fix(store): gate the git-pull update path (#508)

* fix(store): gate the git-pull update path

`install_plugin` gates every route that re-downloads, `_reinstall_with_rollback`
included. `update_plugin` has one branch that re-downloads nothing: a git
checkout pulls in place, installs dependencies, and returns True. A pull could
therefore deliver a manifest flooring above this core and nothing would notice
until the plugin failed to load — which surfaces as one line in the journal and
a display that silently stopped appearing.

Checked after the pull rather than before it, for the same reason
`_install_plugin_impl` checks after the download: the registry carries no
compatibility field, so the incoming floor is only knowable once the new commit
is on disk.

Undone with `git reset --hard` to the pre-pull commit rather than by removing
the directory. This is a live checkout, the old commit is still in the object
store, and the reset leaves the user on the exact version they were already
running — the same promise `_reinstall_with_rollback` makes, reached by the
means this path actually has, with no window where the plugin directory does
not exist. An unreadable manifest allows: it is not evidence of a floor.

Scope, stated plainly: monorepo plugins install as archives and update through
`_reinstall_with_rollback`, so they were already gated. Only registry entries
with no `plugin_path` reach this branch. It is closed anyway because the sunset
rule in the plugins repo's `08-shared-sports-code.md` names, as condition 3,
that the core enforces the floor "at install/update time" — and B6 rests on
that being true rather than merely written down. `install_from_url` is still
ungated; the tests say so rather than letting the next reader assume otherwise.

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

* 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

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@@ -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*. Nothing enforces that floor today, 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
@@ -234,6 +234,20 @@ a floor can be trusted against, and today it is not:
compares the plugin's manifest version against the registry's
`latest_version` and nothing else.
*Fixed, in two parts.* `install_plugin` gained the gate in #431/#433, which
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
before it) and undone with `git reset --hard` to the pre-pull commit. That
route is rare in practice, since monorepo plugins install as archives; it was
closed because the sunset rule in the plugins repo's
`08-shared-sports-code.md` states as **condition 3** that the core enforces
the floor "at install/update time", and B6 rests on that being true rather
than merely written down. `install_from_url` — sideloading a plugin from a
URL — is still ungated.
So B4 is: tag and release 3.2.0; make the tag, the release, and `__version__`
agree, and keep them agreeing; reconsider the `< 2.0.0` skip; migrate manifests
from `ledmatrix_min` to `ledmatrix_min_version`; and add the install/update