@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
         env:
           CODEBOOST_RUN_AUTH_PROBES: '1'
           CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN }}
-        run: npx vitest run --project docker -t '\(live Claude\)$' --reporter=default --reporter=json --outputFile=live-probes.json test/agent-container.test.ts test/agent-question.test.ts test/agent-supervisor.test.ts
+        run: npx vitest run --project docker -t '\(live Claude\)$' --reporter=default --reporter=json --outputFile=live-probes.json test/agent-container.test.ts test/agent-question.test.ts test/agent-supervisor.test.ts test/agent-planning.test.ts
       # Vitest exits 0 when it skips every probe, so check that each probe passed and nothing else ran.
       - name: Check that every probe passed
         run: node scripts/live-probes.ts check live-probes.json
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Each row is a T9 requirement for the Docker suite. The suite fails if any row fa
 | Task and scratch byte and inode limits hold | `agent-container`: task capacity; scratch capacity for Codex and Claude (`/tmp`, `HOME`, `CODEX_HOME`, output directory) |
 | Hard links and alias writes from `.git/config` and objects fail, and metadata stays unchanged | `agent-container`: metadata alias probe in planning, review and execute, with a digest of `.git` before and after |
 | Mountpoint replacement fails | `agent-container`: metadata and metadata alias probes (`mv` and `rm -rf` of `.git`) |
-| The Claude startup probes read the schema and return bounded valid output through their documented channel | `agent-supervisor` live probes (credentials required): Claude in questions through its stdout envelope; Claude in planning returns a schema-constrained answer as bare JSON; `agent-container`: the authenticated Claude startup path. Codex has no live probe while it is refused (#93). |
+| The Claude startup probes read the schema and return bounded valid output through their documented channel | `agent-supervisor` live probes (credentials required): Claude in questions through its stdout envelope; Claude in planning returns a schema-constrained answer as bare JSON; `agent-planning`: the planning check (#164) passes with a real sign-in; `agent-container`: the authenticated Claude startup path. Codex has no live probe while it is refused (#93). |
 | Nothing can be written beneath a gitlink, and execute and fix launch only on a clean tree (#81) | `agent-container`: the gitlink probe (writes, `mkdir`, `rmdir` and `mv` at every gitlink fail; the rest of `/work` stays writable); a pre-populated nested checkout, a restart with an untracked symlink parent and a restart with an occupied add destination are refused; a gitlink name Docker cannot mount, more than 256 gitlinks and an unreadable tree are refused; each check serves one profile over its own storage and head; the validator rejects a gitlink mount that is missing, writable, or of another size or mode; every directory above a nested gitlink is pinned, writable and `nosuid,nodev`, so renaming one fails (#99); the validator rejects a pin that is missing, read-only, at another subpath, from another volume, `volume-nocopy`, or not a volume |
 | Hostile input stays inside the boundary | `agent-container`: repositories with links that leave the checkout are refused, links inside the checkout still work, oversized repositories fail closed; `agent-policy`: option-like prompts; `agent-proxy`: hostile CONNECT traffic; `agent-supervisor`: hostile output |
 
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ settings are not stored in the repository.
 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
 | `.github/workflows/ci.yml` | `test` | every pull request; pushes to `main` and `codex/**` | Type check; every top-level `test/*.test.ts` file except the Docker-backed files; the Playwright browser suite |
 | `.github/workflows/agent-isolation.yml` | `real-docker` | every pull request; pushes to `main` and `codex/**` | Type check; the complete Vitest suite against real Docker |
-| `.github/workflows/live-probes.yml` | `live-probes` | started by hand (`workflow_dispatch`); every night at 06:23 UTC | The four live Claude startup probes only |
+| `.github/workflows/live-probes.yml` | `live-probes` | started by hand (`workflow_dispatch`); every night at 06:23 UTC | The five live Claude startup probes only |
 
