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Olares Market via olares-cli market — install, upgrade, uninstall, clone, stop, resume, restart apps; catalog, status, chart upload, --watch. Use for Olares app store, my apps, 我的应用, install app, restart app, upload chart.

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market (App-store v2)

CRITICAL — before doing anything, load the olares-shared skill first (profile selection, login, token refresh, auth-error recovery). Flag reference: olares-cli market --help.

Source of truth for flags is always olares-cli market <verb> --help. This file only carries what --help cannot give: source resolution, the CLI's OpType-vs-State view of the lifecycle (the state machine itself lives in the appstate reference), OpType-vs-State race safety, the verb index, the -s/-a matrix, and the "what apps do I have" routing.

Platform model: app namespaces (<app>-<owner> vs the admin-only <app>-shared) and which system-middleware apps an admin installs are defined once in ../olares-shared/references/olares-platform.md.

When to use

  • Olares Market, olares-cli market, Olares app store, install / upgrade / uninstall / clone / stop / resume / restart / cancel an app
  • my Olares apps, 我的应用, market list --mine, is <app> installed yet, chart upload / delete, --watch until terminal state
  • Catalog: list, get, categories; runtime: status

Anything outside this scope -> see the Skill suite map in ../olares-shared/SKILL.md (already loaded as the suite prerequisite).

Mental model: market is lifecycle and inventory at the app-store level (install / upgrade / chart push). For runtime K8s objects, settings, or metrics, route to a sibling.

Verb families

FamilyVerbsMutating?
cataloglist, get, categoriesno
runtimestatusno
lifecycleinstall, upgrade, uninstall, clone, stop, resume, restart, cancelyes
chartsupload, deleteyes

For verb-specific behavior, always start with olares-cli market <verb> --help. Then drill into a reference if listed:

FamilyReference
catalog + runtimereferences/olares-market-list.md (list / --mine / categories / get / status)
lifecyclereferences/olares-market-lifecycle.md (install / upgrade / uninstall / clone / stop / resume / cancel). restart (POST /apps/restart, version-agnostic body {app_name, source}) shares the resume watch bucket (running) and, like stop/resume, exposes no -s; it also backs the auto-restart in settings network overlay app enable/disable
--watch / stuck / errorsreferences/olares-market-watch.md (per-verb watch buckets, foreground windows, stuck-state handling, common errors)
chartsreferences/olares-market-charts.md (upload / delete)

Source resolution (cross-cutting)

The market backend serves multiple "sources" of charts. The CLI resolves which one to talk to from -s / --source, falling back to a default that depends on the verb:

Source idWhat it isUsed by
market.olaresPublic catalog (read-only browse)default for list, get, categories, install, upgrade, clone, status
uploadSPA "Local Sources → Upload" buckethard-coded for upload / delete — -s is intentionally NOT exposed on those two verbs
cliLegacy CLI-upload bucketread-only (list, status)
studioDevbox / Studio bucketread-only (list, status)
  • When -s is omitted, every verb that accepts it prints Using source: <id> to stderr so the agent can confirm which backend was hit.
  • -a / --all-sources bypasses single-source resolution and spans every source the user has — read-only verbs only.
  • Unknown source ids silently produce an empty result with a no apps in source 'X' stderr hint. Run market list -a to enumerate the configured sources.

-s / -a matrix

FlagRead-only browseLifecycle (mutating)Chart management
-s / --sourcelist, categories, status, getinstall, upgrade, clone— (hard-coded upload)
-a / --all-sourceslist, categories, status——

-s is NOT on uninstall / stop / resume / restart: they act on whichever per-user state row matches the app name, regardless of source. cancel now exposes --source — but only as a fallback for the Olares 1.12.6+ edge case where the per-user state row is gone (or /market/state is unreadable) and the 1.12.6 cancel body still needs a source. In the normal case the source is read from the state row; do not pass it.

