R-204 item 4 (hub half): the hub answers a rebuilt box's request (hub v0.96.0)

New internal/offsiteheal, the sibling of pbsdrheal: it acts ONLY on the state the
box declares, sustained across two distinct reports, re-staging the stored
credential before ever minting a new one. A healthy box is a pure no-op; it never
blind-timer-reissues and never re-runs a provisioning step.

RESTAGE IS POSSIBLE because the stored value survives a consume — established from
the schema and ConsumeOneTimeSecret (which stamps consumed_at and nothing else),
not inherited from the PBS analogy, and pinned by a test that asserts the SAME
value comes back.

reportHasOffsite is TIGHTENED to require enabled:true. Its comment asserted that
presence == applied-on-the-box, and the declaration deliberately breaks that
premise; left alone it would have read a request for help as proof the tier was
applied. Provably a no-op for every report shape that existed before, because an
attached object has always carried enabled:true.

R-192's guard half is CLOSED BY REPLACEMENT: the delivery checker's counting
inference read the OLDEST 500 reports after a consume — all predating a rebuild,
which is why demo-hp sat stranded for 108 reports under a confident regressed-shape
verdict. A declaration outranks both inferred shapes, and the checker stands down
with a record so the two mechanisms cannot double-issue.

No escrow ceremony is ever run or requested: credential automatic, key
customer-present.

hub/cmd/hub/main.go

@@ -20,14 +20,15 @@ import (
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/hetznerapi"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/intent"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/mailrelay"
-	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/offsite"
-	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/pbsdrheal"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/monitor"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/notify"
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/offsite"
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/offsiteheal"
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/pbsdrheal"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/poke"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/store"
-	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/web"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/tenantsync"
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/web"
 	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/wgsync"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v3"
 )
@@ -290,8 +291,8 @@ func main() {
 	webServer := web.New(dataStore, cfg.Auth.PasswordHash, cfg.API.ReportAPIKey, Version, staleThreshold, logger)
 	webServer.SetTemplateFetcher(templateFetcher)
 	webServer.SetAssetManager(assetsMgr)
-	webServer.SetClaimEngine(claimEngine)      // v0.50.0 — Setup-tab claim chip + resend button
+	webServer.SetClaimEngine(claimEngine)   // v0.50.0 — Setup-tab claim chip + resend button
-	webServer.SetSelfBindMailer(dispatcher)    // v0.66.0 (R-27) — customer self-bind link button (sibling of claim mailer)
+	webServer.SetSelfBindMailer(dispatcher) // v0.66.0 (R-27) — customer self-bind link button (sibling of claim mailer)
 	// Day-0 artifact version dropdowns: let the operator pick a version and have the hub derive the
 	// sha256 from Gitea (no hand-copied checksums). Reuses the registry creds; degrades to manual text
 	// entry when they're absent.
@@ -510,6 +511,23 @@ func main() {
 		logger.Printf("[INFO] PBS-DR self-heal reconciler started (interval 5m)")
 	}
 
+	// Off-site credential self-heal reconciler (internal/offsiteheal, R-193 / R-204 item 4). The
+	// sibling of the block above, for the last of the four manual interventions the 2026-08-04 drill
+	// needed: a REBUILT box has no off-site credential because its predecessor spent the one-time
+	// password. It acts ONLY on a state the box DECLARES (an absence has four meanings and the hub
+	// cannot tell them apart; the box can), sustained across two distinct reports, re-staging the
+	// stored secret before ever minting. A healthy box is a pure no-op. OFFSITEHEAL_ONLY_CUSTOMER
+	// scopes a supervised first rollout (empty = whole fleet — the steady state).
+	{
+		offsiteReconciler := offsiteheal.NewReconciler(dataStore, offsiteheal.NewActions(dataStore, webServer), logger)
+		if only := os.Getenv("OFFSITEHEAL_ONLY_CUSTOMER"); only != "" {
+			offsiteReconciler.RestrictToCustomer(only)
+			logger.Printf("[INFO] offsite credential self-heal RESTRICTED to customer %s (supervised rollout scope)", only)
+		}
+		go offsiteReconciler.Run(ctx)
+		logger.Printf("[INFO] offsite credential self-heal reconciler started (interval 5m, debounce 2 reports)")
+	}
+
 	// Session cleanup — removes expired sessions every hour
 	go webServer.CleanupSessions(ctx)
 

hub/internal/monitor/offsite_declared_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package monitor
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/offsite"
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/offsiteheal"
+)
+
+// R-192's guard half, closed by REPLACEMENT (R-204 item 4).
+//
+// The counting guard inferred the situation from how many of the OLDEST 500 reports after a consume
+// carried an offbox target. On demo-hp all 500 predated the rebuild, so the checker confidently
+// reported the REGRESSED shape and declined to heal — for 108 reports, while the box sat stranded.
+// A declaration needs no window and no count, and it OUTRANKS both inferred shapes.
+
+func TestShapeOf_DeclarationOutranksBothInferredShapes(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name     string
+		status   offsite.DeliveryStatus
+		declared bool
+		want     deliveryShape
+	}{
+		{"burned, undeclared", offsite.DeliveryStatus{OffsiteReportsSinceConsume: 0, ReportsSinceConsume: 9}, false, shapeBurned},
+		{"regressed, undeclared", offsite.DeliveryStatus{OffsiteReportsSinceConsume: 500, ReportsSinceConsume: 500}, false, shapeRegressed},
+		// THE demo-hp SHAPE: the counts say "regressed" from a window that predates the rebuild, and
+		// the box says it needs a credential. The declaration wins.
+		{"regressed counts BUT the box declares", offsite.DeliveryStatus{OffsiteReportsSinceConsume: 500, ReportsSinceConsume: 500}, true, shapeDeclared},
+		{"burned counts AND the box declares", offsite.DeliveryStatus{OffsiteReportsSinceConsume: 0, ReportsSinceConsume: 9}, true, shapeDeclared},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		if got := shapeOf(tc.status, tc.declared); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: shapeOf = %q, want %q", tc.name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The declared-state string is duplicated in three packages (the controller declares it, this checker
+// recognises it, the reconciler acts on it). A silent drift between them would make the whole feature
+// inert with every test still green — so the two hub-side copies are pinned to each other here. The
+// controller's copy is pinned by its own report-shape test and by the live validation.
+func TestDeclaredStateStringMatchesTheReconciler(t *testing.T) {
+	if declaredNeedsCredential != offsiteheal.StateNeedsCredential {
+		t.Fatalf("declared-state drift: monitor has %q, offsiteheal has %q — the checker would never stand down and both mechanisms would heal the same customer",
+			declaredNeedsCredential, offsiteheal.StateNeedsCredential)
+	}
+}

