docs: scope two promises to what they cover

The startup guide's "nothing you wrote is removed" now says it's about
tidying copies, since a launch still replaces an unrecorded block that
differs from its source. rig down's help now says a community harness
only has its pane stopped, so its own processes may keep running.

ROADMAP.md

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ This isn't a schedule or a promise: we release often, and an item ships when a g
 To see what's being worked on, by release and theme, open the [OpenRig roadmap board](https://github.com/users/mvschwarz/projects/1).
 Issues labelled `good first issue` are also listed on the [contribute page](https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/contribute).
 
-## Released in 0.7.13
+## Released in 0.7.12
 
-[0.7.13 is published](https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/releases/tag/v0.7.13): OpenRig 0.7.13 is a patch for people running their own agent teams. When you answer a runner's permission request, you now get a note back saying who decides it, and the runner wakes on the decision. See its release notes for what shipped, known issues, upgrade instructions and contributor credits.
+[0.7.12 is published](https://github.com/mvschwarz/openrig/releases/tag/v0.7.12): OpenRig 0.7.12 is a patch for people running their own agent teams. When you answer your team, by typing, clicking or qualifying an answer, the answer now goes to an agent that reads it with the question and decides. When no receiving agent is available, your answer waits. See its release notes for what shipped, known issues, upgrade instructions and contributor credits.
 
 ## How to help
 

docs/reference/agent-startup-guide.md

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ Each startup file and action specifies when it applies:
 - a launch replaces it, as launches always did, and names it (`guidance_block_refreshed_unrecorded`);
 - an exact resume or a handover leaves it, and names it as possibly stale (`guidance_block_may_be_stale`).
 
-**A file keeps one copy of each distinct block text, and nothing you wrote is removed.**
+**A file keeps one copy of each distinct block text, and tidying the copies never removes a text you wrote.**
 - **Touched markers:** a marker an editor or formatter rewrapped, with spaces or line breaks inside the comment, still reads as its block, and the next write puts it back in OpenRig's form.
 - **Collected copies:** a copy that repeats an earlier one exactly is removed. Beside a copy you edited, OpenRig's own unedited copies are removed too, and every different edited copy stays (`guidance_block_copies_removed`).
 - **A marker that lost its pair:** OpenRig can't tell where that block starts or ends, so it adds no copy beside it and names it (`guidance_block_markers_damaged`). Put back the missing marker or remove the partial block, and OpenRig's next write treats that block like any other. `rig package install` leaves such a file as it is, names it in its result (`notes`), and installs the rest. A marker without its pair beside a complete block is named too (`guidance_block_marker_unpaired`), and the block is written.

docs/reference/hosted-members.md

@@ -180,18 +180,7 @@ and nothing else is offered:
 - **Two assistants together:** a grant with `team`/`list` sees its rigs' seats with `rig_team`, and may address and hear from
   another connected assistant's seat. A grant without it never reaches a seat in the service's caller form
   (`cus-<id>-<connection>@<rig>`), so an existing connection keeps the reach it had.
-- **Messages are items:** a message is an item the receiver reads and closes, with any reply in its `resolution`. The
-  sender reads that reply on the same item. Nothing wakes the sender or posts a new item for it. A separate new message is
-  new work.
-- **A fair-use limit on new work:** the service can add `throttle: { new_work: true, retry_after_seconds: <n> }` to an
-  active answer.
-  - While it does, a `rig_queue_create` that would open a new item writes nothing. It returns `fair_use_retry_later` with
-    `retryAfterSeconds` (1 to 600) and the `qitemId` to retry with.
-  - A retry of a create that already landed is answered from the stored item, as before.
-  - Everything else is served: reading, claiming and closing existing items (a reply in `resolution` included), and
-    answering the team's questions. A separate new message or revision waits like any other new item.
-  - It's never a credential refusal, and a `throttle` that can't be read is ignored.
-  - The service is asked once per HTTP request (initialize and tool listing included), not once per tool call.
+- **Messages are items:** a message is an item the receiver reads and closes, and a reply is an item back to its sender.
 - **What the sender can tell, from the item it reads:**
   - **Queued:** the item exists and is `pending` with no claim.
   - **Picked up:** the receiver's claim (`in-progress`).

packages/cli/src/commands/down.ts

@@ -143,7 +143,8 @@ export function downCommand(depsOverride?: DownDeps): Command {
   const cmd = new Command("down").description("Tear down a rig")
     .addHelpText("after", `
 rig down stops every agent OpenRig started in the rig: their sessions end, and any work in progress stops
-with them. A session OpenRig didn't start (adopted, bound or discovered) is left running, and rig down names it.
+with them. For a community harness only its pane stops: its own processes may keep running, and rig down
+names it. A session OpenRig didn't start (adopted, bound or discovered) is left running, and rig down names it.
 Before running it, check who is working (rig ps --nodes --rig <rig>) and that the person asked for it;
 don't stop a team you didn't start unless asked. OpenRig snapshots the rig first (best-effort), and
 rig up <rig> --existing brings it back, resuming each seat's conversation where its harness allows. With

packages/cli/src/mcp-http.ts

@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@
 //
 // With --grant-service, grants come from an external grant service instead and the token file is never read: each
 // request's key is checked with that service (openrig.grant/v1) for this daemon's instance, every answer but active is
-// refused, and an external caller reaches only what its grant names (externalScope in mcp-server.ts). An active answer's
-// fair-use throttle holds back only that caller's new work (rig_queue_create), never the request.
+// refused, and an external caller reaches only what its grant names (externalScope in mcp-server.ts).
 //
 // The endpoint serves both protocol revisions: 2026-07-28 per request, and 2025's initialize and exchanges statelessly.
 import http from "node:http";
@@ -232,18 +231,6 @@ const unavailable = (log: string): Refusal => ({
 
 const strings = (value: unknown): value is string[] => Array.isArray(value) && value.every((item) => typeof item === "string" && item !== "");
 
-/** An active answer's optional fair-use limit on new work (`throttle`): the seconds until new work is accepted again,
- *  rounded up and kept within 1..600, undefined when there is none, or "unusable" when it can't be read. */
-function fairUseThrottle(value: unknown): number | undefined | "unusable" {
-  if (value === undefined || value === null) return undefined;
-  if (typeof value !== "object" || Array.isArray(value)) return "unusable";
-  const { new_work: newWork, retry_after_seconds: seconds } = value as Record<string, unknown>;
-  if (typeof newWork !== "boolean") return "unusable";
-  if (!newWork) return undefined;
-  if (typeof seconds !== "number" || !Number.isFinite(seconds)) return "unusable";
-  return Math.min(600, Math.max(1, Math.ceil(seconds)));
-}
-
 /** One request's caller from the grant service's answer for its key. A refusal never falls back to the token file or
  *  the env's seat. */
 async function grantServiceCaller(service: GrantServiceOptions, url: URL, key: string, instance: string): Promise<{ seat: string; access: McpAccess; principal: McpPrincipal } | Refusal> {
@@ -287,16 +274,11 @@ async function grantServiceCaller(service: GrantServiceOptions, url: URL, key: s
   if (person !== undefined && person !== null && !personId) {
     console.error(`rig mcp serve --http: grant ${grant.id} names an unusable person.entity_id, so this connection isn't offered the person tools (rig_question_*)`);
   }
-  // The service's fair-use limit, when it sets one, holds back only new work (rig_queue_create). One that can't be read is
-  // ignored: it never refuses the request or reads as a credential problem.
-  const throttle = fairUseThrottle(body.throttle);
-  if (throttle === "unusable") console.error(`rig mcp serve --http: grant ${grant.id} answered an unusable throttle, so it's ignored`);
   // The principal the daemon records beside this caller's rows. A version that isn't a finite number is left out (a v1
   // answer sends a number).
   const version = Number.isFinite(grant.version) ? { version: grant.version as number } : {};
   return { seat, access: { principal: principal.id, owner: false, rigs, roots, workspace: false,
-      external: { objects, grant: { id: grant.id, ...version }, ...(personId ? { person: personId } : {}),
-        ...(typeof throttle === "number" ? { throttle: { retryAfterSeconds: throttle } } : {}) } },
+      external: { objects, grant: { id: grant.id, ...version }, ...(personId ? { person: personId } : {}) } },
     principal: { source: "grant-service", id: principal.id, grant: grant.id, ...version } };
 }
 

packages/cli/src/mcp-server.ts

@@ -432,17 +432,6 @@ function outOfScope(what: string, hint?: string): TextResult {
   return errorResult(JSON.stringify({ ok: false, error: "out_of_scope", message }), "out_of_scope", message);
 }
 
