@indigoai-us/hq-cli 5.109.8 → 5.109.10

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [5.109.10] — 2026-09-12
+
+### Fixed
+
+- A global reinstall that tears the install tree out mid-startup now recovers
+  even when the module that vanished is a RELATIVE sibling (for example
+  `@babel/runtime`'s `./typeof.js`, reached through the mqtt → worker-timers
+  chain). The torn-install classifier reduced a relative CJS specifier to the
+  package name `.`, producing a readiness probe that could never turn true — so
+  an affected command burned the entire 90-second settle budget, never re-ran on
+  the settled tree, and reported an error instead of recovering. Relative
+  specifiers are now re-resolved the way Node's CJS resolver does — from the
+  importer's directory, trying the file, its `.js`/`.json`/`.node` forms, and the
+  directory forms — so the command waits only as long as the reinstall actually
+  takes and then re-execs once on the healed tree. A genuinely missing sibling
+  still surfaces exactly one error naming the resolved path (Sentry HQ-CLI-1R).
+
 ## [5.109.8] — 2026-09-11
 
 ### Fixed

package/dist/commands/agents.d.ts

@@ -37,6 +37,28 @@ export declare const VALID_PROVIDERS: Set<string>;
 export declare const VALID_AUTH_MODES: Set<string>;
 /** Customer-facing agent size keys served by hq-pro's authoritative catalog. */
 export declare const VALID_AGENT_SIZE_KEYS: Set<string>;
+/**
+ * `hq agents create` exits with this distinct status when payment is required.
+ * Scripts can distinguish the expected upgrade state from an ordinary command
+ * failure without parsing human output.
+ */
+export declare const AGENT_CREATE_PAYMENT_REQUIRED_EXIT_CODE = 3;
+export type AgentCreatePlanLimit = Readonly<{
+    requiredPlan: "agents-500";
+    amountMinor: number;
+    currency: string;
+    checkoutUrl?: string;
+}>;
+/**
+ * Decode only the priced response defined by the agent-create contract. A
+ * lookalike 403 must stay an ordinary API error rather than opening a browser
+ * or guessing at a price.
+ */
+export declare function agentCreatePlanLimitFromPayload(status: number, body: unknown): AgentCreatePlanLimit | null;
+/** Print a server-priced plan block without minting or rewriting its URL. */
+export declare function surfaceAgentCreatePlanLimit(planLimit: AgentCreatePlanLimit, opts?: {
+    json?: boolean;
+}): Promise<void>;
 /**
  * Resolve a closed-set option value, or exit(1) with a message naming the
  * offending input and the legal set.
@@ -82,7 +104,9 @@ export declare class AgentsHttpError extends Error {
     code?: string;
     /** hq-pro's billing envelope on a `402 billing_required` provision block. */
     billing?: BillingErrorPayload;
-    constructor(status: number, message: string, code?: string, billing?: BillingErrorPayload);
+    /** Strictly decoded priced `403 AGENT_PLAN_LIMIT` create response. */
+    agentCreatePlanLimit?: AgentCreatePlanLimit;
+    constructor(status: number, message: string, code?: string, billing?: BillingErrorPayload, agentCreatePlanLimit?: AgentCreatePlanLimit);
 }
 /** Roster row from `GET /v1/agents` — a superset is returned; we keep what we render. */
 export interface CompanyAgentView {
@@ -194,7 +218,7 @@ export declare function formatAgentCreateSize(option: AgentCreateSizeOption): st
 /** Ask a TTY user to choose one of hq-pro's currently selectable quotes. */
 export declare function promptForAgentCreateSize(view: AgentCreateOptionsView): Promise<QuotedAgentCreateSizeOption>;
 /** Confirm creation using the server quote, preserving $0 as a real answer. */
-export declare function confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(option: QuotedAgentCreateSizeOption, yes?: boolean): void;
+export declare function confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(option: QuotedAgentCreateSizeOption, yes?: boolean, quiet?: boolean): void;
 export declare function provisionAgent(token: string, input: ProvisionAgentInput): Promise<{
     uid?: string;
     slug?: string;

package/dist/commands/agents.js

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
  * the caller's single active membership (same as `members.ts`).
