Ship a pia-vpn skill with the VPN support toggle

The toggle grants CAP_NET_ADMIN and /dev/net/tun and stops there, which users
reasonably read as "turn the VPN on" — the gap between the two is the reported
bug that the default network does not route through a VPN. Close it by giving
the container an agent-usable way to build the tunnel, rather than leaving
each project to rediscover it.

container/skills/ is baked to /opt/triple-c-skills and installed into
~/.claude/skills/ by entrypoint.sh from VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED, mirroring how
Mission Control installs its own. Staged under /opt because ~/.claude is a
volume mount that would mask an image copy from first start.

Three details that are not incidental:

- The variable is sent as 0 rather than omitted when off, because ~/.claude
  persists: entrypoint has to be *told* to remove a skill left by an earlier
  run with the toggle on, and an absent variable cannot say that. A stale skill
  is worse than none, since it instructs an agent to use a capability the
  container no longer has.
- It is reserved in RESERVED_ENV_EXACT alongside MISSION_CONTROL_ENABLED, or a
  custom env var of the same name could claim the skill without the capability
  behind it. Covered by a test.
- The skill is re-copied on every start, rm -rf'd first, so fixes reach existing
  projects and files dropped from a later version do not linger.

The skill itself carries the three things that are easy to get wrong: that a
full tunnel captures the Docker resolver and takes DNS down with it, that an
IP-literal health check cannot see a dead resolver, and that no tunnel survives
a restart while /run state riding the snapshot makes it look as though one did.
It also states what it deliberately does not do — no killswitch, no autostart —
so an agent proposes those as decisions rather than improvising them.

pia-wg.sh preflights CAP_NET_ADMIN by capability bit rather than letting the
first `ip` call fail with a bare EPERM that points nowhere near the setting
that needs changing. Credentials stay in a file (~/pia-creds, PIA_CREDS to
override) rather than the environment, where docker inspect and every process
in the container would see them.

Tested: install/refresh/remove/no-op paths of install_feature_skill against the
real function; preflight with and without the capability; and a full up --full
/ down round trip, confirming DNS via PIA's resolvers, api.anthropic.com
reachable through the exit, and routes and resolv.conf restored on teardown.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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co-authored by Claude Opus 5
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@@ -338,6 +338,35 @@ if [ "$MISSION_CONTROL_ENABLED" = "1" ]; then
unset MISSION_CONTROL_ENABLED
fi
# ── Feature skills ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Skills owned by a Triple-C feature rather than by Mission Control. Installed
# when the feature is on, removed when it is off: ~/.claude is a persisted
# volume, so a skill left behind after its feature is disabled would keep
# telling an agent to use a capability the container no longer has.
#
# Copied on every start rather than only when absent, so a fix to a skill
# reaches projects that already have the old copy. Local edits under these
# directories do not survive — treat /opt/triple-c-skills as the source.
install_feature_skill() {
_name=$1
_enabled=$2
_dest="/home/claude/.claude/skills/$_name"
if [ "$_enabled" = "1" ]; then
[ -d "/opt/triple-c-skills/$_name" ] || return 0
mkdir -p /home/claude/.claude/skills
rm -rf "$_dest"
cp -r "/opt/triple-c-skills/$_name" "$_dest"
chown -R claude:claude "$_dest"
echo "entrypoint: $_name skill installed to ~/.claude/skills/"
elif [ -d "$_dest" ]; then
rm -rf "$_dest"
echo "entrypoint: $_name skill removed (feature disabled)"
fi
}
install_feature_skill pia-vpn "${VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED:-0}"
unset VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED
# ── Claude Code settings ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Merge Claude Code settings into ~/.claude/settings.json (preserves existing
# keys). Creates the file if it doesn't exist. These control TUI mode, effort