New OPERATOR-ONLY event type recovery_unit_capture_failed (controller
v0.191.0, R-158): in allowedEventTypes AND notify.operatorOnlyEvents.
Deliberately not a reuse of backup_failed, which carries customer copy and
sits in the controller's DefaultEnabledEvents — reusing it would email the
customer in Hungarian about a failure they cannot act on. R-158's own
proposal said backup_failed; D-c overrides it.
disk_warning/disk_critical lose their generic customerMessages entries.
Both were allowlisted, copy'd, default-enabled and checkbox'd with NO
producer anywhere; controller v0.191.0 becomes that producer and sends a
DYNAMIC Hungarian message naming the drive and its free space.
FormatCustomerEmail prefers the entry over the message, so keeping a static
entry would discard the label and the byte figures — the same reason
offbox_enlarge_blocked and disk_health_degraded have none. The deletion is
pinned by a test.
New notify.IsOperatorOnly so the api package can pin BOTH registers of a new
event type in ONE test; allowlisted-but-not-operator-only is invisible when
they are checked separately, and it is the defect v0.78.0 shipped. The
register itself stays unexported.
REUSE.md's "new event type" extension point rewritten: it told readers to
always add a customerMessages entry, which is wrong for operator-only types
and harmful for dynamic-message ones.
Tests 574 -> 579. Red-proof: removing the operatorOnlyEvents entry shows the
customer being emailed; the skipped/operator_only row is asserted as a
positive observable.
store.New opened the DB with `?_journal_mode=WAL&_busy_timeout=5000`, which is
mattn/go-sqlite3 syntax. The driver is modernc.org/sqlite, whose applyQueryParams
reads only _pragma/_time_format/_time_integer_format/_txlock/_inttotime and
IGNORES anything else WITHOUT AN ERROR. So the hub ran in rollback-journal mode
with busy_timeout=0 for its entire life while its own source said otherwise.
Surfaced as a false HOST STALE banner: in rollback-journal mode a reader excludes
a writer, so rendering an operator page blocks a host report; the hub 500s, the
agent waits its full 15-minute interval without retrying, and staleness fires at
30 minutes — two collisions is a false alarm plus an operator email. 13 collisions
in one pod lifetime; the alarm fired twice on 2026-08-02 for a host that was up
two days and reconciling throughout.
The observable that proved it: a 128 MB /data/hub.db with no -wal/-shm beside it
while the DB was open.
Fix: ?_pragma=journal_mode(WAL)&_pragma=busy_timeout(5000)&_txlock=immediate.
_txlock=immediate is not optional — database/sql's Begin() is DEFERRED, so a
read-then-write tx must upgrade its lock and a failed upgrade is
SQLITE_BUSY_SNAPSHOT, which busy_timeout does NOT retry; this store has 10+
db.Begin() sites and they are all write paths.
Every test asserts what the DATABASE reports, never the DSN string — a string
test would have passed for the whole life of the bug. Red-proof: restoring the
shipped DSN reproduces journal_mode="delete", the missing -wal, and the live
"database is locked (5) (SQLITE_BUSY)".
Operational consequence handled: a WAL DB cannot be copied by taking hub.db
alone — a bare `cat` opens cleanly and silently omits the newest writes. The
break-glass retrieval in operations/nodes.md used exactly that; it and the
recovery-inventory note are now WAL-aware.
The deliberate hostInstallVersion const is removed. It existed only to produce a real red
run (#3-#6) and the demonstrated alarm; R-94's deletion stands.
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.
The Setup tab said 'host-install 1.19.0' while the served script was 1.22.0, and had
been wrong since 2026-07-14. Deriving the number honestly is not possible: the Option-1
command downloads felhom-host-install.sh from the website at RUN TIME and the website
git-syncs main every 30s (R-110), so no build-time value in the hub can be true. R-94(a)
offered derive-or-delete; deleted, which removes the drift class instead of automating it.
- configs.go: hostInstallVersion const, pageData.ScriptVersion field and its assignment
all removed; a NOTE in their place records why there is no constant here.
- customer_unified.html: the sentence now says the command always fetches the current
installer, and renders no version.
- hostinstall_gates.py gate 1: the third assertion INVERTS — it used to require the hub
const to equal SCRIPT_VERSION, it now asserts the hub carries no host-install version
literal at all, matched in six code shapes across every .go/.html under hub/ (comments
are deliberately not stripped: a // inside a URL literal would blind the scan).
- render_test.go: the assertion 'html contains hostInstallVersion' compared the constant
to itself and passed at ANY value — demonstrated green with the const at 9.9.9 while the
script was 1.22.0. Deleted, not replaced: there is no longer a version to assert.
- felhom-host-install.sh: COMMENT ONLY (SCRIPT_VERSION untouched) — it claimed the gate
keeps the hub copy equal, an invariant that no longer exists.
