Test held-message eviction callback

Use null handle for Windows close failure test
Propagate Windows peer handle cleanup errors
2026-11-10 13:11:31 -10:00 · 2026-08-09 17:17:27 +05:30 · 2026-08-09 16:56:41 +05:30 · 2026-08-09 16:43:41 +05:30 · 2026-08-09 16:32:36 +05:30 · 2026-08-09 16:22:31 +05:30
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@@ -1 +1 @@
-{".":"0.8.0"}
+{".":"0.6.0"}
@@ -91,14 +91,6 @@ These classes drive multi-round reviews. Fix them before requesting review:
  final-component-only no-follow is insufficient. On multi-step setup, roll back
  only what this run created; never destroy pre-existing resources you did
  not create; never report success when cleanup or unlock failed.
- **Normalize before matching:** Any transform that REMOVES bytes without
-  leaving a gap is also a reassembler, so it has to run before whatever matches
-  on the result. Redacting by shape and then stripping control bytes lets a
-  credential split by a NUL, an ESC or a C1 byte pass the patterns as two
-  fragments and be rejoined on the way out; comparing a path against a form
-  produced by the same resolver the kernel just used makes a redirect agree with
-  itself. Strip, decode, or canonicalize first, then match. The unsplit value
-  passing is not evidence, so the test needs a split case.
 - **Atomic shared state:** Write a complete temporary file, then atomically
  replace the destination so concurrent readers never see a partial write.
  Exclusive create or a write lock alone is not enough for readers. Serialize
@@ -111,42 +103,3 @@ These classes drive multi-round reviews. Fix them before requesting review:
  shipped. Wire advertised entry points or shrink the claim. Do not bundle
  unrelated fixes. Do not widen security allowlists by name alone; check
  classification and side effects too.
- **Host tool version floors:** Zero shells out to `git` and other host tools,
-  and the project does not declare a minimum version for any of them. A flag,
-  subcommand, or config key that is not long-established therefore raises that
-  floor silently, and the failure on an older host is an unhelpful usage error
-  rather than a clear message. Before adding one, check when it landed and say
-  so where a caller would look. Record the floor for the exact subcommand you
-  call, not for the flag in general: `--end-of-options` reached Git's shared
-  parser in 2.24, but `git rev-parse` only accepted it from 2.30, and
-  `git checkout` and `git reset` later still. Likewise `--show-current` is
-  `git branch` 2.22, and `branch.autoSetupMerge=inherit` is 2.35. Then either
-  keep a fallback for older versions or gate the call. A test that depends on a
-  newer feature must skip below its floor instead of failing, and say which
-  version it needs.
- **Prove the test fails without the change:** A regression test earns its
-  place only if it fails on the unfixed code, for the reason it claims. Run it
-  both ways and quote the failure in the PR. The recurring miss is not a
-  missing test but a test that never reaches the behavior it names, because an
-  earlier guard rejects the input first, so it passes with and without the fix.
-  When a test targets a specific layer, call that layer directly rather than
-  relying on a public entry point that may refuse earlier.
- **Hermetic tests:** Tests must not read or write the developer's real config,
-  cache, or state directories. Redirect every root the code under test
-  resolves, not just config. `os.UserConfigDir` and `os.UserCacheDir` read
-  `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` and `XDG_CACHE_HOME` only on Linux and the BSDs. On macOS
-  they derive from `HOME`, and on Windows from `%AppData%` and `%LocalAppData%`.
-  Setting the XDG variables alone still leaves a macOS run writing to the real
-  home, so set `HOME` as well, or take the directory as a parameter. Apply it to
-  every test that reaches the same storage, not only the one where it was first
-  needed; a test that passes on a clean machine and pollutes a real one is a
-  blocker.
- **Error codes vary by platform and by flag combination:** A check written
-  against the code one target returns can be silently inert on another while
-  still looking correct. `openat(O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW)` on a symlink may
-  report `ENOTDIR` or `ELOOP` depending on the platform, because the kernel can
-  reject the directory mismatch before it ever resolves the link; accept both
-  rather than assuming the one POSIX names. On Windows, `\\?\` and `\\.\`
-  prefixes are not UNC paths, and an `NtCreateFile` information class must match
-  the struct actually passed. Confirm the code each supported target returns
-  instead of reasoning from the man page.
@@ -6,63 +6,6 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
 aims to follow [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html) once the first release is
 tagged. Until then, source builds report the version `dev`.

-## [0.8.0](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/compare/v0.7.0...v0.8.0) (2026-08-21)
-
-
-### Features
-
-* **security:** path-jail primitive, credential-store locking, worktree git hardening ([#891](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/891)) ([060d38c](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/060d38ce716feb7c5b6657b082cd35cb8dda3d75))
-* **update:** recognise Homebrew installs and add mise, go install docs ([#910](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/910)) ([01c3498](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/01c3498205e69d26e5f929225f9455b276444f39))
-* use Exa as default search provider ([#926](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/926)) ([1ec7219](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/1ec7219aee7b2840481ab0905f131644e27d2a4e))
-* **zerogit:** auto-create a conventional branch before push/pr on default branch ([#671](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/671)) ([d065467](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/d065467cd3ec3ed91c5dc60554c36fc4b4d6de4c))
-
-
-### Bug Fixes
-
-* **acp:** three defects a desktop ACP client hits ([#915](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/915)) ([a78c6c3](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/a78c6c357e1d21146d7cd2e8030a754e06f7f1f5))
-* bump Go to 1.26.6 for stdlib vulnerability fixes ([#903](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/903)) ([dc15e82](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/dc15e822987d8d7de467c62c375518f435b74d8c))
-* **daemon:** clean up child after startup timeout ([#774](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/774)) ([9c29209](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/9c292092a26c9092fd873d072b0af1b0d9d39ef0))
-* **dictation:** redact API keys from streaming transcriber errors ([#852](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/852)) ([64a783b](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/64a783b08caa2c7b21f188033b9ed84a14e00e84))
-* **modelregistry:** expose reasoning effort for DeepSeek V4 models ([#931](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/931)) ([90dcfd1](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/90dcfd127e8a6d9902ec9f4e72f6d03fef1a0fc6))
-* **providers:** discover ChatGPT capabilities ([#890](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/890)) ([2d2450e](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/2d2450e9a744349f0d01b1d4e9ba29c24ba5650d))
-* **sandbox:** normalize launcher names before the command-prefix denylist ([#934](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/934)) ([6edf9a8](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/6edf9a8b78dc030dc44598919db1c7fa9d4f809a))
-
-## [0.7.0](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/compare/v0.6.0...v0.7.0) (2026-08-10)
-
-
-### Features
-
-* **agent:** add PermissionModePlan for interactive read-only planning ([#853](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/853)) ([0176ee4](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/0176ee49ffddcff6f7edf6ae2ade4967e5b22cc3))
-* **providers:** live model lists for OpenRouter and OpenGateway ([#860](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/860)) ([fb4f293](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/fb4f293c20eb860ca388a10d22fd566ce282ba1f))
-* **tools:** give tool results an image channel and add view_image ([#843](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/843)) ([cd0eb19](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/cd0eb194e4df4b844785796c0701216740a56344))
-* **tui:** replace /retitle with local /rename ([#826](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/826)) ([5886354](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/588635487f22ef4d62d350140a219b7b8bb24119))
-
-
-### Bug Fixes
-
-* **agent:** end the additional_permissions retry loop ([#864](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/864)) ([4ca4fa7](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/4ca4fa75d31b139dbe55a3badf17da86892ab001))
-* **agent:** tell the user a prefix approval leaves the sandbox ([#885](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/885)) ([2ec5c3a](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/2ec5c3ae6b8fb543887bdeafdb34c4da057b8d36))
-* **cli:** report MCP servers that failed to start ([#822](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/822)) ([#827](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/827)) ([021281e](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/021281ebbab3f2bbe6a77b2dab4bf121bcfe6b52))
-* **lsp:** dispatch notifications off read loop ([#759](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/759)) ([936aa4e](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/936aa4e77cf49738560a89395b8ba4d22263a396))
-* **mcp:** name the non-text blocks a tool result drops ([#874](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/874)) ([027a670](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/027a67080bea511b876c284bc911ef011eceb308))
-* **sandbox:** deny reads of Zero credential stores ([#681](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/681)) ([55fa05f](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/55fa05f0ab5a01b495345d43464606cd19a31b4f))
-* **sandbox:** stop the Windows write jail honouring Everyone-granted paths ([#865](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/865)) ([91b413c](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/91b413c514cc1607d5b4e7936780d40569239814))
-* **secrets,worktrees:** fix secret redaction leakage and prune stale worktrees ([#855](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/855)) ([ff62f73](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/ff62f73b7f4dc5e2472db21acba43cf6140c06d1))
-* **specialist:** make overwrites atomic ([#757](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/757)) ([30f6d8f](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/30f6d8f591a0b81638b4182ff56c86c8a50a5c70))
-* suppress gosec G204 warning for trusted local config commands ([#848](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/848)) ([c52db05](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/c52db055b0b213758a33c5c5627a411e052f8de4))
-* **tui:** a copied NUL byte no longer panics the TUI on Windows ([#876](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/876)) ([cae0269](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/cae0269e77e7a0a493cf799b41c653c9ff9a19de)), closes [#875](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/875)
-* **tui:** exclude permission waits from turn time ([#820](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/820)) ([15eb16f](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/15eb16f736f903c94203207032f98aacbcf06318))
-* **tui:** fall back to CellMotion where AllMotion is unreliable ([#872](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/872)) ([7fbd864](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/7fbd864e91433441489902571ea394ebc5b7bd0d))
-* **tui:** fill alt-screen frame with theme panel background ([#850](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/850)) ([020c28e](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/020c28eaf95e2f38853f99fc06a13cd1568bf3c9))
-* **tui:** hide unavailable sidebar shortcut ([#821](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/821)) ([845df6c](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/845df6c7d28e02f475e90acfe838733eb37e6aa2))
-* use OAuth credentials in provider health checks ([#828](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/828)) ([d37de92](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/d37de9214b1ba86542f4f5ef3b060bb96849763b))
-
-
-### Performance Improvements
-
-* compact common test output ([#846](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/846)) ([edf660a](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/edf660ab85131f90a452cee51dc2c3a5cf62d632))
-* improve harness context efficiency ([#838](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/issues/838)) ([8e26679](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/commit/8e266797a8305e689806eadcf9698da2796481ab))
-
 ## [0.6.0](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/compare/v0.5.0...v0.6.0) (2026-07-29)


@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@

 <p align="center">
  <a href="LICENSE"><img alt="license" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue"></a>
-  <img alt="Go 1.26.6+" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Go-1.26.6+-00ADD8?logo=go&logoColor=white">
+  <img alt="Go 1.26.5+" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Go-1.26.5+-00ADD8?logo=go&logoColor=white">
  <img alt="25+ providers" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/providers-25+-34E2EA">
-  <a href="https://discord.gg/CaQDS6wdFn"><img alt="Discord" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-join-5865F2?logo=discord&logoColor=white"></a>
  <br>
  <strong>English</strong> | <a href="README_ZH.md">中文</a>
 </p>
@@ -76,7 +75,7 @@ irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gitlawb/zero/main/scripts/install.ps1 | ie

 ### From source

-Source builds require Go 1.26.6+.
+Source builds require Go 1.26.5+.

 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero.git
@@ -213,7 +212,6 @@ Common slash commands:
 | `/spec`, `/plan` | draft and review a plan before building |
 | `/image` | attach an image for vision-capable models |
 | `/resume`, `/rewind` | continue or roll back local sessions |
-| `/new` | start a fresh session in place (previous session stays on disk) |
 | `/btw [question]` | ask in an isolated fork without adding the side conversation to the main session |
 | `/loop` | repeat a prompt or custom `/command` on an interval (`/loop 5m /babysit-prs`) or self-paced |
 | `/compact`, `/context` | manage context usage |
@@ -310,8 +308,7 @@ zero verify           detect and run local verification checks
 zero changes          inspect and commit local git changes
 zero usage            token usage and estimated cost
 zero cron             scheduled agent jobs
-zero update --check   check for newer releases
-zero upgrade          download, verify, and install the latest release
+zero update           check for newer releases
 ```

 ## Extending Zero
@@ -418,8 +415,6 @@ go run ./cmd/zero-release build --goos windows --goarch amd64 --output dist/zero

 ## Community

-Real-time chat happens on the [Discord server](https://discord.gg/CaQDS6wdFn).
-
 Questions, setup help, ideas, and sharing all live in
 [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/discussions):

@@ -6,9 +6,8 @@

 <p align="center">
  <a href="LICENSE"><img alt="license" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue"></a>
-  <img alt="Go 1.26.6+" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Go-1.26.6+-00ADD8?logo=go&logoColor=white">
+  <img alt="Go 1.26.5+" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Go-1.26.5+-00ADD8?logo=go&logoColor=white">
  <img alt="25+ providers" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/providers-25+-34E2EA">
-  <a href="https://discord.gg/CaQDS6wdFn"><img alt="Discord" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-join-5865F2?logo=discord&logoColor=white"></a>
  <br>
  <a href="README.md">English</a> | <strong>中文</strong>
 </p>
@@ -57,7 +56,7 @@ irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gitlawb/zero/main/scripts/install.ps1 | ie

 ### 从源码构建

-源码构建需要 Go 1.26.6+。
+源码构建需要 Go 1.26.5+。

 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero.git
@@ -142,7 +141,6 @@ zero
 | `/spec`、`/plan` | 在构建之前起草和审查计划 |
 | `/image` | 为视觉模型附加图片 |
 | `/resume`、`/rewind` | 继续或回滚本地会话 |
-| `/new` | 原地开始一个新会话（之前的会话仍保留在磁盘上） |
 | `/compact`、`/context` | 管理上下文使用 |
 | `/permissions`、`/tools` | 检查可用工具和策略 |
 | `/add-dir` | 为此会话授予额外的写入目录 |
@@ -228,8 +226,7 @@ zero verify           检测和运行本地验证检查
 zero changes          检查和提交本地 Git 变更
 zero usage            Token 使用量和估算成本
 zero cron             定时智能体任务
-zero update --check   检查更新版本
-zero upgrade          下载、验证并安装最新版本
+zero update           检查更新版本
 ```

 ## 外观和无障碍
@@ -272,20 +269,6 @@ go run ./cmd/zero-release build --goos windows --goarch amd64 --output dist/zero
 - [性能](docs/PERFORMANCE.md)
 - [智能体评估](docs/AGENT_EVALS.md)

-## 社区
-
-实时交流在 [Discord 服务器](https://discord.gg/CaQDS6wdFn) 进行。
-
-提问、安装帮助、想法和分享都在
-[GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/discussions)：
-
-| 分类 | 用途 |
-|---|---|
-| [Q&A](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/discussions/categories/q-a) | 安装帮助、提供商/模型配置、"如何做"类问题 |
-| [Ideas](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/discussions/categories/ideas) | 功能提议和 PR 之前的设计讨论 |
-| [Show and tell](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/discussions/categories/show-and-tell) | 你的技能、插件、MCP 配置、主题和工作流 |
-| [Announcements](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/discussions/categories/announcements) | 维护者发布的版本和项目动态 |
-
 ## 贡献

 欢迎贡献。阅读 [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)，运行相关测试，然后提交一个聚焦的拉取请求。
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ Please include, where possible:
  depend on a user explicitly disabling the sandbox (`--skip-permissions-unsafe`), are generally
  out of scope — but please report anything you are unsure about.
 - Zero sends no telemetry. Network calls go to the model/tool providers you configure (and, for
-  keyless web search, to Exa's hosted MCP endpoint at `https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp`).
+  keyless web search, to the documented Firecrawl endpoint — see the README).
@@ -1,30 +1,14 @@
 # Installing Zero

-Pick whichever fits how you already install things. None of these is the
-blessed one.
+Zero is distributed as:

-| Method | Command | Self-update |
-| --- | --- | --- |
-| Install script (Linux, macOS) | `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gitlawb/zero/main/scripts/install.sh \| bash` | `zero upgrade` |
-| Install script (Windows) | `irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gitlawb/zero/main/scripts/install.ps1 \| iex` | `zero upgrade` |
-| npm | `npm install -g @gitlawb/zero` | `zero upgrade` (runs npm) |
-| Release archive | download from [Releases](https://github.com/Gitlawb/zero/releases) | `zero upgrade` |
-| mise | `mise use -g ubi:Gitlawb/zero` | `mise upgrade` |
-| `go install` | `go install github.com/Gitlawb/zero/cmd/zero@latest` | rerun the command |
-| Source | `go build -o zero ./cmd/zero` | rebuild |
+- an npm package, `@gitlawb/zero`
+- release archives on GitHub Releases
+- source builds with Go 1.26.5+

-`zero upgrade` follows whatever owns the binary, with one exception it cannot
-detect. It delegates to npm for an npm install, refuses outright for a Homebrew
-keg and names `brew upgrade zero`, and replaces the binary in place for
-everything else — including a mise-managed one, which is the exception.
-
-mise is the one case it cannot detect: a mise-managed binary is an ordinary
-standalone install on disk, so `zero upgrade` will replace it and leave mise
-describing a version that is no longer there. Use `mise upgrade` instead.
-
-Release archives are the substrate for most of the above: the install scripts
-and the npm fallback both download a platform archive from a published GitHub
-Release and verify its checksum.
+The install scripts download a platform-specific release archive and require a
+published GitHub Release for the requested version. The npm package is
+self-contained: the platform binary installs from the npm registry.

 ## npm

@@ -127,45 +111,6 @@ Defaults:
 - Version: latest GitHub release
 - Install path: `%LOCALAPPDATA%\zero\bin\zero.exe`

-## mise
-
-[mise](https://mise.jdx.dev/) installs Zero straight from the GitHub Release
-archives through its `ubi` backend, so there is nothing extra to publish and no
-registry in the middle:
-
-```bash
-mise use -g ubi:Gitlawb/zero
-```
-
-Pin a version the same way you would any other tool:
-
-```bash
-mise use -g ubi:Gitlawb/[email protected]
-```
-
-Updates come from `mise upgrade`. `zero upgrade` also works, because a
-mise-managed binary is an ordinary standalone install, but then mise's records
-describe a version that is no longer on disk. Prefer `mise upgrade`.
-
-## go install
-
-```bash
-go install github.com/Gitlawb/zero/cmd/zero@latest
-```
-
-This builds from source, so it needs Go 1.26.6+ and it does not go through the
-release archives. Two consequences worth knowing before you pick it:
-
- On Linux you also need the sandbox helper, which is a separate binary and is
-  not installed by this command. See
-  [Sandbox Helpers For Source Builds](#sandbox-helpers-for-source-builds).
-  Without it, native sandboxing is unavailable.
- `zero upgrade` treats the result as a standalone install and will replace the
-  binary with a release build rather than rebuilding from source. If you chose
-  `go install` deliberately, rerun it instead.
-
-macOS and Windows need no extra helper.
-
 ## From Source

 ```bash
@@ -180,7 +125,7 @@ Build a local binary:
 go build -o zero ./cmd/zero
 ```

-Source builds require Go 1.26.6+.
+Source builds require Go 1.26.5+.

 ### Sandbox Helpers For Source Builds

@@ -289,31 +234,10 @@ directory.

 ## Updating

-Check for a newer release, then download, verify, and install it in place:
+Check for a newer release:

 ```bash
 zero update --check
-zero upgrade
 ```

-See the [update guide](UPDATE.md) for update modes, flags, and platform details.
-
-`zero upgrade` behaves differently depending on how Zero was installed, because
-overwriting a binary a package manager owns leaves that manager describing a
-version that is no longer there:
-
- **npm**: runs `npm install -g @gitlawb/zero@latest` for you.
- **Homebrew**: refuses, and tells you to run `brew upgrade zero`. Replacing the
-  keg binary directly would be reverted by the next `brew upgrade` or
-  `brew reinstall`.
- **everything else**: downloads the verified release archive and replaces the
-  binary in place.
-
-Homebrew is detected by the binary living inside a Cellar keg that carries
-Homebrew's own `INSTALL_RECEIPT.json`. The keg shape alone is not enough: a
-directory tree you built yourself can have exactly that shape, and refusing to
-update an install Homebrew never touched would be a real cost for a made-up
-reason. The receipt is the thing only Homebrew writes.
-
-An ordinary install under `/usr/local/bin` is left alone even on an Intel Mac
-where that is also the Homebrew prefix.
+Then reinstall with npm or rerun the install script for the version you want.
@@ -138,45 +138,3 @@ output or stop a still-running task by id.
 If Zero is restarted while a background task is still marked `running`, the new
 manager marks that task `error` and clears its PID. This avoids sending
 `TaskStop` to a stale PID that may now belong to an unrelated process.
-
-## Recovering an Interrupted Overwrite
-
-Zero writes and flushes a complete temporary file before publishing an overwrite,
-so a write failure before publication leaves the existing manifest unchanged
-instead of truncating it. On Unix, publication uses a same-directory rename and
-preserves the existing file's permission bits.
-
-On Windows, Zero uses `ReplaceFileW` to preserve the destination DACL instead of
-silently replacing it with the temporary file's inherited DACL. `ReplaceFileW`
-is not observer-atomic: another process can briefly observe the destination path
-as absent during replacement. Zero serializes specialist loads and managed
-mutations within one process, but cannot synchronize external processes or
-editors.
-
-Windows errors 1176 (`ERROR_UNABLE_TO_MOVE_REPLACEMENT`) and 1177
-(`ERROR_UNABLE_TO_MOVE_REPLACEMENT_2`) are partial replacement failures. With
-Zero's managed backup, 1176 leaves the original names intact and needs no manual
-recovery. For 1177, Zero has moved the original aside and tries to move it back.
-That rollback almost always succeeds, and the failed write changes nothing.
-
-If the rollback itself fails — typically because another process is holding a
-lock on the file — the original is not lost, but it is left under a name Zero
-does not read:
-
-```text
-<specialist dir>/.zero-replace-<random>.backup
-```
-
-Only `*.md` files are loaded as specialists, so until that file is renamed the
-specialist will not appear in `zero specialist list` or resolve by name. Zero's
-error message includes both the backup path and destination path. Recover by
-closing whatever holds the lock and renaming the backup back:
-
-```powershell
-Move-Item .zero-replace-<random>.backup <name>.md
-```
-
-A `.zero-replace-*.backup` can also linger after a *successful* overwrite if the
-backup could not be deleted afterward. That case is reported as a warning rather
-than an error — the new manifest is already in place, and the leftover file is
-safe to delete.
@@ -1,23 +1,16 @@
 # Update Flow

 `zero update --check` checks the latest GitHub release and compares it with the
-local CLI version. `zero update --apply` (or its shorthand, `zero upgrade`)
-downloads, verifies, and installs it.
+local CLI version.

 ```bash
 zero update --check
 zero update --check --json
 zero update --check --repo Gitlawb/zero
 zero update --check --target windows-x64
-
-zero upgrade
-zero update --apply
 ```

-`--check` and `--apply` are mutually exclusive. `zero update` requires one of
-them explicitly; `zero upgrade` is `zero update` with `--apply` implied.
-
-`--check` is check-only:
+The command is intentionally check-only:

 - It does not replace the running binary.
 - It exits with code `0` when the check succeeds, even when an update is
@@ -26,35 +19,14 @@ them explicitly; `zero upgrade` is `zero update` with `--apply` implied.
 - `--json` prints the same result in a machine-readable format for scripts and
  CI.

-`--apply` installs the update in place:
-
- npm installs delegate to `npm install -g @gitlawb/zero@latest`.
- Standalone installs download the release archive, verify its checksum,
-  extract it, and atomically replace the running binary plus any installed
-  optional sandbox helpers.
- On Windows, the running executable is renamed aside and cleaned up on the
-  next `zero update --apply` or `zero upgrade`, since it can't be overwritten
-  while running.
- `--target` cannot be combined with `--apply`; it only applies to `--check`,
-  since applying always installs onto the current machine.
- `--repo` and `--endpoint` are ignored when applying to an npm-managed
-  install: that path delegates to `npm install -g @gitlawb/zero@latest` and
-  takes its release from the npm registry, not from GitHub. They still apply to
-  `--check` there.
- `--json` serializes Zero's final result. For npm-managed installs, npm may
-  also write progress output to stdout, so neither
-  `zero update --apply --json` nor `zero upgrade --json` is guaranteed to
-  produce a single parseable JSON document. Use `--check --json` for
-  machine-readable automation.
-
 Useful flags:

 | Flag | Purpose |
 |---|---|
-| `--repo <owner/repo>` | Use another GitHub repository for `--check` and `--apply`/`upgrade`. Ignored by an npm-managed apply. |
-| `--endpoint <url\|owner/repo>` | Use a specific release API URL or repository slug for `--check` and `--apply`/`upgrade`. Ignored by an npm-managed apply. |
+| `--repo <owner/repo>` | Check another GitHub repository. |
+| `--endpoint <url|owner/repo>` | Check a specific release API URL or repository slug. |
 | `--timeout <duration>` | Override the default release check timeout. |
-| `--target <platform-arch>` | Validate release metadata for another supported target (`--check` only). |
+| `--target <platform-arch>` | Validate release metadata for another supported target. |

 Supported targets are `linux-x64`, `linux-arm64`, `macos-x64`, `macos-arm64`,
 `windows-x64`, and `windows-arm64`. Without `--target`, Zero checks the current
@@ -68,45 +40,5 @@ Endpoint resolution order:
 4. `https://api.github.com/repos/Gitlawb/zero/releases/latest`

 Installer scripts download the matching release asset for the local platform and
-verify its `.sha256` file. If Zero is already installed, run `zero upgrade`
-instead of reinstalling.
-
-## Windows recovery state (standalone installs)
-
-This section describes Windows only. On Linux and macOS a standalone update
-renames the staged file directly over the executable path through the
-installation directory's file descriptor, so the replacement is atomic and no
-aside copy, marker, or recovery record is ever created — a failed update leaves
-the previous binary in place and nothing to resolve.
-
-On Windows, a running executable cannot be replaced in place, so the previous
-binary is moved aside to `<binary>.zero-update-<random>.old` first. The updater
-records that exact file — bound to its filesystem identity, in per-user state
-outside the installation directory — and deletes only that recorded copy after
-the next update is verified in place. Backups it did not create are never
-removed, so a file such as `zero.exe.before-manual-patch.old` is left alone. A
-recorded copy that something else holds open (an on-access scanner, an editor)
-stays recorded and is removed by a later update instead.
-
-An update **refuses to run** while unresolved recovery state exists beside the
-binary:
-
-| State on disk | Meaning |
-|---|---|
-| `<binary>.old` (or `<binary>.<suffix>.old`) plus a `.keep` marker | A previous update could not restore the original binary. The `.old` file may be the last binary the updater verified; the installed one may be unverified. |
-| `<binary>.…old.<suffix>.recovery` | A previous update could not even write the marker, so it moved the last verified binary to that name. |
-| The binary is missing and one or more `*.old` files exist | The previous attempt was interrupted between moves. |
-
-The refusal names the paths involved and the two moves that end the state:
-either move the recovery binary back over the executable path, or — if the
-installed binary is the one you want — delete the `.keep` marker (or the
-`.recovery` copy, once you have verified the installed binary) and update again.
-
-This is deliberately fail-closed and differs from older releases, which deleted
-`<binary>.old` and proceeded. The trade-off is that anyone who can write in the
-installation directory can plant `<binary>.old` and `<binary>.old.keep` there
-and make every subsequent update refuse until an operator clears them. That is
-the safe direction: the alternative is an update that overwrites the only
-verified copy of the previous binary. If updates start refusing, inspect those
-files before removing them — an installation directory that a lower-privileged
-account can write to is itself worth fixing.
+verify its `.sha256` file. If Zero is already installed, run `zero update --check`
+before reinstalling.
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/Gitlawb/zero

-go 1.26.6
+go 1.26.5

 require (
 	charm.land/bubbles/v2 v2.1.1
@@ -11,17 +11,16 @@ require (
 	github.com/atotto/clipboard v0.1.4
 	github.com/aymanbagabas/go-udiff v0.4.1
 	github.com/charmbracelet/colorprofile v0.4.3
-	github.com/charmbracelet/ultraviolet v0.0.0-20260703014108-f5a850f9c2b7
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/ansi v0.11.7
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/term v0.2.2
 	github.com/coder/websocket v1.8.15
 	github.com/ledongthuc/pdf v0.0.0-20250511090121-5959a4027728
-	golang.org/x/image v0.45.0
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.47.0
 	mvdan.cc/sh/v3 v3.13.1
 )

 require (
+	github.com/charmbracelet/ultraviolet v0.0.0-20260703014108-f5a850f9c2b7 // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/exp/golden v0.0.0-20260615092313-b57e5e6d29bb // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/termios v0.1.1 // indirect
 	github.com/charmbracelet/x/windows v0.2.2 // indirect
@@ -64,10 +64,6 @@ github.com/xo/terminfo v0.0.0-20220910002029-abceb7e1c41e h1:JVG44RsyaB9T2KIHavM
 github.com/xo/terminfo v0.0.0-20220910002029-abceb7e1c41e/go.mod h1:RbqR21r5mrJuqunuUZ/Dhy/avygyECGrLceyNeo4LiM=
 golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20260611194520-c48552f49976 h1:X8Hz2ImujgbmetVuW+w2YkyZChE3cBpZi2P158rTG9M=
 golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20260611194520-c48552f49976/go.mod h1:vnf4pv9iKZXY58sQE1L86zmNWJ4159e1RkcWiLCkeEY=
-golang.org/x/image v0.44.0 h1:+tDekMZED9+LrtB3G5xzRggpVh9CARjZqROla3R3R+I=
-golang.org/x/image v0.44.0/go.mod h1:V8K3KE9KKKE+pLpQDOeN18w9oacNSvy1tDOirTu4xtY=
-golang.org/x/image v0.45.0 h1:FMb1nTbH5H9vF55SriQHgFw5GnNL9Jg6L25BwXKzhB0=
-golang.org/x/image v0.45.0/go.mod h1:n62x/7RqlwXDvGsSU4u6IUTUf6KghUZ9Bt7cG/T9Fx4=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.22.0 h1:SZjpbeLmrCk4xhRSZFNZW5gFUeCeFgjekvI/+gfScek=
 golang.org/x/sync v0.22.0/go.mod h1:9xrNwdLfx4jkKbNva9FpL6vEN7evnE43NNNJQ2LF3+0=
 golang.org/x/sys v0.47.0 h1:o7XGOvZQCADBQQ4Y7VNq2dRWQR7JmOUW8Kxx4ZsNgWs=
@@ -296,16 +296,6 @@ func stopReasonFor(result agent.Result, err error) (string, error) {
 		if errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
 			return StopCancelled, nil
 		}
-		// A CLIENT THAT CANCELLED A PERMISSION PROMPT DID NOT FAIL. Only
-		// context.Canceled was matched here, so dismissing a permission dialog —
-		// a deliberate action, and for apply_patch the only refusal a client is
-		// offered — came back as JSON-RPC -32603 carrying the internal sentinel
-		// text. Editors and the desktop app both render that as a crashed turn,
-		// so declining a tool looked like ZERO falling over. It is a
-		// cancellation, and StopCancelled is what ACP has for saying so.
-		if errors.Is(err, agent.ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled) {
-			return StopCancelled, nil
-		}
 		return "", err
 	}
 	if result.FinishReason == "length" {
@@ -321,14 +311,10 @@ func stopReasonFor(result agent.Result, err error) (string, error) {
 // session/request_permission request and maps the outcome back. Failure to reach
 // the client fails closed to deny.
 func (a *Agent) requestPermission(ctx context.Context, sessionID string, req agent.PermissionRequest) (agent.PermissionDecision, error) {
-	// Built ONCE and used for both halves. Sending one list and validating the
-	// reply against another is the defect this whole path had; see
-	// decisionFromOutcome.
-	options := buildPermissionOptions(req)
 	params := RequestPermissionParams{
 		SessionID: sessionID,
 		ToolCall:  permissionToolCall(req),
-		Options:   options,
+		Options:   buildPermissionOptions(req),
 	}
 	var result RequestPermissionResult
 	if err := a.conn.Call(ctx, MethodSessionRequestPerm, params, &result); err != nil {
@@ -337,7 +323,7 @@ func (a *Agent) requestPermission(ctx context.Context, sessionID string, req age
 		}
 		return agent.PermissionDecision{Action: agent.PermissionDecisionDeny, Reason: "permission request failed: " + err.Error()}, nil
 	}
-	return decisionFromOutcome(result.Outcome, options), nil
+	return decisionFromOutcome(result.Outcome, req.AvailableDecisions), nil
 }

 func (a *Agent) emitPlan(registry *tools.Registry, note *notifier) {
@@ -363,11 +349,9 @@ func (a *Agent) handleSetMode(_ context.Context, params json.RawMessage) (any, e
 	if sess == nil {
 		return nil, RPCError(codeInvalidParams, "unknown session: "+p.SessionID)
 	}
-	sess.turnMu.Lock()
-	defer sess.turnMu.Unlock()
 	mode := agent.PermissionMode(p.ModeID)
 	switch mode {
-	case agent.PermissionModeAuto, agent.PermissionModeAsk, agent.PermissionModePlan:
+	case agent.PermissionModeAuto, agent.PermissionModeAsk:
 		sess.setMode(mode)
 		(&notifier{conn: a.conn, sessionID: sess.id}).currentMode(string(mode))
 		return SetSessionModeResult{}, nil
@@ -397,13 +381,9 @@ func (a *Agent) handleSetConfigOption(_ context.Context, params json.RawMessage)
 			return nil, err
 		}
 	case configIDMode:
-		// Same turnMu as handleSetMode so the two advertised mode doors (session
-		// set_mode and set_config_option) serialize mode flips consistently.
-		sess.turnMu.Lock()
-		defer sess.turnMu.Unlock()
 		mode := agent.PermissionMode(p.Value)
 		switch mode {
-		case agent.PermissionModeAuto, agent.PermissionModeAsk, agent.PermissionModePlan:
+		case agent.PermissionModeAuto, agent.PermissionModeAsk:
 			sess.setMode(mode)
 			(&notifier{conn: a.conn, sessionID: sess.id}).currentMode(string(mode))
 		case agent.PermissionModeUnsafe:
@@ -459,16 +439,13 @@ func (a *Agent) handleCancel(_ context.Context, params json.RawMessage) {
 // ---- advertising helpers ----

 func (a *Agent) modeState(s *acpSession) *SessionModeState {
-	// auto/ask/plan are offered over ACP; Unsafe is gated to the operator (see
-	// handleSetMode) so a client can't grant itself no-prompt host access. Plan
-	// only narrows what a client can do (read-only, no write/shell tools), so
-	// unlike Unsafe there is no elevation risk in letting a client select it.
+	// Only auto/ask are offered over ACP; Unsafe is gated to the operator (see
+	// handleSetMode) so a client can't grant itself no-prompt host access.
 	return &SessionModeState{
 		CurrentModeID: string(s.currentMode()),
 		AvailableModes: []SessionMode{
 			{ID: string(agent.PermissionModeAuto), Name: "Auto", Description: "Run safe tools automatically; ask before risky ones."},
 			{ID: string(agent.PermissionModeAsk), Name: "Ask", Description: "Ask before every tool that changes state."},
-			{ID: string(agent.PermissionModePlan), Name: "Plan", Description: "Read-only planning; write and shell tools are hidden."},
 		},
 	}
 }
@@ -539,7 +516,6 @@ func (a *Agent) configOptions(s *acpSession) []SessionConfigOption {
 		Options: []SessionConfigOptionValue{
 			{Value: string(agent.PermissionModeAuto), Name: "Auto", Description: "Run safe tools automatically; ask before risky ones."},
 			{Value: string(agent.PermissionModeAsk), Name: "Ask", Description: "Ask before every tool that changes state."},
-			{Value: string(agent.PermissionModePlan), Name: "Plan", Description: "Read-only planning; write and shell tools are hidden."},
 		},
 	}}
 }
@@ -393,32 +393,6 @@ func TestACPSetModeUpdatesSession(t *testing.T) {
 	if got := configured.ConfigOptions[1].CurrentValue; got != string(agent.PermissionModeAuto) {
 		t.Fatalf("configured mode = %q", got)
 	}
-	// Plan is accepted: it only narrows capability (read-only), so unlike Unsafe
-	// there is no elevation risk in letting a client select it.
-	if err := h.client.Call(ctx, MethodSessionSetMode, SetSessionModeParams{SessionID: newRes.SessionID, ModeID: string(agent.PermissionModePlan)}, &SetSessionModeResult{}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("set_mode plan: %v", err)
-	}
-	// Configuration path is a separate contract from MethodSessionSetMode: the
-	// mode option is advertised via configOptions and applied by handleSetConfigOption.
-	var planConfigured SetSessionConfigOptionResult
-	if err := h.client.Call(ctx, MethodSessionSetConfigOption, SetSessionConfigOptionParams{
-		SessionID: newRes.SessionID, ConfigID: configIDMode, Value: string(agent.PermissionModePlan),
-	}, &planConfigured); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("set_config_option plan: %v", err)
-	}
-	if got := planConfigured.ConfigOptions[1].CurrentValue; got != string(agent.PermissionModePlan) {
-		t.Fatalf("configured mode after plan = %q, want plan", got)
-	}
-	hasPlanOption := false
-	for _, opt := range planConfigured.ConfigOptions[1].Options {
-		if opt.Value == string(agent.PermissionModePlan) {
-			hasPlanOption = true
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if !hasPlanOption {
-		t.Fatalf("config mode options missing plan: %#v", planConfigured.ConfigOptions[1].Options)
-	}
 	// Unsafe must be rejected over ACP — a client can't self-grant no-prompt host access.
 	if err := h.client.Call(ctx, MethodSessionSetMode, SetSessionModeParams{SessionID: newRes.SessionID, ModeID: string(agent.PermissionModeUnsafe)}, &SetSessionModeResult{}); err == nil {
 		t.Fatal("expected Unsafe mode to be rejected over ACP")
@@ -429,37 +403,6 @@ func TestACPSetModeUpdatesSession(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-// TestACPPlanModeWiresPermissionModeIntoAgentOptions confirms selecting "plan"
-// over ACP actually reaches agent.Options.PermissionMode for the next turn —
-// the same gap this test's TUI counterpart covers for /plan on.
-func TestACPPlanModeWiresPermissionModeIntoAgentOptions(t *testing.T) {
-	deps := testDeps(t)
-	var captured agent.Options
-	deps.RunAgent = func(_ context.Context, _ string, _ zeroruntime.Provider, opts agent.Options) (agent.Result, error) {
-		captured = opts
-		return agent.Result{FinalAnswer: "ok"}, nil
-	}
-
-	h := newHarness(t, deps)
-	defer h.stop()
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
-	defer cancel()
-
-	var newRes NewSessionResult
-	if err := h.client.Call(ctx, MethodSessionNew, NewSessionParams{Cwd: t.TempDir(), McpServers: []McpServer{}}, &newRes); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("session/new: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := h.client.Call(ctx, MethodSessionSetMode, SetSessionModeParams{SessionID: newRes.SessionID, ModeID: string(agent.PermissionModePlan)}, &SetSessionModeResult{}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("set_mode plan: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := h.client.Call(ctx, MethodSessionPrompt, PromptParams{SessionID: newRes.SessionID, Prompt: []ContentBlock{TextBlock("plan it out")}}, &PromptResult{}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("session/prompt: %v", err)
-	}
-	if captured.PermissionMode != agent.PermissionModePlan {
-		t.Fatalf("agent.Options.PermissionMode = %q, want plan", captured.PermissionMode)
-	}
-}
-
 // TestACPRunTurnWiresSandboxAndScopedRegistry proves the sandbox engine and the
 // scoped registry from BuildWorkspace actually reach agent.Options — i.e. ACP
 // shell tools run confined, not unconfined on the host.
@@ -1,217 +0,0 @@
-package acp
-
-// desktopinterop_test.go covers three defects found by driving the real `zero
-// acp` binary from a desktop ACP client. Each is a case where ZERO and a
-// conforming client disagreed about the wire, and none of them failed loudly —
-// they produced a silent denial, a spurious crash, or two buttons the user
-// could not tell apart.
-//
-// A fourth, session/load restoring history without replaying it, is fixed by
-// #914 rather than here: that one also gives the replayed messages stable ids
-// and keeps session/resume replay-free, which this did not.
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/agent"
-)
-
-// ---- an offered option is an acceptable answer ----
-
-// The list the options were BUILT from and the list the answer was CHECKED
-// against were different whenever ZERO did not enumerate: the client was sent
-// Allow and Reject, and its reply was validated against an empty slice, so
-// every button it could possibly show failed closed to deny. The user clicked
-// Allow and ZERO recorded a denial, with nothing on screen to say so.
-func TestAnOfferedOptionIsAccepted(t *testing.T) {
-	// No AvailableDecisions: the fallback path, which is every permission event
-	// that is not a prompt.
-	req := agent.PermissionRequest{ToolName: "bash"}
-
-	options := buildPermissionOptions(req)
-	if len(options) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("no options were offered")
-	}
-
-	for _, option := range options {
-		decision := decisionFromOutcome(
-			RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeSelected, OptionID: option.OptionID},
-			buildPermissionOptions(req),
-		)
-		if string(decision.Action) != option.OptionID {
-			t.Fatalf("option %q was answered with %q (%s) — an offered option must be accepted",
-				option.OptionID, decision.Action, decision.Reason)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// The narrowing this validation exists for still holds: a client must not be
-// able to return a broader grant than it was shown.
-func TestAnOptionThatWasNotOfferedIsStillRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	req := agent.PermissionRequest{ToolName: "bash"}
-
-	decision := decisionFromOutcome(
-		RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeSelected, OptionID: string(agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllow)},
-		buildPermissionOptions(req),
-	)
-	if decision.Action != agent.PermissionDecisionDeny {
-		t.Fatalf("an unoffered broader grant was accepted as %q", decision.Action)
-	}
-}
-
-// The resolver is the single source of truth for both sides, which is what
-// makes the two agree by construction rather than by being kept in step.
-func TestOfferedDecisionsMatchWhatWasSent(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, req := range []agent.PermissionRequest{
-		{ToolName: "bash"},
-		{ToolName: "bash", AvailableDecisions: []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllowForSession,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
-		}},
-	} {
-		offered := buildPermissionOptions(req)
-		for _, option := range buildPermissionOptions(req) {
-			if !actionOffered(option.OptionID, offered) {
-				t.Fatalf("option %q was sent but is not in the offered set %v", option.OptionID, offered)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// ---- two options the user can tell apart ----
-
-// request_permissions offers plain allow and strict-review allow together, and
-// both were labelled "Allow". The label is the only thing an ACP client shows,
-// so the panel presented two identical buttons where one silently enabled
-// strict auto-review of what was granted.
-func TestEveryOfferedOptionHasADistinctLabel(t *testing.T) {
-	req := agent.PermissionRequest{
-		ToolName: "request_permissions",
-		AvailableDecisions: []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllowStrict,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllowForSession,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
-		},
-	}
-
-	seen := map[string]string{}
-	for _, option := range buildPermissionOptions(req) {
-		if previous, clash := seen[option.Name]; clash {
-			t.Fatalf("options %q and %q share the label %q — a user cannot tell them apart",
-				previous, option.OptionID, option.Name)
-		}
-		seen[option.Name] = option.OptionID
-	}
-}
-
-// The two remain distinct decisions: the label changed, the round trip did not.
-func TestStrictAllowStillRoundTrips(t *testing.T) {
-	req := agent.PermissionRequest{
-		ToolName: "request_permissions",
-		AvailableDecisions: []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllowStrict,
-		},
-	}
-	decision := decisionFromOutcome(
-		RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeSelected, OptionID: string(agent.PermissionDecisionAllowStrict)},
-		buildPermissionOptions(req),
-	)
-	if decision.Action != agent.PermissionDecisionAllowStrict {
-		t.Fatalf("strict allow round-tripped as %q", decision.Action)
-	}
-}
-
-// ---- cancelling a permission is a cancellation, not a crash ----
-
-// Only context.Canceled was recognised, so dismissing a permission dialog came
-// back as JSON-RPC -32603 carrying the internal sentinel text. Clients render
-// that as a failed turn, so declining a tool looked like ZERO falling over —
-// and for apply_patch, dismissing is the ONLY refusal a client is offered.
-func TestCancellingAPermissionEndsTheTurnAsCancelled(t *testing.T) {
-	canceled := fmt.Errorf("%w for apply_patch", agent.ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled)
-
-	reason, err := stopReasonFor(agent.Result{}, canceled)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("stopReasonFor returned an error for a cancellation: %v", err)
-	}
-	if reason != StopCancelled {
-		t.Fatalf("stop reason = %q, want %q", reason, StopCancelled)
-	}
-}
-
-// A genuine failure must still be an error. Mapping too much to cancelled would
-// hide real faults behind a clean ending, which is the opposite mistake.
-func TestARealFailureIsStillAnError(t *testing.T) {
-	failure := errors.New("provider exploded")
-
-	if _, err := stopReasonFor(agent.Result{}, failure); !errors.Is(err, failure) {
-		t.Fatalf("stopReasonFor(%v) = %v, want the failure preserved", failure, err)
-	}
-}
-
-// The sentinel is matched through errors.Is, so it survives the wrapping every
-// return site applies — each one adds the tool name.
-func TestPermissionCancellationSurvivesWrapping(t *testing.T) {
-	if !errors.Is(fmt.Errorf("%w for bash", agent.ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled), agent.ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled) {
-		t.Fatal("a wrapped permission cancellation was not recognised")
-	}
-	if errors.Is(errors.New("something else"), agent.ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled) {
-		t.Fatal("an unrelated error was reported as a permission cancellation")
-	}
-}
-
-// A decision that never became an option cannot be selected.
-//
-// PermissionDecisionCancel is the case that exists today: optionKindFor drops
-// it because ACP expresses cancellation through the outcome, yet ZERO
-// enumerates it in AvailableDecisions for shell commands and apply_patch. While
-// the reply was validated against the DECISIONS rather than the sent options, a
-// client could return {"outcome":"selected","optionId":"cancel"} — an id it was
-// never shown — and abort the whole turn.
-//
-// Written over every option-less decision rather than over "cancel", so a
-// future action that optionKindFor declines to render is covered the day it is
-// added rather than the day someone remembers this test.
-func TestADecisionThatIsNotAnOptionCannotBeSelected(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, toolName := range []string{"bash", "apply_patch"} {
-		req := agent.PermissionRequest{
-			ToolName: toolName,
-			AvailableDecisions: []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-				agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-				agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
-				agent.PermissionDecisionCancel,
-			},
-		}
-		options := buildPermissionOptions(req)
-
-		for _, action := range req.AvailableDecisions {
-			if actionOffered(string(action), options) {
-				continue // it was sent; selecting it is legitimate
-			}
-			decision := decisionFromOutcome(
-				RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeSelected, OptionID: string(action)},
-				options,
-			)
-			if decision.Action != agent.PermissionDecisionDeny {
-				t.Fatalf("%s: %q was never sent as an option but was accepted as %q",
-					toolName, action, decision.Action)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// Cancelling is still reachable — through the outcome, which is where ACP puts
-// it. Closing the selected-id route must not close the real one.
-func TestCancellingThroughTheOutcomeStillWorks(t *testing.T) {
-	options := buildPermissionOptions(agent.PermissionRequest{ToolName: "apply_patch"})
-
-	decision := decisionFromOutcome(RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeCancelled}, options)
-	if decision.Action != agent.PermissionDecisionCancel {
-		t.Fatalf("outcome=cancelled gave %q, want cancel", decision.Action)
-	}
-}
@@ -15,10 +15,17 @@ import (
 // PermissionOptions. Only the actions ZERO actually presented (AvailableDecisions)
 // are surfaced; the optionId is the ZERO action string for a clean round-trip.
 func buildPermissionOptions(req agent.PermissionRequest) []PermissionOption {
-	actions := offeredDecisions(req)
+	actions := req.AvailableDecisions
+	if len(actions) == 0 {
+		// Sensible default if ZERO didn't enumerate: allow once / reject.
+		actions = []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
+			agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
+			agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
+		}
+	}
 	options := make([]PermissionOption, 0, len(actions))
 	for _, action := range actions {
-		kind, name := optionKindFor(action, req.PrefixApprovalEscalates)
+		kind, name := optionKindFor(action)
 		if kind == "" {
 			continue // skip actions that have no clean ACP option (e.g. cancel)
 		}
@@ -31,61 +38,21 @@ func buildPermissionOptions(req agent.PermissionRequest) []PermissionOption {
 	return options
 }

-// offeredDecisions resolves what this request actually offers the client.
-//
-// ONE RESOLVER, USED BY BOTH SIDES, and that is the entire point of it existing.
-// The fallback below used to live inside buildPermissionOptions while
-// requestPermission validated the client's answer against the raw
-// req.AvailableDecisions. When ZERO did not enumerate — which is every
-// permission event that is not a prompt, and includes a shell call whose sandbox
-// decision came back deny — the two disagreed completely: the client was sent
-// "Allow" and "Reject", and validation was performed against an EMPTY list, so
-// every option the client could possibly click failed closed to deny with
-// "permission option was not offered".
-//
-// The user clicked Allow and ZERO recorded a denial. Nothing surfaced it,
-// because a denial is a legitimate answer — the tool was simply refused and the
-// turn carried on as though the user had rejected it.
-func offeredDecisions(req agent.PermissionRequest) []agent.PermissionDecisionAction {
-	if len(req.AvailableDecisions) > 0 {
-		return req.AvailableDecisions
-	}
-	// Sensible default if ZERO didn't enumerate: allow once / reject.
-	return []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-		agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-		agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
-	}
-}
-
 // optionKindFor maps a ZERO decision action to an ACP PermissionOptionKind and a
 // human label. Returns an empty kind for actions that ACP expresses through the
 // outcome rather than an option (cancel).
-//
-// escalates reports that approving a command prefix will also run the command
-// outside the sandbox. The two prefix options say so in their label, since the
-// label is all an ACP client shows and the option id carries no room for it. An
-// editor user is deciding on exactly the same terms as a terminal user, so the
-// disclosure cannot be TUI-only.
-func optionKindFor(action agent.PermissionDecisionAction, escalates bool) (kind, name string) {
+func optionKindFor(action agent.PermissionDecisionAction) (kind, name string) {
 	switch action {
-	case agent.PermissionDecisionAllow:
+	case agent.PermissionDecisionAllow, agent.PermissionDecisionAllowStrict:
 		return PermAllowOnce, "Allow"
-	case agent.PermissionDecisionAllowStrict:
-		// SPLIT FROM PLAIN ALLOW because the label is the only thing an ACP
-		// client shows. Both were labelled "Allow", and request_permissions
-		// offers them together — so the panel presented two identical buttons,
-		// and whichever the user picked looked the same while one of them
-		// silently turned on strict auto-review of what was granted. The option
-		// id carries no room for the distinction, so it has to be in the name.
-		return PermAllowOnce, "Allow with strict review"
 	case agent.PermissionDecisionAllowForSession:
 		return PermAllowAlways, "Allow for this session"
 	case agent.PermissionDecisionAllowPrefix:
-		return PermAllowAlways, withSandboxEscalationNote("Allow this command for the session", escalates)
+		return PermAllowAlways, "Allow this command for the session"
 	case agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllow:
 		return PermAllowAlways, "Always allow"
 	case agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllowPrefix:
-		return PermAllowAlways, withSandboxEscalationNote("Always allow this command", escalates)
+		return PermAllowAlways, "Always allow this command"
 	case agent.PermissionDecisionDeny:
 		return PermRejectOnce, "Reject"
 	case agent.PermissionDecisionCancel:
@@ -97,31 +64,19 @@ func optionKindFor(action agent.PermissionDecisionAction, escalates bool) (kind,

 // decisionFromOutcome maps the client's permission outcome back to a ZERO
 // decision. A cancelled outcome cancels the run; a selected option id is the ZERO
-// action verbatim (validated against what was actually sent); anything
-// unrecognized fails closed to deny.
-//
-// IT TAKES THE OPTIONS THAT WERE SENT, not the decisions the request offered,
-// and the two are not the same list. Some actions never become options —
-// PermissionDecisionCancel is dropped by optionKindFor because ACP expresses
-// cancellation through the outcome instead — yet it IS enumerated in
-// AvailableDecisions for shell commands and apply_patch, the two commonest
-// prompts. Validating against the decisions therefore accepted
-// {"outcome":"selected","optionId":"cancel"}: an identifier no client was ever
-// shown, aborting the whole turn.
-//
-// Passing the sent options makes "what we offered" and "what we accept" the
-// same slice rather than two things kept in step, so anything optionKindFor
-// declines to render is excluded structurally instead of by name.
-func decisionFromOutcome(outcome RequestPermissionOutcome, offered []PermissionOption) agent.PermissionDecision {
+// action verbatim (validated against what was offered); anything unrecognized
+// fails closed to deny.
+func decisionFromOutcome(outcome RequestPermissionOutcome, offered []agent.PermissionDecisionAction) agent.PermissionDecision {
 	switch outcome.Outcome {
 	case OutcomeCancelled:
 		return agent.PermissionDecision{Action: agent.PermissionDecisionCancel, Reason: "client cancelled"}
 	case OutcomeSelected:
+		action := agent.PermissionDecisionAction(outcome.OptionID)
 		// Bind to what was actually offered for THIS call: a client must not be able
 		// to return a broader grant (always_allow / allow_for_session) that wasn't
 		// presented. Anything not offered fails closed to deny.
-		if actionOffered(outcome.OptionID, offered) {
-			return agent.PermissionDecision{Action: agent.PermissionDecisionAction(outcome.OptionID)}
+		if actionOffered(action, offered) {
+			return agent.PermissionDecision{Action: action}
 		}
 		return agent.PermissionDecision{Action: agent.PermissionDecisionDeny, Reason: "permission option was not offered"}
 	default:
@@ -129,9 +84,9 @@ func decisionFromOutcome(outcome RequestPermissionOutcome, offered []PermissionO
 	}
 }

