docs: file R-29 to the register; attach the gate-orphan instance to its class

d4c07873 filed "hostinstall_gates.py is invoked by nothing" as a novel
observation. It is not novel — R-29 already names the class (green gates are
enforced nowhere; one sat RED for 16 releases while every REPORT said green),
and R-29 was missing from OPEN-ITEMS.md entirely, having never been carried
across the 2026-07-27 register rebuild. An open item about work not getting
done was absent from the page that decides what gets done.

Ruling on whether R-29 is the right home for a non-design-v2 gate: YES. Its
title says design-v2, but its own audit list already spans mount-safety,
secrets and dedup gates across four repos, and its part (b) — "the systemic
half is the real item" — is about the enforcement mechanism, which is
gate-agnostic. hub_confirm_gate.py is already on its list and sits in the same
scripts/ directory. No new ID minted; R-29's own text forbids it, and this is
the third re-raise it has absorbed.

- OPEN-ITEMS.md: open R-29 (READY, S(a)/M(b)), with the orphan evidence and
  the two separable parts R-29 already defines.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: R-94 leg (b) now points at R-29 as its class.
- ROADMAP.md:158: audit list extended with hostinstall_gates.py (RED today,
  1.19.0 != 1.22.0) + hub_confirm_gate.py verified orphan. Entry not rewritten.
- ROADMAP.md:147: cited a non-existent R-164 — it means controller v0.164.0.
- CONTEXT.md:564: asserted in the present tense that the version cross-check is
  "gated by scripts/hostinstall_gates.py". It exists, is red, and runs nowhere.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: READY #1/#3/#4 markers dropped — they duplicated ranked-list
  positions and the gap was left by the row merged in d4c07873.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: E-2d citation :322-341 widened to :322-343; the invocation it
  describes is at :343, two lines outside the old range.
- backlog/README.md: two-line lead naming OPEN-ITEMS.md and ROADMAP.md.
- REPORT-record-correction-2026-07-29.md: the report CLAUDE.md:82-87 requires
  for both commits. Root REPORT.md (E-2 increment 1) untouched.

No gate wired, fixed, run or deleted — that is R-29 part (b), its own task.
Documentation only. No version bump, no CHANGELOG entry, no box touched.

