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Control plane should not hand a configRef to a harness that cannot apply it

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
kubernetes, shell
Domain
backend, devops

Research direction

Start with the ordering problem in deploy/k8s/setup.sh, which applies the supervisor, control plane and relay in one kubectl apply, and with the manual procedure in docs/operations/upgrades.md. Read ADR-0038 and PR #501 for the upgrade-order rule, and check how the harness reports its version on /health via X-Moca-Version. Done means a turn naming a bundle on a harness without bundle support fails with a clear error, and the manual ordering rule can be removed from the docs.

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Description

Follow-up from the upgrade-order discussion on PR #501 and the change policy.

Problem. Config bundles require the harness to be upgraded before the control plane (ADR-0038). An older harness ignores configRef, so a turn runs without the user's promoted skills and reports no error. Nothing enforces the order: deploy/k8s/setup.sh applies the supervisor, control plane and relay in one kubectl apply, and they use the same image, so they roll in parallel. Today the only mitigation is a manual pause/resume procedure in the operations docs (docs/operations/upgrades.md, unverified).

Proposal. Make the failure visible instead of silent. For example, the harness already returns X-Moca-Version on /health; the control plane (or the exchange) could refuse to issue a configRef, or fail the turn with a clear error, when the harness it serves does not advertise bundle support. A suggestion, not a design.

Out of scope. Splitting the image.

Acceptance. A turn that names a bundle on a harness without bundle support fails loudly (not silently without skills), and the manual ordering rule can be dropped from the upgrade docs.

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TypeScript
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