# REPORT — felhom-controller v0.138.0: escrow "awaiting hub confirmation" waiting state

**Task:** Diagnose the stuck "Helyreállítási kód szükséges" banner after a completed escrow ceremony
on the demo box; add the post-ceremony waiting-state UX; ship the hub stale-clear fix **only if**
Phase-0 diagnosed Hypothesis B.

**Shipped:** controller **v0.138.0** (Part 1, unconditional). **Hub: NO change** (Phase-0 = A, and
Hypothesis B verified false). felhom-agent untouched.

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## Phase 0 — DIAGNOSIS (read-only). Verdict: **A (report-cycle lag)** — already resolved on the box.

The banner renders while `Offbox.EscrowState != "escrowed"`. The pending→escrowed flip happens only
in `report.EscrowAutoConfirmer.Reconcile` on a report ACK, on hash-match between the ACK's
`restic_pw_sha256` and the local repo password. The observed stuck banner was the ~15-min gap between
a completed ceremony and the next ACK.

**Evidence — demo box `felhom-controller` logs (guest 9201, running 0.136.0):**
```
2026/07/16 16:13:31 [INFO] [web] escrow ceremony started via wizard (job escrow-1784218411576550074)
2026/07/16 16:13:39 [INFO] [web] escrow recovery code claimed (one-shot; not logged)
2026/07/16 16:27:58 [INFO] [report] Hub report pushed successfully (2992 bytes)
2026/07/16 16:27:58 [INFO] [escrow-confirm] hub-verified: the escrow covers the current repo password (hash d517ce7f9982…) — EscrowState auto-confirmed escrowed; offsite runs enabled
```
- Ceremony claimed `16:13:39`; the **very next** `hub-report` ACK at `16:27:58` (~14 min later)
  flipped pending→escrowed via hash-match (`d517ce7f9982…`). One INFO confirm line, no mismatch
  warning, no withheld-hash gap.
- **Current box state:** `settings.json` → `"escrow_state": "escrowed"` (verdict A resolved itself;
  the box is confirmed; `OffboxRunnable()` true).

**Hypothesis B (hub never clears stale on upload) — verified FALSE, so NO hub change:**
- `store.SaveHostEscrow` (the escrow **upload** sink, `handler.go:1083`) already clears stale on a new
  blob: `INSERT … ON CONFLICT(host_id) DO UPDATE SET … stale_at = NULL` (`store.go:2084`).
- The ACK only withholds the hash **while `stale_at` is set** (`store.go:2150`: `if staleAt != ""`).
- So a re-issue→re-ceremony cycle recovers on its own; the only thing not emitted is a cosmetic
  `escrow_refreshed` event — out of scope (Part 2 gated on B, which does not hold).

**Hypothesis C (upload silently failed):** ruled out — the box reached escrowed via a hash-bearing
ACK, which requires the fresh blob + hash to be present on the hub.

**Operational note:** the demo Proxmox host key changed since the last session (box reprovisioned for
the N100 customer-zero run). Refreshed `known_hosts` (`accept-new`) before any read — expected for the
demo host, not a security event.

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## Part 1 — controller v0.138.0 (the waiting state)

1. **Persisted stamp.** New `settings.OffboxTarget.CeremonyCompletedAt` (`ceremony_completed_at`,
   RFC3339). SET on a successful recovery-code **claim** (`web/escrow_handlers.go`, only while still
   pending; best-effort — a stamp failure never fails the claim, the code is already revealed and the
   blob already uploaded). ZEROED on the pending→escrowed flip — the auto-confirmer `Flip` closure
   (`cmd/controller/main.go`) **and** the deprecated manual confirm (`web/offbox_handlers.go`).
   Persisted ⇒ survives a controller restart mid-wait.
2. **The pick.** `web/handlers.go`: `offboxCeremonyWaitState(t)` → (awaiting, timedOut);
   `escrowCeremonyGraceWindow = 35m` (2 report cycles + slack, named). Falls back to the plain pending
   CTA when escrowed, unstamped, or the stamp is unparseable.
3. **Card branch.** `backups_remote.html`: one new escrow-card branch ahead of the existing chain —
   **info (blue `--blue`)** "Helyreállítási kód létrehozva … megerősítésre vár, legfeljebb 15 perc",
   degrading to **warn** "A megerősítés nem érkezett meg a várt időn belül …" + re-ceremony CTA past
   the window. Existing pending / stale (Scenario F) / escrowed branches untouched.
4. **Wizard final screen.** `backups_escrow.html` "7. Befejezés" step gains the **"Mi történik
   ezután?"** info note (generated / sent to the hub / bounded ≤15-min wait) — the wizard finishes to
   `/backups/remote`, so the customer lands directly on the awaiting card.

