Add observation-window hygiene and non-Java update gates

references/long-task-discipline.md
  New section: "Keep the observation window clean". Every conclusion rests on "the
  build I am looking at is the build I made", and that assumption fails silently:
  something else installs/reverts/clears the target mid-capture, the process was never
  actually restarted, or the installed artifact is not the one on disk. Guards, cheapest
  first: pin identity by hash (not filename, and immediately before the window, not
  hours earlier); declare a capture window and run no install/uninstall/clear inside it;
  timestamp it; prefer one continuous capture over several short ones. When a window
  turns out to be contaminated, discard and re-capture rather than salvage - a re-run
  costs minutes, a wrong conclusion costs the rest of the task and gets re-derived from
  the same bad evidence.

references/updates-and-forced-upgrade.md
  New Step 6: "when the check is not where you expect", covering three shapes that break
  the flip-the-comparison plan.
  - The check is native: a declared update entry point with zero Java callers means the
    invocation lives in a .so. Ordered remedies, starting with the one that needs no
    native work at all - attack the response, or feed the check a version it likes. "No
    Java caller" is not "unpatchable".
  - The dialog hands off to a browser or WebView: there is no installer call to find,
    and logcat truncates the URL to `dat=https://host/...`, so a grep gives you a host
    and no path. Approach table for recovering the real URL, with hooking intent
    construction as the reliable one.
  - Server-issued gate with a local fallback: read the failure branch first. If failure
    defaults to "no update", failing the request is the whole fix and also gives you an
    offline verification signal; if it defaults to "must update", it makes things worse.
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- **Prefer a bounded observable over a fixed sleep.** Poll the state you actually care about, with a
cap — and prefer a sample you can inspect over a duration you hope is right.
## Keep the observation window clean
Every conclusion in this skill rests on "the build I am looking at is the build I made". That
assumption is silently false more often than any other, and a contaminated window does not look
contaminated — it looks like a result.
Three ways it happens, all of which have produced confidently wrong findings:
- **Something else touched the target while you were observing.** Another process, another agent,
another window of your own work installed, reverted, restored or cleared the app. Your screenshots
and logs are then a mixture of two states and describe neither.
- **You are looking at a stale process.** The app was never actually restarted, so the "before" and
"after" captures come from the same run.
- **The artifact on the device is not the artifact on disk.** An install that reported success, or was
skipped because the version matched, leaves the previous build running.
Guards, in order of cost:
1. **Pin the identity, not the filename.** Hash the artifact you built, hash the artifact you intend
to test, and hash what is actually installed (pull the installed APK or read its digest) — the
filename proves nothing. Do this immediately before the observation window, not hours earlier.
2. **Take the window deliberately.** Before a capture sequence that a conclusion will rest on, state
(to yourself or in the record) that the next N seconds are for this observation only, and do not
run another install/uninstall/clear inside it.
3. **Timestamp the window.** Record the wall-clock start and end. It costs one line and it is the only
way to later notice that a teammate, a background job or your own earlier command landed inside it.
4. **Prefer one continuous capture over several short ones.** A restarted capture invites a restarted
state; a single sequence cannot straddle an install it did not perform.
When you discover a window was contaminated, **the correct action is to discard it and re-capture**,
not to salvage it. A re-run costs minutes; a wrong conclusion costs the rest of the task, and it will
be re-derived from the same bad evidence because the record says it was observed.
## Handover
A handover is the record plus three things, written for someone with **no** memory of the task: