fix(extensions): restore device-link guidance on the install/activate paths

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What broke

"lets setup telegram" → the workspace bot activates → the agent offers to also
link your personal Telegram account → you say yes → the agent replies that it
"still can't link a personal Telegram account from here because there's no
available tool for that step."

The agent's self-report is true: no model-visible capability starts a
device-link flow, by design — the value that flow displays is a login token
(device_link.rs:145-149: "anything that can display it can invite a device
onto the account"), so putting it in a conversation writes a bearer credential
into the transcript. The defect is that the model was told to offer it.

Root cause — a mechanical regression of #7766

ExtensionLifecycleManager::package_declares_device_link_user_link decided
whether the model is told "linking happens in the web app". It delegated to
device_link_channel_setup, which requires the channel-connection descriptor to
have both strategy == DeviceLink and auth_requirement.setup == DeviceLink. Those descriptors are built solely from [channel.connection]
(factory.rs:1238-1256), and never consult manifest.auth.

#7766 changed Telegram's manifest:

-strategy = "device_link"
+strategy = "web_generated_code"

Both conditions went false, user_link_required went false, and the install
result's next_step silently degraded from the device-link guidance to a plain
"Activation completed; model-visible extension tools are ready."

#7766 was correct — it fixed consent bug #7715 by separating bot pairing from
personal device linking. It just orphaned a predicate that had been asking
"does this CHANNEL connect via device link?" when the question that matters is
"does this EXTENSION have a device-link surface at all?" Those were one fact
before #7766 and two facts after.

The same manifest edit also rewrote connection_success_message into the line
that tells the model a personal-account step exists — so one PR both removed the
"send them to the web app" instruction and added the "there's a next step" hint.

The fix

1. Union both device-link facets (product_lifecycle.rs).
device_link_user_setup_requirement replaces the old predicate and consults the
channel-connection facet and the manifest tool-credential facet
(RuntimeCredentialAccountSetup::DeviceLink, via the existing canonical
manifest_runtime_credential_auth_requirements). Consulting either alone
reproduces the bug for some manifest shape — the tool facet alone would miss a
channel-only device-link package, because that function walks
manifest.capabilities and never manifest.channel.

device_link_channel_setup is untouched: it still means "this channel
establishes per-user identity via device link" and is load-bearing at
product_lifecycle.rs:824 and :1496 for activation-requirement exemption.

2. Per-caller accuracy, three states (install_guidance.rs).
builtin.extension_install is per-user and idempotent, and the model is
instructed to call it for "connect, enable, install, pair, authenticate, or
integrate" requests. A tenant-uniform message would tell an already-linked user
to go link again — the same class of confidently-wrong statement this issue is
about. So: no device-link surface → plain completion; surface + caller not
linked → the setup guidance; surface + caller already linked → say so and send
them nowhere. Unknown caller state fails toward Required, because "each user
links their own account" stays true when we cannot tell, while guessing
"already linked" recreates this bug.

3. One owner for the copy. The guidance const and its branch were
byte-identical in extension_lifecycle_capabilities.rs and
lifecycle_product_service.rs. Drift between synchronized copies is this bug's
own class, so both now render from one private module.

4. Cover the bare-activate paths. LifecycleProductPayload::ExtensionActivate
has no next_step field, so both activate arms dropped the guidance entirely
and activation_success_message derives its copy from the channel strategy
alone — #7853 through a third caller. The notice now rides
LifecycleProductResponse.message, which is payload-shape-independent and
already carries generic text. No wire-contract or payload change.

5. Hand the user the destination, not a description.

Correct guidance still left the last step unaided. A user reading it in a chat
channel cannot render the device-link panel there, so "link your personal
account from the extension's page in the web app" meant: go find the web app,
the Extensions page, the right extension, and the right setup path yourself.

The guidance now carries the destination:

{origin}/extensions?configure=<package>&setup=personal_account

Deliberately not the shape /chat?connect= uses. That route auto-installs
and auto-starts a flow, which is exactly why its notice is withheld from any
channel that cannot deliver a reply privately (channel_host.rs:98-117, #7681)
— landing it in a shared room pulls bystanders into someone else's setup.
This link starts nothing: it opens a modal. A bystander who clicks it
authenticates as themselves and lands on their own page, so it is safe to sit in
a group transcript and needs no privacy gate.

