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Phase 0 of the Drive Environments epic: a pure refactor that generalizes the session-only Sprite lifecycle into a holder-neutral one. No behavior change. Every later task in the epic (schema, environment CRUD, sessions-in-environment, teardown) stacks on this.

Why

Sessions are not the only thing that can own a Sprite — per-drive environments are next. The provisioner's own docblock already says why environments cannot get their own copy of it:

the CAS below only serializes concurrent provisioners if every provisioner runs it

An environment provisioner with a parallel implementation would be correct against itself and race against nothing — right up until two sessions opened in one environment at once, which is the normal case for an environment. So the machinery is parametrized, not duplicated.

What changed

services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspace-sprite.ts

  • ensureSpriteHolderSandbox({ row, intent, deps }) is now the single probe → plan → provision → CAS core. Every seam a holder kind differs at is a dep: the holderId-addressed store slice (updateSpriteIdentity / applyStamps / reloadSpritePointer / enqueueReclaim), the key-derivation fn, the authorize fn, and the allowance check. Nothing below that line branches on holder kind.
  • A quota refusal is entirely the holder's to word. checkQuota returns { allowed: false; denial; reason } and the core passes both straight through — it invents neither. The session wrapper supplies 'session_limit_reached' and SESSION_LIMIT_DETAIL, so the wire value and audit payload are byte-identical to before. (An earlier revision hardcoded the denial in the core; that would have labelled an environment's refusal a live-session ceiling in both the API response and the security audit, and forced the return statement back open for the next holder kind.)
  • ensureAgentSessionSandbox becomes a thin session-flavored wrapper with an unchanged external signature. AgentSessionSpriteDeps, AgentSessionSpriteRow and the result type keep their exact shapes, so web (agent-workspaces-runtime.ts) and realtime (index.ts, terminal/) call it exactly as before — one entry point, one CAS.

agent-workspaces/plan-workspace-lifecycle.ts

  • Row slice renamed SpriteHolderLifecycleRow { holderId, … }. The planner never read the id, so the rename is inert; it just stops the slice from claiming a table it does not know about.
  • The surrounding contract types are holder-neutral too: SpriteHolderLifecyclePlan, SpriteHolderRowStamps, SpriteHolderIntent, SpriteHolderDenyReason, SpriteHolderNoopReason. A consumer audit confirms all five are internal to packages/lib — no web, realtime, or wire-contract importer — so nothing outside the package churns.
  • Deny/noop values deliberately unchanged. session_limit_reached, not_authorized and friends are switched on by apps/web/src/app/api/agent-workspaces/** to choose an HTTP status (429 vs 403/404) and are echoed into security-audit payloads. Renaming one is an API and audit-log change, not a refactor. The docblock records that, and that the environment holder should extend the union rather than rename it.

drive-envs/env-sprite-key.ts (new)

  • deriveDriveEnvSpriteKey({ tenantId, envId, secret }) under a fresh drive-env-sprite:v1 namespace and pgs-env- prefix. Environment ids and session ids are both cuid2s, so a shared namespace would let an environment derive the name of a session Sprite still awaiting reclaim and provision onto a VM the reclaim outbox is about to kill — the same hazard the session key's own v1→v2 bump answers. HMAC / NUL-delimiter / min-secret discipline copied verbatim so a weakness cannot be fixed in one derivation and missed in the other.
  • 15 unit tests, including a known-answer digest computed independently of the function under test, and a test asserting an environment and a session sharing tenant+id differ in the digest, not merely the prefix.
  • packages/lib/package.json exports entry + knip.json entry added.

services/agent-workspaces/__tests__/ensure-sprite-holder-sandbox.test.ts (new)

  • Drives ensureSpriteHolderSandbox directly with an environment holder — a bare SpriteHolderStore over a row map, deriveDriveBoxSpriteKey keys, no AgentSessionStore, no actor, no session secret. Without it, "holder-neutral" was an assertion about code nobody had run any other way; every other suite reaches the core through the session wrapper.
  • 9 tests: holder-supplied key derivation, resume, two-distinct-environments, the authorize and egress gates, quota wording pass-through, attach-never-mints, holder-keyed storage measurement — and Phase 3's central invariant, two concurrent first-ensures of one environment yielding one VM.

