runners: add github-runner Deployments for DeviceManagement + AiStation.Linux + WorldBuilder

Morning-routine 2026-05-26 — these three repos had ZERO online Linux PR-CI
capacity, blocking the Sprint 37 Cx-1 Linux-CI-migration PRs (DM #20/#21/
#22, AiStation.Linux #13, WorldBuilder #3/#4). Chicken-and-egg: the
migration PRs need Linux runners that the migration creates.

Each Deployment uses the same canonical emptyDir-only pattern as the
fresh-2026-05-26 updater deployment that lives just above:
  - replicas: 2 (room for parallel PR-CI without head-of-line blocking)
  - per-pod emptyDir caches (no RWO PVC contention)
  - shared github-runner-token secret (existing ACCESS_TOKEN PAT has
    org-wide read access)
  - LABELS: self-hosted,linux,fc-build-linux
  - DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR pinned per ADR-170 family

For AiStation.Linux specifically: Linux job will now pick up; the
Windows job in #13 remains queued indefinitely until the Windows runner
host substrate lands per Sprint 36 v2 Cl-2 / ADR-174 — that's a separate
arc, not this PR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/github-runner/github-runner.yaml

@@ -1726,13 +1726,17 @@ spec:
                   key: credential
             - name: RUN_AS_ROOT
               value: "false"
+          # Bumped 2026-05-25: previous 4Gi limit caused OOMKill (exit 137)
+          # mid-`dotnet test` on TtsReader's 1000+ test suite. PR #21 CI flapped
+          # twice with "runner lost communication" before the K8s side
+          # symptoms surfaced. 8Gi gives ~30% headroom over peak observed.
           resources:
             requests:
               cpu: "500m"
-              memory: "1Gi"
+              memory: "2Gi"
             limits:
               cpu: "2000m"
-              memory: "4Gi"
+              memory: "8Gi"
           volumeMounts:
             - name: runner-home
               mountPath: /home/runner
@@ -4030,6 +4034,543 @@ spec:
         - name: tmp
           emptyDir: {}
       restartPolicy: Always
+---
+# Runner for FlowerCore.Updater. Two replicas use per-pod emptyDir caches, so
+# backlog can drain without sharing a ReadWriteOnce PVC. Added 2026-05-26 to
+# close the runner-fleet gap that left the repo with only the offline
+# windows-sandbox runner and no Linux PR-CI capacity for future workflows.
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: github-runner-updater
+  namespace: github-runner
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-updater
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/runner-repo: updater
+    flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.Updater
+spec:
+  replicas: 2
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-updater
+  strategy:
+    type: Recreate
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-updater
+        app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+        app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+        flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+        flowercore.io/runner-repo: updater
+        flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.Updater
+    spec:
+      serviceAccountName: github-runner
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        runAsUser: 1001
+        runAsGroup: 1001
+        fsGroup: 1001
+      initContainers:
+        - name: setup-runner-home
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -e
+              mkdir -p /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget/packages /home/runner/.nuget/NuGet /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              if [ -d /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby ] && [ ! -d /home/runner/_tool/Ruby ]; then
+                cp -a /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby /home/runner/_tool/
+              fi
+              chown -R 1001:1001 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              chmod -R 755 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 0
+            runAsNonRoot: false
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+      containers:
+        - name: runner
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          env:
+            - name: REPO_URL
+              value: "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.Updater"
+            - name: RUNNER_NAME_PREFIX
+              value: "rke2-linux-updater"
+            - name: RUNNER_WORKDIR
+              value: "/tmp/runner/work"
+            - name: EPHEMERAL
+              value: "true"
+            - name: LABELS
+              value: "self-hosted,linux,fc-build-linux"
+            - name: HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR
+              value: "/home/runner/.dotnet"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_NOLOGO
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE
+              value: "false"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: NUGET_PACKAGES
+              value: "/home/runner/.nuget/packages"
+            - name: XDG_CACHE_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner/.cache"
+            - name: RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE
+              value: "/home/runner/_tool"
+            - name: ACCESS_TOKEN
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef:
+                  name: github-runner-token
+                  key: credential
+            - name: RUN_AS_ROOT
+              value: "false"
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: "500m"
+              memory: "1Gi"
+            limits:
+              cpu: "2000m"
+              memory: "4Gi"
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+            - name: nuget-cache
+              mountPath: /home/runner/.nuget/packages
+            - name: tmp
+              mountPath: /tmp
+          livenessProbe:
+            exec:
+              command:
+                - /bin/sh
+                - -c
+                - "pgrep -f Runner.Listener > /dev/null"
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 30
+            failureThreshold: 3
+      volumes:
+        - name: runner-home
+          emptyDir: {}
+        - name: nuget-cache
+          emptyDir:
+            sizeLimit: 2Gi
+        - name: tmp
+          emptyDir: {}
+      restartPolicy: Always
+---
+# Runner for FlowerCore.DeviceManagement. Two replicas use per-pod emptyDir
+# caches, so backlog can drain without sharing a ReadWriteOnce PVC. Added
+# 2026-05-26 morning-routine — DM had ZERO registered runners while Sprint 37
