fleetd #692: bound the unbounded userinfo mask at redact()'s line 273

redact()'s final fallthrough still used the unbounded [^@]* class #638
removed from the verdict-line masker, so a diff line with a URL that has
no userinfo plus a later @ elsewhere had its text between them silently
deleted. Share one bounded implementation, mask_url_userinfo(), between
redact() and mask_verdict_userinfo() so the bound lives in one place.

.claude/skills/handover/SKILL.md

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

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

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

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

@@ -1129,11 +1129,8 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      *                            {@code tab} can never be discovered, launched or not
      * @param instances           how many of this lead should be live (default 1). The daemon
      *                            launches only the shortfall, so a restart adopts rather than doubles
-     * @param tabPrefix           no longer used to find a lead's tab — {@code tab} is matched
-     *                            exactly. Its only remaining job is the startup collision guard
-     *                            ({@link #validateLeadTabPrefixes()}), which still uses it to refuse
-     *                            a worker {@code tabLabel} template that could be misread as a lead.
-     *                            Default {@code "lead:"}
+     * @param tabPrefix           lead-tab naming convention checked against member labels. Lead
+     *                            identity uses {@code tab}. Default {@code "lead:"}
      * @param scanIntervalSeconds how long a tab scan is cached before herdr is asked again; also the
      *                            worst case before a newly-labelled tab is recognised. Default 10
      * @param kind                which agent runs there ({@code claude}, {@code opencode}, …)
@@ -1236,10 +1233,7 @@ public record FleetConfig(
                         String tabLabel) {
 
         /**
-         * Role first, so the tab bar reads as the fleet and so the label shares a namespace with a
-         * lead's {@code tabPrefix}. Because {@code {role}} comes from a closed enum, a generated
-         * member label can never begin with {@code "lead:"} — the clash that
-         * {@link #validateLeadTabPrefixes()} used to have to check for is unrepresentable here.
+         * Role first, so the tab bar identifies the member's fleet role.
          */
         public static final String DEFAULT_TAB_LABEL = "{role}: {profile} #{n}";
 
@@ -1399,11 +1393,13 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * called FROM the calling lead's own turn, so its pane is still {@code WORKING} the instant
      * {@code confirm()} validates every gate and schedules the roll. {@code
      * dev.ltms.fleet.lead.LeadRollover}'s deferred continuation waits up to this many seconds for
-     * that SAME pane to report an injectable state again — i.e. for the calling turn to actually
-     * end — before it sends {@code /clear} at all. If that wait times out, no {@code /clear} is
+     * that SAME pane to report {@code IDLE} or {@code DONE} — i.e. for the calling turn to actually
+     * end — before it sends {@code /clear} at all. {@code BLOCKED} does not count: that is a live
+     * turn merely paused, not one that has finished. If that wait times out, no {@code /clear} is
      * ever sent: a lead that never goes idle is still doing real work, and clearing it would
      * destroy live context. This is a separate wait from {@code clearSettleSeconds} below, which
-     * bounds the SECOND wait, for the pane to re-settle AFTER {@code /clear} has already gone out.
+     * bounds the SECOND wait, for the pane to reach {@code IDLE} or {@code DONE} again AFTER
+     * {@code /clear} has already gone out.
      *
      * @param handoverPath required when this block is present — where the handover file a fresh
      *                     lead session reads must live. There is no sane non-null default for an
@@ -1422,12 +1418,13 @@ public record FleetConfig(
      * @param maxDocAgeSeconds default 3600 — refuse a handover file whose modified time is older
      *                     than this many seconds, so a stale leftover from an earlier rollover
      *                     attempt can never be mistaken for a fresh one.
-     * @param turnSettleSeconds default 20 — bound on how long the deferred roll waits for the
-     *                     CALLING lead's own turn to end (its pane to report injectable again)
-     *                     before sending {@code /clear} at all. See the paragraph above.
+     * @param turnSettleSeconds default 300 — bound on how long the deferred roll waits for the
+     *                     CALLING lead's own turn to end (its pane to report {@code IDLE} or
+     *                     {@code DONE}) before sending {@code /clear} at all. See the paragraph
+     *                     above.
      * @param clearSettleSeconds default 20 — bound on how long to wait for the lead's pane to
-     *                     report an injectable state again after {@code /clear} before giving up. A
-     *                     roll that times out here never sends {@code bootstrapText}.
+     *                     report {@code IDLE} or {@code DONE} again after {@code /clear} before
+     *                     giving up. A roll that times out here never sends {@code bootstrapText}.
      * @param bootstrapText default a sentence naming the RESOLVED handover path — sent to the
      *                     lead's pane once it settles after {@code /clear}, telling the fresh
      *                     session where to read the handover and carry on. Left {@code null} here
@@ -1444,7 +1441,7 @@ public record FleetConfig(
         public LeadRollover {
             requireOperatorConfirm = requireOperatorConfirm == null || requireOperatorConfirm;
             maxDocAgeSeconds = (maxDocAgeSeconds == null || maxDocAgeSeconds <= 0) ? 3600 : maxDocAgeSeconds;
-            turnSettleSeconds = (turnSettleSeconds == null || turnSettleSeconds <= 0) ? 20 : turnSettleSeconds;
+            turnSettleSeconds = (turnSettleSeconds == null || turnSettleSeconds <= 0) ? 300 : turnSettleSeconds;
             clearSettleSeconds = (clearSettleSeconds == null || clearSettleSeconds <= 0) ? 20 : clearSettleSeconds;
             bootstrapText = (bootstrapText == null || bootstrapText.isBlank()) ? null : bootstrapText;
         }
@@ -2682,28 +2679,14 @@ public record FleetConfig(
     }
 
