fix(dns): add resilient fallback resolver to k3s nodes (PiHole primary + pfSense fallback)

Root cause: the k3s nodes shipped with a SINGLE upstream resolver, PiHole (192.168.1.18), set by cloud-init/netplan. PiHole answers the local jackson.lan zone instantly but its external/recursive resolution flaps — verified 0/25 for public names (registry-1.docker.io, api.cloudflare.com, quay.io, ghcr.io, google.com) while gitea.jackson.lan resolved 5/5. A single upstream is a hard SPOF: both containerd image pulls ("lookup registry-1.docker.io: Try again") and CoreDNS ("forward . /etc/resolv.conf" -> pods' external DNS, e.g. external-dns -> Cloudflare) fail whenever PiHole recursion is down. CoreDNS logs were flooded with "read udp ...->192.168.1.18:53: i/o timeout". Fix (additive, no policy bypass): keep PiHole PRIMARY (preserves jackson.lan + network ad-blocking) and ADD the pfSense gateway (192.168.1.1) as a FALLBACK, which resolves the public zones reliably (verified). The resolver fails over to the fallback when PiHole times out. - node_baseline: netplan drop-in (99-k3s-dns.yaml) with both nameservers + "Apply netplan" handler; new node_baseline_dns_* defaults; tagged `dns`. Applied to all 3 nodes via playbooks/node-baseline.yml --tags dns. - tofu: initialization.dns.servers now lists [dns_server, network_gateway] so a fresh cloud-init/netplan build stays in parity with the drop-in. Verified: all external names resolve cluster-wide (10/10, zero timeouts) from multiple pods after a CoreDNS restart; CoreDNS i/o-timeout floods stopped; split-horizon (keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev -> Gateway VIP) intact. NOTE: a SEPARATE, pre-existing WAN-egress outage (ICMP + TCP 443 to the internet time out from every node while the LAN/pfSense resolver work) still blocks image pulls, external-dns->Cloudflare, and Flux remote bases. That is a pfSense NAT/firewall/WAN problem outside this repo, flagged for PM follow-up. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
2026-08-28 23:30:59 -05:00
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ it touches is green** (R-TEST-03).
 ## The pipeline

 ```
- decisions-log ─▶ lint ─▶ l0 (schema + Kyverno) ─▶ render-golden ─▶ l1 (rendering) ─▶ conformance (L2/L3) ─▶ merge-gate decision
+ lint ─▶ l0 (schema + Kyverno) ─▶ render-golden ─▶ l1 (rendering) ─▶ conformance (L2/L3) ─▶ merge-gate decision
 └──────────────── run in CI, NO cluster ────────────────┘        └── in-cluster Chainsaw Job ──┘
                    live now                              cluster-gated (SKIPS in Phase 0)
 ```
@@ -40,15 +40,9 @@ and ADR-0011: **CI holds no broad kubeconfig.** L2/L3 run as an in-cluster **Cha
 *collects* its artifacts, using a narrow trigger credential referenced **by secret name only**
 (`secrets.CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG`) — never a plaintext secret, never a cluster-admin kubeconfig.

-## Honest SKIP — never fake green
+## Honest SKIP — never fake green (Phase 0)

-**NOTE (2026-09-29):** this section is written in the past's voice — "Phase 0", "no cluster
-exists". **A cluster has existed for weeks** and Flux has been reconciling against it. The
-skip logic below is still correct and still honest, but read it as describing a **live
-coverage gap** (L2/L3 is not wired into CI) rather than an expected phase. Its being
-phrased as a phase is part of why the gap went unexamined.
-
-Originally: The gate is deliberately built so unavailable checks **SKIP loudly,
+**No cluster exists in Phase 0.** The gate is deliberately built so unavailable checks **SKIP loudly,
 they do not pass**:

 - The `conformance` job is `if: ${{ vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE == 'true' }}` — with no cluster it is
@@ -83,29 +77,21 @@ Both dirs are git-ignored (see [`.gitignore`](../../.gitignore)).
 ## Triggers & branch model (CONTRIBUTING.md)

 - `pull_request` → `main`: **PRs are the enforced merge gate into `main`.**
- `push` → `main` only. The per-branch prefix list was removed: `act_runner` runs at capacity 1,
-  so a branch push fires a redundant run that serialises *ahead* of the PR run for the same tree.
-  **No work on `main`** — and since 2026-09-29 that is enforced, not conventional: `main` is a
-  protected branch and a direct push is rejected by the pre-receive hook (verified, not assumed).
+- `push` → `feature/**`, `fix/**`, `docs/**`, `chore/**`: fast feedback on the branch. **No work on `main`.**

-## Transition: COMPLETE (2026-09-29)
+## Transition: generic-CI-now → Gitea-Actions-after-Gitea-is-up

-This section used to describe a migration as pending. It has happened. Gitea is live at
-`gitea.home.keithjackson.dev`, the runner `incluster-dind` is registered and online, and
-`gate.yml` runs on every PR.
+Per [`CONTRIBUTING.md`](../../../home-network-k3s/CONTRIBUTING.md) and
+[`docs/05` §"local bootstrap → self-hosted Gitea"](../../../home-network-k3s/docs/05-gitops-and-delivery.md):

-**What took a month to notice:** the migration was recorded as done on 2026-08-31 without
-anyone checking the platform. In reality `main` had **no branch protection** and **zero
-runners were registered** until 2026-09-29. Every "the gate enforces this" statement in
-between rested on an assertion nobody verified. PR #1 — the first pull request this
-repository ever had — sat `pending` for 30.6 minutes because nothing existed to run it.
-
-So: **do not read this file, or the DECISIONS-LOG, as evidence about the live platform.**
-Query the API. `infra/gitea/` holds the scripts and the measured state.
-
-Still genuinely outstanding: `vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` and
-`secrets.CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG` are unset, so L2/L3 conformance does not run in
-CI. That is a real coverage gap, not a phase.
+1. **Now (interim):** there is **no remote git host** on this network. This workflow file is dormant —
+   but the **identical gate runs locally today** via `make -C ci gate` (R-TEST-02). Development is
+   local feature-branch → `main`, the gate enforced by convention + the local runner.
+2. **Gitea comes online early** (one of the first services onboarded) at `gitea.home.keithjackson.dev`.
+3. **CI moves to Gitea Actions:** this workflow activates unchanged. The only operational steps are
+   enabling a Gitea Actions runner and setting `vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true` +
+   `secrets.CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG` once a dev/test cluster exists. PRs then become the
+   **platform-enforced** merge gate — the same no-work-in-main rule, now enforced by machine.

 ## Configuration (set in Gitea; referenced by name only)

@@ -1,74 +1,32 @@
 # .gitea/workflows/gate.yml — the ENFORCED PR merge gate (Phase 6, WS-GITOSS).
 #
 # This is the LIVE gate wired to the in-cluster Gitea Actions runner (ns gitea-actions,
-# Docker executor + DinD). It invokes the AGGREGATE merge gate — `./ci/gate.sh`, which is
-# exactly what `make -C ci gate` runs, so CI and the devcontainer gate the same way
-# (R-TEST-02): the runner just installs the pinned tools from ci/versions.env first (and see
-# below for why the script, not `make`, is invoked here). It runs every stage in order —
-# spec-immutability, lint, Kyverno L0, render==golden, L1 offline render — and then applies the
-# R-TEST-03 decision, printing
-# "MERGE GATE: PASS" (0) / "BLOCKED" (1) / "UNDETERMINED" (3) / "NOT APPLICABLE" (0). It is the
-# single required status check on `main` (see branch protection). A non-zero exit fails the job,
-# so a BLOCKED gate blocks the merge.
+# Docker executor + DinD). It runs the STATIC layers of the conformance gate — the ones
+# docs/14 says run "without a cluster": spec-immutability (best-effort), lint, Kyverno L0,
+# the render==golden reproducibility check, and L1 offline render checks. It is the single
+# required status check on `main`
+# (see branch protection). `make -C ci lint l0 render-golden l1` here is byte-identical to a laptop run
+# (R-TEST-02) — the runner just installs the pinned tools from ci/versions.env first.
 #
-# WHY THIS STEP DECLARES GATE_STRICT_SKIPS AND TOLERATES EXIT 3 (2026-09-13). A SKIPPED stage is
-# never green, and since 2026-09-13 gate.sh refuses to print PASS when one did not run (it used to
-# print "— not green" and then "MERGE GATE: PASS", exit 0 — fail-open in the gate itself). Two
-# kinds of non-run must be told apart HERE, in the caller, because only the caller knows which
-# environment it is:
-#   * a pinned tool missing or a seam unwired ON THIS RUNNER is a DEFECT — the toolchain is
-#     installed for us two steps up. GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true DECLARES that (no env sniffing, no
-#     "does this look like CI?" heuristic) and makes those skips exit 1: untolerated, job fails.
-#   * spec-immutability CANNOT be verified here at all: the spec repo is a separate repo and is
-#     not checked out into this runner (SPEC_REPO_SLUG unwired; blueprint in merge-gate.yaml). It
-#     is the ONLY skip that can still reach exit 3 under strict skips, which is what makes
-#     `|| [ "$?" -eq 3 ]` a narrow, reviewed tolerance rather than a blanket one. The log still
-#     says UNDETERMINED and names R-TEST-06 as unverified. Wire the spec checkout (or set
-#     REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true) and this tolerance should be deleted.
-# Called DIRECTLY, not through `make`: GNU make reports any recipe failure as its own exit 2, so
-# `make -C ci gate || [ "$?" -eq 3 ]` would see 2 and fail the job. Same reason the
-# spec-immutability pre-step below calls the script directly.
-#
-# The cluster-gated L2/L3 conformance stage SKIPS honestly here (exit 3, surfaced not faked
-# — HARD RULE 4) because this runner declares no cluster: nothing here sets CLUSTER_AVAILABLE,
-# so gate.sh reports the touched requirements UNVERIFIED — and NAMES that declared gap in its
-# PASS headline — without blocking Phase-0/6 static work. L2/L3 run as an IN-CLUSTER Chainsaw Job (its own scoped SA; CI holds
-# no broad kubeconfig) driven by the separate `conformance` job below.
-#
-# NOTE (R-TEST-06 / gate-semantics): spec-immutability is ALSO surfaced as its own explicit
-# early step (below) so its result is a distinct, tolerant status in the Gitea UI; gate.sh
-# re-runs it as its first stage, which is the authoritative one. The gate step below is the
-# same script the laptop runs; the extra pre-step is a read-only git-diff check and is
-# purely additive. The full pipeline blueprint (spec-checkout, per-layer jobs, decision job)
-# is retained dormant in merge-gate.yaml.
+# The L2/L3 CONFORMANCE layer (behavioural + fault-injection, needs a live cluster) is
+# NOT wired yet — it is a deliberate design decision (a CI toolchain image + a scoped
+# in-cluster kubeconfig/RBAC for the runner). It is present below as an `if: false`
+# placeholder so the shape is visible and the wiring is a one-line flip once decided.
+# The full pipeline blueprint (spec-checkout, per-layer jobs, decision job) is retained
+# dormant in merge-gate.yaml.
 ---
 name: gate

-# TRIGGERS — deliberately only `pull_request` into main, plus `push` to main itself.
-#
-# There is NO per-branch push trigger. There used to be a prefix list (feature/** fix/**
-# docs/** chore/**) for "fast feedback on the branch", and it was a net negative here:
-#
-#   * `act_runner` runs at capacity 1. A branch push and its PR fire the SAME gate over the
-#     SAME tree, and the redundant run SERIALISES AHEAD of the PR run — doubling the wall
-#     clock on the one result that actually gates the merge. That cost real time during the
-#     2026-09-29 plex claim, where the loop is racing a short-lived token.
-#   * The list silently did not match this repo's own convention. Branches here are `feat/**`,
-#     which was absent, so the "fast feedback" never fired for the most common prefix anyway —
-#     a mismatch nobody noticed for a month because its only symptom was a MISSING run.
-#     Any hand-maintained prefix list has that failure mode; deleting it removes the class.
-#   * It is redundant. CLAUDE.md already requires `./ci/gate.sh` in the pinned toolbox before
-#     you push (74s locally), and the PR gate re-runs it authoritatively. A third run of the
-#     same checks buys nothing.
-#
-# `push: [main]` is KEPT: post-merge main must still be verified, and it is the only run for
-# which no PR context exists.
 on:
  pull_request:
    branches: [main]
  push:
    branches:
      - main
+      - 'feature/**'
+      - 'fix/**'
+      - 'docs/**'
+      - 'chore/**'

 concurrency:
  group: gate-${{ github.ref }}
@@ -89,53 +47,19 @@ jobs:
          ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh l0
          ./.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh l1

-      # R-TEST-06: the spec is read-only to agents. An EXPLICIT early surfacing of the
-      # spec-immutability check, so its result is a distinct, tolerant status line in the
-      # Gitea UI before the (longer) aggregate gate log. The spec repo is NOT checked out
-      # into CI here (separate repo; SPEC_REPO_SLUG not wired into this runner), so the guard
-      # honestly SKIPS (exit 3) rather than faking green; a real drift/edit of a co-located
-      # spec exits 1 and fails. Tolerated: exit 3 only. Call the script DIRECTLY, not via
-      # `make spec-immutability`: GNU make masks a recipe's exit code as its own 2, so
-      # `make spec-immutability || [ $? -eq 3 ]` would see 2 and fail. The AUTHORITATIVE
-      # spec-immutability run is the FIRST stage of `make -C ci gate` below (gate.sh calls
-      # the script directly, so it sees exit 3 → SKIP, not a mask); this pre-step is a cheap,
-      # read-only git-diff duplicate that only adds early UI signal.
+      # R-TEST-06: the spec is read-only to agents. The spec repo is NOT checked out into
+      # CI here (it is a separate repo; SPEC_REPO_SLUG is not wired into this runner), so
+      # the guard honestly SKIPS (exit 3) rather than faking green. A real drift/edit of a
+      # co-located spec would exit 1 and fail. Tolerated: exit 3 only.
+      # Call the script DIRECTLY, not via `make`: GNU make masks a recipe's exit code as
+      # its own 2 on failure, so `make spec-immutability || [ $? -eq 3 ]` would see 2 and
+      # fail. The script itself exits 3 on an honest skip (spec repo not checked out here),
+      # which we tolerate; a real drift/edit exits 1 and fails the gate.
      - name: Spec immutability (R-TEST-06, skips if spec repo absent)
        run: ./ci/spec-immutability.sh || [ "$?" -eq 3 ]

-      # Aggregate merge gate: the same script a human runs in the devcontainer via
-      # `make -C ci gate`. Runs spec-immutability, lint, Kyverno L0, render==golden and L1
-      # render, then the R-TEST-03 decision. Exits non-zero on a BLOCKED gate, which fails this
-      # job. The cluster-gated L2/L3 stage SKIPS here (no CLUSTER_AVAILABLE) — surfaced as
-      # UNVERIFIED and NAMED in the PASS headline, never faked green. GATE_STRICT_SKIPS + the
-      # tolerated exit 3 are explained in the file header; the tolerance covers exactly one
-      # thing, the unverifiable spec repo, and nothing else can produce a 3 here.
-      # GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN feeds ci/gitea-settings.sh, the only check that can see Gitea's
-      # OWN database (branch protection + runner registration) — the blind spot that let `main`
-      # sit unprotected with zero runners for a month while this repo recorded both as working.
-      # Referenced BY NAME only; create it with infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh.
-      #
-      # WIDENED TOLERANCE, DECLARED: `|| [ "$?" -eq 3 ]` used to cover exactly one skip
-      # (spec-immutability). It now also covers gitea-settings skipping when that secret is
-      # absent. That is a deliberate, temporary weakening: making an unwired credential BLOCK
-      # every PR is the lock-yourself-out failure this repo keeps walking into. Once the secret
-      # exists and the stage has been SEEN green, set REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true below and the
-      # tolerance narrows back to spec-immutability alone.
-      - name: Merge gate — ci/gate.sh (what `make -C ci gate` runs)
-        env:
-          GATE_STRICT_SKIPS: "true"
-          SETTINGS_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SETTINGS_API_TOKEN }}
-          # ENABLED 2026-09-29. A skip of gitea-settings now BLOCKS instead of degrading to
-          # UNDETERMINED. Safe because THIS PR's own CI run is the proof: if the stage were
-          # skipping, this line turns that into a failure and the PR goes red instead of
-          # merging. Green here means the token resolved and the live Gitea matched the
-          # declaration in infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json.
-          REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS: "true"
-          # ci/approval-policy.sh needs to know WHICH PR it is looking at, so it can read that
-          # PR's changed files and its reviews. Absent on a push event, where the stage is N/A.
-          GITHUB_EVENT_NAME: ${{ github.event_name }}
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
-        run: ./ci/gate.sh || [ "$?" -eq 3 ]
+      - name: Static gate — lint + Kyverno L0 + render==golden + L1 render
+        run: make -C ci lint l0 render-golden l1

      # NOTE: no actions/upload-artifact step. Gitea Actions rejects upload-artifact@v4
      # ("not supported on GHES" — Gitea does not implement the artifact-v2 backend), which
@@ -144,16 +68,15 @@ jobs:
      # Gitea-compatible @v3 action or Gitea's own artifact backend if retention is wanted.

  # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-  # PLACEHOLDER — NOT WIRED (deferred; concrete plan written, awaiting operator decision).
-  # L2/L3 conformance (Chainsaw behavioural + fault-injection) needs a LIVE cluster and is
-  # gated behind vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE + a narrow secrets.CONFORMANCE_TRIGGER_KUBECONFIG.
-  # The intended model: an in-cluster Chainsaw Job (conformance/incluster/) under its OWN
-  # scoped ServiceAccount — CI holds NO broad kubeconfig, only a trigger credential. The
-  # blocker is a real privilege-escalation design question (a `create jobs` credential can
-  # create a Job running as the privileged runner SA), plus a runner image + repo-clone +
-  # results-collection that don't exist yet. Full analysis + step sequence:
-  #   docs/plans/l2-l3-conformance-ci-wiring.md
-  # The blueprint job shape is retained dormant in merge-gate.yaml.
+  # PLACEHOLDER — NOT WIRED (STOP-and-report item, WS-GITOSS Phase 6).
+  # L2/L3 conformance (Chainsaw behavioural + fault-injection) needs a LIVE cluster.
+  # Turning this on is a design decision with two open sub-decisions:
+  #   1. Toolchain: build+push a pinned CI image to the Gitea container registry and
+  #      reference it as the job image, vs. install-in-job from ci/versions.env (slower).
+  #   2. Cluster creds: how the runner reaches the cluster — the intended model is an
+  #      in-cluster Chainsaw Job driven by its OWN scoped ServiceAccount (CI holds only a
+  #      narrow trigger credential; the runner mounts NO SA token today). That SA + RBAC
+  #      + the trigger secret do not exist yet.
  # Kept `if: false` so it never runs (shows skipped, never fakes green — HARD RULE 4).
  # ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  conformance:
@@ -11,14 +11,11 @@
 #                                          v
 #                                     merge-gate decision  [R-TEST-03: touched subset green]
 #
-# STATUS (corrected 2026-09-29): Gitea IS hosted and Gitea Actions IS enabled; the runner
-# `incluster-dind` is online and gate.yml is the live PR gate. The text that used to sit here
-# ("Today there is no Gitea host, so this file is dormant") was stale by weeks -- it was written
-# as a plan and never revisited once the plan completed.
-#
-# THIS file is still dormant, but for the reason in the DORMANT block below -- its spec checkout
-# and L2/L3 seams are unwired -- NOT because there is no host. Do not read a stale plan as a
-# statement about the live platform; query the API instead (see infra/gitea/).
+# Transition (CONTRIBUTING.md / docs/05 §"local bootstrap -> self-hosted Gitea"):
+# Today there is no Gitea host, so this file is dormant. The SAME gate is runnable
+# now via `make -C ci gate` (R-TEST-02). Once Gitea is self-hosted and Gitea
+# Actions is enabled, this workflow becomes the ENFORCED PR merge gate into main —
+# no code change required, only turning on the runner and setting CLUSTER_AVAILABLE.
 #
 # CI holds NO broad kubeconfig. L2/L3 run as an in-cluster Chainsaw Job whose own
 # scoped ServiceAccount holds cluster access (docs/14, R-SEC-02); CI uses only a
@@ -39,21 +39,6 @@ install_chainsaw() {
  curl -fsSL "$url" | tar -xz -C "$bindir" chainsaw
 }

-# promtool — the alert-rule UNIT-TEST engine the L0 check
-# conformance/tests/l0-static/alert-rules-unit-tested runs. Installed for the l0 stage because
-# without it that check exits 3 (SKIPPED, never green) on the runner and the alert unit tests
-# would be enforced nowhere — the exact "coverage that looks present" failure it exists to end.
-# Pinned from ci/versions.env to the Prometheus version prod runs (promtool IS the rule engine);
-# the check asserts `promtool --version` equals that pin, so a drifted install FAILS, not skips.
-install_promtool() {
-  have promtool && return 0
-  log "promtool ${PROMTOOL_VERSION} (from the prometheus release tarball)"
-  local tarball="prometheus-${PROMTOOL_VERSION}.${os}-${arch}"
-  curl -fsSL "https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/releases/download/v${PROMTOOL_VERSION}/${tarball}.tar.gz" \
-    | tar -xz -C "$bindir" --strip-components=1 "${tarball}/promtool"
-  chmod +x "${bindir}/promtool"
-}
-
 install_kubectl() {
  have kubectl && return 0
  log "kubectl ${KUBECTL_VERSION}"
@@ -65,10 +50,10 @@ have() { command -v "$1" >/dev/null 2>&1; }

 case "$stage" in
  lint)        install_yamllint ;;
-  l0)          install_yamllint; install_check_jsonschema; install_kyverno; install_promtool ;;  # schema (check-jsonschema) + Kyverno L0 + alert unit tests
+  l0)          install_yamllint; install_check_jsonschema; install_kyverno ;;  # schema (check-jsonschema) + Kyverno L0
  l1)          install_chainsaw ;;              # L1 render via conformance runner (Chainsaw)
  conformance) install_chainsaw; install_kubectl ;;   # trigger the in-cluster Job
-  all)         install_yamllint; install_check_jsonschema; install_kyverno; install_promtool; install_chainsaw; install_kubectl ;;
+  all)         install_yamllint; install_check_jsonschema; install_kyverno; install_chainsaw; install_kubectl ;;
  *) echo "unknown stage: $stage" >&2; exit 2 ;;
 esac
 log "stage '${stage}' tools ready"
@@ -41,6 +41,3 @@ infra/tofu/.r2.env
 # ignoring it keeps `git add -A` from staging embedded worktree repos and keeps the lint
 # stage (which scans untracked files) from tripping on .claude/worktrees/.
 .claude/
-
-# Vendored ansible collections (installed by ansible-galaxy for node re-provision; not tracked or linted)
-infra/ansible/collections/
@@ -1,97 +0,0 @@
-# RECOVERY BASELINE — the COMPLETE Cloudflare record set for zone `keithjackson.dev`
-# as it stood IMMEDIATELY BEFORE feat/externaldns-scope-public-only is applied.
-#
-# WHY THIS FILE EXISTS. The branch that adds it changes which resources ExternalDNS considers,
-# and ExternalDNS runs `policy: sync` — a record whose source stops matching is DELETED, not
-# merely left alone. That is a one-way, outward-facing operation against a live authoritative
-# zone, so the pre-state is captured and committed BEFORE the change lands, and any record the
-# reconcile removes can be restored by hand from this file. It is the same discipline as
-# dns-before.txt / dns-verify.txt / dns-post-l2.txt beside it, applied to a destructive-capable
-# change rather than to a migration.
-#
-# CAPTURED 2026-09-14 from the Cloudflare API (GET /zones/<id>/dns_records, all pages) using the
-# SOPS-encrypted token in platform/externaldns/cloudflare-api-token.sops.yaml. Read at the
-# AUTHORITY, not through a resolver: 1.1.1.1 served stale answers for minutes after the
-# 2026-09-13 apex flip and must not be trusted for this. `dig` is on the host but NOT in the
-# devcontainer, which has previously produced false "no records" readings — the API is the only
-# reading that is both complete and authoritative.
-#
-# FORMAT (5 fields, `|`-separated) — wider than the sibling files on purpose: a restore needs the
-# TTL and the proxy flag, not just the value.
-#
-#   <type>|<name>|<content>|<ttl>|<proxied>
-#
-# ttl 1 = Cloudflare "Automatic". proxied false = DNS-only (grey cloud), which every record here
-# is; a restore that flips one to proxied would put Cloudflare's edge in front of a LAN address.
-#
-# 39 records. 36 of them are ExternalDNS-managed (18 A + their 18 `a-`-prefixed TXT registry
-# entries), every one registered `external-dns/owner=prod` — i.e. THIS cluster owns them, which
-# is why this cluster's reconcile is able to delete them. The remaining 3 belong to the legacy
-# non-k3s stack and carry NO TXT registry entry, so no owner id claims them and ExternalDNS
-# cannot touch them regardless of what this branch does:
-#
-#   *.keithjackson.dev            -> 136.51.115.252   legacy stack (the zone wildcard)
-#   brickbreak.keithjackson.dev   -> 20.236.242.14    unrelated, off-prem
-#   dev.brickbreak…               -> 20.236.242.14    unrelated, off-prem
-#
-# NOTE there is NO `*.home.keithjackson.dev` wildcard in the zone any more (the comment in
-# clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml still says the zone has both wildcards; it does not, as of
-# this capture). A single-label wildcard does not match two labels, so `*.keithjackson.dev` does
-# NOT cover `<svc>.home.keithjackson.dev`: when a specific `<svc>.home` record is removed, that
-# name goes to NXDOMAIN publicly rather than falling back to the legacy IP. That is the intended
-# end state for `internal` services and it is also precisely why Pi-hole must already be
-# answering the LAN authoritatively before this branch merges.
-#
-# WHICH OF THESE THIS BRANCH DELETES — the 12 rows for the six `exposure: internal` catalog
-# services (jackett, pihole, qbittorrent, radarr, semaphore, sonarr): each one's A record and its
-# `a-`-prefixed TXT registry entry. Nothing else. Verified live on prod against the deployed
-# v0.21.0 with a throwaway hostname before any of this was authored: adding the annotation to an
-# HTTPRoute that already had a published record produced
-# `action=DELETE record=... type=A` and `action=DELETE record=a-... type=TXT` one reconcile
-# interval (~60s) later, and nothing else in the zone moved.
-#
-# TO RESTORE ONE ROW BY HAND (both halves, or ExternalDNS will not recognise the record as its
-# own): recreate the A record with its value/ttl/proxied from this file, then recreate the
-# matching `a-<name>` TXT with its content VERBATIM — the `heritage=…,external-dns/owner=prod,
-# external-dns/resource=…` string is what re-establishes ownership. An A record restored without
-# its TXT is unowned and will not be reconciled; a TXT restored with a wrong `resource=` value
-# points the registry at a source object that does not exist.
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-A|crafty.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
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-A|grafana.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|headlamp.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|jackett.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|pihole.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|plex.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|qbittorrent.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|radarr.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|seerr.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|semaphore.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.20|1|false
-A|unifi.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.2.21|1|false
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-TXT|a-gitea.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/gitea/gitea-3000"|1|false
-TXT|a-grafana.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/monitoring/grafana"|1|false
-TXT|a-headlamp.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/headlamp/headlamp"|1|false
-TXT|a-home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/homepage/homepage"|1|false
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-TXT|a-keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/keycloak/keycloak"|1|false
-TXT|a-nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/nextcloud/nextcloud-80"|1|false
-TXT|a-pihole.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/pihole/pihole-80"|1|false
-TXT|a-plex.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/plex/plex-32400"|1|false
-TXT|a-qbittorrent.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/qbittorrent/qbittorrent-8080"|1|false
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-TXT|a-seerr.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/seerr/seerr-5055"|1|false
-TXT|a-semaphore.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/semaphore/semaphore-3000"|1|false
-TXT|a-sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=httproute/sonarr/sonarr-8989"|1|false
-TXT|a-unifi.home.keithjackson.dev|"heritage=external-dns,external-dns/owner=prod,external-dns/resource=service/unifi/unifi-l4-tcp"|1|false
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-A|grafana.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|headlamp.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|jackett.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|pihole.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|plex.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|qbittorrent.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|radarr.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|seerr.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|semaphore.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
-A|sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev|192.168.1.53
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-# CLAUDE.md — how work lands in this repo
-
-Read this before doing anything durable. It is the delivery contract for AI coding
-sessions and agents. The newest entry in `decisions/` is the current PM handoff and
-takes precedence on *what* to work on; this file governs *how* it lands.
-
-## 1. Never push to `main`. Ever.
-
-Every durable change reaches `main` exactly one way:
-
-    branch  ->  push the branch  ->  open a PR  ->  CI gate green  ->  human approval  ->  merge
-
-There is no other path. Specifically:
-
- **Do not `git push origin main`.**
- **Do not `git push origin HEAD:main`.** Same thing wearing a hat.
- **Do not merge your own PR.** See the approval model below — and either way, the merge is
-  someone else's action, never yours.
-
-### Who approves
-
-**The CI/CD pipeline is the approver.** A green gate is sufficient for an ordinary change; the
-branch requires no human approval for one. That is a deliberate transfer of authority, on the
-operator's stated principle: *if the pipeline is not good enough to be trusted for this, it is not
-good enough to do its job and needs improving* — so a weak gate is a bug to fix, not a reason to
-add a human.
-
-**One exception, enforced by `ci/approval-policy.sh`:** a change to the pipeline itself, the
-admission policies, the Flux wiring, the SOPS recipients, the RBAC, or this file needs an
-approving review from someone who is not its author. The reason is narrow and structural — **a
-change to the gate cannot be gated by the gate.** A PR that weakens a check would be approved by
-the weakened check. Everything else merges on green.
-
-The path list is data, with a reason per entry: `infra/gitea/approval-policy.json`. It is itself a
-sensitive path, so the policy cannot be widened or narrowed without a human.
-
-That stage is **fail-closed** — if it cannot evaluate, it blocks. Unlike `gitea-settings`, where a
-missing credential is a lock-out, here a skip would be a bypass.
- **Do not `kubectl apply` / `edit` / `patch` a durable change.** Flux reconciles `main`;
-  anything applied by hand is drift that the next reconcile reverts or, worse, adopts.
-
-> **Many runbooks under `runbooks/` still say `git push origin main` IS the deploy.**
-> That wording is **stale** — it predates the PR flow. It describes what Flux does
-> (main is what the cluster follows), not what you are permitted to do. Honour this
-> file, not that line. Fixing those runbooks is tracked work.
-
-## 2. Enforcement (as of 2026-09-29: the rule is now MACHINE-ENFORCED)
-
-Verified against the live Gitea on 2026-09-29:
-
-| Expected | Actual |
-|---|---|
-| `main` protected, direct push rejected | ✅ `protected: true`, `user_can_push: false` — **verified by a real rejected push**, not by the API's word |
-| PR blocked until the gate passes | ✅ `enable_status_check: true`, context `gate / gate (pull_request)` |
-| Gate runs on every PR | ✅ runner `incluster-dind` online; ~1m35s |
-| Approval required before merge | ✅ `required_approvals: 1` |
-
-All four were FALSE as recently as 2026-09-29, while this repo's own log asserted they were
-true. They are true now because each was measured, and the push rejection was provoked rather
-than assumed. **Re-measure before relying on any of them** — see §2b.
-
-Still not covered: `vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` is unset, so **L2/L3 conformance does not run in
-CI**. A green PR therefore proves the L0/L1 offline subset, not runtime behaviour.
-
-**Consequence for you:** CI now runs, but it does not yet *block* anything. Always run
-the toolbox gate yourself and quote its numbers. Never describe a PR as "green" on the
-strength of a check you have not seen report — and note that a **skipped** Gitea job
-reports as `success`, so a green tick is not by itself evidence that anything ran.
-
-## 2b. Never infer platform state from this repository
-
-**This repo is not evidence about the live platform.** Neither is the handoff log
-(`decisions/`, and the frozen `DECISIONS-LOG.md` archive). Both describe what someone
-believed at the time of writing, and both have been confidently wrong for a month at a
-stretch.
-
-On 2026-09-29 the log stated the merge gate was a required status check with a runner
-online. The API said `branch_protections: []` and **zero** runners. Everything downstream
-of that belief — "the gate enforces this", "your push would be rejected", "CI covers it" —
-was wrong, and nothing in the tree could have revealed it, because the tree was the source
-of the error.
-
-**So, before asserting that any gate, protection, runner, secret, or workload is in a
-given state: query the thing itself.**
-
-| Claim about... | Check |
-|---|---|
-| branch protection / required checks | `GET /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/branches/main` |
-| a runner exists | `GET /api/v1/admin/actions/runners` |
-| CI actually ran | the commit's `/statuses` — and read the **description**; a *skipped* Gitea job reports `success` with "Has been skipped" |
-| a workload / Secret / env | `kubectl --context k3s-prod ...` (read-only is fine for agents) |
-| Flux applied your commit | compare `.status.lastAppliedRevision` against the GitRepository's artifact revision |
-
-Quote the measured field, not the prose. If you cannot measure it, say so explicitly —
-"unverified" is a legitimate report, and a far better one than a confident guess that
-matches the docs.
-
-**A green tick is not proof anything ran.** Read what actually executed.
-
-## 3. Gate before you push
-
-    ./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run bash -c './ci/gate.sh'
-
-Exit codes are a contract — do not flatten them:
-
-| rc | Meaning |
-|---|---|
-| 0 | PASS |
-| 1 | BLOCKED — something failed |
-| 3 | UNDETERMINED — a stage did not run. **Never report this as green.** |
-
-`spec-immutability` reaches rc 3 whenever the sibling spec repo is not checked out
-beside this one; that single skip is expected and tolerated. Any *other* skip is a
-real gap in your run.
-
-**Never gate on the host.** `promtool` and `kustomize` are not on the host `$PATH`,
-so checks SKIP and you get a false rc 3. Only the pinned toolbox result counts.
-
-### Running the gate from a git worktree
-
-Two unrelated failures, both with known workarounds — put both in any agent brief:
-
-1. **`dev.sh` refuses to start:** `infra/ansible/.cache/prod.kubeconfig` is untracked
-   and exists only in the main checkout. Do **not** copy it (it is a credential).
-   Use `DEV_KUBECONFIG=/dev/null` — the gate contacts no cluster, so L2/L3 scaffold-skip
-   normally.
-2. **Every `git` call inside the container fails:** a worktree's `.git` is a pointer to a
-   gitdir outside the mounted root. `dev.sh` takes no extra-mount flag, so inject one via
-   the `ENGINE` hook — a shim that intercepts `run` and re-execs
-   `podman run -v /path/to/main/.git:/path/to/main/.git:ro "$@"`. A traceback in
-   `tracked_files()` is this bug, not a broken tree.
-
-## 4. Branch naming
-
-Use `feat/`, `fix/`, `docs/`, `chore/`. Note that `.gitea/workflows/gate.yml`'s **push**
-trigger lists `feature/**` — not `feat/**` — so branch pushes get no fast-feedback run.
-The `pull_request` trigger fires regardless of branch name, so the PR gate is unaffected.
-
-## 5. Cluster access
-
-`kubectl` does not work on the operator workstation; the toolchain lives only in the
-pinned container. Always name the context explicitly:
-
-    ./infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run bash -c 'kubectl --context k3s-prod get nodes'
-
-`dev.sh` merges both clusters and picks a current-context **per invocation**; that
-default has already changed once. Never rely on it. Do not run two `dev.sh`
-invocations concurrently.
-
-**Mutating `kubectl` and `flux reconcile` are operator actions, not agent actions.**
-
-## 6. Secrets
-
- **Never `sops -d` a file into a terminal, a log, or a transcript.**
- **Never print a Secret's `.data`/`.stringData`** when checking whether it exists —
-  list key names or object names only. A password has been leaked into a transcript
-  this way before.
- Encrypted files are `*.sops.yaml` or live under `secrets/`. The root `.sops.yaml` is
-  the single creation-rules file; do not add a second one in a subtree.
- A short-lived credential (e.g. a plex.tv claim token, ~minutes) cannot survive the PR
-  flow. Do not design around committing one — read the expiry from the issuing page and
-  treat a burnt token as free to retry.
-
-## 7. Before you finish — write a handoff entry, in its OWN file
-
-Add **one new file**:
-
-    decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md          <slug> = your branch's last segment
-
-with frontmatter (`date`, `branch`, `title`) and exactly these three sections:
-
-    ## What changed
-    ## What I verified
-    ## What I did NOT verify
-
-State gaps plainly — an honest "UNVERIFIED" is worth more than an optimistic "green",
-and this repo has already been burned by the difference. All three headings are
-**enforced** by `ci/decisions-log.sh`, because the third is the one that gets dropped.
-Template and full rationale: `decisions/README.md`.
-
-**Do NOT append to `DECISIONS-LOG.md`.** It is a frozen archive (pre-2026-09-29), its
-SHA-256 is pinned in `decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256`, and the merge gate rejects any change
-to it. Appending to its tail is what every agent used to do, and because every branch
-appended to the *same last hunk*, no two concurrent branches could auto-merge. Measured
-on 2026-09-29: **four of the five open PRs were `mergeable: false`, with
-`DECISIONS-LOG.md` the only conflicting path in all four** — none of those changes had
-anything to do with each other. Separate files have nothing to merge, which is the
-entire fix. Note that the damage from getting this wrong lands on *other people's*
-branches, later, which is why it is a gate stage and not a request.
-
-Many older handoff entries and runbooks say "append to `DECISIONS-LOG.md`". That
-wording is **stale**, in the same way §1's `git push origin main` wording is stale.
@@ -38,56 +38,22 @@ ci/             the gate as scripts (lint · schema · Kyverno L0 · L1 render