Red-proofs: restoring the const fails the rewritten gate 1 (3 shapes hit); the old
render_test assertion passes at 9.9.9.
Found by the operator, in the way that matters: it cost a real login.
The v0.84.0 Console access card shipped its Copy button DISABLED until a Reveal.
Clicking it did nothing, silently, so the clipboard kept whatever was already in
it — another host's console password from an earlier reveal. That got pasted into
demo-hp's PVE login, which failed with no explanation: the box logged a plain
`password check failed for user (root)`, the credential was never at fault, and
nothing on screen said the copy had not happened.
A copy button that silently no-ops is worse than no copy button. The operator
cannot tell "copied" from "did nothing", and the stale value left behind is a
VALID secret for a DIFFERENT machine — so the failure looks like a stale
credential and sends you diagnosing the wrong thing.
Copy now works without revealing, and that is the safer default rather than a
concession: the secret goes straight to the clipboard and never renders on
screen, so it cannot be shoulder-surfed or caught in a screenshot. Reveal remains
for when it must be read.
Three silent-failure branches closed, all in the same eight-line function:
- not yet revealed -> was a disabled no-op; now fetches and copies
- navigator.clipboard absent -> was silently skipped; now shows it and says why
- writeText() REJECTED -> promise was ignored, so the operator believed it
copied; now shows it and reports the refusal
The success path names the host ("Copied demo-hp-bb76ea's root@pam password"),
because the clipboard is fleet-wide and every box has a different console
password — "copied" alone cannot say for WHICH box, which is the confusion that
produced the incident.
One retrieval path, shared: the endpoint is defined once (data-reveal-url) and
read back with getAttribute, so Copy cannot drift onto a different, unaudited URL
than Reveal. Server-side is unchanged — both buttons hit the same CSRF-gated
endpoint and both write the same recovery_credential_revealed event, which is
correct: the register records accesses, and a copy is an access.
Tests 566 -> 568. Red-proof: re-adding `disabled` reproduces the shipped bug.
Pairs with agent v0.119.0 and is useless without it.
A managed box's LAN IP was not shown anywhere in the hub, because nothing
reported it — the host report carried no address of any kind. The only IP
reachable from the UI at all was the WireGuard one, on /offsite's peer table
keyed by pubkey, so an operator could go peer->host and never host->peer, which
is the direction anyone actually asks in.
The host page grows a Network card: every routable address the box holds, one row
per (interface, address), plus a WireGuard row. On demo-felhom that is vmbr0
192.168.0.162/24 and tailscale0 100.70.170.35/32 — with the PVE web console at
https://<the LAN address>:8006, the thing the operator wanted and could not get.
WireGuard is rendered as TWO facts, deliberately. WGAssignedIP is the hub's own
allocation (wg_peers, authoritative desired state); WGConfirmed is whether the box
reports actually holding it. Showing the allocation alone would make a peer that
was never applied look healthy — the same shape as reading a timestamp that
records an attempt as if it recorded a result.
The split is keyed on the ALLOCATION, not the interface name: wg-felhom is the
agent's current unit name, and a UI keyed on that string would silently
mis-render the day it changes.
An old agent renders UNKNOWN, never "no addresses". Below agent 0.119.0 the field
is absent from the wire, and an absent signal is not a negative result — the page
says so and names the version needed. Rendering an empty list there would have
stated something false about the host.
No new store table and no new ingest path: the report is already stored opaquely
and GetWGPeerForHost already existed with no UI consumer. This is parse + render.
The report fixture in the tests is the REAL wire — the addresses block copied out
of `felhom-agent --selftest=hub` on demo-felhom running 0.119.0.
Tests 559 -> 566; four red-proofs (inert view-model, unconditional confirmation,
the old-agent branch, and the drift case) each run, observed failing, reverted.
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.
AssembleDRRecipe's hostHalfShape/appHalfShape are ALLOW-LISTS, not the
forward-compat their comment advertised: a section an emitter adds is silently
discarded until it is named in both the shape struct and AssembledRecipe. No
error, no log, no failing test.
R-122 (found this session): that already happened and shipped. The controller
has emitted offsite_restic since fork-4 — the offsite recovery LOCATION — the
hub stored it for all three real customers, and appHalfShape never listed the
key, so no delivered recipe has ever contained it. It stayed green because the
fixture drAppHalf is hand-written and omits the field.
R-109: the agent's new backup_target is a new top-level host-half section and
would have been dropped identically, making the fix read as shipped while
changing nothing an operator can see.
3 tests built on halves read verbatim out of the live dr_recipe table, plus
2 red-proofs (each mutation asserted to have landed). vet rc=0, suite rc=0, 17 ok.
Registers: R-106 + R-109 dispositioned; R-105/R-106 were READY in ROADMAP with
no OPEN-ITEMS row (→ R-123, registered); R-124 filed on the "root" spelling.