     /**
-     * Reject a lead-scan convention that a worker tab would also satisfy (CB-531).
+     * Reject a member tab-label template that could render as a configured lead tab or match a
+     * lead-tab naming convention, and reject two {@code fleet.leaders} entries that share one exact
+     * tab.
      *
-     * <p>The scan reads a tab label and concludes "a lead lives here". fleetd also <em>writes</em>
-     * tab labels — every member gets one rendered into its tab. Choose a lead {@code tabPrefix} that
-     * a member template matches and the daemon starts labelling its own members as leads, promoting
-     * the entire fleet to {@link dev.ltms.fleet.auth.Role#PRIMARY} with no message and no diff.
-     * {@link #validatePanePlacementAgainstLeadTabs()} is the check that stops a pane-placed member
-     * from landing inside a lead's tab in the first place; this check is a second, independent
-     * guard that catches the hazard even when every profile places members correctly, by refusing
-     * a label that a scan would still misread as a lead.
-     *
-     * <p>CB-557 shrank this check rather than removing it. The default template is
-     * {@code "{role}: {profile} #{n}"} and {@code {role}} comes from a closed enum, so a
-     * <em>generated</em> label can no longer collide by construction. What remains checkable is what
-     * an operator still writes by hand: the {@code fleet.tabLabel} template and any per-profile
-     * {@code tabLabel} override.
-     *
-     * <p>Fatal rather than a warning, unlike {@link #warnUnknownTopLevelKeys}: an unknown key means
-     * a feature does nothing, while this means a feature does the opposite of what it says.
-     *
-     * @throws IllegalStateException when the fleet template or any profile's {@code tabLabel}
-     *                               override starts with a configured lead prefix
+     * @throws IllegalStateException when the fleet template or a profile {@code tabLabel} override
+     *                               can render as a configured lead tab or match a lead-tab prefix,
+     *                               or when two {@code fleet.leaders} entries carry the same exact
+     *                               {@code tab} (case-insensitively)
      */
     public void validateLeadTabPrefixes() {
         if (fleet == null || fleet.leaders().isEmpty()) {
@@ -2714,28 +2697,90 @@ public record FleetConfig(
             if (leader == null) {
                 return;
             }
+            String tab = leader.tab();
             String prefix = leader.tabPrefix();
-            // The fleet-wide template is checked once per prefix: it labels every member that has no
-            // override, so one bad template promotes the entire fleet, not one profile.
-            if (startsWithIgnoreCase(fleet.tabLabel(), prefix)) {
+            if (templateCanRenderAs(fleet.tabLabel(), tab)) {
+                bad.add("fleet.tabLabel=\"" + fleet.tabLabel() + "\" can render as the tab of "
+                        + "lead '" + leadName + "' (\"" + tab + "\")");
+            } else if (startsWithIgnoreCase(fleet.tabLabel(), prefix)) {
                 bad.add("fleet.tabLabel=\"" + fleet.tabLabel() + "\" starts with the tabPrefix of "
                         + "lead '" + leadName + "' (\"" + prefix + "\")");
             }
             profiles().entrySet().stream()
-                    .filter(e -> startsWithIgnoreCase(e.getValue().tabLabel(), prefix))
                     .map(Map.Entry::getKey)
                     .sorted()
-                    .forEach(p -> bad.add("profile '" + p + "' overrides tabLabel with \""
-                            + profiles().get(p).tabLabel() + "\", which starts with the tabPrefix of "
-                            + "lead '" + leadName + "' (\"" + prefix + "\")"));
+                    .forEach(p -> {
+                        String label = profiles().get(p).tabLabel();
+                        if (templateCanRenderAs(label, tab)) {
+                            bad.add("profile '" + p + "' overrides tabLabel with \"" + label
+                                    + "\", which can render as the tab of lead '" + leadName
+                                    + "' (\"" + tab + "\")");
+                        } else if (startsWithIgnoreCase(label, prefix)) {
+                            bad.add("profile '" + p + "' overrides tabLabel with \"" + label
+                                    + "\", which starts with the tabPrefix of lead '" + leadName
+                                    + "' (\"" + prefix + "\")");
+                        }
+                    });
         });
-        if (bad.isEmpty()) {
+        if (!bad.isEmpty()) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: " + String.join("; ", bad)
+                    + ". Every member labelled that way would be read back as a lead and granted "
+                    + "spawn/stop/send on the whole fleet. Change one of the two so member tabs "
+                    + "and lead tabs cannot be confused.");
+        }
+
+        List<String> collisions = new ArrayList<>();
+        List<String> leadNames = fleet.leaders().keySet().stream().sorted().toList();
+        for (int i = 0; i < leadNames.size(); i++) {
+            String nameA = leadNames.get(i);
+            Leader a = fleet.leaders().get(nameA);
+            if (a == null || a.tab() == null || a.tab().isBlank()) {
+                continue;
+            }
+            for (int j = i + 1; j < leadNames.size(); j++) {
+                String nameB = leadNames.get(j);
+                Leader b = fleet.leaders().get(nameB);
+                if (b == null || b.tab() == null || b.tab().isBlank()) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (a.tab().equalsIgnoreCase(b.tab())) {
+                    collisions.add("lead '" + nameA + "' and lead '" + nameB + "' both use tab \""
+                            + a.tab() + "\"");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+        if (collisions.isEmpty()) {
             return;
         }
-        throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: " + String.join("; ", bad)
-                + ". Every member labelled that way would be read back as a lead and granted "
-                + "spawn/stop/send on the whole fleet. Change one of the two so member tabs and "
-                + "lead tabs cannot be confused.");
+        throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: " + String.join("; ", collisions)
+                + ". Tab identity is matched exactly, so only one of two leads sharing a tab can "
+                + "ever be found — the other is silently unreachable. Give each lead its own "
+                + "exact tab.");
+    }
+
+    private static boolean templateCanRenderAs(String template, String tab) {
+        if (template == null || template.isBlank() || tab == null || tab.isBlank()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        var placeholders = Pattern.compile("\\{(?:role|profile|model|n)}").matcher(template);
+        StringBuilder expression = new StringBuilder("^");
+        int literalStart = 0;
+        while (placeholders.find()) {
+            expression.append(Pattern.quote(template.substring(literalStart, placeholders.start())));
+            expression.append(".*");
+            literalStart = placeholders.end();
+        }
+        expression.append(Pattern.quote(template.substring(literalStart))).append("$");
+        return Pattern.compile(expression.toString(), Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE).matcher(tab).matches();
+    }
+
+    /** Case-insensitive prefix test that tolerates a null or blank label. */
+    private static boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(String label, String prefix) {
+        if (label == null || prefix == null || prefix.isBlank()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        String stripped = label.strip();
+        return stripped.regionMatches(true, 0, prefix, 0, prefix.length());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -2797,15 +2842,6 @@ public record FleetConfig(
         }
     }
 
-    /** Case-insensitive prefix test that tolerates a null/blank label. */
-    private static boolean startsWithIgnoreCase(String label, String prefix) {
-        if (label == null || prefix == null || prefix.isBlank()) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        String stripped = label.strip();
-        return stripped.regionMatches(true, 0, prefix, 0, prefix.length());
-    }
-
     /**
      * Reject a subscription profile whose {@code env:} block tries to reseat the Anthropic binding
      * (CB-542).