 ## Status

-Roadmap phases **0–6 are delivered**, and **Phase 7 (Production Readiness) is OPEN and in
-progress**. `clusters/prod` is no longer a design-only overlay: prod is the live cluster, serving the
-apex `home.keithjackson.dev`. The dev cluster was **decommissioned on 2026-09-12** (full migration:
-dev out, prod onto the apex — see the DECISIONS-LOG), so phases 0–6 are now exercised on prod
-hardware rather than on Proxmox VMs.
-
-**Phase 7 exit criteria** — *prod runs the same config via the prod overlay; DR proven; monitoring +
-alerts live*:
-
-| criterion | state |
-|---|---|
-| prod runs the prod overlay | **met** — 3× mini-PC bare metal, one Flux tree, prod overlay only |
-| monitoring + alerts live | **met 2026-09-13** — see the note below; this was not true before that date |
-| **DR proven** | **R-STATE-03 PROVEN on prod 2026-09-14** — off-cluster restore from Cloudflare R2. `R-STATE-02` (node-loss) is still dev-only |
-
-**DR restore is proven on prod.** `R-STATE-03` reads `proven` in `--status` as of 2026-09-14 —
-the first requirement in this repo to reach that state. Both of its verifiers are recorded:
-`dr-restore` (L3, run `20260914T021505Z-24b8111`, sentinel `DR_RESTORED_FROM_OFF_CLUSTER_BACKUP_OK`)
-and `placeholder-guard-coupling` (L0). The L3 drill seeds a canary on the replicated `longhorn`
-class, backs the namespace and volume data up off-cluster, **destroys every in-cluster copy**
-(namespace, PVC and PV), restores into a clean namespace, and asserts the restored PVC binds a
-*different* PersistentVolume — so an in-cluster survival cannot pass as a restore.
-
-**What remains for Phase 7:** `R-STATE-02` (`node-loss`) is still proven only on the decommissioned
-dev cluster. That drill takes a real node down on a live cluster, so it is a deliberate, scheduled
-exercise rather than something to run in passing.
-
-Read `--coverage-only` and `--status` as two different questions; the earlier `PROVEN: 0` was not a
-bug but the honest answer, because proofs are claims about a specific tree on a specific cluster.
+Roadmap phases **0–6 are delivered and deployed** on the dev cluster; **Phase 7 (prod) is not
+open** — `clusters/prod` is a design-only overlay.

 | Phase | Delivered |
 |---|---|
 | 0 Foundations | ServiceDefinition schema + renderer, Kyverno L0 gate, conformance harness, CI |
-| 1 Cluster bring-up | 3-node k3s HA, embedded etcd, kube-vip VIP, Cilium, Flux, SOPS. Originally Proxmox VMs; **now 3× mini-PC bare metal** (`k3s-prod-1/2/3`, `192.168.2.10/.11/.12`, k3s v1.36.4+k3s1, Debian 13) |
-| 2 Platform core | Cilium · Longhorn · cert-manager (LE-prod wildcard) · ExternalDNS · Gateway API · split-horizon DNS, **both halves**: CoreDNS for pods, and **PiHole as the authoritative LAN resolver** for `${BASE_DOMAIN}` on udp/53 + tcp/53 at a pinned VIP (`192.168.2.23` on prod). The LAN half was claimed from the start but did not exist until 2026-09-14 — PiHole's Service was ClusterIP :80/:4180, so LAN clients ran on hand-maintained per-client `dnsmasq` files |
+| 1 Cluster bring-up | 3-node k3s HA on **Proxmox VE** (`192.168.1.50/.51/.52`), Cilium, Flux, SOPS |
+| 2 Platform core | Cilium · Longhorn · cert-manager (LE-prod wildcard) · ExternalDNS · Gateway API · split-horizon CoreDNS |
 | 3 Egress / VPN | ADR-0015 node-level OpenVPN split-tunnel + Cilium egress-gateway steering + host kill-switch |
-| 4 Observability | kube-prometheus-stack · Loki · Alloy · Alertmanager. **Velero unblocked 2026-09-13** — backs up to Cloudflare R2 (OQ-BKP closed; the `velero-plugin-for-aws` tagging incompatibility needed a pinned plugin). Longhorn has **no** backup target by decision: volume data is protected by Velero + kopia to R2. image-automation authored but disabled |
+| 4 Observability | kube-prometheus-stack · Loki · Alloy · Alertmanager. **Velero still blocked on OQ-BKP**; image-automation authored but disabled |
 | 5 IaaS | KubeVirt + CDI on real nested KVM; live-migratable RWX VM storage. The UniFi VM runs, but **UniFi OS Server is not yet installed in the guest** |
 | 6 Identity + CI | Keycloak (Operator + CNPG) · oauth2-proxy forward-auth · Grafana OIDC · **kubectl OIDC SSO with group→RBAC** · in-cluster Gitea Actions merge gate |
-| **7 Production readiness** | **IN PROGRESS** (DR restore proven 2026-09-14; node-loss outstanding). Prod live on bare metal serving the apex; dev decommissioned; CNPG HA 3 instances with primaries spread one per node; NFS bulk media + legacy Nextcloud mounted; VPN egress on prod. Alerting made real 2026-09-13 (Longhorn, cert-manager, Flux and twelve app SLIs had all been unable to fire). **Open: `node-loss` (R-STATE-02) re-proven on prod.** |

-**Conformance: 51 / 51 requirements covered (100%)**, 0 gaps, 0 safety-critical gaps (closed
-2026-09-13; `R-C2-01`/`R-C2-02` were the last two). Regenerate with
-`./conformance/run.sh --coverage-only`; the full report is
-`conformance/_artifacts/coverage/coverage.md`.
-
-Coverage is **not** proof. A requirement is *covered* when an executable test exists for it, and
-*PROVEN* only when a recorded run of that test is in `conformance/runs/ledger.jsonl` at the current
-SHA on the cluster it claims. Read both numbers: `--coverage-only` for the first, `--status` for the
-second.
+**Conformance: 36 / 51 requirements covered (70.6%)**, 15 gaps, 1 safety-critical gap
+(`R-STATE-02`, Longhorn node-loss). Regenerate with `./conformance/run.sh --coverage-only`;
+the full report is `conformance/_artifacts/coverage/coverage.md`.