• Built from IRONCLAW_REBORN_WEBUI_BASE_URL — the same env the connect notice
  reads, via the same connect_link_base_url_from_env. Unset keeps today's
  link-free copy; the link is additive, and the prose that names the
  destination in words never goes away.
• The package id is percent-encoded, and that is load-bearing.
  LifecyclePackageId bounds length and rejects NUL/control characters only
  (lifecycle_id.rs:92-118) — &, #, =, and spaces all pass — and a
  hosted-MCP package carries the desired_id the model supplied at
  registration.
• DeviceLinkGuidance carries the state and the link as one value. Either
  alone is a defect: a link without the state reaches already-linked callers
  (this bug with a click attached), a state without the link is the prose-only
  hand-off above.
• Frontend: useExtensionSetupLanding consumes the params once and strips them
  so a reload cannot replay the landing, then resolves the id against the
  caller's own installed inventory — an id they have not installed opens
  nothing. ConfigureModal takes initialConnection, so the link lands on the
  device-link panel instead of the two-path choice screen.

Test Strategy

Behavior	Tier	Test
Install path emits the guidance (the reported bug)	integration	telegram_update_becomes_a_turn_and_a_coordinated_reply — RED before, GREEN after
AlreadyLinked suppresses the "go link" copy	integration	telegram_install_reports_already_linked_for_a_caller_with_a_satisfied_device_link_account
Union predicate's channel facet	crate	device_link_user_setup_requirement_resolves_from_the_channel_facet_alone
Bare-activate arms, negative case (both surfaces)	crate	*_does_not_carry_the_device_link_notice_for_a_non_device_link_package
Copy states the reason chat cannot finish the link	crate	each_state_renders_distinct_install_guidance — pins 4 properties, not a substring
Setup URL: construction + no-origin fallback	crate	a_configured_origin_hands_the_user_the_destination, no_configured_origin_keeps_the_link_free_copy
Setup URL: trailing slash + &-in-id injection	crate	the_link_is_built_defensively
Only the owing state carries a link	crate	only_the_owing_state_carries_the_link
The link reaches next_step (both surfaces)	crate	install_next_step_directs_device_link_users_to_the_web_ui ×2
Landing: consume-once, strip, resolve, not-installed, bad setup=	frontend	useSetupLanding.test.tsx (6 tests)
Deep link opens on the panel, not the choice screen	frontend	ConfigureModal opens on the setup path a deep link named — proven red by reverting the prop

export IRONCLAW_DISABLE_OS_KEYCHAIN=1
export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$HOME/.colima/default/docker.sock   # postgres legs
export RUST_MIN_STACK=16777216                                # default stack aborts this suite

cargo test -p ironclaw_extension_manager --lib                # 165 passed
cargo test -p ironclaw_extension_host --lib                   # 487 passed
cargo test -p ironclaw_integration_tests \
  --test reborn_integration_extension_delivery                # 26 passed (libsql + postgres)
cargo test -p ironclaw_architecture_tests                     # 42 binaries / 314 passed
cargo clippy -p ironclaw_extension_manager -p ironclaw_extension_host \
  -p ironclaw_composition --all-features --tests -- -D warnings   # clean
(cd crates/product/ironclaw_webui/frontend && npx vitest run --project unit)  # 1477 passed

