fix(store): do not pull what the gate cannot un-pull

Review of the gate found a data-loss path it had introduced, plus two smaller
scope errors. All three from CodeRabbit on #508.

**The stash failure was load-bearing and was not treated as one.** update_plugin
stashes local changes before pulling; when that stash failed or timed out it
logged a warning and pulled anyway. That was harmless while nothing ever undid
a pull. It is not harmless now: the gate's rollback is `git reset --hard`, which
discards uncommitted tracked edits -- exactly the edits the stash existed to
protect. A pull does not refuse on a dirty tree as long as the incoming commit
touches other files, so the sequence completed silently: pull succeeds, gate
refuses, reset takes the user's work with it.

update_plugin now returns before pulling unless the tree was already clean or
was successfully stashed. Refusing costs an update in a case that had already
gone wrong; the alternative costs data. That also makes `--hard` safe by
construction in _gate_pulled_commit, and its comment now says so rather than
observing it in passing.

Pinned by test_a_failed_stash_stops_the_update_before_pulling, which writes a
local edit, forces the stash to fail, and asserts both that HEAD did not move
and that the edit is still on disk. Verified it bites: with the new guard
removed the file comes back as `class P: pass`, the edit gone.

**_HAS_GIT could take the module down instead of skipping it.** With no git on
PATH, subprocess.run raises FileNotFoundError, and this runs at import time --
before skipif can act, so the whole file errors rather than skipping. Now
catches OSError.

**The doc overclaimed the gate's reach.** It said the floor is enforced on
"every route that installs or updates" while the same passage notes
install_from_url is ungated. Both spots now scope the claim to registry-managed
installs and the two supported update paths, and name the sideload exception.

Full suite 3720 passed, 6 skipped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9

docs/SPORTS_UNIFICATION.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ These are independent concerns. Conflating them is what produces god classes.
 | Plugin loads on a core that predates a module | Guarded import with a bundled fallback (`try: from src.X import Y / except ModuleNotFoundError: from y import Y`) |
 | Plugin loads on a core that predates a *method* | Capability probing — `hasattr(SportsCore, "_detect_stale_games")` — never a version comparison. The loader's compat check is advisory-only (it logs and continues), so probing is the real protection. |
 | Core changes never break a plugin's rendering | The **view-model contract**: `_extract_game_details_common` returns a dict whose `GUARANTEED_KEYS` are frozen by `test/test_skin_system.py::TestViewModelContract`. Keys may be added, never renamed or removed. |
-| A plugin can drop its bundled copy safely | The **sunset rule**: its manifest must floor `ledmatrix_min_version` at the first core release shipping the module (recorded in `CHANGELOG.md`) — *necessary but not sufficient*. The store enforces that floor on every route that installs or updates, but a floor cannot reach a user who never updates, so the copy also waits for the B6 gate below. |
+| A plugin can drop its bundled copy safely | The **sunset rule**: its manifest must floor `ledmatrix_min_version` at the first core release shipping the module (recorded in `CHANGELOG.md`) — *necessary but not sufficient*. The store enforces that floor on every registry-managed install and on both supported update paths (sideloading via `install_from_url` is not gated), but a floor cannot reach a user who never updates, so the copy also waits for the B6 gate below. |
 
 The core API is **additive-only**. A method the plugins call is never removed or
 given a new required parameter; new behavior arrives as new methods with
@@ -235,7 +235,8 @@ a floor can be trusted against, and today it is not:
   `latest_version` and nothing else.
 
   *Fixed, in two parts.* `install_plugin` gained the gate in #431/#433, which
-  covers every route that re-downloads, `_reinstall_with_rollback` included.
+  covers every registry-managed install and, through `_reinstall_with_rollback`,
+  the update path that re-downloads.
   `update_plugin`'s git branch pulls in place and re-downloads nothing, so it
   stayed ungated until `_gate_pulled_commit` closed it — checked after the pull
   (the registry carries no floor field, so the incoming floor is unknowable

src/plugin_system/store_manager.py

@@ -2640,8 +2640,10 @@ class PluginStoreManager:
                 "reinstall it from the plugin store.", plugin_id)
             return False
 
