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System page cells. 11 §5.11 written; §5.10 status corrected (proven).
Installer uninstall knows the two GRUB generators (unreleased).
Evidence: audits/kernel-lane-2026-10-07/ (red-proofs, boot timing).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
sysfacts reads the agent's top-level guest_disk_trim stanza (schedule + per-guest
last attempt: vmid, last_attempt_at, ok, bytes_trimmed, mounts, duration_seconds,
last_ok_at, error) into a field-by-field mirror. The System page's new 'Last disk
trim' column shows the last successful trim and the GiB it freed; amber when the
newest attempt failed (error shown) or last_ok_at is older than 14 days (judged on
the success time, never the attempt time); '—' when the agent sends no stanza.
wire_contract_gate: SUBTREE_MIRRORS checks guest_disk_trim field by field BOTH
ways against sysfacts.DiskTrim; decoys (ok renamed, last_ok_at dropped) in
test_gate_decoys.py. Decision 139.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
iso_bootstrap_gate.py runs scripts/iso/test/bootstrap-modes.sh in felhom-iso-assistant:trixie
(staged copy, read-only mount, --network none), registered fast=False in repo_gates.py so the
pre-push hook and CI (both --fast) never run it (decision 147). No docker / no image / docker
error -> exit 2 NOT CHECKED. Every green run is followed by a built-in decoy: the harness must
FAIL a bootstrap whose pairing banner never paints (R-496 shape), or the gate convicts the
instrument as blind. Docker-free decoys in test_iso_bootstrap_gate.py (fake docker on a
one-directory PATH), run from test_gate_decoys.py (COVERS).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
controller/offbox-rename kept its EXEMPT entry after R-425 gave it decoys, so
the debt list read longer than the debt. The gate now prints a STALE EXEMPTION
line for any exempt gate that has a decoy (named, not convicted: the decoy lands
in a sibling repo, and failing this repo's push for it would couple the two).
A check in test_gate_decoys.py plants a stale entry and asserts it is named;
seen to fail with the notice removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
DONE/IDEA were searched over the whole state cell, so an open ROADMAP row whose
state named ANOTHER row's verdict (`READY — split out after R-86 CLOSED`)
escaped as shipped — R-87's shape from R-378, one file over. The gate now reads
register_table.leading_verdict(state); all 28 current rows classify unchanged.
Decoys: that shape (seen to PASS against the old gate), an id present in the
register only as prose (seen to PASS when `have` is loosened to any mention),
the existing suffix-id row; genuine: a row with a counterpart, and an `idea` row
asserted BY DESIGN — R-424's hole, accepted by the operator 2026-10-05.
EXEMPT drops `felhom.eu/one-register`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
Four cases in test_gate_decoys.py, planted inside the real DUE-CHECKS block:
an orphaned check whose id survives only in prose, the due-TODAY boundary with
due-tomorrow as the genuine article (today pinned via FELHOM_GATE_TODAY to a
date before every real check), and the block's marker named in prose (exit 2).
Each convicting decoy was seen to PASS under a mutation of the gate (row match
loosened to the bare id; `<=` to `<`; duplicate-marker refusal removed). The
gate itself is unchanged — no hole found. EXEMPT drops `felhom.eu/due-checks`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
The R-185 check counted the bare word `felhom-backup-target-apply grant`, so the
dry-run echo stood in for a deleted real grant (2 resolutions, 2 "grants"); now
only path-qualified invocations at a command start count. The age check matched
a commented-out install; now comment lines are excluded. Decoys (plus a version
const in a new hub sub-package, and a comment naming the identifier that must
pass) live in test_gate_decoys.py; all three convicting decoys were seen to PASS
against the pre-fix gate. EXEMPT drops `felhom.eu/hostinstall`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
PATH_RE gains .md. The false-positive walk across all four repos found one: an audit document cited
by app-catalog's REUSE.md, hidden by the evidence-copy exclusion — excluded trees are now walked for
.md documents only, so a .go evidence copy there still never satisfies a citation. The KNOWN HOLE
decoy now expects a conviction.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
Once retrieval_promise_gate.py imports customer_copy_vocab and drops its STEMS literal, the drift
check reads "ok — single source" instead of failing on the missing literal. An import only in a
comment, or beside a stale literal, is still drift. Pinned by scripts/test_hub_copy_drift.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
The escrow/retained and escrow-ACK wires are now compared path-by-path against the receiver's named
mirror type, so the measured mutation (agent renames superseded_at, the old name still a local-API map
key) convicts. Decoy pair in test_gate_decoys.py, seen failing with the mirror removed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
The check itself shipped with R-297 (golden_local_matches_manifest: sha256 or controller version
against the hub manifest; mismatch re-fetches, a named --golden is refused). This adds the
disclosure line the row also asked for and tests that pin the check's place before the adopt.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
- The R-297 named-golden refusal no longer repeats "The vouched golden is X." when its reason
already says it (kept when the reason does not name the version).