 `test` and `real-docker` have no path filters. They run on every pull request,
 so both can be required checks. A required check that a path filter skips
@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ The job:
    missing. A missing secret never gives a passing run.
 2. Runs the Docker Vitest project with `CODEBOOST_RUN_AUTH_PROBES=1`. It selects
    only the tests whose titles end in `(live Claude)`, in
-   `test/agent-container.test.ts`, `test/agent-question.test.ts` and
-   `test/agent-supervisor.test.ts`. The files run one at a time.
+   `test/agent-container.test.ts`, `test/agent-question.test.ts`,
+   `test/agent-supervisor.test.ts` and `test/agent-planning.test.ts` (the
+   planning check, #164). The files run one at a time.
 3. Runs `node scripts/live-probes.ts check` on the Vitest JSON report. Vitest
    exits with success when it skips every test, so this step fails unless each
    probe listed in `scripts/live-probes.ts` passed and no other test ran.
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Issue #6 tracked the v1 plan library contract and the runner obligations that ca
 | Output limits at the exact byte | **This change** (tests; the supervisor already enforced the limits) | Supervisor enforcement: `test/agent-supervisor.test.ts` (real Docker). Decoder behaviour only, not a limit: the Claude decoder handles an envelope of exactly the stdout ceiling, and the 1 MiB parser limit applies to the decoded answer at the exact byte: `test/agent-adapter.test.ts`. At #6 the decoder re-serialized the answer, so the limit applied to the re-encoded text. *Later:* #166 returns the exact text of `structured_output` in the CLI's envelope, so the limit applies to those bytes |
 | Prompt byte budget before spawn | Done before this change | `MAX_PROMPT_BYTES` in `core/planning-author.ts`; `test/planning-author.test.ts` ("accepts exactly the prompt byte limit and rejects the next byte without truncation") |
 | Model budget before spawn | Moved to #163. *Later:* done in #163 | `MAX_PLANNING_INPUT_BYTES` and `PLANNING_MAX_TURNS` in `agents/policy.ts`; `test/agent-policy.test.ts` ("accepts a planning request at exactly its model budget and refuses one byte more"); [agent isolation](agent-isolation.md#planning-model-budget) |
-| Planning profile probed at startup | Moved to #164 | — |
+| Planning profile probed at startup | Moved to #164. *Later:* fixed in #164 (the review-view state is #198), checked at startup, on the first request after the vendor changes and on the first request a minute after a failure | `runner/planning.ts` (`PlanningAgent.probe`, `PlanningCheck`), `web/planning.ts`; `test/planning-production.test.ts` ("the planning check (#164)"), `test/planning-worker.test.ts`, `test/agent-planning.test.ts` (live Claude probe); `docs/implementation/planning-acceptance.md` |
 | Docker daemon log limits | Moved to #165. *Later:* fixed in #165 with `--log-driver=none`, checked before launch | `agents/container/profile.ts`, `agents/container/run.ts`; `test/agent-container.test.ts` ("creates the agent container with no Docker daemon log", "refuses an agent container with %s at validation") (real Docker), `test/agent-daemon-log.test.ts`. Agent containers only; the runner's other containers (task-storage scripts, the keeper, the egress proxy) keep the daemon's default log |
 | Claude structured output under the v1 parsing contract | Moved to #166 (found during this change). *Later:* fixed in #166 | `agents/adapters/claude.ts`; `test/agent-adapter.test.ts` ("lets draft validation refuse %s in a structured answer") |
 
 
@@ -82,6 +82,59 @@ suggestion timer and the request share one ten-minute budget. The recording
 script still runs the provider in its own process and prints its runner label if
 it leaves anything.
 
