fleetd #726 unit 1 review fixes: correct relaunch's javadoc and dedupe its resolve logic

relaunch's javadoc said it reads the live config; it actually reads the
FleetConfig snapshot this launcher was constructed with (fleet.leaders
is the frozen half), so say that and note a profile/tab edit needs a
daemon restart.

relaunch's recognise-only refusal reused ensureLeads()'s log wording,
which claims the lead 'is not live' — true in ensureLeads()'s context
(reached only after a short live count), false in relaunch's (which
never counts liveness, by design). Dropped that clause.

Pulled the declared/creatable/profile-configured resolution shared by
ensureLeads() and relaunch() into one private resolveLaunchable(name)
helper (returns a new ResolvedLead(lead, profile) record, or null
having logged), so the three refusals and their wording live in one
place instead of two copies that can drift. Behaviour-preserving:
ensureLeads() keeps its own liveness-count logic around the shared
resolve, and the existing 37 LeadLauncherTest cases are unchanged and
still pass.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -100,7 +100,11 @@ below are the procedure — run them in order, every task, not only the big ones
 5. **Collect** — `fleet_poll{ticket}` → `fleet_ack{target, msgId}`. Answer a worker's `fleet_ask`
    with `fleet_send{turnId, content}` — **not** `sessionId`. A worker gone quiet is diagnosed with
    `fleet_status`, never by reading its terminal; it also reports an open question and the `turnId`
-   that answers it. **A worker's ask waits ~55 seconds, and no nudge makes that longer** — so never
+   that answers it — but **only to the caller that created that delegation**, so a question raised
+   under an architect's brief is invisible to you, and seeing none does not mean there is none.
+   **Only that same creator can answer it.** A `turnId` you came by any other way is refused, so an
+   architect's worker waits for that architect and not for you.
+   **A worker's ask waits ~55 seconds, and no nudge makes that longer** — so never
    brief a worker to "ask me". Decide before you delegate, or give it an explicit default.
    **A correction cannot reach a busy member.** A `fleet_send` to a working member is *accepted* and
    returns a ticket, and is then never delivered — measured here three times in one session, and the
@@ -165,10 +169,10 @@ you decide.
 | See the fleet | `fleet_list` → `leads` (your peers) + `members` (each carries `agentSessionId` when its backend knows one) + `loopHealth` (`RUNNING`, `STALLED`, or `STOPPED` for `statusPoller` and `sessionReaper`) · one peer's state: `fleet_status{sessionId}` |
 | Delegate (blocking) | `fleet_send{sessionId, content}` |
 | Delegate (long task) | `fleet_send{sessionId, content, wait:false}` → ticket → `fleet_poll{ticket}` |
-| Answer a member's `fleet_ask` | `fleet_send{turnId, content}` — **not** `sessionId` |
+| Answer a member's `fleet_ask` | `fleet_send{turnId, content}` — **not** `sessionId`, and only the caller that created that delegation |
 | Message a **peer lead** on this host | `fleet_send{sessionId: <their terminal>, content}` — `fleet_list` → `leads` reports it. Coordination only, **never** a task |
 | Message a **peer lead** on another daemon or host | `fleet_send{coordId: <their coord-id>, content}` — needs a `coordinator:` block; your own coord-id is in `fleet_list`. Coordination only, **never** a task |
-| Message a **collaborator** on this host | `fleet_send{sessionId: <their terminal>, content}` — but **`fleet_list` does not report collaborators**, so you cannot discover one: it must tell you its `sessionId`, which its own `fleet_whoami` gives it. Coordination only, **never** a task |
+| Message a **collaborator** on this host | `fleet_send{sessionId: <their terminal>, content}` — `fleet_list` reports a `collaborators` array, and each row carries that peer's `name` and the `sessionId` you send to. It is visible to you, to an architect and to another collaborator, never to a worker. Coordination only, **never** a task |
 | Answer a peer lead that messaged you | `fleet_send{coordId}` — or `{sessionId}` if they are on this host. **Not** `fleet_reply`: it has no peer route and the publish is refused |
 | Read your own held lead-to-lead mail (no ack) | `fleet_poll{coordId: <your own coord-id, from fleet_list's coordinator.selfId>}` — primary-only; never acks, so `fleet_list`'s `held[]` still shows it after. `fleet_list`'s `held[]` gives only a truncated preview — this is the only way to read the full body |
 | Collect a held reply | `fleet_poll{target}` · then `fleet_ack{target, msgId}` |
@@ -257,8 +261,8 @@ of those is refused at the gate, not queued.
 Two limits worth knowing before you hit them. **You cannot reach a worker** — not even to help one —
 because a worker belongs to the lead that spawned it, and routing around that would make you a
 second orchestrator with no plan. Send to the lead instead. And **you cannot read a ticket**, so you
-cannot collect a delegation's reply; ticket ids are a plain counter with no owner check, so holding
-one would let you walk every other session's answers.
+cannot collect a delegation's reply: `fleet_poll` refuses you at the role gate, and a ticket also
+records the terminal that created it, so even a leaked id reads nothing.
 
 Being named buys you a channel, not authority. Your `fleet_send` to a lead is coordination between
 peers: the lead owes you no obedience, and you owe it none.
@@ -330,10 +334,22 @@ must obey belongs in the charter, not here.
   (#362). **Read `plugin/` before designing anything about onboarding a project.** Two limits are
   structural, not bugs: a plugin cannot carry the role agent files, because
   `ClaudeCodeLauncher.java:371` requires `<cwd>/.claude/agents/<role>.md` in the member's own
-  worktree; and a plugin cannot deliver anything to members at all, because
-  `ClaudeCodeLauncher.java:285` exports `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` and every Claude profile here sets it,
-  so a member never reads the operator's plugin store. **The plugin is the lead-side surface;
-  member-facing assets travel in the worktree.**
+  worktree; and a plugin reaches a member only through `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`, which
+  `ClaudeCodeLauncher.java:286` exports with `putIfPresent` — so only for a profile that sets
+  `configDir`. Every `claude-code` profile does set one (the four without are `opencode`, which
+  never reads that variable). **But measured 2026-10-04: two of them point at
+  `~/.ccs/instances/ltms`, which is the operator's own `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` on this host.** So for an
+  `opus` or `sonnet` member, "a member never reads the operator's plugin store" is false — it reads
+  the same store, because that store is the one its `configDir` names. It stays true for `local` and
+  `local-direct`, which point at `~/.ccs/instances/gx10`. `ClaudeCodeLauncher`'s own javadoc names
+  the related hazard: that file is rewritten on every spawn, so for those two profiles fleetd and the
+  operator's live session write the same `.claude.json`, and its compare-and-swap "narrows the
+  lost-update window, it does not close it". Re-measure which profiles share the operator's dir with
+  `awk '/^profiles:/{i=1;next} /^[a-z]/{i=0} i&&/^  [a-z-]+:$/{p=$1} i&&/configDir:/{print p,$2}'
+  fleetd/fleetd.yaml` against `echo $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`; delete this note once no profile names the
+  operator's dir. **Treat the plugin as the lead-side surface and put member-facing assets in the
+  worktree** — that conclusion holds either way, because a worktree asset does not depend on which
+  config dir a member reads.
 - **Never commit** `.mcp.json` (the primary's local copy, flagged `--skip-worktree`) or `wiki/`
   (a submodule with its own remote).
 - **A provisioned worktree neutralizes `.mcp.json`, `opencode.json` and `.autoenv`** — the repo's

fleetd/fleetd.example.yaml

@@ -62,11 +62,12 @@ bind:
 #
 # Leads are configured under `fleet.leaders:` — see THE FLEET further down.
 #
-# Two things stop the tab-name convention from becoming a way to claim leadership: the configured
-# member spaces are excluded from the scan, so nothing fleetd places can land in a matching tab;
-# and startup REFUSES a `tabPrefix` that the fleet tabLabel template, or any per-profile `tabLabel`
-# override, also matches — so the two namespaces cannot overlap by accident. The label is a NAME,
-# never a capability: what a pane may do is decided by the role the daemon resolves for it.
+# Two things stop the tab-name convention from becoming a way to claim leadership: startup REFUSES
+# a `tabPrefix` that the fleet tabLabel template, or any per-profile `tabLabel` override, also
+# matches, so the two namespaces cannot overlap by accident; and the CallerResolver asks the live
+# spawned-member roster BEFORE any tab map, so a live member is never mistaken for a lead no matter
+# what its tab says. The label is a NAME, never a capability: what a pane may do is decided by the
+# role the daemon resolves for it.
 
 # CB-551: IDLE-LEAD HEARTBEAT — nudge the single lead back to work when it has been continuously
 # idle (no open fleet_send driving it) past the quiet period. The fleet is one lead + architects +
@@ -659,9 +660,10 @@ fleet:
   #     tabPrefix: "lead:"           # only used to guard against a worker tabLabel colliding with
   #                                  # this convention at startup; plays no part in matching a lead
   #     scanIntervalSeconds: 10      # rescan cadence, and the worst case before a new tab is seen
-  #     workspace: leads             # where a launched lead's tab is created (default "leads").
-  #                                  # MUST NOT be a member workspace — those are excluded from the
-  #                                  # scan, so a lead placed in one is never found again.
+  #     workspace: leads             # where a launched lead's tab is created (default "fleet",
+  #                                  # the same shared space the members use). Sharing that space
+  #                                  # with members is the normal shipped shape: the scanner tells
+  #                                  # a lead from a member by the exact tab label, not by workspace.
   #     cwd: /path/to/repo           # the launched lead's working directory (default: fleetd's own)
   #     kind: claude                 # descriptive; reported by fleet_whoami
   #   gpt-sol-5.6:

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/FleetdAssembly.java

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ import dev.ltms.fleet.power.CaffeinateSleepAssertionMechanism;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.power.IdleSleepGuard;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.rest.FleetApp;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.session.GitWorktrees;
-import dev.ltms.fleet.session.MemberSession;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.session.SessionManager;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.session.SessionReaper;
 import io.javalin.Javalin;
@@ -480,13 +479,9 @@ final class FleetdAssembly {
                 new PaneLocator(herdr, memberHerdr), new LsofPeerPidLookup(), new LsofProcessCwdLookup());
 
         // fleetd #669 Unit D: a live spawned member resolves as its own role, whatever a tab map
-        // says about the same terminal — read from the roster meant for a hot path (SessionManager
-        // javadoc), never rosterResolved(), since resolve() runs on every request.
-        Function<String, MemberRole> spawnedMemberRole = terminal -> sessions.roster().stream()
-                .filter(s -> terminal.equals(s.terminalId()))
-                .map(MemberSession::role)
-                .findFirst()
-                .orElse(null);
+        // says about the same terminal. fleetd #702: SessionManager.spawnedMemberRole also answers
+        // for a pane mid-teardown, not only one still in the registry — see its javadoc.
+        Function<String, MemberRole> spawnedMemberRole = sessions::spawnedMemberRole;
 
         // CB-501: one resolver behind both entry paths. Worker identity still comes from the
         // connection and is never token-gated, so enabling token mode cannot lock the fleet out.

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

@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ public final class Authz {
      * {@code SEND} is refused, as if no terminal were a configured lead or collaborator — the
      * same decision {@link #NO_KNOWN_LEAD_OR_COLLABORATOR} gives explicitly. Every other action's
      * result is identical to the four-argument form's, since none of them consult the classifier.
+     *
+     * <p>Its default classifier denies every collaborator, so a caller enforcing authorization
+     * must use the four-argument form instead.
      */
     public static boolean permits(Principal caller, Action action, String targetSession) {
         return permits(caller, action, targetSession, NO_KNOWN_LEAD_OR_COLLABORATOR);

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

@@ -249,17 +249,6 @@ public final class CallerResolver {
         return leadTerminals.get();
     }
 
-    /**
-     * The currently-recognised architect slots, {@code terminal_id → slot name} (CB-548).
-     *
-     * <p>Read from the same supplier {@link #resolve} consults, so a slot that is <em>listed</em>
-     * here but would not <em>resolve</em> (or the reverse) cannot drift apart. Live for the same
-     * reason as {@link #leads()}.
-     */
-    public Map<String, String> members() {
-        return architectTerminals.get();
-    }
-
     /**
      * The currently-recognised collaborator tabs, {@code terminal_id → name}.
      *

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

@@ -2776,9 +2776,10 @@ public record FleetConfig(
         });
         if (!bad.isEmpty()) {
             throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: " + String.join("; ", bad)
-                    + ". Every member labelled that way would be read back as a lead or "
-                    + "collaborator and granted that identity's authority. Change one of the two "
-                    + "so member tabs cannot be confused with a lead's or collaborator's tab.");
+                    + ". A member labelled that way, while its pane carries no entry in the "
+                    + "spawned-member roster, is read back as a lead or collaborator and granted "
+                    + "that identity's authority. Change one of the two so member tabs cannot be "
+                    + "confused with a lead's or collaborator's tab.");
         }
 
         List<String> collisions = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -2877,7 +2878,8 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * the focused tab rather than its own, so it can land inside a lead's or collaborator's own
      * labelled tab. {@link dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.LeadTabScanner} identifies a lead or collaborator
      * purely by that tab's label — it does not exclude the member space — so a member that ends up
-     * there would be read back as that lead or collaborator and granted that identity's authority.
+     * there, while its pane carries no entry in the spawned-member roster, is read back as that
+     * lead or collaborator and granted that identity's authority.
      *
      * <p>Only an entry with a non-blank {@code tab} is in scope: one with no {@code tab} feeds
      * nothing into {@link dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.LeadTabScanner}, so it creates no hazard here.
@@ -2908,8 +2910,9 @@ public record FleetConfig(
         }
         throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: profile(s) " + bad
                 + " use placement: pane while fleet.leaders or fleet.collaborators names a tab. A "
-                + "pane-placed member can land inside that labelled tab and be read back as the "
-                + "lead or collaborator, granted that identity's authority. Set placement: tab for "
+                + "pane-placed member can land inside that labelled tab, and while its pane "
+                + "carries no entry in the spawned-member roster, it is read back as the lead or "
+                + "collaborator and granted that identity's authority. Set placement: tab for "
                 + "each named profile, or remove the tab from every fleet.leaders and "
                 + "fleet.collaborators entry.");
     }

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/herdr/ResilientAgentLaunch.java

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package dev.ltms.fleet.herdr;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.function.IntFunction;
+
+/**
+ * The three protections every {@code agent.start} caller needs against herdr's pane-typed launch
+ * surface (fleetd #220, #727): a byte-limit check on the assembled command line, a bounded retry
+ * on {@code agent_pane_busy} (the target pane's shell has not reached its prompt yet), and a
+ * bounded retry on {@code agent_name_taken} with a fresh name each attempt. One implementation —
+ * every caller of {@code agent.start}, lead or member, goes through this seam rather than carrying
+ * its own copy.
+ */
+public final class ResilientAgentLaunch {
+
+    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ResilientAgentLaunch.class);
+
+    private ResilientAgentLaunch() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The pty line buffer herdr types a launch command into: BSD/macOS {@code MAX_CANON}. Not a
+     * fleetd choice and not configurable — see {@link #checkFits}.
+     */
+    public static final int PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT = 1024;
+
+    /** Per-argument allowance for the separating space and a shell quote pair fleetd cannot see. */
+    private static final int QUOTING_OVERHEAD_PER_ARG = 3;
+
+    /** herdr rejects a duplicate agent {@code name}; a caller retries a bumped name this many times. */
+    public static final int NAME_RETRIES = 8;
+
+    /**
+     * Retries for {@code agent.start} against a seed pane whose shell has not reached its prompt
+     * yet — {@code tab.create}/{@code pane.split} return as soon as the pane exists, and herdr
+     * refuses to start an agent in a pane that is not "an available shell" ({@code agent_pane_busy}).
+     */
+    public static final int SHELL_READY_RETRIES = 20;
+
+    /** Raised by {@link #checkFits} when the assembled command cannot fit the pane line. */
+    public static final class TooLargeException extends RuntimeException {
+        public TooLargeException(String message) {
+            super(message);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Verify the assembled launch line fits the pane herdr types it into. herdr does not exec the
+     * launch command — it TYPES it into the pane as one line, and a pty line buffer holds only
+     * {@value #PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT} bytes. Everything past that byte is dropped with no error
+     * anywhere: herdr answers "agent started", the backend exits on the mangled argument it was
+     * handed, the pane closes, and the only symptom is a readiness timeout with no reason. That is
+     * how fleetd #214 broke every claude-code spawn — one 50-byte flag pushed a 978-byte command to
+     * 1028, and the tail that got cut was {@code --autocompact 250000}.
+     *
+     * <p>So measure it here and refuse, loudly and immediately, rather than start something that
+     * cannot work. The estimate is deliberately conservative: fleetd cannot see herdr's quoting, so
+     * every argument is charged its own bytes plus a separator and a quote pair. An over-estimate
+     * costs a clear error at a length that was already unsafe; an under-estimate would let the
+     * silent truncation back in.
+     *
+     * @param label names the launch in the refusal message (a profile name)
+     * @param argv  the full argv, including the executable at index 0
+     * @throws TooLargeException naming the limit, the estimate, and the longest argument
+     */
+    public static void checkFits(String label, List<String> argv) {
+        int bytes = 0;
+        String longest = null;
+        int longestBytes = 0;
+        for (String arg : argv) {
+            int argBytes = arg == null ? 0 : arg.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8).length;
+            bytes += argBytes + QUOTING_OVERHEAD_PER_ARG;
+            if (argBytes > longestBytes) {
+                longestBytes = argBytes;
+                longest = arg;
+            }
+        }
+        if (bytes <= PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT) {
+            return;
+        }
+        String culprit = longest == null ? "<none>"
+                : longest.substring(0, Math.min(longest.length(), 60)) + (longest.length() > 60 ? "…" : "");
+        throw new TooLargeException(
+                "launch command for " + label + " is about " + bytes + " bytes, over the "
+                        + PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT + "-byte limit of the pane line herdr types it into. "
+                        + "The pty would drop the tail silently and the backend would exit on a mangled "
+                        + "argument. Longest argument is " + longestBytes + " bytes: " + culprit
+                        + " — move it off the command line (a file flag) or shorten it.");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Start an agent into {@code paneId}, retrying {@code agent_pane_busy} up to {@code retries}
+     * times with {@code sleeper} run between attempts.
+     *
+     * @throws HerdrException the last {@code agent_pane_busy} failure once {@code retries} is
+     *                         spent, or immediately for any other herdr failure
+     */
+    public static Agent startAwaitingShellPrompt(AgentControl agents, String name, String kind,
+                                                  List<String> args, String paneId,
+                                                  int retries, Runnable sleeper) {
+        HerdrException busy = null;
+        for (int attempt = 0; attempt < retries; attempt++) {
+            try {
+                return agents.start(name, kind, args, paneId);
+            } catch (HerdrException e) {
+                if (!"agent_pane_busy".equals(e.code())) throw e;
+                log.debug("pane {} not at its shell prompt yet, retrying agent.start", paneId);
+                busy = e;
+                sleeper.run();
+            }
+        }
+        throw busy;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Start an agent under a freshly generated name each attempt, retrying {@code agent_name_taken}
+     * up to {@code nameRetries} times — herdr refuses a duplicate {@code name} outright, so a stale
+     * registry entry (a crashed session, a name the registry has not yet released) must not block a
+     * legitimate relaunch. Each attempt also carries its own {@link #startAwaitingShellPrompt} retry.
+     *
+     * @param nameForAttempt called once per attempt (0-based) to produce that attempt's name
+     * @throws HerdrException the last {@code agent_name_taken} failure once {@code nameRetries} is
+     *                         spent, or immediately for any other herdr failure
+     */
+    public static Agent startUniquelyNamed(AgentControl agents, String kind, List<String> args,
+                                            String paneId, IntFunction<String> nameForAttempt,
+                                            int nameRetries, int shellReadyRetries, Runnable sleeper) {
+        HerdrException last = null;
+        for (int attempt = 0; attempt < nameRetries; attempt++) {
+            String name = nameForAttempt.apply(attempt);
+            try {
+                return startAwaitingShellPrompt(agents, name, kind, args, paneId,
+                        shellReadyRetries, sleeper);
+            } catch (HerdrException e) {
+                if (!"agent_name_taken".equals(e.code())) throw e;
+                log.debug("agent name '{}' taken, retrying", name);
+                last = e;
+            }
+        }
+        throw last;
+    }
+}

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

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.HerdrException;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.PendingCloseMarker;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.ResilientAgentLaunch;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Tab;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Workspace;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.WorkspaceControl;
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ import dev.ltms.fleet.launch.ClaudeCodeArguments;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.security.SecureRandom;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Objects;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.peer.PeerLauncher;
 
 /**
@@ -80,9 +83,19 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
 
     private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LeadLauncher.class);
 
+    /** Attempts {@link #relaunch(String)} makes before giving up and returning {@code null}. */
+    static final int RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS = 3;
+
     private final AgentControl agents;
     private final WorkspaceControl spaces;
     private final FleetConfig cfg;
+    private final Runnable sleeper;
+
+    // Per-process token mixed into each lead agent name so a fresh daemon process (seq back at 0)
+    // cannot collide with a same-name lead that outlived a restart — the same scheme
+    // HerdrPeerLauncher uses for members (fleetd #727).
+    private final String nameNonce = String.format("%06x", new SecureRandom().nextInt(1 << 24));
+    private final AtomicLong nameSeq = new AtomicLong();
 
     /**
      * @param agents herdr agent control (start, list)
@@ -90,9 +103,27 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
      * @param cfg    the loaded config — {@code fleet.leaders}, {@code profiles} and each lead's tab
      */
     public LeadLauncher(AgentControl agents, WorkspaceControl spaces, FleetConfig cfg) {
+        this(agents, spaces, cfg, () -> sleepUninterruptibly(300));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test seam: as above, plus an injectable {@code sleeper} for the {@code agent_pane_busy}
+     * retry (fleetd #727), so a test can prove the retry budget without a real sleep.
+     */
+    LeadLauncher(AgentControl agents, WorkspaceControl spaces, FleetConfig cfg, Runnable sleeper) {
         this.agents = agents;
         this.spaces = spaces;
         this.cfg = cfg;
+        this.sleeper = sleeper;
+    }
+
+    /** Uninterruptible sleep — the production {@link #sleeper} between {@code agent_pane_busy} retries. */
+    private static void sleepUninterruptibly(long ms) {
+        try {
+            Thread.sleep(ms);
+        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -173,24 +204,14 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
                 log.info("lead '{}': {} live, {} wanted — nothing to start", name, running, wanted);
                 continue;
             }
-            if (!lead.isCreatable()) {
-                // A lead with a `tab:` but no `profile:` is recognise-only by design: the operator
-                // opens it by hand. Say so once rather than looking like a silent failure.
-                log.info("lead '{}' is not live, and names no profile — it can be recognised but not "
-                        + "launched. Add `profile:` under fleet.leaders.{} to have fleetd start it.",
-                        name, name);
-                continue;
-            }
 
-            FleetConfig.Profile profile = cfg.profiles().get(lead.profile());
-            if (profile == null) {
-                log.warn("lead '{}' names profile '{}', which is not configured — not launching",
-                        name, lead.profile());
+            ResolvedLead resolved = resolveLaunchable(name);
+            if (resolved == null) {
                 continue;
             }
 
             for (int i = running; i < wanted; i++) {
-                if (launch(name, lead, profile)) {
+                if (launch(name, resolved.lead(), resolved.profile()) != null) {
                     started++;
                 }
             }
@@ -198,6 +219,82 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
         return started;
     }
 
+    /** A declared lead paired with the profile it launches on — {@link #resolveLaunchable}'s result. */
+    private record ResolvedLead(FleetConfig.Leader lead, FleetConfig.Profile profile) {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The declared {@code Leader} and its {@code Profile} for {@code name}, read from the config
+     * snapshot this launcher was constructed with.
+     *
+     * @return the resolved pair, or {@code null} (having logged) if {@code name} is not declared
+     *         under {@code fleet.leaders}, that lead names no {@code profile:} (a {@code tab:}-only,
+     *         recognise-only lead), or its {@code profile:} is not configured. Shared by
+     *         {@link #ensureLeads()} and {@link #relaunch(String)} so the three refusals and their
+     *         wording live in one place.
+     */
+    private ResolvedLead resolveLaunchable(String name) {
+        FleetConfig.Leader lead = cfg.fleet().leaders().get(name);
+        if (lead == null) {
+            log.warn("lead '{}' is not declared under fleet.leaders — not launching", name);
+            return null;
+        }
+        if (!lead.isCreatable()) {
+            // A lead with a `tab:` but no `profile:` is recognise-only by design: the operator
+            // opens it by hand. Say so once rather than looking like a silent failure.
+            log.info("lead '{}' names no profile — it can be recognised but not launched. Add "
+                    + "`profile:` under fleet.leaders.{} to have fleetd start it.", name, name);
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        FleetConfig.Profile profile = cfg.profiles().get(lead.profile());
+        if (profile == null) {
+            log.warn("lead '{}' names profile '{}', which is not configured — not launching",
+                    name, lead.profile());
+            return null;
+        }
+        return new ResolvedLead(lead, profile);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Start the named lead from the config snapshot this launcher was constructed with — not a
+     * live read, so a lead's {@code profile:} or {@code tab:} edited in config needs a daemon
+     * restart to take effect here — outside of {@link #ensureLeads()}'s {@code instances}
+     * bookkeeping.
+     *
+     * @return the started {@link Agent}, or {@code null} if {@code name} is not declared under
+     *         {@code fleet.leaders}, that lead names no {@code profile:} (a {@code tab:}-only,
+     *         recognise-only lead), its {@code profile:} is not configured, or every attempt up to
+     *         {@link #RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS} failed to start it. Never throws.
+     *
+     * <p>Does not count how many instances of this lead are already live. {@link #ensureLeads()}'s
+     * count exists to avoid starting a second orchestrator; the caller of this method has already
+     * decided to replace the lead and owns that decision.
+     *
+     * <p>Retries the whole launch attempt — not only the {@code agent_name_taken}/
+     * {@code agent_pane_busy} cases {@link ResilientAgentLaunch} already retries inside one
+     * {@code agents.start} call — up to {@link #RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS} times, sleeping via the
+     * injected sleeper between attempts, and returns the agent from the first attempt that
+     * succeeds.
+     */
+    public Agent relaunch(String name) {
+        ResolvedLead resolved = resolveLaunchable(name);
+        if (resolved == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        for (int attempt = 1; attempt <= RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
+            Agent started = launch(name, resolved.lead(), resolved.profile());
+            if (started != null) {
+                return started;
+            }
+            if (attempt < RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS) {
+                sleeper.run();
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
     /**
      * How many live leads exist per configured name, and which of that name's labelled tabs are
      * <em>not</em> live: a running agent in a tab labelled with that lead's exact {@code tab}
@@ -306,8 +403,17 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
         return null;
     }
 
