Docs 02/05/07/13 and capability F12 (PROVEN-LIVE); the audit's C and D sections; R-1020 (the
duration reads 0) and R-1021 (the hub build builds a stale checkout) filed; STATUS one screen.
Register 133 -> 140 (this session: opened 2, closed 1; another session added 6). Both plugs ON.
Report: REPORT-immich-repair-2026-10-14.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012qRErfCoiTkvDK9N5XHbzb
- 09 §3: the decision sheet S1-S38, the operator's words quoted where they differ (S1, S2, S8, S32, S37)
- closed: R-831 R-870 R-698 R-327 R-230 R-719 R-352 R-526 R-770 R-771 R-913 R-290 R-209a R-769 R-616 R-884, and R-243 (dated check: the mail fired 2026-10-11 16:13:51Z, hub log agrees)
- R-698: the known limit written in 07 §6.6; new row R-933 (mirror supported catalog images, P3)
- R-327: capability-map row BUILT; stands claim re-titled and moved to built; page re-rendered
- R-913: the customer Cloudflare token recipe in day0-install A.1; 01 §7 points at it
- R-884: read only - ArgoCD Synced, live Deployment equals git
- R-887 dated check NOT met (4 lost jobs 10-10/11); re-dated 2026-10-19 after the S21 change
- 22 open rows carry their ruling; STATUS: the sheet is ANSWERED
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
Architecture: 08 records ruling A (45 m, the round-9 arithmetic, the cost) and
the two new event types with their audiences; 03 records the slow counter as
built; 07 records the restore-record persistence as a REVERSED design for the
restore record only; CONTEXT.md carries the day's rulings.
Guide: the recovery code moves after the first apps and waits for the yellow bar.
Register: R-549 and R-550 closed PROVEN-LIVE; R-546 closed on red-proofed tests
with its live walk owed by R-551 (no Tier-0 box is paused AND agent-connected).
R-552 filed: an interrupted-restore notice for a removed app never clears -
found in my own v0.246.0 after the release was built.
Evidence: Part A (hub prints 45m/1h30m), Part C delivery on HP and N100, B.4(a)
live proof and its teardown.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
The tier-3 pause is the zero-knowledge escrow design and is untouched. What was
missing was the ASK, while the backup page promised the copy that had never run.
- VOLUNTEER-first-hour.md: a new step 6, right after the dashboard password and
before the first app - what the code is, where, write it on PAPER, and that
Felhom cannot get it back for them. Sections 6..12 renumbered to 7..13.
- day0-install.md A.2b: the operator step for a REBUILT box, which was missing.
Acknowledged delete -> the hub re-issues by itself; otherwise ONE press of
"Re-issue PBS credentials" (F-14 ruling 2026-07-13, hub/internal/web/pbsdr.go).
This is the correction to last night's "zero presses" note.
- 07-backup-architecture.md: 6.1 records tier-3's paused state as a DESIGN, and
2 records that the household is asked from first login.
- capability map: the first-hour row's last gap closed, with what it still does
not claim (no volunteer has walked the ask from the written guide).
- register: R-543 CLOSED with the live measurements; R-545 filed (nothing
un-configures an off-site target). R-511 was already closed yesterday.
- STATUS: the answered publish question removed (1.28.0 is live), readiness yes.
- evidence: red-proofs, the two-box live validation, teardown on three layers,
and both of my own mistakes in this session.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
Off-site is ON by default for a new customer — shared, 100 GB soft quota prefilled,
the checkbox kept so an operator can opt a customer out. The reason is this repo's
own [FACT]: the whole-guest tiers do not carry the data drive and a Tier-1 unit has
no file leg, so with this unticked a one-drive box keeps NO copy of the household's
own files. Measured on a fresh box the same day.
The quota is prefilled because the fill warning only fires when quota_gb > 0.
Also registers controller v0.244.0's app_deploy_started / app_deploy_failed in both
allowedEventTypes and customerMessages, per the rule that the two move together.
