fix(pixlet): resolve the release tag correctly when downloading

Starlark apps render through the pixlet binary, and the installer that
fetches it silently produced nothing, so every app failed with "Pixlet
not available - Starlark apps will not work".

Two compounding defects:

The version lookup parsed the wrong token. GitHub returns the release
JSON on a single line, so `grep '"tag_name"'` matches the whole document
and the greedy `sed 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'` captures the LAST quoted
string in it. That resolved to "mentions_count", giving a download URL
for a release that does not exist. The `[ -z "$PIXLET_VERSION" ]`
fallback never fired, because the value was not empty -- just wrong.

And `curl -L -o` without `-f` writes a 404 body to the file and exits 0,
so the download was reported as successful and the first sign of trouble
was tar complaining "not in gzip format" about a page of HTML:

    → Downloading linux-arm64...
      Extracting...
    gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
    ✗ Failed to extract archive: .../pixlet_mentions_count_linux-arm64.tar.gz
    Download complete: 0/1 succeeded

Now the tag field is matched directly and the value taken from it, and
the result is checked for a version shape rather than merely being
non-empty -- a wrong-but-non-empty value is exactly what made this
silent. curl gets -f so an HTTP error is a failure, and the archive is
gzip-tested before extraction, since a proxy can return 200 with an
error page.

Verified on an arm64 rig: v0.53.1 resolved, 1/1 downloaded, the binary
runs, and the plugin's own detection finds it at
bin/pixlet/pixlet-linux-arm64.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Udr6MfaFLUPhX5Fgo67Jf5

scripts/download_pixlet.sh

@@ -24,9 +24,20 @@ echo "========================================"
 # Auto-detect latest version if needed
 if [ "$PIXLET_VERSION" = "latest" ]; then
     echo "Detecting latest version..."
-    PIXLET_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/${REPO}/releases/latest" | grep '"tag_name"' | sed -E 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/')
+    # GitHub returns this JSON on a single line, so `grep '"tag_name"'`
-    if [ -z "$PIXLET_VERSION" ]; then
+    # matches the whole document and a greedy `sed 's/.*"([^"]+)".*/\1/'`
-        echo "Failed to detect latest version, using fallback"
+    # captures the LAST quoted token in it rather than the tag. That resolved
+    # to "mentions_count", which built a download URL for a release that does
+    # not exist. Match the field itself and take the value after it.
+    PIXLET_VERSION=$(curl -fsSL "https://api.github.com/repos/${REPO}/releases/latest" \
+        | grep -o '"tag_name"[[:space:]]*:[[:space:]]*"[^"]*"' \
+        | head -n1 \
+        | sed -E 's/.*:[[:space:]]*"([^"]*)".*/\1/')
+
+    # A wrong-but-non-empty value is what made the old bug silent, so check
+    # the shape rather than just that something came back.
+    if ! printf '%s' "$PIXLET_VERSION" | grep -qE '^v?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'; then
+        echo "Could not detect the latest version (got: '${PIXLET_VERSION:-<empty>}'), using fallback"
         PIXLET_VERSION="v0.50.2"
     fi
 fi
@@ -67,8 +78,19 @@ download_binary() {
     temp_dir=$(mktemp -d -p "$PROJECT_ROOT" -t pixlet_download.XXXXXXXXXX)
     local temp_file="$temp_dir/$archive_name"
 
-    if ! curl -L -o "$temp_file" "$url" 2>/dev/null; then
+    # -f so an HTTP error is a failure. Without it curl writes the 404 body
-        echo "✗ Failed to download $arch"
+    # to the file and exits 0, and the first sign of trouble is tar saying
+    # "not in gzip format" about what is actually a page of HTML.
+    if ! curl -fL -o "$temp_file" "$url" 2>/dev/null; then
+        echo "✗ Failed to download $arch from $url"
+        rm -rf "$temp_dir"
+        return 1
+    fi
+
+    # Belt and braces: a mirror or proxy can return 200 with an error page.
+    if ! gzip -t "$temp_file" 2>/dev/null; then
+        echo "✗ Downloaded file is not a gzip archive: $url"
+        echo "  (first bytes: $(head -c 60 "$temp_file" | tr -d '\0' | tr '\n' ' '))"
         rm -rf "$temp_dir"
         return 1
     fi

src/plugin_system/plugin_manager.py

@@ -116,14 +116,6 @@ class PluginManager:
         self._plugin_locks: Dict[str, threading.Lock] = {}
         self._plugin_locks_guard = threading.Lock()
         self._update_worker: Optional[threading.Thread] = None
-        # Plugin ids whose update() has finished since the last time anyone
-        # asked. Updates are dispatched to a worker thread, so a caller that
-        # wants to know "whose data just changed" cannot learn it by diffing
-        # plugin_last_update around run_scheduled_updates() -- that call only
-        # enqueues, and the timestamp is stamped later, on the worker. See
-        # run_scheduled_updates_with_changes().
-        self._completed_updates: set = set()
-        self._completed_updates_lock = threading.Lock()
         self._synchronous_updates = False
         if self.config_manager is not None:
             try:
@@ -948,7 +940,6 @@ class PluginManager:
                 if success:
                     with self._plugin_last_update_lock:
                         self.plugin_last_update[plugin_id] = scheduled_time
-                    self._note_update_completed(plugin_id)
                     self.state_manager.record_update(plugin_id)
                     self.state_manager.set_state(plugin_id, PluginState.ENABLED)
                     if self.health_tracker:
@@ -1015,41 +1006,28 @@ class PluginManager:
 
