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Commits on Sep 16, 2026

  1. refactor(cos): delegate desktop and computer to the createos CLI 

    The CLI grew `sandbox desktop` and `sandbox computer`, so the REST layer
this driver carried for them has no reason to exist. Delete api(),
api_auth(), api_check() and desktop_wait(), and shell out like every
other verb.

That layer was the one place cos bypassed the CLI, and the cost of it
was a second implementation of things the CLI already knew: its own auth
precedence, its own error-code map, its own readiness poll. It also held
a false premise — a comment claiming the CLI does not read
CREATEOS_API_KEY, which it has (cmd/root/root.go). The same code now
serves pi, opencode and herdr, which could not do computer-use at all.

cos keeps what the CLI cannot know: which box belongs to this project,
and creating one on a desktop image when there is none. The rootfs guard
stays too, because the CLI tells you to create a new sandbox, and for a
project box the fix is to replace the one you have.

Two details preserved for callers:

- `cos computer screenshot -o file` still works. The CLI spells it
  --out, since -o is its global output-format flag, so cos translates.
- `cos resume` now says to re-run `cos desktop` on a box that had one. A
  resumed desktop answers reads before its input stack is back, so a
  click can 409 for a moment after the screen route already succeeds.

Requires a createos CLI carrying those commands. cos probes for them and
tells the user to upgrade rather than failing with "unknown command".

Blocked on NodeOps-app/createos-cli#94.
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