Jinwoo Hong 3d76c22b57 fix(mobile): a refused update serves the cached generation while the host is up (#22237)
* fix(mobile): a refused update serves the cached generation while the host is up

A newer generation that fails to fetch or stage was refused with a named
reason and then painted a wall with "Try again" over an intact generation
already on disk — the same one the offline branch opens without being asked
the moment the host goes away.

`onDownloadFailed` now branches on what is cached rather than on which side
refused: with nothing on disk the refusal is still the screen, and with a
generation on disk it is opened through the offline branch, judged by its own
route list. The refused generation is never staged, committed or persisted, and
nothing about the refusal is written, so the next launch asks the host again.

The bundle-side refusal is named as a dismissible notice above the page, on the
existing host-route banner. It says what happened and promises no retry,
because the shell schedules none.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): judge the cached generation against the host it can reach before serving it

The fallback served a cached generation on the strength of the offline rule,
which skips the compat check because a host nobody can reach cannot have
changed. On this path the host has just answered, and an update usually exists
precisely because it moved — so bytes that were inside the protocol window when
they were written may be outside it now.

`CachedGeneration` now carries the three fields the compat verdict reads,
projected in `openCache` off the manifest stored beside the assets. That
manifest is never absent: `readActiveGeneration` answers null for a generation
whose manifest did not parse, and the read schema requires all three.

`cachedGenerationWall` lives beside `gateVerdict`, because only an `open` gate
is judged further. The other verdicts already have answers there: an absent
capability is the native-route rule, and an unreadable status leaves the same
empty list, so walling on either would be the `bundle-unavailable` wall that
file exists to keep off a host that simply did not reply.

A generation outside the window now earns the wall with its verdict, not the
download-failed screen, and nothing is deleted: the bytes are intact and a
newer host is not what makes them wrong.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): ask the cached generation's own routes before walling it

The compat wall ran before the route question, so a cached generation that does
not carry this route — or predates route listing entirely, `routes: undefined` —
earned a terminal `bundle-incompatible` wall where the answer is `native-route`.
`onManifestRead` has always taken the other order: a route that stays native has
nothing to wall about. `openByOwnRoutes` now asks the route first and applies
the wall only on the served branch, and the update notice moved to `served`, so
a native answer carries no notice about a screen it is not showing.

The other half is the verdict the gates hold at the moment of the refusal. A
`fetching` session does not await the gates, so a refusal can land under a
verdict the flow never started on. `gateState` is now the one mapping from a
gate verdict to a screen, shared by the entry into the flow and by the fallback,
so the two cannot answer the same verdict differently: a host that stopped
serving a bundle is `native-route`, a status that went unreadable says so and
re-arms, a dial in progress or a pending status waits in `checking`, an
unreachable host keeps the offline rule and serves the cache unjudged, and
`open` is the only answer that leaves a host to judge the generation against.

That inverts two round-2 assertions that expected the cached page to be served
when the capability list had gone empty. Both were wrong for the same reason:
an empty list is the gate's question, not a verdict about a bundle.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb

* fix(mobile): announce the host route notice banner, as loudly as its tone

The banner is inserted into a screen that is already on screen, so a reader who
has moved past the top of the list never arrives at it. It carried no live
region and no role, so nothing carried it to them.

The urgency follows `tone` rather than being assertive for everything. The
failure tone is an action that did not happen — a refused worktree action, or
the shell's refused update — and interrupts with `alert` and an assertive
region. The notice tone is a bounced route, context for a list already being
read, and waits its turn politely; interrupting for that would train people to
ignore the first. No role on that arm: React Native has no `status` role, so the
polite region is the whole of the answer.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JNnE9qzUZMMnqpZWCqM3nb
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