fleetd #638: stop the verdict userinfo mask from crossing / or whitespace

mask_verdict_userinfo's character class [^@]* crossed a '/' or a space, so a
verdict line with a URI that has no userinfo plus a later @ (e.g. an email
address in diagnostic prose) had everything between them destroyed. Restrict
the class to [^@/[:space:]]* so the match stops at the end of the URI.

Adds the uncovered-direction test: a URI with no userinfo plus a later @ in
the same line must pass through byte for byte. Also drops the design-rationale
sentence from the helper's comment (now in the PR description).

.claude/skills/fleets-status/SKILL.md

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ as `matches HEAD`, `drift`, or `unknown`; do not turn an unclear timestamp into
 Report the process identifier (PID) and uptime too:
 
 ```bash
-PIDS="$(pgrep -f 'target/fleetd.jar' || true)"
+PIDS="$(pgrep -f 'fleetd.jar' || true)"
 if [ -z "$PIDS" ]; then
   printf '%s\n' 'fleetd: not running'
 else

.claude/skills/handover/SKILL.md

@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ fails.
 - **`accepted` does not mean your pane has been cleared.** It means every gate passed and the roll
   is scheduled to run once your current turn ends. Say your goodbye in the same turn — you will not
   get another one.
+- **If you are still running after that turn, the roll did not happen.** A roll that works clears
+  you, so surviving your own goodbye is itself the signal that it refused. Check with
+  `fleet_handover{action: "status", token}`, using the token you confirmed. `TURN_NEVER_SETTLED`
+  means your turn ran past `leadRollover.turnSettleSeconds` and **no `/clear` was ever sent**: your
+  context is intact and nothing was lost. Open a fresh request and retry. Never assume the roll
+  succeeded because `confirm` answered `accepted` — by the time it refuses, there is no caller left
+  to tell, so this check is the only thing that closes that gap.
 - **There is no terminal or session parameter, on purpose.** The pane is always your own, resolved
   from your connection, so you can only ever roll yourself.
 - **`operatorConfirmed` is your report of what a human told you.** Do not pass `true` because you

.claude/skills/redeploy-fleetd/SKILL.md

@@ -22,13 +22,22 @@ scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh --yes     # skip the drain prompt (fleet already chec
 scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh --no-build # restart the jar already on disk
 ```
 
-`--no-build` skips the build and restarts whatever jar is at `fleetd/target/fleetd.jar`. Use it only
-when you just built and nothing changed since. It gives up the protection in the next paragraph: no
-build runs, so a stale or missing jar is not caught early. The script still checks the file is there
-and dies with `no jar at … — run without --no-build` if it is not, but it cannot tell you the jar is
-old. A `mvn clean` in the tree deletes that jar while the daemon keeps running on it, and nothing
-degrades until the next restart. Run `--check` first: it prints the jar's hash and its modification
-time, so you can see for yourself whether the jar is missing or older than the code you mean to ship.
+`--no-build` skips the build and restarts whatever jar is at `fleetd/run/fleetd.jar` — the runtime
+path, not Maven's output path. Use it only when you just built and nothing changed since. It gives
+up the protection in the next paragraph: no build runs, so a stale or missing jar is not caught
+early. The script still checks the file is there and dies with `no jar at … — run without
+--no-build` if it is not, but it cannot tell you the jar is old.
+
+The daemon runs from `fleetd/run/fleetd.jar`, not from `fleetd/target/fleetd.jar` where Maven
+writes its output (fleetd #664). That split is what makes a bare `mvn install`/`mvn clean` in the
+main clone harmless now: neither can reach the file the running daemon holds open, because that
+file no longer lives under `target/` at all. Verify a merge by building in a throwaway git
+worktree anyway — a build still produces nothing the fleet runs until this script's own `mv` of
+`target/fleetd.jar` onto `run/fleetd.jar`, performed only after the old daemon is confirmed gone.
+Let only `scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh` touch `fleetd/run/fleetd.jar`. Run `--check` first: it prints
+the BUILT jar (`target/fleetd.jar`) and the RUNNING jar (`run/fleetd.jar`) as two separately
+labelled hash-and-mtime facts, so a mismatch between them — a build sitting unswapped, or a stale
+runtime jar — is visible before you decide anything.
 
 It builds before it stops anything, so a failed build never leaves the fleet down; it waits for the
 old process to exit rather than assuming; it polls `/healthz`; and it anchors its log checks to a

CLAUDE.md

@@ -323,6 +323,13 @@ must obey belongs in the charter, not here.
   reference**, with the intent→tool table above as the short form. `McpContractDocTest` fails if
   that page names a `fleet_*` tool the server does not register. The flows are kept out of this
   file because this file loads into every session's context.
+- **The daemon runs from `fleetd/run/fleetd.jar`, not `fleetd/target/fleetd.jar`** (fleetd #664).
+  Maven's own output still lands at `fleetd/target/fleetd.jar` — that part of the build is
+  unchanged — but the running daemon never has that file open, so a bare `mvn install`/`mvn clean`
+  in the main clone no longer corrupts anything a live process is reading. Verify merges in a
+  throwaway git worktree anyway: a build in the main clone still ships nothing until
+  `scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh` moves it into place with its own atomic `mv`, performed only after
+  the old daemon is confirmed gone. Let only that script touch `fleetd/run/fleetd.jar`.
 
 ### Redeploying the daemon — the lead may do this (primary only)
 

deploy/dev.ltms.fleetd.plist

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
         <string>/Users/dai.ha/LTMS/claude-bridge/scripts/fleetd-launchd-wrapper.sh</string>
         <string>/Users/dai.ha/Softwares/jdks/jdk-25.0.3.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java</string>
         <string>-jar</string>
-        <string>/Users/dai.ha/LTMS/claude-bridge/fleetd/target/fleetd.jar</string>
+        <string>/Users/dai.ha/LTMS/claude-bridge/fleetd/run/fleetd.jar</string>
         <string>fleetd.yaml</string>
     </array>
 

deploy/fleetd.service

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ WorkingDirectory=%h/LTMS/fleetd/fleetd
 # and looks healthy, and the failure appears hours later as a member that cannot open a pull
 # request. exec keeps it one process, so systemd tracks the right PID.
 # This also avoids a SECOND copy of the secrets in a systemd drop-in: one source of truth.
-ExecStart=/bin/zsh -lc "exec java -jar target/fleetd.jar fleetd.yaml"
+ExecStart=/bin/zsh -lc "exec java -jar run/fleetd.jar fleetd.yaml"
 
 # PrivateTmp MUST stay false -- see herdr.service. fleetd creates the member ZDOTDIR scrub dir and
 # the opencode config dir under java.io.tmpdir, and the member pane (a herdr child, a different

fleetd/.gitignore

@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 target/
 dependency-reduced-pom.xml
 
+# The daemon's runtime jar (fleetd #664). scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh moves the built jar here
+# with a same-filesystem rename; this is never Maven's output path and never belongs in git.
+run/
+
 # Local runtime config (copy from fleetd.example.yaml). Both names are ignored: fleetd.yaml is
 # the current name, and bridged.yaml is the legacy name Fleetd still falls back to.
 fleetd.yaml

fleetd/pom.xml

@@ -189,8 +189,10 @@
 
     <build>
         <!-- CB-634: the cutover renamed the module dir (bridged/ -> fleetd/), the jar, and the
-         launchd plist together. The installed plist names fleetd/target/fleetd.jar and
-         KeepAlive is armed, so this name, the plist, and the wrapper must move as one. -->
+         launchd plist together. fleetd #664: the installed plist and the systemd unit now name
+         fleetd/run/fleetd.jar, not this plugin's own output path — see
+         scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh for the mv that gets a build from here to there. KeepAlive is
+         armed, so this name, the plist, and the wrapper must still move as one. -->
         <finalName>fleetd</finalName>
         <plugins>
             <plugin>

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/auth/Authz.java

@@ -20,16 +20,22 @@ public final class Authz {
         SPAWN,
         /** Tear a worker peer down. */
         STOP,
-        /** Deliver a turn to a session (or answer a worker's question). */
+        /** Deliver a turn to a local session, addressed by {@code sessionId}. */
         SEND,
+        /** Resolve a worker's blocked question and resume its turn, addressed by {@code turnId}. */
+        ANSWER,
+        /** Address a peer lead on another daemon over the coordination broker, by {@code coordId}. */
+        COORD_SEND,
         /** A worker's terminal reply for its own turn. */
         REPLY,
         /** A worker's mid-turn question to the primary. */
         ASK,
         /** Collect held replies from a session's inbox. */
         DRAIN,
-        /** Read-only observation: status, roster, profiles, task polling. */
+        /** Read-only roster, profile, and identity observation: no ticket, task, or turn state. */
         READ,
+        /** Poll a ticket, or read a session's status. */
+        TASK_READ,
         /**
          * Read (never ack) this daemon's own held lead-to-lead coordination mail (fleetd #421).
          *
@@ -71,11 +77,19 @@ public final class Authz {
             // escalating into the orchestrator role.
             case SPAWN, STOP, DRAIN, HANDOVER -> caller.isPrimary();
 
-            // Delivering a turn is open to the primary and the architect: an architect delegates
-            // to workers (that is the role's point) but still has no lifecycle rights. A worker is
-            // excluded — sending would be it escalating.
+            // Delivering a turn to a local session is open to the primary and the architect: an
+            // architect delegates to workers (that is the role's point) but still has no lifecycle
+            // rights. A worker is excluded — sending would be it escalating.
             case SEND -> caller.isPrimary() || caller.isArchitect();
 
+            // Same grant as SEND. Resolving a worker's blocked question is part of delegating to
+            // it, not a separate capability.
+            case ANSWER -> caller.isPrimary() || caller.isArchitect();
+
+            // Same grant as SEND. This leaves the daemon over the coordination broker rather than
+            // addressing a local session, but the caller who may do one may do the other.
+            case COORD_SEND -> caller.isPrimary() || caller.isArchitect();
+
             // The load-bearing rule: a caller acts only as the pane it occupies. CB-532 widened who
             // that can be — a lead answering another lead is replying for its OWN terminal, which
             // this already permits — while the rule itself is unchanged, and is what stops anyone
@@ -84,10 +98,17 @@ public final class Authz {
             // unnamed primary (token/loopback, no pane) owns nothing and is still excluded.
             case REPLY, ASK -> caller.ownsSession(targetSession);
 
-            // Observation is open to every authenticated role: a worker legitimately polls its own
-            // status, and the roster carries no secrets.
+            // READ is roster, profile, and identity observation — fleet_list, fleet_profiles, and
+            // fleet_whoami — and carries no secrets: no ticket reply, no pending question, and no
+            // other session's turn state. Those live under TASK_READ. METRICS is the separate
+            // Prometheus scrape. Both stay open to every authenticated role.
             case READ, METRICS -> caller.isPrimary() || caller.isWorker() || caller.isArchitect();
 
+            // Ticket polling and session status, open to every authenticated role the same as READ.
+            // Unlike READ, a holder may poll a ticket it did not create, or read another session's
+            // pending question and the turnId that answers it.
+            case TASK_READ -> caller.isPrimary() || caller.isWorker() || caller.isArchitect();
+
             // fleetd #421: reading held lead-to-lead mail is the primary's alone. An architect
             // holds READ today (CB-548), so "not primary" must mean not-architect here too — this
             // is coordination between leads, not observation of the roster.

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/config/FleetConfig.java

@@ -1399,11 +1399,13 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * called FROM the calling lead's own turn, so its pane is still {@code WORKING} the instant
      * {@code confirm()} validates every gate and schedules the roll. {@code
      * dev.ltms.fleet.lead.LeadRollover}'s deferred continuation waits up to this many seconds for
-     * that SAME pane to report an injectable state again — i.e. for the calling turn to actually
-     * end — before it sends {@code /clear} at all. If that wait times out, no {@code /clear} is
+     * that SAME pane to report {@code IDLE} or {@code DONE} — i.e. for the calling turn to actually
+     * end — before it sends {@code /clear} at all. {@code BLOCKED} does not count: that is a live
+     * turn merely paused, not one that has finished. If that wait times out, no {@code /clear} is
      * ever sent: a lead that never goes idle is still doing real work, and clearing it would
      * destroy live context. This is a separate wait from {@code clearSettleSeconds} below, which
-     * bounds the SECOND wait, for the pane to re-settle AFTER {@code /clear} has already gone out.
+     * bounds the SECOND wait, for the pane to reach {@code IDLE} or {@code DONE} again AFTER
+     * {@code /clear} has already gone out.
      *
      * @param handoverPath required when this block is present — where the handover file a fresh
      *                     lead session reads must live. There is no sane non-null default for an
@@ -1422,12 +1424,13 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * @param maxDocAgeSeconds default 3600 — refuse a handover file whose modified time is older
      *                     than this many seconds, so a stale leftover from an earlier rollover
      *                     attempt can never be mistaken for a fresh one.
-     * @param turnSettleSeconds default 20 — bound on how long the deferred roll waits for the
-     *                     CALLING lead's own turn to end (its pane to report injectable again)
-     *                     before sending {@code /clear} at all. See the paragraph above.
+     * @param turnSettleSeconds default 300 — bound on how long the deferred roll waits for the
+     *                     CALLING lead's own turn to end (its pane to report {@code IDLE} or
+     *                     {@code DONE}) before sending {@code /clear} at all. See the paragraph
+     *                     above.
      * @param clearSettleSeconds default 20 — bound on how long to wait for the lead's pane to
-     *                     report an injectable state again after {@code /clear} before giving up. A
-     *                     roll that times out here never sends {@code bootstrapText}.
+     *                     report {@code IDLE} or {@code DONE} again after {@code /clear} before
+     *                     giving up. A roll that times out here never sends {@code bootstrapText}.
      * @param bootstrapText default a sentence naming the RESOLVED handover path — sent to the
      *                     lead's pane once it settles after {@code /clear}, telling the fresh
      *                     session where to read the handover and carry on. Left {@code null} here
@@ -1444,7 +1447,7 @@ public record FleetConfig(
         public LeadRollover {
             requireOperatorConfirm = requireOperatorConfirm == null || requireOperatorConfirm;
             maxDocAgeSeconds = (maxDocAgeSeconds == null || maxDocAgeSeconds <= 0) ? 3600 : maxDocAgeSeconds;
-            turnSettleSeconds = (turnSettleSeconds == null || turnSettleSeconds <= 0) ? 20 : turnSettleSeconds;
+            turnSettleSeconds = (turnSettleSeconds == null || turnSettleSeconds <= 0) ? 300 : turnSettleSeconds;
             clearSettleSeconds = (clearSettleSeconds == null || clearSettleSeconds <= 0) ? 20 : clearSettleSeconds;
             bootstrapText = (bootstrapText == null || bootstrapText.isBlank()) ? null : bootstrapText;
         }
@@ -2977,11 +2980,11 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * Runs every validator this class declares — found by reflection, not by name.
      *
      * <p>fleetd ticket "central allow-list of usable models", follow-up: mutation testing found
-     * that although each of the six validators above was well pinned on its own, nothing proved
+     * that although each validator above was well pinned on its own, nothing proved
      * either real caller ({@code Fleetd.main} and {@link ConfigRef#reload()}) still
-     * invoked it — deleting a call site left the full suite green. The fix is not a seventh test
-     * per caller; a hand-maintained list of six names here would have the exact same defect its
-     * own javadoc would warn against: the seventh validator someone adds next month has no reason
+     * invoked it — deleting a call site left the full suite green. The fix is not one more test
+     * per caller; a hand-maintained list of names here would have the exact same defect its
+     * own javadoc would warn against: the next validator someone adds has no reason
      * to be added to it. So this method does not name any validator. It sweeps {@link
      * #getClass()}'s own public, no-argument, {@code void} methods whose name starts with {@code
      * "validate"} (excluding itself) and invokes every one it finds, via {@link
@@ -2990,7 +2993,7 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * which it silently never runs.
      *
      * <p>{@code Fleetd.main} and {@link ConfigRef#reload()} each call this one method instead of
-     * the six individually — see the comments at those two call sites for why
+     * each validator individually — see the comments at those two call sites for why
      * each must run it.
      *
      * <p>Methods run in a fixed (alphabetical) order, so a config with more than one violation
@@ -3007,9 +3010,9 @@ public record FleetConfig(
     /**
      * The reflective sweep behind {@link #validateAll()}, kept as its own method — taking any
      * {@code target}, not just {@code this} — so a test can prove the MECHANISM is generic (it
-     * would sweep a seventh {@code validateXxx()} method added to any class, not just something
-     * special-cased to today's six on {@link FleetConfig}) without needing to add a real, unwanted
-     * seventh validator to this class just to exercise that claim. See {@code
+     * would sweep any new {@code validateXxx()} method added to any class, not just something
+     * special-cased to the set {@link FleetConfig} declares today) without needing to add a real,
+     * unwanted extra validator to this class just to exercise that claim. See {@code
      * FleetConfigValidateAllTest} for that proof.
      *
      * @param target an object whose public, no-argument, {@code void} methods named {@code

