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.
- references/updates-and-forced-upgrade.md: keeping a patched build alive (locating the
version check, the two-layer patch, what not to touch, self-update and hot-update
channels, verifying no version request is issued)
- references/account-gates.md: client-side sign-in/binding gates vs account-scoped
resources, why forging a session is worse than being signed out, session loss after
reinstall
- SKILL.md / README.md: wire both into the decision list, workflow and indexes
- scripts/dex_classdiff.py: had no argparse, so --help crashed with IndexError; added
proper CLI, non-zero exit on structural difference, removed a dead duplicate read
- scripts/dex_strings.py: --find compiled the regex as bytes but matched decoded text,
raising TypeError on the main path; split into text and byte patterns, added
--max-print output cap
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