The 2026-07-18 N100 rehearsal ran the complete final-product flow on real metal
in one pass: RESET -> generic pairing ISO v1.20.0 -> customer self-bind -> day-0
-> managed-floor lift -> escrow ceremony -> offsite snapshots. No code changed;
every finding is recorded and ranked, none fixed.
VALIDATION-n100-rehearsal-2026-07-18.md — run context, a UTC-normalised timeline
built from the hub events stream / hub DB / controller log / bootstrap + agent
journals, per-ledger verdicts for S1-S8 + ledgers 8 and 9, 12 findings, the
not-exercised list, and 7 discrepancies against the brief.
Headline wall-clocks: bind -> credential 26 s; bind -> controller running the
current version 2 min 44 s; managed floor 0.143.0 -> 0.145.0 in 5 s unattended
(initiated_by: auto-floor); escrow ceremony -> offsite enabled 12 s; drive enrol
30.3 s. No post-bind leg stalled, which is the immediacy row's real-onboarding
proof.
Capability map (10 citations added):
- Bare-metal Felhom ISO PARTIAL -> PROVEN-LIVE (F1 closed on metal)
- Customer self-bind (slice 1) IMPLEMENTED -> PROVEN-LIVE (customer_selfbind)
- Guest RAM resize (R-24) IMPLEMENTED -> PROVEN-LIVE (shrink AND grow)
- Customer RESET two real firings + verified external teardown
- Escrow ceremony first live wizard firing
- Immediacy row "real-onboarding proof pending" cleared
- Publish train box-side floor lift proven on a fresh install
- Customer claim R-4 gmail half (Inbox under p=quarantine)
- Offsite orphan guard staged live leg fired on its own
- DR tier by default candidate PROVEN-LIVE upgrade WITHDRAWN (R-39)
Not flipped, as instructed: customer-performs-restore, BYO, DLNA, multi-user.
ROADMAP — collapsed R-1 (appliance half done, Peti half survives), R-21
(physically closed), R-24, R-27 slice 1, R-4. New ranked items:
P2-HIGH R-39 PBS DR applied-but-dead R-30 liveness from the wait channel
R-31 async offsite + status R-32 RESET base-dir purge
R-33 bootstrap quiet-poll
P2 R-34 backup lifecycle R-35 config-apply session survival
R-36 post-RESET offsite prompt R-27c console-passphrase bind
P3 R-37 post-RESET health card R-38 installer GRUB slice
Plus a pre-invite checklist (golden 0.145.x rebuild, freemail.hu, C6, R-11).
R-39 is NEW and was not on the brief: the PBS DR descriptor auto-provisions and
the agent converges state=applied, but pvesm reports 401 Unauthorized/inactive
and a direct probe 401s on every endpoint including /version while WG is healthy.
The hub minted a second token secret two minutes after the agent applied the
first and consumed_at is still NULL; the converged state machine will not
re-apply, and the agent's verify loop cannot read the credential to notice it
(non-root read of a file it writes through a root wrapper). Rank is provisional
pending Viktor.
R-3 draft: all four [REFINE] slots filled, self-bind made the default path with
"send the link BEFORE the customer sees the console", the measured wall-clock
table added, and interim operator workarounds for R-31/R-36/R-39. C6 (renumbered
C7) is marked as the single unexecuted step and keeps the doc a DRAFT.
Evidence bundle: 180:~/n100-rehearsal/ (10 files + MANIFEST.md), collected before
the box was unplugged for travel. Secrets read only to run probes; recorded as
lengths and metadata, never values.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Nn3VgQk9iwEGgyx6QJ2NvE
Origin: R-7b close-out (felhom-controller REPORT section 4f). Two parts:
(a) the finding is benign — estimate.go:179 mounts a NAMED VOLUME (daemon-side, no
host path), the same shape as three already-allowlisted entries, so the fix is a
3-line ALLOWLIST addition with its WHY, NOT a docker-cp rewrite;
(b) the systemic half: the gates run only when a human remembers, so this one sat
red from v0.129.0 (2026-07-14) to v0.145.0 while REPORTs said green. Second
instance of the class after the v0.123.0 'Windows green gate silently red' note.
Lists the full gate inventory to audit for the same rot.
Drops the false 'no offsite target on the demo box' clause from the ROADMAP row,
the capability-map SMB row and sharing.md. Cites offsite snapshots e0b9d723 /
4e2b15ec and the restore round-trip results. Root cause (guessed settings key) is
recorded in felhom-controller REPORT section 7b.
