@nanobpm/nano-workforce 0.44.0 → 0.45.0

package/.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -51,3 +51,10 @@ jobs:
       # TypeScript types on the fly (Node >= 22.6) — no build step.
       - name: Test (Node)
         run: npm test
+
+      # End-to-end pilot (nano-ide issue #157, S3): boots the whole app in-process against the WASM
+      # engine + a virtual clock via @nanobpm/urban-testkit and drives the real /app/api operations.
+      # Hermetic (no socket, no GitHub network), so it runs on every push like the unit suite.
+      - name: E2E (urban-testkit)
+        run: npm run e2e
+

package/CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+# [0.45.0](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/compare/v0.44.1...v0.45.0) (2026-08-12)
+
+
+### Features
+
+* **plan:** pin an epic's base branch so the fleet lands on an integration branch ([#125](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/issues/125)) ([1c3bfa1](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/commit/1c3bfa1a1dbc212e31e510931766f46904dae1a3)), closes [#124](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/issues/124) [nanobpm/nano-workforce#124](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/issues/124)
+
+## [0.44.1](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/compare/v0.44.0...v0.44.1) (2026-08-11)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* provision isolated agent workspaces via the c8ctl repository envelope ([#124](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/issues/124)) ([79c999b](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/commit/79c999bc34dd7984ceffd7746a4538705565f2a5))
+
 # [0.44.0](https://github.com/nanobpm/nano-workforce/compare/v0.43.0...v0.44.0) (2026-08-11)
 
 

package/SPEC.md

@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ triaging, editing/replying/pushing, and (when `addressed`) re-requesting review.
 Workspace isolation is the **worker harness's** responsibility, not this app's and
 not the prompt's. The `c8ctl nano work` host-git provisioning (frozen v1 envelope)
 gives **each job its own `mkdtemp` run-dir + fresh clone**, runs the agent with
-`cwd` set to it (`AGENT_WORKSPACE`/`REPO_URL`/`REPO_BRANCH`/`REPO_REF` env), and
+`cwd` set to it (`AGENT_WORKSPACE`/`AGENT_REPO_URL`/`AGENT_REPO_BRANCH`/`AGENT_REPO_REF` env), and
 **reaps that run-dir when the job ends**. So multiple agents on one host do **not**
 collide even in host mode — the isolation lives below the agent.
 
@@ -183,8 +183,13 @@ Consequences the prompt (`prompts/review-round.md`) encodes:
 - The agent **cleans up anything it creates outside the commit** before returning
   (worktrees, scratch branches/clones, temp files), so host mode does not leak.
 - The harness checks out the PR's **existing head branch** and pushes back to it
-  (no new branch/PR). The `c8ctl` integration provisions the repo and resolves the
-  head branch from `prNumber`/`prUrl` — the app does not pass a `headBranch` var.
+  (no new branch/PR). Provisioning only fires when the job carries a
+  `io.nanobpm.agentTask.repository.url`; the **app** supplies it — plus the head
+  branch as `…repository.ref` — as a process variable at `createInstance`
+  (`repoEnvelopeVars` in `app/service.ts`, resolving the head via `fetchPrMeta`/
+  `fetchPrHead`). The harness is PR-agnostic: it does **not** derive the head branch
+  from `prNumber`/`prUrl`. When the head can't be resolved the envelope is omitted and
+  the agent falls back to the worker's launch directory (the legacy behavior).
 
 ## 6. Signals
 
@@ -510,9 +515,10 @@ the loop runs one parallel `implement` MI fan-out per wave:
 
 - **Provisioning the existing PR branch** — resolved: the `c8ctl` host-git
   integration provisions the repo and checks out the PR's head branch (it must
-  already give the worker repo access to work at all), resolving the branch from
-  `prNumber`/`prUrl`. The app does **not** pass a `headBranch` job variable; the
-  job stays engine-shaped and the worker stays a pure provisioner.
+  already give the worker repo access to work at all). The **app** resolves the head
+  branch and passes it in the `io.nanobpm.agentTask.repository.{url,ref}` envelope
+  (a `createInstance` process variable — see `repoEnvelopeVars`); the harness is
+  PR-agnostic and provisions from that envelope. The worker stays a pure provisioner.
 - **review-ready via GitHub webhook** — same message, swappable faster trigger,
   when the app is publicly reachable. Deferred (poller-only for v1).
 - **Supervised vs external worker** — the agent runs as an external

package/app/github.ts

@@ -177,6 +177,10 @@ async function useGh(): Promise<boolean> {
 export interface PrMeta {
   title: string | null;
   body: string;
+  /** The PR's head branch name (e.g. `feat/issue-12`). Drives the c8ctl harness's isolated
+   * workspace checkout (`io.nanobpm.agentTask.repository.ref`) so the review agent lands on the
+   * PR branch instead of the worker's launch directory. `null` when GitHub doesn't return it. */
+  headRef: string | null;
 }
 
 export async function fetchPrMeta(
@@ -185,10 +189,10 @@ export async function fetchPrMeta(
   token: string,
 ): Promise<PrMeta | null> {
   if (await useGh()) {
-    const out = await runGh(["pr", "view", String(number), "--repo", repo, "--json", "title,body"]);
+    const out = await runGh(["pr", "view", String(number), "--repo", repo, "--json", "title,body,headRefName"]);
     // biome-ignore lint/plugin: runtime/framework contract boundary for external data shape
-    const j = JSON.parse(out) as { title?: string; body?: string };
-    return { title: j.title ?? null, body: j.body ?? "" };
+    const j = JSON.parse(out) as { title?: string; body?: string; headRefName?: string | null };
+    return { title: j.title ?? null, body: j.body ?? "", headRef: j.headRefName ?? null };
   }
   if (!token) return null;
   const r = await fetch(`https://api.github.com/repos/${repo}/pulls/${number}`, {
@@ -196,8 +200,8 @@ export async function fetchPrMeta(
   });
   if (!r.ok) throw new Error(`github ${r.status} ${r.statusText}`.trim());
   // biome-ignore lint/plugin: runtime/framework contract boundary for external data shape
-  const j = (await r.json()) as { title?: string; body?: string };
-  return { title: j.title ?? null, body: j.body ?? "" };
+  const j = (await r.json()) as { title?: string; body?: string; head?: { ref?: string | null } };
+  return { title: j.title ?? null, body: j.body ?? "", headRef: j.head?.ref ?? null };
 }
 
 /** A PR's merge state, narrowed to what the merge poller needs to classify landability.

package/app/persist-escalation.test.ts

@@ -57,6 +57,18 @@ test("escalation arm without the flag still records the round", async () => {
   assertEquals((inserts.rounds[0] as any).round_no, 3);
 });
 
+// The servicing worker name (harness `agent` var) is stamped on both the round it recorded and
+// the escalation it opened, so the durable history identifies who did the work.
+test("persist-escalation records the servicing worker on the round and escalation", async () => {
+  const { app, inserts } = fakeApp();
+  const job = {
+    variables: { prKey: "o/r#1", round: 3, status: "blocked", question: "max rounds", agent: "senior" },
+  };
+  await handler(job as any, app as any);
+  assertEquals((inserts.rounds[0] as any).worker, "senior", "the round carries the worker name");
+  assertEquals((inserts.escalations[0] as any).worker, "senior", "the escalation carries the worker name");
+});
+
 // When the convergence-loop passes repo/prNumber and the FK parent is missing (engine/app.db
 // desync), persist-escalation reconstructs the `pull_requests` row before the rounds/escalations
 // inserts so opening an escalation never dies with an opaque FOREIGN KEY constraint failure.

