docs: R-94 closed, R-29 leg (a) closed + leg (b) half, R-168 minted

hub/CHANGELOG v0.87.0 + scripts/CHANGELOG gate-enforcement entry. CONTEXT gains S-6 (the
hub renders no host-install version and the gate pins its absence) and S-7 (gates run from
one entry point per repo; reuse_refs_check was fixed rather than the REUSE.md convention,
with both rejected alternatives recorded).

OPEN-ITEMS: R-94 CLOSED all three legs, leg (a) by DELETION with its reason; R-29 leg (a)
CLOSED and leg (b) HALF-SHIPPED with the census result written into the row (13 gates; every
gate a CLAUDE.md names was green, two of the four unnamed were red); R-161 gains its
successor pointer. NEW R-168 (grep established R-167 was the highest in use): Gitea Actions
runner — measured 2026-08-02 as Gitea 1.26.2, Actions enabled on all four repos, 0 runners,
0 workflow runs, 0 branch protections, and the consequence that trunk-based direct-to-main
pushes leave no merge for a status check to gate, so CI here can detect but not block.
BLOCKED on a spike over host-mode vs privileged DinD on DooPlex and whether the workflow can
avoid JavaScript actions.

ROADMAP: R-94 collapsed to its one-liner, R-29 updated, R-168 added.

documentation/backlog/OPEN-ITEMS.md

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 | **R-88a** | ~~Failing backup re-quiesces every 5 min, no backoff~~ | **SHIPPED** (controller v0.176.0, 2026-07-27) | — | Live on both boxes; breaker 15m→4h, per-tier, never permanent | — |
 | **R-88b** | ~~`/backup/due` cannot say *unknown*~~ | **SHIPPED + PROVEN-LIVE** (agent v0.105.0 + controller v0.178.0, 2026-07-27) | — | `age_state=unknown` captured on real hardware during a deliberate ep0 outage; controller deferred, **zero app stacks stopped** | — |
 | **E-2d** | **Prove E-2 on a fresh VM** — a real `felhom-host-install.sh` 1.22.0 run, Case B naturally, a claimable customer, then add a drive (the offer) and unplug it (`backup_target_absent` end-to-end) | **CLOSED — PARTIALLY PROVEN** (2026-07-29) | — | **C1, C2 proven** (`audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md`); **C3, C4 proven live** (`audits/SESSION-C-2026-07-29.md`); **C5 FAILED → R-116** — the gate fires and an alarm reaches the hub, but it is the generic event, so the alarm and its recovery cannot be paired. **R-116 is the single named open leg**; per the Session-C runbook §9, decided in advance, a failed claim closes the item as partially proven rather than triggering a re-run. Both audits carry the full record — the `local-lvm` fence, the ISO/PAIRING derivation, the Phase 0 answers, the per-claim observables and the teardown evidence — and are the place to read it, not this cell. **The arc's actual definition of done is R-106 + R-109, R-108 and D5**, none of which this detour touched | CC |
-| **R-94** | **A hand-synced version constant drifts, and the gate that would catch it is never run** — `hub/internal/web/configs.go:28` pins `hostInstallVersion = "1.19.0"` while `scripts/felhom-host-install.sh:187` is `SCRIPT_VERSION="1.22.0"` | **READY (XS)** | — | **CORRECTED 2026-07-29 — the earlier framing of this row was false and is retracted.** The constant selects no script: its only consumers are `configs.go:487` (`ScriptVersion`) and `render_test.go:219`, and it renders as a label at `customer_unified.html:494`. The install command beneath that label fetches `https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh` (`customer_unified.html:563`, `:1262`), which the website git-syncs from `main` on a 30 s period (`manifests/webpage.yaml`) — so **1.22.0 is what every install already gets** (live fetch, 2026-07-29). Every flag the generator emits is parsed by 1.22.0 (`customer_unified.html`~`:1210`–`:1238` vs `felhom-host-install.sh:1177`–`:1210`): **no functional gap, only a wrong number on the operator's screen.** Three legs, all XS: **(a)** derive the label from `SCRIPT_VERSION` rather than hand-syncing it, or delete it; **(b)** `scripts/hostinstall_gates.py` **fails today** and is invoked by no Makefile, hook or `CLAUDE.md` — wire it next to `site_gates.py` or delete it, because a gate nobody runs reads as coverage it is not providing (**this leg is one instance of → R-29**, which is the class: gates are enforced nowhere, and the enforcement decision belongs there, not here); **(c)** `render_test.go:219` compares the constant to itself and passes at any value — replace it with the cross-file assertion. **No longer blocked on E-2d** — it never gated anything. **2026-07-29: a real 1.22.0 install has now happened** (`audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md`), so even the original (retracted) precaution is discharged — nothing stands in front of this row | CC |
+| **R-94** | ~~A hand-synced version constant drifts, and the gate that would catch it is never run~~ | **CLOSED — SHIPPED** (hub v0.87.0, 2026-08-02) | — | **All three legs closed.** **(a) closed by DELETION, not derivation** — deriving is not achievable honestly: the Setup command fetches `felhom-host-install.sh` at RUN TIME from a website that git-syncs `main` every 30 s (R-110), so no build-time value in the hub can be true, and a number that is wrong carries a version number's authority while being a guess. The const, the `pageData.ScriptVersion` field, its assignment and the rendered label are gone; a NOTE stands where the const was so it is not helpfully re-added. **(b)** `hostinstall_gates.py` gate 1 INVERTED — it now asserts the hub carries **no** host-install version literal, in six code shapes across every `.go`/`.html` under `hub/`; and the gate is now invoked, by `scripts/repo_gates.py` and the pre-push hook (→ R-29). **(c)** the tautological `render_test.go:219` assertion is deleted, not replaced — there is no version to assert. It was demonstrated PASSING with the const at `9.9.9` while the script was 1.22.0. The label had been wrong for 19 days (since 2026-07-14) | — |
