chore: bump claude-code to 2.1.154 and claude-agent-sdk to 0.3.154

claude-code CLI 2.1.128 -> 2.1.154 (Dockerfile build-arg). agent-runner SDK 0.2.128 -> 0.3.154: the 0.3 major moved @anthropic-ai/sdk and @modelcontextprotocol/sdk from regular deps to peer deps, so add @anthropic-ai/sdk ^0.100.0 as a direct dep and raise @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to ^1.29.0. Regenerate bun.lock. Typecheck + agent-runner tests pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs: update token count to 179k tokens · 89% of context window
2026-06-04 10:14:47 +08:00 · 2026-05-28 22:35:34 +03:00 · 2026-05-25 08:41:50 +00:00 · 2026-05-25 08:41:46 +00:00 · 2026-05-25 10:41:31 +02:00 · 2026-05-23 17:06:48 +00:00
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@@ -182,9 +182,12 @@ ATOMIC_CHAT_API_KEY=sk-...

 ### Restart the service

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+# Linux: systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ## Phase 4: Verify
@@ -93,10 +93,13 @@ Generate the secret: `node -e "console.log('nc-' + require('crypto').randomBytes

 ### 6. Build and restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw   # Linux
-# or: launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
+# or: launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
 ```

 ### 7. Verify
@@ -23,14 +23,17 @@ DC_SMTP_PORT

 ## 3. Rebuild and restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm run build
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh

 # Linux
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)

 # macOS
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)
 ```

 ## 4. Remove account data (optional)
@@ -98,12 +98,16 @@ The `/set-avatar` command (send an image with that caption) is the easiest way t

 ### Restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+
 # Linux
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)

 # macOS
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)
 ```

 On first start the adapter configures the email account (IMAP/SMTP credentials, calls `configure()`). Subsequent starts skip straight to `startIo()`. Account data is stored in `dc-account/` in the project root (or your `DC_ACCOUNT_DIR`).
@@ -232,7 +236,7 @@ Set `DC_SMTP_SECURITY=1` and `DC_SMTP_PORT=465` in `.env`, then restart.

 ```bash
 rm -f dc-account/accounts.lock
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+systemctl --user restart "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"
 ```

 ### Bot not responding after restart
@@ -162,10 +162,13 @@ If you changed `EMACS_CHANNEL_PORT` from the default:

 ## Restart NanoClaw

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
-# systemctl --user restart nanoclaw                # Linux
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)   # macOS
+# systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)             # Linux
 ```

 ## Verify
@@ -240,7 +243,7 @@ grep -q "import './emacs.js'" src/channels/index.ts && echo "imported" || echo "

 ### No response from agent

-1. NanoClaw running: `launchctl list | grep nanoclaw` (macOS) / `systemctl --user status nanoclaw` (Linux)
+1. NanoClaw running: `launchctl list | grep "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label)"` (macOS) / `systemctl --user status "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"` (Linux)
 2. Messaging group wired: `pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "SELECT mg.platform_id, ag.folder FROM messaging_groups mg JOIN messaging_group_agents mga ON mg.id = mga.messaging_group_id JOIN agent_groups ag ON ag.id = mga.agent_group_id WHERE mg.channel_type = 'emacs'"`
 3. Logs show inbound: `grep 'channel_type=emacs\|Emacs' logs/nanoclaw.log | tail -20`

@@ -282,13 +285,16 @@ If an agent outputs org-mode directly, markers get double-converted and render i

 ## Removal

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 rm src/channels/emacs.ts src/channels/emacs.test.ts emacs/nanoclaw.el
 # Remove the `import './emacs.js';` line from src/channels/index.ts
 # Remove EMACS_* lines from .env
 pnpm run build
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
-# systemctl --user restart nanoclaw                # Linux
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)   # macOS
+# systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)             # Linux

 # Remove the NanoClaw block from your Emacs config
 # Optionally clean up the messaging group:
@@ -92,7 +92,6 @@ onecli agents list

 ```bash
 grep -q 'CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION' container/Dockerfile && \
-grep -q "mcp__calendar__\*" container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts && \
 echo "ALREADY APPLIED — skip to Phase 3"
 ```

@@ -121,9 +120,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pnpm \
    pnpm install -g "@cocal/google-calendar-mcp@${CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION}"
 ```

-### Add tools to allowlist
-
-Edit `container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts`. Add `'mcp__calendar__*'` to `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` after `'mcp__nanoclaw__*'` (or after `'mcp__gmail__*'` if present).
+**No `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` edit needed.** `container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts` derives the allow-pattern dynamically from each group's `mcpServers` map (`Object.keys(this.mcpServers).map(mcpAllowPattern)`), so registering `calendar` in Phase 3 automatically allows `mcp__calendar__*`. Earlier versions of this skill instructed a static `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` edit — that's now redundant.

 ### Rebuild the container image

@@ -133,40 +130,59 @@ Edit `container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts`. Add `'mcp__calendar__*'`

 ## Phase 3: Wire Per-Agent-Group

-For each agent group, merge into `groups/<folder>/container.json`:
+For each agent group, persist two changes to the **central DB** (`data/v2.db`): the `mcpServers.calendar` entry and an `additionalMounts` entry for `.calendar-mcp`. Both flow through `materializeContainerJson` on every spawn, so editing `groups/<folder>/container.json` by hand does **not** stick — that file is regenerated from the DB.

-```jsonc
-{
-  "mcpServers": {
-    "calendar": {
-      "command": "google-calendar-mcp",
-      "args": [],
-      "env": {
-        "GOOGLE_OAUTH_CREDENTIALS": "/workspace/extra/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json",
-        "GOOGLE_CALENDAR_MCP_TOKEN_PATH": "/workspace/extra/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json"
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "additionalMounts": [
-    {
-      "hostPath": "/home/<user>/.calendar-mcp",
-      "containerPath": ".calendar-mcp",
-      "readonly": false
-    }
-  ]
-}
+### Register the MCP server
+
+For each chosen `<group-id>` (use `ncl groups list` to enumerate):
+
+```bash
+ncl groups config add-mcp-server \
+  --id <group-id> \
+  --name calendar \
+  --command google-calendar-mcp \
+  --args '[]' \
+  --env '{"GOOGLE_OAUTH_CREDENTIALS":"/workspace/extra/.calendar-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json","GOOGLE_CALENDAR_MCP_TOKEN_PATH":"/workspace/extra/.calendar-mcp/credentials.json"}'
 ```

-Substitute `<user>` with `echo $HOME`. `containerPath` is relative (mount-security rejects absolute paths — additional mounts land at `/workspace/extra/<relative>`).
+Approval behaviour depends on where you run it: from inside an agent's container `ncl` write verbs are approval-gated (admin approves before it lands); from a host operator shell with full scope, it executes immediately. Either way, the response tells you which path it took.

-**Same-group-as-gmail tip:** if this group already has the gmail MCP + `.gmail-mcp` mount, **merge, don't replace** — both entries coexist in `mcpServers` and `additionalMounts`.
+### Add the `.calendar-mcp` mount
+
+There is no `ncl groups config add-mount` verb yet (tracked in [#2395](https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw/issues/2395)). Until that ships, edit the DB directly via the in-tree wrapper (`scripts/q.ts` — `setup/verify.ts:5` codifies that NanoClaw avoids depending on the `sqlite3` CLI binary, so don't shell out to it):
+
+```bash
+GROUP_ID='<group-id>'
+HOST_PATH="$HOME/.calendar-mcp"
+MOUNT=$(jq -cn --arg h "$HOST_PATH" '{hostPath:$h, containerPath:".calendar-mcp", readonly:false}')
+pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "UPDATE container_configs \
+  SET additional_mounts = json_insert(additional_mounts, '\$[#]', json('$MOUNT')), \
+      updated_at = datetime('now') \
+  WHERE agent_group_id = '$GROUP_ID';"
+```
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root (where `data/v2.db` lives). The `$[#]` placeholder is SQLite JSON1's append-to-end notation; it's `\$`-escaped so bash doesn't arithmetic-expand it before sqlite sees it. `updated_at` is ISO-string everywhere else in the schema, so use `datetime('now')` — not `strftime('%s','now')`, which would silently mix epoch ints into a column of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS strings.
+
+**Switch to `ncl groups config add-mount` once #2395 lands.** Update this skill at that time.
+
+`containerPath` is relative (mount-security rejects absolute paths — additional mounts land at `/workspace/extra/<relative>`).
+
+**Why this can't be `groups/<folder>/container.json`:** post-migration `014-container-configs`, `materializeContainerJson` in `src/container-config.ts` rewrites that file from the DB on every spawn. Anything hand-edited there is silently overwritten on next restart.
+
+**Same-group-as-gmail tip:** if this group already has the gmail MCP + `.gmail-mcp` mount, both coexist — `ncl groups config add-mcp-server` only updates the named entry, and `json_insert` appends to `additional_mounts` without disturbing existing entries.

 ## Phase 4: Build and Restart

 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw   # Linux
-# launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
+```
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
 ```

 Kill any existing agent containers so they respawn with the new mcpServers config:
@@ -193,16 +209,28 @@ Common signals:
 - `command not found: google-calendar-mcp` → image not rebuilt.
 - `ENOENT ...credentials.json` → mount missing. Check the mount allowlist.
 - `401 Unauthorized` from `*.googleapis.com` → OneCLI isn't injecting; verify agent's secret mode and that Google Calendar is connected.
- Agent says "I don't have calendar tools" → `mcp__calendar__*` missing from `TOOL_ALLOWLIST`, or image cache stale (`./container/build.sh` again).
+- Agent says "I don't have calendar tools" → the `calendar` MCP server isn't registered in this group's `mcpServers` (re-run the `ncl groups config add-mcp-server` step in Phase 3 for that group and restart it), or the agent-runner image is stale (`./container/build.sh`, `--no-cache` if suspicious).

 ## Removal

-1. Delete `"calendar"` from `mcpServers` and the `.calendar-mcp` mount from `additionalMounts` in each group's `container.json`.
-2. Remove `'mcp__calendar__*'` from `TOOL_ALLOWLIST`.
+1. For each group that had Calendar wired, remove the MCP server from the DB:
+   ```bash
+   ncl groups config remove-mcp-server --id <group-id> --name calendar
+   ```
+2. Remove the `.calendar-mcp` mount from the DB (no `remove-mount` verb yet — same #2395 dependency):
+   ```bash
+   pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "UPDATE container_configs \
+     SET additional_mounts = (SELECT json_group_array(value) FROM json_each(additional_mounts) \
+                              WHERE json_extract(value, '\$.containerPath') != '.calendar-mcp'), \
+         updated_at = datetime('now') \
+     WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>';"
+   ```
 3. Remove `CALENDAR_MCP_VERSION` ARG and the calendar package from the Dockerfile install block.
-4. `pnpm run build && ./container/build.sh && systemctl --user restart nanoclaw`.
+4. `pnpm run build && ./container/build.sh && systemctl --user restart "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"`.
 5. Optional: `rm -rf ~/.calendar-mcp/` and `onecli apps disconnect --provider google-calendar`.

+No `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` removal step — Phase 2 no longer edits it.
+
 ## Credits & references

 - **MCP server:** [`@cocal/google-calendar-mcp`](https://github.com/cocal-com/google-calendar-mcp) — MIT-licensed, actively maintained, multi-account and multi-calendar.
@@ -136,7 +136,15 @@ Use `per-thread` session mode so each PR/issue gets its own agent session.

 If you're in the middle of `/setup`, return to the setup flow now.

-Otherwise, restart the service (`systemctl --user restart nanoclaw` or `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`) to pick up the new channel.
+Otherwise, restart the service to pick up the new channel.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
+```

 ## Channel Info

@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ onecli agents secrets --id <agent-id>

 ```bash
 grep -q 'GMAIL_MCP_VERSION' container/Dockerfile && \
-grep -q "mcp__gmail__\*" container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts && \
 echo "ALREADY APPLIED — skip to Phase 3"
 ```

@@ -132,9 +131,7 @@ Pinned version matters — `minimumReleaseAge` in `pnpm-workspace.yaml` gates tr

 **Why the `zod-to-json-schema` pin:** `@gongrzhe/server-gmail-autoauth-mcp@1.1.11` has loose deps (`zod-to-json-schema: ^3.22.1`, `zod: ^3.22.4`). pnpm resolves `zod-to-json-schema` to the latest 3.25.x, which imports `zod/v3` — a subpath that only exists in `zod>=3.25`. But `zod` resolves to `3.24.x` (highest satisfying `^3.22.4` without breaking peer ranges). Result: `ERR_PACKAGE_PATH_NOT_EXPORTED` at import time. Pinning `zod-to-json-schema` to a pre-v3-subpath version avoids it. Re-check if you bump `GMAIL_MCP_VERSION`.

-### Add tools to allowlist
-
-Edit `container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts`. Find `'mcp__nanoclaw__*',` in `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` and add `'mcp__gmail__*',` after it.
+**No `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` edit needed.** `container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts` derives the allow-pattern dynamically from each group's `mcpServers` map (`Object.keys(this.mcpServers).map(mcpAllowPattern)`), so registering `gmail` in Phase 3 automatically allows `mcp__gmail__*`. Earlier versions of this skill instructed a static `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` edit — that's now redundant.

 ### Rebuild the container image

@@ -146,42 +143,63 @@ Must complete cleanly. The new `pnpm install -g` layer is ~60s first time (cache

 ## Phase 3: Wire Per-Agent-Group

-For each agent group that should have Gmail (ask the user — typically their personal DM and CLI agents, sometimes shared household agents), edit `groups/<folder>/container.json` to add the mount and MCP server.
+For each agent group that should have Gmail (ask the user — typically their personal DM and CLI agents, sometimes shared household agents), persist two changes to the **central DB** (`data/v2.db`): the `mcpServers.gmail` entry and an `additionalMounts` entry for `.gmail-mcp`. Both flow through `materializeContainerJson` on every spawn, so editing `groups/<folder>/container.json` by hand does **not** stick — that file is regenerated from the DB.

-Merge these into the group's `container.json`:
+### List groups, pick which ones get Gmail

-```jsonc
-{
-  "mcpServers": {
-    "gmail": {
-      "command": "gmail-mcp",
-      "args": [],
-      "env": {
-        "GMAIL_OAUTH_PATH": "/workspace/extra/.gmail-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json",
-        "GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH": "/workspace/extra/.gmail-mcp/credentials.json"
-      }
-    }
-  },
-  "additionalMounts": [
-    {
-      "hostPath": "/home/<user>/.gmail-mcp",
-      "containerPath": ".gmail-mcp",
-      "readonly": false
-    }
-  ]
-}
+```bash
+ncl groups list
 ```

-Substitute `<user>` with the host user's home (use `echo $HOME`, don't assume `~` will expand — `container-runner.ts` does expand `~` via `expandPath`, but an explicit absolute path is clearer and matches what `/manage-mounts` writes).
+### Register the MCP server
+
+For each chosen `<group-id>`:
+
+```bash
+ncl groups config add-mcp-server \
+  --id <group-id> \
+  --name gmail \
+  --command gmail-mcp \
+  --args '[]' \
+  --env '{"GMAIL_OAUTH_PATH":"/workspace/extra/.gmail-mcp/gcp-oauth.keys.json","GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH":"/workspace/extra/.gmail-mcp/credentials.json"}'
+```
+
+Approval behaviour depends on where you run it: from inside an agent's container `ncl` write verbs are approval-gated (admin approves before it lands); from a host operator shell with full scope, it executes immediately. Either way, the response tells you which path it took.
+
+### Add the `.gmail-mcp` mount
+
+There is no `ncl groups config add-mount` verb yet (tracked in [#2395](https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw/issues/2395)). Until that ships, edit the DB directly via the in-tree wrapper (`scripts/q.ts` — `setup/verify.ts:5` codifies that NanoClaw avoids depending on the `sqlite3` CLI binary, so don't shell out to it):
+
+```bash
+GROUP_ID='<group-id>'
+HOST_PATH="$HOME/.gmail-mcp"
+MOUNT=$(jq -cn --arg h "$HOST_PATH" '{hostPath:$h, containerPath:".gmail-mcp", readonly:false}')
+pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "UPDATE container_configs \
+  SET additional_mounts = json_insert(additional_mounts, '\$[#]', json('$MOUNT')), \
+      updated_at = datetime('now') \
+  WHERE agent_group_id = '$GROUP_ID';"
+```
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root (where `data/v2.db` lives). The `$[#]` placeholder is SQLite JSON1's append-to-end notation; it's `\$`-escaped so bash doesn't arithmetic-expand it before sqlite sees it. `updated_at` is ISO-string everywhere else in the schema, so use `datetime('now')` — not `strftime('%s','now')`, which would silently mix epoch ints into a column of YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS strings.
+
+**Switch to `ncl groups config add-mount` once #2395 lands.** Update this skill at that time.

