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21 changes: 21 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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# Changelog

## v0.7.1

Documentation only; no code changes from v0.7.0 apart from a bubbletea bump
(2.0.9 to 2.0.10).

### Fixes

- The CLI reference said a usage error prints the full usage text. It prints
the error, the command's usage line and a pointer to `--help`, as it has
since v0.7.0. `stoat help <command>` is documented.
- The exit-code table listed `stoat down` on a stopped VM as exit 1. It exits
0, as the `down` section says.
- `stoat ssh` documents exit 1 for a VM whose sshd does not answer yet.
- The JSON reference describes `not_found`, `cannot_reach` and
`access_denied` with the cases v0.7.0 added, and its History section records
`limit_reached`, `needed_mb` and `available_mb`.
- Two corrections to the v0.7.0 notes below. `cannot_reach` was not a new
code: it existed for `wait`, and v0.7.0 extended it to a guest command whose
ssh connection failed. For `stoat logs`, `-n` is the short form of
`--lines`; the spelling kept as a hidden alias is `--n`.

## v0.7.0

A usability pass for people and for agents, driven by two audits that used
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| [`help`](#stoat-help) | Show the usage message | 0 |

An unknown command, missing VM name, or extra argument is a **usage error**
(exit 2). Stoat prints the error and full usage text to stderr. The
(exit 2). Stoat prints the error, the command's usage line, and a pointer to
its `--help` to stderr. The
client-specific `mcp` flags are documented in [the MCP reference](mcp.md).

## `stoat ls`
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`-q` is accepted but has no effect (there is no chatter to suppress before the process is replaced). `--json` is refused outright: `syscall.Exec` destroys the process image, so there is no "after" in which to write a result line; the error message points at `stoat --json exec <name> -- <cmd>` for a single command, or `ssh_port`/`ssh_user` from `stoat --json ls` to build your own connection.

**Exit codes:** 0 is not actually observed on success: the process image is gone. 1 if the VM can't be loaded, `ssh` isn't found on `$PATH`, or `exec` itself fails to launch. 2 under `--json`, always (see above).
**Exit codes:** 0 is not actually observed on success: the process image is gone. 1 if the VM can't be loaded, its sshd doesn't answer within 3 seconds (stoat prints `<name> is booting; run stoat wait <name>`), `ssh` isn't found on `$PATH`, or `exec` itself fails to launch. 2 under `--json`, always (see above).

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Document the replacement ssh process’s exit status.

If syscall.Exec succeeds, ssh replaces Stoat and its exit status becomes the user-facing process status. Stoat returns its own failure status only when a pre-exec check fails or syscall.Exec returns an error.

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Review comment at @docs/reference/cli.md at line 411:
Update the Exit codes description to state that after syscall.Exec succeeds, the
replacement ssh process determines Stoat’s user-facing exit status; Stoat
returns its own failure status only when a pre-exec check fails or syscall.Exec
returns an error. Preserve the documented status behavior for those failure
cases.

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## `stoat ssh-command <name>`

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## `stoat help`

Prints the full usage message (subcommands, global flags, exit codes) to stdout. The same text is printed to stderr, alongside the specific error, whenever a usage error occurs.
Prints the full usage message (subcommands, global flags, exit codes) to stdout. `stoat help <command>` prints that command's help instead, the same text as `stoat <command> --help`.

**Exit codes:** always 0.

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| Code | Meaning | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| `0` | Success | VM started/stopped, provisioned, deleted; `doctor` found nothing wrong |
| `1` | Runtime failure | Unknown VM name, VM already stopped for `down`, VM running for `rm`, ssh unreachable during provision, `doctor` found an issue, `rm` confirmation declined |
| `1` | Runtime failure | Unknown VM name, VM running for `rm`, ssh unreachable during provision, `doctor` found an issue, `rm` confirmation declined |
| `2` | Usage error | Unknown subcommand, missing/extra arguments, an unparseable flag, `update` given no flags, `check-recipes` given no names |