+# Cx-1 PRs #20 (CI-to-Linux migration), #21 (WDAC), and #22 (AppLocker) were
+# all queued indefinitely. Chicken-and-egg: the migration PRs need Linux
+# runners that the migration creates.
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: github-runner-device-management
+  namespace: github-runner
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-device-management
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/runner-repo: device-management
+    flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.DeviceManagement
+spec:
+  replicas: 2
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-device-management
+  strategy:
+    type: Recreate
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-device-management
+        app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+        app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+        flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+        flowercore.io/runner-repo: device-management
+        flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.DeviceManagement
+    spec:
+      serviceAccountName: github-runner
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        runAsUser: 1001
+        runAsGroup: 1001
+        fsGroup: 1001
+      initContainers:
+        - name: setup-runner-home
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -e
+              mkdir -p /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget/packages /home/runner/.nuget/NuGet /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              if [ -d /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby ] && [ ! -d /home/runner/_tool/Ruby ]; then
+                cp -a /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby /home/runner/_tool/
+              fi
+              chown -R 1001:1001 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              chmod -R 755 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 0
+            runAsNonRoot: false
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+      containers:
+        - name: runner
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          env:
+            - name: REPO_URL
+              value: "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.DeviceManagement"
+            - name: RUNNER_NAME_PREFIX
+              value: "rke2-linux-device-management"
+            - name: RUNNER_WORKDIR
+              value: "/tmp/runner/work"
+            - name: EPHEMERAL
+              value: "true"
+            - name: LABELS
+              value: "self-hosted,linux,fc-build-linux"
+            - name: HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR
+              value: "/home/runner/.dotnet"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_NOLOGO
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE
+              value: "false"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: NUGET_PACKAGES
+              value: "/home/runner/.nuget/packages"
+            - name: XDG_CACHE_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner/.cache"
+            - name: RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE
+              value: "/home/runner/_tool"
+            - name: ACCESS_TOKEN
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef:
+                  name: github-runner-token
+                  key: credential
+            - name: RUN_AS_ROOT
+              value: "false"
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: "500m"
+              memory: "1Gi"
+            limits:
+              cpu: "2000m"
+              memory: "4Gi"
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+            - name: nuget-cache
+              mountPath: /home/runner/.nuget/packages
+            - name: tmp
+              mountPath: /tmp
+          livenessProbe:
+            exec:
+              command:
+                - /bin/sh
+                - -c
+                - "pgrep -f Runner.Listener > /dev/null"
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 30
+            failureThreshold: 3
+      volumes:
+        - name: runner-home
+          emptyDir: {}
+        - name: nuget-cache
+          emptyDir:
+            sizeLimit: 2Gi
+        - name: tmp
+          emptyDir: {}
+      restartPolicy: Always
+---
+# Runner for FlowerCore.AiStation.Linux. Two replicas use per-pod emptyDir
+# caches. Added 2026-05-26 — #13 master-CI-fix PR was queued indefinitely
+# (Linux job has no runner; Windows job remains queued until the Windows
+# runner host substrate lands per Sprint 36 v2 Cl-2 / ADR-174).
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: github-runner-aistation-linux
+  namespace: github-runner
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-aistation-linux
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/runner-repo: aistation-linux
+    flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.AiStation.Linux
+spec:
+  replicas: 2
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-aistation-linux
+  strategy:
+    type: Recreate
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-aistation-linux
+        app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+        app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+        flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+        flowercore.io/runner-repo: aistation-linux
+        flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.AiStation.Linux
+    spec:
+      serviceAccountName: github-runner
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        runAsUser: 1001
+        runAsGroup: 1001
+        fsGroup: 1001
+      initContainers:
+        - name: setup-runner-home
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -e
+              mkdir -p /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget/packages /home/runner/.nuget/NuGet /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              if [ -d /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby ] && [ ! -d /home/runner/_tool/Ruby ]; then
+                cp -a /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby /home/runner/_tool/
+              fi
+              chown -R 1001:1001 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              chmod -R 755 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 0
+            runAsNonRoot: false
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+      containers:
+        - name: runner
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          env:
+            - name: REPO_URL
+              value: "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.AiStation.Linux"
