REPORT: the night's agent fixes (R-921, R-1070, R-1010), not released

.gitea/workflows/gates.yml

@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ jobs:
         env:
           # In-cluster, so the check does not depend on public DNS or the ingress TLS chain.
           GITEA_BASE: http://gitea.gitea-system.svc.cluster.local:3000
+          # R-986: the security-scan gate fetches the PINNED gitleaks here (sha256-checked); no Go, so govulncheck says
+          # NOT CHECKED in CI, out loud. Warn-first either way: the scan lists, it never fails this job.
+          FELHOM_SCAN_FETCH: "1"
         run: cd ws/felhom-agent && python3 scripts/agent_gates.py
 
       - name: Manual proof - alarm key present, optional forced failure (dispatch only, R-1129)

.security-accepted

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# .security-accepted — hits security_scan_gate.py (felhom.eu/scripts, R-986) lists as ACCEPTED, not WARN.
+# One per line: <tool> <id> <where>  # reason. govulncheck: OSV id + module dir; gitleaks: rule@<sha256[:12] of the line> + file.
+# The first scan's verdicts (2026-10-19): felhom.eu documentation/audits/night-2026-10-19/P7/triage.md
+gitleaks generic-api-key@1ad7cc8eb57e internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@46ce5a3eccc4 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@46fe126846b0 internal/escrow/identity_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@56474f1754f5 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@631c53997f7e internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@6e790ef41ef3 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@78334b854242 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@7b88d323a44f internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@b0eeee93cf24 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@b1cb2659967a internal/localapi/escrow_stage_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@b66bec43cc8a internal/escrow/recover_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@e0525160fe03 internal/pbsdr/wrapper_read_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@e442e455c360 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@f23f93f461b2 internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret
+gitleaks generic-api-key@f471b78e0f6e internal/escrow/recover_retained_test.go  # false: a test constant or a decoy value, no live secret

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,15 +1,55 @@
-## Unreleased (2026-10-18) — CI workflow: the failure mail links the public run page, by run id (R-1135); no code change
+## Unreleased (2026-10-19) — three fixes for the next release (R-921, R-1070, R-1010); two texts made true after 0.160.0
 
-`.gitea/workflows/gates.yml`, the alarm step: the mail's run link is now `https://gitea.dooplex.hu/<repo>/actions/runs/<run id>`.
-It used `GITHUB_SERVER_URL`, which on this runner is the in-cluster address (`http://gitea.gitea-system.svc.cluster.local:3000`,
-the address the runner registers at), so nobody outside the cluster could open it. It also used the run NUMBER, and
-Gitea 1.26 reads `/actions/runs/<n>` as a run id first: a number that is also an older run's id opened that other run
-(measured 2026-10-18: `felhom.eu/actions/runs/1116` opened run id 1116, run number 613). It now uses `GITHUB_RUN_ID` and
-prints the link (`ALARM-LINK …`) into the job log. Same change in all four repos' workflows.
+Not released (the night brief of 2026-10-19: agent code + tests + commit only; the release is the operator's word). No
+sudoers, wrapper or config-bundle change.
 
-## Unreleased — three fixes from the 2026-10-12 security review and the storage build (R-1093, R-978, R-973) (2026-10-18)
+- **R-921 — `GET /backup/status` says when the host is busy.** New field `host_busy` (`{busy, what}`): whether the
+  host-wide heavy-operation gate is held right now (another guest's backup, the restore test, a night OS step, the
+  stale-lock sweep, a power-off) — the state that makes a `POST /backup` answer 409. Served on every request; absent
+  when the gate is not wired. Controller ≥ 0.335.0 reads it before it stops the household's apps for a tier, so a
+  refused tier costs no stop (the measured case of 2026-10-08: the night OS step, all 15 apps stopped for a refusal).
+  A read, never a reservation. No new route. Test `TestBackupStatus_R921_HostBusy`, red-proved (assignment removed →
+  `free gate: host_busy = <nil>`).
+- **R-1070 — a box with no tunnel set up no longer fails its host OS update.** Docker 29 prints „error: no such
+  object" in lower case, so the tunnel probe's case-sensitive match fell through to `unknown` („could not ask the
+  guest"), and the host health rule failed every box without a cloudflared container (Tester4, 2026-10-15,
+  `os_update_health_failed`). Now the match ignores case and a missing container is a new state, **`absent`** („no
+  tunnel set up on this box"); the host rule reads it as not applicable only when the reading from before the update
+  (Docker answered) also had no cloudflared container. A tunnel that is down, gone or unreadable still fails. The hub
+  alarms only on `not_running`, so `absent` never mails. Tests `TestHostHealthVerdict_R1070_NoTunnelSetUp` (7 rows) and
+  three `TestClassifyTunnel` rows (Docker 29's wording measured on demo-hp), red-proved both ways.
+- **R-1010 — the stale-lock janitor clears a half-removed `vzdump` snapshot.** When the delete fails ONLY with
+  „Failed to find logical volume …_vzdump" (one disk's snapshot already gone — demo-hp 2026-10-14 after a backup ran
+  out of space), it retries once with Proxmox's own `force=1` on the same API call (`DeleteSnapshotForce`; the same
+  token privilege, no sudoers line, no root command — `pvesh usage … -command delete` lists `--force`). Any other error
+  is returned unchanged; a failed forced delete is returned, never a second force. Tests
+  `TestStaleLock_R1010_ForcesOnceOnlyWhenTheVolumeIsGone` (6 rows) and `TestDeleteSnapshotForce_R1010`, red-proved
+  (single plain delete → `calls [plain], want [plain force]`).
 
-Committed, not released — the release and its vouch are the operator's.
+- **The security-scan gate (R-986), tooling only:** `agent_gates.py` registers the SHARED
+  `felhom.eu/scripts/security_scan_gate.py` (FAST set: the hook and CI) — govulncheck (called vulnerabilities) and gitleaks
+  on the pushed commits, **warn-first**. `.security-accepted` holds the first scan's 15 accepted hits (escrow and
+  local-API test constants), each with a reason. CI fetches the pinned gitleaks (`FELHOM_SCAN_FETCH=1`). Decoys: the
+  shared 8 plus the gate on this repo, in `test_gate_decoys.py`.
+
+### Earlier on 2026-10-19 (texts only)
+
+- The ceremony-complete log line now says the package uploads at the claim **or at the typed-back confirm** (R-1151);
+  it read „package uploads at the claim" for both orders (seen in demo-hp's journal, 2026-10-19 01:47 UTC).
+- The R-973 comments in `cmd/felhom-agent/main.go` and `internal/localapi/backup_cap.go` named the hub event
+  `agent_capability_degraded`; since hub v0.159.0 (R-1150) a refused backup raises `whole_guest_backup_refused`.
+  Found by the hub helper of the day brief 2026-10-19.
+- **gofmt, R-1160:** `1edfd8e` formats the 14 Go files that were not gofmt-clean (formatting only, `go test ./...`
+  green). New gate `scripts/gofmt_gate.py` (the controller's R-454 shape) in `agent_gates.py`, fast set; its decoys in
+  `scripts/test_gate_decoys.py` plant an unformatted file in a SCRATCH copy (convicted by name), the formatted twin
+  (passes), and the no-Go modes (CI passes out loud, a dev machine is INCONCLUSIVE). Red-proved: with the conviction
+  switched off the FACT case reports a LIVE HOLE. The next release carries it; no release for it.
+
+## v0.160.0 — five fixes: an abandoned or un-typed-back escrow ceremony keeps the old code (R-978, R-1151); a whole-guest backup flood is capped (R-973) and the local tier keeps one point per day (R-1149); an empty partition is not „data" (R-1093) (2026-10-19)
+
+Released 2026-10-19 on the operator's yes (02:48 answers, D17 „one per day, 3 days"). sha256
+`7ebb547f2b1ab93544ba828d3040351b60c4126327a5b85bbcb33f8f2b3dfca1`, config bundle
+`6b06090190ff609af1fe9842447ebf385fd52da4be382bc7ca708b558c8e202f`. The vouch is the operator's.
 