Red-proofed: dropping the default fails the new render test.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0159rPz1ZhFKsS53msqPYxtS
Hub v0.112.0 serves a floor above the golden with a declared MinAgent;
controller v0.239.0 reached both demo boxes by that floor in 14 s and 15 s
and updates on any backup tier. 09 §3 decisions 7 and 8, §6/§6.1; 07 §6
line; capability map row; STATUS items 15/16 done and the cadence line
corrected; CONTEXT; register: R-470/R-472/R-475 compressed to CLOSED-ITEMS
(full text at 2f5d3af), R-477..R-480 opened, R-474 reproduced a third
time. OPEN-ITEMS 431689 -> 432156 bytes, CLOSED-ITEMS 118051 -> 120598.
Evidence: documentation/audits/rulings-r472-r475-2026-09-13/.
R-434 CLOSED — and the row's own "blocked on R-433" verdict was wrong, which is the point.
The fix is a DELETION, not a replacement: withdraw the promise instead of swapping it for a
new one, and the sentence is true under every possible answer to the provider questions, so
it never needs a second rewrite. A replacement would have been blocked; a withdrawal is not.
was: "...still hold the older copy, so this is recoverable file-by-file; it is NOT
confirmed data loss. Check whether a deletion ran on the box before restoring."
now: "...still hold the older copy. The route back out of them is not yet established,
so treat this as neither confirmed data loss nor confirmed recovery. Get in touch
before restoring anything, and check whether a deletion ran on the box."
It must not swing the other way either: "your backups are gone" is still usually false.
Clause (a) — the box cannot WRITE into the snapshot area — stands and is re-confirmed.
Tests: offsite_r434_test.go, three, all driving the production path so they assert the
sentence an operator RECEIVES. ASCII-only fragments, positive and negative controls.
RED-PROOF: restoring the v0.111.0 sentence failed all three, on every fragment, with the
offending sentence printed. TestR431_FiresOnAMassDeletion asserted "NOT confirmed data
loss" and caught this fix correctly; its wording fragment is REMOVED rather than updated,
so the wording keeps ONE home.
R-435 written into the detector's own documentation, no threshold changed: it sees a mass
deletion, not one app being wiped (69 across 9 apps -> ~35 needed, one tag is ~9, and
forget --prune groups by host,tags). Says explicitly not to lower the numbers.
THE STOPPING LINE, in all three places — register, 07 section 8 head, STATUS.md.
Deferred set ENUMERATED, not described: 07 section 8 rows 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 (+11b), 12,
each tagged [BETA-DEFERRED]. A number in the brief was wrong and is corrected in place:
six rows are DEFERRED, ELEVEN carry a blank RTO (4,5,8,9,10,11,11b,12,13,14,15); the other
five are blank for reasons that are not deferred work, and row 15 is an open DEFECT (R-104)
that the stopping line does NOT cover. NO STATUS MOVED — nothing was proven today.
Two provider questions drafted, not sent, no API called (11-D stands):
documentation/runbooks/provider-questions-2026-09-01.md, linked from R-95 and R-433, and
tracked by a dated DUE-CHECKS row (2026-09-15) — the 2026-07-27 check that sat unconfirmed
for 36 days is the scar that block exists for.
R-95, R-433 BLOCKED-ON-PROVIDER. R-95's one-day demotion on a clause that did not hold is
recorded; the proposal to rank it back near the top is stated and NOT acted on. R-430 marked
LATENT with its trigger: it becomes live the moment delete is withdrawn, so it is a
precondition on the R-95 build, not a follow-up. The stale ranking paragraph ("armed",
"zero snapshots") is corrected in place, order unchanged.
Register 621 -> 688 lines; 181 rows throughout; open-state 170 -> 169.
No controller or agent change. No golden owed, no floor change.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LB8FmJaGd2cyjvy6dbEjpM
The drill was to delete demo-hp's off-site history and get it back out of a Storage
Box snapshot, filling row 10's blank RTO. Phase 1 found there is nothing to get it
back from: no snapshot is reachable from a sub-account BY ANY NAME.
