Consequences

Interpreter misconfiguration fails before the service is published, every run uses the executable selected at load, and the child receives only TMPDIR, removing macOS startup noise without exposing host credentials. The private provider remains absent from shipped profiles while a keyless Loader snapshot pins its source-checkout PTC composition.

The seam's resolve-don't-reject contract holds on the boot-write path and the synchronous-spawn-failure path, both with measured coverage, and neither strands a staging directory. Log capture is thread-safe at the cost of one re-entrant lock acquisition per write and flush, and stray native output is delimited by its own newlines rather than by transport chunks. Fd-3 residual memory is bounded by the actual retained bytes, and both frame readers scan an accumulating frame once rather than quadratically. The output caps admit every value a frame can carry and reject a non-integer budget at load. Disposal is genuinely quiescent against a same-group survivor — bounded by graceMs + 2 * CLOSE_REAP_MARGIN_MS, zero-cost when the group is already empty, with the SIGKILL timer cleared once the group empties so a stale kill cannot strike a recycled pgid — RLIMIT enforcement keeps the strictest of configured and inherited on both soft and hard (and the SIGXCPU diagnostic no longer names a budget the host cannot guarantee), bindings called from model-created threads complete instead of timing out, and the handshake frame reader no longer burns the CPU budget on a large program. Every behavioral fix carries a test that fails without it, except the eleven called out in the Problem section — the chunked frame read (a syscall-count improvement), the confirmed-empty finalize (whose only seam-observable effect freezes at signal delivery, which the pre-fix code also produced), the shared stdout/stderr budget (whose only seam-observable difference turns on nondeterministic cross-pipe arrival timing), the flush_line reorder (whose lowered peak stays within what the 12x gate already admits, so no config behaves differently), pacing binding replies (the 32.0 MiB → 0.0 MiB peak reduction lives inside the host's fd-3 writable buffer, unmeasurable through the seam), dropping a late binding resolution before snapshot (its three assertions all hold pre-fix, so it is not a fail-before case), the done-value TOCTOU pre-encoding (its concurrent-mutation race is not deterministically constructible through the seam, and the daemon-mutation regression's only assertion is probabilistic), the stray-UTF-8 budget-flush retention (a budget flush landing on a multibyte boundary is not schedulable through the seam — v8-ignored), and the late-rejection settled guard (a rejection arriving after settlement is not deterministically constructible from the seam), and the log-fragment seal (its 25 M-scale OOM is not deterministically constructible in CI), and the unknown-binding preview cap (its whole-target JSON.stringify peak is a transient allocation inside the reply path, unmeasurable through the seam) — so a future regression on the rest goes red.