docs: CLAUDE.md becomes a core plus path-scoped rules (R-229)

215 lines -> 110 (92 effective; block-level HTML comments are stripped before
injection and never reach the model, verified empirically on Claude Code 2.1.222
with a control and a treatment run).

Four new .claude/rules/*.md, each with a paths: glob list so it loads only when a
matching file is read: gates, ui-hungarian, backup-paths, agent-coupling.

The ## Layout tree was deleted as derivable; REUSE.md already owns the per-package
seams its annotations stood in for. The host/access table was deleted in favour of
a pointer to documentation/operations/nodes.md -- it carried three defects at once:
demo-felhom given as the LAN fallback address as if it were the route, a pinned
"agent 0.93.0" against the project's own no-versions-in-docs rule, and the claim
that no drill VM was provisioned on demo-hp. Measured live: qm list shows VM 300
drill-r50. felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md was right; this file was wrong.

Kept verbatim: the seven session-critical invariants, the F9 live-validation fence,
the end-of-session checklist.

controller_gates.py registers the shared instructions gate (felhom.eu/scripts/,
never copied here; an absent sibling clone FAILS).

Docs only -- no Go, no version bump, no image, no deploy.
Ledger: felhom.eu/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-2026-08-06.md

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JJc8sAGRWmavP3rMtdpkr2

.claude/rules/agent-coupling.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+---
+paths: ["controller/internal/agentapi/**"]
+---
+
+# Coupling to the host agent — felhom-controller
+
+`internal/agentapi` is **the disk seam**: the pinned-TLS client to the host agent's per-guest local
+API. The controller holds no Proxmox credentials; everything disk/host/Proxmox goes through here.
+
+## Declaring a coupled feature
+
+Controller behaviour that depends on a specific agent version needs **all three**, or it ships broken
+on an older box:
+
+1. a `featureProbes` table row in `internal/agentapi/features.go`
+2. a `Supports` gate call **at the feature's entry point** — not somewhere on the path to it
+3. `MinAgent: X.Y.Z` in the CHANGELOG entry header
+
+Rules: `felhom.eu/documentation/runbooks/publish-train-rules.md`.
+
+## Never push a controller past the agent it depends on
+
+The R-216 guard compared the box's agent against the **golden's** MinAgent while serving a **floor**
+that could point elsewhere. Raise a floor above the vouched golden — which the day-0 runbook
+recommends and a per-customer override makes trivial — and the guard checks a version it is not
+serving. A box then landed on a controller needing a newer agent, and its customer was told a correct
+recovery code was wrong.
+
+**A floor above the vouched golden is HELD, with its own reason** (hub v0.97.0).
+
+## Distinguish "could not reach" from "wrong answer"
+
+A failed bundle FETCH must not be reported to a customer as a bad recovery code. Classify by **value**
+(`ErrBundleFetch` → HTTP 502), never by error string — a string is not something a caller can branch
+on. Unknown class → neutral message, never the typing message.
+
+<!--
+R-224, measured live 2026-08-05 (CAMPAIGN-11 F3/F4) with a correct current code: 0.0556 s with the
+hub firewalled off and 0.0299 s with the agent stopped, against ~1.0 s for a genuine unseal — the
+machine accused the customer of something it had not attempted. A green test named this exact
+consequence since v0.125.0 and did not prevent it, because it asserted this package's error STRING
+one layer below where the merge happened. Fixed agent v0.126.0 + controller v0.202.0.
+-->

