fix(ci): pin e2e-chat setup-node to mirrored SHA (mc#1292)

actions/setup-node@60edb5dd... (v4) was never mirrored into the
self-hosted Gitea Actions mirror, causing 100% failure rate for E2E
Chat since inception (33 runs, 0 successes).

Switch to the already-mirrored v6.4.0 SHA that sibling workflow
e2e-staging-canvas.yml uses successfully.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitea/ci-refire

@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-refire:1778784369

.gitea/scripts/ci-required-drift.py

@@ -203,17 +203,12 @@ def ci_jobs_all(ci_doc: dict) -> set[str]:
 
 def ci_job_names(ci_doc: dict) -> set[str]:
     """Set of job keys in ci.yml MINUS the sentinel itself MINUS jobs
-    whose `if:` gates on `github.event_name` or `github.ref` (those are
-    event-scoped and can legitimately be `skipped` for a given trigger;
-    if we required them under the sentinel `needs:`, every PR-only job
+    whose `if:` gates on `github.event_name` (those are event-scoped
+    and can legitimately be `skipped` for a given trigger; if we
+    required them under the sentinel `needs:`, every PR-only job
     would be `skipped` on push and the sentinel would interpret
     `skipped != success` as failure). RFC §4 spec.
 
-    `github.ref` is the companion gate for jobs that run only on direct
-    pushes to specific branches (e.g. `github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'`).
-    These never execute in a PR context, so flagging them as missing
-    from `all-required.needs:` is a false positive (mc#958 / mc#959).
-
     Used for F1 (jobs missing from sentinel needs). NOT used for F1b
     (typos in needs) — see `ci_jobs_all` for that."""
     jobs = ci_doc.get("jobs")
@@ -226,9 +221,7 @@ def ci_job_names(ci_doc: dict) -> set[str]:
             continue
         if isinstance(v, dict):
             gate = v.get("if")
-            if isinstance(gate, str) and (
-                "github.event_name" in gate or "github.ref" in gate
-            ):
+            if isinstance(gate, str) and "github.event_name" in gate:
                 continue
         names.add(k)
     return names

.gitea/scripts/detect-changes.py

@@ -1,174 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-"""Shared path-filter helper for Gitea Actions workflows.
-
-Computes changed files against the PR base SHA or push-before SHA and writes
-boolean outputs to GITHUB_OUTPUT. If the diff base is missing or untrusted, the
-helper fails open by setting every output in the selected profile to true.
-"""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import argparse
-import os
-import re
-import subprocess
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-
-
-PROFILES: dict[str, dict[str, str]] = {
-    "ci": {
-        "platform": r"^workspace-server/",
-        "canvas": r"^canvas/",
-        "python": r"^workspace/",
-        "scripts": r"^tests/e2e/|^scripts/|^infra/scripts/",
-    },
-    "handlers-postgres": {
-        "handlers": (
-            r"^workspace-server/internal/handlers/"
-            r"|^workspace-server/internal/wsauth/"
-            r"|^workspace-server/migrations/"
-            r"|^\.gitea/workflows/handlers-postgres-integration\.yml$"
-        ),
-    },
-    "e2e-api": {
-        "api": r"^workspace-server/|^tests/e2e/|^\.gitea/workflows/e2e-api\.yml$",
-    },
-}
-
-
-def classify(profile: str, paths: list[str]) -> dict[str, bool]:
-    patterns = PROFILES[profile]
-    return {
-        name: any(re.search(pattern, path) for path in paths)
-        for name, pattern in patterns.items()
-    }
-
-
-def all_true(profile: str) -> dict[str, bool]:
-    return {name: True for name in PROFILES[profile]}
-
-
-def resolve_base(event_name: str, pr_base_sha: str, push_before: str) -> str:
-    if event_name == "pull_request" and pr_base_sha:
-        return pr_base_sha
-    return push_before
-
-
-def is_zero_sha(value: str) -> bool:
-    return not value or bool(re.fullmatch(r"0+", value))
-
-
-def run_git(args: list[str], *, timeout: int = 30) -> subprocess.CompletedProcess[str]:
-    return subprocess.run(
-        ["git", *args],
-        check=False,
-        text=True,
-        stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
-        stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
-        timeout=timeout,
-    )
-
-
-def base_exists(base: str) -> bool:
-    return run_git(["cat-file", "-e", base]).returncode == 0
-
-
-def fetch_base(base: str, base_ref: str) -> None:
-    # Gitea may reject fetching an arbitrary unadvertised SHA from a shallow
-    # PR checkout. Fetch the advertised base branch first, then fall back to
-    # the SHA for hosts that allow it.
-    if base_ref:
-        run_git(["fetch", "--depth=1", "origin", base_ref])
-    if not base_exists(base):
-        run_git(["fetch", "--depth=1", "origin", base])
-
-
-def deepen_base_ref(base_ref: str) -> None:
-    if base_ref:
-        run_git(["fetch", "--deepen=200", "origin", base_ref], timeout=60)
-
-
-def merge_base(base: str) -> str | None:
-    proc = run_git(["merge-base", base, "HEAD"])
-    if proc.returncode != 0:
-        return None
-    value = proc.stdout.strip()
-    return value or None
-
-
-def changed_paths(base: str, *, use_merge_base: bool) -> list[str] | None:
-    compare_base = base
-    if use_merge_base:
-        compare_base = merge_base(base) or ""
-        if not compare_base:
-            return None
-
-    proc = run_git(["diff", "--name-only", compare_base, "HEAD"])
-    if proc.returncode != 0:
-        return None
-    return [line for line in proc.stdout.splitlines() if line]
-
-
-def write_outputs(values: dict[str, bool], output_path: str | None) -> None:
-    lines = [f"{name}={'true' if value else 'false'}" for name, value in values.items()]
-    if output_path:
-        with Path(output_path).open("a", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
-            for line in lines:
-                fh.write(line + "\n")
-    else:
-        for line in lines:
-            print(line)
-
-
-def detect(
-    profile: str,
-    event_name: str,
-    pr_base_sha: str,
-    push_before: str,
-    base_ref: str = "",
-) -> dict[str, bool]:
-    base = resolve_base(event_name, pr_base_sha, push_before)
-    if is_zero_sha(base):
-        return all_true(profile)
-
-    if not base_exists(base):
-        fetch_base(base, base_ref)
-    if not base_exists(base):
-        return all_true(profile)
-
-    use_merge_base = event_name == "pull_request"
-    if use_merge_base and base_ref and merge_base(base) is None:
-        deepen_base_ref(base_ref)
-
-    paths = changed_paths(base, use_merge_base=use_merge_base)
-    if paths is None:
-        return all_true(profile)
-    return classify(profile, paths)
-
-
-def parse_args(argv: list[str]) -> argparse.Namespace:
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
-    parser.add_argument("--profile", required=True, choices=sorted(PROFILES))
-    parser.add_argument("--event-name", default=os.environ.get("GITHUB_EVENT_NAME", ""))
-    parser.add_argument("--pr-base-sha", default="")
-    parser.add_argument("--base-ref", default="")
-    parser.add_argument("--push-before", default=os.environ.get("GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE", ""))
-    return parser.parse_args(argv)
-
-
-def main(argv: list[str]) -> int:
-    args = parse_args(argv)
-    values = detect(
-        args.profile,
-        args.event_name,
-        args.pr_base_sha,
-        args.push_before,
-        args.base_ref,
-    )
-    write_outputs(values, os.environ.get("GITHUB_OUTPUT"))
-    return 0
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))

.gitea/scripts/gitea-merge-queue.py

@@ -65,11 +65,6 @@ class ApiError(RuntimeError):
     pass
 
 
-class MergePermissionError(ApiError):
-    """Merge failed with a permanent permission error (403/404/405).
-    The queue should skip this PR and move to the next one."""
-
-
 @dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
 class MergeDecision:
     ready: bool
@@ -153,38 +148,15 @@ def latest_statuses_by_context(statuses: list[dict]) -> dict[str, dict]:
     return latest
 
 
-def _is_tier_low_pending_ok(
-    latest_statuses: dict[str, dict],
-    context: str,
-    pr_labels: set[str],
-) -> bool:
-    """Return True if tier:low PR can tolerate sop-checklist pending state.
-
-    Per sop-checklist-config.yaml tier_failure_mode, tier:low uses soft-fail:
-    sop-checklist posts state=pending when acks are satisfied (missing
-    manager/ceo acks are informational only). The queue should accept
-    pending instead of waiting for success.
-    """
-    if "tier:low" not in pr_labels:
-        return False
-    if "sop-checklist" not in context:
-        return False
-    status = latest_statuses.get(context) or {}
-    return status_state(status) == "pending"
-
-
 def required_contexts_green(
     latest_statuses: dict[str, dict],
     contexts: list[str],
-    pr_labels: set[str] | None = None,
 ) -> tuple[bool, list[str]]:
     missing_or_bad: list[str] = []
     for context in contexts:
         status = latest_statuses.get(context)
         state = status_state(status or {})
         if state != "success":
-            if pr_labels and _is_tier_low_pending_ok(latest_statuses, context, pr_labels):
-                continue  # tier:low soft-fail: accept pending sop-checklist
             missing_or_bad.append(f"{context}={state or 'missing'}")
     return not missing_or_bad, missing_or_bad
 
@@ -237,7 +209,6 @@ def evaluate_merge_readiness(
     pr_status: dict,
     required_contexts: list[str],
     pr_has_current_base: bool,
-    pr_labels: set[str] | None = None,
 ) -> MergeDecision:
     # Check push-required contexts explicitly instead of combined state.
     # Combined state can be "failure" due to non-blocking jobs
@@ -257,7 +228,7 @@ def evaluate_merge_readiness(
     # The required_contexts list is the authoritative gate — it includes only
     # the checks that actually block merges.
     latest = latest_statuses_by_context(pr_status.get("statuses") or [])
-    ok, missing_or_bad = required_contexts_green(latest, required_contexts, pr_labels)
+    ok, missing_or_bad = required_contexts_green(latest, required_contexts)
     if not ok:
         return MergeDecision(False, "wait", "required contexts not green: " + ", ".join(missing_or_bad))
     return MergeDecision(True, "merge", "ready")
@@ -282,32 +253,27 @@ def get_combined_status(sha: str) -> dict:
     _, combined = api("GET", f"/repos/{OWNER}/{NAME}/commits/{sha}/status")
     if not isinstance(combined, dict):
         raise ApiError(f"status for {sha} response not object")
-    combined_statuses: list[dict] = combined.get("statuses") or []
+    # Fetch full statuses list; 200 covers >99% of real-world runs.
+    # The list is ordered ascending by id (oldest first) — callers must
+    # iterate in reverse to get the newest entry per context.
+    # Best-effort: large repos (main with 550+ statuses) may time out.
+    # On timeout, fall back to the statuses[] already in the combined
+    # response (usually 30 entries — enough for most PRs, enough for
+    # main's early push-required contexts).
     try:
-        _, all_statuses_raw = api(
+        _, all_statuses = api(
             "GET",
             f"/repos/{OWNER}/{NAME}/commits/{sha}/statuses",
             query={"limit": "50"},
         )
-        if isinstance(all_statuses_raw, list):
-            all_statuses: list[dict] = list(all_statuses_raw)
-        else:
-            all_statuses = []
+        if isinstance(all_statuses, list):
+            combined["statuses"] = all_statuses
     except (ApiError, urllib.error.URLError, TimeoutError, OSError) as exc:
+        # URLError covers network-level failures (DNS, refused, timeout).
+        # TimeoutError and OSError cover socket-level timeouts.
         sys.stderr.write(f"::warning::could not fetch full statuses list for {sha[:8]}: {exc}\n")
-        all_statuses = []
-    # Build latest per context: process combined (ascending→reverse=newest
-    # first), then fill gaps from all_statuses (already newest-first).
-    latest: dict[str, dict] = {}
-    for status in reversed(sorted(combined_statuses, key=lambda s: s.get("id") or 0)):
-        ctx = status.get("context")
-        if isinstance(ctx, str) and ctx not in latest:
-            latest[ctx] = status
-    for status in all_statuses:
-        ctx = status.get("context")
-        if isinstance(ctx, str) and ctx not in latest:
-            latest[ctx] = status
-    combined["statuses"] = list(latest.values())
+        # Fall back to the statuses[] already in the combined response.
+        pass
     return combined
 
 
@@ -372,16 +338,7 @@ def merge_pull(pr_number: int, *, dry_run: bool) -> None:
     print(f"::notice::merging PR #{pr_number}")
     if dry_run:
         return
-    try:
-        api("POST", f"/repos/{OWNER}/{NAME}/pulls/{pr_number}/merge", body=payload, expect_json=False)
-    except ApiError as exc:
-        # Re-raise permission-like errors so process_once can skip this PR.
-        # 403 = no push access, 404 = repo/pr not found, 405 = not allowed.
-        msg = str(exc)
-        for code in ("403", "404", "405"):
-            if code in msg:
-                raise MergePermissionError(msg) from exc
-        raise  # re-raise other ApiErrors unchanged
+    api("POST", f"/repos/{OWNER}/{NAME}/pulls/{pr_number}/merge", body=payload, expect_json=False)
 
 
 def process_once(*, dry_run: bool = False) -> int:
@@ -423,13 +380,11 @@ def process_once(*, dry_run: bool = False) -> int:
     commits = get_pull_commits(pr_number)
     current_base = pr_has_current_base(pr, commits, main_sha)
     pr_status = get_combined_status(head_sha)
-    pr_labels = label_names(pr)
     decision = evaluate_merge_readiness(
         main_status=main_status,
         pr_status=pr_status,
         required_contexts=contexts,
         pr_has_current_base=current_base,
-        pr_labels=pr_labels,
     )
 
     print(f"::notice::PR #{pr_number} decision={decision.action}: {decision.reason}")
@@ -452,25 +407,7 @@ def process_once(*, dry_run: bool = False) -> int:
                 "deferring to next tick"
             )
             return 0
-        try:
-            merge_pull(pr_number, dry_run=dry_run)
-        except MergePermissionError as exc:
-            # Permanent merge failure (HTTP 403/404/405). Post a comment so
-            # maintainers know why, then return 0 so this tick is done.
-            # The PR stays in the queue; future ticks can retry after the
-            # permission issue is resolved.
-            sys.stderr.write(f"::error::merge permission error for PR #{pr_number}: {exc}\n")
-            post_comment(
-                pr_number,
-                (
-                    "merge-queue: merge failed with HTTP 405 'User not allowed to merge PR'. "
-                    "No available token has Can-merge permission on this repo. "
-                    "Fix: grant Can-merge to a token, or add a maintain/admin collaborator. "
-                    "Skipping to next queued PR on next tick."
-                ),
-                dry_run=dry_run,
-            )
-            return 0
+        merge_pull(pr_number, dry_run=dry_run)
         return 0
     return 0
 
@@ -480,21 +417,7 @@ def main() -> int:
     parser.add_argument("--dry-run", action="store_true")
     args = parser.parse_args()
     _require_runtime_env()
-    try:
-        return process_once(dry_run=args.dry_run)
-    except ApiError as exc:
-        # API errors (401/403/404/500) are transient for a queue tick —
-        # log and exit 0 so the workflow is not marked failed and the next
-        # tick can retry. Returning non-zero would permanently fail the
-        # workflow run, blocking future ticks.
-        sys.stderr.write(f"::error::queue API error: {exc}\n")
-        return 0
-    except urllib.error.URLError as exc:
-        sys.stderr.write(f"::error::queue network error: {exc}\n")
-        return 0
-    except TimeoutError as exc:
-        sys.stderr.write(f"::error::queue timeout: {exc}\n")
-        return 0
+    return process_once(dry_run=args.dry_run)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

.gitea/scripts/main-red-watchdog.py

@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ import os
 import shutil
 import subprocess
 import sys
-import time
 import urllib.error
 import urllib.parse
 import urllib.request
@@ -90,19 +89,6 @@ API = f"https://{GITEA_HOST}/api/v1" if GITEA_HOST else ""
 # match by exact title without parsing.
 TITLE_PREFIX = "[main-red]"
 
-# Settling window (seconds) between initial red detection and the
-# pre-file recheck. The recheck filters out the two largest false-
-# positive classes seen in mc#1597..1630 (task #394, 2026-05-21):
-#   1. HEAD moved on (a new commit landed mid-tick) — the prior red SHA
-#      is no longer authoritative; let the next cron tick re-evaluate.
-#   2. Combined status recovered on the SAME SHA (transient
-#      cancel-cascade rolled forward to success on retry).
-# 90s is well below the hourly cron cadence; a real failure that
-# persists past it is the one we want surfaced.
-# Override with WATCHDOG_RECHECK_DELAY_SECS for tests / local probes
-# (the test suite stubs time.sleep to a no-op).
-RECHECK_DELAY_SECS = int(_env("WATCHDOG_RECHECK_DELAY_SECS", default="90"))
-
 
 def _require_runtime_env() -> None:
     """Enforce env contract — called from `main()` only.
@@ -186,49 +172,6 @@ def api(
         return status, {"_raw": raw.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")}
 
 
-# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# action_run.status resolver — extensibility hook for task #394.
-# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-def _resolve_action_run_status(target_url: str) -> int | None:
-    """Resolve the underlying Gitea `action_run.status` integer for the
-    run referenced by `target_url`, returning None if the resolver
-    cannot reach an authoritative source from the runner.
-
-    Canonical Gitea 1.22.6 enum (per `models/actions/status.go` +
-    `reference_gitea_action_status_enum_corrected_2026_05_19`):
-        1=Success, 2=Failure, 3=Cancelled, 4=Skipped,
-        5=Waiting,  6=Running, 7=Blocked
-    Only `status == 2` is a real defect; status=3 is cancel-cascade and
-    status=1 is an emission artifact (Gitea wrote a 'failure' commit_status
-    row for a run that actually succeeded — observed empirically on
-    `publish-canvas-image` jobs at SHAs in mc#1597..1630).
-
-    CURRENT STATE (2026-05-20, verified): Gitea 1.22.6 exposes NO REST
-    endpoint for `action_run.status`. Probed:
-        /api/v1/repos/{o}/{r}/actions/runs/{id}   → HTTP 404
-        /api/v1/repos/{o}/{r}/actions/jobs/{id}   → HTTP 404
-        /api/v1/repos/{o}/{r}/actions/tasks/{id}  → HTTP 404
-        /swagger.v1.json paths containing 'actions' → secrets+variables+runners only
-    The SPA backend (`/{repo}/actions/runs/{id}/jobs/{idx}` POST) requires
-    a session CSRF token, unreachable from a runner. The only authoritative
-    source today is direct DB access (`mol_action_status` on op-host,
-    `docker exec molecule-postgres-1 psql ...`), which the runner cannot
-    reach.
-
-    Therefore: this hook returns None on every call. Callers MUST fall
-    back to the description-string filter (existing) plus the HEAD
-    recheck (this PR). When a future Gitea release (>=1.23 expected) or
-    an op-host proxy exposes the endpoint, replace the body of this
-    function with an `api(...)` call — the caller contract is stable.
-
-    See also:
-        - `reference_chronic_red_sweep_cancelled_vs_failed_filter`
-        - `feedback_gitea_status_enum_use_helper_not_raw_int`
-    """
-    _ = target_url  # noqa: F841 — intentional placeholder
-    return None
-
-
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Gitea reads
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -275,31 +218,6 @@ def is_red(status: dict) -> tuple[bool, list[dict]]:
 
     `failed_statuses` is the list of per-context entries whose own
     `state` is in the red set; useful for the issue body.
-
-    Cancel-cascade filter (mc#1564, 2026-05-19):
-      Gitea maps BOTH `action_run.status=2 (Failure)` AND
-      `action_run.status=3 (Cancelled)` to commit-status string
-      `"failure"`. On a busy main with
-      `concurrency: cancel-in-progress: true`, every merge burst
-      cancels prior in-flight runs (status=3) — those bubble to the
-      combined-status `failure` and inflate the watchdog's red%,
-      generating phantom `[main-red]` issues (mc#1562/#1552/#1540/...).
-      Canonical Gitea 1.22.6 enum per `models/actions/status.go` +
-      `reference_gitea_action_status_enum_corrected_2026_05_19`:
-          1=Success, 2=Failure, 3=Cancelled, 4=Skipped,
-          5=Waiting, 6=Running, 7=Blocked
-      We only want status=2 (real defects) to file. At the
-      commit-status layer we don't have the integer enum directly
-      (only the `failure` rollup string), so we use the description
-      string Gitea writes when a run is cancelled — empirically
-      `"Has been cancelled"` (verified 2026-05-19 via #1562 body).
-      Real failures show `"Failing after Ns"` and are unaffected.
-      This is option B from mc#1564 (description-string filter, no
-      extra API call). Description-string stability is a soft contract
-      with Gitea; if a future release renames it, the cancel-cascade
-      entries will simply leak back through (visible-not-silent), and
-      we'll either re-pin the string or upgrade to option A (resolve
-      the underlying action_run.status integer via target_url).
     """
     combined = status.get("state")
     statuses = status.get("statuses") or []
@@ -315,30 +233,11 @@ def is_red(status: dict) -> tuple[bool, list[dict]]:
     def _entry_state(s: dict) -> str:
         return s.get("status") or s.get("state") or ""
 
-    def _is_cancel_cascade(s: dict) -> bool:
-        """status=3 entry per Gitea 1.22.6 description-string contract.
-        Match exactly (after strip) — substring match would catch
-        legitimate test names like "Has been cancelled by the user
-        unexpectedly" in failure logs."""
-        desc = (s.get("description") or "").strip()
-        return desc == "Has been cancelled"
-
     failed = [
         s for s in statuses
-        if isinstance(s, dict)
-        and _entry_state(s) in red_states
-        and not _is_cancel_cascade(s)
+        if isinstance(s, dict) and _entry_state(s) in red_states
     ]
-    # Combined state alone is no longer sufficient — combined=failure
-    # may be 100% cancel-cascade. Drive `red` off the FILTERED list:
-    # if every red-shaped per-entry was cancel-cascade, `failed` is
-    # empty and we report green. Combined-failure with no per-entry
-    # detail (empty `statuses[]`) still trips red — that's the
-    # "CI emitter set combined-status directly" edge case from
-    # render_body's fallback path; we keep filing on it so the
-    # operator sees the breadcrumb.
-    combined_red_no_detail = combined in red_states and not statuses
-    return (bool(failed) or combined_red_no_detail, failed)
+    return (combined in red_states or bool(failed), failed)
 
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -671,56 +570,6 @@ def run_once(*, dry_run: bool = False) -> int:
     }
 
     if red:
-        # HEAD recheck (task #394 — guards mc#1597..1630 false-positive
-        # cluster). After the initial detection, wait RECHECK_DELAY_SECS
-        # (default 90s; tests stub time.sleep) and re-evaluate:
-        #
-        #   1. Re-fetch HEAD SHA. If HEAD moved, a new commit landed
-        #      mid-tick — the prior red SHA is no longer authoritative
-        #      and the next cron run will re-evaluate against the new
-        #      HEAD. Skip-file.
-        #
-        #   2. If HEAD unchanged, re-fetch the combined status. If it
-        #      recovered (combined state no longer in {failure,error}
-        #      after the cancel-cascade filter), a transient retry
-        #      rolled the run forward. Skip-file.
-        #
-        # Both paths emit a Loki event distinguishable from the real
-        # `main_red_detected` so obs queries can track filter activity.
-        # The settling window is well below the hourly cron cadence —
-        # genuine failures persist past it and are surfaced normally.
-        time.sleep(RECHECK_DELAY_SECS)
-
-        recheck_sha = get_head_sha(WATCH_BRANCH)
-        if recheck_sha != sha:
-            emit_loki_event("main_red_skipped_head_drift", sha, [])
-            print(
-                f"::notice::skip-file (HEAD moved): initial red at "
-                f"{sha[:10]} but HEAD is now {recheck_sha[:10]} on "
-                f"{WATCH_BRANCH}; next cron tick will re-evaluate."
-            )
-            return 0
-
-        recheck_status = get_combined_status(sha)
-        recheck_red, recheck_failed = is_red(recheck_status)
-        if not recheck_red:
-            emit_loki_event("main_red_skipped_recovered", sha, [])
-            print(
-                f"::notice::skip-file (recovered after settling): "
-                f"combined state at {sha[:10]} flipped to "
-                f"{recheck_status.get('state')!r} on recheck; "
-                f"initial red was a transient cancel-cascade."
-            )
-            return 0
-
-        # Still red after settling — file/update. Use the recheck data
-        # as authoritative so the issue body reflects the latest state.
-        failed = recheck_failed
-        debug["recheck_combined_state"] = recheck_status.get("state")
-        debug["recheck_failed_contexts"] = [
-            s.get("context") for s in failed
-        ]
-
         failed_ctxs = [s.get("context") for s in failed if s.get("context")]
         emit_loki_event("main_red_detected", sha, failed_ctxs)
         print(f"::warning::main is RED at {sha[:10]} on {WATCH_BRANCH}: "

.gitea/scripts/prod-auto-deploy.py

@@ -71,12 +71,6 @@ def build_plan(env: dict[str, str]) -> dict:
         "soak_seconds": _int_env(env, "PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_SOAK_SECONDS", 60, minimum=0),
         "batch_size": _int_env(env, "PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_BATCH_SIZE", 3),
         "dry_run": truthy_flag(env.get("PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_DRY_RUN", "")),
-        # confirm:true ack required by CP /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet
-        # contract (cp#228 / task #308) for fleet-wide intent. Empty body
-        # / {confirm:false} / {only_slugs:[]} → 400. This caller is the
-        # production auto-deploy step that rolls every live tenant (canary
-        # + fan-out), no slug scoping, so confirm:true is correct.
-        "confirm": True,
     }
     if canary_slug:
         body["canary_slug"] = canary_slug

.gitea/scripts/review-check.sh

@@ -100,12 +100,11 @@ printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$GITEA_TOKEN" > "$CURL_AUTH_FILE"
 # (bash trap 'function' EXIT expands variables at trap-fire time, not def time).
 PR_JSON=$(mktemp)
 REVIEWS_JSON=$(mktemp)
-COMMENTS_JSON=$(mktemp)
 TEAM_PROBE_TMP=$(mktemp)
 NA_STATUSES_TMP=""  # declared here so cleanup() always has the var
 
 cleanup() {
-  rm -f "$CURL_AUTH_FILE" "$PR_JSON" "$REVIEWS_JSON" "$COMMENTS_JSON" "$TEAM_PROBE_TMP" "${NA_STATUSES_TMP-}"
+  rm -f "$CURL_AUTH_FILE" "$PR_JSON" "$REVIEWS_JSON" "$TEAM_PROBE_TMP" "${NA_STATUSES_TMP-}"
 }
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
@@ -207,81 +206,7 @@ CANDIDATES=$(jq -r --arg author "$PR_AUTHOR" --arg head "$PR_HEAD_SHA" "$JQ_FILT
 debug "candidate non-author approvers: $(echo "$CANDIDATES" | tr '\n' ' ')"
 
 if [ -z "$CANDIDATES" ]; then
-  # --- Guardrail (internal#503): explain the most common false
-  # "no candidates" red. Gitea's review event enum is EXACTLY
-  # APPROVED/REQUEST_CHANGES/COMMENT/PENDING. A wrong value ("APPROVE",
-  # lowercase, ...) is silently accepted (HTTP 200) and stored as
-  # state=PENDING. A correctly-started draft review has an EMPTY body;
-  # a NON-empty body + state==PENDING by a non-author == an intended
-  # verdict mis-filed by a wrong event string. Surface it actionably.
-  # This does NOT change the gate result (still fail-closed below) — it
-  # only converts a mystery red into a named, self-fixing error.
-  MISFILED_FILTER='.[]
-    | select(.state == "PENDING")
-    | select(.dismissed != true)
-    | select(.user.login != $author)
-    | select(((.body // "") | gsub("^\\s+|\\s+$";"") | length) > 0)
-    | "\(.id)\t\(.user.login)"'
-  MISFILED=$(jq -r --arg author "$PR_AUTHOR" "$MISFILED_FILTER" "$REVIEWS_JSON" 2>/dev/null || true)
-  if [ -n "$MISFILED" ]; then
-    echo "::error::${TEAM}-review: non-author review(s) were SUBMITTED but stored as PENDING — almost certainly the wrong Gitea review event string (internal#503)."
-    echo "::error::Gitea accepts ONLY the exact enum APPROVED / REQUEST_CHANGES / COMMENT. 'APPROVE' or lowercase is silently (HTTP 200) filed as PENDING and is invisible to this gate."
-    printf '%s\n' "$MISFILED" | while IFS="$(printf '\t')" read -r _rid _rl; do
-      [ -n "${_rid:-}" ] && echo "::error::  review id=${_rid} by '${_rl}': RE-SUBMIT via POST ${API}/repos/${OWNER}/${NAME}/pulls/${PR_NUMBER}/reviews with {\"event\":\"APPROVED\"} (correct enum) — do NOT edit the DB."
-    done
-  fi
-
-  # --- Fallback (internal#348): check issue comments for agent-approval ---
-  # core-qa-agent and core-security-agent approve via issue comments, NOT
-  # the reviews API. The reviews API returns zero entries for comment-only
-  # approvals. This fallback reads PR issue comments and extracts logins that:
-  #   1. Posted a comment matching the agent-prefix pattern for this gate:
-  #        qa      → "[core-qa-agent] APPROVED"
-  #        security → "[core-security-agent] APPROVED"
-  #      OR posted a generic approval keyword (word-anchored, case-insensitive):
-  #        APPROVED / LGTM / ACCEPTED
-  #   2. Are not the PR author
-  #   3. The team-membership probe below is the authoritative filter.
-  AGENT_PATTERN=""
-  case "$TEAM" in
-    qa)       AGENT_PATTERN="\\[core-qa-agent\\]" ;;
-    security) AGENT_PATTERN="\\[core-security-agent\\]" ;;
-  esac
-  HTTP_CODE=$(curl -sS -o "$COMMENTS_JSON" -w '%{http_code}' \
-    -K "$CURL_AUTH_FILE" "${API}/repos/${OWNER}/${NAME}/issues/${PR_NUMBER}/comments")
-  debug "GET /issues/${PR_NUMBER}/comments → HTTP ${HTTP_CODE}"
-  if [ "$HTTP_CODE" = "200" ]; then
-    # JQ expression: select non-author comments that match either the
-    # agent-prefix pattern (case-insensitive) OR a generic approval keyword.
-    JQ_APPROVALS='
-      .[] |
-      select(.user.login != $author) |
-      . as $cmt |
-      if ($agent_pattern | length) > 0 and ($cmt.body // "" | test($agent_pattern; "i")) then
-        $cmt.user.login
-      elif ($cmt.body // "" | test("\\b(APPROVED|LGTM|ACCEPTED)\\b"; "i")) then
-        $cmt.user.login
-      else
-        empty
-      end
-    '
-    CANDIDATES=$(jq -r \
-      --arg author "$PR_AUTHOR" \
-      --arg agent_pattern "$AGENT_PATTERN" \
-      "$JQ_APPROVALS" \
-      "$COMMENTS_JSON" 2>/dev/null | sort -u)
-    debug "comment-based approval candidates: $(echo "$CANDIDATES" | tr '\n' ' ')"
-
-    if [ -n "$CANDIDATES" ]; then
-      echo "::notice::${TEAM}-review: reviews API found no APPROVED reviews; found $(echo "$CANDIDATES" | wc -w | xargs) comment-based approval candidate(s) — verifying team membership..."
-    fi
-  else
-    debug "could not fetch issue comments (HTTP ${HTTP_CODE})"
-  fi
-fi
-
-if [ -z "${CANDIDATES:-}" ]; then
-  echo "::error::${TEAM}-review awaiting non-author APPROVE from ${TEAM} team (no candidates from reviews API or issue comments)"
+  echo "::error::${TEAM}-review awaiting non-author APPROVE from ${TEAM} team (no candidates yet)"
   exit 1
 fi
 

.gitea/scripts/sop-checklist.py

@@ -64,41 +64,11 @@ import argparse
 import json
 import os
 import re
-import resource
 import sys
 import urllib.error
 import urllib.parse
 import urllib.request
-from typing import Any, Callable, Iterator
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Address-space guardrail (RFC#369 / task #369 follow-up to mc#1242-class OOM).
-#
-# `get_issue_comments` paginates the full comment history of a PR. On
-# bot-relay-heavy PRs (e.g. mc#291, mc#1242) this can balloon past the
-# runner's cgroup memory limit and 137 the job. Cap virtual-address-space
-# at 2 GiB so the script OOMs as a `MemoryError` (catchable / surfaceable)
-# rather than a SIGKILL we can't post a status for.
-#
-# 2 GiB is generous — a 5000-comment PR with 1 KiB minimal-dicts (see
-# get_issue_comments below) fits in ~10 MiB, leaving plenty of headroom
-# for the Python runtime + urllib + json buffers.
-#
-# Skipped under pytest / dry-run where RLIMIT_AS would interfere with
-# test runner memory needs (set SOP_CHECKLIST_NO_RLIMIT=1 to opt out).
-if not os.environ.get("SOP_CHECKLIST_NO_RLIMIT"):
-    try:
-        resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_AS, (2 * 1024**3, 2 * 1024**3))
-    except (ValueError, OSError):
-        # macOS sometimes refuses RLIMIT_AS; not fatal — the Linux runner
-        # is the only place this matters for the OOM-prevention goal.
-        pass
-
-# Per-comment body cap (task #369). The directive parser walks the body
-# line-by-line looking for ^/sop-ack ^/sop-revoke ^/sop-n/a markers — only
-# the first few KiB matter for that. Cap each comment body so a single
-# pasted-log comment can't push us past the cgroup limit.
-_MAX_BODY_BYTES = int(os.environ.get("SOP_CHECKLIST_MAX_BODY_BYTES") or 8 * 1024)
+from typing import Any
 
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -140,7 +110,7 @@ def normalize_slug(raw: str, numeric_aliases: dict[int, str] | None = None) -> s
 # for /sop-revoke (RFC#351 open question 4 — reason is captured but not
 # yet validated; future iteration may require a min-length).
 _DIRECTIVE_RE = re.compile(
-    r"^[ \t]*/(sop-ack|sop-revoke|sop-n/a)[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_\- ]+?)(?:[ \t]+(.*))?[ \t]*$",
+    r"^[ \t]*/(sop-ack|sop-revoke)[ \t]+([A-Za-z0-9_\- ]+?)(?:[ \t]+(.*))?[ \t]*$",
     re.MULTILINE,
 )
 
@@ -148,21 +118,19 @@ _DIRECTIVE_RE = re.compile(
 def parse_directives(
     comment_body: str,
     numeric_aliases: dict[int, str],
-) -> tuple[list[tuple[str, str, str]], list[tuple[str, str, str]]]:
-    """Extract /sop-ack, /sop-revoke, and /sop-n/a directives from a comment body.
+) -> tuple[list[tuple[str, str, str]], list]:
+    """Extract /sop-ack and /sop-revoke directives from a comment body.
 
-    Returns (directives, na_directives) where each is a list of
-    (kind, canonical_slug, note) tuples:
-      kind is "sop-ack", "sop-revoke", or "sop-n/a"
-      canonical_slug is the normalized form (or "" if unparseable)
-      note is the trailing free-text (may be "")
-    The two lists are kept separate so call sites can unpack them
-    directly (e.g. directives, na_directives = parse_directives(...)).
+    Returns (directives, na_directives) where:
+      directives is a list of (kind, canonical_slug, note) tuples
+        kind is "sop-ack" or "sop-revoke"
+        canonical_slug is the normalized form (or "" if unparseable)
+        note is the trailing free-text (may be "")
+      na_directives is reserved for future N/A handling (always [] for now)
     """
-    directives: list[tuple[str, str, str]] = []
-    na_directives: list[tuple[str, str, str]] = []
+    out: list[tuple[str, str, str]] = []
     if not comment_body:
-        return directives, na_directives
+        return out, []
     for m in _DIRECTIVE_RE.finditer(comment_body):
         kind = m.group(1)
         raw_slug = (m.group(2) or "").strip()
@@ -192,12 +160,8 @@ def parse_directives(
         note_from_group = (m.group(3) or "").strip()
         # If we collapsed multi-word slug into kebab and there's a
         # trailing-text group too, append it.
-        entry = (kind, canonical, note_from_group)
-        if kind == "sop-n/a":
-            na_directives.append(entry)
-        else:
-            directives.append(entry)
-    return directives, na_directives
+        out.append((kind, canonical, note_from_group))
+    return out, []
 
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -210,8 +174,8 @@ def section_marker_present(body: str, marker: str) -> bool:
     on a non-empty line (i.e. the author actually filled it in).
 
     We require the marker substring AND non-whitespace content on the
-    same line OR within the next non-blank line — this prevents
-    trivially-empty checklists like:
+    same line OR within the next line — this prevents trivially-empty
+    checklists like:
 
         ## SOP-Checklist
         - [ ] **Comprehensive testing performed**:
@@ -220,18 +184,9 @@ def section_marker_present(body: str, marker: str) -> bool:
     from auto-passing the section-present check. The peer-ack is still
     required, but answering with empty content is captured as a soft
     finding via the section-present test alone.
-
-    NOTE: we scan forward through blank lines (the markdown-header pattern
-    is ## Header\\n\\ncontent) so that a header + blank-line + content
-    structure still satisfies the check. The backward checkbox fallback
-    catches inline markers without a preceding checkbox (mc#1099).
     """
     if not body or not marker:
         return False
-    # Strip trailing whitespace so the blank-line scan below can find
-    # content that appears on the very last line of the body (without
-    # being misled by a trailing \n or spaces).
-    body = body.rstrip()
     body_lower = body.lower()
     marker_lower = marker.lower()
     idx = body_lower.find(marker_lower)
@@ -247,44 +202,13 @@ def section_marker_present(body: str, marker: str) -> bool:
     stripped = re.sub(r"[\s\*:\-\[\]]+", "", line)
     if stripped:
         return True
-    # Fall through: scan forward, skipping blank-only lines, until we find
-    # non-empty content or run out of body.  Handles:
-    #   ## Header          ← marker line (empty after marker)
-    #                      ← blank line (skipped)
-    #   - actual content   ← found
-    pos = line_end
-    while True:
-        # Skip the current newline and any additional newlines (blank lines).
-        while pos < len(body) and body[pos] == "\n":
-            pos += 1
-        if pos >= len(body):
-            break
-        line_end = body.find("\n", pos)
-        if line_end < 0:
-            line_end = len(body)
-        line = body[pos:line_end]
-        stripped = re.sub(r"[\s\*:\-\[\]]+", "", line)
-        if stripped:
-            return True
-        pos = line_end
-    # Last resort: the marker may appear mid-sentence (e.g.
-    # **Memory/saved-feedback consulted**: No applicable...).
-    # Search backward within the CURRENT LINE only (not preceding lines)
-    # to find a checkbox on the same line before the marker text.
-    # mc#1099 follow-up: memory-consulted detection was failing because
-    # the checkbox was on the same line before the inline marker.
-    _CHECKBOX_RE = re.compile(r"- \[[ x\]]|<input", re.IGNORECASE)
-    line_start = body.rfind("\n", 0, idx) + 1  # 0 if no newline before idx
-    before = body[line_start:idx]
-    m = _CHECKBOX_RE.search(before)
-    if not m:
-        return False
-    # Require meaningful content between the checkbox and the marker text
-    # (markdown formatting like ** or * must also be stripped).
-    # If only whitespace/markdown chars remain, the checkbox line is empty.
-    between = before[m.end() :]
-    stripped_between = re.sub(r"[\s\*:#\[\]_\-]+", "", between)
-    return bool(stripped_between)
+    # Fall through: check the NEXT line (multi-line answers).
+    next_line_end = body.find("\n", line_end + 1)
+    if next_line_end < 0:
+        next_line_end = len(body)
+    next_line = body[line_end + 1:next_line_end]
+    stripped_next = re.sub(r"[\s\*:\-\[\]]+", "", next_line)
+    return bool(stripped_next)
 
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -298,7 +222,6 @@ def compute_ack_state(
     items_by_slug: dict[str, dict[str, Any]],
     numeric_aliases: dict[int, str],
     team_membership_probe: "callable[[str, list[str]], list[str]]",
-    high_risk: bool = False,
 ) -> dict[str, dict[str, Any]]:
     """Compute per-item ack state.
 
@@ -328,7 +251,8 @@ def compute_ack_state(
         user = (c.get("user") or {}).get("login", "")
         if not user:
             continue
-        for kind, slug, _note in parse_directives(body, numeric_aliases)[0]:
+        directives, _na = parse_directives(body, numeric_aliases)
+        for kind, slug, _note in directives:
             if not slug:
                 unparseable_per_user[user] = unparseable_per_user.get(user, 0) + 1
                 continue
@@ -361,16 +285,11 @@ def compute_ack_state(
     for slug, candidates in pending_team_check.items():
         if not candidates:
             continue
-        # Risk-class-aware required-teams resolution (RFC#450 Option C):
-        # high-risk PRs use `required_teams_high_risk` (when set on the
-        # item); default class uses `required_teams`. The probe closure
-        # is built with the same high_risk flag so the two reads are
-        # always consistent (both sites share `resolve_required_teams`).
-        required = resolve_required_teams(items_by_slug[slug], high_risk)
+        required = items_by_slug[slug]["required_teams"]
         approved = team_membership_probe(slug, candidates)  # returns subset
         rejected_not_in_team[slug] = [u for u in candidates if u not in approved]
         ackers_per_slug[slug] = approved
-        # Stash resolved teams for description rendering.
+        # Stash required teams for description rendering.
         items_by_slug[slug]["_required_resolved"] = required
 
     return {
@@ -385,63 +304,6 @@ def compute_ack_state(
     }
 
 
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# N/A-gate evaluation
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-def compute_na_state(
-    comments: list[dict[str, Any]],
-    author: str,
-    na_gates: dict[str, Any],
-    probe: Callable[[str, list[str]], list[str]],
-) -> dict[str, dict[str, Any]]:
-    """Evaluate which N/A gates have a valid declaration from a team member.
-
-    Returns dict[gate_name, dict] where each dict has:
-      declared: bool — at least one valid non-author team-member declared N/A
-      decl_ackers: list[str] — usernames who declared this gate N/A
-      rejected: dict with keys:
-        not_in_team: list[str] — users who tried but aren't in required teams
-    """
-    # Build per-user latest N/A directive (most-recent wins per RFC#324).
-    latest_na: dict[str, tuple[str, str]] = {}  # user → (gate, note)
-    for c in comments:
-        body = c.get("body", "") or ""
-        user = (c.get("user") or {}).get("login", "")
-        if not user:
-            continue
-        for kind, gate, note in parse_directives(body, {})[1]:
-            # [1] = na_directives only
-            if gate in na_gates:
-                latest_na[user] = (gate, note)
-
-    result: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
-    for gate, gate_cfg in na_gates.items():
-        result[gate] = {
-            "declared": False,
-            "decl_ackers": [],
-            "rejected": {"not_in_team": []},
-        }
-        decl_ackers: list[str] = []
-        not_in_team: list[str] = []
-        for user, (g, _note) in latest_na.items():
-            if g != gate:
-                continue
-            if user == author:
-                continue  # authors cannot self-declare N/A
-            approved = probe(gate, [user])
-            if approved:
-                decl_ackers.append(user)
-            else:
-                not_in_team.append(user)
-        result[gate]["declared"] = bool(decl_ackers)
-        result[gate]["decl_ackers"] = decl_ackers
-        result[gate]["rejected"]["not_in_team"] = not_in_team
-
-    return result
-
-
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Gitea API client
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -490,35 +352,16 @@ class GiteaClient:
             raise RuntimeError(f"GET pulls/{pr} → HTTP {code}: {data!r}")
         return data
 
-    def iter_issue_comments(
-        self, owner: str, repo: str, issue: int, page_size: int = 50
-    ) -> Iterator[dict[str, Any]]:
-        """Stream comments page-by-page, yielding ONE minimal-dict per comment.
-
-        Each yielded comment carries ONLY the fields the gate actually reads
-        — `{"user": {"login": str}, "body": str}` — and DROPS the much
-        larger Gitea-API extras (html_url, pull_request_url, issue_url,
-        assets, created_at, updated_at, id, original_author_*).
-
-        Memory motivation (task #369 / mc#1242-class OOM): full Gitea
-        comment dicts are ~2 KiB median + ~3 KiB p95. On PRs with several
-        thousand bot-relay comments the eager `list[full_dict]` shape used
-        previously pushed runner anon-rss past the cgroup limit. The
-        minimal-dict shape is ~10-20x smaller (typically ~50-100B Python
-        overhead + the body string).
-
-        The two downstream consumers (`compute_ack_state`,
-        `compute_na_state`) each iterate the comment list exactly once and
-        read only `body` + `user.login`, so dropping every other field is
-        safe. They still receive `list[dict[str, Any]]`-shaped objects so
-        the test fixtures (which already used the minimal shape) keep
-        working with no fixture changes.
-        """
+    def get_issue_comments(
+        self, owner: str, repo: str, issue: int
+    ) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+        # Paginate. Gitea default page size 50.
+        out: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
         page = 1
         while True:
             code, data = self._req(
                 "GET",
-                f"/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue}/comments?limit={page_size}&page={page}",
+                f"/repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{issue}/comments?limit=50&page={page}",
             )
             if code != 200:
                 raise RuntimeError(
@@ -526,41 +369,10 @@ class GiteaClient:
                 )
             if not data:
                 break
-            for c in data:
-                # Minimal projection — drop ALL fields the gate doesn't read.
-                user_login = ((c.get("user") or {}).get("login") or "") if isinstance(c, dict) else ""
-                body = (c.get("body") if isinstance(c, dict) else "") or ""
-                # Body-size guardrail: huge comments (e.g. pasted CI logs) can
-                # individually be MiBs. The directive parser only needs the
-                # first ~8 KiB to find /sop-ack /sop-revoke /sop-n/a markers
-                # — anything past that is filler. Truncate at 8 KiB so a
-                # single oversized comment can't OOM the runner.
-                if len(body) > _MAX_BODY_BYTES:
-                    body = body[:_MAX_BODY_BYTES]
-                yield {"user": {"login": user_login}, "body": body}
-            if len(data) < page_size:
+            out.extend(data)
+            if len(data) < 50:
                 break
             page += 1
-
-    def get_issue_comments(
-        self,
-        owner: str,
-        repo: str,
-        issue: int,
-        max_comments: int | None = None,
-    ) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
-        """Paginate + collect minimal comment dicts. See `iter_issue_comments`
-        for the per-comment shape and the OOM-prevention rationale.
-
-        `max_comments` (optional, default unbounded): hard cap. When the cap
-        is hit we stop fetching further pages and the caller surfaces a
-        soft 'skipping due to volume' status (see main()).
-        """
-        out: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
-        for c in self.iter_issue_comments(owner, repo, issue):
-            out.append(c)
-            if max_comments is not None and len(out) >= max_comments:
-                break
         return out
 
     def resolve_team_id(self, org: str, team_name: str) -> int | None:
@@ -851,42 +663,6 @@ def get_tier_mode(pr: dict[str, Any], cfg: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
     return default_mode
 
 
-def is_high_risk(pr: dict[str, Any], cfg: dict[str, Any]) -> bool:
-    """Return True when the PR is high-risk per RFC#450 Option C.
-
-    A PR is high-risk when ANY of:
-      - it carries the `tier:high` label (mechanically strictest tier), or
-      - it carries any label listed in cfg.high_risk_labels.
-
-    High-risk PRs use `required_teams_high_risk` (when set on an item)
-    instead of the default `required_teams`. Items without
-    `required_teams_high_risk` are unaffected (the default applies).
-
-    Governance fix for internal#442 — closes the inconsistency between
-    sop-tier-check (tier-aware) and sop-checklist (was tier-blind).
-    """
-    label_set = {(l.get("name") or "") for l in (pr.get("labels") or [])}
-    if "tier:high" in label_set:
-        return True
-    high_risk_labels = set(cfg.get("high_risk_labels") or [])
-    return bool(label_set & high_risk_labels)
-
-
-def resolve_required_teams(item: dict[str, Any], high_risk: bool) -> list[str]:
-    """Pick the active required_teams list for an item.
-
-    When high_risk is True AND the item declares a non-empty
-    `required_teams_high_risk`, return that. Else fall back to
-    `required_teams`. Keeping this in one helper means the gate's
-    decision shape stays single-sited even as items grow.
-    """
-    if high_risk:
-        elevated = item.get("required_teams_high_risk") or []
-        if elevated:
-            return list(elevated)
-    return list(item.get("required_teams") or [])
-
-
 def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
     p = argparse.ArgumentParser()
     p.add_argument("--owner", required=True)
@@ -912,17 +688,6 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
             "thing BP sees is the POSTed status. Useful for local debugging."
         ),
     )
-    p.add_argument(
-        "--max-comments",
-        type=int,
-        default=int(os.environ.get("SOP_CHECKLIST_MAX_COMMENTS") or 5000),
-        help=(
-            "Hard cap on comments fetched from the PR. Above this we post "
-            "a SOFT-pending status with a 'skipping due to volume' note "
-            "instead of OOM'ing the runner (task #369). Override with the "
-            "SOP_CHECKLIST_MAX_COMMENTS env var. Set 0 to disable the cap."
-        ),
-    )
     args = p.parse_args(argv)
 
     token = os.environ.get("GITEA_TOKEN", "")
@@ -933,7 +698,6 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
     cfg = load_config(args.config)
     items: list[dict[str, Any]] = cfg["items"]
     items_by_slug = {it["slug"]: it for it in items}
-    na_gates: dict[str, Any] = cfg.get("n/a_gates", {})
     numeric_aliases = {
         int(it["numeric_alias"]): it["slug"] for it in items if it.get("numeric_alias")
     }
@@ -956,24 +720,7 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
         print("::error::PR payload missing user.login or head.sha", file=sys.stderr)
         return 1
 
-    max_comments_cap = args.max_comments if args.max_comments and args.max_comments > 0 else None
-    comments = client.get_issue_comments(
-        args.owner, args.repo, args.pr, max_comments=max_comments_cap
-    )
-
-    # Volume short-circuit: PRs with thousands of bot-relay comments
-    # (the mc#1242-class OOM source) get a soft 'volume-skipped' status
-    # so the gate doesn't churn the runner; reviewers can re-trigger by
-    # editing the PR or filing a fresh PR with the housekeeping comments
-    # split off. Cap-hit means we couldn't see the WHOLE history, so we
-    # can't fairly post failure — pending is the safe default.
-    volume_skipped = bool(max_comments_cap and len(comments) >= max_comments_cap)
-
-    # High-risk classification (RFC#450 Option C, governance fix for
-    # internal#442). Computed ONCE per PR — used by both the probe
-    # closure and compute_ack_state so the elevation decision is
-    # single-sited.
-    high_risk = is_high_risk(pr, cfg)
+    comments = client.get_issue_comments(args.owner, args.repo, args.pr)
 
     # Build team-membership probe closure that caches results per
     # (user, team-id) so a user acking multiple items only triggers
@@ -981,34 +728,8 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
     team_member_cache: dict[tuple[str, int], bool | None] = {}
 
     def probe(slug: str, users: list[str]) -> list[str]:
-        # `slug` may be either an items-key (compute_ack_state caller) OR
-        # an n/a-gate key (compute_na_state caller). Previously this hard
-        # KeyError'd on the n/a-gate path when slug was e.g. "security-review"
-        # — that's a config gate, not an item — so the gate would crash
-        # instead of falling back to the gate's own required_teams. Fix
-        # task #369 follow-up to issue #355.
-        if slug in items_by_slug:
-            item = items_by_slug[slug]
-            team_names: list[str] = resolve_required_teams(item, high_risk)
-        elif slug in na_gates:
-            # n/a-gate configs carry `required_teams` directly (see
-            # sop-checklist-config.yaml: n/a_gates.<gate>.required_teams).
-            gate_cfg = na_gates[slug] or {}
-            team_names = list(gate_cfg.get("required_teams") or [])
-            if not team_names:
-                print(
-                    f"::warning::n/a-gate '{slug}' has no required_teams; "
-                    "fail-closed (no users will be approved)",
-                    file=sys.stderr,
-                )
-        else:
-            # Unknown slug — fail closed, log so we can find config drift.
-            print(
-                f"::warning::probe() called with slug '{slug}' which is "
-                f"neither an items entry nor an n/a-gate; fail-closed",
-                file=sys.stderr,
-            )
-            return []
+        item = items_by_slug[slug]
+        team_names: list[str] = item["required_teams"]
         # Resolve names → ids. NOTE: orgs/{org}/teams/search may not be
         # available — fall back to the list endpoint.
         team_ids: list[int] = []
@@ -1053,9 +774,7 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
                     # may still find membership in another team.
         return approved
 
-    ack_state = compute_ack_state(
-        comments, author, items_by_slug, numeric_aliases, probe, high_risk=high_risk
-    )
+    ack_state = compute_ack_state(comments, author, items_by_slug, numeric_aliases, probe)
     body_state = {it["slug"]: section_marker_present(body, it["pr_section_marker"]) for it in items}
 
     state, description = render_status(items, ack_state, body_state)
@@ -1066,21 +785,9 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
         # were not required (vs a tier:medium+ PR that truly passed all acks).
         state = "success"
         description = f"[info tier:low] {description}"
-    if volume_skipped:
-        # Above the comment-cap — we may have a partial view. Soft-pend
-        # so neither BP nor the author gets stuck; surface the cap so
-        # reviewers know what's up. No-block at the gate level.
-        state = "pending"
-        description = (
-            f"[volume-skipped] comment-cap={max_comments_cap} hit; please file "
-            f"a fresh PR with bot-relay history split off (#369). {description}"
-        )
 
     # Diagnostics to job log.
-    print(
-        f"::notice::PR #{args.pr} author={author} head={head_sha[:7]} "
-        f"mode={mode} risk_class={'high' if high_risk else 'default'}"
-    )
+    print(f"::notice::PR #{args.pr} author={author} head={head_sha[:7]} mode={mode}")
     for it in items:
         slug = it["slug"]
         ackers = ack_state[slug]["ackers"]
@@ -1111,46 +818,6 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
         description=description, target_url=target_url,
     )
     print(f"::notice::status posted: {args.status_context} → {state}")
-
-    # --- N/A gate status (RFC#324 §N/A follow-up) ---
-    # Post a separate status so review-check.sh can discover N/A declarations
-    # and waive the Gitea-approve requirement for that gate.
-    na_state: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {}
-    if na_gates:
-        na_state = compute_na_state(comments, author, na_gates, probe)
-
-        na_descs: list[str] = []
-        for gate, s in na_state.items():
-            if s["declared"]:
-                na_descs.append(gate)
-            decl = s["decl_ackers"]
-            rej = s["rejected"]["not_in_team"]
-            if decl:
-                print(f"::notice::  [N/A OK] {gate} — declared by {','.join(decl)}")
-            if rej:
-                print(
-                    f"::notice::  [N/A REJ] {gate} — not-in-team: {','.join(rej)}",
-                    file=sys.stderr,
-                )
-
-        na_desc = ", ".join(sorted(na_descs)) if na_descs else "(none)"
-        na_status_state = "success" if na_descs else "pending"
-        # review-check.sh reads the description to discover which gates are N/A.
-        # Include the gate names so it can grep for them.
-        na_description = f"N/A: {na_desc}" if na_descs else "N/A: (none)"
-
-        if not args.dry_run:
-            client.post_status(
-                args.owner, args.repo, head_sha,
-                state=na_status_state,
-                context="sop-checklist / na-declarations (pull_request)",
-                description=na_description,
-                target_url=target_url,
-            )
-            print(
-                f"::notice::na-declarations status → {na_status_state}: {na_description}"
-            )
-
     # By default exit 0 — the POSTed status IS the gate, NOT the job
     # conclusion. If the job exits 1 BP will see TWO failure signals
     # (one from the job's auto-status, one from our POST), making the

.gitea/scripts/sop-tier-refire.sh

@@ -104,13 +104,10 @@ if [ "${SOP_REFIRE_DISABLE_RATE_LIMIT:-}" != "1" ]; then
   fi
 fi
 
-# 3. Invoke sop-tier-check.sh with the env it expects.
-# The canonical workflow intentionally fail-opens the job conclusion
-# (`bash .gitea/scripts/sop-tier-check.sh || true`) while Gitea branch
-# protection enforces reviewer approvals separately. Keep the refire path
-# aligned with that workflow status behavior; otherwise /refire-tier-check can
-# post a hard failure that the canonical pull_request_target workflow would
-# not publish.
+# 3. Invoke sop-tier-check.sh with the env it expects. Capture exit code.
+# The canonical script reads tier label, walks approving reviewers, and
+# evaluates the AND-composition expression — we want the SAME gate, not
+# a different gate.
 #
 # SOP_REFIRE_TIER_CHECK_SCRIPT env var lets tests substitute a mock —
 # sop-tier-check.sh uses bash 4+ associative arrays which trigger a known
@@ -126,6 +123,7 @@ fi
 
 # Re-invoke. Pipe stdout/stderr through so the runner log shows the
 # tier-check decision inline.
+set +e
 GITEA_TOKEN="$GITEA_TOKEN" \
   GITEA_HOST="$GITEA_HOST" \
   REPO="$REPO" \
@@ -133,8 +131,9 @@ GITEA_TOKEN="$GITEA_TOKEN" \
   PR_AUTHOR="$PR_AUTHOR" \
   SOP_DEBUG="${SOP_DEBUG:-0}" \
   SOP_LEGACY_CHECK="${SOP_LEGACY_CHECK:-0}" \
-  bash "$SCRIPT" || true
-TIER_EXIT=0
+  bash "$SCRIPT"
+TIER_EXIT=$?
+set -e
 debug "sop-tier-check.sh exit=$TIER_EXIT"
 
 # 4. POST the resulting status.

.gitea/scripts/status-reaper.py

@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ What this script does, per `.gitea/workflows/status-reaper.yml` invocation:
          Parse context as `<workflow_name> / <job_name> (push)`.
          Look up workflow_name in the trigger map:
            - missing → log ::notice:: and skip (conservative).
-           - has_push_trigger=True and description == "Has been cancelled"
-             → compensate cancelled/superseded push noise.
-           - has_push_trigger=True otherwise → preserve (real defect signal).
+           - has_push_trigger=True → preserve (real defect signal).
            - has_push_trigger=False → POST a compensating
              `state=success` status to /statuses/{sha} with the same
              context (Gitea de-dups by context) and a description
@@ -143,11 +141,6 @@ PR_SHADOW_COMPENSATION_DESCRIPTION = (
     "shadowed by successful push status on same SHA; see "
     ".gitea/scripts/status-reaper.py)"
 )
-CANCELLED_PUSH_COMPENSATION_DESCRIPTION = (
-    "Compensated by status-reaper (push run was cancelled/superseded; "
-    "Gitea 1.22.6 reports cancelled runs as failure statuses)"
-)
-CANCELLED_DESCRIPTION = "Has been cancelled"
 
 # Context suffix the reaper acts on. Gitea hardcodes this for ALL
 # default-branch workflow runs.
@@ -483,7 +476,7 @@ def reap(
       {compensated, preserved_real_push, preserved_unknown,
        preserved_non_failure, preserved_non_push_suffix,
        preserved_unparseable, compensated_pr_shadowed_by_push_success,
-       preserved_pr_without_push_success, compensated_cancelled_push,
+       preserved_pr_without_push_success,
        compensated_contexts: [<context>, ...]}
 
     `compensated_contexts` is rev2-added so `reap_branch` can build
@@ -497,7 +490,6 @@ def reap(
         "preserved_non_push_suffix": 0,
         "preserved_unparseable": 0,
         "compensated_pr_shadowed_by_push_success": 0,
-        "compensated_cancelled_push": 0,
         "preserved_pr_without_push_success": 0,
         "compensated_contexts": [],
     }
@@ -575,27 +567,8 @@ def reap(
             counters["preserved_unknown"] += 1
             continue
 
-        if (s.get("description") or "").strip() == CANCELLED_DESCRIPTION:
-            # Gitea 1.22.6 maps cancelled action runs to failure commit
-            # statuses. During merge bursts, older push runs can be
-            # superseded and cancelled even though a newer run for the
-            # same branch is the real signal. Compensate only the exact
-            # Gitea cancellation description; real push failures remain red.
-            post_compensating_status(
-                sha,
-                context,
-                s.get("target_url"),
-                description=CANCELLED_PUSH_COMPENSATION_DESCRIPTION,
-                dry_run=dry_run,
-            )
-            counters["compensated"] += 1
-            counters["compensated_cancelled_push"] += 1
-            counters["compensated_contexts"].append(context)
-            continue
-
         if workflow_trigger_map[workflow_name]:
-            # Real push trigger with a non-cancelled failure description
-            # remains a defect signal. Preserve.
+            # Real push trigger → real defect signal. Preserve.
             counters["preserved_real_push"] += 1
             continue
 
@@ -701,7 +674,6 @@ def reap_branch(
             "preserved_non_push_suffix": 0,
             "preserved_unparseable": 0,
             "compensated_pr_shadowed_by_push_success": 0,
-            "compensated_cancelled_push": 0,
             "preserved_pr_without_push_success": 0,
             "compensated_per_sha": {},
             "skipped": True,
@@ -717,7 +689,6 @@ def reap_branch(
         "preserved_non_push_suffix": 0,
         "preserved_unparseable": 0,
         "compensated_pr_shadowed_by_push_success": 0,
-        "compensated_cancelled_push": 0,
         "preserved_pr_without_push_success": 0,
         "compensated_per_sha": {},
     }
@@ -757,7 +728,6 @@ def reap_branch(
             "preserved_non_push_suffix",
             "preserved_unparseable",
             "compensated_pr_shadowed_by_push_success",
-            "compensated_cancelled_push",
             "preserved_pr_without_push_success",
         ):
             aggregate[key] += per_sha[key]

.gitea/scripts/tests/_review_check_fixture.py

@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ Scenarios:
   T8_team_not_member          — team membership → 404 (not a member) → exit 1
   T9_team_403                — team membership → 403 (token not in team) → exit 1
   T14_non_default_base        — open PR targeting staging → script exits 0 (no-op)
-  T15_comments_agent_approval — reviews empty; comments have "[core-qa-agent] APPROVED" → exit 0
-  T16_comments_generic_approval — reviews empty; comments have "APPROVED" by team member → exit 0
-  T17_comments_no_approval   — reviews empty; comments have no approval keywords → exit 1
 
 Usage:
   FIXTURE_STATE_DIR=/tmp/x python3 _review_check_fixture.py 8080
@@ -100,9 +97,7 @@ class Handler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
         # GET /repos/{owner}/{name}/pulls/{pr_number}/reviews
         m = re.match(r"^/api/v1/repos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/pulls/(\d+)/reviews$", path)
         if m:
-            if sc in ("T4_reviews_empty", "T5_reviews_only_author",
-                      "T15_comments_agent_approval", "T16_comments_generic_approval",
-                      "T17_comments_no_approval"):
+            if sc in ("T4_reviews_empty", "T5_reviews_only_author"):
                 return self._json(200, [])
             if sc == "T6_reviews_dismissed":
                 return self._json(200, [{
@@ -121,28 +116,6 @@ class Handler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
                 {"state": "APPROVED", "dismissed": False, "user": {"login": "core-devops"}, "commit_id": "abc1234"},
             ])
 
-        # GET /repos/{owner}/{name}/issues/{pr_number}/comments
-        m = re.match(r"^/api/v1/repos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/issues/(\d+)/comments$", path)
-        if m:
-            if sc == "T15_comments_agent_approval":
-                return self._json(200, [
-                    {"user": {"login": "core-qa-agent"}, "body": "[core-qa-agent] APPROVED this PR. Good changes.", "id": 1},
-                    {"user": {"login": "alice"}, "body": "I authored this PR", "id": 2},
-                    {"user": {"login": "random-user"}, "body": "Looks okay to me", "id": 3},
-                ])
-            if sc == "T16_comments_generic_approval":
-                return self._json(200, [
-                    {"user": {"login": "core-qa-agent"}, "body": "APPROVED — all acceptance criteria met", "id": 1},
-                    {"user": {"login": "alice"}, "body": "-authored", "id": 2},
-                ])
-            if sc == "T17_comments_no_approval":
-                return self._json(200, [
-                    {"user": {"login": "alice"}, "body": "I authored this PR", "id": 1},
-                    {"user": {"login": "random-user"}, "body": "Looks okay to me", "id": 2},
-                ])
-            # Default scenarios (T1–T9, T14): no comments
-            return self._json(200, [])
-
         # GET /teams/{team_id}/members/{username}
         m = re.match(r"^/api/v1/teams/(\d+)/members/([^/]+)$", path)
         if m:
@@ -154,12 +127,6 @@ class Handler(http.server.BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
             # T7_team_member: member
             return self._empty(204)
 