hub/internal/monitor/offsite_delivery.go

@@ -94,8 +94,19 @@ func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) Check() {
 		if age < stuckAfter {
 			continue // normal convergence window
 		}
-		emitted := c.maybeEmitStuck(cfg.CustomerID, status, age)
+		// R-204 item 4 / R-192's guard half: does the BOX declare that it needs a credential? A
-		c.maybeHeal(cfg.CustomerID, status, emitted)
+		// declaration is stronger evidence than anything this checker can infer, and it is owned by
+		// internal/offsiteheal — see maybeHeal. A read error is treated as "no declaration", which is
+		// the conservative direction: this checker keeps its pre-v0.96.0 behaviour rather than
+		// silently standing down.
+		declared := false
+		if _, _, state, derr := c.store.LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(cfg.CustomerID); derr != nil {
+			c.logger.Printf("[WARN] offsite-delivery: %s: read declaration: %v (treating as undeclared)", cfg.CustomerID, derr)
+		} else {
+			declared = state == declaredNeedsCredential
+		}
+		emitted := c.maybeEmitStuck(cfg.CustomerID, status, age, declared)
+		c.maybeHeal(cfg.CustomerID, status, emitted, declared)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -111,9 +122,25 @@ const (
 	// the credential worked and the target was later lost (a guest rebuild does exactly this, R-193).
 	// Re-issue is NOT indicated; it treats a symptom whose cause is elsewhere.
 	shapeRegressed deliveryShape = "regressed"
+	// shapeDeclared — the BOX itself says it needs a credential (controller >= v0.199.0). This
+	// OUTRANKS both shapes above and is R-192's guard half closed by REPLACEMENT rather than repair:
+	// the counting guard inferred the situation from how many of the OLDEST 500 reports after the
+	// consume carried an offbox target — all of which predate a rebuild, which is why demo-hp sat
+	// stranded for 108 reports while the checker confidently reported the regressed shape. A
+	// declaration needs no window, no count and no inference. The remediation belongs to
+	// internal/offsiteheal; this checker stands down and says so.
+	shapeDeclared deliveryShape = "declared"
 )
 
-func shapeOf(status offsite.DeliveryStatus) deliveryShape {
+// declaredNeedsCredential mirrors backup.OffsiteStateNeedsCredential / offsiteheal.StateNeedsCredential.
+// Duplicated as a literal rather than imported to avoid a monitor→offsiteheal dependency; the three
+// are pinned together by TestDeclaredStateStringMatchesTheReconciler.
+const declaredNeedsCredential = "needs_credential"
+
+func shapeOf(status offsite.DeliveryStatus, declared bool) deliveryShape {
+	if declared {
+		return shapeDeclared
+	}
 	if status.OffsiteReportsSinceConsume == 0 {
 		return shapeBurned
 	}
@@ -137,7 +164,7 @@ func shapeOf(status offsite.DeliveryStatus) deliveryShape {
 // assembled (R-199/R-200/R-201). Naming the window in the text is how it stays visible instead of
 // being laundered into a confident sentence — an instrument that can silently mis-scope its results
 // must say so where it reports them.
-func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) maybeEmitStuck(customerID string, status offsite.DeliveryStatus, age time.Duration) bool {
+func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) maybeEmitStuck(customerID string, status offsite.DeliveryStatus, age time.Duration, declared bool) bool {
 	last, err := c.store.LastEventAt(customerID, eventDeliveryStuck)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.logger.Printf("[WARN] offsite-delivery: %s: cooldown read: %v", customerID, err)
@@ -146,9 +173,12 @@ func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) maybeEmitStuck(customerID string, status offsit
 	if !last.IsZero() && c.now().Sub(last) < stuckCooldown {
 		return false
 	}
-	shape := shapeOf(status)
+	shape := shapeOf(status, declared)
 	var msg string
 	switch shape {
+	case shapeDeclared:
+		msg = fmt.Sprintf("Offsite delivery stuck (DECLARED by the box): the one-time password was consumed %s ago and the box now reports `offsite.state=%s` — it has been rebuilt, holds no repository password, and the hub is holding a sealed recovery package for it. No inference was needed: the box said so. The offsite self-heal reconciler owns this remediation (it re-arms the stored credential before minting a new one); no operator action is indicated unless this repeats.",
+			age.Round(time.Minute), declaredNeedsCredential)
 	case shapeBurned:
 		msg = fmt.Sprintf("Offsite delivery stuck (BURNED-credential shape): the one-time password was consumed %s ago; of the first %d report(s) after that consume, NONE carried an offbox target, and the latest report carries none either. The credential never reached a persisted apply. Re-issue delivers a fresh one.",
 			age.Round(time.Minute), status.ReportsSinceConsume)
@@ -185,10 +215,19 @@ func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) maybeEmitStuck(customerID string, status offsit
 // the set of situations in which the heal fires is byte-for-byte what it was; only the silence is
 // gone. The two conditions are split into separate branches solely so each refusal can name its own
 // reason.
-func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) maybeHeal(customerID string, status offsite.DeliveryStatus, recordRefusal bool) {
+func (c *OffsiteDeliveryChecker) maybeHeal(customerID string, status offsite.DeliveryStatus, recordRefusal bool, declared bool) {
 	if c.reissuer == nil {
 		return // no provisioner configured: the heal does not exist on this hub, so there is nothing to explain
 	}
+	// R-204 item 4: a DECLARING box belongs to internal/offsiteheal, which re-arms the stored
+	// credential before minting a new one. Two mechanisms healing the same customer would double-issue
+	// — and this one can only mint, so it would also skip the cheap path. Stand down, with a record:
+	// "we chose not to act" and "the heal never ran" must not look identical (R-192 defect (b)).
+	if declared {
+		c.recordHealRefusal(customerID, recordRefusal,
+			"the box DECLARES offsite.state=needs_credential; internal/offsiteheal owns this remediation (it re-stages the stored credential before minting). A second mechanism minting here would double-issue.")
+		return
+	}
 	if status.OffsiteReportsSinceConsume != 0 {
 		c.recordHealRefusal(customerID, recordRefusal, fmt.Sprintf(
 			"regressed-apply shape: %d of the first %d report(s) after the consume DID carry an offbox target, so a burned credential is ruled out — a restage would treat a symptom whose cause is elsewhere. Operator's call (R-193).",