 **Why the container path is relative:** `mount-security` rejects absolute `containerPath` values. Additional mounts are prefixed with `/workspace/extra/`, so `containerPath: ".gmail-mcp"` lands at `/workspace/extra/.gmail-mcp`. The MCP server's `GMAIL_OAUTH_PATH` / `GMAIL_CREDENTIALS_PATH` env vars point at that absolute location inside the container.

+**Why this can't be `groups/<folder>/container.json`:** post-migration `014-container-configs`, `materializeContainerJson` in `src/container-config.ts` rewrites that file from the DB on every spawn. Anything hand-edited there is silently overwritten on next restart.
+
 ## Phase 4: Build and Restart

 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw  # Linux
-# launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
+```
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
 ```

 ## Phase 5: Verify
@@ -206,17 +224,29 @@ Common signals:
 - `command not found: gmail-mcp` → image wasn't rebuilt or PATH doesn't include `/pnpm` (should — `ENV PATH="$PNPM_HOME:$PATH"` in Dockerfile).
 - `ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/workspace/extra/.gmail-mcp/credentials.json'` → mount is missing. Check `~/.config/nanoclaw/mount-allowlist.json` includes a parent of `~/.gmail-mcp`.
 - `401 Unauthorized` from `gmail.googleapis.com` → OneCLI isn't injecting. Check the agent's secret mode (`onecli agents secrets --id <agent-id>`) and that the Gmail app is connected (`onecli apps get --provider gmail`).
- Agent says "I don't have Gmail tools" → `mcp__gmail__*` wasn't added to `TOOL_ALLOWLIST`, or the agent-runner wasn't rebuilt (image cache — run `./container/build.sh` again with `--no-cache` if suspicious).
+- Agent says "I don't have Gmail tools" → the `gmail` MCP server isn't registered in this group's `mcpServers` (re-run the `ncl groups config add-mcp-server` step in Phase 3 for that group and restart it), or the agent-runner image is stale (rebuild with `./container/build.sh`, with `--no-cache` if suspicious).

 ## Removal

-1. Delete the `"gmail"` entry from `mcpServers` and the `.gmail-mcp` entry from `additionalMounts` in each group's `container.json`.
-2. Remove `'mcp__gmail__*'` from `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` in `container/agent-runner/src/providers/claude.ts`.
+1. For each group that had Gmail wired, remove the MCP server from the DB:
+   ```bash
+   ncl groups config remove-mcp-server --id <group-id> --name gmail
+   ```
+2. Remove the `.gmail-mcp` mount from the DB (no `remove-mount` verb yet — same #2395 dependency):
+   ```bash
+   pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "UPDATE container_configs \
+     SET additional_mounts = (SELECT json_group_array(value) FROM json_each(additional_mounts) \
+                              WHERE json_extract(value, '\$.containerPath') != '.gmail-mcp'), \
+         updated_at = datetime('now') \
+     WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>';"
+   ```
 3. Remove the `GMAIL_MCP_VERSION` ARG and the `pnpm install -g @gongrzhe/server-gmail-autoauth-mcp` block from `container/Dockerfile`.
-4. `pnpm run build && ./container/build.sh && systemctl --user restart nanoclaw`.
+4. `pnpm run build && ./container/build.sh && systemctl --user restart "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"`.
 5. (Optional) `rm -rf ~/.gmail-mcp/` if no other host-side tool needs the stubs.
 6. (Optional) Disconnect Gmail in OneCLI: `onecli apps disconnect --provider gmail`.

+No `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` removal step — Phase 2 no longer edits it.
+
 ## Notes

 - **Stub format is OneCLI-prescribed.** The `access_token: "onecli-managed"` pattern with `expiry_date: 99999999999999` tells the Google auth client the token is valid; OneCLI intercepts the outgoing Gmail API call and rewrites `Authorization: Bearer onecli-managed` to the real token. `expiry_date: 0` (refresh-interception) is an alternative the OneCLI docs describe — both work but OneCLI's own `migrate` command writes the far-future variant, which is what this skill assumes.
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Stop and wait for the user to confirm before continuing.

 ### Remote Mode (Photon API)

-1. Set up a [Photon](https://photon.im) account
+1. Set up a [Photon](https://photon.codes) account
 2. Get your server URL and API key

 ### Configure environment
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ If yes, ask the agent to schedule the lint task using the `schedule_task` MCP to

 ## Step 6: Restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
 ```

 Tell the user to test by sending a source to the wiki group.
@@ -156,7 +156,15 @@ The `platform_id` must be `linear:<TEAM_KEY>` matching the `LINEAR_TEAM_KEY` env

 If you're in the middle of `/setup`, return to the setup flow now.

-Otherwise, restart the service (`systemctl --user restart nanoclaw` or `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`) to pick up the new channel.
+Otherwise, restart the service to pick up the new channel.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
+```

 ## Channel Info

@@ -89,9 +89,12 @@ docker run --rm --entrypoint mnemon nanoclaw-agent:latest --version

 ### Restart the service

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw          # Linux
-# launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
+# launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)   # macOS
 ```

 ### Confirm mnemon hooks are registered
@@ -130,12 +130,15 @@ file, not from env vars. This file is bind-mounted into the container as `~/.cla

 ## 5. Build and restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"
 pnpm run build
-launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.plist
-launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.plist
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/$(launchd_label).plist
+launchctl load   ~/Library/LaunchAgents/$(launchd_label).plist
+# Linux: systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ## 6. Verify
@@ -122,9 +122,12 @@ OLLAMA_HOST=http://your-ollama-host:11434

 ### Restart the service

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
 ```

 ## Phase 4: Verify
@@ -229,19 +229,22 @@ echo '{}' | docker run -i --entrypoint /bin/echo nanoclaw-agent:latest "Containe

 ### 7. Restart Service

-Rebuild the main app and restart:
+Rebuild the main app and restart.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:

 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+# Linux: systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 Wait 3 seconds for service to start, then verify:
 ```bash
 sleep 3
-launchctl list | grep nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user status nanoclaw
+launchctl list | grep "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label)"  # macOS
+# Linux: systemctl --user status "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"
 ```

 ### 8. Test Integration
@@ -287,4 +290,4 @@ To remove Parallel AI integration:
 2. Revert changes to container-runner.ts and agent-runner/src/index.ts
 3. Remove Web Research Tools section from groups/main/CLAUDE.md
 4. Rebuild: `./container/build.sh && pnpm run build`
-5. Restart: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw` (macOS) or `systemctl --user restart nanoclaw` (Linux)
+5. Restart: `source setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)` (macOS) or `source setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)` (Linux)
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+---
+name: add-rtk
+description: Install rtk token-compression proxy into agent containers. Routes Bash tool calls through rtk for 60–90% token savings on dev commands (git, cargo, pytest, docker, kubectl, etc.).
+---
+
+# Add rtk
+
+Install [rtk](https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk) — a CLI proxy delivering 60–90% token savings on common dev commands (git, cargo, pytest, docker, kubectl, etc.) — and wire it transparently into agent containers via the Claude Code `PreToolUse` hook.
+
+## What this sets up
+
+- `rtk` binary at `~/.local/bin/rtk` on the host
+- `~/.local/bin/rtk` mounted read-only at `/usr/local/bin/rtk` inside the target agent group's containers
+- `PreToolUse` hook in the agent group's `settings.json` so every Bash call is automatically filtered through rtk — no CLAUDE.md instructions needed
+
+## Step 1 — Install rtk on the host
+
+```bash
+curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rtk-ai/rtk/refs/heads/master/install.sh | sh
+```
+
+If the script put the binary elsewhere, move it:
+
+```bash
+find ~/.local ~/.cargo/bin ~/bin -name rtk 2>/dev/null
+mv "$(which rtk 2>/dev/null)" ~/.local/bin/rtk
+```
+
+Verify:
+
+```bash
+~/.local/bin/rtk --version
+chmod +x ~/.local/bin/rtk   # if needed
+```
+
+## Step 2 — Identify the target agent group
+
+```bash
+ncl groups list
+```
+
+Note the group ID (e.g. `ag-1776342942165-ptgddd`). Repeat Steps 3–5 for each group.
+
+## Step 3 — Mount rtk into the container config
+
+`additional_mounts` is a JSON column not exposed via `ncl config update`. Update it directly via the DB helper, merging with any existing mounts.
+
+Read current mounts first:
+
+```bash
+pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db \
+  "SELECT additional_mounts FROM container_configs WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>'"
+```
+
+Then write the merged array (include all existing entries plus the rtk entry):
+
+```bash
+pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db \
+  "UPDATE container_configs SET additional_mounts = '<merged-json>' WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>'"
+```
+
+The rtk entry to append: `{"hostPath":"/home/<user>/.local/bin/rtk","containerPath":"/usr/local/bin/rtk","readonly":true}`
+
+Verify:
+
+```bash
+pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db \
+  "SELECT additional_mounts FROM container_configs WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>'"
+```
+
+## Step 4 — Add the PreToolUse hook to settings.json
+
+Each agent group has a `settings.json` at:
+
+```
+data/v2-sessions/<group-id>/.claude-shared/settings.json
+```
+
+This file is mounted at `/home/node/.claude/settings.json` inside the container and is read by Claude Code for hooks, env, and model config.
+
+Add the `PreToolUse` entry using `jq` to merge safely:
+
+```bash
+SETTINGS="data/v2-sessions/<group-id>/.claude-shared/settings.json"
+
+jq '.hooks.PreToolUse = [{"matcher":"Bash","hooks":[{"type":"command","command":"rtk hook claude"}]}]' \
+  "$SETTINGS" > /tmp/rtk-settings.json && mv /tmp/rtk-settings.json "$SETTINGS"
+```
+
+If `PreToolUse` already exists, append instead of overwriting:
+
+```bash
+jq '.hooks.PreToolUse += [{"matcher":"Bash","hooks":[{"type":"command","command":"rtk hook claude"}]}]' \
+  "$SETTINGS" > /tmp/rtk-settings.json && mv /tmp/rtk-settings.json "$SETTINGS"
+```
+
+## Step 5 — Restart the container
+
+```bash
+ncl groups restart --id <group-id>
+```
+
+No `--message` needed — the hook is transparent and requires no agent awareness.
+
+## Verify
+
+Ask the agent to run `git status` or any other supported command. rtk intercepts it silently. Check savings with:
+
+```bash
+~/.local/bin/rtk gain
+```
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+### `rtk: command not found` inside the container
+
+Mount wasn't applied or container wasn't restarted:
+
+```bash
+pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db \
+  "SELECT additional_mounts FROM container_configs WHERE agent_group_id = '<group-id>'"
+# Look for entry with /usr/local/bin/rtk
+ncl groups restart --id <group-id>
+```
+
+### Hook not firing
+
+Verify the hook is in `settings.json`:
+
+```bash
+jq '.hooks.PreToolUse' data/v2-sessions/<group-id>/.claude-shared/settings.json
+```
+
+If missing, re-run Step 4.
+
+### Binary won't execute — permission denied
+
+```bash
+chmod +x ~/.local/bin/rtk
+```
@@ -90,17 +90,21 @@ No output = success.

 > ⚠ Stop NanoClaw before running signal-cli commands — the daemon holds an exclusive lock on its data directory while running.

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+
 # macOS
-launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.plist
+launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/$(launchd_label).plist
 signal-cli -a +1YOURNUMBER updateProfile --name "YourBotName"
 # optionally: --avatar /path/to/avatar.jpg
-launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.plist
+launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/$(launchd_label).plist

 # Linux
-systemctl --user stop nanoclaw
+systemctl --user stop $(systemd_unit)
 signal-cli -a +1YOURNUMBER updateProfile --name "YourBotName"
-systemctl --user start nanoclaw
+systemctl --user start $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ### Path B: Link as secondary device
@@ -185,12 +189,16 @@ Sync to container: `mkdir -p data/env && cp .env data/env/env`

 ### Restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+
 # macOS
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)

 # Linux
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ## Wiring
@@ -283,7 +291,7 @@ If you see `Signal daemon not reachable at 127.0.0.1:7583` and `SIGNAL_MANAGE_DA

 1. Channel initialized: `grep "Signal channel connected" logs/nanoclaw.log | tail -1`
 2. Channel wired: `pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "SELECT mg.platform_id, mg.name FROM messaging_groups mg JOIN messaging_group_agents mga ON mg.id = mga.messaging_group_id WHERE mg.channel_type='signal'"`
-3. Service running: `launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw` (macOS) / `systemctl --user status nanoclaw` (Linux)
+3. Service running: `launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/"$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label)"` (macOS) / `systemctl --user status "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"` (Linux)
 4. **Check for duplicate service instances** — if `logs/nanoclaw.error.log` shows `No adapter for channel type channelType="signal"` despite the adapter starting, two NanoClaw processes are racing. See the `/debug` skill section "No adapter for channel type / Messages silently lost" for the full fix.

 ### Messages delivered but never arrive (null platformMsgId)
@@ -55,6 +55,47 @@ pnpm run build

 ## Credentials

+Two paths — manual (Azure Portal) or auto (Teams CLI).
+
+### Auto: Teams CLI
+
+Requires Node.js 18+, a Microsoft 365 account with sideloading permissions, and a public HTTPS endpoint (ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, or similar).
+
+1. Install the CLI:
+
+   ```bash
+   npm install -g @microsoft/teams.cli@preview
+   ```
+
+2. Sign in and verify:
+
+   ```bash
+   teams login
+   teams status
+   ```
+
+3. Create the Entra app, client secret, and bot registration:
+
+   ```bash
+   teams app create \
+     --name "NanoClaw" \
+     --endpoint "https://your-domain/api/webhooks/teams"
+   ```
+
+   The CLI prints the credentials as `CLIENT_ID`, `CLIENT_SECRET`, and `TENANT_ID`. Map them to NanoClaw's env keys:
+
+   - `CLIENT_ID` → `TEAMS_APP_ID`
+   - `CLIENT_SECRET` → `TEAMS_APP_PASSWORD`
+   - `TENANT_ID` → `TEAMS_APP_TENANT_ID`
+
+4. Pick **Install in Teams** from the post-create menu and confirm in the Teams dialog.
+
+Continue to [Configure environment](#configure-environment).
+
+---
+
+The steps below describe the **manual Azure Portal path**.
+
 ### Step 1: Create an Azure AD App Registration

 1. Go to [Azure Portal](https://portal.azure.com) > **App registrations** > **New registration**
@@ -41,9 +41,12 @@ DELETE FROM messaging_groups WHERE channel_type = 'wechat';

 ### 6. Rebuild and restart

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw   # Linux
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
 # or
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
 ```
@@ -82,12 +82,15 @@ Sync to container: `mkdir -p data/env && cp .env data/env/env`

 ### 2. Start the service and scan the QR

-Restart NanoClaw:
+Restart NanoClaw.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:

 ```bash
-systemctl --user restart nanoclaw   # Linux
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
 # or
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw   # macOS
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
 ```

 The adapter will print a **QR URL** to the logs and save it to `data/wechat/qr.txt`:
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Skip to **Credentials** if all of these are already in place:
 - `setup/whatsapp-auth.ts` and `setup/groups.ts` both exist
 - `setup/index.ts`'s `STEPS` map contains both `'whatsapp-auth':` and `groups:`
 - `@whiskeysockets/baileys`, `qrcode`, `pino` are listed in `package.json` dependencies
+- `.claude/skills/add-whatsapp/scripts/wa-qr-browser.ts` exists (ships with this skill)

 Otherwise continue. Every step below is safe to re-run.

@@ -95,7 +96,7 @@ If IS_HEADLESS=true AND not WSL → AskUserQuestion: How do you want to authenti
 - **QR code in terminal** - Displays QR code in the terminal (can be too small on some displays)

 Otherwise (macOS, desktop Linux, or WSL) → AskUserQuestion: How do you want to authenticate WhatsApp?
- **QR code in browser** (Recommended) - Opens a browser window with a large, scannable QR code
+- **QR code in browser** (Recommended) - Runs a small local HTTP server that renders the rotating QR as a PNG and auto-opens your default browser
 - **Pairing code** - Enter a numeric code on your phone (no camera needed, requires phone number)
 - **QR code in terminal** - Displays QR code in the terminal (can be too small on some displays)

@@ -114,11 +115,13 @@ rm -rf store/auth/
 For QR code in browser (recommended):

