PaperClipAI/doc/plans/2026-10-12-claude-runner-default.md

Claude default: refreshed plan — 2026-10-15

Master refresh and local test drive — 2026-10-19

Current work starts from master 56e09cd19f1757f44e4000cada1f3f2f6b4892a4, including the merged startup transport fix. All three original PR tips are saved under archive/claude-*-pre-refresh-20261019 before integration.

Required outcome	Current evidence	Remaining gap / next action
Protocol prerequisite #15994	369 focused tests plus 72 catalog tests; Runner TypeScript checks/build pass	Fresh cloud CI/review; retain v7 home modes and v8 Muse, carry Claude effort in v9
Apple Silicon default #15993	285 server and 323 UI tests; UI typecheck pass	Fresh cloud CI/review; preserve all current-master behaviors
Remaining defaults #15997	Historical qualified builds and task pairs remain source-bound below	Integrate the updated prerequisite/default branches; rerun affected controls
Local preview for the user	Existing installed Mac daemon and API-key access are available	Start an isolated current-source test drive, verify a native Claude task and revision, and leave its URL running

The integrated branch passes 243 focused UI cases, UI/server TypeScript checks, and token gates. The workflow-security regression was reproduced and all 12 checks pass after asserting the existing trusted release-artifact checkout. The first local DB-backed startup attempt could not load embedded PostgreSQL's unhydrated library links after script-free dependency installation. Running the package's own symlink hydration made its executable work; its full startup suite is being rerun. The legacy CLI classification fixture now answers version probes separately; both focused classification cases pass. Fresh cloud checks cover each updated PR. The local preview will use a current-source Mac daemon built in cloud.

Pi's combined source attestation is profile 26; Copilot remains pending and moves to profile 22. Historical published identities are retained. New source evidence will not relabel earlier platform or subscription results. All Docker/Rust builds remain in cloud infrastructure. Use the existing API key and preserve the $50 aggregate qualification ceiling, unknown-charge reservations, and disabled paid retries.

This section supersedes the sequencing and baseline in the historical record below. Implementation is underway on the existing three-PR stack. The progress section below records current evidence; older entries are historical.

Historical October 15 delivery evidence

Installed-target implementation and API-key qualification are complete on the existing three-PR stack. The subsequent hosted test below found a Cloud default-selection gap. Hosted acceptance is failed and must not be inferred from the installed-target evidence. Earlier attempts remain preserved below.

Hosted user acceptance — 2026-10-15

A dedicated test organization served exact candidate 49f99e130aff317cb270c367523755910f20d080 after a successful single-organization deployment. The supported Core-only branch preview excluded private Cloud UI plugins; it does not qualify the full private distribution. Cloud image build completed remotely. No local Docker or Rust build ran.

The strict user-only journey started at the supplied management entry, entered the fresh organization, created Claude Staging Writer, connected the authorized API key through the normal masked field, and completed onboarding without any runner/model override. The saved runtime form displayed Default (claude-opus-5-5) but Legacy runner (default) in Advanced. Acceptance failed at that point. No task or follow-up was submitted, so native execution, downloaded artifacts and session continuity remain unverified on this hosted deployment. The failure is preserved in 33 chronological screenshots and the structured journal; later engineering diagnosis is separate.

The managed test fleet uses a named sandbox snapshot. Candidate needsClaudeSetupQualification only probes explicit immutable OCI image digests, and readSandboxPlatformQualification rejects named snapshots. The same target gate therefore keeps this Cloud path Legacy. A correct follow-up must establish an immutable provider snapshot identity, bind measured OS/architecture/libc facts to the selected environment and company, and invalidate stale/replaced bindings. It must then repeat fresh ordinary onboarding and the useful-task/revision acceptance. Forcing the agent to native, changing the fleet default image, or treating a CLI version probe as native task proof would not resolve this failure.

The QA agent was paused with no runs or sessions. An unused $2 allowance was reserved within the existing $50 ceiling by lowering an inactive local fixture cap; its unknown-charge hold and blocking policy remain intact. Report: /private/tmp/claude-test-user-20261015/report.html; structured log: /private/tmp/claude-test-user-20261015/journey.json; deployment and diagnosis receipt: /private/tmp/claude-test-deployment-20261015/deployment.json. The offline renderer validated all 33 screenshots. Host file preview was queued; report-gallery rendering was not visually verified. Individual product screenshots were inspected during the journey.

Experience findings: the Connectors announcement covered part of the first-task screen until dismissed; budget navigation required several detours and did not expose a clear policy-creation action. These do not cancel the successful API-key connection, and connection success does not establish native execution.

Delivery checkpoint — 2026-10-15

New Claude agents use Paperclip Runner and ordinary Opus 5.5 defaults on the four qualified installed targets. Saved Legacy/native choices, explicit models, provider routing, and the latest Codex defaults remain intact. Runtime source is 0670b85392a0be51745f1ba7ca84f998bf122c07, integrated with master through 7420af26fc9a80d6252ababd879e2fc991eebd07. Required source CI passed, with exact-source Greptile 5/5 and zero unresolved threads. The final record changes evidence only; the linked PRs show current-head checks.

Target	Completed evidence
Apple Silicon	Ordinary UI defaults, API task/revision, controller restart, independent files and session continuity on packaged bd74bf5059; final 0670b85392 clean consumer passes and its daemon/runner payload remains unchanged. The later execution fix affects remote directory staging.
Linux ARM64	Native build, clean installed consumer, standard provider-pack discovery on an unprivileged SSH host, final-source API task/revision, exact files, effort/permission acknowledgment, session continuity and released leases.
Linux x64	Clean installed consumer, exact-artifact immutable cloud image, final-source API task/revision across fresh Daytona sandboxes, exact files, effort/permission acknowledgment, session continuity and successful cleanup.
Intel Mac	Native cloud build and clean installed consumer pass. Attended provider execution was not required.

Delivery order: protocol prerequisite #15994, Apple Silicon behavior #15993, then remaining platforms #15997. None is merged or deployed to production.

Reviewable previews: Mac task and revision, ARM task and revision, and x64 task and revision. Acceptance reports and screenshots are attached to those tasks and independently checked after upload. The earlier 3115 preview is retained separately.

Known rate-card estimates total $4.810616600, excluding unknown charges. Aggregate qualification caps remain $50, with all prior holds and the separate $1 setup reserve retained. There are no active qualification runs. No automatic paid retry ran. All Docker and Rust builds ran in cloud infrastructure. Live subscription execution remains unverified under the user's API-key direction; built-in connection/authentication flows are preserved. ARM64 cloud-image production remains deferred.

Finish line and baseline

New Claude agents created through ordinary product entry points select Paperclip Runner automatically, use claude-opus-5-5 unless an explicit model/provider override exists, and complete a useful task plus revision. Saved Legacy/native choices remain stable. Deliver tested, reviewable PRs; merge and production rollout remain separate.

Planning baseline fetched from origin/master: 7fc2dc8b3236e1149ae32756b6153a503623404b. Implementation later integrated master through 7420af26fc9a80d6252ababd879e2fc991eebd07; see the current evidence below. Clean baseline checkout: /private/tmp/claude-default-master-plan, branch codex/claude-default-master-plan. Existing three PR branches and installed preview are preserved. This planning checkout is current master plus this record; it does not yet contain the Claude implementation.

What current master already supplies

• Codex default on macOS ARM64/x64 and Linux ARM64/x64 via #15683 (adb69e8f09). Keep its current platform/libc checks, including the glibc 2.39 minimum and sandbox target qualification.
• Existing native Claude ACPX profile: Claude ACP 0.73.0, SDK 0.3.286. Native Claude is not a new adapter implementation.
• Pinned Claude Linux ARM64 executable admission, including actual digest 0292fa22ac2fd43e16be9d0e511ddd8347280d6e0ebaca744ef5b27e05d8d0f8, landed in #16372 (854ab294cc). Reuse this implementation.
• Network-safe libc detection and asynchronous startup probing (#16333/#16335), plus newer task recovery, repository admission, workspace retention, and snapshot isolation. These must survive integration.
• Claude still has no automatic runner mapping: paperclipRunnerProfileForHarness and agentRunnerAvailability select Codex only. Legacy Claude defaults to Opus 5; generic ACPX defaults to Sonnet 5. Native Claude remains subject to the experimental gate.
• Native setup's SSH architecture whitelist still excludes Linux ARM64. Executable admission alone does not prove onboarding/remote selection works.

Existing work and evidence at the planning checkpoint

Work	Current state	Reuse / remaining gap
Protocol prerequisite #15994	Open, head dd82936c1d	Reconcile with master; retain only shared changes required for Claude and historical readers.
Claude behavior #15993	Open, head 4ee0d1d444	Existing selection, UI, auth, effort and resume work; previous CI and review passed, but integration needs fresh verification.
Platform qualification #15997	Open, published bddff3c5e9; local 84426fef60	ARM/package work and unpublished image artifact consumer. Preserve the work, remove duplicate landed ARM admission changes.
Packaged Mac API task/revision	Passed on frozen source 2646b94533, including controller restart and independent files	Historical proof. Repeat relevant acceptance on the master-integrated candidate.
Packaged ARM SSH API task/revision	Passed on the same frozen source	Historical proof. Revalidate final remote runtime and selection after integration.
Linux x64 API acceptance	Failed before model startup due to image/npm pack mismatch	Build an image from the exact package producer artifacts, then run a fresh task/revision.
Subscription	Existing flow retained; complete follow-up acceptance unverified	User redirected this work to API keys. Preserve flow and auth-routing controls; do not claim live subscription acceptance or request another CAPTCHA.

The two successful historical journeys remain at http://127.0.0.1:3115/CLAAAAAA/issues/CLAAAAAA-2 and /CLAAAAAA/issues/CLAAAAAA-3. They are not evidence for current master or a new candidate. Do not upgrade their data in place for the new verification run.

1. Reconcile the existing implementation onto current master

Use the existing PR stack; integrate master forward into its prerequisite, then cascade to behavior and platforms. The fresh checkout above provides the reference baseline. Preserve published history and the image fix. Do not wholesale replace current runtime files with old versions.

An index-free merge rehearsal against the complete local stack found 25 overlapping changed files and six textual conflicts:

• packages/paperclip-runner/README.md
• packages/paperclip-runner/src/drivers/acpx/installation-integrity.ts
• server/src/tests/agent-skills-routes.test.ts
• server/src/tests/issue-update-comment-wakeup-routes.test.ts
• ui/src/components/AgentConfigForm.render.test.tsx
• ui/src/components/AgentConfigForm.tsx

Resolve executable admission using master's landed ARM64 support; preserve newer UI and consolidated test structures while adding Claude cases. Independently review clean merges in native-session-executor, runner transport, heartbeat selection, agents routes, onboarding, and imports: textually clean does not establish correct recovery behavior.

Review prerequisite scope before carrying it forward: the old branch advances Pi profile 22 to 25 as part of shared config admission. Keep changes demonstrably required for Claude transport and historical compatibility; isolate unrelated provider changes instead of making their qualification a new Claude gate. Do not drop required historical readers merely to reduce the diff.

Exit: focused selection/UI/protocol/resume checks pass with current Codex behavior preserved; each remaining diff has a clear reason tied to Claude delivery.

2. Prove the local default first

First implementation delivery enables Apple Silicon only. Other Claude targets retain their current default until their package/execution gates pass.

• Extend existing centralized resolution to claude_local -> paperclip_runner, provider: acpx, acpxAgent: claude. Graduate this profile only from the experimental gate.
• Preserve request-level runner: auto | paperclip | legacy, discovery fields, and resolved stored configuration. No migration or bulk rewrite of saved agents.
• Reuse Claude connections, secret storage, selected account, subscription actions, and built-in setup probes. Use the API key from ~/.secrets through the existing connection flow without exposing it.
• Reuse the shared Advanced runner selector with Claude branding. Omit legacy-only defaults from native forms; incompatible custom execution settings require explicit Legacy with a useful error.
• Apply ordinary Opus 5.5 defaults consistently while preserving explicit models, ANTHROPIC_MODEL, and provider routing.
• Preserve effort admission before prompt/resume, permission semantics, instructions, skills, timeouts, workspace settings, cancellation and session continuity.

Run the smallest faithful isolated local Product E2E case on the integrated candidate. Reuse a compatible verified daemon only if its protocol identity is compatible; any necessary Rust build runs in cloud and only the Mac target is needed initially. Do not begin a four-target packaging campaign to answer a local behavior question.

Acceptance: ordinary New Agent/onboarding -> Claude Code -> existing API-key connection -> submit with no runner/model override. Inspect saved native/Opus 5.5 config directly, with enableNativeRunner=false. Produce a useful file, independently download it, restart the isolated controller, request a revision, download both versions and compare bytes, then reload task/agent and confirm the same session and persisted settings. The E2E fixture must not patch the runner after onboarding.

Exit: two successful paid turns, independently verified artifacts, persisted settings, effort acknowledgment, exact controller/runtime identities, and a usable new preview. Failures are diagnosed locally before platform work proceeds.

3. Close compatibility and creation-path gaps

Use focused controls for:

Contract	Required evidence
All creation boundaries	UI, API/CLI, onboarding, hires/approval snapshots, built-ins, plugins and imports call the resolver.
Saved configuration	Ordinary edits, restart, activation, export/import preserve saved Legacy/native and explicit model/provider values. Explicit changes invalidate sessions through existing revisions.
Target/adapters	Disabled adapters, external overrides, unsupported OS/libc, qualified sandbox target, remote ARM setup, and unchanged Codex defaults.
Auth and isolation	Selected account, company boundaries, secret forwarding, API billing attribution; existing subscription actions still route to Claude.
Settings and failures	Effort before prompt/resume; permissions, instructions/skills, timeout, cancellation/cleanup; clear model/auth/package/incompatible-setting errors with no runner fallback.
Protocol compatibility	Historical input readers and existing provider controls; no silent effort loss on resume.
UI	Shared components, light/dark, narrow viewport and keyboard operation.

Update configuration docs, bundled agent-creation skill, feature maps and E2E documentation. Re-run only affected passing cases during iteration; final required checks remain mandatory.

4. Qualify the remaining platforms

After the local integrated candidate passes, freeze its runtime/package source and build in cloud. Reuse the prior four-target release mechanisms and the image artifact consumer where applicable.

The observed x64 failure was real: its independently rebuilt image had a different lock/provider-pack manifest than npm. Preserve the rejection guard. The cloud image must consume the same exact-source, digest-verified daemon and provider pack as the public package, then verify both identities inside the resulting image. Do not rerun the old 2646 campaign merely because its command is available; qualify the newly integrated candidate.

Before dispatch, verify current GitHub workflow publishing access. The previous OAuth token lacked workflow scope and SSH signing failed. If unchanged, this blocks publishing the prepared workflow only; local behavior/reconciliation can proceed. Inspect a successful push before dispatching the updated workflow.

Target	Required before enabling its automatic default
Apple Silicon	Local API pair above, then final packaged runtime verification.
Linux x64	Clean install, matching immutable image and package authority, ordinary selection, API task/revision, independent downloads and continuity.
Linux ARM64	Native cloud build, clean install, standard installed-host/SSH package selection, API task/revision and continuity. No ARM cloud-image production.
Intel Mac	Cloud build and clean install/package admission. Attended provider execution is not required.

Preserve existing Linux x64 pack behavior and other providers' qualification boundaries. Additional defaults are enabled only after the corresponding evidence passes. Live subscription task/follow-up qualification remains explicitly unverified under the user's API-key steering.

5. Delivery and operating limits

Keep the approved prerequisite + two delivery boundaries: protocol compatibility, Claude behavior/Apple Silicon, remaining platforms. Reuse existing PRs where their scope still fits. Refresh exact-head CI and review after reconciliation; historical green checks are not current approval.

Required before PR-ready handoff: pnpm -r typecheck, pnpm test:run, pnpm build, pnpm check:token-gates, applicable cloud package checks, current review 5/5 and resolved findings. Keep expensive builds and all Docker work in cloud. No paid retries run automatically.

Retain the separate $50 Claude ceiling. The last recorded known rate-card estimate was $3.054638600, excluding unknown charges, with a $1 setup reservation. Reconcile actual current policies/usage before any paid work; unknown charges and failed holds stay reserved. Use fresh bounded fixtures within existing available allocation, never clear old holds to make acceptance proceed.

Update this record with the integrated source, package/image digests, preview, artifact comparisons, reports, costs and PR checks. Finish with usable previews and reviewable PRs. No merge or production deployment is included.

Integrated implementation progress — 2026-10-15

Current source checkpoint: master through 7420af26fc9a80d6252ababd879e2fc991eebd07 is integrated through the stack. Protocol is bffac456ddb2ea6c340a8f598af10c6b98135625, Apple Silicon behavior is f0ed0bdefaeb363e5ab2d4018d9cd13656df7137, and frozen platform runtime source is 0670b85392a0be51745f1ba7ca84f998bf122c07. Each has passing required source CI, exact-head Greptile 5/5, and zero unresolved review threads. The protocol and behavior PRs are ready; platform acceptance remains gated below. GitHub workflow access is restored and the image consumer is published.

Master's retained-reader authorization batching and CI profile export are preserved. Their 267 authorization/selection controls and 15 CI profile tests pass. The Darwin SSH automatic-Legacy safeguard is included in the behavior boundary, so Apple Silicon SSH creation is safe before the platform PR; its 142 selection tests pass. Existing Codex behavior and master's landed ARM SDK admission remain intact.