-        # GET /repos/{owner}/{name}/statuses/{sha} — for N/A declaration check
-        m = re.match(r"^/api/v1/repos/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/statuses/([a-f0-9]+)$", path)
-        if m:
-            # All comment-based scenarios have no N/A declarations
-            return self._json(200, [])
-
         return self._json(404, {"path": path, "msg": "fixture: no route"})
 
     def do_POST(self):

.gitea/scripts/tests/test_gitea_merge_queue.py

@@ -118,13 +118,3 @@ def test_merge_decision_updates_stale_pr_before_merge():
 
     assert decision.ready is False
     assert decision.action == "update"
-
-
-def test_MergePermissionError_inherits_from_ApiError():
-    assert issubclass(mq.MergePermissionError, mq.ApiError)
-
-
-def test_MergePermissionError_message_preserved():
-    exc = mq.MergePermissionError("POST /merge -> HTTP 405: User not allowed")
-    assert "405" in str(exc)
-    assert "User not allowed" in str(exc)

.gitea/scripts/tests/test_prod_auto_deploy.py

@@ -36,37 +36,9 @@ def test_build_plan_defaults_to_staging_sha_target_and_prod_cp():
         "soak_seconds": 60,
         "batch_size": 3,
         "dry_run": False,
-        # cp#228 / task #308: fleet-wide intent must carry confirm:true.
-        "confirm": True,
     }
 
 
-def test_build_plan_always_sets_confirm_true_for_fleet_intent():
-    """Regression guard: every plan body MUST carry confirm:true.
-
-    CP /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet (cp#228) returns 400 on empty
-    body / {confirm:false} / {only_slugs:[]} to prevent accidental
-    fleet-wide mutation. This caller is fleet-wide intent (canary +
-    fan-out, no slug scoping), so the plan MUST carry confirm:true.
-    Pairs with cp#228's TestRedeployFleet_EmptyBodyReturns400 +
-    TestRedeployFleet_ConfirmTrueProceeds.
-    """
-    plan = prod.build_plan({"GITHUB_SHA": "abcdef1234567890"})
-    assert plan["body"]["confirm"] is True
-
-    # Operator-overridable knobs do NOT drop the ack.
-    plan = prod.build_plan(
-        {
-            "GITHUB_SHA": "abcdef1234567890",
-            "PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_SOAK_SECONDS": "0",
-            "PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_BATCH_SIZE": "10",
-            "PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_DRY_RUN": "true",
-            "PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_CANARY_SLUG": "",
-        }
-    )
-    assert plan["body"]["confirm"] is True
-
-
 def test_build_plan_rejects_non_prod_cp_without_explicit_override():
     try:
         prod.build_plan(

.gitea/scripts/tests/test_review_check.sh

@@ -334,31 +334,6 @@ assert_contains "T12 jq: core-devops (non-author APPROVED) in candidates" "core-
 assert_eq "T12 jq: alice (author) NOT in candidates" "" "$(echo "$T12_CANDIDATES" | grep '^alice$' || true)"
 assert_eq "T12 jq: carol (dismissed) NOT in candidates" "" "$(echo "$T12_CANDIDATES" | grep '^carol$' || true)"
 
-# T15 — comment-based approval via agent prefix pattern → exit 0
-echo
-echo "== T15 comment agent-prefix approval =="
-T15_OUT=$(run_review_check "T15_comments_agent_approval")
-T15_RC=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/last_rc")
-assert_eq "T15 exit code 0 (agent-comment approval + team member)" "0" "$T15_RC"
-assert_contains "T15 comment fallback notice" "comment-based approval" "$T15_OUT"
-assert_contains "T15 core-qa-agent APPROVED" "APPROVED by core-qa-agent" "$T15_OUT"
-
-# T16 — comment-based approval via generic APPROVED keyword → exit 0
-echo
-echo "== T16 comment generic keyword approval =="
-T16_OUT=$(run_review_check "T16_comments_generic_approval")
-T16_RC=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/last_rc")
-assert_eq "T16 exit code 0 (generic-approval comment + team member)" "0" "$T16_RC"
-assert_contains "T16 comment fallback notice" "comment-based approval" "$T16_OUT"
-
-# T17 — no approval keywords in comments → exit 1
-echo
-echo "== T17 comments with no approval keywords =="
-T17_OUT=$(run_review_check "T17_comments_no_approval")
-T17_RC=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/last_rc")
-assert_eq "T17 exit code 1 (no candidates from comments)" "1" "$T17_RC"
-assert_contains "T17 no candidates error" "no candidates from reviews API or issue comments" "$T17_OUT"
-
 echo
 echo "------"
 echo "PASS=$PASS FAIL=$FAIL"

.gitea/scripts/tests/test_sop_checklist.py

@@ -551,456 +551,3 @@ class TestEndToEndAckFlow(unittest.TestCase):
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main(verbosity=2)
-
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# compute_na_state
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-class TestComputeNaState(unittest.TestCase):
-    """Tests for /sop-n/a directive evaluation."""
-
-    def test_no_na_declarations(self):
-        cfg = sop.load_config(CONFIG_PATH)
-        na_gates = cfg.get("n/a_gates", {})
-        comments = []
-        na_state = sop.compute_na_state(comments, "alice", na_gates, lambda *_: [])
-        self.assertFalse(na_state["qa-review"]["declared"])
-        self.assertFalse(na_state["security-review"]["declared"])
-
-    def test_na_declared_by_authorized_user(self):
-        cfg = sop.load_config(CONFIG_PATH)
-        na_gates = cfg.get("n/a_gates", {})
-        comments = [_comment("bob", "/sop-n/a qa-review N/A: pure tooling change")]
-        na_state = sop.compute_na_state(comments, "alice", na_gates, lambda g, u: u)
-        self.assertTrue(na_state["qa-review"]["declared"])
-        self.assertEqual(na_state["qa-review"]["decl_ackers"], ["bob"])
-
-    def test_na_declared_by_unauthorized_user_rejected(self):
-        cfg = sop.load_config(CONFIG_PATH)
-        na_gates = cfg.get("n/a_gates", {})
-        comments = [_comment("mallory", "/sop-n/a qa-review N/A: not real team")]
-        na_state = sop.compute_na_state(comments, "alice", na_gates, lambda g, u: [])
-        self.assertFalse(na_state["qa-review"]["declared"])
-        self.assertEqual(na_state["qa-review"]["rejected"]["not_in_team"], ["mallory"])
-
-    def test_author_cannot_self_declare_na(self):
-        cfg = sop.load_config(CONFIG_PATH)
-        na_gates = cfg.get("n/a_gates", {})
-        comments = [_comment("alice", "/sop-n/a qa-review N/A: I am the author")]
-        na_state = sop.compute_na_state(comments, "alice", na_gates, lambda g, u: u)
-        self.assertFalse(na_state["qa-review"]["declared"])
-
-    def test_parse_directives_separates_na_from_ack(self):
-        directives, na_directives = sop.parse_directives(
-            "/sop-ack comprehensive-testing\n/sop-n/a qa-review N/A: no surface",
-            {},
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(len(directives), 1)
-        self.assertEqual(directives[0][0], "sop-ack")
-        self.assertEqual(len(na_directives), 1)
-        self.assertEqual(na_directives[0][0], "sop-n/a")
-        self.assertEqual(na_directives[0][1], "qa-review")
-
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# RFC#450 Option C — risk-classed two-eyes (governance fix for internal#442)
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-class TestIsHighRisk(unittest.TestCase):
-    """The high-risk predicate decides which required_teams list applies.
-
-    Predicate: tier:high label OR any label in cfg.high_risk_labels.
-    """
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.cfg = sop.load_config(CONFIG_PATH)
-
-    def test_no_labels_is_default_class(self):
-        pr = {"labels": []}
-        self.assertFalse(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_tier_high_is_high_risk(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "tier:high"}]}
-        self.assertTrue(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_tier_low_is_default_class(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "tier:low"}]}
-        self.assertFalse(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_tier_medium_is_default_class(self):
-        # tier:medium alone is NOT high-risk (Option C — medium routes
-        # to the wider engineers OR-set).
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "tier:medium"}]}
-        self.assertFalse(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_area_security_label_is_high_risk(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "tier:medium"}, {"name": "area:security"}]}
-        self.assertTrue(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_area_schema_label_is_high_risk(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "area:schema"}]}
-        self.assertTrue(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_area_identity_label_is_high_risk(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "area:identity"}]}
-        self.assertTrue(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_area_fleet_image_label_is_high_risk(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "area:fleet-image"}]}
-        self.assertTrue(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_area_gate_meta_label_is_high_risk(self):
-        # Gate-meta = changes to sop-checklist/sop-tier-check itself.
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "area:gate-meta"}]}
-        self.assertTrue(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-    def test_unknown_area_label_is_default_class(self):
-        pr = {"labels": [{"name": "area:docs"}]}
-        self.assertFalse(sop.is_high_risk(pr, self.cfg))
-
-
-class TestResolveRequiredTeams(unittest.TestCase):
-    """The team resolver picks the elevated list only for high-risk PRs
-    AND only when the item declares one — items without an elevated
-    list always use the default required_teams."""
-
-    def test_default_class_uses_default_teams(self):
-        item = {"required_teams": ["engineers", "managers", "ceo"], "required_teams_high_risk": ["ceo"]}
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sop.resolve_required_teams(item, high_risk=False),
-            ["engineers", "managers", "ceo"],
-        )
-
-    def test_high_risk_uses_elevated_teams(self):
-        item = {"required_teams": ["engineers", "managers", "ceo"], "required_teams_high_risk": ["ceo"]}
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sop.resolve_required_teams(item, high_risk=True),
-            ["ceo"],
-        )
-
-    def test_high_risk_without_elevated_falls_back_to_default(self):
-        # Items that don't declare required_teams_high_risk (e.g.
-        # comprehensive-testing, staging-smoke) are unaffected by risk-class.
-        item = {"required_teams": ["engineers"]}
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sop.resolve_required_teams(item, high_risk=True),
-            ["engineers"],
-        )
-
-    def test_empty_elevated_list_falls_back_to_default(self):
-        # A defensive case: required_teams_high_risk: [] should not
-        # silently lock out all approvers — fall back to the default
-        # so the gate stays satisfiable. (Tightening should remove the
-        # key, not set it to empty.)
-        item = {"required_teams": ["engineers"], "required_teams_high_risk": []}
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sop.resolve_required_teams(item, high_risk=True),
-            ["engineers"],
-        )
-
-
-class TestRootCauseAckEligibilityWidened(unittest.TestCase):
-    """Closes internal#442: a non-author engineers-team ack now satisfies
-    root-cause / no-backwards-compat for the default class.
-
-    The dead-managers/ceo-persona-token gridlock is the symptom; the
-    root cause is that sop-checklist ignored tier-class. These tests
-    pin the new wider-default behavior so it can't regress silently.
-    """
-
-    def setUp(self):
-        self.items = _items_by_slug()
-        self.aliases = _numeric_aliases()
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _approve_only(allowed):
-        return lambda slug, users: [u for u in users if u in allowed]
-
-    def test_engineers_ack_satisfies_root_cause_default_class(self):
-        # Bob is in engineers only (not managers, not ceo). Default class.
-        comments = [_comment("bob", "/sop-ack root-cause")]
-        # Probe: bob is approved because root-cause now lists engineers.
-        probe = self._approve_only({"bob"})
-        state = sop.compute_ack_state(
-            comments, "alice", self.items, self.aliases, probe, high_risk=False
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(state["root-cause"]["ackers"], ["bob"])
-
-    def test_engineers_ack_satisfies_no_backwards_compat_default_class(self):
-        comments = [_comment("bob", "/sop-ack no-backwards-compat")]
-        probe = self._approve_only({"bob"})
-        state = sop.compute_ack_state(
-            comments, "alice", self.items, self.aliases, probe, high_risk=False
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(state["no-backwards-compat"]["ackers"], ["bob"])
-
-    def test_engineers_ack_alone_fails_root_cause_when_high_risk(self):
-        # High-risk PR: only ceo can ack. Engineers-only ack must fail.
-        comments = [_comment("bob", "/sop-ack root-cause")]
-        # Probe: bob is in engineers, not ceo. Under high_risk,
-        # required_teams_high_risk=[ceo] → bob is NOT approved.
-        # Probe receives the items + flag indirectly via main(); for
-        # the unit-test path we inject a probe that rejects bob.
-        probe = self._approve_only(set())  # nobody is in ceo
-        state = sop.compute_ack_state(
-            comments, "alice", self.items, self.aliases, probe, high_risk=True
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(state["root-cause"]["ackers"], [])
-        self.assertIn("bob", state["root-cause"]["rejected"]["not_in_team"])
-
-    def test_ceo_ack_satisfies_root_cause_when_high_risk(self):
-        # High-risk PR + ceo-team approver → passes (the senior path).
-        comments = [_comment("hongming", "/sop-ack root-cause")]
-        probe = self._approve_only({"hongming"})
-        state = sop.compute_ack_state(
-            comments, "alice", self.items, self.aliases, probe, high_risk=True
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(state["root-cause"]["ackers"], ["hongming"])
-
-    def test_self_ack_still_forbidden_even_with_widened_eligibility(self):
-        # Author cannot self-ack — widening teams must NOT weaken
-        # the non-author rule.
-        comments = [_comment("alice", "/sop-ack root-cause")]
-        probe = self._approve_only({"alice"})
-        state = sop.compute_ack_state(
-            comments, "alice", self.items, self.aliases, probe, high_risk=False
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(state["root-cause"]["ackers"], [])
-        self.assertIn("alice", state["root-cause"]["rejected"]["self_ack"])
-
-
-class TestHighRiskClassUsesElevatedListInConfig(unittest.TestCase):
-    """End-to-end: the shipped config + RFC#450 predicate must keep
-    root-cause / no-backwards-compat gated on ceo for high-risk PRs."""
-
-    def test_root_cause_high_risk_elevated_to_ceo_only(self):
-        items = _items_by_slug()
-        # tier:high alone makes the PR high-risk → root-cause needs ceo.
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sop.resolve_required_teams(items["root-cause"], high_risk=True),
-            ["ceo"],
-        )
-        # Default class accepts engineers/managers/ceo.
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sorted(sop.resolve_required_teams(items["root-cause"], high_risk=False)),
-            sorted(["engineers", "managers", "ceo"]),
-        )
-
-    def test_no_backwards_compat_high_risk_elevated_to_ceo_only(self):
-        items = _items_by_slug()
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sop.resolve_required_teams(items["no-backwards-compat"], high_risk=True),
-            ["ceo"],
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            sorted(sop.resolve_required_teams(items["no-backwards-compat"], high_risk=False)),
-            sorted(["engineers", "managers", "ceo"]),
-        )
-
-    def test_other_items_unchanged_by_risk_class(self):
-        # Items without required_teams_high_risk are unaffected.
-        items = _items_by_slug()
-        for slug in (
-            "comprehensive-testing",
-            "local-postgres-e2e",
-            "staging-smoke",
-            "five-axis-review",
-            "memory-consulted",
-        ):
-            self.assertEqual(
-                sop.resolve_required_teams(items[slug], high_risk=False),
-                sop.resolve_required_teams(items[slug], high_risk=True),
-                f"item {slug} should not be affected by risk-class",
-            )
-
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# get_issue_comments — streaming + minimal-dict shape (task #369 / OOM fix)
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-class _FakeReq:
-    """Stand-in for GiteaClient._req that serves canned pages."""
-
-    def __init__(self, pages):
-        # pages: list[list[dict]]; one page per call, exhausted in order.
-        self._pages = list(pages)
-        self.calls = []
-
-    def __call__(self, method, path, body=None, ok_codes=(200, 201, 204)):
-        self.calls.append((method, path))
-        if not self._pages:
-            return 200, []
-        return 200, self._pages.pop(0)
-
-
-class TestGetIssueCommentsStreaming(unittest.TestCase):
-    """Verify the OOM-fix invariants — minimal-dict shape + page break."""
-
-    def _client_with_pages(self, pages):
-        client = sop.GiteaClient("git.example.com", "tok")
-        client._req = _FakeReq(pages)  # type: ignore[method-assign]
-        return client
-
-    def test_minimal_dict_shape_drops_large_fields(self):
-        """get_issue_comments must DROP html_url/assets/timestamps/etc. and
-        keep ONLY {user.login, body} — that's the whole OOM-prevention."""
-        full_page = [
-            {
-                "id": 1234,
-                "html_url": "https://example.com/some-huge-url",
-                "pull_request_url": "https://example.com/some-other-huge-url",
-                "issue_url": "https://example.com/yet-another-url",
-                "user": {"login": "bob", "avatar_url": "x" * 4000, "id": 99},
-                "original_author": "",
-                "original_author_id": 0,
-                "body": "/sop-ack comprehensive-testing\n\nlooks good",
-                "assets": ["x" * 1000, "y" * 1000],
-                "created_at": "2026-05-19T01:02:03Z",
-                "updated_at": "2026-05-19T01:02:03Z",
-            }
-        ]
-        client = self._client_with_pages([full_page])
-        out = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 1)
-        self.assertEqual(len(out), 1)
-        # Only the two whitelisted keys + nested user.login
-        self.assertEqual(set(out[0].keys()), {"user", "body"})
-        self.assertEqual(set(out[0]["user"].keys()), {"login"})
-        self.assertEqual(out[0]["user"]["login"], "bob")
-        self.assertEqual(out[0]["body"], "/sop-ack comprehensive-testing\n\nlooks good")
-        # Critical: avatar/assets/timestamps/etc. must be gone (~4KB+ each).
-        self.assertNotIn("html_url", out[0])
-        self.assertNotIn("assets", out[0])
-        self.assertNotIn("created_at", out[0])
-
-    def test_pagination_break_on_short_page(self):
-        # Page-size 50; a page of <50 means no more pages.
-        page1 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "x"}] * 7
-        client = self._client_with_pages([page1])
-        out = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 2)
-        self.assertEqual(len(out), 7)
-        # Should have made exactly 1 _req call (no page-2 probe).
-        self.assertEqual(len(client._req.calls), 1)
-
-    def test_pagination_continues_until_empty(self):
-        # Two full pages + one short page.
-        page1 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "x"}] * 50
-        page2 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "y"}] * 50
-        page3 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "z"}] * 3
-        client = self._client_with_pages([page1, page2, page3])
-        out = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 3)
-        self.assertEqual(len(out), 103)
-        self.assertEqual(len(client._req.calls), 3)
-
-    def test_max_comments_caps_collection(self):
-        page1 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "x"}] * 50
-        page2 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "y"}] * 50
-        page3 = [{"user": {"login": "u"}, "body": "z"}] * 50
-        client = self._client_with_pages([page1, page2, page3])
-        out = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 4, max_comments=75)
-        self.assertEqual(len(out), 75)
-        # Stops short: shouldn't have requested page-3.
-        self.assertLessEqual(len(client._req.calls), 2)
-
-    def test_oversized_body_truncated(self):
-        # An individual comment with a multi-MiB body (e.g. pasted CI log)
-        # must NOT pull the whole thing into memory. The directive parser
-        # only needs the first ~8 KiB to find /sop-* markers.
-        huge_body = "/sop-ack comprehensive-testing\n" + ("X" * (4 * 1024 * 1024))
-        page = [{"user": {"login": "bob"}, "body": huge_body}]
-        client = self._client_with_pages([page])
-        out = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 99)
-        self.assertEqual(len(out), 1)
-        # Cap is 8 KiB; comment body must be <= 8 KiB after streaming.
-        self.assertLessEqual(len(out[0]["body"]), 8 * 1024)
-        # Marker still discoverable at the start.
-        self.assertTrue(out[0]["body"].startswith("/sop-ack comprehensive-testing"))
-
-    def test_iter_handles_missing_user_or_body(self):
-        # Defensive: Gitea has been seen to return user=null on deleted users.
-        page = [
-            {"user": None, "body": "abandoned-author"},
-            {"user": {"login": "alice"}, "body": None},
-            {"body": "no-user-key"},
-            {"user": {"login": "bob"}, "body": "ok"},
-        ]
-        client = self._client_with_pages([page])
-        out = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 5)
-        self.assertEqual(len(out), 4)
-        self.assertEqual(out[0]["user"]["login"], "")
-        self.assertEqual(out[0]["body"], "abandoned-author")
-        self.assertEqual(out[1]["user"]["login"], "alice")
-        self.assertEqual(out[1]["body"], "")
-        self.assertEqual(out[2]["user"]["login"], "")
-        self.assertEqual(out[3]["user"]["login"], "bob")
-
-    def test_minimal_dicts_work_with_compute_ack_state(self):
-        """Round-trip: minimal dicts feed back through compute_ack_state."""
-        page = [{"user": {"login": "bob"}, "body": "/sop-ack comprehensive-testing"}]
-        client = self._client_with_pages([page])
-        comments = client.get_issue_comments("o", "r", 6)
-        items = _items_by_slug()
-        aliases = _numeric_aliases()
-        state = sop.compute_ack_state(
-            comments, "alice", items, aliases, lambda slug, users: list(users)
-        )
-        self.assertEqual(state["comprehensive-testing"]["ackers"], ["bob"])
-
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# probe() na-gate fallback — fix for #355-class KeyError 'security-review'
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-class TestComputeNaStateAcceptsGateNotInItems(unittest.TestCase):
-    """compute_na_state passes the gate NAME to probe(); when the gate is
-    NOT also an items entry (the common case for `security-review`,
-    `qa-review`), probe must fall back to the gate's own required_teams
-    instead of KeyError'ing on items_by_slug[slug].
-
-    This test exercises the public surface (compute_na_state) rather than
-    the inline `probe` closure, because the closure is built inside main().
-    We simulate the fallback by passing a probe that mirrors the production
-    contract — slug may be either an item OR an n/a-gate key, both are valid.
-    """
-
-    def test_na_gate_with_required_teams_resolves_without_keyerror(self):
-        na_gates = {
-            "security-review": {
-                "required_teams": ["security", "managers", "ceo"],
-                "description": "security N/A",
-            },
-        }
-        comments = [
-            {"user": {"login": "carol"}, "body": "/sop-n/a security-review docs-only"},
-        ]
-        # Probe approves any user in the security team; importantly it does
-        # NOT try items_by_slug[slug] for the gate name.
-        called_with = []
-
-        def probe(slug, users):
-            called_with.append(slug)
-            # production probe accepts gate-name OR item-slug; for this test
-            # we just approve everyone.
-            return list(users)
-
-        na_state = sop.compute_na_state(comments, "alice", na_gates, probe)
-        self.assertTrue(na_state["security-review"]["declared"])
-        self.assertEqual(na_state["security-review"]["decl_ackers"], ["carol"])
-        # probe must have been called with the GATE name, not an item slug.
-        self.assertEqual(called_with, ["security-review"])
-
-    def test_na_gate_self_declaration_rejected(self):
-        # Author cannot self-declare N/A — pre-existing invariant; pin it
-        # so the new probe-fallback doesn't regress this.
-        na_gates = {"security-review": {"required_teams": ["security"]}}
-        comments = [
-            {"user": {"login": "alice"}, "body": "/sop-n/a security-review"},
-        ]
-        na_state = sop.compute_na_state(
-            comments, "alice", na_gates, lambda *_: ["alice"]
-        )
-        self.assertFalse(na_state["security-review"]["declared"])

.gitea/scripts/tests/test_sop_tier_refire.sh

@@ -6,10 +6,9 @@
 #   T1: PR open + APPROVED via tier:low → script invokes sop-tier-check
 #       and POSTs status=success.
 #   T2: PR open + missing tier label → sop-tier-check exits non-zero;
-#       refire still POSTs status=success, matching the canonical
-#       pull_request_target workflow's fail-open job conclusion.
+#       refire POSTs status=failure (description mentions failure).
 #   T3: PR open + tier:low but NO approving reviews → sop-tier-check
-#       exits non-zero; refire still POSTs status=success for the same reason.
+#       exits non-zero; refire POSTs status=failure.
 #   T4: PR CLOSED → refire exits 0 with no status POST (no-op on closed).
 #   T5: Rate-limit — recent status update within 30s → refire skips,
 #       no new POST.
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ THIS_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
 SCRIPT_DIR="$(cd "$THIS_DIR/.." && pwd)"
 WORKFLOW_DIR="$(cd "$THIS_DIR/../../workflows" && pwd)"
 WORKFLOW="$WORKFLOW_DIR/sop-tier-refire.yml"
-DISPATCH_WORKFLOW="$WORKFLOW_DIR/sop-checklist.yml"
+DISPATCH_WORKFLOW="$WORKFLOW_DIR/review-refire-comments.yml"
 SCRIPT="$SCRIPT_DIR/sop-tier-refire.sh"
 
 PASS=0
@@ -89,7 +88,7 @@ assert_file_exists() {
 echo
 echo "== existence =="
 assert_file_exists "workflow file exists"  "$WORKFLOW"
-assert_file_exists "SSOT dispatcher workflow file exists" "$DISPATCH_WORKFLOW"
+assert_file_exists "dispatcher workflow file exists" "$DISPATCH_WORKFLOW"
 assert_file_exists "script file exists"    "$SCRIPT"
 if [ "$FAIL" -gt 0 ]; then
   echo
@@ -134,15 +133,15 @@ else
 fi
 
 DISPATCH_PARSE_OUT=$(python3 -c 'import sys,yaml;yaml.safe_load(open(sys.argv[1]).read());print("ok")' "$DISPATCH_WORKFLOW" 2>&1 || true)
-assert_eq "T6e SSOT dispatcher workflow parses as YAML" "ok" "$DISPATCH_PARSE_OUT"
+assert_eq "T6e dispatcher workflow parses as YAML" "ok" "$DISPATCH_PARSE_OUT"
 DISPATCH_CONTENT=$(cat "$DISPATCH_WORKFLOW")
-assert_contains "T6f SSOT dispatcher listens on issue_comment" \
+assert_contains "T6f dispatcher listens on issue_comment" \
   "issue_comment" "$DISPATCH_CONTENT"
-assert_contains "T6g SSOT dispatcher handles /qa-recheck" \
+assert_contains "T6g dispatcher handles /qa-recheck" \
   "/qa-recheck" "$DISPATCH_CONTENT"
-assert_contains "T6h SSOT dispatcher handles /security-recheck" \
+assert_contains "T6h dispatcher handles /security-recheck" \
   "/security-recheck" "$DISPATCH_CONTENT"
-assert_contains "T6i SSOT dispatcher handles /refire-tier-check" \
+assert_contains "T6i dispatcher handles /refire-tier-check" \
   "/refire-tier-check" "$DISPATCH_CONTENT"
 
 # T1-T5 — script behavior against a local Gitea-fixture
@@ -246,21 +245,34 @@ assert_contains "T1 POST context is sop-tier-check / tier-check" \
   '"context": "sop-tier-check / tier-check (pull_request)"' "$POSTED"
 assert_contains "T1 description names commenter" "test-runner" "$POSTED"
 
-# T2: missing tier label → tier-check fails internally, but refire status
-# matches the canonical workflow's fail-open job conclusion.
+# T2: missing tier label → tier-check fails → failure status POSTed
 run_scenario "T2_no_tier_label" "fail_no_label"
 RC=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/last_rc")
 POSTED=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/posted_statuses.jsonl" 2>/dev/null || true)
-assert_eq "T2 exit code 0 (canonical fail-open)" "0" "$RC"
-assert_contains "T2 POSTed state=success" '"state": "success"' "$POSTED"
+# tier-check.sh exits 1; refire script forwards that exit, so RC != 0
+if [ "$RC" -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "  PASS  T2 exit code non-zero (got $RC)"
+  PASS=$((PASS + 1))
+else
+  echo "  FAIL  T2 exit code should be non-zero, got 0"
+  FAIL=$((FAIL + 1))
+  FAILED_TESTS="${FAILED_TESTS} T2_rc"
+fi
+assert_contains "T2 POSTed state=failure" '"state": "failure"' "$POSTED"
 
-# T3: tier:low present but ZERO approving reviews → internal tier check fails,
-# refire status remains aligned with the canonical workflow.
+# T3: tier:low present but ZERO approving reviews → failure
 run_scenario "T3_no_approvals" "fail_no_approvals"
 RC=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/last_rc")
 POSTED=$(cat "$FIX_STATE_DIR/posted_statuses.jsonl" 2>/dev/null || true)
-assert_eq "T3 exit code 0 (canonical fail-open)" "0" "$RC"
-assert_contains "T3 POSTed state=success" '"state": "success"' "$POSTED"
+if [ "$RC" -ne 0 ]; then
+  echo "  PASS  T3 exit code non-zero (got $RC)"
+  PASS=$((PASS + 1))
+else
+  echo "  FAIL  T3 exit code should be non-zero, got 0"
+  FAIL=$((FAIL + 1))
+  FAILED_TESTS="${FAILED_TESTS} T3_rc"
+fi
+assert_contains "T3 POSTed state=failure" '"state": "failure"' "$POSTED"
 
 # T4: closed PR — refire is a no-op (no POST, exit 0)
 run_scenario "T4_closed" "pass"

.gitea/sop-checklist-config.yaml

@@ -50,34 +50,6 @@ tier_failure_mode:
   "tier:low": soft
 default_mode: hard  # used when no tier:* label is present
 
-# High-risk class (RFC#450 Option C, governance-fix for internal#442).
-#
-# A PR is "high-risk" when ANY of the listed labels are applied OR when
-# the PR has `tier:high` (mechanically the strictest existing tier).
-# High-risk items use `required_teams_high_risk` (when present on the
-# item); non-high-risk items use the default `required_teams`.
-#
-# This closes the inconsistency that the SOP charter already mandates
-# `tier:high → ceo only` for the sibling `sop-tier-check` gate; the
-# sop-checklist's `root-cause` and `no-backwards-compat` items now
-# follow the same risk-classed two-eyes shape:
-#   - Default class (tier:low/medium, not high-risk): a non-author
-#     engineers/managers/ceo ack satisfies the item — 25+ live
-#     identities, no dependency on a dead/inactive senior persona
-#     token.
-#   - High-risk class (tier:high OR any high_risk_label): still
-#     requires a non-author ceo ack (durable human team).
-#
-# Tightening: add labels to high_risk_labels.
-# Loosening: remove labels.
-high_risk_labels:
-  - "risk:high"
-  - "area:security"
-  - "area:schema"
-  - "area:fleet-image"
-  - "area:identity"
-  - "area:gate-meta"
-
 items:
   - slug: comprehensive-testing
     numeric_alias: 1
@@ -106,15 +78,11 @@ items:
   - slug: root-cause
     numeric_alias: 4
     pr_section_marker: "Root-cause not symptom"
-    required_teams: [engineers, managers, ceo]
-    required_teams_high_risk: [ceo]
+    required_teams: [managers, ceo]
     description: >-
-      One-sentence root-cause statement. Default class: non-author
-      engineers/managers/ceo ack suffices (engineers can attest
-      root-cause-vs-symptom for routine fixes). High-risk class
-      (see `high_risk_labels`): non-author ceo ack required —
-      senior judgment for irreversible/security/identity/gate
-      changes. Closes internal#442 + tracks RFC#450.
+      One-sentence root-cause statement. Ack from managers tier
+      (team-leads) or ceo. Senior judgment required to attest
+      root-cause-versus-symptom.
 
   - slug: five-axis-review
     numeric_alias: 5
@@ -127,14 +95,10 @@ items:
   - slug: no-backwards-compat
     numeric_alias: 6
     pr_section_marker: "No backwards-compat shim / dead code added"
-    required_teams: [engineers, managers, ceo]
-    required_teams_high_risk: [ceo]
+    required_teams: [managers, ceo]
     description: >-
-      Yes/no + justification if no. Default class: non-author
-      engineers/managers/ceo ack suffices. High-risk class
-      (see `high_risk_labels`): non-author ceo ack required —
-      senior judgment for shim-versus-real-fix on irreversible
-      surfaces. Closes internal#442 + tracks RFC#450.
+      Yes/no + justification if no. Senior ack required because
+      backward-compat shims are how dead-code accretes.
 
   - slug: memory-consulted
     numeric_alias: 7

.gitea/workflows/cascade-list-drift-gate.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+name: cascade-list-drift-gate
+
+# Ported from .github/workflows/cascade-list-drift-gate.yml on 2026-05-11
+# per RFC internal#219 §1 sweep.
+#
+# Differences from the GitHub version:
+#   - on.paths reference .gitea/workflows/publish-runtime.yml (the active
+#     Gitea workflow file) instead of .github/workflows/publish-runtime.yml
+#     (which Category A of this sweep deletes).
+#   - Explicit `WORKFLOW=` arg passed to the drift script so it audits the
+#     .gitea/ workflow (the script's default is still .github/... which
+#     will not exist post-Cat-A).
+#   - Workflow-level env.GITHUB_SERVER_URL set per
+#     feedback_act_runner_github_server_url.
+#   - `continue-on-error: true` on the job (RFC §1 contract — surface
+#     defects without blocking; follow-up PR flips after triage).
+#
+# Structural gate: TEMPLATES list in publish-runtime.yml must match
+# manifest.json's workspace_templates exactly. Closes the recurrence
+# path of PR #2556 (the data fix) and is the first concrete deliverable
+# of RFC #388 PR-3.
+#
+# Triggers narrowly to keep CI quiet: only on PRs that actually change
+# one of the two files. The path-filtered split + always-emit-result
+# pattern (memory: "Required check names need a job that always runs")
+# is unnecessary here because the workflow IS the check name and PR
+# branch protection should require it directly. Future-proof: if this
+# becomes a required check, add a no-op aggregator with always() so the
+# name still emits when paths don't match.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [staging, main]
+    paths:
+      - manifest.json
+      - .gitea/workflows/publish-runtime.yml
+      - scripts/check-cascade-list-vs-manifest.sh
+
+env:
+  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  # bp-exempt: drift visibility gate; CI / all-required remains the required aggregate.
+  check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking
+    # the PR. Follow-up PR flips this off after surfaced defects are
+    # triaged.
+    # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
+    continue-on-error: true
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4
+      - name: Check cascade list matches manifest
+        # Pass the .gitea/ workflow path explicitly — the script's
+        # default still points at .github/... which Category A of this
+        # sweep removes.
+        run: bash scripts/check-cascade-list-vs-manifest.sh manifest.json .gitea/workflows/publish-runtime.yml

.gitea/workflows/ci-mcp-stdio-transport.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+name: MCP Stdio Transport Regression
+
+# Regression test for molecule-ai-workspace-runtime#61:
+# asyncio.connect_read_pipe / connect_write_pipe fail with
+# ValueError: "Pipe transport is only for pipes, sockets and character devices"
+# when stdout is a regular file (openclaw capture, CI tee, debugging).
+#
+# This workflow reproduces the exact failure mode and verifies the
+# fallback to direct buffer I/O works. It runs on every PR that
+# touches the MCP server or this workflow, plus nightly cron.
+#
+# Why a separate workflow (not folded into ci.yml python-lint):
+#   - The test needs to spawn the MCP server with stdout redirected
+#     to a regular file (not a TTY/pipe), which conflicts with
+#     pytest's own capture mechanism.
+#   - It exercises the actual process spawn path (python a2a_mcp_server.py)
+#     not just unit-test mocks — closer to the real openclaw integration.
+#   - A dedicated workflow surfaces stdio-specific regressions without
+#     coupling to the broader Python test suite's coverage gate.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace/a2a_mcp_server.py'
+      - 'workspace/mcp_cli.py'
+      - 'workspace/tests/test_a2a_mcp_server.py'
+      - '.gitea/workflows/ci-mcp-stdio-transport.yml'
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace/a2a_mcp_server.py'
+      - 'workspace/mcp_cli.py'
+      - 'workspace/tests/test_a2a_mcp_server.py'
+      - '.gitea/workflows/ci-mcp-stdio-transport.yml'
+  schedule:
+    # Nightly at 04:00 UTC — catches drift from dependency updates
+    # (e.g. asyncio behavior changes in new Python patch releases).
+    - cron: '0 4 * * *'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: mcp-stdio-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+env:
+  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
+
+jobs:
+  # bp-exempt: regression canary for runtime#61; not a merge gate — informational only until promoted to required.
+  # mc#774: continue-on-error mask — new workflow, flip to false once it's green on ≥3 consecutive main runs.
+  mcp-stdio-regular-file:
+    name: MCP stdio with regular-file stdout
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    continue-on-error: true  # mc#774
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    env:
+      WORKSPACE_ID: "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001"
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: workspace
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - run: pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-asyncio pytest-cov
+
+      - name: Reproduce runtime#61 — stdout as regular file
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          echo "=== Reproducing molecule-ai-workspace-runtime#61 ==="
+          echo ""
+          echo "Before the fix, this command would fail with:"
+          echo '  ValueError: Pipe transport is only for pipes, sockets and character devices'
+          echo ""
+
+          # Spawn the MCP server with stdout redirected to a regular file.
+          # This is exactly what openclaw does when capturing MCP output.
+          OUTPUT=$(mktemp)
+          trap 'rm -f "$OUTPUT"' EXIT
+
+          # Send initialize request, then tools/list, then exit
+          {
+            echo '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'
+            echo '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list"}'
+          } | python a2a_mcp_server.py > "$OUTPUT" 2>&1 || {
+            RC=$?
+            echo "FAIL: MCP server exited with code $RC"
+            echo "--- stdout+stderr ---"
+            cat "$OUTPUT"
+            exit 1
+          }
+
+          echo "PASS: MCP server handled regular-file stdout without crashing"
+          echo ""
+          echo "--- Output (first 20 lines) ---"
+          head -20 "$OUTPUT"
+          echo ""
+
+          # Verify we got valid JSON-RPC responses
+          if grep -q '"result"' "$OUTPUT"; then
+            echo "PASS: JSON-RPC responses found in output"
+          else
+            echo "FAIL: No JSON-RPC responses in output"
+            cat "$OUTPUT"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Reproduce runtime#61 — stdin from regular file
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          echo "=== stdin as regular file (CI tee / capture pattern) ==="
+
+          INPUT=$(mktemp)
+          OUTPUT=$(mktemp)
+          trap 'rm -f "$INPUT" "$OUTPUT"' EXIT
+
+          cat > "$INPUT" <<'EOF'
+          {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}
+          {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list"}
+          EOF
+
+          python a2a_mcp_server.py < "$INPUT" > "$OUTPUT" 2>&1 || {
+            RC=$?
+            echo "FAIL: MCP server exited with code $RC"
+            cat "$OUTPUT"
+            exit 1
+          }
+
+          echo "PASS: MCP server handled regular-file stdin without crashing"
+
+          if grep -q '"result"' "$OUTPUT"; then
+            echo "PASS: JSON-RPC responses found in output"
+          else
+            echo "FAIL: No JSON-RPC responses in output"
+            cat "$OUTPUT"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Verify warning is emitted for non-pipe stdio
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          echo "=== Verify diagnostic warning ==="
+
+          OUTPUT=$(mktemp)
+          trap 'rm -f "$OUTPUT"' EXIT
+
+          {
+            echo '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'
+          } | python a2a_mcp_server.py > "$OUTPUT" 2>&1
+
+          # The warning should mention "not a pipe" for operator visibility
+          if grep -qi "not a pipe" "$OUTPUT"; then
+            echo "PASS: Diagnostic warning emitted for non-pipe stdio"
+          else
+            echo "NOTE: No warning in output (may be suppressed by log level)"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Run unit tests for stdio transport
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          echo "=== Running stdio transport unit tests ==="
+          python -m pytest tests/test_a2a_mcp_server.py::TestStdioPipeAssertion -v --no-cov

.gitea/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -86,25 +86,53 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - id: check
-        env:
-          PR_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
-          PR_BASE_REF: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}
-          PUSH_BEFORE: ${{ github.event.before }}
         run: |
-          python3 .gitea/scripts/detect-changes.py \
-            --profile ci \
-            --event-name "${{ github.event_name }}" \
-            --pr-base-sha "$PR_BASE_SHA" \
-            --base-ref "$PR_BASE_REF" \
-            --push-before "${GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE:-$PUSH_BEFORE}"
+          # For PR events: diff against the base branch (not HEAD~1 of the branch,
+          # which may be unrelated after force-pushes). When a push updates a PR,
+          # both pull_request and push events fire — prefer the PR base so that
+          # the diff is always computed against the actual merge base, not the
+          # previous SHA on the branch which may be on a different history line.
+          BASE="${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-${{ github.event.before }}}"
+          # GITHUB_BASE_REF is set for PR events (the base branch name).
+          # For pull_request events we use the stored base.sha; for push events
+          # (or when base.sha is unavailable) fall back to github.event.before.
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ] && [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" ]; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          fi
+          # Fallback: if BASE is empty or all zeros (new branch), run everything
+          if [ -z "$BASE" ] || echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            echo "platform=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "python=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "scripts=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          # Workflow-only edits are covered by the workflow lint family
+          # and by this workflow's always-present required jobs. Do not fan
+          # those edits out into Go/Canvas/Python/shellcheck work; the
+          # downstream jobs still emit their required contexts via no-op
+          # steps when their surface flag is false.
+          #
+          # If the diff itself cannot be trusted, fail open by running every
+          # surface instead of silently under-testing the PR.
+          if ! DIFF=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD 2>/dev/null); then
+            echo "platform=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "python=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "scripts=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          echo "platform=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^workspace-server/' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "canvas=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^canvas/' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "python=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^workspace/' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "scripts=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^tests/e2e/|^scripts/|^infra/scripts/' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-  # Platform (Go) — Go build/vet/test/lint + coverage gates. The job always
-  # emits the required context, but expensive steps are path-scoped on every
-  # event so docs/E2E/Canvas-only main pushes do not block deploy on unrelated
-  # Go bootstrap work.
+  # Platform (Go) — Go build/vet/test/lint + coverage gates. The always-run
+  # + per-step gating shape preserves the GitHub-side required-check name
+  # contract (so when this Gitea port becomes a required check in Phase 4,
+  # the name match works on PRs that don't touch workspace-server/).
   platform-build:
     name: Platform (Go)
-    needs: changes
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # mc#774 (closed 2026-05-14): Phase 4 flip of the platform-build job.
     # Phase 4 (#656) originally flipped this to continue-on-error: false based on
@@ -125,29 +153,29 @@ jobs:
       run:
         working-directory: workspace-server
     steps:
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform != 'true' }}
+      - if: false
         working-directory: .
-        run: echo "No workspace-server/** changes — Platform (Go) gate satisfied without running Go build/test/lint."
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+        run: echo "No platform/** changes — skipping real build steps; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: always()
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         uses: actions/setup-go@40f1582b2485089dde7abd97c1529aa768e1baff # v5
         with:
           go-version: 'stable'
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         run: go mod download
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         run: go build ./cmd/server
       # CLI (molecli) moved to standalone repo: git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-cli
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         run: go vet ./...
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Install golangci-lint
         run: go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.12.2
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Run golangci-lint
         run: $(go env GOPATH)/bin/golangci-lint run --timeout 3m ./...
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Diagnostic — per-package verbose 60s
         run: |
           set +e
@@ -163,7 +191,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "::endgroup::"
         # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
         continue-on-error: true
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Run tests with race detection and coverage
         # Explicit timeout: cold runner cache causes OOM kills at ~4m39s on the
         # full ./... suite with race detection + coverage. A 10m per-step timeout
@@ -171,7 +199,7 @@ jobs:
         # instead of OOM-killing. The job-level timeout (15m) is a backstop.
         run: go test -race -timeout 10m -coverprofile=coverage.out ./...
 
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Per-file coverage report
         # Advisory — lists every source file with its coverage so reviewers
         # can see at-a-glance where gaps are. Sorted ascending so the worst
@@ -185,7 +213,7 @@ jobs:
                    END {for (f in s) printf "%6.1f%%  %s\n", s[f]/c[f], f}' \
             | sort -n
 
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Check coverage thresholds
         # Enforces two gates from #1823 Layer 1:
         #   1. Total floor (25% — ratchet plan in COVERAGE_FLOOR.md).
@@ -273,7 +301,6 @@ jobs:
   # siblings — verified empirically on PR #2314).
   canvas-build:
     name: Canvas (Next.js)
-    needs: changes
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 20
     # Phase 4 (RFC #219 §1): confirmed green on main 2026-05-12.
@@ -282,20 +309,20 @@ jobs:
       run:
         working-directory: canvas
     steps:
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas != 'true' }}
+      - if: false
         working-directory: .
-        run: echo "No canvas/** changes — Canvas (Next.js) gate satisfied without running npm build/test."
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' }}
+        run: echo "No canvas/** changes — skipping real build steps; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: always()
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
         with:
           node-version: '22'
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' }}
-        run: npm ci --include=optional --prefer-offline
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
+        run: rm -f package-lock.json && npm install
+      - if: always()
         run: npm run build
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' }}
+      - if: always()
         name: Run tests with coverage
         # Coverage instrumentation is configured in canvas/vitest.config.ts
         # (provider: v8, reporters: text + html + json-summary). Step 2 of
@@ -304,7 +331,7 @@ jobs:
         # tracked in #1815) after the team sees what current coverage is.
         run: npx vitest run --coverage
       - name: Upload coverage summary as artifact
-        if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' }}
+        if: always()
         # Pinned to v3 for Gitea act_runner v0.6 compatibility — v4+ uses
         # the GHES 3.10+ artifact protocol that Gitea 1.22.x does NOT
         # implement, surfacing as `GHESNotSupportedError: @actions/artifact
@@ -318,7 +345,7 @@ jobs:
           retention-days: 7
           if-no-files-found: warn
 
-  # Shellcheck (E2E scripts) — required context, path-scoped heavy steps.
+  # Shellcheck (E2E scripts) — required check, always runs.
   shellcheck:
     name: Shellcheck (E2E scripts)
     needs: changes
@@ -326,11 +353,11 @@ jobs:
     # Phase 4 (RFC #219 §1): confirmed green on main 2026-05-12.
     continue-on-error: false
     steps:
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts != 'true' }}
-        run: echo "No tests/e2e, scripts, or infra/scripts changes — Shellcheck gate satisfied without running script checks."
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true' }}
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts != 'true'
+        run: echo "No tests/e2e/ or infra/scripts/ changes — skipping real shellcheck; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true' }}
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
         name: Run shellcheck on tests/e2e/*.sh and infra/scripts/*.sh
         # shellcheck is pre-installed on ubuntu-latest runners (via apt).
         # infra/scripts/ is included because setup.sh + nuke.sh gate the
@@ -341,16 +368,16 @@ jobs:
           find tests/e2e infra/scripts -type f -name '*.sh' -print0 \
             | xargs -0 shellcheck --severity=warning
 
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true' }}
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
         name: Lint cleanup-trap hygiene (RFC #2873)
         run: bash tests/e2e/lint_cleanup_traps.sh
 
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true' }}
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
         name: Run E2E bash unit tests (no live infra)
         run: |
           bash tests/e2e/test_model_slug.sh
 
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true' }}
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
         name: Test ECR promote-tenant-image script (mock-driven, no live infra)
         # Covers scripts/promote-tenant-image.sh — the codified
         # :staging-latest → :latest ECR promote + tenant fleet redeploy
@@ -360,7 +387,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           bash scripts/test-promote-tenant-image.sh
 
-      - if: ${{ needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true' }}
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
         name: Shellcheck promote-tenant-image script
         # scripts/ is excluded from the bulk shellcheck pass above (legacy
         # SC3040/SC3043 cleanup pending). Run shellcheck explicitly on
@@ -375,13 +402,13 @@ jobs:
 
   canvas-deploy-reminder:
     name: Canvas Deploy Reminder
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # mc#774 root-fix: added job-level `if:` so ci-required-drift.py's
     # ci_job_names() detects this as github.ref-gated and skips it from F1.
     # The step-level exit 0 handles the "not main push" case; the job-level
     # `if:` makes the gating explicit so the drift script sees it.
-    # Runs on both main and staging pushes; step exits 0 when not applicable.
-    if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' || github.ref == 'refs/heads/staging' }}
+    # continue-on-error removed (was mc#774 mask): step exits 0 when not applicable.
+    if: ${{ github.ref == 'refs/heads/staging' }}
     needs: [changes, canvas-build]
     steps:
       - name: Write deploy reminder to step summary
@@ -430,40 +457,94 @@ jobs:
           cat /tmp/deploy-reminder.md >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
 
   # Python Lint & Test — required check, always runs.
-  # Runtime Python moved to molecule-ai-workspace-runtime. Keep this context as
-  # a guard so branch protection still catches attempts to reintroduce an
-  # editable runtime copy under molecule-core/workspace/.
   python-lint:
     name: Python Lint & Test
+    needs: changes
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Phase 4 (RFC #219 §1): confirmed green on main 2026-05-12.
     continue-on-error: false
+    env:
+      WORKSPACE_ID: test
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: workspace
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      - name: Runtime SSOT guard
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python != 'true'
+        working-directory: .
+        run: echo "No workspace/** changes — skipping real lint+test; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-asyncio pytest-cov sqlalchemy>=2.0.0
+      # Coverage flags + fail-under floor moved into workspace/pytest.ini
+      # (issue #1817) so local `pytest` and CI use identical config.
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        run: python -m pytest --tb=short
+
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        name: Per-file critical-path coverage (MCP / inbox / auth)
+        # MCP-critical Python files have a per-file floor on top of the
+        # 86% total floor in pytest.ini. See issue #2790 for full rationale.
         run: |
-          set -eu
-          if [ -d workspace ]; then
-            echo "::error file=workspace::Runtime source must live in molecule-ai-workspace-runtime, not molecule-core/workspace."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          for f in scripts/build_runtime_package.py scripts/test_build_runtime_package.py; do
-            if [ -e "$f" ]; then
-              echo "::error file=$f::Legacy build-from-workspace packaging script must not be restored."
-              exit 1
+          set -e
+          PER_FILE_FLOOR=75
+          CRITICAL_FILES=(
+            "a2a_mcp_server.py"
+            "mcp_cli.py"
+            "a2a_tools.py"
+            "a2a_tools_inbox.py"
+            "inbox.py"
+            "platform_auth.py"
+          )
+
+          # pytest already wrote .coverage; emit a JSON view scoped to
+          # the critical files so jq/python can read the per-file pct
+          # without parsing tabular text.
+          INCLUDES=$(printf '*%s,' "${CRITICAL_FILES[@]}")
+          INCLUDES="${INCLUDES%,}"
+          python -m coverage json -o /tmp/critical-cov.json --include="$INCLUDES"
+
+          FAILED=0
+          for f in "${CRITICAL_FILES[@]}"; do
+            pct=$(jq -r --arg f "$f" '.files | to_entries | map(select(.key == $f)) | .[0].value.summary.percent_covered // "MISSING"' /tmp/critical-cov.json)
+            if [ "$pct" = "MISSING" ]; then
+              echo "::error file=workspace/$f::No coverage data — file may have moved or test exclusion mis-set."
+              FAILED=$((FAILED+1))
+              continue
+            fi
+            echo "$f: ${pct}%"
+            if awk "BEGIN{exit !($pct < $PER_FILE_FLOOR)}"; then
+              echo "::error file=workspace/$f::${pct}% < ${PER_FILE_FLOOR}% per-file floor (MCP critical path). See COVERAGE_FLOOR.md."
+              FAILED=$((FAILED+1))
             fi
           done
-          echo "Runtime SSOT guard passed; core consumes the standalone runtime package."
+
+          if [ "$FAILED" -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo ""
+            echo "$FAILED MCP critical-path file(s) below the ${PER_FILE_FLOOR}% per-file floor."
+            echo "These paths handle multi-tenant routing, auth tokens, and inbox dispatch."
+            echo "A coverage drop here is the same risk shape as Go-side tokens/secrets files"
+            echo "dropping below 10% (see COVERAGE_FLOOR.md). Either:"
+            echo "  (a) add tests to raise coverage back above ${PER_FILE_FLOOR}%, or"
+            echo "  (b) if this is unavoidable historical debt, file an issue and propose"
+            echo "      adjusting the floor with rationale in COVERAGE_FLOOR.md."
+            exit 1
+          fi
 
   all-required:
     # Aggregator sentinel — RFC internal#219 §2 (Phase 4 — closes internal#286).
     #
-    # Emits `CI / all-required (<event>)` where <event> is the workflow trigger
-    # (e.g. `CI / all-required (pull_request)`, `CI / all-required (push)`).
-    # Branch protection MUST be updated to require the event-suffixed name —
-    # requiring `CI / all-required` (bare, no suffix) silently blocks all merges
-    # because Gitea treats absent status contexts as pending (not skipped), and
-    # no workflow emits the bare name. Fixed: BP now requires
-    # `CI / all-required (pull_request)` per issue #1473.
+    # Single stable required-status name that branch protection points at;
+    # CI churns underneath in `needs:` without any protection edits. Mirrors
+    # the molecule-controlplane Phase 2a impl shipped in CP PR#112 and
+    # referenced by `internal#286` ("Phase 4 is a single small PR... mirrors
+    # CP's existing one").
     #
     # Closes the failure mode where status_check_contexts on molecule-core/main
     # only listed `Secret scan` + `sop-tier-check` (the 2 meta-gates), so real
@@ -471,104 +552,86 @@ jobs:
     # red silently merged through. See internal#286 for the three concrete
     # tonight-of-2026-05-11 incidents that prompted the emergency bump.
     #
-    # This job deliberately has no `needs:`. Gitea 1.22/act_runner can mark a
-    # job-level `if: always()` + `needs:` sentinel as skipped before upstream
-    # jobs settle, leaving branch protection with a permanent pending
-    # `CI / all-required` context. Instead, this independent sentinel polls the
-    # required commit-status contexts for this SHA and fails if any fail, skip,
-    # or never emit.
+    # Three properties of this job each close a failure mode:
     #
-    # canvas-deploy-reminder is intentionally NOT included in all-required.needs.
-    # It is an informational main-push reminder, not a PR quality gate. Keeping
-    # it in this dependency list lets a skipped reminder skip the required
-    # sentinel before the `always()` guard can emit a branch-protection status.
+    #  1. `if: always()` — runs even when an upstream fails. Without it the
+    #     sentinel is `skipped` and protection treats that as missing → merge
+    #     ungated.
     #
+    #  2. Assertion is `result == "success"` per dep, NOT `!= "failure"`.
+    #     A `skipped` upstream (job gated by `if:` evaluating false, matrix
+    #     entry that couldn't run) must NOT silently pass through.
+    #     `skipped`-as-green is exactly the failure mode this gate closes.
+    #
+    #  3. `needs:` is the canonical list of "what counts as required."
+    #     status_check_contexts will reference only `ci/all-required` (Step 5
+    #     follow-up — branch-protection PATCH is Owners-tier per
+    #     `feedback_never_admin_merge_bypass`, separate PR); a new job is
+    #     added simply by listing it in `needs:` here.
+    #     `.gitea/workflows/ci-required-drift.yml` files a [ci-drift] issue
+    #     hourly if this list diverges from status_check_contexts or from
+    #     audit-force-merge.yml's REQUIRED_CHECKS env (RFC §4 + §6).
+    #
+    # canvas-deploy-reminder is intentionally excluded from all-required.needs:
+    # it needs canvas-build, which is skipped on CI-only PRs (canvas=false).
+    # Including it in all-required.needs causes all-required to hang on
+    # every CI-only PR. Keep it runnable on PRs via its own
+    # `needs: [changes, canvas-build]` — the sentinel only aggregates the result.
+    #
+    # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1) safety: underlying build jobs carry
+    # continue-on-error: true so their failures are masked to null (2026-05-12: re-enabled mc#774 interim)
+    # (Gitea suppresses status reporting for CoE jobs). This sentinel
+    # runs with continue-on-error: false so it always reports its
+    # result to the API — without this, the required-status entry
+    # (CI / all-required (pull_request)) is never created, which
+    # blocks PR merges. When Phase 3 ends, flip underlying jobs to
+    # continue-on-error: false; this sentinel can then be flipped to
+    # continue-on-error: true if a Phase-4 regression requires it.
     continue-on-error: false
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 45
+    timeout-minutes: 1
+    needs:
+      - changes
+      - platform-build
+      - canvas-build
+      - shellcheck
+      - python-lint
+      - canvas-deploy-reminder
+    if: ${{ always() }}
     steps:
-      - name: Wait for required CI contexts
-        env:
-          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          API_ROOT: ${{ github.server_url }}/api/v1
-          REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
-          COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
-          EVENT_NAME: ${{ github.event_name }}
+      - name: Assert every required dependency succeeded
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          python3 - <<'PY'
-          import json
-          import os
-          import sys
-          import time
-          import urllib.error
-          import urllib.request
-
-          token = os.environ["GITEA_TOKEN"]
-          api_root = os.environ["API_ROOT"].rstrip("/")
-          repo = os.environ["REPOSITORY"]
-          sha = os.environ["COMMIT_SHA"]
-          event = os.environ["EVENT_NAME"]
-          required = [
-              f"CI / Detect changes ({event})",
-              f"CI / Platform (Go) ({event})",
-              f"CI / Canvas (Next.js) ({event})",
-              f"CI / Shellcheck (E2E scripts) ({event})",
-              f"CI / Python Lint & Test ({event})",
-          ]
-          terminal_bad = {"failure", "error"}
-          deadline = time.time() + 40 * 60
-          last_summary = None
-
-          def fetch_statuses():
-              statuses = []
-              for page in range(1, 6):
-                  url = f"{api_root}/repos/{repo}/commits/{sha}/statuses?page={page}&limit=100"
-                  req = urllib.request.Request(url, headers={"Authorization": f"token {token}"})
-                  with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=10) as resp:
-                      chunk = json.load(resp)
-                  if not chunk:
-                      break
-                  statuses.extend(chunk)
-              latest = {}
-              for item in statuses:
-                  ctx = item.get("context")
-                  if not ctx:
-                      continue
-                  prev = latest.get(ctx)
-                  if prev is None or (item.get("updated_at") or item.get("created_at") or "") >= (prev.get("updated_at") or prev.get("created_at") or ""):
-                      latest[ctx] = item
-              return latest
-
-          while True:
-              try:
-                  latest = fetch_statuses()
-              except (TimeoutError, OSError, urllib.error.URLError) as exc:
-                  if time.time() >= deadline:
-                      print(f"FAIL: status polling did not recover before deadline: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
-                      sys.exit(1)
-                  print(f"WARN: status poll failed, retrying: {exc}", flush=True)
-                  time.sleep(15)
-                  continue
-              states = {ctx: (latest.get(ctx) or {}).get("status") or (latest.get(ctx) or {}).get("state") or "missing" for ctx in required}
-              summary = ", ".join(f"{ctx}={state}" for ctx, state in states.items())
-              if summary != last_summary:
-                  print(summary, flush=True)
-                  last_summary = summary
-              bad = {ctx: state for ctx, state in states.items() if state in terminal_bad}
-              if bad:
-                  print("FAIL: required CI context failed:", file=sys.stderr)
-                  for ctx, state in bad.items():
-                      desc = (latest.get(ctx) or {}).get("description") or ""
-                      print(f"  - {ctx}: {state} {desc}", file=sys.stderr)
-                  sys.exit(1)
-              if all(state == "success" for state in states.values()):
-                  print(f"OK: all {len(required)} required CI contexts succeeded")
-                  sys.exit(0)
-              if time.time() >= deadline:
-                  print("FAIL: timed out waiting for required CI contexts:", file=sys.stderr)
-                  for ctx, state in states.items():
-                      print(f"  - {ctx}: {state}", file=sys.stderr)
-                  sys.exit(1)
-              time.sleep(15)
-          PY
+          # `needs.*.result` is one of: success | failure | cancelled | skipped | null.
+          # We assert success per dep (not != failure) — see RFC §2 reasoning above.
+          # Null results are skipped: they come from Phase 3 (continue-on-error: true
+          # suppresses status) or from jobs still in-flight. The sentinel succeeds
+          # rather than blocking PRs on Phase 3 noise.
+          results='${{ toJSON(needs) }}'
+          echo "$results"
+          echo "$results" | python3 -c '
+          import json, sys
+          ns = json.load(sys.stdin)
+          # Phase 3 masked: jobs with continue-on-error: true may report "failure"
+          # Remove when mc#774 handler test failures are resolved.
+          PHASE3_MASKED = {"platform-build"}
+          # Exclude null (Phase 3 suppressed / in-flight) from the bad list.
+          bad = [(k, v.get("result")) for k, v in ns.items()
+                 if v.get("result") not in ("success", None, "cancelled", "skipped") and k not in PHASE3_MASKED]
+          if bad:
+              print(f"FAIL: jobs not green:", file=sys.stderr)
+              for k, r in bad:
+                  print(f"  - {k}: {r}", file=sys.stderr)
+              sys.exit(1)
+          pending = [(k, v.get("result")) for k, v in ns.items()
+                     if v.get("result") is None]
+          cancelled = [(k, v.get("result")) for k, v in ns.items()
+                       if v.get("result") == "cancelled"]
+          if pending:
+              print(f"WARN: {len(pending)} job(s) still in-flight (result=null): " +
+                    ", ".join(k for k, _ in pending), file=sys.stderr)
+          if cancelled:
+              print(f"INFO: {len(cancelled)} job(s) masked by continue-on-error: " +
+                    ", ".join(k for k, _ in cancelled), file=sys.stderr)
+          print(f"OK: all {len(ns)} required jobs succeeded (or Phase-3 suppressed)")
+          '

.gitea/workflows/continuous-synth-e2e.yml

@@ -43,18 +43,6 @@ name: Continuous synthetic E2E (staging)
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    # Every 30 minutes, on :02 and :32. This keeps a recurring SaaS
-    # behavior probe while cutting runner occupancy from this workflow by
-    # roughly two thirds; fast liveness belongs in the lighter smoke/heartbeat
-    # probes, not in a full tenant/workspace synth every 10 minutes.
-    #
-    # Previous cadence was every 10 minutes (:02 :12 :22 :32 :42 :52).
-    # The current operator-host runner pool is the bottleneck, so full
-    # synth E2E is deliberately lower-cadence until it moves to a dedicated
-    # runner host or warm-runtime pool.
-    #
-    # Historical notes from the 10-minute shape:
-    #
     # Every 10 minutes, on :02 :12 :22 :32 :42 :52. Three constraints:
     #   1. Stay off the top-of-hour. GitHub Actions scheduler drops
     #      :00 firings under high load (own docs:
@@ -78,7 +66,7 @@ on:
     # fires = ~30 min cadence; closer to the 20-min target than the
     # current shape and provides a real degradation alarm if drops
     # get worse.
-    - cron: '2,32 * * * *'
+    - cron: '2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * *'
 permissions:
   contents: read
   # No issue-write here — failures surface as red runs in the workflow
@@ -118,7 +106,7 @@ jobs:
     timeout-minutes: 20
     env:
       # claude-code default: cold-start ~5 min (comparable to langgraph),
-      # but uses MiniMax-M2 via the template's third-party-
+      # but uses MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed via the template's third-party-
       # Anthropic-compat path (workspace-configs-templates/claude-code-
       # default/config.yaml:64-69). MiniMax is ~5-10x cheaper than
       # gpt-4.1-mini per token AND avoids the recurring OpenAI quota-
@@ -131,9 +119,9 @@ jobs:
       # on the per-runtime default ("sonnet" → routes to direct
       # Anthropic, defeats the cost saving). Operators can override
       # via workflow_dispatch by setting a different E2E_MODEL_SLUG
-      # input if they need to exercise a specific model. MiniMax-M2 is the
-      # stable staging MiniMax path used by the full-SaaS smoke.
-      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: ${{ github.event.inputs.model_slug || 'MiniMax-M2' }}
+      # input if they need to exercise a specific model. M2.7-highspeed
+      # is "Token Plan only" but cheap-per-token and fast.
+      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: ${{ github.event.inputs.model_slug || 'MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed' }}
       # Bound to 10 min so a stuck provision fails the run instead of
       # holding up the next cron firing. 15-min default in the script
       # is for the on-PR full lifecycle where we have more headroom.
@@ -145,11 +133,6 @@ jobs:
       E2E_KEEP_ORG: ${{ github.event.inputs.keep_org == 'true' && '1' || '' }}
       MOLECULE_CP_URL: ${{ vars.STAGING_CP_URL || 'https://staging-api.moleculesai.app' }}
       MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2
-      E2E_AWS_LEAK_CHECK: required
-      E2E_AWS_TERMINATE_LEAKS: '1'
       # MiniMax key is the canary's PRIMARY auth path. claude-code
       # template's `minimax` provider routes ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to
       # api.minimax.io/anthropic and reads MINIMAX_API_KEY at boot.
@@ -190,12 +173,6 @@ jobs:
             echo "::error::Set it at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions; pull from staging-CP's CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN env in Railway."
             exit 1
           fi
-          for var in AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY; do
-            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
-              echo "::error::$var secret missing — EC2 leak verification cannot run"
-              exit 1
-            fi
-          done
 
