Add authorization entry-point audit

A member torn down while parked in fleet_ask left its async ticket pending
for good. resolveQuestion had already closed the forward waiter, so
abandon()'s waiter branch found nothing; the 'question == null' guard then
excluded the task from the matching loop. By the time the worker's own ask
lapsed (~55-115s), the released session was gone from the roster, so
nothing was left to call abandon() on that target again. fleet_poll{ticket}
reported PENDING forever.

The ticket told the worker to drop the 'question == null' guard. That was
wrong, and the worker said so with evidence: an existing test
(abandonDoesNotFailAnAsyncTicketWaitingForAnAnswer) deliberately pins that
an ASKING ticket must SURVIVE abandon(), because the primary may be mid
answer() for that same turn. Widening the shared method would have traded
this bug for a worse one — a health guess killing a live conversation.

So the fix splits the two callers by what they actually know:

  - sessions.onRelease (fleet_stop / idle reaper) knows the pane is being
    stopped right now, so it sweeps: sweepAsking=true.
  - FleetHealthMonitor keeps sweepAsking=false. GONE/NEVER_READY is a
    classification from the live agent list, not a teardown it performed.

I verified the reachability chain myself rather than taking it on trust.
FleetHealth.decide returns GONE before it can ever return
DELEGATION_ORPHANED; FleetHealthMonitor.reportTransition returns early when
previous == next; and terminal() is GONE/NEVER_READY only. So after the one
GONE transition fires and no-ops, nothing re-fires. Every link holds.

Verified: the real merge into current main builds green (1283 tests), the
protective test still passes untouched, and my own mutation — reverting the
sweepAsking widening — fails the new test with 'a released target's open ask
can never resume, so it must fail right here'.

.claude/skills/implementer/SKILL.md

@@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ a worker made all 59 of its edits in the primary's tree and never noticed.
 test "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)" = "$PWD" || cd "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)"
 ```
 
+**Never run `git stash` (or `git stash pop`/`apply`/`drop`).** Your worktree is isolated, but the
+stash is **not**: `refs/stash` is one stack shared by the primary's checkout and every other
+worker's worktree of this repo. Measured on 2026-09-04 — `git stash list` from a worker's worktree
+and from the primary's tree returned byte-identical output. So a `git stash` you run can be popped
+into someone else's tree, and a `git stash pop` you run can drop **another worker's** uncommitted
+edits on top of yours. This has already happened here: two workers were running in parallel and one
+of them had its in-progress edit silently overwritten by the other's stash.
+
+The branch is your isolation, so use it instead. To set work aside, commit it on your own branch
+(`git commit -m "wip: ..."`) and carry on; to try something and back out, use
+`git diff > /tmp/<your-branch>.patch` then `git checkout -- <file>`. Both stay inside your worktree.
+If you find a stash entry you did not create, leave it alone and say so in your report.
+
 ## 2. Implement
 
 - Implement exactly the scope the lead named. Keep the diff focused; note anything out of scope

AUDIT.md

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# Authorization entry-point audit
+
+Scope reviewed: every route registered in `FleetApp.build`, every tool handler
+registered in `FleetMcp`, and their shared `CallerResolver` and `Authz` gate.
+
+## Result
+
+No authorization-action mismatch was found. The only handler whose operation
+changes with its arguments is `fleet_poll`. It selects `DRAIN` when `target` is
+present and `READ` when it is absent, before it calls either service branch.
+
+`Fleetd` creates one `CallerResolver` and passes that same instance to both
+`FleetMcp` and `FleetApp` (`Fleetd.java:615-650`, `720-722`). REST resolves it
+in the Javalin pre-handler. MCP resolves it in the transport context extractor.
