When a user reports they ran an update, the first action should be writing the new version to the substrate — before reading release notes in detail, before answering 'how does this affect me.' A version bump that goes unrecorded is a silent downgrade: the install happened, but nothing was written, so the next session reads the wrong version and operates against the wrong mental model. Treating reported events as triggers for substrate writes before they're triggers for answers is the move that distinguishes a sessioned agent from a stateless chatbot.
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