openmausbot 0.1.65 → 0.1.67

package/dist-server/server/index.js

@@ -14,11 +14,12 @@ import { CREDENTIAL_TARGETS, credentialResumeOutcome, credentialIsConfigured, is
 import { HELD_NOTE, approvalHeldNote, approvalHeldReason, approvalModeForOrigin, autoVerdict, rememberableApprovalKey } from "./auto-approve.js";
 import { requestReview, resolveAutoReviewMode, shouldReview } from "./auto-review.js";
 import { updateClaudeCli } from "./claude-update.js";
+import { configuredAccountDirectory, assertSeparateClaudeAccount, claudeAccountInfo, createClaudeAccountSchema, instanceSettingsSchema, newClaudeAccount } from "./claude-accounts.js";
 import { BrowserCleanupCoordinator, finalizeBrowserCleanupMutation, requireBrowserCleanupAcknowledged, } from "./browser-lifecycle-cleanup.js";
 import * as checkpoints from "./checkpoints.js";
 import { appendDecision, readDecisions } from "./decision-log.js";
 import { validateBotCwd } from "./bot-cwd.js";
-import { ATTACHMENTS_DIR, attachmentExists, extensionForMime, FILE_MAX_BYTES, IMAGE_MAX_BYTES, readAttachment, saveFile, saveImage, saveImageUpload, validateAttachmentUploadId, } from "./attachments.js";
+import { ATTACHMENTS_DIR, attachmentExists, cleanupStaleAttachmentPartials, deleteAttachment, extensionForMime, FILE_MAX_BYTES, IMAGE_MAX_BYTES, readAttachment, saveFile, saveImage, saveImageUpload, validateAttachmentUploadId, } from "./attachments.js";
 import { messageFileDisposition, messageFileDownloadName, messageAttachmentName, messageFileRoots, messageImageTargetAt, messageReferencesFile, openMessageFile, } from "./message-file.js";
 import { avatarGenerationRequestSchema, avatarGenerationStateMatches, generateAvatarImage, snapshotAvatarGenerationState, } from "./avatar-image.js";
 import { fitsOnOneLine, parseBotProfilePatch } from "./bot-profile.js";
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ import { chiefOfStaffSystemPrompt } from "./chief-of-staff.js";
 import { peerAllowed, peerName, peerRosterSystemPrompt, reachablePeers, roomPeerRosterSystemPrompt, roomRosterLine } from "./peer-roster.js";
 import { openMausStatusSystemPrompt } from "./openmaus-status-capsule.js";
 import { containerComputerAction, containerComputerExists, containerComputerFrame, containerComputerMcp, containerComputerScreenshot, containerComputerStatus, containerRuntimeStatus, localVmRecreatableOnDemand, perBotLocalVmTarget, SHARED_LOCAL_VM_TARGET, setupCommands, } from "./container-computer.js";
-import { ensureDirs, instanceConfigs, loadConfig, localVmMaxInstances, localVmMode, parseConfigPatch, roomTurnTimeoutMinutes, saveConfig, showToolCallsEnabled, skillRecorderEnabled, builtInBrowserEnabled, browserProfileReplacementConflict, browserProfilePartitionTarget, syncCredentialEnv, withInstanceCli, vpsSshAlias, DATA_DIR, EVENTS_DIR, NATIVE_DIR, customMcpServers, } from "./config.js";
+import { ensureDirs, instanceConfigs, loadConfig, localVmMaxInstances, localVmMode, parseConfigPatch, roomTurnTimeoutMinutes, saveConfig, showToolCallsEnabled, skillRecorderEnabled, builtInBrowserEnabled, browserProfileReplacementConflict, browserProfilePartitionTarget, syncCredentialEnv, withInstanceCli, persistableInstanceConfigs, vpsSshAlias, DATA_DIR, EVENTS_DIR, NATIVE_DIR, customMcpServers, } from "./config.js";
 import { ComputerControl } from "./computer-control.js";
 import { MAX_REMOTE_COMMAND_LENGTH } from "./remote-computer.js";
 import { augmentedPath, findCliCandidates, resetPathCache } from "./env-path.js";
@@ -68,7 +69,8 @@ import { narrateTool, toUtterances } from "./tts/speech-text.js";
 import { buildTurnContext, engineIsFresh } from "./turn-context.js";
 import { extractTurnImages } from "./turn-images.js";
 import { TurnWatchdog } from "./turn-watchdog.js";
-import { ensureWorkspace, listMemoryTopics, isMemoryTopicName, memorySystemPrompt, SESSION_SEARCH_SYSTEM_PROMPT, workspaceDir, } from "./workspace.js";
+import { TurnResources, workspaceResource } from "./turn-resources.js";
+import { ensureWorkspace, ensureTaskWorkspace, updateMemory, listMemoryTopics, isMemoryTopicName, memorySystemPrompt, SESSION_SEARCH_SYSTEM_PROMPT, workspaceDir, } from "./workspace.js";
 import { readMemoryFile, readMemoryTopic, writeMemoryFile, MEMORY_FILE_MAX_BYTES, } from "./workspace.js";
 import { readSectionContext, sectionContextKey, sectionContextLabel, sectionContextSystemPrompt, writeSectionContext, SECTION_CONTEXT_MAX_BYTES, } from "./section-context.js";
 import { applyStagedSkillWrite, getStagedSkillWrite, installSkill, listSkills, listStagedSkillWrites, readSkillFile, rejectStagedSkillWrite, removeSkill, setSkillEnabled, skillsSystemPrompt, stageSkillWrite, } from "./skills.js";
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ import { expandLearnTurnText, learnSource } from "./skill-learn.js";
 import { expandSetupTurnText, setupModeActive, setupSystemPrompt } from "./setup-mode.js";
 import { checkSoulDrift, readSoulDrift, soulFile, writeSoulMirror } from "./bot-folder.js";
 import { buildSystemPrompt, computerPrompt, mentionPrompt, COMPOSIO_PROMPT, CREDENTIAL_PROMPT, LEARN_PROMPT, PROFILE_PROMPT, ROUTINE_PROMPT, WEBHOOK_PROMPT, } from "./system-prompt.js";
-import { readCuaConnection } from "./local-computer.js";
+import { readCuaConnection, gatedLocalComputer } from "./local-computer.js";
 import { discoverExistingPerBotLocalVms, localVmInventoryEntry, shouldArmLocalVmIdle, } from "./local-vm-inventory.js";
 import { LocalVmIdleTimer } from "./local-vm-idle.js";
 import { LocalVmLeasePool } from "./local-vm-lease.js";
@@ -87,7 +89,9 @@ import * as vps from "./vps-computer.js";
 import { RoutineManager } from "./routines.js";
 import { CalendarCallManager } from "./calendar-calls.js";
 import { BUILT_IN_BROWSER_SYSTEM_PROMPT } from "./browser-engine.js";
-import { agentBrowserFrame, agentBrowserIntegration, browserEngineEncryptionKey, clearBrowserSessionState, ensureChrome, installAgentBrowserBinary, resolveAgentBrowserBinary, browserEngineStatus, browserSessionId, describeBrowserEngine, } from "./browser-engine.js";
+import { BrowserRuntime } from "./browser-runtime.js";
+import { BrowserLive } from "./browser-live.js";
+import { agentBrowserFrame, agentBrowserIntegration, browserEngineEncryptionKey, prepareBrowserSessionState, clearBrowserSessionState, ensureChrome, installAgentBrowserBinary, resolveAgentBrowserBinary, browserEngineStatus, browserSessionId, describeBrowserEngine, } from "./browser-engine.js";
 import { createScreenFrameSource } from "./screen-frame-source.js";
 import { screenFrameHash, screenSurfaceForTool, screenTouchingTool, settledFrameIsNews } from "./screen-frame-gate.js";
 import { RoutineRequestService } from "./routine-requests.js";
@@ -117,7 +121,8 @@ import { createGracefulShutdown } from "./graceful-shutdown.js";
 import { acquireDataDirLeaseForProcess } from "./data-dir-lease.js";
 import { describeEdition, editionStatus, loadEnterpriseLayer } from "./enterprise.js";
 import { environmentDescriptor, loadEnvironmentId } from "./environment.js";
-import { createCustomDomainVerifier, normalizeCustomDomain } from "./custom-domain.js";
+import { createCustomDomainVerifier, customDomainIpv4, normalizeCustomDomain } from "./custom-domain.js";
+import { createEmailSignIn, parseAllowList } from "./account-signin.js";
 import { ProviderAuthSessions } from "./provider-auth-sessions.js";
 import { clearSessionCookie, clientBotPatchViolation, clientGroupPatchViolation, labelFromUserAgent, requestOrigin, requestSource, resolveRequestAuth, parseCookies, serializeSessionCookie, sessionCookieName, } from "./request-auth.js";
 import { cookieMaxAgeSeconds, formatPairingCode, SessionRegistry } from "./sessions.js";
@@ -175,6 +180,14 @@ let companionMutationToken = DESKTOP_MANAGED ? "" : undefined;
 const FALLBACK_PUBLIC_URL = process.env.OMB_PUBLIC_URL?.trim().replace(/\/+$/, "") || null;
 const cfg = loadConfig();
 const customDomainVerifier = createCustomDomainVerifier({ environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID });
+// "Sign in with your email" on /pair: the allow-list is read per call so a
+// Settings change or an env bootstrap applies without a restart.
+const emailSignIn = createEmailSignIn({
+    allow: () => {
+        const current = loadConfig().signIn;
+        return { admins: parseAllowList(current?.admins?.join(",")), members: parseAllowList(current?.members?.join(",")) };
+    },
+});
 let customDomainRevision = 0;
 function savedCustomDomain() {
     if (DESKTOP_MANAGED || !cfg.customDomain)
@@ -191,6 +204,7 @@ function customDomainStatus() {
     return {
         customDomain: savedCustomDomain(), publicUrl: publicUrl(), fallbackUrl: FALLBACK_PUBLIC_URL,
         supported: !DESKTOP_MANAGED, appPort: PORT, webhookPort: WEBHOOK_PORT,
+        serverIpv4: DESKTOP_MANAGED ? null : customDomainIpv4(),
     };
 }
 const registry = new ProviderRegistry(BUILT_IN_DRIVERS);
@@ -248,7 +262,7 @@ const browserCleanup = new BrowserCleanupCoordinator({
             ? Promise.all(sessions.map(async (session) => {
                 const ok = await clearBrowserSessionState(status.binaryPath, session, { encryptionKey: browserEngineEncryptionKey() });
                 if (!ok)
-                    console.warn(`browser cleanup: could not clear the engine's saved state for session ${session}; clear it with \`agent-browser --session ${session} state clear --all\``);
+                    console.warn(`browser cleanup: could not clear saved state for session ${session}; restart OpenMausBot to retry this profile's cleanup. Do not use state clear --all: it erases other profiles too.`);
                 return ok;
             }))
             : Promise.resolve([true]);
@@ -430,7 +444,78 @@ function agentsIntegration(botId, threadId, depth, skillAuthoring, generation) {
 class DirectTurnSetupCancelled extends Error {
 }
 const directTurnDispatchClaims = new Map();
-const directTurnGenerationByBot = new Map();
+const directTurnGenerationByThread = new Map();
+// Keep the exact provider/profile settings that own a running conversation.
+// Selecting another thread or changing a default must not retarget its tools.
+const directTurnBots = new Map();
+const MAX_CONCURRENT_BOT_THREADS = 3;
+let providerFleetReloading = false;
+const turnResources = new TurnResources();
+const turnResourceOwners = new Map();
+const turnComputerResources = new Map();
+const settlingResourceOwners = new Map();
+function claimTurnResource(owner, resource) {
+    if (!turnResources.claim(resource, owner))
+        return false;
+    turnResourceOwners.set(owner.threadId, owner);
+    return true;
+}
+function releaseTurnResources(owner) {
+    if (!owner)
+        return;
+    if (settlingResourceOwners.get(owner.threadId) === owner.generation)
+        settlingResourceOwners.delete(owner.threadId);
+    turnResources.release(owner);
+    if (turnResourceOwners.get(owner.threadId)?.generation === owner.generation)
+        turnResourceOwners.delete(owner.threadId);
+    if (turnComputerResources.get(owner.threadId)?.owner.generation === owner.generation)
+        turnComputerResources.delete(owner.threadId);
+}
+function bindTurnComputer(owner, resource, exclusive = false) {
+    if (exclusive && !claimTurnResource(owner, resource)) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("another thread is using this computer — wait for it to finish"), { status: 409, code: "computer_busy" });
+    }
+    turnResourceOwners.set(owner.threadId, owner);
+    turnComputerResources.set(owner.threadId, { owner, resource });
+}
+function botForThread(botId, threadId) {
+    return directTurnBots.get(threadId) ?? store.projectBotForTask(botId, threadId) ?? store.bot(botId);
+}
+function threadBusy(botId, threadId) {
+    return store.taskByThread(botId, threadId)?.busy === true || directTurnDispatchClaims.has(threadId);
+}
+function hasDirectDispatch(botId) {
+    return [...directTurnDispatchClaims.values()].some((claim) => claim.botId === botId);
+}
+function requestedTaskBot(botId, rawThreadId) {
+    const profile = store.bot(botId);
+    if (!profile)
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("no such bot"), { status: 404 });
+    if (rawThreadId !== undefined && (typeof rawThreadId !== "string" || !/^[\w-]+$/.test(rawThreadId))) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("threadId must be a task id"), { status: 400 });
+    }
+    const threadId = typeof rawThreadId === "string" ? rawThreadId : profile.threadId;
+    const task = store.projectBotForTask(botId, threadId);
+    if (!task)
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("no such task"), { status: 404 });
+    return task;
+}
+async function interruptDirectThread(botId, threadId) {
+    const owner = botForThread(botId, threadId);
+    cancelDirectTurnDispatch(botId, threadId);
+    revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(threadId);
+    await (owner ? registry.get(owner.modelSelection.instanceId) : undefined)?.adapter.interruptTurn(threadId);
+    closeOpenApprovals(threadId);
+}
+async function interruptAllDirectThreads(botId) {
+    const threads = store.tasks(botId).filter((task) => task.busy || directTurnDispatchClaims.has(task.threadId));
+    // Revoke every sibling before yielding to any provider teardown.
+    for (const task of threads) {
+        cancelDirectTurnDispatch(botId, task.threadId);
+        revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(task.threadId);
+    }
+    await Promise.all(threads.map((task) => interruptDirectThread(botId, task.threadId)));
+}
 const retiredProviderTurns = new RetiredTurnRegistry();
 const pendingCancelledProviderHandshakes = new PendingTurnCancellations();
 const generatedImagesByTurn = new Map();
@@ -443,10 +528,7 @@ function purgeGeneratedImagesForThread(threadId) {
             continue;
         generatedImagesByTurn.delete(key);
         for (const attachment of attachments) {
-            try {
-                unlinkSync(attachment.path);
-            }
-            catch { }
+            deleteAttachment(attachment.path);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -466,10 +548,7 @@ function retireProviderTurn(turnId) {
             continue;
         generatedImagesByTurn.delete(key);
         for (const attachment of attachments) {
-            try {
-                unlinkSync(attachment.path);
-            }
-            catch { }
+            deleteAttachment(attachment.path);
         }
     }
 }
@@ -483,32 +562,35 @@ function shouldIgnoreProviderEvent(event) {
         return true;
     if (event.type !== "session.exited" || event.turnId !== undefined)
         return false;
-    return store.botByThread(event.threadId)?.busy === true || Boolean(store.groupByThread(event.threadId)?.busyBotId);
+    const bot = store.botByThread(event.threadId);
+    return Boolean(bot && threadBusy(bot.id, event.threadId)) || Boolean(store.groupByThread(event.threadId)?.busyBotId);
 }
 function directTurnClaimIsCurrent(botId, claimId, threadId) {
-    const claim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(botId);
-    const bot = store.bot(botId);
-    return claim?.id === claimId && claim.threadId === threadId && bot?.busy === true;
+    const claim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(threadId);
+    return claim?.id === claimId && claim.botId === botId && store.taskByThread(botId, threadId)?.busy === true;
 }
 function directTurnClaimExists(botId, claimId, threadId) {
-    const claim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(botId);
-    return claim?.id === claimId && claim.threadId === threadId;
+    const claim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(threadId);
+    return claim?.id === claimId && claim.botId === botId;
 }
 function markDirectTurnDispatching(botId, claimId, threadId) {
     if (!directTurnClaimIsCurrent(botId, claimId, threadId))
         return false;
-    directTurnDispatchClaims.set(botId, { id: claimId, threadId, phase: "dispatching" });
+    directTurnDispatchClaims.set(threadId, { id: claimId, botId, threadId, phase: "dispatching" });
     return true;
 }
-function clearDirectTurnDispatch(botId, claimId) {
-    if (directTurnDispatchClaims.get(botId)?.id === claimId)
-        directTurnDispatchClaims.delete(botId);
+function clearDirectTurnDispatch(threadId, claimId) {
+    if (directTurnDispatchClaims.get(threadId)?.id === claimId)
+        directTurnDispatchClaims.delete(threadId);
 }
 function cancelDirectTurnDispatch(botId, expectedThreadId) {
-    const claim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(botId);
-    if (!claim || (expectedThreadId !== undefined && claim.threadId !== expectedThreadId))
+    const threadId = expectedThreadId ?? store.bot(botId)?.threadId;
+    if (!threadId)
+        return null;
+    const claim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(threadId);
+    if (!claim || claim.botId !== botId)
         return null;
-    directTurnDispatchClaims.delete(botId);
+    directTurnDispatchClaims.delete(threadId);
     // Setup has not called the adapter yet, so there is no provider handshake
     // (and no unknown turn id) to quarantine. Dispatching is the only phase in
     // which a late provider event can exist.
@@ -524,7 +606,40 @@ function cancelDirectTurnDispatch(botId, expectedThreadId) {
 /** The bot's browser for this turn: agent-browser, one isolated session per
  * browser profile or per bot (docs/plans/browser-engine.md). Null, with the
  * reason logged once, when the engine is not on this machine. */
-function browserIntegration(botId, profile) {
+const browserRuntime = new BrowserRuntime();
+const browserLive = new BrowserLive({ runtime: browserRuntime });
+// Temporary profiles last for this server run, but are never saved to disk.
+// The viewer and the agent must address the SAME temporary browser.
