Implementing an agent runtime
Everything needed to add or change a runtime.Runtime backend: the security controls a runtime must wire, the interfaces it implements, the sandbox hook contract its adapter must satisfy, and the on-disk layout it writes.
Using a runtime — picking one, choosing models, troubleshooting a run — is runtimes.md. This page is the implementer's half.
On this page:
- Adding a runtime: checklist
- Security feature matrix — what each runtime wires, and where
- Runtime interface contract
- Sandbox hook contract — files, wiring, wire protocol, sanitizer scope, fail modes, Claude Code caveats
- Pinned runtime binaries in the sandbox image
- Sandbox workspace layout and agent rule layering
- Dummy runtime operations
- pi runtime internals (#6464) — verification provenance for the pi backend
Adding a runtime: checklist
- Register the backend in
runtime.Resolve(). - Implement
runtime.Runtimeand honourruntime.SandboxHooksBootstrap(see Runtime interface contract). A runtime that ignores it installs no sandbox tool hooks. - Fill in every column of the security feature matrix for the new runtime — including the cells that are "not wired"; say so explicitly rather than leaving them blank. Internal test-only runtimes (e.g.
dummy,dummy-playback) with no LLM interaction are exempt. - Add its row to the config-key table in runtimes.md.
- If the runtime's binary ships in the sandbox image, pin it the way the existing ones are pinned and prove the pin at build time (Pinned runtime binaries).
Security feature matrix
The sandbox is the containment boundary; everything a runtime does with hooks and tool restrictions is steering inside it (ADR 0027). Read the matrix with that picture in mind:
Test-only runtimes (
dummy,dummy-playback) are exempt from the matrix tables below. They perform no LLM interaction, install no sandbox tool hooks, and have no security surface to document — the sandbox boundary is their only control. This exemption applies to all three tables (host-side controls, sandbox tool hooks, bootstrap and artifacts).
Host-side controls (runner responsibility, runtime-agnostic)
| Feature | Where it runs | Claude Code | OpenCode (stub) | Pi | Notes for future runtimes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Host-side context injection scan (unicode, SSRF patterns on repo context files) | Host + sandbox scan context | ✓ | N/A — stub | ✓ | Harness security.host_scanners; heuristic scanners only — the DeBERTa ML model was removed from the sandbox in #6522 (its only consumer is the host-side scan input, not scan context) |
| Host-side runtime content scan (agent def, SKILL.md, plugin JSON before upload) | Host (scanRuntimeContent) | ✓ | N/A — stub | ✓ | Uses security.InputPipeline(); not part of the Runtime interface |
| Prompt injection (DeBERTa) | Host fullsend scan input only | ✓ in the runner image (built CGO_ENABLED=1 -tags ORT with libtokenizers.a + ONNX Runtime >= 1.28); ✗ in the release tarballs, which stay CGO_ENABLED=0 and untagged (#6522) | N/A — stub | Same as Claude Code — host-side, not a runtime distinction | Shipped enabled only in ghcr.io/fullsend-ai/fullsend-runner; the release tarball the composite action downloads has it compiled out, so CI runs never reach it. Not an active control on the fullsend run path either way: RunMLScan is called only from fullsend scan input, which nothing in this repo or fullsend-ai/agents invokes. See #6506 (decision), #6522 (build constraints) |
Sandbox tool hooks (per runtime)
How the shared PostToolUse chain reaches each runtime — the three sanitizer rows below share it:
- Claude Code:
posttool_chain.pyruns on successful tool calls (#6357). On failed calls the same driver runs onPostToolUseFailure, where it detects, logs tofindings.jsonland warns the agent viaadditionalContext— Claude Code does not let a hook rewrite a failed call's output. - Pi:
fullsend-hooks.jstool_result→ the sameposttool_chain.py(senttool_response+tool_result;updatedToolOutputapplied to the result the model sees). pi'stool_resultfires for failed calls too, so those are sanitized as well.
| Feature | Where it runs | Claude Code | OpenCode (stub) | Pi | Notes for future runtimes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tirith (Bash command scanning) | Sandbox PreToolUse hook | ✓ (loaded via --settings, #6358) | N/A — stub | ✓ via fullsend-hooks.js (pi tool_call → HookPlan PreToolUse scripts) | tirith_check.py; harness security.sandbox_hooks.tirith; fails open on missing binary/timeout unless TIRITH_REQUIRED=1 |
| SSRF pre-tool | Sandbox PreToolUse hook | ✓ (hooks-loaded.feature runs under the dummy runtime, which installs no hooks — it guards the sandbox egress boundary; the hook itself is unit-tested) | N/A — stub | ✓ via fullsend-hooks.js | ssrf_pretool.py; default on; when DNS resolution fails for a host on the FULLSEND_EGRESS_ALLOWLIST, the hook defers to the L7 egress proxy instead of failing closed — all other SSRF checks (scheme, hostname blocklist, IP blocklist, DNS rebinding) still apply. On GitLab CI, the forge host is also covered by the auto-generated fullsend-gitlab-forge provider profile (#6615), which opens the L7 proxy for the forge API |
| Canary token detection | Sandbox Pre/PostToolUse hooks | pre ✓; post-tool via posttool_chain.py on successful calls (tool_response / updatedToolOutput, #6357); failed calls: the same driver on PostToolUseFailure (detect + halt; the error text cannot be rewritten) | N/A — stub | ✓ pre via tool_call; post via tool_result (sequential chain, block withholds the result) | canary_pretool.py / canary_posttool.py; both inert unless FULLSEND_CANARY_TOKEN is set. Post-tool canary is an in-process chain stage so it cannot race sanitizer rewrites. Claude Code decision:block does not hide PostToolUse output, so the chain also redacts the token in updatedToolOutput |
| Secret redaction | Sandbox PostToolUse hook | ✓ shared chain (above) | N/A — stub | ✓ shared chain (above) | secret_redact_posttool.py |
| Unicode normalization | Sandbox PostToolUse hook | ✓ shared chain (above) | N/A — stub | ✓ shared chain (above) | unicode_posttool.py |
| Context suppression | Sandbox PostToolUse hook | ✓ shared chain (above) | N/A — stub | ✓ shared chain (above) | context_suppress_posttool.py |
| Tool allowlist | Sandbox PreToolUse hook | opt-in; ✓ when enabled | N/A — stub | ✓ tool_allowlist_pretool.py via tool_call (names translated to Claude vocabulary first, #608) plus pi's native --tools from the agent tools: and the Bash(a,b) first-token allowlist enforced in the extension | tool_allowlist_pretool.py; requires FULLSEND_TOOL_ALLOWLIST (fail-closed when unset) |
Bootstrap and artifacts (per runtime)
| Feature | Where it runs | Claude Code | OpenCode (stub) | Pi | Notes for future runtimes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox tool hooks wiring | SandboxHooksBootstrap type assert in Bootstrap | ✓ scripts at claude-config/hooks/, wiring at claude-config/hooks.json via --settings (#6358) | ✗ — Bootstrap is a stub; must wire security.HookPlan via OpenCode plugin hooks | ✓ see pi: hook adapter contract — scripts under /sandbox/pi-config/hooks/, HookPlan in fullsend-manifest.json, embedded fullsend-hooks.js loaded with -e under --no-extensions; fail-closed on a missing/altered adapter (exit 97) or a manifest without a hook plan (exit -1) | Hook scripts and wiring plan are runtime-neutral (see Sandbox hook contract); a runtime that ignores SandboxHooksBootstrap installs no sandbox tool hooks — say so explicitly here |
| Transcript / debug artifacts | TranscriptHandler (+ optional DebugLogNamer) | ✓ (stream-json, claude-debug.log) | No-op — see #1935 | ✓ session JSONL under PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR (ExtractTranscripts), pi-debug.log (DebugLogNamer; pi's stderr when --debug is set), ParseTranscriptFile judges the tee'd --mode json stream and session files | Format-specific; not shared across runtimes. Debug-log filename defaults to agent-debug.log unless the runtime implements DebugLogNamer |
Fail modes
Harness security.fail_mode controls whether critical findings block the run (closed, default) or warn and continue (open). This applies to host scans, sandbox scan context, and the host-side runtime content scan alike.
