- Loader 1.3 downloads into a protected run folder of its own
(%ProgramData%\AutopilotMonitor-Loader-<8 hex>), runs the installer only when it
is signed by the pinned publisher and declares the installer role and version
2.7 or later, removes the folder after a successful run and never touches the
agent folder. Unbound arguments now reach the installer by name; the array
splat bound them by position.
- Installer 2.7 refuses without elevation and decides before it writes: guards
read HKLM through the 64-bit view (a 32-bit host never saw the deployment
marker), guard 5 is covered by the agent check. An agent's folder stays as it
is, a skip without agent removes the folder, an install starts from an emptied,
protected folder and stages the ZIP in a run folder. It moves the MSI's working
directory out, writes stderr only on failure and removes the copy older loaders
left at the fixed path.
- Help texts of both scripts state what customers need; .CHANGELOG, which made
Get-Help ignore the help, gives way to the Platform Changelog.
- OOBE go-script: the installer's shared helpers, its own elevation check
(#Requires is ignored under irm | iex), a run folder.
- Publish: version read line-anchored, the loader's own check on the exact
publish bytes, installers before loaders, -Channel dev (dispatch input).
- Bootstrap MSI 1.2.0; Test-ShouldBootstrapAgent reads the 64-bit view;
Uninstall removes loader run folders and keeps the Deployed marker.
- Tests: Pester unit suites, an integration harness running the real scripts
(loader 1.2 and the MSI 1.0 runner frozen in TestData), BootstrapContractTests;
the gate runs on windows-2022 and windows-2025, once more as SYSTEM, and against
a real standard user.
[skip actions]: published by a dispatch of publish-scripts.yml, channel dev first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Oliver Kieselbach