diff --git a/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz.py b/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz.py
index bc57ce3b..cadf848d 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz.py
+++ b/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz.py
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ def cmd_company_create(client, args):
     extra, rc = _load_json_arg(args.extra_json, "extra-json")
     if rc:
         return rc
+    if args.parent and not _require_oid(args.parent, "parent company"):
+        return 2
     label = {0: "Partner", 1: "Customer"}.get(args.type, str(args.type))
     if not _gated(f"create {label} company '{args.name}'", args.confirm):
         return 3
@@ -337,6 +339,8 @@ def cmd_endpoint(client, args):
 
 
 def cmd_sweep(client, args):
+    if args.company and not _require_oid(args.company, "company"):
+        return 2
     if args.company:
         summaries = client.security_sweep(args.company)
     else:
@@ -535,11 +539,11 @@ def cmd_push_set(client, args):
 
 
 def cmd_push_test(client, args):
-    if not _gated(f"send test push event '{args.event_type}'", args.confirm):
-        return 3
     extra, rc = _load_json_arg(args.extra_json, "extra-json")
     if rc:
         return rc
+    if not _gated(f"send test push event '{args.event_type}'", args.confirm):
+        return 3
     result = client.send_test_push_event(args.event_type, extra=extra or None)
     _emit({"testEvent": args.event_type, "result": result}, args.json, _print_kv)
     return 0
@@ -702,8 +706,11 @@ def cmd_create_package(client, args):
 
 
 def cmd_install_links(client, args):
+    if args.company and not _require_oid(args.company, "company"):
+        return 2
     _emit(client.get_installation_links(args.package, args.company),
           args.json, _print_kv)
+    return 0
 
 
 def cmd_scan(client, args):
diff --git a/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz_client.py b/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz_client.py
index 0f0a2991..62722b03 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz_client.py
+++ b/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/gz_client.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import base64
 import json
 import os
 import random
+import socket
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
@@ -86,7 +87,9 @@ def _retry_delay(headers, attempt: int) -> float:
         # An explicit server-mandated Retry-After is honored up to a HIGHER cap
         # than the exponential backoff (don't retry early into another 429).
         try:
-            return min(float(ra), RETRY_AFTER_MAX_SECONDS)
+            # clamp to [0, ceiling]: a malformed negative Retry-After must not
+            # reach time.sleep() (which raises ValueError on a negative value).
+            return min(max(float(ra), 0.0), RETRY_AFTER_MAX_SECONDS)
         except (TypeError, ValueError):
             try:
                 dt = parsedate_to_datetime(ra)
@@ -373,11 +376,16 @@ class GravityZoneClient:
         except TimeoutError as exc:
             raise _RetryableHTTP("timeout", detail=str(exc)) from exc
         except urllib.error.URLError as exc:
-            # A bare URLError (not HTTPError) is a connection-level failure. If it
-            # wraps a read timeout it is ambiguous ('timeout'); otherwise it is a
-            # pre-send connect failure ('connect', always safe to retry).
+            # Classify conservatively: only a KNOWN pre-send failure (connection
+            # refused / DNS failure) is the always-safe 'connect'. Anything else -
+            # a connect/read timeout, or an ambiguous post-send reset like
+            # RemoteDisconnected/ConnectionResetError that urllib also wraps in
+            # URLError - is 'timeout' so a non-idempotent write is NOT retried.
             reason = getattr(exc, "reason", None)
-            code = "timeout" if isinstance(reason, TimeoutError) else "connect"
+            if isinstance(reason, (ConnectionRefusedError, socket.gaierror)):
+                code = "connect"
+            else:
+                code = "timeout"
             raise _RetryableHTTP(code, detail=str(exc)) from exc
         try:
             return json.loads(raw.decode("utf-8"))
diff --git a/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/selftest.py b/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/selftest.py
index 5c2dbd53..a9894060 100644
--- a/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/selftest.py
+++ b/.claude/skills/bitdefender/scripts/selftest.py
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ check("policy no shallow warning", ["policy", "5c42940b6e16d61a0c8b4568"], want_
 # behavior, not a skill bug. ---
 check("endpoint bad id -> rc2 (client-side)", ["endpoint", "bogus"], want_rc=2, err_has="not a valid")
 check("policy bad id -> rc2 (client-side)", ["policy", "bogus"], want_rc=2, err_has="not a valid")
+check("sweep bad company -> rc2 (client-side)", ["sweep", "--company", "bogus"], want_rc=2, err_has="not a valid")
+check("install-links bad company -> rc2", ["install-links", "--package", "P", "--company", "bogus"], want_rc=2, err_has="not a valid")
 
 # --- argparse: missing required arg -> rc2 ---
 check("quarantine missing --company -> rc2", ["quarantine"], want_rc=2)