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@@ -552,6 +552,31 @@ how to override it. Items marked ✓ are shipped.
   passive — it never changes anything, augmenting the explicit rebuild flow.
   Indicator is in the generated bar and both summer whole-swaps. **Pending an
   on-machine check** (the ls-remote/notify/timer path needs a live session).
+- **Automated upstream lock bumps (maintainer CI):** the upstream twin of the
+  user-side checker above — automate advancing Nomarchy's *own* `flake.lock`,
+  which is the entire delivery channel (a downstream takes a single input,
+  `?ref=v1`, so nixpkgs/home-manager/stylix/nixos-hardware reach it
+  *transitively pinned* through that lock; users can't bump them independently).
+  **Tiered by what CI can't do:** the hardware-QA gate (the Latitude 5410 + the
+  AMD dev box — AMD/NPU/Intel-GPU-compute runtime bits aren't testable in CI or
+  on the Intel Latitudes for the AMD paths) can't be automated, so a bot drives
+  `main` and a human still promotes `main → v1`. A scheduled job (Forgejo
+  Actions, or Renovate's Nix manager opening a reviewable lock-diff PR) runs
+  `nix flake update` → `nix flake check` + the existing `runNixOSTest` suite +
+  builds `system.build.toplevel`, and on green lands on `main` — which nobody
+  tracks, so a bad bump costs a debug session, not a user outage; `v1` stays
+  the manual on-hardware gate (it only ever fast-forwards, never force-pushed,
+  or a user's locked rev can vanish from history). **Cadence weekly**
+  (release-26.05 doesn't move fast; nightly is just churn), and `nix flake
+  update` stays *within* the pinned release branches — no surprise major bump
+  (a 26.11 jump is a deliberate `v2`, hand-edited in flake.nix). Side benefit:
+  shrinks the security-patch latency the single-input model otherwise imposes
+  (users are gated on the maintainer for nixpkgs CVEs), since a fix is usually
+  already eval/build/VM-tested and one hardware promotion away from `v1` —
+  worth fast-laning lock-only/security bumps ahead of feature batches. The repo
+  has **no CI today** (manual `nix flake update` only). Explicitly *not* a
+  binary cache: compile-from-source is a deliberate values call (Gentoo-style),
+  so this automates the *config/lock* channel, not artifact distribution.
 - **"nomarchy" control center:** a single TUI/GUI front-end over the common
   toggles — theme, power profile, opt-in services, display, DND — built on
   the same `nomarchy-theme-sync` / `nomarchy.*` surface the menu already