jdmbair13m5-changelog-20260822-2215-fleet-agent-alignment

Aligned Codex and Claude coordination across the six-host Mac fleet while preserving separate provider principals, native task histories, and credentials.

Scope

• Change host recorded here: jdmbair13m5.
• Fleet scope: rdmsm4x, rdmbair13m5, rdmbair15m5, rdmpw3265m, rdmpw3275m, and jdmbair13m5.
• Canonical mutable development estate remains rdmsm4x:/Users/richh/dev; rdmsm4x is the relay hub for the inbound-restricted sixth host.
• This was a Production configuration alignment. No credential, auth.json, cookie, approval store, task/session/rollout database, private history, private SSH key, or live .git directory was copied between hosts.

Local state changed on jdmbair13m5

• Homebrew casks codex and claude-code@latest, with links under the dynamic Apple-Silicon Homebrew prefix; the Claude payload mode was normalized to 0755 without changing its bytes.
• /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/agent_msg.zsh, FLEET.md, mailbox/check-in state, and alignment backups.
• New /Users/richh/.codex/AGENTS.md and minimal config.toml with exactly one explicit Codex sender identity entry.
• /Users/richh/.claude/CLAUDE.md and /Users/richh/.gemini/GEMINI.md received reconciled fleet-knowledge pointers.
• The pre-repair Claude payload was retained at /Users/richh/.claude/backups/codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500/claude-binary.pre-latest-cask.

Observed tool state after the change: Codex 0.149.0; Claude Code 2.1.240 (0755). Provider state: Codex unauthenticated; Claude unauthenticated.

Canonical fleet artifacts

• Reusable Codex workflow: /Users/richh/.Codex/skills/mac-fleet-agent-coordination/; it was new on every host, so no prior skill was overwritten.
• Project: rdmsm4x:/Users/richh/dev/fleet/maintenance.
• Apply report: reports/codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500.log.
• Idempotency report: reports/codex-agent-alignment-idempotency-20260822T2207.log.
• Independent Claude review: reports/claude-independent-review-20260822T2208.md.
• Project rollback set: backups/codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500/.
• Per-host rollback sets, where a prior file existed: /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/backups/codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500/ and /Users/richh/.codex/backups/codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500/.

Commands and actions

• Resolved each live ComputerName and pinned all six SSH host-key fingerprints before mutation.
• Ran /Users/richh/Documents/Codex/Projects/dev-fleet-reconciliation/scripts/audit_codex_fleet_topology_v1.0.zsh; account-lane and five-host SSH checks passed, while its stale RTTy/LogTTY path assertions failed separately.
• Used /Users/richh/.agent-coordination/agent_msg.zsh for inbox, request, reply, sync, read, acknowledge, and the labeled end-to-end transport probe.
• Applied /Users/richh/dev/fleet/maintenance/scripts/align_codex_fleet_v1.0.zsh --apply --run-id codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500.
• The driver used Homebrew for the sixth-host tool installation and retained first-write backups before replacing files or normalizing the Claude executable mode.
• Re-ran the same alignment as --dry-run --run-id codex-agent-alignment-idempotency-20260822T2207.
• Invoked Claude Code on rdmsm4x in read-only print mode for an independent six-host review.
• Initialized the mac-fleet-agent-coordination skill with the bundled skill creator, validated it through uv run --with pyyaml .../quick_validate.py, and distributed the exact validated files to all six hosts.
• Used scutil, shasum -a 256, bounded file searches, CLI version checks, mode checks, and provider-auth exit codes with auth output suppressed.

Verification evidence

• Apply driver exit: 0; six of six hosts returned ALIGN_HOST_RESULT ... status=PASS.
• Idempotency driver exit: 0; six of six hosts returned status=DRY_RUN, and every managed file/config check reported already matching.
• Every host reports codex-cli 0.149.0, codex@<ComputerName>, one Codex identity configuration line, and one alignment check-in.
• Converged SHA-256 values on all six:
  • agent_msg.zsh: 5ec439ac3a1a9d1e7505e41d7c7d08d91a0453fbab8dfc9f1188b2bec1337b10
  • FLEET.md: e2d865b8a05d0e0dc9004958b7848bf0b89b275fd7ddede2fe887c57f15567d9
  • AGENT_COORDINATION.md: 05bd19a7031d40141b81640f94fe6c9ae1d5e0e74571f41005b472166f6d3ce2
  • .codex/AGENTS.md: 64d1f31225ccc30881c15e70eac202fc53e7cb380f3d8f89b4a6865b315e47c0
• Actual Claude-to-Codex consultation completed on rdmsm4x: request 20260822-211559-B449C2AA, Claude reply 20260822-213429-C7501CA9.
• Bidirectional transport through jdmbair13m5 passed: thread 20260822-220117-4590F38A, return 20260822-220404-D5537232. This proves mailbox delivery only.
• Claude's fresh post-deployment review returned PASS WITH OWNER ACTIONS and reproduced the tool, identity, configuration-count, executable-mode, hash, check-in, and auth-boundary matrix.
• Skill validation returned Skill is valid!; all six hosts match SKILL.md SHA-256 97662b3bc8cc2056e03015e595e6c90ad4f310a5e14c832735956e2aea30a6df and agents/openai.yaml SHA-256 47d1cc2bc4d22998dbddcecbc46e91b94b6b2bd734b703661af1d99a13e7a9fa.
• The old RTTy/LogTTY audit failure remains an unrelated stale-project-path issue and was not counted as passing.

Undo and recovery

1. Stop peer writers and inspect current state before any rollback.
2. Restore only the affected host's exact pre-alignment files from its timestamped backup directories; do not copy a different host's configuration or identity material.
3. On rdmsm4x, restore individual canonical project files from /Users/richh/dev/fleet/maintenance/backups/codex-agent-alignment-20260822T215500/ if the alignment itself must be reverted.
4. Re-run the alignment driver in dry-run mode and verify hashes/identity after any selective rollback.
5. Removing the sixth-host Homebrew casks is destructive to its new tool availability; do that only after an explicit owner decision. Never “undo” by transplanting an older host's auth or private state.

Outstanding owner actions

• Log Codex and Claude Code in interactively on this host, using the intended provider/account lane for this Mac.
• Claude CLI login also remains outstanding on rdmpw3265m and rdmpw3275m; both Codex and Claude login remain outstanding on jdmbair13m5.
• Address the RTTy/LogTTY canonical-path mismatch as a separate project-recovery task before treating the older topology audit as green.
• Remote Apple Notes publication cannot be claimed from an SSH/background session. This Markdown file is the durable host copy; a GUI-session publisher must create the matching Notes entry if it is not automatically published later.