 | **R-110** | **`main` is the installer's publish channel — there is no staging.** `manifests/webpage.yaml` git-syncs `/scripts/` from `--branch=main` on a 30 s period and nginx serves that working tree directly (`location /scripts/`, `root …/current`). So pushing `scripts/felhom-host-install.sh` **is** publishing it: within thirty seconds it is what every subsequent `felhom-bootstrap.sh` fetch (`scripts/iso/felhom-bootstrap.sh:96`) and every operator-run day-0 command (`customer_unified.html:563`) receives. There is no tag, no pinned-version path, no staging copy and no rollback other than another push — for the artifact that runs as **root on a virgin box**, the single most privileged thing Felhom ships | **WAITING-ON-OPERATOR (S)** | operator ruling | **Two consequences worth stating:** E-2d is not a gate *before* exposure — 1.22.0 has been the live installer since it hit `main` on 2026-07-29 — and the precaution recorded on the old R-94 row as "do not point every new box at an installer that has never run" **was never available to take**. **Open question for the operator, not a defect to fix blind:** whether `/scripts/` should serve a pinned release (tag-tracked path, or a versioned directory with the customer command naming a version) or whether `main`-tracking is the accepted shape for a one-operator product. Exposure today is zero — there are no boxes installing — which is exactly why it is cheap to decide now. **SECOND INSTANCE, found 2026-07-29 by the E-2d run and filed here rather than as a new ID:** `felhom-host-install.sh` fetches **nine** files from `raw/branch/main` (`:2072`–`:2206`) and the hub manifest vouches a sha for exactly **one** (`wrapper_sha256` → `felhom-pbs-apply`; re-checked this run, no drift). E-2a's `felhom-backup-target-apply` (`:2116`) is installed **0755 to `/usr/local/sbin` and root-fenced in sudoers**, validated only by `bash -n` — a root-executed artifact taken from `main` with no pinned integrity, which is this row's class exactly | CC |
 | **R-111** | ~~**The Day-0 artifact channel is 17 agent releases stale — a box installed today gets agent `0.96.0`, not `0.113.0`.**~~ `felhom-host-install.sh` does not use `main`: it reads the hub-vouched manifest (`:423-436`) and fetches Gitea generic packages (agent `:1945`, golden `:2573`). Gitea's newest are **agent 0.96.0** and **golden 0.161.0**, and the hub's manifest selects exactly those — so a fresh box lands on **agent 0.96.0 + controller 0.161.0** (global floor `v0.156.0` < the golden's 0.161.0, so no self-update) against `main`'s 0.113.0 / 0.185.1. Agent 0.113.0 reached both demo boxes by **direct deploy and was never published** | **SHIPPED 2026-07-29 — the channel now serves agent 0.113.0 + golden 0.185.1** | — | **FIXED the same day it was found.** Agent **0.113.0** built from the clean tree @ `58b598b` and published (`scripts/publish-agent.sh`), sha `5f3247f756cb658e…`, round-trip GET verified. Golden **0.185.1** baked on the nested drill VM embedding controller `0.185.1`, published, sha `dba00f3e845c415e…` — bake clean: `Result=success`, overlay2, **all 3 mounts included** (rootfs+mp0+mp1), 0 FATAL/exclusions, upload HTTP 201, token-leak grep 0; log `drill/bake-0.185.1.log`; GL-1 teardown done (guest 9100 purged, secrets shredded, disk restored to `virgin`). Hub Day-0 manifest moved **both together in one POST** so it never vouched a new agent against an old golden; `min_agent` **0.93.0 → 0.113.0**, which is what controller v0.185.0 declares (`felhom-controller/CHANGELOG.md:15`) — **zero fleet impact, verified: all three enrolled hosts already run agent 0.113.0, so no box is held.** `wrapper_sha256` preserved verbatim (re-checked against `configs/felhom-pbs-apply` — no drift). **The global controller floor was deliberately NOT raised**: the golden now bakes 0.185.1, so a fresh box needs no self-update, and raising it would have been an unnecessary fleet-wide write. Original finding follows. **Found 2026-07-29 by the E-2d Phase 0 gate, which stopped the run before a VM was created.** 17 unpublished releases (v0.97.0–v0.113.0) strand the **entire R-82 tiered-backup arc** plus **F-CRIT-2** (a failed backup looking fresh — 7 days silent) and **F-REBOOT** (a guest rebooted mid-backup never returns): a new customer's box would install without them. **Blocks E-2d's C3/C4/C5** — those test endpoints and events that do not exist in 0.96.0/0.161.0. The **controller is fine** (registry has 0.185.1, floor-driven self-update), so the gap is specific to the two Gitea-generic artifacts. **Mirror of R-110, not a duplicate:** R-110 = the installer publishes instantly with no staging; R-111 = the agent/golden publish gate exists and was never walked. Fix should decide whether publishing joins the release train rather than staying a remembered step (R-29's shape, one layer up). Evidence: `audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md` **DEFERRED LEG, AND IT RECURRED → R-115.** This row's shipped half stands and is not reopened: the bump happened, was verified, and was proven end-to-end by the E-2d install. But its own closing line — *decide whether publishing joins the release train rather than staying a remembered step* — was never acted on, and agent 0.114.0 reproduced the exact condition the same afternoon. The recurrence is filed as **R-115**, not as a reopen, because the stale-channel finding is closed while the process defect that caused it is a distinct problem with a distinct fix. | CC |
