Create bot_bottle/paths.py as the canonical home for the app-root path
helpers (bot_bottle_root, host_db_path, HOST_DB_FILENAME) — foundational,
not supervise- or db-specific. `bot_bottle_root()` now honours a
BOT_BOTTLE_ROOT env override.
Repoint every consumer (supervise, supervise_types, db_store, queue_store,
audit_store, store_manager, bottle_state, cli/supervise, docker/cleanup,
orchestrator/registry) at paths; remove the definitions (and supervise's
duplicate host_db_path) and the now-dead `import sys`. Add paths.py to the
sidecar bundle (Dockerfile.sidecars) for the flat-import copies.
Tests: replace ~12 files' monkeypatching of supervise.bot_bottle_root (and
the flat/pkg/supervise_types triple-patch dance) with a single
`use_bottle_root()` helper that sets BOT_BOTTLE_ROOT — every module and
flat/package copy reads the same env var, so one override covers them all.
Net -97 lines. Behaviour-preserving: full unit suite unchanged (only the
pre-existing /bin/sleep sidecar-init errors remain).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WBMWTEtQdJ4W5UrWuLHCck
Delete the smolmachines backend (the whole bot_bottle/backend/smolmachines
package and its tests). It had fatal Linux issues (TSI networking under
sustained use, exec-channel contention, no SIGWINCH) and is superseded by
the Firecracker backend (issue #342).
Backend selection now:
- default is macos-container on macOS, firecracker on KVM-capable Linux
hosts, and docker as the last resort (was smolmachines).
- firecracker is selected on a KVM host even when the `firecracker`
binary isn't installed, so start routes through its preflight and
prints an install pointer (same UX as require_container), instead of
silently falling back. Split is_host_capable() (Linux + KVM) out of
is_available() (adds the binary check) to drive this.
Retarget the cross-backend tests (parity, print-parity, prepare,
workspace, freezer, selection) from smolmachines to firecracker rather
than dropping the coverage. Remove docker.util.image_id/save, which only
smolmachines used. Update README/AGENTS/example bottles and stale
comments; historical docs/prds are left as a point-in-time record.
BREAKING: BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND=smolmachines now errors as unknown.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WBMWTEtQdJ4W5UrWuLHCck
Both docker and smolmachines backends use bottle state helpers.
Moving to bot_bottle/ makes the sharing explicit and removes the
cross-backend dependency (smolmachines importing from ..docker).
All callers updated: docker backend, smolmachines backend, cli
modules, and tests.
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