# Cloud API Runtime

The L1 `hwlab-cloud-api` runtime is a minimal local HTTP/JSON-RPC service. It
does not deploy to DEV or PROD and does not claim live database persistence.

## Local Smoke

Run:

```sh
node scripts/cloud-api-runtime-smoke.mjs
```

The smoke starts `cmd/hwlab-cloud-api` on `127.0.0.1` with an ephemeral port
and verifies:

- `GET /health` reports `status: "degraded"` when live DB persistence is not
  connected.
- The DB contract reports required env names and redacted Secret refs without
  exposing secret values.
- `gateway.session.register`, `box.resource.register`,
  `box.capability.report`, `hardware.invoke.shell`, `audit.event.query`, and
  `evidence.record.query` round-trip through the same runtime store.
- Shell invoke requests are accepted as recorded cloud operations but report
  `dispatchStatus: "not_connected"` until a real gateway shell adapter exists.
- Audit and evidence records use the protocol schema field names.

## Persistence Boundary

The current runtime store is process-local memory:

- `runtime.adapter: "memory"`
- `runtime.durable: false`
- `runtime.status: "degraded"`

This is intentional for L1. If `HWLAB_CLOUD_DB_URL` and
`HWLAB_CLOUD_DB_SSL_MODE` are absent, health reports `db.status: "blocked"`.
If both env vars are present, health reports `db.status: "degraded"` and still
keeps `db.connected: false`, `db.ready: false`, and `db.connectionChecked:
false`; env presence is not live DB evidence.

Fixture: `fixtures/cloud-api-runtime/minimal-runtime.json`.