+const temporaryBrowserSessions = new Map();
+function currentBrowserSession(botId, profile) {
+    if (profile === "guest") {
+        let session = temporaryBrowserSessions.get(botId);
+        if (!session) {
+            session = browserSessionId(botId, "guest");
+            temporaryBrowserSessions.set(botId, session);
+        }
+        return session;
+    }
+    const target = profile ? browserProfilePartitionTarget(cfg, profile) : null;
+    return browserSessionId(botId, target?.partitionId ?? "");
+}
+async function forgetTemporaryBrowser(botId) {
+    const session = temporaryBrowserSessions.get(botId);
+    if (!session)
+        return;
+    temporaryBrowserSessions.delete(botId);
+    const engine = browserEngineStatus();
+    if (engine.kind !== "ready")
+        return;
+    const closed = await clearBrowserSessionState(engine.binaryPath, session, {
+        env: { PATH: augmentedPath() }, encryptionKey: browserEngineEncryptionKey(),
+    });
+    if (closed)
+        await browserRuntime.close(session);
+    else
+        console.warn(`temporary browser ${session}: could not close its session; run agent-browser --session ${session} close on this server`);
+}
+async function browserIntegration(botId, profile, turn) {
     const status = browserEngineStatus();
     if (status.kind !== "ready") {
         if (!engineUnavailableLogged) {
@@ -536,17 +651,29 @@ function browserIntegration(botId, profile) {
     // A profile that no longer exists falls back to the bot's own session.
     const profileTarget = profile && profile !== "guest" ? browserProfilePartitionTarget(cfg, profile) : null;
     const partitionId = profile === "guest" ? "guest" : (profileTarget?.partitionId ?? "");
-    const session = browserSessionId(botId, partitionId);
-    return {
-        profile: partitionId,
-        integration: agentBrowserIntegration({
-            binaryPath: status.binaryPath,
-            session,
-            encryptionKey: browserEngineEncryptionKey(),
-            persistent: profile !== "guest",
-            env: { ...process.env, PATH: augmentedPath() },
-        }),
-    };
+    const session = currentBrowserSession(botId, profile);
+    const spec = agentBrowserIntegration({
+        binaryPath: status.binaryPath,
+        session,
+        encryptionKey: browserEngineEncryptionKey(),
+        persistent: profile !== "guest",
+        env: { ...process.env, PATH: augmentedPath() },
+    });
+    await prepareBrowserSessionState(status.binaryPath, session, { env: spec.env, persistent: profile !== "guest", isCurrent: () => {
+            const current = store.bot(botId);
+            return !!current && current.browser !== false && builtInBrowserEnabled(cfg)
+                && currentBrowserSession(current.id, current.browserProfile) === session
+                && (!turn || activeInternalGenerationByThread.get(turn.threadId) === turn.generation);
+        } });
+    if (!turn)
+        return { profile: partitionId, session, spec, integration: spec };
+    const token = mintInternalCapability({ botId, ...turn, browserSession: session,
+        kind: "browser", depth: 0, skillAuthoring: false, createdBots: 0 });
+    return { profile: partitionId, session, spec, integration: {
+            command: process.execPath, args: [SPAWNED_PROXIES.browser], env: {
+                ...AGENTS_NODE_FLAG, OMB_BROWSER_TOKEN: token, OMB_HARNESS_URL: `http://127.0.0.1:${PORT}`,
+            },
+        } };
 }
 let engineUnavailableLogged = false;
 let browserEngineInstall = null;
@@ -632,11 +759,11 @@ function controlIntegration(botId, threadId, generation, localVmTarget) {
         }),
     };
 }
-function askBotAndWait(targetBotId, message, depth, fromBotId) {
+function askBotAndWait(targetBotId, message, depth, fromBotId, fromThreadId, targetThreadId) {
     const target = store.bot(targetBotId);
     if (!target)
         return Promise.resolve({ status: "error", text: "(no such bot)" });
-    const threadId = target.threadId;
+    const threadId = targetThreadId ?? target.threadId;
     return new Promise((resolve) => {
         let text = "";
         let done = false;
@@ -673,8 +800,9 @@ function askBotAndWait(targetBotId, message, depth, fromBotId) {
         // prefixed to it: the wording is for the model reading this turn, the
         // field is for anything that reads the transcript later.
         const asker = fromBotId ? store.bot(fromBotId) : undefined;
-        const unattended = isUnattended(fromBotId);
+        const unattended = isUnattended(fromBotId, fromThreadId);
         startTurn(targetBotId, message, {
+            threadId,
             commsDepth: depth + 1,
             unattended,
             peerAsk: asker
@@ -718,6 +846,9 @@ function checkedModelSelection(raw, current, requireAvailableModel = false) {
         return { ok: false, status: 409, error: "the bot is working — stop it before changing models" };
     }
     const target = registry.get(selection.instanceId);
+    if (providerInstancesChanging.has(selection.instanceId)) {
+        return { ok: false, status: 409, error: "this provider account is being updated — try again shortly" };
+    }
     // Model IDs remain free-form at the app's general API boundary. Custom
     // engines can accept IDs that are not in their discovery catalog, and
     // several drivers only learn the final catalog when a turn starts. The
@@ -962,14 +1093,14 @@ async function botOverview(bot) {
  * this too, but no provider dispatch or later permission callback relies on
  * persistence having been produced exclusively by that route. Delegation
  * uses the receiving bot's grant, never the sender's — see approvalModeForOrigin. */
-const approvalModeForTurn = (bot, peerInitiated = false) => {
+const approvalModeForTurn = (bot, peerInitiated = false, threadId = bot.threadId) => {
     const mode = approvalModeForOrigin(approvalModeFor(bot), { peerInitiated });
     if (!supportsApprovalMode(registry.cliTarget(bot.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind, mode)) {
         return "ask";
     }
     // Native reviewers can approve before a permission reaches this process.
     // Unattended Auto must therefore downgrade before spawning the provider.
-    if (mode === "auto" && isUnattended(bot.id))
+    if (mode === "auto" && isUnattended(bot.id, threadId))
         return "ask";
     return mode;
 };
@@ -1894,12 +2025,14 @@ const watchdog = new TurnWatchdog({
     stallMs: TURN_STALL_MS,
     checkMs: 60_000,
     onStall: (turn) => {
+        const stalledResourceOwner = turnResourceOwners.get(turn.threadId);
+        const stalledGeneration = directTurnGenerationByThread.get(turn.threadId);
         // Room targets carry an invocation identity; only those claims belong
         // to the room grace cleanup added here.
         const stalledVmTarget = groupSpeakers.has(turn.threadId) ? localVmThreadTargets.get(turn.threadId) : undefined;
         revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(turn.threadId);
         repeats.settle(turn.threadId);
-        const bot = store.bot(turn.botId);
+        const bot = botForThread(turn.botId, turn.threadId);
         const instance = bot ? registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId) : null;
         void instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(turn.threadId).catch(() => { });
         const minutes = Math.round(TURN_STALL_MS / 60_000);
@@ -1916,6 +2049,10 @@ const watchdog = new TurnWatchdog({
         // overlap the process we are stopping. The normal turn.completed fold
         // clears it first when the adapter responds.
         const releaseOwnership = () => {
+            if (stalledGeneration && directTurnGenerationByThread.get(turn.threadId) !== stalledGeneration)
+                return;
+            if (stalledResourceOwner && turnResourceOwners.get(turn.threadId)?.generation !== stalledResourceOwner.generation)
+                return;
             // A goal coordinator can stall before sendTurn reveals its provider
             // turn id. Reusing the room during that ambiguous pre-id window would
             // make old and replacement events indistinguishable. Keep ownership
@@ -1936,10 +2073,15 @@ const watchdog = new TurnWatchdog({
             }
             const currentBot = store.bot(turn.botId);
             if (currentBot?.busy) {
-                stopScreenPoller(currentBot.id);
+                stopScreenPoller(currentBot.id, turn.threadId);
+                releaseTurnResources(stalledResourceOwner);
                 if (activeVpsThreads.get(currentBot.id) === turn.threadId)
                     activeVpsThreads.delete(currentBot.id);
-                store.setActivity(currentBot.id, "idle");
+                if (store.taskByThread(currentBot.id, turn.threadId))
+                    store.setTaskActivity(currentBot.id, turn.threadId, "idle");
+                else
+                    store.setActivity(currentBot.id, "idle");
+                directTurnBots.delete(turn.threadId);
                 retryDelegationsWaitingOn(currentBot.id);
                 // The grace fallback replaces a missing turn.completed event. Release
                 // every kind of work that may have queued behind this bot, including
@@ -2025,16 +2167,7 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
         watchdog.settle(event.threadId);
         revokeInternalCapabilityForProviderEvent(event);
     }
-    else if (event.type === "session.exited") {
-        // A retained provider session can exit after a newer turn reused the same
-        // thread. An unscoped session event must never revoke that newer turn's
-        // capability; its turn completion or watchdog owns release instead.
-        const directBotBusy = store.botByThread(event.threadId)?.busy === true;
-        const roomBusy = Boolean(store.groupByThread(event.threadId)?.busyBotId);
-        if (!directBotBusy && !roomBusy) {
-        }
-    }
-    else
+    else if (event.type !== "session.exited")
         watchdog.touch(event.threadId);
 });
 // Bots currently working with nobody at the keyboard — a webhook turn, or a
@@ -2043,35 +2176,38 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
 // the guard behind auto mode is a pattern list, not a security boundary, and
 // it must not stand in for a human at 3am.
 //
-// Keyed by BOT rather than thread because a bot runs one turn at a time, so
-// the identity is exact, and because the peer-comms paths know who is asking
-// but not always from which thread. Idle marks expire rather than clearing on
+// Keyed by conversation: typing in one thread never makes a sibling webhook
+// run attended. Idle marks expire rather than clearing on
 // turn.completed: bus subscribers fire in registration order, and the
 // delegation drain runs AFTER the main fold — clearing there would blank the
 // flag before the hop that needs to read it. A busy bot never ages out, and a
 // stale mark only ever means "ask a human", so this fails closed.
-const unattendedBots = new Map();
+const unattendedThreads = new Map();
 const UNATTENDED_TTL_MS = 30 * 60_000;
-function markUnattended(botId) {
-    unattendedBots.set(botId, Date.now());
+function markUnattended(botId, threadId) {
+    unattendedThreads.set(threadId, { botId, at: Date.now() });
 }
-function clearUnattended(botId) {
-    unattendedBots.delete(botId);
+function clearUnattended(threadId) {
+    unattendedThreads.delete(threadId);
 }
-function isUnattended(botId) {
+function isUnattended(botId, threadId) {
     if (!botId)
         return false;
-    const at = unattendedBots.get(botId);
-    if (at === undefined)
+    // Legacy peer callers without a thread fail closed if any of the bot's
+    // work is unattended. Capability/event callers always pass the exact id.
+    if (!threadId)
+        return [...unattendedThreads].some(([id, mark]) => mark.botId === botId && isUnattended(botId, id));
+    const mark = unattendedThreads.get(threadId);
+    if (!mark || mark.botId !== botId)
         return false;
     // A long-running turn is still unattended even if its next approval comes
     // more than 30 minutes after the previous one. Only an idle bot may age
     // out; every positive read refreshes the inactivity window.
-    if (Date.now() - at > UNATTENDED_TTL_MS && !store.bot(botId)?.busy) {
-        unattendedBots.delete(botId);
+    if (Date.now() - mark.at > UNATTENDED_TTL_MS && !threadBusy(botId, threadId) && !groupSpeakers.has(threadId)) {
+        unattendedThreads.delete(threadId);
         return false;
     }
-    unattendedBots.set(botId, Date.now());
+    mark.at = Date.now();
     return true;
 }
 // Threads whose turn in flight was started by another BOT — an ask_bot hop,
@@ -2138,7 +2274,7 @@ function managedBoxOwners() {
         // control lease still names its owner. This is deliberately conservative
         // across destination changes: an old Box may still contain valuable state.
         inUse: bot.busy === true ||
-            directTurnDispatchClaims.has(bot.id) ||
+            hasDirectDispatch(bot.id) ||
             activeGroupTurnForBot(bot.id) !== null ||
             Boolean(routines?.activeRunForBot(bot.id)) ||
             activeVpsThreads.has(bot.id) ||
@@ -2148,7 +2284,7 @@ function managedBoxOwners() {
 function botHasActiveTurn(botId) {
     const bot = store.bot(botId);
     return bot?.busy === true ||
-        directTurnDispatchClaims.has(botId) ||
+        hasDirectDispatch(botId) ||
         activeGroupTurnForBot(botId) !== null;
 }
 function providerTransitionMessage(provider) {
@@ -2332,7 +2468,7 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
         localVmLeaseFor(localVmTarget).touch(event.threadId);
         localVmIdleFor(localVmTarget).touch();
     }
-    if (event.type === "turn.completed") {
+    if (event.type === "turn.completed" && !store.botByThread(event.threadId)) {
         releaseLocalVmThread(event.threadId);
     }
     const coordinatorTurnsForThread = groupGoalCoordinatorTurns.get(event.threadId);
@@ -2387,7 +2523,8 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
     if (!privateImageEvent)
         broadcast({ kind: "runtime", event });
     const routineRun = privateImageEvent ? null : (routines?.handleRuntimeEvent(event) ?? null);
-    const bot = store.botByThread(event.threadId);
+    const ownerBot = store.botByThread(event.threadId);
+    const bot = ownerBot ? botForThread(ownerBot.id, event.threadId) ?? undefined : undefined;
     const group = bot ? undefined : store.groupByThread(event.threadId);
     if (!bot && !group)
         return;
@@ -2458,7 +2595,7 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
                 if (bot) {
                     const touches = screenTouchingTool(toolName);
                     if (touches || /computer|screenshot|click|type_text|press_key|scroll|open_url|wait_for|browser_/i.test(toolName)) {
-                        pokeScreenPoller(bot.id, touches, screenSurfaceForTool(toolName));
+                        pokeScreenPoller(event.threadId, touches, screenSurfaceForTool(toolName));
                     }
                 }
             }
@@ -2489,8 +2626,8 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
             // even Full access never invents a person's answer. Safe Auto stops on
             // the guards in auto-approve.ts; explicitly acknowledged Full does not.
             const asker = bot ?? (speaker ? store.bot(speaker.botId) : undefined);
-            const unattended = permission && asker && event.requestId ? isUnattended(asker.id) : false;
-            const effectiveApprovalMode = asker ? approvalModeForTurn(asker, isInternalTurn(event.threadId)) : "ask";
+            const unattended = permission && asker && event.requestId ? isUnattended(asker.id, event.threadId) : false;
+            const effectiveApprovalMode = asker ? approvalModeForTurn(asker, isInternalTurn(event.threadId), event.threadId) : "ask";
             const verdict = permission && asker && event.requestId
                 ? autoVerdict({
                     // Use the same receiving-bot mode as the provider dispatch.
@@ -2685,7 +2822,9 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
                 if (!card || card.answered)
                     return;
                 // the bot is not working now — it is waiting on a person
-                if (asker.busy)
+                if (bot)
+                    store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, event.threadId, "waiting-on-you");
+                else if (asker.busy)
                     store.setActivity(asker.id, "waiting-on-you");
                 notify(buildNotification(permission ? "approval" : "question", asker, (routineRun && routineSourceThread(routineRun)) || event.threadId, event.summary));
             };
@@ -2712,7 +2851,10 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
         case "request.resolved": {
             // answered (by whoever): the turn is working again, unless it settled
             const waiting = bot ?? (speaker ? store.bot(speaker.botId) : undefined);
-            if (waiting?.activity === "waiting-on-you")
+            if (bot && store.taskByThread(bot.id, event.threadId)?.activity === "waiting-on-you") {
+                store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, event.threadId, "working");
+            }
+            else if (!bot && waiting?.activity === "waiting-on-you")
                 store.setActivity(waiting.id, "working");
             const messageId = event.requestId ? askMessageByRequest.get(`${event.threadId}:${event.requestId}`) : null;
             if (messageId) {
@@ -2747,7 +2889,7 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
             // dispatch moves it to working; turn.completed (which follows a setup
             // failure) is told to leave "dead" alone.
             if (event.setup && bot)
-                store.setActivity(bot.id, "dead");
+                store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, event.threadId, "dead");
             break;
         case "thread.token-usage.updated":
             // running totals for the turn in flight; folded into the task's
@@ -2795,10 +2937,36 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
             // tally is not the right home for a shared room's spend, so only
             // 1:1 task turns are tallied for now.
             if (bot) {
-                const vpsTurn = activeVpsThreads.get(bot.id) === event.threadId;
-                const clearVpsTurn = () => {
-                    if (activeVpsThreads.get(bot.id) === event.threadId)
-                        activeVpsThreads.delete(bot.id);
+                const resourceOwner = turnResourceOwners.get(event.threadId);
+                const generation = directTurnGenerationByThread.get(event.threadId);
+                const isCurrent = () => directTurnGenerationByThread.get(event.threadId) === generation &&
+                    Boolean(store.taskByThread(bot.id, event.threadId));
+                const settleDirectTurn = (resumeQueued = false) => {
+                    // Resource claims can outlive a deleted thread, but a stale capture
+                    // must never release a replacement generation's VM or busy state.
+                    const ownsResources = resourceOwner &&
+                        turnResourceOwners.get(event.threadId)?.generation === resourceOwner.generation;
+                    if (ownsResources) {
+                        if (activeVpsThreads.get(bot.id) === event.threadId)
+                            activeVpsThreads.delete(bot.id);
+                        releaseLocalVmThread(event.threadId);
+                    }
+                    releaseTurnResources(resourceOwner);
+                    if (!isCurrent())
+                        return;
+                    if (store.taskByThread(bot.id, event.threadId)?.activity !== "dead") {
+                        store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, event.threadId, "idle");
+                    }
+                    directTurnBots.delete(event.threadId);
+                    // Ordinary completion still drains from the existing bus subscribers.
+                    // An asynchronous screenshot finishes after those subscribers ran.
+                    if (resumeQueued) {
+                        retryDelegationsWaitingOn(bot.id);
+                        drainQueuedSends();
+                        drainConnectorResumes();
+                        drainSecretResumes();
+                        drainDelegationWakes();
+                    }
                 };
                 // bank what this turn spent before the bot broadcast carries the
                 // task list to every window. The driver's own per-turn figure
@@ -2811,9 +2979,6 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
                     cachedInput: tokens?.cachedInput,
                     costUsd: event.cost ?? null,
                 });
-                // settled → idle; a setup failure already marked it dead, keep that
-                if (store.bot(bot.id)?.activity !== "dead")
-                    store.setActivity(bot.id, "idle");
                 const routineReportThread = routineRun ? routineSourceThread(routineRun) : null;
                 const routineReportGroup = routineReportThread ? store.groupByThread(routineReportThread) : undefined;
                 // Group-origin routines belong to that channel's unread state. Their
@@ -2822,7 +2987,7 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
                 // pair channel and chipped into both threads, which is the whole of
                 // what the person needs to be able to find it.
                 if (!routineReportGroup && !internal)
-                    store.patchBot(bot.id, { unread: true });
+                    store.patchTask(bot.id, event.threadId, { unread: true });
                 // A failed peer turn stays a chip too. The bot that delegated is woken
                 // with the failure and answers the person in its own thread — buzzing
                 // here as well would ring twice for one piece of news.
