@indigoai-us/hq-cli 5.119.6 → 5.119.7

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [5.119.7] — 2026-09-17
+
+### Fixed
+
+- When the kit cannot install its `@reboot` entry because the host has no
+  `crontab` at all, the install now says so and names the package to install,
+  instead of reporting a raw ENOENT the operator cannot act on. A minimal
+  container image routinely ships without cron; the Muse pilot hit this the
+  first time the reboot entry was attempted.
+
 ## [5.119.6] — 2026-09-17
 
 ### Fixed

package/dist/lib/agent-kit/fallback.d.ts

@@ -80,19 +80,5 @@ export interface RebootCronResult {
 }
 /** Drop any previously managed block, leaving every other entry untouched. */
 export declare function stripManagedCron(existing: string): string;
-/**
- * Install the @reboot entry that brings the fallback supervisor back after a
- * restart.
- *
- * Printing the line and trusting it to be pasted is what the installer used to
- * do, and it is how the Muse pilot lost its messages: the host rebooted, the
- * supervisor died with it, nothing restarted it, and the bot went quiet while
- * every surface still reported healthy. A supervisor that does not survive a
- * reboot is not a supervisor, so the entry is now written for real.
- *
- * Failure is NOT fatal — a host with no crontab is still a working kit until
- * it restarts — but it is reported, so the caller can tell the operator the
- * one thing they must then do by hand.
- */
 export declare function ensureRebootCrontab(paths: Pick<AgentKitPaths, "agentDir" | "logsDir">, host: ServiceHostPaths, run?: CronRunner): RebootCronResult;
 //# sourceMappingURL=fallback.d.ts.map

package/dist/lib/agent-kit/fallback.js

@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ export function stripManagedCron(existing) {
  * it restarts — but it is reported, so the caller can tell the operator the
  * one thing they must then do by hand.
  */
+/** No cron on the host: spawn failed outright, or the shell could not find it. */
+function isMissingCrontab(r) {
+    return r.status === 127 || /\bENOENT\b|command not found|not found/i.test(r.stderr);
+}
 export function ensureRebootCrontab(paths, host, run) {
     const exec = run ??
         ((args, input) => {
@@ -170,6 +174,17 @@ export function ensureRebootCrontab(paths, host, run) {
             return { status: r.status ?? 1, stdout: r.stdout ?? "", stderr: r.stderr ?? "" };
         });
     const listed = exec(["-l"]);
+    // A minimal host image often ships without cron at all, which is not an
+    // error the operator can act on unless it is named. Observed on the Muse
+    // pilot: the reboot entry could not be written because the cron package was
+    // simply not installed, and the raw ENOENT did not say so.
+    if (isMissingCrontab(listed)) {
+        return {
+            installed: false,
+            reason: "the `crontab` command is not installed on this host (install your distribution's cron package, " +
+                "for example `apt-get install -y cron` or `apk add busybox-cron`), then run `hq agent kit install` again",
+        };
+    }
     // An empty crontab exits non-zero with "no crontab for <user>"; that is not
     // a failure, it just means there is nothing to preserve. Anything else is.
     const noCrontabYet = listed.status !== 0 && /no crontab for/i.test(listed.stderr);

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@indigoai-us/hq-cli",
-  "version": "5.119.6",
+  "version": "5.119.7",
   "description": "HQ by Indigo management CLI \u2014 modules and cloud sync",
   "main": "dist/index.js",
   "bin": {