-/** A new create the grant service's fair-use limit holds back: nothing was written, and it says when to retry with the same
- *  id. `unread`: whether an earlier create with this id was saved couldn't be read. */
-function fairUseRetryLater(qitemId: string, retryAfterSeconds: number, unread: boolean): TextResult {
-  const earlier = unread ? ` Whether an earlier attempt with this id was saved is unknown: check rig_queue_show with qitemId ${qitemId} before retrying.` : "";
-  const message = `OpenRig: this account has reached its fair-use limit for new work just now. Nothing was created by this call.${earlier}`
-    + ` Retry after ${retryAfterSeconds} seconds with the same qitemId ${qitemId}. Work you already have continues as usual: read, claim, answer and`
-    + " close it, and to reply to an item addressed to you, put the reply in its resolution when you close it.";
-  return errorResult(message, "fair_use_retry_later", message,
-    { retryable: true, retryAfterSeconds, qitemId, outcome: "not_written", ...(unread ? { earlierAttempt: "unknown" } : {}) });
-}
-
 /** A file the daemon read through a shared root, as text from offset: at most CONTEXT_TEXT_LIMIT characters, with
  *  nextOffset when more of what the daemon read remains, and its byte cut when the file was longer than the daemon reads. */
 function artifactView(source: string, read: FileRead, offset: number): Record<string, unknown> {
@@ -518,10 +507,8 @@ export type McpAccessClass = "work" | "workspace" | "owner" | "person";
 export type McpAccess = {
   principal: string; owner: boolean; rigs: readonly string[]; roots: readonly string[]; workspace: boolean;
   /** An external caller's grant: the object/action pairs it names (openrig.grant/v1 `objects`), the grant it answered
-   *  with, `person`, the gateway entity id of the person the grant service vouches owns this connection, and `throttle`,
-   *  the service's fair-use limit on new work for this request: the seconds before a new create is accepted again. */
-  external?: { objects: Readonly<Record<string, readonly string[]>>; grant?: { id: string; version?: number | string }; person?: string;
-    throttle?: { retryAfterSeconds: number } };
+   *  with, and `person`, the gateway entity id of the person the grant service vouches owns this connection. */
+  external?: { objects: Readonly<Record<string, readonly string[]>>; grant?: { id: string; version?: number | string }; person?: string };
 };
 
 /** The tool each external object/action pair offers. A pair not listed here offers nothing. */
@@ -651,7 +638,7 @@ const EXTERNAL_PERSON_INSTRUCTIONS = [
 
 /** For an external grant that names claim and update: how it works the items addressed to it, messages included. */
 const EXTERNAL_INBOX_INSTRUCTIONS = [...SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS,
-  "Items addressed to your seat are yours: rig_queue_list with owned set lists them. For each, claim it (rig_queue_claim), do it, then close it done with closure reason no-follow-on and the answer in resolution (rig_queue_update); the sender reads that answer on the same item. A message is an item too: read it and close it done, with your reply in resolution when it needs one; its sender reads that reply on the same item. Nothing promises to wake you, so check your items again.",
+  "Items addressed to your seat are yours: rig_queue_list with owned set lists them. For each, claim it (rig_queue_claim), do it, then close it done with closure reason no-follow-on and the answer in resolution (rig_queue_update); the sender reads that answer on the same item. A message is an item too: read it, close it done, and reply, when it needs one, with a new item to its sender. Nothing promises to wake you, so check your items again.",
 ].join("\n");
 
 function instructionsFor(access: McpAccess | undefined, frontDoor = false): string {
@@ -1415,19 +1402,6 @@ export function createMcpServer(client: DaemonClient, options: { seat?: string;
         }
       }
       const id = qitemId ?? `qitem-${new Date().toISOString().replace(/\D/g, "").slice(0, 14)}-${randomBytes(8).toString("hex")}`;
-      // The grant service's fair-use limit holds back new work only. A retry of a create that already landed isn't new
-      // work: the daemon answers it from the stored row, so it goes through as before.
-      const throttle = access?.external?.throttle;
-      if (throttle) {
-        let landed: boolean | undefined = false;
-        if (qitemId) {
-          try {
-            const existing = await client.get(`/api/queue/${encodeURIComponent(qitemId)}`);
-            landed = existing.status < 400 ? true : existing.status === 404 ? false : undefined;
-          } catch { landed = undefined; }
-        }
-        if (landed !== true) return fairUseRetryLater(id, throttle.retryAfterSeconds, landed === undefined);
-      }
       // With no seat, the task goes to its destination as from the unknown sender, with the note at the top of its body.
       const note = unknownSenderNote("task");
       try {

packages/cli/test/mcp-http-grant-service-daemon.test.ts

@@ -1045,94 +1045,6 @@ describe("rig mcp serve --http --grant-service on the daemon's routes", () => {
     expect((await asExternal("rig_queue_create", { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "far", qitemId: far })).text).not.toContain("other-host");
   });
 
-  describe("a fair-use throttle on an active answer", () => {
-    const ALL = { queue: ["create", "show", "list", "claim", "update"] };
-    const throttled = (throttle: unknown) => (): [number, unknown] => [200, active({ objects: ALL, throttle })];
-
-    it("holds back only new creates, which write nothing and say when to retry with the same id; a replay, claim, update, show and list are served", async () => {
-      answer = () => [200, active({ objects: ALL })];
-      const { url } = await listen();
-      const ask = await connect(url);
-      const landed = { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "First task", qitemId: "qitem-landed" };
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_create", landed)).isError).toBe(false);
-      const theirs = (await create("lead@team-a", CALLER, "A task for the assistant")).qitemId;
-      answer = throttled({ new_work: true, retry_after_seconds: 30 });
-      const before = rows();
-      for (const args of [
-        { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "New work" },
-        { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "New work", qitemId: "qitem-new" },
-        { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "Improve it", revises: landed.qitemId },
-      ] as Array<Record<string, string>>) {
-        const held = await ask("rig_queue_create", args);
-        expect(held.isError).toBe(true);
-        expect(held.structured).toMatchObject({ ok: false, code: "fair_use_retry_later", retryable: true, retryAfterSeconds: 30, outcome: "not_written" });
-        expect(held.structured.earlierAttempt).toBeUndefined();
-        expect(held.text).toContain("Nothing was created by this call.");
-        expect(held.text).toContain(`Retry after 30 seconds with the same qitemId ${held.structured.qitemId}.`);
-        if (args.qitemId) expect(held.structured.qitemId).toBe(args.qitemId);
-      }
-      expect(rows()).toBe(before);
-      expect(repo.getById("qitem-new")).toBeFalsy();
-      const replay = await ask("rig_queue_create", landed);
-      expect(replay.isError).toBe(false);
-      expect(replay.structured.qitemId).toBe(landed.qitemId);
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_claim", { qitemId: theirs })).isError).toBe(false);
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_update", { qitemId: theirs, state: "done", closureReason: "no-follow-on", resolution: "Done" })).isError).toBe(false);
-      expect(repo.getById(theirs)).toMatchObject({ state: "done", resolution: "Done" });
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_show", { qitemId: landed.qitemId })).isError).toBe(false);
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_list", {})).isError).toBe(false);
-      expect(rows()).toBe(before);
-      // Once the service lifts it, the same retry lands.
-      answer = () => [200, active({ objects: ALL })];
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_create", { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "New work", qitemId: "qitem-new" })).isError).toBe(false);
-      expect(rows()).toBe(before + 1);
-    });
-
-    it.each([
-      ["a string", "yes"],
-      ["a list", [true]],
-      ["new_work as text", { new_work: "true", retry_after_seconds: 30 }],
-      ["a delay as text", { new_work: true, retry_after_seconds: "30" }],
-      ["no delay", { new_work: true }],
-    ])("ignores a throttle it can't read (%s): nothing is refused, and the log says so", async (_label, throttle) => {
-      const logged = vi.spyOn(console, "error").mockImplementation(() => {});
-      answer = throttled(throttle);
-      const { url } = await listen();
-      const ask = await connect(url);
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_create", { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "Served" })).isError).toBe(false);
-      expect(rows()).toBe(1);
-      expect(logged.mock.calls.some(([line]) => String(line).includes("answered an unusable throttle, so it's ignored"))).toBe(true);
-      logged.mockRestore();
-    });
-
-    it("serves everything when new_work is false, and keeps a delay within 1 to 600 seconds, rounded up", async () => {
-      answer = throttled({ new_work: false, retry_after_seconds: 30 });
-      const { url } = await listen();
-      const ask = await connect(url);
-      expect((await ask("rig_queue_create", { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "Served" })).isError).toBe(false);
-      for (const [given, kept] of [[0, 1], [-5, 1], [12.2, 13], [9000, 600]]) {
-        answer = throttled({ new_work: true, retry_after_seconds: given });
-        expect((await ask("rig_queue_create", { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "Held" })).structured.retryAfterSeconds).toBe(kept);
-      }
-      expect(rows()).toBe(1);
-    });
-
-    it.each([
-      ["answers an error", () => new Response(JSON.stringify({ error: "boom" }), { status: 500, headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" } })],
-      ["answers a body it can't parse", () => new Response("{", { status: 200, headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" } })],
-    ])("writes nothing, and says an earlier attempt is unknown, when the check of whether the id landed %s", async (_label, failure) => {
-      answer = throttled({ new_work: true, retry_after_seconds: 5 });
-      const { url } = await listen();
-      const ask = await connect(url);
-      broken = (req) => req.method === "GET" && new URL(req.url).pathname === "/api/queue/qitem-unread" ? failure() : undefined;
-      const held = await ask("rig_queue_create", { destination: "lead@team-a", body: "Maybe", qitemId: "qitem-unread" });
-      broken = undefined;
-      expect(held.structured).toMatchObject({ code: "fair_use_retry_later", outcome: "not_written", earlierAttempt: "unknown", qitemId: "qitem-unread" });
-      expect(held.text).toContain("Whether an earlier attempt with this id was saved is unknown");
-      expect(rows()).toBe(0);
-    });
-  });
-
   it("a task parked on an internal child reads blocked, with no child id, owner or state anywhere", async () => {
     const { asExternal, asLead, mine } = await externalAndLead();
     const child = await create("lead@team-a", "qa@team-b", "SECRET child");

packages/cli/test/mcp-http-grant-service-network.test.ts

@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ describe("agent network increment A: OAuth-connected assistants work with each o
   let serviceUrl: string;
   /** What each connection's grant names, by key; a key set to "revoked" is answered revoked. */
   let grants: Map<string, Record<string, string[]> | "revoked">;
-  /** The keys whose active answer carries the grant service's fair-use throttle on new work. */
-  let throttled: Set<string>;
   const closers: Array<() => Promise<void>> = [];
   const saved = { home: process.env.OPENRIG_HOME, session: process.env.OPENRIG_SESSION_NAME };
 
