Any test that imported web_interface.app and sent a request fired the app's
startup reconciliation, which runs against the checkout's real config.json
and plugin-repos/ and reinstalls every configured-but-missing plugin from the
live store. A full Windows run left basketball-scoreboard, calendar,
football-scoreboard, leaderboard and ledmatrix-stocks untracked in
plugin-repos/ (not gitignored) from that daemon thread.
test/conftest.py now installs an import hook that sets the app's run-once
_reconciliation_started latch as the module finishes executing, so lazy
imports, module-level imports and reloads all start disarmed.
StateReconciliation's own tests are unaffected. A regression test pins that
a request to the imported app launches no reconciliation thread.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
