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+# Task: Enable Guided Hotspot Binding by default
+
+## Identity
+
+- Task ID: 20260816-enable-guided-hotspot-4e91c2
+- Mode: Feature
+- Branch: codex/20260816-enable-guided-hotspot-4e91c2-enable-guided-hotspot
+- Worktree: D:\Datas\OthersProjects\makelore-enable-guided-hotspot-4e91c2
+- Base commit: 971865c256c2ddfe1f8ab4f8f4731a1f608599c0
+- Owner: codex-root
+- Status: Ready for Integration
+
+## Scope
+
+- Make the existing Robot Guided Hotspot Binding capability enabled when the Electron Main environment variable is absent.
+- Preserve an explicit local rollback by treating `NIANCODE_AI_HARDWARE_GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING=0` as disabled.
+- Update focused Main route tests for the default-enabled and explicit-disabled behaviors.
+- Do not change the Renderer journey, Host API shapes, cloud Binding contract, portal address, or firmware.
+
+## Intent And Constraints
+
+- The user explicitly confirmed that the guided provisioning journey must be enabled by default after observing the current direct six-digit-code fallback.
+- Preserve `Renderer -> Host API -> Electron Main`; only Main owns the capability and the fixed `http://192.168.4.1/` system-browser action.
+- Preserve the safe capability-read fallback in Renderer: a failed local capability request still falls back to the direct six-digit flow.
+- Makelore must not scan nearby devices, accept arbitrary portal URLs, or collect/log/persist Wi-Fi credentials. Binding success remains separate from online readiness.
+- Keep firmware changes at zero.
+- This feature task may update only its own task record; the accepted default-on policy must be promoted into ADR-002 and canonical project memory during Integration Gate.
+
+## Project Context Loaded
+
+Task context:
+- Task ID: `20260816-enable-guided-hotspot-4e91c2`
+- Mode: Feature
+- Branch: `codex/20260816-enable-guided-hotspot-4e91c2-enable-guided-hotspot`
+- Worktree: `D:\Datas\OthersProjects\makelore-enable-guided-hotspot-4e91c2`
+- Base commit: `971865c256c2ddfe1f8ab4f8f4731a1f608599c0`
+- Other active local tasks: task registry reviewed; the Robot installer provenance task shares product context but owns no Robot logic changes, while older Robot design/implementation tasks are ready for integration or superseded by integrated ADR-002.
+- Overlap or semantic-conflict assessment: ADR-002 and canonical memory currently require default-off. This is an intentional policy change explicitly confirmed by the user; feature work remains isolated and canonical reconciliation is deferred to Integration Gate. The placeholder `20260816-assess-design-delta-a4d91c` record has unknown scope but no declared files or intent and cannot override the current human decision.
+
+Read:
+- `.project-docs/05-agent-entry/read-before-planning.md`
+- `.project-docs/05-agent-entry/memory-index.md`
+- `.project-docs/05-agent-entry/concurrent-task-gate.md`
+- `.project-docs/05-agent-entry/planning-gate.md`
+- `.project-docs/05-agent-entry/read-before-coding.md`
+- `.project-docs/00-brief/project-positioning.md`
+- `.project-docs/00-brief/success-criteria.md`
+- `.project-docs/30-worklog/current-state.md`
+- `.project-docs/10-decisions/decision-index.md`
+- `.project-docs/10-decisions/adr-002-robot-guided-hotspot-binding-v1.md`
+- `.project-docs/20-architecture/system-overview.md`
+- `.project-docs/20-architecture/module-map.md`
+- `.project-docs/20-architecture/data-flow.md`
+- `.project-docs/40-domain/business-rules.md`
+- `.project-docs/80-commitments/commitments.md`
+- `.project-docs/90-maintenance/stale-items.md`
+- Every other registered owner's task record: `Scope`, `Intent And Constraints`, and `Promotion Candidates` sections only.
+
+Relevant understanding:
+- Project goal: keep Robot onboarding inside the existing Makelore Robot experience with Main-owned security boundaries and no firmware change.
+- Current integrated focus: Guided Hotspot Binding is implemented but Main currently reports the capability false unless an environment variable is exactly `1`.
+- Active task scope: reverse only that default and its regression expectations.
+- Active constraints: no Renderer/firmware/cloud-contract changes; fixed portal only; no Wi-Fi credential handling; preserve explicit rollback and direct-code fallback on capability-read failure.