Coverage limits — stated, not implied

• The composition env read is not covered at the integration tier.
  IRONCLAW_REBORN_WEBUI_BASE_URL is process-global and integration tests share
  a process, so a test cannot own it without racing its neighbours. The URL's
  construction, gating, encoding, and per-state suppression are covered at the
  crate tier; the two composition call sites are one line each, mirroring an
  already-shipped sibling. The test-support fixture supplies the origin directly
  (LIFECYCLE_TEST_SETUP_LINK_BASE_URL) so lifecycle tests exercise the link.
• The positive Required-notice case on the bare builtin.extension_activate
  arm is untested. Withdrawn — that claim was under-investigation, not a
  real blocker. Both activate surfaces are reachable at the crate tier with a
  synthetic channel + device-link fixture and no generic host attached
  (publish_to_generic_host short-circuits when none is present). Model
  visibility was never the obstacle: the existing negative test already invokes
  the handler directly. Both surfaces now have positive coverage.
• The model-behavior step is unverified. next_step is model-facing
  guidance. These tests prove the guidance reaches the tool result; they cannot
  prove the agent then hands the user the link instead of offering to do it
  itself. Pinning that needs a recorded LLM fixture, which pins one model at one
  point in time.
• Two pre-existing unit tests are bypass tests.
  install_next_step_directs_device_link_users_to_the_web_ui (both manager
  files) hand-passes the state into the renderer and would stay green if the
  predicate regressed. Left in place because the integration tests now cover
  the predicate for real — but they are not predicate coverage, and that is
  exactly how fix(telegram): separate bot pairing from personal device linking #7766 broke this silently.

Reviewer notes

• The extension-specificity gate caught six violations in this PR and they
  are fixed, not allowlisted (cf236c6890). All six were production comments
  naming Telegram or Slack; reborn_generic_code_names_no_concrete_extension
  strips inline #[cfg(test)] modules before scanning, so the test fixtures
  were never the issue. Each comment now names the shape it is actually about.
  WS0_EXTENSION_SPECIFICITY_ALLOWLIST_BASELINE is unchanged.
• arch-exempt line. lifecycle_product_service.rs sits in the
  1,500–3,000 line band .claude/rules/architecture.md asks PRs to leave
  shorter, and this change adds to it. Decomposing a 1,774-line file inside a
  bugfix would break scope discipline, so the file carries
  // arch-exempt: large_file, ..., plan #7860 and Decompose ironclaw_extension_manager::lifecycle_product_service (1,774 lines) #7860 owns the split.
• New dependency: percent-encoding = "2" on
  ironclaw_extension_manager, matching ironclaw_extension_host's existing
  use for the same purpose. Rationale in the SETUP_QUERY_VALUE doc comment.

Follow-up, not in this PR

• Device link fails with generic "Something went wrong while linking" when telegram_api_id/api_hash are unconfigured #7862 — device link fails with a generic "Something went wrong while
  linking." when telegram_api_id/telegram_api_hash are unset. An
  admin-configuration problem reported as an internal error.
• Gap 3 + Gap 1 + Surface A — per-surface auth truth (the model is told
  Telegram (authenticated) while a personal link is still owed), surface
  provenance in the prompt, and the same clickable hand-off on the
  AuthRequired gate notice for a non-web channel. That last one is a
  different surface with the ephemeral-delivery question attached
  (OutboundVisibility::EphemeralTo, Slack: unlinked-user connect message is public and requires a manual round trip #7681). Described on
  Telegram setup offers personal account linking but cannot complete it (missing tool) #7853 (comment)

Review round 2 (0979fed786)

Six findings from PR review, all verified against live code before acting — two
of the reviewers were reading a five-commit-old tree, so none was taken on
trust.

Finding	Verdict	Fix
Resolver returned only the first device-link facet	Valid	Returns every distinct facet, deduped; AlreadyLinked requires zero missing
Credential-store outage reported as a missing link	Valid	New DeviceLinkUserSetup::Unverified
CLI install discarded the guidance in next_step	Valid	Wrapper writes only the failure text
Deep link's setup path leaked to later modals	Valid	Bound to its extension, released on close
Landing test remounted instead of transitioning	Valid	Split into two honestly-named tests
Activate surfaces lacked positive coverage	Valid	Added on both; my "unreachable" note was wrong

Two things worth a reviewer's attention:

• The outage finding had already been decided in this repo.
  map_activation_credential_stage_error maps CredentialStageError::Backend
  to Transient, pinned by
  credential_staging_separates_missing_auth_from_a_credential_store_outage,
  whose comment warns against "sending users to reconnect an already-connected
  account during an outage". Collapsing it into Required was the outage half
  of exactly that. Unverified states the uncertainty rather than guessing;
  the None credential-accounts path uses it too, since its own comment
  already read "unknowable rather than absent". Logging stays at debug! —
  warn! corrupts the REPL TUI (CLAUDE.md) — and the outage is now visible in
  the response text rather than only in a log.
• The facet finding is hardening, not a live bug. The channel and tool
  facets take their provider from different manifest fields with nothing tying
  them, so divergence is reachable via the schema; but no shipped manifest
  exercises it, because the one device-link channel package used the same
  provider for both. Stated plainly rather than counted as a user-facing fix.