@@ -67,7 +65,6 @@ describe("agent network increment A: OAuth-connected assistants work with each o
     daemonUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${(daemon.address() as AddressInfo).port}`;
     setSelfHostId(INSTANCE);
     grants = new Map([[A.key, NETWORK], [B.key, NETWORK]]);
-    throttled = new Set();
     service = http.createServer((req, res) => {
       req.resume();
       req.on("end", () => {
@@ -75,8 +72,7 @@ describe("agent network increment A: OAuth-connected assistants work with each o
         const who = key === A.key ? A : key === B.key ? B : null;
         const objects = who ? grants.get(who.key) : undefined;
         const body = !who || !objects ? { schema: SCHEMA, status: "unknown" }
-          : objects === "revoked" ? { schema: SCHEMA, status: "revoked" }
-          : { ...active(who, objects), ...(throttled.has(who.key) ? { throttle: { new_work: true, retry_after_seconds: 20 } } : {}) };
+          : objects === "revoked" ? { schema: SCHEMA, status: "revoked" } : active(who, objects);
         res.writeHead(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" }).end(JSON.stringify(body));
       });
     });
@@ -117,7 +113,7 @@ describe("agent network increment A: OAuth-connected assistants work with each o
       const result = await client.callTool({ name, arguments: args });
       return { isError: result.isError === true, structured: result.structuredContent as Record<string, any>, text: (result.content as Array<{ text: string }>)[0]?.text ?? "" };
     };
-    return Object.assign(call, { tools: async () => (await client.listTools()).tools.map((tool) => tool.name).sort(), instructions: () => client.getInstructions() });
+    return Object.assign(call, { tools: async () => (await client.listTools()).tools.map((tool) => tool.name).sort() });
   }
 
   const rows = () => (db.prepare("SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM queue_items").get() as { n: number }).n;
@@ -178,42 +174,6 @@ describe("agent network increment A: OAuth-connected assistants work with each o
     expect((await a("rig_queue_show", { qitemId: reply })).text).toContain("Agreed; I'll review the fix.");
   });
 
-  it("under a fair-use throttle, B answers A's message on the same item and A reads that answer through its own grant; B's separate new message waits", async () => {
-    const served = await listen();
-    const a = await connect(served.url, A);
-    const b = await connect(served.url, B);
-    expect(b.instructions()).toContain("with your reply in resolution when it needs one; its sender reads that reply on the same item");
-    expect(b.instructions()).not.toContain("with a new item to its sender");
-    const message = createdId(await a("rig_queue_create", { destination: B.seat, summary: "Which fix first?", body: "Smaller fix or the full one?", tags: ["message"] }));
-    throttled.add(B.key);
-    const before = rows();
-    expect((await b("rig_queue_list", { owned: true })).text).toContain(message);
-    expect((await b("rig_queue_claim", { qitemId: message })).isError).toBe(false);
-    expect((await b("rig_queue_update", { qitemId: message, state: "done", closureReason: "no-follow-on", resolution: "The smaller fix first." })).isError).toBe(false);
-    const separate = await b("rig_queue_create", { destination: A.seat, summary: "Also", body: "One more thing.", tags: ["message"] });
-    expect(separate).toMatchObject({ isError: true, structured: { code: "fair_use_retry_later", retryAfterSeconds: 20, outcome: "not_written" } });
-    expect(rows()).toBe(before);
-    // A, the sender, isn't throttled, and reads B's answer on its own item through its own grant's ordinary show and list.
-    const answered = await a("rig_queue_show", { qitemId: message });
-    expect(answered.structured.item).toMatchObject({ state: "done", resolution: "The smaller fix first.", destinationSession: B.seat });
-    expect((await a("rig_queue_list", { mine: true, all: true })).text).toContain("The smaller fix first.");
-  });
-
-  it("under a fair-use throttle, A answers the lead's message on the same item and the lead reads it on its ordinary read; A's new item to the lead waits", async () => {
-    const served = await listen();
-    const a = await connect(served.url, A);
-    const message = (await repo.create({ sourceSession: LEAD, destinationSession: A.seat, body: "Can you take the review?", nudge: false } as never)).qitemId;
-    throttled.add(A.key);
-    const before = rows();
-    expect((await a("rig_queue_claim", { qitemId: message })).isError).toBe(false);
-    expect((await a("rig_queue_update", { qitemId: message, state: "done", closureReason: "no-follow-on", resolution: "Yes, after lunch." })).isError).toBe(false);
-    expect((await a("rig_queue_create", { destination: LEAD, body: "Starting the review." })).structured).toMatchObject({ code: "fair_use_retry_later", outcome: "not_written" });
-    expect(rows()).toBe(before);
-    const read = await fetch(`${daemonUrl}/api/queue/${encodeURIComponent(message)}`, { headers: { "X-OpenRig-Session": LEAD } });
-    expect(read.status).toBe(200);
-    expect(await read.json()).toMatchObject({ sourceSession: LEAD, state: "done", resolution: "Yes, after lunch." });
-  });
-
   it("B hands work on to the team and reads the team's result; A's task and B's task are separate items, each with its own result", async () => {
     const served = await listen();
     const b = await connect(served.url, B);

packages/daemon/context-packs-src/onboarding-width/public-what-you-can-do.md

@@ -1278,8 +1278,7 @@ reaching them is ordinary work rather than an escalation.
 - **The `relay` gateway connector** carries a registered person's questions, updates and notices to a
   bridge process you run, over loopback HTTP, and takes their replies back with the sender resolved
   against their bindings. It's off until a person has a relay binding (`rig gateway human add <id> …
-  --binding "relay:<connectorRef>:file:<absolute env file>:primary:handle=<alias>"`). The handle is how
-  their replies are matched to them: a binding without one is outbound-only. The bridge, with its reach to
+  --binding "relay:<connectorRef>:file:<absolute env file>:primary"`), and the bridge, with its reach to
   any messaging platform, is yours (`docs/reference/gateway-relay.md`).
 - **`rig gateway channel add <id> --display-name <name> --binding
   slack:<connectorRef>:<secretsRef>:<channelId>`** — a Slack shared channel as one participant,
@@ -1598,11 +1597,8 @@ your circumstances is configuration, and the ones that are not, another agent ca
   without that storage), so don't copy them by hand; read the `plugin_skill_*` warnings if one
   is missing. TDD is no longer a default skill.
 - **`on_restore: follow_source`** on a spec's `resources.skills[]` entry refreshes that skill from its source when
-  a Claude or Codex seat is restored, keeping its conversation, while the seat's copy is still what OpenRig wrote: an
-  edited, unrecorded or linked copy is kept and named, and a source that can't be read leaves the saved copy.
-  `keep_saved`, the default, keeps the saved copy, but a missing file comes back only from a source that still has the
-  bytes OpenRig wrote: a file whose source changed after `rig down` stays missing, named in the restore's warnings,
-  even when the rest of the skill (its `SKILL.md`, say) is unchanged.
+  a Claude or Codex seat is restored, keeping its conversation; `keep_saved`, the default, keeps the saved copy, but a
+  skill whose source changed after `rig down` comes back missing, named in the restore's warnings.
 - **`rig startup-proof submit`** — answer an explicitly selected authenticated startup challenge.
   Startup adds no proof exercise by default. Declare `startup_proof` with `authenticated` or
   `none` in the applicable startup layers; see `docs/reference/rig-spec.md#startup-block/startup-proof-selection`.

