fix(gui): inject bearer token into streaming chat/research routes (#499 )

Ensures that the desktop GUI correctly sends the Authorization header when an API key is configured. This resolves the 'Failed to get response' bug on Windows systems with enabled authentication. Ref: #266 Co-authored-by: sanjayravit <sanjay@example.com>
chore: update clone traffic data [skip ci]
2026-08-14 08:52:06 +00:00 · 2026-06-14 17:32:43 -07:00 · 2026-06-14 07:38:47 +00:00 · 2026-06-13 07:21:38 +00:00 · 2026-06-12 07:41:03 +00:00 · 2026-06-11 14:30:10 -07:00
109 changed files with 5367 additions and 397 deletions
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "label": "Git Clones",
-  "message": "97,189",
+  "message": "117,047",
  "color": "green",
  "namedLogo": "git"
 }
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
-  "total_clones": 97189,
-  "last_updated": "2026-06-04T07:41:08Z",
+  "total_clones": 117047,
+  "last_updated": "2026-06-14T07:38:47Z",
  "daily": {
    "2026-03-27": 2189,
    "2026-03-28": 1874,
@@ -70,6 +70,16 @@
    "2026-05-31": 1887,
    "2026-06-01": 2072,
    "2026-06-02": 1847,
-    "2026-06-03": 2164
+    "2026-06-03": 2164,
+    "2026-06-04": 2632,
+    "2026-06-05": 2127,
+    "2026-06-06": 2204,
+    "2026-06-07": 1174,
+    "2026-06-08": 2369,
+    "2026-06-09": 1361,
+    "2026-06-10": 1310,
+    "2026-06-11": 2564,
+    "2026-06-12": 1313,
+    "2026-06-13": 2804
  }
 }
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:

      - name: Run tests
        run: |
-          uv run pytest tests/ -v --tb=short -m "not live and not cloud" \
+          uv run pytest tests/ -v --tb=short -m "not live and not cloud and not hub" \
            --cov=openjarvis \
            --cov-report=term-missing \
            --cov-report=xml \
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
    <a href="https://open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-mkdocs-blue" alt="Docs"></a>
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-%3E%3D3.10-blue" alt="Python">
    <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-green" alt="License">
-    <a href="https://discord.gg/6ZtCB94h5p"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/discord-join-7289da?logo=discord&logoColor=white" alt="Discord"></a>
+    <a href="https://discord.gg/CMVBmDQ5Fj"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/discord-join-7289da?logo=discord&logoColor=white" alt="Discord"></a>
    <a href="https://x.com/OpenJarvisAI"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/X-@OpenJarvisAI-black?logo=x&logoColor=white" alt="X / Twitter"></a>
  </p>
 </div>
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 >
 > **[Project Site](https://scalingintelligence.stanford.edu/blogs/openjarvis/)**
 >
+> **[Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17172)**
+>
 > **[Leaderboard](https://open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/leaderboard/)**
 >
 > **[Roadmap](https://open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/development/roadmap/)**
@@ -121,7 +123,7 @@ Full documentation — including Docker deployment, cloud engines, development s
 ## Community

 - **GitHub:** [github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis](https://github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis)
- **Discord:** [discord.gg/YZZRxCAhmm](https://discord.gg/YZZRxCAhmm)
+- **Discord:** [discord.gg/CMVBmDQ5Fj](https://discord.gg/CMVBmDQ5Fj)
 - **X / Twitter:** [@OpenJarvisAI](https://x.com/OpenJarvisAI)
 - **Docs:** [open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis](https://open-jarvis.github.io/OpenJarvis/)

@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ enabled = true                            # Record traces for analysis
 db_path = "~/.openjarvis/traces.db"

 [server]
-host = "0.0.0.0"
+# Bind to loopback by default so the API is not exposed to the local network.
+# To serve other devices on your LAN, set host = "0.0.0.0" AND set an API key
+# (OPENJARVIS_API_KEY / `jarvis auth generate-key`) — startup refuses a
+# non-loopback bind without a key. The "server" security profile also flips
+# this to 0.0.0.0 intentionally.
+host = "127.0.0.1"
 port = 8000
 agent = "native_openhands"
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
 .DESCRIPTION
    Phase-1 of the native-Windows-support RFC (#298). Mirrors the
    behavior of scripts/install/install.sh (the curl-pipe-bash installer
-    for Linux/WSL2/macOS) but for native Windows PowerShell — no WSL,
+    for Linux/WSL2/macOS) but for native Windows PowerShell - no WSL,
    no Docker, no MSYS2.

    Steps:
      1. Refuse non-Windows / Windows < 10.
-      2. Check Python 3.10 — 3.13 on PATH (3.14 has no numpy wheels yet,
+      2. Check Python 3.10 - 3.13 on PATH (3.14 has no numpy wheels yet,
         see #432).
      3. Check git on PATH.
      4. Install uv (https://astral.sh/uv) if absent.
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ if (-not $Service     -and $env:OPENJARVIS_SERVICE)      { $Service     = $true
 if (-not $Force       -and $env:OPENJARVIS_FORCE)        { $Force       = $true }

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Output helpers — coloured but plain enough for Constrained Language Mode.
+# Output helpers - coloured but plain enough for Constrained Language Mode.
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 function Write-Info  ($msg) { Write-Host "[info]  $msg" -ForegroundColor Cyan }
@@ -77,13 +77,13 @@ function Write-Fail  ($msg) {
 }

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Shared helpers — winget bootstrap + PATH refresh
+# Shared helpers - winget bootstrap + PATH refresh
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 # Pull the latest Machine + User PATH from the registry into the current
 # PowerShell session. Tools installed by `winget install` (Python, git,
 # Ollama, etc.) update the User PATH, but the running process inherits
-# the parent shell's environment — so without this refresh the just-
+# the parent shell's environment - so without this refresh the just-
 # installed tool stays invisible to subsequent `Get-Command` calls.
 #
 # CRITICAL: registry PATH entries can be REG_EXPAND_SZ (with literal
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ function Get-PythonCommand {
 Write-Info "Checking Python (3.10 - 3.13)..."
 $pythonExe = Get-PythonCommand
 if (-not $pythonExe) {
-    Write-Info "Python not on PATH — attempting auto-install via winget..."
+    Write-Info "Python not on PATH - attempting auto-install via winget..."
    $pythonExe = Install-WithWinget -WingetId 'Python.Python.3.13' -CommandName 'python'
    if (-not $pythonExe) {
        Write-Fail @"
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ Write-Ok "Python $pyMajor.$pyMinor ($pythonExe)"
 Write-Info "Checking git..."
 $gitExe = (Get-Command git -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Source
 if (-not $gitExe) {
-    Write-Info "git not on PATH — attempting auto-install via winget..."
+    Write-Info "git not on PATH - attempting auto-install via winget..."
    $gitExe = Install-WithWinget -WingetId 'Git.Git' -CommandName 'git'
    if (-not $gitExe) {
        Write-Fail @"
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ if (-not $uvExe) {
    }
    # The astral installer puts uv at %USERPROFILE%\.local\bin\uv.exe and
    # adds that dir to the User PATH. The current process's PATH isn't
-    # refreshed automatically — prepend the install dir so the rest of
+    # refreshed automatically - prepend the install dir so the rest of
    # this script picks it up.
    $uvDir = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE '.local\bin'
    if (Test-Path (Join-Path $uvDir 'uv.exe')) {
@@ -295,13 +295,13 @@ try {
 Write-Ok "Dependencies installed"

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 7. Ollama — install + start + wait for daemon
+# 7. Ollama - install + start + wait for daemon
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Write-Info "Checking Ollama..."
 $ollamaExe = (Get-Command ollama -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).Source
 if (-not $ollamaExe) {
-    Write-Info "  Ollama not on PATH — downloading the official installer (~150 MB)..."
+    Write-Info "  Ollama not on PATH - downloading the official installer (~150 MB)..."
    $ollamaSetup = Join-Path $env:TEMP 'OllamaSetup.exe'
    # SilentlyContinue is load-bearing in PS 5.1: the default progress
    # bar renderer slows Invoke-WebRequest down 30x on large downloads
@@ -340,13 +340,18 @@ Write-Ok "Ollama ($ollamaExe)"
 Write-Info "Waiting for Ollama daemon..."
 $ollamaReady = $false
 for ($i = 0; $i -lt 60; $i++) {
-    & $ollamaExe list 2>&1 | Out-Null
+    # 'ollama list' writes to stderr until the daemon is reachable; under
+    # $ErrorActionPreference='Stop' the 2>&1 merge surfaces that as a
+    # terminating NativeCommandError that would abort the whole install on
+    # the very first probe. Swallow it and rely on $LASTEXITCODE so the
+    # Start-Process serve fallback below actually runs (issue #522).
+    try { & $ollamaExe list 2>&1 | Out-Null } catch { }
    if ($LASTEXITCODE -eq 0) {
        $ollamaReady = $true
        break
    }
    if ($i -eq 5) {
-        # Daemon clearly isn't auto-running — start it ourselves. Ollama
+        # Daemon clearly isn't auto-running - start it ourselves. Ollama
        # for Windows uses the tray app `ollama app.exe`; falling back to
        # `ollama serve` works headless.
        Start-Process -FilePath $ollamaExe -ArgumentList 'serve' -WindowStyle Hidden -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
@@ -354,11 +359,11 @@ for ($i = 0; $i -lt 60; $i++) {
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
 }
 if (-not $ollamaReady) {
-    Write-Warn2 "Ollama daemon didn't become ready in 60s. Continuing — bg-orchestrator will retry later."
+    Write-Warn2 "Ollama daemon didn't become ready in 60s. Continuing - bg-orchestrator will retry later."
 }

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 8. Pull a starter model (qwen3.5:2b — ~1.5 GB)
+# 8. Pull a starter model (qwen3.5:2b - ~1.5 GB)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 $modelPullOk = $false
@@ -372,11 +377,11 @@ if ($ollamaReady) {
        Write-Warn2 "ollama pull failed; the bg-orchestrator will retry once Ollama is reachable."
    }
 } else {
-    Write-Warn2 "Skipping model pull — daemon wasn't ready."
+    Write-Warn2 "Skipping model pull - daemon wasn't ready."
 }

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# 9. jarvis.cmd shim — so bare `jarvis` works in any new PowerShell
+# 9. jarvis.cmd shim - so bare `jarvis` works in any new PowerShell
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 $binDir = Join-Path $installRoot 'bin'
@@ -387,7 +392,7 @@ if (-not (Test-Path $binDir)) {
 }

 # %~dp0 in a .cmd file resolves to the directory containing the script,
-# so the shim is self-locating — moving %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenJarvis won't
+# so the shim is self-locating - moving %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenJarvis won't
 # break it as long as the user moves the whole tree. `uv` is resolved
 # from PATH at runtime (astral installer adds it to User PATH); avoids
 # pinning to the install-time uv.exe path which can shift on uv updates.
@@ -400,7 +405,7 @@ uv run --project "%SRC%" jarvis %*
 Set-Content -Path $shimPath -Value $shimContent -Encoding ASCII

 # Add %LOCALAPPDATA%\OpenJarvis\bin to User PATH if it isn't already
-# there. The current process won't see it until restart — handled in the
+# there. The current process won't see it until restart - handled in the
 # final banner.
 #
 # Compare against the EXPANDED form: a previous install may have written
@@ -430,7 +435,7 @@ Write-Ok "jarvis shim installed at $shimPath"
 $serviceScript = Join-Path $srcDir 'deploy\windows\jarvis-service.ps1'
 $shouldInstallService = $false

-# Pre-check admin if the user wants the service — Register-ScheduledTask
+# Pre-check admin if the user wants the service - Register-ScheduledTask
 # requires elevation. We do this before the prompt so we don't ask "do
 # you want the service?" only to fail with Access Denied after they say
 # yes.
@@ -439,7 +444,7 @@ $isAdmin = ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] `
 ).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator)

 if ($Service -and -not $isAdmin) {
-    Write-Fail "-Service was requested, but this PowerShell is not elevated. Register-ScheduledTask needs admin rights — re-run from an elevated PowerShell, or drop -Service."
+    Write-Fail "-Service was requested, but this PowerShell is not elevated. Register-ScheduledTask needs admin rights - re-run from an elevated PowerShell, or drop -Service."
 }
 if ($Service) {
    $shouldInstallService = $true
@@ -448,7 +453,7 @@ if ($Service) {
 } elseif (-not $isAdmin) {
    # Default to skip-with-explanation when we can't elevate, rather
    # than prompting and then failing at Register-ScheduledTask.
-    Write-Warn2 "Skipping scheduled-task setup — this PowerShell is not elevated."
+    Write-Warn2 "Skipping scheduled-task setup - this PowerShell is not elevated."
    Write-Warn2 "  Register-ScheduledTask requires admin. To install the service later:"
    Write-Warn2 "    Right-click PowerShell -> Run as administrator, then run:"
    Write-Warn2 "    powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$serviceScript`" install"
@@ -464,7 +469,7 @@ if ($Service) {
        $reply = Read-Host "Register OpenJarvis as a Windows scheduled task (auto-start at logon, loopback only)? [y/N]"
        $shouldInstallService = ($reply -match '^[yY]')
    } else {
-        Write-Warn2 "Non-interactive install — skipping scheduled-task setup."
+        Write-Warn2 "Non-interactive install - skipping scheduled-task setup."
        Write-Warn2 "To register the service later, run (from an elevated PowerShell):"
        Write-Warn2 "  powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$serviceScript`" install"
    }
@@ -487,9 +492,9 @@ if ($shouldInstallService) {
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Write-Host ""
-Write-Host "  ┌──────────────────────────────────┐" -ForegroundColor Green
-Write-Host "  │   OpenJarvis install complete    │" -ForegroundColor Green
-Write-Host "  └──────────────────────────────────┘" -ForegroundColor Green
+Write-Host "  +----------------------------------+" -ForegroundColor Green
+Write-Host "  |   OpenJarvis install complete    |" -ForegroundColor Green
+Write-Host "  +----------------------------------+" -ForegroundColor Green
 Write-Host ""
 Write-Host "  Repo:    $srcDir"

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# Showcase screenshots
+
+This directory holds the hero screenshot for each Showcase entry in `docs/showcase/`. Convention is one file per entry, named to match the entry's slug:
+
+| Entry | Screenshot path |
+|---|---|
+| `docs/showcase/morning-brief.md` | `morning-brief.png` |
+| `docs/showcase/persistent-memory.md` | `persistent-memory.png` |
+| `docs/showcase/cost-savings.md` | `cost-savings.png` |
+| `docs/showcase/discord-companion.md` | `discord-companion.png` |
+| `docs/showcase/coding-assistant.md` | `coding-assistant.png` |
+
+## Conventions
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| Format | PNG, sRGB, no alpha channel |
+| Size | 1600×1000 (4:2.5 — wider than 16:9, so screenshots don't get letterboxed in the docs grid) |
+| File size | Under 400 KB after `pngquant --quality 70-90 --speed 1` |
+| Loading | All `<img>` and `<figure>` tags in showcase pages use `loading=lazy` — these images are below the fold on the gallery page |
+
+## What to redact
+
+- Real email addresses
+- API keys, OAuth tokens, anything starting with `sk-`, `ghp_`, `xox`, `eyJ`
+- Personal phone numbers
+- Conversation partners' faces or full names (unless they've signed off)
+- File paths that include other people's home directories
+
+## What to keep
+
+- Model names ("llama3.1:8b", "qwen2.5:14b") — they're informative
+- Timestamps — proves the screenshot is recent
+- Dollar amounts on the leaderboard — the whole point
+- Emoji reactions, your own first name, your own avatar
+
+## Placeholder PNGs
+
+This directory ships with no images on the initial PR. The Showcase pages reference image paths that don't exist yet — MkDocs will render a broken-image placeholder, and the figcaption still conveys what should be there. Real screenshots arrive in follow-up PRs as Showcase entries are populated with each contributor's actual setup.
+
+If you're contributing the first real entry, drop your PNG at `docs/assets/showcase/<your-slug>.png` in the same PR that adds your markdown page. The image filename must match the slug used in the showcase page's `<img>` reference.
+
+## Regenerating screenshots in bulk
+
+A future enhancement (tracked as PR #3 in the showcase-tier roadmap) will add `scripts/showcase/regen_screenshots.py` — a Playwright-driven pipeline that boots a demo `jarvis serve` against a sealed config and captures fresh screenshots for every showcase entry on each release tag. Until that lands, screenshots are contributed manually by each Showcase author.
@@ -14,6 +14,18 @@ OpenJarvis is a research framework for composable, on-device AI systems.
 Build personal AI that runs on your hardware. Cloud APIs are optional.
 </p>

+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+
+-   :material-image-multiple:{ .lg .middle } **See what people use it for**
+
+    ---
+
+    A gallery of real setups — morning briefs that summarize your overnight Slack and email, a Discord companion that knows your calendar, a code reviewer that works at 30,000 feet. Outcome-first, with links to the docs that explain how to build each one.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: Browse the Showcase](showcase/index.md)
+
+</div>
+
 ---

 ## Why OpenJarvis?
@@ -171,7 +183,7 @@ OpenJarvis is built around five composable layers. Each has a clean interface an

    ---

-    CLI, Python SDK, and guides for [Morning Digest](user-guide/morning-digest.md), [Deep Research](user-guide/deep-research.md), [Code Assistant](user-guide/code-assistant.md), [Scheduled Monitor](user-guide/scheduled-monitor.md), [Simple Chat](user-guide/chat-simple.md), agents, memory, tools, and telemetry.
+    CLI, Python SDK, and guides for [Morning Digest](user-guide/morning-digest.md), [Deep Research](user-guide/deep-research.md), [Code Assistant](user-guide/code-assistant.md), [Scheduled Monitor](user-guide/scheduled-monitor.md), [Simple Chat](user-guide/chat-simple.md), [Evaluations](user-guide/evaluations.md), agents, memory, tools, and telemetry.

 -   **[Architecture](architecture/overview.md)**

@@ -12,8 +12,14 @@
  // Outlier detection — hide entries with values that are physically
  // implausible relative to their token count.  Thresholds are ~1000x
  // above legitimate per-token values to avoid false positives.
-  var MAX_ENERGY_WH_PER_TOKEN = 10;        // legit ≈ 0.001 Wh/tok
-  var MAX_FLOPS_PER_TOKEN = 1e17;           // legit ≈ 1e12 /tok
+  // Outlier bounds. Set well above realistic upper limits but tight
+  // enough to drop the pre-fix bimodal Group B (1-5 Wh/token, ~3e16
+  // FLOPs/token) — see the leaderboard PR for the full diagnosis.
+  // Realistic per-token rates on a consumer GPU + 10–30B local model:
+  // ~0.001 Wh/token, ~1e10–1e11 FLOPs/token. We allow 500× and 10,000×
+  // headroom respectively for inefficient hardware / larger models.
+  var MAX_ENERGY_WH_PER_TOKEN = 0.5;        // legit ≈ 0.001 Wh/tok
+  var MAX_FLOPS_PER_TOKEN = 1e15;           // legit ≈ 1e11 /tok
  var MAX_DOLLAR_PER_TOKEN = 25.0 / 1e6;   // hard ceiling: $25/1M output

  function isOutlier(row) {
@@ -29,6 +35,25 @@
    );
  }

+  // Distinguish "user actually has zero work done" from "user's energy /
+  // FLOPs telemetry never landed". The latter happens when the server
+  // submits with valid dollar savings + token counts but the per-record
+  // energy stamp was missing (pre-fix builds, GPU energy meter
+  // unavailable, etc.). Without this check those rows show as "0.00 Wh"
+  // and skew the rankings + headline totals.
+  //
+  // Threshold: 1000 tokens is well above any single chat-turn — if a
+  // user has that many tokens recorded but no measured energy, the
+  // telemetry is incomplete, not legitimately zero.
+  var MIN_TOKENS_FOR_TELEMETRY = 1000;
+
+  function isMissingTelemetry(row) {
+    var tokens = Number(row.total_tokens) || 0;
+    var energy = Number(row.energy_wh_saved) || 0;
+    var flops = Number(row.flops_saved) || 0;
+    return tokens > MIN_TOKENS_FOR_TELEMETRY && energy === 0 && flops === 0;
+  }
+
  function escapeHtml(s) {
    var el = document.createElement("span");
    el.textContent = s;
@@ -62,13 +87,24 @@
      var medal =
        rank === 1 ? "\uD83E\uDD47" : rank === 2 ? "\uD83E\uDD48" : rank === 3 ? "\uD83E\uDD49" : "";
      var row = pageRows[j];
+      // Render "—" for energy / FLOPs columns when telemetry didn't
+      // land (vs the user genuinely having 0). The dollar / request /
+      // token columns are unaffected because those measurements landed
+      // even when energy didn't.
+      var missing = isMissingTelemetry(row);
+      var energyCell = missing
+        ? '<td class="lb-number lb-missing" title="Energy telemetry missing for this entry">—</td>'
+        : '<td class="lb-number">' + Number(row.energy_wh_saved || 0).toFixed(2) + "</td>";
+      var flopsCell = missing
+        ? '<td class="lb-number lb-missing" title="FLOPs telemetry missing for this entry">—</td>'
+        : '<td class="lb-number">' + fmtLarge(Number(row.flops_saved || 0)) + "</td>";
      html +=
        "<tr>" +
        '<td><span class="lb-rank' + rankClass + '">' + (medal || rank) + "</span></td>" +
        '<td class="lb-name">' + escapeHtml(row.display_name) + "</td>" +
        '<td class="lb-number">$' + Number(row.dollar_savings || 0).toFixed(4) + "</td>" +
-        '<td class="lb-number">' + Number(row.energy_wh_saved || 0).toFixed(2) + "</td>" +
-        '<td class="lb-number">' + fmtLarge(Number(row.flops_saved || 0)) + "</td>" +
+        energyCell +
+        flopsCell +
        '<td class="lb-number">' + Number(row.total_calls || 0).toLocaleString() + "</td>" +
        '<td class="lb-number">' + Number(row.total_tokens || 0).toLocaleString() + "</td>" +
        "</tr>";
@@ -116,8 +152,15 @@
    }

    fetch(
+      // `methodology_version=gte.1` filter excludes rows that the
+      // leaderboard-correctness migration quarantined (version 0). Rows
+      // written by current and future clients carry version >= 1, so this
+      // is forward-compatible — pre-fix corrupt rows hide at the query
+      // level (fewer bytes over the wire than client-side outlier
+      // filtering), and downstream client-side checks remain as a
+      // belt-and-suspenders second line of defence.
      SUPABASE_URL +
-        "/rest/v1/savings_entries?select=display_name,dollar_savings,energy_wh_saved,flops_saved,total_calls,total_tokens&order=dollar_savings.desc&limit=1000",
+        "/rest/v1/savings_entries?select=display_name,dollar_savings,energy_wh_saved,flops_saved,total_calls,total_tokens&methodology_version=gte.1&order=dollar_savings.desc&limit=1000",
      {
        headers: {
          apikey: SUPABASE_ANON_KEY,
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+---
+title: Contributing a Showcase Entry
+description: How to add your setup to the OpenJarvis Showcase
+---
+
+# Contributing a Showcase Entry
+
+The Showcase exists for one reason: to help a confused, curious, *non-technical* reader figure out whether OpenJarvis is worth their weekend. That goal sets every editorial choice on this page.
+
+## The format
+
+```markdown
+---
+title: <Your Title — short, capitalized>
+description: <One sentence. The hook a stranger sees in search results.>
+---
+
+# <emoji> <One-sentence hook — what it does FOR you, in plain English>
+
+<figure markdown>
+  ![<alt text>](../assets/showcase/<your-image>.png){ .showcase-screenshot loading=lazy }
+  <figcaption>A one-sentence caption that adds context the image can't show on its own.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+<2–3 short paragraphs of context: when do you use this, what changed for
+you, what the experience feels like. Concrete > abstract. "I read it on
+my phone before coffee" > "improves morning productivity."
+
+A bulleted list of two or three CONCRETE OUTCOMES works well — your
+calendar, your inbox, your code. Specific verbs and proper nouns.>
+
+## Why it's nice
+
+- **<one-line benefit>.** <one or two sentences of evidence>
+- **<one-line benefit>.** <one or two sentences of evidence>
+- **<one-line benefit>.** <one or two sentences of evidence>
+
+## How I set this up
+
+→ **[Tutorial: <name>](../tutorials/<file>.md)** is the closest match.
+
+→ **[Recipe: <name>](https://github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis/tree/main/src/openjarvis/recipes/data)** if you want the exact config.
+
+→ **[<one more related doc>](../<path>.md)** if the reader is going deeper.
+```
+
+## Editorial conventions
+
+These are guardrails, not rules. Break them if you have a reason.
+
+### Lead with the outcome, not the technology
+
+❌ "Multi-channel routing with MCP-backed memory and an orchestrator agent."<br>
+✅ "Jarvis answers my Discord messages while I sleep."
+
+The reader doesn't know what an "orchestrator agent" is yet. They know what a Discord message is.
+
+### Show one screenshot. Make it the headline.
+
+A single, large, *interesting* screenshot beats five small ones. Crop it to show the result, not the UI chrome. If you can convey it in an image, don't write the paragraph.
+
+**Screenshot specs:**
+
+- 1600×1000 PNG, sRGB, no alpha
+- File path: `docs/assets/showcase/<your-slug>.png`
+- Redact: real email addresses, API keys, personal phone numbers, conversation partners' faces or full names (unless they've signed off)
+- Keep: model names, timestamps, dollar amounts, emoji reactions, your own first name
+
+### Specific over impressive
+
+❌ "Saves significant time every morning."<br>
+✅ "Cut my morning catch-up from 25 minutes to 2."
+
+Numbers, durations, dollar amounts, and named tools build trust. Adjectives don't.
+
+### Three paragraphs is plenty
+
+A reader who wants more clicks the "How I set this up →" link at the bottom. Showcase pages are a funnel into the docs, not a replacement for them. If you find yourself explaining configuration in the showcase entry, that material belongs in the linked tutorial.
+
+### "Why it's nice" is for the experience, not the architecture
+
+The bullets under **Why it's nice** should answer "what's different *for you*?" — not "what's different about how the framework works?". Save the architecture talk for the linked docs.
+
+❌ "Uses local SQLite for state with WAL mode for concurrent reads."<br>
+✅ "I can read my own memory file in a text editor. I can delete a line and the memory is gone."
+
+### Every entry must end with at least one "How I set this up →" link
+
+If there isn't a relevant tutorial yet, link to the closest [User Guide](../user-guide/cli.md) and open an issue noting that the tutorial is missing. We will write it.
+
+## Submitting
+
+1. **Fork** the repo and create a branch: `docs/showcase-<your-slug>`.
+2. **Add** your markdown file at `docs/showcase/<your-slug>.md` and screenshot at `docs/assets/showcase/<your-slug>.png`.
+3. **Add a tile** to the grid in `docs/showcase/index.md` (matches the existing pattern — emoji + title + 1-sentence summary + `[:octicons-arrow-right-24: See it](<your-slug>.md)`).
+4. **Open a PR** with the title `docs(showcase): <your title>`. Tag a maintainer if you'd like editorial feedback before merge.
+
+## Where this goes after merge
+
+Hannah and the docs team post merged showcase entries to **`#config-showcase`** in [the OpenJarvis Discord](https://discord.gg/openjarvis). You'll get tagged in the post — you don't have to do it yourself.
+
+## Questions, drafts, half-finished ideas
+
+Drop them in **`#config-showcase`** on Discord *before* opening a PR. Editorial feedback is faster on chat than in a PR review, and you'll save yourself a round of revisions.
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+---
+title: Offline Code Reviewer
+description: Review a pull request on a transatlantic flight, no internet required
+---
+
+# 🛠️ Offline Code Reviewer — code review on an airplane
+
+<figure markdown>
+  ![Jarvis reviewing a diff with no internet connection](../assets/showcase/coding-assistant.png){ .showcase-screenshot loading=lazy }
+  <figcaption>Airplane mode in the menu bar. Jarvis reading a `git diff`, the surrounding files, and producing a code review at gate-level Wi-Fi (i.e., none).</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+Earlier this month I was on a flight from SFO to FRA — eleven hours, no usable Wi-Fi. I had a teammate's pull request open in VS Code. I asked Jarvis to review it. It read the diff, read the three files the diff touched, read the project's `CLAUDE.md` for conventions, and produced a review with five comments — two of which caught real bugs.
+
+The review took about 40 seconds on the laptop's built-in GPU. No API call. No "you're offline" error. By the time we landed I'd dropped the comments into GitHub and the PR was merging.
+
+The same setup handles:
+
+- **Code review** — diff + context files + conventions, structured comments.
+- **Debugging** — paste a traceback, Jarvis reads the stack, opens the relevant files, suggests fixes.
+- **Test generation** — point at a function, get back a `pytest` file with edge cases.
+- **Documentation** — generate docstrings that actually match the code, because Jarvis has the file open.
+
+## Why it's nice
+
+- **It works on a plane.** Or a train, or a hotel with bad Wi-Fi, or your couch when Comcast is having a day. Same speed every time.
+- **It sees your repo, not a sanitized chunk.** Cloud coding assistants make you upload a context window. The local one just reads `git status` and the files you're working on.
+- **No "we trained on your code" question.** Your code never leaves your laptop. Period.
+
+## How I set this up
+
+→ **[Tutorial: Code Companion](../tutorials/code-companion.md)** walks through the ReAct-agent + git/file/shell tool stack this uses end-to-end.
+
+→ **[User Guide: Code Assistant](../user-guide/code-assistant.md)** is the focused recipe walkthrough for daily-driver code review.
+
+→ **[OpenAI-compatible server](../getting-started/quickstart.md)** — point your editor's existing AI integration (Cursor, Continue, Cody, Aider) at `localhost:8000`. They mostly don't know they're not talking to OpenAI.
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+---
+title: Track Your Savings
+description: A leaderboard that tells you exactly how much you saved by running locally
+---
+
+# 💸 Track Your Savings — the leaderboard that makes local-first feel real
+
+<figure markdown>
+  ![OpenJarvis savings leaderboard with personal row highlighted](../assets/showcase/cost-savings.png){ .showcase-screenshot loading=lazy }
+  <figcaption>The public leaderboard. The bar on the right is what a month of my Jarvis usage would have cost on the cloud — measured per-query, not estimated.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+OpenJarvis tracks every inference call you make — the tokens, the latency, the GPU energy — and computes what that same call *would have cost* on OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Bedrock. There's a public leaderboard at **[/leaderboard](../leaderboard.md)** where anyone running Jarvis can opt in and watch their savings rack up.
+
+My current month is roughly:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| Local inference cost | **`$0.00`** |
+| Cloud-equivalent cost | **`$342.18`** (Claude Sonnet 4.6 baseline) |
+| Energy used | **`1.4 kWh`** (~12¢ of grid power) |
+| Prompts sent to a third party | **`0`** |
+
+The dollar number is the hook. The bottom row is the actual reason I run Jarvis.
+
+## Why it's nice
+
+- **You can see what each query costs you.** Not estimated, not "roughly" — measured. Watt-hours per token, FLOPs per token, latency. Every primitive in OpenJarvis treats compute cost as a first-class quantity alongside accuracy.
+- **It makes "local-first" stop being abstract.** Watching a bar chart accumulate `$X` a week that *didn't* leave your hands is a different kind of motivating than "your data is private" claims that you can't verify.
+- **Privacy stops being an act of faith.** Every prompt I send to Jarvis can be traced through the codebase to local-only paths. No "cloud failover" hiding behind a switch.
+
+## How I set this up
+
+You don't, really — it's on by default. Every `jarvis ask`, `jarvis serve` request, and channel-routed message is metered by the [telemetry system](../telemetry.md). To opt your savings into the public leaderboard:
+
+→ **[Leaderboard guide](../leaderboard.md)** — one command to opt in, one command to opt out. Telemetry is local-only by default.
+
+→ **[Telemetry overview](../telemetry.md)** — what's measured, where it's stored, and how to inspect it yourself with `jarvis telemetry`.
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+title: Discord Companion
+description: Jarvis answers questions in your private Discord while you sleep — reads your notes, checks your calendar, schedules things
+---
+
+# 💬 Discord Companion — a personal assistant that lives in my Discord
+
+<figure markdown>
+  ![Jarvis answering a Discord DM about the user's calendar and notes](../assets/showcase/discord-companion.png){ .showcase-screenshot loading=lazy }
+  <figcaption>I DM'd Jarvis from my phone at midnight. It checked my Google Calendar, cross-referenced a note from last week, and answered — running on the Mac mini in my closet.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+I have a private Discord server with two channels and one user (me). Jarvis lives there. I can DM it from my phone, my laptop, or my watch — anywhere Discord runs. Sample things I've asked it this week:
+
+- "What's the address of the place I had that meeting last Tuesday?" → Jarvis searches my calendar + meeting notes, replies in 4 seconds.
+- "Reply to Mom's text from earlier saying I'll call tomorrow at 7." → drafts a reply, asks me to confirm, sends.
+- "Add 'Sam's birthday is March 12' to my long-term memory." → updates `MEMORY.md`, confirms.
+- "Summarize the last hour of conversation in `#deploys-prod`." → reads the Slack channel via MCP, summarizes.
+
+I used to use my phone's voice assistant for this. The two differences that matter: **Jarvis answers in three sentences, not one,** and **it actually has my context** — my notes, my calendar, my projects, my history.
+
+## Why it's nice
+
+- **Latency feels like talking to a person.** Local inference on a modest GPU is 5–10× faster than round-tripping to a cloud API. Question to answer in 3 seconds.
+- **The Discord interface is multi-device for free.** Same conversation thread on my phone, laptop, watch — no special app to install.
+- **It's already private.** A Discord server I run, talking to a model on a machine I own. The data trail is two endpoints I control.
+
+## How I set this up
+
+→ **[Tutorial: Messaging Hub](../tutorials/messaging-hub.md)** is the closest match — same channel-adapter + orchestrator-agent pattern, with Discord substituted for Slack.
+
+→ **[Channel docs](../user-guide/cli.md)** walks through Discord/Slack/Telegram/WhatsApp setup. Discord is two environment variables and a bot token.
+
+→ **[MCP integration guide](../user-guide/cli.md)** if you want Jarvis to reach into Notion, Linear, Gmail, etc.
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+---
+title: Showcase
+description: What people actually do with OpenJarvis — outcomes first, scripts later
+---
+
+# Showcase
+
+These are stories from people who use OpenJarvis day to day. Each entry shows the **result** — a screenshot, a paragraph of context, and a short link to the docs that explain how to build it. If you're trying to figure out whether OpenJarvis is worth a weekend of your time, start here.
+
+!!! tip "New here?"
+    The Showcase answers *"what's possible?"*. When you find something you want for yourself, follow the **How I set this up** link at the bottom of each page — it lands on a [Tutorial](../tutorials/index.md) that walks through the build.
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+
+- :material-coffee:{ .lg .middle } **Morning Brief**
+
+    ---
+
+    Slack, email, GitHub, and calendar — read overnight, summarized into 5 bullets in your phone by 7am. Cuts the daily "what did I miss" tax to zero.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See it](morning-brief.md)
+
+- :material-brain:{ .lg .middle } **Memory That Doesn't Reset**
+
+    ---
+
+    Tell Jarvis you're allergic to shellfish once. Three months later it brings it up when you're restaurant-planning. Plain markdown files, no vector-DB tricks.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See it](persistent-memory.md)
+
+- :material-piggy-bank-outline:{ .lg .middle } **Track Your Savings**
+
+    ---
+
+    A leaderboard that tells you exactly how much you saved by running locally — and reminds you that none of your prompts ever left your house.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See it](cost-savings.md)
+
+- :material-message-text:{ .lg .middle } **Discord Companion**
+
+    ---
+
+    Jarvis answers questions in your private Discord while you sleep. Reads your notes, checks your calendar, schedules things, replies in your voice.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See it](discord-companion.md)
+
+- :material-code-tags-check:{ .lg .middle } **Offline Code Reviewer**
+
+    ---
+
+    Review a pull request on a transatlantic flight. Jarvis reads the diff, the surrounding files, and the project conventions — without an internet connection.
+
+    [:octicons-arrow-right-24: See it](coding-assistant.md)
+
+</div>
+
+---
+
+## Share your setup
+
+The Showcase grows from real users. If you've built something interesting on top of OpenJarvis — or just have a configuration you're proud of — the format is simple and the bar is low:
+
+1. **One-sentence hook**: what does this *do for you*?
+2. **A screenshot or 15-second screen recording**: the visible result.
+3. **2–3 short paragraphs**: when you use it, why it's nice (cost, privacy, speed, calm).
+4. **"How I set this up →"**: a link to the relevant [Tutorial](../tutorials/index.md), [User Guide](../user-guide/cli.md), or [Recipe](https://github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis/tree/main/src/openjarvis/recipes/data).
+
+See [Contributing a Showcase Entry](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the template and the editorial conventions (screenshot sizing, what to redact, tone).
+
+## Want to talk to other people doing this?
+
+The **`#config-showcase`** channel in the [OpenJarvis Discord](https://discord.gg/openjarvis) is where people post and discuss personal setups. Drop a screenshot, ask "how would I do X?", or browse what others have shared.
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+---
+title: Morning Brief
+description: Slack, email, GitHub, and calendar — summarized into a 5-bullet brief on your phone by 7am
+---
+
+# ☕ Morning Brief — Jarvis reads everything overnight so I don't have to
+
+<figure markdown>
+  ![Morning brief in Discord](../assets/showcase/morning-brief.png){ .showcase-screenshot loading=lazy }
+  <figcaption>The 7am brief that arrives in my private Discord — 5 bullets, two minutes to read, written by an agent that ran on my desk while I slept.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+Every morning at 7am, before my first coffee, a message appears in my private Discord with five bullets:
+
+- what shipped at work overnight (GitHub releases + merged PRs)
+- the two emails I actually need to act on (with one-line summaries)
+- anything mentioned in my team's `#general` Slack channel
+- today's calendar with the next 24 hours of meetings
+- one thing I asked Jarvis to track for me ("did Tuesday's deploy roll out cleanly?")
+
+It's the first thing I read on my phone, while I'm still in bed. The brief used to take me 25 minutes — opening four apps, scrolling, deciding what mattered. Now it's two minutes of reading and I'm done.
+
+## Why it's nice
+
+- **Costs me nothing per month.** It runs on a Mac mini in my closet. Same prompt-volume on the OpenAI API would be `~$18/month` based on the leaderboard's estimates.
+- **Nothing leaves my house.** My inbox, my Slack DMs, my calendar — Jarvis reads them locally and writes the digest locally. The only network call is the Discord webhook to my own private server.
+- **It learns my taste.** Over a few weeks Jarvis figured out that PR titles starting with `chore:` aren't worth surfacing and that I don't want to see calendar holds I created myself. The summarizer has a `MEMORY.md` it updates when I react with 👎 to a bullet.
+
+## What you'd need
+
+A laptop or mini-PC that stays on overnight, an inference engine (Ollama is the easy default), accounts on whichever surfaces you want summarized (Slack, Gmail, GitHub, Google Calendar), and a Discord (or Slack, or Telegram, or email) destination to post the brief to.
+
+## How I set this up
+
+→ **[Tutorial: Scheduled Personal Ops](../tutorials/scheduled-ops.md)** walks through the cron-scheduled agent pattern this uses. The morning-brief flavour is `orchestrator` agent + the channel adapters + the scheduler primitive — three primitives, one TOML recipe.
+
+→ **[User Guide: Morning Digest](../user-guide/morning-digest.md)** is the focused recipe walkthrough if you only want this one workflow.
+
+→ **[User Guide: Channels](../user-guide/cli.md)** for connecting Discord/Slack/Telegram as the destination.
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+---
+title: Memory That Doesn't Reset
+description: Tell Jarvis something once. It remembers — three months later, across every conversation
+---
+
+# 🧠 Memory That Doesn't Reset — Jarvis actually knows me
+
+<figure markdown>
+  ![Jarvis remembering a user preference three months later](../assets/showcase/persistent-memory.png){ .showcase-screenshot loading=lazy }
+  <figcaption>Three months after I mentioned the allergy in passing, Jarvis brings it up — unprompted — while helping me pick a birthday-dinner restaurant.</figcaption>
+</figure>
+
+I mentioned to Jarvis once, in a throwaway sentence in April, that I'm allergic to shellfish. In July, when I asked it to help me pick a restaurant for my partner's birthday, it volunteered "you'll want to filter for menus that have non-shellfish options" — without being reminded, in a totally different conversation, on a different topic.
+
+That's not magic. The trick is that Jarvis writes to three plain markdown files in my home directory whenever it learns something worth remembering:
+
+- `SOUL.md` — how I want it to behave (tone, length, what to push back on)
+- `MEMORY.md` — facts about me, my projects, my preferences
+- `USER.md` — who I am: my role, my team, my context
+
+Every new conversation starts by reading those three files. I can open them in any text editor. I can delete a line and the memory is gone. The whole thing is `~6 KB` of markdown. No vector DB, no embedding cache, no opaque "personalization layer."
+
+## Why it's nice
+
+- **It's auditable.** I can read what Jarvis "knows" about me in 30 seconds. Most personal-AI products literally can't tell you.
+- **It's portable.** I keep my three files in iCloud Drive. When I set up Jarvis on a new machine, my memory comes with me — without re-onboarding.
+- **It compounds.** After two weeks Jarvis stopped re-asking what my code style is. After six weeks it stopped re-asking who's on my team. The conversations get shorter because the context is already there.
+- **It can't drift.** Vector retrieval can confidently surface the wrong "memory" and you'd never know. Plain markdown that I can read can't lie about what it contains.
+
+## How I set this up
+
+→ **[User Guide: Agents](../user-guide/agents.md)** explains the persistent-agent pattern, including how `SOUL.md` / `MEMORY.md` / `USER.md` are loaded at conversation start.
+
+→ **[Tutorial: Deep Research Assistant](../tutorials/deep-research.md)** uses the same persistent-memory primitive — a good place to see it in action with code.
@@ -440,6 +440,13 @@
  font-family: var(--md-code-font-family, monospace);
  font-size: 13px;
 }
+/* Placeholder for rows where energy / FLOPs telemetry didn't land.
+   Distinguishes "telemetry missing" from "user genuinely had 0 work
+   done" without making the row visually pop more than data rows. */
+.lb-missing {
+  color: var(--md-default-fg-color--light, #999);
+  font-style: italic;
+}