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGauge.java

@@ -172,12 +172,6 @@ public final class LeadContextGauge {
      *                  {@code "claude"} (including {@code null}, meaning undetected) reports
      *                  {@link State#UNKNOWN} — this reader only understands Claude Code's own
      *                  transcript format
-     */
-    public Reading read(String configDir, String sessionId, String agentType) {
-        return read(configDir, sessionId, agentType, null);
-    }
-
-    /**
      * @param effectiveWindowTokens the caller's resolved effective auto-compact window for this
      *                              lead's own profile, or {@code null} when it cannot be resolved.
      *                              HIGH fires at {@link #HIGH_THRESHOLD_FRACTION} of this value;

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/mcp/FleetMcp.java

@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
             return null; // AuthorizationMode.UNENFORCED: authorization not enforced (fleetd #518)
         }
         if (Authz.permits(caller, action, target)) {
-            if (action != Authz.Action.READ) {
+            if (action != Authz.Action.READ && action != Authz.Action.TASK_READ) {
                 AuditLog.allowed(caller, action, target); // reads would drown the trail
             }
             return null;
@@ -1035,31 +1035,21 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Which authorization action a {@code fleet_poll} call needs, decided by its arguments
-     * (fleetd #272, widened by fleetd #421).
+     * Which authorization action a {@code fleet_poll} call needs, decided by its arguments.
      *
-     * <p>{@code fleet_poll} is now <strong>three operations behind one tool name</strong>. With
+     * <p>{@code fleet_poll} is <strong>three operations behind one tool name</strong>. With
      * {@code ticket} it observes an async delegation and changes nothing, which is a {@link
-     * Authz.Action#READ}. With {@code target} it calls {@link MessageService#drainReplies} on that
-     * session -- the replies are removed from the inbox and a second call returns nothing -- so it
-     * is a {@link Authz.Action#DRAIN}, the same gate {@code fleet_ack} already uses for removing a
-     * single message, and the same one the REST path uses at {@code FleetApp.drainReplies}. With
-     * {@code coordId} it reads (never acks) this daemon's own held lead-to-lead mail, which is a
-     * {@link Authz.Action#COORD_READ} -- <strong>not</strong> {@code READ}, even though nothing is
-     * consumed: {@code READ}'s grant is open to every authenticated role on the premise that the
-     * roster carries no secrets, and a lead-to-lead body is not the roster. Mapping a non-destructive
-     * peer-mail read to {@code READ} would let any worker read every peer lead's mail in full.
-     *
-     * <p>Before this method existed (fleetd #272) the handler passed a constant {@code READ} for
-     * both of the original branches. {@code READ} is open to every authenticated role, so any
-     * worker could read a peer's id out of {@code fleet_list} and destroy the replies that peer had
-     * queued for the primary. The gate failed open, and it did so because the required action is a
-     * function of the arguments while the handler chose it before looking at them.
+     * Authz.Action#TASK_READ}. With {@code target} it calls {@link MessageService#drainReplies} on
+     * that session -- the replies are removed from the inbox and a second call returns nothing --
+     * so it is a {@link Authz.Action#DRAIN}, the same gate {@code fleet_ack} already uses for
+     * removing a single message, and the same one the REST path uses at
+     * {@code FleetApp.drainReplies}. With {@code coordId} it reads (never acks) this daemon's own
+     * held lead-to-lead mail, which is a {@link Authz.Action#COORD_READ} -- <strong>not</strong>
+     * {@code TASK_READ} or {@code READ}: a lead-to-lead body is a different inbox from either, and
+     * folding it into either would let any worker or architect read every peer lead's mail in full.
      *
      * <p>The choice lives in this method, and not inline in the handler, so that a test can assert
-     * the mapping the handler actually uses. {@code FleetMcpAuthzTest} already checked every
-     * {@link Authz.Action} against every {@link Role} and passed throughout -- it tested the policy
-     * table, which was correct, while the defect was in which action the caller handed it.
+     * the mapping the handler actually uses.
      *
      * <p>Checked first, and exclusively of {@code target}: a call naming {@code coordId} is reading
      * a different inbox entirely (this daemon's own lead channel, never a worker's), so it takes
@@ -1072,7 +1062,30 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
         if (!isBlank(coordId)) {
             return Authz.Action.COORD_READ;
         }
-        return isBlank(target) ? Authz.Action.READ : Authz.Action.DRAIN;
+        return isBlank(target) ? Authz.Action.TASK_READ : Authz.Action.DRAIN;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Which authorization action a {@code fleet_send} call needs, decided by its arguments.
+     *
+     * <p>{@code fleet_send} is three call shapes behind one tool name, mirroring {@link
+     * #pollAction}. With {@code coordId} it addresses a peer lead on another daemon over the
+     * coordination broker, which is {@link Authz.Action#COORD_SEND}. With {@code turnId} it
+     * resolves a worker's blocked {@code fleet_ask} and resumes that turn, which is {@link
+     * Authz.Action#ANSWER}. Otherwise it delivers to a local session by {@code sessionId}, which is
+     * the plain {@link Authz.Action#SEND}.
+     *
+     * <p>Checked in the same order the handler branches: {@code coordId} first and exclusively of
+     * {@code turnId}, matching {@link #sendToLead}'s own mutual-exclusion check.
+     *
+     * @param coordId the {@code coordId} argument of the call, or {@code null}/blank when absent
+     * @param turnId  the {@code turnId} argument of the call, or {@code null}/blank when absent
+     */
+    static Authz.Action sendAction(String coordId, String turnId) {
+        if (!isBlank(coordId)) {
+            return Authz.Action.COORD_SEND;
+        }
+        return isBlank(turnId) ? Authz.Action.SEND : Authz.Action.ANSWER;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1097,10 +1110,11 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      */
     private static Authz.Action authzAction(FleetTool tool, Map<String, Object> arguments) {
         return switch (tool) {
-            case SEND -> Authz.Action.SEND;
+            case SEND -> sendAction(str(arguments, "coordId"), str(arguments, "turnId"));
             case REPLY -> Authz.Action.REPLY;
             case ASK -> Authz.Action.ASK;
-            case STATUS, LIST, PROFILES, WHOAMI -> Authz.Action.READ;
+            case STATUS -> Authz.Action.TASK_READ;
+            case LIST, PROFILES, WHOAMI -> Authz.Action.READ;
             case POLL -> pollAction(str(arguments, "target"), str(arguments, "coordId"));
             case ACK -> Authz.Action.DRAIN;
             case SPAWN -> Authz.Action.SPAWN;

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/rest/FleetApp.java

@@ -49,18 +49,36 @@ import java.util.stream.Collectors;
  */
 public final class FleetApp {
 
-    /** The authorization action the matching route handler hands to {@link #allow}. */
+    /**
+     * The authorization action the matching route handler hands to {@link #allow}, for a route
+     * whose action does not depend on the request body.
+     */
     static Authz.Action routeAction(String route) {
+        return routeAction(route, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As above, plus the one route whose action depends on the body: {@code POST
+     * /sessions/{id}/message} carries a {@code turnId} (the answer-a-blocked-worker shape) or not
+     * (a plain delivery), mirroring {@code FleetMcp#sendAction}'s split of the same two call
+     * shapes over MCP. {@code turnId} is ignored by every other route.
+     *
+     * @param turnId the request body's {@code turnId}, or {@code null}/blank when absent or not
+     *               applicable to this route
+     */
+    static Authz.Action routeAction(String route, String turnId) {
         return switch (route) {
             case "GET /metrics" -> Authz.Action.METRICS;
             case "POST /members" -> Authz.Action.SPAWN;
             case "DELETE /members/{paneId}" -> Authz.Action.STOP;
-            case "POST /sessions/{id}/message" -> Authz.Action.SEND;
+            case "POST /sessions/{id}/message" -> turnId == null || turnId.isBlank()
+                    ? Authz.Action.SEND : Authz.Action.ANSWER;
             case "POST /sessions/{id}/reply" -> Authz.Action.REPLY;
             case "GET /sessions/{id}/replies" -> Authz.Action.DRAIN;
             case "POST /sessions/{id}/ask" -> Authz.Action.ASK;
             case "GET /sessions", "GET /agents", "GET /members", "GET /profiles",
-                    "GET /member-credentials", "GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}" -> Authz.Action.READ;
+                    "GET /member-credentials" -> Authz.Action.READ;
+            case "GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}" -> Authz.Action.TASK_READ;
             default -> throw new IllegalArgumentException("route has no authorization gate: " + route);
         };
     }
@@ -250,7 +268,8 @@ public final class FleetApp {
         }
         Principal caller = ctx.attribute(CALLER);
         if (Authz.permits(caller, action, target)) {
-            if (action != Authz.Action.READ && action != Authz.Action.METRICS) {
+            if (action != Authz.Action.READ && action != Authz.Action.METRICS
+                    && action != Authz.Action.TASK_READ) {
                 AuditLog.allowed(caller, action, target); // reads would drown the trail
             }
             return true;
@@ -603,26 +622,33 @@ public final class FleetApp {
      * status-gated injector and block until the worker returns a structured {@code fleet_reply}.
      * Times out with a typed 202 (working / queued / busy) rather than an error — the message may
      * still land.
+     *
+     * <p>Two call shapes share this route, exactly as {@code fleet_send} does over MCP (see
+     * {@code FleetMcp#sendAction}): a plain delivery to {@code id}, and -- when the body carries
+     * {@code turnId} -- resolving a worker's blocked question. The body is parsed before the
+     * authorization check so the right one of {@link Authz.Action#SEND}/{@link Authz.Action#ANSWER}
+     * reaches the gate; a body that fails to parse is treated as the plain shape for that check
+     * alone, and is rejected afterward exactly as before.
      */
     private void sendMessage(Context ctx) {
         String id = ctx.pathParam("id");
-        if (!allow(ctx, routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message"), id)) {
+        JsonNode body;
+        try {
+            body = mapper.readTree(ctx.body());
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            body = null;
+        }
+        String turnId = body == null ? null : body.path("turnId").asText(null);
+        if (!allow(ctx, routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", turnId), id)) {
             return;
         }
-        String content;
-        String turnId;
-        long timeout;
-        boolean wait;
-        try {
-            JsonNode body = mapper.readTree(ctx.body());
-            content = body.path("content").asText("");
-            turnId = body.path("turnId").asText(null);
-            timeout = body.path("timeoutMs").asLong(DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
-            wait = body.path("wait").asBoolean(true); // default: block for the reply (CB-104)
-        } catch (Exception e) {
+        if (body == null) {
             ctx.status(400).json(Map.of("error", "bad_request", "detail", "body must be JSON"));
             return;
         }
+        String content = body.path("content").asText("");
+        long timeout = body.path("timeoutMs").asLong(DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+        boolean wait = body.path("wait").asBoolean(true); // default: block for the reply (CB-104)
         if (content.isBlank()) {
             ctx.status(400).json(Map.of("error", "bad_request", "detail", "content is required"));
             return;