 - **R-1093 — an EMPTY partition no longer asks the typed „data will be erased" confirmation.** `lsblk` prints the
   parent disk's table type (PTTYPE) on every partition, so `SudoHostOps.InspectDevice` read a blank partition as
@@ -91,6 +131,12 @@ Committed, not released — the release and its vouch are the operator's.
   with keep-last 3 the local tier's three points can still be replaced within one day (3 per day is the schedule's own
   pace plus one press); the hub's event text reads „agent privileged capability degraded" (the type is generic). No
   sudoers or bundle change.
+- **CI workflow (R-1135, no code change).** `.gitea/workflows/gates.yml`, the alarm step: the mail's run link is now `https://gitea.dooplex.hu/<repo>/actions/runs/<run id>`.
+  It used `GITHUB_SERVER_URL`, which on this runner is the in-cluster address (`http://gitea.gitea-system.svc.cluster.local:3000`,
+  the address the runner registers at), so nobody outside the cluster could open it. It also used the run NUMBER, and
+  Gitea 1.26 reads `/actions/runs/<n>` as a run id first: a number that is also an older run's id opened that other run
+  (measured 2026-10-18: `felhom.eu/actions/runs/1116` opened run id 1116, run number 613). It now uses `GITHUB_RUN_ID` and
+  prints the link (`ALARM-LINK …`) into the job log. Same change in all four repos' workflows.
 
 ## v0.159.2 — the orphan thin check runs only after a failed backup (R-1012 follow-up) (2026-10-18)
 

CONTEXT.md

@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # CONTEXT — felhom-agent working state
 
+> **2026-10-19 — v0.160.0 RELEASED (operator yes), NOT VOUCHED; on demo-hp, Tester 1, demo-felhom.** R-1093, R-978,
+> R-973 (below) plus R-1149 (the local tier prunes `keep-daily=N`, `BackupTier.PruneSpec`) and R-1151 (a claim with
+> `{"defer_upload": true}` keeps the package until `POST /escrow/ceremony/confirm` brings the two words at the drawn
+> positions; only those two words are held, 30-min window; a claim without it keeps the R-978 order). Vouch: version
+> 0.160.0, sha256 `7ebb547f…dfca1`, bundle `6b060901…e202f`. After it, unreleased: `4545819` (two texts). felhom.eu
+> `REPORT-day-2026-10-19.md`.
 > **2026-10-18 (night) — UNRELEASED on main: R-1093, R-978, R-973** (release + vouch: the operator's). R-1093 an empty
 > partition is blank (lsblk's PTTYPE on a partition is the parent's; set aside only on a clean blkid exit 0 with a
 > matching `PART_ENTRY_SCHEME`; an unparsable lsblk is unprobed). R-978 the escrow package reaches the hub only at the

REPORT.md

@@ -1,40 +1,20 @@
-# REPORT — three agent fixes, committed and NOT released (2026-10-18 evening)
+# REPORT — agent, evening/night brief 2026-10-19 (code + tests + commit only, NOT released)
 
-Task: the evening brief of 2026-10-18, Part 4 (felhom.eu `REPORT-evening-2026-10-18.md`). Baseline: `27bbdaa` (v0.159.2
-released). Commits: `f7b7308` + `0963bae` (R-1093), `8561dc8` (R-978), `f17e197` (R-973). CHANGELOG under „Unreleased";
-the release and its vouch are the operator's. Gates green per commit (`go build/vet/test ./...`, `agent_gates.py --fast`);
-CI job 2062 success for `f17e197`.
+Commit `56aabc7` (CHANGELOG „Unreleased"), scanner wiring `84ef581`. No sudoers, wrapper or config-bundle change.
+The release is the operator's word (STATUS morning list: „Release agent 0.161.0?"), then the vouch.
 
-## R-1093 — an empty partition is blank
+- **R-921 — `host_busy` on `GET /backup/status`:** whether the host-wide heavy-operation gate is held (`{busy, what}`),
+  the state in which `POST /backup` answers 409. Controller 0.335.0 (the floor) reads it before any stop. Test
+  `TestBackupStatus_R921_HostBusy`, red-proved (assignment removed → `free gate: host_busy = <nil>`).
+- **R-1070 — tunnel `absent`:** Docker 29 prints „error: no such object" in lower case; the case-sensitive match read
+  a missing cloudflared container as `unknown`, which failed the host OS-update rule (Tester4, 2026-10-15). Now a
+  missing container is `absent`, and the host rule passes it only when the reading from before the step also had no
+  cloudflared container. Tests `TestHostHealthVerdict_R1070_NoTunnelSetUp`, `TestClassifyTunnel` (Docker 29's wording,
+  measured on demo-hp), red-proved both ways.
+- **R-1010 — the janitor's forced snapshot delete:** on „Failed to find logical volume …_vzdump" only, one retry with
+  the API's `force=1` (`DeleteSnapshotForce`; `pvesh usage … -command delete` lists `--force`). Tests
+  `TestStaleLock_R1010_ForcesOnceOnlyWhenTheVolumeIsGone` (6 rows), `TestDeleteSnapshotForce_R1010`, red-proved.
+- **R-986 — the security-scan gate** (tooling): the shared `felhom.eu/scripts/security_scan_gate.py` in the fast set;
+  `.security-accepted` holds 15 accepted test constants; decoys in `test_gate_decoys.py`.
 
-lsblk reports the PARENT disk's PTTYPE for a partition. `InspectDevice` now ignores that PTTYPE only when `blkid -p` on the
-partition exited 0, printed `PART_ENTRY_NUMBER`, and its `PART_ENTRY_SCHEME` equals lsblk's PTTYPE. Every error path
-stays data-bearing: blkid exit 2 / I/O error / missing binary keep „device has a partition table"; an lsblk answer that
-exits 0 but does not parse or names no device is „could not be reliably inspected" (an older fail-open, closed here after
-a background security review flagged the probe). No new sudo command, no config bundle.
-Test `TestInspect_R1093_PartitionVerdicts` (14 rows); three red-proofs. **Live on demo-hp** (a 1 GB loop file in `/root`,
-removed after; felhom.eu `audits/agent-fixes-2026-10-18/r1093-loop-check.txt`): the empty GPT partition → lsblk
-`pttype "gpt"` (the bug's input), blkid rc 0 with only `PART_ENTRY_*` (the fix's condition holds); ext4 → `TYPE=ext4`; a
-dos table inside the partition → `PTTYPE=dos`. Not walked: the whole `/api/storage/init` call (the agent refuses loop
-devices; it needs a VM with a spare disk running a build of this commit).
-
-## R-978 — the new escrow package reaches the hub only at the claim
-
-A ceremony started again no longer replaces the hub's package at create time. The package travels with the pending
-ceremony and is uploaded when the code is claimed, before the code is handed out; an upload failure is 502 and the code
-stays claimable; a ceremony abandoned by TTL, a new start or a restart leaves the first code opening the hub's package.
-Ceremony output is version 2 (`PendingUpload`); the sudo argv is unchanged. Tests `TestEscrowCeremony_R978_*` and three
-`cmd` tests; four red-proofs. **Residual (filed):** the typed-back check is the browser's, so a household that opens the
-new code and closes the page without writing it down has still replaced the package.
-
-## R-973 — a cadence cap on `POST /backup`
-
-Per guest and tier, successful runs only: the daily (local) tier at most **3 per rolling 24 h** (the night run, one
-„Mentés most", the next night — `07` §6; since R-899 a press never costs the night); the longer tier at most one per
-max(cadence − 24 h, cadence / 2) = **6 days** for the weekly off-site tier. A refusal is 429 with the next allowed time,
-WARN-logged, kept in `backup-success-state.json` (survives a restart), and for 24 h the host report carries the CRITICAL
-degraded status `localapi:backup-cadence-cap` (the hub's operator-only `agent_capability_degraded`). Tests `TestBackupCap_*`
-and others; three red-proofs. **Limits (filed):** keep-last 3 lets three local points be replaced within one day; the
-off-site namespace's keep-last 2 is a count — a time-bucketed prune on ep0 is the operator's.
-
-*Decided by CC unattended — operator may reverse:* the numbers 3 / 24 h and 6 days, and counting successes only.
+Gates: `go build/vet/test ./...` green; `agent_gates.py --fast` OK; decoys 36 cases OK. CI 2103, 2110 success.

cmd/felhom-agent/main.go

@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ const backupCapStatusName = "localapi:backup-cadence-cap"
 
