On the control node agents are to run as an account that cannot become root
(hq ADR 0266). The runtime keeps running as the operator, so the token, the
identity and the home-scope items go to the agent's home through a helper
started as that account; the licence and the account file follow the move,
what was placed in the operator's home goes once the agent holds the licence,
and the guard refuses every tool of a session running as anyone else,
recording to the journal. An API key is taken only from the agent's home and
only when it is one, here and in the licence manager, so the tool cannot carry
off the runtime's credential. Unchanged where no agent account is named.
mesh/merge-gate pass: builds claude-code → ace, g14, novox, shanks; no bus step; every machine composes with the change as it did without (4 of 4 compose)
The agent kept running ssh <machine> journalctl while the journal verb existed. The managed
instructions now carry an "instead of" table generated from what each verb says it replaces, and
the plugin carries a PreToolUse guard that refuses ssh to a mesh machine and local work-arounds for a
mesh name, naming the tool or saying one must be created. The operator's override is read from the
session's start environment and recorded.