diff --git a/.dagger/ci/verify.dag b/.dagger/ci/verify.dag
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+#!/usr/bin/env dagger
+
+# Portable Dev Plane CI contract.
+#
+# Woodpecker owns forge-triggered scheduling and exact checkout selection.
+# Dagger owns the hermetic toolchain/execution environment. Repository-native
+# Make/npm commands remain the behavioral source of truth, matching
+# .github/workflows/ci.yml rather than creating a second test definition.
+#
+# Run locally with Dagger v0.20.3:
+#   dagger --progress=plain .dagger/ci/verify.dag
+#
+# Preserve .git so committed-range verification and revision diagnostics operate
+# on the actual checkout. node_modules is intentionally excluded and installed
+# cleanly.
+src=$(host | directory . --exclude node_modules)
+
+container |
+  from node:24-bookworm |
+  with-directory /src $src |
+  with-workdir /src |
+  with-mounted-cache /root/go/pkg/mod dev-plane-go-mod |
+  with-mounted-cache /root/.cache/go-build dev-plane-go-build |
+  with-mounted-cache /root/.npm dev-plane-npm |
+  with-env-variable PATH /usr/local/go/bin:/root/go/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin |
+  with-env-variable DATABASE_URL "file:./data/dev.db?_journal_mode=WAL" |
+  with-env-variable NATS_URL nats://127.0.0.1:4222 |
+  with-env-variable JWT_SECRET ci-secret-change-me-min-32-chars-long |
+  with-env-variable SECRET_ENCRYPTION_KEYS "primary:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=" |
+  with-env-variable NEXT_PUBLIC_API_URL http://localhost:8080 |
+  with-exec -- sh -lc 'apt-get update && DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends build-essential ca-certificates curl git make && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*' |
+  with-exec -- sh -lc 'curl -fsSLo /tmp/go.tgz https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.8.linux-amd64.tar.gz && echo "d0f743b33e8d8945e6b1f432edd15785c70507121d6e2a723b21285eddf8b57b  /tmp/go.tgz" | sha256sum -c - && rm -rf /usr/local/go && tar -C /usr/local -xzf /tmp/go.tgz && rm /tmp/go.tgz' |
+  with-exec -- go version |
+  with-exec -- node --version |
+  with-exec -- npm --version |
+  with-exec -- go install github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/v2/cmd/golangci-lint@v2.13.2 |
+  with-exec -- go install github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2@v2.10.0 |
+  with-exec -- sh -lc 'cd apps/web && npm ci' |
+  with-exec -- make lint-go |
+  with-exec -- make lint-web |
+  with-exec -- sh -lc 'cd apps/web && npm run typecheck' |
+  with-exec -- make lint-sdk |
+  with-exec -- sh -lc 'set -eu; rm -rf /tmp/dev-plane-jetstream; nats-server --js --http_port 8222 --store_dir /tmp/dev-plane-jetstream >/tmp/nats.log 2>&1 & i=0; until curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8222/healthz >/dev/null; do i=$((i + 1)); if [ "$i" -ge 30 ]; then cat /tmp/nats.log; exit 1; fi; sleep 1; done; make test; cd apps/web && npm test' |
+  with-exec -- make build |
+  with-exec -- sh -lc 'set -eu; if git rev-parse --verify origin/main >/dev/null 2>&1; then if [ "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$(git rev-parse origin/main)" ]; then git diff --check HEAD^..HEAD; else base=$(git merge-base HEAD origin/main); git diff --check "$base"..HEAD; fi; else git diff --check HEAD^..HEAD; fi' |
+  sync
diff --git a/.woodpecker/README.md b/.woodpecker/README.md
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+# Woodpecker + Dagger CI
+
+Dev Plane uses Woodpecker as the forge-triggered scheduler and Dagger as the portable execution environment.
+
+## Authority
+
+The layers have deliberately narrow responsibilities:
+
+1. **Forge** selects the immutable revision and emits the webhook/event.
+2. **Woodpecker** clones that revision, verifies `git rev-parse HEAD == CI_COMMIT_SHA`, and supplies owned compute.
+3. **Dagger** provisions the pinned toolchain and executes the repository-native checks.
+4. **Make/npm** remain the behavioral source of truth for lint, test, and build semantics.
+
+A successful run is evidence only for the exact `CI_COMMIT_SHA` that Woodpecker checked out.