- --uninstall checks it can open /dev/tty before the typed vmid confirmation and, if not, refuses
with a sentence (deliberate; --force does not skip it) instead of "/dev/tty: No such device".
scripts/test_hostinstall.py: test_golden_refusal_* (2), test_require_tty_* (3, with a pty control).
The runbook line naming the pty requirement is a documentation edit for the lead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
Units carrying the agent's network-storage marker (mnt-*.automount first, then mnt-*.mount) are
disabled --now, reset-failed and removed before the drive umount loop; a share that will not stop is
not forced — its unit is kept and named in KEPT with the commands. Enrolled-drive and foreign units
are never touched. scripts/test_hostinstall.py: test_net_units_* (5).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
The step-8 restore reads the golden as the agent's token; a storage outside PVE_STORAGES (and not
the backup target, which step 6 grants since R-185) 403'd at step 8/8 — after the token was minted
and root@pam rotated. Pre-flight now refuses it with the two remedies (move the golden, or add the
storage to --acl-storages). scripts/test_hostinstall.py: test_archive_storage_* (4).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
HARD_MIN_LVM_GIB -> RECOMMENDED_MIN_LVM_GIB; the warning says the install continues and to proceed
only with deliberately sized grows (the day0-install runbook's wording). Behaviour unchanged.
scripts/test_hostinstall.py: test_lvm_minimum_is_named_as_what_it_does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
_state_put and _state_mark are no-ops under --preflight-only as well as --dry-run, so the banner
"no state written" is true and the dnsmasq ownership answer is recorded only by the real install's
own preflight. The log says "would be recorded at install" on a preflight-only run.
scripts/test_hostinstall.py: test_preflight_only_writes_no_state (+ its control and a no-other-writer check).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
- R-275: the agent's own config dir is purged as a directory (the .bak* glob missed all five
demo-hp copies); a custom config path loses agent.json + every agent.json.* sibling only.
Sudoers dotted copies go too. At install, a freshly created service user cannot read what an old
install left in /etc/felhom-agent (sealed root 0600, named, never deleted). vmbr9 and the ISO
first-boot files are now NAMED under KEPT.
- R-276: wg-quick@wg-felhom is disabled --now and its conf removed, then observed down; the hub-side
peer is named under KEPT (removing it is the hub's job).
- R-881: /usr/local/sbin/felhom-priv-apply is removed; the disclosure says it and the guest hook
come from the config bundle.
- scripts/test_hostinstall.py: lifts the functions verbatim and runs them with PATH stubs (13 tests,
BusyBox-safe); harness GL4-D here-string (SIGPIPE false miss), GL8-F1 follows the new purge.
- SCRIPT_VERSION 1.32.0 (not published; no tag).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
- Decision 52: catalog 6a3ead9 (re-test entries, gates, decoys, the monthly command); proven end to end on 9202
through the leg; runbook monthly-floating-retest.md; nothing to re-test on the engine lines today.
- Decision 53 + R-741: controller v0.284.2 (0.284.0/0.284.1 never floored — two wiring faults found live on 9202);
floor 0.284.2; one-time sweep 9202 26.6 -> 5.7 GB, demo-hp 24.3 -> 13.5 GB; the install hold proven as a stranger.
- Golden 0.284.2 baked, round-trip identical, vouched (agent 0.138.0, min_agent 0.131.0); the gate prints OK.
- Rows 377 -> 383: opened R-743..R-748, closed R-736, R-737, R-740, R-741, R-748; narrowed R-739, R-698, R-446.
- register_shape_gate: a lettered id (R-88a) is a row too (R-748), with a decoy seen red.
Evidence: documentation/audits/night-rulings-2026-09-30/, documentation/tests/golden-0.284.2-2026-09-30/.
Report: REPORT-night-rulings-2026-09-30.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
- R-732: the first-start geodata import runs up to 9 concurrent 5000-row INSERTs; the database needs
~400 MB anon + ~170 MB touched shared_buffers (the image's FIXED 512MB, not host-RAM sizing). 512M fits
only with swap (bench swap 0: 61-104 kills; 9202 swap 512 MiB: survived by swapping). Controls: swap
alone, limit alone flip it; shared_buffers 128MB alone does not. Catalog 56c4888: v3.2.4 + 768M,
proven with swap off on both venues. audits/immich-first-start-2026-09-30/A-cause.md.