-func actionOffered(optionID string, offered []PermissionOption) bool {
-	for _, option := range offered {
-		if option.OptionID == optionID {
+func actionOffered(action agent.PermissionDecisionAction, offered []agent.PermissionDecisionAction) bool {
+	for _, a := range offered {
+		if a == action {
 			return true
 		}
 	}
@@ -168,13 +123,3 @@ func rawInputBytes(data []byte) json.RawMessage {
 	}
 	return json.RawMessage(data)
 }
-
-// withSandboxEscalationNote appends the escalation disclosure to a prefix
-// option's label. Kept parallel to the TUI's wording so the same consequence is
-// not described two different ways depending on which client the user runs.
-func withSandboxEscalationNote(name string, escalates bool) string {
-	if !escalates {
-		return name
-	}
-	return name + " (runs outside the sandbox)"
-}
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-package acp
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/agent"
-)
-
-func escalationRequest(escalates bool) agent.PermissionRequest {
-	return agent.PermissionRequest{
-		ToolName: "bash",
-		AvailableDecisions: []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllowPrefix,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllowPrefix,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
-		},
-		PrefixApprovalEscalates: escalates,
-	}
-}
-
-// An ACP client renders only Name, so if the escalation is not in the label the
-// editor user approves it blind. They face exactly the outcome a terminal user
-// faces, so the disclosure has to reach both clients or it is not a fix.
-func TestACPPrefixOptionsDiscloseLeavingTheSandbox(t *testing.T) {
-	found := 0
-	for _, option := range buildPermissionOptions(escalationRequest(true)) {
-		action := agent.PermissionDecisionAction(option.OptionID)
-		if action != agent.PermissionDecisionAllowPrefix && action != agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllowPrefix {
-			if strings.Contains(option.Name, "sandbox") {
-				t.Errorf("option %q carries the disclosure but does not escalate", option.Name)
-			}
-			continue
-		}
-		found++
-		if !strings.Contains(option.Name, "outside the sandbox") {
-			t.Errorf("prefix option %q does not say the command leaves the sandbox", option.Name)
-		}
-	}
-	if found != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("expected both prefix options, saw %d", found)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestACPPrefixOptionsStaySilentWithoutEscalation(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, option := range buildPermissionOptions(escalationRequest(false)) {
-		if strings.Contains(option.Name, "sandbox") {
-			t.Errorf("option %q warns about the sandbox when approving would not leave it", option.Name)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// The disclosure must live in the label only. The option id is the decision
-// action round-tripped verbatim, and decisionFromOutcome matches it against
-// what was offered, so decorating it would fail every prefix approval closed.
-func TestACPDisclosureDoesNotDisturbTheOptionIDRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
-	request := escalationRequest(true)
-	options := buildPermissionOptions(request)
-	for _, option := range options {
-		decision := decisionFromOutcome(
-			RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeSelected, OptionID: option.OptionID},
-			options,
-		)
-		if string(decision.Action) != option.OptionID {
-			t.Errorf("option id %q round-tripped to %q (%s)", option.OptionID, decision.Action, decision.Reason)
-		}
-	}
-}
@@ -39,14 +39,11 @@ func TestBuildPermissionOptionsDefault(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestDecisionFromOutcome(t *testing.T) {
-	offered := buildPermissionOptions(agent.PermissionRequest{
-		ToolName: "bash",
-		AvailableDecisions: []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllow,
-			agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
-		},
-	})
+	offered := []agent.PermissionDecisionAction{
+		agent.PermissionDecisionAllow,
+		agent.PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllow,
+		agent.PermissionDecisionDeny,
+	}
 	if d := decisionFromOutcome(RequestPermissionOutcome{Outcome: OutcomeCancelled}, offered); d.Action != agent.PermissionDecisionCancel {
 		t.Errorf("cancelled -> %q, want cancel", d.Action)
 	}
@@ -99,43 +99,6 @@ func TestProposedCommandPrefixRejectsUnsafeRequestedPrefix(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-// The launcher denylist is only worth anything if it holds on the path a user
-// actually sees. A model naming its own prefix_rule is that path: before
-// launcher names were normalized, "python3.11" was offered as a one-token
-// grant, and hasStringPrefix then matched every later python3.11 invocation.
-func TestProposedCommandPrefixRejectsLauncherSpellingsInRequestedPrefix(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, testCase := range []struct {
-		command string
-		rule    []any
-	}{
-		{"python3.11 script.py", []any{"python3.11"}},
-		{"python.exe script.py", []any{"python.exe"}},
-		{"node.exe app.js", []any{"node.exe"}},
-		{"cmd /c whoami", []any{"cmd"}},
-		{"busybox sh -c id", []any{"busybox"}},
-		{"uv run main.py", []any{"uv", "run"}},
-		{"python3.11 -c import_os", []any{"python3.11", "-c"}},
-	} {
-		got := proposedCommandPrefix("bash", map[string]any{
-			"command":     testCase.command,
-			"prefix_rule": testCase.rule,
-		})
-		if got != nil {
-			t.Errorf("prefix_rule %v for %q was offered as %#v, want rejected", testCase.rule, testCase.command, got)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestProposedCommandPrefixStillOffersOrdinaryCommands(t *testing.T) {
-	got := proposedCommandPrefix("bash", map[string]any{
-		"command":     "cargo build --release",
-		"prefix_rule": []any{"cargo", "build"},
-	})
-	if len(got) != 2 || got[0] != "cargo" || got[1] != "build" {
-		t.Fatalf("ordinary prefix rule = %#v, want [cargo build]", got)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestProposedCommandPrefixRejectsUnsafeShellForms(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []string{
 		"cat < in > out",
@@ -4,9 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
-	"strconv"
 	"strings"
-	"unicode/utf8"

 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/trace"
 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/zeroruntime"
@@ -392,27 +390,6 @@ type compactionState struct {
 	// starts at 1.0 and converges via an EMA as each turn reports actual usage, so
 	// later turns compact nearer to real capacity. Zero is treated as 1.0.
 	calibrationRatio float64
-
-	// summarizerFactory lazily builds the dedicated (cheap) summarizer provider
-	// (Options.Summarizer) for the current main model. summarizerProvider
-	// memoizes the built provider and summarizerResolved records that the
-	// factory ran (it may legitimately return no provider: the main model is
-	// already the cheap one). summarizerBroken is the sticky fallback: once a
-	// build or call fails, the run stays on the main provider until the next
-	// model switch — a misconfigured cheap model must never break (or
-	// repeatedly delay) compaction.
-	summarizerFactory  func(ctx context.Context, mainModelID string) (Provider, error)
-	summarizerProvider Provider
-	summarizerResolved bool
-	summarizerBroken   bool
-	// window is the context window the threshold was derived from. The
-	// reactive free-prune stage compares against it (the limit the provider
-	// enforces), not against the 70% proactive threshold — a pruned history
-	// between the two would still succeed on retry.
-	window int
-	// mainModel is the model the run currently streams on; the summarizer
-	// choice is made against it and remade after a mid-run switch.
-	mainModel string
 }

 // calibrate folds one turn's (rawEstimate, actualPromptTokens) sample into the
@@ -447,88 +424,17 @@ func (state *compactionState) calibratedTokens(raw int) int {

 func newCompactionState(options Options, task *taskState) *compactionState {
 	state := &compactionState{
-		enabled:           options.ContextWindow > 0,
-		threshold:         compactionThreshold(options.ContextWindow),
-		window:            options.ContextWindow,
-		mainModel:         options.Model,
-		preserveLast:      options.CompactionPreserveLast,
-		onUsage:           options.OnUsage,
-		task:              task,
-		planner:           newContextPlanner(contextPlannerConfig{contextWindow: options.ContextWindow, serviceTier: options.ServiceTier}),
-		trace:             options.Trace,
-		summarizerFactory: options.Summarizer,
+		enabled:      options.ContextWindow > 0,
+		threshold:    compactionThreshold(options.ContextWindow),
+		preserveLast: options.CompactionPreserveLast,
+		onUsage:      options.OnUsage,
+		task:         task,
+		planner:      newContextPlanner(contextPlannerConfig{contextWindow: options.ContextWindow}),
+		trace:        options.Trace,
 	}
 	return state
 }

-// updateWindow re-derives the compaction threshold after a mid-run model
-// switch. The low-water mark is reset: it was measured against the old
-// threshold, and keeping it could suppress a compaction the smaller window
-// now requires. <= 0 (unknown model) leaves everything unchanged.
-func (state *compactionState) updateWindow(window int) {
-	if window <= 0 {
-		return
-	}
-	state.enabled = true
-	state.window = window
-	state.threshold = compactionThreshold(window)
-	state.lowWaterMark = 0
-	if state.planner != nil {
-		state.planner.config.contextWindow = window
-	}
-}
-
-// switchModel records a mid-run model switch: the window is re-derived
-// (window <= 0 keeps the old one) and the summarizer choice is forgotten so
-// the next compaction re-resolves it against the new main model. A run that
-// started on the cheap model (no dedicated summarizer) and escalated to an
-// expensive one therefore regains cheap summaries — the exact workflow a
-// dedicated summarizer exists for.
-func (state *compactionState) switchModel(modelID string, window int) {
-	state.mainModel = modelID
-	state.updateWindow(window)
-	state.summarizerProvider = nil
-	state.summarizerResolved = false
-	state.summarizerBroken = false
-}
-
-// summarizeProvider returns the provider summarization calls should use and
-// whether it is the dedicated summarizer: that one when it applies to the
-// current main model and is healthy, else the main provider. The factory runs
-// at most once per main model; a build error marks the summarizer broken for
-// that model. Callers branch on the boolean rather than comparing Provider
-// values — interface comparison panics on a non-comparable dynamic type.
-func (state *compactionState) summarizeProvider(ctx context.Context, main Provider) (Provider, bool) {
-	if state.summarizerFactory == nil || state.summarizerBroken {
-		return main, false
-	}
-	if !state.summarizerResolved {
-		state.summarizerResolved = true
-		built, err := state.summarizerFactory(ctx, state.mainModel)
-		if err != nil {
-			state.summarizerBroken = true
-			return main, false
-		}
-		state.summarizerProvider = built
-	}
-	if state.summarizerProvider == nil {
-		return main, false
-	}
-	return state.summarizerProvider, true
-}
-
-// fitsWindow reports whether a calibrated size is safely under the limit the
-// provider enforces. The proactive threshold (70% of the window) is a trigger
-// for the paid summarizer, not the hard limit; the reactive path compares
-// against the window itself, with a small margin for estimate error, so a
-// history pruned to, say, 85% of the window takes the free retry.
-func (state *compactionState) fitsWindow(size int) bool {
-	if state.window <= 0 {
-		return size <= state.threshold
-	}
-	return size <= state.window-state.window/20
-}
-
 // maybeCompact runs proactive compaction at the top of a turn. It returns the
 // (possibly compacted) message slice. It is a no-op when compaction is disabled,
 // when the history is under threshold, or when the history has not grown past
@@ -622,34 +528,10 @@ func (state *compactionState) recover(
 		// context-limit error never triggers an unexpected summarization call.
 		return messages, false, nil
 	}
-	if !isContextLimitError(errorMessage) {
+	if state.reactiveAttempted {
 		return messages, false, nil
 	}
-
-	// CHEAP FIRST STAGE (mirrors maybeCompact): a context-limit failure can
-	// often be fixed for free by dropping superseded reads and pruning old
-	// tool-result bodies. It runs regardless of the one-shot reactive budget
-	// (it costs nothing and cannot loop: a second pass finds nothing left to
-	// prune). The free retry is taken only when the pruned history fits the
-	// window the provider enforces — otherwise a retry would fail the same
-	// way, so fall through to the paid summarizer in this same call.
-	toolTokens := estimateToolDefTokens(tools)
-	prunedAny := false
-	if pruned, reclaimed := pruneSupersededReadResults(messages); reclaimed > 0 {
-		messages, prunedAny = pruned, true
-	}
-	if pruned, reclaimed := pruneStaleToolOutput(messages, state.preserveLast); reclaimed > 0 {
-		messages, prunedAny = pruned, true
-	}
-	if prunedAny {
-		size := state.calibratedTokens(estimateTokens(messages) + toolTokens)
-		if state.fitsWindow(size) {
-			state.lowWaterMark = size
-			return messages, true, nil
-		}
-	}
-
-	if state.reactiveAttempted {
+	if !isContextLimitError(errorMessage) {
 		return messages, false, nil
 	}

@@ -689,21 +571,11 @@ func (state *compactionState) recover(
 // provider call. The summary stream intentionally does NOT forward OnText (so
 // compaction stays invisible on the user-facing surface), but it DOES forward
 // OnUsage so the summarizer's token cost is still counted by usage/budgeting.
-// The call goes to the dedicated (cheap) summarizer when one applies; if that
-// call fails the summarizer is marked broken for the current model and the
-// same slice is retried once on the main provider, so the caller sees at most
-// one (main-provider-quality) error.
 func (state *compactionState) summarizeClosure(ctx context.Context, provider Provider) func([]zeroruntime.Message) (string, error) {
 	if state.planner == nil {
 		state.planner = newContextPlanner(contextPlannerConfig{})
 	}
 	return func(toSummarize []zeroruntime.Message) (string, error) {
-		chosen, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(ctx, provider)
-		summary, err := summarizeWithPlanner(ctx, chosen, toSummarize, state.onUsage, state.planner, state.trace)
-		if err == nil || !dedicated {
-			return summary, err
-		}
-		state.summarizerBroken = true
 		return summarizeWithPlanner(ctx, provider, toSummarize, state.onUsage, state.planner, state.trace)
 	}
 }
@@ -787,41 +659,8 @@ func summarizeMessagesOnce(ctx context.Context, provider Provider, messages []ze
 	return summary, nil
 }

-// summaryToolResultClamp bounds each tool-result body in the summarizer input.
-// Tool outputs dominate the elided middle's bulk (build logs, file reads,
-// search results), yet the summary instructions only need their gist — the
-// model that ACTED on the full output already turned it into decisions the
-// surrounding messages record. 2,000 chars (~500 tokens) keeps the useful
-// head+tail of a result while cutting the summarizer input by 5-10x on
-// tool-heavy sessions; the summarizer's own cost is the price being cut.
-const summaryToolResultClamp = 2000
-
-// summaryToolArgsClamp bounds each tool-call argument blob in the transcript:
-// a write_file call carries the whole file body in its arguments.
-const summaryToolArgsClamp = 500
-
-// clampForSummary head+tail-truncates text for the summarizer transcript,
-// snapping to rune boundaries so the clamp never splits a UTF-8 sequence.
-func clampForSummary(text string, max int) string {
-	if max <= 0 || len(text) <= max {
-		return text
-	}
-	head := max * 3 / 4
-	tail := max - head
-	for head > 0 && !utf8.RuneStart(text[head]) {
-		head--
-	}
-	start := len(text) - tail
-	for start < len(text) && !utf8.RuneStart(text[start]) {
-		start++
-	}
-	return text[:head] + "\n…[" + strconv.Itoa(len(text)-head-(len(text)-start)) + " chars omitted for summarization]…\n" + text[start:]
-}
-
 // renderTranscript flattens messages into a plain-text transcript for the
 // summarizer. Secret scrubbing already happened upstream at the tool boundary.
-// Tool-result bodies and tool-call arguments are clamped (see the constants
-// above): the summary needs what was done and decided, not the raw payloads.
 func renderTranscript(messages []zeroruntime.Message) string {
 	lines := make([]string, 0, len(messages))
 	for _, message := range messages {
@@ -831,13 +670,13 @@ func renderTranscript(messages []zeroruntime.Message) string {
 			if len(message.ToolCalls) > 0 {
 				calls := make([]string, 0, len(message.ToolCalls))
 				for _, call := range message.ToolCalls {
-					calls = append(calls, call.Name+"("+clampForSummary(call.Arguments, summaryToolArgsClamp)+")")
+					calls = append(calls, call.Name+"("+call.Arguments+")")
 				}
 				line += "\n[tool calls: " + strings.Join(calls, "; ") + "]"
 			}
 			lines = append(lines, line)
 		case zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool:
-			lines = append(lines, "tool result: "+clampForSummary(message.Content, summaryToolResultClamp))
+			lines = append(lines, "tool result: "+message.Content)
 		default:
 			lines = append(lines, string(message.Role)+": "+message.Content)
 		}
@@ -1,469 +0,0 @@
-package agent
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/tools"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/zeroruntime"
-)
-
-// compactableHistory returns a history whose middle is large enough to trip
-// the proactive threshold for a 1000-token window.
-func compactableHistory() []zeroruntime.Message {
-	return []zeroruntime.Message{
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleSystem, Content: "sys"},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: strings.Repeat("u", 4000)},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleAssistant, Content: strings.Repeat("a", 4000)},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "u2"},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleAssistant, Content: "a2"},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "u3"},
-	}
-}
-
-// Summarization must run on the dedicated (cheap) summarizer when one is
-// configured — the main provider sees no summarize traffic at all.
-func TestMaybeCompactUsesDedicatedSummarizer(t *testing.T) {
-	cheap := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "CHEAP SUMMARY"},
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-	}}}
-	main := &mockProvider{}
-	factoryCalls := 0
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{
-		ContextWindow:          1000,
-		CompactionPreserveLast: 2,
-		Summarizer: func(context.Context, string) (Provider, error) {
-			factoryCalls++
-			return cheap, nil
-		},
-	}, nil)
-
-	compacted := state.maybeCompact(context.Background(), main, compactableHistory(), nil)
-
-	if len(cheap.requests) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("dedicated summarizer never received the summarize call")
-	}
-	if len(main.requests) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("main provider must see no summarize traffic, got %d requests", len(main.requests))
-	}
-	if factoryCalls != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("summarizer factory calls = %d, want 1 (lazy, memoized)", factoryCalls)
-	}
-	if estimateTokens(compacted) >= estimateTokens(compactableHistory()) {
-		t.Fatal("compaction did not shrink the history")
-	}
-	found := false
-	for _, message := range compacted {
-		if strings.Contains(message.Content, "CHEAP SUMMARY") {
-			found = true
-		}
-	}
-	if !found {
-		t.Fatal("cheap summarizer's summary missing from the compacted history")
-	}
-}
-
-// A failing summarizer falls back to the main provider for the SAME slice and
-// stays broken for the rest of the run — no repeated failed cheap calls.
-func TestSummarizerFailureFallsBackToMainAndSticks(t *testing.T) {
-	broken := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventError, Error: "boom: model not found"},
-	}}}
-	main := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-		{{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "MAIN SUMMARY"}, {Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone}},
-		{{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "MAIN SUMMARY 2"}, {Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone}},
-	}}
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{
-		ContextWindow:          1000,
-		CompactionPreserveLast: 2,
-		Summarizer:             func(context.Context, string) (Provider, error) { return broken, nil },
-	}, nil)
-	summarize := state.summarizeClosure(context.Background(), main)
-	input := []zeroruntime.Message{{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "history"}}
-
-	summary, err := summarize(input)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("fallback must succeed via the main provider: %v", err)
-	}
-	if summary != "MAIN SUMMARY" {
-		t.Fatalf("summary = %q, want the main provider's", summary)
-	}
-	if len(broken.requests) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("broken summarizer requests = %d, want exactly 1", len(broken.requests))
-	}
-	if !state.summarizerBroken {
-		t.Fatal("a failed summarizer must be marked broken for the run")
-	}
-
-	// Second summarization: straight to main, no cheap retry.
-	if _, err := summarize(input); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(broken.requests) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("broken summarizer was retried (%d requests)", len(broken.requests))
-	}
-	if len(main.requests) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("main provider requests = %d, want 2", len(main.requests))
-	}
-}
-
-// A factory that errors (misconfigured model) is equivalent to no summarizer:
-// main provider used, factory not retried.
-func TestSummarizerFactoryErrorFallsBack(t *testing.T) {
-	main := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "MAIN SUMMARY"},
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-	}}}
-	factoryCalls := 0
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{
-		ContextWindow:          1000,
-		CompactionPreserveLast: 2,
-		Summarizer: func(context.Context, string) (Provider, error) {
-			factoryCalls++
-			return nil, errors.New("unknown model")
-		},
-	}, nil)
-	summarize := state.summarizeClosure(context.Background(), main)
-
-	summary, err := summarize([]zeroruntime.Message{{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "history"}})
-	if err != nil || summary != "MAIN SUMMARY" {
-		t.Fatalf("summary = %q, err = %v; want main provider fallback", summary, err)
-	}
-	if factoryCalls != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("factory calls = %d, want 1 (sticky failure)", factoryCalls)
-	}
-	if _, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(context.Background(), main); dedicated {
-		t.Fatal("after a factory failure the run must stay on the main provider")
-	}
-	if factoryCalls != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("factory retried after failure (%d calls)", factoryCalls)
-	}
-}
-
-// Tool payloads are clamped in the summarizer transcript: results to
-// summaryToolResultClamp, call arguments to summaryToolArgsClamp.
-func TestRenderTranscriptClampsToolPayloads(t *testing.T) {
-	bigResult := strings.Repeat("r", 50_000)
-	bigArgs := strings.Repeat("w", 20_000)
-	transcript := renderTranscript([]zeroruntime.Message{
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleAssistant, Content: "editing", ToolCalls: []zeroruntime.ToolCall{
-			{ID: "c1", Name: "write_file", Arguments: bigArgs},
-		}},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool, ToolCallID: "c1", Content: bigResult},
-		{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "keep going"},
-	})
-
-	if len(transcript) > summaryToolResultClamp+summaryToolArgsClamp+1024 {
-		t.Fatalf("transcript is %d bytes; clamps did not apply", len(transcript))
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(transcript, "chars omitted for summarization") {
-		t.Fatal("clamped transcript must carry the omission marker")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(transcript, "keep going") {
-		t.Fatal("non-tool content must survive unclamped")
-	}
-	// Head AND tail of the clamped payloads survive.
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(transcript[strings.Index(transcript, "tool result: ")+len("tool result: "):], "r") ||
-		!strings.Contains(transcript, "rrr\n\nuser: keep going") {
-		t.Fatalf("head/tail of the tool result lost:\n%s", transcript[:200])
-	}
-}
-
-// bigToolHistory returns a history with n large tool results (~40k estimated
-// tokens each): the trailing protection window keeps the newest verbatim,
-// the older ones are prunable.
-func bigToolHistory(n int) []zeroruntime.Message {
-	bigBody := strings.Repeat("x", 160_000)
-	messages := []zeroruntime.Message{{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleSystem, Content: "sys"}}
-	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
-		id := string(rune('a' + i))
-		messages = append(messages,
-			zeroruntime.Message{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleAssistant, ToolCalls: []zeroruntime.ToolCall{{ID: id, Name: "read_file", Arguments: "{\"path\":\"" + id + "\"}"}}},
-			zeroruntime.Message{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool, ToolCallID: id, Content: bigBody},
-		)
-	}
-	return append(messages, zeroruntime.Message{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "go"})
-}
-
-func summaryProvider(text string) *mockProvider {
-	return &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-		{{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: text}, {Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone}},
-		{{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: text}, {Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone}},
-	}}
-}
-
-// A context-limit error is first answered with the free prune stage; when the
-// pruned history fits the window the retry is free (no summarizer call) and
-// the one-shot reactive budget is untouched. The paid summarizer only runs
-// when a later error finds nothing left to prune.
-func TestRecoverPrunesBeforeSummarizing(t *testing.T) {
-	provider := summaryProvider("SUMMARY")
-	// The protected trailing tool output (~40k tokens) must fit the window.
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{ContextWindow: 200_000, CompactionPreserveLast: 2}, nil)
-	messages := bigToolHistory(5)
-
-	pruned, retried, err := state.recover(context.Background(), provider, messages, nil, "maximum context length exceeded")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !retried {
-		t.Fatal("prunable history that fits must produce a free retry")
-	}
-	if len(provider.requests) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("free prune stage must not call the summarizer (%d requests)", len(provider.requests))
-	}
-	if state.reactiveAttempted {
-		t.Fatal("a free prune retry must not consume the reactive budget")
-	}
-	if estimateTokens(pruned) >= estimateTokens(messages) {
-		t.Fatal("prune did not shrink the history")
-	}
-
-	// Second context-limit error on the pruned history: nothing meaningfully
-	// prunable remains, so the paid summarizer fires and consumes the budget.
-	_, retried, err = state.recover(context.Background(), provider, pruned, nil, "maximum context length exceeded")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !retried {
-		t.Fatal("second recover must compact and retry")
-	}
-	if len(provider.requests) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("second recover must reach the summarizer")
-	}
-	if !state.reactiveAttempted {
-		t.Fatal("a paid recover must consume the reactive budget")
-	}
-}
-
-// When pruning reclaims something but the pruned history still exceeds the
-// window, recover falls through to the paid summarizer in the SAME call
-// instead of spending a retry that would fail the same way.
-func TestRecoverFallsThroughToSummarizerWhenPruneIsInsufficient(t *testing.T) {
-	provider := summaryProvider("SUMMARY")
-	// A 1,000-token window: even the protected trailing output overflows it.
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{ContextWindow: 1000, CompactionPreserveLast: 2}, nil)
-	messages := bigToolHistory(5)
-
-	compacted, retried, err := state.recover(context.Background(), provider, messages, nil, "maximum context length exceeded")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !retried {
-		t.Fatal("insufficient prune must still end in a retry via summarization")
-	}
-	if len(provider.requests) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("insufficient prune must reach the summarizer in the same recover call")
-	}
-	if !state.reactiveAttempted {
-		t.Fatal("the paid summarizer consumes the reactive budget")
-	}
-	if estimateTokens(compacted) >= estimateTokens(messages) {
-		t.Fatal("recover did not shrink the history")
-	}
-}
-
-// The free prune stage is not gated behind the one-shot budget: after a paid
-// reactive compaction, a later context-limit error still gets a free retry
-// when pruning makes the history fit.
-func TestRecoverFreePruneRunsAfterBudgetIsSpent(t *testing.T) {
-	provider := summaryProvider("SUMMARY")
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{ContextWindow: 200_000, CompactionPreserveLast: 2}, nil)
-	state.reactiveAttempted = true
-	messages := bigToolHistory(5)
-
-	pruned, retried, err := state.recover(context.Background(), provider, messages, nil, "maximum context length exceeded")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !retried || len(provider.requests) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("free prune must retry without the summarizer even when the budget is spent (retried=%v, requests=%d)", retried, len(provider.requests))
-	}
-	if estimateTokens(pruned) >= estimateTokens(messages) {
-		t.Fatal("prune did not shrink the history")
-	}
-	// With nothing left to prune and the budget spent, the caller keeps its
-	// original error — recover neither loops nor summarizes.
-	_, retried, err = state.recover(context.Background(), provider, pruned, nil, "maximum context length exceeded")
-	if err != nil || retried || len(provider.requests) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("spent budget must not summarize again (retried=%v, requests=%d, err=%v)", retried, len(provider.requests), err)
-	}
-}
-
-// The free-retry gate compares against the window the provider enforces, not
-// the 70% proactive threshold: a history pruned to ~80% of the window still
-// takes the free retry.
-func TestRecoverFreeRetryGateUsesWindowNotThreshold(t *testing.T) {
-	provider := summaryProvider("SUMMARY")
-	messages := bigToolHistory(5)
-	pruned, _ := pruneStaleToolOutput(messages, 2)
-	prunedTokens := estimateTokens(pruned)
-	// Choose a window so the pruned size sits between 70% and 95% of it.
-	window := prunedTokens * 100 / 80
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{ContextWindow: window, CompactionPreserveLast: 2}, nil)
-	if prunedTokens <= state.threshold {
-		t.Fatalf("test setup: pruned size %d must exceed the proactive threshold %d", prunedTokens, state.threshold)
-	}
-
-	_, retried, err := state.recover(context.Background(), provider, messages, nil, "maximum context length exceeded")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !retried || len(provider.requests) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("a history that fits the window must take the free retry (retried=%v, requests=%d)", retried, len(provider.requests))
-	}
-}
-
-// After a mid-run model switch the summarizer is re-resolved against the new
-// main model: a run that started on the cheap model (no dedicated summarizer)
-// and escalated gets a cheap summarizer, and a previously broken one is
-// retried for the new model.
-func TestSwitchModelReresolvesSummarizer(t *testing.T) {
-	cheap := summaryProvider("CHEAP SUMMARY")
-	main := summaryProvider("MAIN SUMMARY")
-	var factoryModels []string
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{
-		ContextWindow:          1000,
-		CompactionPreserveLast: 2,
-		Model:                  "cheap-model",
-		Summarizer: func(_ context.Context, mainModelID string) (Provider, error) {
-			factoryModels = append(factoryModels, mainModelID)
-			if mainModelID == "cheap-model" {
-				return nil, nil // main already is the cheap model
-			}
-			return cheap, nil
-		},
-	}, nil)
-
-	if _, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(context.Background(), main); dedicated {
-		t.Fatal("on the cheap model the main provider must summarize")
-	}
-	if _, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(context.Background(), main); dedicated || len(factoryModels) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("factory must run once per main model, calls=%v", factoryModels)
-	}
-
-	state.switchModel("big-model", 400_000)
-	if state.threshold != compactionThreshold(400_000) || state.window != 400_000 {
-		t.Fatalf("switchModel must re-derive the window, got threshold=%d window=%d", state.threshold, state.window)
-	}
-	if got, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(context.Background(), main); !dedicated || got != Provider(cheap) {
-		t.Fatal("after escalating to an expensive model the dedicated cheap summarizer must be used")
-	}
-	if len(factoryModels) != 2 || factoryModels[1] != "big-model" {
-		t.Fatalf("factory must be re-invoked with the new main model, calls=%v", factoryModels)
-	}
-
-	// A broken summarizer is retried after the next switch.
-	state.summarizerBroken = true
-	if _, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(context.Background(), main); dedicated {
-		t.Fatal("a broken summarizer must fall back to main")
-	}
-	state.switchModel("other-model", 0)
-	if got, dedicated := state.summarizeProvider(context.Background(), main); !dedicated || got != Provider(cheap) {
-		t.Fatal("a model switch must clear the broken flag and rebuild the summarizer")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestCompactionUpdateWindow(t *testing.T) {
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{ContextWindow: 100_000, CompactionPreserveLast: 2}, nil)
-	state.lowWaterMark = 50_000
-	before := state.threshold
-
-	state.updateWindow(0) // unknown model: unchanged
-	if state.threshold != before || state.lowWaterMark != 50_000 {
-		t.Fatal("updateWindow(0) must be a no-op")
-	}
-
-	state.updateWindow(10_000)
-	if state.threshold >= before {
-		t.Fatalf("threshold = %d, want re-derived below %d", state.threshold, before)
-	}
-	if state.lowWaterMark != 0 {
-		t.Fatal("low-water mark must reset on a window change")
-	}
-	if !state.enabled {
-		t.Fatal("a positive window must keep compaction enabled")
-	}
-}
-
-// End-to-end: after escalate_model switches providers, the loop re-derives the
-// context window via ContextWindowFor, visible in the OnContext report.
-func TestRunEscalationRederivesContextWindow(t *testing.T) {
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(escalatingTool{target: "big-model"})
-	switched := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-	}}}
-	provider := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: "escalate"},
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{}`},
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-	}}}
-
-	var windows []int
-	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "go", provider, Options{
-		Registry:      registry,
-		ContextWindow: 100_000,
-		Model:         "small-model",
-		ModelSwitcher: func(context.Context, string) (Provider, error) { return switched, nil },
-		ContextWindowFor: func(modelID string) int {
-			if modelID == "big-model" {
-				return 400_000
-			}
-			return 0
-		},
-		OnContext: func(breakdown ContextBreakdown) { windows = append(windows, breakdown.ContextWindow) },
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if result.FinalAnswer != "done" {
-		t.Fatalf("final answer = %q", result.FinalAnswer)
-	}
-	if len(windows) < 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("expected at least 2 OnContext reports, got %d", len(windows))
-	}
-	if windows[0] != 100_000 {
-		t.Fatalf("turn 1 window = %d, want the original 100000", windows[0])
-	}
-	if windows[len(windows)-1] != 400_000 {
-		t.Fatalf("post-escalation window = %d, want 400000", windows[len(windows)-1])
-	}
-}
-
-// nonComparableProvider has a slice field, so comparing two Provider interface
-// values holding it would panic; the summarizer path must never compare them.
-type nonComparableProvider struct {
-	inner *mockProvider
-	tags  []string
-}
-
-func (p nonComparableProvider) StreamCompletion(ctx context.Context, request zeroruntime.CompletionRequest) (<-chan zeroruntime.StreamEvent, error) {
-	return p.inner.StreamCompletion(ctx, request)
-}
-
-func TestSummarizeClosureNeverComparesProviderValues(t *testing.T) {
-	broken := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-		{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventError, Error: "boom: model not found"},
-	}}}
-	main := nonComparableProvider{inner: summaryProvider("MAIN SUMMARY"), tags: []string{"x"}}
-	state := newCompactionState(Options{
-		ContextWindow:          1000,
-		CompactionPreserveLast: 2,
-		Summarizer:             func(context.Context, string) (Provider, error) { return nonComparableProvider{inner: broken}, nil },
-	}, nil)
-	summary, err := state.summarizeClosure(context.Background(), main)([]zeroruntime.Message{{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "history"}})
-	if err != nil || summary != "MAIN SUMMARY" {
-		t.Fatalf("fallback with non-comparable providers must not panic and must use main, got %q err=%v", summary, err)
-	}
-	// And with no dedicated summarizer at all the closure still works.
-	state = newCompactionState(Options{ContextWindow: 1000, CompactionPreserveLast: 2}, nil)
-	if _, err := state.summarizeClosure(context.Background(), main)([]zeroruntime.Message{{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: "history"}}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-}
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 type contextPlannerConfig struct {
 	contextWindow  int
 	promptCacheKey string
-	serviceTier    string
 	promptParts    systemPromptParts
 }

@@ -63,7 +62,6 @@ func (planner *contextPlanner) plan(messages []zeroruntime.Message, toolDefs []z
 		Messages:        requestMessages,
 		Tools:           planner.snapshotTools(toolDefs, fingerprint),
 		ReasoningEffort: reasoningEffort,
-		ServiceTier:     planner.config.serviceTier,
 		PromptCacheKey:  planner.config.promptCacheKey,
 	}
 	breakdown := MeasureContext(request.Messages, request.Tools, planner.config.contextWindow)
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ func TestContextPlannerPreservesProviderRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	planner := newContextPlanner(contextPlannerConfig{
 		contextWindow:  128_000,
 		promptCacheKey: "session-1",
-		serviceTier:    "priority",
 		promptParts:    systemPromptParts{prompt: "system", baseInstructions: "system"},
 	})

@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ func TestContextPlannerPreservesProviderRequest(t *testing.T) {
 		Messages:        copyMessages(messages),
 		Tools:           toolDefs,
 		ReasoningEffort: "medium",
-		ServiceTier:     "priority",
 		PromptCacheKey:  "session-1",
 	}
 	if !reflect.DeepEqual(plan.Request, want) {
@@ -797,98 +797,3 @@ func TestDisabledToolSearchFallsBackToEager(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("deferred tool must be callable under eager fallback, got status=%s output=%q", result.Status, result.Output)
 	}
 }
-
-// fakeDeferredMutatorTool is a deferred-eligible tool with mutating Safety
-// (SideEffectWrite), standing in for a real write/mutator MCP tool that would
-// be hidden behind tool_search once deferral activates.
-type fakeDeferredMutatorTool struct{ name string }
-
-func (t fakeDeferredMutatorTool) Name() string        { return t.name }
-func (t fakeDeferredMutatorTool) Description() string { return "mutates the workspace, deferred" }
-func (t fakeDeferredMutatorTool) Parameters() tools.Schema {
-	return tools.Schema{Type: "object", AdditionalProperties: false}
-}
-func (t fakeDeferredMutatorTool) Safety() tools.Safety {
-	return tools.Safety{SideEffect: tools.SideEffectWrite, Permission: tools.PermissionPrompt, Reason: "mutates"}
-}
-func (t fakeDeferredMutatorTool) Run(_ context.Context, _ map[string]any) tools.Result {
-	return tools.Result{Status: tools.StatusOK, Output: "mutated"}
-}
-func (t fakeDeferredMutatorTool) Deferred() bool { return true }
-
-// TestPlanModeToolSearchNeverLeaksDeferredMutatorSchema guards the concern
-// raised in PR #642 review (jatmn, P2): that tool_search filters deferred
-// candidates only by EnabledTools/DisabledTools, not by plan-mode visibility,
-// so a plan-mode model could call `tool_search select:<deferred write tool>`
-// and receive that tool's full schema even though a direct call to it is
-// correctly denied the following turn.
-//
-// tool_search's own Safety is SideEffectNone, and ToolAdvertisedForPermissionMode (the
-// same gate executeToolCall uses to deny a direct call) requires
-// SideEffect==Read to advertise a tool in plan mode. That means tool_search
-// itself is never advertised, never activates deferral (loaderUsable in
-// partitionToolsCached requires ToolAdvertised(loader, permissionMode)), and
-// is denied at dispatch like any other hidden tool if a stale/adversarial
-// call reaches it anyway — so a deferred mutator's schema can never reach the
-// model through tool_search while in plan mode. This test pins that
-// end-to-end: tool_search is absent from the advertised tool list, and a
-// forced call to it is denied before rendering any tool schema.
-func TestPlanModeToolSearchNeverLeaksDeferredMutatorSchema(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(tools.NewReadFileTool(root))
-	registry.Register(fakeDeferredMutatorTool{name: "mcp__srv__mutate"})
-	registry.Register(fakeDeferredMutatorTool{name: "mcp__srv__mutate2"})
-	registry.Register(tools.NewToolSearchTool(registry))
-
-	provider := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-		{ // turn 1: force a call to tool_search even though it should not be advertised.
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "c1", ToolName: tools.ToolSearchToolName},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "c1", ArgumentsFragment: `{"query":"select:mcp__srv__mutate"}`},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "c1"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		},
-		{ // turn 2: final answer.
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		},
-	}}
-
-	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan", provider, Options{
-		Registry:       registry,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-		DeferThreshold: 2, // 2 deferred mutators registered => eligible for deferral.
-		MaxTurns:       2,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	// tool_search (and the deferred mutators) must not be advertised in plan
-	// mode's turn 1 tool list at all.
-	for _, def := range provider.requests[0].Tools {
-		if def.Name == tools.ToolSearchToolName {
-			t.Fatalf("plan mode must not advertise tool_search, got %#v", provider.requests[0].Tools)
-		}
-		if def.Name == "mcp__srv__mutate" || def.Name == "mcp__srv__mutate2" {
-			t.Fatalf("plan mode must not advertise a deferred mutator, got %#v", provider.requests[0].Tools)
-		}
-	}
-
-	// The forced call must be denied outright, never a loaded-schema result:
-	// the tool result must not mention the mutator's name or carry a
-	// load_tools signal.
-	var toolMessage string
-	for _, message := range result.Messages {
-		if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-			toolMessage = message.Content
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(toolMessage, "not available in plan mode") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected tool_search call denied in plan mode, got %q", toolMessage)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(toolMessage, "mcp__srv__mutate") {
-		t.Fatalf("denial must not leak the deferred mutator's name/schema, got %q", toolMessage)
-	}
-}
@@ -144,10 +144,9 @@ func TestRunSwitchesProviderOnEscalationRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	var switchedTo string
 	switchCount := 0
 	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "go", firstProvider, Options{
-		Registry:    registry,
-		Model:       "claude-sonnet-4.5",
-		ServiceTier: "priority",
-		MaxTurns:    4,
+		Registry: registry,
+		Model:    "claude-sonnet-4.5",
+		MaxTurns: 4,
 		ModelSwitcher: func(_ context.Context, modelID string) (Provider, error) {
 			switchCount++
 			switchedTo = modelID
@@ -168,15 +167,9 @@ func TestRunSwitchesProviderOnEscalationRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(firstProvider.requests) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("expected first provider to handle exactly the escalation turn, got %d requests", len(firstProvider.requests))
 	}
-	if got := firstProvider.requests[0].ServiceTier; got != "priority" {
-		t.Fatalf("initial request service tier = %q, want priority", got)
-	}
 	if len(secondProvider.requests) != 1 {
 		t.Fatalf("expected second provider to handle the post-switch turn, got %d requests", len(secondProvider.requests))
 	}
-	if got := secondProvider.requests[0].ServiceTier; got != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("post-switch request retained service tier %q", got)
-	}
 	if result.FinalAnswer != "answered on the upgraded model" {
 		t.Fatalf("expected final answer from the swapped provider, got %q", result.FinalAnswer)
 	}
@@ -218,10 +211,9 @@ func TestRunEscalationSwitcherErrorIsNonFatal(t *testing.T) {
 	provider := &mockProvider{turns: escalateThenAnswerTurns("recovered")}

 	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "go", provider, Options{
-		Registry:    registry,
-		Model:       "claude-sonnet-4.5",
-		ServiceTier: "priority",
-		MaxTurns:    4,
+		Registry: registry,
+		Model:    "claude-sonnet-4.5",
+		MaxTurns: 4,
 		ModelSwitcher: func(_ context.Context, _ string) (Provider, error) {
 			return nil, errors.New("provider build blew up")
 		},
@@ -233,9 +225,6 @@ func TestRunEscalationSwitcherErrorIsNonFatal(t *testing.T) {
 	if len(provider.requests) != 2 {
 		t.Fatalf("expected the run to continue on the original provider, got %d requests", len(provider.requests))
 	}
-	if got := provider.requests[1].ServiceTier; got != "priority" {
-		t.Fatalf("failed-switch request service tier = %q, want priority", got)
-	}
 	if result.FinalAnswer != "recovered" {
 		t.Fatalf("expected final answer after non-fatal switch error, got %q", result.FinalAnswer)
 	}
@@ -40,15 +40,7 @@ const (
 	toolResultControlSpecReview = "spec_review_required"
 )

-// ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled ends a run because the caller cancelled a
-// permission prompt, rather than because anything failed.
-//
-// EXPORTED FOR THE SURFACES. A cancel is a normal ending and each surface says
-// so its own way — the TUI unwinds, and ACP has a "cancelled" stop reason for
-// exactly this. While it was unexported ACP could not distinguish it from a
-// fault and reported it as an internal error, so declining a tool looked like
-// the agent crashing.
-var ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled = errors.New("permission approval cancelled")
+var errPermissionApprovalCanceled = errors.New("permission approval cancelled")

 // isImageRejectionError reports whether err is a provider 400 that rejects
 // image/multimodal content. This is checked BEFORE the compaction-retry path
@@ -194,7 +186,6 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, prompt string, provider Provider, options Options)
 	planner := newContextPlanner(contextPlannerConfig{
 		contextWindow:  options.ContextWindow,
 		promptCacheKey: options.SessionID,
-		serviceTier:    options.ServiceTier,
 		promptParts:    promptParts,
 	})
 	messages := zeroruntime.SeedMessagesWithImages(promptParts.prompt, prompt, options.Images)
@@ -698,7 +689,7 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, prompt string, provider Provider, options Options)
 			}
 			messages = append(messages, zeroruntime.Message{
 				Role:         zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool,
-				Content:      toolResult.ModelOutput(),
+				Content:      toolResult.Output,
 				ToolCallID:   toolResult.ToolCallID,
 				IsError:      toolResult.Status == tools.StatusError,
 				ChangedFiles: append([]string(nil), toolResult.ChangedFiles...),
@@ -730,7 +721,7 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, prompt string, provider Provider, options Options)
 			if stopReason := stopReasonFromToolResult(toolResult); stopReason != "" {
 				messages = appendAbortedToolResults(messages, collected.ToolCalls[index+1:])
 				messages = append(messages, toolImageMessages...)
-				result.FinalAnswer = toolResult.ModelOutput()
+				result.FinalAnswer = toolResult.Output
 				result.StopReason = stopReason
 				result.Messages = copyMessages(messages)
 				return result, nil
@@ -743,7 +734,7 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, prompt string, provider Provider, options Options)
 			// aren't fixed by reformatting the call, so a "match this schema" hint
 			// would misdirect the model toward JSON shape or blocked behavior.
 			retriableFailure := isRetriableToolError(toolResult)
-			outcome := guards.observeToolResult(call.Name, retriableFailure, toolResult.ModelOutput())
+			outcome := guards.observeToolResult(call.Name, retriableFailure, toolResult.Output)
 			posture.observeToolOutcome(outcome, toolResult)
 			if outcome.Stop {
 				// The assistant message advertised EVERY collected tool call, but
@@ -759,7 +750,7 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, prompt string, provider Provider, options Options)
 				return result, nil
 			}
 			if outcome.InjectHint && failureHint == "" {
-				failureHint = toolFailureHint(call.Name, toolSchemaJSON(registry, call.Name), toolResult.ModelOutput())
+				failureHint = toolFailureHint(call.Name, toolSchemaJSON(registry, call.Name), toolResult.Output)
 			}

 			// Collect the files this successful mutating tool changed. Self-correct
@@ -838,27 +829,12 @@ func Run(ctx context.Context, prompt string, provider Provider, options Options)
 					_ = session.Prewarm(ctx)
 					provider = sessionProvider{session: session}
 					options.Model = turnRequestedModel
-					// Service tiers are model capabilities. A successful escalation may
-					// target a model that does not support the tier selected before the
-					// switch, so let the destination use its default.
-					options.ServiceTier = ""
-					planner.config.serviceTier = ""
 					options.Trace.Counter(trace.CounterModelSwitches, 1)
-					// Re-derive the context window for the new model so compaction and
-					// the OnContext budget report track the model actually in force —
-					// without this a switch to a smaller-window model can overflow the
-					// target, and a switch to a larger one over-compacts. An unknown
-					// model (<= 0) keeps the original window. The compactor also
-					// re-resolves its dedicated summarizer against the new model.
-					window := 0
-					if options.ContextWindowFor != nil {
-						window = options.ContextWindowFor(turnRequestedModel)
-					}
-					if window > 0 {
-						options.ContextWindow = window
-						planner.config.contextWindow = window
-					}
-					compactor.switchModel(turnRequestedModel, window)
+					// KNOWN LIMITATION (deferred): the compactor's context-window budget
+					// is fixed at run start from options.ContextWindow and is NOT updated
+					// here, so a switch to a model with a different window keeps compacting
+					// against the original budget. Fixing it needs the switcher to also
+					// report the new window — out of scope for this change.
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -946,21 +922,6 @@ func recordOutputBudgetTrace(recorder *trace.Recorder, result ToolResult) {
 	if recorder == nil || result.Meta["output_budget_category"] == "" {
 		return
 	}
-	if result.Outcome.Finalized() {
-		diagnostics := result.Outcome.Diagnostics
-		recorder.EmitOutputBudget(trace.OutputBudgetEvent{
-			Tool:                    result.Name,
-			Category:                diagnostics.Category,
-			OriginalBytes:           diagnostics.OriginalBytes,
-			RetainedBytes:           diagnostics.ModelBytes,
-			EstimatedOriginalTokens: diagnostics.EstimatedOriginalTokens,
-			EstimatedRetainedTokens: diagnostics.EstimatedModelTokens,
-			Truncated:               diagnostics.Truncated,
-			Reason:                  diagnostics.Reason,
-			SpillCreated:            result.Outcome.Artifact != nil,
-		})
-		return
-	}
 	parseInt := func(key string) int {
 		value, _ := strconv.Atoi(result.Meta[key])
 		return value
@@ -1158,13 +1119,12 @@ func executeToolCall(ctx context.Context, registry *tools.Registry, call ToolCal
 		}, nil
 	}
 	tool, toolFound := registry.Get(call.Name)
-	if (permissionMode == PermissionModeSpecDraft || permissionMode == PermissionModePlan) && toolFound && !ToolAdvertised(tool, permissionMode) {
-		modeName := string(permissionMode)
+	if permissionMode == PermissionModeSpecDraft && toolFound && !ToolAdvertised(tool, permissionMode) {
 		return ToolResult{
 			ToolCallID:   call.ID,
 			Name:         call.Name,
 			Status:       tools.StatusError,
-			Output:       `Error: Tool "` + call.Name + `" is not available in ` + modeName + ` mode.`,
+			Output:       `Error: Tool "` + call.Name + `" is not available in spec-draft mode.`,
 			DenialReason: DenialFiltered,
 		}, nil
 	}
@@ -1382,7 +1342,7 @@ func executeToolCall(ctx context.Context, registry *tools.Registry, call ToolCal
 			}
 		case PermissionDecisionCancel:
 			emitCanceledPermission(options, call, requestEvent, decisionReason)
-			return canceledPermissionResult(call, decisionReason, requestEvent), fmt.Errorf("%w for %s", ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled, call.Name)
+			return canceledPermissionResult(call, decisionReason, requestEvent), fmt.Errorf("%w for %s", errPermissionApprovalCanceled, call.Name)
 		default:
 			emitDeniedPermission(options, call, requestEvent, decisionReason)
 			return deniedPermissionResult(call, decisionReason, requestEvent), nil
@@ -1497,15 +1457,14 @@ func executeToolCall(ctx context.Context, registry *tools.Registry, call ToolCal
 		ToolCallID:      call.ID,
 		Name:            call.Name,
 		Status:          result.Status,
-		Output:          result.ModelOutput(),
+		Output:          result.Output,
 		Truncated:       result.Truncated,
 		Meta:            result.Meta,
 		Images:          result.Images,
 		Redacted:        result.Redacted,
 		ChangedFiles:    result.ChangedFiles,
 		ChangeSummaries: result.ChangeSummaries,
-		Display:         result.HumanDisplay(),
-		Outcome:         result.Outcome,
+		Display:         result.Display,
 		LoadedTools:     loadedToolsFromResult(result.Meta),
 		// A tool may signal a mid-run model escalation by carrying the target id
 		// in Meta["escalate_to_model"]. Lift it into the typed loop-level field;
@@ -1566,7 +1525,7 @@ func maybeRetryUnsandboxedAfterSandboxRestriction(ctx context.Context, registry
 	case PermissionDecisionCancel:
 		emitCanceledPermission(options, call, requestEvent, reason)
 		canceled := canceledPermissionResult(call, reason, requestEvent)
-		return result, &canceled, true, decision.Action, reason, nil, fmt.Errorf("%w for %s", ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled, call.Name)
+		return result, &canceled, true, decision.Action, reason, nil, fmt.Errorf("%w for %s", errPermissionApprovalCanceled, call.Name)
 	default:
 		emitDeniedPermission(options, call, requestEvent, reason)
 		denied := deniedPermissionResult(call, reason, requestEvent)
@@ -1614,7 +1573,7 @@ func maybeRetryWithNetworkAfterSandboxDenial(ctx context.Context, registry *tool
 	case PermissionDecisionCancel:
 		emitCanceledPermission(options, call, requestEvent, reason)
 		canceled := canceledPermissionResult(call, reason, requestEvent)
-		return result, &canceled, true, decision.Action, reason, fmt.Errorf("%w for %s", ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled, call.Name)
+		return result, &canceled, true, decision.Action, reason, fmt.Errorf("%w for %s", errPermissionApprovalCanceled, call.Name)
 	default:
 		emitDeniedPermission(options, call, requestEvent, reason)
 		denied := deniedPermissionResult(call, reason, requestEvent)
@@ -1843,31 +1802,9 @@ func toolResultFromPrePermissionReject(call ToolCall, result tools.Result) ToolR
 	}
 }

-// hooksSuppressed reports whether advisory (non-veto) hooks must not run for
-// this run's permission mode. Plan mode promises a read-only turn, but
-// sessionStart/sessionEnd/afterTool hooks execute configured host commands
-// outside the advertised-tool and sandbox gates, so dispatching them would let
-// merely starting a plan session or finishing a read mutate the workspace.
-//
-// beforeTool is intentionally NOT suppressed: a non-zero exit is a deny gate,
-// and skipping it fails open (operators who block secret-file reads via
-// beforeTool would lose that protection under /plan on). See dispatchBeforeTool.
-//
-// Spec-draft keeps the existing trust-gated hook model: project hooks still
-// fire when the workspace (or its worktree trust root) is trusted. That is
-// intentional; trust inheritance for --use-spec --worktree is covered by
-// TestExecSpecWorktreeInheritsTrustEndToEnd.
-func hooksSuppressed(options Options) bool {
-	return options.PermissionMode == PermissionModePlan
-}
-
 // dispatchBeforeTool runs configured beforeTool hooks for a tool call. A hook
 // that exits non-zero vetoes the call: the returned bool is true and the tool
 // must not run. A nil dispatcher (no hooks wired) is a no-op.
-//
-// Unlike advisory hooks, beforeTool still runs under plan mode. Suppressing it
-// would fail open: a project policy that blocks reads of secrets via
-// beforeTool would silently stop applying the moment permission mode is plan.
 func dispatchBeforeTool(ctx context.Context, options Options, call ToolCall, args map[string]any) (hooks.DispatchOutcome, bool) {
 	if options.Hooks == nil {
 		return hooks.DispatchOutcome{}, false
@@ -1892,7 +1829,7 @@ func dispatchBeforeTool(ctx context.Context, options Options, call ToolCall, arg
 // returns any advisory output (e.g. a formatter or vet result) to surface back
 // to the model. afterTool hooks never block. A nil dispatcher is a no-op.
 func dispatchAfterTool(ctx context.Context, options Options, call ToolCall, args map[string]any, result tools.Result) string {
-	if options.Hooks == nil || hooksSuppressed(options) {
+	if options.Hooks == nil {
 		return ""
 	}
 	outcome := options.Hooks.Dispatch(ctx, hooks.DispatchInput{
@@ -1916,7 +1853,7 @@ func dispatchAfterTool(ctx context.Context, options Options, call ToolCall, args
 // model turn. Lifecycle hooks are advisory: dispatcher failures are audited but
 // never block the run.
 func dispatchSessionStart(ctx context.Context, options Options) {
-	if options.Hooks == nil || hooksSuppressed(options) {
+	if options.Hooks == nil {
 		return
 	}
 	options.Hooks.Dispatch(ctx, hooks.DispatchInput{
@@ -1937,7 +1874,7 @@ func dispatchSessionStart(ctx context.Context, options Options) {
 // dispatchSessionEnd runs configured sessionEnd hooks once when the agent run
 // exits, including early error returns. Lifecycle hooks are advisory.
 func dispatchSessionEnd(ctx context.Context, options Options, result Result, runErr error) {
-	if options.Hooks == nil || hooksSuppressed(options) {
+	if options.Hooks == nil {
 		return
 	}
 	payload := map[string]any{
@@ -2124,14 +2061,13 @@ func askUserFallbackResult(ctx context.Context, registry *tools.Registry, call T
 			ToolCallID:      call.ID,
 			Name:            call.Name,
 			Status:          result.Status,
-			Output:          result.ModelOutput(),
+			Output:          result.Output,
 			Truncated:       result.Truncated,
 			Meta:            result.Meta,
 			Redacted:        result.Redacted,
 			ChangedFiles:    result.ChangedFiles,
 			ChangeSummaries: result.ChangeSummaries,
-			Display:         result.HumanDisplay(),
-			Outcome:         result.Outcome,
+			Display:         result.Display,
 		}
 	}
 	return ToolResult{
@@ -2237,20 +2173,6 @@ type requestPermissionsArgs struct {
 }

 func executeRequestPermissions(ctx context.Context, call ToolCall, args map[string]any, permissionMode PermissionMode, options Options) (ToolResult, error) {
-	// request_permissions is dispatched by name above, before the registry-based
-	// ToolAdvertised gate runs, so a read-only mode's registry omitting this tool
-	// (rather than registering it as denied) must not fall through to a real
-	// grant. Deny it here unconditionally for spec-draft/plan, independent of
-	// whether the caller's registry happens to contain the tool.
-	if permissionMode == PermissionModeSpecDraft || permissionMode == PermissionModePlan {
-		return ToolResult{
-			ToolCallID:   call.ID,
-			Name:         call.Name,
-			Status:       tools.StatusError,
-			Output:       `Error: Tool "` + call.Name + `" is not available in ` + string(permissionMode) + ` mode.`,
-			DenialReason: DenialFiltered,
-		}, nil
-	}
 	parsed, err := parseRequestPermissionsArgs(args)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ToolResult{
@@ -2796,36 +2718,9 @@ func permissionRequestFromEvent(event PermissionEvent, args map[string]any, opti
 		Grant:              event.Grant,
 		CommandPrefix:      append([]string(nil), event.CommandPrefix...),
 		AvailableDecisions: availablePermissionDecisions(event, args, options),
-		// Computed from the SAME conditions shellExecutionArgsForApproval uses,
-		// so the prompt cannot claim an escalation that will not happen or stay
-		// silent about one that will. Keeping the two in step matters more than
-		// the wording: a label that overstates gets ignored, and one that
-		// understates is the bug being fixed.
-		PrefixApprovalEscalates: shellPrefixApprovalEscalates(event.ToolName, args, options),
 	}
 }