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

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

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

@@ -49,22 +49,52 @@ import java.util.stream.Collectors;
  */
 public final class FleetApp {
 
-    /** The authorization action the matching route handler hands to {@link #allow}. */
+    /**
+     * The authorization action the matching route handler hands to {@link #allow}, for a route
+     * whose action does not depend on the request body.
+     */
     static Authz.Action routeAction(String route) {
+        return routeAction(route, null);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As above, plus the one route whose action depends on the body: {@code POST
+     * /sessions/{id}/message} carries a {@code turnId} (the answer-a-blocked-worker shape) or not
+     * (a plain delivery), mirroring {@code FleetMcp#sendAction}'s split of the same two call
+     * shapes over MCP. {@code turnId} is ignored by every other route.
+     *
+     * @param turnId the request body's {@code turnId}, or {@code null}/blank when absent or not
+     *               applicable to this route
+     */
+    static Authz.Action routeAction(String route, String turnId) {
         return switch (route) {
             case "GET /metrics" -> Authz.Action.METRICS;
             case "POST /members" -> Authz.Action.SPAWN;
             case "DELETE /members/{paneId}" -> Authz.Action.STOP;
-            case "POST /sessions/{id}/message" -> Authz.Action.SEND;
+            case "POST /sessions/{id}/message" -> turnId == null || turnId.isBlank()
+                    ? Authz.Action.SEND : Authz.Action.ANSWER;
             case "POST /sessions/{id}/reply" -> Authz.Action.REPLY;
             case "GET /sessions/{id}/replies" -> Authz.Action.DRAIN;
             case "POST /sessions/{id}/ask" -> Authz.Action.ASK;
             case "GET /sessions", "GET /agents", "GET /members", "GET /profiles",
-                    "GET /member-credentials", "GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}" -> Authz.Action.READ;
+                    "GET /member-credentials" -> Authz.Action.READ;
+            case "GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}" -> Authz.Action.TASK_READ;
             default -> throw new IllegalArgumentException("route has no authorization gate: " + route);
         };
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The second gate for {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message}: checked only when {@code turnId}
+     * is present and non-blank, against {@link Authz.Action#ANSWER}. A request with no {@code
+     * turnId} passes this gate unconditionally, without consulting {@code permit} at all, having
+     * already cleared the coarse {@link Authz.Action#SEND} grant checked ahead of it.
+     *
+     * @param permit reports whether the caller holds the named grant
+     */
+    static boolean answerGatePasses(String turnId, Predicate<Authz.Action> permit) {
+        return turnId == null || turnId.isBlank() || permit.test(Authz.Action.ANSWER);
+    }
+
     /** Default blocking window for a message; kept under typical HTTP idle timeouts. */
     private static final long DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MS = 25_000;
     private static final long MAX_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MS = 120_000;
@@ -250,7 +280,8 @@ public final class FleetApp {
         }
         Principal caller = ctx.attribute(CALLER);
         if (Authz.permits(caller, action, target)) {
-            if (action != Authz.Action.READ && action != Authz.Action.METRICS) {
+            if (action != Authz.Action.READ && action != Authz.Action.METRICS
+                    && action != Authz.Action.TASK_READ) {
                 AuditLog.allowed(caller, action, target); // reads would drown the trail
             }
             return true;
@@ -603,26 +634,37 @@ public final class FleetApp {
      * status-gated injector and block until the worker returns a structured {@code fleet_reply}.
      * Times out with a typed 202 (working / queued / busy) rather than an error — the message may
      * still land.
+     *
+     * <p>Two call shapes share this route, exactly as {@code fleet_send} does over MCP (see
+     * {@code FleetMcp#sendAction}): a plain delivery to {@code id}, and -- when the body carries
+     * {@code turnId} -- resolving a worker's blocked question. The coarse {@link
+     * Authz.Action#SEND} grant is checked first, before the body is read at all; only once that
+     * passes is the body parsed, and a present {@code turnId} is then checked again against
+     * {@link Authz.Action#ANSWER}. A body that fails to parse is rejected with 400 and reaches
+     * neither {@code messages.answer} nor {@code messages.send}.
      */
     private void sendMessage(Context ctx) {
         String id = ctx.pathParam("id");
         if (!allow(ctx, routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message"), id)) {
             return;
         }
-        String content;
-        String turnId;
-        long timeout;
-        boolean wait;
+        JsonNode body;
         try {
-            JsonNode body = mapper.readTree(ctx.body());
-            content = body.path("content").asText("");
-            turnId = body.path("turnId").asText(null);
-            timeout = body.path("timeoutMs").asLong(DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
-            wait = body.path("wait").asBoolean(true); // default: block for the reply (CB-104)
+            body = mapper.readTree(ctx.body());
         } catch (Exception e) {
+            body = null;
+        }
+        if (body == null) {
             ctx.status(400).json(Map.of("error", "bad_request", "detail", "body must be JSON"));
             return;
         }
+        String turnId = body.path("turnId").asText(null);
+        if (!answerGatePasses(turnId, action -> allow(ctx, action, id))) {
+            return;
+        }
+        String content = body.path("content").asText("");
+        long timeout = body.path("timeoutMs").asLong(DEFAULT_MESSAGE_TIMEOUT_MS);
+        boolean wait = body.path("wait").asBoolean(true); // default: block for the reply (CB-104)
         if (content.isBlank()) {
             ctx.status(400).json(Map.of("error", "bad_request", "detail", "content is required"));
             return;

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

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

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

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

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

@@ -676,12 +676,8 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
         assertEquals(5, hb.quietNudgeCap());
     }
 
-    /**
-     * The hazard the guard exists for: fleetd writes worker tab labels and reads lead tab labels.
-     * Overlap the two and every worker it spawns is read back as a lead.
-     */
     @Test
-    void aLeadPrefixThatAProfileTabLabelOverrideAlsoMatchesRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir)
+    void aProfileTabLabelOverrideMatchingALeadTabRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir)
             throws Exception {
         Path f = dir.resolve("collide.yaml");
         Files.writeString(f, """
@@ -689,32 +685,33 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
                   port: 8080
                 profiles:
                   gx10:
-                    tabLabel: "lead: {profile} #{n}"
+                    tabLabel: "alpha"
                 fleet:
                   leaders:
                     opus:
-                      tab: "lead: opus"
-                      tabPrefix: "lead:"
+                      tab: "alpha"
                 """);
         FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
 
         IllegalStateException e =
                 assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, cfg::validateLeadTabPrefixes);
         assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("gx10"), "the message must name the offending profile");
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("alpha"), "the message must name the offending label");
     }
 
-    /** A bad fleet-wide template promotes every member, not one profile — so it is checked too. */
     @Test
-    void aFleetTabLabelThatMatchesALeadPrefixRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+    void aFleetTabLabelTemplateThatCanRenderAsALeadTabRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
         Path f = dir.resolve("collide-template.yaml");
         Files.writeString(f, """
                 bind:
                   port: 8080
+                profiles:
+                  pha: {}
                 fleet:
-                  tabLabel: "lead: {role} {profile}"
+                  tabLabel: "al{profile}"
                   leaders:
                     opus:
-                      tab: "lead: opus"
+                      tab: "alpha"
                 """);
         FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
 
@@ -723,12 +720,28 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
         assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("fleet.tabLabel"));
     }
 