-        # Any local changes were stashed before the pull and are not popped on
+        # Safe by construction: update_plugin returns before pulling unless the
-        # the success path either, so the reset leaves the working tree exactly
+        # tree was clean or successfully stashed, so there are no uncommitted
+        # tracked edits for --hard to discard. The stash is not popped on the
+        # success path either, so the reset leaves the working tree exactly
         # where a successful pull would have. Say "commit", not "changes".
         reset = subprocess.run(
             ['git', '-C', str(plugin_path), 'reset', '--hard', previous_sha],
@@ -2937,6 +2939,8 @@ class PluginStoreManager:
                         status_result = type('obj', (object,), {'stdout': '', 'stderr': 'Status check timed out'})()
                     
                     stash_info = ""
+                    # Whether the pull can be undone without destroying work.
+                    tree_is_recoverable = not has_changes
                     if has_changes:
                         self.logger.info(f"Stashing local changes in {plugin_id} before update")
                         try:
@@ -2950,12 +2954,37 @@ class PluginStoreManager:
                             )
                             if stash_result.returncode == 0:
                                 stash_info = " (local changes were stashed)"
+                                tree_is_recoverable = True
                                 self.logger.info(f"Stashed local changes (including untracked files) for {plugin_id}")
                             else:
                                 self.logger.warning(f"Failed to stash local changes for {plugin_id}: {stash_result.stderr}")
                         except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
                             self.logger.warning(f"Stash operation timed out for {plugin_id}, proceeding with pull")
 
+                    # Do not pull what cannot be un-pulled.
+                    #
+                    # The compatibility gate below can refuse the commit this
+                    # pull brings down, and its only way back is `git reset
+                    # --hard`, which discards uncommitted tracked edits. Those
+                    # edits are exactly what the stash above exists to protect,
+                    # so a stash that failed or timed out leaves the rollback
+                    # unable to run without destroying them.
+                    #
+                    # A pull does not necessarily refuse on a dirty tree -- git
+                    # merges happily as long as the incoming commit touches
+                    # different files -- so without this the update would
+                    # succeed, the gate would refuse, and the reset would take
+                    # the user's work with it. Refusing here costs an update in
+                    # a case that already went wrong; the alternative costs
+                    # data.
+                    if not tree_is_recoverable:
+                        self.logger.error(
+                            "Refusing to update %s: it has local changes that could "
+                            "not be stashed, and an incompatible update could then "
+                            "only be rolled back by discarding them. Commit or stash "
+                            "them by hand, then update.", plugin_id)
+                        return False
+
                     # Pull from the determined remote branch
                     self.logger.info(f"Pulling from origin/{remote_pull_branch} for {plugin_id}...")
                     pull_result = subprocess.run(

test/test_plugin_compatibility_gate.py

@@ -221,8 +221,18 @@ class TestInstallGate:
 # The git-pull update path — the one route that does not re-download
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-_HAS_GIT = subprocess.run(
+def _git_available() -> bool:
-    ['git', '--version'], capture_output=True).returncode == 0
+    # OSError, not just a non-zero exit: with no git on PATH subprocess raises
+    # FileNotFoundError, and this runs at import time -- before skipif can act,
+    # so the whole module would error out instead of skipping.
+    try:
+        return subprocess.run(
+            ['git', '--version'], capture_output=True).returncode == 0
+    except OSError:
+        return False
+
+
+_HAS_GIT = _git_available()
 
 
 def _git(*args, cwd):
@@ -361,6 +371,42 @@ class TestGitPullGate:
         assert mgr.update_plugin('gitplug') is True
         assert self._head(work) != before
 
+    def test_a_failed_stash_stops_the_update_before_pulling(
+            self, checkout, monkeypatch):
+        """Uncommitted work is not collateral for the gate.
+
+        The gate's only rollback is `git reset --hard`, which discards
+        uncommitted tracked edits. update_plugin stashes them first -- but when
+        that stash fails it used to pull anyway, and a pull touching different
+        files succeeds on a dirty tree. Refuse, refuse the rollback's rollback,
+        and the user's edits go with it.
+        """
+        mgr, seed, work = checkout
+        before = self._head(work)
+        (work / 'manager.py').write_text(
+            "class P:\n    MINE = 'do not lose this'\n", encoding='utf-8')
+        self._push(seed, json.dumps({
+            "id": "gitplug", "name": "Git Plug", "class_name": "P",
+            "display_modes": ["a"], "min_ledmatrix_version": "9.9.9",
+        }))
+
+        real_run = subprocess.run
+
+        def fail_stash(cmd, *a, **k):
+            if isinstance(cmd, list) and 'stash' in cmd:
+                return subprocess.CompletedProcess(cmd, 1, '', 'stash boom')
+            return real_run(cmd, *a, **k)
+
+        import src
+        monkeypatch.setattr(src, '__version__', '3.2.0')
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            'src.plugin_system.store_manager.subprocess.run', fail_stash)
+        assert mgr.update_plugin('gitplug') is False
+
+        assert self._head(work) == before, "must not pull what it cannot undo"
+        assert 'do not lose this' in (work / 'manager.py').read_text(), (
+            "the local edit the stash failed to save must still be there")
+
     def test_rollback_reports_the_recovery_command_when_git_fails(
             self, checkout, monkeypatch):
         """If the reset itself fails the user is left on a version that cannot