The avatars are a two-shade gradient with a large white letter, noisy enough to stay near the size the apps make. backend.sh starts an SMP server built from the pinned simplexmq with its [NAMES] resolver on a local registry, and ci_contact claims seeded.testing for its address there; the entries' descriptions now read "CI seeded ..." so the name is also a directory search.
Both get a JPEG profile image made as the apps make them (quality 85, scaled down until the data URI is at most 12500 characters), red for ci_group and green for ci_channel. With them the search results no longer fit in one service response (10737 bytes, compressed if needed), so the directory splits them; the probe follows the cursor, prints each page's entries and sizes, and requires each result once, with its whole image, over at least two pages.
A backend job builds the CLI and the directory service without client_library, reused across runs as an artifact named by its sources (plan job, as on the iOS lane). The app job starts a relay and the directory on the preset servers, registers and approves ci_group and ci_channel from a CLI admin, and checks that a search request from a fresh client finds both. The app is not pointed at it yet; its build and desktopTest still run when the backend fails.
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