.claude/rules/backup-paths.md

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+---
+paths: ["controller/internal/backup/**", "controller/internal/appbackup/**", "controller/internal/recovery/**", "controller/internal/appexport/**", "controller/internal/quiesce/**"]
+---
+
+# Backup, recovery units and export — felhom-controller
+
+## Assert the consequence across the whole run, not the mechanism inside one function
+
+The R-181 recovery-unit refusal claimed *"the previous unit is untouched and NOTHING was deleted"*.
+*Nothing deleted* held; **untouched was measured false** — the floor was checked ONLY in
+`captureAllRecoveryUnits`, while the two dump legs wrote the bulk into the same tree first and
+unguarded, so a 182,272 B tar became 2,147,666,432 B under a manifest that had not moved. A full
+green suite plus three of its own red-proofs missed it, because every one asserted the mechanism
+inside `captureAllRecoveryUnits`.
+
+**The test that catches this class: fingerprint the tree before and after the whole backup run, and
+compare.** Full doctrine and the other eight instances: the `felhom-testing` skill.
+
+## Presence is not success
+
+A timestamp recording an **attempt** must never be read as evidence of a **result**. Where a status
+field travels alongside a timestamp, the verdict consults both — or the timestamp records only
+successes. Ask of any timestamp: *what exactly must have happened for this to be set?* If the answer
+is "we tried", it cannot answer "did it work".
+
+**Corollary:** when a verdict changes which field it counts from, the alarm text has to change with
+it. `last run 8h ago` while alarming on a six-day-old success turns a true alarm into one the
+operator dismisses.
+
+<!--
+Two instances. F-CRIT-2: a phantom snapshot's ctime set tier freshness — an aborted 1-byte upload
+made the tier look backed up. R-100: LastRun is written on failure, so a nightly-failing offsite
+tier kept the staleness clock fresh forever.
+-->
+
+## Storage keys and paths
+
+- Never guess a persisted key — it is `offbox`, not `offbox_target` (R-7b).
+- `.fab` export/import uses strict segment validation; bundles from controller ≤0.124.0 are hollow.
+- Recovery-unit restore and tier-2 copies share `appbackup`'s path primitives — change them there,
+  once, not per caller.

.claude/rules/gates.md

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+---
+paths: ["controller/**/*.go", "controller/**/*.html", "controller/**/*.css", "controller/scripts/**"]
+---
+
+# Gates and logging — felhom-controller
+
+## The ONE entry point
+
+**Run `python3 controller/scripts/controller_gates.py` (from `controller/`) after ANY change in this
+repo.** It runs all seven local gates — `template_id_gate`, `emoji_gate`, `native_confirm_gate`,
+`offbox_rename_gate`, `app_row_dedup_gate`, `mojibake_gate`, `docker_run_volume_path_gate` — plus
+`reuse_refs_check` and `instructions_gate` on the repo root, streaming each gate's own output and
+exiting non-zero if any fails.
+
+- `--fast` selects the gates that touch no network and no container runtime; today that is all of them.
+- **A missing gate script is a FAILURE, never a skip.**
+- **The shared `reuse_refs_check.py` and `instructions_gate.py` live in `felhom.eu/scripts/` and are
+  never copied here** — a copy would recreate the drift they detect; an absent sibling clone FAILS.
+- **The pre-push hook** (`.githooks/pre-push`) runs it with `--fast` and refuses a failing push. It is
+  per-clone — switch it on once with `git config core.hooksPath .githooks`, and a manual run WARNS
+  when this clone is unarmed. `git push --no-verify` bypasses it deliberately; **say so in the session
+  report when you use it.** Both facts are why CI is still owed (`OPEN-ITEMS.md` R-168).
+
+<!--
+WHY A RUNNER AND NOT SEVEN INVOCATIONS (2026-08-02, R-29) — rationale, not a directive.
+A census of all thirteen gates across the four repos found that every check a CLAUDE.md named was
+passing, and two of the four nobody is told to run were failing. This repo's CLAUDE.md used to name
+two of the seven; the other five were reachable only through a line in REUSE.md, and
+docker_run_volume_path_gate.py was RED. The single-entry-point shape is the only one that
+demonstrably gets run. app-catalog-felhom.eu/scripts/catalog_gates.py is the canonical version of
+the runner (R-161); repo_gates.py copies it. site_gates.py is a *gate*, not a runner — do not model
+new work on it.
+-->
+
+## Logging
+
+New leveled lines use `internal/logx` — DEBUG always reaches the debug ring; stdout respects
+`logging.level`. English, keys-never-values, durations on outcomes. Full rules:
+`felhom.eu/documentation/runbooks/logging-conventions.md`.
+
+## Health checks issue no block I/O
+
+A probe that touches a wedged device enters uninterruptible sleep, survives `SIGKILL`, and cannot be
+recovered until the device returns or the host reboots — so `systemctl restart` hangs too. A timeout
+protects the caller's control flow and nothing else: the blocked thread remains. Liveness is decided
+from `/proc` and kernel state, never by reading or writing the filesystem.
+
+<!--
+Measured, R-117 spike §6.3 (felhom.eu/documentation/audits/SPIKE-r117-bind-liveness-2026-07-30.md):
+a probe stayed in D state 3m50s after kill -9; a buffered write with no fsync blocked too (O_CREAT
+needs journal access); and statfs/getdents returned HEALTHY on a namespace that EIOs every byte —
+fast, and wrong.
+-->

