E-2d: Phase 0 STOP — the Day-0 artifact channel cannot deliver the code under test

No VM created, no install run, no box touched. The run stopped at the Phase 0
gate per runbook §3, before provisioning.

felhom-host-install.sh does not install what is on main. resolve_artifacts()
(:423-436) reads the hub-vouched manifest and fetches Gitea GENERIC PACKAGES
(agent :1945, golden :2573). Gitea's newest are agent 0.96.0 and golden 0.161.0;
the hub manifest selects exactly those; the global floor v0.156.0 is below the
golden's 0.161.0 so nothing self-updates. A fresh box therefore lands on agent
0.96.0 + controller 0.161.0 against main's 0.113.0 / 0.185.1. Agent 0.113.0
reached both demo boxes by direct deploy and is not in the channel at all.

Claim impact, each pinned to its introducing commit:
- C1 (real rc=0 1.22.0 install) and C2 (Case B natural) — ACHIEVABLE, not run;
  both are installer-side and host-install is served at 1.22.0.
- C3 — BLOCKED: banner + GET /api/storage/backup-target are controller v0.185.1
  (cdaeb36), copy v0.185.0 (3f7cf2a). Unblocks cheaply by raising the hub floor
  to >=0.185.0; measured fleet impact nil (both demo boxes already 0.185.1).
- C4 — BLOCKED: needs controller v0.185.1 + agent v0.113.0 (58b598b).
- C5 — BLOCKED: needs controller v0.184.0 (c1a63de) + agent v0.112.0.

Filed R-111 (P1): 17 unpublished agent releases (v0.97.0-v0.113.0) strand the
entire R-82 tiered-backup arc plus F-CRIT-2 and F-REBOOT, so a new customer's
box installs without them. Mirror of R-110, not a duplicate.

- audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md — all four Phase 0 answers recorded so a
  resumed run does not re-derive them (cadence 30s; hot-detach available; ISO
  present; local-lvm fence re-measured at 38.77%, unchanged).
- OPEN-ITEMS.md — R-111 opened; E-2d re-stated, NOT closed.
- ROADMAP.md — R-111 under P1.
- capability map NOT touched: nothing was proven live.

The §5.1a operator STOP is retired — HUB_PW is in ~/.config/credentials and hub
auth was verified, so CC can bind on a resumed run.

documentation/backlog/OPEN-ITEMS.md

@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ 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 (`:322-343` — 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 |
+| **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. **RUN ATTEMPTED 2026-07-29 — STOPPED AT PHASE 0, no VM created, nothing touched (`audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md`).** The blocker is **R-111**: a fresh box installs **agent 0.96.0 + controller 0.161.0**, not `main`'s 0.113.0/0.185.1, so **C3/C4/C5 test surfaces that do not exist on it** — the degraded banner + `GET /api/storage/backup-target` landed in controller **v0.185.1** (`cdaeb36`) with the copy in **v0.185.0** (`3f7cf2a`); `backup_target_absent` in **v0.184.0** (`c1a63de`); the offer's apply needs agent **v0.113.0** (`58b598b`). **C1 (a real rc=0 1.22.0 install) and C2 (Case B natural, `configure_backup_target()` `felhom-host-install.sh:627`, warnings `:653-655`) remain ACHIEVABLE TODAY** — both are installer-side and host-install is served at 1.22.0. **C3 unblocks cheaply** by raising the hub global floor 0.156.0 → ≥0.185.0 (controller 0.185.1 IS in the registry): measured fleet impact is **nil** — both demo boxes already run 0.185.1, and Peti is DOWN 14 d and already below the current floor. **C4/C5 need R-111 first.** Phase 0 answers are all recorded in the audit, so a resumed run does not re-derive them: drive-gate cadence **30 s** (`intermediary.go:337`, registered `server.go:217`) ⇒ a 60 s two-cycle budget; hot-detach available (`virtio-scsi-single` + default hotplug, VM 300 is the working reference); ISO present (`…v1.25.0-nested-vm-generic-mkimage.iso`); `/mnt/nvme-1tb` 888 G free and the `local-lvm` fence re-measured (38.77 %, unchanged). **The §5.1a operator STOP is retired** — `HUB_PW` is in `~/.config/credentials` and hub auth was verified, so CC can bind. **One open decision carried forward:** where the VM disk's dir storage goes, since `local-lvm` is forbidden and `felhom-backup` is the live backup target — see the audit §4.1 | 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-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** | **READY (M) — P1, gates the first remote tester** | — | **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` | 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 |