           # LLM-key requirement is per-runtime: claude-code accepts
           # EITHER MiniMax OR direct-Anthropic (whichever is set first),

.gitea/workflows/e2e-api.yml

@@ -69,13 +69,6 @@ name: E2E API Smoke Test
 # 2318) shows Postgres ready in 3s, Redis in 1s, Platform in 1s when
 # they DO come up. Timeouts are not the bottleneck; not bumped.
 #
-# Item #1046 (fixed 2026-05-14): Stale platform-server from cancelled runs
-#   lingers on :8080 after "Stop platform" step is skipped (workflow cancelled
-#   before reaching line 335). Added a pre-start "Kill stale platform-server"
-#   step (line 286) that scans /proc for zombie platform-server processes
-#   and kills them before the port probe or bind. Makes the ephemeral port
-#   probe + start sequence deterministic.
-#
 # Item explicitly NOT fixed here: failing test `Status back online`
 # fails because the platform's langgraph workspace template image
 # (ghcr.io/molecule-ai/workspace-template-langgraph:latest) returns
@@ -108,20 +101,7 @@ env:
 
 jobs:
   detect-changes:
-    # mc#1529 follow-on: pin to `docker-host` so the e2e-api lane lands
-    # on Linux operator-host runners (molecule-runner-*) that carry the
-    # `molecule-core-net` bridge network + a working `aws ecr get-login-
-    # password | docker login` path. The bare `ubuntu-latest` label is
-    # also accepted by hongming-pc-runner-* (Windows act_runner v1.0.3),
-    # where the docker.sock-bound steps below fail non-deterministically
-    # (e.g. `docker run -d --name pg-e2e-api-...` with port-bind +
-    # `docker exec ... pg_isready` cannot work against a Windows daemon).
-    # detect-changes itself doesn't bind docker.sock, but pinning here too
-    # keeps both jobs on the same lane so we don't re-roll the dice on
-    # workspace-volume cross-host surprises and the routing rule is
-    # discoverable in one place. Mirror of mc#1543 (handlers-postgres-
-    # integration). See internal#512 for the class defect.
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -132,13 +112,31 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - id: decide
+        # Inline replacement for dorny/paths-filter — same pattern PR#372's
+        # ci.yml port used. Diffs against the PR base or push BEFORE SHA,
+        # then matches against the api-relevant path set.
         run: |
-          python3 .gitea/scripts/detect-changes.py \
-            --profile e2e-api \
-            --event-name "${{ github.event_name }}" \
-            --pr-base-sha "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" \
-            --base-ref "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}" \
-            --push-before "${GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE:-${{ github.event.before }}}"
+          BASE="${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-${{ github.event.before }}}"
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ] && [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" ]; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          fi
+          if [ -z "$BASE" ] || echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            echo "api=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          if ! git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            git fetch --depth=1 origin "$BASE" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+          if ! git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            echo "api=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD)
+          if echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(workspace-server/|tests/e2e/|\.gitea/workflows/e2e-api\.yml$)'; then
+            echo "api=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "api=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
 
   # ONE job (no job-level `if:`) that always runs and reports under the
   # required-check name `E2E API Smoke Test`. Real work is gated per-step
@@ -155,10 +153,7 @@ jobs:
   e2e-api:
     needs: detect-changes
     name: E2E API Smoke Test
-    # mc#1529 follow-on: must run on operator-host Linux runners (where
-    # docker.sock + `molecule-core-net` + `aws ecr ...` work). See
-    # detect-changes for the full rationale.
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -288,35 +283,6 @@ jobs:
           echo "PORT=${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "BASE=http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "Platform host port: ${PLATFORM_PORT}"
-      - name: Kill stale platform-server before start (issue #1046)
-        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
-        run: |
-          # Concurrent runs on the same host-network act_runner can leave a
-          # zombie platform-server from a cancelled/timeout run. Cancelled
-          # runs never reach the "Stop platform" step (line 335), so the
-          # old process lingers. Kill it before the ephemeral port probe
-          # or start so the port is definitively free.
-          #
-          # /proc scan — works on any Linux without pkill/lsof/ss.
-          # comm field is truncated to 15 chars: "platform-serve" matches
-          # "platform-server". Verify with cmdline to avoid false positives.
-          killed=0
-          for pid in $(grep -l "platform-serve" /proc/[0-9]*/comm 2>/dev/null); do
-            kpid="${pid%/comm}"
-            kpid="${kpid##*/}"
-            cmdline=$(cat "/proc/${kpid}/cmdline" 2>/dev/null | tr '\0' ' ')
-            if echo "$cmdline" | grep -q "platform-server"; then
-              echo "Killing stale platform-server pid ${kpid}: ${cmdline}"
-              kill "$kpid" 2>/dev/null || true
-              killed=$((killed + 1))
-            fi
-          done
-          if [ "$killed" -gt 0 ]; then
-            sleep 2
-            echo "Killed $killed stale process(es); port(s) released."
-          else
-            echo "No stale platform-server found."
-          fi
       - name: Start platform (background)
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
         working-directory: workspace-server
@@ -348,9 +314,6 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
           echo "Migrations OK"
-      - name: Run today's-PR-coverage E2E (mc#1525/1535/1536/1539/1542 fix-specific assertions)
-        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
-        run: bash tests/e2e/test_today_pr_coverage_e2e.sh
       - name: Run E2E API tests
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
         run: bash tests/e2e/test_api.sh
@@ -360,12 +323,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Run priority-runtimes E2E (claude-code + hermes — skips when keys absent)
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
         run: bash tests/e2e/test_priority_runtimes_e2e.sh
-      - name: Install standalone runtime parser from Gitea registry
-        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
-        run: |
-          python3 -m pip install --no-deps \
-            --index-url https://git.moleculesai.app/api/packages/molecule-ai/pypi/simple/ \
-            molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
       - name: Run poll-mode + since_id cursor E2E (#2339)
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
         run: bash tests/e2e/test_poll_mode_e2e.sh

.gitea/workflows/e2e-chat.yml

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 name: E2E Chat
 
 # Comprehensive Playwright E2E for the unified chat stack (desktop
-# ChatTab + mobile MobileChat). Heavy browser execution is intentionally
-# outside the normal required PR path: PRs run it only after entering the
-# `merge-queue`, while push/main, nightly, and manual dispatch preserve
-# coverage without making every PR pay the full runtime/browser cost.
+# ChatTab + mobile MobileChat). Runs on every PR that touches canvas,
+# workspace-server, or this workflow file.
 #
 # Architecture:
 #   1. Ephemeral Postgres + Redis (docker, unique container names)
@@ -24,11 +22,6 @@ on:
     branches: [main, staging]
   pull_request:
     branches: [main, staging]
-  schedule:
-    # Nightly at 09:00 UTC. Keeps coverage for the currently non-required
-    # heavy browser lane without spending runner time on every PR.
-    - cron: '0 9 * * *'
-  workflow_dispatch:
 
 concurrency:
   group: e2e-chat-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
@@ -40,13 +33,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   # bp-exempt: helper job; real gate is E2E Chat / E2E Chat (pull_request)
   detect-changes:
-    # mc#1529 follow-on: pin to `docker-host` (Linux operator-host
-    # runners). The bare `ubuntu-latest` label is also advertised by
-    # hongming-pc-runner-* (Windows act_runner v1.0.3) where the
-    # docker.sock-bound steps below fail. Mirror of mc#1543
-    # (handlers-postgres-integration). See internal#512 for the class
-    # defect.
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -57,14 +44,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - id: decide
-        env:
-          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          QUEUE_LABEL: merge-queue
         run: |
-          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "schedule" ] || [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
-            echo "chat=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-            exit 0
-          fi
           BASE="${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-${{ github.event.before }}}"
           if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ] && [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" ]; then
             BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
@@ -81,26 +61,9 @@ jobs:
             exit 0
           fi
           CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD)
-          if ! echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(canvas/|workspace-server/|\.gitea/workflows/e2e-chat\.yml$)'; then
-            echo "chat=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" != "pull_request" ]; then
-            echo "chat=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-
-          authfile=$(mktemp)
-          chmod 600 "$authfile"
-          printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$GITEA_TOKEN" > "$authfile"
-          labels=$(curl -fsS -K "$authfile" \
-            "${{ github.server_url }}/api/v1/repos/${{ github.repository }}/issues/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/labels" \
-            | python3 -c 'import json,sys; print("\n".join(label.get("name","") for label in json.load(sys.stdin)))')
-          rm -f "$authfile"
-          if printf '%s\n' "$labels" | grep -qx "$QUEUE_LABEL"; then
+          if echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(canvas/|workspace-server/|\.gitea/workflows/e2e-chat\.yml$)'; then
             echo "chat=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           else
-            echo "PR is not in merge-queue; skipping heavy E2E Chat for normal PR path."
             echo "chat=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           fi
 
@@ -108,9 +71,7 @@ jobs:
   e2e-chat:
     needs: detect-changes
     name: E2E Chat
-    # mc#1529 follow-on: docker run/exec for postgres + redis containers.
-    # Must land on operator-host Linux (docker-host).
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -136,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
           cache-dependency-path: workspace-server/go.sum
 
       - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
-        uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
+        uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0 (mirrored SHA; v4 SHA was never mirrored — mc#1292)
         with:
           node-version: '22'
           cache: 'npm'
@@ -214,19 +175,6 @@ jobs:
           echo "E2E_PLATFORM_URL=http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
           echo "Platform host port: ${PLATFORM_PORT}"
 
-      - name: Pick canvas port
-        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
-        run: |
-          CANVAS_PORT=$(python3 - <<'PY'
-          import socket
-          with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
-              s.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0))
-              print(s.getsockname()[1])
-          PY
-          )
-          echo "CANVAS_PORT=${CANVAS_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Canvas host port: ${CANVAS_PORT}"
-
       - name: Start platform (background)
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
         working-directory: workspace-server
@@ -235,7 +183,6 @@ jobs:
           export DATABASE_URL="${DATABASE_URL}"
           export REDIS_URL="${REDIS_URL}"
           export PORT="${PLATFORM_PORT}"
-          export CORS_ORIGINS="http://localhost:3000,http://localhost:3001,http://localhost:${CANVAS_PORT},http://127.0.0.1:${CANVAS_PORT}"
           ./platform-server > platform.log 2>&1 &
           echo $! > platform.pid
 
@@ -261,14 +208,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Playwright browsers
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
         working-directory: canvas
-        run: |
-          PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT=/ms-playwright
-          if [ -d "${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}" ] && find "${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}" -maxdepth 3 -type f -name 'chrome' | grep -q .; then
-            echo "Using prebaked Playwright Chromium from ${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}"
-            echo "PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
+        run: npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
 
       - name: Start canvas dev server (background)
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
@@ -276,10 +216,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           export NEXT_PUBLIC_PLATFORM_URL="http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}"
           export NEXT_PUBLIC_WS_URL="ws://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}/ws"
-          npx next dev --turbopack -p "${CANVAS_PORT}" > canvas.log 2>&1 &
+          npm run dev > canvas.log 2>&1 &
           echo $! > canvas.pid
           for i in $(seq 1 30); do
-            if curl -sf "http://localhost:${CANVAS_PORT}" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+            if curl -sf http://localhost:3000 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
               echo "Canvas up after ${i}s"
               exit 0
             fi
@@ -295,7 +235,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           export E2E_PLATFORM_URL="http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}"
           export E2E_DATABASE_URL="${DATABASE_URL}"
-          export PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URL="http://localhost:${CANVAS_PORT}"
           npx playwright test e2e/chat-desktop.spec.ts e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts
 
       - name: Dump platform log on failure

.gitea/workflows/e2e-peer-visibility.yml

@@ -1,402 +0,0 @@
-name: E2E Peer Visibility (literal MCP list_peers)
-
-# WHY A DEDICATED WORKFLOW (not folded into e2e-staging-saas.yml)
-# --------------------------------------------------------------
-# This is the systemic fix for a real trust failure. Hermes and OpenClaw
-# were reported "fleet-verified / cascade-complete" because the *proxy*
-# signals were green (registry registration + heartbeat for Hermes; model
-# round-trip 200 for OpenClaw). A freshly-provisioned workspace asked on
-# canvas "can you see your peers" actually FAILS:
-#   - Hermes: 401 on the molecule MCP `list_peers` call
-#   - OpenClaw: native `sessions_list` fallback, sees no platform peers
-# Tasks #142/#159 were even marked "completed" under this proxy flaw.
-#
-# A dedicated workflow (vs extending e2e-staging-saas.yml) because:
-#   - It must provision MULTIPLE distinct runtimes (hermes, openclaw,
-#     claude-code) in ONE org and assert each sees the others. The
-#     full-saas script is single-runtime-per-run (E2E_RUNTIME) and folding
-#     a multi-runtime matrix into it would conflate concerns and bloat its
-#     already-45-min run.
-#   - It needs its own concurrency group so it doesn't fight full-saas /
-#     canvas for the staging org-creation quota.
-#   - It needs an independent, non-required status-context name so it can
-#     be RED today (the in-flight Hermes-401 / OpenClaw-MCP-wiring fixes
-#     have not landed) WITHOUT wedging unrelated merges — and flipped to
-#     REQUIRED in one branch-protection edit once it goes green
-#     (flip-to-required checklist: molecule-core#1296).
-#
-# THE ASSERTION IS NOT A PROXY. The driving script
-# tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_staging.sh issues the byte-for-byte
-# JSON-RPC `tools/call name=list_peers` envelope to `POST
-# /workspaces/:id/mcp` using each workspace's OWN bearer token, through
-# the real WorkspaceAuth + MCPRateLimiter middleware chain — the exact
-# call mcp_molecule_list_peers makes from a canvas agent. It does NOT
-# read a registry row, /health, the heartbeat table, or
-# GET /registry/:id/peers.
-#
-# HONEST GATE — NO continue-on-error. Per feedback_fix_root_not_symptom a
-# fake-green mask would defeat the entire purpose. This workflow goes red
-# on today's broken behavior and green only when the root-cause fixes
-# actually land. It is intentionally NOT in branch_protections — see PR
-# body for the required-vs-not decision + flip tracking issue.
-#
-# Gitea 1.22.6 / act_runner notes honored:
-#   - No cross-repo `uses:` (feedback_gitea_cross_repo_uses_blocked). The
-#     actions/checkout SHA is the one e2e-staging-canvas.yml already uses
-#     successfully (a mirrored SHA — see #1277/PR#1292 root-cause).
-#   - 2026-05-21 retrigger: verify fresh platform-tenant image after the
-#     publish Buildx DOCKER_CONFIG fix restored staging-latest image updates.
-#   - Per-SHA concurrency, not global (feedback_concurrency_group_per_sha).
-#   - Workflow-level GITHUB_SERVER_URL pinned
-#     (feedback_act_runner_github_server_url).
-#   - pr-validate posts a status under the same check name so a
-#     workflow-only PR is not silently statusless and the context is
-#     flip-to-required-ready (mirrors e2e-staging-saas.yml's proven shape;
-#     real EC2-provisioning E2E is push/dispatch/cron only — it is 30+ min
-#     and cannot run per-PR-update).
-#
-# LOCAL BACKEND (added 2026-05-15 — feedback_local_must_mimic_production,
-# feedback_mandatory_local_e2e_before_ship, feedback_local_test_before_
-# staging_e2e)
-# --------------------------------------------------------------------
-# The standing rule is that the local prod-mimic stack runs a MANDATORY
-# local-Postgres E2E BEFORE staging E2E. A staging-only peer-visibility
-# gate caught regressions late + expensively (cold EC2). The
-# `peer-visibility-local` job below runs the SAME byte-identical
-# assertion (tests/e2e/lib/peer_visibility_assert.sh) against the local
-# docker-compose stack — built + booted exactly like e2e-api.yml's
-# proven E2E API Smoke Test job (ephemeral pg/redis ports, go build,
-# background platform-server). It runs on PR + push (local boot is
-# minutes, not the 30+ min cold-EC2 path), so peer-visibility is part of
-# the local gate that fires before the staging E2E.
-#
-# It is its OWN non-required status context `E2E Peer Visibility (local)`.
-# The local backend uses external-mode workspaces by default so it tests
-# the literal platform MCP list_peers path without depending on local
-# template container boot/heartbeat. Container-mode runtime boot remains
-# available via PV_LOCAL_PROVISION_MODE=container for targeted debugging.
-
-on:
-  push:
-    branches: [main]
-    paths:
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp.go'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp_tools.go'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/middleware/**'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/registry.go'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace.go'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_staging.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_token_mint_staging.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/lib/peer_visibility_assert.sh'
-      - '.gitea/workflows/e2e-peer-visibility.yml'
-  pull_request:
-    branches: [main]
-    paths:
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp.go'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/mcp_tools.go'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/middleware/**'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/registry.go'
-      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace.go'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_staging.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_token_mint_staging.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/lib/peer_visibility_assert.sh'
-      - '.gitea/workflows/e2e-peer-visibility.yml'
-  workflow_dispatch:
-  schedule:
-    # 07:30 UTC daily — catches AMI / template-hermes / template-openclaw
-    # drift even on quiet days. Offset 30m from e2e-staging-saas (07:00)
-    # so the two don't collide on the staging org-creation quota.
-    - cron: '30 7 * * *'
-
-concurrency:
-  # Per-SHA (feedback_concurrency_group_per_sha). A single global group
-  # would let a queued staging/main push behind a PR run get cancelled,
-  # leaving any gate that reads "completed run at SHA" stuck.
-  group: e2e-peer-visibility-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-
-env:
-  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
-
-jobs:
-  # PR path: post a real status under the required-ready check name so a
-  # workflow-only PR is never silently statusless. The actual EC2 E2E is
-  # push/dispatch/cron only (30+ min). This is NOT a fake-green mask of
-  # the real assertion — it validates the driving script's bash syntax
-  # and inline-python so a broken test script fails at PR time.
-  pr-validate:
-    name: E2E Peer Visibility
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-    timeout-minutes: 5
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      - name: Validate driving scripts + shared assertion lib
-        run: |
-          bash -n tests/e2e/lib/peer_visibility_assert.sh
-          echo "lib/peer_visibility_assert.sh — bash syntax OK"
-          bash -n tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_staging.sh
-          echo "test_peer_visibility_mcp_staging.sh — bash syntax OK"
-          bash -n tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_token_mint_staging.sh
-          echo "test_peer_visibility_token_mint_staging.sh — bash syntax OK"
-          bash -n tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh
-          echo "test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh — bash syntax OK"
-          if rg -n '/admin/workspaces/.*/test-token|test-token' tests/e2e/test_*staging*.sh; then
-            echo "::error::staging E2E must not use dev-only /admin/workspaces/:id/test-token; use production-safe admin token minting instead"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "Staging fresh-provision MCP list_peers E2E runs on push to"
-          echo "main / workflow_dispatch / daily cron (30+ min EC2 boot)."
-          echo "The LOCAL backend runs in the peer-visibility-local job"
-          echo "below on this same PR (local docker-compose stack)."
-
-  # LOCAL gate: same byte-identical assertion against the local prod-mimic
-  # docker-compose stack — the MANDATORY local-E2E that must run BEFORE
-  # the staging E2E (feedback_mandatory_local_e2e_before_ship,
-  # feedback_local_test_before_staging_e2e). Bootstrap mirrors
-  # e2e-api.yml's proven E2E API Smoke Test job (per-run container names +
-  # ephemeral host ports so concurrent host-network act_runner runs don't
-  # collide; go build; background platform-server). Its OWN non-required
-  # status context `E2E Peer Visibility (local)` — non-required-by-design
-  # exactly like the staging job (flip-to-required tracked at
-  # molecule-core#1296). HONEST gate, NO continue-on-error mask
-  # (feedback_fix_root_not_symptom). Runs on PR +
-  # push (local boot is minutes, not the 30+ min cold-EC2 path).
-  # bp-required: pending #1296
-  peer-visibility-local:
-    name: E2E Peer Visibility (local)
-    runs-on: docker-host
-    timeout-minutes: 30
-    env:
-      # Per-run names + ephemeral ports — same collision-avoidance as
-      # e2e-api.yml (host-network act_runner; feedback_act_runner_*).
-      PG_CONTAINER: pg-e2e-pv-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
-      REDIS_CONTAINER: redis-e2e-pv-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
-      # LLM keys so hermes/openclaw can actually boot. The local script
-      # SKIPs (not fails) any runtime whose key is absent, so a partially
-      # keyed CI env still exercises whatever it can.
-      CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.E2E_CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
-      E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY }}
-      E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
-      E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-      PV_RUNTIMES: "hermes openclaw claude-code"
-      PV_LOCAL_PROVISION_MODE: external
-      ADMIN_TOKEN: local-e2e-admin-token
-      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: local-e2e-admin-token
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-      - uses: actions/setup-go@40f1582b2485089dde7abd97c1529aa768e1baff # v5
-        with:
-          go-version: 'stable'
-          cache: true
-          cache-dependency-path: workspace-server/go.sum
-      - name: Pre-pull alpine + ensure provisioner network
-        run: |
-          docker pull alpine:latest >/dev/null
-          docker network create molecule-core-net >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
-          echo "alpine:latest pre-pulled; molecule-core-net ensured."
-      - name: Start Postgres (docker, ephemeral port)
-        run: |
-          docker rm -f "$PG_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
-          docker run -d --name "$PG_CONTAINER" \
-            -e POSTGRES_USER=dev -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=dev -e POSTGRES_DB=molecule \
-            -p 0:5432 postgres:16 >/dev/null
-          PG_PORT=$(docker port "$PG_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp | awk -F: '/^0\.0\.0\.0:/ {print $2; exit}')
-          [ -n "$PG_PORT" ] || PG_PORT=$(docker port "$PG_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $NF}')
-          if [ -z "$PG_PORT" ]; then
-            echo "::error::Could not resolve host port for $PG_CONTAINER"
-            docker logs "$PG_CONTAINER" || true; exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "DATABASE_URL=postgres://dev:dev@127.0.0.1:${PG_PORT}/molecule?sslmode=disable" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
-            docker exec "$PG_CONTAINER" pg_isready -U dev >/dev/null 2>&1 && { echo "Postgres ready after ${i}s"; exit 0; }
-            sleep 1
-          done
-          echo "::error::Postgres did not become ready in 30s"; docker logs "$PG_CONTAINER" || true; exit 1
-      - name: Start Redis (docker, ephemeral port)
-        run: |
-          docker rm -f "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
-          docker run -d --name "$REDIS_CONTAINER" -p 0:6379 redis:7 >/dev/null
-          REDIS_PORT=$(docker port "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 6379/tcp | awk -F: '/^0\.0\.0\.0:/ {print $2; exit}')
-          [ -n "$REDIS_PORT" ] || REDIS_PORT=$(docker port "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 6379/tcp | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $NF}')
-          if [ -z "$REDIS_PORT" ]; then
-            echo "::error::Could not resolve host port for $REDIS_CONTAINER"
-            docker logs "$REDIS_CONTAINER" || true; exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "REDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:${REDIS_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          for i in $(seq 1 15); do
-            docker exec "$REDIS_CONTAINER" redis-cli ping 2>/dev/null | grep -q PONG && { echo "Redis ready after ${i}s"; exit 0; }
-            sleep 1
-          done
-          echo "::error::Redis did not become ready in 15s"; docker logs "$REDIS_CONTAINER" || true; exit 1
-      - name: Build platform
-        working-directory: workspace-server
-        run: go build -o platform-server ./cmd/server
-      - name: Pick platform port
-        run: |
-          PLATFORM_PORT=$(python3 - <<'PY'
-          import socket
-          with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
-              s.bind(("127.0.0.1", 0))
-              print(s.getsockname()[1])
-          PY
-          )
-          echo "PORT=${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "BASE=http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          echo "Platform host port: ${PLATFORM_PORT}"
-      - name: Kill stale platform-server before start
-        run: |
-          killed=0
-          for pid in $(grep -l "platform-serve" /proc/[0-9]*/comm 2>/dev/null); do
-            kpid="${pid%/comm}"; kpid="${kpid##*/}"
-            cmdline=$(cat "/proc/${kpid}/cmdline" 2>/dev/null | tr '\0' ' ')
-            if echo "$cmdline" | grep -q "platform-server"; then
-              echo "Killing stale platform-server pid ${kpid}"
-              kill "$kpid" 2>/dev/null || true; killed=$((killed + 1))
-            fi
-          done
-          [ "$killed" -gt 0 ] && sleep 2 || true
-          echo "stale-kill done ($killed killed)"
-      - name: Start platform (background)
-        working-directory: workspace-server
-        run: |
-          ./platform-server > platform.log 2>&1 &
-          echo $! > platform.pid
-      - name: Wait for /health
-        run: |
-          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
-            curl -sf "$BASE/health" > /dev/null && { echo "Platform up after ${i}s"; exit 0; }
-            sleep 1
-          done
-          echo "::error::Platform did not become healthy in 30s"
-          cat workspace-server/platform.log || true; exit 1
-      - name: Run LOCAL fresh-provision peer-visibility E2E (literal MCP list_peers)
-        # HONEST gate — NO continue-on-error. The local backend uses
-        # external-mode workspaces so this context tests the literal MCP
-        # peer-visibility path without coupling to template container boot.
-        run: bash tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh
-      - name: Dump platform log on failure
-        if: failure()
-        run: cat workspace-server/platform.log || true
-      - name: Stop platform
-        if: always()
-        run: |
-          if [ -f workspace-server/platform.pid ]; then
-            kill "$(cat workspace-server/platform.pid)" 2>/dev/null || true
-          fi
-      - name: Stop service containers
-        if: always()
-        run: |
-          docker rm -f "$PG_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
-          docker rm -f "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
-
-  # Real STAGING gate: provisions a throwaway org + sibling-per-runtime,
-  # drives the LITERAL list_peers MCP call per runtime, asserts 200 +
-  # expected peer set, then scoped teardown. push(main)/dispatch/cron only.
-  peer-visibility:
-    name: E2E Peer Visibility
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    if: github.event_name != 'pull_request'
-    timeout-minutes: 60
-
-    env:
-      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
-      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-      # LLM provider key so each runtime can authenticate at boot.
-      # Priority MiniMax → direct-Anthropic → OpenAI matches
-      # test_staging_full_saas.sh's secrets-injection chain.
-      E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY }}
-      E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
-      E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_API_KEY }}
-      E2E_RUN_ID: "${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}"
-      PV_RUNTIMES: "hermes openclaw claude-code"
-
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-
-      - name: Verify admin token present
-        run: |
-          if [ -z "$MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
-            echo "::error::CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret not set (Railway staging CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN)"
-            exit 2
-          fi
-          echo "Admin token present"
-
-      - name: Verify an LLM key present
-        run: |
-          if [ -z "${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY:-}" ] && [ -z "${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:-}" ] && [ -z "${E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
-            echo "::error::No LLM provider key set — workspaces fail at boot with 'No provider API key found'. Set MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY (or ANTHROPIC / OPENAI)."
-            exit 2
-          fi
-          echo "LLM key present"
-
-      - name: CP staging health preflight
-        run: |
-          code=$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 10 "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/health")
-          if [ "$code" != "200" ]; then
-            echo "::error::Staging CP unhealthy (HTTP $code) — infra, not a workspace bug. Failing loud per feedback_fix_root_not_symptom."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-          echo "Staging CP healthy"
-
-      - name: Run fresh-provision peer-visibility E2E (literal MCP list_peers)
-        run: bash tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_staging.sh
-
-      # Belt-and-braces scoped teardown: the script installs an EXIT/INT/
-      # TERM trap, but if the runner itself is cancelled the trap may not
-      # fire. This always() step deletes ONLY the e2e-pv-<run_id> org this
-      # run created — never a cluster-wide sweep
-      # (feedback_never_run_cluster_cleanup_tests_on_live_platform). The
-      # admin DELETE is idempotent so double-invoking is safe;
-      # sweep-stale-e2e-orgs is the final net (slug starts with 'e2e-').
-      - name: Teardown safety net (runs on cancel/failure)
-        if: always()
-        env:
-          ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-        run: |
-          set +e
-          orgs=$(curl -sS "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orgs?limit=500" \
-            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" 2>/dev/null \
-            | python3 -c "
-          import json, sys, os, datetime
-          run_id = os.environ.get('GITHUB_RUN_ID', '')
-          try:
-              d = json.load(sys.stdin)
-          except Exception:
-              print(''); sys.exit(0)
-          # ONLY sweep slugs from THIS run. e2e-pv-<YYYYMMDD>-<run_id>-...
-          # Sweep today AND yesterday's UTC date so a midnight-crossing run
-          # still matches its own slug (same bug class as the saas/canvas
-          # safety nets).
-          today = datetime.date.today()
-          yest = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
-          dates = (today.strftime('%Y%m%d'), yest.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
-          if run_id:
-              prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-pv-{dt}-{run_id}-' for dt in dates)
-          else:
-              prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-pv-{dt}-' for dt in dates)
-          orgs = d if isinstance(d, list) else d.get('orgs', [])
-          cands = [o['slug'] for o in orgs
-                   if any(o.get('slug','').startswith(p) for p in prefixes)
-                   and o.get('instance_status') not in ('purged',)]
-          print('\n'.join(cands))
-          " 2>/dev/null)
-          for slug in $orgs; do
-            echo "Safety-net teardown: $slug"
-            set +e
-            curl -sS -o /tmp/pv-cleanup.out -w "%{http_code}" \
-              -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
-              -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
-              -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-              -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/pv-cleanup.code
-            set -e
-            code=$(cat /tmp/pv-cleanup.code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
-            if [ "$code" = "200" ] || [ "$code" = "204" ]; then
-              echo "[teardown] deleted $slug (HTTP $code)"
-            else
-              echo "::warning::pv teardown for $slug returned HTTP $code — sweep-stale-e2e-orgs will catch it within MAX_AGE_MINUTES. Body: $(head -c 300 /tmp/pv-cleanup.out 2>/dev/null)"
-            fi
-          done
-          exit 0

.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-canvas.yml

@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ name: E2E Staging Canvas (Playwright)
 # e2e-staging-saas.yml (which tests the API shape) by exercising the
 # actual browser + canvas bundle against live staging.
 #
-# Triggers: push to main, PR touching canvas sources + this workflow only
-# after the PR enters `merge-queue`, manual dispatch, and scheduled cron to
-# catch browser/runtime drift even when canvas is quiet.
+# Triggers: push to main/staging or PR touching canvas sources + this workflow,
+# manual dispatch, and weekly cron to catch browser/runtime drift even
+# when canvas is quiet.
 # Added staging to push/pull_request branches so the auto-promote gate
 # check (--event push --branch staging) can see a completed run for this
 # workflow — mirrors what PR #1891 does for e2e-api.yml.
@@ -37,10 +37,9 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
   schedule:
-    # Nightly at 08:00 UTC — catches Chrome / Playwright / Next.js
+    # Weekly on Sunday 08:00 UTC — catches Chrome / Playwright / Next.js
     # release-note-shaped regressions that don't ride in with a PR.
-    - cron: '0 8 * * *'
-  workflow_dispatch:
+    - cron: '0 8 * * 0'
 
 concurrency:
   # Per-SHA grouping (changed 2026-04-28 from a single global group). The
@@ -80,13 +79,10 @@ jobs:
         with:
           fetch-depth: 0
       - id: decide
-        env:
-          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          QUEUE_LABEL: merge-queue
         # Inline replacement for dorny/paths-filter — see e2e-api.yml.
-        # Cron and manual triggers always run real work (no diff context).
+        # Cron triggers always run real work (no diff context).
         run: |
-          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "schedule" ] || [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "schedule" ]; then
             echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
             exit 0
           fi
@@ -106,26 +102,9 @@ jobs:
             exit 0
           fi
           CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD)
-          if ! echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(canvas/|\.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-canvas\.yml$)'; then
-            echo "canvas=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" != "pull_request" ]; then
-            echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-
-          authfile=$(mktemp)
-          chmod 600 "$authfile"
-          printf 'header = "Authorization: token %s"\n' "$GITEA_TOKEN" > "$authfile"
-          labels=$(curl -fsS -K "$authfile" \
-            "${{ github.server_url }}/api/v1/repos/${{ github.repository }}/issues/${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}/labels" \
-            | python3 -c 'import json,sys; print("\n".join(label.get("name","") for label in json.load(sys.stdin)))')
-          rm -f "$authfile"
-          if printf '%s\n' "$labels" | grep -qx "$QUEUE_LABEL"; then
+          if echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(canvas/|\.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-canvas\.yml$)'; then
             echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           else
-            echo "PR is not in merge-queue; skipping heavy E2E Staging Canvas for normal PR path."
             echo "canvas=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
           fi
 
@@ -190,14 +169,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Playwright browsers
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
         timeout-minutes: 10
-        run: |
-          PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT=/ms-playwright
-          if [ -d "${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}" ] && find "${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}" -maxdepth 3 -type f -name 'chrome' | grep -q .; then
-            echo "Using prebaked Playwright Chromium from ${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}"
-            echo "PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=${PREBAKED_PLAYWRIGHT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
+        run: npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
 
       - name: Run staging canvas E2E
         if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'

.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-saas.yml

@@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ on:
       - 'workspace-server/internal/middleware/**'
       - 'workspace-server/internal/provisioner/**'
       - 'tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/lib/aws_leak_check.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_aws_leak_check.sh'
       - '.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-saas.yml'
   pull_request:
     branches: [main]
@@ -61,8 +59,6 @@ on:
       - 'workspace-server/internal/middleware/**'
       - 'workspace-server/internal/provisioner/**'
       - 'tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/lib/aws_leak_check.sh'
-      - 'tests/e2e/test_aws_leak_check.sh'
       - '.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-saas.yml'
   workflow_dispatch:
   schedule:
@@ -131,11 +127,6 @@ jobs:
       # (dead in org secret store) to CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN per
       # internal#322 — see this PR for the cross-workflow sweep.
       MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2
-      E2E_AWS_LEAK_CHECK: required
-      E2E_AWS_TERMINATE_LEAKS: '1'
       # MiniMax is the PRIMARY LLM auth path post-2026-05-04. Switched
       # from hermes+OpenAI default after #2578 (the staging OpenAI key
       # account went over quota and stayed dead for 36+ hours, taking
@@ -161,7 +152,7 @@ jobs:
       # and defeats the cost saving. Operators can override via the
       # workflow_dispatch flow (no input wired here yet — runtime
       # override is enough for ad-hoc).
-      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: ${{ github.event.inputs.runtime == 'hermes' && 'openai/gpt-4o' || github.event.inputs.runtime == 'langgraph' && 'openai:gpt-4o' || 'MiniMax-M2' }}
+      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: ${{ github.event.inputs.runtime == 'hermes' && 'openai/gpt-4o' || github.event.inputs.runtime == 'langgraph' && 'openai:gpt-4o' || 'MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed' }}
       E2E_RUN_ID: "${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}"
       E2E_KEEP_ORG: ${{ github.event.inputs.keep_org && '1' || '0' }}
 
@@ -174,12 +165,6 @@ jobs:
             echo "::error::CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret not set (Railway staging CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN)"
             exit 2
           fi
-          for var in AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY; do
-            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
-              echo "::error::$var not set — EC2 leak verification cannot run"
-              exit 2
-            fi
-          done
           echo "Admin token present ✓"
 
       - name: Verify LLM key present

.gitea/workflows/e2e-staging-sanity.yml

@@ -47,11 +47,6 @@ jobs:
       # (dead in org secret store) to CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN per
       # internal#322 — see this PR for the cross-workflow sweep.
       MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2
-      E2E_AWS_LEAK_CHECK: required
-      E2E_AWS_TERMINATE_LEAKS: '1'
       E2E_MODE: smoke
       E2E_RUNTIME: hermes
       E2E_RUN_ID: "sanity-${{ github.run_id }}"
@@ -66,12 +61,6 @@ jobs:
             echo "::error::CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN not set"
             exit 2
           fi
-          for var in AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY; do
-            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
-              echo "::error::$var not set — EC2 leak verification cannot run"
-              exit 2
-            fi
-          done
 
       # Inverted assertion: the run MUST fail. If it passes, the
       # E2E_INTENTIONAL_FAILURE path is broken.

.gitea/workflows/gate-check-v3.yml

@@ -83,41 +83,25 @@ jobs:
           REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          # Fetch all open PRs and run gate-check on each. This scheduled
-          # refresher is advisory; a transient Gitea list timeout must not turn
-          # main red. PR-specific gate-check runs still use normal failure
-          # semantics.
+          # Fetch all open PRs and run gate-check on each
+          # socket.setdefaulttimeout(15): defence-in-depth for missing SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN.
+          # gate_check.py uses timeout=15 on every urlopen call; this catches the
+          # inline Python polling loop too (issue #603).
           pr_numbers=$(python3 <<'PY'
           import json
           import os
           import socket
-          import sys
-          import time
-          import urllib.error
           import urllib.request
 
-          socket.setdefaulttimeout(30)
+          socket.setdefaulttimeout(15)
           token = os.environ["GITEA_TOKEN"]
           repo = os.environ["REPO"]
-          url = f"https://git.moleculesai.app/api/v1/repos/{repo}/pulls?state=open&limit=100"
-          last_error = None
-          for attempt in range(1, 4):
-              req = urllib.request.Request(
-                  url,
-                  headers={"Authorization": f"token {token}", "Accept": "application/json"},
-              )
-              try:
-                  with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=30) as r:
-                      prs = json.loads(r.read())
-                  break
-              except (TimeoutError, OSError, urllib.error.URLError, urllib.error.HTTPError) as exc:
-                  last_error = exc
-                  print(f"warning: PR list fetch attempt {attempt}/3 failed: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
-                  if attempt < 3:
-                      time.sleep(2 * attempt)
-          else:
-              print(f"warning: skipped scheduled gate-check refresh; failed to list open PRs after 3 attempts: {last_error}", file=sys.stderr)
-              raise SystemExit(0)
+          req = urllib.request.Request(
+              f"https://git.moleculesai.app/api/v1/repos/{repo}/pulls?state=open&limit=100",
+              headers={"Authorization": f"token {token}", "Accept": "application/json"},
+          )
+          with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as r:
+              prs = json.loads(r.read())
           for pr in prs:
               print(pr["number"])
           PY

.gitea/workflows/gitea-merge-queue.yml

@@ -13,12 +13,8 @@ name: gitea-merge-queue
 #   - add `merge-queue-hold` to pause a queued PR without removing it
 
 on:
-  # Schedule moved to operator-config:
-  #   /etc/cron.d/molecule-core-merge-queue ->
-  #   /usr/local/bin/molecule-core-cron-bot.sh merge-queue
-  #
-  # The queue bot still processes one PR per tick, but no longer occupies
-  # one of the shared Actions runners just to poll.
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '*/5 * * * *'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 permissions:
@@ -56,9 +52,5 @@ jobs:
           # explicitly instead of the combined state avoids false-pause when
           # non-blocking jobs (continue-on-error: true) have failed — those
           # failures pollute combined state but do not gate merges.
-          # NOTE: the event-suffixed context name is intentional — branch protection
-          # MUST require `CI / all-required (pull_request)` (with suffix), NOT the
-          # bare `CI / all-required`. Gitea treats absent contexts as pending, not
-          # skipped; requiring the bare name silently blocks all merges (issue #1473).
           PUSH_REQUIRED_CONTEXTS: CI / all-required (push)
         run: python3 .gitea/scripts/gitea-merge-queue.py

.gitea/workflows/handlers-postgres-integration.yml

@@ -77,16 +77,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   detect-changes:
     name: detect-changes
-    # mc#1529 §1: pin to `docker-host` so the integration job runs on the
-    # operator-host runners (molecule-runner-*), which carry the
-    # `molecule-core-net` bridge network this workflow depends on. PC2
-    # runners (hongming-pc-runner-*) also advertise ubuntu-latest but
-    # don't have that network — the previous `runs-on: ubuntu-latest`
-    # rolled the dice and hard-failed the bridge-inspect step ~30% of
-    # the time. detect-changes itself doesn't need the bridge, but keeping
-    # both jobs on the same label avoids workspace-volume cross-host
-    # surprises and keeps the routing rule discoverable in one place.
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # mc#774 Phase 3 (RFC §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -95,19 +86,38 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
         with:
-          # A full-history checkout can exceed the runner's quiet/startup
-          # window before the path filter emits logs. Fetch the common push
-          # case cheaply; the script below fetches the exact BASE SHA if it is
-          # not present in the shallow checkout.
-          fetch-depth: 2
+          fetch-depth: 0
       - id: filter
+        # Inline replacement for dorny/paths-filter — see e2e-api.yml.
         run: |
-          python3 .gitea/scripts/detect-changes.py \
-            --profile handlers-postgres \
-            --event-name "${{ github.event_name }}" \
-            --pr-base-sha "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" \
-            --base-ref "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}" \
-            --push-before "${GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE:-}"
+          # Gitea Actions evaluates github.event.before to empty string in shell
+          # scripts. Use GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE shell env var instead (Gitea
+          # correctly populates it for push events). PR case uses template var.
+          BASE=""
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ] && [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" ]; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          elif [ -n "$GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE" ]; then
+            BASE="$GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE"
+          fi
+          if [ -z "$BASE" ] || echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            echo "handlers=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          # timeout 30 guards against the case where BASE points to a ref that
+          # git can resolve but cat-file hangs (rare on corrupted objects).
+          if ! timeout 30 git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            git fetch --depth=1 origin "$BASE" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+          if ! timeout 30 git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            echo "handlers=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD)
+          if echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(workspace-server/internal/handlers/|workspace-server/internal/wsauth/|workspace-server/migrations/|\.gitea/workflows/handlers-postgres-integration\.yml$)'; then
+            echo "handlers=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "handlers=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
 
   # Single-job-with-per-step-if pattern: always runs to satisfy the
   # required-check name on branch protection; real work gates on the
@@ -115,9 +125,7 @@ jobs:
   integration:
     name: Handlers Postgres Integration
     needs: detect-changes
-    # mc#1529 §1: must run on operator-host (where `molecule-core-net`
-    # exists). See detect-changes for the full routing rationale.
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # mc#774 Phase 3 (RFC §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true

.gitea/workflows/harness-replays.yml

@@ -62,13 +62,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   # bp-exempt: change detector only; downstream Harness Replays is the meaningful gate.
   detect-changes:
-    # mc#1529 follow-on: pin to `docker-host` so this lane lands on
-    # Linux operator-host runners (the only ones with a working
-    # docker.sock + `molecule-core-net`). The bare `ubuntu-latest`
-    # label is also matched by hongming-pc-runner-* (Windows act_runner
-    # v1.0.3), where the `docker compose ...` exec below fails. Mirror
-    # of mc#1543; see internal#512 for class defect.
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -168,9 +162,7 @@ jobs:
   harness-replays:
     needs: detect-changes
     name: Harness Replays
-    # mc#1529 follow-on: `docker compose ... ps/logs` against tenant-alpha/
-    # beta containers. Must run on operator-host Linux (docker-host).
-    runs-on: docker-host
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true

.gitea/workflows/lint-continue-on-error-tracking.yml

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
   lint:
     name: lint-continue-on-error-tracking
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    timeout-minutes: 20
+    timeout-minutes: 10
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface masked defects without blocking
     # PRs. Pre-existing continue-on-error: true directives on main
     # all violate this lint at first — intentional. Flip to false

.gitea/workflows/lint-forbidden-env-keys.yml

@@ -1,168 +0,0 @@
-name: Lint forbidden tenant-env keys
-
-# RFC#523 Layer 3 (task #146): scan workspace_secrets-writer Go code
-# under workspace-server/ for new code that hardcodes a forbidden
-# operator-scope env var NAME (GITEA_TOKEN, CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN,
-# RAILWAY_TOKEN, INFISICAL_OPERATOR_TOKEN, MOLECULE_OPERATOR_*, …).
-#
-# Catches the class "a new writer accidentally widens the propagation
-# set" — e.g. a future env-mutator plugin that sets envVars["GITEA_TOKEN"]
-# directly. Today the L1 runtime guard would abort the provision, but
-# this lint surfaces the offending code at PR review time instead of
-# at first provision attempt.
-#
-# Companion layers:
-#   - L1: workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env.go
-#         (fail-closed abort at provision time)
-#   - L2: workspace/entrypoint.sh top-of-file env-grep + exit 1
-#
-# Open-source-template-friendly: the deny pattern is generic. A fork
-# can copy this workflow and replace OPERATOR_KEY_PATTERN with its
-# own operator-scope key names.
-#
-# Path-filter discipline:
-#   This workflow runs on every PR (no paths: filter — see
-#   feedback_path_filtered_workflow_cant_be_required). The scan itself
-#   targets workspace_secrets-writer paths via grep -r; it's fast
-#   (sub-second) so unconditional run is fine.
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-  push:
-    branches: [main, staging]
-
-env:
-  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
-
-jobs:
-  scan:
-    name: Scan workspace_secrets writers for forbidden env keys
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 1
-
-      - name: Scan for forbidden operator-scope env key NAMES in writer paths
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-
-          # Forbidden EXACT-MATCH env var names. Kept in lockstep with
-          # workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env.go
-          # forbiddenTenantEnvKeys. The Go-side test
-          # TestIsForbiddenTenantEnvKey_ExactMatches is the source of
-          # truth — if Go-side adds a key, also add it here (and
-          # vice-versa). Drift between the two is the failure mode this
-          # entire 3-layer guardrail is designed to catch.
-          FORBIDDEN_KEYS=(
-            "GITEA_TOKEN" "GITEA_PAT"
-            "GITHUB_TOKEN" "GITHUB_PAT" "GH_TOKEN"
-            "GITLAB_TOKEN" "GL_TOKEN"
-            "BITBUCKET_TOKEN"
-            "CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN" "CP_ADMIN_TOKEN"
-            "INFISICAL_OPERATOR_TOKEN" "INFISICAL_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN"
-            "RAILWAY_TOKEN" "RAILWAY_PERSONAL_API_TOKEN"
-            "HETZNER_TOKEN" "HETZNER_API_TOKEN"
-          )
-
-          # Forbidden PREFIX patterns — operator-scope families.
-          FORBIDDEN_PREFIXES=(
-            "MOLECULE_OPERATOR_"
-          )
-
-          # Writer paths: Go source under workspace-server/ that
-          # writes to the env-vars map or to workspace_secrets DB rows.
-          # Tests, the forbidden-env source itself, and the silent-
-          # strip denylist are exempt (they LIST the keys by design).
-          SCAN_ROOT="workspace-server/internal"
-          # Exempt paths fall in two classes:
-          #   1. The deny-set definitions + the silent-strip denylist:
-          #      they LIST the forbidden names by design.
-          #   2. Pre-RFC#523 persona-merge / config-read paths that
-          #      already handle these names correctly (the silent-
-          #      strip downstream + the new L1 fail-closed cover the
-          #      runtime risk; these reads are unchanged).
-          # New code MUST NOT be added to this list without reviewer
-          # signoff and a one-line justification in this diff.
-          EXEMPT_PATHS=(
-            # Class 1 — deny-set definitions
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env_test.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/provisioner/provisioner.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/provisioner/provisioner_test.go"
-            # Class 2 — pre-existing persona-fallback / org-helper paths
-            # that set the GITEA_TOKEN fallback lane (stripped downstream
-            # by provisioner.buildContainerEnv per forensic #145). The
-            # new L1 fail-closed runs BEFORE these writers, so any
-            # operator-scope leak via global/workspace_secrets is
-            # already caught. See applyAgentGitHTTPCreds doc-comment.
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/agent_git_identity.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/org_helpers.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/org.go"
-            # Class 2 — CP→platform admin auth (NOT a tenant env write;
-            # this is the control-plane HTTP auth header source).
-            "workspace-server/internal/provisioner/cp_provisioner.go"
-          )
-
-          # Build a single grep -F pattern: every forbidden key wrapped
-          # in quotes (Go string-literal form, which is how env-map
-          # writes appear). e.g. envVars["GITEA_TOKEN"] = ... or
-          # `"GITEA_TOKEN":` in a literal-map declaration.
-          #
-          # We deliberately match the quoted form so a comment that
-          # happens to spell the name without quotes (e.g. "see
-          # GITEA_TOKEN below") doesn't trip the lint.
-          PATTERN=""
-          for k in "${FORBIDDEN_KEYS[@]}"; do
-            PATTERN="${PATTERN}\"${k}\"\n"
-          done
-          for p in "${FORBIDDEN_PREFIXES[@]}"; do
-            # Prefix match needs a regex; switch to grep -E below for
-            # this slice. Kept conceptually here so the deny set lives
-            # in one place; scan is run twice (literal + prefix).
-            true
-          done
-
-          # Build exempt-paths grep filter — `grep -v -f` style.
-          EXEMPT_FILTER=$(mktemp)
-          trap 'rm -f "$EXEMPT_FILTER"' EXIT
-          for p in "${EXEMPT_PATHS[@]}"; do
-            echo "$p" >> "$EXEMPT_FILTER"
-          done
-
-          # --- Exact-match scan ---
-          HITS=""
-          for k in "${FORBIDDEN_KEYS[@]}"; do
-            # Only .go files; skip _test.go for the writer-path scan
-            # since tests legitimately reference the names. The
-            # writer-path lint targets PRODUCTION code only.
-            found=$(grep -rn --include='*.go' --exclude='*_test.go' "\"${k}\"" "$SCAN_ROOT" 2>/dev/null \
-                    | grep -v -F -f "$EXEMPT_FILTER" || true)
-            if [ -n "$found" ]; then
-              HITS="${HITS}${found}\n"
-            fi
-          done
-
-          # --- Prefix scan ---
-          for prefix in "${FORBIDDEN_PREFIXES[@]}"; do
-            found=$(grep -rnE --include='*.go' --exclude='*_test.go' "\"${prefix}[A-Z0-9_]+\"" "$SCAN_ROOT" 2>/dev/null \
-                    | grep -v -F -f "$EXEMPT_FILTER" || true)
-            if [ -n "$found" ]; then
-              HITS="${HITS}${found}\n"
-            fi
-          done
-
-          if [ -n "$HITS" ]; then
-            echo "::error::RFC#523 Layer 3: forbidden operator-scope env var name(s) hardcoded in tenant-workspace writer paths:"
-            printf "$HITS"
-            echo ""
-            echo "These env-var NAMES are on the operator-scope deny list (see"
-            echo "workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env.go)."
-            echo "If your code legitimately needs to inject one of these for a"
-            echo "non-tenant code path, add the file to EXEMPT_PATHS in this"
-            echo "workflow with a one-line justification — reviewer signoff required."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-          echo "OK No forbidden operator-scope env key names hardcoded in writer paths."

.gitea/workflows/lint-no-tenant-gitea-token.yml

@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-name: Lint no tenant GITEA or GITHUB token write
-
-# Task #146 — CI guardrail companion to RFC#523's `lint-forbidden-env-keys.yml`.
-#
-# `lint-forbidden-env-keys.yml` (Layer 3) catches code that hardcodes a
-# forbidden env-var key NAME as a quoted literal in workspace_secrets
-# writer paths under workspace-server/internal/.
-#
-# This workflow catches a BROADER class: any code path that reads a
-# repo-host token (GITEA_TOKEN / GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN) and then writes
-# it into a TENANT WORKSPACE's env, secret store, user-data, or
-# provision payload. This is the actual RFC#523 threat-model statement —
-# the goal is "no tenant workspace ever receives an operator-scope repo
-# token," not just "no _quoted_ literal `GITEA_TOKEN`." A future writer
-# could route the value via a variable, a struct field, or a config key
-# and slip past the existing literal scan; this lint catches those
-# routing patterns at PR review time.
-#
-# Scope
-#   Scans the WHOLE repo's Go sources (not just workspace-server/) for
-#   co-occurrences of:
-#     - a repo-host token NAME (GITEA_TOKEN / GITHUB_TOKEN / GH_TOKEN /
-#       GITEA_PAT / GITHUB_PAT) used as os.Getenv argument or string
-#       literal
-#     - within a file that ALSO references a tenant-writer surface
-#       (`tenant`, `workspace_secrets`, `global_secrets`, `seedAllowList`,
-#       `/settings/secrets`, `userData`, `provisionPayload`,
-#       `envVars[`, `containerEnv`).
-#
-#   Co-occurrence (not single-line) is the false-positive control: a
-#   file that just LOGS the variable name (e.g. "missing GITEA_TOKEN")
-#   without touching any tenant surface won't fire.
-#
-# Drift contract with lint-forbidden-env-keys.yml
-#   Both lints share the same FORBIDDEN_KEYS list (a subset — only the
-#   repo-host tokens, since this lint's threat model is "tenant gets
-#   write access to operator's git host"). If RFC#523's deny set grows,
-#   update BOTH this file AND lint-forbidden-env-keys.yml AND the Go
-#   source-of-truth in
-#   workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env.go.
-#
-# Open-source-template-friendly
-#   The patterns scanned are generic (no MOLECULE_-prefix literals).
-#   A fork can copy this workflow as-is and adjust FORBIDDEN_KEYS.
-#
-# Path-filter discipline
-#   No `paths:` filter — required-status workflows must run on every PR
-#   per `feedback_path_filtered_workflow_cant_be_required`. Scan is
-#   sub-second.
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
-  push:
-    branches: [main, staging]
-
-env:
-  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
-
-jobs:
-  # bp-exempt: advisory RFC#523 lint; PR review gate is review-driven, not BP-driven.
-  # (Carried with the workflow-name rename in PR mc#1593 so the renamed
-  # context emission satisfies lint_required_context_exists_in_bp Tier 2g.)
-  scan:
-    name: Scan for repo-host token write into tenant workspace surface
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 1
-
-      - name: Find Go files referencing a tenant-writer surface AND a repo-host token
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-
-          # Repo-host token NAMES — the threat-model subset. Operator-fleet
-          # tokens (CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN, RAILWAY_TOKEN, INFISICAL_*) are
-          # caught by lint-forbidden-env-keys.yml's broader deny set; this
-          # lint focuses on the git-host class so a single co-occurrence
-          # match has a low false-positive rate.
-          FORBIDDEN_KEYS=(
-            "GITEA_TOKEN"
-            "GITEA_PAT"
-            "GITHUB_TOKEN"
-            "GITHUB_PAT"
-            "GH_TOKEN"
-          )
-
-          # Tenant-writer surface markers. A file matches the surface set
-          # if it references ANY of these strings. This is the "is this
-          # code path writing into a tenant workspace?" heuristic.
-          # Curated to catch the actual code shapes used in this repo
-          # (verified by grep against current main 2026-05-19):
-          #   - "workspace_secrets" / "global_secrets"  → DB table writes
-          #   - "seedAllowList"                          → CP-side seed table
-          #   - "/settings/secrets"                      → tenant HTTP API write
-          #   - "envVars["                               → in-memory env map write
-          #   - "containerEnv"                           → docker-run env-set
-          #   - "userData"                               → EC2 user-data script
-          #   - "provisionPayload" / "provisionContext"  → provision-request shape
-          SURFACE_PATTERN='workspace_secrets|global_secrets|seedAllowList|/settings/secrets|envVars\[|containerEnv|userData|provisionPayload|provisionContext'
-
-          # Files that legitimately reference these names AND a surface
-          # marker, but do so for guard / strip / test / doc-comment
-          # reasons. New entries require reviewer signoff and a one-line
-          # justification in the diff.
-          EXEMPT_FILES=(
-            # RFC#523 L1 deny-set source-of-truth + tests
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision_forbidden_env_test.go"
-            # Forensic-#145 silent-strip denylist (defense-in-depth, by design lists the names)
-            "workspace-server/internal/provisioner/provisioner.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/provisioner/provisioner_test.go"
-            # Pre-RFC#523 persona-fallback / org-helper paths. The L1
-            # fail-closed runs BEFORE these writers; downstream silent-strip
-            # also covers them. See applyAgentGitHTTPCreds doc-comment.
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/agent_git_identity.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/org_helpers.go"
-            "workspace-server/internal/handlers/org.go"
-            # CP→platform admin auth (NOT a tenant env write).
-            "workspace-server/internal/provisioner/cp_provisioner.go"
-          )
-
-          # Build an extended-regex alternation of forbidden keys.
-          KEY_ALT="$(IFS='|'; echo "${FORBIDDEN_KEYS[*]}")"
-
-          # Find candidate files: Go non-test sources that contain a
-          # tenant-writer surface marker.
-          mapfile -t CANDIDATES < <(
-            grep -rlE --include='*.go' --exclude='*_test.go' \
-              "${SURFACE_PATTERN}" . 2>/dev/null \
-            | sed 's|^\./||' \
-            | sort -u
-          )
-
-          if [ "${#CANDIDATES[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "OK No tenant-writer-surface files found in tree (unexpected, but not a lint failure)."
-            exit 0
-          fi
-
-          HITS=""
-          for f in "${CANDIDATES[@]}"; do
-            # Skip exempt files.
-            skip=0
-            for ex in "${EXEMPT_FILES[@]}"; do
-              if [ "$f" = "$ex" ]; then skip=1; break; fi
-            done
-            [ "$skip" = "1" ] && continue
-
-            # File contains a surface marker; now grep for a forbidden
-            # key NAME. We require a QUOTED-literal match to avoid
-            # firing on a comment like "// also handle GITEA_TOKEN".
-            #
-            # The literal form catches:
-            #   - os.Getenv("GITEA_TOKEN")
-            #   - envVars["GITEA_TOKEN"] = ...
-            #   - {envKey: "GITEA_TOKEN", tenantKey: "GITEA_TOKEN"}
-            # but not:
-            #   - // see GITEA_TOKEN below   (no quotes)
-            found=$(grep -nE "\"(${KEY_ALT})\"" "$f" 2>/dev/null || true)
-            if [ -n "$found" ]; then
-              HITS="${HITS}--- ${f} ---\n${found}\n"
-            fi
-          done
-
-          if [ -n "$HITS" ]; then
-            echo "::error::Task #146 lint: repo-host token name(s) quoted in a tenant-writer-surface file:"
-            printf "$HITS"
-            echo ""
-            echo "These files reference a tenant-writer surface (workspace_secrets,"
-            echo "seedAllowList, /settings/secrets, containerEnv, userData, etc.)"
-            echo "AND quote a repo-host token name (GITEA_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN/…)."
-            echo "Per RFC#523 threat model, tenant workspaces MUST NOT receive"
-            echo "operator-scope repo-host tokens. If your code legitimately needs"
-            echo "to reference one of these names in a tenant-writer file (e.g."
-            echo "a deny-set definition or silent-strip list), add the file to"
-            echo "EXEMPT_FILES with a one-line justification — reviewer signoff"
-            echo "required."
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-          echo "OK No tenant-writer-surface file co-mentions a repo-host token literal."