-    /** Start one lead. Returns false (having logged) rather than throwing on any failure. */
-    private boolean launch(String name, FleetConfig.Leader lead, FleetConfig.Profile profile) {
+    /**
+     * Start one lead. Returns null (having logged) rather than throwing on any failure.
+     *
+     * <p>Goes through the same {@link ResilientAgentLaunch} seam every member spawn uses
+     * (fleetd #727): the assembled argv is refused outright if it cannot fit the pane line herdr
+     * types it into, a stale {@code agent_name_taken} (a crashed session's name the registry has
+     * not yet released) is retried under a fresh per-attempt name rather than refusing the whole
+     * relaunch, and a seed pane whose shell has not reached its prompt yet ({@code
+     * agent_pane_busy}) is retried rather than failing on the first miss.
+     */
+    private Agent launch(String name, FleetConfig.Leader lead, FleetConfig.Profile profile) {
         String label = lead.tabLabel();
         String cwd = (lead.cwd() == null || lead.cwd().isBlank())
                 ? System.getProperty("user.dir") : lead.cwd();
@@ -323,8 +429,12 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
             // Same shape as the member launchers: herdr resolves the executable from `kind`, so
             // argv[0] (the configured launcher, e.g. `ccs`) is dropped and only the rest is passed.
             List<String> argv = leadArgv(profile);
-            Agent started = agents.start("lead-" + name, herdrKind(profile),
-                    argv.isEmpty() ? argv : argv.subList(1, argv.size()), tab.rootPaneId());
+            ResilientAgentLaunch.checkFits(profile.profile(), argv);
+            List<String> args = argv.isEmpty() ? argv : argv.subList(1, argv.size());
+            Agent started = ResilientAgentLaunch.startUniquelyNamed(agents, herdrKind(profile), args,
+                    tab.rootPaneId(),
+                    attempt -> "lead-" + name + "-" + nameNonce + "-" + nameSeq.incrementAndGet(),
+                    ResilientAgentLaunch.NAME_RETRIES, ResilientAgentLaunch.SHELL_READY_RETRIES, sleeper);
 
             // Label AFTER the start succeeds. A label written before would survive a failed start
             // and then read back as a live lead on the next boot, which is the exact staleness the
@@ -334,7 +444,7 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
             log.info("lead '{}' launched: profile={} tab={} pane={} terminal={} label='{}' cwd={}",
                     name, profile.profile(), tab.tab().tabId(), started.paneId(),
                     started.terminalId(), label, cwd);
-            return true;
+            return started;
         } catch (RuntimeException e) {
             log.warn("lead '{}' failed to launch on profile '{}': {}",
                     name, profile.profile(), e.getMessage());
@@ -346,7 +456,7 @@ public final class LeadLauncher {
                             tab.tab().tabId(), cleanup.getMessage());
                 }
             }
-            return false;
+            return null;
         }
     }
 

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

@@ -480,7 +480,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                         // Answering a worker's fleet_ask (CB-205): resolve its blocked question and
                         // block for the worker's reply as it resumes the same turn. This is the same
                         // delegation, so ownership is left untouched (CB-548) — never re-recorded.
-                        return answer(messages, turnId, content, timeoutMs(a));
+                        return answer(messages, turnId, content, timeoutMs(a), caller);
                     }
                     // CB-548: delegator ownership (which lead's reply nudge this worker routes to,
                     // CB-532) is recorded only once the send is ACCEPTED — MessageService has won the
@@ -490,8 +490,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                     Runnable onAccepted = () -> primaryRegistry.recordDelegation(target, caller);
                     // wait defaults to true (block for the reply); wait:false is fire-and-poll.
                     return Boolean.FALSE.equals(a.get("wait"))
-                            ? sendAsync(messages, target, content, onAccepted, workers.profiles())
-                            : send(messages, target, content, timeoutMs(a), onAccepted, workers.profiles());
+                            ? sendAsync(messages, target, content, onAccepted, workers.profiles(), caller)
+                            : send(messages, target, content, timeoutMs(a), onAccepted, workers.profiles(), caller);
                 };
         // fleet_reply's identity is the CONNECTION, never an argument — so the authz check
         // is "is this caller a worker at all", and it can only ever reply as itself.
@@ -514,7 +514,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                 (exchange, req) -> {
                     McpSchema.CallToolResult denied = deny(exchange, toolAction("fleet_status", req.arguments()), null);
                     if (denied != null) return denied;
-                    return status(messages, str(req.arguments(), "sessionId"));
+                    return status(messages, str(req.arguments(), "sessionId"), callerTerminal(exchange));
                 };
         BiFunction<McpSyncServerExchange, McpSchema.CallToolRequest, McpSchema.CallToolResult> pollHandler =
                 (exchange, req) -> {
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                     // The action depends on the ARGUMENTS, not on the tool name -- see pollAction.
                     McpSchema.CallToolResult denied = deny(exchange, toolAction("fleet_poll", a), target);
                     if (denied != null) return denied;
-                    return poll(messages, leadChannel, str(a, "ticket"), target, coordId);
+                    return poll(messages, leadChannel, str(a, "ticket"), target, coordId, callerTerminal(exchange));
                 };
         // CB-307 Increment 3: per-msgId ack (not needed in v1 but supported by the inbox).
         // Acking removes a reply from the inbox, so it is a drain, not a read.
@@ -560,8 +560,10 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                     return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, loopHealth, quarantine, outage,
                             leadSeats, leadContextGauge, leadConfigDirs, callers.leads(),
                             callerTerminal(exchange),
+                            callers.collaborators(), collaboratorsVisibleTo(principal(exchange)),
                             new CoordinationSource(leadChannel, peers),
-                            coordinatorVisibleTo(principal(exchange)));
+                            coordinatorVisibleTo(principal(exchange)),
+                            leadsVisibleTo(principal(exchange)), membersVisibleTo(principal(exchange)));
                 };
         BiFunction<McpSyncServerExchange, McpSchema.CallToolRequest, McpSchema.CallToolResult> stopHandler =
                 (exchange, req) -> {
@@ -743,7 +745,53 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
         return caller.isPrimary();
     }
 
-    /** The worker identity resolved from this call's connection, or {@code null} if the primary. */
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703: who may see {@code fleet_list}'s {@code collaborators} array — a roster of the
+     * human-opened tabs this daemon recognises as named peers. Visible to exactly the roles that
+     * may {@link Authz.Action#SEND} to a named peer ({@code Authz.java}'s {@code SEND} case):
+     * the primary, an architect, and a collaborator (reaching another collaborator or a lead). A
+     * worker holds {@code READ} but can never {@code SEND} to a collaborator, so listing them to a
+     * worker would expose which human tabs exist on the host with no use to that caller. Split out
+     * for the same reason as {@link #coordinatorVisibleTo}: the decision must be unit-testable
+     * without fabricating an SDK {@code McpSyncServerExchange}, and the handler must call this
+     * named predicate rather than inlining the check.
+     */
+    static boolean collaboratorsVisibleTo(Principal caller) {
+        return caller.isPrimary() || caller.isArchitect() || caller.isCollaborator();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Who may see {@code fleet_list}'s {@code leads} array — exactly the roles that may
+     * {@link Authz.Action#SEND} to a lead: the primary, an architect, and a collaborator. A
+     * collaborator's own {@code fleet_whoami} carries no lead address, and {@code leads} is the
+     * only place this tool gives one, so a collaborator needs this array to use the send it
+     * already holds. A worker can never {@code SEND} at all, so it still sees neither this array
+     * nor {@code members}; a worker's own facts come from {@code fleet_whoami} instead. Split
+     * out for the same reason as {@link #coordinatorVisibleTo} and
+     * {@link #collaboratorsVisibleTo}: the decision must be unit-testable without fabricating an
+     * SDK {@code McpSyncServerExchange}, and the handler must call this named predicate rather
+     * than inlining the check.
+     */
+    static boolean leadsVisibleTo(Principal caller) {
+        return caller.isPrimary() || caller.isArchitect() || caller.isCollaborator();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Who may see {@code fleet_list}'s {@code members} array — the primary and an architect,
+     * which may {@link Authz.Action#SEND} to a member. A worker can never {@code SEND} at all,
+     * and a collaborator may {@code SEND} only to a lead or another collaborator, never to a
+     * spawned member, so neither sees this array even though {@link #leadsVisibleTo} grants a
+     * collaborator the sibling one.
+     */
+    static boolean membersVisibleTo(Principal caller) {
+        return caller.isPrimary() || caller.isArchitect();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The terminal of the caller on this call's connection, or {@code null} when that caller carries
+     * no terminal, which is only the unnamed primary. A named lead, an architect and a worker each
+     * carry one.
+     */
     private static String callerTerminal(McpSyncServerExchange exchange) {
         Object v = exchange.transportContext().get(CALLER_TERMINAL);
         String s = v == null ? null : v.toString();
@@ -860,7 +908,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      * a BUSY interloper never claims a turn it did not win. {@code null} disables recording.
      */
     static McpSchema.CallToolResult send(MessageService messages, String sessionId, String content,
-                                         Long timeoutMs, Runnable onAccepted, Set<String> profiles) {
+                                         Long timeoutMs, Runnable onAccepted, Set<String> profiles,
+                                         String callerTerminal) {
         if (isBlank(sessionId) || isBlank(content)) {
             return error("sessionId and content are required");
         }
@@ -870,7 +919,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
         }
         long timeout = clamp(timeoutMs == null ? DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS : timeoutMs);
         try {
-            return formatReply(messages.send(sessionId, content, timeout, onAccepted), timeout);
+            return formatReply(messages.send(sessionId, content, timeout, onAccepted, callerTerminal), timeout);
         } catch (HerdrException e) {
             return error("herdr error contacting session " + sessionId + ": " + e.getMessage());
         }
@@ -880,13 +929,15 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      * {@code fleet_send} carrying a {@code turnId}: the primary's answer to a worker's
      * {@code fleet_ask} (CB-205). Resolves the worker's blocked question and blocks for its reply as
      * it resumes the same turn — surfaced to the primary identically to a normal send.
+     * {@code callerTerminal} must match the turn's recorded owner or this is refused.
      */
-    static McpSchema.CallToolResult answer(MessageService messages, String turnId, String content, Long timeoutMs) {
+    static McpSchema.CallToolResult answer(MessageService messages, String turnId, String content, Long timeoutMs,
+                                            String callerTerminal) {
         if (isBlank(turnId) || isBlank(content)) {
             return error("turnId and content are required to answer a worker's question");
         }
         long timeout = clamp(timeoutMs == null ? DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS : timeoutMs);
-        return formatReply(messages.answer(turnId, content, timeout), timeout);
+        return formatReply(messages.answer(turnId, content, timeout, callerTerminal), timeout);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -935,6 +986,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                     + "\" and content set to your answer; the worker resumes the same turn.");
             case STALE_TURN -> error("that question is no longer open — it timed out or was already "
                     + "answered (turnId stale)");
+            case NOT_TURN_OWNER -> error("this turn belongs to a different delegation — only the caller "
+                    + "that opened it may answer it");
             case TIMED_OUT_WORKING, TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, BUSY -> text("[no reply within " + timeout + "ms — worker "
                     + r.outcome().name().toLowerCase().replace("timed_out_", "") + "; retry or poll status]");
             // fleetd #571: delivery is unknown here — agent.prompt pastes and submits in one call,
@@ -956,6 +1009,17 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      */
     static McpSchema.CallToolResult sendAsync(MessageService messages, String sessionId, String content,
                                               Runnable onAccepted, Set<String> profiles) {
+        return sendAsync(messages, sessionId, content, onAccepted, profiles, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As above, recording {@code creatorTerminal} as this ticket's owner (the caller's own
+     * terminal, resolved from the connection) so a later {@code fleet_poll{ticket}} only hands the
+     * result back to that same caller — see {@link MessageService#poll(String, String)}.
+     */
+    static McpSchema.CallToolResult sendAsync(MessageService messages, String sessionId, String content,
+                                              Runnable onAccepted, Set<String> profiles,
+                                              String creatorTerminal) {
         if (isBlank(sessionId) || isBlank(content)) {
             return error("sessionId and content are required");
         }
@@ -963,7 +1027,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
         if (targetError != null) {
             return targetError;
         }
-        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(sessionId, content, onAccepted);
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(sessionId, content, onAccepted, creatorTerminal);
         return text("accepted — task delegated. Poll fleet_poll with ticket=" + ticket);
     }
 
@@ -1142,9 +1206,24 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      * exclusively of {@code ticket}/{@code target} — see {@link #pollAction}'s javadoc for why this
      * is a different inbox (this daemon's own {@link LeadChannel}) that authorizes differently
      * ({@link Authz.Action#COORD_READ}, primary-only) from either of the original two branches.
+     *
+     * <p>Does not check who owns {@code ticket} — see the overload that takes {@code
+     * callerTerminal} for that. Callers that do not resolve a caller terminal (tests, or a surface
+     * with no connection-based identity) use this one.
      */
     static McpSchema.CallToolResult poll(MessageService messages, LeadChannel leadChannel, String ticket,
                                          String target, String coordId) {
+        return poll(messages, leadChannel, ticket, target, coordId, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As above, refusing a ticket lookup whose caller's terminal differs from the terminal that
+     * created it — see {@link MessageService#poll(String, String)}. {@code callerTerminal} is the
+     * CALLING session's terminal id, resolved by the MCP layer from the connection, never a
+     * client-supplied value.
+     */
+    static McpSchema.CallToolResult poll(MessageService messages, LeadChannel leadChannel, String ticket,
+                                         String target, String coordId, String callerTerminal) {
         if (!isBlank(coordId)) {
             return pollHeldPeerMail(leadChannel, coordId);
         }
@@ -1158,7 +1237,7 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
         if (isBlank(ticket)) {
             return error("ticket (or target) is required");
         }
-        MessageService.TaskView v = messages.poll(ticket);
+        MessageService.TaskView v = messages.poll(ticket, callerTerminal);
         if (v == null) {
             return error("unknown ticket: " + ticket + " (never issued, or expired)");
         }
@@ -1265,16 +1344,20 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
 
     /**
      * {@code fleet_status}: the live lifecycle status of a worker session, plus — when the worker
-     * is paused mid-turn in an async {@code fleet_ask} (CB-582) — the open question and how to
-     * answer it, so a lead on its normal poll cadence does not need the ticket to notice.
+     * is paused mid-turn in an async {@code fleet_ask} — the open question and how to answer it, so
+     * a lead on its normal poll cadence does not need the ticket to notice. The question, its
+     * {@code turnId} and its ticket id are shown only to the caller whose terminal created that
+     * delegation, or to a caller with no terminal at all (the unnamed primary); any other caller
+     * still sees the base status. {@code callerTerminal} is the CALLING session's terminal id,
+     * resolved by the MCP layer from the connection, never a client-supplied value.
      */
-    static McpSchema.CallToolResult status(MessageService messages, String sessionId) {
+    static McpSchema.CallToolResult status(MessageService messages, String sessionId, String callerTerminal) {
         if (isBlank(sessionId)) {
             return error("sessionId is required");
         }
         try {
             String base = messages.status(sessionId).name().toLowerCase();
-            MessageService.PendingAsk ask = messages.pendingAsk(sessionId);
+            MessageService.PendingAsk ask = messages.pendingAsk(sessionId, callerTerminal);
             if (ask == null) {
                 return text(base);
             }
@@ -1761,7 +1844,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                                                Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm,
                                                CoordinationSource coordination) {
         return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, loopHealth, quarantine,
-                OutageSource.none(), LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm, coordination, false);
+                OutageSource.none(), LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm,
+                Map.of(), false, coordination, false, true, true);
     }
 
     /** As above, plus fleetd #201 Unit 5 cool-off facts (see {@link OutageSource}). */
@@ -1770,7 +1854,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                                                QuarantineSource quarantine, OutageSource outage,
                                                Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm) {
         return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, LoopHealthSource.none(), quarantine, outage,
-                LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm, CoordinationSource.none(), false);
+                LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm,
+                Map.of(), false, CoordinationSource.none(), false, true, true);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1787,7 +1872,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                                                QuarantineSource quarantine, Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm,
                                                CoordinationSource coordination) {
         return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, LoopHealthSource.none(), quarantine, OutageSource.none(),
-                LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm, coordination, false);
+                LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm,
+                Map.of(), false, coordination, false, true, true);
     }
 
     /** As above, plus fleetd #201 Unit 5 cool-off facts (see {@link OutageSource}). */
@@ -1796,7 +1882,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                                                QuarantineSource quarantine, OutageSource outage,
                                                Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm, CoordinationSource coordination) {
         return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, LoopHealthSource.none(), quarantine, outage,
-                LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm, coordination, false);
+                LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm,
+                Map.of(), false, coordination, false, true, true);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1818,7 +1905,8 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                                                LeadSeatSource leadSeats, Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm,
                                                CoordinationSource coordination) {
         return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, LoopHealthSource.none(), quarantine, outage,
-                leadSeats, new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm, coordination, false);
+                leadSeats, new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm,
+                Map.of(), false, coordination, false, true, true);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1835,14 +1923,23 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      *                        {@code false} (fleetd #463: a forgotten argument fails closed, not
      *                        open), so a test that wants the {@code coordinator} row must pass
      *                        an explicit {@code true}
+     * @param leadsVisible    whether this caller may see the {@code leads} array (see
+     *                        {@link #leadsVisibleTo}) — unlike {@code callerIsPrimary}, this is
+     *                        also {@code true} for an architect or a collaborator, so it cannot
+     *                        be derived from {@code callerIsPrimary} alone
+     * @param membersVisible  whether this caller may see the {@code members} array (see
+     *                        {@link #membersVisibleTo}); also {@code true} for an architect, but
+     *                        unlike {@code leadsVisible}, never for a collaborator
      */
     static McpSchema.CallToolResult listFleet(PeerLauncher workers, SessionManager sessions, MessageService messages,
                                                 CapacitySource capacity, HealthCoverageSource healthCoverage,
                                                 QuarantineSource quarantine, OutageSource outage,
                                                 LeadSeatSource leadSeats, Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm,
-                                                CoordinationSource coordination, boolean callerIsPrimary) {
+                                                CoordinationSource coordination, boolean callerIsPrimary,
+                                                boolean leadsVisible, boolean membersVisible) {
         return listFleet(workers, sessions, messages, capacity, healthCoverage, LoopHealthSource.none(), quarantine,
-                outage, leadSeats, new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm, coordination, callerIsPrimary);
+                outage, leadSeats, new LeadContextGauge(), LeadConfigDirSource.none(), leads, selfTerm,
+                Map.of(), false, coordination, callerIsPrimary, leadsVisible, membersVisible);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1852,6 +1949,17 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
      * matter); the one caller that matters for caching, {@code fleet_list}'s MCP handler, passes
      * its own single long-lived instance instead (see {@code FleetMcp}'s {@code leadContextGauge}
      * field).
+     *
+     * @param collaborators        terminal_id → collaborator name, live from the resolver
+     *                              ({@link dev.ltms.fleet.auth.CallerResolver#collaborators()})
+     * @param collaboratorsVisible whether this caller may see the {@code collaborators} array (see
+     *                             {@link #collaboratorsVisibleTo}); every wrapper overload above
+     *                             passes {@code false}, so a test that wants the row must call this
+     *                             overload with an explicit {@code true}
+     * @param leadsVisible         whether this caller may see the {@code leads} array (see
+     *                             {@link #leadsVisibleTo})
+     * @param membersVisible       whether this caller may see the {@code members} array (see
+     *                             {@link #membersVisibleTo})
      */
     static McpSchema.CallToolResult listFleet(PeerLauncher workers, SessionManager sessions, MessageService messages,
                                                  CapacitySource capacity, HealthCoverageSource healthCoverage,
@@ -1860,32 +1968,56 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                                                LeadSeatSource leadSeats, LeadContextGauge contextGauge,
                                                LeadConfigDirSource leadConfigDirs,
                                                Map<String, String> leads, String selfTerm,
-                                               CoordinationSource coordination, boolean callerIsPrimary) {
+                                               Map<String, String> collaborators, boolean collaboratorsVisible,
+                                               CoordinationSource coordination, boolean callerIsPrimary,
+                                               boolean leadsVisible, boolean membersVisible) {
         try {
-            Map<String, Agent> live = workers.list().stream()
-                    .map(Agent.class::cast)
-                    .filter(a -> a.terminalId() != null)
-                    .collect(Collectors.toMap(Agent::terminalId, Function.identity(), (_, b) -> b));
-            List<Map<String, Object>> leadRows = leads.entrySet().stream()
-                    .sorted(Map.Entry.comparingByValue())
-                    .map(e -> leadView(e.getKey(), e.getValue(), live.get(e.getKey()), selfTerm, contextGauge,
-                            leadConfigDirs))
-                    .toList();
+            // Neither row's assembly (leadView/memberCapacityView probing herdr for live status)
+            // runs unless at least one of them needs the live-agent lookup backing it.
+            Map<String, Agent> live = (leadsVisible || membersVisible)
+                    ? workers.list().stream()
+                            .map(Agent.class::cast)
+                            .filter(a -> a.terminalId() != null)
+                            .collect(Collectors.toMap(Agent::terminalId, Function.identity(), (_, b) -> b))
+                    : Map.of();
             // fleetd #209: this is the caller-driven fleet_list read that actually reports
             // agentSessionId (via memberCapacityView -> SessionManager.rosterView), so it uses the
             // resolving roster; the heartbeat/health/metrics timers stay on the plain sessions.roster().
             List<MemberSession> roster = sessions.rosterResolved();
-            List<Map<String, Object>> out = roster.stream()
-                    .map(s -> memberCapacityView(s, live.get(s.terminalId()), messages, capacity.clock().getAsLong()))
-                    .toList();
             Set<String> profiles = new java.util.TreeSet<>(capacity.configuredProfiles().get());
             roster.stream().map(MemberSession::profile).forEach(profiles::add);
             Map<String, Object> result = new LinkedHashMap<>();
-            result.put("leads", leadRows); result.put("members", out);
+            // READ is permission to enter this tool, not permission to receive every field it can
+            // build -- gate BEFORE assembling each row, so the key is absent rather than
+            // present-and-empty; a caller without either row gets its own facts from fleet_whoami.
+            if (leadsVisible) {
+                List<Map<String, Object>> leadRows = leads.entrySet().stream()
+                        .sorted(Map.Entry.comparingByValue())
+                        .map(e -> leadView(e.getKey(), e.getValue(), live.get(e.getKey()), selfTerm, contextGauge,
+                                leadConfigDirs))
+                        .toList();
+                result.put("leads", leadRows);
+            }
+            if (membersVisible) {
+                List<Map<String, Object>> out = roster.stream()
+                        .map(s -> memberCapacityView(s, live.get(s.terminalId()), messages, capacity.clock().getAsLong()))
+                        .toList();
+                result.put("members", out);
+            }
             result.put("healthCoverage", healthCoverage.value().get());
             result.put("loopHealth", Map.of(
                     "statusPoller", loopHealth.statusPoller().get().name(),
                     "sessionReaper", loopHealth.sessionReaper().get().name()));
+            // fleetd #703: a collaborator tab is a person's own tab, so the row is assembled and
+            // included only for the roles that may SEND to a named peer -- gate BEFORE assembling
+            // it, same reason as the coordinator row just below: the key must be absent for a
+            // worker, never present-and-empty.
+            if (collaboratorsVisible) {
+                result.put("collaborators", collaborators.entrySet().stream()
+                        .sorted(Map.Entry.comparingByValue())
+                        .map(e -> collaboratorRow(e.getKey(), e.getValue()))
+                        .toList());
+            }
             // fleetd #439: coordinator/coordinatorView is lead-to-lead coordination state and must
             // never reach a worker or an architect -- gate BEFORE assembling it, not after, so the
             // key is absent rather than present-and-empty.
@@ -2197,6 +2329,20 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
         return m;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703: one row of the {@code collaborators} array — a named peer's registry name and
+     * the herdr {@code terminal_id} a {@code fleet_send} must target to reach it. No status, no
+     * context gauge, no profile: a collaborator is never spawned and carries no profile, so those
+     * fields have no meaning for it, and the scan behind {@code terminal} only reports a tab it
+     * actually found in herdr, so a tab nobody has open does not appear here at all.
+     */
+    private static Map<String, Object> collaboratorRow(String terminal, String name) {
+        Map<String, Object> m = new LinkedHashMap<>();
+        m.put("name", name);
+        m.put("sessionId", terminal);
+        return m;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Reads the lead context gauge for one lead. {@code configDir} is this lead's configured
      * {@code CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR} override (see {@link LeadConfigDirSource}), derived from
@@ -2391,7 +2537,14 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
 
     private static McpSchema.Tool listTool() {
         return tool(FleetTool.LIST.wireName(),
-                "List the whole fleet the bridge tracks, in two parts. 'leads' are your PEERS — other "
+                "List the whole fleet the bridge tracks, in two parts. 'members' is visible to "
+                        + "the primary and an architect only. 'leads' is visible to those two AND a "
+                        + "collaborator — exactly the roles that may fleet_send to a lead, so a "
+                        + "collaborator can learn a lead's sessionId before using the send it already "
+                        + "holds. A worker holds READ to call this tool at all, but gets neither "
+                        + "array, never an empty one; a worker reads its own session, "
+                        + "profile, state, worktree, branch and owner from fleet_whoami instead. "
+                        + "'leads' are your PEERS — other "
                         + "orchestrators, each with its sessionId (the address to fleet_send to), "
                         + "name, live status, and 'self': true on your own row; this is how you "
                         + "discover a peer lead without being told its address. 'members' are the "
@@ -2422,7 +2575,12 @@ public final class FleetMcp {
                         + "msgId/from/preview, never the full body), and one row per coordinator.peers "
                         + "coord-id ('peers': coordId/reachable, plus pending/consumers when reachable) — "
                         + "this is peer DISCOVERY for cross-host leads, distinct from the local 'leads' "
-                        + "array above. It is omitted entirely when no coordinator is configured.",
+                        + "array above. It is omitted entirely when no coordinator is configured. A "
+                        + "'collaborators' array, visible only to the primary, an architect, and a "
+                        + "collaborator (never a worker), reports every other named peer tab this daemon "
+                        + "recognises: each row is 'name' (its registry name) and 'sessionId' (the "
+                        + "terminal id a fleet_send targets to reach it). Absent entirely for a worker, "
+                        + "whatever is configured.",
                 objectSchema(Map.of(), List.of()));
     }
 

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncher.java

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentStatus;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.HerdrClient;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.HerdrException;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.ResilientAgentLaunch;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Tab;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Workspace;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.WorkspaceControl;
@@ -67,16 +68,6 @@ public abstract class HerdrPeerLauncher implements PeerLauncher {
 
     private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HerdrPeerLauncher.class);
 
