diff --git a/agent-base/README.md b/agent-base/README.md
index 6a65bc98f2..265231637c 100644
--- a/agent-base/README.md
+++ b/agent-base/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Node agent image builds
 
-The compatibility base targets `ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base:v0.3.7`.
+The compatibility base is `ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base:v0.3.7`.
 It builds Python 3.14.9 from the official SHA-256-verified archive, retains
 Docker CLI 29.9.2 (official Go 1.26.10 build), and uses the fixed Ubuntu 26.04 snapshot
 `20261023T000000Z`. Builder and runtime package inventories are compared;
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ ensurepip wheel are updated, and a fresh venv runs the same streaming/TLS tests.
 This repack is not an official PyPA pip release.
 
 `release-inputs.env` pins the published mount-propagation 1.0.12 binary and
-the existing `r` helper from the previous immutable base. The helper is
+the `r` helper from its pinned immutable image input. The helper is
 checked by SHA-256 before entering the build context. No running host or
 existing image is patched in place.
 
@@ -34,13 +34,12 @@ findings fail the gate; vendor-unfixed Medium/Low findings remain recorded.
 Publication then pushes that same image, refuses an existing version tag,
 and verifies the anonymous digest readback and original image identity.
 
-After the workflow is reviewed and merged, publish the base with:
+The node-agent wrapper is version `v1.2.33` and inherits this base through
+its digest-pinned Dockerfile. Both `base` and `agent` components use the same
+qualified runtime-package receipts, native OpenVEX guard, raw/effective scans,
+runtime checks and publication gate.
 
-```sh
-gh workflow run publish-node-agent.yml --ref main -f component=base -f publish=true
-```
-
-The agent `v1.2.32` stage is enabled only after its Dockerfile pins the new
-base digest. It runs the same image checks and publication gate with
-`component=agent`. Image digests and proof of publication come from the
-completed workflow evidence, not from this source description.
+For a new version, update the reviewed source version and pins before
+dispatching the protected workflow with `component=base` or `component=agent`
+and `publish=true`. Existing numeric version tags are rejected. Completed
+workflow evidence records each published digest and source revision.
diff --git a/agent/Dockerfile b/agent/Dockerfile
index 12053257a4..1e3c77c4b0 100644
--- a/agent/Dockerfile
+++ b/agent/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base:v0.3.6@sha256:1179c549a501551941c3435969ecbd5d6bacc1d9e327895c3f75b9019b461ec9
+FROM ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base:v0.3.7@sha256:b21453fae656ba81cb427e5f165fd07aff8daee2459d9c4902e200652e9c9632
 ARG VCS_REF
 COPY control_plane_url.py register.py resolve_url.py run.sh /
 COPY loglevel /usr/bin/loglevel
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ LABEL "io.rancher.container.system"="rancher-agent" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/PastureStack/server" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="PastureStack node-agent compatibility image." \
       org.opencontainers.image.licenses="Apache-2.0" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.version="v1.2.32" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.version="v1.2.33" \
       org.opencontainers.image.revision=$VCS_REF
 RUN test -s /usr/bin/share-mnt && \
     chmod +x /run.sh /register.py /resolve_url.py /usr/bin/share-mnt /usr/bin/loglevel && \
     chmod 0644 /control_plane_url.py
-ENV RANCHER_AGENT_IMAGE=ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent:v1.2.32
+ENV RANCHER_AGENT_IMAGE=ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent:v1.2.33
diff --git a/scripts/build-agent-release.sh b/scripts/build-agent-release.sh
index bf2ab62f3c..469402aad2 100644
--- a/scripts/build-agent-release.sh
+++ b/scripts/build-agent-release.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ python3 scripts/test-agent-package-consistency.py
 
 case "${COMPONENT:-}" in
   base) repository=ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base; version=v0.3.7 ;;
-  agent) repository=ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent; version=v1.2.32 ;;
+  agent) repository=ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent; version=v1.2.33 ;;
   *) echo 'Unsupported agent component' >&2; exit 1 ;;
 esac
 [[ "${PUBLISH:-false}" = true || "${PUBLISH:-false}" = false ]]
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ if [[ "$COMPONENT" = base ]]; then
   SHARE_MNT_BIN="$scratch/share-mnt" R_BIN="$scratch/r" IMAGE="$candidate" \
     bash agent-base/build-image.sh |& tee "$evidence/build.log"
 else
-  grep -Eq '^FROM ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base:v0\.3\.6@sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$' agent/Dockerfile
-  grep -Fq 'org.opencontainers.image.version="v1.2.32"' agent/Dockerfile
+  grep -Eq '^FROM ghcr.io/pasturestack/node-agent-base:v0\.3\.7@sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$' agent/Dockerfile
+  grep -Fq 'org.opencontainers.image.version="v1.2.33"' agent/Dockerfile
   IMAGE="$candidate" bash agent/build-image.sh |& tee "$evidence/build.log"
 fi
 