 ```bash
-pnpm exec tsx setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr-browser
+pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/add-whatsapp/scripts/wa-qr-browser.ts
 ```

 (Bash timeout: 150000ms)

+The wrapper spawns `setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr`, parses each rotating QR from its `WHATSAPP_AUTH_QR` status blocks, and serves the current QR as a PNG on a local HTTP server (default port `8765`, falls back to a free port). Flags: `--clean` (wipes `store/auth/` before spawning) and `--port N`.
+
 Tell the user:

 > A browser window will open with a QR code.
@@ -130,11 +133,13 @@ Tell the user:
 For QR code in terminal:

 ```bash
-pnpm exec tsx setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr-terminal
+pnpm exec tsx setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr
 ```

 (Bash timeout: 150000ms)

+The setup driver emits each rotating QR as a `WHATSAPP_AUTH_QR` status block; when run directly (not through `setup:auto`) the raw QR string is printed and your terminal must render it as ASCII. If your terminal can't render it readably, use the browser method above.
+
 Tell the user:

 > 1. Open WhatsApp > **Settings** > **Linked Devices** > **Link a Device**
@@ -220,10 +225,10 @@ Not supported (WhatsApp linked device limitation): edit messages, delete message

 ### QR code expired

-QR codes expire after ~60 seconds. Re-run the auth command:
+QR codes expire after ~60 seconds. The browser wrapper rotates automatically as long as it's running; if it was stopped, re-run with `--clean`:

 ```bash
-rm -rf store/auth/ && pnpm exec tsx setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr-browser
+pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/add-whatsapp/scripts/wa-qr-browser.ts --clean
 ```

 ### Pairing code not working
@@ -236,20 +241,23 @@ rm -rf store/auth/ && pnpm exec tsx setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --met

 Ensure: digits only (no `+`), phone has internet, WhatsApp is updated.

-If pairing code keeps failing, switch to QR-browser auth instead:
+WhatsApp's pairing-code flow occasionally rejects valid codes with "Couldn't link device — An error happened. Please try again." This is a server-side rejection unrelated to the code itself; we've seen it happen twice in a row on fresh dedicated numbers. If you hit it more than once, switch to QR-browser auth — it has a noticeably higher success rate:

 ```bash
-rm -rf store/auth/ && pnpm exec tsx setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr-browser
+pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/add-whatsapp/scripts/wa-qr-browser.ts --clean
 ```

 ### "waiting for this message" on reactions

-Signal sessions corrupted from rapid restarts. Clear sessions:
+Signal sessions corrupted from rapid restarts. Clear sessions.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:

 ```bash
-systemctl --user stop nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+systemctl --user stop $(systemd_unit)
 rm store/auth/session-*.json
-systemctl --user start nanoclaw
+systemctl --user start $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ### Bot not responding
@@ -257,7 +265,7 @@ systemctl --user start nanoclaw
 1. Auth exists: `test -f store/auth/creds.json`
 2. Connected: `grep "Connected to WhatsApp" logs/nanoclaw.log | tail -1`
 3. Channel wired: `pnpm exec tsx scripts/q.ts data/v2.db "SELECT mg.platform_id, mg.name FROM messaging_groups mg JOIN messaging_group_agents mga ON mg.id=mga.messaging_group_id WHERE mg.channel_type='whatsapp'"`
-4. Service running: `systemctl --user status nanoclaw`
+4. Service running: `systemctl --user status "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"`

 ### "conflict" disconnection

@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+/**
+ * scripts/wa-qr-browser.ts — serve WhatsApp pairing QR in the browser.
+ *
+ * Wraps `setup/index.ts --step whatsapp-auth -- --method qr` and renders the
+ * rotating QR string as a PNG in a small local HTTP page. Avoids the unreadable
+ * ASCII terminal QR. macOS / desktop-Linux only — no headless support needed.
+ *
+ * Usage:
+ *   pnpm exec tsx scripts/wa-qr-browser.ts [--clean] [--port 8765]
+ *
+ * --clean   rm -rf store/auth/ before spawning the auth step.
+ * --port N  bind to port N (default 8765, falls back to a free port).
+ */
+import { spawn, exec } from 'node:child_process';
+import http from 'node:http';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import QRCode from 'qrcode';
+
+type Status = 'waiting' | 'ready' | 'success' | 'failed';
+type State = {
+  qr: string | null;
+  status: Status;
+  error?: string;
+  version: number;
+};
+
+const state: State = { qr: null, status: 'waiting', version: 0 };
+
+const args = process.argv.slice(2);
+const clean = args.includes('--clean');
+const portIdx = args.indexOf('--port');
+const requestedPort = portIdx >= 0 ? Number(args[portIdx + 1]) : 8765;
+
+if (clean) {
+  fs.rmSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'store', 'auth'), {
+    recursive: true,
+    force: true,
+  });
+  console.log('[wa-qr-browser] cleaned store/auth/');
+}
+
+function htmlPage(): string {
+  return `<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en">
+<head>
+  <meta charset="utf-8" />
+  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" />
+  <title>WhatsApp pairing</title>
+  <style>
+    body { margin: 0; min-height: 100vh; display: grid; place-items: center;
+           font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", sans-serif;
+           background: #0b141a; color: #e9edef; }
+    .card { background: #202c33; padding: 32px 40px; border-radius: 16px;
+            box-shadow: 0 12px 36px rgba(0,0,0,0.4); text-align: center;
+            min-width: 420px; }
+    h1 { font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; margin: 0 0 20px; color: #aebac1; }
+    .qr-wrap { background: white; padding: 16px; border-radius: 12px;
+               display: inline-block; }
+    #qr { width: 360px; height: 360px; display: block; image-rendering: pixelated; }
+    #status { margin-top: 20px; font-size: 14px; color: #8696a0; min-height: 20px; }
+    #status.ok { color: #00d26a; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 500; }
+    #status.err { color: #ff6b6b; }
+    ol { text-align: left; color: #aebac1; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.8;
+         margin: 20px 0 0; padding-left: 20px; }
+  </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+  <div class="card">
+    <h1>Scan with WhatsApp</h1>
+    <div class="qr-wrap"><img id="qr" alt="QR code" /></div>
+    <div id="status">Waiting for QR…</div>
+    <ol>
+      <li>Open WhatsApp on your phone</li>
+      <li>Settings &rarr; Linked Devices &rarr; Link a Device</li>
+      <li>Point the camera at this QR code</li>
+    </ol>
+  </div>
+  <script>
+    let lastVersion = -1;
+    const qr = document.getElementById('qr');
+    const status = document.getElementById('status');
+    async function tick() {
+      try {
+        const r = await fetch('/qr.json', { cache: 'no-store' });
+        const s = await r.json();
+        if (s.status === 'success') {
+          qr.style.display = 'none';
+          status.className = 'ok';
+          status.textContent = '✓ Authenticated!';
+          return;
+        }
+        if (s.status === 'failed') {
+          qr.style.display = 'none';
+          status.className = 'err';
+          status.textContent = '✗ ' + (s.error || 'failed');
+          return;
+        }
+        if (s.qr && s.version !== lastVersion) {
+          lastVersion = s.version;
+          qr.src = '/qr.png?v=' + s.version;
+          status.textContent = 'QR ready — scan within ~20s';
+        }
+      } catch (e) { /* server closing, ignore */ }
+      setTimeout(tick, 1500);
+    }
+    tick();
+  </script>
+</body>
+</html>`;
+}
+
+const server = http.createServer(async (req, res) => {
+  const url = req.url ?? '/';
+  if (url === '/' || url.startsWith('/?')) {
+    res.setHeader('content-type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8');
+    res.end(htmlPage());
+    return;
+  }
+  if (url === '/qr.json') {
+    res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/json');
+    res.setHeader('cache-control', 'no-store');
+    res.end(JSON.stringify(state));
+    return;
+  }
+  if (url.startsWith('/qr.png')) {
+    if (!state.qr) {
+      res.statusCode = 404;
+      res.end();
+      return;
+    }
+    try {
+      const buf = await QRCode.toBuffer(state.qr, { width: 360, margin: 1 });
+      res.setHeader('content-type', 'image/png');
+      res.setHeader('cache-control', 'no-store');
+      res.end(buf);
+    } catch (e) {
+      res.statusCode = 500;
+      res.end(String(e));
+    }
+    return;
+  }
+  res.statusCode = 404;
+  res.end();
+});
+
+function listen(port: number): Promise<number> {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    server.once('error', (err: NodeJS.ErrnoException) => {
+      if (err.code === 'EADDRINUSE' && port === requestedPort) {
+        server.listen(0, () => {
+          const addr = server.address();
+          if (addr && typeof addr === 'object') resolve(addr.port);
+          else reject(new Error('unexpected address'));
+        });
+      } else {
+        reject(err);
+      }
+    });
+    server.listen(port, () => {
+      const addr = server.address();
+      if (addr && typeof addr === 'object') resolve(addr.port);
+      else reject(new Error('unexpected address'));
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+const port = await listen(requestedPort);
+const url = `http://localhost:${port}`;
+console.log(`[wa-qr-browser] QR server on ${url}`);
+
+const opener = process.platform === 'darwin' ? 'open' : 'xdg-open';
+exec(`${opener} ${url}`, (err) => {
+  if (err) console.log(`[wa-qr-browser] could not auto-open browser: ${err.message}`);
+  else console.log('[wa-qr-browser] opening browser…');
+});
+
+const child = spawn(
+  'pnpm',
+  ['exec', 'tsx', 'setup/index.ts', '--step', 'whatsapp-auth', '--', '--method', 'qr'],
+  { stdio: ['inherit', 'pipe', 'inherit'] },
+);
+
+let stdoutBuf = '';
+child.stdout.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
+  const text = chunk.toString();
+  process.stdout.write(text);
+  stdoutBuf += text;
+
+  const blockRe = /=== NANOCLAW SETUP: (\w+) ===\n([\s\S]*?)\n=== END ===/g;
+  let m: RegExpExecArray | null;
+  let lastEnd = 0;
+  while ((m = blockRe.exec(stdoutBuf)) !== null) {
+    const [, name, body] = m;
+    const fields: Record<string, string> = {};
+    for (const line of body.split('\n')) {
+      const kv = line.match(/^(\w+):\s*(.*)$/);
+      if (kv) fields[kv[1]] = kv[2];
+    }
+    handleBlock(name, fields);
+    lastEnd = m.index + m[0].length;
+  }
+  if (lastEnd > 0) stdoutBuf = stdoutBuf.slice(lastEnd);
+});
+
+function handleBlock(name: string, fields: Record<string, string>): void {
+  if (name === 'WHATSAPP_AUTH_QR' && fields.QR) {
+    state.qr = fields.QR;
+    state.status = 'ready';
+    state.version++;
+    return;
+  }
+  if (name === 'WHATSAPP_AUTH') {
+    if (fields.STATUS === 'success') {
+      state.status = 'success';
+      console.log('[wa-qr-browser] authenticated');
+      setTimeout(() => server.close(() => process.exit(0)), 3000);
+    } else if (fields.STATUS === 'skipped') {
+      state.status = 'success';
+      state.error = `already authenticated (${fields.REASON ?? 'unknown'})`;
+      console.log(`[wa-qr-browser] ${state.error}`);
+      setTimeout(() => server.close(() => process.exit(0)), 3000);
+    } else if (fields.STATUS === 'failed') {
+      state.status = 'failed';
+      state.error = fields.ERROR ?? 'unknown error';
+      console.error(`[wa-qr-browser] failed: ${state.error}`);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+child.on('exit', (code) => {
+  if (state.status === 'success') return;
+  if (state.status !== 'failed') {
+    state.status = 'failed';
+    state.error = `auth process exited (code=${code ?? 'null'})`;
+  }
+  setTimeout(() => {
+    server.close(() => process.exit(1));
+  }, 3000);
+});
+
+process.on('SIGINT', () => {
+  console.log('\n[wa-qr-browser] aborting…');
+  child.kill('SIGTERM');
+  server.close(() => process.exit(130));
+});
@@ -171,9 +171,12 @@ Expected: Both operations succeed.

 ### Full integration test

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)
 ```

 Send a message via WhatsApp and verify the agent responds.
@@ -88,15 +88,19 @@ Implementation:

 ## After Changes

-Always tell the user:
+Always tell the user.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 # Rebuild and restart
 pnpm run build
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
 # macOS:
-launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.plist
-launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.plist
+launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/$(launchd_label).plist
+launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/$(launchd_label).plist
 # Linux:
-# systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+# systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ## Example Interaction
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Stand up the first NanoClaw agent for a channel and verify end-to-end delivery b

 ## Prerequisites

- **Service running.** Check: `launchctl list | grep nanoclaw` (macOS) or `systemctl --user status nanoclaw` (Linux). If stopped, tell the user to run `/setup` first.
+- **Service running.** Check: `launchctl list | grep "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label)"` (macOS) or `systemctl --user status "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"` (Linux). If stopped, tell the user to run `/setup` first.
 - **Target channel installed.** At least one `/add-<channel>` skill has run, credentials are in `.env`, and the adapter is uncommented in `src/channels/index.ts`.
 - **Adapter connected.** Tail `logs/nanoclaw.log` — look for a recent `channel setup` / `adapter connected` line for the target channel.

@@ -236,9 +236,12 @@ pnpm run build

 If build fails, diagnose and fix. Common issue: `@onecli-sh/sdk` not installed — run `pnpm install` first.

-Restart the service:
- macOS (launchd): `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`
- Linux (systemd): `systemctl --user restart nanoclaw`
+Restart the service.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+- macOS (launchd): `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/"$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label)"`
+- Linux (systemd): `systemctl --user restart "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"`
 - WSL/manual: stop and re-run `bash start-nanoclaw.sh`

 ## Phase 5: Verify
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ npx tsx setup/index.ts --step mounts --force -- --empty

 ## After Changes

-Restart the service so containers pick up the new config:
+Restart the service so containers pick up the new config (the unit/label names are per-install — see `setup/lib/install-slug.sh`).

- macOS: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`
- Linux: `systemctl --user restart nanoclaw`
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+```bash
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)              # Linux
+```
@@ -270,9 +270,9 @@ Show:
 Tell the user:
 - To rollback: `git reset --hard <backup-tag-from-step-1>`
 - Backup branch also exists: `backup/pre-update-<HASH>-<TIMESTAMP>`
- Restart the service to apply changes. Detect platform with `uname -s`:
-  - **macOS (Darwin)**: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`
-  - **Linux**: detect the service name with `systemctl --user list-units --type=service | grep nanoclaw | awk '{print $1}'`, then `systemctl --user restart <detected-name>`
+- Restart the service to apply changes. The unit/label names are per-install — derive them with `setup/lib/install-slug.sh`. Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+  - **macOS (Darwin)**: `source setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)`
+  - **Linux**: `source setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)` (or, if you want to confirm the unit name first: `systemctl --user list-units --type=service | grep "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"`)
  - **Manual** (no service found): restart `pnpm run dev`


@@ -128,9 +128,12 @@ echo 'ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=<key>' >> .env
 pnpm run build
 ```

-Then restart the service:
- macOS: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`
- Linux: `systemctl --user restart nanoclaw`
+Then restart the service.
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
+- macOS: `launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/"$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label)"`
+- Linux: `systemctl --user restart "$(. setup/lib/install-slug.sh && systemd_unit)"`
 - WSL/manual: stop and re-run `bash start-nanoclaw.sh`

 2. Check logs for successful proxy startup:
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ Before using this skill, ensure:

