own npm root -g (Linux) or npm prefix -g (Windows), with every link resolved on both sides, and is asked before any other manager's path shape, so an npm global under a scoop, mise or Homebrew Node never upgrades Node itself. The mise key comes from mise ls --json by install path. The scoop app comes only from directly under a scoop root's apps directory, with ~ expanded. A tool the manager cannot confirm is reported with its command, and nothing runs.
Nothing elevates. choco is reported with its command, since this script refuses to run elevated. An npm prefix the user cannot write to is reported, after following an nvm-windows junction to its target. Nix is reported. winget and apt stay with upgrade-host, and the note says so.
npm and bun package names come from a per-tool record: claude @anthropic-ai/claude-code, codex @openai/codex, opencode opencode-ai. herdr and cswap have none and are reported, not guessed.
Dry run and report. A dry run prints the command. Report notes name the command an upgrade will run, or why it will not.
Failure. A failing manager adds the tool to Failed, the run exits 1, and the other tools still run.
The .sh and .ps1 scripts behave the same.
Open Findings
host-setup/linux/install-agents.sh:259-272, 361-362 (introduced, design): npm_root's once-only cache never takes effect, because tool_manager runs inside $(...). manager_plan also reads npm root -g inline instead of calling npm_root. No behavior changes. The local edit budget was spent, so this was fixed in this pull request's review loop, in 69c66c2: manager_plan calls npm_root, which caches nothing. A recorded local pass over that head found nothing open.
Verification
tests/test_install_agents.py (51, including the PowerShell cases under pwsh), tests/test_bootstrap.py (186), tests/test_cli_usage.py, tests/test_global_rules.py and the kit's test_install.py pass. build_dist.py --check is current. ruff, mypy and the prose gate are clean. docker_lint.py passes shellcheck, shfmt, PSScriptAnalyzer and markdownlint.
Not executed: any real package manager. All tests use stub managers on PATH. The nvm-windows junction case is tested in two halves on Linux pwsh, which cannot create a junction.
An agent tool installed through a package manager was left untouched on upgrade, and the Windows note said the manager "upgrades it", which is false because npm never upgrades on its own. An npm-installed opencode therefore sat several releases behind other hosts.
install-agents.sh and install-agents.ps1 now upgrade such a tool through that same manager, for that one package. npm and bun install the package at its latest tag, Homebrew upgrades the formula or cask, mise upgrades the tool, and scoop updates the app. The tool's own updater is still never run over a manager's files. winget and apt stay with upgrade-host, Nix is declarative, and choco needs an elevated shell, so each is reported with its command and nothing is run. An npm directory the user cannot write is reported the same way. Nothing elevates, a dry run prints the manager command, and a failing manager is recorded while the other tools still run.
The npm and bun package name is a per-tool record in each script. Homebrew, mise, scoop and choco names are read from where the manager put the files. The report notes name the command an upgrade will run, or why none will.
Refs #2553
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The manager upgrade classified a tool by the shape of its path, which could run the wrong manager. A tool is now upgraded through a manager only where that manager confirms it owns the files, and otherwise the command is reported and nothing is run.
On both platforms the npm on PATH must report a root or prefix that holds the tool: the global root on Linux, and the prefix on Windows, where the shims sit directly in it, as in Program Files\nodejs. A node_modules path outside that is not claimed. On Linux a mise or Homebrew directory is read before the generic node_modules shape, and the mise key comes from mise's own listing matched on install path, not from the directory name. The scoop app is read from directly under a scoop root's own apps directory, so a directory named Apps elsewhere in the path no longer misleads it. A link or junction to an npm prefix is followed before the Program Files rule applies, so nvm-windows counts as writable.
Refs #2553
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An ordinary npm global can sit under a node that mise or Homebrew manages, and the mise and Cellar arms claimed it, so an upgrade ran mise upgrade node or brew upgrade for the node instead of the tool. tool_manager now asks the npm on PATH first, as install-agents.ps1 does. A tool under npm root -g is npm's and is upgraded with npm install -g. Only otherwise are mise, Homebrew and the path shape tried, so a mise npm-backend tool, which is not under npm's root, still goes to mise.
scoop which prints a per-user install through a friendly path that begins with a tilde, which Get-ScoopApp never matched, so the default scoop install was no longer upgraded. A leading ~\ or ~/ is expanded to the profile before the roots are compared.
Refs #2553
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The Linux and Windows agent installers now detect package-manager ownership and run supported manager-specific upgrades. They report commands or reasons no command will run, record upgrade failures, and track tool version changes. Documentation and tests describe the updated behavior.