.gitea/workflows/lint-required-workflows-docker-host-pinned.yml

@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-name: lint-required-workflows-docker-host-pinned
-
-# Fail-closed lint that catches workflows touching docker.sock without
-# pinning `runs-on:` to a Linux-only label.
-#
-# Class defect (internal#512 + mc#1529 + today's oc#81/82/83 + autogen#8):
-# the `ubuntu-latest` label is advertised by BOTH the Linux operator-host
-# runners (molecule-runner-*) AND the Windows act_runner v1.0.3 on
-# hongming-pc-runner-*. Job placement is non-deterministic. When a docker-
-# bound job lands on a Windows runner, `docker run`/`docker login`/
-# `docker compose` fail with platform-specific errors ("protocol not
-# available", "cannot exec", etc.) — placement-dependent, not transient.
-#
-# This lint enforces the convention: any workflow whose YAML body
-# contains a docker exec (`docker run|build|buildx|compose|pull|push|
-# exec|tag|login|cp|inspect|ps` OR `docker/build-push-action|docker/
-# login-action|docker/setup-buildx`) MUST pin every job's `runs-on:` to
-# one of:
-#   - docker-host  (general docker.sock work — molecule-runner-*)
-#   - publish      (image build/push — molecule-runner-publish-*)
-#
-# Comments and heredoc/markdown bodies that merely MENTION docker are
-# excluded by the detection rule (see scan.py below).
-#
-# Per `feedback_never_skip_ci`: this is fail-closed (exit 1 on miss).
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    paths:
-      - '.gitea/workflows/**'
-  push:
-    branches: [main, staging]
-    paths:
-      - '.gitea/workflows/**'
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-env:
-  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
-
-jobs:
-  lint-docker-host-pin:
-    name: Lint docker-host pin on docker-touching workflows
-    runs-on: docker-host
-    timeout-minutes: 5
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
-
-      - name: Scan workflows for docker-bound jobs missing docker-host/publish pin
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          python3 - <<'PY'
-          import os
-          import re
-          import sys
-
-          # Docker-step detection: real exec, not just word-mention in comments.
-          # We strip comment-only lines, then look for the docker subcommand
-          # tokens at word-boundary, OR uses: docker/* actions.
-          DOCKER_EXEC = re.compile(
-              r'(?<!\w)docker\s+(run|build|buildx|compose|pull|push|exec|tag|login|cp|inspect|ps)\b'
-          )
-          DOCKER_ACTION = re.compile(
-              r'uses:\s*docker/(build-push-action|login-action|setup-buildx-action|setup-qemu-action)'
-          )
-          # Detect a job header line like `  myjob:` (2-space indent) AND its runs-on.
-          JOB_HEADER = re.compile(r'^( {2})([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+):\s*$')
-          RUNS_ON    = re.compile(r'^( {4})runs-on:\s*(.+?)\s*$')
-
-          ALLOWED_LABELS = {'docker-host', 'publish'}
-
-          fails = []
-          warnings = []
-
-          # Gitea is SSOT for molecule-core CI per task #347 / memory
-          # reference_molecule_core_actions_gitea_only. The legacy
-          # .github/workflows/ tree was deleted in SSOT-Instance-4 (#331).
-          roots = []
-          for root in ('.gitea/workflows',):
-              if os.path.isdir(root):
-                  roots.append(root)
-
-          for root in roots:
-              for fn in sorted(os.listdir(root)):
-                  if not (fn.endswith('.yml') or fn.endswith('.yaml')):
-                      continue
-                  path = os.path.join(root, fn)
-                  with open(path) as f:
-                      raw_lines = f.readlines()
-
-                  # Parse job headers + their runs-on. Simple line scan; relies on
-                  # 2-space job indent + 4-space runs-on indent under `jobs:`.
-                  jobs = []
-                  current = None
-                  in_jobs = False
-                  for i, line in enumerate(raw_lines, 1):
-                      if re.match(r'^jobs:\s*$', line):
-                          in_jobs = True
-                          continue
-                      if not in_jobs:
-                          continue
-                      mh = JOB_HEADER.match(line)
-                      if mh:
-                          if current:
-                              current['end'] = i - 1
-                              jobs.append(current)
-                          current = {'name': mh.group(2), 'line': i, 'end': len(raw_lines), 'runs_on': None}
-                          continue
-                      mr = RUNS_ON.match(line)
-                      if mr and current and current['runs_on'] is None:
-                          current['runs_on'] = mr.group(2).strip()
-                  if current:
-                      jobs.append(current)
-
-                  for j in jobs:
-                      # Strip pure-comment lines for docker-exec detection so
-                      # documentation comments don't trigger the lint. Scan the
-                      # current job body only: a workflow may contain one
-                      # docker-bound job and several harmless metadata jobs.
-                      job_lines = raw_lines[j['line'] - 1:j['end']]
-                      scan_text = ''.join(
-                          l for l in job_lines
-                          if not re.match(r'^\s*#', l)
-                      )
-                      has_docker = bool(DOCKER_EXEC.search(scan_text)) or bool(DOCKER_ACTION.search(scan_text))
-                      if not has_docker:
-                          continue
-                      ro = j['runs_on']
-                      if ro is None:
-                          # Reusable workflow caller (`uses:` instead of `runs-on:`) —
-                          # skip; rule enforced in the called workflow.
-                          continue
-                      # Strip surrounding [ ] and quotes.
-                      ro_norm = ro.strip('[]').strip().strip('"\'')
-                      # Multi-label "[a, b]" — split.
-                      labels = [t.strip().strip('"\'') for t in ro_norm.split(',') if t.strip()]
-                      if any(lbl in ALLOWED_LABELS for lbl in labels):
-                          continue
-                      # Allow caller-supplied label expressions; spell the
-                      # marker indirectly so Gitea's expression parser does
-                      # not try to parse this Python heredoc.
-                      expression_marker = '$' + '{{'
-                      if any(expression_marker in lbl for lbl in labels):
-                          continue
-                      fails.append(
-                          f"{path}:{j['line']}: job `{j['name']}` uses docker but runs-on={ro!r} "
-                          f"(must be one of {sorted(ALLOWED_LABELS)})"
-                      )
-
-          if fails:
-              print("FAIL: docker-bound jobs missing docker-host/publish pin:")
-              for f in fails:
-                  print(f"  - {f}")
-              print()
-              print("Why this rule exists (internal#512 + mc#1529):")
-              print("  Bare `ubuntu-latest` is advertised by BOTH Linux operator-host")
-              print("  runners AND Windows hongming-pc-runner-* (act_runner v1.0.3).")
-              print("  Docker-bound jobs that land on Windows fail non-deterministically.")
-              print("  Pin to `docker-host` (general) or `publish` (image build/push).")
-              sys.exit(1)
-
-          print("OK: all docker-bound jobs are pinned to docker-host or publish.")
-          PY

.gitea/workflows/lint-shellcheck-arm64-pilot.yml

@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
-name: Lint shellcheck (arm64 pilot)
-
-# Mac-CI dual-track pilot (#233). ADDITIVE / NOT REQUIRED.
-#
-# Validates the arm64 self-hosted lane (no docker.sock, no privileged
-# ops) before any required gate moves onto it. Until a Mac arm64 runner
-# is registered with the `arm64` label, this workflow sits PENDING —
-# that is FINE: `arm64` is NOT in branch_protections required contexts.
-#
-# Pairs with internal#543 (RFC: Mac arm64 multi-arch runner-base).
-# No paths: filter on purpose (feedback_path_filtered_workflow_cant_be_required).
-
-on:
-  pull_request:
-    branches:
-      - main
-      - staging
-  push:
-    branches:
-      - main
-
-permissions:
-  contents: read
-
-jobs:
-  shellcheck-arm64:
-    name: shellcheck-arm64 (pilot)
-    runs-on: [self-hosted, arm64]
-    # NOT a required check; safe to sit pending until Mac runner is up.
-    # If the Mac runner has trouble pulling actions/checkout we fall
-    # back to a plain git clone (see step 'fallback clone').
-    timeout-minutes: 10
-    env:
-      GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
-    steps:
-      - name: Identify runner
-        run: |
-          set -eu
-          echo "arch=$(uname -m)"
-          echo "kernel=$(uname -sr)"
-          echo "shell=$BASH_VERSION"
-          # Sanity: must actually be arm64. If amd64 sneaks in here,
-          # fail fast — that means the label routing is wrong.
-          case "$(uname -m)" in
-            aarch64|arm64) echo "arm64 confirmed" ;;
-            *) echo "ERROR: expected arm64, got $(uname -m)"; exit 1 ;;
-          esac
-
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 1
-
-      - name: Install shellcheck (arm64)
-        run: |
-          set -eu
-          if command -v shellcheck >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            echo "shellcheck already present: $(shellcheck --version | head -1)"
-          else
-            # Prefer apt if the runner base ships it; else download arm64 binary.
-            if command -v apt-get >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-              sudo apt-get update -qq
-              sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends shellcheck
-            else
-              SC_VER=v0.10.0
-              curl -fsSL "https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck/releases/download/${SC_VER}/shellcheck-${SC_VER}.linux.aarch64.tar.xz" \
-                | tar -xJf - --strip-components=1
-              sudo mv shellcheck /usr/local/bin/
-            fi
-          fi
-          shellcheck --version | head -2
-
-      - name: Run shellcheck on .gitea/scripts/*.sh
-        run: |
-          set -eu
-          # Only the scripts we control under .gitea/scripts. Pilot
-          # scope is intentionally narrow — broaden in a follow-up
-          # once the lane is proven.
-          mapfile -t TARGETS < <(find .gitea/scripts -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.sh' | sort)
-          if [ "${#TARGETS[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
-            echo "No .sh files found under .gitea/scripts — nothing to check"
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          echo "Checking ${#TARGETS[@]} file(s):"
-          printf '  %s\n' "${TARGETS[@]}"
-          # SC1091 = couldn't follow non-constant source; expected for
-          # CI-time analysis without the full runtime layout.
-          shellcheck --severity=error --exclude=SC1091 "${TARGETS[@]}"

.gitea/workflows/publish-canvas-image.yml

@@ -42,30 +42,20 @@ permissions:
   packages: write
 
 env:
-  # SSOT-Instance-10 (#333): ECR registry triplet (account.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com)
-  # sourced from org/repo var `ECR_REGISTRY` with the current prod-account literal as
-  # bootstrap fallback. When the org var is set, the fallback becomes dead code and
-  # switching accounts/regions is a one-line change at the org level (instead of
-  # touching every workflow). Pattern mirrors `vars.CP_URL || 'literal'` already in
-  # use below in this repo's staging-verify.yml.
-  IMAGE_NAME: ${{ vars.ECR_REGISTRY || '153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com' }}/molecule-ai/canvas
+  IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/canvas
   GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
 
 jobs:
   # bp-exempt: post-merge image publication side effect; CI / all-required gates source changes.
   build-and-push:
     name: Build & push canvas image
-    # Dedicated publish/release lane (internal#462 / #394 / #399). Ship
-    # path (on: push:main, canvas/**) — reserved capacity so a merged
-    # canvas fix's image build never FIFO-queues behind PR required-CI.
-    # The `publish` label resolves ONLY to the molecule-runner-publish-*
-    # sub-pool (config.publish.yaml). HARD DEPENDENCY: this MUST land
-    # AFTER the publish-lane runners are registered/advertising `publish`
-    # — the earlier #599 `docker` label attempt queued indefinitely with
-    # zero eligible runners precisely because the label was targeted
-    # before any runner advertised it (see #576). The lane is registered
-    # in this rollout (internal#462) so the precondition holds.
-    runs-on: publish
+    # REVERTED (infra/revert-docker-runner-label): `runs-on: ubuntu-latest` restored.
+    # The `docker` label is not registered on any act_runner. `runs-on: [ubuntu-latest, docker]`
+    # causes jobs to queue indefinitely with zero eligible runners — strictly worse than the
+    # pre-#599 coin-flip (50% success rate). Once the `docker` label is registered on
+    # ≥2 runners, re-apply the fix from #599 (infra/docker-runner-label).
+    # See issue #576 + infra-lead pulse ~00:30Z.
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true

.gitea/workflows/publish-runtime-autobump.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+name: publish-runtime-autobump
+
+# Auto-bump-on-workspace-edit half of the publish pipeline.
+#
+# Why this file exists (issue #351):
+#   Gitea Actions does not correctly disambiguate `paths:` from `tags:`
+#   when both are bundled under a single `on.push` key. The result is
+#   that tag pushes get filtered out and `publish-runtime.yml` never
+#   fires — `action_run` rows: 0. This was unnoticed pre-2026-05-11
+#   because PYPI_TOKEN was absent (publishes would have failed anyway).
+#
+#   Split design:
+#     - publish-runtime.yml         : on.push.tags only        (the publisher)
+#     - publish-runtime-autobump.yml: on.push.branches+paths   (this file — the version-bumper)
+#
+#   This file computes the next version from PyPI's latest, pushes a
+#   `runtime-v$VERSION` tag, and exits. The tag push then triggers
+#   publish-runtime.yml via its tags-only trigger.
+#
+# Concurrency: shares the `publish-runtime` group with publish-runtime.yml
+# so concurrent workspace pushes serialize at the bump step. Without
+# this, two pushes minutes apart could both read PyPI latest=0.1.129
+# and try to tag 0.1.130 simultaneously, only one of which would land.
+
+on:
+  # Run on PR pushes to post a success status so Gitea can merge the PR.
+  # All steps use continue-on-error: true so operational failures
+  # (PyPI unreachable, DISPATCH_TOKEN missing) do not block merge.
+  pull_request:
+    paths:
+      - "workspace/**"
+  # Bump-and-tag on main/staging push (the actual operational trigger).
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+      - staging
+    paths:
+      - "workspace/**"
+  # Manual dispatch — useful when Gitea Actions API (/actions/*) is
+  # unreachable (e.g. act_runner 404 on Gitea 1.22.6) and we cannot
+  # re-trigger via curl.
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: write  # required to push tags back
+
+concurrency:
+  group: publish-runtime
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  # PR-validation path: always succeeds so Gitea can merge workflow-only PRs.
+  # Operational failures (PyPI unreachable, missing DISPATCH_TOKEN) are
+  # surfaced via continue-on-error: true rather than blocking the merge.
+  # The actual bump work happens on the main/staging push after merge.
+  # bp-exempt: advisory validation for runtime publication; not a branch-protection gate.
+  pr-validate:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
+    continue-on-error: true  # do not block PR merge on operational failures
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+
+      - name: Validate PyPI connectivity (best-effort)
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          echo "=== Checking PyPI accessibility ==="
+          LATEST=$(curl -fsS --retry 3 --max-time 10 \
+            https://pypi.org/pypi/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/json \
+            | python -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['info']['version'])" \
+            || echo "PyPI unreachable (non-blocking for PR validation)")
+          echo "Latest: ${LATEST:-unknown}"
+
+  # Actual bump-and-tag: runs on main/staging pushes, posts real success/failure.
+  # No continue-on-error — operational failures here trip the main-red
+  # watchdog, which is the desired signal for infrastructure degradation.
+  # bp-exempt: post-merge tag publication side effect; CI / all-required gates source changes.
+  bump-and-tag:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Only fire on push events (main/staging after PR merge). Pull_request
+    # events are handled by pr-validate above; we do NOT bump on every
+    # push-synchronize because that would race with the PR head.
+    #
+    # NOTE: the prior condition `github.event.pull_request.base.ref == ''`
+    # was broken — on a PR-merge push in Gitea Actions, the pull_request
+    # context is still attached (base.ref='main'), so the condition always
+    # evaluated to false and bump-and-tag was permanently skipped.
+    if: github.event_name == 'push'
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 1
+
+      - name: Fetch tags for collision check
+        run: git fetch origin --tags --depth=1
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+
+      - name: Compute next version from PyPI latest
+        id: bump
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          LATEST=$(curl -fsS --retry 3 https://pypi.org/pypi/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/json \
+            | python -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['info']['version'])")
+          MAJOR=$(echo "$LATEST" | cut -d. -f1)
+          MINOR=$(echo "$LATEST" | cut -d. -f2)
+          PATCH=$(echo "$LATEST" | cut -d. -f3)
+          VERSION="${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.$((PATCH+1))"
+          echo "PyPI latest=$LATEST -> next=$VERSION"
+          if ! echo "$VERSION" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$'; then
+            echo "::error::computed version $VERSION does not match PEP 440 X.Y.Z"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          if git tag --list | grep -qx "runtime-v$VERSION"; then
+            echo "::error::tag runtime-v$VERSION already exists in this repo. Manual intervention required (PyPI and Gitea tag history are out of sync)."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "version=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Push runtime-v$VERSION tag
+        env:
+          DISPATCH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DISPATCH_TOKEN }}
+          VERSION: ${{ steps.bump.outputs.version }}
+          GITEA_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          if [ -z "$DISPATCH_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::DISPATCH_TOKEN secret is not set — needed to push the tag back to molecule-core."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          git config user.name  "publish-runtime autobump"
+          git config user.email "publish-runtime@moleculesai.app"
+          git tag -a "runtime-v$VERSION" \
+            -m "Auto-bump on workspace/** edit on $GITHUB_REF" \
+            -m "Triggered by: $GITHUB_REF @ $GITHUB_SHA" \
+            -m "publish-runtime.yml will pick up this tag and upload to PyPI"
+          # Push via DISPATCH_TOKEN (a Gitea PAT). Using the bot identity
+          # ensures the resulting tag-push event is dispatched to
+          # publish-runtime.yml; act_runner's default GITHUB_TOKEN cannot
+          # trigger downstream workflows.
+          git remote set-url origin "${GITEA_URL#https://}"
+          git remote set-url origin "https://x-access-token:${DISPATCH_TOKEN}@${GITEA_URL#https://}/molecule-ai/molecule-core.git"
+          git push origin "runtime-v$VERSION"
+          echo "✓ pushed runtime-v$VERSION — publish-runtime.yml should fire next"

.gitea/workflows/publish-runtime.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+name: publish-runtime
+
+# Gitea Actions port of .github/workflows/publish-runtime.yml.
+#
+# Ported 2026-05-10 (issue #206). Key differences from the GitHub version:
+#   - Gitea Actions reads .gitea/workflows/, not .github/workflows/
+#   - Dropped `environment: pypi-publish` — Gitea Actions does not support
+#     named environments or OIDC trusted publishers
+#   - Replaced `pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@release/v1` (OIDC) with
+#     `twine upload` using PYPI_TOKEN secret — same mechanism as a local
+#     `python -m twine upload` with a PyPI token
+#   - Replaced `github.ref_name` (GitHub-only) with `${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/}`
+#     — Gitea Actions exposes github.ref (the full ref) but not ref_name
+#   - Dropped `merge_group` trigger (Gitea has no merge queue)
+#
+# 2026-05-10 (issue #348): originally restored `staging`/`main` branch +
+# `workspace/**` path-filter trigger in PR #349.
+#
+# 2026-05-11 (issue #351): REVERTED the branches+paths trigger from THIS
+# file. Bundling `paths` with `tags` under a single `on.push` key caused
+# Gitea Actions to never dispatch the workflow for tag-push events (0
+# runs in `action_run` for workflow_id='publish-runtime.yml' since the
+# port, including the runtime-v1.0.0 tag — which is why PyPI is still at
+# 0.1.129 despite a v1.0.0 Gitea tag existing).
+#
+# The auto-bump-on-workspace-edit trigger now lives in
+# `.gitea/workflows/publish-runtime-autobump.yml`. That file computes the
+# next version from PyPI's latest and pushes a `runtime-v$VERSION` tag,
+# which THIS file then picks up via the tags-only trigger below.
+#
+# This decoupling means Gitea's path-vs-tag evaluator never has to
+# disambiguate — each file has a single unambiguous trigger shape.
+#
+# PyPI publishing: requires PYPI_TOKEN repository secret (or org-level secret).
+# Set via: repo Settings → Actions → Variables and Secrets → New Secret.
+# The token should be a PyPI API token scoped to molecule-ai-workspace-runtime.
+#
+# The DISPATCH_TOKEN cascade (git push to template repos) is unchanged —
+# it uses the Gitea API directly and was already Gitea-compatible.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    tags:
+      - "runtime-v*"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # 2026-05-11 (root cause of #351 / 0 runs ever):
+  # Gitea 1.22.6's workflow parser rejects `workflow_dispatch.inputs.version`
+  # with "unknown on type" — it mis-treats the inputs sub-keys as top-level
+  # `on:` event types. Log line:
+  #   actions/workflows.go:DetectWorkflows() [W] ignore invalid workflow
+  #   "publish-runtime.yml": unknown on type: map["version": {...}]
+  # That `[W] ignore invalid workflow` is silent UX — the workflow never
+  # registers, so it never fires for ANY event (push.tags included).
+  # Removing the inputs block restores parsing. Manual dispatch from the
+  # Gitea UI now triggers the PyPI auto-bump fallback in `Derive version`
+  # below (no `inputs.version` to read).
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+# Serialize publishes so two concurrent tag pushes don't both compute
+# "latest+1" and race on PyPI upload. The second one waits.
+concurrency:
+  group: publish-runtime
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      version: ${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}
+      wheel_sha256: ${{ steps.wheel_hash.outputs.wheel_sha256 }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+          cache: pip
+
+      - name: Derive version (tag or PyPI auto-bump)
+        id: version
+        run: |
+          if echo "$GITHUB_REF" | grep -q "^refs/tags/runtime-v"; then
+            # Tag is `runtime-vX.Y.Z` — strip the prefix.
+            VERSION="${GITHUB_REF#refs/tags/runtime-v}"
+          else
+            # workflow_dispatch path (no inputs supported on Gitea 1.22.6) or
+            # any other non-tag trigger: derive from PyPI latest + patch bump.
+            LATEST=$(curl -fsS --retry 3 https://pypi.org/pypi/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/json \
+              | python -c "import sys,json; print(json.load(sys.stdin)['info']['version'])")
+            MAJOR=$(echo "$LATEST" | cut -d. -f1)
+            MINOR=$(echo "$LATEST" | cut -d. -f2)
+            PATCH=$(echo "$LATEST" | cut -d. -f3)
+            VERSION="${MAJOR}.${MINOR}.$((PATCH+1))"
+            echo "Auto-bumped from PyPI latest $LATEST -> $VERSION"
+          fi
+          if ! echo "$VERSION" | grep -qE '^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(\.dev[0-9]+|rc[0-9]+|a[0-9]+|b[0-9]+|\.post[0-9]+)?$'; then
+            echo "::error::version $VERSION does not match PEP 440"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "version=$VERSION" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "Publishing molecule-ai-workspace-runtime $VERSION"
+
+      - name: Install build tooling
+        run: pip install build twine
+
+      - name: Build package from workspace/
+        run: |
+          python scripts/build_runtime_package.py \
+            --version "${{ steps.version.outputs.version }}" \
+            --out "${{ runner.temp }}/runtime-build"
+
+      - name: Build wheel + sdist
+        working-directory: ${{ runner.temp }}/runtime-build
+        run: python -m build
+
+      - name: Capture wheel SHA256 for cascade content-verification
+        id: wheel_hash
+        working-directory: ${{ runner.temp }}/runtime-build
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          WHEEL=$(ls dist/*.whl 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+          if [ -z "$WHEEL" ]; then
+            echo "::error::No .whl in dist/ — \`python -m build\` must have failed silently"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          HASH=$(sha256sum "$WHEEL" | awk '{print $1}')
+          echo "wheel_sha256=${HASH}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "Local wheel SHA256 (pre-upload): ${HASH}"
+          echo "Wheel filename: $(basename "$WHEEL")"
+
+      - name: Verify package contents (sanity)
+        working-directory: ${{ runner.temp }}/runtime-build
+        run: |
+          python -m twine check dist/*
+          python -m venv /tmp/smoke
+          /tmp/smoke/bin/pip install --quiet dist/*.whl
+          /tmp/smoke/bin/python "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/scripts/wheel_smoke.py"
+
+      - name: Publish to PyPI
+        # working-directory matches the preceding Build/Verify steps. Without
+        # this, twine runs from the default workspace checkout dir where
+        # `dist/` doesn't exist and fails with:
+        #   ERROR InvalidDistribution: Cannot find file (or expand pattern): 'dist/*'
+        # Caught on the first-ever successful dispatch of this workflow
+        # (run 5097, 2026-05-11 02:08Z) — every other step in the publish
+        # job already had this working-directory; Publish was missing it.
+        working-directory: ${{ runner.temp }}/runtime-build
+        env:
+          # PYPI_TOKEN: repository secret scoped to molecule-ai-workspace-runtime.
+          # Set via: Settings → Actions → Variables and Secrets → New Secret.
+          # Format: pypi-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
+          PYPI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$PYPI_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::PYPI_TOKEN secret is not set — set it at Settings → Actions → Variables and Secrets → New Secret."
+            echo "::error::Required format: pypi-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          python -m twine upload \
+            --repository pypi \
+            --username __token__ \
+            --password "$PYPI_TOKEN" \
+            dist/*
+
+  cascade:
+    needs: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Wait for PyPI to propagate the new version
+        env:
+          RUNTIME_VERSION: ${{ needs.publish.outputs.version }}
+          EXPECTED_SHA256: ${{ needs.publish.outputs.wheel_sha256 }}
+        run: |
+          set -eu
+          if [ -z "$EXPECTED_SHA256" ]; then
+            echo "::error::publish job did not expose wheel_sha256 — cannot verify wheel content. Refusing to fan out cascade."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          python -m venv /tmp/propagation-probe
+          PROBE=/tmp/propagation-probe/bin
+          $PROBE/pip install --upgrade --quiet pip
+          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+            if $PROBE/pip install \
+                  --quiet \
+                  --no-cache-dir \
+                  --force-reinstall \
+                  --no-deps \
+                  "molecule-ai-workspace-runtime==${RUNTIME_VERSION}" \
+                  >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+              INSTALLED=$($PROBE/pip show molecule-ai-workspace-runtime 2>/dev/null \
+                          | awk -F': ' '/^Version:/{print $2}')
+              if [ "$INSTALLED" = "$RUNTIME_VERSION" ]; then
+                echo "✓ PyPI resolved $RUNTIME_VERSION (install check)"
+                break
+              fi
+            fi
+            if [ $i -eq 30 ]; then
+              echo "::error::pip install --no-cache-dir molecule-ai-workspace-runtime==${RUNTIME_VERSION} never resolved within ~5 min."
+              echo "::error::Refusing to fan out cascade against a potentially stale PyPI index."
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            echo "  [$i/30] waiting for PyPI to propagate ${RUNTIME_VERSION}..."
+            sleep 4
+          done
+
+          # Stage (b): download wheel + SHA256 compare against what we built.
+          # Catches Fastly stale-content serving old bytes under a new version URL.
+          #
+          # Caught run 5196 (first-ever successful publish, 2026-05-11): the
+          # previous one-liner `HASH=$(pip download ... && sha256sum ...)`
+          # captured pip's stdout (`Collecting molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
+          # ==X.Y.Z`) into HASH, then the SHA comparison failed against the
+          # leaked `Collecting...` string. `2>/dev/null` silences stderr but
+          # NOT stdout; pip writes its progress to stdout by default.
+          # Fix: split into two steps, silence pip's stdout explicitly, capture
+          # only sha256sum's output into HASH.
+          python -m pip download \
+            --no-deps \
+            --no-cache-dir \
+            --dest /tmp/wheel-probe \
+            --quiet \
+            "molecule-ai-workspace-runtime==${RUNTIME_VERSION}" \
+            >/dev/null 2>&1
+          HASH=$(sha256sum /tmp/wheel-probe/*.whl | awk '{print $1}')
+          if [ "$HASH" != "$EXPECTED_SHA256" ]; then
+            echo "::error::PyPI propagated $RUNTIME_VERSION but wheel content SHA256 mismatch."
+            echo "::error::Expected: $EXPECTED_SHA256"
+            echo "::error::Got:      $HASH"
+            echo "::error::Fastly may be serving stale content. Refusing to fan out cascade."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "✓ PyPI CDN verified (SHA256 match)"
+
+      - name: Fan out via push to .runtime-version
+        env:
+          # Gitea PAT with write:repository scope on the 8 cascade-active
+          # template repos. Used for git push to each template repo's main
+          # branch, which trips their `on: push: branches: [main]` trigger
+          # on publish-image.yml.
+          DISPATCH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.DISPATCH_TOKEN }}
+          RUNTIME_VERSION: ${{ needs.publish.outputs.version }}
+        run: |
+          set +e   # don't abort on a single repo failure — collect them all
+
+          if [ -z "$DISPATCH_TOKEN" ]; then
+            if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+              echo "::warning::DISPATCH_TOKEN secret not set — skipping cascade."
+              echo "::warning::set it at Settings → Actions → Variables and Secrets → New Secret."
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "::error::DISPATCH_TOKEN secret missing — cascade cannot fan out."
+            echo "::error::PyPI was published, but the 8 template repos will NOT pick up the new version."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          VERSION="$RUNTIME_VERSION"
+          if [ -z "$VERSION" ]; then
+            echo "::error::publish job did not expose a version output"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          GITEA_URL="${GITEA_URL:-https://git.moleculesai.app}"
+          TEMPLATES="claude-code hermes openclaw codex langgraph crewai autogen deepagents gemini-cli"
+          FAILED=""
+          SKIPPED=""
+
+          git config --global user.name  "publish-runtime cascade"
+          git config --global user.email "publish-runtime@moleculesai.app"
+
+          WORKDIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+          for tpl in $TEMPLATES; do
+            REPO="molecule-ai/molecule-ai-workspace-template-$tpl"
+            CLONE="$WORKDIR/$tpl"
+
+            HTTP=$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" \
+              -H "Authorization: token $DISPATCH_TOKEN" \
+              "$GITEA_URL/api/v1/repos/$REPO/contents/.github/workflows/publish-image.yml")
+            if [ "$HTTP" = "404" ]; then
+              echo "↷ $tpl has no publish-image.yml — soft-skip"
+              SKIPPED="$SKIPPED $tpl"
+              continue
+            fi
+
+            attempt=0
+            success=false
+            while [ $attempt -lt 3 ]; do
+              attempt=$((attempt + 1))
+              rm -rf "$CLONE"
+              if ! git clone --depth=1 \
+                  "https://x-access-token:${DISPATCH_TOKEN}@${GITEA_URL#https://}/$REPO.git" \
+                  "$CLONE" >/tmp/clone.log 2>&1; then
+                echo "::warning::clone $tpl attempt $attempt failed: $(tail -n3 /tmp/clone.log)"
+                sleep 2
+                continue
+              fi
+
+              cd "$CLONE"
+              echo "$VERSION" > .runtime-version
+
+              if git diff --quiet -- .runtime-version; then
+                echo "✓ $tpl already at $VERSION — no commit needed"
+                success=true
+                cd - >/dev/null
+                break
+              fi
+
+              git add .runtime-version
+              git commit -m "chore: pin runtime to $VERSION (publish-runtime cascade)" \
+                -m "Co-Authored-By: publish-runtime cascade <publish-runtime@moleculesai.app>" \
+                >/dev/null
+
+              if git push origin HEAD:main >/tmp/push.log 2>&1; then
+                echo "✓ $tpl pushed $VERSION on attempt $attempt"
+                success=true
+                cd - >/dev/null
+                break
+              fi
+
+              echo "::warning::push $tpl attempt $attempt failed, pull-rebasing"
+              git pull --rebase origin main >/tmp/rebase.log 2>&1 || true
+              cd - >/dev/null
+            done
+
+            if [ "$success" != "true" ]; then
+              FAILED="$FAILED $tpl"
+            fi
+          done
+          rm -rf "$WORKDIR"
+
+          if [ -n "$FAILED" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Cascade incomplete after 3 retries each. Failed:$FAILED"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          if [ -n "$SKIPPED" ]; then
+            echo "Cascade complete: pinned $VERSION. Soft-skipped (no publish-image.yml):$SKIPPED"
+          else
+            echo "Cascade complete: $VERSION pinned across all manifest workspace_templates."
+          fi

.gitea/workflows/publish-workspace-server-image.yml

@@ -25,12 +25,8 @@ name: publish-workspace-server-image
 #   staging-<sha>. Set repo variable or secret PROD_AUTO_DEPLOY_DISABLED=true
 #   to stop production rollout while keeping image publishing enabled.
 #
-# Primary ECR target: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/*
-# Optional staging tenant mirror target:
-#   004947743811.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
+# ECR target: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/*
 # Required secrets: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN
-# Staging ECR grants the primary SSOT-managed publisher principal repository
-# policy access, so no persistent staging AWS access keys are required.
 #
 # mc#711: Docker daemon not accessible on ubuntu-latest runner (molecule-canonical-1
 # shows client-only in `docker info` — daemon not running). DinD mount is present but
@@ -47,40 +43,18 @@ on:
 # `cancel-in-progress: false`; that is not acceptable for a workflow with a
 # production deploy job. Per-SHA image tags are immutable, and staging-latest is
 # best-effort last-writer-wins metadata.
-#
-# 2026-05-20 retrigger: run #86994 on mc#1589 merge sha 0f0f1ba2 failed at
-# setup-buildx-action with EACCES on PC2 WSL publish runner — the runner's
-# DOCKER_CONFIG=/home/hongming/.docker-ecr/ dir didn't have a buildx/certs
-# subdir writable by the container's UID 1001. Hot-patched the dir perms;
-# this chore push retriggers the workflow. Proper fix (per-runner
-# DOCKER_CONFIG owned by 1001, internal#597 --env HOME=/home/runner pattern)
-# is tracked as a CI-hygiene follow-up — not in scope here.
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
   packages: write
 
 env:
-  # SSOT-Instance-10 (#333): ECR registry triplet (account.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com)
-  # sourced from org/repo var `ECR_REGISTRY` with the current prod-account literal as
-  # bootstrap fallback. When the org var is set, the fallback becomes dead code and
-  # switching accounts/regions is a one-line change at the org level (instead of
-  # touching every workflow). Pattern mirrors `vars.CP_URL || 'literal'` already in
-  # use below in this repo's staging-verify.yml.
-  IMAGE_NAME: ${{ vars.ECR_REGISTRY || '153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com' }}/molecule-ai/platform
-  TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: ${{ vars.ECR_REGISTRY || '153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com' }}/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
-  STAGING_TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: ${{ vars.STAGING_ECR_REGISTRY || '004947743811.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com' }}/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
+  IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform
+  TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
 
 jobs:
   build-and-push:
-    # Dedicated publish/release lane (internal#462 / #394 / #399). This
-    # is a post-merge ship job (on: push:main) — it must NOT FIFO-compete
-    # with PR required-CI on the shared pool (PR#1350's prod image build
-    # was delayed ~25min this way). The `publish` label resolves ONLY to
-    # the reserved molecule-runner-publish-* sub-pool (config.publish.yaml,
-    # OUTSIDE the managed 1..20 range) so a merged fix's image build
-    # starts immediately while PR-CI keeps the general pool.
-    runs-on: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
@@ -140,18 +114,6 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           echo "sha=${GITHUB_SHA::7}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
 
-      # Keep Buildx state inside the job temp dir. The publish runner's
-      # inherited DOCKER_CONFIG can point at a host-owned ECR config path
-      # (/home/hongming/.docker-ecr), which caused setup-buildx-action to
-      # fail before image build with EACCES creating buildx/certs.
-      - name: Prepare writable Docker config
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          export DOCKER_CONFIG="$RUNNER_TEMP/docker-config"
-          mkdir -p "$DOCKER_CONFIG/buildx/certs"
-          echo "DOCKER_CONFIG=$DOCKER_CONFIG" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-          docker buildx version
-
       # Build + push platform image (inline ECR auth — mirrors the operator-host
       # approach; credentials come from GITHUB_SECRET_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID /
       # GITHUB_SECRET_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY in Gitea Actions).
@@ -187,14 +149,9 @@ jobs:
             --push .
 
       # Build + push tenant image (Go platform + Next.js canvas in one image).
-      # Push the same build to the staging account too so fresh staging/E2E
-      # tenants can pull without cross-account ECR reads. The staging ECR repo
-      # policy trusts the primary SSOT-managed publisher principal; do not add
-      # separate persistent staging AWS access keys here.
       - name: Build & push tenant image to ECR (staging-<sha> + staging-latest)
         env:
           TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: ${{ env.TENANT_IMAGE_NAME }}
-          STAGING_TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: ${{ env.STAGING_TENANT_IMAGE_NAME }}
           TAG_SHA: staging-${{ steps.tags.outputs.sha }}
           TAG_LATEST: staging-latest
           GIT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
@@ -205,19 +162,8 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
           ECR_REGISTRY="${TENANT_IMAGE_NAME%%/*}"
-          STAGING_ECR_REGISTRY="${STAGING_TENANT_IMAGE_NAME%%/*}"
           aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-2 | \
             docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "${ECR_REGISTRY}"
-          aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-2 | \
-            docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "${STAGING_ECR_REGISTRY}"
-
-          build_tags=(
-            --tag "${TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_SHA}"
-            --tag "${TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_LATEST}"
-            --tag "${STAGING_TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_SHA}"
-            --tag "${STAGING_TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_LATEST}"
-          )
-
           docker buildx build \
             --file ./workspace-server/Dockerfile.tenant \
             --build-arg NEXT_PUBLIC_PLATFORM_URL= \
@@ -226,7 +172,8 @@ jobs:
             --label "org.opencontainers.image.revision=${GIT_SHA}" \
             --label "org.opencontainers.image.created=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" \
             --label "molecule.workflow.run_id=${GITHUB_RUN_ID}" \
-            "${build_tags[@]}" \
+            --tag "${TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_SHA}" \
+            --tag "${TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}:${TAG_LATEST}" \
             --push .
 
   # bp-exempt: production deploy side-effect; merge is gated by CI / all-required and this job waits for push CI before acting.
@@ -234,9 +181,7 @@ jobs:
     name: Production auto-deploy
     needs: build-and-push
     if: ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main' }}
-    # Publish/release lane (internal#462) — production deploy of a merged
-    # fix; reserved capacity, never queued behind PR-CI.
-    runs-on: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 75
     env:
       CP_URL: ${{ vars.PROD_CP_URL || 'https://api.moleculesai.app' }}

.gitea/workflows/qa-review.yml

@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ on:
 permissions:
   contents: read
   pull-requests: read
-  secrets: read
 
 jobs:
   # bp-exempt: PR review bot signal; required merge state is enforced by CI / all-required.

.gitea/workflows/redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml

@@ -68,10 +68,7 @@ jobs:
   # bp-exempt: production redeploy is a side-effect workflow, not a merge gate.
   redeploy:
     if: ${{ github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
-    # Dedicated publish/release lane (internal#462 / #394 / #399).
-    # Production tenant redeploy — a deploy action, reserved capacity so
-    # it never queues behind PR-CI. `publish` -> molecule-runner-publish-*.
-    runs-on: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -151,11 +148,6 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
-          # confirm:true ack required by CP /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet
-          # contract (cp#228 / task #308) for fleet-wide intent. Empty body
-          # / {confirm:false} / {only_slugs:[]} → 400. This caller redeploys
-          # the entire prod fleet (canary + fan-out), no slug scoping, so
-          # confirm:true is correct.
           BODY=$(jq -nc \
             --arg tag "$TARGET_TAG" \
             --arg canary "$CANARY_SLUG" \
@@ -167,8 +159,7 @@ jobs:
               canary_slug: $canary,
               soak_seconds: $soak,
               batch_size: $batch,
-              dry_run: $dry,
-              confirm: true
+              dry_run: $dry
             }')
 
           echo "POST $CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet"

.gitea/workflows/redeploy-tenants-on-staging.yml

@@ -75,10 +75,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   # bp-exempt: post-merge staging redeploy side effect; CI / all-required gates source changes.
   redeploy:
-    # Dedicated publish/release lane (internal#462 / #394 / #399).
-    # Post-merge staging redeploy — a deploy action, reserved capacity.
-    # `publish` -> molecule-runner-publish-* sub-pool.
-    runs-on: publish
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
     # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
     continue-on-error: true
@@ -123,11 +120,6 @@ jobs:
             exit 1
           fi
 
-          # confirm:true ack required by CP /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet
-          # contract (cp#228 / task #308) for fleet-wide intent. Empty body
-          # / {confirm:false} / {only_slugs:[]} → 400. Staging IS the
-          # canary, no slug scoping; this rolls the entire staging fleet,
-          # so confirm:true is correct.
           BODY=$(jq -nc \
             --arg tag "$TARGET_TAG" \
             --arg canary "$CANARY_SLUG" \
@@ -139,8 +131,7 @@ jobs:
               canary_slug: $canary,
               soak_seconds: $soak,
               batch_size: $batch,
-              dry_run: $dry,
-              confirm: true
+              dry_run: $dry
             }')
 
           echo "POST $CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet"

.gitea/workflows/review-refire-comments.yml

@@ -1,16 +1,11 @@
-# DEPRECATED — superseded by `.gitea/workflows/sop-checklist.yml`.
+# Consolidated comment dispatcher for manual review/tier refires.
 #
-# The review-refire logic (qa/security/tier slash-command dispatch) has been
-# merged into sop-checklist.yml as the `review-refire` job. This workflow
-# is kept as a no-op stub to avoid a gap during the transition window where
-# this file may be deleted while sop-checklist.yml has not yet been merged.
-#
-# After sop-checklist.yml lands, this file will be deleted (issue #1280).
-#
-# Historical behavior (superseded):
 # Gitea 1.22 queues one run per workflow subscribed to `issue_comment` before
-# evaluating job-level `if:`. Previously this workflow was the single
-# non-SOP comment subscriber for qa/security/tier refire slash commands.
+# evaluating job-level `if:`. SOP-heavy PRs therefore created queue storms when
+# qa-review, security-review, sop-checklist, and sop-tier-refire all
+# listened to comments. This workflow is the single non-SOP comment subscriber:
+# ordinary comments no-op quickly; slash commands post the required status
+# contexts to the PR head SHA.
 
 name: review-refire-comments
 
@@ -23,17 +18,92 @@ permissions:
   pull-requests: read
   statuses: write
 
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.issue.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 jobs:
-  # No-op stub — all refire logic moved to sop-checklist.yml review-refire job.
-  # Kept to avoid transition gap; will be deleted after sop-checklist.yml merges.
   dispatch:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
-      - name: Deprecated — refire logic moved to sop-checklist.yml
+      - name: Classify comment
+        id: classify
+        env:
+          COMMENT_BODY: ${{ github.event.comment.body }}
+          IS_PR: ${{ github.event.issue.pull_request != null }}
         run: |
-          echo "::warning::review-refire-comments.yml is deprecated. Refire logic is now in sop-checklist.yml review-refire job. This workflow is a no-op stub pending deletion (issue #1280)."
-          exit 0
+          set -euo pipefail
+          {
+            echo "run_qa=false"
+            echo "run_security=false"
+            echo "run_tier=false"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          if [ "$IS_PR" != "true" ]; then
+            echo "::notice::not a PR comment; no-op"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          first_line=$(printf '%s\n' "$COMMENT_BODY" | sed -n '1p')
+          case "$first_line" in
+            /qa-recheck*)
+              echo "run_qa=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+              ;;
+            /security-recheck*)
+              echo "run_security=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+              ;;
+            /refire-tier-check*)
+              echo "run_tier=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+              ;;
+            *)
+              echo "::notice::no supported review refire slash command; no-op"
+              ;;
+          esac
+
+      - name: Check out BASE ref for trusted scripts
+        if: |
+          steps.classify.outputs.run_qa == 'true' ||
+          steps.classify.outputs.run_security == 'true' ||
+          steps.classify.outputs.run_tier == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          ref: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
+
+      - name: Refire qa-review status
+        if: steps.classify.outputs.run_qa == 'true'
+        env:
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RFC_324_TEAM_READ_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          GITEA_HOST: git.moleculesai.app
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
+          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
+          TEAM: qa
+          TEAM_ID: '20'
+          REVIEW_CHECK_DEBUG: '0'
+          REVIEW_CHECK_STRICT: '0'
+          COMMENT_AUTHOR: ${{ github.event.comment.user.login }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          .gitea/scripts/review-refire-status.sh
+
+      - name: Refire security-review status
+        if: steps.classify.outputs.run_security == 'true'
+        env:
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RFC_324_TEAM_READ_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          GITEA_HOST: git.moleculesai.app
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
+          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
+          TEAM: security
+          TEAM_ID: '21'
+          REVIEW_CHECK_DEBUG: '0'
+          REVIEW_CHECK_STRICT: '0'
+          COMMENT_AUTHOR: ${{ github.event.comment.user.login }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          .gitea/scripts/review-refire-status.sh
+
+      - name: Refire sop-tier-check status
+        if: steps.classify.outputs.run_tier == 'true'
+        env:
+          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          GITEA_HOST: git.moleculesai.app
+          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
+          COMMENT_AUTHOR: ${{ github.event.comment.user.login }}
+          SOP_DEBUG: '0'
+        run: bash .gitea/scripts/sop-tier-refire.sh

.gitea/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+name: Runtime Pin Compatibility
+
+# Ported from .github/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml on 2026-05-11 per
+# RFC internal#219 §1 sweep.
+#
+# Differences from the GitHub version:
+#   - Dropped `merge_group:` (no Gitea merge queue) and
+#     `workflow_dispatch:` (no inputs, but the trigger itself is
+#     parser-rejected when inputs are absent in some Gitea 1.22.x
+#     builds; safest to drop entirely — manual runs go via cron-trigger
+#     bump or push-with-paths-filter).
+#   - on.paths references .gitea/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml (this
+#     file) instead of the .github/ one.
+#   - Workflow-level env.GITHUB_SERVER_URL set.
+#   - `continue-on-error: true` on the job (RFC §1 contract).
+#
+# CI gate that prevents the 5-hour staging outage from 2026-04-24 from
+# recurring (controlplane#253). The original failure mode:
+#   1. molecule-ai-workspace-runtime 0.1.13 declared `a2a-sdk<1.0` in its
+#      requires_dist metadata (incorrect — it actually imports
+#      a2a.server.routes which only exists in a2a-sdk 1.0+)
+#   2. `pip install molecule-ai-workspace-runtime` resolved cleanly
+#   3. `from molecule_runtime.main import main_sync` raised ImportError
+#   4. Every tenant workspace crashed; the canary tenant caught it but
+#      only after 5 hours of degraded staging
+#
+# This workflow installs the CURRENTLY PUBLISHED runtime from PyPI on
+# top of `workspace/requirements.txt` and smoke-imports. Catches:
+#   - Upstream PyPI yanks
+#   - Bad re-releases of molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
+#   - Already-shipped wheels that stop importing because a transitive
+#     dep moved underneath
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      # Narrow filter: pypi-latest is sensitive only to changes that
+      # affect what we're INSTALLING (requirements.txt) or WHAT THE
+      # CHECK ITSELF DOES (this workflow file). Edits to workspace/
+      # source code don't change what's on PyPI right now, so they
+      # don't change this gate's verdict.
+      - 'workspace/requirements.txt'
+      - '.gitea/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace/requirements.txt'
+      - '.gitea/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml'
+  # Daily catch for upstream PyPI publishes that break the pin combo
+  # without any change in our repo (e.g. someone re-yanks an a2a-sdk
+  # release or molecule-ai-workspace-runtime publishes a bad bump).
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 13 * * *'  # 06:00 PT
+
+env:
+  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  pypi-latest-install:
+    name: PyPI-latest install + import smoke
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking
+    # the PR. Follow-up PR flips this off after surfaced defects are
+    # triaged.
+    # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
+    continue-on-error: true
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - name: Install runtime + workspace requirements
+        # Install order is load-bearing: install the runtime FIRST so pip
+        # honors whatever a2a-sdk constraint the runtime metadata declares
+        # (this is the surface that broke in 2026-04-24 — runtime declared
+        # `a2a-sdk<1.0` but actually needed >=1.0). The follow-up install
+        # of workspace/requirements.txt then upgrades a2a-sdk to the
+        # constraint our runtime image actually pins. The import smoke
+        # below verifies the upgraded combination is consistent.
+        run: |
+          python -m venv /tmp/venv
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip install molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip install -r workspace/requirements.txt
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip show molecule-ai-workspace-runtime a2a-sdk \
+            | grep -E '^(Name|Version):'
+      - name: Smoke import — fail if metadata declares deps that don't satisfy real imports
+        # WORKSPACE_ID is validated at import time by platform_auth.py — EC2
+        # user-data sets it from the cloud-init template; set a placeholder
+        # here so the import smoke doesn't trip on the env-var guard.
+        env:
+          WORKSPACE_ID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001
+        run: |
+          /tmp/venv/bin/python -c "from molecule_runtime.main import main_sync; print('runtime imports OK')"

.gitea/workflows/runtime-prbuild-compat.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+name: Runtime PR-Built Compatibility
+
+# Ported from .github/workflows/runtime-prbuild-compat.yml on 2026-05-11
+# per RFC internal#219 §1 sweep.
+#
+# Differences from the GitHub version:
+#   - Dropped `merge_group:` (no Gitea merge queue) and `workflow_dispatch:`
+#     (Gitea 1.22.6 parser-rejects workflow_dispatch with inputs and is
+#     finicky without them).
+#   - `dorny/paths-filter@v4` replaced with inline `git diff` (per PR#372
+#     pattern for ci.yml port).
+#   - on.paths references .gitea/workflows/runtime-prbuild-compat.yml.
+#   - Workflow-level env.GITHUB_SERVER_URL set.
+#   - `continue-on-error: true` on every job (RFC §1 contract).
+#
+# Companion to `runtime-pin-compat.yml`. That workflow tests what's
+# CURRENTLY PUBLISHED on PyPI; this workflow tests what WOULD BE
+# PUBLISHED if THIS PR merges.
+#
+# Why two workflows: the chicken-and-egg #128 fix added a "PR-built
+# wheel" job to the original runtime-pin-compat.yml, but both jobs
+# shared a `paths:` filter that was the union of their needs
+# (`workspace/**`). That meant the PyPI-latest job ran on every doc
+# edit even though the upstream PyPI artifact can't change with our
+# workspace/ source. Splitting the two means each gets a narrow
+# `paths:` filter that matches the inputs it actually depends on.
+#
+# Catches the failure mode where a PR adds an import requiring a newer
+# SDK than `workspace/requirements.txt` pins:
+#   1. Pip resolves the existing PyPI wheel + the old SDK pin -> smoke
+#      passes (it imports the OLD main.py from the wheel, not the PR's
+#      new main.py).
+#   2. Merge -> publish-runtime.yml ships a wheel WITH the new import.
+#   3. Tenant images redeploy -> all crash on first boot with ImportError.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+
+env:
+  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
+
+concurrency:
+  # event_name + sha keeps PR sync and the subsequent staging push on the
+  # same SHA from cancelling each other (per feedback_concurrency_group_per_sha).
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  detect-changes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
+    # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
+    continue-on-error: true
+    outputs:
+      wheel: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.wheel }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - id: decide
+        run: |
+          # Inline replacement for dorny/paths-filter — same pattern
+          # PR#372's ci.yml port used. Diffs against the PR base or the
+          # previous push SHA, then matches against the wheel-relevant
+          # path set.
+          #
+          # NOTE: Gitea Actions does not expose github.event.before as a
+          # shell environment variable. The ${{ github.event.before }} template
+          # expression works inside YAML run: blocks but is evaluated to an
+          # empty string for push events, making the ${VAR:-fallback} always
+          # use the fallback. Use GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE instead — it IS set in
+          # the runner's shell environment for push events.
+          BASE=""
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ]; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          elif [ -n "$GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE" ]; then
+            BASE="$GITHUB_EVENT_BEFORE"
+          fi
+          if [ -z "$BASE" ] || echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            # New branch or no previous SHA: treat as wheel-relevant.
+            echo "wheel=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          if ! timeout 30 git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            git fetch --depth=1 origin "$BASE" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+          if ! timeout 30 git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            echo "wheel=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD)
+          if echo "$CHANGED" | grep -qE '^(workspace/|scripts/build_runtime_package\.py$|scripts/wheel_smoke\.py$|\.gitea/workflows/runtime-prbuild-compat\.yml$)'; then
+            echo "wheel=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "wheel=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+  # ONE job (no job-level `if:`) that always runs and reports under the
+  # required-check name `PR-built wheel + import smoke`. Real work is
+  # gated per-step on `needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel`.
+  local-build-install:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    name: PR-built wheel + import smoke
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
+    # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
+    continue-on-error: true
+    steps:
+      - name: No-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel != 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "No workspace/ / scripts/{build_runtime_package,wheel_smoke}.py / workflow changes — wheel gate satisfied without rebuilding."
+          echo "::notice::PR-built wheel + import smoke no-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)."
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - name: Install build tooling
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        run: pip install build
+      - name: Build wheel from PR source (mirrors publish-runtime.yml)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        # Use a fixed test version so the wheel filename is predictable.
+        # Doesn't reach PyPI — this build is local-only for the smoke.
+        run: |
+          python scripts/build_runtime_package.py \
+            --version "0.0.0.dev0+pin-compat" \
+            --out /tmp/runtime-build
+          cd /tmp/runtime-build && python -m build
+      - name: Install built wheel + workspace requirements
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        run: |
+          python -m venv /tmp/venv-built
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip install /tmp/runtime-build/dist/*.whl
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip install -r workspace/requirements.txt
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip show molecule-ai-workspace-runtime a2a-sdk \
+            | grep -E '^(Name|Version):'
+      - name: Smoke import the PR-built wheel
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        # Same script publish-runtime.yml runs against the to-be-PyPI wheel.
+        run: |
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/python "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/scripts/wheel_smoke.py"

.gitea/workflows/secret-scan.yml

@@ -30,11 +30,6 @@ jobs:
   scan:
     name: Scan diff for credential-shaped strings
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Hard CI gate — must complete or the PR is unmergable. 10-minute ceiling
-    # is generous for a diff-scan against a single SHA. If this times out, the
-    # runner is frozen and holding a slot — the step timeout triggers clean
-    # failure, releasing the runner for the next job.
-    timeout-minutes: 10
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
         with:
@@ -138,14 +133,6 @@ jobs:
             [ -z "$f" ] && continue
             [ "$f" = "$SELF_GITHUB" ] && continue
             [ "$f" = "$SELF_GITEA" ] && continue
-            # Test-fixture exclude (internal#425): the secrets-detector's OWN
-            # unit-test corpus deliberately embeds credential-SHAPED example
-            # strings to exercise the detector. Verified 2026-05-18 synthetic
-            # (fabricated ghp_* fixtures, not real). Without this the scanner
-            # self-trips on its own fixtures and fail-closes every deploy.
-            # Same rationale as the SELF_* excludes above; gate NOT weakened
-            # (all other paths still fully scanned).
-            [ "$f" = "workspace-server/internal/secrets/patterns_test.go" ] && continue
             if [ -n "$DIFF_RANGE" ]; then
               ADDED=$(git diff --no-color --unified=0 "$BASE" "$HEAD" -- "$f" 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^\+[^+]' || true)
             else

.gitea/workflows/security-review.yml

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ on:
 permissions:
   contents: read
   pull-requests: read
-  secrets: read
 
 jobs:
   # bp-exempt: PR security review bot signal; required merge state is enforced by CI / all-required.

.gitea/workflows/sop-checklist.yml

@@ -2,20 +2,24 @@
 #
 # RFC#351 Step 2 of 6 (implementation MVP).
 #
-# === CONSOLIDATION (issue #1280) ===
+# === DESIGN ===
 #
-# This workflow is the SINGLE `issue_comment` subscriber — the logic from
-# `review-refire-comments.yml` has been merged in. Before this change:
-#   - sop-checklist.yml (pre-2026-05-16) → issue_comment:[created,edited,deleted] → runner slot used, job no-oped
-#   - review-refire-comments.yml           → issue_comment:[created]            → runner slot used, job no-oped
-#   → every non-refire comment occupied 2 runner slots for ~800 s each
-#      (~650 no-op runs/day, ~1,300 runner-slot-occupancy-hours/day).
+# Goal: each PR must answer 7 SOP-checklist questions in its body,
+# and each item must have at least one /sop-ack <slug> comment from
+# a non-author peer in the required team. BP requires the
+# `sop-checklist / all-items-acked (pull_request)` status to merge.
 #
-# Fix (PR #1345 / issue #1280):
-#   - ONE workflow, ONE issue_comment:[created] subscription (no edited/deleted)
-#   - all-items-acked job: pull_request_target OR sop slash-command comments
-#   - review-refire job: qa/security/tier refire slash commands
-#   → ~50% reduction in comment-triggered runner occupancy vs pre-fix.
+# Triggers:
+#   - `pull_request_target`: opened, edited, synchronize, reopened
+#       → fires when PR opens, body is edited (refire — RFC#351 §4),
+#         or new code is pushed (head.sha changes → stale status would
+#         be auto-discarded by BP via dismiss_stale_reviews, but the
+#         status itself is per-SHA so we re-post on the new head).
+#   - `issue_comment`: created, edited, deleted
+#       → fires on any new comment so /sop-ack / /sop-revoke take
+#         effect immediately (Gitea 1.22.6 doesn't refire on
+#         pull_request_review per feedback_pull_request_review_no_refire,
+#         so issue_comment is the canonical refire channel).
 #
 # Trust boundary (mirrors RFC#324 §A4 + sop-tier-check security note):
 #   `pull_request_target` (not `pull_request`) — workflow def is loaded
@@ -47,7 +51,7 @@
 #   /sop-ack <slug-or-numeric-alias> [optional note]
 #       — register a peer-ack for one checklist item.
 #       — slug accepts kebab-case, snake_case, or natural-spaces
-#         (all normalized to canonical kebab-case).
+#         (all normalize to canonical kebab-case).
 #       — numeric 1..7 maps via config.items[*].numeric_alias.
 #       — most-recent (user, slug) directive wins.
 #
@@ -57,13 +61,6 @@
 #       — most-recent (user, slug) directive wins, so a later /sop-ack
 #         re-restores the ack.
 #
-#   /sop-n/a <gate> [reason]
-#       — declare a gate (qa-review, security-review) N/A.
-#       — see sop-checklist-config.yaml n/a_gates section.
-#
-#   /qa-recheck /security-recheck /refire-tier-check
-#       — refire the corresponding status check on the PR head.
-#
 # The eval is read-only + idempotent (read PR + comments + team
 # membership, compute, post status). Re-running on any event is safe —
 # the new status overwrites the previous one for the same context.
@@ -73,7 +70,7 @@ name: sop-checklist
 # Cancel any in-progress runs for the same PR to prevent
 # stale runs from overwriting newer status contexts.
 concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.event.issue.number || github.ref }}
+  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 # bp-required: yes  ← emits sop-checklist / all-items-acked (pull_request)
@@ -82,22 +79,22 @@ on:
   pull_request_target:
     types: [opened, edited, synchronize, reopened, labeled, unlabeled]
   issue_comment:
-    types: [created]   # NOT [created, edited, deleted] — Gitea 1.22.6 holds a runner slot
-    # at job-parsing time, before job-level if: guards run. edited/deleted events
-    # occupied ~1,300 runner-slot-hours/day on this workflow alone during the
-    # 2026-05-16 freeze. Per PR #1345 fix.
+    types: [created, edited, deleted]
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
   pull-requests: read
+  # NOTE: `statuses: write` is the GitHub-Actions name for POST /statuses.
+  # Gitea 1.22.6 may not gate on this permission key (it just checks the
+  # token), but listing it explicitly documents intent for the next
+  # platform-version upgrade.
   statuses: write
-  secrets: read
 
 jobs:
-  # sop-checklist gate: runs on PR lifecycle events OR sop slash commands.
-  # All other comment types (no-op text comments) no longer assign a runner
-  # because this job's if: guard short-circuits before runner assignment.
   all-items-acked:
+    # Run on pull_request_target events always. On issue_comment events,
+    # only when the comment is on a PR (issue_comment fires for issues
+    # too) and the body contains one of the slash-commands.
     if: |
       github.event_name == 'pull_request_target' ||
       (github.event_name == 'issue_comment' &&
@@ -131,95 +128,3 @@ jobs:
             --pr "$PR_NUMBER" \
             --config .gitea/sop-checklist-config.yaml \
             --gitea-host git.moleculesai.app
-
-  # bp-exempt: informational refire handler, not a merge gate. Emits
-  # qa-review/security-review status updates on /qa-recheck et al slash commands.
-  review-refire:
-    if: |
-      github.event_name == 'issue_comment' &&
-      github.event.issue.pull_request != null
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: Classify comment
-        id: classify
-        env:
-          COMMENT_BODY: ${{ github.event.comment.body }}
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          {
-            echo "run_qa=false"
-            echo "run_security=false"
-            echo "run_tier=false"
-          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-          first_line=$(printf '%s\n' "$COMMENT_BODY" | sed -n '1p')
-          case "$first_line" in
-            /qa-recheck*)
-              echo "run_qa=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-              ;;
-            /security-recheck*)
-              echo "run_security=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-              ;;
-            /refire-tier-check*)
-              echo "run_tier=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
-              ;;
-            *)
-              echo "::notice::no supported review refire slash command; no-op"
-              ;;
-          esac
-
-      - name: Check out BASE ref for trusted scripts
-        if: |
-          steps.classify.outputs.run_qa == 'true' ||
-          steps.classify.outputs.run_security == 'true' ||
-          steps.classify.outputs.run_tier == 'true'
-        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2
-        with:
-          ref: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
-
-      - name: Refire qa-review status
-        if: steps.classify.outputs.run_qa == 'true'
-        env:
-          # RFC_324_TEAM_READ_TOKEN is read-only (team membership read scope only).
-          # review-refire-status.sh POSTs to /statuses — requires write scope.
-          # SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN carries write:repository + write:issue + read:organization.
-          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          GITEA_HOST: git.moleculesai.app
-          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
-          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
-          TEAM: qa
-          TEAM_ID: '20'
-          REVIEW_CHECK_DEBUG: '0'
-          REVIEW_CHECK_STRICT: '0'
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          .gitea/scripts/review-refire-status.sh
-
-      - name: Refire security-review status
-        if: steps.classify.outputs.run_security == 'true'
-        env:
-          # RFC_324_TEAM_READ_TOKEN is read-only (team membership read scope only).
-          # review-refire-status.sh POSTs to /statuses — requires write scope.
-          # SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN carries write:repository + write:issue + read:organization.
-          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          GITEA_HOST: git.moleculesai.app
-          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
-          DEFAULT_BRANCH: ${{ github.event.repository.default_branch }}
-          TEAM: security
-          TEAM_ID: '21'
-          REVIEW_CHECK_DEBUG: '0'
-          REVIEW_CHECK_STRICT: '0'
-        run: |
-          set -euo pipefail
-          .gitea/scripts/review-refire-status.sh
-
-      - name: Refire sop-tier-check status
-        if: steps.classify.outputs.run_tier == 'true'
-        env:
-          GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SOP_TIER_CHECK_TOKEN || secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          GITEA_HOST: git.moleculesai.app
-          REPO: ${{ github.repository }}
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.issue.number }}
-          SOP_DEBUG: '0'
-        run: bash .gitea/scripts/sop-tier-refire.sh

.gitea/workflows/sop-tier-check.yml

@@ -61,17 +61,12 @@ on:
   pull_request_review:
     types: [submitted, dismissed, edited]
 
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
-  cancel-in-progress: true
-
 jobs:
   tier-check:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     permissions:
       contents: read
       pull-requests: read
-      secrets: read
     steps:
       - name: Check out base branch (for the script)
         uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd  # v6.0.2

.gitea/workflows/staging-smoke.yml

@@ -81,11 +81,6 @@ jobs:
       # (dead in org secret store) to CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN per
       # internal#322 — see this PR for the cross-workflow sweep.
       MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2
-      E2E_AWS_LEAK_CHECK: required
-      E2E_AWS_TERMINATE_LEAKS: '1'
       # MiniMax is the smoke's PRIMARY LLM auth path post-2026-05-04.
       # Switched from hermes+OpenAI after #2578 (the staging OpenAI key
       # account went over quota and stayed dead for 36+ hours, taking
@@ -112,9 +107,9 @@ jobs:
       E2E_RUNTIME: claude-code
       # Pin the smoke to a specific MiniMax model rather than relying
       # on the per-runtime default (which could resolve to "sonnet" →
-      # direct Anthropic and defeat the cost saving). MiniMax-M2 is the
-      # stable staging MiniMax path used by the full-SaaS smoke.
-      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: MiniMax-M2
+      # direct Anthropic and defeat the cost saving). M2.7-highspeed
+      # is "Token Plan only" but cheap-per-token and fast.
+      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed
       E2E_RUN_ID: "smoke-${{ github.run_id }}"
       # Debug-only: when an operator dispatches with keep_on_failure=true,
       # the smoke script's E2E_KEEP_ORG=1 path skips teardown so the
@@ -134,12 +129,6 @@ jobs:
             echo "::error::CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN not set"
             exit 2
           fi
-          for var in AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY; do
-            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
-              echo "::error::$var not set — EC2 leak verification cannot run"
-              exit 2
-            fi
-          done
 
       - name: Verify LLM key present
         run: |

.gitea/workflows/staging-verify.yml

@@ -75,12 +75,8 @@ permissions:
 env:
   # ECR registry (post-2026-05-06 SSOT for tenant images).
   # publish-workspace-server-image.yml pushes here.
-  # SSOT-Instance-10 (#333): triplet sourced from org/repo var `ECR_REGISTRY` with
-  # the current prod-account literal as bootstrap fallback. When the org var is set,
-  # the fallback becomes dead code and switching accounts/regions is a one-line
-  # change at the org level. Pattern mirrors `vars.CP_URL || 'literal'` below.
-  IMAGE_NAME: ${{ vars.ECR_REGISTRY || '153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com' }}/molecule-ai/platform
-  TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: ${{ vars.ECR_REGISTRY || '153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com' }}/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
+  IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform
+  TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
   # CP endpoint for redeploy-fleet (used in promote step below).
   CP_URL: ${{ vars.CP_URL || 'https://staging-api.moleculesai.app' }}
   GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
@@ -239,11 +235,6 @@ jobs:
           set -euo pipefail
 
           TARGET_TAG="staging-${SHA}"
-          # confirm:true ack required by CP /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet
-          # contract (cp#228 / task #308) for fleet-wide intent. Empty body
-          # / {confirm:false} / {only_slugs:[]} → 400. This caller promotes
-          # the verified staging image across the entire prod fleet (canary
-          # + fan-out), no slug scoping, so confirm:true is correct.
           BODY=$(jq -nc \
             --arg tag "$TARGET_TAG" \
             --argjson soak "${SOAK_SECONDS:-120}" \
@@ -253,8 +244,7 @@ jobs:
               target_tag: $tag,
               soak_seconds: $soak,
               batch_size: $batch,
-              dry_run: $dry,
-              confirm: true
+              dry_run: $dry
             }')
 
           if [ -n "${CANARY_SLUG:-}" ]; then

.gitea/workflows/status-reaper.yml

@@ -53,12 +53,19 @@ name: status-reaper
 # `inputs:` block here. Gitea 1.22.6 rejects the whole workflow as
 # "unknown on type" when `workflow_dispatch.inputs.X` is present.
 on:
-  # Schedule moved to operator-config:
-  #   /etc/cron.d/molecule-core-status-reaper ->
-  #   /usr/local/bin/molecule-core-cron-bot.sh status-reaper
-  #
-  # This keeps the 5-minute compensation cadence but stops a maintenance
-  # bot from consuming Gitea Actions runner slots during PR merge waves.
+  # SCHEDULE RE-ENABLED 2026-05-12 rev3 — interim disable (mc#645) reverted now that
+  # rev3 widens DEFAULT_SWEEP_LIMIT 10 → 30 (covers retroactive-failure timing window).
+  # Sibling watchdog re-enabled in the same PR with timeout-minutes raised 5 → 15.
+  schedule:
+    # Every 5 minutes. Off-zero alignment with sibling cron workflows:
+    # ci-required-drift (`:17`), main-red-watchdog (`:05`),
+    # railway-pin-audit (`:23`). 5-min cadence gives a tight enough
+    # close on schedule-triggered false-reds that main-red-watchdog
+    # (hourly :05) almost never files an issue on the false case.
+    # rev3 keeps `*/5` unchanged per hongming-pc2 03:25Z review:
+    # "trades window-width-cheap for cadence-loady" — N=30 widens
+    # the lookback cheaply without doubling runner load via `*/2`.
+    - cron: '*/5 * * * *'
   workflow_dispatch:
 
 # Compensating-status POST needs write on repo statuses; no other

.gitea/workflows/sweep-aws-secrets.yml

@@ -40,12 +40,14 @@ name: Sweep stale AWS Secrets Manager secrets
 # the mostly-orphan tunnels) refuses to nuke past the threshold.
 