 ## Quick Start

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 # 1. Setup authentication (interactive)
 pnpm exec dotenv -e .env -- pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/x-integration/scripts/setup.ts
@@ -49,9 +51,10 @@ pnpm exec dotenv -e .env -- pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/x-integration/scripts/s

 # 3. Rebuild host and restart service
 pnpm run build
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
-# Verify: launchctl list | grep nanoclaw (macOS) or systemctl --user status nanoclaw (Linux)
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+# Linux: systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
+# Verify: launchctl list | grep "$(launchd_label)" (macOS) or systemctl --user status $(systemd_unit) (Linux)
 ```

 ## Configuration
@@ -270,16 +273,23 @@ cat data/x-auth.json  # Should show {"authenticated": true, ...}

 ### 4. Restart Service

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm run build
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+# Linux: systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

-**Verify success:**
+**Verify success.**
+
+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
-launchctl list | grep nanoclaw  # macOS — should show PID and exit code 0 or -
-# Linux: systemctl --user status nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl list | grep "$(launchd_label)"  # macOS — should show PID and exit code 0 or -
+# Linux: systemctl --user status $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ## Usage via WhatsApp
@@ -343,10 +353,13 @@ echo '{"content":"Test"}' | pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/x-integration/scripts/p

 ### Authentication Expired

+Run from your NanoClaw project root:
+
 ```bash
 pnpm exec dotenv -e .env -- pnpm exec tsx .claude/skills/x-integration/scripts/setup.ts
-launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw  # macOS
-# Linux: systemctl --user restart nanoclaw
+source setup/lib/install-slug.sh
+launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/$(launchd_label)  # macOS
+# Linux: systemctl --user restart $(systemd_unit)
 ```

 ### Browser Lock Files
@@ -2,7 +2,24 @@

 All notable changes to NanoClaw will be documented in this file.

-For detailed release notes, see the [full changelog on the documentation site](https://docs.nanoclaw.dev/changelog).
+## [2.0.64] - 2026-05-18
+
+- **`ncl destinations add` and `remove` through the approval flow now reach the receiver immediately.** Approved destinations weren't being projected into the receiving agent's local session state, so a freshly-added destination silently failed at `send_message` with `unknown destination`, and a removed destination stayed resolvable until the next container restart. Both now take effect the moment the approval executes. Direct (non-approval) calls were unaffected.
+
+## [2.0.63] - 2026-05-15
+
+Rollup release covering v2.0.55 through v2.0.63 — everything merged since the v2.0.54 tag. Starting with this release, the goal is to publish a GitHub Release for every `package.json` version bump that lands on `main`; see [RELEASING.md](RELEASING.md).
+
+- [BREAKING] **Service names are now per-install.** On v2 installs the launchd label and systemd unit are slugged to your project root: `com.nanoclaw.<sha1(projectRoot)[:8]>` and `nanoclaw-<slug>.service`. The old `com.nanoclaw` / `nanoclaw.service` names no longer match a real service — update any copy-pasted restart or status commands. Find your install's names with `source setup/lib/install-slug.sh && launchd_label` (macOS) or `systemd_unit` (Linux). The `ncl` transport-error help text and 26 skill files now use the canonical helper-driven pattern; see [setup/lib/install-slug.sh](setup/lib/install-slug.sh).
+- **Compaction destination reminder placement fixed.** The reminder injected after SDK auto-compaction now appears at the end of the compaction summary so it isn't stripped during truncation. Replaces the placement shipped in v2.0.54.
+- **Stronger message-wrapping enforcement.** The poll loop nudges the agent when its output lacks `<message>` wrapping, and `CLAUDE.md` core instructions now require wrapping even for single-destination agents. The welcome flow no longer double-greets.
+- **OneCLI credentials after MCP install.** MCP servers added through `add_mcp_server` now inherit OneCLI gateway routing — fixes the case where the agent kept asking for API keys after installing a new server.
+- **CLI scope hardening.** `scopeField` now fails closed when scope is missing, and `sessions get` is guarded against cross-group oracle access from group-scoped agents.
+- **gmail/gcal skills aligned with v2.** `/add-gmail-tool` and `/add-gcal-tool` now reflect the v2 container-config model — DB-backed mounts, no dead `TOOL_ALLOWLIST` edits, no `container.json` writes that get clobbered on next spawn. Manual sqlite3/JSON1 invocations corrected.
+- **Repo-rename cleanup.** Remaining `qwibitai/nanoclaw` references swept to `nanocoai/nanoclaw` across code and docs; CI workflow guards updated so they no longer no-op after the rename.
+- Slack scope checklist now includes `files:read` and `files:write` for skills that read or post attachments.
+- The internal-tag description in destination instructions no longer mentions scratchpads (which confused agents into routing them incorrectly).
+- Container startup is now graceful when the `on_wake` column is missing on older sessions DBs.

 ## [2.0.54] - 2026-05-10

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+# Releasing NanoClaw
+
+Starting with v2.0.63, the goal is to publish a GitHub Release for every `package.json` version bump that lands on `main`. Releases are cut manually by a maintainer, so there can be lag between a bump merging and its release being published. The intent is *timeliness*, not strict 1:1 correlation with every bump.
+
+Each release ships:
+
+- A tagged commit on `main` (`vX.Y.Z`).
+- A `CHANGELOG.md` entry under `## [<version>] - <YYYY-MM-DD>`.
+- A GitHub Release whose body mirrors the CHANGELOG entry plus a contributors section.
+
+## When to cut a release
+
+A release is cut by a maintainer publishing it. The trigger is a `package.json` bump on `main`, but the publish step is manual — there is no fixed schedule, and bumps that land back-to-back may be rolled into a single release (as v2.0.55 through v2.0.63 were). Cutting more frequently is preferable to batching: smaller releases are easier to read, pin, and revert.
+
+## What goes in a release
+
+`CHANGELOG.md` is the canonical record of user-visible change. The release body on GitHub mirrors it. Aim for:
+
+- **Bold lead-ins** per major feature or fix, then a sentence-case prose explanation.
+- **`[BREAKING]` prefix** for any change that requires user action. Always include the workaround inline — never link to a separate doc for the fix.
+- **Doc links** for major features (relative paths into the repo, e.g. `[setup/lib/install-slug.sh](setup/lib/install-slug.sh)`).
+- **Inline commands** for actionable steps, in backticks.
+- **Minor items** as single plain bullets at the bottom of the entry, no bold lead-in.
+- **No PR numbers** in the user-facing prose. PR references can live in the GitHub Release's `## Contributors` section.
+
+## Publishing the release
+
+1. Bump `package.json` and add a `CHANGELOG.md` entry in the same commit (commit message: `chore: bump version to vX.Y.Z`).
+2. Once the bump commit lands on `main`, open a draft GitHub Release:
+   - **Tag:** `vX.Y.Z`, target `main`.
+   - **Title:** `vX.Y.Z` (bare version — descriptive content lives in the body, matching the CHANGELOG header pattern).
+   - **Body:** copy the CHANGELOG entry verbatim. Append a `## Contributors` section listing every PR author who landed work in the release window. Append a `**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/nanocoai/nanoclaw/compare/<prev-tag>...vX.Y.Z` line at the bottom.
+3. If anyone in the window opened their first NanoClaw PR, add a `## New Contributors` section above `## Contributors`, with each first-timer's first PR link and an invite to Discord.
+4. Publish (not just save draft).
+
+## Rollup releases
+
+If multiple `package.json` bumps land between two GitHub Releases (as happened between v2.0.54 and v2.0.63), the next release is a rollup: its CHANGELOG entry covers everything merged since the last released tag, and the body opens with a one-line "Rollup release covering vX.Y.Z through vX.Y.W." note. After the catchup, return to one release per bump.
+
+## Channels and stability
+
+NanoClaw currently ships a single channel: every published release is a stable release.
+
+- **Latest** — the most recent release on `main`, shown as "Latest release" on the GitHub Releases page. Consumers that want auto-bump follow GitHub's `/releases/latest` pointer.
+- **Stable** — currently identical to latest. NanoClaw has no separate stable branch and no pre-release/RC channel.
+- **Pinned** — any tagged release. Reproducible and the recommended choice for packagers and forks; published tags are not moved or retracted.
+
+If a pre-release channel is introduced later (e.g. `vX.Y.Z-rc.N`), those releases will be marked "Pre-release" on GitHub so they do not become the `latest` pointer, and this section will be updated to describe the promotion path.
+
+The tag is the source of truth — a GitHub Release's `target_commitish` always points to a tagged commit.
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ ARG INSTALL_CJK_FONTS=false
 # Pin CLI versions for reproducibility. Bump deliberately — unpinned installs
 # mean every rebuild silently picks up the latest and can break in lockstep
 # across all users.
-ARG CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION=2.1.128
+ARG CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION=2.1.154
 ARG AGENT_BROWSER_VERSION=latest
 ARG VERCEL_VERSION=52.2.1
 ARG BUN_VERSION=1.3.12
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@
    "": {
      "name": "nanoclaw-agent-runner",
      "dependencies": {
-        "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "^0.2.128",
-        "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.12.1",
+        "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "^0.3.154",
+        "@anthropic-ai/sdk": "^0.100.0",
+        "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.29.0",
        "cron-parser": "^5.0.0",
        "zod": "^4.0.0",
      },
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+    "@anthropic-ai/sdk": ["@anthropic-ai/sdk@0.100.0", "", { "dependencies": { "json-schema-to-ts": "^3.1.1", "standardwebhooks": "^1.0.0" }, "peerDependencies": { "zod": "^3.25.0 || ^4.0.0" }, "optionalPeers": ["zod"], "bin": { "anthropic-ai-sdk": "bin/cli" } }, "sha512-cAm3aXm6qAiHIvHxyIIGd6tVmsD2gDqlc2h0R20ijNUzGgVnIN822bit4mKbF6CkuV7qIrLQIPoAepHEpanrQQ=="],

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@@ -44,6 +45,8 @@

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+    "@stablelib/base64": ["@stablelib/base64@1.0.1", "", {}, "sha512-1bnPQqSxSuc3Ii6MhBysoWCg58j97aUjuCSZrGSmDxNqtytIi0k8utUenAwTZN4V5mXXYGsVUI9zeBqy+jBOSQ=="],
+
    "@types/bun": ["@types/bun@1.3.12", "", { "dependencies": { "bun-types": "1.3.12" } }, "sha512-DBv81elK+/VSwXHDlnH3Qduw+KxkTIWi7TXkAeh24zpi5l0B2kUg9Ga3tb4nJaPcOFswflgi/yAvMVBPrxMB+A=="],

    "@types/node": ["@types/node@22.19.17", "", { "dependencies": { "undici-types": "~6.21.0" } }, "sha512-wGdMcf+vPYM6jikpS/qhg6WiqSV/OhG+jeeHT/KlVqxYfD40iYJf9/AE1uQxVWFvU7MipKRkRv8NSHiCGgPr8Q=="],
@@ -108,6 +111,8 @@

    "fast-deep-equal": ["fast-deep-equal@3.1.3", "", {}, "sha512-f3qQ9oQy9j2AhBe/H9VC91wLmKBCCU/gDOnKNAYG5hswO7BLKj09Hc5HYNz9cGI++xlpDCIgDaitVs03ATR84Q=="],

+    "fast-sha256": ["fast-sha256@1.3.0", "", {}, "sha512-n11RGP/lrWEFI/bWdygLxhI+pVeo1ZYIVwvvPkW7azl/rOy+F3HYRZ2K5zeE9mmkhQppyv9sQFx0JM9UabnpPQ=="],
+
    "fast-uri": ["fast-uri@3.1.0", "", {}, "sha512-iPeeDKJSWf4IEOasVVrknXpaBV0IApz/gp7S2bb7Z4Lljbl2MGJRqInZiUrQwV16cpzw/D3S5j5Julj/gT52AA=="],

    "finalhandler": ["finalhandler@2.1.1", "", { "dependencies": { "debug": "^4.4.0", "encodeurl": "^2.0.0", "escape-html": "^1.0.3", "on-finished": "^2.4.1", "parseurl": "^1.3.3", "statuses": "^2.0.1" } }, "sha512-S8KoZgRZN+a5rNwqTxlZZePjT/4cnm0ROV70LedRHZ0p8u9fRID0hJUZQpkKLzro8LfmC8sx23bY6tVNxv8pQA=="],
@@ -216,6 +221,8 @@

    "side-channel-weakmap": ["side-channel-weakmap@1.0.2", "", { "dependencies": { "call-bound": "^1.0.2", "es-errors": "^1.3.0", "get-intrinsic": "^1.2.5", "object-inspect": "^1.13.3", "side-channel-map": "^1.0.1" } }, "sha512-WPS/HvHQTYnHisLo9McqBHOJk2FkHO/tlpvldyrnem4aeQp4hai3gythswg6p01oSoTl58rcpiFAjF2br2Ak2A=="],

+    "standardwebhooks": ["standardwebhooks@1.0.0", "", { "dependencies": { "@stablelib/base64": "^1.0.0", "fast-sha256": "^1.3.0" } }, "sha512-BbHGOQK9olHPMvQNHWul6MYlrRTAOKn03rOe4A8O3CLWhNf4YHBqq2HJKKC+sfqpxiBY52pNeesD6jIiLDz8jg=="],
+
    "statuses": ["statuses@2.0.2", "", {}, "sha512-DvEy55V3DB7uknRo+4iOGT5fP1slR8wQohVdknigZPMpMstaKJQWhwiYBACJE3Ul2pTnATihhBYnRhZQHGBiRw=="],

    "toidentifier": ["toidentifier@1.0.1", "", {}, "sha512-o5sSPKEkg/DIQNmH43V0/uerLrpzVedkUh8tGNvaeXpfpuwjKenlSox/2O/BTlZUtEe+JG7s5YhEz608PlAHRA=="],
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@
    "test": "bun test"
  },
  "dependencies": {
-    "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "^0.2.128",
-    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.12.1",
+    "@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk": "^0.3.154",
+    "@anthropic-ai/sdk": "^0.100.0",
+    "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk": "^1.29.0",
    "cron-parser": "^5.0.0",
    "zod": "^4.0.0"
  },
@@ -51,14 +51,43 @@ describe('context timezone header', () => {
    expect(result).toContain(`<context timezone="${TIMEZONE}"`);
  });

-  it('header comes before the <messages> block', () => {
+  it('header comes before the first <message> block when multiple are present', () => {
    insertMessage('m1', 'chat', { sender: 'Alice', text: 'one' });
    insertMessage('m2', 'chat', { sender: 'Bob', text: 'two' });
    const result = formatMessages(getPendingMessages());
    const ctxIdx = result.indexOf('<context');
-    const msgsIdx = result.indexOf('<messages>');
+    const firstMsgIdx = result.indexOf('<message ');
    expect(ctxIdx).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(0);
-    expect(msgsIdx).toBeGreaterThan(ctxIdx);
+    expect(firstMsgIdx).toBeGreaterThan(ctxIdx);
+  });
+});
+
+describe('multi-message chat batches', () => {
+  // Regression guard for #2555: an outer `<messages>` envelope around
+  // multiple chat messages caused the Claude Agent SDK to emit a synthetic
+  // `No response requested.` stub instead of calling the API. Each
+  // `<message>` block is self-contained; concatenating them is enough.
+  it('does NOT wrap multiple chat messages in an outer <messages> envelope', () => {
+    insertMessage('m1', 'chat', { sender: 'Alice', text: 'one' });
+    insertMessage('m2', 'chat', { sender: 'Bob', text: 'two' });
+    const result = formatMessages(getPendingMessages());
+    expect(result).not.toContain('<messages>');
+    expect(result).not.toContain('</messages>');
+  });
+
+  it('emits one <message> block per inbound row, in order', () => {
+    insertMessage('m1', 'chat', { sender: 'Alice', text: 'first' });
+    insertMessage('m2', 'chat', { sender: 'Bob', text: 'second' });
+    insertMessage('m3', 'chat', { sender: 'Carol', text: 'third' });
+    const result = formatMessages(getPendingMessages());
+    const matches = result.match(/<message [^>]*>/g) ?? [];
+    expect(matches.length).toBe(3);
+    const firstIdx = result.indexOf('first');
+    const secondIdx = result.indexOf('second');
+    const thirdIdx = result.indexOf('third');
+    expect(firstIdx).toBeGreaterThan(0);
+    expect(secondIdx).toBeGreaterThan(firstIdx);
+    expect(thirdIdx).toBeGreaterThan(secondIdx);
  });
 });

@@ -155,16 +155,15 @@ export function formatMessages(messages: MessageInRow[]): string {
 }

 function formatChatMessages(messages: MessageInRow[]): string {
-  if (messages.length === 1) {
-    return formatSingleChat(messages[0]);
-  }
-
-  const lines = ['<messages>'];
-  for (const msg of messages) {
-    lines.push(formatSingleChat(msg));
-  }
-  lines.push('</messages>');
-  return lines.join('\n');
+  // Each `<message id="..." from="...">...</message>` block is self-contained;
+  // concatenating them reads to the agent as a sequence of distinct messages.
+  // Earlier revisions wrapped multi-message batches in an outer `<messages>`
+  // envelope, but the Claude Agent SDK responded to that shape with a
+  // synthetic stub (`model: "<synthetic>"`, `content: "No response
+  // requested."`) instead of calling the API — see #2555 for the full trace.
+  // The fix is simply to drop the wrapper; the single-message path (which