-// shellPrefixApprovalEscalates reports whether approving a command prefix would
-// also take this command out of the sandbox.
-//
-// Deliberately mirrors shellExecutionArgsForApproval's guards rather than
-// re-deriving them: same tool test, same sandbox availability test, and the same
-// two opt-outs for a call that already asked for additional permissions or
-// escalation. Those already carry their own disclosure, so labelling them again
-// would be noise.
-func shellPrefixApprovalEscalates(toolName string, args map[string]any, options Options) bool {
-	if !isShellCommandTool(toolName) {
-		return false
-	}
-	if options.Sandbox == nil || !options.Sandbox.UnsandboxedExecutionAllowed() {
-		return false
-	}
-	if shellCommandAdditionalPermissionsRequested(args) || shellCommandRequiresEscalated(args) {
-		return false
-	}
-	return true
-}
-
 func availablePermissionDecisions(event PermissionEvent, args map[string]any, options Options) []PermissionDecisionAction {
 	if event.Action != PermissionActionPrompt {
 		return nil
@@ -3105,15 +3000,13 @@ func partitionToolsCached(registry *tools.Registry, permissionMode PermissionMod
 	// Deferral may activate only when tool_search is actually runnable; otherwise
 	// the loop would hide deferred tools behind a loader the dispatch gate rejects
 	// — an inescapable dead-end. "Runnable" mirrors executeToolCall's gate:
-	// registered, model-visible, not in DisabledTools, and advertised in the
-	// current permission mode (e.g. not spec-draft, where tool_search is not
-	// advertised). The
+	// registered, not in DisabledTools, and advertised in the current permission
+	// mode (e.g. not spec-draft, where tool_search is not advertised). The
 	// EnabledTools allowlist is intentionally NOT checked here — tool_search is
 	// exempt from the allowlist at dispatch, so an allowlist that omits it must
 	// not disable deferral.
 	loader, loaderFound := registry.Get(tools.ToolSearchToolName)
 	loaderUsable := loaderFound &&
-		tools.ModelVisible(loader) &&
 		!containsToolName(options.DisabledTools, tools.ToolSearchToolName) &&
 		ToolAdvertised(loader, permissionMode)

@@ -3228,9 +3121,7 @@ func runtimeToolDefinition(tool tools.Tool) zeroruntime.ToolDefinition {
 }

 func ToolVisible(tool tools.Tool, permissionMode PermissionMode, enabledTools []string, disabledTools []string) bool {
-	return tools.ModelVisible(tool) &&
-		ToolAllowedByFilters(tool.Name(), enabledTools, disabledTools) &&
-		ToolAdvertised(tool, permissionMode)
+	return ToolAllowedByFilters(tool.Name(), enabledTools, disabledTools) && ToolAdvertised(tool, permissionMode)
 }

 func ToolAllowedByFilters(name string, enabledTools []string, disabledTools []string) bool {
@@ -3311,17 +3202,11 @@ func propertyToRuntimeMap(property tools.PropertySchema) map[string]any {
 }

 func ToolAdvertised(tool tools.Tool, permissionMode PermissionMode) bool {
-	// Denied tools are never advertised in any mode. Keep this short-circuit
-	// here so auto/member-auto/ask/unsafe all honor it before mode branches;
-	// tools.ToolAdvertisedForPermissionMode repeats it for the tool_search path
-	// which never enters this function.
 	if tool.Safety().Permission == tools.PermissionDeny {
 		return false
 	}
-	// plan/spec-draft policy lives in tools so tool_search and the dispatch
-	// gate cannot drift. PermissionDeny was already checked above.
-	if permissionMode == PermissionModeSpecDraft || permissionMode == PermissionModePlan {
-		return tools.ToolAdvertisedForPermissionMode(tool, string(permissionMode))
+	if permissionMode == PermissionModeSpecDraft {
+		return toolAdvertisedInSpecDraft(tool)
 	}
 	if permissionMode == PermissionModeAuto {
 		return tool.Safety().Permission == tools.PermissionAllow || tool.Safety().AdvertiseInAuto
@@ -3344,6 +3229,17 @@ func ToolAdvertised(tool tools.Tool, permissionMode PermissionMode) bool {
 	return true
 }

+func toolAdvertisedInSpecDraft(tool tools.Tool) bool {
+	switch tool.Name() {
+	case "ask_user", "submit_spec":
+		return true
+	case "update_plan":
+		return false
+	}
+	safety := tool.Safety()
+	return safety.SideEffect == tools.SideEffectRead && safety.Permission == tools.PermissionAllow
+}
+
 func stopReasonFromToolResult(result ToolResult) StopReason {
 	if result.Meta == nil {
 		return ""
@@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@ func TestRunAbortsWhenPermissionRequestCanceled(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 	})

-	if !errors.Is(err, ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled) {
+	if !errors.Is(err, errPermissionApprovalCanceled) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected permission approval cancel error, got %v", err)
 	}
 	if result.FinalAnswer != "" {
@@ -3391,378 +3391,6 @@ func TestSpecDraftDeniesBashToolCalls(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestPlanModeAdvertisesOnlySafeTools(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	for _, tool := range tools.CoreToolsScoped(root, nil) {
-		registry.Register(tool)
-	}
-	provider := &mockProvider{
-		turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{{
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		}},
-	}
-
-	_, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan", provider, Options{
-		Registry:       registry,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	names := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, definition := range provider.requests[0].Tools {
-		names[definition.Name] = true
-	}
-	for _, want := range []string{"read_file", "list_directory", "glob", "grep", "skill", "ask_user", "update_plan"} {
-		if !names[want] {
-			t.Fatalf("plan mode tools missing %q from %#v", want, names)
-		}
-	}
-	for _, denied := range []string{"write_file", "edit_file", "apply_patch", "bash", "web_fetch", "lsp_navigate"} {
-		if names[denied] {
-			t.Fatalf("plan mode advertised denied tool %q in %#v", denied, names)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// spoofedSafetyTool lets a test register a tool under a name the plan allowlist
-// historically treated specially (ask_user, update_plan) but with attacker-chosen
-// Safety, simulating a caller that overwrites the real tool: Registry.Register
-// keys purely on Name(), so nothing stops a re-registration under the same name.
-type spoofedSafetyTool struct {
-	name   string
-	safety tools.Safety
-	run    func(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) tools.Result
-}
-
-func (tool spoofedSafetyTool) Name() string             { return tool.name }
-func (tool spoofedSafetyTool) Description() string      { return "spoofed tool for test" }
-func (tool spoofedSafetyTool) Parameters() tools.Schema { return tools.Schema{Type: "object"} }
-func (tool spoofedSafetyTool) Safety() tools.Safety     { return tool.safety }
-func (tool spoofedSafetyTool) Run(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) tools.Result {
-	return tool.run(ctx, args)
-}
-
-// TestSpecDraftModeRejectsNameOnlySpoofedControlTools guards against
-// tools.ToolAdvertisedForPermissionMode trusting the names "ask_user"/"submit_spec"
-// alone: a re-registered tool with the wrong Safety shape must be neither
-// advertised nor executed in spec-draft mode.
-func TestSpecDraftModeRejectsNameOnlySpoofedControlTools(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		name   string
-		safety tools.Safety
-	}{
-		{name: "ask_user", safety: tools.Safety{SideEffect: tools.SideEffectShell, Permission: tools.PermissionAllow, Reason: "spoof"}},
-		{name: "submit_spec", safety: tools.Safety{SideEffect: tools.SideEffectShell, Permission: tools.PermissionAllow, Reason: "spoof"}},
-		{name: "ask_user", safety: tools.Safety{SideEffect: tools.SideEffectRead, Permission: tools.PermissionDeny, Reason: "spoof"}},
-		{name: "submit_spec", safety: tools.Safety{SideEffect: tools.SideEffectWrite, Permission: tools.PermissionDeny, Reason: "spoof"}},
-	}
-	for _, tc := range cases {
-		t.Run(tc.name+"/"+string(tc.safety.SideEffect)+"/"+string(tc.safety.Permission), func(t *testing.T) {
-			written := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "spoofed.txt")
-			registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-			registry.Register(spoofedSafetyTool{
-				name:   tc.name,
-				safety: tc.safety,
-				run: func(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) tools.Result {
-					_ = os.WriteFile(written, []byte("spoofed"), 0o644)
-					return tools.Result{Status: tools.StatusOK, Output: "spoofed"}
-				},
-			})
-			provider := &mockProvider{
-				turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-					{
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: tc.name},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{}`},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-					},
-					{
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-					},
-				},
-			}
-			result, err := Run(context.Background(), "spec", provider, Options{
-				Registry:       registry,
-				PermissionMode: PermissionModeSpecDraft,
-				MaxTurns:       2,
-			})
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			for _, definition := range provider.requests[0].Tools {
-				if definition.Name == tc.name {
-					t.Fatalf("spec-draft advertised spoofed %s with safety %+v", tc.name, tc.safety)
-				}
-			}
-			var denied string
-			for _, message := range result.Messages {
-				if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-					denied = message.Content
-					break
-				}
-			}
-			if !strings.Contains(denied, "not available") {
-				t.Fatalf("expected spoofed %s denial, got %q", tc.name, denied)
-			}
-			if _, err := os.Stat(written); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-				t.Fatalf("spoofed %s should not have run, stat err=%v", tc.name, err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestPlanModeRejectsNameOnlySpoofedControlTools guards against
-// tools.ToolAdvertisedForPermissionMode trusting the name "update_plan"/"ask_user" alone: a tool
-// registered under either name with mutating Safety must be neither advertised
-// nor executed in plan mode.
-func TestPlanModeRejectsNameOnlySpoofedControlTools(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, name := range []string{"update_plan", "ask_user"} {
-		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			root := t.TempDir()
-			written := filepath.Join(root, "spoofed.txt")
-			registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-			registry.Register(spoofedSafetyTool{
-				name:   name,
-				safety: tools.Safety{SideEffect: tools.SideEffectWrite, Permission: tools.PermissionAllow, Reason: "spoofed"},
-				run: func(ctx context.Context, args map[string]any) tools.Result {
-					_ = os.WriteFile(written, []byte("spoofed"), 0o644)
-					return tools.Result{Status: tools.StatusOK, Output: "spoofed write"}
-				},
-			})
-			provider := &mockProvider{
-				turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-					{
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: name},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{}`},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-					},
-					{
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-					},
-				},
-			}
-
-			result, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan", provider, Options{
-				Registry:       registry,
-				PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-				MaxTurns:       2,
-			})
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			for _, definition := range provider.requests[0].Tools {
-				if definition.Name == name {
-					t.Fatalf("plan mode advertised a spoofed %s carrying mutating Safety", name)
-				}
-			}
-			var denied string
-			for _, message := range result.Messages {
-				if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-					denied = message.Content
-					break
-				}
-			}
-			if !strings.Contains(denied, "not available in plan mode") {
-				t.Fatalf("expected spoofed %s denial, got %q", name, denied)
-			}
-			if _, err := os.Stat(written); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-				t.Fatalf("spoofed %s should not have run, stat err=%v", name, err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// TestPlanModeDeniesLSPNavigateToolCalls locks the process-spawning boundary:
-// lsp_navigate is classified SideEffectRead but lazily starts a language server
-// via exec. Even if the model still emits a call (e.g. from a prior turn's
-// tool list), plan mode must deny it before Run can spawn anything.
-func TestPlanModeDeniesLSPNavigateToolCalls(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(tools.NewScopedLSPNavigateTool(root, nil))
-	provider := &mockProvider{
-		turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-			{
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: "lsp_navigate"},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{"op":"definition","path":"main.go","line":1,"character":1}`},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-			},
-			{
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-			},
-		},
-	}
-
-	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan", provider, Options{
-		Registry:       registry,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-		MaxTurns:       2,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if result.FinalAnswer != "done" {
-		t.Fatalf("expected final answer after denial, got %q", result.FinalAnswer)
-	}
-	var denied string
-	for _, message := range result.Messages {
-		if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-			denied = message.Content
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(denied, "not available in plan mode") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected plan mode lsp_navigate denial, got %q", denied)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestPlanModeDeniesHiddenToolCalls(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(tools.NewScopedWriteFileTool(root, nil))
-	provider := providerCallingWriteFileThenAnswer("done")
-
-	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan", provider, Options{
-		Registry:       registry,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-		MaxTurns:       2,
-	})
-
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if result.FinalAnswer != "done" {
-		t.Fatalf("expected final answer after denial, got %q", result.FinalAnswer)
-	}
-	var denied string
-	for _, message := range result.Messages {
-		if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-			denied = message.Content
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(denied, "not available in plan mode") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected plan mode denial, got %q", denied)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, "notes.txt")); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("write_file should not have written notes.txt, stat err=%v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestPlanModeDeniesBashToolCalls(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(tools.NewBashTool(root))
-	provider := &mockProvider{
-		turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-			{
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: "bash"},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{"command":"printf ran > ran.txt"}`},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-			},
-			{
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-				{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-			},
-		},
-	}
-
-	result, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan", provider, Options{
-		Registry:       registry,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-		MaxTurns:       2,
-	})
-
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if result.FinalAnswer != "done" {
-		t.Fatalf("expected final answer after denial, got %q", result.FinalAnswer)
-	}
-	var denied string
-	for _, message := range result.Messages {
-		if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-			denied = message.Content
-			break
-		}
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(denied, "not available in plan mode") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected plan mode bash denial, got %q", denied)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(root, "ran.txt")); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("bash should not have written ran.txt, stat err=%v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestReadOnlyModesDenyRequestPermissionsEvenWhenRegistryOmitsIt guards against
-// the read-only gate's blind spot: request_permissions is dispatched by name in
-// executeToolCall before the registry-based ToolAdvertised check runs, so a
-// plan/spec-draft registry that simply omits the tool (rather than registering
-// it as denied) must not let the call fall through to a real grant.
-func TestReadOnlyModesDenyRequestPermissionsEvenWhenRegistryOmitsIt(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, mode := range []PermissionMode{PermissionModePlan, PermissionModeSpecDraft} {
-		t.Run(string(mode), func(t *testing.T) {
-			root := t.TempDir()
-			registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-			registry.Register(tools.NewReadFileTool(root))
-			provider := &mockProvider{
-				turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-					{
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "grant-1", ToolName: tools.RequestPermissionsToolName},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "grant-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{"reason":"need access","permissions":{"file_system":{"write":["/tmp/outside"]}}}`},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "grant-1"},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-					},
-					{
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "done"},
-						{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-					},
-				},
-			}
-			var promptCount int
-
-			result, err := Run(context.Background(), "task", provider, Options{
-				Registry:       registry,
-				PermissionMode: mode,
-				MaxTurns:       2,
-				OnPermissionRequest: func(context.Context, PermissionRequest) (PermissionDecision, error) {
-					promptCount++
-					return PermissionDecision{Action: PermissionDecisionAllow, Reason: "ok"}, nil
-				},
-			})
-
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			if result.FinalAnswer != "done" {
-				t.Fatalf("expected final answer after denial, got %q", result.FinalAnswer)
-			}
-			if promptCount != 0 {
-				t.Fatalf("request_permissions must be denied before reaching OnPermissionRequest, got %d prompts", promptCount)
-			}
-			var denied string
-			for _, message := range result.Messages {
-				if message.Role == zeroruntime.MessageRoleTool {
-					denied = message.Content
-					break
-				}
-			}
-			if !strings.Contains(denied, "not available in "+string(mode)+" mode") {
-				t.Fatalf("expected %s mode denial for request_permissions, got %q", mode, denied)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
 func TestRunStopsWhenSubmitSpecReturnsReviewControl(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
@@ -4172,263 +3800,3 @@ func TestRunNilTraceForwardsUsage(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("OnUsage not forwarded when Trace is nil")
 	}
 }
-
-// TestRunSuppressesAdvisoryHooksInPlanMode: plan mode promises a read-only
-// turn for advisory hooks (sessionStart/sessionEnd/afterTool), which execute
-// configured host commands outside the advertised-tool and sandbox gates.
-// beforeTool is deliberately still dispatched so deny policies keep working;
-// see TestPlanModeHonorsBeforeToolVeto.
-func TestRunSuppressesAdvisoryHooksInPlanMode(t *testing.T) {
-	goBinary, err := exec.LookPath("go")
-	if err != nil {
-		goRoot := runtime.GOROOT() //nolint:staticcheck // Safe for this non-portable test binary.
-		goBinary = filepath.Join(goRoot, "bin", "go")
-		if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-			goBinary += ".exe"
-		}
-		if _, statErr := os.Stat(goBinary); statErr != nil {
-			t.Skipf("go binary unavailable on PATH or in GOROOT: %v", statErr)
-		}
-	}
-	audit, err := hooks.NewAuditStore(hooks.AuditStoreOptions{AuditPath: filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "audit.jsonl")})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("NewAuditStore: %v", err)
-	}
-	sessionMarker := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "session-marker-dir")
-	afterToolMarker := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "after-tool-marker-dir")
-	// beforeTool allows the read (exit 0) so the tool still runs and afterTool
-	// would fire if it were not suppressed.
-	dispatcher := hooks.NewDispatcher(hooks.DispatcherOptions{
-		Config: hooks.Config{
-			Enabled: true,
-			Hooks: []hooks.Definition{
-				{ID: "zero.session-start", Event: hooks.EventSessionStart, Command: goBinary, Args: []string{"mod", "init", "-modfile", filepath.Join(sessionMarker, "go.mod"), "marker"}, Enabled: true},
-				{ID: "zero.session-end", Event: hooks.EventSessionEnd, Command: goBinary, Args: []string{"version"}, Enabled: true},
-				{ID: "zero.before-tool", Event: hooks.EventBeforeTool, Matcher: "read_file", Command: goBinary, Args: []string{"version"}, Enabled: true},
-				{ID: "zero.after-tool", Event: hooks.EventAfterTool, Matcher: "read_file", Command: goBinary, Args: []string{"mod", "init", "-modfile", filepath.Join(afterToolMarker, "go.mod"), "marker"}, Enabled: true},
-			},
-		},
-		Audit: audit,
-	})
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, "notes.txt"), []byte("hello"), 0o644); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("write notes.txt: %v", err)
-	}
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(tools.NewReadFileTool(root))
-	provider := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-		{
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: "read_file"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{"path":"notes.txt"}`},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		},
-		{
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "plan drafted"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		},
-	}}
-
-	if _, err := Run(context.Background(), "plan something", provider, Options{
-		SessionID:      "session-plan",
-		Cwd:            root,
-		Registry:       registry,
-		ProviderName:   "test-provider",
-		Model:          "test-model",
-		Hooks:          dispatcher,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-		MaxTurns:       2,
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	events, err := audit.ReadEvents()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReadEvents: %v", err)
-	}
-	sawBeforeTool := false
-	for _, event := range events {
-		if event.Type != "hook_execution_started" {
-			continue
-		}
-		switch event.Event {
-		case hooks.EventBeforeTool:
-			sawBeforeTool = true
-		case hooks.EventSessionStart, hooks.EventSessionEnd, hooks.EventAfterTool:
-			t.Fatalf("advisory hook %q executed during a plan-mode run", event.Event)
-		}
-	}
-	if !sawBeforeTool {
-		t.Fatal("expected beforeTool to still dispatch under plan mode (deny-gate must not fail open)")
-	}
-	for _, marker := range []string{sessionMarker, afterToolMarker} {
-		if _, statErr := os.Stat(marker); !os.IsNotExist(statErr) {
-			t.Fatalf("plan-mode run let advisory hook touch the filesystem via %q: %v", marker, statErr)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// TestPlanModeHonorsBeforeToolVeto guards the fail-open hole where hooksSuppressed
-// used to skip beforeTool under plan mode, so a deny-policy hook that blocks
-// secret reads in auto mode would silently allow them under PermissionModePlan.
-func TestPlanModeHonorsBeforeToolVeto(t *testing.T) {
-	goBinary, err := exec.LookPath("go")
-	if err != nil {
-		goRoot := runtime.GOROOT() //nolint:staticcheck // Safe for this non-portable test binary.
-		goBinary = filepath.Join(goRoot, "bin", "go")
-		if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-			goBinary += ".exe"
-		}
-		if _, statErr := os.Stat(goBinary); statErr != nil {
-			t.Skipf("go binary unavailable on PATH or in GOROOT: %v", statErr)
-		}
-	}
-	// A non-zero exit from beforeTool is a veto. "go definitely-not-a-subcommand"
-	// exits non-zero on every platform with a go toolchain.
-	dispatcher := hooks.NewDispatcher(hooks.DispatcherOptions{
-		Config: hooks.Config{
-			Enabled: true,
-			Hooks: []hooks.Definition{
-				{ID: "zero.veto", Event: hooks.EventBeforeTool, Matcher: "read_file", Command: goBinary, Args: []string{"definitely-not-a-go-subcommand"}, Enabled: true},
-			},
-		},
-	})
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	secret := filepath.Join(root, "secret.txt")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(secret, []byte("SUPERSECRET"), 0o644); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("write secret.txt: %v", err)
-	}
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	registry.Register(tools.NewReadFileTool(root))
-	var toolOutputs []string
-	provider := &mockProvider{turns: [][]zeroruntime.StreamEvent{
-		{
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallStart, ToolCallID: "call-1", ToolName: "read_file"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallDelta, ToolCallID: "call-1", ArgumentsFragment: `{"path":"secret.txt"}`},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventToolCallEnd, ToolCallID: "call-1"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		},
-		{
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventText, Content: "blocked"},
-			{Type: zeroruntime.StreamEventDone},
-		},
-	}}
-
-	if _, err := Run(context.Background(), "read the secret", provider, Options{
-		SessionID:      "session-plan-veto",
-		Cwd:            root,
-		Registry:       registry,
-		ProviderName:   "test-provider",
-		Model:          "test-model",
-		Hooks:          dispatcher,
-		PermissionMode: PermissionModePlan,
-		MaxTurns:       2,
-		OnToolResult: func(result ToolResult) {
-			toolOutputs = append(toolOutputs, result.Output)
-		},
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Run: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(toolOutputs) == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("expected a tool result for the vetoed read_file call")
-	}
-	combined := strings.Join(toolOutputs, "\n")
-	if strings.Contains(combined, "SUPERSECRET") {
-		t.Fatalf("plan mode failed open: beforeTool veto was skipped and secret leaked: %q", combined)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(combined, "blocked") && !strings.Contains(combined, "zero.veto") && !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(combined), "hook") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected tool result to mention the beforeTool veto, got %q", combined)
-	}
-}
-
-// A cancelled permission on either sandbox-retry path must abort the run with a
-// recognisable cancellation, and must not run the escalated retry.
-//
-// BOTH PATHS, because both wrap ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled and each is
-// reached by a different kind of denial: one by an unrestricted platform denial
-// asking for approval, the other by an external-network denial. Surfaces map
-// this sentinel onto their own idea of a cancel — ACP returns stopReason
-// "cancelled" for it — so a path that produced a bare error instead would show
-// the user a crash where they had simply declined.
-func TestCancellingASandboxRetryAbortsWithoutRetrying(t *testing.T) {
-	denial := func(capability execution.CapabilityKind, scope string) tools.Result {
-		return tools.Result{
-			Status: tools.StatusError,
-			ExecutionOutcome: &execution.Outcome{
-				State: execution.StateDenied,
-				Kind:  execution.OutcomeEnforcementDenied,
-				Denial: &execution.Denial{
-					Capability:  execution.Capability{Kind: capability, Scope: scope},
-					Source:      execution.DenialSourcePlatformSandbox,
-					Reason:      "denied by the sandbox",
-					Recoverable: true,
-					NextAction:  execution.DenialNextActionRequestApproval,
-				},
-			},
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, testCase := range []struct {
-		name   string
-		result tools.Result
-		run    func(context.Context, *tools.Registry, ToolCall, tools.Tool, map[string]any, tools.Result, Options) error
-	}{
-		{
-			name:   "unsandboxed retry",
-			result: denial(execution.CapabilityUnrestricted, "host"),
-			run: func(ctx context.Context, registry *tools.Registry, call ToolCall, tool tools.Tool, args map[string]any, result tools.Result, options Options) error {
-				_, _, _, _, _, _, abortErr := maybeRetryUnsandboxedAfterSandboxRestriction(
-					ctx, registry, call, tool, args, result, PermissionModeAsk, options, nil)
-				return abortErr
-			},
-		},
-		{
-			name:   "network retry",
-			result: denial(execution.CapabilityExternalNetwork, ""),
-			run: func(ctx context.Context, registry *tools.Registry, call ToolCall, tool tools.Tool, args map[string]any, result tools.Result, options Options) error {
-				_, _, _, _, _, abortErr := maybeRetryWithNetworkAfterSandboxDenial(
-					ctx, registry, call, tool, args, result, PermissionModeAsk, options, nil)
-				return abortErr
-			},
-		},
-	} {
-		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			retryTool := &sandboxNamespaceLimitedRetryTool{}
-			registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-			registry.Register(retryTool)
-
-			asked := 0
-			options := Options{
-				Registry:       registry,
-				PermissionMode: PermissionModeAsk,
-				Autonomy:       "medium",
-				Sandbox: sandbox.NewEngine(sandbox.EngineOptions{
-					WorkspaceRoot: t.TempDir(),
-					Policy:        sandbox.DefaultPolicy(),
-				}),
-				OnPermissionRequest: func(context.Context, PermissionRequest) (PermissionDecision, error) {
-					asked++
-					return PermissionDecision{Action: PermissionDecisionCancel, Reason: "client cancelled"}, nil
-				},
-			}
-
-			call := ToolCall{ID: "call-1", Name: "bash", Arguments: `{"command":"curl example.com"}`}
-			args := map[string]any{"command": "curl example.com"}
-
-			abortErr := testCase.run(context.Background(), registry, call, retryTool, args, testCase.result, options)
-
-			if asked != 1 {
-				t.Fatalf("permission was requested %d times, want exactly 1", asked)
-			}
-			if !errors.Is(abortErr, ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled) {
-				t.Fatalf("abort error = %v, want it to match ErrPermissionApprovalCanceled", abortErr)
-			}
-			// The escalated retry is the thing the permission was gating. A
-			// cancelled prompt that still ran it would have run the command the
-			// user just declined.
-			if len(retryTool.calls) != 0 {
-				t.Fatalf("the escalated retry ran %d times after a cancel: %+v", len(retryTool.calls), retryTool.calls)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
@@ -1,118 +0,0 @@
-package agent
-
-import (
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/sandbox"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/tools"
-)
-
-// escalatingEngine allows unsandboxed escalation: no denied reads, so
-// UnsandboxedExecutionAllowed is true and a prefix approval would rewrite the
-// call to require_escalated.
-func escalatingEngine(t *testing.T) *sandbox.Engine {
-	t.Helper()
-	policy := sandbox.DefaultPolicy()
-	policy.DenyRead = nil
-	return sandbox.NewEngine(sandbox.EngineOptions{WorkspaceRoot: t.TempDir(), Policy: policy})
-}
-
-// nonEscalatingEngine has a denied read, which is exactly the condition under
-// which escalation is refused, so no disclosure should be made.
-func nonEscalatingEngine(t *testing.T) *sandbox.Engine {
-	t.Helper()
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	policy := sandbox.DefaultPolicy()
-	policy.DenyRead = []string{filepath.Join(root, "secret.txt")}
-	return sandbox.NewEngine(sandbox.EngineOptions{WorkspaceRoot: root, Policy: policy})
-}
-
-// THE POINT OF THE FILE. The prompt's disclosure and the args rewrite must
-// agree on every input, because the defect being fixed is precisely that the
-// two disagreed: the rewrite escalated out of the sandbox while the prompt said
-// only "allow command prefix for session".
-//
-// Asserting agreement rather than asserting each side's expected value is what
-// makes this hold up. If someone later widens or narrows the rewrite's guards
-// and forgets the flag, the two diverge here and this fails, which a pair of
-// independent expected-value tests would not catch.
-func TestPrefixEscalationDisclosureMatchesTheArgsRewrite(t *testing.T) {
-	escalating := Options{Sandbox: escalatingEngine(t)}
-	denied := Options{Sandbox: nonEscalatingEngine(t)}
-
-	cases := []struct {
-		name     string
-		toolName string
-		args     map[string]any
-		options  Options
-	}{
-		{"plain bash command", "bash", map[string]any{"command": "go test ./..."}, escalating},
-		{"plain exec_command", "exec_command", map[string]any{"cmd": "go build ./..."}, escalating},
-		{"not a shell tool", "read_file", map[string]any{"path": "go.mod"}, escalating},
-		{"no sandbox configured", "bash", map[string]any{"command": "go test ./..."}, Options{}},
-		{"escalation refused by denied reads", "bash", map[string]any{"command": "go test ./..."}, denied},
-		{
-			"call already asks for escalation",
-			"bash",
-			map[string]any{"command": "go test ./...", "sandbox_permissions": string(tools.SandboxPermissionsRequireEscalated)},
-			escalating,
-		},
-		{
-			"call already asks for additional permissions",
-			"bash",
-			map[string]any{"command": "go test ./...", "sandbox_permissions": string(tools.SandboxPermissionsWithAdditionalPermissions)},
-			escalating,
-		},
-		// An unrecognized value is NOT an opt-out: the rewrite overwrites it, so
-		// the disclosure has to fire. Included because the obvious reading of
-		// the guards says otherwise, and a case asserting the wrong thing here
-		// would have passed silently.
-		{
-			"unrecognized sandbox_permissions value",
-			"bash",
-			map[string]any{"command": "go test ./...", "sandbox_permissions": "all"},
-			escalating,
-		},
-		{"empty args", "bash", map[string]any{}, escalating},
-		{"nil args", "bash", nil, escalating},
-	}
-
-	for _, testCase := range cases {
-		t.Run(testCase.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			disclosed := shellPrefixApprovalEscalates(testCase.toolName, testCase.args, testCase.options)
-
-			// What the user's approval would actually be turned into.
-			rewritten := shellExecutionArgsForApproval(testCase.toolName, testCase.args, PermissionDecisionAllowPrefix, testCase.options)
-			escalates := shellCommandRequiresEscalated(rewritten) && !shellCommandRequiresEscalated(testCase.args)
-
-			if disclosed != escalates {
-				t.Fatalf("prompt discloses escalation=%v but approving actually escalates=%v; the prompt and the rewrite disagree, which is the consent gap this guards", disclosed, escalates)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// The two prefix decisions are the only ones that escalate, so a disclosure
-// attached to a request offering neither would be a false alarm. Checked
-// against the same predicate the rewrite consults.
-func TestOnlyPrefixDecisionsEscalate(t *testing.T) {
-	escalating := map[PermissionDecisionAction]bool{
-		PermissionDecisionAllowPrefix:       true,
-		PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllowPrefix: true,
-	}
-	for _, action := range []PermissionDecisionAction{
-		PermissionDecisionAllow,
-		PermissionDecisionAllowStrict,
-		PermissionDecisionAllowForSession,
-		PermissionDecisionAllowPrefix,
-		PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllowPrefix,
-		PermissionDecisionAlwaysAllow,
-		PermissionDecisionDeny,
-		PermissionDecisionCancel,
-	} {
-		if got := shellPrefixApprovalBypassesSandbox(action); got != escalating[action] {
-			t.Errorf("decision %q bypasses sandbox=%v, want %v", action, got, escalating[action])
-		}
-	}
-}
@@ -20,20 +20,7 @@ import (
 // without a session id. Higher-risk tools that do not opt into auto remain excluded.
 const (
 	maxBaseSystemPromptTokens = 3500
-	// Raised deliberately from 3550 on 2026-08-08. view_image (#843) took the set
-	// to 3588, and #867 trimmed it back to 3578: still 28 tokens over.
-	//
-	// The overrun is a rounding error rather than a regression. view_image costs
-	// 82 tokens, the second cheapest tool in the set, against exec_command's 909
-	// and request_permissions' 397; it is simply the one that crossed the line.
-	// Raised rather than paid down because the alternative was trimming a
-	// description to claw back 28 tokens, degrading a tool's usability to satisfy
-	// a line drawn against a 2026-07 measurement that predates two tools.
-	//
-	// The ratchet did its job: it caught the creep and forced a decision instead
-	// of a drift. That is the point of it, so keep raising it deliberately rather
-	// than reflexively.
-	maxEagerToolSchemaTokens = 3650
+	maxEagerToolSchemaTokens  = 3550
 )

 func TestSystemPromptTokenBudget(t *testing.T) {
@@ -59,29 +46,6 @@ func TestEagerToolSchemaTokenBudget(t *testing.T) {
 	got := estimateToolDefTokens(exposed)
 	t.Logf("eager core tool schemas: %d tokens across %d tools", got, len(exposed))
 	if got > maxEagerToolSchemaTokens {
-		// NOT "defer a tool": this test pins DeferThreshold at 0, so marking a
-		// tool deferred leaves it exposed here and changes nothing. Deferral is
-		// still worth doing for real sessions, it just cannot move this number.
-		// The levers that do are a smaller schema, one fewer core tool, or a
-		// deliberate raise.
-		t.Fatalf("eager tool schemas are %d tokens, over the %d ceiling — trim a schema, drop a core tool, or raise the ceiling deliberately (deferring will NOT help: this test disables deferral)", got, maxEagerToolSchemaTokens)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestAgentAdvertisesBothEditTools(t *testing.T) {
-	registry := tools.NewRegistry()
-	for _, tool := range tools.CoreToolsScoped(t.TempDir(), nil) {
-		registry.Register(tool)
-	}
-	exposed, _ := partitionTools(registry, PermissionModeAsk, Options{}, map[string]bool{})
-	names := make(map[string]bool, len(exposed))
-	for _, definition := range exposed {
-		names[definition.Name] = true
-	}
-	if !names["apply_patch"] {
-		t.Fatal("agent must retain apply_patch for multi-hunk changes")
-	}
-	if !names["edit_file"] {
-		t.Fatal("agent must receive edit_file for targeted exact replacements")
+		t.Fatalf("eager tool schemas are %d tokens, over the %d ceiling — defer a tool or raise the ceiling deliberately", got, maxEagerToolSchemaTokens)
 	}
 }
@@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ func buildSystemPromptParts(options Options) systemPromptParts {
 	if project != "" {
 		sections = append(sections, project)
 	}
-	if modeCtx := permissionModeContext(options); modeCtx != "" {
-		sections = append(sections, modeCtx)
-	}
 	if delegation := specialistDelegationContext(options); delegation != "" {
 		sections = append(sections, delegation)
 	}
@@ -685,12 +682,3 @@ func gitBranchForPrompt(cwd string) string {
 	}
 	return ref
 }
-
-func permissionModeContext(options Options) string {
-	switch options.PermissionMode {
-	case PermissionModePlan:
-		return "Plan mode is active on this session. Your role is read-only exploration and planning: inspect the workspace and shape the plan with update_plan, but do not make changes to files or execute commands."
-	default:
-		return ""
-	}
-}
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ work.

 - Choose the narrowest tool that safely accomplishes the step. Prefer native
  file tools - read_file, read_minified_file, list_directory, glob, grep,
-  edit_file, apply_patch, write_file - over shelling out to
+  write_file, edit_file, apply_patch - over shelling out to
  cat/sed/awk/python for file operations.
  They are safer, reviewable, and produce clean diffs.
 - Prefer read_minified_file when initially exploring source code; it preserves
@@ -61,18 +61,10 @@ work.
 - Keep edits focused and reviewable. A single patch may update several related
  files when they form one coherent change; do not hide unrelated edits in a
  bulk shell or script rewrite.
- For edits to existing files, use edit_file for a targeted change (old_string
-  must match the file exactly and be unique, so include a few surrounding
-  lines) and apply_patch when one coherent change spans several hunks or
-  files. Use write_file only to create a file or when most of it changes; do
-  not rewrite a whole file to change a few lines. Match the existing
-  indentation, imports, and idioms. Match the file's comment density: do not
-  add explanatory comments unless the user asks or the code is already
-  comment-dense.
- A successful edit result already confirms the change; do not re-read a file
-  just to verify an edit that succeeded. If an edit fails, read the error, fix
-  the old_string or hunk, and retry the same tool rather than switching to a
-  full rewrite.
+- For edits to existing files, prefer edit_file or apply_patch with minimal,
+  targeted diffs. Match the existing indentation, imports, and idioms. Match the
+  file's comment density: do not add explanatory comments unless the user asks or
+  the code is already comment-dense.
 - Solve the problem as posed, not a more general version of it. Add no
  speculative abstraction, configurability, or handling for cases that cannot
  occur, and nothing the user did not ask for. A small diff can still be
@@ -112,7 +104,7 @@ work.
  you need to clean up a running foreground command yourself, use write_stdin.
 - write_stdin's session_id is only ever an id returned by a still-running
  exec_command; never guess or probe ids. If you have no such session, start one
-  with exec_command, or use edit_file/apply_patch/write_file for file changes.
+  with exec_command, or use write_file/edit_file/apply_patch for file changes.
 - write_stdin with empty input polls an existing exec_command session, and
  `\u0003` interrupts it. Sending other stdin bytes may require approval because
  it can drive the running process beyond the original command. Non-tty sessions
@@ -60,12 +60,8 @@ const openAIPromptAddendum = `<model_guidance>
  longer answers, fenced code blocks for code, and ` + "`inline code`" + ` for paths,
  commands, and symbols.
 - Strongly prefer the native file tools (read_file, list_directory, grep, glob,
-  edit_file, apply_patch, write_file) over shelling out to cat/sed/awk/python
-  for file work. read_file, edit_file and write_file take one file per call;
-  a single apply_patch may span several files when they form one coherent
-  change. Do not batch file writes into a script. Independent tool calls
-  (several reads, several edit_file calls to different files) belong in the
-  same turn.
+  write_file, edit_file, apply_patch) over shelling out to cat/sed/awk/python for
+  file work. Make one tool call per file; do not batch file writes into a script.
 - Persist until the task is fully handled this turn: gather context, implement,
  run the validators, and report — do not stop at a partial result.
 </model_guidance>`
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func TestCoreSystemPromptIncludesCodingQualityRules(t *testing.T) {
 		"inspect the target file",
 		"plan then act",
 		"choose the narrowest tool",
-		"for edits to existing files, use edit_file",
+		"prefer edit_file or apply_patch",
 		"verify after edits",
 		"honor the active permission mode",
 		"avoid broad refactors",
@@ -26,15 +26,6 @@ const (
 	PermissionModeAsk       PermissionMode = "ask"
 	PermissionModeUnsafe    PermissionMode = "unsafe"
 	PermissionModeSpecDraft PermissionMode = "spec-draft"
-	// PermissionModePlan is an interactive, read-only planning mode. It applies
-	// to the CURRENT session (unlike spec-draft, which drafts in a separate
-	// session): the agent may inspect the workspace and shape the plan with
-	// update_plan/ask_user, but no mutating tool is advertised, so it cannot
-	// write files, run shell, or implement while planning. Entry points:
-	// the TUI's /plan on (exit with /plan off, which restores whatever mode
-	// was active before), `zero exec --plan`, and the ACP session mode
-	// selector ("plan").
-	PermissionModePlan PermissionMode = "plan"
 	// PermissionModeMemberAuto is a headless mode for swarm/specialist MEMBERS: it
 	// advertises the in-workspace mutators a member needs to build (write/edit +
 	// shell) on top of the Auto set, while the sandbox engine still gates them at
@@ -88,7 +79,6 @@ type ToolResult struct {
 	// command execution; callers must not schedule per-file work from them.
 	ChangeSummaries []execution.Change
 	Display         tools.Display
-	Outcome         tools.ToolOutcome
 	// DenialReason categorizes why a tool call was blocked (empty when it ran).
 	// It lets a surface distinguish the cause precisely instead of parsing Output.
 	DenialReason DenialCategory
@@ -109,24 +99,6 @@ type ToolResult struct {
 	RequestedModel string
 }

-// ModelOutput returns the bounded provider-facing result while preserving
-// compatibility with synthetic and restored results created before outcomes
-// were finalized.
-func (result ToolResult) ModelOutput() string {
-	if result.Outcome.Finalized() {
-		return result.Outcome.ModelView
-	}
-	return result.Output
-}
-
-// HumanDisplay returns the presentation intended for interactive surfaces.
-func (result ToolResult) HumanDisplay() tools.Display {
-	if result.Outcome.Finalized() {
-		return result.Outcome.HumanView
-	}
-	return result.Display
-}
-
 // DenialCategory classifies why a tool call was blocked before it executed.
 type DenialCategory string

@@ -204,22 +176,6 @@ type PermissionRequest struct {
 	Grant              *sandbox.Grant             `json:"grant,omitempty"`
 	CommandPrefix      []string                   `json:"commandPrefix,omitempty"`
 	AvailableDecisions []PermissionDecisionAction `json:"availableDecisions,omitempty"`
-	// PrefixApprovalEscalates reports that approving a command prefix will also
-	// run the command OUTSIDE the sandbox, not merely stop asking about it.
-	//
-	// It exists because that consequence was real but invisible. Approving a
-	// prefix rewrites the call to sandbox_permissions: require_escalated, which
-	// resolves to a nil engine and genuinely unsandboxed execution, and the
-	// engine's own escalation prompt is then satisfied by the approval just
-	// given for the sandboxed form. So the operator authorized one thing and got
-	// a wider one, having been shown only "allow command prefix for session".
-	//
-	// The escalation itself is deliberate and guarded: proposedCommandPrefix
-	// refuses to offer a prefix while any other segment of the command is not
-	// known-safe, precisely so an unreviewed segment cannot ride out of the
-	// sandbox on it. What was missing was telling the person deciding, so this
-	// surfaces it rather than removing it.
-	PrefixApprovalEscalates bool `json:"prefixApprovalEscalates,omitempty"`
 }

 type PermissionDecision struct {
@@ -325,7 +281,6 @@ type Options struct {
 	ProviderName     string
 	Model            string
 	ReasoningEffort  string
-	ServiceTier      string
 	Cwd              string
 	SystemPrompt     string
 	// TransientSystemPrompt adds trusted runtime guidance for this run only.
@@ -348,26 +303,10 @@ type Options struct {
 	// CompactionPreserveLast is how many trailing messages compaction keeps
 	// verbatim. <= 0 falls back to defaultCompactionPreserveLast.
 	CompactionPreserveLast int
-	// Summarizer, when set, lazily builds the provider used for compaction
-	// summarization calls — typically a cheap/fast model, since summaries at
-	// main-model prices are the single most expensive recurring event in a
-	// long run. It receives the main model currently in force and may return
-	// (nil, nil) when no dedicated summarizer applies to it (the main model is
-	// already the cheap one). Built on the first paid compaction and again
-	// after a mid-run model switch. Any failure (build or call) falls back to
-	// the run's main provider until the next switch, so a misconfigured
-	// summarizer can never break compaction. nil keeps today's behavior.
-	Summarizer func(ctx context.Context, mainModelID string) (Provider, error)
-	// ContextWindowFor, when set, resolves a model ID to its context window so
-	// the compactor can re-derive its threshold after a mid-run model switch
-	// (escalate_model). Without it a switch keeps compacting against the
-	// original model's window — overflowing a smaller target or over-compacting
-	// a larger one. Return <= 0 when the model is unknown (window unchanged).
-	ContextWindowFor func(modelID string) int
-	Registry         *tools.Registry
-	PermissionMode   PermissionMode
-	Autonomy         string
-	Sandbox          *sandbox.Engine
+	Registry               *tools.Registry
+	PermissionMode         PermissionMode
+	Autonomy               string
+	Sandbox                *sandbox.Engine
 	// FileTracker records per-session file read/write versions so the write tools
 	// can detect a file changed on disk outside Zero since it was last read. nil
 	// disables the check. Created once per session and threaded into every tool run.
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ func ParseTraceEventKeys(stdout string) []string {
 	return keys
 }

+func TraceEventKeys(stdout string) []string {
+	return ParseTraceEventKeys(stdout)
+}
+
 func MissingTraceEvents(required []string, stdout string) []string {
 	seen := map[string]bool{}
 	for _, key := range ParseTraceEventKeys(stdout) {
@@ -453,12 +453,7 @@ func (manager *Manager) normalizeLoadedTask(fileTaskID string, task Task) (Task,
 	}
 	outputFile, err := manager.outputFile(task.ID, task.OutputFile)
 	if err != nil {
-		var migrated bool
-		outputFile, migrated = manager.migrateLegacyOutputFile(task.ID, task.OutputFile)
-		if !migrated {
-			return Task{}, false, err
-		}
-		changed = true
+		return Task{}, false, err
 	}
 	if outputFile != task.OutputFile {
 		changed = true
@@ -567,32 +562,6 @@ func (manager *Manager) outputFile(taskID string, requested string) (string, err
 	return path, nil
 }

-// migrateLegacyOutputFile recovers task metadata written under a previous home
-// or XDG data root. It accepts only the canonical per-task output
-// name in the historic zero/background layout, and only when the corresponding
-// regular file already exists inside the active manager root.
-func (manager *Manager) migrateLegacyOutputFile(taskID string, requested string) (string, bool) {
-	requested = strings.TrimSpace(requested)
-	if !filepath.IsAbs(requested) {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	requested = filepath.Clean(requested)
-	expectedName := taskID + ".ndjson"
-	if filepath.Base(requested) != expectedName {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	legacyRoot := filepath.Dir(requested)
-	if filepath.Base(legacyRoot) != "background" || filepath.Base(filepath.Dir(legacyRoot)) != "zero" {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	canonical := filepath.Join(manager.rootDir, expectedName)
-	info, err := os.Lstat(canonical)
-	if err != nil || !info.Mode().IsRegular() {
-		return "", false
-	}
-	return canonical, true
-}
-
 func validTaskID(taskID string) bool {
 	return taskIDPattern.MatchString(strings.TrimSpace(taskID))
 }
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package background

 import (
-	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -192,88 +191,6 @@ func TestManagerSkipsInvalidPersistedMetadata(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestManagerMigratesLegacyOutputPathWhenCanonicalOutputExists(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	const taskID = "legacy_task"
-	canonicalOutput := filepath.Join(root, taskID+".ndjson")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(canonicalOutput, []byte("legacy output\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("write canonical output: %v", err)
-	}
-	legacyOutput := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "zero", "background", taskID+".ndjson")
-	metadata, err := json.Marshal(Task{
-		ID:         taskID,
-		Type:       "specialist",
-		Status:     StatusCompleted,
-		OutputFile: legacyOutput,
-		StartedAt:  time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("marshal legacy metadata: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, taskID+".json"), append(metadata, '\n'), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("write legacy metadata: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	manager, err := NewManager(root)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("NewManager returned error: %v", err)
-	}
-	task, ok := manager.Get(taskID)
-	if !ok {
-		t.Fatal("manager did not load migrated task")
-	}
-	if task.OutputFile != canonicalOutput {
-		t.Fatalf("migrated output file = %q, want %q", task.OutputFile, canonicalOutput)
-	}
-	if warnings := manager.LoadWarnings(); len(warnings) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("migration produced load warnings: %#v", warnings)
-	}
-
-	persisted, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join(root, taskID+".json"))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("read migrated metadata: %v", err)
-	}
-	var saved Task
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(persisted, &saved); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("decode migrated metadata: %v", err)
-	}
-	if saved.OutputFile != canonicalOutput {
-		t.Fatalf("persisted output file = %q, want %q", saved.OutputFile, canonicalOutput)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestManagerRejectsUnrelatedAbsoluteOutputPathDuringMigration(t *testing.T) {
-	root := t.TempDir()
-	const taskID = "legacy_task"
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, taskID+".ndjson"), []byte("output\n"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("write canonical output: %v", err)
-	}
-	metadata, err := json.Marshal(Task{
-		ID:         taskID,
-		Type:       "specialist",
-		Status:     StatusCompleted,
-		OutputFile: filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), taskID+".ndjson"),
-		StartedAt:  time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("marshal metadata: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(root, taskID+".json"), append(metadata, '\n'), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("write metadata: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	manager, err := NewManager(root)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("NewManager returned error: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, ok := manager.Get(taskID); ok {
-		t.Fatal("manager loaded task with an unrelated absolute output path")
-	}
-	if warnings := strings.Join(manager.LoadWarnings(), "\n"); !strings.Contains(warnings, "output file must be inside") {
-		t.Fatalf("load warnings = %q, want containment rejection", warnings)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestManagerMarksReloadedRunningTaskNonKillable(t *testing.T) {
 	root := t.TempDir()
 	manager, err := NewManager(root)
@@ -39,21 +39,3 @@ func ConfigureChildProcessGroup(cmd *exec.Cmd) {
 func terminateProcess(pid int) error {
 	return execution.TerminateProcessTree(pid, terminationGracePeriod, terminationPollInterval)
 }
-
-// terminateOwnedProcess terminates cmd's process group directly when its launch
-// configuration proves it was made a group leader. This avoids fragile Getpgid
-// rediscovery after an owned leader exits. Ordinary commands fall back to the
-// safe PID/tree path rather than assuming their PID is also a process-group ID.
-//
-// The Setpgid && Pgid == 0 guard only recognizes ConfigureChildProcessGroup's
-// own convention. A command made its own session leader via Setsid (as opposed
-// to Setpgid) is also its own process-group leader in practice, but takes the
-// slower rediscovery path here since Setsid isn't checked. Harmless today
-// because TerminateCommand has exactly one caller in this codebase; worth
-// covering explicitly if Setsid-configured commands start using this path too.
-func terminateOwnedProcess(cmd *exec.Cmd) (bool, error) {
-	if cmd.SysProcAttr != nil && cmd.SysProcAttr.Setpgid && cmd.SysProcAttr.Pgid == 0 {
-		return false, execution.TerminateProcessGroup(cmd.Process.Pid, terminationGracePeriod, terminationPollInterval)
-	}
-	return false, terminateProcess(cmd.Process.Pid)
-}
@@ -147,12 +147,11 @@ func TestTerminateProcessKillsForkedChildren(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("terminateProcess: %v", err)
 	}

-	// The forked child must no longer be running. An orphaned zombie is already
-	// dead but may remain visible briefly until the platform's init reaps it.
+	// The forked child must be gone too (poll until reaped by init).
 	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
-	// processStopped treats only ESRCH or an observed zombie state as stopped;
-	// other errors (for example EPERM) remain live and keep polling.
-	for !processStopped(childPID) {
+	// Only ESRCH proves the child is gone; any other error (e.g. EPERM) would
+	// wrongly pass the test, so treat it as still-present and keep polling.
+	for !errors.Is(syscall.Kill(childPID, syscall.Signal(0)), syscall.ESRCH) {
 		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
 			_ = syscall.Kill(childPID, syscall.SIGKILL)
 			t.Fatalf("forked child %d survived terminateProcess — group kill failed", childPID)
@@ -160,73 +159,3 @@ func TestTerminateProcessKillsForkedChildren(t *testing.T) {
 		time.Sleep(20 * time.Millisecond)
 	}
 }
-
-func TestTerminateCommandStopsUnconfiguredCommand(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("sleep", "30")
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	t.Cleanup(func() {
-		if cmd.ProcessState == nil {
-			_ = cmd.Process.Kill()
-		}
-	})
-
-	if err := TerminateCommand(cmd); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateCommand: %v", err)
-	}
-	if cmd.ProcessState == nil {
-		t.Fatal("unconfigured command was not reaped")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTerminateCommandKillsChildAfterLeaderExits(t *testing.T) {
-	grace, poll := terminationGracePeriod, terminationPollInterval
-	terminationGracePeriod, terminationPollInterval = 2*time.Second, 20*time.Millisecond
-	t.Cleanup(func() { terminationGracePeriod, terminationPollInterval = grace, poll })
-
-	// The leader exits immediately after launching the child. TerminateCommand
-	// must capture and signal the process group before Wait reaps the leader and
-	// makes its group identity unavailable.
-	cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", "sleep 300 & echo $!; exit 0")
-	ConfigureChildProcessGroup(cmd)
-	stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("stdout pipe: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	line, err := bufio.NewReader(stdout).ReadString('\n')
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("read forked child pid: %v", err)
-	}
-	childPID, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(line))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("parse forked child pid %q: %v", line, err)
-	}
-
-	if err := TerminateCommand(cmd); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateCommand: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
-	for !processStopped(childPID) {
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			_ = syscall.Kill(childPID, syscall.SIGKILL)
-			t.Fatalf("forked child %d survived TerminateCommand", childPID)
-		}
-		time.Sleep(20 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-}
-
-func processStopped(pid int) bool {
-	if errors.Is(syscall.Kill(pid, syscall.Signal(0)), syscall.ESRCH) {
-		return true
-	}
-	state, err := exec.Command("ps", "-o", "stat=", "-p", strconv.Itoa(pid)).Output()
-	if err != nil {
-		return errors.Is(syscall.Kill(pid, syscall.Signal(0)), syscall.ESRCH)
-	}
-	return strings.HasPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(string(state)), "Z")
-}
@@ -3,20 +3,11 @@
 package background

 import (
-	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"