Review corrections are committed and covered by failing-before/passing-after controls. Discovery changes invalidate stale onboarding probes. Finish setup now saves the exact configuration admitted during qualification rather than rebuilding Legacy defaults from an older render. V7 native input retains prepared transport, constraints, and completion-only second turns. The latter regression reproduces session cannot start another turn before the fix. All 160 focused protocol/session tests, all 71 New Agent tests, 148 onboarding tests, UI typecheck, and runner TypeScript build pass. Earlier focused verification also passed 343 selection/configuration checks, 849 skills/comment/native-session checks, 320 latest-master lifecycle/selection/snapshot checks, 148 platform-selection controls, 114 release controls, 16 image-consumer controls and token gates. Master's subsequently landed snapshot-worker test fix replaces the earlier local timeout change. All three heads have fresh 5/5 reviews with zero unresolved findings and passing required CI. One earlier platform shard hit an ephemeral HTTP/2 EADDRINUSE test-port collision in unchanged code; a single provider-free rerun passed, preserving the original failure log at /private/tmp/claude-v7-platform-workspaces-b-failure-20261015.log. The final packaged Mac pair subsequently passed; current remote execution gates are recorded below.

Preview: http://127.0.0.1:3105/CLA/issues/CLA-2, data /private/tmp/claude-master-local-20261015. Historical preview 3115 is separate. Ordinary New Agent -> Claude Code -> saved Anthropic API key -> Model Default -> high effort -> Finish setup originally saved agent 5339638d-b41d-4a6f-a041-4e5d1698a8de as paperclip_runner/acpx/claude/claude-opus-5-5. No runner/model was patched after creation. Only timeout (180 seconds) and concurrency (one) were bounded. Experimental native runner remains false. The isolated PATH uses the already-qualified Claude 2.1.286 executable, preserving the user's system CLI.

The first integrated local pair passed on 77936b2973: runs 58291208-459e-4de4-8b3e-5eff25d4e98c and 37e6164e-98e3-42fe-8847-2ee061629055, independent 160/217-byte artifacts, high effort, unchanged task/provider/backend session across controller restart, estimate $0.336505200. Its report remains /private/tmp/claude-master-local-proof-20261015/acceptance.json and attached to CLA-1. This is preserved historical evidence for that runtime.

After rebuilding the corrected TypeScript runtime, the new pair passed on f1dfde5a09: runs 6bfd4019-4d7e-4be7-948e-b56f56d8ee3e and c761ac19-3e5f-4301-bf13-22a1f9ec0d32. Independently downloaded claude-v7-checklist-v1.md is 134 bytes, SHA256 3161571692c5d08dd80e91ce83f7ff42fb69f70d8f349084114707e27b8b8b82; v2 is 180 bytes, SHA256 3fe1b7f05f1f320246691d007576d0d25a40a1e91fd649c2496a8e56d1ddd299. V1 is preserved. Task/provider/backend identity survived another controller restart; both turns admitted high effort, billed as metered API, and settled without pending/unpriced usage. Estimate $0.351676000. Report /private/tmp/claude-v7-local-proof-20261015/acceptance.json, also attached to CLA-2 as 56c7acb8-7079-4b46-a73f-b0b49e21c0e3; screenshot attachment 615e3de4-38dd-4c0f-be94-0bb05f7b6757. Task and agent settings survive reload. A fresh read-only browser check also passes light/dark desktop, 390-pixel mobile, and keyboard open/Escape/focus restoration for the shared Runner control. No horizontal overflow or mutations occurred. Screenshots and receipt: /private/tmp/claude-v7-local-ui-20261015.

The local daemon retains verified source 2646b94533bac1eae0d30b11d3774b104eeaf981 and its original manifest. Rust/protocol trees are unchanged; Darwin ARM64 daemon SHA256 is 094e5e809843efc3d16c796ee4271ff11fcb550afb927b3fa0e745d964bcba2d. Current-source JS was rebuilt locally. No local Docker or Rust builds ran. Local source acceptance is passed; final installed-package proof remains separate.

The first new cloud campaign 38734513491, source 64e721e5f5, was cancelled after review identified the v7 session defect. Its ARM64 Linux, ARM64 Mac and x64 Linux daemon jobs succeeded; Intel and package assembly were cancelled. Those artifacts are preserved and are not final qualification. Following the corrected local pair, campaign 38738177651 builds frozen source bd74bf5059 in cloud workers. The exact-artifact image consumer and final installed Mac/Linux execution follow that successful producer. Live subscription acceptance remains unverified under the user's API-key direction.

Budget remains $50 total with historical holds intact. The fresh fixture cap is now $2.30: $0.80 from the original safe reallocation, then $1.50 from unused allowance in held fixture 16cc3ada while retaining its $1 pending reservation and $1 setup reserve. Donor remains hard-stopped and its agents paused. Receipts: /private/tmp/claude-master-local-allocation-20261015.json and /private/tmp/claude-master-platform-allocation-20261015.json. Fresh fixture observed usage is $0.688181200, pending/unpriced zero, leaving $1.611818800. Historical known rate-card estimate plus these runs is $3.742819800, excluding unknown charges. Per-run reservation remains $0.50; automatic paid retries and timer heartbeats remain disabled.

Packaged acceptance and remote staging repair — 2026-10-15

Cloud producer 38738177651 passed all four native daemon builds and clean package consumers on source bd74bf50596d099e138bc6824cf0230f1026bfe1. Public package artifact 11976635617 has ZIP SHA256 079a0e5277ce978ccbe8464e4413ddb7f9a537a76fd71da931e3ee355bbe4198; all 18 package archives were independently verified and installed into /private/tmp/claude-installed-bd74bf50-preview/consumer. The cloud image consumer also passed. Image ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:41cde6894c649ff76a06ddb925f1be1945d5efc901b13a7e43d371427a205235 contains the exact producer's Linux x64 daemon and provider pack. No Docker or Rust build ran locally.

The installed Mac task/revision passed in ordinary New Agent UI with saved API key, Default model, high effort, and no runner override. Agent 766dddf5-1178-4cdf-81ee-ec542cfe0673 saved native ACPX Claude/Opus 5.5 with the experimental gate disabled. Preview http://127.0.0.1:3105/CLA/issues/CLA-3. Runs ae8386b6-6a41-493c-a35c-a34bcd5feb7c and f79a151e-2267-4acd-ad81-6a34be25e1ff succeeded across a controller restart with the same task/provider/backend session and high-effort acknowledgment. Independently downloaded v1 (114 bytes) SHA256 f1da81caf11f90e80c3fe008adf3c1d6e180d38188f929dc8244edd64e4ff41a; v2 (157 bytes) SHA256 cae638f5f239806842b9ef1fa9694097e142035f803a89ff743696e558f5b3b2. V1 remained unchanged. Settled API estimate $0.347345000. Report /private/tmp/claude-v7-installed-mac-proof-20261015/acceptance.json retains the state at acceptance; later company holds do not invalidate those settled runs.

The two subsequent ARM attempts failed before provider startup and remain pending accounting: c2d8f460-381c-4764-ae04-4974b30739eb (test-drive stripped inherited callback configuration) and a6979058-b3d0-49ed-8c6d-159f507e3443 (read-only directory staging). Each retains a $0.50 hold. Callback configuration is now persisted through the instance's normal environment file. ARM uses a dedicated unprivileged account and private SSH listener, with the verified standard provider-pack installation; the system CLI and existing root listener are untouched. Root execution was rejected by Claude's ordinary permission check, reproduced without credentials or prompts.

Credential-free reproduction proved that BSD tar emits non-contiguous directory entries. GNU tar restored read-only directory permissions before later children arrived. The staging fix delays GNU directory restoration, omits macOS metadata, and verifies existing immutable context bytes and modes before reuse on follow-up. It keeps native provider sync behavior and durable checkpoint handling. Corrupt or symlinked targets do not become accepted cache hits. The regression failed before the fix; all 15 focused controls now pass with both GNU and BSD tar, including repeat staging and corrupt/symlink rejection. The actual patched function also passes twice on the unprivileged ARM host with zero provider calls; receipt /private/tmp/claude-v7-arm-staging-fixed-20261015.json. Remote live acceptance remains incomplete; no paid retry runs automatically.

Earlier allocation receipt /private/tmp/claude-v7-remote-allocation-20261015.json preserves the $50 aggregate ceiling and all historical holds. Known rate-card estimates total $4.090164800, excluding pending/unpriced charges and setup reservations. The current remote fixture has a $1.22 cap with its new $0.50 pending hold. Live subscription acceptance remains explicitly unverified under the user's API-key direction.

The staging repair is frozen at 0670b85392a0be51745f1ba7ca84f998bf122c07. Its source CI passed; Greptile reviewed this exact commit at 5/5 with zero unresolved threads. Package campaign 38751544488 passed the Linux and Apple Silicon producers, then was cancelled after the Intel worker stalled in checkout for 17 minutes. Its artifacts and checkout log remain preserved. A single infrastructure retry, 38756070238, uses the same frozen source and one consistent producer attempt. Its Intel checkout completed normally; all three other producers passed. All four producers subsequently passed; package assembly is queued for a hosted Linux worker, followed by clean consumers. No provider retry occurred. The new ARM pack differs from the previous payload only in runnerSourceRevision; its new manifest digest is sha256:9b4dfddca028ac8befcc84b9cbe724553531d991386f80329b4bdcab3890874d. Daemon bytes remain SHA256 4720c6a23784d3b4535329ecf852d38af8c14ae920447a662a00c4657711387a, and the pinned Claude executable remains SHA256 0292fa22ac2fd43e16be9d0e511ddd8347280d6e0ebaca744ef5b27e05d8d0f8. The verified new pack is installed in the dedicated QA user's standard location; receipt /private/tmp/claude-staging-arm-activation-20261015.json. The previous user pack and the system/root installations remain preserved.

The prerequisite #15994 and Apple Silicon default #15993 are ready for review, with final packaged Mac evidence in their bodies. Neither is merged. The platform PR #15997 remains draft until its final remote task/revision acceptance passes. The installed Mac acceptance report and screenshot are attached to the completed preview task as beec99dd-a9b3-40bb-84f5-6cae7c867562 and fa8f2a00-d18b-444b-802e-11ad25166055; both were downloaded again and verified after upload.

The fresh remote fixture 99824208-435b-4c44-8f63-829fc79faad9 (CLAAA) has a $1.40 shared cap. It receives $0.72 of unused allowance from held fixture 4389d6ab (retaining its $0.50 hold) and $0.68 from original QA f1dd89ef (retaining its known spend plus two conservative $8 unknown-charge reserves). Aggregate caps remain $50; every prior hold and the separate $1 setup reserve remain. Receipt /private/tmp/claude-staging-fixture-allocation-20261015.json verifies paused donors before and after the reduction. No hold was released and no task retry was submitted. Ordinary UI creation on the unchanged bd74bf50 UI saved native Claude/Opus 5.5/high effort for ARM agent 7233d811-41f0-4059-9084-5eeea09da7dd and x64 agent 3ba4cef6-bca9-4341-b9f2-88696e892dba. Both existing CLI API-key checks succeeded in the selected environments; this is connection evidence, not native execution acceptance. Both agents are bounded to 180 seconds and one concurrent run. UI journal /private/tmp/claude-staging-ui-20261015; no runner/model switch occurred after onboarding.

The isolated database is backed up before package replacement at /private/tmp/claude-master-local-20261015/instances/default/data/backups/claude-before-staging-0670b853-20261015-094815.sql.gz, SHA256 8620dc98360032f48767c0d273d98c4926f355bb7bde6ff802a82451f2fe80cc. The first backup attempt used the configured default port and timed out; the successful backup binds the actual instance data directory and allocated port 54334. No existing instance or backup was replaced.

Final installed ARM acceptance — 2026-10-15

The replacement campaign's public package assembly passed. Artifact 11985673906 is 109691616 bytes, ZIP SHA256 de6810dca086f2320a52bc4dc3d06e6e07374a0e9246add568f017b56b1bef89. All 18 archive digests were verified before installing into /private/tmp/claude-installed-0670b853-preview/consumer. The controller preview now reports frozen source 0670b85392a0be51745f1ba7ca84f998bf122c07, with the native experiment disabled. All four installed daemon hashes match the release manifest and are unchanged from the prior packaged Mac proof. The installed ARM provider-pack authority exactly matches the dedicated host's standard installation. All four native builds and all clean consumers have now passed in campaign 38756070238. The matching x64 image is building in cloud via 38764436597; no local Docker build runs.

The ARM task and revision both succeeded on the final installed source: 47cf1e62-2023-4198-ba04-65564b56ecf8 and 3f07e836-acc0-4141-9daa-bd74013317ac. Preview http://127.0.0.1:3105/CLAAA/issues/CLAAA-1. Independent downloads match the 114/157-byte oracles and SHA256 values recorded for the packaged Mac pair; the original remains unchanged. Task/provider/backend session identity is the same across turns, and high effort is requested and acknowledged on both. API accounting settled at $0.216398000 and $0.163966600 ($0.380364600 combined), with no pending or unpriced usage in this fresh company. Report /private/tmp/claude-staging-installed-arm-proof-20261015/acceptance.json; runtime identities /private/tmp/claude-0670b853-installed-runtime-identity.json. The earlier read-only staging failure is preserved and is not counted as passing evidence. The report and reloaded completed-task screenshot were attached and independently downloaded again (13602319-1f90-4176-94c6-4789df9c630a, 10c4c7fe-d745-4034-b356-b15565304a8e). Reloading the agent also retained Claude/Opus 5.5/High settings; UI journal step 51. No runner or provider processes remained in the dedicated ARM account after both turns.

The cloud image consumer passed. Immutable image ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:d241ab13d48297a0fe85b04acf70980a427a5fbcd4a95ca2284c7022cd29d03c contains the exact installed Linux x64 pack sha256:6adcfdf1a90d922fb65d647e13936eafff7d9cc5f0142ebdfbc11d9470b00c55 and daemon SHA256 cd46aa8e809f4f3a4f705bfdc93b17b1466c010235f37b0b2f71572f927b5f8f. Evidence artifact 11989266220 ZIP SHA256 f6878e2c8e97d0f9d0dc8bfc8af9ea4b255d1f5b92ea6323cd5a983c6e003f34 was independently verified, as were source and inner-image identities. The dedicated x64 environment now uses this image with its saved credential reference preserved. No local Docker or Rust build ran.

Final installed x64 acceptance and accounting — 2026-10-15

The final x64 pair succeeded: 65f04a06-c2a4-4c3c-af4a-2f6026563623 and 9c22a214-c9f3-436c-a509-0ddf763c66e6, using native Claude/Opus 5.5/high effort with the experimental gate off and no runner/model override. Preview http://127.0.0.1:3105/CLAAA/issues/CLAAA-2. Independent downloads match 114/157 bytes and the exact SHA256 values above; the original is unchanged. Task/provider/backend identity persists across two distinct Daytona sandboxes. Both runtime records confirm provider ingress, the selected environment, approve-all permissions, and high-effort acknowledgment. Both leases bind the verified immutable image and report successful cleanup. API accounting settled at $0.212391400 and $0.127695800 ($0.340087200 combined).

Report /private/tmp/claude-staging-installed-x64-proof-20261015/acceptance.json includes actual environment leases, immutable image identity, and cleanup evidence. The report and reloaded completed-task screenshot are attached as 7276f35e-aad9-4be0-8e51-330cd9ad0904 and 20b33105-1229-47ec-b50f-ce88745b3fcf; both passed independent download comparison. Reloading agent settings retains Claude/Opus 5.5/High; UI journal step 61. The ARM transport addendum /private/tmp/claude-staging-installed-arm-proof-20261015/execution-targets.json verifies both actual SSH leases, selected account, standard pack reuse, and permissions from retained runtime records; both leases are released and no provider/runner processes remain in that account.

Final read-only accounting receipt /private/tmp/claude-staging-accounting-current-20261015.json records $4.810616600 known rate-card estimates, $50 aggregate caps, zero active runs, retained unknown charges and setup reserve, and no released holds. The fresh remote company has $0.720451800 observed usage, no pending/unpriced usage, and a $1.40 cap. One older retired fixture retains its prior policy evidence because its current instance is unavailable; its entire $9 allowance remains reserved. The original failed records, unknown-charge holds, previous package attempts and source identities remain intact. No additional paid turns are required for this handoff.

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Historical plan and evidence (retained)

Claude runner defaults

Updated 2026-10-12.

Outcome and constraints

Start from 058af8f1b69c5fa3d9bc974b9eab73c141b52823; branch codex/claude-runner-default, checkout /Users/dotta/.codex/worktrees/670b/paperclip. New Claude agents eventually default to native ACPX Claude on Apple Silicon, Intel Mac, Linux x64 and Linux ARM64. Codex selection remains owned by the dependency branch. On 2026-10-12 the user explicitly approved preserving its latest Linux ARM64 default from dcdf09a0f33536fa2b6daaf6e731d921d5711282 during reconciliation. Ordinary Claude defaults become Opus 5.5; explicit models and existing runner selections remain intact.