- capability map: SMB row KNOWN GAP cleared -> share data rides both tiers; the
offsite leg + restore round-trip flagged as not-yet-live-exercised
- ROADMAP R-7b: idea -> SHIPPED, with the Model B' rationale and the live evidence
- controller/sharing.md: the KNOWN GAP block replaced by the execution contract;
operator note corrected — samba IS liveness-monitored since v0.145.0
Viktor's human leg closed the last gate: both shares open from the Windows
Network view, an interactive Explorer save landed as uid 1000, and a write into
the read-only share was refused with the folder untouched. Capability map row
flipped to PROVEN-LIVE with that evidence; ROADMAP R-7 + sharing.md updated.
R-7b (shares classified but not in any live backup run) remains open.
controller/sharing.md (code-verified vs controller v0.144.0 + felhom-samba
1.0.0); capability map 'Files from Windows Explorer / Mac Finder (SMB server)'
MISSING -> IMPLEMENTED (PROVEN-LIVE pending Viktor's Explorer leg); ROADMAP R-7
-> shipped-slice-1 with the slice-2 remainder, and the backup design fork split
out as R-7b (shares are classified but not in any live backup run yet).
Human Explorer leg exposed the split: FELHOM-SPIKE renders (WSD PASS) but the
double-click fails 0x80070035 — flat name resolves by no path (DNS/LLMNR/NetBIOS
all silent; disable netbios=yes). By-IP mount works => SMB is healthy, the gap is
name resolution. Fix verified live: adding nmbd (NetBIOS) => nbtstat lists
FELHOM-SPIKE, ping resolves, \FELHOM-SPIKE\spike-share mounts by name. R-7 must
ship smbd+wsdd+nmbd (+avahi/.local), not wsdd alone.
Verdict: appliance guest is LAN-bridged; multicast discovery works only in the
guest netns (guest-direct or docker --network host) — default bridge is deaf to
LAN multicast. Real samba+wsdd on host-net: Windows 11 ProbeMatch + 445 + SMB
round-trip PASS; SSDP MediaServer:1 reaches LAN clients. R-7 => host-network
LAN-bound; R-8 Jellyfin-DLNA plausible if host-network. ROADMAP R-6 -> spiked,
R-7/R-8 unblocked. S4.4 Explorer render pending human.
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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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017qDiBqKKQ5vPB5fXBqu7Kp
Makes PBS DR storage visible like the restic pool box (v0.64.0), differentiated. Scoping
correction: restic = subaccounts on the shared Hetzner Storage Box (Hetzner API); PBS DR =
the felhom-offsite PBS datastore on the ep0 endpoint VM (NO Hetzner API). Option A
(Viktor-ruled): a read-only `usage` op on the felhom-tenantsync ep0 forced command (twin of
fingerprint), polled by a new hub checker on the 15-min throttle. READ-ONLY throughout.
Phase-0 (gate PASSED): on ep0 (PBS 4.2.3), df -B1 --output=size,used,avail <datastore path>
yields bytes (39990112256/7627939840/... ~19%), read-only, existing sudo context, no admin token.
- scripts/felhom-tenantsync.sh -> v1.2.0: read-only `usage` short-circuit (df on the datastore
path), no customer_id, no admin token, NO mutation. + a bash harness proving zero mutation.
- tenantsync.Client.Usage() + BoxUsage; unknown-op -> typed ErrUsageUnsupported (graceful).
- monitor.PBSDRBoxChecker: OffsiteBoxChecker clone over a usageReader seam; 15-min throttle,
cached PBSBoxSnapshot, escalation-only pbsdr_box_fill on the "pbsdr-box" scope (operator only,
no SaveEvent), recovery re-arm. Fill only. THREE states: ok / unavailable (ep0 <=v1.1.0,
neutral no-alert) / degraded (exec failed, keep last).
- config: Alerting.PBSDRBoxFill{Warn,Crit}Percent (80/90); built with the tenantsync client,
60s sweep, SetPBSDRBox. Hub deploy INDEPENDENT of the ep0 update (graceful degradation).
- web: /offsite splits into Restic + PBS DR hash tabs (endpoint cards under PBS DR); PBS panel;
the single dashboard tile becomes two gauges (RESTIC pct.ratio, PBS DR pct / n/a).
- runbook offsite-endpoint.md 10: v1.2.0 update steps (no sudoers/authorized_keys change).
Tests: 10 Go + the harness; 3 red-proofs (usage mutation, escalation-only, unavailable-drives-band)
confirmed red then restored. go build/vet/test + bash -n + hub confirm gate all pass.
Closes N100 F1 (HIGH): cheap AMI (AN3PLUS 0.01-class) UEFI firmware can't
relocate the ISO's stock signed GRUB from USB (relocation 0x0). The run's live
grub-mkimage workaround is now a first-class pipeline mode.
- build-felhom-iso.sh: --loader shim|mkimage (default shim, byte-for-byte
unchanged; profile-settable FELHOM_LOADER; --loader wins). Loud banner +
manifest loader:/grub-mkimage: fields + -mkimage filename suffix.
