- OPEN-ITEMS: R-193 CLOSED with both 2026-08-05 rulings (unlocking and restoring
are separate; 'I do not want the old data' moves the store aside after a double
confirmation), and the shape-(b) reasoning — WriteOffboxSecrets auto-generates a
repository password on re-apply, so the literal 'fresh data area' trigger would
have opened a window that closes by itself.
- R-213 MINTED (R-212 was and still is the highest, re-checked for the second
writer): putting files back in place, with the live-versus-backup comparison
named as its requirement. Not started, deliberately.
- capability map: the 'needs someone who knows to look' qualifier is GONE; what
remains is stated narrowly — no correct-code run through the page, the put-back
is out of scope, and the journey has not been re-walked end to end.
- 07-backup-architecture 7.0: a fifth row, and where the screen deliberately stops.
- CONTEXT: standing ruling S-34.
- STATUS: the headline change and the two things still owed as proof.
No hub change and no hub bump.
- OPEN-ITEMS: R-204 all four CLOSED with both 2026-08-05 rulings recorded (the
declared-state trigger and its four-meanings-of-absence reasoning; the recovery
preview's dashboard-password exposure accepted as metadata, not content).
R-193's credential half CLOSED, screen + deletion still open. R-192 CLOSED by
REPLACEMENT. R-202 untouched.
- R-212 MINTED (R-211 was the highest, grepped): the orphaned-ciphertext deletion
HALTED at its STOP because the measured paths do not match the register — three
set-aside stores totalling ~1.45 GB, and the thing that is exactly 1.2 GB is
demo-felhom's LIVE repo. Nothing was deleted.
- capability map: all four interventions closed; the row KEEPS a qualifier for a
new reason — no step needs an operator, but there is no customer-facing recovery
screen, and the journey has not been re-walked end to end.
- 07-backup-architecture 7.0: the four-step table updated; the declaration-vs-
inference reasoning and the credential-automatic/key-customer-present split.
- CONTEXT: standing ruling S-33.
- STATUS: the headline change and the deletion STOP.
- REPORT-r204-item4.md rather than REPORT.md: a parallel session is active in this
shared clone.
- OPEN-ITEMS: R-196 CLOSED; R-204 items 1-3 CLOSED with item 4 named and
its dependency stated. Header restates that R-202, the 1.2 GB ciphertext
deletion and R-198's still-unit-proven retention all REMAIN OPEN.
- capability map: the recovery row keeps its 'with a person present'
qualifier, names which crutch remains, and cites the three now gone.
- 07-backup-architecture: new 7.0 - what a customer can and cannot do
ALONE, the four steps in a table with status. This is the section a
future reader will use to answer that question.
- CONTEXT: standing ruling S-32, superseding S-31 steps 2-5.
- STATUS: rewritten to one screen per its own header; removes a corrupted
half-overwritten section left from the drill session.
- ROADMAP: R-196 and R-204 collapsed.
R-198 — host_escrow_superseded shipped with `blob` (the K-escrow / PBS datastore key) and
identity_blob was added to host_escrow LATER, never here. The offsite restic REPOSITORY
password lives in identity_blob. So demoteCurrentEscrowTx -- whose own comment calls it "THE
ONE escrow row-copy routine" -- retained the whole-guest key and silently dropped the off-site
data key, which is the secret the retention was built to preserve. And because the copy happens
as the new blob overwrites the old, the destroying act was the ESCROW CEREMONY: the exact thing
a rebuilt box tells its customer to run, on a card promising in Hungarian that the old backups
stay recoverable. Both demo boxes crossed that line on 2026-08-04.
- identity_blob added to the table (CREATE + additive ALTER) and carried in the shared copy
routine, so BOTH callers are fixed at once: re-escrow and host-delete demotion.
- ListSupersededEscrow reads it back; store.HostEscrow gains IdentityBlob.
- CountCurrentEscrowWithIdentity is the census of who the fix protects.
- Nothing is backfillable: pre-v0.93.0 retained rows have no blob and their sources are gone.
- Tests assert the CONSEQUENCE (a retained row can still yield a repo password), which is why
the pre-existing retention test stayed green for two months asserting the mechanism.
R-197 — SaveHostEscrow returns the hash it replaced; the escrow PUT raises
offsite_repo_key_changed (warning, operator-only, edge-triggered) when both hashes are known and
differ. No hash value travels. Severity chosen for the world v0.93.0 creates: with the identity
blob retained, a changed key is "this history now depends on an older recovery code", not a loss.
R-192 (half) — the stuck alert now reports the two shapes it actually covers, burned and
regressed, each stating its own measurement; the regressed text withdraws the Re-issue
recommendation. Every self-heal refusal leaves a notification_log row with its reason. The
guard's logic is unchanged; its 500-oldest-reports scoping stays OPEN and the window is named in
the alert text so the limitation travels with the number. offsite_delivery_stuck and
offsite_credential_restaged are added to operatorOnlyEvents -- neither was registered and neither
has a customerMessages entry, which is not a block.
R-196 — five comments (not the three the spec expected) claimed ReissueCredentials rotates the
restic repo password. It resets the PROVIDER password and cannot touch the repo password, which
is generated on the box. All five corrected; the staleness mark documented as precautionary. The
BEHAVIOUR stays open.
Not in this release: R-199, R-200, R-201 remain open -- the chain that hands the key back is
still unassembled. Part 5 hit its gate; the orphan card is untouched (R-202).
Part 4 (ships): `david` — a prospective customer with hosts=0, host_deletions=0,
reports=0 — e-mailed an expected_dbdump_missed ERROR at 03:00 UTC three mornings
running. The existing down-skip could never cover it: it reads the staleness
checker's state, which is seeded from a query over the `reports` table, so a
customer that never reported has no state at all and GetState() returns "" rather
than "down". store.HasEverBoundHost (hosts row OR host_deletions tombstone) is
consulted once per customer at the top of the deadline loop. The discriminator is
"was a host EVER bound", never "has a report arrived" — a box installed and never
heard from is a real fault and keeps alarming. Fail-OPEN on a read error. Red-proof
observed: removing the guard fails with `got [expected_dbdump_missed]`, verbatim the
event david sent.