Verification

Mutation-checked in four places, each restored green afterward:

Mutation Result
Drop the previousSandboxId predicate from the identity CAS 3 provisioner tests red (concurrent-provisioner race, adopt race, reclaim-outbox rescue)
Drop the cas the new session adapter forwards to applyStamps 1 test red — the new adapter layer is covered too, not just the core
Defeat the environment store's CAS predicate 1 test red (the concurrent-first-ensure case), other 8 green
Change the session wrapper's injected denial value 1 test red (concurrency ceiling) — pins the wire string across the new seam

On that last one: "both callers got the same sandboxId" would prove nothing, since the host is name-keyed and both hold one physical VM whether or not the CAS refuses anyone. The assertion that actually bites is that exactly one caller reports resumed: false and the other resumed: true.

Gates (rebased onto a328517e5): typecheck 17/17 · lint 15/15 · knip:check ok (4 issues, all baseline) · test:unit 9257 passed. The failing files are all requireDb errors from Postgres-integration suites with no local test DB — the known env-only set, plus page-viewers.integration.test.ts which arrived with master in this rebase. Zero assertion failures attributable to this change.

No changelog entry: nothing user-visible changes.

One deviation from the task spec

The spec asked for planAgentSessionLifecycle to be kept as an alias of the renamed planner. The blocking knip:check ratchet rejects two exported names for one symbol and its message explicitly says fix rather than baseline. Both call sites of that function live inside packages/lib (no wire contract, no cross-app churn to avoid), so the alias buys nothing here — kept one name, planSpriteHolderLifecycle. Type aliases that do have cross-package consumers (EnsureAgentSessionSandboxResult, AgentSessionProvisionIntent) are kept, and knip does not flag those. Raised as [Q-box-lifecycle]; happy to restore the alias and amend knip-baseline.json instead if preferred.

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Naming correction (founder): boxes are environments

The entity is an ENVIRONMENT; box is retired project-wide. Applied as a clean rename with no compatibility aliases — nothing has shipped, so there is nothing to keep compatible with.

drive-boxes/box-sprite-key.ts → drive-envs/env-sprite-key.ts · deriveDriveBoxSpriteKey({boxId}) → deriveDriveEnvSpriteKey({envId}) · namespace drive-box-sprite:v1 → drive-env-sprite:v1 · prefix pgs-box- → pgs-env-, with the package.json exports entry and the knip entry following the path.

The namespace string sits inside the HMAC payload, so this moves every derived name. The unit test's known-answer digest was recomputed independently (node, sha3-256 HMAC over drive-env-sprite:v1\0tenant-fixed\0env-fixed) rather than re-snapshotted from the function — a snapshot of the function's own output would pass under any namespace, which is the single thing that test exists to catch.

The holder-neutral refactor is untouched: no signature, no logic, no test assertion changed. Its docblocks did change, because they named the retired token (drive_boxes, drive-box-sprite:v1, "two sessions opened in one box"). Left as-is they would point at a namespace string that no longer exists anywhere in the tree. Prose only — say the word if strict no-touch was meant literally and I'll revert just those.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for provisioning and managing Sprites tied to specific environments and other holders.
    • Added deterministic, environment-specific Sprite naming using tenant, environment, and secret inputs.
    • Added package exports for environment Sprite key utilities.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved lifecycle handling for provisioning, resuming, attaching, hibernating, reprovisioning, and cleanup.
    • Added safeguards for invalid identifiers, secrets, authorization, quotas, and egress limits.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for concurrent provisioning, environment isolation, key uniqueness, and lifecycle behavior.

Sessions are not the only thing that can own a Sprite. Per-drive boxes are
next, and the provisioner's own docblock says why they cannot get their own
copy of it: the identity CAS only serializes concurrent provisioners if every
provisioner runs it. A box with a parallel implementation would be correct
against itself and race against nothing — until two sessions opened in one box
at once.

