FabledScribe

Milestone 334 step 3. 0.1.48 was the last of 48 numbers a person typed by
hand; forgetting to type the 49th is #2209, #1040 and #2220, three separate
times a shipped fix reached the repo and stopped there.

WHY A SCRIPT AND NOT A BUILD STEP. plugin/ is not in the image -- installs
fetch it from this repo via marketplace.json, so the push IS the release and
there is no moment at which CI could stamp a version in. Every other artifact
in the family derives during a build (#3127 section 2). This one has no build
to derive during, so the value is minted before the commit and CI's job is to
prove it moved when it had to.

MINT TIME, a fourth clock section 2 does not name. It prescribes commit time
so two lanes building one source report one string; the plugin has one lane
and no build, so that reason does not reach it. What is given up is
reproducibility-from-history -- you cannot recompute the value, only verify it
moved. That is acceptable ONLY because #3325 read the installer's code and
found the refresh test is `P.version === H`, plain equality, with zero
ordering comparisons anywhere. Where a comparator orders, an unreproducible
version would be unverifiable too.

Two artifacts in one repo now derive from different clocks on purpose, one
directory apart. "Let's make these consistent" is the obvious tidy-up and
breaks whichever loses, so the divergence is pinned in tests rather than only
explained in a comment -- including an AST assertion that the mint script
never imports subprocess, since a mint that can read history is a commit-time
deriver wearing the wrong name.

check_version_bump becomes check_version_is_minted. It gains the shape gate
and a future-value gate, and it keeps deliberately NOT failing when the
version moved without content changing: a needless re-mint costs one cache
refresh, and failing the lane over a harmless act is how a check earns a
--no-version in somebody's muscle memory and stops running at all. The
implication that matters is one-directional.

The mint script joins the version-relevant set, which is step 2's DERIVERS
table finally being read by something. Section 3's asymmetry is why it is not
optional: change the format string, change nothing else, and a diff over the
shipped paths alone says "no content change" while the manifest keeps a value
in the old format forever. Its own introduction demonstrates this -- adding
the deriver is itself the version-relevant change that forced this mint.

fetch-depth: 0 was NOT added, against this step's own brief. The plugin job
carries a comment refusing it, backed by an observed act_runner failure (any
`with:` block made checkout fail to extract, run 3027), and the reasoning
holds: the check diffs two trees and the workflow already fetches main at
depth 1. Checklist 6 is about jobs that derive; this one checks.

Verified live before pushing: the session-context marker reports
v2026.09.01.2252 keylessly, and both failure arms were probed by hand rather
than assumed. The shape gate fires first on a reverted 0.1.48, so the stale
arm is covered by unit test rather than by that probe.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01DN4zBVFWhBST9YqjCfQmPb

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plugin.json

feat(plugin): mint the version, and make CI the control that it moved (#3327 )

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