@@ -2834,36 +2999,39 @@ bus.subscribe((event) => {
                         : reply;
                     notify(buildNotification("done", bot, routineReportThread ?? event.threadId, completionDetail, { avatarUrl: bot.avatarUrl }));
                 }
-                if (screenPollers.has(bot.id)) {
+                if (screenPollers.has(event.threadId)) {
+                    if (resourceOwner)
+                        settlingResourceOwners.set(resourceOwner.threadId, resourceOwner.generation);
                     // the last live frame becomes a settled inline screen message —
                     // the screenshot-in-chat moment. One fresh capture first, so the
                     // frame shows the turn's END state (the final tool's poke may
                     // still be in flight).
                     //
-                    // The capture is slow (a real screenshot round trip) and the bot
-                    // is already idle, so a fast follow-up send or the steer-queue
-                    // drain can land BEFORE the frame does. Anchor the frame to the
-                    // turn's actual last message now, and chain-insert it there when
-                    // it arrives — otherwise the user's next message ends up stranded
-                    // above the screenshot (the browser-mode ordering bug).
+                    // Keep the thread busy until its bounded final capture releases
+                    // the screen AND workspace. Otherwise an accepted follow-up races
+                    // these claims and fails as though another thread owned its folder.
                     const settleLeafId = store.activePath(event.threadId).at(-1)?.id;
-                    void finalScreenFrame(bot.id, event.threadId).then((frame) => {
-                        // the bot may have been deleted while the capture ran
-                        if (frame && store.bot(bot.id)) {
-                            if (group)
-                                pushMessage({ role: "bot", kind: "screen", png: frame.png, mime: frame.mime });
-                            else
-                                store.insertMessageAfter(event.threadId, settleLeafId, { role: "bot", kind: "screen", png: frame.png, mime: frame.mime });
+                    let timeout;
+                    void Promise.race([
+                        finalScreenFrame(bot.id, event.threadId),
+                        new Promise((resolve) => { timeout = setTimeout(() => resolve(null), SCREEN_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS); }),
+                    ]).then((frame) => {
+                        if (frame && isCurrent()) {
+                            store.insertMessageAfter(event.threadId, settleLeafId, { role: "bot", kind: "screen", png: frame.png, mime: frame.mime });
                         }
-                    }).finally(clearVpsTurn);
+                    }).catch(() => { }).finally(() => {
+                        clearTimeout(timeout);
+                        settleDirectTurn(true);
+                    });
                 }
-                else if (vpsTurn) {
-                    clearVpsTurn();
+                else {
+                    settleDirectTurn();
                 }
             }
             const speaker = groupSpeakers.get(event.threadId);
             const group = store.groupByThread(event.threadId);
             if (speaker && group?.busyBotId === speaker.botId) {
+                releaseTurnResources(turnResourceOwners.get(event.threadId));
                 groupSpeakers.delete(event.threadId);
                 store.patchGroup(group.id, { busyBotId: null, unread: true });
                 const speakingBot = store.bot(speaker.botId);
@@ -2897,16 +3065,20 @@ const delegationWatch = new Map();
 const delegationWakeBudget = new DelegationWakeBudget();
 const pendingDelegationWakes = new Map();
 function dispatchDelegationWake(botId, threadId, targetName, failureReason) {
+    if (!store.taskByThread(botId, threadId))
+        return;
     const prompt = failureReason
         ? buildDelegationFailurePrompt(targetName, failureReason)
         : buildDelegationRevivalPrompt(targetName);
     void startTurn(botId, prompt, {
         threadId,
         cardContinuation: true,
-        unattended: isUnattended(botId),
+        unattended: isUnattended(botId, threadId),
     })
         .then(() => undefined)
         .catch((error) => {
+        if (!store.taskByThread(botId, threadId))
+            return;
         const message = error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
         // Raced with a user turn claiming the bot — retry once it settles.
         if (/already working/i.test(message)) {
@@ -2924,11 +3096,13 @@ function dispatchDelegationWake(botId, threadId, targetName, failureReason) {
     });
 }
 function wakeDelegationSource(source, threadId, targetName, failureReason) {
+    if (!store.taskByThread(source.id, threadId))
+        return;
     // Busy? Hold the wake until the source settles, then drain it — the
     // delegated reply is already in the thread, so nothing is lost, and the
     // source processes it the moment it is free rather than only on a later
     // user nudge.
-    if (store.bot(source.id)?.busy) {
+    if (threadBusy(source.id, threadId) || activeGroupTurnForBot(source.id)) {
         pendingDelegationWakes.set(threadId, { botId: source.id, targetName, failureReason });
         return;
     }
@@ -2938,7 +3112,11 @@ function wakeDelegationSource(source, threadId, targetName, failureReason) {
 }
 function drainDelegationWakes() {
     for (const [threadId, entry] of pendingDelegationWakes) {
-        if (store.bot(entry.botId)?.busy)
+        if (!store.taskByThread(entry.botId, threadId)) {
+            pendingDelegationWakes.delete(threadId);
+            continue;
+        }
+        if (threadBusy(entry.botId, threadId) || activeGroupTurnForBot(entry.botId))
             continue;
         pendingDelegationWakes.delete(threadId);
         if (!delegationWakeBudget.tryAcquire(threadId))
@@ -2961,14 +3139,11 @@ function markTaskContextExternallyUpdated(bot, threadId) {
     const task = store.taskByThread(bot.id, threadId);
     if (!task)
         return;
-    task.resumeCursors = {};
-    task.lastInstanceId = `${EXTERNAL_CONTEXT_MARKER_PREFIX}${randomUUID()}`;
-    // patchBot persists the task mutation and broadcasts unread/context state.
-    // The legacy cursor mirror follows only the task currently open in chat.
-    const patch = { unread: true };
-    if (bot.threadId === threadId)
-        patch.resumeCursors = {};
-    store.patchBot(bot.id, patch);
+    store.patchTask(bot.id, threadId, {
+        resumeCursors: {},
+        lastInstanceId: `${EXTERNAL_CONTEXT_MARKER_PREFIX}${randomUUID()}`,
+        unread: true,
+    });
 }
 /** Consume one delegated-turn watch and mirror exactly one terminal state.
  * Some harness paths settle a busy bot without a provider turn.completed
@@ -3049,7 +3224,7 @@ function finalizeDelegationWatch(threadId, ok, reply = "", failureName = "Delega
             // The delegated result is already in the shared transcript; a group
             // continuation is the responsibility of the room's own turn engine.
         }
-        else {
+        else if (store.taskByThread(source.id, watched.sourceThreadId)) {
             // 1:1 source: the source thread is the delegating bot's own task.
             if (ok && reply.trim()) {
                 const sourceReply = {
@@ -3179,8 +3354,9 @@ const runDelegatedTurn = (toBotId, text, commsDepth, sourceThreadId, channel, ta
         });
     };
     return startTurn(toBotId, text, {
+        threadId: targetThreadId,
         commsDepth,
-        unattended: isUnattended(sourceBotId),
+        unattended: isUnattended(sourceBotId, sourceThreadId),
         // startTurn schedules provider/integration setup after marking the bot
         // busy. Those asynchronous setup failures do not emit turn.completed,
         // so clear the watch and report them through this callback too.
@@ -3262,7 +3438,10 @@ function drainQueuedSends() {
                 ok: false,
             },
         });
-    }));
+    }), 
+    // Provider completion can precede its dispatch promise: keep the queue
+    // intact until that exact handshake releases its runtime-only claim.
+    (botId, threadId) => threadBusy(botId, threadId) || Boolean(activeGroupTurnForBot(botId)));
 }
 const screenPollers = new Map();
 /** The preview shares the box's single command endpoint with the agent's
@@ -3271,38 +3450,56 @@ const screenPollers = new Map();
  * and never two in flight. */
 const SCREEN_POLL_MS = 6000;
 const SCREEN_MIN_GAP_MS = 3000;
+const SCREEN_SETTLE_TIMEOUT_MS = 10_000;
 /** `screenIsTheWork` starts the turn already counting as screen usage: a
  * boxAgent's whole session runs ON the box, so every tool it calls acts on
  * that screen even though none of them is named like a computer tool. Its
  * shell-only turns are kept honest by the settle-time hash gate instead. */
-function startScreenPoller(botId, captures, { screenIsTheWork = false } = {}) {
+function startScreenPoller(botId, threadId, captures, { screenIsTheWork = false } = {}) {
     if (!captures.computer && !captures.browser)
         return;
-    if (screenPollers.has(botId))
+    if (screenPollers.has(threadId))
         return;
+    const owner = turnResourceOwners.get(threadId);
+    const computer = turnComputerResources.get(threadId);
+    const browserSession = currentBrowserSession(botId, botForThread(botId, threadId)?.browserProfile);
+    const guarded = (capture, resource) => capture && owner && resource ? async () => {
+        const isCurrent = () => turnResourceOwners.get(threadId)?.generation === owner.generation &&
+            turnResources.owns(resource, owner) && Boolean(store.taskByThread(botId, threadId) || store.groupByThread(threadId));
+        if (!isCurrent())
+            throw new Error("this thread does not own that screen");
+        const frame = await capture();
+        if (!isCurrent())
+            throw new Error("this thread no longer owns that screen");
+        return frame;
+    } : undefined;
     // Assign rather than spread: the source's last-frame getter deliberately
     // hides a stale frame as soon as the selected surface changes.
     const entry = Object.assign(createScreenFrameSource({
-        captures,
+        captures: {
+            computer: guarded(captures.computer, computer?.resource),
+            browser: guarded(captures.browser, browserSession ? `browser:${browserSession}` : undefined),
+        },
         control: () => ({
             held: computerControl.snapshot(botId).held,
             revision: computerControlRevision.get(botId) ?? 0,
         }),
-        onFrame: (frame) => broadcast({ kind: "screen", botId, ...frame }),
+        onFrame: (frame) => broadcast({ kind: "screen", botId, threadId, ...frame }),
         minGapMs: SCREEN_MIN_GAP_MS,
     }), {
         timer: null,
+        botId,
         touched: screenIsTheWork,
     });
     entry.timer = setInterval(() => void entry.capture(), SCREEN_POLL_MS);
-    screenPollers.set(botId, entry);
+    screenPollers.set(threadId, entry);
 }
 /** Event-driven refresh: capture NOW (the bot just acted on its screen)
  * instead of waiting for the next interval tick. Rate-limited inside
  * capture() — a tool-heavy turn used to fire one full REST chain per
  * completed tool, competing with the agent for the same endpoint. */
-function pokeScreenPoller(botId, touches, surface) {
-    const entry = screenPollers.get(botId);
+function pokeScreenPoller(threadId, touches, surface) {
+    const entry = screenPollers.get(threadId);
     if (!entry)
         return;
     // the same signal, read twice: a completed computer tool is both the
@@ -3321,13 +3518,14 @@ function pokeScreenPoller(botId, touches, surface) {
         entry.surface = surface;
     void entry.capture();
 }
-function stopScreenPoller(botId) {
-    const entry = screenPollers.get(botId);
-    if (!entry)
-        return;
-    if (entry.timer)
-        clearInterval(entry.timer);
-    screenPollers.delete(botId);
+function stopScreenPoller(botId, threadId) {
+    for (const [id, entry] of screenPollers) {
+        if (entry.botId !== botId || (threadId && id !== threadId))
+            continue;
+        if (entry.timer)
+            clearInterval(entry.timer);
+        screenPollers.delete(id);
+    }
 }
 /** sha256 of the frame each bot last settled into a transcript — the
  * comparison the hash gate needs is "this turn's end state against what
@@ -3336,8 +3534,8 @@ function stopScreenPoller(botId) {
  * newest screen message so a restart does not re-picture the same idle
  * desktop either. */
 const settledScreenHashes = new Map();
-function shownScreenHash(botId, threadId) {
-    const known = settledScreenHashes.get(botId);
+function shownScreenHash(threadId) {
+    const known = settledScreenHashes.get(threadId);
     if (known)
         return known;
     const shown = store.messagesFor(threadId).findLast((m) => m.kind === "screen" && Boolean(m.png));
@@ -3352,33 +3550,43 @@ function shownScreenHash(botId, threadId) {
  * screen work, so without this its shell-only replies would all end in the
  * same idle desktop. Either way the poller is torn down here, so no
  * per-turn state survives the turn. */
-async function finalScreenFrame(botId, threadId) {
-    const entry = screenPollers.get(botId);
+async function finalScreenFrame(_botId, threadId) {
+    const entry = screenPollers.get(threadId);
+    const owner = turnResourceOwners.get(threadId);
     if (!entry)
         return null;
     if (entry.timer)
         clearInterval(entry.timer);
-    screenPollers.delete(botId);
+    screenPollers.delete(threadId);
     if (!entry.touched)
         return null;
     await entry.capture(true);
+    if (!owner || turnResourceOwners.get(threadId)?.generation !== owner.generation ||
+        !store.taskByThread(_botId, threadId))
+        return null;
     const frame = entry.last;
-    if (!frame || !settledFrameIsNews(shownScreenHash(botId, threadId), frame.png))
+    if (!frame || !settledFrameIsNews(shownScreenHash(threadId), frame.png))
         return null;
-    settledScreenHashes.set(botId, screenFrameHash(frame.png));
+    settledScreenHashes.set(threadId, screenFrameHash(frame.png));
     return frame;
 }
 // ── turn dispatch (upstream ProviderCommandReactor, miniature) ──────────
 async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
-    const bot = store.bot(botId);
-    if (!bot)
+    const profile = store.bot(botId);
+    if (!profile)
         throw Object.assign(new Error("no such bot"), { status: 404 });
+    const threadId = opts?.threadId ?? profile.threadId;
+    const bot = store.projectBotForTask(botId, threadId);
+    if (!bot)
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("no such task"), { status: 404 });
     if (bot.approvalGrant) {
         throw Object.assign(new Error("this bot's approval level is still being confirmed — try again"), { status: 409 });
     }
     const transitionError = providerTransitionForTurn(bot, opts?.runOn);
     if (transitionError)
         throw Object.assign(new Error(transitionError), { status: 409 });
+    if (providerFleetReloading)
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("provider settings are being updated — try again shortly"), { status: 409 });
     if (checkpointRestoreLeases.has(botId)) {
         throw Object.assign(new Error("this bot's project files are being restored — wait for the restore to finish"), {
             status: 409,
@@ -3387,19 +3595,24 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
     if (boxLifecycleBusyBots.has(botId)) {
         throw Object.assign(new Error("this bot's cloud computer is being changed — wait for it to finish"), { status: 409 });
     }
-    if (bot.busy)
-        throw Object.assign(new Error("the bot is already working — interrupt it first"), { status: 409 });
-    const threadId = opts?.threadId ?? bot.threadId;
+    if (threadBusy(botId, threadId))
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("this thread is already working — interrupt it first"), { status: 409, code: "thread_busy" });
+    if (activeGroupTurnForBot(botId)) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("the bot is already working in a channel — wait for it to finish"), { status: 409, code: "thread_busy" });
+    }
+    if (store.tasks(botId).filter((task) => task.busy).length >= MAX_CONCURRENT_BOT_THREADS) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("this bot is already working on three threads — wait for one to finish"), { status: 409, code: "thread_limit" });
+    }
     // Retire anything a previous turn left behind before minting this turn's
     // integrations. Completion and interrupt paths do the same; this is the
     // final backstop against a retained proxy process.
     revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(threadId);
     // a webhook turn, or one inherited from a bot already running unattended
     if (opts?.automationSource === "webhook" || opts?.unattended)
-        markUnattended(bot.id);
+        markUnattended(bot.id, threadId);
     // a person typing into this bot ends the unattended window immediately
     else if (opts?.automationSource === undefined && !opts?.commsDepth && !opts?.cardContinuation) {
-        clearUnattended(bot.id);
+        clearUnattended(threadId);
         delegationWakeBudget.reset(threadId);
     }
     const task = store.taskByThread(bot.id, threadId);
@@ -3434,6 +3647,9 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
     }
     console.error(`[omb-turn] bot=${botId} text=${JSON.stringify(resolvedImages.text.slice(0, 70))} images=${turnImages.length} depth=${commsDepth} card=${Boolean(opts?.cardContinuation)}`);
     const instanceId = instance.instanceId;
+    if (providerInstancesChanging.has(instanceId)) {
+        throw Object.assign(new Error("this provider account is being updated — try again shortly"), { status: 409 });
+    }
     const model = opts?.runOn === "cloud" ? instance.models.default : bot.modelSelection.model;
     // a cloud routine borrows the instance default model, so it borrows no
     // per-bot effort either
@@ -3445,6 +3661,13 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
     }
     // an edit hands us its already-branched user message; a plain send appends
     let userMessage = opts?.userMessage;
+    if (opts?.editedMessageId) {
+        const edited = store.branchMessage(threadId, opts.editedMessageId, text);
+        if (!edited)
+            throw Object.assign(new Error("only a user text message can be edited"), { status: 400 });
+        store.patchTask(bot.id, threadId, { rewound: true });
+        userMessage = edited;
+    }
     if (!userMessage) {
         userMessage = opts?.cardContinuation
             ? { id: `card-${randomUUID()}`, at: Date.now(), role: "user", kind: "text", text }
@@ -3488,7 +3711,7 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
     // inline (transcript-replay drivers get it via transcript). The flag is
     // cleared only once the turn is actually dispatched — clearing it here
     // would cost the next attempt its history if this dispatch fails.