hub/internal/offsiteheal/reconciler.go

@@ -0,0 +1,284 @@
+// Package offsiteheal is the hub-side OFF-SITE credential self-heal reconciler (R-193 / R-204 item 4,
+// hub v0.96.0). It is the sibling of internal/pbsdrheal, deliberately: same shape, same restraint,
+// same rule that one thing is left loud rather than healed.
+//
+// THE PROBLEM. The 2026-08-04 drill (R-201) proved a customer's file survives a machine rebuild and
+// comes back — with a person present for four manual interventions. Three were closed in controller
+// v0.198.0 / hub v0.95.0. The fourth is this one: a REBUILT box has no off-site credential of its own,
+// because the one-time provider password was spent by its predecessor. Everything downstream is
+// self-service; nothing gets the box past that first step.
+//
+// WHY THE TRIGGER IS A DECLARATION AND NOT AN INFERENCE (the operator ruling, 2026-08-05, and the
+// whole design). From the hub, an ABSENT off-site object has FOUR meanings — never configured,
+// mid-restart, a transient config read failure, and rebuilt-and-stranded — and the hub cannot tell
+// them apart. The BOX can, from two local facts it holds with certainty: its data area is fresh (no
+// repository password) AND the hub is holding a sealed recovery package for it. So the box says so,
+// in its ordinary report, and this reconciler acts on a stated request rather than on a silence.
+// That is also why R-192's counting guard is REPLACED rather than repaired: it inferred the same
+// thing by counting reports over the OLDEST 500 after a consume, all of which predate a rebuild.
+//
+// WHAT IT DOES, once a declaration has held across a debounce: RE-STAGES the customer's stored
+// one-time secret (store.RestageOneTimeSecret — no provider call, no new password) and escalates to
+// the existing Re-issue ONLY when there is nothing stored to re-arm. It NEVER blind-timer-reissues
+// and NEVER re-runs a provisioning step. A box that is not declaring is a pure no-op.
+//
+// WHAT IT DELIBERATELY DOES NOT DO: it never runs, or asks for, an escrow ceremony. A credential is
+// replaceable; the recovery code is not, because only the customer holds it. Credential automatic,
+// key customer-present — the ruling this session implements and must not quietly widen.
+package offsiteheal
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/offsite"
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/store"
+)
+
+// StateNeedsCredential is the ONE state acted on — the string controller v0.199.0 declares on its
+// report's `offsite` object (backup.OffsiteStateNeedsCredential). Everything else, including "" (an
+// older controller, a healthy box, or a box with no off-site object at all), is a no-op.
+//
+// THE §8.4 QUESTION — IS THERE AN EQUIVALENT OF pbsdrheal's DELIBERATELY-UNHEALED `verify_failed`?
+// Yes, and it is handled by CONSTRUCTION rather than by a case here, which is worth stating plainly
+// because "there is nothing like that here" is usually wrong. The analogue is the REGRESSED shape:
+// a box that HAD a working off-site tier and lost its target while still holding its repository
+// password. Re-arming a credential would not help it — its problem is whatever removed the target —
+// and R-192's existing checker already refuses to heal that shape for exactly this reason. It cannot
+// reach this reconciler at all, because the controller's declaration predicate requires the
+// repository password to be ABSENT (backup.needsOffsiteCredential). So the unhealable case is
+// excluded upstream, by the declaration itself, rather than filtered out here.
+const StateNeedsCredential = "needs_credential"
+
+// Audit event types (store.SaveEvent; hub-internal, not gated by allowedEventTypes — the pbsdr_*
+// precedent). Distinct per remediation so the operator sees exactly what was auto-done.
+const (
+	eventRestaged = "offsite_selfheal_restaged" // re-armed the stored secret (routine, no provider call)
+	eventReissued = "offsite_selfheal_reissued" // nothing stored to re-arm → minted a fresh credential
+)
+
+// debounceReportsDefault — how many DISTINCT reports must carry the declaration before acting.
+//
+// TWO, and the interval is derived rather than chosen. The controller reports every ~15 minutes, so
+// two distinct declarations mean the state has survived at least one full report cycle: a restart, a
+// slow first report or a transient config read cannot produce it, because each of those resolves
+// well inside one cycle. One report would act on a blip; three would leave a genuinely stranded
+// customer waiting ~45 minutes for a credential they cannot obtain any other way. The reconciler's
+// own tick (below) is deliberately FASTER than the report cadence so it never adds latency of its
+// own — the debounce is counted in fresh evidence, not in ticks.
+const debounceReportsDefault = 2
+
+// tickIntervalDefault — how often the fleet is swept. Shorter than the 15-minute report cadence on
+// purpose (see above); a sweep that finds nothing writes nothing.
+const tickIntervalDefault = 5 * time.Minute
+
+// Actions is the mutation seam — fakes in tests count calls without touching a provider. Restage
+// flips a stored secret's consumed flag (false when NO row exists → the caller escalates); Reissue
+// mints a fresh provider credential and stores a fresh consume-once secret.
+type Actions interface {
+	Restage(customerID string) (restaged bool, err error)
+	Reissue(ctx context.Context, customerID string) error
+}
+
+// Reissuer is satisfied by *web.Server (its ReissueOffsiteForCustomer) — the same indirection
+// pbsdrheal uses, so the escalation IS the designed Re-issue path and not a sibling mechanism.
+type Reissuer interface {
+	ReissueOffsiteForCustomer(ctx context.Context, customerID string) error
+}
+
+type storeActions struct {
+	st       *store.Store
+	reissuer Reissuer
+}
+
+func (a storeActions) Restage(customerID string) (bool, error) {
+	return a.st.RestageOneTimeSecret(customerID)
+}
+func (a storeActions) Reissue(ctx context.Context, customerID string) error {
+	return a.reissuer.ReissueOffsiteForCustomer(ctx, customerID)
+}
+
+// NewActions builds the production mutation seam.
+func NewActions(st *store.Store, reissuer Reissuer) Actions { return storeActions{st: st, reissuer: reissuer} }
+
+// debounceState tracks, per customer, the last DISTINCT report seen and how many consecutive
+// distinct reports have carried the declaration.
+type debounceState struct {
+	reportID int64
+	state    string
+	streak   int
+}
+
+// Reconciler re-arms stranded boxes. DECLARATIVE + IDEMPOTENT: a tick over a healthy fleet writes
+// nothing. It reads the hub DB — never the box.
+type Reconciler struct {
+	store           *store.Store
+	act             Actions
+	interval        time.Duration