.claude/rules/ui-hungarian.md

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+---
+paths: ["controller/internal/web/templates/**", "controller/internal/web/**/*.go", "**/*.css", "**/*.html"]
+---
+
+# UI and Hungarian copy — felhom-controller
+
+- **All UI text is Hungarian**, Budapest timezone.
+- Design tokens, badge/colour rules, the 2px/no-shadow/no-emoji/BOM hard rules and the mechanical
+  gate to run after each surface: **use the `felhom-ui-design` skill.**
+- Template methods need **value receivers** — pointer receivers compile, pass `go vet`, pass the
+  suite, and then 500 at render time.
+
+## Grep fetched pages with ASCII-only substrings
+
+Accented Hungarian patterns get mangled through the `ssh → pct exec → bash -c` chain and return a
+false `0` — which reads exactly like the banner or string being gone. Use `kezel`, `Utols`,
+`Biztons`. **Never let an accented pattern gate a conclusion.**
+
+<!--
+From the 2026-07-20 remediation: an accented grep nearly produced a wrong "banner cleared" claim.
+This is the "an absent line is not evidence" rule aimed at a UTF-8 transport, not at a log.
+-->
+
+## Credentials containing `!` or `'` break in heredoc-built helper scripts
+
+History expansion eats `!!`. Use the proven inline `-d "password=$PW"` form for authed curl, and
+delete any credential-bearing helper from `/tmp` (host AND guest) when done.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+## docs — CLAUDE.md split into a core plus path-scoped rules (2026-08-06, R-229) — no version bump
+
+**Documentation and gate registration only. No Go changed, no image built, no deploy.**
+
+`CLAUDE.md` went from 215 lines to 110 (92 *effective* — block-level HTML comments are stripped
+before injection and never reach the model, verified empirically on Claude Code 2.1.222 with a
+control and a treatment run). What moved, rather than what was cut, is the point:
+
+- Four new `.claude/rules/*.md`, each carrying a `paths:` glob list so it loads only when a matching
+  file is read: `gates.md`, `ui-hungarian.md`, `backup-paths.md`, `agent-coupling.md`.
+- The `## Layout` tree was deleted as derivable (`ls controller/internal/`); `REUSE.md` already owns
+  the per-package seams and traps its annotations stood in for.
+- The host/access table was deleted in favour of a pointer to `documentation/operations/nodes.md`.
+  **It carried three defects at once:** `demo-felhom` given as plain `root@192.168.0.162` (the LAN
+  *fallback*, not the route), a pinned `agent 0.93.0` against the project's own no-versions-in-docs
+  rule, and the claim that no drill VM was provisioned on `demo-hp`. **Measured live 2026-08-06:**
+  `qm list` shows VM `300 drill-r50`. `felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md` was right; this file was wrong.
+- The seven session-critical invariants, the F9 live-validation fence and the end-of-session
+  checklist were kept verbatim — they are the file's highest-value content.
+
+`controller_gates.py` now registers **`instructions`**, the shared
+`felhom.eu/scripts/instructions_gate.py`. Never copied here; an absent sibling clone FAILS.
+
+Full per-block accounting: `felhom.eu/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-2026-08-06.md`.
+
 ## v0.202.0 — the customer is blamed only after a real attempt refused their code (2026-08-06, R-224/R-226/R-225/R-227/R-228) — MinAgent 0.126.0
 
 **CAMPAIGN-11's headline defect had moved, not gone.** v0.201.0 stopped an agent that is too OLD from

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1,215 +1,110 @@
-# CLAUDE.md — Project Instructions for Claude Code (`felhom-controller`)
+# CLAUDE.md — `felhom-controller`
 
-> Read automatically at session start. Stable orientation only — **current state lives in
-> `CONTEXT.md` and the top of `CHANGELOG.md`**, never here. Cross-repo orientation: workspace-root
-> `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/CLAUDE.md`.
+> Stable orientation only — **current state lives in `CONTEXT.md` and the top of `CHANGELOG.md`**,
+> never here. Cross-repo conventions (clean-tree gate, secrets, trunk-based, artifact taxonomy):
+> workspace-root `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/CLAUDE.md`. Path-scoped detail: `.claude/rules/`.
 
