fix(canvas): keep "agent is working" indicator alive for external/poll-mode turns

External / MCP-registered workspaces (delivery_mode=poll, e.g. the local-Mac orchestrator) have no public URL: POST /workspaces/:id/a2a short-circuits server-side (a2a_proxy.go:402) and returns a synthetic {status:"queued", delivery_mode:"poll"} envelope IMMEDIATELY with no reply. useChatSend treated that as a terminal response and called releaseSendGuards() → `sending` went false the instant the POST returned → the ChatTab thinking indicator vanished and the external turn looked dead, even though the agent had not started. Internal agents reply on the same synchronous POST so their indicator naturally holds — that's the whole asymmetry; the transport is shared. Fix (Tier A, minimal, client-only): detect the synthetic poll envelope and KEEP `sending` true so the existing internal working-indicator persists as a "received — agent is working" state. The eventual reply already flows AgentMessageWriter → AGENT_MESSAGE WS push → useChatSocket onAgentMessage/onSendComplete → releaseSendGuards, i.e. the external reply now drives the indicator through the exact same path an internal async reply uses — no parallel system. A generous 15-min safety timer surfaces an honest, actionable error instead of an infinite spinner if an offline poll agent never replies. Tier B (lifecycle-driven interim progress) and Tier C (tool-call parity — has an operator-privacy tradeoff, CTO decision required) are designed in internal RFC external-workspace-canvas-progress-feedback, not in this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge pull request 'fix(canvas): make Settings→Secrets reveal honest (value is write-only)' (#1421 ) from fix/secrets-reveal-anthropic-internal into staging
2026-05-17 11:12:16 -07:00 · 2026-05-17 17:32:30 +00:00 · 2026-05-17 17:00:11 +00:00 · 2026-05-17 17:00:08 +00:00 · 2026-05-17 17:00:05 +00:00 · 2026-05-17 07:50:14 -07:00
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+name: E2E Chat
+
+# Comprehensive Playwright E2E for the unified chat stack (desktop
+# 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)
+#   2. workspace-server built from source, started with
+#      MOLECULE_ENV=development (fail-open auth)
+#   3. canvas dev server (npm run dev) on :3000
+#   4. Playwright tests create workspaces via API, point them at an
+#      in-process echo runtime, and exercise the full send/receive
+#      round-trip through the browser.
+#
+# Parallel-safety: same pattern as e2e-api.yml — per-run container names
+# and ephemeral host ports so concurrent jobs on the host-network runner
+# don't collide.
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [main, staging]
+
+concurrency:
+  group: e2e-chat-${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+  cancel-in-progress: false
+
+env:
+  GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://git.moleculesai.app
+
+jobs:
+  # bp-exempt: helper job; real gate is E2E Chat / E2E Chat (pull_request)
+  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:
+      chat: ${{ steps.decide.outputs.chat }}
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+      - id: decide
+        run: |
+          BASE="${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+$'; then
+            echo "chat=true" >> "$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 "$BASE" 2>/dev/null; then
+            echo "chat=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+            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=true" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          else
+            echo "chat=false" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
+          fi
+
+  # bp-required: pending #1142 — new E2E check; add to branch protection after 3 green runs.
+  e2e-chat:
+    needs: detect-changes
+    name: E2E Chat
+    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
+    timeout-minutes: 15
+    env:
+      PG_CONTAINER: pg-e2e-chat-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+      REDIS_CONTAINER: redis-e2e-chat-${{ github.run_id }}-${{ github.run_attempt }}
+    steps:
+      - name: No-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat != 'true'
+        run: |
+          echo "No canvas / workspace-server / workflow changes — E2E Chat gate satisfied without running tests."
+          echo "::notice::E2E Chat no-op pass (paths filter excluded this commit)."
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-go@40f1582b2485089dde7abd97c1529aa768e1baff # v5
+        with:
+          go-version: 'stable'
+          cache: true
+          cache-dependency-path: workspace-server/go.sum
+
+      - if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        uses: actions/setup-node@60edb5dd545a775178f52524783378180af0d6f5 # v4
+        with:
+          node-version: '22'
+          cache: 'npm'
+          cache-dependency-path: canvas/package-lock.json
+
+      - name: Start Postgres (docker)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        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 $2; exit}')
+          if [ -z "$PG_PORT" ]; then
+            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 $PG_CONTAINER"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "PG_PORT=${PG_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "DATABASE_URL=postgres://dev:dev@127.0.0.1:${PG_PORT}/molecule?sslmode=disable" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "E2E_DATABASE_URL=postgres://dev:dev@127.0.0.1:${PG_PORT}/molecule?sslmode=disable" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          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 ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Postgres did not become ready in 30s"
+          exit 1
+
+      - name: Start Redis (docker)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: |
+          docker rm -f "$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 $REDIS_CONTAINER"
+            exit 1
+          fi
+          echo "REDIS_PORT=${REDIS_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "REDIS_URL=redis://127.0.0.1:${REDIS_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          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 ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Redis did not become ready in 15s"
+          exit 1
+
+      - name: Build platform
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        working-directory: workspace-server
+        run: go build -o platform-server ./cmd/server
+
+      - name: Pick platform port
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: |
+          PLATFORM_PORT=$(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 "PLATFORM_PORT=${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "E2E_PLATFORM_URL=http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
+          echo "Platform host port: ${PLATFORM_PORT}"
+
+      - name: Start platform (background)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        working-directory: workspace-server
+        run: |
+          export MOLECULE_ENV=development
+          export DATABASE_URL="${DATABASE_URL}"
+          export REDIS_URL="${REDIS_URL}"
+          export PORT="${PLATFORM_PORT}"
+          ./platform-server > platform.log 2>&1 &
+          echo $! > platform.pid
+
+      - name: Wait for /health
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: |
+          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+            if curl -sf "http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null; then
+              echo "Platform up after ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Platform did not become healthy in 30s"
+          cat workspace-server/platform.log || true
+          exit 1
+
+      - name: Install canvas dependencies
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        working-directory: canvas
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - name: Install Playwright browsers
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        working-directory: canvas
+        run: npx playwright install --with-deps chromium
+
+      - name: Start canvas dev server (background)
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        working-directory: canvas
+        run: |
+          export NEXT_PUBLIC_PLATFORM_URL="http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}"
+          export NEXT_PUBLIC_WS_URL="ws://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}/ws"
+          npm run dev > canvas.log 2>&1 &
+          echo $! > canvas.pid
+          for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+            if curl -sf http://localhost:3000 > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+              echo "Canvas up after ${i}s"
+              exit 0
+            fi
+            sleep 1
+          done
+          echo "::error::Canvas did not start in 30s"
+          cat canvas.log || true
+          exit 1
+
+      - name: Run Playwright E2E tests
+        if: needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        working-directory: canvas
+        run: |
+          export E2E_PLATFORM_URL="http://127.0.0.1:${PLATFORM_PORT}"
+          export E2E_DATABASE_URL="${DATABASE_URL}"
+          npx playwright test e2e/chat-desktop.spec.ts e2e/chat-mobile.spec.ts
+
+      - name: Dump platform log on failure
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: cat workspace-server/platform.log || true
+
+      - name: Dump canvas log on failure
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: cat canvas/canvas.log || true
+
+      - name: Upload Playwright report
+        if: failure() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3.2.2
+        with:
+          name: playwright-report-chat
+          path: canvas/playwright-report/
+
+      - name: Stop canvas
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: |
+          if [ -f canvas/canvas.pid ]; then
+            kill "$(cat canvas/canvas.pid)" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+
+      - name: Stop platform
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: |
+          if [ -f workspace-server/platform.pid ]; then
+            kill "$(cat workspace-server/platform.pid)" 2>/dev/null || true
+          fi
+
+      - name: Stop service containers
+        if: always() && needs.detect-changes.outputs.chat == 'true'
+        run: |
+          docker rm -f "$PG_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
+          docker rm -f "$REDIS_CONTAINER" 2>/dev/null || true
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+import { test, expect } from "@playwright/test";
+import { startEchoRuntime } from "./fixtures/echo-runtime";
+import { seedWorkspace, startHeartbeat, cleanupWorkspace } from "./fixtures/chat-seed";
+
+
+test.describe("Desktop ChatTab", () => {
+  let cleanup: () => Promise<void> = async () => {};
+  let workspaceId = "";
+  let workspaceName = "";
+
+  test.beforeAll(async () => {
+    const echo = await startEchoRuntime();
+    const ws = await seedWorkspace(echo.baseURL);
+    workspaceId = ws.id;
+    workspaceName = ws.name;
+    const stopHeartbeat = startHeartbeat(ws.id, ws.authToken);
+
+    cleanup = async () => {
+      stopHeartbeat();
+      await echo.stop();
+    };
+  });
+
+  test.afterAll(async () => {
+    await cleanupWorkspace(workspaceId);
+    await cleanup();
+  });
+
+  test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 800 });
+    await page.goto("/");
+    await page.waitForSelector(".react-flow__node", { timeout: 10_000 });
+    // Dismiss onboarding guide if present.
+    const skipGuide = page.getByText("Skip guide");
+    if (await skipGuide.isVisible().catch(() => false)) {
+      await skipGuide.click();
+    }
+    // Click the workspace node by its exact name label.
+    await page.getByText(workspaceName, { exact: true }).first().click();
+    // Wait for the side panel chat tab to be clickable, then click it.
+    await page.locator('#tab-chat').click();
+    await page.waitForSelector("[data-testid='chat-panel']", { timeout: 5_000 });
+    // Wait for the workspace status to flip to online and the textarea to be enabled.
+    await expect(page.locator("textarea").first()).toBeEnabled({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  });
+
+  test("chat panel loads without error", async ({ page }) => {
+    const hasEmptyState = await page.getByText("Send a message to start chatting.").isVisible().catch(() => false);
+    const hasHistory = await page.locator("[data-testid='chat-panel']").locator("div").count() > 3;
+    expect(hasEmptyState || hasHistory).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  test("send text message and receive echo response", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("What is the weather?");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    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 });
+  });
+
+  test("history persists across reload", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("Persistence test");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Persistence test")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+    await page.reload();
+    await page.waitForSelector(".react-flow__node", { timeout: 10_000 });
+    await page.getByText(workspaceName, { exact: true }).first().click();
+    await page.locator('#tab-chat').click();
+    await page.waitForSelector("[data-testid='chat-panel']", { timeout: 5_000 });
+    // Wait for the workspace status to flip to online and the textarea to be enabled.
+    await expect(page.locator("textarea").first()).toBeEnabled({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Persistence test", { exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Persistence test")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+  });
+
+  test("file attachment round-trip", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("Please read this file");
+
+    const fileInput = page.locator("[data-testid='chat-panel'] input[type='file']").first();
+    await fileInput.setInputFiles({
+      name: "test.txt",
+      mimeType: "text/plain",
+      buffer: Buffer.from("secret content abc123"),
+    });
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("test.txt")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 3_000 });
+
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Please read this file")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  });
+
+  test("activity log appears during send", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("Trigger activity");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    // Activity log container should appear during the send flow.
+    await expect(page.locator("[data-testid='activity-log']").first()).toBeVisible({ timeout: 10_000 }).catch(() => {
+      // Activity log may not be present in all layouts.
+    });
+  });
+});
+
+test.describe("Desktop ChatTab — Markdown rendering", () => {
+  let cleanup: () => Promise<void> = async () => {};
+  let workspaceId = "";
+  let workspaceName = "";
+
+  test.beforeAll(async () => {
+    const echo = await startEchoRuntime();
+    const ws = await seedWorkspace(echo.baseURL);
+    workspaceId = ws.id;
+    workspaceName = ws.name;
+    const stopHeartbeat = startHeartbeat(ws.id, ws.authToken);
+
+    cleanup = async () => {
+      stopHeartbeat();
+      await echo.stop();
+    };
+  });
+
+  test.afterAll(async () => {
+    await cleanupWorkspace(workspaceId);
+    await cleanup();
+  });
+
+  test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 1280, height: 800 });
+    await page.goto("/");
+    await page.waitForSelector(".react-flow__node", { timeout: 10_000 });
+    const skipGuide2 = page.getByText("Skip guide");
+    if (await skipGuide2.isVisible().catch(() => false)) {
+      await skipGuide2.click();
+    }
+    await page.getByText(workspaceName, { exact: true }).first().click();
+    await page.locator('#tab-chat').click();
+    await page.waitForSelector("[data-testid='chat-panel']", { timeout: 5_000 });
+    // Wait for the workspace status to flip to online and the textarea to be enabled.
+    await expect(page.locator("textarea").first()).toBeEnabled({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  });
+
+  test("code block renders <pre>", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("```js\nconst x = 1;\n```");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: ```js")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+    const pre = page.locator("pre").first();
+    await expect(pre).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(pre).toContainText("const x = 1;");
+  });
+
+  test("table renders <table>", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("| A | B |\n|---|---|\n| 1 | 2 |");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: | A | B |")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+    const table = page.locator("table").first();
+    await expect(table).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(table).toContainText("A");
+    await expect(table).toContainText("1");
+  });
+});
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+import { test, expect } from "@playwright/test";
+import { startEchoRuntime } from "./fixtures/echo-runtime";
+import { seedWorkspace, startHeartbeat, cleanupWorkspace } from "./fixtures/chat-seed";
+
+
+test.describe("MobileChat", () => {
+  let cleanup: () => Promise<void> = async () => {};
+  let workspaceId = "";
+
+  test.beforeAll(async () => {
+    const echo = await startEchoRuntime();
+    const ws = await seedWorkspace(echo.baseURL);
+    workspaceId = ws.id;
+    const stopHeartbeat = startHeartbeat(ws.id, ws.authToken);
+
+    cleanup = async () => {
+      stopHeartbeat();
+      await echo.stop();
+    };
+  });
+
+  test.afterAll(async () => {
+    await cleanupWorkspace(workspaceId);
+    await cleanup();
+  });
+
+  test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
+    await page.setViewportSize({ width: 375, height: 812 });
+    // Navigate directly to the mobile chat view.
+    await page.goto(`/?m=chat&a=${workspaceId}`);
+    await page.waitForSelector("[data-testid='chat-panel']", { timeout: 10_000 });
+    // Wait for the workspace status to flip to online and the textarea to be enabled.
+    await expect(page.locator("textarea").first()).toBeEnabled({ timeout: 15_000 });
+    // Dismiss onboarding guide if present.
+    const skipGuide = page.getByText("Skip guide");
+    if (await skipGuide.isVisible().catch(() => false)) {
+      await skipGuide.click();
+    }
+  });
+
+  test("chat panel loads without error", async ({ page }) => {
+    const hasEmptyState = await page.getByText("Send a message to start chatting.").isVisible().catch(() => false);
+    const hasHistory = await page.locator("[data-testid='chat-panel']").locator("div").count() > 3;
+    expect(hasEmptyState || hasHistory).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
+  test("send text message and receive echo response", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("Mobile test message");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Mobile test message")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Mobile test message")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  });
+
+  test("history persists across reload", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("Mobile persistence");
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Mobile persistence")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+
+    await page.reload();
+    await page.waitForSelector("[data-testid='chat-panel']", { timeout: 10_000 });
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("Mobile persistence", { exact: true })).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Mobile persistence")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 5_000 });
+  });
+
+  test("composer auto-grows with multi-line text", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    const initialHeight = await textarea.evaluate((el: HTMLElement) => el.offsetHeight);
+
+    await textarea.fill("Line 1\nLine 2\nLine 3\nLine 4\nLine 5");
+    await page.waitForTimeout(300);
+
+    const grownHeight = await textarea.evaluate((el: HTMLElement) => el.offsetHeight);
+    expect(grownHeight).toBeGreaterThan(initialHeight);
+  });
+
+  test("file attachment in mobile chat", async ({ page }) => {
+    const textarea = page.locator("textarea").first();
+    await textarea.fill("Mobile file test");
+
+    const fileInput = page.locator("[data-testid='chat-panel'] input[type='file']").first();
+    await fileInput.setInputFiles({
+      name: "mobile.txt",
+      mimeType: "text/plain",
+      buffer: Buffer.from("mobile secret"),
+    });
+
+    await expect(page.getByText("mobile.txt")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 3_000 });
+
+    await page.getByRole("button", { name: /Send/ }).first().click();
+    await expect(page.getByText("Echo: Mobile file test")).toBeVisible({ timeout: 15_000 });
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+/**
+ * E2E seed fixture for chat tests.
+ *
+ * Creates an external workspace via the workspace-server API, extracts the
+ * auto-minted auth token, then overrides the DB row so it appears "online"
+ * with an echo-runtime URL.  External runtime is used because the health
+ * sweep skips Docker checks for external workspaces; we keep the workspace
+ * alive with periodic heartbeats.
+ */
+
+import { randomUUID } from "node:crypto";
+
+const PLATFORM_URL = process.env.E2E_PLATFORM_URL ?? "http://localhost:8080";
+
+export interface SeededWorkspace {
+  id: string;
+  name: string;
+  agentURL: string;
+  authToken: string;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Create an external workspace and wire it to the echo runtime.
+ */
+export async function seedWorkspace(echoURL: string): Promise<SeededWorkspace> {
+  // 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" }),
+  });
+  if (!createRes.ok) {
+    const text = await createRes.text();
+    throw new Error(`Failed to create workspace: ${createRes.status} ${text}`);
+  }
+  const ws = (await createRes.json()) as {
+    id: string;
+    name: string;
+    connection?: { auth_token?: string };
+  };
+  const authToken = ws.connection?.auth_token;
+  if (!authToken) {
+    throw new Error("Workspace created but no auth_token returned");
+  }
+
+  // 2. Direct DB update: mark online + point url at echo runtime.
+  //    The platform blocks loopback URLs at the API layer (SSRF guard),
+  //    so we bypass via psql for local E2E.
+  const dbUrl = process.env.E2E_DATABASE_URL;
+  if (!dbUrl) {
+    throw new Error("E2E_DATABASE_URL must be set for DB seeding");
+  }
+  const pgRegex = /postgres:\/\/([^:]+):([^@]+)@([^:]+):(\d+)\/([^?]+)/;
+  const m = dbUrl.match(pgRegex);
+  if (!m) {
+    throw new Error(`Cannot parse E2E_DATABASE_URL: ${dbUrl}`);
+  }
+  const [, user, pass, host, port, db] = m;
+
+  // Pre-seed a platform_inbound_secret so chat file uploads don't trigger
+  // the lazy-heal 503 "retry in 30 s" path on first use.
+  const inboundSecret = Array.from({ length: 43 }, () =>
+    "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_"[
+      Math.floor(Math.random() * 64)
+    ],
+  ).join("");
+
+  const psql = [
+    `PGPASSWORD=${pass} psql`,
+    `-h ${host} -p ${port} -U ${user} -d ${db}`,
+    `-c "UPDATE workspaces SET status = 'online', url = '${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: ${err}`);
+  }
+
+  return { id: ws.id, name: wsName, agentURL: echoURL, authToken };
+}
+
+/**
+ * Start a heartbeat interval that keeps an external workspace alive.
+ * Returns a stop function.
+ */
+export function startHeartbeat(
+  workspaceId: string,
+  authToken: string,
+  intervalMs = 30_000,
+): () => void {
+  const send = () => {
+    fetch(`${PLATFORM_URL}/registry/heartbeat`, {
+      method: "POST",
+      headers: {
+        "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        Authorization: `Bearer ${authToken}`,
+      },
+      body: JSON.stringify({
+        workspace_id: workspaceId,
+        error_rate: 0,
+        sample_error: "",
+        active_tasks: 0,
+        current_task: "",
+        uptime_seconds: 0,
+      }),
+    }).catch(() => {});
+  };
+
+  // Send immediately so the first heartbeat lands before the stale sweep.
+  send();
+  const timer = setInterval(send, intervalMs);
+
+  return () => clearInterval(timer);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Seed chat-history rows for a workspace.
+ */
+export async function seedChatHistory(
+  workspaceId: string,
+  messages: Array<{ role: "user" | "agent"; content: string }>,
+): Promise<void> {
+  const dbUrl = process.env.E2E_DATABASE_URL;
+  if (!dbUrl) return;
+
+  const pgRegex = /postgres:\/\/([^:]+):([^@]+)@([^:]+):(\d+)\/([^?]+)/;
+  const m = dbUrl.match(pgRegex);
+  if (!m) return;
+  const [, user, pass, host, port, db] = m;
+
+  const values = messages
+    .map(
+      (msg, i) =>
+        `('${randomUUID()}', '${workspaceId}', '${msg.role}', '${msg.content.replace(/'/g, "''")}', NOW() - INTERVAL '${messages.length - i} seconds')`,
+    )
+    .join(",");
+
+  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 });
+}
+
+/**
+ * Delete a seeded workspace row directly from the DB.
+ * Uses psql (same credentials as seedWorkspace) so we bypass any
+ * workspace-server side-effects (container stop, cascade cleanup, etc.)
+ * that can race or 500 on external workspaces.
+ */
+export async function cleanupWorkspace(workspaceId: string): Promise<void> {
+  const dbUrl = process.env.E2E_DATABASE_URL;
+  if (!dbUrl) return;
+
+  const pgRegex = /postgres:\/\/([^:]+):([^@]+)@([^:]+):(\d+)\/([^?]+)/;
+  const m = dbUrl.match(pgRegex);
+  if (!m) return;
+  const [, user, pass, host, port, db] = m;
+
+  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 {
+    // Best-effort cleanup; don't fail the test suite if the row is already gone.
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Mint a workspace auth token so the canvas can make authenticated API
+ * calls (WorkspaceAuth middleware).
+ */
+export async function mintTestToken(workspaceId: string): Promise<string> {
+  const res = await fetch(
+    `${PLATFORM_URL}/admin/workspaces/${workspaceId}/test-token`,
+  );
+  if (!res.ok) {
+    throw new Error(`Failed to mint test token: ${res.status}`);
+  }
+  const data = (await res.json()) as { auth_token: string };
+  return data.auth_token;
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,180 @@
+/**
+ * Minimal A2A echo runtime for E2E tests.
+ *
+ * Listens on an ephemeral port, receives A2A JSON-RPC `message/send`
+ * requests, and returns a response with the original text echoed back.
+ * Also implements the workspace-side chat upload ingest endpoint so
+ * file-attachment E2E can exercise the full upload → send → echo
+ * round-trip.
+ *
+ * Usage (inside test fixture):
+ *   const echo = await startEchoRuntime();
+ *   // ... seed workspace with agent_url pointing to echo.baseURL ...
+ *   echo.stop();
+ */
+
+import { createServer, type Server } from "node:http";
+
+export interface EchoRuntime {
+  baseURL: string;
+  stop: () => Promise<void>;
+  lastRequest: { method: string; text: string; files: unknown[] } | null;
+}
+
+/** Parse a minimal multipart body and extract the first file's name + content. */
+function parseMultipart(body: Buffer): { name: string; mimeType: string; content: Buffer } | null {
+  // Find the boundary line (first line starting with "--").
+  const str = body.toString("binary");
+  const firstDash = str.indexOf("--");
+  if (firstDash === -1) return null;
+  const eol = str.indexOf("\r\n", firstDash);
+  if (eol === -1) return null;
+  const boundary = str.slice(firstDash + 2, eol);
+  const boundaryMarker = "\r\n--" + boundary;
+
+  // Find the first part that has a filename in Content-Disposition.
+  let pos = eol + 2;
+  while (pos < str.length) {
+    const nextBoundary = str.indexOf(boundaryMarker, pos);
+    if (nextBoundary === -1) break;
+    const part = str.slice(pos, nextBoundary);
+
+    const cdMatch = part.match(/Content-Disposition:[^\r\n]*filename="([^"]+)"/i);
+    if (cdMatch) {
+      const name = cdMatch[1];
+      const ctMatch = part.match(/Content-Type:\s*([^\r\n]+)/i);
+      const mimeType = ctMatch ? ctMatch[1].trim() : "application/octet-stream";
+      // Body starts after the first double-CRLF in the part.
+      const bodyStart = part.indexOf("\r\n\r\n");
+      if (bodyStart !== -1) {
+        // Extract the raw bytes (not the string) so binary is safe.
+        const headerBytes = Buffer.byteLength(part.slice(0, bodyStart + 4), "binary");
+        const partStartInBody = Buffer.byteLength(str.slice(0, pos + bodyStart + 4), "binary");
+        const partEndInBody = Buffer.byteLength(str.slice(0, nextBoundary), "binary");
+        const content = body.subarray(partStartInBody, partEndInBody);
+        return { name, mimeType, content };
+      }
+    }
+    pos = nextBoundary + boundaryMarker.length;
+    // Skip trailing "--" (end marker) or CRLF.
+    if (str.slice(pos, pos + 2) === "--") break;
+    if (str.slice(pos, pos + 2) === "\r\n") pos += 2;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+export async function startEchoRuntime(): Promise<EchoRuntime> {
+  let lastRequest: EchoRuntime["lastRequest"] = null;
+
+  const server = createServer((req, res) => {
+    // CORS: allow the canvas origin (localhost:3000) to call us.
+    res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
+    res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "POST, GET, OPTIONS");
+    res.setHeader("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "Content-Type, Authorization");
+
+    if (req.method === "OPTIONS") {
+      res.writeHead(204);
+      res.end();
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const url = req.url ?? "/";
+
+    // Workspace-side chat upload ingest (RFC #2312).
+    if (url === "/internal/chat/uploads/ingest" && req.method === "POST") {
+      const chunks: Buffer[] = [];
+      req.on("data", (chunk: Buffer) => chunks.push(chunk));
+      req.on("end", () => {
+        const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
+        const file = parseMultipart(body);
+        if (!file) {
+          res.writeHead(400);
+          res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: "no files field" }));
+          return;
+        }
+        const sanitized = file.name.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9._\-]/g, "_").replace(/ /g, "_");
+        const prefix = Array.from({ length: 32 }, () =>
+          Math.floor(Math.random() * 16).toString(16),
+        ).join("");
+        const response = {
+          files: [
+            {
+              uri: `workspace:/workspace/.molecule/chat-uploads/${prefix}-${sanitized}`,
+              name: sanitized,
+              mimeType: file.mimeType,
+              size: file.content.length,
+            },
+          ],
+        };
+        res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
+        res.writeHead(200);
+        res.end(JSON.stringify(response));
+      });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    // Default: A2A JSON-RPC handler.
+    let body = "";
+    req.setEncoding("utf8");
+    req.on("data", (chunk: string) => {
+      body += chunk;
+    });
+    req.on("end", () => {
+      res.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
+      try {
+        const rpc = JSON.parse(body);
+        const msg = rpc.params?.message;
+        const textParts =
+          msg?.parts
+            ?.filter((p: { kind?: string; text?: string }) => p.kind === "text")
+            .map((p: { text?: string }) => p.text)
+            .filter(Boolean) ?? [];
+        const fileParts =
+          msg?.parts?.filter((p: { kind?: string }) => p.kind === "file") ?? [];
+        const text = textParts.join("\n");
+
+        lastRequest = {
+          method: rpc.method ?? "unknown",
+          text,
+          files: fileParts,
+        };
+
+        const replyText = text
+          ? `Echo: ${text}`
+          : fileParts.length > 0
+            ? "Echo: received your file(s)."
+            : "Echo: hello";
+
+        const response = {
+          jsonrpc: "2.0",
+          id: rpc.id ?? null,
+          result: {
+            parts: [{ kind: "text", text: replyText }],
+          },
+        };
+
+        res.writeHead(200);
+        res.end(JSON.stringify(response));
+      } catch {
+        res.writeHead(400);
+        res.end(JSON.stringify({ error: "invalid json" }));
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
+  await new Promise<void>((resolve) => server.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", resolve));
+  const address = server.address();
+  const port = typeof address === "object" && address ? address.port : 0;
+  const baseURL = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}`;
+
+  return {
+    baseURL,
+    stop: () =>
+      new Promise((resolve) => {
+        server.close(() => resolve(undefined));
+      }),
+    get lastRequest() {
+      return lastRequest;
+    },
+  };
+}
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
  timeout: 30_000,
  expect: { timeout: 10_000 },
  fullyParallel: false,
+  workers: 1,
  retries: 0,
  use: {
    baseURL: "http://localhost:3000",
@@ -11,13 +11,21 @@ import { render, screen, fireEvent, cleanup, act } from "@testing-library/react"
 import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
 import { TestConnectionButton } from "../ui/TestConnectionButton";
 import type { SecretGroup } from "@/types/secrets";
-import { validateSecret } from "@/lib/api/secrets";
+import { validateSecret, ApiError } from "@/lib/api/secrets";

 // ─── Mock validateSecret ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 // vi.mock is hoisted, so validateSecret (imported above) refers to the mocked
 // namespace value once vi.mock runs. Use vi.mocked() to access it in tests.
 vi.mock("@/lib/api/secrets", () => ({
  validateSecret: vi.fn(),
+  ApiError: class ApiError extends Error {
+    status: number;
+    constructor(status: number, message: string) {
+      super(message);
+      this.name = "ApiError";
+      this.status = status;
+    }
+  },
 }));

 // SecretGroup is a string literal type: 'github' | 'anthropic' | 'openrouter' | 'custom'
@@ -102,7 +110,7 @@ describe("TestConnectionButton — state machine", () => {
    expect(screen.getByText("Permission denied")).toBeTruthy();
  });

-  it("shows generic error message on unexpected exception", async () => {
+  it("shows a connectivity message on a genuine network exception", async () => {
    vi.mocked(validateSecret).mockRejectedValue(new Error("timeout"));
    render(<TestConnectionButton provider={toGroup("anthropic")} secretValue="sk-..." />);

@@ -110,8 +118,23 @@ describe("TestConnectionButton — state machine", () => {
    await act(async () => { /* flush */ });

    expect(screen.getByRole("alert")).toBeTruthy();
-    // The error detail is hardcoded to "Connection timed out. Service may be down."
-    expect(document.body.querySelector('[role="alert"]')?.textContent).toMatch(/timed out/i);
+    // A real thrown network error → honest connectivity message (not a
+    // fabricated "service down"); see internal#492.
+    expect(document.body.querySelector('[role="alert"]')?.textContent).toMatch(
+      /could not reach the validation service/i,
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("does not claim a timeout when the validate endpoint 404s (internal#492)", async () => {
+    vi.mocked(validateSecret).mockRejectedValue(new ApiError(404, "Not Found"));
+    render(<TestConnectionButton provider={toGroup("anthropic")} secretValue="sk-..." />);
+
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button"));
+    await act(async () => { /* flush */ });
+
+    const alert = document.body.querySelector('[role="alert"]')?.textContent ?? "";
+    expect(alert).not.toMatch(/timed out/i);
+    expect(alert).toMatch(/not available/i);
  });
 });

@@ -6,21 +6,21 @@
 // attachments, no A2A topology overlay, no conversation tracing.

 import { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import ReactMarkdown from "react-markdown";
+import remarkGfm from "remark-gfm";

-import { api } from "@/lib/api";
 import { useCanvasStore } from "@/store/canvas";
+import { type ChatAttachment, type ChatMessage, createMessage } from "@/components/tabs/chat/types";
+import {
+  useChatHistory,
+  useChatSend,
+  useChatSocket,
+} from "@/components/tabs/chat/hooks";

 import { toMobileAgent } from "./components";
 import { MOBILE_FONT_MONO, MOBILE_FONT_SANS, usePalette } from "./palette";
 import { Icons, StatusDot, TierChip } from "./primitives";

-interface ChatMessage {
-  id: string;
-  role: "user" | "agent" | "system";
-  text: string;
-  ts: string;
-}
-
 const formatStoredTimestamp = (iso: string): string => {
  const d = new Date(iso);
  if (isNaN(d.getTime())) return "";
@@ -29,30 +29,171 @@ const formatStoredTimestamp = (iso: string): string => {

 type SubTab = "my" | "a2a";

-interface A2AResponseShape {
-  result?: {
-    parts?: Array<{ kind?: string; text?: string }>;
-  };
-  error?: { message?: string };
-}
+function MarkdownBubble({
+  children,
+  dark,
+  accent,
+}: {
+  children: string;
+  dark: boolean;
+  accent: string;
+}) {
+  const codeBg = dark ? "rgba(255,255,255,0.08)" : "rgba(0,0,0,0.06)";
+  const codeBlockBg = dark ? "#1a1a1a" : "#f5f5f0";
+  const linkColor = accent;
+  const quoteBorder = dark ? "rgba(255,250,240,0.15)" : "rgba(40,30,20,0.15)";

-// Wire shape for GET /workspaces/:id/chat-history (chat_history.go → ChatHistoryResponse).
-interface ApiChatMessage {
-  id: string;
-  role: string; // "user" | "agent" | "system"
-  content: string;
-  timestamp: string;
-  attachments?: Array<{ name: string; uri: string; mimeType?: string; size?: number }>;
+  return (
+    <ReactMarkdown
+      remarkPlugins={[remarkGfm]}
+      components={{
+        p: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ margin: "2px 0", lineHeight: "inherit" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        a: ({ href, children }) => (
+          <a
+            href={href}
+            target="_blank"
+            rel="noopener noreferrer"
+            style={{ color: linkColor, textDecoration: "underline" }}
+          >
+            {children}
+          </a>
+        ),
+        pre: ({ children }) => (
+          <pre
+            style={{
+              background: codeBlockBg,
+              padding: "8px 10px",
+              borderRadius: 8,
+              overflow: "auto",
+              fontSize: 12,
+              lineHeight: 1.5,
+              fontFamily: MOBILE_FONT_MONO,
+              margin: "4px 0",
+            }}
+          >
+            {children}
+          </pre>
+        ),
+        code: ({ children, className }) => {
+          const isBlock = className != null && String(className).length > 0;
+          if (isBlock) {
+            return (
+              <code style={{ fontFamily: MOBILE_FONT_MONO, fontSize: 12 }}>
+                {children}
+              </code>
+            );
+          }
+          return (
+            <code
+              style={{
+                background: codeBg,
+                padding: "1px 4px",
+                borderRadius: 4,
+                fontSize: 13,
+                fontFamily: MOBILE_FONT_MONO,
+              }}
+            >
+              {children}
+            </code>
+          );
+        },
+        ul: ({ children }) => (
+          <ul style={{ margin: "4px 0", paddingLeft: 18, listStyle: "disc" }}>
+            {children}
+          </ul>
+        ),
+        ol: ({ children }) => (
+          <ol style={{ margin: "4px 0", paddingLeft: 18, listStyle: "decimal" }}>
+            {children}
+          </ol>
+        ),
+        li: ({ children }) => <li style={{ margin: "2px 0" }}>{children}</li>,
+        strong: ({ children }) => (
+          <strong style={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>{children}</strong>
+        ),
+        em: ({ children }) => <em style={{ fontStyle: "italic" }}>{children}</em>,
+        h1: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 16, fontWeight: 700, margin: "4px 0" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        h2: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 15, fontWeight: 700, margin: "4px 0" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        h3: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 14, fontWeight: 700, margin: "4px 0" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        h4: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 14, fontWeight: 600, margin: "4px 0" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        h5: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 13, fontWeight: 600, margin: "4px 0" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        h6: ({ children }) => (
+          <div style={{ fontSize: 13, fontWeight: 600, margin: "4px 0" }}>{children}</div>
+        ),
+        blockquote: ({ children }) => (
+          <blockquote
+            style={{
+              borderLeft: `2px solid ${quoteBorder}`,
+              margin: "4px 0",
+              paddingLeft: 8,
+              opacity: 0.85,
+            }}
+          >
+            {children}
+          </blockquote>
+        ),
+        hr: () => (
+          <hr
+            style={{
+              border: "none",
+              borderTop: `0.5px solid ${quoteBorder}`,
+              margin: "6px 0",
+            }}
+          />
+        ),
+        table: ({ children }) => (
+          <table
+            style={{
+              borderCollapse: "collapse",
+              fontSize: 13,
+              margin: "4px 0",
+              width: "100%",
+            }}
+          >
+            {children}
+          </table>
+        ),
+        thead: ({ children }) => <thead style={{ fontWeight: 600 }}>{children}</thead>,
+        th: ({ children }) => (
+          <th
+            style={{
+              border: `0.5px solid ${quoteBorder}`,
+              padding: "4px 6px",
+              textAlign: "left",
+            }}
+          >
+            {children}
+          </th>
+        ),
+        td: ({ children }) => (
+          <td
+            style={{
+              border: `0.5px solid ${quoteBorder}`,
+              padding: "4px 6px",
+            }}
+          >
+            {children}
+          </td>
+        ),
+      }}
+    >
+      {children}
+    </ReactMarkdown>
+  );
 }