So the machinery is parametrized rather than duplicated:

- `ensureSpriteHolderSandbox({ row, intent, deps })` is now the single
  probe → plan → provision → CAS core. Every seam a holder kind differs at is a
  dep: the holderId-addressed store slice (updateSpriteIdentity / applyStamps /
  reloadSpritePointer / enqueueReclaim), the key-derivation fn, the authorize
  fn, and the allowance check. Nothing below that line branches on holder kind.
- `ensureAgentSessionSandbox` becomes a thin session-flavored wrapper with an
  UNCHANGED external signature — web and realtime keep their one entry point,
  and its deps/row/result types are untouched, which is what lets the existing
  provisioner suite stand as the no-behavior-change proof.
- The lifecycle planner's row slice is `SpriteHolderLifecycleRow` with
  `holderId`; it never read the id anyway, so the rename costs nothing and
  stops the slice from claiming a table it does not know about.
  `planAgentSessionLifecycle` is NOT kept as a second exported name: both call
  sites are in this package (no wire contract, no cross-app churn to avoid) and
  the blocking knip ratchet rejects two exported names for one symbol.
- New `drive-boxes/box-sprite-key.ts`: `deriveDriveBoxSpriteKey` under a FRESH
  `drive-box-sprite:v1` namespace and `pgs-box-` prefix. Box ids and session ids
  are both cuid2s, so a shared namespace would let a box derive the name of a
  session Sprite still awaiting reclaim and provision onto a VM the outbox is
  about to kill — the same hazard the session key's v1→v2 bump answers. The
  HMAC/NUL-delimiter/min-secret discipline is copied verbatim so a weakness
  cannot be fixed in one derivation and missed in the other.

Mutation-checked, both directions: dropping the previous-sandboxId predicate
from the identity CAS turns 3 provisioner tests red; dropping the `cas` the new
session adapter forwards to `applyStamps` turns 1 red. Both restored green.

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The PR generalizes Sprite lifecycle planning and provisioning from agent sessions to arbitrary holders. It adds deterministic drive-environment Sprite key derivation, exports the helper, and adds coverage for lifecycle, provisioning, concurrency, authorization, quota, and egress behavior.

Changes

Drive-environment Sprite keying

Layer / File(s) Summary
Drive-box Sprite keying
packages/lib/src/drive-envs/env-sprite-key.ts, packages/lib/src/drive-envs/__tests__/env-sprite-key.test.ts, packages/lib/package.json, knip.json
Adds namespaced SHA3-256 HMAC key derivation with input validation, tests the key space and failure cases, and exports the helper.

Generic lifecycle planner

Layer / File(s) Summary
Generic lifecycle planner
packages/lib/src/agent-workspaces/plan-workspace-lifecycle.ts, packages/lib/src/agent-workspaces/__tests__/plan-workspace-lifecycle.test.ts
Renames lifecycle types and the planner to use SpriteHolder terminology and holderId. Existing lifecycle decisions and coverage remain unchanged.

Holder-neutral provisioning core

Layer / File(s) Summary
Holder-neutral provisioning core
packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspace-sprite.ts, packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/__tests__/ensure-sprite-holder-sandbox.test.ts
Adds injected holder stores and dependencies. The shared provisioning path handles probing, provisioning, CAS persistence, reconciliation, cleanup, quota, egress, and storage measurement.

Session adapter and lifecycle integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session adapter and lifecycle integration
packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspaces.ts, packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspaces-store.ts
Adapts agent-session provisioning to the holder-neutral core and updates lifecycle planner and stamp types across session lifecycle and store APIs.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to a33e8

This change centralizes Sprite provisioning and adds holder-specific environment key derivation without intended user-visible behavior changes; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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  participant AgentSessionWrapper
  participant ensureSpriteHolderSandbox
  participant planSpriteHolderLifecycle
  participant SpriteHost
  participant SpriteHolderStore
  AgentSessionWrapper->>ensureSpriteHolderSandbox: adapt session dependencies and holderId
  ensureSpriteHolderSandbox->>SpriteHost: probe or provision Sprite
  ensureSpriteHolderSandbox->>planSpriteHolderLifecycle: plan holder intent
  ensureSpriteHolderSandbox->>SpriteHolderStore: persist holder identity with CAS
  ensureSpriteHolderSandbox->>SpriteHost: reconcile or clean up competing Sprite
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packages/lib/src/agent-workspaces/plan-workspace-lifecycle.ts (1)

47-58: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider renaming the remaining AgentSession* lifecycle types.

SpriteHolderLifecycleRow and PlanSpriteHolderLifecycleInput are holder-neutral now. The surrounding contract types are not: AgentSessionLifecyclePlan, AgentSessionRowStamps, AgentSessionIntent, and AgentSessionDenyReason still carry session names. A future drive-box caller must import session-named types to consume a holder-neutral planner. The deny reasons also read session-specific (session_not_found, missing_session_key, session_torn_down).