@@ -93,32 +93,23 @@ docker run --rm --network none --entrypoint cat "$candidate" \
   /usr/share/pasturestack/python-builder-packages.tsv >"$evidence/builder-packages.tsv"
 docker run --rm --network none --entrypoint dpkg-query "$candidate" \
   -W -f='${binary:Package}\t${Version}\n' >"$evidence/runtime-packages.tsv"
-if [[ "$COMPONENT" = base ]]; then
-  for name in manifest qualification install; do
-    docker run --rm --network none --entrypoint cat "$candidate" \
-      "/usr/share/pasturestack/security/ubuntu-backports/${name}.json" >"$evidence/backports-${name}.json"
-  done
-  jq -n --rawfile builder "$evidence/builder-packages.tsv" \
-    --rawfile runtime "$evidence/runtime-packages.tsv" \
-    --rawfile manifest "$evidence/backports-manifest.json" \
-    --rawfile qualification "$evidence/backports-qualification.json" \
-    --rawfile installation "$evidence/backports-install.json" \
-    '{"builder-packages.tsv":$builder,"runtime-packages.tsv":$runtime,
-      "backports-manifest.json":$manifest,"backports-qualification.json":$qualification,
-      "backports-install.json":$installation}' \
-    | python3 scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py >"$evidence/package-comparison.json"
-  backports_container=$(docker create "$candidate")
-  docker cp "$backports_container:/usr/share/pasturestack/security/ubuntu-backports" "$evidence/ubuntu-backports"
-  docker rm -v "$backports_container" >/dev/null
-  backports_container=
-else
-  # The wrapper remains pinned to the published 0.3.6 base until 0.3.7 passes
-  # publication. Its existing strict checks must continue to work meanwhile.
-  jq -n --rawfile builder "$evidence/builder-packages.tsv" \
-    --rawfile runtime "$evidence/runtime-packages.tsv" \
-    '{"builder-packages.tsv":$builder,"runtime-packages.tsv":$runtime}' \
-    | python3 scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py --legacy-wrapper >"$evidence/package-comparison.json"
-fi
+for name in manifest qualification install; do
+  docker run --rm --network none --entrypoint cat "$candidate" \
+    "/usr/share/pasturestack/security/ubuntu-backports/${name}.json" >"$evidence/backports-${name}.json"
+done
+jq -n --rawfile builder "$evidence/builder-packages.tsv" \
+  --rawfile runtime "$evidence/runtime-packages.tsv" \
+  --rawfile manifest "$evidence/backports-manifest.json" \
+  --rawfile qualification "$evidence/backports-qualification.json" \
+  --rawfile installation "$evidence/backports-install.json" \
+  '{"builder-packages.tsv":$builder,"runtime-packages.tsv":$runtime,
+    "backports-manifest.json":$manifest,"backports-qualification.json":$qualification,
+    "backports-install.json":$installation}' \
+  | python3 scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py >"$evidence/package-comparison.json"
+backports_container=$(docker create "$candidate")
+docker cp "$backports_container:/usr/share/pasturestack/security/ubuntu-backports" "$evidence/ubuntu-backports"
+docker rm -v "$backports_container" >/dev/null
+backports_container=
 docker run --rm --network none --entrypoint /bin/bash "$candidate" -ec \
   'ldd "$(python3 -c "import _ssl; print(_ssl.__file__)")"; curl --version' \
   >"$evidence/python-ssl-linkage.txt"
@@ -154,8 +145,6 @@ docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
 docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
   -v "$scratch/trivy-cache:/root/.cache/trivy" -v "$evidence:/evidence" "$trivy" image --scanners vuln,secret --list-all-pkgs --format json \
   --output /evidence/image-security.json "$candidate"
-pip_scan_input="$evidence/image-security.json"
-if [[ "$COMPONENT" = base ]]; then
 backports_image=$(sed -n 's/^FROM \(ghcr.io\/pasturestack\/ubuntu-security-backports:v0\.1\.0@sha256:[0-9a-f]\{64\}\) AS ubuntu_security_backports$/\1/p' agent-base/Dockerfile)
 [[ "$backports_image" =~ ^ghcr.io/pasturestack/ubuntu-security-backports:v0\.1\.0@sha256:[0-9a-f]{64}$ ]]
 docker pull --platform linux/amd64 "$backports_image"
@@ -176,7 +165,6 @@ docker run --rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
   --vex /evidence/ubuntu-backports/openvex.json --format json \
   --output /evidence/image-security-os-effective.json "$candidate"
 pip_scan_input="$evidence/image-security-os-effective.json"
-fi
 python3 tools/pip-security-overlay/filter-pip-vendor-findings.py \
   --raw "$pip_scan_input" --proof "$evidence/pip-vendor-slice.json" \
   --sbom "$evidence/image.cdx.json" \
diff --git a/scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py b/scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py
index 5005566c8e..58632bab4c 100644
--- a/scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py
+++ b/scripts/check-agent-package-consistency.py
@@ -19,20 +19,6 @@ def inventory(text):
     return result
 