 | **R-115** | **Publishing is a remembered step, and it was forgotten within eight hours of being documented as forgettable.** A box installs the agent from a Gitea generic package the hub explicitly vouches, never from git. Nothing in the build, deploy or session-end path publishes or checks that a version was published — so "deployed" and "installable" are independent states that drift silently. **Two instances, both real:** **R-111** (2026-07-29 morning) — 17 agent releases v0.97.0–v0.113.0 stranded, so a new customer would have installed without the entire R-82 tiered-backup arc plus F-CRIT-2 and F-REBOOT; found only because the E-2d Phase 0 gate happened to look. **Agent 0.114.0** (same afternoon) — the R-113 fix, built and pushed at `b58d7bc`, deployed to felhom-pve, and **unpublished until this task**, which blocked Session C: a fresh drill box would have installed 0.113.0 and proven the bug rather than the fix | **WAITING-ON-OPERATOR (M)** | operator ruling on the release process | **The finding is the RECURRENCE, not either instance** — both instances are fixed. R-111's own text already named this leg (*"decide whether publishing joins the release train rather than staying a remembered step"*) and closed SHIPPED without it; the leg then recurred the same day, which is the evidence that a note is not a mechanism. **Class: → R-29, one layer up** — a control that exists and is never walked; deliberately NOT given its own ID. **The decision is the operator's; the options, mechanisms first:** (a) **publish as a step in the build/release path**, so deployed and installable cannot diverge; (b) **a gate that refuses to deploy a version that is not published+vouched** — the strongest, and it fails closed; (c) a session-end checklist entry; (d) accept it as manual and add a pre-Session-C verification. **(a) and (b) are mechanisms; (c) and (d) are reminders — and R-29's whole finding is that reminders do not hold.** No code this session by design | CC |
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 | **R-113** | ~~**The drive-absent gate CANNOT FIRE on device loss — E-2b's alarm is wired to an unreachable condition.**~~ `planDriveGates` (`intermediary.go:216-262`) computes presence by OR-ing `d.BoundUnderParent` into `present[GuestPath]`, and the agent derives `BoundUnderParent` from `GuestSeesMount()` — *"is this path a mount target in the guest's `/proc/<pid>/mountinfo`"* (`localapi/disks.go:210`). The raw drive mount is a **device-bound systemd unit** and dies with the device; **the agent's own bind under the shared parent is NOT device-bound, so its mountinfo entry outlives the device**. The gate reads the surviving bind as "present" ⇒ no `Stop` action ⇒ `notifyDriveAbsent` never called | **SHIPPED + PROVEN-LIVE** (agent v0.114.0, 2026-07-29) | — | **PROVEN LIVE `audits/SESSION-C-2026-07-29.md`.** Target drive hot-detached on a fresh box running the SHIPPED agent 0.114.0 (from the Day-0 manifest, not a hand build). **The gate fired in 4 seconds** — E-2d measured ZERO over 4½ minutes — and `SetDisconnected` was reached. It fired on exactly the shape that defeated it: raw `/mnt/mentes` NOT mounted while the bind `/mnt/felhom-drives/mentes` still read `/dev/sdb[/felhom-data]`. **Over-correction guard PASSED:** with both drives present, 0 ABSENT lines and the target stayed healthy. **Note: C5 still FAILED — but on a different defect (→ R-116), not on this one.** **SESSION C IS NOW UNBLOCKED.** Agent **0.114.0 published and vouched** 2026-07-29 (sha `5e4c15ebee2d7583…`, round-trip GET verified; hub manifest read back showing it) — a fresh drill box now installs the fix under test instead of the bug. The golden was NOT re-baked and `min_agent` was NOT raised: the golden bakes the controller, not the agent, and controller v0.185.0 declares MinAgent 0.113.0, which 0.114.0 already satisfies. **FIX: `BoundUnderParent` is now a CONJUNCTION — bound under the parent AND the drive's raw host mount still mounted** (`devicePresent`, new `deviceCheck` seam), at BOTH `/disks` construction sites. The raw mount is the device-bound systemd unit that dies with the device; the agent's bind is not — so the raw mount IS the device signal, grounded in E-2d's measurement rather than inference. **Conjunction, deliberately:** the device half alone would regress boot ordering (raw mounts early, bind lands ~18 s later — that window must keep reading absent), so existing behaviour is byte-identical and only the unreachable case is closed. **Unknown is never absent** (`devicePresent("")` = true) — a false absent stops a working customer's apps. **Controller UNCHANGED, no MinAgent bump:** `BoundUnderParent` has exactly one functional consumer (`planDriveGates:226`); a new `DevicePresent` bool was rejected because absent-from-JSON decodes to `false`, which would have made every drive on an older agent read ABSENT. +6 tests (208→214), 4 red-proofs run and reverted. **Deployed to demo-felhom; over-correction guard verified in production** — raw mount present, drive still reads present, 10/10 apps untouched, no gate action, no false alarm. **demo-hp deliberately left on 0.113.0** (the spec scoped deploy to felhom-pve) — it still carries the bug. **⚠️ SESSION C BLOCKER: the hub Day-0 manifest vouches agent 0.113.0**, so a fresh drill box would install WITHOUT this fix and validate nothing — publish + vouch 0.114.0 first (R-111's trap, same shape). **Awaiting live proof of exactly one leg:** device loss → gate `Stop` → `SetDisconnected` → `backup_target_absent` on the wire. Original finding: **PROVEN LIVE 2026-07-29 on a fresh box.