+
+## REST routes
+
+| Route | Gate and choice location | Branch/target review | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `GET /healthz` | None | Liveness probe only; intentionally open. | ok |
+| `GET /metrics` | `METRICS`, start of `metrics` | No branch or target. | ok |
+| `GET /sessions` | `READ`, start of `sessions` | No caller-selected target. | ok |
+| `GET /agents` | `READ`, start of `agents` | No caller-selected target. | ok |
+| `GET /members` | `READ`, start of `listMembers` | No caller-selected target. | ok |
+| `GET /profiles` | `READ`, start of `profiles` | No caller-selected target. | ok |
+| `GET /member-credentials` | `READ`, start of `memberCredentials` | No caller-selected target. The view exposes policy names and counts, not values. | ok |
+| `POST /members` | `SPAWN`, before query/body parsing in `spawnMember` | Arguments select role, profile, cwd, and worktree. They do not select a different authority type. | ok |
+| `DELETE /members/{paneId}` | `STOP`, after reading `paneId` in `stopMember` | Caller can select another pane, but only a primary has `STOP`. | ok |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/message` | `SEND`, after reading path `id` in `sendMessage` | Normal send, async send, and `turnId` answer all deliver a turn/message. `turnId` does not widen the roles allowed to send. | ok |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/reply` | `REPLY`, after reading path `id` in `replyMessage` | Caller can name a target, and `Authz` requires it to equal the connection-resolved terminal. | ok |
+| `GET /sessions/{id}/replies` | `DRAIN`, after reading path `id` in `drainReplies` | Removes inbox entries; only a primary has `DRAIN`. | ok |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/ask` | `ASK`, after reading path `id` in `askMessage` | Caller can name a target, and `Authz` requires it to equal the connection-resolved terminal. | ok |
+| `GET /sessions/{id}/status` | `READ`, after reading path `id` in `sessionStatus` | Any authenticated role may observe any session. This matches the `READ` policy, which intentionally does not use target ownership. | ok |
+| `GET /tasks/{ticket}` | `READ`, start of `taskStatus` | Ticket polling is read-only; no service branch changes the action. | ok |
+
+## MCP tools
+
+| Tool | Gate and choice location | Branch/target review | Verdict |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `fleet_send` | `SEND`, at the start of `sendHandler` | `coordId`, `turnId`, synchronous, and async forms all deliver a message or a turn answer. `sessionId` is read before the branch for audit target only. | ok |
+| `fleet_reply` | `REPLY`, after deriving the connection terminal in `replyHandler` | No target argument exists. The service always receives the caller's own terminal. | ok |
+| `fleet_ask` | `ASK`, after deriving the connection terminal in `askHandler` | No target argument exists. The service always receives the caller's own terminal. | ok |
+| `fleet_status` | `READ`, start of `statusHandler` | Any authenticated role may query any session. This is the same intentional `READ` policy as the REST route. | ok |
+| `fleet_poll` with `ticket` | `READ`, `pollAction(target)` before dispatch in `pollHandler` | Reads a task only. | ok |
+| `fleet_poll` with `target` | `DRAIN`, `pollAction(target)` before dispatch in `pollHandler` | Drains and removes a target inbox. Only a primary has `DRAIN`. | ok |
+| `fleet_ack` | `DRAIN`, start of `ackHandler` | Removes one target inbox entry. Only a primary has `DRAIN`. | ok |
+| `fleet_spawn` | `SPAWN`, start of `spawnHandler` | Arguments select member configuration only. | ok |
+| `fleet_list` | `READ`, start of `listHandler` | No caller-selected target. | ok |
+| `fleet_stop` | `STOP`, after reading `paneId` in `stopHandler` | Caller can select another pane, but only a primary has `STOP`. | ok |
+| `fleet_profiles` | `READ`, start of `profilesHandler` | No caller-selected target. | ok |
+| `fleet_whoami` | `READ`, start of `whoamiHandler` | Reports the connection-resolved caller, not an argument. | ok |
+
+## Surface parity
+
+The matching route/tool pairs use the same action:
+
+| Operation | REST | MCP | Result |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| spawn | `SPAWN` | `SPAWN` | match |
+| stop | `STOP` | `STOP` | match |
+| send and ask answer | `SEND` | `SEND` | match |
+| reply | `REPLY` | `REPLY` | match |
+| ask | `ASK` | `ASK` | match |
+| drain replies | `DRAIN` | `DRAIN` for `fleet_poll{target}` and `fleet_ack` | match |
+| status | `READ` | `READ` | match |
+| task/ticket polling | `READ` | `READ` | match |
+| list/profiles | `READ` | `READ` | match |
+
+## Test risk
+
+`FleetMcpAuthzTest` has a direct regression test for the argument-dependent
+`fleet_poll` action. It tests the shared role table for the other tools, but it
+does not pin each handler's chosen action. This is not a current defect because
+the reviewed handlers choose the matching action. A future change that adds an
+argument-dependent operation should add a handler-level action-selection test,
+like `pollingByTargetIsADrainAndPollingByTicketIsARead`.