This is cosmetic today. Defer it if the box holder lands in a later PR, but plan the rename before a second holder kind starts consuming these names.

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In `@packages/lib/src/agent-workspaces/plan-workspace-lifecycle.ts` around lines
47 - 58, Rename the remaining holder-neutral lifecycle
types—AgentSessionLifecyclePlan, AgentSessionRowStamps, AgentSessionIntent, and
AgentSessionDenyReason—to holder-neutral names, and update all references
accordingly. Rename the session-specific deny-reason values to holder-neutral
equivalents while preserving their meanings; keep SpriteHolderLifecycleRow and
PlanSpriteHolderLifecycleInput unchanged.
packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspace-sprite.ts (1)

517-524: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Confirm the intended default for a holder that supplies no quota reason.

The core now returns detail: quota.reason with no fallback text. The session wrapper restores the previous wording through SESSION_LIMIT_DETAIL. Session behavior is therefore unchanged.

A future holder kind that returns { allowed: false } without reason produces denial: 'session_limit_reached' with detail: undefined. The denial reason is also session-named for every holder. Record this expectation in the checkQuota doc so the next holder wrapper supplies its own wording.

Also applies to: 596-598, 651-655

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In `@packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspace-sprite.ts` around
lines 517 - 524, Update the checkQuota documentation to state that quota denials
may have an undefined detail when a holder supplies no reason, and that
holder-specific wrappers must provide their own wording; document that the
denial reason remains session_limit_reached for all holders. Apply the
documentation clarification consistently at the referenced checkQuota locations.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@packages/lib/src/agent-workspaces/plan-workspace-lifecycle.ts`:
- Around line 47-58: Rename the remaining holder-neutral lifecycle
types—AgentSessionLifecyclePlan, AgentSessionRowStamps, AgentSessionIntent, and
AgentSessionDenyReason—to holder-neutral names, and update all references
accordingly. Rename the session-specific deny-reason values to holder-neutral
equivalents while preserving their meanings; keep SpriteHolderLifecycleRow and
PlanSpriteHolderLifecycleInput unchanged.

In `@packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspace-sprite.ts`:
- Around line 517-524: Update the checkQuota documentation to state that quota
denials may have an undefined detail when a holder supplies no reason, and that
holder-specific wrappers must provide their own wording; document that the
denial reason remains session_limit_reached for all holders. Apply the
documentation clarification consistently at the referenced checkQuota locations.

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…box holder

Addresses both CodeRabbit nitpicks on #2431, and the gap behind them.

**Type names (nitpick 1).** `SpriteHolderLifecycleRow` was holder-neutral but
its neighbours were not: a future box caller would have imported
`AgentSessionLifecyclePlan`, `AgentSessionRowStamps`, `AgentSessionIntent`,
`AgentSessionDenyReason` and `AgentSessionNoopReason` to consume a holder-neutral
planner. All five are renamed `SpriteHolder*`. A consumer audit confirms this is
internal to packages/lib — none of them is imported by web, realtime, or either
wire contract — so nothing outside the package churns.

The deny/noop VALUES deliberately do NOT change. `session_limit_reached`,
`not_authorized` and friends leave the package: web routes switch on them to
pick an HTTP status (429 vs 403/404) and echo them into security-audit payloads.
Renaming one is an API and audit-log change, not a refactor, and Phase 0 changes
no behavior. `SpriteHolderDenyReason`'s docblock now says so, and says the box
holder should EXTEND the union rather than rename it — a box's "not found" and a
session's are different facts about different tables.

**checkQuota contract (nitpick 2).** The core passes `reason` through as `detail`
with no fallback, because a core that invented one would be inventing user-facing
copy for a holder kind it knows nothing about. That was true but undocumented, so
the next wrapper could omit `reason` and leave users with a bare denial. The dep's
docblock now states both obligations explicitly, with the session wrapper's
`SESSION_LIMIT_DETAIL` named as the worked example.

**The gap neither nitpick named.** `ensureSpriteHolderSandbox` had no direct test:
every suite reached it through the session wrapper, so "holder-neutral" was an
assertion about code nobody had run any other way. New suite drives the core with
a BOX holder — a bare `SpriteHolderStore` over a row map, `deriveDriveBoxSpriteKey`
keys, no session store, no actor, no secret — covering key derivation, resume,
two-distinct-boxes, the authorize and egress gates, quota wording, attach-never-
mints, and holder-keyed storage measurement.