** Target drive hot-detached under a running agent; over 4½ min (budget was 60 s): the **agent** said `enrolled drive absent by UUID` every 20 s, the controller logged **0** `[gate]` lines, and the hub received **zero** events — no `backup_target_absent` **and no generic `storage_disconnected`**. Measured with the device gone: `/mnt/mentes2` NOT mounted, `/mnt/felhom-drives/mentes2` still `/dev/sdb[/felhom-data]`. **Not a virtualisation artefact** — the asymmetry is device-bound-mount vs manual-bind, identical on metal (caveat: proven on SCSI hot-detach; physical unplug not staged). **Mirror scenario reasoned, not observed:** both the specific and generic events come from the same `a.Stop` branch, so the generic one is equally unreachable. **Sixth instance of seam-built-but-never-wired** — E-2b wired the seam, to a condition that cannot occur. Evidence: `audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md` §5.2 **Session C scope UNCHANGED by Session B** — R-114/R-112 shipped as controller v0.186.0 and neither touches the agent; the leg awaiting proof is still device loss → gate `Stop` → `SetDisconnected` → `backup_target_absent` on the wire. One rebuild now validates all three. | CC |
 | **R-112** | **E-2's degraded banner and offer have NO UI CONSUMER — the endpoint is correct and the customer never sees it.** `GET /api/storage/backup-target` returns byte-exact copy (proven live), and **nothing fetches it**: `grep 'backup-target'` across all `*.html`/`*.js`/`*.css` → **0 hits**; no template references `OfferPath`/`Degraded`/the copy; `resolveBackupTargetState` + `degradedMessageFor` are consumed **only** by the JSON handler — **no page handler injects the state** | **SHIPPED + PROVEN-LIVE** (controller v0.186.0, 2026-07-29) | — | **PROVEN LIVE `audits/SESSION-C-2026-07-29.md` — the banner reached a customer's page for the first time.** Never-configured box: banner element 1, never-configured copy 1. After the wizard: offer block 1 with `data-path="/mnt/felhom-drives/mentes"`. Healthy after assign: all four markers 0, **proven POSITIVELY** — idle delta 0 `/backup/tiers` calls, page-load delta +1, single caller ⇒ the seam ran and chose silence. **FIXED: the state now has a consumer.** Server-rendered on `/backups` via `backupsHandler` → `backupTargetView` → `backups.html`, following the existing `SingleCopyWarning` banner pattern — NOT a 19th JS fetch, because a banner that needs JavaScript to appear is one more thing that can silently not happen. `backupTargetView` returns **nil** for healthy AND unknown, so those render nothing at all. **Scenario-E seam test drives `backupsHandler` over httptest and asserts the RENDERED HTML** — deleting the one line that sets `data["BackupTarget"]` reproduces the old state and fails every render assertion. **SEAM PROVEN LIVE on demo-felhom by a DIFFERENTIAL positive observable, not by an absent banner:** idle 8 s → 0 new `/backup/tiers` agent calls; each `/backups` load → exactly +1, and that call has only one caller (`resolveBackupTargetState`). The box is healthy (`degraded:false, target:felhom-backup`) and the page correctly rendered **nothing** — which matches its real state but, being a negative, is NOT by itself proof of wiring. **Still unproven live:** that a customer sees actual copy — impossible on a healthy box. **The decisive contrast: templates fetch 18 distinct `/api/storage/*` endpoints; `backup-target` and `backup-target/assign` are the only two with zero references.** The handler's own comment calls itself *"the dashboard's source for the degraded banner and the offer"* — an invariant comment asserting a consumer that does not exist (7th instance of that class). v0.185.1 shipped as *"the offer endpoints were mounted where nothing routed to them"* — it fixed the **router mount** and stopped one layer short of the **render**; its test `TestBackupTargetRoutesLiveUnderTheStorageAPIMount` pins dispatch, not reachability, which is exactly what `CLAUDE.md`'s seam rule warns about. **Fifth instance of seam-built-but-never-wired.** **Fix R-114 FIRST** — wiring this alone would start showing customers the wrong message. Evidence: `audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md` §5.1 | CC |
 | **R-114** | **On target-drive loss the customer is told the wrong story and offered the drive that just vanished.** With the assigned target absent, the endpoint returned `degraded:true, target:"felhom-backup"` **plus** the *"a rendszermentés ugyanazon a lemezen van, mint a rendszer"* message — false, the target is a drive that has disappeared, not the system disk — **and** `offer_path` pointing at the missing drive as the remedy | **SHIPPED + PROVEN-LIVE** (controller v0.186.0, 2026-07-29) | — | **PROVEN LIVE `audits/SESSION-C-2026-07-29.md`.** With the target absent the page rendered the ABSENT copy (1), the system-disk copy 0, the offer block 0 — both of E-2d's falsehoods gone. API carried `message:"A rendszermentés meghajtója nem érhető el…"` with `target:felhom-backup`. **FIXED: the third state exists.** New `BackupTargetState.TargetAbsent` separates *configured-and-gone* from *never-configured*. `Degraded` keeps its meaning (is there a problem) so the wire contract is unchanged for every consumer; `TargetAbsent` answers which problem, because the remedies are OPPOSITE — attach any second drive vs reconnect *that* one. Copy routed through `degradedMessageFor` (still one decision point) and taken **verbatim** from the hub's `backup_target_absent` email so banner and mail tell one story. **Offer suppressed on the branch itself**, deliberately not left to `firstOfferableDrive`'s `Disconnected` skip — that flag is set by R-113 in another repo, and this state must be right without it. Red-proof: deleting the branch reproduces E-2d's exact payload, offering `/mnt/felhom-drives/mentes2`, the drive that had vanished. **MinAgent unchanged 0.113.0** — R-114 reads `BackupTarget`/`MountPath`/`GuestPath`/`Role`, none of which R-113 altered, so demo-hp is not held. **NOT live-validated: Scenario C cannot occur on a healthy box.** `resolveBackupTargetState` falls through to the generic degraded branch whenever no disk satisfies `d.BackupTarget && d.MountPath != ""`, never distinguishing **never configured** from **configured and now missing**. Shares R-113's root cause — two disagreeing presence signals — but is a different code path with a different fix. **Currently invisible ONLY because of R-112; fix this before wiring that.** Also seen: after reattach the drive returned as `/dev/sdc` while the stable bind still recorded `/dev/sdb`, and the state read healthy. Evidence: `audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md` §5.3 | CC |