 /* ── DocSearch ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 #docsearch {
@@ -562,3 +569,18 @@
    display: none !important;
  }
 }
+
+/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ * Showcase screenshots
+ *
+ * Hero images on docs/showcase/* pages. Constrains width on wide screens and
+ * adds a subtle border so placeholder/broken-image states still look intentional
+ * before community-contributed screenshots populate docs/assets/showcase/.
+ * ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
+.showcase-screenshot {
+  max-width: 100%;
+  height: auto;
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  border: 1px solid var(--md-default-fg-color--lightest, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08));
+  box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06);
+}
@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # Evaluations

-The OpenJarvis evaluation framework (`openjarvis-evals`) measures model **correctness and accuracy** on academic datasets. It is a separate package from the main OpenJarvis library and is designed specifically for research workflows where you need reproducible, dataset-driven quality assessments.
+The OpenJarvis evaluation framework (`openjarvis.evals`) measures model **correctness and accuracy** on academic datasets. It ships inside the main `openjarvis` package (at `src/openjarvis/evals/`) and is designed specifically for research workflows where you need reproducible, dataset-driven quality assessments.

 !!! info "Evals vs. Benchmarks"
    OpenJarvis has two distinct measurement systems that complement each other:

-    | System | Package | Measures | Entry Point |
-    |--------|---------|----------|-------------|
-    | **Evaluations** | `openjarvis-evals` | Correctness on academic datasets (accuracy, pass rate) | `openjarvis-eval` |
-    | **Benchmarks** | `openjarvis` | Engine performance (latency, throughput) | `jarvis bench` |
+    | System | Module | Measures | Entry Point |
+    |--------|--------|----------|-------------|
+    | **Evaluations** | `openjarvis.evals` | Correctness on academic datasets (accuracy, pass rate) | `jarvis eval` |
+    | **Benchmarks** | `openjarvis.bench` | Engine performance (latency, throughput) | `jarvis bench` |

    Use evaluations to answer "does this model get the right answer?" and benchmarks to answer "how fast does this model respond?". See the [Benchmarks guide](benchmarks.md) for the performance measurement system.

@@ -18,22 +18,38 @@ The OpenJarvis evaluation framework (`openjarvis-evals`) measures model **correc

 ## Installation

-The evaluation framework is a standalone package in the `evals/` directory. Install it alongside OpenJarvis:
+The evaluation framework is part of the main `openjarvis` package — no separate install or extra is required. The standard dev setup is enough:

 ```bash
-uv sync --extra eval
+uv sync --extra dev
 ```

-This installs the `openjarvis-eval` CLI entry point and all required dependencies (`datasets`, `huggingface-hub`, `tqdm`, `rich`).
+The framework's core dependencies (`click`, `datasets`, `rich`) are base dependencies of `openjarvis`. Two optional extras enable experiment tracking integrations:
+
+```bash
+uv sync --extra dev --extra eval-wandb     # Weights & Biases run tracking
+uv sync --extra dev --extra eval-sheets    # Google Sheets results export
+```

 !!! note "Python version requirement"
-    Python 3.10 requires the `tomli` package for TOML config parsing. The `evals/pyproject.toml` includes this as a conditional dependency, so it is installed automatically.
+    Python 3.10 requires the `tomli` package for TOML config parsing. `openjarvis` declares it as a conditional dependency, so it is installed automatically.
+
+## Entry Points
+
+Two equivalent entry points expose the framework:
+
+| Command | Surface |
+|---------|---------|
+| `jarvis eval {list,run,compare,report}` | Canonical CLI. `run` covers the common options; `compare` and `report` post-process result files. |
+| `python -m openjarvis.evals {list,run,run-all,summarize,reparse-judge}` | Full research surface, including judge configuration, the agentic runner, and episode mode. |
+
+The `openjarvis-eval` console script is an alias for `python -m openjarvis.evals` — same commands, same options. This guide uses `jarvis eval` wherever its option set suffices and the module form for research-only options.

 ---

 ## Datasets

-The framework ships with **30+ datasets** covering academic reasoning, agentic tasks, retrieval, conversation quality, and practical use-case benchmarks. Datasets are grouped by category below.
+The framework ships with **40 registered benchmarks** covering academic reasoning, agentic tasks, coding, retrieval, conversation quality, and practical use-case benchmarks. Datasets are grouped by category below; `uv run python -m openjarvis.evals list` prints the authoritative registry.

 ### Use-Case Benchmarks

@@ -64,6 +80,7 @@ These benchmarks measure reasoning and knowledge on established academic dataset
 | **MATH-500** | `math500` | reasoning | Competition-level math problems |
 | **NaturalReasoning** | `natural-reasoning` | reasoning | Natural language reasoning |
 | **HLE** | `hle` | reasoning | Humanity's Last Exam hard challenges |
+| **LiveResearchBench** | `liveresearchbench` | reasoning | Recent research comprehension (Salesforce) |
 | **SimpleQA** | `simpleqa` | chat | Short-form factual question answering |
 | **IPW** | `ipw` | chat | Intelligence Per Watt mixed benchmark |

@@ -79,6 +96,11 @@ These benchmarks test multi-step agent capabilities including tool use, code gen
 | **TerminalBench** | `terminalbench` | agentic | Terminal-based task completion |
 | **TerminalBench Native** | `terminalbench-native` | agentic | TerminalBench with native Docker execution |
 | **TerminalBench V2.1** | `terminalbench-v2.1` | agentic | TB v2.1 Harbor-style Docker tasks |
+| **PinchBench** | `pinchbench` | agentic | Real-world agent tasks |
+| **TauBench** | `taubench` | agentic | Multi-turn customer service |
+| **DeepResearchBench** | `liveresearch` | agentic | Deep research report generation |
+| **DeepResearchBench (alias)** | `deepresearch` | agentic | Same benchmark as `liveresearch` |
+| **ToolCall-15** | `toolcall15` | agentic | Tool calling benchmark |
 | **LifelongAgent** | `lifelong-agent` | agentic | Sequential task learning across sessions |
 | **PaperArena** | `paperarena` | agentic | Scientific paper analysis |
 | **DeepPlanning** | `deepplanning` | agentic | Shopping constraint planning |
@@ -87,6 +109,14 @@ These benchmarks test multi-step agent capabilities including tool use, code gen
 | **WebChoreArena** | `webchorearena` | agentic | Web chore tasks |
 | **WorkArena** | `workarena` | agentic | WorkArena++ enterprise workflows |

+Both `liveresearch` and `deepresearch` are registered keys for the DeepResearchBench report-generation benchmark.
+
+### Coding Benchmarks
+
+| Dataset | Key | Category | Description |
+|---------|-----|----------|-------------|
+| **LiveCodeBench** | `livecodebench` | coding | Competitive programming |
+
 ### Retrieval Benchmarks

 | Dataset | Key | Category | Description |
@@ -123,7 +153,7 @@ The framework includes two pre-built configs for evaluating models on the five c
 ### Cloud models

 ```bash
-uv run python -m openjarvis.evals --config src/openjarvis/evals/configs/use_case_v2_cloud.toml
+uv run jarvis eval run --config src/openjarvis/evals/configs/use_case_v2_cloud.toml
 ```

 This config evaluates **6 cloud models** (Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite, GPT-5.4, GPT-5 Mini) against all 5 use-case benchmarks with 30 samples each, producing a 6x5 = 30-run matrix. Results are written to `results/use-cases-v2-cloud/`.
@@ -131,7 +161,7 @@ This config evaluates **6 cloud models** (Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5, Gem
 ### Local models

 ```bash
-uv run python -m openjarvis.evals --config src/openjarvis/evals/configs/use_case_v2_local.toml
+uv run jarvis eval run --config src/openjarvis/evals/configs/use_case_v2_local.toml
 ```

 This config evaluates **5 local models** via Ollama (Qwen3.5 122B-A10B, GPT-OSS 120B, GLM4, Qwen3.5 35B-A3B, GLM-4.7-Flash) against the same 5 benchmarks, producing a 5x5 = 25-run matrix. Uses 2 workers (suitable for single-GPU setups). Results are written to `results/use-cases-v2-local/`.
@@ -143,15 +173,22 @@ This config evaluates **5 local models** via Ollama (Qwen3.5 122B-A10B, GPT-OSS

 ## Inference Backends

-Every evaluation run routes model calls through one of two backends:
+Every evaluation run routes model calls through one of four backends:

 | Backend | Key | Description |
 |---------|-----|-------------|
 | **jarvis-direct** | `jarvis-direct` | Engine-level inference via `SystemBuilder`. Works for local (Ollama, vLLM, llama.cpp) and cloud models. |
 | **jarvis-agent** | `jarvis-agent` | Agent-level inference with tool calling. Uses `JarvisSystem.ask()` with the specified agent and tools. |
+| **hermes** | `hermes` | Real Hermes Agent (Nous Research) via subprocess. Requires `--base-url` and `--api-key`. |
+| **openclaw** | `openclaw` | Real OpenClaw via Node subprocess. Requires `--base-url` and `--api-key`. |

 Use `jarvis-direct` for most evaluations. Use `jarvis-agent` when the benchmark requires tool use — for example, GAIA tasks that reference files that must be read with `file_read`, or arithmetic tasks that benefit from `calculator`.

+The `hermes` and `openclaw` backends shell out to external agent frameworks and need an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for their model calls: pass `--base-url`/`--api-key`, set the `JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL`/`JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY` environment variables, or add a `[backend.external]` section to your config (see [Config Reference](#backendexternal)).
+
+!!! note "TerminalBench Native"
+    `jarvis eval run --backend` additionally accepts `terminalbench-native`, a Docker-based execution backend used by the TerminalBench Native benchmark.
+
 ---

 ## CLI Usage
@@ -159,73 +196,106 @@ Use `jarvis-direct` for most evaluations. Use `jarvis-agent` when the benchmark
 ### List available benchmarks and backends

 ```bash
-openjarvis-eval list
+uv run python -m openjarvis.evals list
 ```

-Output:
+Abridged output (40 benchmarks, 4 backends):

 ```
-Benchmarks:
-  supergpqa    [reasoning  ] SuperGPQA multiple-choice
-  gaia         [agentic    ] GAIA agentic benchmark
-  frames       [rag        ] FRAMES multi-hop RAG
-  wildchat     [chat       ] WildChat conversation quality
-
-Backends:
-  jarvis-direct    Engine-level inference (local or cloud)
-  jarvis-agent     Agent-level inference with tool calling
+                         Available Benchmarks
+┌──────────────────────┬───────────┬───────────────────────────────────┐
+│ Name                 │ Category  │ Description                       │
+├──────────────────────┼───────────┼───────────────────────────────────┤
+│ supergpqa            │ reasoning │ SuperGPQA multiple-choice         │
+│ gpqa                 │ reasoning │ GPQA graduate-level MCQ           │
+│ ...                  │ ...       │ ...                               │
+│ livecodebench        │ coding    │ LiveCodeBench competitive progr.  │
+│ toolcall15           │ agentic   │ ToolCall-15 tool calling benchmark│
+└──────────────────────┴───────────┴───────────────────────────────────┘
+                         Available Backends
+┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
+│ jarvis-direct │ Engine-level inference (local or cloud)          │
+│ jarvis-agent  │ Agent-level inference with tool calling          │
+│ hermes        │ Real Hermes Agent (Nous Research) via subprocess │
+│ openclaw      │ Real OpenClaw via Node subprocess                │
+└───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
 ```

+`jarvis eval list` prints a similar table but currently shows a curated subset of the registry; the module form above is the authoritative listing.
+
 ### Run a single benchmark

 ```bash
-# Evaluate qwen3:8b on SuperGPQA (engine-level, 10 samples default)
-openjarvis-eval run -b supergpqa -m qwen3:8b
+# Evaluate qwen3:8b on SuperGPQA (engine-level, 10 samples)
+uv run jarvis eval run -b supergpqa -m qwen3:8b -n 10

-# Evaluate GPT-4o on GAIA using the agent backend with tools
-openjarvis-eval run -b gaia -m gpt-4o --backend jarvis-agent \
+# Evaluate GPT-5 Mini on GAIA using the agent backend with tools
+uv run jarvis eval run -b gaia -m gpt-5-mini --backend jarvis-agent \
    --agent orchestrator --tools calculator,file_read -n 50

-# Run FRAMES with vLLM engine, write output to a file
-openjarvis-eval run -b frames -m llama3:70b -e vllm \
+# Run FRAMES with the vLLM engine, write output to a file
+uv run jarvis eval run -b frames -m llama3:70b -e vllm \
    -o results/frames_llama70b.jsonl

 # Run WildChat with a higher temperature for chat quality
-openjarvis-eval run -b wildchat -m qwen3:8b --temperature 0.7 -n 100
+uv run jarvis eval run -b wildchat -m qwen3:8b --temperature 0.7 -n 100
 ```

-#### Full option reference
+#### `jarvis eval run` option reference

 | Option | Short | Type | Default | Description |
 |--------|-------|------|---------|-------------|
 | `--config` | `-c` | path | — | TOML config file; when provided, `-b` and `-m` are not required |
-| `--benchmark` | `-b` | choice | required* | `supergpqa`, `gaia`, `frames`, or `wildchat` |
-| `--backend` | | choice | `jarvis-direct` | `jarvis-direct` or `jarvis-agent` |
-| `--model` | `-m` | str | required* | Model identifier (e.g., `qwen3:8b`, `gpt-4o`) |
-| `--engine` | `-e` | str | auto | Engine key (`ollama`, `vllm`, `cloud`, ...) |
-| `--agent` | | str | `orchestrator` | Agent name for `jarvis-agent` backend |
-| `--tools` | | str | `""` | Comma-separated tool names (e.g., `calculator,file_read`) |
+| `--benchmark` | `-b` | str | required* | Any registered benchmark key (see `... list`) |
+| `--model` | `-m` | str | required* | Model identifier (e.g., `qwen3:8b`, `gpt-5-mini`) |
 | `--max-samples` | `-n` | int | all | Limit the number of samples evaluated |
-| `--max-workers` | `-w` | int | `4` | Parallel evaluation workers |
-| `--judge-model` | | str | `gpt-4o` | LLM used for judge-based scoring |
-| `--output` | `-o` | path | auto-generated | Output JSONL file path |
+| `--backend` | | choice | `jarvis-direct` | `jarvis-direct`, `jarvis-agent`, `hermes`, `openclaw`, or `terminalbench-native` |
+| `--base-url` | | str | — | OpenAI-compatible endpoint URL (env: `JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL`) |
+| `--api-key` | | str | — | API key for the endpoint (env: `JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY`) |
+| `--agent` | | str | — | Agent name for `jarvis-agent` backend (e.g., `orchestrator`) |
+| `--engine` | `-e` | str | auto | Engine key (`ollama`, `vllm`, `cloud`, ...) |
+| `--tools` | | str | `""` | Comma-separated tool names (e.g., `calculator,file_read`) |
+| `--telemetry/--no-telemetry` | | flag | off | Enable telemetry collection during eval |
+| `--gpu-metrics/--no-gpu-metrics` | | flag | off | Enable GPU metric polling |
 | `--seed` | | int | `42` | Random seed for dataset shuffling |
-| `--split` | | str | dataset default | Override the dataset split |
 | `--temperature` | | float | `0.0` | Generation temperature |
 | `--max-tokens` | | int | `2048` | Maximum output tokens |
+| `--model-filter` | | str | — | Filter models by name substring (multi-model configs) |
+| `--output` | `-o` | path | auto-generated | Output JSONL file path |
+| `--wandb-project` / `--wandb-entity` / `--wandb-tags` / `--wandb-group` | | str | `""` | Weights & Biases tracking (requires `eval-wandb` extra) |
+| `--sheets-id` / `--sheets-worksheet` / `--sheets-creds` | | str | `""` | Google Sheets export (requires `eval-sheets` extra) |
 | `--verbose` | `-v` | flag | off | Enable debug logging |

 *Required when `--config` is not provided.

+#### Research-only options (`python -m openjarvis.evals run`)
+
+The module CLI accepts everything above plus research-grade options that `jarvis eval run` does not expose:
+
+| Option | Short | Type | Default | Description |
+|--------|-------|------|---------|-------------|
+| `--max-workers` | `-w` | int | `4` | Parallel evaluation workers |
+| `--judge-model` | | str | `gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07` | LLM used for judge-based scoring (see `--help` for the current default) |
+| `--judge-engine` | | str | `cloud` | Engine key for the LLM judge; use `vllm` to judge locally |
+| `--split` | | str | dataset default | Override the dataset split |
+| `--compact` | | flag | off | Dense single-table output |
+| `--trace-detail` | | flag | off | Full per-step trace listing |
+| `--agentic` | | flag | off | Use `AgenticRunner` for multi-turn agent execution |
+| `--episode-mode` | | flag | off | Sequential episode processing with lifelong learning (required for `lifelong-agent` and similar benchmarks) |
+| `--concurrency` | | int | `1` | Parallel query execution (AgenticRunner only) |
+| `--query-timeout` | | float | — | Per-query wall-clock timeout in seconds (AgenticRunner only) |
+
+Note: the module CLI's `--backend` choice covers `jarvis-direct`, `jarvis-agent`, `hermes`, and `openclaw`; `terminalbench-native` as a backend is available via `jarvis eval run` and TOML configs.
+
 ### Run all benchmarks at once

-The `run-all` command evaluates a single model against all four benchmarks sequentially and writes results to an output directory:
+The `run-all` command (module CLI only) evaluates a single model against **every registered benchmark** sequentially and writes results to an output directory:

 ```bash
-openjarvis-eval run-all -m qwen3:8b
+uv run python -m openjarvis.evals run-all -m qwen3:8b

 # With options
-openjarvis-eval run-all -m gpt-4o -n 100 --output-dir results/gpt4o/
+uv run python -m openjarvis.evals run-all -m gpt-5-mini -n 100 --output-dir results/gpt5mini/
 ```

 Output files are written as `{output_dir}/{benchmark}_{model-slug}.jsonl`. The model slug replaces `/` and `:` with `-`, so `qwen3:8b` becomes `qwen3-8b`.
@@ -235,7 +305,7 @@ Output files are written as `{output_dir}/{benchmark}_{model-slug}.jsonl`. The m
 After a run, inspect a JSONL results file:

 ```bash
-openjarvis-eval summarize results/supergpqa_qwen3-8b.jsonl
+uv run python -m openjarvis.evals summarize results/supergpqa_qwen3-8b.jsonl
 ```

 Output:
@@ -251,6 +321,55 @@ Accuracy:  0.7222
 Errors:    2
 ```

+The module CLI also provides `reparse-judge`, which re-parses stored judge output in a results file and recovers records whose judge verdicts initially failed to parse — useful after improving the judge-output parser without re-running inference.
+
+### Compare and report
+
+`jarvis eval` adds two post-processing commands for result files:
+
+```bash
+# Side-by-side metric comparison across runs
+uv run jarvis eval compare results/supergpqa_qwen3-8b.jsonl results/supergpqa_gpt-5-mini.jsonl
+
+# Detailed report (accuracy, latency, cost, per-subject breakdown) for one run
+uv run jarvis eval report results/supergpqa_qwen3-8b.jsonl
+```
+
+---
+
+## Evaluating an Already-Running Endpoint
+
+If you already have an OpenAI-compatible server running — `jarvis serve`, vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp's server, or a hosted endpoint — point an eval directly at it with `--base-url` and `--api-key`:
+
+```bash
+# A vLLM server is already serving Qwen/Qwen3-8B on a GPU node:
+#   vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-8B --port 8000
+uv run jarvis eval run -b supergpqa -m Qwen/Qwen3-8B \
+    --base-url http://gpu-node:8000/v1 \
+    --api-key local-key \
+    -n 50
+```
+
+The `-m` value must match a model id the server reports at `GET /v1/models`. Both flags fall back to the `JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL` and `JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY` environment variables, so CI jobs can set them once:
+
+```bash
+export JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL=http://gpu-node:8000/v1
+export JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY=local-key
+uv run jarvis eval run -b gaia -m Qwen/Qwen3-8B --backend jarvis-agent -n 25
+```
+
+For the external `hermes` and `openclaw` backends these values are **required** (the foreign frameworks need an endpoint to send model calls to).
+
+!!! tip "Engine-level alternative for vLLM"
+    The vLLM engine also honors the `VLLM_HOST` environment variable (default `http://localhost:8000`):
+
+    ```bash
+    VLLM_HOST=http://gpu-node:8000 uv run python -m openjarvis.evals run \
+        -b supergpqa -m Qwen/Qwen3-8B -e vllm -n 50
+    ```
+
+    `VLLM_HOST` is process-global — if the candidate and the judge both use the `vllm` engine, they share the same endpoint. Prefer `--base-url` when you need them separate.
+
 ---

 ## TOML Config System
@@ -260,7 +379,7 @@ For research workflows that compare multiple models across multiple benchmarks,
 ### Running from a config

 ```bash
-openjarvis-eval run --config src/openjarvis/evals/configs/full-suite.toml
+uv run jarvis eval run --config src/openjarvis/evals/configs/full-suite.toml
 ```

 When `--config` is provided, the `-b`/`--benchmark` and `-m`/`--model` options are not required. All settings come from the config file. The CLI expands the matrix, prints a progress table, and writes results to the configured `output_dir`.
@@ -269,7 +388,7 @@ When `--config` is provided, the `-b`/`--benchmark` and `-m`/`--model` options a

 A config file has six sections: `[meta]`, `[defaults]`, `[judge]`, `[run]`, `[[models]]`, and `[[benchmarks]]`. Only `[[models]]` and `[[benchmarks]]` are required — all other sections are optional and fall back to built-in defaults.

-```toml title="evals/configs/full-suite.toml"
+```toml title="src/openjarvis/evals/configs/full-suite.toml"
 # Suite-level metadata (optional)
 [meta]
 name = "full-suite-v1"
@@ -353,7 +472,7 @@ For example, `temperature` is resolved as: use `[defaults].temperature` (0.0), t

 A config requires only one `[[models]]` and one `[[benchmarks]]` entry:

-```toml title="evals/configs/minimal.toml"
+```toml title="src/openjarvis/evals/configs/minimal.toml"
 [[models]]
 name = "qwen3:8b"

@@ -365,7 +484,7 @@ This runs SuperGPQA against qwen3:8b with all default settings. Use this as a st

 ### Single-run config with full options

-```toml title="evals/configs/single-run.toml"
+```toml title="src/openjarvis/evals/configs/single-run.toml"
 [meta]
 name = "single-run-example"
 description = "Evaluate SuperGPQA with a single model and full configuration"
@@ -425,7 +544,8 @@ Configuration for the LLM used as a judge in GAIA, FRAMES, and WildChat scoring.

 | Field | Type | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|---------|-------------|
-| `model` | str | `"gpt-4o"` | Judge model identifier |
+| `model` | str | `"gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07"` | Judge model identifier |
+| `engine` | str | `None` | Engine key for the judge (e.g., `"vllm"` to judge locally; defaults to cloud) |
 | `provider` | str | `None` | Provider override (e.g., `"openai"`) |
 | `temperature` | float | `0.0` | Judge sampling temperature |
 | `max_tokens` | int | `1024` | Maximum judge output tokens |
@@ -444,6 +564,20 @@ Execution settings that apply to the entire suite.
 | `seed` | int | `42` | Random seed for dataset shuffling |
 | `telemetry` | bool | `false` | Enable GPU telemetry capture (energy, power, utilization, throughput) |
 | `gpu_metrics` | bool | `false` | Enable GPU metric polling via `pynvml` (requires `pynvml` or `nvidia-ml-py`) |
+| `warmup_samples` | int | `0` | Untimed warmup samples before measurement |
+| `energy_vendor` | str | `""` | GPU energy vendor override |
+| `max_turns` | int | `None` | Maximum agent turns per query |
+| `wandb_project` / `wandb_entity` / `wandb_tags` / `wandb_group` | str | `""` | Weights & Biases tracking |
+| `sheets_spreadsheet_id` / `sheets_worksheet` / `sheets_credentials_path` | str | `""` / `"Results"` / `""` | Google Sheets export |
+
+### `[backend.external]`
+
+Endpoint settings for the `hermes` and `openclaw` backends. Environment variables override TOML values.
+
+| Field | Type | Default | Description |
+|-------|------|---------|-------------|
+| `base_url` | str | `None` | OpenAI-compatible endpoint URL (env: `JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL`) |
+| `api_key` | str | `None` | API key for the endpoint (env: `JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY`) |

 ### `[[models]]`

@@ -451,7 +585,7 @@ One block per model. The `name` field is required.

 | Field | Type | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|---------|-------------|
-| `name` | str | required | Model identifier (e.g., `"qwen3:8b"`, `"gpt-4o"`) |
+| `name` | str | required | Model identifier (e.g., `"qwen3:8b"`, `"gpt-5-mini"`) |
 | `engine` | str | `None` | Engine key to use (`"ollama"`, `"vllm"`, `"cloud"`, ...) |
 | `provider` | str | `None` | Provider override for cloud models (e.g., `"openai"`) |
 | `temperature` | float | `None` | Override `[defaults].temperature` for this model |
@@ -468,10 +602,12 @@ One block per benchmark. The `name` field is required.

 | Field | Type | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|---------|-------------|
-| `name` | str | required | Benchmark key: `supergpqa`, `gaia`, `frames`, or `wildchat` |
-| `backend` | str | `"jarvis-direct"` | Inference backend: `jarvis-direct` or `jarvis-agent` |
+| `name` | str | required | Any registered benchmark key (see `uv run python -m openjarvis.evals list`) |
+| `backend` | str | `"jarvis-direct"` | `jarvis-direct`, `jarvis-agent`, `hermes`, `openclaw`, or `terminalbench-native` |
 | `max_samples` | int | `None` | Limit number of samples; `None` evaluates the full dataset |
 | `split` | str | `None` | Override the default dataset split |
+| `subset` | str | `None` | Dataset subset/variant (benchmark-specific) |
+| `record_ids` | list[str] | `None` | Evaluate only these record ids |
 | `agent` | str | `None` | Agent name for `jarvis-agent` backend (e.g., `"orchestrator"`) |
 | `tools` | list[str] | `[]` | Tool names for `jarvis-agent` backend |
 | `judge_model` | str | `None` | Override `[judge].model` for this benchmark only |
@@ -647,7 +783,7 @@ The `EvalRunner` processes samples concurrently using a `ThreadPoolExecutor`. Re