Its load-bearing case is Phase 3's central invariant: two concurrent first-ensures
of ONE box yield ONE VM. Note that "both got the same sandboxId" proves nothing
there — the host is name-keyed, so both callers hold one VM whether or not the CAS
refuses anyone. The assertion is that exactly one caller reports `resumed: false`
and the other `resumed: true`. Mutation-checked: defeating the box store's CAS
predicate turns that one test red and leaves the other eight green; restored.

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Both nitpicks addressed in 9712f1d5c, plus the gap behind them.

N1 — remaining AgentSession* lifecycle type names (plan-workspace-lifecycle.ts 47-58)

Agreed and done, with one deliberate split between names and values.

Renamed (all five): AgentSessionLifecyclePlan → SpriteHolderLifecyclePlan, AgentSessionRowStamps → SpriteHolderRowStamps, AgentSessionIntent → SpriteHolderIntent, AgentSessionDenyReason → SpriteHolderDenyReason, AgentSessionNoopReason → SpriteHolderNoopReason.

You suggested deferring if the box holder lands later. I did it now instead, because a consumer audit showed the rename is free: none of those five is imported outside packages/lib — not by web, not by realtime, and not by session-contract.ts or shells-contract.ts. So there is no wire churn to weigh against it, and doing it now means the box holder never imports a session-named type even once.

The deny/noop values deliberately do not change, which is where I'd push back on the AI-agent prompt attached to the finding (it asked to rename the values too). Those strings leave the package: apps/web/src/app/api/agent-workspaces/** switches on them to choose an HTTP status — session_limit_reached → 429, the rest → 403/404 — and echoes them into security-audit payloads. Renaming one is an API and audit-log change, not a refactor, and this PR's whole claim is zero behavior change. SpriteHolderDenyReason now carries a docblock stating that, and stating the intended path: the box holder should extend the union with box-worded members rather than rename these, since a box's "not found" and a session's are different facts about different tables.

N2 — checkQuota default when a holder supplies no reason (agent-workspace-sprite.ts 517-524)

Confirmed, and documented as you asked. The absence of a fallback is intentional — a core that invented one would be inventing user-facing copy for a holder kind it knows nothing about — but you're right that it was an undocumented trap. The dep's docblock now spells out both obligations on a wrapper: supply reason on every refusal (it is passed straight through as detail), and expect denial: 'session_limit_reached' as the shared vocabulary today, with SESSION_LIMIT_DETAIL named as the worked example.

The gap neither finding named

Both nitpicks circle the same underlying weakness: ensureSpriteHolderSandbox had no direct test. Every suite reached it through the session wrapper, so "holder-neutral" was an assertion about code nobody had run any other way — which is exactly why the leftover session-named types went unnoticed.

New suite __tests__/ensure-sprite-holder-sandbox.test.ts (9 tests) drives the core with a box holder: a bare SpriteHolderStore over a row map, keys from deriveDriveBoxSpriteKey, no AgentSessionStore, no actor, no session secret. It covers holder-supplied key derivation, resume, two-distinct-boxes, the authorize and egress gates, quota wording pass-through, attach-never-mints, and holder-keyed storage measurement.

Its load-bearing case is Phase 3's central invariant — two concurrent first-ensures of one box must yield one VM. Worth noting how that is asserted: "both got the same sandboxId" proves nothing, because the host is name-keyed and both callers hold one physical VM whether or not the CAS refuses anyone. The real assertion is that exactly one caller reports resumed: false and the other resumed: true. Mutation-checked: defeating the box store's CAS predicate turns that single test red and leaves the other eight green; restored to green.

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…e stays put

Two things a reviewer would reasonably stop on, answered in place.

`SpriteHolderSpriteDeps` stuttered. It is the dependency set for PROVISIONING a
sprite holder, so `SpriteHolderProvisionDeps` — which also pairs it with
`SpriteHolderProvisionIntent`. New export, in-repo callers only, no churn.

