Agent Lifecycle Contract

Contract Metadata

{
  "subsystem_id": "agent-lifecycle",
  "lane": "L16",
  "contract_file": "docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/agent-lifecycle.md",
  "status_file": "docs/release-control/v6/internal/status.json",
  "registry_file": "docs/release-control/v6/internal/subsystems/registry.json",
  "dependency_subsystem_ids": ["api-contracts"]
}

Purpose

Own unified agent installation, registration, update continuity, profile management, and fleet control surfaces.

Canonical Files

internal/api/agent_install_command_shared.go
internal/api/config_setup_handlers.go
internal/api/unified_agent.go
internal/agentupdate/update.go
internal/hostagent/agent.go
cmd/pulse-agent/main.go
scripts/install.sh
scripts/install.ps1
frontend-modern/src/api/agentProfiles.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/AgentProfilesPanel.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureOperationsModel.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionsTable.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/connectionsTableModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionsLedger.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionRowActions.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/ConnectionEditor.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/AddressProbeStep.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/useConnectionEditor.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/TrueNASCredentialSlot.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/VMwareCredentialSlot.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureSourceManager.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureSourcePicker.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureDiscoverySettingsDialog.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/DiscoverySettingsForm.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/discoverySettingsModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureWorkspaceModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/proxmoxSettingsModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConfiguredNodeTables.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/SettingsSectionNav.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureOperationsState.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureSettingsState.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalAuthenticationSection.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalBasicInfoSection.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/nodeModalModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalSetupGuideSection.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalStatusFooter.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Infrastructure/deploy/ResultsStep.tsx
frontend-modern/src/utils/agentProfilesPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/agentInstallCommand.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/infrastructureOnboardingPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/api/nodes.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureInstallState.tsx
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureSettingsModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureConfiguredNodesState.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureDiscoveryRuntimeState.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/infrastructureSettingsPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/agentCapabilityPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/agentProfileSuggestionPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/configuredNodeCapabilityPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/configuredNodeStatusPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/unifiedAgentInventoryPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/unifiedAgentStatusPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/clusterEndpointPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/nodeModalPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/utils/proxmoxSettingsPresentation.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/platformConnectionsModel.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useTrueNASSettingsPanelState.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useVMwareSettingsPanelState.ts
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/MonitoredSystemAdmissionPreview.tsx
internal/hostagent/proxmox_setup.go
internal/remoteconfig/client.go
internal/agenttls/config.go

Shared Boundaries

frontend-modern/src/api/agentProfiles.ts shared with api-contracts: the agent profiles frontend client is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a canonical API payload contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/api/nodes.ts shared with api-contracts: the shared Proxmox node client is both an agent lifecycle setup/install control surface and a canonical API payload contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx shared with api-contracts: the inline node credential slot is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureOperationsModel.tsx shared with api-contracts: the pure infrastructure operations inventory/install model is both an agent fleet lifecycle control surface and an API token, lookup, assignment, and reporting/install contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/MonitoredSystemAdmissionPreview.tsx shared with cloud-paid: the monitored-system admission preview is both a platform-connections lifecycle surface and a canonical cloud-paid monitored-system presentation boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalAuthenticationSection.tsx shared with api-contracts: the node setup authentication section is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalBasicInfoSection.tsx shared with api-contracts: the node setup basic-info section is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/nodeModalModel.ts shared with api-contracts: the pure node setup modal model is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx shared with api-contracts: the node setup monitoring section is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalSetupGuideSection.tsx shared with api-contracts: the node setup guide section is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/NodeModalStatusFooter.tsx shared with api-contracts: the node setup status/footer section is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureConfiguredNodesState.ts shared with api-contracts: the direct-node infrastructure settings state hook is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared Proxmox node API contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureDiscoveryRuntimeState.ts shared with api-contracts: the infrastructure discovery runtime state hook is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared discovery/settings API contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureInstallState.tsx shared with api-contracts: the infrastructure install state hook is both an agent fleet lifecycle control surface and an API token, lookup, and install transport contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureOperationsState.tsx shared with api-contracts: the shared infrastructure operations state hook is both an agent fleet lifecycle control surface and an API token, lookup, assignment, and reporting/install contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts shared with api-contracts: the node setup modal state hook is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a shared API-backed install/setup contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/utils/agentInstallCommand.ts shared with api-contracts: the shared frontend install-command helper is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a canonical API/install transport contract boundary.
frontend-modern/src/utils/infrastructureSettingsPresentation.ts shared with api-contracts: the infrastructure settings presentation helper is both an agent lifecycle control surface and an API-backed direct-node/discovery settings boundary.
internal/api/agent_install_command_shared.go shared with api-contracts: agent install command assembly is both an agent lifecycle control surface and a canonical API payload contract boundary.
internal/api/config_setup_handlers.go shared with api-contracts: auto-register and setup handlers are both an agent lifecycle control surface and a canonical API payload contract boundary.
internal/api/unified_agent.go shared with api-contracts: unified agent download and installer handlers are both an agent lifecycle control surface and a canonical API payload contract boundary.
scripts/install.ps1 shared with deployment-installability: the Windows installer is both a deployment installability entry point and a canonical agent lifecycle runtime continuity boundary.
scripts/install.sh shared with deployment-installability: the shell installer is both a deployment installability entry point and a canonical agent lifecycle runtime continuity boundary.

The node setup modal boundary must keep guided setup and manual credential submission separate. For new PVE/PBS setup, Agent Install and Direct Connection setup-script modes are command-driven auto-registration paths; Token ID/Value fields, Test Connection, and Add Node submission belong only to Manual Token Setup or existing-node edit flows. The setup guide must also present the source strategy at action time: Agent Install is the recommended API + Agent path, Direct Connection is the advanced API inventory path, and Manual Token Setup is an advanced manual API-token escape hatch.

That shared monitored-system admission preview boundary also owns the disabled platform-connection lifecycle state. Once a TrueNAS or VMware setup form marks the connection disabled, lifecycle surfaces must treat a canonical zero-delta or removal-only preview as a valid save path instead of holding the dialog in an add-only capacity posture.

