* fix(workers): persist placement terminal failures
* fix(workers): refresh placement protocol clients
* refactor(workers): isolate error formatting
* fix: integrate cloud terminal state with current main
* chore(plugin-sdk): refresh API baseline
* refactor(ui): inline one-use cloud terminal-reason banner helper
Keeps the Control UI startup JS bundle inside its 317 KiB gzip budget
(the helper + type-only import tipped it by 16 bytes).
* refactor(ui): trim terminal-reason lookup to type-erased optional access
Recovers the last gzip byte of the Control UI startup budget
(324609 B vs the 324608 B limit).
* test(qa): run vitest and playwright scenarios from qa suite
* fix(qa): harden scenario suite dispatch
* refactor(qa): share scenario path utilities
* refactor(qa): share test file scenario runner
* refactor(qa): route test file scenarios through suite runtime
* refactor(qa): use explicit suite runtime result kind
* test(qa): write suite evidence artifact
* refactor(qa): clarify suite execution dispatch
* fix(qa): keep test-file scenarios out of flow-only runners
* refactor(qa): export mixed scenario suite runner
Move mock and live provider behavior behind provider-owned definitions so suite, manual, Matrix, and transport lanes share defaults, auth staging, model config, and standalone server startup.
Add AIMock as a first-class local provider mode while keeping mock-openai as the scenario-aware deterministic lane.
Peter Steinberger