-    const rewound = threadId === bot.threadId && Boolean(bot.rewound);
+    const rewound = Boolean(task.rewound);
     // A fresh engine — the user switched this bot's model mid-thread — has no
     // current session here either, so it gets the same replay. Distinct from
     // rewound: the OTHER instances' cursors are left alone (a rewind wipes
@@ -3544,16 +3767,19 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
     // in the background — box provisioning can take ~90s and must never
     // hang the HTTP request
     const dispatchClaimId = randomUUID();
-    directTurnGenerationByBot.set(bot.id, dispatchClaimId);
-    directTurnDispatchClaims.set(bot.id, { id: dispatchClaimId, threadId, phase: "setup" });
+    const resourceOwner = { threadId, generation: dispatchClaimId };
+    turnResourceOwners.set(threadId, resourceOwner);
+    directTurnGenerationByThread.set(threadId, dispatchClaimId);
+    directTurnDispatchClaims.set(threadId, { id: dispatchClaimId, botId, threadId, phase: "setup" });
+    directTurnBots.set(threadId, bot);
     beginInternalCapabilityGeneration(threadId, dispatchClaimId);
-    store.setActivity(bot.id, "working");
+    store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, threadId, "working");
     // The badge is "this bot answered you, and you have not looked yet". A
     // person starting a turn has looked; a teammate's hop has not — the fold
     // never re-marks an internal turn, so clearing here would silently spend
     // a signal the person still owes a glance to.
     if (commsDepth === 0)
-        store.patchBot(bot.id, { unread: false });
+        store.patchTask(bot.id, threadId, { unread: false });
     turnUsage.delete(threadId);
     void (async () => {
         try {
@@ -3564,6 +3790,8 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 ...(skillAuthoring ? ["skillAuthoring"] : []),
             ], availableSkills());
             if (selectedSkills.some((skill) => skill.manifest.requiredCapabilities.includes("phoneMcp"))) {
+                if (!claimTurnResource(resourceOwner, "computer:phone"))
+                    throw new Error("another thread is using the phone — wait for it to finish");
                 integrations.phone = phoneIntegration();
             }
             // the user's connected apps, but only to a driver that can mount
@@ -3588,7 +3816,9 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
             // desk, not the whole house — and the workspace is where its
             // MEMORY.md lives. API/box engines have no local filesystem story.
             const worksInWorkspace = instance.driverKind !== "grok" && instance.driverKind !== "boxAgent";
-            const privateWorkspace = worksInWorkspace ? ensureWorkspace(bot.id) : undefined;
+            if (worksInWorkspace)
+                ensureWorkspace(bot.id);
+            const privateWorkspace = worksInWorkspace ? ensureTaskWorkspace(bot.id, threadId) : undefined;
             const skillInstructions = renderSkillInstructions(selectedSkills, {
                 includeRoot: worksInWorkspace && opts?.runOn !== "cloud",
             });
@@ -3606,6 +3836,9 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 ? store.pinTaskCwd(bot.id, threadId, privateWorkspace)
                 : null;
             const cwd = pinnedCwd ?? undefined;
+            if (cwd && !claimTurnResource(resourceOwner, workspaceResource(cwd))) {
+                throw Object.assign(new Error("another thread is working in this project folder — wait for it to finish or choose a separate folder"), { status: 409, code: "workspace_busy" });
+            }
             // Checkpoint explicit project folders, where a bot can overwrite the
             // user's work. Its private OpenMaus workspace is app-owned and changes
             // on nearly every ordinary chat; snapshotting it would add hidden disk
@@ -3649,6 +3882,7 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                     throw new Error("this model engine cannot use the Local VM — choose Claude or an ACP engine, or select another computer destination");
                 }
                 const localVmTarget = localVmTargetForBot(bot.id);
+                bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, `computer:vm:${localVmTarget.key}`, true);
                 if (localVmImageBusy || localVmModeChangeBusy || localVmLifecycleBusy.has(localVmTarget.key)) {
                     throw new Error("this Local VM is being started, stopped, or replaced — wait for setup to finish");
                 }
@@ -3696,7 +3930,8 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 const cua = readCuaConnection();
                 if (!cua)
                     throw new Error("CUA Driver is not ready for this computer — check permissions and restart OpenMausBot");
-                integrations.localComputer = cua;
+                bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, "computer:host");
+                integrations.localComputer = gatedLocalComputer(cua, controlIntegration(bot.id, threadId, dispatchClaimId));
                 computerKind = "local";
             }
             // A VPS is a local-agent computer mount, never a remote agent runner.
@@ -3709,6 +3944,9 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 if (unsupported && wants === undefined)
                     autoVpsProblem = unsupported;
                 if (!unsupported) {
+                    // The remote lifecycle and container are shared by this bot. Keep
+                    // its explicit computer turns serialized; ordinary threads still run.
+                    bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, `computer:vps:${vpsSshAlias(cfg)}:${bot.id}`, true);
                     activeVpsThreads.set(bot.id, threadId);
                     const remote = wants === "cloud" || bot.autoStartVps
                         ? await vps.vpsComputerAction("provision", cfg, bot.id)
@@ -3736,6 +3974,10 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
             // Cloud is also strict when explicitly selected. Auto (unset) reuses an
             // existing cloud box, then falls back to host CUA without provisioning.
             if ((wants === "cloud" || wants === undefined) && cloudBackend === "box" && box.boxConfigured(cfg)) {
+                // Explicit cloud turns can provision/wake the same bot's Box. Claim
+                // before any network await so setup itself cannot race another turn.
+                if (wants === "cloud")
+                    bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, `computer:box-bot:${bot.id}`, true);
                 if (!mountsCloudComputer && wants === "cloud") {
                     throw new Error("this model engine cannot use computer tools — choose Claude, an ACP engine, or the Computer engine");
                 }
@@ -3769,6 +4011,7 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                     });
                 }
                 if (b && lifecycle === "attach") {
+                    bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, `computer:box:${b.id}`, instance.driverKind === "boxAgent");
                     previewCapture = () => box.screenshotBox(cfg, bot.id, b.id);
                     if (mountsCloudComputer) {
                         integrations.computer = {
@@ -3799,7 +4042,8 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 })) {
                 const cua = readCuaConnection();
                 if (cua) {
-                    integrations.localComputer = cua;
+                    bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, "computer:host");
+                    integrations.localComputer = gatedLocalComputer(cua, controlIntegration(bot.id, threadId, dispatchClaimId));
                     computerKind = "local";
                 }
             }
@@ -3877,7 +4121,7 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 liveBot.browser !== false &&
                 instance.adapter.capabilities.browserMcp === true) {
                 const selectedProfile = liveBot.browserProfile;
-                browser = browserIntegration(bot.id, selectedProfile);
+                browser = await browserIntegration(bot.id, selectedProfile, { threadId, generation: dispatchClaimId });
                 if (browser)
                     integrations.browser = browser.integration;
                 // The browser lost its frame source when the Electron surface was
@@ -3887,8 +4131,9 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 // the work was a web page, because agent-browser runs its own headless
                 // Chrome on the host rather than inside that desktop.
                 if (browser) {
-                    const frame = { binaryPath: browser.integration.command, env: browser.integration.env };
-                    browserCapture = () => agentBrowserFrame(frame);
+                    const frame = { binaryPath: browser.spec.command, env: browser.spec.env };
+                    const session = browser.session;
+                    browserCapture = () => browserRuntime.withAgentAction(session, () => agentBrowserFrame(frame));
                 }
             }
             // A cancelled adapter can be between accepting sendTurn and revealing
@@ -3927,7 +4172,7 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 { id: "profile", label: "Profile changes", text: profilePrompt },
                 { id: "learn", label: "Skill authoring", text: learnPrompt },
                 { id: "section-context", label: "Section context", text: sectionContextSystemPrompt(bot.section) },
-                { id: "memory", label: "Memory", text: privateWorkspace ? memorySystemPrompt(bot.id) : "" },
+                { id: "memory", label: "Memory", text: privateWorkspace ? memorySystemPrompt(bot.id, { managedWrites: Boolean(integrations.agents) }) : "" },
                 { id: "skills", label: "Skills index", text: privateWorkspace ? skillsSystemPrompt(bot.id) : "" },
                 { id: "skill-instructions", label: "Skill instructions", text: skillInstructions },
                 { id: "playbooks", label: "Playbooks", text: packagePlaybooks },
@@ -3938,7 +4183,7 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 threadId,
                 text: turnText,
                 images: turnImages,
-                approvalMode: approvalModeForTurn(liveBot ?? bot, commsDepth > 0),
+                approvalMode: approvalModeForTurn(bot, commsDepth > 0),
                 model,
                 effort,
                 // a rewound thread never resumes the abandoned branch's session
@@ -3957,10 +4202,10 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
                 throw new DirectTurnSetupCancelled("turn stopped during provider setup");
             }
             bindInternalCapabilityToProviderTurn(threadId, dispatchClaimId, dispatch.value.turnId);
-            clearDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id, dispatchClaimId);
+            clearDirectTurnDispatch(threadId, dispatchClaimId);
             // dispatched: the rewind is spent, and the old cursors are dead
             if (rewound)
-                store.patchBot(bot.id, { rewound: false, resumeCursors: {} });
+                store.patchTask(bot.id, threadId, { rewound: false, resumeCursors: {} });
             // and this engine now owns the thread's most recent turn
             // Consume exactly the external-update generation this turn replayed.
             // If a newer delegated result landed during setup, its unique marker
@@ -3972,21 +4217,29 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
             // after its own turn.completed would never be torn down — it would
             // keep polling the box forever, carrying dead per-turn state. busy
             // is flipped false in the fold, so it is the honest "still running".
-            if ((previewCapture || browserCapture) && store.bot(bot.id)?.busy) {
-                startScreenPoller(bot.id, { ...(previewCapture ? { computer: previewCapture } : {}), ...(browserCapture ? { browser: browserCapture } : {}) }, { screenIsTheWork: instance.driverKind === "boxAgent" });
+            if ((previewCapture || browserCapture) && threadBusy(bot.id, threadId)) {
+                startScreenPoller(bot.id, threadId, { ...(previewCapture ? { computer: previewCapture } : {}), ...(browserCapture ? { browser: browserCapture } : {}) }, { screenIsTheWork: instance.driverKind === "boxAgent" });
             }
             // An adapter may publish completion synchronously just before its
             // dispatch promise resolves. The event could not use the turn-id map
             // above yet, so close this exact generation from durable busy state.
-            if (store.bot(bot.id)?.busy !== true) {
+            if (!threadBusy(bot.id, threadId) && directTurnGenerationByThread.get(threadId) === dispatchClaimId) {
                 revokeInternalCapabilityGeneration(threadId, dispatchClaimId);
+                if (settlingResourceOwners.get(threadId) !== dispatchClaimId)
+                    releaseTurnResources(resourceOwner);
+                retryDelegationsWaitingOn(bot.id);
+                drainQueuedSends();
+                drainConnectorResumes();
+                drainSecretResumes();
+                drainDelegationWakes();
             }
         }
         catch (e) {
             clearCancelledProviderHandshake(threadId, `direct:${dispatchClaimId}`);
-            clearDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id, dispatchClaimId);
+            clearDirectTurnDispatch(threadId, dispatchClaimId);
             revokeInternalCapabilityGeneration(threadId, dispatchClaimId);
-            const ownsLatestGeneration = directTurnGenerationByBot.get(bot.id) === dispatchClaimId;
+            const ownsLatestGeneration = directTurnGenerationByThread.get(threadId) === dispatchClaimId;
+            releaseTurnResources(resourceOwner);
             if (ownsLatestGeneration) {
                 releaseLocalVmThread(threadId);
                 if (activeVpsThreads.get(bot.id) === threadId)
@@ -3996,8 +4249,9 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
             }
             if (e instanceof DirectTurnSetupCancelled) {
                 opts?.onDispatchError?.(e.message);
-                if (ownsLatestGeneration && store.bot(bot.id)?.busy) {
-                    store.setActivity(bot.id, "idle");
+                if (ownsLatestGeneration && threadBusy(bot.id, threadId)) {
+                    store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, threadId, "idle");
+                    directTurnBots.delete(threadId);
                     retryDelegationsWaitingOn(bot.id);
                 }
                 if (ownsLatestGeneration) {
@@ -4029,7 +4283,8 @@ async function startTurn(botId, text, opts) {
             if (opts?.automationSource === undefined && !opts?.commsDepth && !opts?.cardContinuation) {
                 notify(buildNotification("turn-failed", bot, threadId, redactSecretsInText(message), { avatarUrl: bot.avatarUrl }));
             }
-            store.setActivity(bot.id, "idle");
+            store.setTaskActivity(bot.id, threadId, "idle");
+            directTurnBots.delete(threadId);
             retryDelegationsWaitingOn(bot.id);
             opts?.onDispatchError?.(message);
             // a dispatch failure never emits turn.completed, so the settle-driven
@@ -4140,7 +4395,7 @@ function syncRoutineRunToSource(run) {
         if (source.group)
             store.patchGroup(source.group.id, { unread: true });
         else
-            store.patchBot(source.bot.id, { unread: true });
+            store.patchTask(source.bot.id, sourceThreadId, { unread: true });
     }
     return sourceThreadId;
 }
@@ -4162,6 +4417,12 @@ async function stopBotForEmergencyApprovalDowngrade(botId) {
     const bot = store.bot(botId);
     if (!bot)
         return;
+    for (const task of store.tasks(botId)) {
+        if (task.approvalMode === "full" || task.approvalMode === "custom") {
+            store.patchTask(botId, task.threadId, { approvalMode: "ask", autoApprove: false, alwaysAllow: [] });
+        }
+    }
+    const directStop = interruptAllDirectThreads(botId);
     const routineRun = routines?.activeBotRunForBot(bot.id);
     if (routineRun) {
         if (routineRun.threadId)
@@ -4170,6 +4431,7 @@ async function stopBotForEmergencyApprovalDowngrade(botId) {
         await routines.cancelRun(routineRun.id);
         if (routineRun.threadId)
             closeOpenApprovals(routineRun.threadId);
+        await directStop;
         return;
     }
     const groupTurn = activeGroupTurnForBot(bot.id);
@@ -4177,6 +4439,7 @@ async function stopBotForEmergencyApprovalDowngrade(botId) {
         revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(groupTurn.threadId);
         cancelGroupTurnOperations(groupTurn.group.id, groupTurn.threadId);
         const results = await Promise.allSettled([
+            directStop,
             registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId)?.adapter.interruptTurn(groupTurn.threadId),
         ]);
         closeOpenApprovals(groupTurn.threadId);
@@ -4185,16 +4448,7 @@ async function stopBotForEmergencyApprovalDowngrade(botId) {
             throw failure.reason;
         return;
     }
-    const directClaim = cancelDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id);
-    const threadId = directClaim?.threadId ?? bot.threadId;
-    revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(threadId);
-    const results = await Promise.allSettled([
-        registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId)?.adapter.interruptTurn(threadId),
-    ]);
-    closeOpenApprovals(threadId);
-    const failure = results.find((result) => result.status === "rejected");
-    if (failure)
-        throw failure.reason;
+    await directStop;
 }
 routines = new RoutineManager({
     emit: broadcast,
@@ -4233,7 +4487,7 @@ routines = new RoutineManager({
         });
     },
     interruptTurn: async (botId, threadId, runOn) => {
-        const bot = store.bot(botId);
+        const bot = botForThread(botId, threadId);
         cancelDirectTurnDispatch(botId, threadId);
         revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(threadId);
         const instance = runOn === "cloud"
@@ -4601,6 +4855,10 @@ operation,
 setupRetry = 0) {
     if (isCancelled?.())
         return false;
+    if (providerFleetReloading) {
+        onDispatchError?.("provider settings are being updated — try again shortly");
+        return false;
+    }
     const group = store.group(groupId);
     const bot = store.bot(botId);
     const ownsThread = group?.dm
@@ -4614,11 +4872,15 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
     }
     revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(threadId);
     spoken.add(botId);
-    const preparedApprovalMode = approvalModeForTurn(bot);
+    const preparedApprovalMode = approvalModeForTurn(bot, false, threadId);
     const preparedSelection = { ...bot.modelSelection };
     const preparedComposio = bot.composio;
     const instance = registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId);
     const userName = cfg.profile?.name?.trim() || "User";
+    if (providerInstancesChanging.has(bot.modelSelection.instanceId)) {
+        onDispatchError?.(`${bot.name}'s provider account is being updated — try again shortly`);
+        return true;
+    }
     if (!instance) {
         const message = `${bot.name}'s model is unavailable`;
         store.appendMessage(threadId, {
@@ -4653,6 +4915,8 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
         return true;
     }
     const internalGeneration = beginInternalCapabilityGeneration(threadId);
+    const resourceOwner = { threadId, generation: internalGeneration };
+    turnResourceOwners.set(threadId, resourceOwner);
     let roomVmTarget = null;
     let retainRoomVmLease = false;
     let roomSpeaker;
@@ -4661,6 +4925,7 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
         if (roomVmTarget && localVmThreadTargets.get(threadId) === roomVmTarget)
             releaseLocalVmThread(threadId);
         roomVmTarget = null;
+        releaseTurnResources(resourceOwner);
     };
     try {
         const integrations = {};
@@ -4684,6 +4949,8 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
         const skills = availableSkills();
         const selectedSkills = mergeSkills(selectBundledSkills(roomContext, instance.adapter.capabilities.phoneMcp === true ? ["phoneMcp"] : [], skills), selectBundledSkills(latestUser?.text ?? "", skillAuthoring ? ["skillAuthoring"] : [], skills));
         if (selectedSkills.some((skill) => skill.manifest.requiredCapabilities.includes("phoneMcp"))) {
+            if (!claimTurnResource(resourceOwner, "computer:phone"))
+                throw new Error("another thread is using the phone — wait for it to finish");
             integrations.phone = phoneIntegration();
         }
         try {
@@ -4728,7 +4995,7 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
         if (!readyGroup || !stillOwnsThread || !readyGroup.memberIds.includes(readyBot.id))
             return false;
         const setupChanged = registry.get(preparedSelection.instanceId) !== instance ||
-            approvalModeForTurn(readyBot) !== preparedApprovalMode ||
+            approvalModeForTurn(readyBot, false, threadId) !== preparedApprovalMode ||
             readyBot.modelSelection.instanceId !== preparedSelection.instanceId ||
             readyBot.modelSelection.model !== preparedSelection.model ||
             readyBot.modelSelection.effort !== preparedSelection.effort ||
@@ -4801,6 +5068,11 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
             return true;
         }
         store.setActivity(bot.id, "working");
+        // Claim cleanup ownership before browser preparation can yield or reject.
+        // The finally block must release exactly this setup, never a newer turn.
+        roomSpeaker = { botId: bot.id, name: bot.name, color: bot.color };
+        groupSpeakers.set(threadId, roomSpeaker);
+        store.patchGroup(readyGroup.id, { busyBotId: bot.id });
         orchestration?.onClaimed?.();
         // Connected-app discovery above can yield for a network round trip. A
         // profile may be removed, or the browser feature switched off, during that
@@ -4811,24 +5083,19 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
             readyBot.browser !== false &&
             instance.adapter.capabilities.browserMcp === true) {
             const selectedProfile = readyBot.browserProfile;
-            const browser = browserIntegration(readyBot.id, selectedProfile);
+            const browser = await browserIntegration(readyBot.id, selectedProfile, { threadId, generation: internalGeneration });
             if (browser)
                 integrations.browser = browser.integration;
         }
-        // Stop/delete may land while Electron is registering the capability. The
-        // callback above prevents publication; this second check also unwinds the
-        // room's setup claim so no provider turn starts after Stop returned.