 // backupCapStatus turns the local-API backup cadence cap's newest refusal (R-973) into a CRITICAL
 // capability status: degraded for 24 h after a refusal, so the hub raises its operator-only
-// agent_capability_degraded event (no hub change). The Reason names the guest, the tier and the time, and
+// whole_guest_backup_refused event (hub v0.159.0, R-1150; agent_capability_degraded before). The Reason names the guest, the tier and the time, and
 // says what to do. nil source (local API off) → ok.
 func backupCapStatus(refusal func() (string, int, time.Time, bool)) capability.Status {
 	s := capability.Status{
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ func runDaemon(cfg config.Config, logger *slog.Logger, logRing *applog.Ring) int
 		log: logger,
 	}
 	// R-973: the local-API backup cadence cap's refusals ride the report as a CRITICAL status, so the hub's
-	// existing agent_capability_degraded event (operator-only) tells the operator. Late-bound like
+	// operator-only whole_guest_backup_refused event (hub v0.159.0, R-1150) tells the operator. Late-bound like
 	// drConfigured: the local API server is built further down, before the loop starts.
 	var backupCapRefusal func() (string, int, time.Time, bool)
 	probeAll := func(ctx context.Context) []capability.Status {

internal/backup/backup_test.go

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ package backup
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"fmt"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
+	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log/slog"
 	"testing"

internal/backup/r689_golden_test.go

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func TestR689_GuestBackupArchiveShapes(t *testing.T) {
 		{proxmox.StorageContent{VolID: "felhom-pbs:backup/vm/300/2026-07-28T05:31:14Z", VMID: 300}, true},
 		{proxmox.StorageContent{VolID: "local:backup/felhom-golden-0.236.0.tar.zst"}, false},
 		{proxmox.StorageContent{VolID: "local:backup/vzdump-lxc-9201-x.tar.zst", VMID: 9202}, false}, // vmid disagrees with the name
-		{proxmox.StorageContent{VolID: "felhom-pbs:backup/ct/9201/2026-07-28T05:31:14Z"}, false},       // no vmid reported
+		{proxmox.StorageContent{VolID: "felhom-pbs:backup/ct/9201/2026-07-28T05:31:14Z"}, false},     // no vmid reported
 	} {
 		if ok, why := guestBackupArchive(c.e); ok != c.ok {
 			t.Errorf("%s vmid=%d: ok=%v (%s), want %v", c.e.VolID, c.e.VMID, ok, why, c.ok)

internal/capability/probe.go

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ type Runner interface {
 // downgrades a HEALTHY probe to StatusInactive (broken plumbing stays degraded regardless).
 type Prober struct {
 	Runner     Runner
-	Exists     func(path string) bool  // nil → os.Stat
+	Exists     func(path string) bool // nil → os.Stat
 	GateActive func(gate string) bool // nil → every gate treated active
 }
 

internal/escrow/consume.go

@@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ import (
 // The four inputs (the consumption contract — spike findings):
 //   - blob:                the opaque R-wrapped escrow blob (hub-served restore directive in 10D).
 //   - recoveryCode (R):    BY HAND from the customer — NEVER hub-sourced (zero-knowledge holds: a
-//                          hub compromise alone cannot decrypt). A secret: never logged/persisted.
+//     hub compromise alone cannot decrypt). A secret: never logged/persisted.
 //   - expectedFingerprint: hub-served — the gate target (F-C4).
 //   - keyDest:             where the PBS restore reads the key (`--keyfile` or the default
-//                          `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/proxmox-backup/encryption-key.json`).
+//     `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/proxmox-backup/encryption-key.json`).
 //
 // Order (spike F-C2/F-C3/F-C4/F-C6): Unwrap → fingerprint-gate → install. On ANY failure there is
 // NO partial install (nothing at keyDest) and no key material leaks: the recovered key lives only

internal/guesthook/heal_test.go

@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ func TestParseConfMounts(t *testing.T) {
 func TestMissingBindSources(t *testing.T) {
 	mounts := ParseConfMounts(sampleConf)
 	present := map[string]bool{
-		"/mnt/felhom-usb/felhom-data":                  true, // usb attached
-		"/var/lib/felhom-agent/guests/9201/bootstrap":  true, // bootstrap always present
+		"/mnt/felhom-usb/felhom-data":                 true, // usb attached
+		"/var/lib/felhom-agent/guests/9201/bootstrap": true, // bootstrap always present
 		// "/mnt/felhom-flash/felhom-data" is ABSENT (drive unplugged)
 	}
 	got := MissingBindSources(mounts, func(p string) bool { return present[p] })

internal/hub/cloudflared.go

@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ const (
 	TunnelRunning    = "running"     // the cloudflared container runs AND its readiness check says CONNECTED
 	TunnelNotRunning = "not_running" // stopped / exited / absent, or running but NOT connected (Detail says which)
 	TunnelUnknown    = "unknown"     // the probe could not ask (guest down, pct/sudo error, health still starting)
+	// TunnelAbsent (R-1070, agent Unreleased 2026-10-19): the guest answered and has NO cloudflared container — the
+	// controller makes none when no tunnel token is configured (a LAN-only or test box). Not a failure by itself: the
+	// hub never alarms on it, and the OS-update host rule reads it as „not applicable" only when the container was
+	// also absent before the update (HostHealthVerdict). Docker 29 prints „error: no such object" in lower case, so
+	// before this state existed the case-sensitive match fell through to `unknown` — which failed the host rule on
+	// every box without a tunnel (Tester4, 2026-10-15).
+	TunnelAbsent = "absent"
 )
 
 // CloudflaredProber reports the box's tunnel. Injectable so tests use a fake and never exec.
@@ -53,7 +60,7 @@ func (p GuestTunnelProber) Status(ctx context.Context) (string, string) {
 		return TunnelUnknown, "no running customer guest"
 	}
 	worst, wdetail := "", ""
-	rank := map[string]int{TunnelRunning: 0, TunnelUnknown: 1, TunnelNotRunning: 2}
+	rank := map[string]int{TunnelRunning: 0, TunnelAbsent: 1, TunnelUnknown: 2, TunnelNotRunning: 3}
 	for _, v := range vmids {
 		out, errOut, err := p.Runner.Run(ctx, "/usr/sbin/pct", "exec", fmt.Sprint(v), "--", "docker", "inspect", "-f", tunnelInspect, "cloudflared")
 		st, d := ClassifyTunnel(string(out), string(errOut), err)
@@ -71,8 +78,8 @@ func (p GuestTunnelProber) Status(ctx context.Context) (string, string) {
 func ClassifyTunnel(stdout, stderr string, err error) (string, string) {
 	out := strings.TrimSpace(stdout)
 	if err != nil || out == "" {
-		if strings.Contains(stderr, "No such object") || strings.Contains(stderr, "No such container") {
-			return TunnelNotRunning, "no cloudflared container in the guest"
+		if e := strings.ToLower(stderr); strings.Contains(e, "no such object") || strings.Contains(e, "no such container") {
+			return TunnelAbsent, "no cloudflared container in the guest (no tunnel set up on this box)"
 		}
 		return TunnelUnknown, "could not ask the guest: " + firstLine(stderr, err)
 	}

internal/hub/cloudflared_test.go

@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ func TestClassifyTunnel(t *testing.T) {
 		{"connected", "running|0|healthy\n", "", nil, TunnelRunning, "connected"},
 		{"running but not connected", "running|0|unhealthy\n", "", nil, TunnelNotRunning, "NOT connected"},
 		{"stopped", "exited|137|unhealthy\n", "", nil, TunnelNotRunning, "exit code 137"},
-		{"absent", "", "Error: No such object: cloudflared", errors.New("exit status 1"), TunnelNotRunning, "no cloudflared container"},
+		{"absent", "", "Error: No such object: cloudflared", errors.New("exit status 1"), TunnelAbsent, "no cloudflared container"},
+		// R-1070: Docker 29's wording, measured on demo-hp 2026-10-19 (`docker inspect` of a missing name).
+		{"absent, docker 29", "", "error: no such object: cloudflared", errors.New("exit status 1"), TunnelAbsent, "no tunnel set up"},
+		{"absent, no such container", "", "Error response from daemon: No such container: cloudflared", errors.New("exit status 1"), TunnelAbsent, "no cloudflared container"},
 		{"still starting", "running|0|starting\n", "", nil, TunnelUnknown, "starting"},
 		{"no health check (older controller)", "running|0|none\n", "", nil, TunnelRunning, "connection not checked"},
 		{"guest not running", "", "CT 9201 not running", errors.New("exit status 255"), TunnelUnknown, "could not ask"},

