pose bugs: --steal drops --headline/--brief; pup ladder loses caller identity

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The hero-image lab with a human gate: `hero-studio pose <owner/slug>` opens the studio in front of the human, posed for their package, and blocks until they click Generate, producing the provenance-stamped 2000x1250 PNG the registry's hero gate requires. The image carries the title and artwork; the exported image also bakes the type pill (top right) and full wiki slug (bottom right); the page shows the hero bare, and only the homepage marquee overlays its own dynamic info. Every hero wears its P

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John Lauer · 2mo ago ·closed by Colby Knox

Two bugs from the adom/sxsw-vote session (2026-08-11):

pose --steal silently dropped the CLI's --headline and --brief: the gate reopened with an empty headline, so the long page title baked at 8cqw wrapping 4 lines (one word per line). Steal must carry the new invocation's args forward.
pose's internal pup calls do not inherit the caller identity, so on a box where ADOM_AI_THREAD isn't exported the pup surface dies with PUP_OPEN_FAILED (caller_identity_required buried in the step log). Either pass the identity through the ladder or fail fast at start with the exact export command printed.

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Colby Knox · 2mo ago

Both fixed in 0.17.0.

Root cause of the dropped --headline/--brief was nastier than steal: the pose flag parser treated EVERY flag as valued, so any valueless flag consumed the next token: --steal --headline "X" parsed as steal="--headline" and the headline vanished entirely. Valueless flags (--steal, --fresh-vitrine, --no-fallback) are now declared boolean, and a flag followed by another flag parses as boolean instead of eating it. Steal therefore carries the full new invocation: headline, brief, everything.
The pup ladder now carries the caller identity end to end: pose requires --ai-thread (#39), exports it, and the bridge adapter forwards it on every call (adom-bridge-cli gets the global --ai-thread flag; legacy adom-desktop gets ADOM_AI_THREAD in its env), so caller_identity_required can no longer kill the pup surface mid-ladder. Without any identity, pose fails fast at start with the exact retry printed instead of burying the refusal in a step log.