+The planning check (#164) proves that the vendor chosen in Settings can run a
+planning invocation before any request does. It is one planning job in the same
+worker and profile as a real request (read, list and search only, vendor-only
+egress, a mounted schema), on the review's code at the snapshot's head, with a
+real request's budget, since a process's first job may build the agent image. It
+asks for the schema's own answer, `{"ok": true}`, so it covers sign-in, the
+schema-constrained answer and the read-only profile (`PlanningAgent.probe`).
+`PlanningCheck` starts it when the server starts, before it listens, and again
+on the first request after the vendor changes, cancelling the check it replaces.
+`productionPlanning`'s `describe` waits for it, at most 30 s in all, before it
+reads the issue or records a planning request, and the request checks again just
+before it starts, so a vendor chosen during the issue read never runs unchecked.
+That last check runs inside the Store's transaction, so it starts no check
+itself: it refuses, and the check it needs starts on the next turn. The provider
+checks once more when it is invoked, as defence in depth (E3 invokes it in a
+microtask right after the recorded action); a refusal there settles the request
+as failed. A failed check refuses the request with a `GuardRefusal` that starts
+"Planning is unavailable:" and ends with the reason exactly as given (some end
+with a command to copy), and a check still running after the wait is refused
+with the same prefix; the server records the refusal and starts no agent.
+Requests within a minute of a failure are refused with it; the next request
+after that checks again. With no vendor chosen nothing is checked, and the
+request fails later, as before, with `NO_PLANNING_AGENT`. Once planning requests
+have settled, or after the server's 20 s grace for them, shutdown cancels a
+running check and waits up to 20 s more for it before closing the worker. A
+check that runs before the runner's setup has set the runner-owned repository
+fails, on a task with runner commits, with "which is not configured"; the
+recheck a minute later passes once the runner's setup has finished, and without
+a runner block it fails each time, as every planning request would. A check that
+has not settled within a real request's budget and a minute fails, so the
+recheck applies to it. A reason that holds until codeboost restarts (an
+abandoned worker, cleanup codeboost could not confirm, a database with other
+hard links, a missing token) gets no promise of a recheck, and Codex is told to
+choose another agent. A recheck joins the worker's one startup recovery, so a
+recovery that never ends fails each recheck until codeboost restarts. A passed
+check is kept until a check for another vendor replaces it: a worker abandoned
+later, cleanup that did not settle (the check's own run included, when its
+answer still came back), or a token revoked later, shows as a failed request. A
+refusal recorded when a request stopped waiting, or when the Store could not be
+read during the wait, is replayed if the browser resends the same action;
+keeping a Store error out of the record needs `web/server.ts`. Showing the
+check's state in the review view before a request, and the other limits that
+need `web/server.ts`, are #198. A check deferred from the Store's transaction
+can start during shutdown, before planning closes; close then waits for it
+within its bound. If startup fails after planning's setup, the CLI exits, and
+the next start's planning recovery removes what the check left. Tests:
+`test/planning-production.test.ts` ("the planning check (#164)", with a check
+that passes, one that fails and one that does not finish),
+`test/planning-worker.test.ts` (the check in planning's worker, including a
+wrong answer) and `test/agent-planning.test.ts` (against the vendor, real
+Docker: an invalid sign-in fails, and a live probe in the Live probes workflow
+passes with a real one).
+
 The Store guarantees revision/snapshot binding and pending-only settlement across
 processes, and E3 requires the caller's snapshot identity before admission. G4 now
 composes the browser with production planning setup, lane D's provider boundary,
 
@@ -361,14 +361,14 @@ F1 owns the production planning endpoints that G4 needs. They wrap E3's coordina
 | `POST /api/plan/import` | `Store.importRevision` | expected revision; body of at most 6 MiB + 16 KiB, so every source the 1 MiB parser accepts fits (see `docs/plan-format.md`, #146) |
 | `POST /api/plan/suggestions` | E3 coordinator start (`beginSuggestions`) | expected revision and snapshot |
 | `GET /api/plan/suggestions/:id` | `Store.getSuggestions`, with the request's `mode` | reads only the request row; refuses a draft's ID ("Unknown suggestion request.") |
-| `POST /api/plan/suggestions/:id/cancel` | `pending`: `handle.cancel(reason)` on the `SuggestionHandle` that `SuggestionCoordinator.start()` returned. E3's coordinator has no cancel-by-ID method, so F keeps a map from request ID to handle, adds each handle when it starts the request, and removes it only after the handle's outcome settles. If the request is `pending` but F holds no handle, F calls `Store.cancelSuggestions`. After a restart this no longer arises while planning is on (a non-demo review with a `github` block): startup fails every request an earlier process left `pending` (#124). Without planning, such a request stays `pending` until it is cancelled here. It is safe to do so because a crashed process's planning container has no route back to the Store: its output went to that process's worker, which ended with it. A live planning provider runs only through D (#117), in planning's own worker, in containers labelled with this database's planning owner (not the runner's or Ask's). Like Ask's, those containers are removed by D's `recoverLeftovers` for that owner before the first planning request of the next process, not at startup; until then a stray container can keep running read-only (its deadline is enforced from the host, which is gone) until Claude exits or that recovery removes it, and its output is discarded. If a planning provider ever runs outside D, or could report into the Store from another process, this endpoint must refuse such a request instead, until it has been reconciled. `ready`: `Store.cancelSuggestions` (dismiss), because no invocation is running. | request is `pending` or `ready`, as `Store.cancelSuggestions` already allows |
+| `POST /api/plan/suggestions/:id/cancel` | `pending`: `handle.cancel(reason)` on the `SuggestionHandle` that `SuggestionCoordinator.start()` returned. E3's coordinator has no cancel-by-ID method, so F keeps a map from request ID to handle, adds each handle when it starts the request, and removes it only after the handle's outcome settles. If the request is `pending` but F holds no handle, F calls `Store.cancelSuggestions`. After a restart this no longer arises while planning is on (a non-demo review with a `github` block): startup fails every request an earlier process left `pending` (#124). Without planning, such a request stays `pending` until it is cancelled here. It is safe to do so because a crashed process's planning container has no route back to the Store: its output went to that process's worker, which ended with it. A live planning provider runs only through D (#117), in planning's own worker, in containers labelled with this database's planning owner (not the runner's or Ask's). Like Ask's, those containers are removed by D's `recoverLeftovers` for that owner in the next process's first planning job that can sign in: the planning check at startup when Claude is chosen and `CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN` is set, unless that check fails before its recovery runs (for example, on a task with runner commits before the runner's setup has set the runner-owned repository, see `planning-acceptance.md`; or when planning's leftover record refuses it, or another process holds planning's lock) (#164, which also takes planning's lock from then until planning closes at shutdown, or until the process exits after an abandoned worker or a recovery stopped part way, and builds the agent image in planning's worker while the runner, if one is configured, builds its own), otherwise the first check a planning request starts (a check whose recovery fails leaves it to the next one); until then a stray container can keep running read-only (its deadline is enforced from the host, which is gone) until Claude exits or that recovery removes it, and its output is discarded. If a planning provider ever runs outside D, or could report into the Store from another process, this endpoint must refuse such a request instead, until it has been reconciled. `ready`: `Store.cancelSuggestions` (dismiss), because no invocation is running. | request is `pending` or `ready`, as `Store.cancelSuggestions` already allows |
 | `POST /api/plan/suggestions/:id/apply` | `Store.applySuggestion` | request `ready` and bound to the current revision and snapshot |
 | `POST /api/plan/drafts` | E3 coordinator start in draft mode (`beginSuggestions(…, 'draft')`, #124): a whole next revision of the current plan. The request lane D sees carries revision n+1, the revision the draft would become; the Store binds it to n | expected revision and snapshot; one planning invocation per plan at a time in this process, shared with suggestions (several drafts may be ready at once) |
 | `GET /api/plan/drafts/:id` | `Store.getDraft` | reads only a draft request's row |
 | `POST /api/plan/drafts/:id/cancel` | as suggestion cancel | request is a draft; a `pending` or `ready` one is cancelled, any other state is returned unchanged |
 | `POST /api/plan/drafts/:id/apply` | `Store.applyDraft`: imports the draft as revision + 1 with every import check | request is a draft, `ready` and bound to the current revision and snapshot |
 
