The previous free-tier commit (c0975fe) blocked USE_SERVER_KEY for
unlicensed users on the theory that this protected a "bundled key."
That conflated two different things:
• USE_SERVER_KEY = the user's OWN Gemini key, just stored server-side
via the StartOS configuration action (vs. browser localStorage).
Both paths are BYO — the user pays Google directly either way.
• Bundled key = a future relay where paid users' /api/process requests
are proxied through the operator's service and the operator absorbs
the API cost. Sketched in UPGRADE-DESIGN.md (deleted, in git history)
but NOT YET BUILT.
Blocking USE_SERVER_KEY broke a legitimate flow: a free user installs
the app on their own StartOS, sets their Gemini key via the config
action, then summarizes from the web UI without re-entering it.
This commit:
• Drops the BYO/USE_SERVER_KEY rejection in /api/process. Free users
can use a key from either path; the existing `if (!apiKey)` check
still catches the no-key-anywhere case with a helpful message.
• Reverts the frontend submit-button and handleSubmit checks to the
same key requirement for both tiers (state.apiKey OR state.hasServerKey).
• Drops "bundled API key" from the activation-screen subtitle and
"bring your own Gemini key" from the free-mode banner. Until the
relay is built, paid users still BYO too — promising otherwise in
upgrade copy is misleading.
• Keeps the parts that ARE legitimate free-vs-paid differentiators:
the one-at-a-time concurrency lock and skipping saveToHistory.
Also fixes the `make deploy` redundancy:
• bin/bump-version.sh accepts --from-deploy. When set, if there is no
.release-notes-pending.txt (consumed by a prior bump or never
written), exit 0 without prompting — the current version is already
fresh.
• Makefile passes --from-deploy from the deploy target. Standalone
`make bump` is unchanged (always prompts).
Result: `make bump` then `make deploy` no longer double-prompts. And
calling `make deploy` twice in a row (no new work) is idempotent on
the bump step.
Snapshot of the working tree before cleanup. Captures:
- Keysat licensing: server/license.js, /api/license/* endpoints in
server/index.js, activation modal in public/index.html, embedded
Ed25519 issuer key (assets/issuer.pub).
- StartOS 0.4 expansion: setApiKey action, version files v0.1.1
through v0.1.15, file-models/config.json.ts, manifest updates.
- Self-hosted registry server (startos-registry/).
- Build/deploy scripts (bin/bump-version.sh, bin/deploy.sh, vendored
yt-dlp binary), .gitignore, .deploy.env.example.
- Recent design docs (KEYSAT_INTEGRATION.md, UPGRADE-DESIGN.md) —
retained here so they remain recoverable when removed in the
follow-up cleanup commit.
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