 The running narrative — decisions, root causes, incidents, follow-ups — is
 [`DECISIONS-LOG.md`](DECISIONS-LOG.md). It, not this table, is the authoritative record.
@@ -41,41 +41,10 @@ spec:
      # disk KubeVirt cannot migrate and eviction would hard-stop the guest.
      evictionStrategy: LiveMigrate
      domain:
-        # =====================================================================================
-        # FIRMWARE UUID == THE CLOUD-INIT INSTANCE-ID. THIS IS THE RE-RUN LEVER. READ BEFORE EDIT.
-        # =====================================================================================
-        # MEASURED on prod 2026-09-14, not assumed:
-        #   * the NoCloud seed KubeVirt builds for this VM carries
-        #       {"instance-id":"de5c3338-6d32-4956-89d1-12c8272b2c07","local-hostname":"unifi"}
-        #     (read out of noCloud.iso inside virt-launcher-unifi-gp594), and that value was
-        #     EXACTLY `spec.template.spec.domain.firmware.uuid`, which KubeVirt's mutating webhook
-        #     had stamped onto the VM OBJECT — so it is PERSISTENT, not per-VMI (the VMI's own uid
-        #     was b532fd7c-…, a different value). It is not a hash of the VM name either: the four
-        #     standard uuid5 namespaces over "unifi" / "unifi.unifi" all produce something else.
-        #   * cloud-init's NoCloud datasource decides "is this the same instance?" by comparing the
-        #     cached instance-id against the guest's DMI product_uuid — which IS this firmware UUID.
-        #
-        # CONSEQUENCE, and it is the whole reason the previous unattended attempt could never have
-        # worked: EDITING `userData` BELOW AND RESTARTING THE VM CHANGES NOTHING. cloud-init sees an
-        # unchanged instance-id, restores its CACHED datasource, never re-reads the seed, and skips
-        # every per-instance module (write_files, runcmd). The new payload is silently ignored.
-        #
-        # So the UUID is pinned HERE, in git, and BUMPING IT IS THE SUPPORTED WAY to make the guest
-        # process a new cloud-init payload: change the trailing hex, commit, restart the VM. Pinning
-        # it also makes a rebuild reproducible — a fresh apply would otherwise take a random
-        # webhook-generated UUID and give the guest a different identity every time.
-        #
-        # The value below is DELIBERATELY NOT the de5c3338-…c07 the live guest booted with: that
-        # difference is what makes the next boot a NEW cloud-init instance and installs the
-        # `install-uos` helper + its systemd unit. `serial` is pinned to the value the webhook
-        # already stamped, so this change does not also churn the guest's DMI serial.
-        firmware:
-          uuid: "de5c3338-6d32-4956-89d1-12c8272b2c11"
-          serial: "24bb12ac-d311-45f6-a75b-90a9e1b63e18"
        # FLAG (verify-at-bringup): Ubuntu 24.04 amd64 cloud images are hybrid BIOS+UEFI bootable,
        # so KubeVirt's default SeaBIOS SHOULD boot cleanly (unlike the Fedora containerdisk, which
-        # is UEFI-only and needed an explicit efi block). RESOLVED at bring-up: boots as shipped;
-        # the guest reports Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS.
+        # is UEFI-only and needed an explicit efi block). If the guest drops to emergency/no-boot,
+        # add:  firmware: { bootloader: { efi: { secureBoot: false } } }
        cpu:
          cores: 2
        memory:
@@ -89,28 +58,9 @@ spec:
            - name: cloudinit
              disk:
                bus: virtio
-            # The operator's installer URL (+ optional SSH key), delivered as a tiny read-only
-            # iso9660 disk — see the `uosdata` volume near the bottom of this file.
-            - name: uosdata
-              disk:
-                bus: virtio
          interfaces:
-            # MAC PINNED 2026-09-18, and this is a root-cause fix, not cosmetics.
-            # KubeVirt generates a fresh MAC for every VMI when none is pinned. cloud-init writes
-            # /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml with a `match` on the MAC it saw, and it will NOT rewrite
-            # that file while the NoCloud instance-id is unchanged — and the instance-id here is
-            # domain.firmware.uuid, which is stable across restarts by design. So each VMI recreation
-            # handed the guest a NEW MAC that the retained netplan did not match, leaving enp1s0
-            # administratively DOWN with no address and no DHCP attempt.
-            # That is exactly what the evidence shows for the boot of 2026-09-12: cloud-init's own
-            # device table reports `enp1s0 | Up: False | Address: .`, no apt failures are logged
-            # (because the per-instance modules were skipped), yet UOS is installed and
-            # qemu-guest-agent runs — both of which required a working network on an EARLIER VMI.
-            # Pinning the MAC to the value the current VMI already holds makes the guest's netplan
-            # match permanently, so this cannot recur on the next recreation.
            - name: default
              masquerade: {}
-              macAddress: a6:d7:c0:b3:72:fa
              # Declaring ports on a masquerade iface (a) restricts pod->VM forwarding to exactly
              # these and (b) surfaces them as containerPorts on the virt-launcher pod so the
              # LoadBalancer Services + CiliumNetworkPolicy ingress can target/match them.
@@ -133,112 +83,32 @@ spec:
        - name: rootdisk
          dataVolume:
            name: unifi-rootdisk
-        # =====================================================================================
-        # THE OPERATOR'S ONE FIELD — SOPS Secret `unifi-uos-installer`, delivered as a DISK.
-        # =====================================================================================
-        # KubeVirt exposes a Secret as a small read-only iso9660 disk whose volume label we choose;
-        # each Secret key becomes a file on it. The guest mounts it by label (LABEL=UOSDATA) and
-        # reads `installer-url` plus an optional `console-password`. The Secret ships ENCRYPTED with
-        # REPLACE-ME placeholders, and the guest-side script treats anything that is not an https
-        # URL as "not provided yet" and exits 0 — so the VM boots and stays healthy until the
-        # operator fills it in. See unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml.example next to this file.
-        #
-        # `console-password` exists because THERE IS CURRENTLY NO WAY INTO THIS GUEST. The stock
-        # Ubuntu cloud image ships a locked `ubuntu` account, this cloud-init never installed a key,
-        # and SSH could not help anyway: the masquerade interface above forwards ONLY the declared
-        # ports, and 22 is not one of them — probed from inside virt-launcher on 2026-09-14, the
-        # guest answers RST on 22 exactly as it does on the UniFi ports. The serial console is the
-        # only door, and a console needs a password. Set it and `virtctl -n unifi console unifi`
-        # works; `kubectl -n unifi logs virt-launcher-unifi-… -c guest-console-log` already gives
-        # read-only console output with no virtctl at all.
-        #
-        # WHY A SEPARATE DISK AND NOT `cloudInitNoCloud.secretRef` (which would also lift the
-        # 2048-byte inline cap): secretRef moves the ENTIRE cloud-config into ciphertext. Two
-        # concrete costs. (a) The shell below stops being reviewable in a diff and falls outside the
-        # L0 dollar-collapse guard, which can only read plaintext. (b) Flux runs its postBuild
-        # envsubst over the DECRYPTED resources, so the escape contract in
-        # clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml would still govern text nobody can see in git — the exact
-        # shape of the 2026-09-13 nextcloud-db incident. Keeping the script in plaintext and putting
-        # ONLY the operator's two values behind SOPS keeps both properties.
-        #
-        # A CHANGED SECRET REACHES THE GUEST ON THE NEXT VMI START with NO firmware-UUID bump: the
-        # disk is rebuilt from the Secret every time the VMI starts, and the systemd unit below
-        # re-reads it on EVERY boot instead of relying on cloud-init (which will not re-run — see
-        # the firmware block above). The UUID bump is a ONE-TIME step, to get that unit installed.
-        - name: uosdata
-          secret:
-            secretName: unifi-uos-installer
-            volumeLabel: UOSDATA
        - name: cloudinit
          cloudInitNoCloud:
-            # INLINE, and it MUST stay <= 2048 bytes. That ceiling was MEASURED against the
-            # DEPLOYED KubeVirt v1.9.0 rather than quoted: a server-side dry-run apply of an
-            # otherwise-identical VM accepted 2048 bytes of userData and rejected 2049 with
-            # "cloudInitNoCloud userdata exceeds 2048 byte limit. Should use UserDataSecretRef for
-            # larger data." The payload below is ~1.5 KB; keep additions small.
-            #
-            # WHAT IT DOES: installs qemu-guest-agent (the KubeVirt AgentConnected signal, which is
-            # also the proof cloud-init ran) and preps Podman for UOS, then writes `install-uos`
-            # plus a systemd unit that runs it on EVERY boot. The unit — not cloud-init — is what
-            # makes a later URL change take effect, because cloud-init will not re-run per-instance
-            # modules while the instance-id is unchanged.
-            #
-            # `install-uos` IS IDEMPOTENT AND WILL NOT REINSTALL OVER A WORKING CONTROLLER. It bails
-            # out the moment systemd knows a `uosserver.service` — which the live guest ALREADY has:
-            # the serial console log for the current boot shows both `uosserver.service` and
-            # `uosserver-updater.service` starting, and the root filesystem is 6.3 GB of 40 GB used.
-            # UOS is installed here; see the README for what is actually wrong (the guest lost its
-            # IP). A stamp file at /var/lib/uos-installed is the second, weaker guard for the case
-            # where the unit name changes in some future UOS release.
-            #
-            # ENVSUBST: apps-vms declares postBuild.substituteFrom (for ${UNIFI_L4_VIP} in
-            # 50-service-l4.yaml), so Flux's envsubst DOES run over this text. ${BASE_DOMAIN} below
-            # is a deliberate substitution. Everything else is bare `$name` or `$(cmd)`, both of
-            # which envsubst leaves untouched — verified against the live VMI, whose rendered
-            # userData still carries its shell variables verbatim. There is deliberately NO
-            # brace-form shell expansion left in this payload, so nothing here needs escaping; if
-            # you add one, escape it per the contract in clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml, and NEVER
-            # write an indexed expansion.
+            # INLINE (kept < KubeVirt's 2048-byte userData limit — so NO SSH key here; add one back via
+            # userDataSecretRef only if needed). qemu-guest-agent gives the KubeVirt AgentConnected
+            # signal (proves cloud-init ran); install-uos resolves the latest UOS linux-x64 build from
+            # Ubiquiti's PUBLIC firmware API (no auth) and installs it non-interactively (UI on :11443).
+            # NOTE: apps-vms has NO postBuild.substituteFrom, so shell ${...} below is NOT envsubst'd.
            userData: |-
              #cloud-config
              hostname: unifi
-              fqdn: unifi.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+              fqdn: unifi.home.keithjackson.dev
              package_update: true
              package_upgrade: false
-              packages: [qemu-guest-agent, podman, uidmap, slirp4netns, ca-certificates, curl]
+              packages: [qemu-guest-agent, podman, uidmap, slirp4netns, ca-certificates, curl, jq, cloud-guest-utils]
              write_files:
                - path: /usr/local/sbin/install-uos
                  permissions: '0755'
                  content: |
-                    #!/bin/bash
+                    #!/usr/bin/env bash
                    set -euo pipefail
-                    d=/run/uos; mkdir -p $d
-                    mountpoint -q $d || mount -o ro LABEL=UOSDATA $d
-                    p=$(tr -d '\r\n' < $d/console-password || true)
-                    case "$p" in ""|REPLACE-ME) ;; *) echo "ubuntu:$p" | chpasswd ;; esac
-                    systemctl cat uosserver.service >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0
-                    s=/var/lib/uos-installed
-                    [ -e $s ] && exit 0
-                    u=$(tr -d '\r\n' < $d/installer-url || true)
-                    case "$u" in https://*) ;; *) echo "UOS installer-url not set yet"; exit 0;; esac
-                    t=$(mktemp)
-                    curl -fL --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 -o $t "$u"
-                    chmod +x $t
-                    yes y | $t install || yes y | $t
-                    rm -f $t; date -Is > $s
-                - path: /etc/systemd/system/uos-install.service
-                  content: |
-                    [Unit]
-                    Description=Install UniFi OS Server
-                    Wants=network-online.target
-                    After=network-online.target
-                    [Service]
-                    Type=oneshot
-                    ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/install-uos
-                    StandardOutput=journal+console
-                    [Install]
-                    WantedBy=multi-user.target
+                    if [ -z "${UOS_URL:-}" ]; then
+                      UOS_URL="$(curl -fsSL https://fw-update.ui.com/api/firmware-latest | jq -r '._embedded.firmware|map(select(.product=="unifi-os-server" and .platform=="linux-x64"))|sort_by(.version_major,.version_minor,.version_patch)|last._links.data.href')"
+                    fi
+                    [ -n "${UOS_URL}" ] && [ "${UOS_URL}" != "null" ] || { echo "no UOS URL"; exit 1; }
+                    t="$(mktemp)"; echo "downloading ${UOS_URL}"; curl -fL --retry 5 --retry-delay 10 -o "$t" "$UOS_URL"; chmod +x "$t"; echo "installing"; yes | "$t"; echo "done"
              runcmd:
-                - [systemctl, enable, --now, qemu-guest-agent]
-                - [systemctl, enable, --now, podman.socket]
-                - [systemctl, enable, --now, uos-install.service]
+                - [ systemctl, enable, --now, qemu-guest-agent ]
+                - [ systemctl, enable, --now, podman.socket ]
+                - [ bash, -lc, "/usr/local/sbin/install-uos 2>&1 | tee /var/log/uos-install.log > /dev/console" ]
@@ -8,9 +8,8 @@
 # CANNOT express: raw TCP on non-HTTP ports (8080 inform, 6789), UDP at all (3478 STUN, 10001
 # discovery), or the device-facing protocols that never speak HTTP. UniFi device ADOPTION rides
 # exactly those L4 ports. So the controller is exposed as a type=LoadBalancer Service whose VIP
-# is pulled from the CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool `default-pool` (dev 192.168.1.53-.60 — the
-# CILIUM_LB_POOL_START/STOP cluster-vars knobs) and ARP-announced on the flat LAN by the existing
-# CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy `default-l2` — the SAME L2/LB-IPAM
+# is pulled from the CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool `default-pool` (192.168.1.53-.60) and ARP-announced
+# on the flat LAN by the existing CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy `default-l2` — the SAME L2/LB-IPAM
 # machinery the Gateway ingress VIP already uses (platform-config/cilium/*). No new Cilium config
 # is required; these Services just consume the pool.
 #
@@ -21,67 +20,11 @@
 # k3s v1.31 — but the shared-key split is the lower-risk, Cilium-native pattern.)
 #
 # selector kubevirt.io/vm=unifi -> the virt-launcher pod; masquerade forwards the declared ports
-# into the guest.
+# into the guest. externalTrafficPolicy: Local preserves the LAN client source IP and keeps the
+# VIP pinned to the node running the VM (also what L2 announcement does).
 #
-# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster — CORRECTED 2026-09-14 after an 8-DAY LAN OUTAGE.
-# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# This file used to say `Local`, justified as "preserves the LAN client source IP and keeps the
-# VIP pinned to the node running the VM (also what L2 announcement does)". BOTH HALVES OF THAT
-# WERE FALSE ON THIS CLUSTER, and the second one took the UniFi controller off the LAN entirely.
-#
-# 1) L2 ANNOUNCEMENT DOES NOT FOLLOW THE BACKEND. Cilium's L2 announcer elects one lease holder
-#    per Service among the nodes matching the CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy `default-l2` — which
-#    matches ALL linux nodes — and it does NOT filter that set by which nodes hold a backend.
-#    MEASURED on prod 2026-09-14: the unifi VM ran on k3s-prod-1 while BOTH
-#    `cilium-l2announce-unifi-unifi-l4-tcp` and `-udp` were held by k3s-prod-2. With `Local`, an
-#    announcing node that holds no backend has nowhere to send the packet and answers ICMP port
-#    unreachable. 192.168.2.21:8443, :8080 and :11443 were dead from the LAN for up to 8 days
-#    (the leases were 8 days old); the operator's controller UI and device inform path were down.
-#    It does NOT self-heal: the lease holder keeps RENEWING after the backend moves, so only
-#    deleting the Lease forces a re-election — and that re-election is random, so it can pick a
-#    backend-less node again. See apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml, which hit this first and is the
-#    reference implementation this file now follows.
-#
-# 2) `Local` WAS NEVER PRESERVING THE CLIENT IP HERE ANYWAY — this is a KubeVirt VM. The
-#    interface in 30-virtualmachine.yaml is `masquerade: {}`, which is KubeVirt's NAT binding: it
-#    SNATs everything from the virt-launcher pod into the guest over a private link, so the UniFi
-#    controller has always seen the pod-side masquerade gateway as the source, never the LAN
-#    client. There is a SECOND translation below the Service, and it already destroyed the very
-#    thing `Local` was being kept for. So the client-IP cost of this change is ZERO for UniFi:
-#    it is giving up an address the guest could not see in the first place.
-#
-#    Nothing UniFi depends on breaks: device identity in the adoption/inform flow is the device
-#    MAC (and the device reports its own IP inside the inform payload), not the packet source,
-#    and guest-portal authorization runs on the gateway appliance, not on this controller.
-#
-# `Cluster` makes EVERY node able to serve the VIP by forwarding to wherever the VM runs, which
-# is what makes this survive a reschedule and a rebuild.
-#
-# NO CHANGE IS NEEDED IN 40-networkpolicy.yaml, AND THAT WAS VERIFIED RATHER THAN ASSUMED.
-# Under `Cluster` the forwarded second hop is sourced from the ingress node and carries Cilium's
-# reserved `remote-node` identity. pihole-dns.yaml has to name `remote-node` explicitly in its
-# CiliumNetworkPolicy — but that is because its policy deliberately omits `cluster`.
-# unifi-allow-l4-ingress admits `cluster`, and Cilium's `cluster` entity SUBSUMES `remote-node`
-# (along with host/init/unmanaged). Confirmed on prod 2026-09-14 by dumping the endpoint's
-# datapath policy map (`cilium-dbg bpf policy get`) while the CNP was in its unmodified state:
-# `reserved:remote-node` was already an Allow on the L4 ports. Adding `remote-node` to that rule
-# would be a no-op, so it is deliberately NOT added here — do not "fix" it.
-#
-# NO loadBalancerSourceRanges HERE, DELIBERATELY — and this is where this file departs from
-# pihole-dns.yaml. PiHole added `loadBalancerSourceRanges: [${LAN_CIDR}]` because it was giving
-# up a restriction it actually had and genuinely needed to be LAN-only. These Services never had
-# a source restriction at all (unifi-allow-l4-ingress admits `world`), so `Cluster` removes no
-# protection and there is nothing to compensate for. Adding a LAN-only filter during an outage
-# fix would be a NEW restriction that could silently break a remote site's device informing over
-# WAN — trading this outage for a subtler one. If UniFi should be LAN-only, that is its own
-# change, made deliberately and tested against the device fleet.
-#
-# VIP: ${UNIFI_L4_VIP} (cluster-vars, R-ENV-02; dev 192.168.1.54, confirmed free, inside
-# default-pool and reserved in tofu — the Gateway already holds the pool's first IP, dev .53).
-# Substituted by the `apps-vms` Flux Kustomization, which carries postBuild.substituteFrom for
-# exactly this token; every shell $${...} in 30-virtualmachine.yaml's cloud-init is escaped as $${...}
-# accordingly. A new environment MUST set UNIFI_L4_VIP to a free address in ITS pool.
+# FLAG: confirm 192.168.1.54 is free, inside default-pool, and reserved in tofu (the Gateway
+# already holds one pool IP, typically .53). Adjust if it collides.
 #
 # REUSABLE PATTERN (the deferred `minecraft` :25565/L4 problem is the same shape): expose an
 # L4-only workload as a Cilium LoadBalancer on a pinned, L2-announced VIP with a per-app sharing
@@ -96,13 +39,13 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: unifi
  annotations:
    lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key: "unifi"
-    lbipam.cilium.io/ips: "${UNIFI_L4_VIP}"
-    # external-dns (source: service) publishes A unifi.home.keithjackson.dev -> the pinned VIP.
+    lbipam.cilium.io/ips: "192.168.1.54"
+    # external-dns (source: service) publishes A unifi.home.keithjackson.dev -> 192.168.1.54.
    # This is the browser + device target; UI is https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev:11443.
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: "unifi.${BASE_DOMAIN}"
+    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname: "unifi.home.keithjackson.dev"
 spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
-  externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
+  externalTrafficPolicy: Local
  selector:
    kubevirt.io/vm: unifi
  ports:
@@ -122,10 +65,10 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: unifi
  annotations:
    lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key: "unifi"     # same key + same IP => shares the VIP with -tcp
-    lbipam.cilium.io/ips: "${UNIFI_L4_VIP}"
+    lbipam.cilium.io/ips: "192.168.1.54"
 spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
-  externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
+  externalTrafficPolicy: Local
  selector:
    kubevirt.io/vm: unifi
  ports:
@@ -1,48 +1,18 @@
 # UniFi Network controller (UniFi OS Server) — VM onboarding