Parts 0-3 (spike, NO production code for R-193/R-192):
audits/SPIKE-offsite-credential-recovery-2026-08-04.md establishes that the one-shot
provider password is the RECOVERABLE secret and the restic repository password is the
irreplaceable one — and that a guest rebuild mints a fresh one, orphaning the previous
off-site history. Measured without touching a box, by comparing
host_escrow.restic_pw_sha256 against host_escrow_superseded: BOTH demo boxes changed
(demo-hp 15 snapshots / 40.9 MB, demo-felhom 36 snapshots / 1.14 GB). demo-felhom's
"lucky" 76-second recovery restored delivery and not the repository, silently, for 13h.
ReissueCredentials does NOT rotate the restic password (R-39's record and two hub
comments are wrong -> R-196); candidate (b) is not implementable against a
zero-knowledge escrow; candidate (a) already exists as F3 and is wired to the wrong
event. Ends in ranked options and an unanswered question for the operator.
R-195 SHIPPED; R-196 + R-197 filed; R-192 + R-193 updated, neither closed.
R-191: the gate was run first and it mattered — ep0's prune jobs have run daily
since 2026-07-27 (18 tasks, all OK). THREE of my own queries said the opposite and
all three were broken instruments (worker-type vs worker_type, prune vs prunejob,
proxmox-backup vs proxmox-backup-proxy); acting on any would have disabled the only
pruning attempt while reporting that nothing prunes.
R-190: the row now reflects the MITIGATION, not the cause, and says so. Includes
that v0.124.0's transition record failed in production while every unit test
passed, and Part 3's single pass — the token-rotation class is real and documented
in our own installer but does not fit this box (same token still authenticates, the
other three grants survived, no installer run evidenced); ruled out on this box, not
fleet-wide.
R-194: PVE caches permissions (~40s and ~16min measured), so a single permission
read is a lagging indicator and may explain when R-190's refusal surfaced.
07-backup-architecture: the offsite retention row was RIGHT and the configuration
disagreed with it — noted, since a doc that states a contract does not enforce it.
Four SCHEDULED runs, none triggered by hand: demo-felhom host 83.8s / offsite
540.4s; demo-hp host 109.3s / offsite 300.1s. Each restored into a scratch guest,
booted, verified and destroyed itself; zero 990000 guests or volumes afterwards
and both local-lvm figures returned to their pre-run values.
Both boxes had BOTH tiers due at once, so R-86's ordering was observed live for
the first time: never-proven sorted first, each box took its HOST tier, deferred
the offsite one, and picked it up on the next evaluation six hours later. The
host-tier proofs reached the hub through R-189's merge — demo-felhom's report
carries two tiers, and the local one can only have come from disk.
The capability map's optimistic half is cashed, with its scope stated: these two
boxes, not the fleet.
Surfaced and filed rather than fixed:
- R-190: a storage ACL that demonstrably worked at 04:44 was gone by 09:24, with
a reinstall, any logged pveum activity and any cluster-log entry ruled out.
- R-191: every weekly offsite backup uploads successfully and then fails the job
on a prune the box is deliberately not allowed to do (R-89 moved it
server-side; both boxes still arm keep_last=2).
Two corrections to yesterday's record: the R-185 drift DID surface as 403s on the
write path (six, with the hub raising whole_guest_backup_failed at the first), and
my earlier "no restore_test_* events" was produced by grepping a 404 page.
- OPEN-ITEMS: R-185 closed with the measurement, the corrected root cause (the
installer's Scenario-F reuse arm, not PVE_STORAGES), and the live sequence.
Records that demo-hp carried the same drift and was fixed too.
- capability map: the whole-guest row's HOST-tier half was OPTIMISTIC and now
says so — that tier was not merely unproven, it was unprovable on both demo
boxes, and every live proof cited was on the offsite tier.
- vzdump-target-move runbook: its item 5 predicted this; annotated (not
rewritten) with what actually happened — the create arm did grant, the reuse
arm did not, and it surfaced as a silent unreadable tier rather than the 403
the item expected, because vzdump writes through a root path.
- CONTEXT: S-21 (an empty listing cannot distinguish forbidden from newborn; the
measured trap that an ungranted path answers with INHERITED privileges) and
S-22 (the Scenario-F arm must finish the job).
- STATUS: rewritten for the operator, back to one screen.
- OPEN-ITEMS: all three rows closed with their measurements. R-189 records the
migration consequence seen live (a pre-R-189 record has no tier and is not
reportable, so upgrading does not retroactively make an old proof visible).
R-188 records both directions demonstrated and the fixture cleaned up. R-186
carries the before/after sha values including the CGO_ENABLED discrepancy.
The priority list states explicitly that R-185 is the one left open from that
group and that this session did not touch it.
- capability map: the restore-proof row now says the evidence path itself had a
gap — the proof reached the hub only because no restart intervened — and what
closed it.
- CONTEXT: S-19 (a proof is durable and reportable, a failure is neither, and
why) and S-20 (the release ordering, what each step protects, and how a binary
is verified).
- STATUS: rewritten for the operator, back to one screen.
- OPEN-ITEMS: R-86 CLOSED with the trap in its own wording recorded (the literal
reading is never true on a daily tier); R-87 re-ranked UP because R-86 built
most of what it waited for; R-185 (the agent cannot list demo-felhom's host
backup tier — a missing storage ACL, pre-existing), R-186 (a released binary's
sha is not reproducible from its tag), R-187 (R-115's publish leg had never
actually run) filed. R-184 was the highest ID in use.
- ROADMAP: R-86 collapsed, keeping the reasoning and correcting the shape the row
itself proposed — which would have been the never-fires version.
- 07-backup-architecture: new contract section — restore-testing is per ARCHIVE
GENERATION, with the trap and what did not change (S-1).