 ```bash
 # Use more workers for faster evaluation (if the engine supports concurrent requests)
-openjarvis-eval run -b supergpqa -m qwen3:8b -w 8 -n 500
+uv run python -m openjarvis.evals run -b supergpqa -m qwen3:8b -w 8 -n 500
 ```

 !!! warning "Worker count and engine load"
@@ -1540,19 +1540,89 @@ async fn fetch_models(api_url: String) -> Result<serde_json::Value, String> {

 #[tauri::command]
 async fn run_jarvis_command(args: Vec<String>) -> Result<String, String> {
-    let mut cmd_args = vec!["run".to_string(), "jarvis".to_string()];
-    cmd_args.extend(args);
    let uv_bin = resolve_bin("uv");
-    let output = tokio::process::Command::new(&uv_bin)
-        .args(&cmd_args)
-        .output()
-        .await
-        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to launch jarvis: {}", e))?;

-    if output.status.success() {
-        Ok(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).to_string())
-    } else {
-        Err(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stderr).to_string())
+    let mut cmd_args = vec!["run".to_string(), "jarvis".to_string()];
+    cmd_args.extend(args.iter().cloned());
+
+    let mut cmd = tokio::process::Command::new(&uv_bin);
+    cmd.args(&cmd_args);
+    // Run from the project root so `uv run jarvis` resolves the OpenJarvis
+    // project regardless of the app's launch cwd. In a packaged install the
+    // cwd isn't the checkout, so without this `jarvis` isn't found and the
+    // backend never starts — the UI then shows "Failed to get response"
+    // (see #531).
+    if let Some(ref root) = find_project_root() {
+        cmd.current_dir(root);
+    }
+
+    let is_serve = args.first().map(|a| a.as_str() == "serve").unwrap_or(false);
+
+    if !is_serve {
+        // Short-lived command (e.g. `stop`, `status`): wait for it and return
+        // its captured output.
+        let output = cmd
+            .output()
+            .await
+            .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to launch jarvis: {}", e))?;
+        return if output.status.success() {
+            Ok(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).to_string())
+        } else {
+            Err(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stderr).to_string())
+        };
+    }
+
+    // `jarvis serve` is a long-running server that never exits. The old code
+    // used `.output()`, which waits for the process to exit and so hung this
+    // command forever — the "Start" button never resolved (#531). Spawn it
+    // detached instead, drain stderr (a full 4 KB Windows pipe can otherwise
+    // stall the child mid-startup, #309), and poll /health for readiness.
+    cmd.stdout(std::process::Stdio::null())
+        .stderr(std::process::Stdio::piped());
+    let mut child = cmd
+        .spawn()
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to launch jarvis serve: {}", e))?;
+
+    let tail: StderrTail = Arc::new(Mutex::new(Vec::new()));
+    if let Some(stderr) = child.stderr.take() {
+        spawn_jarvis_stderr_drainer(stderr, tail.clone());
+    }
+
+    let client = reqwest::Client::builder()
+        .timeout(Duration::from_secs(2))
+        .build()
+        .map_err(|e| format!("Failed to build HTTP client: {}", e))?;
+    let url = format!("http://127.0.0.1:{}/health", JARVIS_PORT);
+    let deadline = tokio::time::Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(120);
+
+    loop {
+        // Surface an early crash (bad venv, missing Rust ext, etc.) right away
+        // instead of waiting out the full readiness timeout.
+        if let Ok(Some(status)) = child.try_wait() {
+            let stderr = String::from_utf8_lossy(tail.lock().await.as_slice()).into_owned();
+            return Err(format!(
+                "jarvis serve exited (code {:?}) before becoming healthy:\n{}",
+                status.code(),
+                stderr.trim()
+            ));
+        }
+        if let Ok(resp) = client.get(&url).send().await {
+            if resp.status().is_success() {
+                // Leave the server running (the Child is detached on drop —
+                // kill_on_drop defaults to false); `stop` tears it down.
+                return Ok(format!(
+                    "jarvis serve is ready on http://127.0.0.1:{}",
+                    JARVIS_PORT
+                ));
+            }
+        }
+        if tokio::time::Instant::now() >= deadline {
+            return Err(format!(
+                "jarvis serve did not become healthy on port {} within 120s.",
+                JARVIS_PORT
+            ));
+        }
+        tokio::time::sleep(Duration::from_millis(500)).await;
    }
 }

@@ -948,12 +948,31 @@ export interface MemoryStats {

 export interface MemoryConfig {
  backend: string;
+  // Set by the server when the native `openjarvis_rust` extension is missing,
+  // so the UI can show the real cause instead of a healthy-looking config.
+  available?: boolean;
+  detail?: string | null;
  context_from_memory: boolean;
  context_top_k: number;
  context_min_score: number;
  context_max_tokens: number;
 }

+/**
+ * Extract the server's `detail` message from a failed JSON response so the UI
+ * surfaces the real cause (e.g. "openjarvis_rust extension is not installed")
+ * instead of a blanket fallback string (#502).
+ */
+async function memoryErrorDetail(res: Response, fallback: string): Promise<string> {
+  try {
+    const data = await res.json();
+    if (data && typeof data.detail === 'string' && data.detail) return data.detail;
+  } catch {
+    // Non-JSON body — fall through to the generic message below.
+  }
+  return fallback;
+}
+
 export async function getMemoryStats(): Promise<MemoryStats> {
  const res = await apiFetch(`/v1/memory/stats`);
  if (!res.ok) throw new Error('Failed to fetch memory stats');
@@ -977,16 +996,16 @@ export async function storeMemory(content: string, metadata?: Record<string, unk
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({ content, metadata }),
  });
-  if (!res.ok) throw new Error('Failed to store memory');
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(await memoryErrorDetail(res, 'Failed to store memory'));
 }

-export async function indexMemoryPath(path: string): Promise<{ chunks_indexed: number }> {
+export async function indexMemoryPath(path: string): Promise<{ chunks_indexed: number; note?: string }> {
  const res = await apiFetch(`/v1/memory/index`, {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
    body: JSON.stringify({ path }),
  });
-  if (!res.ok) throw new Error('Failed to index path');
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(await memoryErrorDetail(res, 'Failed to index path'));
  return res.json();
 }

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { ResearchEvent, SSEEvent } from '../types';
-import { getBase } from './api';
+import { getBase, authHeaders } from './api';

 export interface ChatRequest {
  model: string;
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export async function* streamChat(
  const base = getBase();
  const response = await fetch(`${base}/v1/chat/completions`, {
    method: 'POST',
-    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    headers: authHeaders({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }),
    body: JSON.stringify(request),
    signal,
  });
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export async function* streamResearch(
  const base = getBase().replace(/\/v1\/?$/, '');
  const response = await fetch(`${base}/api/research`, {
    method: 'POST',
-    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+    headers: authHeaders({ 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }),
    body: JSON.stringify({ query }),
    signal,
  });
@@ -106,3 +106,4 @@ export async function* streamResearch(
    reader.releaseLock();
  }
 }
+
@@ -150,6 +150,14 @@ nav:
      - Quick Start: getting-started/quickstart.md
      - Code Snippets: getting-started/snippets.md
      - Configuration: getting-started/configuration.md
+  - Showcase:
+      - Overview: showcase/index.md
+      - Morning Brief: showcase/morning-brief.md
+      - Memory That Doesn't Reset: showcase/persistent-memory.md
+      - Track Your Savings: showcase/cost-savings.md
+      - Discord Companion: showcase/discord-companion.md
+      - Offline Code Reviewer: showcase/coding-assistant.md
+      - Contributing: showcase/CONTRIBUTING.md
  - Tutorials:
      - Overview: tutorials/index.md
      - Deep Research Assistant: tutorials/deep-research.md
@@ -185,6 +193,8 @@ nav:
      - External MCP Servers: user-guide/mcp-external-servers.md
      - Scheduler: user-guide/scheduler.md
      - Telemetry: user-guide/telemetry.md
+      - Evaluations: user-guide/evaluations.md
+      - Benchmarks: user-guide/benchmarks.md
      - Security: user-guide/security.md
      - LLM-guided spec search: user-guide/llm-guided-spec-search.md
  - Leaderboard: leaderboard.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"

 [project]
 name = "OpenJarvis"
-version = "0.1.1"
+version = "1.0.2"
 description = "OpenJarvis — modular AI assistant backend with composable intelligence primitives"
 readme = "README.md"
 # Upper bound: numpy 2.2.x (pinned transitively via datasets/pandas) ships no
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Issues = "https://github.com/open-jarvis/OpenJarvis/issues"

 [project.scripts]
 jarvis = "openjarvis.cli:main"
+openjarvis-eval = "openjarvis.evals.cli:main"

 [tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
 packages = ["src/openjarvis"]
@@ -174,6 +175,7 @@ markers = [
    "live_channel: requires real channel credentials (env vars)",
    "nvidia: requires NVIDIA GPU",
    "slow: long-running test",
+    "hub: downloads real datasets from the HuggingFace Hub at runtime; excluded from the default CI lane (run with -m hub)",
    "live_external: requires HERMES_AGENT_PATH and OPENCLAW_PATH; spawns real foreign-framework subprocesses",
    "modal: requires Modal token + network; runs real swebench harness on Modal",
 ]
@@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ fi

 cd "$SRC_DIR"
 if uv run maturin develop -m "$MANIFEST" >>"$LOG" 2>&1; then
+    # Verify the extension actually imports from THIS venv before declaring
+    # success. `maturin develop` can report success while installing the .so
+    # into a different venv than the one that runs the server, which leaves
+    # memory silently broken at runtime (#502). Only the import check below
+    # proves the serving venv can load it.
+    if ! uv run python -c "import openjarvis_rust" >>"$LOG" 2>&1; then
+        rc=$?
+        {
+            echo "build-extension.sh: maturin succeeded but 'import openjarvis_rust'"
+            echo "failed in the serving venv ($SRC_DIR/.venv) — the extension was"
+            echo "not installed where the server runs. (exit=$rc)"
+            tail -n 50 "$LOG" 2>/dev/null || true
+        } > "$FAILED"
+        rm -f "$BUILT"
+        exit "$rc"
+    fi
    tmp="$BUILT.tmp"
    date -u +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" > "$tmp"
    mv "$tmp" "$BUILT"
@@ -60,7 +60,27 @@ class BaseChannel(ABC):
        conversation_id: str = "",
        metadata: Dict[str, Any] | None = None,
    ) -> bool:
-        """Send a message to a specific channel. Returns True on success."""
+        """Send a message to a specific channel. Returns True on success.
+
+        Canonical send contract shared by **every** channel adapter:
+
+        ``channel``
+            The DESTINATION identifier — the per-adapter native id of the
+            place the message goes (Discord/Slack channel id, Telegram chat
+            id, email recipient address, ...).  This is *not* the channel
+            TYPE label.  An incoming :class:`ChannelMessage` carries that
+            destination in its ``conversation_id`` field (``channel`` there
+            is only the type label such as ``"discord"``), so dispatch code
+            replying to a message must pass ``cm.conversation_id`` here.
+        ``conversation_id``
+            An optional reply/thread reference — the native id of the
+            message being replied to (Discord ``message_reference``, Slack
+            ``thread_ts``, Telegram ``reply_to_message_id``, email
+            ``In-Reply-To``, ...).  When replying to an inbound message this
+            should be ``cm.message_id``, never the channel id.  Passing a
+            channel id here yields broken references (e.g. Discord
+            ``MESSAGE_REFERENCE_UNKNOWN_MESSAGE``).
+        """

    @abstractmethod
    def status(self) -> ChannelStatus:
@@ -112,7 +112,15 @@ class TelegramChannel(BaseChannel):

            _TELEGRAM_MAX_LEN = 4096
            url = f"https://api.telegram.org/bot{self._token}/sendMessage"
-            chat_id = conversation_id or channel
+            # Canonical channel send contract (see BaseChannel.send): the first
+            # positional ``channel`` arg is the DESTINATION (the Telegram chat
+            # id).  ``conversation_id`` is the inbound message id used as a
+            # reply/thread reference (``reply_to_message_id``).  We fall back to
+            # ``conversation_id`` as the chat id only when ``channel`` is empty,
+            # for backwards compatibility with legacy callers that passed the
+            # chat id via ``conversation_id``.
+            chat_id = channel or conversation_id
+            reply_to = conversation_id if (channel and conversation_id) else ""
            chunks = textwrap.wrap(
                content,
                width=_TELEGRAM_MAX_LEN,
@@ -126,6 +134,8 @@ class TelegramChannel(BaseChannel):
                }
                if self._parse_mode:
                    payload["parse_mode"] = self._parse_mode
+                if reply_to:
+                    payload["reply_to_message_id"] = reply_to

                resp = httpx.post(url, json=payload, timeout=10.0)
                if resp.status_code >= 300:
@@ -714,7 +714,13 @@ def ask(
    register_builtin_models()

    effective_engine_key = engine_key or config.intelligence.preferred_engine or None
-    resolved = get_engine(config, effective_engine_key)
+    # Pass the model we intend to run so engine selection can skip an engine
+    # that can't actually serve it (e.g. the cloud fallback when the local
+    # engine is down but only a non-OpenAI key is set — see #532). This is the
+    # -m flag or the configured default; when neither is set we leave it None
+    # and a model is chosen per-engine below.
+    selection_model = model_name or config.intelligence.default_model or None
+    resolved = get_engine(config, effective_engine_key, model=selection_model)
    if resolved is None:
        console.print(
            "[red bold]No inference engine available.[/red bold]\n\n"
@@ -28,12 +28,22 @@ def _read_input(prompt: str = "You> ") -> Optional[str]:
@click.option("-a", "--agent", "agent_name", default=None, help="Agent type.")
@click.option("--tools", default=None, help="Comma-separated tool names.")
@click.option("--system", "system_prompt", default=None, help="Custom system prompt.")
+@click.option(
+    "--persona",
+    "persona_name",
+    default=None,
+    help=(
+        "Named persona dir under ~/.openjarvis/personas/<name>/ "
+        "(overrides config). Pass 'none' to disable all persona files."
+    ),
+)
 def chat(
    engine_key: str | None,
    model_name: str | None,
    agent_name: str | None,
    tools: str | None,
    system_prompt: str | None,
+    persona_name: str | None,
 ) -> None:
    """Start an interactive multi-turn chat session.

@@ -48,6 +58,14 @@ def chat(

    config = load_config()

+    import dataclasses as _dc
+
+    effective_mf = (
+        _dc.replace(config.memory_files, persona_name=persona_name)
+        if persona_name is not None
+        else config.memory_files
+    )
+
    # Resolve engine
    from openjarvis.engine import get_engine
    from openjarvis.intelligence import register_builtin_models
@@ -121,6 +139,21 @@ def chat(

                    kwargs["interactive"] = True
                    kwargs["confirm_callback"] = _confirm
+
+                import inspect as _inspect
+
+                if (
+                    "prompt_builder"
+                    in _inspect.signature(agent_cls.__init__).parameters
+                ):
+                    from openjarvis.prompt.builder import SystemPromptBuilder
+
+                    kwargs["prompt_builder"] = SystemPromptBuilder(
+                        agent_template=config.agent.default_system_prompt or "",
+                        memory_files_config=effective_mf,
+                        system_prompt_config=config.system_prompt,
+                    )
+
                agent = agent_cls(engine, model, **kwargs)
        except Exception as exc:
            console.print(f"[yellow]Agent '{agent_key}' failed: {exc}[/yellow]")
@@ -147,6 +180,16 @@ def chat(
    _notifications = NotificationDispatcher(get_status())

    # Conversation state
+    if not system_prompt:
+        from openjarvis.prompt.builder import SystemPromptBuilder
+
+        builder = SystemPromptBuilder(
+            agent_template=config.agent.default_system_prompt or "",
+            memory_files_config=effective_mf,
+            system_prompt_config=config.system_prompt,
+        )
+        system_prompt = builder.build()
+
    history: List[Message] = []
    if system_prompt:
        history.append(Message(role=Role.SYSTEM, content=system_prompt))
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ def compose_bench(
        for i, rc in enumerate(run_configs, 1):
            console.print(f"\n[bold]Run {i}/{len(run_configs)}:[/bold] {rc.benchmark}")
            try:
-                summary = _run_single(rc, console=console)
+                summary = _run_single(rc, console=console, suite_mode=True)
                results_table.add_row(
                    rc.benchmark,
                    f"{summary.accuracy:.4f}",
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ KNOWN_BENCHMARKS = {
 KNOWN_BACKENDS = {
    "jarvis-direct": "Engine-level inference (local or cloud)",
    "jarvis-agent": "Agent-level inference with tool calling",
+    "hermes": "Real Hermes Agent (Nous Research) via subprocess",
+    "openclaw": "Real OpenClaw via Node subprocess",
+    "terminalbench-native": (
+        "TerminalBench V2.1 via terminal-bench Harness "
+        "(selected with -b terminalbench-native)"
+    ),
 }


@@ -146,7 +152,9 @@ def eval_list() -> None:
    "base_url",
    default=None,
    help=(
-        "OpenAI-compat endpoint URL for hermes/openclaw backends "
+        "OpenAI-compatible endpoint for the model under eval. Required for "
+        "hermes/openclaw; for jarvis-direct/jarvis-agent/terminalbench-native "
+        "it bypasses engine discovery and targets this URL directly "
        "(env: JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL)."
    ),
 )
@@ -154,7 +162,11 @@ def eval_list() -> None:
    "--api-key",
    "api_key",
    default=None,
-    help=("API key for the hermes/openclaw endpoint (env: JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY)."),
+    help=(
+        "API key for the --base-url endpoint, sent as a Bearer token. "
+        "Required for hermes/openclaw; optional for first-party backends "
+        "(env: JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY)."
+    ),
 )
@click.option(
    "--agent",
@@ -347,7 +359,7 @@ def eval_run(
                f"{rc.benchmark} / {rc.model}"
            )
            try:
-                summary = _run_single(rc, console=console)
+                summary = _run_single(rc, console=console, suite_mode=True)
                console.print(
                    f"  [green]{summary.accuracy:.4f}[/green] "
                    f"({summary.correct}/{summary.scored_samples})"
@@ -399,8 +411,10 @@ def eval_run(
        sheets_spreadsheet_id=sheets_spreadsheet_id,
        sheets_worksheet=sheets_worksheet,
        sheets_credentials_path=sheets_credentials_path,
-        # Spec §6.2 — for hermes/openclaw external backends. Falls back to env vars
-        # so users can also set JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL/JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY.
+        # OpenAI-compatible endpoint for the model under eval. Required for
+        # hermes/openclaw (Spec §6.2); honored by first-party backends too on
+        # this CLI path. Falls back to env vars so users can also set
+        # JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL/JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY.
        base_url=base_url or os.environ.get("JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL"),
        api_key=api_key or os.environ.get("JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY"),
    )
@@ -24,6 +24,61 @@ from openjarvis.intelligence import (
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


+def _unique_model_ids(model_ids: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+    """Return model ids in first-seen order without duplicates."""
+    unique: list[str] = []
+    seen: set[str] = set()
+    for model_id in model_ids:
+        if model_id and model_id not in seen:
+            seen.add(model_id)
+            unique.append(model_id)
+    return unique
+
+
+def _safe_list_models(engine: object) -> list[str]:
+    try:
+        list_models = getattr(engine, "list_models")
+        return list(list_models())
+    except Exception as exc:
+        logger.debug("Failed to list models for selected server engine: %s", exc)
+        return []
+
+
+def _resolve_server_model(
+    requested_model: str | None,
+    *,
+    config: object,
+    engine_name: str,
+    engine: object,
+    all_models: dict[str, list[str]],
+) -> str:
+    """Pick a startup model that is present on the active server engine.
+
+    CLI ``--model`` remains authoritative. For config-driven startup, prefer the
+    configured server/default model only when the active engine can actually
+    serve it; otherwise use ``intelligence.fallback_model`` or the first
+    reachable model. This prevents MLX-preferred configs from hiding a healthy
+    Ollama fallback behind an empty/incorrect model map.
+    """
+    if requested_model:
+        return requested_model
+
+    candidates = [
+        getattr(config.server, "model", ""),
+        getattr(config.intelligence, "default_model", ""),
+        getattr(config.intelligence, "fallback_model", ""),
+    ]
+    available = _unique_model_ids(
+        _safe_list_models(engine) + list(all_models.get(engine_name, []))
+    )
+
+    for candidate in candidates:
+        if candidate and (not available or candidate in available):
+            return candidate
+
+    return available[0] if available else ""
+
+
@click.command()
@click.option("--host", default=None, help="Bind address (default: config).")
@click.option(
@@ -91,7 +146,13 @@ def serve(
        except Exception as exc:
            logger.debug("Telemetry store init failed: %s", exc)

-    resolved = get_engine(config, engine_key)
+    # Select with the model we'll actually serve so an engine that can't
+    # serve it (e.g. the cloud fallback without the matching provider key) is
+    # skipped rather than chosen and failing per-request later (see #532).
+    selection_model = (
+        model_name or config.server.model or config.intelligence.default_model or None
+    )
+    resolved = get_engine(config, engine_key, model=selection_model)
    if resolved is None:
        console.print(
            "[red bold]No inference engine available.[/red bold]\n\n"
@@ -107,10 +168,12 @@ def serve(
    sec = setup_security(config, engine, bus)
    engine = sec.engine

-    # If cloud API keys are set, wrap with MultiEngine so both local
-    # and cloud models appear in the model list and can be used.
+    # If cloud API keys are set, prepare a cloud engine. We build the
+    # MultiEngine after local discovery so healthy local fallbacks such as
+    # Ollama stay visible even when the configured preferred engine is MLX.
    import os

+    cloud_engine = None
    _has_cloud = (
        os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
        or os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
@@ -121,12 +184,9 @@ def serve(
    if _has_cloud and engine_name != "cloud":
        try:
            from openjarvis.engine.cloud import CloudEngine
-            from openjarvis.engine.multi import MultiEngine

-            cloud = CloudEngine()
-            engine = MultiEngine([(engine_name, engine), ("cloud", cloud)])
-            engine_name = "multi"
-            if cloud.health():
+            cloud_engine = CloudEngine()
+            if cloud_engine.health():
                console.print("  Cloud:  [cyan]enabled[/cyan] (API keys detected)")
            else:
                console.print(
@@ -163,20 +223,55 @@ def serve(
    for ek, model_ids in all_models.items():
        merge_discovered_models(ek, model_ids)

+    multi_entries = [(engine_name, engine)]
+    for discovered_name, discovered_engine in all_engines:
+        if discovered_name != engine_name:
+            multi_entries.append((discovered_name, discovered_engine))
+    if cloud_engine is not None:
+        multi_entries.append(("cloud", cloud_engine))
+
+    if len(multi_entries) > 1:
+        from openjarvis.engine.multi import MultiEngine
+
+        engine = MultiEngine(multi_entries)
+        engine_name = "multi"
+        all_models[engine_name] = engine.list_models()
+        merge_discovered_models(engine_name, all_models[engine_name])
+
    # Resolve model
-    if model_name is None:
-        model_name = config.server.model or config.intelligence.default_model
+    configured_model = (
+        model_name or config.server.model or config.intelligence.default_model
+    )
+    model_name = _resolve_server_model(
+        model_name,
+        config=config,
+        engine_name=engine_name,
+        engine=engine,
+        all_models=all_models,
+    )
+    if configured_model and model_name and model_name != configured_model:
+        console.print(
+            "[yellow]Configured model "
+            f"{configured_model!r} is not reachable; using {model_name!r}.[/yellow]"
+        )
    if not model_name:
-        engine_models = all_models.get(engine_name, [])
-        if engine_models:
-            model_name = engine_models[0]
-        else:
-            console.print("[red]No model available on engine.[/red]")
-            sys.exit(1)
+        console.print(
+            "[red]No model available on any reachable engine.[/red]\n\n"
+            "Start an inference backend and make sure it lists at least one model.\n"
+            "For Ollama: [cyan]ollama serve[/cyan] and "
+            "[cyan]ollama pull qwen3.5:9b[/cyan].\n"
+            "For MLX: start the MLX OpenAI-compatible server on the configured host."
+        )
+        sys.exit(1)

    # Resolve agent
    agent = None
    agent_key = agent_name or config.server.agent
+    # Tool instances resolved for the primary agent are reused below to build
+    # the scheduler's ToolExecutor — avoiding a second full SystemBuilder.build()
+    # (which would re-discover the engine, re-resolve tools, re-open the channel,
+    # etc.). See the scheduler block near the bottom of this function (#263).
+    resolved_tools: list = []
    if agent_key:
        try:
            import openjarvis.agents  # noqa: F401
@@ -244,6 +339,8 @@ def serve(

                    if tools:
                        agent_kwargs["tools"] = tools
+                    # Reuse these for the scheduler's ToolExecutor (#263).
+                    resolved_tools = tools

                if getattr(agent_cls, "accepts_tools", False):
                    agent_kwargs["max_turns"] = config.agent.max_turns
@@ -377,6 +474,24 @@ def serve(
    # Create app
    from openjarvis.server.app import create_app

+    # Set up memory backend for context injection. Built before the scheduler
+    # block so the executor's JarvisSystem can reference it (#263).
+    memory_backend = None
+    if config.agent.context_from_memory:
+        try:
+            import openjarvis.tools.storage  # noqa: F401
+            from openjarvis.core.registry import MemoryRegistry
+
+            mem_key = config.memory.default_backend
+            if MemoryRegistry.contains(mem_key):
+                memory_backend = MemoryRegistry.create(
+                    mem_key,
+                    db_path=config.memory.db_path,
+                )
+                console.print("  Memory:    [cyan]active[/cyan]")
+        except Exception as exc:
+            logger.debug("Memory backend init failed: %s", exc)
+
    # Set up agent manager
    agent_manager = None
    if config.agent_manager.enabled:
@@ -416,9 +531,55 @@ def serve(
                event_bus=bus,
                trace_store=_trace_store,
            )
-            from openjarvis.system import SystemBuilder
+            # Reuse the components already built inline above instead of a
+            # second full SystemBuilder.build() — the original double-build
+            # re-discovered the engine, re-instrumented it, re-resolved tools,
+            # re-opened the channel and re-created the agent manager, costing
+            # ~30-40s on top of an already-paid startup (#263). The executor
+            # only reads engine/model/config/memory_backend/tool_executor/
+            # session_store/channel_backend from the system (see
+            # AgentExecutor), all of which are wired here.
+            from openjarvis.sessions.session import SessionStore
+            from openjarvis.system import JarvisSystem
+            from openjarvis.tools._stubs import ToolExecutor

-            system = SystemBuilder(config).build()
+            _sched_session_store = None
+            if config.sessions.enabled:
+                try:
+                    from pathlib import Path as _SchedPath
+
+                    _sched_session_store = SessionStore(
+                        db_path=_SchedPath(config.sessions.db_path).expanduser(),
+                        max_age_hours=config.sessions.max_age_hours,
+                        consolidation_threshold=(
+                            config.sessions.consolidation_threshold
+                        ),
+                    )
+                except Exception as exc:
+                    logger.debug("Scheduler session store init failed: %s", exc)
+
+            _sched_tool_executor = (
+                ToolExecutor(resolved_tools, bus) if resolved_tools else None
+            )
+
+            system = JarvisSystem(
+                config=config,
+                bus=bus,
+                engine=engine,
+                engine_key=engine_name,
+                model=model_name,
+                agent=agent,
+                agent_name=agent_key or "",
+                tools=resolved_tools,
+                tool_executor=_sched_tool_executor,
+                memory_backend=memory_backend,
+                telemetry_store=telem_store,
+                trace_store=_trace_store,
+                session_store=_sched_session_store,
+                capability_policy=sec.capability_policy,
+                agent_manager=agent_manager,
+                agent_executor=executor,
+            )
            executor.set_system(system)

            agent_scheduler = AgentScheduler(
@@ -438,23 +599,6 @@ def serve(
        except Exception as exc:
            logger.debug("Agent scheduler init failed: %s", exc)

-    # Set up memory backend for context injection
-    memory_backend = None
-    if config.agent.context_from_memory:
-        try:
-            import openjarvis.tools.storage  # noqa: F401
-            from openjarvis.core.registry import MemoryRegistry
-
-            mem_key = config.memory.default_backend
-            if MemoryRegistry.contains(mem_key):
-                memory_backend = MemoryRegistry.create(
-                    mem_key,
-                    db_path=config.memory.db_path,
-                )
-                console.print("  Memory:    [cyan]active[/cyan]")
-        except Exception as exc:
-            logger.debug("Memory backend init failed: %s", exc)
-
    # --- Channel Gateway: API key, sessions, ChannelBridge ---
    import os as _os

@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@ class ToolResult:
    metadata: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)


+# Bump when token-counting methodology changes so the leaderboard can
+# distinguish entries computed under different rules.
+#   v1 = original (Ollama prompt_eval_count, may under-count due to KV cache)
+#   v2 = full prompt token count, no KV-cache assumption, system prompt
+#        always counted
+# Lives here (not in server/savings) so the telemetry layer can read it
+# without crossing the server → telemetry layering.
+TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION: int = 2
+
+
@dataclass(slots=True)
 class TelemetryRecord:
    """Single telemetry observation recorded after an inference call."""
@@ -167,6 +177,14 @@ class TelemetryRecord:
    gpu_energy_joules: float = 0.0
    dram_energy_joules: float = 0.0
    tokens_per_joule: float = 0.0
+    # Version tag for the token-counting methodology used when this record
+    # was produced. `None` (= legacy) means the record predates per-record
+    # versioning; the leaderboard aggregator filters those out to avoid
+    # mixing pre-fix and post-fix records in the same per-token efficiency
+    # metric — they were the dominant source of the bimodal Wh/token
+    # distribution on the public leaderboard. New records always write
+    # `TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION` from `server/savings.py`.
+    token_counting_version: Optional[int] = None
    mining_session_id: Optional[str] = None
    metadata: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)

@@ -156,12 +156,26 @@ def discover_models(


 def get_engine(
-    config: JarvisConfig, engine_key: str | None = None
+    config: JarvisConfig,
+    engine_key: str | None = None,
+    model: str | None = None,
 ) -> Tuple[str, InferenceEngine] | None:
    """Get a specific engine by key, or the default with fallback.

+    When *model* is given, an engine is selected only if it can actually
+    serve that model (``engine.can_serve(model)``). This stops the cloud
+    fallback from being chosen — when the local engine is down — for a model
+    whose provider client is missing, which otherwise surfaces as a confusing
+    "OpenAI client not available" instead of a helpful "start your local
+    engine" message (see #532). When *model* is ``None`` selection stays
+    model-agnostic (unchanged behaviour).
+
    Returns ``(key, engine_instance)`` or ``None`` if no engine is available.
    """
+
+    def _usable(engine: InferenceEngine) -> bool:
+        return engine.health() and (model is None or engine.can_serve(model))
+
    # Build an ordered list of keys to try, then fall back to full discovery.
    keys_to_try: list[str] = []
    if engine_key:
@@ -176,14 +190,16 @@ def get_engine(
            continue
        try:
            engine = _make_engine(key, config)
-            if engine.health():
+            if _usable(engine):
                return (key, engine)
        except Exception as exc:
            logger.debug("Engine %r health check failed: %s", key, exc)

-    # Fallback to any healthy engine
-    healthy = discover_engines(config)
-    return healthy[0] if healthy else None
+    # Fallback to the first healthy engine that can serve the model.
+    for key, engine in discover_engines(config):
+        if model is None or engine.can_serve(model):
+            return (key, engine)
+    return None


 __all__ = ["discover_engines", "discover_models", "get_engine"]
@@ -28,12 +28,31 @@ class _OpenAICompatibleEngine(InferenceEngine):
    _default_host: str = "http://localhost:8000"
    _api_prefix: str = "/v1"

-    def __init__(self, host: str | None = None, *, timeout: float = 600.0) -> None:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        host: str | None = None,
+        *,
+        api_key: str | None = None,
+        timeout: float = 600.0,
+    ) -> None:
        import os

-        env_key = f"{self.engine_id.upper()}_HOST"
-        self._host = (host or os.environ.get(env_key) or self._default_host).rstrip("/")
-        self._client = httpx.Client(base_url=self._host, timeout=timeout)
+        # Sanitize the engine id for env-var lookup ("openai-compat" ->
+        # "OPENAI_COMPAT_..."); shells cannot set hyphenated variable names.
+        env_prefix = self.engine_id.upper().replace("-", "_")
+        self._host = (
+            host or os.environ.get(f"{env_prefix}_HOST") or self._default_host
+        ).rstrip("/")
+        # Bearer auth for endpoints started with e.g. ``vllm serve --api-key``.
+        # Setting it on the client covers generate/stream/stream_full/
+        # list_models/health alike; ``None`` keeps requests header-free.
+        self._api_key = api_key or os.environ.get(f"{env_prefix}_API_KEY") or None
+        headers = (
+            {"Authorization": f"Bearer {self._api_key}"} if self._api_key else None
+        )
+        self._client = httpx.Client(
+            base_url=self._host, timeout=timeout, headers=headers
+        )

    # -- InferenceEngine interface ------------------------------------------

@@ -69,6 +88,23 @@ class _OpenAICompatibleEngine(InferenceEngine):
            raise EngineConnectionError(
                f"{self.engine_id} engine not reachable at {self._host}"
            ) from exc
+        except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc:
+            error_detail = exc.response.text.strip()
+            if exc.response.status_code == 404:
+                detail_suffix = (
+                    f" Response body: {error_detail}" if error_detail else ""
+                )
+                raise EngineConnectionError(
+                    f"{self.engine_id} engine at {self._host} returned 404 for "
+                    f"{self._api_prefix}/chat/completions. Make sure this port "
+                    "is running an OpenAI-compatible chat server, not another "
+                    f"local web service.{detail_suffix}"
+                ) from exc
+            detail_suffix = f": {error_detail}" if error_detail else ""
+            raise EngineConnectionError(
+                f"{self.engine_id} engine at {self._host} returned HTTP "
+                f"{exc.response.status_code}{detail_suffix}"
+            ) from exc
        data = resp.json()
        choices = data.get("choices", [])
        if not choices:
@@ -119,6 +119,17 @@ class InferenceEngine(ABC):
    def health(self) -> bool:
        """Return ``True`` when the engine is reachable and healthy."""

+    def can_serve(self, model: str) -> bool:
+        """Return ``True`` if this engine can serve *model*.
+
+        Defaults to ``True``: local engines accept any model id (whether a
+        specific model is *installed* is a separate concern from engine
+        selection). Engines that multiplex provider-specific clients (e.g.
+        the cloud engine) override this so selection can skip an engine whose
+        client for the model's provider isn't configured (see #532).
+        """
+        return True
+
    def close(self) -> None:
        """Release resources (HTTP clients, connections, threads, etc.)."""

@@ -893,6 +893,13 @@ class CloudEngine(InferenceEngine):
            "max_tokens": max_tokens,
            "temperature": temperature,
        }
+        # Forward tools / tool_choice (OpenRouter is OpenAI-compatible).
+        tools = kwargs.pop("tools", None)
+        if tools:
+            create_kwargs["tools"] = tools
+        tool_choice = kwargs.pop("tool_choice", None)
+        if tool_choice is not None:
+            create_kwargs["tool_choice"] = tool_choice
        t0 = time.monotonic()
        resp = self._openrouter_client.chat.completions.create(**create_kwargs)
        elapsed = time.monotonic() - t0
@@ -900,7 +907,7 @@ class CloudEngine(InferenceEngine):
        usage = resp.usage
        prompt_tokens = usage.prompt_tokens if usage else 0
        completion_tokens = usage.completion_tokens if usage else 0
-        return {
+        result: Dict[str, Any] = {
            "content": choice.message.content or "",
            "usage": {
                "prompt_tokens": prompt_tokens,
@@ -911,6 +918,19 @@ class CloudEngine(InferenceEngine):
            "finish_reason": choice.finish_reason or "stop",
            "ttft": elapsed,
        }
+        if getattr(choice.message, "tool_calls", None):
+            result["tool_calls"] = [
+                {
+                    "id": tc.id,
+                    "type": tc.type,
+                    "function": {
+                        "name": tc.function.name,