**NOT built (as instructed):** no scheduler rework; no manual report-trigger. *Observation:* no
pre-existing manual/API report-trigger seam was found (report push is the scheduler `hub-report` job),
so the one-liner "fire a report right after the ceremony" option was correctly skipped.

## Part 2 — hub v0.57.1: **NOT shipped** (Phase-0 = A, Hypothesis B false; see diagnosis above).

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## Green gates & tests

- `go build ./...` OK · `go vet ./...` OK · `go test ./...` **0 failures**.
- Design gates OK: `template_id_gate`, `emoji_gate`, `native_confirm_gate`, `offbox_rename_gate`.
- New test `web/escrow_wait_state_test.go` — 8-case truth table + mutual-exclusion invariant.
  **Red-proof (run→fail→revert):** dropped `t.EscrowState == "escrowed"` from the early-return guard →
  `escrowed clears the wait` case FAILED (`awaiting=true, want false` — the interim card would resurface
  after the healthy state) → reverted → green.

## Scenarios

- **S-A (waiting state):** ceremony completes → info card shows immediately (stamp set on claim);
  confirming ACK zeroes the stamp AND sets escrowed → escrowed branch wins → healthy card. ✔ (logic +
  live: box is escrowed).
- **S-B (timeout):** stamp aged past `escrowCeremonyGraceWindow` with state still pending → warn +
  re-ceremony CTA. ✔ (unit: `stamped past window → timed out`, `at boundary → timed out`).
- **S-C (restart mid-wait):** stamp is persisted in `settings.json` → the info card survives a restart.
  ✔ (persisted field; unit covers the stamped-pending path).
- **S-D (hub, if B):** N/A — Phase-0 = A, no hub change.

## Deploy & live verification

- Committed to `main` (`1203321`); image `gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-controller:0.138.0`
  built+pushed on 180 (digest `sha256:49f9474c…`).
- **Update train 0.136.0 → 0.138.0** delivered cleanly to guest 9201 (0.137.0 was built but never
  deployed to the box; the bootstrap pull jumped straight to 0.138.0). `docker ps`:
  `…felhom-controller:0.138.0 Up (healthy)`; startup clean (`Web UI listening on :8080`,
  `Starting scheduler with 13 jobs`).
- **Live end-state (matches the task target):**
  - `settings.json` → `escrow_state: "escrowed"` (Phase-0 A already flipped it; no `ceremony_completed_at`
    present, correct for an already-escrowed box) → renders the healthy **"A helyreállítási kód letétbe
    helyezve"** branch (unchanged).
  - offbox `enabled: true` + escrowed + Hetzner storagebox target ⇒ **`OffboxRunnable()` true**.
  - New template strings confirmed in the deployed binary (embedded templates): "megerősítésre vár" ×2
    (remote card + wizard note), "A megerősítés nem érkezett meg" ×1, "Mi történik ezután" ×1.
- **Not live-rendered:** the awaiting/timeout cards themselves — they require an in-flight pending
  ceremony, and re-running the ceremony is Viktor's supervised flow (would un-escrow → re-escrow the
  live box). S-A/S-B/S-C are covered by the unit truth table + the persisted-field design; the card
  markup is byte-identical to what the unit-verified booleans gate.

**NOT done — Viktor's click:** the first "Távoli mentés most" (first offsite run) is the customer's, per
the task. CC stops at escrowed-verified.