Measured, read-only, no delete verb issued against any live store:
- 777,600 exact names in the vendor form YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MM-SS, nine full days at
second granularity, plus 126 alternative shapes -> ZERO hits.
- The control is what makes that mean anything: the identical 600-name batch shape
with one real path appended returned it, 6 of 6.
- Structural cause: /home (u629488-sub3) is st_dev 0,82; /.zfs/snapshot is st_dev
0,276; /home/.zfs does not exist. A snapshot under /.zfs/snapshot belongs to a
different dataset than the one holding felhom-repo.
- Three tools agree with controls in the same run: SFTP, the port-23 shell,
rsync --list-only.
So yesterday's re-scope splits: clause (a) "the box cannot write into the snapshot
area" STANDS and is re-confirmed; clause (b) "the rest is recoverable file by file"
is NOT SUPPORTED. STOPPED before Phase 2 on the operator's ruling — with no recovery
leg the deletion would have destroyed real history to buy only an alarm test that
could not fire at the specified size. Store verified untouched at 69 snapshots.
R-432 ANSWERED (negatively; its panel-read next step withdrawn as unnecessary).
R-433 no snapshot reachable by any name — decides R-95's remedy and its rank.
R-434 the drop alarm's text promises a file-by-file recovery that cannot be performed.
R-435 the drop detector is blind to a single-app deletion (>50% of 69 needed, ~9 given).
R-436 LEAD: the provider offers `rclone serve restic --stdio` and restic 0.14.0 speaks
`rclone:` (measured, controlled) — real prevention may need no new machine, IF
the vendor pins --append-only. Ask before building.
07 §8 row 10: text corrected, status NOT moved, RTO still blank.
No code, no version bump, no image, no golden. REPORT.md's only copy of the R-331
report preserved as REPORT-r331-backup-card.md before overwrite.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LB8FmJaGd2cyjvy6dbEjpM
THE RECORD WAS TELLING A WORSE STORY THAN THE TRUTH FOR TWO MONTHS, and my own probe is why.
R-429 CORRECTED. Yesterday's spike searched for a directory called `.snapshots`. The vendor documents
the path as /.zfs/snapshot. The probe's CONTROLS were sound and its SUBJECT was wrong, so "not found"
was true and meant nothing. Re-probed at the documented path on both boxes, with controls:
- /.zfs lists (shares, snapshot) from inside the jail;
- a write into /.zfs/snapshot is REFUSED - dest open ...: Failure - while the identical write to
the account home SUCCEEDS and was cleaned up.
That is the append-only property PROVEN rather than cited, and it is the sentence the whole re-scope
rests on. Seven daily snapshots are confirmed in the panel. The mitigation works. What remains true,
and was always the actual finding: the row claiming it had no R-number, its "confirm tomorrow" went
36 days unanswered, and the DUE-CHECKS block built for that class was empty. THE FINDING WAS NEVER THE
SNAPSHOTS - IT WAS THAT NOBODY COULD TELL.
R-95 RE-SCOPED: the box can delete its LIVE repository but cannot write to the daily snapshots of it,
so a deletion costs at most one day plus a per-file recovery - not open-ended loss. The ranking is
Viktor's; it has been #1 since July on the old story.
R-432 FILED: a sub-account sees /.zfs/snapshot EMPTY while the same box holds seven snapshots, so
per-file recovery is operator-only today. One panel read settles whether a NAMED snapshot can still be
entered, which would make it product-reachable.
R-431 SHIPPED. Third signal in OffsiteChecker. On the hub deliberately: a detector on the box is one
the deletion can silence. Threshold REASONED, not invented - over 12 898 reports every decrease lands
on ZERO and predates stats_known, and in the stats_known window there are none, so observed churn gave
nothing to calibrate against. Retention cannot halve a total; a mass deletion goes to ~0. Hence: more
than half, and at least 5. Guarded by StatsKnown (R-331), the declared State (R-204) and run success
(R-100 - whose lesson lives in this very file).