package/app/persist-round.test.ts

@@ -56,6 +56,23 @@ for (const status of ["addressed", "waiting"]) {
   });
 }
 
+// The harness completes each agent job with `agent` (its profile name); persist-round records it
+// on the round so a human can identify the servicing worker from the durable history.
+test("persist-round records the servicing worker name from the agent variable", async () => {
+  const { app, inserts } = fakeApp();
+  const job = { variables: { prKey: "o/r#1", round: 1, status: "addressed", agent: "senior" } };
+  await handler(job as any, app as any);
+  assertEquals((inserts.rounds[0] as any).worker, "senior", "the round carries the worker name");
+});
+
+// A blank/absent agent name leaves the nullable column NULL (the write boundary omits undefined).
+test("persist-round leaves worker undefined when the agent name is blank", async () => {
+  const { app, inserts } = fakeApp();
+  const job = { variables: { prKey: "o/r#1", round: 1, status: "addressed", agent: "  " } };
+  await handler(job as any, app as any);
+  assertEquals((inserts.rounds[0] as any).worker, undefined, "blank worker -> NULL column");
+});
+
 // When the convergence-loop passes repo/prNumber and the FK parent is missing (engine/app.db
 // desync), persist-round reconstructs the `pull_requests` row before recording the round so the
 // insert never dies with an opaque FOREIGN KEY constraint failure.

package/app/plan.test.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 // planner could revise forever. `positiveIntEnv` must fall back to the default on any value that
 // is not a positive integer, so the loop is always bounded.
 import { test } from "node:test";
-import { assertEquals } from "#test-assert";
+import { assertEquals, assertThrows } from "#test-assert";
 import { positiveIntEnv } from "./plan.ts";
 
 const KEY = "NANO_PLAN_REVIEW_ROUNDS_TEST";
@@ -292,3 +292,121 @@ test("answerTaskEscalation is a no-op when no open escalation matches the correl
   const r = await answerTaskEscalation(data, engine, "owner/repo#9:missing", "x");
   assertEquals(r.ok, false);
 });
+
+// Coverage for the epic base-branch control (issue nano-ide #124 / 019_plan_base_branch.sql).
+//
+// A plan may pin a base branch so the fleet branches off — and opens every PR against — a long-lived
+// integration branch instead of the repo default, keeping an epic off the default branch (and off any
+// merge-to-default side effect such as auto-publishing) until the integration branch is deliberately
+// merged. `normalizeBaseBranch` decides "unset" (fall back to default), `renderBaseBranchBrief` is the
+// authoritative prompt override, and `startPlan` must persist the branch and seed BOTH the `baseBranch`
+// variable and the `baseBranchBrief` (which rides `appendPrompt`) — or leave them null when unpinned.
+import { InvalidBaseBranchError, normalizeBaseBranch, renderBaseBranchBrief } from "./plan.ts";
+
+test("normalizeBaseBranch: blank/whitespace/undefined → null; a real branch is trimmed", () => {
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch(undefined), null);
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch(null), null);
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch(""), null);
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch("   "), null);
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch("  epic/agent-protocol  "), "epic/agent-protocol");
+});
+
+test("normalizeBaseBranch: accepts conservative git-branch shapes", () => {
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch("main"), "main");
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch("release-1.2"), "release-1.2");
+  assertEquals(normalizeBaseBranch("feature/x_y.z"), "feature/x_y.z");
+});
+
+test("normalizeBaseBranch: rejects injection-prone / implausible branch names", () => {
+  // `baseBranch` is interpolated into an authoritative agent prompt that carries shell
+  // commands, so anything that isn't a plausible git ref must be rejected at the edge —
+  // not silently rendered into `git`/`gh` snippets or the prompt Markdown.
+  const bad = [
+    "foo bar", // whitespace
+    "-rf", // leading dash → looks like a CLI flag
+    "foo; rm -rf /", // shell metacharacters
+    "foo`whoami`", // command substitution
+    "foo$(id)", // command substitution
+    "foo\nbar", // newline → breaks rendered instructions
+    "foo..bar", // git-illegal double dot
+    "/foo", // leading slash
+    "foo/", // trailing slash
+    "foo.", // trailing dot
+    "foo//bar", // empty path component
+    "foo.lock", // git-reserved .lock suffix
+    "épée", // outside the conservative allowlist
+  ];
+  for (const value of bad) {
+    assertThrows(() => normalizeBaseBranch(value), InvalidBaseBranchError);
+  }
+});
+
+test("renderBaseBranchBrief names the branch in every instruction (branch-off, read, PR base)", () => {
+  const brief = renderBaseBranchBrief("epic/agent-protocol");
+  // Authoritative marker so it overrides the static "default branch" wording.
+  assertEquals(brief.includes("authoritative"), true);
+  assertEquals(brief.includes("git checkout -b feat/<task.id> origin/epic/agent-protocol"), true);
+  assertEquals(brief.includes("gh pr create --base epic/agent-protocol"), true);
+});
+
+test("startPlan pins the base branch: persisted on the row + seeded as baseBranch/baseBranchBrief variables", async () => {
+  const PLAN_KEY = "owner/repo#124";
+  const stores: Record<string, { rows: any[]; key: string }> = {
+    plans: { rows: [], key: "plan_key" },
+    plan_tasks: { rows: [], key: "id" },
+    plan_reviews: { rows: [], key: "plan_key" },
+    plan_escalations: { rows: [], key: "id" },
+    plan_task_deps: { rows: [], key: "plan_key" },
+  };
+  const data = memData(stores);
+  let seen: any = null;
+  const engine = {
+    createInstance: (req: any) => {
+      seen = req.variables;
+      return Promise.resolve({ processInstanceKey: "PI-1" });
+    },
+  } as any;
+
+  await startPlan(
+    data,
+    engine,
+    { repo: "owner/repo", number: 124, url: "https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/124", planKey: PLAN_KEY },
+    "  epic/agent-protocol  ",
+  );
+
+  // Persisted (trimmed) on the plan row for the epic UI + resume.
+  assertEquals((stores.plans.rows[0] as any).base_branch, "epic/agent-protocol");
+  // Process variables the implement-task consumes.
+  assertEquals(seen.baseBranch, "epic/agent-protocol");
+  assertEquals(seen.baseBranchBrief.includes("gh pr create --base epic/agent-protocol"), true);
+});
+
+test("startPlan without a base branch keeps default-branch behaviour (null row + null variables)", async () => {
+  const PLAN_KEY = "owner/repo#200";
+  const stores: Record<string, { rows: any[]; key: string }> = {
+    plans: { rows: [], key: "plan_key" },
+    plan_tasks: { rows: [], key: "id" },
+    plan_reviews: { rows: [], key: "plan_key" },
+    plan_escalations: { rows: [], key: "id" },
+    plan_task_deps: { rows: [], key: "plan_key" },
+  };
+  const data = memData(stores);
+  let seen: any = null;
+  const engine = {
+    createInstance: (req: any) => {
+      seen = req.variables;
+      return Promise.resolve({ processInstanceKey: "PI-2" });
+    },
+  } as any;
+
+  await startPlan(data, engine, {
+    repo: "owner/repo",
+    number: 200,
+    url: "https://github.com/owner/repo/issues/200",
+    planKey: PLAN_KEY,
+  });
+
+  assertEquals((stores.plans.rows[0] as any).base_branch, null);
+  assertEquals(seen.baseBranch, null);
+  assertEquals(seen.baseBranchBrief, null);
+});

package/app/plan.ts

@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ export interface Plan {
   // Minted at plan start; baked into the blackboard URL handed to implementer agents. NULL for
   // plans created before the blackboard shipped.
   blackboard_token: string | null;
+  // Optional target base branch (019_plan_base_branch.sql): when set, the fleet branches off this
+  // branch and opens every task PR against it instead of the repository's default branch, landing
+  // the whole epic on a long-lived integration branch. NULL keeps the default-branch behaviour.
+  base_branch: string | null;
   created_at: string;
   updated_at: string;
 }
@@ -185,14 +189,79 @@ export function parseIssue(input: string): ParsedIssue | null {
   return null;
 }
 