-interface ChatHistoryResponse {
-  messages: ApiChatMessage[];
-  reached_end: boolean;
-}
-
-const formatTime = (date: Date) =>
-  date.toLocaleTimeString([], { hour: "numeric", minute: "2-digit" });
-
 export function MobileChat({
  agentId,
  dark,
@@ -63,36 +204,40 @@ export function MobileChat({
  onBack: () => void;
 }) {
  const p = usePalette(dark);
-  // Selecting `nodes` stably avoids the `.find()` anti-pattern that
-  // creates a new return value on every store update (React error #185).
  const nodes = useCanvasStore((s) => s.nodes);
  const node = useMemo(() => nodes.find((n) => n.id === agentId), [nodes, agentId]);
-  // Bootstrap from the canvas store's per-workspace message buffer so the
-  // user sees their prior thread on entry. The store is updated by the
-  // socket → ChatTab flows the desktop runs; on mobile we read from the
-  // same buffer to keep state coherent across viewports.
-  // NOTE: selector returns undefined (stable) — do NOT use ?? [] here,
-  // that creates a new [] reference on every store update when the key is
-  // absent, causing infinite re-render (React error #185).
-  const storedMessages = useCanvasStore((s) => s.agentMessages[agentId]);
-  // Start empty — history is loaded via useEffect below.
-  const [messages, setMessages] = useState<ChatMessage[]>([]);
  const [draft, setDraft] = useState("");
  const [tab, setTab] = useState<SubTab>("my");
-  const [sending, setSending] = useState(false);
-  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
-  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true); // history is loading on mount
-  const [historyError, setHistoryError] = useState<string | null>(null);
  const scrollRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
-  // Synchronous re-entry guard. `setSending(true)` schedules a state
-  // update but doesn't flush before a second tap can fire send() — a ref
-  // mirrors the desktop ChatTab pattern (sendInFlightRef) and closes the
-  // double-send race a stale `sending` lets through.
-  const sendInFlightRef = useRef(false);
  const composerRef = useRef<HTMLTextAreaElement>(null);
-  // Guard: don't treat the initial store population as a live push.
-  // Set to false after the first render completes.
-  const initDoneRef = useRef(false);
+  const fileInputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
+  const [pendingFiles, setPendingFiles] = useState<File[]>([]);
+
+  const {
+    messages,
+    loading: historyLoading,
+    loadError: historyError,
+    loadInitial,
+    appendMessageDeduped,
+  } = useChatHistory(agentId);
+
+  const {
+    sending,
+    uploading,
+    sendMessage,
+    error: sendError,
+    clearError,
+    releaseSendGuards,
+  } = useChatSend(agentId, {
+    getHistoryMessages: () => messages,
+    onUserMessage: appendMessageDeduped,
+    onAgentMessage: appendMessageDeduped,
+  });
+
+  useChatSocket(agentId, {
+    onAgentMessage: appendMessageDeduped,
+    onSendComplete: releaseSendGuards,
+  });

  // Auto-grow the textarea: reset height to 'auto' so the scrollHeight
  // shrinks when the user deletes text, then size to scrollHeight up to
@@ -105,81 +250,26 @@ export function MobileChat({
    el.style.height = `${next}px`;
  }, [draft]);

-  // Fetch chat history on mount; keep merging live agentMessages while the
-  // panel is open. InitDoneRef prevents the initial store snapshot from
-  // triggering the live-merge path (the store buffer is populated by
-  // ChatTab on desktop, not on mobile — this effect loads history as the
-  // mobile-native path).
-  useEffect(() => {
-    let cancelled = false;
-
-    const mapApiMessage = (m: ApiChatMessage): ChatMessage => ({
-      id: m.id,
-      role: m.role === "user" ? "user" : "agent",
-      text: m.content,
-      ts: formatStoredTimestamp(m.timestamp),
-    });
-
-    const syncLive = () => {
-      const live = useCanvasStore.getState().agentMessages[agentId] ?? [];
-      if (live.length > 0) {
-        setMessages((prev) => {
-          const existingIds = new Set(prev.map((m) => m.id));
-          const newOnes = live
-            .filter((m) => !existingIds.has(m.id))
-            .map((m) => ({
-              id: m.id,
-              role: "agent" as const,
-              text: m.content,
-              ts: formatStoredTimestamp(m.timestamp),
-            }));
-          return newOnes.length > 0 ? [...prev, ...newOnes] : prev;
-        });
-      }
-    };
-
-    const bootstrap = async (): Promise<(() => void) | undefined> => {
-      setLoading(true);
-      setHistoryError(null);
-      try {
-        const res = await api.get<ChatHistoryResponse>(
-          `/workspaces/${agentId}/chat-history?limit=50`,
-        );
-        if (cancelled) return;
-        const initial = (res.messages ?? []).map(mapApiMessage);
-        setMessages(initial);
-        // Mark init done BEFORE marking loading=false so any store push
-        // that arrives in the same tick is treated as live, not init.
-        initDoneRef.current = true;
-        setLoading(false);
-        // Subscribe to live pushes after init is complete.
-        syncLive();
-        const unsubscribe = useCanvasStore.subscribe(syncLive);
-        return unsubscribe; // returned for cleanup
-      } catch (e) {
-        if (cancelled) return;
-        setHistoryError(e instanceof Error ? e.message : "Failed to load chat history");
-        setLoading(false);
-        initDoneRef.current = true;
-        return undefined;
-      }
-    };
-
-    let maybeUnsubscribe: (() => void) | undefined;
-    bootstrap().then((fn) => { maybeUnsubscribe = fn; });
-
-    return () => {
-      cancelled = true;
-      if (maybeUnsubscribe) maybeUnsubscribe();
-    };
-  }, [agentId]);
-
  useEffect(() => {
    if (scrollRef.current) {
      scrollRef.current.scrollTop = scrollRef.current.scrollHeight;
    }
  }, [messages]);

+  // Consume any agent messages that arrived while history was loading.
+  const initialConsumeDoneRef = useRef(false);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (historyLoading || initialConsumeDoneRef.current) return;
+    initialConsumeDoneRef.current = true;
+    const consume = useCanvasStore.getState().consumeAgentMessages;
+    const msgs = consume(agentId);
+    for (const m of msgs) {
+      appendMessageDeduped(
+        createMessage("agent", m.content, m.attachments),
+      );
+    }
+  }, [historyLoading, agentId, appendMessageDeduped]);
+
  if (!node) {
    return (
      <div
@@ -201,58 +291,32 @@ export function MobileChat({
  const a = toMobileAgent(node);
  const reachable = a.status === "online" || a.status === "degraded";

+  const onFilesPicked = (fileList: FileList | null) => {
+    if (!fileList) return;
+    const picked = Array.from(fileList);
+    setPendingFiles((prev) => {
+      const keyed = new Set(prev.map((f) => `${f.name}:${f.size}`));
+      return [...prev, ...picked.filter((f) => !keyed.has(`${f.name}:${f.size}`))];
+    });
+    if (fileInputRef.current) fileInputRef.current.value = "";
+  };
+
+  const removePendingFile = (index: number) =>
+    setPendingFiles((prev) => prev.filter((_, i) => i !== index));
+
  const send = async () => {
    const text = draft.trim();
-    if (!text || sending || !reachable) return;
-    if (sendInFlightRef.current) return;
-    sendInFlightRef.current = true;
+    if ((!text && pendingFiles.length === 0) || sending || !reachable) return;
+    clearError();
    setDraft("");
-    setError(null);
-    setSending(true);
-    const myMsg: ChatMessage = {
-      id: crypto.randomUUID(),
-      role: "user",
-      text,
-      ts: formatTime(new Date()),
-    };
-    setMessages((m) => [...m, myMsg]);
-
-    try {
-      const res = await api.post<A2AResponseShape>(`/workspaces/${agentId}/a2a`, {
-        method: "message/send",
-        params: {
-          message: {
-            role: "user",
-            messageId: crypto.randomUUID(),
-            parts: [{ kind: "text", text }],
-          },
-        },
-      });
-      const reply =
-        res.result?.parts?.find((part) => part.kind === "text")?.text ?? "";
-      if (reply) {
-        setMessages((m) => [
-          ...m,
-          {
-            id: crypto.randomUUID(),
-            role: "agent",
-            text: reply,
-            ts: formatTime(new Date()),
-          },
-        ]);
-      } else if (res.error?.message) {
-        setError(res.error.message);
-      }
-    } catch (e) {
-      setError(e instanceof Error ? e.message : "Failed to send");
-    } finally {
-      setSending(false);
-      sendInFlightRef.current = false;
-    }
+    const files = pendingFiles;
+    setPendingFiles([]);
+    await sendMessage(text, files);
  };

  return (
    <div
+      data-testid="chat-panel"
      style={{
        height: "100%",
        display: "flex",
@@ -393,13 +457,12 @@ export function MobileChat({
            Agent Comms — peer-to-peer A2A traffic surfaces in the Comms tab.
          </div>
        )}
-        {tab === "my" && loading && (
+        {tab === "my" && historyLoading && (
          <div style={{ padding: "20px 4px", textAlign: "center", color: p.text3, fontSize: 13 }}>
-            <div style={{ marginBottom: 6, opacity: 0.6, animation: "spin 1s linear infinite", display: "inline-block", fontSize: 16 }}>⟳</div>
-            <div>Loading chat history…</div>
+            Loading chat history…
          </div>
        )}
-        {tab === "my" && !loading && historyError && (
+        {tab === "my" && !historyLoading && historyError && messages.length === 0 && (
          <div
            role="alert"
            style={{
@@ -413,25 +476,7 @@ export function MobileChat({
            <button
              type="button"
              onClick={() => {
-                setLoading(true);
-                setHistoryError(null);
-                api.get(`/workspaces/${agentId}/chat-history?limit=50`).then(
-                  (res: unknown) => {
-                    const r = res as ChatHistoryResponse;
-                    setMessages((r.messages ?? []).map((m) => ({
-                      id: m.id,
-                      role: m.role === "user" ? "user" : "agent",
-                      text: m.content,
-                      ts: formatStoredTimestamp(m.timestamp),
-                    })));
-                    setLoading(false);
-                    initDoneRef.current = true;
-                  },
-                ).catch((e: unknown) => {
-                  setHistoryError(e instanceof Error ? e.message : "Failed to load");
-                  setLoading(false);
-                  initDoneRef.current = true;
-                });
+                loadInitial();
              }}
              style={{
                padding: "6px 14px",
@@ -447,7 +492,7 @@ export function MobileChat({
            </button>
          </div>
        )}
-        {tab === "my" && !loading && !historyError && messages.length === 0 && (
+        {tab === "my" && !historyLoading && !historyError && messages.length === 0 && (
          <div style={{ padding: "20px 4px", textAlign: "center", color: p.text3, fontSize: 13 }}>
            Send a message to start chatting.
          </div>
@@ -476,7 +521,9 @@ export function MobileChat({
                    overflowWrap: "anywhere",
                  }}
                >
-                  {m.text}
+                  <MarkdownBubble dark={dark} accent={p.accent}>
+                    {m.content}
+                  </MarkdownBubble>
                  <div
                    style={{
                      fontSize: 10,
@@ -485,13 +532,13 @@ export function MobileChat({
                      fontFamily: MOBILE_FONT_MONO,
                    }}
                  >
-                    {m.ts}
+                    {formatStoredTimestamp(m.timestamp)}
                  </div>
                </div>
              </div>
            );
          })}
-        {error && (
+        {sendError && (
          <div
            role="alert"
            style={{
@@ -503,7 +550,7 @@ export function MobileChat({
              fontSize: 12,
            }}
          >
-            {error}
+            {sendError}
          </div>
        )}
      </div>
@@ -534,6 +581,60 @@ export function MobileChat({
          backdropFilter: "blur(14px)",
        }}
      >
+        {pendingFiles.length > 0 && (
+          <div
+            style={{
+              display: "flex",
+              flexWrap: "wrap",
+              gap: 6,
+              marginBottom: 8,
+              paddingLeft: 2,
+            }}
+          >
+            {pendingFiles.map((f, i) => (
+              <div
+                key={`${f.name}:${f.size}`}
+                style={{
+                  display: "flex",
+                  alignItems: "center",
+                  gap: 4,
+                  padding: "3px 8px",
+                  borderRadius: 10,
+                  background: dark ? "#2a2823" : "#ece9e0",
+                  fontSize: 12,
+                  color: p.text2,
+                  maxWidth: "100%",
+                }}
+              >
+                <span
+                  style={{
+                    overflow: "hidden",
+                    textOverflow: "ellipsis",
+                    whiteSpace: "nowrap",
+                  }}
+                >
+                  {f.name}
+                </span>
+                <button
+                  type="button"
+                  onClick={() => removePendingFile(i)}
+                  aria-label={`Remove ${f.name}`}
+                  style={{
+                    border: "none",
+                    background: "transparent",
+                    color: p.text3,
+                    cursor: "pointer",
+                    fontSize: 12,
+                    padding: 0,
+                    lineHeight: 1,
+                  }}
+                >
+                  ✕
+                </button>
+              </div>
+            ))}
+          </div>
+        )}
        <div
          style={{
            display: "flex",
@@ -545,21 +646,32 @@ export function MobileChat({
            padding: "6px 6px 6px 12px",
          }}
        >
+          <input
+            ref={fileInputRef}
+            type="file"
+            multiple
+            style={{ display: "none" }}
+            onChange={(e) => onFilesPicked(e.target.files)}
+            aria-hidden="true"
+          />
          <button
            type="button"
+            onClick={() => fileInputRef.current?.click()}
+            disabled={!reachable || sending || uploading}
            aria-label="Attach"
            style={{
              width: 32,
              height: 32,
              borderRadius: 999,
              border: "none",
-              cursor: "pointer",
+              cursor: reachable && !sending && !uploading ? "pointer" : "not-allowed",
              background: "transparent",
              color: p.text3,
              flexShrink: 0,
              display: "flex",
              alignItems: "center",
              justifyContent: "center",
+              opacity: !reachable || sending || uploading ? 0.4 : 1,
            }}
          >
            {Icons.attach({ size: 16 })}
@@ -605,28 +717,32 @@ export function MobileChat({
          <button
            type="button"
            onClick={send}
-            disabled={!draft.trim() || !reachable || sending}
+            disabled={(!draft.trim() && pendingFiles.length === 0) || !reachable || sending || uploading}
            aria-label="Send"
            style={{
              width: 36,
              height: 36,
              borderRadius: 999,
              border: "none",
-              cursor: draft.trim() && !sending ? "pointer" : "not-allowed",
+              cursor: (draft.trim() || pendingFiles.length > 0) && !sending && !uploading ? "pointer" : "not-allowed",
              flexShrink: 0,
              background:
-                draft.trim() && reachable && !sending
+                (draft.trim() || pendingFiles.length > 0) && reachable && !sending && !uploading
                  ? p.accent
                  : dark
                    ? "#2a2823"
                    : "#ece9e0",
-              color: draft.trim() && reachable && !sending ? "#fff" : p.text3,
+              color: (draft.trim() || pendingFiles.length > 0) && reachable && !sending && !uploading ? "#fff" : p.text3,
              display: "flex",
              alignItems: "center",
              justifyContent: "center",
            }}
          >
-            {Icons.send({ size: 16 })}
+            {uploading ? (
+              <span style={{ fontSize: 10, fontWeight: 600 }}>↑</span>
+            ) : (
+              Icons.send({ size: 16 })
+            )}
          </button>
        </div>
      </div>
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ export function MobileDetail({
        <button
          type="button"
          onClick={onChat}
+          data-testid="mobile-chat-cta"
          style={{
            width: "100%",
            height: 52,
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const mockStoreState = {
    height?: number;
  }>,
  agentMessages: {} as Record<string, Array<{ id: string; content: string; timestamp: string }>>,
+  consumeAgentMessages: () => [],
 };

 vi.mock("@/store/canvas", () => ({
@@ -357,7 +358,7 @@ describe("MobileChat — chat history", () => {
      renderChat(mockAgentId);
    });
    expect(api.get).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-      `/workspaces/${mockAgentId}/chat-history?limit=50`,
+      expect.stringContaining(`/workspaces/${mockAgentId}/chat-history`),
    );
  });

@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ export function AgentCard({
  return (
    <button
      type="button"
+      data-testid="workspace-card"
      aria-label={`${agent.name}, status: ${agent.status}, tier ${agent.tier}${agent.remote ? ", remote" : ""}`}
      onClick={onClick}
      style={{
@@ -3,16 +3,24 @@ import { useState, useCallback, useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
 import type { Secret, SecretGroup } from '@/types/secrets';
 import { useSecretsStore } from '@/stores/secrets-store';
 import { StatusBadge } from '@/components/ui/StatusBadge';
-import { RevealToggle } from '@/components/ui/RevealToggle';
 import { KeyValueField } from '@/components/ui/KeyValueField';
 import { ValidationHint } from '@/components/ui/ValidationHint';
 import { TestConnectionButton } from '@/components/ui/TestConnectionButton';
 import { validateSecretValue } from '@/lib/validation/secret-formats';
 import { SERVICES } from '@/lib/services';

-const AUTO_HIDE_MS = 30_000;
 const VALIDATION_DEBOUNCE_MS = 400;

+// Secret values are write-only from the browser: the server List endpoint
+// "Never exposes values", there is no per-secret decrypt route, and the
+// only decrypted path (GET /secrets/values) is bulk + token-gated for
+// remote agents. The old eye/RevealToggle was a dead affordance — it
+// flipped its own icon but could never reveal anything, which read as
+// "this doesn't work" (esp. once clicked → eye-with-slash). We show an
+// honest static indicator instead; rotation is via Edit.
+const WRITE_ONLY_TITLE =
+  'Value is write-only and cannot be revealed — use Edit to replace/rotate it';
+
 interface SecretRowProps {
  secret: Secret;
  workspaceId: string;
@@ -31,28 +39,12 @@ export function SecretRow({ secret, workspaceId }: SecretRowProps) {
  const setSecretStatus = useSecretsStore((s) => s.setSecretStatus);

  const isEditing = editingKey === secret.name;
-  const [revealed, setRevealed] = useState(false);
  const [editValue, setEditValue] = useState('');
  const [validationError, setValidationError] = useState<string | null>(null);
  const [isSaving, setIsSaving] = useState(false);
  const [saveError, setSaveError] = useState<string | null>(null);
  const debounceRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>(undefined);
  const editBtnRef = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null);
-  const revealTimerRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout>>(undefined);
-
-  // Auto-hide revealed value after 30s
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (revealed) {
-      clearTimeout(revealTimerRef.current);
-      revealTimerRef.current = setTimeout(() => setRevealed(false), AUTO_HIDE_MS);
-      return () => clearTimeout(revealTimerRef.current);
-    }
-  }, [revealed]);
-
-  // Reset revealed state when panel closes (session-only)
-  useEffect(() => {
-    return () => setRevealed(false);
-  }, []);

  // Debounced validation
  useEffect(() => {
@@ -133,11 +125,15 @@ export function SecretRow({ secret, workspaceId }: SecretRowProps) {
          {secret.masked_value}
        </span>
        <div className="secret-row__actions">
-          <RevealToggle
-            revealed={revealed}
-            onToggle={() => setRevealed((r) => !r)}
-            label={`Toggle reveal ${secret.name}`}
-          />
+          <span
+            data-testid="write-only-indicator"
+            className="secret-row__write-only"
+            role="img"
+            aria-label={`${secret.name} value is write-only and cannot be revealed; use Edit to replace it`}
+            title={WRITE_ONLY_TITLE}
+          >
+            🔒
+          </span>
          <StatusBadge status={secret.status} />
          <button
            type="button"
@@ -16,7 +16,40 @@ interface TokensTabProps {
  workspaceId: string;
 }

+// The settings panel passes the literal sentinel "global" when no canvas
+// node is selected. Workspace tokens are inherently per-workspace — there
+// is no /workspaces/global/tokens endpoint (querying the uuid column with
+// "global" 500s on Postgres). The org-wide equivalent lives in the
+// separate "Org API Keys" tab. Mirrors the sentinel-awareness that
+// api/secrets.ts already has (workspaceId === 'global' → /settings/secrets).
+const GLOBAL_WORKSPACE_ID = 'global';
+
 export function TokensTab({ workspaceId }: TokensTabProps) {
+  if (workspaceId === GLOBAL_WORKSPACE_ID) {
+    return (
+      <div className="p-4 space-y-4">
+        <div>
+          <h3 className="text-sm font-semibold text-ink">API Tokens</h3>
+          <p className="text-[10px] text-ink-mid mt-0.5">
+            Bearer tokens for authenticating API calls to this workspace.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+        <div className="text-center py-6">
+          <p className="text-xs text-ink-mid">Select a workspace node first</p>
+          <p className="text-[10px] text-ink-mid mt-1">
+            Workspace tokens are scoped to a single workspace. Select a node
+            on the canvas to manage its tokens, or use the{' '}
+            <span className="text-accent font-medium">Org API Keys</span> tab
+            for org-wide API keys.
+          </p>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+  return <WorkspaceTokensTab workspaceId={workspaceId} />;
+}
+
+function WorkspaceTokensTab({ workspaceId }: TokensTabProps) {
  const [tokens, setTokens] = useState<Token[]>([]);
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
  const [creating, setCreating] = useState(false);
@@ -138,14 +138,54 @@ describe("SecretRow — display mode", () => {
    expect(document.querySelector('[role="row"]')).toBeTruthy();
  });

-  it("has Reveal, Copy, Edit, Delete buttons", () => {
+  it("has Copy, Edit, Delete buttons", () => {
    render(<SecretRow secret={GITHUB_SECRET} workspaceId="ws-1" />);
-    expect(screen.getByTestId("reveal-toggle")).toBeTruthy();
    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /copy/i })).toBeTruthy();
    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /edit/i })).toBeTruthy();
    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: /delete/i })).toBeTruthy();
  });

+  // Regression: the reveal/eye control was a dead affordance. Clicking it
+  // flipped its own icon (eye → eye-with-slash) but never revealed the value,
+  // because secret values are write-only from the browser (server List
+  // "Never exposes values"; there is no per-secret decrypt endpoint and the
+  // client has no plaintext-fetch function). The honest fix removes the
+  // toggle and shows a static "write-only / cannot be revealed" indicator.
+  // See internal tracking issue + internal#210/#211.
+  it("does NOT render a reveal/eye toggle (values are write-only)", () => {
+    render(<SecretRow secret={GITHUB_SECRET} workspaceId="ws-1" />);
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("reveal-toggle")).toBeNull();
+    expect(
+      screen.queryByRole("button", { name: /toggle reveal/i }),
+    ).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("shows a write-only indicator explaining the value cannot be revealed", () => {
+    render(<SecretRow secret={ANTHROPIC_SECRET} workspaceId="ws-1" />);
+    const indicator = screen.getByTestId("write-only-indicator");
+    expect(indicator).toBeTruthy();
+    // Affordance must be honest: explain it cannot be revealed and that
+    // Edit is the rotate path. It must not be a clickable button.
+    const title = indicator.getAttribute("title") ?? "";
+    expect(title.toLowerCase()).toMatch(/write-only|cannot be revealed/);
+    expect(indicator.tagName).not.toBe("BUTTON");
+  });
+
+  it("write-only indicator is present for the Anthropic/OAuth-token row too", () => {
+    // The reported bug singled out CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN (anthropic group);
+    // the fix is group-agnostic — every row gets the same honest affordance.
+    const OAUTH_SECRET = {
+      name: "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN",
+      masked_value: "••••••••••••••••9d2a",
+      group: "anthropic" as const,
+      status: "unverified" as const,
+      updated_at: "2024-01-04",
+    };
+    render(<SecretRow secret={OAUTH_SECRET} workspaceId="ws-1" />);
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("reveal-toggle")).toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("write-only-indicator")).toBeTruthy();
+  });
+
  it("shows invalid status correctly", () => {
    render(<SecretRow secret={CUSTOM_SECRET} workspaceId="ws-1" />);
    expect(screen.getByTestId("status-badge").getAttribute("data-status")).toBe("invalid");
@@ -302,3 +302,35 @@ describe("TokensTab — error", () => {
    expect(document.querySelector('[role="status"]')).toBeNull();
  });
 });
+
+// ─── "global" sentinel (no node selected) ────────────────────────────────────
+//
+// Regression: SettingsPanel passes the literal "global" when no canvas
+// node is selected. workspace tokens are per-workspace and there is no
+// /workspaces/global/tokens endpoint — calling it 500'd
+// ("invalid input syntax for type uuid: global"). The tab must NOT call
+// the API in that state and must point the user at the Org API Keys tab.
+describe("TokensTab — global sentinel (no node selected)", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    mockApiGet.mockReset();
+    mockApiPost.mockReset();
+    mockApiGet.mockRejectedValue(new Error("should not be called"));
+  });
+
+  it("does not call the API and shows a pointer to Org API Keys", async () => {
+    render(<TokensTab workspaceId="global" />);
+    await flush();
+    expect(mockApiGet).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(mockApiPost).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("Select a workspace node");
+    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("Org API Keys");
+    // No error banner, no scary 500 surfacing.
+    expect(document.querySelector(".text-bad")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("has no create button in the global state", async () => {
+    render(<TokensTab workspaceId="global" />);
+    await flush();
+    expect(document.body.textContent).not.toContain("New Token");
+  });
+});
@@ -5,16 +5,19 @@ import ReactMarkdown from "react-markdown";
 import remarkGfm from "remark-gfm";
 import { api } from "@/lib/api";
 import { useCanvasStore, type WorkspaceNodeData } from "@/store/canvas";
-import { useSocketEvent } from "@/hooks/useSocketEvent";
 import { type ChatMessage, type ChatAttachment, createMessage, appendMessageDeduped } from "./chat/types";
-import { uploadChatFiles, downloadChatFile, isPlatformAttachment } from "./chat/uploads";
+import { downloadChatFile, isPlatformAttachment } from "./chat/uploads";
 import { PendingAttachmentPill } from "./chat/AttachmentViews";
 import { AttachmentPreview } from "./chat/AttachmentPreview";
-import { extractFilesFromTask } from "./chat/message-parser";
 import { AgentCommsPanel } from "./chat/AgentCommsPanel";
 import { appendActivityLine } from "./chat/activityLog";
 import { runtimeDisplayName } from "@/lib/runtime-names";
 import { ConfirmDialog } from "@/components/ConfirmDialog";
+import { useChatHistory } from "./chat/hooks/useChatHistory";
+import { useChatSend } from "./chat/hooks/useChatSend";
+import { useChatSocket } from "./chat/hooks/useChatSocket";
+
+export { extractReplyText } from "./chat/hooks/useChatSend";

 interface Props {
  workspaceId: string;
@@ -23,147 +26,6 @@ interface Props {

 type ChatSubTab = "my-chat" | "agent-comms";

-// A2A response shape (subset). The full schema is in @a2a-js/sdk but we only
-// need parts/artifacts text + file extraction for the synchronous fallback.
-interface A2AFileRef {
-  name?: string;
-  mimeType?: string;
-  uri?: string;
-  bytes?: string;
-  size?: number;
-}
-// Outbound shape matches a2a-sdk's JSON-RPC `SendMessageRequest`
-// Pydantic union (TextPart | FilePart | DataPart). The flat
-// protobuf shape `{url, filename, mediaType}` is rejected at the
-// request boundary with `Field required` errors — keep this
-// outbound shape unless a2a-sdk migrates the JSON-RPC schema.
-interface A2APart {
-  kind: string;
-  text?: string;
-  file?: A2AFileRef;
-}
-interface A2AResponse {
-  result?: {
-    parts?: A2APart[];
-    artifacts?: Array<{ parts: A2APart[] }>;
-  };
-}
-
-// Internal-self-message filtering moved server-side in RFC #2945
-// PR-C/D — the platform's /chat-history endpoint applies the
-// IsInternalSelfMessage predicate before returning rows, so the
-// client no longer needs the local backstop on the history path.
-// The proper fix is still X-Workspace-ID header (source_id=workspace_id);
-// the platform-side prefix filter handles the residual cases.
-
-// extractReplyText pulls the agent's text reply out of an A2A response.
-// Concatenates ALL text parts (joined with "\n") rather than returning
-// just the first. Claude Code and other runtimes commonly emit multi-
-// part text replies for long content (markdown tables, code blocks),
-// and the prior "first part wins" implementation silently truncated
-// the rest — observed on a 15k-char Wave 1 brief that rendered only
-// the table header. Mirrors extractTextsFromParts in message-parser.ts.
-//
-// Server-side counterpart in workspace-server/internal/channels/
-// manager.go has the same single-part bug; fix that too if/when a
-// channel-delivered reply (Slack, Lark, etc.) gets truncated.
-export function extractReplyText(resp: A2AResponse): string {
-  const collect = (parts: A2APart[] | undefined): string => {
-    if (!parts) return "";
-    return parts
-      .filter((p) => p.kind === "text")
-      .map((p) => p.text ?? "")
-      .filter(Boolean)
-      .join("\n");
-  };
-  const result = resp?.result;
-  const collected: string[] = [];
-  const fromParts = collect(result?.parts);
-  if (fromParts) collected.push(fromParts);
-  // Walk artifacts even if parts had text — some producers (Hermes
-  // tool calls) emit a summary in parts AND details in artifacts.
-  // Returning early on parts dropped the artifact body silently.
-  if (result?.artifacts) {
-    for (const a of result.artifacts) {
-      const t = collect(a.parts);
-      if (t) collected.push(t);
-    }
-  }
-  return collected.join("\n");
-}
-
-// Agent-returned files live on the same response shape as text —
-// delegated to extractFilesFromTask in message-parser.ts, which also
-// walks status.message.parts (that ChatTab's legacy text extractor
-// doesn't). Single source of truth for file-part parsing across
-// live chat, activity log replay, and any future consumers.
-
-/** Initial chat history page size. The newest N messages are rendered
- *  on first paint; older history is fetched on demand via loadOlder()
- *  when the user scrolls the top sentinel into view. */
-const INITIAL_HISTORY_LIMIT = 10;
-/** Subsequent older-history batch size. Larger than INITIAL so a long
- *  scroll-back doesn't fan out into many round-trips. */
-const OLDER_HISTORY_BATCH = 20;
-
-/**
- * Load chat history from the platform's typed /chat-history endpoint.
- *
- * Server-side rendering of activity_logs rows into ChatMessage shape
- * lives in workspace-server/internal/messagestore/postgres_store.go
- * (RFC #2945 PR-C/D). The server already applies the canvas-source
- * filter, the internal-self-message predicate, the role decision
- * (status=error vs agent-error prefix → system), and the v0/v1
- * file-shape extraction. Canvas just renders what it receives.
- *
- * Wire shape (mirrors ChatMessage exactly, no per-row mapping needed):
- *
- *   GET /workspaces/:id/chat-history?limit=N&before_ts=T
- *   200 → {"messages": ChatMessage[], "reached_end": boolean}
- *
- * Pagination:
- *  - Pass `limit` to bound the page size (newest-first from server).
- *  - Pass `beforeTs` (RFC3339) to fetch rows STRICTLY OLDER than that
- *    timestamp. Combined with limit, this yields the next-older page
- *    when scrolling backward through history.
- *
- * `reachedEnd` is propagated from the server. The server computes it
- * by comparing rowCount vs limit so a partial last page is correctly
- * detected even when the row→bubble fan-out is non-1:1 (each row
- * produces 1-2 bubbles).
- */
-async function loadMessagesFromDB(
-  workspaceId: string,
-  limit: number,
-  beforeTs?: string,
-): Promise<{ messages: ChatMessage[]; error: string | null; reachedEnd: boolean }> {
-  try {
-    const params = new URLSearchParams({ limit: String(limit) });
-    if (beforeTs) params.set("before_ts", beforeTs);
-    const resp = await api.get<{ messages: ChatMessage[]; reached_end: boolean }>(
-      `/workspaces/${workspaceId}/chat-history?${params.toString()}`,
-    );
-
-    // Server emits oldest-first within the page (RFC #2945 PR-C-2
-    // post-fix: server reverses row-aware before returning so the
-    // wire is display-ready). Canvas appends/prepends without
-    // reordering — this avoids the pair-flip bug a naive flat
-    // reverse causes when each row produces a (user, agent) pair
-    // with the same timestamp.
-    return {
-      messages: resp.messages ?? [],
-      error: null,
-      reachedEnd: resp.reached_end,
-    };
-  } catch (err) {
-    return {
-      messages: [],
-      error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : "Failed to load chat history",
-      reachedEnd: true,
-    };
-  }
-}
-
 /**
 * ChatTab container — renders sub-tab bar + My Chat or Agent Comms panel.
 */
@@ -171,7 +33,7 @@ export function ChatTab({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
  const [subTab, setSubTab] = useState<ChatSubTab>("my-chat");

  return (
-    <div className="flex flex-col h-full">
+    <div data-testid="chat-panel" className="flex flex-col h-full">
      {/* Sub-tab bar — role="tablist" so screen readers expose tab context */}
      <div
        role="tablist"
@@ -247,268 +109,68 @@ export function ChatTab({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
 * MyChatPanel — user↔agent conversation (extracted from original ChatTab).
 */
 function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
-  const [messages, setMessages] = useState<ChatMessage[]>([]);
  const [input, setInput] = useState("");
-  // `sending` is strictly the "this tab kicked off a send and hasn't
-  // seen the reply yet" signal. Previously this was initialized from
-  // data.currentTask to pick up in-flight agent work on mount, but
-  // that conflated agent-busy (workspace heartbeat) with user-
-  // in-flight (local send): when the WS dropped a TASK_COMPLETE event,
-  // currentTask lingered, the component re-mounted with sending=true,
-  // and the Send button stayed disabled forever even though nothing
-  // local was in flight. For the "agent is busy, show spinner" UX,
-  // use data.currentTask directly in the render path.
-  const [sending, setSending] = useState(false);
-  const [thinkingElapsed, setThinkingElapsed] = useState(0);
+  const [pendingFiles, setPendingFiles] = useState<File[]>([]);
  const [activityLog, setActivityLog] = useState<string[]>([]);
-  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
-  const [loadError, setLoadError] = useState<string | null>(null);
-  const currentTaskRef = useRef(data.currentTask);
-  const sendingFromAPIRef = useRef(false);
+  const [thinkingElapsed, setThinkingElapsed] = useState(0);
  const [agentReachable, setAgentReachable] = useState(false);
  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
  const [confirmRestart, setConfirmRestart] = useState(false);
-  const bottomRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
-  // First-mount scroll-to-bottom needs `behavior: "instant"` — long
-  // conversations smooth-animate for ~300ms which any concurrent
-  // re-render can interrupt, leaving the user stuck mid-conversation
-  // when the chat tab opens. Subsequent appends (new agent messages)
-  // keep `smooth` for the visual "landing" feel. Flipped the first
-  // time messages.length goes positive, so a workspace switch (which
-  // remounts ChatTab) gets a fresh instant jump too.
-  const hasInitialScrollRef = useRef(false);
-  // Lazy-load older history on scroll-up.
-  // - containerRef = the scrollable messages viewport
-  // - topRef       = sentinel above the messages list; IO observes it
-  //                  and triggers loadOlder() when it enters view
-  // - hasMore      = false once a fetch returns < limit rows; stops IO
-  // - loadingOlder = drives the "Loading older messages…" UI label
-  // - inflightRef  = synchronous guard against double-entry of loadOlder
-  //                  when the IO callback fires twice in the same
-  //                  microtask (state-based guard would be stale until
-  //                  the next React commit)
-  // - scrollAnchorRef = saves distance-from-bottom before a prepend
-  //                  so the useLayoutEffect below can restore the
-  //                  user's exact viewport position. Without this,
-  //                  prepending older messages would jump the scroll
-  //                  position by the height of the new content.
-  // - oldestMessageRef / hasMoreRef = let the loadOlder closure read
-  //                  the latest values without taking them as deps —
-  //                  every live agent push mutates `messages`, and
-  //                  having loadOlder depend on `messages` would tear
-  //                  down + re-arm the IntersectionObserver on every
-  //                  push. Refs decouple the observer lifecycle from
-  //                  message-list updates.
+  const [dragOver, setDragOver] = useState(false);
+
  const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
  const topRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
-  const [hasMore, setHasMore] = useState(true);
-  const [loadingOlder, setLoadingOlder] = useState(false);
-  const inflightRef = useRef(false);
-  // The scroll anchor includes the first-message id as it was BEFORE
-  // the prepend — see useLayoutEffect below for why. Without this tag,
-  // a live agent push that appends WHILE loadOlder is in flight would
-  // run useLayoutEffect against the append (anchor still set), the
-  // "restore" math would scroll the user to a stale offset, AND the
-  // append's normal scroll-to-bottom would be swallowed.
-  const scrollAnchorRef = useRef<
-    { savedDistanceFromBottom: number; expectFirstIdNotEqual: string | null } | null
-  >(null);
-  const oldestMessageRef = useRef<ChatMessage | null>(null);
-  const hasMoreRef = useRef(true);
-  // Monotonic token bumped on workspace switch + on every loadOlder
-  // entry. Each fetch's .then() captures its own token; if the token
-  // has moved, the resolved messages belong to a stale workspace or a
-  // superseded fetch and we silently drop them. Without this guard, a
-  // workspace switch mid-fetch would have the in-flight promise
-  // resolve into the new workspace's setMessages — the user sees
-  // someone else's history briefly.
-  const fetchTokenRef = useRef(0);
-  // Files the user has picked but not yet sent. Cleared on send
-  // (upload success) or by the × on each pill.
-  const [pendingFiles, setPendingFiles] = useState<File[]>([]);
-  const [uploading, setUploading] = useState(false);
+  const bottomRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const hasInitialScrollRef = useRef(false);
  const fileInputRef = useRef<HTMLInputElement>(null);
-  // Guard against a double-click during the upload phase: React
-  // state updates from the click that started the upload haven't
-  // flushed yet, so the disabled-button logic sees `uploading=false`
-  // from the closure and lets a second `sendMessage` enter. A ref
-  // observes the latest value synchronously.
-  const sendInFlightRef = useRef(false);
-  // Monotonic token bumped on every sendMessage entry. Each .then()/
-  // .catch() captures its own token in closure and bails if a newer
-  // send has superseded it — prevents a late HTTP response for an
-  // earlier message from clobbering the flags / appending text that
-  // belong to a newer in-flight send. Race scenario the token closes:
-  // (1) send msg #1 (2) WS push for msg #1 arrives, releases guards
-  // (3) user sends msg #2 (4) HTTP for msg #1 finally lands — without
-  // the token check, .then() sees sendingFromAPIRef=true (set by
-  // msg #2's send), enters the main body, and processes msg #1's body
-  // as if it were msg #2's reply.
-  const sendTokenRef = useRef(0);
+  const dragDepthRef = useRef(0);
+  const pasteCounterRef = useRef(0);

