fix(plugins): count installs once, and re-resolve the email when the key changes
code.install counted upgrades and repeat sessions. Session start records install whenever is_first_run() is true, and that only checked whether telemetry-identity.json exists. Recording install does not create that file — only the first successful flush does. So install fired for every 0.2.x user on their first 0.3.x session (0.2.x never wrote the file, and the data directory survives the upgrade), again for any session starting before that first flush finished, and — this is the part that makes it unbounded rather than a race — on every single session, forever, for anyone whose flush never succeeds. An offline or firewalled user reported a new install every time they opened an editor, which is exactly the population hardest to see in the data. A dedicated install-state.json is now claimed with O_CREAT|O_EXCL at the moment install is recorded, so two sessions starting together cannot both win, and the marker is not coupled to identity. Deliberately not the identity file: writing that from a recording process would race the sender, which writes it during resolve_distinct_id, and overloading it is what caused this. Upgrade detection keys on the data directory already having content. A fresh install has an empty one; anything else predates this session. That is a firmer predicate than looking for 0.2.x's venv/ and requirements.txt, which is a guess about files another part of the plugin may or may not have written and only ever works for this one upgrade. The version is stored in the marker so later changes record code.upgrade with a real from_version. A cached email outlived an API key change. resolve_distinct_id kept the first email it resolved and never looked again, so switching to a key from another account kept attributing events to the previous one. It now stores a fingerprint of the key the email came from and re-resolves when the current key differs, and falls back to the anonymous id when no key is configured rather than continuing to attribute to an account it cannot verify. The dangerous part is the alias. resolve_distinct_id's second return value becomes a PostHog $identify with $anon_distinct_id, and aliasing one account email to another merges two real person profiles irreversibly. The re-resolve path returns no alias; aliasing runs anonymous to email only, and never email to email. One existing test asserted that is_first_run flips when the identity file is written, which is the defect itself. Rewritten, along with coverage for atomic claiming, upgrade detection and version changes. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01C7tEmH86HAr7GoAAKCEHZb
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@@ -305,8 +305,19 @@ def run(
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return 0
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if args.action == "session-start":
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if telemetry.is_first_run():
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# Claims the marker atomically and says which event to record, so a
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# second session starting alongside this one cannot record it too.
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first_event = telemetry.claim_install()
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if first_event == "install":
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telemetry.record("install")
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elif first_event == "upgrade":
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# First run after a build that never wrote the marker; the
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# predecessor version was never recorded anywhere.
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telemetry.record("upgrade", from_version="pre-0.3")
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else:
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previous = telemetry.claim_version_change()
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if previous:
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telemetry.record("upgrade", from_version=previous)
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recovered = recover_pending_handoffs()
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record_session_start(store, hook_input)
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if recovered:
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