Runtime interface contract
| Interface | Responsibility |
|---|---|
runtime.Runtime | Name, config dir, env exports, bootstrap, run loop, per-iteration artifact cleanup |
runtime.BootstrapInput | Portable agent name/path, skill dirs, and plugin dirs to upload |
runtime.SandboxHooksBootstrap | Optional BootstrapInput extension — runtime-neutral sandbox tool hook config (security.SandboxHookConfig); every runtime should honour it |
runtime.TranscriptHandler | Extract transcripts/debug logs; parse errors for CI annotations |
runtime.DebugLogNamer | Optional — names the per-iteration debug-log artifact (default agent-debug.log) |
runtime.ContextBridger | Optional — runtime auto-loads only CLAUDE.md, so the runner injects a CLAUDE.md→AGENTS.md pointer (Claude Code: yes; runtimes that read AGENTS.md natively: omit) |
A runtime whose Bootstrap does not type-assert SandboxHooksBootstrap will not install Tirith, SSRF, canary, or the other hook scripts. The primary security boundary is the OpenShell sandbox, its L7 egress policy, and credential placeholders (ADR 0017, ADR 0025); the hooks are defense-in-depth that every runtime should wire rather than silently drop (ADR 0090). Fill in the matrix column above either way.
Sandbox hook contract
Contract version: v2 — PostToolUse scripts consume Claude Code's tool_response (falling back to tool_result for adapters/tests) and replace output via hookSpecificOutput.updatedToolOutput. v1 (tool_result in/out only) was inert under Claude Code (#6357).
The hook scripts in internal/security/hooks/*.py are plain programs with no Claude Code dependency; Claude Code invokes them through settings.json. Any runtime can call them from its own tool-call interception point (OpenCode tool.execute.before/after, pi TypeScript extension API tool_call/tool_result with {block: true, reason} structured denial, Cursor hooks, ...).
Files and wiring
- Files:
security.HookFiles(cfg)returnsfilename → script bytesfor the enabled hooks;runtime.installHookScripts(sandbox, dir, cfg)createsdirin the sandbox and uploads them there (executable) — any directory works. Claude uses/sandbox/claude-config/hooks/(security.SandboxHooksDir), with the wiring at/sandbox/claude-config/hooks.json(security.SandboxHooksSettings) loaded via--settings. - Plan:
security.HookPlan(cfg)returns orderedHookGroup{Phase, Tools, Scripts}entries.GenerateHooksConfigis rendered fromHookPlan, so the two cannot diverge. - Phases:
PreToolUse,PostToolUse,PostToolUseFailure. The last carries Claude Code's failed-call payload (hook_event_name,tool_name,tool_input, a stringerror) and allows no output rewrite, so the chain halts there on a canary and otherwise only detects — logging credential-shaped and control content and returning anadditionalContextwarning. Adapters whose post-tool event already fires for failed calls (pi) map it onto nothing. - Tools:
HookGroup.Toolsare Claude Code tool names (Bash,Read,WebFetch,*= all); runtimes with other names translate before matching (see Tool-name vocabulary). - PostToolUse is one script: a single
posttool_chain.pyon*applies unicode → canary → suppress → redact in-process. Unicode normalization runs first because every later content decision is made on its output: an attacker who splits a canary or a secret with zero-width or fullwidth characters must not evade detection and then have the chain reassemble the clean value (Claude Code runs matching hooks in parallel and does not merge twoupdatedToolOutputrewrites). Individual sanitizer files andcanary_posttool.pyship as libraries the driver imports; adapters should invoke the chain, not the stages.
Tool-name vocabulary (#608)
security.CanonicalClaudeTools (internal/security/canonical_tools.go) lists the tool names Claude Code exposes; security.LegacyClaudeTools lists names Claude Code no longer has but that agent tools: frontmatter and adapters still use (LS, MultiEdit, Task → Agent, ...). FULLSEND_TOOL_ALLOWLIST and security.HookGroup.Tools are written in this vocabulary. Adapters must translate to it before invoking any hook script.
The vocabulary was verified 2026-08-23 against the live tools reference (the latest release); the CHANGELOG recorded no tool changes since the version pinned in the sandbox image at the time (2.1.234) — re-check on every pin bump, and note that the pin only describes what runs because of the build-time assertion in Pinned runtime binaries.
