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-     inside any repo, so it is mirrored here to be versioned and restorable). Keep the two in
-     sync when either changes. -->
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 # CLAUDE.md — `/mnt/5_hdd/felhom.eu/git` workspace root (DooPlex)
 
 ## What this workspace is
@@ -70,6 +66,27 @@ The planning/architecture assistant (in claude.ai, "project Claude") produces fi
 
 ## Shared conventions
 
+### Standing rules — each one earned by a real failure (R-96, committed 2026-07-27)
+
+These were agreed in conversation and lived nowhere, so they bound nobody. They do now.
+
+1. **Never combine a test run and a commit in one command.** A combined command has ONE exit code and
+   the interesting one gets swallowed. Three recorded occurrences; the worst pushed a red suite
+   because `packages ok: 28` was read while `rc=1` was not. Run the suite, read `rc`, *then* commit.
+
+2. **A "no access" claim must list what was tried.** "No access" is unfalsifiable unless it names its
+   attempts. Two wrong verdicts on 2026-07-27 alone: ep0 (declared unreachable after trying exactly
+   one route — `felhom-pve → 10.77.0.1`; `DooPlex → 167.233.158.164` worked and the project memory
+   said so), and the storage-box API (`api.hetzner.cloud` 404s for every storage-box endpoint;
+   `api.hetzner.com/v1` is the real one, and the hub's own `hetznerapi.go:3` records it).
+
+3. **An absent log line is not evidence of correct behaviour.** Verify with a POSITIVE observable —
+   something that MUST appear when the system is healthy. An empty log is equally consistent with
+   "working" and "stopped entirely". Earned twice on 2026-07-27: the R-88 watcher (an empty quiesce
+   log could not distinguish a healthy loop from a dead one — retired in favour of the per-tier
+   `/backup/due` polls in `pveproxy/access.log`), and a hub DB copy whose write had silently failed,
+   returning a confident "0 events in window" from a file a day stale until its mtime was checked.
+
 - **Push to `main` directly** — no feature branches.
 
 > **Clean-tree gate before any build:** `git status --porcelain` must be empty and