Local Apple Silicon API-key task and follow-up are the first gate. Keep existing connection/login tools. Complete core settings and local subscription next, then package/qualify other targets. Two behavior/platform delivery boundaries plus the user-approved protocol prerequisite PR; no merge or deployment. Linux ARM64 covers installed hosts and SSH, not ARM cloud images. Separate $50 Claude ceiling including setup probes, unknown-charge holds and task turns. No automatic paid retry loops. Docker and expensive Rust builds run in cloud infrastructure; never build Docker images on this Mac.

Current state

• Review boundaries: the user approved a separate shared-protocol prerequisite to keep each PR below the repository's 100-file limit. The behavior PR is #15993; the platform branch is codex/claude-runner-platforms and remains gated. Protocol prerequisite #15994, initial candidate 2e8d5e906e, has 44 source files and preserves latest Codex startup changes from a200495cc7. Behavior candidate 12f30702d7 includes that prerequisite.
• Review corrections preserve legacy ACP permission aliases, retained native import settings and fixed Claude OAuth claims through native creation. Unknown inherited-property model names stay unpriced. Legacy onboarding cases now explicitly select Legacy; ordinary native Claude onboarding skips unqualified controller targets before provisioning. Focused import52, selection/pricing117, OAuth54, CLI fixture104, shared Pi92, Copilot28 and Pi evidence72 controls passed; final CI/review remains required.
• Shared source attestations are versioned rather than rewriting historical identities: Pi v23 and pending Copilot v18 bind the changed Claude effort sources. Prior declarations remain. Executable closures and platform qualification are unchanged; prior mismatched profiles require session reopening. These new generated bindings require a current-source daemon/package build.
• Local ordinary API-key onboarding, useful task, revision, cold resume with high effort, independent artifact downloads and persistence passed. The active preview is http://127.0.0.1:3105/CLAA/issues/CLAA-1.
• The user redirected the remaining live checks to API keys. Subscription login remains supported, but no further attended subscription qualification is required; subscription follow-up is not claimed.
• Shared runner controls passed light/dark, 390-pixel mobile and keyboard opening/closing checks. The walkthrough found native Command/Extra args controls; they are now hidden for native execution. The saved Claude preservation test covers this path. Agent form 111 tests, UI TypeScript and token gates passed.
• Four-target cloud producers and required source checks are running on 9788c05; clean-install consumers are still pending. The existing authorized SSH development host is Linux ARM64 with GNU libc 2.39; qualification will use an isolated directory and preserve its other services.
• Reviewed source chat “Make Paperclip Runner the default”; source worktree remains separate and active.
• Isolated feature branch starts at the exact requested SHA.
• Workspace dependencies installed with pinned pnpm 9.15.4 and lifecycle scripts disabled.
• Local key source exists; no credentials retained here.
• Verified baseline Apple Silicon daemon is available at /private/tmp/pr2-d522-mac-remote-daemon/darwin-arm64/paperclip-runnerd; use its receipt and digest for phase 1.
• Local default selection, narrow experimental-gate graduation, Opus defaults, and shared runner UI are being implemented. Claude effort transport and acknowledgment are being implemented; the live milestone used default effort on the unchanged baseline daemon.

Remaining gates

1. Local API-key onboarding/task/follow-up passed; retain evidence while runtime components change.
2. Core settings propagation and preservation paths. The user redirected the remaining subscription acceptance to API-key qualification; subscription follow-up remains unverified.
3. Four-target package and remote proof; enable additional defaults only after qualification.
4. Required checks, final-source review, PRs, inspectable evidence and working preview.

Budget

Ceiling: $50. Two successful API-key task turns and one successful built-in setup probe. Retain $8 for the initial unpriced receipt/setup uncertainty, plus an $8 additional billed-spend allowance with hard stops and no automatic paid retries; total conservative hold/allowance $16. The follow-up estimate consumes $0.269886 of that additional allowance. These are qualification estimates/reservations, not provider invoices.

Local API checkpoint

Source base plus uncommitted feature changes; preview http://127.0.0.1:3105, isolated home /private/tmp/claude-runner-default-qa. Initial CLI seed and ordinary UI creation both saved native Claude / Opus 5.5. Native experiment was disabled before UI setup and task. Existing setup tools succeeded using the verified SDK CLI 2.1.286 in this instance-only PATH; global CLI 2.1.245 was insufficient for Opus 5.5 and was not modified. PostgreSQL install required local postinstall links/signature repair after lifecycle-disabled installation.

UI agent a0e75080-86de-427a-8ac3-3743c6d076ae; task CLA-1, 6ddff45d-9974-4bd6-976a-f586393ed8f5. First native run 42773dcb-cbb2-4deb-a495-ca5b3f451780 succeeded with acpx_runtime and observed model claude-opus-5-5. Independent attachment download: 125 bytes, sha256 839680679537dfcc8700661347623f0fc1eef7a35e4593dd851a1389bbdc14fc, three requested checklist items.

The run exposed missing Opus 5.5 pricing. Its immutable receipt remains unpriced, with reported input 15611, cache-write 15599, cached-input 135871 and output 2194 tokens. Preserve an $8 hold. A narrow rate-card addition uses official standard rates 4 / 0.2 / 8 (one-hour cache-write upper bound) / 20 USD per million; first-run independent upper-rate estimate is $0.1958942, not an invoice. Both QA policies blocked unpriced usage and paused after completion. Before the follow-up, retain the $8 hold as explicit policy reservation, allow the known historical unpriced receipt only in these disposable QA policies, keep the $8 additional billed-spend hard stop and no automatic paid retries. Total conservative hold/allowance $16 of the $50 ceiling. No historical receipt is rewritten.

Checks: 66 selection/model tests, 111 agent form tests, 78 other affected UI tests, UI/server noemit and token gates passed. Native eligibility regression passes; Opus pricing check passes after the provenance formatting correction. The mocked route suite subsequently passed 47 tests with localhost access enabled; the initial timeouts came from sandbox listener restrictions.

Follow-up run 60e7f9a2-aff3-40b3-8493-2ede6c59da72 succeeded after a controller restart. The task session was reused and the observed model remained Opus 5.5. Estimated Anthropic API usage: $0.269886000. Second attachment is 178 bytes, sha256 ae6fad75dfa46c4c444ad203dff8029359721e19249c04ec1faba9eb6c3d3341, preserving the first three items and adding the requested revision. Independently re-downloaded the original after the follow-up and confirmed it remained unchanged. Both runs reached Done; saved agent configuration and native experiment=false persisted across restart.

Product evidence: task and both downloadable artifacts, first artifact, revision. Sanitized receipt: /private/tmp/claude-local-api-acceptance.json.

Runtime: daemon source d522822a5daeb72d124360b576b82a8bb52b43f4, executable sha256 d0656673f7b6dfa6f2554fac18f3e0b42e2eb10f444b06f6063255335d71aa14; SDK CLI 2.1.286 sha256 75e3016e9d2570767b08e43a7467d4817a4f149232c169ca295f2c95fef21433. The planned effort transport changes require a new remotely built daemon and affected acceptance reruns; they are not covered by this baseline-runtime evidence.

Behavior candidate and cloud checks

Implementation commit 6fd56c445d adds the Apple Silicon default, native-input v7 effort admission, compatible settings/preservation, existing authentication routing, and Opus API pricing. Historical v1-v6 readers and Codex/Pi admission remain covered. Focused runner tests passed (197 tests before the additional three admission/recovery tests; the new focused admission/recovery suite also passed 111 tests). Focused server selection/provider projection, UI/import, routing and token gates passed; two stale experimental-gate fixtures were corrected and the New Agent suite then passed 60 tests. Updated server/runner/UI TypeScript checks passed. Required broad checks and the updated daemon run in cloud CI.

Reconcile the latest Codex dependency (dcdf09a0f3, direct descendant of the requested baseline), preserve its newly supplied four-target producer/consumer work, and keep Claude automatic selection restricted to Apple Silicon. No Docker build ran locally. The baseline local API proof remains tied to its original runtime; new effort acceptance requires the cloud-built candidate.

Frozen runtime candidate: 5f0b898e9ecef77afefe309a230e04d7fef66cde. Cloud daemon and clean-install qualification uses the reconciled source's four-target release matrix. Cloud required-source verification resolves the branch to an immutable target under the trusted master workflow. Both are in progress; no passing claim yet. Image publication is disabled. All Docker/Rust compilation is remote.

Subscription setup is prepared through the ordinary Claude Code wizard. The existing host CLI account is Paperclip Team (claude.ai, Team subscription), but the provider browser requires fresh reauthentication after selecting that organization. The user has been asked to complete that sign-in; no credential was extracted from the host or pasted into chat. The API-key preview/artifacts remain available while the subscription draft is pending.

Cold-resume diagnosis and corrective candidate

The remotely built candidate daemon passed all four producer builds, but package assembly failed on a TypeScript error in Claude task-effort projection: runtime selection profiles expose a backend, not provider/agent properties. The projection now reads the persisted adapter configuration. No daemon Rust change is needed for this correction.

Actual high-effort first tasks succeeded for API-key and subscription agents. Their cold follow-ups rejected session admission before a task prompt. A bounded existing-runtime diagnostic submitted zero prompts/tools and captured only static admission errors and effort options. It identified session/resume, newly used by the pinned ACP library, as missing from the configuration acknowledgment guard. The guard now correlates resume acknowledgments just as it does load acknowledgments. Bound effort also persists in the private Claude settings used by cold connections. The corrected diagnostic admitted high effort with providerTurns: 0. Focused Claude/Pi/sandbox tests passed 68 tests; focused Product E2E fixture checks passed 91 tests. Server TypeScript passed after the projection correction.

Failed qualification records remain intact, including their pending-accounting/recovery fences. No historical receipt was overwritten or invented. Automatic approval review rejected a budget-resume action as potentially restarting paid work; the user then explicitly approved bounded resume plus one manual retry. The product refused resume while accounting remained pending, and no provider retry occurred. New disposable fixtures preserve those failures while proving the corrected execution path. This recovery/accounting condition remains a recorded acceptance limitation until resolved.

Current aggregate company policy caps: original QA $17 (including an $8 unknown-charge reservation), old candidate $9 (retaining its failed-start reservation and known spend), API-effort acceptance $16, fresh subscription acceptance $8; total $50. Agent policies share their company allocations. Timer heartbeats are disabled, no automatic paid retry campaign is enabled, and only the explicit small acceptance turns are authorized. Reservations and estimates are not invoices. Known API estimates before the final pair: original follow-up $0.269886 and candidate first task $0.1906868; the original first receipt remains unpriced.

The first subscription artifact was independently downloaded and matched the exact 153-byte oracle, sha256 ef76358a83a31dcb5759ee4384b92fa7a0ce1801b093352e5e6a548e0fbb7512. Its run used acpx_runtime, observed Opus 5.5, and recorded subscription_included. The new API wizard saved native Claude, Opus 5.5, and high effort without a runner override; its 137-byte first artifact matched sha256 fe24122962056946d5d01f693342c86fd83e22dbb21d6d0bc20d35f220f7952c. Updated-runtime follow-up acceptance is still in progress.

Cloud source verification retained failures rather than claiming a pass: the projection TypeScript error; a 15-minute full-suite timeout; stale Pi catalog identities inherited from the dependency branch; installed-startup fixtures exposed to pnpm's NODE_PATH; and absent historical Git objects in the shallow checkout. The corrected fixture expectations preserve current Pi qualification boundaries and explicitly test rejection of ambient Node injection. The cloud source-check step now fetches only the two exact historical fixture trees and gives the full test command a bounded 60-minute slot inside an 80-minute check step. Required checks and clean-install consumers must be rerun on the corrected source before PR-ready handoff. Docker and Rust builds remain cloud-only.

API-key acceptance after the resume correction

The user redirected remaining live execution checks to the API key in ~/.secrets; the fresh subscription sign-in was closed and its unused company archived. Do not require more attended subscription sign-in for this delivery. Preserve existing connection tools and the prior successful subscription first-task evidence; subscription follow-up qualification is not claimed.

Ordinary API-key wizard agent 688ff15d-eb48-4cb5-9f31-2d394ab3fbbb saved paperclip_runner / acpx / claude, model claude-opus-5-5, effort high, and the existing responsible-user API-key connection. Preview: successful API task and revision. Runs 271e0877-c60c-4ac7-aa1a-7b075481872b and eb95ed4d-c219-463e-b04a-1bc4ac83c012 both succeeded with acpx_runtime, acknowledged high effort, and metered Anthropic API attribution. Estimated costs: $0.194798400 and $0.342168800. The task, provider, and backend session identities all matched across the controller restart; private provider IDs are omitted from the report. Both runs finished accounting. Saved settings and enableNativeRunner=false persisted after reload.

Independent downloads matched both byte oracles, and the original remained unchanged after the revision: v1 137 bytes, sha256 fe24122962056946d5d01f693342c86fd83e22dbb21d6d0bc20d35f220f7952c; v2 194 bytes, sha256 0232a93ccc4da44fd156907b22a64b14487a981fdf12ab9cf73b4ef20d755816. First download, revision download. Sanitized report: /private/tmp/claude-final-api-acceptance.json.

Executable identities: daemon source 5f0b898e9ecef77afefe309a230e04d7fef66cde, sha256 228c7814c4786614c8358b205da01cf43df822ca5e6f6b74d5a1e8304d03a6de; sidecar sha256 daabddfc1373e6b6d2a754cb60bc4c33d7a8b6d6d5c3564ce511ebfaeb8a463d; Claude SDK 0.3.286 executable sha256 75e3016e9d2570767b08e43a7467d4817a4f149232c169ca295f2c95fef21433. Behavior source is 9788c05d0a9825d825c0461eab3191da6a6dcad7. Reconciled source 966b3d5bc294442f71c1def9406ed2027f41d191 merges Codex dependency 123a18837478d8cd0e2aff23f7e7aa86c9107de3, retaining its GNU libc 2.39 gate and Linux ARM64 selection. Claude admission/sandbox/input and daemon Rust sources did not change during that reconciliation; the rebuilt sidecar digest is identical. Updated runner TypeScript build, server TypeScript, 95 selection controls and 15 installed-startup controls passed after reconciliation.

Corrected cloud source checks and corrected four-target packaging run on frozen behavior source 9788c05. Carry forward only unchanged evidence; final source and package consumers still require passing checks. Active company caps after archiving the unused subscription-only fixture total $42: original $17, failed candidate $9, API acceptance $16. Agent limits share these allocations, and unknown-charge holds remain in place. Known API estimates now total $0.9975406; this excludes the original unpriced receipt and is not a provider invoice.

Approved prerequisite split and current CI

The behavior PR now targets the protocol branch and has 64 changed files. Protocol #15994 targets the latest Codex dependency and adds the shared v7 effort/resume contract with historical readers. Cloud Docker-context verification found that .dockerignore omitted the new Pi v23 and Copilot v18 identity inputs; explicit exceptions retain them without broadening the fixture context. The old 9788c05 package campaign passed all four daemon producers and Apple Silicon clean install, but the Linux ARM64 consumer failed durable-suspend settlement. Retain that failure; current-source package qualification and ARM diagnosis remain required. No local Docker or Rust compilation occurred.

Platform candidate implementation

The isolated platform checkout is /private/tmp/claude-runner-platform-pr on codex/claude-runner-platforms. It preserves behavior candidate 8d07b40907. The pinned Linux ARM64 Claude SDK 0.3.286 archive passed registry SHA512 integrity, ELF aarch64 inspection and an actual no-prompt version launch on the authorized cloud ARM host. Its executable SHA256 is 0292fa22ac2fd43e16be9d0e511ddd8347280d6e0ebaca744ef5b27e05d8d0f8. Native admission retains descriptor/no-follow, package and architecture checks.

Release producers now retain target-owned Linux x64 and ARM64 provider-pack identities and relocatable archives separately from daemon receipts. Assembly binds both target identities to its daemon source and vendors the manifests. ARM inventories cannot claim additional Pi, Cursor or Copilot qualification. Mac controllers probe the selected Claude remote target and select its packaged identity without a development override. Installed SSH hosts use the standard pack locations. Additional automatic defaults remain gated pending evidence.

Focused platform checks: pack integrity11, release workflow67, native remote manifest/selection12, executable/profile/path86 passed (six platform skips). The first new ARM selection test failed from shared durable fixture identity; a unique workspace/session per case fixed the fixture. No product guard was removed. Platform TypeScript build passed. Cloud package and actual Linux task pairs remain required. Current behavior package campaign: https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/actions/runs/38284813521 .

Review and qualification update after the prerequisite split

Review stack: protocol #15994, behavior #15993, platform #15997. Before the latest dependency reconciliation, protocol 33c9216614 and behavior 23d834fc0a each received 5/5 with their findings resolved. Platform pack parity was corrected in 4dc13aa32c; its review still requires refresh. All remain unmerged drafts pending checks and final qualification.

Further fixes keep explicit Auto effort cleared through native imports and use the resolved Claude harness for task model/effort overrides and compatibility validation, including saved profiles without acpxAgent. Builder/provider88, import52 and server noemit passed. Native v7 answered-question constraints now point to the compact envelope; native contracts/runtime-context58 passed. The clean-install Pi probe now binds both v23 and its exact digest. Install-sandbox controls21 passed.

Native Linux producer packs previously contained a daemon under dist/bin that was absent from image packs. Both builders now exclude controller binaries and remote-pack identities before hashing their provider tree. Parity/integrity13 and image content9 controls passed. Actual rebuilt pack/image identity and paid remote execution remain gates. No provider boundary was widened by this fix.

