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Cloud sessions say why a saved plugin answer was not reused

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Cloud Sessions not in their notes

If a cloud session could rewrite your plugin config, your saved yes is ignored and you are asked to run /cloud-plugins again.

/cloud-plugins
What

A cloud session that could itself rewrite your plugin configuration will not reuse the Yes you saved in /cloud-plugins. A new check works out where that saved answer is stored relative to everything the session can write to, and unless the answer sits outside all of it, the stored Yes is treated as unset. The session says so in plain text, names the reason, and asks you to run /cloud-plugins to decide for that session.

Details
  • The message begins The saved answer about your plugins is not used for this cloud session, because and ends with one of four reasons: the answer is in the session's launch directory, in its sync root, in another writable root, or was not checked at all.
  • A separate notice covers the other case, a cloud worker coming back up after the saved Yes was withdrawn (a No in /cloud-plugins, or the answer was removed), with the session restarted without plugins.
  • Nothing gates the behaviour: no flag, no setting, no environment variable. It is reachable in any cloud session that forwards plugins.
  • The /cloud-plugins command itself is unchanged; it remains the place to answer for the current session.
Evidence

the saved Yes was withdrawn (a No in /cloud-plugins, or the answer was removed), The saved answer about your plugins is not used for this cloud session, because

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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