-| **R-29** | **The green gates are not enforced anywhere — one was RED for 16 releases before anyone ran it.** This is the **class**, not an instance: a gate that exists, asserts something true, is red, and is invoked by nothing reads as coverage it is not providing. `controller/scripts/docker_run_volume_path_gate.py` failed continuously from **2026-07-14 (v0.129.0)** until R-7b's close-out ran it by hand at v0.145.0 — sixteen releases in which every REPORT said "green" | **READY (S for (a) / M for (b))** | — | **This item has existed at `ROADMAP.md:158` since before the register was rebuilt (2026-07-27) and was never carried across — that omission is itself part of the finding**, because it is an open item *about work not getting done* that then went missing from the page that decides what gets done. Two separable parts, per R-29's own analysis: **(a)** the `docker_run_volume_path_gate` finding is benign and the fix is a 3-line ALLOWLIST addition with its why — **not** a rewrite of the flagged call — and it gets its own reviewed diff, never bundled into a feature commit; **(b)** the systemic half, the real item: decide where gates run (pre-push hook, `build.sh` step, or CI) and make a red gate block the train the way the Go green gate does. **Two further orphans confirmed 2026-07-29** by repo-wide grep across all file types + sibling repos + `~/.claude` settings/skills/hooks + `.git/hooks` (none non-sample) + Makefile/justfile/Taskfile find (only `hub/Makefile`, zero `gate` occurrences) + CI-directory find (**this repo has no CI at all**) — every one of the 19 hits is a docstring, a code comment or prose, and **not one is an invocation**: `scripts/hostinstall_gates.py` — **RED today** (`hub Setup-tab hostInstallVersion=1.19.0 != SCRIPT_VERSION=1.22.0`, exit 1), the same finding as **R-94 leg (b)** — and `scripts/hub_confirm_gate.py`. Of the four gates in `scripts/`, only `site_gates.py` is mandated anywhere (`CLAUDE.md:153`) and `manifest_bearer_gate.py` is named in `runbooks/secrets.md:76`. **In R-29's own words, carried forward deliberately: do not mint a new ID for a new instance** — the 2026-07-18 rehearsal independently re-raised this item and no second ID was minted then either | CC |
+| **R-29** | **The green gates are not enforced anywhere — one was RED for 16 releases before anyone ran it.** This is the **class**, not an instance: a gate that exists, asserts something true, is red, and is invoked by nothing reads as coverage it is not providing. `controller/scripts/docker_run_volume_path_gate.py` failed continuously from **2026-07-14 (v0.129.0)** until R-7b's close-out ran it by hand at v0.145.0 — sixteen releases in which every REPORT said "green" | **leg (a) CLOSED; leg (b) HALF-SHIPPED** (2026-08-02) | — | **This item has existed at `ROADMAP.md:158` since before the register was rebuilt (2026-07-27) and was never carried across — that omission is itself part of the finding**, because it is an open item *about work not getting done* that then went missing from the page that decides what gets done. Two separable parts, per R-29's own analysis: **(a)** the `docker_run_volume_path_gate` finding is benign and the fix is a 3-line ALLOWLIST addition with its why — **not** a rewrite of the flagged call — and it gets its own reviewed diff, never bundled into a feature commit; **(b)** the systemic half, the real item: decide where gates run (pre-push hook, `build.sh` step, or CI) and make a red gate block the train the way the Go green gate does. **Two further orphans confirmed 2026-07-29** by repo-wide grep across all file types + sibling repos + `~/.claude` settings/skills/hooks + `.git/hooks` (none non-sample) + Makefile/justfile/Taskfile find (only `hub/Makefile`, zero `gate` occurrences) + CI-directory find (**this repo has no CI at all**) — every one of the 19 hits is a docstring, a code comment or prose, and **not one is an invocation**: `scripts/hostinstall_gates.py` — **RED today** (`hub Setup-tab hostInstallVersion=1.19.0 != SCRIPT_VERSION=1.22.0`, exit 1), the same finding as **R-94 leg (b)** — and `scripts/hub_confirm_gate.py`. Of the four gates in `scripts/`, only `site_gates.py` is mandated anywhere (`CLAUDE.md:153`) and `manifest_bearer_gate.py` is named in `runbooks/secrets.md:76`. **In R-29's own words, carried forward deliberately: do not mint a new ID for a new instance** — the 2026-07-18 rehearsal independently re-raised this item and no second ID was minted then either **UPDATE 2026-08-02 — leg (a) CLOSED** (`felhom-controller` `c432f70`, its own reviewed diff as specified): `appexport/estimate.go`'s `-v` is a NAMED VOLUME mounted read-only into a throwaway container, no host path, structurally identical to the allowlisted `backup/backup.go` entry — allowlisted with its why; `realVolumeSize` untouched. **Leg (b) HALF-SHIPPED:** the 'decide where gates run' ruling is now made and half-implemented — **every repo has ONE entry point** (`felhom.eu/scripts/repo_gates.py`, `felhom-controller/controller/scripts/controller_gates.py`, `felhom-agent/scripts/agent_gates.py`, `app-catalog-felhom.eu/scripts/catalog_gates.py`), each mandated in its `CLAUDE.md` and each wired to `.githooks/pre-push` via `--fast`. **THE CENSUS, which is the finding:** thirteen gate scripts across four repos; **every gate a `CLAUDE.md` names was GREEN, and two of the four nobody names were RED** — `hostinstall_gates.py` (red since 2026-07-14) and `reuse_refs_check.py` (red on all four repos); a third, `docker_run_volume_path_gate.py`, was named only in `REUSE.md:284` and was also red. Correlation with 'named in a CLAUDE.md' was exact. **STAYS OPEN for the automatic half** — a hook is per-clone and `--no-verify` skips it; the unbypassable half is CI → **R-168** | CC |