+- Decisions affecting this task: ADR-002's default-off release policy is deliberately superseded by the user's default-on decision; all other ADR-002 security/recovery rules remain in force.
+- Evidence, reflections, or commitments affecting this task: physical-device and exact shipped-firmware validation remain unverified release risks even though the product default is being changed.
+- Files or modules likely involved: `electron/api/routes/ai-hardware.ts`, `tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts`.
+- Unknowns, stale docs, or conflicts: exact physical-device smoke and deployed activation issuer semantics remain unverified; canonical docs are stale for the new decision until integration.
+
+Gate result:
+- Passed. Ownership is isolated, the explicit human decision resolves the only semantic conflict, and the plan preserves all non-default security boundaries.
+
+## Implementation Plan
+
+1. Change the Main-owned environment default to enabled, with exact `0` as the opt-out.
+2. Change the capability regression to expect enabled by default and make the disabled portal test inject `guidedHotspotBinding: false` explicitly.
+3. Run focused Robot tests, typecheck, scoped lint, Vite build, and any broader verification required by the changed Main/Renderer seam.
+4. Obtain independent final review, complete this task record, and hand the reviewed commit to Integration Gate for canonical documentation reconciliation.
+
+## Outcome
+
+- Changed the Main-owned default to `process.env.NIANCODE_AI_HARDWARE_GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING !== '0'`.
+- Ordinary launches now report `guided_hotspot_binding: true`, so the existing Binding dialog opens at the guided/direct path chooser instead of jumping directly to six-digit entry.
+- Exact environment value `0` remains the binary-free rollback; explicit dependency injection `guidedHotspotBinding: false` is covered and continues to disable both capability reporting and portal opening.
+- No Renderer, Host API wire shape, Works Square contract, portal URL, firmware file, or Wi-Fi credential boundary changed.
+- The implementation diff is limited to one Main constant and focused route expectations.
+
+## Verification
+
+- `pnpm vitest run tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts`: PASS, 37/37 tests, including a fresh module load with exact environment value `0`.
+- `pnpm vitest run tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts tests/unit/ai-hardware-api.test.ts tests/unit/ai-hardware-page.test.tsx`: PASS, 94/94 tests.
+- `pnpm run typecheck`: PASS.
+- `pnpm exec eslint electron/api/routes/ai-hardware.ts tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts`: PASS.
+- `pnpm test`: PASS before the final environment-regression test, 156 files and 1757/1757 tests. Two later default-parallel reruns each passed 1757/1758 but timed out the same unrelated OpenCode port-release test at its 10-second limit; that full test file then passed 40/40 in isolation.
+- `pnpm vitest run --maxWorkers=4`: PASS after the final test addition, 156 files and 1758/1758 tests. The bounded concurrency removes the confirmed suite-level resource contention without changing test behavior.
+- `pnpm run build:vite`: PASS for Renderer, Electron Main, and Preload; only pre-existing chunk-size/dynamic-import warnings were emitted.
+- `git diff --check`: PASS.
+- Initial sandboxed parallel pnpm typecheck/lint launch failed before running checks with `EPERM lstat C:\Users\7brot`; both commands were rerun outside that filesystem restriction and passed.
+- Independent final Sol review: PASS, no P0-P3 findings. The reviewer independently reran 37/37 route tests and confirmed default-on, exact environment opt-out, dependency-injection opt-out, fixed portal ownership, local-before-Works-token behavior, error redaction, unchanged Binding contract, and zero firmware changes.
+
+## Follow-ups
+
+- Canonical ADR/project memory must be changed from default-off to default-on in Integration Gate; historical source task records remain unchanged.
+- A real installed Electron path-choice/native-opener smoke and a physical-device end-to-end smoke remain unverified. The user's explicit default-on decision accepts changing the product default but does not turn these missing checks into completed evidence.
+
+## Promotion Candidates
+
+- Target: ADR-002, decision index, success criteria, Robot business rules/module map/data flow/current state, README where applicable, and release guidance.
+  - Proposal: Guided Hotspot Binding is enabled by default; `NIANCODE_AI_HARDWARE_GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING=0` is the explicit rollback. Preserve direct six-digit fallback when the local capability request fails, the fixed Main-owned portal, zero firmware change, and all existing security/recovery limitations.
+  - Evidence: user confirmation in this task, Main route implementation, and focused regression verification.
