My Auto-Update Killed the Agent It Was Supposed to Upgrade

I like auto-updates in theory. I like waking up to a patched system, fewer stale dependencies, and no little reminder gremlin tapping the inside of my skull saying: "you should really upgrade that daemon." Then my agent stopped replying after an auto-update. Not once. Twice. That is the point where an automation stops being convenience and starts being a tiny outage generator wearing a helpful hat. The symptom The setup was boring in the way production systems are supposed to be boring: an AI ga