diff --git a/doc/plans/2026-10-02-pi-production-readiness.md b/doc/plans/2026-10-02-pi-production-readiness.md
index b446525c15b..859bfa1fc03 100644
--- a/doc/plans/2026-10-02-pi-production-readiness.md
+++ b/doc/plans/2026-10-02-pi-production-readiness.md
@@ -15,6 +15,60 @@ failures remain retained. The Mac file-edit correction also passes.
 
 ### Latest boundary fixes — 2026-10-05
 
+Current shipping artifacts are bound to `f5024863e9ed014e2661e6d7f23fc0e6b32e0911`
+and profile 15. The normal public ARM graph verifies 722 packages and 79,373
+files with zero mismatches. Full build and recursive typecheck pass. Normal
+Linux public install, companion import, native admission and browser startup
+pass against immutable image
+`ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:20c7fffddeee4298830ead1ea3f0b70819f61e549279588b605440d1155f7260`.
+Its controller passes 342 fixture checks, 21 native fault checks and collection
+of all 26 Product cells with zero model calls. An installed-UI intercepted POST
+proves one fenced prompt with valid JSON, all 33 content bytes and no duplicate.
+
+The canonical-root Mac attempt uses shipping runtime `f5024863e` and harness
+`df748c997`; the recorded diff contains only fixture infrastructure and the plan.
+The provider now completes its first turn and writes to the correct native
+agent directory. Its native read returns the 32-character nonce without LF.
+The exact managed-byte assertion fails; canonical cleanup passes. The public
+description independently contains one valid JSON content value of 33 bytes.
+The original managed-file response was not retained before that assertion, so
+its exact returned bytes cannot be claimed from the saved evidence. A free
+check of the frozen Pi JSON parser, argument validator, native write and native
+read preserves all 33 bytes. There is no proven byte-trimming product defect.
+Do not weaken the byte grade, add a newline in the product, or repeat this paid
+attempt without a concrete correction.
+
+The next Linux restart attempt retains the same native request, turn, run,
+session and producer across controller restart and accepts the exact browser
+answer. The original run succeeds. Its independent observer returns incomplete
+terminal evidence; canonical cleanup also fails after public lease release.
+Both owned child and controller are separately verified absent, and the active
+campaign claim is closed. The canonical result stays failed. The missing
+incomplete receipt prevents a precise observer-cause attribution; do not claim
+that public run success proves the final independent file or cleanup grades.
+The initial controller preparation also fails before provider calls because
+consumer and plugin shared-package archives collide by basename. Separating
+their staging namespaces fixes preparation with every archive digest unchanged.
+
+The fixture now records the managed-file response before grading and retains a
+closed, validated summary of an incomplete terminal receipt before rethrowing.
+It omits raw RPC content and file bodies. A missing-LF regression fails before
+the capture-order correction and still fails the byte grade afterward while
+retaining the response. These are evidence-only changes; no runtime input,
+model, timeout, assertion or original result changes. They do not justify a
+paid rerun solely to collect diagnostics.
+All 207 affected fixture tests pass with filesystem-watch access, and the
+harness typecheck passes. The initial sandbox run retains three failed watch
+observations; it is not reported as a passing run.
+
+At `df748c997`, 53 CI checks pass with two skips. This is source-bound CI, not
+proof for a later evidence-only commit. Current-source live qualification is
+still incomplete: neither failed attempt qualifies its case, and historical
+profile-14 or earlier profile-15 passes cannot certify this runtime. Review and
+the complete workspace unit command remain held. Last observed dedicated-key
+usage is $0.318304276 against its $5 lifetime cap; the immediate restart delta
+of $0.000785504 is provisional. No merge or release is authorized.