- mkimage-surgery.sh (new): post-prepare-iso, in the assistant container. Builds
a monolithic grub-mkimage loader from the ISO's own GRUB (module set from its
grub.cfg; embedded search --fs-uuid -> configfile the real menu). Swaps it into
the ISO9660 tree (real lowercase path) + the efi.img ESP; xorriso re-master
preserves BIOS-hybrid + UEFI + GPT-ESP, drops only Apple HFS+/APM. Recipe from
the N100 run evidence, not re-derived.
- Dockerfile.assistant: grub-common + grub-efi-amd64-bin + mtools + dosfstools.
profiles/n100.profile (new, mkimage + SB-off note).
- Validated on nested VM 311 (RUNBOOK-B legs): leg1 shim boots+installs under
OVMF SB-enforcing + SeaBIOS; leg2 mkimage boots+installs under SB-off; leg3
(red-proof) mkimage under SB-enforcing FAILS Access Denied (unsigned -> SB must
be OFF); leg4 surgery byte-identical payload. bash -n + shellcheck clean.
Physical N100 closure folds into the rehearsal (n100-safety match-nothing ISO
built + sha-recorded, unbooted). PXE stays a deferred R-21 note.
- DeleteHost(deleteEscrow) demotes current host_escrow into host_escrow_superseded (copy-before-delete, same tx), spares existing; one shared demoteCurrentEscrowTx (reused by SaveHostEscrow). F-14 provenance/gate unchanged.
- DeleteCustomerConfig now purges both escrow tables for all the customer's hosts incl. already-deleted (F-14 provenance UNION) — the one true purge point.
- Wording: checkbox/refusal/Danger-zone → demotion. S6b OBSOLETE. Red-proofs TestDeleteHost_Demotes + TestDeleteCustomer_Purges + wording guard.
Empirical spike (demo arc, docs-only, no product code). Measures the two hub->box
'sync now' transports. Verdict: (b) long-poll = primary for user config (hub-only,
reaches controller, no ep0/WG/agent coupling; binding ceiling = twin 60s nginx
proxy_read_timeout + hub WriteTimeout, both config lifts); (a) ep0-relayed poke
= agent-plane nudge (~0.42s, zero ep0/box infra change, EKEYREJECTED-confined).
Viktor Q2 answered: hub.felhom.eu is DNS-only, no Cloudflare. All live mutations
reverted; arc re-verified green.
F2 claim re-issue on clean-slate re-enroll (ReissueForReenroll, host-enroll mint path,
single-bump, reset code; hub never stores the password so fork B). F3 offsite re-issue on
re-enroll (ReissueOffsiteForCustomer, same machinery as the manual button). 2.3 escrow honesty
(red-proofed): re-issuing offsite marks the escrow stale (MarkEscrowStale), withholds the
mismatched restic hash from auto-confirm, DR checklist shows stale not done. Events:
claim_reissued_reenroll / offsite_reissued / escrow_stale.
Controller + scripts unchanged (source contradicted both premises): the controller reads escrow
prereqs live from the agent; the installer can't know the descriptor-provisioned storage id. F4
root fix is agent-side -> ROADMAP R-22; demo unblocked live (Part 0 ACL grant). VALIDATION doc
F2 erratum + F3/F4 dispositions. Green gate + Scenario-C red-proof pass.
Supervised clean-slate reinstall of the demo N100 from a pipeline-built Felhom ISO +
onboarding rehearsal. Core objectives GREEN: first-boot chain reached rc-0 on the first
attempt on real hardware (closes slice A's operator-gated boundary), serial-filter safety
proven on metal, PBS-DR reconciler self-healed on the reused peer, DMI verdict -> key on
MAC+UUID. Hard obstacle was firmware not the pipeline: this cheap AMI AN3PLUS 0.01 board
won't UEFI-boot the ISO's GRUB from USB (relocation 0x0; SB-off + shim-bypass don't help),
worked around live with a grub-mkimage loader from the box's own GRUB (slice-B input).
7 findings logged (F1 firmware loader HIGH; F2/F3/F4 reused-customer edges -> R-1/Peti;
F5 guest-RAM, F6 drive-init mount, F7 back-route). Full doc in documentation/tests/;
ROADMAP R-21 + REPORT + CONTEXT updated. No production code changed.
scripts/iso/: a DooPlex pipeline (build-felhom-iso.sh + Dockerfile.assistant) that
turns the official PVE ISO into a Felhom auto-install ISO whose first-boot stub
installs a retry-forever felhom-bootstrap unit which unattended-fetches
felhom-host-install.sh from the public felhom.eu/scripts channel and runs it until the
host is enrolled + a guest provisioned. host-install is UNMODIFIED (invoked only).
