docs: remove a gate criterion that could never pass, and close three register rows

PART 1 — the release gate.

G7 required the packaged .deb to sha256-match the one built from committed source. That is
unsatisfiable BY CONSTRUCTION: dpkg-deb stamps the build time into every archive, so two builds of
byte-identical source differ. It was already failing when the 1.26.1 release ran it. A criterion
nobody can satisfy gets waived once and read as advisory ever after — which is how R-29's shelf of
never-run gates was built. Sub-clause dropped, reason recorded in G7's own note the way G6's
amendment was, so a future reader can restore it if SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH ever makes it meaningful.

RULING ASKED FOR — is payload integrity covered by G9 alone? NO, and G9 is widened rather than a new
criterion invented. The package ships TWO payload files (build-deb.sh:54-55); G9 checked only the
script. The systemd UNIT was covered by nothing: G7 covered the container, G8 covers the postinst
behaviourally, G13 covers directory presence. The unit is not incidental — its After=, its
ConditionPathExists= and its Restart= decide WHEN AND WHETHER day-0 runs at all, so a drifted unit
would have shipped silently. Same shape as the /etc/felhom miss that G13 exists to prevent: a check
that proved the thing present and said nothing about what it depended on. The check passes today.

G13 moved to sit after G12 — it was minted late and left between G10 and G11.

PART 2 — register dispositions. BASELINE DISCREPANCY, reported rather than worked around: only R-128
had a row. R-154 and R-155 had NO row in either file — minted in a spike document and never carried
across, which is R-123's class, not the drift the task described. Rows created, closed, with the
reasoning, because in all three cases the reasoning is the durable part:

  R-128 closed by CORRECTING a false claim, not by making the assertion real — the coupling does not
        exist and asserting it would invent a constraint. Flagged so nobody 'restores' it.
  R-154 closed with the measurement and where it now lives in pushed source.
  R-155 NARROWED, not deleted — unchanged for FELHOM_MENU=single, inapplicable to release. Flagged so
        the guard is not later removed wholesale on the strength of 'R-155 closed it'.