+                        "arguments": tc.function.arguments,
+                    },
+                }
+                for tc in choice.message.tool_calls
+            ]
+        return result

    def _generate_minimax(
        self,
@@ -1195,6 +1215,13 @@ class CloudEngine(InferenceEngine):
            "temperature": temperature,
            "stream": True,
        }
+        # Forward tools / tool_choice (OpenRouter is OpenAI-compatible).
+        tools = kwargs.pop("tools", None)
+        if tools:
+            create_kwargs["tools"] = tools
+        tool_choice = kwargs.pop("tool_choice", None)
+        if tool_choice is not None:
+            create_kwargs["tool_choice"] = tool_choice
        resp = self._openrouter_client.chat.completions.create(**create_kwargs)
        for chunk in resp:
            delta = chunk.choices[0].delta if chunk.choices else None
@@ -1450,6 +1477,34 @@ class CloudEngine(InferenceEngine):
            models.extend(_CODEX_MODELS)
        return models

+    def _client_for_model(self, model: str) -> Any:
+        """Return the provider client ``generate``/``stream`` will dispatch to
+        for *model* (mirrors the routing in those methods)."""
+        if _is_codex_model(model):
+            return self._codex_client
+        if _is_openrouter_model(model):
+            return self._openrouter_client
+        if _is_minimax_model(model):
+            return self._minimax_client
+        if _is_anthropic_model(model):
+            return self._anthropic_client
+        if _is_google_model(model):
+            return self._google_client
+        return self._openai_client
+
+    def can_serve(self, model: str) -> bool:
+        """Return ``True`` only if the provider client for *model* exists.
+
+        ``health()`` is ``True`` whenever *any* provider client is configured,
+        but a request for, say, a ``gpt-*`` model still needs the OpenAI
+        client specifically. Without this check the cloud engine gets picked
+        as a fallback (when the local engine is down) for a model it can't
+        serve, then dies at call time with "<provider> client not available"
+        instead of the user getting a helpful "start your local engine"
+        message (see #532).
+        """
+        return self._client_for_model(model) is not None
+
    def health(self) -> bool:
        return (
            self._openai_client is not None
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 """Data-driven registration of OpenAI-compatible inference engines."""

+from __future__ import annotations
+
 from openjarvis.core.registry import EngineRegistry
 from openjarvis.engine._openai_compat import _OpenAICompatibleEngine

@@ -25,4 +27,35 @@ for _key, (_cls_name, _default_host, _api_prefix) in _ENGINES.items():
    EngineRegistry.register(_key)(_cls)
    globals()[_cls_name] = _cls

-__all__ = [name for name, _, _ in _ENGINES.values()]
+
+def normalize_openai_base_url(url: str) -> str:
+    """Strip a single trailing ``/v1`` segment from a user-supplied base URL.
+
+    Users habitually pass ``http://host:8000/v1`` (the full OpenAI-compatible
+    prefix); the engine's ``_api_prefix`` re-appends ``/v1`` to every request
+    path, so a trailing copy would double up as ``/v1/v1``. Only a literal
+    trailing ``/v1`` is stripped — proxy/gateway path prefixes are preserved.
+    """
+    base = url.rstrip("/")
+    if base.endswith("/v1"):
+        base = base[: -len("/v1")]
+    return base
+
+
+class OpenAICompatEngine(_OpenAICompatibleEngine):
+    """Generic engine for an explicitly-provided OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
+
+    Deliberately NOT registered in ``EngineRegistry``: it is only ever
+    constructed with an explicit host (e.g. ``jarvis eval --base-url``), so
+    registering it would just add a useless localhost discovery probe and
+    interact with the per-test registry wipe.
+    """
+
+    engine_id = "openai-compat"
+    _api_prefix = "/v1"
+
+
+__all__ = [name for name, _, _ in _ENGINES.values()] + [
+    "OpenAICompatEngine",
+    "normalize_openai_base_url",
+]
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+"""Shared helper for targeting an explicit OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
+
+Used by the first-party eval backends (jarvis-direct, jarvis-agent) when
+``--base-url`` is given: the eval must use exactly that endpoint, with no
+silent fallback to whatever other engine discovery happens to find.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import logging
+from typing import Optional
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def build_endpoint_engine(
+    base_url: str,
+    api_key: Optional[str] = None,
+    engine_key: Optional[str] = None,
+):
+    """Construct an :class:`OpenAICompatEngine` pinned to ``base_url``.
+
+    Pre-flight health-checks the endpoint and raises a loud, actionable
+    error when it is unreachable — engine discovery is never consulted.
+    """
+    from openjarvis.engine.openai_compat_engines import (
+        OpenAICompatEngine,
+        normalize_openai_base_url,
+    )
+
+    if engine_key:
+        logger.warning(
+            "Both an engine key (%r) and base_url (%r) were given; "
+            "base_url wins — targeting the endpoint directly.",
+            engine_key,
+            base_url,
+        )
+    host = normalize_openai_base_url(base_url)
+    engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host=host, api_key=api_key)
+    if not engine.health():
+        engine.close()
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"--base-url endpoint not reachable: {base_url} "
+            f"(GET {host}/v1/models failed). Is an OpenAI-compatible server "
+            "(e.g. `vllm serve`) running at that address? If it requires "
+            "authentication (HTTP 401), pass --api-key or set "
+            "JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY."
+        )
+    return engine
+
+
+__all__ = ["build_endpoint_engine"]
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ class JarvisAgentBackend(InferenceBackend):
        max_turns: Optional[int] = None,
        skills_enabled: bool = True,
        overlay_dir: Optional[Path] = None,
+        base_url: Optional[str] = None,
+        api_key: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> None:
        from openjarvis.system import SystemBuilder

@@ -40,7 +42,17 @@ class JarvisAgentBackend(InferenceBackend):
        self._gpu_metrics = gpu_metrics

        builder = SystemBuilder()
-        if engine_key:
+        if base_url:
+            # Explicit endpoint targeting (--base-url): pin the eval to
+            # exactly this OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Fails fast if it is
+            # unreachable; never falls back to a discovered engine.
+            from openjarvis.evals.backends._endpoint_util import (
+                build_endpoint_engine,
+            )
+
+            engine = build_endpoint_engine(base_url, api_key, engine_key)
+            builder.engine_instance(engine, key=engine_key or "openai-compat")
+        elif engine_key:
            builder.engine(engine_key)
        if model:
            builder.model(model)
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ class JarvisDirectBackend(InferenceBackend):
        engine_key: Optional[str] = None,
        telemetry: bool = False,
        gpu_metrics: bool = False,
+        base_url: Optional[str] = None,
+        api_key: Optional[str] = None,
    ) -> None:
        from openjarvis.system import SystemBuilder

@@ -31,7 +33,17 @@ class JarvisDirectBackend(InferenceBackend):
        self._gpu_metrics = gpu_metrics

        builder = SystemBuilder()
-        if engine_key:
+        if base_url:
+            # Explicit endpoint targeting (--base-url): pin the eval to
+            # exactly this OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Fails fast if it is
+            # unreachable; never falls back to a discovered engine.
+            from openjarvis.evals.backends._endpoint_util import (
+                build_endpoint_engine,
+            )
+
+            engine = build_endpoint_engine(base_url, api_key, engine_key)
+            builder.engine_instance(engine, key=engine_key or "openai-compat")
+        elif engine_key:
            builder.engine(engine_key)
        # Propagate gpu_metrics to the runtime config so SystemBuilder
        # creates an EnergyMonitor / GpuMonitor for the InstrumentedEngine.
@@ -5,11 +5,13 @@ Uses Harness for Docker-based execution and scoring.

 from __future__ import annotations

+import inspect
 import logging
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple

 from openjarvis.evals.core.backend import InferenceBackend
+from openjarvis.evals.core.types import RunSummary

 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@@ -20,6 +22,97 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
    _HAS_TB = False

+# terminal-bench FailureMode values that are definitionally infrastructure
+# failures (the harness broke before/while driving the agent), never a
+# judgment on the model's answer. NOTE: clean trials leave failure_mode
+# "unset" in terminal-bench 0.2.18 — both on success AND on genuine
+# unresolved misses — so failure_mode alone can NOT be used to detect
+# harness errors (it would misflag every real model miss).
+_INFRA_FAILURE_MODES = frozenset({"agent_installation_failed", "unknown_agent_error"})
+
+# Harness kwargs that older terminal-bench versions may not support.
+_TIMEOUT_KWARGS = ("global_agent_timeout_sec", "global_timeout_multiplier")
+
+
+def summarize_benchmark_results(
+    results: Any,
+    *,
+    model: str,
+    benchmark: str = "terminalbench-native",
+) -> Tuple[RunSummary, List[Dict[str, str]]]:
+    """Convert terminal-bench ``BenchmarkResults`` into a ``RunSummary``.
+
+    Trials are classified into three buckets:
+
+    - resolved: ``is_resolved`` is True -> counted correct.
+    - model miss: unresolved, but the model was actually contacted ->
+      counted in the accuracy denominator.
+    - harness/infra failure: excluded from the accuracy denominator and
+      reported in ``RunSummary.errors`` plus the returned failure list.
+
+    Zero-model-contact signal choice: terminal-bench 0.2.18 leaves
+    ``failure_mode`` UNSET both on clean success and on genuine unresolved
+    misses, so failure_mode cannot distinguish "the model tried and failed"
+    from "the agent never called the model". Token usage can: this backend
+    always runs terminus-2, which reports real LiteLLM usage, so an
+    unresolved trial with zero/missing input+output tokens means no model
+    request ever completed — an infrastructure failure (in-container setup
+    hang/death, tmux failure), not a model miss. CAVEAT: terminal-bench
+    "installed agents" (openhands, claude-code, ...) hardcode 0 tokens even
+    on success; if this backend ever honors ``agent_name`` for installed
+    agents, this heuristic must be gated on the agent type.
+    """
+    trials = list(getattr(results, "results", None) or [])
+
+    harness_failures: List[Dict[str, str]] = []
+    scored = 0
+    correct = 0
+
+    for tr in trials:
+        task_id = getattr(tr, "task_id", None) or getattr(tr, "trial_name", "unknown")
+        is_resolved = getattr(tr, "is_resolved", None) is True
+        fm = getattr(tr, "failure_mode", None)
+        fm_value = str(getattr(fm, "value", fm) or "unset").lower()
+        tokens = (getattr(tr, "total_input_tokens", None) or 0) + (
+            getattr(tr, "total_output_tokens", None) or 0
+        )
+
+        zero_model_contact = not is_resolved and tokens == 0
+        infra_failure_mode = fm_value in _INFRA_FAILURE_MODES
+
+        if zero_model_contact or infra_failure_mode:
+            harness_failures.append(
+                {
+                    "task_id": str(task_id),
+                    "failure_mode": fm_value,
+                    "reason": (
+                        "zero_model_requests" if zero_model_contact else fm_value
+                    ),
+                }
+            )
+            continue
+
+        scored += 1
+        if is_resolved:
+            correct += 1
+
+    return (
+        RunSummary(
+            benchmark=benchmark,
+            category="agentic",
+            backend="terminalbench-native",
+            model=model,
+            total_samples=len(trials),
+            scored_samples=scored,
+            correct=correct,
+            accuracy=correct / scored if scored else 0.0,
+            errors=len(harness_failures),
+            mean_latency_seconds=0.0,
+            total_cost_usd=0.0,
+        ),
+        harness_failures,
+    )
+

 class TerminalBenchNativeBackend(InferenceBackend):
    """Runs terminal-bench tasks natively via Harness with Docker execution.
@@ -44,7 +137,22 @@ class TerminalBenchNativeBackend(InferenceBackend):
        system_prompt: str = "",
        max_tokens: int = 16384,
        n_concurrent: int = 4,
+        global_agent_timeout_sec: Optional[float] = 1800.0,
+        global_timeout_multiplier: Optional[float] = None,
    ) -> None:
+        """Args of note:
+
+        global_agent_timeout_sec: Hard wall-clock bound for each trial's
+            agent phase. terminal-bench runs installed-agent SETUP inside
+            this same budget with an infinite tmux timeout, so this bounds
+            SETUP+RUN together (a setup-only timeout needs an upstream
+            terminal-bench change). When set, it REPLACES each task's own
+            ``max_agent_timeout_sec``. Set ``None`` or ``0`` to fall back
+            to per-task budgets.
+        global_timeout_multiplier: Scales per-task budgets when
+            ``global_agent_timeout_sec`` is not set. ``None`` keeps
+            terminal-bench's default (1.0).
+        """
        if not _HAS_TB:
            raise ImportError("terminal-bench is required: pip install terminal-bench")

@@ -59,6 +167,8 @@ class TerminalBenchNativeBackend(InferenceBackend):
        self._system_prompt = system_prompt
        self._max_tokens = max_tokens
        self._n_concurrent = n_concurrent
+        self._global_agent_timeout_sec = global_agent_timeout_sec
+        self._global_timeout_multiplier = global_timeout_multiplier
        self._results: Optional[BenchmarkResults] = None

    def run_harness(self, run_id: str) -> BenchmarkResults:
@@ -91,10 +201,53 @@ class TerminalBenchNativeBackend(InferenceBackend):
        if self._max_samples is not None:
            harness_kwargs["n_tasks"] = self._max_samples

+        # Bound each trial's agent phase. Without this, an in-container
+        # installed-agent SETUP hang runs with an infinite tmux timeout,
+        # bounded only by whatever budget the task happens to declare.
+        if self._global_agent_timeout_sec:
+            harness_kwargs["global_agent_timeout_sec"] = float(
+                self._global_agent_timeout_sec
+            )
+        if self._global_timeout_multiplier is not None:
+            harness_kwargs["global_timeout_multiplier"] = float(
+                self._global_timeout_multiplier
+            )
+
+        self._check_timeout_kwargs_supported(harness_kwargs)
+
        harness = Harness(**harness_kwargs)
        self._results = harness.run()
        return self._results

+    @staticmethod
+    def _check_timeout_kwargs_supported(harness_kwargs: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        """Fail loudly if this terminal-bench build lacks the timeout kwargs.
+
+        terminal-bench is an undeclared, unpinned dependency, so installs may
+        predate the global timeout kwargs (added by 0.2.x). Passing an
+        unknown kwarg raises an opaque TypeError; dropping it silently would
+        re-create the unbounded-setup hang. Detect and explain instead.
+        """
+        try:
+            params = inspect.signature(Harness.__init__).parameters
+        except (TypeError, ValueError):
+            return
+        if any(p.kind is inspect.Parameter.VAR_KEYWORD for p in params.values()):
+            return
+        unsupported = [
+            key
+            for key in _TIMEOUT_KWARGS
+            if key in harness_kwargs and key not in params
+        ]
+        if unsupported:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "The installed terminal-bench does not support "
+                f"{', '.join(unsupported)} (requires terminal-bench >= "
+                "0.2.18). Upgrade terminal-bench, or disable the bound by "
+                "setting global_agent_timeout_sec = 0 in the eval config "
+                "[run] section."
+            )
+
    def generate(
        self,
        prompt: str,
@@ -121,4 +274,4 @@ class TerminalBenchNativeBackend(InferenceBackend):
        pass


-__all__ = ["TerminalBenchNativeBackend"]
+__all__ = ["TerminalBenchNativeBackend", "summarize_benchmark_results"]
@@ -183,14 +183,28 @@ def _build_backend(
    max_turns: Optional[int] = None,
    base_url: Optional[str] = None,
    api_key: Optional[str] = None,
+    first_party_endpoint: bool = True,
 ):
    """Construct the appropriate backend.

-    For "hermes" and "openclaw" backends, ``base_url`` and ``api_key`` are
-    REQUIRED — these foreign frameworks need an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
-    to send model calls to. Pass them via the eval config's
-    ``[backend.external]`` section or env vars.
+    ``base_url``/``api_key`` point at the OpenAI-compatible endpoint serving
+    the model under eval:
+
+    - For "hermes" and "openclaw" they are REQUIRED — these foreign
+      frameworks always call out to an external endpoint.
+    - "jarvis-direct" and "jarvis-agent" honor them when
+      ``first_party_endpoint`` is True (the CLI ``--base-url`` path): the
+      eval targets exactly that endpoint — no engine-discovery fallback —
+      and fails fast if it is unreachable. Suite mode passes
+      ``first_party_endpoint=False`` so the suite TOML's
+      ``[backend.external]`` section stays scoped to hermes/openclaw
+      (extending it to first-party backends is explicitly deferred).
    """
+    if not first_party_endpoint:
+        fp_base_url = fp_api_key = None
+    else:
+        fp_base_url, fp_api_key = base_url, api_key
+
    if backend_name == "jarvis-agent":
        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_agent import JarvisAgentBackend

@@ -202,6 +216,8 @@ def _build_backend(
            gpu_metrics=gpu_metrics,
            model=model,
            max_turns=max_turns,
+            base_url=fp_base_url,
+            api_key=fp_api_key,
        )
    elif backend_name == "jarvis-direct":
        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct import JarvisDirectBackend
@@ -210,6 +226,8 @@ def _build_backend(
            engine_key=engine_key,
            telemetry=telemetry,
            gpu_metrics=gpu_metrics,
+            base_url=fp_base_url,
+            api_key=fp_api_key,
        )
    elif backend_name == "hermes":
        from openjarvis.evals.backends.external import HermesBackend
@@ -656,25 +674,53 @@ def _build_trackers(config) -> list:
    return trackers


-def _run_terminalbench_native(config, console: Console) -> object:
-    """Run TerminalBench V2.1 natively via terminal-bench Harness."""
+def _run_terminalbench_native(
+    config,
+    console: Console,
+    *,
+    base_url: Optional[str] = None,
+    api_key: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> object:
+    """Run TerminalBench V2.1 natively via terminal-bench Harness.
+
+    ``base_url`` (from ``--base-url`` / JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL) targets an
+    already-running OpenAI-compatible endpoint; when unset, the legacy local
+    vLLM default (http://localhost:8000/v1) is used.
+    """
+    from openjarvis.engine.openai_compat_engines import normalize_openai_base_url
    from openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native import (
        TerminalBenchNativeBackend,
+        summarize_benchmark_results,
    )
-    from openjarvis.evals.core.types import RunSummary

    model = config.model
    # LiteLLM expects "openai/<model>" for OpenAI-compatible servers
    litellm_model = f"openai/{model}"
    output_dir = getattr(config, "output_path", None) or "results/terminalbench-native/"

+    # Harness budgets: only forward explicit config values so the backend
+    # defaults (global_agent_timeout_sec=1800) apply otherwise.
+    timeout_kwargs = {}
+    if getattr(config, "global_agent_timeout_sec", None) is not None:
+        timeout_kwargs["global_agent_timeout_sec"] = config.global_agent_timeout_sec
+    if getattr(config, "global_timeout_multiplier", None) is not None:
+        timeout_kwargs["global_timeout_multiplier"] = config.global_timeout_multiplier
+
+    # Normalize to exactly one trailing "/v1" — LiteLLM's api_base wants the
+    # full OpenAI-compatible prefix, and users pass both forms of the URL.
+    if base_url:
+        api_base = normalize_openai_base_url(base_url) + "/v1"
+    else:
+        api_base = "http://localhost:8000/v1"
+
    backend = TerminalBenchNativeBackend(
        model=litellm_model,
-        api_base="http://localhost:8000/v1",
+        api_base=api_base,
        temperature=config.temperature,
        max_samples=config.max_samples,
        output_dir=output_dir,
        n_concurrent=config.max_workers or 4,
+        **timeout_kwargs,
    )

    import re
@@ -683,46 +729,83 @@ def _run_terminalbench_native(config, console: Console) -> object:
    model_slug = re.sub(r"[^a-z0-9_-]", "-", model.lower().replace("/", "-"))
    run_id = f"tb21-{model_slug}"
    console.print(f"  Running TerminalBench V2.1 natively: {model}")
+    console.print(f"  API base: {api_base}")
    console.print(f"  Harness run_id: {run_id}")

-    results = backend.run_harness(run_id)
+    if api_key:
+        # terminus-2 routes model calls through LiteLLM with the "openai/"
+        # prefix, which reads OPENAI_API_KEY from the environment. The
+        # harness runs in-process, so set the var for the duration of the
+        # run and restore the previous value afterwards.
+        prev_key = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
+        os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = api_key
+        try:
+            results = backend.run_harness(run_id)
+        finally:
+            if prev_key is None:
+                os.environ.pop("OPENAI_API_KEY", None)
+            else:
+                os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = prev_key
+    else:
+        results = backend.run_harness(run_id)

-    # Convert BenchmarkResults to RunSummary
-    total = len(results.trial_results) if hasattr(results, "trial_results") else 0
-    correct = 0
-    if hasattr(results, "trial_results"):
-        for tr in results.trial_results:
-            if getattr(tr, "is_resolved", False):
-                correct += 1
-
-    accuracy = correct / total if total > 0 else 0.0
-    return RunSummary(
-        benchmark="terminalbench-native",
-        category="agentic",
-        backend="terminalbench-native",
-        model=model,
-        total_samples=total,
-        scored_samples=total,
-        correct=correct,
-        accuracy=accuracy,
-        errors=0,
-        mean_latency_seconds=0.0,
-        total_cost_usd=0.0,
-    )
+    # Convert BenchmarkResults to RunSummary, classifying harness/infra
+    # failures (e.g. zero-model-contact setup hangs) out of the resolve-rate.
+    summary, harness_failures = summarize_benchmark_results(results, model=model)
+    if harness_failures:
+        console.print(
+            f"  [red bold]{len(harness_failures)} harness/infra failure(s) "
+            "excluded from resolve-rate:[/red bold]"
+        )
+        for failure in harness_failures:
+            console.print(
+                f"  [red]- {failure['task_id']}: {failure['reason']} "
+                f"(failure_mode={failure['failure_mode']})[/red]"
+            )
+    return summary


-def _run_single(config, console: Optional[Console] = None) -> object:
-    """Run a single eval from a RunConfig and return the summary."""
+def _run_single(
+    config,
+    console: Optional[Console] = None,
+    *,
+    suite_mode: bool = False,
+) -> object:
+    """Run a single eval from a RunConfig and return the summary.
+
+    ``suite_mode=True`` (TOML-suite drivers) scopes ``config.base_url`` /
+    ``config.api_key`` — stamped from the suite's ``[backend.external]``
+    section onto every RunConfig — to the hermes/openclaw backends only;
+    extending suite-level endpoint targeting to first-party backends is
+    explicitly deferred. The CLI single-run path (``suite_mode=False``)
+    honors ``--base-url``/``--api-key`` for every backend.
+    """
    from openjarvis.evals.core.runner import EvalRunner

    if console is None:
        console = Console()

+    _metadata = getattr(config, "metadata", None) or {}
+    base_url = (
+        getattr(config, "base_url", None)
+        or _metadata.get("base_url")
+        or os.environ.get("JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL")
+    )
+    api_key = (
+        getattr(config, "api_key", None)
+        or _metadata.get("api_key")
+        or os.environ.get("JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY")
+    )
+
    # TerminalBench V2.1 native: use terminal-bench Harness directly
    if config.benchmark == "terminalbench-native":
-        return _run_terminalbench_native(config, console)
+        return _run_terminalbench_native(
+            config,
+            console,
+            base_url=None if suite_mode else base_url,
+            api_key=None if suite_mode else api_key,
+        )

-    _metadata = getattr(config, "metadata", None) or {}
    eval_backend = _build_backend(
        config.backend,
        config.engine_key,
@@ -732,16 +815,9 @@ def _run_single(config, console: Optional[Console] = None) -> object:
        gpu_metrics=getattr(config, "gpu_metrics", False),
        model=config.model,
        max_turns=getattr(config, "max_turns", None),
-        base_url=(
-            getattr(config, "base_url", None)
-            or _metadata.get("base_url")
-            or os.environ.get("JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL")
-        ),
-        api_key=(
-            getattr(config, "api_key", None)
-            or _metadata.get("api_key")
-            or os.environ.get("JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY")
-        ),
+        base_url=base_url,
+        api_key=api_key,
+        first_party_endpoint=not suite_mode,
    )
    dataset = _build_dataset(config.benchmark)
    # Inject engine config for benchmarks that run their own simulation
@@ -964,7 +1040,9 @@ def _print_agentic_summary(console: Console, traces, config) -> None:
    from rich.table import Table

    completed = sum(1 for t in traces if t.completed)
-    resolved = sum(1 for t in traces if t.is_resolved is True)
+    harness_errors = [t for t in traces if t.error_kind == "harness_error"]
+    model_traces = [t for t in traces if t.error_kind != "harness_error"]
+    resolved = sum(1 for t in model_traces if t.is_resolved is True)
    timed_out = sum(1 for t in traces if t.timed_out)
    total_turns = sum(t.num_turns for t in traces)
    total_tool_calls = sum(t.total_tool_calls for t in traces)
@@ -992,8 +1070,11 @@ def _print_agentic_summary(console: Console, traces, config) -> None:
    table.add_row("Queries", str(len(traces)))
    table.add_row("Completed", f"{completed}/{len(traces)}")
    if any(t.is_resolved is not None for t in traces):
-        table.add_row("Resolved", f"{resolved}/{len(traces)}")
+        # Harness errors are excluded from the resolve-rate denominator:
+        # they are infra failures, not model misses.
+        table.add_row("Resolved", f"{resolved}/{len(model_traces)}")
    table.add_row("Timed out", str(timed_out))
+    table.add_row("Harness errors", str(len(harness_errors)))
    table.add_row("Total turns", str(total_turns))
    avg_t = f"{total_turns / len(traces):.1f}" if traces else "0"
    table.add_row("Avg turns/query", avg_t)
@@ -1020,6 +1101,19 @@ def _print_agentic_summary(console: Console, traces, config) -> None:

    console.print(table)

+    if harness_errors:
+        console.print(
+            f"[red bold]{len(harness_errors)} harness/infra failure(s) "
+            "excluded from resolve-rate:[/red bold]"
+        )
+        for t in harness_errors[:5]:
+            console.print(f"[red]  {t.query_id}: {(t.error or '')[:300]}[/red]")
+        if len(harness_errors) > 5:
+            console.print(
+                f"[red]  ... and {len(harness_errors) - 5} more "
+                "(see traces.jsonl)[/red]"
+            )
+

 def _run_from_config(
    config_path: str,
@@ -1070,7 +1164,7 @@ def _run_from_config(
            f"Run {i}/{len(run_configs)}: {rc.benchmark} / {rc.model}",
        )
        try:
-            summary = _run_single(rc, console=console)
+            summary = _run_single(rc, console=console, suite_mode=True)
            summaries.append(summary)
            console.print(
                f"  [green]{summary.accuracy:.4f}[/green] "
@@ -1115,12 +1209,21 @@ def main():
@click.option(
    "--base-url",
    default=None,
-    help="OpenAI-compat endpoint for hermes/openclaw",
+    help=(
+        "OpenAI-compatible endpoint for the model under eval. Required for "
+        "hermes/openclaw; for jarvis-direct/jarvis-agent/terminalbench-native "
+        "it bypasses engine discovery and targets this URL directly "
+        "(env: JARVIS_BACKEND_BASE_URL)."
+    ),
 )
@click.option(
    "--api-key",
    default=None,
-    help="API key for hermes/openclaw endpoint",
+    help=(
+        "API key for the --base-url endpoint, sent as a Bearer token. "
+        "Required for hermes/openclaw; optional for first-party backends "
+        "(env: JARVIS_BACKEND_API_KEY)."
+    ),
 )
@click.option("-m", "--model", default=None, help="Model identifier")
@click.option(
@@ -1526,8 +1629,7 @@ def summarize(jsonl_path):
    default=None,
    type=click.Path(),
    help=(
-        "Output JSONL path. Defaults to <jsonl>.reparsed when "
-        "--in-place is not set."
+        "Output JSONL path. Defaults to <jsonl>.reparsed when --in-place is not set."
    ),
 )
@click.option(
@@ -1642,9 +1744,7 @@ def reparse_judge(jsonl_path, out_path, in_place, summary_out):
        _json.dump(summary, f, indent=2)

    old_cont = [float(s) for s in old_scores if s is not None]
-    old_acc = (
-        sum(1 for s in old_cont if s >= 0.5) / len(old_cont) if old_cont else 0.0
-    )
+    old_acc = sum(1 for s in old_cont if s >= 0.5) / len(old_cont) if old_cont else 0.0
    old_mean = sum(old_cont) / len(old_cont) if old_cont else 0.0
    new_mean = sum(cont) / len(cont) if cont else 0.0
    mean_shift = new_mean - old_mean
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from contextlib import nullcontext
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Callable, Optional

+from openjarvis.evals.core.environment import TaskEnvironmentError
 from openjarvis.evals.core.event_recorder import AgentEvent, EventRecorder, EventType
 from openjarvis.evals.core.trace import QueryTrace, TurnTrace

@@ -176,9 +177,12 @@ class AgenticRunner:
                )
            self._traces.append(trace)

-            status = (
-                "TIMEOUT" if trace.timed_out else ("OK" if trace.completed else "FAIL")
-            )
+            if trace.timed_out:
+                status = "TIMEOUT"
+            elif trace.error_kind == "harness_error":
+                status = "HARNESS_ERROR"
+            else:
+                status = "OK" if trace.completed else "FAIL"
            LOGGER.info(
                "Task %s: %s in %.1fs",
                query_id,
@@ -260,11 +264,12 @@ class AgenticRunner:
                        is_resolved=record.metadata.get("is_resolved"),
                    )

-                status = (
-                    "TIMEOUT"
-                    if trace.timed_out
-                    else ("OK" if trace.completed else "FAIL")
-                )
+                if trace.timed_out:
+                    status = "TIMEOUT"
+                elif trace.error_kind == "harness_error":
+                    status = "HARNESS_ERROR"
+                else:
+                    status = "OK" if trace.completed else "FAIL"
                LOGGER.info(
                    "Task %s: %s in %.1fs",
                    query_id,
@@ -444,7 +449,23 @@ class AgenticRunner:
                _run_body()

        except Exception as exc:
-            LOGGER.warning("Agent failed on query %s: %s", query_id, exc)
+            # Distinguish infrastructure breakage (task env failed to start,
+            # Docker/tmux death) from agent failures: harness errors must be
+            # recorded distinctly so scoring excludes them from resolve-rate
+            # instead of silently counting a model miss. Either way the run
+            # continues with the next record (fail THIS task, not the run).
+            is_harness_error = isinstance(exc, TaskEnvironmentError) or bool(
+                record.metadata.get("harness_error")
+            )
+            if is_harness_error:
+                LOGGER.error(
+                    "Harness/environment failure on query %s (record %s): %s",
+                    query_id,
+                    getattr(record, "record_id", "?"),
+                    exc,
+                )
+            else:
+                LOGGER.warning("Agent failed on query %s: %s", query_id, exc)
            end_time = time.time()
            # Unsubscribe EventBus relays
            if agent_bus is not None:
@@ -461,6 +482,8 @@ class AgenticRunner:
                total_wall_clock_s=end_time - start_time,
                completed=False,
                is_resolved=record.metadata.get("is_resolved"),
+                error=str(exc),
+                error_kind="harness_error" if is_harness_error else "agent_error",
            )

        # Unsubscribe EventBus relays
@@ -534,6 +557,48 @@ class AgenticRunner:
                    model, turn.input_tokens, turn.output_tokens
                )

+        # --- Zero-model-contact sanity check ----------------------------
+        # Failed in-container setups (e.g. an installed agent's SETUP phase
+        # hanging or dying) historically produced traces that looked like
+        # model results: completed=True, a synthetic 1-event turn,
+        # is_resolved=False from run_tests, and zero tokens — silently
+        # dragging resolve-rate down as a fake model miss. Signal choice:
+        # token usage plus LM inference events is the reliable discriminator
+        # here — a genuine model miss has token usage (and/or LM events),
+        # while "the agent never called the model" has neither. We do NOT
+        # key off completion status or is_resolved, which are identical in
+        # both cases. run_agent_loop envs drive the model directly
+        # (bypassing usage reporting), so their turn_wall_clocks count as
+        # model contact.
+        had_lm_events = any(
+            e.event_type in (EventType.LM_INFERENCE_START, EventType.LM_INFERENCE_END)
+            for e in events
+        )
+        had_loop_turns = bool(
+            task_env is not None and getattr(task_env, "turn_wall_clocks", None)
+        )
+        turn_tokens = sum(t.input_tokens + t.output_tokens for t in turns)
+        error: Optional[str] = None
+        error_kind: Optional[str] = None
+        if (
+            not had_lm_events
+            and not had_loop_turns
+            and in_tok + out_tok == 0
+            and turn_tokens == 0
+        ):
+            error = (
+                "zero_model_requests: the agent produced no LM inference "
+                "events and reported zero token usage — the model was never "
+                "contacted. This is a harness/infrastructure failure (e.g. "
+                "in-container agent setup hang/death), not a model miss, and "
+                "is excluded from resolve-rate. If your agent genuinely "
+                "contacted the model, make it report token usage or emit "
+                "LM_INFERENCE events. Response tail: "
+                f"{(response_text or '')[-500:]!r}"
+            )
+            error_kind = "harness_error"
+            LOGGER.error("Query %s: %s", query_id, error)
+
        # Query-level energy from telemetry window
        query_gpu_energy = _compute_energy_delta(readings, "gpu_energy_j")
        query_cpu_energy = _compute_energy_delta(readings, "cpu_energy_j")
@@ -563,6 +628,8 @@ class AgenticRunner:
            is_resolved=record.metadata.get("is_resolved"),
            query_mbu_avg_pct=query_mbu_avg,
            query_mbu_max_pct=query_mbu_max,
+            error=error,
+            error_kind=error_kind,
        )

        # Correlate energy with trace
@@ -143,6 +143,16 @@ def load_eval_config(path: str | Path) -> EvalSuiteConfig:
        sheets_worksheet=run_raw.get("sheets_worksheet", "Results"),
        sheets_credentials_path=run_raw.get("sheets_credentials_path", ""),
        max_turns=(int(run_raw["max_turns"]) if "max_turns" in run_raw else None),
+        global_agent_timeout_sec=(
+            float(run_raw["global_agent_timeout_sec"])
+            if "global_agent_timeout_sec" in run_raw
+            else None
+        ),
+        global_timeout_multiplier=(
+            float(run_raw["global_timeout_multiplier"])
+            if "global_timeout_multiplier" in run_raw
+            else None
+        ),
    )

    # Parse [[models]]
@@ -212,6 +222,16 @@ def load_eval_config(path: str | Path) -> EvalSuiteConfig:
                max_tokens=int(b["max_tokens"]) if "max_tokens" in b else None,
                subset=b.get("subset"),
                record_ids=record_ids,
+                global_agent_timeout_sec=(
+                    float(b["global_agent_timeout_sec"])
+                    if "global_agent_timeout_sec" in b
+                    else None
+                ),
+                global_timeout_multiplier=(
+                    float(b["global_timeout_multiplier"])
+                    if "global_timeout_multiplier" in b
+                    else None
+                ),
            )
        )

@@ -275,6 +295,14 @@ def expand_suite(suite: EvalSuiteConfig) -> List[RunConfig]:
            if bench.judge_model is not None:
                judge_model = bench.judge_model

+            # terminal-bench harness budgets: benchmark > [run]
+            global_agent_timeout_sec = suite.run.global_agent_timeout_sec
+            if bench.global_agent_timeout_sec is not None:
+                global_agent_timeout_sec = bench.global_agent_timeout_sec
+            global_timeout_multiplier = suite.run.global_timeout_multiplier
+            if bench.global_timeout_multiplier is not None:
+                global_timeout_multiplier = bench.global_timeout_multiplier
+
            # Auto-generate output path
            model_slug = model.name.replace("/", "-").replace(":", "-")
            output_path = f"{output_dir}/{bench.name}_{model_slug}.jsonl"
@@ -328,6 +356,8 @@ def expand_suite(suite: EvalSuiteConfig) -> List[RunConfig]:
                    base_url=suite.backend_external_base_url,
                    api_key=suite.backend_external_api_key,
                    record_ids=bench.record_ids,
+                    global_agent_timeout_sec=global_agent_timeout_sec,
+                    global_timeout_multiplier=global_timeout_multiplier,
                )
            )

@@ -8,6 +8,18 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, Tuple
 from openjarvis.evals.core.types import EvalRecord


+class TaskEnvironmentError(RuntimeError):
+    """A task execution environment failed to start or operate.
+
+    Raised when infrastructure backing a task (Docker container, docker
+    compose project, tmux session, recording binaries, ...) breaks. This is
+    a harness/environment failure, **not** a model failure: runners record
+    it distinctly (``QueryTrace.error_kind == "harness_error"``) so scoring
+    can exclude the sample from resolve-rate instead of silently counting
+    it as a model miss.
+    """
+
+
 class EnvironmentProvider(ABC):
    """Manages an external environment for evaluation benchmarks.

@@ -50,3 +62,6 @@ class EnvironmentProvider(ABC):
    @abstractmethod
    def teardown(self) -> None:
        """Stop the environment and release resources."""
+
+
+__all__ = ["EnvironmentProvider", "TaskEnvironmentError"]
@@ -26,13 +26,22 @@ def _agg_stats(values: Sequence[Optional[float]]) -> dict[str, Optional[float]]:
    }


+def _model_attributable(traces: list[QueryTrace]) -> list[QueryTrace]:
+    """Traces whose outcome is attributable to the model.
+
+    Harness errors (infra/setup failures, zero-model-contact runs) are