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdAssemblyAuthorizationModeTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+package dev.ltms.fleet;
+
+import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.Authz;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.Principal;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.config.ConfigRef;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.SubscriptionGuard;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.FakeHerdr;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.HerdrClient;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.mcp.FleetMcp;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.ReplyInbox;
+import io.javalin.Javalin;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpSchema;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
+import java.util.function.LongSupplier;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * Asserts that the {@link FleetMcp} built by {@link FleetdAssembly#assembleAndStart} applies the
+ * authorization table: a worker is refused {@code SPAWN}, and the primary is allowed it.
+ */
+class FleetdAssemblyAuthorizationModeTest {
+
+    private static final class TestResourcePorts implements ResourcePorts {
+        final FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        Runnable shutdownHook;
+
+        @Override
+        public Map<String, String> environment() {
+            return Map.of();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public HerdrClient connectHerdr(Path socketPath) {
+            return herdr;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Fleetd.AmqpOpener replyInboxOpener() {
+            return (uri, prefetch) -> new ReplyInbox() {
+                @Override public void own(String target) { }
+                @Override public void release(String target) { }
+                @Override public void publish(String target, String msgId, String content) { }
+                @Override public List<InboxMessage> peek(String target) { return List.of(); }
+                @Override public boolean ack(String target, String msgId) { return false; }
+            };
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Fleetd.LeadMailboxOpener leadMailboxOpener() {
+            return (uri, selfCoordId, prefetch) -> {
+                throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+                        "leadMailboxOpener must not be called — no coordinator: block is configured");
+            };
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public LongSupplier nanoClock() {
+            return System::nanoTime;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public LongSupplier wallClockNanos() {
+            return System::nanoTime;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public ScheduledExecutorService newScheduler(String purpose) {
+            return Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void addShutdownHook(Runnable hook) {
+            shutdownHook = hook;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void startHttp(Javalin app, String host, int port) {
+            // Binding a real port would clash with any daemon already listening on it.
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Runnable herdrPollWait() {
+            return () -> {
+                throw new UnsupportedOperationException("FakeHerdr is healthy; no poll wait is expected");
+            };
+        }
+    }
+
+    private TestResourcePorts ports;
+
+    @AfterEach
+    void tearDown() {
+        if (ports != null && ports.shutdownHook != null) {
+            ports.shutdownHook.run();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static FleetConfig writeConfig(Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path file = dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(file, """
+                bind:
+                  host: 127.0.0.1
+                  port: 8765
+                idleSleepGuard:
+                  enabled: false
+                health:
+                  enabled: false
+                broker:
+                  uri: "amqp://fake-test-broker/vh"
+                """);
+        return FleetConfig.load(file);
+    }
+
+    private FleetMcp assemble(Path dir) throws Exception {
+        FleetConfig cfg = writeConfig(dir);
+        ports = new TestResourcePorts();
+        FleetdRuntime runtime = FleetdAssembly.assembleAndStart(new AssemblyInputs(cfg,
+                new ConfigRef(dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml"), cfg), new SubscriptionGuard(cfg.guard().hostSet())), ports);
+        return runtime.mcp();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Invokes {@code FleetMcp#denyFor}, which is package-private to {@code dev.ltms.fleet.mcp}
+     * while this test is in {@code dev.ltms.fleet}. Nothing here catches a missing method: if
+     * {@code denyFor} is renamed or removed, {@link NoSuchMethodException} propagates and the
+     * test fails.
+     */
+    private static McpSchema.CallToolResult denyFor(FleetMcp mcp, Principal caller, Authz.Action action,
+                                                      String target) throws Exception {
+        Method m = FleetMcp.class.getDeclaredMethod("denyFor", Principal.class, Authz.Action.class, String.class);
+        m.setAccessible(true);
+        return (McpSchema.CallToolResult) m.invoke(mcp, caller, action, target);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void productionBootPathRefusesAnUnauthorizedCallerThroughTheAssembledFleetMcp(@TempDir Path dir)
+            throws Exception {
+        FleetMcp mcp = assemble(dir);
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult deniedForWorker = denyFor(mcp, Principal.worker("term_a", 200),
+                Authz.Action.SPAWN, "term_a");
+        assertNotNull(deniedForWorker,
+                "a worker must not be able to fleet_spawn through the assembled FleetMcp");
+        assertTrue(deniedForWorker.isError(), "a refusal is returned as an MCP tool error");
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult allowedForPrimary = denyFor(mcp, Principal.primary(100),
+                Authz.Action.SPAWN, "term_a");
+        assertNull(allowedForPrimary,
+                "control: the primary must still be allowed to fleet_spawn — otherwise the worker "
+                        + "refusal above would pass even with the gate wired backwards");
+    }
+}

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdAssemblyLeadTabScannerExclusionTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+package dev.ltms.fleet;
+
+import dev.ltms.fleet.config.ConfigRef;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.SubscriptionGuard;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.FakeHerdr;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.HerdrClient;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.LeadTabScanner;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.LeadChannelHandle;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.LeadCoordLoop;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.LeadMessage;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.ReplyInbox;
+import io.javalin.Javalin;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
+import java.util.function.LongSupplier;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertInstanceOf;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * fleetd #670 — pins the {@code excludedWorkspaceLabels} argument {@link FleetdAssembly}'s
+ * production boot path passes to {@link LeadTabScanner} at {@code FleetdAssembly.java:265}
+ * ({@code Set.of()}).
+ *
+ * <p>{@code LeadTabScannerTest} already covers this constructor parameter, but it builds its own
+ * {@link LeadTabScanner} with its own set, so it tests the seam and proves nothing about the
+ * producer. This test instead reaches the exact object {@link FleetdAssembly#assembleAndStart}
+ * builds: a {@code fleet.leaders:} block makes the assembly construct a real
+ * {@link LeadTabScanner} for its local {@code leads} supplier, and a {@code coordinator:} block
+ * makes it hand that same supplier instance to {@link LeadCoordLoop} (fleetd #637), which stores
+ * it as a field. Reflection recovers it from there, and then from the scanner itself, so the
+ * assertion is against the real production argument rather than a copy built for this test.
+ */
+class FleetdAssemblyLeadTabScannerExclusionTest {
+
+    private static final class FakeLeadChannel implements LeadChannelHandle {
+        @Override
+        public void publish(String toCoordId, LeadMessage message) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public List<LeadMessage> peek() {
+            return List.of();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void ack(String msgId) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String selfCoordId() {
+            return "test-lead";
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean heldDurable() {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public MailboxState inspect(String coordId) {
+            return MailboxState.unknown(coordId);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void close() {
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class TestResourcePorts implements ResourcePorts {
+        final FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        Runnable shutdownHook;
+
+        @Override
+        public Map<String, String> environment() {
+            return Map.of();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public HerdrClient connectHerdr(Path socketPath) {
+            return herdr;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Fleetd.AmqpOpener replyInboxOpener() {
+            return (uri, prefetch) -> new ReplyInbox() {
+                @Override public void own(String target) { }
+                @Override public void release(String target) { }
+                @Override public void publish(String target, String msgId, String content) { }
+                @Override public List<InboxMessage> peek(String target) { return List.of(); }
+                @Override public boolean ack(String target, String msgId) { return false; }
+            };
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Fleetd.LeadMailboxOpener leadMailboxOpener() {
+            return (uri, selfCoordId, prefetch) -> new FakeLeadChannel();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public LongSupplier nanoClock() {
+            return System::nanoTime;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public LongSupplier wallClockNanos() {
+            return System::nanoTime;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public ScheduledExecutorService newScheduler(String purpose) {
+            return Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void addShutdownHook(Runnable hook) {
+            shutdownHook = hook;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void startHttp(Javalin app, String host, int port) {
+            // Do not bind a real port in this assembly test.
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Runnable herdrPollWait() {
+            return () -> {
+                throw new UnsupportedOperationException("FakeHerdr is healthy; no poll wait is expected");
+            };
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static FleetConfig writeConfig(Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path file = dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(file, """
+                bind:
+                  host: 127.0.0.1
+                  port: 8765
+                idleSleepGuard:
+                  enabled: false
+                coordinator:
+                  uri: "amqp://fake-lead-broker/vh"
+                  selfId: "test-lead"
+                fleet:
+                  leaders:
+                    primary:
+                      tab: "lead: primary"
+                      profile: sonnet
+                profiles:
+                  sonnet:
+                    subscription: true
+                    argv: ["ccs", "sonnet"]
+                """);
+        return FleetConfig.load(file);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void productionBootPathPassesNoExcludedWorkspaceLabels(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        FleetConfig cfg = writeConfig(dir);
+        TestResourcePorts ports = new TestResourcePorts();
+        FleetdRuntime runtime = FleetdAssembly.assembleAndStart(new AssemblyInputs(cfg,
+                new ConfigRef(dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml"), cfg), new SubscriptionGuard(cfg.guard().hostSet())), ports);
+        try {
+            LeadCoordLoop coordLoop = runtime.leadCoordLoop();
+            assertNotNull(coordLoop, "control: a configured coordinator: block must build LeadCoordLoop");
+
+            Field leadsField = LeadCoordLoop.class.getDeclaredField("leads");
+            leadsField.setAccessible(true);
+            @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+            Supplier<Map<String, String>> leads = (Supplier<Map<String, String>>) leadsField.get(coordLoop);
+
+            assertInstanceOf(LeadTabScanner.class, leads,
+                    "control: a non-empty fleet.leaders: block must make FleetdAssembly build a real "
+                            + "LeadTabScanner for its `leads` supplier, not the Map::of fallback — "
+                            + "otherwise this test would pass for the wrong reason");
+
+            Field excludedField = LeadTabScanner.class.getDeclaredField("excludedWorkspaceLabels");
+            excludedField.setAccessible(true);
+            Set<?> excluded = (Set<?>) excludedField.get(leads);
+
+            assertTrue(excluded.isEmpty(),
+                    "FleetdAssembly.java:265 must pass an empty excludedWorkspaceLabels to "
+                            + "LeadTabScanner — scanning member tabs would demote the lead to a worker");
+        } finally {
+            assertNotNull(ports.shutdownHook, "control: assembly must capture its shutdown hook");
+            ports.shutdownHook.run();
+        }
+    }
+}

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdAssemblyTimingDefaultsTest.java

@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+package dev.ltms.fleet;
+
+import dev.ltms.fleet.config.ConfigRef;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.SubscriptionGuard;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.FakeHerdr;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.HerdrClient;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.inject.Injector;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.inject.StatusPoller;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.LeadChannelHandle;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.LeadCoordLoop;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.LeadMessage;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.ReplyInbox;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.ReplyPushLoop;
+import io.javalin.Javalin;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledExecutorService;
+import java.util.function.LongSupplier;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertNotNull;
+
+/**
+ * Asserts that the assembled loops use the production reminder, coordination, and delivery timing
+ * defaults when no {@code primary:} block configures the reply-push values.
+ */
+class FleetdAssemblyTimingDefaultsTest {
+
+    private static final class FakeLeadChannel implements LeadChannelHandle {
+        @Override
+        public void publish(String toCoordId, LeadMessage message) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public List<LeadMessage> peek() {
+            return List.of();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void ack(String msgId) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String selfCoordId() {
+            return "test-lead";
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean heldDurable() {
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public MailboxState inspect(String coordId) {
+            return MailboxState.unknown(coordId);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void close() {
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static final class TestResourcePorts implements ResourcePorts {
+        final FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        Runnable shutdownHook;
+
+        @Override
+        public Map<String, String> environment() {
+            return Map.of();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public HerdrClient connectHerdr(Path socketPath) {
+            return herdr;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Fleetd.AmqpOpener replyInboxOpener() {
+            return (uri, prefetch) -> new ReplyInbox() {
+                @Override public void own(String target) { }
+                @Override public void release(String target) { }
+                @Override public void publish(String target, String msgId, String content) { }
+                @Override public List<InboxMessage> peek(String target) { return List.of(); }
+                @Override public boolean ack(String target, String msgId) { return false; }
+            };
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Fleetd.LeadMailboxOpener leadMailboxOpener() {
+            return (uri, selfCoordId, prefetch) -> new FakeLeadChannel();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public LongSupplier nanoClock() {
+            return System::nanoTime;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public LongSupplier wallClockNanos() {
+            return System::nanoTime;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public ScheduledExecutorService newScheduler(String purpose) {
+            return Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void addShutdownHook(Runnable hook) {
+            shutdownHook = hook;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void startHttp(Javalin app, String host, int port) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public Runnable herdrPollWait() {
+            return () -> {
+                throw new UnsupportedOperationException("FakeHerdr is healthy; no poll wait is expected");
+            };
+        }
+    }
+
+    private TestResourcePorts ports;
+
+    @AfterEach
+    void tearDown() {
+        if (ports != null && ports.shutdownHook != null) {
+            ports.shutdownHook.run();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static FleetConfig writeConfig(Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path file = dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(file, """
+                bind:
+                  host: 127.0.0.1
+                  port: 8765
+                idleSleepGuard:
+                  enabled: false
+                coordinator:
+                  uri: "amqp://fake-lead-broker/vh"
+                  selfId: "test-lead"
+                """);
+        return FleetConfig.load(file);
+    }
+
+    private FleetdRuntime assemble(Path dir) throws Exception {
+        FleetConfig cfg = writeConfig(dir);
+        ports = new TestResourcePorts();
+        return FleetdAssembly.assembleAndStart(new AssemblyInputs(cfg,
+                new ConfigRef(dir.resolve("fleetd.yaml"), cfg), new SubscriptionGuard(cfg.guard().hostSet())), ports);
+    }
+
+    private static long longField(Object target, String name) throws Exception {
+        Field field = target.getClass().getDeclaredField(name);
+        field.setAccessible(true);
+        return field.getLong(target);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void productionBootPathUsesTheExpectedLoopTimingDefaults(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        FleetdRuntime runtime = assemble(dir);
+
+        ReplyPushLoop pushLoop = runtime.pushLoop();
+        assertEquals(5, longField(pushLoop, "maxReminders"),
+                "without primary:, ReplyPushLoop must stop after five reminder attempts");
+        assertEquals(15_000L, longField(pushLoop, "backoffMs"),
+                "without primary:, ReplyPushLoop must wait fifteen seconds before the next reminder");
+
+        LeadCoordLoop leadCoordLoop = runtime.leadCoordLoop();
+        assertNotNull(leadCoordLoop, "control: coordinator: must build LeadCoordLoop");
+        assertEquals(3_000L, longField(leadCoordLoop, "intervalMs"),
+                "LeadCoordLoop must poll for peer-lead mail every three seconds");
+
+        StatusPoller poller = runtime.poller();
+        assertEquals(Injector.POLL_INTERVAL_MILLIS, longField(poller, "intervalMillis"),
+                "StatusPoller must use Injector's delivery poll interval");
+    }
+}

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/auth/AuthzTest.java

@@ -38,6 +38,37 @@ class AuthzTest {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@code fleet_send} is three call shapes behind one action name until {@code
+     * FleetMcp#sendAction} picks one: a plain local {@link Authz.Action#SEND}, the {@code coordId}
+     * route ({@link Authz.Action#COORD_SEND}), and the {@code turnId} answer form ({@link
+     * Authz.Action#ANSWER}). All three carry the same grant as the undivided action did — a worker
+     * is excluded from every one, exactly as it was excluded from the one combined action before.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theThreeSendShapesCarryTheSameGrantAsTheOldUndividedAction() {
+        for (Authz.Action a : new Authz.Action[]{SEND, COORD_SEND, ANSWER}) {
+            assertTrue(Authz.permits(PRIMARY, a, "term_a"), "the primary may " + a);
+            assertTrue(Authz.permits(ARCH_DESIGN, a, "term_a"), "an architect may " + a);
+            assertFalse(Authz.permits(WORKER_A, a, "term_a"),
+                    "a worker performing " + a + " would be escalating into the orchestrator role");
+            assertFalse(Authz.permits(ANON, a, "term_a"));
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code fleet_poll{ticket}} and {@code fleet_status} are {@link Authz.Action#TASK_READ}, split
+     * out of the roster-only {@link Authz.Action#READ} (fleetd #678). The grant is unchanged from
+     * what the undivided {@code READ} action gave every one of these callers.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void taskReadCarriesTheSameGrantReadDidBeforeTheSplit() {
+        assertTrue(Authz.permits(PRIMARY, TASK_READ, null));
+        assertTrue(Authz.permits(WORKER_A, TASK_READ, null));
+        assertTrue(Authz.permits(ARCH_DESIGN, TASK_READ, null));
+        assertFalse(Authz.permits(ANON, TASK_READ, null));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void aWorkerMayReplyAndAskOnlyAsItself() {
         assertTrue(Authz.permits(WORKER_A, REPLY, "term_a"));

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/config/FleetConfigTest.java