-!!! IMPORTANT !!!
-- Always update CHANGELOG.md whenever you modified the code, and pushed to git!!
-- IF controller feature changed (new/modify/remove) always update the relevant part of controller/README.md with the architectural change!!
+## What this repo is
 
-## Project overview
-
-Felhom is a managed home-server business for Hungarian customers. This repo contains the
-**felhom-controller** — the Go application that manages Docker Compose stacks inside each customer
-LXC guest via a Hungarian-language web dashboard.
-
-Read in this order:
-- **`REUSE.md`** — before writing new code (canonical helpers, patterns, traps, seams).
-- `CONTEXT.md` — current project state, decisions, roadmap (update after each session).
-- `controller/README.md` — full feature/architecture reference (update when features change).
-- `TASK.md` — the current task to implement (if it exists).
-
-## System context — the three-component model
-
-The project runs **on Proxmox**, with a locked three-component model:
-- **Hub** (`felhom.eu/hub/`) — operator backend on k3s.
-- **Host agent** (`felhom-agent/`) — one per Proxmox host; operator-tier; owns ALL Proxmox interaction.
-- **In-guest controller** (THIS repo) — one per customer LXC; **Docker-only; holds NO Proxmox
-  credentials**. De-privileged: disk/host/Proxmox concerns are delegated to the host agent via the
-  pinned local-API client (`internal/agentapi`); the controller keeps the app domain — stack/deploy
-  management, the Hungarian web UI, app-data backup, metrics/telemetry, integrations, git-sync,
-  notifications. Whole-guest backup (PBS vzdump) is the agent's.
-
-> **Authoritative maps:** `felhom.eu/documentation/architecture/01/02/03-*.md` (topology/trust,
-> controller module map, host agent) + the code-verified feature docs in
-> `felhom.eu/documentation/controller/`. Match the current code, not summaries, if they drift.
+The **in-guest controller** — one per customer LXC, Docker-only, **holds NO Proxmox credentials**. It
+owns the app domain: stack/deploy management, the Hungarian web UI, app-data backup, metrics,
+integrations, git-sync, notifications. Disk/host/Proxmox concerns are delegated to the host agent via
+`internal/agentapi`. Whole-guest backup (PBS vzdump) is the agent's, not ours.
 
 **Don't confuse the two ex-"controllers":** `felhom-agent` (host, operator-tier, was
-`proxmox-controller`) vs this `felhom-controller` (in-guest, was `deploy-felhom-compose`).
+`proxmox-controller`) vs this repo (in-guest, was `deploy-felhom-compose`).
 
-## Layout (verified against the tree)
+## Doing X → read Y
 
-```
-controller/cmd/controller/   entry point + startup wiring (scheduler block, init-only setters)
-controller/internal/
-  agentapi/       pinned-TLS client to the host agent's per-guest local API (THE disk seam)
-  api/            REST /api/* router (writeJSON envelope, limitBody, config writes)
-  appbackup/      felhom-data paths/namespaces, DB dumps, userdata skeleton (shared primitives)
-  appexport/      .fab export/import bundles (password crypto, strict segment validation)
-  assets/         app logo/screenshot sync from the hub
-  backup/         app-data backup manager, recovery units, tier-2 copies, offbox restic
-  bootstrap/      bootstrap.json ingest → controller.yaml (Day-0 + refresh)
-  channelhealth/  agent-channel health checker (debounce + born-down alerting)
-  cloudflare/     geo-enforcement remnant (agent-delegated)
-  config/         controller.yaml load/validate (LoadPermissive = setup-mode only)
-  crypto/         AES-256-GCM app.yaml secret encryption (ENC: prefix)
-  infra/          traefik/cloudflared/filebrowser base-stack templates
-  integrations/   app-to-app integrations (e.g. OnlyOffice)
-  mailrelay/      app-email SMTP shim → hub relay
-  metrics/        telemetry collection
-  monitor/        health checks, protected containers
-  notify/         hub event push (typed Notify* wrappers)
-  quiesce/        quiesce loop for whole-guest backup (marker + recover)
-  recovery/       recovery-unit restore
-  report/         hub report builder/pusher + pull-based config refresh
-  scheduler/      background jobs (Every/Daily, Budapest DST-safe)
-  selftest/       startup self-checks
-  selfupdate/     controller image self-update via the agent swap
-  settings/       settings.json persistence (registry, flags, corruption recovery)
-  setup/          first-boot setup wizard (own CSRF)
-  stacks/         compose ops: deploy/delete/migrate/state (THE app domain core)
-  sync/           git-sync of the app catalog
-  system/         mounts/probes (linux + permissive _other stubs)
-  util/           small shared helpers
-  web/            dashboard UI: server, auth/CSRF, handlers, funcmap, templates (Hungarian)
-```
+| Doing | Read |
+|---|---|
+| writing any new code | `REUSE.md` — canonical helpers, patterns, traps, seams |
+| needing current state / roadmap | `CONTEXT.md` |
+| needing a feature or architecture reference | `controller/README.md` |
+| build, deploy, publish, verify a version | the **`felhom-build-deploy`** skill |
+| writing or reviewing a test, fixing a bug | the **`felhom-testing`** skill |
+| UI, tokens, badges, Hungarian copy | the **`felhom-ui-design`** skill |
+| which box may I break | `felhom.eu/documentation/runbooks/target-selection.md` |
+| host addresses, break-glass, node facts | `felhom.eu/documentation/operations/nodes.md` |
+| what version is live anywhere | ask the hub (`/hosts`, `/configs`) or the box — **never a doc** |
+| the authoritative design | `felhom.eu/documentation/architecture/01/02/03-*.md` |
 
