HERMES_SKIP_INTRO=1 turned off the intro film but also silently killed the
entire guided first launch: the guide can only queue on the film's
completion edge (queueGuideAfterIntro requires hasSeenIntroReveal), so with
the film disabled nothing ever fired and the app booted straight into the
normal shell with the free-tier flag on.
The film-to-guide seam now fires without the film: beginOnboardingFlowWithout
Intro records the film as watched and queues the guide directly, so
HERMES_SKIP_INTRO skips exactly the film. A relaunch adopts the persisted
guide (loadGate sees cinematic + seen), and a later launch without the flag
cannot replay the film over the completed flow.
Verified: tsc -p tsconfig.json and tsconfig.electron.json clean; vitest ui
(onboarding-gate, onboarding, onboarding-never-forces-sign-in: 30 passed
incl. 2 new invariant tests) and electron (guest-onboarding-flag,
preload-flags: 6 passed) green.
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