-    /** herdr rejects a duplicate agent {@code name}; we retry a bumped name this many times. */
-    private static final int NAME_RETRIES = 8;
-
-    /**
-     * Retries for {@code agent.start} against a seed pane whose shell has not reached its prompt
-     * yet — {@code tab.create}/{@code pane.split} return as soon as the pane exists, and herdr
-     * refuses to start an agent in a pane that is not "an available shell" ({@code agent_pane_busy}).
-     */
-    private static final int SHELL_READY_RETRIES = 20;
-
     private final String namePrefix;                       // label prefix: naming + reap scheme
     private final AgentControl agents;
     private final WorkspaceControl spaces;
@@ -766,90 +757,26 @@ public abstract class HerdrPeerLauncher implements PeerLauncher {
         // Protocol 19 resolves the executable from the agent kind (== namePrefix here), so
         // argv[0] — the configured executable — is dropped and only the extra args are passed.
         List<String> args = argv.isEmpty() ? argv : argv.subList(1, argv.size());
-        checkPaneCommandFits(cfg, argv);
-        HerdrException last = null;
-        for (int attempt = 0; attempt < NAME_RETRIES; attempt++) {
-            long seq = nameSeq.incrementAndGet();
-            String name = namePrefix + "-" + cfg.profile() + "-" + nameNonce + "-" + seq;
-            try {
-                return new Started(startAwaitingShellPrompt(name, args, paneId), seq);
-            } catch (HerdrException e) {
-                if (!"agent_name_taken".equals(e.code())) throw e;
-                log.debug("peer name '{}' taken, retrying", name);
-                last = e;
-            }
+        try {
+            ResilientAgentLaunch.checkFits(cfg.profile(), argv);
+        } catch (ResilientAgentLaunch.TooLargeException e) {
+            throw new PeerUnreachableException(e.getMessage());
         }
-        throw last;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * fleetd #220: herdr does not exec the launch command — it TYPES it into the pane as one line,
-     * and a pty line buffer holds only {@value #PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT} bytes (BSD/macOS {@code
-     * MAX_CANON}). Everything past that byte is dropped. Nothing reports it: herdr answers "agent
-     * started", the backend exits on the mangled argument it was handed, the pane closes, and the
-     * only symptom is {@link #waitUntilInjectableOrThrow} timing out 20 seconds later with no
-     * reason. That is exactly how #214 broke every claude-code spawn — one 50-byte flag pushed a
-     * 978-byte command to 1028, and the tail that got cut was {@code --autocompact 250000}.
-     *
-     * <p>So measure it here and refuse, loudly and immediately, rather than spawn something that
-     * cannot work. The estimate is deliberately conservative: fleetd cannot see herdr's quoting, so
-     * every argument is charged its own bytes plus a separator and a quote pair. An over-estimate
-     * costs a clear error at a length that was already unsafe; an under-estimate would let the
-     * silent truncation back in.
-     *
-     * @throws PeerUnreachableException when the command cannot fit — the same failure the spawn
-     *                                  would have hit anyway, named at the point it is still
-     *                                  explainable
-     */
-    private void checkPaneCommandFits(FleetConfig.Profile cfg, List<String> argv) {
-        int bytes = 0;
-        String longest = null;
-        int longestBytes = 0;
-        for (String arg : argv) {
-            int argBytes = arg == null ? 0 : arg.getBytes(java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8).length;
-            bytes += argBytes + QUOTING_OVERHEAD_PER_ARG;
-            if (argBytes > longestBytes) {
-                longestBytes = argBytes;
-                longest = arg;
-            }
-        }
-        if (bytes <= PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT) {
-            return;
-        }
-        String culprit = longest == null ? "<none>"
-                : longest.substring(0, Math.min(longest.length(), 60)) + (longest.length() > 60 ? "…" : "");
-        throw new PeerUnreachableException(
-                "launch command for profile " + cfg.profile() + " is about " + bytes + " bytes, over the "
-                        + PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT + "-byte limit of the pane line herdr types it into. "
-                        + "The pty would drop the tail silently and the backend would exit on a mangled "
-                        + "argument. Longest argument is " + longestBytes + " bytes: " + culprit
-                        + " — move it off the command line (a file flag) or shorten it.");
+        long[] lastSeq = {0};
+        Agent agent = ResilientAgentLaunch.startUniquelyNamed(agents, namePrefix, args, paneId,
+                attempt -> {
+                    lastSeq[0] = nameSeq.incrementAndGet();
+                    return namePrefix + "-" + cfg.profile() + "-" + nameNonce + "-" + lastSeq[0];
+                },
+                ResilientAgentLaunch.NAME_RETRIES, ResilientAgentLaunch.SHELL_READY_RETRIES, sleeper);
+        return new Started(agent, lastSeq[0]);
     }
 
     /**
      * The pty line buffer herdr types a launch command into: BSD/macOS {@code MAX_CANON}. Not a
-     * fleetd choice and not configurable — see {@link #checkPaneCommandFits}.
+     * fleetd choice and not configurable — see {@link ResilientAgentLaunch#checkFits}.
      */
-    static final int PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT = 1024;
-
-    /** Per-argument allowance for the separating space and a shell quote pair fleetd cannot see. */
-    private static final int QUOTING_OVERHEAD_PER_ARG = 3;
-
-    /** Start the agent into {@code paneId}, waiting out the seed shell's boot with the sleeper. */
-    private Agent startAwaitingShellPrompt(String name, List<String> args, String paneId) {
-        HerdrException busy = null;
-        for (int attempt = 0; attempt < SHELL_READY_RETRIES; attempt++) {
-            try {
-                return agents.start(name, namePrefix, args, paneId);
-            } catch (HerdrException e) {
-                if (!"agent_pane_busy".equals(e.code())) throw e;
-                log.debug("pane {} not at its shell prompt yet, retrying agent.start", paneId);
-                busy = e;
-                sleeper.run();
-            }
-        }
-        throw busy;
-    }
+    static final int PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT = ResilientAgentLaunch.PANE_COMMAND_BYTE_LIMIT;
 
     // --- discovery + reap ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/MessageService.java

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ public final class MessageService {
         /**
          * The worker paused mid-turn to ask the primary a question (CB-205); {@code text} is the
          * question and {@code turnId} correlates the answer. Not terminal — the primary answers with
-         * {@link #answer(String, String, long)} and the turn resumes.
+         * {@link #answer(String, String, long, String)} and the turn resumes.
          */
         QUESTION,
         /** Timed out after the message was delivered — the worker is still working. */
@@ -120,10 +120,16 @@ public final class MessageService {
         /** Another send to this session was in flight for the whole window. */
         BUSY,
         /**
-         * An answer ({@link #answer(String, String, long)}) referenced a {@code turnId} that is no
-         * longer open — the worker's {@code fleet_ask} already timed out or was answered.
+         * An answer ({@link #answer(String, String, long, String)}) referenced a {@code turnId}
+         * that is no longer open — the worker's {@code fleet_ask} already timed out or was answered.
          */
-        STALE_TURN
+        STALE_TURN,
+        /**
+         * An answer ({@link #answer(String, String, long, String)}) named a {@code turnId} that is
+         * still open, but the answering caller is not the caller whose accepted delegation opened
+         * it. Distinct from {@link #STALE_TURN} so a refusal is never reported as a lapsed turn.
+         */
+        NOT_TURN_OWNER
     }
 
     /**
@@ -133,7 +139,7 @@ public final class MessageService {
      *                {@link Outcome#COMPLETED_UNREPLIED}), or the question for {@link Outcome#QUESTION},
      *                else {@code null}
      * @param turnId  correlation id for a {@link Outcome#QUESTION} (answered via
-     *                {@link #answer(String, String, long)}), else {@code null}
+     *                {@link #answer(String, String, long, String)}), else {@code null}
      */
     public record Reply(Outcome outcome, String text, String turnId) {
         /** A reply with no correlation id (the common terminal outcomes). */
@@ -275,10 +281,19 @@ public final class MessageService {
          * {@link #abandon}) can never match again regardless of this flag's value.
          */
         private volatile boolean askTimedOut;
+        /**
+         * The terminal of the caller whose {@code fleet_send{wait:false}} created this ticket, or
+         * {@code null} when that caller had no terminal (the unnamed primary) or the ticket was
+         * created through an overload that does not record one. {@link #poll(String, String)}
+         * compares a polling caller's own terminal against this field before handing back the
+         * ticket's state.
+         */
+        private final String creatorTerminal;
 
-        private Task(String ticket, String target, LongSupplier nowNanos) {
+        private Task(String ticket, String target, LongSupplier nowNanos, String creatorTerminal) {
             this.ticket = ticket;
             this.target = target;
+            this.creatorTerminal = creatorTerminal;
             this.createdNanos = nowNanos.getAsLong();
             future.whenComplete((reply, ex) -> completedNanos = nowNanos.getAsLong());
         }
@@ -340,6 +355,14 @@ public final class MessageService {
      */
     private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, Boolean> queuedDeliveries = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
     private final AtomicLong ticketSeq = new AtomicLong();
+    /**
+     * Minted once per {@code MessageService} instance and folded into every ticket id (see
+     * {@link #sendAsync(String, String, Runnable, String)}). {@link #ticketSeq} alone restarts at
+     * zero for every instance, so without this a ticket id can be reused across instances and
+     * resolve to an unrelated {@link Task} with no error; this nonce makes that impossible, because
+     * an id minted by one instance can never match the id space of another.
+     */
+    private final String ticketBootNonce = UUID.randomUUID().toString().substring(0, 6);
     private final ExecutorService asyncExecutor = Executors.newThreadPerTaskExecutor(
             Thread.ofVirtual().name("bridge-async-", 0).factory());
 
@@ -656,7 +679,7 @@ public final class MessageService {
             case TIMED_OUT_WORKING, TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, TIMED_OUT_UNCONFIRMED, BUSY -> "timeout";
             case WORKER_FAILED -> "failed";
             case BACKEND_EXHAUSTED -> "backend_exhausted";
-            case STALE_TURN, QUESTION -> null; // not a completed delegation
+            case STALE_TURN, QUESTION, NOT_TURN_OWNER -> null; // not a completed delegation
         };
     }
 
@@ -915,14 +938,17 @@ public final class MessageService {
 
     /**
      * Deliver {@code content} to {@code target} (a herdr {@code terminal_id}) and block until the
-     * worker replies via {@link Rendezvous} or {@code timeoutMillis} elapses.
+     * worker replies via {@link Rendezvous} or {@code timeoutMillis} elapses. {@code callerTerminal}
+     * is the terminal of the caller making this call — {@code null} for the unnamed primary — and is
+     * recorded as the turn's owner, the only caller {@link #answer(String, String, long, String)} will
+     * later accept an answer from if the worker pauses mid-turn to ask.
      */
-    public Reply send(String target, String content, long timeoutMillis) {
-        return send(target, content, timeoutMillis, null);
+    public Reply send(String target, String content, long timeoutMillis, String callerTerminal) {
+        return send(target, content, timeoutMillis, null, callerTerminal);
     }
 
     /**
-     * As {@link #send(String, String, long)}, but with an accepted-delivery hook.
+     * As {@link #send(String, String, long, String)}, but with an accepted-delivery hook.
      *
      * <p>{@code onAccepted} is invoked exactly once, once this send has won {@code target}'s send
      * lock and so become the <em>accepted target turn</em> — it runs <em>before</em> delivery is
@@ -933,12 +959,13 @@ public final class MessageService {
      * acceptance means a concurrent sender that times out {@code BUSY} can never steal ownership it
      * never earned. {@code null} disables the hook.
      */
-    public Reply send(String target, String content, long timeoutMillis, Runnable onAccepted) {
-        return send(target, content, timeoutMillis, onAccepted, null);
+    public Reply send(String target, String content, long timeoutMillis, Runnable onAccepted, String callerTerminal) {
+        return send(target, content, timeoutMillis, onAccepted, null, callerTerminal);
     }
 
     /** Run a send, optionally stopping an async task that teardown already failed before acceptance. */
-    private Reply send(String target, String content, long timeoutMillis, Runnable onAccepted, Task task) {
+    private Reply send(String target, String content, long timeoutMillis, Runnable onAccepted, Task task,
+            String callerTerminal) {
         long deadlineNanos = System.nanoTime() + timeoutMillis * 1_000_000L;
         ReentrantLock lock = sessionLocks.computeIfAbsent(target, _ -> new ReentrantLock());
 
@@ -958,7 +985,7 @@ public final class MessageService {
             // open race). Opening first also means a throwing onAccepted (fired before enqueue) or an
             // enqueue failure is safely closed by the finally below: nothing is left queued, and the
             // failed send leaves no stale waiter behind.
-            CompletableFuture<Rendezvous.Resolution> reply = rendezvous.open(target);
+            CompletableFuture<Rendezvous.Resolution> reply = rendezvous.open(target, Rendezvous.Owner.of(callerTerminal));
             // CB-640: this send now owns target's delivery, so any earlier stranded-reply or
             // still-queued fact no longer describes the live state — clear both rather than let
             // them outlive the send that supersedes them.
@@ -1137,19 +1164,30 @@ public final class MessageService {
      * mid-turn (already picked up), so the answer flows back through its own open {@code fleet_ask}
      * call, not a new status-gated delivery. The forward waiter is opened <em>before</em> the worker
      * is unblocked so a reply that lands the instant it resumes is not lost.
+     *
+     * <p>{@code callerTerminal} is the terminal of the caller making this call — {@code null} for
+     * the unnamed primary. It is checked against the turn's recorded owner (the caller whose
+     * accepted delegation opened it, see {@link #send(String, String, long, String)} and
+     * {@link #sendAsync(String, String, Runnable, String)}) before anything else runs: a mismatch,
+     * including a turn with no owner on record at all, returns {@link Outcome#NOT_TURN_OWNER}
+     * without touching the rendezvous, the session lock, or any async task bookkeeping.
      */
-    public Reply answer(String turnId, String content, long timeoutMillis) {
+    public Reply answer(String turnId, String content, long timeoutMillis, String callerTerminal) {
         String workerSession = rendezvous.askSession(turnId);
         if (workerSession == null) {
             return new Reply(Outcome.STALE_TURN, null); // the ask lapsed (timed out or already answered)
         }
+        Rendezvous.Owner owner = rendezvous.askOwner(turnId);
+        if (!Rendezvous.Owner.permits(owner, callerTerminal)) {
+            return new Reply(Outcome.NOT_TURN_OWNER, null);
+        }
         long deadlineNanos = System.nanoTime() + timeoutMillis * 1_000_000L;
         ReentrantLock lock = sessionLocks.computeIfAbsent(workerSession, _ -> new ReentrantLock());
         if (!tryLock(lock, remainingMillis(deadlineNanos))) {
             return new Reply(Outcome.BUSY, null);
         }
         try {
-            CompletableFuture<Rendezvous.Resolution> reply = rendezvous.open(workerSession);
+            CompletableFuture<Rendezvous.Resolution> reply = rendezvous.open(workerSession, owner);
             // fleetd #575: this try used to open below, AFTER the Task lookup/registration and the
             // STALE_TURN early return that follows it — so that return was covered only by a
             // hand-rolled copy of the finally's own cleanup pair, not the finally itself. Widening the
@@ -1279,8 +1317,20 @@ public final class MessageService {
      * @return the ticket to poll for the eventual result
      */
     public String sendAsync(String target, String content, Runnable onAccepted) {
-        String ticket = "task-" + ticketSeq.incrementAndGet();
-        Task task = new Task(ticket, target, nowNanos);
+        return sendAsync(target, content, onAccepted, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As {@link #sendAsync(String, String, Runnable)}, recording {@code creatorTerminal} as this
+     * ticket's owner. {@link #poll(String, String)} refuses a later caller whose own terminal
+     * differs from this one; {@code null} records no owner (a caller with no terminal — the
+     * unnamed primary — is always allowed to poll the result regardless).
+     *
+     * @return the ticket to poll for the eventual result
+     */
+    public String sendAsync(String target, String content, Runnable onAccepted, String creatorTerminal) {
+        String ticket = "task-" + ticketBootNonce + "-" + ticketSeq.incrementAndGet();
+        Task task = new Task(ticket, target, nowNanos, creatorTerminal);
         tasks.put(ticket, task);
         if (pushLoop != null) {
             // CB-588: task.future only ever completes on a terminal phase (DONE or a failure) — a
@@ -1311,7 +1361,7 @@ public final class MessageService {
         }
         asyncExecutor.submit(() -> {
             try {
-                Reply result = send(target, content, ASYNC_TIMEOUT_MS, onAccepted, task);
+                Reply result = send(target, content, ASYNC_TIMEOUT_MS, onAccepted, task, creatorTerminal);
                 if (result.outcome() == Outcome.QUESTION) {
                     // Keep the accepted owner until answer() finishes it. markAsyncQuestion may run
                     // just after resolveQuestion wakes this thread.
@@ -1343,15 +1393,31 @@ public final class MessageService {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Snapshot the state of an async delegation. Returns {@code null} for an unknown/expired ticket;
-     * otherwise a {@link Phase#PENDING} view (with the live worker status as detail), a
-     * {@link Phase#DONE} view carrying the reply, or a {@link Phase#FAILED} view with the reason.
+     * As {@link #poll(String, String)}, with no caller terminal — the ticket's ownership is never
+     * checked, so this overload must only be used where the caller's identity is otherwise
+     * irrelevant (a test, or a surface that does not resolve a caller terminal at all).
      */
     public TaskView poll(String ticket) {
+        return poll(ticket, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Snapshot the state of an async delegation. Returns {@code null} for an unknown/expired ticket.
+     * Refuses a {@code callerTerminal} that differs from the terminal that created the ticket (see
+     * {@link #sendAsync(String, String, Runnable, String)}) with a {@link Phase#FAILED} view that
+     * carries no reply text — a caller with no terminal (the unnamed primary) is never refused.
+     * Otherwise returns a {@link Phase#PENDING} view (with the live worker status as detail), a
+     * {@link Phase#DONE} view carrying the reply, or a {@link Phase#FAILED} view with the reason.
+     */
+    public TaskView poll(String ticket, String callerTerminal) {
         Task task = tasks.get(ticket);
         if (task == null) {
             return null;
         }
+        if (!ownsTicket(task, callerTerminal)) {
+            return new TaskView(ticket, Phase.FAILED, null, null,
+                    "forbidden: this ticket was created by a different session", null);
+        }
         CompletableFuture<Reply> f = task.future;
         if (!f.isDone()) {
             Reply question = task.question;
@@ -1387,6 +1453,17 @@ public final class MessageService {
         return new TaskView(ticket, Phase.FAILED, null, null, detail, null);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Whether {@code callerTerminal} may read {@code task}'s state. A caller with no terminal
+     * always may — that is the unnamed primary, resolved by token or loopback trust, which never
+     * carries a herdr pane and must keep reading every ticket. Otherwise the caller's terminal must
+     * equal the terminal recorded on the task; a task with no recorded terminal matches no
+     * terminal-bearing caller.
+     */
+    private static boolean ownsTicket(Task task, String callerTerminal) {
+        return callerTerminal == null || callerTerminal.equals(task.creatorTerminal);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Test seam only — carries no production behaviour, and nothing in this class calls it;
      * {@link #pruneTerminalTickets} still reads {@link Task#completedNanos} directly.
@@ -1706,16 +1783,17 @@ public final class MessageService {
     }
 
     /**
-     * The question {@code workerSession} is currently paused on via {@code fleet_ask}, if any
-     * (CB-582) — {@code fleet_status} uses this to show a pending question without the caller
-     * needing the ticket. {@code null} when the session has no open async question (including a
-     * session mid a <em>blocking</em> {@code fleet_ask}, which has no {@link Task} to look up — see
-     * {@link PendingAsk}).
+     * The question {@code workerSession} is currently paused on via {@code fleet_ask}, if any —
+     * {@code fleet_status} uses this to show a pending question without the caller needing the
+     * ticket. {@code null} when the session has no open async question (including a session mid a
+     * <em>blocking</em> {@code fleet_ask}, which has no {@link Task} to look up — see
+     * {@link PendingAsk}), or when {@code callerTerminal} does not own the task the question
+     * belongs to (see {@link #ownsTicket(Task, String)}).
      */
-    public PendingAsk pendingAsk(String workerSession) {
+    public PendingAsk pendingAsk(String workerSession, String callerTerminal) {
         for (Task task : tasks.values()) {
             Reply q = task.question;
-            if (q != null && workerSession.equals(task.target)) {
+            if (q != null && workerSession.equals(task.target) && ownsTicket(task, callerTerminal)) {
                 return new PendingAsk(task.ticket, q.text(), q.turnId());
             }
         }

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/msg/Rendezvous.java

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
     }
 
     /** A worker's open mid-turn question: the worker session it belongs to and the answer future. */
-    private record AskWaiter(String session, CompletableFuture<String> answer) {
+    private record AskWaiter(String session, CompletableFuture<String> answer, Owner owner) {
     }
 
     /**
@@ -70,7 +70,33 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
     public record AskTicket(String turnId, CompletableFuture<String> answer, boolean fresh) {
     }
 
-    private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, CompletableFuture<Resolution>> waiters = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+    /**
+     * The caller whose accepted delegation opened a turn — the only caller allowed to answer it.
+     * A {@code null} terminal means the unnamed primary, an authenticated caller with no pane.
+     */
+    public record Owner(String terminal) {
+        public static final Owner UNNAMED_PRIMARY = new Owner(null);
+
+        public static Owner of(String terminal) {
+            return terminal == null ? UNNAMED_PRIMARY : new Owner(terminal);
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Whether {@code callerTerminal} matches {@code owner}. A {@code null} owner means no
+         * owner was ever recorded, and that state matches no caller, not even one whose own
+         * terminal is {@code null} — "no record" and "recorded as the unnamed primary" are
+         * different states.
+         */
+        public static boolean permits(Owner owner, String callerTerminal) {
+            return owner != null && java.util.Objects.equals(owner.terminal(), callerTerminal);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /** A registered forward waiter together with the owner its delegation was opened under. */
+    private record ForwardWaiter(Owner owner, CompletableFuture<Resolution> future) {
+    }
+
+    private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, ForwardWaiter> waiters = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
 
     /** Reverse rendezvous (CB-205): worker questions awaiting the primary's answer, keyed by {@code turnId}. */
     private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, AskWaiter> asks = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
@@ -89,8 +115,17 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
      * code a double open is impossible; this is a tripwire for the day that no longer holds.
      */
     public CompletableFuture<Resolution> open(String session) {
+        return open(session, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Same as {@link #open(String)}, additionally recording {@code owner} as the caller whose
+     * delegation opened this waiter. A {@code null} owner records no owner at all — the
+     * fail-closed default {@link Owner#permits} refuses to everyone.
+     */
+    public CompletableFuture<Resolution> open(String session, Owner owner) {
         CompletableFuture<Resolution> waiter = new CompletableFuture<>();
-        CompletableFuture<Resolution> existing = waiters.putIfAbsent(session, waiter);
+        ForwardWaiter existing = waiters.putIfAbsent(session, new ForwardWaiter(owner, waiter));
         if (existing != null) {
             throw new IllegalStateException(
                     "rendezvous double-open for session " + session + " — a waiter is already registered");
@@ -105,7 +140,13 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
      * successful {@code open} after a finished turn requires this close to have happened first).
      */
     public void close(String session, CompletableFuture<Resolution> waiter) {
-        waiters.remove(session, waiter);
+        waiters.computeIfPresent(session, (s, w) -> w.future() == waiter ? null : w);
+    }
+
+    /** The owner recorded for {@code session}'s open waiter, or {@code null} if none is open. */
+    public Owner ownerOf(String session) {
+        ForwardWaiter w = waiters.get(session);
+        return w == null ? null : w.owner();
     }
 
     /** Whether a send is currently awaiting a resolution for {@code session}. */
@@ -119,7 +160,8 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
      * send (see the CB-116 note above) rather than whichever send happens to be waiting when they fire.
      */
     public CompletableFuture<Resolution> currentWaiter(String session) {
-        return waiters.get(session);
+        ForwardWaiter w = waiters.get(session);
+        return w == null ? null : w.future();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -147,7 +189,7 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
             String turnId = openAsksBySession.computeIfAbsent(session, _ -> {
                 String newTurnId = session + "#" + askSeq.incrementAndGet();
                 CompletableFuture<String> answer = new CompletableFuture<>();
-                AskWaiter waiter = new AskWaiter(session, answer);
+                AskWaiter waiter = new AskWaiter(session, answer, ownerOf(session));
                 asks.put(newTurnId, waiter);
                 minted[0] = waiter;
                 return newTurnId;
@@ -183,6 +225,16 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
         return w == null ? null : w.session();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The owner recorded for {@code turnId} when its ask turn was freshly opened — the caller
+     * whose delegation {@link #answerAsk} must match. {@code null} if {@code turnId} is unknown or
+     * lapsed, or if the ask opened with no forward waiter owner on record.
+     */
+    public Owner askOwner(String turnId) {
+        AskWaiter w = asks.get(turnId);
+        return w == null ? null : w.owner();
+    }
+
     /**
      * Resolve a worker's blocked {@code fleet_ask} with the primary's {@code answer}, unblocking it
      * to resume its turn.
@@ -245,7 +297,7 @@ public final class Rendezvous {
     }
 
     private boolean complete(String session, Resolution resolution) {
-        CompletableFuture<Resolution> waiter = waiters.get(session);
-        return waiter != null && waiter.complete(resolution);
+        ForwardWaiter waiter = waiters.get(session);
+        return waiter != null && waiter.future().complete(resolution);
     }
 }

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

@@ -663,6 +663,8 @@ public final class FleetApp {
         if (!allow(ctx, routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message"), id)) {
             return;
         }
+        Principal caller = ctx.attribute(CALLER);
+        String callerTerminal = caller == null ? null : caller.terminal();
         JsonNode body;
         try {
             body = mapper.readTree(ctx.body());
@@ -688,19 +690,19 @@ public final class FleetApp {
 