It is a reference checked by tests, not validated at run time:
| Test | Pins |
|---|---|
TestHookPlan_ToolsAreCanonical | every HookPlan tool |
TestPiToolNameMapsUseClaudeVocabulary | the pi adapter's maps (piToolForClaude/claudeToolForPi in internal/runtime/pi_agent.go → fullsend-manifest.json hooks.toolNames → fullsend-hooks.js claudeToolName()) to canonical or legacy names — pi's ls maps to LS, which Claude Code no longer sends, so an agent allowlisted in canonical-only vocabulary sees pi's ls as a plain tool_blocked |
TestToolAllowlistHook_VocabularyMatchesGo | the copy inside tool_allowlist_pretool.py identical to the Go set |
How tool_allowlist_pretool.py reports a name that does not match (the allowlist is exact-match and fail-closed, so an un-translated name is always blocked — the difference is the diagnosis):
| Situation | Finding | Severity / action | Reason text |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blocked name equals an allowlisted Claude name case-insensitively | tool_name_unnormalized | high / block | ALLOWLIST_HOOK_ERROR: tool name '<name>' is not canonical Claude vocabulary (expected '<entry>'); the runtime adapter must translate it (for a legacy entry: ... is not the legacy Claude name the allowlist uses (expected 'LS') ...) |
The tool name is the Claude one but the allowlist entry is not (e.g. Bash vs an allowlist written as bash) | allowlist_entry_unnormalized | high / block | ... is not Claude vocabulary (expected canonical name 'Bash'); fix the allowlist |
| Neither side is a Claude tool name | tool_name_case_collision | high / block | says so and blames neither |
| No case-insensitive match | tool_blocked | critical / block | plain block |
Non-string tool_name | — | block | blocks with the JSON contract rather than a traceback |
The three high findings do not trip critical-keyed escalation the way a forbidden tool does. MCP tools (mcp__<server>__<tool>) are not canonical — they are matched verbatim and a case variant is treated as a different tool (tool_blocked). The diagnostic only sees case variants: a renaming gap such as pi reporting every edit as Edit while an agent is allowlisted only for MultiEdit surfaces as a plain tool_blocked. No case-insensitive allow is performed.
Wire protocol (per script)
JSON on stdin; the script's exit code and stdout are the reply.
| Input | Reply | |
|---|---|---|
| PreToolUse | {"tool_name": ..., "tool_input": {...}} | exit 0 = allow. Blocking scripts exit 1 and print {"decision":"block","reason":"..."}; the adapter must stop the tool call and surface the reason |
| PostToolUse | the same plus the tool output as tool_response (Claude Code; string or structured object such as Bash {stdout, stderr, interrupted, isImage}), tool_result accepted as a fallback | Blocking (standalone canary_posttool.py, and posttool_chain.py when its canary stage fires): exit 1 + {"decision":"block",...}; the adapter drops the result. Sanitizing stages (suppress/unicode/redact): always exit 0 and, when they changed something, print {"hookSpecificOutput":{"hookEventName":"PostToolUse","updatedToolOutput": <same shape as the input value>}, "tool_result": <scan text>}. Empty stdout = unchanged |
Shape rules:
updatedToolOutputmust match the tool's output shape — a bare string is ignored for built-in Claude Code tools.scan_textflattens every string field (includingstderr), newline-joined so a needle cannot match across a field boundary (such a match would be unredactable, since the redactors rewrite each field independently);apply_textwrites a replacement into the first text slot and blanks the rest, or leaves unrecognized structured shapes unchanged.- Unicode normalization skips identifier fields (
hook_io.IDENTIFIER_KEYS: paths, URLs, commands, exact-match edit strings) — NFKC would hand Claude a path that does not exist on disk; secret redaction still walks them, since it only replaces matched patterns.
Sanitizer scope — what is rewritten, and what is not
The PostToolUse stages exist to remove controls-relevant content and nothing else, because an agent edits against what it reads — a rewritten Read result means Edit.old_string no longer matches the file, and a Write of what it saw persists the rewrite.
Secret redaction masks credential-shaped values only:
- the prefix patterns (
ghp_...,sk-...,AKIA..., bearer headers, private-key blocks, database URLs); - env/JSON shapes that need both a secret-bearing name (
..._TOKEN,api_key,accessToken— notTOKEN_URL/KEY_ID/publicKey) and a value that is not an identifier, member path (request.headers.authorization), URL, path, placeholder or word phrase (test-secret,ghs_policy_token); - a source-style
name = exprcounts only when the value is a quoted literal.
A sweep of 900 fullsend files through the chain rewrites only test files holding token-shaped fakes.
Context suppression condenses the output of exactly one verification command, and only from positive evidence:
- Commands:
go test,pytest,npm test,make test,pre-commit run,gitleaks detect,scan-secrets, with optional setup prefixes (cd,export,source). The command must start with the tool, after wrappers that run it (VAR=...,sudo,nice,timeout <n>,env VAR=...,uvx,npx,uv run,mise exec --, stacked;python3.12 -m pytestcounts). A command that merely mentions it, such asgrep -n scan-secrets hooks.py, keeps its output. - Evidence:
ok <pkg>,N passed,<hook>...Passed,no leaks. Silence is never condensed into "passed" — a hook whose interpreter is missing is silent too, and Claude Code's Bash result carries no exit code — so linters andgo vet/go build, whose clean run prints nothing, are never condensed. - Pass-through, untouched: pipelines (
| tailcan cut theFAILline; a|inside quotes such as-run 'A|B'is not a pipeline),$(...), chains of two tools (pytest; go test, and deliberately alsogo test && go vet— one summary cannot speak for two), a trailingecho $?, and any output carrying a failure marker (FAIL,panic:,Traceback,3 failed). Comment lines and backslash continuations are tolerated.
Unicode strips invisible, bidi, tag, NUL and ANSI/OSC characters and runs of variation selectors, but keeps compatibility characters (fullwidth, ligatures, CJK punctuation) and single emoji/CJK selectors. NFKC is applied to a detection copy (canary, secret patterns); a field is emitted normalized only when the normalized copy reveals an escape sequence or a secret the original hid.
Every rewrite attaches hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext so the agent knows the output was changed and why. Every hook entry carries timeout: 30 — Claude Code's 600 s default fails open, and so does the 30 s one (PreToolUse blockers included); the scripts finish in milliseconds and tirith_check.py bounds its own scan at 5 s, so the budget is headroom, not a ceiling the scripts approach.