ACCEPTANCE: 9 009 real report points replayed through the detector produced ZERO alarms.
Three red-proofs run. The escalation one only became real after the first version was found HOLLOW -
it re-swept the same report, so the baseline had already moved and the latch was never consulted.
07 row 10's status is NOT moved: the write-refusal is measured, but the recovery ROUTE has never been
walked, which is what PARTIAL means.
READ-ONLY STUDY. No code, no version, no image, no golden. No delete verb was issued against any
live store. ep0, DooPlex and Peti's box were not touched at all.
Q1 FIRST, AND IT DID NOT GO THE EXPECTED WAY. The brief supposed a working seven-day snapshot net
might bound the worst case. Measured on BOTH boxes over their own SFTP credential, with a positive
and a negative control on each: NO .snapshots is visible to either sub-account - not in the account
home, not inside the repo - and the account is jailed at /. Either none exist or a sub-account
cannot see them, and the second is not a reprieve: a snapshot the box cannot see is one the box
cannot restore from, so recovery would be an operator act at the Hetzner panel.
The register's claim rests on nothing that was checked. The row has NO R-number, so nothing can cite
it; its "confirm tomorrow" was 2026-07-27, 36 days ago; and the DUE-CHECKS block built for exactly
this (R-341) is EMPTY. R-95's word "ARMED" is withdrawn pending R-429. The confirming field is a
Hetzner API field, so this spike STOPPED at the section 11-D fence and left it for Viktor - ten
minutes in the panel, and it re-ranks everything.
Q2: TEN verbs, not nine. `check` was missing from the brief's list; `dump` is not a verb (it is a
progress phase constant) and was withdrawn. There are TWO `forget --prune` sites - offbox.go:1388
AND offbox.go:1759 - and disarming one without the other reproduces R-191 exactly.
Q3 (documented, from our own API mirror): AccessSettings has five booleans and `readonly` is the
only permission axis. No append-only. So the PBS shape does NOT transfer - PBS is a server that can
refuse; a Storage Box is a filesystem that runs nothing.
Q5 (measured, faithful append-only model, both controls passed first): withdrawing delete does NOT
wedge the store - restic treats a dead owner's lock as stale and proceeds. The constraint everyone
feared is not the blocker. But `unlock --remove-all` printed "successfully removed locks" while the
lock was still there, and resticStep's crash-lock self-heal is built on that call - R-430.
Q6 (measured, with a control): restic 0.14.0 DOES speak rest:. Append-only is a rest-server flag,
not a restic one.
Q7 (measured): detection is nearly free. snapshot_count already reaches the hub and the hub APPENDS
reports, so the history to compare against is already on disk.
RECOMMENDATION: answer Q1 today (Viktor, ten minutes), then build detection, then move retention off
the box. Defer the transport change until Q1 is answered.
Register: OPEN 179 -> 181. Filed R-429, R-430; R-95 updated and kept OPEN. 07 row 10's status is
deliberately UNCHANGED.
Part 2.1's determination is the first artifact: the scratch resolver was consciously OUT OF
SCOPE for R-356, not excluded on state-only grounds - established from R-356's own commit
08eb1a6, whose tests say 'the prepared scratch still resolves ... only the DESTINATION
moves'. So 07 section 6.3's rule applies and now has a FOURTH consumer, and the section
says so.
Live evidence: the collision rerun on demo-hp with the sampler positively controlled first
(12 locks=1 across a real check, 4 locks=0 quiet), showing unlock --remove-all 0 times where
the drill saw it twice; and the proof reaching verdict pass on demo-felhom - the box that
could not run it at all - recorded where last_proof_result had been ABSENT every night.
Capability map: the off-site proof row now records that the nightly firing IS proven (it ran
unattended at 05:30 on demo-hp) and that a driveless box can now be proved.
Register: six rows closed and compressed. OPEN 176 -> 170, CLOSED 152 -> 158.
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