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

@@ -593,7 +593,11 @@ public final class Fleetd {
             if (detail.agentSessionId() != null) {
                 reason += " agentSessionId=" + detail.agentSessionId();
             }
-            messages.abandon(detail.terminalId(), reason);
+            // fleetd #275: this is an explicit teardown (fleet_stop, or the idle reaper) — the
+            // worker's pane is being stopped right now, so an open fleet_ask has no turn left to
+            // resume into. Sweep it too, unlike FleetHealthMonitor's health-classification call
+            // (see MessageService.abandon's javadoc for why those two must differ).
+            messages.abandon(detail.terminalId(), reason, true);
             replyInbox.release(detail.terminalId());
             primaryRegistry.forgetDelegation(detail.terminalId()); // CB-532: don't leak the lead binding
         });

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

@@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ public record FleetConfig(
             rejectDuplicateMemberSlots(yaml);
             rejectNegativeMaxLoad(yaml);
             rejectAutoCompactWindowOutOfRange(yaml);
-            rejectMalformedErrorPattern(yaml);
+            rejectMalformedProfilePatterns(yaml);
             rejectUnknownKind(yaml);
             rejectUnknownAuthMode(yaml);
             rejectUnknownPlacement(yaml);
@@ -1856,20 +1856,26 @@ public record FleetConfig(
     }
 
     /**
-     * Reject a profile whose {@code errorPattern} (fleetd #201 Unit 5) is not a valid Java regex,
-     * naming the profile, the key, and the parser's own message.
+     * Reject a profile whose {@code errorPattern} (fleetd #201 Unit 5) or {@code exhaustedPattern}
+     * (CB-578 stage A) is not a valid Java regex, naming the profile, the key, and the parser's own
+     * message.
      *
-     * <p>Unset/{@code null} means "use {@code CompletionResolver}'s built-in {@code (?i)\bAPI
-     * Error\s*:} compatibility pattern" and passes silently. A profile that DOES set the key gets it
-     * compiled once at daemon startup ({@code Fleetd.main}, mirroring {@code exhaustedPattern}) — an
-     * uncaught {@link java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException} there crashes startup without naming
-     * which profile or key is at fault. Validate eagerly here instead, at config load, the same
-     * "fail loud at load, not lazily later" reasoning as {@link #rejectAutoCompactWindowOutOfRange}.
+     * <p>Unset/{@code null} means, for {@code errorPattern}, "use {@code CompletionResolver}'s
+     * built-in {@code (?i)\bAPI Error\s*:} compatibility pattern", and for {@code exhaustedPattern},
+     * "opt out of that classification" — either way it passes silently. A profile that DOES set
+     * either key gets it compiled once at daemon startup ({@code Fleetd.main}) — an uncaught
+     * {@link java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException} there crashes startup without naming which
+     * profile or key is at fault (fleetd #273: this happened for {@code exhaustedPattern}, which had
+     * no validator here even though its sibling {@code errorPattern} did). Validate eagerly here
+     * instead, at config load, the same "fail loud at load, not lazily later" reasoning as
+     * {@link #rejectAutoCompactWindowOutOfRange}. Both keys are checked from a single load, and any
+     * failures from either are collected together into one message.
      *
      * @param yaml the raw config text
-     * @throws IllegalStateException when any profile's {@code errorPattern} fails to compile
+     * @throws IllegalStateException when any profile's {@code errorPattern} or
+     *                                {@code exhaustedPattern} fails to compile
      */
-    static void rejectMalformedErrorPattern(String yaml) {
+    static void rejectMalformedProfilePatterns(String yaml) {
         Map<?, ?> raw;
         try {
             raw = YAML.readValue(yaml, Map.class);
@@ -1884,18 +1890,20 @@ public record FleetConfig(
             if (!(e.getValue() instanceof Map<?, ?> p)) {
                 continue;
             }
-            if (!(p.get("errorPattern") instanceof String pattern) || pattern.isBlank()) {
-                continue;
-            }
-            try {
-                Pattern.compile(pattern);
-            } catch (PatternSyntaxException ex) {
-                bad.add("profiles." + e.getKey() + ".errorPattern (\"" + pattern + "\"): " + ex.getMessage());
+            for (String key : List.of("errorPattern", "exhaustedPattern")) {
+                if (!(p.get(key) instanceof String pattern) || pattern.isBlank()) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                try {
+                    Pattern.compile(pattern);
+                } catch (PatternSyntaxException ex) {
+                    bad.add("profiles." + e.getKey() + "." + key + " (\"" + pattern + "\"): " + ex.getMessage());
+                }
             }
         }
         bad.sort(String::compareTo);
         if (!bad.isEmpty()) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: malformed errorPattern — "
+            throw new IllegalStateException("refusing to start: malformed pattern — "
                     + String.join("; ", bad));
         }
     }

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

@@ -1497,10 +1497,27 @@ public abstract class HerdrPeerLauncher implements PeerLauncher {
      * survive {@code allowed} (including the {@code LC_*} prefix rule). Neither number is a constant:
      * both come from the actual derived set and the actual environment this spawn sees. Never logs a
      * variable NAME or VALUE — only the counts.