@@ -3175,4 +3175,41 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
         FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
         assertTrue(cfg.models().offIds().isEmpty());
     }
+
+    // ── fleetd #651: leadRollover.turnSettleSeconds default resolution ─────────────────────────
+
+    @Test
+    void turnSettleSecondsDefaultsTo300WhenUnset(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("bare-rollover.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, "bind:\n  port: 8080\nleadRollover: {}\n");
+
+        FleetConfig.LeadRollover rollover = FleetConfig.load(f).leadRollover();
+        assertNotNull(rollover);
+        assertEquals(300, rollover.turnSettleSeconds());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void turnSettleSecondsUsesAnExplicitPositiveValue(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("rollover.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                bind:
+                  port: 8080
+                leadRollover:
+                  turnSettleSeconds: 45
+                """);
+
+        FleetConfig.LeadRollover rollover = FleetConfig.load(f).leadRollover();
+        assertEquals(45, rollover.turnSettleSeconds());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void turnSettleSecondsFallsBackTo300WhenZeroOrNegative(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path zero = dir.resolve("zero.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(zero, "bind:\n  port: 8080\nleadRollover:\n  turnSettleSeconds: 0\n");
+        assertEquals(300, FleetConfig.load(zero).leadRollover().turnSettleSeconds());
+
+        Path negative = dir.resolve("negative.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(negative, "bind:\n  port: 8080\nleadRollover:\n  turnSettleSeconds: -5\n");
+        assertEquals(300, FleetConfig.load(negative).leadRollover().turnSettleSeconds());
+    }
 }

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/config/FleetConfigValidateAllTest.java

@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@ import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
  *       seventh validator just to exercise the claim.</li>
  *   <li>{@link #validateAllReachesEveryOneOfTodaysRealValidators()} proves {@link
  *       FleetConfig#validateAll()} itself is wired to that same generic mechanism and genuinely
- *       reaches seven of today's eight real validators — reusing the exact minimal failing
- *       configurations {@code FleetConfigTest} already established for each one directly, so a
- *       single call to {@code validateAll()} is shown to reproduce every one of those seven
- *       failures. The eighth, {@link FleetConfig#validateLeadRollover()}, has no case here yet —
- *       a pre-existing gap tracked as fleetd #668.</li>
+ *       reaches every one of today's real validators — reusing the exact minimal failing
+ *       configurations {@code FleetConfigTest} already established for each one directly, plus a
+ *       dedicated fixture for {@link FleetConfig#validateLeadRollover()}, which no other test
+ *       drives through {@code validateAll()} — so a single call to {@code validateAll()} is shown
+ *       to reproduce every one of those failures.</li>
  * </ol>
  *
  * <p>Together with the direct-{@code Fleetd.main}-invocation tests in {@code
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@ import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
  * a test in this module.
  *
  * <p><b>What is NOT pinned, measured rather than assumed.</b> Reverting {@link
- * FleetConfig#validateAll()} to a hardcoded list of today's six method calls leaves the whole
- * suite green (measured at review: 1491 tests, 0 failures). Nothing ties {@code validateAll()} to
+ * FleetConfig#validateAll()} to a hardcoded list of today's method calls leaves the whole
+ * suite green. Nothing ties {@code validateAll()} to
  * the generic sweep — claim 1 proves {@link FleetConfig#invokeAllValidators} is generic, and claim
- * 2 proves {@code validateAll()} reaches today's six, and a hardcoded list satisfies both. So the
+ * 2 proves {@code validateAll()} reaches today's validators, and a hardcoded list satisfies both. So the
  * reflective sweep is a convenience, not the guarantee. The guarantee is {@link
  * #fleetConfigDeclaresExactlyTheseValidatorsToday()}: it fails the moment any validator is added
  * or removed, which forces whoever changes the set to look at this file.
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
                         + "name) must all be skipped");
     }
 
-    // ── Claim 2: FleetConfig.validateAll() is wired to that mechanism and reaches seven of eight today ──
+    // ── Claim 2: FleetConfig.validateAll() is wired to that mechanism and reaches every validator ──
 
     /**
      * Reflectively enumerates {@link FleetConfig}'s own public, no-arg, void {@code validateXxx()}
@@ -220,6 +220,11 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
      * the {@code Set.of} below, so a reader adding or removing one sees this assertion name the new
      * count rather than a silent pass at the old one. The count lives only in that set, not in this
      * method's name, so the two cannot drift apart.
+     *
+     * <p>This assertion alone proves only that the validator exists with the right shape — it
+     * cannot prove {@code validateAll()} actually reaches it. Only {@link
+     * #validateAllReachesEveryOneOfTodaysRealValidators()} proves reachability, which is why this
+     * method's failure message sends the reader there too.
      */
     @Test
     void fleetConfigDeclaresExactlyTheseValidatorsToday() {
@@ -237,11 +242,16 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
                 "validateSubscriptionProfiles", "validateCharters", "validateMembers",
                 "validateModels", "validateLeadRollover", "validatePanePlacementAgainstLeadTabs")),
                 names,
-                "FleetConfig's public validate*() methods changed. Do TWO things, in this "
+                "FleetConfig's public validate*() methods changed. Do THREE things, in this "
                         + "order. First confirm validateAll() still delegates to "
                         + "invokeAllValidators(this) — a hardcoded list there passes every other "
                         + "test in this class, so this assertion is the only place that will ever "
-                        + "make you check. Only then update the expected set to match.");
+                        + "make you check. Second, update the expected set below to match. Third, "
+                        + "add or remove a case for that validator in "
+                        + "validateAllReachesEveryOneOfTodaysRealValidators() below — this "
+                        + "assertion proves only that the validator exists with the right shape, "
+                        + "never that validateAll() reaches it; that enumeration is the test that "
+                        + "does.");
     }
 
     /** A minimal, otherwise-valid file — same shape FleetConfigTest and ConfigRefTest use. */
@@ -265,14 +275,18 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
     }
 
     /**
-     * The heart of claim 2: for seven of today's eight real validators, a minimal file that fails
-     * ONLY that one — the exact fixtures {@code FleetConfigTest} uses to test each validator
-     * directly — must also fail through {@link FleetConfig#validateAll()}. If a future edit to
-     * {@code validateAll()} silently dropped one of these seven from the sweep (e.g. a typo'd name
-     * filter), exactly one of them would start passing when it must not.
+     * The heart of claim 2: for every one of today's real validators, a minimal file that
+     * fails ONLY that one — the exact fixtures {@code FleetConfigTest} uses to test each validator
+     * directly, or a dedicated minimal fixture where no other test drives that validator through
+     * {@code validateAll()} — must also fail through {@link FleetConfig#validateAll()}. If a
+     * future edit to {@code validateAll()} silently dropped one of these from the sweep
+     * (e.g. a typo'd name filter), exactly one of them would start passing when it must not.
      *
-     * <p>The eighth, {@link FleetConfig#validateLeadRollover()}, has no case here — a pre-existing
-     * gap tracked as fleetd #668, not fixed by this change.
+     * <p>This is the single place that proves {@code validateAll()} reaches a given validator.
+     * Adding or removing a validator on {@link FleetConfig} must add or remove a case here, not
+     * only an updated name in {@link #fleetConfigDeclaresExactlyTheseValidatorsToday()}'s expected
+     * set — that assertion proves the validator's shape, never that {@code validateAll()} reaches
+     * it.
      */
     @Test
     void validateAllReachesEveryOneOfTodaysRealValidators(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
@@ -362,6 +376,15 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
                     opus:
                       tab: "lead: opus"
                 """, "gx10");
+
+        // validateLeadRollover: a leadRollover: block present with no handoverPath.
+        assertValidateAllRefuses(dir, "lead-rollover.yaml", """
+                bind:
+                  host: 127.0.0.1
+                  port: 8765
+                leadRollover:
+                  requireOperatorConfirm: false
+                """, "handoverPath");
     }
 
     private static void assertValidateAllRefuses(Path dir, String fileName, String yaml,

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest.java

@@ -81,12 +81,6 @@ class LeadContextGaugeHighThresholdTest {
         assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.HIGH,
                 atGauge.read(atConfigDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null).state(),
                 "the fixed default must still be 200,000 when no window is resolvable");
-
-        String legacyConfigDir = writeTranscript(tmp.resolve("legacy"), SESSION_ID, 200_000);
-        LeadContextGauge legacyGauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.HIGH,
-                legacyGauge.read(legacyConfigDir, SESSION_ID, "claude").state(),
-                "the 3-arg read() (no window argument at all) must behave exactly like passing a null window");
     }
 
     @Test

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/lead/LeadContextGaugeTest.java

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
                 usageLine(40_000, 5_000, 3_000)); // last record: 48,000
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
 
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading first = gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading first = gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(48_000L, first.tokens(), "must total input+cache_read+cache_creation of the LAST usage record");
         assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.OK, first.state());
 
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
         // must change with it, not stay pinned to the first fixture's total.
         String otherSession = "22222222-2222-2222-2222-222222222222";
         writeTranscript(tmp, otherSession, usageLine(100_000, 50_000, 50_000)); // last record: 200,000
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading second = gauge.read(configDir, otherSession, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading second = gauge.read(configDir, otherSession, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(200_000L, second.tokens());
         assertTrue(second.tokens() != first.tokens(), "changing N in the fixture must change the reported number");
     }
@@ -111,12 +111,12 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
                 compactionLine(),
                 usageLine(3_000, 0, 0));
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading twoCompactions = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), sessionTwoCompactions, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading twoCompactions = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), sessionTwoCompactions, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(2, twoCompactions.compactions());
 
         String sessionZeroCompactions = "44444444-4444-4444-4444-444444444444";
         writeTranscript(tmp, sessionZeroCompactions, usageLine(3_000, 0, 0));
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading zeroCompactions = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), sessionZeroCompactions, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading zeroCompactions = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), sessionZeroCompactions, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(0, zeroCompactions.compactions(), "changing K in the fixture must change the reported count");
     }
 
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
     @DisplayName("a missing transcript file reports UNKNOWN with no token number")
     void missingFileIsUnknown(@TempDir Path tmp) {
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), SESSION_ID, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, reading.state());
         assertNull(reading.tokens());
     }
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
             assumeFalse(Files.isReadable(file),
                     "runs as root (CI container): the read bit does not stop root, so this case cannot be set up here");
             LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-            LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude");
+            LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
             assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, reading.state());
             assertNull(reading.tokens());
         } finally {
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
         Files.writeString(file, lastCompleteLine + "\n" + tornLine, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
 
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), SESSION_ID, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(tmp.toString(), SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.OK, reading.state(),
                 "a torn final line must not turn a good earlier reading into UNKNOWN");
         assertEquals(6_000L, reading.tokens(),
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
                 "{this is not json at all",
                 "neither is this{{{");
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
-        LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude");
+        LeadContextGauge.Reading reading = gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, reading.state(),
                 "every line unparseable is the real format-change signal and must still report UNKNOWN");
         assertNull(reading.tokens());
@@ -224,12 +224,12 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
         AtomicLong now = new AtomicLong(0);
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge(now::get, 5_000);
 
-        gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude");
-        gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude"); // still inside the TTL window
+        gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
+        gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null); // still inside the TTL window
         assertEquals(1, gauge.diskReadCount(), "two reads inside the TTL must touch disk once");
 
         now.set(6_000); // past the TTL
-        gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude");
+        gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "claude", null);
         assertEquals(2, gauge.diskReadCount(), "a read past the TTL must touch disk again");
     }
 
@@ -241,8 +241,8 @@ class LeadContextGaugeTest {
         String configDir = writeTranscript(tmp, SESSION_ID, usageLine(1_000, 0, 0));
         LeadContextGauge gauge = new LeadContextGauge();
 
-        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "opencode").state());
-        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, null).state());
-        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, gauge.read(configDir, null, "claude").state());
+        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, "opencode", null).state());
+        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, gauge.read(configDir, SESSION_ID, null, null).state());
+        assertEquals(LeadContextGauge.State.UNKNOWN, gauge.read(configDir, null, "claude", null).state());
     }
 }

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/mcp/FleetMcpAuthzTest.java

@@ -156,6 +156,45 @@ class FleetMcpAuthzTest {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #669 Unit A: {@code SEND} is split into three actions ({@link Authz.Action#SEND},
+     * {@link Authz.Action#COORD_SEND}, {@link Authz.Action#ANSWER}), each carrying the same grant
+     * the one undivided action gave. An architect holds all three, exactly as it held the one.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void anArchitectMayUseAllThreeSendShapesOverMcp() {
+        FleetMcp m = mcp(true);
+        for (Authz.Action a : new Authz.Action[]{Authz.Action.SEND, Authz.Action.COORD_SEND,
+                Authz.Action.ANSWER}) {
+            assertNull(m.denyFor(ARCH_DESIGN, a, "term_a"),
+                    a + " carries the same grant the undivided SEND action gave an architect");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** The other half of the same split: a worker is excluded from all three, as it was from one. */
+    @Test
+    void aWorkerMayNotUseAnySendShapeOverMcp() {
+        FleetMcp m = mcp(true);
+        for (Authz.Action a : new Authz.Action[]{Authz.Action.SEND, Authz.Action.COORD_SEND,
+                Authz.Action.ANSWER}) {
+            McpSchema.CallToolResult denied = m.denyFor(WORKER_A, a, "term_a");
+            assertNotNull(denied, a + " must stay refused to a worker");
+            assertTrue(denied.isError(), "a refusal is returned as an MCP tool error");
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #669 Unit A / #678: {@code TASK_READ} (ticket polling, session status) is split out of
+     * the roster-only {@code READ}, carrying forward the grant the undivided action gave. A worker
+     * still has both — it never gained or lost anything by the split.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aWorkerKeepsBothReadActionsAfterTheSplit() {
+        FleetMcp m = mcp(true);
+        assertNull(m.denyFor(WORKER_A, Authz.Action.READ, null));
+        assertNull(m.denyFor(WORKER_A, Authz.Action.TASK_READ, null));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void anArchitectMayReplyAndAskOnlyAsItsOwnPaneOverMcp() {
         FleetMcp m = mcp(true);
@@ -297,35 +336,53 @@ class FleetMcpAuthzTest {
      * the whole time the defect was live -- the table was right, the action fed to it was wrong.
      */
     @Test
-    void pollingByTargetIsADrainAndPollingByTicketIsARead() {
+    void pollingByTargetIsADrainAndPollingByTicketIsATaskRead() {
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.DRAIN, FleetMcp.pollAction("term_b", null),
                 "poll by target removes the replies — that is a drain, not an observation");
-        assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.pollAction(null, null),
-                "poll by ticket changes nothing");
-        assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.pollAction("  ", null),
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetMcp.pollAction(null, null),
+                "poll by ticket changes nothing, but is not the roster-only READ action");
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetMcp.pollAction("  ", null),
                 "a blank target is an absent target");
     }
 
