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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@@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ const RESERVED_ENV_EXACT: &[&str] = &[
"MCP_SERVERS_JSON",
"CLAUDE_CODE_SETTINGS_JSON",
"MISSION_CONTROL_ENABLED",
"VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED",
"TRIPLE_C_PERMISSION_MODE",
CLAUDE_OAUTH_TOKEN_ENV,
// The model-alias vars are already covered by the `ANTHROPIC_` prefix
@@ -1275,6 +1276,15 @@ pub async fn create_container(
env_vars.push("MISSION_CONTROL_ENABLED=1".to_string());
}
// Drives the pia-vpn skill install in entrypoint.sh. Sent as 0 rather than
// omitted when off, because ~/.claude is a persisted volume: entrypoint has
// to be told to *remove* a skill left there by an earlier run with the
// toggle on, and an absent variable cannot say that.
env_vars.push(format!(
"VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED={}",
u8::from(project.vpn_support_enabled)
));
// Permission mode — read by triple-c-task-runner for scheduled (headless)
// Claude Code runs. Interactive terminals get the flags directly instead.
env_vars.push(format!(
@@ -2789,6 +2799,23 @@ mod tests {
assert_eq!(cap_add.unwrap(), vec!["NET_ADMIN"]);
}
#[test]
fn the_vpn_skill_flag_is_reserved_from_custom_env() {
// entrypoint.sh installs and removes the pia-vpn skill from this
// variable. A custom env var of the same name would let a project claim
// the skill without the capability behind it — or keep it after the
// toggle is off — so it has to be unsettable like the others.
assert!(is_reserved_env_key("VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED"));
assert!(is_reserved_env_key("vpn_support_enabled"));
assert_eq!(
compute_env_fingerprint(&[EnvVar {
key: "VPN_SUPPORT_ENABLED".to_string(),
value: "1".to_string(),
}]),
""
);
}
/// What bollard actually hands us when a tun-less host rejects the device.
///
/// Captured verbatim from Docker 29.7: `docker create` with a missing