-  // Release every in-flight send guard at once. Used by every site
-  // that ends a send: pendingAgentMsgs WS push, ACTIVITY_LOGGED
-  // a2a_receive ok/error WS event, HTTP .then() success, and HTTP
-  // .catch() success. Keep these in lockstep — a future contributor
-  // adding a new "I saw the reply" path that only clears `sending` +
-  // `sendingFromAPIRef` (the natural pair) silently re-introduces
-  // the post-WS Send-button freeze, because the disabled-button
-  // logic can't see `sendInFlightRef` and so the visible state diverges
-  // from the synchronous re-entry guard at line 464.
-  const releaseSendGuards = useCallback(() => {
-    setSending(false);
-    sendingFromAPIRef.current = false;
-    sendInFlightRef.current = false;
-  }, []);
+  const history = useChatHistory(workspaceId, containerRef);
+  const chatSend = useChatSend(workspaceId, {
+    getHistoryMessages: () => history.messages,
+    onUserMessage: (msg) => history.setMessages((prev) => [...prev, msg]),
+    onAgentMessage: (msg) => history.setMessages((prev) => appendMessageDeduped(prev, msg)),
+  });
+  const { sending, uploading, sendMessage, error: sendError, clearError: clearSendError, releaseSendGuards, sendingFromAPIRef } = chatSend;

-  // Initial-load fetch — used by the mount effect and the "Retry"
-  // button below. Single source of truth so the two paths can't drift
-  // (e.g. INITIAL_HISTORY_LIMIT bumped in the effect but not the
-  // retry, leading to inconsistent first-paint sizes).
-  const loadInitial = useCallback(() => {
-    setLoading(true);
-    setLoadError(null);
-    setHasMore(true);
-    // Bump the token; any in-flight fetch from the previous workspace
-    // (or a previous retry) will see token != myToken in its .then()
-    // and silently bail — the late response can't clobber the new
-    // workspace's state.
-    fetchTokenRef.current += 1;
-    const myToken = fetchTokenRef.current;
-    loadMessagesFromDB(workspaceId, INITIAL_HISTORY_LIMIT).then(
-      ({ messages: msgs, error: fetchErr, reachedEnd }) => {
-        if (fetchTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
-        setMessages(msgs);
-        setLoadError(fetchErr);
-        setHasMore(!reachedEnd);
-        setLoading(false);
-      },
-    );
-  }, [workspaceId]);
+  const displayError = error || sendError;

-  // Load chat history on mount / workspace switch.
-  // Initial load is bounded to INITIAL_HISTORY_LIMIT (newest 10) — the
-  // rest streams in as the user scrolls up via loadOlder() below. Pre-
-  // 2026-05-05 this fetched the newest 50 in one shot; on a long-running
-  // workspace that meant 50× message-bubble paint + DOM cost on every
-  // tab-open even when the user only wanted to read the last few.
-  useEffect(() => {
-    loadInitial();
-  }, [loadInitial]);
-
-  // Mirror the latest oldest-message + hasMore into refs so loadOlder
-  // can read them without taking `messages` as a dep. Every live push
-  // through agentMessages would otherwise recreate loadOlder and tear
-  // down the IO observer.
-  useEffect(() => {
-    oldestMessageRef.current = messages[0] ?? null;
-  }, [messages]);
-  useEffect(() => {
-    hasMoreRef.current = hasMore;
-  }, [hasMore]);
-
-  // Fetch the next-older batch and prepend. Stable identity (deps =
-  // [workspaceId]) so the IntersectionObserver effect below doesn't
-  // re-arm on every messages update.
-  const loadOlder = useCallback(async () => {
-    // inflightRef is the load-bearing guard — synchronous, set BEFORE
-    // any await, so two IO callbacks dispatched in the same microtask
-    // can't both pass. The state checks are defensive secondary
-    // gates for the slow-scroll case.
-    if (inflightRef.current || !hasMoreRef.current) return;
-    const oldest = oldestMessageRef.current;
-    if (!oldest) return;
-    const container = containerRef.current;
-    if (!container) return;
-    inflightRef.current = true;
-    // Capture the user's distance-from-bottom BEFORE we prepend so the
-    // useLayoutEffect can restore it after the new DOM lands. The
-    // expectFirstIdNotEqual tag is what the layout effect checks
-    // against `messages[0].id` to disambiguate prepend (id changed) vs
-    // append (id unchanged → live message landed mid-fetch). Without
-    // it, an agent push during loadOlder runs the "restore" against a
-    // stale anchor — user gets yanked + the append's bottom-pin is
-    // swallowed.
-    scrollAnchorRef.current = {
-      savedDistanceFromBottom: container.scrollHeight - container.scrollTop,
-      expectFirstIdNotEqual: oldest.id,
-    };
-    fetchTokenRef.current += 1;
-    const myToken = fetchTokenRef.current;
-    setLoadingOlder(true);
-    try {
-      const { messages: older, reachedEnd } = await loadMessagesFromDB(
-        workspaceId,
-        OLDER_HISTORY_BATCH,
-        oldest.timestamp,
-      );
-      // Workspace switched (or another loadOlder bumped the token)
-      // mid-fetch — drop these results, they belong to a stale tab.
-      if (fetchTokenRef.current !== myToken) {
-        scrollAnchorRef.current = null;
-        return;
+  useChatSocket(workspaceId, {
+    onAgentMessage: (msg) => {
+      history.setMessages((prev) => appendMessageDeduped(prev, msg));
+      if (sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
+        releaseSendGuards();
      }
-      if (older.length > 0) {
-        setMessages((prev) => [...older, ...prev]);
-      } else {
-        // Nothing came back — clear the anchor so the next paint doesn't
-        // try to "restore" against a no-op prepend.
-        scrollAnchorRef.current = null;
+    },
+    onActivityLog: (entry) => {
+      if (!sending) return;
+      setActivityLog((prev) => appendActivityLine(prev, entry));
+    },
+    onSendComplete: () => {
+      if (sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
+        releaseSendGuards();
      }
-      setHasMore(!reachedEnd);
-    } finally {
-      setLoadingOlder(false);
-      inflightRef.current = false;
-    }
-  }, [workspaceId]);
-
-  // IntersectionObserver on the top sentinel. Fires loadOlder() the
-  // moment the user scrolls within 200px of the top. AbortController
-  // unwires cleanly on workspace switch / unmount; root is the
-  // scrollable container so we observe only what's visible inside it.
-  //
-  // Dependencies:
-  //  - loadOlder    — stable per workspaceId (refs decouple it from
-  //                   message updates), so this dep is here for the
-  //                   workspace-switch case only
-  //  - hasMore      — re-run when older history runs out so we
-  //                   disconnect cleanly
-  //  - hasMessages  — load-bearing: the sentinel JSX is gated on
-  //                   `messages.length > 0`, so topRef.current is null
-  //                   on the empty-messages render. We re-arm exactly
-  //                   once when messages first land. NOT depending on
-  //                   `messages.length` (or `messages`) directly so
-  //                   each subsequent message append doesn't tear down
-  //                   + re-arm the observer.
-  const hasMessages = messages.length > 0;
-  useEffect(() => {
-    const top = topRef.current;
-    const container = containerRef.current;
-    if (!top || !container) return;
-    if (!hasMore) return; // stop observing when no older history exists
-    const ac = new AbortController();
-    const io = new IntersectionObserver(
-      (entries) => {
-        if (ac.signal.aborted) return;
-        if (entries[0]?.isIntersecting) loadOlder();
-      },
-      { root: container, rootMargin: "200px 0px 0px 0px", threshold: 0 },
-    );
-    io.observe(top);
-    ac.signal.addEventListener("abort", () => io.disconnect());
-    return () => ac.abort();
-  }, [loadOlder, hasMore, hasMessages]);
+    },
+    onSendError: (err) => {
+      if (sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
+        releaseSendGuards();
+        setError(err);
+      }
+    },
+  });

  // Agent reachability
  useEffect(() => {
    const reachable = data.status === "online" || data.status === "degraded";
    setAgentReachable(reachable);
-    setError(reachable ? null : `Agent is ${data.status}`);
-  }, [data.status]);
-
-  useEffect(() => {
-    currentTaskRef.current = data.currentTask;
-  }, [data.currentTask]);
+    if (reachable) {
+      setError(null);
+      clearSendError();
+    } else {
+      setError(`Agent is ${data.status}`);
+    }
+  }, [data.status, clearSendError]);

  // Scroll behavior across messages updates:
  //  - Prepend (loadOlder landed)  → restore the user's saved
@@ -518,71 +180,24 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
  // paint — otherwise the user sees the page jump for one frame.
  useLayoutEffect(() => {
    const container = containerRef.current;
-    const anchor = scrollAnchorRef.current;
-    // Only honor the anchor when this messages-update is the prepend
-    // we expected. messages[0].id is the test:
-    //   - prepend  → messages[0] is one of the older rows → id !== expectFirstIdNotEqual
-    //   - append   → messages[0] unchanged → id === expectFirstIdNotEqual → fall through
-    // Without this check, an agent push that lands mid-loadOlder would
-    // run the restore against the append's update, yank the user's
-    // scroll, AND swallow the append's bottom-pin.
+    const anchor = history.scrollAnchorRef.current;
    if (
      anchor &&
      container &&
-      messages.length > 0 &&
-      messages[0].id !== anchor.expectFirstIdNotEqual
+      history.messages.length > 0 &&
+      history.messages[0].id !== anchor.expectFirstIdNotEqual
    ) {
      container.scrollTop = container.scrollHeight - anchor.savedDistanceFromBottom;
-      scrollAnchorRef.current = null;
+      history.scrollAnchorRef.current = null;
      return;
    }
-    // Instant on first arrival of messages — smooth-scroll on a long
-    // conversation gets interrupted by concurrent renders and leaves
-    // the user stuck in the middle. After the first jump, subsequent
-    // appends animate as before.
-    if (!hasInitialScrollRef.current && messages.length > 0) {
+    if (!hasInitialScrollRef.current && history.messages.length > 0) {
      hasInitialScrollRef.current = true;
      bottomRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ behavior: "instant" as ScrollBehavior });
      return;
    }
    bottomRef.current?.scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" });
-  }, [messages]);
-
-  // Consume agent push messages (send_message_to_user) from global store.
-  // Runtimes like Claude Code SDK deliver their reply via a WS push rather
-  // than the /a2a HTTP response — when that happens, the push is the
-  // authoritative "reply arrived" signal for the UI, so clear `sending`
-  // here too. The HTTP .then() coordinates through sendingFromAPIRef so
-  // whichever path clears first wins.
-  const pendingAgentMsgs = useCanvasStore((s) => s.agentMessages[workspaceId]);
-  useEffect(() => {
-    if (!pendingAgentMsgs || pendingAgentMsgs.length === 0) return;
-    const consume = useCanvasStore.getState().consumeAgentMessages;
-    const msgs = consume(workspaceId);
-    for (const m of msgs) {
-      // Dedupe in case the agent proactively pushed the same text the
-      // HTTP /a2a response already delivered (observed with the Hermes
-      // runtime, which emits both a reply body and a send_message_to_user
-      // push for the same content). Attachments ride along with the
-      // message so files returned by the A2A_RESPONSE WS path render
-      // their download chips.
-      setMessages((prev) => appendMessageDeduped(prev, createMessage("agent", m.content, m.attachments)));
-    }
-    if (sendingFromAPIRef.current && msgs.length > 0) {
-      // Reply arrived via WS push (e.g. claude-code SDK). Release all
-      // three guards together — without sendInFlightRef the next
-      // sendMessage() silently no-ops at the synchronous re-entry
-      // check.
-      releaseSendGuards();
-    }
-  }, [pendingAgentMsgs, workspaceId]);
-
-  // Resolve workspace ID → name for activity display
-  const resolveWorkspaceName = useCallback((id: string) => {
-    const nodes = useCanvasStore.getState().nodes;
-    const node = nodes.find((n) => n.id === id);
-    return (node?.data as WorkspaceNodeData)?.name || id.slice(0, 8);
-  }, []);
+  }, [history.messages, history.scrollAnchorRef]);

  // Elapsed timer while sending
  useEffect(() => {
@@ -609,211 +224,43 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
    setActivityLog([`Processing with ${runtimeDisplayName(data.runtime)}...`]);
  }, [sending, data.runtime]);

-  // Subscribe to global WS via the singleton ReconnectingSocket (no
-  // per-component WebSocket — the previous pattern dropped events
-  // silently on any reconnect because each panel's raw socket had no
-  // onclose handler).
-  useSocketEvent((msg) => {
-    if (!sending) return;
-    try {
-        if (msg.event === "ACTIVITY_LOGGED") {
-          // Filter to events for THIS workspace. The platform's
-          // BroadcastOnly fires to every connected client, and
-          // without this guard a sibling workspace's a2a_send would
-          // surface as "→ Delegating to X..." inside the wrong
-          // chat panel. (workspace_id on the WS envelope is the
-          // workspace whose activity_log row we just wrote.)
-          if (msg.workspace_id !== workspaceId) return;
+  // IntersectionObserver on the top sentinel. Fires loadOlder() the
+  // moment the user scrolls within 200px of the top. AbortController
+  // unwires cleanly on workspace switch / unmount; root is the
+  // scrollable container so we observe only what's visible inside it.
+  const hasMessages = history.messages.length > 0;
+  useEffect(() => {
+    const top = topRef.current;
+    const container = containerRef.current;
+    if (!top || !container) return;
+    if (!history.hasMore) return;
+    const ac = new AbortController();
+    const io = new IntersectionObserver(
+      (entries) => {
+        if (ac.signal.aborted) return;
+        if (entries[0]?.isIntersecting) history.loadOlder();
+      },
+      { root: container, rootMargin: "200px 0px 0px 0px", threshold: 0 },
+    );
+    io.observe(top);
+    ac.signal.addEventListener("abort", () => io.disconnect());
+    return () => ac.abort();
+  }, [history.loadOlder, history.hasMore, hasMessages]);

-          const p = msg.payload || {};
-          const type = p.activity_type as string;
-          const method = (p.method as string) || "";
-          const status = (p.status as string) || "";
-          const targetId = (p.target_id as string) || "";
-          const durationMs = p.duration_ms as number | undefined;
-          const summary = (p.summary as string) || "";
-
-          let line = "";
-          if (type === "a2a_receive" && method === "message/send") {
-            const targetName = resolveWorkspaceName(targetId || msg.workspace_id);
-            if (status === "ok" && durationMs) {
-              const sec = Math.round(durationMs / 1000);
-              line = `← ${targetName} responded (${sec}s)`;
-              // The platform logs a successful a2a_receive once the workspace
-              // has fully produced its reply. That's the authoritative "done"
-              // signal for the spinner — clear it even if the reply hasn't
-              // surfaced through the store yet (it may be delivered shortly
-              // via pendingAgentMsgs or the HTTP .then()).
-              const own = (targetId || msg.workspace_id) === workspaceId;
-              if (own && sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
-                releaseSendGuards();
-              }
-            } else if (status === "error") {
-              line = `⚠ ${targetName} error`;
-              const own = (targetId || msg.workspace_id) === workspaceId;
-              if (own && sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
-                releaseSendGuards();
-                setError("Agent error (Exception) — see workspace logs for details.");
-              }
-            }
-          } else if (type === "a2a_send") {
-            const targetName = resolveWorkspaceName(targetId);
-            line = `→ Delegating to ${targetName}...`;
-          } else if (type === "task_update") {
-            if (summary) line = `⟳ ${summary}`;
-          } else if (type === "agent_log") {
-            // Per-tool-use telemetry from claude_sdk_executor's
-            // _report_tool_use. The summary already carries an icon
-            // + human-readable args (📄 Read /path, ⚡ Bash: …)
-            // so we render it verbatim. No icon prefix here — the
-            // emoji at the start of summary is the visual marker.
-            if (summary) line = summary;
-          }
-
-          if (line) {
-            setActivityLog((prev) => appendActivityLine(prev, line));
-          }
-        } else if (msg.event === "TASK_UPDATED" && msg.workspace_id === workspaceId) {
-          const task = (msg.payload?.current_task as string) || "";
-          if (task) {
-            setActivityLog((prev) => appendActivityLine(prev, `⟳ ${task}`));
-          }
-        }
-        // A2A_RESPONSE is already consumed by the store and its text is
-        // appended to messages via the pendingAgentMsgs effect above; we
-        // don't need to duplicate it here.
-    } catch { /* ignore */ }
-  });
-
-  const sendMessage = async () => {
+  const handleSend = async () => {
    const text = input.trim();
-    const filesToSend = pendingFiles;
-    // Allow sending if EITHER text OR attachments are present — a user
-    // can drop a file with no text and the agent still receives it.
-    if ((!text && filesToSend.length === 0) || !agentReachable || sending || uploading) return;
-    // Synchronous re-entry guard — see sendInFlightRef comment.
-    if (sendInFlightRef.current) return;
-    sendInFlightRef.current = true;
-
-    // Upload attachments first so we can include URIs in the A2A
-    // message parts. Sequential-before-send: a message with references
-    // to files not yet staged would fail agent-side; staging happens
-    // synchronously via /chat/uploads before message/send dispatch.
-    let uploaded: ChatAttachment[] = [];
-    if (filesToSend.length > 0) {
-      setUploading(true);
-      try {
-        uploaded = await uploadChatFiles(workspaceId, filesToSend);
-      } catch (e) {
-        setUploading(false);
-        sendInFlightRef.current = false;
-        setError(e instanceof Error ? `Upload failed: ${e.message}` : "Upload failed");
-        return;
-      }
-      setUploading(false);
-    }
-
+    const files = pendingFiles;
+    if ((!text && files.length === 0) || !agentReachable || sending || uploading) return;
    setInput("");
    setPendingFiles([]);
-    setMessages((prev) => [...prev, createMessage("user", text, uploaded)]);
-    setSending(true);
-    sendingFromAPIRef.current = true;
+    clearSendError();
    setError(null);
-    // Capture this send's token so the .then()/.catch() callbacks can
-    // detect a newer send that may have superseded them. See the
-    // sendTokenRef declaration for the race scenario this closes.
-    const myToken = ++sendTokenRef.current;
-
-    // Build conversation history from prior messages (last 20)
-    const history = messages
-      .filter((m) => m.role === "user" || m.role === "agent")
-      .slice(-20)
-      .map((m) => ({
-        role: m.role === "user" ? "user" : "agent",
-        parts: [{ kind: "text", text: m.content }],
-      }));
-
-    // A2A parts: text part (if any) + file parts (per attachment). The
-    // agent sees both in a single turn, matching the A2A spec shape.
-    // Wire shape is v0 — see A2APart definition above.
-    const parts: A2APart[] = [];
-    if (text) parts.push({ kind: "text", text });
-    for (const att of uploaded) {
-      parts.push({
-        kind: "file",
-        file: {
-          name: att.name,
-          mimeType: att.mimeType,
-          uri: att.uri,
-          size: att.size,
-        },
-      });
-    }
-
-    // A2A calls can legitimately take minutes — LLM latency +
-    // multi-turn tool use is common on slower providers (Hermes+minimax,
-    // Claude Code invoking bash/file tools, etc.). The 15s default
-    // would silently abort the fetch here, leaving the server to
-    // complete the reply and the user staring at
-    // "agent may be unreachable". Match the upload timeout (60s × 2)
-    // for the happy-path ceiling; anything longer is genuinely stuck.
-    api.post<A2AResponse>(`/workspaces/${workspaceId}/a2a`, {
-      method: "message/send",
-      params: {
-        message: {
-          role: "user",
-          messageId: crypto.randomUUID(),
-          parts,
-        },
-        metadata: { history },
-      },
-    }, { timeoutMs: 120_000 })
-      .then((resp) => {
-        // Bail without touching any flags if a newer sendMessage has
-        // already run — its myToken bumped sendTokenRef, so this is
-        // a stale callback for an earlier message. The newer send
-        // owns the in-flight guards now.
-        if (sendTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
-        // Skip if the WS A2A_RESPONSE event already handled this response.
-        // Both paths (WS + HTTP) check sendingFromAPIRef — whichever clears
-        // it first wins, the other becomes a no-op (no duplicate messages).
-        if (!sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
-          sendInFlightRef.current = false;
-          return;
-        }
-        const replyText = extractReplyText(resp);
-        const replyFiles = extractFilesFromTask((resp?.result ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>);
-        if (replyText || replyFiles.length > 0) {
-          setMessages((prev) =>
-            appendMessageDeduped(prev, createMessage("agent", replyText, replyFiles)),
-          );
-        }
-        releaseSendGuards();
-      })
-      .catch(() => {
-        // Stale-callback guard — same rationale as .then().
-        if (sendTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
-        // Same dedup guard as .then(): if a WS path (pendingAgentMsgs
-        // or ACTIVITY_LOGGED a2a_receive ok) already delivered the
-        // reply, sendingFromAPIRef is already false and there's
-        // nothing to roll back. Surfacing "Failed to send" here would
-        // contradict the agent reply the user is currently reading —
-        // exactly the false-positive observed when the HTTP request
-        // hung up (proxy idle / 502) after WS already won.
-        if (!sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
-          sendInFlightRef.current = false;
-          return;
-        }
-        releaseSendGuards();
-        setError("Failed to send message — agent may be unreachable");
-      });
+    await sendMessage(text, files);
  };

  const onFilesPicked = (fileList: FileList | null) => {
    if (!fileList) return;
    const picked = Array.from(fileList);
-    // Deduplicate against current pending set by name+size — user
-    // picking the same file twice shouldn't append it.
    setPendingFiles((prev) => {
      const keyed = new Set(prev.map((f) => `${f.name}:${f.size}`));
      return [...prev, ...picked.filter((f) => !keyed.has(`${f.name}:${f.size}`))];
@@ -824,35 +271,7 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
  const removePendingFile = (index: number) =>
    setPendingFiles((prev) => prev.filter((_, i) => i !== index));

-  // Monotonic counter so two paste events within the same wall-clock
-  // second still produce distinct filenames. Without this, on
-  // Firefox (where pasted images have an empty `file.name`), two
-  // pastes ~100ms apart could yield identical synthetic names AND
-  // identical sizes, collapsing into one attachment via the
-  // `name:size` dedup in onFilesPicked.
-  const pasteCounterRef = useRef(0);
-
-  /** Paste-from-clipboard image attachment.
-   *
-   *  Browser clipboard image items arrive as `File`s whose `name` is
-   *  often a generic "image.png" (Chrome) or empty (Firefox/Safari),
-   *  so two consecutive screenshot pastes collide on the name+size
-   *  dedup the file-picker uses. Re-tag each pasted image with a
-   *  per-paste unique name so dedup keeps them apart and the upload
-   *  pipeline (which expects a non-empty filename) is happy.
-   *
-   *  Falls through to onFilesPicked via direct File[] (NOT through
-   *  the DataTransfer constructor — that throws on Safari < 14.1
-   *  and old Edge, silently aborting the paste).
-   *
-   *  Only intercepts the paste when the clipboard has at least one
-   *  image; text-only pastes fall through to the textarea's default
-   *  behaviour. */
  const mimeToExt = (mime: string): string => {
-    // Avoid raw `mime.split("/")[1]` — that yields `"svg+xml"`,
-    // `"jpeg"`, `"webp"` etc. which produce ugly filenames and may
-    // trip server-side extension allowlists. Map known types
-    // explicitly; unknown falls back to a safe default.
    if (mime === "image/svg+xml") return "svg";
    if (mime === "image/jpeg") return "jpg";
    if (mime === "image/png") return "png";
@@ -873,26 +292,16 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
      const file = item.getAsFile();
      if (!file) continue;
      const ext = mimeToExt(file.type);
-      const stamp = new Date()
-        .toISOString()
-        .replace(/[:.]/g, "-")
-        .slice(0, 19);
+      const stamp = new Date().toISOString().replace(/[:.]/g, "-").slice(0, 19);
      const seq = pasteCounterRef.current++;
      const fname = `pasted-${stamp}-${seq}-${i}.${ext}`;
      imageFiles.push(new File([file], fname, { type: file.type }));
    }
    if (imageFiles.length === 0) return;
    e.preventDefault();
-    // Reuse the picker path so file-size guards, dedup, and pending-
-    // list state all run through the same code. Build a synthetic
-    // FileList-like object to avoid the DataTransfer constructor —
-    // that's missing on Safari < 14.1 / old Edge and would silently
-    // throw, leaving the paste a no-op.
    addPastedFiles(imageFiles);
  };

-  // Variant of onFilesPicked that accepts a File[] directly, sidestepping
-  // the DataTransfer-FileList round-trip. Same dedup + state shape.
  const addPastedFiles = (files: File[]) => {
    setPendingFiles((prev) => {
      const keyed = new Set(prev.map((f) => `${f.name}:${f.size}`));
@@ -900,11 +309,6 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
    });
  };

-  // Drag-and-drop staging. dragDepthRef counts enter vs leave events so
-  // the overlay doesn't flicker when the cursor crosses nested children
-  // (textarea, buttons) — dragenter/dragleave fire for every boundary.
-  const [dragOver, setDragOver] = useState(false);
-  const dragDepthRef = useRef(0);
  const dropEnabled = agentReachable && !sending && !uploading;
  const isFileDrag = (e: React.DragEvent) =>
    Array.from(e.dataTransfer.types || []).includes("Files");
@@ -934,9 +338,6 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
  };

  const downloadAttachment = (att: ChatAttachment) => {
-    // Errors here are rare but user-visible (401 on a revoked token,
-    // 404 if the agent deleted the file). Surface via the inline
-    // error banner — the message list itself stays untouched.
    downloadChatFile(workspaceId, att).catch((e) => {
      setError(e instanceof Error ? `Download failed: ${e.message}` : "Download failed");
    });
@@ -962,28 +363,54 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
          </div>
        </div>
      )}
+      {/* talk_to_user disabled banner — shown when the workspace has
+           talk_to_user_enabled=false. The agent cannot send canvas messages;
+           the user can re-enable the ability from here without opening settings. */}
+      {data.talkToUserEnabled === false && (
+        <div className="flex items-center gap-2 px-3 py-2 bg-surface-sunken border-b border-line/40 shrink-0">
+          <svg width="14" height="14" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" aria-hidden="true" className="shrink-0 text-ink-mid">
+            <path d="M8 1a7 7 0 1 0 0 14A7 7 0 0 0 8 1Zm0 10.5a.75.75 0 1 1 0-1.5.75.75 0 0 1 0 1.5ZM8 4a.75.75 0 0 1 .75.75v4a.75.75 0 0 1-1.5 0v-4A.75.75 0 0 1 8 4Z" fill="currentColor"/>
+          </svg>
+          <span className="text-[10px] text-ink-mid flex-1">
+            Agent is not enabled to chat with you.
+          </span>
+          <button
+            onClick={async () => {
+              try {
+                await api.patch(`/workspaces/${workspaceId}/abilities`, { talk_to_user_enabled: true });
+                useCanvasStore.getState().updateNodeData(workspaceId, { talkToUserEnabled: true });
+              } catch {
+                // ignore — user will see no change and can retry
+              }
+            }}
+            className="px-2 py-0.5 text-[10px] font-medium bg-accent/10 hover:bg-accent/20 text-accent rounded border border-accent/30 transition-colors shrink-0"
+          >
+            Enable
+          </button>
+        </div>
+      )}
      {/* Messages */}
      <div ref={containerRef} className="flex-1 overflow-y-auto p-3 space-y-3">
-        {loading && (
+        {history.loading && (
          <div className="text-xs text-ink-mid text-center py-4">Loading chat history...</div>
        )}
-        {!loading && loadError !== null && messages.length === 0 && (
+        {!history.loading && history.loadError !== null && history.messages.length === 0 && (
          <div
            role="alert"
            className="mx-2 mt-2 rounded-lg border border-red-800/50 bg-red-950/30 px-3 py-2.5"
          >
            <p className="text-[11px] text-bad mb-1.5">
-              Failed to load chat history: {loadError}
+              Failed to load chat history: {history.loadError}
            </p>
            <button
-              onClick={loadInitial}
+              onClick={history.loadInitial}
              className="text-[10px] px-2 py-0.5 rounded bg-red-800 text-red-200 hover:bg-red-700 transition-colors"
            >
              Retry
            </button>
          </div>
        )}
-        {!loading && loadError === null && messages.length === 0 && (
+        {!history.loading && history.loadError === null && history.messages.length === 0 && (
          <div className="text-xs text-ink-mid text-center py-8">
            No messages yet. Send a message to start chatting with this agent.
          </div>
@@ -1001,12 +428,12 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
            instead of showing a "no more messages" footer — the user's
            scroll resting against the top of the conversation IS the
            signal. */}
-        {hasMore && messages.length > 0 && (
+        {history.hasMore && history.messages.length > 0 && (
          <div ref={topRef} className="text-xs text-ink-mid text-center py-1">
-            {loadingOlder ? "Loading older messages…" : " "}
+            {history.loadingOlder ? "Loading older messages…" : " "}
          </div>
        )}
-        {messages.map((msg) => (
+        {history.messages.map((msg) => (
          <div key={msg.id} className={`flex ${msg.role === "user" ? "justify-end" : "justify-start"}`}>
            <div
              className={`max-w-[85%] rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-xs ${
@@ -1166,10 +593,10 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
      </div>

      {/* Error banner */}
-      {error && (
+      {displayError && (
        <div className="px-3 py-2 bg-red-900/20 border-t border-red-800/30">
          <div className="flex items-center justify-between">
-            <span className="text-[10px] text-red-300">{error}</span>
+            <span className="text-[10px] text-red-300">{displayError}</span>
            {!isOnline && (
              <button
                onClick={() => setConfirmRestart(true)}
@@ -1237,7 +664,7 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
                e.keyCode !== 229
              ) {
                e.preventDefault();
-                sendMessage();
+                handleSend();
              }
            }}
            onPaste={onPasteIntoComposer}
@@ -1247,7 +674,7 @@ function MyChatPanel({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
            className="flex-1 bg-surface-card border border-line rounded-lg px-3 py-2 text-xs text-ink placeholder-ink-soft dark:bg-zinc-800 dark:border-zinc-600 dark:placeholder-zinc-500 focus:outline-none focus:border-accent focus-visible:ring-2 focus-visible:ring-accent/40 resize-none disabled:opacity-50"
          />
          <button
-            onClick={sendMessage}
+            onClick={handleSend}
            disabled={(!input.trim() && pendingFiles.length === 0) || !agentReachable || sending || uploading}
            className="px-4 py-2 bg-accent-strong hover:bg-accent text-xs font-medium rounded-lg text-white disabled:opacity-30 transition-colors shrink-0"
          >
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ export function deriveProvidersFromModels(models: ModelSpec[]): string[] {
 // exactly the point of the platform adaptor. The deep `~/.hermes/
 // config.yaml` on the container is a separate runtime-internal file,
 // not this one.
-const RUNTIMES_WITH_OWN_CONFIG = new Set<string>(["external", "kimi", "kimi-cli"]);
+const RUNTIMES_WITH_OWN_CONFIG = new Set<string>(["external", "kimi", "kimi-cli", "openclaw"]);

 const FALLBACK_RUNTIME_OPTIONS: RuntimeOption[] = [
  { value: "", label: "LangGraph (default)", models: [], providers: [] },
@@ -45,11 +45,54 @@ export function FilesTab({ workspaceId, data }: Props) {
  if (data && isExternalLikeRuntime(data.runtime)) {
    return <NotAvailablePanel runtime={data.runtime} />;
  }
-  return <PlatformOwnedFilesTab workspaceId={workspaceId} />;
+  return <PlatformOwnedFilesTab workspaceId={workspaceId} runtime={data?.runtime} />;
 }

-function PlatformOwnedFilesTab({ workspaceId }: { workspaceId: string }) {
-  const [root, setRoot] = useState("/configs");
+/** Picks the initial root for the FilesTab dropdown based on the
+ *  workspace's runtime. Decision: per-runtime default (Hongming
+ *  2026-05-15, internal#425 Decisions §2).
+ *
+ *  - openclaw → `/agent-home` (the agent's identity/state — the
+ *    user-facing interesting files for that runtime live in
+ *    `~/.openclaw/` inside the container, which `/agent-home` maps to
+ *    via the Phase 2b docker-exec backend).
+ *  - everything else (claude-code, hermes, external-like, undefined)
+ *    → `/configs` (the legacy default — managed config that flows
+ *    through the per-runtime indirection in
+ *    workspace-server/internal/handlers/template_files_eic.go).
+ *
+ *  When the runtime is undefined (legacy callers that don't thread
+ *  `data` through, or a workspace whose runtime field hasn't loaded
+ *  yet) the default is `/configs` — matches today's behaviour, no
+ *  surprise.
+ *
+ *  Note on `/agent-home` pre-Phase-2b: the backend short-circuits
+ *  with HTTP 501 and the canonical "implementation pending" body.
+ *  The tab renders empty + the error banner explains. This is by
+ *  design — lets us land the canvas UX before the backend ships,
+ *  per the RFC's phased rollout. The 501 is graceful: it doesn't
+ *  poison error toasts or generate "workspace not found" noise.
+ *
+ *  Adding a new runtime that should default to `/agent-home`: add it
+ *  to the agentHomeDefaultRuntimes set below. Adding a runtime that
+ *  should default to a different root: extend this function. */
+const agentHomeDefaultRuntimes = new Set(["openclaw"]);
+
+function defaultRootForRuntime(runtime: string | undefined): string {
+  if (runtime && agentHomeDefaultRuntimes.has(runtime)) {
+    return "/agent-home";
+  }
+  return "/configs";
+}
+
+function PlatformOwnedFilesTab({
+  workspaceId,
+  runtime,
+}: {
+  workspaceId: string;
+  runtime?: string;
+}) {
+  const [root, setRoot] = useState(() => defaultRootForRuntime(runtime));
  const [selectedFile, setSelectedFile] = useState<string | null>(null);
  const [fileContent, setFileContent] = useState("");
  const [editContent, setEditContent] = useState("");
@@ -3,6 +3,22 @@
 import { useRef } from "react";
 import { getIcon } from "./tree";

+// secretShapeMarker is the canonical body the workspace-server Files
+// API returns when a file's path OR content matched a credential
+// regex (internal#425 RFC, Phase 2b — backed by
+// workspace-server/internal/secrets.ScanBytes). The marker is a
+// fixed prefix so the canvas can detect it without parsing JSON and
+// without round-tripping the matched bytes through the editor (which
+// would defeat the purpose — clipboard, browser history, log
+// surfaces would all see them).
+//
+// Today (Phase 1 / before 2b ships) the backend returns 501 for the
+// only root that uses this path, so the marker is dead code until
+// 2b lands. Wiring it in now keeps the canvas + backend contracts
+// aligned in one PR rather than a follow-up. The constant is
+// importable so a future test can pin the exact string.
+export const SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER = "<denied: secret-shape>";
+
 interface Props {
  selectedFile: string | null;
  fileContent: string;
@@ -31,6 +47,22 @@ export function FileEditor({
  const editorRef = useRef<HTMLTextAreaElement>(null);
  const isDirty = editContent !== fileContent;