packages/daemon/src/db/all-migrations.ts

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import { networkReceiptsSchema } from "./migrations/161_network_receipts.js";
 import { sessionAddressReadIndexesSchema } from "./migrations/162_session_address_read_indexes.js";
 import { networkInstallationsSchema } from "./migrations/163_network_installations.js";
 import { queueItemsReplyToIndexSchema } from "./migrations/164_queue_items_reply_to_index.js";
-import { queueListReadIndexesSchema } from "./migrations/166_queue_list_read_indexes.js";
 import { activityGrantsSchema } from "./migrations/143_activity_grants.js";
 import { environmentBindingsSchema } from "./migrations/144_environment_bindings.js";
 import { nodePermissionsToSchema } from "./migrations/145_node_permissions_to.js";
@@ -332,5 +331,4 @@ export const ALL_MIGRATIONS: Migration[] = [
   sessionAddressReadIndexesSchema,
   networkInstallationsSchema,
   queueItemsReplyToIndexSchema,
-  queueListReadIndexesSchema,
 ];

packages/daemon/src/db/migrations/166_queue_list_read_indexes.ts

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-import type { Migration } from "../migrate.js";
-
-/** Bound queue selection by its existing order, and notification reads by their eligible history. */
-export const queueListReadIndexesSchema: Migration = {
-  name: "166_queue_list_read_indexes.sql",
-  sql: `
-    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_queue_items_created
-      ON queue_items(ts_created DESC);
-    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_queue_items_active_created
-      ON queue_items(CASE WHEN state IN ('pending', 'in-progress', 'blocked') THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, ts_created DESC);
-    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_queue_items_active_updated
-      ON queue_items(CASE WHEN state IN ('pending', 'in-progress', 'blocked') THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, ts_updated DESC);
-    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_queue_transitions_owner_notification_qitem
-      ON queue_transitions(qitem_id, transition_id DESC) WHERE owner_notification_level IS NOT NULL;
-    CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_queue_transitions_archive_owner_notification_qitem
-      ON queue_transitions_archive(qitem_id, transition_id DESC) WHERE owner_notification_level IS NOT NULL;
-  `,
-};

packages/daemon/src/domain/queue-recovery.ts

@@ -42,9 +42,7 @@ export function freshRecoveryId(db: Database.Database, qitemId: string, overdueD
  * idx_queue_items_recovery_tags' WHERE clause (migration 099) byte for byte, which is what lets the
  * planner read that small index instead of scanning and parsing every row. */
 const RECOVERY_TAG_ROWS = `(tags LIKE '%"recovery-for:%' OR tags LIKE '%\\%')`;
-// Unary + preserves the numeric CASE order but prevents a prefix match on the full-history listing
-// index. Both standalone lookups and the batch need the small recovery-tag index instead.
-const RECOVERY_ORDER = "ORDER BY +CASE WHEN state IN ('pending','in-progress','blocked') THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, ts_updated DESC, qitem_id DESC LIMIT 1";
+const RECOVERY_ORDER = "ORDER BY CASE WHEN state IN ('pending','in-progress','blocked') THEN 0 ELSE 1 END, ts_updated DESC, qitem_id DESC LIMIT 1";
 /** A listing's recovery index, built by SQLite's own json_each (the same values, and the same truthy excludeTag
  * test, as the per-row query): for each string tag value, the rows that carry it in RECOVERY_ORDER, and each row's
  * string values. Built lazily, on the first lookup inside `withRecoveryIndex`, so a listing that never asks (a

packages/daemon/src/domain/user-settings/settings-browser.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { createHash } from "node:crypto";
 import { join, isAbsolute } from "node:path";
 import { getOpenRigHome } from "../../openrig-compat.js";
-import { SETTINGS_VALID_KEYS, describeSettingKey, type SettingKeyDescription, type SettingsStore, type ResolvedSetting } from "./settings-store.js";
+import { SETTINGS_VALID_KEYS, type SettingsStore, type ResolvedSetting } from "./settings-store.js";
 import { connectionsProjection, readConnectionConfiguration } from "../gateway/connections-projection.js";
 import { DEFAULT_CONFIG, INHERIT_INBOUND_DESTINATION, LEGACY_INBOUND_DESTINATION } from "../gateway/slack/config.js";
 import { projectionPath } from "../gateway/human-registry.js";
@@ -13,13 +13,7 @@ import { describeDefaultReceiver, type DefaultReceiver } from "../default-receiv
 type Value = string | number | boolean | null;
 type State = "available" | "missing" | "malformed" | "unavailable";
 type Kind = "scalar" | "text" | "path" | "identity" | "url" | "names" | "paths" | "withheld";
-/** Each is optional and separate: the rules a value must meet, whether a write route exists for the key, when a change is
- * known to take effect, and (above, on the entry) whether this caller is shown the value. None implies another. */
-export interface BrowserEntryMetadata extends SettingKeyDescription {
-  /** "daemon_restart" when the application guidance says so; otherwise "unknown": OpenRig does not guess. */
-  appliesAt: "daemon_restart" | "unknown";
-}
-export interface BrowserEntry extends BrowserEntryMetadata {
+export interface BrowserEntry {
   key: string;
   group: "general" | "slack" | "people" | "hosts" | "health";
   value: Value;
@@ -96,8 +90,6 @@ function sourceFile(file: string): { state: State; bytes: string | null } {
   try { return { state: "available", bytes: readFileSync(file, "utf8") }; }
   catch (error) { return { state: (error as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code === "ENOENT" ? "missing" : "unavailable", bytes: null }; }
 }
-/** The keys whose guidance below says a daemon restart or startup applies them. The browser test ties this to that text. */
-const DAEMON_RESTART_KEYS = new Set(["terminal.tmux_server", "retention.enabled"]);
 function application(key: string): string {
   if (key === "terminal.tmux_server") return "Selected at daemon restart; surviving sessions keep their previous server until deliberately stopped. See terminal status for the effective choice.";
   if (key === "ui.terminal.max_live_terminals") return "Legacy web client; unset resolver value, consumer fallback 2. No TUI limit implied.";
@@ -127,8 +119,7 @@ export function settingsBrowser(store: SettingsStore, gateway: Record<string, un
     const d = safeValue(defaultValue, kind, redact);
     entries.push({ key, group, value: v.value, defaultValue: d.value, defaultKnown: defaultValue !== undefined && !["people", "hosts"].includes(group), source,
       visibility: source === "unavailable" ? "unavailable" : v.value === null && v.reason ? "withheld" : "shown",
-      reason: v.reason ?? d.reason, scope, application: applied,
-      ...describeSettingKey(key), appliesAt: DAEMON_RESTART_KEYS.has(key) ? "daemon_restart" : "unknown" });
+      reason: v.reason ?? d.reason, scope, application: applied });
   }
   const file = sourceFile(store.configPath);
   let generalState = file.state;

packages/daemon/src/domain/user-settings/settings-store.ts

@@ -842,20 +842,6 @@ function coerceValue(key: SettingsValidKey, raw: string, workspaceRoot: string):
 // in `set()`. Lockstep with cli/src/config-store.ts KEY_CONSTRAINTS so the
 // daemon's HTTP write surface (/api/config POST) rejects the same input
 // the CLI rejects.
-/** What a validator can say about the values it accepts, kept on the validator itself so it cannot drift from it. */
-interface ConstraintMeta { choices?: readonly string[]; format?: string }
-type KeyConstraint = ((raw: string, coerced: string | number | boolean) => void) & { meta?: ConstraintMeta };
-function described(meta: ConstraintMeta, check: (raw: string, coerced: string | number | boolean) => void): KeyConstraint {
-  return Object.assign(check, { meta });
-}
-/** A closed list of accepted strings: the list is both what is enforced and what the browser view reports. */
-function choiceConstraint(choices: readonly string[], message: (raw: string) => string, trim = false): KeyConstraint {
-  return described({ choices }, (raw) => {
-    if (!choices.includes(trim ? (raw ?? "").trim() : raw)) throw new Error(message(raw));
-  });
-}
-const PROVIDER_SELECTED_CHOICES: readonly string[] = ["", "claude", "codex", "claude,codex", "codex,claude"];
-
 function positiveIntegerConstraint(key: string) {
   return (raw: string, coerced: string | number | boolean): void => {
     if (!/^\d+$/.test((raw ?? "").trim()) || typeof coerced !== "number" || !Number.isInteger(coerced) || coerced <= 0) {
@@ -864,6 +850,12 @@ function positiveIntegerConstraint(key: string) {
   };
 }
 
+function wakeHumanRungConstraint(raw: string): void {
+  if (raw !== "always" && raw !== "explicit-only") {
+    throw new Error(`Invalid value for queue.wake_human_rung: must be "always" or "explicit-only", got "${raw}"`);
+  }
+}
+
 function percentageConstraint(key: string) {
   return (raw: string, coerced: string | number | boolean): void => {
     if (!/^\d+$/.test((raw ?? "").trim())
@@ -876,10 +868,15 @@ function percentageConstraint(key: string) {
   };
 }
 