-Per-package helpers/seams/traps: **`REUSE.md`** (maintained same-commit as helper changes).
+## Session-critical invariants
 
-## Conventions & cardinal rules
-
-- **Trunk-based — no branches.** All shippable work commits directly to `main`; `main` equals what is
-  deployed. Report-only artifacts → `felhom.eu/documentation/` (`audits/`, `backlog/`). Risky fixes
-  are implemented during the supervised session itself, on `main`; if a fix can't be verified/shipped,
-  revert + report — never park on a branch.
-- Code quality: double-check for bugs/edge cases; add debug logging; **ask rather than guess**.
-- All UI text is Hungarian (Budapest timezone). Design tokens/gates: use the `felhom-ui-design` skill.
-- **Run `python3 controller/scripts/controller_gates.py` (from `controller/`) after ANY change in
-  this repo.** It is the ONE entry point and runs all seven local gates — `template_id_gate`,
-  `emoji_gate`, `native_confirm_gate`, `offbox_rename_gate`, `app_row_dedup_gate`, `mojibake_gate`,
-  `docker_run_volume_path_gate` — plus `reuse_refs_check` on the repo root, streaming each gate's
-  own output and exiting non-zero if any fails. `--fast` selects the gates that touch no network and
-  no container runtime; today that is all of them. A missing gate script is a FAILURE, never a skip.
-  **Why a runner and not seven invocations** (2026-08-02, R-29): a census of all thirteen gates
-  across the four repos found that every check a `CLAUDE.md` names was passing, and two of the four
-  nobody is told to run were failing. This file used to name two of the seven; the other five were
-  reachable only through a line in `REUSE.md`, and `docker_run_volume_path_gate.py` was RED.
-  **The shared `reuse_refs_check.py` lives in `felhom.eu/scripts/` and is never copied here** —
-  a copy would recreate the drift it detects; an absent sibling clone FAILS the gate.
-  **The pre-push hook** (`.githooks/pre-push`) runs it with `--fast` and refuses a failing push. It
-  is per-clone — switch it on once with `git config core.hooksPath .githooks`, and a manual run
-  WARNS when this clone is unarmed. `git push --no-verify` bypasses it deliberately; **say so in the
-  session report when you use it.** Both facts are why CI is still owed (`OPEN-ITEMS.md` R-168).
-- Testing doctrine (non-hollow tests, red-proofs, seams): use the `felhom-testing` skill.
-- **Logging**: new leveled lines use `internal/logx` (DEBUG always reaches the debug ring; stdout
-  respects `logging.level`); English, keys-never-values, durations on outcomes — full rules in
-  `felhom.eu/documentation/runbooks/logging-conventions.md`.
-- Update `REUSE.md` if you added/changed/deprecated a shared helper or pattern (same commit).
-- **Coupled features** (controller behavior that depends on a specific agent version): add a
-  `featureProbes` table row in `internal/agentapi/features.go` + a `Supports` gate call at the
-  feature's entry point; declare `MinAgent: X.Y.Z` in the CHANGELOG entry header. Rules:
-  `felhom.eu/documentation/runbooks/publish-train-rules.md`.
-
-> **In every repository where you make a change, update both files in that repo:**
-> - **`CHANGELOG.md`** — cumulative log, newest on top.
-> - **`REPORT.md`** — **overwrite** with the most recent implementation/validation summary only.
->
-> **Never write secrets** into any committed file — reference them as "stored out-of-band".
-
-## Live validation
-
-Exercise the SERVER-SIDE PIPELINE a real user triggers, end-to-end (connect → enroll → deploy). The
-forbidden shortcut is BYPASSING that pipeline (the F9 episode: raw agent guest-attach + hand-set
-state). **`claude-in-chrome` is NOT available in the DooPlex environment** — the standard method is
-endpoint-level: invoke the exact endpoint the UI invokes (no server logic is skipped, only
-rendering) and say which method was used. Strict end-to-end UI coverage is a manual click-through.
-
-Two traps in that method, both from the 2026-07-20 remediation:
-- **Grep the fetched page with ASCII-only substrings.** Accented Hungarian patterns get mangled
-  through the `ssh → pct exec → bash -c` chain and return a false `0` — which reads exactly like the
-  banner/string being gone. Use `kezel`, `Utols`, `Biztons`; never let an accented pattern gate a
-  conclusion (it nearly produced a wrong "banner cleared" claim).
-- **Credentials with `!` or `'` break in heredoc-built helper scripts** (history expansion eats
-  `!!`). Use the proven inline `-d "password=$PW"` form for authed curl, and delete any
-  credential-bearing helper from `/tmp` (host AND guest) when done.