+     *
+     * <p><strong>Under {@code memberHerdrSocket} the counts describe fleetd's own process, not the
+     * member's</strong> (fleetd #269 follow-up), so the message says so rather than leaving the
+     * reader to infer it from this javadoc, which the operator reading the log never sees.
      */
     private void logAllowListCoverage(Set<String> allowed) {
         Set<String> hostNames = hostEnvNames.get();
         long kept = hostNames.stream().filter(name -> MemberEnvAllowList.keeps(allowed, name)).count();
+        if (memberHerdrSocketConfigured()) {
+            // fleetd #269 covered the sibling line below (logCredentialGap) and stopped there.
+            // This line has the same problem: read plainly, "allowed 7 of 39" is a statement about
+            // the member's pane, and under memberHerdrSocket it is not -- the pane is routed to a
+            // second herdr whose environment fleetd cannot inspect. The counts stay useful, so
+            // this is not a WARN and not a refusal; only the claim is narrowed to what is true.
+            log.info("member credentials: allowed {} of {} names in fleetd's OWN environment — "
+                            + "memberHerdrSocket is configured, so member panes are routed to a "
+                            + "second herdr whose environment fleetd has no channel to inspect. "
+                            + "These counts describe fleetd's process, NOT the member pane's.",
+                    kept, hostNames.size());
+            return;
+        }
         log.info("member credentials: allowed {} of {}", kept, hostNames.size());
     }
 

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

@@ -360,6 +360,18 @@ public final class MessageService {
      * {@link #ask} clears the ticket's question and returns it to {@code PENDING}, but {@link #send}
      * already closed the forward waiter the instant the question surfaced, so the target has
      * neither an accepted nor a queued delivery left to show for it.
+     *
+     * <p><strong>Deliberately still {@code question == null} only (fleetd #275).</strong> This
+     * method must not also report a still-{@link Phase#ASKING} task as orphaned: the worker may
+     * genuinely be waiting on a live primary that is about to (or already mid-{@link #answer})
+     * answer it, and {@link dev.ltms.fleet.health.FleetHealthMonitor} would classify that as
+     * {@code DELEGATION_ORPHANED} on nothing more than an active, healthy conversation. {@link
+     * #abandon(String, String, boolean)}'s {@code sweepAsking} path fixes the actual reachable gap
+     * (a target torn down for good while genuinely {@code ASKING}) at the point of teardown itself,
+     * by completing the task's future right there — so by the time this method would ever see it,
+     * {@code task.future.isDone()} is already {@code true} and it is excluded regardless of this
+     * guard. Widening this check instead of that one would trade a real fix for false positives on
+     * every ordinary in-flight question.
      */
     public boolean hasOrphanedDelegation(String target) {
         if (target == null || hasAcceptedDelivery(target) || hasQueuedDelivery(target)) {
@@ -580,6 +592,39 @@ public final class MessageService {
      *         reply — see the note above)
      */
     public boolean abandon(String target, String reason) {
+        return abandon(target, reason, false);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * As {@link #abandon(String, String)}, with control over whether a task still paused in
+     * {@code fleet_ask} ({@link Phase#ASKING}) is swept too (fleetd #275).
