- 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.
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- Twelve steps published on both venues (catalog): first ladders for calibre-web, gitea, wger,
crafty-controller, uptime-kuma, zipline (two steps); within-major emby, ghost, home-assistant,
outline, rallly. immich's step v3.0.3 -> v3.2.2 re-proven at 768M (Part D).
- Part C: the night leg skips a digest-only change AND the catalog never records a same-tag re-test,
so a same-name upstream fix reaches no box. Row R-740; the decision in STATUS; `09` decision 30
carries a dated note (the decision itself unchanged).
- Rows: 369 -> 377. Opened R-735..R-742; closed R-735, R-738, R-742; narrowed R-462, R-624, R-446,
R-440, R-734, R-732. The currency audit gains §1b (and corrects its 31+1 to 30+2).
Evidence: documentation/audits/more-night-apps-2026-09-30/. Report: REPORT-more-night-apps-2026-09-30.md.
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- R-463 CLOSED: rallly, outline, sparkyfitness -> PostgreSQL 18 (catalog 25ffd89 / aeb0cd6 / 1666572),
each proven on the bench and on 9202 through the guarded Update with one undo case; zipline,
adventurelog, immich stay on 16 by 09 decision 42's rule (upstream runs 16 / 16 / 14).
- Part F: bookstack, kimai, audiobookshelf, n8n, navidrome, grafana, komga moved on both venues;
immich not (R-732: its first start OOM-killed its database on the bench).
- R-687 item 4 PROVEN LIVE on demo-hp: two deferrals while the leg stepped two apps, the whole-guest
backup on the first poll after, success; config + window put back and read back.
- Catalog currency audit (Part D): 25/53 behind inside a major, 19 across; night-updatable 28 -> 31 (+1).
- R-446 and R-440 narrowed (measured on demo-hp); R-624 corrected (outline, rallly, zipline have routes);
R-548 note (demo-hp's local tier refused for space since 09-27).
- New rows: R-730 (the ISO 1.29.0 build commit cannot be proven -> no tag; installer-v* is the script's
line), R-731 (tag-shape switches), R-732. Register 361 -> 364.
- 09 §3: the 2026-09-30 operator notes (by day; Tester-2 pre-checks done; decision 52 not needed, not
recorded); §6.4 dated currency note. STATUS, CONTEXT, REPORT-pg-last-six-2026-09-30.md.
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- 09 §6.1 phase table (copying, undoing, undone), §6.1a SHIPPED with the two
live-only defects, §6.4 part 1 SHIPPED.
- Capability map: a failed update is undone by the box - PROVEN-LIVE.
- Live evidence on 9202: three apps undone by the product with seeds before
the backup, after it and seconds before the press read back; cut-off copy
held honestly; power cut during the undo resumed; manual press after undo.
- Register: R-637, R-639, R-641, R-642 closed; R-638, R-640 narrowed; R-643
ruled; R-646 opened. STATUS asks the floor question.
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- 09 §3: decision 19 (the copy method is chosen by a bake-off) and 20 (the
full-system backup waits for the update leg, inside its window; built later).
- Bake-off on 9202, docmost / romm / vikunja: both methods pass every case;
the folder copy wins because an app with no database server gets no dump,
so dump-and-load would need the folder copy anyway. 1-5 s extra downtime,
~420 MB/s, disk = the volumes.
- R-645 filed: lifting an update hold by hand lets the recovery unit be
re-captured with the failed definition within seconds.
Documents and evidence only; product code follows in the controller.
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- Part 1 (09 §6.1a, audit): the undo performed by hand on 9202 for docmost
(PostgreSQL), romm (MariaDB) and vikunja (SQLite volume) - all three came
back with data written before AND after the backup. The product's loader
cannot do it: over a migrated PG database it fails on the new tables'
foreign keys; over MariaDB it leaves them behind. A truncated PG copy loads
rc 0 into an empty database. No-DB apps have no last-second copy.
- Part 2: one press jumps A -> C; the box's catalog clone is depth 1.
Ladder format recommended: update_ladder in .felhom.yml, not git history.
