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 R-95's word "ARMED" is withdrawn pending R-429.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 `check` was missing from the brief's list; `dump` is not a verb (it is a progress phase constant) and was withdrawn.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.
documentation/backlog/
OPEN-ITEMS.md is the register of open work and the file to read first — it holds only what is
open, one row per item, every row with a state and an owner. ROADMAP.md is the full history and
reasoning behind the R-n IDs, including shipped and killed items; an ID is minted there, and a new
instance of an existing item attaches to that ID rather than getting its own.
The rest of this folder: verified-LIVE findings with implementable fix plans that are not yet
implemented. Preserved here
(instead of on git branches) per the trunk-based, no-branches rule — the fix itself is implemented later
directly on main, during a normal/supervised session.
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FIX-M18-NOTES.md — dump re-validation runs every 5 min (perf). FIXED in controller v0.62.0 @
f8afe5c(2026-06-14). (was on the deletedfelhom-controllerbranchfix/m18-dump-validation-cache.) -
FIX-M19-NOTES.md —
deriveStackNamemisattribution edge (low-incidence correctness). FIXED in controller v0.62.0 @6bab68b(2026-06-14). (was on the deleted branchfix/m19-stackname-crossref.) -
FOLLOWUP-golden-default-controller-tag.md — the golden bakes a stale controller (
:0.43.0when queued; had rotted again to:0.85.1by resolution). FIXED in felhom-agent @ceca355(2026-07-03):build-golden.shv2.0.0 makes the controller tag a MANDATORY argument (a required arg cannot rot) and golden 0.98.3 was baked + clean-room-validated (bake → first-boot-current → self-manage → app deploy, on the drill VM — no supervised touch of live guests needed) + published + vouched. Evidence:../audits/DRILL-golden-098-2026-07-03.md.
Related: the live-drive fixspec (../audits/live-drive-fixspec-2026-06-14.md) carries the deferred
supervised items F9 (HDD provisioning/guest-attach), F20-BUG2 (durable_id scheme), F20-BUG3 (async
mkfs) — to be implemented in the agent/golden supervised session.