+        // Stop/delete may land while browser state is being prepared. Capability
+        // publication and this exact claim are both fenced; finally releases only
+        // this setup, so a replacement turn's busy state is never cleared here.
         const browserReadyBot = store.bot(readyBot.id);
-        if (isCancelled?.() || !browserReadyBot || !browserReadyBot.busy) {
-            if (browserReadyBot?.busy) {
-                store.setActivity(browserReadyBot.id, "idle");
-                retryDelegationsWaitingOn(browserReadyBot.id);
-            }
+        if (isCancelled?.() || !browserReadyBot?.busy ||
+            groupSpeakers.get(threadId) !== roomSpeaker ||
+            activeInternalGenerationByThread.get(threadId) !== internalGeneration) {
             return false;
         }
-        store.patchGroup(readyGroup.id, { busyBotId: bot.id }); // the store's change stream carries the frame
-        roomSpeaker = { botId: bot.id, name: bot.name, color: bot.color };
-        groupSpeakers.set(threadId, roomSpeaker);
         // Room and Goal turns use the speaker's desktop, never the coordinator's.
         // Claim the same lease as direct turns before asynchronous VM setup.
         if (readyBot.computer === "vm") {
@@ -4837,6 +5104,7 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
             }
             // A distinct identity fences cleanup even in shared mode on the same room thread.
             const target = { ...localVmTargetForBot(readyBot.id) };
+            bindTurnComputer(resourceOwner, `computer:vm:${target.key}`, true);
             if (localVmImageBusy || localVmModeChangeBusy || localVmLifecycleBusy.has(target.key)) {
                 throw new Error("this Local VM is being started, stopped, or replaced");
             }
@@ -5028,7 +5296,7 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
                 threadId,
                 text,
                 images: turnImages,
-                approvalMode: approvalModeForTurn(readyBot),
+                approvalMode: approvalModeForTurn(readyBot, false, threadId),
                 system: roomSystem,
                 cwd,
                 integrations,
@@ -5113,6 +5381,8 @@ setupRetry = 0) {
             // same bounded cleanup as the stall watchdog. An unbound goal handshake
             // keeps the room closed until attribution becomes safe.
             const releaseOwnership = () => {
+                if (turnResourceOwners.get(threadId)?.generation !== resourceOwner.generation)
+                    return;
                 if (hasUnboundDiscardedGroupGoalTurn(threadId)) {
                     const retry = setTimeout(releaseOwnership, 1_000);
                     retry.unref?.();
@@ -6100,7 +6370,7 @@ function dispatchConnectorResume(entry) {
         return;
     const names = entry.labels.join(", ");
     const prompt = `OpenMausBot connection update: the user securely connected ${names}. Continue the task that paused for this connection. Do not ask them to connect it again.`;
-    if (owner.bot.busy) {
+    if (owner.group ? owner.bot.busy : threadBusy(entry.botId, entry.threadId) || activeGroupTurnForBot(entry.botId)) {
         pendingConnectorResumes.set(`${entry.threadId}:${entry.resumeKey}`, entry);
         return;
     }
@@ -6153,7 +6423,8 @@ function maybeResumeConnectors(botId, threadId, resumeKey) {
 }
 function drainConnectorResumes() {
     for (const [key, entry] of pendingConnectorResumes) {
-        if (store.bot(entry.botId)?.busy)
+        const owner = connectorThread(entry.botId, entry.threadId);
+        if (owner?.group ? owner.bot.busy : threadBusy(entry.botId, entry.threadId) || activeGroupTurnForBot(entry.botId))
             continue;
         pendingConnectorResumes.delete(key);
         dispatchConnectorResume(entry);
@@ -6226,7 +6497,7 @@ function dispatchSecretResume(entry) {
     const prompt = entry.outcome === "provided"
         ? `OpenMausBot credential update: the user securely provided ${entry.label}. Continue the task that paused for it. You do not receive the secret and must not ask them to paste it into chat.`
         : `OpenMausBot credential update: the user declined to provide ${entry.label}. Continue without it if possible, or briefly explain the limitation. Do not ask them to paste it into chat.`;
-    if (owner.bot.busy) {
+    if (owner.group ? owner.bot.busy : threadBusy(entry.botId, entry.threadId) || activeGroupTurnForBot(entry.botId)) {
         pendingSecretResumes.set(`${entry.threadId}:${entry.messageId}`, entry);
         return;
     }
@@ -6371,7 +6642,8 @@ async function provideSecretFromPhone(context, authenticatedDeviceId) {
 }
 function drainSecretResumes() {
     for (const [key, entry] of pendingSecretResumes) {
-        if (store.bot(entry.botId)?.busy)
+        const owner = connectorThread(entry.botId, entry.threadId);
+        if (owner?.group ? owner.bot.busy : threadBusy(entry.botId, entry.threadId) || activeGroupTurnForBot(entry.botId))
             continue;
         pendingSecretResumes.delete(key);
         dispatchSecretResume(entry);
@@ -6569,15 +6841,19 @@ function configStatus() {
         // show the same durable session as an agent, but config PATCH validation
         // keeps it read-only and rejects callers that try to choose it.
         browserProfiles: cfg.browserProfiles ?? [],
+        // who may sign in with an emailed code (server/account-signin.ts)
+        signIn: { admins: cfg.signIn?.admins ?? [], members: cfg.signIn?.members ?? [] },
     };
 }
 function configForAccess(status, admin) {
     if (admin)
         return status;
-    // Configured-or-not is fine; an SSH alias, an email, and a browser
-    // partition id are not a client's business. Preserve the source objects.
+    // Configured-or-not is fine; an SSH alias, an email, a browser partition
+    // id, and the sign-in list are not a client's business. Preserve the
+    // source objects.
     return {
         ...status,
+        signIn: { admins: [], members: [] },
         vps: { configured: status.vps.configured, sshAlias: "" },
         profile: { name: status.profile.name, email: "" },
         browserProfiles: status.browserProfiles.map((profile) => Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(profile).filter(([key]) => key !== "partitionId"))),
@@ -6594,35 +6870,104 @@ function persistMcpServers(next) {
     // when an empty section is omitted by an older config file.
     cfg.mcpServers = next;
 }
+async function describeInstances() {
+    const configs = instanceConfigs(cfg);
+    return (await registry.describe()).map((instance) => {
+        const entry = configs[instance.instanceId];
+        if (entry?.driver !== "claudeAgent")
+            return instance;
+        try {
+            const claudeAccount = claudeAccountInfo(instance.instanceId, entry, instance.cli ?? instance.cliDefault ?? "claude");
+            return { ...instance, claudeAccount, install: { ...instance.install, signInCommand: claudeAccount.signInCommand } };
+        }
+        catch {
+            // A malformed saved config remains a repairable shadow, never takes
+            // the model picker down or offers a login for the wrong directory.
+            return { ...instance, install: { ...instance.install, signInCommand: undefined } };
+        }
+    });
+}
+async function persistProviderInstance(instanceId, instances) {
+    saveConfig({ instances }, { replaceInstances: true });
+    cfg.instances = instances;
+    providerAuthSessions.clearInstance(instanceId);
+    bus.detach(instanceId);
+    // No whole-fleet reload: other bots keep their live CLI processes, event
+    // subscriptions and approval capabilities while this one is replaced.
+    if (Object.hasOwn(instances, instanceId)) {
+        await registry.load({ [instanceId]: instanceConfigs(cfg)[instanceId] });
+        const live = registry.get(instanceId);
+        if (live)
+            bus.attach([live]);
+    }
+    else {
+        await registry.dispose(instanceId);
+    }
+    resetPathCache();
+}
 /** Rebuild the provider fleet after a config change so new keys take
  * effect without a server restart (kills any in-flight turns). */
 async function reloadProviders() {
+    providerFleetReloading = true;
     providerAuthSessions.clear();
     // Every provider process is about to die. Revoke all turn capabilities in
     // one synchronous step before the first teardown await, including room/task
     // threads that are not a bot's default DM.
     revokeAllInternalCapabilities();
+    const direct = store.bots.flatMap((bot) => store.tasks(bot.id)
+        .filter((task) => threadBusy(bot.id, task.threadId))
+        .map((task) => ({ botId: bot.id, threadId: task.threadId, owner: turnResourceOwners.get(task.threadId) })));
+    const rooms = [...groupSpeakers.entries()];
+    for (const task of direct)
+        cancelDirectTurnDispatch(task.botId, task.threadId);
+    for (const [threadId] of rooms) {
+        const group = store.groupByThread(threadId);
+        if (group)
+            cancelGroupTurnOperations(group.id, threadId);
+    }
     bus.detachAll();
-    await registry.disposeAll();
-    await registry.load(instanceConfigs(cfg));
-    bus.attach(registry.instances());
-    // A killed turn's terminal events can die with the old fleet (dispose is
-    // async under the hood), stranding the bot busy — and its screen poller —
-    // forever. Settle anything still marked busy.
-    for (const b of store.bots.filter((b) => b.busy)) {
-        const vmThread = [...localVmThreadTargets.entries()].find(([, target]) => localVmLeaseFor(target).current(localVmOwnerBusy)?.botId === b.id)?.[0];
-        if (vmThread)
-            releaseLocalVmThread(vmThread);
-        stopScreenPoller(b.id);
-        activeVpsThreads.delete(b.id);
-        finalizeDelegationWatch(b.threadId, false, "", "Delegated turn did not finish — provider settings changed");
-        store.appendMessage(b.threadId, {
-            role: "bot",
-            kind: "activity",
-            tool: { name: "error: turn interrupted — provider settings changed", ok: false },
-        });
-        store.setActivity(b.id, "idle");
-        retryDelegationsWaitingOn(b.id);
+    try {
+        await registry.disposeAll();
+        await registry.load(instanceConfigs(cfg));
+        bus.attach(registry.instances());
+    }
+    finally {
+        // Settle every exact conversation, not whichever one is selected now.
+        // Teardown can swallow terminal events; no task may remain busy forever.
+        for (const { botId, threadId, owner } of direct) {
+            stopScreenPoller(botId, threadId);
+            releaseLocalVmThread(threadId);
+            releaseTurnResources(owner);
+            if (activeVpsThreads.get(botId) === threadId)
+                activeVpsThreads.delete(botId);
+            watchdog.settle(threadId);
+            closeOpenApprovals(threadId);
+            directTurnBots.delete(threadId);
+            finalizeDelegationWatch(threadId, false, "", "Delegated turn did not finish — provider settings changed");
+            routines?.failThread(threadId, "Provider settings changed while this thread was running");
+            if (store.taskByThread(botId, threadId)) {
+                store.appendMessage(threadId, {
+                    role: "bot", kind: "activity",
+                    tool: { name: "error: turn interrupted — provider settings changed", ok: false },
+                });
+                store.setTaskActivity(botId, threadId, "idle");
+            }
+            retryDelegationsWaitingOn(botId);
+        }
+        for (const [threadId, speaker] of rooms) {
+            releaseLocalVmThread(threadId);
+            releaseTurnResources(turnResourceOwners.get(threadId));
+            watchdog.settle(threadId);
+            closeOpenApprovals(threadId);
+            if (groupSpeakers.get(threadId) !== speaker)
+                continue;
+            groupSpeakers.delete(threadId);
+            const group = store.groupByThread(threadId);
+            if (group)
+                store.patchGroup(group.id, { busyBotId: null });
+            store.setActivity(speaker.botId, "idle");
+        }
+        providerFleetReloading = false;
     }
     // killed turns settle here without a turn.completed event, so anything
     // queued behind them drains now — onto the freshly loaded fleet
@@ -6634,6 +6979,7 @@ async function reloadProviders() {
 // and reload sequence single-flight so two settings requests cannot drop one
 // another's changes or dispose a fleet while another reload is creating it.
 let providerConfigBusy = false;
+const providerInstancesChanging = new Set();
 let mcpConfigBusy = false;
 const MAX_CONCURRENT_MCP_PROBES = 2;
 let mcpProbesInFlight = 0;
@@ -6739,7 +7085,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         if (method === "GET" && !path.startsWith("/api/") && !path.startsWith("/.well-known/") && serveStatic(res, path))
             return;
         if (method === "GET" && path === "/.well-known/openmausbot/environment") {
-            return json(res, 200, environmentDescriptor({ environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID, desktopManaged: DESKTOP_MANAGED }));
+            return json(res, 200, environmentDescriptor({ environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID, desktopManaged: DESKTOP_MANAGED, emailSignIn: emailSignIn.enabled() }));
         }
         const domainCheck = /^\/\.well-known\/openmausbot\/domain-check\/([a-f0-9]{64})$/.exec(path);
         if (method === "GET" && domainCheck) {
@@ -6747,6 +7093,46 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             const challenge = customDomainVerifier.challenge(domainCheck[1]);
             return json(res, challenge ? 200 : 404, challenge ?? { error: "No active domain check." });
         }
+        // Sign in with an emailed code (server/account-signin.ts). Public like
+        // /api/auth/pair, JSON-only for the same reason, and counted against the
+        // same per-source lockout so a code cannot be guessed.
+        if (method === "POST" && (path === "/api/auth/email/start" || path === "/api/auth/email/verify")) {
+            if (!/^application\/json\b/i.test(String(req.headers["content-type"] ?? ""))) {
+                return json(res, 415, { error: "send the sign-in request as JSON (content-type: application/json)" });
+            }
+            if (!emailSignIn.enabled())
+                return json(res, 404, { error: "email sign-in is not set up on this server; use a pairing code" });
+            const source = requestSource(req);
+            const allowed = sessions.attemptAllowed(source);
+            if (!allowed.ok)
+                return json(res, 429, { error: `too many failed sign-in attempts from your address; try again in ${Math.ceil(allowed.retryAfterMs / 1000)}s` });
+            const body = await readBody(req);
+            const email = typeof body?.email === "string" ? body.email : "";
+            if (path === "/api/auth/email/start") {
+                const started = await emailSignIn.start(email);
+                if (!started.ok) {
+                    if (started.status === 403)
+                        sessions.noteFailure(source);
+                    return json(res, started.status, { error: started.error });
+                }
+                return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
+            }
+            const code = typeof body?.code === "string" ? body.code : "";
+            const label = typeof body?.label === "string" ? body.label : "";
+            const verified = await emailSignIn.verify(email, code);
+            if (!verified.ok) {
+                if (verified.status === 401 || verified.status === 403)
+                    sessions.noteFailure(source);
+                console.warn(`email sign-in refused from ${source}: ${verified.error}`);
+                return json(res, verified.status, { error: verified.error });
+            }
+            sessions.clearFailures(source);
+            const issued = sessions.issue({ label: label.trim() || labelFromUserAgent(req.headers["user-agent"]), scopes: verified.scopes, userId: verified.userId, email: verified.email });
+            const environment = environmentDescriptor({ environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID, desktopManaged: DESKTOP_MANAGED, emailSignIn: true });
+            const secure = requestOrigin(req)?.startsWith("https://") === true;
+            res.setHeader("set-cookie", serializeSessionCookie(SESSION_COOKIE, issued.token, { secure, maxAgeSeconds: cookieMaxAgeSeconds(issued.session) }));
+            return json(res, 200, { session: issued.session, environment });
+        }
         if (method === "POST" && path === "/api/auth/pair") {
             // JSON only: a cross-site HTML form cannot send this content type
             // without a preflight, so a stray unused code cannot be planted as a
@@ -6764,7 +7150,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 console.warn(`pairing refused from ${requestSource(req)}: ${result.error}`);
                 return json(res, result.status, { error: result.error });
             }
-            const environment = environmentDescriptor({ environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID, desktopManaged: DESKTOP_MANAGED });
+            const environment = environmentDescriptor({ environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID, desktopManaged: DESKTOP_MANAGED, emailSignIn: emailSignIn.enabled() });
             if (wantsCookie) {
                 const secure = requestOrigin(req)?.startsWith("https://") === true;
                 res.setHeader("set-cookie", serializeSessionCookie(SESSION_COOKIE, result.token, { secure, maxAgeSeconds: cookieMaxAgeSeconds(result.session) }));
@@ -6815,6 +7201,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     expiresAt: auth.session.expiresAt,
                     via: auth.via,
                     environmentId: ENVIRONMENT_ID,
+                    // the account behind the session, when it came from a sign-in
+                    ...(auth.session.email ? { email: auth.session.email } : {}),
                 });
         }
         if (method === "POST" && path === "/api/auth/stream-ticket") {
@@ -6944,11 +7332,13 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (!internalSender) {
                 return json(res, 401, { error: "unauthorized" });
             }
-            const requiredCapabilityKind = path.startsWith("/api/internal/connectors/")
-                ? "connectors"
-                : path === "/api/internal/computer-control"
-                    ? "computer"
-                    : "agents";
+            const requiredCapabilityKind = path === "/api/internal/browser/mcp"
+                ? "browser"
+                : path.startsWith("/api/internal/connectors/")
+                    ? "connectors"
+                    : path === "/api/internal/computer-control"
+                        ? "computer"
+                        : "agents";
             if (internalCapability.kind !== requiredCapabilityKind) {
                 return json(res, 403, { error: "this internal capability cannot access that service" });
             }
@@ -6992,6 +7382,38 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     throw Object.assign(new Error("the internal turn capability has expired"), { status: 401 });
                 }
             };
+            if (method === "POST" && path === "/api/internal/memory") {
+                const body = await readInternalBody();
+                const result = updateMemory(internalSender.id, { action: body.action, text: body.text, oldText: body.oldText });
+                return json(res, result.ok ? 200 : result.code === "conflict" ? 409 : result.code === "too-large" ? 413 : 400, result);
+            }
+            if (method === "POST" && path === "/api/internal/browser/mcp") {
+                const body = await readInternalBody();
+                const bot = store.bot(internalCapability.botId);
+                if (!bot || bot.browser === false || !builtInBrowserEnabled(cfg)) {
+                    return json(res, 403, { error: "browser tools are not enabled for this bot" });
+                }
+                const browser = await browserIntegration(bot.id, bot.browserProfile);
+                if (!browser || browser.session !== internalCapability.browserSession) {
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "this browser profile changed; start a new turn" });
+                }
+                if (body?.method !== "tools/list" && body?.method !== "tools/call") {
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "unsupported browser method" });
+                }
+                const result = await browserRuntime.agentRpc(browser.session, browser.spec, body.method, body.params, () => {
+                    requireActiveInternalCapability();
+                    const current = store.bot(bot.id);
+                    if (!current || current.browser === false || !builtInBrowserEnabled(cfg) ||
+                        currentBrowserSession(current.id, current.browserProfile) !== browser.session) {
+                        throw Object.assign(new Error("Browser access changed while connecting."), { status: 409 });
+                    }
+                    if (body.method === "tools/call" && !claimTurnResource(internalCapability, `browser:${browser.session}`)) {
+                        throw Object.assign(new Error("another thread is using this browser — pause browser work until that thread finishes"), { status: 409 });
+                    }
+                });
+                requireActiveInternalCapability();
+                return json(res, 200, { result });
+            }
             if (method === "GET" && path === "/api/internal/agents") {
                 const sender = internalSender;
                 // title/description included so the caller can judge the team (who
@@ -7183,7 +7605,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 const from = store.bot(fromBotId);
                 if (!from)
                     return json(res, 403, { error: "unknown sender" });
-                const fromThreadId = String(url.searchParams.get("fromThreadId") ?? from.threadId);
+                const fromThreadId = internalCapability.threadId;
                 if (!connectorThread(from.id, fromThreadId)) {
                     return json(res, 403, { error: "source conversation does not belong to sender" });
                 }
@@ -7215,7 +7637,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 const from = store.bot(fromBotId);
                 if (!from)
                     return json(res, 403, { error: "unknown sender" });
-                const fromThreadId = String(url.searchParams.get("fromThreadId") ?? from.threadId);
+                const fromThreadId = internalCapability.threadId;
                 if (!connectorThread(from.id, fromThreadId)) {
                     return json(res, 403, { error: "source conversation does not belong to sender" });
                 }
@@ -7430,11 +7852,12 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 const prefixed = withPeerProvenance(message, {
                     botName: currentFrom.name,
                     delivery: "ask_bot",
-                    unattended: isUnattended(currentFrom.id),
+                    unattended: isUnattended(currentFrom.id, fromThreadId),
                 });
-                const outcome = await askBotAndWait(toBotId, prefixed, depth, fromBotId);
+                const targetThreadId = currentTarget.threadId;
+                const outcome = await askBotAndWait(toBotId, prefixed, depth, fromBotId, fromThreadId, targetThreadId);
                 requireActiveInternalCapability();
-                if (outcome.status === "timeout" && !delegationWatch.has(currentTarget.threadId)) {
+                if (outcome.status === "timeout" && !delegationWatch.has(targetThreadId)) {
                     // The peer's turn is still running — only the wait ended. Convert
                     // the ask into a delegation claim ticket: the watch mirrors the
                     // terminal state into the channel AND the asker's thread when the
@@ -7442,7 +7865,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     // Losing the reply was the old behavior, and it read as "the bots
                     // don't respond to each other".
                     const taskId = newId();
-                    delegationWatch.set(currentTarget.threadId, {
+                    delegationWatch.set(targetThreadId, {
                         channelId: channel.id,
                         toBotId,
                         toBotName: currentTarget.name,
@@ -7681,7 +8104,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 // Unattended inheritance: the mark rides the sender, and reading it
                 // here is also what keeps its window alive through a turn that only
                 // posts — an aged-out mark would hand the next hop to auto-approve.