+/** Raised when a caller supplies a `baseBranch` that isn't a plausible git branch name. The
+ * value is interpolated into the authoritative implementer prompt (which carries `git`/`gh`
+ * shell snippets and inline-code Markdown), so a non-ref value could break the rendered
+ * instructions or smuggle in a command/prompt fragment — reject it at the edge instead. */
+export class InvalidBaseBranchError extends Error {
+  readonly value: string;
+  constructor(value: string) {
+    super(`invalid base branch name: ${JSON.stringify(value)}`);
+    this.name = "InvalidBaseBranchError";
+    this.value = value;
+  }
+}
+
+/** Conservative allowlist gate for a base-branch name. Stricter than `git check-ref-format` on
+ * purpose: only `[A-Za-z0-9._/-]`, no leading `/`/`.`/`-` (a leading dash reads as a CLI flag),
+ * no trailing `/`/`.`, no `..`/`//`, no empty or `.lock`-suffixed path component, bounded length.
+ * This rejects whitespace, shell metacharacters, command substitution, and newlines outright. */
+function isPlausibleBranchName(s: string): boolean {
+  if (s.length === 0 || s.length > 255) return false;
+  if (!/^[A-Za-z0-9._/-]+$/.test(s)) return false;
+  if (/^[/.-]/.test(s) || /[/.]$/.test(s)) return false;
+  if (s.includes("..") || s.includes("//")) return false;
+  return s.split("/").every((seg) => seg.length > 0 && !seg.startsWith(".") && !seg.endsWith(".lock"));
+}
+
+/** Normalise a caller-supplied base branch: trim, and treat blank as "unset" (null) so the fleet
+ * falls back to the repository's default branch — the legacy behaviour. A non-blank value that is
+ * not a plausible git branch name is rejected (`InvalidBaseBranchError`) rather than persisted or
+ * rendered into the agent prompt; the operation edge maps that to a 400. */
+export function normalizeBaseBranch(input: string | null | undefined): string | null {
+  const s = (input ?? "").trim();
+  if (s.length === 0) return null;
+  if (!isPlausibleBranchName(s)) throw new InvalidBaseBranchError(s);
+  return s;
+}
+
+/** The per-instance brief appended to an implementer agent's prompt when the plan pins a base
+ * branch. It is authoritative over the static "branch off the default branch" wording in
+ * prompts/feature.md, so the agent branches off — and opens its PR against — the integration
+ * branch, and reads the epic's latest landed state there rather than the repo default branch. */
+export function renderBaseBranchBrief(baseBranch: string): string {
+  return [
+    "",
+    "",
+    "---",
+    "",
+    `**Base branch (authoritative — overrides any "default branch" instruction above): \`${baseBranch}\`.**`,
+    "",
+    `This epic lands on \`${baseBranch}\`, NOT the repository default branch. Everywhere the`,
+    "instructions say \"default branch\", use this branch instead:",
+    "",
+    `- Branch off it: \`git fetch origin ${baseBranch} && git checkout -b feat/<task.id> origin/${baseBranch}\`.`,
+    `- Read the epic's latest landed state from \`${baseBranch}\` (your prerequisites merged there, not into the default branch).`,
+    `- Open your PR against it: \`gh pr create --base ${baseBranch} ...\`.`,
+    "",
+    "Do not target the repository default branch — a PR opened against it will not be merged into the epic.",
+  ].join("\n");
+}
+
 /** Register a plan row (if new) and start the plan-fanout process. Idempotent on
  * planKey: a plan already in flight is not restarted. */
-export async function startPlan(data: DataLayer, engine: EngineClient, parsed: ParsedIssue) {
+export async function startPlan(
+  data: DataLayer,
+  engine: EngineClient,
+  parsed: ParsedIssue,
+  baseBranch: string | null = null,
+) {
   const table = plans(data);
   const existing = await table.get(parsed.planKey);
   if (existing && !PLAN_TERMINAL_STATUSES.includes(existing.status)) {
     return { planKey: parsed.planKey, alreadyRunning: true };
   }
+  const base = normalizeBaseBranch(baseBranch);
   const ts = now();
   // Mint (or reuse, on a re-plan) this plan's blackboard capability token, and render the
   // coordination brief that carries its concrete URL. The token is the credential; agents reach
@@ -235,6 +304,7 @@ export async function startPlan(data: DataLayer, engine: EngineClient, parsed: P
       open_task_corr_key: null,
       open_task_id: null,
       blackboard_token: token,
+      base_branch: base,
       updated_at: ts,
     });
   } else {
@@ -246,6 +316,7 @@ export async function startPlan(data: DataLayer, engine: EngineClient, parsed: P
       status: "planning",
       task_count: 0,
       blackboard_token: token,
+      base_branch: base,
       created_at: ts,
       updated_at: ts,
     });
@@ -265,6 +336,12 @@ export async function startPlan(data: DataLayer, engine: EngineClient, parsed: P
       // out-of-band.
       blackboardUrl: bbUrl,
       blackboardBrief: renderCoordinationBrief(bbUrl),
+      // Optional epic base branch (019_plan_base_branch.sql): the branch the fleet branches off and
+      // opens every PR against instead of the repo default. `baseBranchBrief` rides `appendPrompt`
+      // in the implement-task (like `blackboardBrief`); both are null when no base branch is pinned,
+      // so the agent keeps the default-branch behaviour from prompts/feature.md.
+      baseBranch: base,
+      baseBranchBrief: base == null ? null : renderBaseBranchBrief(base),
     },
   });
   const processKey = processInstanceKey == null ? null : String(processInstanceKey);

package/app/service.test.ts

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 // GitHub transport forced off so it is hermetic.
 import { test } from "node:test";
 import { assertEquals } from "#test-assert";
-import { pollIncidentsImpl, submitPr } from "./service.ts";
+import { pollIncidentsImpl, repoEnvelopeVars, submitPr } from "./service.ts";
 