+  // already worked) is now just the N=1 case of the same code.
+  return messages.map(formatSingleChat).join('\n');
 }

 function formatSingleChat(msg: MessageInRow): string {
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import { initTestSessionDb, closeSessionDb, getInboundDb, getOutboundDb } from '
 import { getPendingMessages, markCompleted } from './db/messages-in.js';
 import { getUndeliveredMessages } from './db/messages-out.js';
 import { formatMessages, extractRouting } from './formatter.js';
+import { isCorruptionError } from './poll-loop.js';
 import { MockProvider } from './providers/mock.js';

 beforeEach(() => {
@@ -37,13 +38,15 @@ describe('formatter', () => {
    expect(prompt).toContain('Hello world');
  });

-  it('should format multiple chat messages as XML block', () => {
+  it('should format multiple chat messages as distinct <message> blocks', () => {
    insertMessage('m1', 'chat', { sender: 'John', text: 'Hello' });
    insertMessage('m2', 'chat', { sender: 'Jane', text: 'Hi there' });
    const messages = getPendingMessages();
    const prompt = formatMessages(messages);
-    expect(prompt).toContain('<messages>');
-    expect(prompt).toContain('</messages>');
+    // The <messages> envelope was dropped in fe2e881b (#2556) so the SDK calls
+    // the API; each message is now its own self-contained <message> block.
+    expect(prompt).not.toContain('<messages>');
+    expect(prompt.match(/<message /g) ?? []).toHaveLength(2);
    expect(prompt).toContain('sender="John"');
    expect(prompt).toContain('sender="Jane"');
  });
@@ -375,3 +378,20 @@ describe('end-to-end with mock provider', () => {
    expect(outMessages[0].in_reply_to).toBe('m1');
  });
 });
+
+describe('isCorruptionError', () => {
+  it('matches the Docker Desktop macOS torn-read symptom', () => {
+    expect(isCorruptionError('database disk image is malformed')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('matches wrapped SQLite corruption codes', () => {
+    expect(isCorruptionError('SqliteError: SQLITE_CORRUPT_VTAB: ...')).toBe(true);
+    expect(isCorruptionError('file is not a database')).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('returns false for unrelated errors', () => {
+    expect(isCorruptionError('database is locked')).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCorruptionError('no such table: messages_in')).toBe(false);
+    expect(isCorruptionError('')).toBe(false);
+  });
+});
@@ -18,6 +18,30 @@ import type { AgentProvider, AgentQuery, ProviderEvent } from './providers/types
 const POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 1000;
 const ACTIVE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 500;

+/**
+ * Number of consecutive `database disk image is malformed` errors after which
+ * the follow-up poll gives up and exits the process. At ACTIVE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS
+ * = 500ms this is roughly 5 seconds — long enough to dodge a transient torn
+ * read during a host write, short enough to recover quickly from a poisoned
+ * page cache (host-sweep then respawns with a fresh mount).
+ */
+const CORRUPTION_STREAK_EXIT = 10;
+
+/**
+ * True for SQLite errors that indicate a corrupt READ view — almost always a
+ * cross-mount page-cache coherency issue on Docker Desktop macOS rather than
+ * actual file damage (host-side integrity_check passes). Reopening the DB
+ * handle inside this process does NOT recover; only a fresh container mount
+ * does. Caller's job is to exit so host-sweep respawns the container.
+ */
+export function isCorruptionError(msg: string): boolean {
+  return (
+    msg.includes('database disk image is malformed') ||
+    msg.includes('SQLITE_CORRUPT') ||
+    msg.includes('file is not a database')
+  );
+}
+
 function log(msg: string): void {
  console.error(`[poll-loop] ${msg}`);
 }
@@ -58,6 +82,19 @@ export async function runPollLoop(config: PollLoopConfig): Promise<void> {
  // a Codex thread id never gets handed to Claude or vice versa.
  let continuation: string | undefined = migrateLegacyContinuation(config.providerName);

+  // Before resuming, drop a session whose on-disk transcript has grown too
+  // large/old to cold-resume within the host's idle ceiling. Without this a
+  // long-lived hub keeps trying to reload an ever-growing .jsonl, hangs the
+  // first turn, and gets killed before it can reply (then repeats forever).
+  if (continuation) {
+    const rotateReason = config.provider.maybeRotateContinuation?.(continuation, config.cwd);
+    if (rotateReason) {
+      log(`Rotating session — ${rotateReason}; starting fresh`);
+      clearContinuation(config.providerName);
+      continuation = undefined;
+    }
+  }
+
  if (continuation) {
    log(`Resuming agent session ${continuation}`);
  }
@@ -278,6 +315,7 @@ async function processQuery(
  // will kill the container and messages get reset to pending.
  let pollInFlight = false;
  let endedForCommand = false;
+  let corruptionStreak = 0;
  const pollHandle = setInterval(() => {
    if (done || pollInFlight || endedForCommand) return;
    pollInFlight = true;
@@ -349,6 +387,31 @@ async function processQuery(
        // path is not, so it needs its own.
        const errMsg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
        log(`Follow-up poll error: ${errMsg}`);
+
+        // Detect SQLite cross-mount corruption (Docker Desktop macOS virtiofs /
+        // gRPC-FUSE coherency bug — the kernel page cache for the inbound.db
+        // bind mount can latch a torn snapshot mid-host-write, after which
+        // every fresh openInboundDb() in this process sees the same broken
+        // view. Reopening inside the container does NOT recover; only a fresh
+        // container mount does. Exit so the host sweep respawns us.
+        if (isCorruptionError(errMsg)) {
+          corruptionStreak += 1;
+          if (corruptionStreak >= CORRUPTION_STREAK_EXIT) {
+            log(
+              `Follow-up poll: ${corruptionStreak} consecutive '${errMsg}' errors — ` +
+                `inbound.db page cache is poisoned. Exiting so host respawns with a fresh mount.`,
+            );
+            // Stop touching the heartbeat so host-sweep stale detection fires
+            // promptly even if exit() races with in-flight async work.
+            done = true;
+            clearInterval(pollHandle);
+            // Defer exit one tick so this log line flushes through Docker's
+            // log driver before the process dies.
+            setTimeout(() => process.exit(75), 100);
+          }
+        } else {
+          corruptionStreak = 0;
+        }
      } finally {
        pollInFlight = false;
      }
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, beforeEach, afterEach } from 'bun:test';
+import fs from 'fs';
+import os from 'os';
+import path from 'path';
+
+import { ClaudeProvider } from './claude.js';
+
+// maybeRotateContinuation guards the cold-resume failure mode: a long-lived
+// session whose on-disk transcript has grown so large (or old) that the SDK
+// can't reload it before the host's idle ceiling kills the container.
+
+let tmp: string;
+let prevHome: string | undefined;
+let prevConv: string | undefined;
+let prevBytes: string | undefined;
+let prevDays: string | undefined;
+
+const PROJECT_DIR = '-workspace-agent';
+const CWD = '/workspace/agent';
+
+function writeTranscript(sessionId: string, bytes: number, firstTs?: string): string {
+  const dir = path.join(tmp, '.claude', 'projects', PROJECT_DIR);
+  fs.mkdirSync(dir, { recursive: true });
+  const p = path.join(dir, `${sessionId}.jsonl`);
+  const first =
+    JSON.stringify({
+      type: 'user',
+      timestamp: firstTs ?? new Date().toISOString(),
+      message: { role: 'user', content: 'hello' },
+    }) + '\n';
+  const filler = 'x'.repeat(Math.max(0, bytes - first.length));
+  fs.writeFileSync(p, first + filler);
+  return p;
+}
+
+beforeEach(() => {
+  tmp = fs.mkdtempSync(path.join(os.tmpdir(), 'claude-rotate-'));
+  prevHome = process.env.HOME;
+  prevConv = process.env.NANOCLAW_CONVERSATIONS_DIR;
+  prevBytes = process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_BYTES;
+  prevDays = process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_AGE_DAYS;
+  process.env.HOME = tmp;
+  delete process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR;
+  process.env.NANOCLAW_CONVERSATIONS_DIR = path.join(tmp, 'conversations');
+});
+
+afterEach(() => {
+  const restore = (k: string, v: string | undefined) => (v === undefined ? delete process.env[k] : (process.env[k] = v));
+  restore('HOME', prevHome);
+  restore('NANOCLAW_CONVERSATIONS_DIR', prevConv);
+  restore('CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_BYTES', prevBytes);
+  restore('CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_AGE_DAYS', prevDays);
+  fs.rmSync(tmp, { recursive: true, force: true });
+});
+
+describe('ClaudeProvider.maybeRotateContinuation', () => {
+  it('keeps a small, recent transcript (returns null, leaves file in place)', () => {
+    process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_BYTES = String(1024 * 1024);
+    const p = writeTranscript('sess-small', 4096);
+    const provider = new ClaudeProvider();
+    expect(provider.maybeRotateContinuation('sess-small', CWD)).toBeNull();
+    expect(fs.existsSync(p)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rotates an oversized transcript (returns reason, moves the .jsonl aside)', () => {
+    process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_BYTES = String(64 * 1024);
+    const p = writeTranscript('sess-big', 200 * 1024);
+    const provider = new ClaudeProvider();
+    const reason = provider.maybeRotateContinuation('sess-big', CWD);
+    expect(reason).toContain('MB');
+    expect(fs.existsSync(p)).toBe(false); // original moved out of the resume path
+    const dir = path.dirname(p);
+    expect(fs.readdirSync(dir).some((f) => f.startsWith('sess-big.jsonl.rotated-'))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rotates an aged transcript even when small', () => {
+    process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_BYTES = String(1024 * 1024);
+    process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_AGE_DAYS = '7';
+    const old = new Date(Date.now() - 10 * 86400_000).toISOString();
+    writeTranscript('sess-old', 2048, old);
+    const provider = new ClaudeProvider();
+    expect(provider.maybeRotateContinuation('sess-old', CWD)).toContain('d');
+  });
+
+  it('returns null for an unknown session id', () => {
+    const provider = new ClaudeProvider();
+    expect(provider.maybeRotateContinuation('does-not-exist', CWD)).toBeNull();
+  });
+});
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import fs from 'fs';
+import os from 'os';
 import path from 'path';

 import { query as sdkQuery, type HookCallback, type PreCompactHookInput } from '@anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk';
@@ -188,49 +189,126 @@ const postToolUseHook: HookCallback = async () => {
  return { continue: true };
 };

+/**
+ * Read a Claude transcript .jsonl, render a markdown summary, and drop it into
+ * the agent's `conversations/` folder so context survives a compaction or a
+ * session rotation. Best-effort: returns false (and logs) on any failure.
+ */
+function archiveTranscriptFile(transcriptPath: string | undefined, sessionId: string | undefined, assistantName?: string): boolean {
+  if (!transcriptPath || !fs.existsSync(transcriptPath)) {
+    log('No transcript found for archiving');
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const content = fs.readFileSync(transcriptPath, 'utf-8');
+    const messages = parseTranscript(content);
+    if (messages.length === 0) return false;
+
+    // Try to get summary from sessions index
+    let summary: string | undefined;
+    const indexPath = path.join(path.dirname(transcriptPath), 'sessions-index.json');
+    if (fs.existsSync(indexPath)) {
+      try {
+        const index = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(indexPath, 'utf-8'));
+        summary = index.entries?.find((e: { sessionId: string; summary?: string }) => e.sessionId === sessionId)?.summary;
+      } catch {
+        /* ignore */
+      }
+    }
+
+    const name = summary
+      ? summary.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-').replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '').slice(0, 50)
+      : `conversation-${new Date().getHours().toString().padStart(2, '0')}${new Date().getMinutes().toString().padStart(2, '0')}`;
+
+    const conversationsDir = process.env.NANOCLAW_CONVERSATIONS_DIR || '/workspace/agent/conversations';
+    fs.mkdirSync(conversationsDir, { recursive: true });
+    const filename = `${new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0]}-${name}.md`;
+    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(conversationsDir, filename), formatTranscriptMarkdown(messages, summary, assistantName));
+    log(`Archived conversation to ${filename}`);
+    return true;
+  } catch (err) {
+    log(`Failed to archive transcript: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
 function createPreCompactHook(assistantName?: string): HookCallback {
  return async (input) => {
    const preCompact = input as PreCompactHookInput;
-    const { transcript_path: transcriptPath, session_id: sessionId } = preCompact;
-
-    if (!transcriptPath || !fs.existsSync(transcriptPath)) {
-      log('No transcript found for archiving');
-      return {};
-    }
-
-    try {
-      const content = fs.readFileSync(transcriptPath, 'utf-8');
-      const messages = parseTranscript(content);
-      if (messages.length === 0) return {};
-
-      // Try to get summary from sessions index
-      let summary: string | undefined;
-      const indexPath = path.join(path.dirname(transcriptPath), 'sessions-index.json');
-      if (fs.existsSync(indexPath)) {
-        try {
-          const index = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(indexPath, 'utf-8'));
-          summary = index.entries?.find((e: { sessionId: string; summary?: string }) => e.sessionId === sessionId)?.summary;
-        } catch {
-          /* ignore */
-        }
-      }
-
-      const name = summary
-        ? summary.toLowerCase().replace(/[^a-z0-9]+/g, '-').replace(/^-+|-+$/g, '').slice(0, 50)
-        : `conversation-${new Date().getHours().toString().padStart(2, '0')}${new Date().getMinutes().toString().padStart(2, '0')}`;
-
-      const conversationsDir = '/workspace/agent/conversations';
-      fs.mkdirSync(conversationsDir, { recursive: true });
-      const filename = `${new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0]}-${name}.md`;
-      fs.writeFileSync(path.join(conversationsDir, filename), formatTranscriptMarkdown(messages, summary, assistantName));
-      log(`Archived conversation to ${filename}`);
-    } catch (err) {
-      log(`Failed to archive transcript: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
-    }
+    archiveTranscriptFile(preCompact.transcript_path, preCompact.session_id, assistantName);
    return {};
  };
 }

+// ── Continuation rotation (cold-resume guard) ──
+
+/**
+ * Resume cost is dominated by transcript size. Past this many bytes a fresh
+ * cold container can't reload the .jsonl before the host's 30-min idle ceiling
+ * fires, so the session is dropped and started clean. Operator-overridable.
+ */
+function transcriptRotateBytes(): number {
+  return Number(process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_BYTES) || 12 * 1024 * 1024;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Secondary age trigger, measured from the transcript's first entry. 0 (or a
+ * non-positive value) disables the age check; size alone then governs.
+ */
+function transcriptRotateAgeMs(): number {
+  const raw = process.env.CLAUDE_TRANSCRIPT_ROTATE_AGE_DAYS;
+  if (raw === undefined || raw.trim() === '') return 14 * 86_400_000;
+  const days = Number(raw);
+  if (!Number.isFinite(days)) return 14 * 86_400_000;
+  // Explicit non-positive override disables the age check; size alone governs.
+  return days > 0 ? days * 86_400_000 : Infinity;
+}
+
+function claudeProjectsDir(): string {
+  const base = process.env.CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR || path.join(process.env.HOME || os.homedir(), '.claude');
+  return path.join(base, 'projects');
+}
+
+/**
+ * Locate the .jsonl backing a session id. The SDK names project dirs by a
+ * mangled cwd; rather than reproduce that convention we scan project dirs for
+ * `<sessionId>.jsonl` (session ids are UUIDs, so this is unambiguous).
+ */
+function findTranscriptPath(sessionId: string): string | null {
+  const projects = claudeProjectsDir();
+  let dirs: string[];
+  try {
+    dirs = fs.readdirSync(projects);