-const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, KeyConstraint>> = {
-  "terminal.tmux_server": choiceConstraint(["inherit", "isolated"],
-    (raw) => `Invalid value for terminal.tmux_server: must be "inherit" or "isolated", got "${raw}"`),
-  "daemon.db_conflict": choiceConstraint(["warn", "stop"], () => "daemon.db_conflict must be warn or stop"),
+const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, (raw: string, coerced: string | number | boolean) => void>> = {
+  "terminal.tmux_server": (raw) => {
+    if (raw !== "inherit" && raw !== "isolated") {
+      throw new Error(`Invalid value for terminal.tmux_server: must be "inherit" or "isolated", got "${raw}"`);
+    }
+  },
+  "daemon.db_conflict": (raw) => {
+    if (raw !== "warn" && raw !== "stop") throw new Error("daemon.db_conflict must be warn or stop");
+  },
   "daemon.seat_poll_interval_ms": (raw, value) => {
     // Startup-only: the seat pollers read it once when the daemon starts. Only slower than the 1 s default, up to the
     // ceiling the structural observation's expiry allows (seat-activity-service.ts MAX_SEAT_POLL_INTERVAL_MS).
@@ -887,8 +884,9 @@ const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, KeyConstraint>> = {
       throw new Error("Invalid daemon.seat_poll_interval_ms: must be a whole number of milliseconds in [1000, 2000]");
     }
   },
-  "transport.draft_delivery": choiceConstraint(["refuse", "deliver"],
-    (raw) => `Invalid value for transport.draft_delivery: must be "refuse" or "deliver", got "${raw}"`),
+  "transport.draft_delivery": (raw) => {
+    if (raw !== "refuse" && raw !== "deliver") throw new Error(`Invalid value for transport.draft_delivery: must be "refuse" or "deliver", got "${raw}"`);
+  },
   "transcripts.lines": (raw, value) => {
     if (!/^\d+$/.test(raw.trim()) || typeof value !== "number" || !Number.isSafeInteger(value) || value < 1 || value > 1_000_000) {
       throw new Error("Invalid transcripts.lines: must be an integer in [1, 1000000]");
@@ -930,34 +928,37 @@ const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, KeyConstraint>> = {
       throw new Error(`Invalid value for daemon.port: must be an integer in [0, 65535], got "${raw}"`);
     }
   },
-  "ui.timezone": described({ format: "iana-timezone" }, (_raw, value) => {
+  "ui.timezone": (_raw, value) => {
     try {
       if (typeof value !== "string" || !value || /^[+-]/.test(value)) throw new Error();
       new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", { timeZone: value });
     } catch { throw new Error("Invalid ui.timezone: use an IANA timezone such as America/Los_Angeles or Europe/London"); }
-  }),
+  },
   "health.context_pressure.warning_percent": percentageConstraint("health.context_pressure.warning_percent"),
   "health.context_pressure.critical_percent": percentageConstraint("health.context_pressure.critical_percent"),
   "policies.idle_gate_qitem.scan_interval_seconds": positiveIntegerConstraint("policies.idle_gate_qitem.scan_interval_seconds"),
   "policies.idle_gate_qitem.active_wake_interval_seconds": positiveIntegerConstraint("policies.idle_gate_qitem.active_wake_interval_seconds"),
-  "policies.idle_gate_qitem.auto_register": choiceConstraint(["off", "all"],
-    (raw) => `Invalid value for policies.idle_gate_qitem.auto_register: must be "off" or "all", got "${raw}"`, true),
+  "policies.idle_gate_qitem.auto_register": (raw) => {
+    const v = (raw ?? "").trim();
+    if (v !== "off" && v !== "all") {
+      throw new Error(`Invalid value for policies.idle_gate_qitem.auto_register: must be "off" or "all", got "${raw}"`);
+    }
+  },
   // Policy threshold: integer in [1, 100]. Documented contract from
   // slice 27 README. parseInt's permissive coercion ("80abc" → 80;
   // "80.5" → 80) is not safe for a key the daemon's compaction trigger
   // reads at every poll tick; runtime validator rejects what the
   // contract forbids per banked feedback_static_gates_mirror_runtime_validators.
-  // Checks the typed value too: a config.json array would otherwise pass as its String() form.
-  "provider.selected": described({ choices: PROVIDER_SELECTED_CHOICES }, (_raw, value) => {
-    if (typeof value !== "string" || !PROVIDER_SELECTED_CHOICES.includes(value)) {
+  "provider.selected": (_raw, value) => {
+    if (typeof value !== "string" || !/^(|claude|codex|claude,codex|codex,claude)$/.test(value)) {
       throw new Error("Invalid provider.selected: use claude, codex, claude,codex, or an empty string for no recorded choice");
     }
-  }),
-  "policies.claude_compaction.preparation_root": described({ format: "absolute-path-or-empty" }, (_raw, value) => {
+  },
+  "policies.claude_compaction.preparation_root": (_raw, value) => {
     if (typeof value !== "string" || (value !== "" && (!path.isAbsolute(value) || value.includes("\0")))) {
       throw new Error("Invalid policies.claude_compaction.preparation_root: use an absolute path or an empty string for the default");
     }
-  }),
+  },
   "policies.claude_compaction.threshold_percent": (raw, coerced) => {
     const trimmed = (raw ?? "").trim();
     if (!/^-?\d+$/.test(trimmed)) {
@@ -1048,12 +1049,12 @@ const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, KeyConstraint>> = {
     }
   },
   // Empty (the default) keeps no erasure ledger; otherwise an absolute file path, kept outside the backed-up data.
-  "retention.erasure_ledger": described({ format: "absolute-path-or-empty" }, (raw) => {
+  "retention.erasure_ledger": (raw) => {
     const value = (raw ?? "").trim();
     if (value !== "" && !value.startsWith("/")) {
       throw new Error(`Invalid value for retention.erasure_ledger: must be empty or an absolute file path, got "${raw}"`);
     }
-  }),
+  },
   "retention.watchdog_keep_per_job": (raw, coerced) => {
     if (!/^-?\d+$/.test((raw ?? "").trim()) || typeof coerced !== "number" || !Number.isInteger(coerced) || coerced < 0) {
       throw new Error(`Invalid value for retention.watchdog_keep_per_job: must be an integer >= 0, got "${raw}"`);
@@ -1069,12 +1070,12 @@ const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, KeyConstraint>> = {
       throw new Error(`Invalid value for retention.stream_max_items: must be an integer >= 1, got "${raw}"`);
     }
   },
-  "stream.intake": described({ format: "queue.worker, off, or member@rig" }, (raw) => {
+  "stream.intake": (raw) => {
     const val = (raw ?? "").trim();
     if (val !== "off" && val !== "queue.worker" && !/^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+@[a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+$/.test(val)) {
       throw new Error(`Invalid value for stream.intake: must be "queue.worker", a canonical session (<seat>@<rig>), or "off", got "${raw}"`);
     }
-  }),
+  },
   "retention.batch_size": (raw, coerced) => {
     if (!/^-?\d+$/.test((raw ?? "").trim()) || typeof coerced !== "number" || !Number.isInteger(coerced) || coerced < 1) {
       throw new Error(`Invalid value for retention.batch_size: must be an integer >= 1, got "${raw}"`);
@@ -1088,19 +1089,18 @@ const KEY_CONSTRAINTS: Partial<Record<SettingsValidKey, KeyConstraint>> = {
   "queue.wake_retry_cap": positiveIntegerConstraint("queue.wake_retry_cap"),
   "queue.wake_unconfirmed_window_minutes": positiveIntegerConstraint("queue.wake_unconfirmed_window_minutes"),
   "queue.wake_swap_grace_seconds": positiveIntegerConstraint("queue.wake_swap_grace_seconds"),
-  "queue.wake_human_rung": choiceConstraint(["always", "explicit-only"],
-    (raw) => `Invalid value for queue.wake_human_rung: must be "always" or "explicit-only", got "${raw}"`),
-  "decisions.template_dir": described({ format: "absolute-path-or-empty" }, (_raw, value) => {
+  "queue.wake_human_rung": wakeHumanRungConstraint,
+  "decisions.template_dir": (_raw, value) => {
     if (typeof value !== "string" || (value !== "" && (!path.isAbsolute(value) || value.includes("\0")))) {
       throw new Error("Invalid decisions.template_dir: use an absolute path, or an empty string for the shipped templates only");
     }
-  }),
+  },
   // rig acp serve's receiver when --to isn't given: a team seat, member@rig, or empty for none.
-  "acp.to": described({ format: "member@rig-or-empty" }, (_raw, value) => {
+  "acp.to": (_raw, value) => {
     if (typeof value !== "string" || (value !== "" && !/^[^@\s]+@[^@\s]+$/.test(value))) {
       throw new Error("Invalid acp.to: use the seat that receives your ACP tasks as member@rig, or an empty string for none");
     }
-  }),
+  },
 };
 
 function validateKeyConstraints(key: SettingsValidKey, raw: string, coerced: string | number | boolean): void {
@@ -1126,58 +1126,6 @@ function validateTypedFileValue(key: SettingsValidKey, value: string | number |
   check(raw, value);
 }
 