 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/execution"
-	"golang.org/x/sys/windows"
 )

-// stillActiveExitCode is the documented GetExitCodeProcess value for a process
-// that has not terminated. x/sys/windows does not expose Windows' STILL_ACTIVE
-// constant.
-const stillActiveExitCode uint32 = 259
-
-var terminateProcessForTest = terminateProcess
-
 // ConfigureChildProcessGroup is a no-op on Windows: process-tree termination is
 // delegated to execution.TerminateProcessTree, so no launch-time process-group
 // setup is required (the POSIX build sets Setpgid here instead).
@@ -25,28 +16,3 @@ func ConfigureChildProcessGroup(cmd *exec.Cmd) { execution.ConfigureProcessGroup
 func terminateProcess(pid int) error {
 	return execution.TerminateProcessTree(pid, 0, 0)
 }
-
-// terminateOwnedProcess asks taskkill /T to terminate the tree rooted at cmd,
-// with KillProcessTree's direct Process.Kill fallback if taskkill fails. taskkill
-// can discover descendants only while the root PID still exists; unlike a POSIX
-// process group, a Windows tree has no independently addressable identity after
-// its root exits.
-func terminateOwnedProcess(cmd *exec.Cmd) (bool, error) {
-	var (
-		alreadyExited bool
-		terminateErr  error
-	)
-	err := cmd.Process.WithHandle(func(handle uintptr) {
-		var exitCode uint32
-		if windows.GetExitCodeProcess(windows.Handle(handle), &exitCode) == nil {
-			alreadyExited = exitCode != stillActiveExitCode
-		}
-		// Keep the exact process identity pinned while the PID-based taskkill
-		// operation runs, preventing the PID from being recycled underneath it.
-		terminateErr = terminateProcessForTest(cmd.Process.Pid)
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, fmt.Errorf("pin process %d for termination: %w", cmd.Process.Pid, err)
-	}
-	return alreadyExited, terminateErr
-}
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
-//go:build windows
-
-package background
-
-import (
-	"bufio"
-	"errors"
-	"os/exec"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-)
-
-func TestTerminateCommandReturnsTreeFailureAfterRootFallbackReaps(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("powershell.exe", "-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-Command", "Start-Sleep -Seconds 300")
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	treeErr := errors.New("taskkill /T failed")
-	originalTerminateProcess := terminateProcessForTest
-	terminateProcessForTest = func(pid int) error {
-		if err := cmd.Process.Kill(); err != nil {
-			return errors.Join(treeErr, err)
-		}
-		return treeErr
-	}
-	t.Cleanup(func() { terminateProcessForTest = originalTerminateProcess })
-
-	err := TerminateCommand(cmd)
-	if !errors.Is(err, treeErr) {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateCommand error = %v, want tree failure", err)
-	}
-	if cmd.ProcessState == nil {
-		t.Fatal("root process was not reaped")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTerminateCommandReapsExitedLeader(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("cmd.exe", "/c", "exit", "0")
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	// Let the child exit without calling Wait so cleanup exercises the Windows
-	// taskkill/TerminateProcess race while it still owns the process handle.
-	time.Sleep(500 * time.Millisecond)
-
-	// jatmn's #774 finding: taskkill /T racing an already-exited PID (and the
-	// Process.Kill fallback) both fail here, but the reap below still succeeds —
-	// the process-handle exit-code check proves the leader was already gone, so
-	// TerminateCommand must not surface the expected kill-attempt error.
-	if err := TerminateCommand(cmd); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateCommand: %v, want nil (leader was already gone and got reaped)", err)
-	}
-	if cmd.ProcessState == nil {
-		t.Fatal("exited process was not reaped")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTerminateCommandDeadLeaderCannotIdentifyDescendantTree(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("powershell.exe", "-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-Command",
-		`$p = Start-Process powershell.exe -ArgumentList '-NoProfile','-Command','Start-Sleep -Seconds 300' -PassThru; $p.Id`)
-	stdout, err := cmd.StdoutPipe()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("stdout pipe: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	line, err := bufio.NewReader(stdout).ReadString('\n')
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("read descendant pid: %v", err)
-	}
-	descendantPID, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(line))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("parse descendant pid %q: %v", line, err)
-	}
-	t.Cleanup(func() {
-		_ = exec.Command("taskkill.exe", "/F", "/PID", strconv.Itoa(descendantPID)).Run()
-	})
-
-	// Wait until the leader is observably exited but deliberately leave it
-	// unreaped, matching the POSIX regression's ordering.
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
-	for processExistsOnWindows(cmd.Process.Pid) {
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Fatal("leader did not exit")
-		}
-		time.Sleep(20 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-	if err := TerminateCommand(cmd); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateCommand: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	// Windows has no persistent group ID analogous to POSIX: once the leader is
-	// gone, taskkill /T cannot rediscover this descendant. Assert that platform
-	// distinction rather than claiming TerminateCommand can provide it here.
-	if !processExistsOnWindows(descendantPID) {
-		t.Fatal("descendant unexpectedly stopped after its root exited")
-	}
-}
-
-func processExistsOnWindows(pid int) bool {
-	return exec.Command("powershell.exe", "-NoProfile", "-NonInteractive", "-Command",
-		"Get-Process -Id "+strconv.Itoa(pid)+" -ErrorAction Stop | Out-Null").Run() == nil
-}
@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
 package background

-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"os/exec"
-	"time"
-)
-
-const commandReapTimeout = 3 * time.Second
-
 // TerminateProcess stops a background process by PID — on Windows its process
 // tree; on POSIX its whole process group when the PID leads its own group (the
 // invariant ConfigureChildProcessGroup establishes for processes started through
@@ -21,69 +12,3 @@ const commandReapTimeout = 3 * time.Second
 func TerminateProcess(pid int) error {
 	return terminateProcess(pid)
 }
-
-// TerminateCommand stops a started command and reaps its leader. The caller must
-// have exclusive ownership of cmd: it must not have previously called Wait or
-// Process.Release, and no goroutine may call either concurrently. On POSIX it
-// stops the whole group when the command was configured as its leader; ordinary
-// commands safely fall back to PID/tree discovery. On Windows, success for a
-// leader that was already dead confirms only that the leader was reaped;
-// descendants may survive because Windows cannot rediscover a tree from a dead
-// root. `zero daemon start` needs this operation when readiness times out: it
-// launched the child, so it must both stop the tree and collect the leader.
-//
-// The order matters: the tree is signalled first, because Wait releases the
-// leader's PID and a later group lookup could then resolve to nothing (or, worse,
-// to a recycled PID). Termination stays in the shared execution lifecycle
-// primitives rather than introducing a second platform-specific killer.
-//
-// If the bounded reap times out, the Wait call already started by this function
-// continues in its goroutine. From that point onward the caller must not access
-// cmd at all, including ProcessState, because that would race with Wait.
-func TerminateCommand(cmd *exec.Cmd) error {
-	if cmd == nil || cmd.Process == nil {
-		return errors.New("terminate command: process was never started")
-	}
-	leaderAlreadyExited, terminateErr := terminateOwnedProcess(cmd)
-	reapErr := waitForTerminatedCommandWithin(cmd, commandReapTimeout)
-	if reapErr != nil {
-		if terminateErr != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%v (reap failed: %w)", terminateErr, reapErr)
-		}
-		return reapErr
-	}
-	if terminateErr != nil && !leaderAlreadyExited {
-		return terminateErr
-	}
-	// Only discard a termination error when the platform demonstrated before
-	// attempting termination that the leader had already exited. A successful
-	// reap alone says nothing about whether a live descendant tree was stopped.
-	return nil
-}
-
-// classifyWaitError treats a non-zero exit status as success: a process being
-// terminated is expected to report one (or a signal), so the only interesting
-// failure is Wait itself not working.
-func classifyWaitError(waitErr error) error {
-	var exitErr *exec.ExitError
-	if waitErr != nil && !errors.As(waitErr, &exitErr) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("reap process: %w", waitErr)
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
-// waitForTerminatedCommandWithin bounds the reap so a child that somehow survives
-// termination cannot hang the caller — the daemon-start cleanup path runs while a
-// user waits at the CLI. On timeout its Wait goroutine is intentionally left to
-// finish: exec.Cmd permits only one Wait call, and abandoning it without a reaper
-// would leak the child once it eventually exits.
-func waitForTerminatedCommandWithin(cmd *exec.Cmd, timeout time.Duration) error {
-	waitDone := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() { waitDone <- cmd.Wait() }()
-	select {
-	case waitErr := <-waitDone:
-		return classifyWaitError(waitErr)
-	case <-time.After(timeout):
-		return fmt.Errorf("process %d did not reap after termination", cmd.Process.Pid)
-	}
-}
@@ -64,53 +64,37 @@ type appDeps struct {
 	// getenv reads a process environment variable (production: os.Getenv, set in
 	// defaultAppDeps — deliberately NOT filled by fillAppDeps, so tests are hermetic
 	// against ambient vars like ZERO_PROVIDER unless they inject it). nil ⇒ empty.
-	getenv                       func(string) string
-	probeProviderHealth          func(context.Context, providerhealth.Options) providerhealth.Result
-	discoverProviderModels       func(context.Context, config.ProviderProfile) ([]providermodeldiscovery.Model, error)
-	detectLocalRuntimes          func(context.Context, provideronboarding.LocalDetectOptions) []provideronboarding.DetectedLocalRuntime
-	openRouterLogin              func(context.Context, provideroauth.OpenRouterOptions) (string, error)
-	newSessionStore              func() *sessions.Store
-	loadPlugins                  func(plugins.LoadOptions) (plugins.LoadResult, error)
-	loadHooks                    func(hooks.LoadOptions) (hooks.LoadResult, error)
-	skillsDir                    func() string
-	pluginsDir                   func() string
-	toolsDir                     func() string
-	newMCPStore                  func() (*mcp.PermissionStore, error)
-	newMCPTokenStore             func() (*mcp.TokenStore, error)
-	newSandboxStore              func() (*sandbox.GrantStore, error)
-	selectSandboxBackend         func(sandbox.BackendOptions) sandbox.Backend
-	runSandboxSetupHelper        func(path string, args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer) error
-	registerMCPTools             func(context.Context, *tools.Registry, config.MCPConfig, mcp.RegisterOptions) (mcpToolRuntime, error)
-	prepareWorktree              func(context.Context, worktrees.Options) (worktrees.Result, error)
-	releaseWorktree              func(context.Context, worktrees.Options, string) error
-	detectVerifyPlan             func(string) (verify.Plan, error)
-	runVerify                    func(context.Context, verify.Plan, verify.RunOptions) verify.Report
-	runSelfVerify                func(context.Context, verify.Plan, selfverify.Options) selfverify.Report
-	runAgentEval                 func(context.Context, agentEvalOptions) (agentEvalReport, error)
-	inspectChanges               func(context.Context, zerogit.InspectOptions) (zerogit.ChangeSummary, error)
-	commitChanges                func(context.Context, zerogit.CommitOptions) (zerogit.CommitResult, error)
-	pushChanges                  func(context.Context, zerogit.PushOptions) (zerogit.PushResult, error)
-	createPR                     func(context.Context, zerogit.PROptions) (zerogit.PRResult, error)
-	createBranch                 func(context.Context, zerogit.BranchOptions) (zerogit.BranchResult, error)
-	isDefaultBranch              func(context.Context, zerogit.DefaultBranchOptions) (bool, string, string, error)
-	currentGitUser               func(context.Context, string) string
-	headCommitSubject            func(context.Context, string) string
-	commitsAhead                 func(context.Context, string, string, string) (int, error)
-	isUnbornRemote               func(context.Context, string, string) (bool, error)
-	refreshTrackingRef           func(context.Context, string, string, string) error
-	branchUpstreamRemote         func(context.Context, string, string) string
-	branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge func(context.Context, string, string) (string, string)
-	resolveRemoteBranchTip       func(context.Context, string, string, string) (string, error)
-	remoteHasBranch              func(context.Context, string, string, string) (bool, error)
-	currentGitBranch             func(context.Context, string) string
-	currentBranchTip             func(context.Context, string) string
-	deleteBranch                 func(context.Context, string, string, string) error
-	resetBranchRef               func(context.Context, string, string, string, string) error
-	runTUI                       func(context.Context, tui.Options) int
-	runEditor                    func(string) error
-	checkUpdate                  func(context.Context, update.Options) (update.Result, error)
-	applyUpdate                  func(context.Context, update.Options) (update.ApplyResult, error)
-	now                          func() time.Time
+	getenv                 func(string) string
+	probeProviderHealth    func(context.Context, providerhealth.Options) providerhealth.Result
+	discoverProviderModels func(context.Context, config.ProviderProfile) ([]providermodeldiscovery.Model, error)
+	detectLocalRuntimes    func(context.Context, provideronboarding.LocalDetectOptions) []provideronboarding.DetectedLocalRuntime
+	openRouterLogin        func(context.Context, provideroauth.OpenRouterOptions) (string, error)
+	newSessionStore        func() *sessions.Store
+	loadPlugins            func(plugins.LoadOptions) (plugins.LoadResult, error)
+	loadHooks              func(hooks.LoadOptions) (hooks.LoadResult, error)
+	skillsDir              func() string
+	pluginsDir             func() string
+	toolsDir               func() string
+	newMCPStore            func() (*mcp.PermissionStore, error)
+	newMCPTokenStore       func() (*mcp.TokenStore, error)
+	newSandboxStore        func() (*sandbox.GrantStore, error)
+	selectSandboxBackend   func(sandbox.BackendOptions) sandbox.Backend
+	runSandboxSetupHelper  func(path string, args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer) error
+	registerMCPTools       func(context.Context, *tools.Registry, config.MCPConfig, mcp.RegisterOptions) (mcpToolRuntime, error)
+	prepareWorktree        func(context.Context, worktrees.Options) (worktrees.Result, error)
+	detectVerifyPlan       func(string) (verify.Plan, error)
+	runVerify              func(context.Context, verify.Plan, verify.RunOptions) verify.Report
+	runSelfVerify          func(context.Context, verify.Plan, selfverify.Options) selfverify.Report
+	runAgentEval           func(context.Context, agentEvalOptions) (agentEvalReport, error)
+	inspectChanges         func(context.Context, zerogit.InspectOptions) (zerogit.ChangeSummary, error)
+	commitChanges          func(context.Context, zerogit.CommitOptions) (zerogit.CommitResult, error)
+	pushChanges            func(context.Context, zerogit.PushOptions) (zerogit.PushResult, error)
+	createPR               func(context.Context, zerogit.PROptions) (zerogit.PRResult, error)
+	runTUI                 func(context.Context, tui.Options) int
+	runEditor              func(string) error
+	checkUpdate            func(context.Context, update.Options) (update.Result, error)
+	applyUpdate            func(context.Context, update.Options) (update.ApplyResult, error)
+	now                    func() time.Time
 }

 type mcpToolRuntime interface {
@@ -204,7 +188,6 @@ func defaultAppDeps() appDeps {
 			return mcp.RegisterTools(ctx, registry, cfg, options)
 		},
 		prepareWorktree:  worktrees.Prepare,
-		releaseWorktree:  worktrees.Release,
 		detectVerifyPlan: verify.DetectPlan,
 		runVerify:        verify.Run,
 		runSelfVerify:    selfverify.Run,
@@ -213,52 +196,11 @@ func defaultAppDeps() appDeps {
 		commitChanges:    zerogit.Commit,
 		pushChanges:      zerogit.Push,
 		createPR:         zerogit.CreatePR,
-		createBranch:     zerogit.CreateBranch,
-		isDefaultBranch:  zerogit.IsDefaultBranch,
-		currentGitUser: func(ctx context.Context, cwd string) string {
-			return zerogit.CurrentGitUser(ctx, cwd, nil)
-		},
-		headCommitSubject: func(ctx context.Context, cwd string) string {
-			return zerogit.HeadCommitSubject(ctx, cwd, nil)
-		},
-		commitsAhead: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, remote, branch string) (int, error) {
-			return zerogit.CommitsAhead(ctx, cwd, remote, branch, nil)
-		},
-		isUnbornRemote: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, remote string) (bool, error) {
-			return zerogit.IsUnbornRemote(ctx, cwd, remote, nil)
-		},
-		refreshTrackingRef: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, remote, branch string) error {
-			return zerogit.RefreshTrackingRef(ctx, cwd, remote, branch, nil)
-		},
-		branchUpstreamRemote: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, branch string) string {
-			return zerogit.UpstreamRemote(ctx, cwd, branch, nil)
-		},
-		branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, branch string) (string, string) {
-			return zerogit.UpstreamRemoteAndMergeBranch(ctx, cwd, branch, nil)
-		},
-		resolveRemoteBranchTip: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, remote, branch string) (string, error) {
-			return zerogit.ResolveRemoteBranchTip(ctx, cwd, remote, branch, nil)
-		},
-		remoteHasBranch: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, remote, branch string) (bool, error) {
-			return zerogit.RemoteHasBranch(ctx, cwd, remote, branch, nil)
-		},
-		currentGitBranch: func(ctx context.Context, cwd string) string {
-			return zerogit.CurrentBranch(ctx, cwd, nil)
-		},
-		currentBranchTip: func(ctx context.Context, cwd string) string {
-			return zerogit.CurrentBranchTip(ctx, cwd, nil)
-		},
-		deleteBranch: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, fallbackBranch, branchToDelete string) error {
-			return zerogit.DeleteBranch(ctx, cwd, fallbackBranch, branchToDelete, nil)
-		},
-		resetBranchRef: func(ctx context.Context, cwd, branch, newTip, expectedOld string) error {
-			return zerogit.ResetBranchRef(ctx, cwd, branch, newTip, nil, expectedOld)
-		},
-		runTUI:      tui.Run,
-		runEditor:   openEditor,
-		checkUpdate: update.Check,
-		applyUpdate: update.Apply,
-		now:         time.Now,
+		runTUI:           tui.Run,
+		runEditor:        openEditor,
+		checkUpdate:      update.Check,
+		applyUpdate:      update.Apply,
+		now:              time.Now,
 	}
 }

@@ -591,9 +533,6 @@ func fillAppDeps(deps appDeps) appDeps {
 	if deps.prepareWorktree == nil {
 		deps.prepareWorktree = defaults.prepareWorktree
 	}
-	if deps.releaseWorktree == nil {
-		deps.releaseWorktree = defaults.releaseWorktree
-	}
 	if deps.detectVerifyPlan == nil {
 		deps.detectVerifyPlan = defaults.detectVerifyPlan
 	}
@@ -618,45 +557,6 @@ func fillAppDeps(deps appDeps) appDeps {
 	if deps.createPR == nil {
 		deps.createPR = defaults.createPR
 	}
-	if deps.createBranch == nil {
-		deps.createBranch = defaults.createBranch
-	}
-	if deps.isDefaultBranch == nil {
-		deps.isDefaultBranch = defaults.isDefaultBranch
-	}
-	if deps.currentGitUser == nil {
-		deps.currentGitUser = defaults.currentGitUser
-	}
-	if deps.headCommitSubject == nil {
-		deps.headCommitSubject = defaults.headCommitSubject
-	}
-	if deps.commitsAhead == nil {
-		deps.commitsAhead = defaults.commitsAhead
-	}
-	if deps.isUnbornRemote == nil {
-		deps.isUnbornRemote = defaults.isUnbornRemote
-	}
-	if deps.refreshTrackingRef == nil {
-		deps.refreshTrackingRef = defaults.refreshTrackingRef
-	}
-	if deps.branchUpstreamRemote == nil {
-		deps.branchUpstreamRemote = defaults.branchUpstreamRemote
-	}
-	if deps.branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge == nil {
-		deps.branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge = defaults.branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge
-	}
-	if deps.remoteHasBranch == nil {
-		deps.remoteHasBranch = defaults.remoteHasBranch
-	}
-	if deps.currentGitBranch == nil {
-		deps.currentGitBranch = defaults.currentGitBranch
-	}
-	if deps.currentBranchTip == nil {
-		deps.currentBranchTip = defaults.currentBranchTip
-	}
-	// resolveRemoteBranchTip, deleteBranch, and resetBranchRef stay nil when
-	// unset so unit tests that mock createBranch without a real git tree do not
-	// hit real git restore/delete commands.
 	if deps.runTUI == nil {
 		deps.runTUI = defaults.runTUI
 	}
@@ -856,7 +756,7 @@ func runInteractiveTUIWithSetup(stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps, permissionMode a
 	// A server that could not be reached or validated is skipped, not fatal (one
 	// bad MCP server must not abort startup) — surface each so a missing tool set is
 	// explained rather than silently absent. A built-in default the user never
-	// configured (e.g. keyless Exa with no credentials) is the exception: it
+	// configured (e.g. keyless Firecrawl with no credentials) is the exception: it
 	// was never asked for, so its failure is not worth a startup warning — only
 	// servers the user actually configured warn on failure (issue #552).
 	for _, skipped := range mcpRuntime.Skipped() {
@@ -937,7 +837,6 @@ func runInteractiveTUIWithSetup(stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps, permissionMode a
 		Version:              version,
 		Theme:                theme,
 		SavedTheme:           resolved.Preferences.Theme,
-		SavedPet:             resolved.Preferences.Pet,
 		UserConfigPath:       userConfigPath,
 		DoctorUserConfigPath: doctorUserConfigPath,
 		ProjectConfigPath:    projectConfigPath,
@@ -948,7 +847,6 @@ func runInteractiveTUIWithSetup(stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps, permissionMode a
 		FavoriteModels:       resolved.Preferences.FavoriteModels,
 		RecentModels:         resolved.Preferences.RecentModels,
 		RecapsEnabled:        resolved.Preferences.RecapsEnabled(),
-		CompactionModel:      resolved.Preferences.CompactionModel,
 		Provider:             provider,
 		NewProvider:          deps.newProvider,
 		ProbeProviderHealth:  deps.probeProviderHealth,
@@ -1323,8 +1221,7 @@ Commands:
  mcp        Manage MCP backend settings
  auth       Log in to model providers via OAuth
  sandbox    Inspect sandbox policy and persistent grants
-  update     Check or apply Zero CLI updates (requires --check or --apply)
-  upgrade    Download, verify, and install available Zero CLI updates
+  update     Check for Zero CLI updates
  worktrees  Prepare isolated git worktrees
  verify     Detect and run local verification checks
  eval       Validate offline agent eval suites
@@ -1486,10 +1383,6 @@ Flags:
      --spec-model <model>           Override the draft model when --use-spec is set
      --spec-reasoning-effort <effort>
                                    Override draft reasoning effort when --use-spec is set
-      --plan                         Read-only planning mode: write and shell tools are hidden
-      --permission-mode <mode>       Set permission mode directly (plan, spec-draft, auto, member,
-                                    ask, unsafe). Outranks --auto; prefer --plan / --auto for
-                                    interactive use. Used by specialist/swarm child processes.
      --max-turns <number>           Override the maximum agent loop turns
      --exec-profile <name>          Apply an execution profile (balanced, fast, thorough): loop
                                    posture only (turn budget, effort, self-correction, escalation);
@@ -211,12 +211,12 @@ func TestTUIStartupSuppressesWarningForUnconfiguredDefaultServer(t *testing.T) {
 		},
 		resolveMCPConfig: func(workspaceRoot string, excludeProject bool) (config.MCPConfig, error) {
 			return config.MCPConfig{Servers: map[string]config.MCPServerConfig{
-				"exa": config.DefaultMCPServers()["exa"],
+				"firecrawl": config.DefaultMCPServers()["firecrawl"],
 			}}, nil
 		},
 		registerMCPTools: func(context.Context, *tools.Registry, config.MCPConfig, mcp.RegisterOptions) (mcpToolRuntime, error) {
 			return fakeMCPRuntimeWithSkips{skipped: []mcp.SkippedServer{
-				{Name: "exa", Err: errors.New("returned HTTP 401"), UnconfiguredDefault: true},
+				{Name: "firecrawl", Err: errors.New("returned HTTP 401"), UnconfiguredDefault: true},
 			}}, nil
 		},
 		runTUI: func(ctx context.Context, options tui.Options) int {
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ func TestTUIStartupSuppressesWarningForUnconfiguredDefaultServer(t *testing.T) {
 	if exitCode != 0 {
 		t.Fatalf("exitCode = %d stderr=%s", exitCode, stderr.String())
 	}
-	if strings.Contains(stderr.String(), "exa") {
+	if strings.Contains(stderr.String(), "firecrawl") {
 		t.Fatalf("stderr = %q, want no warning for an unconfigured default server", stderr.String())
 	}
 }
@@ -1457,20 +1457,6 @@ func TestRunUpdateHelpDocumentsCheckFlag(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestTopLevelHelpDocumentsRequiredUpdateMode(t *testing.T) {
-	var stdout bytes.Buffer
-	var stderr bytes.Buffer
-
-	exitCode := runWithDeps([]string{"--help"}, &stdout, &stderr, appDeps{})
-
-	if exitCode != exitSuccess {
-		t.Fatalf("expected exit code %d, got %d: %s", exitSuccess, exitCode, stderr.String())
-	}
-	if got := stdout.String(); !strings.Contains(got, "update     Check or apply Zero CLI updates (requires --check or --apply)") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected top-level help to document required update mode, got %q", got)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestRunUpdateReportsUpToDate(t *testing.T) {
 	var stdout bytes.Buffer
 	var stderr bytes.Buffer
@@ -1674,7 +1660,6 @@ func assertHelpOutput(t *testing.T, args []string) {
 		"mcp",
 		"sandbox",
 		"update",
-		"upgrade",
 		"worktrees",
 		"verify",
 		"serve",
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ import (

 func TestRunBackendsJSONUsesLifecycleSnapshotWithoutConnectingMCP(t *testing.T) {
 	cwd := t.TempDir()
-	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("a", 23) + "0"
+	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("a", 24)
 	deps := appDeps{
 		getwd: func() (string, error) { return cwd, nil },
 		resolveMCPConfig: func(workspaceRoot string, _ bool) (config.MCPConfig, error) {
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ func TestRunBackendsTextAndHelp(t *testing.T) {

 func TestRunBackendsDoctorJSONAndTextWithoutConnectingMCP(t *testing.T) {
 	cwd := t.TempDir()
-	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("b", 23) + "0"
+	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("b", 24)
 	deps := appDeps{
 		getwd: func() (string, error) { return cwd, nil },
 		resolveMCPConfig: func(workspaceRoot string, _ bool) (config.MCPConfig, error) {
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ var completionRoot = completionNode{
 	children: []completionNode{
 		{names: []string{"exec"}, flags: []string{
 			"-h", "--help", "-f", "--file", "--image", "--add-dir", "--mode", "-m", "--model",
-			"--use-spec", "--spec-model", "--spec-reasoning-effort", "--plan", "--permission-mode",
-			"--max-turns", "--exec-profile",
+			"--use-spec", "--spec-model", "--spec-reasoning-effort", "--max-turns", "--exec-profile",
 			"--auto", "--enabled-tools", "--disabled-tools", "--list-tools", "--profile", "-r",
 			"--reasoning-effort", "-C", "--cwd", "-w", "--worktree", "--worktree-dir", "-i",
 			"--input-format", "-o", "--output-format", "--prompt", "--resume", "--fork",
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ var completionRoot = completionNode{
 		}},
 		{names: []string{"update"}},
 		{names: []string{"upgrade"}},
-		{names: []string{"worktrees", "worktree"}, children: leafNodes("prepare", "release")},
+		{names: []string{"worktrees", "worktree"}, children: leafNodes("prepare")},
 		{names: []string{"verify"}},
 		{names: []string{"trust"}, children: leafNodes("list", "remove")},
 		{names: []string{"eval"}, children: leafNodes("validate", "run", "bench")},
@@ -155,8 +155,6 @@ func TestCompletionTreeCoversAliasesNestingAndCommonFlags(t *testing.T) {

 	assertCandidates(t, byPath[""], "sessions", "session", "plugins", "plugin", "worktrees", "worktree", "--add-dir", "--theme", "-p", "--prompt")
 	assertCandidates(t, byPath["exec"], "--model", "--cwd", "--worktree", "--output-format", "--resume", "--skip-permissions-unsafe")
-	assertCandidates(t, byPath["worktrees"], "prepare", "release")
-	assertCandidates(t, byPath["worktree"], "prepare", "release")
 	assertCandidates(t, byPath["daemon"], "start", "stop", "status", "run", "attach")
 	assertCandidates(t, byPath["mcp oauth"], "login", "logout", "status")
 	assertCandidates(t, byPath["sandbox grants"], "list", "allow", "deny", "revoke", "clear")
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 package cli

 import (
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"os"
@@ -161,61 +160,20 @@ func runDaemonStartDetached(paths daemon.Paths, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writ
 	cmd.Stdout = logFile
 	cmd.Stderr = logFile
 	background.ConfigureChildProcessGroup(cmd) // own process group: outlives this shell
-	if err := startAndAwaitDaemonProcess(cmd, func() bool { return daemonReachable(paths) }, 5*time.Second, 25*time.Millisecond); err != nil {
-		if errors.Is(err, errDaemonStartTimeout) {
-			return writeAppError(stderr, err.Error()+"; see "+logPath, exitCrash)
-		}
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
 		return writeAppError(stderr, err.Error(), exitCrash)
 	}
-	fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "zero daemon started (socket %s)\n", paths.Socket)
-	return exitSuccess
-}
+	_ = cmd.Process.Release()

-var errDaemonStartTimeout = errors.New("daemon did not come up within timeout")
-
-func startAndAwaitDaemonProcess(cmd *exec.Cmd, reachable func() bool, timeout time.Duration, pollInterval time.Duration) error {
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	if waitForDaemonReadiness(reachable, timeout, pollInterval) {
-		if err := cmd.Process.Release(); err != nil {
-			cleanupErr := terminateAndReapDaemonProcess(cmd)
-			if cleanupErr != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("release daemon process: %w (cleanup failed: %v)", err, cleanupErr)
-			}
-			return fmt.Errorf("release daemon process: %w", err)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
+	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		if daemonReachable(paths) {
+			fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "zero daemon started (socket %s)\n", paths.Socket)
+			return exitSuccess
 		}
-		return nil
+		time.Sleep(25 * time.Millisecond)
 	}
-	if err := terminateAndReapDaemonProcess(cmd); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w; cleanup failed: %v", errDaemonStartTimeout, err)
-	}
-	return errDaemonStartTimeout
-}
-
-func waitForDaemonReadiness(reachable func() bool, timeout time.Duration, pollInterval time.Duration) bool {
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(timeout)
-	for {
-		if reachable() {
-			return true
-		}
-		remaining := time.Until(deadline)
-		if remaining <= 0 {
-			break
-		}
-		time.Sleep(min(pollInterval, remaining))
-	}
-	// The loop's last reachable() call already ran immediately before this one
-	// (right after the final Sleep, with the same deadline check separating
-	// them), so this adds no extra waiting time and is not a grace window for a
-	// slow-starting daemon — it only re-checks the same instant in case
-	// reachable() itself is non-deterministic. To tolerate a genuinely slow
-	// start, raise the timeout passed to startAndAwaitDaemonProcess instead.
-	return reachable()
-}
-
-func terminateAndReapDaemonProcess(cmd *exec.Cmd) error {
-	return background.TerminateCommand(cmd)
+	return writeAppError(stderr, "daemon did not come up within timeout; see "+logPath, exitCrash)
 }

 func runDaemonStop(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer) int {
@@ -2,15 +2,8 @@ package cli

 import (
 	"bytes"
-	"errors"
-	"os"
-	"os/exec"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/background"
 )

 // isolateDaemonPaths points DefaultPaths at a temp dir so the test never touches
@@ -128,84 +121,3 @@ func TestDaemonSubcommandsRejectExtraArgs(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-func TestWaitForDaemonReadinessChecksTimeoutBoundary(t *testing.T) {
-	checks := 0
-	ready := waitForDaemonReadiness(func() bool {
-		checks++
-		return checks == 2
-	}, 0, time.Millisecond)
-	if !ready {
-		t.Fatal("daemon that became reachable at the timeout boundary was not detected")
-	}
-	if checks != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("reachability checks = %d, want initial and final checks", checks)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestTerminateAndReapDaemonProcess(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := daemonDetachedChildCommand("hang")
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start helper process: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	if err := terminateAndReapDaemonProcess(cmd); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("terminate and reap helper process: %v", err)
-	}
-	if cmd.ProcessState == nil {
-		t.Fatalf("helper process was not reaped: state=%v", cmd.ProcessState)
-	}
-	if cmd.ProcessState.Success() {
-		t.Fatalf("helper process unexpectedly exited successfully: %v", cmd.ProcessState)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestStartAndAwaitDaemonProcessTimeoutTerminatesAndReaps(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := daemonDetachedChildCommand("hang")
-	if err := startAndAwaitDaemonProcess(cmd, func() bool { return false }, 0, time.Millisecond); !errors.Is(err, errDaemonStartTimeout) {
-		t.Fatalf("start and await error = %v, want timeout", err)
-	}
-	if cmd.ProcessState == nil {
-		t.Fatal("timed-out helper process was not reaped")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestStartAndAwaitDaemonProcessReleasesReadyChild(t *testing.T) {
-	marker := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "child-finished")
-	cmd := daemonDetachedChildCommand("mark", "ZERO_TEST_DAEMON_CHILD_MARKER="+marker)
-	if err := startAndAwaitDaemonProcess(cmd, func() bool { return true }, time.Second, time.Millisecond); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start and await ready helper: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
-	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
-		if _, err := os.Stat(marker); err == nil {
-			return
-		}
-		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-	t.Fatal("released helper process did not remain alive to write its marker")
-}
-
-func daemonDetachedChildCommand(mode string, extraEnv ...string) *exec.Cmd {
-	cmd := exec.Command(os.Args[0], "-test.run=TestDaemonDetachedChildProcess")
-	cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), "ZERO_TEST_DAEMON_DETACHED_CHILD="+mode)
-	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, extraEnv...)
-	background.ConfigureChildProcessGroup(cmd)
-	return cmd
-}
-
-func TestDaemonDetachedChildProcess(t *testing.T) {
-	switch os.Getenv("ZERO_TEST_DAEMON_DETACHED_CHILD") {
-	case "":
-		return
-	case "mark":
-		if err := os.WriteFile(os.Getenv("ZERO_TEST_DAEMON_CHILD_MARKER"), []byte("ready"), 0o600); err != nil {
-			os.Exit(2)
-		}
-		os.Exit(0)
-	}
-	for {
-		time.Sleep(time.Hour)
-	}
-}
@@ -78,18 +78,11 @@ type execOptions struct {
 	// fill-only-if-unset rule, so precedence is explicit flag > mode > profile.
 	// Distinct from the mode preset also named "fast" (which picks a model) and
 	// from the legacy inert --profile above. See internal/execprofile.
-	execProfile         string
-	reasoningEffort     string
-	useSpec             bool
-	specModel           string
-	specReasoningEffort string
-	// plan selects PermissionModePlan for this run: the same read-only,
-	// in-session planning mode the TUI enters with /plan on. Unlike --use-spec
-	// (a separate draft session with its own review flow), this only swaps the
-	// permission mode for the run already being made — ToolAdvertised gates
-	// write/shell tools generically for any mode, so no other exec plumbing
-	// needs to know about it.
-	plan                  bool
+	execProfile           string
+	reasoningEffort       string
+	useSpec               bool
+	specModel             string
+	specReasoningEffort   string
 	maxTurns              int
 	cwd                   string
 	inputFormat           execInputFormat
@@ -111,7 +104,6 @@ type execOptions struct {
 	worktreeName          string
 	worktreeDir           string
 	skipPermissionsUnsafe bool
-	permissionMode        string
 	// allowEscalation opts the run into mid-run model escalation: it registers
 	// the escalate_model tool and wires agent.Options.ModelSwitcher. Off by
 	// default — a run without the flag is byte-identical to before (no tool, nil
@@ -207,33 +199,11 @@ func runExec(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) in
 			Name:    options.worktreeName,
 			BaseDir: options.worktreeDir,
 			Now:     deps.now,
-			// The worktree's lifetime is bound to this process (the deferred
-			// release below), so record the PID: if this process dies without
-			// releasing, Clean can expire the lease instead of skipping the
-			// locked worktree forever.
-			LeasePID: os.Getpid(),
 		})
 		if err != nil {
 			return writeExecFormatUsageError(stdout, stderr, options.outputFormat, err.Error())
 		}
 		workspaceRoot = preparedWorktree.Path
-		// When this run's own Prepare call took the worktree lock, its
-		// lifetime is bound to this function: release the lock once it returns
-		// so Clean can reclaim the worktree later if it goes stale. A reused
-		// worktree whose lock an external `zero worktrees prepare` caller
-		// still holds reports LockAcquired=false; releasing it here would
-		// clear that caller's lease and expose its workspace to Clean, so the
-		// matching release stays that caller's responsibility. A failed unlock
-		// leaves a lock Clean will permanently skip, so it must not pass
-		// silently; the run's primary result has already been emitted by the
-		// time the defer runs, so surface it as a diagnostic.
-		if preparedWorktree.LockAcquired {
-			defer func() {
-				if releaseErr := deps.releaseWorktree(context.Background(), worktrees.Options{Cwd: trustRoot}, preparedWorktree.Path); releaseErr != nil {
-					fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "zero: failed to release worktree lock on %s: %s\n", redactCLIString(preparedWorktree.Path), redactCLIString(releaseErr.Error()))
-				}
-			}()
-		}
 	}

 	registry := newCoreRegistry(workspaceRoot)
@@ -270,9 +240,6 @@ func runExec(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) in
 	if options.useSpec {
 		permissionMode = agent.PermissionModeSpecDraft
 	}
-	if options.plan {
-		permissionMode = agent.PermissionModePlan
-	}
 	var mcpRuntime mcpToolRuntime
 	var mcpSkip trustSkip
 	// Make local plugins live for this run: register their declared tools into the
@@ -339,13 +306,11 @@ func runExec(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) in
 		_, _ = fmt.Fprintln(stderr, "[zero] "+notice)
 	}
 	executionRunner.SetPreparer(sandboxEngine)
-	if permissionMode != agent.PermissionModePlan {
-		mcpRuntime, mcpSkip, err = registerMCPToolsForWorkspace(context.Background(), workspaceRoot, registry, deps, execMCPAutonomy(options), trustRoot, executionRunner)
-		if err != nil {
-			return writeExecProviderError(stdout, stderr, options.outputFormat, "mcp_error", err.Error())
-		}
-		defer closeMCPRuntime(stderr, mcpRuntime)
+	mcpRuntime, mcpSkip, err = registerMCPToolsForWorkspace(context.Background(), workspaceRoot, registry, deps, execMCPAutonomy(options), trustRoot, executionRunner)
+	if err != nil {
+		return writeExecProviderError(stdout, stderr, options.outputFormat, "mcp_error", err.Error())
 	}
+	defer closeMCPRuntime(stderr, mcpRuntime)
 	pluginActivation = activatePlugins(workspaceRoot, registry, deps, stderr, trustRoot, executionRunner)
 	registerLocalControlTools(registry, workspaceRoot, resolved.LocalControl)
 	if err := validateExecToolFilters(options, registry); err != nil {
@@ -613,12 +578,8 @@ func runExec(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) in
 	// warned, so --auto high silently ran without notice.
 	if permissionMode == agent.PermissionModeUnsafe {
 		reason := "--auto high"
-		switch {
-		case options.skipPermissionsUnsafe:
+		if options.skipPermissionsUnsafe {
 			reason = "--skip-permissions-unsafe"
-		case strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(options.permissionMode), "unsafe"),
-			strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(options.permissionMode), "high"):
-			reason = "--permission-mode unsafe"
 		}
 		writer.warning(fmt.Sprintf("Unsafe permissions are active for this run because %s was passed.", reason))
 		if writer.err != nil {
@@ -682,20 +643,16 @@ func runExec(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) in
 		ModelSwitcher:        modelSwitcher,
 		TurnSessionProvider:  turnSessions,
 		ModelSessionSwitcher: modelSessionSwitcher,
-		Summarizer:           summarizerFactory(resolved, deps.newProvider),
-		ContextWindowFor: func(modelID string) int {
-			return modelregistry.AgentContextWindow(modelContextWindow(modelRegistry, modelID))
-		},
-		ReasoningEffort: forwardEffort,
-		Trace:           traceRecorder,
-		Cwd:             workspaceRoot,
-		Images:          images,
-		Registry:        registry,
-		PermissionMode:  permissionMode,
-		Autonomy:        options.autonomy,
-		SelfCorrect:     selfCorrector,
-		FileDiagnostics: fileDiagnostics,
-		Profile:         execProfile.Policy(displacedMaxTurns, execProfileFilledEffort),
+		ReasoningEffort:      forwardEffort,
+		Trace:                traceRecorder,
+		Cwd:                  workspaceRoot,
+		Images:               images,
+		Registry:             registry,
+		PermissionMode:       permissionMode,
+		Autonomy:             options.autonomy,
+		SelfCorrect:          selfCorrector,
+		FileDiagnostics:      fileDiagnostics,
+		Profile:              execProfile.Policy(displacedMaxTurns, execProfileFilledEffort),
 		// Headless exec: don't accept a no-tool-call turn as "done" while work
 		// clearly remains (pending plan items / a mid-step continuation cue) —
 		// nudge to continue, and finalize as INCOMPLETE rather than false success
@@ -20,19 +20,6 @@ func parseExecArgs(args []string) (execOptions, bool, error) {
 		switch {
 		case arg == "-h" || arg == "--help" || arg == "help":
 			return options, true, nil
-		case arg == "--permission-mode":
-			value, next, err := nextFlagValue(args, index, arg)
-			if err != nil {
-				return options, false, err
-			}
-			options.permissionMode = strings.TrimSpace(value)
-			index = next
-		case strings.HasPrefix(arg, "--permission-mode="):
-			value, err := requiredInlineFlagValue(arg, "--permission-mode")
-			if err != nil {
-				return options, false, err
-			}
-			options.permissionMode = value
 		case arg == "--skip-permissions-unsafe":
 			options.skipPermissionsUnsafe = true
 		case arg == "--list-tools":
@@ -184,8 +171,6 @@ func parseExecArgs(args []string) (execOptions, bool, error) {
 			options.reasoningEffort = strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(arg, "--reasoning-effort="))
 		case arg == "--use-spec":
 			options.useSpec = true
-		case arg == "--plan":
-			options.plan = true
 		case arg == "--spec-model":
 			value, next, err := nextFlagValue(args, index, arg)
 			if err != nil {
@@ -452,27 +437,6 @@ func parseExecArgs(args []string) (execOptions, bool, error) {
 	if !options.useSpec && options.specReasoningEffort != "" {
 		return options, false, execUsageError{"--spec-reasoning-effort requires --use-spec."}
 	}
-	// Plan mode may be entered via --plan or --permission-mode plan. Combination
-	// guards must key off both: otherwise --permission-mode plan bypasses the
-	// worktree/unsafe/use-spec rejects that --plan alone enforces, and worktree
-	// prep mutates the filesystem before the read-only mode is assigned.
-	planMode := options.plan || strings.EqualFold(strings.TrimSpace(options.permissionMode), "plan")
-	if planMode && options.useSpec {
-		return options, false, execUsageError{"Use either --plan or --use-spec, not both."}
-	}
-	if planMode && options.skipPermissionsUnsafe {
-		return options, false, execUsageError{"Use either --plan or --skip-permissions-unsafe, not both."}
-	}
-	if planMode && options.worktree {
-		// Worktree prep (copying/branching the workspace) runs before the plan
-		// permission mode is assigned, so it would happen even under plan mode's
-		// read-only, no-side-effects promise. Reject the combination outright
-		// rather than let a mutation slip in ahead of the mode gate.
-		return options, false, execUsageError{"--plan cannot be combined with --worktree."}
-	}
-	if options.plan && options.permissionMode != "" && strings.ToLower(options.permissionMode) != "plan" {
-		return options, false, execUsageError{"--plan cannot be combined with --permission-mode=" + options.permissionMode + "."}
-	}
 	if options.initSessionID != "" && (options.resume != "" || options.resumeLatest) {
 		return options, false, execUsageError{"Use --init-session-id only when creating or forking a session."}
 	}
@@ -1,177 +0,0 @@
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/agent"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/config"
-)
-
-func TestParseExecArgsRecognizesPlanFlag(t *testing.T) {
-	options, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--plan", "draft a plan"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("parseExecArgs: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !options.plan {
-		t.Fatal("expected --plan to set options.plan")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestParseExecArgsRejectsPlanWithUseSpec(t *testing.T) {
-	_, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--plan", "--use-spec", "draft a plan"})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not both") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --plan/--use-spec validation, got %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestParseExecArgsRejectsPlanWithSkipPermissionsUnsafe(t *testing.T) {
-	_, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--plan", "--skip-permissions-unsafe", "draft a plan"})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not both") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --plan/--skip-permissions-unsafe validation, got %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestParseExecArgsRejectsPlanWithWorktree guards against worktree
-// preparation (a filesystem mutation) running ahead of the plan mode gate:
-// options.worktree is processed in runExec before the plan permission mode is
-// assigned, so the combination must be rejected during option validation,
-// before any worktree prep can occur.
-func TestParseExecArgsRejectsPlanWithWorktree(t *testing.T) {
-	_, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--plan", "--worktree", "draft a plan"})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "--worktree") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --plan/--worktree validation, got %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestParseExecArgsRejectsPlanWithNonPlanPermissionMode(t *testing.T) {
-	_, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--plan", "--permission-mode=ask", "draft a plan"})
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "--permission-mode") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --plan/--permission-mode validation, got %v", err)
-	}
-
-	options, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--plan", "--permission-mode=plan", "draft a plan"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --plan with --permission-mode=plan to succeed, got %v", err)
-	}
-	if !options.plan || options.permissionMode != "plan" {
-		t.Fatalf("expected options.plan=true and permissionMode=plan, got plan=%v mode=%q", options.plan, options.permissionMode)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestParseExecArgsPermissionModePlanSharesCombinationGuards ensures the
-// combination rejects that key off --plan also fire for --permission-mode plan,
-// which reaches PermissionModePlan without setting options.plan.
-func TestParseExecArgsPermissionModePlanSharesCombinationGuards(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		name string
-		args []string
-		want string
-	}{
-		{"worktree", []string{"--permission-mode", "plan", "--worktree", "draft a plan"}, "--worktree"},
-		{"use-spec", []string{"--permission-mode=plan", "--use-spec", "draft a plan"}, "not both"},
-		{"skip-permissions-unsafe", []string{"--permission-mode", "plan", "--skip-permissions-unsafe", "draft a plan"}, "not both"},
-	}
-	for _, tc := range cases {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			_, _, err := parseExecArgs(tc.args)
-			if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tc.want) {
-				t.Fatalf("expected --permission-mode plan / %s validation containing %q, got %v", tc.name, tc.want, err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-
-	// Bare --permission-mode plan (no conflicting flags) still parses.
-	options, _, err := parseExecArgs([]string{"--permission-mode", "plan", "draft a plan"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("expected bare --permission-mode plan to succeed, got %v", err)
-	}
-	if options.permissionMode != "plan" || options.plan {
-		t.Fatalf("expected permissionMode=plan and plan=false, got mode=%q plan=%v", options.permissionMode, options.plan)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunExecPlanHidesWriteAndShellToolsFromListing drives the real --plan
-// flag through runExec (via --list-tools, so no provider is needed) and
-// confirms write_file and bash — advertised under every other mode covered by
-// TestRunExecListToolsAppliesModeBeforeListing-style tests — are hidden,
-// mirroring the TUI /plan on gating end to end from the CLI entry point.
-func TestRunExecPlanHidesWriteAndShellToolsFromListing(t *testing.T) {
-	cwd := t.TempDir()
-	var stdout bytes.Buffer
-	var stderr bytes.Buffer
-
-	exitCode := runWithDeps([]string{"exec", "--plan", "--list-tools"}, &stdout, &stderr, appDeps{
-		getwd: func() (string, error) {
-			return cwd, nil
-		},
-		resolveConfig: func(string, config.Overrides) (config.ResolvedConfig, error) {
-			return execResolvedConfig(), nil
-		},
-	})
-
-	if exitCode != exitSuccess {
-		t.Fatalf("expected exit code %d, got %d: %s", exitSuccess, exitCode, stderr.String())
-	}
-	listing := stdout.String()
-	if !strings.Contains(listing, "Tools visible to model") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --plan --list-tools to list tools, got %q", listing)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(listing, "read_file") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected plan mode to still list read_file, got %q", listing)
-	}
-	for _, hidden := range []string{"write_file", "edit_file", "apply_patch", "bash"} {
-		if strings.Contains(listing, hidden) {
-			t.Fatalf("expected --plan to hide %q from the tool listing, got %q", hidden, listing)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// TestRunExecPermissionModePlanHidesWriteAndShellToolsFromListing covers the
-// --permission-mode plan entry path, which does not set options.plan and must
-// still hide write and shell tools the same way --plan does.
-func TestRunExecPermissionModePlanHidesWriteAndShellToolsFromListing(t *testing.T) {
-	cwd := t.TempDir()
-	var stdout bytes.Buffer
-	var stderr bytes.Buffer
-
-	exitCode := runWithDeps([]string{"exec", "--permission-mode", "plan", "--list-tools"}, &stdout, &stderr, appDeps{
-		getwd: func() (string, error) {
-			return cwd, nil
-		},
-		resolveConfig: func(string, config.Overrides) (config.ResolvedConfig, error) {
-			return execResolvedConfig(), nil
-		},
-	})
-
-	if exitCode != exitSuccess {
-		t.Fatalf("expected exit code %d, got %d: %s", exitSuccess, exitCode, stderr.String())
-	}
-	listing := stdout.String()
-	if !strings.Contains(listing, "Tools visible to model") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected --permission-mode plan --list-tools to list tools, got %q", listing)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(listing, "read_file") {
-		t.Fatalf("expected plan mode to still list read_file, got %q", listing)
-	}
-	for _, hidden := range []string{"write_file", "edit_file", "apply_patch", "bash"} {
-		if strings.Contains(listing, hidden) {
-			t.Fatalf("expected --permission-mode plan to hide %q from the tool listing, got %q", hidden, listing)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveExecPermissionModePlanOverride(t *testing.T) {
-	options := execOptions{autonomy: "low", plan: true}
-	mode, err := resolveExecPermissionMode(options)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("resolveExecPermissionMode: %v", err)
-	}
-	// resolveExecPermissionMode itself only resolves --auto; the --plan override
-	// is applied by the caller (runExec) afterward, same as --use-spec. This
-	// pins the precondition: --plan must not interfere with autonomy resolution.
-	if mode != agent.PermissionModeAuto {
-		t.Fatalf("resolveExecPermissionMode with --plan = %q, want auto (override applied by the caller)", mode)
-	}
-}
@@ -73,24 +73,6 @@ func toolListContains(names []string, want string) bool {
 }

 func resolveExecPermissionMode(options execOptions) (agent.PermissionMode, error) {
-	if pm := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(options.permissionMode)); pm != "" {
-		switch pm {
-		case "plan":
-			return agent.PermissionModePlan, nil
-		case "spec-draft", "spec_draft":
-			return agent.PermissionModeSpecDraft, nil
-		case "auto":
-			return agent.PermissionModeAuto, nil
-		case "member", "member-auto", "member_auto":
-			return agent.PermissionModeMemberAuto, nil
-		case "ask":
-			return agent.PermissionModeAsk, nil
-		case "unsafe", "high":
-			return agent.PermissionModeUnsafe, nil
-		default:
-			return "", execUsageError{fmt.Sprintf("Invalid permission mode %q. Expected plan, spec-draft, auto, member, ask, or unsafe.", options.permissionMode)}
-		}
-	}
 	// Validate --auto first, regardless of --skip-permissions-unsafe, so an
 	// invalid autonomy value is always rejected. (Previously the unsafe path
 	// short-circuited before validation, letting "--auto bogus" slip through
@@ -142,15 +142,13 @@ func (writer *execEventWriter) checkpoint(event sessions.Event) {
 }

 func (writer *execEventWriter) toolResult(result agent.ToolResult) {
-	modelOutput := result.ModelOutput()
-	display := result.HumanDisplay()
 	if writer.format == execOutputJSON {
 		payload := map[string]any{
 			"type":         "tool_result",
 			"tool_call_id": result.ToolCallID,
 			"name":         result.Name,
 			"status":       string(result.Status),
-			"output":       modelOutput,
+			"output":       result.Output,
 		}
 		if len(result.Meta) > 0 {
 			payload["meta"] = result.Meta
@@ -164,14 +162,14 @@ func (writer *execEventWriter) toolResult(result agent.ToolResult) {
 		if len(result.ChangedFiles) > 0 {
 			payload["changed_files"] = result.ChangedFiles
 		}
-		if display.Summary != "" || display.Kind != "" {
-			payload["display"] = map[string]string{"summary": display.Summary, "kind": display.Kind}
+		if result.Display.Summary != "" || result.Display.Kind != "" {
+			payload["display"] = map[string]string{"summary": result.Display.Summary, "kind": result.Display.Kind}
 		}
 		writer.writeJSON(payload)
 		return
 	}
 	if writer.format == execOutputStreamJSON {
-		output, surfaceTruncated := truncateForStreamJSONOutput(modelOutput)
+		output, surfaceTruncated := truncateForStreamJSONOutput(result.Output)
 		truncated := result.Truncated || surfaceTruncated
 		event := streamjson.Event{
 			Type:         streamjson.EventToolResult,
@@ -188,13 +186,13 @@ func (writer *execEventWriter) toolResult(result agent.ToolResult) {
 			redacted := true
 			event.Redacted = &redacted
 		}
-		if display.Summary != "" || display.Kind != "" {
-			event.Display = &streamjson.Display{Summary: display.Summary, Kind: display.Kind}
+		if result.Display.Summary != "" || result.Display.Kind != "" {
+			event.Display = &streamjson.Display{Summary: result.Display.Summary, Kind: result.Display.Kind}
 		}
 		writer.writeStreamJSON(event)
 		return
 	}
-	writer.writeStderr("[result] " + truncateForStatus(modelOutput) + "\n")
+	writer.writeStderr("[result] " + truncateForStatus(result.Output) + "\n")
 }

 func (writer *execEventWriter) permission(event agent.PermissionEvent) {
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ func TestRunPluginsListsJSONAndText(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestRunHooksListsRedactedJSONAndText(t *testing.T) {
-	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("a", 23) + "0"
+	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("a", 24)
 	result := hooks.LoadResult{
 		Config: hooks.Config{
 			Enabled: true,
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ func TestRunHooksAddRejectsUnknownEvent(t *testing.T) {

 func TestRunHooksAddJSONRedactsSecretArgs(t *testing.T) {
 	cwd := t.TempDir()
-	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("z", 23) + "0"
+	secret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("z", 24)
 	var stdout, stderr bytes.Buffer
 	code := runHooksAdd([]string{"h1", "--event", "beforeTool", "--command", "sh", "--arg", "-c", "--arg", "echo " + secret, "--json"}, &stdout, &stderr, hooksManageDeps(cwd))
 	if code != exitSuccess {
@@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ func TestRunMCPRemovePreservesUnrelatedConfigFields(t *testing.T) {
 func TestRunMCPListRedactsURLCredentialsAndSensitiveQueryParams(t *testing.T) {
 	cwd := t.TempDir()
 	serverURL := "https://user:[email protected]/mcp?access_token=secret-token&api_key=secret-key&safe=value#access_token=fragment-secret"
-	commandSecret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("a", 23) + "0"
+	commandSecret := "sk-proj-" + strings.Repeat("a", 24)
 	deps := appDeps{
 		getwd: func() (string, error) { return cwd, nil },
 		resolveMCPConfig: func(workspaceRoot string, _ bool) (config.MCPConfig, error) {
@@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ import (
 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/config"
 )