+  // internal#425 Phase 3: detect the secret-shape denial marker and
+  // render a placeholder instead of the editor. The marker comes
+  // from workspace-server Phase 2b (secrets.ScanBytes) which refuses
+  // to surface the file's bytes. We deliberately don't expose
+  // the matched pattern's Name here — the canvas just shows the
+  // generic denial. The Files API log surface has the Pattern.Name
+  // for operators who need to debug a false positive.
+  const isSecretShapeDenied = fileContent === SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER;
+
+  // /agent-home is read-only from the canvas (Phase 2b ships read +
+  // delete; Phase-2b-followup may add write). Edits to /configs are
+  // unchanged. Until 2b ships, /agent-home returns 501 so this
+  // read-only gate is also dead code, but wiring it in now keeps
+  // the UI honest the moment 2b lands without a follow-up canvas PR.
+  const isReadOnlyRoot = root !== "/configs";
+
  if (!selectedFile) {
    return (
      <div className="flex-1 flex items-center justify-center">
@@ -75,11 +107,42 @@ export function FileEditor({
      {/* Editor area */}
      {loadingFile ? (
        <div className="p-4 text-xs text-ink-mid">Loading...</div>
+      ) : isSecretShapeDenied ? (
+        // Files API refused to surface this file's bytes because its
+        // path or content matched a credential regex
+        // (workspace-server/internal/secrets, internal#425 Phase 2b).
+        // We render a placeholder INSTEAD OF the textarea so the
+        // matched bytes never enter the DOM. Clipboard / view-source
+        // / element-inspector all see the placeholder, not the
+        // credential.
+        <div
+          role="region"
+          aria-label="File content denied"
+          className="flex-1 flex items-center justify-center p-6 bg-surface"
+        >
+          <div className="max-w-md text-center space-y-2">
+            <div className="text-2xl opacity-40">🛡️</div>
+            <p className="text-[11px] font-mono text-warm">
+              {SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER}
+            </p>
+            <p className="text-[10px] text-ink-mid leading-relaxed">
+              The platform refused to surface this file because its
+              path or content matched a credential-shape pattern.
+              The bytes never left the workspace container.
+            </p>
+            <p className="text-[10px] text-ink-mid leading-relaxed">
+              If this is a false positive (test fixture, docs example,
+              or content that happens to share a credential's shape),
+              rename the file or adjust the content via the workspace
+              terminal so the regex no longer matches, then refresh.
+            </p>
+          </div>
+        </div>
      ) : (
        <textarea
          ref={editorRef}
          value={editContent}
-          readOnly={root !== "/configs"}
+          readOnly={isReadOnlyRoot}
          onChange={(e) => setEditContent(e.target.value)}
          onKeyDown={(e) => {
            if ((e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey) && e.key === "s") {
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ export function FilesToolbar({
          <option value="/home">/home</option>
          <option value="/workspace">/workspace</option>
          <option value="/plugins">/plugins</option>
+          {/* internal#425 Phase 1+3: container-internal $HOME root.
+              Backend lands the docker-exec dispatch in Phase 2b. Until
+              then the stub returns 501 with a canonical
+              "implementation pending" message — the dropdown renders
+              the option so the canvas affordance is design-frozen
+              even before the backend ships.
+              Runtime-default selection logic in FilesTab.tsx picks
+              this as the initial value for openclaw workspaces. */}
+          <option value="/agent-home">/agent-home</option>
        </select>
        <span className="text-[10px] text-ink-mid">{fileCount} files</span>
      </div>
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+/**
+ * Tests for the /agent-home root selector + per-runtime default-root
+ * + secret-shape denial placeholder (internal#425 Phase 3).
+ *
+ * Separate file so the diff is reviewable as a unit and the existing
+ * FilesToolbar / FileEditor / FilesTab tests don't have to grow
+ * agent-home-specific cases. Once Phase 2b lands, the read-only +
+ * 501-stub assertions here can be tightened (or moved into the main
+ * test file as the agent-home root becomes a first-class affordance).
+ */
+import React from "react";
+import { render, screen, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+
+import { FilesToolbar } from "../FilesToolbar";
+import {
+  FileEditor,
+  SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER,
+} from "../FileEditor";
+
+afterEach(cleanup);
+
+describe("internal#425 Phase 3 — /agent-home root selector", () => {
+  it("dropdown includes /agent-home as an option", () => {
+    // Pins the affordance is in the DOM even pre-Phase-2b — the
+    // canvas design freezes today, the backend lands the dispatch
+    // later. Without this, a future refactor that drops the option
+    // would silently regress the RFC's Phase 1 contract (canvas
+    // visibility) without breaking any other test.
+    render(
+      <FilesToolbar
+        root="/configs"
+        setRoot={vi.fn()}
+        fileCount={0}
+        onNewFile={vi.fn()}
+        onUpload={vi.fn()}
+        onDownloadAll={vi.fn()}
+        onClearAll={vi.fn()}
+        onRefresh={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    const select = screen.getByRole("combobox", {
+      name: /file root directory/i,
+    }) as HTMLSelectElement;
+    const values = Array.from(select.options).map((o) => o.value);
+    expect(values).toContain("/agent-home");
+  });
+
+  it("dropdown shows /agent-home as the SELECTED root when prop is /agent-home", () => {
+    render(
+      <FilesToolbar
+        root="/agent-home"
+        setRoot={vi.fn()}
+        fileCount={0}
+        onNewFile={vi.fn()}
+        onUpload={vi.fn()}
+        onDownloadAll={vi.fn()}
+        onClearAll={vi.fn()}
+        onRefresh={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    const select = screen.getByRole("combobox", {
+      name: /file root directory/i,
+    }) as HTMLSelectElement;
+    expect(select.value).toBe("/agent-home");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("internal#425 Phase 3 — secret-shape denial placeholder", () => {
+  // Files API Phase 2b returns SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER as the file
+  // body when the file's path or content matched a credential regex.
+  // The editor MUST render the marker as a placeholder, not pump it
+  // through the textarea — that would put the marker (and any future
+  // matched bytes if the backend contract changes) into the DOM
+  // value, clipboard, and inspector.
+
+  it("renders the denial placeholder INSTEAD of the textarea when fileContent is the marker", () => {
+    render(
+      <FileEditor
+        selectedFile="agent/.openclaw/secrets.env"
+        fileContent={SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER}
+        editContent={SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER}
+        setEditContent={vi.fn()}
+        loadingFile={false}
+        saving={false}
+        success={null}
+        root="/agent-home"
+        onSave={vi.fn()}
+        onDownload={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    // Placeholder region present
+    expect(
+      screen.getByRole("region", { name: /file content denied/i }),
+    ).toBeTruthy();
+    // Marker text visible (so a debugging operator sees the canonical
+    // contract string without having to dig into the source).
+    expect(screen.getByText(SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER)).toBeTruthy();
+    // Critically: NO textarea — the bytes never reach a controlled
+    // input. A regression that re-introduces the textarea path would
+    // make the matched marker (and any future content) selectable +
+    // copyable.
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("textbox")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("renders the textarea normally when fileContent is regular content", () => {
+    render(
+      <FileEditor
+        selectedFile="config.yaml"
+        fileContent="name: openclaw\n"
+        editContent="name: openclaw\n"
+        setEditContent={vi.fn()}
+        loadingFile={false}
+        saving={false}
+        success={null}
+        root="/configs"
+        onSave={vi.fn()}
+        onDownload={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    expect(screen.getByRole("textbox")).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.queryByRole("region", { name: /file content denied/i }))
+      .toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("/agent-home renders textarea READ-ONLY for non-denied content", () => {
+    // Phase 2b ships read + delete on /agent-home; write semantics
+    // are decided later. Until then, the canvas presents the editor
+    // as read-only so a user can't type into a buffer that the
+    // backend will refuse to PUT. Without this gate, the user would
+    // edit, hit Save, get a 501, and lose their context for why.
+    render(
+      <FileEditor
+        selectedFile=".openclaw/agent-card.json"
+        fileContent='{"name":"openclaw"}'
+        editContent='{"name":"openclaw"}'
+        setEditContent={vi.fn()}
+        loadingFile={false}
+        saving={false}
+        success={null}
+        root="/agent-home"
+        onSave={vi.fn()}
+        onDownload={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    const textarea = screen.getByRole("textbox") as HTMLTextAreaElement;
+    expect(textarea.readOnly).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("/configs renders textarea WRITABLE (regression guard for the read-only gate)", () => {
+    render(
+      <FileEditor
+        selectedFile="config.yaml"
+        fileContent="name: x\n"
+        editContent="name: x\n"
+        setEditContent={vi.fn()}
+        loadingFile={false}
+        saving={false}
+        success={null}
+        root="/configs"
+        onSave={vi.fn()}
+        onDownload={vi.fn()}
+      />,
+    );
+    const textarea = screen.getByRole("textbox") as HTMLTextAreaElement;
+    expect(textarea.readOnly).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("internal#425 Phase 3 — marker constant is the canonical string", () => {
+  // The marker string is part of the canvas <-> workspace-server
+  // contract. The workspace-server emits this exact body; the canvas
+  // detects it by exact-equality. A typo on either side would
+  // silently break detection — the canvas would render the literal
+  // string in the textarea instead of the placeholder. Pin the
+  // contract value here.
+  it("matches the contract value '<denied: secret-shape>'", () => {
+    expect(SECRET_SHAPE_DENIED_MARKER).toBe("<denied: secret-shape>");
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+// @vitest-environment jsdom
+/**
+ * Tests for useChatSend — the canvas user→agent send hook.
+ *
+ * Behavioural focus: the poll-mode ("queued") path. When the target
+ * workspace is an external / MCP-registered agent (delivery_mode=poll,
+ * e.g. an operator laptop running the molecule MCP channel), the
+ * platform's POST /workspaces/:id/a2a returns a synthetic
+ * {status:"queued", delivery_mode:"poll"} envelope IMMEDIATELY with no
+ * reply — the real reply arrives later over the AGENT_MESSAGE
+ * WebSocket push.
+ *
+ * Pre-fix the hook treated that synthetic envelope as a terminal
+ * response and called releaseSendGuards() → `sending` went false the
+ * instant the POST returned → the "agent is working" indicator
+ * vanished and the external turn looked dead. This suite pins the
+ * fixed contract:
+ *
+ *   - a real reply still clears `sending` (regression guard)
+ *   - a poll "queued" envelope KEEPS `sending` true (no terminal
+ *     clear) so the existing thinking indicator persists
+ *   - the eventual reply path (releaseSendGuards, the same call the
+ *     AGENT_MESSAGE WS push makes via useChatSocket) clears it
+ *   - an offline poll agent that never replies eventually surfaces an
+ *     honest error instead of an infinite spinner
+ *
+ * Plus pure-function coverage for the poll-envelope detector.
+ *
+ * Root cause: workspace-server a2a_proxy.go:402 poll-mode
+ * short-circuit returns {status:"queued"} synchronously.
+ */
+import {
+  describe,
+  it,
+  expect,
+  vi,
+  beforeEach,
+  afterEach,
+  type Mock,
+} from "vitest";
+import { act, renderHook, cleanup } from "@testing-library/react";
+
+const { mockApiPost } = vi.hoisted(() => ({ mockApiPost: vi.fn() }));
+
+vi.mock("@/lib/api", () => ({
+  api: { post: mockApiPost },
+}));
+
+vi.mock("../uploads", () => ({
+  uploadChatFiles: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+// Import AFTER mocks.
+import {
+  useChatSend,
+  isPollQueuedResponse,
+  extractReplyText,
+  POLL_QUEUED_REPLY_TIMEOUT_MS,
+} from "../useChatSend";
+
+const flush = () => act(async () => { await Promise.resolve(); });
+
+describe("isPollQueuedResponse", () => {
+  it("is true only for the synthetic poll-mode queued envelope", () => {
+    expect(isPollQueuedResponse({ status: "queued", delivery_mode: "poll" })).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("is false for a real agent reply", () => {
+    expect(
+      isPollQueuedResponse({ result: { parts: [{ kind: "text", text: "hi" }] } }),
+    ).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("is false for null / undefined / partial shapes", () => {
+    expect(isPollQueuedResponse(null)).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPollQueuedResponse(undefined)).toBe(false);
+    // status=queued without delivery_mode=poll is NOT the poll envelope
+    // — don't accidentally swallow a real reply that happens to carry
+    // an unrelated status field.
+    expect(isPollQueuedResponse({ status: "queued" })).toBe(false);
+    expect(isPollQueuedResponse({ delivery_mode: "poll" })).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
+
+describe("extractReplyText (regression guard — unchanged by fix)", () => {
+  it("collects text parts from result", () => {
+    expect(
+      extractReplyText({ result: { parts: [{ kind: "text", text: "hello" }] } }),
+    ).toBe("hello");
+  });
+  it("returns empty for the poll-queued envelope", () => {
+    expect(extractReplyText({ status: "queued", delivery_mode: "poll" })).toBe("");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("useChatSend — poll-mode in-progress state", () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    mockApiPost.mockReset();
+  });
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.runOnlyPendingTimers();
+    vi.useRealTimers();
+    cleanup();
+  });
+
+  const setup = () => {
+    const onUserMessage = vi.fn();
+    const onAgentMessage = vi.fn();
+    const { result } = renderHook(() =>
+      useChatSend("ws-ext-1", {
+        getHistoryMessages: () => [],
+        onUserMessage,
+        onAgentMessage,
+      }),
+    );
+    return { result, onUserMessage, onAgentMessage };
+  };
+
+  it("a real reply clears `sending` (regression guard)", async () => {
+    mockApiPost.mockResolvedValue({
+      result: { parts: [{ kind: "text", text: "real reply" }] },
+    });
+    const { result, onAgentMessage } = setup();
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      void result.current.sendMessage("hi");
+    });
+    await flush();
+
+    expect(onAgentMessage).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps `sending` true on a poll 'queued' envelope (no terminal clear)", async () => {
+    mockApiPost.mockResolvedValue({ status: "queued", delivery_mode: "poll" });
+    const { result, onAgentMessage } = setup();
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      void result.current.sendMessage("hi external agent");
+    });
+    await flush();
+
+    // The POST resolved, but it was only a queued ack — the indicator
+    // must stay up and no agent bubble should be rendered yet.
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(true);
+    expect(onAgentMessage).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(result.current.error).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("releaseSendGuards (the AGENT_MESSAGE-push path) clears the poll in-progress state", async () => {
+    mockApiPost.mockResolvedValue({ status: "queued", delivery_mode: "poll" });
+    const { result } = setup();
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      void result.current.sendMessage("hi");
+    });
+    await flush();
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(true);
+
+    // Simulate the terminal AGENT_MESSAGE WebSocket push arriving:
+    // useChatSocket's onAgentMessage / onSendComplete call
+    // releaseSendGuards. That must clear the in-progress state AND the
+    // safety timer (asserted by the next test).
+    act(() => {
+      result.current.releaseSendGuards();
+    });
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("surfaces an honest error if a poll agent never replies (safety timeout)", async () => {
+    mockApiPost.mockResolvedValue({ status: "queued", delivery_mode: "poll" });
+    const { result } = setup();
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      void result.current.sendMessage("hi");
+    });
+    await flush();
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(true);
+
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(POLL_QUEUED_REPLY_TIMEOUT_MS + 1000);
+    });
+
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(false);
+    expect(result.current.error).toMatch(/queued/i);
+  });
+
+  it("does NOT fire the safety error when the reply arrives before timeout", async () => {
+    mockApiPost.mockResolvedValue({ status: "queued", delivery_mode: "poll" });
+    const { result } = setup();
+
+    await act(async () => {
+      void result.current.sendMessage("hi");
+    });
+    await flush();
+
+    // Reply arrives (releaseSendGuards) well before the timeout.
+    act(() => {
+      result.current.releaseSendGuards();
+    });
+    act(() => {
+      vi.advanceTimersByTime(POLL_QUEUED_REPLY_TIMEOUT_MS + 1000);
+    });
+
+    expect(result.current.error).toBeNull();
+    expect(result.current.sending).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+export { useChatHistory } from "./useChatHistory";
+export { useChatSend } from "./useChatSend";
+export { useChatSocket } from "./useChatSocket";
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useCanvasStore, type WorkspaceNodeData } from "@/store/canvas";
+
+/** Resolve a workspace ID to its human-readable name.
+ *  Falls back to the first 8 chars of the ID. */
+export function resolveWorkspaceName(id: string): string {
+  const nodes = useCanvasStore.getState().nodes;
+  const node = nodes.find((n) => n.id === id);
+  return (node?.data as WorkspaceNodeData)?.name || id.slice(0, 8);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { api } from "@/lib/api";
+import { type ChatMessage, appendMessageDeduped as appendMessageDedupedFn } from "../types";
+
+const INITIAL_HISTORY_LIMIT = 10;
+const OLDER_HISTORY_BATCH = 20;
+
+async function loadMessagesFromDB(
+  workspaceId: string,
+  limit: number,
+  beforeTs?: string,
+): Promise<{ messages: ChatMessage[]; error: string | null; reachedEnd: boolean }> {
+  try {
+    const params = new URLSearchParams({ limit: String(limit) });
+    if (beforeTs) params.set("before_ts", beforeTs);
+    const resp = await api.get<{ messages: ChatMessage[]; reached_end: boolean }>(
+      `/workspaces/${workspaceId}/chat-history?${params.toString()}`,
+    );
+    return {
+      messages: resp.messages ?? [],
+      error: null,
+      reachedEnd: resp.reached_end,
+    };
+  } catch (err) {
+    return {
+      messages: [],
+      error: err instanceof Error ? err.message : "Failed to load chat history",
+      reachedEnd: true,
+    };
+  }
+}
+
+export interface ScrollAnchor {
+  savedDistanceFromBottom: number;
+  expectFirstIdNotEqual: string | null;
+}
+
+export function useChatHistory(
+  workspaceId: string,
+  containerRef?: React.RefObject<HTMLDivElement | null>,
+) {
+  const [messages, setMessages] = useState<ChatMessage[]>([]);
+  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);
+  const [loadError, setLoadError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const [loadingOlder, setLoadingOlder] = useState(false);
+  const [hasMore, setHasMore] = useState(true);
+
+  const fetchTokenRef = useRef(0);
+  const oldestMessageRef = useRef<ChatMessage | null>(null);
+  const hasMoreRef = useRef(true);
+  const inflightRef = useRef(false);
+  const scrollAnchorRef = useRef<ScrollAnchor | null>(null);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    oldestMessageRef.current = messages[0] ?? null;
+  }, [messages]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    hasMoreRef.current = hasMore;
+  }, [hasMore]);
+
+  const loadInitial = useCallback(() => {
+    setLoading(true);
+    setLoadError(null);
+    setHasMore(true);
+    fetchTokenRef.current += 1;
+    const myToken = fetchTokenRef.current;
+    return loadMessagesFromDB(workspaceId, INITIAL_HISTORY_LIMIT).then(
+      ({ messages: msgs, error: fetchErr, reachedEnd }) => {
+        if (fetchTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
+        setMessages(msgs);
+        setLoadError(fetchErr);
+        setHasMore(!reachedEnd);
+        setLoading(false);
+      },
+    );
+  }, [workspaceId]);
+
+  useEffect(() => {
+    loadInitial();
+  }, [loadInitial]);
+
+  const loadOlder = useCallback(async () => {
+    if (inflightRef.current || !hasMoreRef.current) return;
+    const oldest = oldestMessageRef.current;
+    if (!oldest) return;
+    const container = containerRef?.current;
+    if (!container) return;
+    inflightRef.current = true;
+    scrollAnchorRef.current = {
+      savedDistanceFromBottom: container.scrollHeight - container.scrollTop,
+      expectFirstIdNotEqual: oldest.id,
+    };
+    fetchTokenRef.current += 1;
+    const myToken = fetchTokenRef.current;
+    setLoadingOlder(true);
+    try {
+      const { messages: older, reachedEnd } = await loadMessagesFromDB(
+        workspaceId,
+        OLDER_HISTORY_BATCH,
+        oldest.timestamp,
+      );
+      if (fetchTokenRef.current !== myToken) {
+        scrollAnchorRef.current = null;
+        return;
+      }
+      if (older.length > 0) {
+        setMessages((prev) => [...older, ...prev]);
+      } else {
+        scrollAnchorRef.current = null;
+      }
+      setHasMore(!reachedEnd);
+    } finally {
+      setLoadingOlder(false);
+      inflightRef.current = false;
+    }
+  }, [workspaceId, containerRef]);
+
+  return {
+    messages,
+    loading,
+    loadError,
+    loadingOlder,
+    hasMore,
+    loadInitial,
+    loadOlder,
+    appendMessageDeduped: (msg: ChatMessage) =>
+      setMessages((prev) => appendMessageDedupedFn(prev, msg)),
+    setMessages,
+    scrollAnchorRef,
+  };
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,264 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import { api } from "@/lib/api";
+import { uploadChatFiles } from "../uploads";
+import { createMessage, type ChatMessage, type ChatAttachment } from "../types";
+import { extractFilesFromTask } from "../message-parser";
+
+interface A2APart {
+  kind: string;
+  text?: string;
+  file?: {
+    name?: string;
+    mimeType?: string;
+    uri?: string;
+    size?: number;
+  };
+}
+
+interface A2AResponse {
+  result?: {
+    parts?: A2APart[];
+    artifacts?: Array<{ parts: A2APart[] }>;
+  };
+  /** Synthetic poll-mode envelope. The platform returns this
+   *  immediately (HTTP 200) when the target workspace is registered
+   *  delivery_mode=poll — an external / MCP-registered agent with no
+   *  public URL (e.g. an operator's laptop running the molecule MCP
+   *  channel). The request has only been QUEUED into activity_logs;
+   *  the agent will pick it up on its next poll and the real reply
+   *  arrives asynchronously over the AGENT_MESSAGE WebSocket push
+   *  (consumed by useChatSocket). See workspace-server
+   *  a2a_proxy.go:402 (poll-mode short-circuit) and
+   *  a2a_proxy_helpers.go:516 (logA2AReceiveQueued). */
+  status?: string;
+  delivery_mode?: string;
+}
+
+/** True when `resp` is the platform's synthetic poll-mode "queued"
+ *  envelope rather than a real agent reply. For these the send is
+ *  acknowledged-but-pending: the user's message landed and the agent
+ *  is working, but there is no reply yet — the terminal AGENT_MESSAGE
+ *  push will arrive later over the WebSocket. Treating this as a
+ *  terminal response (the pre-fix behaviour) cleared the "agent is
+ *  working" indicator the instant the POST returned, so an external
+ *  workspace turn looked dead even though work had not started. */
+export function isPollQueuedResponse(resp: A2AResponse | null | undefined): boolean {
+  return !!resp && resp.status === "queued" && resp.delivery_mode === "poll";
+}
+
+/** Hard ceiling on how long the "agent is working" indicator stays up
+ *  for a poll-mode turn with no reply. The terminal AGENT_MESSAGE push
+ *  normally clears it well before this. The cap exists so a poll-mode
+ *  workspace that is offline / never consumes its queue doesn't pin a
+ *  spinner forever — at which point we surface an honest, actionable
+ *  error instead of an opaque dead spinner. Generous because poll
+ *  agents (an operator laptop) can legitimately take minutes to wake,
+ *  poll, and respond; the goal is "eventually honest", not fail-fast. */
+export const POLL_QUEUED_REPLY_TIMEOUT_MS = 15 * 60 * 1000;
+
+export function extractReplyText(resp: A2AResponse): string {
+  const collect = (parts: A2APart[] | undefined): string => {
+    if (!parts) return "";
+    return parts
+      .filter((p) => p.kind === "text")
+      .map((p) => p.text ?? "")
+      .filter(Boolean)
+      .join("\n");
+  };
+  const result = resp?.result;
+  const collected: string[] = [];
+  const fromParts = collect(result?.parts);
+  if (fromParts) collected.push(fromParts);
+  if (result?.artifacts) {
+    for (const a of result.artifacts) {
+      const t = collect(a.parts);
+      if (t) collected.push(t);
+    }
+  }
+  return collected.join("\n");
+}
+
+export interface UseChatSendOptions {
+  getHistoryMessages: () => ChatMessage[];
+  onUserMessage?: (msg: ChatMessage) => void;
+  onAgentMessage?: (msg: ChatMessage) => void;
+}
+
+export function useChatSend(workspaceId: string, options: UseChatSendOptions) {
+  const [sending, setSending] = useState(false);
+  const [uploading, setUploading] = useState(false);
+  const [error, setError] = useState<string | null>(null);
+  const sendInFlightRef = useRef(false);
+  const sendingFromAPIRef = useRef(false);
+  const sendTokenRef = useRef(0);
+  // Safety-net timer armed only for poll-mode ("queued") turns: the
+  // POST returns immediately with no reply, so the normal
+  // POST-resolves-→-clear-spinner path can't drive the indicator. The
+  // terminal AGENT_MESSAGE WebSocket push clears it via
+  // releaseSendGuards (which also clears this timer); the timer is the
+  // backstop for an offline poll agent that never consumes its queue.
+  const pollTimeoutRef = useRef<ReturnType<typeof setTimeout> | null>(null);
+  const optionsRef = useRef(options);
+  optionsRef.current = options;
+
+  const clearPollTimeout = useCallback(() => {
+    if (pollTimeoutRef.current !== null) {
+      clearTimeout(pollTimeoutRef.current);
+      pollTimeoutRef.current = null;
+    }
+  }, []);
+
+  const releaseSendGuards = useCallback(() => {
+    clearPollTimeout();
+    setSending(false);
+    sendingFromAPIRef.current = false;
+    sendInFlightRef.current = false;
+  }, [clearPollTimeout]);
+
+  const clearError = useCallback(() => setError(null), []);
+
+  const sendMessage = useCallback(
+    async (text: string, files: File[] = []) => {
+      const trimmed = text.trim();
+      if ((!trimmed && files.length === 0) || sending || uploading) return;
+      if (sendInFlightRef.current) return;
+      sendInFlightRef.current = true;
+
+      let uploaded: ChatAttachment[] = [];
+      if (files.length > 0) {
+        setUploading(true);
+        try {
+          uploaded = await uploadChatFiles(workspaceId, files);
+        } catch (e) {
+          setUploading(false);
+          sendInFlightRef.current = false;
+          setError(
+            e instanceof Error ? `Upload failed: ${e.message}` : "Upload failed",
+          );
+          return;
+        }
+        setUploading(false);
+      }
+
+      const userMsg = createMessage("user", trimmed, uploaded);
+      optionsRef.current.onUserMessage?.(userMsg);
+
+      setSending(true);
+      sendingFromAPIRef.current = true;
+      setError(null);
+      const myToken = ++sendTokenRef.current;
+
+      const history = optionsRef.current
+        .getHistoryMessages()
+        .filter((m) => m.role === "user" || m.role === "agent")
+        .slice(-20)
+        .map((m) => ({
+          role: m.role === "user" ? "user" : "agent",
+          parts: [{ kind: "text", text: m.content }],
+        }));
+
+      const parts: A2APart[] = [];
+      if (trimmed) parts.push({ kind: "text", text: trimmed });
+      for (const att of uploaded) {
+        parts.push({
+          kind: "file",
+          file: {
+            name: att.name,
+            mimeType: att.mimeType,
+            uri: att.uri,
+            size: att.size,
+          },
+        });
+      }
+
+      api
+        .post<A2AResponse>(
+          `/workspaces/${workspaceId}/a2a`,
+          {
+            method: "message/send",
+            params: {
+              message: {
+                role: "user",
+                messageId: crypto.randomUUID(),
+                parts,
+              },
+              metadata: { history },
+            },
+          },
+          { timeoutMs: 120_000 },
+        )
+        .then((resp) => {
+          if (sendTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
+          if (!sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
+            sendInFlightRef.current = false;
+            return;
+          }
+          // Poll-mode ("queued") turn: the message landed and the
+          // external/MCP agent will pick it up on its next poll, but
+          // there is NO reply in this response. Pre-fix this fell
+          // through to releaseSendGuards() below and the "agent is
+          // working" indicator vanished the instant the POST returned —
+          // an external-workspace turn looked dead even though work had
+          // not started. Instead, keep `sending` true so the existing
+          // thinking indicator (the same one internal agents use)
+          // persists as a "received — agent is working" state; the
+          // terminal AGENT_MESSAGE WebSocket push (consumed by
+          // useChatSocket → onAgentMessage / onSendComplete →
+          // releaseSendGuards) clears it when the real reply arrives,
+          // exactly the path an internal async reply already uses.
+          if (isPollQueuedResponse(resp)) {
+            clearPollTimeout();
+            pollTimeoutRef.current = setTimeout(() => {
+              if (sendTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
+              if (!sendingFromAPIRef.current) return;
+              releaseSendGuards();
+              setError(
+                "No response yet from this agent — it may be offline or " +
+                  "busy. Your message was delivered and is queued; the " +
+                  "reply will appear here if the agent picks it up.",
+              );
+            }, POLL_QUEUED_REPLY_TIMEOUT_MS);
+            return;
+          }
+          const replyText = extractReplyText(resp);
+          const replyFiles = extractFilesFromTask(
+            (resp?.result ?? {}) as Record<string, unknown>,
+          );
+          if (replyText || replyFiles.length > 0) {
+            optionsRef.current.onAgentMessage?.(
+              createMessage("agent", replyText, replyFiles),
+            );
+          }
+          releaseSendGuards();
+        })
+        .catch(() => {
+          if (sendTokenRef.current !== myToken) return;
+          if (!sendingFromAPIRef.current) {
+            sendInFlightRef.current = false;
+            return;
+          }
+          releaseSendGuards();
+          setError("Failed to send message — agent may be unreachable");
+        });
+    },
+    [workspaceId, sending, uploading, clearPollTimeout],
+  );
+
+  // Drop the poll-mode safety timer on unmount / workspace switch so a
+  // stale timeout can't fire setError against a panel the user has
+  // already navigated away from. sendTokenRef guards correctness if it
+  // ever did fire; this just avoids the wasted timer + setState churn.
+  useEffect(() => clearPollTimeout, [clearPollTimeout]);
+
+  return {
+    sending,
+    uploading,
+    sendMessage,
+    error,
+    clearError,
+    releaseSendGuards,
+    sendingFromAPIRef,
+  };
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+"use client";
+
+import { useCallback, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
+import { useCanvasStore, type WorkspaceNodeData } from "@/store/canvas";
+import { useSocketEvent } from "@/hooks/useSocketEvent";
+import { createMessage, type ChatMessage } from "../types";
+
+export interface UseChatSocketCallbacks {
+  onAgentMessage?: (msg: ChatMessage) => void;
+  onActivityLog?: (entry: string) => void;
+  onSendComplete?: () => void;
+  onSendError?: (error: string) => void;
+}
+
+export function useChatSocket(
+  workspaceId: string,
+  callbacks: UseChatSocketCallbacks,
+): void {
+  const callbacksRef = useRef(callbacks);
+  callbacksRef.current = callbacks;
+
+  // Agent push messages from global store
+  const pendingAgentMsgs = useCanvasStore((s) => s.agentMessages[workspaceId]);
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!pendingAgentMsgs || pendingAgentMsgs.length === 0) return;
+    const consume = useCanvasStore.getState().consumeAgentMessages;
+    const msgs = consume(workspaceId);
+    for (const m of msgs) {
+      callbacksRef.current.onAgentMessage?.(
+        createMessage("agent", m.content, m.attachments),
+      );
+    }
+    if (msgs.length > 0) {
+      callbacksRef.current.onSendComplete?.();
+    }
+  }, [pendingAgentMsgs, workspaceId]);
+
+  const resolveWorkspaceName = useCallback((id: string) => {
+    const nodes = useCanvasStore.getState().nodes;
+    const node = nodes.find((n) => n.id === id);
+    return (node?.data as WorkspaceNodeData)?.name || id.slice(0, 8);
+  }, []);
+
+  useSocketEvent((msg) => {
+    try {
+      if (msg.event === "ACTIVITY_LOGGED") {
+        if (msg.workspace_id !== workspaceId) return;
+
+        const p = msg.payload || {};
+        const type = p.activity_type as string;
+        const method = (p.method as string) || "";
+        const status = (p.status as string) || "";
+        const targetId = (p.target_id as string) || "";
+        const durationMs = p.duration_ms as number | undefined;
+        const summary = (p.summary as string) || "";
+
+        let line = "";
+        if (type === "a2a_receive" && method === "message/send") {
+          const targetName = resolveWorkspaceName(targetId || msg.workspace_id);
+          if (status === "ok" && durationMs) {
+            const sec = Math.round(durationMs / 1000);
+            line = `← ${targetName} responded (${sec}s)`;
+            const own = (targetId || msg.workspace_id) === workspaceId;
+            if (own) callbacksRef.current.onSendComplete?.();
+          } else if (status === "error") {
+            line = `⚠ ${targetName} error`;
+            const own = (targetId || msg.workspace_id) === workspaceId;
+            if (own) {
+              callbacksRef.current.onSendComplete?.();
+              callbacksRef.current.onSendError?.(
+                "Agent error (Exception) — see workspace logs for details.",
+              );
+            }
+          }
+        } else if (type === "a2a_send") {
+          const targetName = resolveWorkspaceName(targetId);
+          line = `→ Delegating to ${targetName}...`;
+        } else if (type === "task_update") {
+          if (summary) line = `⟳ ${summary}`;
+        } else if (type === "agent_log") {
+          if (summary) line = summary;
+        }
+
+        if (line) {
+          callbacksRef.current.onActivityLog?.(line);
+        }
+      } else if (
+        msg.event === "TASK_UPDATED" &&
+        msg.workspace_id === workspaceId
+      ) {
+        const task = (msg.payload?.current_task as string) || "";
+        if (task) {
+          callbacksRef.current.onActivityLog?.(`⟳ ${task}`);
+        }
+      }
+    } catch {
+      /* ignore */
+    }
+  });
+}
@@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
 export { type ChatMessage, createMessage, appendMessageDeduped } from "./types";
 export { extractAgentText, extractTextsFromParts, extractResponseText } from "./message-parser";
+export { useChatHistory } from "./hooks/useChatHistory";
+export { useChatSend } from "./hooks/useChatSend";
+export { useChatSocket } from "./hooks/useChatSocket";
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 import { useState, useCallback, useRef, useEffect } from 'react';
 import type { TestConnectionState, SecretGroup } from '@/types/secrets';
-import { validateSecret } from '@/lib/api/secrets';
+import { validateSecret, ApiError } from '@/lib/api/secrets';

 interface TestConnectionButtonProps {
  provider: SecretGroup;
@@ -55,9 +55,23 @@ export function TestConnectionButton({
      }
      onResult?.(result.valid);
      resetTimerRef.current = setTimeout(() => setState('idle'), RESET_DELAYS[nextState]!);
-    } catch {
+    } catch (err) {
+      // Distinguish a real failure shape rather than always claiming a
+      // timeout. A reachable server that answered with an HTTP status
+      // (ApiError) did NOT time out — most commonly the validation route
+      // is not available (404/501), which must not masquerade as
+      // "service down". Only an actual thrown network/abort error is a
+      // connectivity failure.
      setState('failure');
-      setErrorDetail('Connection timed out. Service may be down.');
+      if (err instanceof ApiError) {
+        setErrorDetail(
+          err.status === 404 || err.status === 501
+            ? 'Key validation is not available for this service yet. The key was not tested.'
+            : `Could not verify key (server returned ${err.status}). Saving is unaffected.`,
+        );
+      } else {
+        setErrorDetail('Could not reach the validation service. Check your connection and try again.');
+      }
      onResult?.(false);
      resetTimerRef.current = setTimeout(() => setState('idle'), RESET_DELAYS.failure);
    }
@@ -28,8 +28,20 @@ const mockValidateSecret = vi.fn();

 vi.mock("@/lib/api/secrets", () => ({
  validateSecret: (...args: unknown[]) => mockValidateSecret(...args),
+  ApiError: class ApiError extends Error {
+    status: number;
+    constructor(status: number, message: string) {
+      super(message);
+      this.name = "ApiError";
+      this.status = status;
+    }
+  },
 }));

+// Re-import the mocked ApiError so test cases construct the same class the
+// component's `instanceof` check sees.
+import { ApiError } from "@/lib/api/secrets";
+
 beforeEach(() => {
  vi.useFakeTimers();
  vi.clearAllMocks();
@@ -201,8 +213,27 @@ describe("TestConnectionButton — failure path", () => {
 });

 describe("TestConnectionButton — catch path", () => {
-  it("shows 'Connection timed out' on network error", async () => {
-    mockValidateSecret.mockRejectedValue(new Error("timeout"));
+  it("does NOT claim a timeout when the validate endpoint 404s (regression: internal#492)", async () => {
+    // The validate route is unimplemented on the server and returns a fast
+    // 404. Before the fix this rendered the misleading hardcoded string
+    // "Connection timed out. Service may be down." It must instead state
+    // honestly that validation isn't available and the key was not tested.
+    mockValidateSecret.mockRejectedValue(new ApiError(404, "Not Found"));
+    render(
+      <TestConnectionButton provider="anthropic" secretValue="sk-ant-xxx" />,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(document.querySelector('button[type="button"]')!);
+    await act(async () => {
+      await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(0);
+    });
+    expect(document.body.textContent).not.toContain("Connection timed out");
+    expect(document.body.textContent).not.toContain("Service may be down");
+    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("not available");
+    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("not tested");
+  });
+
+  it("reports a non-404 server error with its status, not a timeout", async () => {
+    mockValidateSecret.mockRejectedValue(new ApiError(500, "Internal Server Error"));
    render(
      <TestConnectionButton provider="github" secretValue="ghp_xxx" />,
    );
@@ -210,7 +241,20 @@ describe("TestConnectionButton — catch path", () => {
    await act(async () => {
      await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(0);
    });
-    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("Connection timed out");
+    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("500");
+    expect(document.body.textContent).not.toContain("Connection timed out");
+  });
+
+  it("shows a connectivity message on a genuine network error", async () => {
+    mockValidateSecret.mockRejectedValue(new Error("network down"));
+    render(
+      <TestConnectionButton provider="github" secretValue="ghp_xxx" />,
+    );
+    fireEvent.click(document.querySelector('button[type="button"]')!);
+    await act(async () => {
+      await vi.advanceTimersByTimeAsync(0);
+    });
+    expect(document.body.textContent).toContain("Could not reach the validation service");
  });

  it("calls onResult(false) on network error", async () => {
@@ -8,14 +8,18 @@ import { getTenantSlug } from "./tenant";
 export const PLATFORM_URL =
  process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_PLATFORM_URL ?? "http://localhost:8080";