Extension Points

Add or change install-command generation, canonical /api/auto-register behavior, or installer download behavior through the owned internal/api/ files above. Canonical /api/auto-register auth is split by intent: when the setup-token bootstrap path succeeds, lifecycle clients must complete registration with the one-time authToken only and must not also send the long-lived X-API-Token header. The header-backed agent:report fallback exists only for update-only re-registration when setup-token fetch is unavailable. That same lifecycle-owned setup path also owns script teardown behavior: rerunning the governed setup script in remove mode must call canonical /api/auto-unregister with source:"script" before local credentials are deleted, and the short recent-setup-token grace window must remain valid for that follow-up uninstall so operators can immediately back out a reviewed script-managed Proxmox setup without leaving a stale node record in Pulse. That same shared internal/api/ adjacency does not transfer ownership of Patrol quickstart bootstrap or mobile Patrol-provider bridging: internal/api/ai_handlers.go and internal/api/chat_service_adapter.go may be invoked by lifecycle-adjacent surfaces, but server-issued quickstart tokens, Patrol quickstart credit snapshots, and AI runtime auth remain ai-runtime plus api-contracts concerns rather than install-token or lifecycle credential state. Server-verified runtime identity remains the only authority for Patrol quickstart bootstrap: self-hosted installs use the shared installation-scoped activation.enc, while entitled hosted lanes use the signed entitlement lease already carried in canonical billing state. Per-request /api/ai/chat execution-mode overrides follow that same boundary: lifecycle-adjacent consumers may rely on Assistant approval semantics, but scoped autonomous_mode:false chat requests must not be reinterpreted as agent registration, assignment, installer, or connection lifecycle state. Lifecycle flows must not reintroduce anonymous bootstrap identity, tenant-local commercial-owner surrogates, or fake activation records when they traverse those shared handlers. They also must not infer tenant creation, email issuance, or public-route availability from /api/public/signup response codes or payload fields just because that commercial route lives under the shared internal/api/ tree. That same shared quickstart boundary is vendor-neutral at the lifecycle edge too: lifecycle-adjacent consumers may observe the stable quickstart:pulse-hosted alias in AI settings payloads, but they must not bake vendor model IDs or provider-model fallback rules into install or activation flows just because those routes share the backend API tree. Lifecycle-adjacent resource reads that traverse internal/api/resources.go must also preserve the canonical unified-resource name -> type -> id order instead of inheriting map order or page-local re-sorts, so install and runtime hydration do not present one resource ordering at first load and a different ordering after the first live refresh. Those lifecycle-adjacent reads may observe resource API policyPosture aggregation as read-only data-governance context, but they must not reinterpret sensitivity, routing, or redaction counts as install capacity, registration eligibility, or agent assignment state. When lifecycle surfaces also hydrate from /api/state, that first-session snapshot must carry the same canonical resource types and display names as /api/resources instead of briefly showing legacy host aliases before the first websocket-backed refresh lands. Chart-adjacent lifecycle reads in shared internal/api/router.go must obey that same mock-aware unified snapshot boundary: demo /api/charts and /api/charts/infrastructure payloads may not bypass GetUnifiedReadStateOrSnapshot() and silently drop VMware-backed host rows that the canonical mock estate already published through /api/state and /api/resources. Persisted legacy hosted quickstart model IDs are therefore not lifecycle truth either: when shared settings helpers load or save historical quickstart values, they must normalize them back to quickstart:pulse-hosted before adjacent install or activation flows read the payload. The machine-scoped quickstart authority must stay canonical too: tenant-local lifecycle routes may reuse shared installation activation or effective entitlement billing state, but they must not fork per-org activation caches, alternate installation-token stores, synthetic entitlement mirrors, or competing quickstart-owner identity. That same shared AI/runtime boundary now also owns Patrol quickstart execution identity: lifecycle-adjacent flows may trigger or observe Patrol runs through internal/api/chat_service_adapter.go, but they must preserve the stable execution identifier that lets the hosted quickstart contract bill once per higher-level Patrol run rather than once per internal provider turn.
Add or change update continuity and persisted-version handoff through internal/agentupdate/.
Add or change runtime-side Unified Agent startup, first-report assembly, and enroll/runtime continuity through internal/hostagent/. Proxmox host-agent setup must treat local proxmox-registered markers as a cache, not authority: before skipping token setup or node repair, internal/hostagent/proxmox_setup.go must revalidate the current type and candidate hosts against Pulse through the canonical auto-register contract. Runtime startup must preserve the token-optional path for already-installed non-enrollment agents; only enrollment mode may fail CLI configuration loading solely because no API token was supplied. That runtime-side ownership includes local disk telemetry collection in internal/hostagent/smartctl.go. Linux SMART discovery must prefer smartctl --scan-open typed targets before generic block-device fallback so controller-backed disks keep their canonical SMART and wearout coverage. FreeBSD SMART probing must retry through the canonical typed and untyped device modes and the SCT temperature status path before settling on standby or no-data results, and partial or plain-text smartctl output must still preserve model, serial, health, and temperature data through the same host-agent runtime boundary instead of leaving monitoring to guess. Server-side lifecycle admission must preserve that same continuity across Pulse restart and upgrade. When a standalone host comes back with the same durable machine/report identity and token continuity, the shared admission path must treat it as the existing system until live inventory rebuild catches up, rather than as a fresh enrolment competing for another monitored-system slot.
Keep shared agent-side TLS identity fail-closed across cmd/pulse-agent/main.go, internal/hostagent/, internal/agentupdate/, internal/remoteconfig/client.go, and internal/agenttls/config.go. Self-signed deployments may use a canonical pinned Pulse server certificate fingerprint, but lifecycle transport must route that pin through reporting, enrollment, command websocket, remote-config, and self-update clients instead of widening PULSE_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY into a blanket MITM carve-out. A configured custom CA bundle is part of that same trust boundary: if the bundle is unreadable or invalid, lifecycle transport must refuse the connection path rather than silently downgrading back to system roots.
Keep release-grade updater trust fail-closed across internal/agentupdate/, internal/dockeragent/, and the shared internal/api/unified_agent.go download helpers. When release builds embed trusted update signing keys, published agent binaries and installer assets must carry detached .sig plus .sshsig sidecars; updater/runtime paths must require X-Signature-Ed25519 in addition to X-Checksum-Sha256, and installer-owned download flows must require the matching base64-encoded X-Signature-SSHSIG, instead of silently downgrading to checksum-only trust.
Keep shared internal/api/ helper edits isolated from agent lifecycle semantics: Patrol-specific status transport or alert-trigger wiring changes in shared handlers must not bleed into auto-register, installer, or fleet-control behavior unless this contract moves in the same slice. The same isolation rule applies to AI settings payload work in internal/api/ai_handlers.go: provider auth fields, masked-secret echoes, and provider-test model selection remain AI/runtime plus API-contract ownership and must not be reinterpreted as lifecycle setup or registration semantics just because they share backend helper layers. The same shared-helper rule now covers SSO outbound discovery and metadata fetches plus credential-file loads in internal/api/sso_outbound.go, internal/api/saml_service.go, and internal/api/oidc_service.go: lifecycle-adjacent setup or auth work may depend on that shared trust boundary, but it must not fork a second HTTP client, redirect policy, or file-read rule inside lifecycle-local flows. The same shared-helper rule also covers organization membership and cross-organization sharing transport in internal/api/org_handlers.go plus adjacent route wiring. Lifecycle surfaces may coexist on the same settings shell, but they must not reinterpret pending-versus-accepted org-share state as install authority, monitored-system admission truth, or enroll-time access control; target-org approval remains organization-settings plus security/privacy ownership even when the implementation moves through the shared backend API tree.
Keep legacy Unified Agent compatibility names explicitly secondary when touching shared internal/api/ runtime helpers: the legacy host-route family and host-agent:* scope names may remain as ingress or migration aliases, but they must not retake primary ownership in router state, live runtime scope checks, handler commentary, or operator-facing guidance.
Add or change the unified agent CLI entrypoint, version/help exit semantics, or startup argument/error routing through cmd/pulse-agent/main.go. The CLI entrypoint owns propagation of persistence context into runtime-owned helpers. When installer-selected state roots differ from the default, cmd/pulse-agent/main.go must pass that exact StateDir through both the host-agent runtime and updater startup paths instead of letting one path silently fall back to /var/lib/pulse-agent. The same runtime-owned boundary also owns Pulse control-plane URL validation for agent startup, remote config, updater continuity, and command transport. Non-loopback control-plane URLs remain HTTPS/WSS by default, but explicitly insecure agent/dev-runtime flows may use plain HTTP/WS for LAN development control planes; installer-persisted dev URLs must not be accepted by one runtime path and rejected by another.
Add or change installer flags, persisted service arguments, or upgrade-safe re-entry behavior through scripts/install.sh and scripts/install.ps1. Persistence-sensitive NAS targets must keep one canonical continuity model here: installer-owned bootstraps may use flash-backed or immutable-root launch hooks only as thin trampolines, while the durable wrapper, state, and reboot-surviving binary copy stay in the governed persistent state directory that updater continuity also refreshes. Approval-gated command execution must expose stable rejection reasons for invalid approval grants so fleet operators can distinguish missing, expired, mismatched, and signature-invalid grants through agent metrics.
Add or change profile management, the extracted agent profiles runtime owner, the infrastructure source-manager landing, the pure unified-agent inventory/install model, the connections-ledger workspace shell, the unified ConnectionEditor and its per-type credential slots, route model, shared install section owner, the shared direct-node/discovery infrastructure settings owners plus their model, shared frontend install-command assembly, Proxmox setup/install API transport, TrueNAS platform-connection management, VMware platform-connection management, the shared monitored-system admission preview shell for those platform connections, setup-completion install handoff transport, deploy-fallback manual install transport, and fleet-control presentation through frontend-modern/src/api/agentProfiles.ts, frontend-modern/src/api/nodes.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/AgentProfilesPanel.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionsTable.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/connectionsTableModel.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionsLedger.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionRowActions.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/ConnectionEditor.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/AddressProbeStep.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/useConnectionEditor.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/TrueNASCredentialSlot.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/VMwareCredentialSlot.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureOperationsModel.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureSourceManager.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureWorkspaceModel.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/MonitoredSystemAdmissionPreview.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/platformConnectionsModel.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useTrueNASSettingsPanelState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useVMwareSettingsPanelState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/proxmoxSettingsModel.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConfiguredNodeTables.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/SettingsSectionNav.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureSettingsModel.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureConfiguredNodesState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureDiscoveryRuntimeState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureInstallState.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureOperationsState.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureSettingsState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/nodeModalModel.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx, and frontend-modern/src/utils/agentInstallCommand.ts. Phase 9 retired the legacy reporting/inventory surface (InfrastructureOperationsController, InfrastructureInventorySection, InfrastructureActiveRowDetails, InfrastructureIgnoredRowDetails, InfrastructureStopMonitoringDialog, useInfrastructureReportingState) and the per-type shells (PlatformConnectionsWorkspace, ProxmoxSettingsPanel, ProxmoxDirectWorkspace, ProxmoxConfiguredNodesTable, ProxmoxDirectConnectionsCard, ProxmoxDiscoveryResultsCard, ProxmoxDeleteNodeDialog, ProxmoxNodeModalStack, NodeModal shell, TrueNASSettingsPanel, VMwareSettingsPanel, useProxmoxDirectWorkspaceState); lifecycle extensions must route through the unified aggregator ledger, source-manager cards, and ConnectionEditor credential slots rather than reintroducing those retired surfaces. Those lifecycle-owned settings hooks may consume websocket state only through frontend-modern/src/contexts/appRuntime.ts; they must not import frontend-modern/src/App.tsx or recreate root-shell providers. Discovery configuration is part of that same lifecycle-owned workspace boundary. InfrastructureSourceManager.tsx must open one canonical discovery editor through InfrastructureDiscoverySettingsDialog.tsx, DiscoverySettingsForm.tsx, and discoverySettingsModel.ts, while the System/Network shell stays limited to network-boundary controls instead of reintroducing a second editable discovery surface. That same workspace boundary now owns the infrastructure source-management toolbar too: the landing page exposes Add infrastructure, Run discovery, and Discovery settings as first-viewport toolbar actions inside the source manager, while governed source rows expose per-source add actions such as Install Pulse Agent from the shared catalog. Detect address remains inside the single add-flow source picker/probe path rather than a duplicate toolbar action. The same landing boundary may surface setup confidence from the unified rows and discovered candidates, including connected-system count, API coverage, agent coverage, sources that still need an agent, and discovery review state, without creating a second inventory model or provider-specific summary fetch. Source groups must stay in the governed source catalog order instead of re-sorting by current row count, row-level lifecycle entry points must use Manage language, and locked agent-install states must show a compact command inventory without raw token placeholders or disabled copy commands until a token exists. Network discovery settings remain safety-critical: automatic scanning must surface the shared-network/subnet warning before operators save scan mode changes. Setup-completion handoff belongs to that same single add-flow boundary. The first-run completion screen must keep credentials as the first surfaced object, then present one compact next-step surface that sends operators to Add infrastructure or directly to the Agent handoff; source-choice explanation may live inside that surface, but lifecycle work must not reintroduce a separate setup-wizard tour, duplicate CTA section, or inline install-command owner before the canonical infrastructure workspace. The same lifecycle-owned workspace boundary now also owns attached-agent composition. When a unified Pulse Agent augments a first-class platform source such as Proxmox VE, the source manager and edit dialog must present one primary platform row with explicit API plus Pulse Agent composition rather than duplicating that same machine as a second peer row under a generic Pulse Agent platform bucket. Standalone hosts with no owning platform source remain grouped under a standalone-host owner bucket, with Pulse Agent shown as the collection method rather than as the pseudo-platform label. When that primary Proxmox source is cluster-backed, the same workspace boundary must render the row under the canonical cluster moniker carried by the backend grouping contract rather than under one sibling node's hostname. That same backend grouping contract must also carry the explicit member-node list for the cluster so the source manager can render child node composition such as delly and minipc beneath the owning cluster row with per-node coverage/status. Cluster-member node agents belong as augmentations on that owning Proxmox row and its child nodes, not as separate standalone-host peers. That same lifecycle-owned workspace boundary also owns agent version posture on infrastructure settings. The landing table stays compact and should only raise row-level attention when an attached or standalone agent has an update available, while the exact installed version belongs in the add/edit detail surfaces rather than as a permanent top-level table column. Standalone host rows must still be recognizable at a glance, but that identity belongs in the existing row cells rather than new diagnostics columns: the landing table reuses the System and Endpoint cells for a short host fact such as OS/platform plus a reported endpoint, while the richer agent identity facts stay in the edit/detail surface. Public demo and other read-only settings posture must stay reporting-first on that same lifecycle-owned workspace boundary: infrastructure workspace routes may retain install and platform setup surfaces for manageable sessions, but read-only presentation must collapse back to reporting/control instead of advertising first-system setup on a pre-populated demo estate. Agent-profile suggestion affordances remain adjacent assistant UX, not a second AI settings reader. frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts may gate the Ideas action only from the shared assistant-availability fact seeded by /api/security/status.sessionCapabilities.assistantEnabled, and must not probe /api/settings/ai just to decide whether that affordance should render.
Preserve canonical token-lifecycle reads in shared internal/api/ auth/security helpers so lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows do not revoke a displayed relay pairing token after lastUsedAt proves that an already paired device is actively depending on that credential.
Preserve backend-owned Pulse Mobile relay runtime credential minting in those same shared internal/api/ auth/security helpers so lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows reuse the canonical mobile token route instead of reintroducing wildcard or browser-authored runtime token bundles.
Preserve the dedicated backend-owned relay:mobile:access capability and its governed backward-compatible route inventory plus the shared helper call sites around it, so lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows do not widen the mobile device credential back into general AI chat/execute scope ownership.
Preserve shipped security-doc guidance in shared lifecycle setup helpers so internal/api/config_setup_handlers.go and adjacent install/setup runtime paths point operators at the running build's local security documentation route rather than GitHub main links.
Keep shared internal/api/router.go workload-chart downsampling presentation-only: when that router caps mixed-cadence workload history into equal-time buckets for operator-facing cards, lifecycle-adjacent setup and fleet surfaces must not reuse the shaped chart samples as heartbeat, enrollment, or last-seen authority. That same presentation-only boundary must preserve canonical millisecond timestamps when it serializes chart points, so lifecycle-adjacent first-host and fleet surfaces do not misread rounded chart samples as duplicate or restarted heartbeat evidence. The same rule now applies to storage summary interaction. Shared sticky-card or row-hover focus behavior on infrastructure, workloads, and storage may reuse the canonical chart transport, but lifecycle-adjacent install, enrollment, and fleet surfaces must not treat highlighted summary series or sticky-shell state as agent freshness or setup progress. The same rule now applies to infrastructure-summary metric filters. Shared dashboard and infrastructure consumers may narrow the canonical /api/charts/infrastructure payload with a metrics query for presentation hot paths, but lifecycle surfaces must not reinterpret omitted disk or network series as missing lifecycle telemetry, missing agent capabilities, or reduced fleet freshness truth. The same rule now applies to compact dashboard summary payloads. Shared internal/api/resources.go summary routes may collapse resource counts, problem rows, and top-resource rankings for dashboard hot paths, but lifecycle surfaces must not treat /api/resources/dashboard-summary as install inventory authority, enrollment proof, or fleet freshness truth. The same presentation-only boundary now covers compact storage summary chart reads as well. Shared /api/charts/storage-summary transport may request only the canonical used and avail storage series needed for the dashboard capacity sparkline, and lifecycle surfaces must not reinterpret the omitted usage or total series as missing lifecycle telemetry or enrollment-state evidence. Dashboard storage trend consumers on that shared router boundary must now reuse the single /api/storage-charts summary response instead of fanning out per-pool /api/metrics-store/history reads, and lifecycle surfaces still must treat that batched storage summary transport as presentation context only rather than install, enrollment, or freshness truth.
Keep lifecycle installer fallback pinned to published release lineage only. When internal/api/unified_agent.go has to proxy /install.sh or /install.ps1 from GitHub, the shared lifecycle path may only treat stable tags and explicit RC prerelease tags as release assets. Working-line dev prereleases and build-metadata versions must fail closed so first-host install, repair, and fleet continuity do not depend on unpublished or branch-local installer URLs.
Keep self-hosted purchase handoff state on the adjacent commercial/auth boundary. When shared internal/api/router.go, internal/api/router_routes_cloud.go, internal/api/licensing_handlers.go, or internal/api/demo_mode_commercial.go evolve public /auth/license-purchase-start or /auth/license-purchase-activate, lifecycle-adjacent setup and fleet surfaces may rely on that public-route wiring but must not reinterpret the commercial-owned portal_handoff_id, server-resolved checkout intent, purchase-return tokens, activation-bridge form state, owned billing purchase-arrival states, or demo-hidden commercial route policy as installer credentials, registration state, or fleet enrollment authority. The same adjacent commercial boundary also owns purchase-start unavailability recovery: lifecycle-adjacent surfaces may coexist with that shared browser route, but they must not strand install or fleet flows on a raw Pulse Account error tab, reinterpret purchase=unavailable as lifecycle repair state, or bypass the shared secure callback policy that limits self-hosted commercial return URLs to HTTPS instance origins or direct-loopback HTTP and keeps hosted commercial follow-up fetches on the restricted outbound client. bypass the owned billing retry/recovery path. That same adjacent commercial/auth boundary also owns the canonical self-hosted purchase intent label: lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows may observe self_hosted_plan, but they must not keep emitting or inferring legacy max_monitored_systems intent/query values once the uncapped self-hosted model is canonical. The same adjacent commercial boundary now also owns migrated-v5 monitored-system grandfathering: lifecycle surfaces may react to the resulting license or entitlements payloads, but they must not cache their own pre-activation host counts, synthesize a second grandfather floor, or treat install-time fleet inventory as the authority for commercial continuity. They also must not depend on a status or entitlements read to seal pending grandfather continuity, use those billing reads to restart pending continuity reconciliation, or reinterpret continuity-verification payloads as a real 0 / limit monitored-system state. When the commercial reconciler captures the floor, lifecycle-adjacent code must treat the resulting activation-state callback as commercial ownership cleanup only, not as install inventory proof or fleet enrollment state. That same adjacent commercial boundary also owns authenticated install-version attribution for migrated installs: lifecycle surfaces may observe versioned commercial status, but they must not treat activation/exchange/refresh version fields as installer enrollment state, invent a second fleet-version cache, or backfill install lineage from local host inventory when the shared licensing runtime already sends the canonical process version. That same adjacent commercial boundary also owns internal demo-fixture grants: lifecycle surfaces may observe that a governed demo runtime is fixture-backed, but they must not mint, echo, or infer the internal demo_fixtures capability through install/setup payloads or installer heuristics. The same lifecycle-adjacent platform-connections boundary also assumes direct TrueNAS and VMware connection writes fail closed when canonical monitored-system usage is unavailable. Shared internal/api/ admission helpers must return monitored_system_usage_unavailable before save, and VMware must not collect external vCenter inventory before that canonical capacity view is safe, so fleet/setup surfaces cannot bypass the monitored-system accounting boundary through direct API writes. The same lifecycle-adjacent platform-connections boundary now also owns the unified connections ledger (GET /api/connections) and address probe (POST /api/connections/probe). Lifecycle surfaces may observe agent Host.LastSeen-backed rows on that ledger, but must not reinterpret derived state (active/paused/unauthorized/unreachable/ stale/pending) as install authority or treat the probe response as enrollment state. Metadata, link-local, multicast, and unspecified probe destinations must fail closed before any outbound dial, and lifecycle surfaces must surface that canonical rejection instead of retrying through lane-local probe helpers. Ledger writes still flow through the per-type config endpoints that own admission checks, and the Disabled flag on PVE/PBS/PMG surfaced by that ledger must remain a pause-only signal rather than an installer pre-flight gate. The unified add surface is the governed modal flow mounted by InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx: the landing page owns the persistent instance list, the picker dialog owns source-type selection, and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/ConnectionEditor.tsx owns detect-driven credential handoff plus type-specific form bodies. That same landing now owns explicit discovery review for API-backed Proxmox-family systems: InfrastructureSourceManager.tsx may surface discovered VE / PBS / PMG candidates under their matching platform groups, and InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx may route a candidate's Review action into the same typed add dialog with canonical prefills. Lifecycle flows must not fork a second discovery-specific credential wizard or treat discovery results as already-enrolled systems before the operator saves the governed add form. That same landing-owned shell now keeps discovery compact: the persistent page may expose only a concise discovery status line plus Run discovery / Discovery settings actions, while new-source admission stays on the per-platform table actions instead of competing with discovery at the top of the page. The editor's probe step calls the aggregator probe endpoint and dispatches the detected or manually-selected type into a credential slot; it must not bypass the probe endpoint or fabricate probe candidates, and the agent credential slot must continue to reach InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx so install handoffs remain on the canonical unified-agent install path. Those governed add/edit dialogs must also keep their form body scrollable inside the modal: InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx and ConnectionEditor.tsx keep the content shell on min-h-0 flex columns so long lifecycle forms do not clip lower fields behind the dialog boundary. For PVE, PBS, and PMG, the credential slot is frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx, which reuses the existing NodeModalBasicInfoSection, NodeModalAuthenticationSection, NodeModalMonitoringSection, and NodeModalStatusFooter primitives inline under the editor — dropping the Dialog wrapper and the surrounding discovery/configured-nodes workspace. The inline credential slot must keep the visible setup sequence as Endpoint, Authentication, and Coverage before the PVE/PBS/PMG setup forms so lifecycle actions keep a stable operator model inside the unified editor. For TrueNAS and VMware, the credential slots are frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/TrueNASCredentialSlot.tsx and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/VMwareCredentialSlot.tsx; they extract the inner form bodies from the per-type panels and render them inline under the editor while still driving the existing TrueNASSettingsPanelState and VMwareSettingsPanelState APIs for save, test, preview, and admission-preview behavior. The add flow must not reintroduce the full per-type workspace (Proxmox discovery card, configured nodes table, node-modal stack; TrueNAS/VMware connection list with headers and row actions) into the credential slot, because that previously showed the ledger-of-other-systems in the middle of entering one system's credentials. The configured connections table reads exclusively from the unified aggregator: the ConnectionsTable rows are produced by frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionsLedger.ts, which polls GET /api/connections and maps the aggregator-derived state (active/paused/unauthorized/unreachable/stale/pending) and active scope keys into the table's display. InfrastructureWorkspace must not reconstruct per-type health, scope, or last-seen columns from any retired reporting-local state for configured connection rows; the aggregator is the only configured-connections source of truth. That same aggregator-authored connection/member payload also owns discovery reconciliation for already represented hosts: when a platform row, its attached agent augmentation, or one of its child members already carries canonical host aliases, the settings shell must suppress any duplicate discovery candidate for that same platform instead of asking the operator to review the same machine twice under a hostname row and an IP-only candidate row. Per-row Edit, Pause/Resume, and Remove actions live directly on the ConnectionsTable row — wired through frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionRowActions.ts which owns pause/remove API dispatch, two-click remove confirm, and per-id action error presentation. Last-error detail is rendered inline on the row when connection.lastError is non-null, not hidden behind a click-through. Remove-confirm on an agent row reveals the Linux + Windows uninstall commands as an inline expansion so the operator can copy and run them before the final confirm; that expansion replaces the legacy InfrastructureActiveRowDetails surface-breakdown drawer. The ledger must never reintroduce a separate detail page or Dialog drawer for viewing a connection's aggregator fields — everything is on the row. The TrueNAS and VMware credential slots carry per-surface Monitor* scope the same way the PVE/PBS/PMG credential slot already does: TrueNASSettingsPanelState/VMwareSettingsPanelState read and write positive MonitorDatasets/MonitorPools/MonitorReplication (TrueNAS) and MonitorVMs/MonitorHosts/MonitorDatastores (VMware) booleans, and the credential slot renders a "Collection scope" checkbox cluster backed by those fields. The unified aggregator must project those flags into the connection row's scope map and keep capabilities.supportsScope: true for TrueNAS/VMware — reintroducing the per-type Stop-this-surface dialog or hard-coding scope to a fixed all-true map is forbidden.

Forbidden Paths

New install or update continuity behavior hidden only inside broad monitoring ownership.
Agent profile or fleet-control behavior implemented outside the canonical agent settings/profile surfaces.
Installer or update flows that depend on branch-tip, dev-only, or non-release asset behavior for supported RC/stable paths.

