Replace HERMES_DESKTOP_BUNDLED with HERMES_DESKTOP_VARIANT. The variant is one value: bootstrap, bundled, or light. The stamp payload field records it.
Bake install-stamp.json into the electron bundle as an object literal. The app does not load a stamp file from resources anymore. Remove the extraResources entry and the loose-file loader. A new install-stamp.ts module owns the InstallStamp and ArtifactKind types.
Python reads a light stamp as an error: a light artifact has no Python runtime, so this state means the build is bad.
The distribution field names who replaces a gitless tree. The desktop
payload writes desktop-app. The CLI reads this value to give the
correct update instruction.
All packagers (Docker, Nix, desktop) write the same install-stamp.json
with scripts/write_install_stamp.py or with equivalent inline data. The
new hermes_cli/version_info.py reads the stamp first, falls back to
live git for source installs, and reports "unknown" when neither
exists. It caches the result per process.
The stamp replaces three separate provenance paths:
- the HERMES_REVISION env var from the Nix wrapper,
- the .hermes_build_sha file from the Docker build arg,
- live git probes in banner.py and dump.py.
hermes_cli/build_info.py and the desktop's write-build-stamp.mjs are
deleted with them. The desktop build calls the shared Python script.
The banner, `hermes --version`, `hermes dump`, the TUI session panel,
and the desktop About panel now show the same derived version: the
release version, plus "+N" when the build is N commits past the
release tag, or "+?" for a dirty tree with no countable tag. The
release_date field is gone from every surface.
The dirty probe uses `git status --porcelain -uno`: it runs on the
startup-banner path, and an untracked-file scan costs real time on
large checkouts.
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