Reproduction
Current main 63b6463, locally compiled native 0.7.2-beta.6. On Windows x64, a committed Python-source fixture in a path with spaces and Chinese characters, with only Git + rg + OS tools on PATH and optional providers absent:
code-intel <fixture> --mode lite --json exits 10, failureNode doctor, diagnostic bootstrap readiness failed, although native core anchors and artifacts are produced.
- Adding Python alone for checkout topology produces completed exit 0; doctor unconditionally marks Python required even though this native core path executes no Python.
- A clean extracted package invoked by absolute path also marks built-in Sentrux missing when the package bin directory is not on PATH: doctor checks source target/release/debug binaries, not its existing packaged binary candidates. Stable v0.7.1 exhibits both restrictions too; these are not claims against unsupported source-only command aliases.
Bounded repair
Keep Python as observed optional tool, not mandatory native-core readiness. Reuse existing packaged graph-binary discovery to recognize the engine already bundled in code-intel. Preserve true missing Git/rg failures and strict required-provider outcomes. Add a real clean-package/no-python/no-pwsh topology regression to install-smoke in the same change per DR-0001. No installer rewrite, no optional provider installation, no baseline reset.
Evidence
Local unabridged evidence: C:/Users/asus/AppData/Local/Temp/code-intel-ux-source-56gz2ug6/evidence.json and code-intel-ux-source-python-s9gi2cho/evidence.json; stable isolated A/B scenarios in code-intel-ux-stable-f6zwun7j/dependency-isolation.json. Source native pre-edit gate passes unchanged Quality6236/cycles0 (pi-unified-exec-21-fb391097.log). Windows gnullvm dev build is explicitly not the official released MSVC binary. Existing #363 ambient-home installer issue and #392 codenexus path PR are untouched.
Reproduction
Current main 63b6463, locally compiled native 0.7.2-beta.6. On Windows x64, a committed Python-source fixture in a path with spaces and Chinese characters, with only Git + rg + OS tools on PATH and optional providers absent:
code-intel <fixture> --mode lite --jsonexits 10, failureNode doctor, diagnostic bootstrap readiness failed, although native core anchors and artifacts are produced.Bounded repair
Keep Python as observed optional tool, not mandatory native-core readiness. Reuse existing packaged graph-binary discovery to recognize the engine already bundled in code-intel. Preserve true missing Git/rg failures and strict required-provider outcomes. Add a real clean-package/no-python/no-pwsh topology regression to install-smoke in the same change per DR-0001. No installer rewrite, no optional provider installation, no baseline reset.
Evidence
Local unabridged evidence: C:/Users/asus/AppData/Local/Temp/code-intel-ux-source-56gz2ug6/evidence.json and code-intel-ux-source-python-s9gi2cho/evidence.json; stable isolated A/B scenarios in code-intel-ux-stable-f6zwun7j/dependency-isolation.json. Source native pre-edit gate passes unchanged Quality6236/cycles0 (pi-unified-exec-21-fb391097.log). Windows gnullvm dev build is explicitly not the official released MSVC binary. Existing #363 ambient-home installer issue and #392 codenexus path PR are untouched.