-    /**
-     * The point of making role the label's first field: {@code {role}} comes from a closed enum, so
-     * a generated label cannot begin with {@code "lead:"} however the fleet is configured.
-     */
     @Test
-    void theDefaultTabLabelCannotCollideWithTheDefaultLeadPrefix(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+    void anExactFleetTabLabelCollisionRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("exact-tab-collision.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                bind:
+                  port: 8080
+                fleet:
+                  tabLabel: "alpha"
+                  leaders:
+                    alpha:
+                      tab: "alpha"
+                """);
+
+        IllegalStateException e = assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class,
+                () -> FleetConfig.load(f).validateAll());
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("fleet.tabLabel"),
+                "the message must name the offending label");
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("alpha"), "the message must name the colliding lead tab");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aFleetTabLabelTemplateThatCannotRenderAsALeadTabIsAllowed(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
         Path f = dir.resolve("ok.yaml");
         Files.writeString(f, """
                 bind:
@@ -737,17 +750,13 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
                   gx10:
                     baseUrl: http://gx00.gw:8000
                 fleet:
+                  tabLabel: "worker-{profile}"
                   leaders:
                     opus:
-                      tab: "lead: opus"
+                      tab: "alpha"
                 """);
 
-        assertDoesNotThrow(() -> FleetConfig.load(f).validateLeadTabPrefixes());
-        for (MemberRole role : MemberRole.values()) {
-            assertFalse(FleetConfig.Fleet.DEFAULT_TAB_LABEL
-                            .replace("{role}", role.wireName()).startsWith("lead:"),
-                    "no role renders a label that reads as a lead");
-        }
+        assertDoesNotThrow(() -> FleetConfig.load(f).validateAll());
     }
 
     @Test
@@ -765,6 +774,78 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
                 "a label that collides with a convention nobody reads is not a problem");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #677: identity is matched on a lead's exact {@code tab} alone, so two leads sharing
+     * one tab means only one of them is ever found — the guard must catch this independently of
+     * the member-template checks above.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void twoLeadsSharingTheSameExactTabRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("shared-tab.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                bind:
+                  port: 8080
+                fleet:
+                  leaders:
+                    opus:
+                      tab: "shared tab"
+                    sonnet:
+                      tab: "shared tab"
+                """);
+        FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
+
+        IllegalStateException e =
+                assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, cfg::validateLeadTabPrefixes);
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("opus"), "the message must name one offending lead");
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("sonnet"), "the message must name the other offending lead");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #693: the guard matches tabs case-insensitively, because
+     * {@code LeadTabScanner} keys its tab map on a lowercased label — two tabs differing only in
+     * case collide there too, and the guard must catch that independently of the exact-match case
+     * above.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void twoLeadsSharingTheSameTabInDifferentCaseRefusesToStart(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("shared-tab-case.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                bind:
+                  port: 8080
+                fleet:
+                  leaders:
+                    opus:
+                      tab: "Shared Tab"
+                    sonnet:
+                      tab: "shared tab"
+                """);
+        FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
+
+        IllegalStateException e =
+                assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, cfg::validateLeadTabPrefixes);
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("opus"), "the message must name one offending lead");
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("sonnet"), "the message must name the other offending lead");
+    }
+
+    /** Control for {@link #twoLeadsSharingTheSameExactTabRefusesToStart}: distinct tabs load cleanly. */
+    @Test
+    void twoLeadsWithDistinctExactTabsAreAllowed(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("distinct-tabs.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                bind:
+                  port: 8080
+                fleet:
+                  leaders:
+                    opus:
+                      tab: "opus tab"
+                    sonnet:
+                      tab: "sonnet tab"
+                """);
+        FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
+
+        assertDoesNotThrow(cfg::validateLeadTabPrefixes);
+    }
+
     // ── validatePanePlacementAgainstLeadTabs ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     /**
@@ -3175,4 +3256,41 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
         FleetConfig cfg = FleetConfig.load(f);
         assertTrue(cfg.models().offIds().isEmpty());
     }
+
+    // ── fleetd #651: leadRollover.turnSettleSeconds default resolution ─────────────────────────
+
+    @Test
+    void turnSettleSecondsDefaultsTo300WhenUnset(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("bare-rollover.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, "bind:\n  port: 8080\nleadRollover: {}\n");
+
+        FleetConfig.LeadRollover rollover = FleetConfig.load(f).leadRollover();
+        assertNotNull(rollover);
+        assertEquals(300, rollover.turnSettleSeconds());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void turnSettleSecondsUsesAnExplicitPositiveValue(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("rollover.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                bind:
+                  port: 8080
+                leadRollover:
+                  turnSettleSeconds: 45
+                """);
+
+        FleetConfig.LeadRollover rollover = FleetConfig.load(f).leadRollover();
+        assertEquals(45, rollover.turnSettleSeconds());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void turnSettleSecondsFallsBackTo300WhenZeroOrNegative(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path zero = dir.resolve("zero.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(zero, "bind:\n  port: 8080\nleadRollover:\n  turnSettleSeconds: 0\n");
+        assertEquals(300, FleetConfig.load(zero).leadRollover().turnSettleSeconds());
+
+        Path negative = dir.resolve("negative.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(negative, "bind:\n  port: 8080\nleadRollover:\n  turnSettleSeconds: -5\n");
+        assertEquals(300, FleetConfig.load(negative).leadRollover().turnSettleSeconds());
+    }
 }

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

@@ -17,63 +17,21 @@ import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertThrows;
 import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertTrue;
 