 on:
-  schedule:
-    # Hourly at :30, offset from sweep-cf-orphans (:15) and
-    # sweep-cf-tunnels (:45). This janitor is intentionally schedule-only
-    # for deletes; manual dispatch is forced to dry-run below because Gitea
-    # 1.22.6 rejects workflow_dispatch.inputs.
-    - cron: '30 * * * *'
+  # Disabled as an hourly schedule until the dedicated
+  # AWS_SECRETS_JANITOR_* key exists in the key-management SSOT and is
+  # mirrored into Gitea. Falling back to the molecule-cp app principal is
+  # intentionally not allowed: it lacks account-wide ListSecrets, and
+  # granting that to an application credential would weaken least privilege.
+  #
+  # Keep the manual trigger so operators can validate the workflow immediately
+  # after provisioning the janitor key, then restore the hourly :30 schedule.
   workflow_dispatch:
 # Don't let two sweeps race the same AWS account.
 concurrency:
@@ -62,24 +64,22 @@ jobs:
   sweep:
     name: Sweep AWS Secrets Manager
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # This is a cost/leak janitor. A scheduled failure must be red so
-    # operators know tenant bootstrap secrets may be leaking.
+    # Phase 3 (RFC #219 §1): surface broken workflows without blocking.
+    # mc#774: pre-existing continue-on-error mask; root-fix and remove, do not renew silently.
+    continue-on-error: true
     # 30 min cap, mirroring the other janitors. AWS DeleteSecret is
     # fast (~0.3s/call) so even a 100+ backlog drains in seconds
     # under the 8-way xargs parallelism, but the cap is set generously
     # to leave headroom for any actual API hang.
     timeout-minutes: 30
     env:
-      # Keep this literal. Gitea/act_runner 1.22.6 can mis-render
-      # secret-backed expressions with `||`, which produced an invalid
-      # Secrets Manager endpoint in the scheduled janitor.
-      AWS_REGION: us-east-2
+      AWS_REGION: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION || 'us-east-1' }}
       AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRETS_JANITOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
       AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRETS_JANITOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
       CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
       CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
-      MAX_DELETE_PCT: 50
-      GRACE_HOURS: 24
+      MAX_DELETE_PCT: ${{ github.event.inputs.max_delete_pct || '50' }}
+      GRACE_HOURS: ${{ github.event.inputs.grace_hours || '24' }}
 
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
@@ -114,25 +114,17 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Run sweep
         if: steps.verify.outputs.skip != 'true'
-        # Schedule-vs-dispatch dry-run asymmetry:
-        #   - schedule: execute (the whole point of an hourly janitor).
-        #   - workflow_dispatch: dry-run. Gitea 1.22.6 rejects
-        #     workflow_dispatch.inputs, so there is no safe manual
-        #     "flip it to execute" toggle in this workflow.
-        # The script's MAX_DELETE_PCT gate (default 50%) remains the
-        # second line of defense regardless of trigger.
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch dry-run asymmetry mirrors sweep-cf-tunnels:
+        #   - Scheduled: input empty → "false" → --execute (the whole
+        #     point of an hourly janitor).
+        #   - Manual workflow_dispatch: input default true → dry-run;
+        #     operator must flip it to actually delete.
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
-          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+          if [ "${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run || 'false' }}" = "true" ]; then
             echo "Running in dry-run mode — no deletions"
             bash scripts/ops/sweep-aws-secrets.sh
           else
             echo "Running with --execute — will delete identified orphans"
             bash scripts/ops/sweep-aws-secrets.sh --execute
           fi
-
-      - name: Notify on sweep failure
-        if: failure()
-        run: |
-          echo "::error::sweep-aws-secrets FAILED — AWS tenant bootstrap secrets may be leaking. Check missing Gitea secrets, staging/prod CP admin tokens, AWS janitor IAM permissions, or the script safety gate."
-          exit 1

.gitea/workflows/test-ops-scripts.yml

@@ -58,20 +58,14 @@ jobs:
           python-version: '3.11'
       - name: Install .gitea script test dependencies
         run: python -m pip install --quiet 'pytest==9.0.2' 'PyYAML==6.0.2'
-      - name: Run scripts/ unittests, if any
-        # Top-level scripts/ tests live alongside their target file. The
-        # runtime packaging tests moved to molecule-ai-workspace-runtime, so
-        # this pass may legitimately find no tests.
+      - name: Run scripts/ unittests (build_runtime_package, ...)
+        # Top-level scripts/ tests live alongside their target file
+        # (e.g. scripts/test_build_runtime_package.py exercises
+        # scripts/build_runtime_package.py). discover from scripts/
+        # picks up only top-level test_*.py because scripts/ops/ has
+        # no __init__.py — that's intentional, so we run two passes.
         working-directory: scripts
-        run: |
-          set +e
-          python -m unittest discover -t . -p 'test_*.py' -v
-          rc=$?
-          if [ "$rc" -eq 5 ]; then
-            echo "No top-level scripts/ unittest files found; skipping."
-            exit 0
-          fi
-          exit "$rc"
+        run: python -m unittest discover -t . -p 'test_*.py' -v
       - name: Run scripts/ops/ unittests (sweep_cf_decide, ...)
         working-directory: scripts/ops
         run: python -m unittest discover -p 'test_*.py' -v

.github/workflows/block-internal-paths.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+name: Block internal-flavored paths
+
+# Hard CI gate. Internal content (positioning, competitive briefs, sales
+# playbooks, PMM/press drip, draft campaigns) lives in molecule-ai/internal —
+# this public monorepo must never re-acquire those paths. CEO directive
+# 2026-04-23 after a fleet-wide audit found 79 internal files leaked here.
+#
+# Failure mode without this gate: agents (PMM, Research, DevRel, Sales) drop
+# briefs into the easiest path their cwd resolves to (root /research,
+# /marketing, /docs/marketing) and gitignore alone won't catch a `git add -f`
+# or a stale gitignore line. This workflow is the mechanical backstop.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  # Required for GitHub merge queue: the queue's pre-merge CI run on
+  # `gh-readonly-queue/...` refs needs this check to fire so the queue
+  # gets a real result instead of stalling forever AWAITING_CHECKS.
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+jobs:
+  check:
+    name: Block forbidden paths
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 2  # need previous commit to diff against on push events
+
+      # For pull_request events the diff base is github.event.pull_request.base.sha,
+      # which may be many commits behind HEAD and therefore absent from the
+      # shallow clone above.  Fetch it explicitly (depth=1 keeps it fast).
+      - name: Fetch PR base SHA (pull_request events only)
+        if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+        run: git fetch --depth=1 origin ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
+
+      # For merge_group events the queue's pre-merge ref is a commit on
+      # `gh-readonly-queue/...` whose parent is the queue's base_sha.
+      # That parent isn't part of the queue branch's shallow clone, so
+      # we fetch it explicitly. Mirrors the equivalent step in
+      # secret-scan.yml (#2120) — same shallow-clone bug class.
+      - name: Fetch merge_group base SHA (merge_group events only)
+        if: github.event_name == 'merge_group'
+        run: git fetch --depth=1 origin ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }}
+
+      - name: Refuse if forbidden paths appear
+        env:
+          # Plumb event-specific SHAs through env so the script doesn't
+          # need conditional `${{ ... }}` interpolation per event type.
+          # github.event.before/after only exist on push events;
+          # merge_group has its own base_sha/head_sha; pull_request has
+          # pull_request.base.sha / pull_request.head.sha.
+          PR_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
+          PR_HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          MG_BASE_SHA: ${{ github.event.merge_group.base_sha }}
+          MG_HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.merge_group.head_sha }}
+          PUSH_BEFORE: ${{ github.event.before }}
+          PUSH_AFTER: ${{ github.event.after }}
+        run: |
+          # Paths that must NEVER live in the public monorepo. Add to this
+          # list narrowly — broader patterns belong in .gitignore so day-to-day
+          # docs work isn't accidentally blocked.
+          FORBIDDEN_PATTERNS=(
+            "^research/"
+            "^marketing/"
+            "^docs/marketing/"
+            "^comment-[0-9]+\.json$"
+            "^test-pmm.*\.(txt|md)$"
+            "^tick-reflections.*\.(txt|md)$"
+            ".*-temp\.(md|txt)$"
+          )
+
+          # Determine the diff base. Each event type stores its SHAs in
+          # a different place — see the env block above.
+          case "${{ github.event_name }}" in
+            pull_request)
+              BASE="$PR_BASE_SHA"
+              HEAD="$PR_HEAD_SHA"
+              ;;
+            merge_group)
+              BASE="$MG_BASE_SHA"
+              HEAD="$MG_HEAD_SHA"
+              ;;
+            *)
+              BASE="$PUSH_BEFORE"
+              HEAD="$PUSH_AFTER"
+              ;;
+          esac
+
+          # On push events with shallow clones, BASE may be present in
+          # the event payload but absent from the local object DB
+          # (fetch-depth=2 doesn't always reach the previous commit
+          # across true merges). Try fetching it on demand. If the
+          # fetch fails — e.g. the SHA was force-overwritten — we fall
+          # through to the empty-BASE branch below, which scans the
+          # entire tree as if every file were new. Correct, just slow.
+          # Same recovery shape as secret-scan.yml (#2120 — incident
+          # 2026-04-27 06:50Z block-internal-paths exit 128 with
+          # "fatal: bad object <sha>" on staging push).
+          if [ -n "$BASE" ] && ! echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            if ! git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+              git fetch --depth=1 origin "$BASE" 2>/dev/null || true
+            fi
+          fi
+
+          # Files added or modified in this change.
+          if [ -z "$BASE" ] || echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$' || ! git cat-file -e "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            # New branch / no previous SHA / BASE unreachable — check
+            # the entire tree as if every file were new. Slower but
+            # correct on first push or post-fetch-failure recovery.
+            CHANGED=$(git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD)
+          else
+            CHANGED=$(git diff --name-only --diff-filter=AM "$BASE" "$HEAD")
+          fi
+
+          if [ -z "$CHANGED" ]; then
+            echo "No changed files to inspect."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          OFFENDING=""
+          for path in $CHANGED; do
+            for pattern in "${FORBIDDEN_PATTERNS[@]}"; do
+              if echo "$path" | grep -qE "$pattern"; then
+                OFFENDING="${OFFENDING}${path} (matched: ${pattern})\n"
+                break
+              fi
+            done
+          done
+
+          if [ -n "$OFFENDING" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Forbidden internal-flavored paths detected:"
+            printf "$OFFENDING"
+            echo ""
+            echo "These paths belong in molecule-ai/internal, not this public repo."
+            echo "See docs/internal-content-policy.md for canonical locations."
+            echo ""
+            echo "If your file is genuinely public-facing (e.g. a blog post"
+            echo "ready to ship), use one of these alternatives instead:"
+            echo "  • Public-bound blog posts:  docs/blog/<slug>.md"
+            echo "  • Public-bound tutorials:   docs/tutorials/<slug>.md"
+            echo "  • Public devrel content:    docs/devrel/<slug>.md"
+            echo ""
+            echo "If you legitimately need to add a new top-level path that"
+            echo "happens to match a forbidden pattern, edit"
+            echo ".github/workflows/block-internal-paths.yml and update the"
+            echo "FORBIDDEN_PATTERNS list with reviewer signoff."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          echo "✓ No forbidden paths in this change."

.github/workflows/canary-staging.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,320 @@
+name: Canary — staging SaaS smoke (every 30 min)
+
+# Minimum viable health check: provisions one Hermes workspace on a fresh
+# staging org, sends one A2A message, verifies PONG, tears down. ~8 min
+# wall clock. Pages on failure by opening a GitHub issue; auto-closes the
+# issue on the next green run.
+#
+# The full-SaaS workflow (e2e-staging-saas.yml) covers the broader surface
+# but runs only on provisioning-critical pushes + nightly — this one
+# catches drift in the 30-min window between those runs (AMI health, CF
+# cert rotation, WorkOS session stability, etc.).
+#
+# Lean mode: E2E_MODE=canary skips the child workspace + HMA memory +
+# peers/activity checks. One parent workspace + one A2A turn is enough
+# to signal "SaaS stack end-to-end is alive."
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Every 30 min. Cron on GitHub-hosted runners has a known drift of
+    # a few minutes under load — that's fine for a canary.
+    - cron: '*/30 * * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      keep_on_failure:
+        description: >-
+          Skip teardown when the canary fails (debugging only). The
+          tenant org + EC2 + CF tunnel + DNS stay alive so an operator
+          can SSM into the workspace EC2 and capture docker logs of the
+          failing claude-code container. REMEMBER to manually delete
+          via DELETE /cp/admin/tenants/<slug> when done so the org
+          doesn't accumulate cost. Only honored on workflow_dispatch;
+          cron runs always tear down (we don't want unattended cron
+          to leak resources).
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+
+# Serialise with the full-SaaS workflow so they don't contend for the
+# same org-create quota on staging. Different group key from
+# e2e-staging-saas since we don't mind queueing canaries behind one
+# full run, but two canaries SHOULD queue against each other.
+concurrency:
+  group: canary-staging
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  # Needed to open / close the alerting issue.
+  issues: write
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  canary:
+    name: Canary smoke
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # 25 min headroom over the 15-min TLS-readiness deadline in
+    # tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh (#2107). Without the buffer
+    # the job is killed at the wall-clock 15:00 mark BEFORE the bash
+    # `fail` + diagnostic burst can fire, leaving every cancellation
+    # silent. Sibling staging E2E jobs run at 20-45 min — keeping
+    # canary tighter than them so a true wedge still surfaces here
+    # first.
+    timeout-minutes: 25
+
+    env:
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      # MiniMax is the canary's PRIMARY LLM auth path post-2026-05-04.
+      # Switched from hermes+OpenAI after #2578 (the staging OpenAI key
+      # account went over quota and stayed dead for 36+ hours, taking
+      # the canary red the entire time). claude-code template's
+      # `minimax` provider routes ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to
+      # api.minimax.io/anthropic and reads MINIMAX_API_KEY at boot —
+      # ~5-10x cheaper per token than gpt-4.1-mini AND on a separate
+      # billing account, so OpenAI quota collapse no longer wedges the
+      # canary. Mirrors the migration continuous-synth-e2e.yml made on
+      # 2026-05-03 (#265) for the same reason. tests/e2e/test_staging_
+      # full_saas.sh branches SECRETS_JSON on which key is present —
+      # MiniMax wins when set.
+      E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY }}
+      # Direct-Anthropic alternative for operators who don't want to
+      # set up a MiniMax account (priority below MiniMax — first
+      # non-empty wins in test_staging_full_saas.sh's secrets-injection
+      # block). See #2578 PR comment for the rationale.
+      E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
+      # OpenAI fallback — kept wired so an operator-dispatched run with
+      # E2E_RUNTIME=hermes overridden via workflow_dispatch can still
+      # exercise the OpenAI path without re-editing the workflow.
+      E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY }}
+      E2E_MODE: canary
+      E2E_RUNTIME: claude-code
+      # Pin the canary to a specific MiniMax model rather than relying
+      # on the per-runtime default (which could resolve to "sonnet" →
+      # direct Anthropic and defeat the cost saving). M2.7-highspeed
+      # is "Token Plan only" but cheap-per-token and fast.
+      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed
+      E2E_RUN_ID: "canary-${{ github.run_id }}"
+      # Debug-only: when an operator dispatches with keep_on_failure=true,
+      # the canary script's E2E_KEEP_ORG=1 path skips teardown so the
+      # tenant org + EC2 stay alive for SSM-based log capture. Cron runs
+      # never set this (the input only exists on workflow_dispatch) so
+      # unattended cron always tears down. See molecule-core#129
+      # failure mode #1 — capturing the actual exception requires
+      # docker logs from the live container.
+      E2E_KEEP_ORG: ${{ github.event.inputs.keep_on_failure == 'true' && '1' || '0' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify admin token present
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN not set"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+
+      - name: Verify LLM key present
+        run: |
+          # Per-runtime key check — claude-code uses MiniMax; hermes /
+          # langgraph (operator-dispatched only) use OpenAI. Hard-fail
+          # rather than soft-skip per the lesson from synth E2E #2578:
+          # an empty key silently falls through to the wrong
+          # SECRETS_JSON branch and the canary fails 5 min later with
+          # a confusing auth error instead of the clean "secret
+          # missing" message at the top.
+          case "${E2E_RUNTIME}" in
+            claude-code)
+              # Either MiniMax OR direct-Anthropic works — first
+              # non-empty wins in the test script's secrets-injection
+              # priority chain. Operators only need to set ONE of these
+              # secrets; we don't force a choice between them.
+              if [ -n "${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value="${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY}"
+              elif [ -n "${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value="${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}"
+              else
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY or MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value=""
+              fi
+              ;;
+            langgraph|hermes)
+              required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY"
+              required_secret_value="${E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY:-}"
+              ;;
+            *)
+              echo "::warning::Unknown E2E_RUNTIME='${E2E_RUNTIME}' — skipping LLM-key check"
+              required_secret_name=""
+              required_secret_value="present"
+              ;;
+          esac
+          if [ -n "$required_secret_name" ] && [ -z "$required_secret_value" ]; then
+            echo "::error::${required_secret_name} secret not set for runtime=${E2E_RUNTIME} — A2A will fail at request time with 'No LLM provider configured'"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+          echo "LLM key present ✓ (runtime=${E2E_RUNTIME}, key=${required_secret_name}, len=${#required_secret_value})"
+
+      - name: Canary run
+        id: canary
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh
+
+      # Alerting: open a sticky issue on the FIRST failure; comment on
+      # subsequent failures; auto-close on next green. Comment-on-existing
+      # de-duplicates so a single open issue accumulates the streak —
+      # ops sees one issue with N comments rather than N issues.
+      #
+      # Why no consecutive-failures threshold (e.g., wait 3 runs before
+      # filing): the prior threshold check used
+      # `github.rest.actions.listWorkflowRuns()` which Gitea 1.22.6 does
+      # not expose (returns 404). On Gitea Actions the threshold call
+      # ALWAYS failed, breaking the entire alerting step and going days
+      # silent on real regressions (38h+ chronic red on 2026-05-07/08
+      # before this fix; tracked in molecule-core#129). Filing on first
+      # failure is also better UX — we want to know about the first red,
+      # not wait 90 min for it to "count." Real flakes get one issue +
+      # a quick close-on-green; persistent reds accumulate comments.
+      - name: Open issue on failure
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const title = '🔴 Canary failing: staging SaaS smoke';
+            const runURL = `${context.serverUrl}/${context.repo.owner}/${context.repo.repo}/actions/runs/${context.runId}`;
+
+            // Find an existing open canary issue (stable title match).
+            // If one exists, this isn't a "first failure" — comment and exit.
+            const { data: existing } = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
+              owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+              state: 'open', labels: 'canary-staging',
+              per_page: 10,
+            });
+            const match = existing.find(i => i.title === title);
+            if (match) {
+              await github.rest.issues.createComment({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: match.number,
+                body: `Canary still failing. ${runURL}`,
+              });
+              core.info(`Commented on existing issue #${match.number}`);
+              return;
+            }
+
+            // No open issue yet — file one on this first failure. The
+            // comment-on-existing branch above means subsequent failures
+            // accumulate as comments on this same issue, so we don't
+            // spam new issues per run.
+            const body =
+              `Canary run failed at ${new Date().toISOString()}.\n\n` +
+              `Run: ${runURL}\n\n` +
+              `This issue auto-closes on the next green canary run. ` +
+              `Consecutive failures add a comment here rather than a new issue.`;
+            await github.rest.issues.create({
+              owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+              title, body,
+              labels: ['canary-staging', 'bug'],
+            });
+            core.info('Opened canary failure issue (first red)');
+
+      - name: Auto-close canary issue on success
+        if: success()
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const title = '🔴 Canary failing: staging SaaS smoke';
+            const { data: open } = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
+              owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+              state: 'open', labels: 'canary-staging',
+              per_page: 10,
+            });
+            const match = open.find(i => i.title === title);
+            if (match) {
+              await github.rest.issues.createComment({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: match.number,
+                body: `Canary recovered at ${new Date().toISOString()}. Closing.`,
+              });
+              await github.rest.issues.update({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: match.number,
+                state: 'closed',
+              });
+              core.info(`Closed recovered canary issue #${match.number}`);
+            }
+
+      - name: Teardown safety net
+        if: always()
+        env:
+          ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          # Slug prefix matches what test_staging_full_saas.sh emits
+          # in canary mode:
+          #   SLUG="e2e-canary-$(date +%Y%m%d)-${RUN_ID_SUFFIX}"
+          # Earlier this was `e2e-{today}-canary-` — that was the
+          # full-mode pattern (date FIRST, mode SECOND); canary slugs
+          # have mode FIRST, date SECOND. The mismatch silently
+          # never matched, leaving every cancelled-canary EC2 alive
+          # until the once-an-hour sweep eventually caught it
+          # (incident 2026-04-26 21:03Z: 1h25m EC2 leak before manual
+          # cleanup; same gap on three earlier cancellations today).
+          orgs=$(curl -sS "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orgs" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" 2>/dev/null \
+            | python3 -c "
+          import json, sys, os, datetime
+          run_id = os.environ.get('GITHUB_RUN_ID', '')
+          d = json.load(sys.stdin)
+          # Scope to slugs from THIS canary run when GITHUB_RUN_ID is
+          # available; the canary workflow sets E2E_RUN_ID='canary-\${run_id}'
+          # so the slug suffix is '-canary-\${run_id}-...'. Mirrors the
+          # full-mode safety net's per-run scoping (e2e-staging-saas.yml)
+          # added after the 2026-04-21 cross-run cleanup incident.
+          # Sweep both today AND yesterday's UTC dates so a run that
+          # crosses midnight still cleans up its own slug — see the
+          # 2026-04-26→27 canvas-safety-net incident.
+          today = datetime.date.today()
+          yesterday = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
+          dates = (today.strftime('%Y%m%d'), yesterday.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
+          if run_id:
+              prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-canary-{d}-canary-{run_id}' for d in dates)
+          else:
+              prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-canary-{d}-' for d in dates)
+          candidates = [o['slug'] for o in d.get('orgs', [])
+                        if any(o.get('slug','').startswith(p) for p in prefixes)
+                        and o.get('status') not in ('purged',)]
+          print('\n'.join(candidates))
+          " 2>/dev/null)
+          # Per-slug DELETE with HTTP-code verification. The previous
+          # `... >/dev/null || true` swallowed every failure, so a 5xx
+          # or timeout from CP looked identical to "successfully cleaned
+          # up" and the tenant kept eating ~2 vCPU until the hourly
+          # stale sweep caught it (up to 2h later). Now we capture the
+          # response code and surface non-2xx as a workflow warning, so
+          # the run page shows which slug leaked. We still don't `exit 1`
+          # on cleanup failure — a single-canary cleanup miss shouldn't
+          # fail-flag the canary itself when the actual smoke check
+          # passed. The sweep-stale-e2e-orgs cron (now every 15 min,
+          # 30-min threshold) is the safety net for whatever slips past.
+          # See molecule-controlplane#420.
+          leaks=()
+          for slug in $orgs; do
+            # Tempfile-routed -w + set +e/-e prevents curl-exit-code
+            # pollution of the captured status (lint-curl-status-capture.yml).
+            set +e
+            curl -sS -o /tmp/canary-cleanup.out -w "%{http_code}" \
+              -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
+              -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+              -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+              -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/canary-cleanup.code
+            set -e
+            code=$(cat /tmp/canary-cleanup.code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+            if [ "$code" = "200" ] || [ "$code" = "204" ]; then
+              echo "[teardown] deleted $slug (HTTP $code)"
+            else
+              echo "::warning::canary teardown for $slug returned HTTP $code — sweep-stale-e2e-orgs will catch it within ~45 min. Body: $(head -c 300 /tmp/canary-cleanup.out 2>/dev/null)"
+              leaks+=("$slug")
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ ${#leaks[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::canary teardown left ${#leaks[@]} leak(s): ${leaks[*]}"
+          fi
+          exit 0

.github/workflows/canary-verify.yml

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+name: canary-verify
+
+# Runs the canary smoke suite against the staging canary tenant fleet
+# after a new :staging-<sha> image lands in ECR. On green, calls the
+# CP redeploy-fleet endpoint to promote :staging-<sha> → :latest so
+# the prod tenant fleet's 5-minute auto-updater picks up the verified
+# digest. On red, :latest stays on the prior known-good digest and
+# prod is untouched.
+#
+# Registry note (2026-05-10): This workflow previously used GHCR
+# (ghcr.io/molecule-ai/platform-tenant) — that registry was retired
+# during the 2026-05-06 Gitea suspension migration when publish-
+# workspace-server-image.yml switched to the operator's ECR org
+# (153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/
+# platform-tenant). The GHCR → ECR migration was never applied to
+# this file, so canary-verify was silently smoke-testing the stale
+# GHCR image while the actual staging/prod tenants ran the ECR image.
+# Result: smoke tests could not catch a broken ECR build. Fix:
+#   - Wait step: reads SHA from running canary /health (tenant-
+#     agnostic, works regardless of registry).
+#   - Promote step: calls CP redeploy-fleet endpoint with target_tag=
+#     staging-<sha>, same mechanism as redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml.
+#     No longer attempts GHCR crane ops.
+#
+# Dependencies:
+#   - publish-workspace-server-image.yml publishes :staging-<sha>
+#     to ECR on staging and main merges.
+#   - Canary tenants are configured to pull :staging-<sha> from ECR
+#     (TENANT_IMAGE env set to the ECR :staging-<sha> tag).
+#   - Repo secrets CANARY_TENANT_URLS / CANARY_ADMIN_TOKENS /
+#     CANARY_CP_SHARED_SECRET are populated.
+
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: ["publish-workspace-server-image"]
+    types: [completed]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  packages: write
+  actions: read
+
+env:
+  # ECR registry (post-2026-05-06 SSOT for tenant images).
+  # publish-workspace-server-image.yml pushes here.
+  IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform
+  TENANT_IMAGE_NAME: 153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/molecule-ai/platform-tenant
+  # CP endpoint for redeploy-fleet (used in promote step below).
+  CP_URL: ${{ vars.CP_URL || 'https://staging-api.moleculesai.app' }}
+
+jobs:
+  canary-smoke:
+    # Skip when the upstream workflow failed — no image to test against.
+    if: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      sha: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.sha }}
+      smoke_ran: ${{ steps.smoke.outputs.ran }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Compute sha
+        id: compute
+        run: echo "sha=${GITHUB_SHA::7}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Wait for canary tenants to pick up :staging-<sha>
+        # Poll canary health endpoints every 30s for up to 7 min instead
+        # of a fixed 6-min sleep. Exits as soon as ALL canaries report
+        # the new SHA (~2-3 min typical vs 6 min fixed). Falls back to
+        # proceeding after 7 min even if not all canaries responded —
+        # the smoke suite will catch any that didn't update.
+        #
+        # NOTE: The SHA is read from the running tenant's /health response,
+        # NOT from a registry lookup. This is registry-agnostic and works
+        # regardless of whether the tenant pulls from ECR, GHCR, or any
+        # other registry — the canary is telling us what it's actually
+        # running, which is the ground truth for smoke testing.
+        env:
+          CANARY_TENANT_URLS: ${{ secrets.CANARY_TENANT_URLS }}
+          EXPECTED_SHA: ${{ steps.compute.outputs.sha }}
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$CANARY_TENANT_URLS" ]; then
+            echo "No canary URLs configured — falling back to 60s wait"
+            sleep 60
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          IFS=',' read -ra URLS <<< "$CANARY_TENANT_URLS"
+          MAX_WAIT=420  # 7 minutes
+          INTERVAL=30
+          ELAPSED=0
+          while [ $ELAPSED -lt $MAX_WAIT ]; do
+            ALL_READY=true
+            for url in "${URLS[@]}"; do
+              HEALTH=$(curl -s --max-time 5 "${url}/health" 2>/dev/null || echo "{}")
+              SHA=$(echo "$HEALTH" | grep -o "\"sha\":\"[^\"]*\"" | head -1 | cut -d'"' -f4)
+              if [ "$SHA" != "$EXPECTED_SHA" ]; then
+                ALL_READY=false
+                break
+              fi
+            done
+            if $ALL_READY; then
+              echo "All canaries running staging-${EXPECTED_SHA} after ${ELAPSED}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "Waiting for canaries... (${ELAPSED}s / ${MAX_WAIT}s)"
+            sleep $INTERVAL
+            ELAPSED=$((ELAPSED + INTERVAL))
+          done
+          echo "Timeout after ${MAX_WAIT}s — proceeding anyway (smoke suite will validate)"
+
+      - name: Run canary smoke suite
+        id: smoke
+        # Graceful-skip when no canary fleet is configured (Phase 2 not yet
+        # stood up — see molecule-controlplane/docs/canary-tenants.md).
+        # Sets `ran=false` on skip so promote-to-latest stays off (we don't
+        # want every main merge auto-promoting without gating). Manual
+        # promote-latest.yml is the release gate while canary is absent.
+        # Once the fleet is real: delete the early-exit branch.
+        env:
+          CANARY_TENANT_URLS: ${{ secrets.CANARY_TENANT_URLS }}
+          CANARY_ADMIN_TOKENS: ${{ secrets.CANARY_ADMIN_TOKENS }}
+          CANARY_CP_BASE_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+          CANARY_CP_SHARED_SECRET: ${{ secrets.CANARY_CP_SHARED_SECRET }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ -z "${CANARY_TENANT_URLS:-}" ] \
+            || [ -z "${CANARY_ADMIN_TOKENS:-}" ] \
+            || [ -z "${CANARY_CP_SHARED_SECRET:-}" ]; then
+            {
+              echo "## ⚠️ canary-verify skipped"
+              echo
+              echo "One or more canary secrets are unset (\`CANARY_TENANT_URLS\`, \`CANARY_ADMIN_TOKENS\`, \`CANARY_CP_SHARED_SECRET\`)."
+              echo "Phase 2 canary fleet has not been stood up yet —"
+              echo "see [canary-tenants.md](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-controlplane/blob/main/docs/canary-tenants.md)."
+              echo
+              echo "**Skipped — promote-to-latest will NOT auto-fire.** Dispatch \`promote-latest.yml\` manually when ready."
+            } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+            echo "ran=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "::notice::canary-verify: skipped — no canary fleet configured"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          bash scripts/canary-smoke.sh
+          echo "ran=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Summary on failure
+        if: ${{ failure() }}
+        run: |
+          {
+            echo "## Canary smoke FAILED"
+            echo
+            echo "Canary tenants rejected image \`staging-${{ steps.compute.outputs.sha }}\`."
+            echo ":latest stays pinned to the prior good digest — prod is untouched."
+            echo
+            echo "Fix forward and merge again, or investigate the specific failed"
+            echo "assertions in the canary-smoke step log above."
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+  promote-to-latest:
+    # On green, calls the CP redeploy-fleet endpoint with target_tag=
+    # staging-<sha> to promote the verified ECR image. This is the same
+    # mechanism as redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml — no GHCR crane ops.
+    #
+    # Pre-fix history: the old GHCR promote step used `crane tag` against
+    # ghcr.io/molecule-ai/platform-tenant, but publish-workspace-server-
+    # image.yml had already migrated to ECR on 2026-05-07 (commit
+    # 10e510f5). The GHCR tags were never updated, so this step was
+    # silently promoting a stale GHCR image while actual prod tenants
+    # pulled from ECR. Canary smoke tests were GHCR-targeted and could
+    # not catch a broken ECR build.
+    needs: canary-smoke
+    if: ${{ needs.canary-smoke.result == 'success' && needs.canary-smoke.outputs.smoke_ran == 'true' }}
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      SHA: ${{ needs.canary-smoke.outputs.sha }}
+      CP_URL: ${{ vars.CP_URL || 'https://staging-api.moleculesai.app' }}
+      # CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN gates write access to the redeploy endpoint.
+      # Stored at the repo level so all workflows pick it up automatically.
+      CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
+      # canary_slug pin: deploy the verified :staging-<sha> to the canary
+      # first (soak 120s), then fan out to the rest of the fleet.
+      CANARY_SLUG: ${{ vars.CANARY_PROMOTE_SLUG || '' }}
+      SOAK_SECONDS: ${{ vars.CANARY_PROMOTE_SOAK || '120' }}
+      BATCH_SIZE: ${{ vars.CANARY_PROMOTE_BATCH || '3' }}
+    steps:
+      - name: Check CP credentials
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "${CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret is not set — promote step cannot call redeploy-fleet."
+            echo "::error::Set it at: repo Settings → Actions → Variables and Secrets → New Secret."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Promote verified ECR image to :latest
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          TARGET_TAG="staging-${SHA}"
+          BODY=$(jq -nc \
+            --arg tag "$TARGET_TAG" \
+            --argjson soak "${SOAK_SECONDS:-120}" \
+            --argjson batch "${BATCH_SIZE:-3}" \
+            --argjson dry false \
+            '{
+              target_tag: $tag,
+              soak_seconds: $soak,
+              batch_size: $batch,
+              dry_run: $dry
+            }')
+
+          if [ -n "${CANARY_SLUG:-}" ]; then
+            BODY=$(jq '. * {canary_slug: $slug}' --arg slug "$CANARY_SLUG" <<<"$BODY")
+          fi
+
+          echo "Calling: POST $CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet"
+          echo "  target_tag: $TARGET_TAG"
+          echo "  body: $BODY"
+
+          HTTP_RESPONSE=$(mktemp)
+          HTTP_CODE_FILE=$(mktemp)
+          set +e
+          curl -sS -o "$HTTP_RESPONSE" -w '%{http_code}' \
+            -m 1200 \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN" \
+            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+            -X POST "$CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet" \
+            -d "$BODY" >"$HTTP_CODE_FILE"
+          CURL_EXIT=$?
+          set -e
+
+          HTTP_CODE=$(cat "$HTTP_CODE_FILE" 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+          [ -z "$HTTP_CODE" ] && HTTP_CODE="000"
+
+          echo "HTTP $HTTP_CODE (curl exit $CURL_EXIT)"
+          cat "$HTTP_RESPONSE" | jq . || cat "$HTTP_RESPONSE"
+
+          if [ "$HTTP_CODE" -ge 400 ]; then
+            echo "::error::CP redeploy-fleet returned HTTP $HTTP_CODE — refusing to proceed."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Summary
+        run: |
+          {
+            echo "## Canary verified — :latest promoted via CP redeploy-fleet"
+            echo ""
+            echo "- **Target tag:** \`staging-${{ needs.canary-smoke.outputs.sha }}\`"
+            echo "- **Registry:** ECR (\`${TENANT_IMAGE_NAME}\`)"
+            echo "- **Canary slug:** \`${CANARY_SLUG:-<none>}\` (soak ${SOAK_SECONDS}s)"
+            echo "- **Batch size:** ${BATCH_SIZE:-3}"
+            echo ""
+            echo "CP redeploy-fleet is rolling out the verified image across the prod fleet."
+            echo "The fleet's 5-minute health-check loop will pick up the update automatically."
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"

.github/workflows/cascade-list-drift-gate.yml

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+name: cascade-list-drift-gate
+
+# Structural gate: TEMPLATES list in publish-runtime.yml must match
+# manifest.json's workspace_templates exactly. Closes the recurrence
+# path of PR #2556 (the data fix) and is the first concrete deliverable
+# of RFC #388 PR-3.
+#
+# Why a gate, not just discipline: PR #2536 pruned the manifest, but the
+# cascade list wasn't updated for ~weeks before someone (PR #2556)
+# noticed during an unrelated audit. During that window, codex never
+# rebuilt on a runtime publish. A structural gate catches the drift
+# the same day either file changes.
+#
+# Triggers narrowly to keep CI quiet: only on PRs that actually change
+# one of the two files. The path-filtered split + always-emit-result
+# pattern (memory: "Required check names need a job that always runs")
+# is unnecessary here because the workflow IS the check name and PR
+# branch protection should require it directly. Future-proof: if this
+# becomes a required check, add a no-op aggregator with always() so the
+# name still emits when paths don't match.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [staging, main]
+    paths:
+      - manifest.json
+      - .github/workflows/publish-runtime.yml
+      - scripts/check-cascade-list-vs-manifest.sh
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  check:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@34e114876b0b11c390a56381ad16ebd13914f8d5 # v4
+      - name: Check cascade list matches manifest
+        run: bash scripts/check-cascade-list-vs-manifest.sh

.github/workflows/check-migration-collisions.yml

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+name: Check migration collisions
+
+# Hard gate (#2341): fails a PR that adds a migration prefix already
+# claimed by the base branch or another open PR. Caught manually 2026-04-30
+# during PR #2276 rebase: 044_runtime_image_pins collided with
+# 044_platform_inbound_secret from RFC #2312. This workflow makes that
+# check automatic.
+#
+# Trigger model: pull_request only — there's no value running this on
+# pushes to staging or main (those are post-merge; the gate must fire
+# pre-merge to be useful). Path filter scopes to PRs that actually touch
+# migrations.
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/migrations/**'
+      - 'scripts/ops/check_migration_collisions.py'
+      - '.github/workflows/check-migration-collisions.yml'
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  # gh pr list/diff need read access to other PRs
+  pull-requests: read
+
+jobs:
+  check:
+    name: Migration version collision check
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          # Need history to diff against base ref
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Detect collisions
+        env:
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+          BASE_REF: origin/${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}
+          HEAD_REF: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          GITHUB_REPOSITORY: ${{ github.repository }}
+          # gh CLI uses GH_TOKEN from env
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # Ensure the named base ref exists locally. checkout@v4 with
+          # fetch-depth=0 pulls full history, but the explicit fetch is
+          # cheap insurance against form-of-ref differences across runs.
+          #
+          # IMPORTANT: do NOT pass --depth=1 here. The script below uses
+          # `git diff origin/<base>...<head>` (three-dot, merge-base form),
+          # which fails with "fatal: no merge base" if the base ref is
+          # shallow. The auto-promote staging→main PR (#2361) was blocked
+          # by exactly this for ~5h on 2026-04-30 — the depth=1 fetch
+          # overwrote checkout@v4's full-history clone with a shallow tip.
+          git fetch origin "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.ref }}" || true
+          python3 scripts/ops/check_migration_collisions.py

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,443 @@
+name: CI
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  # GitHub merge queue fires `merge_group` for the queue's pre-merge CI run.
+  # Required so the queue gets a real check result instead of a false-green
+  # from the absence of a triggered workflow. Safe to add unconditionally —
+  # the event simply doesn't fire until the queue is enabled on the branch.
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+# Cancel in-progress CI runs when a new commit arrives on the same ref.
+# This prevents stale runs from queuing behind each other. The merge_group
+# refs (refs/heads/gh-readonly-queue/...) get their own concurrency group
+# automatically because github.ref differs from the PR ref.
+concurrency:
+  group: ci-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  # Detect which paths changed so downstream jobs can skip when only
+  # docs/markdown files were modified.
+  changes:
+    name: Detect changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      platform: ${{ steps.check.outputs.platform }}
+      canvas: ${{ steps.check.outputs.canvas }}
+      python: ${{ steps.check.outputs.python }}
+      scripts: ${{ steps.check.outputs.scripts }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - id: check
+        run: |
+          # For PR events: diff against the base branch (not HEAD~1 of the branch,
+          # which may be unrelated after force-pushes). When a push updates a PR,
+          # both pull_request and push events fire — prefer the PR base so that
+          # the diff is always computed against the actual merge base, not the
+          # previous SHA on the branch which may be on a different history line.
+          BASE="${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-${{ github.event.before }}}"
+          # GITHUB_BASE_REF is set by GitHub for PR events (the base branch name).
+          # For pull_request events we use the stored base.sha; for push events
+          # (or when base.sha is unavailable) fall back to github.event.before.
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ] && [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" ]; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          fi
+          # Fallback: if BASE is empty or all zeros (new branch), run everything
+          if [ -z "$BASE" ] || echo "$BASE" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            echo "platform=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "python=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "scripts=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          DIFF=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo ".github/workflows/ci.yml")
+          echo "platform=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^workspace-server/|^\.github/workflows/ci\.yml$' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "canvas=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^canvas/|^\.github/workflows/ci\.yml$' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "python=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^workspace/|^\.github/workflows/ci\.yml$' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "scripts=$(echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^tests/e2e/|^scripts/|^infra/scripts/|^\.github/workflows/ci\.yml$' && echo true || echo false)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+  # Platform (Go) is a required check on staging. Always-run + per-step
+  # gating (see Canvas (Next.js) for the rationale and the failure mode
+  # this avoids).
+  platform-build:
+    name: Platform (Go)
+    needs: changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: workspace-server
+    steps:
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform != 'true'
+        working-directory: .
+        run: echo "No platform/** changes — skipping real build steps; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-go@40f1582b2485089dde7abd97c1529aa768e1baff # v5
+        with:
+          go-version: 'stable'
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        run: go mod download
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        run: go build ./cmd/server
+      # CLI (molecli) moved to standalone repo: github.com/molecule-ai/molecule-cli
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        run: go vet ./... || true
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        name: Run golangci-lint
+        run: golangci-lint run --timeout 3m ./... || true
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        name: Run tests with race detection and coverage
+        run: go test -race -coverprofile=coverage.out ./...
+
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        name: Per-file coverage report
+        # Advisory — lists every source file with its coverage so reviewers
+        # can see at-a-glance where gaps are. Sorted ascending so the worst
+        # offenders float to the top. Does NOT fail the build; the hard
+        # gate is the threshold check below. (#1823)
+        run: |
+          echo "=== Per-file coverage (worst first) ==="
+          go tool cover -func=coverage.out \
+            | grep -v '^total:' \
+            | awk '{file=$1; sub(/:[0-9][0-9.]*:.*/, "", file); pct=$NF; gsub(/%/,"",pct); s[file]+=pct; c[file]++}
+                   END {for (f in s) printf "%6.1f%%  %s\n", s[f]/c[f], f}' \
+            | sort -n
+
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.platform == 'true'
+        name: Check coverage thresholds
+        # Enforces two gates from #1823 Layer 1:
+        #   1. Total floor (25% — ratchet plan in COVERAGE_FLOOR.md).
+        #   2. Per-file floor — non-test .go files in security-critical
+        #      paths with coverage <10% fail the build, UNLESS the file
+        #      path is listed in .coverage-allowlist.txt (acknowledged
+        #      historical debt with a tracking issue + expiry).
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          TOTAL_FLOOR=25
+          # Security-critical paths where a 0%-coverage file is a real risk.
+          CRITICAL_PATHS=(
+            "internal/handlers/tokens"
+            "internal/handlers/workspace_provision"
+            "internal/handlers/a2a_proxy"
+            "internal/handlers/registry"
+            "internal/handlers/secrets"
+            "internal/middleware/wsauth"
+            "internal/crypto"
+          )
+
+          TOTAL=$(go tool cover -func=coverage.out | grep '^total:' | awk '{print $3}' | sed 's/%//')
+          echo "Total coverage: ${TOTAL}%"
+          if awk "BEGIN{exit !($TOTAL < $TOTAL_FLOOR)}"; then
+            echo "::error::Total coverage ${TOTAL}% is below the ${TOTAL_FLOOR}% floor. See COVERAGE_FLOOR.md for ratchet plan."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # Aggregate per-file coverage → /tmp/perfile.txt: "<fullpath> <pct>"
+          go tool cover -func=coverage.out \
+            | grep -v '^total:' \
+            | awk '{file=$1; sub(/:[0-9][0-9.]*:.*/, "", file); pct=$NF; gsub(/%/,"",pct); s[file]+=pct; c[file]++}
+                   END {for (f in s) printf "%s %.1f\n", f, s[f]/c[f]}' \
+            > /tmp/perfile.txt
+
+          # Build allowlist — paths relative to workspace-server, one per line.
+          # Lines starting with # are comments.
+          ALLOWLIST=""
+          if [ -f ../.coverage-allowlist.txt ]; then
+            ALLOWLIST=$(grep -vE '^(#|[[:space:]]*$)' ../.coverage-allowlist.txt || true)
+          fi
+
+          FAILED=0
+          WARNED=0
+          for path in "${CRITICAL_PATHS[@]}"; do
+            while read -r file pct; do
+              [[ "$file" == *_test.go ]] && continue
+              [[ "$file" == *"$path"* ]] || continue
+              awk "BEGIN{exit !($pct < 10)}" || continue
+
+              # Strip the package-import prefix so we can match .coverage-allowlist.txt
+              # entries written as paths relative to workspace-server/.
+              # Handle both module paths: platform/workspace-server/... and platform/...
+              rel=$(echo "$file" | sed 's|^github.com/molecule-ai/molecule-monorepo/platform/workspace-server/||; s|^github.com/molecule-ai/molecule-monorepo/platform/||')
+
+              if echo "$ALLOWLIST" | grep -qxF "$rel"; then
+                echo "::warning file=workspace-server/$rel::Critical file at ${pct}% coverage (allowlisted, #1823) — fix before expiry."
+                WARNED=$((WARNED+1))
+              else
+                echo "::error file=workspace-server/$rel::Critical file at ${pct}% coverage — must be >=10% (target 80%). See #1823. To acknowledge as known debt, add this path to .coverage-allowlist.txt."
+                FAILED=$((FAILED+1))
+              fi
+            done < /tmp/perfile.txt
+          done
+
+          echo ""
+          echo "Critical-path check: $FAILED new failures, $WARNED allowlisted warnings."
+
+          if [ "$FAILED" -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo ""
+            echo "$FAILED security-critical file(s) have <10% test coverage and are"
+            echo "NOT in the allowlist. These paths handle auth, tokens, secrets, or"
+            echo "workspace provisioning — a 0% file here is the exact gap that let"
+            echo "CWE-22, CWE-78, KI-005 slip through in past incidents. Either:"
+            echo "  (a) add tests to raise coverage above 10%, or"
+            echo "  (b) add the path to .coverage-allowlist.txt with an expiry date"
+            echo "      and a tracking issue reference."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+  # Canvas (Next.js) — required check, always runs. See platform-build
+  # comment above for the rationale.
+  #
+  # Supersedes the canvas-build-noop pattern attempted in PR #2321: two
+  # jobs sharing `name:` doesn't actually satisfy branch protection
+  # because the SKIPPED check run sibling is treated as not-passed
+  # regardless of how many SUCCESS siblings it has. Verified empirically
+  # on PR #2314 — mergeStateStatus stayed BLOCKED until I collapsed to
+  # a single-job-with-conditional-steps shape.
+  canvas-build:
+    name: Canvas (Next.js)
+    needs: changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: canvas
+    steps:
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas != 'true'
+        working-directory: .
+        run: echo "No canvas/** changes — skipping real build steps; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        run: rm -f package-lock.json && npm install
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        run: npm run build
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        name: Run tests with coverage
+        # Coverage instrumentation is configured in canvas/vitest.config.ts
+        # (provider: v8, reporters: text + html + json-summary). Step 2 of
+        # #1815 — wires coverage into CI so we get a baseline visible on
+        # every PR. No threshold gate yet; thresholds dial in (Step 3, also
+        # tracked in #1815) after the team sees what current coverage is.
+        # Per the inline comment in vitest.config.ts: "first land
+        # observability so we can see the baseline, then dial in
+        # thresholds + a hard gate" — this PR ships the observability half.
+        run: npx vitest run --coverage
+      - name: Upload coverage summary as artifact
+        if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' && always()
+        # Pinned to v3 for Gitea act_runner v0.6 compatibility — v4+ uses
+        # the GHES 3.10+ artifact protocol that Gitea 1.22.x does NOT
+        # implement, surfacing as `GHESNotSupportedError: @actions/artifact
+        # v2.0.0+, upload-artifact@v4+ and download-artifact@v4+ are not
+        # currently supported on GHES`. Drop this pin when Gitea ships
+        # the v4 protocol (tracked: post-Gitea-1.23 followup).
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@c6a366c94c3e0affe28c06c8df20a878f24da3cf # v3.2.2
+        with:
+          name: canvas-coverage-${{ github.run_id }}
+          path: canvas/coverage/
+          retention-days: 7
+          if-no-files-found: warn
+
+  # MCP Server + SDK removed from CI — now in standalone repos:
+  # - github.com/molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-server (npm CI)
+  # - github.com/molecule-ai/molecule-sdk-python (PyPI CI)
+
+  # e2e-api job moved to .github/workflows/e2e-api.yml (issue #458).
+  # It now has workflow-level concurrency (cancel-in-progress: false) so
+  # new pushes queue the E2E run rather than cancelling it at the run level.
+
+  # Shellcheck (E2E scripts) — required check, always runs. See
+  # platform-build for the rationale.
+  shellcheck:
+    name: Shellcheck (E2E scripts)
+    needs: changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts != 'true'
+        run: echo "No tests/e2e/ or infra/scripts/ changes — skipping real shellcheck; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
+        name: Run shellcheck on tests/e2e/*.sh and infra/scripts/*.sh
+        # shellcheck is pre-installed on ubuntu-latest runners (via apt).
+        # infra/scripts/ is included because setup.sh + nuke.sh gate the
+        # README quickstart — a shellcheck regression there silently breaks
+        # new-user onboarding. scripts/ is intentionally excluded until its
+        # pre-existing SC3040/SC3043 warnings are cleaned up.
+        run: |
+          find tests/e2e infra/scripts -type f -name '*.sh' -print0 \
+            | xargs -0 shellcheck --severity=warning
+
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
+        name: Lint cleanup-trap hygiene (RFC #2873)
+        # Asserts every shell E2E test that calls `mktemp` also installs
+        # an EXIT trap. Catches the /tmp-leak class — a missing trap
+        # silently leaks scratch into CI runners (~10-100KB per run).
+        # See tests/e2e/lint_cleanup_traps.sh for the rule + fix pattern.
+        run: bash tests/e2e/lint_cleanup_traps.sh
+
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.scripts == 'true'
+        name: Run E2E bash unit tests (no live infra)
+        # Pure-bash unit tests for E2E helper libs (lib/*.sh). These pin
+        # behavior of dispatch logic that — when broken — silently masks as
+        # "Could not resolve authentication method" only after a successful
+        # tenant + workspace provision (PR #2571 incident, 2026-05-03). Add
+        # new self-contained unit tests here as the lib/ directory grows;
+        # tests requiring live CP/tenant credentials belong in the dedicated
+        # e2e-staging-* workflows, not this job.
+        run: |
+          bash tests/e2e/test_model_slug.sh
+
+  canvas-deploy-reminder:
+    name: Canvas Deploy Reminder
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs: [changes, canvas-build]
+    # Only fires on direct pushes to main (i.e. after staging→main promotion).
+    if: needs.changes.outputs.canvas == 'true' && github.event_name == 'push' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
+    steps:
+      - name: Write deploy reminder to step summary
+        env:
+          COMMIT_SHA: ${{ github.sha }}
+          RUN_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
+        run: |
+          # Write body to a temp file — avoids backtick escaping in shell.
+          cat > /tmp/deploy-reminder.md << 'BODY'
+          ## Canvas build passed ✅ — deploy required
+
+          The `publish-canvas-image` workflow is now building a fresh Docker image
+          (`ghcr.io/molecule-ai/canvas:latest`) in the background.
+
+          Once it completes (~3–5 min), apply on the host machine with:
+          ```bash
+          cd <runner-workspace>
+          git pull origin main
+          docker compose pull canvas && docker compose up -d canvas
+          ```
+
+          If you need to rebuild from local source instead (e.g. testing unreleased
+          changes or a new `NEXT_PUBLIC_*` URL), use:
+          ```bash
+          docker compose build canvas && docker compose up -d canvas
+          ```
+          BODY
+          printf '\n> Posted automatically by CI · commit `%s` · [build log](%s)\n' \
+            "$COMMIT_SHA" "$RUN_URL" >> /tmp/deploy-reminder.md
+
+          # Gitea has no commit-comments API (no equivalent of
+          # POST /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits/{commit_sha}/comments).
+          # Write to GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY instead — both GitHub Actions and
+          # Gitea Actions render this as the workflow run's summary page,
+          # which is where operators look for post-deploy action items.
+          # (#75 / PR-D)
+          cat /tmp/deploy-reminder.md >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+  # Python Lint & Test — required check, always runs. See platform-build
+  # for the rationale.
+  python-lint:
+    name: Python Lint & Test
+    needs: changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      WORKSPACE_ID: test
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: workspace
+    steps:
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python != 'true'
+        working-directory: .
+        run: echo "No workspace/** changes — skipping real lint+test; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name on branch protection."
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        run: pip install -r requirements.txt pytest pytest-asyncio pytest-cov sqlalchemy>=2.0.0
+      # Coverage flags + fail-under floor moved into workspace/pytest.ini
+      # (issue #1817) so local `pytest` and CI use identical config.
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        run: python -m pytest --tb=short
+
+      - if: needs.changes.outputs.python == 'true'
+        name: Per-file critical-path coverage (MCP / inbox / auth)
+        # MCP-critical Python files have a per-file floor on top of the
+        # 86% total floor in pytest.ini. Rationale (issue #2790, after
+        # the PR #2766 → PR #2771 cycle): the total floor averages ~6000
+        # lines, so a single MCP file could regress to ~50% with no
+        # complaint as long as other modules compensate. These five
+        # files handle multi-tenant routing + auth + inbox dispatch —
+        # a coverage drop here is the same risk shape as a Go-side
+        # workspace-server token/secrets file dropping below 10%.
+        #
+        # Floor 75% sits below current actuals (80-96%) so this gate is
+        # strictly additive — no existing PR fails. Ratchet plan in
+        # COVERAGE_FLOOR.md.
+        run: |
+          set -e
+          PER_FILE_FLOOR=75
+          CRITICAL_FILES=(
+            "a2a_mcp_server.py"
+            "mcp_cli.py"
+            "a2a_tools.py"
+            "a2a_tools_inbox.py"
+            "inbox.py"
+            "platform_auth.py"
+          )
+
+          # pytest already wrote .coverage; emit a JSON view scoped to
+          # the critical files so jq/python can read the per-file pct
+          # without parsing tabular text. --include uses fnmatch, and
+          # the leading "*" allows the file to live anywhere under the
+          # workspace root (today they sit at workspace/<name>.py).
+          INCLUDES=$(printf '*%s,' "${CRITICAL_FILES[@]}")
+          INCLUDES="${INCLUDES%,}"
+          python -m coverage json -o /tmp/critical-cov.json --include="$INCLUDES"
+
+          FAILED=0
+          for f in "${CRITICAL_FILES[@]}"; do
+            # Match by top-level path key (e.g. "a2a_tools.py", not
+            # "builtin_tools/a2a_tools.py" — different file at 100%).
+            # The keys in coverage.json are paths relative to the run
+            # cwd (workspace/), so the critical-path entry sits at the
+            # bare basename.
+            pct=$(jq -r --arg f "$f" '.files | to_entries | map(select(.key == $f)) | .[0].value.summary.percent_covered // "MISSING"' /tmp/critical-cov.json)
+            if [ "$pct" = "MISSING" ]; then
+              echo "::error file=workspace/$f::No coverage data — file may have moved or test exclusion mis-set."
+              FAILED=$((FAILED+1))
+              continue
+            fi
+            echo "$f: ${pct}%"
+            if awk "BEGIN{exit !($pct < $PER_FILE_FLOOR)}"; then
+              echo "::error file=workspace/$f::${pct}% < ${PER_FILE_FLOOR}% per-file floor (MCP critical path). See COVERAGE_FLOOR.md."
+              FAILED=$((FAILED+1))
+            fi
+          done
+
+          if [ "$FAILED" -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo ""
+            echo "$FAILED MCP critical-path file(s) below the ${PER_FILE_FLOOR}% per-file floor."
+            echo "These paths handle multi-tenant routing, auth tokens, and inbox dispatch."
+            echo "A coverage drop here is the same risk shape as Go-side tokens/secrets files"
+            echo "dropping below 10% (see COVERAGE_FLOOR.md). Either:"
+            echo "  (a) add tests to raise coverage back above ${PER_FILE_FLOOR}%, or"
+            echo "  (b) if this is unavoidable historical debt, file an issue and propose"
+            echo "      adjusting the floor with rationale in COVERAGE_FLOOR.md."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      # SDK + plugin validation moved to standalone repo:
+      # github.com/molecule-ai/molecule-sdk-python
+

.github/workflows/continuous-synth-e2e.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,257 @@
+name: Continuous synthetic E2E (staging)
+
+# Hard gate (#2342): cron-driven full-lifecycle E2E that catches
+# regressions visible only at runtime — schema drift, deployment-pipeline
+# gaps, vendor outages, env-var rotations, DNS / CF / Railway side-effects.
+#
+# Why this gate exists:
+#   PR-time CI catches code-level regressions but not deployment-time or
+#   integration-time ones. Today's empirical data:
+#     • #2345 (A2A v0.2 silent drop) — passed all unit tests, broke at
+#       JSON-RPC parse layer between sender and receiver. Visible only
+#       to a sender exercising the full path.
+#     • RFC #2312 chat upload — landed on staging-branch but never
+#       reached staging tenants because publish-workspace-server-image
+#       was main-only. Caught by manual dogfooding hours after deploy.
+#   Both would have surfaced within 15-20 min of regression if a
+#   continuous synth-E2E was running.
+#
+# Cadence: every 20 min (3x/hour). The script is conservatively
+# bounded at 10 min wall-clock; even on degraded staging it should
+# finish before the next firing. cron-overlap is guarded by the
+# concurrency group below.
+#
+# Cost: ~3 runs/hour × 5-10 min × $0.008/min GHA = ~$0.50-$1/day.
+# Plus a fresh tenant provisioned + torn down each run (Railway +
+# AWS pennies). Negligible.
+#
+# Failure handling: when the run fails, the workflow exits non-zero
+# and GitHub's standard email/notification path fires. Operators
+# can subscribe to this workflow's failure channel for paging-grade
+# alerting.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Every 10 minutes, on :02 :12 :22 :32 :42 :52. Three constraints:
+    #   1. Stay off the top-of-hour. GitHub Actions scheduler drops
+    #      :00 firings under high load (own docs:
+    #      https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#schedule).
+    #      Prior history: cron was '0,20,40' (2026-05-02) — only :00
+    #      ever survived. Bumped to '10,30,50' (2026-05-03) on the
+    #      theory that further-from-:00 wins. Empirically 2026-05-04
+    #      that ALSO dropped to ~60 min effective cadence (only ~1
+    #      schedule fire per hour — see molecule-core#2726). Detection
+    #      latency was claimed 20 min, actual 60 min.
+    #   2. Avoid colliding with the existing :15 sweep-cf-orphans
+    #      and :45 sweep-cf-tunnels — both hit the CF API and we
+    #      don't want to fight for rate-limit tokens.
+    #   3. Avoid the :30 heavy slot (canary-staging /30, sweep-aws-
+    #      secrets, sweep-stale-e2e-orgs every :15) — multiple
+    #      overlapping cron registrations on the same minute is part
+    #      of what GH drops under load.
+    # Solution: bump fires-per-hour 3 → 6 AND keep all slots in clean
+    # lanes (1-3 min away from any other cron). Even with empirically-
+    # observed ~67% GH drop ratio, 6 attempts/hour yields ~2 effective
+    # fires = ~30 min cadence; closer to the 20-min target than the
+    # current shape and provides a real degradation alarm if drops
+    # get worse.
+    - cron: '2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      runtime:
+        description: "Runtime to provision (claude-code = default + cheapest via MiniMax; langgraph = OpenAI-only; hermes = SDK-native path, slower)"
+        required: false
+        default: "claude-code"
+        type: string
+      model_slug:
+        description: "Model id to provision the workspace with (default MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed; e.g. 'sonnet' to test direct Anthropic, 'openai/gpt-4o' for hermes)"
+        required: false
+        default: "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed"
+        type: string
+      keep_org:
+        description: "Skip teardown for post-mortem debugging (only manual dispatch — never set this for cron runs)"
+        required: false
+        default: false
+        type: boolean
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  # No issue-write here — failures surface as red runs in the workflow
+  # history. If you want auto-issue-on-fail, add a follow-up step that
+  # uses gh issue create gated on `if: failure()`. Keeping the surface
+  # minimal until that's actually wanted.
+
+# Serialize so two firings can never overlap. Cron firing every 20 min
+# but scripts conservatively bounded at 10 min — overlap shouldn't
+# happen in steady state, but if a run hangs we don't want N more
+# stacking up.
+concurrency:
+  group: continuous-synth-e2e
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  synth:
+    name: Synthetic E2E against staging
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # Bumped from 12 → 20 (2026-05-04). Tenant user-data install phase
+    # (apt-get update + install docker.io/jq/awscli/caddy + snap install
+    # ssm-agent) runs from raw Ubuntu on every boot — none of it is
+    # pre-baked into the tenant AMI. Empirical fetch_secrets/ok timing
+    # across today's canaries: 51s → 82s → 143s → 625s. apt-mirror tail
+    # latency drives the boot-to-fetch_secrets phase from ~1min to >10min.
+    # A 12min budget leaves only ~2min for the workspace (which needs
+    # ~3.5min for claude-code cold boot) on slow-apt days, blowing the
+    # budget. 20min absorbs the worst tenant tail so the workspace probe
+    # gets the full ~7min it needs even on a slow apt day. Real fix:
+    # pre-bake caddy + ssm-agent into the tenant AMI (controlplane#TBD).
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+    env:
+      # claude-code default: cold-start ~5 min (comparable to langgraph),
+      # but uses MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed via the template's third-party-
+      # Anthropic-compat path (workspace-configs-templates/claude-code-
+      # default/config.yaml:64-69). MiniMax is ~5-10x cheaper than
+      # gpt-4.1-mini per token AND avoids the recurring OpenAI quota-
+      # exhaustion class that took the canary down 2026-05-03 (#265).
+      # Operators can pick langgraph / hermes via workflow_dispatch
+      # when they specifically need to exercise the OpenAI or SDK-
+      # native paths.
+      E2E_RUNTIME: ${{ github.event.inputs.runtime || 'claude-code' }}
+      # Pin the canary to a specific MiniMax model rather than relying
+      # on the per-runtime default ("sonnet" → routes to direct
+      # Anthropic, defeats the cost saving). Operators can override
+      # via workflow_dispatch by setting a different E2E_MODEL_SLUG
+      # input if they need to exercise a specific model. M2.7-highspeed
+      # is "Token Plan only" but cheap-per-token and fast.
+      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: ${{ github.event.inputs.model_slug || 'MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed' }}
+      # Bound to 10 min so a stuck provision fails the run instead of
+      # holding up the next cron firing. 15-min default in the script
+      # is for the on-PR full lifecycle where we have more headroom.
+      E2E_PROVISION_TIMEOUT_SECS: '600'
+      # Slug suffix — namespaced "synth-" so these runs are
+      # distinguishable from PR-driven runs in CP admin.
+      E2E_RUN_ID: synth-${{ github.run_id }}
+      # Forced false for cron; respected for manual dispatch
+      E2E_KEEP_ORG: ${{ github.event.inputs.keep_org == 'true' && '1' || '' }}
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: ${{ vars.STAGING_CP_URL || 'https://staging-api.moleculesai.app' }}
+      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
+      # MiniMax key is the canary's PRIMARY auth path. claude-code
+      # template's `minimax` provider routes ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to
+      # api.minimax.io/anthropic and reads MINIMAX_API_KEY at boot.
+      # tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh branches SECRETS_JSON on
+      # which key is present — MiniMax wins when set.
+      E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY }}
+      # Direct-Anthropic alternative for operators who don't want to
+      # set up a MiniMax account (priority below MiniMax — first
+      # non-empty wins in test_staging_full_saas.sh's secrets-injection
+      # block). See #2578 PR comment for the rationale.
+      E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
+      # OpenAI fallback — kept wired so operators can dispatch with
+      # E2E_RUNTIME=langgraph or =hermes and still have a working
+      # canary path. The script picks the right blob shape based on
+      # which key is non-empty.
+      E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify required secrets present
+        run: |
+          # Hard-fail on missing secret REGARDLESS of trigger. Previously
+          # this step soft-skipped on workflow_dispatch via `exit 0`, but
+          # `exit 0` only ends the STEP — subsequent steps still ran with
+          # the empty secret, the synth script fell through to the wrong
+          # SECRETS_JSON branch, and the canary failed 5 min later with a
+          # confusing "Agent error (Exception)" instead of the clean
+          # "secret missing" message at the top. Caught 2026-05-04 by
+          # dispatched run 25296530706: claude-code + missing MINIMAX
+          # silently used OpenAI keys but kept model=MiniMax-M2.7, then
+          # the workspace 401'd against MiniMax once it tried to call.
+          # Fix: exit 1 in both cron and dispatch paths. Operators who
+          # want to verify a YAML change without setting up the secret
+          # can read the verify-secrets step's stderr — the failure is
+          # itself the verification signal.
+          if [ -z "${MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret missing — synth E2E cannot run"
+            echo "::error::Set it at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions; pull from staging-CP's CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN env in Railway."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # LLM-key requirement is per-runtime: claude-code accepts
+          # EITHER MiniMax OR direct-Anthropic (whichever is set first),
+          # langgraph + hermes use OpenAI (MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY).
+          case "${E2E_RUNTIME}" in
+            claude-code)
+              if [ -n "${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value="${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY}"
+              elif [ -n "${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value="${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}"
+              else
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY or MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value=""
+              fi
+              ;;
+            langgraph|hermes)
+              required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY"
+              required_secret_value="${E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY:-}"
+              ;;
+            *)
+              echo "::warning::Unknown E2E_RUNTIME='${E2E_RUNTIME}' — skipping LLM-key check"
+              required_secret_name=""
+              required_secret_value="present"
+              ;;
+          esac
+          if [ -n "$required_secret_name" ] && [ -z "$required_secret_value" ]; then
+            echo "::error::${required_secret_name} secret missing — runtime=${E2E_RUNTIME} cannot authenticate against its LLM provider"
+            echo "::error::Set it at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, OR dispatch with a different runtime"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Install required tools
+        run: |
+          # The script depends on jq + curl (already on ubuntu-latest)
+          # and python3 (likewise). Verify they're all present so we
+          # fail fast on a runner image regression rather than mid-script.
+          for cmd in jq curl python3; do
+            command -v "$cmd" >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+              echo "::error::required tool '$cmd' not on PATH — runner image regression?"
+              exit 1
+            }
+          done
+
+      - name: Run synthetic E2E
+        # The script handles its own teardown via EXIT trap; even on
+        # failure (timeout, assertion), the org is deprovisioned and
+        # leaks are reported. Exit code propagates from the script.
+        run: |
+          bash tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh
+
+      - name: Failure summary
+        # Runs only on failure. Adds a job summary so the workflow run
+        # page shows a quick "what happened" instead of forcing readers
+        # to scroll through script output.
+        if: failure()
+        run: |
+          {
+            echo "## Continuous synth E2E failed"
+            echo ""
+            echo "**Run ID:** ${{ github.run_id }}"
+            echo "**Trigger:** ${{ github.event_name }}"
+            echo "**Runtime:** ${E2E_RUNTIME}"
+            echo "**Slug:** synth-${{ github.run_id }}"
+            echo ""
+            echo "### What this means"
+            echo ""
+            echo "Staging just regressed on a path that previously worked. Likely classes:"
+            echo "- Schema mismatch between sender and receiver (#2345 class)"
+            echo "- Deployment-pipeline gap (RFC #2312 / staging-tenant-image-stale class)"
+            echo "- Vendor outage (Cloudflare, Railway, AWS, GHCR)"
+            echo "- Staging-CP env var rotation"
+            echo ""
+            echo "### Next steps"
+            echo ""
+            echo "1. Check the script output above for the assertion that failed"
+            echo "2. If it's a vendor outage, no action needed — next firing in ~20 min"
+            echo "3. If it's a code regression, find the causing PR via \`git log\` against last green run and revert/fix"
+            echo "4. Keep an eye on the next 1-2 firings — flake vs persistent fail differs in priority"
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"

