The box stops inferring the customer's intent from a container count and reads
what they actually asked for.
Part 1 — desired state. AppConfig gains a tri-state `desired_state`
(""/running/stopped), written ONLY by the customer's own action: the API action
switch, DeployStack, UpdateOptionalConfig's redeploy branch, and the .fab
import. Intent is written BEFORE the act and a failed write REFUSES the act.
StartStack/StopStack are deliberately not writers — 14 callers, only 2 are the
customer. bootrecon.isBootOrphan now reads intent instead of len(Containers)>0,
which closes R-157 mechanism B (a power cut or interrupted deploy left an app
with zero containers, read as a deliberate stop, and stranded silently).
ABSENT MEANS UNKNOWN, NEVER "running": every pre-v0.189.0 app.yaml reads absent,
so the legacy fallback is byte-identical to the old rule. A running-only startup
backfill converges the unambiguous cases; `stopped` is never inferred.
Part 2 — backup.AppStopGuard, a persisted marker over every stop→work→start
window (volume dump, offbox reconstitute, .fab export). Its own file, never
quiesce's. Written before the stop, cleared only after a restart that succeeded,
kept when one fails. Recover() completes before the boot reconciler is launched
and returns its outcome, which main.go reports on the existing backup_failed
event once the notifier exists. A defer is not the mechanism — a SIGKILL runs
none (Campaign 8 fault 10).
Also: SaveAppConfig rebuilt AppConfig field-by-field (the R-100 shape) and would
have dropped desired_state on every save across nine call sites. Replaced with
copy-and-overlay. Measured: app.yaml does not round-trip unknown YAML keys.
No hub change, no agent coupling, no user-visible string. 27/27 packages green;
7 red-proofs observed FAIL then restored.
R-51: aggregateState's mixed branch returned StateRunning ("partial"), so a stack whose
MAIN container was dead behind live helpers alerted on nothing — immich-server sat Exited
for 18 h, 100 % unreachable, no banner and no app_start_failed (audit F4). New
StateDegraded: a DOWN member whose docker restart policy is always/unless-stopped is a
fault (degraded, a down state); no/on-failure is a finished one-shot and stays benign; an
unreadable policy fails CLOSED. The unhealthy/restarting/paused/unknown exclusions are
byte-identical — folding unhealthy into down is the flapping fix-3 avoided.
R-52: new internal/bootrecon — one bounded start-once sweep at startup (2 attempts, 30 s
apart) for apps an interrupted boot left behind, inside the 90 s boot grace so a success
is silent and a failure still alerts. A zero-container stack is NEVER touched: the UI's
Stop is compose down, so a deliberate stop survives a reboot.
Both features carry a production-path wiring test (the v0.154.0 / v0.91.0 inert-seam
class). The main() assertion is an AST walk, not strings.Contains — the substring version
passed its own red-proof, because a commented-out call still contains the string.
Red-proofs run and restored: mix branch reverted -> "running" on the immich fixture;
boot hook commented out -> wiring test fails; zero-container gate dropped -> the
user-stopped app gets started.
NOTE: controller/cmd/controller/ is matched by .gitignore's `controller` entry, so new
files there need `git add -f` (and ripgrep silently skips main.go without --no-ignore).
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