- 00-capability-map: the unattended restore-proof row upgraded to PROVEN-LIVE on
the 635 s due-triggered offsite run, with the restart and teardown evidence.
- CONTEXT: S-17 (the rule, the trap, the config key, the hub's derivation) and
S-18 (ep0 is Tier 2 — extends D-d's protected list to three machines).
Numbered 17/18 because S-14 and S-15 were already duplicated in the file.
- STATUS: rewritten for the operator, trimmed back to one screen.
R-182 CLOSED (controller v0.194.0 + hub v0.90.0/.1), proven live on demo-hp. The
hub's notification_log for the run reads: two per-app failures RECORDED, one
digest SENT naming both, and the customer channel SKIPPED with operator_only.
Against the measured previous behaviour — two failures, one email naming one
app, one leaving no trace anywhere.
Scenario D proved itself on an event I had not planned: disk_critical alarmed on
two filesystems, the second was collapsed by the cooldown, and that collapse is
now visible WITH ITS KEY. Yesterday it would have left nothing at all.
A gap the spec did not anticipate is recorded with its fix: the per-app event
also fires from the periodic sweep, outside any run, so making it record-only
would have created a NEW silence. The sweep emits a digest too, with no run_id,
so it stays under the ordinary hourly cooldown.
ep0: MEASURED on the box — 7757 MB (8 GB), 4 vCPU, and the 4 GiB swapfile
SURVIVED the resize and is active (checked, because a resize is a stop/start).
The 40 GB local disk is UNCHANGED, so no disk figure was touched anywhere.
Five documents corrected — three of which the task's list did not name, found by
searching. Two audit/evidence documents ANNOTATED, body untouched: they record
what was true when written and that is their value.
R-90 CLOSED. R-86 unblocked and re-ranked, stated honestly: 8 GB is comfortable,
not unbounded — the original OOM was a 14.46 GB restore — so the restore-test
cadence should still be paced, just not by fear of the endpoint.
target-selection.md's "D-d did not name ep0 either way" is deliberately left
standing. It is the operator's question, not CC's.
STATUS.md 127 -> 83 lines, items rather than sentences.
R-182's direction REVERSED by Part 0's measurement. Filed yesterday as "the
reserve re-alerts on every status refresh" — too many alerts, seen at the
sending end. Measured at the receiving end: 9 events received today, 2 operator
emails sent. When two apps are refused in the same second the operator is told
about ONE; the other is dropped before LogNotification, so it leaves no row on
any channel and cannot be audited. The operator cooldown key is
customerID:eventType(+tier) and the capture-failed event carries `app` but no
`tier`, so the key has no app identifier. Same failure mode as R-97a, in a
second event type that never opted into the narrow fix. Nothing changed —
Part 0 was investigation only.
Correction owed: yesterday's report said "one recovery_unit_capture_failed per
app, HTTP 200". True of what the CONTROLLER pushed; a reader would take it as
"the operator was told about each app", which is false.
R-110 CLOSED (installer v1.23.0). Both channels moved. The spec's mechanism for
channel 2 rested on a factual error — the run-time fetches are sixteen, not
nine, and come from felhom-agent, not this repo — so no tag here could cover
them; pinned to the agent version being installed instead, on the operator's
ruling. Channel 3 needed no change: the URL never carried a ref, so no hub
change and no hub bump.
R-115 CLOSED. release-agent.sh builds, tags, publishes and verifies by an
independent download; check-published-versions.py refuses a tag with no package;
CI now runs the full gate set so it actually runs.
R-183 NEW+CLOSED: a fresh install fetched the vouched agent binary and its
sixteen config files from two different refs, and nothing compared them.
R-184 NEW: nothing stops the hub vouching a version that was never released.
The R-115 gate cannot see it — measured, the hub manifest and Gitea's package
listing are both 401 anonymously.
capability map: new PROVEN-LIVE row for the published installer channel.
STATUS.md 138 -> 127 lines.
R-181 CLOSED (controller v0.193.0 + v0.193.1) and proven live on demo-hp for
BOTH reserve terms. The reserve is now a per-app, per-run ADMISSION decision
taken before the app's first write and covering all three write legs, and it
gained a size term. The refusal's wording was not weakened; the behaviour moved
so it became true, verified by sha256 tree fingerprint.
R-156 CLOSED — papra's template mounts the app's own data root. Precondition
re-measured rather than inherited (both boxes were wiped today).
Part 4, documentation only, nothing built:
- R-110 WAITING-ON-OPERATOR -> READY. Ruling: option (b), the installer's
publish channel moves to a TAG. Recorded with the condition that decides
whether it works at all — it must cover BOTH the /scripts/ git-sync and the
nine files the installer fetches from raw/branch/main.
- R-115 WAITING-ON-OPERATOR -> READY. Ruling: mechanism (b), a build-side gate
refusing to deploy or vouch an unpublished version. The third instance (agent
v0.120.0) would have silently downgraded both demo boxes while succeeding.
R-182 NEW: the periodic status refresh has no admission scope, so a refused app
re-alerts on every poll (measured: a second alert pair 13s after the run's).
Pre-existing in v0.192.0; deliberately not fixed in the R-181 task.
capability map: the local-backup row moves to PROVEN-LIVE in BOTH halves.
ROADMAP: R-165 collapses to CLOSED; R-181 collapsed into it.
07-backup-architecture.md: the reserve's contract stated as what the code
provides (S-1 — an architectural contract changed in the same session).
STATUS.md trimmed 150 -> 111 lines, "What's broken" no longer holds shipped
work, and the stale "After:" line (pointing at work that shipped on 2 August)
is fixed.