+
 The next explicit Mac attempt at `f5024863e` confirms that the description is
 no longer duplicated, but still times out with cleanup passing. Its runtime
 context advertises `/tmp/.../live`, while the native Pi grant binds the physical
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/README.md b/tests/runner-e2e/README.md
index 0cd186165c1..5f318966d40 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/README.md
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/README.md
@@ -1483,6 +1483,11 @@ the durable browser form bridge. The existing five extended-harness journeys
 continue to prove semantic Paperclip questions and planning separately. Personal
 file persistence uses two fresh task runs and independent byte checks; restrictive
 denial uses one run and requires both a failed tool receipt and no file effect.
+The first managed-file API response is saved before its byte assertion, including
+when the final LF is missing. An incomplete remote terminal receipt retains only
+validated completion flags, watcher counts, process counts and target hashes.
+Raw RPC fields and file bodies are omitted. These diagnostic records do not
+change a failed byte or retirement grade and do not justify an unchanged retry.
 `human-permission-denial` additionally requires the exact browser Decline response,
 delivered native denial and independent file/process observation through retirement.
 The restrictive Daytona fixtures approve only the exact operator-published
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-flow.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-flow.ts
index dd7171935ec..c19c76038c8 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-flow.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-flow.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { gradePiNativeAnswers, hasFailedPiWrite, hasPiCrossRootDenial, PI_NATIVE
 import type { LiveFixtureValues } from "./live-fixtures.js";
 import type { MatrixExecution } from "./types.js";
 
-import type { RemoteNativeFixture, RemoteNativeSnapshot } from "./remote-native-fixtures.js";
+import { remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence, type RemoteNativeFixture, type RemoteNativeSnapshot } from "./remote-native-fixtures.js";
 import { approvePiBootstrapRead, withoutApprovedPiBootstrapRequests, type PiBootstrapApproval } from "./pi-bootstrap-permission.js";
 import { runPiPendingProviderDeath, PI_DEATH_MARKER } from "./pi-native-provider-death-flow.js";
 import { runPiPendingControllerRestart } from "./pi-native-restart-flow.js";
@@ -42,9 +42,18 @@ export async function runPiNativeFlow(input: {
   let bootstrapApproval: PiBootstrapApproval | undefined;
   let currentRemote: RemoteNativeFixture | undefined, currentBaseline: RemoteNativeSnapshot | undefined;
   let remoteSequence = 0;
+  const retainedIncompleteTerminals = new Set<number>();
+  async function retainIncompleteTerminal(fixture: RemoteNativeFixture, ordinal: number, error: unknown) {
+    const snapshot = remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence(error);
+    if (!snapshot || retainedIncompleteTerminals.has(ordinal)) return;
+    await input.evidence(`pi-remote-${ordinal}-incomplete-terminal.json`, { binding: fixture.binding, snapshot, passed: false });
+    retainedIncompleteTerminals.add(ordinal);
+  }
   async function finishRemote(label: string) {
     if (!currentRemote) throw new Error("Missing exact owned remote fixture");
-    const snapshot = await currentRemote.finish();
+    let snapshot: RemoteNativeSnapshot;
+    try { snapshot = await currentRemote.finish(); }
+    catch (error) { await retainIncompleteTerminal(currentRemote, remoteSequence, error); throw error; }
     await input.evidence(`pi-remote-${remoteSequence}-${label}.json`, { binding: currentRemote.binding, baseline: currentBaseline, snapshot });
     if (!hasPiRemoteRetirement(snapshot)) throw new Error("Pi remote provider retirement is unproven; sandbox deletion is not proof");
     return snapshot;
@@ -84,6 +93,7 @@ export async function runPiNativeFlow(input: {
       const fixture = currentRemote, ordinal = remoteSequence;