 
-def verify_legacy_wrapper(data):
-    """Preserve the published 0.3.6 wrapper contract until its new base exists."""
-    builder = inventory(data['builder-packages.tsv'])
-    runtime = inventory(data['runtime-packages.tsv'])
-    common = builder.keys() & runtime.keys()
-    require(all(builder[name] == runtime[name] for name in common), 'Legacy wrapper builder/runtime drift')
-    expected = {'libssl3t64': '3.5.5-1ubuntu3.7', 'curl': '8.18.0-1ubuntu2.8',
-                'libc6': '2.43-2ubuntu2.4', 'ca-certificates': '20260816ubuntu0.26.04.1'}
-    require(all(runtime.get(name) == version for name, version in expected.items()),
-            'Unexpected published-wrapper security package')
-    return {'builder_packages': len(builder), 'runtime_packages': len(runtime),
-            'common_packages_same_versions': len(common), 'expected_security_packages': True}
-
-
 def verify(data):
     builder = inventory(data['builder-packages.tsv'])
     runtime = inventory(data['runtime-packages.tsv'])
@@ -83,7 +69,7 @@ def verify(data):
 
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
-    require(sys.argv[1:] in ([], ['--legacy-wrapper']), 'Unsupported arguments')
+    require(not sys.argv[1:], 'Unsupported arguments')
     data = json.load(sys.stdin)
-    report = verify_legacy_wrapper(data) if sys.argv[1:] else verify(data)
+    report = verify(data)
     print(json.dumps(report, indent=2))
diff --git a/scripts/test-agent-package-consistency.py b/scripts/test-agent-package-consistency.py
index 21144e96fe..d2da643018 100644
--- a/scripts/test-agent-package-consistency.py
+++ b/scripts/test-agent-package-consistency.py
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@
 import json
 from pathlib import Path
 import unittest
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import tempfile
 
 spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location('package_consistency', Path(__file__).with_name('check-agent-package-consistency.py'))
 module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
@@ -72,18 +75,19 @@ def test_changed_qualification_is_rejected(self):
         self.data['backports-qualification.json'] = '{}'
         with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'checksum'): self.verify()
 
-    def test_published_wrapper_keeps_its_original_strict_contract(self):
-        self.runtime = dict(self.builder)
-        self.verify_files_only()
-        self.assertTrue(module.verify_legacy_wrapper(self.data)['expected_security_packages'])
-        self.runtime['libc6'] = self.versions['libc6']
-        self.verify_files_only()
-        with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'drift'):
-            module.verify_legacy_wrapper(self.data)
-
-    def verify_files_only(self):
-        for filename, data in [('builder-packages.tsv', self.builder), ('runtime-packages.tsv', self.runtime)]:
-            self.data[filename] = ''.join(name + '\t' + version + '\n' for name, version in data.items())
+    def test_cli_preserves_stdin_and_rejects_argument_paths(self):
+        self.verify()
+        payload = json.dumps(self.data).encode('utf-8')
+        script = str(Path(__file__).with_name('check-agent-package-consistency.py'))
+        result = subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-B', script], input=payload, capture_output=True)
+        self.assertEqual(result.returncode, 0, result.stderr.decode())
+        self.assertEqual(json.loads(result.stdout)['backport_manifest_sha256'],
+                         hashlib.sha256(self.data['backports-manifest.json'].encode('utf-8')).hexdigest())
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix='agent-stdin-unit-') as directory:
+            path = Path(directory) / 'valid-inventory.json'; path.write_bytes(payload)
+            rejected = subprocess.run([sys.executable, '-B', script, str(path)], input=payload, capture_output=True)
+            self.assertNotEqual(rejected.returncode, 0)
+            self.assertIn(b'Unsupported arguments', rejected.stderr)
 
     def test_inventory_text_preserves_bytes_and_rejects_malformed_rows(self):
         result = self.verify()