 /**
- * The gap this class exists to close: mutation testing on the fleetd ticket "central allow-list
- * of usable models" found that although {@link FleetConfig#validateModels()}'s own logic was well
- * pinned, nothing proved either real caller ({@code Fleetd.main} and {@link ConfigRef#reload()})
- * still invoked it — deleting the call site left the full suite green (1478/0/0/0). A follow-up
- * measurement (same technique — remove one call site, run the suite, not read the code) found the
- * SAME gap for all five of {@link FleetConfig}'s other validators at startup, and for four of the
- * six inside {@link ConfigRef#reload()}. This is a class of gap, not one line's mistake: every one
- * of those thirteen tests called the validator itself directly, never the real caller that was
- * supposed to.
+ * Tests the reflective validator sweep and {@link FleetConfig#validateAll()} reachability.
  *
- * <p>The fix replaces the six individual {@code cfg.validateXxx()} calls at each of the two real
- * call sites with one {@link FleetConfig#validateAll()}, which reaches every validator by
- * reflection rather than by a hand-maintained list of names. A hand-maintained list of six names
- * would have exactly the defect it replaces: the seventh validator someone adds next month has no
- * reason to be added to it, and nothing would say so. This class proves TWO separate claims, and
- * keeps them separate on purpose:
- *
- * <ol>
- *   <li>{@link #theSweepMechanismIsGenericNotHardcodedToFleetConfigsSixNames()} and its neighbours
- *       prove the reflective sweep itself ({@link FleetConfig#invokeAllValidators}) is a general
- *       mechanism — it runs whatever public, no-arg, void {@code validateXxx()} methods a class
- *       happens to declare today, including a class with more of them than {@link FleetConfig}
- *       has right now. This is the proof that a future, real seventh validator on {@link
- *       FleetConfig} would be swept automatically, without needing to add a real (unwanted)
- *       seventh validator just to exercise the claim.</li>
- *   <li>{@link #validateAllReachesEveryOneOfTodaysRealValidators()} proves {@link
- *       FleetConfig#validateAll()} itself is wired to that same generic mechanism and genuinely
- *       reaches every one of today's real validators — reusing the exact minimal failing
- *       configurations {@code FleetConfigTest} already established for each one directly, plus a
- *       dedicated fixture for {@link FleetConfig#validateLeadRollover()}, which no other test
- *       drives through {@code validateAll()} — so a single call to {@code validateAll()} is shown
- *       to reproduce every one of those failures.</li>
- * </ol>
- *
- * <p>Together with the direct-{@code Fleetd.main}-invocation tests in {@code
- * FleetdStartupValidationTest} (which prove the real startup call site still calls {@code
- * validateAll()}) and the {@code ConfigRefTest} reload tests (which prove the same for {@link
- * ConfigRef#reload()}), removing {@code cfg.validateAll();} from either real call site now fails
- * a test in this module.
- *
- * <p><b>What is NOT pinned, measured rather than assumed.</b> Reverting {@link
- * FleetConfig#validateAll()} to a hardcoded list of today's method calls leaves the whole
- * suite green. Nothing ties {@code validateAll()} to
- * the generic sweep — claim 1 proves {@link FleetConfig#invokeAllValidators} is generic, and claim
- * 2 proves {@code validateAll()} reaches today's validators, and a hardcoded list satisfies both. So the
- * reflective sweep is a convenience, not the guarantee. The guarantee is {@link
- * #fleetConfigDeclaresExactlyTheseValidatorsToday()}: it fails the moment any validator is added
- * or removed, which forces whoever changes the set to look at this file.
+ * <p>{@link #theSweepRunsEveryValidateMethodOnAnUnrelatedClass()} and its neighbours
+ * prove that {@link FleetConfig#invokeAllValidators} runs each public, no-arg, void
+ * {@code validateXxx()} method on its target. {@link #fleetConfigDeclaresExactlyTheseValidatorsToday()}
+ * is the canary for the validator set. {@link #validateAllReachesEveryOneOfTodaysRealValidators()}
+ * is the reachability check for that set.
  */
 class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
 
-    // ── Claim 1: the reflective sweep is a general mechanism, not six names in disguise ──────────
+    // ── Claim 1: the reflective sweep is a general mechanism ─────────────────────────────────────
 
     /**
-     * A throwaway fixture class, unrelated to {@link FleetConfig} in every way except shape: three
-     * public, no-arg, void methods named {@code validateXxx}. Proves the sweep works on ANY class
-     * with this shape, not on something special-cased to {@link FleetConfig}.
+     * Fixture with public, no-arg, void methods named {@code validateXxx}. It proves the sweep uses
+     * the target's method shape rather than special handling for {@link FleetConfig}.
      */
     static class ThreeValidators {
         final List<String> ran = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -92,7 +50,7 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
     }
 
     @Test
-    void theSweepMechanismIsGenericNotHardcodedToFleetConfigsSixNames() {
+    void theSweepRunsEveryValidateMethodOnAnUnrelatedClass() {
         ThreeValidators target = new ThreeValidators();
         FleetConfig.invokeAllValidators(target);
         assertEquals(List.of("validateAlpha", "validateBeta", "validateGamma"), target.ran,
@@ -102,12 +60,8 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
     }
 
     /**
-     * The core of the "self-maintaining" requirement: the exact same class shape as {@link
-     * ThreeValidators}, plus one more method — standing in for "a developer adds a validator next
-     * month". Nothing about the sweep changes to pick it up; the new method is invoked purely
-     * because it exists and matches the shape. This is what makes adding a seventh real validator
-     * to {@link FleetConfig} safe without touching {@link FleetConfig#validateAll()} or either
-     * call site — there is no "wire it in" step left to forget.
+     * Fixture with an added valid method. It proves the sweep reaches a method because it matches
+     * the validator shape.
      */
     static class FourValidators {
         final List<String> ran = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -135,7 +89,7 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
         FleetConfig.invokeAllValidators(target);
         assertEquals(List.of("validateAlpha", "validateBeta", "validateDelta", "validateGamma"),
                 sorted(target.ran),
-                "the fourth method must be reached automatically — proving a class can grow the "
+                "the added method must be reached automatically — proving a class can grow the "
                         + "set of things it validates with no change to the sweep itself");
     }
 
@@ -297,16 +251,16 @@ class FleetConfigValidateAllTest {
                   port: 8765
                 """, "auth.mode: token");
 
-        // validateLeadTabPrefixes: a fleet-wide tabLabel that starts with a lead's own tabPrefix.
+        // validateLeadTabPrefixes: a fleet-wide tabLabel that equals a lead tab.
         assertValidateAllRefuses(dir, "lead-tab-prefixes.yaml", """
                 bind:
                   host: 127.0.0.1
                   port: 8765
                 fleet:
-                  tabLabel: "lead: {role} {profile}"
+                  tabLabel: "alpha"
                   leaders:
                     opus:
-                      tab: "lead: opus"
+                      tab: "alpha"
                 """, "fleet.tabLabel");
 
         // validateSubscriptionProfiles: subscription: true with env: reseating ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL.

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

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

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

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

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

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 package dev.ltms.fleet.rest;
 
