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Session log — PageMotor 0.9.3b rollout to three local sites

5 June 2026, evening · PageMotor · Hasmukh with Claude · auto-published from the local journal entry. A polished narrative version can be requested in any future Claude session.

Summary

Claude read and summarised Kenn's build-safety brief for PageMotor 0.9.3b (a small two-file bugfix patch on 0.9.2b), flagging that the brief's token field was blank and taking no action until asked. Hasmukh then instructed it to run the brief's setup on the three local factory sites, marula, guide and v3demo. All three were updated from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3b using PageMotor's own built-in updater, marula first as a canary, and each site was verified live, on disk and via the update checker; the two skills were already active everywhere and no admin token was needed. Catch-up note reconstructed on 12 June 2026 from the saved conversation.

Decisions

• Used PageMotor's first-party updater (the install-update action over the site connection) rather than hand-copying core files into live folders, because it is atomic, checksum-verified and resets the cache itself.
• Updated marula first as a canary, verified it fully, then repeated on guide and v3demo.
• Did not trust the updater's return value, which reported a blank version despite succeeding; verified each update from the file on disk and a live version check instead.
• Did not ask Hasmukh for a token: the existing connections on all three sites were already admin tier, so the brief's pause-for-token step never triggered.
• Both skills were already installed and active on all three sites, so they were confirmed rather than reinstalled.

Changes made

• Updated the PageMotor core on marula (port 8920), guide (port 8922) and v3demo (port 8921) from 0.9.2 to 0.9.3b via the built-in updater.
• Verified each site three ways: the live site reports version 0.9.3, the core file on disk reads 0.9.3, and the update checker no longer offers a core update.
• Confirmed Design Conversion 1.4 and Plugin Creation 1.0 active, and the site connection answering, on all three sites.
• Saved a project memory note (pagemotor-factory-local-sites.md plus the memory index) recording site ports, folders, admin-tier access and the updater's blank-version quirk.

Follow-ups

• Tell Kenn that the updater reports success with a blank version even when the update has applied; a cosmetic bug, noted as ironic given 0.9.3b itself fixes an updater fault.