Two boxes, two DIFFERENT supply paths, so the session proved the disk shape and
the delivery route rather than one of them twice.
demo-hp (layout proof, --golden <local volid>): mp0 at /var/lib/felhom,
backup=1, 70G, no mp1; /var/lib/docker and /mnt/sys_drive both real mounts of
its subdirectories via fstab; one df figure and one device id (64519) on all
three paths; reboots 3/3 with the binds surviving each.
demo-felhom (pipeline proof, --force-gitea-golden): fetch_verify succeeding
against the vouched manifest for BOTH artifacts -- 'verified sha256
54e2a4c431daf580... matches the hub manifest' for the golden, a7763d31... for
the agent. 250G single volume, grep -c '^mp1:' = 0, reboots 3/3.
Journey proven on both, endpoint-level: claim -> deploy -> back up -> restore,
with a planted marker returning byte-identical on each box. Ceiling measured
gone: 65 GiB and 233 GiB available to a recovery unit, against 19 and 45.
R-165 -> IMPLEMENTED, not PROVEN-LIVE, on the operator's ruling. B2, which that
row records as the bulkhead's replacement, fired live for the first time and
does refuse per app, delete nothing and alert -- but it is checked only in
captureAllRecoveryUnits while runVolumeDumps writes the bulk unguarded, and its
'the previous unit is untouched' claim was measured false (182,272 B dump
replaced by 2,147,666,432 B under a manifest still dated 06:34:26). -> R-181.
New: R-179 (uninstall leaves NAS network-storage units), R-180 (--archive-storage
not cross-checked against the ACL grant; 403 at step 8/8 after root@pam is
rotated), R-181. Third instance of R-115 recorded (agent 0.120.0 unpublished).
No code written, no version bumps -- this was a runbook.
07-backup-architecture.md gains §7.5.1 (S-1: the contract changed in the same
session): the ceiling §7.5 describes no longer exists for a box built from
golden >= 0.192.0, the bulkhead's replacement is recorded, and R-175 is FIXED
here rather than left standing — the bound is restated as a function of mp1
and scoped to split-layout boxes, naming all three real shapes.
Capability map: new row as IMPLEMENTED, deliberately NOT proven-live, with
the missing leg named — no box has been reinstalled from the golden, and
"the golden baked" is not "a box built from it works".
R-163 CLOSED: the ceiling it recorded stops existing. R-176(a) answered by
P1; (b) WITHDRAWN, since every node is reinstalled rather than migrated.
R-178 filed for the reinstalls, which were not done this session.
CONTEXT S-13 (the variant chosen on measurement; pruning rejected with its
reason) and S-14 (prove first, then vouch — the golden is published but
deliberately unvouched, because vouching is what makes a fresh install pick
up a layout no box has been proven from).
STATUS: plain-language section; both operator questions now answered, so the
waiting-on-you item is cleared. Two older entries trimmed so the page did
not grow.
R-167/R-158 shipped and proven live (controller v0.191.x, hub v0.89.0):
two new capability-map rows PROVEN-LIVE with live citations, and
07-backup-architecture.md §7.5's closing claim "nothing warns when an app
crosses the line" is now false and rewritten (S-1: an architectural
contract changed in the same session). §7.5 also gains the caveat that its
size bound is ONE BOX'S, not the fleet's.
Part 3 SPIKE (audits/SPIKE-r165-mp1-merge-2026-08-02.md): M1-M5 measured,
NO layout touched. Three findings the merge session must not re-derive:
"the layout" is not one thing (200G/50G vs 50G/20G vs 16G/8G); mp1 is a
BULKHEAD and not only a ceiling, so after the merge an overflow reaches
/var/lib/docker; the golden fails closed on the split in four places.
D-a's condition (1) is currently SATISFIED — no external box is in the
hub's register, and both demo boxes are Tier 0 and reinstallable.
Recommendation given, choice NOT made — it ends at the operator's ruling.
CONTEXT.md S-11 (D-c's routing, and why R-158's own backup_failed proposal
was overruled) and S-12 (the monitoring landed BEFORE the merge).
STATUS.md gains the plain-language section and the merge decision, with two
older entries trimmed so the page did not grow.
New rows R-174 (closed same session), R-175, R-176, R-177; each ID grepped
free before minting.
Controller v0.190.0. Docs only here; no hub change, no hub version bump.
- audits/DIAG-bootrecon-drive-absent-2026-08-02.md — NEW. The Part 0 diagnosis,
including the run that produced a FALSE NEGATIVE and the mechanism behind it
(the agent re-binds an unmounted drive within ~60s, so the drive gate's startup
reconcile restarted the apps one second before the sweep looked). Records that
the write hazard was blocked only by an ACCIDENTAL filesystem permission that no
code owns and no test pins.
- architecture/02 §0a — the boot-recovery contract (S-1): both gates read desired
state; the sweep observes a SETTLED fleet and each sample must refresh first;
nothing is started without asking, fail-safe. Plus the durable warning:
Manager.StartStack has no gate of its own.
- 00-capability-map — the boot-recovery row, with the repeat count cited per N.5
(6 of 6 hard resets) rather than a bare PROVEN-LIVE.
- OPEN-ITEMS / ROADMAP — R-157 CLOSED (both mechanisms), R-170 CLOSED, R-171 NEW
and closed the same session, marked a regression from v0.189.0.
- STATUS.md — the power-cut line moved from "What's broken" to "What works right
now" with its repeat count; one dated bullet in the change log.
- CONTEXT.md S-13 — the lessons worth carrying: "it didn't happen this time" is
not a disproof; widening a window makes previously-unreachable overlaps
reachable; and a settle detector is only as good as the freshness of what it
samples — the fix's own defect, found live rather than by review.
Controller v0.189.0 implements operator decision D-b. Docs only here; no hub
change and no hub version bump.
- architecture/02-controller-module-map.md §0a — NEW, and it is the S-1 contract:
desired (app.yaml) / in-flight (own marker file) / observed (not persisted),
with the rule that ties them — never derive one from another. Absent desired
state means UNKNOWN, never "running". One file, one writer. D-b's binding
safety rule quoted verbatim.