Hook fail modes
| Component | On malformed / oversized input (> 10 × 1024 × 1024 characters, text-mode stdin) | On its own error |
|---|---|---|
Blocking scripts (all PreToolUse, standalone canary_posttool.py) | fail closed — block | block |
tirith_check.py | block | fails open when the tirith binary is missing, times out or errors — unless TIRITH_REQUIRED=1 (appendHookEnv writes it when Tirith is enabled; adapters must make sure it reaches the script) |
Sanitizing scripts / each posttool_chain.py sanitizer stage | fail open — pass through unchanged (exit 0; the unicode hook logs an input_truncated finding) | pass through; recorded in findings.jsonl as <stage>_stage_error |
posttool_chain.py canary stage | fails closed whenever FULLSEND_CANARY_TOKEN is set: input the driver cannot read blocks (exit 1, continue: false) instead of skipping detection; with no canary token configured it stays fail-open | a scan that raises is treated as a hit; a hit whose redaction cannot be verified clean withholds the output entirely; exit 1 is unconditional |
Also: empty/whitespace-only stdin is treated as "no tool call" and allowed by every script; a payload without tool_name blocks only in the allowlist hook; adapters must not treat a sanitizer's empty stdout as an error; detection and redaction share one case-insensitive matcher (hook_io.canary_pattern), so a token that is detected is always one that can be redacted.
Environment
runtime.appendHookEnv writes into /sandbox/workspace/.env; the runtime must launch the scripts with that file sourced (Claude's run command does). When the CLI layer resolves a forge egress entry (for example, the GitLab forge host and port via gitlab.ResolveForgeHostPort()), it passes it through SandboxHookConfig.WithForgeEgressEntry() and appendHookEnv merges it into FULLSEND_EGRESS_ALLOWLIST so the SSRF hook defers to the L7 proxy for the forge API (#6615). Findings go to /sandbox/workspace/.security/findings.jsonl.
| Variable | Read by | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|
TIRITH_FAIL_ON, TIRITH_REQUIRED | tirith_check.py | written by appendHookEnv; TIRITH_REQUIRED=1 turns the fail-open into fail-closed |
FULLSEND_EGRESS_ALLOWLIST | ssrf_pretool.py | comma-separated host:port entries, exact hostnames only — wildcards are skipped with a warning on stderr; on DNS failure the hook defers to the L7 proxy for allowlisted hosts instead of failing closed; if DNS succeeds but resolves to a blocked IP, the allowlist is not consulted |
FULLSEND_TOOL_ALLOWLIST | tool_allowlist_pretool.py | fail-closed when unset |
FULLSEND_CANARY_TOKEN | both canary hooks | no-ops when empty; supply it via harness env.sandbox/host_files |
FULLSEND_TRACE_ID | all scripts | correlates findings with the run |
Suppression reachability
Under Claude Code a non-zero-exit command never reaches PostToolUse at all, so the suppressors only ever see zero-exit output; a tool that exits 0 with nothing to say is the case that used to be summarized as "passed". Adapters whose post-tool event also fires for failures (pi's tool_result) do deliver failed calls to the same chain, which is why the positive-evidence rule matters on both.
Claude Code caveats (#6358, #6357)
- Loading — fixed by #6358. The hook wiring is written to the runner-owned
/sandbox/claude-config/hooks.jsonand passed explicitly via--settings, so it loads regardless of the CLI's working directory (previously it sat unread in/sandbox/workspace/.claude/); thehooks-loaded.featurebehaviour scenario guards the "silently not loaded" regression class. Claude Code still auto-loads a target repo's own<repo>/.claude/settings.jsonhooks from<cwd>— a separate exposure to assess. - Payload — fixed in #6357, contract v2. Scripts read
tool_response(fallbacktool_result) and replace output viahookSpecificOutput.updatedToolOutputwith the original shape preserved. Sanitizer order and canary detection shareposttool_chain.pyso two PostToolUse hooks cannot race.scan_textinspects every string field (includingstderr). - Failed tool calls. Claude Code fires
PostToolUseonly when a tool succeeds; a failed call (non-zero-exit Bash included) firesPostToolUseFailure, which delivers the error text but supports no output rewrite.HookPlanwires the sameposttool_chain.pythere, where it runs canary detection (halt) plus detection-only secret and unicode passes that log tofindings.jsonland return anadditionalContextwarning —additionalContextis the only output the event accepts, so a credential or an ANSI/zero-width sequence in a failed command's output still reaches the transcript unmasked and the agent is told not to copy or obey it.- Scanning covers every string in the payload rather than one named key (the documented field is
error; doc versions differ), halting viacontinue: false(the only decision control the event honours). - Detection also runs on a detection copy — NFKC-normalized with combining marks, format characters (zero-width, bidi, tag), line/paragraph separators, control characters and whole ANSI/OSC sequences removed, i.e. everything the unicode stage strips from a successful call — so it sees through the same obfuscation on both paths.
- Suppression, unicode normalization and redaction cannot apply to a failed call under Claude Code; pi sanitizes those too, because its
tool_resultevent fires for failures. interruptedon a Bashtool_responsemarks a cancelled tool, not an exit code — theExit codeprefix check inlooks_failedtherefore serves the v1 adapter path only.
- Blocking. Claude Code keys on the stdout JSON on any exit code (
decision:"block"is deprecated for PreToolUse but still maps todeny) and treats a bare exit1as non-blocking (exit2is its own blocking code); a local control run confirmed the scripts' "exit 1 +{"decision":"block"}" convention does block once the settings are loaded. For PostToolUse,decision:"block"only appendsreasonnext to the tool result — Claude still sees the original output.canary_posttool.pytherefore also emitsupdatedToolOutputwith the token redacted to[CANARY_REDACTED], and sets the universalcontinue: falsefield — the documented control that actually halts the session — so a leak still terminates the run.
Net: after #6358 and #6357, both PreToolUse and PostToolUse halves of the contract are effective under Claude Code.