 | **R-95** | restic offsite credential **can delete** (`readonly=False`, `forget --prune` runs from the box); SFTP cannot express append-only | **READY** | — | Root exposure still open. Mitigation now ARMED — split prune off-box or move to REST `--append-only` | CC |
 | **R-86** | Restore-tests are interval-scheduled, not backup-aligned | **READY** | R-90 (ep0 headroom) informs cadence | Trigger a tier ~24 h after **its own** newest archive | CC |
 | **R-87** | The restic tier is never restore-tested | **READY** | — | Design a controller-side test (no scratch-guest analogue transfers) | CC |
@@ -89,13 +89,14 @@ State: `BLOCKED` · `READY` · `WAITING-ON-OPERATOR` · `WATCHING`. Every row ha
 | **R-158** | **A local Tier-1 app-data backup failure reaches no hub channel — `NotifyBackupFailed` exists, the hub allowlists `backup_failed`, and its only production caller is the off-box/NAS leg** (`cmd/controller/main.go:659`). The backup manager has `tier2Notify`/`offboxNotify`/`offboxEnlargeBlockedNotify` seams (`internal/backup/backup.go:33,37,58`) and **none for the recovery-unit capture**. Fifth instance of *seam built but never wired*; R-97's defect one tier over. | **READY (S)** | — | **Ranked BELOW R-157 — it is a notification GAP, not silent failure.** Measured: with `mp1` full, `/backups` DOES render `✗ Adatmentés sikertelen`, the marker **persists** across a second failed run and **clears** on recovery, and `/backups/apps` honestly shows the last good unit's real mtime — no surface claims a fresh backup over a stale unit. **The half worth fixing: `/backups/apps` is where you ask whether one app is backed up, and it is the one page that never says.** Proposed shape: a `unitNotify` seam wired in `main()` like `SetOffboxNotify`, emitting the existing `backup_failed`. Evidence: `audits/SPIKE-recovery-unit-space-2026-08-02.md` §5, `audits/CAMPAIGN-10-closeout-2026-08-02.md` Q1 | CC |
 | **R-159** | **wishlist's data landed in an ANONYMOUS volume — never backed up, orphaned by a redeploy.** The image declares `VOLUME /usr/src/app/data`; the template mounted `wishlist_data:/data`, a path the app never writes. `ResolveDockerVolumeNames` returns `<project>_<name>` only for volumes **declared in the compose file**, so `DumpAppVolumes` never sees an anonymous one. Survives a restart, loses on redeploy, never in a backup — harder to notice than papra's. | **SHIPPED** (`templates/wishlist/docker-compose.yml`, 2026-08-02) — filed to record the CLASS | — | **The class is open even though the app is fixed:** any image `VOLUME` at a path the template does not mount creates unbacked-up storage silently. **`immich-server` has one today** at `/data` — empty when measured, so nothing is at risk now. Proposed `REUSE.md` rule: *a template must mount every path in its image's `Config.Volumes`, or state why not.* Checkable only with the image pulled, hence the runtime gate | CC |
 | **R-160** | **gramps-web persisted three paths and wrote to none of them.** `/app/data` appears nowhere in the image's environment; the accounts DB (`GRAMPSWEB_USER_DB_URI`) and **the family tree** (`GRAMPS_DATABASE_PATH=/root/.gramps/grampsdb`) both landed in the writable layer. Upstream persists **eight** paths; the template persisted three, one a phantom. | **SHIPPED** (`templates/gramps-web/docker-compose.yml`, 2026-08-02) | — | **Severity above papra's, and worth keeping visible:** papra loses documents the customer may hold elsewhere; gramps-web loses **the family tree — the artefact built inside the app, of which no other copy exists by construction.** Evidence: `app-catalog-felhom.eu/audits/persistence-sweep-2026-08-02/` | CC |
-| **R-161** | **The volume-persistence gate is enforced by CONVENTION, not automatically.** The catalog repo has no CI of any kind (`.gitea/workflows`, `.github`, drone/woodpecker — searched, none exists). | **REDUCED SCOPE — open** (operator ruling 2026-08-02) | a second person touching templates | **RULED. Both obvious enforcement points were rejected for measured reasons.** *Controller-side at template load:* rejected because such a check can only read the file, and a static audit of all 53 templates reports the catalog clean **including papra** — **it would pass on the exact defect it exists to catch**; the property is decidable only at runtime. *CI:* rejected for now — neither repo has any, and there are no users yet. **SHIPPED instead** (`app-catalog-felhom.eu` `fd7747d`): `scripts/catalog_gates.py`, ONE entry point running all three gates, non-zero exit on any failure, **mandated in the catalog's `CLAUDE.md`** the way `site_gates.py` is. Rationale for the record: of this project's gates, the only ones that ever get run are those with a single entry point named in a CLAUDE.md — `site_gates.py` is run, R-29's three orphans are named nowhere and have stopped nothing. **What remains open is only the automatic half:** this is convention, run by a person, and that is sufficient while one person touches templates. Revisit when a second does | operator |
