Build: report install provenance in dl --version

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Work

Make dl --version report install provenance, and have aid --version inherit it.

Current behavior. Both installs print dl 0.0.9. The version comes from importlib.metadata.version (devlaunch/dl.py:30), which is identical for the released build and an editable install of the same commit.

Wanted. The version string distinguishes them, and the dev build names the tree it resolves to. Exact wording is the implementer's call; the discriminating content is what matters. Something like:

$ dl --version
dl 0.0.9

$ dl-next --version
dl 0.0.9 (dev, editable from /home/ags/projects/devlaunch)

How. Read PEP 610 direct_url.json from the installed dist via importlib.metadata — do not stat paths or pattern-match against ~/.pixi or ~/.local, and do not hardcode any /home/<user> path (see CLAUDE.md). dir_info.editable == true is the discriminator; url supplies the tree to name.

Edge cases that must not crash --version:

• no direct_url.json at all (a plain wheel/sdist install) — fall back to the current bare output
• direct_url.json present but malformed or missing keys
• package metadata absent entirely — PackageNotFoundError is already handled at the existing call site; keep that behavior

Provenance detection is strictly additive: it must never make --version fail, since a broken --version is worse than an ambiguous one.

Done when

• A test asserts an editable install (dir_info.editable == true) yields output naming it as dev and containing the tree path from url.
• A test asserts a non-editable install yields the current bare dl <version> output, unchanged.
• Tests cover the three degradation cases above, each falling back to bare output rather than raising.
• pixi run ci is green (pytest, pylint, ruff, ty).
• README updated if it shows --version output (per CLAUDE.md's docs rule).

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breadcrumb: ready → building. Launching build subagent in its own git worktree via /tdd.

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breadcrumb: Building: --version gains an install-provenance suffix when the installed dist reports itself as an editable install, so the dev build names the tree it resolves to and the released build keeps its current bare output. aid --version inherits it for free because it renders the same version string.

Seams I will test at (the ticket describes behavior at the version-string level, so that is where the tests sit):

1. The version string builder — the single function both CLIs call to render their version. Tests drive it with a stubbed dist-metadata reader and assert on the returned string: editable metadata yields a string naming it as dev and containing the tree path decoded from the file:// URL; non-editable metadata yields the bare <version> string, byte-identical to today.
2. The same builder, degraded — three separate tests for no direct-url metadata, malformed JSON, and metadata present but missing the keys. Each asserts bare output rather than a raised exception.
3. Installed-package metadata is mocked as a system boundary (the dist-info reader), never any devlaunch function of my own.

Existing --version CLI tests stay as the outer check that the flag still exits 0 and prints.

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breadcrumb: PR #85 opened. --version now appends an install-provenance clause when the installed dist reports itself editable, naming the tree it resolves to; a released install prints exactly what it printed before. The fact is read from the dist's own PEP 610 direct-url metadata, so nothing stats a path or pattern-matches an install location. Every degradation path — no such metadata, unparseable metadata, metadata missing the tree url, a reader that raises — falls back to the bare version, because a broken --version is worse than an ambiguous one. aid inherits it by rendering the same string. Full CI green locally.

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breadcrumb: CI on PR #85 is green across the full matrix after one fixup — the spell-check hook preferred a different spelling in a test docstring, which was the only thing the remote caught that the local run did not.

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breadcrumb: building → in review. PR #85 open, head 12fb3101b2ff2094d3bad44cc0a5beabe349067e. Gate passed on GitHub state: 3 runs exist for the full head SHA, all checks green (ci py310-py313, prek, GitGuardian, codecov patch+project). Launching a fresh reviewer that did not write the code.

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breadcrumb: in review → reviewed. Verdict approve (with nits), no blocking findings on either axis: #85 (review)

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breadcrumb: in review → approved, awaiting merge. Reviewer (fresh context, did not write the code) returned approve with nits, no blocking findings: #85 (review)

Review verified by execution rather than reading: full fallback coverage (incl. PackageNotFoundError, which is caught via ImportError → Exception), no pre-existing test weakened (git diff b304cb6...HEAD -- test/ has zero deletion lines), and mutation testing confirms the tests bite — deleting the editable guard or swapping url2pathname for a string-strip each fails a specific test.

Open nits, none blocking, none actioned — a new commit would change the head SHA and lose the review's fixed point:

1. devlaunch/aid.py:169 help text left at --version Show version while dl's was elaborated (devlaunch/dl.py:1171) — a docs-sync gap this PR created, and CLAUDE.md makes that rule explicit. The one nit worth fixing before merge.
2. Three unreachable/unpinned guards at devlaunch/dl.py:93,96,99.
3. Red-before-green not evidenced in history (one commit carries impl + tests; they do go red against base, but mechanically).
4. dir_info.get("editable") is a truthiness test (PEP 610 mandates a bool, so ~0 risk).
5. Provenance reflects installed dist metadata, not the imported module — a consequence of the ticket's no-stat constraint, not a defect.

Ticket stays open: merging is the human's call and was not delegated. Not closing this ticket or map #83 until PR #85 merges.

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Resolution

Done. PR #85 merged into main at 2026-08-07T22:31:11Z.

dl --version now distinguishes the two installs via PEP 610 direct_url.json (dir_info.editable), with the tree path decoded from url through urlparse + url2pathname. No path is stat'd, no install location pattern-matched, no /home/<user> hardcoded. aid --version inherits it. Detection is strictly additive — every degradation path (absent/malformed/missing-key metadata, reader raising, PackageNotFoundError) falls back to the bare dl <version> output.

Reviewed by a fresh context that did not write the code: approve, no blocking findings, with fallback coverage and test sensitivity both confirmed by execution rather than reading.

Carried forward, not done here: the devlaunch/aid.py:169 help-text docs-sync nit and the three unreachable guards at devlaunch/dl.py:93,96,99. Neither affects behavior.