Add an About Screen and Debug Dump

Goal

Ship a discoverable About surface and a one-action redacted diagnostics dump.

Why

About, build info, and debug dumps.

Steps (any stack)

  1. Generate build metadata in CI — commit SHA, version, channel, timestamp, target triple. Emit a source file or embedded resource; do not shell out to git in production builds.

  2. Expose a version API in-process (e.g. BuildInfo.version, BuildInfo.commit).

  3. Wire the UI or CLI:

    • GUI: Help → About (version, build, channel, OS, license, Save debug dump)

    • CLI: app --version and app debug-dump [--out path]

    • TUI: About pane + same dump command

  4. Implement the dump as a zip or folder:

    • build info

    • non-secret settings

    • last logs

    • optional hardware/OS summary

  5. Redact tokens, passwords, cookies, and secret-store contents by default.

  6. Document in README/Help: where About lives and what to attach to issues.

Acceptance checks

  • About / --version shows marketing version and build id

  • Dump works on a clean install (no repo/.git required)

  • Opening the dump does not reveal secrets in a spot check

  • A teammate can match the build id to a CI run

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