+| **R-161** | **The volume-persistence gate is enforced by CONVENTION, not automatically.** The catalog repo has no CI of any kind (`.gitea/workflows`, `.github`, drone/woodpecker — searched, none exists). | **REDUCED SCOPE — open** (operator ruling 2026-08-02) | a second person touching templates | **RULED. Both obvious enforcement points were rejected for measured reasons.** *Controller-side at template load:* rejected because such a check can only read the file, and a static audit of all 53 templates reports the catalog clean **including papra** — **it would pass on the exact defect it exists to catch**; the property is decidable only at runtime. *CI:* rejected for now — neither repo has any, and there are no users yet. **SHIPPED instead** (`app-catalog-felhom.eu` `fd7747d`): `scripts/catalog_gates.py`, ONE entry point running all three gates, non-zero exit on any failure, **mandated in the catalog's `CLAUDE.md`** the way `site_gates.py` is. Rationale for the record: of this project's gates, the only ones that ever get run are those with a single entry point named in a CLAUDE.md — `site_gates.py` is run, R-29's three orphans are named nowhere and have stopped nothing. **What remains open is only the automatic half:** this is convention, run by a person, and that is sufficient while one person touches templates. Revisit when a second does **UPDATE 2026-08-02:** `catalog_gates.py` gained `--fast` (gate 1 only — the network and runtime gates are deliberately NOT in a hook: a push that pulls images and starts containers gets bypassed within a week and the bypass becomes the habit) and `.githooks/pre-push` now runs it. **The automatic half now has a designated successor row: R-168** (Gitea Actions runner). This row stays open at its reduced scope — the runtime gate remains a deliberate periodic run | operator |
 | **R-162** | **`docker diff` is the gate's only witness, and its failure mode is quiet.** The gate's power comes from `docker diff` excluding mounted paths, which makes "in the writable layer" mechanically decidable — an implementation detail of the overlay driver. On a driver where `docker diff` is unsupported or lies, the gate degrades to the mount-occupancy and writability legs **and would not say so**. | **WATCHING** — a limitation, not a defect | — | It **fails closed**: the canary self-test would stop reporting BROKEN and the gate would then refuse to report at all. What is wrong is the message — it would blame the prober rather than the driver. Revisit only if a non-overlay storage driver ever ships | CC |
 | **R-163** | **`mp1` is RETENTION, not staging — and it is sized as if it were neither.** A recovery unit is the KEPT copy on the app's **own** drive (`GetAppDrivePath`, `internal/backup/backup.go:245-255`); for an app with no `HDD_PATH` the namespace falls back to the system SSD — *"the SSD-only system-data fallback"* (`internal/appbackup/paths.go:26-27`). There is **no post-copy deletion**: the only prune is F5 (`backup.go:1053-1112`), residue on OLD drives when an app MOVES. So `mp1` (**20 G**) retains the units of every driveless app, while `mp0` permits **50 G** of volumes — and a DB app's unit is up to **~2×** its data (volume tar **plus** SQL dump; measured 21.1 GB → 40.2 GB). `--sysdata-grow` defaults to **0** (`felhom-agent/cmd/felhom-agent/main.go:178`) and is **not** derived from the physical drive; demo-hp's real guest 9201 ships `mp0 50G / mp1 20G`. | **RE-FRAMED 2026-08-02 — open, no longer waiting on a ratio** | — (the sizing question is answered; the work is **R-165**) | **RE-FRAMED, NOT CLOSED (operator decision D-a, 2026-08-02 — `CONTEXT.md` S-5).** The row asked *what ratio should `mp1` be?* and that question is **withdrawn rather than answered**: `mp1` is merged into `mp0` so local recovery units share the app-data area and the ceiling stops existing — a bigger number is the same wall further away. **This row stays open as the record of the constraint** (what `mp1` is for, what it gates, and the measured 2× DB-app unit size) **until the merge lands**, because until then every consequence below is still live on every box. **The work is R-165; the warning that must ship with it is R-167.** Original finding, unchanged, follows. **No number is proposed here deliberately.** What is recorded is the constraint and its blast radius: **`mp1` gates the whole app-data chain**, because Tier-2 mirrors the unit *"(always)"* from `RecoveryUnitPath` (`internal/backup/tier2.go:302,368`) and Tier-3 carries it too — a unit that cannot be written has nothing for either to copy. Bounded on the other side: a unit holds **volume tars + DB dumps only, never `mp8` userdata** (`internal/backup/recovery_unit.go:20-25`), so a 1 TB photo library is never in one. **This bounds D5's Lane-1 independence** — see `architecture/07-backup-architecture.md` §7.5. Overflow itself is SAFE (R-158's measurement: refuses per app, last good unit preserved byte-identical) — what is missing is the warning, which is R-158 (widened to R-167) | CC |
 | **R-164** | **C2's chain: the DB volume tar cannot be dropped until a SOUND dump predicate exists.** The unit carries both a volume tar and a SQL dump; the restore uses **both** — the dump is authoritative and replayed *after* the tar so it WINS (F17), with only the DB service up (R-47) — `internal/backup/restore_unit.go:262-266`. Dropping the DB container's tar would halve DB-app units **and** close the R-127(b) initdb-skip password trap (restored PGDATA ⇒ `POSTGRES_PASSWORD` ignored). | **BLOCKED** — on the predicate | a dump-validity predicate that is not `accounts has rows` | **The obvious gate is DEAD, measured:** `ValidateDump` warns when the `accounts` table is empty, and that warning was **correct** — the live DB genuinely had 0 accounts, and seeding one stopped the warning and put the row in the dump. But **a fresh appliance legitimately has zero accounts**, so promoting that predicate to a gate would **block every new customer's first backup**. Order: (1) a sound predicate — dump vs **live** per-table counts, not an absolute expectation; (2) warn→gate; (3) tar-drop. **Until (1), the tar is load-bearing** — not because dumps are bad, but because nothing can yet prove one is good. Pairs with **R-127** | CC |