     /**
      * fleetd #421: a coordId branch is a THIRD operation behind fleet_poll's one name, and it must
-     * map to {@link Authz.Action#COORD_READ} — never {@link Authz.Action#READ}, even though this
-     * branch also consumes nothing. READ's grant is open to every authenticated role on the premise
-     * that the roster carries no secrets; a lead-to-lead body is not the roster, so folding this
-     * branch into READ would let any worker read every peer lead's mail in full. coordId also takes
-     * priority over target when both happen to be present — it addresses a different inbox entirely.
+     * map to {@link Authz.Action#COORD_READ} — never {@link Authz.Action#READ} or {@link
+     * Authz.Action#TASK_READ}, even though this branch also consumes nothing. A lead-to-lead body
+     * is not the roster and not a ticket/status read, so folding this branch into either would let
+     * any worker or architect read every peer lead's mail in full. coordId also takes priority over
+     * target when both happen to be present — it addresses a different inbox entirely.
      */
     @Test
-    void pollingByCoordIdIsACoordReadNeverAPlainRead() {
+    void pollingByCoordIdIsACoordReadNeverAPlainOrTaskRead() {
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_READ, FleetMcp.pollAction(null, "mac-opus"),
-                "reading held peer mail must not be mapped to the everyone-readable READ action");
+                "reading held peer mail must not be mapped to a widely-readable action");
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_READ, FleetMcp.pollAction("  ", "mac-opus"),
                 "a blank target must not fall through to READ/DRAIN when coordId is present");
-        assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.pollAction(null, "  "),
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetMcp.pollAction(null, "  "),
                 "a blank coordId is an absent coordId, same as target/ticket");
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_READ, FleetMcp.pollAction("term_b", "mac-opus"),
                 "coordId takes priority over target — this is a different inbox, not a drain");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@code fleet_send} is three call shapes behind one tool name, exactly as {@code fleet_poll}
+     * is (fleetd #669 Unit A). {@link FleetMcp#sendAction} picks the action from the arguments, not
+     * the handler, for the same reason {@link FleetMcp#pollAction} does: a test can assert the
+     * mapping the handler actually uses.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void sendMapsToThreeDifferentActionsByItsArguments() {
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND, FleetMcp.sendAction(null, null),
+                "a plain delivery, with neither coordId nor turnId, is a local SEND");
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_SEND, FleetMcp.sendAction("mac-opus", null),
+                "coordId addresses a peer lead over the coordination broker");
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.ANSWER, FleetMcp.sendAction(null, "turn-1"),
+                "turnId resolves a worker's blocked question");
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_SEND, FleetMcp.sendAction("mac-opus", "turn-1"),
+                "coordId takes priority over turnId, mirroring sendToLead's own mutual-exclusion check");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void everyRegisteredToolHasItsHandlerActionPinned() {
         // fleetd #469: this used to scrape FleetMcp.java's tool("…") calls for the registered set —
@@ -344,16 +401,22 @@ class FleetMcpAuthzTest {
                 () -> tool + " is registered but has no pinned authorization action"));
 
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_send", Map.of()));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND,
+                FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_send", Map.of("sessionId", "term_a", "content", "hi")));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_SEND,
+                FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_send", Map.of("coordId", "mac-opus", "content", "hi")));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.ANSWER,
+                FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_send", Map.of("turnId", "turn-1", "content", "hi")));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.REPLY, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_reply", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.ASK, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_ask", Map.of()));
-        assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_status", Map.of()));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_status", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.DRAIN, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_ack", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.SPAWN, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_spawn", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_list", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.STOP, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_stop", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_profiles", Map.of()));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_whoami", Map.of()));
-        assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_poll", Map.of("ticket", "task")));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_poll", Map.of("ticket", "task")));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.DRAIN, FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_poll", Map.of("target", "term_b")));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.COORD_READ,
                 FleetMcp.toolAction("fleet_poll", Map.of("coordId", "mac-opus")));

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageServiceTest.java

@@ -60,13 +60,25 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         inbox.own(T);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A send budget large enough that a test's own setup — {@link #awaitWaiting()} plus whatever
+     * status transitions it drives afterward — can never compete with it for the same clock. A test
+     * that needs {@code send.get(...)}'s own window to be the only timing bound it depends on uses
+     * {@link #sendAsync(String, long)} with this value instead of the default 5000 ms.
+     */
+    private static final long GENEROUS_SEND_BUDGET_MILLIS = 30_000;
+
     /** Run {@code send} on a background thread; the current thread drives the worker's turn. */
     private CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> sendAsync() {
         return sendAsync("do the task");
     }
 
     private CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> sendAsync(String content) {
-        return CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, content, 5000));
+        return sendAsync(content, 5000);
+    }
+
+    private CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> sendAsync(String content, long timeoutMillis) {
+        return CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, content, timeoutMillis));
     }
 
     private void awaitWaiting() throws InterruptedException {
@@ -80,7 +92,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
     @Test
     void completionFallbackResolvesATurnThatNeverCalledFleetReply() throws Exception {
-        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send = sendAsync();
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send = sendAsync("do the task", GENEROUS_SEND_BUDGET_MILLIS);
         awaitWaiting();
 
         herdr.readText("$ prompt");                // pre-turn pane: no answer yet (baseline reference)
@@ -96,6 +108,32 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         assertTrue(reply.completed(), "a scraped completion still counts as completed");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Pins {@link #GENEROUS_SEND_BUDGET_MILLIS} as the budget {@link
+     * #completionFallbackResolvesATurnThatNeverCalledFleetReply} depends on. A 5500 ms delay between
+     * {@link #awaitWaiting()} and the status transitions that drive completion stands in for a loaded
+     * machine's setup overhead — comfortably past the 5000 ms budget this send no longer uses, and
+     * still well inside this method's own 30 000 ms budget. The only clock this test depends on is
+     * {@code send.get}'s own 10 s window.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void completionFallbackSurvivesASlowHarnessBecauseItsSendBudgetIsNotTheBindingClock() throws Exception {
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send = sendAsync("do the task", GENEROUS_SEND_BUDGET_MILLIS);
+        awaitWaiting();
+
+        Thread.sleep(5500);
+
+        herdr.readText("$ prompt");
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.WORKING);
+        herdr.readText("BUILD GREEN: 391 files");
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);
+
+        MessageService.Reply reply = send.get(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.COMPLETED_UNREPLIED, reply.outcome(),
+                "a slow harness must not be mistaken for a timed-out delivery");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void completionFallbackReplacesAnEchoedInjectedBriefWithNoReportOutcome() throws Exception {
         String brief = "Implement the requested change. ".repeat(20);

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/rest/FleetAppAuthTest.java

@@ -122,12 +122,28 @@ class FleetAppAuthTest {
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.DRAIN, FleetApp.routeAction("GET /sessions/{id}/replies"));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.ASK, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/ask"));
         for (String route : Set.of("GET /sessions", "GET /agents", "GET /members", "GET /profiles",
-                "GET /member-credentials", "GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}")) {
+                "GET /member-credentials")) {
             assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetApp.routeAction(route), route);
         }
+        for (String route : Set.of("GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}")) {
+            assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetApp.routeAction(route), route);
+        }
         assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> FleetApp.routeAction("GET /healthz"));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #669 Unit A: {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message} is two call shapes behind one route,
+     * mirroring {@code fleet_send}'s MCP-side split into {@link Authz.Action#SEND} and {@link
+     * Authz.Action#ANSWER} ({@code FleetMcp#sendAction}). The route never carries a {@code coordId}
+     * shape — that peer-lead route is MCP-only — so only these two apply here.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theMessageRouteIsASendWithNoTurnIdAndAnAnswerWithOne() {
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", null));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", "  "));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.ANSWER, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", "turn-1"));
+    }
+
     private static Set<String> routesTheServerRegisters() {
         try {
             String source = Files.readString(REST_SOURCE).lines()
@@ -192,6 +208,21 @@ class FleetAppAuthTest {
                 "draining an inbox is the primary's collection step");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #669 Unit A: the {@code turnId} shape of {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message} maps to
+     * {@link Authz.Action#ANSWER}, not the plain {@link Authz.Action#SEND} the test above drives —
+     * a worker must stay refused on this shape too, exactly as it was refused on the one undivided
+     * action before the split.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aWorkerMayNotAnswerAnotherSessionsBlockedQuestionOverRest() throws Exception {
+        int port = start(FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID, false, null);
+
+        assertEquals(403, send(port, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message",
+                "{\"turnId\":\"turn-1\",\"content\":\"hi\"}", null).statusCode(),
+                "resolving another session's blocked question would be a worker escalating too");
+    }
+
     // --- token mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @Test

scripts/config-edit.sh

@@ -580,6 +580,12 @@ install_candidate() {
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the report path
 #
+# Masks basic-auth userinfo (scheme://user:pass@host) in a daemon verdict line before it reaches
+# the terminal.
+mask_verdict_userinfo() {
+  printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -E 's#://[^@/[:space:]]*@#://<redacted>@#g'
+}
+
 # Prints the literal command the operator (or a test) can run to restore the backup by hand — the
 # absolute path to THIS script plus the overrides actually in force, so it works from any cwd.
 restore_command_line() {
@@ -599,8 +605,8 @@ restore_and_confirm() {
   ok "restored from $backup"
   if wait_for_verdict "$LOG" "$mark2" "$WAIT_SECONDS"; then
     case "$VERDICT_KIND" in
-      refused) warn "the RESTORE was also refused by the daemon: $VERDICT_LINE" ;;
-      *)       ok "restore confirmed: $VERDICT_LINE" ;;
+      refused) warn "the RESTORE was also refused by the daemon: $(mask_verdict_userinfo "$VERDICT_LINE")" ;;
+      *)       ok "restore confirmed: $(mask_verdict_userinfo "$VERDICT_LINE")" ;;
     esac
   else
     warn "the restore is on disk, but no confirming verdict line appeared within ${WAIT_SECONDS}s"
@@ -616,7 +622,7 @@ report_outcome() {
 
   say "waiting for the daemon's verdict (up to ${WAIT_SECONDS}s)"
   if wait_for_verdict "$LOG" "$mark" "$WAIT_SECONDS"; then
-    kind="$VERDICT_KIND"; line="$VERDICT_LINE"
+    kind="$VERDICT_KIND"; line="$(mask_verdict_userinfo "$VERDICT_LINE")"
   else
     kind="none"
   fi
@@ -673,7 +679,7 @@ check_mode() {
   local verdict
   verdict="$(last_verdict_line "$LOG")"
   if [ -n "$verdict" ]; then
-    ok "last verdict in log: $verdict"
+    ok "last verdict in log: $(mask_verdict_userinfo "$verdict")"
   else
     warn "no reload verdict line found in $LOG"
   fi

scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh

@@ -71,20 +71,22 @@ set -euo pipefail
 
 REPO="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
 MODULE="$REPO/fleetd"
-JAR="$MODULE/target/fleetd.jar"
-# fleetd #493: never build into the path a running process holds. The build writes here first
-# (Maven's shade plugin has finalName=fleetd, so `clean install` still lands its output at
-# target/fleetd.jar — that part is unchanged and out of this script's control), but this script
-# now moves it out to JAR_STAGED immediately, and only swaps it back to JAR (a plain `mv`, so a
-# rename, never a byte-by-byte overwrite) after the OLD daemon has been confirmed exited. See
-# stage_built_jar/swap_staged_jar below.
-JAR_STAGED="$MODULE/target/fleetd-new.jar"
+# fleetd #664: the runtime path and Maven's output path are no longer the same file. Maven's
+# shade plugin (finalName=fleetd) always lands a fresh build at target/fleetd.jar — that is
+# Maven's own output directory and this script does not change it — but the daemon is launched
+# from $JAR instead, outside target/ entirely. That split is the whole fix: neither `mvn install`
+# nor `mvn clean` can ever reach the file a running daemon holds open, because that file no
+# longer lives under target/ at all. See swap_if_built/swap_staged_jar below for the one `mv`
+# that moves a build from one path to the other, and only after the old daemon is confirmed gone.
+BUILD_JAR="$MODULE/target/fleetd.jar"
+JAR="$MODULE/run/fleetd.jar"
 OUT="$MODULE/fleetd.out"
-# Matches BOTH the absolute form and the relative `java -jar target/fleetd.jar` a hand-start
-# produces from inside fleetd/. Anchoring on the absolute path alone was a real bug: the daemon
-# restarted correctly and the script still reported "no process appeared", because it launched with
-# a relative path and then looked for an absolute one.
-PATTERN='target/fleetd.jar'
+# Matches a fleetd daemon's command line wherever its jar sits — absolute or relative, under
+# run/, under target/, or anywhere else a build or a hand-start might point it. Detecting a
+# daemon this script did not start, including one running from a jar outside $JAR's own
+# directory, is this pattern's whole job; running_pid()'s `comm = java` allowlist below is what
+# keeps that breadth from counting a shell that merely types the pattern as literal text.
+PATTERN='fleetd.jar'
 HEALTH='http://127.0.0.1:8765/healthz'
 STOP_WAIT=30      # seconds to wait for a clean exit before reporting failure
 HEALTH_WAIT=60    # seconds to wait for /healthz to answer after start — fleetd #603: also the pid-
@@ -169,10 +171,10 @@ hash256() {
   fi
 }
 
-# Reports the hash of $JAR by default, or of whatever path is passed — used to report the STAGED
-# jar right after a build (before it has been swapped in) without ever changing what a bare
-# `jar_id` (no args) means: the live path, $JAR. --check and the final "pid ..., jar ..." line
-# both call it with no args on purpose, so neither can ever be fooled by a leftover staged file.
+# Reports the hash of $JAR by default, or of whatever path is passed — used to report the BUILT
+# jar at $BUILD_JAR (before it has been swapped in) without ever changing what a bare `jar_id`
+# (no args) means: the live path, $JAR. --check and the final "pid ..., jar ..." line both call
+# it with no args on purpose, so neither can ever be fooled by a leftover build output.
 # fleetd #550 — THREE distinct answers now, not two: `[ -f "$f" ]` already separates "the jar is
 # not there" (-> "absent") from "the jar is there"; for the second case, hash256 itself separates
 # "hashed it" (a 12-char hex string) from "could not hash it" (-> "unhashable", when no hasher is
@@ -180,15 +182,35 @@ hash256() {
 # was the whole defect this ticket fixes.
 jar_id() { local f="${1:-$JAR}"; [ -f "$f" ] && hash256 "$f" || echo "absent"; }
 