Tests +9, red-before proven for the resolver (left: 1, right: 2), the CLI
path (asserted against the literal false-ready string), the frontend leak, and
both activate surfaces.

171 manager · 488 host · 26 integration · 42 architecture binaries / 314 tests
1479 frontend unit · clippy 0

Live verification, and what it found

Run against the PR preview with a real bot, a real paired Telegram account and
real model turns — not reasoned from the code. Full CX matrix:
https://claude.ai/code/artifact/a73c9ead-4bd7-4f10-95f7-1ed034eadce7

Verified working: install guidance renders with the setup link; the model
relays the reason ("the pairing code it displays is itself a login credential")
and refuses to report the connection complete; the deep link lands directly on
the device-link panel, and without setup= falls back to the choice screen;
the CLI keeps the guidance it used to overwrite.

Found by running it, and fixed here: the guidance said "an account
password", and the model received "an account [redacted]" — password is
in SENSITIVE_OBSERVATION_MARKERS, so the reason was mangled before the LLM
read it. Reworded, with a test that walks every state against the marker list.

Found by running it, NOT fixed here — why this is Refs, not Closes:
a paired Telegram user asking "read my DMs" still gets

Do you want me to walk through the setup so I can access your chats? Note that
the pairing instructions involve opening the workspace bot and sending a
generated code…

No link, an offer to perform a ceremony it cannot perform, and a description of
the wrong ceremony. That path never calls install — the model calls
builtin.extension_search, sees phase: setup_needed, and improvises. This
fix hangs off install/activate, so it does not cover it. That is the #7853
symptom, on the surface #7853 was reported from.

This PR fixes the install/activate paths and is a real improvement on them.
It does not close the issue.

Refs #7853

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• New Features

  • Improved extension installation guidance by distinguishing when device linking is required, complete, unavailable, or not applicable.
  • Added clearer next steps and direct links for connecting a personal account through the Web UI.
  • Setup links now open the appropriate personal-account configuration step automatically.
  • Activation responses include device-link guidance or confirmation when linking is complete.

• Bug Fixes

  • Device-link requirements are recognized across channel and tool credentials.
  • Non-device-link extensions no longer receive irrelevant guidance.
  • Preserved guidance for active Telegram workspace-bot installations.

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The change replaces boolean device-link detection with asynchronous requirement resolution and caller credential-state classification. Lifecycle responses now include state-specific guidance and optional setup links. The Web UI opens the selected setup ceremony from deep links.

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Device-link lifecycle guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Resolve device-link requirements crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_host/src/product_lifecycle.rs	The host returns deduplicated channel and manifest device-link requirements.
Classify and render setup state crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/install_guidance.rs, crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/lib.rs, crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/Cargo.toml	The manager classifies caller setup and renders state-specific guidance with optional encoded setup links.
Integrate guidance into lifecycle responses crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/extension_lifecycle_capabilities.rs	Install and activation flows resolve caller-specific state and use it for notices and next steps.
Wire lifecycle services and deployment URLs crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/lifecycle_product_service.rs, crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/extension_lifecycle_command.rs, crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/test_support/lifecycle.rs, crates/app/ironclaw_composition/..., .env.example, tests/integration/...	Services and command responses preserve guidance. Production and test assembly pass the optional Web UI origin. Tests cover Telegram guidance and configured accounts.
Open setup deep links in the Web UI crates/product/ironclaw_webui/frontend/src/pages/extensions/hooks/*, crates/product/ironclaw_webui/frontend/src/pages/extensions/extensions-page.*, crates/product/ironclaw_webui/frontend/src/pages/extensions/components/configure-modal.*	The Web UI resolves setup query parameters and opens the requested configuration ceremony.