  */
 import chalk from "chalk";
+import open from "open";
 import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
 import * as readline from "node:readline";
 import { resolveVaultCredential } from "../utils/resolve-vault-credential.js";
@@ -50,6 +51,96 @@ export const VALID_PROVIDERS = new Set(["codex", "grok", "claude", "agents-v2"])
 export const VALID_AUTH_MODES = new Set(["subscription", "apiKey"]);
 /** Customer-facing agent size keys served by hq-pro's authoritative catalog. */
 export const VALID_AGENT_SIZE_KEYS = new Set(["basic", "power", "dev"]);
+/**
+ * `hq agents create` exits with this distinct status when payment is required.
+ * Scripts can distinguish the expected upgrade state from an ordinary command
+ * failure without parsing human output.
+ */
+export const AGENT_CREATE_PAYMENT_REQUIRED_EXIT_CODE = 3;
+function isCheckoutUrl(value) {
+    if (typeof value !== "string" || !value.trim())
+        return false;
+    try {
+        const url = new URL(value);
+        return url.protocol === "https:" && !url.username && !url.password;
+    }
+    catch {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+/**
+ * Decode only the priced response defined by the agent-create contract. A
+ * lookalike 403 must stay an ordinary API error rather than opening a browser
+ * or guessing at a price.
+ */
+export function agentCreatePlanLimitFromPayload(status, body) {
+    if (status !== 403 || !body || typeof body !== "object")
+        return null;
+    const payload = body;
+    if (payload.code !== "AGENT_PLAN_LIMIT" ||
+        payload.reasonCode !== "plan_limit" ||
+        payload.requiredPlan !== "agents-500" ||
+        typeof payload.amountMinor !== "number" ||
+        !Number.isSafeInteger(payload.amountMinor) ||
+        payload.amountMinor < 0 ||
+        typeof payload.currency !== "string" ||
+        !/^[A-Za-z]{3}$/.test(payload.currency)) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    if (payload.checkoutUrl !== undefined && !isCheckoutUrl(payload.checkoutUrl)) {
+        return null;
+    }
+    return {
+        requiredPlan: "agents-500",
+        amountMinor: payload.amountMinor,
+        currency: payload.currency.toUpperCase(),
+        ...(typeof payload.checkoutUrl === "string"
+            ? { checkoutUrl: payload.checkoutUrl }
+            : {}),
+    };
+}
+function formatServerPrice(amountMinor, currency) {
+    return new Intl.NumberFormat("en-US", {
+        style: "currency",
+        currency,
+    }).format(amountMinor / 100);
+}
+function canOfferAgentCheckout(json) {
+    return json !== true &&
+        process.stdin.isTTY === true &&
+        process.stdout.isTTY === true &&
+        !process.env.CI;
+}
+async function offerAgentCheckout(url) {
+    const rl = readline.createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
+    try {
+        const answer = await new Promise((resolve) => rl.question("Open the payment page now? [y/N] ", resolve));
+        if (!/^y(?:es)?$/i.test(answer.trim()))
+            return;
+    }
+    finally {
+        rl.close();
+    }
+    try {
+        await open(url);
+    }
+    catch {
+        console.error("Could not open the payment page automatically. Use the URL above.");
+    }
+}
+/** Print a server-priced plan block without minting or rewriting its URL. */
+export async function surfaceAgentCreatePlanLimit(planLimit, opts = {}) {
+    const price = `${formatServerPrice(planLimit.amountMinor, planLimit.currency)}/month`;
+    console.error(`Payment required: your plan does not include agents. Upgrade to ${planLimit.requiredPlan} costs ${price}.`);
+    if (!planLimit.checkoutUrl) {
+        console.error("Ask a company owner to upgrade before creating an agent.");
+        return;
+    }
+    // Deliberately plain and on its own line so terminals make this clickable.