Candidate campaigns 38284813521 (8d07b409) and 38285667342 (d0da37c2) completed all four daemon producers and both Mac clean-install consumers. Linux assembly retained package bytes but failed the stale Pi install-probe assertion, now fixed. ARM host startup exposed the precise Codex prerequisite error: stock Bubblewrap's network namespace was denied by the host AppArmor policy. The latest dependency 665c155472 supplies verified stock distro prerequisites and retains the host restriction values before and after setup. The stack is reconciled with that branch, including its master fixes and cached build preparation. Reconciled Pi evidence/installed controls87 passed.

The cloud ARM pack from d0da37c2 passed GitHub ZIP digest validation, bounded archive extraction, recorded artifact hashes, relocated Node/Claude version launches and the shipped no-follow Claude admission probe. ZIP digest: 9589de44e923b336e6a4b09bacbfd8ae66de1473577197731bc85e8eefd174a0; pack identity: sha256:6e283f3069e38a2f00cd1b752f10d8147f633dc5be4b60e85ae15a1b762bcfd1; daemon: sha256:0adbf14efb2b5b2826044aa0f55f50a0a779d0f5751d7a7a2526f494ffb9e1bc. The pack is installed at the authorized SSH host's standard runtime location; an ownership receipt records this disposable qualification installation. No existing pack was replaced. These software checks submitted zero prompts and used no API key. Pack-parity changes require a new identity before final proof.

The hash-verified 8d07b409 public packages were installed without lifecycle scripts into /private/tmp/claude-installed-8d07-preview/consumer for an actual installed preview. This is preparation, not a passing installed task claim. The existing successful preview/data and all unknown-charge holds remain. No additional paid turns occurred during this review/packaging work; aggregate active company caps remain $42 of the $50 Claude ceiling. Remaining live checks use API keys per the user's steering. No Docker or Rust build ran locally.

Installed API-key acceptance and latest review corrections

The installed 8d07b409 public package preview is now usable at CLAA-2. Runs 11155946-5239-4127-9c67-ff23acf961c2 and 5f0e4191-9dd6-44ef-bc0a-0b66a910ec2c succeeded using the saved API-key connection, Opus 5.5, admitted high effort, and normal installed daemon resolution with no runner override or ambient Claude credential. Accounting completed: estimates $0.197602000 and $0.136576400. Known estimates now total $1.331719; unknown-charge reservations and aggregate $42 caps remain intact.

The controller restarted between turns. Task, provider and backend session identities matched privately; IDs are redacted from the sanitized report /private/tmp/claude-installed-api-acceptance.json. Agent settings and the completed task persisted after reload with the native experiment disabled. Independent downloads matched v1 (168 bytes, SHA256 858f0438f048937dcd2e357a77f77e058582968215d33d5857637cd37fcfdb94) and v2 (222 bytes, SHA256 4efd87a1f3a9d946d4278906bb779c4e3c0c83ec92faafdc29b9d6da28cada6d); v1 remained unchanged. v1 download, v2 download. Installed daemon SHA256: 36bbf4d878bfaa23e2fcec443e117cf04f46006ff8815c64855491b7bd3e440f; sidecar SHA256: ca6cad1f9b2fb2822d940d281a383360076c2ac03ea2ac875e64662f4719ae13. This source predates subsequent review fixes; final package qualification and subscription follow-up are not claimed.

Latest behavior corrections preserve plain environment model bindings, reject unresolved default/model-routing bindings, retain native translation when an import explicitly switches to Legacy, and clear every effort alias on an incompatible model change. Selection/import/form controls: 271 passed; server noemit and token gates passed. Current historical instruction admission: 6 passed. Platform 33077bed73 pins producer Node to the image's 24.21.0 version; its narrow policy exception and workflow controls passed (71 tests).

Four-target campaign and cloud image build retain source 557c3064a30779e86e1ae312eab3d1d42c3a8b8d. Actual pack/image identity agreement remains required. Additional Claude defaults remain gated pending clean-install and execution evidence. No local Docker or Rust build.

Independent cloud pack comparison and explicit-asset compatibility

The cloud image build 38293576503 passed. Its immutable image is ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:d9dbda3a9435e3e555f431bdeb0ba22e1241ae9103184e6c1646a200e26423e1. The image manifest, copied from a stopped disposable container on the cloud host, exactly matches the independently downloaded Linux x64 producer manifest: pack digest sha256:97f44524d1b35ed6295c922f6b52ac376960213be0a0e09a3635c281db26aecf; Node digest sha256:7fde7b8afa198da66257f42ee2001d874c7355631e6d1579a5fb5ef1f246df4c; provider-tree digest sha256:83aafb7d6c951c1fa31c0d8bbbfd32c39b4d265b01607cd566c55c8d9b4a6143. Both bind source 557c3064a3. This is actual byte-identity proof, not task execution.

The independently downloaded ARM producer archive has storage SHA256 7c219420b02149cdc3f44c6c5073bed40631d26c03d06f0b109a9ff36962c9c7; its pack digest is sha256:51fe734d79211b474ee13f53080ac60f07cdc9315ebd33b703ecf4a7dc0f8ce1. Bounded extraction checked 7,244 members, all recorded artifact hashes and absence of controller binaries. The shipped Claude admission probe passed on the native cloud ARM host with zero provider turns and no credentials. The prior installed pack remains available separately.

Latest platform review found the automatic Linux restriction also affected explicit Mac SSH assets. The restriction now applies only when selecting a bundled pack; explicit assets retain their existing manifest integrity checks. Eight targeted controls passed, including both Mac architectures and unchanged automatic Linux selection. Final broad source checks run in the cloud on reconciled 06c4f5e5a0: campaign 38296110502. The behavior head 2874232d25 received 5/5 after its three settings fixes.

Installed Mac proof is available as a Paperclip acceptance report and screenshot, with artifact work products on CLAA-2. The actual native SDK is the server's nested 0.3.286 package, executable SHA256 75e3016e9d2570767b08e43a7467d4817a4f149232c169ca295f2c95fef21433; the top-level Legacy SDK is a separate dependency and was not this runtime.

Four-target packages and SSH launch repair — 2026-10-12

The frozen 557c3064a30779e86e1ae312eab3d1d42c3a8b8d four-target campaign above completed successfully, including all daemon producers, Linux x64 public installation, both Mac consumers, and the native Linux ARM64 consumer. Consumer reports record clean npm installation and zero provider calls. The raw packaging manifest's publicInstallationVerified: false precedes those consumer checks; it is not rewritten as execution evidence.

The cloud image campaign succeeded with immutable image ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:d9dbda3a9435e3e555f431bdeb0ba22e1241ae9103184e6c1646a200e26423e1. Independent native/image Linux x64 manifest comparison matched pack sha256:97f44524d1b35ed6295c922f6b52ac376960213be0a0e09a3635c281db26aecf, Node sha256:7fde7b8afa198da66257f42ee2001d874c7355631e6d1579a5fb5ef1f246df4c, and distribution sha256:83aafb7d6c951c1fa31c0d8bbbfd32c39b4d265b01607cd566c55c8d9b4a6143. The installed ARM pack is sha256:51fe734d79211b474ee13f53080ac60f07cdc9315ebd33b703ecf4a7dc0f8ce1. The new existing-consumer Claude SDK admission hook passed 22 controls and a real installed Mac no-prompt probe. The earlier frozen campaign predates this hook; its Intel report does not certify that new hook ran.

The isolated preview now uses the real 557 public package with two recorded controller overlays: the narrow existing Claude ARM setup allowlist and the shared SSH argument repair. Normal installed daemon/package resolution stays in use. The source is not misrepresented as an unmodified installed package. The user-directed remaining acceptance uses the API key in ~/.secrets; subscription follow-up remains unverified.

ARM attempts 5ec7bc81-8023-4b5c-84c0-1886224ac4fa and ebb8a76b-60d8-4881-a6ad-e60b6604ca9c failed before provider startup. The first lacked a remote WSS ingress URL. Qualification now uses the existing explicit direct-WSS transport through a private TLS relay and authenticated SSH reverse forwarding; both endpoints bind loopback, certificate validation stays on, and protocol authentication is unchanged. The second exposed the first causal launch error, sh: 7: 1: parameter not set: the shared SSH wrapper had flattened sh -c, dropping positional arguments. Failed records and unknown accounting holds remain intact; neither failure is reported as a successful provider turn or zero-cost accounting completion.

Protocol b833c609cf2da1aacb6ab29d062e23bb1865624c preserves argv, applies environment assignments after exec, and validates environment names. Six regression controls fail before and pass after; 51 shared/Codex controls and adapter-utils typecheck pass. The authorized cloud host passed both execFile and stdin/spawn paths with exact literal quoted arguments and zero provider calls. Private proof: /private/tmp/claude-ssh-no-provider-proof.json; installed overlay: /private/tmp/claude-installed-557-ssh-overlay.json. Module SHA256 changed from 0b89740ef859923d3bb9cdddc09a836eab8ff9296b986eaee68700f766ea5bae to a7f3ec5effa48d05a8388d77d130449dba52f3693afd8bed04c16378a7c764ae.

The stack incorporates latest Codex composed source d3916151f65ca08904bda309474a35e4c48c54fe. The authorized source-chat owner will lift the identical shared SSH fix into prerequisite PR #16028 before Codex; our retained commit will coalesce on later reconciliation. That owner coordinates normal squash merge order. No dependent PR or production deployment is performed by this qualification session.

The failed fresh ARM fixture now retains its complete $1 unknown reservation under a reduced $1 cap and remains held. A new repaired ARM fixture has a $3 cap; original $17, candidate $9, and local acceptance $16 caps remain. Aggregate allocated cap is $46, reserving $4 for Linux x64, within the separate $50 ceiling. Timer heartbeats and automatic paid retries remain disabled. Known estimates remain $1.331719, excluding unknown charges.

Required cloud source checks passed authorization and await a build worker. Current-source full checks, latest reviews, useful remote task/follow-up pairs, additional platform defaults, and final package qualification remain gates. No local Docker or Rust build.

SSH cold-controller acceptance — 2026-10-12

The first repaired SSH task 9a6c3417-b961-47fb-bd25-06847d82e2e6 succeeded with a checked file, admitted high effort, and completed API accounting ($0.195194600 estimate). Its follow-up failed before provider startup with prior_owner_terminal_state_indeterminate; accounting completed without a pending charge. The successful remote turn had already persisted a suspended verified backup, but two controller migration callers allowed that backup only for sandbox transport. The existing quarantine and task records remain intact.

Shared repair e833e1d6c1cac6017f4effb59fbe0d22f0a9fcf2 allows selected SSH remote targets to use the same integrity/full-scope/suspended-owner checks. Two positive SSH regression cases fail before the repair; all 14 sandbox/SSH backup scenarios pass after, including corrupt, conflicting and active state rejection. Additional active-owner/full-scope controls bring focused coverage to 16 passing tests. Server typecheck passes. The source owner lifted both shared repairs into prerequisite 00ac509b0a85336e4948a325dbde1cbf09378572, composed Codex 8de43be4cd7e71e7833ea268d9e6e59e77cde381; our stack coalesces them.

A fresh bounded ARM task and revision now passed. Runs 3c297604-23b4-4a42-a0af-185af05aad01 and 09bae36d-32a5-4634-a0b8-0349cf405dc9 succeeded with Opus 5.5, requested/admitted high effort, metered Anthropic API billing and completed accounting: estimates $0.219495400 and $0.186328600. The controller boot changed; task, provider and backend session identities matched privately. Both exact oracles passed independent downloads after the revision; v1 stayed unchanged.

• v1: 166 bytes, SHA256 6263758fb2009dd6b70df03b1c3aa314a865ba1b2b81d5bda5cc6c079a17b7ab.
• v2: 220 bytes, SHA256 b7229581fb2b566485a023ed6b016e556e6bc66f3ab4d1bcf7b81c6abf61f9f4.
• Sanitized report and screenshot are attached artifact work products. Uploading them left the run count at two.

This proof uses public package source 557 with the recorded setup/argv/cold-resume controller overlays and the verified standard installed ARM pack. It is not an unmodified-final-package claim. The cold-resume compiled module changed from 205e27e8a0dda494585600d87b98545d5601822e5bd77c79505101419719a1b7 to 1c75aa00142f5657a416debba44717548ad5106a763821ed1f8cb0309167ab71.

The prior successful-but-failed-resume fixture is paused with a conservative $1 allocation; the fresh ARM pair uses $2. Original $17/$9/$16 allocations and the failed prelaunch ARM fixture's $1 unknown reservation remain. The Linux x64 fixture has $4, making aggregate allocated caps $50. No automatic paid retries or timer heartbeats are enabled; remaining acceptance uses API keys per the user.

Linux x64 task and cold-controller revision — 2026-10-12

The Linux x64 acceptance task and follow-up succeeded on the immutable 557 cloud image through the existing Daytona integration. Runs ba8ff6f0-d88d-4369-b03e-a88cf2a3dafa and f9675055-6f9f-4ec2-aa7c-31b3a784dffc used Opus 5.5, acknowledged high effort and the fixture's selected API-key connection. Accounting completed: estimates $0.178204600 and $0.135639200. The controller restarted between turns; private task/provider/backend session IDs matched. Both versions passed independent exact byte/hash checks after the revision and persisted after reload.

• v1: 176 bytes, SHA256 97d7ddbea0d3d1a1aad23673692ff3719fc83d8b8e7c66da4fc1f70af79d9672.
• v2: 230 bytes, SHA256 426e41d0c76b037322aec212c60ece80d91b05ca9064aaab17a7e7950dc9416f.
• Sanitized report and screenshot are attached work products.

The pinned official Daytona package 2026.1005.0 (manifest version 0.1.8, SDK 0.203.0) is registered from the private qualification installation. The first existing installer request used its shared package directory and failed to resolve a version-suffixed package name; no global plugin record was adopted for this fixture. Shared package files were left intact. Subsequent installation disabled lifecycle scripts and uses the private directory. Company-scoped Daytona and Anthropic secrets remain separate, with Anthropic connection installation restricted to the qualification agent.

This proof uses the exact 557 installed controller plus its recorded overlays and image/pack identities; it does not qualify an unmodified final release. Known Claude API estimates now total $2.2465808, excluding earlier unknown charges. Aggregate allocated company caps remain $50; holds/reservations and failed records are preserved. No automatic paid retries or local Docker/Rust builds occurred.

The source owner is correcting additional shared review findings and will provide the next source freeze. Final packaging waits for that freeze. The platform PR can now apply the additional target default changes using the passing package/clean-install and API execution evidence, while final packaged runtime, current-source required checks and exact-head reviews remain handoff gates. Subscription follow-up remains unverified under the user's API-key steering; Intel Mac requires clean installation, not attended provider turns.

Current dependency and review reconciliation — 2026-10-12

Reconciled source-owner prerequisite d16eccf109b524778ceb896f79ccb3881bc61a9b and Codex eee0534154eaf5d0d3f2bbc97c1e24d86f34a5a5. The latest Codex Linux ARM64 default remains intact. Sandbox automatic selection uses the server-owned probe bound to effective configuration and an immutable image; unknown or mutable sandbox identity stays Legacy. Disabled Codex does not block Claude's SSH platform probe.

The behavior composition preserves the shared ACP-alias rejection and imports saved native configuration by applying actual form changes. Explicit empty model/effort and account-binding removal remain removals. Mounted Codex and Claude import cases cover ordinary edits, model/effort clears, connection-binding removal, Legacy selection and harness changes. Switching a Legacy Claude import to Paperclip preserves deny-all/approve-reads through the native builder. Current import/builder controls: 123 passed; mounted existing-agent form controls: 121 passed, including hydration and explicit Auto clearing for both harnesses and all three effort aliases. Server/UI noemit, token gates and capability-map checks passed. Profile source controls: 31 passed. The Pi install probe now reports the exact profile version it actually validates.

Platform review repairs retain explicit supported runner choices while keeping Darwin SSH automatic Claude selection on Legacy until automatic Mac remote packs exist. Local Mac defaults and GNU/Linux defaults remain qualified. Discovery tries every standard preinstalled pack candidate through the full verifier; a stale /opt pack cannot hide a matching user installation. Failed verification still uses the existing upload/error path. These controls are separate from live provider execution evidence.

Cloud required-source campaign completed on immutable source b754869376e7bee831e87d879d5d89575044cb04: recursive typecheck, build, token gates, Runner E2E typecheck, 124 Runner E2E unit files (2619 tests), and public installation verification passed. The full pnpm test:run command exceeded its 60-minute bound (exit 124); this is incomplete, not a passing full suite. Its artifact 11775656103 preserves source, logs and statuses. Final exact-head checks must use the existing complete sharded test coverage or finish the full command on cloud infrastructure.

A read-only accounting audit records allocated caps of exactly $50 and known ledger estimates of $2.246580800, excluding unknown charges. The original QA policy retains its earlier approved allow setting and $8 unknown reservation under a hard stop; other live qualification policies block unpriced work. The historical candidate's $9 allocation and failed records remain reserved. Its port has a listener but current API health did not respond, so its current policy state is unconfirmed rather than asserted stopped or reverified. No accounting hold was cleared by this audit. Timer heartbeats and automatic paid retries remain disabled. No local Docker or Rust builds occurred.