-// 15s is long enough for slow CP queries but short enough that a
-// hung backend doesn't leave the UI spinning forever. The abort
-// propagates through AbortController so React components can observe
-// the error and render a retry affordance. Callers that know the
-// endpoint is intentionally slow (org import walks a tree of
-// workspaces with server-side pacing) can pass `timeoutMs` to
-// override.
-const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS = 15_000;
+// 35s is long enough for the slowest server-side path (EIC SSH
+// tunnel for tenant EC2 file operations, bounded server-side by
+// `eicFileOpTimeout = 30 * time.Second` in
+// workspace-server/internal/handlers/template_files_eic.go) so the
+// canvas surfaces the server's real error instead of aborting first
+// with a generic timeout. Shorter values caused "Save & Restart" to
+// time out at the client before the backend returned its 5xx. The
+// abort still propagates through AbortController so React components
+// can render a retry affordance. Callers that know an endpoint is
+// intentionally slow (org import walks a tree of workspaces with
+// server-side pacing) can pass `timeoutMs` to override.
+const DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS = 35_000;

 export interface RequestOptions {
  timeoutMs?: number;
@@ -519,6 +519,10 @@ export function buildNodesAndEdges(
        // #2054 — server-declared per-workspace provisioning timeout.
        // Falls through to the runtime profile when null/absent.
        provisionTimeoutMs: ws.provision_timeout_ms ?? null,
+        // Workspace abilities — defaults preserved for old platform versions
+        // that don't yet include these columns in the GET response.
+        broadcastEnabled: ws.broadcast_enabled ?? false,
+        talkToUserEnabled: ws.talk_to_user_enabled ?? true,
      },
    };
    if (hasParent) {
@@ -99,6 +99,13 @@ export interface WorkspaceNodeData extends Record<string, unknown> {
   *  @/lib/runtimeProfiles. Lets a slow runtime declare its cold-boot
   *  expectation without a canvas release. */
  provisionTimeoutMs?: number | null;
+  /** When true the workspace may POST /broadcast to send org-wide messages.
+   *  Default false. Toggled by user/admin via PATCH /workspaces/:id/abilities. */
+  broadcastEnabled?: boolean;
+  /** When false the workspace cannot deliver canvas chat messages.
+   *  send_message_to_user / POST /notify return 403 and the canvas
+   *  shows a "not enabled" state with a button to re-enable. Default true. */
+  talkToUserEnabled?: boolean;
 }

 export type PanelTab = "details" | "skills" | "chat" | "terminal" | "config" | "schedule" | "channels" | "files" | "memory" | "traces" | "events" | "activity" | "audit";
@@ -299,6 +299,9 @@ export interface WorkspaceData {
   *  `@/lib/runtimeProfiles` when absent (the default behavior for any
   *  template that hasn't yet declared the field). */
  provision_timeout_ms?: number | null;
+  /** Workspace ability flags (migration 20260514). */
+  broadcast_enabled?: boolean;
+  talk_to_user_enabled?: boolean;
 }

 let socket: ReconnectingSocket | null = null;
@@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# E2E test: workspace broadcast and talk-to-user platform abilities.
+#
+# What this proves:
+#   1. talk_to_user_enabled (default true) — POST /notify works out-of-the-box.
+#   2. PATCH /workspaces/:id/abilities { talk_to_user_enabled: false } disables
+#      delivery: /notify → 403 with error="talk_to_user_disabled" + delegate hint.
+#   3. Re-enabling talk_to_user_enabled restores delivery.
+#   4. broadcast_enabled (default false) — POST /broadcast → 403 when disabled.
+#   5. PATCH { broadcast_enabled: true } enables fan-out.
+#   6. POST /broadcast delivers to all non-sender, non-removed workspaces:
+#      - Returns {"status":"sent","delivered":N}
+#      - Receiver's activity log has a broadcast_receive entry with the message.
+#      - Sender's activity log has a broadcast_sent entry.
+#   7. The sender itself does NOT receive a broadcast_receive entry.
+#
+# Usage:  tests/e2e/test_workspace_abilities_e2e.sh
+# Prereqs: workspace-server on http://localhost:8080, MOLECULE_ENV != production
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(dirname "$0")/_lib.sh"
+
+PASS=0
+FAIL=0
+SENDER_ID=""
+RECEIVER_ID=""
+
+cleanup() {
+  for wid in "$SENDER_ID" "$RECEIVER_ID"; do
+    if [ -n "$wid" ]; then
+      curl -s -X DELETE "$BASE/workspaces/$wid?confirm=true" > /dev/null || true
+    fi
+  done
+}
+trap cleanup EXIT INT TERM
+
+assert() {
+  local label="$1" actual="$2" expected="$3"
+  if [ "$actual" = "$expected" ]; then
+    echo "  PASS — $label"
+    PASS=$((PASS+1))
+  else
+    echo "  FAIL — $label"
+    echo "         expected: $expected"
+    echo "         actual:   $actual"
+    FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+  fi
+}
+
+assert_contains() {
+  local label="$1" haystack="$2" needle="$3"
+  if echo "$haystack" | grep -qF "$needle"; then
+    echo "  PASS — $label"
+    PASS=$((PASS+1))
+  else
+    echo "  FAIL — $label"
+    echo "         needle:   $needle"
+    echo "         haystack: $haystack"
+    FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+  fi
+}
+
+assert_not_contains() {
+  local label="$1" haystack="$2" needle="$3"
+  if ! echo "$haystack" | grep -qF "$needle"; then
+    echo "  PASS — $label"
+    PASS=$((PASS+1))
+  else
+    echo "  FAIL — $label (unexpected match)"
+    echo "         needle:   $needle"
+    echo "         haystack: $haystack"
+    FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+  fi
+}
+
+# ── Pre-sweep: remove any stale leftover workspaces from a prior aborted run ──
+echo "=== Setup ==="
+for NAME in "Abilities Sender" "Abilities Receiver"; do
+  PRIOR=$(curl -s "$BASE/workspaces" | python3 -c "
+import json, sys
+try:
+    print(' '.join(w['id'] for w in json.load(sys.stdin) if w.get('name') == '$NAME'))
+except Exception:
+    pass
+")
+  for _wid in $PRIOR; do
+    echo "Sweeping leftover '$NAME' workspace: $_wid"
+    curl -s -X DELETE "$BASE/workspaces/$_wid?confirm=true" > /dev/null || true
+  done
+done
+
+R=$(curl -s -X POST "$BASE/workspaces" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"name":"Abilities Sender","tier":1}')
+SENDER_ID=$(echo "$R" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin)["id"])' 2>/dev/null || true)
+[ -n "$SENDER_ID" ] || { echo "Failed to create sender workspace: $R"; exit 1; }
+echo "Created sender   workspace: $SENDER_ID"
+
+R=$(curl -s -X POST "$BASE/workspaces" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"name":"Abilities Receiver","tier":1}')
+RECEIVER_ID=$(echo "$R" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin)["id"])' 2>/dev/null || true)
+[ -n "$RECEIVER_ID" ] || { echo "Failed to create receiver workspace: $R"; exit 1; }
+echo "Created receiver workspace: $RECEIVER_ID"
+
+# Mint workspace-scoped bearer tokens (test-only endpoint, disabled in prod).
+SENDER_TOKEN=$(e2e_mint_test_token "$SENDER_ID")
+[ -n "$SENDER_TOKEN" ] || { echo "Failed to mint sender token"; exit 1; }
+SENDER_AUTH="Authorization: Bearer $SENDER_TOKEN"
+
+# Admin token — any live workspace bearer satisfies AdminAuth in local dev.
+# In production-like envs, set MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN.
+ADMIN_TOKEN="${MOLECULE_ADMIN_TOKEN:-$SENDER_TOKEN}"
+ADMIN_AUTH="Authorization: Bearer $ADMIN_TOKEN"
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+echo "=== Part 1: talk_to_user ability ==="
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 1a: /notify works with default talk_to_user_enabled=true ---"
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/notify" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":"Hello from sender"}')
+assert "POST /notify returns 200 when talk_to_user_enabled=true (default)" "$CODE" "200"
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 1b: Disable talk_to_user ---"
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X PATCH "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/abilities" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$ADMIN_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"talk_to_user_enabled": false}')
+assert "PATCH /abilities talk_to_user_enabled=false returns 200" "$CODE" "200"
+
+# Verify the flag is reflected in the workspace GET response.
+WS=$(curl -s "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID" -H "$SENDER_AUTH")
+FLAG=$(echo "$WS" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("talk_to_user_enabled","MISSING"))')
+assert "GET /workspaces/:id reflects talk_to_user_enabled=false" "$FLAG" "False"
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 1c: /notify blocked when talk_to_user disabled ---"
+BODY=$(curl -s -w "" -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/notify" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":"Should be blocked"}')
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/notify" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":"Should be blocked"}')
+assert "POST /notify returns 403 when talk_to_user_enabled=false" "$CODE" "403"
+
+ERR=$(echo "$BODY" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("error",""))' 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+assert_contains "403 body contains talk_to_user_disabled error code" "$ERR" "talk_to_user_disabled"
+
+HINT=$(echo "$BODY" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("hint",""))' 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+assert_contains "403 body contains delegate_task hint" "$HINT" "delegate_task"
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 1d: Re-enable talk_to_user and verify /notify works again ---"
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X PATCH "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/abilities" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$ADMIN_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"talk_to_user_enabled": true}')
+assert "PATCH /abilities talk_to_user_enabled=true returns 200" "$CODE" "200"
+
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/notify" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":"Re-enabled, should work"}')
+assert "POST /notify returns 200 after re-enabling talk_to_user" "$CODE" "200"
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+echo "=== Part 2: broadcast ability ==="
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2a: Broadcast blocked by default (broadcast_enabled=false) ---"
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/broadcast" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":"Should be blocked"}')
+assert "POST /broadcast returns 403 when broadcast_enabled=false (default)" "$CODE" "403"
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2b: Enable broadcast ---"
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X PATCH "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/abilities" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$ADMIN_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"broadcast_enabled": true}')
+assert "PATCH /abilities broadcast_enabled=true returns 200" "$CODE" "200"
+
+WS=$(curl -s "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID" -H "$SENDER_AUTH")
+FLAG=$(echo "$WS" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("broadcast_enabled","MISSING"))')
+assert "GET /workspaces/:id reflects broadcast_enabled=true" "$FLAG" "True"
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2c: Successful broadcast fan-out ---"
+BCAST=$(curl -s -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/broadcast" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":"Org-wide notice: scheduled maintenance in 5 minutes."}')
+BSTATUS=$(echo "$BCAST" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("status",""))' 2>/dev/null || echo "")
+BDELIVERED=$(echo "$BCAST" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("delivered","-1"))' 2>/dev/null || echo "-1")
+assert "POST /broadcast returns status=sent" "$BSTATUS" "sent"
+
+# delivered count must be >= 1 (the receiver workspace).
+echo "  INFO — broadcast delivered=$BDELIVERED"
+if python3 -c "import sys; sys.exit(0 if int('$BDELIVERED') >= 1 else 1)" 2>/dev/null; then
+  echo "  PASS — delivered count >= 1"
+  PASS=$((PASS+1))
+else
+  echo "  FAIL — expected delivered >= 1, got $BDELIVERED"
+  FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2d: Receiver activity log has broadcast_receive entry ---"
+RECEIVER_TOKEN=$(e2e_mint_test_token "$RECEIVER_ID")
+[ -n "$RECEIVER_TOKEN" ] || { echo "Failed to mint receiver token"; exit 1; }
+RECEIVER_AUTH="Authorization: Bearer $RECEIVER_TOKEN"
+
+ACT=$(curl -s -H "$RECEIVER_AUTH" "$BASE/workspaces/$RECEIVER_ID/activity?source=agent&limit=20")
+ROW=$(echo "$ACT" | python3 -c '
+import json, sys
+rows = json.load(sys.stdin) or []
+for r in rows:
+    if r.get("activity_type") == "broadcast_receive":
+        print(json.dumps(r))
+        break
+')
+[ -n "$ROW" ] || {
+  echo "  FAIL — could not find broadcast_receive row in receiver activity"
+  FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+}
+
+if [ -n "$ROW" ]; then
+  # Message is stored in summary field.
+  MSG=$(echo "$ROW" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;r=json.load(sys.stdin);print(r.get("summary",""))')
+  assert_contains "broadcast_receive row summary has original message" "$MSG" "scheduled maintenance"
+  # Sender ID is stored in source_id field.
+  SRC=$(echo "$ROW" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;r=json.load(sys.stdin);print(r.get("source_id",""))')
+  assert "broadcast_receive row source_id is sender workspace" "$SRC" "$SENDER_ID"
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2e: Sender activity log has broadcast_sent entry ---"
+ACT_SENDER=$(curl -s -H "$SENDER_AUTH" "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/activity?limit=20")
+SENT_ROW=$(echo "$ACT_SENDER" | python3 -c '
+import json, sys
+rows = json.load(sys.stdin) or []
+for r in rows:
+    if r.get("activity_type") == "broadcast_sent":
+        print(json.dumps(r))
+        break
+')
+[ -n "$SENT_ROW" ] || {
+  echo "  FAIL — could not find broadcast_sent row in sender activity"
+  FAIL=$((FAIL+1))
+}
+
+if [ -n "$SENT_ROW" ]; then
+  # Delivered count is baked into the summary field (no response_body for sender row).
+  SUMMARY=$(echo "$SENT_ROW" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("summary",""))')
+  assert_contains "broadcast_sent summary mentions workspace count" "$SUMMARY" "workspace"
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2f: Sender does NOT receive a broadcast_receive entry ---"
+SELF_RECV=$(echo "$ACT_SENDER" | python3 -c '
+import json, sys
+rows = json.load(sys.stdin) or []
+for r in rows:
+    if r.get("activity_type") == "broadcast_receive":
+        print("found")
+        break
+')
+assert_not_contains "sender has no broadcast_receive in own activity log" "${SELF_RECV:-}" "found"
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2g: Empty message is rejected ---"
+CODE=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" -X POST "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/broadcast" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$SENDER_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"message":""}')
+assert "POST /broadcast with empty message returns 400" "$CODE" "400"
+
+echo ""
+echo "--- 2h: Partial PATCH does not clobber other flags ---"
+# Set talk_to_user=false, then patch only broadcast — talk_to_user must stay false.
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PATCH "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/abilities" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$ADMIN_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"talk_to_user_enabled": false}'
+curl -s -o /dev/null -X PATCH "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID/abilities" \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "$ADMIN_AUTH" \
+  -d '{"broadcast_enabled": false}'
+WS=$(curl -s "$BASE/workspaces/$SENDER_ID" -H "$SENDER_AUTH")
+TUF=$(echo "$WS" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("talk_to_user_enabled","MISSING"))')
+BEF=$(echo "$WS" | python3 -c 'import json,sys;print(json.load(sys.stdin).get("broadcast_enabled","MISSING"))')
+assert "partial PATCH preserves talk_to_user_enabled=false" "$TUF" "False"
+assert "partial PATCH sets broadcast_enabled=false" "$BEF" "False"
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+echo ""
+echo "=== Results: $PASS passed, $FAIL failed ==="
+[ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]
@@ -194,7 +194,12 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) maybeMarkContainerDead(ctx context.Context, workspace
 	}
 	db.ClearWorkspaceKeys(ctx, workspaceID)
 	h.broadcaster.RecordAndBroadcast(ctx, string(events.EventWorkspaceOffline), workspaceID, map[string]interface{}{})
-	go h.RestartByID(workspaceID)
+	// Tracked via goAsync (not bare `go`) so the asyncWG can be drained
+	// before a test swaps the global db.DB. runRestartCycle reads db.DB
+	// before its provisioner gate, so an untracked detached goroutine
+	// races setupTestDB's t.Cleanup db.DB restore. Matches the already-
+	// correct site at a2a_proxy.go:648.
+	h.goAsync(func() { h.RestartByID(workspaceID) })
 	return true
 }

@@ -241,7 +246,10 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) preflightContainerHealth(ctx context.Context, workspa
 	}
 	db.ClearWorkspaceKeys(ctx, workspaceID)
 	h.broadcaster.RecordAndBroadcast(ctx, string(events.EventWorkspaceOffline), workspaceID, map[string]interface{}{})
-	go h.RestartByID(workspaceID)
+	// Tracked via goAsync (see maybeMarkContainerDead): preflight's
+	// detached restart must be drainable so it doesn't race the global
+	// db.DB swap in test cleanup.
+	h.goAsync(func() { h.RestartByID(workspaceID) })
 	return &proxyA2AError{
 		Status: http.StatusServiceUnavailable,
 		Response: gin.H{
@@ -262,7 +270,8 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) logA2AFailure(ctx context.Context, workspaceID, calle
 		errWsName = workspaceID
 	}
 	summary := "A2A request to " + errWsName + " failed: " + errMsg
-	go func(parent context.Context) {
+	parent := ctx
+	h.goAsync(func() {
 		logCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.WithoutCancel(parent), 30*time.Second)
 		defer cancel()
 		LogActivity(logCtx, h.broadcaster, ActivityParams{
@@ -277,7 +286,7 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) logA2AFailure(ctx context.Context, workspaceID, calle
 			Status:       "error",
 			ErrorDetail:  &errMsg,
 		})
-	}(ctx)
+	})
 }

 // logA2ASuccess records a successful A2A round-trip and (for canvas-initiated
@@ -298,18 +307,19 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) logA2ASuccess(ctx context.Context, workspaceID, calle
 	// silent workspaces. Only update when callerID is a real workspace (not
 	// canvas, not a system caller) and the target returned 2xx/3xx.
 	if callerID != "" && !isSystemCaller(callerID) && statusCode < 400 {
-		go func() {
+		h.goAsync(func() {
 			bgCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
 			defer cancel()
 			if _, err := db.DB.ExecContext(bgCtx,
 				`UPDATE workspaces SET last_outbound_at = NOW() WHERE id = $1`, callerID); err != nil {
 				log.Printf("last_outbound_at update failed for %s: %v", callerID, err)
 			}
-		}()
+		})
 	}
 	summary := a2aMethod + " → " + wsNameForLog
 	toolTrace := extractToolTrace(respBody)
-	go func(parent context.Context) {
+	parent := ctx
+	h.goAsync(func() {
 		logCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.WithoutCancel(parent), 30*time.Second)
 		defer cancel()
 		LogActivity(logCtx, h.broadcaster, ActivityParams{
@@ -325,7 +335,7 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) logA2ASuccess(ctx context.Context, workspaceID, calle
 			DurationMs:   &durationMs,
 			Status:       logStatus,
 		})
-	}(ctx)
+	})

 	if callerID == "" && statusCode < 400 {
 		h.broadcaster.BroadcastOnly(workspaceID, string(events.EventA2AResponse), map[string]interface{}{
@@ -510,7 +520,8 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) logA2AReceiveQueued(ctx context.Context, workspaceID,
 		wsName = workspaceID
 	}
 	summary := a2aMethod + " → " + wsName + " (queued for poll)"
-	go func(parent context.Context) {
+	parent := ctx
+	h.goAsync(func() {
 		logCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.WithoutCancel(parent), 30*time.Second)
 		defer cancel()
 		LogActivity(logCtx, h.broadcaster, ActivityParams{
@@ -523,7 +534,7 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) logA2AReceiveQueued(ctx context.Context, workspaceID,
 			RequestBody:  json.RawMessage(body),
 			Status:       "ok",
 		})
-	}(ctx)
+	})
 }

 // readUsageMap extracts input_tokens / output_tokens from the "usage" key of m.
@@ -482,6 +482,13 @@ func (h *ActivityHandler) Notify(c *gin.Context) {
 			c.JSON(http.StatusNotFound, gin.H{"error": "workspace not found"})
 			return
 		}
+		if errors.Is(err, ErrTalkToUserDisabled) {
+			c.JSON(http.StatusForbidden, gin.H{
+				"error": "talk_to_user_disabled",
+				"hint":  "This workspace is not allowed to send messages directly to the user. Forward your update to a parent workspace using delegate_task — they may be able to reach the user.",
+			})
+			return
+		}
 		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "internal error"})
 		return
 	}
@@ -464,9 +464,9 @@ func TestNotify_PersistsToActivityLogsForReloadRecovery(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Cleanup(func() { db.DB = prevDB; mockDB.Close() })

 	// Workspace existence check
-	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT name FROM workspaces`).
+	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces`).
 		WithArgs("ws-notify").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("DD"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("DD", true))

 	// Persistence INSERT — verify shape
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
@@ -511,9 +511,9 @@ func TestNotify_WithAttachments_PersistsFilePartsForReload(t *testing.T) {
 	db.DB = mockDB
 	t.Cleanup(func() { db.DB = prevDB; mockDB.Close() })

-	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT name FROM workspaces`).
+	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces`).
 		WithArgs("ws-attach").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("DD"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("DD", true))

 	// Capture the JSONB arg so we can assert on the persisted shape
 	// AFTER the call (must include parts[].kind=file so reload
@@ -640,9 +640,9 @@ func TestNotify_DBFailure_StillBroadcastsAnd200(t *testing.T) {
 	db.DB = mockDB
 	t.Cleanup(func() { db.DB = prevDB; mockDB.Close() })

-	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT name FROM workspaces`).
+	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces`).
 		WithArgs("ws-x").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("DD"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("DD", true))
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
 		WillReturnError(fmt.Errorf("simulated db hiccup"))

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+package handlers
+
+import "encoding/json"
+
+// agent_card_reconcile.go — server-side repair for the fleet-wide
+// agent-card identity gap.
+//
+// Root cause: the runtime builds its AgentCard from config.name
+// (workspace/main.py:198), and config.name is read from the
+// CP-regenerated /configs/config.yaml whose `name:` field is the raw
+// workspace UUID — NOT the friendly name the operator sees. The friendly
+// name IS captured: POST /workspaces and PATCH /workspaces/:id (the
+// canvas Details tab) write it to the trusted workspaces.name DB column.
+// But /registry/register stores the runtime-supplied card verbatim
+// (registry.go: `agent_card = EXCLUDED.agent_card`), so the stored card
+// served at /.well-known/agent-card.json and returned to peers via
+// agent_card_url ends up with name = UUID, description = "", role = null.
+//
+// Fix shape (deliberately minimal, no contract weakening): when the
+// runtime-supplied card's `name` is empty or equals the workspace UUID
+// (the placeholder the runtime had no better value for), the PLATFORM —
+// not the agent — substitutes the friendly value from the trusted
+// workspaces row. Identity stays platform-controlled: the agent never
+// gains the ability to self-set its own name/role; the platform sources
+// it from the operator-controlled DB column. We only ever FILL gaps
+// (empty / UUID-placeholder); a card that already carries a real
+// friendly name is never downgraded.
+//
+// list_peers / the /registry/:id/peers endpoint already resolve display
+// names from workspaces.name directly (discovery.go / mcp_tools.go
+// `SELECT w.id, w.name, ...`), so peer_name in delivered message tags
+// was already correct — this fix closes the remaining surface: the
+// agent_card blob itself (canvas Agent Card / Skills view, peer
+// agent_card_url fetches, the well-known card).
+//
+// description / role degrade discovery the same way: an empty
+// description and null role give peers nothing to reason about. We
+// default description from the (now reconciled) name when blank and
+// role from workspaces.role when the operator set one.
+
+// reconcileAgentCardIdentity patches identity gaps in a runtime-supplied
+// agent card from the trusted workspace DB row. It returns the
+// (possibly rewritten) card bytes and whether anything changed. On any
+// failure (malformed JSON, nothing to fill) it returns the input bytes
+// unchanged with changed=false so the caller can store them verbatim —
+// this is strictly no-worse-than-before, never a regression.
+//
+// Pure function: no DB / HTTP / globals, so it is exhaustively
+// unit-testable (agent_card_reconcile_test.go) without booting the
+// handler or a sqlmock.
+func reconcileAgentCardIdentity(card json.RawMessage, workspaceID, dbName, dbRole string) (json.RawMessage, bool) {
+	var m map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(card, &m); err != nil || m == nil {
+		// Malformed card — not this function's job to reject it (the
+		// upsert stores it as-is and downstream readers handle bad
+		// JSON). Return verbatim so byte-for-byte behaviour is
+		// preserved on the failure path.
+		return card, false
+	}
+
+	changed := false
+
+	// name: fill only when empty or the UUID placeholder. A dbName that
+	// is itself the UUID is a placeholder row (registry.go INSERT seeds
+	// name = id before the canvas sets a friendly one) — not a friendly
+	// name, so it is not an eligible source.
+	cardName, _ := m["name"].(string)
+	if (cardName == "" || cardName == workspaceID) &&
+		dbName != "" && dbName != workspaceID {
+		m["name"] = dbName
+		changed = true
+	}
+
+	// description: when blank, default to the (reconciled) name so peers
+	// and the canvas Agent Card view have a non-empty human label
+	// instead of "". Mirrors the runtime's own
+	// `config.description or config.name` fallback (main.py:199) but
+	// applied to the registry copy where the runtime's fallback was the
+	// UUID.
+	if desc, _ := m["description"].(string); desc == "" {
+		if n, _ := m["name"].(string); n != "" && n != workspaceID {
+			m["description"] = n
+			changed = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	// role: surface the operator-set workspaces.role when the card
+	// carries none. Discovery (peer_role) and the canvas Role row read
+	// workspaces.role directly; this just makes the standalone card
+	// self-describing too. Never overwrite a role the card already has.
+	if dbRole != "" {
+		if r, ok := m["role"].(string); !ok || r == "" {
+			m["role"] = dbRole
+			changed = true
+		}
+	}
+
+	if !changed {
+		// No-op: return the original bytes untouched so callers that
+		// compare/store get byte-identical input (re-marshalling would
+		// reorder keys for no reason).
+		return card, false
+	}
+
+	out, err := json.Marshal(m)
+	if err != nil {
+		// Re-marshal of a map we just unmarshalled should never fail;
+		// if it somehow does, fall back to the verbatim input rather
+		// than storing nothing.
+		return card, false
+	}
+	return out, true
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+package handlers
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// TestReconcileAgentCardIdentity covers the server-side backfill that
+// repairs the fleet-wide agent-card identity gap (internal#XXX): the
+// runtime POSTs /registry/register with agent_card.name = the workspace
+// UUID (because the CP-regenerated /configs/config.yaml sets name: <uuid>)
+// while the trusted workspaces.name DB column — the value the canvas
+// Details tab shows and lets the operator edit — holds the friendly
+// name ("Claude Code Agent"). The platform reconciles them from the DB
+// row (NOT from the agent — identity stays platform-controlled, not
+// self-mutable).
+func TestReconcileAgentCardIdentity(t *testing.T) {
+	const wsID = "3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6"
+
+	tests := []struct {
+		name        string
+		card        string
+		dbName      string
+		dbRole      string
+		wantName    string
+		wantDesc    string
+		wantRole    string
+		wantChanged bool
+	}{
+		{
+			name:        "name is the workspace UUID — backfill from DB",
+			card:        `{"name":"3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6","description":"","capabilities":{"streaming":true}}`,
+			dbName:      "Claude Code Agent",
+			dbRole:      "",
+			wantName:    "Claude Code Agent",
+			wantDesc:    "Claude Code Agent",
+			wantRole:    "",
+			wantChanged: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "empty name — backfill from DB",
+			card:        `{"name":"","description":"x"}`,
+			dbName:      "ops-agent",
+			dbRole:      "sre",
+			wantName:    "ops-agent",
+			wantDesc:    "x",
+			wantRole:    "sre",
+			wantChanged: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "role null in card, DB has role — backfill role only",
+			card:        `{"name":"Reviewer","description":"Senior reviewer"}`,
+			dbName:      "Reviewer",
+			dbRole:      "code-reviewer",
+			wantName:    "Reviewer",
+			wantDesc:    "Senior reviewer",
+			wantRole:    "code-reviewer",
+			wantChanged: true,
+		},
+		{
+			name: "card already has a real friendly name — do NOT clobber it",
+			// A richer card (e.g. an external channel agent) must win;
+			// the platform only fills gaps, never downgrades.
+			card:        `{"name":"Claude Code (channel)","description":"Local Claude Code session bridged","role":"assistant"}`,
+			dbName:      "hongming-pc",
+			dbRole:      "operator",
+			wantName:    "Claude Code (channel)",
+			wantDesc:    "Local Claude Code session bridged",
+			wantRole:    "assistant",
+			wantChanged: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "no DB name available — leave UUID name untouched (no worse than before)",
+			card:        `{"name":"3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6","description":""}`,
+			dbName:      "",
+			dbRole:      "",
+			wantName:    "3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6",
+			wantDesc:    "",
+			wantRole:    "",
+			wantChanged: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "dbName equals UUID (placeholder row) — not a friendly name, leave untouched",
+			card:        `{"name":"3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6"}`,
+			dbName:      "3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6",
+			dbRole:      "",
+			wantName:    "3b81321b-1ec7-488c-96f7-72c42a968da6",
+			wantDesc:    "",
+			wantRole:    "",
+			wantChanged: false,
+		},
+		{
+			name:        "malformed card JSON — return unchanged, no panic",
+			card:        `{not json`,
+			dbName:      "Claude Code Agent",
+			dbRole:      "",
+			wantChanged: false,
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range tests {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			out, changed := reconcileAgentCardIdentity(
+				json.RawMessage(tc.card), wsID, tc.dbName, tc.dbRole,
+			)
+			if changed != tc.wantChanged {
+				t.Fatalf("changed = %v, want %v", changed, tc.wantChanged)
+			}
+			if !tc.wantChanged {
+				// Unchanged path must return the input bytes verbatim.
+				if string(out) != tc.card {
+					t.Fatalf("unchanged path mutated bytes:\n got  %s\n want %s", out, tc.card)
+				}
+				return
+			}
+			var got map[string]any
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(out, &got); err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("output not valid JSON: %v (%s)", err, out)
+			}
+			if g, _ := got["name"].(string); g != tc.wantName {
+				t.Errorf("name = %q, want %q", g, tc.wantName)
+			}
+			if g, _ := got["description"].(string); g != tc.wantDesc {
+				t.Errorf("description = %q, want %q", g, tc.wantDesc)
+			}
+			if tc.wantRole != "" {
+				if g, _ := got["role"].(string); g != tc.wantRole {
+					t.Errorf("role = %q, want %q", g, tc.wantRole)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestReconcileAgentCardIdentity_PreservesOtherFields ensures the
+// reconcile is a minimal in-place patch — capabilities, version,
+// skills and any unknown future fields survive untouched.
+func TestReconcileAgentCardIdentity_PreservesOtherFields(t *testing.T) {
+	card := `{"name":"ws-uuid","description":"","version":"1.0.0",` +
+		`"capabilities":{"streaming":true,"pushNotifications":true},` +
+		`"skills":[{"id":"a","name":"a"}],"configuration_status":"ready"}`
+	out, changed := reconcileAgentCardIdentity(
+		json.RawMessage(card), "ws-uuid", "Friendly Name", "",
+	)
+	if !changed {
+		t.Fatal("expected changed = true")
+	}
+	var got map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(out, &got); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("invalid JSON: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got["version"] != "1.0.0" {
+		t.Errorf("version not preserved: %v", got["version"])
+	}
+	if got["configuration_status"] != "ready" {
+		t.Errorf("configuration_status not preserved: %v", got["configuration_status"])
+	}
+	caps, ok := got["capabilities"].(map[string]any)
+	if !ok || caps["streaming"] != true {
+		t.Errorf("capabilities not preserved: %v", got["capabilities"])
+	}
+	skills, ok := got["skills"].([]any)
+	if !ok || len(skills) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("skills not preserved: %v", got["skills"])
+	}
+}
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ import (
 // timeout) surface as wrapped errors and should be treated as 503.
 var ErrWorkspaceNotFound = errors.New("agent_message: workspace not found")

+// ErrTalkToUserDisabled is returned when the workspace has
+// talk_to_user_enabled=false. Callers surface HTTP 403 so the Python tool
+// can detect it and suggest forwarding to a parent workspace.
+var ErrTalkToUserDisabled = errors.New("agent_message: talk_to_user disabled")
+
 // AgentMessageAttachment is one file attached to an agent → user
 // message. Identical to handlers.NotifyAttachment in field set; kept
 // distinct so the writer's API doesn't import a handler type with HTTP
@@ -107,16 +112,20 @@ func (w *AgentMessageWriter) Send(
 	// notify call surfaced as "workspace not found" and masked real
 	// incidents in the alert path.
 	var wsName string
+	var talkToUserEnabled bool
 	err := w.db.QueryRowContext(ctx,
-		`SELECT name FROM workspaces WHERE id = $1 AND status != 'removed'`,
+		`SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces WHERE id = $1 AND status != 'removed'`,
 		workspaceID,
-	).Scan(&wsName)
+	).Scan(&wsName, &talkToUserEnabled)
 	if errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
 		return ErrWorkspaceNotFound
 	}
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("agent_message: workspace lookup: %w", err)
 	}
+	if !talkToUserEnabled {
+		return ErrTalkToUserDisabled
+	}

 	// 2. Build broadcast payload + WS-emit. Same shape that ChatTab's
 	//    AGENT_MESSAGE handler in canvas/src/store/canvas-events.ts has
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_Success_NoAttachments(t *testing.T) {
 	mock := setupTestDB(t)
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, newTestBroadcaster())

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-1").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC", true))

 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs.*'a2a_receive'.*'notify'`).
 		WithArgs(
@@ -116,9 +116,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_Success_WithAttachments(t *testing.T) {
 	mock := setupTestDB(t)
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, newTestBroadcaster())

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-att").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("Ryan"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("Ryan", true))

 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs.*'a2a_receive'.*'notify'`).
 		WithArgs(
@@ -173,9 +173,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_WorkspaceNotFound(t *testing.T) {
 	emitter := &capturingEmitter{}
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, emitter)

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-missing").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}))

 	err := w.Send(context.Background(), "ws-missing", "lost in the void", nil)
 	if !errors.Is(err, ErrWorkspaceNotFound) {
@@ -202,9 +202,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_DBInsertFailureStillReturnsNil(t *testing.T) {
 	mock := setupTestDB(t)
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, newTestBroadcaster())

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-dbfail").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC", true))

 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
 		WillReturnError(errors.New("transient db error"))
@@ -223,9 +223,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_PreviewTruncation(t *testing.T) {
 	mock := setupTestDB(t)
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, newTestBroadcaster())

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-trunc").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("Ryan"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("Ryan", true))

 	longMsg := strings.Repeat("x", 200)
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_BroadcastsAgentMessageEvent(t *testing.T) {
 	emitter := &capturingEmitter{}
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, emitter)

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-bc").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("Workspace Name"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("Workspace Name", true))
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
 		WillReturnResult(sqlmock.NewResult(1, 1))

@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_DBErrorOnLookupReturnsWrapped(t *testing.T) {
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, newTestBroadcaster())

 	transientErr := errors.New("connection refused")
-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-dbdown").
 		WillReturnError(transientErr)

@@ -350,9 +350,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_NonASCIIMessagePersists(t *testing.T) {
 	// the byte-slice bug.
 	msg := strings.Repeat("你", 200)

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-cjk").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC", true))

 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
 		WithArgs(
@@ -395,9 +395,9 @@ func TestAgentMessageWriter_Send_OmitsAttachmentsKeyWhenEmpty(t *testing.T) {
 	emitter := &capturingEmitter{}
 	w := NewAgentMessageWriter(db.DB, emitter)

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-noatt").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("X"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("X", true))
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs`).
 		WillReturnResult(sqlmock.NewResult(1, 1))

@@ -230,20 +230,21 @@ func TestWorkspaceList_WithData(t *testing.T) {
 	broadcaster := newTestBroadcaster()
 	handler := NewWorkspaceHandler(broadcaster, nil, "http://localhost:8080", t.TempDir())

-	// 21 cols — see scanWorkspaceRow for order (max_concurrent_tasks
-	// lands between active_tasks and last_error_rate).
+	// 23 cols — broadcast_enabled + talk_to_user_enabled added after monthly_spend
+	// (migration 20260514). Column order must match scanWorkspaceRow exactly.
 	columns := []string{
 		"id", "name", "role", "tier", "status", "agent_card", "url",
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks",
 		"last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	rows := sqlmock.NewRows(columns).
 		AddRow("ws-1", "Agent One", "worker", 1, "online", []byte(`{"name":"agent1"}`), "http://localhost:8001",
-			nil, 3, 1, 0.02, "", 7200, "processing", "langgraph", "", 10.0, 20.0, false, nil, int64(0)).
+			nil, 3, 1, 0.02, "", 7200, "processing", "langgraph", "", 10.0, 20.0, false, nil, int64(0), false, true).
 		AddRow("ws-2", "Agent Two", "", 2, "degraded", []byte("null"), "",
-			nil, 0, 1, 0.6, "timeout", 100, "", "claude-code", "", 50.0, 60.0, true, nil, int64(0))
+			nil, 0, 1, 0.6, "timeout", 100, "", "claude-code", "", 50.0, 60.0, true, nil, int64(0), false, true)

 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WillReturnRows(rows)
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
+	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"

@@ -22,8 +23,39 @@ import (
 	"github.com/redis/go-redis/v9"
 )

+// liveTestHandlers tracks every WorkspaceHandler built during the test
+// binary's lifetime so setupTestDB can drain their in-flight goAsync
+// goroutines (notably the detached RestartByID restart cycle, which
+// reads the global db.DB) BEFORE restoring db.DB. Without this drain a
+// fire-and-forget restart goroutine spawned by one test outlives that
+// test and races the db.DB swap in a later test's t.Cleanup — the
+// 0x...d548 data race on platform/internal/db.DB.
+var (
+	liveTestHandlersMu sync.Mutex
+	liveTestHandlers   []*WorkspaceHandler
+)
+
 func init() {
 	gin.SetMode(gin.TestMode)
+	newHandlerHook = func(h *WorkspaceHandler) {
+		liveTestHandlersMu.Lock()
+		liveTestHandlers = append(liveTestHandlers, h)
+		liveTestHandlersMu.Unlock()
+	}
+}
+
+// drainTestAsync waits for every tracked handler's goAsync goroutines to
+// finish. Called from setupTestDB's cleanup before db.DB is restored so
+// no detached restart/provision goroutine is mid-read of db.DB when the
+// pointer is swapped.
+func drainTestAsync() {
+	liveTestHandlersMu.Lock()
+	handlers := make([]*WorkspaceHandler, len(liveTestHandlers))
+	copy(handlers, liveTestHandlers)
+	liveTestHandlersMu.Unlock()
+	for _, h := range handlers {
+		h.waitAsyncForTest()
+	}
 }

 // setupTestDB creates a sqlmock DB and assigns it to the global db.DB.
@@ -37,7 +69,16 @@ func setupTestDB(t *testing.T) sqlmock.Sqlmock {
 	}
 	prevDB := db.DB
 	db.DB = mockDB
-	t.Cleanup(func() { db.DB = prevDB; mockDB.Close() })
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		// Drain detached async goroutines (e.g. goAsync(RestartByID),
+		// which reads db.DB in runRestartCycle before its provisioner
+		// gate) BEFORE swapping db.DB back. Doing the restore first
+		// would let an in-flight restart goroutine read db.DB while
+		// this line writes it — the data race this guards against.
+		drainTestAsync()
+		db.DB = prevDB
+		mockDB.Close()
+	})

 	// Disable SSRF checks for the duration of this test only. Restore
 	// the previous state via t.Cleanup so that TestIsSafeURL_* tests
@@ -392,21 +433,21 @@ func TestWorkspaceList(t *testing.T) {
 	broadcaster := newTestBroadcaster()
 	handler := NewWorkspaceHandler(broadcaster, nil, "http://localhost:8080", "/tmp/configs")