+	debounceReports int
+	onlyCustomer    string // "" = whole fleet; non-empty restricts the work set (supervised rollout)
+	trigger         chan struct{}
+	logger          *log.Logger
+
+	deb map[string]debounceState
+}
+
+// NewReconciler builds the reconciler with the derived defaults.
+func NewReconciler(st *store.Store, act Actions, logger *log.Logger) *Reconciler {
+	if logger == nil {
+		logger = log.Default()
+	}
+	return &Reconciler{
+		store:           st,
+		act:             act,
+		interval:        tickIntervalDefault,
+		debounceReports: debounceReportsDefault,
+		trigger:         make(chan struct{}, 1),
+		logger:          logger,
+		deb:             map[string]debounceState{},
+	}
+}
+
+// RestrictToCustomer scopes the work set to one customer (empty = whole fleet) for a supervised first
+// rollout — the pbsdrheal precedent. Set before Run.
+func (r *Reconciler) RestrictToCustomer(customerID string) { r.onlyCustomer = customerID }
+
+// SetDebounceReports overrides the debounce (tests). Values < 1 are ignored.
+func (r *Reconciler) SetDebounceReports(n int) {
+	if n >= 1 {
+		r.debounceReports = n
+	}
+}
+
+// Trigger requests an immediate reconcile. Non-blocking.
+func (r *Reconciler) Trigger() {
+	select {
+	case r.trigger <- struct{}{}:
+	default:
+	}
+}
+
+// Run loops until ctx is done. Never exits on an error.
+func (r *Reconciler) Run(ctx context.Context) {
+	ticker := time.NewTicker(r.interval)
+	defer ticker.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-r.trigger:
+		case <-ticker.C:
+		}
+		r.ReconcileOnce(ctx)
+	}
+}
+
+// ReconcileOnce sweeps the fleet once. Exported so tests drive it directly instead of racing a
+// ticker, and so the wiring can trigger it. Errors are logged and retried next tick; a read failure
+// means this reconciler does NOTHING rather than acting on a partial view.
+func (r *Reconciler) ReconcileOnce(ctx context.Context) {
+	configs, err := r.store.ListCustomerConfigs()
+	if err != nil {
+		r.logger.Printf("[ERROR] offsiteheal: list customer configs: %v (retry next tick)", err)
+		return
+	}
+	seen := make(map[string]bool, len(configs))
+	for _, cfg := range configs {
+		if r.onlyCustomer != "" && cfg.CustomerID != r.onlyCustomer {
+			continue
+		}
+		if cfg.Status != "active" {
+			continue // blocked/inactive customers are never healed
+		}
+		// The descriptor must still say the customer HAS an off-site tier. A deliberately disabled
+		// tier must not be re-credentialed behind the operator's back; an unparseable config never
+		// drives a heal (the config UI owns that failure).
+		d, derr := offsite.ReadDescriptor(cfg.ConfigJSON)
+		if derr != nil || d == nil || !d.Enabled {
+			delete(r.deb, cfg.CustomerID)
+			continue
+		}
+		found, reportID, state, err := r.store.LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(cfg.CustomerID)
+		if err != nil {
+			r.logger.Printf("[ERROR] offsiteheal: %s: read latest declaration: %v (retry next tick)", cfg.CustomerID, err)
+			continue // never act on a partial view
+		}
+		seen[cfg.CustomerID] = true
+		if !found || state != StateNeedsCredential {
+			delete(r.deb, cfg.CustomerID) // healthy, silent, or an older controller → pure no-op
+			continue
+		}
+		if !r.confirm(cfg.CustomerID, reportID, state) {
+			continue // one declaration is not evidence — wait for a second distinct report
+		}
+		r.heal(ctx, cfg.CustomerID, reportID, state)
+	}
+	for c := range r.deb {
+		if !seen[c] {
+			delete(r.deb, c)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// confirm advances the per-customer debounce and reports whether the declaration has held across
+// >= debounceReports DISTINCT reports. A re-observed same report never advances the streak — the
+// debounce counts fresh evidence, not reconciler ticks, so a fast tick cannot shorten it.
+func (r *Reconciler) confirm(customerID string, reportID int64, state string) bool {
+	st := r.deb[customerID]
+	if reportID != st.reportID {
+		if state == st.state {
+			st.streak++
+		} else {
+			st.streak = 1
+		}
+		st.state = state
+		st.reportID = reportID
+		r.deb[customerID] = st
+	}
+	return st.streak >= r.debounceReports
+}
+
+// heal re-arms the stored secret; with nothing stored, escalates to a fresh mint.
+//
+// RESTAGE BEFORE MINT, because re-arming costs no provider call and converges in one report tick,
+// while a mint is external churn for a credential the hub already holds. The stored value survives a
+// consume (store.RestageOneTimeSecret documents how that was established), which is what makes the
+// cheap path possible at all.
+func (r *Reconciler) heal(ctx context.Context, customerID string, reportID int64, state string) {
+	restaged, err := r.act.Restage(customerID)
+	if err != nil {
+		r.logger.Printf("[ERROR] offsiteheal: re-stage %s: %v (retry next tick)", customerID, err)
+		return
+	}
+	if restaged {
+		r.logger.Printf("[INFO] offsiteheal: re-staged the stored one-time offsite secret for customer %s (declared %s across %d reports) — the box re-consumes on its next cycle; no provider credential was minted",
+			customerID, state, r.debounceReports)
+		r.event(customerID, eventRestaged, "info",
+			"Offsite self-heal: a rebuilt box asked for its storage credential and the stored one-time password was re-armed. No new credential was created at the storage provider.")
+		r.resetAfterHeal(customerID, reportID, state)
+		return
+	}
+	r.logger.Printf("[INFO] offsiteheal: customer %s declares %s with NO stored one-time secret — escalating to Re-issue", customerID, state)
+	if err := r.act.Reissue(ctx, customerID); err != nil {
+		r.logger.Printf("[ERROR] offsiteheal: re-issue for customer %s: %v (retry next tick)", customerID, err)
+		return
+	}
+	r.event(customerID, eventReissued, "warning",
+		"Offsite self-heal: a rebuilt box asked for its storage credential and the hub had none stored, so fresh credentials were issued at the storage provider.")
+	r.resetAfterHeal(customerID, reportID, state)
+}
+
+// resetAfterHeal clears the streak (keeping the report id) so the SAME report cannot re-heal on the
+// next tick — a fresh report must re-confirm the box is still stranded before acting again. This is
+// what makes Scenario E's "one mint, not repeated" true.
+func (r *Reconciler) resetAfterHeal(customerID string, reportID int64, state string) {
+	r.deb[customerID] = debounceState{reportID: reportID, state: state, streak: 0}
+}
+
+// event records an audit row; a failure to write it must never break the heal loop.
+func (r *Reconciler) event(customerID, eventType, severity, message string) {
+	if _, err := r.store.SaveEvent(customerID, eventType, severity, message, "", "hub"); err != nil {
+		r.logger.Printf("[WARN] offsiteheal: audit event %s for %s not stored: %v", eventType, customerID, err)
+	}
+}

