diff --git a/server/src/http2-bridge-admission-env.test.ts b/server/src/http2-bridge-admission-env.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..915434073d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/http2-bridge-admission-env.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import {
+  DEFAULT_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS,
+  DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS,
+} from "@paperclipai/adapter-utils/http2-bridge-admission";
+import {
+  resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv,
+  resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv,
+  resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv,
+} from "./http2-bridge-admission-env.js";
+
+describe("resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv", () => {
+  it("an absent variable uses the default", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv(undefined, onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("a blank or whitespace-only value is invalid and reports a rejection", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv("   ", onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    // The reporter receives only the parsed number, never the raw string.
+    const reportedValue = onRejectedOverride.mock.calls[0]?.[0];
+    expect(typeof reportedValue).toBe("number");
+  });
+
+  it("a value above the hard range is invalid and reports a rejection", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv("65", onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("a valid positive integer inside the range passes through unchanged", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv("32", onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(32);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv", () => {
+  it("an absent variable uses the default", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv(undefined, onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(DEFAULT_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("a blank or whitespace-only value is invalid and reports a rejection", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv("", onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(DEFAULT_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("a value above the hard range is invalid and reports a rejection", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv("65", onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(DEFAULT_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+  });
+
+  it("a valid positive integer inside the range passes through unchanged", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv("4", onRejectedOverride);
+
+    expect(resolved).toBe(4);
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});
+
+describe("resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv", () => {
+  it("an absent pair uses both defaults", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+    const onRejectedPair = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv(
+      undefined,
+      undefined,
+      onRejectedOverride,
+      onRejectedPair,
+    );
+
+    expect(resolved).toEqual({
+      maxParallel: DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS,
+      maxSessions: DEFAULT_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS,
+    });
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(onRejectedPair).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("a rejected per-field override calls the override reporter exactly once", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+    const onRejectedPair = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv(
+      "not-a-number",
+      "4",
+      onRejectedOverride,
+      onRejectedPair,
+    );
+
+    expect(resolved).toEqual({
+      maxParallel: DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS,
+      maxSessions: 4,
+    });
+    // The pair resolver reruns each per-field check with no reporter bound, so
+    // only the env helper's own per-field pass reports the rejection.
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(onRejectedPair).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it("an over-budget environment pair of 64 and 64 resolves to both defaults and reports an error", () => {
+    const onRejectedOverride = vi.fn();
+    const onRejectedPair = vi.fn();
+
+    const resolved = resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv("64", "64", onRejectedOverride, onRejectedPair);
+
+    expect(resolved).toEqual({
+      maxParallel: DEFAULT_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS,
+      maxSessions: DEFAULT_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS,
+    });
+    expect(onRejectedOverride).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(onRejectedPair).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    const rejection = onRejectedPair.mock.calls[0]?.[0];
+    expect(rejection).toEqual({ maxParallel: 64, maxSessions: 64, totalBytes: expect.any(Number) });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/server/src/http2-bridge-admission-env.ts b/server/src/http2-bridge-admission-env.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..30d12ecbd63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server/src/http2-bridge-admission-env.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+import {
+  resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCaps,
+  resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessions,
+  resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequests,
+  type Http2BridgeAdmissionCapOverrideRejectionReporter,
+  type Http2BridgeAdmissionCaps,
+  type Http2BridgeAdmissionPairRejectionReporter,
+} from "@paperclipai/adapter-utils/http2-bridge-admission";
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the parallel-stream admission cap from the raw operator override
+ * string. The host reads the override from
+ * PAPERCLIP_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS.
+ *
+ * This helper distinguishes an absent variable from a present blank value. An
+ * absent variable is `undefined`. The helper then uses the documented default
+ * and does not report a rejection. A present variable is a string, even when
+ * the string holds only whitespace. The helper sends every present string
+ * through `Number`, so a blank or whitespace-only value becomes `0`. The
+ * numeric validation in {@link resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequests} rejects
+ * `0`, reports it through `onRejectedOverride`, and returns the safe default.
+ * So a present blank value is visible as invalid instead of silent as absent.
+ *
+ * `Number` ignores surrounding whitespace, so a valid value with surrounding
+ * spaces still parses. The reporter receives only the parsed number, never
+ * the raw string, so no operator-supplied text reaches a log line.
+ */
+export function resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv(
+  rawOverride: string | undefined,
+  onRejectedOverride?: Http2BridgeAdmissionCapOverrideRejectionReporter,
+): number {
+  return resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequests(
+    rawOverride === undefined ? undefined : Number(rawOverride),
+    onRejectedOverride,
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve the live-session admission cap from the raw operator override
+ * string. The host reads the override from
+ * PAPERCLIP_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS. Same present-versus-absent
+ * behavior as {@link resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv}.
+ */
+export function resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv(
+  rawOverride: string | undefined,
+  onRejectedOverride?: Http2BridgeAdmissionCapOverrideRejectionReporter,
+): number {
+  return resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessions(
+    rawOverride === undefined ? undefined : Number(rawOverride),
+    onRejectedOverride,
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * Resolve one admission cap pair from the two raw operator override strings.