Completion Obligations

Update this contract when agent lifecycle ownership changes.
Keep shared API proof routing aligned whenever install, register, or profile payloads change.
Update runtime and settings tests in the same slice when lifecycle behavior changes.
Keep host-agent test hooks, command-client factories, and timing overrides instance-scoped under internal/hostagent/agent.go; lifecycle-owned registration and update paths must not depend on package-global mutable test seams that can leak between concurrent agent sessions or tests.
Preserve canonical /api/auto-register node identity continuity when canonical hosts shift between hostname and IP forms for the same node. That same lifecycle-adjacent shared-API boundary now covers relay and command-target hostname resolution too. When lifecycle flows reuse internal/api/router_routes_ai_relay.go, internal/agentexec/server.go, or other shared agent-target helpers, they may treat a short hostname as equivalent to the same agent's FQDN, but they must not widen that fallback into a short-name collapse that would make two different FQDNs appear to be the same lifecycle target.
Keep Proxmox registration continuity self-healing: stale local registration markers must be verified against Pulse before the host agent skips setup, and a missing matching node on the Pulse side must drive canonical re-registration instead of asking operators to delete marker files manually.
Keep first-session lifecycle handoff explicit: the live setup completion surface in frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx must route the primary CTA into /settings/infrastructure?add=pick, frame that route as source strategy selection, and present platform API inventory plus Pulse Agent telemetry as peer choices for Proxmox, TrueNAS, VMware, standalone hosts, and future provider integrations rather than leaving post-setup next actions implicit. A direct Pulse Agent handoff may remain as a secondary control for operators who already know the first source is agent-managed, but the primary first-run path is the unified source picker. Once the completion surface observes connected systems, that same handoff model must derive its follow-up actions from the canonical connected-system path classification rather than a raw connected-agent count. API-backed first-session states must keep Add infrastructure visible for both API-backed and agent-managed next systems instead of reviving separate Platform connections and Infrastructure Install branches. The API-backed versus agent-managed classification must come from the governed onboarding paths in docs/release-control/v6/internal/PLATFORM_SUPPORT_MANIFEST.json through the shared frontend manifest helper, not from a Setup Wizard-local platform allowlist. When preview-only browser proof needs a deterministic connected snapshot, frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx may accept a preview-provided connected-resource override, but the live first-session runtime path must keep /api/state polling as the sole source of connected-system truth when no override is supplied.
Keep frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx oriented around the first monitored host. Install-token generation, governed command copy, and install instructions belong to the canonical lifecycle path; transport details, trust overrides, profile tuning, and adjacent alternatives must remain secondary to that first-host onboarding narrative, including an explicit advanced-options disclosure so first-time operators see token generation, command copy, and status confirmation before non-default connection controls.
Keep frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureWorkspaceModel.ts aligned with that same lifecycle path. The bare /settings/infrastructure route must render one Connections and inventory ledger that lists top-level infrastructure only — active or ignored infrastructure roots plus saved Proxmox VE, PBS, PMG, TrueNAS, VMware, and agent-managed entries — as sibling rows sharing one system/coverage/collection/status/last-activity workspace model, so operators can read infrastructure state in one scan instead of hopping between install, reporting, and provider shells. Guest-linked agent rows still belong to the reporting inventory and inline lifecycle detail, but they must not appear as peer connection rows on that top ledger. Adding a new system must stay a single entry point on that ledger: one Add infrastructure entry point that opens the source picker, keeps Install on a host explicit only after the operator chooses Pulse Agent, and opens the saved-connection create flow for API-backed platforms on the same page. /settings/infrastructure/install, /settings/infrastructure/platforms, and /settings/infrastructure/operations remain valid deep links, but they must resolve to section focus on that same single-page workspace rather than rendering separate page shells or hiding the top ledger. Read-only sessions must redirect any non-inventory infrastructure deep link back to /settings/infrastructure, suppress the add-system entry point, and hide configuration-only sections so presentation-policy restrictions still hold. That top ledger must also stay readable inside the governed settings shell at ordinary desktop widths: when the settings rail leaves the table without room for the full six-column ledger, ConnectionsTable.tsx must collapse collection and last-activity into row metadata instead of forcing horizontal scrolling just to reach primary controls. The dedicated collection and last-activity columns may return only once the workspace has enough width to show the full ledger without clipping headers or row actions.
Keep post-install lifecycle completion explicit inside frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureInstallState.tsx.
Keep the dev first-session proof deterministic on the real wizard path: tests/integration/tests/helpers.ts and tests/integration/tests/11-first-session.spec.ts must refresh first-run state through /api/security/dev/reset-first-run, then prove the canonical Add infrastructure handoff and the explicit Install Pulse Agent secondary handoff against the live setup wizard instead of relying on stale bootstrap tokens, dashboard fallbacks, or preview-only coverage. The primary handoff must land on the shared infrastructure onboarding contract at /settings/infrastructure?add=pick and normalize back to /settings/infrastructure instead of reviving a separate platform-management shell. The secondary agent handoff must land on /settings/infrastructure?add=agent. When the first host reports successfully, the install workflow must treat that as a completion handoff with direct navigation into /dashboard and /settings/infrastructure/operations instead of leaving operators on a generic lookup result. When the workspace starts from zero active connected infrastructure and install commands are available, the same lifecycle path must auto-watch the canonical /api/state projection for the first reporting host rather than requiring a brand-new operator to know and type a hostname or agent ID just to see the first success handoff. When that workspace is entered through first-run setup handoff, the same lifecycle path must also auto-create the scoped first-host install token so the operator lands on ready-to-copy commands instead of being asked to perform a second manual token-generation step immediately after securing the server. Any first-run credentials download generated from that same handoff must describe the prepared first-host token path consistently instead of telling the operator to generate another install token manually.
Keep frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx ordered around the actual first-run operator sequence: credentials that must be saved now should be visible before the operator leaves the screen, and the completion surface should present one canonical primary next-step path into Add infrastructure instead of repeating competing install or dashboard CTAs across multiple sections. Once the first monitored system is already connected, that same surface must pivot its primary CTA and headline to / so the operator is sent to the dashboard rather than being told to connect the first source again. While the first source is still pending, that same completion narrative must describe Add infrastructure as the place where the operator chooses platform API inventory, Pulse Agent telemetry, or both. If the operator selects the direct agent path from that completion surface, the agent install body may prepare the first-host scoped install token from setup handoff, and when it names the shared settings workspace for follow-up lifecycle control it must use the canonical Infrastructure label instead of reviving the retired Infrastructure Operations wording. not as a second manual token-generation task the operator still needs to figure out.
Keep API-backed platform onboarding explicit across frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureOperationsModel.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureInstallState.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx, and frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx. TrueNAS must be presented as an API-backed source flow through Add infrastructure first, not as a dedicated Unified Agent install profile. The agent install path may remain available for optional later agent augmentation on TrueNAS, but first-run copy, alternative CTAs, and install-profile lists must not imply that an agent install is the required bootstrap for TrueNAS support in Pulse.
Keep first-session and lifecycle-adjacent frontend resource handling on the canonical unified-resource boundary. Top-level TrueNAS appliances may reach setup-completion or infrastructure lifecycle surfaces only as canonical agent resources with platformType: 'truenas'; any legacy raw resource.type === 'truenas' compatibility collapse belongs in the shared frontend resource adapters, not in setup or lifecycle-local UI branching.
Keep lifecycle-adjacent AI transport compatibility on the shared internal/api/ boundary. If chat mention parsing, alert investigation targets, or adjacent Assistant resource transport still accept a legacy top-level truenas type, that value must collapse immediately to the canonical agent host type before lifecycle surfaces, setup handoffs, or operator-visible route state consume it.
Keep onboarding ownership aligned with docs/release-control/v6/internal/PLATFORM_SUPPORT_MODEL.md: agent-backed first-class platforms belong to the install/reporting lifecycle path, API-backed first-class platforms belong to the Add infrastructure API source flow, and any later unified-agent augmentation on an API-backed platform must remain an optional secondary path instead of silently becoming the required bootstrap.

Current State

The infrastructure workspace collapsed to a single /settings/infrastructure route. buildInfrastructureWorkspacePath() always returns the base path; deriveAddStepFromLegacyPath() maps legacy sub-paths to in-page panel state. SetupCompletionPanel.tsx uses one INFRASTRUCTURE_PATH constant for all install and platform CTAs.

This subsystem now sits under the dedicated agent lifecycle and fleet operations lane so install, registration, update continuity, profile management, and fleet safety stop hiding inside architecture, migration, or monitoring work. Lifecycle-owned connected-infrastructure and reporting browsers now also keep governed platform rows on canonical local operator identity while tolerating optional optimistic hostnames. Shared row models may fall back to the row name when staging a removal state, but they must not resurrect legacy policy.display shims or require platform-managed surfaces to synthesize a second hostname contract. That same adjacent internal/api/ router boundary now also keeps usage-data controls out of lifecycle truth. Agent install, reporting, and setup surfaces may coexist with /api/upgrade-metrics/* and telemetry preview routes under shared licensing/auth routing, but they must not reinterpret local-only upgrade-event state, telemetry preview payloads, or published-release classification fields as enrollment evidence, agent freshness, or setup progress truth. That same adjacent internal/api/ boundary now also keeps public demos from leaking commercial state through lifecycle-adjacent surfaces. Agent install, reporting, and setup flows may share backend helpers with billing or license transport, but DEMO_MODE must continue to 404 commercial read surfaces instead of teaching lifecycle or mock-mode paths to bypass licensing. Public demo readiness therefore comes from hiding commercial presentation on the shared API boundary, not from introducing a second fake-entitlement path into lifecycle-owned install or reporting flows. Browser-facing lifecycle surfaces must also treat /api/security/status as the canonical public-demo bootstrap contract. The backend source-of-truth fact remains sessionCapabilities.demoMode, but lifecycle surfaces must consume the shared resolved presentationPolicy instead of inferring demo posture from headers, /api/health, or hostname heuristics. That same shared API boundary now owns the hidden-versus-runtime-only split as well: lifecycle-adjacent flows may inherit non-commercial /api/license/runtime-capabilities reads when demo-visible product behavior needs them, but /api/license/commercial-posture, /api/license/entitlements, and /auth/license-purchase-start stay hidden in public demo mode and those lifecycle flows must not depend on licensed identity, plan labels, upgrade reasons, checkout handoff state, or observed usage counts surviving the public-demo contract. That same demo-safe runtime contract now also redacts monitored-system capacity posture from public-preview runtime capabilities. Lifecycle-adjacent install or reporting surfaces may still depend on demo-safe capability flags, but they must not expect monitored_system_capacity, admission-freeze copy, or observed plan overage posture to survive the public-demo boundary. The same presentation-policy split now governs paid lifecycle extensions in ordinary self-hosted v6 installs. Agent profile management may remain an entitled lifecycle surface, but default Infrastructure navigation must not advertise agent-profile upgrades, trial prompts, or paid helper links while presentationPolicy.hideUpgrade is true; it should stay on the free source manager unless an explicit entitlement or recovery context makes the paid lifecycle surface relevant. That same demo-hidden API boundary also keeps runtime-admin operations out of public lifecycle flows: /api/diagnostics, /api/diagnostics/docker/prepare-token, and /api/logs/* must return 404 in demo mode instead of exposing runtime bundles, log streams, or diagnostics payloads through a nominally read-only preview account. Lifecycle-owned browser shells must also defer any commercial helper reads until that presentation policy resolves so demo suppression stays fail-closed during first render instead of racing hidden commercial endpoints from shared setup or install surfaces. The governed exception is frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx: because that first-run completion surface renders before the authenticated shell has mounted frontend-modern/src/useAppRuntimeState.ts, it may issue the local commercial posture bootstrap needed for trial and upgrade posture, and it may force-refresh that posture after a successful trial start. Other lifecycle-adjacent authenticated-shell surfaces such as frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useNodeModalState.ts and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts must consume the shared posture owner instead of reintroducing their own mount-time commercial reads. Even on that governed first-run exception, render-time trial gating should stay on shared selectors such as isCommercialTrialActive() instead of reading raw commercial-posture fields inside SetupCompletionPanel.tsx. That same shared boundary now also owns the one-time checkout-return lookup: lifecycle-adjacent surfaces may initiate billing or account handoff through shared public routes, but they must never persist, derive, or replay the server-owned portal checkout state or owned billing purchase-arrival state as lifecycle state. Lifecycle-adjacent storage and fleet surfaces now also depend on one governed physical-disk history transport. When agent-backed disk telemetry is rendered through shared drawers or lifecycle-adjacent resource context, those reads must flow through the canonical /api/metrics-store/history boundary and the disk MetricsTarget.ResourceID that monitoring projects for the resource, rather than reviving a browser-local collector or a lifecycle-only agent/device identity. That same adjacent API boundary now also owns internal demo-fixture runtime gating. Lifecycle-adjacent install, reporting, and demo-facing flows may share mock-mode handlers in dev and test, but release builds must authorize runtime mock rewiring only through the internal demo_fixtures entitlement, and browser-facing lifecycle surfaces must not infer or persist that internal grant from public runtime-capabilities or presentation-policy payloads. Shared workload-chart reads that lifecycle surfaces reuse must stay presentation-only on that same boundary: internal/api/router.go may batch those reads in parallel, but it must request only the canonical rendered metric set for workload cards instead of widening the hot path back to fetch-all metrics on behalf of install or reporting callers. That shared internal/api/ dependency now also assumes hosted tenant AI and relay bootstrap reads use one effective hosted billing lease before lifecycle-adjacent flows inspect runtime readiness, so install and setup surfaces do not observe a tenant-org Pulse Assistant state that disagrees with the machine-owned hosted entitlement already backing the same instance. That same shared internal/api/ dependency now also assumes AI settings stay vendor-neutral on that boundary. Lifecycle-adjacent setup and infrastructure surfaces may depend on the shared AI settings transport being available, but they must not revive host-install or first-run branches that guess provider model defaults once the backend owns BYOK model resolution from live provider catalogs. That same shared dependency now also assumes settings-driven AI enablement can cold-start the direct Assistant runtime and approval persistence without a prior chat session. Lifecycle-adjacent mobile pairing and setup flows depend on /api/ai/approvals becoming ready from the first governed settings save, not only after some earlier process-start or chat-start side effect has already initialized the approval store. That same shared dependency now also assumes hosted cloud handoff authorizes tenant org access before browser lifecycle continues. Lifecycle-adjacent opens into hosted workspaces may depend on internal/api/cloud_handoff_handlers.go, but the canonical contract is that a successful handoff exchange may continue only when the handed-off account already has server-owned tenant membership. The exchange path must derive the effective role from the existing owner/member record, reject any handoff claim that would upgrade that stored role, and fail closed when the tenant org still has a blank OwnerUserID instead of letting the first owner-shaped token claim the tenant during browser session minting. Lifecycle-owned paywalls now also follow the shared commercial navigation contract. frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/AgentProfilesPanel.tsx and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts may request the canonical commercial destination from the shared license boundary, but they must leave internal-versus-external navigation semantics to frontend-primitives instead of hardcoding pricing URLs or tab-open behavior inside lifecycle-owned settings surfaces. That same lifecycle-owned settings surface must also keep assistant availability as an app-shell fact instead of an AI-runtime fetch. Agent Profiles may read the shared browser bootstrap availability state to decide whether assistant affordances render, but they must not mount frontend-modern/src/stores/aiRuntimeState.ts or call /api/settings/ai just to decide whether to show assistant-adjacent UI. That same platform-connections ownership now also includes mock-runtime continuity for API-backed platforms. When /api/system/mock-mode flips a running server between real and mock data, the canonical TrueNAS and VMware settings routes must keep surfacing through the same Add infrastructure source picker and handoff URLs instead of depending on process-start-only wiring or a mock-only alternate shell. That same lifecycle-owned mock path now also requires one shared fixture owner for API-backed platform onboarding. TrueNAS and VMware connection-list payloads shown in Add infrastructure must be assembled from the canonical internal/mock/ platform fixture layer, so settings handoff metadata cannot drift from the runtime mock inventory and shared storage/recovery context. That same lifecycle-adjacent mock path must stay graph-first at the shared internal/api/ boundary. When lifecycle-adjacent handlers depend on mock platform inventory or recovery context, they must consume internal/mock/fixture_graph.go and its graph-owned projections instead of reintroducing snapshot-only or platform-only helper exports. Lifecycle-adjacent summary chart consumers may still depend on shared internal/api/router.go transport, but any synthetic mock series on that path must resolve through canonical resourceType and resourceID identities rather than lifecycle-local seed prefixes, so platform handoff surfaces do not see a different recent tail than the runtime mock inventory they describe. When those lifecycle-adjacent surfaces call /api/charts/infrastructure, the shared metrics filter contract must stay authoritative through the backend batch loader as well, so quickstart or install readouts that only render CPU and memory do not silently pay for disk/network guest fan-out. That same hosted continuity contract also applies to the older direct tenant magic-link path. Lifecycle-adjacent control-plane redirects through /auth/cloud-handoff must preserve canonical account/user/role identity in the handoff token long enough for the tenant runtime to validate the existing org membership and derive the bounded effective role before it lands in protected hosted routes. Direct opens must fail closed on missing membership, blank-owner orgs, or owner/admin role escalation attempts instead of diverging from the newer portal exchange path by repairing org metadata on arrival. That same shared internal/api/ organization boundary also now assumes self-hosted org membership is consent-backed rather than manager-written for a target user ID. Lifecycle-adjacent setup, install, or hosted-entry surfaces may call /api/orgs/{id}/members, but a new user must land in a pending invitation record and become a real member only after the invited account accepts through the canonical invitation routes. Owner transfer remains an existing-member operation on that same boundary; lifecycle-adjacent flows may not treat an unaccepted invitation or arbitrary userId string as a member-shaped owner target, and they may not complete owner transfer through a stale ambient browser cookie. The acting owner must re-enter through a fresh browser session on the shared auth boundary before lifecycle-adjacent surfaces can permanently reassign org ownership. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also assumes telemetry transparency remains explicitly system-settings-owned. When lifecycle-adjacent setup or router work touches shared internal/api/ files, telemetry preview and install-ID reset routes must keep reusing the canonical system-settings trust boundary and server-owned telemetry runtime instead of borrowing agent lifecycle proof or state ownership just because the same router surface moved. That same shared internal/api/ai_handlers.go dependency also now assumes Patrol-specific settings and status expansions stay Patrol-owned. When shared AI handlers add split scoped-trigger fields, recency labels, or trigger-state transport for Patrol, lifecycle-adjacent setup and fleet surfaces must treat those payloads as Patrol-only runtime context and must not reinterpret them as agent install readiness, enrollment health, or fleet-control state. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also now assumes SSO test and metadata-preview routes fail closed on validated outbound URL handling. Lifecycle-adjacent setup and hosted bootstrap surfaces may depend on those shared helpers, but they must not reintroduce raw URL concatenation, userinfo-bearing fetch targets, or origin-root OIDC discovery drift when operators validate identity configuration. That same lifecycle-adjacent identity validation path now also assumes the manual SAML test payload preserves the optional idpSloUrl alongside idpSsoUrl on the shared API contract, so operators validating hosted identity before first-user or first-host handoff do not silently lose logout endpoint validation when they choose manual SAML entry instead of metadata import. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also now assumes post-auth browser handoff stays on one canonical local redirect builder. Lifecycle-adjacent setup and hosted bootstrap surfaces may depend on shared OIDC/SAML callbacks, but they must not reintroduce per-handler returnTo shaping that can bypass the governed local-path validation before success or error query markers are added. That same shared auth dependency also assumes release builds do not revive the development-only admin bypass path. Lifecycle-adjacent setup or first-session flows may still run in non-release developer mode with ALLOW_ADMIN_BYPASS, but release binaries must compile that env override out instead of carrying a runtime branch that can be reopened after deployment.