-
-## Environment & access
-
-Claude Code runs **on DooPlex (192.168.0.180, Debian 13, user `kisfenyo`)**; repos in
-`/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/`, build dirs in `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/build/`. All repos hosted at
-`gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/`. Builds are local commands; felhom-pve is one SSH hop.
-
-| Host | Access | Role |
-|------|--------|------|
-| **DooPlex (this host)** | local — `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/{git,build}/` | build + push images, `sudo kubectl` |
-| Demo Proxmox host `demo-felhom` | `ssh felhom-pve` (root@192.168.0.162) | `pct` into guests; live validation |
-| Demo guest 9201 | `ssh felhom-pve "pct exec 9201 -- ..."` | the live demo controller (golden/bootstrap-managed) |
-| Demo host `demo-hp` (HP t740) | `ssh demo-hp` (TS `100.76.96.79` / LAN `192.168.0.87`); **no baked key** — break-glass root via hub `host_recovery/demo-hp-bb76ea` + `sshpass` (recipe in `felhom.eu/documentation/operations/nodes.md`) | 2nd demo node (guest 9201 `demo-hp`, agent 0.93.0). **Designated drill+build VM host** per the 2026-07-25 ruling — but **no drill VM is provisioned there yet** (forward-looking); the drill `drill.qcow2` still lives on DooPlex (off). See nodes.md. |
-| felhotest (legacy) | `ssh -p 33022 kisfenyo@router.abonet.hu` | OLD /opt/docker compose mechanism |
-
-> **Legacy: Windows workstation.** Until 2026-07-19 CC ran on Windows 11 with repos in `E:\git\`,
-> and every remote command needed `SSH=/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/ssh.exe` (Git Bash's ssh lacks
-> the Windows agent and fails silently — see `docs/vscode-ssh-fix.md`), plus `MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1`
-> for `pct exec`. Retained in case that environment is revived.
-
-> **felhom-pve is back on the home LAN (as of 2026-07-25).** The host holds `192.168.0.162` again and
-> the **agent is UP** — `localapi` binds `192.168.0.162:8443`, the service is `active`, capabilities
-> self-check clean, and all agent-backed features (storage, PBS backup, quiesce, restore-test, DR) are
-> reachable. `ssh felhom-pve` remains a **Tailscale** alias (`100.70.170.35`, location-independent, the
-> N100 is travel-portable) with `Host felhom-pve-lan` as the direct-LAN fallback; both work. The earlier
-> "remote site — agent DOWN (binds a stale `.162`)" block was the 2026-07-20→24 vacation window and is
-> now retired; the historical record stays in
-> `felhom.eu/documentation/audits/AUDIT-vacation-remote-ops-2026-07-20.md`.
-
-External access via Cloudflare Tunnel → Traefik; Pi-hole forwards `*.demo-felhom.eu` → .162 locally.
-
-## Build & deploy — MANDATORY after code changes
-
-**Full runbook: use the `felhom-build-deploy` skill.** Summary (guest 9201 is bootstrap-managed —
-**no compose file**; `felhom-controller-bootstrap.service` runs the tag in `/etc/felhom-controller-image`):
-
-> **Clean-tree gate before any build:** `git status --porcelain` must be empty and
-> `git rev-parse HEAD` must equal `git rev-parse origin/main` in the repo being built. An unpushed
-> change does not exist — never build a dirty or unpushed tree. The `git pull` in the build step
-> stays (it is a no-op when you work in this tree, and load-bearing if anything was pushed from
-> elsewhere).
-
-| Step | Command |
-|------|---------|
-| 1. Commit + push | `git add <explicit paths> && git commit -m "..." && git push` |
-| 2. Build + push image | `cd /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/build/felhom-controller && git -C /mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git/felhom-controller pull && ./build.sh <VER> --push` (build.sh does NOT pull — the explicit pull is load-bearing) |
-| 3. Deploy (9201) | `ssh felhom-pve "pct exec 9201 -- bash -c 'docker pull gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-controller:<VER> && echo gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-controller:<VER> > /etc/felhom-controller-image && systemctl restart felhom-controller-bootstrap.service'"` |
-| 4. Verify | `ssh felhom-pve "pct exec 9201 -- docker ps --filter name=felhom-controller --format '{{.Image}} {{.Status}}'"` + container logs |
-
-Hub build/deploy lives in `felhom.eu` (GitOps) — see that repo's CLAUDE.md / the skill. Catalog
-changes (`app-catalog-felhom.eu`): commit+push; controller sync picks them up ≤15 min or via the
-"Sablonok frissítése" button.
-
-## Session-critical invariants (the rest live in REUSE.md)
+The rest live in `REUSE.md`. These cost incidents to learn:
 