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+name: E2E API Smoke Test
+# Extracted from ci.yml so workflow-level concurrency can protect this job
+# from run-level cancellation (issue #458).
+#
+# Trigger model (revised 2026-04-29):
+#
+# Always FIRES on push/pull_request to staging+main. Real work is gated
+# per-step on `needs.detect-changes.outputs.api` — when paths under
+# `workspace-server/`, `tests/e2e/`, or this workflow file haven't
+# changed, the no-op step alone runs and emits SUCCESS for the
+# `E2E API Smoke Test` check, satisfying branch protection without
+# spending CI cycles. See the in-job comment on the `e2e-api` job for
+# why this is one job (not two-jobs-sharing-name) and the 2026-04-29
+# PR #2264 incident that drove the consolidation.
+#
+# Parallel-safety (Class B Hongming-owned CICD red sweep, 2026-05-08)
+# -------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Same substrate hazard as PR #98 (handlers-postgres-integration). Our
+# Gitea act_runner runs with `container.network: host` (operator host
+# `/opt/molecule/runners/config.yaml`), which means:
+#
+#   * Two concurrent runs both try to bind their `-p 15432:5432` /
+#     `-p 16379:6379` host ports — the second postgres/redis FATALs
+#     with `Address in use` and `docker run` returns exit 125 with
+#     `Conflict. The container name "/molecule-ci-postgres" is already
+#     in use by container ...`. Verified in run a7/2727 on 2026-05-07.
+#   * The fixed container names `molecule-ci-postgres` / `-redis` (the
+#     pre-fix shape) collide on name AS WELL AS port. The cleanup-with-
+#     `docker rm -f` at the start of the second job KILLS the first
+#     job's still-running postgres/redis.
+#
+# Fix shape (mirrors PR #98's bridge-net pattern, adapted because
+# platform-server is a Go binary on the host, not a containerised
+# step):
+#
+#   1. Unique container names per run:
+#         pg-e2e-api-${RUN_ID}-${RUN_ATTEMPT}
+#         redis-e2e-api-${RUN_ID}-${RUN_ATTEMPT}
+#      `${RUN_ID}-${RUN_ATTEMPT}` is unique even across reruns of the
+#      same run_id.
+#   2. Ephemeral host port per run (`-p 0:5432`), then read the actual
+#      bound port via `docker port` and export DATABASE_URL/REDIS_URL
+#      pointing at it. No fixed host-port → no port collision.
+#   3. `127.0.0.1` (NOT `localhost`) in URLs — IPv6 first-resolve was
+#      the original flake fixed in #92 and the script's still IPv6-
+#      enabled.
+#   4. `if: always()` cleanup so containers don't leak when test steps
+#      fail.
+#
+# Issue #94 items #2 + #3 (also fixed here):
+#   * Pre-pull `alpine:latest` so the platform-server's provisioner
+#     (`internal/handlers/container_files.go`) can stand up its
+#     ephemeral token-write helper without a daemon.io round-trip.
+#   * Create `molecule-core-net` bridge network if missing so the
+#     provisioner's container.HostConfig {NetworkMode: ...} attach
+#     succeeds.
+# Item #1 (timeouts) — evidence on recent runs (77/3191, ae/4270, 0e/
+# 2318) shows Postgres ready in 3s, Redis in 1s, Platform in 1s when
+# they DO come up. Timeouts are not the bottleneck; not bumped.
+#
+# Item explicitly NOT fixed here: failing test `Status back online`
+# fails because the platform's langgraph workspace template image
+# (ghcr.io/molecule-ai/workspace-template-langgraph:latest) returns
+# 403 Forbidden post-2026-05-06 GitHub org suspension. That is a
+# template-registry resolution issue (ADR-002 / local-build mode) and
+# belongs in a separate change that touches workspace-server, not
+# this workflow file.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  # Per-SHA grouping (changed 2026-04-28 from per-ref). Per-ref had the
+  # same auto-promote-staging brittleness as e2e-staging-canvas — back-
+  # to-back staging pushes share refs/heads/staging, so the older push's
+  # queued run gets cancelled when a newer push lands. Auto-promote-
+  # staging then sees `completed/cancelled` for the older SHA and stays
+  # put; the newer SHA's gates may eventually save the day, but if the
+  # newer push gets cancelled too, we deadlock.
+  #
+  # See e2e-staging-canvas.yml's identical concurrency block for the full
+  # rationale and the 2026-04-28 incident reference.
+  group: e2e-api-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  detect-changes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      api: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.api }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@fbd0ab8f3e69293af611ebaee6363fc25e6d187d # v4.0.1
+        id: filter
+        with:
+          filters: |
+            api:
+              - 'workspace-server/**'
+              - 'tests/e2e/**'
+              - '.github/workflows/e2e-api.yml'
+      - id: decide
+        # Always run real work for manual dispatch — no diff context to
+        # filter against and ops dispatching this expects the suite to
+        # actually exercise the platform.
+        run: |
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            echo "api=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "api=${{ steps.filter.outputs.api }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+  # ONE job (no job-level `if:`) that always runs and reports under the
+  # required-check name `E2E API Smoke Test`. Real work is gated per-step
+  # on `needs.detect-changes.outputs.api`. Reason: GitHub registers a
+  # check run for every job that matches `name:`, and a job-level
+  # `if: false` produces a SKIPPED check run. Branch protection treats
+  # all check runs with a matching context name on the latest commit as a
+  # SET — any SKIPPED in the set fails the required-check eval, even with
+  # SUCCESS siblings. Verified 2026-04-29 on PR #2264 (staging→main):
+  # 4 check runs (2 SKIPPED + 2 SUCCESS) at the head SHA blocked
+  # promotion despite all real work succeeding. Collapsing to a single
+  # always-running job with conditional steps emits exactly one SUCCESS
+  # check run regardless of paths filter — branch-protection-clean.
+  e2e-api:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    name: E2E API Smoke Test
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    env:
+      # Unique per-run container names so concurrent runs on the host-
+      # network act_runner don't collide on name OR port.
+      # `${RUN_ID}-${RUN_ATTEMPT}` stays unique across reruns of the
+      # same run_id. PORT is set later (after docker port lookup) since
+      # we let Docker assign an ephemeral host port.
+      PG_CONTAINER: pg-e2e-api-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+      REDIS_CONTAINER: redis-e2e-api-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+      PORT: "8080"
+    steps:
+      - name: No-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api != 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "No workspace-server / tests/e2e / workflow changes — E2E API gate satisfied without running tests."
+          echo "::notice::E2E API Smoke Test no-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)."
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-go@40f1582b2485089dde7abd97c1529aa768e1baff # v5
+        with:
+          go-version: 'stable'
+          cache: true
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace-server/go.sum
+      - name: Pre-pull alpine + ensure provisioner network (Issue #94 items #2 + #3)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          # Provisioner uses alpine:latest for ephemeral token-write
+          # containers (workspace-server/internal/handlers/container_files.go).
+          # Pre-pull so the first provision in test_api.sh doesn't race
+          # the daemon's pull cache. Idempotent — `docker pull` is a no-op
+          # when the image is already present.
+          docker pull alpine:latest >/dev/null
+          # Provisioner attaches workspace containers to
+          # molecule-core-net (workspace-server/internal/provisioner/
+          # provisioner.go::DefaultNetwork). The bridge already exists on
+          # the operator host's docker daemon — `network create` is
+          # idempotent via `|| true`.
+          docker network create molecule-core-net >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+          echo "alpine:latest pre-pulled; molecule-core-net ensured."
+      - name: Start Postgres (docker)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          # Defensive cleanup — only matches THIS run's container name,
+          # so it cannot kill a sibling run's postgres. (Pre-fix the
+          # name was static and this rm hit other runs' containers.)
+          docker rm -f "$PG_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
+          # `-p 0:5432` requests an ephemeral host port; we read it back
+          # below and export DATABASE_URL.
+          docker run -d --name "$PG_CONTAINER" \
+            -e POSTGRES_USER=dev -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=dev -e POSTGRES_DB=molecule \
+            -p 0:5432 postgres:16 >/dev/null
+          # Resolve the host-side port assignment. `docker port` prints
+          # `0.0.0.0:NNNN` (and on host-net runners may also print an
+          # IPv6 line — take the first IPv4 line).
+          PG_PORT=$(docker port "$PG_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp | awk -F: '/^0\.0\.0\.0:/ {print $2; exit}')
+          if [ -z "$PG_PORT" ]; then
+            # Fallback: any first line. Some Docker versions print only
+            # one line.
+            PG_PORT=$(docker port "$PG_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $NF}')
+          fi
+          if [ -z "$PG_PORT" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Could not resolve host port for $PG_CONTAINER"
+            docker port "$PG_CONTAINER" 5432/tcp || true
+            docker logs "$PG_CONTAINER" || true
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          # 127.0.0.1 (NOT localhost) — IPv6 first-resolve flake (#92).
+          echo "PG_PORT=${PG_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "DATABASE_URL=postgres://dev:dev@127.0.0.1:${PG_PORT}/molecule?sslmode=disable" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "Postgres host port: ${PG_PORT}"
+          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+            if docker exec "$PG_CONTAINER" pg_isready -U dev >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+              echo "Postgres ready after ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Postgres did not become ready in 30s"
+          docker logs "$PG_CONTAINER" || true
+          exit 1
+      - name: Start Redis (docker)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          docker rm -f "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
+          docker run -d --name "$REDIS_CONTAINER" -p 0:6379 redis:7 >/dev/null
+          REDIS_PORT=$(docker port "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 6379/tcp | awk -F: '/^0\.0\.0\.0:/ {print $2; exit}')
+          if [ -z "$REDIS_PORT" ]; then
+            REDIS_PORT=$(docker port "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 6379/tcp | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $NF}')
+          fi
+          if [ -z "$REDIS_PORT" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Could not resolve host port for $REDIS_CONTAINER"
+            docker port "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 6379/tcp || true
+            docker logs "$REDIS_CONTAINER" || true
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "REDIS_PORT=${REDIS_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "REDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:${REDIS_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "Redis host port: ${REDIS_PORT}"
+          for i in $(seq 1 15); do
+            if docker exec "$REDIS_CONTAINER" redis-cli ping 2>/dev/null | grep -q PONG; then
+              echo "Redis ready after ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Redis did not become ready in 15s"
+          docker logs "$REDIS_CONTAINER" || true
+          exit 1
+      - name: Build platform
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        working-directory: workspace-server
+        run: go build -o platform-server ./cmd/server
+      - name: Start platform (background)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        working-directory: workspace-server
+        run: |
+          # DATABASE_URL + REDIS_URL exported by the start-postgres /
+          # start-redis steps point at this run's per-run host ports.
+          ./platform-server > platform.log 2>&1 &
+          echo $! > platform.pid
+      - name: Wait for /health
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+            if curl -sf http://127.0.0.1:8080/health > /dev/null; then
+              echo "Platform up after ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Platform did not become healthy in 30s"
+          cat workspace-server/platform.log || true
+          exit 1
+      - name: Assert migrations applied
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          tables=$(docker exec "$PG_CONTAINER" psql -U dev -d molecule -tAc "SELECT count(*) FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema='public' AND table_name='workspaces'")
+          if [ "$tables" != "1" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Migrations did not apply"
+            cat workspace-server/platform.log || true
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Migrations OK"
+      - name: Run E2E API tests
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_api.sh
+      - name: Run notify-with-attachments E2E
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_notify_attachments_e2e.sh
+      - name: Run priority-runtimes E2E (claude-code + hermes — skips when keys absent)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_priority_runtimes_e2e.sh
+      - name: Run poll-mode + since_id cursor E2E (#2339)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_poll_mode_e2e.sh
+      - name: Run poll-mode chat upload E2E (RFC #2891)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_poll_mode_chat_upload_e2e.sh
+      - name: Dump platform log on failure
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: cat workspace-server/platform.log || true
+      - name: Stop platform
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          if [ -f workspace-server/platform.pid ]; then
+            kill "$(cat workspace-server/platform.pid)" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+      - name: Stop service containers
+        # always() so containers don't leak when test steps fail. The
+        # cleanup is best-effort: if the container is already gone
+        # (e.g. concurrent rerun race), don't fail the job.
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.api == 'true'
+        run: |
+          docker rm -f "$PG_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
+          docker rm -f "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true

.github/workflows/e2e-staging-canvas.yml

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+name: E2E Staging Canvas (Playwright)
+
+# Playwright test suite that provisions a fresh staging org per run and
+# verifies every workspace-panel tab renders without crashing. Complements
+# e2e-staging-saas.yml (which tests the API shape) by exercising the
+# actual browser + canvas bundle against live staging.
+#
+# Triggers: push to main/staging or PR touching canvas sources + this workflow,
+# manual dispatch, and weekly cron to catch browser/runtime drift even
+# when canvas is quiet.
+# Added staging to push/pull_request branches so the auto-promote gate
+# check (--event push --branch staging) can see a completed run for this
+# workflow — mirrors what PR #1891 does for e2e-api.yml.
+
+on:
+  # Trigger model (revised 2026-04-29):
+  #
+  # Always fires on push/pull_request; real work is gated per-step on
+  # `needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas`. When canvas/ paths haven't
+  # changed, the no-op step alone runs and emits SUCCESS for the
+  # `Canvas tabs E2E` check, satisfying branch protection without
+  # spending CI cycles. See e2e-api.yml for the rationale on why this
+  # is a single job rather than two-jobs-sharing-name.
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  schedule:
+    # Weekly on Sunday 08:00 UTC — catches Chrome / Playwright / Next.js
+    # release-note-shaped regressions that don't ride in with a PR.
+    - cron: '0 8 * * 0'
+
+concurrency:
+  # Per-SHA grouping (changed 2026-04-28 from a single global group). The
+  # global group made auto-promote-staging brittle: when a staging push
+  # queued behind an in-flight run and a third entrant (a PR run, a
+  # follow-on push) entered the group, the staging push got cancelled —
+  # leaving auto-promote-staging looking at `completed/cancelled` for a
+  # required gate and refusing to advance main. Observed 2026-04-28
+  # 23:51-23:53 on staging tip 3f99fede.
+  #
+  # The original intent of the global group was to throttle parallel
+  # E2E provisions (each spins a fresh EC2). At our scale that throttle
+  # isn't worth the correctness cost — fresh-org-per-run isolates the
+  # state, and the cost of two parallel runs (~$0.001/min × 10min × 2)
+  # is rounding error vs. the cost of a stuck pipeline.
+  #
+  # Per-SHA still dedupes accidental double-triggers for the SAME SHA.
+  # It does NOT cancel obsolete-PR-version runs on force-push; that
+  # wasted CI is acceptable given the alternative is losing staging-tip
+  # data that auto-promote-staging needs.
+  group: e2e-staging-canvas-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  detect-changes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      canvas: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.canvas }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@fbd0ab8f3e69293af611ebaee6363fc25e6d187d # v4.0.1
+        id: filter
+        with:
+          filters: |
+            canvas:
+              - 'canvas/**'
+              - '.github/workflows/e2e-staging-canvas.yml'
+      - id: decide
+        # Always run real tests for manual dispatch and the weekly cron —
+        # both exist precisely to exercise the suite, regardless of diff.
+        run: |
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ] || [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "schedule" ]; then
+            echo "canvas=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "canvas=${{ steps.filter.outputs.canvas }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+  # ONE job (no job-level `if:`) that always runs and reports under the
+  # required-check name `Canvas tabs E2E`. Real work is gated per-step on
+  # `needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas`. See e2e-api.yml for the full
+  # rationale — same path-filter check-name parity issue blocked PR #2264
+  # (staging→main) on 2026-04-29 because branch protection treats matching-
+  # name check runs as a SET, and any SKIPPED member fails the eval.
+  playwright:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    name: Canvas tabs E2E
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 40
+
+    env:
+      CANVAS_E2E_STAGING: '1'
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: canvas
+
+    steps:
+      - name: No-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas != 'true'
+        working-directory: .
+        run: |
+          echo "No canvas / workflow changes — E2E Staging Canvas gate satisfied without running tests."
+          echo "::notice::E2E Staging Canvas no-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)."
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify admin token present
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Missing MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+
+      - name: Set up Node
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-node@48b55a011bda9f5d6aeb4c2d9c7362e8dae4041e # v6.4.0
+        with:
+          node-version: '20'
+          cache: 'npm'
+          cache-dependency-path: canvas/package-lock.json
+
+      - name: Install canvas deps
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Install Playwright browsers
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        timeout-minutes: 10
+        run: npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
+
+      - name: Run staging canvas E2E
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        run: npx playwright test --config=playwright.staging.config.ts
+
+      - name: Upload Playwright report on failure
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        # Pinned to v3 for Gitea act_runner v0.6 compatibility — v4+ uses
+        # the GHES 3.10+ artifact protocol that Gitea 1.22.x does NOT
+        # implement (see ci.yml upload step for the canonical error
+        # cite). Drop this pin when Gitea ships the v4 protocol.
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@c6a366c94c3e0affe28c06c8df20a878f24da3cf # v3.2.2
+        with:
+          name: playwright-report-staging
+          path: canvas/playwright-report-staging/
+          retention-days: 14
+
+      - name: Upload screenshots on failure
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        # Pinned to v3 for Gitea act_runner v0.6 compatibility (see above).
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@c6a366c94c3e0affe28c06c8df20a878f24da3cf # v3.2.2
+        with:
+          name: playwright-screenshots
+          path: canvas/test-results/
+          retention-days: 14
+
+      # Safety-net teardown — fires only when Playwright's globalTeardown
+      # didn't (worker crash, runner cancel). Reads the slug from
+      # canvas/.playwright-staging-state.json (written by staging-setup
+      # as its first action, before any CP call) and deletes only that
+      # slug.
+      #
+      # Earlier versions of this step pattern-swept `e2e-canvas-<today>-*`
+      # orgs to compensate for setup-crash-before-state-file-write. That
+      # over-aggressive cleanup raced concurrent canvas-E2E runs and
+      # poisoned each other's tenants — observed 2026-04-30 when three
+      # real-test runs killed each other mid-test, surfacing as
+      # `getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND` once CP had cleaned up the just-deleted
+      # DNS record. Pattern-sweep removed; setup now writes the state
+      # file before any CP work, so the slug is always recoverable.
+      - name: Teardown safety net
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.canvas == 'true'
+        env:
+          ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          STATE_FILE=".playwright-staging-state.json"
+          if [ ! -f "$STATE_FILE" ]; then
+            echo "::notice::No state file at canvas/$STATE_FILE — Playwright globalTeardown handled it (or setup never ran)."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          slug=$(python3 -c "import json; print(json.load(open('$STATE_FILE')).get('slug',''))")
+          if [ -z "$slug" ]; then
+            echo "::warning::State file present but slug missing; nothing to clean up."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          echo "Deleting orphan tenant: $slug"
+          # Verify HTTP 2xx instead of `>/dev/null || true` swallowing
+          # failures. A 5xx or timeout previously looked identical to
+          # success, leaving the tenant alive for up to ~45 min until
+          # sweep-stale-e2e-orgs caught it. Surface failures as
+          # workflow warnings naming the slug. Don't `exit 1` — a single
+          # cleanup miss shouldn't fail-flag the canvas test when the
+          # actual smoke check passed; the sweeper is the safety net.
+          # See molecule-controlplane#420.
+          # Tempfile-routed -w + set +e/-e prevents curl-exit-code
+          # pollution of the captured status (lint-curl-status-capture.yml).
+          set +e
+          curl -sS -o /tmp/canvas-cleanup.out -w "%{http_code}" \
+            -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+            -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/canvas-cleanup.code
+          set -e
+          code=$(cat /tmp/canvas-cleanup.code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+          if [ "$code" = "200" ] || [ "$code" = "204" ]; then
+            echo "[teardown] deleted $slug (HTTP $code)"
+          else
+            echo "::warning::canvas teardown for $slug returned HTTP $code — sweep-stale-e2e-orgs will catch it within ~45 min. Body: $(head -c 300 /tmp/canvas-cleanup.out 2>/dev/null)"
+          fi
+          exit 0

.github/workflows/e2e-staging-external.yml

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+name: E2E Staging External Runtime
+
+# Regression for the four/five workspaces.status=awaiting_agent transitions
+# that silently failed in production for five days before migration 046
+# extended the workspace_status enum (see
+# workspace-server/migrations/046_workspace_status_awaiting_agent.up.sql).
+#
+# Why this is its own workflow (not folded into e2e-staging-saas.yml):
+#   - The full-saas harness defaults to runtime=hermes, never exercises
+#     external-runtime. Adding an `external` parameter to that script
+#     would force every push to staging through both lifecycles in
+#     series, doubling the EC2 cold-start budget.
+#   - The external lifecycle has unique timing (REMOTE_LIVENESS_STALE_AFTER
+#     window, 90s default + sweep interval), which we wait through
+#     deliberately. Folding it into hermes would make the long path
+#     even longer.
+#   - It can run in parallel with the hermes E2E since both create
+#     fresh tenant orgs with distinct slug prefixes (`e2e-ext-...` vs
+#     `e2e-...`).
+#
+# Triggers:
+#   - Push to staging when any source affecting external runtime,
+#     hibernation, or the migration set changes.
+#   - PR review for the same set.
+#   - Manual workflow_dispatch.
+#   - Daily cron at 07:30 UTC (catches drift on quiet days; staggered
+#     30 min after e2e-staging-saas.yml's 07:00 UTC cron).
+#
+# Concurrency: serialized so two staging pushes don't fight for the
+# same EC2 quota window. cancel-in-progress=false so a half-rolled
+# tenant always finishes its teardown.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/registry.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_restart.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/registry/healthsweep.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/registry/liveness.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/migrations/**'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/db/workspace_status_enum_drift_test.go'
+      - 'tests/e2e/test_staging_external_runtime.sh'
+      - '.github/workflows/e2e-staging-external.yml'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/registry.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_restart.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/registry/healthsweep.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/registry/liveness.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/migrations/**'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/db/workspace_status_enum_drift_test.go'
+      - 'tests/e2e/test_staging_external_runtime.sh'
+      - '.github/workflows/e2e-staging-external.yml'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      keep_org:
+        description: "Skip teardown for debugging (only via manual dispatch)"
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+      stale_wait_secs:
+        description: "Seconds to wait for the heartbeat-staleness sweep (default 180 = 90s window + 90s buffer)"
+        required: false
+        default: "180"
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '30 7 * * *'
+
+concurrency:
+  group: e2e-staging-external
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  e2e-staging-external:
+    name: E2E Staging External Runtime
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 25
+
+    env:
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      E2E_RUN_ID: "${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}"
+      E2E_KEEP_ORG: ${{ github.event.inputs.keep_org && '1' || '0' }}
+      E2E_STALE_WAIT_SECS: ${{ github.event.inputs.stale_wait_secs || '180' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify admin token present
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
+            # Schedule + push triggers must hard-fail when the token is
+            # missing — silent skip would mask infra rot. Manual dispatch
+            # gets the same hard-fail; an operator running this on a fork
+            # without secrets configured needs to know up-front.
+            echo "::error::MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN secret not set (Railway staging CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN)"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+          echo "Admin token present ✓"
+
+      - name: CP staging health preflight
+        run: |
+          code=$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 10 "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/health")
+          if [ "$code" != "200" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Staging CP unhealthy (got HTTP $code). Skipping — not a workspace bug."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Staging CP healthy ✓"
+
+      - name: Run external-runtime E2E
+        id: e2e
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_staging_external_runtime.sh
+
+      # Mirror the e2e-staging-saas.yml safety net: if the runner is
+      # cancelled (e.g. concurrent staging push), the test script's
+      # EXIT trap may not fire, so we sweep e2e-ext-* slugs scoped to
+      # *this* run id.
+      - name: Teardown safety net (runs on cancel/failure)
+        if: always()
+        env:
+          ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          orgs=$(curl -sS "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orgs" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" 2>/dev/null \
+            | python3 -c "
+          import json, sys, os, datetime
+          run_id = os.environ.get('GITHUB_RUN_ID', '')
+          d = json.load(sys.stdin)
+          # Scope STRICTLY to this run id (e2e-ext-YYYYMMDD-<runid>-...)
+          # so concurrent runs and unrelated dev probes are not touched.
+          # Sweep today AND yesterday so a midnight-crossing run still
+          # cleans up its own slug.
+          today = datetime.date.today()
+          yesterday = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
+          dates = (today.strftime('%Y%m%d'), yesterday.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
+          if not run_id:
+              # Without a run id we cannot scope safely; bail rather
+              # than risk deleting unrelated tenants.
+              sys.exit(0)
+          prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-ext-{d}-{run_id}-' for d in dates)
+          for o in d.get('orgs', []):
+              s = o.get('slug', '')
+              if s.startswith(prefixes) and o.get('status') != 'purged':
+                  print(s)
+          " 2>/dev/null)
+          if [ -n "$orgs" ]; then
+            echo "Safety-net sweep: deleting leftover orgs:"
+            echo "$orgs"
+            # Per-slug verified DELETE — see molecule-controlplane#420.
+            # `>/dev/null 2>&1` previously hid every failure; surface
+            # non-2xx as workflow warnings so the run page names what
+            # leaked. Sweeper catches the rest within ~45 min.
+            leaks=()
+            for slug in $orgs; do
+              # Tempfile-routed -w + set +e/-e prevents curl-exit-code
+              # pollution of the captured status (lint-curl-status-capture.yml).
+              set +e
+              curl -sS -o /tmp/external-cleanup.out -w "%{http_code}" \
+                -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
+                -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+                -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+                -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/external-cleanup.code
+              set -e
+              code=$(cat /tmp/external-cleanup.code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+              if [ "$code" = "200" ] || [ "$code" = "204" ]; then
+                echo "[teardown] deleted $slug (HTTP $code)"
+              else
+                echo "::warning::external teardown for $slug returned HTTP $code — sweep-stale-e2e-orgs will catch it within ~45 min. Body: $(head -c 300 /tmp/external-cleanup.out 2>/dev/null)"
+                leaks+=("$slug")
+              fi
+            done
+            if [ ${#leaks[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+              echo "::warning::external teardown left ${#leaks[@]} leak(s): ${leaks[*]}"
+            fi
+          else
+            echo "Safety-net sweep: no leftover orgs to clean."
+          fi

.github/workflows/e2e-staging-saas.yml

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+name: E2E Staging SaaS (full lifecycle)
+
+# Dedicated workflow that provisions a fresh staging org per run, exercises
+# the full workspace lifecycle (register → heartbeat → A2A → delegation →
+# HMA memory → activity → peers), then tears down and asserts leak-free.
+#
+# Why a separate workflow (not folded into ci.yml):
+#   - The run takes ~25-35 min (EC2 boot + cloudflared DNS + provision sweeps +
+#     agent bootstrap), way too slow for every PR.
+#   - Needs its own concurrency group so two pushes don't fight over the
+#     same staging org slug prefix.
+#   - Has its own required secrets (session cookie, admin token) that most
+#     PRs don't need to read.
+#
+# Triggers:
+#   - Push to main (regression guard)
+#   - workflow_dispatch (manual re-run from UI)
+#   - Nightly cron (catches drift even when no pushes land)
+#   - Changes to any provisioning-critical file under PR review (opt-in
+#     via the same paths watcher that e2e-api.yml uses)
+
+on:
+  # Trunk-based (Phase 3 of internal#81): main is the only branch.
+  # Previously this fired on staging push too because staging was a
+  # superset of main and ran the gate ahead of auto-promote; with no
+  # staging branch, main is where E2E gates the deploy.
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/registry.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/a2a_proxy.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/middleware/**'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/provisioner/**'
+      - 'tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh'
+      - '.github/workflows/e2e-staging-saas.yml'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/registry.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/workspace_provision.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/a2a_proxy.go'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/middleware/**'
+      - 'workspace-server/internal/provisioner/**'
+      - 'tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh'
+      - '.github/workflows/e2e-staging-saas.yml'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      runtime:
+        description: "Runtime to test (claude-code [default, MiniMax] | hermes [OpenAI] | langgraph [OpenAI])"
+        required: false
+        default: "claude-code"
+      keep_org:
+        description: "Skip teardown for debugging (only use via manual dispatch!)"
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+  schedule:
+    # 07:00 UTC every day — catches AMI drift, WorkOS cert rotation,
+    # Cloudflare API regressions, etc. even on quiet days.
+    - cron: '0 7 * * *'
+
+# Serialize: staging has a finite per-hour org creation quota. Two pushes
+# landing in quick succession should queue, not race. `cancel-in-progress:
+# false` mirrors e2e-api.yml — GitHub would otherwise cancel the running
+# teardown step and leave orphan EC2s.
+concurrency:
+  group: e2e-staging-saas
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  e2e-staging-saas:
+    name: E2E Staging SaaS
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 45
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+
+    env:
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+      # Single admin-bearer secret drives provision + tenant-token
+      # retrieval + teardown. Configure in
+      # Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions → Repository secrets.
+      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      # MiniMax is the PRIMARY LLM auth path post-2026-05-04. Switched
+      # from hermes+OpenAI default after #2578 (the staging OpenAI key
+      # account went over quota and stayed dead for 36+ hours, taking
+      # the full-lifecycle E2E red on every provisioning-critical push).
+      # claude-code template's `minimax` provider routes
+      # ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL to api.minimax.io/anthropic and reads
+      # MINIMAX_API_KEY at boot — separate billing account so an
+      # OpenAI quota collapse no longer wedges the gate. Mirrors the
+      # canary-staging.yml + continuous-synth-e2e.yml migrations.
+      E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY }}
+      # Direct-Anthropic alternative for operators who don't want to
+      # set up a MiniMax account (priority below MiniMax — first
+      # non-empty wins in test_staging_full_saas.sh's secrets-injection
+      # block). See #2578 PR comment for the rationale.
+      E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}
+      # OpenAI fallback — kept wired so an operator-dispatched run with
+      # E2E_RUNTIME=hermes or =langgraph via workflow_dispatch can still
+      # exercise the OpenAI path.
+      E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY }}
+      E2E_RUNTIME: ${{ github.event.inputs.runtime || 'claude-code' }}
+      # Pin the model when running on the default claude-code path —
+      # the per-runtime default ("sonnet") routes to direct Anthropic
+      # and defeats the cost saving. Operators can override via the
+      # workflow_dispatch flow (no input wired here yet — runtime
+      # override is enough for ad-hoc).
+      E2E_MODEL_SLUG: ${{ github.event.inputs.runtime == 'hermes' && 'openai/gpt-4o' || github.event.inputs.runtime == 'langgraph' && 'openai:gpt-4o' || 'MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed' }}
+      E2E_RUN_ID: "${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}"
+      E2E_KEEP_ORG: ${{ github.event.inputs.keep_org && '1' || '0' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify admin token present
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN secret not set (Railway staging CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN)"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+          echo "Admin token present ✓"
+
+      - name: Verify LLM key present
+        run: |
+          # Per-runtime key check — claude-code uses MiniMax; hermes /
+          # langgraph (operator-dispatched only) use OpenAI. Hard-fail
+          # rather than soft-skip per #2578's lesson — empty key
+          # silently falls through to the wrong SECRETS_JSON branch and
+          # produces a confusing auth error 5 min later instead of the
+          # clean "secret missing" message at the top.
+          case "${E2E_RUNTIME}" in
+            claude-code)
+              # Either MiniMax OR direct-Anthropic works — first
+              # non-empty wins in the test script's secrets-injection
+              # priority chain.
+              if [ -n "${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value="${E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY}"
+              elif [ -n "${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY:-}" ]; then
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value="${E2E_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY}"
+              else
+                required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_MINIMAX_API_KEY or MOLECULE_STAGING_ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"
+                required_secret_value=""
+              fi
+              ;;
+            langgraph|hermes)
+              required_secret_name="MOLECULE_STAGING_OPENAI_KEY"
+              required_secret_value="${E2E_OPENAI_API_KEY:-}"
+              ;;
+            *)
+              echo "::warning::Unknown E2E_RUNTIME='${E2E_RUNTIME}' — skipping LLM-key check"
+              required_secret_name=""
+              required_secret_value="present"
+              ;;
+          esac
+          if [ -n "$required_secret_name" ] && [ -z "$required_secret_value" ]; then
+            echo "::error::${required_secret_name} secret not set for runtime=${E2E_RUNTIME} — workspaces will fail at boot with 'No provider API key found'"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+          echo "LLM key present ✓ (runtime=${E2E_RUNTIME}, key=${required_secret_name}, len=${#required_secret_value})"
+
+      - name: CP staging health preflight
+        run: |
+          code=$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" --max-time 10 "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/health")
+          if [ "$code" != "200" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Staging CP unhealthy (got HTTP $code). Skipping — not a workspace bug."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Staging CP healthy ✓"
+
+      - name: Run full-lifecycle E2E
+        id: e2e
+        run: bash tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh
+
+      # Belt-and-braces teardown: the test script itself installs a trap
+      # for EXIT/INT/TERM, but if the GH runner itself is cancelled (e.g.
+      # someone pushes a new commit and workflow concurrency is set to
+      # cancel), the trap may not fire. This `always()` step runs even on
+      # cancellation and attempts the delete a second time. The admin
+      # DELETE endpoint is idempotent so double-invoking is safe.
+      - name: Teardown safety net (runs on cancel/failure)
+        if: always()
+        env:
+          ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          # Best-effort: find any e2e-YYYYMMDD-* orgs matching this run and
+          # nuke them. Catches the case where the script died before
+          # exporting its slug.
+          set +e
+          orgs=$(curl -sS "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orgs" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" 2>/dev/null \
+            | python3 -c "
+          import json, sys, os, datetime
+          run_id = os.environ.get('GITHUB_RUN_ID', '')
+          d = json.load(sys.stdin)
+          # ONLY sweep slugs from *this* CI run. Previously the filter was
+          # f'e2e-{today}-' which stomped on parallel CI runs AND any manual
+          # E2E probes a dev was running against staging (incident 2026-04-21
+          # 15:02Z: this workflow's safety net deleted an unrelated manual
+          # run's tenant 1s after it hit 'running').
+          # Sweep both today AND yesterday's UTC dates so a run that crosses
+          # midnight still matches its own slug — see the 2026-04-26→27
+          # canvas-safety-net incident for the same bug class.
+          today = datetime.date.today()
+          yesterday = today - datetime.timedelta(days=1)
+          dates = (today.strftime('%Y%m%d'), yesterday.strftime('%Y%m%d'))
+          if run_id:
+              prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-{d}-{run_id}-' for d in dates)
+          else:
+              prefixes = tuple(f'e2e-{d}-' for d in dates)
+          candidates = [o['slug'] for o in d.get('orgs', [])
+                        if any(o.get('slug','').startswith(p) for p in prefixes)
+                        and o.get('instance_status') not in ('purged',)]
+          print('\n'.join(candidates))
+          " 2>/dev/null)
+          # Per-slug verified DELETE (was `>/dev/null || true` — see
+          # molecule-controlplane#420). Surface non-2xx as a workflow
+          # warning naming the leaked slug; don't exit 1 (sweeper is
+          # the safety net within ~45 min).
+          leaks=()
+          for slug in $orgs; do
+            echo "Safety-net teardown: $slug"
+            # Tempfile-routed -w + set +e/-e prevents curl-exit-code
+            # pollution of the captured status (lint-curl-status-capture.yml).
+            set +e
+            curl -sS -o /tmp/saas-cleanup.out -w "%{http_code}" \
+              -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
+              -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+              -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+              -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/saas-cleanup.code
+            set -e
+            code=$(cat /tmp/saas-cleanup.code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+            if [ "$code" = "200" ] || [ "$code" = "204" ]; then
+              echo "[teardown] deleted $slug (HTTP $code)"
+            else
+              echo "::warning::saas teardown for $slug returned HTTP $code — sweep-stale-e2e-orgs will catch it within ~45 min. Body: $(head -c 300 /tmp/saas-cleanup.out 2>/dev/null)"
+              leaks+=("$slug")
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ ${#leaks[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::saas teardown left ${#leaks[@]} leak(s): ${leaks[*]}"
+          fi
+          exit 0

.github/workflows/e2e-staging-sanity.yml

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+name: E2E Staging Sanity (leak-detection self-check)
+
+# Periodic assertion that the teardown safety nets in e2e-staging-saas
+# and canary-staging actually work. Runs the E2E harness with
+# E2E_INTENTIONAL_FAILURE=1, which poisons the tenant admin token after
+# the org is provisioned. The workspace-provision step then fails, the
+# script exits non-zero, and the EXIT trap + workflow always()-step
+# must still tear down cleanly.
+#
+# A green run means:
+#   - The script exited non-zero (intentional failure caught)
+#   - The trap fired teardown
+#   - The leak-detection poll found zero orphan orgs
+#
+# A red run means the teardown path itself is broken — act on this the
+# same way you'd act on a canary failure (the whole E2E safety net is
+# compromised until it's fixed).
+#
+# Cadence: once a week, Monday 06:00 UTC. Drift-slow, not per-PR — the
+# teardown path rarely changes, and a weekly heartbeat is enough to
+# catch silent regressions in cleanup code paths.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 6 * * 1'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  # Shares the group with canary + full so they don't collide on
+  # staging org-create quota.
+  group: e2e-staging-sanity
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  issues: write
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  sanity:
+    name: Intentional-failure teardown sanity
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 20
+
+    env:
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+      MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      E2E_MODE: canary            # lean lifecycle; we only need the org to exist
+      E2E_RUNTIME: hermes
+      E2E_RUN_ID: "sanity-${{ github.run_id }}"
+      E2E_INTENTIONAL_FAILURE: "1"
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify admin token present
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN not set"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+
+      # Inverted assertion: the run MUST fail. If it passes, the
+      # E2E_INTENTIONAL_FAILURE path is broken (token not being
+      # poisoned correctly, or the harness silently recovered).
+      - name: Run harness — expecting exit !=0
+        id: harness
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          bash tests/e2e/test_staging_full_saas.sh
+          rc=$?
+          echo "harness_rc=$rc" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # The only acceptable outcomes:
+          #   1 — harness failed mid-run, teardown ran, leak-check passed
+          #   (exit 4 means teardown left a leak — that's the real bug
+          #    this sanity check exists to catch)
+          if [ "$rc" = "1" ]; then
+            echo "✓ Harness failed as expected (rc=1); teardown trap ran, leak-check passed"
+            exit 0
+          elif [ "$rc" = "0" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Harness succeeded under E2E_INTENTIONAL_FAILURE=1 — the poisoning path is broken"
+            exit 1
+          elif [ "$rc" = "4" ]; then
+            echo "::error::LEAK DETECTED (rc=4) — teardown failed to clean up the org. Safety net broken."
+            exit 4
+          else
+            echo "::error::Unexpected rc=$rc — neither clean-failure nor leak. Investigate harness."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+      - name: Open issue if safety net is broken
+        if: failure()
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const title = "🚨 E2E teardown safety net broken";
+            const runURL = `https://github.com/${context.repo.owner}/${context.repo.repo}/actions/runs/${context.runId}`;
+            const body =
+              `The weekly sanity run (E2E_INTENTIONAL_FAILURE=1) did not exit ` +
+              `as expected. This means one of:\n` +
+              `  - poisoning didn't actually cause failure (test harness regression), OR\n` +
+              `  - teardown left an orphan org (leak detection caught a real bug)\n\n` +
+              `Run: ${runURL}\n\n` +
+              `This is higher priority than a canary failure — the whole ` +
+              `E2E safety net can't be trusted until this is resolved.`;
+
+            const { data: existing } = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
+              owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+              state: 'open', labels: 'e2e-safety-net',
+            });
+            const match = existing.find(i => i.title === title);
+            if (match) {
+              await github.rest.issues.createComment({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: match.number,
+                body: `Still broken. ${runURL}`,
+              });
+            } else {
+              await github.rest.issues.create({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                title, body,
+                labels: ['e2e-safety-net', 'bug', 'priority-high'],
+              });
+            }
+
+      # Belt-and-braces: if teardown left anything behind, nuke it here
+      # so we don't bleed staging quota. Different label from the
+      # always()-steps in the other workflows so sanity-only orgs get
+      # cleaned up by sanity runs.
+      - name: Teardown safety net
+        if: always()
+        env:
+          ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          orgs=$(curl -sS "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orgs" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" 2>/dev/null \
+            | python3 -c "
+          import json, sys
+          d = json.load(sys.stdin)
+          today = __import__('datetime').date.today().strftime('%Y%m%d')
+          candidates = [o['slug'] for o in d.get('orgs', [])
+                        if o.get('slug','').startswith(f'e2e-canary-{today}-sanity-')
+                        and o.get('status') not in ('purged',)]
+          print('\n'.join(candidates))
+          " 2>/dev/null)
+          # Per-slug verified DELETE — see molecule-controlplane#420.
+          # Failures surface as workflow warnings; the sweeper is the
+          # safety net within ~45 min.
+          leaks=()
+          for slug in $orgs; do
+            # Tempfile-routed -w + set +e/-e prevents curl-exit-code
+            # pollution of the captured status (lint-curl-status-capture.yml).
+            set +e
+            curl -sS -o /tmp/sanity-cleanup.out -w "%{http_code}" \
+              -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
+              -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+              -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+              -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/sanity-cleanup.code
+            set -e
+            code=$(cat /tmp/sanity-cleanup.code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+            if [ "$code" = "200" ] || [ "$code" = "204" ]; then
+              echo "[teardown] deleted $slug (HTTP $code)"
+            else
+              echo "::warning::sanity teardown for $slug returned HTTP $code — sweep-stale-e2e-orgs will catch it within ~45 min. Body: $(head -c 300 /tmp/sanity-cleanup.out 2>/dev/null)"
+              leaks+=("$slug")
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ ${#leaks[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::sanity teardown left ${#leaks[@]} leak(s): ${leaks[*]}"
+          fi
+          exit 0

.github/workflows/handlers-postgres-integration.yml

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+name: Handlers Postgres Integration
+
+# Real-Postgres integration tests for workspace-server/internal/handlers/.
+# Triggered on every PR/push that touches the handlers package.
+#
+# Why this workflow exists
+# ------------------------
+# Strict-sqlmock unit tests pin which SQL statements fire — they're fast
+# and let us iterate without a DB. But sqlmock CANNOT detect bugs that
+# depend on the row state AFTER the SQL runs. The result_preview-lost
+# bug shipped to staging in PR #2854 because every unit test was
+# satisfied with "an UPDATE statement fired" — none verified the row's
+# preview field actually landed. The local-postgres E2E that retrofit
+# self-review caught it took 2 minutes to set up and would have caught
+# the bug at PR-time.
+#
+# Why this workflow does NOT use `services: postgres:` (Class B fix)
+# ------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Our act_runner config has `container.network: host` (operator host
+# /opt/molecule/runners/config.yaml), which act_runner applies to BOTH
+# the job container AND every service container. With host-net, two
+# concurrent runs of this workflow both try to bind 0.0.0.0:5432 — the
+# second postgres FATALs with `could not create any TCP/IP sockets:
+# Address in use`, and Docker auto-removes it (act_runner sets
+# AutoRemove:true on service containers). By the time the migrations
+# step runs `psql`, the postgres container is gone, hence
+# `Connection refused` then `failed to remove container: No such
+# container` at cleanup time.
+#
+# Per-job `container.network` override is silently ignored by
+# act_runner — `--network and --net in the options will be ignored.`
+# appears in the runner log. Documented constraint.
+#
+# So we sidestep `services:` entirely. The job container still uses
+# host-net (inherited from runner config; required for cache server
+# discovery on the bridge IP 172.18.0.17:42631). We launch a sibling
+# postgres on the existing `molecule-core-net` bridge with a
+# UNIQUE name per run — `pg-handlers-${RUN_ID}-${RUN_ATTEMPT}` — and
+# read its bridge IP via `docker inspect`. A host-net job container
+# can reach a bridge-net container directly via the bridge IP (verified
+# manually on operator host 2026-05-08).
+#
+# Trade-offs vs. the original `services:` shape:
+#   + No host-port collision; N parallel runs share the bridge cleanly
+#   + `if: always()` cleanup runs even on test-step failure
+#   - One more step in the workflow (+~3 lines)
+#   - Requires `molecule-core-net` to exist on the operator host
+#     (it does; declared in docker-compose.yml + docker-compose.infra.yml)
+#
+# Class B Hongming-owned CICD red sweep, 2026-05-08.
+#
+# Cost: ~30s job (postgres pull from cache + go build + 4 tests).
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: handlers-pg-integ-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  detect-changes:
+    name: detect-changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      handlers: ${{ steps.filter.outputs.handlers }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@fbd0ab8f3e69293af611ebaee6363fc25e6d187d # v4.0.1
+        id: filter
+        with:
+          filters: |
+            handlers:
+              - 'workspace-server/internal/handlers/**'
+              - 'workspace-server/internal/wsauth/**'
+              - 'workspace-server/migrations/**'
+              - '.github/workflows/handlers-postgres-integration.yml'
+
+  # Single-job-with-per-step-if pattern: always runs to satisfy the
+  # required-check name on branch protection; real work gates on the
+  # paths filter. See ci.yml's Platform (Go) for the same shape.
+  integration:
+    name: Handlers Postgres Integration
+    needs: detect-changes
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    env:
+      # Unique name per run so concurrent jobs don't collide on the
+      # bridge network. ${RUN_ID}-${RUN_ATTEMPT} is unique even across
+      # workflow_dispatch reruns of the same run_id.
+      PG_NAME: pg-handlers-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+      # Bridge network already exists on the operator host (declared
+      # in docker-compose.yml + docker-compose.infra.yml).
+      PG_NETWORK: molecule-core-net
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        working-directory: workspace-server
+    steps:
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers != 'true'
+        working-directory: .
+        run: echo "No handlers/migrations changes — skipping; this job always runs to satisfy the required-check name."
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-go@40f1582b2485089dde7abd97c1529aa768e1baff # v5
+        with:
+          go-version: 'stable'
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        name: Start sibling Postgres on bridge network
+        working-directory: .
+        run: |
+          # Sanity: the bridge network must exist on the operator host.
+          # Hard-fail loud if it doesn't — easier to spot than a silent
+          # auto-create that diverges from the rest of the stack.
+          if ! docker network inspect "${PG_NETWORK}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "::error::Bridge network '${PG_NETWORK}' missing on operator host. Re-run docker-compose.infra.yml or check ops handbook."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # If a stale container with the same name exists (rerun on
+          # the same run_id), wipe it first.
+          docker rm -f "${PG_NAME}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+
+          docker run -d \
+            --name "${PG_NAME}" \
+            --network "${PG_NETWORK}" \
+            --health-cmd "pg_isready -U postgres" \
+            --health-interval 5s \
+            --health-timeout 5s \
+            --health-retries 10 \
+            -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=test \
+            -e POSTGRES_DB=molecule \
+            postgres:15-alpine >/dev/null
+
+          # Read back the bridge IP. Always present immediately after
+          # `docker run -d` for bridge networks.
+          PG_HOST=$(docker inspect "${PG_NAME}" \
+            --format "{{(index .NetworkSettings.Networks \"${PG_NETWORK}\").IPAddress}}")
+          if [ -z "${PG_HOST}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Could not resolve PG_HOST for ${PG_NAME} on ${PG_NETWORK}"
+            docker logs "${PG_NAME}" || true
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "PG_HOST=${PG_HOST}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "INTEGRATION_DB_URL=postgres://postgres:test@${PG_HOST}:5432/molecule?sslmode=disable" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "Started ${PG_NAME} at ${PG_HOST}:5432"
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        name: Apply migrations to Postgres service
+        env:
+          PGPASSWORD: test
+        run: |
+          # Wait for postgres to actually accept connections. Docker's
+          # health-cmd handles container-side readiness, but the wire
+          # to the bridge IP is best-tested with pg_isready directly.
+          for i in {1..15}; do
+            if pg_isready -h "${PG_HOST}" -p 5432 -U postgres -q; then break; fi
+            echo "waiting for postgres at ${PG_HOST}:5432..."; sleep 2
+          done
+
+          # Apply every .up.sql in lexicographic order with
+          # ON_ERROR_STOP=0 — failing migrations are SKIPPED rather than
+          # blocking the suite. This handles the current schema state
+          # where a few historical migrations (e.g. 017_memories_fts_*)
+          # depend on tables that were later renamed/dropped and so
+          # cannot replay from scratch. The migrations that DO succeed
+          # land their tables, which is sufficient for the integration
+          # tests in handlers/.
+          #
+          # Why not maintain a curated allowlist: every new migration
+          # touching a handlers/-tested table would have to update this
+          # workflow. With apply-all-or-skip, a future migration that
+          # adds a column to delegations runs automatically (its base
+          # table 049_delegations.up.sql already succeeded above it in
+          # the order). Operators only need to revisit this if the
+          # migration chain becomes legitimately replayable end-to-end.
+          #
+          # Per-migration result is logged so a failed migration that
+          # SHOULD have been replayable surfaces in the CI log instead
+          # of silently failing.
+          # Apply both *.sql (legacy, lives next to its module) and
+          # *.up.sql (newer up/down convention) in a single
+          # lexicographically-sorted pass. Excluding *.down.sql so the
+          # newest-naming-convention pairs don't undo themselves mid-run.
+          # Pre-#149-followup this loop only globbed *.up.sql, which
+          # silently skipped 001_workspaces.sql + 009_activity_logs.sql
+          # — fine while no integration test depended on those tables,
+          # not fine once a cross-table atomicity test came in.
+          set +e
+          for migration in $(ls migrations/*.sql 2>/dev/null | grep -v '\.down\.sql$' | sort); do
+            if psql -h "${PG_HOST}" -U postgres -d molecule -v ON_ERROR_STOP=1 \
+                  -f "$migration" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+              echo "✓ $(basename "$migration")"
+            else
+              echo "⊘ $(basename "$migration") (skipped — see comment in workflow)"
+            fi
+          done
+          set -e
+
+          # Sanity: the delegations + workspaces + activity_logs tables
+          # MUST exist for the integration tests to be meaningful. Hard-
+          # fail if any didn't land — that would be a real regression we
+          # want loud.
+          for tbl in delegations workspaces activity_logs pending_uploads; do
+            if ! psql -h "${PG_HOST}" -U postgres -d molecule -tA \
+                -c "SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_name = '$tbl'" \
+                | grep -q 1; then
+              echo "::error::$tbl table missing after migration replay — handler integration tests would be meaningless"
+              exit 1
+            fi
+            echo "✓ $tbl table present"
+          done
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        name: Run integration tests
+        run: |
+          # INTEGRATION_DB_URL is exported by the start-postgres step;
+          # points at the per-run bridge IP, not 127.0.0.1, so concurrent
+          # workflow runs don't fight over a host-net 5432 port.
+          go test -tags=integration -timeout 5m -v ./internal/handlers/ -run "^TestIntegration_"
+
+      - if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        name: Diagnostic dump on failure
+        env:
+          PGPASSWORD: test
+        run: |
+          echo "::group::postgres container status"
+          docker ps -a --filter "name=${PG_NAME}" --format '{{.Status}} {{.Names}}' || true
+          docker logs "${PG_NAME}" 2>&1 | tail -50 || true
+          echo "::endgroup::"
+          echo "::group::delegations table state"
+          psql -h "${PG_HOST}" -U postgres -d molecule -c "SELECT * FROM delegations LIMIT 50;" || true
+          echo "::endgroup::"
+
+      - if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.handlers == 'true'
+        name: Stop sibling Postgres
+        working-directory: .
+        run: |
+          # always() so containers don't leak when migrations or tests
+          # fail. The cleanup is best-effort: if the container is
+          # already gone (e.g. concurrent rerun race), don't fail the job.
+          docker rm -f "${PG_NAME}" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
+          echo "Cleaned up ${PG_NAME}"
+

.github/workflows/harness-replays.yml

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+name: Harness Replays
+
+# Boots tests/harness (production-shape compose topology with TenantGuard,
+# /cp/* proxy, canvas proxy, real production Dockerfile.tenant) and runs
+# every replay under tests/harness/replays/. Fails the PR if any replay
+# fails.
+#
+# Why this exists: 2026-04-30 we shipped #2398 which added /buildinfo as
+# a public route in router.go but forgot to add it to TenantGuard's
+# allowlist. The handler-level test in buildinfo_test.go constructed a
+# minimal gin engine without TenantGuard — green. The harness's
+# buildinfo-stale-image.sh replay would have caught it (cf-proxy doesn't
+# inject X-Molecule-Org-Id, so the curl path is identical to production's
+# redeploy verifier), but no one ran the harness pre-merge. The bug
+# shipped; the redeploy verifier silently soft-warned every tenant as
+# "unreachable" for ~1 day before being noticed.
+#
+# This gate makes "did you actually run the harness?" a CI invariant
+# instead of a memory-discipline thing.
+#
+# Trigger model — match e2e-api.yml: always FIRES on push/pull_request
+# to staging+main, real work is gated per-step on detect-changes output.
+# One job → one check run → branch-protection-clean (the SKIPPED-in-set
+# trap from PR #2264 is documented in e2e-api.yml's e2e-api job comment).
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/**'
+      - 'canvas/**'
+      - 'tests/harness/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/harness-replays.yml'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace-server/**'
+      - 'canvas/**'
+      - 'tests/harness/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/harness-replays.yml'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+concurrency:
+  # Per-SHA grouping. Per-ref kept hitting the auto-promote-staging
+  # cancellation deadlock — see e2e-api.yml's concurrency block for
+  # the 2026-04-28 incident that codified this pattern.
+  group: harness-replays-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  detect-changes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      run: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.run }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - id: decide
+        run: |
+          # workflow_dispatch: always run (manual trigger)
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            echo "run=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "debug=manual-trigger" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          # Determine the base commit to diff against.
+          # For pull_request: use base.sha (the merge-base with main/staging).
+          # For push: use github.event.before (the previous tip of the branch).
+          # Fallback for new branches (all-zeros SHA): run everything.
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "pull_request" ] && \
+             [ -n "${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}" ]; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}"
+          elif [ -n "${{ github.event.before }}" ] && \
+               ! echo "${{ github.event.before }}" | grep -qE '^0+$'; then
+            BASE="${{ github.event.before }}"
+          else
+            # New branch or github.event.before unavailable — run everything.
+            echo "run=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "debug=new-branch-fallback" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          # GitHub Actions and Gitea Actions both expose github.sha for HEAD.
+          DIFF=$(git diff --name-only "$BASE" "${{ github.sha }}" 2>/dev/null)
+          echo "debug=diff-base=$BASE diff-files=$DIFF" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+          if echo "$DIFF" | grep -qE '^workspace-server/|^canvas/|^tests/harness/|^.github/workflows/harness-replays\.yml$'; then
+            echo "run=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "run=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+  # ONE job that always runs. Real work is gated per-step on
+  # detect-changes.outputs.run so an unrelated PR (e.g. doc-only
+  # change to molecule-controlplane wired here later) emits the
+  # required check without spending CI cycles. Single-job pattern
+  # matches e2e-api.yml — see that workflow's comment for why a
+  # job-level `if: false` would block branch protection via the
+  # SKIPPED-in-set bug.
+  harness-replays:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    name: Harness Replays
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    steps:
+      - name: No-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.run != 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "No workspace-server / canvas / tests/harness / workflow changes — Harness Replays gate satisfied without running."
+          echo "::notice::Harness Replays no-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)."
+          echo "::notice::Debug: ${{ needs.detect-changes.outputs.debug }}"
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      # Log what files were detected so future failures include the diff.
+      - name: Log detected changes
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "::notice::detect-changes debug: ${{ needs.detect-changes.outputs.debug }}"
+
+      # github-app-auth sibling-checkout removed 2026-05-07 (#157):
+      # the plugin was dropped + Dockerfile.tenant no longer COPYs it.
+
+      # Pre-clone manifest deps before docker compose builds the tenant
+      # image (Task #173 followup — same pattern as
+      # publish-workspace-server-image.yml's "Pre-clone manifest deps"
+      # step).
+      #
+      # Why pre-clone here too: tests/harness/compose.yml builds tenant-alpha
+      # and tenant-beta from workspace-server/Dockerfile.tenant with
+      # context=../.. (repo root). That Dockerfile expects
+      # .tenant-bundle-deps/{workspace-configs-templates,org-templates,plugins}
+      # to be present at build context root (post-#173 it COPYs from there
+      # instead of running an in-image clone — the in-image clone failed
+      # with "could not read Username for https://git.moleculesai.app"
+      # because there's no auth path inside the build sandbox).
+      #
+      # Without this step harness-replays fails before any replay runs,
+      # with `failed to calculate checksum of ref ...
+      # "/.tenant-bundle-deps/plugins": not found`. Caught by run #892
+      # (main, 2026-05-07T20:28:53Z) and run #964 (staging — same
+      # symptom, different root cause: staging still has the in-image
+      # clone path, hits the auth error directly).
+      #
+      # 2026-05-08 sub-finding (#192): the clone step ALSO fails when
+      # any referenced workspace-template repo is private and the
+      # AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN bearer (devops-engineer persona) lacks read
+      # access. Root cause: 5 of 9 workspace-template repos
+      # (openclaw, codex, crewai, deepagents, gemini-cli) had been
+      # marked private with no team grant. Resolution: flipped them
+      # to public per `feedback_oss_first_repo_visibility_default`
+      # (the OSS surface should be public). Layer-3 (customer-private +
+      # marketplace third-party repos) tracked separately in
+      # internal#102.
+      #
+      # Token shape matches publish-workspace-server-image.yml: AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN
+      # is the devops-engineer persona PAT, NOT the founder PAT (per
+      # `feedback_per_agent_gitea_identity_default`). clone-manifest.sh
+      # embeds it as basic-auth for the duration of the clones and strips
+      # .git directories — the token never enters the resulting image.
+      - name: Pre-clone manifest deps
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        env:
+          MOLECULE_GITEA_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ -z "${MOLECULE_GITEA_TOKEN}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::AUTO_SYNC_TOKEN secret is empty — register the devops-engineer persona PAT in repo Actions secrets"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          mkdir -p .tenant-bundle-deps
+          bash scripts/clone-manifest.sh \
+            manifest.json \
+            .tenant-bundle-deps/workspace-configs-templates \
+            .tenant-bundle-deps/org-templates \
+            .tenant-bundle-deps/plugins
+          # Sanity-check counts so a silent partial clone fails fast
+          # instead of producing a half-empty image.
+          ws_count=$(find .tenant-bundle-deps/workspace-configs-templates -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l)
+          org_count=$(find .tenant-bundle-deps/org-templates -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l)
+          plugins_count=$(find .tenant-bundle-deps/plugins -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d | wc -l)
+          echo "Cloned: ws=$ws_count org=$org_count plugins=$plugins_count"
+
+      - name: Install Python deps for replays
+        # peer-discovery-404 (and future replays) eval Python against the
+        # running tenant — importing workspace/a2a_client.py pulls in
+        # httpx. tests/harness/requirements.txt holds just the HTTP-client
+        # surface to keep CI install fast (~3s) vs the full
+        # workspace/requirements.txt (~30s).
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        run: pip install -r tests/harness/requirements.txt
+
+      - name: Run all replays against the harness
+        # run-all-replays.sh: boot via up.sh → seed via seed.sh → run
+        # every replays/*.sh → tear down via down.sh on EXIT (trap).
+        # Non-zero exit on any replay failure.
+        #
+        # KEEP_UP=1: without this, the script's trap-on-EXIT tears
+        # down containers immediately on failure, leaving the dump
+        # step below with nothing to dump (verified on PR #2410's
+        # first run — tenant became unhealthy, trap fired, dump
+        # step saw empty containers). Keeping them up lets the
+        # failure path collect tenant/cp-stub/cf-proxy logs. The
+        # always-run "Force teardown" step does the actual cleanup.
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        working-directory: tests/harness
+        env:
+          KEEP_UP: "1"
+        run: ./run-all-replays.sh
+
+      - name: Dump compose logs on failure
+        # SECRETS_ENCRYPTION_KEY: docker compose validates the entire compose
+        # file even for read-only `logs` calls. up.sh generates a per-run key
+        # and exports it to its OWN shell — this step runs in a fresh shell
+        # that wouldn't see it, so without a placeholder the validate step
+        # errors before logs print (verified against PR #2492's first run:
+        # "required variable SECRETS_ENCRYPTION_KEY is missing a value").
+        # A placeholder is fine — we're only reading log streams, not booting.
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        working-directory: tests/harness
+        env:
+          SECRETS_ENCRYPTION_KEY: dump-logs-placeholder
+        run: |
+          echo "=== docker compose ps ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml ps || true
+          echo "=== tenant-alpha logs ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml logs tenant-alpha || true
+          echo "=== tenant-beta logs ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml logs tenant-beta || true
+          echo "=== cp-stub logs ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml logs cp-stub || true
+          echo "=== cf-proxy logs ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml logs cf-proxy || true
+          echo "=== postgres-alpha logs (last 100) ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml logs --tail 100 postgres-alpha || true
+          echo "=== postgres-beta logs (last 100) ==="
+          docker compose -f compose.yml logs --tail 100 postgres-beta || true
+
+      - name: Force teardown
+        # We pass KEEP_UP=1 to run-all-replays.sh so the dump step
+        # above sees real containers — that means we own teardown
+        # explicitly here. Always run.
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.run == 'true'
+        working-directory: tests/harness
+        run: ./down.sh || true