+# fleetd #664 — under the old layout $JAR and the build output were the same file, so "jar on
+# disk" was one fact. Now they are two: $BUILD_JAR (target/fleetd.jar, whatever Maven last wrote,
+# by this script or by a bare `mvn install` run by hand) and $JAR (run/fleetd.jar, whatever the
+# daemon actually has open). Printing one label for both was the trap this ticket exists to close
+# — during the incident it would have shown the NEW jar's hash while the JVM ran the OLD one.
+# Pure (reads jar_id/date, never mutates), so a test can call it directly without reaching the
+# main flow — the same shape swap_if_built/drain_gate_refusal already use.
+report_jar_state() {
+  local built_hash running_hash built_mtime running_mtime
+  built_hash="$(jar_id "$BUILD_JAR")"
+  running_hash="$(jar_id "$JAR")"
+  built_mtime="$([ -f "$BUILD_JAR" ] && date -r "$BUILD_JAR" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' || echo 'none')"
+  running_mtime="$([ -f "$JAR" ] && date -r "$JAR" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' || echo 'none')"
+  ok "built jar   (target/fleetd.jar): $built_hash  ($built_mtime)"
+  ok "running jar (run/fleetd.jar):    $running_hash  ($running_mtime)"
+  if [ "$built_hash" != "absent" ] && [ "$running_hash" != "absent" ] && [ "$built_hash" != "$running_hash" ]; then
+    warn "built jar and running jar differ — target/fleetd.jar was rebuilt since the running daemon last started and is not yet live"
+  fi
+}
+
 # fleetd #593 — `pgrep -f "$PATTERN"` matches ANY process whose full command line CONTAINS the
 # pattern text, and that is not the same thing as "is the daemon". A shell that merely embeds the
 # pattern as literal text — a human typing this exact investigation by hand, an ssh-shaped
 # `sh -c '...; ...'`, a pipeline, or any other non-exec'ing shell that never replaced itself with
 # the pattern-holding command — still shows up in that match, and it is the INSTRUMENT, not the
-# daemon. Measured live on this Mac: `sh -c 'echo "target/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 30' &`
+# daemon. Measured live on this Mac: `sh -c 'echo "run/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 30' &`
 # leaves a real `sh` process alive (it forks for the `sleep`, it does not exec into it) whose own
-# `ps -o args` is `sh -c echo "target/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 30` — `pgrep -f "$PATTERN"`
-# matches that line right alongside the real `java -jar target/fleetd.jar` process. `pgrep -c`
+# `ps -o args` is `sh -c echo "run/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 30` — `pgrep -f "$PATTERN"`
+# matches that line right alongside the real `java -jar run/fleetd.jar` process. `pgrep -c`
 # (an in-one-call count) does not exist on BSD/macOS at all, so this cannot be fixed by switching
 # pgrep flags — it has to filter what pgrep already found, after the fact, in a way that still
 # runs on BSD.
@@ -210,7 +232,7 @@ jar_id() { local f="${1:-$JAR}"; [ -f "$f" ] && hash256 "$f" || echo "absent"; }
 # launched as `java -jar ...` — a native image, a renamed launcher — `running_pid()` silently
 # returns nothing and `assert_single_daemon` stops noticing a second daemon at all. For a guard,
 # that false-negative direction is the worse one to be wrong in. This is not a new assumption,
-# though: `PATTERN='target/fleetd.jar'` two lines up already assumes the daemon is a jar, which
+# though: `PATTERN='fleetd.jar'` two lines up already assumes the daemon is a jar, which
 # is only ever run by `java`. If that launch method changes, `PATTERN` stops matching anything
 # before this allowlist would ever get the chance to be wrong — the allowlist rides on the same
 # assumption that is already load-bearing, it does not add a new one. Whoever changes the launch
@@ -229,16 +251,12 @@ running_pid() {
   printf '%s' "$out"
 }
 
-# fleetd #493 — three small, independently testable pieces of "never build into the path a
-# running process holds":
+# fleetd #493/#664 — the independently testable pieces of "never build into the path a running
+# process holds":
 #
-#   stage_built_jar   moves the jar Maven just produced OUT of the live path and onto the staging
-#                      path, immediately after a successful build. Dies (leaving the OLD daemon
-#                      untouched — this runs before the stop step) if Maven reported success but
-#                      left no jar behind, or if the move itself fails.
-#   require_no_build_jar   the --no-build path never builds or stages anything: it must find a
-#                      jar already sitting at the live path from an earlier successful run, and
-#                      die with the same truthful message this script has always used if not.
+#   require_no_build_jar   the --no-build path never builds anything: it must find a jar already
+#                      sitting at the live path ($JAR, under run/) from an earlier successful run,
+#                      and die with the same truthful message this script has always used if not.
 #   wait_for_daemon_exit   polls running_pid() for up to $1 seconds and reports whether the OLD
 #                      daemon actually exited — extracted to its own function so the main flow
 #                      can be relied on to call swap_staged_jar only AFTER this returns success,
@@ -248,14 +266,10 @@ running_pid() {
 #                      so this is never a write into a path a running process holds — by the time
 #                      it runs, nothing holds that path anymore. If it fails, the caller must not
 #                      start a new daemon: die() below already refuses that by exiting the script.
-stage_built_jar() {
-  [ -f "$JAR" ] || die "build succeeded but produced no jar at $JAR — cannot stage it for restart.
-      The running daemon was NOT touched."
-  mv -f "$JAR" "$JAR_STAGED" \
-    || die "could not move the freshly built jar from $JAR to the staging path $JAR_STAGED.
-        The running daemon was NOT touched."
-}
-
+#                      fleetd #664: the "staged" jar swap_if_built passes in is now $BUILD_JAR
+#                      itself (target/fleetd.jar, Maven's own output) — a build no longer needs to
+#                      be moved off the live path right after compiling, because target/ was never
+#                      the live path to begin with.
 require_no_build_jar() {
   [ -f "$JAR" ] || die "no jar at $JAR — run without --no-build"
 }
@@ -282,8 +296,7 @@ swap_staged_jar() {
 #
 # The defect: the swap step used to be guarded inline by `if [ "$DO_BUILD" = 1 ]` in the main flow.
 # Changing that to `if false` left the suite green and the swap never ran, so a redeploy reported
-# every step succeeding while the daemon started on no jar at all (stage_built_jar has already moved
-# the freshly built one to $JAR_STAGED by then) or on a stale one.
+# every step succeeding while the daemon started on no jar at all or on a stale one.
 # test_swap_ordered_after_wait_and_before_start could not catch it: it reads this script's own text
 # and compares line positions, and a same-line edit moves no line.
 #
@@ -312,7 +325,12 @@ swap_if_built() {
   local do_build="$1"
   should_swap "$do_build" || return 0
   say "swap"
-  swap_staged_jar "$JAR_STAGED" "$JAR"
+  # fleetd #664: $JAR now lives under run/, a directory target/ never created. mkdir -p here,
+  # not inside swap_staged_jar itself — that function's own contract is tested on a missing
+  # parent directory (a failing mv), and widening it to auto-create one would change what that
+  # test proves.
+  mkdir -p "$(dirname "$JAR")"
+  swap_staged_jar "$BUILD_JAR" "$JAR"
   ok "jar in place: $(jar_id)"
 }
 
@@ -610,6 +628,45 @@ check_log_path_matches_plist() {
   ok "log path check: script and plist agree ($resolved_out)"
 }
 
+# Reads the launchd plist's ProgramArguments for the argument that follows "-jar", resolves it
+# alongside $jar_path, and dies when the two differ. Call it only when the agent is loaded; it
+# never touches launchd or the daemon itself.
+check_jar_path_matches_plist() {
+  local jar_path="$1" plist_path="$2"
+  local plist_args plist_jar resolved_jar resolved_plist_jar
+  if ! plist_args="$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Print :ProgramArguments' "$plist_path" 2>/dev/null)"; then
+    die "launchd agent is loaded but PlistBuddy could not read ProgramArguments from
+        $plist_path
+      — cannot verify which jar the supervised daemon launches. Fix the plist before
+      redeploying supervised."
+  fi
+  plist_jar="$(printf '%s\n' "$plist_args" | awk '
+      { gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/, "") }
+      prev == "-jar" { print; exit }
+      { prev = $0 }
+    ')"
+  if [ -z "$plist_jar" ]; then
+    die "launchd agent is loaded but its ProgramArguments at
+        $plist_path
+      do not contain a '-jar <path>' pair — cannot verify which jar the supervised daemon
+      launches. Fix the plist before redeploying supervised."
+  fi
+  resolved_jar="$(cd "$(dirname "$jar_path")" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)/$(basename "$jar_path")" || true
+  resolved_plist_jar="$(cd "$(dirname "$plist_jar")" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)/$(basename "$plist_jar")" || true
+  if [ -z "$resolved_jar" ] || [ -z "$resolved_plist_jar" ] || [ "$resolved_jar" != "$resolved_plist_jar" ]; then
+    die "jar path mismatch — this script deploys to
+        $jar_path  (resolved: ${resolved_jar:-<directory does not exist>})
+      but the loaded plist's ProgramArguments names
+        $plist_jar  (resolved: ${resolved_plist_jar:-<directory does not exist>})
+      The swap renames the built jar into place, so the old path stops existing after a redeploy;
+      a launchd-initiated start from this plist (a reboot, or KeepAlive after a crash) would then
+      run java against a missing file. Reinstall the plist at
+        $plist_path
+      so its ProgramArguments names $jar_path before redeploying supervised."
+  fi
+  ok "jar path check: script and plist agree ($resolved_jar)"
+}
+
 # fleetd #552: the post-restart fresh-log capture, pulled out of the main flow so it is testable by
 # sourcing (the same reason systemd_installed/systemd_loaded above guard their OWN mktemp inline
 # instead of leaving it bare) even though its only caller sits below the SOURCED guard. By the time
@@ -826,16 +883,25 @@ report_shutdown_drain() {
 #   --no-build, staged jar present -> ALSO "nothing changed", deliberately: --no-build itself builds
 #     and stages nothing (see require_no_build_jar above), so a staged jar found here is a leftover
 #     from an earlier, unrelated run. THIS run truly changed nothing, and the next DO_BUILD=1 run
-#     wipes that leftover before it builds (`rm -f "$JAR_STAGED"` in the build section above) — so
-#     there is nothing here for the operator to lose track of.
+#     wipes that leftover for free — `mvn clean` deletes all of target/, $BUILD_JAR included,
+#     before the build even starts — so there is nothing here for the operator to lose track of.
 #   --no-build, staged jar absent  -> "nothing changed"
 drain_gate_refusal() {
   local do_build="$1" staged_path="$2"
   if [ "$do_build" = 1 ] && [ -f "$staged_path" ]; then
+    # fleetd #664: under the old layout a build emptied the live path ($JAR) immediately, so
+    # --no-build's own check ("no jar at $JAR") was the thing that refused a rerun here. That is
+    # no longer true: a build never touches $JAR at all now, so $JAR still holds whatever was
+    # already running before this gate fired (reaching this message at all requires OLD_PID to
+    # have been set, which means a daemon was running from $JAR already) — a --no-build rerun
+    # would NOT refuse, it would just restart that same old jar and silently throw away the one
+    # sitting at %s.
     printf 'aborted — the running daemon was NOT touched, but the freshly built jar is sitting at
-        %s, not yet swapped into %s. Rerun WITHOUT --no-build to finish the restart —
-        the freshly built jar is no longer at the live path that --no-build requires — or
-        remove %s by hand if you want to discard this build.' "$staged_path" "$JAR" "$staged_path"
+        %s, not yet swapped into %s. Rerun WITHOUT --no-build to finish the restart — a
+        --no-build rerun would NOT refuse here: %s already exists from before this run, so it
+        would restart the daemon on that OLD jar and silently discard the one you just built — or
+        remove %s by hand if you want to discard this build instead.' \
+      "$staged_path" "$JAR" "$JAR" "$staged_path"
   else
     printf 'aborted — nothing changed'
   fi
@@ -934,6 +1000,7 @@ report_supervisor_state() {
       SUPERVISED=1
       ok "launchd agent loaded ($LAUNCHD_LABEL) — launchd supervises this daemon"
       check_log_path_matches_plist "$OUT" "$LAUNCHD_PLIST"
+      check_jar_path_matches_plist "$JAR" "$LAUNCHD_PLIST"
       ;;
     systemd)
       SUPERVISED=1
@@ -1170,7 +1237,7 @@ if [ -n "$OLD_PID" ]; then
 else
   warn "no daemon running — this will be a cold start"
 fi
-ok "jar on disk: $(jar_id)  ($([ -f "$JAR" ] && date -r "$JAR" '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' || echo 'none'))"
+report_jar_state
 ok "HEAD: $(git -C "$REPO" log --oneline -1)"
 
 # CB-594 / fleetd #492: supervision state. Installed and loaded are different facts — a
@@ -1252,9 +1319,6 @@ stop_if_check_only "$CHECK_ONLY"
 
 if [ "$DO_BUILD" = 1 ]; then
   say "build"
-  # fleetd #493: wipe a leftover staged jar from a previous failed/interrupted run BEFORE doing
-  # anything else, so that run's leftovers can never be mistaken for this run's output.
-  rm -f "$JAR_STAGED"
   BUILD_LOG="$(mktemp -t fleetd-build.XXXXXX)"
   echo "   log: $BUILD_LOG"
   if ! mvn -f "$MODULE/pom.xml" clean install > "$BUILD_LOG" 2>&1; then
@@ -1264,16 +1328,16 @@ if [ "$DO_BUILD" = 1 ]; then
   fi
   grep -E '^\[INFO\] Tests run:.*Failures' "$BUILD_LOG" | tail -1 | sed 's/^\[INFO\] /   /' || true
   ok "BUILD SUCCESS"
-  # fleetd #493: move the freshly built jar off the live path immediately — the running (OLD)
-  # daemon, if any, is still up at this point (build always runs before stop). From here until the
-  # swap step below (after the OLD daemon is confirmed gone), $JAR_STAGED is the only artefact this
-  # script treats as "the new jar" — $JAR itself is not touched again until the swap.
-  stage_built_jar
-  ok "jar now: $(jar_id "$JAR_STAGED")"
+  # fleetd #664: nothing to stage — $BUILD_JAR (target/fleetd.jar) is Maven's own output path and
+  # was never the live path, so the running (OLD) daemon, if any, was never at risk from this build
+  # at all. From here until the swap step below (after the OLD daemon is confirmed gone),
+  # $BUILD_JAR is the artefact this script treats as "the new jar" — $JAR itself is not touched
+  # again until the swap.
+  ok "jar now: $(jar_id "$BUILD_JAR")"
 else
   say "build skipped (--no-build)"
-  # fleetd #493: --no-build never builds or stages anything — it restarts whatever jar is already
-  # sitting at the live path from an earlier successful run. Same check, same message as before.
+  # fleetd #493: --no-build never builds anything — it restarts whatever jar is already sitting at
+  # the live path from an earlier successful run. Same check, same message as before.
   require_no_build_jar
 fi
 
