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name: sips-control-plane

description: Inspect SIPS Homebase status, manifest wiring, routes, host visibility, and MCP freshness. Use when asked for SIPS status, command center, host audit, plugin visibility, or whether Homebase is fresh.

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# SIPS Control Plane

Use the `sips-homebase` MCP first: call `homebase_status` for the status card, `homebase_routes` for route inventory, `homebase_host_audit` for Codex wiring, and `homebase_mcp_freshness` before claiming the live host is fresh.

+ Plugin MCP tools may be deferred. If Homebase is absent from the initial tool

+ list, use `tool_search` where the host exposes it and search for the exact

+ Homebase capability before falling back. Do not declare the MCP unavailable

+ until discovery returns no matching SIPS namespace or tool. Preserve the actual

+ native server/tool event when a discovered call succeeds.

Report the proof boundary explicitly: source/cache/config/child-process freshness is not the same as an already-open Codex session rediscovering the refreshed plugin.

If the MCP surface is unavailable, inspect `.codex-plugin/plugin.json`, `.mcp.json`, `.agents/plugins/marketplace.json`, `state.yaml`, and `scripts/harness_homebase_mcp.py` directly, then say the MCP path was unavailable.

+ If a diagnostic MCP JSON-RPC request is sent by piping `initialize` and

+ `tools/call` into `python3 scripts/harness_homebase_mcp.py`, label the result a

+ **repo-local source subprocess**. Preserve both layers: the inner source-subprocess

+ `tools/call` succeeded, while native task MCP callability remains unproven.

+ Report the observed outer host transport conditionally—for example, if the

+ pipeline was launched through `exec`, say the outer host call was `exec`, not a

+ native `mcp__sips_homebase__*` call. Do not say that the MCP tool was called

+ from the task, and do not include it in `task_invoked_tools`. That fallback does

+ not prove the installed cache, host configuration, task advertisement, native

+ callability, or persistent host attachment.