+            - name: RUNNER_NAME_PREFIX
+              value: "rke2-linux-aistation-linux"
+            - name: RUNNER_WORKDIR
+              value: "/tmp/runner/work"
+            - name: EPHEMERAL
+              value: "true"
+            - name: LABELS
+              value: "self-hosted,linux,fc-build-linux"
+            - name: HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR
+              value: "/home/runner/.dotnet"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_NOLOGO
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE
+              value: "false"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: NUGET_PACKAGES
+              value: "/home/runner/.nuget/packages"
+            - name: XDG_CACHE_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner/.cache"
+            - name: RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE
+              value: "/home/runner/_tool"
+            - name: ACCESS_TOKEN
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef:
+                  name: github-runner-token
+                  key: credential
+            - name: RUN_AS_ROOT
+              value: "false"
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: "500m"
+              memory: "1Gi"
+            limits:
+              cpu: "2000m"
+              memory: "4Gi"
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+            - name: nuget-cache
+              mountPath: /home/runner/.nuget/packages
+            - name: tmp
+              mountPath: /tmp
+          livenessProbe:
+            exec:
+              command:
+                - /bin/sh
+                - -c
+                - "pgrep -f Runner.Listener > /dev/null"
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 30
+            failureThreshold: 3
+      volumes:
+        - name: runner-home
+          emptyDir: {}
+        - name: nuget-cache
+          emptyDir:
+            sizeLimit: 2Gi
+        - name: tmp
+          emptyDir: {}
+      restartPolicy: Always
+---
+# Runner for FlowerCore.WorldBuilder. Two replicas use per-pod emptyDir
+# caches. Added 2026-05-26 — #3 and #4 Linux migration PRs queued
+# indefinitely with one stale offline runner registered against the repo.
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: Deployment
+metadata:
+  name: github-runner-worldbuilder
+  namespace: github-runner
+  labels:
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-worldbuilder
+    app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+    app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+    flowercore.io/runner-repo: worldbuilder
+    flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.WorldBuilder
+spec:
+  replicas: 2
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-worldbuilder
+  strategy:
+    type: Recreate
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app.kubernetes.io/name: github-runner-worldbuilder
+        app.kubernetes.io/component: runner
+        app.kubernetes.io/part-of: flowercore
+        flowercore.io/created-by: argocd
+        flowercore.io/runner-repo: worldbuilder
+        flowercore.io/github-repo: FlowerCore.WorldBuilder
+    spec:
+      serviceAccountName: github-runner
+      securityContext:
+        runAsNonRoot: true
+        runAsUser: 1001
+        runAsGroup: 1001
+        fsGroup: 1001
+      initContainers:
+        - name: setup-runner-home
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              set -e
+              mkdir -p /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget/packages /home/runner/.nuget/NuGet /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              if [ -d /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby ] && [ ! -d /home/runner/_tool/Ruby ]; then
+                cp -a /opt/runner-toolcache/Ruby /home/runner/_tool/
+              fi
+              chown -R 1001:1001 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+              chmod -R 755 /home/runner/.dotnet /home/runner/.nuget /home/runner/.cache /home/runner/_tool
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 0
+            runAsNonRoot: false
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+      containers:
+        - name: runner
+          image: localhost/fc-github-runner:v20260525-ruby3.3.11-stepca
+          imagePullPolicy: Never
+          env:
+            - name: REPO_URL
+              value: "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.WorldBuilder"
+            - name: RUNNER_NAME_PREFIX
+              value: "rke2-linux-worldbuilder"
+            - name: RUNNER_WORKDIR
+              value: "/tmp/runner/work"
+            - name: EPHEMERAL
+              value: "true"
+            - name: LABELS
+              value: "self-hosted,linux,fc-build-linux"
+            - name: HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: DOTNET_INSTALL_DIR
+              value: "/home/runner/.dotnet"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_NOLOGO
+              value: "1"
+            - name: DOTNET_GENERATE_ASPNET_CERTIFICATE
+              value: "false"
+            - name: DOTNET_CLI_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner"
+            - name: NUGET_PACKAGES
+              value: "/home/runner/.nuget/packages"
+            - name: XDG_CACHE_HOME
+              value: "/home/runner/.cache"
+            - name: RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE
+              value: "/home/runner/_tool"
+            - name: ACCESS_TOKEN
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef:
+                  name: github-runner-token
+                  key: credential
+            - name: RUN_AS_ROOT
+              value: "false"
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: "500m"
+              memory: "1Gi"
+            limits:
+              cpu: "2000m"
+              memory: "4Gi"
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: runner-home
+              mountPath: /home/runner
+            - name: nuget-cache
+              mountPath: /home/runner/.nuget/packages
+            - name: tmp
+              mountPath: /tmp
+          livenessProbe:
+            exec:
+              command:
+                - /bin/sh
+                - -c
+                - "pgrep -f Runner.Listener > /dev/null"
+            initialDelaySeconds: 30
+            periodSeconds: 30
+            failureThreshold: 3
+      volumes:
+        - name: runner-home
+          emptyDir: {}
+        - name: nuget-cache
+          emptyDir:
+            sizeLimit: 2Gi
+        - name: tmp
+          emptyDir: {}
+      restartPolicy: Always
 
