fix(evi): trust local eve dev sessions as the maintainer

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Asking the local eve dev REPL anything admin-gated (Vercel MCP, the new Linear MCP, ai-gateway, captures, push) failed with "This tool is not available in the current session": the REPL caller is neither a maintainer principal nor the schedule app principal, so every gate refused it — which made the admin surface untestable from the machine it runs on.

isMaintainer now returns true when environment() resolves to local: an eve dev session runs on the maintainer's own machine. Deployments resolve to their VERCEL_ENV and eval runs to eval, so nothing changes there — covered by a dedicated test, and the existing trust/label tests now pin VERCEL_ENV=production explicitly so they keep modeling deployed behavior.

No changeset: confined to apps/evi. Verified: tsc, 54 unit tests, eve build.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Local development sessions are now automatically trusted.
  • Deployed and evaluation environments continue to enforce configured maintainer access.
  • Improved handling of unset environment configuration values.

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• apps/evi/agent/lib/github/label-approval.test.ts
• apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.test.ts
• apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.ts

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

isMaintainer now grants local-environment sessions maintainer trust. Tests set deployed behavior by default, clear undefined environment variables, and verify local, evaluation, and deployed trust outcomes.

Changes

Environment-Based Trust

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Local maintainer trust apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.ts	isMaintainer returns true for local-environment sessions before evaluating authentication principals.
Environment-specific test coverage apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.test.ts, apps/evi/agent/lib/github/label-approval.test.ts	Tests default to VERCEL_ENV=production, remove undefined environment variables, and cover local anonymous trust plus evaluation and deployed behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• HugoRCD/evlog#522: Changes related maintainer trust logic in trust.ts.
• HugoRCD/evlog#526: Changes trust.ts and its tests for environment-based trust behavior.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change and follows the repository's conventional commit format with the valid evi scope.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, implementation, environment behavior, tests, build verification, and rationale for omitting a changeset.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.test.ts`:
- Around line 16-22: Clear EVE_RUN_MODE in the trust loaders before importing
modules: update loadTrust() in apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.test.ts (lines 16-22)
and load() in apps/evi/agent/lib/github/label-approval.test.ts (lines 16-17) to
reset it alongside VERCEL_ENV, ensuring eval mode cannot leak into subsequent
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• apps/evi/agent/lib/github/label-approval.test.ts
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• apps/evi/agent/lib/trust.ts