THE CLASS, now a row: an instrument that matches a LABEL rather than the fact it names. Five instances - R-410, R-400, R-378, R-419, R-94 - and EVERY ONE was found by accident, by someone looking at something else. The gates enforce every other rule in this project, including the rule that findings must be written down rather than left in prose. Nothing had ever checked the gates. METHOD, and it is the transferable part: for each gate, construct the label WITHOUT the fact - a directory with the right name and no bake log, a handler case that exists only in a comment, a note whose prose mentions the marker it lacks - run the gate, record what it says. No verdict was reached by reading. Reading is how all five hid. RESULT: 29 distinct scripts (35 registrations; three are shared across three runners). 19 sound, 4 holes left OPEN with rows, 6 that no plausible decoy could be built for and are named UNTESTED rather than called sound. A gate nobody tried to fool is UNKNOWN. SCOPE IS A FACT TOO - the largest single cause, and mundane. Eight gates decided what to look at with os.listdir, one level. Every one was green AND CORRECT today, and every one would have gone blind the moment anyone added a subdirectory. mojibake and docker-v already used os.walk, caught the identical planted file, and are the control that proves the cause was the listing and not the decoy. IN THIS REPO: hub-confirm and manifest-bearer now walk. observations_gate (R-419, CLOSED) requires a marker at a line start or after a sentence boundary and strips inline code spans - a note SAYING it carries no marker no longer satisfies the marker test. closed-register now CONVICTS on a row it cannot parse instead of warning: FOUR rows were in that state, TWO of them written by the session that closed them the day before, and every one was exempt from the only check that reads that file. The rows were repaired first and the conviction added second - registering a failing gate refuses every push. THE META-GATE: decoy_coverage_gate.py refuses a gate registered without a decoy or a named exemption. It convicted ITSELF the moment it was registered, which is how it came to have one. Coverage is a DECLARATION the gate AST-parses, never a grep - searching a test file for a gate's name would be the very shape this sweep exists to find. The 20 uncovered gates are listed by name (R-426). NOT FIXED, each with a row and a decoy asserting TODAY's behaviour so the fix must be deliberate: R-422 reuse-refs (only 7 extensions; a rotted .md citation is invisible), R-423 site (PAGES is a hardcoded list of 7), R-424 one-register (a defect parked as `idea`), R-425 offbox-rename (fixed FILES list). R-427: closed_register_gate checks ONE direction - twelve open rows carry a closed verdict and were NOT moved, because telling finished from partly-finished is a judgement and R-378 is the record of a machine getting it wrong. FIVE DECOYS WITHDRAWN AS ILLEGITIMATE, mine, named in the audit. A decoy nobody would write proves nothing, and manufacturing a finding to fill a row is worse than an honest NO. No product code. No version bump. No image. No golden owed. All four runners green. Register: OPEN 172 -> 178, CLOSED 160 -> 161.
Felhom host scripts
Operator-side scripts for standing up a Felhom Proxmox host.
felhom-host-install.sh — Day-0 host bootstrap (operator-deploy)
Run on a freshly-PVE-installed box to fully automate Day-0: Proxmox API token →
hub host enrollment (single secret) → agent install (fetch + verify + install) →
agent config → golden → guest provision → verify. It composes already-proven mechanisms
(the pveum role/token sequence, the hub POST /host-enroll enrollment from option C, and
felhom-agent --selftest=provision). The agent renders bootstrap.json into the guest and
the controller pulls its own controller.yaml in-guest — the script never fetches that.
Since v1.1.0 (BUNDLE slice) the script also installs the agent itself: it fetches the
agent binary + golden from Gitea generic packages and verifies each artifact's sha256 against
the hub-vouched manifest (GET /api/v1/artifacts/{id}) before installing/using it. The fetch
credential is the git token already inside the customer's controller.yaml (config-retrieve) —
no new credential, and the checksum trust root is the hub, not Gitea.
Grounding: documentation/audits/SPIKE-day0-firstboot-handshake-2026-06-26.md.