The golden's version IS the controller it bakes (build-golden.sh:345 defaults
GOLDEN_VERSION to the controller tag), so a golden behind the newest deployed
controller means every FRESH install lands on stale application code. On the R-120
occurrence that stale code shipped a customer-facing falsehood: a box from the
0.185.1 golden told a customer whose backup drive had fallen out that the backup was
on the same disk as the system -- false, the drive was gone -- and offered a
different drive as the remedy.
WHY A GATE, NOT A REMINDER. The gap has opened three times: R-111 (golden's agent 17
releases behind), R-115 (agent built and deployed, never published), R-120 (this).
The first two were closed by re-baking and remembering; remembering then failed
again. R-29 is the standing proof that a check nobody runs is worse than none because
it reads as coverage -- hostinstall_gates.py sat RED and uninvoked across three
version bumps and hub_confirm_gate.py has never run at all. So the property that
matters is not whether a check exists but whether it BLOCKS.
- Wired into handleSetArtifacts (internal/web/configs.go), immediately before the
only write, on the sole UI path to SetArtifactManifest -- it runs on every vouch
without anyone choosing to. A script in scripts/ would have been a fourth orphan.
- It REFUSES (operator ruling, 2026-07-30), with a flash naming the remedy.
- Signal: store.NewestReportedControllerVersion() over reports.controller_version,
SEMVER-compared in Go -- MAX() in SQL ranks 0.99.0 above 0.186.0, a pair this
fleet has shipped. No outbound call, no new credential.
- Fail-open in exactly two deliberate cases: an empty golden field (clearing the
manifest is legitimate) and an unknown fleet version (a new hub must vouch its
first golden).
NEAR-MISS RECORDED: the first draft read guests.controller_version, a column that
exists in the schema and that NOTHING writes -- it would always have seen "" and
failed open, i.e. inert, this gate's own failure shape. Caught by grepping for a
writer before trusting the column.
Blind spot stated rather than papered over: a controller no box has ever run is
invisible to this signal. Not the failure that has bitten -- all three instances were
deployed-newer-than-baked.
4 tests through the PRODUCTION handler over httptest, never an injected seam. The
refusal asserts both the flash and that the manifest was NOT written, because a gate
that redirects and saves anyway reads as enforcement while providing none. Red-proof:
deleting the block makes the stale golden vouchable and both assertions fail.
ROADMAP R-29's audit list now records this as the FIRST enforced gate, so the
contrast with its three orphans is kept rather than lost. The orphans are unchanged.
Suite rc=0 read separately from this commit.
An event type the hub does not allowlist makes POST /event return 400 and the
event vanishes (R-97a). The controller cannot emit backup_target_absent until
this is live, so the hub half ships first.
E-2 Phase 0 established that an absent backup target has NO prompt signal today.
The controller's drive-gate path stops apps and logs a WARN but emits nothing:
NotifyStorageDisconnected is defined and never called anywhere (verified against
the gitignored-cmd/ trap with a positive control). A drive that is ONLY a backup
target has no apps to stop, so it is entirely silent. The sole signal is the
tier's own failure at its next due cycle -- up to ~24h on the daily local tier,
which is the R-100 shape: a real fault visible only after a deadline elapses.
Added to BOTH registers, because each half fails differently:
allowedEventTypes -- without it the event is lost at the door;
customerMessages -- without it the event IS delivered but in the controller's
raw operator English, and nothing looks broken.
backup_target_absent is deliberately NOT folded into storage_disconnected: that
says "a drive went away and some apps may have stopped"; this says "the thing
that makes your backup survive a disk failure is gone".
Hungarian copy names the consequence, not just the fact. backup_target_restored
is the paired recovery at info severity -- severityNotifies NOT widened.
Three tests pin the pair and the copy's substance. All red-proofed with the
mutation VERIFIED to have landed first: the initial attempt silently no-op'd
(gofmt had realigned the map) and the test "passed" -- a false proof that would
have been reported as evidence.
Green gate: build + vet + test rc=0, run separately from this commit.
isStale counted from last_run, written unconditionally on failure, so a nightly-failing
tier read as fresh forever. Now anchored on last_success with an explicit legacy degrade
(logged once) and the never-ran branch untouched. emitStale states the real reason.
v0.78.0 asserted in a comment that a type with no customerMessages entry cannot
reach a customer. It can: templates.go falls back to the raw message when the
entry is missing, and the only customer gate is prefs.EnabledEvents — pure
configuration. A customer with whole_guest_backup_failed enabled would have been
emailed raw English operator text about a backup they cannot act on. The new test
proves it against the v0.78.0 shape.
operatorOnlyEvents is now an explicit register checked before prefs, logging a
skipped/operator_only row so the skip is visible. NOT implemented as 'missing
customerMessages blocks delivery' — several types rely on that fallback on
purpose. The handler comment now names the real mechanism.
internal/quiesce had no route to the hub at all: three failed whole-guest backups
on 2026-07-27 produced zero events. Hub half of the fix.
whole_guest_backup_failed / _recovered are allowlisted with NO customerMessages
entry. Deliberately not backup_failed/backup_completed — those have customer
Hungarian templates AND sit in demo-felhom's live enabled_events, so reusing them
would email the customer that their backup failed while it is still retrying
behind the R-88 breaker.
