The $imagepolicy marker was on the line above image:, not a trailing
comment on that line. Flux's Setters strategy attaches YAML comments to
the node on their own line, so a marker on a preceding line never
associates with the field below it - the marker silently matched nothing,
which is why ImageUpdateAutomation logged "repository up-to-date" on
every reconcile regardless of what ImagePolicy resolved to, and never
once committed a tag update despite two successful image builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Y4YNpuC2bgT224suQLLJ7B