-/** What the browser view reports about a key's values, read from the rules that govern it. */
-export interface SettingKeyDescription {
-  /** Whether POST and DELETE /api/config/:key accept this key. */
-  writeRoute: boolean;
-  type?: "boolean" | "integer" | "string" | "enum";
-  choices?: string[];
-  range?: { min?: number; max?: number };
-  format?: string;
-}
-
-const ACCEPTED_INTEGER_LIMIT = Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
-
-/** The interval of whole numbers a key's validator accepts, found by asking the validator itself; a side it does not bound is left out. */
-function acceptedIntegerRange(key: SettingsValidKey, start: number): { min?: number; max?: number } | undefined {
-  const check = KEY_CONSTRAINTS[key];
-  if (!check) return undefined;
-  const accepts = (n: number): boolean => {
-    try { check(String(n), n); return true; } catch { return false; }
-  };
-  if (!accepts(start)) return undefined;
-  const range: { min?: number; max?: number } = {};
-  if (!accepts(ACCEPTED_INTEGER_LIMIT)) {
-    let lo = start, hi = ACCEPTED_INTEGER_LIMIT;
-    while (hi - lo > 1) { const mid = Math.floor(lo + (hi - lo) / 2); if (accepts(mid)) lo = mid; else hi = mid; }
-    range.max = lo;
-  }
-  if (!accepts(-ACCEPTED_INTEGER_LIMIT)) {
-    let lo = -ACCEPTED_INTEGER_LIMIT, hi = start;
-    while (hi - lo > 1) { const mid = Math.floor(lo + (hi - lo) / 2); if (accepts(mid)) hi = mid; else lo = mid; }
-    range.min = hi;
-  }
-  return range.min === undefined && range.max === undefined ? undefined : range;
-}
-
-/** Derived from coerceValue (the type), KEY_CONSTRAINTS (choices, format, range) and the key grammar (write route); no second list. */
-export function describeSettingKey(key: string): SettingKeyDescription {
-  if (parseFeedHostSubscriptionKey(key)) return { writeRoute: true, type: "boolean" };
-  if (!isSettingsValidKey(key)) return { writeRoute: false };
-  const fallback = getDefaultValue(key, "");
-  const meta = KEY_CONSTRAINTS[key]?.meta;
-  const out: SettingKeyDescription = { writeRoute: true };
-  if (typeof fallback === "boolean") out.type = "boolean";
-  else if (typeof fallback === "number") {
-    out.type = "integer";
-    const range = acceptedIntegerRange(key, fallback);
-    if (range) out.range = range;
-  } else out.type = meta?.choices ? "enum" : "string";
-  if (meta?.choices) out.choices = [...meta.choices];
-  if (meta?.format) out.format = meta.format;
-  return out;
-}
-
 /**
  * Slice 27 — projected Claude auto-compaction policy. ContextMonitor
  * consumes this snapshot per-poll; the PreCompact hook reads the same

packages/daemon/src/domain/workflow-validator.ts

@@ -361,22 +361,6 @@ export class WorkflowValidator {
       });
     }
 
-    // #3087: validate never resolves seats, so a harness pin is only
-    // reconciled when a run resolves the step's owner. Say so, so a
-    // clean result is not read as "every pin is satisfiable".
-    spec.steps.forEach((step, idx) => {
-      if (!step.harness) return;
-      const binding = spec.target?.rig
-        ? `rig "${spec.target.rig}"`
-        : "no rig is bound";
-      issues.push({
-        code: "harness_pin_unchecked",
-        message: `step "${step.id}" pins harness "${step.harness}", but validate does not check harness pins against any seats (${binding}). The pin is checked when a run resolves the step's owner, and the run fails with harness_pin_unsatisfied if no preferred_target of role "${step.actor_role}" runs ${step.harness}.`,
-        field: `workflow.steps[${idx}].harness`,
-        severity: "warning",
-      });
-    });
-
     // OPR.0.4.6.WF2 FR-5: gate target semantics — a HUMAN-seat target
     // requires summary + evidence_ref (the shipped human-route write
     // path enforces them at create; failing HERE is the fail-at-author-

packages/daemon/test/helpers/test-app.ts

@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ export const migrationsForFullTestDb = [coreSchema, bindingsSessionsSchema, even
  * its exclusion); the guard's redundant-exclusion check then keeps the two in sync.
  */
 export const migrationsForFullTestDbExclusions: Record<string, string> = {
-  "166_queue_list_read_indexes.sql": "read indexes depend on owner-notification columns/archive omitted here (054/076); startup and queue-list-order-indexes.test.ts exercise ALL_MIGRATIONS.",
   "156_queue_erasure_link_indexes.sql": "indexes outbox_entries, inbox_entries and the stream tables (all excluded from the core edge) for queue erasure's lookups; erasure tests migrate the canonical full schema.",
   "082_archive_identity_provenance.sql": "archive extension; 054 is excluded from this core fixture. Archive identity regressions use ALL_MIGRATIONS.",
   "026_inbox_entries.sql": "inbox subsystem table — not on the shared core edge (inbox suites migrate it inline).",

packages/daemon/test/queue-list-order-indexes.test.ts

@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import Database from "better-sqlite3";
-import { migrate } from "../src/db/migrate.js";
-import { ALL_MIGRATIONS } from "../src/db/all-migrations.js";
-import { EventBus } from "../src/domain/event-bus.js";
-import { QueueRepository, type QueueListOptions } from "../src/domain/queue-repository.js";
-import { RECOVERY_INDEX_SQL, findQueueRecovery } from "../src/domain/queue-recovery.js";
-import { QueueTransitionLog } from "../src/domain/queue-transition-log.js";
-import { runStuckSweep } from "../src/domain/queue-stuck-sweep.js";
-import { OutboxHandler } from "../src/domain/outbox-handler.js";
-import { RigRepository } from "../src/domain/rig-repository.js";
-
-describe("bounded queue lists use their ordering indexes", () => {
-  let db: Database.Database;
-  let repo: QueueRepository;
-
-  beforeEach(() => {
-    db = new Database(":memory:");
-    migrate(db, ALL_MIGRATIONS);
-    repo = new QueueRepository(db, new EventBus(db), { loadHumanRegistry: () => ({ ok: true, entities: [] }) });
-    const insert = db.prepare(`INSERT INTO queue_items
-      (qitem_id, ts_created, ts_updated, source_session, destination_session, state, body, tags)
-      VALUES (?, ?, ?, 'sender@r', 'worker@r', ?, ?, ?)`);
-    db.transaction(() => {
-      for (let i = 0; i < 240; i++) {
-        // Equal timestamps across states exercise the existing scan's tie order too.
-        const ts = new Date(Date.UTC(2026, 10, 12, 0, 0, Math.floor(i / 3))).toISOString();
-        const tags = i % 7 === 0 ? ["first", "second"] : i % 2 ? ["first"] : ["second"];
-        insert.run(`q-${i}`, ts, ts, ["pending", "done", "blocked"][i % 3], "body".repeat(256), JSON.stringify(tags));
-      }
-    })();
-  });
-  afterEach(() => { vi.restoreAllMocks(); db.close(); });
-
-  function selection(options: QueueListOptions) {
-    const prepare = db.prepare.bind(db);
-    let selected: { sql: string; args: unknown[] } | undefined;