-// `zero mcp disable exa` must work even though exa is a built-in
+// `zero mcp disable firecrawl` must work even though firecrawl is a built-in
 // default that is not written to the user's config file until overridden.
-func TestRunMCPDisableSeededExaDefault(t *testing.T) {
+func TestRunMCPDisableSeededFirecrawlDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	configPath := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "zero", "config.json")
-	// A config with no Exa entry — the default lives in code, not the file.
+	// A config with no firecrawl entry — the default lives in code, not the file.
 	writeMCPCommandRawConfig(t, configPath, `{"activeProvider":"fast"}`)

 	var out, errBuf bytes.Buffer
-	code := runWithDeps([]string{"mcp", "disable", "exa", "--json"}, &out, &errBuf, appDeps{
+	code := runWithDeps([]string{"mcp", "disable", "firecrawl", "--json"}, &out, &errBuf, appDeps{
 		userConfigPath: func() (string, error) { return configPath, nil },
 	})
 	if code != exitSuccess {
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ func TestRunMCPDisableSeededExaDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(out.Bytes(), &payload); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("decode disable JSON: %v\n%s", err, out.String())
 	}
-	if payload.ServerName != "exa" || !payload.Disabled || !payload.Changed {
-		t.Fatalf("disable payload = %#v, want exa disabled+changed", payload)
+	if payload.ServerName != "firecrawl" || !payload.Disabled || !payload.Changed {
+		t.Fatalf("disable payload = %#v, want firecrawl disabled+changed", payload)
 	}

 	// End-to-end: resolving that config now turns the default off.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ func TestRunMCPDisableSeededExaDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
 	}
-	if !cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
-		t.Fatal("expected `mcp disable exa` to turn the seeded default off in the resolved config")
+	if !cfg.Servers["firecrawl"].Disabled {
+		t.Fatal("expected `mcp disable firecrawl` to turn the seeded default off in the resolved config")
 	}
 }
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 package cli

 import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"time"
+
 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/config"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/providers"
+	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/oauth"
 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/providers/providerio"
 )

@@ -23,5 +28,46 @@ import (
 // ProviderProfile.OAuthLoginCandidates so the runtime resolver, the Codex account
 // resolver, and the onboarding presence check never diverge.
 func oauthLoginForProfile(profile config.ProviderProfile) (providerio.TokenResolver, string) {
-	return providers.OAuthLoginForProfile(profile)
+	candidates := profile.OAuthLoginCandidates()
+	if len(candidates) == 0 {
+		return nil, ""
+	}
+	store, err := oauth.NewStore(oauth.StoreOptions{})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, ""
+	}
+	_, key, ok := oauth.FirstStored(store, candidates)
+	if !ok {
+		// No login under any candidate (or unreadable/invalid keys) → API-key
+		// auth, no resolver.
+		return nil, ""
+	}
+	manager, err := oauth.NewManager(oauth.ManagerOptions{
+		Store:      store,
+		HTTPClient: &http.Client{Timeout: 30 * time.Second},
+		// Refreshing a token the user logged into (possibly a preset provider like
+		// xAI) re-resolves that provider's OAuth config, which needs the preset.
+		AllowPresets: true,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, ""
+	}
+	resolver := func(ctx context.Context, forceRefresh bool) (string, string, bool, error) {
+		var token string
+		var rerr error
+		if forceRefresh {
+			token, rerr = manager.Handle401(ctx, key)
+		} else {
+			token, rerr = manager.GetFresh(ctx, key)
+		}
+		if errors.Is(rerr, oauth.ErrNoToken) {
+			// The login was removed since construction → fall back to the API key.
+			return "", "", false, nil
+		}
+		if rerr != nil {
+			return "", "", false, rerr
+		}
+		return "Authorization", "Bearer " + token, true, nil
+	}
+	return resolver, key
 }
@@ -73,18 +73,6 @@ func runProvidersModels(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps
 			if description := strings.TrimSpace(model.Description); description != "" {
 				entry["description"] = description
 			}
-			if len(model.ReasoningEfforts) > 0 {
-				entry["reasoning_efforts"] = append([]string{}, model.ReasoningEfforts...)
-			}
-			if effort := strings.TrimSpace(model.DefaultReasoningEffort); effort != "" {
-				entry["default_reasoning_effort"] = effort
-			}
-			if len(model.ServiceTiers) > 0 {
-				entry["service_tiers"] = append([]string{}, model.ServiceTiers...)
-			}
-			if tier := strings.TrimSpace(model.DefaultServiceTier); tier != "" {
-				entry["default_service_tier"] = tier
-			}
 			items = append(items, entry)
 		}
 		payload := map[string]any{
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ type sandboxCommandOptions struct {
 	path      string
 }

-const permissionProfileScopeNote = "permissionProfile is derived from this process's environment and working directory; a command run with its own environment can add further credential deny-read entries."
-
 func runSandbox(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) int {
 	if len(args) == 0 {
 		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, "sandbox subcommand required. Use `zero sandbox policy` or `zero sandbox grants list`.")
@@ -93,25 +91,16 @@ func runSandboxPolicy(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps ap
 		return runSandboxPolicyEffective(options, workspaceRoot, policy, backend, plan, store.FilePath(), writeRoots, writeRootsErr, stdout)
 	}
 	if options.json {
-		// The profile here is built from Zero's own environment and working
-		// directory, because that is all this command has: no command has been
-		// chosen yet. A nested command carries its own cwd and env, and the
-		// credential baseline resolves relative token overrides against those, so
-		// an executed command can carry MORE denyReadIfExists entries than this
-		// view lists. Say so in the payload rather than leaving a consumer to
-		// assume it is the whole picture (see PermissionProfileFromPolicy).
 		payload := struct {
-			Policy                zeroSandbox.Policy      `json:"policy"`
-			Backend               zeroSandbox.Backend     `json:"backend"`
-			Plan                  zeroSandbox.BackendPlan `json:"plan"`
-			GrantsPath            string                  `json:"grantsPath"`
-			PermissionProfileNote string                  `json:"permissionProfileNote"`
+			Policy     zeroSandbox.Policy      `json:"policy"`
+			Backend    zeroSandbox.Backend     `json:"backend"`
+			Plan       zeroSandbox.BackendPlan `json:"plan"`
+			GrantsPath string                  `json:"grantsPath"`
 		}{
-			Policy:                policy,
-			Backend:               backend,
-			Plan:                  plan,
-			GrantsPath:            store.FilePath(),
-			PermissionProfileNote: permissionProfileScopeNote,
+			Policy:     policy,
+			Backend:    backend,
+			Plan:       plan,
+			GrantsPath: store.FilePath(),
 		}
 		if err := writePrettyJSON(stdout, payload); err != nil {
 			return exitCrash
@@ -258,22 +247,20 @@ func runSandboxPolicyEffective(options sandboxCommandOptions, workspaceRoot stri
 			// JSON consumers see the same signal as the text write_roots_error
 			// line: a stale sandbox.additionalWriteRoots entry means the real
 			// entrypoints would refuse to launch, not run workspace-only.
-			WriteRootsError       string                  `json:"writeRootsError,omitempty"`
-			Policy                zeroSandbox.Policy      `json:"policy"`
-			Backend               zeroSandbox.Backend     `json:"backend"`
-			Plan                  zeroSandbox.BackendPlan `json:"plan"`
-			Guards                sandboxGuards           `json:"guards"`
-			GrantsPath            string                  `json:"grantsPath"`
-			PermissionProfileNote string                  `json:"permissionProfileNote"`
+			WriteRootsError string                  `json:"writeRootsError,omitempty"`
+			Policy          zeroSandbox.Policy      `json:"policy"`
+			Backend         zeroSandbox.Backend     `json:"backend"`
+			Plan            zeroSandbox.BackendPlan `json:"plan"`
+			Guards          sandboxGuards           `json:"guards"`
+			GrantsPath      string                  `json:"grantsPath"`
 		}{
-			WorkspaceRoot:         workspaceRoot,
-			WriteRoots:            writeRoots,
-			Policy:                policy,
-			Backend:               backend,
-			Plan:                  plan,
-			Guards:                guards,
-			GrantsPath:            grantsPath,
-			PermissionProfileNote: permissionProfileScopeNote,
+			WorkspaceRoot: workspaceRoot,
+			WriteRoots:    writeRoots,
+			Policy:        policy,
+			Backend:       backend,
+			Plan:          plan,
+			Guards:        guards,
+			GrantsPath:    grantsPath,
 		}
 		if writeRootsErr != nil {
 			payload.WriteRootsError = writeRootsErr.Error()
@@ -297,7 +284,6 @@ func formatEffectiveSandboxPolicy(workspaceRoot string, policy zeroSandbox.Polic
 		"network: " + string(policy.Network),
 		"enforce_workspace: " + fmt.Sprintf("%t", policy.EnforceWorkspace),
 		"write_roots: " + strings.Join(writeRoots, ", "),
-		"permission_profile_note: " + permissionProfileScopeNote,
 	}
 	if writeRootsErr != nil {
 		// Fail soft, visibly: a stale sandbox.additionalWriteRoots entry must
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
 	"reflect"
-	"runtime"
-	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"

@@ -485,23 +483,14 @@ func TestTUISandboxSetupCommandGatedToWindowsNativeBackend(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestRunSandboxPolicyJSONGoldenIncludesManagerBaselineFields(t *testing.T) {
-	// Point all user-config roots at an empty directory so the platform-specific
-	// credential deny baseline can be asserted without leaking host paths into
-	// the platform-neutral golden comparison.
+	// Point HOME at an empty directory so the default credential-store
+	// deny-read entries (which depend on what exists in the real home, e.g.
+	// ~/.aws on the macOS CI image) cannot leak host paths into the golden
+	// comparison.
 	emptyHome := t.TempDir()
 	t.Setenv("HOME", emptyHome)
 	t.Setenv("USERPROFILE", emptyHome)
-	t.Setenv("XDG_CONFIG_HOME", filepath.Join(emptyHome, ".config"))
-	t.Setenv("CLOUDSDK_CONFIG", "")
 	t.Setenv("GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS", "")
-	t.Setenv("NPM_CONFIG_USERCONFIG", "")
-	t.Setenv("npm_config_userconfig", "")
-	t.Setenv("GH_CONFIG_DIR", "")
-	t.Setenv("NETRC", "")
-	t.Setenv("DOCKER_CONFIG", "")
-	t.Setenv("KUBECONFIG", "")
-	t.Setenv("ZERO_OAUTH_TOKENS_PATH", "")
-	t.Setenv("ZERO_MCP_OAUTH_TOKENS_PATH", "")
 	store := newSandboxTestStore(t)
 	workspace := t.TempDir()
 	deps := appDeps{
@@ -529,7 +518,7 @@ func TestRunSandboxPolicyJSONGoldenIncludesManagerBaselineFields(t *testing.T) {
 	got := stdout.String()
 	got = replacePathToken(got, workspace, "$WORKSPACE")
 	got = replacePathToken(got, store.FilePath(), "$GRANTS")
-	gotBytes := normalizeSandboxPolicyGoldenTempRoots(t, []byte(got), workspace, emptyHome)
+	gotBytes := normalizeSandboxPolicyGoldenTempRoots(t, []byte(got), workspace)
 	wantBytes, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("testdata", "sandbox_policy_windows_unavailable.golden.json"))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("read golden: %v", err)
@@ -539,7 +528,7 @@ func TestRunSandboxPolicyJSONGoldenIncludesManagerBaselineFields(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func normalizeSandboxPolicyGoldenTempRoots(t *testing.T, gotBytes []byte, workspace string, emptyHome string) []byte {
+func normalizeSandboxPolicyGoldenTempRoots(t *testing.T, gotBytes []byte, workspace string) []byte {
 	t.Helper()
 	scope, err := sandbox.NewScope(workspace, nil)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -560,56 +549,6 @@ func normalizeSandboxPolicyGoldenTempRoots(t *testing.T, gotBytes []byte, worksp
 	plan, _ := value.(map[string]any)["plan"].(map[string]any)
 	profile, _ := plan["permissionProfile"].(map[string]any)
 	fileSystem, _ := profile["fileSystem"].(map[string]any)
-	wantDenyRead := []string(nil)
-	credentialHome := emptyHome
-	if runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
-		if resolved, err := filepath.EvalSymlinks(emptyHome); err == nil {
-			credentialHome = resolved
-		}
-		wantDenyRead = []string{
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".aws"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".azure"),
-			// git's cleartext credential stores, in both the home and XDG
-			// layouts (#816). Listed here so the exported policy JSON is what
-			// catches a regression: this baseline is the contract a user reads
-			// with `zero sandbox policy --json`.
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".git-credentials"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".config", "git", "credentials"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".npmrc"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".netrc"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".kube", "config"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".docker", "config.json"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".config", "gh", "hosts.yml"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".config", "gcloud"),
-			filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".config", "zero"),
-		}
-	}
-	gotDenyRead := jsonStringSlice(fileSystem["denyReadIfExists"])
-	sort.Strings(gotDenyRead)
-	sort.Strings(wantDenyRead)
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(gotDenyRead, wantDenyRead) {
-		t.Fatalf("manager credential deny baseline = %#v, want %#v", gotDenyRead, wantDenyRead)
-	}
-	wantCarveouts := []string(nil)
-	wantEnsureDirs := []string(nil)
-	if runtime.GOOS != "windows" {
-		zeroDir := filepath.Join(credentialHome, ".config", "zero")
-		wantCarveouts = []string{
-			filepath.Join(zeroDir, "plugins"),
-			filepath.Join(zeroDir, "specialists"),
-			filepath.Join(zeroDir, "commands"),
-		}
-		wantEnsureDirs = []string{zeroDir}
-	}
-	if gotCarveouts := jsonStringSlice(fileSystem["denyReadCarveouts"]); !reflect.DeepEqual(gotCarveouts, wantCarveouts) {
-		t.Fatalf("manager credential carveouts = %#v, want %#v", gotCarveouts, wantCarveouts)
-	}
-	if gotEnsureDirs := jsonStringSlice(fileSystem["ensureDenyReadDirs"]); !reflect.DeepEqual(gotEnsureDirs, wantEnsureDirs) {
-		t.Fatalf("manager credential ensure dirs = %#v, want %#v", gotEnsureDirs, wantEnsureDirs)
-	}
-	delete(fileSystem, "denyReadIfExists")
-	delete(fileSystem, "denyReadCarveouts")
-	delete(fileSystem, "ensureDenyReadDirs")
 	fileSystem["readRoots"] = filterJSONStringRoots(fileSystem["readRoots"], tempRoots)
 	fileSystem["writeRoots"] = filterJSONWriteRoots(fileSystem["writeRoots"], tempRoots)
 	normalized, err := json.MarshalIndent(value, "", "  ")
@@ -619,22 +558,6 @@ func normalizeSandboxPolicyGoldenTempRoots(t *testing.T, gotBytes []byte, worksp
 	return append(normalized, '\n')
 }

-func jsonStringSlice(value any) []string {
-	values, ok := value.([]any)
-	if !ok {
-		return nil
-	}
-	out := make([]string, 0, len(values))
-	for _, value := range values {
-		text, ok := value.(string)
-		if !ok {
-			return nil
-		}
-		out = append(out, text)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 func filterJSONStringRoots(value any, excluded map[string]struct{}) any {
 	roots, ok := value.([]any)
 	if !ok {
@@ -797,8 +720,7 @@ func TestRunSandboxPolicyEffectiveTextAndJSON(t *testing.T) {
 				Network            bool `json:"network"`
 				Workspace          bool `json:"workspace"`
 			} `json:"guards"`
-			GrantsPath            string `json:"grantsPath"`
-			PermissionProfileNote string `json:"permissionProfileNote"`
+			GrantsPath string `json:"grantsPath"`
 		}
 		if err := json.Unmarshal(stdout.Bytes(), &payload); err != nil {
 			t.Fatalf("decode effective JSON: %v\n%s", err, stdout.String())
@@ -815,9 +737,6 @@ func TestRunSandboxPolicyEffectiveTextAndJSON(t *testing.T) {
 		if payload.Plan.SupportLevel != string(sandbox.BackendSupportUnavailable) || payload.GrantsPath == "" {
 			t.Fatalf("unexpected effective plan/grants: %#v %q", payload.Plan, payload.GrantsPath)
 		}
-		if payload.PermissionProfileNote != permissionProfileScopeNote {
-			t.Fatalf("permissionProfileNote = %q, want %q", payload.PermissionProfileNote, permissionProfileScopeNote)
-		}
 	})
 }

@@ -829,9 +748,6 @@ func TestEffectiveSandboxPolicyListsWriteRoots(t *testing.T) {
 	if !strings.Contains(output, "enforce_workspace: true\nwrite_roots: /ws, /extra") {
 		t.Fatalf("write_roots should directly follow enforce_workspace, got:\n%s", output)
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(output, "permission_profile_note: "+permissionProfileScopeNote) {
-		t.Fatalf("effective text missing permission profile scope warning:\n%s", output)
-	}
 	if strings.Contains(output, "write_roots_error") {
 		t.Fatalf("unexpected write_roots_error line without an error:\n%s", output)
 	}
@@ -286,11 +286,7 @@ func runSpecialistCreate(paths specialist.Paths, name string, options specialist
 	if err != nil {
 		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, err.Error())
 	}
-	return writeSpecialistCreateResult(manifest, options.json, stdout, stderr)
-}
-
-func writeSpecialistCreateResult(manifest specialist.Manifest, jsonOutput bool, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer) int {
-	if jsonOutput {
+	if options.json {
 		if err := writePrettyJSON(stdout, manifest); err != nil {
 			return exitCrash
 		}
@@ -299,11 +295,6 @@ func writeSpecialistCreateResult(manifest specialist.Manifest, jsonOutput bool,
 	if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "Created specialist %s at %s\n", manifest.Metadata.Name, manifest.FilePath); err != nil {
 		return exitCrash
 	}
-	for _, warning := range manifest.Warnings {
-		if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(stderr, "warning: %s\n", warning); err != nil {
-			return exitCrash
-		}
-	}
 	return exitSuccess
 }

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import (
 	"testing"

 	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/config"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/specialist"
 )

 func TestRunSpecialistListShowAndPath(t *testing.T) {
@@ -188,42 +187,6 @@ func TestRunSpecialistCreateDeleteAndEdit(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestWriteSpecialistCreateResultSurfacesWarningsOnlyForHumanOutput(t *testing.T) {
-	manifest := specialist.Manifest{
-		Metadata: specialist.Metadata{Name: "triage"},
-		FilePath: "/specialists/triage.md",
-		Warnings: []string{"replacement backup /specialists/.triage.bak retained: access denied"},
-	}
-
-	var stdout bytes.Buffer
-	var stderr bytes.Buffer
-	if code := writeSpecialistCreateResult(manifest, false, &stdout, &stderr); code != exitSuccess {
-		t.Fatalf("human output exit code = %d", code)
-	}
-	if got, want := stdout.String(), "Created specialist triage at /specialists/triage.md\n"; got != want {
-		t.Fatalf("stdout = %q, want %q", got, want)
-	}
-	if got, want := stderr.String(), "warning: replacement backup /specialists/.triage.bak retained: access denied\n"; got != want {
-		t.Fatalf("stderr = %q, want %q", got, want)
-	}
-
-	stdout.Reset()
-	stderr.Reset()
-	if code := writeSpecialistCreateResult(manifest, true, &stdout, &stderr); code != exitSuccess {
-		t.Fatalf("JSON output exit code = %d", code)
-	}
-	var payload specialist.Manifest
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(stdout.Bytes(), &payload); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("decode JSON: %v\n%s", err, stdout.String())
-	}
-	if len(payload.Warnings) != 1 || payload.Warnings[0] != manifest.Warnings[0] {
-		t.Fatalf("JSON warnings = %#v", payload.Warnings)
-	}
-	if stderr.Len() != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("JSON warning duplicated to stderr: %q", stderr.String())
-	}
-}
-
 func TestRunSpecialistEditRejectsSymlink(t *testing.T) {
 	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
 		t.Skip("symlink creation needs extra privileges on Windows")
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-package cli
-
-import (
-	"context"
-
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/agent"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/config"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/providers"
-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/zeroruntime"
-)
-
-// summarizerFactory adapts the resolved profile and the authenticated provider
-// builder into agent.Options.Summarizer; the selection rules live in
-// providers.CompactionSummarizerFactory, shared with the TUI.
-func summarizerFactory(resolved config.ResolvedConfig, newProvider func(config.ProviderProfile) (zeroruntime.Provider, error)) func(context.Context, string) (agent.Provider, error) {
-	return providers.CompactionSummarizerFactory(resolved.Provider, resolved.Preferences.CompactionModel, newProvider)
-}
@@ -100,6 +100,5 @@
      "shell commands are not wrapped by a native platform sandbox"
    ]
  },
-  "grantsPath": "$GRANTS",
-  "permissionProfileNote": "permissionProfile is derived from this process's environment and working directory; a command run with its own environment can add further credential deny-read entries."
+  "grantsPath": "$GRANTS"
 }
@@ -44,8 +44,7 @@ func runTrust(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) i
 func trustCurrentDir(stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) int {
 	cwd, err := deps.getwd()
 	if err != nil {
-		// Flatten with %s: ErrorMessage stringifies inline, so %w would be a no-op.
-		return writeAppError(stderr, redaction.ErrorMessage(fmt.Errorf("resolve workspace: %s", err), redaction.Options{}), exitCrash)
+		return writeAppError(stderr, redaction.ErrorMessage(fmt.Errorf("resolve workspace: %w", err), redaction.Options{}), exitCrash)
 	}
 	if err := workspacetrust.Trust(cwd); err != nil {
 		return writeAppError(stderr, redaction.ErrorMessage(err, redaction.Options{}), exitCrash)
@@ -87,8 +86,7 @@ func trustRemove(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps
 	case 0:
 		cwd, err := deps.getwd()
 		if err != nil {
-			// Flatten with %s: ErrorMessage stringifies inline, so %w would be a no-op.
-			return writeAppError(stderr, redaction.ErrorMessage(fmt.Errorf("resolve workspace: %s", err), redaction.Options{}), exitCrash)
+			return writeAppError(stderr, redaction.ErrorMessage(fmt.Errorf("resolve workspace: %w", err), redaction.Options{}), exitCrash)
 		}
 		target = cwd
 	case 1:
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ Flags:
      --check                 Check the latest GitHub release without installing
      --apply                 Download, verify, and install the latest release
      --json                  Print the update result as JSON
-      --repo <owner/repo>     Repository to use when no endpoint is provided (--check and --apply; ignored for the install source by an npm-managed apply)
-      --endpoint <url|repo>   Release API URL or owner/repo slug to use (--check and --apply; ignored for the install source by an npm-managed apply)
+      --repo <owner/repo>     Repository to check when no endpoint is provided
+      --endpoint <url|repo>   Release API URL or owner/repo slug to check
      --timeout <duration>    Release check timeout (default 5s)
      --target <platform>     Release target to verify with --check (for example windows-x64); not valid with --apply
  -h, --help                  Show this help
@@ -2,12 +2,8 @@ package cli

 import (
 	"context"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
-	"path"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
@@ -67,9 +63,6 @@ func runWorktrees(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDep
 		}
 		return exitSuccess
 	}
-	if command == "release" {
-		return runWorktreesRelease(args, stdout, stderr, deps)
-	}
 	if command != "prepare" {
 		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, fmt.Sprintf("unknown worktrees command %q", command))
 	}
@@ -109,85 +102,6 @@ func runWorktrees(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDep
 	return exitSuccess
 }

-// runWorktreesRelease unlocks a worktree `zero worktrees prepare` created, so
-// Zero's automatic Clean pass can reclaim it once it goes stale. Prepare locks
-// every worktree it creates and nothing else in that command's own lifetime
-// unlocks it (its process exits right after printing the path, long before
-// whatever external caller actually finishes using the worktree), so that
-// caller is responsible for running this once it is done.
-func runWorktreesRelease(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) int {
-	var path string
-	var cwdFlag string
-	for index := 0; index < len(args); index++ {
-		arg := args[index]
-		switch {
-		case arg == "-h" || arg == "--help" || arg == "help":
-			if err := writeWorktreesHelp(stdout); err != nil {
-				return exitCrash
-			}
-			return exitSuccess
-		case arg == "-C" || arg == "--cwd":
-			value, next, err := nextFlagValue(args, index, arg)
-			if err != nil {
-				return writeExecUsageError(stderr, err.Error())
-			}
-			cwdFlag = value
-			index = next
-		case strings.HasPrefix(arg, "--cwd="):
-			cwdFlag = strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(arg, "--cwd="))
-		case strings.HasPrefix(arg, "-"):
-			return writeExecUsageError(stderr, fmt.Sprintf("unknown worktrees release flag %q", arg))
-		default:
-			if path != "" {
-				return writeExecUsageError(stderr, "worktree path was provided more than once")
-			}
-			path = arg
-		}
-	}
-	path = strings.TrimSpace(path)
-	if path == "" {
-		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, "worktrees release requires a worktree path")
-	}
-	// git worktree unlock matches against the path git recorded when the
-	// worktree was created, so a relative argument here (resolved against
-	// whatever directory the caller happens to be running in, not
-	// necessarily the worktree's own) can fail to match. Resolve to absolute
-	// up front so the unlock target is unambiguous regardless of cwd.
-	absPath, err := filepath.Abs(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, redactCLIString(err.Error()))
-	}
-	// Release falls back to Options.Cwd as git's working directory when the
-	// worktree directory itself was deleted by hand instead of released; with
-	// no Cwd wired in, that recovery path runs `git worktree unlock` from
-	// wherever the caller happens to be, which outside the source repository
-	// leaves the orphaned lock behind forever (Clean skips locked entries).
-	// -C/--cwd names the source repository explicitly for exactly that case,
-	// since the deleted worktree path itself carries no way back to the repo;
-	// without the flag, resolve the launch directory best-effort (the
-	// ordinary existing-path case does not need it, so a resolution failure
-	// is not an error here).
-	releaseOptions := worktrees.Options{}
-	if cwdFlag != "" {
-		workspaceRoot, err := resolveWorkspaceRoot(cwdFlag, deps)
-		if err != nil {
-			return writeExecUsageError(stderr, redactCLIString(err.Error()))
-		}
-		releaseOptions.Cwd = workspaceRoot
-	} else if workspaceRoot, rootErr := resolveWorkspaceRoot("", deps); rootErr == nil {
-		releaseOptions.Cwd = workspaceRoot
-	}
-	if err := deps.releaseWorktree(context.Background(), releaseOptions, absPath); err != nil {
-		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, redactCLIString(err.Error()))
-	}
-	// Print the absolute path that was released so relative arguments still
-	// show an unambiguous target in the confirmation line.
-	if _, err := fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "released %s\n", redactCLIString(absPath)); err != nil {
-		return exitCrash
-	}
-	return exitSuccess
-}
-
 func runVerifyCommand(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDeps) int {
 	options, help, err := parseVerifyCommandArgs(args)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -605,20 +519,18 @@ func parseChangesArgs(args []string, command string) (changesCommandOptions, boo
 			return options, false, execUsageError{fmt.Sprintf("unexpected changes argument %q", arg)}
 		}
 	}
-	if command != "commit" && options.hasMessage {
+	if command != "commit" && options.message != "" {
 		return options, false, execUsageError{"--message is only valid with `zero changes commit`"}
 	}
+	if command != "commit" && (options.hasMessage || options.dryRun || options.auto) {
+		return options, false, execUsageError{"--message, --dry-run, and --auto are only valid with `zero changes commit`"}
+	}
 	if command == "commit" && options.hasMessage && options.auto {
 		return options, false, execUsageError{"cannot specify both --message and --auto"}
 	}
 	if command != "commit" && command != "push" && options.dryRun {
 		return options, false, execUsageError{"--dry-run is only valid with commit or push"}
 	}
-	// --auto on push/pr is the explicit opt-in for LLM branch naming (see
-	// ensureFeatureBranch); on commit it opts into the LLM commit message.
-	if command != "commit" && command != "push" && command != "pr" && options.auto {
-		return options, false, execUsageError{"--auto is only valid with commit, push, or pr"}
-	}
 	if command != "inspect" && options.baseRef != "" {
 		return options, false, execUsageError{"--base is only valid with `zero changes inspect`"}
 	}
@@ -874,28 +786,15 @@ func formatCommitResult(result zerogit.CommitResult) string {
 func writeWorktreesHelp(w io.Writer) error {
 	_, err := fmt.Fprint(w, `Usage:
  zero worktrees prepare [flags] [name]
-  zero worktrees release [flags] <path>

 Prepares an isolated git worktree for a Zero task.

-prepare locks the worktree it creates so Zero's automatic cleanup never
-removes it out from under you. release unlocks a worktree prepare created,
-once you are done with it, so cleanup can reclaim it later if it goes stale.
-If the worktree directory was deleted by hand, run release with -C pointing
-at the source repository so the orphaned lock can still be cleared.
-
-prepare flags:
+Flags:
      --name <name>       Worktree name; defaults to a timestamped task name
      --dir <path>        Base directory for Zero worktrees
  -C, --cwd <path>        Source repository directory
      --json              Print JSON output
  -h, --help              Show this help
-
-release flags:
-  -C, --cwd <path>        Source repository directory; needed when the
-                           worktree directory was already deleted and you
-                           are not running inside the source repository
-  -h, --help              Show this help
 `)
 	return err
 }
@@ -939,7 +838,8 @@ Flags:
      --fill              Automatically populate PR title and body from commits
      --draft             Create PR as a draft
      --yes               Confirm pushing to a default/protected branch
-  -a, --auto              Use the LLM: commit generates the message, push/pr name the auto-created branch (sends the diff to the provider)
+  -a, --auto              Auto-generate commit message using LLM (use --dry-run to preview)
+      --dry-run           Preview commit metadata without mutating git state
      --json              Print JSON output
  -h, --help              Show this help
 `)
@@ -962,31 +862,11 @@ func runChangesPush(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appD
 		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, err.Error())
 	}

-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Minute)
-	defer cancel()
-
-	branch, remote, created, err := ensureFeatureBranch(ctx, stdout, workspaceRoot, options.remote, featureBranchOptions{
-		JSONMode:           options.json,
-		AllowDefaultBranch: options.yes,
-		DryRun:             options.dryRun,
-		AutoNaming:         options.auto,
-		MaxDiffBytes:       options.maxDiffBytes,
-	}, deps)
-	if err != nil {
-		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, err.Error())
-	}
-
-	// context.Background() is deliberate: the 2-minute ctx above is the
-	// feature-branch preflight (inspection, remote probes, branch creation).
-	// The push itself must not be cancelled mid-transfer just because the
-	// preflight budget elapsed; a large push can legitimately take longer.
 	result, err := deps.pushChanges(context.Background(), zerogit.PushOptions{
 		Cwd:                    workspaceRoot,
-		Remote:                 firstNonEmptyString(options.remote, remote),
-		Branch:                 branch,
+		Remote:                 options.remote,
 		Force:                  options.force,
 		DryRun:                 options.dryRun,
-		RequireNewRemoteBranch: created,
 		AllowPushDefaultBranch: options.yes,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
@@ -1034,62 +914,15 @@ func runChangesPR(args []string, stdout io.Writer, stderr io.Writer, deps appDep
 		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, err.Error())
 	}

-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 2*time.Minute)
-	defer cancel()
-
-	branch, remote, created, err := ensureFeatureBranch(ctx, stdout, workspaceRoot, options.remote, featureBranchOptions{
-		JSONMode:           options.json,
-		AllowDefaultBranch: options.yes,
-		DryRun:             false,
-		AutoNaming:         options.auto,
-		MaxDiffBytes:       options.maxDiffBytes,
-	}, deps)
-	if err != nil {
-		return writeExecUsageError(stderr, err.Error())
-	}
-
-	// Resolve the target remote for the unborn-remote check. Explicit --remote wins,
-	// followed by the remote resolved by ensureFeatureBranch. When --yes is set,
-	// fall back to the branch upstream or "origin".
-	targetRemote := strings.TrimSpace(options.remote)
-	if targetRemote == "" {
-		targetRemote = remote
-	}
-	if targetRemote == "" {
-		currentBranch := ""
-		if deps.currentGitBranch != nil {
-			currentBranch = deps.currentGitBranch(context.Background(), workspaceRoot)
-		}
-		if deps.branchUpstreamRemote != nil && currentBranch != "" {
-			targetRemote = deps.branchUpstreamRemote(context.Background(), workspaceRoot, currentBranch)
-		}
-		if targetRemote == "" {
-			targetRemote = "origin"
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Probe errors are intentionally ignored so the flow can continue; if the
-	// probe fails, the subsequent push or PR operation provides fail-closed behavior.
-	if deps.isUnbornRemote != nil {
-		if unborn, unbornErr := deps.isUnbornRemote(context.Background(), workspaceRoot, targetRemote); unbornErr == nil && unborn {
-			return writeExecUsageError(stderr, fmt.Sprintf("cannot create pull request on unborn remote %s: push the initial default branch first", targetRemote))
-		}
-	}
-
 	if !options.json {
 		if _, err := fmt.Fprintln(stdout, "Pushing current branch to set upstream..."); err != nil {
 			return exitCrash
 		}
 	}
-	// context.Background() is deliberate here too: runChangesPR reuses the
-	// 2-minute ctx for preflight (branch creation and remote probes), but the
-	// push must not be cancelled mid-transfer if that budget elapsed.
 	pushResult, err := deps.pushChanges(context.Background(), zerogit.PushOptions{
 		Cwd:                    workspaceRoot,
-		Remote:                 firstNonEmptyString(options.remote, remote),
-		Branch:                 branch,
+		Remote:                 options.remote,
 		Force:                  options.force,
-		RequireNewRemoteBranch: created,
 		AllowPushDefaultBranch: options.yes,
 	})
 	if err != nil {
@@ -1171,462 +1004,3 @@ func generateAutoCommitMessage(ctx context.Context, provider zeroruntime.Provide
 	}
 	return msg, nil
 }
-
-type featureBranchOptions struct {
-	JSONMode           bool
-	AllowDefaultBranch bool
-	DryRun             bool
-	AutoNaming         bool
-	MaxDiffBytes       int
-}
-
-// branchPushPlan holds the resolved parameters for a push or PR workflow
-// before any branches are created or refs mutated. Separating plan resolution
-// from mutation allows tests to assert the resolution matrix directly without
-// touching a git repository.
-type branchPushPlan struct {
-	ShouldBranch           bool
-	CurrentBranch          string
-	PushRemote             string
-	RequireNewRemoteBranch bool
-	TrackingRemote         string
-	TrackingBranch         string
-	RestoreTip             string
-	PublishabilityBase     string
-	Summary                zerogit.ChangeSummary
-	Slug                   string
-}
-
-// resolveBranchPushPlan resolves the branch, remotes, restore tip, and naming
-// slug for changes push / pr workflows. It performs all checks (clean working
-// tree, unborn remote detection, ahead count, restore tip resolution) but
-// executes no mutation (no branch creation, ref resets, or deletions).
-func resolveBranchPushPlan(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer, workspaceRoot string, requestedRemote string, opts featureBranchOptions, deps appDeps) (branchPushPlan, error) {
-	if opts.AllowDefaultBranch || opts.DryRun {
-		return branchPushPlan{
-			ShouldBranch:           false,
-			PushRemote:             strings.TrimSpace(requestedRemote),
-			RequireNewRemoteBranch: false,
-		}, nil
-	}
-
-	if deps.isDefaultBranch == nil {
-		return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("isDefaultBranch dependency missing")
-	}
-	isDefault, currentBranch, remote, err := deps.isDefaultBranch(ctx, zerogit.DefaultBranchOptions{Cwd: workspaceRoot, Remote: requestedRemote})
-	if err != nil {
-		return branchPushPlan{}, err
-	}
-	if !isDefault {
-		// Whether this push needs the nonexistence lease is decided by one
-		// live check against the destination remote, not by inference from
-		// local git state (upstream config, a generated-branch marker):
-		// every local signal that stood in for that check turned out to be
-		// wrong in some ordering (inherited config from checkout -b, a
-		// config write that failed after a successful push, a push aimed at
-		// a different remote than the one local config describes). A branch
-		// missing on the remote gets the nonexistence lease, protecting a
-		// concurrent creator of the same name; a branch already there gets a
-		// plain push, and git's own fast-forward check is the safety net —
-		// if the remote history isn't ours, the push fails with a clear
-		// non-fast-forward error instead of an attempted silent recovery.
-		if deps.remoteHasBranch == nil {
-			return branchPushPlan{
-				ShouldBranch:           false,
-				CurrentBranch:          currentBranch,
-				PushRemote:             remote,
-				RequireNewRemoteBranch: true,
-			}, nil
-		}
-		targetRemote := firstNonEmptyString(requestedRemote, remote)
-		exists, existsErr := deps.remoteHasBranch(ctx, workspaceRoot, targetRemote, currentBranch)
-		if existsErr != nil {
-			return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot check whether %s already exists on remote %s: %w", currentBranch, targetRemote, existsErr)
-		}
-		return branchPushPlan{
-			ShouldBranch:           false,
-			CurrentBranch:          currentBranch,
-			PushRemote:             remote,
-			RequireNewRemoteBranch: !exists,
-		}, nil
-	}
-
-	// CreateBranch and Push publish commits only. A dirty working tree would
-	// leave uncommitted edits behind under a branch/PR that does not include
-	// them, so refuse until the tree is clean (commit or stash first).
-	workingTree, err := deps.inspectChanges(ctx, zerogit.InspectOptions{Cwd: workspaceRoot})
-	if err != nil {
-		return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to inspect working tree: %w", err)
-	}
-	if !workingTree.Clean {
-		return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("working tree has uncommitted changes; commit or stash them before pushing from the default branch")
-	}
-
-	// Capture the source default branch's own upstream before refreshing or
-	// leaving it. --remote selects the push destination; restore must not
-	// rewrite local main to upstream/main when main still tracks origin/main
-	// (fork setups), and refreshing must update the exact tracking ref that
-	// will supply both the ahead count and the restore target.
-	trackingRemote := remote
-	trackingBranch := currentBranch
-	if deps.branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge != nil {
-		if r, m := deps.branchUpstreamRemoteAndMerge(ctx, workspaceRoot, currentBranch); r != "" && m != "" {
-			trackingRemote = r
-			trackingBranch = m
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Refresh the local remote-tracking ref before trusting it: IsDefaultBranch
-	// already contacted the remote for its symref check, but the tracking ref
-	// commitsAhead reads from is only a local cache (written at clone or the
-	// last fetch) and can sit behind the remote's live tip. Left stale, a real
-	// publishable range could look like zero commits ahead, and the diff
-	// derived below (which reuses this same ref as its base) would be stale
-	// too. A failure here (offline, or a genuinely unborn remote with no such
-	// ref to fetch yet) is folded into the same fail-closed path as an
-	// unresolvable ahead count below.
-	var fetchErr error
-	if deps.refreshTrackingRef != nil {
-		fetchErr = deps.refreshTrackingRef(ctx, workspaceRoot, trackingRemote, trackingBranch)
-	}
-
-	// The ahead check gates on the source upstream (trackingRemote), but the
-	// feature branch is pushed to `pushRemote`, which can be a different
-	// destination (--remote on a fork). Refuse to auto-branch onto an unborn
-	// destination: without an initial default branch the new feature branch
-	// becomes the destination's first ref and its HEAD is left pointing at it.
-	// This is checked once, here, against the push destination, before resolving
-	// commit tips or creating any branches.
-	pushRemote := firstNonEmptyString(requestedRemote, remote)
-	if deps.isUnbornRemote != nil {
-		if unbornDest, unbornDestErr := deps.isUnbornRemote(ctx, workspaceRoot, pushRemote); unbornDestErr == nil && unbornDest {
-			return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("remote %s has no branches yet; push the initial default branch first with --yes (`zero changes push --yes`), then use auto-branching for subsequent work", pushRemote)
-		}
-	}
-
-	// Branching off the default branch only makes sense when HEAD carries a
-	// commit that is not already on the remote default branch. A clean,
-	// up-to-date default branch would otherwise publish a feature branch at the
-	// exact default tip. If the ahead count cannot be determined (for example
-	// the remote-tracking ref was never fetched), fail rather than guess. When
-	// the remote is confirmed unborn, refuse auto-branching entirely: the
-	// initial default branch must be established first (changes push --yes)
-	// so the remote has a real HEAD before any feature branch is published.
-	ahead, aheadErr := deps.commitsAhead(ctx, workspaceRoot, trackingRemote, trackingBranch)
-	if fetchErr != nil || aheadErr != nil {
-		var unbornRemote bool
-		var unbornErr error
-		if deps.isUnbornRemote != nil {
-			unbornRemote, unbornErr = deps.isUnbornRemote(ctx, workspaceRoot, trackingRemote)
-		}
-		if unbornErr == nil && unbornRemote {
-			return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("remote %s has no branches yet; push the initial default branch first with --yes (`zero changes push --yes`), then use auto-branching for subsequent work", trackingRemote)
-		}
-		cause := aheadErr
-		if cause == nil {
-			cause = fetchErr
-		}
-		return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot determine whether HEAD is ahead of %s/%s: %w; fetch the remote tracking branch first", trackingRemote, trackingBranch, cause)
-	}
-	if ahead == 0 {
-		return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("no changes to publish: HEAD is not ahead of %s/%s; commit your work before pushing", trackingRemote, trackingBranch)
-	}
-
-	// Resolve the restore tip to a concrete commit before creating any branch.
-	// It must never be a bare local branch name: resolving "main" yields the
-	// very commit the feature branch is about to own, so restore becomes a
-	// silent no-op and the publishable commits stay on the default branch. A
-	// named remote resolves through its just-refreshed remote-tracking ref; a
-	// direct URL or path asks the remote itself. Fail closed rather than
-	// substitute a local branch name.
-	restoreTip := ""
-	if deps.resolveRemoteBranchTip != nil {
-		tip, tipErr := deps.resolveRemoteBranchTip(ctx, workspaceRoot, trackingRemote, trackingBranch)
-		if tipErr != nil {
-			return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot resolve restore tip for %s/%s: %w", trackingRemote, trackingBranch, tipErr)
-		}
-		restoreTip = tip
-	}
-	if restoreTip == "" {
-		restoreTip = trackingRemote + "/" + trackingBranch
-	}
-
-	// Name the branch (and, with --auto, send the provider) from what HEAD is
-	// actually ahead of the resolved remote branch by, using the same ref
-	// commitsAhead just checked. A working-tree snapshot can describe edits a
-	// commit-only push will never include.
-	baseRef := restoreTip
-	summary, err := deps.inspectChanges(ctx, zerogit.InspectOptions{Cwd: workspaceRoot, BaseRef: baseRef, MaxDiffBytes: opts.MaxDiffBytes})
-	if err != nil {
-		return branchPushPlan{}, fmt.Errorf("failed to inspect changes: %w", err)
-	}
-
-	slug := fallbackBranchSlug(summary)
-	if len(summary.Files) == 0 {
-		// An empty commit (or one whose only content the diff omits) leaves
-		// nothing to derive a slug from; name the branch from the commit
-		// subject instead.
-		if subject := deps.headCommitSubject(ctx, workspaceRoot); subject != "" {
-			slug = zerogit.SlugifyBranchComponent(subject)
-		}
-	}
-	if opts.AutoNaming && strings.TrimSpace(summary.Diff) != "" {
-		llmSlug := ""
-		if resolved, cfgErr := deps.resolveConfig(workspaceRoot, config.Overrides{}); cfgErr == nil && config.HasProviderProfile(resolved.Provider) {
-			if provider, provErr := deps.newProvider(resolved.Provider); provErr == nil {
-				if !opts.JSONMode {
-					fmt.Fprintln(stdout, "Generating branch name using LLM...")
-				}
-				genCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 60*time.Second)
-				generated, genErr := generateAutoBranchSlug(genCtx, provider, resolved.Provider.Model, redactChangeSummary(summary))
-				cancel()
-				if genErr == nil && generated != "" {
-					llmSlug = generated
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		if llmSlug != "" {
-			slug = llmSlug
-		} else if !opts.JSONMode {
-			// Cover resolveConfig failures, missing provider profiles,
-			// newProvider errors, generation errors, and empty results so the
-			// user is not left guessing after "Generating..." or silence.
-			fmt.Fprintln(stdout, "LLM branch naming unavailable; using deterministic name.")
-		}
-	}
-
-	return branchPushPlan{
-		ShouldBranch:           true,
-		CurrentBranch:          currentBranch,
-		PushRemote:             pushRemote,
-		RequireNewRemoteBranch: true,
-		TrackingRemote:         trackingRemote,
-		TrackingBranch:         trackingBranch,
-		RestoreTip:             restoreTip,
-		PublishabilityBase:     baseRef,
-		Summary:                summary,
-		Slug:                   slug,
-	}, nil
-}
-
-// ensureFeatureBranch is the branch-naming step `zero changes push`/`pr` run
-// before pushing: pushing straight to the default branch is refused deeper in
-// zerogit.Push, so rather than surface that as a dead end, create and switch
-// to a conventionally named "<user>/<slug>" branch first. It returns the
-// branch push/pr should target, or "" to mean "current HEAD branch, unchanged"
-// (zerogit.Push already treats an empty Branch that way), plus the remote the
-// preflight resolved (requestedRemote, then the original branch's configured
-// upstream, then "origin"), plus whether Push should require that branch not
-// already exist on that remote. Callers must pass the remote to Push: a
-// freshly created branch has no tracking configuration, so Push's own
-// fallback would silently retarget "origin" even when the work came from a
-// branch tracking a different remote. Callers must also pass that third value
-// through as Push's RequireNewRemoteBranch: CreateBranch's own
-// remote-collision probe runs before this returns, and closing that race
-// requires Push's push itself to assert the destination is still new. That
-// requirement also carries across a retry: if the current branch is already
-// non-default (this call didn't create it) but has not been successfully
-// published to the exact target remote under the same branch name, keep the
-// nonexistence lease. branch.<name>.remote alone is not enough: with
-// branch.autoSetupMerge=inherit, checkout -b copies remote=origin from the
-// source branch before any push. After a successful create, the original
-// default branch ref is moved back to its own upstream tip (not necessarily
-// the push destination) so the feature branch exclusively owns the
-// publishable commits; a failed restore rolls the feature branch back.
-// allowDefaultBranch (the --yes flag) and dryRun both opt out via the ""
-// branch / false return, leaving Push's own guard/preview behavior on the
-// default branch unaffected.
-//
-// autoNaming gates the LLM naming path (--auto): these commands were
-// git-only, and sending the change diff to a configured provider on every
-// default-branch push would silently export source code nobody asked to
-// share. Without the opt-in the name comes from deterministic local
-// information only. maxDiffBytes caps the committed-range diff Inspect
-// returns, so a user who passed --diff-bytes to bound the proprietary source
-// sent for LLM naming has that cap honored here just as the commit path does.
-// The working tree must be clean and HEAD must be ahead of the resolved
-// remote branch; both are verified before any branch is created. The
-// inspectChanges, commitsAhead, headCommitSubject, currentGitUser, and
-// createBranch dependencies are required on the default-branch path and are
-// called without nil guards; fillAppDeps populates all of them. The
-// refreshTrackingRef, resolveRemoteBranchTip, isUnbornRemote, resetBranchRef,
-// and deleteBranch dependencies are optional and are skipped when nil.
-func ensureFeatureBranch(ctx context.Context, stdout io.Writer, workspaceRoot string, requestedRemote string, opts featureBranchOptions, deps appDeps) (string, string, bool, error) {
-	plan, err := resolveBranchPushPlan(ctx, stdout, workspaceRoot, requestedRemote, opts, deps)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", "", false, err
-	}
-	if !plan.ShouldBranch {
-		return plan.CurrentBranch, plan.PushRemote, plan.RequireNewRemoteBranch, nil
-	}
-
-	expectedRestoreTip := ""
-	if deps.currentBranchTip != nil {
-		expectedRestoreTip = deps.currentBranchTip(ctx, workspaceRoot)
-	}
-
-	name := zerogit.BuildBranchName(deps.currentGitUser(ctx, workspaceRoot), plan.Slug)
-	result, err := deps.createBranch(ctx, zerogit.BranchOptions{Cwd: workspaceRoot, Name: name, Remote: plan.PushRemote})
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("failed to create branch: %w", err)
-	}
-	// The normal flow commits on the default branch first, then creates the
-	// feature branch at the same HEAD. Without moving the original default
-	// ref back, local main keeps the pre-squash commits and diverges from
-	// its upstream after a squash-merge (and a later pull/push can re-publish
-	// them). Once the feature branch owns those commits, restore the default
-	// branch to the source branch's own upstream tip captured above.
-	// Failure-safe: if the restore fails, delete the feature branch and
-	// check the default branch back out so the tree is not left half-moved.
-	if deps.resetBranchRef != nil {
-		if err := deps.resetBranchRef(ctx, workspaceRoot, plan.CurrentBranch, plan.RestoreTip, expectedRestoreTip); err != nil {
-			// A compare-and-swap conflict means the default branch moved
-			// while we were branching, so restoreTip is no longer the tip we
-			// meant to restore. The rollback below deletes the branch that
-			// now exclusively owns the user's commits, which would destroy
-			// work to recover from a race we can simply report. Keep the
-			// branch and let the user reconcile the default branch.
-			if errors.Is(err, zerogit.ErrCompareAndSwapConflict) {
-				return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("failed to restore default branch %s to %s after auto-branching: %w; generated branch %s was preserved because the default branch changed concurrently", plan.CurrentBranch, plan.RestoreTip, err, result.Branch)
-			}
-			var rollbackErr error
-			if deps.deleteBranch != nil {
-				rollbackErr = deps.deleteBranch(ctx, workspaceRoot, plan.CurrentBranch, result.Branch)
-			}
-			if rollbackErr != nil {
-				return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("failed to restore default branch %s to %s after auto-branching: %w; rollback of %s also failed: %v", plan.CurrentBranch, plan.RestoreTip, err, result.Branch, rollbackErr)
-			}
-			return "", "", false, fmt.Errorf("failed to restore default branch %s to %s after auto-branching: %w", plan.CurrentBranch, plan.RestoreTip, err)
-		}
-	}
-	if !opts.JSONMode {
-		fmt.Fprintf(stdout, "Created branch %s (was on %s)\n", result.Branch, plan.CurrentBranch)
-	}
-	return result.Branch, plan.PushRemote, true, nil
-}
-
-// fallbackBranchSlug derives a deterministic branch-name slug from a change
-// summary without calling an LLM, so ensureFeatureBranch still works when no
-// provider is configured.
-func fallbackBranchSlug(summary zerogit.ChangeSummary) string {
-	switch len(summary.Files) {
-	case 0:
-		return "changes"
-	case 1:
-		// Git paths are always slash-separated regardless of platform, so
-		// path.Base (not filepath.Base) extracts the filename portably.
-		return zerogit.SlugifyBranchComponent(path.Base(summary.Files[0].Path))
-	default:
-		return fmt.Sprintf("update-%d-files", len(summary.Files))
-	}
-}
-
-// generateAutoBranchSlug asks the model for a short kebab-case slug
-// describing the diff, mirroring generateAutoCommitMessage's prompt shape.
-func generateAutoBranchSlug(ctx context.Context, provider zeroruntime.Provider, model string, summary zerogit.ChangeSummary) (string, error) {
-	var promptBuilder strings.Builder
-	promptBuilder.WriteString("Analyze the following git diff and generate a short git branch name slug for it.\n")
-	promptBuilder.WriteString("The slug must be 2 to 5 lowercase words separated by hyphens (kebab-case), using only letters, digits, and hyphens, with no prefix like \"feature/\" or \"fix/\" and no surrounding quotes.\n")
-	promptBuilder.WriteString("Output ONLY the raw slug text, nothing else.\n\n")
-	promptBuilder.WriteString("Git Diff:\n")
-	promptBuilder.WriteString(summary.Diff)
-
-	request := zeroruntime.CompletionRequest{
-		Messages: []zeroruntime.Message{
-			{Role: zeroruntime.MessageRoleUser, Content: promptBuilder.String()},
-		},
-	}
-	stream, err := provider.StreamCompletion(ctx, request)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	collected := zeroruntime.CollectStream(ctx, stream)
-	if collected.Error != "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s", collected.Error)
-	}
-
-	slug := zerogit.SlugifyBranchComponent(extractBranchSlug(collected.Text))
-	if slug == "" {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("provider returned empty branch slug")
-	}
-	return slug, nil
-}
-
-// slugLineRe matches a line that already reads as a kebab-case slug (letters,
-// digits, and internal single hyphens only). extractBranchSlug prefers such a
-// line so a preamble sentence is never mistaken for the slug.
-var slugLineRe = regexp.MustCompile(`^[a-zA-Z0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*$`)
-
-func isPreambleText(s string) bool {
-	lower := strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(s))
-	if strings.HasSuffix(lower, ":") || strings.HasSuffix(lower, ".") || strings.HasSuffix(lower, "!") || strings.HasSuffix(lower, "?") {
-		return true
-	}
-	preambles := []string{
-		"here is", "here's", "below is", "below are", "sure", "certainly",
-		"i suggest", "suggested branch", "branch name", "recommended branch",
-		"how about", "you could use",
-	}
-	for _, p := range preambles {
-		if strings.HasPrefix(lower, p) {
-			return true
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}
-
-// extractBranchSlug pulls the intended slug out of a model response that didn't
-// follow the "output only the raw slug" instruction exactly. It drops Markdown
-// code-fence lines, then prefers a line that already looks like a kebab-case
-// slug: that skips a leading preamble such as "Here is a suggested branch
-// name:" in favor of the "add-login-page" line that follows it. One-word
-// acknowledgements that happen to match the slug regex ("Sure", "Certainly")
-// are filtered as preamble before the early return, so "Sure\nadd login page"
-// yields the real suggestion. Inline labeled forms ("Branch name: add-login-page")
-// still work: the preamble check runs on the extracted value after the label
-// is stripped. If no line is strictly kebab-cased, it prefers a plausible
-// non-preamble line so plain multi-word replies still slugify correctly.
-func extractBranchSlug(text string) string {
-	var firstLine string
-
-	for _, line := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
-		line = strings.TrimSpace(line)
-		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "```") {
-			continue
-		}
-		line = strings.TrimSpace(strings.Trim(line, `"'`))
-		if line == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		candidate := line
-		if idx := strings.Index(line, ":"); idx != -1 {
-			after := strings.TrimSpace(strings.Trim(line[idx+1:], `"'`))
-			if after != "" {
-				candidate = after
-			}
-		}
-		// Models often terminate a suggestion with sentence punctuation;
-		// strip it so "add login page." is recovered as the slug rather than
-		// rejected as preamble (isPreambleText treats a trailing '.' as a
-		// full sentence). True preamble lines still match the prefix list.
-		candidate = strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimRight(candidate, ".!?"))
-		if candidate == "" {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		// Preamble classification runs before accepting a slug-shaped line so
-		// "Sure" does not win over a later "add-login-page". The check is on
-		// candidate (post label-strip) so "Branch name: add-login-page" still
-		// returns the extracted slug.
-		if slugLineRe.MatchString(candidate) && !isPreambleText(candidate) {
-			return candidate
-		}
-
-		if firstLine == "" && !isPreambleText(candidate) {
-			firstLine = candidate
-		}
-	}
-
-	return firstLine
-}
@@ -197,10 +197,8 @@ func shellCommand(command string) *exec.Cmd {
 		if strings.HasPrefix(strings.TrimSpace(command), `"`) {
 			command = "call " + command
 		}
-		/* #nosec G204 -- Provider commands are intentionally evaluated by a shell to support features like pipes and env expansions. The command string originates from the user's trusted local config. */
 		return exec.Command("cmd", "/C", command)
 	}
-	/* #nosec G204 -- Provider commands are intentionally evaluated by a shell to support features like pipes and env expansions. The command string originates from the user's trusted local config. */
 	return exec.Command("sh", "-c", command)
 }