Agent lifecycle owns the install/register/update continuity surfaces, but it does not own unified-resource history or control-plane timeline persistence. Those runtime changes now travel through the shared API and unified-resource contracts, which keeps fleet bootstrap and identity continuity separate from resource-change recording and historical inspection. The shared API runtime now also exposes unified-resource action, lifecycle, and export audit reads alongside the enterprise audit surface. That read path belongs to the API and unified-resource contracts, not to lifecycle ownership, so the agent-install and registration lane stays focused on fleet continuity instead of adopting execution-history persistence as a side effect. That shared audit-read path also now requires the dedicated audit:read token scope instead of inheriting broader settings:read access, so lifecycle-adjacent install and registration surfaces cannot regain enterprise audit history just by holding general settings visibility. The connected-infrastructure reporting workspace also now treats API-backed platform surfaces as platform-connection-managed capabilities, not host-managed agent extensions. frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureOperationsModel.tsx, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionsLedger.ts, frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useConnectionRowActions.ts, and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/ConnectionsTable.tsx must keep Proxmox, PBS, PMG, and TrueNAS on the shared Infrastructure API-backed path, while only machine-installed agent, Docker, and Kubernetes surfaces participate in host stop-monitoring scope, uninstall commands, and upgrade actions. That same lifecycle-owned reporting contract now also owns guest-link truth for agent rows: when a host agent is actually attached to a VM or system container, the shared connected-infrastructure payload must preserve that linked guest identity so the top Connections and inventory ledger can stay scoped to top-level infrastructure instead of rendering guest-backed agents as peer infrastructure roots. Those unified audit list endpoints also clamp oversized limit requests to the governed maximum, so audit history stays bounded even when callers ask for arbitrarily large pages. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also now assumes hosted runtime websocket upgrades trust the cloud proxy only through explicit tenant PULSE_TRUSTED_PROXY_CIDRS wiring, so first-session handoff and agent-facing live activity surfaces do not degrade into reconnect loops when a hosted workspace is opened through the control plane. That proxy-trust boundary must also reject wildcard trust ranges such as 0.0.0.0/0 or ::/0 at startup, and agent-adjacent forwarded-header reads must fail closed if invalid wildcard proxy trust configuration is present. That same lifecycle-owned command websocket now derives an explicit same-origin HTTP Origin header for /api/agent/ws from the canonical Pulse base URL through internal/securityutil/websocket_origin.go, and the agent receiver must reject missing or cross-host origins before registration. Runtime command sockets therefore stay on the same fail-closed host/proxy continuity contract as the browser websocket path instead of accepting originless upgrades. That same receiver-owned admission path must also cap concurrent websocket connections per client IP before upgrade so one source cannot hold unbounded agent command sockets open. That same shared helper layer also now assumes the Pulse Mobile relay runtime credential reaches only the explicit backend-owned route inventory, so lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows cannot accidentally widen the paired-device credential just by touching neighboring internal/api/ routes. The same shared API runtime now also exposes dedicated unified-resource timeline reads through internal/api/resources.go plus the bundled facet history read used by the drawer, but those query surfaces remain owned by the API and unified-resource contracts rather than by lifecycle continuity. Those timeline reads also accept governed filters for change kind, source type, and source adapter, and the underlying store owns the filtered counts so agent lifecycle routing still stays on canonical fleet-continuity ownership instead of re-deriving resource history locally. That same shared internal/api/ boundary now also exposes a dedicated VM inventory export route for reporting. Fleet and install surfaces may coexist with that export, but internal/api/reporting_inventory_handlers.go and internal/api/router_routes_licensing.go remain API-owned reporting transport, not lifecycle-owned inventory or install behavior. That adjacent reporting transport now also includes a reporting catalog route whose nested VM inventory definition owns panel copy, performance report options, export title, column schema, and filename prefixes. Lifecycle- adjacent install and fleet surfaces may read those facts, but they must not redefine reporting or inventory schema locally. That catalog route is intentionally metadata-readable without the advanced_reporting feature gate so locked admin reporting shells can stay on the same API-owned definition before upsell; lifecycle-adjacent surfaces must not treat that metadata visibility as permission to execute paid report/export routes. That same API-owned performance-report definition also governs transport-side validation and attachment naming. Lifecycle-adjacent fleet surfaces may depend on those downloads, but they must treat allowed formats, multi-resource caps, optional metric/title support, default fallback range windows, attachment filename stems, and invalid-format validation copy as API-owned reporting contract rather than mirroring local constants. That adjacent export contract now also carries canonical Proxmox pool membership for each VM row. Lifecycle-adjacent install and fleet surfaces may reuse those current-state facts, but they must still treat the pool column as API-owned reporting data rather than introducing lifecycle-local guest inventory assembly. The same API serializer now also refreshes canonical identity and policy metadata through the shared unified-resource helper before it returns resource payloads, so lifecycle-adjacent links keep the same canonical metadata pass as the rest of the resource API instead of composing local attach wrappers. That same shared internal/api/ dependency now also keeps Patrol runtime availability explicit as API-owned state. Lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows may touch the shared AI handler layer, but they must not collapse a blocked Patrol runtime back into generic healthy status just because the last successful summary snapshot was green. Invalid sourceAdapter values are rejected at the API boundary, so the fleet lane continues to consume only the canonical adapter set rather than introducing a broader compatibility escape hatch. That same API boundary now routes the kind, sourceType, and sourceAdapter query values through the shared unified-resource change filter parser, so the lifecycle lane keeps the transport contract aligned with the canonical resource-history model instead of rebuilding filter normalization locally. That same shared internal/api/ boundary now also keeps recovery payload platform vocabulary canonical at the transport edge. Lifecycle-adjacent surfaces that deep-link into recovery may still depend on those handlers, but they must treat response platform / platforms as API-owned fields and use legacy provider aliases only as compatibility fallback rather than reviving provider-shaped transport assumptions in fleet flows. That same lifecycle boundary also relies on canonical Kubernetes pod metrics targets. Pod-facing drawers may expose MetricsTarget.ResourceID only as the history lookup coordinate, but they must keep the prefixed k8s:<cluster>:pod:<uid> contract and let metrics-history handlers canonicalize any legacy bare pod ID back onto that key, otherwise pod detail history and workload summary cards split onto different timelines. The router now wires the tenant resource state provider during initial setup when a multi-tenant monitor is present, so tenant-scoped fleet pages do not trip a missing-provider 500 before the monitor has finished initializing. The dedicated profile client now also routes list, schema, and validation parsing through shared response helpers in frontend-modern/src/api/agentProfiles.ts, so profile transport stays aligned with the governed API contract instead of reintroducing local array or JSON parsing rules. That same lifecycle-owned install/profile surface now also routes trial-start CTA orchestration through frontend-modern/src/utils/trialStartAction.ts. Agent profile paywalls, NodeModal upgrade prompts, and setup-completion trial actions may choose their own success copy, but they must use the shared helper for hosted trial redirects and canonical denial handling instead of open-coding startProTrial() branches in each lifecycle surface.

