Make Tau updates prominent and add tau update#430
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Summary
tau update, which detects and reuses the installer that owns Tau's active environmentUser experience
Outdated Tau installations are now difficult to miss, without interrupting startup. Users can upgrade directly with one memorable command. Tau respects the existing installation: uv tool, uv pip, pipx, and pip installs are updated with that same manager, while direct-source, Conda/Pixi, and unknown installs stop with safe instructions instead of trying unrelated tools.
Issue
No linked issue.
Manual validation
~/.tau/cache/update-check.jsonwith a freshlatest_versionnewer than the installed version.tauand confirm the bright-yellow update notice is the first transcript item, before release notes and session history.tau updatefrom a normal uv, pipx, or pip installation and confirm Tau invokes that installation's manager.uv tool install tau-ai@<latest-version>rather than preserving the old pin.tau --versionafter updating.Checks
uv run pytestuv run ruff check .uv run ruff format --check .uv run mypyuv build --out-dir /tmp/tau-feature-disthugo --minify --destination /tmp/tau-feature-site(fromwebsite/)