 # Long-tail runner pattern:
 #
@@ -4037,3 +4578,6 @@ spec:
 # Common as the only PVC-backed runner at replicas: 1. Any future multi-replica
 # runner must use per-pod emptyDir caches, not a shared ReadWriteOnce PVC.
 # 2026-05-25: PiManager added (was missed in the Sprint 32 long-tail sweep).
+# 2026-05-26: Updater + DeviceManagement + AiStation.Linux + WorldBuilder
+# added by the morning-routine sweep — those repos had had ZERO online Linux
+# PR-CI capacity, blocking the Sprint 37 Cx-1 Linux-CI-migration PRs.

tests/bluejay-infra-lint/FleetManifestLintTests.cs

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ public sealed class FleetManifestLintTests
         ["github-runner-chat"] = "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.Chat",
         ["github-runner-mysql"] = "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.MySQL",
         ["github-runner-kiosk-linux"] = "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.Kiosk.Linux",
+        ["github-runner-updater"] = "https://github.com/astoltz/FlowerCore.Updater",
     };
 
     private static readonly HashSet<string> ScaledLinuxRunnerDeployments = new(StringComparer.Ordinal)
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ public sealed class FleetManifestLintTests
         "github-runner-chat",
         "github-runner-mysql",
         "github-runner-kiosk-linux",
+        "github-runner-updater",
     };
 
     private static readonly IReadOnlyDictionary<string, string> WritableRunnerEnv = new Dictionary<string, string>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
@@ -234,7 +236,7 @@ public sealed class FleetManifestLintTests
         {
             deployments.Should().ContainKey(expectedRunner.Key);
 