-Live planning runs for a non-demo review with a `github` block (#117): `web/planning.ts` reads the issue from GitHub before each start, and `runner/planning.ts` runs the request in planning's worker. E3's suggestion timer and the request share one ten-minute budget (`PLANNING_BUDGET_MS`). At shutdown E3 aborts every request; one that has not settled within 20 seconds (`PLANNING_SHUTDOWN_GRACE_MS`, as Ask) is ended by abandoning planning's worker. A start replays its recorded outcome before reading GitHub; a GitHub failure is a 502 and is recorded for replay like a refusal (`web/server.ts`; `test/planning-production.test.ts`). Without a `github` block, or in a demo, the server returns "Planning agent not available yet". Drafts follow the same rules (#124). A draft and a suggestion are both rows of `requests`, told apart by `mode` (schema v11); each kind's routes refuse the other's IDs. At startup, once the single-runner lock is verified to name the database (`web/planning.ts`), every request an earlier process left `pending` is failed ("The server stopped before this request finished. Ask again."): its provider ran in that process's planning worker, so nothing can complete it.
+Live planning runs for a non-demo review with a `github` block (#117): `web/planning.ts` reads the issue from GitHub before each start, and `runner/planning.ts` runs the request in planning's worker. E3's suggestion timer and the request share one ten-minute budget (`PLANNING_BUDGET_MS`). At shutdown E3 aborts every request; one that has not settled within 20 seconds (`PLANNING_SHUTDOWN_GRACE_MS`, as Ask) is ended by abandoning planning's worker, after the planning check (#164) has had up to 20 seconds more to stop. A start replays its recorded outcome before reading GitHub; a GitHub failure is a 502 and is recorded for replay like a refusal (`web/server.ts`; `test/planning-production.test.ts`). Without a `github` block, or in a demo, the server returns "Planning agent not available yet". Drafts follow the same rules (#124). A draft and a suggestion are both rows of `requests`, told apart by `mode` (schema v11); each kind's routes refuse the other's IDs. At startup, once the single-runner lock is verified to name the database (`web/planning.ts`), every request an earlier process left `pending` is failed ("The server stopped before this request finished. Ask again."): its provider ran in that process's planning worker, so nothing can complete it.
 
 ## Feedback-event contract (for lane J)