hub/internal/offsiteheal/reconciler_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,310 @@
+package offsiteheal
+
+// Non-hollow reconciler tests mapping 1:1 to the task's integration scenarios A–F. A REAL store
+// (t.TempDir sqlite) supplies the work set, the customer configs and the reports; a FAKE Actions seam
+// counts restage/reissue calls without touching a storage provider. ReconcileOnce is driven directly
+// for determinism — the debounce is exercised by feeding DISTINCT REPORTS, never by sleeping, because
+// the debounce counts fresh evidence rather than elapsed time.
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"sync"
+	"testing"
+
+	"gitea.dooplex.hu/admin/felhom-hub/internal/store"
+)
+
+type fakeActions struct {
+	mu            sync.Mutex
+	restaged      []string
+	reissued      []string
+	restageResult bool // does a stored secret row exist?
+	restageErr    error
+	reissueErr    error
+}
+
+func (f *fakeActions) Restage(customerID string) (bool, error) {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+	f.restaged = append(f.restaged, customerID)
+	return f.restageResult, f.restageErr
+}
+
+func (f *fakeActions) Reissue(_ context.Context, customerID string) error {
+	f.mu.Lock()
+	defer f.mu.Unlock()
+	f.reissued = append(f.reissued, customerID)
+	return f.reissueErr
+}
+
+func (f *fakeActions) restages() int { f.mu.Lock(); defer f.mu.Unlock(); return len(f.restaged) }
+func (f *fakeActions) reissues() int { f.mu.Lock(); defer f.mu.Unlock(); return len(f.reissued) }
+
+func newHealStore(t *testing.T) *store.Store {
+	t.Helper()
+	st, err := store.New(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db"), log.New(io.Discard, "", 0))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("store.New: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { st.Close() })
+	return st
+}
+
+// seedCustomer writes an ACTIVE customer whose offsite descriptor is enabled (or not).
+func seedCustomer(t *testing.T, st *store.Store, customerID string, offsiteEnabled bool) {
+	t.Helper()
+	cfgJSON := `{"offsite":{"enabled":false}}`
+	if offsiteEnabled {
+		cfgJSON = `{"offsite":{"enabled":true,"type":"shared","host":"x.your-storagebox.de","user":"u","port":23,"repo_path":"/home/felhom-repo"}}`
+	}
+	if err := st.SaveCustomerConfig(&store.CustomerConfig{
+		CustomerID: customerID, CustomerName: customerID, Domain: customerID + ".hu",
+		APIKey: "k-" + customerID, ConfigJSON: cfgJSON,
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("SaveCustomerConfig %s: %v", customerID, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// pushReport writes ONE controller report. state=="" → a healthy configured box (enabled offsite
+// object); otherwise the declaration shape controller v0.199.0 emits. Each call is a DISTINCT report,
+// which is the debounce's currency.
+func pushReport(t *testing.T, st *store.Store, customerID, state string, seq int) {
+	t.Helper()
+	var off map[string]any
+	if state == "" {
+		off = map[string]any{"enabled": true, "escrow_state": "escrowed", "last_status": "ok"}
+	} else {
+		off = map[string]any{"enabled": false, "state": state}
+	}
+	b, err := json.Marshal(map[string]any{
+		"controller_version": fmt.Sprintf("0.199.0-%d", seq), // makes each row distinguishable
+		"offsite":            off,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := st.SaveReport(customerID, b); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("SaveReport %s: %v", customerID, err)
+	}
+}
+
+// pushReportNoOffsite writes a report with NO offsite object at all — the pre-v0.199.0 shape a
+// stranded box used to send, and the shape a box that never had off-site backups still sends.
+func pushReportNoOffsite(t *testing.T, st *store.Store, customerID string, seq int) {
+	t.Helper()
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]any{"controller_version": fmt.Sprintf("0.198.0-%d", seq)})
+	if err := st.SaveReport(customerID, b); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("SaveReport %s: %v", customerID, err)
+	}
+}
+
+func newRec(st *store.Store, act Actions) *Reconciler {
+	return NewReconciler(st, act, log.New(io.Discard, "", 0))
+}
+
+func countEvents(t *testing.T, st *store.Store, customerID, eventType string) int {
+	t.Helper()
+	ev, err := st.GetLatestEventByType(customerID, eventType)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("GetLatestEventByType: %v", err)
+	}
+	if ev == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return 1
+}
+
+// SCENARIO A + D — a declaring box is served, and the STORED secret is re-armed rather than a fresh
+// credential minted.
+//
+// RED-PROOF (D): invert the order in heal() so Reissue is called before Restage — the assertion
+// "no mint" fails, and the test names the cost: external churn for a credential the hub already has.
+func TestScenarioAD_DeclaringBoxIsRestagedNotMinted(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true} // a stored secret exists
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 1)
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	if act.restages() != 0 || act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("acted on a SINGLE declaration — the debounce did not hold (restages=%d reissues=%d)", act.restages(), act.reissues())
+	}
+
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 2) // a second DISTINCT report
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+
+	if act.restages() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("a sustained declaration was not served: restages=%d", act.restages())
+	}
+	if act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a fresh credential was minted although a stored one could be re-armed — external churn for nothing (reissues=%d)", act.reissues())
+	}
+	if countEvents(t, st, "c1", eventRestaged) != 1 {
+		t.Error("no offsite_selfheal_restaged audit event — an automatic remediation must be visible")
+	}
+	if countEvents(t, st, "c1", eventReissued) != 0 {
+		t.Error("a reissue event was recorded for a restage")
+	}
+}
+
+// SCENARIO B — a box that never had off-site backups says nothing, so nothing happens. (The
+// declaration itself is the controller's guard; here we assert the hub side is a no-op on silence.)
+func TestScenarioB_SilentBoxIsNeverActedOn(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true}
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+
+	for i := 1; i <= 4; i++ {
+		pushReportNoOffsite(t, st, "c1", i)
+		r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	}
+	if act.restages() != 0 || act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a silent box was acted on: restages=%d reissues=%d", act.restages(), act.reissues())
+	}
+}
+
+// SCENARIO C — a healthy box is a PURE no-op, repeatedly. No restage, no mint, no event.
+func TestScenarioC_HealthyBoxIsAPureNoOp(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true}
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+
+	for i := 1; i <= 5; i++ {
+		pushReport(t, st, "c1", "", i) // healthy: enabled offsite object, no declaration
+		r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	}
+	if act.restages() != 0 || act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a healthy box was acted on: restages=%d reissues=%d", act.restages(), act.reissues())
+	}
+	if countEvents(t, st, "c1", eventRestaged)+countEvents(t, st, "c1", eventReissued) != 0 {
+		t.Error("a healthy box produced a self-heal event")
+	}
+}
+
+// SCENARIO E — nothing to re-arm escalates to a mint, ONCE, and does not repeat while the staged
+// secret sits unconsumed (a fresh report must re-confirm before acting again).
+func TestScenarioE_NothingToRestageEscalatesOnce(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: false} // NO stored secret
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 1)
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 2)
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+
+	if act.reissues() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("escalation did not happen exactly once: reissues=%d", act.reissues())
+	}
+	if countEvents(t, st, "c1", eventReissued) != 1 {
+		t.Error("no offsite_selfheal_reissued audit event")
+	}
+
+	// Repeated ticks on the SAME report must not mint again — this is the "a mint on every tick"
+	// failure the sibling's resetAfterHeal exists to prevent.
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	}
+	if act.reissues() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("minted repeatedly on an unchanged report: reissues=%d", act.reissues())
+	}
+}
+
+// SCENARIO F — a BLIP is absorbed: one declaring report followed by a healthy one triggers nothing.
+//
+// RED-PROOF: set debounceReports to 1 (i.e. remove the debounce) — the blip acts, and a credential is
+// churned by what was only a restart.
+func TestScenarioF_BlipIsAbsorbedByTheDebounce(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true}
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 1) // the blip
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", "", 2) // healthy again
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+
+	if act.restages() != 0 || act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a one-report blip triggered a credential action: restages=%d reissues=%d", act.restages(), act.reissues())
+	}
+
+	// And the streak must have been FORGOTTEN, not merely paused: a single later declaration must
+	// still not act.
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 3)
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	if act.restages() != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the debounce streak survived a healthy report — a flapping box would be healed on every other cycle")
+	}
+}
+
+// A DISABLED offsite descriptor is the operator's own choice and must never be re-credentialed,
+// even if the box declares (e.g. an old declaration left in the newest report).
+func TestDisabledDescriptorIsNeverHealed(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true}
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", false) // offsite disabled in the config
+
+	for i := 1; i <= 4; i++ {
+		pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, i)
+		r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	}
+	if act.restages() != 0 || act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a customer whose offsite is DISABLED was re-credentialed: restages=%d reissues=%d", act.restages(), act.reissues())
+	}
+}
+
+// A blocked customer is never healed.
+func TestBlockedCustomerIsNeverHealed(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true}
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+	// SaveCustomerConfig always writes status 'active' (its INSERT does not carry the column), so the
+	// block must go through the real setter — asserted below, because a test that silently failed to
+	// block would pass for the wrong reason.
+	if err := st.SetCustomerConfigStatus("c1", "blocked"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("SetCustomerConfigStatus: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !st.IsCustomerBlocked("c1") {
+		t.Fatal("precondition: the customer is not actually blocked — this test would pass vacuously")
+	}
+	for i := 1; i <= 4; i++ {
+		pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, i)
+		r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	}
+	if act.restages() != 0 || act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a BLOCKED customer was healed: restages=%d reissues=%d", act.restages(), act.reissues())
+	}
+}
+
+// A restage ERROR must not escalate to a mint — the reconciler does nothing and retries. Acting on a
+// failed read is the "never act on a partial view" rule.
+func TestRestageErrorDoesNotEscalate(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newHealStore(t)
+	act := &fakeActions{restageResult: true, restageErr: fmt.Errorf("db is busy")}
+	r := newRec(st, act)
+	seedCustomer(t, st, "c1", true)
+
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 1)
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+	pushReport(t, st, "c1", StateNeedsCredential, 2)
+	r.ReconcileOnce(context.Background())
+
+	if act.reissues() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("a failed re-stage escalated to an external mint: reissues=%d", act.reissues())
+	}
+	if countEvents(t, st, "c1", eventRestaged) != 0 {
+		t.Error("a failed re-stage recorded a success event")
+	}
+}