-                const unattended = isUnattended(poster.id);
+                const unattended = isUnattended(poster.id, internalCapability.threadId);
                 const posted = store.appendMessage(room.threadId, {
                     role: "bot",
                     kind: "text",
@@ -7839,6 +8262,14 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
                 if (method === "GET") {
                     const snapshot = computerControl.snapshot(botId);
+                    const computer = turnComputerResources.get(internalCapability.threadId);
+                    if (!snapshot.held && computer && computer.owner.generation === internalCapability.generation &&
+                        !claimTurnResource(computer.owner, computer.resource)) {
+                        return json(res, 200, {
+                            held: true, helpOpen: false,
+                            blockedReason: "Another thread is using this computer. This call was not performed. Pause computer work until that thread finishes, then take a fresh screenshot before acting.",
+                        });
+                    }
                     return json(res, 200, { held: snapshot.held, helpOpen: snapshot.helpReason !== null });
                 }
                 if (method === "POST") {
@@ -7850,7 +8281,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     // screen it needs hands on are in the room — so send the person
                     // where the work is, and say which room it was.
                     const roomTurn = activeGroupTurnForBot(bot.id);
-                    const target = blockedTarget(bot, roomTurn && { ...roomTurn.group, threadId: roomTurn.threadId });
+                    const target = blockedTarget({ ...bot, threadId: internalCapability.threadId }, roomTurn && { ...roomTurn.group, threadId: roomTurn.threadId });
                     notify(buildNotification("takeover", bot, target.threadId, snapshot.helpReason ?? "asked you to take over", {
                         group: target.group,
                     }));
@@ -8084,6 +8515,45 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 : json(res, 404, { error: "no such webhook" });
         }
         // ── events stream ──
+        // Owner-only (default-deny in request-auth). Never mix login frames into
+        // the general events feed, which is also visible to client-only devices.
+        const liveBrowserMatch = /^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/browser\/(live|action)$/.exec(path);
+        if (liveBrowserMatch) {
+            res.setHeader("cache-control", "no-store");
+            const bot = store.bot(liveBrowserMatch[1]);
+            if (!bot)
+                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            if (!builtInBrowserEnabled(cfg) || bot.browser === false) {
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "Enable this bot's browser in its profile first." });
+            }
+            const browser = await browserIntegration(bot.id, bot.browserProfile);
+            if (!browser)
+                return json(res, 503, { error: "Install the browser engine first." });
+            const owner = auth.kind === "session" ? auth.session.id : "local-owner";
+            const isCurrent = () => {
+                const current = store.bot(bot.id);
+                return !!current && current.browser !== false && builtInBrowserEnabled(cfg)
+                    && currentBrowserSession(current.id, current.browserProfile) === browser.session
+                    && (auth.kind !== "session" || sessions.isLive(auth.session.id));
+            };
+            if (method === "GET" && liveBrowserMatch[2] === "live") {
+                req.socket.setTimeout(0);
+                return await browserLive.open({ botId: bot.id, session: browser.session, spec: browser.spec, owner, isCurrent, res });
+            }
+            if (method === "POST" && liveBrowserMatch[2] === "action") {
+                const body = await readBody(req, 32_768);
+                if (!isCurrent())
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "This browser session changed. Reopen the browser panel." });
+                if (typeof body?.viewerId !== "string")
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "A live browser connection is required." });
+                if (body.type === "restart" && store.bots.some((candidate) => candidate.busy &&
+                    currentBrowserSession(candidate.id, candidate.browserProfile) === browser.session)) {
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "Stop every bot using this profile before restarting its browser." });
+                }
+                return json(res, 200, await browserLive.action({ viewerId: body.viewerId, botId: bot.id, owner, body }));
+            }
+            return json(res, 405, { error: "method not allowed" });
+        }
         if (method === "GET" && path === "/api/events") {
             const client = {
                 res,
@@ -8156,6 +8626,16 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             return;
         }
         // ── bots ──
+        // Paired sessions are authenticated above. The companion marker may
+        // only narrow behavior (including its capability-free local dev proxy);
+        // it never grants authority or replaces the existing request gate.
+        const requirePinnedClientThread = (botId, threadId) => {
+            if (threadId === undefined &&
+                (auth.kind === "session" || req.headers["x-openmausbot-companion"] === "1") &&
+                store.tasks(botId).length > 1) {
+                throw Object.assign(new Error("This bot has multiple threads. Update this client and choose a thread before sending this action."), { status: 409 });
+            }
+        };
         if (method === "GET" && path === "/api/bots") {
             const limit = pageSize(url.searchParams.get("messages"));
             if (limit === null)
@@ -8187,14 +8667,14 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 const window = messageWindow(threadId, around, limit ?? DEFAULT_PAGE);
                 if (!window)
                     return json(res, 404, { error: "no such message" });
-                return json(res, 200, window);
+                return json(res, 200, { ...window, activeLeafId: store.activeLeaf(threadId) });
             }
             // An unknown cursor must not silently answer with the newest page —
             // the client would paginate in a circle and never reach the top.
             if (before && !store.messagesFor(threadId).some((msg) => msg.id === before)) {
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such message" });
             }
-            return json(res, 200, messagePage(threadId, limit ?? DEFAULT_PAGE, before));
+            return json(res, 200, { ...messagePage(threadId, limit ?? DEFAULT_PAGE, before), activeLeafId: store.activeLeaf(threadId) });
         }
         // the pixels of one screen message, fetched only when something shows it
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/threads\/([\w-]+)\/messages\/([\w-]+)\/image$/);
@@ -9472,10 +9952,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (!bot) {
                 // There are no awaits between the refreshed lookup and this patch, but
                 // keep the attachment invariant explicit if the store ever changes.
-                try {
-                    unlinkSync(saved.path);
-                }
-                catch { }
+                deleteAttachment(saved.path);
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
             }
             const visible = wireBot(bot);
@@ -9512,16 +9989,25 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             const existing = store.bot(m[1]);
             if (!existing)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            requirePinnedClientThread(existing.id, undefined);
+            const selected = requestedTaskBot(existing.id, undefined);
             if (existing.approvalGrant) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "wait for the approval-level change to finish before changing models" });
             }
-            const checked = checkedModelSelection(body, { selection: existing.modelSelection, busy: Boolean(existing.busy) }, true);
+            const checked = checkedModelSelection(body, { selection: selected.modelSelection, busy: threadBusy(selected.id, selected.threadId) }, true);
             if (!checked.ok)
                 return json(res, checked.status, { error: checked.error });
-            const existingApprovalMode = approvalModeFor(existing);
-            if ((existingApprovalMode === "full" || existingApprovalMode === "custom") &&
-                (!supportsApprovalMode(registry.cliTarget(checked.selection.instanceId)?.driverKind, existingApprovalMode) ||
-                    registry.cliTarget(checked.selection.instanceId)?.driverKind !== registry.cliTarget(existing.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind)) {
+            if (activeGroupTurnForBot(existing.id)) {
+                const groupChecked = checkedModelSelection(checked.selection, { selection: existing.modelSelection, busy: true });
+                if (!groupChecked.ok)
+                    return json(res, groupChecked.status, { error: groupChecked.error });
+            }
+            if ([existing, selected].some((owner) => {
+                const mode = approvalModeFor(owner);
+                return (mode === "full" || mode === "custom") &&
+                    (!supportsApprovalMode(registry.cliTarget(checked.selection.instanceId)?.driverKind, mode) ||
+                        registry.cliTarget(checked.selection.instanceId)?.driverKind !== registry.cliTarget(owner.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind);
+            })) {
                 return json(res, 400, {
                     error: "Changing providers with elevated permissions requires choosing Ask first",
                 });
@@ -9531,13 +10017,16 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             const bot = store.patchBot(existing.id, { modelSelection: checked.selection });
             if (!bot)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            store.patchTask(bot.id, selected.threadId, { modelSelection: checked.selection });
             return json(res, 200, { bot: wireBot(bot) });
         }
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/read$/);
         if (m && method === "POST") {
-            const bot = store.patchBot(m[1], { unread: false });
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            const body = await readBody(req);
+            requirePinnedClientThread(m[1], body?.threadId);
+            const current = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body?.threadId);
+            store.patchTask(current.id, current.threadId, { unread: false });
+            const bot = store.bot(current.id);
             const visible = wireBot(bot);
             broadcast({ kind: "bot", bot: visible });
             return json(res, 200, { bot: visible });
@@ -9545,10 +10034,9 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/always-allow$/);
         if (m && method === "POST") {
             const body = await readBody(req);
+            requirePinnedClientThread(m[1], body?.threadId);
             const allowKey = typeof body.allowKey === "string" ? body.allowKey : "";
-            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            const bot = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body.threadId);
             if (!allowKey)
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "allowKey required" });
             const pending = store.messagesFor(bot.threadId).some((message) => message.card?.requestId &&
@@ -9558,9 +10046,13 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (!pending) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "that grant is not on a pending approval for this bot" });
             }
-            const updated = store.patchBot(bot.id, {
+            store.patchTask(bot.id, bot.threadId, {
                 alwaysAllow: [...new Set([...(bot.alwaysAllow ?? []), allowKey])].slice(0, 200),
             });
+            const live = directTurnBots.get(bot.threadId);
+            if (live)
+                live.alwaysAllow = [...new Set([...(live.alwaysAllow ?? []), allowKey])].slice(0, 200);
+            const updated = store.bot(bot.id);
             const visible = wireBot(updated);
             broadcast({ kind: "bot", bot: visible });
             return json(res, 200, { bot: visible });
@@ -9577,10 +10069,13 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     return json(res, 403, { error: `forbidden: this session may change how a bot looks, not "${field}" (needs the admin scope)` });
             }
             const existingBot = store.bot(m[1]);
+            const selectedTask = existingBot ? requestedTaskBot(existingBot.id, undefined) : null;
             const beforeProfile = existingBot ? profileSnapshot(existingBot) : undefined;
             if (body.requireAvailableModel !== undefined && typeof body.requireAvailableModel !== "boolean") {
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "requireAvailableModel must be true or false" });
             }
+            const beforeBrowserProfile = existingBot?.browserProfile;
+            const beforeBrowserEnabled = existingBot?.browser;
             // Neither Codex (free-form string field) nor Grok (lazy, logs-only)
             // rejects an unknown effort level at their own boundary — this is the
             // only real gate, so it stays. But it fires only when the target
@@ -9593,6 +10088,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             // safe — startTurn refuses to run a turn on an unavailable instance
             // anyway, so an unverifiable level never reaches a CLI.
             const rawSelection = body.modelSelection;
+            if (rawSelection !== undefined)
+                requirePinnedClientThread(m[1], undefined);
             if (existingBot?.approvalGrant &&
                 (rawSelection !== undefined || body.approvalMode !== undefined || body.autoApprove !== undefined)) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "wait for the approval-level change to finish before changing this setting" });
@@ -9602,10 +10099,15 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             }
             let normalizedSelection;
             if (rawSelection !== undefined) {
-                const checked = checkedModelSelection(rawSelection, existingBot ? { selection: existingBot.modelSelection, busy: Boolean(existingBot.busy) } : undefined, body.requireAvailableModel === true);
+                const checked = checkedModelSelection(rawSelection, selectedTask ? { selection: selectedTask.modelSelection, busy: threadBusy(selectedTask.id, selectedTask.threadId) } : undefined, body.requireAvailableModel === true);
                 if (!checked.ok)
                     return json(res, checked.status, { error: checked.error });
                 normalizedSelection = checked.selection;
+                if (existingBot && activeGroupTurnForBot(existingBot.id)) {
+                    const groupChecked = checkedModelSelection(normalizedSelection, { selection: existingBot.modelSelection, busy: true });
+                    if (!groupChecked.ok)
+                        return json(res, groupChecked.status, { error: groupChecked.error });
+                }
             }
             // Persona/profile fields reach prompts and paired clients. Both this
             // broad desktop endpoint and the paired-safe profile endpoint pass
@@ -9697,6 +10199,10 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 if (existingBot?.busy && requestedProfile !== existingBot.browserProfile) {
                     return json(res, 409, { error: "stop this bot's turn before changing its browser profile" });
                 }
+                if (existingBot && requestedProfile !== existingBot.browserProfile &&
+                    browserRuntime.heldBy(currentBrowserSession(existingBot.id, existingBot.browserProfile))) {
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "Release browser control before changing its profile." });
+                }
                 if (requestedProfile === undefined)
                     patch.browserProfile = undefined;
                 else if (typeof requestedProfile === "string" &&
@@ -9770,6 +10276,14 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 patch.autoApprove = requestedApprovalMode === "auto";
             }
             const targetSelection = normalizedSelection ?? existingBot?.modelSelection;
+            if (normalizedSelection && selectedTask) {
+                const mode = approvalModeFor(selectedTask);
+                if ((mode === "full" || mode === "custom") &&
+                    (!supportsApprovalMode(registry.cliTarget(normalizedSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind, mode) ||
+                        registry.cliTarget(normalizedSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind !== registry.cliTarget(selectedTask.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind)) {
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "Choose Ask for the selected thread before changing providers with elevated permissions" });
+                }
+            }
             if ((requestedApprovalMode === "full" || requestedApprovalMode === "custom") &&
                 (body.approvalMode !== undefined || normalizedSelection !== undefined) &&
                 (!targetSelection || !supportsApprovalMode(registry.cliTarget(targetSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind, requestedApprovalMode) ||
@@ -9894,21 +10408,42 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 console.warn(`bot ${m[1]}: ${loosened.join(", ")} loosened by ${requestSource(req)} through the local API with no paired session`);
             }
             if (existingBot?.computer === "local" && computerSpecified && requestedComputer !== "local") {
-                const routineThread = routines.activeBotRunForBot(existingBot.id)?.threadId;
-                const groupThread = activeGroupTurnForBot(existingBot.id)?.threadId;
-                const activeThread = routineThread || groupThread || existingBot.threadId;
-                cancelDirectTurnDispatch(existingBot.id, activeThread);
-                revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(activeThread);
-                await registry
-                    .get(existingBot.modelSelection.instanceId)
-                    ?.adapter.interruptTurn(activeThread)
-                    .catch(() => { });
+                await interruptAllDirectThreads(existingBot.id);
+                const routine = routines.activeBotRunForBot(existingBot.id);
+                if (routine)
+                    await routines.cancelRun(routine.id);
+                const groupTurn = activeGroupTurnForBot(existingBot.id);
+                if (groupTurn) {
+                    cancelGroupTurnOperations(groupTurn.group.id, groupTurn.threadId);
+                    revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(groupTurn.threadId);
+                    await registry.get(existingBot.modelSelection.instanceId)?.adapter.interruptTurn(groupTurn.threadId).catch(() => { });
+                    closeOpenApprovals(groupTurn.threadId);
+                }
             }
             const chiefMovedSections = Boolean(existingBot?.chiefOfStaff) &&
                 body.chiefOfStaff !== false &&
                 section !== undefined &&
                 sectionKey(existingBot?.section) !== sectionKey(section);
             let bot;
+            const freshBrowserBot = store.bot(m[1]);
+            if (normalizedSelection && selectedTask) {
+                const current = store.projectBotForTask(selectedTask.id, selectedTask.threadId);
+                if (!current)
+                    return json(res, 404, { error: "no such task" });
+                const checked = checkedModelSelection(normalizedSelection, { selection: current.modelSelection, busy: threadBusy(current.id, current.threadId) });
+                if (!checked.ok)
+                    return json(res, checked.status, { error: checked.error });
+                if (freshBrowserBot && activeGroupTurnForBot(freshBrowserBot.id)) {
+                    const groupChecked = checkedModelSelection(normalizedSelection, { selection: freshBrowserBot.modelSelection, busy: true });
+                    if (!groupChecked.ok)
+                        return json(res, groupChecked.status, { error: groupChecked.error });
+                }
+            }
+            if (freshBrowserBot && body.browserProfile !== undefined &&
+                patch.browserProfile !== freshBrowserBot.browserProfile &&
+                (freshBrowserBot.busy || browserRuntime.heldBy(currentBrowserSession(freshBrowserBot.id, freshBrowserBot.browserProfile)))) {
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "Stop the bot and release browser control before changing its profile." });
+            }
             if (profile.patch.soul !== undefined) {
                 // A mixed settings request must not turn a runtime revocation into
                 // a persist-first edit. Apply runtime fields with their existing
@@ -9925,6 +10460,14 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             }
             if (!bot)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            if (normalizedSelection && selectedTask)
+                store.patchTask(bot.id, selectedTask.threadId, { modelSelection: normalizedSelection });
+            if (existingBot && (bot.browserProfile !== beforeBrowserProfile || bot.browser !== beforeBrowserEnabled)) {
+                browserLive.closeForBot(bot.id);
+                if (beforeBrowserProfile === "guest" && (bot.browserProfile !== "guest" || bot.browser === false)) {
+                    void forgetTemporaryBrowser(bot.id).catch((error) => console.warn("temporary browser cleanup failed", error));
+                }
+            }
             const chiefChanges = body.chiefOfStaff === true || chiefMovedSections
                 ? store.setChiefOfStaff(bot.id)
                 : [];
@@ -9943,6 +10486,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             await Promise.allSettled(store.bots
                 .filter((bot) => bot.computer === "local")
                 .map(async (bot) => {
+                await interruptAllDirectThreads(bot.id);
                 const routineRun = routines.activeBotRunForBot(bot.id);
                 if (routineRun) {
                     cancelDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id, routineRun.threadId);
@@ -9950,7 +10494,6 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                         revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(routineRun.threadId);
                     }
                     await routines.cancelRun(routineRun.id);
-                    return;
                 }
                 const instance = registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId);
                 const groupTurn = activeGroupTurnForBot(bot.id);
@@ -9959,13 +10502,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(groupTurn.threadId);
                     await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(groupTurn.threadId).catch(() => { });
                     closeOpenApprovals(groupTurn.threadId);
-                    return;
                 }
-                const directClaim = cancelDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id);
-                const threadId = directClaim?.threadId ?? bot.threadId;
-                revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(threadId);
-                await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(threadId).catch(() => { });
-                closeOpenApprovals(threadId);
             }));
             return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
         }
@@ -9995,7 +10532,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             // A direct turn that has already claimed the bot can provision a Box in
             // its background setup. Do not let deletion race that work while a Box
             // account is configured; the person can stop the turn and retry.
