docs: make the installer the documented way to deploy the overlay #11

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whitlocktech merged 1 commits from docs/installer-first-setup into main 2026-08-07 21:32:15 +00:00

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48b16dc70e docs: make the installer the documented way to deploy the overlay
"## Deploy" led with deploy.ps1 and mentioned the installer only
afterwards, which is backwards now that the installer is released.

- Deploy leads with the installer, with the by-hand overlay copy
  (INSTALL.md Appendix A2) as the supported alternative.
- deploy.ps1 gets its own subsection as the developer path: it deploys
  from a working tree, which is the one thing the installer cannot do,
  and it installs no sidecar and checks no protocol pairing.
- CONTRIBUTING: note that changes reach shards through a release, so a
  change that only works when deploy.ps1 copies it does not ship.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-07 16:05:56 -05:00