Complete CI fixture corrections — 2026-10-12

The first current-head matrix exposed stale fixture assumptions after graduation: experimental harness-switch rejection still targeted Claude, Linux SSH creation still expected Legacy, and Legacy instruction/skill cases relied on an implicit runner. The gating case now uses Pi; all 56 validation-route controls pass. Qualified SSH creation asserts native Claude/Opus 5.5; all 92 permission-route controls pass. Legacy instruction/skill fixtures explicitly choose Legacy. The native Claude creation/hire matrix now checks preserved skill-version pins and CEO defaults, while omitting the legacy operational skill supplied by PRP. All 111 skills-route controls pass. Builder/config controls retain the shared package and mounted-form evidence rather than a duplicate UI pure-function test that expected blank effort to restore saved values. The historical missing-form fixture now deletes the property instead of assigning an invalid typed undefined; Codex package noemit passes. These corrections make no provider calls and change no runtime artifact identities.

Final shared source freeze and corrective matrix — 2026-10-12

Composed published prerequisite 5a9ce11c49db31440863d633426ebe30bcc850ca and Codex a583630e1c128c6d577b236b7ea9b73cf1be0bdd without changing Codex Linux ARM64 selection. The inherited network-admission guard rejects an effective ACP no-network setting or a deferred policy reference with explicit Legacy guidance; existing trusted native policy remains separate. The source owner retains normal merge ownership and will send the actual master merge identity before final reconciliation.

Fresh reviews reached 5/5 with no open findings for protocol 66f20c4682, behavior 628754f6dc and platform 0a8677d15c. The subsequent corrective composition includes reviewed shared changes and the test-fixture corrections; its exact-head review/CI remains required. Packaging/assembly controls now pass 91/91 after the inert target JSON copy fix. Composed platform selection, pack, import and mounted-form controls pass 341/341; server noemit, maps and token gates pass. Native declarations match the release manifest without regeneration.

Database-backed lifecycle, connection-pool and controlled catalog cases pass 121/121 on the behavior branch. Qualified platform onboarding/built-in/catalog fixtures now assert native Claude directly, including preserved Haiku and role skills. Their local database initialization hit hook timeouts; the existing fresh cluster fallback skipped those suites. Neither result is an execution pass, and full cloud execution must validate them. Custom ACP Stop/recovery browser fixtures explicitly select Legacy for their custom commands/state paths; latest cloud browser execution remains required. No provider turns or local native/Docker builds were added by these corrections.

Lifetime ownership and resolved Legacy limit — 2026-10-12

The fresh protocol review identified a real ownership violation: sandbox preparation rewrote active Claude settings before a contender acquired the provider lifetime lease. A fake-provider/real-lease regression reproduced losing the active owner's saved high effort and marker when the second opener was rejected. Repair 4cdb5ec4b38d792b432993a9a4b722090813a8ef defers the Claude settings write until after lifetime ownership is acquired and before provider launch. Cancellation retains the lease until that filesystem write settles. A later legitimate owner can initialize normally. Host, sandbox and profile controls pass 104/104; runner noemit and unchanged declaration generation pass. No provider process was launched by these controls.

Fresh behavior review also found the Legacy form's default 1000-turn cap was omitted for Auto even when the selected target resolved to Legacy. The form now passes a transient resolution to the builder; unknown/Legacy Auto and explicit Legacy retain the cap, while resolved native omits only that Legacy default. Explicit custom limits still reach compatibility validation. The hint is absent from execution config and API overrides. Onboarding uses its existing discovery; import excludes hint-only updates from meaningful edits. The same builder carries explicit native permission choices from the ordinary create form. Mounted forms, builder, imports and onboarding pass 298/298; adapter-utils TS build, Claude/UI noemit, maps and token gates pass. No local Rust or Docker build or new paid turn.

The prior corrective platform source a97a681f1caf90627505097cdcd368356811ffc1 passed all required cloud checks and fresh 5/5 review. Behavior and protocol required CI aggregates passed before these two findings. New repair heads require fresh exact-head CI/review. Prerequisite #16028 is not merged: normal auto-merge is queued for actual code-owner approval. Dependent branches have not been retargeted as if master contains that prerequisite. Final packaged runtime and source reconciliation remain gated; the source owner retains merge ownership.

Guided setup and source-attestation correction — 2026-10-12

Fresh review reproduced another ordinary creation gap: NewAgentSetup supplied Auto without its discovered runner, causing native Claude to receive Legacy's 1000-turn default and fail compatibility validation. Repair e2e5c60496 passes the existing environment-scoped discovery into the transient builder hint. All 63 mounted setup controls pass, including native, Legacy and unknown Auto with the native experimental flag disabled. UI noemit, maps and token gates pass. The hint is absent from saved execution configuration and request runner overrides.

Exact-head cloud runner controls also caught the ownership repair's changed Pi shared-source closure. Declaration generation alone had not checked that closure. Protocol repair 0ff31b2b76 publishes Pi profile 24 with command digest sha256:d25d674cda9a0853bdbf0521025099f1424c573d2f533630cb67d90e1bfcda3b. Immutable profile 23 is retained. Only the profile version and sandbox-source attestation change; executable closures, models, effort and platform qualification remain intact. Copilot stays at pending profile 18. TypeScript/Rust declarations, current installed-Pi probe and historical rejection controls are synchronized. Profile/factory controls pass 122 with one historical skip; runner noemit passes.

Host/sandbox controls pass 78/78 on restored, uninstrumented source. Earlier local expanded runs had one varying kernel-lease acquisition failure each; their logs are retained, not relabeled as passes. This Mac's listener inventory contained 718 TCP rows. A temporary diagnostic group passed 78/78 and was fully reverted; occupied-port contention is suspected but not independently proven. Sandboxed loopback execution additionally failed and is excluded from valid lease proof. Fresh cloud execution remains required to distinguish infrastructure contention from a regression. Production ownership checks were not weakened and unrelated listeners were not stopped. No local native/Docker build or paid provider turn.

Current platform Darwin SSH guard keeps Auto on Legacy for both architectures; explicit matching assets and saved native choices remain supported. Both focused x64/arm64 controls pass. The general review comment cites historical bfa3a966, which predates this guard. Final package qualification will use one frozen candidate source through the existing provider-free cloud workflow, with tooling and product identities recorded separately. No publication, deployment or paid retry is part of that campaign. The actual foundation code-owner approval and master reconciliation remain external prerequisites for normal merge sequencing.

The first corrected candidate's cloud Docker-context check independently found profile 24 excluded by the existing explicit attestation allowlist. The new fixture now has its own exception alongside immutable prior identities; other fixtures remain excluded. Cloud job 115053600515 retained the exact ENOENT failure. No local Docker invocation was used. The next composed heads must pass this check before candidate package qualification.

Completed-discovery onboarding guard — 2026-10-12

Fresh behavior review reproduced a separate onboarding race: saved-subscription verification could start while runner discovery was pending, building an unresolved Auto configuration with Legacy's 1000-turn cap. Both delayed native and Legacy cases fail before treatment. Onboarding now enables discovery after its environment/settings/policy queries succeed and gates manual, keyboard, saved-account and completed-login advancement on the matching completed result. The builder receives that resolved value. Target or runner changes invalidate an in-flight attempt; metadata-only environment refreshes preserve it. Discovery failure or a missing harness result stops setup and offers an explicit availability retry, without testing or hiring. No connection/authentication mechanism changed.

All 173 mounted onboarding/guided-setup/builder controls pass, including keyboard submission while discovery is pending, both native and Legacy results, failed availability/retry and obsolete-target verification rejection. UI noemit, token and map checks pass. Earlier subscription/account/login controls remain intact; the prior environment-refresh fixture now changes metadata rather than changing its target ID, and a separate two-target control proves actual invalidation.

Protocol source 3aaf1f8b1e1e525378f0f2330fd5453a3ac1c252 has 53 successful current-head cloud checks, including Rust, static checks, both runner unit shards and Docker-context integrity, with fresh 5/5 review. Earlier local varying lease failures remain recorded. Behavior/platform need fresh gates after this UI guard; no final candidate package campaign has been dispatched and no paid turn added. The retained installed preview has been inspected in light/dark mode with the original theme restored and agent Save disabled. The browser's requested mobile override did not affect its actual 1150-pixel viewport, so that attempt is not mobile proof and its override was reset. Final responsive qualification remains.

Warm metadata, dependency recovery and owned startup — 2026-10-12

Three warm-cache regressions reproduced configuration construction while required metadata was unresolved. Onboarding now waits for current environment, settings and policy reads as well as matching runner discovery, including refetch over cached successful data. Each prerequisite failure is visible and Retry setup refetches the required reads without testing or hiring early. This also closes fresh review 4253377849. The neutral-role step fixture's empty discovery response reproduced the exact cloud failure; it now supplies valid Legacy discovery while retaining role/name assertions. All 193 wizard/step/guided-setup/builder controls, UI noemit, maps and token gates pass. Exploratory guided-connection changes were removed; its existing connection flow remains intact.

Cloud platform job 115058187599 exposed ENOTEMPTY during late-bootstrap cleanup. A deterministic held-writer test proves transport close returned before owned credential preparation settled. A separate production-probe test proves the helper called cleanup-confirmed during that unconfirmed preparation. These are actual ownership defects, not a waived filesystem retry. Protocol repair 463ebb62661d81ef1fbd79ae0a7b43ece68830f8 tracks startup, joins it within the existing close budget and blocks later activation/launch. A drain timeout retains state; late registration retires only its owned route. Primary setup timeout and unconfirmed cleanup both remain in the failure. Six no-provider controls pass, including writer drain, bounded retention, late release/error and the actual probe callback fence. Runner noemit, declaration generation and maps pass; no provider process, local Rust or Docker build was used. Historical Pi/Copilot identities are unchanged by this transport-only correction.

The repair is in this chat's protocol worktree, not the frozen upstream #16028. Its placement must be reconciled with the source owner's normal merge sequence before either default rollout merges. Automatic approval review rejected cross- chat status messages because it did not accept the earlier approval retrieved from the source chat as current-chat authorization; the direct coordination question remains pending. Public PR/evidence updates continue within this task. Fresh exact-head cloud runner/native execution is required, including the failing late-bootstrap case. No package campaign or new paid task has been dispatched.

Current cloud ownership proof and durable test envelope — 2026-10-12

Behavior be0e68872fd5e043bc6242e0634471b2c1794336 passed all 54 current checks plus two conditional skips, required verify/E2E and fresh 5/5 review. Protocol 463ebb62661d81ef1fbd79ae0a7b43ece68830f8 and platform 66925e79c9d9e8f7e51fd9ee5a518a778d34acf8 passed the previously failing real late-bootstrap case and the new ownership controls. Their remaining runner lane failure was a different fake-transport durable-resume case: it reached the outer 5000 ms test timeout (1599 passed, one failed, three skipped). There was no ENOTEMPTY or primary semantic assertion failure in those runs. The exact cloud latency stage was not recorded and is not labeled an infrastructure flake.

That fixture deliberately includes a 500 ms killed turn, a resumed turn with its own 5000 ms bound, and durable filesystem writes. A controlled 3800 ms resumed- turn delay (within the existing turn bound) reproduces the outer 5000 ms timeout; the identical treatment completes its semantic/usage/deduplication assertions with a 15000 ms outer budget. The temporary delay was removed. Only the outer fixture deadline and its rationale are committed; internal deadlines and all assertions remain unchanged. The full fake-transport suite passes 72 with one existing skip; runner noemit and maps pass. Fresh exact-head runner CI remains required after this test-only correction. No package campaign, paid provider call, local native build, Docker build or upstream prerequisite edit.

Guided creation with refreshed settings — 2026-10-12

Review 4253594222 on behavior head 4440df2e44e346080308e40ec3287c94c7f776a2 identified stale cached environment selection during a background instance-settings read. The mounted reproduction actually calls setup against cached SSH/Legacy before the pending current settings select local/native, rather than merely observing a loading label. Guided Claude/Codex setup now requires current completed environment, settings, execution policy, experimental policy and matching Auto runner discovery reads before testing or hiring. Existing connection controls stay mounted inside a disabled fieldset while refreshing, preserving an API-key draft. Both the cached SSH-to-local case and same-environment discovery refresh pass; all 65 guided setup controls, UI noemit, token gates and structural maps pass. Logs: /private/tmp/claude-guided-current-settings-before.log, /private/tmp/claude-guided-current-settings-draft-controls.log, and /private/tmp/claude-guided-current-settings-final-{types,tokens,maps}.log. This repair is prepared locally while the source owner integrates the common transport correction; published behavior head remains the literal 4440 revision. No paid turns, local native builds or Docker builds were performed.

Platform head 173a73ec95386d7b9eac50d87699a16ec27da3b3 failed a credential fixture during its two-port reservation (EADDRINUSE before the production staging call). The existing bounded three-port fixture reservation helper is extended to hold two candidates, retrying fixture preparation only and never a production staging call. A foreign-collision control verifies that foreign ownership survives, the auth sentinel stays unchanged, and preparation stops within eight attempts. All 42 credential controls and runner noemit pass locally after supplying the worktree's declared tsx test loader. Logs: /private/tmp/claude-quorum-fixture-complete-controls.log and /private/tmp/claude-quorum-fixture-final-types.log. This test-only correction is prepared in the protocol worktree and has not been published during the parent integration hold. The independent serialized issue-route timeout remains under phase diagnosis; a subsequent full mocked suite passes 36 controls but does not waive the cloud failure or prove its latency cause. Final source composition, required CI and the provider-free cloud packaging campaign remain pending.

Serialized route fixture initialization — 2026-10-12

The failing inherited-pause cloud case timed out at its 15000 ms outer test bound. Temporary local phase instrumentation measured cold route imports at 9741 ms (and 11920 ms in a separate diagnostic attempt), followed by a POST 409 response in 11 ms and PATCH 409 in 4 ms. The subsequent full mocked suite passed 36 cases; these measurements do not establish the exact unrecorded cloud latency. Route module loading now runs in beforeEach after the same per-case module reset, unmocking and mock initialization. It uses the existing 30000 ms setup-hook bound; the 15000 ms request/test bound, application construction, policy assertions and mutation/wakeup checks are unchanged. All 36 treatment controls pass. Temporary phase instrumentation was removed. Evidence: /private/tmp/claude-pause-route-phases.txt, /private/tmp/claude-pause-route-targeted-phases.log, and /private/tmp/claude-pause-route-hook-controls.log. Exact-head cloud verification is still required; no timeout is waived and no provider or native build was run.

Mobile retained-preview inspection — 2026-10-12

The in-app browser's viewport override did not apply, including to a fresh tab, so it supplies no mobile acceptance evidence. The existing Product E2E openConnectionBrowser helper then opened a private temporary Chromium profile against the retained preview. At an actual 390×844 viewport, light and dark runner menus fit within the document's 390 px scroll width. Enter opens the Runner listbox with native/Legacy choices; Escape preserves the saved native choice. Screenshots fast-forward CSS color transitions. Mutation requests were blocked by the test browser (none attempted); no provider prompts or setup probes were sent. This is a bounded UI inspection, not a catalog workflow grade.

Evidence remains tied to compiled source 557c3064a30779e86e1ae312eab3d1d42c3a8b8d with the recorded controller overlays, and must be repeated against final installed packages. The older preview's Linux Legacy default label is not evidence for the later platform Auto change. Report, light screenshot and dark screenshot are attached to the completed isolated x64 task as work products, with independently downloaded SHA-256 matches. The task stays done and the agent stays idle. The Product E2E helper's local source is 42e5d9bae436254bba6747e7d26be0cce13b3d0c. Report attachment: e6206748-a785-4c02-9bbf-f4db8a3b22f9, work product e7f6a023-e754-424b-bdc5-eb4087a79172; light attachment 7c324aa1-d1c0-45cd-b314-c3106cac302d, work product e81b6b06-e64d-4ed5-aca7-c936a5235c81; dark attachment 2815f32b-86d5-48ed-a0f4-7e35554e54ca, work product 6fb9753e-19e0-496f-bf0a-f2de4d331895. Local receipts: /private/tmp/claude-responsive-preview-evidence.json, /private/tmp/claude-responsive-evidence-upload.json, and /private/tmp/claude-responsive-evidence-independent-check.json.

Canonical composition and current contribution rules — 2026-10-12

The source owner committed the stronger shared startup repair as ce23716503a2c9158b5a7ab74ab61571ff4ee7a3. Local additive merges preserve that parent and this chat's Claude effort/resume changes. Eight controls that do not need native executables and runner noemit pass in the combined protocol. The ninth selected readiness-cycle case timed out while waiting for readiness; read-only resolution confirms both the default runner artifact and fake provider fixture are absent, with no private runner override. That native case remains a hosted CI gate, not a pass. No local native build was performed. Logs: /private/tmp/claude-canonical-startup-composition-controls.log, /private/tmp/claude-canonical-startup-no-process-controls.log, and /private/tmp/claude-canonical-startup-composition-types.log.

The source owner then reconciled current master in 9f59ff36cf, adding the Storybook catalog and contribution rules against new code comments and code files crossing 1000 lines. The guided-creation fixture is extracted to ui/src/pages/NewAgent.test-support.tsx; all 65 cases remain and pass, with UI noemit and token gates passing. Fixture component rendering stays inside its mock-owning module, including the saved-confirmation reload case. The active test file no longer crosses the threshold. Our added explanatory comments are removed; the source owner handles the common transport's comment cleanup. Semantic code and internal deadlines stay unchanged.