A usage error (2) prints the complaint and full usage text to stderr. A runtime
A usage error (2) prints the complaint, the command's usage line, and a pointer
to its `--help` to stderr. A runtime
failure (1) prints `stoat: <command>: <error>` to stderr. Without `--json`,
`exec` instead returns the guest command's status from 0 through 255. See
[`stoat exec`](#stoat-exec-name-command).
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| Code | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `not_found` | no such VM |
| `not_found` | no such VM, or no such snapshot, guest, image, recipe, background job, guest path, or `stoat.toml` entry |
| `broken` | the VM's `vm.toml` will not parse |
| `name_taken` | a VM by that name already exists |
| `invalid_spec` | the request itself is malformed |
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| `no_disk` | the VM has no qcow2 (a live VM has none) |
| `immutable_field` | `update` was asked to change a field that cannot change |
| `disk_shrink` | a disk can only grow |
| `cannot_reach` | `wait` was asked for a state this VM can never reach |
| `cannot_reach` | `wait` was asked for a state this VM can never reach, or a guest command could not connect because the running VM's sshd does not answer yet (it is booting; `wait` first) |
| `unknown_log` | bad `--which` |
| `qemu_missing` | `qemu-system-x86_64` is not on `PATH` |
| `kvm_unusable` | `/dev/kvm` cannot be opened; the user is usually not in the `kvm` group |
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| `canceled` | the context was cancelled |
| `usage` | a bad flag, a missing argument, an unknown subcommand |
| `confirmation_required` | a destructive command was run without `-y` |
| `access_denied` | MCP guest access was refused because the VM's `agent_access` level is too low |
| `access_denied` | MCP guest access was refused because the VM's `agent_access` level is too low (including `write_file` with `as_root` below `exec`), or the guest refused a path the ssh user cannot read or write |
| `rate_limited` | MCP refused a tool call because its per-tool or shared rate bucket was exhausted |
| `limit_reached` | a configured limit or the host's free memory refuses the operation; a RAM refusal adds `needed_mb` and `available_mb` |
| `lock_out_of_date` | a project declaration is not pinned in `stoat.lock` |
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and `shared_mount`. The MCP server gained `list_snapshots` and `delete_snapshot`.
The contract stays 3.

v0.7.0 added the `limit_reached` code and the `needed_mb` and `available_mb`
error fields, which appear only on a RAM refusal. The same release widened
three existing codes: `not_found` covers missing guest paths, job ids,
recipes and images as well as VMs; `cannot_reach` covers a guest command
whose ssh connection failed while the VM boots; and `access_denied` covers a
guest path the ssh user cannot use. Before v0.7.0 those cases answered
`internal`, or reported success with exit code 255. No code changed its
meaning for a case it already covered, so the contract stays 3.

## Capability discovery

stoat capabilities [VM] --json returns a report with schema 1 in the usual
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# `git describe` isn't available in the nix build sandbox, so pin a
# version string here; bump on release the same way release.yml's
# ${GITHUB_REF_NAME} does for the tarball builds.
version = "0.7.0";
version = "0.7.1";

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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git diff --unified=8 da5879ad222d73135a9359f0d54e8f58b4c020b8 371da8a6b30685bc248cb817ed54bc0a784655e1 -- flake.nix; printf '\n--- head package definition ---\n'; git show 371da8a6b30685bc248cb817ed54bc0a784655e1:flake.nix | nl -ba | sed -n '1,65p'; printf '\n--- base package definition ---\n'; git show da5879ad222d73135a9359f0d54e8f58b4c020b8:flake.nix | nl -ba | sed -n '1,65p'

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NovusEdge stoat pull request 165 vendorHash 0.7.1 flake build

💡 Result:

**PR #165** is the automated “chore: update Nix vendor hash” pull request for `NovusEdge/stoat`. Its bot says the final Nix package build passed *before* the PR was created; the PR was open as of **October 3, 2026**. (GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference))

The PR is mentioned by **PR #166**, titled “docs: fix v0.7.0 reference drift; prepare v0.7.1,” but the available PR #165 page doesn’t establish that #165 itself builds version **0.7.1** or show the exact `vendorHash` value. (GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference))

Citations:

- 1: GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

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for endpoint in (
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NovusEdge/stoat PR 165 "vendorHash" flake.nix patch exact hash go.mod v0.7.1 build failure

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PR #165 changes only the `vendorHash` in `flake.nix`:

```nix
# old
sha256-I3cYDT3RCVqD87IYqGgaI0EwvLn5WpUPaHoC8c5PN48=

# new
sha256-FDNhtle3sILmi2ionRvWMwD+Fkbe2ZE4qsRdxrarUAY=
```

It’s an automated vendor-hash update; the bot says the final Nix package build passed before it opened the PR. The PR is open as of October 3, 2026. (GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference))

The page links PR #166, titled “prepare v0.7.1,” but does **not** establish that #165’s hash change fixes a v0.7.1 build failure or show the relevant `go.mod` change. So the exact hash above is established for PR #165, but its relationship to a specific v0.7.1 failure remains unverified. (GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference))

Citations:

- 1: GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 2: GitHub pull request 165 in NovusEdge/stoat (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)

Use PR #165’s vendor hash before tagging v0.7.1.

pkgs.buildGoModule still receives the previous hash. PR #165 replaces it with the updated hash and reports a successful Nix package build. Keeping the previous hash can make the flake package build fail.

🐛 Suggested fix 
-            vendorHash = "sha256-I3cYDT3RCVqD87IYqGgaI0EwvLn5WpUPaHoC8c5PN48=";
+            vendorHash = "sha256-FDNhtle3sILmi2ionRvWMwD+Fkbe2ZE4qsRdxrarUAY=";
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comment at @flake.nix at line 31:
Update the vendorHash passed to pkgs.buildGoModule in the flake package
definition to the refreshed hash used by PR #165, keeping the v0.7.1 version
unchanged.

After applying the fix, consider running `coderabbit review --agent` for local
review. Visit https://docs.coderabbit.ai/cli?utm_source=ghpr

in
{
default = pkgs.buildGoModule {
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