And the file's address: a holder-neutral core sitting under `agent-workspaces/`
invites "why is this here?" on every future read. The docblock now answers it —
moving the module would rewrite the `@pagespace/lib` exports map and both
app-side import paths in the same change that generalizes the logic, which is
the mix that makes a "no behavior change" claim unreviewable. The move belongs
with the second holder, where two callers justify the new address.

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… missed

The holder-neutral rename leaves two session-worded things behind, and a reader
scanning for leftovers will find both. Saying why up front is cheaper than
answering it in review twice.

`planSessionReopen` is genuinely session-only: it withdraws an end-intent when a
CONVERSATION is claimed into an ended session's listing, and a box has no listing
and no conversations to claim. The deny/noop VALUES are wire- and audit-visible,
so renaming one is an API change rather than a refactor.

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Mechanical equivalence check for the "no behavior change" claim

A refactor this shaped is easy to assert is behavior-preserving and tedious to verify — the diff is large because the whole module moved through a dependency seam. So I stripped comments and whitespace from the pre-PR file (a328517e5:…/agent-workspace-sprite.ts) and the current one and token-diffed the executable parts. Reproducible:

git show a328517e5:packages/lib/src/services/agent-workspaces/agent-workspace-sprite.ts > /tmp/old.ts
# strip /** */ and //, collapse whitespace, diff each switch arm + each helper

The four lifecycle arms:

Arm Result
deny byte-identical
resume only workspaceId: row.workspaceId → holderId: row.holderId
adopt the same id rename (×3), plus inline deriveAgentSessionSpriteKey({tenantId: actor.tenantId, workspaceId: row.workspaceId, secret: deps.secret}) → deps.deriveSpriteKey(row.holderId)
create the same two, plus deps.checkConcurrency({ownerId: row.ownerId, …}) → deps.checkQuota({…}), the quota fallback string relocating from the core to the wrapper, and measureSessionStorage({workspaceId}) → measureStorage({holderId})

The six helpers (killUnreferencedOrEnqueue, findPersistedWinner, reconcileBeforeKill, probeRecordedSprite, intentForProbeOutcome, observedInstance): observedInstance is byte-identical; the other five differ only by type names and the workspaceId → holderId parameter rename. No control flow, no conditions, no ordering, no error handling changed anywhere.

So every difference in the whole module reduces to exactly five substitutions, and each is an identity at the wrapper boundary:

  1. holderId ≡ workspaceId — the wrapper sets holderId: row.workspaceId.
  2. deps.deriveSpriteKey(holderId) is that exact deriveAgentSessionSpriteKey closure, bound with actor.tenantId and deps.secret.
  3. checkQuota is checkConcurrency with ownerId: row.ownerId bound.
  4. The quota fallback wording moved wrapper-side (quota.reason ?? SESSION_LIMIT_DETAIL), so the string reaching detail is unchanged for sessions.
  5. measureStorage({holderId}) is measureSessionStorage({workspaceId}).

The other half of the argument is that the session test suites are unmodified — agent-workspace-sprite.test.ts and agent-workspaces.test.ts have zero diff, and plan-workspace-lifecycle.test.ts's diff is pure renames with no assertion touched. They exercise the same public signature they always did, which is what makes them a regression check rather than a rewritten spec.

Where behavior legitimately could have drifted, and how it's pinned: the new adapter layer is the one thing with no pre-existing coverage. Mutation-checked directly — dropping the cas the wrapper forwards to applyStamps turns a test red (restored). Alongside the session CAS mutation (3 red) and the box-store CAS mutation (1 red), that's three independent mutations, each landing on a different layer.

…o claims that were wrong

A four-angle cleanup review of this branch found one real altitude bug and
several comments of mine that did not survive contact with the code.

**The core was still session-flavored where it mattered.** The quota-refusal path
hardcoded `denial: 'session_limit_reached'` while the `detail` one line below had
already been generalized out to the wrapper. Two halves of one return statement at
two different altitudes. A box refused for having too many boxes would have been
labelled a live-SESSION ceiling on the wire and in the security audit, and the
next holder kind would have had to reopen this return statement — the exact
reopening a single provisioning core exists to prevent.

`checkQuota` now returns a discriminated result carrying BOTH halves, and the
session wrapper supplies `'session_limit_reached'` itself. The objection I had
raised against this — that the deny VALUES are wire-visible, so changing them is
an API change — was answering a question nobody asked: injecting is not renaming.
The value on the wire and in the audit payload is byte-identical, and mutating
the wrapper's value turns the concurrency-ceiling test red, which pins it.