@@ -105,17 +105,7 @@ func TestLoadProviderCommandTimeout(t *testing.T) {
 //
 // This is a hang-breaker, not a tuned margin. Nothing in a healthy run waits on
 // it, since both tests return about one WaitDelay after the fixture exits.
-const (
-	providerCommandTestBudget        = 90 * time.Second
-	providerCommandReadyWaitAttempts = 45
-)
-
-func TestProviderCommandBudgetLeavesCleanupMargin(t *testing.T) {
-	readyWaitCeiling := time.Duration(providerCommandReadyWaitAttempts) * time.Second
-	if providerCommandTestBudget < 2*readyWaitCeiling {
-		t.Fatalf("provider command test budget %s leaves less than one readiness window for cleanup after %s", providerCommandTestBudget, readyWaitCeiling)
-	}
-}
+const providerCommandTestBudget = 60 * time.Second

 // backgroundChildLifetime must exceed providerCommandTestBudget so that a child
 // dying of old age is unobservable: any run where runProviderCommand has not
@@ -351,15 +341,15 @@ func writeCommand(t *testing.T, script commandScript) string {
 			// assertion fail is far more diagnosable than blocking until the
 			// timeout fires and reporting an unrelated error. Each iteration is
 			// about a second, since `ping -n 2` sleeps between its two echoes,
-			// so the ceiling is roughly 45s: enough for a heavily loaded Windows
-			// runner while leaving the other half of providerCommandTestBudget for
-			// process exit, PID-file verification, and cleanup. Giving up surfaces a legible
+			// so the ceiling is roughly 15s: far longer than any cold PowerShell
+			// start seen on a runner, and far shorter than
+			// providerCommandTestBudget, so giving up surfaces a legible
 			// PID-file failure rather than a timeout that hides the real cause.
 			lines = append(lines,
 				":zeroWaitReady",
 				"if exist \""+readyFile+"\" goto zeroReady",
 				"set /a ZERO_READY_TRIES+=1",
-				"if %ZERO_READY_TRIES% GEQ "+itoa(providerCommandReadyWaitAttempts)+" goto zeroReady",
+				"if %ZERO_READY_TRIES% GEQ 15 goto zeroReady",
 				"ping -n 2 127.0.0.1 >nul",
 				"goto zeroWaitReady",
 				":zeroReady",
@@ -1,294 +0,0 @@
-package config
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"fmt"
-)
-
-type jsonObjectSpan struct {
-	start   int
-	end     int
-	members []jsonMemberSpan
-}
-
-type jsonMemberSpan struct {
-	key          string
-	leadingStart int
-	keyStart     int
-	valueStart   int
-	valueEnd     int
-	commaAfter   int
-}
-
-// setPetPreferenceJSON changes only preferences.pet. It keeps the original
-// bytes for every unrelated member so choosing a companion does not reorder or
-// reformat the user's configuration file.
-func setPetPreferenceJSON(data []byte, pet string) ([]byte, error) {
-	rootStart := skipJSONSpace(data, 0)
-	root, err := parseJSONObject(data, rootStart)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	preferencesIndex := lastJSONMember(root.members, "preferences")
-	if preferencesIndex < 0 {
-		if pet == "" {
-			return data, nil
-		}
-		encodedPet, err := json.Marshal(pet)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("encode pet preference: %w", err)
-		}
-		return insertJSONMember(data, root, "preferences", petJSONObject(encodedPet)), nil
-	}
-
-	preferenceMember := root.members[preferencesIndex]
-	preferenceValue := bytes.TrimSpace(data[preferenceMember.valueStart:preferenceMember.valueEnd])
-	if bytes.Equal(preferenceValue, []byte("null")) {
-		if pet == "" {
-			if lastJSONMember(root.members[:preferencesIndex], "preferences") >= 0 {
-				return data, nil
-			}
-			return removeJSONMember(data, root, preferencesIndex), nil
-		}
-		encodedPet, err := json.Marshal(pet)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("encode pet preference: %w", err)
-		}
-		return replaceJSONRange(data, preferenceMember.valueStart, preferenceMember.valueEnd, petJSONObject(encodedPet)), nil
-	}
-	preferences, err := parseJSONObject(data, preferenceMember.valueStart)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("preferences must be a JSON object: %w", err)
-	}
-	petIndex := lastJSONMember(preferences.members, "pet")
-	if pet != "" {
-		encodedPet, err := json.Marshal(pet)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("encode pet preference: %w", err)
-		}
-		if petIndex >= 0 {
-			member := preferences.members[petIndex]
-			return replaceJSONRange(data, member.valueStart, member.valueEnd, encodedPet), nil
-		}
-		return insertJSONMember(data, preferences, "pet", encodedPet), nil
-	}
-
-	for petIndex >= 0 {
-		data = removeJSONMember(data, preferences, petIndex)
-		root, err = parseJSONObject(data, rootStart)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		preferencesIndex = lastJSONMember(root.members, "preferences")
-		if preferencesIndex < 0 {
-			return data, nil
-		}
-		preferenceMember = root.members[preferencesIndex]
-		preferences, err = parseJSONObject(data, preferenceMember.valueStart)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		petIndex = lastJSONMember(preferences.members, "pet")
-	}
-	if len(preferences.members) == 0 {
-		if lastJSONMember(root.members[:preferencesIndex], "preferences") >= 0 {
-			return data, nil
-		}
-		return removeJSONMember(data, root, preferencesIndex), nil
-	}
-	return data, nil
-}
-
-func parseJSONObject(data []byte, start int) (jsonObjectSpan, error) {
-	if start < 0 || start >= len(data) || data[start] != '{' {
-		return jsonObjectSpan{}, fmt.Errorf("expected JSON object")
-	}
-	object := jsonObjectSpan{start: start}
-	leadingStart := start + 1
-	for {
-		i := skipJSONSpace(data, leadingStart)
-		if i >= len(data) {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, fmt.Errorf("unterminated JSON object")
-		}
-		if data[i] == '}' {
-			object.end = i
-			return object, nil
-		}
-		if data[i] != '"' {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, fmt.Errorf("expected JSON object key")
-		}
-		keyStart := i
-		keyEnd, err := scanJSONString(data, i)
-		if err != nil {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, err
-		}
-		var key string
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(data[keyStart:keyEnd], &key); err != nil {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, err
-		}
-		i = skipJSONSpace(data, keyEnd)
-		if i >= len(data) || data[i] != ':' {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, fmt.Errorf("expected colon after JSON object key")
-		}
-		valueStart := skipJSONSpace(data, i+1)
-		valueEnd, err := scanJSONValue(data, valueStart)
-		if err != nil {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, err
-		}
-		i = skipJSONSpace(data, valueEnd)
-		member := jsonMemberSpan{
-			key:          key,
-			leadingStart: leadingStart,
-			keyStart:     keyStart,
-			valueStart:   valueStart,
-			valueEnd:     valueEnd,
-			commaAfter:   -1,
-		}
-		if i < len(data) && data[i] == ',' {
-			member.commaAfter = i
-			object.members = append(object.members, member)
-			leadingStart = i + 1
-			continue
-		}
-		if i >= len(data) || data[i] != '}' {
-			return jsonObjectSpan{}, fmt.Errorf("expected comma or end of JSON object")
-		}
-		object.members = append(object.members, member)
-		object.end = i
-		return object, nil
-	}
-}
-
-func scanJSONString(data []byte, start int) (int, error) {
-	for i := start + 1; i < len(data); i++ {
-		switch data[i] {
-		case '\\':
-			i++
-		case '"':
-			return i + 1, nil
-		}
-	}
-	return 0, fmt.Errorf("unterminated JSON string")
-}
-
-func scanJSONValue(data []byte, start int) (int, error) {
-	if start >= len(data) {
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("missing JSON value")
-	}
-	if data[start] == '"' {
-		return scanJSONString(data, start)
-	}
-	if data[start] == '{' || data[start] == '[' {
-		stack := []byte{data[start]}
-		for i := start + 1; i < len(data); i++ {
-			if data[i] == '"' {
-				end, err := scanJSONString(data, i)
-				if err != nil {
-					return 0, err
-				}
-				i = end - 1
-				continue
-			}
-			switch data[i] {
-			case '{', '[':
-				stack = append(stack, data[i])
-			case '}', ']':
-				open := stack[len(stack)-1]
-				if (open == '{' && data[i] != '}') || (open == '[' && data[i] != ']') {
-					return 0, fmt.Errorf("mismatched JSON delimiter")
-				}
-				stack = stack[:len(stack)-1]
-				if len(stack) == 0 {
-					return i + 1, nil
-				}
-			}
-		}
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("unterminated JSON value")
-	}
-	for i := start; i < len(data); i++ {
-		switch data[i] {
-		case ',', '}', ']', ' ', '\t', '\r', '\n':
-			if i == start {
-				return 0, fmt.Errorf("missing JSON value")
-			}
-			return i, nil
-		}
-	}
-	return len(data), nil
-}
-
-func skipJSONSpace(data []byte, start int) int {
-	for start < len(data) {
-		switch data[start] {
-		case ' ', '\t', '\r', '\n':
-			start++
-		default:
-			return start
-		}
-	}
-	return start
-}
-
-func lastJSONMember(members []jsonMemberSpan, key string) int {
-	for i := len(members) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
-		if members[i].key == key {
-			return i
-		}
-	}
-	return -1
-}
-
-func petJSONObject(encodedPet []byte) []byte {
-	result := append([]byte(`{"pet":`), encodedPet...)
-	return append(result, '}')
-}
-
-func replaceJSONRange(data []byte, start, end int, replacement []byte) []byte {
-	result := make([]byte, 0, len(data)-(end-start)+len(replacement))
-	result = append(result, data[:start]...)
-	result = append(result, replacement...)
-	return append(result, data[end:]...)
-}
-
-func removeJSONMember(data []byte, object jsonObjectSpan, index int) []byte {
-	member := object.members[index]
-	start, end := member.leadingStart, member.valueEnd
-	if member.commaAfter >= 0 {
-		end = member.commaAfter + 1
-	} else if index > 0 {
-		start = object.members[index-1].commaAfter
-	}
-	return replaceJSONRange(data, start, end, nil)
-}
-
-func insertJSONMember(data []byte, object jsonObjectSpan, key string, value []byte) []byte {
-	encodedKey, _ := json.Marshal(key)
-	entry := append(append(encodedKey, ':', ' '), value...)
-	if len(object.members) == 0 {
-		interior := data[object.start+1 : object.end]
-		if newline := bytes.LastIndexByte(interior, '\n'); newline >= 0 {
-			closingIndent := interior[newline+1:]
-			indentUnit := []byte("  ")
-			if bytes.Contains(closingIndent, []byte("\t")) {
-				indentUnit = []byte("\t")
-			}
-			lineBreak := []byte("\n")
-			if newline > 0 && interior[newline-1] == '\r' {
-				lineBreak = []byte("\r\n")
-			}
-			insert := append(append(append(lineBreak, closingIndent...), indentUnit...), entry...)
-			return replaceJSONRange(data, object.start+1, object.start+1, insert)
-		}
-		return replaceJSONRange(data, object.end, object.end, entry)
-	}
-	last := object.members[len(object.members)-1]
-	separator := []byte(", ")
-	if bytes.Contains(data[last.valueEnd:object.end], []byte("\n")) {
-		lineStart := bytes.LastIndexByte(data[:last.keyStart], '\n') + 1
-		indent := data[lineStart:last.keyStart]
-		separator = append([]byte(",\n"), indent...)
-	}
-	insert := append(separator, entry...)
-	return replaceJSONRange(data, last.valueEnd, last.valueEnd, insert)
-}
@@ -5,20 +5,22 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )

-// DefaultMCPServers returns the MCP servers Zero ships ENABLED by default so
-// web search and page fetching work out of the box with no setup and no API
-// key. They are seeded before user/project config is merged (see ResolveMCP),
-// so a user can override any field — for example add an API-key header to lift
-// Exa's anonymous rate limit — or disable it entirely with
+// DefaultMCPServers returns the MCP servers Zero ships ENABLED by default so web
+// search and scraping work out of the box with no setup and no API key. They are
+// seeded before user/project config is merged (see ResolveMCP), so a user can
+// override any field — for example point firecrawl at a self-hosted instance, or
+// add an API-key header to lift the free-tier limit — or disable it entirely with
 // `zero mcp disable <name>` (which writes `"disabled": true`).
 //
-// Exa's hosted MCP server works anonymously with rate limits. Users can add an
-// Exa API key for higher limits.
+// Keyless Firecrawl routes requests through firecrawl.dev (1,000 free credits per
+// month, no account). Self-host Firecrawl (AGPL-3.0) for unlimited and private
+// use. Zero only calls it over the network, so Firecrawl's license never reaches
+// into Zero's own code.
 func DefaultMCPServers() map[string]MCPServerConfig {
 	return map[string]MCPServerConfig{
-		"exa": {
+		"firecrawl": {
 			Type: "http",
-			URL:  "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp",
+			URL:  "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp",
 		},
 	}
 }
@@ -33,13 +35,13 @@ func IsDefaultMCPServer(name string) bool {

 // IsUnconfiguredDefault reports whether server is one of Zero's built-in
 // defaults that the user never wrote an entry for in their config — i.e. it is
-// running with whatever Zero ships (e.g. keyless Exa, no credentials).
+// running with whatever Zero ships (e.g. keyless Firecrawl, no credentials).
 //
 // Both conditions below must hold:
 //   - !server.configured: the user's JSON never declared an object for this
 //     server key at all (set by MCPServerConfig.UnmarshalJSON only when it
 //     actually ran for this key). Any explicit action — including a
-//     disable/enable toggle like `zero mcp enable exa` that leaves the
+//     disable/enable toggle like `zero mcp enable firecrawl` that leaves the
 //     resolved value unchanged — sets configured, so it always counts as
 //     user-configured, even though the value comparison below could not tell
 //     the difference on its own.
@@ -56,90 +58,3 @@ func IsUnconfiguredDefault(name string, server MCPServerConfig) bool {
 	def, ok := DefaultMCPServers()[strings.TrimSpace(name)]
 	return ok && !server.configured && reflect.DeepEqual(def, server)
 }
-
-// retiredDefaultMCPServer describes a built-in default Zero no longer ships.
-type retiredDefaultMCPServer struct {
-	// successor is the default that replaced it.
-	successor string
-	// shipped is the value Zero used to seed for this name. A user entry
-	// written while the default was still shipped may name only an override
-	// (a header, say) and rely on these fields for the rest, so they have to
-	// outlive the default itself.
-	shipped MCPServerConfig
-}
-
-// retiredDefaultMCPServers maps a retired built-in default to what replaced it
-// and to the value Zero used to ship for it.
-var retiredDefaultMCPServers = map[string]retiredDefaultMCPServer{
-	"firecrawl": {
-		successor: "exa",
-		shipped: MCPServerConfig{
-			Type: "http",
-			URL:  "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp",
-		},
-	},
-}
-
-// migrateRetiredDefaultMCPServers keeps an upgrade across a default-provider
-// swap from changing what the user's config means. It handles the two ways a
-// rename can break a config written against the old default:
-//
-//   - A user who ran `zero mcp disable <old default>` made an explicit choice
-//     not to open that outbound connection. Without carrying that decision to
-//     the successor, the upgrade re-opens it under the new name — and because
-//     the replacement looks like an untouched default, even the startup
-//     warning stays quiet (see IsUnconfiguredDefault and issue #552).
-//   - A user who customized the old default could name only the field they
-//     were changing, because the seeded default supplied the transport. Once
-//     the default stops being seeded that entry resolves to a server with no
-//     type, url, or command, which fails NormalizeConfig and takes the whole
-//     startup down rather than just that one server.
-//
-// It runs immediately after the user layer merges (see ResolveMCP), which
-// scopes it to user-level decisions — the only scope whose disable is sticky.
-// The carried-over disable applies only when the user never declared the
-// successor themselves: an explicit `exa` entry wins whether it enables or
-// disables. Because the disable is recorded as a user-level decision, the
-// lower-trust project layer cannot lift it, while `zero mcp enable exa` still
-// can (the CLI override scope merges with canReenable=true).
-func migrateRetiredDefaultMCPServers(cfg *MCPConfig) {
-	for name, retired := range retiredDefaultMCPServers {
-		entry, ok := cfg.Servers[name]
-		if !ok {
-			continue
-		}
-		if inheritsRetiredTransport(entry) {
-			// Re-seed what Zero used to ship underneath the user's fields, so a
-			// partial entry still resolves to the complete server it named when
-			// it was written. Their own values still win — this only fills the
-			// gap the retired default used to cover.
-			entry = mergeMCPServer(retired.shipped, entry, true)
-			cfg.Servers[name] = entry
-		}
-		if !entry.disabledSet || !entry.Disabled {
-			continue
-		}
-		replacement, ok := cfg.Servers[retired.successor]
-		if !ok || replacement.configured {
-			continue
-		}
-		replacement.Disabled = true
-		replacement.disabledSet = true
-		cfg.Servers[retired.successor] = replacement
-	}
-}
-
-// inheritsRetiredTransport reports whether entry named no transport of its own
-// — no type, url, command, or args — and so relied entirely on the retired
-// default to supply one.
-//
-// Anything else is a complete definition the user owns (a self-hosted url, a
-// stdio command) and must be left alone: grafting the retired default's http
-// type onto an entry that names a command produces a server that is rejected
-// outright, turning a working config into a startup failure.
-func inheritsRetiredTransport(entry MCPServerConfig) bool {
-	return strings.TrimSpace(entry.Type) == "" &&
-		strings.TrimSpace(entry.URL) == "" &&
-		strings.TrimSpace(entry.Command) == "" &&
-		len(entry.Args) == 0
-}
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@ import (
 )

 func TestIsDefaultMCPServer(t *testing.T) {
-	if !IsDefaultMCPServer("exa") {
-		t.Fatal("exa should be a built-in default")
+	if !IsDefaultMCPServer("firecrawl") {
+		t.Fatal("firecrawl should be a built-in default")
 	}
-	if IsDefaultMCPServer("  exa  ") == false {
+	if IsDefaultMCPServer("  firecrawl  ") == false {
 		t.Fatal("IsDefaultMCPServer should trim whitespace")
 	}
 	if IsDefaultMCPServer("not-a-default") {
@@ -18,45 +18,45 @@ func TestIsDefaultMCPServer(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestResolveMCPSeedsEnabledExaDefault(t *testing.T) {
+func TestResolveMCPSeedsEnabledFirecrawlDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
 	}
-	exa, ok := cfg.Servers["exa"]
+	firecrawl, ok := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]
 	if !ok {
-		t.Fatal("expected the exa default to be seeded with no user config")
+		t.Fatal("expected the firecrawl default to be seeded with no user config")
 	}
-	if exa.Type != "http" || exa.URL != "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp" {
-		t.Fatalf("unexpected exa default: %#v", exa)
+	if firecrawl.Type != "http" || firecrawl.URL != "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp" {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected firecrawl default: %#v", firecrawl)
 	}
-	if exa.Disabled {
-		t.Fatal("the exa default must be enabled out of the box")
+	if firecrawl.Disabled {
+		t.Fatal("the firecrawl default must be enabled out of the box")
 	}
 }

 func TestResolveMCPUserCanDisableDefault(t *testing.T) {
 	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"exa":{"disabled":true}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":true}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
 	}
-	if !cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
+	if !cfg.Servers["firecrawl"].Disabled {
 		t.Fatal("a user must be able to disable the default by writing over it")
 	}
 }

 func TestIsUnconfiguredDefault(t *testing.T) {
-	if !IsUnconfiguredDefault("exa", DefaultMCPServers()["exa"]) {
-		t.Fatal("an untouched exa default should be reported as unconfigured")
+	if !IsUnconfiguredDefault("firecrawl", DefaultMCPServers()["firecrawl"]) {
+		t.Fatal("an untouched firecrawl default should be reported as unconfigured")
 	}
-	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("exa", MCPServerConfig{Type: "http", URL: "https://example.com/mcp"}) {
+	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("firecrawl", MCPServerConfig{Type: "http", URL: "http://localhost:3002/mcp"}) {
 		t.Fatal("a server overriding the default URL is no longer unconfigured")
 	}
-	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("exa", MCPServerConfig{Type: "http", URL: "https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp", Auth: "bearer"}) {
+	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("firecrawl", MCPServerConfig{Type: "http", URL: "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp", Auth: "bearer"}) {
 		t.Fatal("a server with credentials added is no longer unconfigured")
 	}
 	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("not-a-default", MCPServerConfig{}) {
@@ -65,173 +65,57 @@ func TestIsUnconfiguredDefault(t *testing.T) {
 }

 func TestResolveMCPExplicitReenableIsNotUnconfiguredDefault(t *testing.T) {
-	// `zero mcp enable exa` after a prior disable writes {"disabled":false}
+	// `zero mcp enable firecrawl` after a prior disable writes {"disabled":false}
 	// explicitly. The resolved value is identical to the untouched default (both
 	// enabled, no credentials), but the user DID take an explicit action here, so
 	// IsUnconfiguredDefault must not treat it as untouched (issue #563 review).
 	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"exa":{"disabled":false}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":false}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
 	}
-	exa := cfg.Servers["exa"]
-	if exa.Disabled {
-		t.Fatalf("explicit re-enable should leave the server enabled: %#v", exa)
+	firecrawl := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]
+	if firecrawl.Disabled {
+		t.Fatalf("explicit re-enable should leave the server enabled: %#v", firecrawl)
 	}
-	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("exa", exa) {
+	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("firecrawl", firecrawl) {
 		t.Fatal("an explicit enable/disable toggle must count as user-configured, even though the resolved value matches the default")
 	}
 }

 func TestResolveMCPExplicitRedeclareOfDefaultValuesIsNotUnconfiguredDefault(t *testing.T) {
-	// A user who copies Exa's exact default type/url into their config
+	// A user who copies firecrawl's exact default type/url into their config
 	// (e.g. from an example file, planning to add credentials later) produces a
-	// resolved value byte-identical to DefaultMCPServers()["exa"] — the
+	// resolved value byte-identical to DefaultMCPServers()["firecrawl"] — the
 	// same trap TestResolveMCPExplicitReenableIsNotUnconfiguredDefault covers for
 	// the disabled toggle. IsUnconfiguredDefault must still treat this as
 	// user-configured because the user's JSON declared an entry for it, even
 	// though a plain resolved-value comparison could not tell the difference.
 	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"exa":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.exa.ai/mcp"}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp"}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
 	}
-	exa := cfg.Servers["exa"]
-	want := DefaultMCPServers()["exa"]
-	if exa.Type != want.Type || exa.URL != want.URL || exa.Disabled != want.Disabled {
-		t.Fatalf("expected the resolved value to match the default's fields exactly: %#v", exa)
+	firecrawl := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]
+	want := DefaultMCPServers()["firecrawl"]
+	if firecrawl.Type != want.Type || firecrawl.URL != want.URL || firecrawl.Disabled != want.Disabled {
+		t.Fatalf("expected the resolved value to match the default's fields exactly: %#v", firecrawl)
 	}
-	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("exa", exa) {
+	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("firecrawl", firecrawl) {
 		t.Fatal("redeclaring the default's exact values is still an explicit user configuration, not an untouched default")
 	}
 }

 func TestResolveMCPUserCanOverrideDefaultURLKeepingOtherFields(t *testing.T) {
 	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	// Point Exa at a proxy; the default's Type must survive.
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"exa":{"url":"https://example.com/mcp"}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	exa := cfg.Servers["exa"]
-	if exa.URL != "https://example.com/mcp" {
-		t.Fatalf("user override of the default URL did not apply: %#v", exa)
-	}
-	if exa.Type != "http" {
-		t.Fatalf("override should keep the default's other fields (type), got %#v", exa)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPCarriesLegacyDefaultDisableToSuccessor(t *testing.T) {
-	// Upgrade path: the user disabled the firecrawl default Zero used to ship.
-	// Swapping the default to exa must not re-open an outbound connection they
-	// explicitly switched off.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":true}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
-		t.Fatalf("a prior disable of the retired default must carry to its replacement: %#v", cfg.Servers["exa"])
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPExplicitSuccessorBeatsLegacyDefaultDisable(t *testing.T) {
-	// The user disabled the old default but has since explicitly configured exa.
-	// Their newer, explicit choice wins — the migration must not override it.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":true},"exa":{"disabled":false}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	exa := cfg.Servers["exa"]
-	if exa.Disabled {
-		t.Fatalf("an explicit exa entry must survive the legacy-disable migration: %#v", exa)
-	}
-	if IsUnconfiguredDefault("exa", exa) {
-		t.Fatal("an explicitly configured exa is not an untouched default")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPLegacyDefaultLeftEnabledDoesNotDisableSuccessor(t *testing.T) {
-	// A user who configured firecrawl without disabling it (e.g. added a header)
-	// never opted out of the default search server, so exa stays enabled.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"headers":{"Authorization":"Bearer k"}}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	if cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
-		t.Fatal("only an explicit disable of the retired default should carry over")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPLegacyDefaultDisableIsLiftableByOverride(t *testing.T) {
-	// The carried-over disable is a user-level decision, not a permanent one:
-	// `zero mcp enable exa` merges through the CLI override scope, which is the
-	// one layer allowed to re-enable.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":true}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	enabled := MCPServerConfig{Disabled: false, disabledSet: true}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{
-		UserConfigPath: path,
-		Overrides:      Overrides{MCP: MCPConfig{Servers: map[string]MCPServerConfig{"exa": enabled}}},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	if cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
-		t.Fatalf("an explicit enable must lift the carried-over disable: %#v", cfg.Servers["exa"])
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPLegacyDisableSurvivesProjectReenable(t *testing.T) {
-	// The project layer is lower-trust and must not lift the carried-over
-	// user-level disable — the same guard a direct `zero mcp disable exa` gets.
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	userPath := filepath.Join(dir, "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(userPath, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":true}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	projectPath := filepath.Join(dir, "project.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(projectPath, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"exa":{"disabled":false}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: userPath, ProjectConfigPath: projectPath})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
-		t.Fatal("project config must not re-enable a server the user disabled")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPKeepsRetiredDefaultTransportForPartialEntry(t *testing.T) {
-	// A user who added an API key to the firecrawl default wrote only the header
-	// — the seeded default supplied the http type and URL. Retiring the default
-	// must not strip those out from under them and leave an unusable server.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"headers":{"Authorization":"Bearer k"}}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
+	// Point firecrawl at a self-hosted instance; the default's Type must survive.
+	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"url":"http://localhost:3002/mcp"}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
@@ -239,55 +123,10 @@ func TestResolveMCPKeepsRetiredDefaultTransportForPartialEntry(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
 	}
 	firecrawl := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]
-	if firecrawl.Type != "http" || firecrawl.URL != "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp" {
-		t.Fatalf("a partial entry must keep the retired default's transport: %#v", firecrawl)
+	if firecrawl.URL != "http://localhost:3002/mcp" {
+		t.Fatalf("user override of the default URL did not apply: %#v", firecrawl)
 	}
-	if firecrawl.Headers["Authorization"] != "Bearer k" {
-		t.Fatalf("the user's own field must still win: %#v", firecrawl)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPDoesNotGraftRetiredDefaultOntoOwnTransport(t *testing.T) {
-	// A self-hosted firecrawl over stdio is a complete definition the user owns.
-	// Re-seeding the retired http default under it would produce an http server
-	// carrying a command, which NormalizeConfig rejects outright.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"command":"firecrawl-mcp"}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	firecrawl := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]
-	if firecrawl.Type != "" || firecrawl.URL != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("an entry naming its own transport must be left alone: %#v", firecrawl)
-	}
-	if firecrawl.Command != "firecrawl-mcp" {
-		t.Fatalf("the user's command must survive: %#v", firecrawl)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestResolveMCPDisabledRetiredEntryStaysReEnableable(t *testing.T) {
-	// The disable carries to exa, and the retired entry itself keeps a usable
-	// transport so a later `zero mcp enable firecrawl` does not resolve to a
-	// server with no type, url, or command.
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"mcp":{"servers":{"firecrawl":{"disabled":true}}}}`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	cfg, err := ResolveMCP(ResolveOptions{UserConfigPath: path})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ResolveMCP: %v", err)
-	}
-	firecrawl := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]
-	if !firecrawl.Disabled {
-		t.Fatalf("the retired entry must stay disabled: %#v", firecrawl)
-	}
-	if firecrawl.Type != "http" || firecrawl.URL != "https://mcp.firecrawl.dev/v2/mcp" {
-		t.Fatalf("a disabled retired entry should still carry a usable transport: %#v", firecrawl)
-	}
-	if !cfg.Servers["exa"].Disabled {
-		t.Fatal("the disable must still carry to the successor")
+	if firecrawl.Type != "http" {
+		t.Fatalf("override should keep the default's other fields (type), got %#v", firecrawl)
 	}
 }
@@ -1,252 +0,0 @@
-package config
-
-import (
-	"encoding/json"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-func TestSetPetPreservesUnrelatedConfig(t *testing.T) {
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	original := FileConfig{
-		ActiveProvider: "test",
-		Providers:      []ProviderProfile{{Name: "test", Model: "example"}},
-		Preferences:    PreferencesConfig{Theme: "dracula"},
-	}
-	data, err := json.Marshal(original)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, data, 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	updated, err := SetPet(path, "boba")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if updated.Preferences.Pet != "boba" || updated.Preferences.Theme != "dracula" || updated.ActiveProvider != "test" || len(updated.Providers) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("SetPet lost config fields: %#v", updated)
-	}
-	reloadedData, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var reloaded FileConfig
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(reloadedData, &reloaded); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if reloaded.Preferences.Pet != "boba" || reloaded.Preferences.Theme != "dracula" || reloaded.ActiveProvider != "test" || len(reloaded.Providers) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("persisted config lost fields: %#v", reloaded)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSetPetRejectsInvalidInputs(t *testing.T) {
-	if _, err := SetPet("  ", "boba"); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("SetPet accepted a blank config path")
-	}
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(`{"preferences":`), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := SetPet(path, "boba"); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "invalid config JSON") {
-		t.Fatalf("SetPet malformed JSON error = %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSetPetCreatesNestedConfigAndClearsEmptyPreferences(t *testing.T) {
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "nested", "zero", "config.json")
-	if _, err := SetPet(path, " boba "); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var root map[string]json.RawMessage
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &root); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var preferences struct {
-		Pet string `json:"pet"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(root["preferences"], &preferences); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if preferences.Pet != "boba" {
-		t.Fatalf("persisted pet = %q, want %q", preferences.Pet, "boba")
-	}
-	root["future"] = json.RawMessage(`{"enabled":true}`)
-	encoded, err := json.Marshal(root)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, encoded, 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := SetPet(path, " "); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	data, err = os.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	root = nil
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &root); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, ok := root["preferences"]; ok {
-		t.Fatalf("empty preferences were retained: %s", data)
-	}
-	var future struct {
-		Enabled bool `json:"enabled"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(root["future"], &future); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !future.Enabled {
-		t.Fatalf("unrelated future member was lost: %s", data)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSetPetPreservesUnknownJSONMembers(t *testing.T) {
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	original := []byte(`{
-  "activeProvider": "test",
-  "futureTopLevel": {"enabled": true},
-  "preferences": {
-    "theme": "dracula",
-    "futurePreference": {"mode": "extended"}
-  }
-}`)
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, original, 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := SetPet(path, "boba"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var root map[string]json.RawMessage
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(data, &root); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var futureTopLevel struct {
-		Enabled bool `json:"enabled"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(root["futureTopLevel"], &futureTopLevel); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if !futureTopLevel.Enabled {
-		t.Fatalf("unknown top-level member = %s", root["futureTopLevel"])
-	}
-	var preferences map[string]json.RawMessage
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(root["preferences"], &preferences); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	var futurePreference struct {
-		Mode string `json:"mode"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal(preferences["futurePreference"], &futurePreference); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if futurePreference.Mode != "extended" {
-		t.Fatalf("unknown preference member = %s", preferences["futurePreference"])
-	}
-	if got := string(preferences["pet"]); got != `"boba"` {
-		t.Fatalf("pet preference = %s, want boba", got)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSetPetPreservesExistingJSONLayoutAndMemberOrder(t *testing.T) {
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-	original := []byte("{\n\t\"zFuture\": {\"enabled\":true},\n\t\"preferences\": {\n\t\t\"theme\" : \"dracula\",\n\t\t\"pet\" : \"old\",\n\t\t\"futurePreference\": {\"mode\":\"extended\"}\n\t},\n\t\"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, original, 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := SetPet(path, "boba"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	got, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	want := strings.Replace(string(original), `"old"`, `"boba"`, 1)
-	if string(got) != want {
-		t.Fatalf("SetPet reformatted or reordered config:\n--- got ---\n%s--- want ---\n%s", got, want)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestSetPetMinimallyEditsExistingJSON(t *testing.T) {
-	tests := []struct {
-		name     string
-		original string
-		pet      string
-		want     string
-	}{
-		{
-			name:     "add pet to existing preferences",
-			original: "{\n  \"zFuture\": {\"text\":\"comma, brace } and \\\"quote\\\"\"},\n  \"preferences\": {\n    \"theme\": \"dracula\"\n  },\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-			pet:      "boba",
-			want:     "{\n  \"zFuture\": {\"text\":\"comma, brace } and \\\"quote\\\"\"},\n  \"preferences\": {\n    \"theme\": \"dracula\",\n    \"pet\": \"boba\"\n  },\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-		},
-		{
-			name:     "add preferences without reordering root",
-			original: "{\n  \"zFuture\": true,\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-			pet:      "boba",
-			want:     "{\n  \"zFuture\": true,\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\",\n  \"preferences\": {\"pet\":\"boba\"}\n}\n",
-		},
-		{
-			name:     "remove pet but retain preferences",
-			original: "{\n  \"preferences\": {\n    \"theme\": \"dracula\",\n    \"pet\": \"boba\",\n    \"future\": true\n  },\n  \"zFuture\": true\n}\n",
-			pet:      "",
-			want:     "{\n  \"preferences\": {\n    \"theme\": \"dracula\",\n    \"future\": true\n  },\n  \"zFuture\": true\n}\n",
-		},
-		{
-			name:     "remove empty preferences member",
-			original: "{\n  \"zFuture\": true,\n  \"preferences\": {\n    \"pet\": \"boba\"\n  },\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-			pet:      "",
-			want:     "{\n  \"zFuture\": true,\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-		},
-		{
-			name:     "do not expose an older duplicate preference",
-			original: "{\"preferences\":{\"pet\":\"cat\"},\"preferences\":{\"pet\":\"dog\"}}\n",
-			pet:      "",
-			want:     "{\"preferences\":{\"pet\":\"cat\"},\"preferences\":{}}\n",
-		},
-		{
-			name:     "do not expose an older duplicate behind null",
-			original: "{\"preferences\":{\"pet\":\"cat\"},\"preferences\":null}\n",
-			pet:      "",
-			want:     "{\"preferences\":{\"pet\":\"cat\"},\"preferences\":null}\n",
-		},
-		{
-			name:     "preserve multiline empty preferences layout",
-			original: "{\n  \"preferences\": {\n  },\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-			pet:      "boba",
-			want:     "{\n  \"preferences\": {\n    \"pet\": \"boba\"\n  },\n  \"activeProvider\": \"test\"\n}\n",
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, test := range tests {
-		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "config.json")
-			if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte(test.original), 0o600); err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			if _, err := SetPet(path, test.pet); err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			got, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatal(err)
-			}
-			if string(got) != test.want {
-				t.Fatalf("SetPet output:\n--- got ---\n%s--- want ---\n%s", got, test.want)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ func TestResolveMCPExcludeProjectDropsProjectServers(t *testing.T) {
 		if _, ok := cfg.Servers["user-srv"]; !ok {
 			t.Fatal("the user server must always be present")
 		}
-		if _, ok := cfg.Servers["exa"]; !ok {
+		if _, ok := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]; !ok {
 			t.Fatal("the built-in default must always be present")
 		}
 	})
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func TestResolveMCPExcludeProjectDropsProjectServers(t *testing.T) {
 		if _, ok := cfg.Servers["user-srv"]; !ok {
 			t.Fatal("the user server must survive when the project layer is dropped")
 		}
-		if _, ok := cfg.Servers["exa"]; !ok {
+		if _, ok := cfg.Servers["firecrawl"]; !ok {
 			t.Fatal("the built-in default must survive when the project layer is dropped")
 		}
 	})
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ func Resolve(options ResolveOptions) (ResolvedConfig, error) {
 }

 func ResolveMCP(options ResolveOptions) (MCPConfig, error) {
-	// Seed Zero's built-in default MCP servers (e.g. keyless Exa for free,
+	// Seed Zero's built-in default MCP servers (e.g. keyless Firecrawl for free,
 	// no-setup web search/scrape) BEFORE merging user/project config, so the user
 	// can override any field or disable a default by writing over it.
 	cfg := FileConfig{MCP: MCPConfig{Servers: DefaultMCPServers()}}
@@ -194,10 +194,6 @@ func ResolveMCP(options ResolveOptions) (MCPConfig, error) {
 		// server the user disabled (a user-level disable is sticky, but the user
 		// scope itself may lift it).
 		mergeMCPConfig(&cfg.MCP, fileConfig.MCP, true)
-		// Reconcile config written against a default Zero has since retired,
-		// here while the user layer is the only one merged — so a carried-over
-		// disable counts as a user-level decision the project layer cannot lift.
-		migrateRetiredDefaultMCPServers(&cfg.MCP)
 	}
 	// Drop the project layer when the workspace is untrusted, so a cloned repo's
 	// ./.zero/config.json cannot register (and spawn) MCP servers. Fail-closed:
@@ -277,9 +273,6 @@ func mergeConfig(dst *FileConfig, src FileConfig) {
 	if strings.TrimSpace(src.Preferences.Theme) != "" {
 		dst.Preferences.Theme = strings.TrimSpace(src.Preferences.Theme)
 	}
-	if strings.TrimSpace(src.Preferences.Pet) != "" {
-		dst.Preferences.Pet = strings.TrimSpace(src.Preferences.Pet)
-	}
 	mergeLocalControlConfig(&dst.LocalControl, src.LocalControl)
 	mergeKeyBindings(&dst.KeyBindings, src.KeyBindings)
 	mergeSTTConfig(&dst.STT, src.STT)
@@ -168,22 +168,6 @@ func TestResolveLoadsRecentModelsFromUserConfigOnly(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestResolveLoadsPetFromUserConfigOnly(t *testing.T) {
-	userPath := writeConfig(t, `{"preferences":{"pet":" boba "}}`)
-	projectPath := writeConfig(t, `{"preferences":{"pet":"project-pet"}}`)
-	resolved, err := Resolve(ResolveOptions{
-		UserConfigPath:    userPath,
-		ProjectConfigPath: projectPath,
-		Env:               map[string]string{},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if resolved.Preferences.Pet != "boba" {
-		t.Fatalf("Preferences.Pet = %q, want user preference boba", resolved.Preferences.Pet)
-	}
-}
-
 // recentModels must never be merged from project config (same posture as
 // favoriteModels): a project setting it with no corresponding user setting
 // should leave the resolved value empty, not pick up the project's list.
@@ -112,19 +112,10 @@ type PreferencesConfig struct {
 	// name (e.g. "dracula"). Applied at startup below the --theme flag and
 	// ZERO_THEME, so a /theme choice survives restart. Empty = unset (defaults auto).
 	Theme string `json:"theme,omitempty"`
-	// Pet is the terminal companion selected through /pets. Empty leaves pets
-	// off until the user chooses one; "disabled" is the explicit off state.
-	Pet string `json:"pet,omitempty"`
 	// Recaps is a tri-state: nil (unset) defaults to ON; an explicit false means
 	// the user turned idle recaps off. A *bool is its own tri-state, so no
 	// custom unmarshal is needed (unlike ToolsConfig.DeferThreshold's int).
 	Recaps *bool `json:"recaps,omitempty"`
-	// CompactionModel routes compaction summarization calls to this model
-	// instead of the session's main model (summaries at main-model prices are
-	// the most expensive recurring event in long runs). Empty = automatic: a
-	// curated cheap model on official endpoints, the main model elsewhere.
-	// "main" forces the main model. ZERO_COMPACTION_MODEL overrides.
-	CompactionModel string `json:"compactionModel,omitempty"`
 }

 // RecentModelEntry is one provider-qualified model selection recorded in
@@ -157,8 +148,7 @@ type KeyBindingsConfig struct {
 	ToggleMouse KeyBindingDef `json:"toggleMouse,omitempty"`
 	// CycleReasoning cycles through reasoning effort levels (default: ctrl+t).
 	CycleReasoning KeyBindingDef `json:"cycleReasoning,omitempty"`
-	// TogglePlan is retained for configuration compatibility. Plan updates render
-	// in the transcript and no longer have a persistent panel to toggle.
+	// TogglePlan toggles the plan panel expansion (default: ctrl+p).
 	TogglePlan KeyBindingDef `json:"togglePlan,omitempty"`
 	// ToggleSidebar toggles the right context sidebar (default: ctrl+b).
 	ToggleSidebar KeyBindingDef `json:"toggleSidebar,omitempty"`
@@ -471,7 +461,7 @@ type MCPServerConfig struct {
 	// fields it set or what values they hold. A built-in default seeded by
 	// DefaultMCPServers() is never unmarshaled from JSON, so it starts false;
 	// any explicit entry in the user/project file — even one that happens to
-	// repeat a default's exact field values (e.g. re-declaring Exa's
+	// repeat a default's exact field values (e.g. re-declaring firecrawl's
 	// default URL) — sets it true. IsUnconfiguredDefault checks this alongside
 	// a resolved-value comparison, so redeclaring default values verbatim still
 	// counts as user-configured.
@@ -591,35 +591,6 @@ func SetTheme(path string, theme string) (FileConfig, error) {
 	return cfg, nil
 }

-// SetPet persists only the terminal-pet preference while preserving every
-// unrelated user setting through the config writer's atomic replace path.
-func SetPet(path string, pet string) (FileConfig, error) {
-	path = strings.TrimSpace(path)
-	if path == "" {
-		return FileConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("config path is required")
-	}
-	cfg := FileConfig{}
-	data := []byte("{}")
-	if existing, err := os.ReadFile(path); err == nil {
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(existing, &cfg); err != nil {
-			return FileConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("invalid config JSON %s: %w", path, err)
-		}
-		data = existing
-	} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return FileConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("read config %s: %w", path, err)
-	}
-	pet = strings.TrimSpace(pet)
-	cfg.Preferences.Pet = pet
-	data, err := setPetPreferenceJSON(data, pet)
-	if err != nil {
-		return FileConfig{}, fmt.Errorf("invalid config JSON %s: %w", path, err)
-	}
-	if err := writeConfigData(path, data); err != nil {
-		return FileConfig{}, err
-	}
-	return cfg, nil
-}
-
 // SetSTTModel persists the dictation model and its provider, mirroring
 // SetTheme (read-modify-atomic-write). provider must be one of the known STT
 // provider kinds; a local provider stores the model as stt.localModelPath,
@@ -765,23 +736,17 @@ func NormalizeRecentModels(entries []RecentModelEntry) []RecentModelEntry {
 }

 func writeConfigFile(path string, cfg FileConfig) error {
-	data, err := json.MarshalIndent(cfg, "", "  ")
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("encode config JSON: %w", err)
-	}
-	return writeConfigData(path, data)
-}
-
-func writeConfigData(path string, data []byte) error {
 	dir := filepath.Dir(path)
 	if dir != "." && dir != "" {
 		if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o700); err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("create config directory %s: %w", dir, err)
 		}
 	}
-	if len(data) == 0 || data[len(data)-1] != '\n' {
-		data = append(data, '\n')
+	data, err := json.MarshalIndent(cfg, "", "  ")
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("encode config JSON: %w", err)
 	}
+	data = append(data, '\n')
 	// Write-to-temp + rename: an in-place write interrupted mid-way (crash,
 	// disk full) would leave the user's only config truncated or corrupt.
 	tmp, err := os.CreateTemp(dir, ".zero-config-*.tmp")
@@ -1,246 +0,0 @@
-package credstore
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"os/exec"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"sync"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-func fileStore(t *testing.T, dir string) *Store {
-	t.Helper()
-	store, err := New(Options{Dir: dir, Storage: "file"})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("New: %v", err)
-	}
-	return store
-}
-
-// THE REPRODUCTION, kept as the regression. Before the lock this reliably kept
-// 1 of 100: every writer read the same map, added its own provider, and the
-// last rename published a file missing all the others.
-func TestConcurrentSetKeepsEveryKey(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	store := fileStore(t, dir)
-
-	const n = 100
-	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	errs := make(chan error, n)
-	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
-		wg.Add(1)
-		go func(i int) {
-			defer wg.Done()
-			if err := store.Set(fmt.Sprintf("p%03d", i), fmt.Sprintf("k%03d", i)); err != nil {
-				errs <- err
-			}
-		}(i)
-	}
-	wg.Wait()
-	close(errs)
-	for err := range errs {
-		t.Fatalf("Set: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	got, err := store.Providers()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Providers: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(got) != n {
-		t.Fatalf("kept %d of %d concurrent writes", len(got), n)
-	}
-	// ...and every value is the one its own writer wrote, not a neighbour's.
-	for i := 0; i < n; i++ {
-		key, ok, err := store.Get(fmt.Sprintf("p%03d", i))
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("Get: %v", err)
-		}
-		if !ok || key != fmt.Sprintf("k%03d", i) {
-			t.Fatalf("p%03d = %q (present=%v); a writer's own value must survive", i, key, ok)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// DELETE RACES SET, and an unlocked delete loses the other writer's key.
-//
-// A first version of this only checked that keys nobody deleted survived — and
-// every reader sees those, so it passed with the lock removed from Delete. The
-// case that actually breaks is a Delete whose stale read predates a concurrent
-// Set: it writes back a map that never contained the new key, and the Set is
-// gone. So the assertion is on the SETS surviving, not on the bystanders.
-func TestADeleteCannotClobberAConcurrentSet(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	store := fileStore(t, dir)
-
-	// Throwaway keys for the deleters to remove, written first so a delete
-	// always has something to do.
-	const churn = 40
-	for i := 0; i < churn; i++ {
-		if err := store.Set(fmt.Sprintf("churn%02d", i), "v"); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	const adds = 60
-	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	for i := 0; i < adds; i++ {
-		wg.Add(1)
-		go func(i int) {
-			defer wg.Done()
-			_ = store.Set(fmt.Sprintf("added%02d", i), "v")
-		}(i)
-	}
-	for i := 0; i < churn; i++ {
-		wg.Add(1)
-		go func(i int) {
-			defer wg.Done()
-			_, _ = store.Delete(fmt.Sprintf("churn%02d", i))
-		}(i)
-	}
-	wg.Wait()
-
-	got, err := store.Providers()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	survivors := map[string]bool{}
-	for _, name := range got {
-		survivors[name] = true
-	}
-	missing := []string{}
-	for i := 0; i < adds; i++ {
-		name := fmt.Sprintf("added%02d", i)
-		if !survivors[name] {
-			missing = append(missing, name)
-		}
-	}
-	if len(missing) > 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("%d of %d concurrent Set calls were clobbered by a racing Delete: %v",
-			len(missing), adds, missing)
-	}
-	// ...and every churn key really was removed, so the deletes were not
-	// no-ops that would make the check above vacuous.
-	for i := 0; i < churn; i++ {
-		if survivors[fmt.Sprintf("churn%02d", i)] {
-			t.Fatalf("churn%02d survived; the deletes did nothing and this test proves nothing", i)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// ACROSS PROCESSES, which is the case that matters: a plan running with
-// max_workers > 1 spawns child PROCESSES, and an in-process mutex would not
-// have helped any of them. The race detector cannot see this one either — it is
-// two OS processes — so it is driven for real.
-func TestConcurrentSetAcrossProcesses(t *testing.T) {
-	if testing.Short() {
-		t.Skip("spawns processes")
-	}
-	helper := os.Getenv("ZERO_CREDSTORE_HELPER_DIR")
-	if helper != "" {
-		// Child mode: write our slice of the keys and exit.
-		store, err := New(Options{Dir: helper, Storage: "file"})
-		if err != nil {
-			os.Exit(3)
-		}
-		prefix := os.Getenv("ZERO_CREDSTORE_HELPER_PREFIX")
-		for i := 0; i < 25; i++ {
-			if err := store.Set(fmt.Sprintf("%s%02d", prefix, i), "v"); err != nil {
-				os.Exit(4)
-			}
-		}
-		os.Exit(0)
-	}
-
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	const children = 4
-	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	failures := make(chan string, children)
-	for c := 0; c < children; c++ {
-		wg.Add(1)
-		go func(c int) {
-			defer wg.Done()
-			cmd := exec.Command(os.Args[0], "-test.run=TestConcurrentSetAcrossProcesses", "-test.v")
-			cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(),
-				"ZERO_CREDSTORE_HELPER_DIR="+dir,
-				fmt.Sprintf("ZERO_CREDSTORE_HELPER_PREFIX=c%d_", c),
-			)
-			if out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput(); err != nil {
-				failures <- fmt.Sprintf("child %d: %v\n%s", c, err, out)
-			}
-		}(c)
-	}
-	wg.Wait()
-	close(failures)
-	for failure := range failures {
-		t.Fatal(failure)
-	}
-
-	store := fileStore(t, dir)
-	got, err := store.Providers()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if len(got) != children*25 {
-		t.Fatalf("kept %d of %d keys written by %d concurrent processes", len(got), children*25, children)
-	}
-}
-
-// The lock lives BESIDE the data file, never on it. write publishes by rename,
-// so a lock taken on the data file would be attached to an inode the next
-// writer has already replaced — every writer would appear to hold it.
-func TestTheLockIsNotTheDataFile(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	store := fileStore(t, dir)
-	if store.lockPath() == store.file {
-		t.Fatal("the lock is the data file; rename would carry it away")
-	}
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(filepath.Base(store.lockPath()), filepath.Base(store.file)) {
-		t.Fatalf("lock %q is not beside the data file %q", store.lockPath(), store.file)
-	}
-	if err := store.Set("p", "k"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(store.lockPath()); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the lock file was not created: %v", err)
-	}
-	// ...and it survives a write, since the rename replaces only the data file.
-	if err := store.Set("q", "k"); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Stat(store.lockPath()); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("the lock file did not survive a write: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// The lock is a security boundary, so the path where it CANNOT be taken needs
-// coverage too: an operation that could not lock must report that, never proceed
-// unserialized and never report success. Replacing the credential directory with
-// a regular file makes the lock's MkdirAll fail on every platform.
-func TestOperationsFailWhenTheLockCannotBeAcquired(t *testing.T) {
-	base := t.TempDir()
-	dir := filepath.Join(base, "creds")
-	store := fileStore(t, dir)
-	// Where the store expects its directory, put a regular file.
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dir, []byte("not a directory"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	if err := store.Set("openai", "sk-test"); err == nil {
-		t.Error("Set reported success although the lock could not be acquired")
-	}
-	if _, err := store.Delete("openai"); err == nil {
-		t.Error("Delete reported success although the lock could not be acquired")
-	}
-	if _, _, err := store.Get("openai"); err == nil {
-		t.Error("Get reported success although the lock could not be acquired")
-	}
-	if _, err := store.Providers(); err == nil {
-		t.Error("Providers reported success although the lock could not be acquired")
-	}
-	// And nothing may have been written through the failed path.
-	if raw, err := os.ReadFile(dir); err != nil || string(raw) != "not a directory" {
-		t.Errorf("the blocking file was modified: %q (err %v)", raw, err)
-	}
-}
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ package credstore

 import (
 	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -126,27 +125,14 @@ func (s *Store) Backend() string { return s.backend }
 func (s *Store) Encrypted() bool { return s.backend == "keyring" || s.backend == "encrypted-file" }