internal/hub/loop_logtail_test.go

@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@ func TestLoop_FailedTailPushIsReArmedByNextEnvelope(t *testing.T) {
 		env *ControlEnvelope
 		err error
 	}{
-		{env: &ControlEnvelope{LogTailRequested: true}},          // arm
-		{err: errors.New("hub 5xx")},                             // the carrying push FAILS
-		{env: &ControlEnvelope{LogTailRequested: true}},          // hub still pending → re-arm
-		{env: &ControlEnvelope{}},                                // fulfilled
+		{env: &ControlEnvelope{LogTailRequested: true}}, // arm
+		{err: errors.New("hub 5xx")},                    // the carrying push FAILS
+		{env: &ControlEnvelope{LogTailRequested: true}}, // hub still pending → re-arm
+		{env: &ControlEnvelope{}},                       // fulfilled
 	}}
 	l := tailLoop(rep)
 	ctx := context.Background()

internal/hub/report.go

@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ type GuestSpec struct {
 
 // Cloudflared is the box's tunnel (R-841, agent v0.141.0): the cloudflared container in the customer guest.
 type Cloudflared struct {
-	Status string `json:"status"`           // running | not_running | unknown (TunnelRunning …)
+	Status string `json:"status"`           // running | not_running | unknown | absent (TunnelRunning …; absent since R-1070)
 	Detail string `json:"detail,omitempty"` // why not_running / unknown, or "connected"
 }
 

internal/localapi/backup_cap.go

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ import (
 // Only SUCCESSES count — a failed run prunes nothing and must stay retryable. The count survives an agent
 // restart: it reads the success history saved on disk (LastKnownBackupStore, the R-894 file) as well as
 // this process's own record. A refusal answers 429, is logged at WARN, is saved, and raises the operator
-// signal BackupCapRefusal feeds (a critical capability in the host report → the hub's existing
-// `agent_capability_degraded` event, operator-only). Pinned by TestBackupCap_* (backup_cap_test.go).
+// signal BackupCapRefusal feeds (a critical capability in the host report → the hub's operator-only
+// `whole_guest_backup_refused` event since hub v0.159.0, R-1150). Pinned by TestBackupCap_* (backup_cap_test.go).
 
 // backupCapRefusalHold is how long one refusal keeps the operator signal raised.
 const backupCapRefusalHold = 24 * time.Hour

internal/localapi/escrow_ceremony.go

@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ func (s *Server) handleEscrowCeremonyStart(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Reques
 		job.Uploaded = false // R-978: uploaded by the claim
 		s.finishEscrowCeremony(job, out.RecoveryCode, out.PendingUpload)
 		out.RecoveryCode = "" // drop the parsed reference promptly (GC caveat: best-effort)
-		s.logger.Info("local-api: escrow ceremony complete — R claimable (in-memory, one-shot); package uploads at the claim",
+		s.logger.Info("local-api: escrow ceremony complete — R claimable (in-memory, one-shot); package uploads at the claim, or at the typed-back confirm (R-1151)",
 			"job_id", job.JobID, "restic_pw_sealed", job.ResticPwSealed, "uploaded", job.Uploaded,
 			"claim_ttl_s", int(escrowClaimTTL.Seconds()), "duration_ms", time.Since(start).Milliseconds())
 	}()

internal/localapi/server.go

@@ -1343,6 +1343,20 @@ type BackupStatusResponse struct {
 	// presence. Served on the UNTARGETED request only; additive, so an older controller reads the
 	// response exactly as before.
 	Tiers []TierBackupState `json:"tiers,omitempty"`
+	// HostBusy (R-921, agent Unreleased 2026-10-19) says whether the host-wide heavy-operation gate is held RIGHT NOW
+	// (another guest's backup, the restore test, a night OS step, the stale-lock sweep, a power-off) — a POST /backup
+	// would then be refused with 409. The controller reads it BEFORE it stops the household's apps, so a refused tier
+	// costs no stop. Served on every request; ABSENT (nil) = an older agent, or the gate is not wired — the controller
+	// then keeps its old order (stop, ask, resume at once on 409). A read, never a reservation: the gate can be taken
+	// between this answer and the POST, and that race keeps the old order. Pinned by TestBackupStatus_R921_HostBusy.
+	HostBusy *HostBusyState `json:"host_busy,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// HostBusyState is GET /backup/status's host_busy (R-921). What names the holder ("backup:local", "restore-test",
+// "os-pve-step" …), empty when Busy is false.
+type HostBusyState struct {
+	Busy bool   `json:"busy"`
+	What string `json:"what,omitempty"`
 }
 
 func (s *Server) handleBackupStatus(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, vmid int) {
@@ -1362,6 +1376,10 @@ func (s *Server) handleBackupStatus(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, vmid
 		resp.JobID = job.JobID
 		resp.Error = job.Error
 	}
+	if s.inFlight != nil {
+		what := s.inFlight.Busy()
+		resp.HostBusy = &HostBusyState{Busy: what != "", What: what}
+	}
 	writeOK(w, resp)
 }
 

internal/localapi/server_test.go

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-agent/internal/backup"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-agent/internal/hub"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-agent/internal/proxmox"
 )
@@ -514,3 +515,47 @@ func TestBackupStatus_FiltersToThisGuest(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("status not scoped to this guest / not latest: %s", w.Body.String())
 	}
 }
+
+// R-921: GET /backup/status says when the host-wide heavy-operation gate is held, so the controller can skip the app
+// stop for a tier the POST would refuse. Free → busy false; held → busy true with the holder's name; the gate not wired
+// → no field at all (the controller's „older agent" reading, never „free").
+//
+// COMPANION RED-PROOF (observed 2026-10-19): with the `resp.HostBusy = …` assignment removed, the held case fails with
+//
+//	server_test.go: free gate: host_busy = <nil>, want busy=false
+//
+// Restored.
+func TestBackupStatus_R921_HostBusy(t *testing.T) {
+	read := func(h http.Handler) *HostBusyState {
+		w := do(t, h, "GET", "/backup/status", "A", "")
+		var resp struct {
+			Data BackupStatusResponse `json:"data"`
+		}
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(w.Body.Bytes(), &resp); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("status body: %v (%s)", err, w.Body.String())
+		}
+		return resp.Data.HostBusy
+	}
+	srv := newTestServerS(t, &fakeGuests{}, &fakeBackups{}, &fakeStore{}, nil)
+	if got := read(srv.Handler()); got != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("gate not wired: host_busy = %+v, want absent", got)
+	}
+	gate := &backup.InFlight{}
+	srv.inFlight = gate
+	h := srv.Handler()
+	if got := read(h); got == nil || got.Busy || got.What != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("free gate: host_busy = %+v, want busy=false", got)
+	}
+	release, _, ok := gate.TryAcquire("os-pve-step")
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("could not take the gate")
+	}
+	if got := read(h); got == nil || !got.Busy || got.What != "os-pve-step" {
+		t.Fatalf("held gate: host_busy = %+v, want busy=true what=\"os-pve-step\"", got)
+	}
+	// The read never takes the gate: a POST after the holder lets go is accepted.
+	release()
+	if got := read(h); got == nil || got.Busy {
+		t.Fatalf("released gate: host_busy = %+v, want busy=false", got)
+	}
+}