documentation/backlog/OPEN-ITEMS.md

@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@ State: `BLOCKED` · `READY` · `WAITING-ON-OPERATOR` · `WATCHING`. Every row ha
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | **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 on the t740** — the only remaining route to four unproven items: a real `felhom-host-install.sh` **1.22.0** run (never done), Case B naturally (single-drive install renders the degraded banner without degrading a live box), a **claimable** customer so the three claim-gated items stop being gated, then add a drive (the offer) and unplug it (`backup_target_absent` end-to-end) | **READY (M)** | — | **Space checked 2026-07-29 — NOT a blocker, with one constraint: the VM disk must NOT go on `local-lvm`.** That thin pool is over-subscribed (144 GB allocated against 54 GB, 38.8% used) on a box running a live customer guest, and a full thin pool corrupts every guest on it. `local` has only 23.7 GB and sits on `pve-root`. **Use `/mnt/nvme-1tb` (888 GB free).** Caveat found: a dir storage at a SUBDIRECTORY there will fail the agent's `exactMount` check and report `disconnected` in the host report — cosmetic, but decide the placement deliberately. **Do NOT unblock drill-r50** (deliberately blocked; unblocking it means the fixture stops representing anything real). **CORRECTED 2026-07-29 — the ISO is not an obstacle to the 1.22.0 proof, it is the best route to it.** `felhom-bootstrap.sh:96` fetches from `https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh`, not the hub, and that URL serves **1.22.0** (git-sync from `main`, ≤30 s — live fetch confirmed). A fresh ISO install therefore exercises 1.22.0 **automatically** — which makes the ISO leg the *stronger* proof, because it is the real customer path rather than a proxy for it, and it retires the "run 1.22.0 manually" step. **The Phase 0 question that decides the shape is ANSWERED — it was a source read, and the answer is yes.** A fresh VM with no baked customer-id lands in **PAIRING** mode (`felhom-bootstrap.sh:537-541`), not **DIRECT** (`:312`), and only DIRECT passes `--customer-id / --mode / --passphrase-file`. But on a 200 from `/api/v1/appliance/poll` the pairing loop writes the hub-delivered `FELHOM_CUSTOMER_ID` + `FELHOM_RETRIEVAL_PASSPHRASE` into the 0600 env, re-sources it and calls `run_direct` **in the same invocation** (`:495-499`) — so pairing reaches the identical installer invocation (`:322-341`, the single `$INSTALL_URL` fetch + `--customer-id/--mode/--hub-url/--passphrase-file`) and the customer it yields is the one the operator bound, i.e. claimable. **So the ISO leg is the spine**; a manual 1.22.0 run is not needed as a separate scenario | 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; **(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 | CC |
+| **E-2d** | **Prove E-2 on a fresh VM on the t740** — the only remaining route to four unproven items: a real `felhom-host-install.sh` **1.22.0** run (never done), Case B naturally (single-drive install renders the degraded banner without degrading a live box), a **claimable** customer so the three claim-gated items stop being gated, then add a drive (the offer) and unplug it (`backup_target_absent` end-to-end) | **READY (M)** | — | **Space checked 2026-07-29 — NOT a blocker, with one constraint: the VM disk must NOT go on `local-lvm`.** That thin pool is over-subscribed (144 GB allocated against 54 GB, 38.8% used) on a box running a live customer guest, and a full thin pool corrupts every guest on it. `local` has only 23.7 GB and sits on `pve-root`. **Use `/mnt/nvme-1tb` (888 GB free).** Caveat found: a dir storage at a SUBDIRECTORY there will fail the agent's `exactMount` check and report `disconnected` in the host report — cosmetic, but decide the placement deliberately. **Do NOT unblock drill-r50** (deliberately blocked; unblocking it means the fixture stops representing anything real). **CORRECTED 2026-07-29 — the ISO is not an obstacle to the 1.22.0 proof, it is the best route to it.** `felhom-bootstrap.sh:96` fetches from `https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh`, not the hub, and that URL serves **1.22.0** (git-sync from `main`, ≤30 s — live fetch confirmed). A fresh ISO install therefore exercises 1.22.0 **automatically** — which makes the ISO leg the *stronger* proof, because it is the real customer path rather than a proxy for it, and it retires the "run 1.22.0 manually" step. **The Phase 0 question that decides the shape is ANSWERED — it was a source read, and the answer is yes.** A fresh VM with no baked customer-id lands in **PAIRING** mode (`felhom-bootstrap.sh:537-541`), not **DIRECT** (`:312`), and only DIRECT passes `--customer-id / --mode / --passphrase-file`. But on a 200 from `/api/v1/appliance/poll` the pairing loop writes the hub-delivered `FELHOM_CUSTOMER_ID` + `FELHOM_RETRIEVAL_PASSPHRASE` into the 0600 env, re-sources it and calls `run_direct` **in the same invocation** (`:495-499`) — so pairing reaches the identical installer invocation (`:322-343` — the single `$INSTALL_URL` fetch at `:322-330`, the `--customer-id/--mode/--hub-url/--passphrase-file` args array at `:334`, and the `bash "$SCRIPT_TMP" "${args[@]}"` call itself at `:343`) and the customer it yields is the one the operator bound, i.e. claimable. **So the ISO leg is the spine**; a manual 1.22.0 run is not needed as a separate scenario | 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 | CC |
 | **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 | CC |
-| **R-95** | restic offsite credential **can delete** (`readonly=False`, `forget --prune` runs from the box); SFTP cannot express append-only | **READY #1** | — | 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 #3** | 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 #4** | — | Design a controller-side test (no scratch-guest analogue transfers) | 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-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 |
 | — | Storage Box **snapshots** on `storage-box-pool-1` — plan SET (daily 00:00, keep 7) but **0 taken yet** | WATCHING | first run tonight 00:00 | Confirm `size_snapshots > 0` tomorrow; until then the mitigation is armed, not proven | CC |
 | — | `PBS-storage-1` (u629193, box 611421) still `status=active`, 19.9 MB | WAITING-ON-OPERATOR | operator console | Delete the box | operator |
 | **R-90** | ep0 RAM headroom — 4 GiB swap **survived its first reboot** 2026-07-27; 3.8 GB RAM unchanged | **BLOCKED** (interim proven) | Hetzner CX33 availability — **confirmed unavailable even powered OFF**, so it is the Cost-Optimized "Limited availability", not the power state | Re-check CX33; escape hatch if urgent = CPX/CCX lines (no availability warning, higher cost) | operator |

documentation/backlog/README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 # documentation/backlog/
 
-Verified-LIVE findings with implementable fix plans that are **not yet implemented**. Preserved here
+**`OPEN-ITEMS.md`** is the register of open work and the file to read first — it holds only what is
+open, one row per item, every row with a state and an owner. **`ROADMAP.md`** is the full history and
+reasoning behind the `R-n` IDs, including shipped and killed items; an ID is minted there, and a new
+instance of an existing item attaches to that ID rather than getting its own.
+
+The rest of this folder: verified-LIVE findings with implementable fix plans that are **not yet
+implemented**. Preserved here
 (instead of on git branches) per the trunk-based, no-branches rule — the fix itself is implemented later
 **directly on `main`**, during a normal/supervised session.