+    console.log(planLimit.checkoutUrl);
+    if (canOfferAgentCheckout(opts.json))
+        await offerAgentCheckout(planLimit.checkoutUrl);
+}
 /**
  * Resolve a closed-set option value, or exit(1) with a message naming the
  * offending input and the legal set.
@@ -112,12 +203,15 @@ export class AgentsHttpError extends Error {
     code;
     /** hq-pro's billing envelope on a `402 billing_required` provision block. */
     billing;
-    constructor(status, message, code, billing) {
+    /** Strictly decoded priced `403 AGENT_PLAN_LIMIT` create response. */
+    agentCreatePlanLimit;
+    constructor(status, message, code, billing, agentCreatePlanLimit) {
         super(message);
         this.name = "AgentsHttpError";
         this.status = status;
         this.code = code;
         this.billing = billing;
+        this.agentCreatePlanLimit = agentCreatePlanLimit;
     }
 }
 /**
@@ -134,7 +228,7 @@ export async function agentsRequest(opts) {
         // decline copy ("Your card was declined…") while `error` is the generic
         // "payment required" — error-first would feed surfaceBillingBlocked the
         // generic string and lose the decline reason (mirrors outpostRequest).
-        body.message ?? body.error ?? res.statusText, body.code, parseBillingPayload(body));
+        body.message ?? body.error ?? res.statusText, body.code, parseBillingPayload(body), agentCreatePlanLimitFromPayload(res.status, body) ?? undefined);
     }
     return (await res.json());
 }
@@ -242,7 +336,7 @@ export async function promptForAgentCreateSize(view) {
     }
 }
 /** Confirm creation using the server quote, preserving $0 as a real answer. */
-export function confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(option, yes) {
+export function confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(option, yes, quiet = false) {
     if (option.notBilled || option.netMonthlyCents === 0) {
         const message = `${option.productName} is ${formatUsd(0)}/month for this company — ` +
             "there is no per-agent charge.";
@@ -250,14 +344,26 @@ export function confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(option, yes) {
             console.error(chalk.yellow(`${message}\nRe-run with --yes to confirm agent provisioning.`));
             process.exit(1);
         }
-        console.log(chalk.dim(`${message} Provisioning…`));
+        if (!quiet) {
+            console.log(chalk.dim(`${message} Provisioning…`));
+        }
         return;
     }
-    confirmChargeOrExit({
-        resource: "agent",
-        unitCents: option.netMonthlyCents,
-        yes,
-    });
+    if (!quiet) {
+        confirmChargeOrExit({
+            resource: "agent",
+            unitCents: option.netMonthlyCents,
+            yes,
+        });
+        return;
+    }
+    if (!yes) {
+        confirmChargeOrExit({
+            resource: "agent",
+            unitCents: option.netMonthlyCents,
+            yes,
+        });
+    }
 }
 export async function provisionAgent(token, input) {
     return agentsRequest({
@@ -764,7 +870,7 @@ export function registerAgentsCommand(program) {
     });
     agents
         .command("provision <name>")
-        .alias("new")
+        .aliases(["new", "create"])
         .description("Provision a new cloud agent (company-specific monthly price shown before creation)")
         .option("--company <slug>", "Company slug (resolves to companyUid)")
         .option("--slug <slug>", "Agent slug (defaults to a slug of <name>)")
@@ -775,6 +881,7 @@ export function registerAgentsCommand(program) {
         .option("--description <text>", "Short description / bio")
         .option("--size <size>", "Agent box size: basic | power | dev (omitted keeps the current default)")
         .option("--yes", "Confirm the quoted monthly cost and provision the agent")
+        .option("--json", "Emit machine-readable output and never open a browser")
         .action(async function (name, opts) {
         try {
             // Both of these previously fell back to their default on an
@@ -818,12 +925,12 @@ export function registerAgentsCommand(program) {
                 : shouldChooseInteractively
                     ? await promptForAgentCreateSize(createOptions)
                     : requireDefaultAgentCreateSize(createOptions);
-            if (!shouldChooseInteractively) {
+            if (!shouldChooseInteractively && !opts.json) {
                 console.log(chalk.dim(formatAgentCreateSize(quotedSize)));
             }
             // Every path confirms hq-pro's company-specific quote. Omission still
             // leaves the POST size implicit, preserving the server-side default.
