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Docs only: an amendment to ADR-023, ruled 2026-10-15 by Cofounder under Sam's delegation. Sam may overrule.

• A1: hosted turns run on nativeRuntimeService. That loop already has the broker, AgentRun, the per-user ceiling, the tool gate and connector eligibility. It sits behind a per-install flag, with the Durable Object kept as the fallback until parity. Stage 1, about 10-22.
• A2: tools run in an E2B sandbox: one Firecracker microVM per turn, stopped at turn end, outbound traffic only to listed hosts, credentials from the broker. Stage 2, about 10-29. Rejected alternatives and the self-host exit are in the text.
• A3: cost is recorded and bounded: an AgentRun per turn, a $2-a-day-per-user alarm, and the 30/200-turn plan line shipped with tools.

Status discipline: the status line names the unknowns this doesn't settle: usage measured on Scout as a proxy, behavior under a spot-node reclaim, and E2B as a dependency. The scope-boundary note names ADR-011, whose 2026-10-15 lift of the cloud-sandbox pause (#2205) A2 depends on.

Board rows: TASK-261 to TASK-265 (Stage 1) and TASK-266 to TASK-268 (Stage 2).

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hold: #2414 supersedes this PR. It ratifies the ADR-011 and ADR-023 changes in one docs PR, as built. This PR closes when #2414 merges. Marked draft so it stops counting as waiting for a gate.

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The ADR amendment records hosted-turn routing through nativeRuntimeService, with the Durable Object as fallback until parity. It specifies E2B sandbox limits, per-turn AgentRun records, daily usage caps, cost estimates, and unresolved questions.

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Summary

Runtime stages and hosted usage rules docs/adr/ADR-023-agent-runtime-substrate.md

The amendment records hosted routing through nativeRuntimeService with DeepSeek through LiteLLM, behind a per-install flag. The Durable Object remains the fallback until parity, then retires. E2B sandboxes run commonly_run_code with per-turn limits and no internet, public inbound traffic, or environment variables. The amendment also specifies per-turn AgentRun records, daily turn caps, a spend alarm, cost estimates, and unresolved questions.

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Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#2414: Records the same hosted runtime, E2B sandbox, fallback, accounting, and usage decisions.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2205: Lifts the ADR-011 cloud-sandbox pause that the amendment records as lifted for the hosted out-of-the-box path.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#2686: Adds provenance and bounded traces for native AgentRun records required by the amendment.

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Reconcile the hosted-runtime boundary and define accounting semantics before implementation proceeds; also correct the Daytona licensing description.

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D138 doc gate at 8b8fac9, checked against main as it stands today.

What matches main:

• A1. backend/services/hostedEngine.ts has a per-install engine (native / durable-object). The Durable Object stays as the fallback while a migration is unfinished (hostedEngineInEffect), and HOSTED_ENGINE picks the engine for new installs (engineForNewHostedInstall, set in Helm backend-deployment.yaml:214). Native hosted turns run in nativeRuntimeService (hostedRunsNative, line 1617).
• A3. hostedRuntimeService.ts:38–39 sets 30 turns a day on the free plan and 200 on Pro. The $2 per user per day alarm shipped in #2227 (spendAlarmService). Each hosted turn writes an AgentRun.
• Status line. It is Accepted, and it names its unknowns: per-user usage measured on Scout as a proxy, spot-node reclaim, and E2B as a dependency.
• Scope-boundary note. It names ADR-011 and says A2 depends on ADR-011's 10-15 lift. Correct, and present as you asked.

Defects:

1. A2 describes a sandbox that didn't ship. It says "Outbound traffic is limited to listed hosts, and credentials come from the broker, never the prompt." The sandbox in #2232 (turnSandboxService.ts:7) has no internet at all (allowInternetAccess: false) and no environment variables, so it holds no credentials. That was deliberate: the model holds pod content, so outbound access would let an injected instruction send data out. Web search doesn't go through the sandbox. It is a backend call to a search API (webSearchService.ts, Exa or Tavily). The ADR should say what is true: no egress, no credentials in the VM, at most 5 runs of 30 s per turn, a 3-minute lifetime as the backstop, opt-in per install, and web search through a search API outside the sandbox. An allowlisted-egress sandbox is a later design if it's still wanted, not a description of today.
2. The heading overstates the scope. "tools run in a sandbox" and "A2. Tools run in an E2B sandbox": only commonly_run_code runs in E2B. Broker tools, web search and the pod tools run in the backend process. It should say "code runs in an E2B sandbox".
3. The stage dates are stale. "Stage 1, about 2026-10-22" and "Stage 2, about 2026-10-29" are given as plans, but Stage 2 (#2232) merged on 2026-10-15. Record the dates things actually happened, or drop the dates.