Pinned runtime binaries in the sandbox image
images/sandbox/Containerfile pins every runtime binary and provider extension; fullsend-code extends that image, so both inherit the same pins. What is pinned, and what to re-check when a pin moves:
| Binary | Pin | Re-check on bump |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ARG CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION (npm, Renovate-tracked). The OpenShell base image ships its own unpinned Claude Code at /usr/local/bin/claude (whatever curl claude.ai/install.sh fetched when the base was built), and /usr/local/bin precedes npm's /usr/bin on the sandbox PATH — so the Containerfile replaces that file with a symlink to the npm install and fails the build unless claude --version equals the pin (#6612; before that fix the base image's 2.1.156 shadowed every pin). TestSandboxImageClaudeCodePinWins guards the step | the tool-name vocabulary; the hook contract caveats above; the alias table — opus/sonnet/haiku resolve from the running version's built-in defaults on Vertex, and ANTHROPIC_DEFAULT_*_MODEL does not steer the request there, so a harness or agents: entry that needs a specific generation must name the id |
| pi | ARG PI_VERSION (npm, --ignore-scripts, Renovate-tracked; TestSandboxImagePinsAreRenovateTracked) | parsePiStream fixtures (internal/runtime/testdata/pi/regen.sh); the extension compatibility notes in pi runtime internals |
pi-anthropic-vertex | ARG PI_ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_VERSION + tarball SHA256, under /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/anthropic-vertex | its sync/compat.json against the pinned pi; the @anthropic-ai/sdk override vs pi's packages/ai/package.json |
pi-xai-vertex | ARG PI_XAI_VERTEX_VERSION + tarball SHA256, under /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/xai-vertex | its peerDependencies floor (it mirrors no pi internals) |
The run log's Agent: <model> (vX.Y.Z) line is the ground truth for which Claude Code version served a run; the Containerfile pin is a claim, the assertion at build time is what makes it true.
Sandbox workspace layout
The sandbox has two key directories that map to Claude Code's config levels (plus a runner-owned config directory per additional runtime, e.g. pi-config/ for pi):
/sandbox/
├── pi-config/ ← PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR (pi runtime; written by PiRuntime.Bootstrap)
│ ├── APPEND_SYSTEM.md Agent definition body (appended to pi's default system prompt)
│ ├── settings.json defaultProjectTrust: never, quietStartup, retry/compaction on
│ ├── skills/<name>/SKILL.md Harness skills (pi's native skill discovery)
│ ├── hooks/*.py Security hook scripts (same files as claude-config/hooks/)
│ ├── fullsend-hooks.js Hook adapter extension (loaded with -e; --no-extensions otherwise)
│ ├── fullsend-manifest.json Agent tools/allowlist, HookPlan, pi version — read by Run and the extension
│ └── sessions/ PI_CODING_AGENT_SESSION_DIR (session JSONL → transcripts)
│
├── claude-config/ ← CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR (personal level)
│ ├── agents/
│ │ └── <name>.md Agent definition (filename derived from the agent name)
│ ├── skills/
│ │ ├── code-review/SKILL.md Built-in skills (personal level — wins on collision)
│ │ ├── pr-review/SKILL.md
│ │ └── ...
│ ├── plugins/
│ │ └── ... Plugin state (simplified; see bootstrapPlugins())
│ ├── hooks/ Security hook scripts (PreToolUse, PostToolUse)
│ └── hooks.json Hook wiring (loaded via --settings in buildRunCommand)
│
└── workspace/ ← SandboxWorkspace
├── .env Environment variables (sourced before claude)
├── .env.d/ Additional env files (host_files expand)
│
└── <repo-name>/ ← Claude Code's working directory (cd target)
├── CLAUDE.md Project instructions (repo's own or injected bridge)
├── AGENTS.md Project rules (repo's own or org default injected)
├── .claude/skills/ Repo skills (project level — shadowed on collision)
│ └── custom-lint/SKILL.md
└── src/... Target repo source codeAgent rule layering
When fullsend run executes an agent, Claude Code loads instructions from multiple sources. These compose — they occupy different layers, not competing slots:
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Layer 1: Agent Definition (system prompt) │
│ Source: /sandbox/claude-config/agents/<name>.md │
│ Loaded via: --agent flag │
│ Controls: role, task, tools, disallowedTools, model, │
│ built-in skills list │
│ Authority: highest — repo cannot modify │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Layer 2: Project Instructions (advisory) │
│ Source: /sandbox/workspace/<repo>/CLAUDE.md │
│ /sandbox/workspace/<repo>/AGENTS.md │
│ Loaded via: Claude Code auto-loads from working dir │
│ Controls: conventions, architecture, domain context │
│ Authority: advisory — cannot override layer 1 │
├────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Layer 3: Skills │
│ Personal: /sandbox/claude-config/skills/ (fullsend) │
│ Project: <repo>/.claude/skills/ (repo) │
│ Precedence: personal > project (name collision → │
│ fullsend wins, repo version shadowed) │
│ Repo skills extend the agent; use config-driven │
│ agent registration for org-level skill overrides │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘AGENTS.md injection logic
run.go step 8a (hasAgentsMD() / injectClaudeMDPointer()):
- If target repo has no AGENTS.md → inject org-level default from config repo, add to
.git/info/exclude - If the runtime implements
ContextBridger(Claude Code does), target repo has AGENTS.md but no CLAUDE.md → inject bridge CLAUDE.md pointing to AGENTS.md, add to.git/info/exclude - If target repo has both → use as-is
Context file security scanning
run.go steps 8c and 9b:
Repo context files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md) are scanned in two defense-in-depth passes before the agent starts:
- Host-side (Path A, step 8c):
scanRepoContextFiles()runs theInputPipeline(unicode normalizer, context injection scanner) on the host before files enter the sandbox. - Sandbox-side (Path B, step 9b):
buildScanContextCommand()runsfullsend scan contextinside the sandbox after all files are assembled.
Critical findings block the run in fail_mode: closed.
Dummy runtime operations
The dummy runtime executes a YAML script of operations inside the real sandbox (behaviour tests only). Besides write_fixture and fail, dispatch behaviour tests use:
| Op | Args | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
assert_env | VAR_NAME | Assert env var is set and non-empty in the sandbox |
assert_file | path | Assert file exists and is readable under the workspace |
assert_json | path,json_path | Assert JSON file exists and dot-path field is present and non-null (uses jq) |
Dummy-playback runtime
The dummy-playback runtime replays canned agent results from an ordered playlist without LLM inference (behaviour tests only). It reads .fullsend/results/playlist.yaml, serves the current entry's result.json to the sandbox output directory, copies companion files, and advances the playlist position.
Playlist format
current: 1 # 1-indexed position; the runtime serves results[current-1]
results:
- triage/round-1 # directory name under .fullsend/results/
- code/round-1
- review/round-1Each entry names a subdirectory of .fullsend/results/. The subdirectory must contain a result.json (the agent result to replay). Any other files are treated as companion files:
- Files under a
repo/subdirectory are placed relative to the target repo checkout inside the sandbox, simulating code changes the agent would have made. - All other files are placed relative to the sandbox workspace root.
Playback comment tracking
When a .fullsend/playback-comment-url file exists, the runtime reads the current playlist position from a forge comment (via gh api or glab api) instead of the local playlist.yaml. After serving a result, it updates the comment with the new position. The file format is <cli>\n<api-path> (e.g. gh\n/repos/owner/repo/issues/comments/123). Legacy single-line files default to gh.