-            confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(quotedSize, opts.yes);
+            confirmAgentCreateQuoteOrExit(quotedSize, opts.yes, opts.json);
             const slug = opts.slug ?? slugifyAgentName(name);
             try {
                 const result = await provisionAgent(token, {
@@ -849,10 +956,28 @@ export function registerAgentsCommand(program) {
                     surface: CLI_AGENT_CREATE_SURFACE,
                 });
                 const uid = typeof result.uid === "string" ? result.uid : slug;
-                console.log(chalk.green(`Provisioning started for agent "${name}".`));
-                console.log(chalk.dim(`Track setup: hq agents status ${uid} --company <slug>`));
+                if (opts.json) {
+                    console.log(JSON.stringify(result));
+                }
+                else {
+                    console.log(chalk.green(`Provisioning started for agent "${name}".`));
+                    console.log(chalk.dim(`Track setup: hq agents status ${uid} --company <slug>`));
+                }
             }
             catch (err) {
+                if (err instanceof AgentsHttpError &&
+                    err.status === 403 &&
+                    err.code === "AGENT_PLAN_LIMIT") {
+                    if (!err.agentCreatePlanLimit) {
+                        throw new Error("HQ Pro returned an unrecognized agent payment-required response.");
+                    }
+                    await surfaceAgentCreatePlanLimit(err.agentCreatePlanLimit, opts);
+                    // Keep the payment-required status through normal CLI teardown.
+                    // Unlike process.exit(), this is testable and cannot be caught by
+                    // this action's outer error boundary as a generic failure.
+                    process.exitCode = AGENT_CREATE_PAYMENT_REQUIRED_EXIT_CODE;
+                    return;
+                }
                 // No card on file → surface the shareable payment link instead of an
                 // opaque 402, then exit non-zero so scripts can react.
                 if (err instanceof AgentsHttpError &&

package/dist/lib/workers-registry/index.js

@@ -124,6 +124,32 @@ function registryText(now, entries) {
 function withoutTimestamp(content) {
     return content.split('\n').filter((line) => !line.startsWith('generated_at:')).join('\n');
 }
+/**
+ * Worker roots hold two kinds of `worker.yaml` that must never reach the
+ * registry.
+ *
+ * The `_template` company and any `_overrides` directory are scaffolding —
+ * copies kept so a new tenant or a pack override can be stamped out from them.
+ *
+ * A checkout nested under a tenant's `repos/` is a source repository that tenant
+ * happens to keep inside HQ, and when that repository is HQ itself, its own
+ * `core/workers` and template trees are full of worker.yaml files. Indexing them
+ * treats product source as deployed workers: they claim ids real workers already
+ * own, and because duplicates resolve by path order — a tenant path sorts before
+ * both `core` and `personal` — the checkout wins. The operator's actual worker
+ * then silently vanishes from the registry every skill reads.
+ */
+function isExcludedWorkerPath(relativeFile) {
+    const normalized = relativeFile.replaceAll('\\', '/');
+    const [root, tenant, nested] = normalized.split('/');
+    if (root !== 'companies')
+        return /(?:^|\/)_overrides(?:\/|$)/.test(normalized);
+    if (tenant === '_template')
+        return true;
+    if (nested === 'repos')
+        return true;
+    return /(?:^|\/)_overrides(?:\/|$)/.test(normalized);
+}
 /**
  * Generate core/workers/registry.yaml from worker.yaml files. Invalid workers
  * are quarantined but do not prevent all valid workers from being registered.