App lifecycle / state machine

Backend facts (states, legal transitions, per-state allowed operations, fail TTLs, single-download serialization, running semantics, progress) live once in ../olares-shared/references/olares-platform-appstate.md. This section is only the CLI's view of them. Don't re-derive the state machine here.

The backend tracks two orthogonal axes per app: State (where the row currently is) and OpType (which mutation is in flight). The CLI groups the full enum into four buckets:

BucketExamplesMeaning
Progressingpending, downloading, installing, initializing, applyingEnv, upgrading, uninstalling, stopping, resuming, *CancelingBackend is actively working — keep polling
Terminal successrunning, stopped, uninstalledMutation finished cleanly
Terminal failuredownloadFailed, installFailed, applyEnvFailed, upgradeFailed, uninstallFailed, stopFailed, resumeFailedMutation finished with a hard error
Canceled / cancel-failed*Canceled, *CancelFailedA cancel request landed (or itself failed)

(Examples are illustrative, not exhaustive — the full state enum per bucket is in the appstate reference.) Each lifecycle verb maps to its own subset of terminal-success buckets — see the lifecycle reference.

OpType vs State (race-safety)

The same State can mean different things depending on which mutation is in flight. Concrete example: an upgrade issued against an app already in running will return state=running, opType=running for one or two ticks before the backend flips to state=upgrading, opType=upgrade. A naive watcher would declare success at tick zero.

The CLI's mutating-verb watchers refuse to accept any "success" classification until either:

  1. the row's OpType matches the op the CLI just issued, or
  2. the row disappears entirely (only legal for uninstall / status).

cancel and status deliberately set matchOpType=false because they are op-agnostic by design — cancel declares success on any "row stopped moving" state.

--watch semantics (lifecycle verbs)

  • Polling, not streaming. Tick on --watch-interval (default tuned to the backend's progress cadence).
  • --watch-timeout D caps total wall-clock time.
  • One-shot (no --watch) returns as soon as the backend ACKs the mutation request — the row may still be progressing for minutes.
  • With --watch, the CLI blocks until the row reaches a terminal bucket (success OR failure) matching the OpType safety rules above.
  • Idempotent no-ops — stop / resume only: stop on an already-stopped row and resume on an already-running row return immediately with success (the watcher recognizes the backend's no-op opType="" instead of hanging). install / upgrade / clone have no such shortcut — they require the matching OpType before declaring success. restart reuses the resume watch bucket (terminal running), so its --watch inherits the same idempotent-running shortcut.
  • --watch-timeout / --watch-interval are no-ops without --watch (silently ignored, not rejected). There is no --watch-iterations flag on market verbs.

Agent watch discipline (don't block on a long watch)

--watch defaults to a 15-minute timeout, and progressing states have very long backend TTLs (downloading is 30 days — see the appstate reference). A foreground --watch can therefore block far longer than an agent should sit idle. Discipline:

  1. Use a short foreground window, not the 15m default. Pass a small --watch-timeout sized to the verb (see references/olares-market-watch.md): ~30s for stop/cancel/resume/uninstall, ~1m for the install deploy phase / upgrade / clone.
  2. Timeout is NOT failure. A --watch that times out only means "not terminal yet". Don't report failure — switch to polling market status <app> --watch --watch-interval 5s (or fire-and-forget + periodic market status <app>), or hand off to diagnosis.
  3. Judge by STATE transitions, never the PROGRESS number (it is unreliable — appstate reference). A long downloading is judged by image-pull progress, not by waiting for terminal.
  4. When a short window expires with no STATE movement, stop waiting and diagnose — route to ../olares-doctor/SKILL.md (app stuck / won't start), which orchestrates the pod/log evidence.