+    excluded so they never count as model misses in resolve-rate.
+    """
+    return [t for t in traces if t.error_kind != "harness_error"]
+
+
 def _compute_efficiency(
    traces: list[QueryTrace],
    total_gpu_energy: Optional[float],
    total_cpu_energy: Optional[float],
 ) -> dict[str, Optional[float]]:
    """Compute efficiency metrics from traces and aggregate energy."""
-    scored = [t for t in traces if t.is_resolved is not None]
+    scored = [t for t in _model_attributable(traces) if t.is_resolved is not None]
    resolved = sum(1 for t in scored if t.is_resolved is True)
    accuracy = resolved / len(scored) if scored else None
    gpu_powers = [
@@ -247,8 +256,12 @@ def export_summary_json(
            cpu_energy_values.append(sum(cpu_vals))
    total_cpu_energy = sum(cpu_energy_values) if cpu_energy_values else None

-    resolved = sum(1 for t in traces if t.is_resolved is True)
-    unresolved = sum(1 for t in traces if t.is_resolved is False)
+    # Harness errors (infra failures, zero-model-contact runs) are excluded
+    # from the resolve-rate denominator: they are not model misses.
+    harness_error_traces = [t for t in traces if t.error_kind == "harness_error"]
+    model_traces = _model_attributable(traces)
+    resolved = sum(1 for t in model_traces if t.is_resolved is True)
+    unresolved = sum(1 for t in model_traces if t.is_resolved is False)

    cost_values = [t.total_cost_usd for t in traces if t.total_cost_usd is not None]
    total_cost = sum(cost_values) if cost_values else None
@@ -345,6 +358,7 @@ def export_summary_json(
            "completed": completed,
            "resolved": resolved,
            "unresolved": unresolved,
+            "harness_errors": len(harness_error_traces),
            "accuracy": accuracy,
            "turns": total_turns,
            "tool_calls": total_tool_calls,
@@ -365,6 +379,12 @@ def export_summary_json(
        "efficiency": efficiency,
    }

+    if harness_error_traces:
+        summary["harness_error_details"] = [
+            {"query_id": t.query_id, "error": (t.error or "")[:500]}
+            for t in harness_error_traces
+        ]
+
    if action_totals:
        summary["action_energy_summary"] = action_totals

@@ -399,7 +419,7 @@ def export_summary_json(

    accuracy_vals: list[float] = [
        1.0 if t.is_resolved is True else 0.0
-        for t in traces
+        for t in _model_attributable(traces)
        if t.is_resolved is not None
    ]
    latency_vals = [t.total_wall_clock_s for t in traces if t.total_wall_clock_s > 0]
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@ class QueryTrace:
    is_resolved: Optional[bool] = None
    query_mbu_avg_pct: Optional[float] = None
    query_mbu_max_pct: Optional[float] = None
+    # Error taxonomy. ``error_kind`` distinguishes infrastructure failures
+    # ("harness_error": task env / Docker / tmux broke, or the agent never
+    # contacted the model) from agent failures ("agent_error"). Harness
+    # errors are excluded from resolve-rate by export/summary code so they
+    # are never silently counted as model misses.
+    error: Optional[str] = None
+    error_kind: Optional[str] = None

    @property
    def num_turns(self) -> int:
@@ -196,6 +203,8 @@ class QueryTrace:
            "is_resolved": self.is_resolved,
            "query_mbu_avg_pct": self.query_mbu_avg_pct,
            "query_mbu_max_pct": self.query_mbu_max_pct,
+            "error": self.error,
+            "error_kind": self.error_kind,
        }

    @classmethod
@@ -216,6 +225,8 @@ class QueryTrace:
            is_resolved=d.get("is_resolved"),
            query_mbu_avg_pct=d.get("query_mbu_avg_pct"),
            query_mbu_max_pct=d.get("query_mbu_max_pct"),
+            error=d.get("error"),
+            error_kind=d.get("error_kind"),
        )

    def save_jsonl(self, path: Path) -> None:
@@ -102,6 +102,15 @@ class RunConfig:
    # specific records (e.g. recovering silent-fake records without
    # re-running the entire benchmark).
    record_ids: Optional[List[str]] = None
+    # terminal-bench harness budgets (terminalbench-native backend).
+    # global_agent_timeout_sec bounds each trial's agent phase — SETUP+RUN
+    # together, since terminal-bench runs installed-agent setup inside the
+    # agent budget with an infinite tmux timeout. When set it REPLACES the
+    # per-task max_agent_timeout_sec; 0 disables the bound (per-task budgets
+    # apply); None uses the backend default (1800 s).
+    global_agent_timeout_sec: Optional[float] = None
+    # Scales per-task budgets when global_agent_timeout_sec is not set.
+    global_timeout_multiplier: Optional[float] = None


@dataclass(slots=True)
@@ -232,6 +241,9 @@ class ExecutionConfig:
    # to JarvisConfig.agent.max_turns (default 10). Bump to 30-50 for
    # thinking/reasoning models on agentic benchmarks (GAIA, LiveResearch).
    max_turns: Optional[int] = None
+    # terminal-bench harness budgets (see RunConfig for semantics).
+    global_agent_timeout_sec: Optional[float] = None
+    global_timeout_multiplier: Optional[float] = None


@dataclass(slots=True)
@@ -265,6 +277,10 @@ class BenchmarkConfig:
    max_tokens: Optional[int] = None
    subset: Optional[str] = None
    record_ids: Optional[List[str]] = None
+    # Per-benchmark override of the terminal-bench harness budgets
+    # (see RunConfig for semantics).
+    global_agent_timeout_sec: Optional[float] = None
+    global_timeout_multiplier: Optional[float] = None


@dataclass(slots=True)
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ from pathlib import Path
 from types import TracebackType
 from typing import Any, MutableMapping, Optional, Type

+from openjarvis.evals.core.environment import TaskEnvironmentError
+
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@@ -29,8 +31,6 @@ class TerminalBenchTaskEnv:
    # ------------------------------------------------------------------

    def __enter__(self) -> TerminalBenchTaskEnv:
-        from terminal_bench.terminal.terminal import spin_up_terminal
-
        task = self._metadata.get("task")
        task_paths = self._metadata.get("task_paths")
        task_id = self._metadata.get("task_id", "unknown")
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ class TerminalBenchTaskEnv:
                "Use the 'terminalbench-native' dataset."
            )

+        from terminal_bench.terminal.terminal import spin_up_terminal
+
        docker_image_prefix = f"tb__{task_id}".replace(".", "-")
        client_image_name = f"{docker_image_prefix}__client"
        client_container_name = f"oj-{task_id}".replace(".", "-")
@@ -48,19 +50,59 @@ class TerminalBenchTaskEnv:
        self._logs_tmpdir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix="oj_tb_logs_")
        logs_path = Path(self._logs_tmpdir.name)

-        self._terminal_cm = spin_up_terminal(
-            client_container_name=client_container_name,
-            client_image_name=client_image_name,
-            docker_compose_path=task_paths.docker_compose_path,
-            docker_image_name_prefix=docker_image_prefix,
-            sessions_logs_path=logs_path,
-            disable_recording=task.disable_asciinema,
-        )
-        self._terminal = self._terminal_cm.__enter__()
+        # Everything below is exception-safe: a failure mid-startup (docker
+        # compose, tmux, asciinema) tears the spun-up terminal back down
+        # immediately instead of leaking the docker compose project until GC
+        # (or forever, when the env object is retained), and re-raises as a
+        # loud TaskEnvironmentError naming the task image so the runner can
+        # record a harness error for THIS task and continue with the rest.
+        try:
+            self._terminal_cm = spin_up_terminal(
+                client_container_name=client_container_name,
+                client_image_name=client_image_name,
+                docker_compose_path=task_paths.docker_compose_path,
+                docker_image_name_prefix=docker_image_prefix,
+                sessions_logs_path=logs_path,
+                disable_recording=task.disable_asciinema,
+            )
+            self._terminal = self._terminal_cm.__enter__()

-        session = self._terminal.create_session(
-            "agent", is_active_stream=False, as_configured_user=True
-        )
+            # Preflight BEFORE the agent loop: terminal-bench drives the
+            # agent through tmux (and records via asciinema unless the task
+            # disables it). A missing binary otherwise surfaces mid-run as
+            # an opaque RuntimeError or a fake TimeoutError.
+            self._preflight_container_binaries(
+                task, task_id, client_image_name, client_container_name
+            )
+
+            session = self._terminal.create_session(
+                "agent", is_active_stream=False, as_configured_user=True
+            )
+        except BaseException as exc:
+            self._teardown(type(exc), exc, exc.__traceback__)
+            if not isinstance(exc, Exception):
+                # KeyboardInterrupt / SystemExit: clean up but never mask.
+                raise
+            if isinstance(exc, TaskEnvironmentError):
+                self._metadata["harness_error"] = str(exc)
+                raise
+            message = (
+                f"Task '{task_id}': failed to start the task environment "
+                f"(image '{client_image_name}', container "
+                f"'{client_container_name}'): {exc}. This is a harness/"
+                "environment failure, not a model failure. Check that the "
+                "Docker daemon is healthy and that tmux is installed in the "
+                "task image."
+            )
+            # docker compose stderr is only logged at DEBUG by
+            # terminal-bench; surface it here so the failure is actionable.
+            stderr = getattr(exc, "stderr", None)
+            if stderr:
+                if isinstance(stderr, bytes):
+                    stderr = stderr.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+                message += f"\ndocker compose stderr (tail):\n{stderr[-2000:]}"
+            self._metadata["harness_error"] = message
+            raise TaskEnvironmentError(message) from exc

        self._metadata["terminal"] = self._terminal
        self._metadata["session"] = session
@@ -68,24 +110,99 @@ class TerminalBenchTaskEnv:

        return self

+    def _preflight_container_binaries(
+        self,
+        task: Any,
+        task_id: str,
+        client_image_name: str,
+        client_container_name: str,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Verify tmux (and asciinema if recording) exist in the container.
+
+        Raises:
+            TaskEnvironmentError: naming the task image and the missing
+                binary, with the remedy, before any agent work starts.
+        """
+        container = getattr(self._terminal, "container", None)
+        if container is None:
+            # Terminal implementation without a container handle (e.g. a
+            # future terminal-bench version); fall through to terminal-bench's
+            # own checks rather than guessing.
+            return
+
+        checks: list[tuple[str, list[str], str]] = [
+            (
+                "tmux",
+                ["tmux", "-V"],
+                f"install tmux in the task image '{client_image_name}'",
+            ),
+        ]
+        if not getattr(task, "disable_asciinema", False):
+            checks.append(
+                (
+                    "asciinema",
+                    ["asciinema", "--version"],
+                    f"install asciinema in the task image '{client_image_name}' "
+                    "or set disable_asciinema in task.yaml",
+                )
+            )
+
+        for binary, cmd, remedy in checks:
+            result = container.exec_run(cmd)
+            exit_code = getattr(result, "exit_code", 0)
+            if exit_code == 0:
+                continue
+            output = getattr(result, "output", b"")
+            if isinstance(output, bytes):
+                output = output.decode("utf-8", errors="replace")
+            raise TaskEnvironmentError(
+                f"Task '{task_id}': required binary '{binary}' is not usable "
+                f"in task image '{client_image_name}' (container "
+                f"'{client_container_name}'): exec exit code {exit_code}, "
+                f"output {str(output).strip()!r}. Remedy: {remedy}. This is "
+                "a harness/environment failure, not a model failure."
+            )
+
+    def _teardown(
+        self,
+        exc_type: Optional[Type[BaseException]] = None,
+        exc_val: Optional[BaseException] = None,
+        exc_tb: Optional[TracebackType] = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Idempotent cleanup shared by ``__exit__`` and failed ``__enter__``.
+
+        Secondary cleanup errors are logged, never raised, so they cannot
+        mask the original failure.
+        """
+        self._metadata.pop("terminal", None)
+        self._metadata.pop("session", None)
+        self._metadata.pop("container", None)
+
+        terminal_cm, self._terminal_cm, self._terminal = self._terminal_cm, None, None
+        if terminal_cm is not None:
+            try:
+                terminal_cm.__exit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)
+            except Exception:
+                LOGGER.exception(
+                    "Secondary error while tearing down the terminal for "
+                    "task %s (original error, if any, is re-raised)",
+                    self._metadata.get("task_id", "unknown"),
+                )
+
+        logs_tmpdir, self._logs_tmpdir = self._logs_tmpdir, None
+        if logs_tmpdir is not None:
+            try:
+                logs_tmpdir.cleanup()
+            except Exception:
+                LOGGER.exception("Failed to clean up session logs tmpdir")
+
    def __exit__(
        self,
        exc_type: Optional[Type[BaseException]],
        exc_val: Optional[BaseException],
        exc_tb: Optional[TracebackType],
    ) -> None:
-        self._metadata.pop("terminal", None)
-        self._metadata.pop("session", None)
-        self._metadata.pop("container", None)
-
-        if self._terminal_cm is not None:
-            self._terminal_cm.__exit__(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)
-            self._terminal_cm = None
-            self._terminal = None
-
-        if self._logs_tmpdir is not None:
-            self._logs_tmpdir.cleanup()
-            self._logs_tmpdir = None
+        self._teardown(exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb)

    # ------------------------------------------------------------------
    # Test execution
@@ -93,12 +210,6 @@ class TerminalBenchTaskEnv:

    def run_tests(self) -> tuple[bool, dict[str, Any]]:
        """Copy test scripts into container, execute, parse results."""
-        from terminal_bench.parsers.base_parser import UnitTestStatus
-        from terminal_bench.parsers.parser_factory import ParserFactory
-        from terminal_bench.terminal.docker_compose_manager import (
-            DockerComposeManager,
-        )
-
        task = self._metadata["task"]
        task_paths = self._metadata["task_paths"]
        terminal = self._terminal
@@ -110,6 +221,12 @@ class TerminalBenchTaskEnv:
            self._metadata["test_results"] = results
            return False, results

+        from terminal_bench.parsers.base_parser import UnitTestStatus
+        from terminal_bench.parsers.parser_factory import ParserFactory
+        from terminal_bench.terminal.docker_compose_manager import (
+            DockerComposeManager,
+        )
+
        try:
            paths_to_copy = [task_paths.run_tests_path]
            if task_paths.test_dir.exists():
@@ -4,6 +4,27 @@ from __future__ import annotations

 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch

+import httpx
+import pytest
+import respx
+
+
+def _mock_builder() -> MagicMock:
+    """A SystemBuilder mock whose fluent methods chain like the real one."""
+    builder = MagicMock()
+    for method in (
+        "engine",
+        "engine_instance",
+        "model",
+        "agent",
+        "tools",
+        "telemetry",
+        "traces",
+    ):
+        getattr(builder, method).return_value = builder
+    builder.build.return_value = MagicMock()
+    return builder
+

 class TestJarvisDirectBackend:
    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
@@ -137,3 +158,130 @@ class TestJarvisAgentBackend:
        assert result["content"] == "The answer is 4."
        assert result["turns"] == 2
        assert len(result["tool_results"]) == 1
+
+
+class TestJarvisDirectBackendBaseUrl:
+    """--base-url targeting for the jarvis-direct backend."""
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_base_url_injects_pinned_openai_compat_engine(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.engine.openai_compat_engines import OpenAICompatEngine
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct import JarvisDirectBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        with respx.mock:
+            respx.get("http://127.0.0.1:18999/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            JarvisDirectBackend(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:18999/v1", api_key="sk-x")
+
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_called_once()
+        injected = mock_builder.engine_instance.call_args[0][0]
+        assert isinstance(injected, OpenAICompatEngine)
+        # Trailing /v1 is normalized away so request paths don't double up.
+        assert injected._host == "http://127.0.0.1:18999"
+        assert injected._api_key == "sk-x"
+        # The discovery path must not be engaged at all.
+        mock_builder.engine.assert_not_called()
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_unreachable_base_url_fails_fast_naming_url(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct import JarvisDirectBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        with respx.mock:
+            respx.get("http://127.0.0.1:18998/v1/models").mock(
+                side_effect=httpx.ConnectError("connection refused")
+            )
+            with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match=r"http://127\.0\.0\.1:18998"):
+                JarvisDirectBackend(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:18998")
+
+        # No silent engine substitution: the system is never built.
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_not_called()
+        mock_builder.build.assert_not_called()
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_no_base_url_keeps_engine_key_path(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct import JarvisDirectBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        JarvisDirectBackend(engine_key="vllm")
+        mock_builder.engine.assert_called_with("vllm")
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_not_called()
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_base_url_wins_over_engine_key(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct import JarvisDirectBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        with respx.mock:
+            respx.get("http://127.0.0.1:18999/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            JarvisDirectBackend(engine_key="vllm", base_url="http://127.0.0.1:18999")
+
+        mock_builder.engine.assert_not_called()
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_called_once()
+        # The engine key is kept as the label for the injected engine.
+        assert mock_builder.engine_instance.call_args.kwargs["key"] == "vllm"
+
+
+class TestJarvisAgentBackendBaseUrl:
+    """--base-url targeting for the jarvis-agent backend."""
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_base_url_injects_pinned_openai_compat_engine(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.engine.openai_compat_engines import OpenAICompatEngine
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_agent import JarvisAgentBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        with respx.mock:
+            respx.get("http://127.0.0.1:18999/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            JarvisAgentBackend(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:18999/v1", api_key="sk-x")
+
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_called_once()
+        injected = mock_builder.engine_instance.call_args[0][0]
+        assert isinstance(injected, OpenAICompatEngine)
+        assert injected._host == "http://127.0.0.1:18999"
+        assert injected._api_key == "sk-x"
+        mock_builder.engine.assert_not_called()
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_unreachable_base_url_fails_fast_naming_url(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_agent import JarvisAgentBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        with respx.mock:
+            respx.get("http://127.0.0.1:18998/v1/models").mock(
+                side_effect=httpx.ConnectError("connection refused")
+            )
+            with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match=r"http://127\.0\.0\.1:18998"):
+                JarvisAgentBackend(base_url="http://127.0.0.1:18998")
+
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_not_called()
+        mock_builder.build.assert_not_called()
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.system.SystemBuilder")
+    def test_no_base_url_keeps_engine_key_path(self, mock_builder_cls):
+        from openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_agent import JarvisAgentBackend
+
+        mock_builder = _mock_builder()
+        mock_builder_cls.return_value = mock_builder
+
+        JarvisAgentBackend(engine_key="vllm")
+        mock_builder.engine.assert_called_with("vllm")
+        mock_builder.engine_instance.assert_not_called()
@@ -0,0 +1,190 @@
+"""--base-url/--api-key forwarding through the eval CLI plumbing.
+
+Covers the fix for the eval-CLI endpoint gap: the flags used to be silently
+dropped for jarvis-direct/jarvis-agent and ignored by terminalbench-native
+(which hardcoded api_base="http://localhost:8000/v1").
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import io
+import os
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+
+import click
+import pytest
+from rich.console import Console
+
+from openjarvis.evals.cli import _build_backend, _run_terminalbench_native
+from openjarvis.evals.core.types import RunConfig
+
+
+def _quiet_console() -> Console:
+    return Console(file=io.StringIO())
+
+
+def _tb_config(**overrides) -> RunConfig:
+    defaults = dict(
+        benchmark="terminalbench-native",
+        backend="jarvis-direct",
+        model="my-model",
+        max_samples=1,
+        max_workers=1,
+        temperature=0.2,
+    )
+    defaults.update(overrides)
+    return RunConfig(**defaults)
+
+
+class TestBuildBackendForwardsEndpoint:
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct.JarvisDirectBackend")
+    def test_jarvis_direct_receives_base_url_and_api_key(self, mock_cls):
+        _build_backend(
+            "jarvis-direct",
+            "vllm",
+            "orchestrator",
+            [],
+            base_url="http://node7:8123/v1",
+            api_key="sk-k",
+        )
+        kwargs = mock_cls.call_args.kwargs
+        assert kwargs["base_url"] == "http://node7:8123/v1"
+        assert kwargs["api_key"] == "sk-k"
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_agent.JarvisAgentBackend")
+    def test_jarvis_agent_receives_base_url_and_api_key(self, mock_cls):
+        _build_backend(
+            "jarvis-agent",
+            "vllm",
+            "orchestrator",
+            ["calculator"],
+            base_url="http://node7:8123/v1",
+            api_key="sk-k",
+        )
+        kwargs = mock_cls.call_args.kwargs
+        assert kwargs["base_url"] == "http://node7:8123/v1"
+        assert kwargs["api_key"] == "sk-k"
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.jarvis_direct.JarvisDirectBackend")
+    def test_suite_mode_scopes_endpoint_to_external_backends(self, mock_cls):
+        """[backend.external] suite semantics stay hermes/openclaw-only:
+        first_party_endpoint=False must not forward to first-party."""
+        _build_backend(
+            "jarvis-direct",
+            "vllm",
+            "orchestrator",
+            [],
+            base_url="http://node7:8123/v1",
+            api_key="sk-k",
+            first_party_endpoint=False,
+        )
+        kwargs = mock_cls.call_args.kwargs
+        assert kwargs["base_url"] is None
+        assert kwargs["api_key"] is None
+
+    def test_hermes_still_requires_base_url_and_api_key(self):
+        with pytest.raises(click.UsageError, match="hermes"):
+            _build_backend("hermes", None, "orchestrator", [])
+
+    def test_openclaw_still_requires_base_url_and_api_key(self):
+        with pytest.raises(click.UsageError, match="openclaw"):
+            _build_backend("openclaw", None, "orchestrator", [])
+
+
+class TestTerminalBenchNativeApiBase:
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native.TerminalBenchNativeBackend")
+    def test_base_url_passed_through_as_api_base(self, mock_cls):
+        mock_backend = MagicMock()
+        mock_backend.run_harness.return_value = SimpleNamespace(trial_results=[])
+        mock_cls.return_value = mock_backend
+
+        _run_terminalbench_native(
+            _tb_config(),
+            _quiet_console(),
+            base_url="http://node7:8123/v1",
+        )
+        assert mock_cls.call_args.kwargs["api_base"] == "http://node7:8123/v1"
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native.TerminalBenchNativeBackend")
+    def test_base_url_without_v1_gets_single_v1_suffix(self, mock_cls):
+        mock_backend = MagicMock()
+        mock_backend.run_harness.return_value = SimpleNamespace(trial_results=[])
+        mock_cls.return_value = mock_backend
+
+        _run_terminalbench_native(
+            _tb_config(),
+            _quiet_console(),
+            base_url="http://node7:8123",
+        )
+        assert mock_cls.call_args.kwargs["api_base"] == "http://node7:8123/v1"
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native.TerminalBenchNativeBackend")
+    def test_default_api_base_unchanged_without_base_url(self, mock_cls):
+        mock_backend = MagicMock()
+        mock_backend.run_harness.return_value = SimpleNamespace(trial_results=[])
+        mock_cls.return_value = mock_backend
+
+        _run_terminalbench_native(_tb_config(), _quiet_console())
+        assert mock_cls.call_args.kwargs["api_base"] == "http://localhost:8000/v1"
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native.TerminalBenchNativeBackend")
+    def test_api_key_exported_as_openai_api_key_during_run(self, mock_cls, monkeypatch):
+        """terminus-2 reads OPENAI_API_KEY via LiteLLM; the var must be set
+        during harness.run() and restored afterwards."""
+        monkeypatch.delenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", raising=False)
+        seen: dict = {}
+
+        def fake_run_harness(run_id):
+            seen["openai_api_key"] = os.environ.get("OPENAI_API_KEY")
+            return SimpleNamespace(trial_results=[])
+
+        mock_backend = MagicMock()
+        mock_backend.run_harness.side_effect = fake_run_harness
+        mock_cls.return_value = mock_backend
+
+        _run_terminalbench_native(
+            _tb_config(),
+            _quiet_console(),
+            base_url="http://node7:8123/v1",
+            api_key="sk-tb",
+        )
+        assert seen["openai_api_key"] == "sk-tb"
+        assert "OPENAI_API_KEY" not in os.environ  # restored
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native.TerminalBenchNativeBackend")
+    def test_preexisting_openai_api_key_restored(self, mock_cls, monkeypatch):
+        monkeypatch.setenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", "sk-original")
+        mock_backend = MagicMock()
+        mock_backend.run_harness.return_value = SimpleNamespace(trial_results=[])
+        mock_cls.return_value = mock_backend
+
+        _run_terminalbench_native(
+            _tb_config(),
+            _quiet_console(),
+            base_url="http://node7:8123/v1",
+            api_key="sk-tb",
+        )
+        assert os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] == "sk-original"
+
+
+class TestRunSingleSuiteModeGating:
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.cli._run_terminalbench_native")
+    def test_suite_mode_drops_endpoint_for_terminalbench(self, mock_tb):
+        from openjarvis.evals.cli import _run_single
+
+        mock_tb.return_value = SimpleNamespace(accuracy=0.0)
+        config = _tb_config(base_url="http://node7:8123/v1", api_key="sk-k")
+        _run_single(config, console=_quiet_console(), suite_mode=True)
+        assert mock_tb.call_args.kwargs["base_url"] is None
+        assert mock_tb.call_args.kwargs["api_key"] is None
+
+    @patch("openjarvis.evals.cli._run_terminalbench_native")
+    def test_cli_mode_forwards_endpoint_for_terminalbench(self, mock_tb):
+        from openjarvis.evals.cli import _run_single
+
+        mock_tb.return_value = SimpleNamespace(accuracy=0.0)
+        config = _tb_config(base_url="http://node7:8123/v1", api_key="sk-k")
+        _run_single(config, console=_quiet_console())
+        assert mock_tb.call_args.kwargs["base_url"] == "http://node7:8123/v1"
+        assert mock_tb.call_args.kwargs["api_key"] == "sk-k"
@@ -141,10 +141,18 @@ class OrchestratorSFTDataset:
            return_tensors="pt",
        )

+        input_ids = encoding["input_ids"].squeeze(0)
+        attention_mask = encoding["attention_mask"].squeeze(0)
+
+        # Exclude padding positions from the loss (-100 is the
+        # cross-entropy ignore_index).
+        labels = input_ids.clone()
+        labels[attention_mask == 0] = -100
+
        return {
-            "input_ids": encoding["input_ids"].squeeze(0),
-            "attention_mask": encoding["attention_mask"].squeeze(0),
-            "labels": encoding["input_ids"].squeeze(0).clone(),
+            "input_ids": input_ids,
+            "attention_mask": attention_mask,
+            "labels": labels,
        }

    def _format_conversation(self, conversations: List[Dict[str, str]]) -> str:
@@ -389,10 +389,15 @@ class LoRATrainer:
            [item["attention_mask"] for item in batch_items]
        ).to(self.device)

+        # Exclude padding positions from the loss (-100 is the
+        # cross-entropy ignore_index; pad_token == eos_token here).
+        labels = input_ids.clone()
+        labels[attention_mask == 0] = -100
+
        outputs = self.model(
            input_ids=input_ids,
            attention_mask=attention_mask,
-            labels=input_ids,
+            labels=labels,
        )
        loss = outputs.loss

@@ -229,6 +229,11 @@ class SystemPromptBuilder:
            )

    def _load_file(self, path_str: str, max_chars: int) -> str:
+        # An empty path means "no file" (e.g. the persona "none" opt-out, which
+        # resolves to empty paths). Guard before Path("") — which becomes "." —
+        # so reading it does not raise IsADirectoryError.
+        if not path_str:
+            return ""
        path = Path(path_str).expanduser()
        if not path.exists():
            return ""
@@ -111,24 +111,35 @@ def _make_lightweight_system(
    model: str,
    config: Any = None,
 ) -> _LightweightSystem:
-    """Build a minimal system with a plain OllamaEngine.
+    """Build a minimal system with a fresh inference engine.

    The server's ``app.state.engine`` is heavily wrapped
    (MultiEngine -> InstrumentedEngine -> GuardrailsEngine) and can
-    return empty content from background threads.  Create a fresh
-    OllamaEngine directly (no health checks or model discovery that
-    could interfere with in-flight Ollama requests).
+    return empty content from background threads. Create a fresh
+    engine directly (no health checks or model discovery that
+    could interfere with in-flight requests).
    """
    try:
-        from openjarvis.engine.ollama import OllamaEngine
+        from openjarvis.engine._discovery import get_engine

        cfg = config
        if cfg is None:
            from openjarvis.core.config import load_config

            cfg = load_config()
-        host = cfg.engine.ollama.host if cfg else ""
-        plain_engine = OllamaEngine(host=host) if host else OllamaEngine()
+
+        pref = cfg.intelligence.preferred_engine
+        key = pref or cfg.engine.default
+        resolved = get_engine(cfg, key)
+
+        if resolved is not None:
+            plain_engine = resolved[1]
+        else:
+            from openjarvis.engine.ollama import OllamaEngine
+
+            host = cfg.engine.ollama.host if cfg else ""
+            plain_engine = OllamaEngine(host=host) if host else OllamaEngine()
+
        # Wrap with InstrumentedEngine so agent ticks are recorded
        # in telemetry (FLOPs, energy, cost savings).
        try:
@@ -842,9 +853,7 @@ async def _stream_managed_agent(

        app_config = load_config()

-    final_system_prompt = _build_managed_system_prompt(
-        system_prompt or "", app_config
-    )
+    final_system_prompt = _build_managed_system_prompt(system_prompt or "", app_config)

    if final_system_prompt and final_system_prompt.strip():
        llm_messages.append(
@@ -153,14 +153,30 @@ memory_router = APIRouter(prefix="/v1/memory", tags=["memory"])


 def _get_memory_backend(request: Request):
-    """Return the app-level memory backend, falling back to a fresh SQLiteMemory."""
+    """Return the app-level memory backend, falling back to a fresh SQLiteMemory.
+
+    Raises ``HTTPException(503)`` with an actionable message when the backend
+    cannot be built because the mandatory ``openjarvis_rust`` extension is not
+    installed in the serving venv. This is deliberately distinct from a benign
+    "memory not configured" case (which returns ``None``): a missing native
+    extension must fail loudly, never silently degrade (#502).
+    """
    backend = getattr(request.app.state, "memory_backend", None)
    if backend is None:
+        from openjarvis.tools.storage._stubs import MemoryBackendUnavailable
+
        try:
            from openjarvis.tools.storage.sqlite import SQLiteMemory

            backend = SQLiteMemory()
+        except MemoryBackendUnavailable as exc:
+            # The native extension is missing — surface a loud, actionable error
+            # rather than a misleading "no backend" / silent no-op.
+            logger.error("%s", exc)
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail=str(exc)) from exc
        except Exception:
+            # Memory is genuinely unconfigured for a benign reason — preserve
+            # the existing graceful "no backend" behaviour.
            return None
    return backend

@@ -170,7 +186,9 @@ async def memory_store(req: MemoryStoreRequest, request: Request):
    """Store content in memory."""
    backend = _get_memory_backend(request)
    if backend is None:
-        return {"status": "stored", "note": "no backend available"}
+        # Memory is intentionally disabled; report it honestly instead of a
+        # 200 that silently discards the write (#502).
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Memory is not configured")
    try:
        backend.store(req.content, metadata=req.metadata or {})
        return {"status": "stored"}
@@ -216,7 +234,13 @@ async def memory_stats(request: Request):

@memory_router.get("/config")
 async def memory_config(request: Request):
-    """Return current memory configuration."""
+    """Return current memory configuration.
+
+    Reports memory as *unavailable* (rather than falsely claiming
+    ``backend_type: sqlite``) when the native ``openjarvis_rust`` extension is
+    missing, so the UI can show the real cause instead of a healthy-looking
+    config that backs a silent no-op (#502).
+    """
    try:
        config = getattr(request.app.state, "config", None)
        if config is None:
@@ -224,12 +248,30 @@ async def memory_config(request: Request):

            config = load_config()
        backend = getattr(request.app.state, "memory_backend", None)
+        available = True
+        detail: Optional[str] = None
+        if backend is None:
+            from openjarvis.tools.storage._stubs import MemoryBackendUnavailable
+
+            try:
+                from openjarvis.tools.storage.sqlite import SQLiteMemory
+
+                backend = SQLiteMemory()
+            except MemoryBackendUnavailable as exc:
+                available = False
+                detail = str(exc)
+            except Exception:
+                # Benign: cannot construct a probe backend here, but the
+                # configured default is still what would be used.
+                pass
        return {
            "backend_type": (
                backend.backend_id
                if backend is not None
                else config.memory.default_backend
            ),
+            "available": available,
+            "detail": detail,
            "context_top_k": config.memory.context_top_k,
            "context_min_score": config.memory.context_min_score,
            "context_max_tokens": config.memory.context_max_tokens,
@@ -243,17 +285,42 @@ async def memory_config(request: Request):
 async def memory_index(req: MemoryIndexRequest, request: Request):
    """Index files from a path into memory."""
    try:
+        import os
        from pathlib import Path

+        from openjarvis.security.file_policy import is_sensitive_file
        from openjarvis.tools.storage.ingest import ingest_path

        target = Path(req.path).expanduser().resolve()
        if not target.exists():
            raise HTTPException(status_code=404, detail=f"Path not found: {req.path}")

+        # Sandbox: when workspace roots are configured via OPENJARVIS_WORKSPACE
+        # (os.pathsep-separated), only allow indexing inside them. This endpoint
+        # must not become an arbitrary-filesystem read primitive over the API.
+        workspace = os.environ.get("OPENJARVIS_WORKSPACE", "").strip()
+        if workspace:
+            roots = [
+                Path(d).expanduser().resolve()
+                for d in workspace.split(os.pathsep)
+                if d.strip()
+            ]
+            if not any(
+                target == root or root in target.parents for root in roots
+            ):
+                raise HTTPException(
+                    status_code=403,
+                    detail="Path is outside the allowed workspace directories.",
+                )
+        # Never ingest sensitive files (.env, private keys, credentials, ...).
+        if target.is_file() and is_sensitive_file(target):
+            raise HTTPException(
+                status_code=403, detail="Refusing to index a sensitive file."
+            )
+
        backend = _get_memory_backend(request)
        if backend is None:
-            raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="No memory backend available")
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=503, detail="Memory is not configured")

        chunks = ingest_path(target)
        stored = 0
@@ -264,7 +331,16 @@ async def memory_index(req: MemoryIndexRequest, request: Request):
            backend.store(chunk.content, metadata=metadata)
            stored += 1

-        return {"status": "indexed", "chunks_indexed": stored}
+        result = {"status": "indexed", "chunks_indexed": stored}
+        if stored == 0:
+            # "indexed" must never silently mean "stored nothing". Surface why
+            # so a folder of short notes doesn't look like a successful no-op
+            # (#502 follow-up).
+            result["note"] = (
+                "no content was indexed — the path contained no readable "
+                "documents with indexable text"
+            )
+        return result
    except HTTPException:
        raise
    except Exception as exc:
@@ -554,6 +630,30 @@ async def prometheus_metrics(request: Request):
 websocket_router = APIRouter(tags=["websocket"])


+def _record_ws_trace(
+    trace_store,
+    *,
+    query: str,
+    result: str,
+    model: str,
+    started_at: float,
+    ended_at: float,
+) -> None:
+    """Record a trace for a completed WebSocket chat (best-effort)."""
+    if trace_store is None or not result:
+        return
+    from openjarvis.traces.collector import record_response_trace
+
+    record_response_trace(
+        trace_store,
+        query=query,
+        result=result,
+        model=model,
+        started_at=started_at,
+        ended_at=ended_at,
+    )
+
+
@websocket_router.websocket("/v1/chat/stream")
