The internal/api race suite now routinely exceeds the old 20-minute package timeout on hosted runners while passing. Set a governed 30-minute package timeout and 40-minute release job ceiling, pin the relationship with contract tests, and refresh the rc.4 packet with the fixes landed since preparation.
Manifest-backed MCP tools, prompts, and resources with surface affordance contracts; agent capability manifest and governance projection; API contract tests and capability route projection; operations-loop and intelligence-funnel telemetry; release-control subsystem documentation, registry, and tooling; licensing and configuration.
Keep the managed dev runtime on loopback unless PULSE_DEV_LAN=true is set, so installed LAN agents cannot accidentally attach to a developer session. Harden managed status checks for restricted local shells. Refs architecture post-RC canonicalization follow-up.
Fix the local hot-dev backend monitor so a missing Pulse process is counted safely under pipefail, keep backend launch stderr in the debug log, and govern the new runtime helper with focused smoke coverage.
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