The browser-tools step ran a bare `npm install` at the repo root, which
resolves the root package.json's `apps/*` workspace glob. That materializes
apps/desktop and with it node-pty, which ships no Linux prebuild and falls
back to `node-gyp rebuild` — so the installer needs make/gcc on a machine
that will never launch Electron or a PTY addon. Since #85297 made a failed
npm install fatal, a host without a C toolchain (a stock CentOS/RHEL box,
for instance) cannot complete a CLI-only install at all; it just reports
"npm install failed or timed out".
Name the workspaces the install actually needs instead. ui-tui and web are
selected when present, with --include-workspace-root so the root's shared
ESLint devDependencies are not pruned by the scoped install — the same
closure `hermes update` already installs. A checkout with neither workspace
falls back to a root-only install, since npm fails hard on a workspace it
cannot find. Desktop dependencies keep coming from install_desktop(), which
is only reachable via --include-desktop.
Against a pristine tree the unscoped install reifies 1362 packages including
node-pty 1.1.0; the scoped one reifies 582 with no native desktop addon.
A fork force-push can 404 the compare API used by detect-changes, which
fail-opens with ci_review=true and blocks the PR on a ci-reviewed label
the install change does not need. Recover the file list from the pull
request files endpoint before that fail-open.
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