Removing this chat's added sandbox comments changes its raw source attestation to 144d62b3415cfedf272b5b052e14af1e41fe50a644af84247fc9c20c7ef7edde. Immutable Pi profiles 23 and 24 remain retained. New Pi profile 25 binds only that source revision plus its profile version, digest sha256:dd67387487dadb08da76534c057dc0aa059f7698d1779cbd5fc452813828167a. SDK/executable closures, platforms, model/effort contract and other providers' qualification boundaries do not change. Copilot remains pending profile 18. Generated TS/Rust descriptors, Rust current/prior fixtures, Docker context and current documentation are synchronized. All 119 profile/factory/admission/effort controls pass with one existing historical skip, including corrupt-byte rejection before spawn/bridge; runner noemit and generation checks pass. The first restricted attempt stopped at loopback lease admission and is retained, not counted as byte validation. Native/Rust execution and final package qualification remain cloud gates.

The maintain-storybook source review found concrete fixture incompatibilities: the general-settings endpoint and scoped runner-discovery defaults were absent. The shared preview now returns that settings contract and explicitly simulated Legacy discovery for Claude/Codex, exposes the loaded native adapter, and includes Opus 5.5 while retaining explicit older-model examples. These fixture defaults are not rollout qualification. Catalog fingerprints/classification and affected story rendering must be reconciled after the final parent is frozen; source-only review is not an executed Storybook or provider pass. Published draft heads remain fixed while the source owner finishes the canonical contribution/catalog cleanup.

Published canonical parent and later master blocker — 2026-10-12

The canonical prerequisite is published as 64c074fb8da1b31f8d6042c4fef48dc4164e759b; all 54 exact-head checks pass with four conditional skips, fresh 5/5 and all review threads resolved. Its hosted native transport suite passes 246/246, closing the fake-native-fixture limitation for that literal source. Its four provider-free producers also pass, while clean consumers remain in progress. Those checks are not relabeled as this chat's Claude input/profile composition. Root retains sequential normal merge/staging ownership; code-owner approval is still required and production is not promoted.

Local composition preserves the source repair with no duplicate lifecycle delta: the transport diff against 64 contains only Claude effort additions. The old Codex base branch 1a0ca66242121e39d88455aa2b52a07acc4a07d9 still lacks the current- master parent, so publishing the current protocol would expose 468 upstream files. The root-owned dependency must be reconciled before the review slices can again be verified under the 100-file limit. Cross-chat dispatch still needs direct human authorization in this chat; a concrete dependency-coordination question is pending. No frozen root branch was mutated.

Master then advanced to task-workspace source f329b24ee12496e710ad17377ec7716e0eee22ef, making the canonical prerequisite conflicted. The source owner is reconciling its three conflicts and requested that leaf CI/package campaigns wait for the next published parent. All local Claude changes and earlier package/task evidence are preserved, and no new paid turn, local Rust/Docker build or leaf package campaign is dispatched during that hold.

The current Storybook catalog is reconciled with 224 story files and all 2,223 pre-move IDs preserved. Fifty-three source-affected entries retain their prior review classifications. Six bounded fixture plays and reset pass; exact cases, source scope, simulated boundaries and omitted coverage are recorded in maps/storybook-map/REVIEW.md. This does not qualify the final installed runtime.

Task-workspace composition and qualification hold — 2026-10-12

The source owner published canonical prerequisite 16a53254c495f3e49a28cc911f5dcd60c41779fc against task-workspace master f329b24ee12496e710ad17377ec7716e0eee22ef. This chat composed it through additive merges, retaining the Claude settings and immutable profile changes:

Review slice	Local code identity	Files against local dependency
Protocol prerequisite, PR #15994	12113e431e37379901f2a39103816c8f2afec14a	678 against the older Codex branch; publication held
Claude behavior, PR #15993	cf1fa2e98285cf80d25b0681ab45761389b22a9d	88
Platform qualification, PR #15997	4ba521823f8a92ba3fffcb5d6f578144466d848f	42

The existing published PR heads remain unchanged. The root-owned Codex branch still needs the same current-master dependency before the protocol can meet its review file limit. Canonical 16a's fresh CI has two failing runner cases, which its owner is investigating; earlier 64c074fb success is not carried forward as a 16a pass. The source owner's provider-free cloud qualification is separate from the final Claude package campaign.

Current composition checks pass: 189 guided-creation/form controls, 18 task-workspace admission/runtime-context controls, 25 platform consumer controls, and nine Storybook catalog controls. UI, server, runner and runner-surfaces noemit, map checks, token gates and profile generation checks pass. The platform tests retain both Claude corrupt-package admission and the root's bounded Intel install diagnostics. No provider task, Docker build or Rust build ran for these checks. Logs are /private/tmp/claude-16a-creation-form-controls.log, /private/tmp/claude-16a-workspace-context-controls.log, /private/tmp/claude-16a-consumer-diagnostic-controls.log and /private/tmp/claude-16a-catalog-controls.log.

Server noemit initially found a stale plugin SDK declaration where projectId was still non-nullable. The source type was already correct. Refreshing ignored shared/SDK outputs with the installed TypeScript compiler restored server noemit; no product code or lockfile changed. The default pnpm wrapper's restricted-network fetch failure is retained in /private/tmp/claude-16a-sdk-refresh.log; signature checks were not bypassed. The successful compiler receipts are /private/tmp/claude-16a-shared-refresh.log, /private/tmp/claude-16a-sdk-direct-refresh.log and /private/tmp/claude-16a-server-types-refreshed.log.

The usable preview remains http://127.0.0.1:3105 on recorded installed source 557c3064 with the previously declared controller overlays. Its successful API-key task/revision pairs and downloaded artifacts remain valid for those literal identities. They do not certify the current composition. Final gates remain a frozen Codex dependency, fresh checks/review on all three published slices, four-target cloud packages and clean consumers, and current installed-runtime acceptance within the existing $50 ceiling. Unknown-charge holds remain intact. Merging and production deployment remain separate actions.

The retained preview stopped listening during the integration hold. Restarting the same installed launcher restored health without changing its source/runtime or isolated data. Read-only checks confirmed native Claude / Opus 5.5, the completed x64 acceptance task, enableNativeRunner=false, and zero live runs in all six checked QA companies. No task prompt was submitted. Receipt: /private/tmp/claude-retained-preview-restart-receipt.json; launcher log: /private/tmp/claude-retained-preview-restart.log. These checks confirm persistence and preview availability, not qualification of the current source composition.

The source owner identified the same durable-resume outer-deadline failure in canonical 16a and requested reuse of correction c60bf4b6b9ee7a6052ae9c95bd10fef90f3418f7. Its single semantic test change is the 15000 ms outer budget; the old explanatory comments have since been removed under the contribution rules. The controlled before/after receipts and full 72-pass/one-skip suite remain the evidence stated above. The separate callback fixture failure is being diagnosed by the source owner and is not covered by that correction.

Canonical dae808fe composition — 2026-10-12

Canonical prerequisite dae808fe02694d13d322c535944910813b21f6d6 is published against master e168512f7bdbb6af6ea01954c6d7ed80b91e903e. Additive composition uses protocol f34a1c81a93e755ed867ab71c2d016ed612baa07, behavior 81ce173e57 and platform bfba2c6a5453a88c624077cec57000cfb3152d90 before this evidence update. The durable-resume and callback tests have no remaining diff against the canonical parent. Common production transport differences stay limited to Claude effort. Two Storybook combined fingerprints were reconciled after inspecting the activity/recovery map changes; classification, declared sources and story IDs are retained.

Current runner, surface, server and UI noemit pass. Maps, tokens, nine catalog controls, four profile/protocol/capability generation checks and 25 clean-install consumer controls pass. The fake-transport live-session suite passes 72 with one existing skip. Receipts use /private/tmp/claude-dae-*.log; native transport execution and required full checks remain cloud gates. The older Codex dependency still makes the protocol review contain 703 files, so the three PR code heads remain unchanged until that dependency is reconciled. Local behavior/platform review slices remain 88/42 files.

The source owner's provider-free campaign 38338806076 passed four native producers and all clean consumers, including Intel Mac, on literal source 16a53254. That result is not relabeled as the Claude v7/Pi25 composition. A separate immutable qualification ref will carry this composition through the existing release-smoke producer/consumer workflow in the cloud, with zero provider prompts and no package publication or deployment. This preserves the existing PR boundaries while current package evidence is collected. Any later source changes require an explicit evidence applicability check.

Frozen cloud campaign and remaining onboarding gap — 2026-10-12

Frozen qualification source is ad5875fa4b78804e77911703f7ab2aacb9b32067 on codex/claude-runner-qualification-ad5875. Its four-target package campaign has passed all native producers; package assembly and clean consumers remain pending at this checkpoint. Independent no-follow reads verified all downloaded daemon hashes, source bindings and executable architectures without executing them locally. Receipt: /private/tmp/claude-ad5875-daemon-identities.json.

Target	Verified daemon SHA-256
Apple Silicon	bd55bd6f1868415fb6d0e3d402f469c310a35f34b96ca830216212e95fc77dd3
Intel Mac	37fe6575758600312ce13870d5471d464e6421ad9103db81f03b3451d0eabed6
Linux ARM64	2b8f13c311cc33de809ba97718fd6f79e9f184658a2fe316dfc6c1f3251fdddc
Linux x64	e55a45705095558110592fa38a7bf6e5ae52da5199c6051298e6db3c27ca3a78

The Linux x64 image build passed on the same source. Its recorded immutable image is ghcr.io/paperclipai/paperclip-daytona-runner@sha256:d42fc84fda9af4cf37c52ba850b6d928c475e8ec72d3c9df0332120f247ea62d. Source/digest receipts are in /private/tmp/claude-ad5875-image-evidence; build dispatch and fixed workflow identities are retained in /private/tmp/claude-ad5875-qualification-dispatch.json. Neither campaign uses provider prompts. No local Docker or Rust build ran.

Shared parent correction 021df20762d96bc58d90a1dfa0fdb884393b1d5d is composed through all three review branches. The platform tree differs from the frozen source only in the shared transport test and source-owner dated record; runtime/UI/package/workflow inputs are unchanged. Runner noemit passes for that composition. The ongoing package result retains literal source ad5875fa.

The source owner separately found that fresh managed onboarding does not probe its saved environment before Auto resolution; an immutable but unprobed new company therefore stays on Legacy. Existing managed E2E fixtures preprobe that environment and do not establish the ordinary first-use path. Claude's local Mac proof and prior qualified selected-environment proofs retain their stated scope. The source owner is repairing the shared/Codex setup flow and cloud seed defaults. Claude must be checked against that repair before claiming fresh managed onboarding or final additional-platform defaults. This gap is not closed by the current package/image builds.

Installed-runtime checkpoint and lookup repair — 2026-10-13

Campaign 38342761144 completed with all four native producers and the Apple Silicon, Intel Mac and Linux ARM64 clean consumers passing. Its Linux x64 public installation failed at a stale verifier assertion, 25 !== 24, before the Pi admission probe. The 18 assembled archives were retained; independent no-follow hash checks pass for all 18. The raw manifest's publicInstallationVerified remains false. Protocol commit 35b811e09c updates only the strict current Pi version assertion to 25; the pinned command digest and other guards are unchanged. This needs a corrected cloud clean-install run, not a relabeled prior pass.

The same archives were installed in a fresh private Apple Silicon consumer. Normal daemon resolution verifies source ad5875fa and daemon hash bd55bd6f; sidecar SHA-256 is 0ef83c19d993e8a4b3cf43c5418aa7b8f7b4ec82afa325d8c53781d145e9e2a0. After all six QA companies were confirmed idle, the old preview was stopped gracefully and its 120 MB data copied to /private/tmp/claude-qa-before-ad5875-snapshot. PostgreSQL's standard hydrate-symlinks.js hook restored links omitted by the lifecycle-disabled installation; no compilation or signature bypass was used. The preview at port 3105 now runs the supplied ad5875fa packages without controller overlays. Health, persisted native Claude/Opus 5.5, enableNativeRunner=false, disabled heartbeat scheduling and zero live runs are verified. Receipts: /private/tmp/claude-ad5875-local-installed-identity.json and /private/tmp/claude-ad5875-preview-health-receipt.json.

The actual creation UI selected Claude Code and displayed Paperclip Runner as the default with the existing saved API-key account. Setup then failed before authentication with acpx_runtime_unavailable: the default installed verifier did not carry its owning server's package authority. The SDK and qualified platform dependency are present. The earlier clean-consumer probe injected that authority explicitly, so it did not prove ordinary discovery.

Protocol repair 52486d6b8d derives authority only from the canonical installed server verifier layout. It checks bounded regular owner metadata, package name, directory/file containment and no symlinks; existing package declarations, qualified version/digest/architecture checks, external overrides and source-mode resolution remain intact. Six filesystem controls, 15 selected installation controls, runner noemit and profile generation pass. In a separate APFS-cloned server treatment, the original installed probe fails with the recorded error; the repaired normal probe verifies the real pinned SDK and closes its snapshot lease without credentials, authority environment variables or model prompts. The live preview was not modified by this comparison. Receipt: /private/tmp/claude-installed-authority-real-noprompt.json.

Platform commit 50659ac0e9 removes injected authority from the consumer probe and rejects authority overrides before invoking it. All 26 consumer controls pass. The runtime and strengthened consumer are composed locally, but require new packaged-runtime verification and API task/revision acceptance before a final claim. No new paid setup or task turn succeeded or was retried during this checkpoint; the UI failure returned before the supplementary CLI probe. Known estimates and all unknown-charge holds remain unchanged.

Canonical parent 271d434c170e74bdedde65d0b13059a55419c943 is composed without separate leaf diffs for the durable-resume, authorization and credential quorum test repairs. The source owner reports a private explicit-Connect setup repair and an unresolved named Cloud snapshot binding. Those changes are not integrated or qualified here yet. The source-owned Codex dependency still needs to advance before these PR code updates meet the review file limit. GitHub CLI authentication expired during the source campaign; attended reauthentication is owned there. No alternative credentials or conflicting auth changes are used.

The incomplete checkpoint is attached to the existing isolated acceptance task as work product 38b9e957-df5c-416f-b370-d51405a755ed, attachment 194e1903-5bd3-45b3-af94-af6821a6bf13. Its independent download matches 6,911 bytes and SHA-256 398c24270b7bd1f2e00883ddf9a5132ad642cb38c7647d830c04ad2541845a81. Download checkpoint. Upload receipt: /private/tmp/claude-checkpoint-20261013-upload.json.

Claude managed Connect qualification — 2026-10-13

The root private patch 665a4bda8dd09ef82911e8b384004c29cbe72da9d534781c548a1bc223f159ef is Codex-only. Claude now has a separate narrow counterpart in the shipped onboarding wizard and agent setup. New Claude Code with Auto and an explicit immutable sandbox image uses fresh company/environment discovery; an unqualified eligible environment is probed once through the existing permission-gated API at Connect. Discovery is refreshed afterward, and the measured runner controls both the environment test and saved configuration. Native forms omit the Legacy turn-limit default; a measured Legacy result retains it. No runner override is submitted for Auto.

Existing API-key storage and managed connection bindings remain in use. A new API key is saved once before qualification; subsequent test/hire payloads carry the managed binding rather than the raw key. Local execution, saved agents, explicit runner choices, other harnesses, disabled/overridden adapters, mutable images and named snapshots do not acquire this additional qualification path. Named Cloud snapshot identity remains a separate unresolved acceptance boundary.

The helper validates the existing probe's recorded qualification and lease ID. Permission, connection, cleanup or missing-identity failures stop setup without an automatic retry. Generation and selection checks discard held results after company/environment/configuration changes. The wizard caches measured discovery after its operation so its own new default does not invalidate the setup; agent creation recognizes that same measured transition while retaining stale guards.

Four mounted positive cases fail against the prior components and pass after the change. Final focused verification passes all 197 tests: 109 wizard, 69 creation and 19 helper controls. The new cases include native and Legacy measurements, API-key storage, denied probe access and held-result races. UI noemit, token gates, map contracts, all nine catalog controls and the catalog checker pass (224 files, 2,223 stable story IDs). The six affected catalog entries were source-reviewed; no new rendering, play or live managed acceptance is claimed. Logs: /private/tmp/claude-managed-cache-full-controls.log, /private/tmp/claude-managed-cache-types.log, /private/tmp/claude-managed-cache-catalog-controls.log and /private/tmp/claude-managed-cache-token.log. The before comparison is retained in /private/tmp/claude-managed-setup-before-controls.log.

No provider prompts, paid setup retries or local Docker/Rust builds were used. The live preview remains the unmodified ad5875fa installed package; the runtime lookup repair and this UI change still need a new cloud-qualified package and real API task/revision acceptance. Full repository checks and PR review must run on the reconciled delivery heads before a PR-ready claim.

The managed setup checkpoint is attached to the same isolated acceptance task as work product 894e1e67-ba80-40e0-80b3-e5e0723788dc, attachment df4dde66-0c0a-4553-a3a2-170ded6663e9. Independent download verifies 8,085 bytes and SHA-256 01783ff0aca0f4514df75aead60c511553cb8c407339dd047282a1e9248a4c85. Download managed setup checkpoint. It records behavior commit 6ea47e5480ca17e8e634c203964e99d5614db1dc and the platform composition at attachment time; it does not claim a final packaged runtime or completed live managed acceptance. Receipt: /private/tmp/claude-managed-checkpoint-20261013-upload.json.