 async def websocket_chat_stream(websocket: WebSocket):
    """Stream chat responses over a WebSocket connection.
@@ -608,6 +708,14 @@ async def websocket_chat_stream(websocket: WebSocket):

            messages = [{"role": "user", "content": message}]

+            # This WS path streams straight from the engine (no agent /
+            # TraceCollector), so record the interaction directly once it
+            # finishes — otherwise WebSocket chats never reach traces.db.
+            import time as _time
+
+            trace_store = getattr(websocket.app.state, "trace_store", None)
+            _ws_started_at = _time.time()
+
            try:
                # Prefer streaming if the engine supports it
                stream_fn = getattr(engine, "stream", None)
@@ -651,6 +759,14 @@ async def websocket_chat_stream(websocket: WebSocket):
                    await websocket.send_json(
                        {"type": "done", "content": full_content},
                    )
+                    _record_ws_trace(
+                        trace_store,
+                        query=message,
+                        result=full_content,
+                        model=model,
+                        started_at=_ws_started_at,
+                        ended_at=_time.time(),
+                    )
                else:
                    # No stream method — single-shot generate
                    result = engine.generate(messages, model=model)
@@ -668,6 +784,14 @@ async def websocket_chat_stream(websocket: WebSocket):
                    await websocket.send_json(
                        {"type": "done", "content": content},
                    )
+                    _record_ws_trace(
+                        trace_store,
+                        query=message,
+                        result=content,
+                        model=model,
+                        started_at=_ws_started_at,
+                        ended_at=_time.time(),
+                    )
            except WebSocketDisconnect:
                raise
            except Exception as exc:
@@ -229,7 +229,16 @@ def create_app(
    # AuthMiddleware never sees WS upgrade requests). Empty = auth disabled.
    app.state.api_key = api_key

-    # Wire up trace store if traces are enabled
+    # Wire up trace store if traces are enabled.
+    #
+    # We deliberately do NOT subscribe the trace store to the bus. The chat
+    # endpoints persist through a TraceCollector that calls store.save()
+    # directly (mirroring system/orchestrator.py), and the collector ALSO
+    # publishes TRACE_COMPLETE. A store subscribed to that same bus would
+    # therefore save every agent trace twice — the second INSERT hitting the
+    # UNIQUE constraint on trace_id (a 500 on every completion). Keeping the
+    # collector the single writer is what makes the dual code path safe; only
+    # the telemetry store is bus-subscribed (see system/builder.py).
    app.state.trace_store = None
    try:
        from openjarvis.core.config import load_config
@@ -237,11 +246,7 @@ def create_app(

        cfg = config if config is not None else load_config()
        if cfg.traces.enabled:
-            _trace_store = TraceStore(db_path=cfg.traces.db_path)
-            app.state.trace_store = _trace_store
-            _bus = getattr(app.state, "bus", None)
-            if _bus is not None:
-                _trace_store.subscribe_to_bus(_bus)
+            app.state.trace_store = TraceStore(db_path=cfg.traces.db_path)
    except Exception:
        pass  # traces are optional; don't block server startup

@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ class AuthMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):
                    status_code=401,
                )
            scheme, _, token = auth.partition(" ")
-            if scheme.lower() != "bearer" or token != self._api_key:
+            # Constant-time comparison to avoid leaking the key via timing.
+            if scheme.lower() != "bearer" or not secrets.compare_digest(
+                token, self._api_key
+            ):
                return JSONResponse(
                    {"detail": "Invalid API key"},
                    status_code=401,
@@ -42,8 +45,18 @@ class AuthMiddleware(BaseHTTPMiddleware):

    @staticmethod
    def _requires_auth(path: str) -> bool:
-        """Only protect API routes, not the frontend UI or static assets."""
-        return path.startswith("/v1/") or path.startswith("/api/")
+        """Protect API routes and operational metrics; leave the UI/health open.
+
+        ``/metrics`` exposes request/token counters that should not be readable
+        by unauthenticated clients, so it is gated alongside ``/v1`` and
+        ``/api``. ``/health`` stays open for liveness probes.
+        """
+        return (
+            path.startswith("/v1/")
+            or path.startswith("/api/")
+            or path == "/metrics"
+            or path.startswith("/metrics/")
+        )



@@ -151,7 +151,13 @@ async def chat_completions(request_body: ChatCompletionRequest, request: Request
            return await _handle_stream_tools(
                engine, model, request_body, complexity_info
            )
-        return await _handle_stream(engine, model, request_body, complexity_info)
+        return await _handle_stream(
+            engine,
+            model,
+            request_body,
+            complexity_info,
+            trace_store=getattr(request.app.state, "trace_store", None),
+        )

    # Non-streaming: use agent if available, otherwise direct engine call.
    #
@@ -170,7 +176,14 @@ async def chat_completions(request_body: ChatCompletionRequest, request: Request
    # the agent to execute them), add an explicit opt-in header rather
    # than removing this guard — silent re-routing is what produced #414.
    if agent is not None and not request_body.tools:
-        return _handle_agent(agent, model, request_body, complexity_info)
+        return _handle_agent(
+            agent,
+            model,
+            request_body,
+            complexity_info,
+            trace_store=getattr(request.app.state, "trace_store", None),
+            bus=getattr(request.app.state, "bus", None),
+        )

    bus = getattr(request.app.state, "bus", None)
    return _handle_direct(
@@ -195,17 +208,50 @@ def _handle_direct(
    if req.tools:
        kwargs["tools"] = req.tools
    if bus:
+        from openjarvis.telemetry.instrumented_engine import InstrumentedEngine
        from openjarvis.telemetry.wrapper import instrumented_generate

-        result = instrumented_generate(
-            engine,
-            messages,
-            model=model,
-            bus=bus,
-            temperature=req.temperature,
-            max_tokens=req.max_tokens,
-            **kwargs,
-        )
+        # `app.state.engine` may already be an InstrumentedEngine (the
+        # common case when telemetry is wired in). If we then wrap it
+        # with `instrumented_generate`, BOTH layers fire a
+        # TELEMETRY_RECORD per call:
+        #
+        #   - InstrumentedEngine.generate() publishes a FULL record
+        #     (energy_joules, GPU stats, token_counting_version, ...).
+        #   - instrumented_generate() publishes a BARE record (timing +
+        #     tokens only; no energy meter, no version stamp).
+        #
+        # The doubled count was the dominant driver of the bimodal
+        # Wh/token distribution on the public leaderboard.
+        #
+        # The fix below is NOT "unwrap and call instrumented_generate":
+        # that would have replaced "doubled records" with "every
+        # request emits only a bare record with no energy / no version",
+        # which the leaderboard's `current_methodology_only=True` filter
+        # would then drop entirely. Instead, when the engine is already
+        # an InstrumentedEngine, skip the wrapper and call `generate`
+        # directly — InstrumentedEngine publishes the full per-record
+        # event itself with energy + version intact. Only fall back to
+        # the lightweight wrapper for engines that aren't already
+        # instrumented.
+        if isinstance(engine, InstrumentedEngine):
+            result = engine.generate(
+                messages,
+                model=model,
+                temperature=req.temperature,
+                max_tokens=req.max_tokens,
+                **kwargs,
+            )
+        else:
+            result = instrumented_generate(
+                engine,
+                messages,
+                model=model,
+                bus=bus,
+                temperature=req.temperature,
+                max_tokens=req.max_tokens,
+                **kwargs,
+            )
    else:
        result = engine.generate(
            messages,
@@ -255,8 +301,19 @@ def _handle_agent(
    model: str,
    req: ChatCompletionRequest,
    complexity_info=None,
+    *,
+    trace_store=None,
+    bus=None,
 ) -> ChatCompletionResponse:
-    """Run through agent."""
+    """Run through agent.
+
+    When *trace_store* is set, the agent run is wrapped in a
+    ``TraceCollector`` (mirroring ``system/orchestrator.py``) so every
+    completion records a ``Trace`` to ``traces.db``. Previously this endpoint
+    called ``agent.run()`` raw, so the server never produced traces:
+    ``traces.db`` stayed empty and spec_search's cold-start gate
+    (``check_readiness``, min 20 traces) could never open.
+    """
    from openjarvis.agents._stubs import AgentContext

    # Build context from prior messages
@@ -274,7 +331,13 @@ def _handle_agent(
    if model:
        agent._model = model
    try:
-        result = agent.run(input_text, context=ctx)
+        if trace_store is not None:
+            from openjarvis.traces.collector import TraceCollector
+
+            collector = TraceCollector(agent, store=trace_store, bus=bus)
+            result = collector.run(input_text, context=ctx)
+        else:
+            result = agent.run(input_text, context=ctx)
    finally:
        agent._model = original_model

@@ -426,8 +489,19 @@ async def _handle_stream(
    model: str,
    req: ChatCompletionRequest,
    complexity_info=None,
+    *,
+    trace_store=None,
 ):
-    """Stream response using SSE format."""
+    """Stream response using SSE format.
+
+    This path streams straight from the engine, bypassing the agent /
+    ``TraceCollector``. When *trace_store* is set we accumulate the streamed
+    tokens and record a minimal ``Trace`` once the stream completes
+    successfully — otherwise streamed chats (the desktop GUI's main path)
+    would never populate ``traces.db``.
+    """
+    import time
+
    from openjarvis.server.cloud_router import (
        is_cloud_model,
        stream_cloud,
@@ -437,11 +511,20 @@ async def _handle_stream(
    messages = _to_messages(req.messages)
    chunk_id = f"chatcmpl-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:12]}"

+    # Last user message — recorded as the trace query.
+    query_text = ""
+    for _m in reversed(req.messages):
+        if _m.role == "user" and _m.content:
+            query_text = _m.content
+            break
+
    # Route directly to the right backend — bypasses engine routing entirely
    # so broken MultiEngine state can never misdirect requests.
    use_cloud = is_cloud_model(model)

    async def generate():
+        started_at = time.time()
+        full_content = ""
        # Send role chunk first
        first_chunk = ChatCompletionChunk(
            id=chunk_id,
@@ -494,6 +577,7 @@ async def _handle_stream(
                        max_tokens=req.max_tokens,
                    )
            async for token in token_iter:
+                full_content += token
                chunk = ChatCompletionChunk(
                    id=chunk_id,
                    model=model,
@@ -530,6 +614,22 @@ async def _handle_stream(
            yield "data: [DONE]\n\n"
            return

+        # Record a trace for the completed stream (best-effort; never breaks
+        # the response). Mirrors the agent path so streamed chats also
+        # populate traces.db.
+        if trace_store is not None and full_content:
+            from openjarvis.traces.collector import record_response_trace
+
+            record_response_trace(
+                trace_store,
+                query=query_text,
+                result=full_content,
+                model=model,
+                engine="cloud" if use_cloud else "ollama",
+                started_at=started_at,
+                ended_at=time.time(),
+            )
+
        # Send finish chunk with usage data if available
        import json as _json

@@ -736,7 +836,11 @@ async def savings(request: Request):

    agg = TelemetryAggregator(db_path)
    try:
-        summary = agg.summary(since=session_start)
+        # current_methodology_only excludes pre-fix legacy rows from
+        # the leaderboard's per-token efficiency numerator/denominator
+        # — see the comment on _time_filter for the bimodal-Wh/token
+        # background.
+        summary = agg.summary(since=session_start, current_methodology_only=True)
        # Exclude cloud model tokens from savings — only local
        # inference counts toward cost savings.
        _cloud_prefixes = (
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ import time
 from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass, field
 from typing import Any, Dict, List

-# Bump when token-counting methodology changes so that the leaderboard
-# can distinguish entries computed under different rules.
-#   v1 = original (Ollama prompt_eval_count, may under-count due to KV cache)
-#   v2 = full prompt token count, no KV-cache assumption, system prompt always counted
-TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION: int = 2
+# Source of truth for the methodology-version constant lives in
+# `openjarvis.core.types` so the telemetry layer can read it without
+# crossing the server → telemetry layering. Re-exported here for
+# backward compatibility with existing imports of `from
+# openjarvis.server.savings import TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION`.
+from openjarvis.core.types import TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION  # noqa: E402,F401

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Cloud provider pricing (USD per 1M tokens)
@@ -104,11 +105,22 @@ def compute_savings(
      served from KV cache.  Used for **FLOPs** and **energy**
      calculations since these reflect actual compute.

-    If ``prompt_tokens_evaluated`` is 0 (e.g. old telemetry without the
-    column), it falls back to ``prompt_tokens``.
+    When ``prompt_tokens_evaluated`` is 0 we used to fall back to
+    ``prompt_tokens``. That's wrong in multi-turn: routes.py aggregates
+    by summing each turn's full prompt — which counts the system prompt
+    N times for an N-turn conversation — so the fallback turned the FLOPs
+    and energy estimates into N×-too-high numbers. That was the dominant
+    contributor to the bimodal Wh/token distribution on the leaderboard.
+
+    Conservative behaviour now: when the KV-cache-aware count is
+    missing, treat `prompt_tokens_evaluated` as 0 — so the FLOPs/energy
+    denominator becomes just `completion_tokens`. That under-estimates
+    rather than over-estimates compute, and (intentionally) cascades
+    into the leaderboard's `isMissingTelemetry` UI render so those
+    rows show `—` instead of a misleading zero.
    """
    if prompt_tokens_evaluated <= 0:
-        prompt_tokens_evaluated = prompt_tokens
+        prompt_tokens_evaluated = 0
    total_tokens = prompt_tokens + completion_tokens
    total_tokens_evaluated = prompt_tokens_evaluated + completion_tokens
    providers: List[ProviderSavings] = []
@@ -113,7 +113,14 @@ def create_webhook_router(
        signature = request.headers.get("X-Twilio-Signature", "")
        url = str(request.url)

-        if twilio_auth_token and not _validate_twilio_signature(
+        # Fail closed: an unconfigured token means we cannot verify the sender,
+        # so reject rather than trust unsigned input.
+        if not twilio_auth_token:
+            logger.error(
+                "Twilio webhook rejected: TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN not configured."
+            )
+            return Response("Webhook signature verification not configured", 403)
+        if not _validate_twilio_signature(
            twilio_auth_token, url, params, signature
        ):
            return Response("Invalid signature", status_code=403)
@@ -257,7 +264,13 @@ def create_webhook_router(
        request: Request,
    ) -> Response:
        auth = request.headers.get("Authorization", "")
-        if bluebubbles_password and auth != bluebubbles_password:
+        # Fail closed when no password is configured.
+        if not bluebubbles_password:
+            logger.error(
+                "BlueBubbles webhook rejected: password not configured."
+            )
+            return Response("Webhook authentication not configured", 403)
+        if not hmac.compare_digest(auth, bluebubbles_password):
            return Response("Invalid password", status_code=403)

        payload = await request.json()
@@ -292,7 +305,11 @@ def create_webhook_router(
        token = request.query_params.get("hub.verify_token", "")
        challenge = request.query_params.get("hub.challenge", "")

-        if mode == "subscribe" and token == whatsapp_verify_token:
+        # Fail closed: never echo the challenge if no verify token is set,
+        # otherwise an empty token would match an empty query value.
+        if not whatsapp_verify_token:
+            return Response("Forbidden", status_code=403)
+        if mode == "subscribe" and hmac.compare_digest(token, whatsapp_verify_token):
            return PlainTextResponse(challenge)
        return Response("Forbidden", status_code=403)

@@ -302,19 +319,23 @@ def create_webhook_router(
    ) -> Response:
        body_bytes = await request.body()

-        # Verify signature
-        if whatsapp_app_secret:
-            signature = request.headers.get("X-Hub-Signature-256", "")
-            expected = (
-                "sha256="
-                + hmac.new(
-                    whatsapp_app_secret.encode(),
-                    body_bytes,
-                    hashlib.sha256,
-                ).hexdigest()
+        # Fail closed: reject when no app secret is configured to verify HMAC.
+        if not whatsapp_app_secret:
+            logger.error(
+                "WhatsApp webhook rejected: app secret not configured."
            )
-            if not hmac.compare_digest(signature, expected):
-                return Response("Invalid signature", status_code=403)
+            return Response("Webhook signature verification not configured", 403)
+        signature = request.headers.get("X-Hub-Signature-256", "")
+        expected = (
+            "sha256="
+            + hmac.new(
+                whatsapp_app_secret.encode(),
+                body_bytes,
+                hashlib.sha256,
+            ).hexdigest()
+        )
+        if not hmac.compare_digest(signature, expected):
+            return Response("Invalid signature", status_code=403)

        payload = json.loads(body_bytes)
        for entry in payload.get("entry", []):
@@ -349,16 +370,16 @@ def create_webhook_router(
        # Get the SendBlue channel — may be passed at init or set later
        sb = sendblue_channel or getattr(request.app.state, "sendblue_channel", None)

-        # Verify webhook secret if configured
-        if sb and sb.webhook_secret:
-            header_secret = request.headers.get("x-sendblue-secret", "")
-            if header_secret != sb.webhook_secret:
-                return Response("Invalid secret", status_code=403)
-        elif sb:
-            logger.warning(
-                "SendBlue webhook received without secret verification. "
-                "Set webhook_secret for HMAC validation."
+        # Fail closed: require a configured channel + webhook secret to verify
+        # the sender before processing any inbound message.
+        if sb is None or not getattr(sb, "webhook_secret", ""):
+            logger.error(
+                "SendBlue webhook rejected: webhook_secret not configured."
            )
+            return Response("Webhook secret not configured", status_code=403)
+        header_secret = request.headers.get("x-sendblue-secret", "")
+        if not hmac.compare_digest(header_secret, sb.webhook_secret):
+            return Response("Invalid secret", status_code=403)

        # Ignore outbound status callbacks
        if payload.get("is_outbound", False):
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ class SystemBuilder:
            self._config = load_config()

        self._engine_key: Optional[str] = None
+        self._engine_instance: Optional[InferenceEngine] = None
+        self._engine_instance_key: Optional[str] = None
        self._model: Optional[str] = None
        self._agent_name: Optional[str] = None
        self._tool_names: Optional[List[str]] = None
@@ -50,6 +52,20 @@ class SystemBuilder:
        self._engine_key = key
        return self

+    def engine_instance(
+        self, engine: InferenceEngine, key: str = "openai-compat"
+    ) -> SystemBuilder:
+        """Inject a pre-built engine instance, bypassing engine discovery.
+
+        Used by callers that must target one exact endpoint (e.g.
+        ``jarvis eval --base-url``). ``build()`` health-checks the instance
+        and raises a loud error if it is unreachable — it never silently
+        substitutes a different discovered engine.
+        """
+        self._engine_instance = engine
+        self._engine_instance_key = key
+        return self
+
    def model(self, name: str) -> SystemBuilder:
        self._model = name
        return self
@@ -303,6 +319,23 @@ class SystemBuilder:
        return system

    def _resolve_engine(self, config: JarvisConfig):
+        # An explicitly injected engine instance always wins and is never
+        # silently replaced: when the caller pinned an endpoint (e.g.
+        # ``jarvis eval --base-url``) and it is down, substituting whatever
+        # other engine discovery finds would silently run against the wrong
+        # model server. Fail loudly instead.
+        if self._engine_instance is not None:
+            engine = self._engine_instance
+            key = self._engine_instance_key or "openai-compat"
+            if not engine.health():
+                host = getattr(engine, "_host", "<unknown host>")
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"Injected engine {key!r} is not reachable at {host} — "
+                    "is the endpoint running and serving GET /v1/models? "
+                    "Refusing to fall back to engine discovery."
+                )
+            return engine, key
+
        from openjarvis.engine._discovery import get_engine

        pref = config.intelligence.preferred_engine
@@ -313,7 +346,18 @@ class SystemBuilder:
                "No inference engine available. "
                "Make sure an engine is running (e.g. ollama serve)."
            )
-        return resolved[1], resolved[0]
+        resolved_key, engine = resolved
+        if self._engine_key and resolved_key != self._engine_key:
+            # get_engine() falls back to any healthy discovered engine; make
+            # the substitution visible when the caller asked for a specific
+            # engine (observed: requested vllm, silently got ollama@11434).
+            logger.warning(
+                "Requested engine %r is unavailable; using %r at %s instead",
+                self._engine_key,
+                resolved_key,
+                getattr(engine, "_host", "<unknown host>"),
+            )
+        return engine, resolved_key

    def _resolve_model(self, config: JarvisConfig, engine: InferenceEngine) -> str:
        if self._model:
@@ -268,10 +268,20 @@ class JarvisSystem:

            if reply:
                try:
+                    # Canonical channel send contract (see BaseChannel.send):
+                    # the first positional arg is the DESTINATION id, and the
+                    # `conversation_id=` kwarg is the inbound message id used as
+                    # a reply/thread reference.  ``cm.conversation_id`` holds the
+                    # real per-adapter destination (Discord/Slack channel id,
+                    # Telegram chat id, ...) while ``cm.channel`` is only the
+                    # channel TYPE label ("discord", "telegram", ...).  Passing
+                    # the type label as the destination produced HTTP 400s
+                    # (#515) and using the channel id as a reply reference
+                    # produced MESSAGE_REFERENCE_UNKNOWN_MESSAGE (#516).
                    channel_bridge.send(
-                        cm.channel,
+                        cm.conversation_id,
                        reply,
-                        conversation_id=cm.conversation_id,
+                        conversation_id=getattr(cm, "message_id", ""),
                    )
                except Exception:
                    logger.exception("Channel send error")
@@ -92,12 +92,22 @@ class TelemetryAggregator:
        self._conn = sqlite3.connect(self._db_path, check_same_thread=False)
        self._conn.row_factory = sqlite3.Row

-    @staticmethod
    def _time_filter(
+        self,
        since: Optional[float] = None,
        until: Optional[float] = None,
+        current_methodology_only: bool = False,
    ) -> tuple[str, list[Any]]:
-        """Build a WHERE clause fragment for time-range filtering."""
+        """Build a WHERE clause fragment for time + methodology filtering.
+
+        ``current_methodology_only`` is opt-in (default False) because the
+        local dashboard still wants to render historical aggregates that
+        predate the per-record version stamp. The leaderboard ingest path
+        in ``server/routes.savings`` flips it to True so legacy rows (the
+        ones with NULL token_counting_version) don't pollute the public
+        per-token efficiency metric — they were the dominant source of
+        the bimodal Wh/token distribution.
+        """
        clauses: list[str] = []
        params: list[Any] = []
        if since is not None:
@@ -106,6 +116,11 @@ class TelemetryAggregator:
        if until is not None:
            clauses.append("timestamp <= ?")
            params.append(until)
+        if current_methodology_only and self._safe_col("token_counting_version"):
+            from openjarvis.core.types import TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION
+
+            clauses.append("token_counting_version = ?")
+            params.append(TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION)
        if clauses:
            return " WHERE " + " AND ".join(clauses), params
        return "", params
@@ -124,8 +139,11 @@ class TelemetryAggregator:
        *,
        since: Optional[float] = None,
        until: Optional[float] = None,
+        current_methodology_only: bool = False,
    ) -> List[ModelStats]:
-        where, params = self._time_filter(since, until)
+        where, params = self._time_filter(
+            since, until, current_methodology_only=current_methodology_only
+        )

        # Build optional columns for new fields (graceful on old DBs)
        extra_cols = ""
@@ -215,8 +233,11 @@ class TelemetryAggregator:
        *,
        since: Optional[float] = None,
        until: Optional[float] = None,
+        current_methodology_only: bool = False,
    ) -> List[EngineStats]:
-        where, params = self._time_filter(since, until)
+        where, params = self._time_filter(
+            since, until, current_methodology_only=current_methodology_only
+        )

        extra_cols = ""
        has_tpj = self._safe_col("tokens_per_joule")
@@ -305,9 +326,14 @@ class TelemetryAggregator:
        *,
        since: Optional[float] = None,
        until: Optional[float] = None,
+        current_methodology_only: bool = False,
    ) -> AggregatedStats:
-        model_stats = self.per_model_stats(since=since, until=until)
-        engine_stats = self.per_engine_stats(since=since, until=until)
+        model_stats = self.per_model_stats(
+            since=since, until=until, current_methodology_only=current_methodology_only
+        )
+        engine_stats = self.per_engine_stats(
+            since=since, until=until, current_methodology_only=current_methodology_only
+        )
        total_calls = sum(m.call_count for m in model_stats)

        def _weighted_avg(attr: str) -> float:
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from collections.abc import AsyncIterator
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Sequence

 from openjarvis.core.events import EventBus, EventType
-from openjarvis.core.types import Message, TelemetryRecord
+from openjarvis.core.types import TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION, Message, TelemetryRecord
 from openjarvis.engine._stubs import InferenceEngine, StreamChunk
 from openjarvis.telemetry.gpu_monitor import GpuSample

@@ -233,6 +233,11 @@ class InstrumentedEngine(InferenceEngine):
            gpu_energy_joules=gpu_energy_joules,
            dram_energy_joules=dram_energy_joules,
            tokens_per_joule=tokens_per_joule,
+            # Stamp every new record with the current methodology version
+            # so the leaderboard aggregator can drop legacy rows (those
+            # left NULL by pre-fix builds) cleanly. Source of truth for
+            # the integer is `server/savings.py`.
+            token_counting_version=TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION,
        )

        event_data = {
@@ -454,6 +459,8 @@ class InstrumentedEngine(InferenceEngine):
            gpu_energy_joules=gpu_energy_joules,
            dram_energy_joules=dram_energy_joules,
            tokens_per_joule=tokens_per_joule,
+            # Stamp the methodology version on streaming records too.
+            token_counting_version=TOKEN_COUNTING_VERSION,
        )

        event_data = {
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS telemetry (
    p99_itl_ms           REAL NOT NULL DEFAULT 0.0,
    std_itl_ms           REAL NOT NULL DEFAULT 0.0,
    is_streaming         INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+    -- token_counting_version: nullable on purpose. Records inserted by
+    -- pre-fix builds left this NULL; the leaderboard aggregator treats
+    -- NULL as legacy and excludes those rows from per-token efficiency
+    -- sums (so the bimodal-Wh/token leaderboard population disappears).
+    token_counting_version INTEGER,
    mining_session_id    TEXT,
    metadata        TEXT    NOT NULL DEFAULT '{}'
 );
@@ -91,13 +96,14 @@ INSERT INTO telemetry (
    prefill_energy_joules, decode_energy_joules,
    mean_itl_ms, median_itl_ms, p90_itl_ms, p95_itl_ms, p99_itl_ms, std_itl_ms,
    is_streaming,
+    token_counting_version,
    mining_session_id,
    metadata
 ) VALUES (
    ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,
    ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,
    ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,
-    ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
+    ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
 )
 """

@@ -128,6 +134,10 @@ _MIGRATE_COLUMNS = [
    ("std_itl_ms", "REAL NOT NULL DEFAULT 0.0"),
    ("is_streaming", "INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0"),
    ("prompt_tokens_evaluated", "INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 0"),
+    # `token_counting_version` is nullable on purpose — rows that existed
+    # before this migration ran predate per-record versioning and the
+    # aggregator filter treats them as legacy.
+    ("token_counting_version", "INTEGER"),
    ("mining_session_id", "TEXT"),
 ]

@@ -197,6 +207,7 @@ class TelemetryStore:
                rec.p99_itl_ms,
                rec.std_itl_ms,
                1 if rec.is_streaming else 0,
+                rec.token_counting_version,
                rec.mining_session_id,
                json.dumps(rec.metadata),
            ),
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import logging
 import os
 import time
+import urllib.parse
 from typing import Any

 import httpx
@@ -21,6 +22,13 @@ _MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES = 1_048_576

 _ALLOWED_METHODS = frozenset({"GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "PATCH", "HEAD"})

+# Cap redirect chains so a malicious server cannot loop us indefinitely.
+_MAX_REDIRECTS = 5
+
+
+class _SSRFRedirectError(Exception):
+    """Raised when a redirect target fails the SSRF check."""
+

@ToolRegistry.register("http_request")
 class HttpRequestTool(BaseTool):
@@ -136,13 +144,11 @@ class HttpRequestTool(BaseTool):

        try:
            t0 = time.time()
-            response = httpx.request(
-                method,
-                url,
-                headers=headers,
-                content=body,
-                timeout=float(timeout),
-                follow_redirects=True,
+            # Follow redirects manually so each hop is re-checked for SSRF — an
+            # allowed public URL must not be able to 30x-redirect us to an
+            # internal/metadata address.
+            response = self._request_following_redirects(
+                method, url, headers=headers, content=body, timeout=float(timeout)
            )
            elapsed_ms = (time.time() - t0) * 1000

@@ -178,6 +184,12 @@ class HttpRequestTool(BaseTool):
                content=f"Request timed out after {timeout}s: {exc}",
                success=False,
            )
+        except _SSRFRedirectError as exc:
+            return ToolResult(
+                tool_name="http_request",
+                content=f"SSRF protection blocked redirect: {exc}",
+                success=False,
+            )
        except httpx.RequestError as exc:
            return ToolResult(
                tool_name="http_request",
@@ -191,5 +203,52 @@ class HttpRequestTool(BaseTool):
                success=False,
            )

+    @staticmethod
+    def _request_following_redirects(
+        method: str,
+        url: str,
+        *,
+        headers: dict,
+        content: Any,
+        timeout: float,
+    ) -> httpx.Response:
+        """Issue the request, re-checking SSRF on every redirect hop.
+
+        httpx's built-in ``follow_redirects`` would chase a 30x ``Location``
+        without re-validating it, letting a public URL bounce us to an internal
+        host. We follow manually and run :func:`check_ssrf` on each target.
+        """
+        current_url = url
+        current_method = method
+        body = content
+        # Use module-level ``httpx.request`` (not a private Client) so the SSRF
+        # re-check seam stays patchable by callers' tests, with redirects
+        # disabled so we control every hop ourselves.
+        for _ in range(_MAX_REDIRECTS + 1):
+            response = httpx.request(
+                current_method,
+                current_url,
+                headers=headers,
+                content=body,
+                timeout=timeout,
+                follow_redirects=False,
+            )
+            if response.status_code not in (301, 302, 303, 307, 308):
+                return response
+            location = response.headers.get("location", "")
+            if not location:
+                return response
+            # Resolve relative redirects against the URL we just fetched.
+            current_url = urllib.parse.urljoin(str(response.url), location)
+            ssrf_error = check_ssrf(current_url)
+            if ssrf_error:
+                raise _SSRFRedirectError(ssrf_error)
+            # Per RFC 7231, 301/302/303 turn the method into GET and drop
+            # the body (except for HEAD).
+            if response.status_code in (301, 302, 303) and current_method != "HEAD":
+                current_method = "GET"
+                body = None
+        raise _SSRFRedirectError(f"Exceeded maximum of {_MAX_REDIRECTS} redirects.")
+

 __all__ = ["HttpRequestTool"]
@@ -10,6 +10,32 @@ from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional

+#: Actionable message surfaced whenever a Rust-backed memory backend cannot be
+#: constructed because the mandatory ``openjarvis_rust`` extension is missing
+#: from the *current* venv. Kept as a single constant so the server routes, the
+#: SDK and the regression tests all surface exactly the same wording.
+RUST_MISSING_HINT = (
+    "Memory backend unavailable: the native `openjarvis_rust` extension is not "
+    "installed in this environment. Build it into the venv that runs the server "
+    "with `uv run maturin develop -m rust/crates/openjarvis-python/Cargo.toml` "
+    "(needs rustc >= 1.88), then restart. Verify with "
+    '`python -c "from openjarvis._rust_bridge import RUST_AVAILABLE; '
+    'print(RUST_AVAILABLE)"`.'
+)
+
+
+class MemoryBackendUnavailable(RuntimeError):
+    """Raised when a memory backend cannot be built because the mandatory
+    ``openjarvis_rust`` extension is missing from the current environment.
+
+    This is deliberately distinct from "memory is intentionally disabled": a
+    missing native extension is an environment/install error that must be
+    surfaced loudly and actionably, never swallowed into a silent no-op.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, message: str = RUST_MISSING_HINT) -> None:
+        super().__init__(message)
+

@dataclass(slots=True)
 class RetrievalResult:
@@ -59,4 +85,9 @@ class MemoryBackend(ABC):
        """Remove all stored documents."""


-__all__ = ["MemoryBackend", "RetrievalResult"]
+__all__ = [
+    "RUST_MISSING_HINT",
+    "MemoryBackend",
+    "MemoryBackendUnavailable",
+    "RetrievalResult",
+]
@@ -135,10 +135,17 @@ def chunk_text(
        current_tokens.extend(para_tokens)
        current_offset += len(para_tokens)

-    # Flush remaining tokens
+    # Flush remaining tokens.
+    #
+    # ``min_chunk_size`` exists to discard tiny *trailing* fragments once a
+    # document has already produced at least one chunk. It must NOT silently
+    # drop an entire short document: indexing a folder of short notes would
+    # otherwise report success while storing nothing (#502 follow-up). So if no
+    # chunk has been emitted yet, keep the remaining content regardless of the
+    # floor.
    if current_tokens:
        chunk_content = " ".join(current_tokens)
-        if _count_tokens(chunk_content) >= cfg.min_chunk_size:
+        if not chunks or _count_tokens(chunk_content) >= cfg.min_chunk_size:
            chunks.append(
                Chunk(
                    content=chunk_content,
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional

 from openjarvis.core.events import EventType, get_event_bus
 from openjarvis.core.registry import MemoryRegistry
-from openjarvis.tools.storage._stubs import MemoryBackend, RetrievalResult
+from openjarvis.tools.storage._stubs import (
+    MemoryBackend,
+    MemoryBackendUnavailable,
+    RetrievalResult,
+)


 def _check_fts5(conn: sqlite3.Connection) -> bool:
@@ -40,7 +44,15 @@ class SQLiteMemory(MemoryBackend):

        from openjarvis._rust_bridge import get_rust_module

-        _rust = get_rust_module()
+        # The Rust backend is mandatory and there is no Python fallback. When
+        # the extension is missing from *this* venv, ``get_rust_module`` raises
+        # ImportError; translate it into a clear, actionable error so callers
+        # never degrade to a misleading "Failed to index path" or a silent
+        # no-op (see #502).
+        try:
+            _rust = get_rust_module()
+        except ImportError as exc:
+            raise MemoryBackendUnavailable() from exc
        self._rust_impl = _rust.SQLiteMemory(self._db_path)
        self._conn = None  # type: ignore[assignment]

@@ -221,4 +221,59 @@ class TraceCollector:
        )


-__all__ = ["TraceCollector"]
+def record_response_trace(
+    store: Optional[TraceStore],
+    *,
+    query: str,
+    result: str,
+    model: str = "",
+    engine: str = "",
+    agent: str = "server",
+    started_at: float,
+    ended_at: float,
+) -> Optional[Trace]:
+    """Persist a minimal single-step ``Trace`` for a non-agent response.
+
+    The streaming SSE and WebSocket chat paths stream straight from the
+    engine, bypassing the agent (and therefore ``TraceCollector``). They call
+    this so those interactions still land in ``traces.db`` — otherwise streamed
+    chats, which are the desktop GUI's main path, would never produce traces.
+
+    Best-effort: returns the saved ``Trace`` or ``None`` (when *store* is
+    ``None`` or persistence raised), and never propagates an exception into the