Changes: Agent tool upgrades
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Linux manager detection and upgrades host-setup/linux/install-agents.sh, host-setup/linux/README.md, docs/host-setup.md, tests/test_install_agents.py
The Linux installer checks manager ownership and plans upgrades for npm, Bun, Homebrew, and mise. It reports plans or reasons no command will run, then records manager failures and version changes. Tests cover ownership checks, upgrade plans, dry runs, and failures. The documentation describes apt and Nix handling and unwritable npm directories.
Windows manager detection and upgrades host-setup/windows/install-agents.ps1, host-setup/windows/README.md, tests/test_install_agents.py
The Windows installer checks npm and Scoop ownership and plans supported upgrades. It reports plans or reasons no command will run, then records manager failures and version changes. Tests cover npm, Bun, Scoop, WinGet, Chocolatey, and resolved-path checks.
ptr727/ProjectTemplate#4088: Adds bootstrap entry points that upgrade installed agent tools, connecting to the upgrade behavior changed here.
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With --upgrade, an agent installed inside a Homebrew or mise Node install can cause the Node package to be upgraded instead of the agent. On Windows, Scoop apps in a global or custom Scoop root may not be upgraded correctly. These should be fixed before merge; the effect is limited to users who run the upgrade option.
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npm_root's once-only cache never took effect, because every caller runs it inside $(...), and
manager_plan read npm root -g inline in a second copy. manager_plan now calls npm_root, which
caches nothing. Behavior is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Approval is blocked by an active Windows manager-detection defect that can misclassify npm-owned Scoop shims and invoke the wrong updater, along with an unresolved npm-root cache bypass in the Linux installer.
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A Node that scoop, choco, or winget installed puts npm's global prefix under that manager's
tree, so the scoop, choco, and winget path checks ran first and claimed an npm global shim.
That would have run scoop update nodejs instead of upgrading the tool. npm ownership is now
asked before every path shape, as on Linux.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Scoop's Node names its persist directory as npm's prefix while PATH lists the linked
apps\nodejs\current\bin, so a text comparison never matched and the tool read as scoop's.
Both sides now resolve every link along the path first, as Linux does with readlink -f. The
test models that layout and fails on the text comparison.
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Review comments at @host-setup/linux/install-agents.sh:
- Line 297: Update the Homebrew and analogous mise ownership handling used by
manager_plan so an agent under a Node installation is treated as unconfirmed
when npm cannot verify that it owns the agent package. Do not derive or upgrade
the parent Node package in that case; retain manager upgrades only when
ownership is confirmed.
- Line 369: Update the npm ownership check in the package planning flow so the
resolved file must be under the recorded package’s directory, not merely the npm
global root; otherwise set PLAN_WHY to report it rather than scheduling the
install in PLAN_CMD. Do not add a command to the plan or assume bun ownership
without establishing its global package directory.
Review comments at @host-setup/windows/install-agents.ps1:
- Line 385: Update the Scoop update planning around $plan.Arguments to check
whether the path returned by scoop which is under $env:SCOOP_GLOBAL. For a
global app, do not schedule the user-scope update; report the app with its
elevated update command instead. Schedule an update only when the resolved app
is per-user, including when a per-user app shares the global app’s name.
- Line 412: Update Get-ToolManager so Scoop detection recognizes candidates
under Scoop’s configured shim and app roots, including custom roots, rather than
relying only on a path containing “\scoop\”. Reuse the configured-root handling
in Get-ScoopApp where appropriate, and preserve the self-updater selection for
candidates outside Scoop roots.
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Test-DirectoryWritable still followed only the last link, so the ownership and writability
decisions about one npm prefix could rest on different paths, and Get-ToolManager read a raw,
possibly relative LinkTarget. All three now use Resolve-FinalPath, and Resolve-DirectoryTarget
is gone.
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A manager upgrade now runs only a command that upgrades exactly the tool's own package, and reports the reason and the command for anything else.
An agent inside a Node runtime the npm on PATH does not own is reported rather than upgraded, so brew upgrade node@NN, mise upgrade node and a scoop nodejs update never run for an agent. A mise npm-backend key still upgrades through mise. An npm or bun package must own the file: on Linux the resolved file has to sit under the recorded package, and on Windows the package has to be installed under the prefix with its package.json and the shim has to name its directory, or the file has to sit in it. bun requires its global package directory. A fork providing the same command is reported, not replaced.