The recovery joins recoveredPairedDownTypes because it is severity info and
severityNotifies drops info — otherwise the operator hears it break and never
hears it heal. Its customer leg is pairing-gated and can never fire.
Operator cooldown gains a per-tier dimension from the event details, so one tier
cannot mask another for an hour. Narrow: empty suffix unless a tier is sent, so
no existing event type changes.
A failed restore-test was a [WARN] line in the ingest handler and nothing else —
no event, no notification, no gauge. True for the LOCAL tier that was already
being tested, so the loudest DR signal this system produces was inaudible.
Rotating tiers without this would only mean two tiers can fail silently
instead of one.
Two signals, deliberately NOT merged:
restore_test_failed (error) — a run completed and did NOT pass
restore_test_stale (warning) — a tier not PROVEN within its interval
Merging them collapses 'your DR is broken' into 'your DR is unverified', and
the second is the one that quietly becomes the first. The staleness wording
says 'unverified, not known-broken' and a test asserts that phrasing.
Anchored per R-81, not re-derived: a never-proven tier on a newborn box is
UNKNOWN, not FAILED, until the window elapses. This family has made the
opposite mistake three times; this monitor was written straight after the third,
so it copies R-81's structure rather than inventing a fourth shape.
restoreProvenStaleAfter = 7d is derived: oldest-first over two tiers at a 24h
cadence proves each ~every 2 days, so 7d tolerates ~3 missed opportunities and
sits inside the 2-week offsite retention.
Per-tier proof comes from the hub's retained host-report window — the agent
reports only its latest run, so the latest report alone cannot answer 'when was
the OTHER tier last proven?'. Reused R-81's mechanism instead of a wire change.
Both types registered in allowedEventTypes (R-77's inert-seam lesson) and
operator-tier only — no customerMessages entry.
FIXED a time bomb I introduced in Slice C: the restart-blind-window test
hard-coded 2026-07-18T18:31:06Z while comparing against the real clock. Harmless
under one 26h threshold; once the offsite tier got an 8-day limit it passed all
day and began failing at 18:31 UTC, exactly 8 days later. Now relative.
Red-proofs B and D observed. Full suite green (17 packages, rc=0).
R-81 merged every backup signal into one 'newest' against a single 26h limit.
backupStaleAfter's own comment recorded why that stops being right under a
weekly offsite tier. Each tier is now judged against its own threshold;
R-81's structure (three verdicts, anchored absence, distinct reasons) and its
boundary test are preserved intact.
- offsiteBackupStaleAfter = 8d (7d cadence + headroom); backupStaleAfter keeps
26h and now names the HOST tier only
- splitTiers / assessTier / newestBackupEvidenceByTier
Slice-A.4 rule implemented: a PBS-targeted vzdump appears in BOTH arrays, so
classification is by TARGET TYPE (target_id -> storage_targets[].name -> type),
never by array membership — otherwise a PBS backup makes a stale host tier look
fresh. storage_targets is used rather than pbs_dr.storage_id because the latter
is null on a box with a PBS storage but no DR descriptor.
A tier is only judged when the box HAS it, else every box without an offsite
tier would alarm once the anchor elapsed — R-81's mistake one level down. With
neither tier identifiable (old agent) the pre-Slice-C path runs unchanged.
Intended behaviour change: a 30h offsite snapshot no longer alarms. Three
fixtures asserted the merged threshold; each still asserts an alarm at the
correct limit. No assertion was weakened.
RECORDED LIMITATION: the hub infers 'PBS => weekly' from storage type.
defaultBackupTarget is felhom-pbs, so a box that never sets local_backup_target
would run PBS as its DAILY tier and be judged against 8 days — 7 days of
blindness. No box is in that shape today; the real fix is the agent reporting
per-tier cadences. Own task.
Red-proof observed. Replayed live: demo-felhom OK, demo-hp UNKNOWN (defers
correctly), drill-r50 MISSED (true positive). No customer email would be sent.
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
The allowlist entry is REQUIRED, not cosmetic: handleEvent 400s an unknown
event_type, so controller v0.173.0's new drift alert would be silently inert
without it. Shipped with the controller that emits it.
Docs:
- RUNBOOK-local-api-endpoint-drift.md — how to repair a drift, including the
step everyone will want to skip (establish which value is CORRECT from what
the agent is actually bound to, rather than assuming bootstrap.json wins) and
what success looks like (SILENCE, not a "recovered" line, because a fresh
controller's healthy first observation is not logged). Records both
2026-07-26 repairs.