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Exact-head re-stamp at 103b836. Since my HOLD at 8b8fac9 there is one commit (103b836) changing 2 lines, A1 and A2. Nothing else changed.

1. A2 now matches the shipped sandbox. I checked each claim against backend/services/turnSandboxService.ts on main:

   • commonly_run_code is the only tool.
   • The sandbox is created on the first run and killed when the turn ends, with a 3-minute lifetime as the backstop (SANDBOX_LIFETIME_MS).
   • It has no internet, no public inbound traffic (allowPublicTraffic: false, :84) and no environment variables (envs: {}, :102).
   • A turn gets at most 5 runs (MAX_RUNS_PER_TURN), each capped at 30 s (RUN_TIMEOUT_MS) and 20,000 characters of code (MAX_CODE_CHARS, :26), in Python or JavaScript (RUN_CODE_LANGUAGES, :30).

   The egress-allowlist and broker-credential sentences are gone. Resolved.

2. The dates are corrected. A1 now says "shipped 2026-10-15 as TASK-261, #2224", and #2224 merged 2026-10-15T16:31Z. A2 says "shipped 2026-10-15 as TASK-266, #2232", which matches. Resolved.

3. One part of my second defect is still open: the section heading. Line 15 still reads "## Amendment, 2026-10-15: hosted turns run on the native runtime, and tools run in a sandbox". The A2 label was fixed to "Code runs in an E2B sandbox", but the heading above it still says tools, which contradicts A2's own "the only native tool that runs in E2B". Changing "tools run" to "code runs" fixes it.

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Exact-head re-stamp at 38d00a4. Compared with 103b836, the only change in docs/adr/ADR-023-agent-runtime-substrate.md is line 15: "and tools run in a sandbox" becomes "and code runs in a sandbox". That resolves my only remaining point, and the heading now agrees with A2. The PR still changes only that file (+18), and nothing else moved in the rebase.

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28-31: Major · Potential issue

Scope A3 to an implementation that records the turn.

The amendment says every hosted turn writes an AgentRun and that the $2 alarm bounds every hosted user. The Durable Object fallback still counts acked AgentEvent rows, does not create AgentRun records, and is not included by spendAlarmService. Fallback activity is therefore outside the alarm and the cost estimates. This also conflicts with the “hosted agents write no run records yet” statement on Line 17. Implement shared accounting, or scope A3 to native turns and document fallback accounting separately. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Revise A3 in the ADR to limit its AgentRun and $2 alarm claims to native turns,
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Reconcile A1 with the Product thesis.

A1 states that hosted turns run through nativeRuntimeService, whose contract runs the agent loop inside the Commonly backend. The load-bearing Product thesis says, “Commonly is a rendezvous, not a runtime.” Define a bounded exception and update dependent ADRs, or keep hosted execution outside Commonly. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Reconcile A1’s `nativeRuntimeService` hosted-execution decision with the Product
thesis that “Commonly is a rendezvous, not a runtime”: either define the
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25-25: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Scope Daytona’s closed-source claim.

Daytona’s production codebase moved closed source in June 2026, but the earlier repository remains public under its existing license. Clarify this distinction instead of stating that Daytona as a whole became closed source.

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- Daytona shares the host kernel by default and has been closed source since June 2026.
+ Daytona shares the host kernel by default, and its production codebase moved closed source in June 2026 while the earlier repository remained public under its existing license.

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Clarify the Daytona statement in the ADR’s rejected-options text: specify that
its production codebase moved closed source in June 2026 while the earlier
repository remains public under its existing license; retain the separate
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claims to native turns, since Durable Object fallback turns are counted through
AgentEvent rows and are not included in spendAlarmService. Document fallback
accounting separately and reconcile the statement on line 17 that hosted agents
do not yet write run records.
- Line 22: Reconcile A1’s `nativeRuntimeService` hosted-execution decision with
the Product thesis that “Commonly is a rendezvous, not a runtime”: either define
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