 function memTable(rows: any[], key: string) {
   return {
@@ -331,3 +331,55 @@ test("submitPr defaults convergeOnly to false so the global auto-merge default g
     assertEquals(get(), false);
   });
 });
+
+// The repository envelope drives the c8ctl harness's isolated workspace provisioning: it is
+// emitted under the reserved `io.nanobpm.agentTask` namespace with the PR head branch as the
+// checkout ref, and omitted entirely when the head branch couldn't be resolved (so the harness
+// falls back to the legacy launch-dir behavior instead of cloning the wrong default branch).
+test("repoEnvelopeVars emits the repository envelope keyed on the PR head branch", () => {
+  const vars = repoEnvelopeVars("owner/repo", "feat/issue-12");
+  const env = (vars as any)["io.nanobpm.agentTask"];
+  assertEquals(env.repository.url, "https://github.com/owner/repo.git");
+  assertEquals(env.repository.ref, "feat/issue-12");
+  assertEquals(env.repository.provider, "github");
+});
+
+test("repoEnvelopeVars emits nothing when the head branch is unresolved", () => {
+  assertEquals(Object.keys(repoEnvelopeVars("owner/repo", null)).length, 0);
+});
+
+test("repoEnvelopeVars emits nothing for a malformed repo (not owner/repo)", () => {
+  // Defence in depth: a repo that isn't exactly `owner/repo` would build a bogus clone URL, so the
+  // helper emits no envelope (harness falls back to the launch dir) rather than a malformed URL.
+  for (const bad of [
+    "",
+    "noslash",
+    "a/b/c",
+    "owner /repo",
+    "owner/re po",
+    "/repo",
+    "owner/",
+    // A trailing `.git` would build a double-suffixed clone URL (…/owner/repo.git.git).
+    "owner/repo.git",
+    "owner/repo.GIT",
+    // Query/fragment/host-injection characters must never reach the clone URL.
+    "owner/repo?x",
+    "owner/repo#frag",
+    "owner/repo:x",
+    "owner/re~po",
+    // Owner is a GitHub login: no dots or underscores allowed there.
+    "own.er/repo",
+    "own_er/repo",
+  ]) {
+    assertEquals(Object.keys(repoEnvelopeVars(bad, "feat/x")).length, 0, `expected no envelope for "${bad}"`);
+  }
+  // Well-formed repos still emit (guard is not over-eager): hyphens, dots and underscores
+  // are legal in the repo-name segment, mixed case is preserved.
+  for (const good of ["owner/repo", "my-org/my.repo", "Owner123/Repo_2", "a-b/c-d"]) {
+    assertEquals(
+      ((repoEnvelopeVars(good, "feat/x") as any)["io.nanobpm.agentTask"].repository.url),
+      `https://github.com/${good}.git`,
+      `expected envelope for "${good}"`,
+    );
+  }
+});

package/app/service.ts

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import { abandonUrl, mintAbandonToken, renderAbandonBrief } from "./abandon.ts";
 import {
   classifyMergeability,
   ensureFreshHeadRun,
+  fetchPrHead,
   fetchPrMeta,
   fetchPrReviews,
   fetchPrState,
@@ -277,6 +278,35 @@ async function registerDependencies(data: DataLayer, prKey: string, depKeys: str
   }
 }
 
+/** The reserved namespace key the c8ctl nano worker harness reads the agent-task envelope from
+ * (headers ∪ variables, deep-merged). See c8ctl `normalizeTaskEnvelope`. */
+const AGENT_TASK_NS = "io.nanobpm.agentTask";
+
+/** Build the repository slice of the agent-task envelope for a PR-based agent job (review-round,
+ * fix-ci, rebase). Delivered as a *process variable* under the reserved `io.nanobpm.agentTask`
+ * key so the harness provisions an isolated clone checked out on the PR's head branch — instead of
+ * the agent inheriting whatever directory the worker was launched from (which only happened to be
+ * a usable checkout for repos already present locally). `ref` MUST be the PR head branch; when it
+ * is unresolved we emit nothing (no `repository.url`) so the harness falls back to the legacy
+ * launch-dir behavior rather than silently cloning the repo's default branch. The static
+ * `task.prompt` header on the service task deep-merges with this over the same namespace. */
+export function repoEnvelopeVars(repo: string, ref: string | null): Record<string, unknown> {
+  if (!ref) return {};
+  // Defence in depth: every current caller derives `repo` from parsePr/parseIssue (regex-bounded to
+  // `owner/repo`), but this is an exported helper the fan-out epic gives many new callers. A repo
+  // that is not exactly `owner/repo` would build a bogus clone URL, so emit nothing (the harness
+  // then falls back to the launch-dir behaviour) rather than handing the harness a malformed URL.
+  // The owner is a GitHub login (alphanumeric + hyphen); the repo-name segment additionally allows
+  // `.` and `_`. A trailing `.git` is rejected outright so we never emit a double-suffixed
+  // `…/owner/repo.git.git`, and the anchored allowlist bars query/fragment/host-injection chars.
+  if (!/^[A-Za-z0-9-]+\/[A-Za-z0-9._-]+$/.test(repo) || /\.git$/i.test(repo)) return {};
+  return {
+    [AGENT_TASK_NS]: {
+      repository: { provider: "github", url: `https://github.com/${repo}.git`, ref },
+    },
+  };
+}
+
 /** Register a PR row (if new) and start the convergence process. Idempotent on prKey. Optional
  * `dependsOn` (explicit refs) is unioned with any `Depends-on:` line parsed from the PR body and
  * recorded as the PR's merge-stage dependency set. */
@@ -298,16 +328,23 @@ export async function submitPr(
   // A transport failure (no gh/token) must not block submission — we just skip enrichment.
   const token = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN ?? "";
   let title: string | null = null;
+  let headRef: string | null = null;
   const depKeys = new Set(dependsOn.map((d) => parsePr(d)?.prKey).filter((k): k is string => !!k));
   try {
     const meta = await fetchPrMeta(parsed.repo, parsed.number, token);
     if (meta) {
       title = meta.title;
+      headRef = meta.headRef;
       for (const k of parseDependsOn(meta.body)) depKeys.add(k);
     }
   } catch (err) {
     console.warn(`[submit] ${parsed.prKey} meta fetch: ${err}`);
   }
+  if (!headRef) {
+    // Without the head branch the harness can't check out the PR; the review agent then falls
+    // back to the worker's launch dir (the legacy behavior) and escalates if it isn't a checkout.
+    console.warn(`[submit] ${parsed.prKey} head branch unresolved — agent workspace won't be provisioned`);
+  }
   await registerDependencies(data, parsed.prKey, [...depKeys]);
 
   const ts = now();
@@ -375,6 +412,10 @@ export async function submitPr(
       // review-round agent's prompt, so it can stop before pushing if the run is cancelled.
       abandonUrl: abUrl,
       abandonBrief: renderAbandonBrief(abUrl),
+      // Host-git provisioning (c8ctl): deliver the repository envelope so the `senior:pr-review`
+      // harness clones an isolated workspace checked out on the PR head branch. Spread last so an
+      // unresolved head (`{}`) leaves the other vars untouched.
+      ...repoEnvelopeVars(parsed.repo, headRef),
     },
   });
   const processKey = processInstanceKey == null ? null : String(processInstanceKey);
@@ -400,6 +441,19 @@ export async function startMerge(
     await prs(data).update(pr.prKey, { abandon_token: abandonToken, updated_at: now() });
   }
   const abUrl = abandonUrl(abandonToken);
+  // Resolve the PR head branch so the merge agents (fix-ci, rebase) get an isolated clone checked
+  // out on it (same host-git provisioning path as review-round). Best-effort: an unresolved head
+  // means the envelope is omitted and the agent falls back to the worker's launch dir.
+  const token = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN ?? "";
+  let headRef: string | null = null;
+  try {
+    headRef = (await fetchPrHead(pr.repo, pr.number, token))?.headRef ?? null;
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.warn(`[startMerge] ${pr.prKey} head branch fetch: ${err}`);
+  }
+  if (!headRef) {
+    console.warn(`[startMerge] ${pr.prKey} head branch unresolved — merge-agent workspace won't be provisioned`);
+  }
   const { processInstanceKey } = await engine.createInstance({
     processDefinitionId: MERGE_PROCESS_ID,
     variables: {
@@ -414,6 +468,9 @@ export async function startMerge(
       rebaseMax: MAX_REBASE_ROUNDS,
       abandonUrl: abUrl,
       abandonBrief: renderAbandonBrief(abUrl),
+      // Host-git provisioning (c8ctl): same repository envelope as the convergence loop, so the
+      // fix-ci/rebase agents operate on an isolated checkout of the PR head branch.
+      ...repoEnvelopeVars(pr.repo, headRef),
     },
   });
   if (processInstanceKey != null) {