- ROADMAP: R-77 shipped; R-78 the local_api authority ruling, with the
clobber-a-working-channel risk spelled out in BOTH directions so it is not
resolved opportunistically; R-79 the whole-surface English-strings sweep;
R-80 expected_backup_missed, flagged as likely outranking R-77 because 7.3
days of stale backup materially exceeds the ~1.5-day channel outage, so the
causal link the DIAG hedged on cannot be the whole story.
- Capability map: note against the drive-wizard row (every agent-backed
capability rides this channel) that a silent drift class is now detected.
NO row status flips — detection is not prevention.
Adds disk_health_degraded to allowedEventTypes so the controller's per-disk SMART
degradation notification is ingested, not 400-rejected. Deliberately no customerMessages
entry (like offbox_enlarge_blocked) — the controller's dynamic Hungarian message (disk
label + attributes) is preserved by the templates.go fallback. Test + red-proof.
Found validating v0.69.0 against the live hub. demo-vm-felhom was deleted
on 07-18 and was still on the Customers list AND still raising offsite_stale
(10 events, latest 07-21 17:34, operator email at 19:34) — because
GetCustomers() is report-derived and no lifecycle tier ever deleted a report.
New leg 3 (residue), before the record purge: reports, app_telemetry,
app_log_tails, log_tail_requests, customer_notifications, plus the
credential-bearing appliance_registrations and selfbind_tokens. Audit
(events, notification_log) and F-14 provenance still survive.
Ghost customers are now deletable: 404 means "nothing here", not "no config
row". With no config row the offsite descriptor is unknowable, so the Hetzner
and descriptor legs record skipped_no_config rather than a bare "skipped".
Two more red-proofs.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J55BQE1gE2V4ffud5jweGS
POST /configs/{id}/delete now runs hosts -> RESET -> purge behind three
acknowledgements, a typed customer-id, a stale-preview check and the
ONLINE-host refusal (every gate before any write, so a refusal has zero
side effects). The shallow handleConfigDelete is gone.
Two invariants are asserted, not just commented: ruling 3 is preserved by
construction (leg 2 never sees a host row) and retained escrow custody is
purged exactly once, in leg 3 (leg 2 runs with purgeEscrow=false).
handleCustomerReset's committed half was extracted as commitCustomerReset;
the standalone RESET path is byte-identical to v0.68.1 and its suite is
untouched. Five red-proofs run.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J55BQE1gE2V4ffud5jweGS
The v0.68.0 row wrapped itself in a <div>, but the artifacts <form> IS the CSS grid
(display:grid, no inner container). The stray </div> closed the surrounding card from
inside the form and the new <div> was never closed — it swallowed the submit button and
ran to </form>, so the row rendered outside the card and Save landed inline. Reported by
the operator on first use.
The field still submitted (it stayed inside the form), so this was layout damage rather
than data loss, but the unbalanced markup put every section below it in the wrong
container.
Fixed as plain grid cells (grid-column: 2/4), no nested elements.
There was no render assertion on this form at all, which is why a hand-edit broke it
silently. The new test asserts the field is inside the form, the button has not escaped,
the form contains ZERO divs, whole-page div balance holds, and the sections after it
survive. Red-proofed against the broken shape.
Completes the hub half of R-39's fleet fix on top of the generation core (c484aa2).
pbsdrheal gains an auth_failed TRIGGER — a new trigger in the existing machine, not a
new machine. A box whose credential PBS rejects escalates to a fresh mint, never a
re-stage (which would re-feed the secret PBS just rejected), through the EXISTING damper:
a 401 flap must not become a secret-minting chain. With the generation stamp this closes
the loop end to end — agent proves the 401, hub re-keys, generation advances, descriptor
hash moves, agent re-consumes.
consumed_at honesty gauge: a staged secret still unconsumed past a 15-minute grace while
the box reports `applied` is surfaced with its own event. That is the exact 2026-07-18
fingerprint and a disagreement no single tier can see alone. Deliberately a SURFACE, not
a heal — auto-re-issuing on it would mint a second secret on top of an unconsumed one,
which is the mint/consume race R-39(a) already recorded. One event per distinct report,
and an honestly-stuck box does not double-report (its unconsumed secret is the symptom
being healed, not a contradiction).
R-50b(a): ArtifactManifest.WrapperSHA256 + operator field + host-page drift surface. The
PBS wrapper is root-owned 0755 and the pinned sudoers vector, yet installed unversioned
from raw/branch/main and absent from every manifest. Agents >=0.91.0 report the installed
hash; a mismatch is surfaced. An unknown on EITHER side reads as quiet, never as drift —
lighting every host amber on rollout day is how a warning becomes background noise. The
delivery channel itself stays R-50b(b)/(c).