+     *
+     * <p>{@code sweepAsking} must be {@code true} only when the caller has independent, certain
+     * knowledge that {@code target} can never resume its turn — today that is only
+     * {@code sessions.onRelease}'s teardown (an explicit {@code fleet_stop}, or the idle reaper):
+     * the worker's pane is being stopped right now, so whatever it was mid-{@code fleet_ask} about
+     * has no turn left to resume into. {@link dev.ltms.fleet.health.FleetHealthMonitor}'s
+     * health-classification call keeps passing {@code false} (via {@link #abandon(String, String)}):
+     * a GONE/NEVER_READY reading is the daemon's best guess from the live agent list, not a teardown
+     * it performed itself, and {@code abandonDoesNotFailAnAsyncTicketWaitingForAnAnswer} documents
+     * why an active ask must survive that guess — the primary may already be mid-{@link #answer} for
+     * the very same turn, and completing it here first would preempt a real answer with a misleading
+     * failure.
+     *
+     * <p><strong>Without {@code sweepAsking} on the release path, a target torn down while
+     * genuinely {@code ASKING} was unrecoverable.</strong> {@link #resolveQuestion} had already
+     * closed the forward waiter the instant the question surfaced (so the {@code waiter} branch
+     * below finds nothing to fail), the {@code question == null} guard excluded the task from
+     * {@code matching} (so the loop below skipped it too), and the worker's own {@code fleet_ask}
+     * clears {@link Task#question} back to {@code null} only once it lapses (the reverse-rendezvous
+     * window — up to {@code FleetMcp.ASK_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS} / {@code FleetApp.MAX_ASK_TIMEOUT_MS},
+     * 55–115s) — by which point the released session no longer appears in {@code sessions.roster()}
+     * for {@link dev.ltms.fleet.health.FleetHealthMonitor} to ever re-observe, so nothing was ever
+     * left to call {@link #abandon} on this target again. The ticket then sat in {@link #tasks}
+     * forever: not terminal, so {@link #pruneTerminalTickets} never dropped it, and
+     * {@code fleet_poll} reported it stuck at {@link Phase#PENDING} for good.
+     */
+    public boolean abandon(String target, String reason, boolean sweepAsking) {
         boolean hadStrandedReply = hasStrandedReply(target);
         // CB-640: the session is gone — nothing will ever accept or deliver into it now.
         strandedReplies.remove(target);
@@ -590,7 +635,8 @@ public final class MessageService {
 
         List<Task> matching = new ArrayList<>();
         for (Task task : tasks.values()) {
-            if (target.equals(task.target) && task.question == null && !task.future.isDone()) {
+            if (target.equals(task.target) && (sweepAsking || task.question == null)
+                    && !task.future.isDone()) {
                 matching.add(task);
             }
         }
@@ -607,11 +653,20 @@ public final class MessageService {
         for (Task task : matching) {
             boolean isRecovery = task == recoveryTask && recovered != null;
             Reply outcome = isRecovery ? recovered : new Reply(Outcome.WORKER_FAILED, reason);
+            String turnId = task.turnId;
             if (task.future.complete(outcome)) {
                 if (outcome.outcome() == Outcome.WORKER_FAILED) {
                     asyncFailed = true;
-                } else if (task.turnId != null) {
-                    asyncTasksByTurn.remove(task.turnId, task);
+                }
+                if (turnId != null) {
+                    // #275: whether this task was swept out of ASKING or was already answered and
+                    // only waiting on its resumed turn's real reply (#137), nothing will ever
+                    // complete this turnId now — drop it from this class's own bookkeeping AND the
+                    // reverse-rendezvous itself, so hasAsyncQuestion(target) stops reporting a turn
+                    // that is actually done, and a late answer() sees it as lapsed rather than
+                    // resolving a question nothing is listening for any more.