         // Answering a worker's fleet_ask (CB-205): always blocks, and derives the worker from turnId.
         if (turnId != null && !turnId.isBlank()) {
-            writeReply(ctx, id, messages.answer(turnId, content, timeout), timeout);
+            writeReply(ctx, id, messages.answer(turnId, content, timeout, callerTerminal), timeout);
             return;
         }
 
         if (!wait) {
             // Fire-and-poll (CB-107): return a ticket immediately; the caller polls GET /tasks/{ticket}.
-            String ticket = messages.sendAsync(id, content);
+            String ticket = messages.sendAsync(id, content, null, callerTerminal);
             ctx.status(202).json(Map.of("sessionId", id, "ticket", ticket, "status", "accepted"));
             return;
         }
 
         try {
-            writeReply(ctx, id, messages.send(id, content, timeout), timeout);
+            writeReply(ctx, id, messages.send(id, content, timeout, callerTerminal), timeout);
         } catch (HerdrException e) {
             herdrError(ctx, e);
         }
@@ -719,6 +721,10 @@ public final class FleetApp {
             case STALE_TURN -> ctx.status(409).json(Map.of(
                     "sessionId", id, "error", "stale_turn",
                     "detail", "that question is no longer open (timed out or already answered)"));
+            case NOT_TURN_OWNER -> ctx.status(403).json(Map.of(
+                    "sessionId", id, "error", "not_turn_owner",
+                    "detail", "this turn belongs to a different delegation — only the caller that "
+                            + "opened it may answer it"));
             case REPLIED, COMPLETED_UNREPLIED -> {
                 // replySource distinguishes a structured fleet_reply from the CB-106 completion
                 // fallback (a scrape of the worker's transcript when it finished without replying).
@@ -733,9 +739,10 @@ public final class FleetApp {
                     // silent fall-through. That is exactly the bug this ticket exists to fix:
                     // `default -> "done"` used to sit here and would have told a REST caller the
                     // delegation completed for TIMED_OUT_UNCONFIRMED, the one outcome where delivery
-                    // is unknown. REPLIED, COMPLETED_UNREPLIED, QUESTION and STALE_TURN can never
-                    // actually reach this inner switch — the outer switch above always dispatches
-                    // them first — but they still need an arm to keep this switch exhaustive.
+                    // is unknown. REPLIED, COMPLETED_UNREPLIED, QUESTION, STALE_TURN and
+                    // NOT_TURN_OWNER can never actually reach this inner switch — the outer switch
+                    // above always dispatches them first — but they still need an arm to keep this
+                    // switch exhaustive.
                     "status", switch (reply.outcome()) {
                         case TIMED_OUT_WORKING -> "working";
                         case TIMED_OUT_QUEUED -> "queued";
@@ -745,7 +752,7 @@ public final class FleetApp {
                         case BUSY -> "busy";
                         case WORKER_FAILED -> "failed";
                         case BACKEND_EXHAUSTED -> "backend_exhausted";
-                        case REPLIED, COMPLETED_UNREPLIED, QUESTION, STALE_TURN -> "done"; // unreachable
+                        case REPLIED, COMPLETED_UNREPLIED, QUESTION, STALE_TURN, NOT_TURN_OWNER -> "done"; // unreachable
                     },
                     "detail", reply.outcome() == MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_UNCONFIRMED
                             ? "no reply within " + timeout + "ms; delivery is unconfirmed — the "
@@ -874,10 +881,12 @@ public final class FleetApp {
             body.put("sessionId", id);
             body.put("status", messages.status(id).name().toLowerCase());
             body.put("ready", deliverable.test(id));
-            // CB-582: a worker paused mid-turn in an async fleet_ask is otherwise invisible to a
-            // status poll — surface the open question and how to answer it, same as fleet_poll's
-            // Phase.ASKING view.
-            MessageService.PendingAsk ask = messages.pendingAsk(id);
+            // A worker paused mid-turn in an async fleet_ask is otherwise invisible to a status
+            // poll — surface the open question and how to answer it, same as fleet_poll's
+            // Phase.ASKING view, but only to the caller whose terminal created that delegation, or
+            // to a caller with no terminal at all (the unnamed primary).
+            Principal caller = ctx.attribute(CALLER);
+            MessageService.PendingAsk ask = messages.pendingAsk(id, caller == null ? null : caller.terminal());
             if (ask != null) {
                 body.put("question", ask.question());
                 body.put("turnId", ask.turnId());
@@ -894,7 +903,8 @@ public final class FleetApp {
         if (!allow(ctx, routeAction("GET /tasks/{ticket}"), null)) {
             return;
         }
-        MessageService.TaskView v = messages.poll(ctx.pathParam("ticket"));
+        Principal caller = ctx.attribute(CALLER);
+        MessageService.TaskView v = messages.poll(ctx.pathParam("ticket"), caller == null ? null : caller.terminal());
         if (v == null) {
             ctx.status(404).json(Map.of("error", "unknown_ticket", "detail", "no such task (or it has expired)"));
             return;

fleetd/src/main/java/dev/ltms/fleet/session/SessionManager.java

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
 import java.util.function.LongSupplier;
+import java.util.function.Supplier;
 
 /**
  * Authoritative in-daemon registry of the worker sessions this {@code fleetd} process spawned.
@@ -57,6 +58,18 @@ public final class SessionManager implements TurnListener {
      * Populated on every spawn path, removed on {@link #release}.
      */
     private final ConcurrentHashMap<String /*paneId*/, PeerHandle> handles = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
+    /**
+     * fleetd #702: a pane mid-teardown, keyed by paneId, held from just before its registry entry
+     * is removed until {@link #releaseRemoved} finishes. {@link #spawnedMemberRole} consults this
+     * alongside the registry, so a caller resolving the pane's terminal during that window still
+     * sees a live member and never falls through to a tab map.
+     *
+     * <p>Depth-counted rather than a plain set: two threads can be tearing down the same pane at
+     * once (the CAS in {@link #releaseIfCurrent} exists for exactly that race), and with a set the
+     * loser's {@code finally} would unmark the pane while the winner is still mid-teardown,
+     * reopening the window this exists to close.
+     */
+    private final ConcurrentHashMap<String /*paneId*/, Releasing> releasing = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();
     private final MemberPresence presence;
     private final SecureRandom nonceRandom = new SecureRandom();
     private final AtomicLong nonceSeq = new AtomicLong();
@@ -303,9 +316,11 @@ public final class SessionManager implements TurnListener {
      * is a logged path an operator can reclaim, the cost of a deleted one is unrecoverable work.
      */
     private MemberSession release(String paneId, ReleaseCause cause) {
-        MemberSession removed = registry.remove(paneId);
-        releaseRemoved(paneId, removed, handles.remove(paneId), cause);
-        return removed;
+        return releaseWindow(paneId, registry.get(paneId), () -> {
+            MemberSession removed = registry.remove(paneId);
+            releaseRemoved(paneId, removed, handles.remove(paneId), cause);
+            return removed;
+        });
     }
 
     /**
@@ -314,16 +329,85 @@ public final class SessionManager implements TurnListener {
      * DONE record from stopping a worker that delivery has made BUSY.
      */
     private boolean releaseIfCurrent(MemberSession expected, ReleaseCause cause) {
-        if (!registry.remove(expected.paneId(), expected)) {
-            // A lifecycle transition replaced the record between the caller's check and this remove.
-            // Log it: this race is by definition unobservable otherwise, and a reaper that silently
-            // declines to reap is the hardest kind of behaviour to diagnose after the fact.
-            log.debug("skipping reap of pane={}: its registry record changed after the idle check "
-                    + "(most likely a delivery made it BUSY)", expected.paneId());
-            return false;
+        return releaseWindow(expected.paneId(), expected, () -> {
+            if (!registry.remove(expected.paneId(), expected)) {
+                // A lifecycle transition replaced the record between the caller's check and this
+                // remove. Log it: this race is by definition unobservable otherwise, and a reaper
+                // that silently declines to reap is the hardest kind of behaviour to diagnose
+                // after the fact.
+                log.debug("skipping reap of pane={}: its registry record changed after the idle "
+                        + "check (most likely a delivery made it BUSY)", expected.paneId());
+                return false;
+            }
+            releaseRemoved(expected.paneId(), expected, handles.remove(expected.paneId()), cause);
+            return true;
+        });
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #702: mark {@code paneId} as mid-teardown — using {@code known}'s terminal/role when
+     * it is available — for the whole of {@code teardown}, which removes the registry entry and
+     * then runs {@link #releaseRemoved}. Shared by both registry-removal sites ({@link #release}'s
+     * unconditional remove and {@link #releaseIfCurrent}'s CAS remove) so neither can leave the
+     * other's window unmarked.
+     *
+     * <p>The mark is written before {@code teardown} runs — so it covers the removal itself, not
+     * only what comes after it — and cleared in a {@code finally}, so an unchecked throw out of
+     * {@code teardown} (including one from {@link PeerLauncher#stop}, which declares nothing) can
+     * never leave the pane marked for the rest of the daemon's life.
+     */
+    private <T> T releaseWindow(String paneId, MemberSession known, Supplier<T> teardown) {
+        releasing.compute(paneId, (_, prior) -> Releasing.enter(prior, known));
+        try {
+            return teardown.get();
+        } finally {
+            releasing.compute(paneId, (_, prior) -> prior == null ? null : prior.leave());
         }
-        releaseRemoved(expected.paneId(), expected, handles.remove(expected.paneId()), cause);
-        return true;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Depth count plus the terminal/role a mid-teardown pane belongs to, for
+     * {@link #spawnedMemberRole}. The terminal/role come from whichever call into
+     * {@link #releaseWindow} first knew them: a call that finds the registry entry already gone
+     * passes a {@code null} session, and must not blank out what the first call recorded.
+     */
+    record Releasing(int depth, String terminalId, MemberRole role) {
+        static Releasing enter(Releasing prior, MemberSession known) {
+            int depth = (prior == null ? 0 : prior.depth()) + 1;
+            String terminalId = known != null ? known.terminalId() : prior == null ? null : prior.terminalId();
+            MemberRole role = known != null ? known.role() : prior == null ? null : prior.role();
+            return new Releasing(depth, terminalId, role);
+        }
+
+        Releasing leave() {
+            return depth <= 1 ? null : new Releasing(depth - 1, terminalId, role);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The role of the live spawned member occupying {@code terminal} — whether it is currently in
+     * the registry, or mid-teardown between {@link #release} removing its registry entry and
+     * {@link #releaseRemoved} actually stopping its pane (fleetd #702). {@code null} for a terminal
+     * that is neither: this method is the one reader a caller resolver consults before any tab
+     * map, so a live or releasing member's identity never falls back to a tab label.
+     *
+     * <p>Checks the registry directly via {@link #findByTerminal} rather than {@link #roster()},
+     * so this hot-path lookup (consulted on every resolve) never pays for a list copy or a stream.
+     */
+    public MemberRole spawnedMemberRole(String terminal) {
+        MemberSession session = findByTerminal(terminal);
+        if (session != null) {
+            return session.role();
+        }
+        if (terminal == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        for (Releasing r : releasing.values()) {
+            if (terminal.equals(r.terminalId())) {
+                return r.role();
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
     }
 
     private void releaseRemoved(String paneId, MemberSession removed, PeerHandle removedHandle,

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

@@ -31,8 +31,7 @@ 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()}).
+ * production boot path passes to {@link LeadTabScanner} ({@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
@@ -191,7 +190,7 @@ class FleetdAssemblyLeadTabScannerExclusionTest {
             Set<?> excluded = (Set<?>) excludedField.get(leads);
 
             assertTrue(excluded.isEmpty(),
-                    "FleetdAssembly.java:265 must pass an empty excludedWorkspaceLabels to "
+                    "FleetdAssembly 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");

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

@@ -30,6 +30,22 @@ class AuthzTest {
         assertTrue(Authz.isUnauthenticated(null));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * {@code MessageService.answer}'s turn-ownership check treats a caller with no terminal as
+     * matching a turn recorded for the unnamed primary. That rule only stays safe because an
+     * unauthenticated caller — whose terminal is also {@code null} — never reaches {@code answer}
+     * at all: {@link #anonymousIsAuthorizedForNothing} already covers every action including
+     * {@code ANSWER}, but this test names the exact coupling so a future change to either side
+     * cannot drift without turning this test red.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void anAnonymousCallerIsRefusedAnswerSoItCanNeverBeMistakenForTheUnnamedPrimary() {
+        assertFalse(Authz.permits(ANON, ANSWER, null),
+                "an anonymous caller, whose terminal is also null, must never reach answer() — the "
+                        + "turn-ownership check's null-terminal match for the unnamed primary owner "
+                        + "relies on this gate refusing it first");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void orchestrationBelongsToThePrimaryAlone() {
         for (Authz.Action a : new Authz.Action[]{SPAWN, STOP, SEND, DRAIN}) {

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

@@ -1,13 +1,25 @@
 package dev.ltms.fleet.auth;
 
+import dev.ltms.fleet.guard.SubscriptionGuard;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.FakeHerdr;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.PaneLocator;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.WorkspaceControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.mcp.ConnectionIdentity;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.member.ClaudeCodeLauncher;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.peer.MemberRole;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.session.MemberSession;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.session.SessionManager;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.session.WorktreeRequest;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.session.Worktrees;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.*;
 
@@ -460,7 +472,6 @@ class CallerResolverTest {
         assertTrue(members.bind("architect:lead-designer", "term_a")); // the later lifecycle binds the slot
 
         assertEquals(Role.ARCHITECT, r.resolve("127.0.0.1", 42, null).role());
-        assertEquals("architect:lead-designer", r.members().get("term_a"));
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -542,6 +553,219 @@ class CallerResolverTest {
         assertEquals("term_a", p.terminal());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #702: between {@link SessionManager#release} removing the registry entry and the
+     * pane actually stopping, a resolve for that terminal must still see the live member and
+     * never fall through to a tab map — wired through the real {@link SessionManager}, not a
+     * hand-rolled stand-in for its {@code spawnedMemberRole}.
+     *
+     * <p>Reuses the ticket's own test idea: an injected {@code hasUncommitted} resolves the
+     * releasing terminal from inside {@code release}'s window — a real call landing inside the
+     * window, so no sleep and no race.
+     *
+     * <p>The property asserted is "no tab map is consulted", never "the same role is returned".
+     * The mandatory control is the lead tab map: it names this exact terminal, and the same
+     * resolve taken <em>outside</em> the window (before release runs) must still return the lead
+     * role — without that control, the in-window assertion would also pass on an empty map and
+     * prove nothing.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aPaneMidTeardownResolvesAsItsOwnRoleConsultingNoTabMap() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().pinNextStarts(1, "term_a", "w2:p7");
+        FleetConfig.Profile cfg = new FleetConfig.Profile(
+                "ltms-local", "http://gx00.gw:8000", "coder", null, "FLEETD_WORKER_TOKEN",
+                List.of("ccs", "ltms-local"), "tab", "fleetd-workers",
+                "worker: {profile} #{n}", null, null, null);
+        ClaudeCodeLauncher workers = new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
+                new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null);
+
+        AtomicReference<Principal> duringWindow = new AtomicReference<>();
+        AtomicReference<CallerResolver> resolverRef = new AtomicReference<>();
+        Worktrees worktrees = new Worktrees() {
+            @Override
+            public String add(String repoRoot, String branch, String baseRef) {
+                return "/wt/" + branch.replace('/', '_');
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void remove(String repoRoot, String worktreePath) {
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void deleteBranch(String repoRoot, String branch) {
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public boolean hasUncommitted(String worktreePath) {
+                // Runs from INSIDE release()'s git-status shell-out: the registry entry is
+                // already gone, but the pane has not stopped yet.
+                duringWindow.set(resolverRef.get().resolve("127.0.0.1", 42, null));
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void overlayParity(String repoRoot, String worktreePath, List<String> overlay) {
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public String repoRoot(String cwd) {
+                return "/repo";
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public Optional<String> snapshot(String worktreePath, String branch, String message) {
+                return Optional.empty();
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public WipRefStats wipRefs(String repoRoot) {
+                return new WipRefStats(0, 0L);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public int pruneWipRefs(String repoRoot, long minAgeMillis) {
+                return 0;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void shareWithGroup(String repoRoot, String worktreePath) {
+            }
+        };
+        SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workers, worktrees);
+
+        // The lead tab map names "term_a" before anything is ever spawned onto it — the control
+        // this test needs. Built up front so the SAME resolver answers every resolve() call below.
+        ConnectionIdentity identity = new ConnectionIdentity(new PaneLocator(herdr), _ -> FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID);
+        CallerResolver resolver = CallerResolver.withLeadsAndMembers(identity, false, null,
+                () -> Map.of("term_a", "the-lead"), null, sessions::spawnedMemberRole, Map::of);
+        resolverRef.set(resolver);
+
+        Principal before = resolver.resolve("127.0.0.1", 42, null);
+        assertEquals(Role.PRIMARY, before.role(),
+                "control: with no live or releasing member on this terminal, the lead tab map must "
+                        + "win — this is what proves the in-window assertion below is not passing on "
+                        + "an empty map");
+        assertEquals("the-lead", before.name());
+
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", null, "/caller/proj", null,
+                new WorktreeRequest("fleetd-702", null));
+        assertEquals("term_a", s.terminalId(), "sanity: the spawn resolved to the pinned pane");
+
+        sessions.release(s.paneId());
+
+        assertNotNull(duringWindow.get(), "the dirty check must have run and captured a resolve");
+        assertEquals(Role.WORKER, duringWindow.get().role(),
+                "inside the window the pane must resolve as its own live-member role, consulting no "
+                        + "tab map — a lead tab naming the same terminal must not win");
+        assertEquals("term_a", duringWindow.get().terminal());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@link SessionManager#releaseRemoved} unbinds the architect slot before the git-status
+     * shell-out that opens the teardown window, so a resolve landing inside that window must see
+     * the slot already unbound and resolve {@link Role#WORKER} — never {@link Role#ARCHITECT},
+     * and never by checking role equality against the live session, which would hold even if the
+     * unbind ran too late.
+     *
+     * <p>The control is the same resolve taken outside the window, while the slot is still bound,
+     * which must return {@link Role#ARCHITECT} — without it this test would also pass against a
+     * slot that was never bound, and prove nothing.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aReleasingArchitectIsDemotedToWorkerInsideTheTeardownWindow() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().pinNextStarts(1, "term_a", "w2:p7");
+        FleetConfig.Profile cfg = new FleetConfig.Profile(
+                "ltms-local", "http://gx00.gw:8000", "coder", null, "FLEETD_WORKER_TOKEN",
+                List.of("ccs", "ltms-local"), "tab", "fleetd-workers",
+                "worker: {profile} #{n}", null, null, null);
+        ClaudeCodeLauncher workers = new ClaudeCodeLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr),
+                new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")), Map.of(cfg.profile(), cfg), cfg.profile(), _ -> null);
+
+        AtomicReference<Principal> duringWindow = new AtomicReference<>();
+        AtomicReference<CallerResolver> resolverRef = new AtomicReference<>();
+        Worktrees worktrees = new Worktrees() {
+            @Override
+            public String add(String repoRoot, String branch, String baseRef) {
+                return "/wt/" + branch.replace('/', '_');
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void remove(String repoRoot, String worktreePath) {
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void deleteBranch(String repoRoot, String branch) {
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public boolean hasUncommitted(String worktreePath) {
+                // Runs from INSIDE release()'s git-status shell-out: the architect slot is already
+                // unbound by this point, but the pane has not stopped yet.
+                duringWindow.set(resolverRef.get().resolve("127.0.0.1", 42, null));
+                return false;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void overlayParity(String repoRoot, String worktreePath, List<String> overlay) {
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public String repoRoot(String cwd) {
+                return "/repo";
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public Optional<String> snapshot(String worktreePath, String branch, String message) {
+                return Optional.empty();
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public WipRefStats wipRefs(String repoRoot) {
+                return new WipRefStats(0, 0L);
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public int pruneWipRefs(String repoRoot, long minAgeMillis) {
+                return 0;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public void shareWithGroup(String repoRoot, String worktreePath) {
+            }
+        };
+        SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workers, worktrees);
+
+        MemberRegistry members = new MemberRegistry(new FleetConfig.Fleet(Map.of(),
+                Map.of("lead-designer", new FleetConfig.Slot("ltms-local")), Map.of(), Map.of(), null));
+        sessions.setMemberLifecycle(members);
+
+        ConnectionIdentity identity = new ConnectionIdentity(new PaneLocator(herdr), _ -> FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID);
+        CallerResolver resolver = CallerResolver.withLeadsAndMembers(identity, false, null,
+                Map::of, members, sessions::spawnedMemberRole, Map::of);
+        resolverRef.set(resolver);
+
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", MemberRole.ARCHITECT, null, "/caller/proj", null,
+                new WorktreeRequest("fleetd-702d", null));
+        assertEquals("term_a", s.terminalId(), "sanity: the spawn resolved to the pinned pane");
+        assertEquals(MemberRole.ARCHITECT, s.role(), "sanity: the slot bind succeeded");
+
+        Principal before = resolver.resolve("127.0.0.1", 42, null);
+        assertEquals(Role.ARCHITECT, before.role(),
+                "control: with the slot still bound, the pane must resolve as an architect — this "
+                        + "is what proves the in-window assertion below is not passing against a "
+                        + "slot that was never bound");
+        assertEquals("lead-designer", before.name());
+
+        sessions.release(s.paneId());
+
+        assertNotNull(duringWindow.get(), "the dirty check must have run and captured a resolve");
+        assertEquals(Role.WORKER, duringWindow.get().role(),
+                "inside the window the architect slot is already unbound, so the result must be "
+                        + "WORKER — asserting role-equality with the live session here would tempt "
+                        + "moving the unbind earlier or later, which would be wrong either way");
+        assertEquals("term_a", duringWindow.get().terminal());
+    }
+
     /** A spawned architect in the roster resolves ARCHITECT, carrying its bound slot's name. */
     @Test
     void aSpawnedArchitectInTheRosterResolvesArchitectWithItsSlotName() {

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

@@ -850,7 +850,8 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
 
     /**
      * The hazard this guard closes: a pane-placed member lands inside the focused tab rather than
-     * its own, so it can land inside a lead's labelled tab and be read back as that lead.
+     * its own, so it can land inside a lead's labelled tab and, while its pane carries no entry in
+     * the spawned-member roster, be read back as that lead.
      */
     @Test
     void aPanePlacedProfileWithALeadTabRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
@@ -1087,8 +1088,9 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
     }
 
     /**
-     * fleetd #669: a member tabLabel that can render as a configured collaborator tab is the same
-     * hazard as the lead case above — a member labelled that way is read back as the collaborator.
+     * A member tabLabel that can render as a configured collaborator tab is the same hazard as the
+     * lead case above — while its pane carries no entry in the spawned-member roster, a member
+     * labelled that way is read back as the collaborator.
      */
     @Test
     void aProfileTabLabelOverrideMatchingACollaboratorTabRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir)

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/herdr/LeadTabScannerTest.java

@@ -205,9 +205,12 @@ class LeadTabScannerTest {
     }
 
     /**
-     * The guard that matters: fleetd labels its own worker tabs, so if a worker space were scanned
-     * a naming accident would promote the fleet. The exclusion is by workspace, not by hoping the
-     * worker template never collides.
+     * Covers the {@code excludedWorkspaceLabels} parameter: a tab in an excluded workspace is never
+     * matched, whatever its label. Production always constructs this class with an empty set (CB-558,
+     * {@code FleetdAssembly}), so this parameter plays no part in the live guard against a worker
+     * tab being mistaken for a lead — that guard is {@code CallerResolver} asking the live
+     * spawned-member roster before any tab map. This test exists because the parameter still exists
+     * and is worth covering on its own terms.
      */
     @Test
     void aTabInAWorkerSpaceIsNeverALeadEvenWhenItsLabelMatches() {
@@ -219,6 +222,29 @@ class LeadTabScannerTest {
         assertFalse(scanner(herdr, tabToName, new AtomicLong()).get().containsKey("term_impostor"));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The shipped shape (CB-558, {@code FleetdAssembly}): production always constructs this class
+     * with an empty {@code excludedWorkspaceLabels}, and a lead's {@code workspace:} default is the
+     * same shared {@code "fleet"} space the members use. A lead tab is still found when it sits in
+     * the exact same workspace as a member-labelled tab — the scanner tells them apart by the exact
+     * tab label, not by which workspace either one is in.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aLeadIsDiscoveredWhenItsWorkspaceIsTheSameAsTheMemberWorkspace() {
+        TopologyHerdr herdr = new TopologyHerdr()
+                .workspace("w1", "fleet")
+                .tab("w1:t1", "w1", "lead: opus-5.0")
+                .tab("w1:t2", "w1", "worker: gx10 #1")
+                .pane("w1:p1", "w1:t1", "term_opus")
+                .pane("w1:p2", "w1:t2", "term_worker");
+        LeadTabScanner s = new LeadTabScanner(herdr, Map.of("lead: opus-5.0", "opus-5.0"),
+                Set.of(), TTL, new AtomicLong()::get);
+
+        assertEquals("opus-5.0", s.get().get("term_opus"),
+                "a lead sharing the members' workspace is still discovered — the label, not the "
+                        + "workspace, is what matches it");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void aLabelWithNoConfiguredEntryIsIgnored() {
         TopologyHerdr herdr = new TopologyHerdr().workspace("w1", "main")

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

@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 package dev.ltms.fleet.lead;
 
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.Logger;
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
+import ch.qos.logback.core.read.ListAppender;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.config.FleetConfig;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.FakeHerdr;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.ResilientAgentLaunch;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.WorkspaceControl;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -64,6 +70,21 @@ class LeadLauncherTest {
         return new LeadLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr), cfg);
     }
 
+    /** As {@link #launcher}, plus a fast no-op sleeper so a busy-retry test never real-sleeps. */
+    private static LeadLauncher fastLauncher(FakeHerdr herdr, FleetConfig cfg) {
+        return new LeadLauncher(new AgentControl(herdr), new WorkspaceControl(herdr), cfg, () -> { });
+    }
+
+    /** {@link #opusProfile()} with one argv element long enough to overflow the pane line limit. */
+    private static FleetConfig.Profile hugeArgvProfile() {
+        return new FleetConfig.Profile(
+                "opus", null, "claude-opus-5", null, "FLEETD_WORKER_TOKEN",
+                List.of("ccs", "x".repeat(1500)), "tab", "fleet", null,
+                "http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcp", null, null,
+                null, null, null,
+                Map.of("CLAUDE_CODE_AUTO_COMPACT_WINDOW", "300000"), null, null, true, null);
+    }
+
     @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
     private static List<String> startedArgs(FakeHerdr herdr) {
         return (List<String>) ((Map<String, Object>) herdr.lastCall("agent.start").params()).get("args");
@@ -86,7 +107,11 @@ class LeadLauncherTest {
 
         assertEquals(1, launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).ensureLeads());
         assertTrue(herdr.called("agent.start"), "a lead must actually be started");
-        assertEquals("lead-opus", startedName(herdr));
+        // fleetd #727: the name carries a per-process nonce and a per-start sequence number — the
+        // same unique-naming scheme HerdrPeerLauncher uses for members — rather than the fixed
+        // "lead-opus" a stale registry entry could block a legitimate relaunch under.
+        assertTrue(startedName(herdr).matches("lead-opus-[0-9a-f]{6}-\\d+"),
+                "name is lead-<name>-<nonce>-<seq>: " + startedName(herdr));
     }
 