-> **LIVE — but the controller is unreachable, and NOT for the reason this file used to claim.**
-> Reconciled by the **non-gating `apps-vms`** Flux Kustomization (`clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml`,
-> `dependsOn: platform-config` + `platform-config-cdi`, `wait: false`). VMs are a separate lifecycle
-> from the rendered app waves, and UniFi has no in-cluster dependents, so a slow import or install
-> cannot stall the app tier.
+> **LIVE — partially.** Reconciled by the **non-gating `apps-vms`** Flux Kustomization
+> (`clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml`, `dependsOn: platform-config`, `wait: false`). VMs are a separate
+> lifecycle from the rendered app waves, and UniFi has no in-cluster dependents, so a slow import
+> or install cannot stall the app tier.
 >
-> **Status (re-verified against live prod 2026-09-14):**
-> - `longhorn-vm` StorageClass — **live**; `unifi-rootdisk` PVC Bound, **40Gi, RWX, Block**.
-> - CDI import — **Succeeded** (100%).
-> - VM — **Running** on **`k3s-prod-1`**, guest agent connected, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS,
->   `LiveMigratable=True` / `StorageLiveMigratable=True`. VMI age 34h, VM 8d.
-> - L4 LoadBalancer VIP **`192.168.2.21`** — allocated and held on both Services.
-> - **UniFi OS Server IS INSTALLED.** This reverses the previous entry here. See below.
-> - **The guest has no IP address.** That — not a missing install — is why `:11443`, `:8443` and
->   `:8080` refuse connections.
-
-## What is actually wrong (2026-09-14)
-
-The earlier note in this file said "UOS is NOT installed; the guest is a bare, prepped Ubuntu".
-That was wrong, and acting on it would have meant reinstalling over a working controller.
-
-Evidence, all read-only, from the live cluster:
-
-| Claim | How it was checked | Result |
-|---|---|---|
-| UOS is installed | `kubectl -n unifi logs virt-launcher-unifi-… -c guest-console-log` | the current boot starts **`uosserver.service` — UniFi OS Server Service** and **`uosserver-updater.service`** |
-| …and it is a real install, not a stub | KubeVirt guest-agent `filesystemlist` subresource | `/` is **6.3 GB used of 40 GB** — a bare Ubuntu cloud image with our packages is ~2 GB |
-| the guest has no IP | `kubectl -n unifi get vmi unifi -o json` → `.status.interfaces` | `enp1s0`, `linkState: up`, **no `ipAddress` field at all**; the `kubectl get vmi` IP column is empty |
-| …confirmed at the link layer | `kubectl -n unifi exec virt-launcher-… -c compute -- ip neigh` | **`10.0.2.2 dev k6t-eth0 FAILED`** — the guest does not answer ARP for its masquerade address |
-| the ports are dead end-to-end | `/dev/tcp` probes from inside virt-launcher, to the pod IP **and** to `10.0.2.2` directly | 11443 / 8443 / 8080 / **22** all refused — i.e. the VIP and the CNP are exonerated |
-
-So the controller is installed and its units start; nothing downstream of the guest's own network
-stack can work. The interface was fine at boot (the console log reaches `network-online.target` at
-~10s and cloud-init completes at 18.5s), so the address was lost afterwards — the obvious suspect is
-UOS taking over host networking, but **that has not been proven and cannot be, from outside the
-guest.** Diagnosing it needs a shell, which is the second problem below.
-
-**There is currently no way into this guest.** The shipped cloud-init installs no SSH key and sets
-no password, so the stock `ubuntu` account is locked and a serial console reaches a login prompt
-nobody can answer. SSH would not rescue it either: the masquerade interface forwards **only** the
-ports declared in `30-virtualmachine.yaml`, and 22 is not one of them — the probe above shows the
-guest RSTs on 22 exactly as it does on 11443. Closing that hole is what `console-password` in the
-new Secret is for.
+> **Status (verified 2026-08-26):**
+> - `longhorn-vm` StorageClass — **live** (RWX / Block / migratable).
+> - CDI import — **Succeeded** (100%); `unifi-rootdisk` PVC Bound, 40Gi, RWX, `longhorn-vm`.
+> - VM — **Running**, guest agent connected, Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, live-migratable, on `k3s-dev-1`.
+> - L4 LoadBalancer VIP `192.168.1.54` — **allocated** on both Services.
+> - **UniFi OS Server itself is NOT installed.** Port `11443` does not answer from in-cluster
+>   (the CNP explicitly permits `cluster` → `:11443`, so this is "nothing listening", not policy).
+>   The guest is a bare, prepped Ubuntu. **This is the one remaining step** — see Open question 1.

 ## What this is

@@ -59,39 +29,24 @@ datastore** inside a Podman container stack — so **no separate MongoDB compani
 | `namespace.yaml` | `unifi` namespace: app-namespace label (Kyverno + default-deny apply), `gateway-access=shared`, backup annotation |
 | `10-default-deny.yaml` | R-NET-01 baseline: deny all, allow only DNS |
 | `20-datavolume.yaml` | CDI **http** import of the Ubuntu 24.04 cloud image onto a `longhorn-vm` **RWX/Block** disk (**40Gi**). First real CDI http import on the cluster |
-| `30-virtualmachine.yaml` | The VM: 2 vCPU / 4Gi, `running: true`, `evictionStrategy: LiveMigrate`, a **pinned firmware UUID** (= the cloud-init instance-id), the **UOSDATA secret disk**, and a minimal **inline** cloud-init that installs `install-uos` + a per-boot systemd unit |
+| `30-virtualmachine.yaml` | The VM: 2 vCPU / 4Gi, `running: true`, `evictionStrategy: LiveMigrate`, minimal **inline** cloud-init (SSH key, qemu-guest-agent, Podman prep) |
 | `40-networkpolicy.yaml` | Additive CNP allows: L4 ingress ports, controller world+DNS egress, and CDI-importer egress |
-| `50-service-l4.yaml` | Two `type=LoadBalancer` Services (TCP+UDP) sharing **one pinned Cilium VIP** `${UNIFI_L4_VIP}` (prod **192.168.2.21**); external-dns A record |
-| `unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml` | **SOPS-encrypted.** The operator's UOS installer URL + guest console password, mounted into the guest as a disk |
-| `unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml.example` | Plaintext template + the operator hand-off steps (never applied, never encrypted) |
+| `50-service-l4.yaml` | Two `type=LoadBalancer` Services (TCP+UDP) sharing **one pinned Cilium VIP** `192.168.1.54`; external-dns A record |
 | `kustomization.yaml` | The reconciled resource list (referenced by `apps/vms/kustomization.yaml`) |

-The optional L7 HTTPRoute was **dropped, and the file does not exist**: UOS serves HTTPS on
-`:11443`, so a Gateway route needs a `BackendTLSPolicy` that is not confirmed on this Cilium
-version. Browser access is via the L4 VIP. Re-add it if/when that lands.
+The optional L7 HTTPRoute (`90-httproute-optional.yaml`) was **dropped**, not merely disabled: UOS
+serves HTTPS on `:11443`, so a Gateway route needs a `BackendTLSPolicy` that is not confirmed on
+this Cilium version. Browser access is via the L4 VIP. Re-add it if/when that lands.

-### Cloud-init delivery — three constraints, all measured on the deployed KubeVirt (v1.9.0)
+### Cloud-init delivery — two constraints learned the hard way

-1. **Inline `userData` is capped at 2048 bytes.** MEASURED, not quoted: a server-side dry-run apply
-   of an otherwise-identical VM accepted 2048 bytes and rejected 2049 with *"cloudInitNoCloud
-   userdata exceeds 2048 byte limit. Should use UserDataSecretRef for larger data."* The shipped
-   payload is ~1.45 KB. The API field for the escape hatch is spelled **`secretRef`** (the Go name
-   is `UserDataSecretRef`); `userDataSecretRef` is not a YAML key and trying it will silently
-   validate as an unknown field.
-2. **The firmware UUID is the cloud-init instance-id, and editing `userData` alone changes
-   nothing.** The NoCloud seed's `instance-id` is exactly
-   `spec.template.spec.domain.firmware.uuid`, which KubeVirt's webhook stamps onto the **VM object**
-   (so it survives restarts), and cloud-init's NoCloud datasource compares it to the guest's DMI
-   product UUID. Same id → cached datasource restored, new payload never read, `write_files` and
-   `runcmd` skipped. This is why the previously shipped "unattended install" could never have taken
-   effect on a second boot. The UUID is now **pinned in git**, with bumping it as the documented way
-   to force a re-run. See the long comment in `30-virtualmachine.yaml`.
-3. **`apps-vms` DOES use `postBuild.substituteFrom`.** This file used to say it must not — that has
-   been false since 2026-08-31, when `${UNIFI_L4_VIP}` landed in `50-service-l4.yaml`. Flux's
-   envsubst therefore runs over the cloud-init payload, and the escape contract in
-   `clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml` is in force. Bare `$name` and `$(cmd)` are left alone (verified
-   against the live VMI's rendered userData); brace-form shell expansion must be escaped; an
-   indexed expansion is a hard error that fails the whole Kustomization.
+1. **KubeVirt caps inline `userData` at 2048 bytes.** The original rich cloud-init (full Podman
+   prep + `install-uos` helper) blew past it. A `userDataSecretRef` was tried, then reverted; the
+   shipped config is a **minimal ~1.1 KB inline `userData`**. Keep additions small or move to a
+   Secret deliberately.
+2. **`apps-vms` must NOT use `postBuild.substituteFrom`.** Flux variable substitution rewrote
+   `$`-bearing text inside the cloud-init payload and **corrupted it**. `clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml`
+   therefore carries no `substituteFrom` — unlike every app wave. Do not "restore" it for consistency.

 ### Node prerequisites this VM forced onto the cluster

@@ -101,31 +56,15 @@ version. Browser access is via the L4 VIP. Re-add it if/when that lands.
 - **`longhorn-scratch`** — a single-replica StorageClass for CDI scratch space; the default
  3-replica class made the import fail with insufficient storage.

-## UOS install method (researched 2026-09-14)
+## UOS install method (researched)

- **Host:** Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86-64, systemd, **Podman 4.9.3+**, `slirp4netns` 1.2+, `uidmap`.
-  Vendor/community minimum is 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / ~25 GB disk; we give **2 vCPU / 4 GiB / 40Gi**
-  (the 40Gi figure is the DataVolume and the Bound PVC — an earlier "60 GB" claim here was wrong).
-  Podman must be at `/usr/bin/podman`.
- **Install:** obtain the download link from `ui.com/download/software/unifi-os-server` while signed
-  in to a (free) Ubiquiti account, `chmod +x`, run **as root**. UI then on **`https://<host>:11443`**.
- **Is the URL a short-lived signed link?** *Probably not.* The links look like
-  `https://fw-download.ubnt.com/data/unifi-os-server/<hash>-linux-x64-<version>-<uuid>.<n>-x64` with
-  **no signature query string**, and public community installers hard-code them. It is
-  account-derived and per-release, not time-limited. It is kept in SOPS anyway — cheap, and it keeps
-  account-derived material out of plaintext config — but do **not** build logic around expiry.
- **Can it run unattended? Yes in practice, no officially — and this is the honest answer.**
-  Ubiquiti documents no `--silent` flag, no answer file and no environment variables. What the
-  ecosystem actually does is pipe confirmations in: the widely used community installer
-  (`dgodibadze/UniFi_OS_Server`) runs `yes y | "$file" install`, and vendor-adjacent walkthroughs run
-  either `./<binary> install` or a bare `sudo ./<binary>`. `install-uos` therefore does
-  `yes y | $t install || yes y | $t` — the documented-by-practice form first, the bare form as a
-  fallback for builds that take no subcommand. **This has not been executed end-to-end on our guest**
-  (no URL has been supplied, and UOS is already installed here), so treat it as "established by
-  convergent third-party practice", not as verified-by-us.
- The previously shipped helper had two defects worth recording: it resolved the URL from
-  `fw-update.ui.com/api/firmware-latest`, an endpoint nothing in this repo ever verified lists
-  `unifi-os-server`, and it invoked the binary with **no `install` subcommand**.
+- **Host:** Ubuntu 24.04 LTS x86-64, systemd, **Podman 4.9.3+**, `slirp4netns` 1.2+, `uidmap`. Min
+  2 GB RAM / 10 GB disk (we give 4 GB / 60 GB). Podman must be at `/usr/bin/podman`.
+- **Install:** download the signed installer from `fw-download.ubnt.com` (URL obtained from
+  `ui.com/download/software/unifi-os-server`), `chmod +x`, run **as root**. UI then on
+  **`https://<host>:11443`**.
+- **Confidence:** *High* on requirements, ports, and the download→chmod→run shape (multiple
+  independent 2025–2026 sources agree). *Lower* on **fully unattended** install — see risks.

 ### Ports (device adoption needs the L4 ones — the L7 Gateway cannot express them)

@@ -139,143 +78,76 @@ version. Browser access is via the L4 VIP. Re-add it if/when that lands.
 | 3478 | UDP | **STUN** (device ⇄ controller) |
 | 10001 | UDP | **L2 device discovery** |

-**22/TCP is deliberately absent**, and that is load-bearing: a masquerade interface forwards only
-the ports it declares, so SSH into this guest is impossible by construction. Use the serial console.
-
 ## L4 exposure design (the hard part)

 The shared Gateway is L7 HTTPS only (`:443` host-routed). It **cannot** carry raw TCP `8080`/`6789`
 or any UDP (`3478`/`10001`) — exactly the ports adoption rides. So:

 - **One VIP, two Services.** `unifi-l4-tcp` + `unifi-l4-udp` share a single LoadBalancer IP via
-  Cilium `lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key: unifi`, pinned through `${UNIFI_L4_VIP}`
-  (`lbipam.cilium.io/ips`) — **192.168.2.21 on prod**. The VIP comes from the existing
-  `default-pool`, whose live prod block is **192.168.2.20–192.168.2.30** with **192.168.2.20 held by
-  the shared Gateway** (`cilium-gateway-shared`), and is ARP-announced on the flat LAN by the
-  existing `default-l2` CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy — no new Cilium config. (The `192.168.1.53–.60`
-  / `.53` figures this section used to quote were **dev** addressing and are gone; dev has been
-  decommissioned. Neighbours in the prod pool today: `.22` crafty, `.23` pihole-dns.)
+  Cilium `lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key: unifi`, pinned to **`192.168.1.54`** (`lbipam.cilium.io/ips`).
+  The VIP is pulled from the existing `default-pool` (192.168.1.53–.60) and **ARP-announced on the
+  flat LAN by the existing `default-l2` CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy** — no new Cilium config.
 - `selector: kubevirt.io/vm=unifi` → the virt-launcher pod; the VM's `masquerade` iface forwards the
-  declared ports into the guest.
- **`externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster`, corrected 2026-09-14 after an 8-day LAN outage.** This file
-  used to advertise `Local` "to preserve the LAN client source IP". Both halves were false here:
-  Cilium's L2 announcer elects a lease holder without regard to which node holds a backend (the
-  leases sat on `k3s-prod-2` while the VM ran on `k3s-prod-1`, so `Local` had nowhere to forward),
-  and KubeVirt's `masquerade` binding had already NATed the client IP away before the guest ever saw
-  it. The full reasoning — including why `40-networkpolicy.yaml` needs no `remote-node` entry and
-  why no `loadBalancerSourceRanges` was added — is in `50-service-l4.yaml`.
- **Device-adoption story:** point devices' **inform host** at the VIP
-  (`http://192.168.2.21:8080/inform`) — via the controller's *Override inform host* setting,
-  `set-inform` on the device, or DHCP option 43. Because the VIP is L2-announced on the devices' own
-  subnet (**192.168.2.0/24**, `LAN_CIDR`), unicast inform + STUN reach it. **Limitation:**
-  broadcast-based L2 auto-discovery (10001/udp) does **not** cross the pod masquerade boundary, so
-  zero-touch "device just appears" adoption is unreliable — expect to use explicit inform. Devices
-  on other VLANs must route to the VIP and be inform-pointed anyway.
- **Reusable pattern:** L4-only workload → Cilium LoadBalancer on a pinned, L2-announced VIP with a
-  per-app sharing key, A record via external-dns. `crafty` (`.22`) is the same shape and is live.
+  declared ports into the guest. `externalTrafficPolicy: Local` preserves LAN client source IP.
+- **Device-adoption story:** point devices' **inform host** at the VIP (`http://192.168.1.54:8080/inform`)
+  — via the controller's *Override inform host* setting, `set-inform` on the device, or DHCP option 43.
+  Because the VIP is L2-announced on the devices' own subnet (192.168.1.0/24), unicast inform + STUN
+  reach it. **Limitation:** broadcast-based L2 auto-discovery (10001/udp) does **not** cross the pod
+  masquerade boundary, so zero-touch "device just appears" adoption is unreliable — expect to use
+  explicit inform. Devices on other VLANs must route to the VIP and be inform-pointed anyway.
+- **Reusable pattern (== the deferred `minecraft` :25565 problem):** L4-only workload → Cilium
+  LoadBalancer on a pinned, L2-announced VIP with a per-app sharing key, A record via external-dns.
+  `minecraft` is the single-TCP-port special case of this multi-port TCP+UDP design.