The owned backend API surfaces must preserve the exact-release installer fallback, canonical /api/auto-register behavior, and hosted org install-command contracts instead of leaving those guarantees implied by generic API ownership. Those shared auth/security helpers now also own the dedicated relay:mobile:access capability that backs Pulse Mobile pairing. Lifecycle- adjacent setup and install flows may depend on that helper layer, but they may only consume the server-owned minting route and the governed compatibility gates for the mobile runtime endpoints. They must not recreate broader AI-scoped mobile credentials or invent route-local scope exceptions. That same lifecycle-adjacent setup path now also depends on the hosted relay runtime helper inside internal/api/. Hosted Pulse Cloud tenants must not require an operator to visit Settings and manually PUT /api/settings/relay before Pulse Mobile pairing becomes possible. When hosted entitlements grant relay, the shared backend helper must auto-bootstrap the canonical relay runtime state that onboarding and relay-status reads consume, while still preserving explicit operator-owned disablement when a real relay config was already written. That same hosted setup boundary also depends on tenant browser sessions staying canonical after cloud handoff. Lifecycle-adjacent mobile pairing and hosted admin setup routes may run without local credentials configured, but shared internal/api/auth.go helpers must still honor a valid hosted pulse_session before any API-only token fallback or optional-auth anonymous fallback so operators can mint relay-mobile credentials and continue onboarding from the hosted runtime itself even after that tenant has already minted managed API tokens. That same lifecycle-adjacent hosted setup path also depends on AI bootstrap staying canonical before the first settings write. Hosted operators may land in Chat, Patrol-backed setup hints, or AI-dependent remediation surfaces before anyone has visited AI Settings, so the shared internal/api/ hosted-AI bootstrap helper must persist the machine-owned quickstart-backed ai.enc for entitled tenants by reusing the signed entitlement lease already present in billing state; it must not fabricate installation activation just to satisfy quickstart bootstrap. Otherwise lifecycle-adjacent hosted flows end up in a fake AI disabled state that disappears only after a manual save. That same lifecycle-adjacent hosted entitlement path must also preserve the trial quickstart grant fields already seeded into billing state. Hosted setup and pairing may depend on the shared internal/api/ entitlement refresh, but that refresh must not erase quickstart bootstrap inventory while it rewrites lease-backed plan and capability data. That same shared entitlement refresh path must also keep hosted effective-org ownership canonical for lifecycle-adjacent routes: when pairing or relay-mobile bootstrap arrives scoped to a tenant org with no org-local lease, the refresh must target the instance-level default billing lease and evaluator instead of persisting a second empty tenant copy. Otherwise hosted pairing falls back to free-tier behavior even though the machine already carries the paid hosted lease. The same setup boundary also depends on canonical org-management privilege surviving the next step: once the request is scoped to a hosted tenant org, shared internal/api/security_setup_fix.go helpers must allow that org's owner/admin membership to exercise settings-bound pairing routes instead of requiring a separate configured local admin username that does not exist on hosted tenants. The same setup boundary also owns the dedicated relay-mobile bootstrap read: once the backend mints the server-owned Pulse Mobile credential, the QR, deep-link, and validation reads in internal/api/router_routes_ai_relay.go must accept that relay:mobile:access scope directly instead of demanding the broader settings-read privilege that the pairing token was never meant to carry. That same adjacent internal/api/ reporting surface also keeps lifecycle- adjacent automation on the canonical time-window transport contract. Any setup, handoff, or scheduled lifecycle flow that triggers performance reports must treat reporting start/end values as optional RFC3339 fields owned by the API contract, with malformed or inverted ranges rejected as 400 invalid_time_range rather than silently drifting to a fallback window. Those same lifecycle-triggered reporting calls must also stay inside the API-owned metricType/title limits and the strict multi-report JSON body rules instead of assuming the backend will coerce malformed payloads into a best-effort report. When those lifecycle-adjacent calls fail validation, adjacent automation should rely on the API-owned error codes rather than message-text heuristics, because the backend contract owns the reporting validation classification. The API-backed platform onboarding surface now lives inside the shared Infrastructure workspace. ConnectionsTable.tsx, connectionsTableModel.ts, InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx, infrastructureWorkspaceModel.ts, InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx, platformConnectionsModel.ts, useInfrastructureSettingsState.ts, useTrueNASSettingsPanelState.ts, useVMwareSettingsPanelState.ts, proxmoxSettingsModel.ts, useInfrastructureConfiguredNodesState.ts, and useInfrastructureDiscoveryRuntimeState.ts own the fallback install/direct/reporting operator flow, with ConnectionsTable.tsx plus connectionsTableModel.ts as the canonical top-level infrastructure ledger and the governed add/edit modals as the API-backed add/edit surface. Operator-facing setup copy should use Add infrastructure and source-strategy language for the shared Infrastructure onboarding path (/settings/infrastructure?add=pick) rather than reviving the standalone PlatformConnectionsWorkspace.tsx shell or the old Platform connections label. That infrastructure destination now has one canonical mental model: configured infrastructure sources stay visible on the landing page as the primary objects the operator manages. The landing table is instance-first, not type-first: existing connections or agent-backed hosts render inside one platform-banded systems ledger, each platform section owns its own Add action, and the page does not fork back into a second monitored-systems ledger below. Adding infrastructure therefore happens in two governed steps. The ?add=pick modal owns grouped source-type selection and may offer Detect from address as a secondary utility. The ?add=detect modal owns probe-driven handoff into ConnectionEditor.tsx, while typed add routes jump straight into the matching credential or install body. The shared Settings sidebar still owns only the top-level Infrastructure destination; movement between landing, picker, detect flow, add form, and edit form belongs to explicit actions inside InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx, not extra sidebar entries or body-replacing workspace subtabs. That same landing/table contract now also owns collection-method phrasing. connectionsTableModel.ts, useConnectionsLedger.ts, InfrastructureSourceManager.tsx, and ConnectionsTable.tsx must present the same plain-language subtitle (via platform API, via Pulse Agent, or via platform API and Pulse Agent) from the shared ledger contract instead of shipping badge-only heuristics that operators have to decode visually. That same lifecycle-owned platform onboarding boundary must keep API-backed provider state operationally useful, not CRUD-only. useTrueNASSettingsPanelState.ts and useVMwareSettingsPanelState.ts must surface shared runtime health, poll cadence, discovered contribution summary, and canonical infrastructure / workloads / storage / recovery handoffs coming from the saved-connection APIs instead of falling back to provider-local inference or agent-first setup guidance. Saved-connection retests must use the server-owned test routes, must allow masked-secret continuity on edit, and must refresh the shared connection-summary state after a save or retest completes. frontend-modern/src/utils/clusterEndpointPresentation.ts and frontend-modern/src/utils/proxmoxSettingsPresentation.ts remain part of that same governed lifecycle surface, so endpoint reachability state, discovery-prefill defaults, and variant copy do not drift into card-local strings or prefill assembly. That same platform-onboarding boundary also defines the agent-optional rule for API-backed platforms. TrueNAS and VMware may surface Assistant control, diagnostics, configuration reads, and runtime insight through the backend-owned connection and polling path, but adjacent lifecycle flows must not start treating a unified-agent install as the required bootstrap for provider-backed operations. That same boundary also defines the only acceptable VMware phase-1 path: vCenter under the shared Infrastructure onboarding flow. Lifecycle-adjacent flows must not invent a VMware-only setup shell, direct-ESXi branch, or agent-first bootstrap story just because the runtime now has a live VMware connection panel and poller. That same platform-onboarding boundary also owns demo/mock continuity for API- backed settings surfaces. When /api/system/mock-mode is enabled, provider fixtures and their downstream infrastructure/workloads/storage/recovery handoffs must still read from internal/mock/fixture_graph.go, so operator-facing demos stay coherent across those adjacent product surfaces without a restart. That same lifecycle-owned platform-onboarding boundary also owns configured Proxmox, PBS, and PMG replacement continuity. Node update handlers must pass the current platform surface into monitored-system admission through the shared structured replacement selector so host or name edits preserve the intended slot without reintroducing lifecycle-local matcher closures or empty-estate fallbacks. That same shared router boundary must treat infrastructure summary chart normalization as summary-only presentation transport: long-range chart bucket shaping may improve operator-facing summary readability, but it must not be reused as lifecycle freshness, heartbeat, or enrollment-state authority. That same shared chart boundary may resolve provider-backed workload history through unified metrics targets, but emitted workload IDs must stay on the canonical /workloads row contract so lifecycle settings, reporting, and handoff surfaces never depend on provider-native metric keys. That same lifecycle-owned settings slice now also owns the shared VMware handoff framing. InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx, useInfrastructureSettingsState.ts, and useSettingsInfrastructurePanelProps.ts must surface VMware availability and connection counts from the same shared infrastructure settings state that owns the inline VMware credential flow itself, rather than letting adjacent setup surfaces grow a second VMware availability fetch or a VMware-only handoff path. That same infrastructure workspace boundary now also owns the first-run handoff copy for new operators. InfrastructureWorkspace.tsx must keep platform API inventory and Pulse Agent telemetry explicit in the shared workspace instead of leaving first-session guidance implicit in generic settings-shell prose or retreating to one provider's name or one onboarding mode as the primary story. That same first-run infrastructure handoff now also owns the instance-first add flow. InfrastructureSourcePicker.tsx must present grouped source types only after the operator deliberately clicks Add infrastructure, and ConnectionEditor.tsx must stay focused on detect-driven handoff and the selected type's form body instead of reviving a second top-level catalog. Product grouping belongs to the governed platform-support presentation helper, not lane-local card lists. Detect utility copy must stay provider-neutral and operationally plain, and returning from a chosen credential slot to detect must reset probe input and result state rather than reopening the editor with stale no-match or detected-product state already rendered. Render-order proof for that landing belongs to DOM-backed settings tests, not raw source-string position checks, so lifecycle ownership continues to guard the operator-visible order after reasonable component extraction or copy refactors. When that infrastructure workspace needs to redirect operators to the plan- owned self-hosted commercial surface for billing, monitored-system limits, or license status, it must consume the settings-owned referral copy from frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/selfHostedBillingPresentation.ts instead of carrying workspace-local commercial guidance or reaching back into generic commercial presentation helpers from the hosted infrastructure route. Shared licensing routes under internal/api/ may retain legacy upgrade-metrics route names for compatibility, but lifecycle-adjacent settings and install flows must treat them as local commercial handoff events, not as a reason to reintroduce default self-hosted upgrade prompts. That canonical /api/auto-register behavior now also includes hostname/IP continuity: reruns that arrive through a different canonical host form must reuse the same Pulse-managed node record and token instead of forking duplicate fleet entries. That same lifecycle contract also governs the runtime-side Proxmox setup host selection in internal/hostagent/proxmox_setup.go: when the system hostname resolves to a non-loopback, non-link-local address, the generated Proxmox registration host must stay on that canonical hostname instead of downgrading to a route-inferred interface IP. Route-aware IP detection remains the fallback only when hostname resolution is unusable, so multi-NIC and internal-CA deployments preserve canonical hostname continuity without losing an IP escape hatch for non-DNS installs. That same Proxmox registration boundary must now also let Pulse choose from the agent's ordered candidate host list instead of blindly persisting the agent's first preference. Unified Agent setup must send canonical candidateHosts alongside the preferred host, and /api/auto-register must store the first candidate that Pulse can actually reach for fingerprint capture from its own network view so mixed-DNS and split-network installs do not register a host the server itself cannot use afterward. That same selection path must only persist VerifySSL=true when Pulse actually captured a certificate fingerprint for the selected host; if every candidate fingerprint probe fails, registration must fall back to the preferred normalized host with strict TLS disabled instead of pretending public-CA verification is now safe for a self-signed Proxmox node. That same canonical behavior also includes one auth transport for Proxmox completion: runtime-side Unified Agent and script callers must send /api/auto-register authentication through a one-time setup token in the request-body authToken field instead of keeping either a header-auth compatibility path or a long-lived admin-token completion path alive. That same first-session lifecycle boundary also owns bootstrap-token recovery: the supported operator path is pulse bootstrap-token, and the runtime may not keep .bootstrap_token as an unstructured plaintext secret file after startup. Canonical persistence must encrypt the bootstrap token at rest and rewrite any legacy plaintext bootstrap-token file immediately into the encrypted canonical format on load. Automatic startup logs may surface the token file path for local recovery, but they must never print the bootstrap token value itself into stdout, systemd journal, Docker logs, or Kubernetes pod logs. The validation endpoint for that same bootstrap token must also rate-limit per client and return an explicit Retry-After backoff instead of offering an unbounded brute-force surface during first-run setup. That same deploy/install runtime boundary also owns peer-node SSH trust. internal/hostagent/commands_deploy.go must resolve and persist peer host keys through the managed ssh_known_hosts store before any automated deploy fan-out writes a bootstrap token or runs the installer on a remote node, keep StrictHostKeyChecking=yes, and fail closed on key mismatch or missing-host- key state instead of downgrading to unauthenticated SSH during install. That same boundary also owns least-privilege peer deploy execution: when operators configure a non-root SSH user for deploy fan-out, privileged token write and install steps must escalate through non-interactive sudo on the remote node instead of hard-coding root@ for every SSH hop or silently falling back to a second unaudited privilege path. That same transport boundary also keeps plaintext Pulse URLs loopback-only. internal/securityutil/httpurl.go owns the canonical Pulse transport normalization used by internal/hostagent/agent.go, internal/hostagent/commands.go, internal/agentupdate/update.go, internal/dockeragent/agent.go, internal/kubernetesagent/agent.go, and internal/remoteconfig/client.go. Those runtime clients may keep local- development http:// or ws:// only for loopback hosts, but private-network and remote Pulse URLs must still use HTTPS/WSS. InsecureSkipVerify may relax certificate verification on TLS transport; it must not reopen plaintext HTTP for private-network updater, websocket, reporting, or remote-config paths. That same first-run lifecycle boundary also keeps unauthenticated setup local. Lifecycle-adjacent quick setup or recovery entrypoints may exist before an operator has configured auth, but they must stay direct-loopback only and any recovery token/session path must stay bound to the generating localhost client instead of reopening auth for all loopback callers. That same shared internal/api/ lifecycle boundary also assumes tenant-scoped resource helpers stay on canonical unified-resource seeds: adjacent fleet and install surfaces may not revive raw tenant StateSnapshot fallback through shared API resource wiring once UnifiedResourceSnapshotForTenant exists. That same shared internal/api/ dependency now also includes the monitored-system ledger support read: lifecycle-adjacent inventory and billing surfaces may show the counted monitored systems coming from agent-backed infrastructure, but the shared API helper must expose the canonical unified-resource grouping explanation instead of rebuilding count reasons from install or registration state. That shared ledger read must also preserve canonical grouped system status, including warning, so lifecycle-adjacent operator surfaces do not mislabel live agent-backed infrastructure as Unknown when the unified-resource layer already resolved a governed degraded state. That same ledger read now also carries backend-owned status explanation copy, and lifecycle-adjacent details must render it beside the counting rationale so operators can interpret warning, offline, and unknown states without inventing local status semantics. Those status details are now structured as well: lifecycle-adjacent consumers must preserve the canonical reason list from the ledger read so operators can see which grouped source or surface degraded and its canonical reported_at timestamp, instead of only seeing a generic warning/offline paragraph. That same ledger read also treats the canonical latest_included_signal object as the freshest included grouped observation. Lifecycle-adjacent consumers must not label it with generic single-source health wording, and should use the canonical object when they need attribution for which grouped surface reported most recently. Retired flat alias fields must not reappear as parallel lifecycle signal inputs or contract language. Lifecycle-adjacent workspace copy must also keep the same commercial framing: infrastructure operations may point operators to Plans for billing, but it must describe that boundary in monitored-system, plan-limit, license-status, and unlocked-capability terms rather than reviving legacy agent-allocation language or treating the entire destination as the Pulse Pro tier page. That same direct-workspace boundary now also owns the shared customer-facing error copy for discovery and configured-node actions through frontend-modern/src/utils/infrastructureSettingsPresentation.ts, so direct Proxmox settings mutations do not drift back to inline toast text inside the runtime hooks. That same fleet lifecycle boundary now also owns the shared capability, status, and inventory presentation helpers that those settings surfaces reuse. frontend-modern/src/utils/agentCapabilityPresentation.ts, frontend-modern/src/utils/agentProfileSuggestionPresentation.ts, frontend-modern/src/utils/configuredNodeCapabilityPresentation.ts, frontend-modern/src/utils/configuredNodeStatusPresentation.ts, frontend-modern/src/utils/unifiedAgentInventoryPresentation.ts, and frontend-modern/src/utils/unifiedAgentStatusPresentation.ts are the canonical owners for agent capability badges, profile suggestion formatting, configured-node capability/status badges, monitoring-stopped inventory copy, and unified-agent status labels. Lifecycle-adjacent settings and inventory surfaces should extend those helpers instead of reintroducing inline fleet semantics in panels, workspace models, or reporting hooks. That same boundary now also assumes canonical resource payloads preserve shared facet totals through facetCounts, so the resource list and detail surfaces can keep row summaries aligned without re-inferring totals from consumer-local slices. That same shared facet bundle now also carries grouped recentChangeKinds counts by canonical change kind, so the lifecycle-adjacent detail surfaces can report restart, anomaly, and other timeline distribution without rebuilding timeline math in the browser. That same shared facet bundle now also carries grouped recentChangeSourceTypes counts by canonical source type, so the lifecycle-adjacent detail surfaces can distinguish platform events, pulse diffs, heuristics, user actions, and agent actions without re-inferencing the provenance mix in the browser. That same shared facet bundle now also carries grouped recentChangeSourceAdapters counts by canonical source adapter, so the lifecycle-adjacent detail surfaces can distinguish Docker, Proxmox, TrueNAS, and ops-helper provenance without re-inferencing the integration mix in the browser. Timeline entries surfaced through that same boundary also preserve relatedResources correlation context for non-relationship changes, so adjacent fleet and install surfaces can link the affected neighbors without trying to reconstruct correlation context from the raw resource payload alone. That same shared internal/api/ boundary now also assumes tenant AI services stay on canonical Patrol runtime wiring: adjacent fleet and install surfaces must not revive tenant snapshot-provider bridges through shared AI handler setup once Patrol can initialize from tenant ReadState and unified-resource providers directly. That same boundary now also assumes the Patrol-backed recent-changes API surface reads through the canonical intelligence facade first, so adjacent fleet and install surfaces do not bypass the shared unified timeline through the old detector-only handler path. The Patrol-backed correlation API surface must follow the same canonical intelligence-facade path, so fleet and install surfaces do not need to know about the detector directly when they render learned relationship context. That same canonical /api/auto-register response must stay on one completion truth: caller-supplied Proxmox credentials complete registration with a direct-use action, and the runtime no longer preserves a dead pending-secret placeholder state. That same response must also stay truthful about lifecycle state: it may not claim the node is already registered successfully while local token creation is still outstanding. That same first-hop lifecycle boundary must validate that response shape instead of trusting HTTP success alone: runtime-side Unified Agent and installer callers must require the canonical status="success" plus action="use_token" response contract before treating registration as complete. That same canonical response contract must also carry the runtime-owned identity truth back to those callers: type, source, normalized host, and matching nodeId/nodeName must describe the resolved stored node record, and installer/runtime-side Unified Agent success reporting must use that returned canonical node identity instead of the caller's pre-registration serverName. The canonical /api/auto-register response must preserve canonical node identity: nodeId must carry the resolved stored node name rather than the raw host URL or requested serverName, so every live registration caller stays aligned with saved fleet state. That same /api/auto-register boundary must also preserve canonical live-event identity: the node_auto_registered WebSocket payload must emit the normalized stored host plus the resolved stored node name in name, nodeId, and nodeName, rather than broadcasting raw request fields that can drift from the saved node record. That same runtime-side Unified Agent boundary also owns one canonical ingest name through internal/api/agent_ingest.go and internal/api/router*.go: the primary runtime surface is the Unified Agent report/config boundary, while the /api/agents/host/* routes remain compatibility aliases only and may not re-emerge as the primary lifecycle concept in router state, handlers, or proofs. That same canonical /api/auto-register path must also complete the live post-registration contract after persistence: it must trigger discovery refresh and emit the canonical node_auto_registered WebSocket payload instead of stopping at a backend-only save/response path. That same post-registration discovery update must keep structured error ownership in discovery runtime state: lifecycle handlers may broadcast the deprecated string errors list only as a compatibility field derived from canonical structured_errors, not as a second live discovery owner path. That same canonical /api/auto-register path must also accept caller-supplied Proxmox token completion for confirmed runtime-side Unified Agent or script flows, so live registration surfaces stay on one governed completion contract instead of inventing a second explicit-token endpoint outside /api/auto-register. On the PVE side, only tokens that previously came back through a completed source="agent" or source="script" auto-register flow count as reusable confirmed credentials, so interrupted runs cannot harden a false use_token state from any non-canonical token placeholder. The canonical setup-script path must stamp that same source="script" marker on /api/auto-register payloads, and canonical registration callers must send that source explicitly, so confirmed script-created tokens stay distinguishable from agent-created tokens across later canonical reruns. That same canonical request contract must also reject any non-canonical source marker: /api/auto-register accepts only source="agent" and source="script" so v6 does not preserve arbitrary caller labels as a hidden compatibility surface. That same canonical request contract must also reject any non-canonical node type: /api/auto-register accepts only type="pve" and type="pbs" so unsupported runtime labels cannot slip through as fake successful fleet registrations. That same canonical request contract must also reject non-canonical token identities: /api/auto-register accepts only Pulse-managed pulse-monitor@{pve|pbs}!pulse-... token ids, so v6 does not preserve arbitrary, cross-type, or non-Pulse-managed token labels as successful registration state. That same canonical token identity must also stay deterministic across live callers: install.sh, generated setup scripts, and runtime-side Unified Agent-driven Proxmox registration must all create the same Pulse-managed pulse-<canonical-scope-slug> token name for a given Pulse endpoint instead of letting one caller drift into timestamp-suffixed or rerun-local token identities. The corresponding node setup modal owner is now an explicit shell-plus-sections surface: ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx composes NodeModalBasicInfoSection.tsx, NodeModalAuthenticationSection.tsx, NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx, NodeModalStatusFooter.tsx, nodeModalModel.ts, and useNodeModalState.ts. That same node setup owner also includes frontend-modern/src/utils/nodeModalPresentation.ts, which now owns the canonical node-type defaults, endpoint/auth placeholders, monitoring coverage copy, and test-result styling for PVE, PBS, and PMG setup. That presentation layer remains presentation-only for those API-managed Proxmox, PBS, and PMG connections. Lifecycle guidance in that settings surface may explain monitored-system caps, but commercial enforcement still belongs to the canonical add-node and /api/auto-register boundaries instead of becoming a second modal-local exemption rule. That same deterministic token-identity contract also applies to backend-owned turnkey Proxmox token creation: generated setup scripts and the password-based PBS add-node path must derive Pulse-managed token names from the canonical Pulse endpoint itself rather than request-local Host fallbacks, so loopback or proxy-facing admin requests cannot fork monitor-token identity for the same Pulse instance. That same generated setup-script path must now complete registration through the canonical /api/auto-register contract itself: locally created Proxmox tokens must be submitted directly on the canonical contract instead of diverging into a second registration shape. That same setup bootstrap surface must also keep canonical request handling aligned across /api/setup-script-url and /api/setup-script: unsupported node types may not drift into implicit PBS script generation, and the direct setup-script route must normalize the supplied host before emitting script text or rerun URLs so the bootstrap artifact and downloaded script stay on the same node identity. That same setup bootstrap surface must also stay owned by one backend bootstrap artifact builder: /api/setup-script-url response fields, setup-token hinting, download URLs, script filenames, and the generated script's rerun command must all derive from the same canonical bootstrap contract instead of being rebuilt as separate handler-local shell snippets. That same canonical request contract must also keep one-time setup-token auth on a single field: /api/auto-register accepts authToken as the governed request payload key and may not preserve a parallel setupCode alias. That same governed runtime path must also keep its active auth terminology on setup tokens instead of setup-code residue: config_setup_handlers.go, config_handlers.go, and their direct proofs must model the one-time credential as a setup token in runtime names, logs, and auth failure text. That same auth failure contract must also fail specifically on the canonical setup-token requirement: missing authToken input on /api/auto-register may not collapse back to a generic authentication message once the route is governed as setup-token-only. That same canonical request contract must also keep field-validation failures specific: mismatched tokenId/tokenValue input may not collapse into generic missing-field output, and other missing canonical fields must return explicit Missing required canonical auto-register fields: ... guidance. That same owned setup and auto-register boundary now also participates in the canonical monitored-system commercial cap. A new /api/auto-register completion may proceed only when it either dedupes onto an already-counted top-level monitored system or fits within the deduped monitored-system limit; the lifecycle surface may not preserve a special exemption that keeps API- backed monitored systems outside the self-hosted commercial cap. That admission decision must come from the same canonical prospective monitored-system projection the runtime uses for final grouped counting. Auto-register may preview its own candidate, but it must not keep a lifecycle-local counter, drift on source priority, or treat missing monitored- system usage as zero; when an active cap is present and usage cannot be resolved, the route must fail closed with retryable unavailable guidance instead of silently admitting a net-new monitored system. That same lifecycle boundary also assumes any private monitored-system admission policy hook stays backend-owned. Even when pkg/server/server.go wires ResolveMonitoredSystemAdmissionPolicy into shared internal/api/ admission helpers, setup and install flows must continue to source candidate projection, replacement identity, and usage-availability truth from the canonical monitored-system preview/resolver path instead of adding a second lifecycle-local policy branch or exemption rule. When lifecycle-adjacent setup or support surfaces need to explain why a candidate would count or dedupe, they must consume the shared monitored-system ledger preview contract rather than rebuilding a second preview model from setup-local transport fields. frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/MonitoredSystemAdmissionPreview.tsx is the shared shell for that explanation inside platform-connections settings, so provider-specific panels must not fork their own monitored-system preview copy or inline projected-usage rendering. That same commercial readiness boundary now also assumes settled canonical usage, not the first non-nil monitor view. Lifecycle-owned setup or first-host surfaces may not seal migrated-v5 continuity, display counted-system totals as final, or retry admission against a provider-owned supplemental platform such as TrueNAS or VMware until the monitor has both seen an initial baseline for every active connection and rebuilt the canonical store at or after that provider watermark. That same lifecycle-owned admission surface must keep provider save actions gated on a successful monitored-system preview. TrueNAS and VMware settings may not create or update a connection while the admission preview is missing, loading, unavailable, errored, or over-limit, and save-time backend races must reuse the same canonical preview/unavailable presentation state instead of falling back to provider-local billing messages. That same lifecycle-adjacent request contract now also assumes canonical enablement defaults. New platform-connection preview/test/add payloads must inherit the provider default enabled=true when the field is omitted, while saved-connection preview/test/update payloads must preserve stored enablement unless the caller explicitly changes it, so setup surfaces do not accidentally preview an unchanged active connection as inactive just because JSON omitted a bool field. That same validation contract must stay coherent across the public /api/auto-register route and the direct canonical handler path used by the same runtime surface, so Unified Agent/setup entry points do not inherit divergent messages for the same missing-field or token-pair failures. That same canonical caller contract must also require explicit node identity input from live callers: /api/auto-register may not synthesize serverName from host once installer, setup-script, and runtime-side Unified Agent callers all send the canonical field directly. That same canonical runtime path must also keep overlap and rerun continuity wording on the canonical /api/auto-register contract itself: active runtime messages and helpers may not preserve the deleted "secure auto-register" split when describing host-identity, DHCP-continuity, or in-place token-update matches. That same canonical runtime path must keep token-completion validation wording on the canonical contract too: incomplete tokenId/tokenValue payloads may not preserve deleted "secure token completion" wording in live handler messages. That same migration rule also applies to scripts/install.sh: installer-owned Proxmox auto-registration must keep local token creation in the installer, but submit the resulting token completion through the canonical /api/auto-register contract directly as the one supported completion path. That same shared scripts/install.sh boundary must also keep one canonical runtime-argument builder for the service and wrapper launch flags it persists. Token-bearing installs, token-file systemd installs, and wrapper-script launches may not each rebuild their own shell fragment for --url, --token, feature toggles, identity flags, or disk-exclude transport; they must all derive from the same installer-owned argument item list so lifecycle state does not drift by install path. That same install/setup boundary must also keep setup bootstrap metadata on one backend-owned artifact model. Proxmox setup-script downloads, rerun guidance, and /api/setup-script-url responses may not each carry mirrored local struct definitions for the same bootstrap fields. That same lifecycle shell transport must also keep one shared render owner for generated PVE and PBS setup scripts: the handler may validate inputs and choose the artifact, but the shell body itself must come from shared backend render helpers rather than an inline handler-local template engine. Those install and setup-command paths now also preserve the configured canonical PublicURL end to end when the admin session originates from the local frontend loopback, including the configured HTTPS scheme and path, so generated commands do not silently downgrade agent reachability to http://. That same backend install-command boundary must also normalize trailing slashes on canonical base URLs before composing installer asset paths or response snippets, so /api/agent-install-command and the container-runtime migration token path cannot drift onto //install.sh or slash-suffixed PULSE_URL values when PublicURL or AgentConnectURL is configured with a trailing /. That shared frontend install-command helper must also stay under explicit proof routing on both sides instead of relying only on downstream consumer coverage: changes in frontend-modern/src/utils/agentInstallCommand.ts must continue to carry the direct frontend-install-command-helper lifecycle proof together with the API-contract helper proof. That same shared diagnostics dependency must also preserve canonical fallback-reason continuity at the API boundary: when internal/api/diagnostics.go serializes monitoring memory-source breakdowns for lifecycle-adjacent diagnostics surfaces, legacy aliases and empty fallback-reason fields must still normalize onto the governed canonical reason contract instead of depending on monitor-owned snapshot accessors to have run first. That same shared diagnostics dependency now also assumes any local commercial funnel diagnostics stay org-scoped at the cache boundary: when internal/api/diagnostics.go adds self-hosted upgrade-metric summaries beside lifecycle diagnostics, the shared diagnostics cache must key by authenticated org context so lifecycle-adjacent admin surfaces do not cross-tenant leak local commerce telemetry. That same shared internal/api/ dependency now also assumes auth persistence compatibility is handled as an explicit migration/import boundary: legacy raw-token sessions.json and csrf_tokens.json files may load for upgrade continuity, but session_store.go and csrf_store.go must immediately rewrite hashed canonical persistence during load instead of leaving raw-token files on the primary runtime path until a later save side effect happens to run. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also assumes local commercial-trial handoff remains human-usable: lifecycle-adjacent trial CTAs may allow a short burst of retries, but the backend contract must return the real remaining backoff through Retry-After plus details.retry_after_seconds so setup and install-adjacent surfaces do not drift into generic “try again later” behavior. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also assumes session-carried OIDC refresh tokens stay fail-closed at rest: session_store.go may only persist or recover those tokens through encrypted-at-rest session payloads, and any missing-crypto or invalid-ciphertext path must drop the refresh token instead of leaving plaintext-at-rest session state on the lifecycle runtime path. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also assumes notification test handlers stay decode-and-delegate only: internal/api/notifications.go may surface adjacent operator test actions, but service-template selection and generic webhook-test payload fallback must remain notifications-owned instead of becoming a second API-layer owner under the shared helper surface. That same shared API boundary also assumes legacy service-specific webhook aliases are rewritten at ingress only: internal/api/notifications.go may accept compatibility keys like Pushover app_token / user_token, but it must return and forward only canonical token / user fields so agent- adjacent shared internal/api/ surfaces do not inherit a second live alias contract. That same shared internal/api/ dependency now also assumes recovery-token persistence follows the same rule: raw recovery secrets may be minted for immediate operator use, but recovery_tokens.go must persist only token hashes and treat any legacy plaintext-token file as a one-time migration input that is rewritten immediately into hashed canonical persistence on load. That same shared internal/api/ dependency now also assumes those auth stores stay owned by the configured router data path: session, CSRF, and recovery-token runtime state may not silently bind themselves to hidden /etc/pulse fallback initialization or retain old-path state after a reconfiguration. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also assumes those auth stores tear down synchronously when lifecycle-adjacent routers or hosted runtimes are reconfigured: session and CSRF workers may not rely on best-effort background signals that can wedge teardown, block temp-path cleanup, or leave first- session and hosted handoff validation hanging behind a stale auth worker, and each router must retain the exact session, CSRF, and recovery-token workers it initialized so later global rebinds cannot orphan a live test or hosted-runtime data path. That same path-ownership rule also applies to bootstrap-token recovery and adjacent hosted billing side effects that share the internal/api/ boundary: CLI/bootstrap retrieval, webhook dedupe state, and customer-index persistence must all route through the shared runtime data-dir helper instead of carrying private /etc/pulse fallbacks in neighboring entry points. That same shared internal/api/ boundary also assumes manual auth env writes and first-session status reads resolve the .env path through the shared auth-path helper, so lifecycle-adjacent setup and password flows do not each reconstruct their own /etc/pulse/.env fallback logic. That same shared internal/api/ dependency also assumes config import reloads fail closed without panicking when optional runtime managers are absent. Lifecycle-adjacent setup, install, and restore flows may invoke the shared config-import path before every notification or monitoring manager is wired, but internal/api/config_export_import_handlers.go must still rebind the imported configuration without turning missing optional managers into a fatal reload path. The same proof boundary also owns deterministic first-run re-entry for the managed local backend: integration helpers may use the seeded runtime-state primary API token to call the dev-only /api/security/dev/reset-first-run route, but they may not recreate auth teardown by deleting files or rebuilding bootstrap state outside the canonical backend path. That same shared internal/api/ boundary also assumes generated developer warnings do not mis-teach the local runtime split: the embedded frontend notice under internal/api/DO_NOT_EDIT_FRONTEND_HERE.md may point operators to the shared backend on :7655 when explaining the proxy relationship, but it must keep the hot-reload browser entrypoint on http://127.0.0.1:5173 so lifecycle- adjacent setup and install guidance does not regress to the backend port. Those same lifecycle-adjacent setup and password flows must now also route .env writes through the shared writable auth-env helper instead of re-implementing config-path writes plus data-path fallback ordering inline. The same agent-lifecycle boundary now also fails closed on profile assignment: assigning an agent to a non-existent profile must return a not-found contract instead of persisting an orphan profile reference through the API. That same missing-profile assignment contract must survive the shared frontend control surface: frontend-modern/src/api/agentProfiles.ts must preserve the canonical missing-profile message for assignment 404s, and AgentProfilesPanel.tsx and InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx must resync profile state after that rejection instead of flattening it into a generic assignment failure while leaving stale profile options visible. That same shared profile-management boundary must also fail closed on malformed list payloads: frontend-modern/src/api/agentProfiles.ts may not silently reinterpret non-array profile or assignment responses as an empty state, and useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts / InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx must surface that load failure instead of pretending no profiles exist. That same shared profile-management boundary must also fail closed on malformed profile-object, suggestion, schema, and validation payloads: the shared agentProfiles client may not trust partial profile objects, malformed schema definitions, or malformed validation/suggestion bodies, and the profile editor plus suggestion modal must surface those canonical contract failures instead of flattening them into generic save/delete/schema/validation fallback copy. That same frontend profile-management boundary now keeps its render shell and runtime owner separate: AgentProfilesPanel.tsx is the surface shell, while useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts owns license gating, AI availability, profile load/save mutations, assignment resync, and modal form lifecycle so the panel does not carry a second inline controller. That same connected profile-assignment surface must also preserve canonical local operator identity for monitored systems. When governed resources such as PBS or PMG appear in the assignment list, the panel must keep the local instance label for ordering and row display instead of substituting governed summary text, so profile assignment remains instance-specific. Canonical Proxmox auto-register must also preserve the legacy DHCP continuity contract: when a node reruns registration from a new IP but presents the same canonical node name and deterministic Pulse-managed token identity, Pulse must update the existing node in place instead of duplicating it as a second inventory record. That same profile-management UI boundary must also stay on the direct agent-profiles-surface proof path, rather than relying only on the shared API client coverage to catch lifecycle drift in AgentProfilesPanel.tsx. That same profile-management presentation helper must also stay on that direct agent-profiles-surface proof path, rather than relying only on panel-level tests to catch lifecycle drift in frontend-modern/src/utils/agentProfilesPresentation.ts. Shared internal/api/ recovery transport helpers now also preserve normalized filter coherence across rollup, point-history, series, and facet views so agent-adjacent protected-resource drill-downs do not fork between protected items and history slices under the same active recovery filter set. That same shared internal/api/ recovery boundary must also preserve the canonical provider-neutral itemType filter and display contract. When agent-adjacent recovery data originates from Proxmox, Kubernetes, TrueNAS, or other platform-native subjects, the shared transport layer must normalize those source-specific labels onto the governed recovery item vocabulary before the UI route/filter state sees them, so lifecycle-adjacent drill-downs remain coherent across platforms instead of reintroducing Proxmox-native subject types as the de facto recovery model. That same shared recovery boundary now also treats platform as the canonical operator-facing filter query for lifecycle-adjacent drill-down links. Any legacy provider alias support must remain compatibility-only input behind the shared API/router layer rather than becoming the route shape lifecycle surfaces copy back out to operators. That same lifecycle-adjacent recovery drill-down boundary must also stay on canonical itemResourceId filter and payload vocabulary. When lifecycle surfaces deep-link into shared recovery handlers or consume recovery payloads, they should treat legacy subjectResourceId only as an API-layer compatibility alias rather than reviving it as the route or runtime model they expose. That same lifecycle-adjacent recovery drill-down boundary must also stay on canonical itemRef payload vocabulary. When lifecycle surfaces consume shared recovery point or rollup payloads, they should treat legacy subjectRef only as an API-layer compatibility alias rather than reviving it as the runtime item-reference model they expose back out to operators.

