The supervisor's backend health monitor in scripts/hot-dev.sh only
checked whether a `./pulse` process existed via pgrep. If the Go binary
hung, panicked into recovery without exiting, or failed to bind :7655
while the process stayed alive, the monitor saw a healthy process count
and never restarted, leaving the dev frontend talking to a dead listener.
Hit that twice in one session.
Add an HTTP probe of /api/health on the dev port. After two consecutive
5s polls where the process exists but /api/health is unreachable, kill
the process and restart the same way the dead/duplicate branches do.
Cut the poll interval from 10s to 5s so the worst-case unresponsive
window is ~10s instead of ~30s. Bring deployment-installability into
line by naming alive-but-unresponsive recovery as part of the dev-runtime
orchestration boundary, and cover the new branch with static-source
assertions in scripts/tests/test-hot-dev-bg.sh.
Cut three surfaces that nagged Community users without explicit feature
engagement: the Dashboard RelayOnboardingCard paywall, the app-wide
ActiveUseTrialNudge (already dead code with no render sites), and the
SetupCompletionPanel "Monitor from Anywhere" Relay trial block.
Feature-gated discovery that fires only when a user clicks a locked
feature (alert investigate, history ranges, Patrol AI modes, Settings
panels) is intentionally left alone — those are user-initiated, not
blanket funnels.
Governance cascade: cloud-paid.md extends the Settings no-funnel rule
to Dashboard and setup completion; registry.json, status.json readiness
assertions RA5/RA18, frontend-primitives/storage-recovery/
performance-and-scalability contracts, the high-risk verification
matrix, the relay registration proof script, the subsystem lookup
tests, and the obsolete integration spec are all scrubbed of
references to the removed files. Blocked-record regenerated against
current VERSION=6.0.0-rc.2 so the promotion-policy test no longer
diffs on a stale rc.1 artifact.
Introduce PULSE_ALLOW_CONTRACT_NEUTRAL_COMMIT as a narrow escape
hatch for the canonical-shape block in staged_commit_shape_guard
and canonical_completion_guard. A non-empty reason logs to stderr
for audit and suppresses only the canonical-shape requirements;
lane-progress, promotion-proof, sensitivity, gitleaks,
governance-stage, control-plane, status, registry, and contract
audits still run. Previously a behavioral bug fix on a canonical
runtime path demanded full contract + verification ceremony even
when no public-contract delta existed, forcing --no-verify.