hub/internal/offsiteheal/wiring_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+package offsiteheal
+
+import (
+	"go/ast"
+	"go/parser"
+	"go/token"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// SCENARIO H — the reconciler is WIRED, asserted from main.go's source.
+//
+// Every test in this package passes on a reconciler that main.go never starts. That is this
+// project's most-repeated failure shape: six features built and never wired, one of them an off-site
+// restage event that existed and never fired once. The whole of R-204 item 4 is worth nothing if
+// `Run` is not called.
+//
+// It walks the AST rather than grepping, because a commented-out call still contains the string, and
+// it parses with comments DROPPED so a commented `go rec.Run(ctx)` cannot satisfy it.
+//
+// RED-PROOF: comment out the `go offsiteReconciler.Run(ctx)` line in cmd/hub/main.go → this fails.
+func TestMainWiresTheOffsiteHealReconciler(t *testing.T) {
+	const mainPath = "../../cmd/hub/main.go"
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()
+	f, err := parser.ParseFile(fset, mainPath, nil, 0) // comments dropped on purpose
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parse %s: %v — the reconciler's wiring is now unasserted", mainPath, err)
+	}
+
+	var sawConstruct, sawRun bool
+	ast.Inspect(f, func(n ast.Node) bool {
+		call, ok := n.(*ast.CallExpr)
+		if !ok {
+			return true
+		}
+		sel, ok := call.Fun.(*ast.SelectorExpr)
+		if !ok {
+			return true
+		}
+		pkg, isIdent := sel.X.(*ast.Ident)
+		// offsiteheal.NewReconciler(...)
+		if isIdent && pkg.Name == "offsiteheal" && sel.Sel.Name == "NewReconciler" {
+			sawConstruct = true
+		}
+		// <something>.Run(ctx) — the receiver is a local variable, so match on the method name and
+		// confirm the construction separately. Narrow enough: this file has one Run per reconciler.
+		if sel.Sel.Name == "Run" && isIdent && pkg.Name == "offsiteReconciler" {
+			sawRun = true
+		}
+		return true
+	})
+
+	if !sawConstruct {
+		t.Fatal("cmd/hub/main.go never calls offsiteheal.NewReconciler — R-204 item 4 ships inert")
+	}
+	if !sawRun {
+		t.Fatal("the offsite self-heal reconciler is CONSTRUCTED but never Run — a stranded box would declare forever and nothing would answer")
+	}
+}

