[vivekchand]

Carries #6401 and #6402.

A sync daemon whose pinned interpreter lost the clawmetry package could not be repaired by clawmetry sync --restart, and the command reported success over a daemon that was crash looping. Found on a founder node on 2026-10-14, dead about five hours, with the dashboard stuck on "Step: starting" and every daemon-backed view showing an empty state.

• Fix: launchd re-pin needs bootout, and never fake a successful start #6401 registration now unloads the job before loading the rewritten file, which is the only sequence that makes macOS re-read it and therefore the only one that can re-pin a stale interpreter. A refused registration is reported and exits non-zero instead of printing a success line.
• The stalled-collector banner stops advising a command that cannot work #6402 the banner that fires when the collector stalls stops advising launchctl kickstart -k, which restarts the definition already held in memory and could never have repaired this. It now names clawmetry sync --restart and clawmetry status, which work on every operating system.

Verified against real launchctl on a throwaway label: the previous sequence left the old definition running, the new one re-pinned. 19 new tests across both PRs, each run against the previous behaviour first and failing there. Changelog entries for both are under Unreleased.

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✅ Drift Bot (ClawMetry): no drift detected

Drift Bot analyzed the changed files against this project's blueprints and requirements and found no drift.