The caps were literals in server.env and the container named no restart-on, so a changed env-file never reached the running forge. They are now three gitea config values placed with ${config:...}, and the server container restarts on server-env.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfFfQ4Z9UE5jK32PmE5
mesh/check failed (3): ace: the check of novox/mesh-catalog#632 failed: downloading the asked version 68581…; and 2 more | b4192c525e7e on 61737962fcb6