Each successful run prunes its tier, so a compromised controller calling POST /backup in a loop
pushed out every pre-compromise restore point. A tier with a cadence of at most 24 h now allows 3
successful runs per rolling 24 h (night, a press, the next night); a longer tier 1 per
max(cadence - 24 h, cadence/2), 6 days for the weekly off-site tier. Only successes count. A
refusal is a 429, a WARN, saved, and for 24 h a critical host-report status that the hub turns
into its existing operator-only agent_capability_degraded event. The success history and the
refusal are kept in the R-894 state file, so a restart does not reset the cap. No sudoers change.
Tests TestBackupCap_* and the state, status and wiring tests, red-proved.
Found in the 2026-10-09 kernel-night read-back:
- demo-felhom: the kernel step restarted the host 4 minutes after the night
backup; the in-memory backup list was empty after the restart, so the hub
alarmed "host tier: newest backup is 48h old". The report now adds R-894's
saved newest success per tier (one shared instance).
- demo-hp: proxmox-secure-boot-support pulled shim-signed-common into the
ring-0 Proxmox plan; the step was refused R6 and the kernel step skipped.
It joins HOST_SLOW_RE with shim and GRUB.
Red-proved: TestCollectBackups_SavedSuccessSurvivesARestart,
TestR894_LastKnownBackupsIsWiredIntoTheDaemon,
test_ring0_pending_pve_leaves_the_secure_boot_meta_out.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
An unreadable storage right after an agent restart read the off-site tier
DUE (the in-memory record was empty). The newest success per tier is now
kept on disk and read ONLY when the storage cannot be read: fresh -> not
due, older than the cadence -> due, none -> due (unknown) as before. A
storage that answers stays the ground truth.
Ships with v0.150.0 after the 2026-10-07 read-back; nothing delivered.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
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