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.Level;
+import ch.qos.logback.classic.spi.ILoggingEvent;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.CallerResolver;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.Authz;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.auth.MemberRegistry;
@@ -18,6 +21,7 @@ import dev.ltms.fleet.msg.Rendezvous;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.session.FakeWorktrees;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.session.SessionManager;
 import dev.ltms.fleet.member.ClaudeCodeLauncher;
+import dev.ltms.fleet.testing.CapturedLog;
 import io.javalin.Javalin;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -28,10 +32,13 @@ import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
 import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.function.Predicate;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -122,12 +129,60 @@ class FleetAppAuthTest {
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.DRAIN, FleetApp.routeAction("GET /sessions/{id}/replies"));
         assertEquals(Authz.Action.ASK, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/ask"));
         for (String route : Set.of("GET /sessions", "GET /agents", "GET /members", "GET /profiles",
-                "GET /member-credentials", "GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}")) {
+                "GET /member-credentials")) {
             assertEquals(Authz.Action.READ, FleetApp.routeAction(route), route);
         }
+        for (String route : Set.of("GET /sessions/{id}/status", "GET /tasks/{ticket}")) {
+            assertEquals(Authz.Action.TASK_READ, FleetApp.routeAction(route), route);
+        }
         assertThrows(IllegalArgumentException.class, () -> FleetApp.routeAction("GET /healthz"));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #669 Unit A: {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message} is two call shapes behind one route,
+     * mirroring {@code fleet_send}'s MCP-side split into {@link Authz.Action#SEND} and {@link
+     * Authz.Action#ANSWER} ({@code FleetMcp#sendAction}). The route never carries a {@code coordId}
+     * shape — that peer-lead route is MCP-only — so only these two apply here.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theMessageRouteIsASendWithNoTurnIdAndAnAnswerWithOne() {
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", null));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.SEND, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", "  "));
+        assertEquals(Authz.Action.ANSWER, FleetApp.routeAction("POST /sessions/{id}/message", "turn-1"));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #689: {@code answerGatePasses} is the second, conditional gate behind {@code
+     * sendMessage}'s coarse {@link Authz.Action#SEND} check. With the {@code ANSWER} grant denied,
+     * a {@code turnId}-bearing request is refused while a plain one still passes — and the denied
+     * permit is queried only for the {@code turnId} case, never for the plain one, which is what
+     * proves this is a genuinely separate, conditional check rather than the {@code SEND} check
+     * renamed or an unconditional call whose result is ignored. Flipping only the {@code ANSWER}
+     * grant to allowed then flips only the {@code turnId} shape's outcome.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void answerGatePassesOnlyWhenTurnIdAbsentOrAnswerGranted() {
+        List<Authz.Action> queried = new ArrayList<>();
+        Predicate<Authz.Action> denyAnswer = action -> {
+            queried.add(action);
+            return false;
+        };
+
+        assertFalse(FleetApp.answerGatePasses("turn-1", denyAnswer),
+                "ANSWER denied ⇒ the turnId shape is refused");
+        assertEquals(List.of(Authz.Action.ANSWER), queried,
+                "the ANSWER grant, specifically, must be the one consulted");
+
+        queried.clear();
+        assertTrue(FleetApp.answerGatePasses(null, denyAnswer),
+                "no turnId ⇒ the plain shape passes even though ANSWER is denied");
+        assertTrue(FleetApp.answerGatePasses("  ", denyAnswer), "a blank turnId is treated as absent");
+        assertEquals(List.of(), queried, "the plain shape must never consult the permit at all");
+
+        assertTrue(FleetApp.answerGatePasses("turn-1", action -> true),
+                "flipping only the ANSWER grant to allowed flips only the turnId shape's outcome");
+    }
+
     private static Set<String> routesTheServerRegisters() {
         try {
             String source = Files.readString(REST_SOURCE).lines()
@@ -192,6 +247,107 @@ class FleetAppAuthTest {
                 "draining an inbox is the primary's collection step");
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #669 Unit A: the {@code turnId} shape of {@code POST /sessions/{id}/message} maps to
+     * {@link Authz.Action#ANSWER}, not the plain {@link Authz.Action#SEND} the test above drives —
+     * a worker must stay refused on this shape too, exactly as it was refused on the one undivided
+     * action before the split.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aWorkerMayNotAnswerAnotherSessionsBlockedQuestionOverRest() throws Exception {
+        int port = start(FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID, false, null);
+
+        assertEquals(403, send(port, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message",
+                "{\"turnId\":\"turn-1\",\"content\":\"hi\"}", null).statusCode(),
+                "resolving another session's blocked question would be a worker escalating too");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #689: a caller refused the coarse {@link Authz.Action#SEND} grant is refused on
+     * {@code SEND} specifically, even on the {@code turnId}-bearing shape that otherwise raises
+     * the check to {@link Authz.Action#ANSWER} — proving {@code turnId} was never read from the
+     * body before the refusal (reading it would have changed which action is named in the 403).
+     * The same caller refused with no body at all gets the identical detail, which could not hold
+     * if the decision depended on anything read from the body. Control: a caller who IS granted
+     * reaches past the gate and the body is used normally.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aDeniedCallerIsRefusedOnSendEvenWithATurnIdBodyAndNeverReadsTheBody() throws Exception {
+        int workerPort = start(FakeHerdr.WORKER_PID, false, null); // denied: not primary/architect
+
+        HttpResponse<String> withTurnId = send(workerPort, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message",
+                "{\"turnId\":\"turn-1\",\"content\":\"hi\"}", null);
+        assertEquals(403, withTurnId.statusCode());
+        assertTrue(withTurnId.body().contains("may not SEND"),
+                "the SEND check must be the one that fired, not ANSWER — ANSWER would only be "
+                        + "reachable by having already read turnId out of the body");
+
+        HttpResponse<String> noBody = send(workerPort, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message", null, null);
+        assertEquals(403, noBody.statusCode());
+        assertTrue(noBody.body().contains("may not SEND"),
+                "refused identically with no body at all — the refusal cannot depend on body content");
+
+        // Control: a primary IS granted SEND, so the same turnId body is read and acted on —
+        // reaching messages.answer, which reports this unknown turnId as a stale one.
+        int primaryPort = start(999_999, false, null);
+        HttpResponse<String> granted = send(primaryPort, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message",
+                "{\"turnId\":\"turn-1\",\"content\":\"hi\"}", null);
+        assertEquals(409, granted.statusCode());
+        assertTrue(granted.body().contains("stale_turn"), "a granted caller's body IS read and acted on");
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * fleetd #689 (ticket comment 18353): the only place {@code sendMessage}'s call to {@code
+     * answerGatePasses} is observable is the audit trail — {@code allow()} logs an {@code
+     * "allowed"} entry for every granted action except {@code READ}/{@code METRICS}/{@code
+     * TASK_READ}, and {@code ANSWER} is none of those. A granted {@code turnId} request must
+     * therefore log both a {@code SEND} and an {@code ANSWER} entry; a granted plain request must
+     * log {@code SEND} alone. A unit test of the extracted helper pins the helper; this pins the
+     * call site — deleting the {@code answerGatePasses} call from {@code sendMessage} leaves the
+     * helper's own test green but turns this one red.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void aGrantedTurnIdRequestAuditsBothSendAndAnswerButAPlainRequestAuditsSendAlone() throws Exception {
+        int port = start(999_999, false, null); // primary: granted both SEND and ANSWER
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+        try (CapturedLog audit = CapturedLog.at("audit", Level.INFO)) {
+            send(port, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message",
+                    "{\"turnId\":\"turn-1\",\"content\":\"hi\"}", null);
+
+            List<String> allowed = allowedActions(audit, mapper);
+            assertTrue(allowed.contains("SEND"),
+                    "a turnId request must still clear the coarse SEND grant first");
+            assertTrue(allowed.contains("ANSWER"),
+                    "a turnId request must ALSO clear the ANSWER grant — this is the call site itself");
+        }
+
+        try (CapturedLog audit = CapturedLog.at("audit", Level.INFO)) {
+            send(port, "POST", "/sessions/term_b/message",
+                    "{\"content\":\"hi\",\"timeoutMs\":50}", null);
+
+            List<String> allowed = allowedActions(audit, mapper);
+            assertEquals(List.of("SEND"), allowed,
+                    "a plain request must log SEND and nothing else — ANSWER is conditional on "
+                            + "turnId, not something every request happens to log");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static List<String> allowedActions(CapturedLog audit, ObjectMapper mapper) {
+        return audit.events().stream()
+                .map(ILoggingEvent::getFormattedMessage)
+                .map(line -> {
+                    try {
+                        return mapper.readTree(line);
+                    } catch (Exception e) {
+                        throw new AssertionError("audit line is not valid JSON: " + line, e);
+                    }
+                })
+                .filter(n -> "allowed".equals(n.path("outcome").asText()))
+                .map(n -> n.path("action").asText())
+                .toList();
+    }
+
     // --- token mode ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
     @Test

