refactor: hide autonerves in AutoFit Colab setup

[Jammy2211]

Overview

Remove direct user-facing autonerves.setup_colab imports from generated autofit_workspace and HowToFit notebooks. The notebooks will expose the product-level autofit setup API while retaining autonerves privately for fresh-Colab installation.

Plan

• Regenerate both AutoFit-family repositories through merged PyAutoHands.
• Validate notebooks and navigator catalogues.
• Run the targeted AutoFit smoke gate.
• Assert no direct public import remains in the shipped notebook surface.

Detailed implementation plan

Affected Repositories

• autofit_workspace (primary)
• HowToFit

Work Classification

Workspace.

Branch Survey

Repository	Current Branch	Dirty?
./autofit_workspace	main	Clean
./HowToFit	main	Clean

Both repositories are synchronized with origin/main and unclaimed.

Suggested branch: feature/hide-autonerves-colab-autofit

Worktree root: ~/Code/PyAutoLabs-wt/hide-autonerves-colab-autofit

Implementation Steps

1. Regenerate autofit_workspace notebooks through the merged autofit PyAutoHands target.
2. Regenerate HowToFit notebooks and navigator catalogues through the merged howtofit target.
3. Confirm the generated setup cells use autofit.setup_colab outside Colab and retain the private fresh-Colab backend.
4. Run generated-artifact, navigator, diff, and targeted AutoFit smoke checks.
5. Open one pending-release PR per repository.

Key Files

• autofit_workspace/notebooks/**/*.ipynb — generated outputs only.
• HowToFit/notebooks/**/*.ipynb — generated outputs only.
• HowToFit/llms-full.txt and HowToFit/workspace_index.json — generated navigator catalogue where changed.

Dependency

• PyAutoHands#195 and PyAutoHeart#107 are merged.

Original Prompt

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autonerves should not be user facing API, but it is in many workspace examples: from autonerves import setup_colab , update it so its not, but make sure the colab install still uses it as it needs the right install rhere I think.

this is prob requied for PyautoGalaxy too

[Jammy2211]

Scoped Smoke Test Results — 2026-07-24

Workspace	Status
autofit_workspace	Passed
HowToFit	Passed

Both targeted AutoFit-family repository smoke runners passed after generated Colab setup regeneration.

[Jammy2211]

Shipped — 2026-07-24

PRs

• refactor: hide autonerves in AutoFit Colab setup #117
• refactor: hide autonerves in HowToFit Colab setup HowToFit#33

Summary

AutoFit-family notebooks now expose Colab setup through the public autofit API while retaining the fresh-Colab autonerves backend privately. Regenerated notebooks and navigator catalogues merged after both targeted repository smoke runners passed.

Session Notes

No handwritten AutoFit or HowToFit scripts required changes; this family was a generated-artifact-only rollout.