hub/internal/store/offsite_restage_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,177 @@
+package store
+
+import (
+	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func newRestageStore(t *testing.T) *Store {
+	t.Helper()
+	st, err := New(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "test.db"), log.New(io.Discard, "", 0))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("store.New: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { st.Close() })
+	return st
+}
+
+// R-204 item 4 / R-193 — THE FACT THE WHOLE DESIGN RESTS ON: the one-time offsite secret's VALUE
+// survives consumption, so it can be re-armed without any storage-provider call.
+//
+// This is asserted rather than inherited from the PBS analogy on purpose. The two secrets are
+// different objects with different lifecycles, and assuming a shared shape is exactly how two earlier
+// sessions confused the two credentials. If a future change ever clears `value` on consume — a
+// perfectly reasonable-looking hardening — restage-before-mint becomes silently impossible and every
+// rebuild turns into an external mint. This test fails the moment that happens.
+func TestRestageOneTimeSecret_ReArmsTheSameValue(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newRestageStore(t)
+	const cust, pw = "c1", "the-one-time-password"
+
+	if err := st.SaveOneTimeSecret(cust, pw); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	got, err := st.ConsumeOneTimeSecret(cust)
+	if err != nil || got != pw {
+		t.Fatalf("first consume: got %q err=%v", got, err)
+	}
+	// Single-use holds before the restage.
+	if _, err := st.ConsumeOneTimeSecret(cust); !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		t.Fatalf("a consumed secret was served twice: err=%v", err)
+	}
+
+	restaged, err := st.RestageOneTimeSecret(cust)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !restaged {
+		t.Fatal("an existing secret row reported nothing to re-stage")
+	}
+
+	// THE ASSERTION: the SAME value comes back. Not "a value" — the same one, which is what makes
+	// this a re-arm rather than a silent mint.
+	again, err := st.ConsumeOneTimeSecret(cust)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("consume after restage: %v", err)
+	}
+	if again != pw {
+		t.Fatalf("the re-armed secret changed value: got %q want %q — the value did NOT survive the consume, so restage-before-mint is impossible and the reconciler must mint instead", again, pw)
+	}
+	// And it is single-use again.
+	if _, err := st.ConsumeOneTimeSecret(cust); !errors.Is(err, sql.ErrNoRows) {
+		t.Fatalf("the re-armed secret was not single-use: err=%v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// No row → restaged=false, so the caller escalates to a fresh mint instead of silently doing nothing.
+func TestRestageOneTimeSecret_NoRowReportsFalse(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newRestageStore(t)
+	restaged, err := st.RestageOneTimeSecret("nobody")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if restaged {
+		t.Fatal("re-staging a customer with no stored secret claimed success — the caller would never escalate")
+	}
+}
+
+// A restage must not touch the timestamps' meaning beyond the consumed flag: created_at stays put, so
+// the delivery-state age math is unchanged.
+func TestRestageOneTimeSecret_ClearsOnlyTheConsumedFlag(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newRestageStore(t)
+	const cust = "c1"
+	if err := st.SaveOneTimeSecret(cust, "pw"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	before, err := st.GetOneTimeSecretInfo(cust)
+	if err != nil || before == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("info before: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := st.ConsumeOneTimeSecret(cust); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := st.RestageOneTimeSecret(cust); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	after, err := st.GetOneTimeSecretInfo(cust)
+	if err != nil || after == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("info after: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !after.ConsumedAt.IsZero() {
+		t.Errorf("consumed_at was not cleared: %v", after.ConsumedAt)
+	}
+	if !after.CreatedAt.Equal(before.CreatedAt) {
+		t.Errorf("created_at moved on a restage: %v → %v (the delivery-state age math would jump)", before.CreatedAt, after.CreatedAt)
+	}
+}
+
+// reportHasOffsite is TIGHTENED in v0.96.0 to require enabled:true, because controller v0.199.0 sends
+// an offsite object with enabled:false to ASK for a credential. This test pins BOTH halves: the
+// tightening works, AND it is a no-op for every report shape that existed before — the equivalence is
+// measured here rather than argued in a comment.
+func TestReportHasOffsite_EnabledOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name   string
+		report string
+		want   bool
+	}{
+		// The PRE-v0.199.0 shapes. These are the equivalence claim: every object the old controller
+		// could ever attach carried enabled:true, so the tightening changes none of them.
+		{"configured box (pre-0.199 shape)", `{"offsite":{"enabled":true,"escrow_state":"escrowed","last_status":"ok"}}`, true},
+		{"configured box, minimal", `{"offsite":{"enabled":true}}`, true},
+		{"no offsite object", `{"controller_version":"0.198.0"}`, false},
+		{"explicit null", `{"offsite":null}`, false},
+		{"unparseable", `{not json`, false},
+
+		// The v0.199.0 DECLARATION — a request for help, not evidence of an applied tier.
+		{"stranded rebuild declaring", `{"offsite":{"enabled":false,"state":"needs_credential"}}`, false},
+		{"disabled object without a state", `{"offsite":{"enabled":false}}`, false},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		if got := reportHasOffsite(tc.report); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: reportHasOffsite = %v, want %v — a declaration read as an applied tier makes DeliveryStateFor say the stranded box is fine", tc.name, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The declaration is readable as such, and an older controller's report yields "" rather than an error.
+func TestLatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newRestageStore(t)
+	const cust = "c1"
+
+	found, _, state, err := st.LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(cust)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if found {
+		t.Fatal("a customer with no reports was reported as found")
+	}
+
+	if err := st.SaveReport(cust, []byte(`{"controller_version":"0.198.0"}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	found, id1, state, err := st.LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(cust)
+	if err != nil || !found {
+		t.Fatalf("found=%v err=%v", found, err)
+	}
+	if state != "" {
+		t.Errorf("an old controller's report declared %q", state)
+	}
+
+	if err := st.SaveReport(cust, []byte(`{"offsite":{"enabled":false,"state":"needs_credential"}}`)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	found, id2, state, err := st.LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(cust)
+	if err != nil || !found {
+		t.Fatalf("found=%v err=%v", found, err)
+	}
+	if state != "needs_credential" {
+		t.Errorf("declared state = %q, want needs_credential", state)
+	}
+	if id2 <= id1 {
+		t.Errorf("the report id did not advance (%d → %d) — the debounce counts distinct reports and would never confirm", id1, id2)
+	}
+}