@@ -1282,8 +1346,8 @@ fi
 # fleetd #555: run_drain_gate above is drain_gate_required + the prompt + drain_confirmed, called
 # unconditionally — it returns immediately when the gate is not required, and composes/dies through
 # refuse_drain_gate itself when the reply does not confirm. See #493/#517/#528 for why "nothing
-# changed" would be a lie once a build has staged a jar.
-run_drain_gate "$OLD_PID" "$ASSUME_YES" "$DO_BUILD" "$JAR_STAGED"
+# changed" would be a lie once a build has produced a jar not yet swapped in.
+run_drain_gate "$OLD_PID" "$ASSUME_YES" "$DO_BUILD" "$BUILD_JAR"
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------ stop
 #
@@ -1334,21 +1398,22 @@ fi
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------ swap
 #
-# fleetd #493: every branch above has now either confirmed the OLD daemon actually exited
-# (wait_for_daemon_exit, above) or established there was never one running to begin with. Only
-# NOW is it safe to put the freshly built jar at the path the NEXT `java -jar` (direct, or via
-# launchd/systemd's ExecStart) will read from — this mv is the one and only write to $JAR anywhere
+# fleetd #493/#664: every branch above has now either confirmed the OLD daemon actually exited
+# (wait_for_daemon_exit, above) or established there was never one running to begin with. Only NOW
+# is it safe to put the freshly built jar at the path the NEXT `java -jar` (direct, or via
+# launchd/systemd's ExecStart) will read from — a rename from $BUILD_JAR (target/) to $JAR (run/),
+# both under $MODULE and so on one filesystem. This mv is the one and only write to $JAR anywhere
 # in this script's mutating flow. If it fails, do not start: die() below exits before "start" runs.
 swap_if_built "$DO_BUILD"
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------------ start
 # Unsupervised: login shell (zsh -l) is what puts the secrets on the daemon's environment, and cwd
-# must be fleetd/ because the daemon resolves fleetd.yaml, logs/ and target/ relative to it.
+# must be fleetd/ because the daemon resolves fleetd.yaml, logs/ and run/ relative to it.
 # Supervised (launchd): launchd does both — deploy/dev.ltms.fleetd.plist points ProgramArguments at
 # scripts/fleetd-launchd-wrapper.sh (CB-594), which is what execs the login shell in launchd's
 # place, and WorkingDirectory in the plist already pins fleetd/.
 # Supervised (systemd --user): the unit does both too — measured on the second host, ExecStart is
-# `/bin/zsh -lc "exec java -jar target/fleetd.jar fleetd.yaml"` (a login shell, same reason as
+# `/bin/zsh -lc "exec java -jar run/fleetd.jar fleetd.yaml"` (a login shell, same reason as
 # above) and WorkingDirectory is already pinned to fleetd/.
 
 say "start"

scripts/test-config-edit.sh

@@ -629,6 +629,65 @@ test_refusal_shape_from_parse_failure_wording_is_recognised() {
   assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "the parse-failure refusal shape must also exit 4, not be read as silence"
 }
 
+# A verdict line carrying a credentialed URI has its userinfo masked, with a positive control
+# proving the rest of the line still reaches the output unchanged.
+test_verdict_userinfo_is_masked_with_positive_control() {
+  local dir
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.weight=4'
+  sleep 1
+  printf 'config reload from %s refused, keeping the running config: refusing to start: malformed pattern — profiles.local.errorPattern ("amqp://user:hunter2@host/vhost"): Unclosed character class near index 8\n' \
+    "$dir/fleetd.yaml" >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "refusal-with-userinfo exit code"
+  assert_not_contains "user:hunter2" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the userinfo must never reach the output"
+  assert_contains "amqp://<redacted>@host/vhost" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "the userinfo must be MASKED, not deleted — the rest of the quoted value must survive"
+  # Positive control: the diagnostic prose on both sides of the userinfo must still reach the
+  # output. Without this, a mutant that drops the whole verdict line would pass identically.
+  assert_contains "malformed pattern" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "prose BEFORE the userinfo must still reach the output"
+  assert_contains "Unclosed character class near index 8" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "prose AFTER the userinfo must still reach the output"
+}
+
+# An ordinary refusal line quotes the offending pattern, not a credential, and must survive byte
+# for byte: the rewrite is scoped to userinfo only, and the quoted pattern is the detail an
+# operator needs to fix the refusal.
+test_ordinary_refusal_line_passes_through_unchanged() {
+  local dir real_line
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+  real_line="config reload from $dir/fleetd.yaml refused, keeping the running config: refusing to start: malformed pattern — profiles.local.errorPattern (\"[unclosed\"): Unclosed character class near index 8"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.weight=4'
+  sleep 1
+  printf '%s\n' "$real_line" >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "ordinary refusal exit code"
+  assert_contains "$real_line" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "an ordinary refusal with no userinfo must pass through byte for byte, unchanged"
+}
+
+# A verdict line can hold a URI with NO userinfo and a later, unrelated @ further on in the same
+# line (an email address in diagnostic prose, for example). The rewrite must stop at the end of
+# the URI and must not treat the later @ as a second userinfo delimiter.
+test_uri_without_userinfo_survives_a_later_at_sign() {
+  local dir real_line
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+  real_line="config reload from $dir/fleetd.yaml refused, keeping the running config: broker.uri amqp://broker.local/vhost unreachable, contact ops@example.com"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.weight=4'
+  sleep 1
+  printf '%s\n' "$real_line" >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "no-userinfo-with-later-at-sign exit code"
+  assert_contains "$real_line" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "a URI with no userinfo plus a later @ in the same line must pass through byte for byte"
+}
+
 # --set runs yq over the whole candidate. It warns when that changes more lines than the requested
 # pairs, but a simple file with only the intended changed line must stay quiet.
 new_fixture_reformat_sensitive() {
@@ -720,6 +779,12 @@ echo "== extra: --check is read-only and always exits 0 =="
 test_check_is_read_only_and_exits_zero
 echo "== extra: the parse-failure refusal shape is also recognised =="
 test_refusal_shape_from_parse_failure_wording_is_recognised
+echo "== verdict-redaction criteria 2+3: verdict userinfo is masked, rest of line survives =="
+test_verdict_userinfo_is_masked_with_positive_control
+echo "== verdict-redaction criterion 4: an ordinary refusal passes through unchanged =="
+test_ordinary_refusal_line_passes_through_unchanged
+echo "== fleetd #638: a URI with no userinfo survives a later @ in the same line =="
+test_uri_without_userinfo_survives_a_later_at_sign
 echo "== acceptance criterion 17: --set warns about yq formatting churn =="
 test_set_warns_when_yq_reformats_extra_lines
 echo "== acceptance criterion 18: --set stays quiet without formatting churn =="

scripts/test-redeploy-fleetd.sh

@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ test_assert_single_daemon_rejects_two_pids() {
 test_running_pid_excludes_self_matching_wrapper_shell() {
   local before after wrapper_pid
   before="$(running_pid)"
-  sh -c 'echo "target/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 20' &
+  sh -c 'echo "run/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 20' &
   wrapper_pid=$!
   sleep 0.3
   after="$(running_pid)"
@@ -475,11 +475,26 @@ test_running_pid_excludes_self_matching_wrapper_shell() {
 # `comm` from the actually-executed binary's own path, not from `exec -a`'s argv[0] override (BSD
 # ties `comm` to argv[0], which is what makes this technique work here) — so on Linux this
 # specific fixture might report `comm=sh`, not `comm=java`, even though the REAL daemon (a literal
-# `java -jar target/fleetd.jar` process, never fabricated) is unaffected either way. I could not
+# `java -jar run/fleetd.jar` process, never fabricated) is unaffected either way. I could not
 # verify this fixture's behavior on Linux, so test_running_pid_counts_a_pid_whose_comm_is_java
 # below backstops the same claim (the allowlist admits a pid whose comm is `java`) with a stubbed
 # `ps`, which is identical bash on every platform and carries no such platform question.
 test_running_pid_finds_a_real_java_named_second_process() {
+  local before after standin_pid
+  before="$(running_pid)"
+  ( exec -a java sh -c 'echo "run/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 20' ) &
+  standin_pid=$!
+  sleep 0.3
+  after="$(running_pid)"
+  kill "$standin_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+  wait "$standin_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+  printf '%s\n' "$after" | grep -qxF "$standin_pid" \
+    || fail "running_pid() did not find a real second process (pid $standin_pid, comm forced to 'java' via exec -a) whose own argv holds the pattern: before=[$before] after=[$after]"
+}
+
+# PATTERN matches a fleetd jar in either build layout, not only the run/ one: a process whose
+# argv names a jar under target/ must be found too, the same way the run/ case above is.
+test_running_pid_finds_a_real_java_named_process_from_target_dir() {
   local before after standin_pid
   before="$(running_pid)"
   ( exec -a java sh -c 'echo "target/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 20' ) &
@@ -489,7 +504,24 @@ test_running_pid_finds_a_real_java_named_second_process() {
   kill "$standin_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
   wait "$standin_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
   printf '%s\n' "$after" | grep -qxF "$standin_pid" \
-    || fail "running_pid() did not find a real second process (pid $standin_pid, comm forced to 'java' via exec -a) whose own argv holds the pattern: before=[$before] after=[$after]"
+    || fail "running_pid() did not find a real second process (pid $standin_pid, comm forced to 'java' via exec -a) naming a jar under target/: before=[$before] after=[$after]"
+}
+
+# Broadening PATTERN to match both build layouts must not also broaden it into matching a
+# non-exec'ing shell that merely holds the target/ text as a literal argument, the same
+# self-matching shape test_running_pid_excludes_self_matching_wrapper_shell above excludes for
+# the run/ text.
+test_running_pid_excludes_self_matching_wrapper_shell_naming_target_dir() {
+  local before after wrapper_pid
+  before="$(running_pid)"
+  sh -c 'echo "target/fleetd.jar" >/dev/null; sleep 20' &
+  wrapper_pid=$!
+  sleep 0.3
+  after="$(running_pid)"
+  kill "$wrapper_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+  wait "$wrapper_pid" 2>/dev/null || true
+  [ "$after" = "$before" ] \
+    || fail "running_pid() counted a self-matching wrapper shell (pid $wrapper_pid, holding 'target/fleetd.jar' as literal text in its own argv, not the daemon): before=[$before] after=[$after]"
 }
 
 # fleetd #593 CORRECTION 1, hole 2 — the round-1 filter denied known shell names (sh/bash/zsh/
@@ -557,29 +589,30 @@ test_die_message_does_not_recommend_bare_pgrep_as_remediation() {
     || fail "assert_single_daemon's die message does not say in words that a pattern can match the caller (fleetd #593)"
 }
 
-# fleetd #511 — jar_id()'s no-argument default was unpinned by any test: nothing proved it reports
-# $JAR (the live path) rather than $JAR_STAGED. Both halves matter, so this pins both: the bare call
-# must hash the live jar, and an explicit path argument must hash THAT file, not fall back to $JAR.
-# Two files with different content, so a default pointed at the wrong one reports the wrong hash
-# rather than accidentally matching.
+# fleetd #511/#664 — jar_id()'s no-argument default was unpinned by any test: nothing proved it
+# reports $JAR (the live path) rather than whatever explicit path a caller passes it (e.g.
+# $BUILD_JAR). Both halves matter, so this pins both: the bare call must hash the live jar, and an
+# explicit path argument must hash THAT file, not fall back to $JAR. Two files with different
+# content, so a default pointed at the wrong one reports the wrong hash rather than accidentally
+# matching.
 test_jar_id_defaults_to_live_and_reports_explicit_path() {
-  local dir saved_jar="$JAR" saved_staged="$JAR_STAGED"
-  local live_hash staged_hash default_result explicit_result
+  local dir saved_jar="$JAR"
+  local live_hash other_hash default_result explicit_result other_path
   dir="$TMP/jar-id"; mkdir -p "$dir"
-  JAR="$dir/fleetd.jar"; JAR_STAGED="$dir/fleetd-new.jar"
+  JAR="$dir/fleetd.jar"; other_path="$dir/other.jar"
   printf 'live jar bytes' > "$JAR"
-  printf 'staged jar bytes, not the same content' > "$JAR_STAGED"
+  printf 'other jar bytes, not the same content' > "$other_path"
   # fleetd #550: this reference hash must be computed the same portable way jar_id() itself now
   # computes one — a bare, unguarded call to the macOS-only hasher here was exactly the item-2
   # defect, dying with "command not found" on any Linux runner that has no such hasher at all.
   live_hash="$(hash256 "$JAR")"
-  staged_hash="$(hash256 "$JAR_STAGED")"
+  other_hash="$(hash256 "$other_path")"
   default_result="$(jar_id)"
-  explicit_result="$(jar_id "$JAR_STAGED")"
-  JAR="$saved_jar"; JAR_STAGED="$saved_staged"
-  [ "$live_hash" != "$staged_hash" ] || fail "test fixture error: live and staged jars hashed the same"
+  explicit_result="$(jar_id "$other_path")"
+  JAR="$saved_jar"
+  [ "$live_hash" != "$other_hash" ] || fail "test fixture error: live and other jars hashed the same"
   assert_equals "$live_hash" "$default_result" "jar_id with no arguments must report the hash of \$JAR"
-  assert_equals "$staged_hash" "$explicit_result" "jar_id \"\$JAR_STAGED\" must report the hash of the staged jar, not fall back to \$JAR"
+  assert_equals "$other_hash" "$explicit_result" "jar_id with an explicit path must report the hash of that path, not fall back to \$JAR"
 }
 
 # fleetd #550 — closes a gap the test above leaves open. That test's own reference hash is now ALSO
@@ -651,34 +684,77 @@ test_jar_id_reports_unhashable_when_no_hasher_on_path() {
   assert_equals "unhashable" "$explicit_result" "jar_id (explicit path) with no hasher on PATH must report the same third state"
 }
 