Compatibility unchanged: safe for 0.90.0 agents (unknown JSON key dropped); the re-arm
and auth-honesty guarantees need agent >=0.91.0, so MinAgent moves only after the fleet
has self-updated.
Tests: auth_failed escalate/debounce/recovery-forgets-streak; honesty gauge incl. grace
window, the restage edge (consumed_at deliberately NULLed), consumed-never-alarms, and
honest-stuck-no-double-report; wrapper drift incl. both unknown directions. Red-proof run
at the assertion level: removing the auth_failed arm fails the escalation tests with
reissues=0.
The fleet half of R-39. An ep0 credential re-issue re-keys the SECRET of an existing
token, so token_id, fingerprint, datastore and namespace all come back byte-identical.
The agent re-applies on the descriptor's CONTENT HASH, so a re-issue was invisible to a
converged box: it short-circuited, never consumed the fresh secret, and served a revoked
credential while reporting `applied` — the N100 failure of 2026-07-18.
host_pbs_secrets gains a monotonic per-host `generation`, advanced by every fresh MINT and
by nothing else, stamped into the descriptor as `secret_generation`. That is now the only
field a re-key moves, and it is what re-arms the agent.
DEVIATION FROM SPEC, deliberate: the brief said to return "the new row's id (int64) …
no schema change". There is no row id — host_pbs_secrets is keyed by host_id and UPSERTed
last-write-wins, so a new row never exists, and created_at collides for two mints in the
same second. An additive counter column is the only monotonic source; it uses the repo's
existing idempotent ALTER-TABLE idiom.
RestageHostPBSSecret deliberately does NOT advance it: a re-stage re-arms the SAME secret,
the descriptor content genuinely has not changed, and a bump would cause a pointless agent
refetch loop (that method's own contract says so).
Also corrects a comment that asserted the re-issue refreshes the descriptor "with the NEW
token_id/fingerprint". That is false for a re-key, and believing it is why the descriptor
was never expected to be identical in the first place.
omitempty is load-bearing: a zero generation must not start emitting a new key into every
pre-existing descriptor, which would itself be a fleet-wide spurious re-apply.
Compatibility: agents below 0.91.0 drop the unknown JSON key and behave exactly as today —
inert, not breaking (Scenario C).
Tests: store-level monotonicity + per-host isolation + restage-leaves-it-alone; descriptor
byte-change, omitempty, and sibling-key round-trip; and a FLOW-level test driving
ReissuePBSDR against a fake that models a real re-key. Red-proof run at the assertion
level (not the compiler): commenting out the stamp makes the flow test fail with both
byte-identical blocks printed.
Four small items, each a case where the hub already knew something and said
nothing. Green: build, vet, tests all pass.
(a) Self-bind link is minted automatically at customer creation AND at RESET
completion (R-36 sub-item). The console banner tells the customer to open
"az e-mailben kapott link"; until now that email existed only once the
operator remembered the button, so the banner could point at something that
did not exist — during the 2026-07-18 rehearsal the box waited ~11.7 min on
exactly that. handleSelfBindLinkSend's body was extracted into a shared
mintAndSendSelfBindLink core so the button and the auto-mint callers cannot
drift apart on the honesty rules: F1 (no address -> mint nothing) and F2
(send failed -> delete the token, never leave it live). The wrapper NEVER
fails the operation it rides on — a create that provisioned Cloudflare,
offsite and PBS must not 500 over a courtesy email.
Gap found and closed while wiring it: PurgeCustomerResetDBState does NOT
clear selfbind_tokens, so a link minted BEFORE a reset would have stayed
live across it. A successful mint already replaces it (delete-then-insert,
single-active); the skip paths would not have, so they now clear stale
tokens too. Invariant: after auto-mint runs the only live link is one it
just issued, or none.
(b) Post-RESET staleness banner (R-37). When a RESET COMPLETED after the newest
report, every health figure on the page describes a lifecycle that no longer
exists, and the page kept showing pre-RESET warnings as current. Narrow on
purpose: an in-flight reset does not trigger it, and it clears itself when a
report arrives. Ties resolve to STALE — SQLite timestamps are second-
resolution and a same-second report almost certainly predates the reset;
erring the other way would hide the banner exactly when it matters.
(c) Unprovisioned-offsite warning (R-36 interim). enabled==true with type=="" is
a real, stable, silent state: provisioning is Save-triggered and the
re-enroll auto-re-issue deliberately skips an unprovisioned target, so
nothing self-heals it. Reuses the exact predicate the offsite re-issue
handler already refuses on.
(d) pbsdr_reissued rendered an EMPTY flash box — the key had no template branch,
so re-issuing PBS credentials showed a success box with no words (observed
live 2026-07-18). Now describes what was staged plus the R-39 caveat:
confirm `pvesm status` shows the entry active, because a converged agent can
report `applied` while the storage still 401s.