 // Set stores (or overwrites) the API key for provider.
-func (s *Store) Set(provider, key string) (err error) {
+func (s *Store) Set(provider, key string) error {
 	provider = normalizeProvider(provider)
 	if provider == "" {
 		return fmt.Errorf("credstore: provider is required")
 	}
 	if s.backend == "keyring" {
-		// The OS keyring serializes its own writes; the file lock guards the
-		// file backends only.
 		return s.kr.Set(keyringService, keyringPrefix+provider, key)
 	}
-	// READ AND WRITE UNDER ONE LOCK. Separately locking each half would still
-	// lose keys: two writers would each read the same map, each add their own
-	// provider, and the second rename would publish a file missing the first.
-	// Measured before this existed: 1 of 100 concurrent Set calls survived.
-	release, err := s.acquireFileLock(true)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	// Joined, not chosen between: a release failure annotates the result instead
-	// of masking the write error that actually explains what went wrong.
-	defer func() { err = errors.Join(err, release()) }()
 	data, err := s.read()
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -156,7 +142,7 @@ func (s *Store) Set(provider, key string) (err error) {
 }

 // Get returns the API key for provider and whether one is stored.
-func (s *Store) Get(provider string) (value string, found bool, err error) {
+func (s *Store) Get(provider string) (string, bool, error) {
 	provider = normalizeProvider(provider)
 	if provider == "" {
 		return "", false, nil
@@ -164,15 +150,6 @@ func (s *Store) Get(provider string) (value string, found bool, err error) {
 	if s.backend == "keyring" {
 		return s.kr.Get(keyringService, keyringPrefix+provider)
 	}
-	// A shared lock, so a read serializes against a writer's publish. On unix
-	// the rename is atomic and this only prevents reading an empty file mid-swap;
-	// on Windows an unsynchronized reader holding the file open would block the
-	// writer's rename outright, so readers must coordinate through the same lock.
-	release, err := s.acquireFileLock(false)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", false, err
-	}
-	defer func() { err = errors.Join(err, release()) }()
 	data, err := s.read()
 	if err != nil {
 		return "", false, err
@@ -182,7 +159,7 @@ func (s *Store) Get(provider string) (value string, found bool, err error) {
 }

 // Delete removes the API key for provider, reporting whether one existed.
-func (s *Store) Delete(provider string) (existed bool, err error) {
+func (s *Store) Delete(provider string) (bool, error) {
 	provider = normalizeProvider(provider)
 	if provider == "" {
 		return false, nil
@@ -190,13 +167,6 @@ func (s *Store) Delete(provider string) (existed bool, err error) {
 	if s.backend == "keyring" {
 		return s.kr.Delete(keyringService, keyringPrefix+provider)
 	}
-	// The same lock as Set: a delete is a read-modify-write too, and one racing
-	// a set would otherwise resurrect or erase an unrelated provider.
-	release, err := s.acquireFileLock(true)
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, err
-	}
-	defer func() { err = errors.Join(err, release()) }()
 	data, err := s.read()
 	if err != nil {
 		return false, err
@@ -209,22 +179,17 @@ func (s *Store) Delete(provider string) (existed bool, err error) {
 }

 // Providers lists providers with a stored key (sorted), for display/audit.
-func (s *Store) Providers() (names []string, err error) {
+func (s *Store) Providers() ([]string, error) {
 	if s.backend == "keyring" {
 		// The OS keyring has no enumerate-by-prefix in our minimal surface; callers
 		// that need a list pass known provider names to Get. Return empty here.
 		return nil, nil
 	}
-	release, err := s.acquireFileLock(false)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	defer func() { err = errors.Join(err, release()) }()
 	data, err := s.read()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	names = make([]string, 0, len(data))
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(data))
 	for name := range data {
 		names = append(names, name)
 	}
@@ -299,15 +264,6 @@ func (s *Store) write(data map[string]string) error {
 	return nil
 }

-// lockPath is the advisory lock guarding a read-modify-write of the credential
-// file. Beside the data file, never the data file itself — write publishes by
-// rename and would carry the lock away with the old inode.
-func (s *Store) lockPath() string { return s.file + ".lock" }
-
-// filepathDir is filepath.Dir, named locally so the two platform lock files can
-// share it without either importing path/filepath for one call.
-func filepathDir(path string) string { return filepath.Dir(path) }
-
 func normalizeProvider(provider string) string {
 	return strings.ToLower(strings.TrimSpace(provider))
 }
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !windows
-
-package credstore
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
-)
-
-// acquireFileLock takes an exclusive advisory lock (flock) so a read-modify-write
-// of the credential file is serialized against every other one — across
-// processes AND across goroutines, since flock is held per open file
-// description and two opens in one process contend exactly as two processes do.
-//
-// THE LOCK FILE IS SEPARATE FROM THE DATA FILE, and that is not tidiness. write
-// publishes by os.Rename, which replaces the inode; a lock taken on the data
-// file would be attached to an inode that the next writer has already replaced,
-// so every writer would appear to hold it. The lock lives on a file nothing
-// renames.
-func (s *Store) acquireFileLock(exclusive bool) (func() error, error) {
-	path := s.lockPath()
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepathDir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("credstore: lock dir: %w", err)
-	}
-	file, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0o600)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("credstore: open lock: %w", err)
-	}
-	// Writers take LOCK_EX; readers take LOCK_SH so they run concurrently with
-	// each other but still serialize against a writer's publish (see Get).
-	how := unix.LOCK_SH
-	if exclusive {
-		how = unix.LOCK_EX
-	}
-	if err := unix.Flock(int(file.Fd()), how); err != nil {
-		_ = file.Close()
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("credstore: lock: %w", err)
-	}
-	return func() error {
-		// Close alone drops the flock, so the explicit unlock is belt-and-braces —
-		// but its failure is reported rather than swallowed, because a cleanup that
-		// did not complete must not be indistinguishable from one that did. The
-		// callers join this into their result, so it annotates a successful write
-		// instead of masking it.
-		unlockErr := unix.Flock(int(file.Fd()), unix.LOCK_UN)
-		closeErr := file.Close()
-		if err := errors.Join(unlockErr, closeErr); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("credstore: release lock: %w", err)
-		}
-		return nil
-	}, nil
-}
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-//go:build windows
-
-package credstore
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-
-	"golang.org/x/sys/windows"
-)
-
-// acquireFileLock takes an exclusive OS lock (LockFileEx) so a read-modify-write
-// of the credential file is serialized, matching the flock behaviour on unix.
-//
-// The lock file is SEPARATE from the data file for the same reason: write
-// publishes by rename, and a lock on the renamed file would be attached to
-// something the next writer has already replaced.
-func (s *Store) acquireFileLock(exclusive bool) (func() error, error) {
-	path := s.lockPath()
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepathDir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("credstore: lock dir: %w", err)
-	}
-	file, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE, 0o600)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("credstore: open lock: %w", err)
-	}
-	handle := windows.Handle(file.Fd())
-	overlapped := new(windows.Overlapped)
-	// A fixed 1-byte region, blocking (no LOCKFILE_FAIL_IMMEDIATELY) so a
-	// waiter queues rather than failing the operation. Writers pass
-	// LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK; readers omit it (a shared lock) so they still
-	// serialize against a writer's publish — which matters more on Windows,
-	// where an unsynchronized reader holding the file open blocks the rename.
-	flags := uint32(0)
-	if exclusive {
-		flags = windows.LOCKFILE_EXCLUSIVE_LOCK
-	}
-	if err := windows.LockFileEx(handle, flags, 0, 1, 0, overlapped); err != nil {
-		_ = file.Close()
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("credstore: lock: %w", err)
-	}
-	return func() error {
-		// Reported rather than swallowed, for the same reason as the unix side: a
-		// cleanup that did not complete must not look identical to one that did.
-		// It matters more here — on Windows the handle staying open is what blocks
-		// the next writer's rename, so a failed release has a visible consequence.
-		unlockErr := windows.UnlockFileEx(handle, 0, 1, 0, overlapped)
-		closeErr := file.Close()
-		if err := errors.Join(unlockErr, closeErr); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("credstore: release lock: %w", err)
-		}
-		return nil
-	}, nil
-}
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"

-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/providers/providerio"
 	"github.com/coder/websocket"
 )

@@ -61,15 +60,7 @@ func (d *deepgramTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks <-cha
 		HTTPHeader: http.Header{"Authorization": {"Token " + d.cfg.APIKey}},
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		// Preserve the context.Canceled sentinel (it carries no key) so an
-		// Esc-abort during dial still matches the UI's errors.Is check. Key
-		// on ctx.Err() itself rather than unwrapping err: a cancellation can
-		// surface as a plain transport error (e.g. "closed network
-		// connection") rather than context.Canceled directly.
-		if ctx.Err() != nil {
-			return "", ctx.Err()
-		}
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("connecting to Deepgram: %s", providerio.Redact(err.Error(), d.cfg.APIKey))
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("connecting to Deepgram: %w", err)
 	}
 	defer conn.CloseNow()

@@ -77,26 +68,15 @@ func (d *deepgramTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks <-cha
 	// so no conversion (unlike sherpa-onnx, which wants float32).
 	writeErrCh := make(chan error, 1)
 	go func() {
-		// Select on ctx.Done() while waiting for the next chunk so a cancelled
-		// session does not leave this goroutine blocked on an open idle channel.
-		for {
-			select {
-			case <-ctx.Done():
-				writeErrCh <- ctx.Err()
+		for chunk := range chunks {
+			if err := conn.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageBinary, chunk); err != nil {
+				writeErrCh <- err
 				return
-			case chunk, ok := <-chunks:
-				if !ok {
-					// CloseStream flushes any buffered audio and returns final
-					// results before Deepgram closes the socket.
-					writeErrCh <- conn.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageText, []byte(`{"type":"CloseStream"}`))
-					return
-				}
-				if err := conn.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageBinary, chunk); err != nil {
-					writeErrCh <- err
-					return
-				}
 			}
 		}
+		// CloseStream flushes any buffered audio and returns final results before
+		// Deepgram closes the socket.
+		writeErrCh <- conn.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageText, []byte(`{"type":"CloseStream"}`))
 	}()

 	// Deepgram results are per-utterance segments, not cumulative: accumulate the
@@ -120,18 +100,7 @@ func (d *deepgramTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks <-cha
 				}
 			default:
 			}
-			// A user abort cancels the streaming context; the UI matches it
-			// with errors.Is(err, context.Canceled), so return the sentinel
-			// itself (it carries no key) instead of a flat redacted string.
-			// Key on ctx.Err() rather than unwrapping err: the writeErrCh
-			// swap above can replace err with a plain transport error (e.g.
-			// "closed network connection") that doesn't itself unwrap to
-			// context.Canceled even though the cancellation is what caused it.
-			if ctx.Err() != nil {
-				return compose(), ctx.Err()
-			}
-			//nolint:staticcheck // Preserve established user-facing error text.
-			return compose(), fmt.Errorf("Deepgram stream error: %s", providerio.Redact(err.Error(), d.cfg.APIKey))
+			return compose(), fmt.Errorf("Deepgram stream error: %w", err) //nolint:staticcheck // Preserve established user-facing error text.
 		}
 		if typ != websocket.MessageText {
 			continue
@@ -1,278 +0,0 @@
-package dictation
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
-	"net/http"
-	"net/http/httptest"
-	"strings"
-	"sync"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/coder/websocket"
-)
-
-// Non-cancellation dial failure: handshake returns 101 with an Upgrade header
-// equal to the API key so the dial error embeds the key and redaction must strip it.
-func TestDeepgramDialFailureRedactsKey(t *testing.T) {
-	const key = "sk-test-dial-key-abcdef"
-	baseURL := dialFailServerWithUpgrade(t, key)
-
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{APIKey: key, BaseURL: baseURL})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, nil)
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected dial failure")
-	}
-	if errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("dial failure should not be context.Canceled: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), key) {
-		t.Errorf("API key leaked from dial failure: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "connecting to Deepgram") {
-		t.Errorf("expected dial-path error prefix, got: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// dialFailServerWithUpgrade returns a ws URL whose handshake responds 101 with
-// Upgrade set to upgradeValue (not "websocket"), so websocket.Dial fails with
-// that value in the error string. Hijacks and closes immediately to avoid the
-// library's 3s body-drain timeout on failed dials.
-func dialFailServerWithUpgrade(t *testing.T, upgradeValue string) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
-		hj, ok := w.(http.Hijacker)
-		if !ok {
-			http.Error(w, "hijack not supported", http.StatusInternalServerError)
-			return
-		}
-		conn, bufrw, err := hj.Hijack()
-		if err != nil {
-			return
-		}
-		defer conn.Close()
-		_, _ = bufrw.WriteString("HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols\r\n")
-		_, _ = bufrw.WriteString("Connection: Upgrade\r\n")
-		_, _ = bufrw.WriteString("Upgrade: " + upgradeValue + "\r\n\r\n")
-		_ = bufrw.Flush()
-	}))
-	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
-	return "ws" + strings.TrimPrefix(srv.URL, "http")
-}
-
-func TestDeepgramStreamTranscribeErrorRedaction(t *testing.T) {
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		// Drain the client's audio frames, then wait for CloseStream so the
-		// client has flushed its writes before we reject the connection. Closing
-		// immediately (before CloseStream) risks the client failing on a write
-		// error and never observing this API-key-bearing close reason.
-		for {
-			typ, data, err := c.Read(ctx)
-			if err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-			if typ == websocket.MessageText && strings.Contains(string(data), "CloseStream") {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-		c.Close(websocket.StatusPolicyViolation, "invalid key sk-test-key")
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 320)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, func(string, bool) {})
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error")
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "sk-test-key") {
-		t.Errorf("API key leaked: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestDeepgramStreamTranscribeCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	firstFrame := make(chan struct{})
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		// Hold the connection open, never answering, so the client blocks in
-		// Read until its context is cancelled (the Esc-abort path).
-		var once sync.Once
-		for {
-			if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-			once.Do(func() { close(firstFrame) })
-		}
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	defer close(chunks)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 320)
-	// The channel stays open: the session is live when the user aborts.
-	errCh := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-		errCh <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case <-firstFrame:
-		cancel()
-		ferr := <-errCh
-		if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-			t.Fatalf("cancelled stream error lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-		}
-	case ferr := <-errCh:
-		t.Fatalf("StreamTranscribe failed early instead of blocking: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Esc can cancel while the WebSocket dial is still pending. The dial error is
-// redacted with %s, so we must return ctx.Err() rather than a flat string.
-func TestDeepgramStreamTranscribeDialCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{
-		APIKey:  "sk-test-key",
-		BaseURL: "ws://127.0.0.1:1", // never reached; ctx is already cancelled
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte)
-	defer close(chunks)
-
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-	if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("dial-cancel lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Esc right after accept can race the first write or the first Read; both
-// setup/write redaction sites must still yield context.Canceled.
-func TestDeepgramStreamTranscribeStartupCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	accepted := make(chan struct{})
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		close(accepted)
-		for {
-			if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-		}
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	defer close(chunks)
-	// No frames yet: the writer blocks on chunks or the reader blocks on Read.
-	errCh := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-		errCh <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case <-accepted:
-		cancel()
-		ferr := <-errCh
-		if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-			t.Fatalf("startup-cancel lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-		}
-	case ferr := <-errCh:
-		t.Fatalf("StreamTranscribe failed before accept: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestDeepgramStreamErrorRedactsHeaderShapedKey exercises the same stream-error
-// redaction path as TestDeepgramStreamTranscribeErrorRedaction, with a close
-// reason that embeds the key next to an X-Api-Key-shaped header label.
-func TestDeepgramStreamErrorRedactsHeaderShapedKey(t *testing.T) {
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		for {
-			typ, data, err := c.Read(ctx)
-			if err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-			if typ == websocket.MessageText && strings.Contains(string(data), "CloseStream") {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-		c.Close(websocket.StatusPolicyViolation, "X-Api-Key: sk-custom-secret-key-1234567890 failed")
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{APIKey: "sk-custom-secret-key-1234567890", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 320)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, func(string, bool) {})
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error")
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "sk-custom-secret-key-1234567890") {
-		t.Errorf("Custom header API key leaked: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestDeepgramSinglePassRedaction(t *testing.T) {
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		for {
-			typ, data, err := c.Read(ctx)
-			if err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-			if typ == websocket.MessageText && strings.Contains(string(data), "CloseStream") {
-				break
-			}
-		}
-		c.Close(websocket.StatusPolicyViolation, "error with sk-key1234567890abcdef1234")
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewDeepgramTranscriber(DeepgramConfig{APIKey: "sk-key1234567890abcdef1234", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 320)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, func(string, bool) {})
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error")
-	}
-	got := ferr.Error()
-	if strings.Contains(got, "sk-key1234567890abcdef1234") {
-		t.Fatalf("API key leaked into stream error: %q", got)
-	}
-	// One key occurrence must produce exactly one redaction marker (no double wrap).
-	if strings.Count(got, "[REDACTED]") != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("redaction markers in %q: want exactly 1 [REDACTED]", got)
-	}
-}
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"net/http"
 	"strings"

-	"github.com/Gitlawb/zero/internal/providers/providerio"
 	"github.com/coder/websocket"
 )

@@ -23,10 +22,6 @@ type OpenAIRealtimeConfig struct {
 	Model  string // default "gpt-4o-transcribe"
 	// BaseURL overrides the wss endpoint (tests point it at a fake server).
 	BaseURL string
-	// writeErrInjector, when set, is consulted before each JSON websocket write.
-	// Used by same-package tests to force controllable write failures that embed
-	// secrets; production callers leave it nil.
-	writeErrInjector func() error
 }

 type openAIRealtimeTranscriber struct {
@@ -64,15 +59,7 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 		},
 	})
 	if err != nil {
-		// Preserve the context.Canceled sentinel (it carries no key) so an
-		// Esc-abort during dial still matches the UI's errors.Is check. Key
-		// on ctx.Err() itself rather than unwrapping err: a cancellation can
-		// surface as a plain transport error (e.g. "closed network
-		// connection") rather than context.Canceled directly.
-		if ctx.Err() != nil {
-			return "", ctx.Err()
-		}
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("connecting to OpenAI Realtime: %s", providerio.Redact(err.Error(), o.cfg.APIKey))
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("connecting to OpenAI Realtime: %w", err)
 	}
 	defer conn.CloseNow()

@@ -86,53 +73,24 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 			},
 		},
 	}
-	if err := o.writeJSON(ctx, conn, sessionUpdate); err != nil {
-		// Same cancellation short-circuit as the dial above: an Esc-abort
-		// while the session update is in flight must stay context.Canceled.
-		if ctx.Err() != nil {
-			return "", ctx.Err()
-		}
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("configuring OpenAI Realtime session: %s", providerio.Redact(err.Error(), o.cfg.APIKey))
+	if err := writeJSON(ctx, conn, sessionUpdate); err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("configuring OpenAI Realtime session: %w", err)
 	}

 	writeErrCh := make(chan error, 1)
 	go func() {
-		// Select on ctx.Done() while waiting for the next chunk so a cancelled
-		// session does not leave this goroutine blocked on an open idle channel.
-		for {
-			select {
-			case <-ctx.Done():
-				writeErrCh <- ctx.Err()
+		for chunk := range chunks {
+			appendMsg := map[string]any{
+				"type":  "input_audio_buffer.append",
+				"audio": base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(chunk),
+			}
+			if err := writeJSON(ctx, conn, appendMsg); err != nil {
+				writeErrCh <- err
 				return
-			case chunk, ok := <-chunks:
-				if !ok {
-					// Commit the buffered audio to force final transcription.
-					if err := o.writeJSON(ctx, conn, map[string]any{"type": "input_audio_buffer.commit"}); err != nil {
-						writeErrCh <- err
-						// Unblock the reader: without a close, conn.Read stays
-						// parked on a silent peer and the error is never drained
-						// from writeErrCh. CloseNow aborts instead of waiting on
-						// the close handshake, which a silent peer never answers.
-						conn.CloseNow()
-						return
-					}
-					writeErrCh <- nil
-					return
-				}
-				appendMsg := map[string]any{
-					"type":  "input_audio_buffer.append",
-					"audio": base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(chunk),
-				}
-				if err := o.writeJSON(ctx, conn, appendMsg); err != nil {
-					writeErrCh <- err
-					// Same unblocking close as the commit path: a server that
-					// goes silent after session setup would otherwise leave the
-					// reader blocked in conn.Read with the error undrained.
-					conn.CloseNow()
-					return
-				}
 			}
 		}
+		// Commit the buffered audio to force final transcription of the utterance.
+		writeErrCh <- writeJSON(ctx, conn, map[string]any{"type": "input_audio_buffer.commit"})
 	}()

 	// OpenAI deltas are incremental (append), unlike Deepgram/sherpa's cumulative
@@ -155,17 +113,7 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 				}
 			default:
 			}
-			// A user abort cancels the streaming context; the UI matches it
-			// with errors.Is(err, context.Canceled), so return the sentinel
-			// itself (it carries no key) instead of a flat redacted string.
-			// Key on ctx.Err() rather than unwrapping err: the writeErrCh
-			// swap above can replace err with a plain transport error (e.g.
-			// "closed network connection") that doesn't itself unwrap to
-			// context.Canceled even though the cancellation is what caused it.
-			if ctx.Err() != nil {
-				return compose(), ctx.Err()
-			}
-			return compose(), fmt.Errorf("OpenAI Realtime stream error: %s", providerio.Redact(err.Error(), o.cfg.APIKey))
+			return compose(), fmt.Errorf("OpenAI Realtime stream error: %w", err)
 		}
 		if typ != websocket.MessageText {
 			continue
@@ -177,12 +125,6 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 			if onPartial != nil {
 				onPartial(compose(), false)
 			}
-			// onPartial may deliver the partial that makes the TUI cancel
-			// (Esc). Observe that before the next Read, which can already
-			// have a racing OpenAI error frame buffered.
-			if ctx.Err() != nil {
-				return compose(), ctx.Err()
-			}
 		case realtimeCompleted:
 			// A completed item replaces the in-progress delta buffer with the
 			// server's authoritative transcript for that segment.
@@ -196,9 +138,6 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 			if onPartial != nil {
 				onPartial(compose(), true)
 			}
-			if ctx.Err() != nil {
-				return compose(), ctx.Err()
-			}
 			// Once we've committed the buffer (user stopped) and the server has
 			// returned a completed transcription, the utterance is done.
 			if committed {
@@ -208,15 +147,7 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 		case realtimeCommitted:
 			committed = true
 		case realtimeError:
-			// Esc can race an incoming error event: conn.Read may already have
-			// the OpenAI error in hand by the time cancellation lands. Key on
-			// ctx.Err() first, same as every other return point in this loop,
-			// so a cancel that wins the race still surfaces as context.Canceled
-			// instead of a spurious redacted failure alongside it.
-			if ctx.Err() != nil {
-				return compose(), ctx.Err()
-			}
-			return compose(), fmt.Errorf("OpenAI Realtime error: %s", providerio.Redact(evt.text, o.cfg.APIKey))
+			return compose(), fmt.Errorf("OpenAI Realtime error: %s", evt.text)
 		}
 		// The writer signals commit completion out of band; observe it so a
 		// stop with no further audio still flips `committed`.
@@ -224,10 +155,6 @@ func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) StreamTranscribe(ctx context.Context, chunks
 		case werr := <-writeErrCh:
 			if werr == nil {
 				committed = true
-			} else if ctx.Err() != nil {
-				return compose(), ctx.Err()
-			} else {
-				return compose(), fmt.Errorf("OpenAI Realtime stream error: %s", providerio.Redact(werr.Error(), o.cfg.APIKey))
 			}
 		default:
 		}
@@ -274,15 +201,6 @@ func parseRealtimeEvent(data []byte) realtimeEvent {
 	return realtimeEvent{kind: realtimeOther}
 }

-func (o *openAIRealtimeTranscriber) writeJSON(ctx context.Context, conn *websocket.Conn, v any) error {
-	if o.cfg.writeErrInjector != nil {
-		if err := o.cfg.writeErrInjector(); err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
-	}
-	return writeJSON(ctx, conn, v)
-}
-
 func writeJSON(ctx context.Context, conn *websocket.Conn, v any) error {
 	data, err := json.Marshal(v)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -1,437 +0,0 @@
-package dictation
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"errors"
-	"strings"
-	"sync"
-	"sync/atomic"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/coder/websocket"
-)
-
-// Non-cancellation dial failure: handshake returns 101 with an Upgrade header
-// equal to the API key so the dial error embeds the key and redaction must strip it.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeDialFailureRedactsKey(t *testing.T) {
-	const key = "sk-test-dial-key-abcdef"
-	baseURL := dialFailServerWithUpgrade(t, key)
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{APIKey: key, BaseURL: baseURL})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, nil)
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected dial failure")
-	}
-	if errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("dial failure should not be context.Canceled: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), key) {
-		t.Errorf("API key leaked from dial failure: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "connecting to OpenAI Realtime") {
-		t.Errorf("expected dial-path error prefix, got: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Session-configuration write fails after dial: inject a write error that embeds
-// the API key (peer close cannot reach this path reliably — the session write
-// always lands in the kernel buffer first) and assert redaction.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeSessionConfigFailureRedactsKey(t *testing.T) {
-	const key = "sk-test-session-key-abcdef"
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		// Hold open; the client fails on the injected session write before reading.
-		<-ctx.Done()
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{
-		APIKey:  key,
-		BaseURL: url,
-		writeErrInjector: func() error {
-			return errors.New("invalid API key " + key)
-		},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, nil)
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected session-config failure")
-	}
-	if errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("session-config failure should not be context.Canceled: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), key) {
-		t.Errorf("API key leaked from session-config failure: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "configuring OpenAI Realtime session") {
-		t.Errorf("expected session-config error prefix, got: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Asynchronous writer failure: session update succeeds, then the audio writer
-// injects a key-bearing write error. The server keeps the connection open and
-// emits a delta so the reader loop observes writeErrCh (not a peer close).
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeWriterFailureRedactsKey(t *testing.T) {
-	const key = "sk-test-writer-key-abcdef"
-	sessionDone := make(chan struct{})
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-			return
-		}
-		close(sessionDone)
-		// Keep reading and emit a delta so the client processes an event and
-		// drains writeErrCh while the connection is still open.
-		_ = c.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageText, []byte(
-			`{"type":"conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.delta","delta":"hi"}`,
-		))
-		for {
-			if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-		}
-	})
-
-	var writes atomic.Int32
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{
-		APIKey:  key,
-		BaseURL: url,
-		writeErrInjector: func() error {
-			// First write is session.update; fail subsequent audio/commit writes.
-			if writes.Add(1) == 1 {
-				return nil
-			}
-			return errors.New("invalid API key " + key)
-		},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 480)
-	// Leave open after the first frame so the writer hits the injected error
-	// on that append rather than a clean commit.
-
-	done := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, func(string, bool) {})
-		done <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	var ferr error
-	select {
-	case ferr = <-done:
-	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
-		close(chunks)
-		t.Fatal("StreamTranscribe did not complete after writer failure")
-	}
-	close(chunks)
-
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected writer failure")
-	}
-	if errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("writer failure should not be context.Canceled: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), key) {
-		t.Errorf("API key leaked from writer failure: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "OpenAI Realtime stream error") {
-		t.Errorf("expected stream/writer error prefix, got: %v", ferr)
-	}
-	select {
-	case <-sessionDone:
-	default:
-		// Session may race the injected audio write; prefix assertion above is enough.
-	}
-}
-
-// Writer failure with a silent server: the peer never sends a frame after
-// session setup, so the reader is parked in conn.Read. The writer must close
-// the connection on failure or the writeErrCh error is never observed and
-// StreamTranscribe blocks forever.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeWriterFailureUnblocksSilentServer(t *testing.T) {
-	const key = "sk-test-silent-writer-key-abcdef"
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		// Hold the connection open without ever writing a frame.
-		<-ctx.Done()
-	})
-
-	var writes atomic.Int32
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{
-		APIKey:  key,
-		BaseURL: url,
-		writeErrInjector: func() error {
-			// First write is session.update; fail the subsequent append write.
-			if writes.Add(1) == 1 {
-				return nil
-			}
-			return errors.New("invalid API key " + key)
-		},
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 480)
-	// Leave the channel open: the writer must fail on the append, not the commit.
-	done := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, func(string, bool) {})
-		done <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case ferr := <-done:
-		if ferr == nil {
-			t.Fatal("expected writer failure")
-		}
-		if errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-			t.Fatalf("writer failure should not be context.Canceled: %v", ferr)
-		}
-		if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), key) {
-			t.Errorf("API key leaked from writer failure: %v", ferr)
-		}
-		if !strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "OpenAI Realtime stream error") {
-			t.Errorf("expected stream/writer error prefix, got: %v", ferr)
-		}
-	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
-		close(chunks)
-		t.Fatal("StreamTranscribe did not unblock after writer failure with a silent server")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeStreamTranscribeErrorRedaction(t *testing.T) {
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		defer c.Close(websocket.StatusNormalClosure, "")
-		for {
-			typ, _, err := c.Read(ctx)
-			if err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-			if typ != websocket.MessageText {
-				continue
-			}
-			_ = c.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageText, []byte(`{"type":"error","error":{"message":"invalid API key sk-test-key"}}`))
-		}
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 480)
-	close(chunks)
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(context.Background(), chunks, func(string, bool) {})
-	if ferr == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected error")
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(ferr.Error(), "sk-test-key") {
-		t.Errorf("API key leaked: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeStreamTranscribeCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	firstFrame := make(chan struct{})
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		// Hold the connection open, never answering, so the client blocks in
-		// Read until its context is cancelled (the Esc-abort path).
-		var once sync.Once
-		for {
-			if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-			once.Do(func() { close(firstFrame) })
-		}
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	defer close(chunks)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 480)
-	// The channel stays open: the session is live when the user aborts.
-	errCh := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-		errCh <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case <-firstFrame:
-		cancel()
-		ferr := <-errCh
-		if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-			t.Fatalf("cancelled stream error lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-		}
-	case ferr := <-errCh:
-		t.Fatalf("StreamTranscribe failed early instead of blocking: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Esc can cancel while the WebSocket dial is still pending. The dial error is
-// redacted with %s, so we must return ctx.Err() rather than a flat string.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeStreamTranscribeDialCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{
-		APIKey:  "sk-test-key",
-		BaseURL: "ws://127.0.0.1:1", // never reached; ctx is already cancelled
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte)
-	defer close(chunks)
-
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-	if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("dial-cancel lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Esc right after accept can hit the session-update write or the first Read;
-// both redaction sites must still yield context.Canceled.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeStreamTranscribeStartupCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	accepted := make(chan struct{})
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		close(accepted)
-		// Do not read: leave the client in session-update write or first Read.
-		<-ctx.Done()
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	defer close(chunks)
-	errCh := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-		errCh <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case <-accepted:
-		cancel()
-		ferr := <-errCh
-		if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-			t.Fatalf("startup-cancel lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-		}
-	case ferr := <-errCh:
-		t.Fatalf("StreamTranscribe failed before accept: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Cancel while the writer is blocked on more chunks. Whichever path observes
-// the cancellation first (the blocked conn.Read or the writeErrCh drain) must
-// return context.Canceled rather than a redacted flat string.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeStreamTranscribeWriteCancelKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	sessionReceived := make(chan struct{})
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-			return
-		}
-		close(sessionReceived)
-		for {
-			if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-				return
-			}
-		}
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 480)
-	defer close(chunks)
-
-	errCh := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, nil)
-		errCh <- ferr
-	}()
-
-	select {
-	case <-sessionReceived:
-		cancel()
-		ferr := <-errCh
-		if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-			t.Fatalf("write-path cancel lost the context.Canceled sentinel: %v", ferr)
-		}
-	case ferr := <-errCh:
-		t.Fatalf("StreamTranscribe failed early instead of blocking: %v", ferr)
-	}
-}
-
-// Esc can race an incoming OpenAI error event. conn.Read may already have
-// the error frame in hand by the time the cancellation lands. The server
-// fires a delta immediately followed by the error, back to back. Cancel from
-// inside the delta callback (same path the TUI uses when a partial triggers
-// Esc handling) so the cancel is observed before the next event is processed.
-// The returned error must still be context.Canceled, not the redacted OpenAI
-// error.
-func TestOpenAIRealtimeStreamTranscribeErrorRaceKeepsSentinel(t *testing.T) {
-	url := wsTestServer(t, func(ctx context.Context, c *websocket.Conn) {
-		if _, _, err := c.Read(ctx); err != nil {
-			return
-		}
-		_ = c.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageText, []byte(
-			`{"type":"conversation.item.input_audio_transcription.delta","delta":"hi"}`,
-		))
-		_ = c.Write(ctx, websocket.MessageText, []byte(
-			`{"type":"error","error":{"message":"invalid API key sk-test-key"}}`,
-		))
-		<-ctx.Done()
-	})
-
-	tr, err := NewOpenAIRealtimeTranscriber(OpenAIRealtimeConfig{APIKey: "sk-test-key", BaseURL: url})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
-	defer cancel()
-	chunks := make(chan []byte, 1)
-	defer close(chunks)
-	chunks <- make([]byte, 480)
-	var once sync.Once
-	_, ferr := tr.StreamTranscribe(ctx, chunks, func(string, bool) {
-		// Cancel synchronously from the partial callback, before the
-		// stream loop continues to the already-buffered error frame.
-		once.Do(cancel)
-	})
-	if !errors.Is(ferr, context.Canceled) {
-		t.Fatalf("StreamTranscribe error = %v, want context.Canceled (cancel must win over a racing OpenAI error event)", ferr)
-	}
-}
@@ -9,16 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )

-// PolicyVersion is the version of the approval policy that recorded grants were
-// evaluated under. Bump it whenever a change narrows what may be approved: the
-// grant store then backs the file up, keeps deny grants, invalidates prior
-// approvals, and tells the user once, instead of silently honoring approvals
-// that the current rules would have refused.
-//
-// v2 tightened command-prefix validation so a launcher spelled with a version
-// or an executable extension ("python3.11", "python.exe") can no longer be
-// approved as an ordinary command.
-const PolicyVersion = 2
+const PolicyVersion = 1

 type Origin string

@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os/exec"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -40,45 +38,12 @@ func KillProcessTree(pid int) error {
 // TerminateProcessTree requests graceful termination, then force-kills the
 // process tree after grace. Callers retain their distinct persistence models;
 // this function owns only the OS lifecycle primitive.
-//
-// The signal target is REDISCOVERED here via processSignalTarget(pid), which
-// asks the OS for pid's current group. A caller that already knows pid was
-// configured as its own group leader at launch (e.g. via ConfigureProcessGroup)
-// should use TerminateProcessGroup instead — see its doc comment for why this
-// rediscovery is fragile once the leader may have already exited.
 func TerminateProcessTree(pid int, grace, poll time.Duration) error {
 	target, err := processSignalTarget(pid)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	return terminateTarget(pid, target, grace, poll)
-}
-
-// TerminateProcessGroup is like TerminateProcessTree, but for a caller that
-// already knows pid is (or was, at launch) its own process-group leader — e.g.
-// a command started after ConfigureProcessGroup(cmd), which sets Setpgid so
-// cmd.Process.Pid always leads its own group at the moment it is signalled.
-//
-// TerminateProcessTree instead rediscovers the group via syscall.Getpgid(pid)
-// at call time. On Darwin, that lookup can return ESRCH once an unreaped group
-// leader has already exited, even though live descendants remain in the group
-// it configured — TerminateProcessTree would then silently fall back to
-// signalling only the (already dead) leader PID and leave those descendants
-// running. Skipping rediscovery in favor of the launch-time invariant avoids
-// that: the negative PID is used directly, regardless of whether the leader is
-// still alive to be looked up.
-func TerminateProcessGroup(pid int, grace, poll time.Duration) error {
-	if pid <= 1 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("refusing to signal invalid pid %d", pid)
-	}
-	return terminateTarget(pid, -pid, grace, poll)
-}
-
-// terminateTarget signals target (an individual PID or, negative, a process
-// group) with SIGTERM then, after grace, SIGKILL. reportPid identifies the
-// original process in error messages regardless of which form target takes.
-func terminateTarget(reportPid, target int, grace, poll time.Duration) error {
-	alive := func() bool { return signalTargetRunning(target) }
+	alive := func() bool { return syscall.Kill(target, syscall.Signal(0)) == nil }
 	if err := syscall.Kill(target, syscall.SIGTERM); err != nil {
 		if errors.Is(err, syscall.ESRCH) {
 			return nil
@@ -112,91 +77,11 @@ func terminateTarget(reportPid, target int, grace, poll time.Duration) error {
 		time.Sleep(poll)
 	}
 	if alive() {
-		return fmt.Errorf("process %d did not exit after SIGKILL", reportPid)
+		return fmt.Errorf("process %d did not exit after SIGKILL", pid)
 	}
 	return nil
 }

-// signalTargetRunning reports whether the signal target still has a process that
-// is actually RUNNING, as opposed to one waiting to be reaped.
-//
-// kill(2) with signal 0 succeeds for a zombie: the PID still exists until its
-// parent collects it. That matters because the target here is usually a process
-// GROUP, and a terminated leader's child is briefly a zombie before init/launchd
-// reaps it. Treating that window as "still alive" made termination sit through
-// both grace periods, SIGKILL an already-dead group, and then report
-// "did not exit after SIGKILL" for a tree that had in fact stopped — turning a
-// successful cleanup into a spurious failure (and a flaky one, since it depends on
-// reap timing).
-//
-// Zombie detection goes through ps, which is available on every Unix we target and
-// avoids a /proc dependency Darwin does not have. It is only consulted when the
-// cheap kill check says something is still there, so the common path costs nothing
-// extra. If ps cannot be run or its output cannot be parsed, the conservative
-// pre-existing answer (the kill result) stands.
-func signalTargetRunning(target int) bool {
-	if syscall.Kill(target, syscall.Signal(0)) != nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	// A negative target is a process GROUP: check whether any member is
-	// non-zombie. A positive target is an individual PID that is NOT its own
-	// group leader (processSignalTarget's fallback) — its actual PGID differs
-	// from its own PID, so matching rows by PGID here would look for a group
-	// that doesn't exist and always report "unknown" (conservatively alive).
-	// Check its own PID's state instead.
-	var running, ok bool
-	if target < 0 {
-		running, ok = processGroupHasRunningMember(-target)
-	} else {
-		running, ok = processIsRunning(target)
-	}
-	if !ok {
-		return true
-	}
-	return running
-}
-
-// processGroupHasRunningMember reports whether any member of pgid is in a state
-// other than zombie. ok is false when the group's states could not be determined.
-func processGroupHasRunningMember(pgid int) (running bool, ok bool) {
-	return processTableStateMatches(func(_, rowPgid int) bool { return rowPgid == pgid })
-}
-
-// processIsRunning reports whether pid itself is in a state other than zombie.
-// ok is false when pid's state could not be determined.
-func processIsRunning(pid int) (running bool, ok bool) {
-	return processTableStateMatches(func(rowPid, _ int) bool { return rowPid == pid })
-}
-
-// processTableStateMatches scans the process table once, via ps, and reports
-// whether any row satisfying match is non-zombie, and whether at least one
-// matching row was found at all (ok). No rows found means either the process
-// (or group) genuinely doesn't exist (a race with exit) or ps's output was
-// unparseable/restricted; either way, the caller should not claim knowledge.
-func processTableStateMatches(match func(pid, pgid int) bool) (running bool, ok bool) {
-	output, err := exec.Command("ps", "-A", "-o", "pid=,pgid=,stat=").Output()
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, false
-	}
-	found := false
-	for line := range strings.SplitSeq(string(output), "\n") {
-		fields := strings.Fields(line)
-		if len(fields) < 3 {
-			continue
-		}
-		rowPid, errPid := strconv.Atoi(fields[0])
-		rowPgid, errPgid := strconv.Atoi(fields[1])
-		if errPid != nil || errPgid != nil || !match(rowPid, rowPgid) {
-			continue
-		}
-		found = true
-		if !strings.HasPrefix(fields[2], "Z") {
-			return true, true
-		}
-	}
-	return false, found
-}
-
 func processSignalTarget(pid int) (int, error) {
 	if pid <= 1 {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("refusing to signal invalid pid %d", pid)
@@ -206,14 +91,10 @@ func processSignalTarget(pid int) (int, error) {
 		if pgid == pid {
 			target = -pid
 		}
-	} else {
-		if errors.Is(err, syscall.ESRCH) {
-			// Preserve the individual target; the signal call below treats ESRCH as
-			// already gone, which is a successful lifecycle outcome.
-			return pid, nil
-		}
-		// Conservatively retain the individual PID after other lookup failures;
-		// guessing and signalling a process group could affect unrelated processes.
+	} else if errors.Is(err, syscall.ESRCH) {
+		// Preserve the individual target; the signal call below treats ESRCH as
+		// already gone, which is a successful lifecycle outcome.
+		return pid, nil
 	}
 	return target, nil
 }
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !windows
-
-package execution
-
-import (
-	"os/exec"
-	"strconv"
-	"syscall"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-)
-
-// TestTerminateProcessTreeTreatsZombieGroupAsExited is the regression test for
-// counting unreaped processes as alive: kill(2) with signal 0 succeeds for a
-// zombie, so a group whose only remaining member is waiting to be reaped used to
-// sit through both grace periods, take a pointless SIGKILL, and then be reported
-// as "did not exit after SIGKILL" — a spurious cleanup failure whose timing
-// depended on when the reaper ran.
-func TestTerminateProcessTreeTreatsZombieGroupAsExited(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", "exit 0")
-	ConfigureProcessGroup(cmd)
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	pid := cmd.Process.Pid
-	// Deliberately do NOT Wait: the child stays a zombie in its own group, which
-	// is exactly the state a terminated tree passes through.
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = cmd.Wait() })
-
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
-	for {
-		if zombie, ok := processIsZombie(pid); ok && zombie {
-			break
-		}
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Skip("child did not reach the zombie state; ps output is unavailable in this environment")
-		}
-		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-	if syscall.Kill(-pid, syscall.Signal(0)) != nil {
-		t.Skip("the zombie group is no longer signalable; cannot exercise the case")
-	}
-
-	if signalTargetRunning(-pid) {
-		t.Fatal("a group holding only a zombie must not count as running")
-	}
-	if err := TerminateProcessTree(pid, 50*time.Millisecond, 10*time.Millisecond); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateProcessTree on an already-exited tree: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestTerminateProcessTreeStopsRunningGroup is the positive control: a group with
-// a live member must still be seen as running and then actually stopped, so the
-// zombie tolerance above cannot degrade into ignoring real processes.
-func TestTerminateProcessTreeStopsRunningGroup(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", "sleep 30")
-	ConfigureProcessGroup(cmd)
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	pid := cmd.Process.Pid
-	defer func() { _ = cmd.Wait() }()
-
-	if !signalTargetRunning(-pid) {
-		t.Fatal("a group with a live member must count as running")
-	}
-	if err := TerminateProcessTree(pid, time.Second, 10*time.Millisecond); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("TerminateProcessTree: %v", err)
-	}
-	if running, ok := processGroupHasRunningMember(pid); ok && running {
-		t.Fatal("the group still has a running member after termination")
-	}
-}
-
-// TestSignalTargetRunningTreatsZombieIndividualPIDAsExited is the regression
-// test for jatmn's second #774 finding: signalTargetRunning's zombie check
-// matched the individual-PID fallback target (a process that is NOT its own
-// group leader — processSignalTarget's positive-PID case) against process-table
-// rows by PGID. That target's actual PGID differs from its own PID by
-// definition (that's exactly why processSignalTarget fell back to the
-// individual PID instead of a negative group target), so no row ever matched,
-// "unknown" resulted every time, and signalTargetRunning conservatively (and
-// incorrectly) treated a zombie individual-PID target as still running.
-func TestSignalTargetRunningTreatsZombieIndividualPIDAsExited(t *testing.T) {
-	cmd := exec.Command("sh", "-c", "exit 0")
-	// Deliberately do NOT call ConfigureProcessGroup: the child inherits this
-	// test process's group, so it is not its own leader and processSignalTarget
-	// falls back to the individual (positive) PID.
-	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	pid := cmd.Process.Pid
-	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = cmd.Wait() })
-
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
-	for {
-		if zombie, ok := processIsZombie(pid); ok && zombie {
-			break
-		}
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Skip("child did not reach the zombie state; ps output is unavailable in this environment")
-		}
-		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-
-	target, err := processSignalTarget(pid)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("processSignalTarget: %v", err)
-	}
-	if target != pid {
-		t.Skip("child unexpectedly became its own group leader; cannot exercise the individual-PID fallback")
-	}
-	if signalTargetRunning(target) {
-		t.Fatal("a zombie individual-PID target must not count as running")
-	}
-}
-
-// processIsZombie reports a process's zombie state via ps. ok is false when the
-// state could not be read.
-func processIsZombie(pid int) (zombie bool, ok bool) {
-	output, err := exec.Command("ps", "-o", "stat=", "-p", strconv.Itoa(pid)).Output()
-	if err != nil {
-		return false, false
-	}
-	state := string(output)
-	for len(state) > 0 && (state[0] == ' ' || state[0] == '\n' || state[0] == '\t') {
-		state = state[1:]
-	}
-	if state == "" {
-		return false, false
-	}
-	return state[0] == 'Z', true
-}
@@ -3,8 +3,6 @@
 package execution

 import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -14,34 +12,10 @@ import (

 func ConfigureProcessGroup(cmd *exec.Cmd) {}

-// KillProcessTree asks taskkill /T to kill pid and descendants it can still
-// discover from that live root. If taskkill fails, it falls back to killing pid
-// alone but still returns the tree error because descendants may have survived.
-// Neither path can recover descendants after the root has exited.
 func KillProcessTree(pid int) error {
-	return killProcessTree(pid, runTaskkill, killRootProcess)
-}
-
-func killProcessTree(pid int, killTree, killRoot func(int) error) error {
-	treeErr := killTree(pid)
-	if treeErr == nil {
+	if err := exec.Command(taskkillPath(), "/T", "/F", "/PID", strconv.Itoa(pid)).Run(); err == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
-	rootErr := killRoot(pid)
-	if rootErr != nil {
-		return errors.Join(
-			fmt.Errorf("kill process tree rooted at %d: %w", pid, treeErr),
-			fmt.Errorf("kill root process %d: %w", pid, rootErr),
-		)
-	}
-	return fmt.Errorf("kill process tree rooted at %d (root process killed directly): %w", pid, treeErr)
-}
-
-func runTaskkill(pid int) error {
-	return exec.Command(taskkillPath(), "/T", "/F", "/PID", strconv.Itoa(pid)).Run()
-}
-
-func killRootProcess(pid int) error {
 	process, err := os.FindProcess(pid)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-//go:build windows
-
-package execution
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-func TestKillProcessTreeRetainsTreeErrorWhenRootFallbackSucceeds(t *testing.T) {
-	treeErr := errors.New("taskkill failed")
-	err := killProcessTree(42, func(int) error { return treeErr }, func(int) error { return nil })
-	if !errors.Is(err, treeErr) {
-		t.Fatalf("killProcessTree error = %v, want tree error", err)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "root process killed directly") {
-		t.Fatalf("killProcessTree error = %q, want fallback context", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestKillProcessTreeJoinsTreeAndRootErrors(t *testing.T) {
-	treeErr := errors.New("taskkill failed")
-	rootErr := errors.New("root kill failed")
-	err := killProcessTree(42, func(int) error { return treeErr }, func(int) error { return rootErr })
-	if !errors.Is(err, treeErr) || !errors.Is(err, rootErr) {
-		t.Fatalf("killProcessTree error = %v, want both failures", err)
-	}
-}
@@ -3,47 +3,12 @@ package fsutil

 import (
 	"errors"
-	"fmt"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 )