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| R-95 | **The restic offsite tier's credential CAN DELETE — R-89's "parallel question", now ANSWERED** | M | idea — established read-only 2026-07-27 | **The exposure closed on the weekly PBS tier is fully open on the daily restic tier**, which holds the customer's actual documents and photos and is the only tier that survives losing the box. Established without mutating anything: **(1) Identity** — a per-customer *subaccount* on `storage-box-pool-1` (box 611714, bx11, `u629488`): `u629488-sub1` home `felhom-demo-felhom`, `sub2` peti-felhom, `sub3` demo-hp, each labelled `felhom-customer`. Auth is an **SSH key stored ON THE BOX** (`…/felhom-controller-data/_data/data/offbox/ssh_key`, 0600, beside `repo_password` + a pinned `known_hosts`) — customer-side, not hub-side, so a compromised guest holds it. **(2) Read-write: YES** — the API reports **`readonly=False` on all three subaccounts**, and it is not merely latent: the controller runs `restic forget --group-by host,tags --keep-daily 7 --keep-weekly … --prune` **from the box** (`backup/offbox.go:984`, also `:1070`). Delete rights are exercised on every run. **(3) Append-only: NO, and not expressible** — the repo is built as `sftp:` (`offbox.go:482`); restic's append-only mode requires the **REST server** backend, which plain SFTP cannot provide. **(4) A zero-code mitigation exists and is unused:** the box type carries `snapshot_limit=10` and the API reports `snapshot_plan=null` with **0 snapshots** and `size_snapshots=0`. Hetzner Storage Box snapshots are taken **server-side, outside the SFTP namespace** — an SFTP subaccount cannot delete them — so they are a genuine immutability layer at no extra cost and with no code change. **Rule once for both tiers, per R-89.** Options, cheapest first: enable a snapshot plan (operator click, immediate); split backup-write from prune so pruning runs somewhere the box cannot reach; or move the repo to restic's REST server with `--append-only`. Flips the capability-map row for offsite immutability |
| R-94 | **A hand-synced version constant drifts, and the gate that would catch it is never run** | XS | idea — found 2026-07-27, **corrected 2026-07-29** | **RETRACTION.** The prior detail's conclusion — *"a new install driven from the hub still gets the pre-R-82 default"***was false and is retracted.** It assumed `hostInstallVersion` selects a script. It selects nothing: its only two consumers are `configs.go:487` (`ScriptVersion`) and `render_test.go:219`, and it is rendered as a **text label** at `customer_unified.html:494` ("Day-0 host bootstrap for host-install {{.ScriptVersion}}"). The install command printed **beneath that label** fetches `https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh` (static block `customer_unified.html:563`; JS generator `:1262`) — as does the ISO's `felhom-bootstrap.sh:96`, which fetches from the **website, not the hub**. That URL is the website's `git-sync` working tree tracking `--branch=main --period=30s` with `/scripts/` in the sparse-checkout, served by nginx's `location /scripts/` (`manifests/webpage.yaml`) — no image build, no ArgoCD step. **So 1.22.0 is what every install already gets**, confirmed by live fetch 2026-07-29 (`curl https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh``SCRIPT_VERSION="1.22.0"`). Every flag the generator emits (`customer_unified.html`~`:1210``:1238`) is parsed by 1.22.0 (`felhom-host-install.sh:1177``:1210`): **no functional gap, only a wrong number on the operator's screen.** **What survives from the original entry is its diagnosis, which was right all along: a hand-synced version constant in a second repo drifts every time the first one ships.** `configs.go:28` is still `"1.19.0"` against `felhom-host-install.sh:187`'s `SCRIPT_VERSION="1.22.0"`. Three legs, all XS: **(a)** derive the label from `SCRIPT_VERSION` rather than hand-syncing it, or delete the label; **(b)** `scripts/hostinstall_gates.py` exists precisely to catch this and **fails today** (`FAIL: hub Setup-tab hostInstallVersion=1.19.0 != SCRIPT_VERSION=1.22.0`, exit 1) — but it is invoked by no Makefile, git hook, CI config or `CLAUDE.md` (only `site_gates.py` is mandated, `CLAUDE.md:153`), so wire it or delete it: a gate nobody runs reads as coverage it is not providing; **(c)** `render_test.go:219` asserts `strings.Contains(html, hostInstallVersion)` — it compares the constant to itself, passes at any value, and cannot detect drift; replace it with the cross-file assertion. **v0.73.2 is NOT an undeployed artifact** — its content is inside the live hub. See also **R-110**, found by the same investigation: the fetch URL has no staging |