@@ -138,7 +164,7 @@ export function generateWorkersRegistry(hqRoot, options = {}) {
         ...workerYamlFiles(hqRoot, 'personal/workers'),
     ].sort();
     for (const relativeFile of files) {
-        if (relativeFile.startsWith('companies/_template/') || /(?:^|[/\\])_overrides(?:[/\\]|$)/.test(relativeFile))
+        if (isExcludedWorkerPath(relativeFile))
             continue;
         const fields = readWorkerFields(path.join(hqRoot, relativeFile));
         const missing = ['id', 'type', 'description'].filter((key) => !fields[key]);

package/dist/utils/install-tree-torn.d.ts

@@ -46,19 +46,28 @@ export type ModuleNotFoundCode = "ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND" | "MODULE_NOT_FOUND" | "
  *                    '<abs>'` + `requireStack`.
  *   - `cjs-package`: CJS require of a bare specifier — `Cannot find module
  *                    '<name>'` + `requireStack`.
+ *   - `cjs-relative`: CJS require of a RELATIVE specifier — `Cannot find module
+ *                    './x'` (or `../x`) + `requireStack`. Node reports the RAW
+ *                    relative token, never a resolved path, so it is re-resolved
+ *                    from the importer's directory rather than reduced by
+ *                    packageNameOf (which would yield the un-probeable name `.`).
  *   - `esm-enoent`:  ESM loader ENOENT (HQ-CLI-1M) — a module present at RESOLVE
  *                    and gone at READ, so getSourceSync/openSync raises ENOENT
  *                    (not ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND). `err.path` is the vanished file.
  *   - `unknown`:     a module-not-found whose message did not parse; recovery
  *                    still waits on the lock / retired-dir / quiet signals.
  */
-export type ModuleErrorDialect = "esm-path" | "esm-package" | "cjs-path" | "cjs-package" | "esm-enoent" | "unknown";
+export type ModuleErrorDialect = "esm-path" | "esm-package" | "cjs-path" | "cjs-package" | "cjs-relative" | "esm-enoent" | "unknown";
 /**
  * The missing thing, re-resolvable by the readiness probe:
- *   - `path`:    an absolute filesystem path (a `.js` file, or a package dir).
- *   - `package`: a bare package `name` resolvable from directory `from` upward.
- *   - `unknown`: the message did not parse; treated as "present" by the probe so
- *                readiness turns only on the lock / retired-dir / quiet signals.
+ *   - `path`:     an absolute filesystem path (a `.js` file, or a package dir).
+ *   - `package`:  a bare package `name` resolvable from directory `from` upward.
+ *   - `relative`: a RELATIVE `specifier` (`./x`, `../x`) re-resolved the way
+ *                 Node's CJS resolver does from directory `from` —
+ *                 `path.resolve(from, specifier)` plus the `.js`/`.json`/`.node`
+ *                 and directory forms.
+ *   - `unknown`:  the message did not parse; treated as "present" by the probe so
+ *                 readiness turns only on the lock / retired-dir / quiet signals.
  */
 export type ModuleErrorTarget = {
     kind: "path";
@@ -67,6 +76,10 @@ export type ModuleErrorTarget = {
     kind: "package";
     name: string;
     from: string;
+} | {
+    kind: "relative";
+    specifier: string;
+    from: string;
 } | {
     kind: "unknown";
 };
@@ -115,6 +128,11 @@ export interface InstallTreeFs {
  *                exact ancestor walk `getPackageJSONURL` performs, done WITHOUT
  *                `createRequire` so an ESM-only / export-conditioned package
  *                cannot false-negative.
+ *   - `relative`: re-resolve `path.resolve(from, specifier)` as Node's CJS
+ *                require would — a real file (exact / `.js` / `.json` / `.node`),
+ *                or a directory whose package.json `main` (or that main's index)
+ *                or own `index.*` is a real file. A bare or partially-extracted
+ *                directory is NOT loadable and reads as not-present.
  *   - `unknown`: true (readiness turns on the other signals).
  * Any filesystem error reads as "not present" rather than throwing.
  */

package/dist/utils/install-tree-torn.js

@@ -52,6 +52,13 @@ const ESM_MODULE_IMPORTED_RE = /^Cannot find module '([^']+)' imported from (.+)
  * the settle wait. `load\b` also excludes the sibling `esm/loader` module.
