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A cloud session that cannot bind to this machine now runs cloud-only

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Cloud Sessions

If your machine can't be linked to a cloud session, it now runs cloud-only instead of failing.

What

If the cloud service refuses to link the session to your machine, the session is kept and runs in the cloud instead of being archived and reported as a failure.

Details
  • A warning notice explains the consequence: no commands, hooks or pulling files back will run on this machine, and that "device binding is likely switched off there".
  • Other unbound reasons still fail as before; only an explicit create refusal takes this path.
Evidence

device binding is likely switched off there

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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