package/db/migrations/018_round_worker.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+-- Identify the servicing worker on the durable history. The c8ctl harness completes each agent
+-- job with an `agent` variable (its profile name, e.g. `senior`), which propagates to the
+-- downstream `pr.persist-round` / `pr.persist-escalation` jobs. Recording it next to the round /
+-- escalation the agent produced lets a human tell *which* worker did the work when reading the
+-- transcript — without cross-referencing the transient `pull_requests.active_worker` lease (which
+-- is cleared once the agent finishes).
+
+ALTER TABLE rounds ADD COLUMN worker TEXT;
+ALTER TABLE escalations ADD COLUMN worker TEXT;

package/db/migrations/019_plan_base_branch.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+-- Per-plan target base branch (epic base-branch control). When set, the fleet branches off this
+-- branch and opens every task PR against it instead of the repository's default branch, so an
+-- entire epic can land on a long-lived integration branch (e.g. `epic/agent-protocol`) and reach
+-- the default branch — and any merge-to-default side effect such as auto-publishing a package —
+-- only when the integration branch is deliberately merged. NULL keeps the legacy behaviour (the
+-- repo default branch), so pre-migration plans are unaffected.
+
+ALTER TABLE plans ADD COLUMN base_branch TEXT;

package/e2e/convergence-loop.e2e.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+// End-to-end pilot for @nanobpm/urban-testkit (nano-ide issue #157, slice S3).
+//
+// Boots this whole Urban app in-process against the WASM engine and a virtual clock via
+// `bootTestApp`, then drives its real ADR-0059 OpenAPI operations by `operationId` — the same
+// spec-driven `/app/api/*` surface a browser, a CI relay, or Swagger hit in production. No socket
+// is opened, no wall-clock is waited on, and no GitHub network is touched.
+//
+// Network isolation: the app's GitHub transport (app/github.ts) is forced to `token` mode with no
+// token, so every best-effort GitHub read short-circuits to `null`/idle instead of reaching out.
+// That keeps the pilot hermetic and deterministic in CI.
+//
+// Run with `npm run e2e` (a dedicated node:test invocation, kept out of the fast unit `npm test`).
+
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";
+import { mkdtempSync, rmSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { tmpdir } from "node:os";
+import { after, before, describe, test } from "node:test";
+import { bootTestApp, type TestApp } from "@nanobpm/urban-testkit";
+
+// The app root is this repo's root (one level up from `e2e/`) — where nano.app.json + openapi.yaml
+// + db/migrations + resources/processes live.
+const APP_ROOT = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..");
+
+// Provision the app's SQLite in a throwaway temp dir so the pilot never touches (or leaks into) the
+// repo's real ./app.db, and every run starts from a freshly-migrated, empty schema.
+const DB_DIR = mkdtempSync(join(tmpdir(), "nwf-e2e-"));
+
+// Derive the reconciler's poll interval from the app manifest (its single source of truth) rather
+// than hard-coding it, so this test tracks nano.app.json instead of duplicating the value: a change
+// to `pollMs` there stays correct here. Read the `pull_requests` instanceTracking entry's pollMs.
+interface InstanceTrackingEntry {
+  table: string;
+  pollMs: number;
+}
+interface AppManifest {
+  instanceTracking?: InstanceTrackingEntry[];
+}
+const APP_MANIFEST: AppManifest = JSON.parse(
+  readFileSync(join(APP_ROOT, "nano.app.json"), "utf8"),
+);
+const PR_TRACKING = APP_MANIFEST.instanceTracking?.find((e) => e.table === "pull_requests");
+assert.ok(PR_TRACKING, "nano.app.json declares a pull_requests instanceTracking entry");
+const PR_POLL_MS = PR_TRACKING.pollMs;
+
+// Force the app fully offline. github.ts reads `process.env` directly (not the harness env overlay),
+// so seal the GitHub transport on process.env: `token` mode with no GITHUB_TOKEN means every
+// best-effort GitHub read in submitPr short-circuits to null instead of shelling out to `gh`/fetch.
+const GITHUB_ENV_OVERRIDES: Record<string, string> = {
+  NANO_PR_GITHUB_TRANSPORT: "token",
+  GITHUB_TOKEN: "",
+};
+const savedEnv = new Map<string, string | undefined>();
+
+// The harness `env` overlay drives the runtime's `${NANO_APP_DB_URL}` resolution — provision the
+// app's SQLite in a throwaway temp dir so the pilot never touches (or leaks into) the repo's real
+// ./app.db, and every run starts from a freshly-migrated, empty schema.
+const HARNESS_ENV = {
+  NANO_APP_DB_URL: `file:${join(DB_DIR, "app.db")}`,
+} as const;
+
+describe("nano-workforce e2e (urban-testkit pilot)", () => {
+  let app: TestApp;
+
+  before(async () => {
+    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(GITHUB_ENV_OVERRIDES)) {
+      savedEnv.set(k, process.env[k]);
+      process.env[k] = v;
+    }
+    app = await bootTestApp(APP_ROOT, { env: HARNESS_ENV });
+    // This app declares an `api` binding, so the spec-driven driver must be present.
+    assert.ok(app.api, "app.api driver should be defined (nano.app.json declares an `api` binding)");
+  });
+
+  after(async () => {
+    await app?.stop();
+    for (const [k, v] of savedEnv) {
+      if (v === undefined) delete process.env[k];
+      else process.env[k] = v;
+    }
+    rmSync(DB_DIR, { recursive: true, force: true });
+  });
+
+  test("drives the blackboard operations round-trip through the OpenAPI driver", async () => {
+    const api = app.api;
+    assert.ok(api);
+
+    // Seed a plan with a capability token — the credential the blackboard operations authorize on.
+    const token = "pilot-blackboard-token";
+    const planKey = "acme/widgets#7";
+    const nowIso = new Date(app.now()).toISOString();
+    await app.db.table("plans", "plan_key").insert({
+      plan_key: planKey,
+      repo: "acme/widgets",
+      issue_number: 7,
+      issue_url: "https://github.com/acme/widgets/issues/7",
+      title: "Pilot plan",
+      status: "planning",
+      task_count: 0,
+      blackboard_token: token,
+      created_at: nowIso,
+      updated_at: nowIso,
+    });
+
+    // POST an entry via the `appendBlackboard` operation (operationId → /app/api/hooks/blackboard).
+    const appended = await api.call<{ id: number; inserted: boolean }>("appendBlackboard", {
+      query: { token },
+      body: { author_task: "t1", kind: "note", body: "hello from the pilot" },
+    });
+    assert.equal(appended.status, 201, "append returns 201 Created");
+    assert.equal(appended.body.inserted, true, "entry was inserted");
+    assert.ok(Number.isFinite(appended.body.id), "append returns a numeric entry id");
+
+    // GET it back via `readBlackboard` — the entry the POST just wrote must be visible.
+    const read = await api.call<{ planKey: string; entries: Array<{ id: number; body: string }> }>(
+      "readBlackboard",
+      { query: { token } },
+    );
+    assert.equal(read.status, 200, "read returns 200 OK");
+    assert.equal(read.body.planKey, planKey, "read is scoped to the seeded plan");
+    assert.equal(read.body.entries.length, 1, "exactly the one appended entry is returned");
+    assert.equal(read.body.entries[0].body, "hello from the pilot", "round-tripped body matches");
+    assert.equal(read.body.entries[0].id, appended.body.id, "read id matches the appended id");
+
+    // An unknown token is a 404 (never leaks which plans exist).
+    const unknown = await api.call("readBlackboard", { query: { token: "nope" } });
+    assert.equal(unknown.status, 404, "an unknown token is a 404, not a leak");
+  });
+
+  test("starts the convergence loop and reconciles its tracking row when terminated", async () => {
+    const api = app.api;
+    assert.ok(api);
+
+    const prKey = "acme/widgets#42";
+    // POST the real production door for starting a review: `startConvergenceLoop`. `convergeOnly`
+    // keeps the run off the merge-loop; the offline env keeps `submitPr`'s best-effort GitHub
+    // enrichment from touching the network.
+    const started = await api.call<{ prKey: string }>("startConvergenceLoop", {
+      body: { pr: prKey, convergeOnly: true },
+    });
+    assert.equal(started.status, 202, "start returns 202 Accepted");
+    assert.equal(started.body.prKey, prKey, "the response echoes the parsed PR key");
+
+    // The operation registered the PR aggregate (instanceTracking table) and started a real engine
+    // instance — synchronously, before any worker ran (we never settled).
+    const prs = app.db.table<{ pr_key: string; status: string; process_key: string | null }>(
+      "pull_requests",
+      "pr_key",
+    );
+    const row = await prs.findOne({ pr_key: prKey });
+    assert.ok(row, "a pull_requests row was registered");
+    assert.equal(row?.status, "converging", "the PR is tracked as actively converging");
+    assert.ok(row?.process_key, "the row carries the engine process-instance key");
+
+    const processInstanceKey = row!.process_key!;
+    const before = await app.engine.searchProcessInstances({
+      processInstanceKeys: [processInstanceKey],
+    });
+    assert.equal(before.length, 1, "the engine has exactly one instance for this PR");
+
+    // Terminate the instance out-of-band (the class of event the reconciler exists to catch — a
+    // PR merged or cancelled independently of the loop). The row is still `converging` until a poll.
+    await app.engine.cancelInstance({ processInstanceKey });
+    const stillActive = await prs.findOne({ pr_key: prKey });
+    assert.equal(stillActive?.status, "converging", "row not yet reconciled before any poll fires");
+
+    // Advance past the instanceTracking pollMs (derived from nano.app.json above, plus a margin):
+    // the reconciler observes TERMINATED and applies the manifest `onTerminated.set` → status
+    // `abandoned`, escalation pointers cleared.
+    await app.advanceTime(PR_POLL_MS + 1000);
+    const reconciled = await prs.findOne({ pr_key: prKey });
+    assert.equal(reconciled?.status, "abandoned", "reconciler abandoned the terminated PR's row");
+  });
+});