A global scoop app is reported with the elevated command, since this script never elevates. scoop is also recognised under any root the script knows, so SCOOP=<dir>\AgentTools without a scoop segment is still scoop, and bun is read before the node_modules shape on Windows as on Linux.
Refs #2553
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On Windows bun copies a shim into .bun\bin rather than linking into the package, so requiring
the file under install\global\node_modules\<pkg> matched no real install and reported every bun
global instead of upgrading it. The shim in bun's bin directory plus the recorded package's
package.json now confirm ownership, as the npm branch does. The test models that layout.
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…Step (#4111)
## Summary
Answers CodeRabbit's review of promotion PR #4096 on the
`install-agents` scripts. The guiding rule is unchanged: run only a
command that upgrades exactly the tool's own package.
- **bun's directories.** `BUN_INSTALL` and `BUN_INSTALL_GLOBAL_DIR` are
honored on both platforms through one helper each: `bun_global_dir` on
Linux, `Get-BunDirectory` on Windows. A moved bun carries no `.bun`
segment, so it is recognized by these directories. On Windows that
includes the bin directory, where bun's copied shim sits.
`bunfig.toml`'s `install.globalDir` is deliberately not read.
- **mise (Linux).** mise's own listing is asked before any path shape,
so a tool under a relocated `MISE_DATA_DIR` reads as mise.
- **mise shims (Linux).** A command whose real path is the `mise`
executable is resolved through `mise which` before it is classified. So
a Homebrew-installed mise no longer leads to `brew upgrade mise`. A
failed lookup is reported, and nothing runs.
- **herdr post step.** One step, `herdr_after_upgrade` /
`Invoke-HerdrAfterUpgrade`, reinstalls herdr's integrations and gives
the restart guidance. It now runs after both the self-updater and a
successful manager upgrade.
- **Scoop roots (Windows).** With `SCOOP` or `SCOOP_GLOBAL` unset,
`Get-ScoopRoot` reads `root_path` and `global_path` from scoop's own
`config.json`, then falls back to the defaults.
- **Test.** The unwritable-npm test skips when run as root.
Two other CodeRabbit findings on #4096 were answered there. The
protected-root boundary was already fixed by #4105. Windows bun
shim-target ownership was declined with evidence.
## Verification
- `tests/test_install_agents.py` passes, including the PowerShell cases
under `pwsh`.
- The new tests cover each case, and the bun-relocation and mise-shim
tests fail on the previous code.
- shellcheck, shfmt, PSScriptAnalyzer and the prose gate are clean.
- Three recorded local passes ran. The last found nothing open.
## Pre-existing Findings, Not Filed
- `host-setup/linux/install-agents.sh` `manager_plan` (`pre-existing`,
from #4095): the Node-runtime exception covers only node. A tool
pip-installed into a mise-managed Python would get `mise upgrade
python`. Among the managed tools only cswap could reach it, and only if
installed with pip instead of the documented `uv tool install`.
- `host-setup/linux/install-agents.sh` (`pre-existing`, consolidation):
`mise_key` runs from both classification and the plan, so `mise ls
--json` runs twice per mise tool. It is harmless, and each run is
bounded by `timeout 30`.
## Not Verified
- Real package-manager installs, a `verification` gap. The tests use
stub managers and modeled layouts. Neither real bun, mise and scoop
installs, nor PowerShell's handling of their shims, has been exercised.
The maintainer's Windows 11 retest after this release covers the
npm-installed opencode case.
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… Upgrades (#4096)
## Summary
Promotes the agent-setup follow-ups and their review fixes, plus one
change from another hub session, from `develop` to `main`. Both follow a
native Windows 11 test of the one-step agent setup released as 2.0.1414.
- #4094:
- The Claude safety kit puts `"$defaults"` first in each `autoMode` list
that exists (`environment`, `allow`, `soft_deny`, `hard_deny`). Claude
Code's "learn rules" offer had written a list without it, which silently
replaced Claude Code's built-in rules. `--report` flags such a list as
not current.
- The kit report's archive note names the commit.
- The Codex and opencode rules lines say when only an agent's config
directory makes it count as installed.
- `merge-and-release` step 7 also refreshes the Codex and opencode
rules, only where the kit reads current.
- #4095: an agent tool installed through npm, bun, scoop, Homebrew or
mise is upgraded through that manager, one package only. The manager is
asked whether it owns the tool, with every link resolved, before any
path shape is read, and the recorded package must own the file. A Node
runtime is never upgraded on an agent's behalf. Nothing elevates: choco,
a global scoop app, an unwritable npm prefix and Nix are reported with
their command. winget and apt stay with `upgrade-host`.
