Give the generated app a first screen that proves the stack works

apps/cli/src/helpers/core/install-dependencies.ts

@@ -66,6 +66,19 @@ export function getInstallArgs(packageManager: PackageManager): string[] {
   return ["install"];
 }
 
+export function getInstallRetryArgs(
+  packageManager: PackageManager,
+  error: unknown,
+): string[] | null {
+  if (packageManager !== "bun") return null;
+
+  const stderr = (error as { stderr?: unknown })?.stderr;
+  const output = typeof stderr === "string" ? stderr : toErrorMessage(error);
+  return /No version matching .+ found for specifier .+\(but package exists\)/is.test(output)
+    ? ["install", "--force"]
+    : null;
+}
+
 export async function installDependencies({
   projectDir,
   packageManager,
@@ -81,14 +94,23 @@ export async function installDependencies({
     s.start(`Running ${packageManager} install...`);
 
     const installArgs = getInstallArgs(packageManager);
-    await $({
-      cwd: projectDir,
-      env: {
-        ...process.env,
-        ...getInstallEnvironment(packageManager),
-      },
-      stderr: ["inherit", "pipe"],
-    })`${packageManager} ${installArgs}`;
+    const runInstall = async (args: string[]) =>
+      $({
+        cwd: projectDir,
+        env: {
+          ...process.env,
+          ...getInstallEnvironment(packageManager),
+        },
+        stderr: ["inherit", "pipe"],
+      })`${packageManager} ${args}`;
+
+    try {
+      await runInstall(installArgs);
+    } catch (error) {
+      const retryArgs = getInstallRetryArgs(packageManager, error);
+      if (!retryArgs) throw error;
+      await runInstall(retryArgs);
+    }
 
     s.stop("Dependencies installed successfully");
     return { step, success: true };

apps/cli/test/generation/install-dependencies.test.ts

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import { setupDatabase } from "@/helpers/core/db-setup";
 import {
   getInstallArgs,
   getInstallEnvironment,
+  getInstallRetryArgs,
   installDependencies,
 } from "@/helpers/core/install-dependencies";
 
@@ -38,6 +39,22 @@ describe("getInstallArgs", () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe("getInstallRetryArgs", () => {
+  it("refreshes Bun metadata after a registry propagation miss", () => {
+    const error = {
+      stderr:
+        'error: No version matching "4.0.71" found for specifier "@ai-sdk/gateway" (but package exists)',
+    };
+
+    expect(getInstallRetryArgs("bun", error)).toEqual(["install", "--force"]);
+    expect(getInstallRetryArgs("npm", error)).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("does not retry unrelated Bun install failures", () => {
+    expect(getInstallRetryArgs("bun", new Error("network unavailable"))).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
+
 describe("installDependencies", () => {
   it("returns a failure result instead of swallowing the error when install fails", async () => {
     // A non-existent cwd makes the install command fail fast (ENOENT) without