Site one. app_info.html rendered {{.InitialCreds.Password}} into a hidden span —
a REAL per-install credential, read live out of the running container, in the
response body of every render. The page now carries the non-secret half plus a
boolean; the value comes from POST /apps/<slug>/initial-credentials/reveal, which
RE-READS the container rather than serving a cached copy (caching it in the
handler would put it back in the body one layer in). no-store, CSRF-covered,
logged as an act. Both buttons go through it. A reveal that cannot read the value
SAYS SO rather than returning an empty string that renders as a blank password.
Site two, established before changing. The hidden input is NOT the defect and was
left alone: it fires only pre-deploy, and README §318 documents why the value must
round-trip — the customer notes the generated secrets down and submitting them
back is what makes the saved value the same one they saw. The defect was the
neighbouring READONLY input, which on an ALREADY-DEPLOYED app rendered the secret
into a page with nothing to submit. Fixed by POST /stacks/<name>/auto-field/reveal,
authorised by requiring a type:secret auto-field of that stack. Both directions
pinned.
The premise that this contradicted a repo rule does not hold: the rule is
CONTEXT.md:2070 'Password fields require explicit input — prevents accidental
empty-password deployments', about EMPTINESS. No line in the repo says 'no silent
auto-fill'.
The gate. scripts/secret_in_markup_gate.py, registered in controller_gates.py,
convicts any template expression that names a secret unless allowlisted with a
reason. Its limits are MEASURED and in its docstring: it catches a launder through
a local variable (the assignment names the secret) but is blind to a secret
arriving under a neutral page-data key — verified both ways. That is the shape of
site two, which this gate would NOT have caught. The runtime body assertion covers
all shapes but only 4 of 27 page templates; the other 23 are R-255, filed rather
than glossed. Two nets, different holes, both named.
Correction to v0.207.0's report: HTML comments do NOT ship in the response body
here — html/template strips them, text/template does not. Measured. A red-proof
planting a secret in a comment therefore correctly does not fail.
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
A census of all thirteen gate scripts across the four felhom repos on 2026-08-02 found that
every check a CLAUDE.md names was passing and two of the four nobody is told to run were
failing. This repo had seven gates and CLAUDE.md named two; four more were reachable only via
a line in REUSE.md, and docker_run_volume_path_gate.py — RED at census time — through one line
in REUSE.md and nothing else.
controller_gates.py runs all seven plus reuse_refs_check on the repo root, streams each gate's
own output, and exits worst-wins non-zero. The shared reuse checker stays in felhom.eu/scripts/
and is invoked across the workspace — never copied here, which would recreate the drift it
detects; an absent sibling clone FAILS the gate and prints the path tried.
.githooks/pre-push runs it with --fast and refuses the push. Per-clone and --no-verify-able,
both stated in the hook itself; a manual run WARNS when the clone is unarmed.
test_controller_gates.py is a SEAM test — it asserts each member gate's own distinctive stdout,
not the runner's summary line. Red-proofed: an inert run_gate still prints 'all controller
gates OK' and exits 0, and turns the seam test red.
Tooling only: no Go change, no image build, no deploy, no version bump.
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