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help: explain waiting for an Ark and reading the tool version - #18

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  • The agents topic says nothing in ark waits for an Ark to appear, so a script polls ark status --json, where no-device means none is attached yet.
  • The output topic's "Scripts should pin the tool version" now names ark --json --version, which prints the tool version beside the oldest firmware it supports.

Agents asked to write a script that waits for an Ark and then reads its state each wrote their own polling loop, most after searching the help for a wait option that does not exist. Several asked for the pattern in the help, and one found --json --version only by trying it.

It names no-device only. Whether device-busy, device-unreachable and disconnected also mean "keep waiting" while an Ark is plugged in or boots needs checking on hardware first.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@karalabe karalabe closed this Sep 22, 2026
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