New .flash-warn (amber, --warn tokens) for the deviation tier between success
and error — exception-color principle: only on deviation, never on a healthy
page.
Tests assert each banner is ABSENT in the nominal cases as well as present in
the deviating one — a banner that always renders is worse than none. Both
red-proofed: deleting the pbsdr_reissued branch reproduces the original empty
box; neutering the staleness predicate fails the banner assertion. New
read-only store accessor CountSelfBindTokens makes the single-active invariant
assertable.
NOT in this train: the R-39 hub-side generation-bump fix the pre-travel task
made conditional. Its condition was REFUTED (SetHostDesired bumps
unconditionally; applyPBSDR is idempotent as documented) — the real mechanism is
the agent's descriptor-hash convergence and needs its own spec.
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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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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.
The operator sees the shared pool box's real state on the hub: total box fill vs
capacity, Σ(shared soft quotas) vs capacity (the oversubscription ratio), per-customer
usage/quota bars, and a box-level operator alert (fill % + oversub ratio) on the existing
dispatcher's operator channel. Per-customer fill alerts already existed; the box-level
aggregate was the gap. READ-ONLY against Hetzner (GET only).
Phase-0 probe (gate PASSED): the live pool box 611714 returns capacity via
storage_box_type.size (1 TiB / bx11) and usage via a stats object (size/size_data/
size_snapshots), all bytes; our token reads it (200).
- hetznerapi: additive StorageBoxType + StorageBoxStats on StorageBox (no existing field/
method changed); fake carries them + a GetBoxCalls counter; golden decode test.
- monitor.OffsiteBoxChecker: OffsiteChecker-sibling for the box; fetch-throttled (1 GET/
15min), cached BoxSnapshot, escalation-only + recovery re-arm. FILL (used/capacity 80/90)
+ OVERSUB (Σ shared+enabled quotas / capacity, 2.0x) — independent. Σ from the ConfigJSON
Descriptor (offsite.ReadDescriptor, new), never the report echo; dedicated+disabled
excluded. Scope "pool-box" -> operator channel only, no SaveEvent. Failed fetch keeps the
last snapshot degraded; missing data never becomes 0% and never transitions a band.
- config: Alerting.OffsiteBoxFill{Warn,Crit}Percent + OffsiteOversubWarnRatio (80/90/2.0
defaults; thresholds pending Viktor's ruling). Constructed in the HETZNER_TOKEN branch,
60s sweep, snapshot handed to the web server.
- web: Offsite-tab panel (fill bar, Σ+ratio, per-customer usage/quota rows) + a compact
dashboard tile; reads the cached snapshot only, never fetches; nil -> "not configured".
Tests: 10 new + 4 red-proofs (throttle, Σ filter, escalation-only, failed-fetch honesty),
all confirmed red then restored. go build/vet/test all pass; hub confirm gate OK.
The immediate-sync arc covered only operator-initiated desired-state changes;
system-initiated mutations bumped the generation silently, so a freshly onboarded
box waited a full agent tick for state the hub had already minted (observed live at
slice-C onboarding). Wire the existing, live-proven notifiers into every system site
on the correct plane — call-site wiring only, no new mechanism.
Agent plane (poke.Notifier):
- web/pbsdr.go: PBSDRAutoProvision (the observed lag), ReissuePBSDR (also lifts the
pbsdrheal reconciler escalation, zero reconciler changes), handlePBSDRReissue —
each pokes AFTER the successful SetHostDesired, never on a blocked/error path.
- api: new nil-safe Poker seam (PokeHost/PokeAllHosts + SetPoker); handleAdminSetDesiredState
pokes the target host; handleAdminSetOperatorPeer fires PokeAllHosts only when the
fleet generation bump succeeded (fire-after-commit).
- main.go: one poke.Notifier now feeds both planes (SetPoke + SetPoker).
Controller plane (intent.Hub.Bump):
- api/reissueOnReenroll: one nil-guarded bump so a long-polling controller wakes in
seconds instead of on the 15-min cycle.
Deliberate non-sites (unchanged): WG register (undeliverable pre-tunnel — the agent
fast-tick SECONDARY owns it), WG delete (transport removed), pbsdrheal Restage (no
generation bump → the 60s ticker is the pickup path). internal/pbsdrheal byte-unchanged.
Tests: 10 non-hollow tests (web async channel-synchronized fake sender; api synchronous
fake Poker) with explicit zero-count negatives; representative red-proofs per group
(A/B/C/D) run-fail-restored. Green: go build/vet/test all pass.
A generic ISO carries NO customer secret. The box registers itself at the hub
as an unclaimed appliance; the operator binds it to a customer; the hub delivers
the customer-id + retrieval passphrase ONCE; day-0 completes via the slice-A path.