+  - Future impact: ordinary installed builds enter the path chooser before six-digit Binding; release/support can disable the journey without changing binaries.
+  - Semantic conflicts: supersedes ADR-002's default-off/public-disabled policy, but not its firmware, credential, identity, online-readiness, or physical-validation caveats.
+  - Human confirmation required: no further confirmation; the user explicitly requested default-on.
diff --git a/electron/api/routes/ai-hardware.ts b/electron/api/routes/ai-hardware.ts
index c08f94c..ae86963 100644
--- a/electron/api/routes/ai-hardware.ts
+++ b/electron/api/routes/ai-hardware.ts
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ const CATALOG_ID = /^[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9_.:-]{0,254}$/;
 const OPERATION_ID = /^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[1-5][0-9a-f]{3}-[89ab][0-9a-f]{3}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i;
 const MAX_RETRY_AFTER_SECONDS = 2;
 const PROVISIONING_PORTAL_URL = 'http://192.168.4.1/';
-const GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING_ENABLED = process.env.NIANCODE_AI_HARDWARE_GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING === '1';
+const GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING_ENABLED = process.env.NIANCODE_AI_HARDWARE_GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING !== '0';
 
 type TokenGetter = typeof getValidWorksSquareAccessToken;
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts b/tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts
index 33d0973..14a1b6e 100644
--- a/tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/ai-hardware-routes.test.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ async function invoke(handler: ReturnType<typeof createAiHardwareRouteHandler>,
 }
 
 describe('AI hardware Host API route', () => {
-  it('returns the default-off provisioning capability before credentials or upstream access', async () => {
+  it('returns the default-on provisioning capability before credentials or upstream access', async () => {
     const { handler, fetchImpl, getAccessToken } = setup();
     const result = await invoke(
       handler,
@@ -73,6 +73,22 @@ describe('AI hardware Host API route', () => {
       '/api/works/ai-hardware/provisioning-capabilities',
     );
 
+    expect(result.payload).toEqual({
+      success: true,
+      data: { guided_hotspot_binding: true },
+    });
+    expect(getAccessToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    expect(fetchImpl).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('honors an explicitly injected disabled provisioning capability', async () => {
+    const { handler, fetchImpl, getAccessToken } = setup(undefined, { guidedHotspotBinding: false });
+    const result = await invoke(
+      handler,
+      'GET',
+      '/api/works/ai-hardware/provisioning-capabilities',
+    );
+
     expect(result.payload).toEqual({
       success: true,
       data: { guided_hotspot_binding: false },
@@ -81,6 +97,36 @@ describe('AI hardware Host API route', () => {
     expect(fetchImpl).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it('honors the exact environment opt-out when Main loads the route', async () => {
+    vi.stubEnv('NIANCODE_AI_HARDWARE_GUIDED_HOTSPOT_BINDING', '0');
+    vi.resetModules();
+    try {
+      const { createAiHardwareRouteHandler: createHandlerWithEnv } = await import('@electron/api/routes/ai-hardware');
+      const fetchImpl = vi.fn<typeof fetch>().mockResolvedValue(jsonResponse(overview));
+      const getAccessToken = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue('secret-token');
+      const handler = createHandlerWithEnv({
+        fetchImpl,
+        getAccessToken,
+        apiBaseUrl: 'https://square.example',
+      });
+      const result = await invoke(
+        handler,
+        'GET',
+        '/api/works/ai-hardware/provisioning-capabilities',
+      );
+
+      expect(result.payload).toEqual({
+        success: true,
+        data: { guided_hotspot_binding: false },
+      });
+      expect(getAccessToken).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+      expect(fetchImpl).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    } finally {
+      vi.unstubAllEnvs();
+      vi.resetModules();
+    }
+  });
+
   it('rejects queried, body-bearing, and wrong-method capability requests locally', async () => {
     const { handler, fetchImpl, getAccessToken } = setup();
     const queried = await invoke(
@@ -129,7 +175,7 @@ describe('AI hardware Host API route', () => {
 
   it('rejects disabled, expanded, or queried portal opens before invoking native or cloud dependencies', async () => {
     const openExternal = vi.fn().mockResolvedValue(undefined);
-    const disabled = setup(undefined, { openExternal });
+    const disabled = setup(undefined, { guidedHotspotBinding: false, openExternal });
     const disabledResult = await invoke(
       disabled.handler,
       'POST',