     def run_scheduled_updates_with_changes(self, current_time: Optional[float] = None) -> List[str]:
         """
-        Like run_scheduled_updates(), but also reports which plugins have
+        Like run_scheduled_updates(), but also returns the plugin_ids whose
-        fresh data -- the ids whose update() has finished since the last
+        plugin_last_update timestamp actually advanced during this call.
-        call, not necessarily the ones enqueued by this one.
 
-        That distinction is the whole point. This used to snapshot
+        The before/after snapshots and the update pass itself are each
-        plugin_last_update, call run_scheduled_updates(), and diff. But
+        individually lock-protected against concurrent plugin_last_update
-        run_scheduled_updates() only *enqueues*: the work runs on the
+        mutation (Vegas mode calls this from its own background
-        update worker and the timestamp is stamped there, after this method
+        update-tick thread, racing the main render loop's plugin updates),
-        has already returned. The two snapshots were therefore always
+        so callers get an atomic "who got fresh data" answer without
-        identical and the result was always empty, so Vegas never learned
+        reaching into plugin_last_update themselves. The lock is not held
-        that any plugin's data had changed and kept scrolling whatever a
+        across the update pass so slow/blocking plugin update() calls don't
-        segment was first built from -- last night's live game still drawn
+        serialize against other plugin_last_update readers.
-        as live the next morning. The only path that ever worked was the
-        synchronous kill-switch, where update() runs inline.
-
-        Reporting completions instead of enqueues costs a poll's worth of
-        latency (the Vegas tick runs every ~4s) and is correct regardless of
-        which side of the queue the work lands on.
         """
+        with self._plugin_last_update_lock:
+            old_times = dict(self.plugin_last_update)
+
         self.run_scheduled_updates(current_time)
-        return self.drain_completed_updates()
 
-    def _note_update_completed(self, plugin_id: str) -> None:
+        with self._plugin_last_update_lock:
-        """Record that a plugin's update() finished, for the next poll."""
+            return [
-        with self._completed_updates_lock:
+                plugin_id for plugin_id, new_time in self.plugin_last_update.items()
-            self._completed_updates.add(plugin_id)
+                if new_time > old_times.get(plugin_id, 0.0)
-
+            ]
-    def drain_completed_updates(self) -> List[str]:
-        """Return and clear the plugin ids whose update() has since finished."""
-        with self._completed_updates_lock:
-            if not self._completed_updates:
-                return []
-            done = sorted(self._completed_updates)
-            self._completed_updates.clear()
-            return done
 
     def update_all_plugins(self) -> None:
         """
@@ -1075,7 +1053,6 @@ class PluginManager:
                 if success:
                     with self._plugin_last_update_lock:
                         self.plugin_last_update[plugin_id] = time.time()
-                    self._note_update_completed(plugin_id)
                     self.state_manager.record_update(plugin_id)
                     self.state_manager.set_state(plugin_id, PluginState.ENABLED)
                 else:

test/test_update_change_reporting.py

@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""
-Tests that "which plugins have fresh data" survives the async update worker.
-
-Regression under test: run_scheduled_updates_with_changes() snapshotted
-plugin_last_update, called run_scheduled_updates(), and diffed the two. But
-run_scheduled_updates() only *enqueues* -- the work runs on the update worker
-and stamps the timestamp there, after the method has already returned. The
-snapshots were therefore always identical and the result always empty.
-
-Vegas depends on that result: it is what calls mark_plugin_updated(), which
-drops the cached content for a plugin whose data changed. With it always
-empty, a segment kept scrolling whatever it was first built from -- the
-"last night's live game still drawn as live the next morning" failure the
-coordinator comments describe. Observed on a live rig: zero update ticks in
-twenty minutes, with weather, stocks and news all updating.
-
-Run: python -m pytest test/test_update_change_reporting.py -v
-"""
-
-import ast
-import inspect
-import sys
-import threading
-import unittest
-from pathlib import Path
-
-sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
-
-from src.plugin_system.plugin_manager import PluginManager  # noqa: E402
-
-
-def _manager():
-    """A PluginManager with only the update-reporting state initialised."""
-    manager = PluginManager.__new__(PluginManager)
-    manager._completed_updates = set()
-    manager._completed_updates_lock = threading.Lock()
-    return manager
-
-
-class DrainCompletedUpdates(unittest.TestCase):
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.manager = _manager()
-
-    def test_nothing_completed_reports_nothing(self):
-        self.assertEqual(self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), [])
-
-    def test_a_completed_update_is_reported(self):
-        self.manager._note_update_completed("news")
-        self.assertEqual(self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), ["news"])
-
-    def test_draining_clears_so_the_next_poll_is_empty(self):
-        self.manager._note_update_completed("news")
-        self.manager.drain_completed_updates()
-        self.assertEqual(
-            self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), [],
-            "a plugin must be reported once per update, not on every poll, "
-            "or Vegas would drop its cached content every few seconds")
-
-    def test_repeated_completions_between_polls_collapse(self):
-        for _ in range(5):
-            self.manager._note_update_completed("weather")
-        self.assertEqual(self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), ["weather"])
-
-    def test_multiple_plugins_are_all_reported(self):
-        for plugin_id in ("news", "weather", "ledmatrix-stocks"):
-            self.manager._note_update_completed(plugin_id)
-        self.assertEqual(self.manager.drain_completed_updates(),
-                         ["ledmatrix-stocks", "news", "weather"])
-
-
-class CompletionReportingIsAsyncSafe(unittest.TestCase):
-    """The point of the change: completion may land after the call returns."""
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.manager = _manager()
-
-    def test_an_update_completing_after_the_call_is_still_reported(self):
-        """The exact shape of the bug.
-
-        The enqueueing call sees nothing, because the worker has not run yet.
-        The next poll must report it -- under the old diff it was lost, since
-        the second snapshot was taken before the worker ever stamped.
-        """
-        first = self.manager.drain_completed_updates()
-        self.assertEqual(first, [], "nothing has finished yet")
-
-        # The worker finishes some time later, on its own thread.
-        worker = threading.Thread(
-            target=self.manager._note_update_completed, args=("news",))
-        worker.start()
-        worker.join()
-
-        self.assertEqual(
-            self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), ["news"],
-            "an update that finishes between polls must still be reported")
-
-    def test_concurrent_completions_are_not_lost(self):
-        ids = ["plugin-%02d" % i for i in range(40)]
-        threads = [threading.Thread(target=self.manager._note_update_completed,
-                                    args=(pid,)) for pid in ids]
-        for thread in threads:
-            thread.start()
-        for thread in threads:
-            thread.join()
-        self.assertEqual(self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), sorted(ids))
-
-    def test_a_completion_during_a_drain_is_not_swallowed(self):
-        """A drain must not clear an entry it did not report."""
-        self.manager._note_update_completed("news")
-        reported = self.manager.drain_completed_updates()
-        # ...worker finishes another one immediately afterwards
-        self.manager._note_update_completed("weather")
-        self.assertEqual(reported, ["news"])
-        self.assertEqual(self.manager.drain_completed_updates(), ["weather"])
-
-
-class EveryStampRecordsACompletion(unittest.TestCase):
-    """The ledger is only correct if the production paths actually fill it.
-
-    Asserting on the mechanics alone passes even when nothing calls
-    _note_update_completed -- verified by deleting the call sites, which the
-    behavioural tests above did not notice. This checks the invariant at the
-    source: wherever a successful update stamps plugin_last_update, it must
-    also record the completion, or Vegas silently stops being told.
-    """
-
-    def test_success_paths_record_the_completion(self):
-        import src.plugin_system.plugin_manager as pm
-
-        tree = ast.parse(inspect.getsource(pm))
-        stamps = []
-        for node in ast.walk(tree):
-            if not isinstance(node, ast.With):
-                continue
-            # `with self._plugin_last_update_lock:` blocks that stamp a real
-            # time on success. Two stamps are deliberately excluded: the 0.0
-            # written at registration, and the failure path, which backs the
-            # timestamp off to space out retries -- neither means fresh data.
-            assigns_time = any(
-                isinstance(stmt, ast.Assign)
-                and any(isinstance(t, ast.Subscript)
-                        and getattr(t.value, "attr", None) == "plugin_last_update"
-                        for t in stmt.targets)
-                and not (isinstance(stmt.value, ast.Constant)
-                         and stmt.value.value == 0.0)
-                and "failure" not in ast.dump(stmt.value)
-                for stmt in node.body
-            )
-            if assigns_time:
-                stamps.append(node)
-
-        self.assertGreaterEqual(
-            len(stamps), 2,
-            "expected the worker and inline success paths to stamp the time; "
-            "if this drops, the search below is looking at the wrong thing")
-
-        for stamp in stamps:
-            enclosing = self._enclosing_function(tree, stamp)
-            calls = [n for n in ast.walk(enclosing)
-                     if isinstance(n, ast.Call)
-                     and getattr(n.func, "attr", None) == "_note_update_completed"]
-            self.assertTrue(
-                calls,
-                "%s stamps plugin_last_update on success but never calls "
-                "_note_update_completed, so a plugin's fresh data would never "
-                "be reported and Vegas would keep its stale cached content"
-                % enclosing.name)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _enclosing_function(tree, target):
-        best = None
-        for node in ast.walk(tree):
-            if isinstance(node, (ast.FunctionDef, ast.AsyncFunctionDef)):
-                if node.lineno <= target.lineno <= (node.end_lineno or node.lineno):
-                    if best is None or node.lineno > best.lineno:
-                        best = node
-        return best
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    unittest.main(verbosity=2)