docs: microVM tier on 2.1.276 — three backends proven, the canary's catch, and what stays open

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WZb5A2kfVfjpdwSochkuHz

docs/NEXT-SESSION.md

@@ -106,9 +106,11 @@ guessed family.
    that cheaper; it did not ask why a research verdict needs 12 commands.
    Watch `requests` per verdict on the next few missions. If it stays at the
    cap, the lever is the judge prompt, not the budget.
-2. **microVM tier is unexercised since v0.8.5.** Fleet is online; every run
+2. ~~**microVM tier is unexercised since v0.8.5.**~~ Closed 2026-09-18: three
-   this pass was container-tier. Run one microVM mission before assuming the
+   VM missions on Claude Code 2.1.276 — claude `01a0b75e`, glm `01a0b761`,
-   upgrade left that path alone.
+   kimi `01a0b768` — 28/28 checks including provider egress proof. See the
+   addendum. Still open from it: architect's `claude` rootfs is 2.1.223 by
+   choice (drain it or rebuild before a claude VM mission that must be 276).
 3. **`files` is n=3.** 7 of 9 is a signal. `structured-paper-summary` went
    unread in 2 of the last 3 runs; the skills section sits 87–90% into the
    prompt. Position is the untested lever.
@@ -186,3 +188,33 @@ above are the only missions since, all ours).
 claude --version`), never the persistent runtime's, before attaching a version
 to a measurement.
 
+## Addendum 2 — 2026-09-18, microVM tier on 2.1.276
+
+GLM and Kimi are microVM-only backends, so "did we upgrade GLM and Kimi" was
+this: every rootfs on the fleet had sat on Claude Code 2.1.223–2.1.226 since
+August. Now: `images/agent-*` pin **2.1.276** (drift guard in
+`fc-build-rootfs.sh`); tank's `claude/glm/kimi/local-ornith` rootfs rebuilt;
+`verify-mission-delivery.sh microvm|glm|kimi` all pass with the new
+`assert_provider_egress` (the placed node's journal must show dials to that
+provider's host, none denied, nothing else reached) and `assert_cli_version`
+(`checkpoint.vm` on `topology_runs`, new: rootfs + guest `claude --version`).
+
+The canary caught a real break before promotion: `--agents` `tools` must be a
+JSON **array**. We sent a comma string; 2.1.243 turned silently-ignored into a
+hard error. So on every earlier CLI the definition was dropped and the
+verifier's tool restriction was plausibly never applied. Fixed (`cbc9c2d`).
+
+`evaluator::implementer_family(missions.backend)` replaces the hardcoded
+`"anthropic"`: a glm mission is now judged by the subscription and honestly
+`independent=true` (`claude-opus-5`); before, glm would have judged glm.
+
+Fleet facts: architect untouched (claude 2.1.223, local-ornith 2.1.223) by
+operator choice — a `claude` VM mission's CLI depends on placement until it is
+rebuilt; `rootfs-*.ext4.pre276` backups on tank (~7 GB, delete after sign-off);
+`rootfs-canary-claude.ext4.promoted-2.1.276` kept as the next candidate slot.
+Judge spend this week after the runs: 85 z.ai requests. Prod holds 8 missions,
+all ours.
+
+Rebuild trap: rsync copies the Mac's dead `target` symlink to the node —
+`rm -f ~/clawmates/target` before `cargo build`.
+