-**UI access:** `https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev:11443`. That name resolves to the VIP and not to
-the Gateway on purpose: both `platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml` (in-cluster) and
-`apps/wave-0/pihole.yaml` (LAN split-horizon) carve `unifi.${BASE_DOMAIN}` out of the
-zone-wide `${GATEWAY_VIP}` answer and point it at `${UNIFI_L4_VIP}`. `${BASE_DOMAIN}` on prod is the
-apex `home.keithjackson.dev` (confirmed live in the `cluster-vars` ConfigMap) after the 2026-09-13
-flip, so this hostname is current, not a dev leftover.
-
-## The operator's one field — installing UOS without a shell
-
-`unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml` is a SOPS-encrypted Secret with two keys. KubeVirt mounts it into
-the guest as a read-only iso9660 disk labelled `UOSDATA` (one file per key), and an in-guest
-`uos-install.service` reads it **on every boot**:
-
-```bash
-sops apps/vms/unifi/unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml    # fill installer-url and/or console-password
-git commit && git push                               # merge to the branch prod's Flux tracks
-kubectl -n unifi delete vmi unifi                    # `running: true` recreates it; no virtctl needed
-kubectl -n unifi logs -f $(kubectl -n unifi get pod -l kubevirt.io=virt-launcher -o name | head -1) \
-  -c guest-console-log                               # watch the boot + the install, read-only
-```
-
-Design notes that matter if you change this:
-
- **The Secret is a disk, not `cloudInitNoCloud.secretRef`.** `secretRef` would lift the 2048-byte
-  cap but would move the whole cloud-config into ciphertext: unreviewable in diffs, invisible to the
-  L0 dollar-collapse guard, and still subject to Flux's envsubst (which runs over **decrypted**
-  resources) — the exact shape of the 2026-09-13 `nextcloud-db` incident. Script in plaintext,
-  operator values in SOPS.
- **A URL change needs no UUID bump.** The disk is rebuilt from the Secret on every VMI start and
-  the systemd unit re-reads it every boot. Only a change to the cloud-init payload itself needs the
-  firmware-UUID bump.
- **`install-uos` will not reinstall over a working controller.** It exits as soon as systemd knows
-  a `uosserver.service`, with `/var/lib/uos-installed` as a weaker second guard. Given the live
-  guest already has UOS, this guard is the difference between "safe to merge" and "destroys the
-  controller on next boot".
- **`apps-vms` had no SOPS `decryption` stanza** — this is the first encrypted content under
-  `apps/vms/`, so the stanza was added to both `clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml` and
-  `clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml`. Without it kustomize hands Flux the raw SOPS document and the
-  guest mounts a disk full of ciphertext, with the cluster reporting everything healthy.
+**UI access:** `https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev:11443` (A record → VIP). The port-less
+`https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev` via the Gateway is optional and needs a BackendTLSPolicy
+(UOS is HTTPS-only on 11443) — see `90-httproute-optional.yaml`.

 ## Open questions / risks

-1. **The guest lost its IP (HIGH) — THE LIVE BLOCKER, and it needs the operator.** Diagnosis
-   requires a shell, which requires `console-password` above plus one restart. First things to run
-   on the console: `ip -4 a`, `networkctl status enp1s0`, `journalctl -u systemd-networkd`,
-   `ls /etc/netplan`, and `systemctl status uosserver`. A plain restart may well restore DHCP on its
-   own (the address survived the first ~34h of this boot's life), but that would hide the cause, so
-   capture the state before rebooting a second time if you can.
-2. **Unattended install (MEDIUM) — mechanism shipped, end-to-end run NOT witnessed.** See the
-   install-method section: no official silent flag exists, `yes y | <installer> install` is the
-   convergent community practice, and it has not been executed on our guest. Treat the first real
-   install as something to watch on the console log, not as a fire-and-forget.
-3. **CDI http import (LOW) — RESOLVED in practice.** The import succeeded (first http/qcow2 CDI
+1. **Unattended install (HIGH) — STILL OPEN. This is the blocker.** The installer is a **signed,
+   account-tied** URL that **rotates/expires** (cannot be committed) and is documented as
+   **interactive** (no official silent flag). The shipped cloud-init had to be cut to ~1.1 KB for
+   the inline `userData` limit, so the `install-uos` helper is **no longer baked into the guest**.
+   **Decision needed:** operator runs the install by hand at bring-up (current de-facto answer), or
+   invest in a verified silent path (Secret-delivered cloud-init + a fetched-at-boot URL).
+2. **CDI http import (MEDIUM) — RESOLVED in practice.** The import succeeded (first http/qcow2 CDI
   import on this cluster). Still no checksum on an http source, and the URL tracks a *moving*
   Ubuntu 24.04 build — pin a dated build dir if reproducibility matters. Needed two cluster-level
   fixes (`nonroot-devices`, `longhorn-scratch`) — see above.
-4. **Boot firmware (LOW) — RESOLVED.** Boots as shipped; running Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS.
-5. **VIP `192.168.2.21` (LOW) — RESOLVED.** Allocated and held by both Services, inside the live
-   prod pool `192.168.2.20–.30`, not colliding with the Gateway (`.20`), crafty (`.22`), pihole-dns
-   (`.23`) or the node addresses (`.10/.11/.12`).
-6. **Longhorn RWX prerequisite (was BLOCKING) — RESOLVED.** `longhorn-vm` is live (RWX / Block /
+3. **Boot firmware (LOW) — RESOLVED.** Boots as shipped; running Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS.
+4. **VIP `192.168.1.54` (LOW) — RESOLVED.** Allocated and held by both Services, inside the
+   `192.168.1.53–.60` pool (`.53` is the shared Gateway).
+5. **Longhorn RWX prerequisite (was BLOCKING) — RESOLVED.** `longhorn-vm` is live (RWX / Block /
   migratable); the VMI reports `LiveMigratable=True` and `StorageLiveMigratable=True`.
-7. **Licensing (LOW).** UOS self-host is free; a Ubiquiti account is needed only to fetch the
+6. **Licensing (LOW).** UOS self-host is free; a Ubiquiti account is needed only to fetch the
   installer and for optional remote access.
-8. **Broadcast adoption (LOW, by design).** L2 auto-discovery (`10001/udp`) does not cross the pod
+7. **Broadcast adoption (LOW, by design).** L2 auto-discovery (`10001/udp`) does not cross the pod
   masquerade boundary — see the L4 section. Expect explicit inform-host adoption.
-9. **No `virtctl` in the devcontainer (LOW).** Restart and read-only console both work with plain
-   `kubectl` (above). An *interactive* console — the thing `console-password` unlocks — needs
-   `virtctl` on the operator's path; it is a single static binary from the KubeVirt release matching
-   the cluster's **v1.9.0**.

 ## Remaining bring-up

-Steps 1–5 are **done**. The sequence is kept because it is also the recovery/rebuild runbook, so it
-is written for a from-scratch cluster; the prod addresses are the live ones.
+Steps 1–4 below are **done**. The sequence is kept because it is also the recovery/rebuild runbook.

-1. ~~`longhorn-vm` StorageClass live; a free address in the LB pool.~~ **Done** (`192.168.2.21`).
+1. ~~`longhorn-vm` StorageClass live; `192.168.1.54` free.~~ **Done.**
 2. ~~Wire into a reconciled path~~ — **done**, via `apps/vms/` + the non-gating `apps-vms`
-   Kustomization (not an app wave), including its SOPS `decryption` stanza in both overlays.
+   Kustomization (not an app wave).
 3. ~~CDI import~~ — **done**: `kubectl -n unifi get dv unifi-rootdisk` → `Succeeded`.
 4. ~~VM + VIP~~ — **done**: `kubectl -n unifi get vmi unifi` → `Running`; both Services show
-   `192.168.2.21`.
-5. ~~Install UOS in the guest~~ — **done** (it was already done when this file claimed otherwise;
-   `uosserver.service` starts on every boot). On a REBUILD this is where the Secret does the work:
-   fill `installer-url`, commit, and the guest installs itself on first boot.
-6. **→ NEXT, and it is the operator's:** fill `console-password`, restart the VM once, get on the
-   console and find out why `enp1s0` has no address. Until that is fixed nothing below can pass.
-7. Verify the UI: `https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev:11443` (or `https://192.168.2.21:11443`),
+   `192.168.1.54`.
+5. **→ NEXT: install UOS in the guest.** SSH in (the inline cloud-init installs the operator's key
+   and `qemu-guest-agent`) or `virtctl console unifi`, fetch the signed installer URL from
+   ui.com/download/software/unifi-os-server, then `chmod +x` and run it **as root**.
+6. Verify the UI: `https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev:11443` (or `https://192.168.1.54:11443`),
   complete the first-run wizard.
-8. Verify DNS: `dig unifi.home.keithjackson.dev` → `192.168.2.21` from a LAN client (pihole
-   split-horizon) and from in-cluster (coredns-custom).
-9. Adopt a device: set its inform to `http://192.168.2.21:8080/inform`; confirm it appears + STUN
+7. Verify DNS: `dig unifi.home.keithjackson.dev` → `192.168.1.54` on the cluster LAN.
+8. Adopt a device: set its inform to `http://192.168.1.54:8080/inform`; confirm it appears + STUN
   connects (green). Test guest portal / throughput if used.
-10. Verify default-deny holds: only the declared L4 ports reachable; VM egress limited to world+DNS.
-11. (Optional) Re-add the L7 HTTPRoute once `BackendTLSPolicy` is confirmed on this Cilium version.
+9. Verify default-deny holds: only the declared L4 ports reachable; VM egress limited to world+DNS.
+10. (Optional) Re-add the L7 HTTPRoute once `BackendTLSPolicy` is confirmed on this Cilium version.