     /** The tab is labelled with the configured `tab:` so the scanner finds the lead on the next resolve. */
@@ -436,4 +461,247 @@ class LeadLauncherTest {
         assertEquals(0, launcher(herdr, cfg).ensureLeads());
         assertTrue(herdr.calls.isEmpty(), "nothing declared ⇒ nothing scanned");
     }
+
+    // ── fleetd #727: the same three launch protections every member spawn gets ───────────────────
+
+    /**
+     * A freshly created pane may not have redrawn its prompt yet, so herdr answers
+     * {@code agent_pane_busy}. The lead launch must wait it out rather than fail on the first miss
+     * — exactly the retry {@code HerdrPeerLauncher} already gives every member.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aLeadLaunchRetriesWhileTheSeedShellBoots() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentPaneBusyTimes(2);
+
+        assertEquals(1, fastLauncher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).ensureLeads(),
+                "the lead must still start once the shell is ready");
+        assertEquals(3, herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("agent.start")).count(),
+                "two busy rejections, then the successful start");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The busy retry is bounded, not an infinite poll. If the pane never becomes ready the launch
+     * must eventually give up and log the failure, not hang the daemon's reconcile loop forever —
+     * proven here by a budget that would still be busy on attempt
+     * {@value ResilientAgentLaunch#SHELL_READY_RETRIES} and a call count that stops exactly there.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aLeadLaunchGivesUpAfterTheBoundedBusyBudgetRatherThanLoopingForever() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentPaneBusyTimes(999);
+
+        assertEquals(0, fastLauncher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).ensureLeads(),
+                "a pane that never becomes ready must not be reported as a started lead");
+        assertEquals(ResilientAgentLaunch.SHELL_READY_RETRIES,
+                herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("agent.start")).count(),
+                "the retry budget is bounded: it stops after exactly SHELL_READY_RETRIES attempts");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * herdr refuses a duplicate agent {@code name} outright. A stale registry entry — a crashed
+     * lead session, or a name the registry has not yet released — must not permanently block a
+     * legitimate relaunch, so each retry attempt carries a fresh per-start name.
+     */
+    @Test
+    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+    void aLeadLaunchRetriesUnderAFreshNameWhenTheOldNameIsStillTaken() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentNameTakenTimes(2);
+
+        assertEquals(1, launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).ensureLeads(),
+                "the lead must still start once a free name is found");
+        List<String> names = herdr.calls.stream()
+                .filter(c -> c.method().equals("agent.start"))
+                .map(c -> ((Map<String, Object>) c.params()).get("name").toString())
+                .toList();
+        assertEquals(3, names.size(), "2 rejected + 1 success");
+        assertEquals(3, Set.copyOf(names).size(), "each attempt must use a distinct name");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The name-collision retry is bounded too. If the name is taken on every attempt, the launch
+     * must give up rather than keep minting new names forever — the per-start naming scheme means
+     * every failed attempt was refused outright by herdr (no process exists under a name herdr
+     * refused), so a bounded, exhausted retry never leaves a second process running: nothing is
+     * running at all.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aLeadLaunchNeverEndsUpWithASecondProcessWhenTheNameStaysTaken() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentNameTakenTimes(999);
+
+        assertEquals(0, launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).ensureLeads(),
+                "a name that is never free must not be reported as a started lead");
+        assertEquals(ResilientAgentLaunch.NAME_RETRIES,
+                herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("agent.start")).count(),
+                "the retry budget is bounded: it stops after exactly NAME_RETRIES attempts, "
+                        + "never racing a duplicate into existence");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #220/#727: herdr types the launch command into the pane as one line, and a pty line
+     * buffer holds only 1024 bytes — past that the tail is dropped with no error at all, and the
+     * backend exits on a mangled argument. The lead launch must refuse an over-long command outright
+     * rather than let it be typed and silently truncated.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void anOverlongLeadArgvIsRefusedRatherThanTypedAndTruncated() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        Logger logger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(LeadLauncher.class);
+        ListAppender<ILoggingEvent> appender = new ListAppender<>();
+        appender.start();
+        logger.addAppender(appender);
+
+        int started;
+        try {
+            started = launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1), hugeArgvProfile()))
+                    .ensureLeads();
+        } finally {
+            logger.detachAppender(appender);
+        }
+
+        assertEquals(0, started, "an over-long command must never be reported as a started lead");
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("agent.start"),
+                "nothing may be started — a truncated command is worse than no spawn");
+        String warn = appender.list.stream()
+                .filter(e -> e.getLevel().equals(Level.WARN))
+                .map(ILoggingEvent::getFormattedMessage)
+                .filter(m -> m.contains("failed to launch"))
+                .findFirst()
+                .orElseThrow(() -> new AssertionError("expected a WARN naming the launch failure: "
+                        + appender.list));
+        assertTrue(warn.contains("1024"), "names the limit: " + warn);
+        assertTrue(warn.contains("opus"), "names the profile: " + warn);
+        assertTrue(warn.contains("x".repeat(60)), "names the culprit argument: " + warn);
+    }
+
+    // ── fleetd #726 unit 1: the single-lead relaunch seam ─────────────────────────────────────
+
+    /**
+     * The returned agent's {@code terminalId()}/{@code paneId()} are the ones the fake
+     * {@code AgentControl} actually started — not a coincidental field left over from the caller.
+     * {@code paneId()} echoes the exact {@code pane_id} the launch's own {@code agent.start} call
+     * carried (protocol 19: the agent starts into the pane it is asked to), and {@code
+     * terminalId()} is herdr's own generated id, which the fake always shapes as {@code
+     * term_new_<n>}.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void relaunchReturnsTheStartedAgent() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).relaunch("opus");
+
+        assertNotNull(started, "a launchable, configured lead must start");
+        Object startedPaneIdParam = ((Map<?, ?>) herdr.lastCall("agent.start").params()).get("pane_id");
+        assertEquals(startedPaneIdParam, started.paneId(),
+                "paneId() must be the pane the agent.start call actually targeted");
+        assertTrue(started.terminalId() != null && started.terminalId().startsWith("term_new_"),
+                "terminalId() must be herdr's own generated id: " + started.terminalId());
+    }
+
+    /** The new tab is labelled with the lead's configured {@code tab:}, and AFTER the start. */
+    @Test
+    void relaunchLabelsTheNewTabAfterStarting() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).relaunch("opus");
+
+        assertNotNull(started);
+        assertEquals("lead: opus", ((Map<?, ?>) herdr.lastCall("tab.rename").params()).get("label"));
+
+        int startIndex = indexOfLastCall(herdr, "agent.start");
+        int renameIndex = indexOfLastCall(herdr, "tab.rename");
+        assertTrue(renameIndex > startIndex,
+                "the tab must be renamed AFTER the start succeeds, not before: start=" + startIndex
+                        + " rename=" + renameIndex);
+    }
+
+    private static int indexOfLastCall(FakeHerdr herdr, String method) {
+        int idx = -1;
+        List<FakeHerdr.Call> calls = herdr.calls;
+        for (int i = 0; i < calls.size(); i++) {
+            if (calls.get(i).method().equals(method)) {
+                idx = i;
+            }
+        }
+        return idx;
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void relaunchOfAnUnknownLeadNameReturnsNullAndStartsNothing() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).relaunch("not-declared");
+
+        assertNull(started);
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("agent.start"));
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("workspace.create"));
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("tab.create"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void relaunchOfARecogniseOnlyLeadReturnsNullAndStartsNothing() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                launcher(herdr, configWith(lead(null, "lead: dead", 1))).relaunch("opus");
+
+        assertNull(started);
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("agent.start"));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void relaunchWithAnUnconfiguredProfileReturnsNullAndStartsNothing() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                launcher(herdr, configWith(lead("nope", "lead: opus", 1))).relaunch("opus");
+
+        assertNull(started);
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("agent.start"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The outer retry {@link LeadLauncher#relaunch(String)} owns, separate from {@code
+     * ResilientAgentLaunch}'s internal {@code agent_name_taken} retry: a failed attempt must not
+     * be the end of the whole relaunch. Each of the first two attempts exhausts {@code
+     * ResilientAgentLaunch.NAME_RETRIES} name attempts (every one of them rejected), so each
+     * attempt's own tab is created and then closed; the third attempt's first name is free.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void relaunchRetriesTheWholeAttemptAndSucceedsOnTheThird() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr()
+                .agentNameTakenTimes(2 * ResilientAgentLaunch.NAME_RETRIES);
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                fastLauncher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).relaunch("opus");
+
+        assertNotNull(started, "the third attempt's first name is free — it must succeed");
+        assertEquals(3, herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("tab.create")).count(),
+                "one tab per attempt: three attempts");
+        assertEquals(2, herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("tab.close")).count(),
+                "the two failed attempts' tabs must be closed");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Every attempt fails outright (a herdr error {@code ResilientAgentLaunch} does not retry at
+     * all) — {@link LeadLauncher#relaunch(String)} must give up after exactly {@code
+     * RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS} and must not leak any of the tabs it created along the way.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void relaunchGivesUpAfterExactlyRelaunchAttemptsAndLeaksNoTab() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentStartFailsWith("some_other_error");
+
+        dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.Agent started =
+                fastLauncher(herdr, configWith(lead("opus", "lead: opus", 1))).relaunch("opus");
+
+        assertNull(started, "every attempt failed — relaunch must give up, not hang or guess");
+        assertEquals(LeadLauncher.RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS,
+                herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("agent.start")).count(),
+                "exactly RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS attempts, no more, no fewer");
+        long tabsCreated = herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("tab.create")).count();
+        long tabsClosed = herdr.calls.stream().filter(c -> c.method().equals("tab.close")).count();
+        assertEquals(LeadLauncher.RELAUNCH_ATTEMPTS, tabsCreated);
+        assertEquals(tabsCreated, tabsClosed, "every tab this method created must be closed — no leaks");
+    }
 }

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

@@ -355,10 +355,10 @@ class FleetMcpAuthzTest {
                         + "the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
 
         Pattern trailingArg = Pattern.compile(
-                "listFleet\\([^;]*?,\\s*(coordinatorVisibleTo\\(principal\\(exchange\\)\\)|true|false)\\s*\\)\\s*;",
+                "listFleet\\([^;]*?,\\s*(coordinatorVisibleTo\\(principal\\(exchange\\)\\)|true|false)\\s*[,)]",
                 Pattern.DOTALL);
         Matcher m = trailingArg.matcher(handlerBlock);
-        assertTrue(m.find(), "could not locate listFleet(...)'s trailing boolean argument in the "
+        assertTrue(m.find(), "could not locate listFleet(...)'s coordinator boolean argument in the "
                 + "listHandler block -- the call shape changed, update this test's anchor: " + handlerBlock);
         String trailing = m.group(1);
         assertEquals("coordinatorVisibleTo(principal(exchange))", trailing,
@@ -366,6 +366,197 @@ class FleetMcpAuthzTest {
                         + "calling, not pass a literal boolean -- found: " + trailing);
     }
 
+    // --- fleetd #703: who may see fleet_list's collaborators array -------------------------------
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703: {@link FleetMcp#collaboratorsVisibleTo} is the whole policy decision for
+     * {@code fleet_list}'s {@code collaborators} array. Visible to exactly the roles that may
+     * {@code SEND} to a named peer -- the primary, an architect, and a collaborator itself -- never
+     * a worker, which holds {@code READ} but can never {@code SEND} to a collaborator, and never an
+     * anonymous caller.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void onlyPrimaryArchitectAndCollaboratorMaySeeTheCollaboratorsArray() {
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(PRIMARY), "the primary must see the collaborators array");
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(ARCH_DESIGN), "an architect must see the collaborators array");
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(COLLABORATOR), "a collaborator must see its own peer roster");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(WORKER_A),
+                "a worker holds READ but can never SEND to a collaborator, so it must not see the array");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(ANON), "authenticated as nothing must not see it either");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703, same reasoning as {@link #theFleetListHandlerActuallyConsultsCoordinatorVisibleTo}:
+     * the predicate above can be perfectly correct while the one production call site never asks it.
+     * This reads {@code FleetMcp.java}'s own source and asserts the {@code fleet_list} handler's
+     * {@code listFleet(...)} call both threads {@code callers.collaborators()} into the payload and
+     * asks {@code collaboratorsVisibleTo(principal(exchange))} for the visibility flag, rather than a
+     * literal boolean or an empty map.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theFleetListHandlerActuallyConsultsCollaboratorsVisibleTo() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(MCP_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("listHandler =");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find the fleet_list handler (listHandler) in " + MCP_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("stopHandler =", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the handler declared after listHandler to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does contain a call to listFleet(...) -- if this
+        // fails, the anchors above moved and the assertions below would otherwise pass on nothing.
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("listFleet("),
+                "control failed: the scraped listHandler block contains no listFleet( call at all -- "
+                        + "the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("callers.collaborators()"),
+                "the fleet_list handler must thread callers.collaborators() into listFleet(...), not an "
+                        + "empty or literal map -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("collaboratorsVisibleTo(principal(exchange))"),
+                "the fleet_list handler must ask collaboratorsVisibleTo(principal(exchange)) who is "
+                        + "calling, not pass a literal boolean -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
+    // --- who may see fleet_list's leads and members arrays ---------------------------------------
+
+    /**
+     * {@link FleetMcp#leadsVisibleTo} is the whole policy decision for {@code fleet_list}'s
+     * {@code leads} array: visible to exactly the roles that may {@code SEND} to a lead -- the
+     * primary, an architect, and a collaborator -- never a worker, which holds {@code READ} but
+     * can never {@code SEND} at all, and never an anonymous caller.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void primaryArchitectAndCollaboratorMaySeeTheLeadsArray() {
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(PRIMARY), "the primary must see the leads array");
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(ARCH_DESIGN), "an architect must see the leads array");
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(COLLABORATOR),
+                "a collaborator may SEND to a lead, so it must see the leads array to learn where");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(WORKER_A),
+                "a worker holds READ but can never SEND, so it must not see the leads array");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(ANON), "authenticated as nothing must not see it either");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As {@link #primaryArchitectAndCollaboratorMaySeeTheLeadsArray}, for the {@code members}
+     * array -- but a collaborator may {@code SEND} only to a lead or another collaborator, never
+     * to a spawned member, so it must not see this one.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void onlyPrimaryAndArchitectMaySeeTheMembersArray() {
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(PRIMARY), "the primary must see the members array");
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(ARCH_DESIGN), "an architect must see the members array");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(WORKER_A),
+                "a worker holds READ but can never SEND, so it must not see the members array");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(COLLABORATOR),
+                "a collaborator may SEND to a lead, never to a spawned member, so it must not see the members array");
+        assertFalse(FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(ANON), "authenticated as nothing must not see it either");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Same reasoning as {@link #theFleetListHandlerActuallyConsultsCoordinatorVisibleTo}: the
+     * predicate above can be perfectly correct while the one production call site never asks it.
+     * This reads {@code FleetMcp.java}'s own source and asserts the {@code fleet_list} handler's
+     * {@code listFleet(...)} call asks {@code leadsVisibleTo(principal(exchange))} for the leads
+     * visibility flag, rather than a literal boolean.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theFleetListHandlerActuallyConsultsLeadsVisibleTo() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(MCP_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("listHandler =");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find the fleet_list handler (listHandler) in " + MCP_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("stopHandler =", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the handler declared after listHandler to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does contain a call to listFleet(...) -- if this
+        // fails, the anchors above moved and the assertion below would otherwise pass on nothing.
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("listFleet("),
+                "control failed: the scraped listHandler block contains no listFleet( call at all -- "
+                        + "the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("leadsVisibleTo(principal(exchange))"),
+                "the fleet_list handler must ask leadsVisibleTo(principal(exchange)) who is calling, "
+                        + "not pass a literal boolean -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
+    /** As {@link #theFleetListHandlerActuallyConsultsLeadsVisibleTo}, for {@code membersVisibleTo}. */
+    @Test
+    void theFleetListHandlerActuallyConsultsMembersVisibleTo() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(MCP_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("listHandler =");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find the fleet_list handler (listHandler) in " + MCP_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("stopHandler =", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the handler declared after listHandler to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("listFleet("),
+                "control failed: the scraped listHandler block contains no listFleet( call at all -- "
+                        + "the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("membersVisibleTo(principal(exchange))"),
+                "the fleet_list handler must ask membersVisibleTo(principal(exchange)) who is calling, "
+                        + "not pass a literal boolean -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code fleet_poll{ticket}} must thread the calling connection's own terminal into
+     * {@link MessageService#poll(String, String)}, so a worker cannot read a ticket a different
+     * session created.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theFleetPollHandlerActuallyThreadsCallerTerminalIntoPoll() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(MCP_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("pollHandler =");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find the fleet_poll handler (pollHandler) in " + MCP_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("ackHandler =", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the handler declared after pollHandler to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does call poll(...) -- if this fails, the anchors
+        // above moved and the assertions below would otherwise pass on nothing.
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("poll(messages,"),
+                "control failed: the scraped pollHandler block contains no poll(messages, ...) call "
+                        + "at all -- the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("callerTerminal(exchange)"),
+                "the fleet_poll handler must thread callerTerminal(exchange) into poll(...), not omit "
+                        + "it or pass a literal null -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code fleet_status} must thread the calling connection's own terminal into
+     * {@link FleetMcp#status(MessageService, String, String)}, so a caller that did not create a
+     * worker's open delegation cannot read its pending question through the status handler either.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theFleetStatusHandlerActuallyThreadsCallerTerminalIntoStatus() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(MCP_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("statusHandler =");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find the fleet_status handler (statusHandler) in " + MCP_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("pollHandler =", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the handler declared after statusHandler to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does call status(...) -- if this fails, the anchors
+        // above moved and the assertions below would otherwise pass on nothing.
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("status(messages,"),
+                "control failed: the scraped statusHandler block contains no status(messages, ...) "
+                        + "call at all -- the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("callerTerminal(exchange)"),
+                "the fleet_status handler must thread callerTerminal(exchange) into status(...), not "
+                        + "omit it or pass a literal null -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
     // --- which action each tool hands the gate (fleetd #272) ------------------------------------
 
     /**

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

@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ class FleetMcpLeadContextGaugeWiringTest {
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.LoopHealthSource.none(), FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(),
                 FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(), contextGauge, leadConfigDirs,
-                Map.of(LEAD_TERMINAL, LEAD_NAME), LEAD_TERMINAL, FleetMcp.CoordinationSource.none(), false);
+                Map.of(LEAD_TERMINAL, LEAD_NAME), LEAD_TERMINAL, Map.of(), false,
+                FleetMcp.CoordinationSource.none(), false, true, true);
     }
 }

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

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.AgentStatus;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.FakeHerdr;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.inject.LoopWatchdog;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.lead.LeadContextGauge;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.PaneLocator;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.herdr.WorkspaceControl;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.inject.Injector;
@@ -76,7 +77,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
 
     private void assertSendRoundTrips(String target, Set<String> profiles) throws Exception {
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, target, "hi", 4000L, null, profiles));
+                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, target, "hi", 4000L, null, profiles, null));
         long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
         while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(target) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
             Thread.sleep(5);
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
     void sendThenReplyRoundTrips() throws Exception {
         // fleet_send blocks; fleet_reply resolves it with the worker's structured answer.
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "review this", 4000L, null, Set.of()));
+                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "review this", 4000L, null, Set.of(), null));
 
         // Wait until the send has opened its waiter so the reply resolves it (CB-307: reply now
         // queues in the inbox if no waiter is open, which would break the round-trip).
@@ -180,7 +181,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         String turnId = afterTurnId.substring(0, afterTurnId.indexOf('"'));
 
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "config.yaml", 5000L));
+                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "config.yaml", 5000L, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", textOf(ask.get(6, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
 
         deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         assertEquals("late reply", messages.drainReplies("term_a").getFirst().content());
 
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, firstTurnId, "config.yaml", 5000L));
+                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, firstTurnId, "config.yaml", 5000L, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", textOf(ask.get(6, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
         while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_a") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
             Thread.sleep(5);
@@ -287,6 +288,89 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         assertEquals("done", textOf(answer.get(6, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
     }
 
+    // --- fleetd #715: fleet_send{turnId} is gated on the caller that owns the turn -------------
+
+    /**
+     * A blocking {@code fleet_send} from one caller opens the turn; a {@code fleet_send{turnId}}
+     * from a different caller is refused as an error, and the real owner's answer still succeeds.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aDifferentCallersMcpAnswerIsRefusedForABlockingSendButTheRealOwnerSucceeds() throws Exception {
+        CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, T, "do X", 5000L, null, Set.of(), "term_owner"));
+        long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.isWaiting(T));
+
+        CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> ask = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> FleetMcp.ask(messages, T, "which config?", 5000L));
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult question = send.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        assertTrue(textOf(question).contains("[question]"), textOf(question));
+        String questionText = textOf(question);
+        String afterTurnId = questionText.substring(questionText.indexOf("turnId=\"") + "turnId=\"".length());
+        String turnId = afterTurnId.substring(0, afterTurnId.indexOf('"'));
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult hijacked = FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "evil.yaml", 500L, "term_attacker");
+        assertTrue(hijacked.isError(), "a caller that did not open this turn must get an error, not an answer");
+        assertFalse(ask.isDone(), "a refused answer must not resolve the worker's blocked fleet_ask");
+
+        CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "config.yaml", 5000L, "term_owner"));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", textOf(ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
+        deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        FleetMcp.reply(messages, T, Role.WORKER, "done");
+        assertEquals("done", textOf(answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Same hijack and control through the fire-and-poll ({@code sendAsync}) path: the owner comes
+     * from the ticket's recorded creator terminal, not from a caller threaded through a live call.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aDifferentCallersMcpAnswerIsRefusedForAnAsyncSendButTheRealOwnerSucceeds() throws Exception {
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult accepted =
+                FleetMcp.sendAsync(messages, T, "do it", null, Set.of(), "term_owner");
+        String ticket = textOf(accepted).substring(textOf(accepted).indexOf("ticket=") + "ticket=".length()).trim();
+
+        long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.isWaiting(T));
+
+        CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> ask = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> FleetMcp.ask(messages, T, "which config?", 5000L));
+        MessageService.TaskView asking = messages.poll(ticket);
+        deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (asking.phase() != MessageService.Phase.ASKING && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+            asking = messages.poll(ticket);
+        }
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, asking.phase());
+        String turnId = asking.turnId();
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult hijacked = FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "evil.yaml", 500L, "term_attacker");
+        assertTrue(hijacked.isError(), "a caller that did not create this delegation must get an error");
+        assertFalse(ask.isDone(), "a refused answer must not resolve the worker's blocked fleet_ask");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, messages.poll(ticket).phase(),
+                "a refused answer must not advance the async ticket's phase");
+
+        CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "config.yaml", 5000L, "term_owner"));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", textOf(ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
+        deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        FleetMcp.reply(messages, T, Role.WORKER, "done");
+        assertEquals("done", textOf(answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void pollUnknownTicketIsAnError() {
         McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.poll(messages, "task-999", null);
@@ -296,7 +380,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
 
     @Test
     void sendTimesOutWithAWorkingNote() {
-        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "hi", 120L, null, Set.of());
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "hi", 120L, null, Set.of(), null);
         assertNotEquals(Boolean.TRUE, res.isError(), "a timeout is informational, not a tool error");
         assertTrue(textOf(res).contains("no reply"), "got: " + textOf(res));
     }
@@ -312,7 +396,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
     void sendTimesOutWithAnUnconfirmedNoteNotARetryInvitation() throws Exception {
         herdr.agentSendFailsWith("send_failed");
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, T, "hi", 150L, null, Set.of()));
+                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, T, "hi", 150L, null, Set.of(), null));
         long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 2000;
         while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
             //noinspection BusyWait
@@ -332,13 +416,13 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
 
     @Test
     void sendRejectsMissingArgs() {
-        assertTrue(FleetMcp.send(messages, null, "hi", null, null, Set.of()).isError());
-        assertTrue(FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "  ", null, null, Set.of()).isError());
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.send(messages, null, "hi", null, null, Set.of(), null).isError());
+        assertTrue(FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "  ", null, null, Set.of(), null).isError());
     }
 
     @Test
     void sendRejectsAConfiguredProfileNameBeforeAcceptingIt() {
-        McpSchema.CallToolResult blocking = FleetMcp.send(messages, "sol", "hi", 100L, null, Set.of("sol"));
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult blocking = FleetMcp.send(messages, "sol", "hi", 100L, null, Set.of("sol"), null);
         McpSchema.CallToolResult async = FleetMcp.sendAsync(messages, "sol", "hi", null, Set.of("sol"));
 
         assertTrue(blocking.isError());
@@ -357,7 +441,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         assertSendRoundTrips("term_live_member", profiles);
 
         // A herdr-owned pane outside the bridge roster cannot be classified at accept time.
-        McpSchema.CallToolResult result = FleetMcp.send(messages, "external-pane", "hi", 10L, null, profiles);
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult result = FleetMcp.send(messages, "external-pane", "hi", 10L, null, profiles, null);
         assertFalse(result.isError(), "an unclassified target must not be rejected at acceptance time");
     }
 
@@ -449,7 +533,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
     void askThenAnswerRoundTrips() throws Exception {
         // The primary delegates and blocks; wait until its waiter is open before the worker asks.
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "do X", 5000L, null, Set.of()));
+                () -> FleetMcp.send(messages, "term_a", "do X", 5000L, null, Set.of(), null));
         long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
         while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_a") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
             //noinspection BusyWait
@@ -471,7 +555,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
 
         // The primary answers via fleet_send(turnId); this blocks again for the worker's reply.
         CompletableFuture<McpSchema.CallToolResult> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "config.yaml", 5000L));
+                () -> FleetMcp.answer(messages, turnId, "config.yaml", 5000L, null));
 
         // The worker's ask returns the answer — it resumes the same turn.
         assertEquals("config.yaml", textOf(ask.get(6, TimeUnit.SECONDS)));
@@ -497,7 +581,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
 
     @Test
     void answerToAStaleTurnIsAnError() {
-        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.answer(messages, "term_a#999", "too late", 500L);
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.answer(messages, "term_a#999", "too late", 500L, null);
         assertTrue(res.isError());
         assertTrue(textOf(res).contains("no longer open"), textOf(res));
     }
@@ -691,7 +775,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true, true, true);
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         // fleetd #361: reports both which coord-id a peer must use to reach ME, and this daemon's
@@ -720,7 +804,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true, true, true);
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertTrue(out.contains("\"mailbox\":{\"status\":\"unknown\"}"), out);
@@ -779,19 +863,82 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")));
         FakeLeadChannel channel = new FakeLeadChannel("mac-opus")
                 .withMailbox("mac-opus", LeadChannel.MailboxState.exists("mac-opus", 0, 1));
-        boolean callerIsPrimary = Principal.worker("term_a", 1).isPrimary();
+        Principal worker = Principal.worker("term_a", 1);
 
         McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.listFleet(
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), callerIsPrimary);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), worker.isPrimary(),
+                FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(worker), FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(worker));
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertFalse(out.contains("\"coordinator\""), "a worker must never see the coordinator key at all: " + out);
         assertFalse(out.contains("mac-opus"), "no fragment of the coordinator row may leak either: " + out);
-        assertTrue(out.contains("\"leads\""), "the rest of the result must still be present: " + out);
-        assertTrue(out.contains("\"members\""), out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("\"leads\""), "a worker must never see the leads key at all: " + out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("\"members\""), "a worker must never see the members key at all: " + out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"healthCoverage\""), "the rest of the result must still be present: " + out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A worker's result must carry neither the {@code leads} nor the {@code members} key, and no
+     * fragment of either row leaks even though both are fully populated for this call -- a key
+     * check alone would pass on an implementation that still built the rows and only renamed or
+     * nested them.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void listLeaksNoLeadOrMemberRowFragmentToAWorker() {
+        FakeHerdr h = new FakeHerdr();
+        FakeWorktrees worktrees = new FakeWorktrees().withRepoRoot("/repo").withPrefix("/wt");
+        SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), worktrees);
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", null, "/caller/proj", "term_owner",
+                new WorktreeRequest("cb-304", null));
+        Principal worker = Principal.worker("term_a", 1);
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.listFleet(
+                workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
+                FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
+                FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
+                Map.of("term_lead_x", "mac-opus"), "", FleetMcp.CoordinationSource.none(), worker.isPrimary(),
+                FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(worker), FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(worker));
+
+        String out = textOf(res);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("\"leads\""), out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("\"members\""), out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains(s.terminalId()), "no member row fragment may leak to a worker: " + out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("term_owner"), "no member owner fragment may leak to a worker: " + out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("mac-opus"), "no lead row fragment may leak to a worker: " + out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"healthCoverage\""), out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A collaborator may {@code SEND} to a lead, so it must see the {@code leads} array -- the
+     * only place {@code fleet_whoami} does not already give it a lead's address. It may never
+     * {@code SEND} to a spawned member, so the {@code members} key must stay absent for it, with
+     * no fragment of a populated member row leaking either.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void listShowsLeadsButNotMembersToACollaborator() {
+        FakeHerdr h = new FakeHerdr();
+        FakeWorktrees worktrees = new FakeWorktrees().withRepoRoot("/repo").withPrefix("/wt");
+        SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), worktrees);
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", null, "/caller/proj", "term_owner",
+                new WorktreeRequest("cb-304", null));
+        Principal collaborator = Principal.collaborator("ops", "term_collab", 600);
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.listFleet(
+                workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
+                FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
+                FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
+                Map.of("term_lead_x", "mac-opus"), "", FleetMcp.CoordinationSource.none(), collaborator.isPrimary(),
+                FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(collaborator), FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(collaborator));
+
+        String out = textOf(res);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"leads\""), "a collaborator must see the leads array: " + out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("mac-opus"), "a collaborator must see the lead's name/address: " + out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("\"members\""), "a collaborator must never see the members key: " + out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains(s.terminalId()), "no member row fragment may leak to a collaborator: " + out);
+        assertFalse(out.contains("term_owner"), "no member owner fragment may leak to a collaborator: " + out);
         assertTrue(out.contains("\"healthCoverage\""), out);
     }
 
@@ -807,16 +954,19 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")));
         FakeLeadChannel channel = new FakeLeadChannel("mac-opus")
                 .withMailbox("mac-opus", LeadChannel.MailboxState.exists("mac-opus", 0, 1));
-        boolean callerIsPrimary = Principal.architect("lead-designer", "term_design", 400).isPrimary();
+        Principal architect = Principal.architect("lead-designer", "term_design", 400);
 
         McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.listFleet(
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), callerIsPrimary);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), architect.isPrimary(),
+                FleetMcp.leadsVisibleTo(architect), FleetMcp.membersVisibleTo(architect));
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertFalse(out.contains("\"coordinator\""), "an architect must never see the coordinator key either: " + out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"leads\""), "an architect must still see the leads array: " + out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"members\""), "an architect must still see the members array: " + out);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -841,7 +991,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true));
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true, true, true));
 
         assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"coordinator\""), gatedAsPrimary);
         assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"selfId\":\"mac-opus\""), gatedAsPrimary);
@@ -850,6 +1000,8 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"heldDurable\""), gatedAsPrimary);
         assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"held\""), gatedAsPrimary);
         assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"peers\""), gatedAsPrimary);
+        assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"leads\""), "the primary must still see the leads array: " + gatedAsPrimary);
+        assertTrue(gatedAsPrimary.contains("\"members\""), "the primary must still see the members array: " + gatedAsPrimary);
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -868,7 +1020,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true, true, true);
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertTrue(out.contains("\"msgId\":\"m1\""), out);
@@ -879,6 +1031,83 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         assertTrue(out.contains("x".repeat(80) + "…"), "expected an 80-char preview with an ellipsis: " + out);
     }
 
+    // --- fleetd #703: fleet_list's collaborators array -------------------------------------------
+
+    /** Calls the canonical {@code listFleet} overload directly, so a test can set the collaborators
+     * payload and its visibility independently of a real {@code Principal} / MCP exchange. */
+    private static McpSchema.CallToolResult listFleetWithCollaborators(FakeHerdr h,
+            Map<String, String> collaborators, boolean collaboratorsVisible) {
+        SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")));
+        return FleetMcp.listFleet(
+                workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
+                FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
+                FleetMcp.LoopHealthSource.none(), FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(),
+                FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(), new LeadContextGauge(), FleetMcp.LeadConfigDirSource.none(),
+                Map.of(), "", collaborators, collaboratorsVisible,
+                FleetMcp.CoordinationSource.none(), false, true, true);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703 acceptance A: a visible caller with one configured collaborator gets a
+     * {@code collaborators} row whose key ({@code CallerResolver.collaborators()}'s
+     * {@code terminal_id -> name} entry) lands as that row's {@code sessionId}, and {@code leads}/
+     * {@code members} are unaffected by the new key.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void listReportsACollaboratorsRowKeyedByTheCollaboratorsTerminalId() {
+        FakeHerdr h = new FakeHerdr();
+        String out = textOf(listFleetWithCollaborators(h, Map.of("term_collab", "ops"), true));
+
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"collaborators\":["), out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"name\":\"ops\""), out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"sessionId\":\"term_collab\""), out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"leads\":[]"), out);
+        assertTrue(out.contains("\"members\":[]"), out);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703 acceptance A, control half: with no collaborator configured, the key is absent
+     * (caller cannot see it) or an empty array (caller can), and {@code leads}/{@code members} are
+     * unchanged either way.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void listOmitsOrEmptiesCollaboratorsWhenNoneAreConfigured() {
+        FakeHerdr h = new FakeHerdr();
+
+        String visibleButEmpty = textOf(listFleetWithCollaborators(h, Map.of(), true));
+        assertTrue(visibleButEmpty.contains("\"collaborators\":[]"), visibleButEmpty);
+        assertTrue(visibleButEmpty.contains("\"leads\":[]"), visibleButEmpty);
+        assertTrue(visibleButEmpty.contains("\"members\":[]"), visibleButEmpty);
+
+        String notVisible = textOf(listFleetWithCollaborators(h, Map.of(), false));
+        assertFalse(notVisible.contains("\"collaborators\""), notVisible);
+        assertTrue(notVisible.contains("\"leads\":[]"), notVisible);
+        assertTrue(notVisible.contains("\"members\":[]"), notVisible);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #703 acceptance B: a worker must not see the {@code collaborators} array at all, while
+     * an architect -- a role that also holds READ, same as a worker -- does see it. Both halves are
+     * asserted: a test that only checked the worker-hidden half would pass even if the feature were
+     * never wired up for anyone.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void listOmitsCollaboratorsForAWorkerAndIncludesThemForAnArchitect() {
+        FakeHerdr h = new FakeHerdr();
+        Map<String, String> collaborators = Map.of("term_collab", "ops");
+
+        String asWorker = textOf(listFleetWithCollaborators(h, collaborators,
+                FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(Principal.worker("term_w", 1))));
+        assertFalse(asWorker.contains("\"collaborators\""),
+                "a worker must not see the collaborators array: " + asWorker);
+
+        String asArchitect = textOf(listFleetWithCollaborators(h, collaborators,
+                FleetMcp.collaboratorsVisibleTo(Principal.architect("design", "term_arch", 2))));
+        assertTrue(asArchitect.contains("\"collaborators\":["),
+                "an architect must see the collaborators array: " + asArchitect);
+        assertTrue(asArchitect.contains("\"sessionId\":\"term_collab\""), asArchitect);
+    }
+
     /**
      * fleetd #421: {@code mailbox.pending} counts only broker-ready messages, so a blocked lead's
      * normal, healthy state is {@code "pending": 0} next to a non-empty {@code held[]} — which
@@ -900,7 +1129,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true, true, true);
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertTrue(out.contains("\"pending\":0"), out);
@@ -929,7 +1158,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 workerService(h, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw")), sessions, null,
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
-                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true);
+                Map.of(), "", new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of()), true, true, true);
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertTrue(out.contains("\"heldDurable\":false"),
@@ -998,7 +1227,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
                 FleetMcp.CapacitySource.none(), new FleetMcp.HealthCoverageSource(() -> "off"),
                 FleetMcp.QuarantineSource.none(), FleetMcp.OutageSource.none(), FleetMcp.LeadSeatSource.none(),
                 Map.of(), "",
-                new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of("fleet01-lead", "fleet02-lead", "fleet03-lead")), true);
+                new FleetMcp.CoordinationSource(channel, List.of("fleet01-lead", "fleet02-lead", "fleet03-lead")), true, true, true);
 
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertTrue(out.contains("\"coordId\":\"fleet01-lead\",\"status\":\"exists\",\"pending\":2,\"consumers\":1"), out);
@@ -1714,14 +1943,14 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         FakeHerdr blocked = new FakeHerdr().agentStatus("blocked");
         AgentControl blockedAgents = new AgentControl(blocked);
         McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.status(
-                new MessageService(blockedAgents, new Injector(blockedAgents), rendezvous), "term_a");
+                new MessageService(blockedAgents, new Injector(blockedAgents), rendezvous), "term_a", null);
         assertNotEquals(Boolean.TRUE, res.isError());
         assertEquals("blocked", textOf(res));
     }
 
     /**
-     * CB-582: a lead polling {@code fleet_status} on its normal cadence — not {@code fleet_poll}
-     * — must also see a worker's open async {@code fleet_ask} question, since the reverse-rendezvous
+     * A lead polling {@code fleet_status} on its normal cadence — not {@code fleet_poll} — must
+     * also see a worker's open async {@code fleet_ask} question, since the reverse-rendezvous
      * window it opened with is far shorter than that cadence.
      */
     @Test
@@ -1744,7 +1973,7 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         } while (asking.phase() != MessageService.Phase.ASKING && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, asking.phase());
 
-        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.status(messages, T);
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult res = FleetMcp.status(messages, T, null);
         assertNotEquals(Boolean.TRUE, res.isError());
         String out = textOf(res);
         assertTrue(out.startsWith("idle"), "the live status must still lead the text: " + out);
@@ -1755,7 +1984,64 @@ class FleetMcpTest {
         // Clean up the still-open ask so the background thread does not linger past the test.
         String turnId = asking.turnId();
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000));
+                () -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, null));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+        deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
+        answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code fleet_status}'s pending-ask block (the question, its {@code turnId} and its ticket)
+     * is shown only to the caller whose terminal created the delegation, or to a caller with no
+     * terminal at all (the unnamed primary) — a different terminal-bearing caller still sees the
+     * base status line, but none of the pending-ask fields.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void statusGatesThePendingAskFieldsByTheDelegationsCreatorTerminal() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task that asks", null, "term_creator");
+        long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.isWaiting(T), "sendAsync should have opened its rendezvous waiter");
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask =
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config file?", 5000));
+
+        MessageService.TaskView asking;
+        deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+        do {
+            asking = messages.poll(ticket);
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        } while (asking.phase() != MessageService.Phase.ASKING && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline);
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, asking.phase());
+
+        String other = textOf(FleetMcp.status(messages, T, "term_other"));
+        assertTrue(other.startsWith("idle"), "the base status must still be shown: " + other);
+        assertFalse(other.contains("which config file?"),
+                "a non-creating caller must not see the question text: " + other);
+        assertFalse(other.contains(asking.turnId()),
+                "a non-creating caller must not see the turnId: " + other);
+        assertFalse(other.contains(ticket),
+                "a non-creating caller must not see the ticket: " + other);
+
+        String creator = textOf(FleetMcp.status(messages, T, "term_creator"));
+        assertTrue(creator.contains("which config file?"), "the creator must see the question: " + creator);
+        assertTrue(creator.contains(asking.turnId()), "the creator must see the turnId: " + creator);
+        assertTrue(creator.contains(ticket), "the creator must see the ticket: " + creator);
+
+        String unnamed = textOf(FleetMcp.status(messages, T, null));
+        assertTrue(unnamed.contains("which config file?"),
+                "a caller with no terminal (the unnamed primary) must see the question: " + unnamed);
+
+        // Clean up the still-open ask so the background thread does not linger past the test.
+        String turnId = asking.turnId();
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, "term_creator"));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
         while (!rendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {

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

@@ -0,0 +1,280 @@
+package dev.ltms.fleet.msg;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * Pins that no file under {@code src/main/java} calls the fail-open
+ * {@link MessageService#poll(String)} overload. That overload skips the ownership check in
+ * {@code MessageService}'s {@code ownsTicket} entirely, so a caller of it can read any session's
+ * ticket. Every production caller must go through {@link MessageService#poll(String, String)}
+ * and pass a {@code callerTerminal} explicitly, even when it is {@code null}.
+ *
+ * <p>This reads each file's own source text rather than reflecting on compiled bytecode, because
+ * the risk is a future one-word edit at a call site, not a missing overload.
+ *
+ * <p>The scan below finds a violation by its receiver, {@code messages.poll(}, rather than the
+ * bare method name, so it does not mistake {@link java.util.Queue#poll()} for a violation. That
+ * anchor only covers a {@code MessageService} reached through a variable or field named
+ * {@code messages}, so {@link #everyMessageServiceDeclarationIsNamedMessages} pins the naming
+ * convention the anchor depends on: a declaration under any other name would be invisible to the
+ * scan above, and must turn this second check red instead of passing silently.
+ */
+class MessageServicePollUsageTest {
+
+    private static final Path PRODUCTION_SOURCE = Path.of("src/main/java");
+
+    @Test
+    void noProductionFileCallsTheSingleArgumentPollOverload() throws IOException {
+        List<String> violations = new ArrayList<>();
+        List<String> twoArgSites = new ArrayList<>();
+        int filesScanned = scanForPollCalls(PRODUCTION_SOURCE, violations, twoArgSites);
+
+        // CONTROL: the scan actually walked files -- a wrong root would otherwise report "no
+        // violations found" having looked at nothing.
+        assertTrue(filesScanned > 0, "control failed: the scan under " + PRODUCTION_SOURCE
+                + " visited zero .java files -- the path is wrong, so the absence of violations "
+                + "below proves nothing");
+
+        assertTrue(violations.isEmpty(), "found a call to the fail-open MessageService.poll(String) "
+                + "overload, which skips the ownership check entirely -- pass a callerTerminal "
+                + "explicitly (even if null) through poll(String, String) instead: " + violations);
+
+        // CONTROL: the arity parser actually finds the two genuine two-argument call sites (the
+        // MCP handler in FleetMcp and the REST handler in FleetApp). If this drops, the parser
+        // itself is broken, not the production code -- a broken parser (or a scan root that
+        // reaches no real source) must fail loudly here rather than pass vacuously above.
+        assertEquals(2, twoArgSites.size(), "control failed: expected exactly the two known "
+                + "two-argument messages.poll(...) call sites, found: " + twoArgSites);
+        assertTrue(twoArgSites.stream().anyMatch(s -> s.contains("FleetMcp.java")),
+                "control failed: did not find the FleetMcp.java messages.poll(ticket, callerTerminal) "
+                        + "site among: " + twoArgSites);
+        assertTrue(twoArgSites.stream().anyMatch(s -> s.contains("FleetApp.java")),
+                "control failed: did not find the FleetApp.java messages.poll(...) site among: "
+                        + twoArgSites);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The {@code messages.poll(} anchor above only sees a {@code MessageService} reached through
+     * a variable, field, or parameter named {@code messages}. This asserts that every such
+     * declaration under {@code src/main/java} uses that name, so a differently named declaration
+     * -- invisible to the scan above -- fails loudly here instead of letting that scan pass on a
+     * call site it never looked at.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void everyMessageServiceDeclarationIsNamedMessages() throws IOException {
+        List<String> names = new ArrayList<>();
+        int filesScanned = scanForDeclarationNames(PRODUCTION_SOURCE, names);
+
+        // CONTROL: the scan actually walked files -- a wrong root would otherwise report "every
+        // declaration is named messages" having looked at nothing.
+        assertTrue(filesScanned > 0, "control failed: the scan under " + PRODUCTION_SOURCE
+                + " visited zero .java files -- the path is wrong, so the result below proves nothing");
+
+        // CONTROL: the declaration pattern actually finds real declarations. Zero means the
+        // pattern is broken, not that every MessageService variable, field, or parameter vanished.
+        assertTrue(names.size() > 0, "control failed: found zero MessageService declarations under "
+                + PRODUCTION_SOURCE + " -- the declaration pattern is broken, update it before "
+                + "trusting the naming check below");
+
+        List<String> other = names.stream().filter(n -> !n.equals("messages")).distinct().toList();
+        assertTrue(other.isEmpty(), "found a MessageService declaration not named \"messages\": "
+                + other + " -- the messages.poll( scan above only looks for that name, so a call "
+                + "through a differently named variable or field is invisible to it; either rename "
+                + "the declaration or widen that scan's anchor to cover it");
+    }
+
+    private static int scanForPollCalls(Path root, List<String> violations, List<String> twoArgSites)
+            throws IOException {
+        List<Path> files = javaFiles(root);
+        for (Path file : files) {
+            scanFileForPollCalls(file, violations, twoArgSites);
+        }
+        return files.size();
+    }
+
+    private static int scanForDeclarationNames(Path root, List<String> names) throws IOException {
+        List<Path> files = javaFiles(root);
+        Pattern declaration = Pattern.compile("MessageService\\s+([A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*)");
+        for (Path file : files) {
+            if (file.getFileName().toString().equals("MessageService.java")) {
+                continue; // the type's own declaration, not a caller holding a reference to it
+            }
+            String stripped = stripComments(Files.readString(file));
+            Matcher m = declaration.matcher(stripped);
+            while (m.find()) {
+                int j = m.end();
+                while (j < stripped.length() && Character.isWhitespace(stripped.charAt(j))) j++;
+                if (j < stripped.length() && stripped.charAt(j) == '(') {
+                    continue; // a method named like the convention, e.g. "MessageService messages()"
+                }
+                names.add(m.group(1));
+            }
+        }
+        return files.size();
+    }
+
+    private static List<Path> javaFiles(Path root) throws IOException {
+        try (Stream<Path> paths = Files.walk(root)) {
+            return paths.filter(p -> p.toString().endsWith(".java")).toList();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Replaces {@code //} and {@code /* *}{@code /} comment text with nothing, leaving code,
+     * string/char literals and line breaks untouched -- so a comment that merely mentions
+     * {@code MessageService} in prose can never be read as a declaration.
+     */
+    private static String stripComments(String source) {
+        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder(source.length());
+        boolean inString = false;
+        boolean inChar = false;
+        int i = 0;
+        while (i < source.length()) {
+            char c = source.charAt(i);
+            if (inString) {
+                out.append(c);
+                if (c == '\\' && i + 1 < source.length()) { out.append(source.charAt(i + 1)); i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '"') inString = false;
+                i++;
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (inChar) {
+                out.append(c);
+                if (c == '\\' && i + 1 < source.length()) { out.append(source.charAt(i + 1)); i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '\'') inChar = false;
+                i++;
+                continue;
+            }
+            if (c == '"') { inString = true; out.append(c); i++; continue; }
+            if (c == '\'') { inChar = true; out.append(c); i++; continue; }
+            if (c == '/' && i + 1 < source.length() && source.charAt(i + 1) == '/') {
+                while (i < source.length() && source.charAt(i) != '\n') i++;
+                continue; // leaves the newline itself for the next iteration to append
+            }
+            if (c == '/' && i + 1 < source.length() && source.charAt(i + 1) == '*') {
+                i += 2;
+                while (i < source.length() && !(source.charAt(i) == '*' && i + 1 < source.length()
+                        && source.charAt(i + 1) == '/')) {
+                    if (source.charAt(i) == '\n') out.append('\n');
+                    i++;
+                }
+                i += 2;
+                continue;
+            }
+            out.append(c);
+            i++;
+        }
+        return out.toString();
+    }
+
+    private static void scanFileForPollCalls(Path file, List<String> violations, List<String> twoArgSites)
+            throws IOException {
+        String source = Files.readString(file);
+        String needle = "messages.poll(";
+        int from = 0;
+        int idx;
+        while ((idx = source.indexOf(needle, from)) >= 0) {
+            int argsStart = idx + needle.length();
+            String args = extractBalancedArgs(source, argsStart, file, idx);
+            int closeParenIndex = argsStart + args.length();
+            from = closeParenIndex + 1;
+
+            if (args.isBlank()) {
+                continue; // MessageService has no zero-argument poll() -- nothing to classify
+            }
+            String site = file + ":" + lineOf(source, idx);
+            if (topLevelCommaCount(args) == 0) {
+                violations.add(site + " -- messages.poll(" + args.trim() + ")");
+            } else {
+                twoArgSites.add(site);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The text between {@code messages.poll(} and its matching close paren: balanced over nested
+     * calls, and never split by a paren or comma sitting inside a string or char literal.
+     */
+    private static String extractBalancedArgs(String source, int start, Path file, int callIndex) {
+        int depth = 1;
+        boolean inString = false;
+        boolean inChar = false;
+        int i = start;
+        while (i < source.length()) {
+            char c = source.charAt(i);
+            if (inString) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '"') inString = false;
+            } else if (inChar) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '\'') inChar = false;
+            } else if (c == '"') {
+                inString = true;
+            } else if (c == '\'') {
+                inChar = true;
+            } else if (c == '(') {
+                depth++;
+            } else if (c == ')') {
+                depth--;
+                if (depth == 0) return source.substring(start, i);
+            }
+            i++;
+        }
+        throw new IllegalStateException(
+                "unbalanced parentheses scanning " + file + ":" + lineOf(source, callIndex));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Commas at paren/bracket/brace depth zero, skipping string and char literals -- the argument
+     * separators a human reader would see, not every comma character in the text.
+     */
+    private static int topLevelCommaCount(String args) {
+        int depth = 0;
+        int commas = 0;
+        boolean inString = false;
+        boolean inChar = false;
+        int i = 0;
+        while (i < args.length()) {
+            char c = args.charAt(i);
+            if (inString) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '"') inString = false;
+            } else if (inChar) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '\'') inChar = false;
+            } else if (c == '"') {
+                inString = true;
+            } else if (c == '\'') {
+                inChar = true;
+            } else if (c == '(' || c == '[' || c == '{') {
+                depth++;
+            } else if (c == ')' || c == ']' || c == '}') {
+                depth--;
+            } else if (c == ',' && depth == 0) {
+                commas++;
+            }
+            i++;
+        }
+        return commas;
+    }
+
+    private static int lineOf(String source, int index) {
+        int line = 1;
+        for (int i = 0; i < index; i++) {
+            if (source.charAt(i) == '\n') line++;
+        }
+        return line;
+    }
+}

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

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     }
 
     private CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> sendAsync(String content, long timeoutMillis) {
-        return CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, content, timeoutMillis));
+        return CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, content, timeoutMillis, null));
     }
 
     private void awaitWaiting() throws InterruptedException {
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                 localRendezvous, new InMemoryReplyInbox());
         String brief = "Implement the requested change. ".repeat(20);
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> localMessages.send(T, brief, 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> localMessages.send(T, brief, 5000, (String) null));
         long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 2000;
         while (!localRendezvous.isWaiting(T) && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
             Thread.sleep(5);
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // The primary answers via fleet_send(turnId); this blocks again for the worker's reply.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
 
         // The worker's ask returns the answer — it resumes the same turn.
         MessageService.AskResult a = ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // The primary answers that one turnId; both asks unblock with the same answer.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
 
         MessageService.AskResult a1 = ask1.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
         MessageService.AskResult a2 = ask2.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                 "the duplicate's own timeout elapses first");
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answered =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(turnId, "fleetd.yaml", 500));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(turnId, "fleetd.yaml", 500, null));
 
         MessageService.AskResult a = fresh.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
         assertEquals(MessageService.AskOutcome.ANSWERED, a.outcome(),
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> lateAnswer = new CompletableFuture<>();
         messages.setAskTimeoutRaceHookForTest(() ->
-                lateAnswer.complete(messages.answer(turnId, "too late", 500)));
+                lateAnswer.complete(messages.answer(turnId, "too late", 500, null)));
         try {
             MessageService.AskResult a = ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
             assertEquals(MessageService.AskOutcome.TIMED_OUT, a.outcome());
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
     @Test
     void answeringAnUnknownTurnIsStale() {
-        MessageService.Reply r = messages.answer(T + "#999", "too late", 500);
+        MessageService.Reply r = messages.answer(T + "#999", "too late", 500, null);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.STALE_TURN, r.outcome(),
                 "an answer to a turn that never existed (or already lapsed) is stale, not a hang");
     }
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         messages.setAnswerAskLapseRaceHookForTest(() -> rendezvous.answerAsk(turnId, "raced in first"));
         try {
-            MessageService.Reply r = messages.answer(turnId, "too late", 500);
+            MessageService.Reply r = messages.answer(turnId, "too late", 500, null);
             assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.STALE_TURN, r.outcome(),
                     "an ask already answered by the race must be seen as lapsed, not double-delivered");
         } finally {
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void sendTimesOutBeforeDeliveryIsQueuedNotWorking() {
         // Nothing ever delivers the message and nothing resolves the send, so the reply future
         // times out with delivery still incomplete — the message is still queued for the worker.
-        MessageService.Reply r = messages.send(T, "never delivered", 50);
+        MessageService.Reply r = messages.send(T, "never delivered", 50, null);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, r.outcome(),
                 "an undelivered send that times out is still queued, not working");
         assertNull(r.text());
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     @Test
     void sendTimesOutAfterDeliveryIsStillWorking() throws Exception {
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "do the task", 300));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "do the task", 300, null));
         awaitWaiting();
         injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);    // deliver — the delivered future now completes
         injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.WORKING); // worker starts but never replies
@@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void sendTimeoutUsesCancellationDeliveredWhenPickupWinsTheRace() {
         messages.setTimeoutCancellationRaceHookForTest(() -> injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE));
         try {
-            MessageService.Reply reply = messages.send(T, "race delivery", 50);
+            MessageService.Reply reply = messages.send(T, "race delivery", 50, null);
 
             assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_WORKING, reply.outcome(),
                     "cancel reporting DELIVERED means the worker received the timed-out message");
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void sendTimesOutWithAttemptedDeliveryReportsUnconfirmedNotQueued() throws Exception {
         herdr.agentSendFailsWith("send_failed");
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "brief", 150));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "brief", 150, null));
         awaitWaiting();
         injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE); // triggers the failing delivery attempt → ATTEMPTED
 
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // The primary answers, unblocking the worker; but the worker never sends the follow-up
         // fleet_reply, so the answering send rides out its short window as still-working.
-        MessageService.Reply answer = messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200);
+        MessageService.Reply answer = messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200, null);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_WORKING, answer.outcome(),
                 "an answered worker that never replies times out as still working");
 
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.QUESTION, q.outcome());
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); // worker resumed with the answer
 
         awaitWaiting(); // the answering call has (re)opened its own forward waiter
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         MessageService.Reply done = answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, done.outcome());
 
-        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after normal reply", 300);
+        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after normal reply", 300, null);
         assertNotEquals(MessageService.Outcome.BUSY, probe.outcome(),
                 "the session lock must be released after a normal REPLIED answer(), or this bounded "
                         + "follow-up send would come back BUSY instead of timing out on its own work");
@@ -756,13 +756,13 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         // The primary answers, unblocking the worker; the worker never sends its follow-up
         // fleet_reply, so the answering call rides out its short window as still-working.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200, null));
         MessageService.Reply answered = answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_WORKING, answered.outcome(),
                 "an answered worker that never replies times out as still working");
         ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); // drain: the worker resumed with the answer
 
