[merberg-ai]

Confirmed live-host error

Scout systemd service exits with status=1 before recording its new run; a safe import-only probe reproduced ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'bob_publish_common', raised by bob_memory_recall.py during Scout startup. The last completed Scout run is hours earlier. The shared helper exists in src/lib/bob/bob_publish_common.py but was never part of the updater's initial managed registry, so the clean standalone entrypoint fails.

Minimal correction

Release v0.7.5-scout-importfix1 directly from user-installed v0.7.5-logs2 packages only unchanged bob_publish_common.py into ~/.local/bin/, alongside the Scout executable and memory/friend modules. Standard updater integrity checks, private SQLite backup, and code rollback apply. Activity Manager restarts; Scout timer and publishers do not start or change, and no permissions, schema, credentials, Moltbook activity, or auto-posting settings are altered.

Regression tests

New isolated installed-layout smoke tests confirm Scout fails without bob_publish_common.py and Scout/publisher/original-worker import successfully with it in their directory under an isolated Python interpreter. No live network/DB or worker main calls. Docs include read-only import verification, and only after it succeeds a separate optional systemctl --user reset-failed to clear old systemd status without starting Scout.