The updater/runtime surfaces must preserve the one-shot updated_from continuity handoff and the non-TLS continuity path for supported self-hosted installs, so upgrade-safe agent behavior does not drift between install, restart, and reconnect paths. That same shared agent transport boundary must not force operators to choose between public-CA trust and blanket TLS disablement. cmd/pulse-agent/main.go, internal/hostagent/, internal/agentupdate/, and adjacent remote-config transport must accept a canonical pinned Pulse server certificate fingerprint for self-signed deployments, and that pin must flow through reporting, enrollment, command websocket, remote-config, and self-update transport instead of widening PULSE_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY into an all-path MITM carve-out. Release-grade updater continuity must also stay fail-closed on signed assets. When release builds embed trusted update signing keys through internal/updatesignature, internal/agentupdate/ and internal/dockeragent/ must require both X-Checksum-Sha256 and X-Signature-Ed25519, while installer-owned download flows must also require the matching base64-encoded X-Signature-SSHSIG, and internal/api/unified_agent.go must only serve published release installers and agent binaries from local or proxied assets that carry the matching detached signature sidecars. That same self-update pre-flight must keep the live agent token out of process argv. internal/dockeragent/self_update.go may pass a short-lived 0600 token file into cmd/pulse-agent/main.go --self-test --token-file, but it must not revive --token <secret> argument passing that exposes the runtime credential through /proc/*/cmdline. That same unified-agent runtime boundary also owns vendor-aware host identity. When gopsutil reports generic Linux platform fields on NAS appliances, internal/hostagent/ must prefer canonical platform files such as Synology DSM or QNAP QTS/QuTS version manifests before the first report is built, so downstream monitoring and alerting do not depend on hostname or display-name heuristics to infer the real vendor OS. That same runtime continuity must stay on direct lifecycle proof routes too: changes under internal/hostagent/ must continue to carry the explicit unified-agent-runtime proof, and changes under internal/agentupdate/ must continue to carry the explicit agent-update-runtime proof, instead of relying on broad owned-prefix coverage to catch lifecycle regressions in the Unified Agent runtime and updater boundaries.