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+  for (const dir of dirs) {
+    const candidate = path.join(projects, dir, `${sessionId}.jsonl`);
+    if (fs.existsSync(candidate)) return candidate;
+  }
+  return null;
+}
+
+/** Epoch-ms of the first transcript entry, or null if unreadable. */
+function transcriptStartMs(transcriptPath: string): number | null {
+  try {
+    const fd = fs.openSync(transcriptPath, 'r');
+    try {
+      const buf = Buffer.alloc(4096);
+      const n = fs.readSync(fd, buf, 0, buf.length, 0);
+      const firstLine = buf.toString('utf-8', 0, n).split('\n', 1)[0];
+      const ts = JSON.parse(firstLine)?.timestamp;
+      const ms = ts ? Date.parse(ts) : NaN;
+      return Number.isNaN(ms) ? null : ms;
+    } finally {
+      fs.closeSync(fd);
+    }
+  } catch {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
 // ── Provider ──

 /**
@@ -277,6 +355,41 @@ export class ClaudeProvider implements AgentProvider {
    return STALE_SESSION_RE.test(msg);
  }

+  maybeRotateContinuation(continuation: string): string | null {
+    const transcriptPath = findTranscriptPath(continuation);
+    if (!transcriptPath) return null;
+
+    let size: number;
+    try {
+      size = fs.statSync(transcriptPath).size;
+    } catch {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    const maxBytes = transcriptRotateBytes();
+    const startMs = transcriptStartMs(transcriptPath);
+    const ageMs = startMs === null ? 0 : Date.now() - startMs;
+    const maxAgeMs = transcriptRotateAgeMs();
+
+    let reason: string | null = null;
+    if (size > maxBytes) {
+      reason = `transcript ${(size / 1_048_576).toFixed(1)}MB > ${(maxBytes / 1_048_576).toFixed(0)}MB cap`;
+    } else if (startMs !== null && ageMs > maxAgeMs) {
+      reason = `transcript ${(ageMs / 86_400_000).toFixed(1)}d old > ${(maxAgeMs / 86_400_000).toFixed(0)}d cap`;
+    }
+    if (!reason) return null;
+
+    // Preserve a readable summary, then move the heavy .jsonl out of the
+    // resume path so the SDK starts a fresh session and the disk is reclaimed.
+    archiveTranscriptFile(transcriptPath, continuation, this.assistantName);
+    try {
+      fs.renameSync(transcriptPath, `${transcriptPath}.rotated-${Date.now()}`);
+    } catch (err) {
+      log(`Failed to move rotated transcript aside: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}`);
+    }
+    return reason;
+  }
+
  query(input: QueryInput): AgentQuery {
    const stream = new MessageStream();
    stream.push(input.prompt);
@@ -302,7 +415,7 @@ export class ClaudeProvider implements AgentProvider {
        effort: this.effort as any,
        permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions',
        allowDangerouslySkipPermissions: true,
-        settingSources: ['project', 'user'],
+        settingSources: ['project', 'user', 'local'],
        mcpServers: this.mcpServers,
        hooks: {
          PreToolUse: [{ hooks: [preToolUseHook] }],
@@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ export interface AgentProvider {
   * (missing transcript, unknown session, etc.) and should be cleared.
   */
  isSessionInvalid(err: unknown): boolean;
+
+  /**
+   * Optional pre-resume maintenance. Given the stored continuation token,
+   * decide whether its backing transcript has grown too large or too old to
+   * resume cheaply. Return a non-null reason string to tell the caller to drop
+   * the continuation and start a fresh session (the provider archives any
+   * recoverable summary first); return null to keep resuming.
+   *
+   * Guards the cold-resume failure mode: a long-lived hub session accumulates
+   * days of history — including base64 image blocks the agent Read — and the
+   * SDK reloads the whole .jsonl on every resume. Past a threshold the first
+   * turn alone can exceed the host's idle ceiling, so the container is killed
+   * before it ever replies. Providers without an on-disk transcript omit this.
+   */
+  maybeRotateContinuation?(continuation: string, cwd: string): string | null;
 }

 /**
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+---
+name: whatsapp-formatting
+description: Format messages for WhatsApp, including mentions that render as real WhatsApp tags. Use when responding in a WhatsApp conversation (platform_id / chatJid ends with @s.whatsapp.net or @g.us).
+---
+
+# WhatsApp Message Formatting
+
+WhatsApp uses its own lightweight markup and a phone-number-based mention syntax. The host's WhatsApp adapter (Baileys) handles markdown conversion automatically, but **mentions are only protocol-level mentions if you use the right syntax** — otherwise they render as plain text and don't notify the recipient.
+
+## How to detect WhatsApp context
+
+You're in a WhatsApp conversation when any of these are true:
+- The chat JID / platform id ends with `@s.whatsapp.net` (1-on-1 DM)
+- The chat JID / platform id ends with `@g.us` (group)
+- Your inbound message metadata has `chatJid` matching the above
+
+## Mentions — the important part
+
+To tag a user so their name appears **bold and clickable** in WhatsApp and they get a push notification, write the `@` followed by their phone number digits (no `+`, no spaces, no display name):
+
+```
+@15551234567 can you confirm?
+```
+
+The adapter scans your outgoing text for `@<digits>` (5–15 digits, optional leading `+` is stripped) and tells WhatsApp to render them as real mention tags.
+
+**The sender's phone JID is always in your inbound message metadata.** When a user writes to you, inbound `content.sender` looks like `15551234567@s.whatsapp.net`. The part before the `@` is exactly what you put after `@` when tagging them back.
+
+### Wrong vs right
+
+| You write | What recipients see |
+|-----------|---------------------|
+| `@Adam can you...` | Plain text `@Adam`. No tag, no notification. |
+| `@15551234567 can you...` | Bold/blue **@Adam** (or whatever name they're saved as), notification fires. |
+| `@+15551234567 ...` | Same as above — adapter strips the `+`. |
+
+### Picking who to tag
+
+- In a DM, there's no real need to tag the recipient (they already see every message), but tagging still works if you want emphasis.
+- In a group, look at the `participants` / inbound `content.sender` to find the JID of the person you mean. Don't guess from display names — pushNames can collide and are not reliable.
+- If you don't know the JID, just refer to the person by name in plain prose. Don't write `@<name>` — it won't tag and it will look like a tag that failed.
+
+## Text styles
+
+WhatsApp uses single-character delimiters, *not* doubled like standard Markdown.
+
+| Style | Syntax | Renders as |
+|-------|--------|------------|
+| Bold | `*bold*` | **bold** |
+| Italic | `_italic_` | *italic* |
+| Strikethrough | `~strike~` | ~strike~ |
+| Monospace | `` `code` `` | `code` |
+| Block monospace | ```` ```block``` ```` | preformatted block |
+
+The adapter converts standard Markdown (`**bold**`, `[link](url)`, `# heading`) to the WhatsApp-native form automatically, so you don't have to think about it — but be aware that single asterisks become italics, not bold.
+
+## What not to do
+
+- Don't write `<@U123>` (that's Slack), `<@!123>` (Discord), or any other channel's mention syntax.
+- Don't paste a full JID like `@15551234567@s.whatsapp.net` in the text — only the digits before the JID's `@` go after your `@`.
+- Don't try to tag display names. WhatsApp has no display-name-based mention API.
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+## WhatsApp mentions — always use phone digits
+
+When you are replying in a WhatsApp conversation (the inbound message's `chatJid` ends with `@s.whatsapp.net` for a DM or `@g.us` for a group), and you want to tag a person so their name appears **bold and clickable** with a push notification, write `@` followed by their phone-number digits — never the display name.
+
+**The sender's phone JID is in your inbound message metadata** at `content.sender` (e.g. `15551234567@s.whatsapp.net`). The part before the `@` is exactly what you put after `@` when tagging them.
+
+| You write | What recipients see |
+|-----------|---------------------|
+| `@Adam, can you...` | Plain text. No tag, no notification. |
+| `@15551234567, can you...` | Bold/blue **@Adam** (whatever name they're saved as), notification fires. |
+| `@+15551234567 ...` | Same as above — the adapter strips the `+` automatically. |
+
+The host adapter scans your outbound text for `@<5–15 digits>` (with optional leading `+`) and tells WhatsApp to render those as real mention tags. If the digits aren't in the text, the tag doesn't render — no exceptions.
+
+### In groups
+
+Tag the person you're addressing using their JID from inbound metadata (look at the most recent message from them). Don't guess — pushNames collide and aren't reliable.
+
+If you don't know someone's JID, refer to them by name in plain prose. Do not write `@<displayname>` hoping it works.
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
  "name": "nanoclaw",
-  "version": "2.0.61",
+  "version": "2.0.70",
  "description": "Personal Claude assistant. Lightweight, secure, customizable.",
  "type": "module",
  "packageManager": "pnpm@10.33.0",
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="90" height="20" role="img" aria-label="174k tokens, 87% of context window">
-  <title>174k tokens, 87% of context window</title>
+<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="90" height="20" role="img" aria-label="179k tokens, 89% of context window">
+  <title>179k tokens, 89% of context window</title>
  <linearGradient id="s" x2="0" y2="100%">
    <stop offset="0" stop-color="#bbb" stop-opacity=".1"/>
    <stop offset="1" stop-opacity=".1"/>
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
      <g fill="#fff" text-anchor="middle" font-family="Verdana,Geneva,DejaVu Sans,sans-serif" font-size="11">
        <text aria-hidden="true" x="26" y="15" fill="#010101" fill-opacity=".3">tokens</text>
        <text x="26" y="14">tokens</text>
-        <text aria-hidden="true" x="71" y="15" fill="#010101" fill-opacity=".3">174k</text>
-        <text x="71" y="14">174k</text>
+        <text aria-hidden="true" x="71" y="15" fill="#010101" fill-opacity=".3">179k</text>
+        <text x="71" y="14">179k</text>
      </g>
    </g>
  </a>
@@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ async function collectRemoteCreds(): Promise<RemoteCreds> {
      "Photon is a separate service that owns an iMessage account and",
      "exposes it over HTTP. NanoClaw will talk to it via its API.",
      '',
-      '  1. Set up a Photon server: https://photon.im',
+      '  1. Set up a Photon server: https://photon.codes',
      '  2. Copy the server URL and API key from your Photon dashboard',
    ].join('\n'),
    'Remote iMessage via Photon',
@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ export const CONFIG: Entry[] = [
    surface: 'flag+ui',
    group: 'OneCLI',
    type: 'url',
-    default: 'https://app.onecli.sh',
-    placeholder: 'https://app.onecli.sh',
+    default: 'https://api.onecli.sh',
+    placeholder: 'https://api.onecli.sh',
    validate: httpUrl,
  },
  {
@@ -194,7 +194,12 @@ export async function run(args: string[]): Promise<void> {

  // 4. Send onboarding message — only on first wiring, not re-registration
  if (newlyWired) {
-    const { session } = resolveSession(agentGroup.id, messagingGroup.id, null, parsed.sessionMode as 'shared' | 'per-thread' | 'agent-shared');
+    const { session } = resolveSession(
+      agentGroup.id,
+      messagingGroup.id,
+      null,
+      parsed.sessionMode as 'shared' | 'per-thread' | 'agent-shared',
+    );
    writeSessionMessage(agentGroup.id, session.id, {
      id: generateId('onboard'),
      kind: 'task',
@@ -208,40 +213,38 @@ export async function run(args: string[]): Promise<void> {
    log.info('Onboarding message written', { sessionId: session.id, channel: parsed.channel });
  }

-  // 5. Update assistant name in CLAUDE.md files if different from default
+  // 5. Apply assistant name to JUST the group being registered.
+  //
+  // Earlier behavior did a project-wide find-replace of "Andy" across every
+  // `groups/*/CLAUDE.md` and overwrote `.env`'s `ASSISTANT_NAME`, which
+  // caused two real-world problems:
+  //   - registering a second agent (e.g. "Homie") clobbered the unrelated
+  //     primary agent's CLAUDE.md (replacing "Andy" with "Homie" in
+  //     groups/diddyclaw/CLAUDE.md when Diddyclaw was already in place);
+  //   - the global `.env` ASSISTANT_NAME flipped to the most recently-
+  //     registered agent, which then became the install-wide default
+  //     trigger for any *new* group registered without an explicit
+  //     `--assistant-name`.
+  // Both were unintentional global side-effects of a per-agent operation.
+  // Scope is now strictly: only the freshly-registered agent's own
+  // `groups/<folder>/CLAUDE.md`.
  let nameUpdated = false;
  if (parsed.assistantName !== 'Andy') {
-    log.info('Updating assistant name', { from: 'Andy', to: parsed.assistantName });
-
-    const groupsDir = path.join(projectRoot, 'groups');
-    const mdFiles = fs
-      .readdirSync(groupsDir)
-      .map((d) => path.join(groupsDir, d, 'CLAUDE.md'))
-      .filter((f) => fs.existsSync(f));
-
-    for (const mdFile of mdFiles) {
-      let content = fs.readFileSync(mdFile, 'utf-8');
-      content = content.replace(/^# Andy$/m, `# ${parsed.assistantName}`);
-      content = content.replace(/You are Andy/g, `You are ${parsed.assistantName}`);
-      fs.writeFileSync(mdFile, content);
-      log.info('Updated CLAUDE.md', { file: mdFile });
-    }
-
-    // Update .env
-    const envFile = path.join(projectRoot, '.env');
-    if (fs.existsSync(envFile)) {
-      let envContent = fs.readFileSync(envFile, 'utf-8');
-      if (envContent.includes('ASSISTANT_NAME=')) {
-        envContent = envContent.replace(/^ASSISTANT_NAME=.*$/m, `ASSISTANT_NAME="${parsed.assistantName}"`);
-      } else {
-        envContent += `\nASSISTANT_NAME="${parsed.assistantName}"`;
+    const mdFile = path.join(projectRoot, 'groups', parsed.folder, 'CLAUDE.md');
+    if (fs.existsSync(mdFile)) {
+      const before = fs.readFileSync(mdFile, 'utf-8');
+      const after = before
+        .replace(/^# Andy$/m, `# ${parsed.assistantName}`)
+        .replace(/You are Andy/g, `You are ${parsed.assistantName}`);
+      if (after !== before) {
+        fs.writeFileSync(mdFile, after);
+        log.info('Updated assistant name in registered group only', {
+          file: mdFile,
+          to: parsed.assistantName,
+        });
+        nameUpdated = true;
      }
-      fs.writeFileSync(envFile, envContent);
-    } else {
-      fs.writeFileSync(envFile, `ASSISTANT_NAME="${parsed.assistantName}"\n`);
    }
-    log.info('Set ASSISTANT_NAME in .env');
-    nameUpdated = true;
  }

  emitStatus('REGISTER_CHANNEL', {
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ const LINK_TIMEOUT_MS = 180_000;
 const DEFAULT_DEVICE_NAME = 'NanoClaw';

 interface SignalAccount {
+  number?: string;
  account?: string;
  registered?: boolean;
 }
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ function listAccounts(): string[] {
    const parsed = JSON.parse(res.stdout || '[]') as SignalAccount[];
    return parsed
      .filter((a) => a.registered !== false)
-      .map((a) => a.account ?? '')
+      .map((a) => a.number ?? a.account ?? '')
      .filter(Boolean);
  } catch {
    return [];
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import { formatResponse } from './format.js';
 import type { RequestFrame } from './frame.js';
 import { SocketTransport } from './socket-client.js';
 import type { Transport } from './transport.js';
+import { formatTransportError } from './transport-errors.js';

 async function main(): Promise<void> {
  const argv = process.argv.slice(2);
@@ -105,21 +106,6 @@ function printUsage(): void {
  );
 }

-function formatTransportError(e: unknown): string {
-  const msg = e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e);
-  if (msg.includes('ENOENT') || msg.includes('ECONNREFUSED')) {
-    return [
-      `ncl: cannot reach NanoClaw host (${msg}).`,
-      `Is the host running? Start it with: pnpm run dev`,
-      `Or, if installed as a service:`,
-      `  macOS:  launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/com.nanoclaw`,
-      `  Linux:  systemctl --user restart nanoclaw`,
-      ``,
-    ].join('\n');
-  }
-  return `ncl: transport error: ${msg}\n`;
-}
-
 main().catch((err) => {
  process.stderr.write(`ncl: unexpected error: ${err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err)}\n`);
  process.exit(2);
@@ -0,0 +1,147 @@
+/**
+ * Regression test for #2465 — approval-path `ncl destinations add/remove`
+ * must hydrate every active session's `inbound.db` `destinations` table,