package/openapi.yaml

@@ -271,6 +271,15 @@ components:
         issue:
           type: string
           description: "Issue reference: owner/repo#123."
+        baseBranch:
+          type: string
+          description: >-
+            Optional target branch the fleet branches off and opens every PR against, instead of the
+            repository's default branch. Use this to land an entire epic on a long-lived integration
+            branch (e.g. `epic/agent-protocol`) so nothing reaches the default branch — and any
+            merge-to-default side effect, such as auto-publishing a package — until you deliberately
+            merge the integration branch. Blank/omitted keeps the current behaviour (the repo
+            default branch).
     PlanStartByUrl:
       type: object
       additionalProperties: false
@@ -280,6 +289,11 @@ components:
         url:
           type: string
           description: A bare issue URL, when no `owner/repo#123` reference is supplied.
+        baseBranch:
+          type: string
+          description: >-
+            Optional target branch the fleet branches off and opens every PR against, instead of the
+            repository's default branch. See `PlanStartByIssue.baseBranch`.
     MessageResult:
       type: object
       description: The result of publishing a message / answering an escalation. Shape varies by message

package/operations/startAndMessage.test.ts

@@ -121,6 +121,18 @@ test("startPlanFanout → 400 (not 500) on a missing request body", async () =>
   assertEquals(typeof r.body.error, "string");
 });
 
+test("startPlanFanout → 400 on an invalid baseBranch (not persisted/rendered)", async () => {
+  // A non-blank baseBranch that isn't a plausible git branch name (shell metacharacters here)
+  // must be rejected at the edge as a 400 — never persisted or interpolated into the agent prompt.
+  const res = await startPlanFanout(
+    input({ issue: "owner/repo#123", baseBranch: "epic/agent; rm -rf /" }),
+    app,
+  );
+  const r = res as any;
+  assertEquals(r.status, 400);
+  assertEquals(typeof r.body.error, "string");
+});
+
 test("startConvergenceLoop narrows the `url` variant (no `pr` key)", async () => {
   await withGithubOff(async () => {
     const { app: capApp } = captureApp();

package/operations/startPlanFanout.ts

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 // ONE of `issue` or `url` — so an empty or ambiguous target is a 400 at the edge; this delegate just
 // narrows the validated variant and keeps the issue-FORMAT parse guard (schema can't express it).
 
-import { parseIssue, startPlan } from "../app/plan.ts";
+import { InvalidBaseBranchError, normalizeBaseBranch, parseIssue, startPlan } from "../app/plan.ts";
 import { defineOperation } from "../nano-generated/operations.ts";
 
 export default defineOperation("startPlanFanout", async ({ body }, app) => {
@@ -26,9 +26,29 @@ export default defineOperation("startPlanFanout", async ({ body }, app) => {
     app.log.warn("start-plan rejected: unparseable issue reference", { raw });
     return { status: 400, body: { error: "could not parse issue (use owner/repo#123 or an issue URL)" } };
   }
-  const result = await startPlan(app.data, app.engine, parsed);
+  // Optional epic base branch: the branch the fleet branches off and opens every PR against instead
+  // of the repo default. Present on both oneOf variants; blank/absent keeps the default-branch
+  // behaviour. It is later interpolated into the authoritative implementer prompt (with `git`/`gh`
+  // shell snippets), so validate/normalise it HERE — a non-blank value that isn't a plausible git
+  // branch name is a 400 at the edge, never persisted or rendered. `normalizeBaseBranch` blank → null.
+  const baseBranch = "baseBranch" in body && typeof body.baseBranch === "string" ? body.baseBranch : null;
+  let normalizedBase: string | null;
+  try {
+    normalizedBase = normalizeBaseBranch(baseBranch);
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err instanceof InvalidBaseBranchError) {
+      app.log.warn("start-plan rejected: invalid base branch", { baseBranch: err.value });
+      return {
+        status: 400,
+        body: { error: "invalid baseBranch (must be a plausible git branch name, e.g. epic/agent-protocol)" },
+      };
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
+  const result = await startPlan(app.data, app.engine, parsed, normalizedBase);
   app.log.info("plan fan-out started", {
     planKey: parsed.planKey,
+    baseBranch: normalizedBase ?? "(default branch)",
     alreadyRunning: "alreadyRunning" in result && result.alreadyRunning === true,
   });
   return { status: 202, body: result };