- build gates the answer on validate-answer OUTPUT text, never $? (spike S1 exit-0 trap)
- stub is from-iso, fully-up, exactly-once; retry unit owns all network work (S8a)
- retry-vs-resume encoded once: plain first, --resume when install state exists (v1.11.3)
- secret-bearing (embeds the retrieval passphrase): supervised/single-use; env shredded on success
Validated on VM 310: build gate + red-proof, disk-filter fail-safe, chain + retry,
resume-decision, exactly-once, no-net retry+recovery. Terminal host-install rc-0 success
operator-gated (drill customer needs the password-gated create-UI). scripts v1.16.0;
ROADMAP R-21 -> in-progress. Detail in REPORT.md.
Opened every citation in 00-capability-map.md and judged each of the 55 rows
against the specific scenario (not topic adjacency). 23 confirmed (incl. 5
MISSING proven-absent by code sweep), 26 citation-corrected, 6 demoted; no
upgrades. Status: 32 PROVEN-LIVE / 15 IMPLEMENTED / 3 PARTIAL / 5 MISSING
(was 38 PROVEN-LIVE).
Demotions PROVEN-LIVE->IMPLEMENTED: B6 (post-deploy config — T-PAGE-ALL is
render-only), E7 (FileBrowser access — no browse/download proof), F1 (health
email — cited P3-DELIVERY is the enlarge-block trigger), F4 (metrics — cited
legs are H1/H2 harness artifacts), F6 (operator alerting — no corpus doc),
G6 (offsite fill/staleness/freeze — no live-fired leg, freeze inconclusive).
Key corrections: D6 cited CAMPAIGN-3 F10/F11/F12 which are the CRITICAL
failures — fixes shipped agent v0.85 and were re-validated live in CAMPAIGN-4
/6A; C6 cited offbox-restic doc for a PBS-restore claim -> CAMPAIGN-2 T-P9;
C1/C5/B5 cited defect-discovery docs instead of the fix-validation legs.
Closed ROADMAP R-20: operator-key pinning is fully automatic in day-0
(felhom-host-install.sh step_agent_config, L2044/2146-2156/2332-2337).
Header draft caveat swapped for the verified stamp. Full per-row verdict
table in REPORT.md.
The ~215 lines flagged as "unknown uncommitted code" (hub/internal/notify/,
claim/engine.go, store.go) were in-flight files from a parallel CC session on
the customer-claim arc, snapshotted before it committed. All landed cleanly
(6b40eb8 v0.50.0, a1d0450 v0.54.0, e205a2d); v0.55.0 shipped. Tree is clean.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017qDiBqKKQ5vPB5fXBqu7Kp
Closes the two deferred deep campaigns from 6D on live infra: tier-2 v2 layout
engine (A1-A4) and F7 atomic-write + restic C2 self-heal (B1-B4). No production
code shipped. Two LOW findings (F-6E-1 demo drive drift; T-6E-1 DB-dump dir-fsync
parity). Drill repo torn down; fixtures reverted; box healthy.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HEPuEwyyGDJdcsXLFsTWJn
Refutes the surviving theory: on the drill host the pbs_dr descriptor is present
and enabled, the WG peer exists, verify passes — the block is a one-time secret
consumed 07-12 that no path re-mints after the agent loses its converged marker
(re-install/rollback; same WG pubkey -> changed==false -> cascade can't re-fire).
Live-proven: staging any consumable secret converges in one tick (existing token,
zero ep0 churn); re-asserting a converged descriptor is a clean idempotent no-op.
Safe re-trigger = re-serve a secret gated on agent waiting_secret/consumed_failed,
never blind-timer Reissue. Design-inputs table handed to the self-heal TASK spec.
Drill left CONVERGED (P-DAY0-DEEP PBS-DR leg now GREEN).
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HEPuEwyyGDJdcsXLFsTWJn
Fresh-appliance PBS-DR consume races the WG handshake at install (fingerprint probe timeout),
consumes nothing, and does not re-request the descriptor once the tunnel is up; reused-peer
re-provision never re-issues it. No operational re-trigger. Escrow ceremony + offsite round-trip
blocked on this fresh guest → friend-alpha alpha #1 escrow must be supervised live (customer-holds-R).
Drill deviation (CC-held R) never exercised. Recorded, not fixed inline.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HEPuEwyyGDJdcsXLFsTWJn
immich enlargement blocked at real 50 GiB quota via sparse mandatory fixture; unit-only
continues; EnlargedBlocked edge-fires once; both operator + customer emails delivered;
fully reverted. G4 notification email restored via the real form (wipe-bug regression).
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Core-promise legs proven on real data: .fab >=1GiB full circle (byte-identical mandatory,
zero sibling contamination, DB round-trip) + SQ3 immich offsite restore-to-live (functional
from offsite alone). Deferred: P3-BROWSER/P3-DELIVERY/P-TIER2-deep/P4-timing/P-DAY0.
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