 - `docker compose restart` does NOT pick up new images/env — always `up -d` (`RedeployFromEnv`).
-- Docker's `.State` says "running" even for unhealthy containers — `.Status` parse is the truth.
-- In-memory `Deployed` flag is set BEFORE `compose up -d` (slow-pull race); reverted on failure.
-- `compose up -d` exits 0 on crash-loops — post-start status check is the detection.
+- Docker's `.State` says "running" even for unhealthy containers — the `.Status` parse is the truth.
+- In-memory `Deployed` is set BEFORE `compose up -d` (slow-pull race); reverted on failure.
+- `compose up -d` exits 0 on crash-loops — the post-start status check is the detection.
 - Env var KEYS are logged, never values. Protected stacks (traefik, cloudflared, felhom-controller)
-  can't be stopped from the UI.
+  cannot be stopped from the UI.
 - Verify a container image HAS the healthcheck tool before using it (BusyBox wget / python3 / curl —
-  catalog REUSE.md maps the families).
+  the catalog `REUSE.md` maps the families).
+- `IsRunning()` is CONCURRENCY, false during a verification restore — display MUST use
+  `RestoreStatus()`.
+
+## Live validation — the fence
+
+Exercise the SERVER-SIDE PIPELINE a real user triggers, end-to-end (connect → enroll → deploy). **The
+forbidden shortcut is BYPASSING that pipeline** — the F9 episode was a raw agent guest-attach with
+hand-set state, and it proved nothing.
+
+`claude-in-chrome` is NOT available on DooPlex. The standard method is endpoint-level: invoke the
+exact endpoint the UI invokes (no server logic is skipped, only rendering) and **say which method was
+used**. Strict end-to-end UI coverage is a manual click-through by the operator.
+
+Two traps in that method live in `.claude/rules/ui-hungarian.md` (ASCII-only greps; `!` in
+credentials) — they load when you touch a template or stylesheet.
+
+## Commands — one per surface
+
+| Surface | Command |
+|---|---|
+| Gates (after ANY change) | `python3 controller/scripts/controller_gates.py` — from `controller/` |
+| Green gate | `go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...` |
+| Build + deploy | the **`felhom-build-deploy`** skill — do not hand-roll it |
+
+Guest 9201 is **bootstrap-managed — there is no compose file**;
+`felhom-controller-bootstrap.service` runs the tag written in `/etc/felhom-controller-image`. Catalog
+changes (`app-catalog-felhom.eu`) are picked up by controller sync ≤15 min, or via the "Sablonok
+frissítése" button.
 