- 00-capability-map.md — the boot-recovery row now rests on a recorded signal,
with the three live flows from 9201. The interrupted-operation half is marked
IMPLEMENTED, not PROVEN-LIVE: nobody killed the controller mid-backup on metal.
- OPEN-ITEMS/ROADMAP — R-166 SHIPPED with both blocking facts and their answers;
R-157 mechanism B CLOSED and A restated as the whole item; R-170 NEW (the
drive-backed boot gate still infers a Stop from a container count).
- STATUS.md — the "an app can stay switched off and nothing says so" line
rewritten to what is actually left: timing.
- CLAUDE.md — end-of-session checklist gains: confirm your own last push's CI run
went green, BY RUN ID. The failure email is a push signal; this is the pull check.
- CONTEXT.md S-12 — the rulings, and the two lessons worth carrying: a test that
constructs the thing it should prove the caller constructs is hollow (its
red-proof will say so), and a field-by-field struct rebuild in a save path is a
defect on sight.
SPIKE-ci-runner-2026-08-02.md: all six probes with method, measurement and ruling; none
STOPped. P2 (stock image has git but no python3) and P6 (a runner that loses its state
re-registers and orphans the old record) changed the design; P5 (a failed run signals
NOTHING) is why the alarm exists at all.
R-168 SHIPPED with its evidence. R-29 CLOSED — on the demonstrated alarm and not on a green
run, as required: the class it opened is answered at both ends, the hook refusing locally and
CI catching a --no-verify bypass and emailing. R-161 noted: its automatic half now exists for
the STATIC gate, while its original scope, the runtime gate, is deliberately still not
automatic and should stay that way.
NEW R-169 (grep established R-168 was the highest in use): CI can only report, because there
is no gate in the road. Making it blocking needs branch protection plus a PR workflow, both
of which change how the operator works — so it is theirs to decide, and the row states the
cost honestly rather than recommending it.
CONTEXT gains S-8 (CI detects, does not block, and why that is structural), S-9 (a detector
that tells no one is not finished, plus the curl and Cloudflare-1010 traps), S-10 (the runner
is unprivileged because DooPlex is Tier 2), S-11 (CI reproduces the sibling layout).
CLAUDE.md gains the rule earned by red-proofing: a go test -run pattern that matches no test
prints ok and exits 0, and an instrument that can silently drop results is not a measurement.
hub/CHANGELOG v0.87.0 + scripts/CHANGELOG gate-enforcement entry. CONTEXT gains S-6 (the
hub renders no host-install version and the gate pins its absence) and S-7 (gates run from
one entry point per repo; reuse_refs_check was fixed rather than the REUSE.md convention,
with both rejected alternatives recorded).
OPEN-ITEMS: R-94 CLOSED all three legs, leg (a) by DELETION with its reason; R-29 leg (a)
CLOSED and leg (b) HALF-SHIPPED with the census result written into the row (13 gates; every
gate a CLAUDE.md names was green, two of the four unnamed were red); R-161 gains its
successor pointer. NEW R-168 (grep established R-167 was the highest in use): Gitea Actions
runner — measured 2026-08-02 as Gitea 1.26.2, Actions enabled on all four repos, 0 runners,
0 workflow runs, 0 branch protections, and the consequence that trunk-based direct-to-main
pushes leave no merge for a status check to gate, so CI here can detect but not block.
BLOCKED on a spike over host-mode vs privileged DinD on DooPlex and whether the workflow can
avoid JavaScript actions.
ROADMAP: R-94 collapsed to its one-liner, R-29 updated, R-168 added.
Documentation only — no code, no box, no build.
STATUS.md (repo root, 652 words / 67 lines): what works · what's broken ·
what we're working on · waiting on you · changed since. A VIEW of
OPEN-ITEMS.md, holding nothing of its own; not CONTEXT.md, and both files
now say why they stay separate. No R-n is the subject of a sentence —
identifiers are bracketed pointers only.
CONTEXT.md S-5 records the four operator decisions taken 2026-08-02
(D-a … D-d), none of them implemented:
D-a merge mp1 into mp0 rather than resize it — before any external
install, and D-c ships in the same step → R-165
D-b desired/observed app state in its own store, with the state-store
safety rule verbatim → R-166 (BLOCKED)
D-c customer fill warning + operator backup-failure alert → R-167
D-d only DooPlex and Peti's box are protected → target-selection.md
R-163 RE-FRAMED, not closed: the sizing question is withdrawn rather than
answered; the row survives as the record of the constraint until R-165
lands. R-156's papra referral RESOLVED — deployed nowhere, so the template
fix strands nothing; the docker ps evidence is recorded with its
provenance and its scope limit.
target-selection.md: two protected machines, everything else disposable.
ep0 is no longer Tier 2 but is not scratch (it holds the only off-premises
copy of real customer data) — flagged for explicit operator confirmation.
The demo-box backup-target fence drops from prohibition to stated cost,
because D-d spends that reference anyway.
CLAUDE.md gains an End-of-session checklist carrying the STATUS.md
maintenance rule and "a finding goes in OPEN-ITEMS.md first".
The credential existed and was not reachable when it was wanted. Every box has
had a strong random root@pam password since TASK G1, vaulted in the hub at day 0
and used for real during the sshd incident — but the only way to read it back was
a hand-written curl carrying the global operator key, a secret kept out-of-band.
In practice the PVE web console on a demo box felt locked.
The host page grows a Console access card: presence + username + set_at by
default, Reveal fetches the plaintext on demand for 60 s with a Copy button.
Masking clears the JS variable, and also fires on a second click and on
visibilitychange. A host with nothing vaulted says so, and says why.
The secret is NEVER rendered into the page, and that constraint shapes the
change. The render path uses a new store.GetHostRecoveryMeta whose struct and
SELECT both omit the secret column, so it is structurally incapable of carrying
one. The plaintext crosses the wire only in the response to POST
/hosts/{id}/reveal-recovery-credential (Cache-Control: no-store, CSRF-gated at
the ServeHTTP level; POST precisely so that gate applies and so no secret is
retrievable by URL alone). Deliberately NOT the customer page's data-secret
widget, which embeds the plaintext on every load.
