From e212ed8d020592b291589ce07e34b66253e9363e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: iris <2+iris@noreply.localhost>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 16:23:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Document separate benchmark publication repo

---
 .dev-updater.ron | 17 +++--------------
 AGENTS.md        | 19 ++++++++++++-------
 docs/RUST.md     |  8 +++++++-
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.dev-updater.ron b/.dev-updater.ron
index 32d8673..bc42ad5 100644
--- a/.dev-updater.ron
+++ b/.dev-updater.ron
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ label: "AI Sessions",
 // three constants -- there is nothing here worth spawning a process for.
 resources: Ron("resources.ron"),
 
-// The server and three independently installable app surfaces this checkout
-// produces. They are built in parallel -- this list is the set, not a
-// sequence, so nothing here should be read as an order.
+// The two halves this checkout produces: the server a phone talks to, and
+// the app that talks to it. They are built in parallel -- this list is the
+// set, not a sequence, so nothing here should be read as an order.
 components: [
     Server(
         name: "server",
@@ -55,17 +55,6 @@ components: [
         // the terminal the QR would be printed on.
         enroll: "server/enroll-link.sh",
     ),
-    // The deterministic Rust/iris transcript benchmark. Its release build
-    // is arm64 by default and signed with the same machine-local key as the
-    // Compose app.
-    // `cwd` scopes APK discovery to app-rust, while commands containing a
-    // slash resolve from the project root, per Dev Updater's command model.
-    Apk(
-        name: "iris-bench",
-        modes: ["release", "debug"],
-        build: "app-rust/build-apk.sh",
-        cwd: "app-rust",
-    ),
     // E5 (RUST.md): app/shellApp packaged by the xtask instead of Gradle
     // (cargo ndk -> javac -> d8 -> aapt2 -> zipalign -> apksigner), signed
     // with the same release key as "app" above so the two can install
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 097b5b1..fb11ecf 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -148,12 +148,14 @@ Module-by-module intent is in `docs/PLAN.md`'s "Backend layout".
     pans, flings or lays out a long list.
 - `.dev-updater.ron` — what Dev Updater builds here: the server (run as
   `service: Managed(…)`, supervised by Dev Updater's own implementation
-  rather than a script kept here), the Compose app, the Rust/iris benchmark
-  APK, and the shell APK, in parallel. The iris benchmark is its own
-  `iris-bench` component rooted at `app-rust/`; its release mode is the arm64
-  phone build with the `transcript-screen bench` features. The file points at
-  `resources.ron`, which is *ours* rather than
-  Dev Updater's — it names
+  rather than a script kept here), the Compose app and the shell APK, in
+  parallel. **It does not publish either benchmark APK.** Phone benchmark
+  builds live in the separate `~/repos/ai-app-bench` repository: build here,
+  copy the verified artifact to that repo's `compose/` or `iris/` Gradle-shaped
+  path, then commit and push that repo. Dev Updater pulls the committed APK
+  from there; pushing `ai-app-2` alone cannot update its benchmark card. This
+  file points at
+  `resources.ron`, which is *ours* rather than Dev Updater's — it names
   `~/.local/share/ai-app` and `~/.config/ai-app` so the Uninstall dialog can
   offer them. Note what deleting the config directory takes with it: the CA
   under `certs`, which is the one-way door. **Stop** on the server card stops
@@ -378,7 +380,10 @@ Each exists because something was invisible without it.
   build/install/tap/read-report cycle stops being retyped by hand each
   time (docs/RUST.md's P0 box). It passes `--no-default-features`, so
   `--features` alone decides what is in the `.so`; that is what keeps the
-  1.9 MB bench fixture out of a build that did not ask for `bench`.
+  1.9 MB bench fixture out of a build that did not ask for `bench`. A phone
+  build is published only by replacing
+  `~/repos/ai-app-bench/iris/build/outputs/apk/release/iris-bench-arm64.apk`
+  and pushing the **bench repository**, not this checkout.
 - **iris's three test layers** (docs/RUST.md's "Three test layers" has
   the commands and what each cannot answer): test at the cheapest one
   that can answer the question. `cd app-rust && cargo test` runs the real
diff --git a/docs/RUST.md b/docs/RUST.md
index 68ec9a7..fb6f1d2 100644
--- a/docs/RUST.md
+++ b/docs/RUST.md
@@ -788,7 +788,13 @@ device.
       no server, driving the same scroll loop and streaming phase, and
       printing the same report fields. AGENTS.md's "The rigs" is the
       current description; `app-rust/build-apk.sh` and `run-bench.sh` are
-      how it is run.
+      how it is run. The build source is this repository, but the Dev Updater
+      publication is the separate `~/repos/ai-app-bench` repository, whose
+      `iris-bench` component serves a committed APK with no build step. After
+      an arm64 release build, replace its
+      `iris/build/outputs/apk/release/iris-bench-arm64.apk` and push that
+      repository; adding the component here or pushing only `ai-app-2` is the
+      wrong delivery path.
 
 - [ ] **P1 — session screen parity.** **Started 2026-09-06, on Iris's
       word**: "just continue with the plan for now; try to move towards