internal/localapi/stalelock.go

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package localapi
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log/slog"
 	"os"
@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ type staleLockAPI interface {
 	ListSnapshots(ctx context.Context, vmid int) ([]proxmox.Snapshot, error)
 	ListRunningTasks(ctx context.Context) ([]proxmox.TaskStatus, error)
 	DeleteSnapshot(ctx context.Context, vmid int, snapname string) (string, error)
+	DeleteSnapshotForce(ctx context.Context, vmid int, snapname string) (string, error)
 	Start(ctx context.Context, vmid int) (string, error)
 	WaitTask(ctx context.Context, upid string, opts proxmox.WaitOptions) (proxmox.TaskStatus, error)
 }
@@ -334,8 +336,34 @@ func (c *staleLockController) Unlock(ctx context.Context, vmid int) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// DeleteVzdumpSnapshot removes the dangling `vzdump` snapshot. R-1010: when the delete fails ONLY because one disk's
+// snapshot volume is already gone („Failed to find logical volume pve/snap_vm-9201-disk-0_vzdump" — a backup that ran
+// out of space, 2026-10-14), Proxmox stops at that volume and keeps the entry and the other volumes' snapshots, and a
+// plain retry fails the same way every sweep, forever. Then it retries ONCE with Proxmox's force (the hand fix that
+// day was `pct delsnapshot 9201 vzdump --force`): the remaining volumes' snapshots are removed and the entry goes. Any
+// other error is returned as it is — never a force on an error that might mean a volume still holds data (a full
+// LVM metadata area, a busy volume). Pinned by TestStaleLock_R1010_*.
 func (c *staleLockController) DeleteVzdumpSnapshot(ctx context.Context, vmid int) error {
-	upid, err := c.px.DeleteSnapshot(ctx, vmid, vzdumpSnapshotName)
+	err := c.deleteSnap(ctx, vmid, false)
+	if err == nil || !snapshotVolumeAlreadyGone(err) {
+		return err
+	}
+	if c.logger != nil {
+		c.logger.Warn("stale-lock: a disk's vzdump snapshot volume is already gone — retrying the delete once with force (R-1010)",
+			"vmid", vmid, "err", err)
+	}
+	if ferr := c.deleteSnap(ctx, vmid, true); ferr != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("forced snapshot delete after %q also failed: %w", err.Error(), ferr)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func (c *staleLockController) deleteSnap(ctx context.Context, vmid int, force bool) error {
+	del := c.px.DeleteSnapshot
+	if force {
+		del = c.px.DeleteSnapshotForce
+	}
+	upid, err := del(ctx, vmid, vzdumpSnapshotName)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
@@ -346,6 +374,23 @@ func (c *staleLockController) DeleteVzdumpSnapshot(ctx context.Context, vmid int
 	return err
 }
 
+// snapshotVolumeAlreadyGone: the error is Proxmox's „Failed to find logical volume …_vzdump" from a snapshot delete
+// (in the task's exit status, its log tail, or the API error text). Narrow on purpose: the force is safe only when the
+// volume it cannot remove does not exist.
+func snapshotVolumeAlreadyGone(err error) bool {
+	text := err.Error()
+	var te *proxmox.TaskError
+	if errors.As(err, &te) {
+		text += "\n" + te.ExitStatus + "\n" + strings.Join(te.LogTail, "\n")
+	}
+	for _, l := range strings.Split(text, "\n") {
+		if strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(l), "failed to find logical volume") && strings.Contains(l, "_"+vzdumpSnapshotName) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 func (c *staleLockController) Start(ctx context.Context, vmid int) error {
 	upid, err := c.px.Start(ctx, vmid)
 	if err != nil {

internal/localapi/stalelock_pool_test.go

@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ type fakeStaleLockAPI struct {
 
 	delsnap []int
 	started []int
+	// R-1010: scripted delete answers, consumed in order (plain and forced share the list); calls records "plain"/"force".
+	delErrs  []error
+	delCalls []string
 }
 
 func (f *fakeStaleLockAPI) ListLXC(context.Context) ([]proxmox.Guest, error) { return f.lxc, nil }
@@ -55,7 +58,22 @@ func (f *fakeStaleLockAPI) ListRunningTasks(context.Context) ([]proxmox.TaskStat
 
 func (f *fakeStaleLockAPI) DeleteSnapshot(_ context.Context, vmid int, snapname string) (string, error) {
 	f.delsnap = append(f.delsnap, vmid)
-	return "", nil // synchronous — no WaitTask
+	return "", f.nextDelErr("plain") // synchronous — no WaitTask
+}
+
+func (f *fakeStaleLockAPI) DeleteSnapshotForce(_ context.Context, vmid int, snapname string) (string, error) {
+	f.delsnap = append(f.delsnap, vmid)
+	return "", f.nextDelErr("force")
+}
+
+func (f *fakeStaleLockAPI) nextDelErr(kind string) error {
+	f.delCalls = append(f.delCalls, kind)
+	if len(f.delErrs) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	e := f.delErrs[0]
+	f.delErrs = f.delErrs[1:]
+	return e
 }
 
 func (f *fakeStaleLockAPI) Start(_ context.Context, vmid int) (string, error) {

internal/localapi/stalelock_r1010_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package localapi
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-agent/internal/proxmox"
+)
+
+// R-1010: a half-removed vzdump snapshot. The error text is the one demo-hp's task printed on 2026-10-14
+// (`audits/power-cut-fixes-2026-10-14/C4/hand-fix.txt`).
+const r1010MissingLV = `lvremove snapshot 'pve/snap_vm-9201-disk-0_vzdump' error:   Failed to find logical volume "pve/snap_vm-9201-disk-0_vzdump"`
+
+func r1010TaskErr(exit string) error {
+	return &proxmox.TaskError{UPID: "UPID:demo-hp:0001:0002:0003:vzdelsnapshot:9201:root@pam:", ExitStatus: exit,
+		LogTail: []string{exit}}
+}
+
+// COMPANION RED-PROOF (observed 2026-10-19): with DeleteVzdumpSnapshot back to the single plain delete, the first case
+// fails with
+//
+//	stalelock_r1010_test.go: missing volume: calls [plain], want [plain force]; err = proxmox: task … failed: exitstatus "lvremove snapshot …"
+//
+// Restored.
+func TestStaleLock_R1010_ForcesOnceOnlyWhenTheVolumeIsGone(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name      string
+		errs      []error
+		wantCalls []string
+		wantErr   string
+	}{
+		{"missing volume", []error{r1010TaskErr(r1010MissingLV)}, []string{"plain", "force"}, ""},
+		{"missing volume, named only in the log tail", []error{&proxmox.TaskError{UPID: "x", ExitStatus: "command 'lvremove' failed: exit code 5",
+			LogTail: []string{r1010MissingLV}}}, []string{"plain", "force"}, ""},
+		{"the plain delete works", nil, []string{"plain"}, ""},
+		{"another error: no force", []error{r1010TaskErr("lvremove snapshot 'pve/snap_vm-9201-disk-0_vzdump' error: Failed to update pool pve/data.")},
+			[]string{"plain"}, "Failed to update pool"},
+		{"a missing volume of ANOTHER snapshot: no force", []error{r1010TaskErr(`Failed to find logical volume "pve/snap_vm-9201-disk-0_mine"`)},
+			[]string{"plain"}, "_mine"},
+		{"the forced delete fails too: returned, never a second force", []error{r1010TaskErr(r1010MissingLV), errors.New("still broken")},
+			[]string{"plain", "force"}, "still broken"},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		api := &fakeStaleLockAPI{delErrs: c.errs}
+		ctrl := NewStaleLockController(api, &recordingRunner{}, "felhom", nil)
+		err := ctrl.DeleteVzdumpSnapshot(context.Background(), 9201)
+		if strings.Join(api.delCalls, " ") != strings.Join(c.wantCalls, " ") {
+			t.Errorf("%s: calls %v, want %v; err = %v", c.name, api.delCalls, c.wantCalls, err)
+		}
+		switch {
+		case c.wantErr == "" && err != nil:
+			t.Errorf("%s: err = %v, want nil", c.name, err)
+		case c.wantErr != "" && (err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), c.wantErr)):
+			t.Errorf("%s: err = %v, want one naming %q", c.name, err, c.wantErr)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/mgmtplane/mgmtplane.go

@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@
 // the report stanza the hub surfaces:
 //
 //   - /run/sshd present?            — OpenSSH's SHARED privsep dir; its absence is the KEXINIT-reset
-//                                     lockout (SPIKE-felhom-sshd-2026-07-05 §8).
+//     lockout (SPIKE-felhom-sshd-2026-07-05 §8).
 //   - stock sshd listener answers?  — a TCP connect to the sshd port (22 for G1; H1 passes the
-//                                     discovered felhom-sshd port later).
+//     discovered felhom-sshd port later).
 //   - did the watchdog auto-heal?   — the watchdog writes an RFC3339 marker to /run when it heals;
-//                                     its presence (+ timestamp) tells the hub a clobber recurred, so
-//                                     the operator learns of a recurring cause BEFORE a lockout.
+//     its presence (+ timestamp) tells the hub a clobber recurred, so
+//     the operator learns of a recurring cause BEFORE a lockout.
 //
 // Read-only and dependency-light: os.Stat + os.ReadFile + a short net.Dial, no exec, no sudo. Safe to
 // run every heartbeat.
@@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ const (
 type Reporter struct {
 	privsepDir string
 	marker     string
-	sshdAddr   string                                  // host:port dialed for the reachability probe
-	statDir    func(string) bool                       // dir-exists check (os.Stat wrapper; test seam)
-	readMarker func(string) (string, bool)             // marker read → (timestamp, present)
+	sshdAddr   string                      // host:port dialed for the reachability probe
+	statDir    func(string) bool           // dir-exists check (os.Stat wrapper; test seam)
+	readMarker func(string) (string, bool) // marker read → (timestamp, present)
 	dialSSHD   func(ctx context.Context, addr string) bool
 }
 

internal/osupdate/leg.go

@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ func HealthVerdict(before, after *Health) (bool, string) {
 