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

@@ -675,6 +675,26 @@ class FleetAppTest {
         assertEquals(400, postMessage(port, "{}").statusCode());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #689: a body that fails to parse is rejected with 400 before {@code turnId} is ever
+     * read from it, so it reaches neither {@code messages.answer} (which needs a {@code turnId})
+     * nor {@code messages.send} — confirmed here for {@code send} by the fake agent's idle status,
+     * which would otherwise make an immediate {@code agent.prompt} delivery observable.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void malformedBodyReturns400AndNeverReachesSendOrAnswer() throws Exception {
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentStatus("idle"); // idle ⇒ send would deliver right away if reached
+        int port = start(herdr, "http://gx00.gw:8000", Set.of("gx00.gw"));
+
+        HttpResponse<String> res = postMessage(port, "not json at all");
+        assertEquals(400, res.statusCode());
+        JsonNode err = mapper.readTree(res.body());
+        assertEquals("bad_request", err.get("error").asText());
+        assertEquals("body must be JSON", err.get("detail").asText());
+        assertFalse(herdr.called("agent.prompt"),
+                "a malformed body must never reach messages.send's delivery");
+    }
+
     @Test
     void sessionStatusReportsLiveAgentStatus() throws Exception {
         FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr().agentStatus("blocked");

scripts/config-edit.sh

@@ -213,6 +213,17 @@ map_masked_lines() {
   done < "$file"
 }
 
+# Masks every `scheme://user:pass@host` userinfo on one line of text, replacing just that
+# userinfo with `<redacted>` and leaving the rest of the line untouched, byte for byte. The
+# pattern stops at the first `/`, whitespace, or `@` reached after `://` — a URI's userinfo
+# component cannot contain any of those three characters — so a URI with no userinfo, followed
+# later on the same line by an unrelated `@`, never matches. The `g` flag matters: a line can
+# carry more than one URI. Shared by every caller that prints a line which may hold a
+# credentialed URI, so the bound lives in exactly one place.
+mask_url_userinfo() {
+  printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed -E 's#://[^@/[:space:]]*@#://<redacted>@#g'
+}
+
 redact() {
   local old_file="$1" new_file="$2"
   local line prefix content indent lead key old_line=0 new_line=0 in_hunk=0
@@ -270,7 +281,7 @@ redact() {
         continue
       fi
     fi
-    printf '%s\n' "$line" | sed -E 's#://[^@]*@#://<redacted>@#g'
+    mask_url_userinfo "$line"
   done
   [ "$saved_nocasematch" = 1 ] || shopt -u nocasematch
 }
@@ -580,6 +591,12 @@ install_candidate() {
 
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the report path
 #
+# Masks basic-auth userinfo (scheme://user:pass@host) in a daemon verdict line before it reaches
+# the terminal.
+mask_verdict_userinfo() {
+  mask_url_userinfo "$1"
+}
+
 # Prints the literal command the operator (or a test) can run to restore the backup by hand — the
 # absolute path to THIS script plus the overrides actually in force, so it works from any cwd.
 restore_command_line() {
@@ -599,8 +616,8 @@ restore_and_confirm() {
   ok "restored from $backup"
   if wait_for_verdict "$LOG" "$mark2" "$WAIT_SECONDS"; then
     case "$VERDICT_KIND" in
-      refused) warn "the RESTORE was also refused by the daemon: $VERDICT_LINE" ;;
-      *)       ok "restore confirmed: $VERDICT_LINE" ;;
+      refused) warn "the RESTORE was also refused by the daemon: $(mask_verdict_userinfo "$VERDICT_LINE")" ;;
+      *)       ok "restore confirmed: $(mask_verdict_userinfo "$VERDICT_LINE")" ;;
     esac
   else
     warn "the restore is on disk, but no confirming verdict line appeared within ${WAIT_SECONDS}s"
@@ -616,7 +633,7 @@ report_outcome() {
 
   say "waiting for the daemon's verdict (up to ${WAIT_SECONDS}s)"
   if wait_for_verdict "$LOG" "$mark" "$WAIT_SECONDS"; then
-    kind="$VERDICT_KIND"; line="$VERDICT_LINE"
+    kind="$VERDICT_KIND"; line="$(mask_verdict_userinfo "$VERDICT_LINE")"
   else
     kind="none"
   fi
@@ -673,7 +690,7 @@ check_mode() {
   local verdict
   verdict="$(last_verdict_line "$LOG")"
   if [ -n "$verdict" ]; then
-    ok "last verdict in log: $verdict"
+    ok "last verdict in log: $(mask_verdict_userinfo "$verdict")"
   else
     warn "no reload verdict line found in $LOG"
   fi

scripts/test-config-edit.sh

@@ -233,6 +233,66 @@ test_redaction_holds() {
   assert_contains "weight" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "a diff must have been demonstrably printed at all"
 }
 
