memhouse 0.18.3 → 0.18.4

package/bin/memhouse.js

@@ -1013,8 +1013,13 @@ async function cmdInstall({ interactive }) {
     } catch { /* not a URL; the missing-fields check above already spoke */ }
     // Clear ambient MEMHOUSE_* so ONLY the file speaks (exported vars normally win over the
     // file; an invite intake is the one place they must not).
-    for (const k of ['MEMHOUSE_URL', 'MEMHOUSE_USER', 'MEMHOUSE_PASSWORD', 'MEMHOUSE_DB', 'MEMHOUSE_PORT']) delete process.env[k];
+    for (const k of ['MEMHOUSE_URL', 'MEMHOUSE_USER', 'MEMHOUSE_PASSWORD', 'MEMHOUSE_DB', 'MEMHOUSE_PORT', 'MEMHOUSE_CHANNEL', 'MEMHOUSE_EDITORS', 'MEMHOUSE_CLAUDE_ROOTS']) delete process.env[k];
     for (const k of wanted) process.env[k] = parsed[k];
+    // The invite also carries what the inviter's house is ON: its channel (a `team` house
+    // is 0.18.x, published under `team`). Dropping it wrote an env with no pin, and the
+    // member's first `memhouse update` followed `latest` — zeo's 0.17 line — and
+    // downgraded a working team install onto the wrong layout. A flag still wins.
+    for (const k of ['MEMHOUSE_CHANNEL', 'MEMHOUSE_EDITORS', 'MEMHOUSE_CLAUDE_ROOTS']) if (parsed[k]) process.env[k] = parsed[k];
     console.log(ok(`using the invite file ${String(flags.env)} (nothing persisted until the install proves out)`));
     _inviteFileToShred = path.resolve(String(flags.env));
     _inviteWantsRotate = parsed.MEMHOUSE_INVITE === '1';

package/memhouse/channel.js

@@ -32,9 +32,22 @@ function pickChannel({ version, pinned = null, tags = null }) {
   if (isPrerelease(version)) {
     return { channel: null, target: null, reason: `${version} is on no registry tag — a tarball or checkout build; update it by installing a newer tarball, or pin a channel: memhouse update --channel <tag>` };
   }
-  return { channel: 'latest', target: t.latest || null, reason: tags ? 'following latest' : 'following latest (registry did not answer)' };
+  // A release that matches no tag any more (the tag moved on) stays on ITS LINE: the tag
+  // whose target shares this version's major.minor. Falling back to `latest` moved a
+  // 0.18.2 team member to 0.17.1 — a different house layout — on her first update.
+  const line = lineOf(version);
+  const sameLine = Object.entries(t).filter(([, v]) => lineOf(v) === line).map(([k]) => k);
+  if (sameLine.length) {
+    const k = sameLine.includes('latest') ? 'latest' : sameLine[0];
+    return { channel: k, target: t[k], reason: `following '${k}' — the tag on the ${line}.x line this install is on` };
+  }
+  if (!tags) return { channel: null, target: null, reason: 'the registry did not answer — cannot tell which line to follow; retry, or: memhouse update --channel <tag>' };
+  return { channel: null, target: null, reason: `${version} is on the ${line}.x line and no registry tag points at ${line}.x — crossing lines is a decision: memhouse update --channel <tag>` };
 }
 
+/** "0.18" of "0.18.2" — the line a version belongs to. */
+function lineOf(v) { const m = /^(\d+)\.(\d+)/.exec(String(v || '')); return m ? `${m[1]}.${m[2]}` : ''; }
+
 /** The registry's dist-tags, or null when it cannot be reached. Abbreviated document, small. */
 async function fetchTags(fetchImpl = globalThis.fetch) {
   try {
@@ -47,4 +60,4 @@ async function fetchTags(fetchImpl = globalThis.fetch) {
   } catch { return null; }
 }
 
-module.exports = { pickChannel, fetchTags, isPrerelease };
+module.exports = { pickChannel, fetchTags, isPrerelease, lineOf };

package/memhouse/delivery/plugin/.claude-plugin/plugin.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "mem",
   "description": "Conversation memory for AI agents over the memhouse typed ClickHouse store: recall past sessions and answer from them, run analytics, check the house, bring people in, and administer the server. Skills install as /mem:recall, /mem:sql, /mem:house, /mem:access, and /mem:admin.",
-  "version": "0.18.3",
+  "version": "0.18.4",
   "author": {
     "name": "Ramazan Polat"
   },

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "memhouse",
-  "version": "0.18.3",
+  "version": "0.18.4",
   "description": "memhouse \u2014 agent conversation memory across 17 editors: parse-on-client shippers, a typed ClickHouse store with one set of rooms per member, kernel-agency install, and the agentlytics dashboard",
   "main": "bin/memhouse.js",
   "bin": {