-    const spy = vi.spyOn(db, "prepare").mockImplementation((sql: string) => {
-      const statement = prepare(sql);
-      if (/^SELECT (?:\*|qitem_id,).* FROM queue_items\s+(?:WHERE\b|ORDER BY\b)/s.test(sql)) {
-        const all = statement.all.bind(statement);
-        statement.all = (...args: unknown[]) => { selected = { sql, args }; return all(...args); };
-      }
-      return statement;
-    });
-    let ids: string[];
-    try { ids = repo.list(options).map((item) => item.qitemId); }
-    finally { spy.mockRestore(); }
-    expect(selected).toBeDefined();
-    const { sql, args } = selected!;
-    const legacy = prepare(sql.replace("FROM queue_items", "FROM queue_items NOT INDEXED"))
-      .all(...args) as Array<{ qitem_id: string }>;
-    expect(ids).toEqual(legacy.map((row) => row.qitem_id));
-    const plan = prepare(`EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN ${sql}`).all(...args) as Array<{ detail: string }>;
-    return { ids, details: plan.map((row) => row.detail).join("\n") };
-  }
-
-  it.each([false, true])("does not scan and sort all rows for a bounded list (compact=%s)", (compact) => {
-    const { ids, details } = selection({ compact, limit: 6 });
-    expect(ids).toHaveLength(6);
-    expect(details).toContain("USING INDEX");
-    expect(details).not.toContain("TEMP B-TREE");
-  });
-
-  it.each([false, true])("keeps active rows first without sorting all rig history (compact=%s)", (compact) => {
-    const { ids, details } = selection({ rig: "r", compact, limit: 6 });
-    expect(ids).toHaveLength(6);
-    expect(details).toContain("USING INDEX");
-    expect(details).not.toContain("TEMP B-TREE");
-  });
-
-  it.each([false, true])("keeps scoped update-time ordering indexed (compact=%s)", (compact) => {
-    const { ids, details } = selection({ rig: "r", sortByUpdated: true, compact, limit: 6 });
-    expect(ids).toHaveLength(6);
-    expect(details).toContain("USING INDEX");
-    expect(details).not.toContain("TEMP B-TREE");
-  });
-
-  it("looks for owner notifications without reading ordinary live or archived transitions", () => {
-    const log = new QueueTransitionLog(db);
-    const prepare = db.prepare.bind(db);
-    let query = "";
-    const spy = vi.spyOn(db, "prepare").mockImplementation((sql: string) => {
-      if (sql.includes("ROW_NUMBER()") && sql.includes("owner_notification_level IS NOT NULL")) query = sql;
-      return prepare(sql);
-    });
-    try { expect(log.ownerNotificationsForQitems(["q-0"])).toEqual(new Map()); }
-    finally { spy.mockRestore(); }
-    expect(query).not.toBe("");
-    const plan = prepare(`EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN ${query}`).all(JSON.stringify(["q-0"])) as Array<{ detail: string }>;
-    const details = plan.map((row) => row.detail).join("\n");
-    expect(details).toContain("idx_queue_transitions_owner_notification_qitem");
-    expect(details).toContain("idx_queue_transitions_archive_owner_notification_qitem");
-  });
-
-  it("still applies both exact tags before the bound, including zero and unbounded limits", () => {
-    for (const limit of [0, 1, 6, -1]) {
-      const { ids } = selection({ rig: "r", tag: ["first", "second"], limit });
-      expect(ids.every((id) => Number(id.slice(2)) % 7 === 0)).toBe(true);
-      expect(ids).toHaveLength(limit < 0 ? 35 : Math.min(limit, 35));
-    }
-  });
-
-  it("keeps recovery lookup on its small partial index when listing indexes exist", () => {
-    const plan = db.prepare(`EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN ${RECOVERY_INDEX_SQL}`).all() as Array<{ detail: string }>;
-    expect(plan.some((row) => row.detail.includes("idx_queue_items_recovery_tags"))).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  async function pointPlan(prefix: string, run: () => unknown | Promise<unknown>) {
-    const prepare = db.prepare.bind(db);
-    let selected: { sql: string; args: unknown[] } | undefined;
-    const spy = vi.spyOn(db, "prepare").mockImplementation((sql: string) => {
-      const statement = prepare(sql);
-      if (sql.startsWith(prefix)) {
-        const get = statement.get.bind(statement);
-        statement.get = (...args: unknown[]) => { selected = { sql, args }; return get(...args); };
-      }
-      return statement;
-    });
-    try { await run(); } finally { spy.mockRestore(); }
-    expect(selected).toBeDefined();
-    const plan = prepare(`EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN ${selected!.sql}`).all(...selected!.args) as Array<{ detail: string }>;
-    expect(plan.some((row) => row.detail.includes("idx_queue_items_recovery_tags"))).toBe(true);
-  }
-
-  it("keeps standalone recovery hits and misses on the recovery partial index", async () => {
-    db.prepare("UPDATE queue_items SET tags = ? WHERE qitem_id = 'q-0'").run(JSON.stringify(["recovery-for:subject"]));
-    for (const subject of ["subject", "no-match"]) {
-      for (const exclude of [undefined, "excluded"]) {
-        await pointPlan("SELECT qitem_id, state, ts_updated FROM queue_items", () => {
-          expect(findQueueRecovery(db, subject, exclude)?.qitemId ?? null).toBe(subject === "subject" ? "q-0" : null);
-        });
-      }
-    }
-  });
-
-  async function sweepForPlan(state: "pending" | "in-progress") {
-    db.exec("DELETE FROM queue_items");
-    repo.attachOutbox(new OutboxHandler(db));
-    if (state === "pending") {
-      const rigs = new RigRepository(db);
-      const rig = rigs.createRig("r");
-      const node = rigs.addNode(rig.id, "worker", { runtime: "claude-code" });
-      db.prepare("INSERT INTO sessions (id,node_id,session_name,status) VALUES ('plan-session',?,'worker@r','running')").run(node.id);
-    }
-    const past = new Date(Date.now() - 120 * 60_000).toISOString();
-    const insert = db.prepare(`INSERT INTO queue_items
-      (qitem_id, ts_created, ts_updated, source_session, destination_session, state, body, claimed_at, closure_required_at)
-      VALUES (?, ?, ?, 'sender@r', 'worker@r', ?, 'work', ?, ?)`);
-    for (let i = 0; i < (state === "pending" ? 3 : 1); i++) {
-      insert.run(`candidate-${i}`, past, past, state, state === "in-progress" ? past : null, state === "in-progress" ? past : null);
-    }
-    return runStuckSweep({ db, queueRepo: repo, resolveOrchestrator: () => null, resolveRecoveryAgentSeat: () => null,
-      resolveOperatorSeat: () => null, isRegisteredHost: () => false, unclaimedAgeMinutes: 60, log: () => {} });
-  }
-
-  it("keeps the per-row finding lookup on the recovery partial index", async () => {
-    await pointPlan("SELECT qitem_id, source_session, state, ts_updated FROM queue_items", () => sweepForPlan("in-progress"));
-  });
-
-  it("keeps the latest backlog finding lookup on the recovery partial index", async () => {
-    await pointPlan("SELECT qitem_id, state, ts_updated, summary, body, destination_session, tags FROM queue_items", () => sweepForPlan("pending"));
-  });
-});