+    caller's response path.
+    """
+    if store is None:
+        return None
+    try:
+        duration = max(0.0, ended_at - started_at)
+        trace = Trace(
+            query=query,
+            agent=agent,
+            model=model,
+            engine=engine,
+            result=result,
+            started_at=started_at,
+            ended_at=ended_at,
+            steps=[
+                TraceStep(
+                    step_type=StepType.RESPOND,
+                    timestamp=ended_at,
+                    duration_seconds=duration,
+                    output={"content": result},
+                )
+            ],
+        )
+        trace.total_latency_seconds = duration
+        store.save(trace)
+        return trace
+    except Exception:
+        import logging
+
+        logging.getLogger("openjarvis.traces").debug(
+            "record_response_trace failed", exc_info=True
+        )
+        return None
+
+
+__all__ = ["TraceCollector", "record_response_trace"]
@@ -106,7 +106,15 @@ class TraceStore:
        self._conn.commit()

    def save(self, trace: Trace) -> None:
-        """Persist a complete trace with all its steps."""
+        """Persist a complete trace with all its steps.
+
+        ``trace_id`` is a primary key: saving a second, different trace under
+        an existing id raises ``sqlite3.IntegrityError`` (the external-corpus
+        adapter relies on this to surface duplicate record ids). The server
+        avoids re-saving the same trace by keeping the ``TraceCollector`` the
+        single writer — see ``server/app.py`` — rather than swallowing
+        collisions here.
+        """
        self._conn.execute(
            _INSERT_TRACE,
            (
@@ -130,3 +130,63 @@ class TestStatus:
        ch = DiscordChannel()
        ch.connect()
        assert ch.status() == ChannelStatus.ERROR
+
+
+class TestWireChannelEndToEnd:
+    """Regression for #515/#516 — the full inbound→reply path through
+    JarvisSystem.wire_channel must call the real Discord REST API with the
+    numeric channel id (not "discord") and a message_reference equal to the
+    inbound message id (not the channel id).
+    """
+
+    def test_reply_hits_real_channel_id_and_message_reference(self, tmp_path):
+        from openjarvis.channels._stubs import ChannelMessage
+        from openjarvis.core.config import JarvisConfig
+        from openjarvis.core.events import EventBus
+        from openjarvis.system import JarvisSystem
+
+        config = JarvisConfig()
+        config.sessions.db_path = str(tmp_path / "sessions.db")
+        from unittest.mock import MagicMock as _MM
+
+        system = JarvisSystem(
+            config=config,
+            bus=EventBus(record_history=False),
+            engine=_MM(),
+            engine_key="mock",
+            model="test-model",
+            agent_name="",
+        )
+        system.ask = _MM(return_value={"content": "pong"})
+
+        channel = DiscordChannel(bot_token="my-bot-token")
+        system.wire_channel(channel)
+
+        # Exactly the ChannelMessage shape DiscordChannel._gateway_loop emits:
+        # channel = "discord" (TYPE label), conversation_id = numeric channel
+        # id, message_id = numeric message id.
+        cm = ChannelMessage(
+            channel="discord",
+            sender="user-1",
+            content="hello",
+            message_id="111122223333444455",
+            conversation_id="987654321098765432",
+        )
+
+        mock_response = MagicMock()
+        mock_response.status_code = 200
+        with patch("httpx.post", return_value=mock_response) as mock_post:
+            # Invoke the handler wire_channel registered on the channel.
+            for handler in channel._handlers:
+                handler(cm)
+
+        mock_post.assert_called_once()
+        url = mock_post.call_args[0][0]
+        # #515: destination is the numeric channel id, not the "discord" label.
+        assert "discord.com/api/v10/channels/987654321098765432/messages" in url
+        assert "channels/discord/messages" not in url
+        payload = mock_post.call_args[1]["json"]
+        assert payload["content"] == "pong"
+        # #516: message_reference is the inbound message id, NOT the channel id.
+        assert payload["message_reference"] == {"message_id": "111122223333444455"}
+        assert payload["message_reference"]["message_id"] != "987654321098765432"
@@ -105,6 +105,41 @@ class TestSend:
        event_types = [e.event_type for e in bus.history]
        assert EventType.CHANNEL_MESSAGE_SENT in event_types

+    def test_send_uses_channel_as_chat_id_under_unified_contract(self):
+        """Canonical contract (#515/#516): the first positional ``channel``
+        arg is the chat destination, and ``conversation_id`` is the inbound
+        message id used as ``reply_to_message_id`` — not the chat id."""
+        ch = TelegramChannel(bot_token="123:ABC")
+
+        mock_response = MagicMock()
+        mock_response.status_code = 200
+
+        with patch("httpx.post", return_value=mock_response) as mock_post:
+            result = ch.send("12345678", "Reply!", conversation_id="55")
+            assert result is True
+            payload = mock_post.call_args[1]["json"]
+            # Destination is the chat id from the positional channel arg.
+            assert payload["chat_id"] == "12345678"
+            # conversation_id becomes the reply reference, not the chat id.
+            assert payload["reply_to_message_id"] == "55"
+
+    def test_send_legacy_conversation_id_only_still_targets_chat(self):
+        """Backwards compatibility: a legacy caller passing the chat id via
+        ``conversation_id`` (with an empty ``channel``) still delivers."""
+        ch = TelegramChannel(bot_token="123:ABC")
+
+        mock_response = MagicMock()
+        mock_response.status_code = 200
+
+        with patch("httpx.post", return_value=mock_response) as mock_post:
+            result = ch.send("", "Hello!", conversation_id="12345678")
+            assert result is True
+            payload = mock_post.call_args[1]["json"]
+            assert payload["chat_id"] == "12345678"
+            # When channel is empty, conversation_id is the chat id, so it must
+            # not also be used as a self-referential reply id.
+            assert "reply_to_message_id" not in payload
+

 class TestStatus:
    def test_no_token_connect_error(self):
@@ -79,10 +79,14 @@ class TestWireChannelWithAgent:

        system.ask.assert_called_once()
        assert system.ask.call_args[0][0] == "ping"
+        # Canonical send contract (#515/#516): the destination is the real
+        # per-adapter id (carried in ChannelMessage.conversation_id), not the
+        # channel TYPE label, and the conversation_id kwarg is the inbound
+        # message id used as a reply reference, not the channel id.
        mock_channel.send.assert_called_once_with(
-            "telegram",
+            "42",
            "pong",
-            conversation_id="42",
+            conversation_id="1",
        )

    def test_session_store_created_lazily(self, tmp_path):
@@ -126,13 +130,101 @@ class TestWireChannelWithEngine:
        handler = mock_channel.on_message.call_args[0][0]
        handler(_make_channel_message(content="hi"))

+        # Canonical send contract (#515/#516): destination = real channel id
+        # (from ChannelMessage.conversation_id), reply ref = inbound message id.
        mock_channel.send.assert_called_once_with(
-            "telegram",
+            "42",
            "raw reply",
-            conversation_id="42",
+            conversation_id="1",
        )


+class TestWireChannelCanonicalContract:
+    """Regression for #515/#516 — wire_channel must dispatch the canonical
+    send contract so each adapter receives the right destination/reply ids,
+    regardless of the channel TYPE label.
+    """
+
+    def test_discord_uses_real_channel_id_not_type_label(self, tmp_path):
+        """A Discord ChannelMessage (channel="discord" TYPE label,
+        conversation_id=<numeric channel id>, message_id=<numeric msg id>)
+        must reply to the numeric channel id, with the message id as the
+        reply reference — never "discord" as destination (#515) and never the
+        channel id as the message reference (#516).
+        """
+        system = _make_system(tmp_path=tmp_path)
+        system.ask = MagicMock(return_value={"content": "pong"})
+
+        mock_channel = MagicMock()
+        system.wire_channel(mock_channel)
+        handler = mock_channel.on_message.call_args[0][0]
+
+        cm = ChannelMessage(
+            channel="discord",
+            sender="user-1",
+            content="hello",
+            message_id="111122223333444455",
+            conversation_id="987654321098765432",
+        )
+        handler(cm)
+
+        args, kwargs = mock_channel.send.call_args
+        # Destination is the real Discord channel id, NOT the type label.
+        assert args[0] == "987654321098765432"
+        assert args[0] != "discord"
+        # Reply reference is the inbound message id, NOT the channel id.
+        assert kwargs["conversation_id"] == "111122223333444455"
+        assert kwargs["conversation_id"] != "987654321098765432"
+
+    def test_telegram_uses_chat_id_and_message_id(self, tmp_path):
+        """Telegram must keep working under the unified contract: destination
+        is the chat id (conversation_id), reply ref is the message id."""
+        system = _make_system(tmp_path=tmp_path)
+        system.ask = MagicMock(return_value={"content": "pong"})
+
+        mock_channel = MagicMock()
+        system.wire_channel(mock_channel)
+        handler = mock_channel.on_message.call_args[0][0]
+
+        cm = ChannelMessage(
+            channel="telegram",
+            sender="42",
+            content="ping",
+            message_id="55",
+            conversation_id="12345678",
+        )
+        handler(cm)
+
+        mock_channel.send.assert_called_once_with(
+            "12345678",
+            "pong",
+            conversation_id="55",
+        )
+
+    def test_session_key_still_uses_conversation_id(self, tmp_path):
+        """The fix must not change session isolation keying, which still uses
+        ``<channel>:<conversation_id>``."""
+        system = _make_system(tmp_path=tmp_path)
+        system.ask = MagicMock(return_value={"content": "ok"})
+
+        mock_channel = MagicMock()
+        system.wire_channel(mock_channel)
+        handler = mock_channel.on_message.call_args[0][0]
+
+        cm = ChannelMessage(
+            channel="discord",
+            sender="u1",
+            content="hi",
+            message_id="msg-9",
+            conversation_id="chan-7",
+        )
+        handler(cm)
+
+        # Session was created under the channel:conversation_id key.
+        session = system.session_store.get_or_create("discord:chan-7")
+        assert any(m.content == "hi" for m in session.messages)
+
+
 class TestWireChannelSessionIsolation:
    """Separate conversation_ids get independent sessions."""

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+"""Tests for API server model selection."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from openjarvis.cli.serve import _resolve_server_model
+from openjarvis.core.config import JarvisConfig
+
+
+class _FakeEngine:
+    def __init__(self, models: list[str]) -> None:
+        self._models = models
+
+    def list_models(self) -> list[str]:
+        return self._models
+
+
+def test_server_model_falls_back_to_reachable_ollama_model() -> None:
+    cfg = JarvisConfig()
+    cfg.server.model = "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit"
+    cfg.intelligence.default_model = "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit"
+    cfg.intelligence.fallback_model = "qwen3.5:9b"
+
+    model = _resolve_server_model(
+        None,
+        config=cfg,
+        engine_name="multi",
+        engine=_FakeEngine(["qwen3.5:9b"]),
+        all_models={"multi": ["qwen3.5:9b"]},
+    )
+
+    assert model == "qwen3.5:9b"
+
+
+def test_server_model_prefers_reachable_configured_model() -> None:
+    cfg = JarvisConfig()
+    cfg.server.model = "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit"
+    cfg.intelligence.default_model = "qwen3.5:9b"
+    cfg.intelligence.fallback_model = "qwen3.5:9b"
+
+    model = _resolve_server_model(
+        None,
+        config=cfg,
+        engine_name="multi",
+        engine=_FakeEngine(
+            ["mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit", "qwen3.5:9b"]
+        ),
+        all_models={"multi": ["mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit"]},
+    )
+
+    assert model == "mlx-community/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-4bit"
+
+
+def test_server_model_keeps_explicit_cli_model() -> None:
+    cfg = JarvisConfig()
+    cfg.server.model = "configured-model"
+    cfg.intelligence.fallback_model = "fallback-model"
+
+    model = _resolve_server_model(
+        "explicit-model",
+        config=cfg,
+        engine_name="multi",
+        engine=_FakeEngine(["fallback-model"]),
+        all_models={"multi": ["fallback-model"]},
+    )
+
+    assert model == "explicit-model"
+
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+"""Regression tests for #263 — ``jarvis serve`` must build the system once.
+
+serve.py used to construct all heavy components inline and then call
+``SystemBuilder(config).build()`` a second time inside the scheduler block,
+re-discovering the engine, re-instrumenting it, re-resolving tools, re-opening
+the channel and re-creating the agent manager — ~30-40s of redundant work.
+
+These tests pin the fix:
+
+1. ``SystemBuilder.build`` is never called during ``jarvis serve`` startup
+   (the duplicate build is gone).
+2. The ``AgentExecutor`` still receives a system exposing the attributes it
+   actually reads: ``tool_executor``, ``session_store``, ``memory_backend``,
+   plus ``engine`` / ``model`` / ``config``.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import importlib
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
+
+import pytest
+from click.testing import CliRunner
+
+from openjarvis.cli import cli
+
+pytest.importorskip("fastapi")
+pytest.importorskip("uvicorn")
+
+# ``openjarvis.cli.serve`` as an attribute resolves to the click *command*
+# (re-exported on the package); grab the real module to monkeypatch its globals.
+serve_mod = importlib.import_module("openjarvis.cli.serve")
+
+
+def _fake_engine() -> MagicMock:
+    engine = MagicMock()
+    engine.list_models.return_value = ["test-model"]
+    engine.health.return_value = True
+    engine.name = "mock"
+    return engine
+
+
+def _repopulate_registries() -> None:
+    """Re-run the @register decorators wiped by the autouse conftest fixture.
+
+    The tool/memory modules are import-cached, so a plain ``import`` inside
+    serve.py is a no-op after the registries are cleared per-test. Reload the
+    individual submodules so ToolRegistry/MemoryRegistry are populated exactly
+    as they would be on a fresh process — otherwise serve would resolve an
+    empty tool list and no memory backend, masking the very wiring under test.
+    """
+    import importlib
+    import sys
+
+    import openjarvis.agents  # noqa: F401
+    import openjarvis.tools  # noqa: F401
+    import openjarvis.tools.storage  # noqa: F401
+    from openjarvis.core.registry import (
+        AgentRegistry,
+        MemoryRegistry,
+        ToolRegistry,
+    )
+
+    if not AgentRegistry.keys():
+        for mod_name in list(sys.modules):
+            if mod_name.startswith("openjarvis.agents.") and not mod_name.endswith(
+                "_stubs"
+            ):
+                try:
+                    importlib.reload(sys.modules[mod_name])
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+
+    if not ToolRegistry.keys():
+        for mod_name in list(sys.modules):
+            if (
+                mod_name.startswith("openjarvis.tools.")
+                and not mod_name.endswith("_stubs")
+                and not mod_name.endswith("agent_tools")
+            ):
+                try:
+                    importlib.reload(sys.modules[mod_name])
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+
+    if not MemoryRegistry.keys():
+        for mod_name in list(sys.modules):
+            if mod_name.startswith(
+                "openjarvis.tools.storage."
+            ) and not mod_name.endswith("_stubs"):
+                try:
+                    importlib.reload(sys.modules[mod_name])
+                except Exception:
+                    pass
+
+
+def _run_serve(tmp_path, monkeypatch, *, build_spy, set_system_spy):
+    """Invoke ``jarvis serve`` with all heavy/blocking pieces stubbed out.
+
+    Returns the CliRunner result. The server is never actually started
+    (``uvicorn.run`` is a no-op) and no real engine is contacted.
+    """
+    from openjarvis.core.config import JarvisConfig
+
+    _repopulate_registries()
+
+    config = JarvisConfig()
+    # Keep the scheduler block alive (it owns the executor wiring under test)
+    # while pointing every store at the temp dir.
+    config.agent_manager.enabled = True
+    config.agent_manager.db_path = str(tmp_path / "agents.db")
+    config.sessions.enabled = True
+    config.sessions.db_path = str(tmp_path / "sessions.db")
+    config.memory.db_path = str(tmp_path / "memory.db")
+    config.telemetry.enabled = False
+    config.traces.enabled = False
+    config.channel.enabled = False
+    config.skills.enabled = False
+    config.server.host = "127.0.0.1"
+    config.server.port = 8123
+    # Resolve a model without contacting a real engine / discovery.
+    config.intelligence.default_model = "test-model"
+
+    engine = _fake_engine()
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(serve_mod, "load_config", lambda *a, **k: config)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(serve_mod, "get_engine", lambda *a, **k: ("mock", engine))
+    monkeypatch.setattr(serve_mod, "discover_engines", lambda *a, **k: {})
+    monkeypatch.setattr(serve_mod, "discover_models", lambda *a, **k: {})
+
+    # setup_security returns its own context; pass the engine straight through
+    # so we don't need real guardrails wired up.
+    sec = MagicMock()
+    sec.engine = engine
+    sec.capability_policy = None
+    sec.audit_logger = None
+    monkeypatch.setattr("openjarvis.security.setup_security", lambda *a, **k: sec)
+
+    with (
+        patch(
+            "openjarvis.system.builder.SystemBuilder.build",
+            build_spy,
+        ),
+        patch(
+            "openjarvis.agents.executor.AgentExecutor.set_system",
+            set_system_spy,
+        ),
+        patch("uvicorn.run", lambda *a, **k: None),
+    ):
+        return CliRunner().invoke(cli, ["serve"], catch_exceptions=False)
+
+
+def test_serve_does_not_call_systembuilder_build(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """The redundant second full build is gone (#263)."""
+    build_spy = MagicMock(
+        side_effect=AssertionError(
+            "SystemBuilder.build() must not run during `jarvis serve` startup "
+            "— it is the duplicate build #263 removed."
+        )
+    )
+    set_system_spy = MagicMock()
+
+    result = _run_serve(
+        tmp_path,
+        monkeypatch,
+        build_spy=build_spy,
+        set_system_spy=set_system_spy,
+    )
+
+    assert result.exit_code == 0, result.output
+    build_spy.assert_not_called()
+
+
+def test_executor_receives_required_system_attrs(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """The executor still gets a system exposing the attributes it reads.
+
+    AgentExecutor reads engine/model/config/memory_backend/tool_executor/
+    session_store off ``self._system``; the de-dup must not strip any of them.
+    """
+    build_spy = MagicMock()
+    captured: dict = {}
+
+    def _capture_set_system(self, system):  # noqa: ANN001
+        captured["system"] = system
+        # Preserve real behaviour so the executor is usable afterwards.
+        self._system = system
+
+    result = _run_serve(
+        tmp_path,
+        monkeypatch,
+        build_spy=build_spy,
+        set_system_spy=_capture_set_system,
+    )
+
+    assert result.exit_code == 0, result.output
+    # Built once, from the inline components — not via SystemBuilder.build().
+    build_spy.assert_not_called()
+
+    system = captured.get("system")
+    assert system is not None, "executor.set_system was never called"
+
+    # Correctness constraint from the verifier: these must survive the de-dup.
+    assert system.tool_executor is not None
+    assert system.session_store is not None
+    assert system.memory_backend is not None
+
+    # And the basics the executor resolves engine/model from.
+    assert system.engine is not None
+    assert system.model == "test-model"
+    assert system.config is not None
@@ -381,3 +381,95 @@ class TestCodexGenerate:
        engine._codex_client = {"token": "t", "url": "http://test"}
        engine.close()
        assert engine._codex_client is None
+
+
+class TestOpenRouterToolForwarding:
+    """Regression for #511: the OpenRouter engine must forward tools/tool_choice
+    to the (OpenAI-compatible) API and parse tool_calls back out of the response.
+    Pre-fix, both were dropped, silently breaking function-calling via OpenRouter.
+    """
+
+    def test_generate_forwards_tools_and_parses_tool_calls(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        monkeypatch.delenv("OPENAI_API_KEY", raising=False)
+
+        fake_tc = SimpleNamespace(
+            id="call_1",
+            type="function",
+            function=SimpleNamespace(name="get_weather", arguments='{"city": "NYC"}'),
+        )
+        fake_choice = SimpleNamespace(
+            message=SimpleNamespace(content=None, tool_calls=[fake_tc]),
+            finish_reason="tool_calls",
+        )
+        fake_resp = SimpleNamespace(
+            choices=[fake_choice],
+            usage=SimpleNamespace(prompt_tokens=3, completion_tokens=2, total_tokens=5),
+            model="openai/gpt-4o",
+        )
+        fake_client = mock.MagicMock()
+        fake_client.chat.completions.create.return_value = fake_resp
+
+        EngineRegistry.register_value("cloud", CloudEngine)
+        engine = CloudEngine()
+        engine._openrouter_client = fake_client
+
+        tools = [
+            {
+                "type": "function",
+                "function": {"name": "get_weather", "parameters": {}},
+            }
+        ]
+        result = engine.generate(
+            [Message(role=Role.USER, content="weather in NYC?")],
+            model="openrouter/openai/gpt-4o",
+            tools=tools,
+            tool_choice="auto",
+        )
+
+        # tools / tool_choice are forwarded to the API call
+        sent = fake_client.chat.completions.create.call_args.kwargs
+        assert sent["tools"] == tools
+        assert sent["tool_choice"] == "auto"
+
+        # tool_calls from the response are parsed back into the result
+        assert result["tool_calls"][0]["id"] == "call_1"
+        assert result["tool_calls"][0]["function"]["name"] == "get_weather"
+        assert result["tool_calls"][0]["function"]["arguments"] == '{"city": "NYC"}'
+
+
+class TestCloudEngineCanServe:
+    """#532: can_serve gates on the per-provider client, not just health().
+
+    health() is True whenever *any* provider client is configured, but a
+    request for a gpt-* model still needs the OpenAI client specifically — so
+    engine selection must not pick the cloud engine for a model whose provider
+    client is missing.
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _engine(**clients: object) -> CloudEngine:
+        eng = CloudEngine.__new__(CloudEngine)  # bypass real client init
+        for name in (
+            "_openai_client",
+            "_anthropic_client",
+            "_google_client",
+            "_openrouter_client",
+            "_minimax_client",
+            "_codex_client",
+        ):
+            setattr(eng, name, clients.get(name))
+        return eng
+
+    def test_openai_only_serves_openai_models(self) -> None:
+        eng = self._engine(_openai_client=object())
+        assert eng.can_serve("gpt-4o") is True
+        assert eng.can_serve("claude-sonnet-4") is False
+        assert eng.can_serve("gemini-2.5-pro") is False
+        assert eng.can_serve("openrouter/openai/gpt-4o") is False
+
+    def test_anthropic_only_serves_anthropic_models(self) -> None:
+        eng = self._engine(_anthropic_client=object())
+        assert eng.can_serve("claude-sonnet-4") is True
+        assert eng.can_serve("gpt-4o") is False
@@ -174,6 +174,51 @@ class TestGetEngine:
        assert result is not None
        assert result[0] == "running"

+    def test_skips_engine_that_cannot_serve_model(self) -> None:
+        """#532: a healthy engine that can't serve the requested model is
+        skipped for one that can — this is what stops the cloud fallback being
+        chosen (when the local engine is down) for a model whose provider
+        client is missing.
+        """
+        _reg("picky", "picky")
+        _reg("local", "local")
+
+        class _Picky(_FakeEngine):
+            def can_serve(self, model: str) -> bool:
+                return model == "servable"
+
+        cfg = JarvisConfig()
+        cfg.engine.default = "picky"
+
+        def _make(k, c):  # noqa: ANN001
+            if k == "picky":
+                return _Picky(healthy=True)
+            return _FakeEngine(healthy=(k == "local"))
+
+        with mock.patch(
+            "openjarvis.engine._discovery._make_engine",
+            side_effect=_make,
+        ):
+            # "picky" is healthy but cannot serve "other" -> fall back to "local"
+            result = get_engine(cfg, model="other")
+        assert result is not None
+        assert result[0] == "local"
+
+    def test_model_none_preserves_model_agnostic_selection(self) -> None:
+        """model=None keeps the legacy behaviour: first healthy engine wins."""
+        _reg("primary", "primary")
+
+        cfg = JarvisConfig()
+        cfg.engine.default = "primary"
+
+        with mock.patch(
+            "openjarvis.engine._discovery._make_engine",
+            side_effect=lambda k, c: _FakeEngine(healthy=True),  # noqa: ANN001
+        ):
+            result = get_engine(cfg, model=None)
+        assert result is not None
+        assert result[0] == "primary"
+

 class TestMiningSidecarEngineHandoff:
    """Engine discovery picks up (or ignores) a mining sidecar at runtime."""
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+"""API-key (Authorization header) support in the OpenAI-compat engine base."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import httpx
+import pytest
+import respx
+
+from openjarvis.core.types import Message, Role
+from openjarvis.engine.openai_compat_engines import (
+    OpenAICompatEngine,
+    VLLMEngine,
+    normalize_openai_base_url,
+)
+
+_CHAT_RESPONSE = {
+    "choices": [{"message": {"content": "ok"}, "finish_reason": "stop"}],
+    "usage": {"prompt_tokens": 1, "completion_tokens": 1, "total_tokens": 2},
+    "model": "m",
+}
+
+
+class TestAuthorizationHeader:
+    def test_bearer_header_sent_when_api_key_set(self) -> None:
+        engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host="http://testhost:9000", api_key="sk-test")
+        with respx.mock:
+            route = respx.post("http://testhost:9000/v1/chat/completions").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=_CHAT_RESPONSE)
+            )
+            engine.generate([Message(role=Role.USER, content="hi")], model="m")
+        assert route.calls.last.request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer sk-test"
+
+    def test_no_authorization_header_without_api_key(self) -> None:
+        engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host="http://testhost:9000")
+        with respx.mock:
+            route = respx.post("http://testhost:9000/v1/chat/completions").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=_CHAT_RESPONSE)
+            )
+            engine.generate([Message(role=Role.USER, content="hi")], model="m")
+        assert "authorization" not in route.calls.last.request.headers
+
+    def test_health_check_sends_bearer_header(self) -> None:
+        engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host="http://testhost:9000", api_key="sk-test")
+        with respx.mock:
+            route = respx.get("http://testhost:9000/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            assert engine.health() is True
+        assert route.calls.last.request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer sk-test"
+
+    def test_env_var_fallback_sanitizes_hyphen(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        # engine_id "openai-compat" must map to OPENAI_COMPAT_API_KEY —
+        # shells cannot set hyphenated env-var names.
+        monkeypatch.setenv("OPENAI_COMPAT_API_KEY", "sk-env")
+        engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host="http://testhost:9000")
+        with respx.mock:
+            route = respx.get("http://testhost:9000/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            engine.health()
+        assert route.calls.last.request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer sk-env"
+
+    def test_vllm_env_var_fallback(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        monkeypatch.setenv("VLLM_API_KEY", "sk-vllm")
+        engine = VLLMEngine(host="http://testhost:8000")
+        with respx.mock:
+            route = respx.get("http://testhost:8000/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            engine.health()
+        assert route.calls.last.request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer sk-vllm"
+
+    def test_explicit_api_key_beats_env_var(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        monkeypatch.setenv("OPENAI_COMPAT_API_KEY", "sk-env")
+        engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host="http://testhost:9000", api_key="sk-explicit")
+        assert engine._api_key == "sk-explicit"
+
+
+class TestNormalizeOpenAIBaseUrl:
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        ("url", "expected"),
+        [
+            ("http://h:8000", "http://h:8000"),
+            ("http://h:8000/", "http://h:8000"),
+            ("http://h:8000/v1", "http://h:8000"),
+            ("http://h:8000/v1/", "http://h:8000"),
+            ("http://h:8000/gateway/v1", "http://h:8000/gateway"),
+            # Only a literal trailing "/v1" is stripped — never other paths.
+            ("http://h:8000/v1x", "http://h:8000/v1x"),
+            ("http://h:8000/v2", "http://h:8000/v2"),
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_normalization(self, url: str, expected: str) -> None:
+        assert normalize_openai_base_url(url) == expected
+
+    def test_engine_requests_have_single_v1_prefix(self) -> None:
+        """End to end: a user-supplied .../v1 URL must not produce /v1/v1."""
+        host = normalize_openai_base_url("http://testhost:9000/v1")
+        engine = OpenAICompatEngine(host=host)
+        with respx.mock:
+            route = respx.get("http://testhost:9000/v1/models").mock(
+                return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"data": []})
+            )
+            assert engine.health() is True
+        assert route.calls.last.request.url.path == "/v1/models"
@@ -204,10 +204,14 @@ class TestVLLMErrors:
        respx_mock.post(f"{VLLM_HOST}/v1/chat/completions").mock(
            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error": "model not found"})
        )
-        with pytest.raises(httpx.HTTPStatusError):
+        # The OpenAI-compatible engine wraps upstream HTTP errors (incl. 404)
+        # in EngineConnectionError with an actionable message (see #463); the
+        # raw httpx.HTTPStatusError is the chained cause.
+        with pytest.raises(EngineConnectionError) as exc_info:
            engine.generate(
                [Message(role=Role.USER, content="Hi")], model="nonexistent"
            )
+        assert isinstance(exc_info.value.__cause__, httpx.HTTPStatusError)

    def test_timeout_raises_connection_error(self) -> None:
        engine = _make_engine()
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+"""Tests for terminal-bench harness timeout plumbing through TOML configs."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import textwrap
+
+from openjarvis.evals.core.config import expand_suite, load_eval_config
+
+
+def _write(tmp_path, body: str):
+    path = tmp_path / "suite.toml"
+    path.write_text(textwrap.dedent(body))
+    return path
+
+
+BASE = """
+    [meta]
+    name = "timeouts"
+
+    [run]
+    output_dir = "results/"
+    {run_extra}
+
+    [[models]]
+    name = "test-model"
+
+    [[benchmarks]]
+    name = "terminalbench-native"
+    backend = "terminalbench-native"
+    {bench_extra}
+"""
+
+
+class TestTimeoutConfigPlumbing:
+    def test_run_level_timeouts_parse_and_expand(self, tmp_path):
+        path = _write(
+            tmp_path,
+            BASE.format(
+                run_extra=(
+                    "global_agent_timeout_sec = 1200\n"
+                    "    global_timeout_multiplier = 1.5"
+                ),
+                bench_extra="",
+            ),
+        )
+        suite = load_eval_config(path)
+        assert suite.run.global_agent_timeout_sec == 1200.0
+        assert suite.run.global_timeout_multiplier == 1.5
+
+        (rc,) = expand_suite(suite)
+        assert rc.global_agent_timeout_sec == 1200.0
+        assert rc.global_timeout_multiplier == 1.5
+
+    def test_benchmark_override_wins(self, tmp_path):
+        path = _write(
+            tmp_path,
+            BASE.format(
+                run_extra="global_agent_timeout_sec = 1200",
+                bench_extra="global_agent_timeout_sec = 300",
+            ),
+        )
+        (rc,) = expand_suite(load_eval_config(path))
+        assert rc.global_agent_timeout_sec == 300.0
+
+    def test_defaults_are_none(self, tmp_path):
+        path = _write(tmp_path, BASE.format(run_extra="", bench_extra=""))
+        suite = load_eval_config(path)
+        assert suite.run.global_agent_timeout_sec is None
+        assert suite.run.global_timeout_multiplier is None
+        (rc,) = expand_suite(suite)
+        assert rc.global_agent_timeout_sec is None
+        assert rc.global_timeout_multiplier is None
@@ -10,6 +10,14 @@ These tests download each dataset once to ~/.cache/huggingface and
 verify the provider loads, iterates, and honours the split kwarg.
 The ModuleNotFoundError skip branch is defensive — currently
 unreachable since all three provider modules exist.
+
+Marked ``hub``: they hit the live HuggingFace Hub, so they are excluded
+from the default CI lane (which runs ``-m "not live and not cloud and not
+hub"``) — a transient Hub outage or rate-limit must not redden ``main``.
+Run them on demand with ``pytest -m hub``. The ADP provider swallows
+per-config download errors and returns 0 records on a network failure
+(see ``adp.py``), so a Hub outage surfaces here as ``assert 1 <= 0``
+rather than an exception — another reason these can't run unguarded in CI.
 """

 from __future__ import annotations
@@ -18,6 +26,8 @@ import importlib

 import pytest

+pytestmark = pytest.mark.hub
+
 PROVIDERS = [
    ("openjarvis.evals.datasets.adp", "ADPDataset"),
    ("openjarvis.evals.datasets.toolorchestra", "ToolOrchestraDataset"),
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List
 import pytest

 from openjarvis.evals.core.agentic_runner import AgenticRunner, _extract_patch
+from openjarvis.evals.core.environment import TaskEnvironmentError

 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Mock objects
@@ -50,6 +51,66 @@ class MockFailingAgent:
        raise RuntimeError("Agent error")


+class MockZeroContactAgent:
+    """Agent that returns without ever contacting the model.
+
+    Mirrors the downstream failure signature: a hung/dead in-container
+    setup yields zero LM events and zero token usage, while run_tests
+    still stamps is_resolved=False.
+    """
+
+    def ask(self, query: str) -> dict:
+        return {"content": "setup log tail ...", "usage": {}}
+
+
+class FailingTaskEnv:
+    """Task env whose __enter__ fails like a tmux/compose breakage."""
+
+    def __init__(self, metadata: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        self._metadata = metadata
+
+    def __enter__(self) -> "FailingTaskEnv":
+        message = (
+            "Task 't1': required binary 'tmux' is not usable in task image "
+            "'tb__t1__client'"
+        )
+        self._metadata["harness_error"] = message
+        raise TaskEnvironmentError(message)
+
+    def __exit__(self, *args: Any) -> None:
+        return None
+
+
+class ResolvingTaskEnv:
+    """Task env that stamps is_resolved into metadata like run_tests does."""
+
+    def __init__(self, metadata: Dict[str, Any], is_resolved: bool) -> None:
+        self._metadata = metadata
+        self._is_resolved = is_resolved
+
+    def __enter__(self) -> "ResolvingTaskEnv":
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *args: Any) -> None:
+        return None
+
+    def run_tests(self):
+        self._metadata["is_resolved"] = self._is_resolved
+        return self._is_resolved, {}
+
+
+class EnvDataset(MockDataset):
+    """Dataset whose create_task_env is configurable per record id."""
+
+    def __init__(self, records: List[MockRecord], env_factories: Dict[str, Any]):
+        super().__init__(records)
+        self._env_factories = env_factories
+
+    def create_task_env(self, record: MockRecord):
+        factory = self._env_factories.get(record.record_id)
+        return factory(record.metadata) if factory is not None else None
+
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Tests
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -99,6 +160,59 @@ class TestAgenticRunner:
        assert len(traces) == 1
        assert not traces[0].completed
        assert "Agent error" in traces[0].response_text
+        assert traces[0].error_kind == "agent_error"
+        assert "Agent error" in (traces[0].error or "")
+
+    def test_harness_failure_recorded_and_run_continues(self):
+        """(c) one task's env breakage doesn't kill the run."""
+        records = [
+            MockRecord(record_id="r1", problem="broken env"),
+            MockRecord(record_id="r2", problem="healthy"),
+        ]
+        dataset = EnvDataset(records, {"r1": FailingTaskEnv})
+        runner = AgenticRunner(agent=MockAgent(), dataset=dataset)
+
+        traces = self._run_async(runner.run())
+        assert len(traces) == 2
+        # Failed task: recorded distinctly as a harness error, not a miss.
+        assert traces[0].error_kind == "harness_error"
+        assert not traces[0].completed
+        assert "tmux" in (traces[0].error or "")
+        assert traces[0].is_resolved is None
+        # Healthy task still ran to completion.
+        assert traces[1].completed
+        assert traces[1].error_kind is None
+        assert "Response to: healthy" in traces[1].response_text
+
+    def test_zero_model_contact_flagged_as_harness_error(self):
+        """(e) zero model requests -> harness_error, not a model miss."""
+        records = [MockRecord(record_id="r1", problem="task")]
+        dataset = EnvDataset(
+            records,
+            {"r1": lambda meta: ResolvingTaskEnv(meta, is_resolved=False)},
+        )
+        runner = AgenticRunner(agent=MockZeroContactAgent(), dataset=dataset)
+
+        traces = self._run_async(runner.run())
+        assert traces[0].error_kind == "harness_error"
+        assert "zero_model_requests" in (traces[0].error or "")
+        assert traces[0].total_input_tokens == 0
+        assert traces[0].total_output_tokens == 0
+
+    def test_genuine_model_miss_not_flagged(self):
+        """(e) control: tokens>0 + is_resolved=False is a model miss."""
+        records = [MockRecord(record_id="r1", problem="task")]
+        dataset = EnvDataset(
+            records,
+            {"r1": lambda meta: ResolvingTaskEnv(meta, is_resolved=False)},
+        )
+        runner = AgenticRunner(agent=MockAgent(), dataset=dataset)
+
+        traces = self._run_async(runner.run())
+        assert traces[0].is_resolved is False
+        assert traces[0].error_kind is None
+        assert traces[0].error is None
+        assert traces[0].total_input_tokens > 0

    def test_synthetic_turn_created(self):
        records = [MockRecord(record_id="r1", problem="test")]
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
-"""Integration test: each provider's split kwarg produces disjoint train/test slices."""