-        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after timed-out-working", 300);
+        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after timed-out-working", 300, null);
         assertNotEquals(MessageService.Outcome.BUSY, probe.outcome(),
                 "the session lock must be released after a TIMED_OUT_WORKING answer(), or this bounded "
                         + "follow-up send would come back BUSY instead of timing out on its own work");
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                 new java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference<>();
         Thread answerer = new Thread(() -> {
             try {
-                messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000);
+                messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, null);
                 caught.set(new AssertionError("expected answer() to throw"));
             } catch (Throwable t) {
                 caught.set(t);
@@ -813,7 +813,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); // drain: the worker resumed with the answer
 
-        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after exceptional failure", 300);
+        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after exceptional failure", 300, null);
         assertNotEquals(MessageService.Outcome.BUSY, probe.outcome(),
                 "the session lock must be released when answer()'s reply future fails exceptionally, "
                         + "or this bounded follow-up send would come back BUSY instead of timing out on its own work");
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                 new java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference<>();
         Thread answerer = new Thread(() -> {
             try {
-                messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000);
+                messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, null);
                 caught.set(new AssertionError("expected answer() to throw"));
             } catch (Throwable t) {
                 caught.set(t);
@@ -859,17 +859,121 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS); // drain: the worker resumed with the answer
 
-        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after interruption", 300);
+        MessageService.Reply probe = messages.send(T, "probe after interruption", 300, null);
         assertNotEquals(MessageService.Outcome.BUSY, probe.outcome(),
                 "the session lock must be released when answer()'s wait is interrupted, or this bounded "
                         + "follow-up send would come back BUSY instead of timing out on its own work");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Drive an async send on {@code T} to a resolved reply, polling as {@code owner} until the
+     * ticket reports {@link MessageService.Phase#DONE} (or the 2s deadline runs out). {@code owner}
+     * must be a terminal this ticket's creator check actually accepts, or this loops to the
+     * deadline and returns a non-{@code DONE} view.
+     */
+    private MessageService.TaskView driveAsyncTicketToDone(String ticket, String owner) throws InterruptedException {
+        MessageService.TaskView view = null;
+        long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 2000;
+        while (view == null || view.phase() != MessageService.Phase.DONE) {
+            if (System.currentTimeMillis() >= deadline) break;
+            view = messages.poll(ticket, owner);
+            //noinspection BusyWait
+            Thread.sleep(5);
+        }
+        return view;
+    }
+
     @Test
     void pollReturnsNullForAnUnknownTicket() {
         assertNull(messages.poll("task-999999"), "a ticket that was never minted is unknown");
     }
 
+    // --- fleetd #719: a per-boot nonce keeps one instance's ticket ids out of another's space ---
+
+    /** A second, fully independent instance — its own agents/injector/rendezvous/inbox, not shared. */
+    private MessageService newIndependentInstance() {
+        FakeHerdr otherHerdr = new FakeHerdr().readText("BUILD GREEN: 391 files");
+        AgentControl otherAgents = new AgentControl(otherHerdr);
+        Injector otherInjector = new Injector(otherAgents);
+        return new MessageService(otherAgents, otherInjector, new Rendezvous(), new InMemoryReplyInbox());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void twoInstancesMintDisjointTicketIds() {
+        MessageService other = newIndependentInstance();
+        String ticketFromThis = messages.sendAsync(T, "task on first instance", null, null);
+        String ticketFromOther = other.sendAsync(T, "task on second instance", null, null);
+        assertNotEquals(ticketFromThis, ticketFromOther,
+                "each instance mints its own id space, so even a first ticket from each must differ");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void foreignInstanceTicketDoesNotResolve() {
+        MessageService other = newIndependentInstance();
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task on first instance", null, null);
+        // `other` must reach the same sequence number, or this test passes against an empty map
+        // instead of against a colliding id.
+        other.sendAsync(T, "task on second instance", null, null);
+
+        // control: the id resolves in the instance that minted it, so a null below cannot be
+        // explained by broken plumbing — only by the ticket being foreign to `other`.
+        assertNotNull(messages.poll(ticket), "the minting instance must still resolve its own ticket");
+        assertNull(other.poll(ticket), "a ticket minted by a different instance must not resolve here");
+    }
+
+    // --- fleetd #705: a ticket's creator terminal gates who may poll it -------------------------
+
+    @Test
+    void pollByAnotherTerminalIsRefused() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "long task", null, "term_a");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);    // deliver
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.WORKING); // worker works
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "secret async result"), "a reply resolves the async send");
+
+        MessageService.TaskView owner = driveAsyncTicketToDone(ticket, "term_a");
+        assertNotNull(owner, "the creator must still be able to read its own ticket");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.DONE, owner.phase());
+
+        MessageService.TaskView refused = messages.poll(ticket, "term_b");
+        assertNotNull(refused, "a different terminal gets a refusal, not silence");
+        assertNotEquals(MessageService.Phase.DONE, refused.phase(),
+                "a different terminal must never see the ticket as DONE");
+        assertNull(refused.reply(), "a refusal must never carry the reply text");
+        assertFalse(String.valueOf(refused).contains("secret async result"),
+                "the reply text must not appear anywhere in the refused view");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void unnamedPrimaryStillReadsAnyTicket() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "long task", null, "term_lead");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);    // deliver
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.WORKING); // worker works
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "primary-visible result"), "a reply resolves the async send");
+
+        // callerTerminal == null is the unnamed primary (resolved by token or loopback trust, with
+        // no herdr pane) — it must read a ticket a terminal-bearing lead created.
+        MessageService.TaskView view = driveAsyncTicketToDone(ticket, null);
+        assertNotNull(view, "the unnamed primary must be able to read any ticket");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.DONE, view.phase());
+        assertEquals("primary-visible result", view.reply());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void creatorReadsItsOwnTicket() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "long task", null, "term_creator");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);    // deliver
+        injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.WORKING); // worker works
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "own result"), "a reply resolves the async send");
+
+        MessageService.TaskView view = driveAsyncTicketToDone(ticket, "term_creator");
+        assertNotNull(view, "the ticket's own creator must be able to read it");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.DONE, view.phase());
+        assertEquals("own result", view.reply());
+    }
+
     @Test
     void pollReportsACompletedTicket() throws Exception {
         String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "long task");
@@ -896,11 +1000,11 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     @Test
     void concurrentSendToSameSessionWhileFirstHoldsItIsBusy() throws Exception {
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> first =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "first", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "first", 5000, null));
         awaitWaiting(); // the first send now holds the session lock, blocked on its reply
 
         // A second send to the SAME session cannot take the lock within its short window.
-        MessageService.Reply busy = messages.send(T, "second", 100);
+        MessageService.Reply busy = messages.send(T, "second", 100, null);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.BUSY, busy.outcome(),
                 "a second send while another holds the session is busy, not a hang");
         assertNull(busy.text());
@@ -930,13 +1034,13 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         PrimaryRegistry reg = new PrimaryRegistry(null);
         // L accepts a delegation to W: the send wins the lock and queues delivery → L is recorded.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> first = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.send(T, "first", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_L)));
+                () -> messages.send(T, "first", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_L), null));
         awaitWaiting();
         assertEquals(LEAD_L, reg.nudgeTargetFor(T).orElseThrow(),
                 "an accepted send owns the delegation");
 
         // A attempts W while L holds it → BUSY (lock never taken) → its hook never fires.
-        MessageService.Reply busy = messages.send(T, "second", 100, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_A));
+        MessageService.Reply busy = messages.send(T, "second", 100, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_A), null);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.BUSY, busy.outcome());
         assertEquals(LEAD_L, reg.nudgeTargetFor(T).orElseThrow(),
                 "a BUSY send must not steal the delegator ownership it never earned");
@@ -957,7 +1061,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void anAcceptedSendAfterThePriorOwnerFinishesBecomesTheNewOwner() throws Exception {
         PrimaryRegistry reg = new PrimaryRegistry(null);
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> first = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.send(T, "first", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_L)));
+                () -> messages.send(T, "first", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_L), null));
         awaitWaiting();
         injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.IDLE);
         injector.onStatus(T, AgentStatus.WORKING);
@@ -968,7 +1072,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // L finished; A's later accepted send takes the delegation over.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> second = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.send(T, "second", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_A)));
+                () -> messages.send(T, "second", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_A), null));
         awaitWaiting();
         assertEquals(LEAD_A, reg.nudgeTargetFor(T).orElseThrow(),
                 "an accepted send after the owner finished becomes the new delegator");
@@ -989,7 +1093,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void answeringAnAskDoesNotRewriteDelegatorOwnership() throws Exception {
         PrimaryRegistry reg = new PrimaryRegistry(null);
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.send(T, "do X", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_L)));
+                () -> messages.send(T, "do X", 5000, () -> reg.recordDelegation(T, LEAD_L), null));
         awaitWaiting();
         assertEquals(LEAD_L, reg.nudgeTargetFor(T).orElseThrow(), "L owns the delegation");
 
@@ -1004,7 +1108,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // L answers the ask on the same turn; the answer path must not touch ownership.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         awaitWaiting(); // the answering send reopened its forward waiter
         assertEquals(LEAD_L, reg.nudgeTargetFor(T).orElseThrow(),
@@ -1024,7 +1128,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void aThrowingAcceptedHookLeavesNoStaleWaiterOrQueuedOrphan() {
         assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class,
                 () -> messages.send(T, "doomed", 500,
-                        () -> { throw new IllegalStateException("ownership hook failed"); }),
+                        () -> { throw new IllegalStateException("ownership hook failed"); }, null),
                 "a throwing ownership hook fails the send loudly");
 
         assertFalse(rendezvous.isWaiting(T), "the failed send must not leave a stale rendezvous waiter");
@@ -1152,7 +1256,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     @Test
     void abandonFailsASendThatIsStillWaitingOnAReleasedSession() throws Exception {
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "work", 30_000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "work", 30_000, null));
         awaitWaiting();
 
         assertTrue(messages.abandon(T, "session released"), "a live waiter is abandoned");
@@ -1172,7 +1276,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     @Test
     void abandonDoesNotOverwriteAnAlreadyResolvedSend() throws Exception {
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "work", 30_000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.send(T, "work", 30_000, null));
         awaitWaiting();
         assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "the real answer"));
 
@@ -1303,7 +1407,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, messages.poll(ticket).phase());
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         awaitWaiting();
         assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
@@ -1343,7 +1447,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         // same turnId must see it as lapsed rather than resolving a question nobody is waiting on.
         assertEquals(MessageService.AskOutcome.TIMED_OUT, ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.STALE_TURN,
-                messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200).outcome());
+                messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200, null).outcome());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -1380,7 +1484,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // The primary answers, but its own bounded wait for the worker's resumed turn is short and
         // expires before the worker (still genuinely working) gets back to it.
-        MessageService.Reply answerReply = messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 150);
+        MessageService.Reply answerReply = messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 150, null);
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_WORKING, answerReply.outcome(),
                 "the primary's own bounded wait gives up before the worker finishes resuming");
@@ -1409,7 +1513,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                 CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config?", 5000));
         MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
 
-        MessageService.Reply answerReply = messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 150);
+        MessageService.Reply answerReply = messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 150, null);
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_WORKING, answerReply.outcome());
 
@@ -1463,7 +1567,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         messages.setFinishAsyncTaskRaceHookForTest(() -> messages.forgetTurnForTest(turnId));
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         awaitWaiting(); // answer() opened its own forward waiter for the resumed worker turn
 
@@ -1569,7 +1673,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         String turnId = asking.turnId();
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer =
-                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000));
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer(),
                 "the worker's own ask() call must have already unblocked with the primary's answer "
                         + "before we force the race below");
@@ -1616,7 +1720,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
         String turnId = asking.turnId();
 
-        MessageService.Reply answerReply = messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 150);
+        MessageService.Reply answerReply = messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 150, null);
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_WORKING, answerReply.outcome(),
                 "the primary's own bounded wait must give up first, leaving turnId stamped with no "
@@ -1682,7 +1786,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         MessageService.TaskView asking = messages.poll(first);
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         awaitWaiting();
         assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
@@ -1716,7 +1820,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // The primary answers it — answer() resumes the turn and blocks for what comes next.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer1 = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.answer(asking1.turnId(), "a1", 5000));
+                () -> messages.answer(asking1.turnId(), "a1", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("a1", ask1.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
 
         // Still in the SAME resumed turn — before replying — the worker asks again.
@@ -1737,7 +1841,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
         // The primary answers the second question; the worker finally sends its real fleet_reply.
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer2 = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.answer(turnId2, "a2", 5000));
+                () -> messages.answer(turnId2, "a2", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("a2", ask2.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
         awaitWaiting();
         assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
@@ -1804,20 +1908,20 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         }
     }
 
-    // --- CB-582: fleet_status pendingAsk() ------------------------------------------------------
+    // --- fleet_status pendingAsk() -----------------------------------------------------------
 
     @Test
     void pendingAskReturnsNullWhenNoQuestionIsOpen() throws Exception {
-        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T), "no async ticket at all -> no pending ask");
+        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, null), "no async ticket at all -> no pending ask");
 
         String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "long task");
         awaitWaiting();
-        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T), "a plain pending delegation is not a question");
+        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, null), "a plain pending delegation is not a question");
 
         injectDelivery();
         assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
         awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.DONE);
-        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T), "a finished ticket carries no open question either");
+        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, null), "a finished ticket carries no open question either");
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -1830,21 +1934,151 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                 CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config file?", 5000));
         MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
 
-        MessageService.PendingAsk pending = messages.pendingAsk(T);
+        MessageService.PendingAsk pending = messages.pendingAsk(T, null);
         assertNotNull(pending, "fleet_status should see the open question");
         assertEquals(ticket, pending.ticket());
         assertEquals("which config file?", pending.question());
         assertEquals(asking.turnId(), pending.turnId());
 
         CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
         assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
-        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T), "an answered question is no longer pending");
+        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, null), "an answered question is no longer pending");
         awaitWaiting();
         assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * A caller's own terminal must match the terminal that created the delegation to see its
+     * pending question; a different terminal-bearing caller sees nothing, and a caller with no
+     * terminal at all (the unnamed primary) always sees it.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void pendingAskGatesTheQuestionByTheDelegationsCreatorTerminal() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task that asks", null, "term_creator");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injectDelivery();
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask =
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config file?", 5000));
+        MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
+
+        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, "term_other"),
+                "a caller whose terminal did not create the delegation must not see the question");
+
+        MessageService.PendingAsk own = messages.pendingAsk(T, "term_creator");
+        assertNotNull(own, "the creating caller must see its own open question");
+        assertEquals("which config file?", own.question());
+
+        MessageService.PendingAsk unnamed = messages.pendingAsk(T, null);
+        assertNotNull(unnamed, "a caller with no terminal (the unnamed primary) must always see the question");
+        assertEquals("which config file?", unnamed.question());
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, "term_creator"));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+        awaitWaiting();
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * A task created with no recorded creator terminal (a short {@code sendAsync} overload) must
+     * not hand its open question to any caller that does have a terminal — only a caller with no
+     * terminal at all may still see it.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void pendingAskDeniesATerminalBearingCallerWhenTheTaskRecordsNoCreator() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task that asks"); // no creatorTerminal recorded
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injectDelivery();
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask =
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config file?", 5000));
+        MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
+
+        assertNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, "term_someone"),
+                "a terminal-bearing caller must not see a question whose task records no creator");
+        assertNotNull(messages.pendingAsk(T, null),
+                "the unnamed primary must still see it even with no recorded creator");
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+        awaitWaiting();
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
+    }
+
+    // --- fleetd #715: answer() is gated on the caller that owns the turn -----------------------
+
+    /**
+     * A blocking {@code fleet_send} from one caller opens the turn; a different caller's answer is
+     * refused with no side effect on the rendezvous or the worker's blocked {@code fleet_ask} —
+     * only the real owner can answer it.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aDifferentCallersAnswerIsRefusedForABlockingSendDelegationButTheRealOwnerSucceeds() throws Exception {
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> send = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> messages.send(T, "do X", 5000, "term_owner"));
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injectDelivery();
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask =
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config?", 5000));
+        MessageService.Reply q = send.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.QUESTION, q.outcome());
+        assertFalse(rendezvous.isWaiting(T), "the forward waiter closes once the question surfaces");
+
+        // The hijack: a different caller answers the SAME turnId.
+        MessageService.Reply hijacked = messages.answer(q.turnId(), "evil.yaml", 500, "term_attacker");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.NOT_TURN_OWNER, hijacked.outcome(),
+                "a caller that did not open this turn must be refused, not served");
+        assertFalse(rendezvous.isWaiting(T), "a refused answer must not open a forward waiter");
+        assertFalse(ask.isDone(), "a refused answer must not resolve the worker's blocked fleet_ask");
+        assertEquals(T, rendezvous.askSession(q.turnId()), "a refused answer must leave the ask turn open");
+
+        // The control: the real owner answers the same turnId and the turn resumes normally.
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> messages.answer(q.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, "term_owner"));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+        awaitWaiting();
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Same hijack and control as the blocking case, but the delegation is opened through the
+     * fire-and-poll path ({@code sendAsync}) — the owner comes from the ticket's recorded creator
+     * terminal, not a caller argument threaded through a live blocking call.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aDifferentCallersAnswerIsRefusedForAnAsyncSendDelegationButTheRealOwnerSucceeds() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task that asks", null, "term_owner");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injectDelivery();
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask =
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config file?", 5000));
+        MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
+
+        MessageService.Reply hijacked = messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "evil.yaml", 500, "term_attacker");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.NOT_TURN_OWNER, hijacked.outcome(),
+                "a caller that did not create this delegation must be refused, not served");
+        assertFalse(ask.isDone(), "a refused answer must not resolve the worker's blocked fleet_ask");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, messages.poll(ticket).phase(),
+                "a refused answer must not advance the async ticket's phase");
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                () -> messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, "term_owner"));
+        assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+        awaitWaiting();
+        assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
+        assertEquals("done", awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.DONE).reply());
+    }
+
     // --- CB-588: async ticket terminal nudges ---------------------------------------------------
     //
     // MessageService.reply's rendezvous fast path is exactly what an async ticket always takes
@@ -2101,7 +2335,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
             // Clean up the still-open ask so the background thread does not linger past the test.
             CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                    () -> wiring.service().answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                    () -> wiring.service().answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
             assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
             awaitWaiting();
             assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve(T, "done"));
@@ -2127,7 +2361,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
                     .filter(c -> c.method().equals("agent.prompt")).count();
 
             CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
-                    () -> wiring.service().answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000));
+                    () -> wiring.service().answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 5000, null));
             assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
             awaitWaiting();
             java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch terminalReached = new java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch(1);
@@ -2520,7 +2754,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
     void hasQueuedDeliveryIsTrueAfterAnUndeliveredSendTimesOut() {
         // Nothing ever delivers the message (never goes IDLE/BLOCKED), so the send times out with
         // TIMED_OUT_QUEUED — same setup as sendTimesOutBeforeDeliveryIsQueuedNotWorking above.
-        MessageService.Reply r = messages.send(T, "never delivered", 50);
+        MessageService.Reply r = messages.send(T, "never delivered", 50, null);
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, r.outcome());
 
         assertTrue(messages.hasQueuedDelivery(T),
@@ -2532,7 +2766,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
     @Test
     void hasQueuedDeliveryClearsOnceTheTargetsNextDeliveryIsAccepted() throws Exception {
-        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, messages.send(T, "first", 50).outcome());
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, messages.send(T, "first", 50, null).outcome());
         assertTrue(messages.hasQueuedDelivery(T));
 
         // A fresh send accepts delivery (opens its own waiter) — the stale queued fact is cleared.
@@ -2549,7 +2783,7 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
 
     @Test
     void hasQueuedDeliveryClearsOnAbandon() {
-        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, messages.send(T, "first", 50).outcome());
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.TIMED_OUT_QUEUED, messages.send(T, "first", 50, null).outcome());
         assertTrue(messages.hasQueuedDelivery(T));
 
         messages.abandon(T, "session released");

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

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+package dev.ltms.fleet.msg;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * Pins that no file under {@code src/main/java} calls the fail-open
+ * {@link Rendezvous#open(String)} overload. That overload opens a forward waiter with no
+ * recorded {@link Rendezvous.Owner}, so the turn it opens can never be answered by anyone,
+ * not even the unnamed primary. Every production caller must go through
+ * {@link Rendezvous#open(String, Rendezvous.Owner)} and record an explicit owner.
+ *
+ * <p>This reads each file's own source text rather than reflecting on compiled bytecode, because
+ * the risk is a future one-word edit at a call site, not a missing overload.
+ *
+ * <p>The scan below finds a violation by its receiver, {@code rendezvous.open(}, classified by
+ * argument count. The one test method here points that exact scanner at a file known to hold
+ * many real one-argument calls before it ever looks at production, so a scanner that stops
+ * matching fails loudly on the known-positive case instead of leaving a clean production result
+ * looking like evidence it never produced.
+ */
+class RendezvousOpenUsageTest {
+
+    private static final Path PRODUCTION_SOURCE = Path.of("src/main/java");
+    private static final Path KNOWN_TEST_CALLER =
+            Path.of("src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/inject/CompletionResolverTest.java");
+
+    /**
+     * A pattern that cannot find a known one-argument {@code rendezvous.open(} call would also
+     * find none in production -- not because production is clean, but because the pattern does
+     * not match the text it is supposed to catch. That failure mode is exactly what let a
+     * {@code \b}-based regex read "no callers" under {@code git grep -E} when 81 real ones
+     * existed: {@code git grep} does not treat {@code \b} as a word boundary, so the pattern
+     * silently matched nothing anywhere, clean code and real calls alike. This test runs the
+     * known-positive check first, with the same scanning method the production check then
+     * depends on, so that mistake fails loudly here instead of reading as a clean result.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void noProductionFileCallsTheSingleArgumentOpenOverload() throws IOException {
+        List<String> knownCalls = new ArrayList<>();
+        int knownFilesScanned = scanForOneArgOpenCalls(KNOWN_TEST_CALLER, knownCalls);
+
+        // CONTROL: the scan actually walked files -- a wrong root would otherwise report "found
+        // nothing" having looked at nothing.
+        assertTrue(knownFilesScanned > 0, "control failed: the scan under " + KNOWN_TEST_CALLER
+                + " visited zero .java files -- the path is wrong, so neither result below proves "
+                + "anything");
+
+        // CONTROL: the scanner actually finds real one-argument rendezvous.open( calls when
+        // pointed at a file known to hold many. If this is not satisfied, the matching logic
+        // itself is broken, and the production result below is the scanner failing silently,
+        // not production code actually being clean.
+        assertTrue(knownCalls.size() >= 60, "control failed: the scanner found only "
+                + knownCalls.size() + " one-argument rendezvous.open( call(s) in " + KNOWN_TEST_CALLER
+                + ", which is known to hold many -- the matching logic itself is broken: " + knownCalls);
+
+        List<String> violations = new ArrayList<>();
+        int filesScanned = scanForOneArgOpenCalls(PRODUCTION_SOURCE, violations);
+
+        // CONTROL: the scan actually walked files -- a wrong root would otherwise report "no
+        // violations found" having looked at nothing.
+        assertTrue(filesScanned > 0, "control failed: the scan under " + PRODUCTION_SOURCE
+                + " visited zero .java files -- the path is wrong, so the absence of violations "
+                + "below proves nothing");
+
+        assertTrue(violations.isEmpty(), "found a call to the fail-open Rendezvous.open(String) "
+                + "overload, which opens a forward waiter with no recorded owner -- record an "
+                + "explicit Rendezvous.Owner through open(String, Owner) instead: " + violations);
+    }
+
+    private static int scanForOneArgOpenCalls(Path root, List<String> sites) throws IOException {
+        List<Path> files = javaFiles(root);
+        for (Path file : files) {
+            scanFileForOpenCalls(file, sites);
+        }
+        return files.size();
+    }
+
+    private static List<Path> javaFiles(Path root) throws IOException {
+        try (Stream<Path> paths = Files.walk(root)) {
+            return paths.filter(p -> p.toString().endsWith(".java")).toList();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static void scanFileForOpenCalls(Path file, List<String> sites) throws IOException {
+        String source = Files.readString(file);
+        String needle = "rendezvous.open(";
+        int from = 0;
+        int idx;
+        while ((idx = source.indexOf(needle, from)) >= 0) {
+            int argsStart = idx + needle.length();
+            String args = extractBalancedArgs(source, argsStart, file, idx);
+            int closeParenIndex = argsStart + args.length();
+            from = closeParenIndex + 1;
+
+            if (args.isBlank()) {
+                continue; // Rendezvous has no zero-argument open() -- a javadoc "rendezvous.open()" mention, not a call
+            }
+            if (topLevelCommaCount(args) == 0) {
+                sites.add(file + ":" + lineOf(source, idx) + " -- rendezvous.open(" + args.trim() + ")");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The text between {@code rendezvous.open(} and its matching close paren: balanced over
+     * nested calls, and never split by a paren or comma sitting inside a string or char literal.
+     */
+    private static String extractBalancedArgs(String source, int start, Path file, int callIndex) {
+        int depth = 1;
+        boolean inString = false;
+        boolean inChar = false;
+        int i = start;
+        while (i < source.length()) {
+            char c = source.charAt(i);
+            if (inString) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '"') inString = false;
+            } else if (inChar) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '\'') inChar = false;
+            } else if (c == '"') {
+                inString = true;
+            } else if (c == '\'') {
+                inChar = true;
+            } else if (c == '(') {
+                depth++;
+            } else if (c == ')') {
+                depth--;
+                if (depth == 0) return source.substring(start, i);
+            }
+            i++;
+        }
+        throw new IllegalStateException(
+                "unbalanced parentheses scanning " + file + ":" + lineOf(source, callIndex));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Commas at paren/bracket/brace depth zero, skipping string and char literals -- the argument
+     * separators a human reader would see, not every comma character in the text.
+     */
+    private static int topLevelCommaCount(String args) {
+        int depth = 0;
+        int commas = 0;
+        boolean inString = false;
+        boolean inChar = false;
+        int i = 0;
+        while (i < args.length()) {
+            char c = args.charAt(i);
+            if (inString) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '"') inString = false;
+            } else if (inChar) {
+                if (c == '\\') { i += 2; continue; }
+                if (c == '\'') inChar = false;
+            } else if (c == '"') {
+                inString = true;
+            } else if (c == '\'') {
+                inChar = true;
+            } else if (c == '(' || c == '[' || c == '{') {
+                depth++;
+            } else if (c == ')' || c == ']' || c == '}') {
+                depth--;
+            } else if (c == ',' && depth == 0) {
+                commas++;
+            }
+            i++;
+        }
+        return commas;
+    }
+
+    private static int lineOf(String source, int index) {
+        int line = 1;
+        for (int i = 0; i < index; i++) {
+            if (source.charAt(i) == '\n') line++;
+        }
+        return line;
+    }
+}