 ## Working with CHANGELOG.md
 
 **DO NOT read the full file** — it is large and will waste context.
-- Session start: use `CONTEXT.md` + `controller/README.md` for current state.
+
+- Session start: `CONTEXT.md` + `controller/README.md` for current state.
 - Adding an entry: Read only the top ~30 lines for format, then Edit-insert after line 1.
 - History: Grep for topics instead of reading.
 
 ## End-of-session checklist
 
-1. **Commit and push** all code changes
-2. **Build, push, and deploy** the new controller image (if controller code changed)
-3. **Update CHANGELOG.md** with what was done
-4. **Update CONTEXT.md** with decisions made, state and what's next
-5. **Update controller/README.md** if architecture or features changed
-6. **Verify** the deployment is working (check `docker ps` and logs)
-7. **Update REUSE.md** if you added/changed/deprecated a shared helper or pattern (same commit)
+1. **Commit and push** all code changes (explicit paths; no `git add -A`).
+2. **Build, push, and deploy** the new controller image, if controller code changed.
+3. **`CHANGELOG.md`** — always, whenever code changed and was pushed.
+4. **`CONTEXT.md`** — decisions made, state, what is next.
+5. **`controller/README.md`** — whenever a feature was added, modified or removed.
+6. **`REPORT.md`** — overwrite with this run's summary only.
+7. **`REUSE.md`** — if a shared helper or pattern was added/changed/deprecated (same commit).
+8. **Verify** the deployment (`docker ps` + logs).
+
+<!--
+WHY THIS FILE IS SHORT (2026-08-06, instruction-trim task).
+Removed from here and rehomed, not lost:
+  - the `## Layout (verified against the tree)` block  -> derivable by `ls internal/`; REUSE.md
+    carries the per-package seams and traps that the annotations were really for.
+  - the `!!! IMPORTANT !!!` header -> its two requirements are checklist items 3 and 5. One voice,
+    one place; a rule stated twice in one file is a rule that gets edited in one of them.
+  - the host/access table -> documentation/operations/nodes.md is the single home. The copy here
+    had drifted: it gave demo-felhom as plain root@192.168.0.162 (the LAN fallback, not the route),
+    pinned "agent 0.93.0" against the project's own no-versions-in-docs rule, and claimed no drill
+    VM was provisioned on demo-hp. Measured 2026-08-06: `qm list` on demo-hp shows VM 300
+    `drill-r50` present. felhom-agent/CLAUDE.md was right; this file was wrong.
+  - the "felhom-pve is back on the home LAN" block -> it was bookkeeping about a retired block; the
+    record is in documentation/audits/AUDIT-vacation-remote-ops-2026-07-20.md.
+  - the "Legacy: Windows workstation" block -> the workspace-root CLAUDE.md carries the full version.
+  - the gates/logging/coupling/UI paragraphs -> .claude/rules/*.md, which load when a matching file
+    is read instead of in every session.
+Full per-block accounting: felhom.eu/documentation/audits/LEDGER-instruction-trim-2026-08-06.md
+-->

controller/scripts/controller_gates.py

@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ SCRIPTS = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
 CTRL = os.path.dirname(SCRIPTS)                 # <repo>/controller — every gate's cwd
 REPO = os.path.dirname(CTRL)                    # <repo> — the root REUSE.md lives here
 SHARED_REUSE = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(REPO), "felhom.eu", "scripts", "reuse_refs_check.py")
+SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS = os.path.join(
+    os.path.dirname(REPO), "felhom.eu", "scripts", "instructions_gate.py")
 
 # (label, absolute script path, args, fast)
 GATES = [
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ GATES = [
     ("mojibake",       os.path.join(SCRIPTS, "mojibake_gate.py"),               [],       True),
     ("docker-v",       os.path.join(SCRIPTS, "docker_run_volume_path_gate.py"), [],       True),
     ("reuse-refs",     SHARED_REUSE,                                            [REPO],   True),
+    ("instructions",   SHARED_INSTRUCTIONS,                                     [REPO],   True),
 ]
 
 VERDICT = {0: "OK", 1: "FAILED", 2: "INCONCLUSIVE"}