Plugins installed at boot land on the sealed commit

A portal keeps its plugin content in step with the platform it runs: a repository's sources advance only to the commit that was sealed for that platform build, so a portal never receives source files no build compiled against its own platform. Every content sync honoured that. The plugin install that runs at boot did not — it fetched the branch tip, whatever the seal said.

On a portal that had both, the two disagreed about which tree a partition should hold. Each restart the sync put the partition back on the sealed commit and removed the files only the newer tree had; the boot install then re-applied the tip as a diff against its own record, which listed those files as unchanged, so they stayed missing. Eight node types of the Hosting plugin sat unable to compile for that reason.

The boot install now asks the seal first, exactly as the content sync does:

The symptom this removes: plugin content that appears, disappears and reappears across restarts, and node types that fail to compile because sources their record lists are not on the mesh.

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