Keep the site updater in the repo and compare against built history

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Moves the client-site updater from /tmp/fd-update/update.mjs into this repo as scripts/update-site.mjs, and fixes the gaps that would break the next update after 0.17.

What changes

• Built history. Installed files are compared with the built registry in public/r (the site's style, plus the default /r/{name}.json), not the source files, which have cn-* placeholders since 0.17. Source versions without placeholders still count, for installs from before 0.17. Uses --full-history from HEAD, so versions from merged branches count and other local branches do not.
• No silent overwrites. Every existing file of any registry item is classified, also dependencies such as src/lib/utils.ts. After the install, any other existing file it changed, apart from package.json, lockfiles and components.json, is restored and the new version written as <file>.upstream, listed in conflicts.
• Also guarded (from independent reviews; several were in the original script): files compare exactly after formatting each earlier release with the site's Prettier, instead of a whitespace-stripping comparison that hid edits such as "Hello, world" vs "Hello,world"; it warns when Prettier is missing or fails. A failing install still restores and merges, deleted files come back, one unrecoverable file does not stop the others, and the report gets an error (exit 1). Git-ignored files outside node_modules and build output are guarded too (readable regular files; symlinks are skipped so a restore never writes through a link). When equally close earlier releases merge differently, the local file is kept with .upstream.
• Dry run by default. Without --write it only classifies. --write refuses a dirty worktree, so every change shows in git. --report <file> saves the report (it used to go to /tmp/fd-update).
• Unchanged: the shadcn reinstall from the live registry, the components.json registry URL, the three-way merge with the closest earlier release as base, and .upstream files on conflict. Prettier now formats only the files the update wrote, not all of src/components.
• AGENTS.md documents how to run it.

Validation

• tests/update-site.test.mjs: fixture ui repo with release history and fixture sites, with an injected install and no network. 15 tests. Each fix was reverted on a copy to check that its test fails without it:
  • source-only history (old behavior): 5 fail (old/current classification, merge, overwrite)
  • no guard: the overwrite test fails
  • no --full-history: the merged-branch test fails
  • no realpath CLI check: the dry-run CLI test fails (the script printed nothing from /tmp)
  • each review round's new tests fail on the head before it: string spacing, failing install, ignored file, ambiguous bases (4035c111); punctuation spacing and deleted files (c371336f); unreadable file (29ff5bc2); broken ignored symlink from CodeRabbit (c056d0a5)
• Local pnpm check passes (Prettier, typecheck, ESLint, registry rebuild without diff, 20 tests).
• Read-only dry-run replay on origin/main of 10 sites (exported to temp dirs, no checkout touched): custom files per site ambdetailing 15, bodyandmindgym 43, finetics 9, sloepverhuurbolsward 16, vandillenrijplaten 14, vdabouwmaterialen 37, worldwidemissions 12, elevantum 11, fulldev 1, astro-template 0. ambdetailing with the old script: 52 custom. fulldev's 1 is its customized src/lib/utils.ts, which the old script did not check.
• Independent Sol review on each head; no remaining findings at e91123fd.
• No site was updated; --write was only run on fixtures.

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Walkthrough

Adds a client-site update script that classifies installed UI files against release history. With --write, it installs items from the live registry, merges customized files, and restores or reports other changed files. The CLI supports dry-run classification and JSON report output. Documentation and fixture-based tests cover classification, updates, conflicts, and recovery.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to e9112

The updater is mergeable after normal checks. Sites using the old hero-1 component path would need a separate migration.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to c056d

The updater defaults to classification and requires a clean worktree before installation. Ordinary installation failures receive best-effort recovery, but an interrupted update can lose changes to ignored configuration that Git cannot restore. The workflow remains a manually invoked local tool rather than a new production entrypoint.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: Recovery of existing ignored files relies solely on in-memory snapshots. If installation overwrites or deletes ignored site configuration and the updater terminates before recovery, that preimage is lost and Git cannot restore it. Clean-worktree gating does not protect this state. Synchronous installer-error recovery is supported by fixtures, but it does not establish interruption-safe preservation.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The intended mutation scope is one operator-selected site checkout, including dependency and registry configuration. Effective authority is broader: the installer and local formatter run as the invoking user, without a sandbox established by this script. Host files accessible to that identity therefore remain within the external tools' potential reach.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A compromised installer package or live registry could affect site code and dependency state through the explicitly authorized installation path. This is a trust assumption, not a verified exploit introduced by the PR: external package behavior, registry compromise, and the earlier off-repository workflow were not available for verification.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Write mode requires explicit operator selection and a clean Git worktree. Recovery preserves local content on conflicts, while instructions require human review before committing. These controls improve visibility and preservation but do not authenticate registry releases, constrain external-tool privileges, or cover ignored files through Git.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Ignored site configuration can be preserved after a caught installation failure, but its only recovery copy is process memory. Interruption can strand overwritten configuration, and newly created ignored files are outside both the initial snapshot and the standard untracked-file report. Preservation and reporting should not be interpreted as a complete transaction.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If interruption-safe preservation is required, persist a protected recovery journal before installation, provide an explicit resume or restore operation, and prevent overlapping writers. Backups of ignored files should be treated as potentially sensitive data, with restrictive permissions and deliberate cleanup.
• proposed — For use across less-trusted sites or registries, define the filesystem ownership boundary explicitly, validate traversal and symlink behavior, and consider isolated execution with pinned installer and registry inputs. These are hardening options, not verified missing protections in the external installer.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: keeping the site updater in the repository and comparing files against built history.
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Review comments at @scripts/update-site.mjs:
- Around line 400-407: Update ignored(cwd) to handle unreadable ignored paths
while creating the before snapshot, so a broken symlink or inaccessible file
does not abort update() before install; safely skip invalid entries or handle
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