The web deploy serves a config.json kept on the server (not in git), which
is where the Giphy key lives. The desktop app bundles the repo's
config.json, whose gifApiKey is empty, so on desktop the GIF button never
appeared even with Settings → GIF Picker switched on.
scripts/sync-web-config.mjs copies an allow-list of deployment-only keys
(just gifApiKey) from https://chat.lotusguild.org/config.json into
cinny/config.json before the Windows and Linux builds. The key is public
already (served to every web visitor; Giphy keys are client keys). A fetch
failure is a warning, not a build failure.
Tested locally: sets the key, is a no-op on a second run, and skips cleanly
on a 404.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PPmy3tPq869XDW4njjVaKA