-# fleetd #493 — never build into the path a running process holds. stage_built_jar/swap_staged_jar
-# are exercised directly against real files on disk (not stubs), because the whole point is file
+# fleetd #664 — report_jar_state is the --check fix: under the old layout $JAR and the build
+# output were the same file, so a single "jar on disk" fact covered both. Now they can disagree,
+# and this is the function that is supposed to show that. Agreeing case: two files with IDENTICAL
+# content must print both labels and never warn.
+test_report_jar_state_agrees_when_hashes_match() {
+  local dir saved_build="$BUILD_JAR" saved_jar="$JAR" output
+  dir="$TMP/report-jar-agree"; mkdir -p "$dir"
+  BUILD_JAR="$dir/target-fleetd.jar"; JAR="$dir/run-fleetd.jar"
+  printf 'identical jar bytes' > "$BUILD_JAR"
+  printf 'identical jar bytes' > "$JAR"
+  output="$(report_jar_state)"
+  BUILD_JAR="$saved_build"; JAR="$saved_jar"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'built jar' \
+    || fail "report_jar_state did not label the built jar"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'running jar' \
+    || fail "report_jar_state did not label the running jar"
+  if printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'differ'; then
+    fail "report_jar_state warned about a mismatch when both jars have identical content"
+  fi
+}
+
+# The disagreeing case: this is the whole point of the ticket — a built jar that is NOT the
+# running jar must be visibly flagged, not silently printed as two unremarkable facts.
+test_report_jar_state_warns_when_hashes_differ() {
+  local dir saved_build="$BUILD_JAR" saved_jar="$JAR" output
+  dir="$TMP/report-jar-differ"; mkdir -p "$dir"
+  BUILD_JAR="$dir/target-fleetd.jar"; JAR="$dir/run-fleetd.jar"
+  printf 'freshly built jar bytes' > "$BUILD_JAR"
+  printf 'older running jar bytes' > "$JAR"
+  output="$(report_jar_state)"
+  BUILD_JAR="$saved_build"; JAR="$saved_jar"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'differ' \
+    || fail "report_jar_state did not warn when the built jar and running jar disagree"
+}
+
+# Neither file existing (a fresh checkout, never built or deployed) must report two "absent"
+# facts and never a false mismatch warning — "absent" vs "absent" is agreement, not a diff.
+test_report_jar_state_both_absent_is_not_a_mismatch() {
+  local dir saved_build="$BUILD_JAR" saved_jar="$JAR" output
+  dir="$TMP/report-jar-absent"; mkdir -p "$dir"
+  BUILD_JAR="$dir/no-such-target.jar"; JAR="$dir/no-such-run.jar"
+  output="$(report_jar_state)"
+  BUILD_JAR="$saved_build"; JAR="$saved_jar"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'absent' \
+    || fail "report_jar_state did not report absent for a missing built/running jar"
+  if printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'differ'; then
+    fail "report_jar_state warned about a mismatch when both jars are simply absent"
+  fi
+}
+
+# Reads JAR and BUILD_JAR exactly as the script sources them, with nothing here assigning
+# either first. JAR must resolve outside $MODULE/target/, and JAR must differ from BUILD_JAR:
+# the daemon's live path and Maven's own build output are never the same file.
+test_jar_and_build_jar_are_sourced_outside_target_and_differ() {
+  source "$ROOT/scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh"
+  case "$JAR" in
+    "$MODULE"/target/*)
+      fail "\$JAR must not live under \$MODULE/target/ — got $JAR" ;;
+  esac
+  [ "$JAR" != "$BUILD_JAR" ] \
+    || fail "\$JAR and \$BUILD_JAR must not be the same path — got $JAR"
+}
+
+# fleetd #493/#664 — never build into the path a running process holds. swap_staged_jar is
+# exercised directly against real files on disk (not stubs), because the whole point is file
 # behavior (does the content move, does the source disappear, does a failure leave both sides
-# intact) that a stubbed function cannot prove.
-test_stage_built_jar_moves_off_live_path() {
-  local dir jar staged saved_jar="$JAR" saved_staged="$JAR_STAGED"
-  dir="$TMP/stage-ok"; mkdir -p "$dir"
-  jar="$dir/fleetd.jar"; staged="$dir/fleetd-new.jar"
-  printf 'built jar bytes' > "$jar"
-  JAR="$jar"; JAR_STAGED="$staged"
-  stage_built_jar || fail "stage_built_jar rejected a real build output"
-  JAR="$saved_jar"; JAR_STAGED="$saved_staged"
-  [ ! -f "$jar" ] || fail "stage_built_jar left the jar behind at the live path $jar"
-  [ -f "$staged" ] || fail "stage_built_jar did not create the staged jar at $staged"
-  grep -qF 'built jar bytes' "$staged" || fail "staged jar does not carry the built content"
-}
-
-test_stage_built_jar_dies_when_build_produced_nothing() {
-  local dir output rc=0 saved_jar="$JAR" saved_staged="$JAR_STAGED"
-  dir="$TMP/stage-missing"; mkdir -p "$dir"
-  JAR="$dir/fleetd.jar"; JAR_STAGED="$dir/fleetd-new.jar"
-  output="$(stage_built_jar 2>&1)" || rc=$?
-  JAR="$saved_jar"; JAR_STAGED="$saved_staged"
-  [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] || fail "stage_built_jar accepted a missing build output"
-  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF "$dir/fleetd.jar" \
-    || fail "refusal message does not name the missing jar path"
-}
-
+# intact) that a stubbed function cannot prove. stage_built_jar no longer exists: under the #664
+# layout $BUILD_JAR (target/fleetd.jar) was never the live path, so a build has nothing to be
+# staged OUT of — swap_staged_jar is called directly against $BUILD_JAR/$JAR (see
+# test_swap_ordered_after_wait_and_before_start and the report_jar_state tests below for the rest
+# of that seam).
 test_swap_staged_jar_moves_staged_onto_live() {
   local dir staged live
   dir="$TMP/swap-ok"; mkdir -p "$dir"
@@ -989,24 +1065,26 @@ test_swap_ordered_after_wait_and_before_start() {
     || fail "swap_if_built (line $swap_line) is not before the start section (line $start_line)"
 }
 
-# fleetd #511: the drain-gate abort message (fired when a build has staged a jar but the operator
-# declines the drain confirmation) used to tell the operator to "Rerun (with or without --no-build)"
-# to finish the restart. That is wrong — by the time this message can fire, stage_built_jar has
-# already moved the jar off $JAR, so a rerun WITH --no-build hits require_no_build_jar's own refusal
-# ("no jar at $JAR — run without --no-build"). Like test_swap_ordered_after_wait_and_before_start
-# above, this code path is never reached by sourcing (the SOURCED guard stops before the main flow),
-# so the only way to pin its exact wording is to read the source.
+# fleetd #511: the drain-gate abort message (fired when a build has produced a jar but the
+# operator declines the drain confirmation) used to tell the operator to "Rerun (with or without
+# --no-build)" to finish the restart. That is wrong. fleetd #664 changed WHY it is wrong: under
+# the old layout a build emptied the live path immediately, so --no-build's own check refused a
+# rerun for you; now a build never touches the live path at all, so --no-build would NOT refuse —
+# it would quietly restart the daemon on the OLD jar and throw away the one just built. Like
+# test_swap_ordered_after_wait_and_before_start above, this code path is never reached by sourcing
+# (the SOURCED guard stops before the main flow), so the only way to pin its exact wording is to
+# read the source.
 test_drain_gate_abort_message_says_no_no_build() {
   local src="$ROOT/scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh" msg
-  msg="$(grep -A3 -F 'aborted — the running daemon was NOT touched, but the freshly built jar is sitting at' "$src")"
+  msg="$(grep -A6 -F 'aborted — the running daemon was NOT touched, but the freshly built jar is sitting at' "$src")"
   [ -n "$msg" ] || fail "could not find the drain-gate staged-jar abort message in redeploy-fleetd.sh"
   if printf '%s' "$msg" | grep -qF 'with or without --no-build'; then
     fail "abort message still claims a rerun WITH --no-build can finish the restart"
   fi
   printf '%s' "$msg" | grep -qF 'WITHOUT --no-build' \
     || fail "abort message does not tell the operator to rerun without --no-build"
-  printf '%s' "$msg" | grep -qF 'no longer at the live path' \
-    || fail "abort message does not say why --no-build cannot finish the restart"
+  printf '%s' "$msg" | grep -qF 'silently discard' \
+    || fail "abort message does not say that --no-build would silently discard the build just made"
 }
 
 # fleetd #517 — the drain-gate abort branch itself. Before this, the only test of this message was
@@ -1149,19 +1227,22 @@ test_refuse_drain_gate_no_build_staged_absent() {
 #
 # fleetd #555 — the main flow's own call site moved: it used to read
 # `refuse_drain_gate "$DO_BUILD" "$JAR_STAGED"` directly; it now reads
-# `run_drain_gate "$OLD_PID" "$ASSUME_YES" "$DO_BUILD" "$JAR_STAGED"`, and run_drain_gate (tested
-# directly below by test_run_drain_gate_*) is what calls refuse_drain_gate with its own local names.
-# This grep now pins THAT call site — the thing that would go missing if a future edit deleted the
-# main flow's call to run_drain_gate altogether, the same residual gap #521/#528 already accepted for
-# swap_if_built/refuse_drain_gate (sourcing stops before the main flow runs, so no test in this file
-# can do better than reading the source for this one specific gap).
+# `run_drain_gate "$OLD_PID" "$ASSUME_YES" "$DO_BUILD" "$BUILD_JAR"` (fleetd #664 renamed the
+# fourth argument from $JAR_STAGED to $BUILD_JAR — same role, the not-yet-swapped-in jar — when
+# that path stopped being a separate staging file and became target/fleetd.jar itself), and
+# run_drain_gate (tested directly below by test_run_drain_gate_*) is what calls refuse_drain_gate
+# with its own local names. This grep now pins THAT call site — the thing that would go missing if
+# a future edit deleted the main flow's call to run_drain_gate altogether, the same residual gap
+# #521/#528 already accepted for swap_if_built/refuse_drain_gate (sourcing stops before the main
+# flow runs, so no test in this file can do better than reading the source for this one specific
+# gap).
 #
 # The grep ends `|| true`: this file runs under `set -euo pipefail`, so an ABSENT needle would fail
 # the assignment and `set -e` would kill the whole suite before the `[ -n ... ] || fail` guard below
 # ever ran — the exact dead-check shape fleetd #528 also flags as a sweep finding (see the PR body).
 test_run_drain_gate_call_site_present() {
   local src="$ROOT/scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh" call_line
-  call_line="$(grep -Fn 'run_drain_gate "$OLD_PID" "$ASSUME_YES" "$DO_BUILD" "$JAR_STAGED"' "$src" | head -1 | cut -d: -f1 || true)"
+  call_line="$(grep -Fn 'run_drain_gate "$OLD_PID" "$ASSUME_YES" "$DO_BUILD" "$BUILD_JAR"' "$src" | head -1 | cut -d: -f1 || true)"
   [ -n "$call_line" ] \
     || fail "could not find the main flow's run_drain_gate call site in redeploy-fleetd.sh"
 }
@@ -1269,12 +1350,71 @@ test_run_drain_gate_declined_reply_refuses() {
   source "$ROOT/scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh"
 }
 
+# Writes a launchd-plist fixture naming jar_path as the ProgramArguments entry after "-jar", so
+# check_jar_path_matches_plist has something real to read back.
+write_launchd_plist_fixture() {
+  local path="$1" jar_path="$2"
+  cat > "$path" <<PLIST
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
+<plist version="1.0">
+<dict>
+  <key>Label</key>
+  <string>test.fixture</string>
+  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
+  <array>
+    <string>/usr/bin/java</string>
+    <string>-jar</string>
+    <string>$jar_path</string>
+    <string>fleetd.yaml</string>
+  </array>
+</dict>
+</plist>
+PLIST
+}
+
+# Agreeing case: a plist whose ProgramArguments names the same jar, resolved, must proceed and
+# say so, never die.
+test_check_jar_path_matches_plist_agrees_ok() {
+  local dir jar plist output rc=0
+  dir="$TMP/jar-path-agree"; mkdir -p "$dir/run"
+  jar="$dir/run/fleetd.jar"
+  plist="$dir/agree.plist"
+  write_launchd_plist_fixture "$plist" "$jar"
+  output="$(check_jar_path_matches_plist "$jar" "$plist" 2>&1)" || rc=$?
+  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] \
+    || fail "check_jar_path_matches_plist must succeed when the plist names the same jar: $output"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF 'jar path check' \
+    || fail "check_jar_path_matches_plist did not print the agreement line: $output"
+}
+
+# The disagreeing case, and the positive control this check exists for: a plist naming a
+# different jar must die, naming both paths.
+test_check_jar_path_matches_plist_mismatch_dies() {
+  local dir jar other_jar plist output rc=0
+  dir="$TMP/jar-path-mismatch"; mkdir -p "$dir/run" "$dir/target"
+  jar="$dir/run/fleetd.jar"
+  other_jar="$dir/target/fleetd.jar"
+  plist="$dir/mismatch.plist"
+  write_launchd_plist_fixture "$plist" "$other_jar"
+  output="$(check_jar_path_matches_plist "$jar" "$plist" 2>&1)" || rc=$?
+  [ "$rc" -ne 0 ] \
+    || fail "check_jar_path_matches_plist must die when the plist names a different jar"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF "$jar" \
+    || fail "die message does not name this script's jar path: $output"
+  printf '%s' "$output" | grep -qF "$other_jar" \
+    || fail "die message does not name the plist's jar path: $output"
+}
+
 # fleetd #555 item 4 — the report-state dispatch on $SUPERVISOR_KIND. Inverting this used to report
 # the wrong supervisor and, for the launchd arm specifically, skip check_log_path_matches_plist.
 CHECK_LOG_PATH_CALLED=0
+CHECK_JAR_PATH_CALLED=0
 stub_check_log_path_recorder() {
   CHECK_LOG_PATH_CALLED=0
+  CHECK_JAR_PATH_CALLED=0
   check_log_path_matches_plist() { CHECK_LOG_PATH_CALLED=1; }
+  check_jar_path_matches_plist() { CHECK_JAR_PATH_CALLED=1; }
 }
 
 test_report_supervisor_state_launchd_sets_supervised_and_checks_log_path() {
@@ -1285,6 +1425,8 @@ test_report_supervisor_state_launchd_sets_supervised_and_checks_log_path() {
   [ "$SUPERVISED" = 1 ] || fail "report_supervisor_state launchd must set SUPERVISED=1"
   [ "$CHECK_LOG_PATH_CALLED" = 1 ] \
     || fail "report_supervisor_state launchd must call check_log_path_matches_plist"
+  [ "$CHECK_JAR_PATH_CALLED" = 1 ] \
+    || fail "report_supervisor_state launchd must call check_jar_path_matches_plist"
   source "$ROOT/scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh"
 }
 
@@ -1296,6 +1438,8 @@ test_report_supervisor_state_systemd_sets_supervised_without_log_path_check() {
   [ "$SUPERVISED" = 1 ] || fail "report_supervisor_state systemd must set SUPERVISED=1"
   [ "$CHECK_LOG_PATH_CALLED" = 0 ] \
     || fail "report_supervisor_state systemd must NOT call check_log_path_matches_plist"
+  [ "$CHECK_JAR_PATH_CALLED" = 0 ] \
+    || fail "report_supervisor_state systemd must NOT call check_jar_path_matches_plist"
   source "$ROOT/scripts/redeploy-fleetd.sh"
 }
 
@@ -2153,6 +2297,8 @@ test_assert_single_daemon_accepts_one_pid
 test_assert_single_daemon_rejects_two_pids
 test_running_pid_excludes_self_matching_wrapper_shell
 test_running_pid_finds_a_real_java_named_second_process
+test_running_pid_finds_a_real_java_named_process_from_target_dir
+test_running_pid_excludes_self_matching_wrapper_shell_naming_target_dir
 test_running_pid_drops_a_pid_whose_comm_is_not_java
 test_running_pid_drops_a_pid_that_exited_before_the_comm_lookup
 test_running_pid_counts_a_pid_whose_comm_is_java
@@ -2161,8 +2307,10 @@ test_jar_id_defaults_to_live_and_reports_explicit_path
 test_hash256_computes_a_real_sha256
 test_jar_id_reports_absent_for_missing_file
 test_jar_id_reports_unhashable_when_no_hasher_on_path
-test_stage_built_jar_moves_off_live_path
-test_stage_built_jar_dies_when_build_produced_nothing
+test_report_jar_state_agrees_when_hashes_match
+test_report_jar_state_warns_when_hashes_differ
+test_report_jar_state_both_absent_is_not_a_mismatch
+test_jar_and_build_jar_are_sourced_outside_target_and_differ
 test_swap_staged_jar_moves_staged_onto_live
 test_swap_staged_jar_dies_without_staged_file
 test_swap_staged_jar_dies_when_mv_fails
@@ -2204,6 +2352,8 @@ test_drain_confirmed_false_on_anything_else
 test_run_drain_gate_skips_prompt_when_not_required
 test_run_drain_gate_confirmed_reply_does_not_refuse
 test_run_drain_gate_declined_reply_refuses
+test_check_jar_path_matches_plist_agrees_ok
+test_check_jar_path_matches_plist_mismatch_dies
 test_report_supervisor_state_launchd_sets_supervised_and_checks_log_path
 test_report_supervisor_state_systemd_sets_supervised_without_log_path_check
 test_report_supervisor_state_none_leaves_supervised_zero