packages/daemon/test/settings-browser-metadata.test.ts

@@ -1,166 +0,0 @@
-import { beforeEach, afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
-import { Hono } from "hono";
-import { mkdtempSync, rmSync } from "node:fs";
-import { join } from "node:path";
-import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
-import { SettingsStore, SETTINGS_VALID_KEYS, isSettingsValidKey, parseFeedHostSubscriptionKey } from "../src/domain/user-settings/settings-store.js";
-import { settingsBrowser } from "../src/domain/user-settings/settings-browser.js";
-import { configRoutes } from "../src/routes/config.js";
-
-let home: string;
-let n = 0;
-const freshStore = () => new SettingsStore(join(home, `config-${n++}.json`));
-const browse = () => settingsBrowser(freshStore(), null, home);
-/** The write path is the oracle: does the daemon's own set() accept this raw value for this key? */
-const accepts = (key: string, raw: string): boolean => {
-  try { freshStore().set(key, raw); return true; } catch { return false; }
-};
-/** Each accepts 1 to 100 on its own, but set() also requires warning < critical: a cross-key rule these per-key fields do not describe. */
-const PAIRED = new Set(["health.context_pressure.warning_percent", "health.context_pressure.critical_percent"]);
-
-beforeEach(() => {
-  home = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "s06-browser-meta-"));
-  for (const key of Object.keys(process.env).filter((k) => /^(OPENRIG_|RIGGED_|SLACK_)/.test(k))) vi.stubEnv(key, "");
-  vi.stubEnv("OPENRIG_HOME", home);
-  vi.stubEnv("OPENRIG_WORKSPACE_ROOT", join(home, "workspace"));
-});
-afterEach(() => { vi.unstubAllEnvs(); rmSync(home, { recursive: true, force: true }); });
-
-describe("browser entry metadata", () => {
-  it("adds type, choices, range, format, write route and timing without changing the existing fields", () => {
-    const entries = browse().entries;
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "terminal.history_limit")).toMatchObject({
-      type: "integer", range: { min: 2000, max: 1_000_000 }, writeRoute: true, appliesAt: "unknown",
-      value: expect.anything(), defaultKnown: true, application: expect.stringContaining("tmux"),
-    });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "terminal.tmux_server")).toMatchObject({
-      type: "enum", choices: ["inherit", "isolated"], writeRoute: true, appliesAt: "daemon_restart",
-    });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "daemon.port")).toMatchObject({ type: "integer", range: { min: 0, max: 65535 } });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "retention.stream_days")).toMatchObject({ type: "integer", range: { min: 1 } });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "retention.stream_days")!.range).not.toHaveProperty("max");
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "ui.timezone")).toMatchObject({ type: "string", format: "iana-timezone" });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "retention.enabled")).toMatchObject({ type: "boolean", appliesAt: "daemon_restart" });
-    // A key with no validator reports a type and nothing it cannot back up.
-    const free = entries.find((e) => e.key === "host.name")!;
-    expect(free).toMatchObject({ type: "string", writeRoute: true });
-    expect(free).not.toHaveProperty("choices");
-    expect(free).not.toHaveProperty("range");
-    expect(free).not.toHaveProperty("format");
-  });
-
-  it("matches the daemon's own validator for every key it can be written under", () => {
-    const entries = browse().entries.filter((e) => e.group === "general" && isSettingsValidKey(e.key));
-    expect(entries.map((e) => e.key)).toEqual([...SETTINGS_VALID_KEYS]);
-    for (const e of entries) {
-      expect(e.writeRoute, e.key).toBe(true);
-      expect(e.type, e.key).toBeDefined();
-      if (e.type === "boolean") {
-        expect(accepts(e.key, "true"), e.key).toBe(true);
-        expect(accepts(e.key, "false"), e.key).toBe(true);
-        expect(accepts(e.key, "not-a-boolean"), e.key).toBe(false);
-      }
-      if (e.type === "integer" && !PAIRED.has(e.key)) {
-        expect(accepts(e.key, "not-a-number"), e.key).toBe(false);
-        if (e.range?.min !== undefined) {
-          expect(accepts(e.key, String(e.range.min)), `${e.key} min`).toBe(true);
-          expect(accepts(e.key, String(e.range.min - 1)), `${e.key} below min`).toBe(false);
-        }
-        if (e.range?.max !== undefined) {
-          expect(accepts(e.key, String(e.range.max)), `${e.key} max`).toBe(true);
-          expect(accepts(e.key, String(e.range.max + 1)), `${e.key} above max`).toBe(false);
-        }
-        // Where a side is left out, the validator must accept a value far on that side.
-        if (e.range?.max === undefined) expect(accepts(e.key, "1000000000"), `${e.key} no max`).toBe(true);
-        if (e.range?.min === undefined) expect(accepts(e.key, "0") || accepts(e.key, "1"), `${e.key} no min`).toBe(true);
-      }
-      if (e.choices) {
-        expect(e.type, e.key).toBe("enum");
-        for (const choice of e.choices) expect(accepts(e.key, choice), `${e.key}=${choice}`).toBe(true);
-        expect(accepts(e.key, "not-one-of-the-choices"), e.key).toBe(false);
-      }
-    }
-  });
-
-  it("states a range only where the validator is an interval, at sample points across the whole line", () => {
-    const samples = [-1_000_000_000, -100_001, -1000, -61, -60, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 59, 60, 100, 101, 599, 600, 601,
-      999, 1000, 1999, 2000, 2001, 3600, 3601, 65535, 65536, 999_999, 1_000_000, 1_000_001, 1_000_000_000];
-    const ranged = browse().entries.filter((x) => x.type === "integer" && x.range && !PAIRED.has(x.key));
-    expect(ranged.length).toBeGreaterThan(25);
-    for (const e of ranged) {
-      for (const sample of samples) {
-        const inside = (e.range!.min === undefined || sample >= e.range!.min) && (e.range!.max === undefined || sample <= e.range!.max);
-        expect(accepts(e.key, String(sample)), `${e.key} at ${sample}`).toBe(inside);
-      }
-    }
-  });
-
-  it("reports the per-key range of the paired percentages and leaves their cross-key rule out", () => {
-    const entries = browse().entries;
-    for (const key of PAIRED) expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === key)).toMatchObject({ type: "integer", range: { min: 1, max: 100 } });
-    // Per key the bounds are the validator's: critical takes 100, nothing takes 0 or 101 ...
-    expect(accepts("health.context_pressure.critical_percent", "100")).toBe(true);
-    for (const key of PAIRED) for (const bad of ["0", "101"]) expect(accepts(key, bad), `${key}=${bad}`).toBe(false);
-    expect(accepts("health.context_pressure.warning_percent", "1")).toBe(true);
-    // ... while the pair rule (warning below critical) still refuses a value inside that range, and is not a field here.
-    expect(accepts("health.context_pressure.warning_percent", "100")).toBe(false);
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "health.context_pressure.warning_percent")).not.toHaveProperty("pair");
-  });
-
-  it("names a format that agrees with what the validator accepts and refuses", () => {
-    const cases: Record<string, { format: string; ok: string[]; bad: string[] }> = {
-      "ui.timezone": { format: "iana-timezone", ok: ["Europe/London", "UTC"], bad: ["Not/AZone", "+01:00"] },
-      "policies.claude_compaction.preparation_root": { format: "absolute-path-or-empty", ok: ["/var/lib/example", ""], bad: ["relative/path"] },
-      "decisions.template_dir": { format: "absolute-path-or-empty", ok: ["/var/lib/example", ""], bad: ["relative/path"] },
-      "retention.erasure_ledger": { format: "absolute-path-or-empty", ok: ["/var/lib/example/ledger", ""], bad: ["relative/ledger"] },
-      "stream.intake": { format: "queue.worker, off, or member@rig", ok: ["off", "queue.worker", "seat@rig"], bad: ["no at sign"] },
-      "acp.to": { format: "member@rig-or-empty", ok: ["seat@rig", ""], bad: ["no-at-sign", "a@b@c"] },
-    };
-    const entries = browse().entries;
-    for (const [key, c] of Object.entries(cases)) {
-      expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === key)!.format, key).toBe(c.format);
-      for (const ok of c.ok) expect(accepts(key, ok), `${key}=${ok}`).toBe(true);
-      for (const bad of c.bad) expect(accepts(key, bad), `${key}=${bad}`).toBe(false);
-    }
-    // Every key that reports a format is in this table, so a new one cannot ship unchecked.
-    expect(entries.filter((e) => e.format).map((e) => e.key).sort()).toEqual(Object.keys(cases).sort());
-  });
-
-  it("reports the write route as the daemon's own key rules decide, for every entry", () => {
-    const store = freshStore();
-    store.set("feed.subscriptions.fixture-host.enabled", "true");
-    const entries = settingsBrowser(store, null, home).entries;
-    for (const e of entries) {
-      expect(e.writeRoute, e.key).toBe(isSettingsValidKey(e.key) || parseFeedHostSubscriptionKey(e.key) !== null);
-    }
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "feed.subscriptions.fixture-host.enabled")).toMatchObject({ type: "boolean", writeRoute: true });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "slack.enabled")).toMatchObject({ writeRoute: false });
-    expect(entries.find((e) => e.key === "slack.enabled")).not.toHaveProperty("type");
-    expect(entries.filter((e) => e.group !== "general" && e.writeRoute)).toEqual([]);
-  });
-
-  it("agrees with the write route itself: the keys it reports writable are accepted, the others are unknown keys", async () => {
-    const store = freshStore();
-    const app = new Hono();
-    app.use("*", async (c, next) => { c.set("settingsStore" as never, store as never); await next(); });
-    app.route("/api/config", configRoutes({ home }));
-    const post = (key: string, value: string) => app.request(`/api/config/${key}`, {
-      method: "POST", headers: { "content-type": "application/json" }, body: JSON.stringify({ value }) });
-    expect((await post("terminal.history_limit", "5000")).status).toBe(200);
-    expect((await post("terminal.history_limit", "1999")).status).toBe(400);
-    const refused = await post("slack.enabled", "true");
-    expect(refused.status).toBe(400);
-    expect((await refused.json()).error).toContain("Unknown config key");
-    const browser = await (await app.request("/api/config?view=browser")).json();
-    expect(browser.entries.find((e: { key: string }) => e.key === "terminal.history_limit")).toMatchObject({ writeRoute: true, range: { min: 2000, max: 1_000_000 } });
-    expect(browser.entries.find((e: { key: string }) => e.key === "slack.enabled")).toMatchObject({ writeRoute: false });
-    expect(browser.readOnly).toBe(true);
-  });
-
-  it("marks timing only where the application guidance says a restart applies it, and says unknown otherwise", () => {
-    for (const e of browse().entries) {
-      const guidanceSaysRestart = /\bdaemon (?:restart|startup)\b/i.test(e.application);
-      expect(e.appliesAt, e.key).toBe(guidanceSaysRestart ? "daemon_restart" : "unknown");
-    }
-  });
-});

packages/daemon/test/slack-sweep-selection.test.ts

@@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ describe("Slack sweep selection", () => {
   it("keeps a legacy schema without owner classification quiet", async () => {
     row("legacy");
     for (const table of ["queue_transitions", "queue_transitions_archive"]) {
-      // The simulated pre-classification schema also predates its partial index.
-      db.exec(`DROP INDEX idx_${table}_owner_notification_qitem`);
       db.exec(`ALTER TABLE ${table} DROP COLUMN owner_notification_level; ALTER TABLE ${table} DROP COLUMN owner_notification_kind`);
     }
     repo = new QueueRepository(db, new EventBus(db), { loadHumanRegistry: () => registry });

packages/daemon/test/user-settings-store.test.ts

@@ -625,19 +625,6 @@ describe("SettingsStore (User Settings v0)", () => {
     }
   });
 
-  it("a non-string provider.selected in config.json falls back to the default with a warning", () => {
-    writeFileSync(configPath, JSON.stringify({ provider: { selected: ["claude"] } }));
-    const stderrSpy = vi.spyOn(process.stderr, "write").mockImplementation(() => true);
-    try {
-      const store = new SettingsStore(configPath);
-      expect(store.resolveOne("provider.selected")).toMatchObject({ value: "", source: "default" });
-      const warns = stderrSpy.mock.calls.map((c) => String(c[0]));
-      expect(warns.some((w) => w.includes("file value for provider.selected rejected"))).toBe(true);
-    } finally {
-      stderrSpy.mockRestore();
-    }
-  });
-
   it("a quoted in-range port in config.json keeps its port, and the CLI target and daemon bind agree", () => {
     writeFileSync(configPath, JSON.stringify({ daemon: { port: "7434" } }));
     const store = new SettingsStore(configPath);

packages/daemon/test/workflow-wf2-spec-language.test.ts

@@ -577,23 +577,6 @@ describe("OPR.0.4.6.WF2 — spec language", () => {
       ).rejects.toMatchObject({ code: "harness_pin_unsatisfied" });
     });
 
-    it("validate warns that a harness pin is unchecked instead of reporting a clean result (#3087)", () => {
-      const spec = parseWorkflowSpec(HARNESS_SPEC, "harness.yaml");
-      const result = new WorkflowValidator().validate(spec);
-      expect(result.ok).toBe(true);
-      const unchecked = result.issues.filter((i) => i.code === "harness_pin_unchecked");
-      expect(unchecked).toHaveLength(1);
-      expect(unchecked[0]).toMatchObject({ severity: "warning", field: "workflow.steps[0].harness" });
-      expect(unchecked[0]!.message).toContain('"codex"');
-      expect(unchecked[0]!.message).toContain("no rig is bound");
-    });
-
-    it("validate adds no pin warning to a spec without harness pins", () => {
-      const spec = parseWorkflowSpec(LINEAR_SPEC, "linear.yaml");
-      const result = new WorkflowValidator().validate(spec);
-      expect(result.issues.some((i) => i.code === "harness_pin_unchecked")).toBe(false);
-    });
-
     it("steps with no pin resolve preferred_targets[0] unchanged (zero regression)", async () => {
       const specPath = writeSpec(tmp, "linear.yaml", LINEAR_SPEC);
       const result = await runtime.instantiate({