A delivered reveal writes one recovery_credential_revealed event on the host's
customer timeline (info, source hub, Hungarian) via SaveEvent alone — no
dispatcher, nobody emailed, the log_tail_requested shape. Two reveals write two
events: the register records accesses, not states. A 404 is not an access. An
unbound host reveals fine and writes no event; the [INFO] hub line, carrying the
username and a length only, is then the record.
The global-key API path is untouched by design — it is the route for when the
hub UI itself is broken, and coupling it to the session layer would delete the
independence that makes it a fallback.
Recorded as a real trade: the hub session password alone now unlocks console root
fleet-wide, where retrieval previously also needed the global key. Accepted for a
single-operator, HU-geo-fenced hub that already stores these passwords in
plaintext at rest (CONTEXT.md ruling S-4). The plaintext-at-rest half is filed as
R-133 — every hub DB backup is a fleet-wide console-credential dump.
Tests 550 -> 559; four red-proofs (page leak, audit event, CSRF gate, route
order) each run, observed failing, and reverted. The route-order proof is a seam
test driving ServeHTTP: a handler-level test cannot see that defect, because the
handler is correct and simply never runs.
Closes the record-hygiene rider. Part 3 of the spec (documenting a
ROADMAP/OPEN-ITEMS state convention) is deliberately NOT done — its stated
evidence is false; see REPORT-record-correction-2026-07-29.md.
- CONTEXT.md:540 — "scripts/hub_confirm_gate.py enforces" was present tense
about a gate invoked by nothing. Now says it asserts but is not enforced
(R-29). Third instance of the class after :564 and configs.go:27.
- REUSE.md:62 — same claim, "enforces zero". The RULE stays (never native
confirm()/prompt() is correct guidance and this is a reuse-reference row);
only the enforcement claim changes, and it now says the rule holds only as
long as you keep it.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md:4 — root REPORT.md is the overwritten per-session file;
REPORT-<topic>.md is the non-clobbering sibling form (CLAUDE.md:82-87), of
which 14 exist. The prohibition on durable content living only there stays.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md:55 — "Why the READY rows rank this way" promised a complete
ordering and listed 5 of ~15 open rows. Scoped to TOP, with a half-sentence
saying it is deliberately not a full ordering. No row added to the list.
hub/internal/web/configs.go:27 left alone (R-94 leg (b), needs a hub build).
No gate wired, run or fixed. Documentation only, no version bump, no CHANGELOG.
d4c07873 filed "hostinstall_gates.py is invoked by nothing" as a novel
observation. It is not novel — R-29 already names the class (green gates are
enforced nowhere; one sat RED for 16 releases while every REPORT said green),
and R-29 was missing from OPEN-ITEMS.md entirely, having never been carried
across the 2026-07-27 register rebuild. An open item about work not getting
done was absent from the page that decides what gets done.
Ruling on whether R-29 is the right home for a non-design-v2 gate: YES. Its
title says design-v2, but its own audit list already spans mount-safety,
secrets and dedup gates across four repos, and its part (b) — "the systemic
half is the real item" — is about the enforcement mechanism, which is
gate-agnostic. hub_confirm_gate.py is already on its list and sits in the same
scripts/ directory. No new ID minted; R-29's own text forbids it, and this is
the third re-raise it has absorbed.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: open R-29 (READY, S(a)/M(b)), with the orphan evidence and
the two separable parts R-29 already defines.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: R-94 leg (b) now points at R-29 as its class.
- ROADMAP.md:158: audit list extended with hostinstall_gates.py (RED today,
1.19.0 != 1.22.0) + hub_confirm_gate.py verified orphan. Entry not rewritten.
- ROADMAP.md:147: cited a non-existent R-164 — it means controller v0.164.0.
- CONTEXT.md:564: asserted in the present tense that the version cross-check is
"gated by scripts/hostinstall_gates.py". It exists, is red, and runs nowhere.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: READY #1/#3/#4 markers dropped — they duplicated ranked-list
positions and the gap was left by the row merged in d4c07873.
- OPEN-ITEMS.md: E-2d citation :322-341 widened to :322-343; the invocation it
describes is at :343, two lines outside the old range.
- backlog/README.md: two-line lead naming OPEN-ITEMS.md and ROADMAP.md.
- REPORT-record-correction-2026-07-29.md: the report CLAUDE.md:82-87 requires
for both commits. Root REPORT.md (E-2 increment 1) untouched.
No gate wired, fixed, run or deleted — that is R-29 part (b), its own task.
Documentation only. No version bump, no CHANGELOG entry, no box touched.
Replaces the 2026-07-14 DRAFT entirely - it was verified against controller v0.132.0,
51 versions stale, while being cited as authoritative. Now verified against controller
0.183.0 / agent 0.110.0 / hub 0.80.0 / catalog 4252121. NOT ratified.
Every statement is labelled [DESIGN] (a decision from the architecture discussion) or
[FACT] (file:line, live output, or a citation to _recovery-inventory-2026-07-28.md).
Phase 0 verified D5's premise and it FAILED. Ten read surfaces were checked; nine are
clean (SMB under both namespace shapes, FileBrowser for local drives, .fab import and
download, /api/debug/*, all three ServeFile sites, registering the backup dir as a
drive). One is not: FileBrowser binds a NETWORK share at its ROOT while local drives
are userdata-scoped, and no IsNetwork() filter guards the deploy dropdown, the per-app
migrate targets, or handleStorageMigrateApp. So an app namespace - and under D5 its
plaintext secrets - can land somewhere a browsing surface serves with download:true.
Not a leak today (the unit's app.yaml is secret-stripped); it becomes one under D5.
D5 is therefore written as a BLOCKED target, not as settled. -> R-108
Core artifact is the failure -> recovery matrix (15 rows). RTO cells carry only
measured durations; 12 are blank and each blank is listed explicitly as a finding.