Security
- Path traversal: entry names are validated to stay within the results directory.
- Argument injection: the
playback-comment-urlAPI path must start with/to prevent flag injection intogh/glabCLI calls. - Context propagation: forge API calls use
context.WithTimeoutto prevent indefinite blocking.
pi runtime internals (#6464)
User-facing pi behaviour is in Pi. This section keeps the verification provenance: what was checked against pi's source, on which version, and what must be re-checked on a PI_VERSION or extension bump.
One iteration, end to end — the amber decision is what makes "hooks enabled" enforceable, since pi silently skips a missing -e extension:
Posture
- No permission system at all — pi's stated posture is "run in a container". The OpenShell sandbox + L7 egress policy + credential placeholders (ADR 0017/0025) are the boundary, with the fullsend extension adapter as defense-in-depth (same posture as accepted for OpenCode in #1260 / ADR 0090).
- No built-in MCP — out of scope; fleet uses none.
- No
--max-turns/--timeout— the runner's exec timeout covers it; pi'sbashtool has no default command timeout either (core/tools/bash.ts), so a runaway command is bounded only by the iteration timeout, as with Claude Code. - Reads AGENTS.md natively — no CLAUDE.md bridge needed (does not implement
ContextBridger). - Tool names are lowercase (
bash,read,write,edit) — the hook adapter translates to the contract's Claude-name vocabulary (#608). - Fast release cadence (~weekly minors; 0.84.0 changed the
message_updatewire shape) — pin exact versions;parsePiStreamfixtures are hand-authored topackages/coding-agent/docs/json.md(andcore/agent-session.tsfor the session-level events) for the pinned version;internal/runtime/testdata/pi/regen.shre-recordsbasic_run.ndjsonfrom a live run.
Runs unattended
Parity with claude -p --dangerously-skip-permissions, verified against pi v0.84.2 source and empirically on the pinned build:
- pi has no tool-approval layer at all (nothing in
core/tools/*orcore/bash-executor.tsprompts). - In
--printmode extensions get a no-op UI context, soctx.ui.confirm/select/input/editorresolve immediately (modes/print-mode.ts,core/extensions/runner.ts). --no-approvesets the project-trust override, so the trust-gated project resources —.pi/{settings.json,extensions,skills,prompts,themes,SYSTEM.md,APPEND_SYSTEM.md}and.agents/skills(core/trust-manager.ts);AGENTS.mditself is still read as context — are ignored without a dialog (cli/args.ts,main.ts).defaultProjectTrust: neverin the global settings covers the no-flag case (verified on the pinned build: a planted.pi/extensions/evil.jsin the repo does not load under--no-approveand does under--approve).- First-run setup, theme selection, telemetry consent and the version check are interactive-only code paths (
PI_TELEMETRY=0,PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK=1/PI_OFFLINE=1set anyway). - A missing credential raises
No API key foundand exits 1 — no/loginprompt (core/agent-session.ts,modes/print-mode.ts); retries are bounded (retry.maxRetries: 3, 2/4/8 s) and compaction is automatic. - The one blocker found: print mode reads a non-TTY stdin to EOF before the first prompt, even with a positional message (
main.tsreadPipedStdin), so an exec that keeps stdin open with no writer hangs pi —Runtherefore appends</dev/nullto thepiinvocation; an idle upstream pipe then exits immediately (verified: open pipe without the redirect → killed by timeout; with it → proceeds).
Process and exit codes
- Hardening levers in use —
Runexecutespi --print --mode json --no-approve --no-extensions --no-prompt-templates --no-themes --session-dir /sandbox/pi-config/sessions [-e /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/anthropic-vertex | -e /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/xai-vertex] [-e /sandbox/pi-config/fullsend-hooks.js] [--tools ...] --model <provider/id> --thinking <effort|high> '<RunParams.Prompt, default "Run the agent task">' </dev/null [2>>/sandbox/workspace/pi-debug.log];settings.jsonsetsdefaultProjectTrust: never(repo-owned.pi/never loaded);PI_OFFLINE=1/PI_TELEMETRY=0/PI_SKIP_VERSION_CHECK=1come fromEnvExports. Context files (AGENTS.md) and skills stay on — they are the harness's own inputs.PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/extensions/is arbitrary TypeScript loaded at startup and the config dir is not a permission boundary, which is why only the explicit-epaths load (at most one vendored provider extension plus the hook adapter). Right after.envis sourced,Runre-exportsEnvExports()(PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, the session dir, the offline switches) so a rewritten.envcannot relocate pi's config directory. For the built-inopenaiprovider (openai/<id>, ADR 0092) no extension loads and no--api-keyis passed;Runinstead seedsauth.jsonunderPI_CODING_AGENT_DIRwith the placeholder the sandbox environment carries forOPENAI_API_KEY(PiOpenAIAuthSeed, before.envis sourced), because pi re-reads that file on every revision change and resolves the key per request — the runner re-runs the same seed throughsandbox execafter each credential refresh, which is what lets a running iteration follow a refresh on OpenShell 0.0.115, where a revision-scoped placeholder stays pinned to its generation and the unrevisioned alias is refused (--api-keywould outrank the file and pin the iteration). It unsetsOPENAI_BASE_URL/AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY/OPENAI_API_KEY/NODE_OPTIONS/NODE_PATHafter.env, fails the iteration with exit 1 when the environment holds anything but a gateway placeholder at seed time (before.env), and runs a config-dir integrity guard that exits 98 whenmodels.jsonexists orauth.jsonis anything but pi's own{}or exactly the seeded placeholder entry —models.jsonis the only way to move the provider's base URL, a redirect to another allowed REST host is the placeholder-leak path ADR 0025 describes, and pi itself writes an emptyauth.jsonon every start so only its content counts. The guard runs before the agent-writable.envis sourced and again after it behindunset -f test command grep tr sed printf, whether or not hooks are enabled. --mode jsonexits 0 on model error — only text mode mapsstopReason: error|abortedto exit 1.parsePiStreamis the intended detector (assistantstopReasononmessage_end.message/ lastagent_end.messagesentry) for the runner's exit-0-override (#2786/#5361).Runtees the stream tooutput.jsonl,ParseTranscriptFilereads it, andRunitself returns 1 on a stream-reported error, so the override and the runtime agree.- Exit code —
Runreturns 1 when pi exited 0 but the stream's singleResultEventreports an error (model error, incomplete stream), so the runner's exit-0 override and this agree;ParseTranscriptFilegives the same verdict from the tee'doutput.jsonl.