JavaScript-only local treatment and startup collision — 2026-10-13

Built only the UI JavaScript from behavior 9b068c0120 and copied the two verified lookup repair files into a separate APFS-cloned ad5875fa consumer. The original consumer is retained. The supplied daemon and sidecar are unchanged; the normal Claude SDK probe passes without credentials or explicit package authority. No Docker or Rust build ran locally. Treatment identity is recorded in /private/tmp/claude-installed-9b068c-js-treatment-identity.json. After all six QA companies were confirmed idle, the owned preview was stopped gracefully, its complete data backed up to /private/tmp/claude-qa-before-js-treatment-snapshot, and the private treatment started at 3105 with scheduling and ambient Claude credentials disabled. This is explicitly a treatment, not a final package.

The real creation UI displays Paperclip Runner (default) for Claude Code. Both native readiness and the existing supplementary credential check pass with the saved personal Anthropic API key. Three bounded setup walkthroughs were used: the first browser harness waited on the wrong Configure label; the corrected walkthrough reached Configure; the final walkthrough saved the agent but watched /agents rather than the product's /agent-hires response. No duplicate agent was created. Reload independently verifies agent dd26921e-fe79-4ef7-a83c-5755bebd8936 as paperclip_runner/acpx/claude/claude-opus-5-5 with the existing managed API-key binding. The runner control was inspected without changing its default.

The first manual file task CLAAAAAAA-2 (6689bb7c-785e-4884-842f-13f6f5fddefa) failed in session.open, run 04da7f23-3cff-4efb-87f5-7a757500bfc3, with provider_lifetime_owned. No artifact or successful task execution is claimed. The exact provider record identifies Claude SDK 0.3.286. Its deterministic three-port lifetime fence is 56223/54772/53321. Read-only ownership inspection finds unrelated node processes already listening on the first two ports: PID 13796 belongs to a separate runtime-service test directory; PID 42452's cwd is not yet confirmed. The two-of-three guard refused admission. No guard was weakened and neither foreign process was stopped. The failed run is preserved and no retry was submitted. The post-failure budget read is pending, so no accounting completeness or zero-charge claim is made. Existing company cap $4 and new agent cap $2 remain inside the aggregate $50 company ceiling; retain $1 run reservation and a conservative $1 reserve for unknown setup charges.

Local checkpoint: /private/tmp/claude-local-startup-checkpoint-20261013.json. Further paid work waits on the recorded accounting state and a safe startup path; final cloud package and PR qualification also remain outstanding.

Actual prerequisite merge reconciliation — 2026-10-13

The source owner confirmed prerequisite #16028 merged as actual master commit d67e3507b23041212fa26302ce6de078c5ebcc05. That object is present locally. Protocol composition abcd8261d2 merges this actual commit; behavior composition 3f442729a4f1253771e5693724142efb58f9c006 carries it forward. Five conflict files retained only the reviewed newer Codex checkpoint history, Linux libc compatibility prose, source/access-map scopes and native-platform test import; master additions outside those hunks remain intact. Obsolete instructions to start the already existing Codex slice were not restored. No source-owned branch or new npm/staging qualification environment was changed.

Focused reconciliation checks pass: 213 root controls (197 Claude setup and 16 development native-binary controls), six package-local installed-authority controls, UI noemit, generated ACPX profiles, map contracts, token gates and nine catalog controls. The initial root invocation does not include runner package tests; the six authority controls were separately run from that package's cwd. The inherited Storybook delta has nine changed declared inputs across 61 entries; source review retains classifications and all 2,223 IDs. Rendering, play, final broad checks and live task/follow-up proof remain pending. Logs are /private/tmp/claude-d67-reconcile-focused.log, /private/tmp/claude-d67-authority-controls.log, /private/tmp/claude-d67-reconcile-ui-types.log and /private/tmp/claude-d67-catalog-after.log.

The source owner's separate private Codex rehearsal is frozen at a758b226d898ef457f524427c19a9919ec3b5276; its receipt independently matches SHA-256 568f927baed3e0864a31a6a4dbb44ab0ec0f7ccab2b93f7848c24387eb1e1c3a. It remains private and unqualified for live execution; it was not merged here. The source-owned published Codex branch still needs final reconciliation before our protocol publication can satisfy its review-size boundary. These source checks do not relabel the live treatment preview as new compiled master.

The human authorized the source owner a separate $25 npm-canary/fresh-staging qualification lane, with $15 stack/sandbox, $5 setup/four Codex turns and $5 cleanup reservations. It does not fund Claude and does not redistribute the old $250 ledger or our $50 ceiling. No such environment or budget was allocated here. Claude's budget-check/manual-retry question remains pending. The read-only budget check failed to execute after approval-review timeout and then model-capacity failure. No approval bypass, foreign listener cleanup, hold clearing, paid retry, local Docker/Rust build or production promotion was performed.

The reconciliation report is attached to the existing completed QA task as work product ebb8457c-6a9c-40ee-bfaf-690538702feb, attachment a42cc0c7-f253-4242-98ca-2d671e5cd5a9. Independent download verifies 4,612 bytes and SHA-256 84322cef2fd1b3eb7074b7f946dce9b0466302fed8b0160ea7ef2fc527e9515b. Download merged-master checkpoint. Receipt: /private/tmp/claude-d67-reconciliation-checkpoint-upload.json.

At attachment time the earlier preview process had expired and 3105 was free. Restored the same recorded JavaScript treatment without rebuilding or changing its runtime. Health at 2026-10-13T11:44:32.104Z confirms all six QA companies have zero live runs, the experimental flag is false and the original completed x64 task persists. Its agent is paused; no resume or budget read was performed. The served controller is ad5875fa with the recorded 52486d6b lookup repair and 9b068c UI, not a newly compiled d67 package. Health receipt: /private/tmp/claude-d67-source-treatment-preview-health.json. Full workspace typecheck/tests/build and final packaged acceptance remain unrun on the reconciled head; they belong to the still pending cloud/full-check handoff after dependency and local acceptance gates are satisfied.

Published prerequisite evidence remains separate — 2026-10-13

The source owner reports public canary 2026.1013.0-canary.6 on 60bc0d5fee9a6e48db08fc016521fee3d9f57d67, following merged prerequisite d67e3507. The 60bc object is available locally and its own commit changes only the release workflow and its verification tests (#16149). This checkpoint does not merge that later master into the Claude branches or run a new workflow. The source owner reports four native producers, publication and real onboarding smoke passing, plus clean Apple Silicon installation and two native Codex task runs through the supported API. Its fresh staging pair remains separately bound to literal d67/cloud38392212140-1 and reuses its provider session.

Those are prerequisite/Codex measurements, not qualification of our untested Claude package. The source owner's published saved-account Connect UI still uses a Legacy CLI probe that fails on its clean local PATH; its private Codex #15683 fix remains separate. Its released gpt-5.6-luna costs are unpriced, and an additional positive-budget control correctly fails closed. Restoring its budget to default zero changed the configuration revision/session; local same provider-session reuse is therefore not claimed. Four authorized Codex turns were used, its QA agents are paused, and physical sandbox teardown/invoices remain unconfirmed. None of its $25 allowance funds this Claude lane.

Our public heads remain c60bf4b/4440df2/173a73e, with newer reconciled fixes committed locally. Claude budget-check/retry approval is still pending; no new paid check, retry, hold release, foreign process cleanup or borrowed environment was performed. Current-source broad checks, final packages, local useful-task and revision proof and fresh PR review remain gates. The old source merge timer was canceled by its human; this chat has no authority to recreate it or promote production defaults.

Actual Codex merge composition — 2026-10-14

Codex #15683 merged as adb69e8f09852c772d9901ae270e5b2d66e39c77. Fetched that exact object using the existing repository authentication. The original /Users/dotta/.codex/worktrees/670b/paperclip checkout no longer exists, but its committed behavior branch is intact at f4b24bf695. App-managed recovery reported Not a git repository, so the same branch was recovered into the isolated /private/tmp/claude-runner-default-recovery worktree. No source-owner branch, preview or allowance was changed.

Protocol composition 9ac6e674fa retains the actual merged Codex implementation, including shared bounded suspension reads and ingress shutdown. Its shared server executor is byte-identical to adb69; transport differences are Claude effort fields/admission only. The v7 input reader retains v1–v6, including Dot and Grok Bot bindings. The merged Grok Bot gates remain intact in Claude behavior. Copilot profile 18 already belongs to merged Grok schema evidence, so the combined Claude source extension uses pending profile 19, preserving that immutable v18 and the earlier private Claude v18 under a separate fixture name. Pi25 retains its previous digest; no provider qualification boundary is promoted.

Protocol checks pass 326 controls with one existing distribution-root fixture skip, plus runner noemit, schema/profile/manifest generation and map contracts. These are JavaScript/fake-provider checks, not new native package or live proof. Cached dependencies were restored into isolated copies after the old absolute workspace links became dangling. A frozen install stopped on the inherited manifest/lock mismatch; a separate pnpm version query refused an unverifiable registry fetch. No signature guard or patch policy was bypassed. The existing installed dependency lock identity is retained in /private/tmp/claude-adb69-dependency-recovery/receipt.json. Newly merged Speko and OpenTelemetry packages were installed at their manifest-pinned versions into a private prefix with npm lifecycle scripts disabled. Canonical shared/plugin SDK, eval-kernel and runner JavaScript outputs were prepared without Docker or Rust. Fresh full dependency/source checks still belong to current-head hosted CI.

The defaults composition retains Codex onboarding draft recovery and its explicit-Connect probe handling. A combined test exposed an inherited reset that started another setup probe when measured discovery changed; restoring merged navigation ownership fixes all 39 targeted managed Code/Claude controls. A separate stale Claude target control now requires an explicit Connect action before a second test: obsolete results cannot hire, and environment updates do not automatically spend another setup turn. Native/Legacy configuration and saved-account assertions remain intact.

The actual merged Storybook uses source annotations and generated indexes, so its deleted old maps/storybook-map files are not revived. The canonical Codex story location and stable identity are retained. The current catalog generator passes 283 files/2,727 stories; map contracts pass 35 areas/176 capabilities. UI/server typechecks and token gates pass. Final focused settings/creation checks cover 577 controls across their recorded runs, and all 31 native input-builder controls pass. Logs use /private/tmp/claude-adb69-* prefixes. No new rendering, paid model turn, budget read/resume, hold release or local native build ran. The local preview remains its separately recorded older treatment; this source composition is not a claim of current installed/runtime or task/revision proof.

Hosted clean-install correction — 2026-10-14

The first reconciled hosted Build jobs (38605177149 and 38605182039) failed in the credential-free Pi public-install probe: the generated profile25 digest was dd673874…, while the probe retained d25d674c…. Protocol correction 519e8369a1 aligns that exact assertion with the immutable profile; all24 existing public-install sandbox controls and profile generation checks pass locally. The daemon, profile, admission checks and paid-provider behavior are unchanged. The full clean consumer will rerun in hosted CI; no local Docker build ran.

The earlier port3105 preview has been replaced by another test-drive (source a6d81b67cb, separate github-review data directory). The report uploader stopped on its404 target check before creating an attachment or work product. That foreign instance is left untouched. Claude preview recovery must select a separate port and the existing Claude data directory; the historical3105 link is no longer a usable Claude preview.

Fresh review and cancellation correction — 2026-10-14

Fresh reviews passed behavior 7069077274 and platforms 6b0cb979d4 at 5/5. Protocol 519e8369a1 received two valid findings: stale profile 23 catalog expectations and an owned Claude settings write that blocked startup abort. Correction dd82936c1d updates the Pi 25 expectations/fingerprint and uses the existing abort-aware admission helper, transferring the unfinished write and lifetime lease to retained cleanup. Both successful and failing late writes return cancellation promptly while rejecting a competing provider. All 55 runtime-host tests, 72 Pi evidence controls, runner noemit and profile/manifest checks pass. These are fake-provider controls, not paid execution evidence.

Hosted jobs 38606914671 and 38606913944 received simultaneous runner shutdown signals at 17:35:06 UTC. One failed-job prerequisite rerun was requested before the new review findings. Credential-free package campaign 38607132186 was canceled once the runtime fix invalidated its source 6b0cb979d4. Completed producer outputs remain historical; no new package qualification is claimed. A replacement package campaign waits for fresh review of the corrected runtime.

The existing Product E2E browser helper exercised UI source 7069077274 against the retained older backend at 3115 through New Agent, Claude Code and Advanced. The runner shows Paperclip Runner (default); keyboard Legacy/native selection passes. Stable light/dark screenshots at 1440 and 390 px show no horizontal page overflow. The inherited Custom Gateway subtitle clips on 390 px; Claude API-key controls remain visible. Every API mutation was blocked by the browser guard; one local connection-attempt request was intercepted, no agent was created and no setup probe or provider turn was submitted. This establishes UI rendering and controls only, not saved-default persistence or final runtime execution. UI receipt: /private/tmp/claude-current-ui-review-20261014.json. Retained Claude preview: http://127.0.0.1:3115 (historical runtime treatment). The prior reconciliation report was uploaded to its original completed QA task and independently byte-checked: attachment aabe2e7e-a8a0-4408-bc7e-a013e0f7485b, 5916 bytes, SHA256 3bd9bcfa64db6a3a7968952122b1a5c2ae27e24f0e4ff336fd47ae374bae8ff1. Paid acceptance and budget/hold changes remain stopped pending human approval.

Frozen runtime and comment-only review cleanup — 2026-10-14

Protocol dd82936c1d has current 5/5 review and green CI 38609018629. Platform 2646b94533 has current 5/5 review and green CI 38609191818. Behavior 05a98b6cbf received one style finding for added code comments. Removing its seven specified comment lines across three files produces identical comment-free esbuild output for each file; the SHA256 comparison is retained in /private/tmp/claude-comment-cleanup-equivalence-20261014.json. No executable behavior changes, so package campaign 38610086180 and qualification-image campaign 38610152781 retain their literal 2646b94533 runtime source identity. They do not become proof of a later source revision by relabeling.

The full Product E2E support checks pass 2733 Vitest and 128 node:test controls. The behavior static lane observed a transient atomic .tmp record in an unchanged build-stamp concurrency fixture; its exact local control passes. The original failed attempt and one requested failed-job rerun remain recorded. A read-only QA budget audit now succeeds on 3115: six confirmed policies have zero live runs; four remain paused with pending accounting, and an older policy is unavailable. Historical reservations remain conservative. No hold, limit or paid run was changed. The two previously colliding foreign port listeners remain present and untouched; retrying that exact old session is not execution proof.

Installed API-key acceptance — 2026-10-14

The full frozen package campaign 38610086180 passed all four native producers and clean consumers, including default installed Claude authority on Apple Silicon, Intel Mac and Linux ARM64. Linux x64 passed its existing clean public-install controls; that lane does not separately run the Claude authority probe. Runtime source remains 2646b94533bac1eae0d30b11d3774b104eeaf981. Behavior 06258a283c and platforms bddff3c5e9 have green CI and 5/5 reviews, with executable comment equivalence recorded above. Subsequent evidence or packaging-tooling edits do not relabel these runtime bytes.

The retained preview now runs that installed package at http://127.0.0.1:3115, with no JavaScript overlays, daemon overrides, development provider pack or ambient provider credentials. Native Runner experiment and timer heartbeats are disabled. The compiled server identity is 2646b94533; the health page's Git context reports checkout 06258a283c. Both identities are recorded. The old data has a private cold backup. Normal embedded-Postgres symlink hydration and a QA-local dangling Claude CLI link were repaired; the system CLI was unchanged.

Ordinary browser onboarding selected Claude Code and its saved personal API-key connection, left runner/model defaults intact, and saved native Claude/Opus 5.5. One useful task and its revision succeeded after a controlled controller restart. Independent downloads matched 160 and 214 byte oracles, and the original remained available after reload. Task, provider and backend sessions were identical across turns; High effort was requested and acknowledged in both. API usage settled at $0.183214600 and $0.287600400 estimated rate-card cost, not invoice charges. Report: /private/tmp/claude-2646-mac-api-acceptance.json. Preview: http://127.0.0.1:3115/CLAAAAAA/issues/CLAAAAAA-2.

Linux ARM64 also passed a fresh API-key task/revision on the installed SSH host, using ordinary API creation with neither runner nor model overrides. The current pack was discovered at its standard host location, not an explicit development path; its source/digest and staged ARM daemon matched the frozen release. Independent files matched 156 and 203 bytes, all three sessions persisted, and High effort was acknowledged before both turns. Settled estimates are $0.209004800 and $0.128238000. The old SSH port had reached an interactive Tailscale login; the isolated fixture uses the authorized key on port 22222. Report: /private/tmp/claude-2646-arm-api-acceptance.json. Preview: http://127.0.0.1:3115/CLAAAAAA/issues/CLAAAAAA-3.

These four turns used the existing healthy $2 company cap, serialized with timer heartbeats disabled. After both Mac turns settled below 30 cents each, its per-turn reservation changed from $1 to $0.50 while the $2 hard cap and unknown- usage blocking remained intact. Historical failed records/holds and the separate setup reservation remain preserved. No automatic paid retries were enabled. The next x64 attempt was rejected before provider startup because its independently rebuilt image pack differed from the npm release authority; its failed record and pending accounting hold are retained. Cloud image alignment is the next gate. Subscription follow-up remains unverified; remaining live acceptance uses API keys per human steering. No local Docker or Rust build ran. Merge and production deployment remain separate.