- #4102: answers this promotion's Copilot review. On Linux, npm is asked
before a `.bun` path, as on Windows, and a Nix agent under
`/nix/store/.../node_modules` is read as Nix before the generic npm
shape.
- #4105: answers this promotion's second Copilot round. On Windows,
`Test-ProtectedPath` and `Hide-Home` match only at a path component, so
`C:\Program FilesPortable` is no longer read as protected and a sibling
profile is no longer shortened. The pure path-helper tests now also run
on the native Windows CI runner.
- #4111: answers CodeRabbit's review of this promotion. bun's
`BUN_INSTALL` and `BUN_INSTALL_GLOBAL_DIR` are honored, including bun's
copied Windows shim. A mise shim is followed through `mise which`, and
mise's own listing is asked before any path shape. One herdr post step
runs after every successful upgrade. Scoop's configured roots are read
from its `config.json`.
- #4112: answers this promotion's attested local review. herdr's report
notes now match its post step for a manager-owned herdr.
`install-tools.ps1`'s `Hide-Home` gets #4105's component boundary. One
`Test-PathUnder` helper replaces seven hand-written containment checks.
A dead depth bound is removed.
- #4109, from another hub session: `dotnet-codestyle` now requires a
`global.json` pinning SDK `10.0.100` with `latestFeature` and
`allowPrerelease: false`. It leaves `LangVersion` unset (netstandard
generator projects excepted) and forbids `EnablePreviewFeatures`. The
audit gains the `csharp.sdk.globaljson` check, with a
`catalog/snippets/configs/global.json` snippet and its `spec/files.json`
C# baseline entry. `CODESTYLE.md`'s .NET summary line is updated.
Follow-ups #4106 and #4107 are filed and not in this promotion.
## Pre-existing Findings, Filed
- `host-setup/windows/install-tools.ps1:616` (`pre-existing`,
correctness): `Write-InstallFailure`'s profile replacement in log lines
does not stop at a path component. Filed as #4113.
## Not Verified
- Real package managers. #4095's tests use stub managers on PATH. The
Windows npm, scoop and bun layouts are modeled from their documented
formats and have not been run against real installs. The maintainer's
Windows 11 retest after this release covers the npm-installed opencode
case.
Closes#4103
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install-agents --upgrade/-Upgradeleft an agent tool installed through a package manager untouched. The Windows note claimed "installed through npm, which upgrades it", but npm upgrades nothing on its own. Only winget (upgrade-host.ps1) and apt (upgrade-host.sh) were ever upgraded, so an npm-installed opencode on a Windows 11 host stayed at 1.18.18 while other hosts moved on. Approved by the maintainer.A manager-installed tool is now upgraded through that same manager, one package only:
npm install -g <pkg>@latestbun install -g <pkg>@latestscoop update <app>brew upgrade [--cask] <name>mise upgrade <key>npm root -g(Linux) ornpm prefix -g(Windows), with every link resolved on both sides, and is asked before any other manager's path shape, so an npm global under a scoop, mise or Homebrew Node never upgrades Node itself. The mise key comes frommise ls --jsonby install path. The scoop app comes only from directly under a scoop root'sappsdirectory, with~expanded. A tool the manager cannot confirm is reported with its command, and nothing runs.upgrade-host, and the note says so.@anthropic-ai/claude-code, codex@openai/codex, opencodeopencode-ai. herdr and cswap have none and are reported, not guessed.The
.shand.ps1scripts behave the same.Open Findings
host-setup/linux/install-agents.sh:259-272, 361-362(introduced, design):npm_root's once-only cache never takes effect, becausetool_managerruns inside$(...).manager_planalso readsnpm root -ginline instead of callingnpm_root. No behavior changes. The local edit budget was spent, so this was fixed in this pull request's review loop, in 69c66c2: manager_plan calls npm_root, which caches nothing. A recorded local pass over that head found nothing open.Verification
tests/test_install_agents.py(51, including the PowerShell cases underpwsh),tests/test_bootstrap.py(186),tests/test_cli_usage.py,tests/test_global_rules.pyand the kit'stest_install.pypass.build_dist.py --checkis current. ruff, mypy and the prose gate are clean.docker_lint.pypasses shellcheck, shfmt, PSScriptAnalyzer and markdownlint.Not executed: any real package manager. All tests use stub managers on PATH. The nvm-windows junction case is tested in two halves on Linux
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