Agent definition translation
The Claude-style agent .md is parsed by Bootstrap:
Agent .md | pi | Note |
|---|---|---|
| body | APPEND_SYSTEM.md | pi's default prompt and tool guidance are kept; SYSTEM.md would replace them — a deliberate difference from Claude Code, whose --agent makes the body the system prompt. The lifecycle run should confirm the fleet prompts tolerate pi's preamble, otherwise switch to --system-prompt |
frontmatter tools: | --tools + an advisory Bash allowlist | pi enforces this strictly; Claude Code ≥ 2.1.119 enforces it unreliably |
model: | fallback for the harness model: | |
description | header line |
metrics.json/InitEvent carry the provider-stripped model id (claude-opus-4-6), as for Claude Code; the provider is gen_ai.system's job. For a provider whose ids are publisher-qualified this keeps that segment (xai/grok-4.6), since it is the wire id. Everything Run and the hook extension need is in fullsend-manifest.json because Bootstrap and Run are separate calls with no shared process state.
Hook adapter contract
Bootstrap installs security.HookFiles under /sandbox/pi-config/hooks/, writes the HookPlan into fullsend-manifest.json and loads the embedded fullsend-hooks.js extension with -e under --no-extensions (per pi v0.84.2 docs/extensions.md).
fullsend-hooks.js sends the scripts {tool_name, tool_input, tool_result, tool_response} with Claude tool names (bash→Bash, read→Read, write→Write, edit→Edit, grep→Grep, find→Glob, ls→LS; path mirrored to file_path) and reads back either the v1 tool_result or the v2 hookSpecificOutput.updatedToolOutput (#6357), so the same extension works before and after the PostToolUse chain lands.
- PreToolUse groups run in
HookPlanorder and stop at the first block; a script that cannot be spawned blocks; PostToolUse blocks withhold the result and mark itisError. - An unreadable manifest, or one without a hook plan, blocks every tool call.
- Because pi silently skips a missing
-epath,Runchecks — before sourcing the agent-writable.env, withcommand -p sha256sum/command -p cutso nothing in the shell environment can stand in for them — that the adapter exists and matches the embedded copy's SHA-256 and that the manifest exists, failing closed (exit 97) otherwise; it refuses to start at all (exit -1) when security is enabled but the manifest carries no hook plan; and it decides whether to load the adapter from the runner's security signal rather than the manifest. - The manifest and the hook scripts themselves stay agent-writable between iterations — the same residue Claude Code has with
claude-config/hooks.jsonand its scripts (both are written once atBootstrap). - Edit inputs keep pi's
edits[]shape, withpathmirrored tofile_pathand the firstoldText/newTextpair mirrored toold_string/new_string; no shipped script reads the latter. - pi fires
tool_resultfor failed calls too, so — unlike Claude Code'sPostToolUse— errored tool output is sanitized as well. - The
tool_call/tool_resultevent shapes the adapter relies on (toolName,input,content,isError;{block, reason}and{content, isError}replies) are verified against pi v0.84.2src/extensions/types.ts/runner.ts; the lifecycle run is the live confirmation.
Claude-on-Vertex via an interim extension
pi's google-vertex provider is Gemini-only and the upstream anthropic-vertex provider is an open PR (earendil-works/pi#5262, still open as of 2026-08-22). The sandbox image vendors twoGiants/pi-anthropic-vertex v0.1.13 (commit d3c9d10d, MIT; reviewed — a ~300-line entry point plus ~220 lines mirrored from pi's streamSimple helpers; it registers provider anthropic-vertex and delegates streaming to pi's built-in Anthropic provider through an AnthropicVertex client) under /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/anthropic-vertex, pinned by tag + tarball SHA256 (PI_ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_VERSION/_SHA256). It is root-owned and outside PI_CODING_AGENT_DIR, so pi never auto-loads it; for the anthropic-vertex provider Run passes it with -e (runtime.piVertexExtensionPath; providers without a vendored extension get pi's built-ins only).
Project, region, and credentials:
| Resolution | Note | |
|---|---|---|
| Project | GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT, then GCLOUD_PROJECT, then ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID, then GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT_ID | The fleet env exports both the first and the third; Run pins GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT to ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID when that is set, so the extension's first-wins order cannot diverge from Claude Code |
| Region | CLOUD_ML_REGION, then GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION, default us-east5 | |
| Auth | Google's google-auth-library reading GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS | In CI that is the Workload Identity Federation external_account config the runner delivers via host_files (ADR 0025 tier 4), whose credential_source.file is the OIDC token at /sandbox/workspace/.gcp-oidc-token that the runner refreshes every 4 minutes; the library exchanges it at sts.googleapis.com for a short-lived access token (direct federated identity, no impersonation) — exactly the path Claude Code uses, under the same *.googleapis.com egress allowlist and **/node binary rule |
Credential hygiene: the bundled Vertex client (@anthropic-ai/vertex-sdk 0.14.4 over @anthropic-ai/sdk 0.91.1) honours ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_BASE_URL as its endpoint and would send a stray ANTHROPIC_API_KEY to Google as X-Api-Key; ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN and ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL are overridden by the Google bearer and the explicit Vertex base URL, but pi's built-in anthropic provider reads ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN and the SDK would read ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL for any provider that leaves baseURL unset. So Run unsets ANTHROPIC_API_KEY/ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN/ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL/ANTHROPIC_VERTEX_BASE_URL after sourcing .env for the anthropic-vertex provider (matched case-insensitively, as pi resolves provider prefixes) and keeps them for a direct anthropic provider, which needs the key.
Known risks — re-check on every PI_VERSION or extension bump:
- v0.1.13 was synced against pi 0.81.1 (upstream sync issue twoGiants/pi-anthropic-vertex#24 is open) and its mirrored option mapping can drift.
- The extension pins
@anthropic-ai/sdkviaoverrides, and that must match the SDK version in pi'spackages/ai/package.json(both 0.91.1 today) because the Vertex client is cast to pi's Anthropic client type. - It copies pi's first-party Anthropic
compatflags (strict tools, eager input streaming, adaptive thinking) onto the Vertex models — the Run PR must smoke an adaptive and a non-adaptive model against Vertex and, if Vertex rejects any of these, override them inPI_CODING_AGENT_DIR/models.jsonrather than patching the extension.