| R-110 | **`main` is the installer's publish channel — there is no staging** | S | idea — found 2026-07-29, **WAITING-ON-OPERATOR (a ruling, not a defect)** | `manifests/webpage.yaml` git-syncs `/scripts/` from `--branch=main` on a `--period=30s`, and nginx serves that working tree directly (`location /scripts/`, `root /usr/share/nginx/html/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`, `:1262`; `runbooks/day0-install.md` C.1) receives. **There is no tag, no pinned-version path, no staging copy and no rollback other than another push** — for the one artifact that runs as **root on a virgin box**, the most privileged thing Felhom ships. **Two consequences worth stating plainly:** E-2d is not a gate *before* exposure — 1.22.0 has been the live installer since it hit `main` on 2026-07-29, so the proof run confirms what customers already receive rather than clearing it for release; and the precaution the old R-94 row recorded ("do not point every new box at an installer that has never run") **was never available to take**, because nothing points boxes at a version. **Open question for the operator, not a defect to fix blind:** should `/scripts/` serve a pinned release — a tag-tracked git-sync ref, or a versioned directory (`/scripts/1.22.0/…`) with the hub's generated command naming a version — or is `main`-tracking the accepted shape for a one-operator product where the alternative is a release ritual nobody performs? **Exposure today is zero** (no boxes are installing), which is exactly why it is cheap to decide now. Whichever way it goes, it decides whether R-94 leg (a) makes the label a *fact* (derived from the served script) or keeps it a *claim*. Flips no capability-map row — the map states what the platform does, and this changes nothing about that |
| R-128 | **`ISO_VERSION` "aligns with SCRIPT_VERSION" was a comment nothing evaluated** | XS | **CLOSED — iso v1.26.0, 2026-07-31** | Closed by **correcting the claim, not asserting it**: the ISO is frozen while `felhom-host-install.sh` is fetched at run time from `main` (R-94/R-110), so an assertion would invent a constraint. `build-felhom-iso.sh:45-52`. Full reasoning in `OPEN-ITEMS.md` |
| R-154 | **`[first-boot]` is automated-install-only, and nothing in the tree said so** | XS | **CLOSED — iso v1.26.0, 2026-07-31** | A PVE property, measured with a same-image control (`audits/SPIKE-universal-iso-3-2026-07-31.md` §2); recorded at `scripts/iso/pkg/build-deb.sh:6-11`. Superseded in practice by the `.deb` delivery route |
| R-155 | **`iso-repack.sh` refused any ISO without `auto-installer-mode.toml`** | XS | **CLOSED — iso v1.26.0, 2026-07-31** | **Narrowed, not deleted** — unchanged for `FELHOM_MENU=single` (`iso-repack.sh:121-128`), does not apply to `release` where the file's absence *is* gate G1. Do not remove it wholesale |
| R-90 | **ep0 has 3.8 GB and NO swap — it OOMs under a restore-test, and that gates R-86** | S | BLOCKED on Hetzner CX33 availability (operator, 2026-07-27) | Verified read-only: `Swap: 0B`, nothing in `/etc/fstab`, no swap unit, no `/swapfile`**swap was never added.** On 2026-07-27 06:58:12 a global OOM fired while `proxmox-backup-proxy` held a 3.2 GB peak serving a 14.46 GB restore-test read and the datastore-migration `rsync` held 1.9 GB; the kernel killed the rsync and PBS stopped serving for ~15 minutes. That outage is what exposed **R-88** downstream. Still exposed today: 3.8 GB, no swap, one kill on record. **This gates R-86** — backup-aligned restore-testing puts a multi-GB read on this box *on a schedule*, so the headroom question must be settled before that lands. Interim lever if CX33 stays unavailable: a swapfile, which needs no console |
| R-91 | **The old 13 GB datastore copy is still on ep0's root disk** | XS | WATCHING — gated on demo-felhom's first post-migration PBS backup | The datastore moved to a Hetzner Cloud Volume on 2026-07-27 (`/dev/sdb`, 100 GiB, attached 06:29:40 UTC, now `/mnt/pbs-datastore`, 13 G used of 98 G). The pre-migration copy survives at **`/srv/pbs-felhom`, 13 G**, on `/` (38 G total, 16 G used, 21 G free). **Do not delete yet:** demo-hp has landed two post-migration snapshots (07-27 08:25:47Z, 09:37:29Z) but **demo-felhom's newest is 2026-07-26T12:21:48Z — before the migration**, so the new volume has not yet proven a write for that namespace. Delete once it has. **Doc drift to fix in the same commit:** `CONTEXT.md:1018` still records the datastore at `/srv/pbs-felhom` |
| R-92 | **The hub's PBS-DR gauge is 0.1 GB-granular, so small deltas are unverifiable** | XS | idea — 2026-07-27 | The PBS-DR box card rounds to 0.1 GB, which is coarser than the changes an operator wants to confirm after a prune or a GC — a successful prune of a small namespace moves the number by less than one displayed digit, so the UI cannot distinguish "it worked" from "nothing happened". Cosmetic today; it becomes load-bearing the moment retention (R-89) is customer-visible and someone needs to see that a policy change took effect |