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@nanobpm/nano-workforce",
-  "version": "0.44.0",
+  "version": "0.45.0",
   "description": "Nano Workforce — an Agent Graph Orchestration application for Agentic SDLC: durable BPMN processes that coordinate a graph of AI agents across the software delivery lifecycle.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "main.ts",
@@ -41,14 +41,16 @@
     "layout:check": "node --experimental-strip-types scripts/layout-bpmn.ts --check",
     "dev": "urban dev",
     "test": "node --experimental-strip-types --test",
-    "lint": "biome check app operations workers pages components scripts main.ts",
-    "lint:fix": "biome check --write app operations workers pages components scripts main.ts"
+    "e2e": "node --experimental-strip-types --test \"e2e/**/*.e2e.ts\"",
+    "lint": "biome check app operations workers pages components scripts e2e main.ts",
+    "lint:fix": "biome check --write app operations workers pages components scripts e2e main.ts"
   },
   "dependencies": {
     "@nanobpm/urban": "^0.42.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@biomejs/biome": "^2.4.11",
+    "@nanobpm/urban-testkit": "^0.3.0",
     "@semantic-release/changelog": "^6.0.3",
     "@semantic-release/git": "^10.0.1",
     "@semantic-release/npm": "^13.1.5",

package/pages/epic.page.json

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
         "submitLabel": "Plan & implement",
         "action": { "path": "/app/api/actions/start/plan-fanout", "body": "{{form}}" },
         "fields": [
-          { "key": "issue", "label": "owner/repo#123 or a GitHub issue URL", "type": "text" }
+          { "key": "issue", "label": "owner/repo#123 or a GitHub issue URL", "type": "text" },
+          { "key": "baseBranch", "label": "Base branch (blank = repo default; e.g. epic/agent-protocol to land the whole epic on an integration branch)", "type": "text" }
         ]
       }
     },
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@
           "fields": [
             { "field": "repo", "label": "Repository" },
             { "field": "issue_number", "label": "Issue number" },
+            { "field": "base_branch", "label": "Base branch (blank = repo default)" },
             { "field": "outcome", "label": "Outcome" },
             { "field": "open_task_question", "label": "Open escalation question" }
           ]

package/pages/home.page.json

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
               "columns": [
                 { "field": "round_no", "header": "#" },
                 { "field": "status", "header": "Result" },
+                { "field": "worker", "header": "Worker" },
                 { "field": "summary", "header": "Summary" }
               ],
               "lazyField": { "field": "transcript", "label": "Transcript", "lazy": true }
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@
               "columns": [
                 { "field": "round_no", "header": "#" },
                 { "field": "kind", "header": "Kind" },
+                { "field": "worker", "header": "Worker" },
                 { "field": "question", "header": "Question" },
                 { "field": "status", "header": "Status" },
                 { "field": "answer", "header": "Answer" }

package/prompts/feature.md

@@ -26,14 +26,26 @@ process with no memory of your last run, the branch name MUST be derivable from
 (`git ls-remote --heads origin feat/<task.id>` or
 `gh pr list --head feat/<task.id> --state all`):
 
-- **It does not exist** → this is a first run. Branch off the default branch.
+- **It does not exist** → this is a first run. Branch off the base branch (see
+  the note below — usually the repository default branch, but an epic may pin an
+  integration branch in your appended task context).
 - **It exists** → this is a **resume**. `git fetch` and check it out, read its diff
   and any open (draft) PR, and **continue from there** — do not restart from
   scratch. Fold in `variables.answer` as the guidance you were waiting on.
 
+## Your base branch (default branch, unless the epic pins one)
+
+Branch off — and open your PR against — the repository's **default branch**,
+UNLESS your appended task context carries a **"Base branch (authoritative)"**
+note pinning an epic integration branch. When it does, that branch wins
+everywhere below: branch off `origin/<that branch>`, read the epic's latest
+landed state there, and pass `gh pr create --base <that branch>`. A PR opened
+against the wrong base will not be merged into the epic.
+
 ## What to do
 
-1. Clone / check out the repository's default branch (first run) or your existing
+1. Clone / check out your base branch (first run — the default branch, or the
+   pinned epic branch if your context names one) or your existing
    `feat/<task.id>` branch (resume — see above).
 2. Implement `task.prompt`. Keep the change scoped to this slice only.
 3. Commit (sign off — this repo family enforces DCO: `git commit -s`), push the

package/prompts/fix-ci.md

@@ -16,6 +16,15 @@ protocol with a status URL is appended below: **before you push the fix, curl th
 `-fsS`) and stop immediately if the check **fails** or reports `"abandoned": true`. Re-check right
 before the push.
 
+## Workspace (host mode) — read this first
+
+When the worker harness (e.g. `c8ctl nano work`) provisions a workspace, your **current
+working directory is a fresh, isolated clone of the repo checked out on the PR's head
+branch** — exposed via `AGENT_WORKSPACE`, `AGENT_REPO_URL`, `AGENT_REPO_BRANCH`, `AGENT_REPO_REF`.
+When it does, **work only inside `cwd`**, do **not** re-clone, `cd` elsewhere, or add a
+`git worktree`, and do not touch global/host state — other jobs get their own clones. If
+`AGENT_WORKSPACE` is **unset** (no provisioning), check out the PR head branch yourself.
+
 ## Job input (`job.variables`)
 
 | var        | meaning                                                            |
@@ -32,7 +41,8 @@ the PR's checks yourself (`gh pr checks`, `gh run view`).
 
 ## What to do
 
-1. Check out the PR's head branch (it already exists on the remote).
+1. Check out the PR's head branch (already provisioned as your `cwd` in host mode; else it
+   exists on the remote).
 2. For each failing check, read its logs to find the **root cause** — a real
    failure (a bug, a broken test, a lint/type error, a missing file). Do **not**
    paper over it (no `--no-verify`, no disabling the check, no `it.skip`, no

package/prompts/rebase.md

@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ with a status URL is appended below: **before you push the rebased branch, curl
 `-fsS`) and stop immediately if the check **fails** or reports `"abandoned": true`. Re-check right
 before the push.
 
+## Workspace (host mode) — read this first
+
+When the worker harness (e.g. `c8ctl nano work`) provisions a workspace, your **current
+working directory is a fresh, isolated clone of the repo checked out on the PR's head
+branch** — exposed via `AGENT_WORKSPACE`, `AGENT_REPO_URL`, `AGENT_REPO_BRANCH`, `AGENT_REPO_REF`.
+When it does, **work only inside `cwd`**, do **not** re-clone, `cd` elsewhere, or add a
+`git worktree`, and do not touch global/host state — other jobs get their own clones. If
+`AGENT_WORKSPACE` is **unset** (no provisioning), check out the PR head branch yourself.
+
 ## Job input (`job.variables`)
 
 | var           | meaning                                                          |
@@ -29,7 +38,8 @@ before the push.
 