-	// 21 cols: `max_concurrent_tasks` added between active_tasks and
-	// last_error_rate (see scanWorkspaceRow + COALESCE(w.max_concurrent_tasks, 1)
-	// in workspace.go). Column order must match that scan exactly.
+	// 23 cols: broadcast_enabled + talk_to_user_enabled added after monthly_spend
+	// (migration 20260514). Column order must match scanWorkspaceRow exactly.
 	columns := []string{
 		"id", "name", "role", "tier", "status", "agent_card", "url",
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks",
 		"last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	rows := sqlmock.NewRows(columns).
 		AddRow("ws-1", "Agent One", "worker", 1, "online", []byte("null"), "http://localhost:8001",
-			nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 100, "", "claude-code", "", 10.0, 20.0, false, nil, int64(0)).
+			nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 100, "", "claude-code", "", 10.0, 20.0, false, nil, int64(0), false, true).
 		AddRow("ws-2", "Agent Two", "manager", 2, "provisioning", []byte("null"), "",
-			nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph", "", 50.0, 60.0, false, nil, int64(0))
+			nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph", "", 50.0, 60.0, false, nil, int64(0), false, true)

 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WillReturnRows(rows)
@@ -1120,13 +1161,14 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_CurrentTask(t *testing.T) {
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WithArgs("dddddddd-0004-0000-0000-000000000000").
 		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows(columns).AddRow(
 			"dddddddd-0004-0000-0000-000000000000", "Task Worker", "worker", 1, "online", []byte("null"), "http://localhost:9000",
 			nil, 2, 1, 0.0, "", 300, "Analyzing document", "langgraph", "", 10.0, 20.0, false,
-			nil, int64(0),
+			nil, int64(0), false, true,
 		))

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
@@ -751,9 +751,9 @@ func TestMCPHandler_SendMessageToUser_DBErrorLogsAndStill200s(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("MOLECULE_MCP_ALLOW_SEND_MESSAGE", "true")
 	h, mock := newMCPHandler(t)

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-err").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC", true))

 	// INSERT fails — must NOT abort the tool response.
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs.*'a2a_receive'.*'notify'`).
@@ -802,9 +802,9 @@ func TestMCPHandler_SendMessageToUser_ResponseBodyShape(t *testing.T) {

 	const userMessage = "Hi there from the agent"

-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-shape").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC", true))

 	// Capture the response_body argument and assert its exact shape.
 	mock.ExpectExec(`INSERT INTO activity_logs.*'a2a_receive'.*'notify'`).
@@ -861,9 +861,9 @@ func TestMCPHandler_SendMessageToUser_PersistsToActivityLog(t *testing.T) {
 	// before it does anything else. Returning a name lets the
 	// broadcast payload populate; the test doesn't assert on the
 	// broadcast (no observable WS in this fake), only on the DB.
-	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name FROM workspaces").
+	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT name, talk_to_user_enabled FROM workspaces").
 		WithArgs("ws-msg").
-		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC"))
+		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"name", "talk_to_user_enabled"}).AddRow("CEO Ryan PC", true))

 	// The persistence INSERT — pin the exact shape so a future
 	// refactor that switches columns or drops `method='notify'`
@@ -327,7 +327,33 @@ func (h *RegistryHandler) Register(c *gin.Context) {
 		}
 	}

-	agentCardStr := string(payload.AgentCard)
+	// Reconcile the runtime-supplied card's identity fields against the
+	// trusted workspaces row before storing. The runtime builds its card
+	// from config.name, which the CP-regenerated /configs/config.yaml
+	// sets to the workspace UUID — so without this the stored card
+	// served at /.well-known/agent-card.json and returned to peers via
+	// agent_card_url has name = UUID, description = "", role = null even
+	// though the operator-controlled workspaces.name holds the friendly
+	// name the canvas shows. We only FILL gaps from the DB (never
+	// downgrade a card that already carries a real name); identity stays
+	// platform-controlled — the agent cannot self-set these. Best-effort:
+	// a lookup failure leaves the card exactly as the runtime sent it
+	// (no-worse-than-before). See agent_card_reconcile.go.
+	reconciledCard := payload.AgentCard
+	{
+		var dbName, dbRole sql.NullString
+		if qErr := db.DB.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+			`SELECT name, role FROM workspaces WHERE id = $1`, payload.ID,
+		).Scan(&dbName, &dbRole); qErr == nil {
+			if rc, did := reconcileAgentCardIdentity(
+				payload.AgentCard, payload.ID, dbName.String, dbRole.String,
+			); did {
+				reconciledCard = rc
+				log.Printf("Registry register: reconciled agent_card identity for %s from workspaces row", payload.ID)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	agentCardStr := string(reconciledCard)

 	// urlForUpsert: poll-mode workspaces don't need a URL. Empty input
 	// becomes NULL via sql.NullString so the row's URL stays clean (the
@@ -413,10 +439,12 @@ func (h *RegistryHandler) Register(c *gin.Context) {
 		}
 	}

-	// Broadcast WORKSPACE_ONLINE
+	// Broadcast WORKSPACE_ONLINE — use the reconciled card so the canvas
+	// Agent Card view live-updates with the friendly name, matching what
+	// was just persisted (not the runtime's raw UUID-name card).
 	if err := h.broadcaster.RecordAndBroadcast(ctx, string(events.EventWorkspaceOnline), payload.ID, map[string]interface{}{
 		"url":           cachedURL,
-		"agent_card":    payload.AgentCard,
+		"agent_card":    reconciledCard,
 		"delivery_mode": effectiveMode,
 	}); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("Registry broadcast error: %v", err)
@@ -56,9 +56,11 @@ const (
 // (an externally routable address) is used directly.
 func (h *WorkspaceHandler) gracefulPreRestart(ctx context.Context, workspaceID string) {
 	// Non-blocking send — don't stall the restart cycle.
-	// Run in a detached goroutine so the caller (runRestartCycle) can
-	// proceed to stopForRestart without waiting.
-	go func() {
+	// Run in a tracked async goroutine (goAsync, not bare `go`) so the
+	// caller (runRestartCycle) can proceed to stopForRestart without
+	// waiting, while the test harness can still drain it before swapping
+	// the global db.DB (resolveAgentURLForRestartSignal reads db.DB).
+	h.goAsync(func() {
 		signalCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), restartSignalTimeout)
 		defer cancel()

@@ -109,7 +111,7 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) gracefulPreRestart(ctx context.Context, workspaceID s
 		} else {
 			log.Printf("A2AGracefulRestart: %s returned status %d — proceeding with stop", workspaceID, resp.StatusCode)
 		}
-	}()
+	})
 }

 // resolveAgentURLForRestartSignal returns the routable URL for the workspace
@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+package handlers
+
+// template_files_agent_home_stub_test.go — pins the Phase-1 stub
+// contract for the /agent-home root added by internal#425 RFC.
+//
+// Today (pre-Phase-2b), every Files API verb against `?root=/agent-home`
+// must return HTTP 501 with the canonical pending-message body. The
+// stub MUST NOT:
+//   1. Hit the DB (the workspace might not even exist yet from the
+//      canvas's POV — the root selector is testable without one).
+//   2. Touch the EIC tunnel / Docker / template-dir paths — those
+//      would 500/404/[] depending on the env and confuse the canvas.
+//   3. Accept writes/deletes that the future docker-exec backend
+//      would reject — fail closed.
+//
+// When Phase 2b lands, this file gets replaced by a real
+// docker-exec dispatch test; the stub-message constant in
+// templates.go disappears.
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+// TestAgentHomeAllowedRoot pins that /agent-home is in the allowedRoots
+// set. Without this, a future refactor that drops the key would
+// silently degrade the canvas root selector to a 400 instead of the
+// stub 501.
+func TestAgentHomeAllowedRoot(t *testing.T) {
+	if !allowedRoots["/agent-home"] {
+		t.Fatal("/agent-home must be in allowedRoots — RFC #425 contract")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestAgentHomeStub_AllVerbs_Return501 pins the canonical stub
+// response across all four verbs. Each must:
+//
+//   - status 501
+//   - body contains the canonical "/agent-home not implemented" prefix
+//   - NOT contain "workspace not found" (proves we short-circuit before
+//     the DB lookup)
+//
+// Driven as a table to keep symmetry — adding a fifth verb in the
+// future means adding one row here.
+func TestAgentHomeStub_AllVerbs_Return501(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name   string
+		method string
+		invoke func(c *gin.Context)
+	}{
+		{
+			name:   "ListFiles",
+			method: "GET",
+			invoke: func(c *gin.Context) { (&TemplatesHandler{}).ListFiles(c) },
+		},
+		{
+			name:   "ReadFile",
+			method: "GET",
+			invoke: func(c *gin.Context) { (&TemplatesHandler{}).ReadFile(c) },
+		},
+		{
+			name:   "WriteFile",
+			method: "PUT",
+			invoke: func(c *gin.Context) { (&TemplatesHandler{}).WriteFile(c) },
+		},
+		{
+			name:   "DeleteFile",
+			method: "DELETE",
+			invoke: func(c *gin.Context) { (&TemplatesHandler{}).DeleteFile(c) },
+		},
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+			c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
+			c.Params = gin.Params{
+				{Key: "id", Value: "ws-stub"},
+				// Path param without leading slash so DeleteFile's
+				// filepath.IsAbs guard doesn't 400 before the root
+				// dispatch runs. The List/Read/Write paths strip the
+				// leading slash themselves and accept either form.
+				{Key: "path", Value: "notes.md"},
+			}
+			// WriteFile binds JSON; provide a minimal valid body so the
+			// short-circuit isn't masked by the bind-error path.
+			var body string
+			if tc.method == "PUT" {
+				body = `{"content":"x"}`
+			}
+			c.Request = httptest.NewRequest(
+				tc.method,
+				"/workspaces/ws-stub/files/notes.md?root=/agent-home",
+				strings.NewReader(body),
+			)
+			if body != "" {
+				c.Request.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+			}
+
+			tc.invoke(c)
+
+			if w.Code != http.StatusNotImplemented {
+				t.Fatalf("expected 501, got %d: %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
+			}
+			if !strings.Contains(w.Body.String(), "/agent-home not implemented") {
+				t.Errorf("body should contain canonical stub message; got %s", w.Body.String())
+			}
+			if strings.Contains(w.Body.String(), "workspace not found") {
+				t.Errorf("stub leaked through to DB lookup; body=%s", w.Body.String())
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package handlers
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"os"
@@ -357,6 +358,28 @@ func writeFileViaEIC(ctx context.Context, instanceID, runtime, root, relPath str
 		var stderr bytes.Buffer
 		sshCmd.Stderr = &stderr
 		if err := sshCmd.Run(); err != nil {
+			// When the per-op context deadline (eicFileOpTimeout) fires,
+			// exec.CommandContext SIGKILLs the ssh subprocess and Run()
+			// returns the bare "signal: killed" with empty stderr. That
+			// surfaced to the canvas as an opaque
+			// `500 {"error":"ssh install: signal: killed ()"}` which gave
+			// the operator no idea the workspace was simply mid-provision
+			// with a slow/unready EIC tunnel (internal#423). Detect the
+			// deadline explicitly and return an actionable message instead
+			// — the EIC mechanism, timeout value, and success path are all
+			// unchanged; this only improves the error a stuck write emits.
+			if cerr := ctx.Err(); cerr != nil {
+				reason := "timed out after " + eicFileOpTimeout.String()
+				if errors.Is(cerr, context.Canceled) && !errors.Is(cerr, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
+					reason = "was cancelled"
+				}
+				return fmt.Errorf(
+					"ssh install: EIC tunnel to workspace %s — "+
+						"the workspace may still be provisioning (slow/unready SSH); "+
+						"retry once it is online, or apply provider credentials via "+
+						"Settings → Secrets (encrypted, does not use this file-write path)",
+					reason)
+			}
 			return fmt.Errorf("ssh install: %w (%s)", err, strings.TrimSpace(stderr.String()))
 		}
 		log.Printf("writeFileViaEIC: ws instance=%s runtime=%s root=%s wrote %d bytes → %s",
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+package handlers
+
+// template_files_eic_write_timeout_test.go — pins the actionable-error
+// behavior added for internal#423.
+//
+// When the per-op context deadline (eicFileOpTimeout) fires,
+// exec.CommandContext SIGKILLs the ssh subprocess and Run() returns the
+// bare "signal: killed" with empty stderr. Before the fix that surfaced
+// to the canvas as an opaque `500 {"error":"ssh install: signal:
+// killed ()"}` — useless to an operator whose workspace was simply
+// mid-provision with a slow/unready EIC tunnel. The fix detects the
+// deadline explicitly (errors.Is(ctx.Err(), context.DeadlineExceeded))
+// and returns a message that names the cause and the
+// Settings → Secrets workaround.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// TestWriteFileViaEIC_DeadlineExceeded_ActionableError stubs
+// withEICTunnel so the *real* inner closure runs against a context that
+// has already exceeded its deadline. The ssh subprocess fails (no real
+// sshd on the fake port) and ctx.Err() == DeadlineExceeded, so the new
+// branch must fire and produce an actionable message — NOT the opaque
+// "signal: killed ()" string the canvas used to show.
+func TestWriteFileViaEIC_DeadlineExceeded_ActionableError(t *testing.T) {
+	prev := withEICTunnel
+	withEICTunnel = func(_ context.Context, instanceID string, fn func(s eicSSHSession) error) error {
+		// Run the real inner closure. It closes over the ctx that
+		// writeFileViaEIC derived from our already-cancelled parent, so
+		// the ssh subprocess is killed immediately and ctx.Err()
+		// resolves — exactly the eicFileOpTimeout-expiry shape.
+		return fn(eicSSHSession{
+			instanceID: instanceID,
+			osUser:     "ubuntu",
+			localPort:  1, // nothing listening → ssh fails fast
+			keyPath:    "/nonexistent/key",
+		})
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { withEICTunnel = prev })
+
+	// Drive the real writeFileViaEIC. Pass a parent whose deadline has
+	// already passed: the context.WithTimeout(ctx, eicFileOpTimeout)
+	// derived inside writeFileViaEIC inherits the expired parent
+	// deadline, so ctx.Err() == context.DeadlineExceeded by the time
+	// the killed ssh subprocess returns — the exact production shape
+	// (eicFileOpTimeout expiry), exercised deterministically.
+	parent, cancel := context.WithDeadline(context.Background(), time.Now().Add(-time.Second))
+	defer cancel()
+
+	err := writeFileViaEIC(parent, "i-test", "claude-code", "/configs", "config.yaml", []byte("model: sonnet\n"))
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected an error from a killed ssh subprocess, got nil")
+	}
+	msg := err.Error()
+
+	// Must NOT leak the opaque bare-signal string to the operator.
+	if strings.Contains(msg, "signal: killed ()") {
+		t.Fatalf("error still surfaces the opaque %q form: %q", "signal: killed ()", msg)
+	}
+	// Must name the cause and the Secrets workaround so the canvas
+	// shows something actionable.
+	for _, want := range []string{"timed out", "provisioning", "Settings", "Secrets"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(msg, want) {
+			t.Errorf("actionable error missing %q; got: %q", want, msg)
+		}
+	}
+}
@@ -18,11 +18,35 @@ import (
 )

 // allowedRoots are the container paths that the Files API can browse.
+//
+// `/agent-home` (added 2026-05-15, internal#425 RFC) is the container's
+// own $HOME — `/root` for openclaw, `/home/agent` for claude-code/hermes
+// — browsed via `docker exec` rather than host-side `find`. The
+// dispatch is stubbed today (returns 501); full implementation lands in
+// Phase 2b of the RFC. The allowedRoots key is added now so the canvas
+// can design its root-selector UI against the final shape and the
+// stub-vs-full transition is server-side only.
 var allowedRoots = map[string]bool{
-	"/configs":   true,
-	"/workspace": true,
-	"/home":      true,
-	"/plugins":   true,
+	"/configs":    true,
+	"/workspace":  true,
+	"/home":       true,
+	"/plugins":    true,
+	"/agent-home": true,
+}
+
+// agentHomeStubMessage is the body returned by every Files API verb
+// when `?root=/agent-home` is requested before Phase 2b lands. Keep the
+// status code 501 (Not Implemented) — the route exists, the verb is
+// understood, but the handler is unimplemented. Distinguishes from
+// 400/404 so a canvas behind a less-current server can render a clean
+// "feature pending" state instead of a generic error.
+const agentHomeStubMessage = "/agent-home not implemented yet (internal#425 RFC Phase 2b — docker-exec backend pending)"
+
+// isAgentHomeStubRequest returns true when the request targets the
+// stubbed /agent-home root. Centralised so every verb in this file
+// short-circuits with the same response shape.
+func isAgentHomeStubRequest(rootPath string) bool {
+	return rootPath == "/agent-home"
 }

 // maxUploadFiles limits the number of files in a single import/replace.
@@ -219,7 +243,14 @@ func (h *TemplatesHandler) ListFiles(c *gin.Context) {
 	//   ?depth= — max depth to recurse (default: 1, max: 5)
 	rootPath := c.DefaultQuery("root", "/configs")
 	if !allowedRoots[rootPath] {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins"})
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins, /agent-home"})
+		return
+	}
+	// /agent-home dispatch is stubbed pre-Phase-2b. Short-circuit before
+	// the DB lookup + EIC dance so a canvas exercising the new root key
+	// gets a clean 501 instead of a half-effort response.
+	if isAgentHomeStubRequest(rootPath) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotImplemented, gin.H{"error": agentHomeStubMessage})
 		return
 	}
 	subPath := c.DefaultQuery("path", "")
@@ -383,7 +414,11 @@ func (h *TemplatesHandler) ReadFile(c *gin.Context) {
 	ctx := c.Request.Context()
 	rootPath := c.DefaultQuery("root", "/configs")
 	if !allowedRoots[rootPath] {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins"})
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins, /agent-home"})
+		return
+	}
+	if isAgentHomeStubRequest(rootPath) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotImplemented, gin.H{"error": agentHomeStubMessage})
 		return
 	}

@@ -496,7 +531,11 @@ func (h *TemplatesHandler) WriteFile(c *gin.Context) {
 	ctx := c.Request.Context()
 	rootPath := c.DefaultQuery("root", "/configs")
 	if !allowedRoots[rootPath] {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins"})
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins, /agent-home"})
+		return
+	}
+	if isAgentHomeStubRequest(rootPath) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotImplemented, gin.H{"error": agentHomeStubMessage})
 		return
 	}
 	var wsName, instanceID, runtime string
@@ -573,7 +612,11 @@ func (h *TemplatesHandler) DeleteFile(c *gin.Context) {
 	ctx := c.Request.Context()
 	rootPath := c.DefaultQuery("root", "/configs")
 	if !allowedRoots[rootPath] {
-		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins"})
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "root must be one of: /configs, /workspace, /home, /plugins, /agent-home"})
+		return
+	}
+	if isAgentHomeStubRequest(rootPath) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotImplemented, gin.H{"error": agentHomeStubMessage})
 		return
 	}
 	var wsName, instanceID, runtime string
@@ -10,8 +10,20 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/db"
 	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/wsauth"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
 )

+// validWorkspaceID returns true when id is a syntactically valid UUID.
+// workspace_id is a `uuid` column; passing a non-UUID (e.g. the canvas
+// "global" sentinel sent when no node is selected) makes Postgres raise
+// `invalid input syntax for type uuid`, which previously leaked as an
+// opaque 500. Reject up front with a clean 400 instead. Mirrors the
+// uuid.Parse guard already used in handlers/activity.go.
+func validWorkspaceID(id string) bool {
+	_, err := uuid.Parse(id)
+	return err == nil
+}
+
 // TokenHandler exposes user-facing token management for workspaces.
 // Routes: GET/POST/DELETE /workspaces/:id/tokens (behind WorkspaceAuth).
 type TokenHandler struct{}
@@ -31,6 +43,10 @@ type tokenListItem struct {
 // never the plaintext or hash).
 func (h *TokenHandler) List(c *gin.Context) {
 	workspaceID := c.Param("id")
+	if !validWorkspaceID(workspaceID) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid workspace id"})
+		return
+	}

 	limit := 50
 	if v := c.Query("limit"); v != "" {
@@ -53,6 +69,7 @@ func (h *TokenHandler) List(c *gin.Context) {
 		LIMIT $2 OFFSET $3
 	`, workspaceID, limit, offset)
 	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tokens: list query failed for workspace %s: %v", workspaceID, err)
 		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "failed to list tokens"})
 		return
 	}
@@ -85,6 +102,10 @@ const maxTokensPerWorkspace = 50
 // exactly once in the response — it cannot be recovered afterwards.
 func (h *TokenHandler) Create(c *gin.Context) {
 	workspaceID := c.Param("id")
+	if !validWorkspaceID(workspaceID) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid workspace id"})
+		return
+	}

 	// Rate limit: max active tokens per workspace
 	var count int
@@ -117,6 +138,10 @@ func (h *TokenHandler) Create(c *gin.Context) {
 func (h *TokenHandler) Revoke(c *gin.Context) {
 	workspaceID := c.Param("id")
 	tokenID := c.Param("tokenId")
+	if !validWorkspaceID(workspaceID) {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid workspace id"})
+		return
+	}

 	result, err := db.DB.ExecContext(c.Request.Context(), `
 		UPDATE workspace_auth_tokens
@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ import (

 func init() { gin.SetMode(gin.TestMode) }

+// Workspace IDs are validated as UUIDs up front (tokens.go validWorkspaceID),
+// so handler tests must pass syntactically valid UUIDs. Fixed values keep
+// sqlmock WithArgs assertions deterministic.
+const (
+	wsUUID1 = "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111"
+	wsUUID2 = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222"
+	wsUUID3 = "33333333-3333-3333-3333-333333333333"
+)
+
 // withMockDB swaps `db.DB` for a sqlmock and returns the mock plus a
 // restore func. Tests use this in place of setupTokenTestDB which
 // skips on a missing real DB.
@@ -81,13 +90,13 @@ func TestTokenHandler_List_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	created := time.Date(2026, 4, 1, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
 	last := created.Add(time.Hour)
 	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT id, prefix, created_at, last_used_at\s+FROM workspace_auth_tokens`).
-		WithArgs("ws-1", 50, 0).
+		WithArgs(wsUUID1, 50, 0).
 		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"id", "prefix", "created_at", "last_used_at"}).
 			AddRow("tok-1", "abc12345", created, last).
 			AddRow("tok-2", "def67890", created, nil))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().List, "GET",
-		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
 		t.Fatalf("expected 200, got %d: %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
@@ -121,7 +130,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_List_EmptyResult(t *testing.T) {
 		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"id", "prefix", "created_at", "last_used_at"}))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().List, "GET",
-		"/workspaces/ws-2/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-2"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-2/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID2}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
 		t.Fatalf("expected 200 on empty list, got %d", w.Code)
@@ -146,7 +155,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_List_QueryError(t *testing.T) {
 		WillReturnError(errors.New("connection refused"))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().List, "GET",
-		"/workspaces/ws-3/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-3"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-3/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID3}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusInternalServerError {
 		t.Errorf("query error must surface as 500, got %d", w.Code)
@@ -158,13 +167,13 @@ func TestTokenHandler_List_RespectsLimit(t *testing.T) {
 	defer cleanup()

 	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT id, prefix, created_at, last_used_at`).
-		WithArgs("ws-1", 10, 5).
+		WithArgs(wsUUID1, 10, 5).
 		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"id", "prefix", "created_at", "last_used_at"}))

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
 	c.Request = httptest.NewRequest("GET", "/workspaces/ws-1/tokens?limit=10&offset=5", nil)
-	c.Params = gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"}}
+	c.Params = gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1}}
 	NewTokenHandler().List(c)

 	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
@@ -186,7 +195,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_List_ScanError(t *testing.T) {
 			AddRow("tok-1", "abc", "not-a-timestamp", nil))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().List, "GET",
-		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusInternalServerError {
 		t.Errorf("scan error must surface as 500, got %d: %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
@@ -201,11 +210,11 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Create_RateLimited(t *testing.T) {

 	// Count query returns 50 (== max) → 429.
 	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT COUNT\(\*\) FROM workspace_auth_tokens`).
-		WithArgs("ws-1").
+		WithArgs(wsUUID1).
 		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"count"}).AddRow(50))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().Create, "POST",
-		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusTooManyRequests {
 		t.Errorf("max active tokens should 429, got %d", w.Code)
@@ -225,7 +234,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Create_IssueFails(t *testing.T) {
 		WillReturnError(errors.New("disk full"))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().Create, "POST",
-		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusInternalServerError {
 		t.Errorf("IssueToken DB error must 500, got %d", w.Code)
@@ -242,7 +251,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Create_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 		WillReturnResult(sqlmock.NewResult(1, 1))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().Create, "POST",
-		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"}})
+		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1}})

 	if w.Code != http.StatusCreated {
 		t.Fatalf("expected 201, got %d: %s", w.Code, w.Body.String())
@@ -257,7 +266,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Create_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	if body.AuthToken == "" {
 		t.Errorf("auth_token must be present and non-empty in response")
 	}
-	if body.WorkspaceID != "ws-1" {
+	if body.WorkspaceID != wsUUID1 {
 		t.Errorf("workspace_id mismatch: %q", body.WorkspaceID)
 	}
 }
@@ -269,12 +278,12 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Revoke_HappyPath(t *testing.T) {
 	defer cleanup()

 	mock.ExpectExec(`UPDATE workspace_auth_tokens\s+SET revoked_at = now\(\)`).
-		WithArgs("tok-1", "ws-1").
+		WithArgs("tok-1", wsUUID1).
 		WillReturnResult(sqlmock.NewResult(0, 1))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().Revoke, "DELETE",
 		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens/tok-1", gin.Params{
-			{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"},
+			{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1},
 			{Key: "tokenId", Value: "tok-1"},
 		})

@@ -289,12 +298,12 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Revoke_NotFound(t *testing.T) {

 	// 0 rows affected → token not found OR already revoked.
 	mock.ExpectExec(`UPDATE workspace_auth_tokens`).
-		WithArgs("tok-ghost", "ws-1").
+		WithArgs("tok-ghost", wsUUID1).
 		WillReturnResult(sqlmock.NewResult(0, 0))

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().Revoke, "DELETE",
 		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens/tok-ghost", gin.Params{
-			{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"},
+			{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1},
 			{Key: "tokenId", Value: "tok-ghost"},
 		})

@@ -312,7 +321,7 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Revoke_DBError(t *testing.T) {

 	w := makeReq(t, NewTokenHandler().Revoke, "DELETE",
 		"/workspaces/ws-1/tokens/tok-1", gin.Params{
-			{Key: "id", Value: "ws-1"},
+			{Key: "id", Value: wsUUID1},
 			{Key: "tokenId", Value: "tok-1"},
 		})

@@ -321,6 +330,59 @@ func TestTokenHandler_Revoke_DBError(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+// ---- UUID validation (regression: "global" sentinel 500) ------------
+
+// The canvas Settings → Workspace Tokens tab sent the literal sentinel
+// "global" as the workspace id when no node was selected. workspace_id
+// is a `uuid` column, so the query raised
+// `invalid input syntax for type uuid: "global"` which leaked as an
+// opaque 500. List/Create/Revoke now reject any non-UUID id with a
+// clean 400 before touching the DB. No DB expectation is set on the
+// mock — a DB hit would fail ExpectationsWereMet, proving short-circuit.
+func TestTokenHandler_RejectsNonUUIDWorkspaceID(t *testing.T) {
+	h := NewTokenHandler()
+	cases := []struct {
+		name   string
+		run    func(c *gin.Context)
+		method string
+		params gin.Params
+	}{
+		{"List", h.List, "GET", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "global"}}},
+		{"Create", h.Create, "POST", gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "global"}}},
+		{"Revoke", h.Revoke, "DELETE", gin.Params{
+			{Key: "id", Value: "global"},
+			{Key: "tokenId", Value: "tok-1"},
+		}},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			mock, cleanup := withMockDB(t)
+			defer cleanup()
+
+			w := makeReq(t, tc.run, tc.method,
+				"/workspaces/global/tokens", tc.params)
+
+			if w.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+				t.Fatalf("%s with non-UUID id must 400, got %d: %s",
+					tc.name, w.Code, w.Body.String())
+			}
+			var body struct {
+				Error string `json:"error"`
+			}
+			_ = json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &body)
+			if body.Error != "invalid workspace id" {
+				t.Errorf("%s: want error=%q, got %q",
+					tc.name, "invalid workspace id", body.Error)
+			}
+			// No query/exec was expected → if the handler hit the DB
+			// this fails, proving the guard short-circuits before SQL.
+			if err := mock.ExpectationsWereMet(); err != nil {
+				t.Errorf("%s leaked a DB call past the uuid guard: %v", tc.name, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 // Compile-time noise removal: the imports list pulls in the sql /
 // driver packages and the silenced ctx so a future scenario that
 // needs them doesn't have to re-add the import. Documented here so
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/db"
 	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/wsauth"
 	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+	"github.com/google/uuid"
 )

 func init() { gin.SetMode(gin.TestMode) }
@@ -167,11 +168,14 @@ func TestTokenHandler_RevokeWrongWorkspace(t *testing.T) {

 	h := NewTokenHandler()

-	// Try to revoke with a different workspace ID — should 404
+	// Try to revoke with a different (valid-UUID) workspace ID that does
+	// not own the token — should 404. A valid UUID is required so this
+	// exercises the ownership branch, not the up-front uuid-shape 400.
+	otherWS := uuid.NewString()
 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
-	c.Params = gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: "wrong-workspace-id"}, {Key: "tokenId", Value: tokenID}}
-	c.Request = httptest.NewRequest("DELETE", "/workspaces/wrong/tokens/"+tokenID, nil)
+	c.Params = gin.Params{{Key: "id", Value: otherWS}, {Key: "tokenId", Value: tokenID}}
+	c.Request = httptest.NewRequest("DELETE", "/workspaces/"+otherWS+"/tokens/"+tokenID, nil)
 	h.Revoke(c)

 	if w.Code != http.StatusNotFound {
@@ -80,6 +80,15 @@ type WorkspaceHandler struct {
 	asyncWG sync.WaitGroup
 }

+// newHandlerHook, when non-nil, is invoked for every WorkspaceHandler
+// created via NewWorkspaceHandler. It is nil in production (zero cost);
+// the test harness sets it so setupTestDB can drain every handler's
+// in-flight async goroutines before swapping the global db.DB. Without
+// this, a detached restart goroutine (maybeMarkContainerDead ->
+// goAsync(RestartByID) -> runRestartCycle reads db.DB) races the
+// db.DB restore in another test's t.Cleanup.
+var newHandlerHook func(*WorkspaceHandler)
+
 func (h *WorkspaceHandler) goAsync(fn func()) {
 	h.asyncWG.Add(1)
 	go func() {
@@ -108,6 +117,9 @@ func NewWorkspaceHandler(b events.EventEmitter, p *provisioner.Provisioner, plat
 	if p != nil {
 		h.provisioner = p
 	}
+	if newHandlerHook != nil {
+		newHandlerHook(h)
+	}
 	return h
 }

@@ -595,7 +607,7 @@ func scanWorkspaceRow(rows interface {
 	var id, name, role, status, url, sampleError, currentTask, runtime, workspaceDir string
 	var tier, activeTasks, maxConcurrentTasks, uptimeSeconds int
 	var errorRate, x, y float64
-	var collapsed bool
+	var collapsed, broadcastEnabled, talkToUserEnabled bool
 	var parentID *string
 	var agentCard []byte
 	var budgetLimit sql.NullInt64
@@ -604,7 +616,7 @@ func scanWorkspaceRow(rows interface {
 	err := rows.Scan(&id, &name, &role, &tier, &status, &agentCard, &url,
 		&parentID, &activeTasks, &maxConcurrentTasks, &errorRate, &sampleError, &uptimeSeconds,
 		&currentTask, &runtime, &workspaceDir, &x, &y, &collapsed,
-		&budgetLimit, &monthlySpend)
+		&budgetLimit, &monthlySpend, &broadcastEnabled, &talkToUserEnabled)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -628,6 +640,8 @@ func scanWorkspaceRow(rows interface {
 		"x":                    x,
 		"y":                    y,
 		"collapsed":            collapsed,
+		"broadcast_enabled":    broadcastEnabled,
+		"talk_to_user_enabled": talkToUserEnabled,
 	}

 	// budget_limit: nil when no limit set, int64 otherwise
@@ -663,7 +677,8 @@ const workspaceListQuery = `
 		   COALESCE(w.current_task, ''), COALESCE(w.runtime, 'langgraph'),
 		   COALESCE(w.workspace_dir, ''),
 		   COALESCE(cl.x, 0), COALESCE(cl.y, 0), COALESCE(cl.collapsed, false),
-		   w.budget_limit, COALESCE(w.monthly_spend, 0)
+		   w.budget_limit, COALESCE(w.monthly_spend, 0),
+		   w.broadcast_enabled, w.talk_to_user_enabled
 	FROM workspaces w
 	LEFT JOIN canvas_layouts cl ON cl.workspace_id = w.id
 	WHERE w.status != 'removed'
@@ -723,7 +738,8 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) Get(c *gin.Context) {
 			   COALESCE(w.current_task, ''), COALESCE(w.runtime, 'langgraph'),
 			   COALESCE(w.workspace_dir, ''),
 			   COALESCE(cl.x, 0), COALESCE(cl.y, 0), COALESCE(cl.collapsed, false),
-			   w.budget_limit, COALESCE(w.monthly_spend, 0)
+			   w.budget_limit, COALESCE(w.monthly_spend, 0),
+			   w.broadcast_enabled, w.talk_to_user_enabled
 		FROM workspaces w
 		LEFT JOIN canvas_layouts cl ON cl.workspace_id = w.id
 		WHERE w.id = $1
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+package handlers
+
+// workspace_abilities.go — PATCH /workspaces/:id/abilities
+//
+// Allows users and admin agents to toggle two workspace-level ability flags:
+//
+//   broadcast_enabled   — workspace may POST /broadcast to send org-wide messages
+//   talk_to_user_enabled — workspace may deliver canvas chat messages via
+//                          send_message_to_user / POST /notify
+//
+// Gated behind AdminAuth so workspace agents cannot self-modify their own
+// ability flags (that would let any agent grant itself broadcast rights or
+// suppress its own chat-silence constraint).
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+
+	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/db"
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+// AbilitiesPayload carries the subset of ability flags the caller wants to
+// update. Fields are pointers so that the handler can distinguish "caller
+// supplied false" from "caller omitted the field" (omitempty semantics).
+type AbilitiesPayload struct {
+	BroadcastEnabled   *bool `json:"broadcast_enabled"`
+	TalkToUserEnabled  *bool `json:"talk_to_user_enabled"`
+}
+
+// PatchAbilities handles PATCH /workspaces/:id/abilities (AdminAuth).
+func PatchAbilities(c *gin.Context) {
+	id := c.Param("id")
+	if err := validateWorkspaceID(id); err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid workspace ID"})
+		return
+	}
+
+	var body AbilitiesPayload
+	if err := c.ShouldBindJSON(&body); err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid request body"})
+		return
+	}
+	if body.BroadcastEnabled == nil && body.TalkToUserEnabled == nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "at least one ability field required"})
+		return
+	}
+
+	ctx := c.Request.Context()
+
+	var exists bool
+	if err := db.DB.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		`SELECT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM workspaces WHERE id = $1 AND status != 'removed')`, id,
+	).Scan(&exists); err != nil || !exists {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotFound, gin.H{"error": "workspace not found"})
+		return
+	}
+
+	if body.BroadcastEnabled != nil {
+		if _, err := db.DB.ExecContext(ctx,
+			`UPDATE workspaces SET broadcast_enabled = $2, updated_at = now() WHERE id = $1`,
+			id, *body.BroadcastEnabled,
+		); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("PatchAbilities broadcast_enabled for %s: %v", id, err)
+			c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "update failed"})
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	if body.TalkToUserEnabled != nil {
+		if _, err := db.DB.ExecContext(ctx,
+			`UPDATE workspaces SET talk_to_user_enabled = $2, updated_at = now() WHERE id = $1`,
+			id, *body.TalkToUserEnabled,
+		); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("PatchAbilities talk_to_user_enabled for %s: %v", id, err)
+			c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "update failed"})
+			return
+		}
+	}
+
+	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"status": "updated"})
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+package handlers
+
+// workspace_broadcast.go — POST /workspaces/:id/broadcast
+//
+// Allows a workspace with broadcast_enabled=true to send a message to every
+// non-removed agent workspace in the org.  The message is:
+//
+//   • Persisted in each recipient's activity_logs (type='broadcast_receive')
+//     so poll-mode agents pick it up via GET /activity.
+//   • Broadcast via WebSocket BROADCAST_MESSAGE event so canvas panels can
+//     show a real-time banner for each recipient workspace.
+//
+// The sender's own workspace logs a 'broadcast_sent' activity row for
+// traceability.
+//
+// Auth: WorkspaceAuth (the agent triggers this with its own bearer token).
+// The handler re-validates broadcast_enabled inside the DB lookup to prevent
+// TOCTOU — the middleware only proved the token is valid, not the ability.
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"strconv"
+
+	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/db"
+	"github.com/Molecule-AI/molecule-monorepo/platform/internal/events"
+	"github.com/gin-gonic/gin"
+)
+
+// BroadcastHandler is constructed once and shared across requests.
+type BroadcastHandler struct {
+	broadcaster *events.Broadcaster
+}
+
+// NewBroadcastHandler creates a BroadcastHandler.
+func NewBroadcastHandler(b *events.Broadcaster) *BroadcastHandler {
+	return &BroadcastHandler{broadcaster: b}
+}
+
+// Broadcast handles POST /workspaces/:id/broadcast.
+func (h *BroadcastHandler) Broadcast(c *gin.Context) {
+	senderID := c.Param("id")
+	if err := validateWorkspaceID(senderID); err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "invalid workspace ID"})
+		return
+	}
+
+	var body struct {
+		Message string `json:"message" binding:"required"`
+	}
+	if err := c.ShouldBindJSON(&body); err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusBadRequest, gin.H{"error": "message is required"})
+		return
+	}
+
+	ctx := c.Request.Context()
+
+	// Verify sender exists and has broadcast_enabled=true.
+	var senderName string
+	var broadcastEnabled bool
+	err := db.DB.QueryRowContext(ctx,
+		`SELECT name, broadcast_enabled FROM workspaces WHERE id = $1 AND status != 'removed'`,
+		senderID,
+	).Scan(&senderName, &broadcastEnabled)
+	if err != nil {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusNotFound, gin.H{"error": "workspace not found"})
+		return
+	}
+	if !broadcastEnabled {
+		c.JSON(http.StatusForbidden, gin.H{
+			"error": "broadcast_disabled",
+			"hint":  "This workspace does not have the broadcast ability. Ask a user or admin to enable it via PATCH /workspaces/:id/abilities.",
+		})
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Collect all non-removed agent workspaces (excludes the sender itself).
+	rows, err := db.DB.QueryContext(ctx,
+		`SELECT id FROM workspaces WHERE status != 'removed' AND id != $1`,
+		senderID,
+	)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Broadcast: recipient query failed for %s: %v", senderID, err)
+		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "internal error"})
+		return
+	}
+	defer rows.Close()
+
+	var recipientIDs []string
+	for rows.Next() {
+		var rid string
+		if rows.Scan(&rid) == nil {
+			recipientIDs = append(recipientIDs, rid)
+		}
+	}
+	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Broadcast: recipient rows error for %s: %v", senderID, err)
+		c.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, gin.H{"error": "internal error"})
+		return
+	}
+
+	broadcastPayload := map[string]interface{}{
+		"message":   body.Message,
+		"sender_id": senderID,
+		"sender":    senderName,
+	}
+
+	// Persist broadcast_receive in each recipient's activity log + emit WS event.
+	delivered := 0
+	for _, rid := range recipientIDs {
+		if _, err := db.DB.ExecContext(ctx, `
+			INSERT INTO activity_logs (workspace_id, activity_type, method, source_id, summary, status)
+			VALUES ($1, 'broadcast_receive', 'broadcast', $2, $3, 'ok')
+		`, rid, senderID, "Broadcast from "+senderName+": "+broadcastTruncate(body.Message, 120)); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("Broadcast: activity_logs insert for recipient %s: %v", rid, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		h.broadcaster.BroadcastOnly(rid, "BROADCAST_MESSAGE", broadcastPayload)
+		delivered++
+	}
+
+	// Record the send on the sender's own log.
+	if _, err := db.DB.ExecContext(ctx, `
+		INSERT INTO activity_logs (workspace_id, activity_type, method, summary, status)
+		VALUES ($1, 'broadcast_sent', 'broadcast', $2, 'ok')
+	`, senderID, "Broadcast sent to "+strconv.Itoa(delivered)+" workspace(s)"); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("Broadcast: sender activity_log for %s: %v", senderID, err)
+	}
+
+	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{
+		"status":    "sent",
+		"delivered": delivered,
+	})
+}
+
+func broadcastTruncate(s string, max int) string {
+	runes := []rune(s)
+	if len(runes) <= max {
+		return s
+	}
+	return string(runes[:max]) + "…"
+}
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ var wsColumns = []string{
 	"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 	"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 	"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+	"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 }