-            if ((box.boxConfigured(cfg) || vpsSshAlias(cfg)) && (bot.busy || directTurnDispatchClaims.has(bot.id))) {
+            if ((box.boxConfigured(cfg) || vpsSshAlias(cfg)) && (bot.busy || hasDirectDispatch(bot.id))) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "stop this bot's work before checking and deleting its cloud computer" });
             }
             const botBoxRecovery = boxCreateRecoverySnapshot().filter((entry) => entry.botId === bot.id);
@@ -10093,18 +10630,19 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 const browserCleanupRequest = browserCleanup.prepare("bot", bot.id);
                 try {
                     // a running turn dies with its bot
-                    const directClaim = cancelDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id);
-                    const directThreadId = directClaim?.threadId ?? bot.threadId;
                     // Invalidate every bot-callable bearer before the first asynchronous
                     // teardown step. A request that already passed its initial header
                     // check is revalidated after its body arrives and must fail closed.
-                    revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(directThreadId);
-                    directTurnGenerationByBot.delete(bot.id);
-                    await registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId)?.adapter.interruptTurn(directThreadId).catch(() => { });
-                    closeOpenApprovals(directThreadId);
+                    for (const task of store.tasks(bot.id))
+                        revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(task.threadId);
+                    await interruptAllDirectThreads(bot.id);
                     // Deletion removes the thread before a late turn.completed can fold
                     // staged provider images into a message, so dispose them here.
-                    purgeGeneratedImagesForThread(directThreadId);
+                    for (const task of store.tasks(bot.id)) {
+                        purgeGeneratedImagesForThread(task.threadId);
+                        directTurnGenerationByThread.delete(task.threadId);
+                        directTurnBots.delete(task.threadId);
+                    }
                     stopScreenPoller(bot.id);
                     activeVpsThreads.delete(bot.id);
                     routines.disableForBot(bot.id);
@@ -10121,6 +10659,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     localVmIdles.get(target.key)?.cancel();
                     localVmIdles.delete(target.key);
                     store.deleteBot(bot.id);
+                    browserLive.closeForBot(bot.id);
+                    await forgetTemporaryBrowser(bot.id);
                 }
                 catch (error) {
                     if (browserCleanupRequest)
@@ -10479,20 +11019,18 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         // onboarding/ask cards persist their answered/dismissed state
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/cards\/([\w-]+)$/);
         if (m && method === "PATCH") {
-            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            const body = await readBody(req);
+            if (!body || typeof body !== "object" || Array.isArray(body)) {
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "body must be a JSON object" });
+            }
+            const bot = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body.threadId);
             const existing = store.messagesFor(bot.threadId).find((msg) => msg.id === m[2]);
             if (!existing?.card)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such card" });
             if (existing.card.requestId) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "request cards must be answered through the approval endpoint" });
             }
-            const body = await readBody(req);
-            if (!body || typeof body !== "object" || Array.isArray(body)) {
-                return json(res, 400, { error: "body must be a JSON object" });
-            }
-            if (Object.keys(body).some((key) => key !== "answered" && key !== "dismissed")) {
+            if (Object.keys(body).some((key) => key !== "answered" && key !== "dismissed" && key !== "threadId")) {
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "only answered and dismissed may be changed" });
             }
             if (body.answered !== undefined && typeof body.answered !== "string") {
@@ -10522,6 +11060,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
             if (!bot)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            requirePinnedClientThread(bot.id, body.threadId);
             if (body.threadId !== undefined && (typeof body.threadId !== "string" || !/^[\w-]+$/.test(body.threadId))) {
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "threadId must be a task id" });
             }
@@ -10558,17 +11097,12 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                         return { ok: true, queued: true, queueId: queued.id, threadId };
                     }
                 }
-                const currentAtStart = store.bot(bot.id);
+                const currentAtStart = store.projectBotForTask(bot.id, threadId);
                 if (!currentAtStart)
                     throw Object.assign(new Error("no such bot"), { status: 404 });
                 if (!store.taskByThread(currentAtStart.id, threadId)) {
                     throw Object.assign(new Error("the target task no longer exists"), { status: 409 });
                 }
-                if (currentAtStart.threadId !== threadId) {
-                    throw Object.assign(new Error("the bot switched tasks before it could receive the message"), {
-                        status: 409,
-                    });
-                }
                 // Claude can accept the message inside its live turn. If the write
                 // loses a race with turn settlement, or the engine cannot steer, the
                 // existing server-side queue records it atomically for the next turn.
@@ -10590,17 +11124,12 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     // successful steer; otherwise that late acknowledgement writes a user
                     // message into a task the bot no longer owns. A conflict leaves the
                     // text in the client's composer/outbox to resend deliberately.
-                    const current = store.bot(bot.id);
+                    const current = store.projectBotForTask(bot.id, threadId);
                     if (!current)
                         throw Object.assign(new Error("no such bot"), { status: 404 });
                     if (!store.taskByThread(bot.id, threadId)) {
                         throw Object.assign(new Error("the target task no longer exists"), { status: 409 });
                     }
-                    if (current.threadId !== threadId) {
-                        throw Object.assign(new Error("the bot switched tasks before it could receive the message"), {
-                            status: 409,
-                        });
-                    }
                     if (steered) {
                         if (!current.busy) {
                             throw Object.assign(new Error("the running turn ended before the steered message could be recorded"), { status: 409 });
@@ -10614,7 +11143,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                         // desktop's owner capability, which every mutation there has
                         // already shown) clears the mark.
                         if (auth.kind === "session" || DESKTOP_MANAGED)
-                            clearUnattended(current.id);
+                            clearUnattended(threadId);
                         const message = store.appendMessage(threadId, {
                             role: "user",
                             kind: "text",
@@ -10643,11 +11172,11 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         }
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/queue\/([\w-]+)$/);
         if (m && method === "DELETE") {
-            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            const body = await readBody(req);
+            requirePinnedClientThread(m[1], body?.threadId);
+            const bot = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body?.threadId);
             const queueId = m[2];
-            if (!cancelSteeredMessage(bot.id, queueId)) {
+            if (!cancelSteeredMessage(bot.id, queueId, bot.threadId)) {
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such queued message" });
             }
             return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
@@ -10659,18 +11188,17 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/messages\/([\w-]+)\/edit$/);
         if (m && method === "POST") {
             const messageId = m[2];
-            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
             const body = await readBody(req);
+            requirePinnedClientThread(m[1], body?.threadId);
+            const bot = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body.threadId);
             const text = String(body.text ?? "").trim();
             if (!text)
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "text required" });
             // everything from here down is synchronous, so two racing edits can
             // never both get past this check: startTurn flips busy before the
             // next request is handled
-            if (bot.busy)
-                return json(res, 409, { error: "the bot is working — stop it before editing" });
+            if (threadBusy(bot.id, bot.threadId))
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "the thread is working — stop it before editing" });
             if (phoneSecretSubmissions.hasThread(bot.threadId)) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this task is securely saving a credential — try again when it finishes" });
             }
@@ -10683,23 +11211,20 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     error: `provider instance "${bot.modelSelection.instanceId}" is unavailable — pick another model in settings`,
                 });
             }
-            const message = store.branchMessage(bot.threadId, messageId, text);
-            if (!message)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such message" });
-            store.patchBot(bot.id, { rewound: true });
-            const replyTo = message.replyToId ? resolveReplyTarget(bot.threadId, message.replyToId) : undefined;
-            await startTurn(bot.id, text, { userMessage: message, replyTo });
-            return json(res, 202, { ok: true });
+            // startTurn admits the rerun before branching. A shared-resource or
+            // concurrency-limit refusal must leave the original transcript intact.
+            const replyTo = source.replyToId ? resolveReplyTarget(bot.threadId, source.replyToId) : undefined;
+            const message = await startTurn(bot.id, text, { threadId: bot.threadId, editedMessageId: messageId, replyTo });
+            return json(res, 202, { ok: true, message });
         }
         // switch which fork of the conversation is visible (no new turn)
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/active-branch$/);
         if (m && method === "POST") {
             const body = await readBody(req);
-            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
-            if (bot.busy)
-                return json(res, 409, { error: "the bot is working — stop it before switching versions" });
+            requirePinnedClientThread(m[1], body?.threadId);
+            const bot = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body.threadId);
+            if (threadBusy(bot.id, bot.threadId))
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "the thread is working — stop it before switching versions" });
             if (phoneSecretSubmissions.hasThread(bot.threadId)) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this task is securely saving a credential — try again when it finishes" });
             }
@@ -10707,15 +11232,14 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (!leaf)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such message" });
             // provider sessions still hold the other branch — next turn replays
-            store.patchBot(bot.id, { rewound: true });
+            store.patchTask(bot.id, bot.threadId, { rewound: true });
             return json(res, 200, { activeLeafId: leaf });
         }
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/respond$/);
         if (m && method === "POST") {
-            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
-            if (!bot)
-                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
             const body = await readBody(req);
+            const selected = requestedTaskBot(m[1], body.threadId);
+            const bot = botForThread(selected.id, selected.threadId);
             const behavior = requestBehavior(body.behavior);
             const reviewedSha256 = typeof body.reviewedSha256 === "string" ? body.reviewedSha256 : undefined;
             if (!behavior)
@@ -10748,7 +11272,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             // peer-approval intercept: harness-native cards carry a requestId
             // that lives in peer-approval's pending map. Resolve them here so
             // the provider adapter never sees a request it didn't raise.
-            if (resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, String(body.requestId), behavior)) {
+            if (store.messagesFor(bot.threadId).some((message) => message.card?.requestId === String(body.requestId)) &&
+                resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, String(body.requestId), behavior)) {
                 return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome: behavior === "allow" ? "allowed-once" : "rejected" });
             }
             const outcome = await answerRequest(bot.threadId, bot.modelSelection.instanceId, String(body.requestId), behavior, body.message, { id: bot.id, name: bot.name });
@@ -10818,7 +11343,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             // peer-approval intercept (see /api/bots/:id/respond above). A peer card
             // belongs to the bus rather than to a speaker, so resolve it before we go
             // looking for one — a room between turns has no speaker to find.
-            if (resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, requestId, behavior)) {
+            if (store.messagesFor(threadId).some((message) => message.card?.requestId === requestId) &&
+                resolvePeerComms(approvalBus, requestId, behavior)) {
                 return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome: behavior === "allow" ? "allowed-once" : "rejected" });
             }
             const group = store.groupByThread(threadId);
@@ -10834,7 +11360,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 : store.botByThread(threadId);
             if (!owner && !pending)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "nothing is waiting on an answer in this conversation" });
-            const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, owner?.modelSelection.instanceId ?? "", requestId, behavior, body.message, owner ? { id: owner.id, name: owner.name } : undefined);
+            const requestOwner = owner ? botForThread(owner.id, threadId) : null;
+            const outcome = await answerRequest(threadId, requestOwner?.modelSelection.instanceId ?? "", requestId, behavior, body.message, owner ? { id: owner.id, name: owner.name } : undefined);
             return json(res, 200, { ok: true, outcome });
         }
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/interrupt$/);
@@ -10847,11 +11374,22 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "body must be a JSON object" });
             }
             const body = rawBody ?? {};
+            requirePinnedClientThread(bot.id, body.threadId);
             const expectedThreadId = body.threadId;
             if (expectedThreadId !== undefined && (typeof expectedThreadId !== "string" || !/^[\w-]+$/.test(expectedThreadId))) {
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "threadId must be a task id" });
             }
-            const directClaim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(bot.id);
+            // Explicit thread targets never fall through to another routine or
+            // channel just because it belongs to the same bot.
+            if (typeof expectedThreadId === "string" && store.taskByThread(bot.id, expectedThreadId)) {
+                const routine = routines.activeBotRunForBot(bot.id);
+                if (routine?.threadId === expectedThreadId)
+                    await routines.cancelRun(routine.id);
+                else
+                    await interruptDirectThread(bot.id, expectedThreadId);
+                return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
+            }
+            const directClaim = directTurnDispatchClaims.get(bot.threadId);
             const routineRun = routines.activeBotRunForBot(bot.id);
             if (routineRun) {
                 if (expectedThreadId !== undefined && routineRun.threadId !== expectedThreadId) {
@@ -10864,7 +11402,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 await routines.cancelRun(routineRun.id);
                 return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
             }
-            const instance = registry.get(bot.modelSelection.instanceId);
+            const instance = registry.get((botForThread(bot.id, expectedThreadId ?? bot.threadId) ?? bot).modelSelection.instanceId);
             // a bot busy in a ROOM is running on the room's thread — stopping it
             // from its own chat must reach that turn, not just the 1:1 thread
             const busyGroup = activeGroupTurnForBot(bot.id);
@@ -10884,11 +11422,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 directClaim?.threadId !== expectedThreadId) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "the bot switched tasks before it could be interrupted" });
             }
-            const cancelledDirect = cancelDirectTurnDispatch(bot.id, expectedThreadId);
-            const directThreadId = cancelledDirect?.threadId ?? bot.threadId;
-            revokeInternalCapabilitiesForThread(directThreadId);
-            await instance?.adapter.interruptTurn(directThreadId).catch(() => { });
-            closeOpenApprovals(directThreadId);
+            await interruptDirectThread(bot.id, expectedThreadId ?? bot.threadId);
             return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
         }
         // ── tasks: a bot's separate contexts ────────────────────────────────
@@ -10901,18 +11435,50 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             activeLeafId: store.activeLeaf(bot.threadId),
             tasks: store.tasks(bot.id).map(wireTask),
         });
+        // Folders organize one bot's threads; they never own settings,
+        // transcripts or working directories. The project wire names stay stable.
+        m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/projects(?:\/([\w-]+))?$/);
+        if (m && ((method === "POST" && !m[2]) || (method === "PATCH" && m[2]) || (method === "DELETE" && m[2]))) {
+            const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
+            if (!bot)
+                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
+            if (m[2] && !store.project(bot.id, m[2]))
+                return json(res, 404, { error: "no such folder" });
+            if (method === "DELETE") {
+                const updated = store.deleteProject(bot.id, m[2]);
+                return json(res, 200, { bot: botWithThread(updated) });
+            }
+            const body = await readBody(req);
+            if (!body || typeof body !== "object" || Array.isArray(body))
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "body must be a JSON object" });
+            if (Object.keys(body).some((key) => key !== "name")) {
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "unsupported folder setting" });
+            }
+            if ((method === "POST" || body.name !== undefined) &&
+                (typeof body.name !== "string" || !body.name.trim() || body.name.trim().length > 80)) {
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "folder name must be between 1 and 80 characters" });
+            }
+            const patch = {};
+            if (body.name !== undefined)
+                patch.name = body.name.trim();
+            const project = method === "POST"
+                ? store.createProject(bot.id, patch.name)
+                : store.patchProject(bot.id, m[2], patch);
+            return json(res, method === "POST" ? 201 : 200, { project, bot: botWithThread(bot) });
+        }
         m = path.match(/^\/api\/bots\/([\w-]+)\/tasks$/);
         if (m && method === "POST") {
             const body = await readBody(req);
             const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
             if (!bot)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such bot" });
-            if (bot.busy)
-                return json(res, 409, { error: "this bot is working — let it finish before starting a task" });
             if (phoneSecretSubmissions.hasBot(bot.id)) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this bot is securely saving a credential — try again when it finishes" });
             }
-            const task = store.createTask(bot.id, typeof body.title === "string" ? body.title : undefined);
+            if (body.projectId !== undefined && (typeof body.projectId !== "string" || !store.project(bot.id, body.projectId))) {
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "projectId must belong to this bot" });
+            }
+            const task = store.createTask(bot.id, typeof body.title === "string" ? body.title : undefined, true, body.projectId);
             if (!task)
                 return json(res, 500, { error: "couldn't create that task" });
             const fresh = botWithThread(store.bot(bot.id));
@@ -10927,12 +11493,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (phoneSecretSubmissions.hasBot(bot.id)) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this bot is securely saving a credential — try again when it finishes" });
             }
-            // Switching the active thread while its provider turn is still running
-            // loses ownership of the process and can make a later interrupt target
-            // the wrong task. Keep this mutation atomic at the HTTP boundary; an
-            // MCP client cannot make a safe check-then-switch across two requests.
