felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md — felhom-agent

Place at the repo root (felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md). Loads when Claude Code touches this repo. Keep under ~200 lines. The cross-repo orientation lives in the workspace-root e:\git\CLAUDE.md; this file is felhom-agent-specific.

What this repo is

felhom-agent is the operator-tier host agent that runs on each Proxmox host and owns all Proxmox interaction: provision/restore guests, host storage, backup/restore orchestration, the hub control loop, and a narrow per-guest local API. It is the most privilege-sensitive component.

• It is the renamed former proxmox-controller repo.
• Distinct from felhom-controller — that is the in-guest controller (Docker-only, no Proxmox creds). Do not confuse them.
• Control plane, not data plane: if the agent dies, apps keep serving; only management degrades.

Build / run

• Module gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-agent; binary felhom-agent (cmd/felhom-agent/).
• Pure Go stdlib + golang.org/x/crypto only — no web frameworks.
• go.mod directive go 1.25.0; dep golang.org/x/crypto v0.52.0 (declares go 1.25, will NOT build on Go 1.24). The build server (192.168.0.180) runs go1.26.0 (upstream Go on PATH, backward-compatible). Build/run the agent there for live tests (same LAN as the demo host).
• Version: version var in cmd/felhom-agent/main.go, overridable via -ldflags "-X main.version=<v>"; --version flag. Current: v0.4.0-rc1 (slice-4 Phase A checkpoint; v0.4.0 lands with Phase B). Bump on meaningful changes + add a CHANGELOG entry.

Layout

cmd/felhom-agent/    main + flag handling + --selftest modes + the daemon entry
internal/config/     JSON config + FELHOM_AGENT_* env overlay; secrets redacted (Redacted())
internal/log/        slog setup
internal/proxmox/    API-first Client + fenced root-CLI Privileged + UPID WaitTask
internal/authz/      operator signed-op verifier (SSHSIG); durable FileNonceStore
internal/hub/        daemon: HostReport collector + Bearer client + resilient Loop

Proxmox model (the load-bearing rules)

• API-first via a scoped FelhomAgent token (16 privileges). Raw root-CLI is fenced to exactly 3 exceptions: keyctl pct create (golden image), USB mount/fstab, SMART/sensors. Client never shells out; Privileged never makes HTTP calls (asserted by tests). Keep that fence.
• Every mutating op is async → returns a UPID → WaitTask asserts exitstatus == "OK". A 200 on the POST is not success; authorization can fail at task execution, not the POST.
• TLS: SHA-256 leaf-cert pinning (the host serves a self-signed cert). No insecure default.
• Privsep token gotcha: a --privsep 1 token's rights = intersection of the backing user's perms AND the token's ACLs — so the role must be granted on both user and token, or every call 403s. (Token provisioning is out-of-band / human-run; the agent only consumes the token.)

Design + platform facts (read before designing)

• Design doc: felhom.eu/documentation/architecture/03-host-agent.md (locked).
• Platform facts: felhom.eu/documentation/proxmox-platform.md + tests/phase{0,1-2,3,4}-findings.md.

Current state

Built in slices, all on main:

• v0.1.0 slice 1 — scaffold + internal/proxmox + internal/config/log + --selftest.
• v0.2.0 slice 2 — internal/authz signed-op verifier.
• v0.3.0 slice 3 — internal/hub: the first daemon loop (no---selftest mode) posting a read-only HostReport to the hub (= the heartbeat). Report's storage/backup/restore/pbs/audit fields are defined-but-empty (slices 5/6); the envelope's desired-state/signed-ops fields are parsed-but-ignored (slice 4).
• v0.3.1 — slice-3 validation follow-ups.
• v0.3.2 — slice-4 pre-check: reversible SetConfig step added to --selftest=task; passed live on guest 9999. Findings: LXC description write is synchronous (empty UPID — dual-mode modeling confirmed); PVE appends a trailing \n to description on read (reconcile must normalize). First live VM.Config.* exercise.
• v0.4.0-rc1 — slice-4 Phase A (structural): internal/reconcile — engine, per-guest serializer (§10), desired-state model + DesiredProvider seam, normalization layer (NormDescription promoted out of main.go), plan/diff engine (benign Start/Stop/SetConfig set), durable op journal + idempotency store. Wired into runDaemon sharing the queue. Runs live but unfed (EmptyProvider → zero mutations until slice 10). Checkpoint: awaiting validation before Phase B.
• Next: slice 4 Phase B — the benign/destructive classifier, the reversibility gate, and the signed-op consuming layer over internal/authz (doc 03 §4 / doc 04), in front of the queue's executor → lands v0.4.0.

Demo host (for live tests)

Node demo-felhom, API https://192.168.0.162:8006, PVE 9.2.2; leaf-cert SHA-256 fingerprint starts BA:7C:99:7D:45:D0… (verify it still matches before a live run — the agent pins it). pveum/pct ops need root@pam on the PVE (SSH alias felhom-pve) - available to Claude Code

Selftest modes (run from the build server, pointed at the demo API):

• --selftest / --selftest=read — read-only health checks.
• --selftest=task -vmid N — reversible snapshot→rollback→delete on guest N (gated; never under bare --selftest).
• --selftest=hub — one collect + report round-trip to the hub.
• No flag → the daemon (poll loop); requires hub config.

Conventions

• Push to main directly; no feature branches.

In every repository where you make a change, update both files in that repo:

• CHANGELOG.md — a cumulative log of all changes; newest entry on top.
• REPORT.md — overwrite with a summary of the most recent implementation (or significant validation/operational run) only; not cumulative.

Never write secrets — tokens, passwords, private keys, API keys — into CHANGELOG.md, REPORT.md, or any committed file. Reference them as "stored out-of-band" instead.

• Code quality: verify generated code for bugs/edge cases; add debug logging; ask rather than guess when you'd otherwise invent input/output.

Workflow & artifacts

• Implement TASK.md / TASK-*.md specs (when placed as TASK.md or told to implement one), then push + CHANGELOG + REPORT.md.
• RUNBOOK-*.md — an operational procedure. CC executes the steps it has access and capability for, including live validation on the demo nodes and the demo Proxmox host (CC has root@felhom-pve SSH + the felhom-agent token). A step is human-only only when it genuinely needs physical presence, a real-world decision, or credentials CC truly lacks — mark those steps HUMAN. Do not decline a whole procedure because it touches a live host or a privileged token. (Judgment still applies: confirm before irreversible ops on real customer data — but demo scratch guests are fair game.)