The settings/profile surfaces must keep unified v6 agent identity and profile assignment behavior canonical, rather than falling back to host-era or module-local assumptions. That includes copied shell install and upgrade commands in the unified settings surface: privilege-escalation wrappers must preserve the full installer argument list exactly, so selecting target profile, token, and command-execution flags cannot be dropped at the last clipboard hop. That same target-profile continuity must hold for PowerShell transport as well: when the selected profile enables Proxmox mode, copied Windows install commands must preserve both PULSE_ENABLE_PROXMOX and PULSE_PROXMOX_TYPE, and scripts/install.ps1 must persist those flags into the managed service arguments instead of silently collapsing back to generic host monitoring. The same lifecycle ownership now also covers manual node setup command presentation in the extracted node setup surface (ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx, NodeModalSetupGuideSection.tsx, nodeModalModel.ts, and useNodeModalState.ts): the copied PVE permission snippet must stay aligned with the canonical backend setup script, including comma-joined privilege transport and non-destructive PulseMonitor role updates, instead of shipping a stale local fork. That same node setup modal owner must also route Proxmox agent-install command generation through the canonical NodesAPI.getAgentInstallCommand client for both PVE and PBS, instead of mixing client-mediated and ad hoc raw POST transport for the same backend lifecycle command surface. That same settings surface must consume the shared validated response uniformly for both node types, surfacing canonical install-command errors inline instead of collapsing one pane back to generic notification-only failure. That same node setup modal owner must also route Proxmox quick-setup command generation and manual setup-script download through canonical NodesAPI helpers for both PVE and PBS, preserving the shared setup-token and expiry contract instead of letting one node type drift onto a raw fetch-only path. That same node setup modal owner must also stay on the direct node-setup-settings-surface proof path across ConnectionEditor/CredentialSlots/NodeCredentialSlot.tsx, NodeModalAuthenticationSection.tsx, NodeModalBasicInfoSection.tsx, NodeModalMonitoringSection.tsx, NodeModalSetupGuideSection.tsx, NodeModalStatusFooter.tsx, nodeModalModel.ts, and useNodeModalState.ts, rather than relying only on broad lane ownership or downstream command tests to catch lifecycle drift in the settings surface. That same Proxmox lifecycle transport now explicitly includes the shared frontend-modern/src/api/nodes.ts client boundary itself: changes to setup command or install-command request transport must carry both lifecycle proof and the shared API contract instead of staying implicit behind downstream consumer tests alone. That same lifecycle ownership also covers the setup completion preview's copied Unix install handoff in SetupCompletionPanel: the first-session install snippet must use the same shell-safe URL/token quoting, curl -fsSL failure behavior, and root-or-sudo privilege wrapper contract as the governed unified install surface instead of carrying a stale inline transport variant. That same setup-completion install transport must also preserve the canonical plain-HTTP continuity rule: when the configured Pulse URL is http://, the copied Unix install command must carry --insecure through the shared host install command builder instead of bypassing the lifecycle transport contract with local inline shell assembly. That same Unix install-command contract also governs backend-generated Proxmox install transport in internal/api/agent_install_command_shared.go: the canonical /api/agent-install-command and hosted Proxmox install-command surfaces must emit the same root-or-sudo privilege wrapper already required by the shared frontend Unix builder, instead of returning a raw | bash -s -- pipeline that drifts from the lane's governed install shape. The same lifecycle shell-transport contract also applies to the diagnostics container-runtime migration install command in internal/api/router.go: that response must emit the canonical --enable-host=false flag and the governed root-or-sudo wrapper, rather than falling back to the stale --disable-host alias or a raw curl | sudo bash pipe that drifts from the managed install surface. That same diagnostics migration command must stay on the shared backend install-command helper path in internal/api/agent_install_command_shared.go, rather than rebuilding a local shell formatter in router.go, so optional token omission, plain-HTTP --insecure, trailing-slash normalization, and the governed privilege wrapper stay aligned with the rest of the lifecycle install surface. That same lifecycle shell transport also governs the quick setup command returned by /api/setup-script-url: config_setup_handlers.go must emit a shell-quoted curl -fsSL fetch for the generated setup script, and the token-bearing and tokenless variants must come through a shared helper instead of open-coding a stale curl -sSL pipeline in the handler. That same bootstrap route must also stay on one canonical request shape: /api/setup-script-url accepts a single JSON object with only the supported request fields, and the handler must fail closed on unknown fields or trailing JSON instead of tolerating typo-compatible or concatenated payloads. That same request contract also keeps backup-permission semantics explicit: backup_perms / backupPerms is a PVE-only bootstrap option, and both /api/setup-script and /api/setup-script-url must reject it for PBS instead of quietly carrying a no-op flag through the canonical setup surface. That same bootstrap request boundary must stay canonical on host identity too: /api/setup-script no longer generates placeholder-host scripts for later repair, and both setup routes must reject missing host input instead of minting artifacts that can only fail closed after download. That same request boundary must stay canonical on Pulse identity too: /api/setup-script no longer reconstructs pulse_url from the request-local origin, and both setup routes must require the explicit canonical Pulse URL that the rest of the bootstrap envelope already carries through url, command*, and downstream auto-register state. That same bootstrap boundary must now also stay canonical on identity: the request must carry a supported type and non-empty host, the backend must normalize that host before minting the one-time setup token, and both installer-owned and runtime-side Unified Agent callers must validate the returned bootstrap type, normalized host, and live expires metadata before they trust the returned setupToken. That consumer-side validation must fail closed on already-expired bootstrap responses rather than treating any non-empty expires field as usable. That same /api/setup-script-url request boundary must also stay truthful about auth: setup tokens only bootstrap the later /api/setup-script and /api/auto-register flows, while the setup-script-url request itself remains a normal authenticated request once Pulse auth exists. Those same installer-owned and runtime-side Unified Agent callers must also require the full canonical bootstrap artifact, including token-bearing downloadURL and masked tokenHint, so they do not keep accepting an older reduced setup-token response shape after the runtime and shared settings client have moved to the full envelope. The shared settings/frontend consumer in frontend-modern/src/api/nodes.ts must stay on that same canonical bootstrap contract too, normalizing and validating the returned setup-script-url identity fields instead of exposing a raw JSON passthrough to NodeModal and related quick-setup surfaces. That shared frontend consumer must also reject already-expired setup-script-url responses instead of treating any positive expires value as sufficient, and it must validate the returned setupToken without retaining that raw secret beyond the shared client boundary. The extracted node setup modal owner must then consume that canonicalized response directly, including copying the token-bearing commandWithEnv field while rendering the non-secret commandWithoutEnv preview instead of re-interpreting the bootstrap payload through local nullable fallbacks. Operator-facing quick-setup display must also stay on the runtime-owned token boundary: the shared frontend client must require masked tokenHint, and the extracted node setup modal owner must render that hint rather than the full returned setupToken once the bootstrap artifact itself already carries the live secret. That non-secret preview contract applies to both the PVE and PBS quick-setup panes; the settings surface may not let one path keep rendering the token-bearing command after the other has switched to the governed commandWithoutEnv preview. Operator guidance on those panes must stay truthful too: once the visible UI only shows a masked hint, copy-success text may not instruct the operator to paste a token "shown below" and must instead state that the copied command already embeds the one-time setup token. The same settings quick-setup surface must also trim and validate the Endpoint URL before manual setup-script download, so download and copy paths stay on the same canonical host-input contract. That same manual download path must also stay on one shell-script artifact contract: /api/setup-script responses must ship with canonical text/x-shellscript attachment headers and deterministic pulse-setup-*.sh filenames, while frontend-modern/src/api/nodes.ts and the extracted node setup modal owner must validate and use the returned content type and filename instead of inventing local text/plain download metadata. Manual download must also stay non-interactive without re-exposing raw setup tokens in UI state: /api/setup-script-url must return a dedicated token-bearing downloadURL, and the shared frontend client plus the extracted node setup modal owner must use that runtime-owned download artifact instead of fetching the plain script url and then relying on a separately displayed token value. That same settings quick-setup surface must also treat /api/setup-script-url as one canonical bootstrap artifact per active host/type/mode: copy and manual download must reuse the returned url, downloadURL, scriptFileName, commandWithEnv, tokenHint, and expires until the artifact expires or the operator changes the endpoint, instead of re-fetching and rebuilding a second local download path or caching the raw setup token past the shared frontend client. That same public/operator guidance must also describe that canonical bootstrap artifact truthfully: API docs and Proxmox/PBS setup guides may not fall back to stale raw curl -sSL ... | bash examples or omit the returned bootstrap artifact fields once the runtime and settings surfaces are contractually using url, scriptFileName, command*, setupToken, and expires. That same bootstrap response boundary must also own the setup-script filename before download happens: /api/setup-script-url must return the canonical scriptFileName, and the settings quick-setup surface must use that runtime metadata for operator guidance instead of hardcoded PVE/PBS script names that can drift from the downloaded artifact. That same setup-token bootstrap response must also stay coherent for the non-frontend consumers: the runtime-side Unified Agent and installer Proxmox registration must reject missing or mismatched canonical url, scriptFileName, command, commandWithEnv, and commandWithoutEnv fields instead of consuming /api/setup-script-url as a token-only response. That same quick-setup transport must also preserve the governed root-or-sudo continuity used by the install surface: /api/setup-script-url commands must execute bash directly when already root and fall back to sudo otherwise, including preserving PULSE_SETUP_TOKEN through the sudo path instead of assuming operators are already in a root shell. That same transport rule also applies to the generated PVE and PBS setup scripts themselves: operator-facing retry and off-host rerun guidance printed by HandleSetupScript must advertise the same fail-fast curl -fsSL fetch shape instead of drifting back to stale curl -sSL examples inside the script body. That embedded guidance must preserve the same root-or-sudo continuity too, so the script body does not hand operators a direct-root-only retry command after the API response itself already supports both execution paths. That same retry guidance must also preserve PULSE_SETUP_TOKEN continuity through both the direct-root and sudo paths, so reruns from the generated PVE and PBS setup scripts stay on the same non-interactive setup-token contract instead of silently falling back to an interactive prompt. That same rerun-token contract must also hydrate PULSE_SETUP_TOKEN from any embedded setup token before the script prints rerun guidance, so generated PVE/PBS scripts issued with canonical setup_token transport do not drop back to prompt mode on the next hop. That same setup-script bootstrap boundary must keep one token name end to end: /api/setup-script accepts only the canonical setup_token query when a token is embedded into the script payload, and the rendered PVE/PBS script body uses only PULSE_SETUP_TOKEN instead of lane-local alias variables. The same generated PVE setup-script boundary must also preserve cleanup continuity for discovered legacy tokens: when the script offers to remove old Pulse tokens from the same server scope, it must iterate the actual discovered pve and pam token lists instead of falling through an undefined placeholder loop variable that turns cleanup into a no-op. That discovery path must also reuse the canonical Pulse-managed token prefix for the active Pulse URL, while still matching legacy timestamp-suffixed variants, instead of rebuilding a lane-local IP-pattern guess that drifts from buildPulseMonitorTokenName. The generated PBS setup-script boundary must preserve that same cleanup discovery contract instead of keeping a separate IP-pattern matcher for old token cleanup. That same generated setup-script boundary must also use exact token-name matching when it decides whether to rotate an existing Pulse-managed token, so reruns do not treat partial-name collisions as the canonical managed token. The generated PBS setup-script branch must also keep token-copy guidance truthful: it may only print the one-time token-copy banner after token creation has actually succeeded, not ahead of a failure path that produced no token. That same generated PBS setup-script branch must also keep auto-register attempt guidance truthful: it may only print the attempt banner on the real request path, after token-availability and setup-token gating are resolved, rather than before a skip branch that never sends a registration request. That same rerun path must also preserve the backend-owned encoded setup-script request URL: embedded SETUP_SCRIPT_URL values in generated setup scripts must keep the canonical host, pulse_url, and backup_perms query contract instead of rebuilding a lossy raw query string inside the shell. That same off-host fallback path must not invent a second manual token-creation workflow either: when the script is run outside a Proxmox host, it must direct the operator back to rerun on the host through the canonical generated command instead of teaching a separate pveum + Pulse Settings flow that can drift from the backend-owned lifecycle contract. That same runtime boundary must also preserve canonical privilege guidance when the script is launched directly: generated setup scripts may not fall back to the stale "Please run this script as root" wording, and must instead use the same root requirement language already carried by the governed retry wrapper. That same manual-follow-up surface must also preserve one canonical token placeholder contract across its adjacent branches: generated PVE and PBS setup scripts may not drift between "[See above]", "Check the output above...", and other local variants when the token value is only available in prior output. That same completion boundary must also preserve one canonical success message across generated PVE and PBS setup scripts, so identical successful auto-register outcomes do not surface different node-type-specific wording for the same finished lifecycle state. That same auto-register boundary must also fail closed when token extraction fails after token creation: generated PVE and PBS setup scripts may not continue into prompt or request assembly with an empty token value, and must instead stop on the canonical "token value unavailable" branch before any registration attempt is formed. That same PBS auto-register path must also report skipped states truthfully: when setup-token input is absent or token extraction never produced a usable secret, the script may not relabel that skip as a failed request before success confirmation. The generated PVE and PBS setup scripts must also fail closed on auto-register success detection: their runtime branch may only treat a response as successful when it contains an explicit success:true signal, rather than any broad success substring match that could misclassify success:false payloads as a completed registration. That same auto-register path must also fail closed on HTTP and transport errors: the generated scripts must use fail-fast curl -fsS transport and gate success parsing on a successful curl exit code instead of interpreting arbitrary error output as a registrable response body. That same generated setup-script boundary must also preserve setup-token messaging continuity: when auto-register authentication fails, operator guidance must point back to the one-time Pulse setup token flow rather than telling the user to provide or validate an API token that this script path no longer uses. That same auth-failure guidance must also stay truthful once the generated setup script has already sent a registration request: it may not branch back into a missing-token explanation after the request path proves a setup token was present, and must instead direct the operator to mint a fresh setup token from Pulse Settings → Nodes and rerun. That same auth-failure state must also block the later manual-details footer, so the script does not immediately contradict itself by offering manual completion with the current token details. That same completion boundary must also preserve outcome truth: generated PVE and PBS setup scripts may only claim successful Pulse registration when auto-register actually succeeded, and must otherwise present the result as token setup plus manual registration follow-up instead of announcing a false successful onboarding state. That same manual-follow-up path must also stay on the canonical node-add contract: generated setup scripts may not redirect operators onto a stale secondary registration-token rerun flow, and must instead point them to finish registration with the emitted token details in Pulse Settings → Nodes. That same manual-follow-up path must also keep its failure summary on that canonical node-add contract: generated setup scripts may not fall back to vague "manual configuration may be needed" copy when the emitted token details already define the exact Pulse Settings → Nodes completion path. That same manual-follow-up path must also preserve the canonical node host identity already in scope for the script, rather than falling back to a stale placeholder host string that forces the operator to reconstruct the node address by hand. That same host continuity rule applies to PBS as well: generated setup scripts may not replace the requested canonical PBS host with runtime-local interface discovery in the manual-add footer, because DHCP or multi-NIC nodes can make that fallback diverge from the host the operator actually intended to register. That same PBS host continuity must survive auth-skip and token-skip fallback branches too: the generated script must bind the canonical PBS host before any auto-register gating that can short-circuit into manual completion, so the manual footer never emits a blank or lost host URL when setup-token input is missing. That same fail-closed host rule must also apply when the script never received any canonical host at all: generated PVE and PBS scripts may not fall back to placeholder host values in manual completion and must instead direct the operator to regenerate the script with a valid host URL. That same PBS host binding must exist before token-creation failure fallback as well, so the final manual footer still preserves the canonical requested host even when the script cannot mint a usable PBS token and never reaches the auto-register branch at all. Generated PVE and PBS setup scripts must also fail closed on token-creation failure truth: if Proxmox token minting fails, the script may not continue into fake manual token details or claim token setup completed. It must skip auto-register, surface the token-creation failure explicitly, and direct the operator to rerun after fixing the node-local token error. That same failure-truth contract also applies to token extraction errors after creation output is returned: generated setup scripts may not tell operators that manual registration might still work from that broken output. They must keep the flow on rerun-after-fix guidance until a usable token value actually exists, and the final completion footer/manual-details branch must key off that usable-token state rather than raw token-create success. That same manual-follow-up path must also preserve canonical Settings-surface language across both PVE and PBS setup scripts, so the operator is always directed back to Pulse Settings → Nodes with the emitted token details instead of drifting onto lane-local wording for one node type. That same canonical path must also hold inside the immediate auto-register failure branch itself, so generated scripts do not fall back to a shorter "Pulse Settings" variant before the final manual-completion footer repeats the correct Settings → Nodes destination or diverge into a separate numbered manual-setup detour instead of reusing the same "use the token details below" completion contract. That includes transport/request failures before the backend ever returns a response body, not just explicit error payloads. That same SetupCompletionPanel transport must also preserve the governed self-signed and private-CA continuity controls used by the shared lifecycle command surface: the first-session setup-completion install handoff must pass explicit --insecure and --cacert choices through the shared Unix install builder so the very first installer fetch and the installer runtime stay aligned with the same transport contract as InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx and useInfrastructureOperationsState.tsx. In explicit insecure mode, that means the outer curl fetch must widen to -kfsSL instead of preserving strict TLS until install.sh starts. That same first-session install surface must also preserve canonical agent-to-Pulse addressing, not just browser-local origin: SetupCompletionPanel must default to the governed security status agentUrl when available and allow an operator override for agent connectivity, so setup-completion commands do not silently hand out loopback or wrong-origin install transport. That same first-session surface must also preserve Windows install parity: SetupCompletionPanel may not stop at Unix-only shell transport while claiming Windows coverage. Its PowerShell install command must route through the shared transport helper so URL, token, insecure-TLS, and custom-CA behavior stay aligned with InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx and useInfrastructureOperationsState.tsx. That same first-session setup-completion surface also owns the operator's v6 mental model for Unified Agent onboarding: SetupCompletionPanel must teach that one Unified Agent install creates one canonical Pulse system resource first, then layers workload discovery and API-linked platform context onto that same inventory. It may not present Docker, Kubernetes, Proxmox, or TrueNAS as competing primary onboarding paths, nor fall back to logo-led feature brochure copy that obscures the unified-resource contract the wizard is supposed to introduce. That same onboarding/install guidance must also preserve the simple fleet mental model for clustered and API-backed systems: platform connections own cluster or appliance inventory, while Pulse Agent remains the low-overhead per-machine install path for full node-local telemetry. Settings and first-run install copy may recommend installing the agent on every machine that needs temperatures, SMART disk data, services, Docker, or Kubernetes telemetry, but they may not imply that API-backed cluster visibility or best-effort peer augmentation is equivalent to a local agent install on that machine. That same connected-systems summary must preserve canonical local operator identity for newly connected infrastructure. When governed resources such as PBS or PMG appear in the setup-completion poll, the surface must show their local instance labels instead of replacing those identities with governed summary text, so the operator can tell which system actually connected. That same first-session setup-completion surface must also honor the lane's optional-auth install contract: when Pulse does not require API tokens, the wizard may switch to tokenless install commands only after an explicit operator confirmation, but it must preserve the generated token by default and keep that explicit token path available instead of collapsing onboarding into tokenless-only transport. Once the operator has explicitly chosen tokenless mode, repeated wizard copies must preserve that tokenless choice instead of silently rotating back onto token-auth transport after the first clipboard action. That same tokenless choice must also survive the wizard's background "agent connected" token-rotation path: new agent arrivals may not regenerate a token or flip the surface back to token-auth mode while explicit tokenless onboarding remains the active contract. That same wizard boundary must also keep its credentials drawer and exported credentials file aligned with the current rotated install token, rather than continuing to display or download the stale bootstrap token after the install command surface has already moved on. It must do that without erasing the stable bootstrap admin API credential: the wizard needs to preserve both the admin token and the current rotated install token as separate operator-visible surfaces instead of collapsing them into one mutable credential slot. The saved credentials handoff must also preserve the current agent-install URL and the matching install command shape for both Unix and Windows onboarding, so exported first-session material cannot drift back to browser-local login context or Unix-only transport while the live wizard command surface is using a governed or operator-overridden agent endpoint. When the operator explicitly confirms tokenless optional-auth mode, those same credential surfaces must stop claiming a current install token and instead present tokenless install mode as the active onboarding contract. The primary install guidance text in the wizard must switch with that mode as well: tokenless onboarding may not keep advertising automatic token rotation after each copy once the active transport is explicitly tokenless. The same first-session contract now also owns the landing handoff after secure setup: RC-proof and helpers must treat direct navigation into /settings/infrastructure?add=pick as the canonical completion path, rather than assuming an agent-only install landing or the legacy dashboard-only landing still defines successful wizard completion. That same SetupCompletionPanel boundary must also stay on the direct setup-completion-source-picker-surface proof path, rather than relying only on shared helper coverage or downstream install tests to catch lifecycle drift in the setup completion surface. That same first-session browser proof must also exercise the explicit Install Pulse Agent secondary action through the real setup wizard flow, rather than relying only on the preview route or prose-level assertions to represent the agent-managed alternative. The same ownership also covers manual install fallback in the infrastructure settings surface: active and ignored Connected infrastructure rows must now come from the backend-owned connectedInfrastructure projection instead of a frontend-local merge of raw unified-resource facets and removed runtime arrays, and v6 clients no longer treat those removed runtime arrays as a parallel settings contract, so lifecycle scope and reconnect behavior stay canonical across host, Docker, and Kubernetes reporting. deploy results surface: ResultsStep must request the canonical backend install command from /api/agent-install-command for failed deploy targets instead of rebuilding a local shell snippet that can drift from the governed installer contract. That fallback surface must consume the shared validated NodesAPI.getAgentInstallCommand response, so malformed backend payloads fail closed and the raw backend install token stays inside the shared client boundary rather than leaking into deploy UI state. That same ResultsStep boundary must also stay on the direct deploy-fallback-install-surface proof path, rather than relying only on the shared install helper or downstream deploy tests to catch lifecycle drift in the infrastructure fallback surface. The same Windows install, upgrade, and uninstall copies must also preserve operator-selected transport and capability toggles: if the settings surface enables insecure TLS mode or Pulse command execution, the PowerShell path must carry PULSE_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY and PULSE_ENABLE_COMMANDS through to the installer where those settings apply, so Windows agents do not diverge from the governed shell transport. That same command-enabled lifecycle path must still enforce the shared command policy on the agent itself. internal/hostagent/commands.go may accept the installed command-execution capability, but it must re-evaluate internal/agentexec/policy.go immediately before sh -c, reject PolicyBlock commands regardless of caller, and require a consumed approval identifier before executing any PolicyRequireApproval command so a missed control-plane gate cannot silently turn into host-level RCE. That same copied install transport must also normalize canonical base URLs before composing installer asset paths: when operators enter a trailing-slash Pulse URL, shell and PowerShell install commands must trim it before appending /install.sh or /install.ps1 so lifecycle transport does not drift onto double-slash asset paths. That same shared install-command transport must also fail closed on blank local overrides: whitespace-only custom Pulse endpoint input in InfrastructureInstallerSection.tsx or SetupCompletionPanel.tsx may not override the canonical backend-governed endpoint, and shared command builders must reject blank endpoint URLs instead of composing /install.sh or /install.ps1 from an empty base. That same copied upgrade boundary must preserve canonical runtime identity when inventory already knows it: shell upgrade payloads must carry --agent-id and --hostname, and PowerShell upgrade payloads must carry PULSE_AGENT_ID and PULSE_HOSTNAME, so rerunning an upgrade does not silently collapse back to local-machine identity. Copied per-agent uninstall commands must also preserve the selected agent's canonical identity instead of relying on local fallback discovery alone: when inventory already knows the agent ID for the chosen row, the shell and PowerShell uninstall payloads must carry that ID through to the installer so managed removal deregisters the intended agent record even if local state or hostname lookup is stale. That same uninstall continuity must preserve canonical hostname fallback too: copied shell uninstall payloads must carry --hostname, copied PowerShell uninstall payloads must carry PULSE_HOSTNAME, and both installer runtimes must prefer that explicit hostname during lookup fallback before querying local machine identity. That fallback must also fail closed when hostname matches are ambiguous: hostname matches may resolve only when they identify one and only one agent, and display-name or short-hostname fallbacks must return not found otherwise. That governed hostname lookup fallback must also normalize query transport: both installer runtimes must percent-encode the resolved hostname before calling /api/agents/agent/lookup, so canonical identity recovery does not drift on hostnames that contain spaces or other query-significant characters. That same copied uninstall transport must also fail closed under required auth: when Pulse requires API tokens, shell and PowerShell uninstall commands must carry the same resolved token contract as install and upgrade instead of silently degrading to tokenless deregistration transport. That same copied Unix lifecycle transport must also preserve shell-safe canonical identity: shell uninstall and upgrade commands must quote the selected URL, token, agent ID, and hostname as command arguments instead of interpolating raw inventory values into the shell line. That same copied Windows lifecycle transport must also preserve PowerShell-safe canonical identity: uninstall and upgrade commands must escape selected URL, token, agent ID, and hostname values before placing them into PowerShell env assignments or command text. The same transport rule applies to copied install commands: shell install payloads must quote canonical URL/token transport, and PowerShell install payloads must escape URL/token values before they enter env assignments or irm command text. The same Windows upgrade boundary must quote the resolved PowerShell script URL as well, so canonical URLs with spaces or other PowerShell-significant characters do not break copied upgrade transport after the env assignments have already been escaped. That same copied lifecycle transport must also preserve explicit custom CA trust whenever the operator provides it: shell install, upgrade, and uninstall commands must pass --cacert to both the outer installer download and the installer runtime, while Windows install, upgrade, and uninstall commands must emit PULSE_CACERT and fetch install.ps1 through a transport-aware PowerShell bootstrap that honors insecure-TLS or custom-CA settings on the first script download instead of only after the installer has already started. That bootstrap parity must match the installer's accepted trust formats too: Windows copied commands must treat PULSE_CACERT as the same PEM/CRT/CER certificate input that scripts/install.ps1 accepts, rather than narrowing the first-hop bootstrap to constructor-only certificate formats. That same unified settings shell install and upgrade transport must also preserve plain-HTTP continuity automatically: when the selected Pulse URL uses http://, copied Unix commands must append --insecure even without the manual TLS-skip toggle, while only the explicit TLS-skip toggle may widen curl itself to -k. That same unified settings installer surface must not drift between preview and clipboard transport: the rendered Linux/macOS/BSD and Windows install snippets must already include the active token choice, custom-CA trust, insecure/plain- HTTP handling, install-profile flags, and command-execution mode instead of displaying one command and mutating it only during copy. That same Windows install boundary must preserve the canonical server URL even for the interactive PowerShell snippet: copied commands that still prompt for a token must export PULSE_URL before invoking install.ps1, so the selected agent-to-Pulse address cannot drift back to a default prompt target. When the operator has already generated or selected a token, that same interactive Windows install snippet must preserve the selected token in copied transport as well, rather than silently dropping back to a second manual token prompt while every other lifecycle command stays bound to the chosen credential. The inverse must also hold: token-required instances without a selected token must keep that interactive Windows snippet prompt-driven instead of exporting a placeholder PULSE_TOKEN value into copied transport. That same rule applies to copied Windows uninstall transport: after PULSE_URL is escaped into env assignments, the uninstall path must still quote the resolved install.ps1 URL so canonical URLs with spaces remain valid PowerShell transport during deregistration and removal. For the shell installer, that continuity must also survive beyond the original clipboard command: when install or upgrade runs with explicit --agent-id or --hostname, scripts/install.sh must persist those values into its saved connection state and recover them during later offline uninstall instead of dropping back to ambient local discovery. That same lifecycle-owned connection.env contract must also stay on one installer-owned helper path: scripts/install.sh may not write the state file one way and then recover it through a separate field-by-field inline parser, because lifecycle ownership requires one canonical reader/writer for persisted install identity and trust metadata. That same lifecycle ownership must cover service control too: the installer may still choose different platform adapters, but stop/restart semantics for the managed agent must route through shared installer helpers instead of being re-authored in each upgrade, systemd, OpenRC, SysV, or FreeBSD branch. That same rule applies to teardown: uninstall and reinstall cleanup may not rebuild disable/remove flows inline per platform. Shared installer helpers must own service stop/disable/remove semantics for systemd, OpenRC, SysV, and service-command runtimes so lifecycle cleanup stays canonical. The same lifecycle rule applies to TrueNAS bootstrap too: boot-time recovery for SCALE and CORE may only vary at the service-manager adapter, while binary sync, service-link recreation, and startup sequencing stay on one installer-owned renderer instead of drifting across separate embedded scripts. That same lifecycle ownership must also cover service definition rendering: systemd and FreeBSD rc.d files may not preserve parallel heredoc definitions for the same agent runtime contract. Shared installer renderers must own the common service shape, with platform branches only choosing the correct runtime path, dependency targets, and logging adapter. That same lifecycle rule also applies to installer completion: success, unhealthy, and upgrade result handling may not drift by platform branch. Shared installer helpers must own the save-state handoff, health verification, canonical completion json_event output, and uninstall guidance instead of letting each service-manager branch narrate those outcomes separately. The same lifecycle rule applies to FreeBSD enablement too: direct rc.d install and TrueNAS CORE boot recovery may not mutate pulse_agent_enable through separate inline snippets. A shared installer-owned rc.conf enablement helper must own that contract so lifecycle recovery and direct installs do not drift, and that helper must execute the shared snippet in-process instead of defining it in a discarded subshell. The same rule applies to SysV registration: direct install may not keep its own inline update-rc.d / chkconfig / manual symlink block while teardown owns a separate canonical removal path. Shared installer helpers must own SysV enablement and disablement semantics as one lifecycle contract. The same durability rule applies to scripts/install.ps1: when Windows install or upgrade runs with explicit agent or hostname identity, the installer must persist that connection state under ProgramData and recover it during later uninstall before falling back to machine-local discovery. That Windows installer-owned continuity state is only valid for the currently installed agent. After a successful uninstall, scripts/install.ps1 must clear its ProgramData state so later reruns cannot inherit stale identity or transport context from a removed node. That persisted installer-owned state must also retain self-signed transport intent: when install or upgrade ran in insecure TLS mode, later offline uninstall must recover that mode from saved state instead of silently reverting to strict certificate validation. For the shell installer, the same offline transport continuity also applies to custom CA trust: when install or upgrade ran with --cacert, later offline uninstall must recover that saved CA bundle path before reaching for governed lookup or deregistration transport. The Windows installer must now preserve the same installer-owned custom CA transport continuity for its own network calls: when install or upgrade ran with PULSE_CACERT, later offline uninstall must recover that saved CA certificate path before governed lookup or deregistration falls back to strict default trust. That same Windows custom-CA continuity must also reach the long-lived unified agent runtime: scripts/install.ps1 must persist --cacert into the managed service arguments, and pulse-agent must apply that bundle to updater, remote-config, Unified Agent report, and command-channel HTTPS transport instead of limiting PULSE_CACERT to installer-owned download and uninstall traffic. That saved shell uninstall recovery must not depend only on a missing URL or token. When the operator reruns uninstall with only partial CLI context, the installer must still reload any missing persisted agent, hostname, insecure-TLS, or custom-CA continuity before governed lookup or deregistration falls back to ambient local state. That same insecure-TLS continuity must hold during the Windows installer's own network traffic, not only in the persisted service args: when the operator selects insecure mode, scripts/install.ps1 must also relax certificate validation for its binary download and uninstall deregistration requests so PowerShell transport can reach self-signed Pulse instances end to end. The same copied install and upgrade commands must also fail closed on token-optional Pulse instances: when the server does not require API tokens, the command builder must omit token arguments entirely instead of serializing a fake sentinel token value into shell or PowerShell install transport. That token-optional settings path must still preserve explicit governed token selection when the operator generates one anyway: optional auth widens the contract to allow tokenless transport, but it must not erase or suppress a real selected token and force copied install commands back to tokenless-only mode. The installer scripts themselves must honor that same optional-auth contract: scripts/install.sh and scripts/install.ps1 must accept a missing token and persist service arguments without --token on token-optional Pulse instances, instead of advertising a no-token flow in settings while the installer still fails validation at runtime. That same optional-auth install contract also applies to backend-generated Proxmox install commands in internal/api/config_setup_handlers.go and internal/api/agent_install_command_shared.go: when Pulse auth is not configured, the canonical agent-install-command API must return tokenless install transport and must not persist a new API token record just because an operator opened a backend-driven install surface. That same backend-owned setup/install boundary also owns shipped security-doc guidance in runtime responses and logs: internal/api/config_setup_handlers.go and adjacent lifecycle setup helpers must not point operators at GitHub main for security instructions that the running build already serves locally, and should use the shipped /docs/SECURITY.md path instead. The same optional-auth continuity must hold after install as well: Unified Agent runtime startup may not reject a blank token unless enrollment is explicitly enabled, agent report transport must omit auth headers when no token is configured, and Proxmox auto-register flows must still complete without serializing an empty token header on token-optional Pulse instances. That same runtime-side reporting boundary must keep its product terminology canonical in active comments and operator-facing logs: internal/hostagent/ may remain a package-location fact, but successful and failed report transport must describe the runtime as the Unified Agent rather than reintroducing "host agent" wording into v6 operator guidance. That same post-install optional-auth contract must also hold during managed removal: uninstall and deregistration flows must still notify Pulse with the canonical agent-uninstall payload when URL and agent identity are known, and must only attach API-token headers when a real token exists instead of silently skipping deregistration on token-optional installs. The same settings/profile boundary must also preserve assigned-profile continuity when a referenced profile is no longer present in the fetched profile list: assignment controls must keep the missing profile visible as the current state instead of collapsing the agent back to a false default-looking selection. That same uninstall-command boundary must also preserve platform-canonical transport in copied utility actions: Windows agents must receive the PowerShell uninstall flow, and copied uninstall payloads must never substitute an API token record ID where the runtime expects the real token secret for server-side deregistration. The same rule applies to Unix shell uninstall commands in the shared fleet settings surface: copied uninstall payloads may include only a real token secret when one is available, and must never fall back to token record IDs or other settings-only identifiers that the installer runtime cannot authenticate. Token-optional Windows uninstall commands must also preserve the canonical server URL in PULSE_URL; otherwise the PowerShell installer can remove the service locally while losing the deregistration path back to Pulse.