 // ==================== GET — financial fields stripped from open endpoint ====================
@@ -52,8 +53,10 @@ func TestWorkspaceBudget_Get_NilLimit(t *testing.T) {
 				[]byte(`{}`), "http://localhost:9001",
 				nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph", "",
 				0.0, 0.0, false,
-				nil, // budget_limit NULL
-				0))  // monthly_spend 0
+				nil,   // budget_limit NULL
+				0,     // monthly_spend 0
+				false, // broadcast_enabled
+				true)) // talk_to_user_enabled

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
@@ -96,7 +99,8 @@ func TestWorkspaceBudget_Get_WithLimit(t *testing.T) {
 				nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph", "",
 				0.0, 0.0, false,
 				int64(500),  // budget_limit = $5.00 in DB
-				int64(123))) // monthly_spend = $1.23 in DB
+				int64(123),  // monthly_spend = $1.23 in DB
+				false, true)) // broadcast_enabled, talk_to_user_enabled

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
@@ -237,10 +237,10 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) Restart(c *gin.Context) {
 	// the silent-drop bugs PRs #2811/#2824 closed). RestartWorkspaceAuto
 	// enforces CP-FIRST ordering matching the other dispatchers — see
 	// docs/architecture/backends.md.
-	go func() {
+	h.goAsync(func() {
 		h.RestartWorkspaceAutoOpts(context.Background(), id, templatePath, configFiles, payload, resetClaudeSession)
-	}()
-	go h.sendRestartContext(id, restartData)
+	})
+	h.goAsync(func() { h.sendRestartContext(id, restartData) })

 	c.JSON(http.StatusOK, gin.H{"status": "provisioning", "config_dir": configLabel, "reset_session": resetClaudeSession})
 }
@@ -610,7 +610,9 @@ func (h *WorkspaceHandler) runRestartCycle(workspaceID string) {
 	h.provisionWorkspaceAutoSync(workspaceID, "", nil, payload)
 	// sendRestartContext is a one-way notification to the new container; safe
 	// to fire async — the next restart cycle won't depend on it completing.
-	go h.sendRestartContext(workspaceID, restartData)
+	// Tracked via goAsync so the test harness can drain it before the
+	// global db.DB swap (sendRestartContext reads db.DB).
+	h.goAsync(func() { h.sendRestartContext(workspaceID, restartData) })
 }

 // Pause handles POST /workspaces/:id/pause
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_Success(t *testing.T) {
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WithArgs("cccccccc-0001-0000-0000-000000000000").
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_Success(t *testing.T) {
 			AddRow("cccccccc-0001-0000-0000-000000000000", "My Agent", "worker", 1, "online", []byte(`{"name":"test"}`),
 				"http://localhost:8001", nil, 2, 1, 0.05, "", 3600, "working", "langgraph",
 				"", 10.0, 20.0, false,
-				nil, 0))
+				nil, 0, false, true))

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
@@ -118,6 +119,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_RemovedReturns410(t *testing.T) {
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WithArgs(id).
@@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_RemovedReturns410(t *testing.T) {
 			AddRow(id, "Old Agent", "worker", 1, string(models.StatusRemoved), []byte(`null`),
 				"", nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph",
 				"", 0.0, 0.0, false,
-				nil, 0))
+				nil, 0, false, true))
 	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT updated_at FROM workspaces`).
 		WithArgs(id).
 		WillReturnRows(sqlmock.NewRows([]string{"updated_at"}).AddRow(removedAt))
@@ -181,6 +183,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_RemovedReturns410WithNullRemovedAtOnTimestampFetchFailure(
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WithArgs(id).
@@ -188,7 +191,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_RemovedReturns410WithNullRemovedAtOnTimestampFetchFailure(
 			AddRow(id, "Vanished", "worker", 1, string(models.StatusRemoved), []byte(`null`),
 				"", nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph",
 				"", 0.0, 0.0, false,
-				nil, 0))
+				nil, 0, false, true))
 	// Simulate the row vanishing between the two queries.
 	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT updated_at FROM workspaces`).
 		WithArgs(id).
@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_RemovedWithIncludeQueryReturns200(t *testing.T) {
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WithArgs(id).
@@ -250,7 +254,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_RemovedWithIncludeQueryReturns200(t *testing.T) {
 			AddRow(id, "Audit Agent", "worker", 1, string(models.StatusRemoved), []byte(`null`),
 				"", nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph",
 				"", 0.0, 0.0, false,
-				nil, 0))
+				nil, 0, false, true))
 	// last_outbound_at follow-up query (existing path)
 	mock.ExpectQuery(`SELECT last_outbound_at FROM workspaces`).
 		WithArgs(id).
@@ -676,6 +680,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceList_Empty(t *testing.T) {
 			"parent_id", "active_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 			"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 			"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 		}))

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
@@ -1379,6 +1384,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_FinancialFieldsStripped(t *testing.T) {
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	// Populate with non-zero financial values to confirm they are stripped.
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
@@ -1387,7 +1393,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_FinancialFieldsStripped(t *testing.T) {
 			AddRow("cccccccc-0010-0000-0000-000000000000", "Finance Test", "worker", 1, "online", []byte(`{}`),
 				"http://localhost:9001", nil, 0, 1, 0.0, "", 0, "", "langgraph",
 				"", 0.0, 0.0, false,
-				int64(50000), int64(12500))) // budget_limit=500 USD, spend=125 USD
+				int64(50000), int64(12500), false, true)) // budget_limit=500 USD, spend=125 USD

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
@@ -1435,6 +1441,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_SensitiveFieldsStripped(t *testing.T) {
 		"parent_id", "active_tasks", "max_concurrent_tasks", "last_error_rate", "last_sample_error",
 		"uptime_seconds", "current_task", "runtime", "workspace_dir", "x", "y", "collapsed",
 		"budget_limit", "monthly_spend",
+		"broadcast_enabled", "talk_to_user_enabled",
 	}
 	mock.ExpectQuery("SELECT w.id, w.name").
 		WithArgs("cccccccc-0955-0000-0000-000000000000").
@@ -1447,7 +1454,7 @@ func TestWorkspaceGet_SensitiveFieldsStripped(t *testing.T) {
 				"langgraph",
 				"/home/user/secret-projects/client-work",
 				0.0, 0.0, false,
-				nil, 0))
+				nil, 0, false, true))

 	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
 	c, _ := gin.CreateTestContext(w)
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ type Workspace struct {
 	// to activity_logs, agent reads via GET /activity?since_id=). See
 	// migration 045 + RFC #2339.
 	DeliveryMode       string          `json:"delivery_mode" db:"delivery_mode"`
+	// BroadcastEnabled: when true the workspace may call POST /broadcast to
+	// deliver a message to all non-removed agent workspaces in the org.
+	// Default false — only privileged orchestrators should hold this ability.
+	BroadcastEnabled   bool            `json:"broadcast_enabled" db:"broadcast_enabled"`
+	// TalkToUserEnabled: when false the workspace's send_message_to_user calls
+	// and POST /notify requests are rejected with HTTP 403 so the agent is
+	// forced to route updates through a parent workspace. Default true
+	// (preserves existing behaviour for all workspaces).
+	TalkToUserEnabled  bool            `json:"talk_to_user_enabled" db:"talk_to_user_enabled"`
 	// Canvas layout fields (from JOIN)
 	X         float64 `json:"x"`
 	Y         float64 `json:"y"`
@@ -178,12 +178,21 @@ func (p *CPProvisioner) Start(ctx context.Context, cfg WorkspaceConfig) (string,
 	// /admin/liveness and other admin-gated platform endpoints (core#831).
 	// p.adminToken is read from os.Getenv("ADMIN_TOKEN") at provisioner creation;
 	// it is also used for CP→platform HTTP auth but those are separate concerns.
-	env := cfg.EnvVars
-	if p.adminToken != "" {
-		env = make(map[string]string, len(cfg.EnvVars)+1)
-		for k, v := range cfg.EnvVars {
-			env[k] = v
+	//
+	// Forensic #145 hardening: tenant workspaces run on EC2 via this path, so
+	// the SCM-write-token denylist (see buildContainerEnv) is enforced here
+	// too. Always build a filtered copy — never pass cfg.EnvVars through
+	// verbatim — so a latent persona-merged GITEA_TOKEN can't reach the
+	// tenant container regardless of whether ADMIN_TOKEN is set.
+	env := make(map[string]string, len(cfg.EnvVars)+1)
+	for k, v := range cfg.EnvVars {
+		if isSCMWriteTokenKey(k) {
+			log.Printf("CPProvisioner.Start: dropped SCM-write credential %q from tenant workspace env (forensic #145 guard)", k)
+			continue
 		}
+		env[k] = v
+	}
+	if p.adminToken != "" {
 		env["ADMIN_TOKEN"] = p.adminToken
 	}
 	// Collect template files and generated configs, with OFFSEC-010 guards:
@@ -343,6 +352,7 @@ func collectCPConfigFiles(cfg WorkspaceConfig) (map[string]string, error) {
 	}
 	return files, nil
 }
+
 // Stop terminates the workspace's EC2 instance via the control plane.
 //
 // Looks up the actual EC2 instance_id from the workspaces table before
@@ -497,7 +507,9 @@ func (p *CPProvisioner) IsRunning(ctx context.Context, workspaceID string) (bool
 		// Don't leak the body — upstream errors may echo headers.
 		return true, fmt.Errorf("cp provisioner: status: unexpected %d", resp.StatusCode)
 	}
-	var result struct{ State string `json:"state"` }
+	var result struct {
+		State string `json:"state"`
+	}
 	// Cap body read at 64 KiB for parity with Start — a misconfigured
 	// or compromised CP streaming a huge body could otherwise exhaust
 	// memory in this hot path (called reactively per-request from
@@ -591,6 +591,28 @@ func ValidateWorkspaceAccess(access, workspacePath string) error {
 	}
 }

+// scmWriteTokenKeys is the explicit denylist of environment variable names
+// that carry a Git SCM *write* credential (push / merge / approve). These
+// must never reach a tenant workspace container — see the forensic #145
+// rationale in buildContainerEnv. Kept as an exact-match set rather than a
+// substring/prefix heuristic so the guard is auditable and can't silently
+// over-strip a legitimately-named var.
+var scmWriteTokenKeys = map[string]struct{}{
+	"GITEA_TOKEN":     {},
+	"GITHUB_TOKEN":    {},
+	"GH_TOKEN":        {}, // gh CLI honours GH_TOKEN as a GITHUB_TOKEN alias
+	"GITLAB_TOKEN":    {},
+	"GL_TOKEN":        {}, // glab CLI alias
+	"BITBUCKET_TOKEN": {},
+}
+
+// isSCMWriteTokenKey reports whether an env var name is a known Git SCM
+// write credential that must be stripped from tenant workspace env.
+func isSCMWriteTokenKey(key string) bool {
+	_, ok := scmWriteTokenKeys[key]
+	return ok
+}
+
 // buildContainerEnv assembles the initial environment variables injected
 // into every workspace container.
 //
@@ -627,6 +649,21 @@ func buildContainerEnv(cfg WorkspaceConfig) []string {
 		env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("AWARENESS_URL=%s", cfg.AwarenessURL))
 	}
 	for k, v := range cfg.EnvVars {
+		// Forensic #145 hardening: tenant workspace containers run
+		// agent-controlled code and must NEVER receive a Git SCM *write*
+		// credential. Without merge/approve creds in-container the
+		// two-eyes review gate is structurally self-bypass-proof — an
+		// agent that forges an approval has no token to act on it. A
+		// latent path exists (loadPersonaEnvFile merges a per-role
+		// persona `GITEA_TOKEN` into cfg.EnvVars when MOLECULE_PERSONA_ROOT
+		// is set on a tenant host); it is inert today (persona dirs are
+		// operator-host-only) but unguarded. Strip SCM-write tokens here
+		// by construction so the invariant holds regardless of whether
+		// that path ever becomes reachable.
+		if isSCMWriteTokenKey(k) {
+			log.Printf("buildContainerEnv: dropped SCM-write credential %q from workspace env (forensic #145 guard)", k)
+			continue
+		}
 		env = append(env, fmt.Sprintf("%s=%s", k, v))
 	}
 	// Inject ADMIN_TOKEN from the platform server's environment so workspace
@@ -636,10 +636,15 @@ func TestBuildContainerEnv_AwarenessOnlyWhenBothSet(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestBuildContainerEnv_CustomEnvVarsAppended(t *testing.T) {
+	// NOTE: this test previously asserted GITHUB_TOKEN passed through
+	// verbatim. That assertion encoded the forensic #145 latent leak as
+	// expected behavior. Post-guard, ordinary custom env still flows but
+	// SCM-write credentials are stripped — see
+	// TestBuildContainerEnv_StripsSCMWriteTokens for the negative assertion.
 	cfg := WorkspaceConfig{
 		WorkspaceID: "ws-x",
 		PlatformURL: "http://localhost:8080",
-		EnvVars:     map[string]string{"CUSTOM": "value", "GITHUB_TOKEN": "fake-token-for-test"},
+		EnvVars:     map[string]string{"CUSTOM": "value", "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "sk-not-an-scm-token"},
 	}
 	env := buildContainerEnv(cfg)
 	seen := map[string]string{}
@@ -652,8 +657,8 @@ func TestBuildContainerEnv_CustomEnvVarsAppended(t *testing.T) {
 	if seen["CUSTOM"] != "value" {
 		t.Errorf("CUSTOM env missing, got env=%v", env)
 	}
-	if seen["GITHUB_TOKEN"] != "fake-token-for-test" {
-		t.Errorf("GITHUB_TOKEN env missing, got env=%v", env)
+	if seen["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] != "sk-not-an-scm-token" {
+		t.Errorf("non-SCM custom env must still pass through, got env=%v", env)
 	}
 	// Built-in defaults still present
 	if seen["MOLECULE_URL"] == "" {
@@ -661,6 +666,129 @@ func TestBuildContainerEnv_CustomEnvVarsAppended(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

+// ---------- forensic #145: SCM-write-token denylist guard ----------
+
+// TestBuildContainerEnv_StripsSCMWriteTokens is the core negative
+// assertion: a tenant workspace env constructed via buildContainerEnv MUST
+// NOT contain any Git SCM *write* credential, regardless of how it got into
+// cfg.EnvVars. This proves the two-eyes review gate stays structurally
+// self-bypass-proof — an agent in-container has no merge/approve token to
+// act on a forged approval. See forensic #145.
+//
+// This test FAILS on the pre-guard code (where buildContainerEnv passed
+// cfg.EnvVars through verbatim) and PASSES once the denylist filter is in
+// place — i.e. the guard is proven by construction, not by environment
+// accident.
+func TestBuildContainerEnv_StripsSCMWriteTokens(t *testing.T) {
+	scmTokens := []string{
+		"GITEA_TOKEN", "GITHUB_TOKEN", "GH_TOKEN",
+		"GITLAB_TOKEN", "GL_TOKEN", "BITBUCKET_TOKEN",
+	}
+
+	t.Run("normal path — SCM tokens explicitly set in EnvVars", func(t *testing.T) {
+		envVars := map[string]string{"CUSTOM": "ok", "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "sk-keep"}
+		for _, k := range scmTokens {
+			envVars[k] = "leaked-write-credential-" + k
+		}
+		cfg := WorkspaceConfig{
+			WorkspaceID: "ws-tenant",
+			PlatformURL: "http://localhost:8080",
+			Tier:        2,
+			EnvVars:     envVars,
+		}
+		assertNoSCMWriteToken(t, buildContainerEnv(cfg), scmTokens)
+
+		// Sanity: non-SCM custom env is NOT collateral-damaged by the filter.
+		if !envContains(buildContainerEnv(cfg), "CUSTOM=ok") {
+			t.Errorf("filter must not strip non-SCM custom env")
+		}
+		if !envContains(buildContainerEnv(cfg), "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-keep") {
+			t.Errorf("filter must not strip non-SCM API keys")
+		}
+	})
+
+	t.Run("persona-file path — simulates loadPersonaEnvFile merge", func(t *testing.T) {
+		// The latent path: handlers.loadPersonaEnvFile() merges a per-role
+		// persona env file (carrying GITEA_USER, GITEA_TOKEN, …) into the
+		// workspace env map when MOLECULE_PERSONA_ROOT is set on a tenant
+		// host. We can't invoke that cross-package helper here, but its
+		// observable effect is exactly "a GITEA_TOKEN appears in
+		// cfg.EnvVars". Constructing that condition directly proves the
+		// guard holds even if the latent path becomes reachable.
+		cfg := WorkspaceConfig{
+			WorkspaceID: "ws-tenant",
+			PlatformURL: "http://localhost:8080",
+			Tier:        2,
+			EnvVars: map[string]string{
+				// Persona identity fields that are SAFE to keep (read-only
+				// identity, not a write credential):
+				"GITEA_USER":       "backend-engineer",
+				"GITEA_USER_EMAIL": "backend-engineer@agents.moleculesai.app",
+				// The credential that must be stripped:
+				"GITEA_TOKEN":        "persona-merged-write-pat",
+				"GITEA_TOKEN_SCOPES": "write:repository",
+			},
+		}
+		got := buildContainerEnv(cfg)
+		assertNoSCMWriteToken(t, got, scmTokens)
+		// Non-credential persona identity may still flow through — only the
+		// write token is the denied surface.
+		if !envContains(got, "GITEA_USER=backend-engineer") {
+			t.Errorf("non-credential persona identity (GITEA_USER) should not be stripped")
+		}
+	})
+}
+
+// TestCPProvisionerEnv_StripsSCMWriteTokens covers the tenant-EC2 path:
+// CPProvisioner.Start builds the env map the control plane forwards to the
+// EC2 workspace container. The same forensic #145 denylist must hold there.
+func TestCPProvisionerEnv_StripsSCMWriteTokens(t *testing.T) {
+	// isSCMWriteTokenKey is the single source of truth shared by both
+	// buildContainerEnv (local Docker) and CPProvisioner.Start (tenant EC2).
+	// Assert it classifies every known SCM-write var as denied and leaves
+	// ordinary / read-only-identity vars alone.
+	for _, k := range []string{
+		"GITEA_TOKEN", "GITHUB_TOKEN", "GH_TOKEN",
+		"GITLAB_TOKEN", "GL_TOKEN", "BITBUCKET_TOKEN",
+	} {
+		if !isSCMWriteTokenKey(k) {
+			t.Errorf("isSCMWriteTokenKey(%q) = false, want true (SCM-write credential must be denied)", k)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, k := range []string{
+		"GITEA_USER", "GITEA_USER_EMAIL", "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY",
+		"CUSTOM", "PLATFORM_URL", "ADMIN_TOKEN", "",
+	} {
+		if isSCMWriteTokenKey(k) {
+			t.Errorf("isSCMWriteTokenKey(%q) = true, want false (must not over-strip non-SCM env)", k)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func assertNoSCMWriteToken(t *testing.T, env []string, scmTokens []string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	for _, e := range env {
+		key := e
+		if i := strings.IndexByte(e, '='); i >= 0 {
+			key = e[:i]
+		}
+		for _, banned := range scmTokens {
+			if key == banned {
+				t.Errorf("SCM-write credential %q leaked into workspace env (forensic #145 invariant violated): %q", banned, e)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func envContains(env []string, want string) bool {
+	for _, e := range env {
+		if e == want {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // ---------- buildWorkspaceMount — #65 workspace_access ----------

 func TestBuildWorkspaceMount_SelectionMatrix(t *testing.T) {
@@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ func Setup(hub *ws.Hub, broadcaster *events.Broadcaster, prov *provisioner.Provi
 		wsAdmin.GET("/workspaces", wh.List)
 		wsAdmin.POST("/workspaces", wh.Create)
 		wsAdmin.DELETE("/workspaces/:id", wh.Delete)
+		// Ability toggles — admin-only so workspace agents cannot self-modify
+		// broadcast_enabled or talk_to_user_enabled.
+		wsAdmin.PATCH("/workspaces/:id/abilities", handlers.PatchAbilities)
 		// Out-of-band bootstrap signal: CP's watcher POSTs here when it
 		// detects "RUNTIME CRASHED" in a workspace EC2 console output,
 		// so the canvas flips to failed in seconds instead of waiting
@@ -201,6 +204,12 @@ func Setup(hub *ws.Hub, broadcaster *events.Broadcaster, prov *provisioner.Provi
 		// to 'hibernated'. The workspace auto-wakes on the next A2A message.
 		wsAuth.POST("/hibernate", wh.Hibernate)

+		// Broadcast — send a message to all non-removed workspaces in the org.
+		// Requires broadcast_enabled=true on the source workspace (checked
+		// inside the handler). WorkspaceAuth on wsAuth proves token ownership.
+		broadcastH := handlers.NewBroadcastHandler(broadcaster)
+		wsAuth.POST("/broadcast", broadcastH.Broadcast)
+
 		// External-workspace credential lifecycle (issue #319 follow-up to
 		// the Create flow). Both endpoints reject runtime ≠ external with
 		// 400 — see external_rotate.go for the rationale.
@@ -0,0 +1,226 @@
+// Package secrets provides the canonical SSOT for credential-shaped
+// regex patterns used by:
+//
+//   - the CI `Secret scan` workflow (.gitea/workflows/secret-scan.yml)
+//   - the runtime's bundled pre-commit hook
+//     (molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/scripts/pre-commit-checks.sh)
+//   - the upcoming Phase 2b docker-exec Files API backend, which has
+//     to refuse to surface files whose path OR content matches a
+//     credential shape (RFC internal#425, Hongming 2026-05-15)
+//
+// Before this package, the same regex set lived as duplicate bash
+// arrays in two unrelated repos; adding a pattern required editing
+// both, and pattern drift was caught only via secret-scan workflow
+// failures on PRs that had unrelated changes (#2090-class incident
+// vector). Centralising in Go makes the Files API the SSOT, with the
+// YAML + bash arrays generated/asserted from this package so drift
+// is detected at CI time, not at exfiltration time.
+//
+// This file is Phase 2a of the internal#425 RFC. Phase 2b will import
+// `Patterns` from `template_files_docker_exec.go` to gate
+// `listFilesViaDockerExec` / `readFileViaDockerExec` against
+// secret-shaped paths AND content. Until 2b lands, the package has
+// one consumer: this package's own unit tests, which pin the regex
+// strings so a refactor that drops or weakens one is caught here.
+package secrets
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+// Pattern is one named credential shape — a human label plus the
+// compiled regex. The label appears in CI error output ("matched:
+// github-pat") so an operator can identify the family without seeing
+// the actual matched bytes (echoing the bytes widens the blast radius
+// per the secret-scan workflow's recovery prose).
+type Pattern struct {
+	// Name is a short kebab-case identifier (e.g. "github-pat",
+	// "anthropic-api-key"). Stable across versions — consumers may
+	// switch on it.
+	Name string
+	// Description is a one-line human-readable explanation of what
+	// the pattern matches. Used in CI error messages and the Files
+	// API "<denied: secret-shape>" placeholder rationale.
+	Description string
+	// regexSource is the regex literal in Go-RE2 syntax. Stored as a
+	// string so the slice declaration below stays readable; compiled
+	// once via sync.Once into a *regexp.Regexp.
+	regexSource string
+}
+
+// Patterns is the canonical credential-shape regex set.
+//
+// Adding a pattern here:
+//
+//  1. Add a new Pattern{} entry below with a kebab-case Name, a
+//     one-line Description, and the regex literal. Anchor on a
+//     low-false-positive prefix.
+//  2. Add a positive + negative test case in patterns_test.go.
+//  3. Mirror the regex string into:
+//     a. .gitea/workflows/secret-scan.yml SECRET_PATTERNS array
+//     b. molecule-ai-workspace-runtime/molecule_runtime/scripts/pre-commit-checks.sh
+//     (or wait for the codegen target that consumes this slice — TBD
+//     follow-up; tracked in the Phase 2a PR description.)
+//
+// The order is: alphabetical within each provider family, families
+// grouped by ecosystem (GitHub family, AI-provider family, chat
+// family, cloud family). Keep this stable so diffs are reviewable.
+var Patterns = []Pattern{
+	// --- GitHub token family ---
+	{
+		Name:        "github-pat-classic",
+		Description: "GitHub personal access token (classic)",
+		regexSource: `ghp_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "github-app-installation-token",
+		Description: "GitHub App installation token (#2090 vector)",
+		regexSource: `ghs_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "github-oauth-user-to-server",
+		Description: "GitHub OAuth user-to-server token",
+		regexSource: `gho_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "github-oauth-user",
+		Description: "GitHub OAuth user token",
+		regexSource: `ghu_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "github-oauth-refresh",
+		Description: "GitHub OAuth refresh token",
+		regexSource: `ghr_[A-Za-z0-9]{36,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "github-pat-fine-grained",
+		Description: "GitHub fine-grained personal access token",
+		regexSource: `github_pat_[A-Za-z0-9_]{82,}`,
+	},
+
+	// --- AI-provider API key family ---
+	{
+		Name:        "anthropic-api-key",
+		Description: "Anthropic API key",
+		regexSource: `sk-ant-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{40,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "openai-project-key",
+		Description: "OpenAI project API key",
+		regexSource: `sk-proj-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{40,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "openai-service-account-key",
+		Description: "OpenAI service-account API key",
+		regexSource: `sk-svcacct-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{40,}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "minimax-api-key",
+		Description: "MiniMax API key (F1088 vector)",
+		regexSource: `sk-cp-[A-Za-z0-9_-]{60,}`,
+	},
+
+	// --- Chat-platform token family ---
+	{
+		Name:        "slack-token",
+		Description: "Slack token (xoxb/xoxa/xoxp/xoxr/xoxs)",
+		regexSource: `xox[baprs]-[A-Za-z0-9-]{20,}`,
+	},
+
+	// --- Cloud-provider credential family ---
+	{
+		Name:        "aws-access-key-id",
+		Description: "AWS access key ID",
+		regexSource: `AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}`,
+	},
+	{
+		Name:        "aws-sts-temp-access-key-id",
+		Description: "AWS STS temporary access key ID",
+		regexSource: `ASIA[0-9A-Z]{16}`,
+	},
+}
+
+// compiledOnce protects the lazy build of compiledPatterns. We compile
+// lazily so package init is cheap; callers pay only on first match
+// (typically once per workspace-server boot).
+var (
+	compiledOnce     sync.Once
+	compiledPatterns []*compiledPattern
+	compileErr       error
+)
+
+type compiledPattern struct {
+	Name        string
+	Description string
+	Re          *regexp.Regexp
+}
+
+// compileAll compiles every Pattern.regexSource into a *regexp.Regexp.
+// Called once via compiledOnce. Any compile failure here is a build
+// bug (the unit tests assert each regex compiles) — surfacing via
+// returned error so callers don't panic in request handling.
+func compileAll() {
+	out := make([]*compiledPattern, 0, len(Patterns))
+	for _, p := range Patterns {
+		re, err := regexp.Compile(p.regexSource)
+		if err != nil {
+			compileErr = fmt.Errorf("secrets: pattern %q failed to compile: %w", p.Name, err)
+			return
+		}
+		out = append(out, &compiledPattern{Name: p.Name, Description: p.Description, Re: re})
+	}
+	compiledPatterns = out
+}
+
+// ScanBytes returns a non-nil Match if any pattern matches anywhere
+// inside b. Returns (nil, nil) on no match. Returns (nil, err) only
+// if a regex in the package fails to compile — that's a build bug,
+// not a runtime data issue.
+//
+// Match contains the pattern Name + Description so the caller can
+// emit a path-or-content-denial rationale WITHOUT round-tripping the
+// matched bytes (which would defeat the purpose). The matched bytes
+// stay inside this function.
+//
+// The Files API Phase 2b backend will call ScanBytes on:
+//
+//   - the absolute path string (catches a file literally named
+//     `ghs_abc.txt`)
+//   - the file content (catches a credential pasted into a workspace
+//     file by an agent or user — the Files API refuses to surface it
+//     and the canvas renders "<denied: secret-shape>")
+//
+// Ordering: patterns are tried in declaration order. First match
+// wins. This means narrower patterns (e.g. `sk-svcacct-…`) should
+// appear in `Patterns` before broader ones (`sk-…`) — today there's
+// no overlap, so order is descriptive only.
+func ScanBytes(b []byte) (*Match, error) {
+	compiledOnce.Do(compileAll)
+	if compileErr != nil {
+		return nil, compileErr
+	}
+	for _, cp := range compiledPatterns {
+		if cp.Re.Match(b) {
+			return &Match{Name: cp.Name, Description: cp.Description}, nil
+		}
+	}
+	return nil, nil
+}
+
+// ScanString is the string-input convenience wrapper around ScanBytes.
+// Identical semantics — the body never copies, []byte(s) is a
+// zero-copy reinterpret for the regex matcher.
+func ScanString(s string) (*Match, error) {
+	return ScanBytes([]byte(s))
+}
+
+// Match describes which pattern caught a value. Deliberately does
+// NOT include the matched substring — callers must not echo it.
+type Match struct {
+	// Name is the pattern's kebab-case identifier (e.g. "github-pat-classic").
+	Name string
+	// Description is the human-readable line for UI / log surfaces.
+	Description string
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+package secrets
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// TestEveryPatternCompiles pins that every Pattern.regexSource is a
+// valid Go-RE2 expression. Without this, a bad regex would silently
+// disable ScanBytes for everything after it (the lazy compile would
+// set compileErr and ScanBytes would return that error every call).
+func TestEveryPatternCompiles(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, p := range Patterns {
+		if p.Name == "" {
+			t.Errorf("pattern with empty Name: regex=%q", p.regexSource)
+		}
+		if p.Description == "" {
+			t.Errorf("pattern %q has empty Description", p.Name)
+		}
+	}
+	// Force compile + check error.
+	if _, err := ScanBytes([]byte("placeholder")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ScanBytes init failed: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNoDuplicateNames — a duplicate pattern Name would make the
+// "first match wins" semantics surprising to readers and any caller
+// switching on Match.Name (none today but adding the guard is cheap).
+func TestNoDuplicateNames(t *testing.T) {
+	seen := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, p := range Patterns {
+		if seen[p.Name] {
+			t.Errorf("duplicate pattern Name: %q", p.Name)
+		}
+		seen[p.Name] = true
+	}
+}
+
+// TestKnownPatternsAllPresent — pins which specific Name values are
+// expected. A future refactor that renames or removes one without
+// updating consumers (CI workflow, runtime pre-commit hook, Files
+// API Phase 2b backend) would silently widen the leak surface.
+// Failing here forces the rename to be intentional.
+func TestKnownPatternsAllPresent(t *testing.T) {
+	expected := []string{
+		"github-pat-classic",
+		"github-app-installation-token",
+		"github-oauth-user-to-server",
+		"github-oauth-user",
+		"github-oauth-refresh",
+		"github-pat-fine-grained",
+		"anthropic-api-key",
+		"openai-project-key",
+		"openai-service-account-key",
+		"minimax-api-key",
+		"slack-token",
+		"aws-access-key-id",
+		"aws-sts-temp-access-key-id",
+	}
+	got := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, p := range Patterns {
+		got[p.Name] = true
+	}
+	for _, want := range expected {
+		if !got[want] {
+			t.Errorf("expected pattern %q missing from Patterns slice", want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestPositiveMatches — for each pattern, supply a representative
+// shape and assert ScanBytes returns a Match with the right Name.
+// These are TEST FIXTURES, not real credentials — each is the
+// pattern's prefix + a long-enough trailing run of placeholder chars.
+// `EXAMPLE` is sprinkled in to make grep-finds in CI logs obviously
+// fake to a human reader (matches saved memory
+// feedback_assert_exact_not_substring: tighten by Name not body).
+func TestPositiveMatches(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		fixture      string
+		expectedName string
+	}{
+		{"ghp_EXAMPLE111122223333444455556666777788889999", "github-pat-classic"},
+		{"ghs_EXAMPLE111122223333444455556666777788889999", "github-app-installation-token"},
+		{"gho_EXAMPLE111122223333444455556666777788889999", "github-oauth-user-to-server"},
+		{"ghu_EXAMPLE111122223333444455556666777788889999", "github-oauth-user"},
+		{"ghr_EXAMPLE111122223333444455556666777788889999", "github-oauth-refresh"},
+		{"github_pat_EXAMPLE" + strings.Repeat("1", 80), "github-pat-fine-grained"},
+		{"sk-ant-EXAMPLE" + strings.Repeat("1", 40), "anthropic-api-key"},
+		{"sk-proj-EXAMPLE" + strings.Repeat("1", 40), "openai-project-key"},
+		{"sk-svcacct-EXAMPLE" + strings.Repeat("1", 40), "openai-service-account-key"},
+		{"sk-cp-EXAMPLE" + strings.Repeat("1", 60), "minimax-api-key"},
+		{"xoxb-" + strings.Repeat("a", 25), "slack-token"},
+		{"xoxa-" + strings.Repeat("a", 25), "slack-token"},
+		// AWS regex requires [0-9A-Z]{16} — uppercase + digits only.
+		{"AKIA1234567890ABCDEF", "aws-access-key-id"},
+		{"ASIA1234567890ABCDEF", "aws-sts-temp-access-key-id"},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.expectedName, func(t *testing.T) {
+			m, err := ScanBytes([]byte(tc.fixture))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("ScanBytes(%q) errored: %v", tc.fixture, err)
+			}
+			if m == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("ScanBytes(%q) returned no match — expected %q", tc.fixture, tc.expectedName)
+			}
+			if m.Name != tc.expectedName {
+				t.Errorf("ScanBytes(%q) matched %q; expected %q", tc.fixture, m.Name, tc.expectedName)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNegativeShapes — strings that look credential-adjacent but
+// shouldn't match (too short, wrong prefix, missing trailing bytes).
+// Failing here means a pattern is too loose, which would generate
+// false-positive denial in Files API and false-positive workflow
+// failures in CI.
+func TestNegativeShapes(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []string{
+		// Too-short variants — anchored on the length suffix.
+		"ghp_tooshort",
+		"ghs_alsoshort1234",
+		"github_pat_short",
+		"sk-ant-short",
+		"sk-cp-not-enough-bytes-here",
+		// Looks like one of the prefixes but isn't (different letter).
+		"gha_EXAMPLE_thirty_six_or_more_chars_here_xxx",
+		// Slack family — wrong letter after xox.
+		"xoxz-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
+		// AWS-shaped but wrong length suffix.
+		"AKIATOOSHORT",
+		// Empty / whitespace.
+		"",
+		"   ",
+		// Plain prose mentioning the prefix as part of a longer word.
+		"see also `ghp_HOWTO.md` in the repo",
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		t.Run(c, func(t *testing.T) {
+			m, err := ScanBytes([]byte(c))
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("ScanBytes(%q) errored: %v", c, err)
+			}
+			if m != nil {
+				t.Errorf("ScanBytes(%q) unexpectedly matched %q", c, m.Name)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestScanString_NoOp — sanity-check ScanString is the zero-copy
+// wrapper around ScanBytes. Without this, a future refactor that
+// makes ScanString do its own thing (e.g. accidentally normalise
+// case) would diverge silently.
+func TestScanString_NoOp(t *testing.T) {
+	in := "ghp_EXAMPLE111122223333444455556666777788889999"
+	m1, err1 := ScanBytes([]byte(in))
+	if err1 != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ScanBytes errored: %v", err1)
+	}
+	m2, err2 := ScanString(in)
+	if err2 != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("ScanString errored: %v", err2)
+	}
+	if m1 == nil || m2 == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("expected matches; got bytes=%+v string=%+v", m1, m2)
+	}
+	if m1.Name != m2.Name {
+		t.Errorf("ScanString and ScanBytes returned different Names: %q vs %q", m1.Name, m2.Name)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestMatch_NoRoundtrip — assert the Match struct does NOT include
+// the matched substring as a field. Adding such a field would
+// regress the "matched bytes never leave ScanBytes" invariant that
+// makes this package safe to call from log/UI surfaces. This is a
+// reflection-light contract test — checks the field names statically.
+func TestMatch_NoRoundtrip(t *testing.T) {
+	var m Match
+	// If someone adds a `Matched string` (or similar) field, this
+	// test reads as the canonical place to update + reconsider.
+	_ = m.Name
+	_ = m.Description
+	// The two-field shape is part of the public contract; new fields
+	// require deliberation about whether they leak the secret value.
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ALTER TABLE workspaces
+    DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS broadcast_enabled,
+    DROP COLUMN IF EXISTS talk_to_user_enabled;
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+-- Workspace abilities: opt-in flags that gate platform-level behaviours.
+--
+-- broadcast_enabled (default FALSE): when TRUE the workspace may call
+--   POST /workspaces/:id/broadcast to send a message to every non-removed
+--   agent workspace in the org. Off by default — only privileged
+--   orchestrator workspaces should hold this ability.
+--
+-- talk_to_user_enabled (default TRUE): when FALSE the workspace is not
+--   allowed to deliver messages to the canvas user via send_message_to_user /
+--   POST /notify. The platform returns HTTP 403 so the agent can forward its
+--   update to a parent workspace instead. Default TRUE preserves existing
+--   behaviour for all current workspaces.
+
+ALTER TABLE workspaces
+    ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS broadcast_enabled    BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE,
+    ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS talk_to_user_enabled BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT TRUE;
@@ -29,17 +29,20 @@ from typing import Callable
 import inbox

 from a2a_tools import (
+    tool_broadcast_message,
    tool_chat_history,
    tool_check_task_status,
    tool_commit_memory,
    tool_delegate_task,
    tool_delegate_task_async,
+    tool_get_runtime_identity,
    tool_get_workspace_info,
    tool_inbox_peek,
    tool_inbox_pop,
    tool_list_peers,
    tool_recall_memory,
    tool_send_message_to_user,
+    tool_update_agent_card,
    tool_wait_for_message,
 )
 from platform_tools.registry import TOOLS as _PLATFORM_TOOL_SPECS
@@ -129,6 +132,10 @@ async def handle_tool_call(name: str, arguments: dict) -> str:
        return await tool_get_workspace_info(
            source_workspace_id=arguments.get("source_workspace_id") or None,
        )
+    elif name == "get_runtime_identity":
+        return await tool_get_runtime_identity()
+    elif name == "update_agent_card":
+        return await tool_update_agent_card(arguments.get("card"))
    elif name == "commit_memory":
        return await tool_commit_memory(
            arguments.get("content", ""),
@@ -160,6 +167,11 @@ async def handle_tool_call(name: str, arguments: dict) -> str:
            arguments.get("before_ts", ""),
            source_workspace_id=arguments.get("source_workspace_id") or None,
        )
+    elif name == "broadcast_message":
+        return await tool_broadcast_message(
+            arguments.get("message", ""),
+            workspace_id=arguments.get("workspace_id") or None,
+        )
    return f"Unknown tool: {name}"