+
+## Security boundary
+
+PR-controlled workflow code must never receive the Woodpecker host Docker socket. `.woodpecker/dagger.yml` therefore contains no host volume mounts and explicitly fails if `/var/run/docker.sock` is visible.
+
+The Dagger Engine must be operator-managed outside repository-controlled workflow configuration and exposed through `_EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST`, injected by the Woodpecker control plane (for example through `WOODPECKER_ENVIRONMENT`). Keep the engine on disposable/dedicated CI infrastructure with no tenant secrets or production credentials.
+
+Dagger currently requires a privileged engine; the isolation boundary is therefore the dedicated CI execution host/VM, not the PR step container. Do not colocate this bootstrap engine with Nulang Cloud tenant or production Firecracker hosts.
+
+## Canonical lane
+
+`.woodpecker/dagger.yml` invokes `.dagger/ci/verify.dag` on the `bootstrap-ci` pool.
+
+The Dagger contract preserves the current repository CI requirements:
+
+- Node 24
+- Go 1.26.8
+- golangci-lint v2.13.2
+- NATS 2.10 with JetStream during tests
+- `make lint-go`
+- web lint and typecheck
+- TypeScript SDK typecheck
+- Go + SDK tests
+- web tests
+- `make build`
+- `git diff --check` over the committed PR range (or the latest main commit)
+
+Dagger caches Go modules, the Go build cache, and npm downloads. The workflow pins Dagger v0.20.3, matching the already-operated Adacavo lane while keeping the execution engine outside PR-controlled Docker authority.
+
+## Activation
+
+The repository must be activated in the Woodpecker control plane so the forge webhook can create pipelines. Checking in this workflow cannot perform account/control-plane activation by itself.
+
+Nulang Cloud's `deploy/woodpecker/ensure-repository.sh` provides the operator-only activation/repair path.
+
+Keep GitHub Actions as a non-authoritative compatibility lane while the personal-account hosted-runner admission issue persists. Do not interpret `runner_id=0` / zero-step GitHub jobs as source verification failures.
+
+## Execution-plane migration
+
+Keep the required lane on `pool: bootstrap-ci` until the shared `k8s-ci`/Kueue execution plane has repeated scheduling, execution, terminal-status, and cleanup evidence. Changing the Woodpecker execution pool must not change `.dagger/ci/verify.dag` or the repository verification semantics.
+
+Nulang Cloud/Firecracker remains the future stronger verification runtime behind the Workspace contract; it is not required for this bootstrap CI lane.
diff --git a/.woodpecker/dagger.yml b/.woodpecker/dagger.yml
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+# Forge-triggered Dev Plane verification through the owned Woodpecker runner
+# and the portable Dagger execution contract in .dagger/ci/verify.dag.
+#
+# SECURITY: PR-controlled workflow code must never receive the Woodpecker host
+# Docker socket. The Dagger Engine is operator-managed outside this workflow and
+# its endpoint is injected by the Woodpecker control plane via
+# _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST.
+
+clone:
+  git:
+    image: docker.io/woodpeckerci/plugin-git
+    settings:
+      fetch-target-branch: true
+      partial: false
+
+labels:
+  platform: linux/amd64
+  pool: bootstrap-ci
+
+when:
+  - event: pull_request
+    branch: main
+  - event: push
+    branch: main
+  - event: manual
+
+concurrency:
+  limit: 1
+  group: dev-plane-dagger-ci
+
+steps:
+  - name: dagger-ci
+    image: debian:bookworm-slim
+    commands:
+      - set -eux
+      - test "$(git rev-parse HEAD)" = "$CI_COMMIT_SHA"
+      - echo "validating exact Woodpecker head $CI_COMMIT_SHA"
+      - test -n "$${_EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST:-}"
+      - test ! -S /var/run/docker.sock
+      - case "$${_EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST}" in unix:///var/run/docker.sock|unix:///run/docker.sock) echo 'refusing host Docker socket as Dagger runner' >&2; exit 1 ;; esac
+      - apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -y -qq curl ca-certificates
+      - curl -fsSL -o /tmp/dagger.tgz https://github.com/dagger/dagger/releases/download/v0.20.3/dagger_v0.20.3_linux_amd64.tar.gz
+      - echo '1a0a4779592c5136725c4839ae71dbfc3aaa59bb22cd4b01f2ca55a583f26b9d  /tmp/dagger.tgz' | sha256sum -c -
+      - tar -xzf /tmp/dagger.tgz -C /usr/local/bin dagger
+      - dagger version
+      - dagger --progress=plain .dagger/ci/verify.dag