RPO cells carry the configured cadence that bounds RPO, labelled as such - no RPO has
ever been measured from an incident and none is invented.
The 7/53 vs 9/43/1 Tier-2 coverage counts are both recorded, unresolved; neither adopted.
Coupling (S-1): capability map section C now cites the matrix instead of restating
routes; ROADMAP gains R-102..R-108; OPEN-ITEMS gains only the in-flight R-108 plus
C9-F1b/F3/F4 -> R-n cross-references; CONTEXT records D1-D6 as standing ruling S-3.
No code, no version bump, no deploy, no box touched.
R-97 collapsed to its shipped one-liner in ROADMAP and closed in OPEN-ITEMS.
PROMPT-TEMPLATE N.5 now names FOUR coupled artifacts instead of two: the
capability map, ROADMAP, the owning architecture doc (ruled as S-1 in CONTEXT.md
but never reflected in the template CC actually reads, so it bound nobody), and
OPEN-ITEMS.md. Tasks must now report which register rows they opened, closed or
re-ranked.
Ops: R-90 swap done (interim; CX33 still blocked), R-95 mitigation armed but zero
snapshots taken so it moves to WATCHING rather than closed, R-91 gate still not
satisfied. CONTEXT.md datastore path corrected to /mnt/pbs-datastore.
Open state was spread across ROADMAP, CONTEXT.md, four audits/, three runbooks,
per-session REPORT.md files and a chat log. This is the one page to read first:
every row has a state (BLOCKED/READY/WAITING-ON-OPERATOR/WATCHING) and an owner,
and the READY rows are ranked with reasoning.
R-88 is the recommended next task — quiesce's nil-age fail-open stops every app
stack every 5 minutes with no backoff and bypasses the maintenance window, and
its trigger (a PBS read failure) is live given ep0's demonstrated OOM.
CONTEXT.md now records that OPEN-ITEMS.md is authoritative and that REPORT.md is
overwritten per session.
Supervised runbook execution. No code, no version bump.
The felhom-pbs tier had reported `job errors` on EVERY demo-hp backup
since the tier was created on 07-26, while the data landed correctly
every time: `DatastoreBackup` grants Datastore.Backup but not
Datastore.Prune, so the box's keep_last=2 prune was denied.
Operator ruling: retention is a COMMERCIAL attribute owned by the hub;
ep0 executes. Box tokens therefore stay write-only - a compromised box
must not be able to delete its own offsite backups. No grant was widened
and felhom-tenantsync.sh is unchanged (the ruling makes it correct).
Increment 1:
- boxes stop attempting prune. allowPBSPrune is DERIVED
(`!t.Primary && t.KeepLast > 0`), so keep_last: 0 on the PBS tier
disables both the --prune-backups value and the gate in one config
edit, and the tier stays armed. Verified prune_pbs_allowed=false on
both boxes with no tier REJECTED line.
- per-namespace prune jobs on ep0, keep-last 2, daily 03:30 UTC
(05:30 CEST), dry-run gated. demo-hp 3->2, demo-felhom untouched,
chunk count unchanged (prune removes indexes, not chunks).
Write proof CLOSED: 08:25:47 job errors -> 09:37:29 TASK OK, snapshot
2026-07-27T09:37:29Z, chunks 9787->9813, prune step absent entirely.
Driven through POST /api/guest-backup/trigger (the UI path), not
--selftest and not raw vzdump. Hub gauge evidence explicitly NOT
satisfied - the delta is below its 0.1 GB display granularity.
GC scheduled sun 04:30 UTC and deliberately NOT run: every chunk still
carries a fresh atime from the migration copy, so a run today would
reclaim nothing. verify-new enabled per operator ruling, turning an
inert hub alarm live.
Legacy demo-felhom-01 namespace deleted with its two ACL entries and its
token (operator ruling, confirmed twice) so nothing dangles.
R-89 records the target architecture and carries the unanswered parallel
question: does the restic key on storage-box-pool-1 have DELETE rights?
If so the daily app-data tier has the identical exposure and append-only
is the equivalent answer.
ep0 is Etc/UTC, not CEST - corrected in the record.
- ROADMAP: R-85 row. Code SHIPPED; rotation NOT YET OBSERVED LIVE, stated as
such rather than written as done.
- Capability map: a new row for UNATTENDED restore-proof, IMPLEMENTED not
PROVEN-LIVE, kept distinct from the R-82 row that a MANUAL selftest earned.
That distinction is the same one the activation-vs-arrival split made.
- 03-host-agent §8: the scheduler covers every tier, oldest-proven first; the
spec is per-run; a restore-test joins the one-heavy-op gate. The safety
properties that must not be re-derived are listed.
- 07: restore-proof recorded as a per-tier property. Doc still NOT ratified.
- 06: corrects S4.1's 'the offsite restore-test now runs unattended' — it
silently stopped being true when local_backup_target was retargeted to 'local',
the SECOND time in that doc that a correct mechanism was broken by its input
changing underneath it.
- CONTEXT + REUSE.
Hub gate green (17 packages, rc=0).
R-84 resolved by asking the STORAGE rather than persisting the store: ground
truth, so a pruned archive correctly stops counting where a persisted record
would keep claiming a backup that no longer exists. Proven live on both boxes
with the in-memory store cold.
demo-hp's FIRST EVER offsite backup landed (4.25 GB) — the R-82 finding closed
on the box where it was worst. Controller v0.175.0 deployed to both boxes.
Slice D.1 — host-install 1.20.0: a FRESH box defaults to local-daily +
offsite-weekly (felhom-pbs, 604800s, keep_last=2). setdefault semantics proven
both ways: fresh gets the tier, an UPGRADE preserves the existing backup block
verbatim — so an in-place upgrade can never silently start writing to an
offsite datastore. Existing boxes are migrated explicitly.