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The PR restores install and activation guidance and adds direct setup links, but several current paths can still report failure after the operation succeeds, omit required guidance, or produce a broken or discarded setup link. These bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LifecycleClient
  participant ExtensionLifecycle
  participant ProductLifecycle
  participant CredentialAccounts
  participant WebUI

  LifecycleClient->>ExtensionLifecycle: install or activate extension
  ExtensionLifecycle->>ProductLifecycle: resolve device-link requirements
  ProductLifecycle->>CredentialAccounts: inspect caller credential state
  CredentialAccounts-->>ProductLifecycle: setup state
  ProductLifecycle-->>ExtensionLifecycle: DeviceLinkGuidance
  ExtensionLifecycle-->>LifecycleClient: notice and next_step with optional setup URL
  LifecycleClient->>WebUI: open personal setup URL
  WebUI->>WebUI: resolve extension and open ConfigureModal ceremony

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Preserve backend-error state instead of requiring a relink

When a device-link extension such as Telegram reaches Active while the credential-account store is temporarily unavailable, missing_requirements returns CredentialStageError::Backend, but this branch converts that outage into Required. The resulting model-visible response falsely tells even an already-linked user to repeat the Web UI ceremony; elsewhere the activation gate deliberately maps this condition to a transient failure rather than missing auth. Preserve an unknown/unverified state or propagate a sanitized transient outcome instead of presenting the credential as absent.

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Valid, fixed in 0979fed — and the repo already had this decision written down. map_activation_credential_stage_error maps Backend to Transient, pinned by credential_staging_separates_missing_auth_from_a_credential_store_outage, whose comment warns against exactly this ("sending users to reconnect an already-connected account during an outage"). Added DeviceLinkUserSetup::Unverified, which states the uncertainty rather than guessing either way; the None credential-accounts path uses it too, since its own comment already said "unknowable rather than absent".

One correction to the report: AuthRequired never reaches that arm — configured_runtime_credential_account folds it into Ok(None), so it arrives as a missing requirement. Only Backend escapes as an error. Kept at debug! rather than warn! because warn! corrupts the REPL TUI (CLAUDE.md); the outage is now stated in the response text instead of only in a log, which addresses the "hidden failure" half properly.

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Follow-ups now tracked rather than left implied:

• Device link fails with generic "Something went wrong while linking" when telegram_api_id/api_hash are unconfigured #7862 — the device-link card reports unset telegram_api_id/api_hash as a generic "Something went wrong while linking." This PR routes users to the Web UI to link; on an instance in that state, it points at a door that does not open.
• Decompose ironclaw_extension_manager::lifecycle_product_service (1,774 lines) #7860 — decomposition of lifecycle_product_service.rs, which the arch-exempt line here points at.

The two runtime-context follow-ups that change the group behavior reported alongside #7853 — per-surface auth truth, and surface provenance in the prompt — are described in #7853 (comment) and are deliberately not in this PR.

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Found one medium-severity issue: default CLI output drops the restored device-link setup guidance.

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🟠 Medium · Render device-link guidance on the default CLI path

The normal ironclaw extension install wrapper re-runs activation and replaces the install payload’s next_step with generic completion text. This new notice is stored only in response.message, but the non-JSON renderer never prints that field, so terminal users still receive a false-ready result; only --json exposes the Web UI direction. Preserve the detailed next step or safely render the message in the text renderer.

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Valid and fixed in 0979fed, though the mechanism is on install, not a bare activate — there is no activate subcommand (extension.rs:24-31 is Search/Install/Remove only).

The real defect was upstream of the renderer: execute_install_with_activation overwrote next_step with a literal on the success path, discarding the guidance the service had already composed — a third copy of the string install_guidance exists to own, which is the drift shape #7853 came from. It now writes only the failure text. Regression test cli_install_keeps_the_device_link_direction_in_next_step asserts both the payload and the rendered output, proven red against the literal false-ready string.

Left alone deliberately: the redundant second activation call in that wrapper, and message still being unprinted for every action. Both pre-existing and wider than this PR.

