Every surface that can start an in-place mutation — hermes update
(apply), update --check, and the dashboard's update endpoint — now
routes through evaluate_update_admission(): the baked image-provenance
marker first (authoritative; a bind-mounted checkout inside a container
looks like git to the heuristics while the filesystem is an immutable
image), then the pre-existing docker/nix/apt heuristics verbatim.
A refusal prints the real update command for the deployment kind,
records a 'refused' receipt (fleet tooling sees 'not updatable in
place, use <cmd>' instead of a silent non-update), and exits 2 on CLI
surfaces — distinct from exit-1 errors. The dashboard response keeps
the per-kind error codes its UI already keys on. collect_runtime
inventory()'s updatable_in_place also honors the marker, so --plan and
receipts report image-managed truthfully even with a bind-mounted
checkout.
Live E2E (real hermes update subprocesses, real marker file): apply and
--check both refuse exit-2 with docker-pull guidance, receipts land as
refused/image-marker, an in-place corrupted marker still refuses
(fail-closed), removing the marker admits the git checkout.
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