  */
 const ESM_LOADER_FRAME = /node:internal[\\/]modules[\\/]esm[\\/]load\b/;
+/**
+ * A relative module specifier — `./x`, `../x`, `.\x`, `..\x`, or a bare `.`/`..`.
+ * Mirrors the shape src/utils/incomplete-install-error.ts uses, extended with the
+ * bare-`.`/`..` case so a token that packageNameOf would reduce to the
+ * un-probeable name `.` is caught here and re-resolved instead.
+ */
+const RELATIVE_CJS_SPECIFIER = /^\.\.?([\\/]|$)/;
 /**
  * Reduce a bare specifier to its PACKAGE name: `@scope/name/sub` → `@scope/name`,
  * `name/sub` → `name`, `name` → `name`. This is the unit the readiness probe
@@ -64,6 +71,20 @@ export function packageNameOf(specifier) {
         return parts.slice(0, 2).join("/");
     return parts[0] ?? specifier;
 }
+/**
+ * Build a `package` target from an already-reduced name, UNLESS that name is not
+ * a plausible bare package: empty, a relative token reduced to `.`/`..`, or a
+ * subpath-imports token (`#internal`). Each of those reduces to a name whose
+ * `node_modules/<name>/package.json` ancestor probe can NEVER be true, so it
+ * falls back to `unknown` — readiness then turns on the lock / retired-dir /
+ * quiet signals rather than a probe that stays permanently false.
+ */
+function barePackageTarget(name, from) {
+    if (name.length === 0 || name.startsWith(".") || name.startsWith("#")) {
+        return { kind: "unknown" };
+    }
+    return { kind: "package", name, from };
+}
 /**
  * Classify a thrown value as a module-resolution failure and extract the missing
  * target, or return `null` for anything that is not one. The decision is
@@ -128,7 +149,7 @@ export function classifyModuleNotFound(err) {
             dialect: "esm-package",
             specifier: spec,
             importer,
-            target: { kind: "package", name: spec, from: path.dirname(importer) },
+            target: barePackageTarget(spec, path.dirname(importer)),
         };
     }
     // (c) CJS `Cannot find module '<spec>'` (+ Require stack). Absolute → a path
@@ -142,12 +163,32 @@ export function classifyModuleNotFound(err) {
             if (path.isAbsolute(spec)) {
                 return { code, dialect: "cjs-path", specifier: spec, importer, target: { kind: "path", path: spec } };
             }
+            // Relative specifier (`./x`, `../x`): Node reports the RAW token, so
+            // packageNameOf would reduce it to `.`/`..` and build a package target
+            // whose ancestor probe can never be true. Re-resolve it from the importer's
+            // directory, and report the RESOLVED path as the diagnostic specifier
+            // (actionable — the missing sibling's real location), mirroring esm-path.
+            if (RELATIVE_CJS_SPECIFIER.test(spec)) {
+                if (importer && path.isAbsolute(importer)) {
+                    const from = path.dirname(importer);
+                    return {
+                        code,
+                        dialect: "cjs-relative",
+                        specifier: path.resolve(from, spec),
+                        importer,
+                        target: { kind: "relative", specifier: spec, from },
+                    };
+                }
+                // No usable (absolute) importer survived — fall back to the lock /
+                // retired-dir / quiet signals rather than a probe that cannot be true.