Replace with the upstream provider once #5262 ships in a pinned release.
Grok-on-Vertex via a fullsend-owned extension
pi's built-in xai provider targets xAI's native API (api.x.ai, needs XAI_API_KEY) and google-vertex is Gemini-only, so neither reaches Grok on Vertex, which speaks the OpenAI-completions protocol. The sandbox image vendors fullsend-ai/pi-xai-vertex (MIT) under /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/xai-vertex, pinned by tag + tarball SHA256 (PI_XAI_VERTEX_VERSION/_SHA256, Renovate-tracked like the Anthropic one) and registering provider xai-vertex with model xai/grok-4.6.
- No mirrored internals. Unlike the Anthropic extension it registers
openAICompletionsApi()and lets pi do streaming, tools and usage — so there is nosync/compat.jsondrift to re-check on aPI_VERSIONbump; confirm itspeerDependenciesfloor instead. - Auth is ambient ADC through
google-auth-libraryreadingGOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, the same WIFexternal_accountpath as Claude-on-Vertex and under the same*.googleapis.comegress allowlist, so no new credential plumbing. - Endpoint is fixed to the global location (
/locations/global/endpoints/openapi) because Vertex serves this model only there — regional endpoints answerFAILED_PRECONDITION— soCLOUD_ML_REGION/GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATIONare deliberately ignored for this provider. Runpasses it with-e(runtime.piXaiVertexExtensionPath), unsetsXAI_API_KEYafter sourcing.envso pi's built-inxaiprovider cannot shadow it, and defaultsXAI_VERTEX_PROJECT_IDtoANTHROPIC_VERTEX_PROJECT_ID(thenGOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT) only when the runner has not set it, so the fleet's Vertex project is the default without becoming a ceiling. Each Vertex provider resolves its own project variable, so one pi process can serve Grok, Claude and Gemini from different GCP projects; overriding an explicit value would collapse that and leave no way to point Grok at a project where it is actually enabled in Model Garden (the call then fails 403PERMISSION_DENIED, and the extension does not warn because it did have a project — just the wrong one).- Model spec. pi sends
Model.idon the wire verbatim and Vertex wants the publisher-qualified name, so the id keeps its slash and the canonical spec is the three-segmentxai-vertex/xai/grok-4.6.translatePiModelnormalises the shortxai/...form and a bare id underFULLSEND_PI_PROVIDER=xai-vertexto that form, case-insensitively — matching the gate, which usesEqualFold— because a spec that escapes normalisation reaches pi's built-inxaiprovider withXAI_API_KEYstill set. A harness (or anagents:entry'smodel:) can name the three-segment spec directly, or select this provider with a baremodel:plusFULLSEND_PI_PROVIDER.
Binary present but unhooked
The pinned pi CLI and the vendored Vertex extensions ship in every sandbox image (so Bootstrap/Run work targets a reviewed version), so an agent on another runtime can invoke pi -e /usr/local/share/pi-extensions/anthropic-vertex ad hoc from Bash with none of that runtime's tool hooks — and in a Claude-on-Vertex sandbox the ADC credentials and project id it needs are already in the environment, so that is a working nested agent, not an inert binary. This is the same class of exposure as any interpreter the agent can run (python, node, curl with the same ADC token): the sandbox tool hooks are defense-in-depth and only see the top-level tool call (ADR 0090); the boundary remains the OpenShell sandbox, its L7 egress allowlist and the credential placeholders, which a nested pi cannot escape either. The image bakes PI_OFFLINE=1/PI_TELEMETRY=0 and the runner-owned config paths as defaults; treat the N/A — stub matrix cells as "not wired", not "cannot run".
Not yet exercised
runtime: pi is selectable, but no fleet lifecycle run on Vertex has been recorded yet:
- The Vertex model ids and the copied
compatflags have not been exercised against Vertex — smoke an adaptive and a non-adaptive model first; override with--model/FULLSEND_MODELif an id is rejected. - Parser fixtures are hand-authored to the v0.84.2 wire docs — re-record with
internal/runtime/testdata/pi/regen.shonce a run exists;extension_errorevents are not mapped. - The behaviour scenario
features/runtime/pi.feature(a real haiku run on Vertex of a minimal tool-using agent, assertingmetrics.jsonruntime: pi, atoolCallin the pi session transcript and token usage) is gated onBEHAVIOUR_CAPABILITIES=runtime-piuntilfullsend-sandbox:latestcarriesPI_VERSION;features/triage/triage.featureasserts the runtime selected from the repo config on every run. - Pilot on a disposable org with
triage/prioritize(no sub-agent assumptions) beforecode/fix.review/retrorely on Claude sub-agent rosters and are not supported: pi v0.84.2 has no sub-agent tool oragents/*.mdconcept in core — only the bundled example extension (examples/extensions/subagent/, spawnspi -p --mode jsonchildren without our hook adapter, Vertex provider,--no-approveor session dir) and the SDK route (createAgentSession()per child; parent extensions do not fire for children). A fullsend-owned sub-agent extension with the full child flag set is a follow-up tracked on #6527 (runtime parity backlog); until thenBootstrapappends a runtime note telling the agent no sub-agent tool exists and to execute sub-agent definitions itself, in order.
OpenAI via Workload Identity Federation
GPT models run on pi's built-in openai provider with no OpenAI credential in the sandbox (ADR 0092): fullsend run exchanges the job's GitHub OIDC token for a ≤1 h access token (internal/inference/openaiwif, or OPENAI_API_KEY from the runner environment for local runs), imports the fullsend-openai profile from the scaffold embedded in the binary (profiles are deliberately not layered into .fullsend/profiles, whose wholesale import would replace the fleet's canonical profiles), creates a run-scoped OpenShell provider openai-<sandbox suffix> of that type carrying it, and deletes that provider when the run ends; the fullsend-openai profile allows only POST /v1/responses on api.openai.com for **/node. A per-provider refresher re-exchanges a fresh assertion shortly before expires_in and hot-updates the provider (a static key only has its expiry pushed out), and is stopped before the deferred cleanup deletes — or, when a kept sandbox still references it, expires in place — the provider.
Other clouds
pi ships native amazon-bedrock (SDK default credential chain, incl. AWS_WEB_IDENTITY_TOKEN_FILE) and azure-openai-responses (api-key only, no Entra ID) providers; neither is wired into Run's alias table, credential hygiene or the runner's OIDC refresh yet, and no egress profile allows their hosts. Follow-up tracked against #6464.