+ *
+ * {@link resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCaps} runs the two per-field resolvers
+ * without a rejection reporter, so a per-field rejection would stay silent if
+ * this helper only called that function. This helper runs each per-field
+ * resolver itself first, with `onRejectedOverride` bound, so a rejected
+ * PAPERCLIP_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS or
+ * PAPERCLIP_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS value always reports through
+ * `onRejectedOverride` exactly once. It then passes the two resolved numbers
+ * into {@link resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCaps}, which reruns the same
+ * per-field checks on two already-valid numbers (harmless) and then applies
+ * the joint budget rule. A pair that fails the joint rule reports through
+ * `onRejectedPair` and returns both defaults; the host never keeps one
+ * operator value and one default from a refused pair.
+ */
+export function resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv(
+  rawParallel: string | undefined,
+  rawSessions: string | undefined,
+  onRejectedOverride?: Http2BridgeAdmissionCapOverrideRejectionReporter,
+  onRejectedPair?: Http2BridgeAdmissionPairRejectionReporter,
+): Http2BridgeAdmissionCaps {
+  const maxParallel = resolveMaxParallelHttp2BridgeRequestsFromEnv(rawParallel, onRejectedOverride);
+  const maxSessions = resolveMaxLiveHttp2BridgeSessionsFromEnv(rawSessions, onRejectedOverride);
+  return resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCaps({ maxParallel, maxSessions }, onRejectedPair);
+}
diff --git a/server/src/index.ts b/server/src/index.ts
index 3890076b041..c0804e963f4 100644
--- a/server/src/index.ts
+++ b/server/src/index.ts
@@ -92,6 +92,12 @@ import {
 } from "@paperclipai/adapter-utils/duplex-aggregate-byte-ledger";
 import { resolveDuplexAggregateCeilingBytesFromEnv } from "./duplex-aggregate-ceiling-env.js";
 import { DUPLEX_COUNTER_AGGREGATE_BYTE_ACCOUNTING_UNDERFLOW_TOTAL } from "@paperclipai/adapter-utils/duplex-observability";
+import {
+  configureHttp2BridgeAdmissionGate,
+  http2BridgeAdmissionBudgetBytes,
+  HTTP2_BRIDGE_ADMISSION_RESERVED_BUDGET_BYTES,
+} from "@paperclipai/adapter-utils/http2-bridge-admission";
+import { resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv } from "./http2-bridge-admission-env.js";
 import { createStorageServiceFromConfig } from "./storage/index.js";
 import { printStartupBanner } from "./startup-banner.js";
 import { getBoardClaimWarningUrl, initializeBoardClaimChallenge } from "./board-claim.js";
@@ -792,6 +798,51 @@ export async function startServer(): Promise<StartedServer> {
       );
     },
   );
+  // The process-wide admission gate for the host HTTP/2 sandbox bridge. Two
+  // optional operator overrides read PAPERCLIP_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS
+  // and PAPERCLIP_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS. An absent variable uses the
+  // documented default. A present invalid, blank, whitespace-only, non-finite,
+  // zero, negative, non-integer, unsafe, or over-maximum value does not fail
+  // startup: the resolver rejects it, reports it at error level, and uses the
+  // safe default. Each per-field cap can pass its own range and the pair can
+  // still spend more than the reserved memory budget, so the resolver also
+  // checks the joint rule on the resolved pair. A pair that fails the joint
+  // rule gives both defaults and one error log line; the host never keeps one
+  // operator value and one default from a refused pair. Every log line carries
+  // only the parsed number, never the raw operator string.
+  const http2BridgeAdmissionCaps = resolveHttp2BridgeAdmissionCapsFromEnv(
+    process.env.PAPERCLIP_MAX_PARALLEL_HTTP2_BRIDGE_REQUESTS,
+    process.env.PAPERCLIP_MAX_LIVE_HTTP2_BRIDGE_SESSIONS,
+    (rejectedValue) => {
+      logger.error(
+        { rejectedValue },
+        "HTTP/2 bridge admission cap override rejected; using the safe default",
+      );
+    },
+    (rejection) => {
+      logger.error(
+        {
+          maxParallel: rejection.maxParallel,
+          maxSessions: rejection.maxSessions,
+          totalBytes: rejection.totalBytes,
+          reservedBudgetBytes: HTTP2_BRIDGE_ADMISSION_RESERVED_BUDGET_BYTES,
+        },
+        "HTTP/2 bridge admission cap pair refused; using the safe default pair",
+      );
+    },
+  );
+  configureHttp2BridgeAdmissionGate(http2BridgeAdmissionCaps);
+  logger.info(
+    {
+      maxParallel: http2BridgeAdmissionCaps.maxParallel,
+      maxSessions: http2BridgeAdmissionCaps.maxSessions,
+      totalBytes: http2BridgeAdmissionBudgetBytes(
+        http2BridgeAdmissionCaps.maxParallel,
+        http2BridgeAdmissionCaps.maxSessions,
+      ),
+    },
+    "HTTP/2 bridge admission gate configured",
+  );
   // The server has no process metric pipeline yet, so the ledger telemetry maps to
   // the structured logger. The gauge logs at debug. A reservation rejection logs at
   // warn, because it marks an availability limit hit. An accounting-underflow defect