content: the Shelf Companion update of 21 September 2026

[carlosvirreira]

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The production OTA 688f89a1-1e7b-4710-b4c6-9955e3f15593, published 2026-09-21 and verified live with eas update:list --branch production. Its own message names the PRs it carries:

• shelf.nu #3022 — resume the paused scanner on any tap, and keep manual entry above the keyboard
• shelf.nu #3025 — show the workspace's preferred code on asset and kit screens
• shelf.nu #3026 — show who holds an asset through a booking on the asset screen
• shelf.nu #3047 — keep sheets open until a save succeeds
• shelf.nu #3051 — count kits in check-out pop-ups and match the date picker to the app theme
• shelf.nu #3053 — hide the tick box on kits the mode cannot pick
• shelf.nu #3057 — companion half of check out what is ready, whatever is still unassigned

Why now and not on merge. Five of these (#3022, #3025, #3026, #3047, #3051) were deliberately held back on previous runs: they are app-only JavaScript, and until this OTA no phone behaved the way the copy would have described. The last production OTA before it was 1dcc75dd (2026-09-15), which predates every one of them. The store version is unchanged at 1.5.0 on both platforms, so the content is worded as "the update of 21 September 2026", not as a new release.

Product change summary

The phone gained the workspace's own choice of code on asset and kit screens, named the person holding an asset through a booking, made the auto-paused camera resume on any tap with manual entry above the keyboard, stopped a failed save from closing a sheet full of typed numbers, taught the check-out and check-in questions to count a kit as one thing, hid the tick box on a kit the current mode cannot pick, and stopped an unassigned model reservation from refusing a check-out.

Content changes

Factual corrections

• content/knowledge-base/shelf-ios-companion-getting-started.mdx §9 — said "A booking that still has model reservations waiting for a physical unit has to be fulfilled first with Scan to assign & check out". Now false on the phone as well as the web. Replaced with the confirm-and-go-out behaviour and the app's own copy.
• same file, Workspace Add-Ons and What the App Does Not Do Yet — both said the detail screen does not list an asset's registered barcodes. The Codes card lists them now, so the gap was narrowed to what is genuinely still missing: adding or editing a code.

Content enhancements

• content/knowledge-base/shelf-ios-companion-getting-started.mdx §4 — the paused camera resuming on any tap, and where Enter code now opens.
• same file §6 — the Codes card (resolution order, the selector, the fallback sentence, list rows) and the In Custody Of / Via Booking / Since rows, with who can see and tap them.
• same file §9 — kits with no tick box in a mode that cannot pick them, the closed frame on a ticked kit's members, kits counted as kits in the confirm and the result, and the iPhone date picker following the app's own appearance setting.
• same file §9 — sheets staying open when a save fails.
• same file, the release-history paragraph — the 21 September 2026 OTA and what it brought.

New content

• content/updates/companion-your-code-your-holder-and-a-camera-that-wakes-up.mdx — changelog entry for the OTA.

Review notes

• Every label is quoted from the shipped code, not from the PR bodies: the row labels from apps/companion/lib/asset-custody-rows.ts, the Codes card behaviour from lib/display-codes.ts and modules/barcode/display.ts, the fallback sentence from describeCodeFallback, the paused-camera strings from app/(tabs)/scanner.tsx, the kit-counted confirm and result from lib/booking-kit-rows.ts, and themeVariant from components/date-time-field.tsx.
• Deliberately NOT written here: #3063's companion half (the quantity stepper's min floor) is not in this OTA, and #3065 has no phone half. Neither is described.
• One link in the new update entry points at /knowledge-base/adding-assets-and-kits-to-a-booking#checking-out-while-units-are-still-unassigned, an anchor added in content: model reservations — check out what is ready, and let kits answer a reservation #324. The page exists either way; if this merges first the link lands at the top of the page until content: model reservations — check out what is ready, and let kits answer a reservation #324 goes in.
• No screenshots. The media pipeline drives the web app, not the phone, so nothing here is capturable by it. No TODO markers were introduced.

Impact scope

• End users affected: every Companion user — scanner users most of all, plus anyone running bookings that hold kits or model reservations from the phone
• Prospects affected: teams weighing the phone app as a real field tool rather than a viewer
• Pages modified: 1
• Pages created: 1
• Pages flagged for review: 0

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[carlosvirreira]

Added one paragraph for shelf.nu#3071 — kits fulfil model reservations (merged and deployed 2026-09-23 07:00Z), in the same section this PR already rewrites.

Scanning a kit on Scan to assign & check out used to come back with "Kits can't be checked out from the reservation scanner". The app has always sent the kit id; the server now resolves it, puts the kit on the booking whole, and lets its individually tracked members answer outstanding reserved units. So this is a server-side change — nothing to install, no OTA, every installed build behaves this way from today's deploy.

The companion half of shelf.nu#3068 (check-in offered only for units that actually went out) is not in here. It needs a phone update, and the newest production OTA is still 688f89a1 from 21 September, which does not carry it. It stays deferred until the next OTA.