pr-merge.sh and its regression test hardcoded /home/hermes/agent-work as
the AGENT_WORK_ROOT fallback, baking in one operator's home dir. Any other
user (e.g. jarvis) hit 'mkdir: cannot create directory /home/hermes:
Permission denied' on merge, and --skip-queue-guard did not avoid it (the
mkdir is in the API/tea-error path, not the guard).
Default to ${HOME:-/tmp}/mosaic/agent-work instead: per-user isolated,
kept separate from the framework's ~/.config/mosaic config tree, with a
/tmp last-ditch fallback for unset-HOME contexts (systemd/CI). An explicit
AGENT_WORK_ROOT still overrides. 5 occurrences across 2 files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