- Part 3: memory watch red-proof results (harness change in the catalog repo).
- Part 4 (09 §6.4): ten parts, ~22 evenings; one open point (R-643).
- Rows R-637..R-644 opened; R-446/450/451/462/463 updated. STATUS, CONTEXT.
No product code. Live catalog untouched; 9202 back on it.
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- 09 §3: decisions 11 (one window = a leg of the backup chain), 12 (automatic,
per-box switch on by default), 13 (the test decides, not the tag - replaces
decision 3's "never across a major"), 14 (the ladder), 15 (the box undoes a
failed update - replaces §6.1's no-auto-undo), 16 (Postgres majors converted
by the box), 17 (digests), 18 (fleet view, later).
- 09 §3b marked ANSWERED with a pointer per question; kept as the reasoning.
- 09 §6.2 rewritten to the ruled shape; §6.1 abort paragraph and §4 point at 15.
- Register: R-450, R-451, R-446, R-463 cite the decisions.
- STATUS: the seven questions no longer wait on the operator.
Documents only. No product code.
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A (R-630, the P1): paperless-ngx, same app same button - failed at +313.0s with the app stopped
under v0.261.0, done at +53.4s now, with no "no probe container" warning because the explicit
healthcheck.container resolved the target.
B (R-633): the busy guard fires - RemoveStack REFUSED (busy): a backup or restore is running - and
the live proof caught it answering HTTP 500, because router.go maps remove errors by grepping the
error TEXT. v0.262.1 makes it a typed error and a 409; re-proven live.
C (R-634 half): a half-state with app.yaml on disk and deployed=false answered 200, leftovers NONE.
Under v0.261.0 the same call said "not deployed".
F (R-614): phase done before the remove, no phase at all after redeploying the same name.
Also: the first B run proved NOTHING and nearly went down as a pass - the refusal came from the
pre-existing "still running" check, not the new guard. Recorded.
09 6.1 and 8.8, the capability map, and STATUS updated. R-625 and R-634's mechanism are named as
owed, not half-done. Register 325.
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All 28 walked on scratch guest 9202 against the private drill catalog. 26 deployed, 6 proven,
5 inconclusive, 14 with no upstream edge, 1 failed honestly (outline 1.9.1->1.10.1, HELD with the
right sentence), 2 undeployable - one (plant-it) by design, refused by the lifecycle gate, proven
live for the first time. Each app also got the half the update night skipped: a restore from its own
copy with the seed read back again - 21 restored, 2 correctly REFUSED per 07 6.2.
R-630 RAISED TO P1 by measurement: a stack with NO probe container does not skip verifying - it
waits out the full health timeout and HOLDS, stopping an app whose three containers read healthy.
The controller's own words: "not healthy within 5m0s (last: no probe container)".
R-633 opened: a remove sent during a restore reports success and leaves a container restarting with
a live public route. The product already refuses that clash for update and for restore, naming the
blocker; remove has no such guard.
R-634 opened: an app can be running, healthy and serving while recorded as deployed=false, and is
then unremovable. Reproducible alone on sparkyfitness; concurrency-linked on two others.
R-631 and R-632 CLOSED. Register 321 -> 323. Seven interventions, six of them my own harness -
named, with what each cost. No product code. The live catalog's image: lines are byte-identical to
the start of the night.
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Part 1: tandoor/zipline/wger probes corrected in the catalog and red-proofed live on 9202 in both
directions - "Nem egeszseges" with the front door serving 200, then "Fut" after the real sync with
no redeploy. tandoor's failed edge re-walked: done at +41.1s where it was failed at +361.9s.
Part 2: fifteen proven versions on the live catalog, one commit per app; the guarded Update pressed
on four apps on demo-hp, all four done.
Opened: R-630 (paperless-ngx's probe has never run on any box - a silent absence, worse than the
wrong probe that was found in one night), R-631 (five templates no static rule can judge),
R-632 (28 of 53 templates never deployed by any drill). Closed: R-618.
Register 318 -> 321. No product code.
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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.
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