 **Quick health check today:**
 ```bash
 kubectl -n unifi get dv,vmi,svc
 kubectl -n unifi get vmi unifi -o jsonpath='{.status.guestOSInfo.prettyName}{"\n"}'
-# the two that would have caught the current failure:
-kubectl -n unifi get vmi unifi -o jsonpath='{.status.interfaces}{"\n"}'   # expect an ipAddress
-kubectl -n unifi exec "$(kubectl -n unifi get pod -l kubevirt.io=virt-launcher -o name | head -1)" \
-  -c compute -- ip neigh                                                 # expect 10.0.2.2 REACHABLE
 ```
@@ -11,11 +11,3 @@ resources:
  - 30-virtualmachine.yaml
  - 40-networkpolicy.yaml
  - 50-service-l4.yaml
-  # SOPS-encrypted. Carries the operator's UOS installer URL (+ optional SSH key) and is mounted
-  # into the guest as the UOSDATA disk by 30-virtualmachine.yaml. Decrypted by the `apps-vms` Flux
-  # Kustomization, which clusters/dev and clusters/prod patch with the `decryption` stanza — the
-  # FIRST encrypted content under apps/vms, so that patch was added with this file. The plaintext
-  # template + the operator hand-off steps live in the `.example` sibling of the file below, which
-  # is deliberately NOT named here: the L0 no-plaintext-secrets check fails any kustomization whose
-  # text contains an example template's filename, on the assumption it is being applied.
-  - unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: unifi-uos-installer
-    namespace: unifi
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    installer-url: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:pZo/fRSnUmZj2w==,iv:tBWMAL0NwCURCmfzx3UAtryCovcR+Rmh4DdtUiCi4Ig=,tag:ZfLicc3pBWujPHKqfSNOag==,type:str]
-    console-password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:rQ6v6VjG4uoEShHic+zM,iv:nV7mTJFRsLvd67uZT+KyMrOhUVkERVv53LqsvcE5Qfs=,tag:9J/t2je48DRTVmppPqDfFQ==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSB5M1RwWGhRKzNVenpzS25w
-            WW4vNHFURy9hMjRGeW0wdUJSaHN4MDFhSHlBCm1udi9NOWJ3RGdvOVNnRG9ZUlp4
-            TnVXRi90eFNSMjNVYVpUSmtFTURtU2MKLS0tIExPN2NRZW9CQXBKdUtCUkZSTXVO
-            cE9IcTM2RG9oMmt2Y0xsRExzUjYwUlEK6vq56tnnYvruNcCgijRUsfi3IreXt7fk
-            kgDevz3fOKkEJ3Y8+Mx3RBf3j6Za7L1lW7ft9TyTkBelRpj9bRD1Pg==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-19T02:47:13Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:DVJZQlHHb0U/F8oQ2iwPSTCvzHNynGZFW4MSHzW+LmNt8ozA7n2/U9prhRdrq3a1MHlaoGAkOFMGoQdZRR83CtZyP6oFoLiAMsRvNjNMgkaT1E3D7dzhjxAiTb+vQk9O467bH3ofm1+I/Ak3VFrNdjTtWFkWltW7MHB8njgPRPM=,iv:Sve3Z6RHKSWcdcEZtphBBmhRxjhfJHu9Dus2vb6K4+0=,tag:OrsGBPJVF1jtOAXCWNXG2Q==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -1,71 +0,0 @@
-# =============================================================================
-# TEMPLATE — NOT APPLIED, NOT ENCRYPTED (.yaml.example is ignored by kustomize and never
-# auto-encrypted by SOPS). Reference scaffold + OPERATOR HAND-OFF.
-#
-# WHAT THIS IS: the two values that (a) let the UniFi VM install UniFi OS Server by itself, with
-# nobody typing commands inside the guest, and (b) give the operator a way INTO that guest at all.
-# KubeVirt mounts this Secret into the VM as a tiny read-only iso9660 disk labelled `UOSDATA` (see
-# the `uosdata` volume in 30-virtualmachine.yaml); each key below becomes a file of the same name on
-# that disk, and the in-guest `uos-install.service` reads them on EVERY boot.
-#
-# READ THIS FIRST — UOS IS ALREADY INSTALLED ON THE LIVE PROD GUEST (verified 2026-09-14, see the
-# README "What is actually wrong"). `installer-url` is therefore NOT the fix for today's outage; it
-# is the rebuild path and the "the install never happened" path. `install-uos` refuses to run the
-# installer at all while systemd knows a `uosserver.service`, so filling this in cannot clobber a
-# working controller. `console-password` IS useful today: it is the only way to get a shell.
-#
-# WHY THE URL IS BEHIND SOPS: it is obtained through the operator's own (free) Ubiquiti account
-# session at ui.com/download/software/unifi-os-server, it identifies a specific build, and it is not
-# ours to redistribute. Treat it as account-derived material, not as public configuration.
-# HONEST CAVEAT, checked 2026-09-14: the resulting `https://fw-download.ubnt.com/data/
-# unifi-os-server/<hash>-linux-x64-<version>-<uuid>.<n>-x64` URL carries NO signature query string,
-# and public community install scripts hard-code these URLs — so it does not behave like a
-# short-lived signed link. It does change every release. Encrypting it costs nothing and keeps the
-# repo's "account-derived material is not config" line clean, but do NOT design around "it expires".
-#
-# HAND-OFF STEPS (operator) — this is the whole job:
-#  (a) Sign in at https://ui.com/download/software/unifi-os-server, pick the Linux (x64) build, and
-#      copy the download link (right-click -> Copy link address). Do NOT download it here; the guest
-#      fetches it itself.
-#  (b) Open the encrypted sibling in your editor:
-#         sops apps/vms/unifi/unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml
-#  (c) Replace the two REPLACE-ME values. Either may be left as the placeholder — the guest skips a
-#      placeholder rather than failing.
-#  (d) Save/quit (sops re-encrypts in place), commit, push, merge to the branch prod tracks.
-#  (e) Restart the VM once so the new cloud-init instance and the new disk are picked up:
-#         kubectl -n unifi delete vmi unifi        # `running: true` recreates it; no virtctl needed
-#      Watch it come up WITHOUT virtctl:
-#         kubectl -n unifi logs -f $(kubectl -n unifi get pod -l kubevirt.io=virt-launcher \
-#           -o name | head -1) -c guest-console-log
-#  (f) UI: https://192.168.2.21:11443 (prod) or https://unifi.home.keithjackson.dev:11443.
-#
-# IF YOU LATER NEED A NEW URL (new release, dead link): repeat (b)-(e). No firmware-UUID bump is
-# needed for that — the disk is rebuilt from this Secret on every VMI start and the systemd unit
-# re-reads it every boot. The UUID bump in 30-virtualmachine.yaml is only needed when the cloud-init
-# payload ITSELF changes.
-#
-# The file is already listed under `resources:` in apps/vms/unifi/kustomization.yaml, and `apps-vms`
-# is patched with the SOPS `decryption` stanza in clusters/dev + clusters/prod.
-# =============================================================================
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-  name: unifi-uos-installer
-  namespace: unifi
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-  # KEY NAMES ARE LOAD-BEARING: each key becomes a FILE of that exact name on the UOSDATA disk, and
-  # /usr/local/sbin/install-uos reads them by path. Renaming a key breaks the install silently.
-  #
-  # The signed-in download link for UniFi OS Server, Linux x64. Anything that is not an https URL
-  # (this placeholder included) is treated by the guest as "not provided yet": the unit logs
-  # "UOS installer-url not set yet" and exits 0, so the VM stays healthy and simply does not install.
-  installer-url: REPLACE-ME
-  # Password set on the guest's `ubuntu` account on every boot, for `virtctl -n unifi console unifi`.
-  # THIS IS THE ONLY DOOR INTO THE GUEST. The stock Ubuntu 24.04 cloud image ships `ubuntu` locked,
-  # no key was ever installed, and an SSH key would not help: the VM's masquerade interface forwards
-  # only the ports declared in 30-virtualmachine.yaml and 22 is not among them (probed from inside
-  # virt-launcher, 2026-09-14 — the guest RSTs on 22 just as it does on 11443). Generate one with
-  #     openssl rand -base64 24
-  # Leave it as REPLACE-ME to keep the account locked; the script skips the placeholder by name.
-  console-password: REPLACE-ME
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ spec:
              name: gitea-bootstrap
              key: secret-key
        - name: GITEA__server__DOMAIN
-          value: gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+          value: gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
        - name: GITEA__server__ROOT_URL
-          value: https://gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}/
+          value: https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/
        - name: GITEA__actions__ENABLED
          value: 'true'
        - name: GITEA__actions__DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ spec:
              command:
              - /bin/sh
              - -c
-              - "# Idempotent break-glass admin bootstrap. Runs alongside the gitea entrypoint\n# (which, with INSTALL_LOCK=true, headless-installs + migrates the DB on first\n# boot). Waits for the DB, then creates the admin only if it does not exist.\nset -u\nexport HOME=/data/git\ni=0\nuntil su-exec git gitea admin user list >/dev/null 2>&1; do\n  i=$((i + 1))\n  [ \"$i\" -ge 150 ] && { echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] DB not ready after wait; skipping\" >&2; exit 0; }\n  sleep 2\ndone\nif su-exec git gitea admin user list --admin 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1{print $2}' | grep -qx \"$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME\"; then\n  echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] admin '$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME' already present\"\nelse\n  n=0\n  until su-exec git gitea admin user create \\\n    --username \"$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME\" \\\n    --password \"$GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD\" \\\n    --email \"[email protected]\" \\\n    --admin --must-change-password=false; do\n    n=$((n + 1))\n    [ \"$n\" -ge 10 ] && { echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] admin create failed after retries\" >&2; break; }\n    sleep 3\n  done\n  echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] created break-glass admin '$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME'\"\nfi\n# --- Keycloak OIDC login source (idempotent add-or-update; R-IDP-02/06) ---\n# Registers the confidential `gitea` client as the OAuth2 login source \"keycloak\" against the\n# homelab realm's discovery doc. The `groups` claim maps platform-admins -> Gitea admin\n# (--admin-group). Missing secret => skip (break-glass admin still works), so an unfilled\n# secret never crashes the pod.\n#\n# HARDENED (was a silent first-boot RACE): this step used to fire before the app/network was\n# ready and swallow its failure (|| echo ... >&2, exit 0), so SSO silently never registered.\n# Now it (1) waits \u2014 bounded, ~90s \u2014 for the Keycloak discovery doc to serve HTTP 200,\n# (2) registers (update-in-place if present, else create), (3) VERIFIES the source actually\n# persisted and retries the whole cycle, and (4) on give-up logs LOUDLY to stderr AND a marker\n# file on the persistent /data volume WITHOUT crashlooping the pod (break-glass admin stays\n# usable). The verify-then-retry loop is the real guarantee against \"exit 0 but nothing stuck\".\nGITEA_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration\ngitea_oidc_fail() {\n  echo \"[gitea-oidc] FAILED to register 'keycloak' login source: $1\" >&2\n  { echo \"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [gitea-oidc] FAILED: $1\"; } >> /data/gitea-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true\n}\n# NOTE the `$$` escape below \u2014 it is load-bearing. apps-wave-0 declares postBuild.\n# substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux envsubst rewrites this whole manifest at RECONCILE\n# time, before any container runs. Written unescaped, `$${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}` is not\n# a cluster-var, so envsubst blanked it and the guard reconciled as `[ -z \"\" ]` \u2014 ALWAYS TRUE\n# \u2014 making every line below (discovery wait, add/update-oauth, verify-then-retry) DEAD CODE on\n# every boot since 8738871 (2026-08-27). SSO kept working only because the login source was\n# already in the DB; a PVC rebuild or fresh cluster would have come up with NO OIDC at all.\n# Flux STRICT substitution cannot catch this \u2014 it EXEMPTS default-operator forms by design.\n# `$${VAR}` is the escape: envsubst emits it back as a plain brace expansion for the shell.\n# Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` are left alone and need NO escaping \u2014 which is why the\n# `$GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` uses below always worked and only the guards broke.\n# Contract: clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. Enforced at render time by catalog/render.py.\nif [ -z \"$${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}\" ]; then\n  echo \"[gitea-oidc] GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET unset; skipping OIDC source (break-glass admin only)\"\nelse\n  # (1) Wait up to ~90s for the Keycloak discovery doc to be reachable (HTTP 200).\n  d=0; disc_ok=0\n  while [ \"$d\" -lt 45 ]; do\n    if [ \"$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 5 \"$GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL\" 2>/dev/null)\" = \"200\" ]; then\n      disc_ok=1;\
-                \ break\n    fi\n    d=$((d + 1)); sleep 2\n  done\n  [ \"$disc_ok\" = 1 ] || gitea_oidc_fail \"Keycloak discovery endpoint not reachable (HTTP 200) within timeout\"\n  # (2)+(3) Register (update-in-place or create) then VERIFY it persisted; retry the whole cycle.\n  r=0; reg_ok=0\n  while [ \"$r\" -lt 10 ]; do\n    oidc_id=$(su-exec git gitea admin auth list 2>/dev/null | awk '$2==\"keycloak\"{print $1; exit}')\n    if [ -n \"$oidc_id\" ]; then\n      su-exec git gitea admin auth update-oauth --id \"$oidc_id\" \\\n        --name keycloak --provider openidConnect --key gitea \\\n        --secret \"$GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n        --auto-discover-url \"$GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL\" \\\n        --scopes \"openid email profile\" --group-claim-name groups --admin-group platform-admins >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n    else\n      su-exec git gitea admin auth add-oauth \\\n        --name keycloak --provider openidConnect --key gitea \\\n        --secret \"$GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n        --auto-discover-url \"$GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL\" \\\n        --scopes \"openid email profile\" --group-claim-name groups --admin-group platform-admins >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n    fi\n    # VERIFY: the \"keycloak\" source must actually be listed now (guards the exit-0-but-nothing-persisted race).\n    if su-exec git gitea admin auth list 2>/dev/null | awk '$2==\"keycloak\"{f=1} END{exit !f}'; then\n      reg_ok=1; break\n    fi\n    r=$((r + 1)); sleep 3\n  done\n  if [ \"$reg_ok\" = 1 ]; then\n    echo \"[gitea-oidc] login source 'keycloak' registered and verified\"\n  else\n    gitea_oidc_fail \"add/update-oauth ran but the 'keycloak' source did not persist after retries\"\n  fi\nfi\n# A postStart hook MUST exit 0 \u2014 a non-zero exit makes the kubelet KILL the container\n# (FailedPostStartHook -> CrashLoopBackOff). This hook already ends 0 on both paths, but\n# it is made EXPLICIT so the guarantee does not depend on whatever statement happens to\n# be last. nextcloud's equivalent hook did depend on that and crashlooped on 2026-09-01,\n# the moment its OIDC guard was fixed and the block actually ran for the first time.\nexit 0\n"
+              - "# Idempotent break-glass admin bootstrap. Runs alongside the gitea entrypoint\n# (which, with INSTALL_LOCK=true, headless-installs + migrates the DB on first\n# boot). Waits for the DB, then creates the admin only if it does not exist.\nset -u\nexport HOME=/data/git\ni=0\nuntil su-exec git gitea admin user list >/dev/null 2>&1; do\n  i=$((i + 1))\n  [ \"$i\" -ge 150 ] && { echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] DB not ready after wait; skipping\" >&2; exit 0; }\n  sleep 2\ndone\nif su-exec git gitea admin user list --admin 2>/dev/null | awk 'NR>1{print $2}' | grep -qx \"$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME\"; then\n  echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] admin '$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME' already present\"\nelse\n  n=0\n  until su-exec git gitea admin user create \\\n    --username \"$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME\" \\\n    --password \"$GITEA_ADMIN_PASSWORD\" \\\n    --email \"[email protected]\" \\\n    --admin --must-change-password=false; do\n    n=$((n + 1))\n    [ \"$n\" -ge 10 ] && { echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] admin create failed after retries\" >&2; break; }\n    sleep 3\n  done\n  echo \"[gitea-bootstrap] created break-glass admin '$GITEA_ADMIN_USERNAME'\"\nfi\n# --- Keycloak OIDC login source (idempotent add-or-update; R-IDP-02/06) ---\n# Registers the confidential `gitea` client as the OAuth2 login source \"keycloak\" against the\n# homelab realm's discovery doc. The `groups` claim maps platform-admins -> Gitea admin\n# (--admin-group). Missing secret => skip (break-glass admin still works), so an unfilled\n# secret never crashes the pod.\n#\n# HARDENED (was a silent first-boot RACE): this step used to fire before the app/network was\n# ready and swallow its failure (|| echo ... >&2, exit 0), so SSO silently never registered.\n# Now it (1) waits \u2014 bounded, ~90s \u2014 for the Keycloak discovery doc to serve HTTP 200,\n# (2) registers (update-in-place if present, else create), (3) VERIFIES the source actually\n# persisted and retries the whole cycle, and (4) on give-up logs LOUDLY to stderr AND a marker\n# file on the persistent /data volume WITHOUT crashlooping the pod (break-glass admin stays\n# usable). The verify-then-retry loop is the real guarantee against \"exit 0 but nothing stuck\".\nGITEA_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration\ngitea_oidc_fail() {\n  echo \"[gitea-oidc] FAILED to register 'keycloak' login source: $1\" >&2\n  { echo \"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [gitea-oidc] FAILED: $1\"; } >> /data/gitea-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true\n}\nif [ -z \"${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}\" ]; then\n  echo \"[gitea-oidc] GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET unset; skipping OIDC source (break-glass admin only)\"\nelse\n  # (1) Wait up to ~90s for the Keycloak discovery doc to be reachable (HTTP 200).\n  d=0; disc_ok=0\n  while [ \"$d\" -lt 45 ]; do\n    if [ \"$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 5 \"$GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL\" 2>/dev/null)\" = \"200\" ]; then\n      disc_ok=1; break\n    fi\n    d=$((d + 1)); sleep 2\n  done\n  [ \"$disc_ok\" = 1 ] || gitea_oidc_fail \"Keycloak discovery endpoint not reachable (HTTP 200) within timeout\"\n  # (2)+(3) Register (update-in-place or create) then VERIFY it persisted; retry the whole cycle.\n  r=0; reg_ok=0\n  while [ \"$r\" -lt 10 ]; do\n    oidc_id=$(su-exec git gitea admin auth list 2>/dev/null | awk '$2==\"keycloak\"{print $1; exit}')\n    if [ -n \"$oidc_id\" ]; then\n      su-exec git gitea admin auth update-oauth --id \"$oidc_id\" \\\n        --name keycloak --provider openidConnect --key gitea \\\n        --secret \"$GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n        --auto-discover-url \"$GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL\" \\\n        --scopes \"openid email profile\" --group-claim-name groups --admin-group platform-admins >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n    else\n      su-exec git gitea admin auth add-oauth \\\n        --name keycloak --provider openidConnect --key gitea \\\n        --secret \"$GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n        --auto-discover-url \"$GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL\" \\\n        --scopes \"openid email profile\" --group-claim-name\