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Multi-agent review run: 4 findings across 5 lanes, no Critical, all addressed in 0aa55120ae — resolve caller state only after Active, one helper for the two capability-handler call sites, and a real test module for install_guidance (it had none).

Declined one half of the perf finding: collapsing the credential-gate lookup into the guidance lookup would recouple guidance to gating, which is the separation this PR exists to preserve. Rationale is in the commit body.

Correctness and security lanes returned zero. Note they reviewed 77751d155e; the review fixes landed after — 161/487/26 green and clippy clean at head.

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- Around line 457-467: Add caller-level positive tests for both device-link
activation paths: in
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drive builtin.extension_activate with an active device-link package and assert
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crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/lifecycle_product_service.rs:229-239,
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its response message. The direct helper test and non-device-link coverage do not
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crates/product/ironclaw_webui/frontend/src/pages/extensions/extensions-page.tsx (1)

178-183: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the landing request pending while the installed-extension query is unavailable.

When the initial ["extensions"] query rejects, @tanstack/react-query 5.87.4 sets isLoading to false, while useExtensions exposes an empty extensions list and a separate extensionsError. useExtensionSetupLanding then clears the request and marks it handled without a match. The Retry action cannot reopen the deep link.

Pass extensionsError to the landing gate, or keep the request pending until the query recovers. Add an error → retry → resolution regression test.

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153-155: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Prevent observation redaction from corrupting setup links.

SETUP_QUERY_VALUE leaves alphanumeric characters and _ unescaped. A permitted package ID such as secret or client_secret therefore remains in the generated URL. with_setup_link places that URL in model-visible guidance, where the observation scrub can replace the marker before the model or Web UI uses the link. The current test uses only fixture, so it misses this case.

Encode the package ID so scrub markers cannot appear in the rendered link. Add a regression case using IDs such as secret and api_key, while preserving the frontend’s decoded configure value.

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[lloydmak99]

The device-link guidance is correctly restored across install and activation flows, with prior resolver and state-handling concerns addressed. No blocking findings.

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[lloydmak99]

Restores the device-link guidance that regressed after #7766: device_link_user_setup_requirements now collects and dedupes both device-link facets (channel + manifest tool credentials) and only reports AlreadyLinked when the activation gate finds none missing, with the guidance also wired into the previously-orphaned bare-activate/CLI paths and a percent-encoded, origin-optional setup deep link. Core logic is sound, no secrets leak into chat, and it ships crate/integration/frontend regression coverage.

Optional follow-up (non-blocking):

• The post-commit guidance lookup uses ? (extension_lifecycle_capabilities.rs:406,469, lifecycle_product_service.rs:369,381), so a transient failure of device_link_user_setup_requirements after install/activation has committed would surface as an error and mask a committed success. Very rare (manifest was just read), no state corruption (DB is source of truth), idempotent on retry — consider falling back to DeviceLinkUserSetup::Unverified on Err as already done for the credential-resolution half. Relatedly, the credential-blocked install branch (lifecycle_product_service.rs:379-386) computes device_link_user_setup whose next_step is then discarded, so that lookup could be skipped.

Checks run: cargo check/clippy -D warnings on the manager and composition crates (clean); device-link manager + host-requirement + lifecycle-contract + production-wired integration Rust suites, cargo fmt --check, and git diff --check passed; frontend 1,480 unit tests, TypeScript typecheck, and production Vite build passed; CI Clippy/WebUI green with heavier buckets still in progress (one unrelated sandbox sweeper flake rerunning).

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The device-link guidance is restored across the intended install and activation paths, and previously raised correctness issues are addressed at the current head. No production-breaking, data-loss, or security issue remains.

• Optional follow-up: In crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/lifecycle_product_service.rs:376, blocked activation still replaces resolved device-link guidance with the generic failure message. This matches pre-existing behavior and is non-blocking.
• Optional follow-up: At crates/extensions/ironclaw_extension_manager/src/lifecycle_product_service.rs:366, a guidance lookup error after activation can report an error despite the state change having committed. This is rare, recoverable, and does not corrupt state.

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