Connor Yoh
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A linked self-hosted instance is still shown the connect prompt, the sidebar
"Link Stirling account" button and the feature gates.
linkState has three values and none of them is "unknown", so LinkProvider opens
at "unlinked" and a separate status call corrects it. useConnectGate reads
!isLinked, and its loading flag covers only the app-config query, so in the
window between app-config landing and the status arriving a linked instance
looks unlinked: the prompt fires and the gates close.
The version users actually hit is worse, because it never corrects itself.
useAccountLink.refresh swallows a failed status call into { linked: false }. A
401 from a lapsed admin session, a 5xx, a dropped connection, and nothing
retries: the instance then reads as unlinked for the rest of the session.
So the context now carries whether the status has been read back at all.
Anything that blocks waits for it; the gate holds open until then, and stays
open if the call never succeeds. A gate that cannot read its own precondition
should not be the thing standing in the way, and the real enforcement for these
features belongs on the server regardless.
The prop defaults to true so a pinned state in a story or test is still
believed as given. Only the app passes false, because only the app has to ask.
Tests cover the three answers that were being conflated: not yet known, never
knowable, and genuinely unlinked, the last so this cannot quietly decay into
"never gate".
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