# Owner-metered Messages route

An explicitly supplied `SandboxManager(messages_route=OwnerMessagesRoute(...))`
accepts one exact profile/actor/project/run binding and one sandbox. This trusted
in-process capability is never loaded from a profile, caller input or stored status.
Rein's `MessagesOwner` constructs it after parent spend admission, using llm-connect's
private Unix listener. Only that socket is mounted at `/run/sandboxer/messages.sock`.
The existing bounded byte bridge exposes a namespace-local HTTP base URL. The
broker injects an opaque run token, with exact-output redaction, into each child.
The actual provider key stays in the trusted forwarding process outside bwrap.

Metered mode requires ext.bwrap, default-deny with an empty egress list, no owner
CONNECT allowlist, no setup secrets or provider credential routes, and only standard
system read-only mounts. Private owner state cannot overlap source/workspace/runtime
or those mounts. No provider key/ledger directory or host network interface is
exposed. Workload changes to URLs, proxy variables, Git helpers or HTTP paths cannot
create another route. Raw access to the mounted socket still reaches the same
metered protocol. Host owner code remains trusted; this adds no public API authority.

Route expiry, ledger admission and revocation belong to rein. Sand-boxer owns
namespace confinement and teardown. Tokens are absent from argv and persisted
SandboxStatus/inputs. A manager without the ephemeral binding cannot inject the
required token into an existing metered broker after a restart. Unknown request
liability is retained; bootstrap/recovery must not rebind or mint replacement tokens.

The local proof in rein `tests/test_messages_owner.py` uses the actual manager,
owner execution transport, bwrap namespaces and host-side fake provider. It proves
private state and PID separation, only lo, blocked direct host/public-IP access,
successful guarded streaming, and no second upstream call after revocation. The
combined worker proof also covers allowed commit import and lost-close replay.
`make check`: lint clean, 199 passed. No runtime/profile installation or real secret
read occurred. Existing direct-CONNECT profiles/credential delivery remain separate;
the factory needs a newly reviewed empty-egress profile and admitted owner bootstrap
on Railiance, under SAND-WP-0015-T04 and HFACT-WP-0001-T03/T04.