Slice E:
- 07-backup-architecture.md: honest status header per CONTEXT ruling S-2, with
an explicit STALE-outside-the-PBS-tier verdict (the controller tiers were last
verified 41 controller versions ago). The PBS row claimed 'PBS on DooPlex'
(the retired spike store) with no cadence; it now names felhom-pbs ->
felhom-offsite on ep0 over wg-felhom, weekly, keep_last=2. NOT marked
ratified — that is Viktor's review of the section 10 list. Discharges R-83.
- 06-offsite-connectivity.md: the target-split remaining-work note collapsed
(shipped), and records HOW S4.1's tier-aware timeout silently regressed — the
mechanism was never removed, its INPUT changed when local_backup_target was
retargeted to 'local'. Also notes S4.1 already diagnosed the teardown 403 as a
phantom (a timeout consequence, not an ACL gap).
- capability map: new row for recurring offsite backups actually LANDING, as
distinct from the existing row proving ACTIVATION. IMPLEMENTED, not
PROVEN-LIVE — the restore round-trip has not completed under the fixed code.
- ROADMAP: R-82 SHIPPED with its remaining gate named, R-83 DISCHARGED, R-84
left open.
- CONTEXT + REPORT: the arc, including the mid-arc correction I had to make.
Third instance of one class (hub v0.12.0, v0.73.0, this), fixed as a class.
On 2026-07-26 03:00 UTC expected_backup_missed fired on demo-felhom, demo-hp
and drill-r50 at once; the demo-felhom one reached the CUSTOMER channel
claiming "newest backup is 176h0m0s old". Nothing was wrong — three vzdump
archives were on disk. Cause: the agent backup store is in-memory, so the
R-50 fleet restart emptied `backups` until the next run, and the hub read
empty as "no backup exists".
- assessBackupFreshness returns OK/UNKNOWN/MISSED instead of `missed bool`;
absence is UNKNOWN until it outlives an anchored window. Still pure.
- store.GetHostReportsSince + monitor.newestBackupEvidence read the hubs own
retained history (bounded 7-day lookback, early-exit on fresh evidence) —
"when did I last SEE evidence of a backup?" The anchor was free: the hub
already retains 90 days. No agent change, no new persisted state.
- store.GetFirstHostReportAt anchors absence at first contact, reusing the
existing 26h threshold as the grace (no new knob, the v0.73.0 shape).
- Deferrals logged + counted; reason strings kept distinct.
- backupStaleAfter untouched; landmine recorded (a weekly PBS snapshot would
alarm six days in seven) and owned by R-82.
Tests 493->508. Red-proofs A/B/C observed and restored; A reproduces the live
message verbatim. Replayed the real 03:00 reports (600/417/77 rows): all
three now silent.
Source: documentation/audits/DIAG-backup-missed-2026-07-26.md
New documentation/operations/nodes.md: HP t740 hardware, disks (SanDisk system
SSD 182195804614; Toshiba 1TB NVMe 58BS11AFT8MQ PRESENT AND UNENROLLED, still
NTFS, do not touch), the five-NIC map and the trap that cost the first install,
and the access path - no SSH key is baked, auth is the hub-vaulted G1
break-glass password.
tailscale.md gains demo-hp, the operator-lab-exception warning so a future
product-shape audit does not conclude the product ships tailscale, and the
--accept-dns evidence: the join omitted the flag, MagicDNS rewrote
/etc/resolv.conf, and it was reverted. Harmless at the vacation site, would
have bitten silently at home where split-horizon matters.
OPEN: key expiry still enabled on demo-hp (2027-01-17) - needs an admin-console
toggle or an API token; a pre-auth key cannot do it.
felhom-pve joins the tailnet as a host package (100.70.170.35, expiry
disabled); DooPlex already advertised 192.168.0.0/24 via its GitOps k3s
tailscale pod (100.107.87.53). ssh felhom-pve now targets the tailnet IP
(direct-over-LAN at home, tunnel when away); felhom-pve-lan = LAN fallback.
--accept-dns=false on the host. Host converted static->DHCP (reservation
keeps .162 at home). Measured: --accept-routes hairpins the local subnet
at home -> travel-only opt-in. PBS is offsite (own WireGuard tunnel), needs
none of this. Recorded not fixed: controller<->agent plane hard-pinned to
192.168.0.162 (agent listen_addr + guest bootstrap.json) -> not yet portable
off-LAN. No code changed. Full doc: documentation/operations/tailscale.md
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Live through the real ingress: public /bind/ renders logged-out with the
no-oracle expired state (200-not-500 proves selfbind_tokens migrated);
gate intact (/ and /hosts -> /login); CSRF exemption is /bind/-only
(POST /bind/ no-CSRF 200 vs POST /customers/x/block no-CSRF 302).
Operator-minted full walk + new-ISO console banner remain operator/R-1.
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Let a customer bind their own freshly-installed appliance without the
operator: operator "Send self-bind link" mints a 7-day tokenized
capability link, emailed (Hungarian, sibling sender) to the customer, who
opens a public /bind/<token> page and proves two factors — the console
pairing code shown on the box screen + their retrieval passphrase — and
the hub stages the bind via the same BindAppliance (provenance
customer_selfbind). The box's ~30s appliance poll delivers.
Viktor's three rulings verbatim: console pairing code (no appliance list
ever rendered), operator-sent tokenized link, 5-attempt lockout ->
"call support". Wrong code == wrong passphrase (one generic failure, no
oracle, both factors compared unconditionally); expiry falls back to
operator-bind unchanged.
THE TRAP: one public prefix /bind/, exempt from auth+CSRF at both /login
gate sites via a single isPublicBindPath predicate (tight trailing-slash
match; ServeMux ..-cleans; handler rejects '/' in token). 9 tests
(Scenarios A-F + F1/F2); 4 red-proofs verified red-then-green (lockout,
oracle, widened-prefix, single-active). GC verdict: no appliance GC ->
the 7-day TTL stands alone. Controller/agent untouched; R-27b deferred.
Green: full hub build/vet/test (17 ok) + bash -n + hub confirm gate.
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