       input.registerCleanupAssertion!(async () => {
         try { const snapshot = await fixture.finish(); const passed = hasPiRemoteRetirement(snapshot); await input.evidence(`pi-remote-${ordinal}-retirement.json`, { binding: fixture.binding, snapshot, passed }); if (!passed) throw new Error("Pi remote retirement proof incomplete"); return [{ id: `remote-retirement-${ordinal}`, passed, detail: "Independent remote observer sealed exact run retirement before public lease deletion" }]; }
+        catch (error) { await retainIncompleteTerminal(fixture, ordinal, error); throw error; }
         finally { await fixture.close(); }
       });
     }
@@ -158,11 +168,11 @@ export async function runPiNativeFlow(input: {
       await settle(1);
       const personal = await api.get<Row>(`/api/agents/${fixtures.agent.id}/instructions-bundle/file?path=${encodeURIComponent(PI_NATIVE_MEMORY_PATH)}`);
       const firstEvents = await events(runs[0]!.id);
+      await input.evidence("pi-agent-files-first-save.json", { personal, run: runs[0], events: firstEvents });
       check("registered-file-saved", personal.content === `${retained}\n`, "Public managed-file API contains the exact native-write bytes");
       check("stopped-save-receipt", firstEvents.some(row => row.eventType === "instruction_save" && row.payload?.state === "saved"), "Provider stop produced a durable file-save receipt");
       const crossRootIntact = remote ? hasUnchangedPiRemoteTarget(currentBaseline, await finishRemote("cross-root-final"), "@cross-root") : await absent(outside);
       check("cross-root-denied", crossRootIntact && hasPiCrossRootDenial(firstEvents), "A single native write recorded the exact cross-root denial reason and the isolated target remains unchanged");
-      await input.evidence("pi-agent-files-first-save.json", { personal, run: runs[0], events: firstEvents });
       await input.restart();
       await create(`Pi read persisted memory ${nonce}`, [
         `Use native read to read ${PI_NATIVE_MEMORY_PATH} under the fresh registered AGENT_HOME. Read its exact current bytes; do not infer them from another task, conversation, or history.`,
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-remote-flow.test.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-remote-flow.test.ts
index 577089fe486..ead29865ed8 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-remote-flow.test.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/pi-native-remote-flow.test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const browser = vi.hoisted(() => ({ create: (_value: any) => {} }));
 vi.mock("./user-actions.js", () => ({ createTaskThroughUi: async (value: unknown) => browser.create(value) }));
 vi.mock("@playwright/test", () => ({ expect: (value: unknown, message?: string) => ({ toBe: (expected: unknown) => expect(value, message).toBe(expected), toBeVisible: async () => {} }) }));
 
-it("rebinds both remote runs, saves managed bytes, and reads sealed sandbox bytes after restart", async () => {
+it.each([false, true])("retains managed bytes before grading and rebinds successful runs (missing LF=%s)", async missingLF => {
   const root = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "pi-remote-memory-"));
   const task = piNativeTasks.find(row => row.id === "agent-files-fresh-run")!;
   const issues: any[] = [], runs: any[] = [], cleanup: Array<() => Promise<any>> = []; const captures: any[] = [], evidence = new Map<string, any>();
@@ -46,13 +46,22 @@ it("rebinds both remote runs, saves managed bytes, and reads sealed sandbox byte
       personal = JSON.parse(content!).content;
       expect(personal).toMatch(/^[a-f0-9]{32}\n$/);
       expect(Buffer.byteLength(personal, "utf8")).toBe(33);
+      if (missingLF) personal = personal.slice(0, -1);
     } else { expect(action).not.toContain(personal.trim()); expect(input.targets).toEqual(["pi-agent-memory-proof.txt"]); }
     issues.at(-1).status = "done"; runs.at(-1).status = "succeeded"; captures.push(fixture.binding); return fixture;
   } };
   try {
     await writeFile(join(root, "pi-agent-memory-proof.txt"), "WRONG HOST COPYBACK");
