# Issue #561 — Bare python on agent hosts

## Objective

Make the durable bootstrap/provisioning guidance ensure agent hosts provide a bare `python` command that resolves to Python 3.

## Scope

- Add Debian/Ubuntu `python-is-python3` to agent-host prerequisites in bootstrap docs.
- Check for actual OS package provisioning scripts and update only if an existing agent-host package install path exists.
- Do not touch live host state.
- Do not update `docs/TASKS.md`; repo guidance says workers read it but never modify it.

## Recon

- Issue #561 confirms repeated `python: command not found` failures from fleet agents that emit `python foo.py`.
- `guides/BOOTSTRAP.md` and `packages/mosaic/framework/guides/BOOTSTRAP.md` are the source and packaged framework copies of the bootstrap guide.
- Targeted repo sweep found no agent-host Debian package provisioning script. Existing `apt-get install` hits are CI/test helper paths or unrelated deployment docs.

## Plan

1. Add a host prerequisite section to both bootstrap guide copies.
2. Include `python-is-python3` in the Debian/Ubuntu package list with an issue comment.
3. Note the non-Debian equivalent as a `/usr/bin/python -> python3` symlink.
4. Validate markdown/diff, run shell syntax checks where applicable, run required review, commit, queue guard, and push.

## Validation Log

- `rg` recon: no existing agent-host Debian package provisioning script; only CI/test helper `apt-get install` paths and unrelated deployment docs.
- `git diff --check`: passed.
- `bash -n packages/mosaic/framework/install.sh tools/install.sh packages/mosaic/framework/tools/bootstrap/init-project.sh packages/mosaic/framework/tools/_scripts/mosaic-bootstrap-repo`: passed. No touched shell scripts.
- `~/.config/mosaic/tools/codex/codex-code-review.sh --uncommitted`: approved, 0 findings.
- `pnpm format:check`: initially blocked because `node_modules` was absent and `prettier` was unavailable; `pnpm install --frozen-lockfile` initially hit an invalid `/root` pnpm store path. Reran install with `--store-dir /home/hermes/agent-work/.pnpm-store`, then `pnpm format:check` passed.