documentation/backlog/ROADMAP.md

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 | ID | Item | Size | Status | Notes / map rows flipped |
 |----|------|------|--------|--------------------------|
+| 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`** | M | idea — found 2026-07-29 by the E-2d Phase 0 gate | **The fleet's live versions are not the fleet's INSTALLABLE versions, and only the first were ever checked.** `felhom-host-install.sh` does not use `main`: `resolve_artifacts()` (`:423-436`) reads the hub-vouched manifest (`GET /api/v1/artifacts/<customer>`, `hub/internal/api/handler.go:2120`) and fetches versioned **Gitea generic packages** — agent from `:1945`, golden from `:2573`. Gitea holds **`felhom-agent` newest `0.96.0`** and **`felhom-golden` newest `0.161.0`**; the hub's saved manifest selects exactly those. So a fresh box lands on **agent 0.96.0 + controller 0.161.0** (golden bake; the global floor is `v0.156.0` < 0.161.0, so it does not self-update) against `main`'s 0.113.0 / 0.185.1. Agent 0.113.0 reached both demo boxes by **direct deploy and is not in the channel at all** — demo-hp reports `felhom-agent 0.113.0` while Gitea's newest is 0.96.0. **17 unpublished releases (`felhom-agent/CHANGELOG.md` v0.97.0–v0.113.0)**, including the ENTIRE R-82 per-target backup-tier arc (v0.97.0–v0.104.0), **F-CRIT-2** (v0.106.0 — a failed backup looking fresh, 7 days silent), **F-REBOOT** (v0.107.0 — a guest rebooted mid-backup never returns), F-LEAK (v0.108.0/0.110.0), F-OBS (v0.109.0), E-2c (v0.111.0), E-2b (v0.112.0), E-2a (v0.113.0). **P1 because it gates the first remote tester:** their box would install an agent predating the tiered-backup model and both silent-failure fixes. **Mirror of R-110, not a duplicate:** R-110 is *the installer publishes instantly with no staging*; this is *the agent and golden have a deliberate publish+vouch gate and it was never walked* — opposite failure modes of one subject, different fixes. Contrast worth keeping: the **controller** is fine (registry has 0.185.1; it self-updates from the floor), so the gap is specific to the two Gitea-generic artifacts. **Decide as part of the fix:** whether publishing becomes part of the release train rather than a separate remembered step — this is R-29's shape (a gate that exists and is never walked) one layer up. Evidence: `audits/E2D-fresh-vm-2026-07-29.md` §2 |
 | R-1 | **Peti convergence** — *the appliance half is DONE; this item is now Peti-only.* **Rehearsal EXECUTED 2026-07-18** (`tests/VALIDATION-n100-rehearsal-2026-07-18.md`): the full final-product flow ran on real metal in one pass (RESET → generic ISO → **customer self-bind** → day-0 → floor lift → escrow ceremony → offsite snapshots), which retires the "supervised rehearsal" dependency that R-13/R-21/R-23/R-24/R-27/R-28 were all parked behind. **Surviving half: Peti's clean-slate proxmox2 reinstall + the parked publish trains on a REAL REMOTE customer** — the one thing a demo box on the operator's own LAN can never prove. | L | **rehearsal DONE; Peti half open** | Flips: publish train PARTIAL→PROVEN-LIVE; appliance/BYO/day-0 "real customer" notes; escrow ceremony. The single biggest unproven surface — an alpha where fixes can't ship remotely is dead. **Reinstall arc SHIPPED hub v0.57.0 (2026-07-16):** the clean-slate reinstall-of-existing-customer path is now first-class — claim re-issue (F2), offsite re-issue (F3), escrow-honesty-on-re-issue (2.3) all auto-fire on re-enrollment. Peti's proxmox2 clean-slate now walks a supported path |
 | R-2 | ~~Resolve ~215 lines of foreign WIP in felhom.eu clone (`hub/internal/notify/`, `store.go`, `hub/internal/claim/`)~~ | S | **killed** (2026-07-16) | Not a real issue: the "foreign WIP" was in-flight code from a concurrent CC session on the customer-claim arc, snapshotted before it committed. All of it landed cleanly — `notify/`+`claim/engine.go` in `6b40eb8` (v0.50.0), `store.go` in `a1d0450` (v0.54.0), plus follow-up `e205a2d`; v0.55.0 shipped. Working tree is clean, no stashes. Lesson already codified: never run two writing sessions on one felhom.eu clone (CLAUDE.md §git add -A) |
 | R-3 | Friend-alpha onboarding runbook (generalized from `pilot/RUNBOOK-peti-return-2026-07-13`): hardware prep → golden → install → claim → ceremony → "first restore by the customer" scripted step | M | idea | Flips: "customer performs a restore" MISSING row; produces the tester-agreement sibling of `PETI-tester-agreement.md`. **Next from-scratch rehearsal to include customer DELETE + re-create** — the ESCROW cascade is now DEFINED (hub v0.60.1): host delete DEMOTES escrow to retained custody (never destroys), customer Danger-zone delete PURGES it (the one true purge point). **S6b (manual stale-host delete before re-enroll) is OBSOLETE** — re-enrollment upserts the existing host row cleanly (`store.UpsertHost` ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE; `handleAdminCreateHost` no duplicate refusal) + the v0.57.0 arc auto-fires the re-issues; the rehearsal live-confirms it. **NON-escrow offboarding NOW ANSWERED by the middle-tier Customer RESET (hub v0.61.0, LIVE):** one operator action deprovisions the Hetzner sub-account/box (repo data destroyed), destroys the PBS namespace + backup groups + token, clears the DR recipe / one-time secret / claim state / retained escrow custody (separate ack) — identity + basic config survive. WG peer release rides host delete (peers are host-scoped, gone before RESET runs — RESET refuses while any host row exists). **Remaining consistency gap:** the customer Danger-zone DELETE still leaves host rows and does NOT run the offsite/PBS teardown (RESET is the teardown path; DELETE is escrow-purge + config-drop). Decide whether DELETE should require a prior RESET (or subsume it) — new item R-25b |