-    const result = await runPiNativeFlow({ page: { goto: async () => {}, reload: async () => {}, getByTestId: () => ({ getByRole: () => ({}) }) }, api, fixtures: { company: { id: "company", issuePrefix: "PI" }, agent: { id: "agent", name: "Pi" }, environment: { id: "daytona-env" } }, execution: { task, environment: { id: "daytona" }, profile: { qualificationCandidate: "pi" } }, nonce: "fixture", workspacePath: root, deadlineAt: Date.now() + 2000,
+    const call = runPiNativeFlow({ page: { goto: async () => {}, reload: async () => {}, getByTestId: () => ({ getByRole: () => ({}) }) }, api, fixtures: { company: { id: "company", issuePrefix: "PI" }, agent: { id: "agent", name: "Pi" }, environment: { id: "daytona-env" } }, execution: { task, environment: { id: "daytona" }, profile: { qualificationCandidate: "pi" } }, nonce: "fixture", workspacePath: root, deadlineAt: Date.now() + 2000,
       restart: async () => { expect(evidence.has("pi-remote-1-cross-root-final.json")).toBe(true); restarted = true; }, observe: () => {}, capture: async () => {}, evidence: async (name: string, value: unknown) => { evidence.set(name, value); }, remoteBootstrap, registerCleanupAssertion: (fn: () => Promise<any>) => cleanup.push(fn) } as any);
+    if (missingLF) {
+      await expect(call).rejects.toThrow("Public managed-file API contains the exact native-write bytes");
+      expect(evidence.get("pi-agent-files-first-save.json").personal.content).toBe(personal);
+      expect(Buffer.byteLength(personal)).toBe(32);
+      expect(restarted).toBe(false); expect(runs).toHaveLength(1);
+      return;
+    }
+    const result = await call;
     expect(result.checks.every(check => check.passed)).toBe(true); expect(captures).toEqual([{ runId: "run-1" }, { runId: "run-2" }]); expect(readAfterFinish).toBe(true); expect(cleanup).toHaveLength(2); for (const fn of cleanup) await fn();
   } finally { await rm(root, { recursive: true, force: true }); }
 });
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.test.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.test.ts
index 8654f50fa5c..35dd55b33f6 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.test.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.test.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
 import { join } from "node:path";
 import { Script } from "node:vm";
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { REMOTE_FIXTURE_MIN_SETUP_BUDGET_MS, bindRemoteNativeFixture, validatePiProviderDeathReceipt, createRemoteTargetWatch, isRemoteRunRoot, parseRemoteProcStat, remoteNativeFixtureDiagnostics, type RemoteNativeFixtureOptions, type RemoteNativeSnapshot } from "./remote-native-fixtures.js";
+import { REMOTE_FIXTURE_MIN_SETUP_BUDGET_MS, bindRemoteNativeFixture, validatePiProviderDeathReceipt, createRemoteTargetWatch, isRemoteRunRoot, parseRemoteProcStat, remoteNativeFixtureDiagnostics, remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence, type RemoteNativeFixtureOptions, type RemoteNativeSnapshot } from "./remote-native-fixtures.js";
 
 import { PI_DISTRIBUTION_CLOSURE_SHA256 } from "../../packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/pi-closure-pins.js";
 import { createRemoteNativeBootstrap } from "./remote-native-bootstrap.js";
@@ -233,6 +233,22 @@ describe("remote native lease admission", () => {
     if (type === "bad-file") end.targets["result.txt"] = { ...end.targets["result.txt"], absent: false, sha256: hash("missing") };
     h.resolveTerminal(end); await expect(f.finish()).rejects.toThrow();
   });
+  it("retains a validated incomplete terminal receipt without raw file or RPC content", async () => {
+    const h = harness(), f = await bindRemoteNativeFixture(h.options);
+    await f.publishAction("action.txt", "task");
+    const end = { ...structuredClone(h.current), complete: false, watcher: { ...h.current.watcher, complete: false },
+      processes: { ...h.current.processes, live: [] }, files: { "private.txt": "PRIVATE RPC CONTENT" }, untrustedDump: "PRIVATE RPC CONTENT" };
+    h.resolveTerminal(end);
+    const error = await f.finish().catch(error => error);
+    expect(error.message).toBe("remote_native_fixture:terminal_evidence_incomplete");
