DL-321
The app bundle carries embedded’s sidecars again — bin/{compass-app,compass-stack,compass-server,compass-runner} + dist, PATH-threaded (DL-215’s mechanism restored by citation) — but NO postgres tooling and no compass-postgres sidecar: the embedded stack’s postgres is the DL-260 stock postgres:18 container via rootless podman (the CLI’s own default), leaving rootless podman (plus podman machine on macOS) as the packaged embedded mode’s sole container prerequisite. DL-217 STAYS superseded. macOS stages the same four binaries in Contents/MacOS/. Supersedes DL-238
Status: Active (Matt, 2026-09-01)