+                return { code, dialect: "cjs-relative", specifier: spec, importer, target: { kind: "unknown" } };
+            }
             return {
                 code,
                 dialect: "cjs-package",
                 specifier: spec,
                 importer,
-                target: { kind: "package", name: packageNameOf(spec), from: path.dirname(importer) },
+                target: barePackageTarget(packageNameOf(spec), path.dirname(importer)),
             };
         }
     }
@@ -179,6 +220,58 @@ function defaultIsPidAlive(pid) {
         return err.code === "EPERM";
     }
 }
+/** CJS extensions Node's LOAD_AS_FILE / LOAD_INDEX try, in order. */
+const CJS_FILE_EXTENSIONS = [".js", ".json", ".node"];
+/** Whether `p` exists AND is a regular file (not a directory); any fs error → false. */
+function isResolvableFile(p, fs) {
+    try {
+        return fs.existsSync(p) && !fs.statSync(p).isDirectory();
+    }
+    catch {
+        return false;
+    }
+}
+/** Node's LOAD_AS_FILE(X): X itself, then X + each CJS extension — each must be a file. */
+function loadAsFile(base, fs) {
+    if (isResolvableFile(base, fs))
+        return true;
+    return CJS_FILE_EXTENSIONS.some((ext) => isResolvableFile(base + ext, fs));
+}
+/** Node's LOAD_INDEX(X): X/index.{js,json,node} — each must be a file. */
+function loadIndex(dir, fs) {
+    return CJS_FILE_EXTENSIONS.some((ext) => isResolvableFile(path.join(dir, `index${ext}`), fs));
+}
+/**
+ * Whether a relative target's resolved `base` is loadable exactly as Node's CJS
+ * require would load it: LOAD_AS_FILE(base), else LOAD_AS_DIRECTORY(base) — its
+ * package.json `main` resolved as a file (or that main's index), else
+ * base/index.*. A bare or partially-extracted directory — one that holds neither
+ * a resolvable `main` nor an index file — is deliberately NOT loadable, so it
+ * reads as not-present and the single re-exec cannot fire on a still-torn tree
+ * (mirrors the MODULE_NOT_FOUND Node would still throw for that state).
+ */
+function relativeTargetResolvable(base, fs) {
+    if (loadAsFile(base, fs))
+        return true;
+    const manifest = path.join(base, "package.json");
+    if (isResolvableFile(manifest, fs)) {
+        let main = null;
+        try {
+            const parsed = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(manifest, "utf-8"));
+            if (typeof parsed.main === "string" && parsed.main.trim() !== "")
+                main = parsed.main;
+        }
+        catch {
+            main = null; // unreadable / unparseable manifest — fall back to index.*
+        }
+        if (main !== null) {
+            const mainBase = path.resolve(base, main);
+            if (loadAsFile(mainBase, fs) || loadIndex(mainBase, fs))
+                return true;
+        }
+    }
+    return loadIndex(base, fs);
+}
 /**
  * Whether the missing target is now present on disk — the readiness signal the
  * settle wait polls. It re-resolves the SAME step Node's resolver took:
@@ -189,6 +282,11 @@ function defaultIsPidAlive(pid) {
  *                exact ancestor walk `getPackageJSONURL` performs, done WITHOUT
  *                `createRequire` so an ESM-only / export-conditioned package
  *                cannot false-negative.
+ *   - `relative`: re-resolve `path.resolve(from, specifier)` as Node's CJS
+ *                require would — a real file (exact / `.js` / `.json` / `.node`),
+ *                or a directory whose package.json `main` (or that main's index)
+ *                or own `index.*` is a real file. A bare or partially-extracted
+ *                directory is NOT loadable and reads as not-present.
  *   - `unknown`: true (readiness turns on the other signals).
  * Any filesystem error reads as "not present" rather than throwing.
  */
@@ -209,6 +307,15 @@ export function installTargetPresent(target, fs = nodeInstallTreeFs) {
             }
             return true;
         }
+        if (target.kind === "relative") {
+            // Re-resolve exactly as Node's CJS require would from `from`, so the probe
+            // turns true only when the missing module is ACTUALLY loadable again — a
+            // bare or partially-extracted directory must not read as present, or the
+            // single re-exec would fire on a still-torn tree. The extensionless case
+            // matters — a production sibling shape (`./Base/TreeIterator`, HQ-CLI-1N)
+            // carries no extension, so an exact-path-only probe would stay false for it.
+            return relativeTargetResolvable(path.resolve(target.from, target.specifier), fs);
+        }
         // package: ancestor walk from `from`.
         let dir = path.resolve(target.from);
         for (;;) {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@indigoai-us/hq-cli",
-  "version": "5.109.8",
+  "version": "5.109.10",
   "description": "HQ by Indigo management CLI \u2014 modules and cloud sync",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "bin": {