+ * not just the central `agent_destinations` row.
+ *
+ * The approval handler in `dispatch.ts` re-enters `dispatch()` with
+ * `caller: 'host'` after admin approval, so this test invokes dispatch
+ * with the host caller — same code path as a real approval payload.
+ */
+import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
+import fs from 'fs';
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach, afterEach, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+vi.mock('../../container-runner.js', () => ({
+  wakeContainer: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+  isContainerRunning: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(false),
+  getActiveContainerCount: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(0),
+  killContainer: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+vi.mock('../../config.js', async () => {
+  const actual = await vi.importActual('../../config.js');
+  return { ...actual, DATA_DIR: '/tmp/nanoclaw-test-cli-destinations' };
+});
+
+const TEST_DIR = '/tmp/nanoclaw-test-cli-destinations';
+
+import { initTestDb, closeDb, runMigrations, createAgentGroup } from '../../db/index.js';
+import { createSession } from '../../db/sessions.js';
+import { initSessionFolder, inboundDbPath } from '../../session-manager.js';
+import { dispatch } from '../dispatch.js';
+// Side-effect import: registers the `destinations-add` / `destinations-remove` commands.
+import './destinations.js';
+
+function now(): string {
+  return new Date().toISOString();
+}
+
+function readSessionDestinations(agentGroupId: string, sessionId: string) {
+  const db = new Database(inboundDbPath(agentGroupId, sessionId), { readonly: true });
+  const rows = db.prepare('SELECT name, type, agent_group_id FROM destinations ORDER BY name').all() as Array<{
+    name: string;
+    type: string;
+    agent_group_id: string | null;
+  }>;
+  db.close();
+  return rows;
+}
+
+describe('destinations CLI custom ops project to inbound.db (#2465)', () => {
+  const SOURCE = 'ag-source';
+  const TARGET = 'ag-target';
+  const SESSION_A = 'sess-source-1';
+  const SESSION_B = 'sess-source-2';
+
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    if (fs.existsSync(TEST_DIR)) fs.rmSync(TEST_DIR, { recursive: true });
+    fs.mkdirSync(TEST_DIR, { recursive: true });
+
+    const db = initTestDb();
+    runMigrations(db);
+
+    createAgentGroup({ id: SOURCE, name: 'source', folder: 'source', agent_provider: null, created_at: now() });
+    createAgentGroup({ id: TARGET, name: 'target', folder: 'target', agent_provider: null, created_at: now() });
+
+    // Two active sessions for the source agent — both must receive the
+    // projected destination row. Fixing only the "newest" session is a
+    // common regression shape, so the second session catches that.
+    for (const sid of [SESSION_A, SESSION_B]) {
+      createSession({
+        id: sid,
+        agent_group_id: SOURCE,
+        messaging_group_id: null,
+        thread_id: null,
+        agent_provider: null,
+        status: 'active',
+        container_status: 'stopped',
+        last_active: null,
+        created_at: now(),
+      });
+      initSessionFolder(SOURCE, sid);
+    }
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    closeDb();
+    if (fs.existsSync(TEST_DIR)) fs.rmSync(TEST_DIR, { recursive: true });
+  });
+
+  it('add: projects the new destination into every active session inbound.db', async () => {
+    // Sanity: inbound.db starts with no destinations.
+    expect(readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, SESSION_A)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, SESSION_B)).toEqual([]);
+
+    // caller: 'host' is what the cli_command approval handler in dispatch.ts
+    // uses when it re-enters dispatch after admin approval.
+    const resp = await dispatch(
+      {
+        id: 'req-1',
+        command: 'destinations-add',
+        args: {
+          agent_group_id: SOURCE,
+          local_name: 'helper',
+          target_type: 'agent',
+          target_id: TARGET,
+        },
+      },
+      { caller: 'host' },
+    );
+
+    expect(resp.ok).toBe(true);
+
+    for (const sid of [SESSION_A, SESSION_B]) {
+      const rows = readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, sid);
+      expect(rows).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(rows[0]).toMatchObject({ name: 'helper', type: 'agent', agent_group_id: TARGET });
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('remove: clears the destination from every active session inbound.db', async () => {
+    await dispatch(
+      {
+        id: 'req-add',
+        command: 'destinations-add',
+        args: { agent_group_id: SOURCE, local_name: 'helper', target_type: 'agent', target_id: TARGET },
+      },
+      { caller: 'host' },
+    );
+
+    // Precondition: add succeeded and projected to both sessions.
+    expect(readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, SESSION_A)).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, SESSION_B)).toHaveLength(1);
+
+    const resp = await dispatch(
+      {
+        id: 'req-remove',
+        command: 'destinations-remove',
+        args: { agent_group_id: SOURCE, local_name: 'helper' },
+      },
+      { caller: 'host' },
+    );
+
+    expect(resp.ok).toBe(true);
+    expect(readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, SESSION_A)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(readSessionDestinations(SOURCE, SESSION_B)).toEqual([]);
+  });
+});
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
-import { getDb } from '../../db/connection.js';
+import { getDb, hasTable } from '../../db/connection.js';
+import { getSessionsByAgentGroup } from '../../db/sessions.js';
+import { log } from '../../log.js';
 import { registerResource } from '../crud.js';

+/**
+ * Project the agent's central `agent_destinations` rows into every active
+ * session's `inbound.db`. The agent-to-agent module is optional, so we guard
+ * on `hasTable('agent_destinations')` and load `writeDestinations` lazily —
+ * same pattern as container-runner.ts on container wake.
+ *
+ * Called from both `add` and `remove` so the live container picks up the
+ * change without waiting for the next spawn. Without this, send_message to
+ * the new local_name silently drops with "unknown destination" until restart.
+ * See the destination-projection invariant in
+ * src/modules/agent-to-agent/db/agent-destinations.ts.
+ */
+async function projectDestinationsToSessions(agentGroupId: string): Promise<void> {
+  if (!hasTable(getDb(), 'agent_destinations')) return;
+  const { writeDestinations } = await import('../../modules/agent-to-agent/write-destinations.js');
+  for (const session of getSessionsByAgentGroup(agentGroupId)) {
+    try {
+      writeDestinations(agentGroupId, session.id);
+    } catch (err) {
+      log.warn('Failed to project destinations to session inbound.db', { agentGroupId, sessionId: session.id, err });
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 registerResource({
  name: 'destination',
  plural: 'destinations',
@@ -56,6 +82,7 @@ registerResource({
             VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, datetime('now'))`,
          )
          .run(agentGroupId, localName, targetType, targetId);
+        await projectDestinationsToSessions(agentGroupId);
        return { agent_group_id: agentGroupId, local_name: localName, target_type: targetType, target_id: targetId };
      },
    },
@@ -71,6 +98,7 @@ registerResource({
          .prepare('DELETE FROM agent_destinations WHERE agent_group_id = ? AND local_name = ?')
          .run(agentGroupId, localName);
        if (result.changes === 0) throw new Error('destination not found');
+        await projectDestinationsToSessions(agentGroupId);
        return { removed: { agent_group_id: agentGroupId, local_name: localName } };
      },
    },
@@ -0,0 +1,220 @@
+/**
+ * Regression test for #2525 — `ncl groups delete` must cascade dependent
+ * rows in FK order so the final `DELETE FROM agent_groups` succeeds even
+ * when the group has sessions, destinations, approvals, role grants, etc.
+ *
+ * The bug pre-fix: the generic single-table DELETE handler ran a bare
+ * `DELETE FROM agent_groups WHERE id = ?` which always failed with a
+ * `SQLITE_CONSTRAINT_FOREIGNKEY` when anything pointed at the group.
+ *
+ * The approval handler in `dispatch.ts` re-enters `dispatch()` with
+ * `caller: 'host'` after admin approval, so the test invokes dispatch
+ * with the host caller — same code path a real approval would take.
+ */
+import fs from 'fs';
+import { describe, expect, it, beforeEach, afterEach, vi } from 'vitest';
+
+vi.mock('../../container-runner.js', () => ({
+  wakeContainer: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+  isContainerRunning: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(false),
+  getActiveContainerCount: vi.fn().mockReturnValue(0),
+  killContainer: vi.fn(),
+  buildAgentGroupImage: vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined),
+}));
+
+vi.mock('../../config.js', async () => {
+  const actual = await vi.importActual('../../config.js');
+  return { ...actual, DATA_DIR: '/tmp/nanoclaw-test-cli-groups' };
+});
+
+const TEST_DIR = '/tmp/nanoclaw-test-cli-groups';
+
+import { initTestDb, closeDb, runMigrations, createAgentGroup, getDb } from '../../db/index.js';
+import { createSession } from '../../db/sessions.js';
+import { dispatch } from '../dispatch.js';
+// Side-effect import: registers the `groups-*` commands (including delete).
+import './groups.js';
+
+function now(): string {
+  return new Date().toISOString();
+}
+
+function count(sql: string, ...params: unknown[]): number {
+  return (
+    getDb()
+      .prepare(sql)
+      .get(...params) as { c: number }
+  ).c;
+}
+
+describe('groups CLI delete cascades dependent rows (#2525)', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    if (fs.existsSync(TEST_DIR)) fs.rmSync(TEST_DIR, { recursive: true });
+    fs.mkdirSync(TEST_DIR, { recursive: true });
+
+    const db = initTestDb();
+    runMigrations(db);
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    closeDb();
+    if (fs.existsSync(TEST_DIR)) fs.rmSync(TEST_DIR, { recursive: true });
+  });
+
+  it('deletes a group with sessions, destinations, approvals, members, roles, and wirings', async () => {
+    const GID = 'ag-victim';
+    const SID = 'sess-victim-1';
+    const MGID = 'mg-1';
+    const UID = 'tg:42';
+
+    createAgentGroup({ id: GID, name: 'victim', folder: 'victim', agent_provider: null, created_at: now() });
+    createSession({
+      id: SID,
+      agent_group_id: GID,
+      messaging_group_id: null,
+      thread_id: null,
+      agent_provider: null,
+      status: 'active',
+      container_status: 'stopped',
+      last_active: null,
+      created_at: now(),
+    });
+
+    const db = getDb();
+
+    // Direct inserts for the dependent tables. Keeps the fixture minimal —
+    // we only need rows that establish FK relationships, not full domain
+    // entities.
+    db.prepare(`INSERT INTO users (id, kind, display_name, created_at) VALUES (?, 'telegram', 'someone', ?)`).run(
+      UID,
+      now(),
+    );
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO messaging_groups (id, channel_type, platform_id, name, is_group, unknown_sender_policy, created_at)
+       VALUES (?, 'telegram', 'tg-1', 'chat', 1, 'strict', ?)`,
+    ).run(MGID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO agent_destinations (agent_group_id, local_name, target_type, target_id, created_at)
+       VALUES (?, 'chan', 'channel', ?, ?)`,
+    ).run(GID, MGID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO pending_questions (question_id, session_id, message_out_id, title, options_json, created_at)
+       VALUES (?, ?, 'mout-1', 'q', '[]', ?)`,
+    ).run('q-1', SID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO pending_approvals (approval_id, session_id, request_id, action, payload, created_at, agent_group_id, status, title, options_json)
+       VALUES (?, ?, 'req-1', 'cli_command', '{}', ?, ?, 'pending', '', '[]')`,
+    ).run('pa-1', SID, now(), GID);
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO pending_sender_approvals (id, messaging_group_id, agent_group_id, sender_identity, sender_name, original_message, approver_user_id, created_at)
+       VALUES ('psa-1', ?, ?, 'tg:99', 'them', '{}', ?, ?)`,
+    ).run(MGID, GID, UID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO pending_channel_approvals (messaging_group_id, agent_group_id, original_message, approver_user_id, created_at)
+       VALUES (?, ?, '{}', ?, ?)`,
+    ).run(MGID, GID, UID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO messaging_group_agents (id, messaging_group_id, agent_group_id, engage_mode, sender_scope, ignored_message_policy, session_mode, priority, created_at)
+       VALUES ('mga-1', ?, ?, 'mention', 'all', 'drop', 'shared', 0, ?)`,
+    ).run(MGID, GID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO agent_group_members (user_id, agent_group_id, added_by, added_at) VALUES (?, ?, NULL, ?)`,
+    ).run(UID, GID, now());
+
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO user_roles (user_id, role, agent_group_id, granted_by, granted_at) VALUES (?, 'admin', ?, NULL, ?)`,
+    ).run(UID, GID, now());
+
+    // Container config row exercises the ON DELETE CASCADE on container_configs.
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO container_configs
+         (agent_group_id, provider, model, effort, image_tag, assistant_name, max_messages_per_prompt,
+          skills, mcp_servers, packages_apt, packages_npm, additional_mounts, cli_scope, updated_at)
+       VALUES (?, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, '"all"', '{}', '[]', '[]', '[]', 'group', ?)`,
+    ).run(GID, now());
+
+    const resp = await dispatch({ id: 'req-del', command: 'groups-delete', args: { id: GID } }, { caller: 'host' });
+
+    expect(resp.ok).toBe(true);
+    const data = (resp as { ok: true; data: { deleted: string; removed: Record<string, number> } }).data;
+    expect(data.deleted).toBe(GID);
+    expect(data.removed).toMatchObject({
+      sessions: 1,
+      pending_questions: 1,
+      pending_approvals: 1,
+      agent_destinations_owned: 1,
+      agent_destinations_pointing: 0,
+      pending_sender_approvals: 1,
+      pending_channel_approvals: 1,
+      messaging_group_agents: 1,
+      agent_group_members: 1,
+      user_roles: 1,
+      container_configs: 1,
+    });
+
+    // The group and every dependent row must be gone.
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM agent_groups WHERE id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM sessions WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM pending_questions WHERE session_id = ?', SID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(
+      count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM pending_approvals WHERE agent_group_id = ? OR session_id = ?', GID, SID),
+    ).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM agent_destinations WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM pending_sender_approvals WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM pending_channel_approvals WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM messaging_group_agents WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM agent_group_members WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM user_roles WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM container_configs WHERE agent_group_id = ?', GID)).toBe(0);
+
+    // Unrelated tables untouched.
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM users WHERE id = ?', UID)).toBe(1);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM messaging_groups WHERE id = ?', MGID)).toBe(1);
+  });
+
+  it('removes polymorphic agent_destinations that point at the deleted group', async () => {
+    const A = 'ag-a';
+    const B = 'ag-b';
+    createAgentGroup({ id: A, name: 'a', folder: 'a', agent_provider: null, created_at: now() });
+    createAgentGroup({ id: B, name: 'b', folder: 'b', agent_provider: null, created_at: now() });
+
+    const db = getDb();
+
+    // B has a destination pointing at A. target_id is polymorphic — no FK
+    // constraint enforces it, so without explicit cleanup the row would
+    // dangle after A is deleted.
+    db.prepare(
+      `INSERT INTO agent_destinations (agent_group_id, local_name, target_type, target_id, created_at)
+       VALUES (?, 'sibling', 'agent', ?, ?)`,
+    ).run(B, A, now());
+
+    const resp = await dispatch({ id: 'req-del-a', command: 'groups-delete', args: { id: A } }, { caller: 'host' });
+
+    expect(resp.ok).toBe(true);
+    const data = (resp as { ok: true; data: { removed: Record<string, number> } }).data;