 // HostHealthVerdict is THE host health rule (`11` §8.2; pinned by TestHostHealthVerdict): the Proxmox daemons and the
 // agent are active, the customer guest still runs, the guest's own rule still passes against the start of the pass,
-// and the tunnel is `running` (R-841).
+// and the tunnel is `running` (R-841) — or `absent` both now and before the update: a box with no tunnel set up
+// (R-1070; pinned by TestHostHealthVerdict_R1070_NoTunnelSetUp).
 func HostHealthVerdict(before, after *Health, tunnel string) (bool, string) {
 	if after == nil {
 		return false, "no health reading"
@@ -398,12 +399,28 @@ func HostHealthVerdict(before, after *Health, tunnel string) (bool, string) {
 	if ok, why := HealthVerdict(gb, after.Guest); !ok {
 		return false, "guest: " + why
 	}
-	if tunnel != hub.TunnelRunning {
+	switch {
+	case tunnel == hub.TunnelRunning:
+	case tunnel == hub.TunnelAbsent && noTunnelBefore(before):
+		// R-1070: no cloudflared container before the update and none after — the box has no tunnel to check.
+	case tunnel == hub.TunnelAbsent:
+		return false, "the tunnel is absent (no cloudflared container now, and the reading from before the update does not show it was absent then)"
+	default:
 		return false, "the tunnel is " + tunnel
 	}
 	return true, ""
 }
 
+// noTunnelBefore: the reading from the start of the pass shows the guest's Docker answered and listed NO cloudflared
+// container. A missing or failed reading is not „no tunnel" (an empty list from a failed `docker ps` must not pass).
+func noTunnelBefore(before *Health) bool {
+	if before == nil || before.Guest == nil || !before.Guest.DockerOK {
+		return false
+	}
+	_, had := before.Guest.Containers["cloudflared"]
+	return !had
+}
+
 // EngineOf is the engine version `docker version` prints for a docker-ce package version: "5:29.8.2-1~debian.13~trixie"
 // → "29.8.2" (no epoch, no Debian revision).
 func EngineOf(pkgVersion string) string {

internal/osupdate/leg_test.go

@@ -568,3 +568,42 @@ func TestDocker_OOMCheckReachesTheHubUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("no docker report posted: %s", calls(w))
 	}
 }
+
+// R-1070: a box with no tunnel set up (no cloudflared container before the update and none after) passes the host
+// rule; a box WITH a tunnel that is down, gone, or unreadable still fails it.
+//
+// COMPANION RED-PROOF (observed 2026-10-19): with the „not applicable" branch switched off (only `running` passes, the
+// pre-fix rule) the first case fails with
+//
+//	leg_test.go: no tunnel before, none after: got false (the tunnel is absent (no cloudflared container now, …)), want true
+//
+// and with the pre-fix case-sensitive match TestClassifyTunnel's Docker 29 row reads `unknown` („could not ask the
+// guest"), the state Tester4 failed on.
+// Restored.
+func TestHostHealthVerdict_R1070_NoTunnelSetUp(t *testing.T) {
+	withTunnel := hostOK()
+	withTunnel.Guest.Containers["cloudflared"] = Container{State: "running", Health: "healthy"}
+	dockerFailed := hostOK()
+	dockerFailed.Guest = &Health{DockerOK: false, Containers: map[string]Container{}}
+	cases := []struct {
+		name   string
+		before *Health
+		tunnel string
+		want   bool
+		why    string
+	}{
+		{"no tunnel before, none after", hostOK(), hub.TunnelAbsent, true, ""},
+		{"a tunnel before, gone after", withTunnel, hub.TunnelAbsent, false, "cloudflared was running"},
+		{"a tunnel before, down after", withTunnel, hub.TunnelNotRunning, false, "cloudflared was running"},
+		{"no tunnel before, a stopped one after", hostOK(), hub.TunnelNotRunning, false, "not_running"},
+		{"no tunnel before, the probe could not ask after", hostOK(), hub.TunnelUnknown, false, "unknown"},
+		{"no reading from before", nil, hub.TunnelAbsent, false, "absent"},
+		{"docker failed before (an empty list is not proof of none)", dockerFailed, hub.TunnelAbsent, false, "absent"},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		got, why := HostHealthVerdict(c.before, hostOK(), c.tunnel)
+		if got != c.want || !strings.Contains(why, c.why) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: got %v (%s), want %v (…%s…)", c.name, got, why, c.want, c.why)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/proxmox/mutate.go

@@ -180,6 +180,18 @@ func (c *Client) DeleteSnapshot(ctx context.Context, vmid int, snapname string)
 	return c.dataString(ctx, http.MethodDelete, path, nil)
 }
 
+// DeleteSnapshotForce is DeleteSnapshot with Proxmox's own `force=1` („remove from the config file, even if removing
+// disk snapshots fails"): the API's flag, so the same token privilege (VM.Snapshot) and no new root command. Used by
+// the stale-lock janitor ONLY after a delete failed because one disk's snapshot volume is already gone (R-1010). The
+// flag rides the query string, where pveproxy reads a DELETE's parameters. Pinned by TestDeleteSnapshotForce_R1010.
+func (c *Client) DeleteSnapshotForce(ctx context.Context, vmid int, snapname string) (string, error) {
+	if vmid == 0 || snapname == "" {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("proxmox: DeleteSnapshotForce needs vmid and snapname")
+	}
+	path := fmt.Sprintf("/nodes/%s/lxc/%d/snapshot/%s?force=1", c.node, vmid, url.PathEscape(snapname))
+	return c.dataString(ctx, http.MethodDelete, path, nil)
+}
+
 // SetConfig applies config changes via PUT /nodes/{node}/lxc/{vmid}/config
 // (e.g. memory, cores, net0, mpN with a backup flag). PVE may apply this
 // synchronously (no UPID) — the returned string is empty in that case, and "" is

internal/proxmox/scratch_destroy_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package proxmox
 import (
 	"context"
 	"io"
+	"net/http"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 )
@@ -99,3 +100,24 @@ func TestDestroyScratchLXC_RefusesUnconfiguredBand(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// R-1010: the forced snapshot delete is the API's own flag on the same DELETE (no new root command).
+func TestDeleteSnapshotForce_R1010(t *testing.T) {
+	var got *http.Request
+	d := &mockDoer{fn: func(r *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
+		got = r
+		return jsonResp(200, `{"data":"UPID:demo-felhom:0001:0002:0003:vzdelsnapshot:9201:u@pve!t:"}`), nil
+	}}
+	upid, err := newTestClient(d).DeleteSnapshotForce(context.Background(), 9201, "vzdump")
+	if err != nil || upid == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("DeleteSnapshotForce: upid %q err %v", upid, err)
+	}
+	if got.Method != http.MethodDelete || got.URL.Path != "/api2/json/nodes/demo-felhom/lxc/9201/snapshot/vzdump" ||
+		got.URL.Query().Get("force") != "1" {
+		t.Fatalf("request = %s %s, want DELETE …/lxc/9201/snapshot/vzdump?force=1", got.Method, got.URL.String())
+	}
+	d.fn = func(r *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) { got = r; return jsonResp(200, `{"data":null}`), nil }
+	if _, err := newTestClient(d).DeleteSnapshot(context.Background(), 9201, "vzdump"); err != nil || got.URL.RawQuery != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("the plain delete must carry no force: %s (err %v)", got.URL.String(), err)
+	}
+}

internal/reconcile/bringup.go

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ const DefaultPool = "felhom"
 //
 // SysDataGrowGB itself is NOT removed — see its field comment: the host installer still passes
 // `-sysdata-grow`, and its GiB are FOLDED INTO the single volume's grow rather than dropped.
-const DefaultSysDataMount = "" 
+const DefaultSysDataMount = ""
 