+    const retained = remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence(error)!;
+    expect(retained.complete).toBe(false); expect(retained.watcher.complete).toBe(false);
+    expect(retained.processes.liveCount).toBe(0);
+    expect(JSON.stringify(retained)).not.toContain("PRIVATE RPC CONTENT");
+    retained.watcher.complete = true;
+    expect(remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence(error)!.watcher.complete).toBe(false);
+    expect(remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence(new Error("PRIVATE RPC CONTENT"))).toBeUndefined();
+  });
   it("keeps a fixture-owned cross-root sentinel distinct from workspace targets", async () => {
     const h = harness(); h.options.crossRoot = { initialText: "outside sentinel" };
     h.current.targets["@cross-root"] = { absent: false, sha256: hash("outside sentinel"), parent: { dev: "1", ino: "outside" }, mutationCount: 0, complete: true };
diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.ts b/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.ts
index b0e5f3db617..ae8eba2c5fa 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.ts
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/remote-native-fixtures.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,25 @@ export interface RemoteNativeSnapshot {
   setup: { path: string; sha256: string | null; published: boolean };
   attached: { connections: number; failure: string | null; commandExit: { code: number; observedAtMs: number; observedMonotonicNs: string } | null; markerWrittenAtMs: number | null; markerWrittenMonotonicNs: string | null; clientExitedAtMs: number | null; clientExitedMonotonicNs: string | null } | null;
 }
+class IncompleteRemoteTerminalEvidenceError extends Error {
+  constructor(readonly snapshot: RemoteNativeSnapshot) {
+    super("remote_native_fixture:terminal_evidence_incomplete");
+  }
+}
+/** Retain only a shape-validated public receipt, without raw RPC text or files. */
+export function remoteNativeIncompleteTerminalEvidence(error: unknown) {
+  if (!(error instanceof IncompleteRemoteTerminalEvidenceError)) return undefined;
+  const row = error.snapshot, root = row.processes.root;
+  return {
+    observedAtMs: row.observedAtMs, receivedAtMs: row.receivedAtMs, complete: row.complete,
+    setupPublished: row.setup.published,
+    watcher: { complete: row.watcher.complete, targetMutationCount: row.watcher.targetMutationCount, workspaceMutationCount: row.watcher.workspaceMutationCount },
+    processes: { captured: row.processes.captured, liveCount: row.processes.live.length, journalCount: row.processes.journal.length,
+      root: root ? { pid: root.pid, ppid: root.ppid, startTicks: root.startTicks, bootId: root.bootId } : null },
+    targets: Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(row.targets).map(([name, target]) => [name,
+      { absent: target.absent, sha256: target.sha256, mutationCount: target.mutationCount, complete: target.complete }])),
+  };
+}
 /** Structural subset of pinned SDK0.203.0; caller supplies its authenticated
  * client. No create/list/delete or arbitrary remote command API is exposed. */
 export interface RemoteFixtureDaytona {
@@ -503,7 +522,9 @@ export async function bindRemoteNativeFixture(options: RemoteNativeFixtureOption
       if ("error" in receipt) throw receipt.error;
       fail(receipt.receivedAtMs <= receiptDeadlineAt, "receipt_deadline");
       const result = readSnapshot(receipt.value, binding!, names, actionFile, options.runnerdSha256);
-      fail(published && result.setup.published && result.complete && result.watcher.complete && result.processes.captured && result.processes.live.length === 0, "terminal_evidence_incomplete");
+      if (!(published && result.setup.published && result.complete && result.watcher.complete && result.processes.captured && result.processes.live.length === 0)) {
+        throw new IncompleteRemoteTerminalEvidenceError(result);
+      }
       const files = record(record(receipt.value).files);
       for (const name of names) {
         const target = result.targets[name]!;