-            if (bot.busy)
-                return json(res, 409, { error: "this bot is working — stop it before switching tasks" });
+            // Navigation only: execution owns its thread, never this selected id.
             const switched = store.switchTask(bot.id, m[2]);
             if (!switched)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such task" });
@@ -10945,12 +11506,81 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         }
         if (m && method === "PATCH") {
             const body = await readBody(req);
-            const task = store.renameTask(m[1], m[2], String(body.title ?? ""));
-            if (!task)
+            if (!body || typeof body !== "object" || Array.isArray(body))
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "body must be a JSON object" });
+            const current = store.projectBotForTask(m[1], m[2]);
+            if (!current)
                 return json(res, 404, { error: "no such task" });
+            const allowed = new Set(["title", "projectId", "modelSelection", "approvalMode", "autoApprove", "requireAvailableModel", "pinnedMessageId", "acknowledgeLocalAuto"]);
+            if (Object.keys(body).some((key) => !allowed.has(key)))
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "unsupported thread setting" });
+            for (const key of ["requireAvailableModel", "acknowledgeLocalAuto"]) {
+                if (body[key] !== undefined && typeof body[key] !== "boolean")
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: `${key} must be a boolean` });
+            }
+            if (body.requireAvailableModel === true && body.modelSelection === undefined)
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "requireAvailableModel requires modelSelection" });
+            const patch = {};
+            if (body.projectId !== undefined) {
+                if (body.projectId === null)
+                    patch.projectId = undefined;
+                else if (typeof body.projectId === "string" && store.project(current.id, body.projectId))
+                    patch.projectId = body.projectId;
+                else
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "projectId must belong to this bot, or null to ungroup the thread" });
+            }
+            if (body.title !== undefined) {
+                if (typeof body.title !== "string")
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "title must be a string" });
+                patch.title = body.title;
+            }
+            if (body.pinnedMessageId !== undefined) {
+                if (body.pinnedMessageId === null || body.pinnedMessageId === "")
+                    patch.pinnedMessageId = undefined;
+                else if (typeof body.pinnedMessageId === "string" && store.messagesFor(current.threadId).some((message) => message.id === body.pinnedMessageId))
+                    patch.pinnedMessageId = body.pinnedMessageId;
+                else
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "pinnedMessageId must belong to this thread" });
+            }
+            if (body.modelSelection !== undefined) {
+                if (current.approvalGrant)
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "the bot's approval mode is still being confirmed" });
+                const checked = checkedModelSelection(body.modelSelection, { selection: current.modelSelection, busy: threadBusy(current.id, current.threadId) }, body.requireAvailableModel === true);
+                if (!checked.ok)
+                    return json(res, checked.status, { error: checked.error });
+                patch.modelSelection = checked.selection;
+            }
+            if (body.approvalMode !== undefined || body.autoApprove !== undefined) {
+                if (body.autoApprove !== undefined && typeof body.autoApprove !== "boolean")
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "autoApprove must be a boolean" });
+                const mode = body.approvalMode ?? (body.autoApprove ? "auto" : "ask");
+                // Elevated modes still require the trusted desktop transition. A
+                // thread settings PATCH cannot manufacture that grant.
+                if (mode !== "ask" && mode !== "auto")
+                    return json(res, 403, { error: "Full and Custom access require confirmation in bot settings" });
+                if (threadBusy(current.id, current.threadId))
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "stop this thread before changing its approval mode" });
+                if (current.approvalGrant)
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "the bot's approval mode is still being confirmed" });
+                if (mode === "auto" && approvalModeFor(current) !== "auto" && auth.kind === "loopback" && !DESKTOP_MANAGED && !req.headers.origin && store.bots.some((bot) => bot.busy)) {
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "Change approval mode from the app or a paired device while bots are working." });
+                }
+                if (mode === "auto" && current.computer === "local" && approvalModeFor(current) !== "auto" && body.acknowledgeLocalAuto !== true) {
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "Auto mode on this computer requires confirming the warning first (acknowledgeLocalAuto)" });
+                }
+                patch.approvalMode = mode;
+                patch.autoApprove = mode === "auto";
+            }
+            const mode = patch.approvalMode ?? approvalModeFor(current);
+            if (patch.modelSelection && (mode === "full" || mode === "custom") &&
+                (!supportsApprovalMode(registry.cliTarget(patch.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind, mode) ||
+                    registry.cliTarget(patch.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind !== registry.cliTarget(current.modelSelection.instanceId)?.driverKind)) {
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "Choose Ask for this thread before changing providers with elevated permissions" });
+            }
+            const task = store.patchTask(m[1], m[2], patch);
             const fresh = botWithThread(store.bot(m[1]));
             broadcast({ kind: "bot", bot: fresh });
-            return json(res, 200, { task: wireTask(task) });
+            return json(res, 200, { task: wireTask(task), bot: fresh });
         }
         if (m && method === "DELETE") {
             const bot = store.bot(m[1]);
@@ -10960,7 +11590,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (phoneSecretSubmissions.hasThread(m[2])) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this task is securely saving a credential — try again when it finishes" });
             }
-            if (bot?.busy && (bot.threadId === m[2] || routines.isActiveThread(m[2]))) {
+            if (threadBusy(bot.id, m[2]) || routines.isActiveThread(m[2])) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this task is running — stop it first" });
             }
             const stagedSkillCleanups = stagedSkillCleanupsForThread(m[2]);
@@ -11239,7 +11869,26 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             // Windows never pushes PATH changes into a live process, so without
             // this the answer is frozen at boot and "check again" is a no-op.
             resetPathCache();
-            return json(res, 200, { instances: await registry.describe() });
+            return json(res, 200, { instances: await describeInstances() });
+        }
+        if (method === "POST" && path === "/api/instances/claude-accounts") {
+            if (!String(req.headers["content-type"] ?? "").toLowerCase().startsWith("application/json")) {
+                return json(res, 415, { error: "content-type must be application/json" });
+            }
+            const parsed = createClaudeAccountSchema.safeParse(await readBody(req, 8192));
+            if (!parsed.success)
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "Enter an account name (up to 80 characters) and an optional configuration directory." });
+            if (providerConfigBusy)
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "provider settings are already being updated" });
+            providerConfigBusy = true;
+            try {
+                const { instanceId, instances } = newClaudeAccount(cfg, parsed.data);
+                await persistProviderInstance(instanceId, instances);
+                return json(res, 201, { instanceId, instances: await describeInstances() });
+            }
+            finally {
+                providerConfigBusy = false;
+            }
         }
         const authStatus = /^\/api\/instances\/([\w.-]+)\/auth\/status$/.exec(path);
         if (method === "GET" && authStatus) {
@@ -11261,12 +11910,12 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 if (action === "refresh-models") {
                     if (!(await registry.refreshModels(instanceId)))
                         return json(res, 404, { error: "unknown instance" });
-                    return json(res, 200, { instances: await registry.describe() });
+                    return json(res, 200, { instances: await describeInstances() });
                 }
                 if (action === "install") {
                     if (!(await registry.installRuntime(instanceId)))
                         return json(res, 404, { error: "managed installation is unavailable" });
-                    return json(res, 200, { instances: await registry.describe() });
+                    return json(res, 200, { instances: await describeInstances() });
                 }
                 if (action === "auth/start") {
                     const instance = registry.get(instanceId);
@@ -11283,9 +11932,10 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 if (action === "auth/complete") {
                     const body = await readBody(req);
                     const flowId = typeof body?.flowId === "string" ? body.flowId : "";
-                    const callbackUrl = typeof body?.callbackUrl === "string" ? body.callbackUrl : "";
+                    // `code` for a pasted sign-in code (Claude), `callbackUrl` for a browser callback
+                    const callbackUrl = typeof body?.callbackUrl === "string" ? body.callbackUrl : typeof body?.code === "string" ? body.code : "";
                     if (!flowId || !callbackUrl)
-                        return json(res, 400, { error: "flowId and callbackUrl are required" });
+                        return json(res, 400, { error: "flowId and a code or callbackUrl are required" });
                     await providerAuthSessions.complete(instanceId, owner, flowId, callbackUrl);
                     return json(res, 200, { ok: true });
                 }
@@ -11336,6 +11986,14 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         // executable already configured for this Claude instance. The JSON gate
         // keeps a hostile page from triggering a local process with a simple
         // cross-origin form request.
+        const busyProviderSelections = () => store.bots.flatMap((bot) => {
+            const busyTasks = store.tasks(bot.id).filter((task) => threadBusy(bot.id, task.threadId));
+            const selections = busyTasks.map((task) => botForThread(bot.id, task.threadId).modelSelection);
+            // Rooms still run from the profile default; a direct thread does not.
+            if (activeGroupTurnForBot(bot.id) || (bot.busy && busyTasks.length === 0))
+                selections.push(bot.modelSelection);
+            return selections;
+        });
         const claudeUpdate = /^\/api\/instances\/([\w.-]+)\/claude-update$/.exec(path);
         if (method === "POST" && claudeUpdate) {
             if (!String(req.headers["content-type"] ?? "").toLowerCase().startsWith("application/json")) {
@@ -11353,7 +12011,7 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
             if (claudeUpdatesInFlight.has(target.cli)) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "this Claude installation is already updating" });
             }
-            const active = store.bots.some((bot) => bot.busy && registry.cliTarget(bot.modelSelection.instanceId)?.cli === target.cli);
+            const active = busyProviderSelections().some((selection) => registry.cliTarget(selection.instanceId)?.cli === target.cli);
             if (active) {
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "wait for running Claude tasks to finish before updating" });
             }
@@ -11372,38 +12030,81 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
         }
         // ── per-instance CLI path override (custom builds / versioned bins) ──
         // PATCH /api/instances/:id {cli: "/path/to/cli" | ""} — "" reverts to the
-        // driver default. Kills in-flight turns like any provider reload.
+        // driver default. Only this idle instance is replaced; siblings keep running.
         const instancePatch = /^\/api\/instances\/([\w.-]+)$/.exec(path);
         if (method === "PATCH" && instancePatch) {
             // same non-simple-request gate as the local-VM lifecycle routes
             if (!String(req.headers["content-type"] ?? "").toLowerCase().startsWith("application/json")) {
                 return json(res, 415, { error: "content-type must be application/json" });
             }
-            const body = await readBody(req);
-            if (typeof body?.cli !== "string")
-                return json(res, 400, { error: "cli must be a string" });
-            if (/[\n\r]/.test(body.cli))
-                return json(res, 400, { error: "cli must not contain newlines" });
+            const parsed = instanceSettingsSchema.safeParse(await readBody(req, 16384));
+            if (!parsed.success)
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "Supply a valid CLI path, account name or configuration directory." });
+            const body = parsed.data;
+            const instanceId = instancePatch[1];
             if (providerConfigBusy)
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "provider settings are already being updated" });
+            if (busyProviderSelections().some((selection) => selection.instanceId === instanceId)) {
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "Wait for bots using this account to finish before changing its settings." });
+            }
             providerConfigBusy = true;
+            providerInstancesChanging.add(instanceId);
             try {
-                const result = withInstanceCli(cfg, instancePatch[1], body.cli);
-                if (!result.ok)
-                    return json(res, 404, { error: `unknown instance "${instancePatch[1]}"` });
-                // persist the whole instances map this rebuild produced — a fresh
-                // saveConfig({instances}) merge would re-derive defaults identically,
-                // but writing the resolved map keeps disk and runtime in lockstep
-                saveConfig({ instances: result.config.instances });
-                Object.assign(cfg, loadConfig());
-                await reloadProviders();
-                // rescan BEFORE describe(): the response's cliCandidates are computed
-                // from the memoized PATH, so resetting after would answer this request
-                // with the pre-reset cache
-                resetPathCache();
-                return json(res, 200, { instances: await registry.describe() });
+                const result = body.cli === undefined ? { ok: true, config: cfg } : withInstanceCli(cfg, instanceId, body.cli);
+                const instances = persistableInstanceConfigs(result.config);
+                if (!result.ok || !Object.hasOwn(instances, instanceId))
+                    return json(res, 404, { error: `unknown instance "${instanceId}"` });
+                const entry = instances[instanceId];
+                if ((body.displayName !== undefined || body.configDir !== undefined) && entry.driver !== "claudeAgent") {
+                    return json(res, 400, { error: "Account settings are currently available for Claude only." });
+                }
+                if (body.displayName !== undefined)
+                    entry.displayName = body.displayName;
+                if (body.configDir !== undefined) {
+                    let previousDir;
+                    try {
+                        previousDir = configuredAccountDirectory(entry);
+                    }
+                    catch { /* Allow repairing an unused malformed account. */ }
+                    entry.config = { ...entry.config, configDir: body.configDir };
+                    if (previousDir !== configuredAccountDirectory(entry)) {
+                        const used = store.bots.some((bot) => bot.modelSelection.instanceId === instanceId || store.tasks(bot.id).some((task) => task.modelSelection?.instanceId === instanceId || task.resumeCursors[instanceId] || task.lastInstanceId === instanceId));
+                        if (used)
+                            return json(res, 409, { error: "This account is used by bots or conversation history. Add another account and select it for the bot instead." });
+                        assertSeparateClaudeAccount(instances, instanceId, entry);
+                    }
+                }
+                await persistProviderInstance(instanceId, instances);
+                return json(res, 200, { instances: await describeInstances() });
             }
             finally {
+                providerInstancesChanging.delete(instanceId);
+                providerConfigBusy = false;
+            }
+        }
+        if (method === "DELETE" && instancePatch) {
+            const instanceId = instancePatch[1];
+            if (providerConfigBusy)
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "provider settings are already being updated" });
+            const instances = persistableInstanceConfigs(cfg);
+            if (!Object.hasOwn(instances, instanceId))
+                return json(res, 404, { error: "unknown instance" });
+            if (instances[instanceId].driver !== "claudeAgent" || instanceId === "claude") {
+                return json(res, 400, { error: "Only added Claude accounts can be removed here." });
+            }
+            if (cfg.defaultModelSelection?.instanceId === instanceId || store.bots.some((bot) => bot.modelSelection.instanceId === instanceId || store.tasks(bot.id).some((task) => task.modelSelection?.instanceId === instanceId)) ||
+                busyProviderSelections().some((selection) => selection.instanceId === instanceId)) {
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "Choose another account for the bots and default model using this account before removing it." });
+            }
+            providerConfigBusy = true;
+            providerInstancesChanging.add(instanceId);
+            try {
+                delete instances[instanceId];
+                await persistProviderInstance(instanceId, instances);
+                return json(res, 200, { instances: await describeInstances() });
+            }
+            finally {
+                providerInstancesChanging.delete(instanceId);
                 providerConfigBusy = false;
             }
         }
@@ -11520,12 +12221,24 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                 return json(res, 400, { error: "nothing to save" });
             if (providerConfigBusy)
                 return json(res, 409, { error: "provider settings are already being updated" });
+            if (patch.browserProfiles !== undefined && body.expectedBrowserProfiles !== undefined) {
+                const current = (cfg.browserProfiles ?? []).map(({ id, name }) => ({ id, name }));
+                if (JSON.stringify(body.expectedBrowserProfiles) !== JSON.stringify(current)) {
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "Browser profiles changed in another window. Review the refreshed list and try again." });
+                }
+            }
             const disablingBuiltInBrowser = patch.features?.browser === false && builtInBrowserEnabled(cfg);
             const removedBrowserProfileIds = patch.browserProfiles === undefined
                 ? []
                 : (cfg.browserProfiles ?? [])
                     .map((profile) => profile.id)
                     .filter((id) => !patch.browserProfiles.some((profile) => profile.id === id));
+            const profileControlConflict = () => removedBrowserProfileIds.some((id) => {
+                const target = browserProfilePartitionTarget(cfg, id);
+                return target && browserRuntime.heldBy(browserSessionId("", target.partitionId));
+            });
+            if (profileControlConflict())
+                return json(res, 409, { error: "Release browser control before deleting its profile." });
             if (patch.browserProfiles !== undefined) {
                 const currentProfiles = new Map((cfg.browserProfiles ?? []).map((profile) => [profile.id, profile]));
                 const nextProfiles = patch.browserProfiles.map((profile) => {
@@ -11754,6 +12467,8 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                         return json(res, 409, { error: conflict });
                 }
                 const browserCleanupRequests = [];
+                if (profileControlConflict())
+                    return json(res, 409, { error: "Release browser control before deleting its profile." });
                 try {
                     for (const profileId of removedBrowserProfileIds) {
                         const target = browserProfilePartitionTarget(cfg, profileId);
@@ -11818,6 +12533,12 @@ const handleRequest = async (req, res) => {
                     throw error;
                 }
                 let browserReferenceCleanupError = null;
+                if (disablingBuiltInBrowser)
+                    browserLive.closeAll();
+                for (const request of browserCleanupRequests) {
+                    if (request.kind === "profile")
+                        browserLive.closeForSession(browserSessionId("", request.partitionId));
+                }
                 if (patch.browserProfiles !== undefined) {
                     const retained = new Set(patch.browserProfiles.map((profile) => profile.id));
                     try {
@@ -12310,6 +13031,21 @@ calendarCalls.start();
 // Resolve the edition before accepting requests so /api/edition is never a guess.
 console.log(describeEdition(await loadEnterpriseLayer()));
 console.log(describeBrand(loadBrand()));
+// Reclaim upload partials a previous run crashed out of, and warm the
+// attachment quota cache off the same scan. This used to happen implicitly on
+// every reservation, which is exactly what made uploads quadratic in
+// directory size; do the initial sweep before accepting requests.
+// ponytail: once per boot, not periodic. A partial orphaned while this
+// process is up survives until the next restart — add a timer only if that
+// shows up as real quota pressure.
+try {
+    const reclaimedPartials = cleanupStaleAttachmentPartials();
+    if (reclaimedPartials > 0)
+        console.log(`reclaimed ${reclaimedPartials} abandoned upload partial(s)`);
+}
+catch (error) {
+    console.warn(`attachments: startup partial cleanup failed: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`);
+}
 server.listen(PORT, "127.0.0.1", () => {
     console.log(`openmausbot server on http://127.0.0.1:${PORT}`);
 });
@@ -12335,6 +13071,7 @@ const gracefulShutdown = createGracefulShutdown({
             // asynchronous shutdown jobs drain. Invalidate their turn bearers before
             // any cleanup function reaches an await.
             revokeAllInternalCapabilities();
+            browserLive.closeAll();
             for (const idle of localVmIdles.values())
                 idle.cancel();
             vps.closeAllVpsDesktopTunnels();
@@ -12345,6 +13082,10 @@ const gracefulShutdown = createGracefulShutdown({
             tunnelListener?.close();
         },
         () => registry.disposeAll(),
+        async () => {
+            await Promise.all([...temporaryBrowserSessions.keys()].map((botId) => forgetTemporaryBrowser(botId)));
+            await browserRuntime.closeAll();
+        },
         () => flushAllProfileHistory(),
     ],
     // Cleanup jobs run concurrently. Release only after they settle (or reach