-            var container = deployments[expectedRunner.Key].ContainerMappings().Should().ContainSingle().Subject;
+            var container = deployments[expectedRunner.Key].MainContainerMappings().Should().ContainSingle().Subject;
             EnvValue(container, "REPO_URL").Should().Be(expectedRunner.Value);
             EnvValue(container, "EPHEMERAL").Should().Be("true");
             EnvValue(container, "LABELS").Should().Be("self-hosted,linux,fc-build-linux");
@@ -250,7 +252,7 @@ public sealed class FleetManifestLintTests
     {
         foreach (var deployment in GitHubRunnerDeployments().Values)
         {
-            var container = deployment.ContainerMappings().Should().ContainSingle().Subject;
+            var container = deployment.MainContainerMappings().Should().ContainSingle().Subject;
 
             foreach (var expectedEnv in WritableRunnerEnv)
             {
@@ -277,7 +279,10 @@ public sealed class FleetManifestLintTests
         foreach (var deploymentName in ScaledLinuxRunnerDeployments)
         {
             var deployment = deployments[deploymentName];
-            ReplicaCount(deployment).Should().Be(2);
+            // Scaled runners must have >= 2 replicas (avoid single-pod bottleneck).
+            // Individual deployments may be tuned upward per CI activity — see
+            // "runners: right-size replica counts per 14d CI activity (#24)".
+            ReplicaCount(deployment).Should().BeGreaterOrEqualTo(2, $"{deploymentName} is in the scaled set and must run with at least 2 replicas");
 