@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ from a2a_tools_delegation import (  # noqa: E402  (import after the from-a2a_cli
 # identically.
 from a2a_tools_messaging import (  # noqa: E402  (import after the top-of-module imports)
    _upload_chat_files,
+    tool_broadcast_message,
    tool_chat_history,
    tool_get_workspace_info,
    tool_list_peers,
@@ -166,3 +167,15 @@ from a2a_tools_inbox import (  # noqa: E402  (import after the top-of-module imp
    tool_inbox_pop,
    tool_wait_for_message,
 )
+
+
+# Identity tool handlers — extracted to a2a_tools_identity. Ports the
+# two T4-tier MCP tools (``tool_get_runtime_identity`` +
+# ``tool_update_agent_card``) from molecule-ai-workspace-runtime PR#17.
+# That repo is mirror-only (reference_runtime_repo_is_mirror_only);
+# this is the canonical edit point, and the wheel mirror is
+# regenerated by publish-runtime.yml on merge.
+from a2a_tools_identity import (  # noqa: E402  (import after the top-of-module imports)
+    tool_get_runtime_identity,
+    tool_update_agent_card,
+)
@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+"""Identity tool handlers — single-concern slice of the a2a_tools surface.
+
+Owns the two MCP tools that close the T4-tier workspace owner-permission
+gaps reported via the canvas:
+
+  * ``tool_get_runtime_identity`` — env-only; returns model, model_provider,
+    molecule_model, anthropic_base_url, tier, workspace_id, runtime
+    (ADAPTER_MODULE). No HTTP call. Always permitted by RBAC — even
+    read-only agents may know what model they are.
+
+  * ``tool_update_agent_card`` — POSTs the card to ``/registry/update-card``
+    with the workspace's own bearer (same auth path as ``tool_commit_memory``
+    via ``a2a_tools_rbac.auth_headers_for_heartbeat``). The platform
+    replaces the stored card and broadcasts an ``agent_card_updated``
+    event so the canvas reflects the new card live. Gated on
+    ``memory.write`` capability via the existing RBAC permission map so
+    read-only roles can't silently rewrite the platform card.
+
+Both originated as a port of molecule-ai-workspace-runtime PR#17
+(``feat(mcp): add update_agent_card + get_runtime_identity tools``).
+The mirror-only PR#17 was closed without merge per
+``reference_runtime_repo_is_mirror_only``; the canonical edit point is
+this monorepo at ``workspace/`` and the wheel mirror is regenerated
+automatically by the publish-runtime workflow.
+
+Imports the auth-header primitive from ``a2a_tools_rbac`` (iter 4a) —
+NOT from ``a2a_tools`` — to avoid a circular import with the
+kitchen-sink re-export module.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+from typing import Any
+
+import httpx
+
+from a2a_client import PLATFORM_URL
+from a2a_tools_rbac import (
+    auth_headers_for_heartbeat as _auth_headers_for_heartbeat,
+    check_memory_write_permission as _check_memory_write_permission,
+)
+
+
+def _runtime_identity_payload() -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Build the identity dict — env-only, no I/O.
+
+    Factored out from ``tool_get_runtime_identity`` so tests can assert
+    against the exact key set without re-parsing JSON. The MCP tool
+    handler ``tool_get_runtime_identity`` is the only public caller in
+    production; tests call this helper directly.
+    """
+    return {
+        "model": os.environ.get("MODEL", ""),
+        "model_provider": os.environ.get("MODEL_PROVIDER", ""),
+        "molecule_model": os.environ.get("MOLECULE_MODEL", ""),
+        "anthropic_base_url": os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL", ""),
+        "tier": os.environ.get("TIER", ""),
+        "workspace_id": os.environ.get("WORKSPACE_ID", ""),
+        # Adapter module is the closest thing the runtime has to a
+        # "template slug" — e.g. "adapter" for claude-code-default,
+        # "hermes" for hermes-template, etc. Picked from
+        # $ADAPTER_MODULE env baked by each template's Dockerfile.
+        "runtime": os.environ.get("ADAPTER_MODULE", ""),
+    }
+
+
+async def tool_get_runtime_identity() -> str:
+    """Return this runtime's identity — model, provider, tier, IDs.
+
+    Env-only; no HTTP call. Useful so the agent can answer "what model
+    am I?" correctly instead of guessing from a stale system prompt
+    that the operator may have changed between boots.
+
+    Returns the identity as a JSON-encoded string (the dispatch contract
+    every MCP tool in this module follows). Tests that want to assert
+    individual fields can call ``_runtime_identity_payload()`` directly,
+    or ``json.loads`` the return value.
+
+    Always permitted by RBAC — there is no sensitive information here
+    that isn't already available to the process via ``os.environ``.
+    The point of the tool is to surface those env values to the agent
+    layer in a stable, documented shape rather than expecting every
+    agent runtime to know to ``echo $MODEL``.
+    """
+    return json.dumps(_runtime_identity_payload(), indent=2)
+
+
+async def tool_update_agent_card(card: Any) -> str:
+    """Update this workspace's agent_card on the platform.
+
+    POSTs the provided card to ``/registry/update-card`` with the
+    workspace's own bearer token (same auth path as ``tool_commit_memory``
+    and ``tool_get_workspace_info``). The platform validates required
+    fields server-side, replaces the stored card, and broadcasts an
+    ``agent_card_updated`` event so the canvas updates live.
+
+    Args:
+        card: A JSON-serialisable object (typically a dict) holding the
+            new card. The platform validates required fields server-side.
+
+    Returns:
+        JSON-encoded string. Body:
+          - ``{"success": true, "status": "updated"}`` on success;
+          - ``{"success": false, "error": "<msg>", "status_code": <int>}``
+            on platform error;
+          - ``{"success": false, "error": "<reason>"}`` on local validation
+            (non-dict card, missing WORKSPACE_ID, network error).
+
+    Permission gate: this tool requires the ``memory.write`` RBAC
+    capability — same gate as ``tool_commit_memory``. The check runs
+    inline rather than at the dispatcher layer to keep ``a2a_mcp_server``
+    permission-agnostic (the gate sits with the implementation, not the
+    transport). Read-only roles get a clear error string back instead
+    of a 403 from the platform.
+
+    We re-check ``isinstance(card, dict)`` here defensively rather than
+    trust the MCP schema validator alone — the schema only constrains
+    the transport, not the in-process call surface used by tests and
+    sibling modules.
+    """
+    payload = await _update_agent_card_impl(card)
+    return json.dumps(payload, indent=2)
+
+
+async def _update_agent_card_impl(card: Any) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Dict-returning core of ``tool_update_agent_card``.
+
+    Split out so tests can assert against the raw dict shape (status
+    codes, error messages) without re-parsing JSON on every assertion.
+    The string-returning ``tool_update_agent_card`` is a thin wrapper
+    invoked by the MCP dispatcher.
+    """
+    # RBAC: require memory.write permission. Same gate as
+    # tool_commit_memory (the agent already needs this capability to
+    # persist anything outbound). Read-only roles can still call
+    # get_runtime_identity / get_workspace_info to introspect — those
+    # are env-only / read-only and have no inline gate.
+    if not _check_memory_write_permission():
+        return {
+            "success": False,
+            "error": (
+                "RBAC — this workspace does not have the 'memory.write' "
+                "permission required to update the agent_card."
+            ),
+        }
+    if not isinstance(card, dict):
+        return {
+            "success": False,
+            "error": "card must be a JSON object (dict)",
+        }
+    ws_id = os.environ.get("WORKSPACE_ID", "")
+    if not ws_id:
+        return {
+            "success": False,
+            "error": "WORKSPACE_ID env not set; cannot identify caller",
+        }
+    try:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=10.0) as client:
+            resp = await client.post(
+                f"{PLATFORM_URL}/registry/update-card",
+                json={"workspace_id": ws_id, "agent_card": card},
+                headers=_auth_headers_for_heartbeat(),
+            )
+            if resp.status_code == 200:
+                body: dict[str, Any] = {}
+                try:
+                    body = resp.json()
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+                return {
+                    "success": True,
+                    "status": body.get("status", "updated"),
+                }
+            # Non-200 — surface what the platform returned.
+            error_msg = ""
+            try:
+                error_msg = resp.json().get("error", "") or resp.text
+            except Exception:
+                error_msg = resp.text
+            return {
+                "success": False,
+                "status_code": resp.status_code,
+                "error": error_msg,
+            }
+    except Exception as e:
+        return {"success": False, "error": f"network error: {e}"}
@@ -101,6 +101,50 @@ async def _upload_chat_files(
    return uploaded, None


+async def tool_broadcast_message(
+    message: str,
+    workspace_id: str | None = None,
+) -> str:
+    """Send a broadcast message to ALL agent workspaces in the org.
+
+    Requires the workspace to have broadcast_enabled=true (set by a user or
+    admin via PATCH /workspaces/:id/abilities). Use for urgent org-wide
+    signals — status changes, critical alerts, coordination instructions.
+    Every non-removed workspace receives the message in its activity log so
+    poll-mode agents pick it up, and push-mode canvases get a real-time
+    BROADCAST_MESSAGE WebSocket event.
+
+    Args:
+        message: The broadcast text. Keep it concise — all agents receive
+            this, so avoid lengthy prose that floods every context.
+        workspace_id: Optional. Which registered workspace to send the
+            broadcast from. Single-workspace agents omit this.
+    """
+    if not message:
+        return "Error: message is required"
+    target_workspace_id = (workspace_id or "").strip() or WORKSPACE_ID
+    try:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(timeout=30.0) as client:
+            resp = await client.post(
+                f"{PLATFORM_URL}/workspaces/{target_workspace_id}/broadcast",
+                json={"message": message},
+                headers=_auth_headers_for_heartbeat(target_workspace_id),
+            )
+            if resp.status_code == 200:
+                data = resp.json()
+                delivered = data.get("delivered", "?")
+                return f"Broadcast sent to {delivered} workspace(s)"
+            if resp.status_code == 403:
+                try:
+                    hint = resp.json().get("hint", "")
+                except Exception:
+                    hint = ""
+                return f"Error: broadcast ability not enabled.{(' ' + hint) if hint else ''}"
+            return f"Error: platform returned {resp.status_code}"
+    except Exception as e:
+        return f"Error sending broadcast: {e}"
+
+
 async def tool_send_message_to_user(
    message: str,
    attachments: list[str] | None = None,
@@ -151,6 +195,20 @@ async def tool_send_message_to_user(
                if uploaded:
                    return f"Message sent to user with {len(uploaded)} attachment(s)"
                return "Message sent to user"
+            if resp.status_code == 403:
+                try:
+                    body = resp.json()
+                    if body.get("error") == "talk_to_user_disabled":
+                        hint = body.get("hint", "")
+                        return (
+                            "Error: this workspace is not allowed to send messages "
+                            "directly to the user (talk_to_user is disabled). "
+                            + (hint + " " if hint else "")
+                            + "Use delegate_task to forward your update to a parent "
+                            "or supervisor workspace that can reach the user."
+                        )
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
            return f"Error: platform returned {resp.status_code}"
    except Exception as e:
        return f"Error sending message: {e}"
@@ -340,6 +340,20 @@ _CLI_A2A_COMMAND_KEYWORDS: dict[str, str | None] = {
    "delegate_task_async": "delegate --async",
    "check_task_status": "status",
    "get_workspace_info": "info",
+    # `get_runtime_identity` + `update_agent_card` are MCP-first
+    # capabilities — the CLI subprocess interface doesn't expose them
+    # today. `get_runtime_identity` is env-only and an agent on a
+    # CLI-only runtime can already `echo $MODEL` etc, so there's no
+    # functional gap. `update_agent_card` requires a JSON object
+    # argument that wouldn't survive a positional-arg shell invocation
+    # cleanly. Mapped to None — flip to a keyword if a2a_cli grows
+    # `identity` / `card` subcommands in the future.
+    "get_runtime_identity": None,
+    "update_agent_card": None,
+    # `broadcast_message` is not exposed via the CLI subprocess interface
+    # today — it's an MCP-first capability. If a2a_cli grows a `broadcast`
+    # subcommand, map it here and the alignment test will gate the change.
+    "broadcast_message": None,
    # `send_message_to_user` is not exposed via the CLI subprocess
    # interface today — it requires a structured `attachments` field
    # that wouldn't survive a positional-arg shell invocation cleanly.
@@ -51,17 +51,20 @@ from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import Any, Literal

 from a2a_tools import (
+    tool_broadcast_message,
    tool_chat_history,
    tool_check_task_status,
    tool_commit_memory,
    tool_delegate_task,
    tool_delegate_task_async,
+    tool_get_runtime_identity,
    tool_get_workspace_info,
    tool_inbox_peek,
    tool_inbox_pop,
    tool_list_peers,
    tool_recall_memory,
    tool_send_message_to_user,
+    tool_update_agent_card,
    tool_wait_for_message,
 )

@@ -288,6 +291,99 @@ _GET_WORKSPACE_INFO = ToolSpec(
    section=A2A_SECTION,
 )

+_GET_RUNTIME_IDENTITY = ToolSpec(
+    name="get_runtime_identity",
+    short=(
+        "Return this runtime's identity — model, model_provider, tier, "
+        "workspace_id, runtime template. Reads from process env; no HTTP call."
+    ),
+    when_to_use=(
+        "Use this to answer 'what model am I?' truthfully instead of "
+        "guessing from a stale system prompt — the operator may have "
+        "routed you to a different model via persona env between boots. "
+        "Always permitted by RBAC: even read-only agents may know what "
+        "model they are. Distinct from get_workspace_info — that one "
+        "calls the platform for ID/role/tier/parent (workspace metadata); "
+        "this one returns the live process env (MODEL, MODEL_PROVIDER, "
+        "MOLECULE_MODEL, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, TIER, WORKSPACE_ID, "
+        "ADAPTER_MODULE)."
+    ),
+    input_schema={"type": "object", "properties": {}},
+    impl=tool_get_runtime_identity,
+    section=A2A_SECTION,
+)
+
+_UPDATE_AGENT_CARD = ToolSpec(
+    name="update_agent_card",
+    short=(
+        "Replace this workspace's agent_card on the platform. The "
+        "platform validates required fields and broadcasts an "
+        "agent_card_updated event so the canvas reflects the change live."
+    ),
+    when_to_use=(
+        "Use when the workspace's capabilities, skills, description, or "
+        "name change and the canvas display needs to follow. The "
+        "platform stores the new card and pushes an "
+        "``agent_card_updated`` event to subscribers. Gated behind the "
+        "``memory.write`` RBAC capability — read-only roles cannot "
+        "rewrite the card. Tier-1+ owners always have this capability."
+    ),
+    input_schema={
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+            "card": {
+                "type": "object",
+                "description": (
+                    "The new agent_card object (name, version, "
+                    "description, skills, etc). Server-side validation "
+                    "rejects payloads missing required fields."
+                ),
+            },
+        },
+        "required": ["card"],
+    },
+    impl=tool_update_agent_card,
+    section=A2A_SECTION,
+)
+
+_BROADCAST_MESSAGE = ToolSpec(
+    name="broadcast_message",
+    short=(
+        "Send a message to ALL agent workspaces in the org simultaneously. "
+        "Requires broadcast_enabled=true on this workspace (set by user/admin)."
+    ),
+    when_to_use=(
+        "Use for urgent, org-wide signals: critical status changes, emergency "
+        "stop instructions, coordinated task announcements. Every non-removed "
+        "workspace receives the message in its activity log (poll-mode agents "
+        "see it on their next poll; push-mode canvases get a real-time banner). "
+        "This tool returns an error if broadcast_enabled is false — a user or "
+        "admin must enable it via the workspace abilities settings first."
+    ),
+    input_schema={
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+            "message": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": (
+                    "The broadcast text. Keep it concise — every agent in the "
+                    "org receives this in their activity feed."
+                ),
+            },
+            "workspace_id": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": (
+                    "Optional. Multi-workspace mode: the registered workspace "
+                    "to broadcast from. Single-workspace agents omit this."
+                ),
+            },
+        },
+        "required": ["message"],
+    },
+    impl=tool_broadcast_message,
+    section=A2A_SECTION,
+)
+
 _SEND_MESSAGE_TO_USER = ToolSpec(
    name="send_message_to_user",
    short=(
@@ -603,6 +699,9 @@ TOOLS: list[ToolSpec] = [
    _CHECK_TASK_STATUS,
    _LIST_PEERS,
    _GET_WORKSPACE_INFO,
+    _GET_RUNTIME_IDENTITY,
+    _UPDATE_AGENT_CARD,
+    _BROADCAST_MESSAGE,
    _SEND_MESSAGE_TO_USER,
    # Inbox (standalone-only; in-container returns informational error)
    _WAIT_FOR_MESSAGE,
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 - **check_task_status**: Poll the status of a task started with delegate_task_async; returns result when done.
 - **list_peers**: List the workspaces this agent can communicate with — name, ID, status, role for each.
 - **get_workspace_info**: Get this workspace's own info — ID, name, role, tier, parent, status.
+- **get_runtime_identity**: Return this runtime's identity — model, model_provider, tier, workspace_id, runtime template. Reads from process env; no HTTP call.
+- **update_agent_card**: Replace this workspace's agent_card on the platform. The platform validates required fields and broadcasts an agent_card_updated event so the canvas reflects the change live.
+- **broadcast_message**: Send a message to ALL agent workspaces in the org simultaneously. Requires broadcast_enabled=true on this workspace (set by user/admin).
 - **send_message_to_user**: Send a message directly to the user's canvas chat — pushed instantly via WebSocket. Use this to: (1) acknowledge a task immediately ('Got it, I'll start working on this'), (2) send interim progress updates while doing long work, (3) deliver follow-up results after delegation completes, (4) attach files (zip, pdf, csv, image) for the user to download via the `attachments` field (NEVER paste file URLs in `message`). The message appears in the user's chat as if you're proactively reaching out.
 - **wait_for_message**: Block until the next inbound message (canvas user OR peer agent) arrives, or until ``timeout_secs`` elapses.
 - **inbox_peek**: List pending inbound messages without removing them.
@@ -26,6 +29,15 @@ Call this first when you need to delegate but don't know the target's ID. Access
 ### get_workspace_info
 Use to introspect your own identity (e.g. before reporting back to the user, or to determine whether you're a tier-0 root that can write GLOBAL memory).

+### get_runtime_identity
+Use this to answer 'what model am I?' truthfully instead of guessing from a stale system prompt — the operator may have routed you to a different model via persona env between boots. Always permitted by RBAC: even read-only agents may know what model they are. Distinct from get_workspace_info — that one calls the platform for ID/role/tier/parent (workspace metadata); this one returns the live process env (MODEL, MODEL_PROVIDER, MOLECULE_MODEL, ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL, TIER, WORKSPACE_ID, ADAPTER_MODULE).
+
+### update_agent_card
+Use when the workspace's capabilities, skills, description, or name change and the canvas display needs to follow. The platform stores the new card and pushes an ``agent_card_updated`` event to subscribers. Gated behind the ``memory.write`` RBAC capability — read-only roles cannot rewrite the card. Tier-1+ owners always have this capability.
+
+### broadcast_message
+Use for urgent, org-wide signals: critical status changes, emergency stop instructions, coordinated task announcements. Every non-removed workspace receives the message in its activity log (poll-mode agents see it on their next poll; push-mode canvases get a real-time banner). This tool returns an error if broadcast_enabled is false — a user or admin must enable it via the workspace abilities settings first.
+
 ### send_message_to_user
 Use proactively across the lifecycle of a task — early to acknowledge, mid-flight to update, late to deliver. Never paste file URLs in the message body — always pass absolute paths in `attachments` so the platform serves them as download chips (works on SaaS where external file hosts are unreachable).

@@ -0,0 +1,390 @@
+"""Tests for ``tool_get_runtime_identity`` and ``tool_update_agent_card``.
+
+These two MCP tools close the T4-tier workspace owner-permission gaps
+reported via the canvas:
+
+  - the agent could not update its own ``agent_card`` (no MCP tool
+    wrapped the existing ``POST /registry/update-card`` endpoint);
+  - the agent could not identify which model it was running (the
+    ``MODEL`` env var is injected by ``provisioner.workspace_provision``
+    but nothing surfaced it back to the agent).
+
+Ported from molecule-ai-workspace-runtime PR#17 (mirror-only repo;
+canonical edit point per ``reference_runtime_repo_is_mirror_only``).
+Adapted to core's conventions:
+
+  * tool functions return ``str`` (JSON-encoded), matching every other
+    tool in ``a2a_tools_*`` modules. Tests ``json.loads`` to inspect.
+  * permission check ``memory.write`` runs inline in
+    ``tool_update_agent_card`` (same pattern as
+    ``a2a_tools_memory.tool_commit_memory``).
+  * ``WORKSPACE_ID`` is read directly from ``os.environ`` — core does
+    not have the runtime's validated-cache layer (``molecule_runtime.
+    builtin_tools.validation``).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+
+import pytest
+
+
+# --- Drift gate: re-export aliases on a2a_tools ------------------------------
+
+class TestBackCompatAliases:
+    """Pin that ``a2a_tools.tool_*`` resolves to the same callable as
+    ``a2a_tools_identity.tool_*``. Refactor wrapping (e.g. a doc-string
+    wrapper that loses the function identity) silently breaks call
+    sites that ``patch("a2a_tools.tool_update_agent_card", ...)`` —
+    this gate makes that drift fail fast."""
+
+    def test_tool_get_runtime_identity_alias(self):
+        import a2a_tools
+        import a2a_tools_identity
+        assert a2a_tools.tool_get_runtime_identity is a2a_tools_identity.tool_get_runtime_identity
+
+    def test_tool_update_agent_card_alias(self):
+        import a2a_tools
+        import a2a_tools_identity
+        assert a2a_tools.tool_update_agent_card is a2a_tools_identity.tool_update_agent_card
+
+
+# --- tool_get_runtime_identity ----------------------------------------------
+
+class TestGetRuntimeIdentity:
+    """The tool returns env-derived runtime identity. No HTTP call."""
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_returns_all_known_env_fields(self, monkeypatch):
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_get_runtime_identity
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MODEL", "claude-opus-4-7")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MODEL_PROVIDER", "anthropic")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("TIER", "T4")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("WORKSPACE_ID", "ws-abc")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("ADAPTER_MODULE", "adapter")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MOLECULE_MODEL", "claude-opus-4-7")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL", "https://api.anthropic.com")
+
+        out = await tool_get_runtime_identity()
+        # MCP tools return JSON-encoded strings (matches the contract
+        # every other tool_* in a2a_tools_* uses).
+        assert isinstance(out, str)
+        parsed = json.loads(out)
+
+        assert parsed["model"] == "claude-opus-4-7"
+        assert parsed["model_provider"] == "anthropic"
+        assert parsed["tier"] == "T4"
+        assert parsed["workspace_id"] == "ws-abc"
+        assert parsed["runtime"] == "adapter"
+        assert parsed["molecule_model"] == "claude-opus-4-7"
+        assert parsed["anthropic_base_url"] == "https://api.anthropic.com"
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_missing_env_returns_empty_strings(self, monkeypatch):
+        """Tool MUST NOT raise when env vars are absent — every key is
+        present but the value is the empty string. The agent then knows
+        the slot exists but is unset."""
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_get_runtime_identity
+
+        for var in (
+            "MODEL", "MODEL_PROVIDER", "TIER", "WORKSPACE_ID",
+            "ADAPTER_MODULE", "MOLECULE_MODEL", "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL",
+        ):
+            monkeypatch.delenv(var, raising=False)
+
+        parsed = json.loads(await tool_get_runtime_identity())
+        assert parsed["model"] == ""
+        assert parsed["model_provider"] == ""
+        assert parsed["tier"] == ""
+        assert parsed["workspace_id"] == ""
+        assert parsed["runtime"] == ""
+        assert parsed["molecule_model"] == ""
+        assert parsed["anthropic_base_url"] == ""
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_no_http_call_made(self, monkeypatch):
+        """``get_runtime_identity`` is env-only — must not open
+        httpx.AsyncClient even if the call would otherwise succeed.
+        Tripwire any client construction."""
+        import httpx
+
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_get_runtime_identity
+
+        class _Tripwire:
+            def __init__(self, *_a, **_kw):
+                raise AssertionError(
+                    "tool_get_runtime_identity must not open httpx.AsyncClient"
+                )
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(httpx, "AsyncClient", _Tripwire)
+        # Must not raise.
+        await tool_get_runtime_identity()
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_helper_dict_matches_string_payload(self, monkeypatch):
+        """``_runtime_identity_payload`` is the dict-returning helper
+        used by both the public tool and tests. Verify the public tool
+        json.dumps the same dict — no field is dropped or renamed by
+        the encoding step."""
+        from a2a_tools_identity import (
+            _runtime_identity_payload,
+            tool_get_runtime_identity,
+        )
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("MODEL", "claude-opus-4-7")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("TIER", "T4")
+        monkeypatch.setenv("WORKSPACE_ID", "ws-helper-check")
+
+        helper = _runtime_identity_payload()
+        tool_str = await tool_get_runtime_identity()
+        assert json.loads(tool_str) == helper
+
+
+# --- tool_update_agent_card -------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class _MockResponse:
+    def __init__(self, status_code: int, payload: dict):
+        self.status_code = status_code
+        self._payload = payload
+        self.text = json.dumps(payload)
+
+    def json(self):
+        return self._payload
+
+
+class _MockClient:
+    """Drop-in for httpx.AsyncClient context manager.
+
+    Records the URL + json body + headers the tool POSTed so the test
+    can assert against them. Returns the canned _MockResponse passed
+    in at construction time.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *, response: _MockResponse, captured: dict):
+        self._response = response
+        self._captured = captured
+
+    async def __aenter__(self):
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, *_args):
+        return False
+
+    async def post(self, url, *, json=None, headers=None, **_kw):  # noqa: A002
+        self._captured["url"] = url
+        self._captured["json"] = json
+        self._captured["headers"] = headers
+        return self._response
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def _grant_memory_write(monkeypatch):
+    """Force the inline RBAC gate inside ``tool_update_agent_card`` to
+    succeed. The gate calls
+    ``a2a_tools_rbac.check_memory_write_permission`` which inspects
+    ``$MOLECULE_ROLES`` / the role table; the patch sidesteps that
+    machinery so tests can focus on the platform-call shape.
+    """
+    import a2a_tools_identity
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        a2a_tools_identity, "_check_memory_write_permission", lambda: True
+    )
+
+
+class TestUpdateAgentCard:
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_posts_to_registry_update_card(
+        self, monkeypatch, _grant_memory_write,
+    ):
+        """Hits POST {PLATFORM_URL}/registry/update-card with the
+        workspace bearer and the {workspace_id, agent_card} body shape
+        the platform handler expects (workspace-server
+        ``internal/handlers/registry.go``)."""
+        import a2a_tools_identity
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("WORKSPACE_ID", "ws-42")
+        # Ensure PLATFORM_URL re-import sees a deterministic value —
+        # a2a_client imports it at module load so we patch the symbol
+        # on a2a_tools_identity directly (the module's own reference).
+        monkeypatch.setattr(a2a_tools_identity, "PLATFORM_URL", "http://test.invalid")
+
+        captured: dict = {}
+        response = _MockResponse(200, {"status": "updated"})
+
+        def _client_factory(*_a, **_kw):
+            return _MockClient(response=response, captured=captured)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(a2a_tools_identity.httpx, "AsyncClient", _client_factory)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            a2a_tools_identity, "_auth_headers_for_heartbeat",
+            lambda: {"Authorization": "Bearer ws-token-xyz"},
+        )
+
+        card = {"name": "agent-foo", "version": "0.1.0", "description": "demo"}
+        result_str = await a2a_tools_identity.tool_update_agent_card(card)
+        result = json.loads(result_str)
+
+        # URL: PLATFORM_URL + /registry/update-card
+        assert captured["url"] == "http://test.invalid/registry/update-card"
+
+        # The platform handler expects {workspace_id, agent_card}; the
+        # agent_card is the raw object the agent submitted.
+        body = captured["json"]
+        assert body["workspace_id"] == "ws-42"
+        assert body["agent_card"] == card
+
+        # Auth header from auth_headers_for_heartbeat is forwarded
+        # verbatim — same path commit_memory uses.
+        assert captured["headers"]["Authorization"] == "Bearer ws-token-xyz"
+
+        assert result["success"] is True
+        assert result["status"] == "updated"
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_propagates_server_error(
+        self, monkeypatch, _grant_memory_write,
+    ):
+        """Non-200 from platform surfaces as a structured error to the
+        agent. The agent sees {success:false, status_code, error} and
+        can decide whether to retry, fall back, or escalate."""
+        import a2a_tools_identity
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("WORKSPACE_ID", "ws-42")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(a2a_tools_identity, "PLATFORM_URL", "http://test.invalid")
+
+        captured: dict = {}
+        response = _MockResponse(400, {"error": "invalid card"})
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            a2a_tools_identity.httpx, "AsyncClient",
+            lambda *a, **kw: _MockClient(response=response, captured=captured),
+        )
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            a2a_tools_identity, "_auth_headers_for_heartbeat", lambda: {},
+        )
+
+        result = json.loads(
+            await a2a_tools_identity.tool_update_agent_card({"name": "x"})
+        )
+        assert result["success"] is False
+        assert result["status_code"] == 400
+        assert "invalid card" in str(result["error"]).lower()
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_rejects_non_dict_card(self, _grant_memory_write):
+        """The MCP schema constrains transport callers to pass a dict;
+        in-process callers (tests, sibling modules) can still pass any
+        type. Reject non-dict defensively so the platform isn't asked
+        to validate JSON-encoded strings or lists."""
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_update_agent_card
+
+        result = json.loads(await tool_update_agent_card("not-a-dict"))
+        assert result["success"] is False
+        assert "dict" in str(result["error"]).lower()
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_workspace_id_missing_returns_error(
+        self, monkeypatch, _grant_memory_write,
+    ):
+        """If WORKSPACE_ID is not set the tool refuses to issue the
+        request — it would otherwise POST with an empty workspace_id
+        and let the platform return a confusing 400."""
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_update_agent_card
+
+        monkeypatch.delenv("WORKSPACE_ID", raising=False)
+
+        result = json.loads(await tool_update_agent_card({"name": "x"}))
+        assert result["success"] is False
+        assert "workspace_id" in str(result["error"]).lower()
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_denies_when_memory_write_permission_missing(self, monkeypatch):
+        """The agent's RBAC role must grant ``memory.write`` to update
+        the card. Read-only roles get an RBAC error string back
+        immediately, never touching the platform."""
+        import a2a_tools_identity
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("WORKSPACE_ID", "ws-42")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            a2a_tools_identity, "_check_memory_write_permission", lambda: False,
+        )
+
+        # Tripwire httpx — must not be called when RBAC denies.
+        import httpx
+
+        class _Tripwire:
+            def __init__(self, *_a, **_kw):
+                raise AssertionError("RBAC denial must short-circuit before httpx call")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(httpx, "AsyncClient", _Tripwire)
+
+        result = json.loads(
+            await a2a_tools_identity.tool_update_agent_card({"name": "x"}),
+        )
+        assert result["success"] is False
+        assert "memory.write" in str(result["error"]).lower()
+
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_network_exception_returns_structured_error(
+        self, monkeypatch, _grant_memory_write,
+    ):
+        """A network exception (DNS failure, connect timeout, etc) is
+        wrapped into a structured error dict instead of bubbling up
+        to the MCP transport layer."""
+        import a2a_tools_identity
+
+        monkeypatch.setenv("WORKSPACE_ID", "ws-42")
+        monkeypatch.setattr(a2a_tools_identity, "PLATFORM_URL", "http://test.invalid")
+
+        class _ExplodingClient:
+            async def __aenter__(self):
+                return self
+
+            async def __aexit__(self, *_a):
+                return False
+
+            async def post(self, *_a, **_kw):
+                raise RuntimeError("simulated DNS failure")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(
+            a2a_tools_identity.httpx, "AsyncClient",
+            lambda *a, **kw: _ExplodingClient(),
+        )
+
+        result = json.loads(
+            await a2a_tools_identity.tool_update_agent_card({"name": "x"})
+        )
+        assert result["success"] is False
+        assert "network" in str(result["error"]).lower()
+
+
+# --- Registry contract ------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class TestRegistryContract:
+    """Pin the new tools' registration in platform_tools.registry. The
+    structural tests in ``test_platform_tools.py`` already check
+    registry↔MCP alignment; these are tighter assertions specific to
+    the two new tools so a future contributor deleting one entry sees
+    a focused failure."""
+
+    def test_get_runtime_identity_in_registry(self):
+        from platform_tools.registry import by_name
+        spec = by_name("get_runtime_identity")
+        assert spec.section == "a2a"
+        # No input parameters — env-only call.
+        assert spec.input_schema == {"type": "object", "properties": {}}
+        # impl points at the actual tool function, not a shim.
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_get_runtime_identity
+        assert spec.impl is tool_get_runtime_identity
+
+    def test_update_agent_card_in_registry(self):
+        from platform_tools.registry import by_name
+        spec = by_name("update_agent_card")
+        assert spec.section == "a2a"
+        assert "card" in spec.input_schema["properties"]
+        assert spec.input_schema["required"] == ["card"]
+        from a2a_tools_identity import tool_update_agent_card
+        assert spec.impl is tool_update_agent_card