+    expect(data.removed.agent_destinations_pointing).toBe(1);
+
+    // A is gone, B remains, and B's stale destination is cleaned up.
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM agent_groups WHERE id = ?', A)).toBe(0);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM agent_groups WHERE id = ?', B)).toBe(1);
+    expect(count('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM agent_destinations WHERE agent_group_id = ?', B)).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('returns a handler error for an unknown group id', async () => {
+    const resp = await dispatch(
+      { id: 'req-missing', command: 'groups-delete', args: { id: 'ag-does-not-exist' } },
+      { caller: 'host' },
+    );
+
+    expect(resp.ok).toBe(false);
+    expect((resp as { ok: false; error: { code: string; message: string } }).error.code).toBe('handler-error');
+    expect((resp as { ok: false; error: { code: string; message: string } }).error.message).toMatch(/not found/i);
+  });
+});
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type { McpServerConfig } from '../../container-config.js';
 import { buildAgentGroupImage, killContainer, wakeContainer } from '../../container-runner.js';
 import { restartAgentGroupContainers } from '../../container-restart.js';
+import { getDb, hasTable } from '../../db/connection.js';
 import { getSession } from '../../db/sessions.js';
 import { writeSessionMessage } from '../../session-manager.js';
 import {
@@ -57,8 +58,97 @@ registerResource({
    },
    { name: 'created_at', type: 'string', description: 'Auto-set.', generated: true },
  ],
-  operations: { list: 'open', get: 'open', create: 'approval', update: 'approval', delete: 'approval' },
+  // `delete` is intentionally not in `operations` — the generic single-table
+  // DELETE violates FK constraints (see #2525). The cascading handler is
+  // provided as `customOperations.delete` below.
+  operations: { list: 'open', get: 'open', create: 'approval', update: 'approval' },
  customOperations: {
+    delete: {
+      access: 'approval',
+      description:
+        'Delete an agent group and its dependent rows (sessions, destinations, approvals, role grants, ' +
+        'memberships, channel wirings). FK-ordered cascade in a single transaction. ' +
+        'Use --id <group-id>. Out of scope: killing running containers, on-disk cleanup of groups/<folder>/ and data/v2-sessions/<group-id>/.',
+      handler: async (args) => {
+        const id = args.id as string;
+        if (!id) throw new Error('--id is required');
+        const db = getDb();
+
+        // Verify the group exists before doing anything — preserves the
+        // genericDelete behaviour of throwing "not found" for unknown IDs.
+        const exists = db.prepare('SELECT 1 FROM agent_groups WHERE id = ? LIMIT 1').get(id);
+        if (!exists) throw new Error(`group not found: ${id}`);
+
+        const hasAgentDestinations = hasTable(db, 'agent_destinations');
+        const hasPendingApprovals = hasTable(db, 'pending_approvals');
+
+        // FK-ordered cascade. Single sync transaction — better-sqlite3 rolls
+        // back the whole thing if any statement throws (e.g. an FK constraint
+        // we missed), so the central DB stays consistent. The `removed` counts
+        // are sourced from each DELETE's `changes` so they describe exactly
+        // what the transaction did, not a separate pre-flight snapshot.
+        const cascade = db.transaction((groupId: string) => {
+          const counts = {
+            sessions: 0,
+            pending_questions: 0,
+            pending_approvals: 0,
+            agent_destinations_owned: 0,
+            agent_destinations_pointing: 0,
+            pending_sender_approvals: 0,
+            pending_channel_approvals: 0,
+            messaging_group_agents: 0,
+            agent_group_members: 0,
+            user_roles: 0,
+            container_configs: 0,
+          };
+
+          if (hasAgentDestinations) {
+            counts.agent_destinations_owned = db
+              .prepare('DELETE FROM agent_destinations WHERE agent_group_id = ?')
+              .run(groupId).changes;
+            counts.agent_destinations_pointing = db
+              .prepare('DELETE FROM agent_destinations WHERE target_type = ? AND target_id = ?')
+              .run('agent', groupId).changes;
+          }
+          counts.pending_questions = db
+            .prepare(
+              'DELETE FROM pending_questions WHERE session_id IN (SELECT id FROM sessions WHERE agent_group_id = ?)',
+            )
+            .run(groupId).changes;
+          if (hasPendingApprovals) {
+            counts.pending_approvals = db
+              .prepare(
+                'DELETE FROM pending_approvals WHERE agent_group_id = ? OR session_id IN (SELECT id FROM sessions WHERE agent_group_id = ?)',
+              )
+              .run(groupId, groupId).changes;
+          }
+          counts.sessions = db.prepare('DELETE FROM sessions WHERE agent_group_id = ?').run(groupId).changes;
+          counts.pending_sender_approvals = db
+            .prepare('DELETE FROM pending_sender_approvals WHERE agent_group_id = ?')
+            .run(groupId).changes;
+          counts.pending_channel_approvals = db
+            .prepare('DELETE FROM pending_channel_approvals WHERE agent_group_id = ?')
+            .run(groupId).changes;
+          counts.messaging_group_agents = db
+            .prepare('DELETE FROM messaging_group_agents WHERE agent_group_id = ?')
+            .run(groupId).changes;
+          counts.agent_group_members = db
+            .prepare('DELETE FROM agent_group_members WHERE agent_group_id = ?')
+            .run(groupId).changes;
+          counts.user_roles = db.prepare('DELETE FROM user_roles WHERE agent_group_id = ?').run(groupId).changes;
+          // migration-014 has ON DELETE CASCADE on container_configs.agent_group_id;
+          // the explicit delete here mirrors the other tables and surfaces the count.
+          counts.container_configs = db
+            .prepare('DELETE FROM container_configs WHERE agent_group_id = ?')
+            .run(groupId).changes;
+          db.prepare('DELETE FROM agent_groups WHERE id = ?').run(groupId);
+          return counts;
+        });
+        const removed = cascade(id);
+
+        return { deleted: id, removed };
+      },
+    },
    restart: {
      access: 'approval',
      description:
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+
+import { getLaunchdLabel, getSystemdUnit } from '../install-slug.js';
+import { formatTransportError } from './transport-errors.js';
+
+describe('formatTransportError', () => {
+  it('renders per-install service names on ENOENT, not the bare v1 names', () => {
+    const out = formatTransportError(new Error('connect ENOENT /tmp/nanoclaw.sock'));
+
+    // Regression for #2484: pre-fix, this string was a hardcoded
+    // `com.nanoclaw` / `nanoclaw`, which doesn't match the actual
+    // v2 per-install slug-suffixed unit and label.
+    expect(out).toContain(`gui/$(id -u)/${getLaunchdLabel()}`);
+    expect(out).toContain(`systemctl --user restart ${getSystemdUnit()}`);
+    expect(out).not.toMatch(/gui\/\$\(id -u\)\/com\.nanoclaw\b(?!-v2)/);
+    expect(out).not.toMatch(/systemctl --user restart nanoclaw\b(?!-v2)/);
+  });
+
+  it('renders the same on ECONNREFUSED', () => {
+    const out = formatTransportError(new Error('connect ECONNREFUSED'));
+    expect(out).toContain(getLaunchdLabel());
+    expect(out).toContain(getSystemdUnit());
+  });
+
+  it('falls back to a generic transport error for other failures', () => {
+    const out = formatTransportError(new Error('some unrelated failure'));
+    expect(out).toBe('ncl: transport error: some unrelated failure\n');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('launchctl');
+    expect(out).not.toContain('systemctl');
+  });
+});
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+import { getLaunchdLabel, getSystemdUnit } from '../install-slug.js';
+
+export function formatTransportError(e: unknown): string {
+  const msg = e instanceof Error ? e.message : String(e);
+  if (msg.includes('ENOENT') || msg.includes('ECONNREFUSED')) {
+    // `bin/ncl` cd's to the project root before exec'ing client.ts, so
+    // process.cwd() is the install dir — install-slug helpers pick up
+    // the right per-checkout suffix.
+    return [
+      `ncl: cannot reach NanoClaw host (${msg}).`,
+      `Is the host running? Start it with: pnpm run dev`,
+      `Or, if installed as a service:`,
+      `  macOS:  launchctl kickstart -k gui/$(id -u)/${getLaunchdLabel()}`,
+      `  Linux:  systemctl --user restart ${getSystemdUnit()}`,
+      ``,
+    ].join('\n');
+  }
+  return `ncl: transport error: ${msg}\n`;
+}
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 * Affected call sites today (keep this list honest if you add more):
 *   - src/delivery.ts::handleSystemAction case 'create_agent'
 *   - src/db/messaging-groups.ts::createMessagingGroupAgent
+ *   - src/cli/resources/destinations.ts::add / remove (admin-time `ncl destinations`
+ *     — iterates over `getSessionsByAgentGroup(agentGroupId)`)
 */
 import type { AgentDestination } from '../../../types.js';
 import { getDb } from '../../../db/connection.js';
@@ -357,6 +357,87 @@ describe('unknown-channel registration flow', () => {
      .c;
    expect(stillPending).toBe(1);
  });
+
+  it('does not let a scoped admin connect an unknown channel to another agent group', async () => {
+    const { routeInbound } = await import('../../router.js');
+    const { getResponseHandlers } = await import('../../response-registry.js');
+    const { getDb } = await import('../../db/connection.js');
+
+    createAgentGroup({ id: 'ag-2', name: 'Betty', folder: 'betty', agent_provider: null, created_at: now() });
+    upsertUser({ id: 'telegram:scoped-admin', kind: 'telegram', display_name: 'Scoped Admin', created_at: now() });
+    grantRole({
+      user_id: 'telegram:scoped-admin',
+      role: 'admin',
+      agent_group_id: 'ag-1',
+      granted_by: 'telegram:owner',
+      granted_at: now(),
+    });
+    createMessagingGroup({
+      id: 'mg-dm-scoped-admin',
+      channel_type: 'telegram',
+      platform_id: 'dm-scoped-admin',
+      name: 'Scoped Admin DM',
+      is_group: 0,
+      unknown_sender_policy: 'public',
+      created_at: now(),
+    });
+    getDb()
+      .prepare(
+        `INSERT INTO user_dms (user_id, channel_type, messaging_group_id, resolved_at)
+       VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)`,
+      )
+      .run('telegram:scoped-admin', 'telegram', 'mg-dm-scoped-admin', now());
+
+    await routeInbound(groupMention('chat-scoped-cross-group'));
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 10));
+
+    const pending = getDb().prepare('SELECT messaging_group_id FROM pending_channel_approvals').get() as {
+      messaging_group_id: string;
+    };
+    expect(pending).toBeDefined();
+    expect(deliverMock).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+    expect(deliverMock.mock.calls[0][1]).toBe('dm-scoped-admin');
+
+    for (const handler of getResponseHandlers()) {
+      const claimed = await handler({
+        questionId: pending.messaging_group_id,
+        value: 'choose_existing',
+        userId: 'scoped-admin',
+        channelType: 'telegram',
+        platformId: 'dm-scoped-admin',
+        threadId: null,
+      });
+      if (claimed) break;
+    }
+
+    const followupPayload = JSON.parse(deliverMock.mock.calls[1][4] as string) as {
+      options: Array<{ label: string; value: string }>;
+    };
+    expect(followupPayload.options.map((option) => option.value)).toContain('connect:ag-1');
+    expect(followupPayload.options.map((option) => option.value)).not.toContain('connect:ag-2');
+
+    for (const handler of getResponseHandlers()) {
+      const claimed = await handler({
+        questionId: pending.messaging_group_id,
+        value: 'connect:ag-2',
+        userId: 'scoped-admin',
+        channelType: 'telegram',
+        platformId: 'dm-scoped-admin',
+        threadId: null,
+      });
+      if (claimed) break;
+    }
+
+    const mgaCount = (
+      getDb()
+        .prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM messaging_group_agents WHERE messaging_group_id = ?')
+        .get(pending.messaging_group_id) as { c: number }
+    ).c;
+    expect(mgaCount).toBe(0);
+    const stillPending = (getDb().prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM pending_channel_approvals').get() as { c: number })
+      .c;
+    expect(stillPending).toBe(1);
+  });
 });

 describe('no-owner / no-agent failure modes', () => {
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ import type { InboundEvent } from '../../channels/adapter.js';
 import type { AgentGroup } from '../../types.js';
 import { pickApprovalDelivery, pickApprover } from '../approvals/primitive.js';
 import { createPendingChannelApproval, hasInFlightChannelApproval } from './db/pending-channel-approvals.js';
+import { hasAdminPrivilege } from './db/user-roles.js';

 // ── Value constants (response handler in index.ts parses these) ──

@@ -76,15 +77,24 @@ function toFolder(name: string): string {

 // ── Card builders ──

-function buildApprovalOptions(agentGroups: AgentGroup[]): RawOption[] {
+function visibleAgentGroupsForApprover(
+  agentGroups: AgentGroup[],
+  approverUserId: string | null | undefined,
+): AgentGroup[] {
+  if (!approverUserId) return agentGroups;
+  return agentGroups.filter((agentGroup) => hasAdminPrivilege(approverUserId, agentGroup.id));
+}
+
+function buildApprovalOptions(agentGroups: AgentGroup[], approverUserId?: string | null): RawOption[] {
+  const visibleAgentGroups = visibleAgentGroupsForApprover(agentGroups, approverUserId);
  const options: RawOption[] = [];
-  if (agentGroups.length === 1) {
+  if (visibleAgentGroups.length === 1) {
    options.push({
-      label: `Connect to ${agentGroups[0].name}`,
-      selectedLabel: `✅ Connected to ${agentGroups[0].name}`,
-      value: `${CONNECT_PREFIX}${agentGroups[0].id}`,
+      label: `Connect to ${visibleAgentGroups[0].name}`,
+      selectedLabel: `✅ Connected to ${visibleAgentGroups[0].name}`,
+      value: `${CONNECT_PREFIX}${visibleAgentGroups[0].id}`,
    });
-  } else {
+  } else if (visibleAgentGroups.length > 1) {
    options.push({
      label: 'Choose existing agent',
      selectedLabel: '📋 Choosing…',
@@ -194,7 +204,7 @@ export async function requestChannelApproval(input: RequestChannelApprovalInput)
  const channelName = originMg?.name ?? null;
  const title = isGroup ? '📣 Bot mentioned in new channel' : '💬 New direct message';
  const question = buildQuestionText(isGroup, senderName, channelName, originChannelType);
-  const options = normalizeOptions(buildApprovalOptions(agentGroups));
+  const options = normalizeOptions(buildApprovalOptions(agentGroups, delivery.userId));

  createPendingChannelApproval({
    messaging_group_id: messagingGroupId,
@@ -241,8 +251,12 @@ export async function requestChannelApproval(input: RequestChannelApprovalInput)
 /**
 * Build normalized options for the agent-selection follow-up card.
 */
-export function buildAgentSelectionOptions(agentGroups: AgentGroup[]): NormalizedOption[] {
-  const options: RawOption[] = agentGroups.map((ag) => ({
+export function buildAgentSelectionOptions(
+  agentGroups: AgentGroup[],
+  approverUserId?: string | null,
+): NormalizedOption[] {
+  const visibleAgentGroups = visibleAgentGroupsForApprover(agentGroups, approverUserId);
+  const options: RawOption[] = visibleAgentGroups.map((ag) => ({
    label: ag.name,
    selectedLabel: `✅ Connected to ${ag.name}`,
    value: `${CONNECT_PREFIX}${ag.id}`,
@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ async function handleChannelApprovalResponse(payload: ResponsePayload): Promise<
    if (!adapter) return true;

    const agentGroups = getAllAgentGroups();
-    const options = buildAgentSelectionOptions(agentGroups);
+    const options = buildAgentSelectionOptions(agentGroups, approverId);
    const title = '📋 Choose an agent';
    updatePendingChannelApprovalCard(row.messaging_group_id, title, JSON.stringify(options));

@@ -438,6 +438,14 @@ async function handleChannelApprovalResponse(payload: ResponsePayload): Promise<
      deletePendingChannelApproval(row.messaging_group_id);
      return true;
    }
+    if (!hasAdminPrivilege(approverId, targetAgentGroupId)) {
+      log.warn('Channel registration: target agent group rejected for unauthorized approver', {
+        messagingGroupId: row.messaging_group_id,
+        targetAgentGroupId,
+        approverId,
+      });
+      return true;
+    }
  } else {
    log.warn('Channel registration: unknown response value', {
      messagingGroupId: row.messaging_group_id,