 ## What to do
 
-1. Check out the PR's head branch (it already exists on the remote) and identify
+1. Check out the PR's head branch (already provisioned as your `cwd` in host mode; else it
+   already exists on the remote) and identify
    the base branch (`gh pr view <prNumber> --repo <repo> --json baseRefName`).
 2. Update the branch onto the current base. Prefer a **rebase**
    (`git fetch origin && git rebase origin/<base>`); if the repo's history policy

package/prompts/review-round.md

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ cancel can land anytime.
 The worker harness (e.g. `c8ctl nano work`) has **already provisioned an isolated,
 per-job workspace for you**: your **current working directory is a fresh clone of
 the repo, checked out on the PR's head branch**. The harness exposes it via the
-`AGENT_WORKSPACE`, `REPO_URL`, `REPO_BRANCH` and `REPO_REF` environment variables,
+`AGENT_WORKSPACE`, `AGENT_REPO_URL`, `AGENT_REPO_BRANCH` and `AGENT_REPO_REF` environment variables,
 and it **reaps that workspace after the job ends**.
 
 Because several agents may run on the same host at once:
@@ -50,11 +50,21 @@ Because several agents may run on the same host at once:
 
 1. **Read the latest review.** Fetch the newest Copilot review + its inline
    comments on the PR (`gh pr view`, `gh api .../pulls/{n}/reviews`, `.../comments`).
+   Also read Copilot's **suppressed / low-confidence** advisories — the collapsed
+   "low confidence" list Copilot folds into the **review body** (`.../reviews`
+   `body`). These are NOT in the default inline-comment API set, so a plain
+   `.../comments` read misses them; scan the review body for them explicitly.
    If `answer` is present, treat it as the human's decision on the escalation you
    raised last round and act on it first.
 2. **Triage each comment** into: *fix* (correct, worth doing), *nitpick* (apply
    silently), *needs human input* (design/product/tradeoff you can't decide), or
    *push back* (wrong / false positive — reply with evidence, make no change).
+   Triage the suppressed / low-confidence advisories the **same** way — but do not
+   treat "suppressed" as either automatically actionable or automatically ignorable:
+   if one is a **cheap, correct** robustness/correctness win, just do it (a
+   *nitpick*); otherwise **decline it explicitly with a one-line rationale in your
+   `summary`** (e.g. "declined suppressed advisory X — input already validated
+   upstream at Y"). Never silently drop one.
 3. **Act.** Make the code changes for all fixes + nitpicks in your workspace (`cwd`)
    in one coherent, signed-off commit (`git commit -s`). Run the repo's
    build/test/lint locally before pushing. Push to the PR's head branch (the branch
@@ -107,6 +117,9 @@ Consider the PR **converged** when the latest review has no actionable comment:
   comments") and there are no new inline comments, **or**
 - every new comment is a nitpick you already handled or intentionally declined,
   **or**
+- the only remaining items are suppressed / low-confidence advisories you have
+  triaged and either applied or declined-with-rationale (a suppressed advisory
+  you have recorded a decision on does **not** block convergence), **or**
 - Copilot is looping — reiterating a point you already addressed or pushed back
   on (two rounds of the same substantive point = converged).
 

package/resources/processes/plan-fanout.bpmn

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
             <zeebe:header key="io.nanobpm.agentTask.task.prompt" value="{{feature}}" />
           </zeebe:taskHeaders>
           <zeebe:ioMapping>
-            <zeebe:input source="=&#34;&#10;&#10;---&#10;&#10;&#34; + task.prompt + (if (blackboardBrief = null) then &#34;&#34; else blackboardBrief)" target="appendPrompt" />
+            <zeebe:input source="=&#34;&#10;&#10;---&#10;&#10;&#34; + task.prompt + (if (blackboardBrief = null) then &#34;&#34; else blackboardBrief) + (if (baseBranchBrief = null) then &#34;&#34; else baseBranchBrief)" target="appendPrompt" />
           </zeebe:ioMapping>
         </bpmn:extensionElements>
         <bpmn:incoming>w_toImpl</bpmn:incoming>

package/tsconfig.json

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@
     "src/**/*.ts",
     "scripts/**/*.ts",
     "actions/**/*.ts",
-    "test/**/*.ts"
+    "test/**/*.ts",
+    "e2e/**/*.ts"
   ],
   "exclude": [
     "node_modules",

package/workers/persist-escalation/worker.ts

@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ function transcriptOf(vars: Record<string, unknown>): string | null {
   return typeof env?.output === "string" ? env.output : null;
 }
 
+// The c8ctl harness completes each agent job with an `agent` variable (its profile name), which
+// propagates here. Record it on the round/escalation so a human can identify the servicing worker
+// from the durable history. Reuses the `nonBlank` domain rule (blank/absent -> NULL column).
+function workerOf(vars: Record<string, unknown>): string | undefined {
+  return nonBlank(vars.agent);
+}
+
 // Synthesize a concrete, answerable question when the agent left one blank. A blank question is
 // almost always a *no-result* round: a prompt-less agent that never wrote its result file, so
 // `status` is empty and `gw-status` falls through its default `f_escalate` arm (the empty
@@ -72,6 +79,7 @@ const handler: AppJobHandler<In> = async (job, app) => {
   const rawStatus = nonBlank(job.variables.status);
   const status = rawStatus ?? "needs_input";
   const transcript = transcriptOf(job.variables);
+  const worker = workerOf(job.variables);
   // A blank question must never open an unanswerable escalation. Every legitimate arm sets a
   // concrete question — the agent contract requires one for needs_input/blocked, and the
   // max-rounds + review-timeout arms set a literal via the model. When one is still missing
@@ -110,6 +118,7 @@ const handler: AppJobHandler<In> = async (job, app) => {
       status,
       summary,
       transcript,
+      worker,
       started_at: now,
       ended_at: now,
     });
@@ -120,6 +129,7 @@ const handler: AppJobHandler<In> = async (job, app) => {
     kind,
     question,
     transcript,
+    worker,
     status: "open",
     asked_at: now,
   });

package/workers/persist-round/worker.ts

@@ -34,6 +34,14 @@ function transcriptOf(vars: Record<string, unknown>): string | null {
   return typeof env?.output === "string" ? env.output : null;
 }
 
+// The c8ctl harness completes each agent job with an `agent` variable (its profile name), which
+// propagates here. Record it on the round so a human can identify the servicing worker from the
+// durable history. Undefined (blank/absent) leaves the nullable `worker` column NULL.
+function workerOf(vars: Record<string, unknown>): string | undefined {
+  const v = vars.agent;
+  return typeof v === "string" && v.trim() !== "" ? v.trim() : undefined;
+}
+
 const handler: AppJobHandler<In> = async (job, app) => {
   // This worker is the "addressed"/"waiting" path, so `status` resolves to one of those
   // domain values. `summary` is left undefined when absent: the write boundary omits it so the
@@ -66,6 +74,7 @@ const handler: AppJobHandler<In> = async (job, app) => {
     status,
     summary,
     transcript: transcriptOf(job.variables),
+    worker: workerOf(job.variables),
     started_at: now,
     ended_at: now,
   });