+"""Integration test: each provider's split kwarg produces disjoint train/test slices.
+
+Marked ``hub``: every provider here downloads a real corpus from the
+HuggingFace Hub, so the module is excluded from the default CI lane (which
+runs ``-m "not live and not cloud and not hub"``). A transient Hub outage
+or rate-limit raises connectivity errors (``LocalEntryNotFoundError``,
+``HfHubHTTPError``) that the gated/not-found skip branch below does not
+catch — so running these unguarded made ``main`` flaky-red. Run on demand
+with ``pytest -m hub``.
+"""

 from __future__ import annotations

@@ -6,6 +15,8 @@ import importlib

 import pytest

+pytestmark = pytest.mark.hub
+
 PROVIDERS = [
    ("openjarvis.evals.datasets.pinchbench", "PinchBenchDataset"),
    ("openjarvis.evals.datasets.liveresearch", "LiveResearchBenchDataset"),
@@ -127,6 +127,84 @@ class TestExportSummaryJson:
        assert summary["totals"]["queries"] == 0


+class TestHarnessErrorExclusion:
+    """Harness errors must never count as model misses in resolve-rate."""
+
+    def _traces(self):
+        return [
+            QueryTrace(
+                query_id="q0000",
+                workload_type="agentic",
+                completed=True,
+                is_resolved=True,
+                turns=[TurnTrace(turn_index=0, input_tokens=10, output_tokens=5)],
+            ),
+            QueryTrace(
+                query_id="q0001",
+                workload_type="agentic",
+                completed=True,
+                is_resolved=False,  # genuine model miss: stays in denominator
+                turns=[TurnTrace(turn_index=0, input_tokens=10, output_tokens=5)],
+            ),
+            QueryTrace(
+                query_id="q0002",
+                workload_type="agentic",
+                completed=False,
+                is_resolved=False,  # stamped by run_tests despite zero contact
+                error="zero_model_requests: the agent never contacted the model",
+                error_kind="harness_error",
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    def test_summary_excludes_harness_errors_from_accuracy(self, tmp_path):
+        path = tmp_path / "summary.json"
+        export_summary_json(self._traces(), {"model": "m"}, path)
+        summary = json.loads(path.read_text())
+
+        totals = summary["totals"]
+        assert totals["harness_errors"] == 1
+        assert totals["resolved"] == 1
+        assert totals["unresolved"] == 1  # NOT 2: harness error excluded
+        assert totals["accuracy"] == 0.5  # NOT 1/3
+        # Flat table_gen metrics exclude the harness error too.
+        assert summary["metrics"]["accuracy"]["n"] == 2
+        assert summary["metrics"]["accuracy"]["mean"] == 0.5
+        # Details surfaced for diagnosis.
+        details = summary["harness_error_details"]
+        assert details[0]["query_id"] == "q0002"
+        assert "zero_model_requests" in details[0]["error"]
+
+    def test_efficiency_excludes_harness_errors(self):
+        result = _compute_efficiency(self._traces(), None, None)
+        assert result["accuracy"] == 0.5
+
+    def test_no_harness_errors_key_absent(self, tmp_path):
+        path = tmp_path / "summary.json"
+        export_summary_json(_make_traces(), {}, path)
+        summary = json.loads(path.read_text())
+        assert summary["totals"]["harness_errors"] == 0
+        assert "harness_error_details" not in summary
+
+
+class TestTraceErrorFieldRoundTrip:
+    def test_round_trip_preserves_error_fields(self):
+        trace = QueryTrace(
+            query_id="q0",
+            workload_type="agentic",
+            error="zero_model_requests: ...",
+            error_kind="harness_error",
+        )
+        restored = QueryTrace.from_dict(trace.to_dict())
+        assert restored.error == trace.error
+        assert restored.error_kind == "harness_error"
+
+    def test_old_trace_dicts_still_load(self):
+        """Backward compat: traces.jsonl written before the schema change."""
+        restored = QueryTrace.from_dict({"query_id": "q0", "workload_type": "agentic"})
+        assert restored.error is None
+        assert restored.error_kind is None
+
+
 class TestExportArtifactsManifest:
    def test_no_artifacts_dir(self, tmp_path):
        result = export_artifacts_manifest(tmp_path)
@@ -1,15 +1,104 @@
-"""Tests for TerminalBenchTaskEnv (mocked terminal_bench dependency)."""
+"""Tests for TerminalBenchTaskEnv (mocked terminal_bench dependency).
+
+These tests install a fake ``terminal_bench`` module tree into
+``sys.modules`` so they run without the real package or a Docker daemon
+(terminal-bench is an undeclared optional dep that CI never installs).
+"""

 from __future__ import annotations

+import sys
+import types
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from typing import Any, Dict, List
+
 import pytest

+from openjarvis.evals.core.environment import TaskEnvironmentError
 from openjarvis.evals.execution.terminalbench_env import TerminalBenchTaskEnv

-# terminal_bench is an optional dep — skip all tests if unavailable
-terminal_bench = pytest.importorskip(
-    "terminal_bench", reason="terminal_bench not installed"
-)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Fake terminal_bench seam
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@dataclass
+class FakeExecResult:
+    exit_code: int = 0
+    output: bytes = b""
+
+
+@dataclass
+class FakeContainer:
+    """Container stub whose exec_run results are configurable per binary."""
+
+    exec_results: Dict[str, FakeExecResult] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    exec_calls: List[List[str]] = field(default_factory=list)
+
+    def exec_run(self, cmd: List[str]) -> FakeExecResult:
+        self.exec_calls.append(list(cmd))
+        return self.exec_results.get(cmd[0], FakeExecResult())
+
+
+class FakeTerminal:
+    def __init__(self, events: List[str], container: FakeContainer) -> None:
+        self._events = events
+        self.container = container
+        self.create_session_error: Exception | None = None
+
+    def create_session(self, name: str, **_kwargs: Any) -> str:
+        self._events.append(f"create_session({name})")
+        if self.create_session_error is not None:
+            raise self.create_session_error
+        return f"session-{name}"
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def fake_tb(monkeypatch, tmp_path):
+    """Install a fake terminal_bench tree; return the shared test state."""
+    events: List[str] = []
+    container = FakeContainer()
+    terminal = FakeTerminal(events, container)
+    state = SimpleNamespace(
+        events=events,
+        container=container,
+        terminal=terminal,
+        spin_up_error=None,
+    )
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def spin_up_terminal(**kwargs: Any):
+        events.append("compose_up")
+        try:
+            if state.spin_up_error is not None:
+                raise state.spin_up_error
+            yield terminal
+        finally:
+            events.append("compose_down")
+
+    mod_tb = types.ModuleType("terminal_bench")
+    mod_terminal_pkg = types.ModuleType("terminal_bench.terminal")
+    mod_terminal = types.ModuleType("terminal_bench.terminal.terminal")
+    mod_terminal.spin_up_terminal = spin_up_terminal
+    mod_tb.terminal = mod_terminal_pkg
+    mod_terminal_pkg.terminal = mod_terminal
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "terminal_bench", mod_tb)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "terminal_bench.terminal", mod_terminal_pkg)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "terminal_bench.terminal.terminal", mod_terminal)
+
+    state.metadata = {
+        "task_id": "hello.world",
+        "task": SimpleNamespace(disable_asciinema=True),
+        "task_paths": SimpleNamespace(docker_compose_path=tmp_path / "compose.yaml"),
+    }
+    return state
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Existing behavior (now running without the real terminal_bench package)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


 class TestTerminalBenchTaskEnv:
@@ -46,3 +135,113 @@ class TestTerminalBenchTaskEnv:
        assert is_resolved is False
        assert results["error"] == "terminal_not_running"
        assert metadata["is_resolved"] is False
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Exception-safe __enter__ / preflight / teardown
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class TestEnterExceptionSafety:
+    def test_success_path(self, fake_tb):
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+        with env:
+            assert fake_tb.metadata["terminal"] is fake_tb.terminal
+            assert fake_tb.metadata["session"] == "session-agent"
+            assert fake_tb.metadata["container"] == "oj-hello-world"
+            assert "compose_down" not in fake_tb.events
+        assert fake_tb.events.count("compose_down") == 1
+        assert "terminal" not in fake_tb.metadata
+
+    def test_create_session_failure_tears_down_terminal(self, fake_tb):
+        """(a) tmux failure in __enter__ -> terminal torn down, loud error."""
+        fake_tb.terminal.create_session_error = RuntimeError(
+            "tmux is not installed in the container."
+        )
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+
+        with pytest.raises(TaskEnvironmentError) as excinfo:
+            env.__enter__()
+
+        # No leak: compose project downed BEFORE the exception escaped.
+        assert "compose_down" in fake_tb.events
+        # Actionable: names the task, the image, and the failure.
+        message = str(excinfo.value)
+        assert "hello.world" in message
+        assert "tb__hello-world__client" in message
+        assert "tmux is not installed" in message
+        # Recorded for the runner / scorers; handles cleared.
+        assert fake_tb.metadata["harness_error"] == message
+        assert "terminal" not in fake_tb.metadata
+        assert "session" not in fake_tb.metadata
+        assert "container" not in fake_tb.metadata
+        assert env._terminal is None
+        assert env._terminal_cm is None
+        assert env._logs_tmpdir is None
+
+    def test_preflight_catches_missing_tmux(self, fake_tb):
+        """(b) preflight catches missing tmux, naming the task image."""
+        fake_tb.container.exec_results["tmux"] = FakeExecResult(
+            exit_code=127,
+            output=b'exec: "tmux": executable file not found in $PATH',
+        )
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+
+        with pytest.raises(TaskEnvironmentError) as excinfo:
+            env.__enter__()
+
+        message = str(excinfo.value)
+        assert "tmux" in message
+        assert "tb__hello-world__client" in message  # task image named
+        assert "127" in message
+        # Fired BEFORE the agent session was created.
+        assert not any(e.startswith("create_session") for e in fake_tb.events)
+        assert "compose_down" in fake_tb.events
+        assert fake_tb.metadata["harness_error"] == message
+
+    def test_preflight_checks_asciinema_when_recording(self, fake_tb):
+        fake_tb.metadata["task"] = SimpleNamespace(disable_asciinema=False)
+        fake_tb.container.exec_results["asciinema"] = FakeExecResult(exit_code=127)
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+
+        with pytest.raises(TaskEnvironmentError, match="asciinema"):
+            env.__enter__()
+        assert "disable_asciinema" in fake_tb.metadata["harness_error"]
+        assert "compose_down" in fake_tb.events
+
+    def test_preflight_skips_asciinema_when_disabled(self, fake_tb):
+        fake_tb.container.exec_results["asciinema"] = FakeExecResult(exit_code=127)
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+        with env:
+            pass
+        assert ["asciinema", "--version"] not in fake_tb.container.exec_calls
+
+    def test_compose_up_failure_includes_stderr(self, fake_tb):
+        import subprocess
+
+        fake_tb.spin_up_error = subprocess.CalledProcessError(
+            returncode=1,
+            cmd=["docker", "compose", "up"],
+            stderr="no space left on device",
+        )
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+
+        with pytest.raises(TaskEnvironmentError) as excinfo:
+            env.__enter__()
+        assert "no space left on device" in str(excinfo.value)
+
+    def test_keyboard_interrupt_not_masked(self, fake_tb):
+        fake_tb.terminal.create_session_error = KeyboardInterrupt()
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+
+        with pytest.raises(KeyboardInterrupt):
+            env.__enter__()
+        # Still cleaned up, but the interrupt is not wrapped.
+        assert "compose_down" in fake_tb.events
+
+    def test_teardown_is_idempotent(self, fake_tb):
+        env = TerminalBenchTaskEnv(fake_tb.metadata)
+        env.__enter__()
+        env.__exit__(None, None, None)
+        env.__exit__(None, None, None)
+        assert fake_tb.events.count("compose_down") == 1
@@ -0,0 +1,302 @@
+"""Tests for the TerminalBench native backend (mocked terminal_bench).
+
+Covers: timeout kwargs threading (config -> backend -> Harness kwargs),
+loud failure on terminal-bench builds without the timeout kwargs, and the
+harness-error classification in ``summarize_benchmark_results`` —
+including the zero-model-contact vs genuine-model-miss distinction.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import sys
+import types
+from types import SimpleNamespace
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
+
+import pytest
+
+import openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native as tbn
+from openjarvis.evals.backends.terminalbench_native import (
+    summarize_benchmark_results,
+)
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Helpers / fakes
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def make_trial(
+    task_id: str,
+    *,
+    is_resolved: bool,
+    failure_mode: str = "unset",
+    input_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
+    output_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
+) -> SimpleNamespace:
+    """Build a duck-typed terminal-bench 0.2.18 TrialResults."""
+    return SimpleNamespace(
+        task_id=task_id,
+        trial_name=f"{task_id}.1-of-1",
+        is_resolved=is_resolved,
+        failure_mode=SimpleNamespace(value=failure_mode),
+        total_input_tokens=input_tokens,
+        total_output_tokens=output_tokens,
+    )
+
+
+class FakeHarness:
+    """Records constructor kwargs; run() returns the configured results."""
+
+    captured_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+    results: Any = SimpleNamespace(results=[])
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+        type(self).captured_kwargs = kwargs
+
+    def run(self) -> Any:
+        return type(self).results
+
+
+class OldFakeHarness:
+    """A pre-timeout-kwargs Harness signature (no **kwargs)."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        output_path: Any = None,
+        run_id: Any = None,
+        dataset_name: Any = None,
+        dataset_version: Any = None,
+        model_name: Any = None,
+        n_concurrent_trials: Any = None,
+        cleanup: Any = None,
+        agent_name: Any = None,
+        agent_kwargs: Any = None,
+        n_tasks: Any = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        pass
+
+    def run(self) -> Any:
+        return SimpleNamespace(results=[])
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def fake_tb_backend(monkeypatch):
+    """Enable the backend without the real terminal_bench package."""
+    FakeHarness.captured_kwargs = {}
+    FakeHarness.results = SimpleNamespace(results=[])
+    monkeypatch.setattr(tbn, "_HAS_TB", True)
+    monkeypatch.setattr(tbn, "Harness", FakeHarness, raising=False)
+
+    mod_tb = types.ModuleType("terminal_bench")
+    mod_agents = types.ModuleType("terminal_bench.agents")
+    mod_agent_name = types.ModuleType("terminal_bench.agents.agent_name")
+    mod_agent_name.AgentName = lambda name: name
+    mod_tb.agents = mod_agents
+    mod_agents.agent_name = mod_agent_name
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "terminal_bench", mod_tb)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "terminal_bench.agents", mod_agents)
+    monkeypatch.setitem(sys.modules, "terminal_bench.agents.agent_name", mod_agent_name)
+    return FakeHarness
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Timeout kwargs threading
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class TestTimeoutKwargs:
+    def test_default_bound_reaches_harness(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path):
+        backend = tbn.TerminalBenchNativeBackend(output_dir=str(tmp_path))
+        backend.run_harness("run-1")
+        kwargs = fake_tb_backend.captured_kwargs
+        assert kwargs["global_agent_timeout_sec"] == 1800.0
+        assert "global_timeout_multiplier" not in kwargs
+
+    def test_explicit_values_reach_harness(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path):
+        backend = tbn.TerminalBenchNativeBackend(
+            output_dir=str(tmp_path),
+            global_agent_timeout_sec=1234.0,
+            global_timeout_multiplier=2.0,
+        )
+        backend.run_harness("run-1")
+        kwargs = fake_tb_backend.captured_kwargs
+        assert kwargs["global_agent_timeout_sec"] == 1234.0
+        assert kwargs["global_timeout_multiplier"] == 2.0
+
+    def test_zero_disables_bound(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path):
+        backend = tbn.TerminalBenchNativeBackend(
+            output_dir=str(tmp_path), global_agent_timeout_sec=0
+        )
+        backend.run_harness("run-1")
+        assert "global_agent_timeout_sec" not in fake_tb_backend.captured_kwargs
+
+    def test_old_terminal_bench_fails_loud(
+        self, fake_tb_backend, monkeypatch, tmp_path
+    ):
+        """An old Harness without the kwargs must not hang silently."""
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tbn, "Harness", OldFakeHarness, raising=False)
+        backend = tbn.TerminalBenchNativeBackend(output_dir=str(tmp_path))
+        with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="global_agent_timeout_sec"):
+            backend.run_harness("run-1")
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Harness-error classification (zero-model-contact detection)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class TestSummarizeBenchmarkResults:
+    def test_genuine_model_miss_is_not_flagged(self):
+        """MANDATORY: a real miss (tokens>0, failure_mode unset) stays a miss.
+
+        terminal-bench 0.2.18 leaves failure_mode UNSET on success and on
+        genuine unresolved misses — classifying on failure_mode would flag
+        every real miss as a harness error and inflate accuracy.
+        """
+        results = SimpleNamespace(
+            results=[
+                make_trial(
+                    "t-ok", is_resolved=True, input_tokens=900, output_tokens=100
+                ),
+                make_trial(
+                    "t-miss", is_resolved=False, input_tokens=800, output_tokens=50
+                ),
+                make_trial(
+                    "t-setup-dead",
+                    is_resolved=False,
+                    failure_mode="agent_installation_failed",
+                    input_tokens=0,
+                    output_tokens=0,
+                ),
+            ]
+        )
+        summary, failures = summarize_benchmark_results(results, model="m")
+        assert summary.total_samples == 3
+        assert summary.scored_samples == 2  # genuine miss stays in denominator
+        assert summary.correct == 1
+        assert summary.accuracy == 0.5  # not 1.0 (miss kept), not 1/3 (infra out)
+        assert summary.errors == 1
+        assert [f["task_id"] for f in failures] == ["t-setup-dead"]
+        assert failures[0]["reason"] == "zero_model_requests"
+
+    def test_zero_contact_flagged_even_with_unset_failure_mode(self):
+        """Setup hang signature: unresolved, zero requests, failure_mode unset."""
+        results = SimpleNamespace(
+            results=[
+                make_trial("t-hang", is_resolved=False, input_tokens=0),
+            ]
+        )
+        summary, failures = summarize_benchmark_results(results, model="m")
+        assert summary.errors == 1
+        assert summary.scored_samples == 0
+        assert failures[0]["reason"] == "zero_model_requests"
+
+    def test_missing_token_fields_treated_as_zero_contact(self):
+        results = SimpleNamespace(results=[make_trial("t-none", is_resolved=False)])
+        summary, failures = summarize_benchmark_results(results, model="m")
+        assert summary.errors == 1
+
+    def test_infra_failure_mode_flagged_despite_tokens(self):
+        results = SimpleNamespace(
+            results=[
+                make_trial(
+                    "t-crash",
+                    is_resolved=False,
+                    failure_mode="unknown_agent_error",
+                    input_tokens=500,
+                    output_tokens=20,
+                ),
+            ]
+        )
+        summary, failures = summarize_benchmark_results(results, model="m")
+        assert summary.errors == 1
+        assert failures[0]["reason"] == "unknown_agent_error"
+
+    def test_resolved_with_zero_tokens_not_flagged(self):
+        """Installed agents report 0 tokens on success — never flag resolved."""
+        results = SimpleNamespace(
+            results=[
+                make_trial("t-ok", is_resolved=True, input_tokens=0, output_tokens=0),
+            ]
+        )
+        summary, failures = summarize_benchmark_results(results, model="m")
+        assert summary.errors == 0
+        assert summary.correct == 1
+        assert summary.accuracy == 1.0
+
+    def test_empty_results(self):
+        summary, failures = summarize_benchmark_results(
+            SimpleNamespace(results=[]), model="m"
+        )
+        assert summary.total_samples == 0
+        assert summary.accuracy == 0.0
+        assert failures == []
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# CLI wiring: config -> backend -> harness kwargs -> RunSummary
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class TestRunTerminalbenchNativeWiring:
+    def _run(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path, trials: List[Any], **config_kwargs):
+        from rich.console import Console
+
+        from openjarvis.evals.cli import _run_terminalbench_native
+        from openjarvis.evals.core.types import RunConfig
+
+        fake_tb_backend.results = SimpleNamespace(results=trials)
+        config = RunConfig(
+            benchmark="terminalbench-native",
+            backend="terminalbench-native",
+            model="test-model",
+            output_path=str(tmp_path / "out"),
+            **config_kwargs,
+        )
+        console = Console(record=True, width=120)
+        summary = _run_terminalbench_native(config, console)
+        return summary, console.export_text()
+
+    def test_config_timeouts_reach_harness_kwargs(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path):
+        """(d) timeout kwargs travel config -> backend -> harness_kwargs."""
+        self._run(
+            fake_tb_backend,
+            tmp_path,
+            [],
+            global_agent_timeout_sec=901.0,
+            global_timeout_multiplier=1.5,
+        )
+        kwargs = fake_tb_backend.captured_kwargs
+        assert kwargs["global_agent_timeout_sec"] == 901.0
+        assert kwargs["global_timeout_multiplier"] == 1.5
+
+    def test_config_defaults_use_backend_bound(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path):
+        self._run(fake_tb_backend, tmp_path, [])
+        assert fake_tb_backend.captured_kwargs["global_agent_timeout_sec"] == 1800.0
+
+    def test_summary_counts_real_trials(self, fake_tb_backend, tmp_path):
+        """Regression: results field is ``results``, not ``trial_results``.
+
+        The old conversion read the nonexistent ``trial_results`` attribute
+        and hardcoded errors=0, rendering every run as 0 samples / 0.0.
+        """
+        trials = [
+            make_trial("t-ok", is_resolved=True, input_tokens=10, output_tokens=10),
+            make_trial("t-miss", is_resolved=False, input_tokens=10, output_tokens=2),
+            make_trial(
+                "t-hang",
+                is_resolved=False,
+                failure_mode="agent_timeout",
+                input_tokens=0,
+                output_tokens=0,
+            ),
+        ]
+        summary, output = self._run(fake_tb_backend, tmp_path, trials)
+        assert summary.total_samples == 3
+        assert summary.scored_samples == 2
+        assert summary.correct == 1
+        assert summary.accuracy == 0.5
+        assert summary.errors == 1
+        # The harness failure is reported loudly with its task id.
+        assert "t-hang" in output
+        assert "zero_model_requests" in output
@@ -424,11 +424,22 @@ class TestSavings:
        assert "total_calls" in d

    def test_energy_scales_linearly(self) -> None:
-        """Energy should scale linearly with evaluated tokens (KV-cache model)."""
+        """Energy should scale linearly with evaluated tokens (KV-cache model).
+
+        The test must pass `prompt_tokens_evaluated` explicitly — under the
+        leaderboard-correctness fix, `compute_savings` no longer falls back
+        from a missing `prompt_tokens_evaluated` to the (multi-turn-inflated)
+        `prompt_tokens` sum. When the KV-cache-aware count is missing, FLOPs
+        derive from `completion_tokens` only. With completion=0, that path
+        produces zero energy and divides by zero. Passing the evaluated
+        count explicitly is the API contract that lets this invariant be
+        tested without depending on the (now intentionally conservative)
+        fallback behaviour.
+        """
        from openjarvis.server.savings import compute_savings

-        s1 = compute_savings(1000, 0)
-        s10 = compute_savings(10000, 0)
+        s1 = compute_savings(1000, 0, prompt_tokens_evaluated=1000)
+        s10 = compute_savings(10000, 0, prompt_tokens_evaluated=10000)
        # FLOPs = 2*P*T (linear), so 10x tokens => 10x FLOPs => 10x energy
        for p1, p10 in zip(s1.per_provider, s10.per_provider):
            ratio = p10.energy_wh / p1.energy_wh
@@ -437,10 +448,16 @@ class TestSavings:
            )

    def test_energy_wh_matches_direct_formula(self) -> None:
-        """Energy must equal flops * wh_per_flop for known constants."""
+        """Energy must equal flops * wh_per_flop for known constants.
+
+        Pass `prompt_tokens_evaluated` explicitly for the same reason as
+        `test_energy_scales_linearly` — the conservative-fallback fix in
+        savings.py means an unset `prompt_tokens_evaluated` produces 0
+        FLOPs and would make this test pass trivially with 0 == 0.
+        """
        from openjarvis.server.savings import CLOUD_PRICING, compute_savings

-        summary = compute_savings(10000, 0)
+        summary = compute_savings(10000, 0, prompt_tokens_evaluated=10000)
        for p in summary.per_provider:
            pricing = CLOUD_PRICING[p.provider]
            wh_per_flop = pricing["energy_wh_per_1k_tokens"] / (
@@ -450,6 +467,12 @@ class TestSavings:
            assert abs(p.energy_wh - expected) < 1e-6, (
                f"{p.provider}: energy_wh={p.energy_wh}, expected={expected}"
            )
+            # Sanity: assert the formula isn't matching trivially with both
+            # sides equal to zero (would happen if FLOPs collapse to 0).
+            assert p.flops > 0, (
+                f"{p.provider}: FLOPs must be positive when "
+                f"prompt_tokens_evaluated is explicitly set"
+            )

    def test_energy_not_zero(self) -> None:
        """Energy must be positive for non-zero token counts."""
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@

 from __future__ import annotations

+from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+
 import pytest

 from openjarvis.learning.training.lora import HAS_TORCH, LoRATrainer, LoRATrainingConfig
@@ -145,3 +147,55 @@ class TestLoRATrainerWithTorch:

        assert result["status"] == "skipped"
        assert "reason" in result
+
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not HAS_TORCH, reason="torch not installed")
+class TestLoRATrainStepMasking:
+    """Regression for #521: _train_step must exclude padding from the loss labels.
+
+    The pre-fix code passed ``labels=input_ids`` (the *same* tensor), so the loss
+    counted every padded EOS position and an in-place mask would also corrupt
+    ``input_ids``. ``_train_step`` must build a masked clone: ``-100`` wherever
+    ``attention_mask == 0``, equal to ``input_ids`` elsewhere, leaving
+    ``input_ids`` untouched.
+    """
+
+    def test_train_step_masks_padding_in_labels(self) -> None:
+        import torch
+
+        # Bypass __init__ (which loads a real model) and inject the minimal
+        # attributes _train_step touches before the forward pass.
+        trainer = LoRATrainer.__new__(LoRATrainer)
+        trainer.device = "cpu"
+
+        captured: dict = {}
+
+        class _StopForward(Exception):
+            pass
+
+        def _capture_model(*, input_ids, attention_mask, labels):
+            captured["labels"] = labels
+            raise _StopForward  # stop before backward()/optimizer.step()
+
+        trainer.model = _capture_model
+
+        batch_items = [
+            {
+                "input_ids": torch.tensor([11, 12, 0, 0]),
+                "attention_mask": torch.tensor([1, 1, 0, 0]),
+            },
+            {
+                "input_ids": torch.tensor([13, 14, 15, 0]),
+                "attention_mask": torch.tensor([1, 1, 1, 0]),
+            },
+        ]
+        with pytest.raises(_StopForward):
+            trainer._train_step(batch_items, optimizer=MagicMock())
+
+        ids = torch.stack([b["input_ids"] for b in batch_items])
+        mask = torch.stack([b["attention_mask"] for b in batch_items])
+        labels = captured["labels"]
+
+        assert (labels[mask == 0] == -100).all()  # padded -> ignored by loss
+        assert (labels[mask == 1] == ids[mask == 1]).all()  # real -> unchanged
+        assert (ids[mask == 0] != -100).all()  # input_ids not mutated in place
@@ -66,13 +66,40 @@ def test_custom_config():
    assert len(chunks) >= 3


-def test_min_chunk_size_filters_tiny():
+def test_short_only_document_not_dropped():
+    """A whole document below min_chunk_size must still produce a chunk.
+
+    Regression for #502 follow-up: previously a folder of short notes indexed
+    to ``chunks_indexed: 0`` (HTTP 200), silently storing nothing. ``min_chunk_size``
+    should only discard tiny *trailing fragments*, never an entire short doc.
+    """
    cfg = ChunkConfig(chunk_size=100, chunk_overlap=0, min_chunk_size=50)
-    # 30 words is below min_chunk_size=50
+    # 30 words is below min_chunk_size=50, but it's the entire document.
    words = [f"w{i}" for i in range(30)]
    text = " ".join(words)
    chunks = chunk_text(text, config=cfg)
-    assert len(chunks) == 0
+    assert len(chunks) == 1
+    assert chunks[0].content == text
+
+
+def test_short_real_world_note_not_dropped():
+    """The exact repro from the issue: a ~4-word note must not vanish."""
+    chunks = chunk_text("hello world\nsome content\n", source="a.txt")
+    assert len(chunks) == 1
+    assert "hello world" in chunks[0].content
+
+
+def test_min_chunk_size_filters_tiny_trailing_fragment():
+    """A tiny fragment trailing a real chunk is still dropped by the floor."""
+    cfg = ChunkConfig(chunk_size=50, chunk_overlap=0, min_chunk_size=10)
+    # Two paragraphs: the first fills a real chunk, the second is a tiny tail.
+    para1 = " ".join(f"a{i}" for i in range(50))
+    para2 = " ".join(f"b{i}" for i in range(3))  # 3 words < min_chunk_size=10
+    text = f"{para1}\n\n{para2}"
+    chunks = chunk_text(text, config=cfg)
+    # The 3-word trailing fragment is discarded; only the real chunk remains.
+    assert len(chunks) == 1
+    assert "b0" not in chunks[0].content


 def test_source_propagated():
@@ -31,3 +31,23 @@ def test_named_persona_resolves_to_personas_dir():
 def test_path_traversal_rejected(bad):
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        SystemPromptBuilder._resolve_persona(MemoryFilesConfig(persona_name=bad))
+
+
+def test_none_persona_build_does_not_raise():
+    """Regression (#497): `--persona none` resolves to empty file paths; building
+    the prompt must not raise IsADirectoryError when those empty paths are read
+    (Path("") is "." — reading a directory raised before the empty-path guard).
+    """
+    import dataclasses
+
+    from openjarvis.core.config import load_config
+
+    cfg = load_config()
+    mf = dataclasses.replace(cfg.memory_files, persona_name="none")
+    builder = SystemPromptBuilder(
+        agent_template=cfg.agent.default_system_prompt or "",
+        memory_files_config=mf,
+        system_prompt_config=cfg.system_prompt,
+    )
+    out = builder.build()
+    assert isinstance(out, str)
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 from __future__ import annotations

-from unittest.mock import MagicMock
+from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch

 import pytest

@@ -327,6 +327,85 @@ class TestSystemBuilder:
        assert builder._engine_key == "ollama"


+class TestSystemBuilderEngineInstance:
+    """Explicit engine injection (jarvis eval --base-url path)."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _fake_engine(healthy: bool = True) -> MagicMock:
+        engine = MagicMock(
+            spec=["health", "can_serve", "generate", "list_models", "close"]
+        )
+        engine.health.return_value = healthy
+        engine._host = "http://127.0.0.1:18999"
+        return engine
+
+    def test_engine_instance_is_fluent(self):
+        builder = SystemBuilder(JarvisConfig())
+        engine = self._fake_engine()
+        result = builder.engine_instance(engine, key="my-endpoint")
+        assert result is builder
+        assert builder._engine_instance is engine
+        assert builder._engine_instance_key == "my-endpoint"
+
+    def test_resolve_engine_returns_injected_instance(self):
+        config = JarvisConfig()
+        engine = self._fake_engine(healthy=True)
+        builder = SystemBuilder(config).engine_instance(engine, key="endpoint")
+        resolved_engine, resolved_key = builder._resolve_engine(config)
+        assert resolved_engine is engine
+        assert resolved_key == "endpoint"
+
+    def test_unhealthy_injected_instance_raises_naming_host(self):
+        config = JarvisConfig()
+        engine = self._fake_engine(healthy=False)
+        builder = SystemBuilder(config).engine_instance(engine, key="endpoint")
+        with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match=r"http://127\.0\.0\.1:18999"):
+            builder._resolve_engine(config)
+
+    def test_unhealthy_injected_instance_never_consults_discovery(self):
+        """The observed failure mode: an explicit endpoint must NOT be
+        silently replaced by whatever other engine discovery finds."""
+        config = JarvisConfig()
+        engine = self._fake_engine(healthy=False)
+        builder = SystemBuilder(config).engine_instance(engine)
+        with patch("openjarvis.engine._discovery.get_engine") as mock_get_engine:
+            with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="Refusing to fall back"):
+                builder._resolve_engine(config)
+        mock_get_engine.assert_not_called()
+
+    def test_healthy_injected_instance_never_consults_discovery(self):
+        config = JarvisConfig()
+        engine = self._fake_engine(healthy=True)
+        builder = SystemBuilder(config).engine_instance(engine, key="endpoint")
+        with patch("openjarvis.engine._discovery.get_engine") as mock_get_engine:
+            resolved_engine, _ = builder._resolve_engine(config)
+        assert resolved_engine is engine
+        mock_get_engine.assert_not_called()
+
+    def test_build_wires_injected_engine(self):
+        """build() must use the injected engine (possibly behind security
+        wrappers) instead of running discovery."""
+        config = JarvisConfig()
+        engine = self._fake_engine(healthy=True)
+        engine.list_models.return_value = ["stub-model"]
+        builder = (
+            SystemBuilder(config)
+            .engine_instance(engine, key="endpoint")
+            .model("stub-model")
+            .telemetry(False)
+            .traces(False)
+        )
+        system = builder.build()
+        try:
+            inner = system.engine
+            while hasattr(inner, "_engine"):
+                inner = inner._engine
+            assert inner is engine
+            assert system.engine_key == "endpoint"
+        finally:
+            system.close()
+
+
 class TestJarvisSystemClose:
    def test_close_with_scheduler_store(self):
        engine = MagicMock()
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+"""Shared fixtures for server route tests.
+
+Server tests build apps via ``create_app``, which (with traces enabled by
+default) wires a ``TraceStore`` at the real ``~/.openjarvis/traces.db``. Now
+that the chat endpoints actually *write* traces, an unguarded run would
+pollute the developer's real trace DB and make tests non-hermetic. This
+autouse fixture redirects the traces DB to a per-test temp path.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+
+@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
+def _isolate_traces_db(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    """Point ``config.traces.db_path`` at a temp file for every server test.
+
+    ``load_config`` returns a fresh ``JarvisConfig`` per call (no caching), so
+    wrapping it to rewrite ``traces.db_path`` only affects calls made during
+    the test — there is no global leak.
+    """
+    from openjarvis.core import config as _config
+
+    real_load_config = _config.load_config
+    db_path = str(tmp_path / "traces.db")
+
+    def _patched_load_config(*args, **kwargs):
+        cfg = real_load_config(*args, **kwargs)
+        cfg.traces.db_path = db_path
+        return cfg
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(_config, "load_config", _patched_load_config)
+    return db_path
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 import json
 import tempfile
 from pathlib import Path
+from types import SimpleNamespace
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock

 import pytest
@@ -488,3 +489,51 @@ class TestResolveToolSpecs:

        assert _resolve_tool_specs(None) == []
        assert _resolve_tool_specs([]) == []
+
+
+class TestLightweightSystemEngineResolution:
+    """Regression for #477 / #514: the managed-agent lightweight system must
+    resolve the user's *configured* engine (preferred_engine, else
+    engine.default), not a hardcoded OllamaEngine. We assert the key passed to
+    ``get_engine`` — captured before the system is built — rather than the final
+    (telemetry-wrapped) engine object.
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _cfg(preferred, default):
+        # context_from_memory absent on .agent -> memory backend resolves to None
+        return SimpleNamespace(
+            intelligence=SimpleNamespace(preferred_engine=preferred),
+            engine=SimpleNamespace(default=default, ollama=SimpleNamespace(host="")),
+            agent=SimpleNamespace(),
+        )
+
+    def _capture_get_engine(self, monkeypatch):
+        captured = {}
+
+        def fake_get_engine(cfg, key):
+            captured["key"] = key
+            return ("resolved", MagicMock())
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr("openjarvis.engine._discovery.get_engine", fake_get_engine)
+        return captured
+
+    def test_resolves_preferred_engine_over_default(self, monkeypatch):
+        pytest.importorskip("fastapi")
+        from openjarvis.server import agent_manager_routes as amr
+
+        captured = self._capture_get_engine(monkeypatch)
+        amr._make_lightweight_system(
+            engine=MagicMock(), model="m", config=self._cfg("vllm", "ollama")
+        )
+        assert captured["key"] == "vllm"
+
+    def test_falls_back_to_engine_default_without_preference(self, monkeypatch):
+        pytest.importorskip("fastapi")
+        from openjarvis.server import agent_manager_routes as amr
+
+        captured = self._capture_get_engine(monkeypatch)
+        amr._make_lightweight_system(
+            engine=MagicMock(), model="m", config=self._cfg(None, "llamacpp")
+        )
+        assert captured["key"] == "llamacpp"
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