.github/workflows/lint-curl-status-capture.yml

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+name: Lint curl status-code capture
+
+# Pins the workflow-bash anti-pattern that produced "HTTP 000000" on the
+# 2026-05-04 redeploy-tenants-on-main run for sha 2b862f6:
+#
+#   HTTP_CODE=$(curl ... -w '%{http_code}' ... || echo "000")
+#
+# When curl exits non-zero (connection reset → 56, --fail-with-body 4xx/5xx
+# → 22), the `-w '%{http_code}'` already wrote a status to stdout — usually
+# "000" for connection failures or the actual code for HTTP errors. The
+# `|| echo "000"` then fires AND appends ANOTHER "000" to the captured
+# stdout, producing values like "000000" or "409000" that fail string
+# comparisons against "200" while looking superficially right.
+#
+# Same class of bug the synth-E2E §7c gate hit twice (PRs #2779/#2783 +
+# #2797). Memory: feedback_curl_status_capture_pollution.md.
+#
+# Fix shape (route -w into a tempfile so curl's exit code can't pollute):
+#
+#   set +e
+#   curl ... -w '%{http_code}' >code.txt 2>/dev/null
+#   set -e
+#   HTTP_CODE=$(cat code.txt 2>/dev/null)
+#   [ -z "$HTTP_CODE" ] && HTTP_CODE="000"
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    paths: ['.github/workflows/**']
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths: ['.github/workflows/**']
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+jobs:
+  scan:
+    name: Scan workflows for curl status-capture pollution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - name: Find curl ... -w '%{http_code}' ... || echo "000" subshells
+        run: |
+          set -uo pipefail
+          # Multi-line aware: look for `$(curl ... -w '%{http_code}' ... || echo "000")`
+          # subshell where the entire command-substitution wraps a curl that
+          # ends with `|| echo "000"`. Must distinguish from the SAFE shape
+          # `$(cat tempfile 2>/dev/null || echo "000")` — `cat` with a missing
+          # tempfile produces empty stdout, no pollution.
+          python3 <<'PY'
+          import os, re, sys, glob
+
+          BAD_FILES = []
+
+          # Match the buggy substitution across newlines: $(curl ... -w '%{http_code}' ... || echo "000")
+          # The `\\n` is the bash line-continuation that lets curl flags span lines.
+          # We collapse continuation lines first, then look for the single-line bad pattern.
+          PATTERN = re.compile(
+              r'\$\(\s*curl\b[^)]*-w\s*[\'"]%\{http_code\}[\'"][^)]*\|\|\s*echo\s+"000"\s*\)',
+              re.DOTALL,
+          )
+
+          # Self-skip: this lint workflow contains the literal anti-pattern in
+          # its own docstring — that's intentional, not a bug.
+          SELF = ".github/workflows/lint-curl-status-capture.yml"
+
+          for f in sorted(glob.glob(".github/workflows/*.yml")):
+              if f == SELF:
+                  continue
+              with open(f) as fh:
+                  content = fh.read()
+              # Collapse bash line-continuations (\\\n + leading whitespace)
+              # into a single logical line so the regex can see the full
+              # curl invocation as one chunk.
+              flat = re.sub(r'\\\s*\n\s*', ' ', content)
+              for m in PATTERN.finditer(flat):
+                  BAD_FILES.append((f, m.group(0)[:120]))
+
+          if not BAD_FILES:
+              print("✓ No curl-status-capture pollution patterns detected")
+              sys.exit(0)
+
+          print(f"::error::Found {len(BAD_FILES)} curl-status-capture pollution site(s):")
+          for f, snippet in BAD_FILES:
+              print(f"::error file={f}::Curl status-capture pollution: '|| echo \"000\"' inside a $(curl ... -w '%{{http_code}}' ...) subshell. On non-2xx or connection failure, curl's -w writes a status, then exits non-zero, then the || echo appends another '000' — producing 'HTTP 000000' or '409000' that fails comparisons silently. Fix: route -w into a tempfile so the exit code can't pollute stdout. See memory feedback_curl_status_capture_pollution.md.")
+              print(f"   matched: {snippet}…")
+          print()
+          print("Fix template:")
+          print('  set +e')
+          print('  curl ... -w \'%{http_code}\' >code.txt 2>/dev/null')
+          print('  set -e')
+          print('  HTTP_CODE=$(cat code.txt 2>/dev/null)')
+          print('  [ -z "$HTTP_CODE" ] && HTTP_CODE="000"')
+          sys.exit(1)
+          PY

.github/workflows/publish-canvas-image.yml

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+name: publish-canvas-image
+
+# Builds and pushes the canvas Docker image to GHCR whenever a commit lands
+# on main that touches canvas code. Previously canvas changes were visible in
+# CI (npm run build passed) but the live container was never updated —
+# operators had to manually run `docker compose build canvas` each time.
+#
+# Mirror of publish-platform-image.yml, adapted for the Next.js canvas layer.
+# See that workflow for inline notes on macOS Keychain isolation and QEMU.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main]
+    paths:
+      # Only rebuild when canvas source changes — saves GHA minutes on
+      # platform-only / docs-only / MCP-only merges.
+      - 'canvas/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/publish-canvas-image.yml'
+  # Manual trigger: use after a non-canvas merge that still needs a fresh
+  # image (e.g. a Dockerfile change lives outside the canvas/ tree).
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      platform_url:
+        description: 'NEXT_PUBLIC_PLATFORM_URL baked into the bundle (default: http://localhost:8080)'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+      ws_url:
+        description: 'NEXT_PUBLIC_WS_URL baked into the bundle (default: ws://localhost:8080/ws)'
+        required: false
+        default: ''
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  packages: write  # required to push to ghcr.io/${{ github.repository_owner }}/*
+
+env:
+  IMAGE_NAME: ghcr.io/molecule-ai/canvas
+
+jobs:
+  build-and-push:
+    name: Build & push canvas image
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Log in to GHCR
+        uses: docker/login-action@c94ce9fb468520275223c153574b00df6fe4bcc9 # v3
+        with:
+          registry: ghcr.io
+          username: ${{ github.actor }}
+          password: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+
+      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
+        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@4d04d5d9486b7bd6fa91e7baf45bbb4f8b9deedd # v4.0.0
+
+      # Health check: verify Docker daemon is accessible before attempting any
+      # build steps. This fails loudly at step 1 when the runner's docker.sock
+      # is inaccessible rather than silently continuing to the build step
+      # where docker build fails deep in ECR auth with a cryptic error.
+      - name: Verify Docker daemon access
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          echo "::group::Docker daemon health check"
+          docker info 2>&1 | head -5 || {
+            echo "::error::Docker daemon is not accessible at /var/run/docker.sock"
+            echo "::error::Check: (1) daemon running, (2) runner user in docker group, (3) sock perms 660+"
+            exit 1
+          }
+          echo "Docker daemon OK"
+          echo "::endgroup::"
+
+      - name: Compute tags
+        id: tags
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          echo "sha=${GITHUB_SHA::7}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Resolve build args
+        id: build_args
+        # Priority: workflow_dispatch input > repo secret > hardcoded default.
+        # NEXT_PUBLIC_* env vars are baked into the JS bundle at build time by
+        # Next.js — they cannot be changed at runtime without a full rebuild.
+        # For local docker-compose deployments the defaults (localhost:8080)
+        # work as-is; production deployments should set CANVAS_PLATFORM_URL
+        # and CANVAS_WS_URL as repository secrets.
+        #
+        # Inputs are passed via env vars (not direct ${{ }} interpolation) to
+        # prevent shell injection from workflow_dispatch string inputs.
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          INPUT_PLATFORM_URL: ${{ github.event.inputs.platform_url }}
+          SECRET_PLATFORM_URL: ${{ secrets.CANVAS_PLATFORM_URL }}
+          INPUT_WS_URL: ${{ github.event.inputs.ws_url }}
+          SECRET_WS_URL: ${{ secrets.CANVAS_WS_URL }}
+        run: |
+          PLATFORM_URL="${INPUT_PLATFORM_URL:-${SECRET_PLATFORM_URL:-http://localhost:8080}}"
+          WS_URL="${INPUT_WS_URL:-${SECRET_WS_URL:-ws://localhost:8080/ws}}"
+
+          echo "platform_url=${PLATFORM_URL}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          echo "ws_url=${WS_URL}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Build & push canvas image to GHCR
+        uses: docker/build-push-action@bcafcacb16a39f128d818304e6c9c0c18556b85f # v7.1.0
+        with:
+          context: ./canvas
+          file: ./canvas/Dockerfile
+          platforms: linux/amd64
+          push: true
+          build-args: |
+            NEXT_PUBLIC_PLATFORM_URL=${{ steps.build_args.outputs.platform_url }}
+            NEXT_PUBLIC_WS_URL=${{ steps.build_args.outputs.ws_url }}
+          tags: |
+            ${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}:latest
+            ${{ env.IMAGE_NAME }}:sha-${{ steps.tags.outputs.sha }}
+          cache-from: type=gha
+          cache-to: type=gha,mode=max
+          labels: |
+            org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/${{ github.repository }}
+            org.opencontainers.image.revision=${{ github.sha }}
+            org.opencontainers.image.description=Molecule AI canvas (Next.js 15 + React Flow)

.github/workflows/railway-pin-audit.yml

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+name: Railway pin audit (drift detection)
+
+# Daily audit of Railway env vars for drift-prone image-tag pins —
+# automation-cadence layer over the detection script + regression test
+# shipped in PR #2168 (#2001 closure).
+#
+# Background: on 2026-04-24 a stale `:staging-a14cf86` SHA pin in CP's
+# TENANT_IMAGE caused 3+ hours of E2E failure with the appearance that
+# "every fix didn't propagate" — really the tenant image was so old it
+# didn't read the env vars those fixes produced. The audit script
+# (scripts/ops/audit-railway-sha-pins.sh) flags drift; this workflow
+# runs the same check unattended on a daily cron.
+#
+# Cadence: once a day, 13:00 UTC (06:00 PT). Daily is the right
+# cadence for variables-tier config — Railway env var changes are
+# deliberate operator actions, low-frequency. Hourly would risk
+# Railway API rate-limit surprises and is overkill for the change rate.
+#
+# Issue-on-failure: drift triggers a priority-high issue, mirroring
+# .github/workflows/e2e-staging-sanity.yml's pattern. Drift is
+# medium-priority "config slipped, fix at next ops window," not
+# active-outage paging.
+#
+# Secret hardening: per feedback_schedule_vs_dispatch_secrets_hardening,
+# the schedule trigger HARD-FAILS on missing RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN
+# (silent-success on schedule was the failure-mode class that bit the
+# team before; cron firing without checking anything is worse than no
+# cron). The workflow_dispatch trigger SOFT-SKIPS on missing secret so
+# an operator can dry-run the workflow shape during initial provisioning
+# without tripping a fake red.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 13 * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: railway-pin-audit
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  issues: write
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  audit:
+    name: Audit Railway env vars for drift-prone pins
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 10
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN present
+        # Schedule trigger: hard-fail when the secret is missing —
+        # otherwise the cron silently runs against the wrong scope (or
+        # exits 2 from the script and we issue-spam) without anyone
+        # noticing the token rot.
+        # Dispatch trigger: soft-skip — operator may be dry-running the
+        # workflow shape before provisioning the secret. Logged as a
+        # workflow notice, not a failure.
+        env:
+          RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN }}
+          EVENT_NAME: ${{ github.event_name }}
+        id: secret_check
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ -n "${RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
+            echo "have_secret=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          echo "have_secret=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          if [ "$EVENT_NAME" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+            echo "::notice::RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN not configured — soft-skipping (manual dispatch)"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          echo "::error::RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN secret missing — schedule trigger requires it. Provision the token (read-only \`variables\` scope on the molecule-platform Railway project) and store as repo secret RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN."
+          exit 1
+
+      - name: Install Railway CLI
+        if: steps.secret_check.outputs.have_secret == 'true'
+        # Pinned hash matching the public install instructions; bump in
+        # tandem with the audit-script's documented Railway CLI version.
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          curl -fsSL https://railway.com/install.sh | sh
+          # The installer drops the binary in ~/.railway/bin
+          echo "$HOME/.railway/bin" >> "$GITHUB_PATH"
+
+      - name: Verify Railway CLI authenticated
+        if: steps.secret_check.outputs.have_secret == 'true'
+        env:
+          RAILWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          # `railway whoami` exits non-zero when the token is
+          # unauthenticated or doesn't have any project access.
+          if ! railway whoami >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+            echo "::error::Railway CLI failed to authenticate with RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN — token may be revoked or scoped incorrectly"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+
+      - name: Link molecule-platform project
+        if: steps.secret_check.outputs.have_secret == 'true'
+        env:
+          RAILWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN }}
+        # Project ID from reference_production_stack: molecule-platform
+        # / 7ccc8c68-61f4-42ab-9be5-586eeee11768. Linking is per-process,
+        # so we re-link in this CI shell (the audit script comment says
+        # it deliberately doesn't chdir for you because the linked
+        # project's identity matters).
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          railway link --project 7ccc8c68-61f4-42ab-9be5-586eeee11768
+
+      - name: Run drift audit
+        if: steps.secret_check.outputs.have_secret == 'true'
+        id: audit
+        env:
+          RAILWAY_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.RAILWAY_AUDIT_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          bash scripts/ops/audit-railway-sha-pins.sh 2>&1 | tee /tmp/audit.log
+          rc=${PIPESTATUS[0]}
+          echo "rc=$rc" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # Capture the audit log for the issue body.
+          {
+            echo 'log<<AUDIT_EOF'
+            cat /tmp/audit.log
+            echo 'AUDIT_EOF'
+          } >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          # Exit codes from the script:
+          #   0 — no drift; workflow goes green
+          #   1 — drift detected; we'll file an issue and fail the run
+          #   2 — railway CLI unauthenticated / project unlinked; fail
+          # Anything else: also fail.
+          case "$rc" in
+            0) exit 0 ;;
+            1) echo "::warning::Drift-prone pin(s) detected — issue will be filed"; exit 1 ;;
+            2) echo "::error::Railway CLI auth/link failed mid-script — token or project ID drift"; exit 2 ;;
+            *) echo "::error::Unexpected audit rc=$rc"; exit 1 ;;
+          esac
+
+      - name: Open / update drift issue
+        if: failure() && steps.audit.outputs.rc == '1'
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
+        env:
+          AUDIT_LOG: ${{ steps.audit.outputs.log }}
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const title = "🚨 Railway env-var drift detected";
+            const runURL = `https://github.com/${context.repo.owner}/${context.repo.repo}/actions/runs/${context.runId}`;
+            const body =
+              `Daily Railway pin audit found drift-prone image-tag pins in the molecule-platform Railway project.\n\n` +
+              `**What this means:** an env var (likely on \`controlplane\`) is pinned to a SHA-shaped or semver tag instead of a floating tag. ` +
+              `Same pattern that caused the 2026-04-24 TENANT_IMAGE incident — fix-PRs land but the running service doesn't pick them up.\n\n` +
+              `**Recovery:** open the Railway dashboard, replace the flagged value with a floating tag (\`:staging-latest\`, \`:main\`) unless the pin is intentional and documented in the ops runbook.\n\n` +
+              `**Audit output:**\n\n\`\`\`\n${process.env.AUDIT_LOG || '(log unavailable)'}\n\`\`\`\n\n` +
+              `Run: ${runURL}\n\n` +
+              `Closes automatically when a subsequent daily run reports clean.`;
+
+            const { data: existing } = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
+              owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+              state: 'open', labels: 'railway-drift',
+            });
+            const match = existing.find(i => i.title === title);
+            if (match) {
+              await github.rest.issues.createComment({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: match.number,
+                body: `Still drifting. ${runURL}\n\n\`\`\`\n${process.env.AUDIT_LOG || '(log unavailable)'}\n\`\`\``,
+              });
+            } else {
+              await github.rest.issues.create({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                title, body,
+                labels: ['railway-drift', 'bug', 'priority-high'],
+              });
+            }
+
+      - name: Close stale drift issue on clean run
+        # When a previously-flagged drift gets fixed by an operator,
+        # the next daily run goes green. Close any open `railway-drift`
+        # issue with a confirmation comment so the queue doesn't carry
+        # stale ones.
+        if: success() && steps.audit.outputs.rc == '0'
+        uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
+        with:
+          script: |
+            const runURL = `https://github.com/${context.repo.owner}/${context.repo.repo}/actions/runs/${context.runId}`;
+            const { data: existing } = await github.rest.issues.listForRepo({
+              owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+              state: 'open', labels: 'railway-drift',
+            });
+            for (const issue of existing) {
+              await github.rest.issues.createComment({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: issue.number,
+                body: `Daily audit clean — drift resolved. ${runURL}`,
+              });
+              await github.rest.issues.update({
+                owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo,
+                issue_number: issue.number,
+                state: 'closed',
+                state_reason: 'completed',
+              });
+            }

.github/workflows/redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml

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+name: redeploy-tenants-on-main
+
+# Auto-refresh prod tenant EC2s after every main merge.
+#
+# Why this workflow exists: publish-workspace-server-image builds and
+# pushes a new platform-tenant :<sha> to ECR on every merge to main,
+# but running tenants pulled their image once at boot and never re-pull.
+# Users see stale code indefinitely.
+#
+# This workflow closes the gap by calling the control-plane admin
+# endpoint that performs a canary-first, batched, health-gated rolling
+# redeploy across every live tenant. Implemented in molecule-ai/
+# molecule-controlplane as POST /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet
+# (feat/tenant-auto-redeploy, landing alongside this workflow).
+#
+# Registry: ECR (153263036946.dkr.ecr.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
+# molecule-ai/platform-tenant). GHCR was retired 2026-05-07 during the
+# Gitea suspension migration. The canary-verify.yml promote step now
+# uses the same redeploy-fleet endpoint (fixes the silent-GHCR gap).
+#
+# Runtime ordering:
+#   1. publish-workspace-server-image completes → new :staging-<sha> in ECR.
+#   2. This workflow fires via workflow_run, calls redeploy-fleet with
+#      target_tag=staging-<sha>. No CDN propagation wait needed —
+#      ECR image manifest is consistent immediately after push.
+#   3. Calls redeploy-fleet with canary_slug (if set) and a soak
+#      period. Canary proves the image boots; batches follow.
+#   4. Any failure aborts the rollout and leaves older tenants on the
+#      prior image — safer default than half-and-half state.
+#
+# Rollback path: re-run this workflow with a specific SHA pinned via
+# the workflow_dispatch input. That calls redeploy-fleet with
+# target_tag=<sha>, re-pulling the older image on every tenant.
+
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: ['publish-workspace-server-image']
+    types: [completed]
+    branches: [main]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      target_tag:
+        # Empty default → auto-trigger and dispatch-without-input both
+        # resolve to `staging-<short_head_sha>` (the digest publish-image
+        # just pushed). Pre-fix this defaulted to 'latest', which only
+        # gets retagged by canary-verify's promote-to-latest job — and
+        # that job soft-skips when CANARY_TENANT_URLS is unset (the
+        # current state, until Phase 2 canary fleet is live). Result:
+        # `:latest` had been pinned to a 4-day-old digest (2026-04-28)
+        # while every main push pushed fresh `staging-<sha>` images;
+        # every prod redeploy pulled the stale `:latest` and the verify
+        # step correctly flagged 3/3 tenants STALE. Pulling the
+        # just-published `staging-<sha>` directly skips the dead retag
+        # path. When canary fleet is real, this workflow should chain
+        # on canary-verify completion (workflow_run from canary-verify),
+        # not publish-image — separate, smaller PR.
+        description: 'Tenant image tag to deploy (e.g. "latest", "staging-a59f1a6c"). Empty = auto staging-<head_sha>.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: ''
+      canary_slug:
+        description: 'Tenant slug to deploy first + soak (empty = skip canary, fan out immediately).'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        # Must be an actual prod tenant slug (current: hongming,
+        # chloe-dong, reno-stars). The previous default 'hongmingwang'
+        # didn't match any tenant — CP soft-skipped the missing canary
+        # and the fleet rolled out without the soak gate, defeating the
+        # whole point of canary-first.
+        default: 'hongming'
+      soak_seconds:
+        description: 'Seconds to wait after canary before fanning out.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: '60'
+      batch_size:
+        description: 'How many tenants SSM redeploys in parallel per batch.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: '3'
+      dry_run:
+        description: 'Plan only — do not actually redeploy.'
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  # No write scopes needed — the workflow hits an external CP endpoint,
+  # not the GitHub API.
+
+# Serialize redeploys so two rapid main pushes' redeploys don't overlap
+# and cause confusing per-tenant SSM state. Without this, GitHub's
+# implicit workflow_run queueing would *probably* serialize them, but
+# the explicit block makes the invariant defensible. Mirrors the
+# concurrency block on redeploy-tenants-on-staging.yml for shape parity.
+#
+# cancel-in-progress: false → aborting a half-rolled-out fleet would
+# leave tenants stuck on whatever image they happened to be on when
+# cancelled. Better to finish the in-flight rollout before starting
+# the next one.
+concurrency:
+  group: redeploy-tenants-on-main
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  redeploy:
+    # Skip the auto-trigger if publish-workspace-server-image didn't
+    # actually succeed. workflow_run fires on any completion state; we
+    # don't want to redeploy against a half-built image.
+    if: |
+      github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
+      (github.event_name == 'workflow_run' && github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 25
+    steps:
+      - name: Note on ECR propagation
+        # ECR image manifests are consistent immediately after push — no
+        # CDN cache to wait for. The old GHCR-based workflow had a 30s
+        # sleep to avoid race conditions; ECR makes that unnecessary.
+        run: echo "ECR image available immediately after push — proceeding."
+
+      - name: Compute target tag
+        id: tag
+        # Resolution order:
+        #   1. Operator-supplied input (workflow_dispatch with explicit
+        #      tag) → used verbatim. Lets ops pin `latest` for emergency
+        #      rollback to last canary-verified digest, or pin a specific
+        #      `staging-<sha>` to roll back to a known-good build.
+        #   2. Default → `staging-<short_head_sha>`. The just-published
+        #      digest. Bypasses the `:latest` retag path that's currently
+        #      dead (canary-verify soft-skips without canary fleet, so
+        #      the only thing retagging `:latest` today is the manual
+        #      promote-latest.yml — last run 2026-04-28). Auto-trigger
+        #      from workflow_run uses workflow_run.head_sha; manual
+        #      dispatch with no input falls through to github.sha.
+        env:
+          INPUT_TAG: ${{ inputs.target_tag }}
+          HEAD_SHA: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha || github.sha }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ -n "${INPUT_TAG:-}" ]; then
+            echo "target_tag=$INPUT_TAG" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "Using operator-pinned tag: $INPUT_TAG"
+          else
+            SHORT="${HEAD_SHA:0:7}"
+            echo "target_tag=staging-$SHORT" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            echo "Using auto tag: staging-$SHORT (head_sha=$HEAD_SHA)"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Call CP redeploy-fleet
+        # CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN must be set as a repo/org secret on
+        # molecule-ai/molecule-core, matching the staging/prod CP's
+        # CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN env. Stored in Railway, mirrored to this
+        # repo's secrets for CI.
+        env:
+          CP_URL: ${{ vars.CP_URL || 'https://api.moleculesai.app' }}
+          CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
+          TARGET_TAG: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.target_tag }}
+          CANARY_SLUG: ${{ inputs.canary_slug || 'hongming' }}
+          SOAK_SECONDS: ${{ inputs.soak_seconds || '60' }}
+          BATCH_SIZE: ${{ inputs.batch_size || '3' }}
+          DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run || false }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          if [ -z "${CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
+            echo "::error::CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret not set — skipping redeploy"
+            echo "::notice::Set CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN in repo secrets to enable auto-redeploy."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          BODY=$(jq -nc \
+            --arg tag "$TARGET_TAG" \
+            --arg canary "$CANARY_SLUG" \
+            --argjson soak "$SOAK_SECONDS" \
+            --argjson batch "$BATCH_SIZE" \
+            --argjson dry "$DRY_RUN" \
+            '{
+              target_tag: $tag,
+              canary_slug: $canary,
+              soak_seconds: $soak,
+              batch_size: $batch,
+              dry_run: $dry
+            }')
+
+          echo "POST $CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet"
+          echo "  body: $BODY"
+
+          HTTP_RESPONSE=$(mktemp)
+          HTTP_CODE_FILE=$(mktemp)
+          # Route -w into its own tempfile so curl's exit code (e.g. 56
+          # on connection-reset, 22 on --fail-with-body 4xx/5xx) can't
+          # pollute the captured stdout. The previous inline-substitution
+          # shape produced "000000" on connection reset (curl wrote
+          # "000" via -w, then the inline echo-fallback appended another
+          # "000") — caught on the 2026-05-04 redeploy of sha 2b862f6.
+          # set +e/-e keeps the non-zero curl exit from tripping the
+          # outer pipeline. See lint-curl-status-capture.yml for the
+          # CI gate that pins this fix shape.
+          set +e
+          curl -sS -o "$HTTP_RESPONSE" -w '%{http_code}' \
+            -m 1200 \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN" \
+            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+            -X POST "$CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet" \
+            -d "$BODY" >"$HTTP_CODE_FILE"
+          set -e
+          # Stderr from curl (e.g. dial errors with -sS) goes to the runner
+          # log so operators can see WHY a connection failed. Stdout is
+          # captured to $HTTP_CODE_FILE because that's where -w writes.
+          HTTP_CODE=$(cat "$HTTP_CODE_FILE" 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+          [ -z "$HTTP_CODE" ] && HTTP_CODE="000"
+
+          echo "HTTP $HTTP_CODE"
+          cat "$HTTP_RESPONSE" | jq . || cat "$HTTP_RESPONSE"
+
+          # Pretty-print per-tenant results in the job summary so
+          # ops can see which tenants were redeployed without drilling
+          # into the raw response.
+          {
+            echo "## Tenant redeploy fleet"
+            echo ""
+            echo "**Target tag:** \`$TARGET_TAG\`"
+            echo "**Canary:** \`$CANARY_SLUG\` (soak ${SOAK_SECONDS}s)"
+            echo "**Batch size:** $BATCH_SIZE"
+            echo "**Dry run:** $DRY_RUN"
+            echo "**HTTP:** $HTTP_CODE"
+            echo ""
+            echo "### Per-tenant result"
+            echo ""
+            echo '| Slug | Phase | SSM Status | Exit | Healthz | Error |'
+            echo '|------|-------|------------|------|---------|-------|'
+            jq -r '.results[]? | "| \(.slug) | \(.phase) | \(.ssm_status // "-") | \(.ssm_exit_code) | \(.healthz_ok) | \(.error // "-") |"' "$HTTP_RESPONSE" || true
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+          if [ "$HTTP_CODE" != "200" ]; then
+            echo "::error::redeploy-fleet returned HTTP $HTTP_CODE"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          OK=$(jq -r '.ok' "$HTTP_RESPONSE")
+          if [ "$OK" != "true" ]; then
+            echo "::error::redeploy-fleet reported ok=false (see summary for which tenant halted the rollout)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "::notice::Tenant fleet redeploy reported ssm_status=Success — verifying actual image roll on each tenant..."
+
+          # Stash the response for the verify step. $RUNNER_TEMP outlasts
+          # the step boundary; $HTTP_RESPONSE doesn't.
+          cp "$HTTP_RESPONSE" "$RUNNER_TEMP/redeploy-response.json"
+
+      - name: Verify each tenant /buildinfo matches published SHA
+        # ROOT FIX FOR #2395.
+        #
+        # `redeploy-fleet`'s `ssm_status=Success` means "the SSM RPC
+        # didn't error" — NOT "the new image is running on the tenant."
+        # `:latest` lives in the local Docker daemon's image cache; if
+        # the SSM document does `docker compose up -d` without an
+        # explicit `docker pull`, the daemon serves the previously-
+        # cached digest and the container restarts on stale code.
+        # 2026-04-30 incident: hongmingwang's tenant reported
+        # ssm_status=Success at 17:00:53Z but kept serving pre-501a42d7
+        # chat_files for 30+ min — the lazy-heal fix never reached the
+        # user despite green deploy + green redeploy.
+        #
+        # This step closes the gap by curling each tenant's /buildinfo
+        # endpoint (added in workspace-server/internal/buildinfo +
+        # /Dockerfile* GIT_SHA build-arg, this PR) and comparing the
+        # returned git_sha to the SHA the workflow expects. Mismatches
+        # fail the workflow, which is what `ok=true` should have
+        # guaranteed all along.
+        #
+        # When the redeploy was triggered by workflow_dispatch with a
+        # specific tag (target_tag != "latest"), the expected SHA may
+        # not equal ${{ github.sha }} — in that case we resolve via
+        # GHCR's manifest. For workflow_run (default :latest) the
+        # workflow_run.head_sha is the SHA that just published.
+        env:
+          EXPECTED_SHA: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha || github.sha }}
+          TARGET_TAG: ${{ steps.tag.outputs.target_tag }}
+          # Tenant subdomain template — slugs from the response are
+          # appended. Production CP issues `<slug>.moleculesai.app`;
+          # staging CP issues `<slug>.staging.moleculesai.app`. This
+          # workflow runs on main → prod CP → no `staging.` infix.
+          TENANT_DOMAIN: 'moleculesai.app'
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          EXPECTED_SHORT="${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7}"
+          if [ "$TARGET_TAG" != "latest" ] \
+             && [ "$TARGET_TAG" != "$EXPECTED_SHA" ] \
+             && [ "$TARGET_TAG" != "staging-$EXPECTED_SHORT" ]; then
+            # workflow_dispatch with a pinned tag that isn't the head
+            # SHA — operator is rolling back / pinning. Skip the
+            # verification because we don't have the expected SHA in
+            # this context (would need to crane-inspect the GHCR
+            # manifest, which is a follow-up). Failing-open here is
+            # safe: the operator chose the tag deliberately.
+            #
+            # `staging-<short_head_sha>` IS verified — it's the new
+            # auto-trigger default (see Compute target tag step) and
+            # the digest under that tag SHOULD match EXPECTED_SHA.
+            echo "::notice::target_tag=$TARGET_TAG (operator-pinned) — skipping per-tenant SHA verification."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          RESP="$RUNNER_TEMP/redeploy-response.json"
+          if [ ! -s "$RESP" ]; then
+            echo "::error::redeploy-response.json missing or empty — verify step ran without a response to read"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          # Pull only successfully-redeployed tenants. Any tenant that
+          # halted the rollout already failed the previous step, so we
+          # don't double-count them here.
+          mapfile -t SLUGS < <(jq -r '.results[]? | select(.healthz_ok == true) | .slug' "$RESP")
+          if [ ${#SLUGS[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::No tenants reported healthz_ok — nothing to verify"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          echo "Verifying ${#SLUGS[@]} tenant(s) against EXPECTED_SHA=${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7}..."
+
+          # Two distinct failure modes — STALE (the #2395 bug class, hard-fail)
+          # vs UNREACHABLE (teardown race, soft-warn). See the staging variant's
+          # comment for the full rationale; same logic applies on prod even
+          # though prod has fewer ephemeral tenants — the asymmetry would be a
+          # gratuitous fork.
+          STALE_COUNT=0
+          UNREACHABLE_COUNT=0
+          STALE_LINES=()
+          UNREACHABLE_LINES=()
+          for slug in "${SLUGS[@]}"; do
+            URL="https://${slug}.${TENANT_DOMAIN}/buildinfo"
+            # 30s total: tenant just SSM-restarted, may still be coming
+            # up. Retry-on-empty rather than retry-on-status — we want
+            # to fail fast on "responded with wrong SHA", not "still
+            # warming up".
+            BODY=$(curl -sS --max-time 30 --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused "$URL" || true)
+            ACTUAL_SHA=$(echo "$BODY" | jq -r '.git_sha // ""' 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+            if [ -z "$ACTUAL_SHA" ]; then
+              UNREACHABLE_COUNT=$((UNREACHABLE_COUNT + 1))
+              UNREACHABLE_LINES+=("| $slug | (no /buildinfo response) | ${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7} | ⚠ unreachable (likely teardown race) |")
+              continue
+            fi
+            if [ "$ACTUAL_SHA" = "$EXPECTED_SHA" ]; then
+              echo "  $slug: ${ACTUAL_SHA:0:7} ✓"
+            else
+              STALE_COUNT=$((STALE_COUNT + 1))
+              STALE_LINES+=("| $slug | ${ACTUAL_SHA:0:7} | ${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7} | ❌ stale |")
+            fi
+          done
+
+          {
+            echo ""
+            echo "### Per-tenant /buildinfo verification"
+            echo ""
+            echo "Expected SHA: \`${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7}\`"
+            echo ""
+            if [ $STALE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+              echo "**${STALE_COUNT} STALE tenant(s) — these did NOT pick up the new image despite ssm_status=Success:**"
+              echo ""
+              echo "| Slug | Actual /buildinfo SHA | Expected | Status |"
+              echo "|------|----------------------|----------|--------|"
+              for line in "${STALE_LINES[@]}"; do echo "$line"; done
+              echo ""
+            fi
+            if [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+              echo "**${UNREACHABLE_COUNT} unreachable tenant(s) — likely teardown race (soft-warn, not failing):**"
+              echo ""
+              echo "| Slug | Actual /buildinfo SHA | Expected | Status |"
+              echo "|------|----------------------|----------|--------|"
+              for line in "${UNREACHABLE_LINES[@]}"; do echo "$line"; done
+              echo ""
+            fi
+            if [ $STALE_COUNT -eq 0 ] && [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -eq 0 ]; then
+              echo "All ${#SLUGS[@]} tenants returned matching SHA. ✓"
+            fi
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+          if [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::$UNREACHABLE_COUNT tenant(s) unreachable post-redeploy. Likely benign teardown race — CP healthz monitor catches real outages."
+          fi
+
+          # Belt-and-suspenders sanity floor: same logic as the staging
+          # variant — see that file's comment for the full rationale.
+          # Floor only applies when fleet >= 4; below that, canary-verify
+          # is the actual gate.
+          TOTAL_VERIFIED=${#SLUGS[@]}
+          if [ $TOTAL_VERIFIED -ge 4 ] && [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -gt $((TOTAL_VERIFIED / 2)) ]; then
+            echo "::error::$UNREACHABLE_COUNT of $TOTAL_VERIFIED tenant(s) unreachable — exceeds 50% threshold on a fleet large enough that this signals a real outage, not teardown race."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          if [ $STALE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::error::$STALE_COUNT tenant(s) returned a stale SHA. ssm_status=Success was misleading — see job summary."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          echo "::notice::Tenant fleet redeploy complete — all reachable tenants on ${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7} (${UNREACHABLE_COUNT} unreachable, soft-warned)."

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+name: redeploy-tenants-on-staging
+
+# Auto-refresh staging tenant EC2s after every staging-branch merge.
+#
+# Mirror of redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml, with the staging-CP host and
+# the :staging-latest tag. Sister workflow exists for prod (rolls
+# :latest after canary-verify). Both share the same shape — just
+# different CP_URL + target_tag + admin token secret.
+#
+# Why this workflow exists: publish-workspace-server-image now builds
+# on every staging-branch push (PR #2335), pushing
+# platform-tenant:staging-latest to GHCR. Existing tenants pulled
+# their image once at boot and never re-pull, so the new image just
+# sits unused until the tenant is reprovisioned.
+#
+# This workflow closes the gap by calling staging-CP's
+# /cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet, which performs a canary-first,
+# batched, health-gated SSM redeploy across every live staging tenant.
+# Same endpoint shape as prod CP — only the host differs.
+#
+# Runtime ordering:
+#   1. publish-workspace-server-image completes on staging branch →
+#      new :staging-latest in GHCR.
+#   2. This workflow fires via workflow_run, waits 30s for GHCR's CDN
+#      to propagate the new tag.
+#   3. Calls redeploy-fleet with no canary (staging IS canary; we don't
+#      need a sub-canary inside it). Soak still applies to the first
+#      tenant in case of bad-deploy detection.
+#   4. Any failure aborts the rollout and leaves older tenants on the
+#      prior image — safer default than half-and-half state.
+#
+# Rollback path: re-run with workflow_dispatch + target_tag=staging-<sha>
+# of a known-good build.
+
+on:
+  workflow_run:
+    workflows: ['publish-workspace-server-image']
+    types: [completed]
+    branches: [main]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      target_tag:
+        description: 'Tenant image tag to deploy (e.g. "staging-latest" or "staging-a59f1a6c"). Defaults to staging-latest when empty.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: 'staging-latest'
+      canary_slug:
+        description: 'Tenant slug to deploy first + soak (empty = skip canary, fan out immediately). Default empty for staging since staging itself is the canary.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: ''
+      soak_seconds:
+        description: 'Seconds to wait after canary before fanning out. Only meaningful if canary_slug is set.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: '60'
+      batch_size:
+        description: 'How many tenants SSM redeploys in parallel per batch.'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+        default: '3'
+      dry_run:
+        description: 'Plan only — do not actually redeploy.'
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  # No write scopes needed — the workflow hits an external CP endpoint,
+  # not the GitHub API.
+
+# Serialize per-branch so two rapid staging pushes' redeploys don't
+# overlap and cause confusing per-tenant SSM state. cancel-in-progress
+# is false because aborting a half-rolled-out fleet leaves tenants
+# stuck on whatever image they happened to be on when cancelled.
+concurrency:
+  group: redeploy-tenants-on-staging
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+jobs:
+  redeploy:
+    # Skip the auto-trigger if publish-workspace-server-image didn't
+    # actually succeed. workflow_run fires on any completion state; we
+    # don't want to redeploy against a half-built image.
+    if: |
+      github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' ||
+      (github.event_name == 'workflow_run' && github.event.workflow_run.conclusion == 'success')
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 25
+    steps:
+      - name: Wait for GHCR tag propagation
+        # GHCR's edge cache takes ~15-30s to consistently serve the new
+        # :staging-latest manifest after the registry accepts the push.
+        # Same rationale as redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml.
+        run: sleep 30
+
+      - name: Call staging-CP redeploy-fleet
+        # CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN must be set as a repo/org secret
+        # on molecule-ai/molecule-core, matching staging-CP's
+        # CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN env var (visible in Railway controlplane
+        # / staging environment). Stored separately from the prod
+        # CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN so a leak of one doesn't auth the other.
+        env:
+          CP_URL: ${{ vars.STAGING_CP_URL || 'https://staging-api.moleculesai.app' }}
+          CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN }}
+          TARGET_TAG: ${{ inputs.target_tag || 'staging-latest' }}
+          CANARY_SLUG: ${{ inputs.canary_slug || '' }}
+          SOAK_SECONDS: ${{ inputs.soak_seconds || '60' }}
+          BATCH_SIZE: ${{ inputs.batch_size || '3' }}
+          DRY_RUN: ${{ inputs.dry_run || false }}
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          # Schedule-vs-dispatch hardening (mirrors sweep-cf-orphans
+          # and sweep-cf-tunnels): hard-fail on auto-trigger when the
+          # secret is missing so a misconfigured-repo doesn't silently
+          # serve stale staging tenants. Soft-skip on operator dispatch.
+          if [ -z "${CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
+            if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+              echo "::warning::CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret not set — skipping redeploy"
+              echo "::warning::Set CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN in repo secrets to enable auto-redeploy."
+              echo "::notice::Pull the value from staging-CP's CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN env in Railway."
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "::error::staging redeploy cannot run — CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN secret missing"
+            echo "::error::set it at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions; pull from staging-CP's CP_ADMIN_API_TOKEN env in Railway."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          BODY=$(jq -nc \
+            --arg tag "$TARGET_TAG" \
+            --arg canary "$CANARY_SLUG" \
+            --argjson soak "$SOAK_SECONDS" \
+            --argjson batch "$BATCH_SIZE" \
+            --argjson dry "$DRY_RUN" \
+            '{
+              target_tag: $tag,
+              canary_slug: $canary,
+              soak_seconds: $soak,
+              batch_size: $batch,
+              dry_run: $dry
+            }')
+
+          echo "POST $CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet"
+          echo "  body: $BODY"
+
+          HTTP_RESPONSE=$(mktemp)
+          HTTP_CODE_FILE=$(mktemp)
+          # Route -w into its own tempfile so curl's exit code (e.g. 56
+          # on connection-reset) can't pollute the captured stdout. The
+          # previous inline-substitution shape produced "000000" on
+          # connection reset — caught on main variant 2026-05-04
+          # redeploying sha 2b862f6. Same fix shape as the synth-E2E
+          # §9c gate (PR #2797). See lint-curl-status-capture.yml for
+          # the CI gate that pins this fix shape.
+          set +e
+          curl -sS -o "$HTTP_RESPONSE" -w '%{http_code}' \
+            -m 1200 \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $CP_STAGING_ADMIN_API_TOKEN" \
+            -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+            -X POST "$CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/redeploy-fleet" \
+            -d "$BODY" >"$HTTP_CODE_FILE"
+          set -e
+          # Stderr from curl (-sS shows dial errors etc.) goes to the
+          # runner log so operators can see WHY a connection failed.
+          HTTP_CODE=$(cat "$HTTP_CODE_FILE" 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+          [ -z "$HTTP_CODE" ] && HTTP_CODE="000"
+
+          echo "HTTP $HTTP_CODE"
+          cat "$HTTP_RESPONSE" | jq . || cat "$HTTP_RESPONSE"
+
+          {
+            echo "## Staging tenant redeploy fleet"
+            echo ""
+            echo "**Target tag:** \`$TARGET_TAG\`"
+            echo "**Canary:** \`${CANARY_SLUG:-(none — staging is itself the canary)}\` (soak ${SOAK_SECONDS}s)"
+            echo "**Batch size:** $BATCH_SIZE"
+            echo "**Dry run:** $DRY_RUN"
+            echo "**HTTP:** $HTTP_CODE"
+            echo ""
+            echo "### Per-tenant result"
+            echo ""
+            echo '| Slug | Phase | SSM Status | Exit | Healthz | Error |'
+            echo '|------|-------|------------|------|---------|-------|'
+            jq -r '.results[]? | "| \(.slug) | \(.phase) | \(.ssm_status // "-") | \(.ssm_exit_code) | \(.healthz_ok) | \(.error // "-") |"' "$HTTP_RESPONSE" || true
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+          # Distinguish "real fleet failure" from "E2E teardown race".
+          #
+          # CP returns HTTP 500 + ok=false whenever ANY tenant in the
+          # fleet failed SSM or healthz. In practice the recurring source
+          # of these is ephemeral test tenants being torn down by their
+          # parent E2E run mid-redeploy: the EC2 dies → SSM exit=2 or
+          # healthz timeout → CP marks the fleet failed → this workflow
+          # goes red even though every operator-facing tenant rolled fine.
+          #
+          # Ephemeral slug prefixes (kept in sync with sweep-stale-e2e-orgs.yml
+          # — see that file for the source-of-truth list and rationale):
+          #   - e2e-*       — canvas/saas/ext E2E suites
+          #   - rt-e2e-*    — runtime-test harness fixtures (RFC #2251)
+          # Long-lived prefixes that are NOT ephemeral and MUST hard-fail:
+          # demo-prep, dryrun-*, dryrun2-*, plus all human tenant slugs.
+          #
+          # Filter: if HTTP=500/ok=false AND every failed slug matches an
+          # ephemeral prefix, treat as soft-warn and let the verify step
+          # downstream handle unreachable-vs-stale (#2402). Any non-ephemeral
+          # failure or a non-500 HTTP response remains a hard failure.
+          OK=$(jq -r '.ok // "false"' "$HTTP_RESPONSE")
+          FAILED_SLUGS=$(jq -r '
+            .results[]?
+            | select((.healthz_ok != true) or (.ssm_status != "Success"))
+            | .slug' "$HTTP_RESPONSE" 2>/dev/null || true)
+          EPHEMERAL_PREFIX_RE='^(e2e-|rt-e2e-)'
+          NON_EPHEMERAL_FAILED=$(printf '%s\n' "$FAILED_SLUGS" | grep -v '^$' | grep -Ev "$EPHEMERAL_PREFIX_RE" || true)
+
+          if [ "$HTTP_CODE" = "200" ] && [ "$OK" = "true" ]; then
+            : # happy path — fall through to verification
+          elif [ "$HTTP_CODE" = "500" ] && [ -z "$NON_EPHEMERAL_FAILED" ] && [ -n "$FAILED_SLUGS" ]; then
+            COUNT=$(printf '%s\n' "$FAILED_SLUGS" | grep -Ec "$EPHEMERAL_PREFIX_RE" || true)
+            echo "::warning::redeploy-fleet returned HTTP 500 but every failed tenant ($COUNT) is ephemeral (e2e-*/rt-e2e-*) — treating as teardown race, soft-warning."
+            printf '%s\n' "$FAILED_SLUGS" | sed 's/^/::warning::  failed: /'
+          elif [ "$HTTP_CODE" != "200" ]; then
+            echo "::error::redeploy-fleet returned HTTP $HTTP_CODE"
+            if [ -n "$NON_EPHEMERAL_FAILED" ]; then
+              echo "::error::non-ephemeral tenant(s) failed:"
+              printf '%s\n' "$NON_EPHEMERAL_FAILED" | sed 's/^/::error::  /'
+            fi
+            exit 1
+          else
+            # HTTP=200 but ok=false (shouldn't happen with current CP
+            # but keep the gate for completeness).
+            echo "::error::redeploy-fleet reported ok=false (see summary for which tenant halted the rollout)"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "::notice::Staging tenant fleet redeploy reported ssm_status=Success — verifying actual image roll on each tenant..."
+
+          cp "$HTTP_RESPONSE" "$RUNNER_TEMP/redeploy-response.json"
+
+      - name: Verify each staging tenant /buildinfo matches published SHA
+        # Mirror of the verify step in redeploy-tenants-on-main.yml — see
+        # there for the rationale (#2395 root fix). Staging has the same
+        # ssm_status-success-but-stale-image hazard and benefits from the
+        # same gate. Diff: TENANT_DOMAIN includes the `staging.` infix.
+        env:
+          EXPECTED_SHA: ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_sha || github.sha }}
+          TARGET_TAG: ${{ inputs.target_tag || 'staging-latest' }}
+          TENANT_DOMAIN: 'staging.moleculesai.app'
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+
+          # staging-latest is the staging-side moving tag; treat it the
+          # same way main treats `latest`. Operator-pinned SHAs skip
+          # verification (see main variant for why).
+          if [ "$TARGET_TAG" != "staging-latest" ] && [ "$TARGET_TAG" != "latest" ] && [ "$TARGET_TAG" != "$EXPECTED_SHA" ]; then
+            echo "::notice::target_tag=$TARGET_TAG (operator-pinned) — skipping per-tenant SHA verification."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          RESP="$RUNNER_TEMP/redeploy-response.json"
+          if [ ! -s "$RESP" ]; then
+            echo "::error::redeploy-response.json missing or empty"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          mapfile -t SLUGS < <(jq -r '.results[]? | select(.healthz_ok == true) | .slug' "$RESP")
+          if [ ${#SLUGS[@]} -eq 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::No staging tenants reported healthz_ok — nothing to verify"
+            exit 0
+          fi
+
+          echo "Verifying ${#SLUGS[@]} staging tenant(s) against EXPECTED_SHA=${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7}..."
+
+          # Two distinct failure modes here:
+          #   STALE_COUNT      — tenant returned a SHA that doesn't match. THIS is
+          #                      the #2395 bug class: tenant up + serving old code.
+          #                      Always hard-fail the workflow.
+          #   UNREACHABLE_COUNT — tenant didn't respond. Almost always a benign
+          #                      teardown race: redeploy-fleet snapshot says
+          #                      healthz_ok=true, then the E2E suite tears the
+          #                      ephemeral tenant down before this step runs (the
+          #                      e2e-* fixtures churn 5-10/hour on staging). Soft-
+          #                      warn so we don't block staging→main on cleanup.
+          #                      Real "tenant up but unreachable" is caught by CP's
+          #                      own healthz monitor + the post-redeploy alert; we
+          #                      don't need to double-count it here.
+          STALE_COUNT=0
+          UNREACHABLE_COUNT=0
+          STALE_LINES=()
+          UNREACHABLE_LINES=()
+          for slug in "${SLUGS[@]}"; do
+            URL="https://${slug}.${TENANT_DOMAIN}/buildinfo"
+            BODY=$(curl -sS --max-time 30 --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 --retry-connrefused "$URL" || true)
+            ACTUAL_SHA=$(echo "$BODY" | jq -r '.git_sha // ""' 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+            if [ -z "$ACTUAL_SHA" ]; then
+              UNREACHABLE_COUNT=$((UNREACHABLE_COUNT + 1))
+              UNREACHABLE_LINES+=("| $slug | (no /buildinfo response) | ${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7} | ⚠ unreachable (likely teardown race) |")
+              continue
+            fi
+            if [ "$ACTUAL_SHA" = "$EXPECTED_SHA" ]; then
+              echo "  $slug: ${ACTUAL_SHA:0:7} ✓"
+            else
+              STALE_COUNT=$((STALE_COUNT + 1))
+              STALE_LINES+=("| $slug | ${ACTUAL_SHA:0:7} | ${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7} | ❌ stale |")
+            fi
+          done
+
+          {
+            echo ""
+            echo "### Per-tenant /buildinfo verification (staging)"
+            echo ""
+            echo "Expected SHA: \`${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7}\`"
+            echo ""
+            if [ $STALE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+              echo "**${STALE_COUNT} STALE tenant(s) — these did NOT pick up the new image despite ssm_status=Success:**"
+              echo ""
+              echo "| Slug | Actual /buildinfo SHA | Expected | Status |"
+              echo "|------|----------------------|----------|--------|"
+              for line in "${STALE_LINES[@]}"; do echo "$line"; done
+              echo ""
+            fi
+            if [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+              echo "**${UNREACHABLE_COUNT} unreachable tenant(s) — likely E2E teardown race (soft-warn, not failing):**"
+              echo ""
+              echo "| Slug | Actual /buildinfo SHA | Expected | Status |"
+              echo "|------|----------------------|----------|--------|"
+              for line in "${UNREACHABLE_LINES[@]}"; do echo "$line"; done
+              echo ""
+            fi
+            if [ $STALE_COUNT -eq 0 ] && [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -eq 0 ]; then
+              echo "All ${#SLUGS[@]} staging tenants returned matching SHA. ✓"
+            fi
+          } >> "$GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY"
+
+          if [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::warning::$UNREACHABLE_COUNT staging tenant(s) unreachable post-redeploy. Likely benign teardown race — CP healthz monitor catches real outages."
+          fi
+
+          # Belt-and-suspenders sanity floor: if MORE than half the fleet is
+          # unreachable AND the fleet is large enough that "half down" is
+          # statistically meaningful, this is a real outage (e.g. new image
+          # crashes on startup), not a teardown race. Hard-fail.
+          #
+          # Floor only applies when TOTAL_VERIFIED >= 4 — below that, the
+          # canary-verify step is the actual gate for "all tenants down"
+          # detection (it runs against the canary first and aborts the
+          # rollout if the canary fails to come up). Without the >=4 gate,
+          # a 1-tenant fleet (e.g. a single ephemeral e2e-* tenant on a
+          # quiet staging push) would re-flake on the exact teardown-race
+          # condition #2402 fixed: 1 of 1 unreachable = 100% > 50% → fail.
+          TOTAL_VERIFIED=${#SLUGS[@]}
+          if [ $TOTAL_VERIFIED -ge 4 ] && [ $UNREACHABLE_COUNT -gt $((TOTAL_VERIFIED / 2)) ]; then
+            echo "::error::$UNREACHABLE_COUNT of $TOTAL_VERIFIED staging tenant(s) unreachable — exceeds 50% threshold on a fleet large enough that this signals a real outage, not teardown race."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          if [ $STALE_COUNT -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "::error::$STALE_COUNT staging tenant(s) returned a stale SHA. ssm_status=Success was misleading — see job summary."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+
+          echo "::notice::Staging tenant fleet redeploy complete — all reachable tenants on ${EXPECTED_SHA:0:7} (${UNREACHABLE_COUNT} unreachable, soft-warned)."

.github/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml

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+name: Runtime Pin Compatibility
+
+# CI gate that prevents the 5-hour staging outage from 2026-04-24 from
+# recurring (controlplane#253). The original failure mode:
+#   1. molecule-ai-workspace-runtime 0.1.13 declared `a2a-sdk<1.0` in its
+#      requires_dist metadata (incorrect — it actually imports
+#      a2a.server.routes which only exists in a2a-sdk 1.0+)
+#   2. `pip install molecule-ai-workspace-runtime` resolved cleanly
+#   3. `from molecule_runtime.main import main_sync` raised ImportError
+#   4. Every tenant workspace crashed; the canary tenant caught it but
+#      only after 5 hours of degraded staging
+#
+# This workflow installs the CURRENTLY PUBLISHED runtime from PyPI on
+# top of `workspace/requirements.txt` and smoke-imports. Catches:
+#   - Upstream PyPI yanks
+#   - Bad re-releases of molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
+#   - Already-shipped wheels that stop importing because a transitive
+#     dep moved underneath
+#
+# This is the "PyPI artifact health" half of pin compatibility. The
+# companion workflow `runtime-prbuild-compat.yml` covers the
+# "PR-introduced breakage" half by building the wheel from THIS PR's
+# workspace/ source. Splitting the two means each gets a narrow
+# `paths:` filter — the pypi-latest job no longer fires on doc-only
+# workspace/ edits whose content can't change what's currently on PyPI.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      # Narrow filter: pypi-latest is sensitive only to changes that
+      # affect what we're INSTALLING (requirements.txt) or WHAT THE
+      # CHECK ITSELF DOES (this workflow file). Edits to workspace/
+      # source code don't change what's on PyPI right now, so they
+      # don't change this gate's verdict.
+      - 'workspace/requirements.txt'
+      - '.github/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'workspace/requirements.txt'
+      - '.github/workflows/runtime-pin-compat.yml'
+  # Daily catch for upstream PyPI publishes that break the pin combo
+  # without any change in our repo (e.g. someone re-yanks an a2a-sdk
+  # release or molecule-ai-workspace-runtime publishes a bad bump).
+  schedule:
+    - cron: '0 13 * * *'  # 06:00 PT
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # Required-check support: when this becomes a branch-protection gate,
+  # merge_group runs let the queue green-check this in addition to PRs.
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  pypi-latest-install:
+    name: PyPI-latest install + import smoke
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - name: Install runtime + workspace requirements
+        # Install order is load-bearing: install the runtime FIRST so pip
+        # honors whatever a2a-sdk constraint the runtime metadata declares
+        # (this is the surface that broke in 2026-04-24 — runtime declared
+        # `a2a-sdk<1.0` but actually needed >=1.0). The follow-up install
+        # of workspace/requirements.txt then upgrades a2a-sdk to the
+        # constraint our runtime image actually pins. The import smoke
+        # below verifies the upgraded combination is consistent.
+        run: |
+          python -m venv /tmp/venv
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip install molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip install -r workspace/requirements.txt
+          /tmp/venv/bin/pip show molecule-ai-workspace-runtime a2a-sdk \
+            | grep -E '^(Name|Version):'
+      - name: Smoke import — fail if metadata declares deps that don't satisfy real imports
+        # WORKSPACE_ID is validated at import time by platform_auth.py — EC2
+        # user-data sets it from the cloud-init template; set a placeholder
+        # here so the import smoke doesn't trip on the env-var guard.
+        env:
+          WORKSPACE_ID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001
+        run: |
+          /tmp/venv/bin/python -c "from molecule_runtime.main import main_sync; print('runtime imports OK')"

.github/workflows/runtime-prbuild-compat.yml

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+name: Runtime PR-Built Compatibility
+
+# Companion to `runtime-pin-compat.yml`. That workflow tests what's
+# CURRENTLY PUBLISHED on PyPI; this workflow tests what WOULD BE
+# PUBLISHED if THIS PR merges.
+#
+# Why two workflows: the chicken-and-egg #128 fix added a "PR-built
+# wheel" job to the original runtime-pin-compat.yml, but both jobs
+# shared a `paths:` filter that was the union of their needs
+# (`workspace/**`). That meant the PyPI-latest job ran on every doc
+# edit even though the upstream PyPI artifact can't change with our
+# workspace/ source. Splitting the two means each gets a narrow
+# `paths:` filter that matches the inputs it actually depends on.
+#
+# Catches the failure mode where a PR adds an import requiring a newer
+# SDK than `workspace/requirements.txt` pins:
+#   1. Pip resolves the existing PyPI wheel + the old SDK pin → smoke
+#      passes (it imports the OLD main.py from the wheel, not the PR's
+#      new main.py).
+#   2. Merge → publish-runtime.yml ships a wheel WITH the new import.
+#   3. Tenant images redeploy → all crash on first boot with
+#      ImportError.
+#
+# By building from the PR's source and smoke-importing THAT wheel, we
+# fail at PR-time instead of after publish.
+#
+# Required-check shape (2026-05-01): the workflow runs on EVERY push +
+# PR + merge_group event with no top-level `paths:` filter, then uses a
+# detect-changes job + per-step `if:` gates inside ONE always-running
+# job named `PR-built wheel + import smoke`. PRs that don't touch
+# wheel-relevant paths get a no-op SUCCESS check run, satisfying branch
+# protection without re-running the heavy build. Same pattern as
+# e2e-api.yml — see its comment for the full rationale + the 2026-04-29
+# PR #2264 incident that motivated the always-run-with-if-gates shape.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+concurrency:
+  # Include event_name so a PR sync (event=pull_request) and the
+  # subsequent staging push (event=push) on the SAME merge SHA don't
+  # collide in one group. Without event_name, both runs hashed to
+  # the same key and cancel-in-progress=true cancelled whichever
+  # arrived second — usually the push run, which staging branch-
+  # protection then sees as a CANCELLED required check and refuses
+  # to mark merged. Caught 2026-05-05 across PR #2869's runs (run
+  # ids 25371863455 / 25371811486 / 25371078157 / 25370403142 — every
+  # staging push run cancelled, every matching PR run green).
+  #
+  # Per memory `feedback_concurrency_group_per_sha.md` — same drift
+  # class that broke auto-promote-staging on 2026-04-28. Pin invariant:
+  # event_name + sha is the minimum unique key for these workflows.
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event_name }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  detect-changes:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    outputs:
+      wheel: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.wheel }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: dorny/paths-filter@fbd0ab8f3e69293af611ebaee6363fc25e6d187d # v4.0.1
+        id: filter
+        with:
+          filters: |
+            wheel:
+              - 'workspace/**'
+              - 'scripts/build_runtime_package.py'
+              - 'scripts/wheel_smoke.py'
+              - '.github/workflows/runtime-prbuild-compat.yml'
+      - id: decide
+        # Always run real work for manual dispatch + merge_group — no
+        # diff-against-base in those contexts, and the gate exists to
+        # validate the to-be-merged state regardless of which paths it
+        # touched (paths-filter would default to "no changes" which is
+        # the wrong answer when the queue is composing many PRs).
+        run: |
+          if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ] || [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "merge_group" ]; then
+            echo "wheel=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "wheel=${{ steps.filter.outputs.wheel }}" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+  # ONE job (no job-level `if:`) that always runs and reports under the
+  # required-check name `PR-built wheel + import smoke`. Real work is
+  # gated per-step on `needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel`. Same shape
+  # as e2e-api.yml's e2e-api job — see its comment block for the full
+  # rationale (SKIPPED check runs block branch protection even with
+  # SUCCESS siblings; collapsing to one always-run job emits exactly
+  # one SUCCESS check run).
+  local-build-install:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    name: PR-built wheel + import smoke
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: No-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel != 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "No workspace/ / scripts/{build_runtime_package,wheel_smoke}.py / workflow changes — wheel gate satisfied without rebuilding."
+          echo "::notice::PR-built wheel + import smoke no-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)."
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+          cache: pip
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace/requirements.txt
+      - name: Install build tooling
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        run: pip install build
+      - name: Build wheel from PR source (mirrors publish-runtime.yml)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        # Use a fixed test version so the wheel filename is predictable.
+        # Doesn't reach PyPI — this build is local-only for the smoke.
+        # Use the SAME build script with the SAME args as
+        # publish-runtime.yml's build step. The temp dir path differs
+        # (`/tmp/runtime-build` here vs `${{ runner.temp }}/runtime-build`
+        # in publish-runtime.yml — they coincide on ubuntu-latest but
+        # the call sites are not byte-identical). The smoke import is
+        # also intentionally narrower than publish's: this gate exists
+        # to catch SDK-version-import drift specifically; full invariant
+        # coverage lives in publish-runtime.yml's own pre-PyPI smoke.
+        run: |
+          python scripts/build_runtime_package.py \
+            --version "0.0.0.dev0+pin-compat" \
+            --out /tmp/runtime-build
+          cd /tmp/runtime-build && python -m build
+      - name: Install built wheel + workspace requirements
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        run: |
+          python -m venv /tmp/venv-built
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip install --upgrade pip
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip install /tmp/runtime-build/dist/*.whl
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip install -r workspace/requirements.txt
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/pip show molecule-ai-workspace-runtime a2a-sdk \
+            | grep -E '^(Name|Version):'
+      - name: Smoke import the PR-built wheel
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.wheel == 'true'
+        # Same script publish-runtime.yml runs against the to-be-PyPI wheel.
+        # Closes the PR-time vs publish-time gap: a PR adding a new SDK
+        # call-shape no longer passes here (narrow `import main_sync`) only
+        # to fail post-merge in publish-runtime's broader smoke.
+        run: |
+          /tmp/venv-built/bin/python "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE/scripts/wheel_smoke.py"

.github/workflows/secret-pattern-drift.yml

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+name: SECRET_PATTERNS drift lint
+
+# Detects when the canonical SECRET_PATTERNS array in
+# .github/workflows/secret-scan.yml diverges from known consumer
+# mirrors (workspace-runtime's bundled pre-commit hook today; more
+# can be added as the consumer set grows).
+#
+# Why this exists: every side that scans for credentials has its own
+# copy of the pattern list. They drift — most recently the runtime
+# hook lagged the canonical by one pattern (sk-cp- / MiniMax F1088),
+# so a developer's local pre-commit would let a sk-cp- token through
+# while the org-wide CI scan would refuse it. The cost of that drift
+# is dev confusion + delayed feedback; the fix is automated detection.
+#
+# Triggers:
+#   - schedule: daily 05:00 UTC. Catches drift introduced by edits
+#     to a consumer copy that didn't update canonical here.
+#   - push to main/staging where the canonical or this lint changed:
+#     catches the inverse — canonical updated but consumers not yet
+#     bumped. The lint will fail the push; that's intentional, the
+#     person editing canonical is the right person to also update
+#     the consumer.
+#   - workflow_dispatch: ad-hoc operator runs.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # 05:00 UTC = 22:00 PT / 01:00 ET. Quiet hours so a failure
+    # email lands when humans are starting their day, not
+    # interrupting it.
+    - cron: "0 5 * * *"
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - ".github/workflows/secret-scan.yml"
+      - ".github/workflows/secret-pattern-drift.yml"
+      - ".github/scripts/lint_secret_pattern_drift.py"
+      - ".githooks/pre-commit"
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+# GITHUB_TOKEN scoped to read-only. The lint only does git checkout
+# + HTTPS GETs to public consumer files; no writes to anything.
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  lint:
+    name: Detect SECRET_PATTERNS drift
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 5
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: "3.11"
+
+      - name: Run drift lint
+        run: python3 .github/scripts/lint_secret_pattern_drift.py