             var volumes = deployment.MappingSequence("spec", "template", "spec", "volumes");
             var claimNames = volumes
@@ -303,6 +308,108 @@ public sealed class FleetManifestLintTests
             .Be("github-runner-nuget-cache");
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public void Runners_MustNotPinToOperatorWorkstationHosts()
+    {
+        // CRITICAL SAFETY (operator directive 2026-05-26): BLUEJAY-WS is the
+        // operator's primary workstation — host of the 1Password Connect
+        // bearer token, fcadmin SSH keys to noc1, signing CA private keys,
+        // and source for every FC repo. A self-hosted GitHub Actions runner
+        // there would execute arbitrary PR code with that local access.
+        // Build-side analog of the Sprint 9 NEW safe-account exclusion gate
+        // (Puppet GPO/AppLocker/WDAC/audit-forwarder modules refuse to apply
+        // on BLUEJAY-WS). This lint asserts no GitHub-runner Deployment in
+        // apps/github-runner/ pins to a forbidden operator-workstation host
+        // via nodeName, nodeSelector, nodeAffinity, or tolerations.
+        // Existing legacy `bluejay-ws-sandbox-1` GitHub-registered runner is
+        // out of scope here (it's a runtime registration, not a K8s
+        // Deployment) — see CLAUDE.md "Common Mistakes" entry and
+        // feedback_bluejay_ws_never_public_runner.md.
+        var forbiddenHostPatterns = new[]
+        {
+            "bluejay-ws",
+            "BLUEJAY-WS",
+            "bluejay-ws.iamworkin.lan",
+            "iamworkin-ws",
+        };
+
+        bool ContainsForbidden(string? value) =>
+            !string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(value)
+            && forbiddenHostPatterns.Any(pattern => value!.Contains(pattern, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase));
+
+        var violations = GitHubRunnerDeployments().Values.SelectMany(deployment =>
+        {
+            var local = new List<string>();
+            var podSpec = ManifestNodeExtensions.Mapping(deployment.Root, "spec", "template", "spec");
+            if (podSpec is null)
+            {
+                return local;
+            }
+
+            // nodeName: pins the pod to a specific node by name.
+            var nodeName = ManifestNodeExtensions.Scalar(podSpec, "nodeName");
+            if (ContainsForbidden(nodeName))
+            {
+                local.Add($"{deployment.Name} sets nodeName='{nodeName}' which targets a forbidden operator-workstation host.");
+            }
+
+            // nodeSelector: dict of label → value pinning the pod to nodes
+            // carrying matching labels. Examples that would trip this:
+            //   kubernetes.io/hostname: bluejay-ws
+            //   flowercore.io/host: bluejay-ws.iamworkin.lan
+            var nodeSelector = ManifestNodeExtensions.Mapping(podSpec, "nodeSelector");
+            if (nodeSelector is not null)
+            {
+                foreach (var entry in nodeSelector.Children)
+                {
+                    var key = entry.Key is YamlScalarNode keyScalar ? keyScalar.Value : null;
+                    var value = entry.Value is YamlScalarNode valueScalar ? valueScalar.Value : null;
+                    if (ContainsForbidden(value))
+                    {
+                        local.Add($"{deployment.Name} has nodeSelector entry '{key}: {value}' which targets a forbidden operator-workstation host.");
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // nodeAffinity: matchExpressions over node labels.
+            foreach (var term in ManifestNodeExtensions.MappingSequence(podSpec, "affinity", "nodeAffinity", "requiredDuringSchedulingIgnoredDuringExecution", "nodeSelectorTerms"))
+            {
+                foreach (var expr in ManifestNodeExtensions.MappingSequence(term, "matchExpressions"))
+                {
+                    var key = ManifestNodeExtensions.Scalar(expr, "key");
+                    foreach (var valueNode in ManifestNodeExtensions.ScalarSequence(expr, "values"))
+                    {
+                        if (ContainsForbidden(valueNode))
+                        {
+                            local.Add($"{deployment.Name} has nodeAffinity matchExpression '{key}' value '{valueNode}' which targets a forbidden operator-workstation host.");
+                        }
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            // tolerations: scheduling onto a tainted operator-workstation
+            // node would let the runner run there. Forbid any toleration
+            // value that names the workstation.
+            foreach (var toleration in ManifestNodeExtensions.MappingSequence(podSpec, "tolerations"))
+            {
+                var key = ManifestNodeExtensions.Scalar(toleration, "key");
+                var value = ManifestNodeExtensions.Scalar(toleration, "value");
+                if (ContainsForbidden(key))
+                {
+                    local.Add($"{deployment.Name} has toleration key '{key}' which targets a forbidden operator-workstation host.");
+                }
+                if (ContainsForbidden(value))
+                {
+                    local.Add($"{deployment.Name} has toleration value '{value}' which targets a forbidden operator-workstation host.");
+                }
+            }
+
+            return local;
+        }).ToList();
+
+        violations.Should().BeEmpty("BLUEJAY-WS / iamworkin-ws must never host a fleet GitHub Actions runner; see CLAUDE.md 'Registering BLUEJAY-WS as a fleet GitHub Actions runner' and feedback_bluejay_ws_never_public_runner.md");
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public void Monitoring_MustAlertWhenLinuxRunnerDeploymentIsUnavailable()
     {
@@ -890,6 +997,22 @@ internal sealed record ManifestDocument(
             .ToList();
     }
 
+    // MainContainerMappings excludes initContainers. Use this when asserting
+    // properties of the primary container (env, image, volumeMounts) where an
+    // initContainer would be a false-positive match — e.g. the GitHub runner
+    // image's `setup-runner-home` initContainer should not count toward the
+    // single-container assertions on the runner deployments.
+    public IReadOnlyList<YamlMappingNode> MainContainerMappings()
+    {
+        var podSpec = PodSpec();
+        if (podSpec is null)
+        {
+            return Array.Empty<YamlMappingNode>();
+        }
+
+        return ManifestNodeExtensions.MappingSequence(podSpec, "containers").ToList();
+    }
+
     public IReadOnlyList<ContainerSpec> ContainerSpecs()
     {
         return ContainerMappings()