+# redact()'s key-name filter only inspects the KEY, so a diff line whose key does not match
+# TOKEN|SECRET|PASSWORD|PASSWD|PASSPHRASE|CREDENTIAL|URI|_KEY still reaches the final userinfo
+# sed even when its VALUE holds a credentialed URI. "note" is not a sensitive key name, so this
+# line must fall all the way through to that sed, not the earlier whole-value branch. The
+# trailing prose on both sides of the userinfo is a positive control: it proves the line reached
+# the userinfo sed (which touches only the userinfo) rather than the earlier branch (which would
+# have replaced the whole value with a bare "<redacted>" and dropped the prose).
+test_diff_line_userinfo_is_masked_with_positive_control() {
+  local dir
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.note=see amqp://alice:wonderland@rabbit.local:5672/vhost for details'
+  sleep 1
+  printf 'config reloaded\n' >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 0 "$RUN_RC" "diff-userinfo-case reload exit code"
+  assert_not_contains "alice:wonderland" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the userinfo must never reach the output"
+  assert_contains "amqp://<redacted>@rabbit.local:5672/vhost" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "the userinfo must be MASKED, not deleted — the rest of the value must survive"
+  assert_contains "note:" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the key name must still reach the output"
+  assert_contains "see " "$RUN_OUTPUT" "prose BEFORE the userinfo must still reach the output"
+  assert_contains "for details" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "prose AFTER the userinfo must still reach the output"
+}
+
+# A diff line can hold a URL with no userinfo, followed later on the same line by an unrelated @
+# (free text in a string value, for example an email address). The line must pass through the
+# userinfo sed byte for byte: the match must stop at the end of the URL and must not treat the
+# later @ as a second userinfo delimiter.
+test_diff_line_uri_without_userinfo_survives_a_later_at_sign() {
+  local dir
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.note2=see https://docs.local/guide and mail ops@example.com'
+  sleep 1
+  printf 'config reloaded\n' >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 0 "$RUN_RC" "diff-no-userinfo-with-later-at-sign reload exit code"
+  assert_contains "note2: see https://docs.local/guide and mail ops@example.com" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "a URL with no userinfo plus a later @ on the same line must pass through byte for byte"
+}
+
+# Two credentialed URIs on one diff line must both be masked — the g flag matters.
+test_diff_line_masks_multiple_userinfo_with_g_flag() {
+  local dir
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.note3=amqp://u1:p1@host1/vhost1 and amqp://u2:p2@host2/vhost2'
+  sleep 1
+  printf 'config reloaded\n' >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 0 "$RUN_RC" "diff-two-userinfo-on-one-line reload exit code"
+  assert_not_contains "u1:p1" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the first userinfo must never reach the output"
+  assert_not_contains "u2:p2" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the second userinfo must never reach the output"
+  assert_contains "amqp://<redacted>@host1/vhost1" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the first URI must be masked"
+  assert_contains "amqp://<redacted>@host2/vhost2" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the second URI must be masked"
+}
+
 # ------------------------------------------------------- acceptance criterion 9: forgotten value
 # `--set .a.b=` is a plausible typo (the value simply forgotten), and it must be refused outright
 # rather than silently nulling the field — a null numeric field falls back to its default, which
@@ -629,6 +689,65 @@ test_refusal_shape_from_parse_failure_wording_is_recognised() {
   assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "the parse-failure refusal shape must also exit 4, not be read as silence"
 }
 
+# A verdict line carrying a credentialed URI has its userinfo masked, with a positive control
+# proving the rest of the line still reaches the output unchanged.
+test_verdict_userinfo_is_masked_with_positive_control() {
+  local dir
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.weight=4'
+  sleep 1
+  printf 'config reload from %s refused, keeping the running config: refusing to start: malformed pattern — profiles.local.errorPattern ("amqp://user:hunter2@host/vhost"): Unclosed character class near index 8\n' \
+    "$dir/fleetd.yaml" >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "refusal-with-userinfo exit code"
+  assert_not_contains "user:hunter2" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "the userinfo must never reach the output"
+  assert_contains "amqp://<redacted>@host/vhost" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "the userinfo must be MASKED, not deleted — the rest of the quoted value must survive"
+  # Positive control: the diagnostic prose on both sides of the userinfo must still reach the
+  # output. Without this, a mutant that drops the whole verdict line would pass identically.
+  assert_contains "malformed pattern" "$RUN_OUTPUT" "prose BEFORE the userinfo must still reach the output"
+  assert_contains "Unclosed character class near index 8" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "prose AFTER the userinfo must still reach the output"
+}
+
+# An ordinary refusal line quotes the offending pattern, not a credential, and must survive byte
+# for byte: the rewrite is scoped to userinfo only, and the quoted pattern is the detail an
+# operator needs to fix the refusal.
+test_ordinary_refusal_line_passes_through_unchanged() {
+  local dir real_line
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+  real_line="config reload from $dir/fleetd.yaml refused, keeping the running config: refusing to start: malformed pattern — profiles.local.errorPattern (\"[unclosed\"): Unclosed character class near index 8"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.weight=4'
+  sleep 1
+  printf '%s\n' "$real_line" >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "ordinary refusal exit code"
+  assert_contains "$real_line" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "an ordinary refusal with no userinfo must pass through byte for byte, unchanged"
+}
+
+# A verdict line can hold a URI with NO userinfo and a later, unrelated @ further on in the same
+# line (an email address in diagnostic prose, for example). The rewrite must stop at the end of
+# the URI and must not treat the later @ as a second userinfo delimiter.
+test_uri_without_userinfo_survives_a_later_at_sign() {
+  local dir real_line
+  dir="$(new_fixture)"
+  real_line="config reload from $dir/fleetd.yaml refused, keeping the running config: broker.uri amqp://broker.local/vhost unreachable, contact ops@example.com"
+
+  start_run "$dir" 5 --set '.profiles.sonnet.weight=4'
+  sleep 1
+  printf '%s\n' "$real_line" >> "$dir/fleetd.out"
+  collect_run "$dir"
+
+  assert_equals 4 "$RUN_RC" "no-userinfo-with-later-at-sign exit code"
+  assert_contains "$real_line" "$RUN_OUTPUT" \
+    "a URI with no userinfo plus a later @ in the same line must pass through byte for byte"
+}
+
 # --set runs yq over the whole candidate. It warns when that changes more lines than the requested
 # pairs, but a simple file with only the intended changed line must stay quiet.
 new_fixture_reformat_sensitive() {
@@ -694,6 +813,12 @@ echo "== acceptance criterion 6: the marker works =="
 test_marker_skips_lines_before_it
 echo "== acceptance criterion 7 (+13: redaction is proven to have run) =="
 test_redaction_holds
+echo "== fleetd #692: a diff line's userinfo is masked, rest of the value survives =="
+test_diff_line_userinfo_is_masked_with_positive_control
+echo "== fleetd #692: a diff line's URI with no userinfo survives a later @ in the line =="
+test_diff_line_uri_without_userinfo_survives_a_later_at_sign
+echo "== fleetd #692: two userinfo URIs on one diff line are both masked =="
+test_diff_line_masks_multiple_userinfo_with_g_flag
 echo "== acceptance criterion 9: a forgotten value refuses and installs nothing =="
 test_forgotten_value_refuses_and_installs_nothing
 echo "== acceptance criterion 10: an explicit clear writes a bare null =="
@@ -720,6 +845,12 @@ echo "== extra: --check is read-only and always exits 0 =="
 test_check_is_read_only_and_exits_zero
 echo "== extra: the parse-failure refusal shape is also recognised =="
 test_refusal_shape_from_parse_failure_wording_is_recognised
+echo "== verdict-redaction criteria 2+3: verdict userinfo is masked, rest of line survives =="
+test_verdict_userinfo_is_masked_with_positive_control
+echo "== verdict-redaction criterion 4: an ordinary refusal passes through unchanged =="
+test_ordinary_refusal_line_passes_through_unchanged
+echo "== fleetd #638: a URI with no userinfo survives a later @ in the same line =="
+test_uri_without_userinfo_survives_a_later_at_sign
 echo "== acceptance criterion 17: --set warns about yq formatting churn =="
 test_set_warns_when_yq_reformats_extra_lines
 echo "== acceptance criterion 18: --set stays quiet without formatting churn =="