+                    asyncTasksByTurn.remove(turnId, task);
+                    rendezvous.closeAsk(turnId);
                 }
             } else if (isRecovery) {
                 // The recovered reply was already drained out of the inbox, but this task resolved

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

@@ -155,6 +155,90 @@ class FleetConfigTest {
         assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("errorPattern"), "the offending key is named: " + e.getMessage());
     }
 
+    // ── fleetd #273: exhaustedPattern gets the same load-time validation as its sibling errorPattern ──
+
+    @Test
+    void aProfileWithAMalformedExhaustedPatternIsRejectedAtLoadNamingTheProfileAndKey(@TempDir Path dir)
+            throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("malformed-exhausted-pattern.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                profiles:
+                  ltms-local:
+                    baseUrl: http://gx00.gw:8000
+                    exhaustedPattern: "["
+                """);
+
+        IllegalStateException e = assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, () -> FleetConfig.load(f));
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("ltms-local"), "the offending profile is named: " + e.getMessage());
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("exhaustedPattern"), "the offending key is named: " + e.getMessage());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aMalformedErrorPatternAndAMalformedExhaustedPatternAreBothReportedFromOneLoad(@TempDir Path dir)
+            throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("both-malformed.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                profiles:
+                  sonnet:
+                    baseUrl: http://gx00.gw:8000
+                    errorPattern: "(unterminated["
+                  terra:
+                    baseUrl: http://gx01.gw:8000
+                    exhaustedPattern: "["
+                """);
+
+        IllegalStateException e = assertThrows(IllegalStateException.class, () -> FleetConfig.load(f));
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("sonnet"), "the errorPattern profile is named: " + e.getMessage());
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("errorPattern"), e.getMessage());
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("terra"), "the exhaustedPattern profile is named: " + e.getMessage());
+        assertTrue(e.getMessage().contains("exhaustedPattern"), e.getMessage());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void validErrorPatternAndExhaustedPatternBothLoadFine(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("both-valid.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                profiles:
+                  ltms-local:
+                    baseUrl: http://gx00.gw:8000
+                    errorPattern: "credential outage"
+                    exhaustedPattern: "usage limit has been reached"
+                """);
+
+        FleetConfig.Profile w = FleetConfig.load(f).profiles().get("ltms-local");
+        assertEquals("credential outage", w.errorPattern());
+        assertEquals("usage limit has been reached", w.exhaustedPattern());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aBlankExhaustedPatternNormalizesToNullJustLikeUnset(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("blank-exhausted-pattern.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                profiles:
+                  ltms-local:
+                    baseUrl: http://gx00.gw:8000
+                    exhaustedPattern: "   "
+                """);
+
+        FleetConfig.Profile w = FleetConfig.load(f).profiles().get("ltms-local");
+        assertNull(w.exhaustedPattern());
+        assertFalse(w.hasExhaustedPattern());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void aProfileWithNoExhaustedPatternLoadsFine(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
+        Path f = dir.resolve("no-exhausted-pattern.yaml");
+        Files.writeString(f, """
+                profiles:
+                  ltms-local:
+                    baseUrl: http://gx00.gw:8000
+                """);
+
+        FleetConfig.Profile w = FleetConfig.load(f).profiles().get("ltms-local");
+        assertNull(w.exhaustedPattern());
+        assertFalse(w.hasExhaustedPattern());
+    }
+
     @Test
     void withProfileCarriesErrorPatternThrough(@TempDir Path dir) throws Exception {
         Path f = dir.resolve("with-profile-error-pattern.yaml");

fleetd/src/test/java/dev/ltms/fleet/member/HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest.java

@@ -250,6 +250,57 @@ class HerdrPeerLauncherAllowListWiringTest {
                         + appender.list.stream().map(ILoggingEvent::getFormattedMessage).toList());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * fleetd #269 follow-up: the same overclaim the WARN in {@code logCredentialGap} was fixed for,
+     * in the INFO line beside it. With {@code memberHerdrSocket} configured, member panes are routed
+     * to a second herdr whose environment fleetd has no channel to inspect, so the counts come from
+     * fleetd's OWN environment. The bare line "member credentials: allowed 1 of 3" reads as a fact
+     * about the member's pane, and there it is not one.
+     *
+     * <p>#269 reworded four sites and stopped at the sibling below; this pins the pair together so
+     * a future edit cannot fix one and leave the other. Real path: asserted after a real {@link
+     * HerdrPeerLauncher#spawn}, reading the log production actually emits.