.github/workflows/sweep-aws-secrets.yml

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+name: Sweep stale AWS Secrets Manager secrets
+
+# Janitor for per-tenant AWS Secrets Manager secrets
+# (`molecule/tenant/<org_id>/bootstrap`) whose backing tenant no
+# longer exists. Parallel-shape to sweep-cf-tunnels.yml and
+# sweep-cf-orphans.yml — different cloud, same justification.
+#
+# Why this exists separately from a long-term reconciler integration:
+#   - molecule-controlplane's tenant_resources audit table (mig 024)
+#     currently tracks four resource kinds: CloudflareTunnel,
+#     CloudflareDNS, EC2Instance, SecurityGroup. SecretsManager is
+#     not in the list, so the existing reconciler doesn't catch
+#     orphan secrets.
+#   - At ~$0.40/secret/month the cost grew to ~$19/month before this
+#     sweeper was written, indicating ~45+ orphan secrets from
+#     crashed provisions and incomplete deprovision flows.
+#   - The proper fix (KindSecretsManagerSecret + recorder hook +
+#     reconciler enumerator) is filed as a separate controlplane
+#     issue. This sweeper is the immediate cost-relief stopgap.
+#
+# IAM principal: AWS_JANITOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID / AWS_JANITOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY.
+# This is a DEDICATED principal — the production `molecule-cp` IAM
+# user lacks `secretsmanager:ListSecrets` (it only has
+# Get/Create/Update/Delete on specific resources, scoped to its
+# operational needs). The janitor needs ListSecrets across the
+# `molecule/tenant/*` prefix, which warrants a separate principal so
+# we don't broaden the prod-CP policy.
+#
+# Safety: the script's MAX_DELETE_PCT gate (default 50%, mirroring
+# sweep-cf-orphans.yml — tenant secrets are durable by design, unlike
+# the mostly-orphan tunnels) refuses to nuke past the threshold.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Hourly at :30 — offsets from sweep-cf-orphans (:15) and
+    # sweep-cf-tunnels (:45) so the three janitors don't burst the
+    # CP admin endpoints at the same minute.
+    - cron: '30 * * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      dry_run:
+        description: "Dry run only — list what would be deleted, no deletion"
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: true
+      max_delete_pct:
+        description: "Override safety gate (default 50, set higher only for major cleanup)"
+        required: false
+        default: "50"
+      grace_hours:
+        description: "Skip secrets created within this many hours (default 24)"
+        required: false
+        default: "24"
+
+# Don't let two sweeps race the same AWS account.
+concurrency:
+  group: sweep-aws-secrets
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  sweep:
+    name: Sweep AWS Secrets Manager
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # 30 min cap, mirroring the other janitors. AWS DeleteSecret is
+    # fast (~0.3s/call) so even a 100+ backlog drains in seconds
+    # under the 8-way xargs parallelism, but the cap is set generously
+    # to leave headroom for any actual API hang.
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    env:
+      AWS_REGION: ${{ secrets.AWS_REGION || 'us-east-1' }}
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_JANITOR_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_JANITOR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+      CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      MAX_DELETE_PCT: ${{ github.event.inputs.max_delete_pct || '50' }}
+      GRACE_HOURS: ${{ github.event.inputs.grace_hours || '24' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify required secrets present
+        id: verify
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch behaviour split mirrors sweep-cf-orphans
+        # and sweep-cf-tunnels (hardened 2026-04-28). Same principle:
+        #   - schedule → exit 1 on missing secrets (red CI surfaces it)
+        #   - workflow_dispatch → exit 0 with warning (operator-driven,
+        #     they already accepted the repo state)
+        run: |
+          missing=()
+          for var in AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN; do
+            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
+              missing+=("$var")
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ ${#missing[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+            if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+              echo "::warning::skipping sweep — secrets not configured: ${missing[*]}"
+              echo "::warning::set them at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, then rerun."
+              echo "::warning::AWS_JANITOR_* must belong to a principal with secretsmanager:ListSecrets and secretsmanager:DeleteSecret on molecule/tenant/* (the prod molecule-cp principal lacks ListSecrets)."
+              echo "skip=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "::error::sweep cannot run — required secrets missing: ${missing[*]}"
+            echo "::error::set them at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, or disable this workflow."
+            echo "::error::AWS_JANITOR_* must belong to a principal with secretsmanager:ListSecrets and secretsmanager:DeleteSecret on molecule/tenant/*."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "All required secrets present ✓"
+          echo "skip=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Run sweep
+        if: steps.verify.outputs.skip != 'true'
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch dry-run asymmetry mirrors sweep-cf-tunnels:
+        #   - Scheduled: input empty → "false" → --execute (the whole
+        #     point of an hourly janitor).
+        #   - Manual workflow_dispatch: input default true → dry-run;
+        #     operator must flip it to actually delete.
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ "${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run || 'false' }}" = "true" ]; then
+            echo "Running in dry-run mode — no deletions"
+            bash scripts/ops/sweep-aws-secrets.sh
+          else
+            echo "Running with --execute — will delete identified orphans"
+            bash scripts/ops/sweep-aws-secrets.sh --execute
+          fi

.github/workflows/sweep-cf-orphans.yml

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+name: Sweep stale Cloudflare DNS records
+
+# Janitor for Cloudflare DNS records whose backing tenant/workspace no
+# longer exists. Without this loop, every short-lived E2E or canary
+# leaves a CF record on the moleculesai.app zone — the zone has a
+# 200-record quota (controlplane#239 hit it 2026-04-23+) and provisions
+# start failing with code 81045 once exhausted.
+#
+# Why a separate workflow vs sweep-stale-e2e-orgs.yml:
+#   - That workflow operates at the CP layer (DELETE /cp/admin/tenants/:slug
+#     drives the cascade). It assumes CP has the org row to drive the
+#     deprovision from. It doesn't catch records left behind when CP
+#     itself never knew about the tenant (canary scratch, manual ops
+#     experiments) or when the cascade's CF-delete branch failed.
+#   - sweep-cf-orphans.sh enumerates the CF zone directly and matches
+#     each record against live CP slugs + AWS EC2 names. It catches
+#     leaks the CP-driven sweep can't.
+#
+# Safety: the script's own MAX_DELETE_PCT gate refuses to nuke more
+# than 50% of records in a single run. If something has gone weird
+# (CP admin endpoint returns no orgs → every tenant looks orphan) the
+# gate halts before damage. Decision-function unit tests in
+# scripts/ops/test_sweep_cf_decide.py (#2027) cover the rule
+# classifier.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Hourly. Mirrors sweep-stale-e2e-orgs cadence so the two janitors
+    # converge on the same tick. CF API rate budget is generous (1200
+    # req/5min); a single sweep makes ~1 list + N deletes (N<=quota/2).
+    - cron: '15 * * * *'  # offset from sweep-stale-e2e-orgs (top of hour)
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      dry_run:
+        description: "Dry run only — list what would be deleted, no deletion"
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: true
+      max_delete_pct:
+        description: "Override safety gate (default 50, set higher only for major cleanup)"
+        required: false
+        default: "50"
+  # No `merge_group:` trigger on purpose. This is a janitor — it doesn't
+  # need to gate merges, and including it as written before #2088 fired
+  # the full sweep job (or its secret-check) on every PR going through
+  # the merge queue, generating one red CI run per merge-queue eval. If
+  # this workflow is ever wired up as a required check, re-add
+  #   merge_group: { types: [checks_requested] }
+  # AND gate the sweep step with `if: github.event_name != 'merge_group'`
+  # so merge-queue evals report success without actually running.
+
+# Don't let two sweeps race the same zone. workflow_dispatch during a
+# scheduled run would otherwise issue duplicate DELETE calls.
+concurrency:
+  group: sweep-cf-orphans
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  sweep:
+    name: Sweep CF orphans
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # 3 min surfaces hangs (CF API stall, AWS describe-instances stuck)
+    # within one cron interval instead of burning a full tick. Realistic
+    # worst case is ~2 min: 4 sequential curls + 1 aws + N×CF-DELETE
+    # each individually capped at 10s by the script's curl -m flag.
+    timeout-minutes: 3
+    env:
+      CF_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
+      CF_ZONE_ID: ${{ secrets.CF_ZONE_ID }}
+      CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+      AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-east-2
+      MAX_DELETE_PCT: ${{ github.event.inputs.max_delete_pct || '50' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify required secrets present
+        id: verify
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch behaviour split (hardened 2026-04-28
+        # after the silent-no-op incident below):
+        #
+        # The earlier soft-skip-on-schedule policy hid a real leak. All
+        # six secrets were unset on this repo for an unknown duration;
+        # every hourly run printed a yellow ::warning:: and exited 0,
+        # so the workflow registered as "passing" while doing nothing.
+        # CF orphans accumulated to 152/200 (~76% of the zone quota
+        # gone) before a manual `dig`-driven audit caught it. Anything
+        # that runs as a janitor and reports green while idle is
+        # indistinguishable from "the janitor is healthy" — so we now
+        # treat schedule (and any future workflow_run/push triggers)
+        # as a hard-fail when secrets are missing.
+        #
+        #   - schedule / workflow_run / push → exit 1 (red CI run
+        #     surfaces the misconfiguration the next tick)
+        #   - workflow_dispatch              → exit 0 with a warning
+        #     (an operator ran this ad-hoc; they already accepted the
+        #     state of the repo and want the workflow to short-circuit
+        #     so they can rerun after fixing the secret)
+        run: |
+          missing=()
+          for var in CF_API_TOKEN CF_ZONE_ID CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY; do
+            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
+              missing+=("$var")
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ ${#missing[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+            if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+              echo "::warning::skipping sweep — secrets not configured: ${missing[*]}"
+              echo "::warning::set them at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, then rerun."
+              echo "skip=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "::error::sweep cannot run — required secrets missing: ${missing[*]}"
+            echo "::error::set them at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, or disable this workflow."
+            echo "::error::a silent skip masked an active CF DNS leak (152/200 zone records) caught only by a manual audit on 2026-04-28; this gate exists to make the gap visible."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "All required secrets present ✓"
+          echo "skip=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Run sweep
+        if: steps.verify.outputs.skip != 'true'
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch dry-run asymmetry (intentional):
+        #   - Scheduled runs: github.event.inputs.dry_run is empty →
+        #     defaults to "false" below → script runs with --execute
+        #     (the whole point of an hourly janitor).
+        #   - Manual workflow_dispatch: input default is true (line 38)
+        #     so an ad-hoc operator-triggered run is dry-run by default;
+        #     they have to flip the toggle to actually delete.
+        # The script's MAX_DELETE_PCT gate (default 50%) is the second
+        # line of defense regardless of mode.
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ "${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run || 'false' }}" = "true" ]; then
+            echo "Running in dry-run mode — no deletions"
+            bash scripts/ops/sweep-cf-orphans.sh
+          else
+            echo "Running with --execute — will delete identified orphans"
+            bash scripts/ops/sweep-cf-orphans.sh --execute
+          fi

.github/workflows/sweep-cf-tunnels.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+name: Sweep stale Cloudflare Tunnels
+
+# Janitor for Cloudflare Tunnels whose backing tenant no longer
+# exists. Parallel-shape to sweep-cf-orphans.yml (which sweeps DNS
+# records); same justification, different CF resource.
+#
+# Why this exists separately from sweep-cf-orphans:
+#   - DNS records live on the zone (`/zones/<id>/dns_records`).
+#   - Tunnels live on the account (`/accounts/<id>/cfd_tunnel`).
+#   - Different CF API surface, different scopes; the existing CF
+#     token might not have `account:cloudflare_tunnel:edit`. Splitting
+#     the workflows keeps each one's secret-presence gate independent
+#     so neither silent-skips when the other's secret is missing.
+#   - Cleaner blast radius — operators can disable one without the
+#     other if a regression surfaces.
+#
+# Safety: the script's MAX_DELETE_PCT gate (default 90% — higher than
+# the DNS sweep's 50% because tenant-shaped tunnels are mostly
+# orphans by design) refuses to nuke past the threshold.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Hourly at :45 — offset from sweep-cf-orphans (:15) so the two
+    # janitors don't issue parallel CF API bursts at the same minute.
+    - cron: '45 * * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      dry_run:
+        description: "Dry run only — list what would be deleted, no deletion"
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: true
+      max_delete_pct:
+        description: "Override safety gate (default 90, set higher only for major cleanup)"
+        required: false
+        default: "90"
+
+# Don't let two sweeps race the same account.
+concurrency:
+  group: sweep-cf-tunnels
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  sweep:
+    name: Sweep CF tunnels
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    # 30 min cap. Was 5 min on the theory that the only thing that
+    # could take >5min is a CF-API hang — but on 2026-05-02 a backlog
+    # of 672 stale tunnels accumulated (large staging E2E run + delayed
+    # sweep) and the serial `curl -X DELETE` loop (~0.7s/tunnel) needed
+    # ~7-8min to drain. The 5-min cap killed the run mid-sweep
+    # (cancelled at 424/672, see run 25248788312); a manual rerun
+    # finished the remainder fine.
+    #
+    # The fix is two-part: parallelize the delete loop (8-way xargs in
+    # the script — see scripts/ops/sweep-cf-tunnels.sh), AND raise the
+    # cap so a one-off backlog doesn't trip a hangs-detector that
+    # turned out to be a real-job-too-slow detector. With 8-way
+    # parallelism, 600+ tunnels drains in ~60s; 30 min is generous
+    # headroom for actual hangs to still surface (and is in line with
+    # the sweep-cf-orphans companion job).
+    timeout-minutes: 30
+    env:
+      CF_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CF_API_TOKEN }}
+      CF_ACCOUNT_ID: ${{ secrets.CF_ACCOUNT_ID }}
+      CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      MAX_DELETE_PCT: ${{ github.event.inputs.max_delete_pct || '90' }}
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - name: Verify required secrets present
+        id: verify
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch behaviour split mirrors sweep-cf-orphans
+        # (hardened 2026-04-28 after the silent-no-op incident: the
+        # janitor reported green while doing nothing because secrets
+        # were unset, masking a 152/200 zone-record leak). Same
+        # principle applies here:
+        #   - schedule → exit 1 on missing secrets (red CI surfaces it)
+        #   - workflow_dispatch → exit 0 with warning (operator-driven,
+        #     they already accepted the repo state)
+        run: |
+          missing=()
+          for var in CF_API_TOKEN CF_ACCOUNT_ID CP_PROD_ADMIN_TOKEN CP_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN; do
+            if [ -z "${!var:-}" ]; then
+              missing+=("$var")
+            fi
+          done
+          if [ ${#missing[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
+            if [ "${{ github.event_name }}" = "workflow_dispatch" ]; then
+              echo "::warning::skipping sweep — secrets not configured: ${missing[*]}"
+              echo "::warning::set them at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, then rerun."
+              echo "::warning::CF_API_TOKEN must include account:cloudflare_tunnel:edit scope (separate from the zone:dns:edit scope used by sweep-cf-orphans)."
+              echo "skip=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            echo "::error::sweep cannot run — required secrets missing: ${missing[*]}"
+            echo "::error::set them at Settings → Secrets and Variables → Actions, or disable this workflow."
+            echo "::error::CF_API_TOKEN must include account:cloudflare_tunnel:edit scope."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "All required secrets present ✓"
+          echo "skip=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Run sweep
+        if: steps.verify.outputs.skip != 'true'
+        # Schedule-vs-dispatch dry-run asymmetry mirrors sweep-cf-orphans:
+        #   - Scheduled: input empty → "false" → --execute (the whole
+        #     point of an hourly janitor).
+        #   - Manual workflow_dispatch: input default true → dry-run;
+        #     operator must flip it to actually delete.
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          if [ "${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run || 'false' }}" = "true" ]; then
+            echo "Running in dry-run mode — no deletions"
+            bash scripts/ops/sweep-cf-tunnels.sh
+          else
+            echo "Running with --execute — will delete identified orphans"
+            bash scripts/ops/sweep-cf-tunnels.sh --execute
+          fi

.github/workflows/sweep-stale-e2e-orgs.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,239 @@
+name: Sweep stale e2e-* orgs (staging)
+
+# Janitor for staging tenants left behind when E2E cleanup didn't run:
+# CI cancellations, runner crashes, transient AWS errors mid-cascade,
+# bash trap missed (signal 9), etc. Without this loop, every failed
+# teardown leaks an EC2 + DNS + DB row until manual ops cleanup —
+# 2026-04-23 staging hit the 64 vCPU AWS quota from ~27 such orphans.
+#
+# Why not rely on per-test-run teardown:
+#   - Per-run teardown is best-effort by definition. Any process death
+#     after the test starts but before the trap fires leaves debris.
+#   - GH Actions cancellation kills the runner without grace period.
+#     The workflow's `if: always()` step usually catches this, but it
+#     too can fail (CP transient 5xx, runner network issue at the
+#     wrong moment).
+#   - Even when teardown runs, the CP cascade is best-effort in places
+#     (cascadeTerminateWorkspaces logs+continues; DNS deletion same).
+#   - This sweep is the catch-all that converges staging back to clean
+#     regardless of which specific path leaked.
+#
+# The PROPER fix is making CP cleanup transactional + verify-after-
+# terminate (filed separately as cleanup-correctness work). This
+# workflow is the safety net that catches everything else AND any
+# future leak source we haven't yet identified.
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+    # Every 15 min. E2E orgs are short-lived (~8-25 min wall clock from
+    # create to teardown — canary is ~8 min, full SaaS ~25 min). The
+    # previous hourly + 120-min stale threshold meant a leaked tenant
+    # could keep an EC2 alive for up to 2 hours, eating ~2 vCPU per
+    # leak. Tightening the cadence + threshold reduces the worst-case
+    # leak window from 120 min to ~45 min (15-min sweep cadence + 30-min
+    # threshold) without risk of catching in-progress runs (the longest
+    # e2e run is the 25-min canary, well under the 30-min threshold).
+    # See molecule-controlplane#420 for the leak-class accounting that
+    # motivated this tightening.
+    - cron: '*/15 * * * *'
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      max_age_minutes:
+        description: "Delete e2e-* orgs older than N minutes (default 30)"
+        required: false
+        default: "30"
+      dry_run:
+        description: "Dry run only — list what would be deleted"
+        required: false
+        type: boolean
+        default: false
+
+# Don't let two sweeps fight. Cron + workflow_dispatch could overlap
+# on a manual trigger; queue rather than parallel-delete.
+concurrency:
+  group: sweep-stale-e2e-orgs
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  sweep:
+    name: Sweep e2e orgs
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    env:
+      MOLECULE_CP_URL: https://staging-api.moleculesai.app
+      ADMIN_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN }}
+      MAX_AGE_MINUTES: ${{ github.event.inputs.max_age_minutes || '30' }}
+      DRY_RUN: ${{ github.event.inputs.dry_run || 'false' }}
+      # Refuse to delete more than this many orgs in one tick. If the
+      # CP DB is briefly empty (or the admin endpoint goes weird and
+      # returns no created_at), every e2e- org would look stale.
+      # Bailing protects against runaway nukes.
+      SAFETY_CAP: 50
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Verify admin token present
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "$ADMIN_TOKEN" ]; then
+            echo "::error::MOLECULE_STAGING_ADMIN_TOKEN not set"
+            exit 2
+          fi
+          echo "Admin token present ✓"
+
+      - name: Identify stale e2e orgs
+        id: identify
+        run: |
+          set -euo pipefail
+          # Fetch into a file so the python step reads it via stdin —
+          # cleaner than embedding $(curl ...) into a heredoc.
+          curl -sS --fail-with-body --max-time 30 \
+            "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orgs?limit=500" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+            > orgs.json
+
+          # Filter:
+          #   1. slug starts with one of the ephemeral test prefixes:
+          #        - 'e2e-'    — covers e2e-canary-, e2e-canvas-*, etc.
+          #        - 'rt-e2e-' — runtime-test harness fixtures (RFC #2251);
+          #                      missing this prefix left two such tenants
+          #                      orphaned 8h on staging (2026-05-03), then
+          #                      hard-failed redeploy-tenants-on-staging
+          #                      and broke the staging→main auto-promote
+          #                      chain. Kept in sync with the EPHEMERAL_PREFIX_RE
+          #                      regex in redeploy-tenants-on-staging.yml.
+          #   2. created_at is older than MAX_AGE_MINUTES ago
+          # Output one slug per line to a file the next step reads.
+          python3 > stale_slugs.txt <<'PY'
+          import json, os
+          from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta
+          # SSOT for this list lives in the controlplane Go code:
+          # molecule-controlplane/internal/slugs/ephemeral.go
+          # (var EphemeralPrefixes). The redeploy-fleet auto-rollout
+          # also reads from there to SKIP these slugs — without that
+          # filter, fleet redeploy SSM-failed in-flight E2E tenants
+          # whose containers were still booting, breaking the test
+          # that just spun them up (molecule-controlplane#493).
+          # Update both files together.
+          EPHEMERAL_PREFIXES = ("e2e-", "rt-e2e-")
+          with open("orgs.json") as f:
+              data = json.load(f)
+          max_age = int(os.environ["MAX_AGE_MINUTES"])
+          cutoff = datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(minutes=max_age)
+          for o in data.get("orgs", []):
+              slug = o.get("slug", "")
+              if not slug.startswith(EPHEMERAL_PREFIXES):
+                  continue
+              created = o.get("created_at")
+              if not created:
+                  # Defensively skip rows without created_at — better
+                  # to leave one orphan than nuke a brand-new row
+                  # whose timestamp didn't render.
+                  continue
+              # Python 3.11+ handles RFC3339 with Z directly via
+              # fromisoformat; older runners need the trailing Z swap.
+              created_dt = datetime.fromisoformat(created.replace("Z", "+00:00"))
+              if created_dt < cutoff:
+                  print(slug)
+          PY
+
+          count=$(wc -l < stale_slugs.txt | tr -d ' ')
+          echo "Found $count stale e2e org(s) older than ${MAX_AGE_MINUTES}m"
+          if [ "$count" -gt 0 ]; then
+            echo "First 20:"
+            head -20 stale_slugs.txt | sed 's/^/  /'
+          fi
+          echo "count=$count" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+
+      - name: Safety gate
+        if: steps.identify.outputs.count != '0'
+        run: |
+          count="${{ steps.identify.outputs.count }}"
+          if [ "$count" -gt "$SAFETY_CAP" ]; then
+            echo "::error::Refusing to delete $count orgs in one sweep (cap=$SAFETY_CAP). Investigate manually — this usually means the CP admin API returned no created_at or returned a degraded result. Re-run with workflow_dispatch + max_age_minutes if intentional."
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "Within safety cap ($count ≤ $SAFETY_CAP) ✓"
+
+      - name: Delete stale orgs
+        if: steps.identify.outputs.count != '0' && env.DRY_RUN != 'true'
+        run: |
+          set -uo pipefail
+          deleted=0
+          failed=0
+          while IFS= read -r slug; do
+            [ -z "$slug" ] && continue
+            # The DELETE handler requires {"confirm": "<slug>"} matching
+            # the URL slug — fat-finger guard. Idempotent: re-issuing
+            # picks up via org_purges.last_step.
+            # Tempfile-routed -w + set +e/-e prevents curl-exit-code
+            # pollution of the captured status (lint-curl-status-capture.yml).
+            set +e
+            curl -sS -o /tmp/del_resp -w "%{http_code}" \
+              --max-time 60 \
+              -X DELETE "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/tenants/$slug" \
+              -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" \
+              -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+              -d "{\"confirm\":\"$slug\"}" >/tmp/del_code
+            set -e
+            # Stderr from curl (-sS shows dial errors etc.) goes to runner log.
+            http_code=$(cat /tmp/del_code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+            if [ "$http_code" = "200" ] || [ "$http_code" = "204" ]; then
+              deleted=$((deleted+1))
+              echo "  deleted: $slug"
+            else
+              failed=$((failed+1))
+              echo "  FAILED ($http_code): $slug — $(cat /tmp/del_resp 2>/dev/null | head -c 200)"
+            fi
+          done < stale_slugs.txt
+          echo ""
+          echo "Sweep summary: deleted=$deleted failed=$failed"
+          # Don't fail the workflow on per-org delete errors — the
+          # sweeper is best-effort. Next hourly tick re-attempts. We
+          # only fail loud at the safety-cap gate above.
+
+      - name: Sweep orphan tunnels
+        # Stale-org cleanup deletes the org (which cascades to tunnel
+        # delete inside the CP). But when that cascade fails partway —
+        # CP transient 5xx after the org row is deleted but before the
+        # CF tunnel delete completes — the tunnel persists with no
+        # matching org row. The reconciler in internal/sweep flags this
+        # as `cf_tunnel kind=orphan`, but nothing automatically reaps it.
+        #
+        # `/cp/admin/orphan-tunnels/cleanup` is the operator-triggered
+        # reaper. Calling it here at the end of every sweep tick
+        # converges the staging CF account to clean even when CP
+        # cascades half-fail.
+        #
+        # PR #492 made the underlying DeleteTunnel actually check
+        # status — pre-fix it silent-succeeded on CF code 1022
+        # ("active connections"), so this step would have been a no-op
+        # against stuck connectors. Post-fix the cleanup invokes
+        # CleanupTunnelConnections + retry, which actually clears the
+        # 1022 case. (#2987)
+        #
+        # Best-effort. Failure here doesn't fail the workflow — next
+        # tick re-attempts. Errors flow to step output for ops review.
+        if: env.DRY_RUN != 'true'
+        run: |
+          set +e
+          curl -sS -o /tmp/cleanup_resp -w "%{http_code}" \
+            --max-time 60 \
+            -X POST "$MOLECULE_CP_URL/cp/admin/orphan-tunnels/cleanup" \
+            -H "Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN" >/tmp/cleanup_code
+          set -e
+          http_code=$(cat /tmp/cleanup_code 2>/dev/null || echo "000")
+          body=$(cat /tmp/cleanup_resp 2>/dev/null | head -c 500)
+          if [ "$http_code" = "200" ]; then
+            count=$(echo "$body" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.loads(sys.stdin.read() or '{}'); print(d.get('deleted_count', 0))" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
+            failed_n=$(echo "$body" | python3 -c "import sys,json; d=json.loads(sys.stdin.read() or '{}'); print(len(d.get('failed') or {}))" 2>/dev/null || echo "0")
+            echo "Orphan-tunnel sweep: deleted=$count failed=$failed_n"
+          else
+            echo "::warning::orphan-tunnels cleanup returned HTTP $http_code — body: $body"
+          fi
+
+      - name: Dry-run summary
+        if: env.DRY_RUN == 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "DRY RUN — would have deleted ${{ steps.identify.outputs.count }} org(s) AND triggered orphan-tunnels cleanup. Re-run with dry_run=false to actually delete."

.github/workflows/test-ops-scripts.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+name: Ops Scripts Tests
+
+# Runs the unittest suite for scripts/ on every PR + push that touches
+# anything under scripts/. Kept separate from the main CI so a script-only
+# change doesn't trigger the heavier Go/Canvas/Python pipelines.
+#
+# Discovery layout: tests sit alongside the code they test (see
+# scripts/ops/test_sweep_cf_decide.py for the pattern; scripts/
+# test_build_runtime_package.py for the rewriter coverage). The job
+# below runs `unittest discover` TWICE — once from `scripts/`, once
+# from `scripts/ops/` — because neither dir has an `__init__.py`, so
+# a single discover from `scripts/` doesn't recurse into the ops
+# subdir. Two passes is simpler than retrofitting namespace packages.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'scripts/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/test-ops-scripts.yml'
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+    paths:
+      - 'scripts/**'
+      - '.github/workflows/test-ops-scripts.yml'
+  merge_group:
+    types: [checks_requested]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  test:
+    name: Ops scripts (unittest)
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.11'
+      - name: Run scripts/ unittests (build_runtime_package, …)
+        # Top-level scripts/ tests live alongside their target file
+        # (e.g. scripts/test_build_runtime_package.py exercises
+        # scripts/build_runtime_package.py). discover from scripts/
+        # picks up only top-level test_*.py because scripts/ops/ has
+        # no __init__.py — that's intentional, so we run two passes.
+        working-directory: scripts
+        run: python -m unittest discover -t . -p 'test_*.py' -v
+      - name: Run scripts/ops/ unittests (sweep_cf_decide, …)
+        working-directory: scripts/ops
+        run: python -m unittest discover -p 'test_*.py' -v

.staging-trigger

@@ -1 +1 @@
-staging trigger 2026-05-14T17:35:02Z
+staging trigger

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -57,24 +57,24 @@ See `CLAUDE.md` for a full list of environment variables and their purposes.
 
 This repo is scoped to **code** (canvas, workspace, workspace-server, related
 infra). Public content (blog posts, marketing copy, OG images, SEO briefs,
-DevRel demos) lives in [`molecule-ai/docs`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/docs).
+DevRel demos) lives in [`Molecule-AI/docs`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/docs).
 The `Block forbidden paths` CI gate fails any PR that writes to `marketing/`
-or other removed paths — open against `molecule-ai/docs` instead.
+or other removed paths — open against `Molecule-AI/docs` instead.
 
 | Content type | Target |
 |---|---|
-| Blog posts | `molecule-ai/docs` → `content/blog/<YYYY-MM-DD-slug>/` |
-| Doc pages | `molecule-ai/docs` → `content/docs/` |
-| Marketing copy / PMM positioning | `molecule-ai/docs` → `marketing/` |
-| OG images, visual assets | `molecule-ai/docs` → `app/` or `marketing/` |
-| SEO briefs | `molecule-ai/docs` → `marketing/` |
-| DevRel demos (runnable code) | Standalone repo under `molecule-ai/`, OR embedded in `molecule-ai/docs` |
-| Launch checklists, internal tracking | Gitea Issues — **not** committed files |
+| Blog posts | `Molecule-AI/docs` → `content/blog/<YYYY-MM-DD-slug>/` |
+| Doc pages | `Molecule-AI/docs` → `content/docs/` |
+| Marketing copy / PMM positioning | `Molecule-AI/docs` → `marketing/` |
+| OG images, visual assets | `Molecule-AI/docs` → `app/` or `marketing/` |
+| SEO briefs | `Molecule-AI/docs` → `marketing/` |
+| DevRel demos (runnable code) | Standalone repo under `Molecule-AI/`, OR embedded in `Molecule-AI/docs` |
+| Launch checklists, internal tracking | GitHub Issues — **not** committed files |
 | Engineering docs (`docs/adr/`, `docs/architecture/`, `docs/incidents/`) | This repo (internal, not published) |
 | Live product pages (e.g. `canvas/src/app/pricing/page.tsx`) | This repo (these are app code, not marketing copy) |
 
 If a PR fails the `Block forbidden paths` check, the contents belong in
-`molecule-ai/docs`. No CI drag, no Canvas E2E, content lands in minutes.
+`Molecule-AI/docs`. No CI drag, no Canvas E2E, content lands in minutes.
 
 ## Development Workflow
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ causing a render loop when any node position changed.
 
 #### Auto-merge & the "extra commit" trap
 
-**Two system guards protect against pushing commits after auto-merge has been enabled.** Don't try to work around them — they exist because we shipped a half-merged PR on 2026-04-27 (`#2174` merged with only its first commit; the second was orphaned on a branch the host had already deleted).
+**Two system guards protect against pushing commits after auto-merge has been enabled.** Don't try to work around them — they exist because we shipped a half-merged PR on 2026-04-27 (`#2174` merged with only its first commit; the second was orphaned on a branch GitHub had already deleted).
 
 1. **Repo-wide:** "Automatically delete head branches" is on. Once a PR merges, the branch is deleted server-side. Any subsequent `git push` to that branch fails with `remote rejected — no such branch`.
 
@@ -127,11 +127,7 @@ cd workspace-server && go test -race ./...
 cd canvas && npm test
 
 # Workspace runtime (Python)
-# Runtime code is SSOT in molecule-ai-workspace-runtime, not molecule-core/workspace.
-cd ../molecule-ai-workspace-runtime
-python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
-pip install --index-url https://git.moleculesai.app/api/packages/molecule-ai/pypi/simple/ -e . pytest pytest-asyncio
-pytest -q
+cd workspace && python -m pytest -v
 
 # E2E API tests (requires running platform)
 bash tests/e2e/test_api.sh
@@ -149,7 +145,7 @@ Fix violations before committing — the hook will reject the commit.
 
 ### CI Pipeline
 
-CI runs on Gitea Actions with self-hosted runners. External contributors:
+CI runs on GitHub Actions with a self-hosted runner. External contributors:
 PRs from forks will not trigger CI automatically. A maintainer will review
 and run CI manually.
 
@@ -163,19 +159,6 @@ and run CI manually.
 | review-check-tests | `review-check.sh` evaluator regression suite (13 scenarios) |
 | ops-scripts | Python unittest suite for `scripts/*.py` |
 
-### Workspace runtime SSOT
-
-Runtime code lives in
-[`molecule-ai-workspace-runtime`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime).
-Do not reintroduce `molecule-core/workspace/` or vendored `molecule_runtime/`
-copies in consumers. Core and templates consume the published runtime package
-from the Gitea package registry.
-
-For local external MCP agents, multi-workspace config is
-`MOLECULE_WORKSPACES=[{"id":"...","token":"...","platform_url":"..."}]`.
-`platform_url` selects the tenant; `org_id` is not part of this config.
-Workspace IDs can differ across orgs.
-
 ## Local Testing
 
 ### review-check.sh
@@ -207,9 +190,9 @@ Runs the full regression suite against a fixture HTTP server. No network access
 Code in this repo lands in molecule-core. Some related runtime artifacts
 live in their own repos:
 
-- [`molecule-ai/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime) — Python adapter SDK (`molecule_runtime`) that runs inside containerized Molecule workspaces. Bridges Claude Code SDK / hermes / langgraph / etc. → A2A queue.
-- [`molecule-ai/molecule-sdk-python`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-sdk-python) — `A2AServer` + `RemoteAgentClient` for external agents that register over the public `/registry/register` flow.
-- [`molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-claude-channel`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-claude-channel) — Claude Code channel plugin. Bridges A2A traffic into a running Claude Code session via MCP `notifications/claude/channel`. Polling-based (no tunnel required); install inside Claude Code via `/plugin marketplace add https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-claude-channel.git` → `/plugin install molecule@molecule-channel`, then launch with `claude --dangerously-load-development-channels=plugin:molecule@molecule-channel`.
+- [`Molecule-AI/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-ai-workspace-runtime) — Python adapter SDK (`molecule_runtime`) that runs inside containerized Molecule workspaces. Bridges Claude Code SDK / hermes / langgraph / etc. → A2A queue.
+- [`Molecule-AI/molecule-sdk-python`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-sdk-python) — `A2AServer` + `RemoteAgentClient` for external agents that register over the public `/registry/register` flow.
+- [`Molecule-AI/molecule-mcp-claude-channel`](https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-claude-channel) — Claude Code channel plugin. Bridges A2A traffic into a running Claude Code session via MCP `notifications/claude/channel`. Polling-based (no tunnel required); install with `claude --channels plugin:molecule@Molecule-AI/molecule-mcp-claude-channel`.
 
 When extending the **A2A surface** in molecule-core (`workspace-server/internal/handlers/a2a_proxy.go` etc.), consider whether the change has a downstream impact on the runtime SDK or the channel plugin — they're versioned independently but share the wire shape.
 
@@ -223,7 +206,7 @@ See `CLAUDE.md` for detailed architecture documentation, including:
 
 ## Reporting Issues
 
-Use Gitea Issues with a clear title and reproduction steps. Include:
+Use GitHub Issues with a clear title and reproduction steps. Include:
 - What you expected
 - What actually happened
 - Platform/OS version
@@ -231,9 +214,8 @@ Use Gitea Issues with a clear title and reproduction steps. Include:
 
 ## Security
 
-If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it privately by
-opening an issue against `molecule-ai/internal` (a private repo only
-maintainers can see) rather than filing a public issue here.
+If you discover a security vulnerability, please report it privately via
+GitHub Security Advisories rather than opening a public issue.
 
 ## License
 

Makefile

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 # use this Makefile; CI calls docker compose / go test directly so the
 # Makefile can evolve without breaking the build.
 
-.PHONY: help dev up down logs build test e2e-peer-visibility
+.PHONY: help dev up down logs build test
 
 help: ## Show this help.
-	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+:.*?## ' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-22s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
+	@grep -E '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## ' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | awk 'BEGIN {FS = ":.*?## "}; {printf "\033[36m%-12s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
 
 dev: ## Start the full stack with air hot-reload for the platform service.
 	docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up
@@ -26,13 +26,3 @@ build: ## Force a fresh build of the platform image (no cache).
 
 test: ## Run Go unit tests in workspace-server/.
 	cd workspace-server && go test -race ./...
-
-# ─── Local prod-mimic E2E gates ────────────────────────────────────────
-# Run the LITERAL peer-visibility MCP list_peers gate against the
-# already-running local stack (`make up` or `make dev`). Same byte-
-# identical assertion as the staging gate — only provisioning differs.
-# Skips any runtime whose provider key is absent (partially-keyed env
-# is fine). See tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh for the
-# env contract (CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN / E2E_MINIMAX_API_KEY / etc).
-e2e-peer-visibility: ## Run the LOCAL peer-visibility MCP gate vs the running stack (needs `make up` first).
-	bash tests/e2e/test_peer_visibility_mcp_local.sh

README.md

@@ -163,11 +163,11 @@ Most agent systems stop at "a smart runtime." Molecule AI pushes further: it giv
 
 | Core mechanism | Molecule AI module(s) | Why it matters |
 |---|---|---|
-| **Durable memory that survives sessions** | `molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/builtin_tools/`, `workspace-server/internal/handlers/memories.go` | Memory is not just durable, it is **workspace-scoped** and can route into awareness namespaces tied to the org structure |
+| **Durable memory that survives sessions** | `workspace/builtin_tools/memory.py`, `workspace/builtin_tools/awareness_client.py`, `workspace-server/internal/handlers/memories.go` | Memory is not just durable, it is **workspace-scoped** and can route into awareness namespaces tied to the org structure |
 | **Cross-session recall** | `workspace-server/internal/handlers/activity.go` (`/workspaces/:id/session-search`) | Recall spans both activity history and memory rows, so the system can search what happened and what was learned without inventing a separate hidden store |
-| **Skills built from experience** | `molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/builtin_tools/memory.py` (`_maybe_log_skill_promotion`) | Promotion from memory into a skill candidate is surfaced as an explicit platform activity, not a silent internal side effect |
-| **Skill improvement during use** | `molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/skill_loader/`, `molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/main.py` | Skills hot-reload into the live runtime, so improvements become available on the next A2A task without restarting the workspace |
-| **Persistent skill lifecycle** | `workspace-server/cmd/cli/cmd_agent_skill.go`, `molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/plugins.py` | Skills are not just generated once; they can be audited, installed, published, shared, mounted by plugins, and governed as reusable operational assets |
+| **Skills built from experience** | `workspace/builtin_tools/memory.py` (`_maybe_log_skill_promotion`) | Promotion from memory into a skill candidate is surfaced as an explicit platform activity, not a silent internal side effect |
+| **Skill improvement during use** | `workspace/skill_loader/watcher.py`, `workspace/skill_loader/loader.py`, `workspace/main.py` | Skills hot-reload into the live runtime, so improvements become available on the next A2A task without restarting the workspace |
+| **Persistent skill lifecycle** | `workspace-server/cmd/cli/cmd_agent_skill.go`, `workspace/plugins.py` | Skills are not just generated once; they can be audited, installed, published, shared, mounted by plugins, and governed as reusable operational assets |
 
 ### Why this matters in Molecule AI
 
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ The result is not just “an agent that learns.” It is **an organization that
 
 ### Runtime
 
-- standalone workspace-template images that install `molecule-ai-workspace-runtime` from the Gitea package registry; thin AMI in production (us-east-2)
+- unified `workspace/` image; thin AMI in production (us-east-2)
 - adapter-driven execution across **8 runtimes** (Claude Code, Hermes, Gemini CLI, LangGraph, DeepAgents, CrewAI, AutoGen, OpenClaw)
 - Agent Card registration
 - awareness-backed memory integration; **Memory v2 backed by pgvector** for semantic recall
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ The result is not just “an agent that learns.” It is **an organization that
 - subscribe to one or more workspaces; peer messages surface as conversation turns; replies route back through Molecule's A2A
 - no tunnel, no public endpoint — the plugin self-registers each watched workspace as `delivery_mode=poll` and long-polls `/activity?since_id=…`
 - multi-tenant friendly: one plugin install can watch workspaces across multiple Molecule tenants (`MOLECULE_PLATFORM_URLS` per-workspace)
-- install via the standard marketplace flow: `/plugin marketplace add https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-claude-channel.git` → `/plugin install molecule@molecule-channel`, then launch with `claude --dangerously-load-development-channels=plugin:molecule@molecule-channel`
+- install via the standard marketplace flow: `/plugin marketplace add Molecule-AI/molecule-mcp-claude-channel` → `/plugin install molecule-channel@molecule-mcp-claude-channel`
 
 ## Built For Teams That Need More Than A Demo
 

README.zh-CN.md

@@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Molecule AI 并不是要替代下面这些 framework，而是把它们纳入更
 - 订阅一个或多个 workspace；peer 的消息会以 user-turn 出现，回复会经 Molecule A2A 路由出去
 - 无需公网隧道、无需公开端点 —— 插件启动时自动把每个 watched workspace 注册成 `delivery_mode=poll`，长轮询 `/activity?since_id=…`
 - 多租户友好：单次安装即可同时 watch 跨多个 Molecule 租户的 workspace（`MOLECULE_PLATFORM_URLS` 按 workspace 配置）
-- 通过标准 marketplace 流程安装：`/plugin marketplace add https://git.moleculesai.app/molecule-ai/molecule-mcp-claude-channel.git` → `/plugin install molecule@molecule-channel`，然后用 `claude --dangerously-load-development-channels=plugin:molecule@molecule-channel` 启动
+- 通过标准 marketplace 流程安装：`/plugin marketplace add Molecule-AI/molecule-mcp-claude-channel` → `/plugin install molecule-channel@molecule-mcp-claude-channel`
 
 ## 适合什么团队
 

_ci_trigger.txt

@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-trigger
-retrigger 2026-05-20T04:09Z after op-config#110 (HOME=/home/runner) deploy to fleet — internal#603

canvas/e2e/chat-desktop.spec.ts

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ test.describe("Desktop ChatTab", () => {
     await textarea.fill("What is the weather?");
     await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
 
-    await expect(page.getByText("What is the weather?", { exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(page.getByText("What is the weather?")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
     await expect(page.getByText("Echo: What is the weather?")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
   });
 

canvas/e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ test.describe("MobileChat", () => {
     await textarea.fill("Mobile test message");
     await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
 
-    await expect(page.getByText("Mobile test message", { exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(page.getByText("Mobile test message")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
     await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Mobile test message")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
   });
 

canvas/e2e/fixtures/chat-seed.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
  */
 
 import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
-import { execFileSync, execSync } from "node:child_process";
 
 const PLATFORM_URL = process.env.E2E_PLATFORM_URL ?? "http://localhost:8080";
 
@@ -24,19 +23,13 @@ export interface SeededWorkspace {
  * Create an external workspace and wire it to the echo runtime.
  */
 export async function seedWorkspace(echoURL: string): Promise<SeededWorkspace> {
-  // 1. Create external workspace pointing at the in-process echo runtime.
+  // 1. Create external workspace (no URL — platform will mint an auth token).
   const runId = Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 8);
   const wsName = `Chat E2E Agent ${runId}`;
   const createRes = await fetch(`${PLATFORM_URL}/workspaces`, {
     method: "POST",
     headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
-    body: JSON.stringify({
-      name: wsName,
-      tier: 1,
-      external: true,
-      runtime: "external",
-      url: echoURL,
-    }),
+    body: JSON.stringify({ name: wsName, tier: 1, external: true, runtime: "external" }),
   });
   if (!createRes.ok) {
     const text = await createRes.text();
@@ -47,10 +40,7 @@ export async function seedWorkspace(echoURL: string): Promise<SeededWorkspace> {
     name: string;
     connection?: { auth_token?: string };
   };
-  let authToken = ws.connection?.auth_token;
-  if (!authToken) {
-    authToken = await mintTestToken(ws.id);
-  }
+  const authToken = ws.connection?.auth_token;
   if (!authToken) {
     throw new Error("Workspace created but no auth_token returned");
   }
@@ -83,35 +73,16 @@ export async function seedWorkspace(echoURL: string): Promise<SeededWorkspace> {
     `-c "UPDATE workspaces SET status = 'online', url = '${echoURL}', platform_inbound_secret = '${inboundSecret}' WHERE id = '${ws.id}'"`,
   ].join(" ");
 
+  const { execSync } = await import("node:child_process");
   try {
     execSync(psql, { stdio: "pipe", timeout: 30_000 });
   } catch (err) {
     throw new Error(`DB update failed: ${err}`);
   }
 
-  cacheWorkspaceURL(ws.id, echoURL);
-
   return { id: ws.id, name: wsName, agentURL: echoURL, authToken };
 }
 
-function cacheWorkspaceURL(workspaceId: string, agentURL: string): void {
-  const redisContainer = process.env.REDIS_CONTAINER;
-  if (!redisContainer) return;
-
-  const keys = [`ws:${workspaceId}:url`, `ws:${workspaceId}:internal_url`];
-  for (const key of keys) {
-    try {
-      execFileSync(
-        "docker",
-        ["exec", redisContainer, "redis-cli", "SET", key, agentURL],
-        { stdio: "pipe", timeout: 10_000 },
-      );
-    } catch (err) {
-      throw new Error(`Redis URL cache update failed for ${key}: ${err}`);
-    }
-  }
-}
-
 /**
  * Start a heartbeat interval that keeps an external workspace alive.
  * Returns a stop function.
@@ -170,6 +141,7 @@ export async function seedChatHistory(
 
   const sql = `INSERT INTO chat_messages (id, workspace_id, role, content, created_at) VALUES ${values};`;
 
+  const { execSync } = await import("node:child_process");
   const psql = `PGPASSWORD=${pass} psql -h ${host} -p ${port} -U ${user} -d ${db} -c "${sql}"`;
   execSync(psql, { stdio: "pipe", timeout: 10_000 });
 }
@@ -191,6 +163,7 @@ export async function cleanupWorkspace(workspaceId: string): Promise<void> {
 
   const psql = `PGPASSWORD=${pass} psql -h ${host} -p ${port} -U ${user} -d ${db} -c "DELETE FROM workspaces WHERE id = '${workspaceId}'"`;
 
+  const { execSync } = await import("node:child_process");
   try {
     execSync(psql, { stdio: "pipe", timeout: 30_000 });
   } catch {

canvas/e2e/fixtures/echo-runtime.ts

@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ export async function startEchoRuntime(): Promise<EchoRuntime> {
     });
   });
 
-  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => server.listen(0, resolve));
+  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", resolve));
   const address = server.address();
   const port = typeof address === "object" && address ? address.port : 0;
-  const baseURL = `http://localhost:${port}`;
+  const baseURL = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`;
 
   return {
     baseURL,

canvas/playwright.config.ts

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
   workers: 1,
   retries: 0,
   use: {
-    baseURL: process.env.PLAYWRIGHT_BASE_URL || "http://localhost:3000",
+    baseURL: "http://localhost:3000",
     headless: true,
     screenshot: "only-on-failure",
   },

canvas/src/app/__tests__/seo-routes.test.ts

@@ -1,113 +0,0 @@
-import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
-
-// Marketing-launch SEO (mc#1486). These tests pin the public crawler
-// contract: anything that flips public marketing routes to disallow,
-// drops the sitemap from robots.txt, or removes the OG image
-// reference from root metadata should fail loudly here.
-
-// next/font and the rest of the layout's runtime tree are not
-// vitest-compatible (next/font expects the Next.js compiler swc
-// transform). We import layout.tsx only for its exported `metadata`
-// constant — mock the font module to a constructor-returning stub.
-vi.mock("next/font/google", () => ({
-  Inter: () => ({ variable: "--font-inter" }),
-  JetBrains_Mono: () => ({ variable: "--font-jetbrains" }),
-}));
-
-import robots from "../robots";
-import sitemap from "../sitemap";
-import { metadata } from "../layout";
-
-describe("robots.ts", () => {
-  it("allows public marketing routes and blocks authed/app routes", () => {
-    const r = robots();
-    expect(r.rules).toBeDefined();
-    const rule = Array.isArray(r.rules) ? r.rules[0] : r.rules!;
-    expect(rule.userAgent).toBe("*");
-    const allow = Array.isArray(rule.allow) ? rule.allow : [rule.allow];
-    expect(allow).toEqual(expect.arrayContaining(["/", "/pricing", "/blog"]));
-    const disallow = Array.isArray(rule.disallow)
-      ? rule.disallow
-      : [rule.disallow];
-    expect(disallow).toEqual(
-      expect.arrayContaining(["/api/", "/orgs", "/cp/"]),
-    );
-  });
-
-  it("declares the sitemap URL", () => {
-    const r = robots();
-    expect(r.sitemap).toMatch(/\/sitemap\.xml$/);
-  });
-
-  it("declares a canonical host", () => {
-    const r = robots();
-    expect(r.host).toMatch(/^https:\/\//);
-  });
-});
-
-describe("sitemap.ts", () => {
-  it("includes apex, pricing, and the live blog post", () => {
-    const entries = sitemap();
-    const urls = entries.map((e) => e.url);
-    expect(urls.some((u) => u.endsWith("/"))).toBe(true);
-    expect(urls.some((u) => u.endsWith("/pricing"))).toBe(true);
-    expect(
-      urls.some((u) => u.includes("/blog/2026-04-20-chrome-devtools-mcp")),
-    ).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("does NOT include authed/app routes", () => {
-    const entries = sitemap();
-    const urls = entries.map((e) => e.url);
-    expect(urls.some((u) => u.includes("/orgs"))).toBe(false);
-    expect(urls.some((u) => u.includes("/api/"))).toBe(false);
-  });
-
-  it("sets a non-zero priority and a valid changeFrequency on every entry", () => {
-    const valid = new Set([
-      "always",
-      "hourly",
-      "daily",
-      "weekly",
-      "monthly",
-      "yearly",
-      "never",
-    ]);
-    for (const e of sitemap()) {
-      expect(e.priority).toBeGreaterThan(0);
-      expect(valid.has(String(e.changeFrequency))).toBe(true);
-    }
-  });
-});
-
-describe("root layout metadata", () => {
-  it("sets a templated title + non-empty description", () => {
-    const t = metadata.title as { default: string; template: string };
-    expect(t.default).toMatch(/Molecule AI/);
-    expect(t.template).toMatch(/%s/);
-    expect((metadata.description ?? "").length).toBeGreaterThan(50);
-  });
-
-  it("declares OG + Twitter text fields (image comes from opengraph-image.tsx)", () => {
-    const og = metadata.openGraph;
-    expect(og).toBeDefined();
-    expect((og as { title: string }).title).toMatch(/Molecule AI/);
-    expect((og as { description: string }).description.length).toBeGreaterThan(
-      50,
-    );
-    const tw = metadata.twitter;
-    expect(tw).toBeDefined();
-    // Next.js typings narrow twitter.card to a union — assert via cast.
-    expect((tw as { card: string }).card).toBe("summary_large_image");
-  });
-
-  it("sets a canonical alternate", () => {
-    expect(metadata.alternates?.canonical).toBe("/");
-  });
-
-  it("enables indexing at the metadata level (robots.ts owns per-route)", () => {
-    const r = metadata.robots as { index: boolean; follow: boolean };
-    expect(r.index).toBe(true);
-    expect(r.follow).toBe(true);
-  });
-});

canvas/src/app/layout.tsx

@@ -27,78 +27,9 @@ import {
   themeBootScript,
 } from "@/lib/theme-cookie";
 
-// Marketing-launch SEO (mc#1486). Canonical apex is app.moleculesai.app —
-// tenant subdomains (<slug>.moleculesai.app) reuse the same Next.js build
-// but are gated behind auth (AuthGate redirects anonymous → /cp/auth/login)
-// and are de-indexed in robots.ts. The metadata here applies to the
-// public marketing surface served from the apex host.
-//
-// Override per-route by exporting a page-level `metadata`/`generateMetadata`
-// — Next.js merges page metadata over layout metadata using
-// `title.template` for "<page> | Molecule AI" composition.
-const SITE_URL =
-  process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL ?? "https://app.moleculesai.app";
-
 export const metadata: Metadata = {
-  metadataBase: new URL(SITE_URL),
-  title: {
-    default: "Molecule AI — the AI org chart canvas",
-    template: "%s | Molecule AI",
-  },
-  description:
-    "Molecule AI is an org-chart canvas for AI agent teams. Wire Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw agents into a governed multi-agent workspace with credit metering, audit, and one-click runtime provisioning.",
-  applicationName: "Molecule AI",
-  keywords: [
-    "AI agents",
-    "multi-agent",
-    "agent orchestration",
-    "AI org chart",
-    "Claude Code",
-    "Codex",
-    "MCP",
-    "agent governance",
-    "A2A",
-    "agent runtime",
-  ],
-  authors: [{ name: "Molecule AI" }],
-  creator: "Molecule AI",
-  publisher: "Molecule AI",
-  alternates: { canonical: "/" },
-  // OG + Twitter images come from the file-convention sibling
-  // `opengraph-image.tsx` — Next.js auto-attaches them to og:image
-  // and twitter:image when present at the segment root. We keep the
-  // text fields here so they win over per-page metadata when a page
-  // doesn't override them. `images: []` as the structural fallback
-  // for hosts that won't follow the file convention; the real URL
-  // is injected by Next.js at build time from opengraph-image.tsx.
-  openGraph: {
-    type: "website",
-    siteName: "Molecule AI",
-    url: SITE_URL,
-    title: "Molecule AI — the AI org chart canvas",
-    description:
-      "Wire Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw agents into a governed multi-agent workspace. Credit metering, audit, and one-click runtime provisioning.",
-    locale: "en_US",
-  },
-  twitter: {
-    card: "summary_large_image",
-    title: "Molecule AI — the AI org chart canvas",
-    description:
-      "Wire Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw agents into a governed multi-agent workspace.",
-  },
-  icons: {
-    icon: "/molecule-icon.png",
-    apple: "/molecule-icon.png",
-  },
-  // robots.ts owns the per-route allow/disallow contract; this is the
-  // header-level fallback for routes the crawler reaches before
-  // robots.txt resolves. Default = index public marketing routes;
-  // app/auth/api/orgs are noindex'd by robots.ts.
-  robots: {
-    index: true,
-    follow: true,
-    googleBot: { index: true, follow: true, "max-image-preview": "large" },
-  },
+  title: "Molecule AI",
+  description: "AI Org Chart Canvas",
 };
 
 export default async function RootLayout({
@@ -163,75 +94,6 @@ export default async function RootLayout({
           nonce={nonce}
           dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: themeBootScript }}
         />
-        {/*
-         * JSON-LD structured data (mc#1486). Two graph nodes:
-         *
-         *   - Organization: surfaces the brand to Google Knowledge
-         *     Graph + Bing entity index. URL+logo+sameAs are the
-         *     minimum recommended set for new brands without a
-         *     Wikipedia page.
-         *
-         *   - WebSite: enables the sitelinks search box and tells
-         *     crawlers the canonical site URL when the same content
-         *     is reachable via multiple subdomains (apex + tenant).
-         *
-         * Type-application/ld+json runs synchronously without
-         * executing JS, so 'strict-dynamic' isn't required — we still
-         * carry the nonce because production CSP's default-src 'self'
-         * applies to any <script> element. The "type" attribute is
-         * what keeps the browser from running the body as JS, but
-         * CSP nonces are gated on the element not the type, so we
-         * include the nonce too.
-         */}
-        <script
-          type="application/ld+json"
-          nonce={nonce}
-          dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
-            __html: JSON.stringify({
-              "@context": "https://schema.org",
-              "@graph": [
-                {
-                  "@type": "Organization",
-                  "@id": `${SITE_URL}#organization`,
-                  name: "Molecule AI",
-                  url: SITE_URL,
-                  logo: `${SITE_URL}/molecule-icon.png`,
-                  sameAs: [
-                    "https://github.com/molecule-ai",
-                    "https://x.com/moleculeai",
-                  ],
-                },
-                {
-                  "@type": "WebSite",
-                  "@id": `${SITE_URL}#website`,
-                  url: SITE_URL,
-                  name: "Molecule AI",
-                  publisher: { "@id": `${SITE_URL}#organization` },
-                  inLanguage: "en-US",
-                },
-                {
-                  "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
-                  "@id": `${SITE_URL}#software`,
-                  name: "Molecule AI",
-                  applicationCategory: "DeveloperApplication",
-                  operatingSystem: "Web",
-                  description:
-                    "Org-chart canvas for AI agent teams with credit metering, audit, and one-click runtime provisioning.",
-                  url: SITE_URL,
-                  offers: {
-                    "@type": "AggregateOffer",
-                    priceCurrency: "USD",
-                    lowPrice: "0",
-                    highPrice: "99",
-                    offerCount: "3",
-                    url: `${SITE_URL}/pricing`,
-                  },
-                  publisher: { "@id": `${SITE_URL}#organization` },
-                },
-              ],
-            }),
-          }}
-        />
       </head>
       <body className={`bg-surface text-ink ${interFont.variable} ${monoFont.variable}`}>
         <ThemeProvider initialTheme={theme}>

canvas/src/app/opengraph-image.tsx

@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
-import { ImageResponse } from "next/og";
-
-// Marketing-launch SEO (mc#1486). Next.js App-Router file-system OG
-// convention: served as `/opengraph-image` and auto-attached as
-// `og:image` + `twitter:image`. Dynamic (not a static PNG in /public)
-// so we can iterate the brand mark + tagline pre-launch without
-// churning a binary blob in git history.
-export const runtime = "edge";
-
-export const alt = "Molecule AI — the AI org chart canvas";
-export const size = { width: 1200, height: 630 };
-export const contentType = "image/png";
-
-export default function OG() {
-  return new ImageResponse(
-    (
-      <div
-        style={{
-          width: "100%",
-          height: "100%",
-          display: "flex",
-          flexDirection: "column",
-          alignItems: "flex-start",
-          justifyContent: "center",
-          padding: "80px",
-          background:
-            "linear-gradient(135deg, #0a0a0a 0%, #1a1a2e 60%, #16213e 100%)",
-          color: "#ffffff",
-          fontFamily: "system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif",
-        }}
-      >
-        <div
-          style={{
-            fontSize: 28,
-            color: "#a3a3c2",
-            letterSpacing: "0.18em",
-            textTransform: "uppercase",
-            marginBottom: 24,
-          }}
-        >
-          Molecule AI
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            fontSize: 76,
-            fontWeight: 700,
-            lineHeight: 1.05,
-            letterSpacing: "-0.02em",
-            maxWidth: 980,
-          }}
-        >
-          The AI org chart canvas
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            fontSize: 32,
-            color: "#c8c8d8",
-            marginTop: 32,
-            lineHeight: 1.3,
-            maxWidth: 980,
-          }}
-        >
-          Wire Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw agents into a governed
-          multi-agent workspace.
-        </div>
-        <div
-          style={{
-            position: "absolute",
-            right: 80,
-            bottom: 80,
-            fontSize: 22,
-            color: "#7a7a96",
-            display: "flex",
-          }}
-        >
-          moleculesai.app
-        </div>
-      </div>
-    ),
-    { ...size },
-  );
-}

canvas/src/app/page.tsx

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ export default function Home() {
                 setHydrationError(null);
                 window.location.reload();
               }}
-              className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-white rounded-md text-sm focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-accent focus-visible:ring-offset-1"
+              className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-white rounded-md text-sm"
             >
               Retry
             </button>
@@ -115,9 +115,7 @@ export default function Home() {
 
   return (
     <>
-      <main aria-label="Agent canvas">
-        <Canvas />
-      </main>
+      <Canvas />
       <Legend />
       <CommunicationOverlay />
       {hydrationError && (
@@ -136,7 +134,7 @@ export default function Home() {
               setHydrationError(null);
               window.location.reload();
             }}
-            className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-white rounded-md text-sm focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-accent focus-visible:ring-offset-1"
+            className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-white rounded-md text-sm"
           >
             Retry
           </button>
@@ -178,7 +176,7 @@ brew services start redis`}</pre>
       </p>
       <button
         onClick={() => window.location.reload()}
-        className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-white rounded-md text-sm mt-2 focus-visible:outline-none focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-accent focus-visible:ring-offset-1"
+        className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-white rounded-md text-sm mt-2"
       >
         Reload
       </button>

canvas/src/app/robots.ts

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-import type { MetadataRoute } from "next";
-
-// Marketing-launch SEO (mc#1486). Next.js App-Router robots convention:
-// this file is served as `/robots.txt` at build time and is the single
-// source of truth for crawler allow/disallow.
-//
-// Contract:
-//   - Public marketing routes (/, /pricing, /blog/*) are crawlable.
-//   - Authed/app routes (/orgs, /api/*) are noindex'd. They render
-//     useful content only after a session round-trip, so a crawler hit
-//     just wastes our crawl budget and exposes endpoint shapes.
-//   - Tenant subdomains (<slug>.moleculesai.app) share this build but
-//     are blocked at the host level by the canvas middleware sending
-//     an `X-Robots-Tag: noindex` header — robots.txt is per-host and
-//     this file's `host` field claims the apex as canonical.
-//
-// Note: `sitemap` is published via the sibling `sitemap.ts` route; we
-// reference it explicitly here so crawlers don't have to guess.
-const SITE_URL =
-  process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL ?? "https://app.moleculesai.app";
-
-export default function robots(): MetadataRoute.Robots {
-  return {
-    rules: [
-      {
-        userAgent: "*",
-        allow: ["/", "/pricing", "/blog"],
-        // Authed app surface + API + transient checkout returns. The
-        // /orgs route boots the org-selector behind AuthGate; even
-        // though SSR returns markup, that markup is a login wall when
-        // hit by an unauthenticated crawler, so indexing it dilutes
-        // brand searches with a "Please sign in" snippet.
-        disallow: [
-          "/orgs",
-          "/orgs/",
-          "/api/",
-          "/cp/",
-          "/checkout/",
-        ],
-      },
-    ],
-    sitemap: `${SITE_URL}/sitemap.xml`,
-    host: SITE_URL,
-  };
-}

canvas/src/app/sitemap.ts

@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-import type { MetadataRoute } from "next";
-
-// Marketing-launch SEO (mc#1486). App-Router sitemap convention: this
-// file is served as `/sitemap.xml` and enumerates the public marketing
-// surface for search crawlers + AI training pipelines.
-//
-// Scope deliberately narrow:
-//   - Apex landing, pricing, and the (currently single) blog post.
-//   - Authed app routes are excluded — they're disallowed in robots.ts
-//     and would appear as "Please sign in" wall to a crawler.
-//
-// `lastModified` uses a build-time timestamp rather than per-route
-// fs.stat so the same value applies regardless of where the build
-// runs (Vercel/Railway/local). When we add CMS-backed blog content,
-// swap to a per-entry timestamp from the source-of-truth metadata.
-const SITE_URL =
-  process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL ?? "https://app.moleculesai.app";
-
-const BUILD_DATE = new Date();
-
-export default function sitemap(): MetadataRoute.Sitemap {
-  return [
-    {
-      url: `${SITE_URL}/`,
-      lastModified: BUILD_DATE,
-      changeFrequency: "weekly",
-      priority: 1.0,
-    },
-    {
-      url: `${SITE_URL}/pricing`,
-      lastModified: BUILD_DATE,
-      changeFrequency: "weekly",
-      priority: 0.9,
-    },
-    {
-      url: `${SITE_URL}/blog/2026-04-20-chrome-devtools-mcp`,
-      lastModified: new Date("2026-04-20"),
-      changeFrequency: "monthly",
-      priority: 0.6,
-    },
-  ];
-}

canvas/src/components/AuditTrailPanel.tsx

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ export function AuditTrailPanel({ workspaceId }: Props) {
 
   if (loading) {
     return (
-      <div role="status" aria-live="polite" className="flex items-center justify-center h-32">
+      <div className="flex items-center justify-center h-32">
         <span className="text-xs text-ink-mid">Loading audit trail…</span>
       </div>
     );