Prerequisites (manual, before running)
- Install Proxmox VE 9.x on the box. During the installer, use Advanced → LVM
sizing so
local-lvm(thepve/datathin pool) has enough room for the appliance volumes — a useful box wants ≥ ~120 GiB free onlocal-lvm(rootfs 32G + Docker-data ~200G + user-data ~50G after grows). The script refuses below the hard minimum. - SSH into the box as root.
- Create the customer in the hub first (hub UI → new customer). The customer's retrieval passphrase (a 5-word Hungarian phrase) is the only secret you carry to the box.
That's it. The agent binary + golden are fetched + verified + installed by the script (provided the
operator has recorded the current artifact set in the hub UI → Configs → Day-0 artifacts, and
published them via felhom-agent/scripts/publish-agent.sh + configs/build-golden.sh). A local
golden, if present, is still used as a fallback.
Usage
curl -fsSL https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh -o felhom-host-install.sh
chmod +x felhom-host-install.sh
# secure no-echo passphrase prompt:
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer>
# or from a 0600 file (no prompt):
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer> --passphrase-file /root/.pass
# preview every mutating command without executing:
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer> --dry-run
# resume after a fixed mid-way failure (skips completed steps):
sudo ./felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id <customer> --resume
The passphrase is read no-echo or from a 0600 file — never a CLI argument, never
echoed, never written to the state file or logs. The minted Proxmox-token secret and the
per-host hub api_key live only in the agent config (0600, root).
Key options
| Option | Default | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
--customer-id ID |
(required) | customer (must already exist in the hub) |
--vmid N |
9201 |
guest VMID to provision |
--golden VOLID |
newest vzdump-lxc-<golden-vmid> |
golden archive |
--rootfs/--datavol/--sysdata-grow N |
auto-compute | volume grows (GiB over the golden base 32/16/8) |
--passphrase-file PATH |
no-echo prompt | read passphrase from a 0600 file |
--preserve-from PATH |
— | merge non-Day-0 sections (PBS/local_api/privileged/authz) from an existing config |
--dry-run / --resume / --force |
off | preview / resume / clobber an existing vmid |
--mode provision|dr |
provision |
dr is a documented 10D stub (not implemented) |
Behaviour notes
- Idempotent + resumable. A step-state file (
/var/lib/felhom-install/state.json) records completed steps;--resumeskips them. A plain re-run refuses to clobber an existing--vmid(pass--forceto override). - Single-secret enrollment.
POST /host-enrollmints on first call (201) and reuses the credential on later calls (200) — re-running never orphans a running agent's key. The global operator key is never used. - Token automation. Creates/normalises the 16-priv
FelhomAgentrole, thefelhom-agent@pveuser + privsep token, and both ACL grants (user and token — the ACL is applied after the token exists, becausepveum user token removepurges it). - Agent install (v1.1.0). Fetches the binary from Gitea
(
/api/packages/admin/generic/felhom-agent/<ver>/felhom-agent), verifies its sha256 against the hub manifest, then installs the non-rootfelhom-agentservice user + binary + sudoers (0440,visudo -cf-validated) + the canonical systemd unit. Idempotent: same version already installed + service active → skips. A sha256 mismatch aborts the install (verify-before-use). The agent runs non-root (privileged.mode: "sudo"+ the sudoers allowlist), never as root. - Golden (v1.1.0). Uses a local golden when present; otherwise fetches it from Gitea
(
/api/packages/admin/generic/felhom-golden/<ver>/golden.tar.zst), verifies its sha256, and imports it into the archive storage's dump dir for the restore.--force-gitea-goldenforces the Gitea path even when a local golden exists. - DR mode (
--mode dr) is a documented seam only — it restores the customer's own PBS whole-CT snapshot instead of the golden. Not implemented (10D).
Productionization hooks (not done here)
- Serving: place this file where the felhom.eu site serves it at
https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh(a static route; verify on deploy). - Per-customer artifact pinning: the hub manifest currently returns the global current artifact
set for every customer; per-customer pinning is a future hook (
GET /api/v1/artifacts/{id}already takes the customer id). - Unit/sudoers integrity: the binary + golden are sha256-verified against the hub; the unit +
sudoers are fetched from the agent repo
main(canonical text) and the sudoers isvisudo -cf-validated.