Release image artifact consumer — 2026-10-14

The first current-image x64 run failed before Claude startup. The independently built image used a separately resolved lock and omitted the producer pack's Pi assets, so it could not equal the pack manifest shipped in npm. The runtime rejected it; its pending accounting hold stays preserved.

The manual cloud image workflow now optionally consumes one successful exact- source Release Smoke artifact set. It validates repository/workflow/source, artifact archive digests, canonical paths, package authority, daemon architecture and daemon bytes before constructing the image. The release pack must equal the manifest inside the public server tarball. This mode copies the producer's pack and daemon over an immutable Paperclip base image without rebuilding either or resolving dependencies. The resulting image is read back to compare pack and daemon identities. Existing source-build mode remains available. Fifteen focused negative/positive controls and 71 existing release workflow controls pass; full current-head checks and fresh review run in hosted CI. The repaired image and x64 task/revision are still pending. No local Docker or Rust build ran.

Review checkpoint and GitHub access gate — 2026-10-14

The Mac/ARM reports and completed-task screenshots are attached to their original completed preview tasks, registered as artifacts, and independently downloaded again with identical bytes. Mac report attachment: fb6e5d1b-09a6-4c0b-980a-cde24e4c25bb; ARM report: 15804e48-3338-4e8c-8f5f-0dbe36204e8a. Upload receipt: /private/tmp/claude-2646-acceptance-upload-receipt.json. ARM's actual SDK executable SHA256 is 0292fa22ac2fd43e16be9d0e511ddd8347280d6e0ebaca744ef5b27e05d8d0f8; its daemon is 4720c6a23784d3b4535329ecf852d38af8c14ae920447a662a00c4657711387a and its automatically discovered pack is sha256:fe4b772a2568fc9d9febac5ef37f4cb402a2f2b2448f85983afb2c54a7c367fa.

The four current successful turns add $0.808057800 of settled rate-card estimates. Read-only reconciliation gives $3.054638600 known estimated ledger usage, excluding unknown charges; the separate $1 setup reservation remains. Aggregate company caps remain $50. All old holds and the new pre-start x64 pending hold remain intact. The current company's agents are paused by its budget hold, timers are disabled, and there are zero live runs. The owned x64 leases report cleanup success. The unused 3116 Vite process was stopped; installed preview 3115 remains available for reviewing/downloading the finished tasks. Accounting: /private/tmp/claude-qualification-accounting-20261014.json.

The cloud image consumer fix is committed locally (38cd5c95e5, d8e4c98cd5 and 502f404794), with 15 focused controls, 71 release controls and YAML syntax checked. It preserves the non-root Daytona user and binds image labels to the consumed runtime source. GitHub rejected its push because the OAuth credential lacks workflow scope. Both existing SSH signing attempts failed through the configured 1Password agent. The attempted dispatch rejected the unknown inputs on the old published workflow; no corrected image build or model retry started.

Human intervention requested: approve GitHub SSH access or refresh the GitHub CLI with workflow scope. Once available, push the platform branch, dispatch the exact artifact consumer against producer 38610086180/runtime 2646b94533 and immutable base b774f547…, verify the resulting image, then run the x64 API pair. Keep the failed current company held. An existing $1 company allowance has zero pending or unpriced usage and $0.804805400 remaining; its old agent stays paused. A fresh x64 fixture there can retain the original aggregate $50 cap without releasing any hold. Do not create a new allocation or silently retry the held task.

Protocol #15994 remains at dd82936c1d. Behavior #15993 now publishes the evidence- only 4ee0d1d444; its current-head hosted CI/review is running. Platform #15997's published head remains bddff3c5e9, with prior green CI and 5/5 review; the prepared image consumer is not published or reviewed yet. PR bodies distinguish these states. All remain draft. No merge or production deployment occurred.

Behavior head 4ee0d1d444 subsequently completed all 54 checks successfully, with fresh Greptile 5/5 and zero unresolved review threads. Exact hosted source CI: 38622133620; Docker context/native compilation control: 38622133915. The behavior PR checklist now reflects those completed gates. This does not qualify or publish the still-local platform image consumer.

Hosted named-snapshot repair — 2026-10-15

The failed UI journey is retained unchanged. The correction extends explicit Claude Connect qualification to Daytona snapshots: the plugin resolves a stable provider ID and creates by that ID, the server measures the actual sandbox and records v2 company/config/account/template-bound proof after owned cleanup, and native acquisition pins that same ID. Existing image v1 readers remain intact; ordinary Legacy acquisition and Codex setup eligibility are unchanged. Discovery performs no new provider calls. Lookup timeout cannot continue into allocation.

A no-prompt live check with the pinned Daytona SDK 0.203.0 created an owned sandbox from the managed snapshot ID, measured Linux x86_64 / glibc 2.41, and deleted it. Receipt: /private/tmp/claude-test-deployment-20261015/snapshot-id-live-probe.json. This is provider identity/architecture evidence, not native Claude task proof. The new candidate still needs cloud checks, deployment, and a fresh ordinary UI journey through creation, useful task, revision and downloaded artifacts.

Warm snapshot review correction — 2026-10-15

Review reproduced a valid warm-run gap: run-only reuseLease: true changed the configuration fingerprint before snapshot proof was checked. The orchestrator now carries the original configured environment into acquisition. The driver resolves templates and checks proof against that configuration, then applies the run-only retention setting. It rejects other run/configuration differences. The regression failed before the fix; 19 focused database/runtime/orchestration checks pass afterward, including omitted and false saved retention values.

Candidate 7ff0038175 passed its source CI but received Greptile 4/5 for this gap. Its task-owned preview build 38792291081 was cancelled before deployment. The previous served 49f99e130a and failed UI report remain unchanged. A replacement cloud build and fresh hosted acceptance are pending for the corrected source. The disposable acceptance project has a UI-configured $2 lifetime cap, a $1 per-run reservation, and unpriced usage blocking; all survive reload. This uses the previously reserved allowance within the $50 ceiling.

Hosted API-key acceptance passed — 2026-10-15

The corrected candidate 15e37379e94535fd9692a4f0c4d3fadd2595b188 is deployed to the dedicated test organization. The deployment receipt confirms sha-15e37379e94535fd9692a4f0c4d3fadd2595b188-cloud, status succeeded, and verification verified. Cloud build: 38793774125. Deployment campaign: fleet-campaign-1791979001533. This is a Core-only preview; private Cloud UI plugins are excluded. All image builds ran in cloud infrastructure.

A fresh strict browser journey started at https://test.paperclip.app, selected the test organization, created Claude Hosted Writer through New Agent, reused the saved personal Claude API connection, and submitted default model/runner settings. The saved Runtime form showed Paperclip Runner (default), Claude Opus 5.5, effort Auto, and Paperclip Computer. No runner or model override was submitted. The native experimental flag remained at its disabled app default. Prior interface familiarity and the preconfigured $2 project are disclosed.

The useful task and same-task follow-up both succeeded:

Turn	Run	Result	Duration	Displayed API estimate
Create checklist	000105db-4244-48f2-8b7e-a2bd207b2311	succeeded	3m 07s	$0.2083
Add rollback section	c68e858f-09f2-4aea-9c21-fbc57a1585a2	succeeded	3m 11s	$0.1468

Independent checks read browser-downloaded files after the strict journey ended. The 655-byte v1 has three headings and six checkboxes; the 906-byte v2 preserves those sections and adds Rollback with two checks. Downloading v1 again after the revision produced identical bytes. SHA-256 values:

• v1: 0a279d7048f3e1d949aaaac6fdb467ec8d18489e7e7a6818497083e327bd1365
• v2: 0b78e9f0226613892f47892a29f2e2aba7f28c7cd78707b6800e194603b8e485

Both rendered run logs identify provider session b1b07c68-7557-4a8d-b109-6619e10300ec and normalized session 163815a9-25e5-438b-bfc0-a84c6fadd479. The follow-up records session resume and durable-session attachment to its new run authority. Workspace finalization succeeded on both runs. Saved settings, both responses, both attachments, and Done status persisted across revisit/reload. The QA agent was then paused. The displayed task estimates total $0.3551; this is additional to the previous $4.810616600 known estimates. Unknown charges and the setup reservation remain reserved, and aggregate qualification allowances remain within $50.

The 78-step report includes an actual screenshot for every step. Evidence lives in /private/tmp/claude-test-user-20261015-r2/, including journey.json, artifact-verification.json, session-verification.json, and the portable HTML. The report and structured log were uploaded to the completed acceptance task: report attachment 43b8698f-d264-4d0f-86c3-9d0b8adabd35; log attachment b5313baa-4a1c-408e-886b-400ac876083c. The original failed journey remains intact.

Functional acceptance passes. Experience needs improvement: Connect shows “Connection needs attention” despite successful credential/hello checks, and cold provider-pack uploads took 122.1s and 125.8s while the task mainly said “Thinking.” The first download-text click had no visible feedback; file-card preview and its Download control worked. This is desktop dark-theme evidence, not mobile/accessibility qualification. The report renderer validated all images; host preview was queued, so HTML gallery interaction was not visually verified. Subscription execution and private Cloud plugins remain unqualified.

Exact deployed-source required CI passed, including typecheck, tests, build, Docker context/native compilation, and the aggregate verification gates. Greptile is 5/5 with zero unresolved threads. The optional supply-chain scan remains neutral/inconclusive. The evidence-only follow-up does not change runtime bytes or invalidate these serving-source results. PRs remain #15994, #15993, and #15997. No merge or production rollout occurred.

Refreshed local API acceptance — 2026-10-19

The stack includes origin/master through 016e40d53286a34647fc564411b7a712c46a9594, including the merged cold-start fix #16493. Current delivery remains #15994 (protocol), #15993 (Apple Silicon behavior), and #15997 (other platforms). These three remain open for the requested local test drive.

The fresh isolated preview is http://127.0.0.1:3104/CLAA/issues/CLAA-1, with retained data in /private/tmp/claude-default-test-drive-20261019. No Docker image was built locally. A server typecheck command unexpectedly invoked its Rust prerequisite; it was stopped and replaced with direct TypeScript checks. Subsequent native builds and package qualification ran in GitHub Actions.

Ordinary web creation of Claude Default QA with enableNativeRunner=false saved paperclip_runner, provider: acpx, acpxAgent: claude, model: claude-opus-5-5, and modelReasoningEffort: high, without runner or model overrides. The API-key connection initially applied a Legacy CLI version check. The fix reuses the existing Anthropic key-validation endpoint for native Claude secret references; subscriptions and custom destinations keep their existing supplementary probes. Focused setup verification passed 124 tests, and a further 81 UI tests and direct server/UI TypeScript checks passed.

Review found a separate controller omission: v9 effort inputs did not pin permissions at daemon startup. Both downstream constructors now include v9. The isolated/preconfigured transport regression cases passed 2/2. Native input v9 preserves master's explicit homeMode and historical v1–v8 readers.

The first task attempt (075e4543-e04f-4af2-bad3-c0d6c4987947, original company 1de13e1c-5957-4920-9332-f77396c976ec) failed before provider launch because the test-drive CLI intentionally removes inherited PAPERCLIP_* overrides. The verified daemon was then staged in the package-owned target location. That failed record and its full $2 pending reservation remain intact.

A fresh $2-bounded fixture (5423fac4-72c4-4f31-a933-db368682b4a8) uses the existing AI-connections API to validate and securely store the authorized key. Its API-created Claude Acceptance agent also used ordinary runner/model defaults, High effort, disabled timer heartbeats, and one concurrent run. The fresh company's onboarding did not expose the original company's saved key; engineering setup used the existing API rather than putting secrets in the browser transcript. This is general product acceptance, not a blind user-only journey. Task creation and the follow-up used ordinary browser controls.

Turn	Run	Outcome	Duration	API estimate
Create checklist	63fad59f-617b-4a0f-8548-a14582abed63	succeeded	53.925s	$0.209689200
Add Rollback	5861d089-7774-400d-a7c6-e3b65b70177f	succeeded	77.575s	$0.308743600

The follow-up records session.resumed and reuses provider session d46b728c-1b32-44cb-a406-118baf287ab4 and normalized session a5dabc11-b797-4ce0-a8e4-1896e093ef11. Both actual browser downloads were independently checked. V1 is 451 bytes, three sections and six checkboxes, SHA-256 cab0eac549c9f7c4b7c35374e32cd645713935945377898bb21e2f0c5fcba706. V2 is 612 bytes, preserves the original body and adds two Rollback checks, SHA-256 94f5bb1979046df5e52e182c3fc0ccb8fe3f68f67c4542d99424263157a3d703. The original attachment remained byte-identical after revision.

The two new successful turns total $0.518432800 in estimates, not invoices. The original fixture's pending reservation and all earlier unknown-charge holds remain separate. The aggregate Claude qualification ceiling stays $50. Full remaining-budget reservations bound each manual acceptance turn; no automatic paid retry campaign was authorized. Subscription execution remains unverified.

The cloud-built Mac daemon used by this pair has source 04e0202ca81387b17cbe7fd094a8338648356fe9 and SHA-256 0d7ef273fb9b7df2e73a4a6ef6b284a8b6cb59f949a8b9f78af5f391f8d296ef. Its header, receipt digest, regular-file status, and build metadata were checked. Exact-source four-target package qualification passed, including the four native builds, package assembly, and installed-host consumers. Subsequent changes affect setup, controller admission, credential configuration guards, and sandbox proof revocation; the runner/provider source and pinned dependency bytes remain unchanged. Preserve these runtime identities when carrying the result forward.

Detailed mutable evidence, the chronological browser journal, downloads, and run events are retained at /private/tmp/claude-refresh-evidence-20261019. Latest-head CI, review status, final preview identity, and any remaining failures are recorded in the final handoff there and in the PR bodies. The first latest- master CI batch experienced simultaneous runner shutdowns; the independent short UUID fixture-prefix collision and all failed job logs were preserved before retrying. Security review also identified native hire credential routing; the existing host-setting guard now covers native runners and retains the saved harness for partial credential-reference edits. The first local route-test attempt hit a 30-second hook timeout. A resource- pressure hypothesis was disproved by the system memory check. Serial reruns with a longer hook budget passed all 122 credential/permission cases; another 232 snapshot/environment cases and direct server TypeScript checking passed. Cloud CI remains the final verification gate.

Final master reconciliation — 2026-10-19

The stack now incorporates origin/master 9179d8dcc3e908c217fde4f63c9d08ccf8132eeb, including task-loading improvements, native progress polling, skill retention, permission handling, and OpenRouter attribution. Both independently authored Pi profile 24 declarations remain immutable. Combined source attestations use Pi profile 27 (sha256:b1b75a1ae3ac498eb07b95b96bebf4da86227b83d09276076dd5c222e3964dba); Copilot remains profile 22 and Claude's effort input remains v9. Focused protocol verification passed 155 cases (one skipped), an additional 18 Pi attestation cases passed (one skipped), and 91 evaluation/catalog checks passed. Rust format checking ran locally; Rust compilation and Docker work remain in cloud CI.

The earlier API pair and four-target package results retain their exact source identities above. They are not relabeled as results for this final merge. A new cloud package qualification covers the changed shared runtime, with the final preview/runtime/check identities recorded in the PR bodies and dated handoff.

The final platform review found that revoking a successful snapshot proof could fall back to its mutable name. Failed probes and target edits now preserve a company-scoped invalidation marker. Native lease acquisition requires renewed proof before contacting the provider; explicit Legacy and never-qualified Codex environments retain their previous behavior. DB-backed snapshot/environment verification passed all 232 cases, including the final metadata-preservation implementation. Cloud CI remains the final complete-suite gate. This remote-only change does not replace the source identity of the local API task pair above.

Local reply latency profile — 2026-10-19

The user's fresh Opus 5.5/High greeting took 32.717 seconds: approximately 1.2 seconds preparation, 15.5 startup, 13.6 agent work and 2.3 settlement. Local run-log spans and SDK timings establish this split; the local instance had no matching exported Honeycomb trace. The MCP connection itself took 23ms.

Protocol commit 20d75b6f3e removes an unused verified command snapshot after effort acknowledgment on a retained fresh provider. Cold control connections still refresh their consumed command; integrity, lifetime and effort guards stay. 107 runtime/effort/lease tests pass, as do 53 profile checks (one skipped) and the TypeScript-only check/build. No local Docker/Rust build was used.

Three alternating real-ACP loopback fixture samples per variant improve median ready time from 5.081s to 4.034s. The fixture sends no external model requests. A matched real API-key task improves startup from 5.533s to 4.348s, but total response time changes from 17.933s to 20.221s as agent time varies. This is a measured startup improvement, not a demonstrated total-reply speedup. The candidate follow-up succeeds in 20.146s and resumes the same saved session. No-prompt cold-resume fixture failures remain recorded; the actual product follow-up supplies the resume proof. Model, High effort and permissions stay.

The next candidate is selective upfront loading of mandatory title/completion MCP tools, supported by the pinned Claude SDK. It is not implemented or timed here; shared tool metadata requires separate source-profile qualification. The canonical local evidence record is /private/tmp/claude-refresh-evidence-20261019/2026-10-19-claude-default-refresh.md. Three paid profiling turns add $0.415121200 estimated, leaving $0.380149800 under this local company's unchanged $2 cap, with zero pending/unpriced runs. All prior aggregate qualification holds and the $50 ceiling remain in force.