Fix asset inventory update

src/inventory.rs

@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@
 //! Get-CimInstance and emits compact JSON. One subprocess for the whole
 //! inventory is cheaper than per-field WMI queries and avoids pulling a
 //! `wmi`/COM crate into the dep tree. Inventory is collected once at
-//! startup; the sysinfo loop's hash-compare suppresses re-uploads of
-//! unchanged data, so this isn't repeated on every 120 s tick.
+//! startup. Collection routinely outruns the first sysinfo tick (TIME_CONN
+//! = 3 s) — `Invoke-RestMethod 'api.ipify.org' -TimeoutSec 5` alone can
+//! burn that budget on hosts with blocked egress — so the sysinfo loop in
+//! `hbbs_http::sync` watches for INVENTORY transitioning empty → populated
+//! and forces a re-upload at that point. Subsequent ticks are suppressed
+//! by the loop's `had_inventory` / `uploaded` bookkeeping.
 //!
 //! Non-Windows builds return an empty JSON object — hello-agent v0 only
 //! ships on Windows, but keeping the cross-platform surface compiling