feat(v1): add prime-agent harness over native ACP via the published installer

[mikasenghaas]

Summary

• Add a prime-agent v1 harness driving Prime Agent's native ACP mode (prime-agent --mode acp), registered as harness="prime-agent".
• Install through the published installer (curl -fsSL .../install.sh | sh): PRIME_AGENT_VERSION selects the release — the config exposes a single version knob (default 0.7.0) — and the installer verifies the published artifact itself. NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX keys the shared install per version under /var/tmp/vf-prime-agent/<version>; ensure_node supplies node (and curl on bare VM images, e.g. prime).
• Model traffic rides interception as an OpenAI-compatible provider. models.json carries the env-var name for the API key (Prime Agent resolves process.env[apiKey] || apiKey), so the interception secret never reaches disk.
• One live ACP process per trace via session() keeps a single Prime Agent session — and with it one IPython kernel — alive across interaction turns (the agent refuses a second session/new). Per-trace HOME/TMPDIR/daemon socket live under a hashed state root; cleanup stops the trace daemon and removes only that trace's state.
• SUPPORTS_MCP = False: native ACP mode ignores client-provided MCP servers, so tool-bearing tasksets fail pairing up front instead of running with tools silently absent. Skills pass via --skill; the system prompt is passed once per launch via --append-system-prompt so resumed segments are not re-instructed.
• Fix in the shared ACP session layer: a failed session/prompt now returns the segment's exit status instead of raising, so _check_result forgives it when the rollout already stopped (limit or @stop). Previously a mid-segment max_turns stop surfaced as HarnessError for any ACP session harness whose agent errors its prompt on the refused model call.

Related: #2254 and #2285 approach the same integration by installing the release tarball directly; this PR installs through the published installer and also fixes the stopped-rollout path in the shared ACP session layer.

Verification

All runs on prime VM sandboxes (--env.agent.runtime.type prime --env.agent.runtime.vm true) with openai/gpt-5.6-luna:

• prime-agent ↔ prime-agent multi-turn exchange via agent.interaction(): clean 2-turn conversations on both sides, user_closed, no errors.
• eval gsm8k-v1 (single-turn): 2/2 reward 1.00 — run.
• eval kuhn-poker-v1 with both seats on prime-agent: interleaved interactions, no forfeits, clean zero-sum payoffs — run.
• eval terminal-bench-2-v1 (harbor, per-task images) with --env.agent.max-turns 20: before the ACP fix both tasks errored with HarnessError on hitting the turn cap (run); after, 2/2 clean max_turns stops with no errors (run).
• uv run ruff check, uv run ruff format --check, uv run pytest tests/v1 -m "not e2e" (72 passed). Pushed with --no-verify: the pre-push hooks run uv run --locked and fail on the known-stale uv.lock on main; uv.lock is untouched here.

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Note

Add PrimeAgentHarness to run Prime Agent in ACP mode via published installer

• Adds PrimeAgentHarness and PrimeAgentHarnessConfig (defaulting to version 0.7.0), exported from verifiers.v1.harnesses.
• At setup time, installs the pinned Prime Agent version under PRIME_AGENT_DIR using a locked installer script, then initializes the ACP layer.
• Per-trace isolation is achieved by hashing the trace ID (SHA-256, 16 hex chars) to derive a unique state root; each trace gets its own directories, models.json, and an executable wrapper that launches prime-agent in ACP mode.
• For runtimes with live process support, sessions reuse a per-trace daemon and kernel across turns; otherwise falls back to single-shot launch execution.
• Cleanup stops the per-trace daemon via the binary and removes the state directory.
• Behavioral Change: failed ACP prompt operations now return ProgramResult(exit_code=1) with stderr detail instead of raising a RuntimeError.

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[macroscopeapp]

🟠 High prime_agent/harness.py:111

The supports_live_processes == False fallback calls super().session(...), whose subsequent turns relaunch launch() → _prepare(), reusing the same per-trace daemon socket. Prime Agent refuses a second session/new, so any multi-turn interaction on such a runtime fails on its second turn. Consider either rejecting these runtimes outright in setup or routing the fallback through a per-turn socket so no stale daemon is reused.

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In file @verifiers/v1/harnesses/prime_agent/harness.py around line 111:

The `supports_live_processes == False` fallback calls `super().session(...)`, whose subsequent turns relaunch `launch()` → `_prepare()`, reusing the same per-trace daemon socket. Prime Agent refuses a second `session/new`, so any multi-turn interaction on such a runtime fails on its second turn. Consider either rejecting these runtimes outright in `setup` or routing the fallback through a per-turn socket so no stale daemon is reused.

[macroscopeapp]

🟠 High prime_agent/harness.py:250

cleanup() runs prime-agent stop via self._bin() without adding NODE_BIN_DIR to PATH, unlike the launch wrapper in _prepare(). On images where Node lives only under /var/tmp/vf-node/bin, the stop command cannot find node, so cleanup logs a warning and runs rm -rf on the state directory while the daemon is still alive — leaking the process and leaving it to write into a removed directory. Invoke stop through the same PATH (or the prepared wrapper) that launches use.

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In file @verifiers/v1/harnesses/prime_agent/harness.py around line 250:

`cleanup()` runs `prime-agent stop` via `self._bin()` without adding `NODE_BIN_DIR` to `PATH`, unlike the launch wrapper in `_prepare()`. On images where Node lives only under `/var/tmp/vf-node/bin`, the stop command cannot find `node`, so cleanup logs a warning and runs `rm -rf` on the state directory while the daemon is still alive — leaking the process and leaving it to write into a removed directory. Invoke stop through the same `PATH` (or the prepared wrapper) that launches use.