hub/internal/store/store.go

@@ -978,11 +978,27 @@ func (s *Store) SaveReport(customerID string, reportJSON []byte) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-// reportOffsitePresence is the minimal parse for "does this controller report carry an offsite
+// reportOffsitePresence is the minimal parse for "does this controller report show an offsite tier
-// status object" — the R-70 delivery-state signal. The report builder attaches `offsite` only when
+// that is actually CONFIGURED on the box" — the R-70 delivery-state signal, i.e. applied-on-the-box.
-// the box actually has an offbox target configured, so presence == applied-on-the-box.
+//
+// ⚠ TIGHTENED 2026-08-05 (hub v0.96.0, R-204 item 4), and the reason is exactly the trap this
+// project keeps recording. The predicate used to be bare PRESENCE, under a comment asserting *"the
+// report builder attaches `offsite` only when the box actually has an offbox target configured, so
+// presence == applied-on-the-box"*. Controller v0.199.0 breaks that premise deliberately: a REBUILT
+// box now attaches an offsite object carrying `enabled:false` and a declared `state` in order to ASK
+// for a credential. Left as presence-only, this function would have read that request for help as
+// proof the tier was applied — turning `DeliveryStateFor` into DeliveryApplied for the exact boxes
+// that are stranded, and suppressing the stuck event for them.
+//
+// The tightening is `enabled == true`, and it is PROVABLY A NO-OP for every report shape that exists
+// today: `backup.OffboxReportStatus` returned nil unless `t != nil && t.Enabled`, so an attached
+// object has ALWAYS carried `enabled:true`. Pinned by
+// TestReportHasOffsite_EnabledOnly — including a case asserting the pre-v0.199.0 shape still reads
+// true, so the equivalence is measured rather than argued.
 type reportOffsitePresence struct {
-	Offsite json.RawMessage `json:"offsite"`
+	Offsite *struct {
+		Enabled bool `json:"enabled"`
+	} `json:"offsite"`
 }
 
 func reportHasOffsite(reportJSON string) bool {
@@ -990,7 +1006,7 @@ func reportHasOffsite(reportJSON string) bool {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(reportJSON), &p); err != nil {
 		return false // unparseable report → no offsite evidence
 	}
-	return len(p.Offsite) > 0 && string(p.Offsite) != "null"
+	return p.Offsite != nil && p.Offsite.Enabled
 }
 
 // LatestReportOffsitePresence reports whether the customer's most recent controller report exists
@@ -1415,6 +1431,67 @@ func (s *Store) ConsumeOneTimeSecret(customerID string) (string, error) {
 	return value, nil
 }
 
+// RestageOneTimeSecret re-arms an ALREADY-STORED one-time offsite secret for re-consumption by
+// clearing its consumed flag — WITHOUT changing the secret value, WITHOUT inserting a row, and
+// WITHOUT any storage-provider call. It is the off-site sibling of RestageHostPBSSecret (pbsdr.go),
+// and it exists because a REBUILT box has no credential of its own: its predecessor spent the
+// one-time password (R-193 / R-204 item 4).
+//
+// IT IS POSSIBLE AT ALL ONLY BECAUSE THE VALUE SURVIVES A CONSUME, and that was established from
+// this file rather than assumed from the PBS analogy (the two secrets are different objects with
+// different lifecycles, and assuming a shared shape is how two sessions confused the credentials):
+// ConsumeOneTimeSecret sets `consumed_at` and NOTHING ELSE — the `value` column is never cleared or
+// overwritten, and the schema declares it `TEXT NOT NULL`. So the row still holds a serviceable
+// password after consumption, and re-arming it costs no external call and converges in one report
+// tick. Pinned by TestRestageOneTimeSecret_ReArmsTheSameValue.
+//
+// Returns restaged=true when a row existed (its consumed flag is now cleared, so
+// ConsumeOneTimeSecret will serve it once more); restaged=false when NO secret is stored for the
+// customer — the caller must then escalate to a fresh mint (ReissueCredentials). The value is never
+// read or logged here.
+func (s *Store) RestageOneTimeSecret(customerID string) (bool, error) {
+	res, err := s.db.Exec(`UPDATE one_time_secrets SET consumed_at = NULL WHERE customer_id = ?`, customerID)
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	n, err := res.RowsAffected()
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	return n > 0, nil
+}
+
+// LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration returns the id of the customer's newest controller report and the
+// state DECLARED on its `offsite` object (controller >= v0.199.0; "" on anything older, on a report
+// with no offsite object, and on an unparseable one).
+//
+// The report id is the debounce currency: the reconciler counts DISTINCT reports, not its own ticks,
+// so a stuck box is confirmed by fresh evidence rather than by the passage of time.
+//
+// found=false when the customer has no reports at all — distinguished from "a report that declares
+// nothing" so the caller never treats an absent report as a healthy one.
+func (s *Store) LatestReportOffsiteDeclaration(customerID string) (found bool, reportID int64, state string, err error) {
+	var id int64
+	var reportJSON string
+	err = s.db.QueryRow(`SELECT id, report_json FROM reports WHERE customer_id = ? ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1`,
+		customerID).Scan(&id, &reportJSON)
+	if err == sql.ErrNoRows {
+		return false, 0, "", nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, 0, "", err
+	}
+	var p struct {
+		Offsite *struct {
+			State string `json:"state"`
+		} `json:"offsite"`
+	}
+	if json.Unmarshal([]byte(reportJSON), &p) == nil && p.Offsite != nil {
+		state = p.Offsite.State
+	}
+	return true, id, state, nil
+}
+
 // OneTimeSecretInfo is the delivery-state metadata of a customer's one-time offsite secret —
 // timestamps ONLY, the value column is deliberately never selected (R-70 detector input; the
 // customer-scoped sibling of PBSDRHealStates' SecretUnconsumedFor).