"What apps do I have?" routing

QuestionRight verbWhy
"Show me my apps" / "我的应用"market list --mine (alias -m)Matches the Market UI's "My Terminus" tab exactly — includes in-flight installs, failed rows, transitional states. Wider than "completed installs only"
"Runtime status of <app>" / "is it installed yet"market status <app> or market status <app> --watchFocused view: STATE / OPERATION / PROGRESS / SOURCE. The single-app form does cross-source fallback if -s doesn't find the row
"Which apps are running right now"market status [-a] then filter STATE=runningstatus returns installed-app rows, not a running-only view. For resource ranking use dashboard applications; for title search across visible installed apps use search app
"Browse the catalog"market list (no --mine)Hits /market/data, not /market/state. Browse-and-discover, not inventory

list --mine is NOT the same as "completed installs only". It hides only the 6 SPA-hidden uninstalledAppStates (pendingCanceled, downloadingCanceled, downloadFailed, installFailed, installingCanceled, uninstalled). In-flight installs and post-install failures stay visible because the user clicked something and expects to monitor / retry / cancel them.

Output conventions

  • -o table (default) or -o json — present on EVERY market verb.
  • -q / --quiet suppresses all stdout / stderr; exit code carries the signal.
  • --no-headers — only list and categories (row-oriented browse). NOT on get (key:value detail, no headers separable) or status (runtime probe, always headered). No-op silently on mutating verbs.
  • Mutating verbs emit a stable OperationResult JSON shape with finalState / finalOpType for scripted parsing.

Common errors

SymptomCauseFix
no apps in source 'X' (stderr)Unknown source id, or empty resultRun market list -a to enumerate configured sources
app 'X' is not installed (run 'olares-cli market install X' to install it)status <app> could not find the row anywhereInstall first, or verify the app name spelling
App is installed under source 'Y' (not 'X') (stderr)-s X but the row is actually in source YDrop -s, or pass the correct source. The CLI still renders the row
missing required env var(s): KEY1, KEY2 ...install for an app that declares required envsRe-run with --env KEY=VALUE (repeatable) for each missing var
app 'X' supports multiple compute modes; re-run with --compute-mode <type> ...1.12.6+ install (non-interactive) of an app runnable on several acceleratorsRe-run with --compute-mode <type> (e.g. nvidia); a TTY would prompt instead
app 'X' requires a compute binding ... re-run with --compute-binding ...1.12.6+ resume (non-interactive) of a GPU app needing a deviceRe-run with --compute-binding <node>:<device>[:<mem>] (mem accepts Gi/Mi; repeat the flag once per card for multi-GPU apps) from settings compute list; a TTY would prompt instead (comma-separated for multi-card)
the supplied --compute-binding (...) was rejected ...: <reason>1.12.6+ resume with an explicit binding the backend refused<reason> mirrors the SPA wording for that validation.code — e.g. aggregate-vram-insufficient (combined VRAM), device-vram-insufficient, node-pressure (lists Memory/CPU/Disk Total/Used/Needed), or a raw structural code like multi-card-not-supported / gpu-type-mismatch. Pick different/more cards per the available list
--compute-mode/--compute-binding requires Olares 1.12.6+ ...Flag passed against a 1.12.5 backendDrop the flag — 1.12.5 uses a different, unchanged code path
Lifecycle watcher hangs near *Failed stateBackend failed but kept the failure row visibleInspect market status <app> for the failure detail; cancel with market cancel <app> if applicable
cannot --watch 'status' (no app argument)market status without an app + --watchUse status <app> --watch
401 / 403 from any verb after refreshToken rotation / consistent server-side rejectionSee ../olares-shared/SKILL.md
--cascade auto-enabled ... (stderr)1.12.5: C/S v2 multi-chart app on single-user clusterInformational — the CLI picked --cascade=true; pass --cascade=false to override (1.12.5 only)
--cascade force-enabled ... (CS/shared apps always cascade) (stderr)1.12.6: target is a CS/shared app (apiVersion v2 / shared)Informational — on 1.12.6 CS/shared apps are always cascaded; --cascade=false cannot disable it
'X' has no in-progress operation for this user; nothing to cancelcancel on 1.12.6 with the per-user row gone and no --sourceNothing to cancel; if you must still cancel a stuck op, pass --source <id>

For the full auth-error matrix see ../olares-shared/SKILL.md.