**Comments that were wrong:**

- `box-sprite-key.ts` claimed its copy of the HMAC discipline existed "so a
  weakness cannot be fixed in one and missed in the other". Copying is the form
  that failure takes; the claim was self-refuting. The real reason is that
  `workspace-sprite-key.ts` is pinned by a db migration guard asserting on its
  literal source text, so extraction deletes the line the guard reads. Now says
  that, and says extract-with-guard-rethink when a third holder appears.
- `SpriteHolderDenyReason` told a future author to EXTEND the union with
  box-worded members. But every value is emitted from a branch testing a
  holder-neutral fact, so picking a box-worded one means the pure planner asking
  which holder it is deciding for — the one branch the module exists not to have.
  Now points at the move that keeps both properties: neutral discriminants,
  mapped per-wrapper, identity for sessions.
- `AgentSessionProvisionIntent` was documented as a name "web and realtime already
  speak". Nothing outside this file imported it. Deleted, and the surviving
  `EnsureAgentSessionSandboxResult` alias now states the actual rule: an alias
  lives only if something outside the package imports it.

**Smaller:** the `authorize` adapter was a nine-line identity function
(`CanRunCodeResult` already fits the dep) — now a bare argument bind. The box
fake's stamp path bypassed `stampColumns` and compared `endedAt` by Date identity
rather than timestamp, contradicting its own docblock about keeping the real
store's discipline; it now uses the helper and the sibling's predicates. Orphaned
`ownerId` comment folded into its type's docblock, and a redundant
`Pick<…,'egressPolicyToken'>` dropped (the lifecycle row already carries it).

Deliberately skipped: extracting a shared HMAC helper (breaks the migration
guard), extracting a shared identity-write payload (drift surfaces at the adapter
as a compile error, so it cannot be silent), and renaming `AgentSessionStore`'s id
param to `holderId` (~26 refs, behavior-free, but a separate mechanical refactor).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cleanup pass — one real altitude bug found, and three of my own comments were wrong

Ran a four-angle cleanup review (reuse / simplification / efficiency / altitude) over the branch diff. Posting the outcome because one finding changes a seam this PR introduces, and because the skips are judgement calls worth stating out loud.

Fixed: the "holder-neutral" core was still inventing a session's denial

The quota-refusal path hardcoded denial: 'session_limit_reached' — while detail, one line below in the same return statement, had already been generalized out to the wrapper. Two halves of one statement at two different altitudes.

Consequence if left: a box refused for holding too many boxes would report a live-session ceiling, both in the API response and in the security-audit payload, and the next holder kind would have to reopen this return statement — the precise reopening that a single provisioning core exists to prevent.

I'd previously argued against touching this on the grounds that the deny values are wire-visible so changing them is an API change. That was answering a question nobody asked: injecting is not renaming. checkQuota now returns { allowed: false; denial; reason }, the core passes both through, and the session wrapper supplies 'session_limit_reached' itself. The wire value and the audit payload are byte-identical. Mutating the wrapper's value turns the concurrency-ceiling test red, which is what pins it.

The tell was in my own new test: it asserted that a box refusal reports session_limit_reached. I had written a special case and pinned it with a test, inside the PR whose purpose is removing special cases. That test now pins the injection instead.

Fixed: three comments that did not survive contact with the code

  • box-sprite-key.ts claimed the copied HMAC discipline meant "a weakness cannot be fixed in one and missed in the other." Copying is the form that failure takes — the sentence was self-refuting. The actual reason the copy stands is below.
  • SpriteHolderDenyReason told a future author to extend the union with box-worded members. But every value is emitted from a branch testing a holder-neutral fact (no row, row ended, no key), so selecting a box-worded member means the pure planner asking which holder it is deciding for — the one branch that module exists not to have. It now points at the move that keeps both properties: neutral discriminants here, mapped per-wrapper, identity for sessions.
  • AgentSessionProvisionIntent was documented as a name "web and realtime already speak." Nothing outside that file imported it. Deleted; the surviving EnsureAgentSessionSandboxResult alias now states the actual rule — an alias lives only if something outside the package imports it, which is true of that one (agent-workspaces-runtime.ts) and was not true of this one or of planAgentSessionLifecycle.