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

@@ -132,4 +132,80 @@ class RendezvousTest {
         assertNull(rendezvous.askSession(t.turnId()), "a closed ask is forgotten");
         assertFalse(rendezvous.answerAsk(t.turnId(), "late"), "a closed ask can no longer be answered");
     }
+
+    // ── fleetd #715: turn ownership ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    @Test
+    void openWithNoOwnerRecordsNoOwnerAndOpenWithAnOwnerRecordsIt() {
+        rendezvous.open(W);
+        assertNull(rendezvous.ownerOf(W), "the no-owner overload records no owner at all");
+        rendezvous.close(W, rendezvous.currentWaiter(W));
+
+        rendezvous.open(W, Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_lead"));
+        assertEquals(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_lead"), rendezvous.ownerOf(W));
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void ownerOfIsNullWhenNoWaiterIsOpen() {
+        assertNull(rendezvous.ownerOf(W), "no waiter open means no owner to report");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void openAskStampsTheForwardWaitersOwnerOntoTheFreshTurnOnly() {
+        rendezvous.open(W, Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_lead"));
+
+        Rendezvous.AskTicket fresh = rendezvous.openAsk(W);
+        assertTrue(fresh.fresh());
+        assertEquals(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_lead"), rendezvous.askOwner(fresh.turnId()),
+                "a freshly-opened ask copies the forward waiter's current owner");
+
+        Rendezvous.AskTicket coalesced = rendezvous.openAsk(W);
+        assertFalse(coalesced.fresh());
+        assertEquals(fresh.turnId(), coalesced.turnId());
+        assertEquals(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_lead"), rendezvous.askOwner(coalesced.turnId()),
+                "a coalesced duplicate ask rides the fresh owner's turn, unchanged");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aSecondAskAfterTheFirstClosesStampsWhateverOwnerIsOpenAtThatLaterMoment() {
+        rendezvous.open(W, Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_lead"));
+        Rendezvous.AskTicket first = rendezvous.openAsk(W);
+        rendezvous.closeAsk(first.turnId());
+
+        // The forward waiter is reopened under a different owner before the second ask — mirrors
+        // answer() reopening with the owner it already checked, which can differ turn to turn.
+        rendezvous.close(W, rendezvous.currentWaiter(W));
+        rendezvous.open(W, Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_other"));
+
+        Rendezvous.AskTicket second = rendezvous.openAsk(W);
+        assertTrue(second.fresh());
+        assertEquals(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_other"), rendezvous.askOwner(second.turnId()),
+                "a freshly-opened ask always copies whatever owner is open right now, not a stale one");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void askOwnerIsNullForAnUnknownOrLapsedTurn() {
+        assertNull(rendezvous.askOwner("no-such#1"));
+        Rendezvous.AskTicket t = rendezvous.openAsk(W);
+        rendezvous.closeAsk(t.turnId());
+        assertNull(rendezvous.askOwner(t.turnId()), "a closed ask no longer reports an owner");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void ownerPermitsIsFailClosedOnARecordAndThreeStatesAreDistinct() {
+        assertFalse(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(null, null),
+                "no owner on record refuses even a caller with no terminal");
+        assertFalse(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(null, "term_a"),
+                "no owner on record refuses a terminal-bearing caller too");
+        assertTrue(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(Rendezvous.Owner.UNNAMED_PRIMARY, null),
+                "the unnamed primary owner matches a caller with no terminal");
+        assertFalse(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(Rendezvous.Owner.UNNAMED_PRIMARY, "term_a"),
+                "the unnamed primary owner does not match a terminal-bearing caller");
+        assertTrue(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_a"), "term_a"),
+                "a named owner matches the same terminal");
+        assertFalse(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_a"), "term_b"),
+                "a named owner refuses a different terminal");
+        assertFalse(Rendezvous.Owner.permits(Rendezvous.Owner.of("term_a"), null),
+                "a named owner refuses the unnamed primary");
+    }
 }

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

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package dev.ltms.fleet.rest;
 
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
 import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.CallerResolver;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.Authz;
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
@@ -139,6 +142,405 @@ class FleetAppAuthTest {
         assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> FleetApp.routeAction("GET /healthz"));
     }
 
+    // --- GET /tasks/{ticket} must not be the no-check overload ----------------------------------
+
+    /**
+     * {@code GET /tasks/{ticket}} must resolve its caller the same way {@code allow(...)} does
+     * and thread that terminal into {@link MessageService#poll(String, String)}, not the
+     * no-check overload that ignores who is asking.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theTaskStatusRouteActuallyThreadsTheCallersTerminalIntoPoll() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(REST_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("private void taskStatus(Context ctx) {");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find taskStatus in " + REST_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("private static void herdrError(Context ctx, HerdrException e) {", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the method declared after taskStatus to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does call messages.poll(...) -- if this fails, the
+        // anchors above moved and the assertions below would otherwise pass on nothing.
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("messages.poll("),
+                "control failed: the scraped taskStatus block contains no messages.poll( call at all "
+                        + "-- the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("caller.terminal()"),
+                "the taskStatus route must thread the resolved caller's terminal into messages.poll(...), "
+                        + "not the no-check overload -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("ctx.attribute(CALLER)"),
+                "the taskStatus route must resolve its caller the same way allow(...) does, not via a "
+                        + "second, separate resolution path -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code GET /sessions/{id}/status} must resolve its caller the same way {@code allow(...)}
+     * does and thread that terminal into {@link MessageService#pendingAsk(String, String)}, not
+     * the no-check overload that ignores who is asking.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theSessionStatusRouteActuallyThreadsTheCallersTerminalIntoPendingAsk() throws Exception {
+        String source = Files.readString(REST_SOURCE);
+
+        int start = source.indexOf("private void sessionStatus(Context ctx) {");
+        assertTrue(start >= 0, "could not find sessionStatus in " + REST_SOURCE
+                + " -- the scrape has stopped matching, fix the anchor before trusting this test");
+        int end = source.indexOf("private void taskStatus(Context ctx) {", start);
+        assertTrue(end > start, "could not find the method declared after sessionStatus to bound the scrape");
+        String handlerBlock = source.substring(start, end);
+
+        // CONTROL: the block we scraped really does call messages.pendingAsk(...) -- if this fails,
+        // the anchors above moved and the assertions below would otherwise pass on nothing.
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("messages.pendingAsk("),
+                "control failed: the scraped sessionStatus block contains no messages.pendingAsk( "
+                        + "call at all -- the anchors have drifted, this test is not testing what it claims to");
+
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("caller.terminal()"),
+                "the sessionStatus route must thread the resolved caller's terminal into "
+                        + "messages.pendingAsk(...), not the no-check overload -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+        assertTrue(handlerBlock.contains("ctx.attribute(CALLER)"),
+                "the sessionStatus route must resolve its caller the same way allow(...) does, not via "
+                        + "a second, separate resolution path -- block: " + handlerBlock);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code GET /tasks/{ticket}} refuses a worker whose terminal did not create the ticket,
+     * while the creating worker and the unnamed primary both still read it. The ticket is minted
+     * directly on the shared {@link MessageService}, the same way {@code MessageServiceTest}
+     * drives {@link MessageService#poll(String, String)}, so this exercises only the REST poll
+     * route's own handling of the ownership already recorded on the ticket.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void restPollRefusesADifferentWorkerButAllowsTheCreatorAndTheUnnamedPrimary() throws Exception {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        AgentControl agents = new AgentControl(herdr);
+        Injector injector = new Injector(agents);
+        MessageService messages = new MessageService(agents, injector, new Rendezvous());
+
+        Javalin creatorApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID); // -> term_a
+        Javalin otherWorkerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 9001L);             // -> term_shell
+        Javalin primaryApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 999_999L);              // no pane -> primary
+        try {
+            String ticket = messages.sendAsync("term_a", "long task", null, "term_a");
+
+            HttpResponse<String> refused = send(otherWorkerApp.port(), "GET", "/tasks/" + ticket, null, null);
+            assertEquals(200, refused.statusCode());
+            assertTrue(refused.body().contains("forbidden"),
+                    "a different worker's terminal must be refused, not shown the ticket: " + refused.body());
+            assertFalse(refused.body().contains("\"reply\""),
+                    "a refusal must never carry reply text: " + refused.body());
+
+            HttpResponse<String> own = send(creatorApp.port(), "GET", "/tasks/" + ticket, null, null);
+            assertEquals(200, own.statusCode());
+            assertFalse(own.body().contains("forbidden"),
+                    "the creating worker must read its own ticket: " + own.body());
+
+            HttpResponse<String> primary = send(primaryApp.port(), "GET", "/tasks/" + ticket, null, null);
+            assertEquals(200, primary.statusCode());
+            assertFalse(primary.body().contains("forbidden"),
+                    "the unnamed primary must read any ticket: " + primary.body());
+        } finally {
+            creatorApp.stop();
+            otherWorkerApp.stop();
+            primaryApp.stop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message} with {@code wait:false} must record the creating
+     * caller's own terminal on the ticket it returns, so that caller can still poll its own
+     * ticket over REST, while a different terminal is refused.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void restSendAsyncRecordsTheCreatingCallersTerminalSoItCanStillPollItsOwnTicket() throws Exception {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        AgentControl agents = new AgentControl(herdr);
+        Injector injector = new Injector(agents);
+        MessageService messages = new MessageService(agents, injector, new Rendezvous());
+
+        Javalin leadApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID, Map.of("term_a", "lead-x"));
+        Javalin otherWorkerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 9001L); // -> term_shell
+        try {
+            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+            HttpResponse<String> created = send(leadApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_a/message",
+                    "{\"content\":\"long task\",\"wait\":false}", null);
+            assertEquals(202, created.statusCode(), created.body());
+            String ticket = mapper.readTree(created.body()).path("ticket").asText(null);
+            assertNotNull(ticket, "the accepted response carried no ticket: " + created.body());
+
+            HttpResponse<String> own = send(leadApp.port(), "GET", "/tasks/" + ticket, null, null);
+            assertEquals(200, own.statusCode());
+            assertFalse(own.body().contains("forbidden"),
+                    "the session that created the ticket over REST must be able to poll it: " + own.body());
+
+            HttpResponse<String> refused = send(otherWorkerApp.port(), "GET", "/tasks/" + ticket, null, null);
+            assertEquals(200, refused.statusCode());
+            assertTrue(refused.body().contains("forbidden: this ticket was created by a different session"),
+                    "a different terminal must still be refused with the ownership detail, not some "
+                            + "other rejection: " + refused.body());
+        } finally {
+            leadApp.stop();
+            otherWorkerApp.stop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code GET /sessions/{id}/status} shows a worker's pending {@code fleet_ask} question, its
+     * {@code turnId} and its ticket only to the caller whose terminal created that delegation, or
+     * to a caller with no terminal at all (the unnamed primary) — a different terminal-bearing
+     * caller still sees the base status line, but none of the pending-ask fields.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void restStatusGatesThePendingAskFieldsByTheDelegationsCreatorTerminal() throws Exception {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        AgentControl agents = new AgentControl(herdr);
+        Injector injector = new Injector(agents);
+        Rendezvous rendezvous = new Rendezvous();
+        MessageService messages = new MessageService(agents, injector, rendezvous);
+
+        Javalin creatorApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID); // -> term_a
+        Javalin otherWorkerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 9001L);             // -> term_shell
+        Javalin primaryApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 999_999L);              // no pane -> primary
+        try {
+            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+            String ticket = messages.sendAsync("term_target", "task that asks", null, "term_a");
+            long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            }
+            assertTrue(rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target"), "sendAsync should have opened its rendezvous waiter");
+
+            CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                    () -> messages.ask("term_target", "which config file?", 5000));
+
+            MessageService.TaskView asking;
+            deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            do {
+                asking = messages.poll(ticket, null);
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            } while (asking.phase() != MessageService.Phase.ASKING && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline);
+            assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, asking.phase());
+            String turnId = asking.turnId();
+
+            JsonNode other = mapper.readTree(
+                    send(otherWorkerApp.port(), "GET", "/sessions/term_target/status", null, null).body());
+            assertEquals("idle", other.get("status").asText(), "the base status must still be shown");
+            assertFalse(other.has("question"), "a non-creating caller must not see the question: " + other);
+            assertFalse(other.has("turnId"), "a non-creating caller must not see the turnId: " + other);
+            assertFalse(other.has("ticket"), "a non-creating caller must not see the ticket: " + other);
+
+            JsonNode own = mapper.readTree(
+                    send(creatorApp.port(), "GET", "/sessions/term_target/status", null, null).body());
+            assertEquals("which config file?", own.get("question").asText(), "the creator must see the question");
+            assertEquals(turnId, own.get("turnId").asText(), "the creator must see the turnId");
+            assertEquals(ticket, own.get("ticket").asText(), "the creator must see the ticket");
+
+            JsonNode primary = mapper.readTree(
+                    send(primaryApp.port(), "GET", "/sessions/term_target/status", null, null).body());
+            assertEquals("which config file?", primary.get("question").asText(),
+                    "a caller with no terminal (the unnamed primary) must see the question");
+
+            // Clean up the still-open ask so the background thread does not linger past the test.
+            CompletableFuture<MessageService.Reply> answer = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                    () -> messages.answer(turnId, "config.yaml", 5000, "term_a"));
+            assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+            deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            }
+            assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve("term_target", "done"));
+            answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        } finally {
+            creatorApp.stop();
+            otherWorkerApp.stop();
+            primaryApp.stop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message} with a {@code turnId} refuses a caller whose terminal
+     * did not open the turn, even when that caller otherwise holds ANSWER rights, and leaves the
+     * turn open for the real owner to resolve. Covers the REST adapter's ANSWER gate for an
+     * async-send ({@code wait:false}) delegation.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void restAnswerIsRefusedForADifferentCallerOnAnAsyncSendDelegationButTheRealOwnerSucceeds() throws Exception {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        AgentControl agents = new AgentControl(herdr);
+        Injector injector = new Injector(agents);
+        Rendezvous rendezvous = new Rendezvous();
+        MessageService messages = new MessageService(agents, injector, rendezvous);
+
+        Javalin ownerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID, Map.of("term_a", "lead-owner"));
+        Javalin attackerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 9001L, Map.of("term_shell", "lead-attacker"));
+        try {
+            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+            HttpResponse<String> created = send(ownerApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_target/message",
+                    "{\"content\":\"long task\",\"wait\":false}", null);
+            assertEquals(202, created.statusCode(), created.body());
+            String ticket = mapper.readTree(created.body()).path("ticket").asText(null);
+            assertNotNull(ticket, "the accepted response carried no ticket: " + created.body());
+
+            long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            }
+            assertTrue(rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target"), "the async send should have opened its rendezvous waiter");
+
+            CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                    () -> messages.ask("term_target", "which config file?", 5000));
+
+            MessageService.TaskView asking;
+            deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            do {
+                asking = messages.poll(ticket, null);
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            } while (asking.phase() != MessageService.Phase.ASKING && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline);
+            assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, asking.phase());
+            String turnId = asking.turnId();
+
+            HttpResponse<String> hijacked = send(attackerApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_target/message",
+                    "{\"content\":\"hijack\",\"turnId\":\"" + turnId + "\"}", null);
+            assertEquals(403, hijacked.statusCode(), hijacked.body());
+            assertTrue(hijacked.body().contains("not_turn_owner"),
+                    "a different caller's answer must be refused as not_turn_owner: " + hijacked.body());
+            assertEquals("term_target", rendezvous.askSession(turnId),
+                    "a refused answer must leave the ask turn open");
+
+            CompletableFuture<HttpResponse<String>> owned = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> {
+                try {
+                    return send(ownerApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_target/message",
+                            "{\"content\":\"config.yaml\",\"turnId\":\"" + turnId + "\"}", null);
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+            });
+            assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+            deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            }
+            assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve("term_target", "done"));
+            HttpResponse<String> ownedResponse = owned.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+            assertEquals(200, ownedResponse.statusCode(), ownedResponse.body());
+            assertEquals("done", mapper.readTree(ownedResponse.body()).path("reply").asText(null),
+                    "the real owner's answer must resolve the worker's turn");
+        } finally {
+            ownerApp.stop();
+            attackerApp.stop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As above, but the delegation is a blocking send ({@code wait:true}) instead of a ticket —
+     * the owning caller's own HTTP request is the one that surfaces the worker's question and
+     * later carries the real answer. Covers the REST adapter's ANSWER gate for a blocking-send
+     * delegation.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void restAnswerIsRefusedForADifferentCallerOnABlockingSendDelegationButTheRealOwnerSucceeds() throws Exception {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        AgentControl agents = new AgentControl(herdr);
+        Injector injector = new Injector(agents);
+        Rendezvous rendezvous = new Rendezvous();
+        MessageService messages = new MessageService(agents, injector, rendezvous);
+
+        Javalin ownerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID, Map.of("term_a", "lead-owner"));
+        Javalin attackerApp = startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, 9001L, Map.of("term_shell", "lead-attacker"));
+        try {
+            ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+            CompletableFuture<HttpResponse<String>> blocking = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> {
+                try {
+                    return send(ownerApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_target/message",
+                            "{\"content\":\"long task\",\"wait\":true,\"timeoutMs\":5000}", null);
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+            });
+
+            long deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            }
+            assertTrue(rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target"), "the blocking send should have opened its rendezvous waiter");
+
+            CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(
+                    () -> messages.ask("term_target", "which config file?", 5000));
+
+            HttpResponse<String> questionResponse = blocking.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+            assertEquals(202, questionResponse.statusCode(), questionResponse.body());
+            JsonNode question = mapper.readTree(questionResponse.body());
+            assertEquals("question", question.get("status").asText());
+            String turnId = question.get("turnId").asText();
+
+            HttpResponse<String> hijacked = send(attackerApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_target/message",
+                    "{\"content\":\"hijack\",\"turnId\":\"" + turnId + "\"}", null);
+            assertEquals(403, hijacked.statusCode(), hijacked.body());
+            assertTrue(hijacked.body().contains("not_turn_owner"),
+                    "a different caller's answer must be refused as not_turn_owner: " + hijacked.body());
+            assertEquals("term_target", rendezvous.askSession(turnId),
+                    "a refused answer must leave the ask turn open");
+
+            CompletableFuture<HttpResponse<String>> owned = CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> {
+                try {
+                    return send(ownerApp.port(), "POST", "/sessions/term_target/message",
+                            "{\"content\":\"config.yaml\",\"turnId\":\"" + turnId + "\"}", null);
+                } catch (Exception e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+            });
+            assertEquals("config.yaml", ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).answer());
+            deadline = System.currentTimeMillis() + 3000;
+            while (!rendezvous.isWaiting("term_target") && System.currentTimeMillis() < deadline) {
+                Thread.sleep(5);
+            }
+            assertTrue(rendezvous.resolve("term_target", "done"));
+            HttpResponse<String> ownedResponse = owned.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+            assertEquals(200, ownedResponse.statusCode(), ownedResponse.body());
+            assertEquals("done", mapper.readTree(ownedResponse.body()).path("reply").asText(null),
+                    "the real owner's answer must resolve the worker's turn");
+        } finally {
+            ownerApp.stop();
+            attackerApp.stop();
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As {@link #start}, but shares {@code messages} and {@code herdr} across several app
+     * instances bound to different pids, each returned as its own started {@link Javalin} rather
+     * than through the shared {@code app} field, so several differently-resolved callers can
+     * poll the same ticket.
+     */
+    private Javalin startOnSharedService(MessageService messages, FakeHerdr herdr, long pid) {
+        return startOnSharedService(messages, herdr, pid, Map.of());
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As {@link #startOnSharedService(MessageService, FakeHerdr, long)}, but {@code leadTerminals}
+     * resolves the given pid's terminal to a named lead (a caller with SEND permission) instead of
+     * a plain worker, for a test that needs a terminal-bearing caller able to create a ticket.
+     */
+    private Javalin startOnSharedService(MessageService messages, FakeHerdr herdr, long pid,
+            Map<String, String> leadTerminals) {
+        FleetConfig.Profile wcfg = new FleetConfig.Profile(
+                "ltms-local", "http://gx00.gw:8000", "coder", null, "FLEETD_WORKER_TOKEN", null,
+                "tab", "fleetd-workers", "worker: {profile} #{n}", null, null, null);
+        AgentControl agents = new AgentControl(herdr);
+        ClaudeCodeLauncher workers = new ClaudeCodeLauncher(
+                agents, new WorkspaceControl(herdr), new SubscriptionGuard(Set.of("gx00.gw")),
+                Map.of(wcfg.profile(), wcfg), wcfg.profile(),
+                k -> "FLEETD_WORKER_TOKEN".equals(k) ? "tok-abc" : null);
+        SessionManager sessions = new SessionManager(workers, new FakeWorktrees());
+        ConnectionIdentity identity = new ConnectionIdentity(new PaneLocator(herdr), _ -> pid);
+        CallerResolver callers = CallerResolver.withLeadsAndMembers(identity, false, null,
+                () -> leadTerminals, new MemberRegistry(null));
+        Metrics appMetrics = FleetMetrics.create(sessions, new dev.ltms.fleet.msg.InMemoryReplyInbox());
+
+        return new FleetApp(herdr, workers, sessions, messages, sessions.asPresence(), null,
+                callers, appMetrics).build().start("127.0.0.1", 0);
+    }
+
     /**
      * 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

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/session/SessionManagerTest.java

@@ -2436,4 +2436,160 @@ class SessionManagerTest {
             return "threw:" + e.getClass().getName() + ":" + e.getMessage();
         }
     }
+
+    // --- fleetd #702: spawnedMemberRole must still answer for a pane mid-teardown ----------------
+
+    /**
+     * A {@link Worktrees} test double whose {@code hasUncommitted} runs an injected hook before
+     * answering. This is what lets a test resolve a releasing pane's terminal from inside the
+     * window {@link SessionManager#release} opens between removing the registry entry and
+     * actually stopping the pane — the hook runs synchronously on the release call's own thread,
+     * at the exact point {@code release} shells out to {@code git status}, so there is no sleep
+     * and no race to land in it.
+     */
+    private static final class HookedWorktrees implements Worktrees {
+        private Runnable hook;
+        private boolean dirty = false;
+
+        HookedWorktrees onHasUncommitted(Runnable hook) {
+            this.hook = hook;
+            return this;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String add(String repoRoot, String branch, String baseRef) {
+            return "/wt/" + branch.replace('/', '_');
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void remove(String repoRoot, String worktreePath) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void deleteBranch(String repoRoot, String branch) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public boolean hasUncommitted(String worktreePath) {
+            if (hook != null) {
+                hook.run();
+            }
+            return dirty;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void overlayParity(String repoRoot, String worktreePath, List<String> overlay) {
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public String repoRoot(String cwd) {
+            return "/repo";
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public java.util.Optional<String> snapshot(String worktreePath, String branch, String message) {
+            return java.util.Optional.empty();
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public WipRefStats wipRefs(String repoRoot) {
+            return new WipRefStats(0, 0L);
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public int pruneWipRefs(String repoRoot, long minAgeMillis) {
+            return 0;
+        }
+
+        @Override
+        public void shareWithGroup(String repoRoot, String worktreePath) {
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void spawnedMemberRoleResolvesTheLiveRegisteredRole() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        SessionManager sessions = sessionManager(herdr);
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", null, "/caller", null);
+
+        assertEquals(s.role(), sessions.spawnedMemberRole(s.terminalId()),
+                "a registered session resolves to its own role");
+        assertNull(sessions.spawnedMemberRole("term_unknown"),
+                "a terminal with no session at all resolves to null");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void spawnedMemberRoleIsNullOnceReleaseFullyCompletes() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        SessionManager sessions = sessionManager(herdr, new HookedWorktrees());
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", null, "/caller/proj", null,
+                new WorktreeRequest("fleetd-702a", null));
+
+        sessions.release(s.paneId());
+
+        assertNull(sessions.spawnedMemberRole(s.terminalId()),
+                "once release has fully finished, the terminal is neither registered nor releasing");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void spawnedMemberRoleStillAnswersBetweenTheRegistryRemovalAndThePaneStop() {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference<MemberRole> duringWindow = new java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference<>();
+        HookedWorktrees worktrees = new HookedWorktrees();
+        SessionManager sessions = sessionManager(herdr, worktrees);
+        MemberSession s = sessions.acquire("ltms-local", null, "/caller/proj", null,
+                new WorktreeRequest("fleetd-702b", null));
+        worktrees.onHasUncommitted(() -> {
+            // This runs from INSIDE release()'s git-status shell-out: the registry entry is
+            // already gone, but the pane has not stopped yet — a real call landing inside the
+            // exact window fleetd #702 reports, so no sleep and no race is needed to reach it.
+            assertTrue(sessions.get(s.paneId()).isEmpty(),
+                    "sanity: the registry entry is already gone at this point");
+            duringWindow.set(sessions.spawnedMemberRole(s.terminalId()));
+        });
+
+        sessions.release(s.paneId());
+
+        assertEquals(s.role(), duringWindow.get(),
+                "spawnedMemberRole must still answer the live role while the pane is mid-teardown, "
+                        + "not only while the session is still in the registry");
+        assertNull(sessions.spawnedMemberRole(s.terminalId()),
+                "and once release has fully finished, the window is closed too");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * {@code Releasing.enter} and {@code Releasing.leave} are called directly here, never through
+     * {@link SessionManager#release} or {@link SessionManager#spawnedMemberRole}, so a test naming
+     * one of them exercises only that one — a regression in the other can never hide behind it.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void releasingLeaveStepsDownADepthGreaterThanOneInsteadOfRemovingIt() {
+        SessionManager.Releasing depthTwo = new SessionManager.Releasing(2, "term_a", MemberRole.DEV);
+
+        SessionManager.Releasing afterLeave = depthTwo.leave();
+
+        assertNotNull(afterLeave,
+                "depth 2 means another release of the SAME pane is still mid-teardown; leave() must "
+                        + "step the depth down, never remove the marker outright — removing it here "
+                        + "is what a plain Set would do, and would reopen the window the still-in-"
+                        + "flight release is relying on staying closed");
+        assertEquals(1, afterLeave.depth());
+        assertEquals("term_a", afterLeave.terminalId());
+        assertEquals(MemberRole.DEV, afterLeave.role());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void releasingEnterPreservesThePriorTerminalWhenTheOverlappingCallHasNoSessionOfItsOwn() {
+        SessionManager.Releasing prior = new SessionManager.Releasing(1, "term_a", MemberRole.DEV);
+
+        SessionManager.Releasing afterEnter = SessionManager.Releasing.enter(prior, null);
+
+        assertEquals(2, afterEnter.depth(), "depth still increments whether or not this enter knows its session");
+        assertEquals("term_a", afterEnter.terminalId(),
+                "an overlapping release that finds the registry entry already gone has no session of "
+                        + "its own to pass as known, and must not blank out the terminal the first "
+                        + "call already recorded — that terminal is what spawnedMemberRole matches "
+                        + "against");
+        assertEquals(MemberRole.DEV, afterEnter.role());
+    }
 }