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An orchestrating agent session cannot start worker Sandboxes, because its Pod has no Kubernetes API credentials. This PR adds two optional pod_options to the Kubernetes provider. enable_subagents: true mounts a short-lived projected ServiceAccount token. priority_class_name sets the Pod's priority class, so a deployment can count primary sessions and workers against separate quotas.

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  opt["pod_options.enable_subagents: true"] --> vol["Projected volume subagent-token"]
  vol --> mount["Read-only mount /var/run/secrets/buzz-subagents: token (600s), ca.crt, namespace"]
  mount -- "read by" --> agent["Orchestrating agent"]
  agent -. "RBAC allows SandboxClaim create/get/list/watch/delete" .-> claim
  subgraph dep ["Deployment, not in this PR"]
    claim["SandboxClaim in the developer namespace"] -- "Agent Sandbox claim controller" --> worker["Worker Sandbox"]
  end
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  • automountServiceAccountToken stays false. The token is not at the default ServiceAccount path, so tools do not pick it up implicitly. The kubelet rotates it before expiry.
  • Both options change the create-intent fingerprint only when set. Omitted options serialize as before, so existing Sandboxes keep their intent.
  • docs/remote-agents.md gets a new §Sub-agents section. It states what the deployment must scope: RBAC, admission of worker-template claims only, bounded lifetimes, and a claim quota.
  • The reaper ignores worker Sandboxes. They lack the app.kubernetes.io/managed-by and binding-version labels.

Delivery scope

This is an optional remote orchestration extension. The remote-session launch, stop, checkpoint, and recovery path through #6 does not depend on this PR. Keep it separate from core remote-agent acceptance; worker execution still needs the deployment and signing prerequisites listed below.

enable_subagents is a public boolean option. The desktop accepts it while continuing to reject secret-bearing token keys. The prior unreleased subagent_token spelling is replaced.

Stack

Position 23 of 23. Base: #6. This is the top of the stack. Each PR contains one signed commit. #27 fixes the existing message-edit CI failure, and #29 fixes transient provider launch conflicts. #24 and #25 repair fork CI and security prerequisites; the feature layers remain scoped to remote agents.

Validation

  • Integrated desktop suite: 6,832 Node tests and 164 jsdom tests passed. TypeScript checking passed.
  • Integrated provider and reaper suite: 237 tests passed; the live-controller test also passed against the isolated local kind cluster.
  • Signed stack and per-layer parentage verified. Workspace Rust Clippy, desktop lint, Rust formatting, file-size checks, and the desktop build passed. Native Clippy passed with default features and with mesh-llm. The integrated desktop native suite passed 3,445 tests, and 30 parallel provider-test repetitions passed. The final frontend and static checks passed on the published revision. Full local just ci has not passed as one run: two unchanged mobile tests timed out in the full suite and passed in isolation; all 27 terminal unit tests passed in an isolated Linux container that supplies the standard tools missing from the Nix host. Updated GitHub checks are pending.

Limits

This optional layer does not create SandboxClaims or run workers. Worker RBAC, admission, quota, and an approved remote signing transport remain deployment prerequisites.

At the author’s direction, a clean CodeRabbit review gates readiness for human review. Human runtime acceptance is still pending; it is not a prerequisite for leaving draft.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added optional sub-agent support for Kubernetes workloads, providing short-lived credentials through a read-only mount when enabled.
    • Added support for assigning workloads to a specified priority class.
    • Added configuration options for enabling sub-agents and selecting a priority class, with sub-agents disabled by default.
  • Documentation

    • Documented sub-agent permissions, worker sandbox limits, credential rotation, and lifecycle behavior.
    • Documented priority classes used to manage staging session capacity.
  • Tests

    • Added validation coverage for the new configuration options and credential restrictions.

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Pod options add opt-in sub-agent credential projection and an optional Kubernetes priority class. Pod construction applies the settings, and tests and documentation cover configuration and worker Sandbox behavior.

Changes: Kubernetes pod options

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Pod options and projected credentials
crates/buzz-backend-kubernetes/src/config.rs, crates/buzz-backend-kubernetes/src/pod.rs
PodOptions adds enable_subagents, defaulting to false, and optional priority_class_name. Kubernetes projection data includes a short-lived token, CA certificate, and namespace.
Pod wiring and validation
crates/buzz-backend-kubernetes/src/pod.rs, desktop/src-tauri/src/managed_agents/backend_tests.rs, docs/remote-agents.md
When sub-agents are enabled, build_pod adds a read-only projected credential mount at a non-default path while keeping ambient token mounting disabled. It also forwards the configured priority class. Tests cover mounting, fingerprinting, priority-class propagation, and accepted or rejected provider fields. Documentation describes priority classes and worker Sandbox constraints.

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The new sub-agent and priority-class options are off by default and wired correctly into pod creation. The new Sub-agents documentation overstates what a claim-count quota protects against. It also omits the cleanup policy that worker claims need so that expired workers do not use up the quota. Correct the guidance before operators rely on it; otherwise the change is low risk.

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With pod_options.subagent_token, the provider adds a projected, 600-second
ServiceAccount token (plus cluster CA and namespace) at
/var/run/secrets/buzz-subagents, so an orchestrating agent can claim
short-lived worker Sandboxes. The ambient ServiceAccount token stays off,
the option is off by default, and enabling it changes the launch intent.
The deployment scopes the token to SandboxClaims in the developer
namespace.

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- Around line 1651-1656: Update the deployment description to state that the
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The deployment must scope that token. The reference deployment grants the
ServiceAccount only SandboxClaim create/get/list/watch/delete in the developer
namespace, admits only claims against its worker template with bounded
lifetimes, and caps the claim count with a quota. A stolen token can therefore
start a bounded number of workers with the same developer's credentials that
the agent already holds.

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Do not describe claim-count quota as a total worker limit.

If an agent deletes a claim or waits for it to expire, it can create another claim while its rotating token remains available. A count quota limits existing claims, not the total number of workers started over time. State the concurrent limit accurately. If the deployment needs a cumulative cost or creation limit, require a separate budget or rate control. (kubernetes.io)

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Update the deployment description to state that the quota limits the number of
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Worker Sandboxes are created by the Agent Sandbox claim controller and do not
carry the `app.kubernetes.io/managed-by` or binding-version labels, so the
sandbox reaper never touches them; their claims expire through
`ttlSecondsAfterFinished` and `shutdownTime`.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

The claim-count quota does not ensure cleanup when worker claims use the default shutdownPolicy: Retain. Require worker claims or the admission policy to set shutdownPolicy: Delete. If cleanup depends on worker exit, also set restartPolicy: Never.

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Update the worker claim configuration or its admission policy to require
shutdownPolicy: Delete instead of the default Retain, and set restartPolicy:
Never when cleanup relies on worker exit. Ensure these settings apply to all
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