 | **R-165** | **Merge `mp1` into `mp0` — the dedicated 20 G backup partition stops existing.** Operator decision **D-a**, 2026-08-02 (`CONTEXT.md` S-5). Local recovery units share the app-data area instead of holding their own fixed ceiling, so the wall R-163 describes is removed rather than moved further away. Guest 9201 on demo-hp ships `mp0 50G / mp1 20G` today | **READY (M) — NEW 2026-08-02** | — | **Two conditions travel WITH the decision and are not optional.** **(1) Before any external install.** It changes the **disk layout**, so it is a fresh-install shape while there are no external boxes and a per-box migration after — and the decision's cheapness is entirely a function of that ordering. **(2) It removes a wall that currently fails safely**, so **R-167** (D-c: fill warning + failure alert) lands in the same step, never after: today an app that outgrows `mp1` is refused per app with the last good unit preserved byte-identical (R-158's measurement), and after the merge the same overflow consumes the space the app itself is using. Touches the installer/agent guest shape (`--sysdata-grow` defaults to **0** and is not derived from the physical drive, `felhom-agent/cmd/felhom-agent/main.go:178`) and the golden. **Does NOT close R-163** — that row is the record of the constraint and stays open until this lands | CC |
 | **R-166** | **App state gets a desired/observed model with its own store.** Operator decision **D-b**, 2026-08-02 (`CONTEXT.md` S-5). Three kinds of information, deliberately separated: **desired** (running, or stopped because the customer said so) stays in `app.yaml`; **in-flight operations** (a backup started and never reported finishing) are **persisted** — written before the operation and after it — so an interruption is visible after a reboot; **observed** (unhealthy, restarting, drive gone) is **not** persisted and is rebuilt by looking. The last two live in a store **separate from `app.yaml`**, so frequent writes never touch a file holding deploy settings and secrets | **BLOCKED — NEW 2026-08-02** | two facts to establish before it is specced | **NOT a spec yet, deliberately.** **Establish first:** (a) whether the crash-safe journal already in the backup code covers the in-flight case — *it may already exist and merely be unwired, which has been the answer four times in this project* (`CLAUDE.md` "seam built but never wired"); (b) whether the existing SQLite store is reachable from this code path. **Binding safety rule, verbatim from the decision:** *losing the state store must never cause an app to be deleted, restarted wrongly, or reported healthy when it is not — the worst acceptable outcome is re-running a backup that already ran.* The controller must also check **every container of an app**, so a partly-dead app cannot read as healthy. **This is the durable fix for R-157 mechanism B** (zero containers reading as a deliberate stop) and for F-CRIT-1's class; R-157 keeps its own row because it wants a bounded fix now, not this rework | CC |
 | **R-167** | **Storage monitoring and backup alerts.** Operator decision **D-c**, 2026-08-02 (`CONTEXT.md` S-5). Two pieces: a warning to the **customer** as a drive fills, **before** anything fails; and a failure alert to the **hub/operator** when any backup fails for **any** reason, lack of space included | **READY (M) — NEW 2026-08-02** | — | **Prerequisite for R-165** — D-a removes a wall that currently fails safely, so this ships in the same step, not after. **Subsumes and widens R-158**, which is the same alert one tier down (`NotifyBackupFailed` exists and the hub allowlists `backup_failed`; only the off-box/NAS leg calls it, `cmd/controller/main.go:659`). R-158 stays as the named seam and its proposed `unitNotify` shape is the concrete first leg — **do not file a second row for the same wire.** The customer half is new: nothing today warns before a fill, and R-158's measurement is that when it happens exactly one page says so | CC |
+| **R-168** | **CI: no runner exists, and with trunk-based pushes CI can DETECT but not BLOCK.** The pre-push hook shipped by R-29 is local to a clone and `--no-verify` skips it; the unbypassable half is continuous integration, and it has no execution mechanism here yet | **BLOCKED** on its own spike | a spike deciding the runner's execution mode | **Measured 2026-08-02:** Gitea **1.26.2**; Actions **enabled on all four repos**; **0 runners registered, 0 workflow runs, 0 branch protections**. The consequence is the load-bearing part: **we push directly to `main` with no branches, so there is no merge for a status check to gate** — CI here reports after the fact unless the workflow itself is given teeth, which is a separate decision from standing one up. Two open questions for the spike, both about the execution mechanism (the reason this is not bundled into R-29): **(1)** host-mode runner versus a privileged Docker-in-Docker sidecar on DooPlex — DooPlex is Tier 2, it *is* the recovery chain (Gitea, registry, k3s+Longhorn, PBS, hub), and a privileged DinD sidecar there needs its blast radius argued, not assumed; **(2)** whether the workflow can avoid JavaScript actions entirely (act_runner's node runtime is the usual reason a host-mode runner fails). Successor to R-161's automatic half | CC |
 
 ## Why the TOP READY rows rank this way