Hub (v0.62.0):
- store/appliance.go: appliance_registrations keyed by (uuid, mac_set) — MAC set
is the tiebreaker (duplicate SMBIOS UUIDs); token stored as sha256 only.
Idempotent register (sticky-discard), atomic one-shot delivery, bind/discard.
- api/appliance.go: POST /appliance/register (the one unauth endpoint, per-IP
rate-limited, 256-bit token); GET /appliance/poll (404 no-oracle / 204 unbound
/ 200 deliver-once / 410 delivered). Passphrase read live, never logged.
- web/appliances.go: Hosts-page "Unclaimed appliances" section + BIND (customer
picker, host count display-only) + DISCARD; SSH host-key fingerprints; events.
- Red-proofs: one-shot delivery + register idempotency (both proven red);
404-no-oracle, sticky-discard, bind staging, render. Green + confirm gate.
Scripts (v1.19.0):
- felhom-bootstrap.sh: ONE unit, TWO modes. Direct (env has customer/passphrase)
= slice-A path, byte-identical, only branched around. Pairing (generic) =
register + poll (RestartSec=30 is the poll timer); on delivery write the env
0600 and fall through to direct. Secrets + token shredded on success.
- build-felhom-iso.sh --pairing: generic secret-free ISO, -generic filename,
manifest mode=pairing. profiles/generic.profile (new).
- test/bootstrap-modes.sh: Scenario D (direct = zero appliance calls) + pairing
register/poll + delivery handoff — all green in a debian container.
- 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.
GET /api/v1/wait long-poll: the box holds an authed hanging GET; the hub
completes it the instant any operator intent bumps that customer's in-memory
generation, then the box fires its ordinary report and the ACK delivers
everything through the unchanged machinery. 240s hold with a 25s heartbeat
newline defeats the nginx 60s proxy_read_timeout with no ingress annotation;
WriteTimeout lifted per-connection via ResponseController.
- internal/intent: per-customer generation counter + waiter registry
(Bump/Wait/Close), coalescing to latest, race-closer, in-memory by design.
Red-proofs: counter-vs-queue + race-closer (run-fail-reverted).
- api/wait.go: the endpoint (per-customer only; global key 400; A cannot see B).
- web bumps after every intent write (fire-after-commit): config CRUD, claim
resend, offsite re-issue/freeze, password regen, block/unblock, floors
(global bumps all config-managed), controller log-tail + log-bundle.
- main.go: one intent hub shared by web+api; Close() before server.Shutdown.
Pairs with controller v0.140.0 (the long-poll client). Grounding:
documentation/audits/SPIKE-immediate-sync-transport-2026-07-16.md.
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.
Reconciler observed waiting_secret across two reports (16:52+17:07 UTC), re-staged
the stored secret at 17:10:00 (no ep0 token, no gen bump); agent re-consumed
17:10:26 and converged (applied) 17:10:28 — no operator click. Demo host untouched
(scoped). Fleet widening remains a deliberate follow-up.
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Implements SPIKE-pbsdr-selfheal-2026-07-15 (e8f8c44). A box re-installed/rolled
back onto its stable host_id loses its agent-side converged marker; the hub
keeps the enabled descriptor + a CONSUMED one-time secret, the WG peer persists
(changed==false, cascade can't re-fire), so the agent sits in waiting_secret
forever. The missing piece is a consumable secret, not the descriptor.
New internal/pbsdrheal reconciler (5m, wgsync shape): for enabled+provisioned
hosts whose latest report pbs_dr.state is a stuck state past a >=2-distinct-report
debounce, re-stage the stored secret (store.RestageHostPBSSecret: clear
consumed_at, no ep0 call, NO generation bump); escalate to Re-issue (web
ReissuePBSDR) only when no secret is stored or the agent reports consumed_failed.
Converged/disabled/verify_failed/DR-OFF = no-op. PBSDRHEAL_ONLY_HOST scopes a
supervised rollout. Scenarios A-F + all six red-proofs verified. No agent change.
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hub v0.54.0: change operator login password from the Configuration UI
Adds a "Login password" card on /configuration. The password was previously
settable only via the hub-config ConfigMap (auth.password_hash) + redeploy.
- store: hub_settings key operator_password_hash + Get/SetOperatorPasswordHash
- server: passwordHash field -> configPasswordHash (seed); new
effectivePasswordHash() (DB override wins, else seed) is now the single
source for the CSRF gate, RequireAuth, and handleLogin
- POST /configuration/password (handleChangePassword): requires current
password, 8-72 byte new + confirm, bcrypt cost 10, persists DB override;
existing sessions kept valid; ConfigMap stays the break-glass reset path
- UI: current/new/confirm form + inline mismatch pre-check + 6 flashes
- tests + red-proofs: override precedence, happy-path via handleLogin,
wrong-current rejection, mismatch/too-short/no-op, template render
- docs: CHANGELOG, README (auth+config), REUSE, REPORT
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