 // Structural host-bind mountpoints every provisioned guest carries (GL-5; verdict of
 // SPIKE-dr-bindmount-source-2026-07-07): the permanent drives parent bind (mp8,

internal/signedjobs/runner.go

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ import (
 // operator's signing CLI (cmd/felhom-opsign) produces it; this runner consumes it. The hub never
 // forges one (it holds no signing key) and never opens it.
 type Envelope struct {
-	OpBlobB64  string `json:"op_blob_b64"`  // base64 of the canonical OpBlob JSON
-	SigArmored string `json:"sig_armored"`  // armored SSHSIG over the op-blob (namespace felhom-op-v1)
+	OpBlobB64  string `json:"op_blob_b64"` // base64 of the canonical OpBlob JSON
+	SigArmored string `json:"sig_armored"` // armored SSHSIG over the op-blob (namespace felhom-op-v1)
 }
 
 // JobSource fetches + clears jobs. Satisfied by *hub.Client.

internal/storage/claim_test.go

@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@ func TestClassifyClaim(t *testing.T) {
 			nodes: []claimNode{{name: "sdd", fstype: "", mountpoint: ""}, {name: "sdd1", fstype: "ntfs", mountpoint: ""}}}
 	}
 	cases := []struct {
-		name       string
-		mutate     func(f *claimFacts)
+		name          string
+		mutate        func(f *claimFacts)
 		wantUnclaimed bool
-		reasonHas  string
+		reasonHas     string
 	}{
 		{"clean unclaimed disk (ntfs, unmounted)", func(f *claimFacts) {}, true, "unclaimed"},
 		{"blank disk", func(f *claimFacts) { f.nodes = []claimNode{{name: "sdd"}} }, true, "unclaimed"},

internal/storage/hostops.go

@@ -103,12 +103,12 @@ type MountSpec struct {
 // Binaries holds the absolute paths of the allow-listed binaries (overridable from config
 // so the sudoers entries and the agent agree on exact paths).
 type Binaries struct {
-	Systemctl   string
-	Install     string
+	Systemctl string
+	Install   string
 	// PrivApply is the root content checker (R-861, agent v0.146.0): a unit file reaches /etc/systemd/system only
 	// through `felhom-priv-apply unit <name>`, which reads the staged copy from /var/lib/felhom-agent/units/ and
 	// refuses anything the renderers here never produce (a bind over /etc, a Where outside /mnt, …).
-	PrivApply string
+	PrivApply   string
 	Smartctl    string
 	Lvs         string
 	Blkid       string // device signature probe (8C data-bearing detection)

internal/storage/intent.go

@@ -17,12 +17,12 @@ import (
 // Four states (3A):
 //   - new            : durable-id NOT in the store. Never auto-mounted (the user must enroll it).
 //   - enrolled       : desired = mounted + bound into the guest. Drift (present && unmounted) with
-//                      this intent → reconcile.
+//     this intent → reconcile.
 //   - ejected        : an intentional, temporary unmount, set ONLY via the official eject endpoint.
-//                      Present && unmounted → left alone. CLEARED to `enrolled` when the drive goes
-//                      physically ABSENT, so a replug auto-mounts (the replug rule, for free).
+//     Present && unmounted → left alone. CLEARED to `enrolled` when the drive goes
+//     physically ABSENT, so a replug auto-mounts (the replug rule, for free).
 //   - decommissioned : permanent. Never auto-mounted; SURVIVES absent/present; cleared only by an
-//                      explicit re-commission.
+//     explicit re-commission.
 //
 // The elegant invariant: intent is recorded ONLY through the official enroll/eject/decommission
 // paths. "Is it unmounted" ≠ "did someone officially eject it."

internal/storage/netverify_test.go

@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ systemd-1 /mnt/felhom-drives/live autofs rw,relatime,fd=86 0 0
 		where string
 		want  bool
 	}{
-		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/live", true},   // real nfs4 (the autofs line for the same path must not confuse it)
-		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/smb", true},    // cifs
-		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/idle", false},  // autofs trigger ONLY — idle automount is NOT mounted
-		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/disk", false},  // a local fs at the path is not a network mount
-		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/nope", false},  // absent
+		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/live", true},  // real nfs4 (the autofs line for the same path must not confuse it)
+		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/smb", true},   // cifs
+		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/idle", false}, // autofs trigger ONLY — idle automount is NOT mounted
+		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/disk", false}, // a local fs at the path is not a network mount
+		{"/mnt/felhom-drives/nope", false}, // absent
 	}
 	for _, tc := range cases {
 		if got := networkMountedIn(procMounts, tc.where); got != tc.want {

internal/storage/watchdog.go

@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ type Watchdog struct {
 	now       func() time.Time
 	spawn     func(func()) // spawn a background task (overridable in tests; default `go f()`)
 
-	intent   IntentReader      // P3: gate re-mount by drive intent (nil = ungated legacy)
+	intent   IntentReader           // P3: gate re-mount by drive intent (nil = ungated legacy)
 	onAbsent func(durableID string) // P3: called when a known target goes ABSENT (clears `ejected`)
 
 	mu             sync.Mutex
-	last           map[string]bool      // name -> last observed present (only for seen targets)
+	last           map[string]bool // name -> last observed present (only for seen targets)
 	lastFire       time.Time
 	fired          bool                 // lastFire is valid
 	pending        bool                 // a transition is awaiting the debounce window

scripts/agent_gates.py

@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ Gates (all must pass; **non-zero exit on any failure**):
                      or because someone is offline on a train. CI runs the FULL set for exactly this
                      reason: it is the machine that can afford a network check, and it is the half
                      that emails when something is wrong.
+  …  security-scan   govulncheck (called vulnerabilities) + gitleaks on the pushed commits, WARN-FIRST: it lists,
+                     it never refuses (R-986). Shared: felhom.eu/scripts/security_scan_gate.py. In the fast set
+                     although it reads vuln.go.dev — offline it says NOT CHECKED, so it cannot stop a push.
   …  gate-decoys     the decoy suite (test_gate_decoys.py): every gate here still convicts its decoys
                      (R-1116). ~20 s in the workspace, so the full run only: not the hook, but CI
                      runs the full set on every push. Scratch clones and a local fake Gitea only.
@@ -49,6 +52,9 @@ SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS = os.path.join(
 # R-389 — shared, like the two above: it lives in felhom.eu/scripts/ and is never copied.
 SHARED_OBSERVATIONS = os.path.join(
     os.path.dirname(ROOT), "felhom.eu", "scripts", "observations_gate.py")
+# R-986 — shared too: the dependency and secret scanner, warn-first.
+SHARED_SECURITY = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(ROOT), "felhom.eu", "scripts", "security_scan_gate.py")
 
 # (label, absolute script path, args, fast)
 GATES = [
@@ -67,6 +73,13 @@ GATES = [
     # runs the FULL set, so every push is still judged by it. It plants only in scratch clones and asks a fake
     # Gitea on 127.0.0.1 (never the network, never the real tree); it does not call this runner (no recursion).
     ("gate-decoys", os.path.join(ROOT, "scripts", "test_gate_decoys.py"), [], False),
+    # R-1160 (2026-10-19) — every Go file is gofmt-clean; the controller's gofmt_gate.py shape. Fast: one gofmt -l.
+    # Where the runner has no Go it says NOT CHECKED out loud and passes; the pre-push hook (with Go) enforces it.
+    ("gofmt", os.path.join(ROOT, "scripts", "gofmt_gate.py"), [], True),
+    # R-986 (2026-10-19) — govulncheck + gitleaks, WARN-FIRST (exit 0 whatever it finds). Fast although it reads
+    # vuln.go.dev: it cannot refuse, so a network blink is a NOT CHECKED line. ~4 s here. CI: gitleaks fetched pinned
+    # (FELHOM_SCAN_FETCH=1), no Go, so govulncheck says NOT CHECKED there.
+    ("security-scan", SHARED_SECURITY, [ROOT], True),
 ]
 