- R-730: scripts/iso/build-felhom-iso.sh refuses an uncommitted/untracked/unpushed tree (no bypass),
records repo-commit from the gate and iso-v<version>; test iso/test/clean-tree.sh, red-proof run
(status check removed -> 2 of 4 cases fail -> restored).
- R-731 narrowed (gitea 28.0.0 GA; mariadb 13.0 a short-term Rolling line). R-676 note.
- New rows R-733 (bench has no swap, boxes 512 MiB), R-734 (immich .immich markers -> files_may_change).
- STATUS: the golden line corrected (no bake is due; 0.283.1 is the newest release). Register 364 -> 366.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
THE REPAIR. Last night's append regex ate the state cells of R-446 and R-458, left them as a stray
fourth cell on duplicated copies of R-626 and R-625, and split the table with blank lines. The
register read 317 rows for 315 findings. Both cells restored from the cells that carried them, the
two duplicates deleted, and 15 blank lines that split the register into 12 separate markdown tables
removed. Every row's text is byte-identical afterwards, proven by diff; no row added or removed.
THE RED-PROOF FOUND AN OLDER INSTANCE: R-254 lost its state cell on 2026-08-08 (59527d0) and had
rendered without a State column for 45 days. Its own verdict sentence was the cell; it has it back.
THE GATE. scripts/register_shape_gate.py, gate 14 in repo_gates.py and reached by the pre-push
hook: a row that does not end with `|` (an eaten state cell), a duplicated id, or a blank line
splitting the table. Four decoys in test_gate_decoys.py — three convicting on the exact damage
shapes, one asserting a healthy register still passes. The red-proof corrected the gate twice: a
first draft counted CELLS and convicted 125 innocent rows (register cells carry literal `|` in
prose and shell snippets, so a row cannot be split on `|`), and it skipped malformed rows before
counting ids, reporting 5 duplicates where there were 2. It then immediately caught a blank line
left by this session's own next insert.
R-618's rank now reads P1-HIGH in both its title and its state cell.
HETZNER ANSWERED, AND I FIRST SAID THEY HAD NOT. The operator supplied ticket #2026090103040671.
Q1: with the MAIN account, files and directories can be downloaded from a snapshot (Storage Box
docs govern, not the Storage Share FAQ); a restore reverts the whole box. Q2: --append-only is
enforced by pinning `command="rclone serve restic --stdio --append-only path/to/repo"` to the key
in authorized_keys — so append-only IS expressible on a Storage Box, which is what R-95 was blocked
on. Neither is measured; R-436's due check now asks for the measurement, not the question.
My error is filed as R-628 and is precise: the query was fine — a control returns 201 threads and
reaches SENT and TRASH — and the thread genuinely is not in this mailbox. What was invented was the
step from "absent here" to "Hetzner has not answered". An absent record in one place cannot answer
what someone else did. The rule is now in the Gmail-access memory.
R-629: the drill repo inherited has_actions from the migrate call and mailed the operator 47 CI
failures overnight, into the mailbox that was carrying real off-site alarms. Actions disabled and
verified; 09 §6.5 now makes it a step of creating a drill repo. The 47 mails are the operator's to
clear: subject:"gates FAILED in admin/app-catalog-drill".
Gates: repo_gates.py --fast — all 16 OK, including the new one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
The setup code and the owner passphrase now follow the household's language,
one word longer in English so the entropy never drops (setup 3 hu / 4 en,
passphrase 5 hu / 6 en). List and count are chosen together so a caller cannot
pair an English list with a Hungarian count. Hungarian is byte-unchanged.
Three claims in the row were wrong and are recorded as such:
- the RECOVERY CODE is minted by felhom-agent from the EFF list and has
always been English; the hub does not own it and no row was added.
- no claim mail states a word count; the only count wording was the bind
page's passphrase hint, whose English half is now count-free.
- the proposed phone-safe filter removes 68% of the list (5270 of 7772
words) and was measured, then declined, with the reason in source.
Also: guide_quote_gate binds the English volunteer guide's three quoted
messages to the controller's English bundle — nothing did, so the guide would
have gone on quoting Hungarian after the fix. Seven decoys, all convicting,
including the name-for-fact one.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
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