Shared internal/api/ resource helpers now also expose governed policy-aware resource metadata. Agent lifecycle and fleet-control surfaces may consume canonical policy and aiSafeSummary fields from unified resource payloads when they need resource context, but they must not fork their own sensitivity-classification or local-vs-cloud routing heuristics on the same runtime boundary. The same shared resource boundary now also owns the bundled facet history read path for timeline data, so fleet lifecycle surfaces that open resource drawers must continue to consume the backend bundle instead of reassembling a local multi-call summary. That same shared internal/api/ extension-point boundary now also assumes canonical security-token lifecycle reads. Lifecycle-adjacent setup and install flows may inspect token metadata through the shared auth/security routes, but they must not assume a displayed relay pairing token is disposable once lastUsedAt is set. Shared helper changes that refresh, hide, or replace a pairing credential must preserve used-token continuity instead of deleting a credential that an already paired device still depends on. That same shared internal/api/ boundary now also owns agent-derived physical-disk history transport. Lifecycle-adjacent storage drawers and fleet resource surfaces may show host SMART-backed disk telemetry through the shared /api/metrics-store/history route, but they must read the canonical disk metrics target that monitoring projects for the resource instead of reviving a browser-local disk collector, agent/device concatenation scheme, or other surface-local history identity. The browser-side runtime boundary is now explicit too. Lifecycle-owned settings hooks such as frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useAgentProfilesPanelState.ts and frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/useInfrastructureOperationsState.tsx may read websocket state only through frontend-modern/src/contexts/appRuntime.ts. They must not import @/App or recreate app-shell providers, because frontend-modern/src/App.tsx owns provider placement while lifecycle hooks must stay lazy-load safe and shell-independent. That same adjacent internal/api/ boundary now also keeps public demos from leaking commercial state through lifecycle-adjacent surfaces. Agent install, reporting, and setup flows may share backend helpers with billing or license transport, but DEMO_MODE must continue to 404 commercial read surfaces instead of teaching lifecycle or mock-mode paths to bypass licensing. Public demo readiness therefore comes from hiding commercial presentation on the shared API boundary, not from introducing a second fake-entitlement path into lifecycle-owned install or reporting flows. Browser-facing lifecycle surfaces must also treat /api/security/status.sessionCapabilities.demoMode as the canonical public-demo bootstrap signal instead of inferring demo posture from headers, /api/health, or hostname heuristics. Lifecycle-owned connected-infrastructure and reporting surfaces must also keep governed platform rows on canonical local operator identity while tolerating optional optimistic hostnames. Shared row models may fall back to the row name when staging a removal state, but they must not resurrect legacy policy.display shims or require platform-managed surfaces to synthesize a second hostname contract. That same lifecycle boundary also owns host-agent runtime test seams. Shared agent lifecycle code such as internal/hostagent/agent.go must keep mutable test hooks, command-client factories, and timing overrides on the per-config or per-agent instance instead of package-global variables, so concurrent lifecycle-owned update and registration paths cannot leak one test or runtime override into another agent session. The infrastructure workspace now uses a single flat route (/settings/infrastructure) instead of the former three-sub-route layout (/install, /platforms, /connections). Panel state — which add/edit modal is open and which add step is active — is managed through the governed InfrastructurePanelStep query contract rather than URL segments. frontend-modern/src/components/Settings/infrastructureWorkspaceModel.ts exposes buildInfrastructureWorkspacePath() (always returns the base path regardless of argument) and deriveAddStepFromLegacyPath() (maps legacy deep URLs to panel state for backwards-compatible deep-link resolution) as the sole path-building and path-reading contract for lifecycle-adjacent install and setup surfaces. Callers that formerly passed 'platforms' or 'install' to buildInfrastructureWorkspacePath must use the no-argument form; the argument is accepted but ignored so link-site callers can be updated incrementally without breaking navigation. frontend-modern/src/components/SetupWizard/SetupCompletionPanel.tsx now uses a single INFRASTRUCTURE_PATH constant (/settings/infrastructure) for all install and platform-connection CTAs, replacing the former pair of INFRASTRUCTURE_INSTALL_PATH and INFRASTRUCTURE_PLATFORMS_PATH constants. Installer-owned runtime continuity on persistence-sensitive NAS platforms is also explicit again: scripts/install.sh now owns the QNAP bootstrap contract that waits for the persistent data volume before launching the stored wrapper, and internal/agentupdate/update.go keeps the persisted QNAP binary copy in sync on self-update so reboot does not roll the runtime back to an older binary.

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