Smaller: the authorize adapter was a nine-line identity function (CanRunCodeResult already satisfies the dep) and is now a bare argument bind; the box test fake bypassed stampColumns and compared endedAt by Date identity rather than timestamp — contradicting its own docblock about keeping the real store's discipline — and now uses the helper and the sibling fake's predicates.

Deliberately skipped

  • Extract a shared deriveNamespacedSpriteName. The strongest argument against the duplication, and I'd take it in isolation. But workspace-sprite-key.ts is pinned by packages/db/src/__tests__/agent-workspaces-rename-migration.test.ts, which asserts on that file's literal source text — including return `pgs-ses-${digest}` — to catch Sprite-name drift that would orphan billed VMs. Extraction deletes the line the guard reads, so it has to come with a rethink of the guard, which is not something to bundle into a change claiming zero behavior difference. Documented in the file, with the extraction shape recorded for when a third holder kind makes it worth doing.
  • Extract a shared identity-write payload type. The stated risk is silent drift between SpriteHolderStore and AgentSessionStore, but the adapter is a compile-time cross-check between them — drift is a type error, not silence.
  • Rename AgentSessionStore's id param to holderId so the session store simply is a SpriteHolderStore. Probably the right end state, behavior-free, ~26 references — a separate mechanical refactor, not this one.

Efficiency came back with no findings and independently reproduced the equivalence result from the comment above: same await sequence, same store-call count on every branch, authorize still called once, probe still one attach.

Validation: typecheck 17/17 · lint 15/15 · knip:check within baseline · test:unit 9257 passed · test:security 51/51. Four mutation checks now, each landing on a different layer.

…no aliases

Founder naming correction. The entity is an ENVIRONMENT; 'box' is retired
project-wide. Nothing has shipped, so this is a clean rename with no compatibility
aliases and no deprecation window.

  packages/lib/src/drive-boxes/box-sprite-key.ts -> src/drive-envs/env-sprite-key.ts
  deriveDriveBoxSpriteKey({ boxId }) -> deriveDriveEnvSpriteKey({ envId })
  HMAC namespace 'drive-box-sprite:v1' -> 'drive-env-sprite:v1'
  sandbox-name prefix 'pgs-box-' -> 'pgs-env-'
  packages/lib/package.json exports + knip.json entry follow the path

The namespace string is inside the HMAC payload, so this moves every derived
name. The known-answer digest in the unit test was recomputed independently
(node, sha3-256 HMAC over 'drive-env-sprite:v1\0tenant-fixed\0env-fixed') rather
than re-snapshotted from the function — a snapshot of its own output would pass
under any namespace, which is the one thing that test exists to catch. The
cross-keyspace test still proves an environment and a session sharing tenant+id
differ in the DIGEST, not merely the prefix.

The holder-neutral refactor is untouched as instructed: no signature, no logic,
no test assertion changed. Its docblocks did change, because they named the old
token — `drive_boxes`, `drive-box-sprite:v1`, "two sessions opened in one box".
Left alone they would point at a namespace string that no longer exists in the
tree, and a comment that confidently names a thing that isn't there is worse than
no comment. Prose only; flagged in the PR for reverting if strict no-touch was
meant literally.

One near-miss worth recording: a substring rename of `boxId` also rewrote
`sandboxId` to `sandenvId` across the holder suite. `sandboxId` is the Sprite
pointer and has nothing to do with this rename. Caught and reverted before
commit; the surviving `sandboxId` references are verified intact.

Gates: typecheck 17/17, lint 15/15, knip within baseline, test:unit 9257 passed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EBaiceET2HYeBtSrVBXTKS
@2witstudios 2witstudios changed the title refactor(sandbox): one provisioning core, holder-neutral refactor(sandbox): one provisioning core, holder-neutral (+ drive-env sprite key) Aug 17, 2026

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Comment thread packages/lib/src/drive-envs/__tests__/env-sprite-key.test.ts Outdated
AGENTS.md:102 states "Constants: UPPER_SNAKE_CASE", and the file already had
`SECRET` uppercase two lines above `base` — so this was inconsistent with itself,
not just with the guideline.

The sibling `workspace-sprite-key.test.ts` still spells its equivalent `base`.
Left alone deliberately: it is pre-existing and outside this PR's diff, and the
two files being deliberate mirrors is about what they assert, not how a local
fixture is cased.

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