 VERDICT = {0: "OK", 1: "FAILED", 2: "INCONCLUSIVE"}

scripts/gofmt_gate.py

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""gofmt_gate.py — every Go file in this module is gofmt-clean (R-1160; the controller's R-454 gate, same shape).
+
+MEASURED 2026-10-19: 14 agent files were not gofmt-clean and nothing noticed (fixed by one formatting-only commit,
+1edfd8e). The controller's history below is why a gate and not a one-off clean-up.
+
+MEASURED 2026-09-02: five internal/web test files had been gofmt-unclean for an unknown length of
+time and nothing noticed — `go vet` does not check formatting and no gate did. By 2026-10-05 the five
+were clean and TWELVE others were not: the count only grows while nothing looks, and every `gofmt -l`
+someone runs by hand is then noise that hides a real one.
+
+Run from the repo root:  python3 scripts/gofmt_gate.py
+Exit 0 clean · 1 convicted (lists the files) · 2 inconclusive (gofmt not found — never a pass).
+
+gofmt is the Go toolchain's own formatter (not a shell utility), found on PATH or under
+`go env GOROOT`/bin. Decoy: scripts/test_gate_decoys.py ("gofmt"), in a scratch copy of this script.
+"""
+import os
+import shutil
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+ROOT = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
+ROOTS = ["cmd", "internal"]
+
+
+def find_gofmt():
+    p = shutil.which("gofmt")
+    if p:
+        return p
+    go = shutil.which("go")
+    if go:
+        try:
+            root = subprocess.check_output([go, "env", "GOROOT"], text=True).strip()
+            cand = os.path.join(root, "bin", "gofmt")
+            if os.path.isfile(cand):
+                return cand
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+    return None
+
+
+def in_ci():
+    """True on the Gitea Actions runner (act sets GITHUB_ACTIONS, Gitea sets GITEA_ACTIONS)."""
+    return os.environ.get("GITEA_ACTIONS") == "true" or os.environ.get("GITHUB_ACTIONS") == "true"
+
+
+def main():
+    gofmt = find_gofmt()
+    if not gofmt:
+        # The CI runner may have no Go toolchain (felhom.eu CLAUDE.md, R-887 note). There the gate
+        # says so OUT LOUD and passes: the pre-push hook on the developer's machine, where Go always exists, is where
+        # formatting is enforced. Anywhere else a missing gofmt stays INCONCLUSIVE — never a silent pass.
+        # Pinned by the "gofmt: CI without Go" and "gofmt: dev without Go" decoys in test_gate_decoys.py.
+        if in_ci():
+            print("gofmt gate NOT CHECKED in CI: no Go toolchain on the runner — the pre-push hook (with Go) enforces it")
+            return 0
+        print("gofmt gate INCONCLUSIVE: gofmt not found on PATH or under `go env GOROOT`/bin")
+        return 2
+    roots = [r for r in ROOTS if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(ROOT, r))]
+    if not roots:
+        print("gofmt gate INCONCLUSIVE: none of %s exists under %s" % (ROOTS, ROOT))
+        return 2
+    p = subprocess.run([gofmt, "-l"] + roots, cwd=ROOT, capture_output=True, text=True)
+    if p.returncode != 0:
+        print("gofmt gate INCONCLUSIVE: gofmt exited %d: %s" % (p.returncode, p.stderr.strip()[:400]))
+        return 2
+    bad = [l for l in p.stdout.splitlines() if l.strip()]
+    if bad:
+        for f in bad:
+            print("  not gofmt-clean: %s" % f)
+        print("GOFMT GATE FAILED: %d file(s) — run `gofmt -w <file>` (formatting only, no behaviour change)" % len(bad))
+        return 1
+    print("gofmt gate OK — every Go file under %s is gofmt-clean" % ", ".join(roots))
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())

scripts/test_gate_decoys.py

@@ -66,6 +66,14 @@ COVERS = {
                     "inside an HTML comment (R-426)",
     "observations": "R-419 in THIS repo's REPORT.md: an Observations note SAYING it carries no marker - vs the "
                     "two genuine markers (R-426)",
+    "gofmt": "R-1160: an unformatted .go file planted under internal/ of a SCRATCH copy is convicted by name - vs the "
+             "same tree formatted (passes); with no gofmt reachable, CI passes OUT LOUD and a dev machine is "
+             "INCONCLUSIVE, never a silent pass",
+    "security-scan": "R-986: the shared gate's own decoys (felhom.eu scripts/test_security_scan_gate.py, 8 cases in "
+                     "SCRATCH git repos: a planted token listed by rule and file, its value never printed; a second "
+                     "secret on another line of an accepted file still listed; a called govulncheck finding listed, "
+                     "an imported-only one not; no tool is NOT CHECKED out loud), run from here; plus the gate on THIS "
+                     "repo's tree: exit 0 and its summary line (warn-first - the listing is the fact)",
     "gate-decoys": "this suite, run as a gate of agent_gates.py's full run, which CI runs on every push (R-1116): "
                    "every case above is a decoy of its own gate, and ONE case that stops convicting turns the run "
                    "red - red-proved 2026-10-17 by flipping a reuse-refs FACT case to expect rc 0",
@@ -291,6 +299,32 @@ def release_cases(base, ws):
 
 
 # ── the shared felhom.eu scripts, against THIS repo's inputs ─────────────────────────────────────
+def gofmt_cases(ws):
+    """R-1160: the gofmt gate in a scratch root (its ROOT is its own grandparent directory), never the real tree."""
+    root = os.path.join(ws, "gofmt-root")
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(root, "scripts"))
+    os.makedirs(os.path.join(root, "internal", "x"))
+    shutil.copy(os.path.join(ROOT, "scripts", "gofmt_gate.py"), os.path.join(root, "scripts", "gofmt_gate.py"))
+    gate = os.path.join(root, "scripts", "gofmt_gate.py")
+    planted = os.path.join(root, "internal", "x", "zz_gofmt_decoy.go")
+    io.open(planted, "w", encoding="utf-8").write(u"package x\n\nfunc  F( )  int {return 1}\n")
+    if shutil.which("gofmt") or shutil.which("go"):
+        rc, out = run([sys.executable, gate], root)
+        report("gofmt: FACT: an unformatted file under internal/", rc, out, 1, ("zz_gofmt_decoy.go", "GOFMT GATE FAILED"))
+        io.open(planted, "w", encoding="utf-8").write(u"package x\n\nfunc F() int { return 1 }\n")
+        rc, out = run([sys.executable, gate], root)
+        report("gofmt: GENUINE: the same file formatted", rc, out, 0, ("gofmt gate OK",))
+    else:
+        print("  --  gofmt: not runnable here (no Go toolchain) - the two cases below pin that mode")
+    for ci, want_rc, want, name in ((True, 0, "NOT CHECKED in CI", "gofmt: CI without Go"),
+                                    (False, 2, "INCONCLUSIVE", "gofmt: dev without Go")):
+        env = {"PATH": os.path.join(ws, "empty-path"), "HOME": ws}
+        if ci:
+            env["GITEA_ACTIONS"] = "true"
+        rc, out = run([sys.executable, gate], root, env=env)
+        report(name, rc, out, want_rc, (want,))
+
+
 def shared_cases(ws):
     """A scratch WORKSPACE: a clone of this repo beside symlinks to the siblings, because the shared
     scripts reach across (REUSE.md cites hub paths; instructions_gate reads the workspace CLAUDE.md)."""
@@ -343,6 +377,20 @@ def shared_cases(ws):
          u"the same minute.**\n", 0)
 
 
+def security_cases():
+    """R-986: the shared scanner's decoys (they build their own scratch repos), then the gate on this repo."""
+    suite = os.path.join(SHARED, "test_security_scan_gate.py")
+    gate = os.path.join(SHARED, "security_scan_gate.py")
+    for f in (suite, gate):
+        if not os.path.isfile(f):
+            fails.append("shared %s is MISSING beside this clone - a failure, never a skip" % f)
+            return
+    rc, out = run([sys.executable, suite], ROOT)
+    report("security-scan: the shared gate's 8 decoys", rc, out, 0, ("all 8 cases passed",))
+    rc, out = run([sys.executable, gate, ROOT], ROOT)
+    report("security-scan: GENUINE: this repo, warn-first", rc, out, 0, ("security-scan:", "govulncheck"))
+
+
 def main():
     srv = Server(("127.0.0.1", 0), Handler)
     threading.Thread(target=srv.serve_forever, daemon=True).start()
@@ -353,6 +401,8 @@ def main():
         published_cases(base)
         release_cases(base, ws)
         shared_cases(ws)
+        gofmt_cases(ws)
+        security_cases()
     finally:
         srv.shutdown()
         srv.server_close()