-// CommittedReplacementCleanupError reports that a replacement was committed,
-// but the old destination retained at BackupPath could not be removed. Callers
-// must treat the replacement itself as successful and surface the cleanup
-// problem separately.
-type CommittedReplacementCleanupError struct {
-	BackupPath string
-	Cause      error
-}
-
-func (err *CommittedReplacementCleanupError) Error() string {
-	return fmt.Sprintf("replacement committed, but backup %s could not be removed: %v", err.BackupPath, err.Cause)
-}
-
-func (err *CommittedReplacementCleanupError) Unwrap() error {
-	return err.Cause
-}
-
-// ReplaceWithRetry publishes src over dst using the platform's replacement
-// primitive, retrying on the same transient Windows lock errors RenameWithRetry
-// handles. On Windows it uses ReplaceFileW so an existing destination keeps its
-// DACL and selected metadata instead of receiving the temporary file's inherited
-// DACL. ReplaceFileW is not observer-atomic and may briefly leave dst absent;
-// callers that cannot tolerate that must synchronize their own readers. On Unix
-// replacement uses os.Rename.
-//
-// replace overrides the platform primitive so tests can exercise the retry path;
-// pass nil for the default.
-func ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst string, replace func(src, dst string) error) error {
-	if replace == nil {
-		replace = replaceExisting
-	}
-	return RenameWithRetry(src, dst, replace)
-}
-
 // RenameWithRetry renames src to dst, retrying briefly on Windows when the
 // destination is transiently locked (antivirus scanners, search indexers, or
 // a concurrent reader holding the file open). rename overrides os.Rename so
@@ -58,12 +23,6 @@ func RenameWithRetry(src, dst string, rename func(src, dst string) error) error
 		if err == nil {
 			return nil
 		}
-		var committed *CommittedReplacementCleanupError
-		if errors.As(err, &committed) {
-			// The source has already been consumed. In particular, never retry if
-			// the cleanup cause itself is a transient Windows sharing violation.
-			break
-		}
 		if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
 			if os.IsPermission(err) || isWindowsSharingOrLockViolation(err) {
 				time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !windows
-
-package fsutil
-
-import "os"
-
-// replaceExisting publishes src over dst. rename(2) already replaces the
-// destination atomically within one filesystem on Unix, and it neither creates
-// nor consults an ACL, so there is nothing extra to preserve here.
-func replaceExisting(src, dst string) error {
-	return os.Rename(src, dst)
-}
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-//go:build !windows
-
-package fsutil
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-)
-
-// On Unix the replacement primitive is rename(2), which already publishes
-// atomically within one filesystem and neither creates nor consults an ACL. These
-// cover both shapes so the shared helper is exercised on every platform.
-func TestReplaceWithRetryPublishesOverExistingAndMissingDestinations(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		name     string
-		existing bool
-	}{
-		{name: "existing destination", existing: true},
-		{name: "missing destination"},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			dir := t.TempDir()
-			src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-			dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-			if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-			}
-			if tc.existing {
-				if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-					t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-				}
-			}
-
-			if err := ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst, nil); err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("ReplaceWithRetry: %v", err)
-			}
-			data, err := os.ReadFile(dst)
-			if err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("ReadFile dst: %v", err)
-			}
-			if string(data) != "new" {
-				t.Fatalf("destination content = %q, want the replacement bytes", data)
-			}
-			if _, err := os.Lstat(src); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-				t.Fatalf("the replacement file should be consumed by the replace: %v", err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
@@ -1,237 +0,0 @@
-//go:build windows
-
-package fsutil
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"fmt"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"syscall"
-	"time"
-	"unsafe"
-)
-
-// replaceFileFlags is deliberately ZERO. Every REPLACEFILE_* flag ReplaceFileW
-// accepts either defeats the reason this function exists or does nothing:
-//
-//   - REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_MERGE_ERRORS (0x2) and REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_ACL_ERRORS
-//     (0x4). Microsoft documents BOTH with the same consequence: "if you specify
-//     this flag and do not have WRITE_DAC access, the function succeeds but the
-//     ACLs are not preserved." A silent success that publishes the temporary
-//     file's inherited directory DACL over an explicitly restricted specialist —
-//     exposing its system prompt — is precisely the failure this function exists
-//     to prevent, so a merge failure MUST surface as an error and leave the
-//     destination untouched. Passing 0x2 while omitting only 0x4 buys nothing:
-//     ACL merging is part of the metadata merge 0x2 covers.
-//   - REPLACEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH (0x1) is documented as "This value is not
-//     supported", so it cannot be relied on to flush anything.
-const replaceFileFlags = 0
-
-const replaceBackupPattern = ".zero-replace-*.backup"
-
-const (
-	// Returned when the volume or redirector cannot provide ReplaceFileW's
-	// DACL-preserving semantics. Existing destinations must fail closed.
-	errorInvalidFunction = syscall.Errno(1)
-	errorNotSupported    = syscall.Errno(50)
-
-	// Partial-failure codes: ReplaceFileW got far enough to move or delete
-	// something, so the on-disk state needs repair rather than a bare error. See
-	// recoverPartialReplace.
-	errorUnableToRemoveReplaced   = syscall.Errno(1175)
-	errorUnableToMoveReplacement  = syscall.Errno(1176)
-	errorUnableToMoveReplacement2 = syscall.Errno(1177)
-)
-
-var (
-	replaceKernel32       = syscall.NewLazyDLL("kernel32.dll")
-	replaceProcReplaceFil = replaceKernel32.NewProc("ReplaceFileW")
-)
-
-// replaceExisting publishes src over dst with ReplaceFileW rather than
-// MoveFileEx (what os.Rename uses) to preserve destination metadata. The
-// replacement is a freshly created temporary file, so it carries the directory's
-// inherited DACL. Renaming it over the destination would therefore replace the
-// destination's ACL - silently widening access to a file that had been restricted
-// explicitly (os.File.Chmod cannot express that on Windows; Go only maps the
-// owner-write bit). ReplaceFileW carries the replaced file's DACL and selected
-// metadata over to the replacement instead.
-//
-// ReplaceFileW combines multiple filesystem steps and is not observer-atomic: an
-// external reader can briefly see dst absent even when replacement succeeds.
-// Callers that cannot tolerate that window must synchronize their own readers.
-//
-// No REPLACEFILE_* flag is passed at all — see replaceFileFlags for why each one
-// would either silently lose the descriptor this function exists to preserve or
-// do nothing. A merge failure therefore surfaces as an error, leaving the
-// destination untouched and the caller free to clean up its temporary file,
-// except in the partial-failure states recoverPartialReplace repairs.
-func replaceExisting(src, dst string) error {
-	return replaceExistingWith(src, dst, callReplaceFile, nil)
-}
-
-func replaceExistingWith(src, dst string, replace func(string, string, string) error, restore func(string, string) error) error {
-	return replaceExistingWithCleanup(src, dst, replace, restore, removeReplaceBackup)
-}
-
-func replaceExistingWithCleanup(src, dst string, replace func(string, string, string) error, restore func(string, string) error, removeBackup func(string) error) error {
-	info, err := os.Lstat(dst)
-	if err != nil {
-		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			// Nothing to replace and no descriptor to preserve.
-			return os.Rename(src, dst)
-		}
-		return err
-	}
-	if info.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink != 0 {
-		return fmt.Errorf("refusing to replace symlink destination: %s", dst)
-	}
-
-	backup, err := prepareReplaceBackup(dst)
-	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("prepare replacement backup: %w", err)
-	}
-	callErr := replace(dst, src, backup)
-	if callErr == nil {
-		if err := removeBackup(backup); err != nil {
-			return &CommittedReplacementCleanupError{BackupPath: backup, Cause: err}
-		}
-		return nil
-	}
-	if errors.Is(callErr, errorInvalidFunction) || errors.Is(callErr, errorNotSupported) {
-		callErr = fmt.Errorf("DACL-preserving replacement is not supported for %s: %w", dst, callErr)
-	}
-	return recoverPartialReplace(callErr, dst, backup, restore)
-}
-
-func callReplaceFile(replacedPath, replacementPath, backupPath string) error {
-	replaced, err := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(replacedPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	replacement, err := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(replacementPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	backup, err := syscall.UTF16PtrFromString(backupPath)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	result, _, callErr := replaceProcReplaceFil.Call(
-		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(replaced)),
-		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(replacement)),
-		uintptr(unsafe.Pointer(backup)),
-		uintptr(replaceFileFlags),
-		0,
-		0,
-	)
-	if result != 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	if callErr == nil || errors.Is(callErr, syscall.Errno(0)) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("replace %s: ReplaceFileW failed", replacedPath)
-	}
-	return callErr
-}
-
-func prepareReplaceBackup(dst string) (string, error) {
-	file, err := os.CreateTemp(filepath.Dir(dst), replaceBackupPattern)
-	if err != nil {
-		return "", err
-	}
-	path := file.Name()
-	if err := file.Close(); err != nil {
-		cleanupErr := removeReplaceBackup(path)
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("close backup placeholder %s: %w (cleanup error: %v)", path, err, cleanupErr)
-	}
-	if err := removeReplaceBackup(path); err != nil {
-		return "", fmt.Errorf("release backup path %s: %w", path, err)
-	}
-	return path, nil
-}
-
-func removeReplaceBackup(path string) error {
-	var err error
-	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
-		err = os.Remove(path)
-		if err == nil || os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			return nil
-		}
-		if os.IsPermission(err) {
-			// ReplaceFileW can leave the original's read-only attribute on the
-			// backup. Chmod clears that bit on Windows without changing its DACL.
-			_ = os.Chmod(path, 0o600)
-		}
-		if os.IsPermission(err) || isWindowsSharingOrLockViolation(err) {
-			time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
-			continue
-		}
-		break
-	}
-	return err
-}
-
-func cleanupReplaceBackup(callErr error, backup string) error {
-	if err := removeReplaceBackup(backup); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("%w (backup %s could not be removed: %v)", callErr, backup, err)
-	}
-	return callErr
-}
-
-// recoverPartialReplace restores the original after ReplaceFileW reports a
-// partial failure, then returns the original error. Supplying a managed backup
-// changes the dangerous failure states documented by Microsoft:
-//
-//   - ERROR_UNABLE_TO_MOVE_REPLACEMENT (1176) leaves both files under their
-//     original names, so the failed write can discard src normally.
-//   - ERROR_UNABLE_TO_MOVE_REPLACEMENT_2 (1177) leaves src in place and moves the
-//     original destination to backup. Moving backup back to dst rolls the failed
-//     overwrite back without losing the original content or its DACL.
-//
-// The replacement is left alone either way — nothing here deletes what it was
-// handed — but the errors below deliberately say nothing about where it ended up,
-// which is also why its path is not a parameter. Whether it still exists when the
-// error surfaces is the caller's business: the specialist writer, the only caller
-// today, removes its temporary file in a deferred cleanup, so an error promising
-// a replacement "remains at" that path would send an operator looking for a file
-// that was already gone. What these errors do describe is what this function
-// itself left on disk — the state of dst, and of the managed backup holding the
-// original.
-func recoverPartialReplace(callErr error, dst, backup string, restore func(string, string) error) error {
-	if !errors.Is(callErr, errorUnableToMoveReplacement2) {
-		// For 1175, 1176, unsupported volumes, and ordinary failures, Windows
-		// documents that dst remains at its original name. Remove any redundant
-		// backup only after confirming that the destination still exists.
-		if _, err := os.Lstat(dst); err == nil {
-			return cleanupReplaceBackup(callErr, backup)
-		} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-			return fmt.Errorf("replace %s: %w (inspect destination during recovery: %v)", dst, callErr, err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(backup); err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("replace %s: %w (original backup expected at %s is unavailable: %v)", dst, callErr, backup, err)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(dst); err == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("replace %s: %w (destination unexpectedly exists; the original also remains at backup %s)", dst, callErr, backup)
-	} else if !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		return fmt.Errorf("replace %s: %w (inspect destination before restoring backup %s: %v)", dst, callErr, backup, err)
-	}
-	if err := RenameWithRetry(backup, dst, restore); err != nil {
-		// Only callErr is wrapped. Exposing a sharing violation from the exhausted
-		// rollback would make the outer ReplaceWithRetry call retry after the
-		// filesystem was already mutated.
-		//
-		// This is the one terminal state that needs a human: nothing is at dst, and
-		// the original's only copy is under a name no tool looks for (the specialist
-		// loader reads *.md and skips everything else), so it is invisible until
-		// somebody moves it back. Say that outright rather than leaving an operator
-		// to infer it from a bare error code.
-		return fmt.Errorf(
-			"replace %s: %w (rolling the original back failed: %v; %s no longer exists and the original survives only as %s, which must be moved back by hand to restore it)",
-			dst, callErr, err, dst, backup,
-		)
-	}
-	return fmt.Errorf("replace %s: %w (the original was restored)", dst, callErr)
-}
@@ -1,559 +0,0 @@
-//go:build windows
-
-package fsutil
-
-import (
-	"errors"
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
-	"syscall"
-	"testing"
-
-	"golang.org/x/sys/windows"
-)
-
-// TestReplaceWithRetryPreservesDestinationCreationTime proves the publish goes
-// through ReplaceFileW and not os.Rename: ReplaceFileW carries selected metadata,
-// including creation time, from the destination to the replacement. A rename
-// would carry the temporary file's creation time over instead.
-func TestReplaceWithRetryPreservesDestinationCreationTime(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-	created := creationTime(t, dst)
-
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	// Push the replacement's own creation time clearly past the destination's so a
-	// rename would be visible in the comparison below.
-	future := windows.NsecToFiletime(created.Nanoseconds() + int64(10*1e9))
-	setCreationTime(t, src, future)
-
-	if err := ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst, nil); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReplaceWithRetry: %v", err)
-	}
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(dst)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReadFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-	if string(data) != "new" {
-		t.Fatalf("destination content = %q, want the replacement bytes", data)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(src); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("the replacement file should be consumed by the replace: %v", err)
-	}
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-	if got := creationTime(t, dst); got != created {
-		t.Fatalf("creation time = %v, want the replaced file's %v (a rename would not preserve it)", got, created)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestReplaceWithRetryPreservesDestinationDACL is the regression test for the
-// second half of the finding: the replacement is a freshly created temporary file
-// carrying the directory's inherited DACL, so publishing it with a rename would
-// REPLACE the restrictive descriptor an explicitly locked-down file had.
-func TestReplaceWithRetryPreservesDestinationDACL(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-	// A protected DACL granting only the owner: distinct from whatever the temp
-	// file inherits from the directory.
-	restricted, err := windows.SecurityDescriptorFromString("D:P(A;;FA;;;OW)")
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("cannot build a test security descriptor: %v", err)
-	}
-	dacl, _, err := restricted.DACL()
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("cannot read the test DACL: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := windows.SetNamedSecurityInfo(
-		dst,
-		windows.SE_FILE_OBJECT,
-		windows.DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION|windows.PROTECTED_DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION,
-		nil, nil, dacl, nil,
-	); err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("cannot apply a restrictive DACL on this filesystem: %v", err)
-	}
-	want := describeDACL(t, dst)
-
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if inherited := describeDACL(t, src); inherited == want {
-		t.Skip("the temporary file already carries the same DACL; this filesystem cannot show the difference")
-	}
-
-	if err := ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst, nil); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReplaceWithRetry: %v", err)
-	}
-	if got := describeDACL(t, dst); got != want {
-		t.Fatalf("DACL after replace = %q, want the destination's own %q", got, want)
-	}
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-}
-
-// TestReplaceWithRetryPublishesWhenDestinationIsMissing covers the no-destination
-// case: ReplaceFileW requires an existing file to replace, so there is a rename
-// fallback (and nothing to preserve).
-func TestReplaceWithRetryPublishesWhenDestinationIsMissing(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst, nil); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReplaceWithRetry: %v", err)
-	}
-	if data, err := os.ReadFile(dst); err != nil || string(data) != "new" {
-		t.Fatalf("destination = %q err=%v, want the replacement bytes", data, err)
-	}
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-}
-
-// TestReplaceWithRetryRetriesTransientLockViolation keeps the retry behavior that
-// RenameWithRetry provides for antivirus/indexer holds.
-func TestReplaceWithRetryRetriesTransientLockViolation(t *testing.T) {
-	attempts := 0
-	err := ReplaceWithRetry("src", "dst", func(src, dst string) error {
-		attempts++
-		if attempts < 3 {
-			return &os.PathError{Op: "replace", Path: dst, Err: syscall.Errno(32)} // ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION
-		}
-		return nil
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReplaceWithRetry: %v", err)
-	}
-	if attempts != 3 {
-		t.Fatalf("attempts = %d, want the transient violations retried", attempts)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestReplaceFileFlagsDoNotIgnoreMergeErrors is the regression test for jatmn's
-// #757 P1 finding on flags: the call used to pass REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_MERGE_ERRORS
-// (0x2) while the comment claimed ACL failures were fail-closed. Microsoft
-// documents 0x2 and REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_ACL_ERRORS (0x4) identically — with either
-// one set, a call lacking WRITE_DAC "succeeds but the ACLs are not preserved" —
-// so passing 0x2 let a --force overwrite silently publish the temporary file's
-// inherited directory DACL over a restricted specialist and expose its system
-// prompt.
-//
-// This asserts the flag word directly rather than a live denied merge because a
-// denied merge is not constructible for a file this process owns: Windows grants
-// an object's owner READ_CONTROL and WRITE_DAC implicitly, so no DACL a test can
-// apply to its own temp file can withhold WRITE_DAC from it. Pinning the flags is
-// what actually prevents the regression — re-adding either bit fails here.
-func TestReplaceFileFlagsDoNotIgnoreMergeErrors(t *testing.T) {
-	const (
-		ignoreMergeErrors = 0x00000002
-		ignoreACLErrors   = 0x00000004
-	)
-	if replaceFileFlags&ignoreMergeErrors != 0 {
-		t.Error("REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_MERGE_ERRORS must not be set: it makes ReplaceFileW succeed WITHOUT preserving ACLs when it cannot obtain WRITE_DAC")
-	}
-	if replaceFileFlags&ignoreACLErrors != 0 {
-		t.Error("REPLACEFILE_IGNORE_ACL_ERRORS must not be set: it makes ReplaceFileW succeed WITHOUT preserving ACLs when it cannot obtain WRITE_DAC")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestReplaceExistingRejectsUnsupportedDACLReplacement(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		name string
-		code syscall.Errno
-	}{
-		{name: "ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION", code: errorInvalidFunction},
-		{name: "ERROR_NOT_SUPPORTED", code: errorNotSupported},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			dir := t.TempDir()
-			src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-			dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-			if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-			}
-			if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-			}
-
-			err := replaceExistingWith(src, dst, func(replaced, replacement, backup string) error {
-				if replaced != dst || replacement != src {
-					t.Fatalf("ReplaceFileW paths = (%q, %q), want (%q, %q)", replaced, replacement, dst, src)
-				}
-				if filepath.Dir(backup) != dir {
-					t.Fatalf("backup directory = %q, want sibling directory %q", filepath.Dir(backup), dir)
-				}
-				return tc.code
-			}, nil)
-			if !errors.Is(err, tc.code) {
-				t.Fatalf("error = %v, want unsupported error %v", err, tc.code)
-			}
-			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "DACL-preserving replacement is not supported") {
-				t.Fatalf("error = %v, want a DACL-preserving-replacement explanation", err)
-			}
-			assertFileContent(t, dst, "old")
-			assertFileContent(t, src, "new")
-			assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-func TestReplaceExistingCleansManagedBackup(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	var backupPath string
-	err := replaceExistingWith(src, dst, func(replaced, replacement, backup string) error {
-		backupPath = backup
-		if matched, matchErr := filepath.Match(replaceBackupPattern, filepath.Base(backup)); matchErr != nil || !matched {
-			t.Fatalf("backup path = %q, want pattern %q (match error: %v)", backup, replaceBackupPattern, matchErr)
-		}
-		if _, statErr := os.Lstat(backup); !os.IsNotExist(statErr) {
-			t.Fatalf("backup path must be vacant before ReplaceFileW: %v", statErr)
-		}
-		if renameErr := os.Rename(replaced, backup); renameErr != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("stage backup: %v", renameErr)
-		}
-		// Windows refuses to remove a read-only file. The cleanup path must clear
-		// that attribute without changing the backup's DACL, then remove it.
-		if chmodErr := os.Chmod(backup, 0o400); chmodErr != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("make backup read-only: %v", chmodErr)
-		}
-		return os.Rename(replacement, replaced)
-	}, nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("replaceExistingWith: %v", err)
-	}
-	assertFileContent(t, dst, "new")
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(src); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("replacement source should be consumed: %v", err)
-	}
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(backupPath); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("managed backup should be removed: %v", err)
-	}
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-}
-
-func TestReplaceWithRetryDoesNotRetryCommittedReplacementWhenBackupCleanupFails(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	attempts := 0
-	cleanupErr := &os.PathError{Op: "remove", Path: "managed backup", Err: syscall.Errno(32)}
-	var backupPath string
-	err := ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst, func(src, dst string) error {
-		attempts++
-		return replaceExistingWithCleanup(src, dst, func(replaced, replacement, backup string) error {
-			backupPath = backup
-			if err := os.Rename(replaced, backup); err != nil {
-				return err
-			}
-			return os.Rename(replacement, replaced)
-		}, nil, func(got string) error {
-			if got != backupPath {
-				t.Fatalf("cleanup backup path = %q, want %q", got, backupPath)
-			}
-			return cleanupErr
-		})
-	})
-	var outcome *CommittedReplacementCleanupError
-	if !errors.As(err, &outcome) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want committed cleanup outcome", err)
-	}
-	if outcome.BackupPath != backupPath || !errors.Is(outcome, syscall.Errno(32)) {
-		t.Fatalf("outcome = %#v, want backup %q and sharing violation", outcome, backupPath)
-	}
-	if attempts != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("replacement attempts = %d, want 1", attempts)
-	}
-	assertFileContent(t, dst, "new")
-	assertFileContent(t, backupPath, "old")
-}
-
-func TestReplaceExistingKeeps1176FilesAtOriginalNames(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	err := replaceExistingWith(src, dst, func(_, _, _ string) error {
-		// With a backup name, Microsoft documents that 1176 leaves the replaced
-		// and replacement files under their original names.
-		return errorUnableToMoveReplacement
-	}, nil)
-	if !errors.Is(err, errorUnableToMoveReplacement) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want %v", err, errorUnableToMoveReplacement)
-	}
-	assertFileContent(t, dst, "old")
-	assertFileContent(t, src, "new")
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-}
-
-func TestReplaceExistingRollsBack1177AndRetriesTransientRestore(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	var backupPath string
-	restoreAttempts := 0
-	err := replaceExistingWith(src, dst, func(replaced, _, backup string) error {
-		backupPath = backup
-		if renameErr := os.Rename(replaced, backup); renameErr != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("stage documented 1177 backup: %v", renameErr)
-		}
-		return errorUnableToMoveReplacement2
-	}, func(backup, destination string) error {
-		restoreAttempts++
-		if restoreAttempts < 3 {
-			return &os.PathError{Op: "rename", Path: backup, Err: syscall.Errno(32)}
-		}
-		return os.Rename(backup, destination)
-	})
-	if !errors.Is(err, errorUnableToMoveReplacement2) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want %v", err, errorUnableToMoveReplacement2)
-	}
-	if restoreAttempts != 3 {
-		t.Fatalf("restore attempts = %d, want transient lock failures retried", restoreAttempts)
-	}
-	assertErrorDoesNotAdvertiseReplacement(t, err, src)
-	assertFileContent(t, dst, "old")
-	assertFileContent(t, src, "new")
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(backupPath); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("backup should be consumed by rollback: %v", err)
-	}
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-}
-
-func TestReplaceExistingPreserves1177BackupWhenRollbackFails(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	var backupPath string
-	replaceAttempts := 0
-	err := ReplaceWithRetry(src, dst, func(src, dst string) error {
-		replaceAttempts++
-		return replaceExistingWith(src, dst, func(replaced, _, backup string) error {
-			backupPath = backup
-			if renameErr := os.Rename(replaced, backup); renameErr != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("stage documented 1177 backup: %v", renameErr)
-			}
-			return errorUnableToMoveReplacement2
-		}, func(_, _ string) error {
-			return &os.PathError{Op: "rename", Path: backupPath, Err: syscall.Errno(32)}
-		})
-	})
-	if !errors.Is(err, errorUnableToMoveReplacement2) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want %v", err, errorUnableToMoveReplacement2)
-	}
-	if replaceAttempts != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("replace attempts = %d, want no retry after a partial failure", replaceAttempts)
-	}
-	if os.IsPermission(err) || isWindowsSharingOrLockViolation(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("partial-failure error exposes the rollback lock error to the outer retry loop: %v", err)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), backupPath) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want retained backup path %q", err, backupPath)
-	}
-	// The terminal state an operator has to fix by hand: the original exists only
-	// under the backup name and nothing is at dst, so the error has to name both
-	// and say what to do, not just report the Windows code.
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), dst) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want the destination %q an operator must restore to", err, dst)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "moved back by hand") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want an explicit instruction to move the backup back", err)
-	}
-	assertErrorDoesNotAdvertiseReplacement(t, err, src)
-	if _, err := os.Lstat(dst); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-		t.Fatalf("destination should remain absent after failed rollback: %v", err)
-	}
-	assertFileContent(t, backupPath, "old")
-	assertFileContent(t, src, "new")
-}
-
-func TestReplaceExistingRejectsSymlinkDestination(t *testing.T) {
-	dir := t.TempDir()
-	target := filepath.Join(dir, "target.md")
-	dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-	src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(target, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile target: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-	}
-	if err := os.Symlink(target, dst); err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("symlink unavailable: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	called := false
-	err := replaceExistingWith(src, dst, func(_, _, _ string) error {
-		called = true
-		return nil
-	}, nil)
-	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "refusing to replace symlink") {
-		t.Fatalf("symlink replacement error = %v", err)
-	}
-	if called {
-		t.Fatal("ReplaceFileW callback was called for a symlink destination")
-	}
-	assertFileContent(t, target, "old")
-	assertFileContent(t, src, "new")
-	if info, err := os.Lstat(dst); err != nil || info.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("destination symlink was changed: info=%v err=%v", info, err)
-	}
-	assertNoReplaceBackups(t, dir)
-}
-
-func TestRecoverPartialReplaceLeavesIntactStatesAlone(t *testing.T) {
-	for _, tc := range []struct {
-		name string
-		code syscall.Errno
-	}{
-		{name: "ERROR_UNABLE_TO_REMOVE_REPLACED", code: errorUnableToRemoveReplaced},
-		{name: "ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED", code: syscall.Errno(5)},
-	} {
-		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			dir := t.TempDir()
-			src := filepath.Join(dir, ".manifest.tmp")
-			dst := filepath.Join(dir, "manifest.md")
-			backup := filepath.Join(dir, ".zero-replace-test.backup")
-			if err := os.WriteFile(src, []byte("new"), 0o600); err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("WriteFile src: %v", err)
-			}
-			if err := os.WriteFile(dst, []byte("old"), 0o600); err != nil {
-				t.Fatalf("WriteFile dst: %v", err)
-			}
-
-			if err := recoverPartialReplace(tc.code, dst, backup, nil); !errors.Is(err, tc.code) {
-				t.Fatalf("error = %v, want the original %v unchanged", err, tc.code)
-			}
-			assertFileContent(t, dst, "old")
-			assertFileContent(t, src, "new")
-			if _, err := os.Lstat(backup); !os.IsNotExist(err) {
-				t.Fatalf("unexpected backup residue: %v", err)
-			}
-		})
-	}
-}
-
-// assertErrorDoesNotAdvertiseReplacement guards the messaging fixed for jatmn's
-// #757 P3 finding: recovery errors used to say the replacement "remains at" the
-// caller's temporary path, but the only caller removes that file in a deferred
-// cleanup before the error ever surfaces. Recovery is always about the original,
-// so an operator must never be sent looking for the replacement.
-func assertErrorDoesNotAdvertiseReplacement(t *testing.T, err error, replacement string) {
-	t.Helper()
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("expected a partial-replacement error")
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(err.Error(), replacement) {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, must not point an operator at the replacement %q, which its caller deletes", err, replacement)
-	}
-}
-
-func assertFileContent(t *testing.T, path, want string) {
-	t.Helper()
-	data, err := os.ReadFile(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("ReadFile %s: %v", path, err)
-	}
-	if string(data) != want {
-		t.Fatalf("content of %s = %q, want %q", path, data, want)
-	}
-}
-
-func assertNoReplaceBackups(t *testing.T, dir string) {
-	t.Helper()
-	matches, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dir, replaceBackupPattern))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Glob replacement backups: %v", err)
-	}
-	if len(matches) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("replacement backups remain: %v", matches)
-	}
-}
-
-func creationTime(t *testing.T, path string) syscall.Filetime {
-	t.Helper()
-	info, err := os.Stat(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Stat %s: %v", path, err)
-	}
-	data, ok := info.Sys().(*syscall.Win32FileAttributeData)
-	if !ok {
-		t.Skipf("no Windows file attributes for %s", path)
-	}
-	return data.CreationTime
-}
-
-func setCreationTime(t *testing.T, path string, created windows.Filetime) {
-	t.Helper()
-	pathPtr, err := windows.UTF16PtrFromString(path)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("UTF16PtrFromString: %v", err)
-	}
-	handle, err := windows.CreateFile(pathPtr, windows.FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES, 0, nil, windows.OPEN_EXISTING, windows.FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL, 0)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("CreateFile %s: %v", path, err)
-	}
-	defer func() {
-		_ = windows.CloseHandle(handle)
-	}()
-	if err := windows.SetFileTime(handle, &created, nil, nil); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("SetFileTime %s: %v", path, err)
-	}
-}
-
-func describeDACL(t *testing.T, path string) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	sd, err := windows.GetNamedSecurityInfo(path, windows.SE_FILE_OBJECT, windows.DACL_SECURITY_INFORMATION)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Skipf("cannot read the security descriptor of %s: %v", path, err)
-	}
-	text := sd.String()
-	if index := strings.Index(text, "D:"); index >= 0 {
-		return text[index:]
-	}
-	return text
-}
@@ -13,14 +13,8 @@ import (
 )

 // NotificationHandler receives server->client notifications (e.g.
-// textDocument/publishDiagnostics). params is the raw JSON payload. seq is the
-// notification's receipt sequence (see Client.ReceiptSeq): the position of the
-// frame it arrived in, stamped the moment that frame came off the wire — NOT
-// when this handler happens to run, which can lag receipt when the queue is
-// backed up. A caller that needs to know whether something newer than a given
-// point has arrived must compare against seq, not against when its own handling
-// code runs.
-type NotificationHandler func(method string, params json.RawMessage, seq int64)
+// textDocument/publishDiagnostics). params is the raw JSON payload.
+type NotificationHandler func(method string, params json.RawMessage)

 // Client speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 with LSP framing (Content-Length headers) over a
 // reader/writer pair. It is transport-agnostic: server.go wires it to a process's
@@ -38,60 +32,8 @@ type Client struct {
 	closeOnce sync.Once
 	closed    chan struct{}
 	readErr   error
-
-	notifyMu     sync.Mutex
-	notifyQueue  []notification
-	notifyBytes  int
-	notifyReady  chan struct{}
-	notifyClosed bool
-	// notificationDrained is closed by notificationLoop, and only after
-	// closeNotifications has stopped admission and every accepted notification
-	// (including an in-flight handler) has finished.
-	notificationDrained chan struct{}
-	receiptSeq          int64 // frames read off the wire so far (see ReceiptSeq)
-	// acceptedSeq is the receipt seq of the last notification queued for the
-	// worker, handledSeq the seq of the last one whose handler has returned, and
-	// handledWait a channel closed (and replaced) each time handledSeq advances.
-	// Together they let a waiter tell whether the worker has caught up with what
-	// the reader accepted. Both track notifications only; receiptSeq counts every
-	// frame, so the two are compared against each other, never against it.
-	acceptedSeq int64
-	handledSeq  int64
-	handledWait chan struct{}
 }

-type notification struct {
-	method string
-	params json.RawMessage
-	seq    int64
-}
-
-// The notification backlog is bounded by both message count and retained
-// payload bytes. A well-behaved handler drains far faster than any single burst
-// fills either limit; sustained overload — a language server emitting faster
-// than the single handler can consume, or a handler stuck waiting on a
-// re-entrant Call — is a fatal condition for this client, not something to
-// paper over by growing the queue without bound. Hitting either limit fails the
-// client (see enqueueNotification): IsClosed becomes true, and the manager
-// evicts and restarts the session on next use, exactly as it does for any other
-// dead client.
-const (
-	notifyQueueLimit     = 4096
-	notifyQueueByteLimit = 16 << 20 // 16 MiB
-)
-
-// maxFrameBytes is the largest single frame this transport will read. Without
-// it the byte budget above would not be authoritative: readMessage allocates the
-// whole body before anything can classify it, so one notification with a huge
-// Content-Length would be materialized in full and only then rejected by
-// enqueueNotification. Capping at the same value keeps that impossible — a
-// notification can never allocate past the budget it is measured against — and
-// bounds what a malformed or hostile header can make this client allocate. A
-// legitimate LSP frame is orders of magnitude smaller; one that is not is a
-// protocol error, and failing the read closes the client so the manager restarts
-// the session.
-const maxFrameBytes = notifyQueueByteLimit
-
 type rpcError struct {
 	Code    int             `json:"code"`
 	Message string          `json:"message"`
@@ -139,14 +81,10 @@ type incomingMessage struct {
 // server process exits); call Close to stop using the client.
 func NewClient(r io.Reader, w io.Writer) *Client {
 	client := &Client{
-		writer:              w,
-		pending:             make(map[int64]chan rpcResponse),
-		closed:              make(chan struct{}),
-		notifyReady:         make(chan struct{}, 1),
-		notificationDrained: make(chan struct{}),
-		handledWait:         make(chan struct{}),
+		writer:  w,
+		pending: make(map[int64]chan rpcResponse),
+		closed:  make(chan struct{}),
 	}
-	go client.notificationLoop()
 	go client.readLoop(bufio.NewReader(r))
 	return client
 }
@@ -217,15 +155,6 @@ func (c *Client) readLoop(reader *bufio.Reader) {
 			c.failPending(err)
 			return
 		}
-		// Stamp the receipt boundary here — while the frame is nothing but bytes
-		// that have left the wire — rather than at enqueue. Everything below
-		// (json.Unmarshal of a peer-sized payload, then enqueue) runs on this
-		// goroutine while another can be capturing a baseline from ReceiptSeq, so
-		// stamping later would let a publish that was already read be numbered
-		// above a baseline taken after it arrived, and a superseded publish would
-		// then look fresh. Frames that turn out not to be notifications consume a
-		// number too: the sequence is a receipt clock, and gaps in it are fine.
-		seq := c.stampReceipt()
 		var msg incomingMessage
 		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &msg); err != nil {
 			continue // skip a malformed frame rather than tearing down the session
@@ -237,7 +166,12 @@ func (c *Client) readLoop(reader *bufio.Reader) {
 			// required or the server can block waiting on it (e.g. registerCapability).
 			_ = c.write(outgoingReply{JSONRPC: "2.0", ID: msg.ID, Result: nil})
 		case msg.Method != "":
-			c.enqueueNotification(notification{method: msg.Method, params: msg.Params, seq: seq})
+			c.mu.Lock()
+			handler := c.handler
+			c.mu.Unlock()
+			if handler != nil {
+				handler(msg.Method, msg.Params)
+			}
 		case hasID:
 			var id int64
 			if err := json.Unmarshal(msg.ID, &id); err == nil {
@@ -247,171 +181,6 @@ func (c *Client) readLoop(reader *bufio.Reader) {
 	}
 }

-func (c *Client) notificationLoop() {
-	defer close(c.notificationDrained)
-	for {
-		<-c.notifyReady
-		for {
-			notification, ok, closed := c.dequeueNotification()
-			if !ok {
-				if closed {
-					return
-				}
-				break
-			}
-			c.mu.Lock()
-			handler := c.handler
-			c.mu.Unlock()
-			if handler != nil {
-				handler(notification.method, notification.params, notification.seq)
-			}
-			c.markHandled(notification.seq)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// markHandled records that everything received through seq has now been handled
-// and wakes anyone waiting for the worker to catch up.
-func (c *Client) markHandled(seq int64) {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	if seq > c.handledSeq {
-		c.handledSeq = seq
-	}
-	wait := c.handledWait
-	c.handledWait = make(chan struct{})
-	c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	if wait != nil {
-		close(wait)
-	}
-}
-
-// handledThrough returns the receipt seq the worker has finished handling, plus
-// a channel closed the next time that advances. The channel is nil for a Client
-// built without NewClient (some unit tests), which has no worker to advance it.
-func (c *Client) handledThrough() (int64, <-chan struct{}) {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	defer c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	return c.handledSeq, c.handledWait
-}
-
-// acceptedNotificationSeq returns the receipt seq of the most recently queued
-// notification (0 if none). It is the point the worker must reach to have
-// handled everything the reader had accepted at the time of the call.
-func (c *Client) acceptedNotificationSeq() int64 {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	defer c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	return c.acceptedSeq
-}
-
-// notificationsDone returns the worker completion signal. A nil result means
-// this Client was constructed without NewClient (as some unit-test clients are)
-// and has no notification worker to wait for.
-func (c *Client) notificationsDone() <-chan struct{} {
-	return c.notificationDrained
-}
-
-// enqueueNotification hands a server notification to the worker loop. item.seq
-// must already carry the receipt stamp from stampReceipt: the receipt boundary
-// belongs to the moment the frame left the wire, not to this call, which happens
-// a full json.Unmarshal later. It never blocks and never silently discards a
-// message the handler could still act on: the queue grows instead, up to its
-// message and byte limits.
-//
-// The alternatives to growing are worse. Blocking the read loop when a buffer
-// fills is the deadlock this dispatch exists to avoid — a handler that calls
-// Client.Call waits for a response frame the blocked reader can no longer
-// deliver. Dropping the oldest queued item instead loses protocol state
-// permanently: a textDocument/publishDiagnostics for one URI is the server's
-// only report for that URI, so discarding it makes session.waitForDiagnostics
-// time out and Manager.Check return nothing even though the server published
-// findings.
-//
-// Growth is bounded in practice by how much the server emits while a handler
-// runs, and the queue is released as soon as it drains. But "in practice" is
-// not a limit: a handler that never returns, or a server that sustains a
-// higher rate than the single handler can drain, would otherwise grow this
-// queue's full json.RawMessage payloads without bound until the heap gives
-// out. The count limit alone is insufficient because notification payloads are
-// peer-controlled and can be large; the byte limit prevents a few large
-// diagnostics publishes from exhausting the heap before the count limit is
-// reached. Either limit turns overload into an explicit, observable failure —
-// the client is failed and closed — rather than unbounded protocol retention.
-func (c *Client) enqueueNotification(item notification) {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	if c.notifyClosed {
-		// The worker loop has already stopped, so anything queued now would never
-		// be handled. Retaining it would grow the queue for as long as the
-		// transport stays readable after Close — Server.Shutdown closes the client
-		// before closing stdin, so a server emitting notifications while it handles
-		// shutdown/exit keeps the read loop feeding a queue nobody drains.
-		c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-		return
-	}
-	itemBytes := len(item.method) + len(item.params)
-	if len(c.notifyQueue) >= notifyQueueLimit || itemBytes > notifyQueueByteLimit-c.notifyBytes {
-		c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-		c.failPending(fmt.Errorf(
-			"lsp client: notification backlog exceeded %d messages or %d bytes",
-			notifyQueueLimit,
-			notifyQueueByteLimit,
-		))
-		return
-	}
-	c.notifyQueue = append(c.notifyQueue, item)
-	c.notifyBytes += itemBytes
-	c.acceptedSeq = item.seq
-	c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-
-	select {
-	case c.notifyReady <- struct{}{}:
-	default:
-		// A wake-up is already pending; the worker drains the whole queue per wake,
-		// so this item is covered by it.
-	}
-}
-
-// stampReceipt claims the next receipt number for a frame that has just been
-// read off the wire. The read loop calls it for every frame before parsing one,
-// so a notification's seq reflects when it arrived rather than when this client
-// got around to decoding and queueing it.
-func (c *Client) stampReceipt() int64 {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	defer c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	c.receiptSeq++
-	return c.receiptSeq
-}
-
-// ReceiptSeq returns how many frames have been read off the wire so far,
-// including any notification still waiting to be dispatched to the handler. A
-// caller that wants to know whether a notification newer than "now" has arrived
-// should snapshot this before triggering whatever produces it, then require a
-// subsequently-observed seq to be strictly greater: a notification whose frame
-// had already been read at snapshot time has seq <= the snapshot, even if it is
-// still queued and its handler doesn't run until afterward.
-func (c *Client) ReceiptSeq() int64 {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	defer c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	return c.receiptSeq
-}
-
-func (c *Client) dequeueNotification() (notification, bool, bool) {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	defer c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	if len(c.notifyQueue) == 0 {
-		return notification{}, false, c.notifyClosed
-	}
-	item := c.notifyQueue[0]
-	c.notifyBytes -= len(item.method) + len(item.params)
-	c.notifyQueue[0] = notification{}
-	c.notifyQueue = c.notifyQueue[1:]
-	if len(c.notifyQueue) == 0 {
-		// Release the backing array once drained; re-slicing alone would keep a
-		// burst's worth of capacity (and its already-consumed items) alive.
-		c.notifyQueue = nil
-	}
-	return item, true, false
-}
-
 func (c *Client) deliver(id int64, resp rpcResponse) {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	ch, ok := c.pending[id]
@@ -435,27 +204,9 @@ func (c *Client) failPending(err error) {
 			ch <- rpcResponse{Err: &rpcError{Code: -1, Message: err.Error()}}
 		}
 		close(c.closed)
-		c.closeNotifications()
 	})
 }

-// closeNotifications atomically stops accepting notifications, then wakes the
-// worker so everything accepted before that boundary is delivered in FIFO order.
-// It deliberately does not wait: a user handler may be blocked, and transport
-// failure, overload, and concurrent Close must never deadlock teardown. The
-// worker exits itself after the accepted queue (including any in-flight handler)
-// has drained. An enqueue racing with shutdown is therefore either accepted and
-// delivered before worker exit, or observes notifyClosed and is rejected.
-func (c *Client) closeNotifications() {
-	c.notifyMu.Lock()
-	c.notifyClosed = true
-	c.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	select {
-	case c.notifyReady <- struct{}{}:
-	default:
-	}
-}
-
 func (c *Client) readError() error {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	defer c.mu.Unlock()
@@ -532,9 +283,6 @@ func readMessage(reader *bufio.Reader) ([]byte, error) {
 	if contentLength < 0 {
 		return nil, errors.New("message missing Content-Length header")
 	}
-	if contentLength > maxFrameBytes {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("lsp frame of %d bytes exceeds the %d byte limit", contentLength, maxFrameBytes)
-	}
 	body := make([]byte, contentLength)
 	if _, err := io.ReadFull(reader, body); err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
-	"runtime"
 	"strings"
-	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 )
@@ -210,7 +208,7 @@ func TestClientNotificationHandler(t *testing.T) {
 	_ = serverReader

 	received := make(chan string, 1)
-	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(method string, _ json.RawMessage, _ int64) {
+	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(method string, _ json.RawMessage) {
 		received <- method
 	})
 	_ = writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
@@ -229,438 +227,6 @@ func TestClientNotificationHandler(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }

-func TestClientNotificationHandlerCanCallClient(t *testing.T) {
-	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
-	serverReader, clientWriter := io.Pipe()
-	client := NewClient(clientReader, clientWriter)
-	defer client.Close()
-	defer serverWriter.Close()
-	defer clientWriter.Close()
-
-	serverDone := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		body, err := readMessage(bufio.NewReader(serverReader))
-		if err != nil {
-			serverDone <- err
-			return
-		}
-		var request incomingMessage
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &request); err != nil {
-			serverDone <- err
-			return
-		}
-		serverDone <- writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-			"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-			"id":      request.ID,
-			"result":  map[string]bool{"applied": true},
-		})
-	}()
-
-	handlerDone := make(chan error, 1)
-	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(_ string, _ json.RawMessage, _ int64) {
-		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Second)
-		defer cancel()
-		_, err := client.Call(ctx, "workspace/applyEdit", nil)
-		handlerDone <- err
-	})
-	if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-		"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-		"method":  "workspace/requestEdit",
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	select {
-	case err := <-handlerDone:
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("notification handler call failed: %v", err)
-		}
-	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
-		t.Fatal("notification handler deadlocked waiting for its response")
-	}
-	if err := <-serverDone; err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("server failed: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestClientNotificationHandlersPreserveOrder(t *testing.T) {
-	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
-	client := NewClient(clientReader, io.Discard)
-	defer client.Close()
-	defer serverWriter.Close()
-
-	received := make(chan string, 2)
-	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(method string, _ json.RawMessage, _ int64) {
-		received <- method
-	})
-	for _, method := range []string{"first", "second"} {
-		if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-			"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-			"method":  method,
-		}); err != nil {
-			t.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	for _, want := range []string{"first", "second"} {
-		select {
-		case got := <-received:
-			if got != want {
-				t.Fatalf("notification = %q, want %q", got, want)
-			}
-		case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
-			t.Fatalf("timed out waiting for notification %q", want)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func TestClientNotificationBurstDoesNotBlockResponse(t *testing.T) {
-	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
-	serverReader, clientWriter := io.Pipe()
-	client := NewClient(clientReader, clientWriter)
-	defer client.Close()
-	defer serverWriter.Close()
-	defer clientWriter.Close()
-
-	handlerStarted := make(chan struct{})
-	handlerDone := make(chan error, 1)
-	var mu sync.Mutex
-	var queued []string
-	allQueued := make(chan struct{})
-	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(method string, _ json.RawMessage, _ int64) {
-		if method != "blocking" {
-			mu.Lock()
-			queued = append(queued, method)
-			complete := len(queued) == notificationBurstSize
-			mu.Unlock()
-			if complete {
-				close(allQueued)
-			}
-			return
-		}
-		close(handlerStarted)
-		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), time.Second)
-		defer cancel()
-		_, err := client.Call(ctx, "workspace/applyEdit", nil)
-		handlerDone <- err
-	})
-
-	serverDone := make(chan error, 1)
-	go func() {
-		reader := bufio.NewReader(serverReader)
-		body, err := readMessage(reader)
-		if err != nil {
-			serverDone <- err
-			return
-		}
-		var request incomingMessage
-		if err := json.Unmarshal(body, &request); err != nil {
-			serverDone <- err
-			return
-		}
-		for i := 0; i < notificationBurstSize; i++ {
-			if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-				"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-				"method":  fmt.Sprintf("queued-%03d", i),
-			}); err != nil {
-				serverDone <- err
-				return
-			}
-		}
-		serverDone <- writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-			"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-			"id":      request.ID,
-			"result":  nil,
-		})
-	}()
-
-	if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-		"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-		"method":  "blocking",
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	select {
-	case <-handlerStarted:
-	case <-time.After(time.Second):
-		t.Fatal("blocking notification handler did not start")
-	}
-	select {
-	case err := <-handlerDone:
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("notification handler call failed under burst: %v", err)
-		}
-	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
-		t.Fatal("notification burst blocked the response read loop")
-	}
-	if err := <-serverDone; err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("server failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	// Not blocking the reader is only half the requirement: every notification the
-	// server sent during the burst must still reach the handler, in order. A
-	// bounded queue that drops the oldest would silently lose the head of this
-	// sequence — and with it a publishDiagnostics the checker is waiting for.
-	select {
-	case <-allQueued:
-	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
-		mu.Lock()
-		received := len(queued)
-		mu.Unlock()
-		t.Fatalf("received %d of %d burst notifications; the queue lost messages", received, notificationBurstSize)
-	}
-	mu.Lock()
-	defer mu.Unlock()
-	for i, method := range queued {
-		if want := fmt.Sprintf("queued-%03d", i); method != want {
-			t.Fatalf("burst notification %d = %q, want %q (order must survive the burst)", i, method, want)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// notificationBurstSize is far past any buffer the dispatch used to have, so a
-// bounded queue would be visible as either a blocked read loop or a lost message.
-const notificationBurstSize = 512
-
-// TestClientNotificationQueueIsLossless is the regression test for the overflow
-// policy: a queued notification must never be discarded. A dropped
-// textDocument/publishDiagnostics is the server's only report for that URI, so
-// losing it makes session.waitForDiagnostics time out and Manager.Check return
-// nothing even though the server published findings.
-func TestClientNotificationQueueIsLossless(t *testing.T) {
-	client := &Client{notifyReady: make(chan struct{}, 1)}
-	for i := 0; i < notificationBurstSize; i++ {
-		client.enqueueNotification(notification{method: fmt.Sprintf("notification-%03d", i)})
-	}
-
-	for i := 0; i < notificationBurstSize; i++ {
-		item, ok, _ := client.dequeueNotification()
-		if !ok {
-			t.Fatalf("notification %d was discarded by the queue", i)
-		}
-		want := fmt.Sprintf("notification-%03d", i)
-		if item.method != want {
-			t.Fatalf("notification = %q, want %q (queue must stay FIFO)", item.method, want)
-		}
-	}
-	if _, ok, _ := client.dequeueNotification(); ok {
-		t.Fatal("queue returned more notifications than were enqueued")
-	}
-	if client.notifyQueue != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("drained queue retained %d slots of capacity", cap(client.notifyQueue))
-	}
-	if client.notifyBytes != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("drained queue retained byte accounting: %d", client.notifyBytes)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestClientDrainsAcceptedNotificationsAfterTransportEOF(t *testing.T) {
-	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
-	client := NewClient(clientReader, io.Discard)
-
-	blockStarted := make(chan struct{})
-	releaseBlock := make(chan struct{})
-	handled := make(chan string, 2)
-	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(method string, _ json.RawMessage, _ int64) {
-		if method == "block" {
-			close(blockStarted)
-			<-releaseBlock
-		}
-		handled <- method
-	})
-
-	if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "block"}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	<-blockStarted
-	if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-		"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "textDocument/publishDiagnostics",
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	// Wait until the reader has accepted the publish, then fail it while the
-	// sole worker is still in the preceding handler and cannot dequeue it.
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(time.Second)
-	for client.ReceiptSeq() != 2 {
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Fatal("publish was not accepted by the read loop")
-		}
-		runtime.Gosched()
-	}
-	if err := serverWriter.Close(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	// Fresh budget: the wait above may have consumed most of the previous one,
-	// which would make this loop fail on nothing worse than slow scheduling.
-	deadline = time.Now().Add(time.Second)
-	for !client.IsClosed() {
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Fatal("transport EOF did not close client")
-		}
-		runtime.Gosched()
-	}
-	close(releaseBlock)
-
-	for _, want := range []string{"block", "textDocument/publishDiagnostics"} {
-		select {
-		case got := <-handled:
-			if got != want {
-				t.Fatalf("handled %q, want %q", got, want)
-			}
-		case <-time.After(time.Second):
-			t.Fatalf("accepted notification %q was not delivered after EOF", want)
-		}
-	}
-	select {
-	case <-client.notificationDrained:
-	case <-time.After(time.Second):
-		t.Fatal("notification worker did not report the accepted queue drained")
-	}
-}
-
-// TestReceiptStampedAtReadNotEnqueue is the regression test for the review gap
-// on #759 (pullrequestreview-4834747507): TestPublishBaselineRejectsFrameReadBeforeBaseline
-// calls stampReceipt itself and never drives readLoop, so it pins the seq
-// comparison but not WHERE the stamp is taken — a refactor that moved stamping
-// back to the enqueue call site (reverting the read-time fix) left that test
-// green.
-//
-// This test distinguishes the two call sites directly: a response frame is
-// read off the wire but never reaches enqueueNotification (see the `hasID`
-// branch in readLoop). Under read-time stamping every frame consumes a receipt
-// number — "gaps in it are fine", per stampReceipt's doc comment — so
-// ReceiptSeq must advance even though nothing was queued. Under enqueue-time
-// stamping it would not, since stampReceipt would never run for this frame.
-func TestReceiptStampedAtReadNotEnqueue(t *testing.T) {
-	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
-	client := NewClient(clientReader, io.Discard)
-	defer serverWriter.Close()
-
-	// A plain response frame: has an id, no method, so it is delivered via
-	// c.deliver and never passed to enqueueNotification.
-	if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-		"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "result": nil,
-	}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(time.Second)
-	for client.ReceiptSeq() == 0 {
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			t.Fatal("ReceiptSeq did not advance for a frame that was read but never enqueued as a notification")
-		}
-		runtime.Gosched()
-	}
-}
-
-// TestReadMessageRejectsOversizedFrame covers jatmn's P3 finding on #759: the
-// notification byte budget was enforced only at enqueue, but readMessage
-// allocates the whole body before anything can tell a notification from a
-// response. A single frame declaring a huge Content-Length was therefore
-// materialized in full and only then measured against a budget it had already
-// blown past. The header is now rejected before the allocation.
-func TestReadMessageRejectsOversizedFrame(t *testing.T) {
-	header := fmt.Sprintf("Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n", maxFrameBytes+1)
-	_, err := readMessage(bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader(header)))
-	if err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("an oversized frame must be rejected, not allocated and read")
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "exceeds") {
-		t.Fatalf("error = %v, want the frame-size limit to reject it before reading the body", err)
-	}
-	// A frame at the limit is still legal: the cap rejects what is over it, not
-	// what merely approaches it.
-	body := strings.Repeat("x", 16)
-	atLimit := fmt.Sprintf("Content-Length: %d\r\n\r\n%s", len(body), body)
-	if _, err := readMessage(bufio.NewReader(strings.NewReader(atLimit))); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("readMessage of an ordinary frame: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestClientFailsOnNotificationBacklogOverload is the regression test for
-// jatmn's #759 P2 finding: the lossless queue above had no failure policy — a
-// language server sustaining a higher notification rate than the single
-// handler can drain (no permanently-stuck handler required, just a sustained
-// producer faster than the consumer) would retain every full json.RawMessage
-// payload on Zero's heap without bound. Hitting notifyQueueLimit must fail
-// (and close) the client observably instead of continuing to grow.
-func TestClientFailsOnNotificationBacklogOverload(t *testing.T) {
-	client := &Client{
-		notifyReady: make(chan struct{}, 1),
-		pending:     make(map[int64]chan rpcResponse),
-		closed:      make(chan struct{}),
-	}
-	for i := 0; i < notifyQueueLimit; i++ {
-		client.enqueueNotification(notification{method: "spam"})
-	}
-	if client.IsClosed() {
-		t.Fatal("client closed before the backlog limit was reached")
-	}
-	client.notifyMu.Lock()
-	queued := len(client.notifyQueue)
-	client.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	if queued != notifyQueueLimit {
-		t.Fatalf("queued = %d, want %d before the limit is exceeded", queued, notifyQueueLimit)
-	}
-
-	// One push past the limit must fail the client rather than growing the
-	// queue further.
-	client.enqueueNotification(notification{method: "spam"})
-	if !client.IsClosed() {
-		t.Fatal("client must be closed once the notification backlog exceeds notifyQueueLimit")
-	}
-	client.notifyMu.Lock()
-	queuedAfter := len(client.notifyQueue)
-	bytesAfter := client.notifyBytes
-	client.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	if queuedAfter != notifyQueueLimit {
-		t.Fatalf("closed client retained %d accepted notifications, want %d pending worker drain", queuedAfter, notifyQueueLimit)
-	}
-	if bytesAfter == 0 {
-		t.Fatal("accepted notifications were discarded instead of left for worker drain")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestClientFailsOnNotificationBacklogByteOverload(t *testing.T) {
-	client := &Client{
-		notifyReady: make(chan struct{}, 1),
-		pending:     make(map[int64]chan rpcResponse),
-		closed:      make(chan struct{}),
-	}
-	const messageCount = 16
-	const method = "spam"
-	for i := 0; i < messageCount; i++ {
-		client.enqueueNotification(notification{
-			method: method,
-			params: make(json.RawMessage, notifyQueueByteLimit/messageCount-len(method)),
-		})
-	}
-	if client.IsClosed() {
-		t.Fatal("client closed before the notification byte limit was exceeded")
-	}
-	client.notifyMu.Lock()
-	queued := len(client.notifyQueue)
-	queuedBytes := client.notifyBytes
-	client.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	if queued != messageCount {
-		t.Fatalf("queued = %d, want %d at the byte limit", queued, messageCount)
-	}
-	if queuedBytes != notifyQueueByteLimit {
-		t.Fatalf("queued bytes = %d, want limit %d", queuedBytes, notifyQueueByteLimit)
-	}
-
-	client.enqueueNotification(notification{method: "x"})
-	if !client.IsClosed() {
-		t.Fatal("client must close before retaining notification bytes past the limit")
-	}
-	client.notifyMu.Lock()
-	queuedAfter := len(client.notifyQueue)
-	bytesAfter := client.notifyBytes
-	client.notifyMu.Unlock()
-	if queuedAfter != messageCount || bytesAfter != notifyQueueByteLimit {
-		t.Fatalf("accepted backlog changed during close: %d notifications and %d accounted bytes", queuedAfter, bytesAfter)
-	}
-}
-
 func TestClientRejectsCallsAfterClose(t *testing.T) {
 	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
 	serverReader, clientWriter := io.Pipe()
@@ -677,79 +243,3 @@ func TestClientRejectsCallsAfterClose(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("Notify after Close must return an error")
 	}
 }
-
-// TestClientDropsNotificationsAfterClose covers the shutdown path: Close stops
-// the worker loop, but the read loop keeps reading until the transport ends —
-// Server.Shutdown closes the client BEFORE closing stdin, so a server emitting
-// notifications while it handles shutdown/exit would otherwise pile them into a
-// queue nobody drains. Nothing may be handled or retained after Close.
-func TestClientDropsNotificationsAfterClose(t *testing.T) {
-	clientReader, serverWriter := io.Pipe()
-	serverReader, clientWriter := io.Pipe()
-	client := NewClient(clientReader, clientWriter)
-	defer serverWriter.Close()
-	defer clientWriter.Close()
-	go func() {
-		// Drain anything the client writes so no write can block the test.
-		_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, serverReader)
-	}()
-
-	handled := make(chan string, 4)
-	client.SetNotificationHandler(func(method string, _ json.RawMessage, _ int64) {
-		handled <- method
-	})
-
-	// A notification before Close still reaches the handler.
-	if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "before-close"}); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	select {
-	case method := <-handled:
-		if method != "before-close" {
-			t.Fatalf("handled %q, want before-close", method)
-		}
-	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
-		t.Fatal("notification before Close was not handled")
-	}
-
-	if err := client.Close(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Close: %v", err)
-	}
-	// The transport stays writable, exactly as it does between Client.Close and
-	// stdin.Close in Server.Shutdown.
-	for i := 0; i < 64; i++ {
-		if err := writeMessage(serverWriter, map[string]any{
-			"jsonrpc": "2.0",
-			"method":  fmt.Sprintf("after-close-%03d", i),
-		}); err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("write notification after Close: %v", err)
-		}
-	}
-
-	select {
-	case method := <-handled:
-		t.Fatalf("handler ran for %q after Close", method)
-	case <-time.After(200 * time.Millisecond):
-	}
-
-	// Give the read loop time to consume every frame it was handed, then require
-	// the queue to hold nothing: dropping on enqueue is what keeps a closed client
-	// from growing for as long as its reader stays open.
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
-	for {
-		client.notifyMu.Lock()
-		queued := len(client.notifyQueue)
-		closed := client.notifyClosed
-		client.notifyMu.Unlock()
-		if !closed {
-			t.Fatal("Close did not mark the notification queue closed")
-		}
-		if queued != 0 {
-			t.Fatalf("closed client retained %d queued notifications", queued)
-		}
-		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
-			return
-		}
-		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-}
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