Add a paced local Assistant fixture that exercises consecutive tool start, progress, completion, and replacement states without opening a provider request.
Seed Assistant turns with a local prompt-send status, promote it when the chat stream opens, and keep backend workflow activity as the durable stream evidence.
Use neutral assistant wait status while keeping selected model route metadata visible. Make transient retry copy explicit that Pulse retries the selected route rather than switching providers.
Preserve workflow activity rows across active stream content and tool boundaries, and type the generated chat SSE route metadata that drives model activity rows.
Tighten v5-to-v6 upgrade safety, release installability, provider MSP mode handling, AI cost accounting, metrics flushing, and frontend guardrails for the v6.0.0 GA candidate.
Back-port v5 fix 9fe622b88 to v6's append_qnap_autorun_block. The autorun
waiter now polls for the wrapper every 2s up to a 1800s cap, logging the
wait duration on success and a timeout message if the encrypted data
volume never unlocks — instead of v6's unbounded 'while [ ! -x ]; do sleep
5; done' loop that hangs forever. Runtime counters are escaped so they
evaluate at QNAP boot, not install time; marker-based removal keeps it
uninstall-safe.
Back-port the pulse-auto-update.sh half of v5 fix 0f2982ce3 to v6. After a
verified update, if Pulse was running beforehand, wait_for_service_active
polls up to 20s, tries one explicit start, and if it still does not come
back up restores the backup binary/VERSION, restarts, and returns failure
instead of leaving Pulse stopped (common on unprivileged LXC where the
installer's restart silently fails). Adds a BASH_SOURCE guard so the
script can be sourced, plus scripts/tests/test-pulse-auto-update.sh.
Note: the install.sh start_pulse STOPPED_PULSE_SERVICE guard (interactive
installer path) still needs the stop-tracking infrastructure wired into
v6's update flow; tracked as a follow-up.
Extend the unified-agent RC rehearsal with an optional local v5-to-v6 process-swap check.
Record the v5.1.34 to v6.0.0-rc.6 proof result for the upgrade-continuity gate.
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