Ship Claude Code and Codex from one release-pinned npm artifact with bundled runtime dependencies, extraction-only MCP qualification, plugin-aware recovery, and synchronized release metadata.
Integrates #2815 and the original proposal #1977. The original commits remain available on the PR branch; retain their author and assistant credit in this squash.
Validation: required CI passed, real Codex/Claude loading verified, and reviewed packaging/recovery findings addressed.
Co-authored-by: GamerDubz <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: morluto <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Preserve GitHub User metadata for Copilot while excluding it from generated human thanks and accepted prose credits. Extend the real inventory/render/check regression and document the known agent identity.