+     */
+    @Test
+    void theAllowedCountLineSaysWhoseEnvironmentItCountedWhenMemberHerdrSocketIsSet(@TempDir Path worktreeRoot)
+            throws IOException {
+        String group = currentUserGroup();
+        FakeHerdr herdr = new FakeHerdr();
+        Set<String> hostEnvNames = Set.of(INJECTED, "SOME_UNRELATED_NAME", "ANOTHER_UNRELATED_NAME");
+        WiringLauncher launcher = new WiringLauncher(herdr, allowList(), "/bin/bash-should-be-ignored",
+                () -> hostEnvNames,
+                () -> configWithMemberHerdrSocketRootAndGroup("/tmp/other-user-herdr.sock", "/bin/zsh",
+                        worktreeRoot.toString(), group));
+
+        Logger logger = (Logger) LoggerFactory.getLogger(HerdrPeerLauncher.class);
+        Level original = logger.getLevel();
+        logger.setLevel(Level.INFO);
+        ListAppender<ILoggingEvent> appender = new ListAppender<>();
+        appender.start();
+        logger.addAppender(appender);
+        try {
+            launcher.spawn(new SpawnRequest("test", null, null, null, null, MemberRole.DEV));
+        } finally {
+            logger.detachAppender(appender);
+            logger.setLevel(original);
+        }
+
+        List<String> lines = appender.list.stream().map(ILoggingEvent::getFormattedMessage).toList();
+        String coverage = lines.stream()
+                .filter(l -> l.startsWith("member credentials: allowed "))
+                .findFirst()
+                .orElse(null);
+        assertNotNull(coverage, "the coverage line must still be logged — narrowing the claim must "
+                + "not silently delete the line: " + lines);
+        assertTrue(coverage.contains("fleetd's OWN environment"),
+                "the line must say whose environment it counted: " + coverage);
+        assertTrue(coverage.contains("NOT the member pane's"),
+                "and must say plainly that it is not the member's: " + coverage);
+        // The counts themselves stay real — narrowing the claim must not turn them into constants.
+        assertTrue(coverage.startsWith("member credentials: allowed 1 of 3"),
+                "the real counts must survive the rewording: " + coverage);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Lead-review fix: on a NON-zsh shell no scrub ever runs (bash ignores {@code ZDOTDIR}), so the
      * "allowed N of M" line — which describes what the scrub does — must not be printed there either.

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

@@ -828,6 +828,56 @@ class MessageServiceTest {
         assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.REPLIED, answer.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
     }
 
+    // --- fleetd #275: a target torn down FOR GOOD while genuinely ASKING must not orphan --------
+    //
+    // sessions.onRelease (fleet_stop, or the idle reaper) is the one abandon() caller that knows
+    // for certain the target can never resume: its pane is being stopped right now. Unlike the
+    // health-classification caller above (a GONE/NEVER_READY guess, not a teardown it performed),
+    // it must sweep an ASKING ticket right here — see MessageService.abandon(String, String,
+    // boolean)'s javadoc for the full reachability chain this closes: without this, the forward
+    // waiter is already closed by the time the question surfaces, the ASKING guard skips the task,
+    // and by the time the worker's own fleet_ask lapses (~55-115s later) the released session no
+    // longer appears in FleetHealthMonitor's roster for anything to ever sweep it again — leaving
+    // fleet_poll{ticket} stuck PENDING forever.
+
+    @Test
+    void abandonWithSweepAskingFailsATornDownTargetsAskingTicket() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task that asks");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injectDelivery();
+
+        CompletableFuture<MessageService.AskResult> ask =
+                CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config?", 300));
+        MessageService.TaskView asking = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
+
+        assertTrue(messages.abandon(T, "the worker session was released before it replied", true),
+                "a released target's open ask can never resume, so it must fail right here");
+
+        MessageService.TaskView failed = awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.FAILED);
+        assertEquals("the worker session was released before it replied", failed.detail());
+
+        // The reverse-rendezvous ask is torn down too: the worker's still-blocked fleet_ask rides
+        // out its own timeout (nothing completed its answer future), and a late answer() for the
+        // same turnId must see it as lapsed rather than resolving a question nobody is waiting on.
+        assertEquals(MessageService.AskOutcome.TIMED_OUT, ask.get(5, TimeUnit.SECONDS).outcome());
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Outcome.STALE_TURN,
+                messages.answer(asking.turnId(), "config.yaml", 200).outcome());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void abandonWithoutSweepAskingBehavesLikeTheTwoArgOverload() throws Exception {
+        String ticket = messages.sendAsync(T, "task that asks");
+        awaitWaiting();
+        injectDelivery();
+
+        CompletableFuture.supplyAsync(() -> messages.ask(T, "which config?", 5000));
+        awaitTicketPhase(ticket, MessageService.Phase.ASKING);
+
+        assertFalse(messages.abandon(T, "agent target term_a not found", false),
+                "sweepAsking=false must match the plain abandon(target, reason) overload");
+        assertEquals(MessageService.Phase.ASKING, messages.poll(ticket).phase());
+    }
+
     // --- #137: a fleet_ask round-trip must not orphan the ticket's own reply -------------------
     //
     // The primary's fleet_send{turnId} answer call is itself bounded (a real MCP call, capped well