The 2026-08-08 unwire set the bar: a DURABLE record of 'this app is
installed' must drive reaping, never runtime inference. installed-apps.json
is that record (written on install, cleared on uninstall, backfilled from
live containers, held through container absence). The reconciler's
companion loop now reaps against it — and only when the registry file
actually exists and parses: 'I could not look' and 'nothing is installed'
both surface as an empty set from the lossy loader, so a new
load_installed_apps_if_recorded keeps the distinction alive. The
runtime-derived set is deliberately not a fallback; it is the input class
that caused the incident. ORPHAN_GRACE still applies on top.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
