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What happens when the hook file is missing?
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What happens when the hook file is missing?
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What happens when the hook file is missing? The host may have a different failure path outside your laptop. Bind worker startup to policy and target canary results. Narration uses Eric's authorized AI voice clone. #EricFieldNotes
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Your laptop has the policy script. The delegated worker starts in a fresh image. What happens to a forbidden tenant change when the hook path is missing there? I would not answer from documentation alone; I would run the exact worker image against a disposable target.
The policy may never load, may return an error, or may be ignored for a route outside that host. Those are distinct cases. The team needs the worker's installed version, configuration readback and a target receipt, not an assertion that all agents share the same rules.
In the fixture, first require a known-denied request to produce a documented hook result and no production receipt. Then allow a staging-only request to produce one receipt. Inject missing file and timeout; record whether the host stops, continues or cannot be observed.
Package the script with the worker, check its hash at startup and withhold sensitive credentials until the route probe passes. Keep the target-side tenant rule as the backstop. This handles the boring deployment gap that a beautifully written policy markdown file cannot close.
Narration uses Eric's authorized AI voice clone.
#EricFieldNotes
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1. What happens when the hook file is missing?
Your laptop has the policy script. The delegated worker starts in a fresh image. What happens to a forbidden tenant change when the hook path is missing there? I would not answer from documentation alone; I would run the exact worker image against a disposable target.
Visual: Local success does not install controls in a cloud worker.
2. A configuration file can lie by omission.
The policy may never load, may return an error, or may be ignored for a route outside that host. Those are distinct cases. The team needs the worker's installed version, configuration readback and a target receipt, not an assertion that all agents share the same rules.
Visual: The host may have a different failure path outside your laptop.
3. Make the worker prove installation.
In the fixture, first require a known-denied request to produce a documented hook result and no production receipt. Then allow a staging-only request to produce one receipt. Inject missing file and timeout; record whether the host stops, continues or cannot be observed.
Visual: Launch with a canary before granting its service role.
4. Test where the agent runs.
Package the script with the worker, check its hash at startup and withhold sensitive credentials until the route probe passes. Keep the target-side tenant rule as the backstop. This handles the boring deployment gap that a beautifully written policy markdown file cannot close.
Visual: Bind worker startup to policy and target canary results.
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