+                \ groups --admin-group platform-admins >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n    fi\n    # VERIFY: the \"keycloak\" source must actually be listed now (guards the exit-0-but-nothing-persisted race).\n    if su-exec git gitea admin auth list 2>/dev/null | awk '$2==\"keycloak\"{f=1} END{exit !f}'; then\n      reg_ok=1; break\n    fi\n    r=$((r + 1)); sleep 3\n  done\n  if [ \"$reg_ok\" = 1 ]; then\n    echo \"[gitea-oidc] login source 'keycloak' registered and verified\"\n  else\n    gitea_oidc_fail \"add/update-oauth ran but the 'keycloak' source did not persist after retries\"\n  fi\nfi\n"
      volumes:
      - name: data
        persistentVolumeClaim:
@@ -170,27 +170,6 @@ spec:
      - port: '3000'
        protocol: TCP
 ---
-# CiliumNetworkPolicy in-cluster client ingress allow (R-NET-02): gitea-allow-flux-ingress
-apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
-kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: gitea-allow-flux-ingress
-  namespace: gitea
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: gitea
-spec:
-  endpointSelector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: gitea
-  ingress:
-  - fromEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: flux-system
-    toPorts:
-    - ports:
-      - port: '3000'
-        protocol: TCP
---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): gitea-allow-internet-egress
 apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
 kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
@@ -206,10 +185,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute gitea-3000 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -228,7 +203,7 @@ spec:
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -238,6 +213,26 @@ spec:
    - name: gitea
      port: 3000
 ---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: gitea
+  namespace: gitea
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: gitea
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: gitea
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - gitea
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
+---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
 kind: PrometheusRule
@@ -252,11 +247,11 @@ spec:
  - name: gitea.slis
    rules:
    - alert: gitea-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"})
+      expr: up{job="gitea"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: gitea
      annotations:
        summary: gitea is down
-        description: 'gitea: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'gitea has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: jackett-oauth2-proxy
-    namespace: jackett
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    client-id: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:n5h6NG0emA==,iv:d6lvZfgRq6+IKNpsSoRa5a38R2f2+tWBO+j9QKDThMY=,tag:P+cvQXlWR4aZs7a9/lVuMQ==,type:str]
-    client-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:WL5G7PuVTdHQoe7Zp2eiE9ppxSGE0+W2RMfISuwqD6JA9auG97ZYnPUjG8HNx7sosOvsmqeE9kONK23IqIeaQw==,iv:kSP10UKeDv/8BsgX36+uKwEY+LBovcicce1RkD14M4g=,tag:fEUsVuajWPxAmAo8Nnrrrg==,type:str]
-    cookie-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:WChW9YLhzG9Nwp8dCWTFtirufXxGk3Ep9HXpfqcNz69PXQW3RaMC4EJpw2U=,iv:f6obIerkog8Q2gfj1tVL259LOl5jj59VE29KnJwmCXQ=,tag:s0FwNtU6vffKgDcGUNUhCg==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBLWVptVHc4aFl0MXRWTHVP
-            cC9qcVoyZUV2TGZnTEpHY3RLOU8vQnNNNm00ClZRejE2bzFaWXNSUmQ5MEZtV3VK
-            djB2TXJqQjVUOE93QjN6U0lMVDBEbm8KLS0tIFFTZnB0c2pCZWZMZ084WEIxT2tW
-            WUxxemJHdWRZbnBpL280dzlpMmhwSW8Kra0bkx3iJYQi+3rnpU/89fJbJHzQjKi2
-            ZWNwYhLpULw1xNo3xbCm+PUp5f30kpyMKQld2qaLOZAqWI5vNl9Byw==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-08-31T13:41:37Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:zU9nWCrSomAXAZ/Ve8U3yLHnoxhu8nkQ7523neJTGv810ONzAAZ7Gr8nFHR7bTqz2QwuGYD3P1ypdqYnKLM8ri2Zf1LDo/Su9ptnvQhUbfXKlRorcW6uAWsViCwvTM05wZNkdzZfza7tGwJQVTD6hc0cP+/7Y7JnpT5FEstK254=,iv:oggTRjcWqAJizA/a22+mtslkEWka8hUG0wudM8obO4g=,tag:i0TtNmqGe+b5t4iq8LpsqA==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ spec:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
      annotations:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
+        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: jackett
@@ -83,78 +83,7 @@ spec:
        - containerPort: 9117
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
-          mountPath: /config
-      - name: oauth2-proxy
-        image: quay.io/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy:v7.8.1
-        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-        args:
-        - --http-address=0.0.0.0:4180
-        - --reverse-proxy=true
-        - --provider=oidc
-        - --oidc-issuer-url=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab
-        - --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:9117
-        - --email-domain=*
-        - --scope=openid email profile
-        - --oidc-groups-claim=groups
-        - --allowed-group=media-users
-        - --allowed-group=platform-admins
-        - --skip-provider-button=true
-        - --redirect-url=https://jackett.${BASE_DOMAIN}/oauth2/callback
-        - --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_jackett
-        - --cookie-domain=jackett.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --whitelist-domain=.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --cookie-secure=true
-        - --cookie-refresh=2m30s
-        - --pass-access-token=true
-        - --set-xauthrequest=true
-        - --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180
-        env:
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: jackett-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-id
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: jackett-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-secret
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: jackett-oauth2-proxy
-              key: cookie-secret
-        ports:
-        - name: http
-          containerPort: 4180
-          protocol: TCP
-        - name: metrics
-          containerPort: 44180
-          protocol: TCP
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            cpu: 25m
-            memory: 64Mi
-          limits:
-            memory: 128Mi
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-            - ALL
-        livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-        readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
+          mountPath: /data/config
      volumes:
      - name: config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
@@ -175,9 +104,6 @@ spec:
  - name: port-9117
    port: 9117
    targetPort: 9117
-  - name: authproxy
-    port: 4180
-    targetPort: 4180
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy reciprocal ingress allow (R-NET-02): jackett-allow-radarr-9117
 apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
@@ -240,7 +166,7 @@ spec:
    - ingress
    toPorts:
    - ports:
-      - port: '4180'
+      - port: '9117'
        protocol: TCP
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): jackett-allow-internet-egress
@@ -258,10 +184,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute jackett-9117 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -273,15 +195,14 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: jackett
  annotations:
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
+    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
 spec:
  parentRefs:
  - name: shared
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - jackett.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - jackett.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -289,7 +210,27 @@ spec:
        value: /
    backendRefs:
    - name: jackett
-      port: 4180
+      port: 9117
+---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: jackett
+  namespace: jackett
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: jackett
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: jackett
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - jackett
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
 ---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
@@ -305,11 +246,11 @@ spec:
  - name: jackett.slis
    rules:
    - alert: jackett-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="jackett", deployment="jackett"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="jackett", deployment="jackett"})
+      expr: up{job="jackett"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: jackett
      annotations:
        summary: jackett is down
-        description: 'jackett: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'jackett has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -8,21 +8,13 @@ kind: Kustomization
 resources:
 - gitea-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
 - gitea.yaml
- jackett-oauth2-proxy-credentials.sops.yaml
 - jackett.yaml
 - nextcloud-db-app.sops.yaml
- nextcloud-db-backup-credentials-prod.sops.yaml
 - nextcloud-db-backup-credentials.sops.yaml
 - nextcloud-db.yaml
- pihole-dns.yaml
- pihole-oauth2-proxy-credentials.sops.yaml
 - pihole.yaml
- plex-claim-secret.sops.yaml
 - plex.yaml
- qbittorrent-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
- qbittorrent-oauth2-proxy-credentials.sops.yaml
 - qbittorrent.yaml
 - semaphore-db-app.sops.yaml
- semaphore-db-backup-credentials-prod.sops.yaml
 - semaphore-db-backup-credentials.sops.yaml
 - semaphore-db.yaml
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials-prod
-    namespace: nextcloud-db
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    ACCESS_KEY_ID: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:4lx6et4HcXDegulyIoa7jZR/lVgapGPEkukajfCKjvk=,iv:p6V7tizbikk55tOvpPOsPHTe/p52QLX5A5xrwuB14rA=,tag:oNJuipT/Lb6zynJ2K2Q71A==,type:str]
-    ACCESS_SECRET_KEY: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:V5bHPoPeBOVyLp1n1Jilyso4i5P2aPSH0hrryfweg2q/SctWZxRbLBQ/FLzOigbJsAhlwOGu069mQPma6xjfdw==,iv:8u4UOvI8dC/cm6mEWDlyN5E3SfRZmwKY9uZY/DjPEsQ=,tag:tw7tGs29TmUvMPBCtCszAA==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBiSUt5N2k2N2lDU2ZsMy9m
-            M1NFS0M2QjFsNFhnR0hCMzFyaTdiQWFZRFJZCmhBTWRXNmxLMGtsc3Rxd2FSMDZp
-            aktjcTE2c1hmU1EzM3RWNksyb3Q1YVUKLS0tIDBFS1I5aDBER2cvcWtLZ3BXTEp5
-            ZGI5ZmZIcStheUNQamxIVVVpc0ZMOHMKlE5aHewtHJpeU24F5sodc9CEm9KTjHQQ
-            8ThEQ/8vyazL9V4ojlICxSHU/SHkHpD1eBaTKcAQd/LZzujIcJ+QfA==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-07T06:36:33Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:8awz1Jh8t4zjDMyd93/v+6on9iiIaSi01293A7uYhxj9L1+g63zeO+DPmSn6+KbZvHdqU2A7up09H1NzfXAEdGuvVbB36cdGq0zKank3PUi8c7IT6qNuWydxRAcqLnbbD+c30Z6GB+gAuZHstNOe4Rgc4aJvMN6FuP6x6Z0870c=,iv:KGGKJq2QA5xztvoHs/SViXW72DYwT16i+W+dJBUeIJQ=,tag:3UpYqx2+RIK0QdMH/BSIpA==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -37,53 +37,16 @@ metadata:
  name: nextcloud-db
  namespace: nextcloud-db
 spec:
-  # THREE instances — one primary + two hot standbys (2026-09-07), same as keycloak-db; see
-  # platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml for the full rationale. Short version: Longhorn's 3-way
-  # replication saves the DATA on node loss, not the SERVICE, and with `instances: 1` all three CNPG
-  # primaries had drifted onto k3s-prod-2, so one node took Nextcloud down alongside SSO and
-  # Semaphore. A streaming standby lets CNPG promote in seconds and repoint the -rw Service.
-  # Gated on the Barman archive below actually working (ContinuousArchiving=True with a real
-  # firstRecoverabilityPoint) — standbys replicate corruption, they are not a backup.
-  #
-  # Scaling out is non-disruptive: CNPG creates -2 then -3 sequentially, each seeded by
-  # pg_basebackup from the running primary, which is neither restarted nor disconnected.
-  instances: 3
+  # Single Postgres instance on 3-replica Longhorn is acceptable at home scale (ADR-0014, same as
+  # keycloak-db). The storage is already 3-way replicated by Longhorn; raise to 3 for Postgres-level
+  # HA as a future hardening.
+  instances: 1
  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.4
  # Stamp app.kubernetes.io/name=nextcloud-db onto every generated pod/service so the rendered
  # nextcloud egress CiliumNetworkPolicy's toEndpoints selector matches the primary pod (R-NET-02).
  inheritedMetadata:
    labels:
      app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db
-  # HARD anti-affinity — the three instances MUST land on three DIFFERENT nodes; and roll the
-  # primary by SWITCHOVER rather than CNPG's default in-place `restart`, which would delete and
-  # recreate the primary pod. Full rationale in platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. Short
-  # version: CNPG's default `preferred` is a scheduler hint, so when CNPG recreates an instance
-  # after a node loss it may stack two instances on one node — which is how `instances: 3` decays
-  # back into the single-node failure domain this change removes. `required` makes it a constraint;
-  # the cost is that an instance whose node is gone stays Pending, which is correct (2 of 3 still
-  # serve). Satisfiable on both clusters: prod and dev each have 3 schedulable, untainted nodes.
-  #
-  # APPLYING THIS CHANGES THE POD SPEC, so CNPG rolls the instances: standbys first, then one
-  # switchover. Expect a single brief connection reset for Nextcloud.
-  affinity:
-    enablePodAntiAffinity: true
-    podAntiAffinityType: required
-  primaryUpdateMethod: switchover
-  # SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION — quorum of ONE standby, PREFERRED durability (2026-09-07). Full
-  # rationale in platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. Short version: async replication loses the
-  # last few transactions when a primary dies before its standbys catch up, and `method: any` +
-  # `number: 1` makes COMMIT wait for one standby to confirm. dataDurability MUST stay `preferred`,
-  # never `required` — `required` blocks writes outright when fewer than `number` healthy standbys
-  # are available, which on a 3-node cluster sharing nodes with etcd and the CNI turns one degraded
-  # standby into a total write outage. `preferred` relaxes to async instead.
-  #
-  # NON-DISRUPTIVE: compiles to `synchronous_standby_names`, a reload-only PostgreSQL parameter —
-  # no restart, no switchover, no client disconnect. Land it after the anti-affinity roll.
-  postgresql:
-    synchronous:
-      method: any
-      number: 1
-      dataDurability: preferred
  storage:
    storageClass: longhorn
    size: 5Gi
@@ -105,38 +68,23 @@ spec:
      memory: 256Mi
    limits:
      memory: 512Mi
-  # --- Off-cluster DR backup (R-STATE-03) — CNPG-native Barman → object storage ---
+  # --- Off-cluster DR backup (R-STATE-03) — CNPG-native Barman → the on-Proxmox MinIO `cnpg` bucket ---
  # Continuous WAL archiving + periodic base backups = proper Postgres PITR (realises the SD's
-  # backup.policy daily-offcluster). CNPG appends serverName (defaults to the Cluster name) to
-  # destinationPath, so objects land under ${CNPG_BACKUP_PATH}/nextcloud-db/ — dev
-  # s3://cnpg/nextcloud-db/ on the on-Proxmox MinIO, prod
-  # s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman/nextcloud-db/ on Cloudflare R2. Both endpointURL and
-  # destinationPath are cluster-vars knobs (R-ENV-02), substituted by `apps-wave-0`.
-  # Credentials: PER-ENVIRONMENT (2026-09-07). dev reads nextcloud-db-backup-credentials (the
-  # scoped MinIO key), prod reads nextcloud-db-backup-credentials-prod (the Cloudflare R2
-  # token). BOTH Secrets are applied to BOTH clusters by apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml (a
-  # generated golden — render.py places the -prod sidecar in this DB's wave); the
-  # cluster-vars knob ${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX} (dev "" | prod "-prod") chooses which
-  # one this Cluster reads. Both are in-namespace, which is all a pod can read. They were
-  # ONE shared Secret until the split, so giving prod its R2 token would have left dev
-  # signing MinIO requests with an R2 key id — 403 on every archive command, i.e. the
-  # disk-full clock below rather than a merely missing backup.
-  #
-  # archive_mode is ON, so a FAILING archive command is a disk-full clock, not a degraded backup:
-  # Postgres refuses to recycle a WAL segment it has not archived, and the pgdata PVC fills until
-  # the primary PANICs. Prod demonstrated this from bootstrap to 2026-09-07 with a placeholder
-  # endpoint. Treat ContinuousArchiving=False here as an availability incident.
+  # backup.policy daily-offcluster). destinationPath is the bucket ROOT; CNPG appends serverName
+  # (defaults to the Cluster name), so objects land under s3://cnpg/nextcloud-db/. Path-style HTTP.
+  # Credentials: the scoped key from the in-namespace SOPS Secret nextcloud-db-backup-credentials
+  # (same-ns only), kept in sync with platform/backup/minio-credentials.sops.yaml.
  backup:
    retentionPolicy: "30d"
    barmanObjectStore:
-      destinationPath: ${CNPG_BACKUP_PATH}
-      endpointURL: ${S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT}
+      destinationPath: s3://cnpg
+      endpointURL: http://192.168.1.9:9000
      s3Credentials:
        accessKeyId:
-          name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
+          name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials
          key: ACCESS_KEY_ID
        secretAccessKey:
-          name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
+          name: nextcloud-db-backup-credentials
          key: ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
      wal:
        compression: gzip
@@ -158,243 +106,3 @@ spec:
  cluster:
    name: nextcloud-db
  method: barmanObjectStore
---
-# =============================================================================
-# CNPG METRICS-EXPORTER CONNECT RECONCILER (R-OBS-01)
-#
-# THE BUG THIS CLOSES (true positive, verified live on prod 2026-09-12, and the
-# condition platform/cnpg/alerts.yaml already recorded on BOTH clusters 2026-09-06):
-# the `nextcloud` database's ACL had been narrowed out-of-band so that PUBLIC held
-# nothing, and CNPG's metrics exporter role therefore could not even CONNECT:
-#
-#   nextcloud-db-1/-2/-3, every scrape:
-#     FATAL: permission denied for database "nextcloud" (SQLSTATE 42501)
-#     DETAIL: User does not have CONNECT privilege.
-#     msg="Error collecting user query" targetDatabase=nextcloud
-#
-# CONSEQUENCE: `cnpg_last_error` = 1 on all three instances and the ENTIRE
-# cnpg_pg_stat_* / pg_settings / pg_postmaster family MISSING for this database,
-# while the scrape target still reported up=1 — a blind spot that looks like health.
-# Measured before the fix: cnpg_pg_settings_setting had 765 series for keycloak and
-# 765 for semaphore-db and ZERO for nextcloud-db. Nextcloud's database had never
-# been monitored.
-#
-# ROOT CAUSE, AND WHY ONLY THIS DATABASE. All three Cluster specs are identical in
-# their bootstrap; the difference is entirely in the live ACL:
-#
-#   nextcloud : datacl = {nextcloud=CTc/nextcloud}          <-- explicit, no PUBLIC entry
-#   keycloak  : datacl = NULL
-#   semaphore : datacl = NULL
-#
-# A NULL datacl means "PostgreSQL defaults", which include CONNECT and TEMP for
-# PUBLIC — so keycloak and semaphore let the exporter in only by inheriting PUBLIC's
-# implicit CONNECT. On `nextcloud` something ran the equivalent of
-# `REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE nextcloud FROM PUBLIC`, which MATERIALISES datacl and
-# drops the implicit PUBLIC entry with it. That REVOKE is not in this repo and not
-# in DECISIONS-LOG.md — it was applied out of band, which is exactly why a
-# git-declared fix is needed rather than another hand-run psql.
-#
-# WHY THE GRANT IS EXPLICIT RATHER THAN "RE-GRANT CONNECT TO PUBLIC": restoring
-# PUBLIC's CONNECT would undo whatever hardening that REVOKE intended and would
-# leave the exporter depending on an implicit default again — the precise fragility
-# that broke here and that keycloak/semaphore are still relying on. Naming the
-# exporter role makes the dependency explicit and survives a future REVOKE FROM
-# PUBLIC on any of the three databases.
-#
-# WHY A CronJob AND NOT A CNPG FIELD — CNPG 1.30.0's API GENUINELY CANNOT EXPRESS
-# THIS. Checked against the live CRDs on prod:
-#   * `Database` (databases.postgresql.cnpg.io) has no database-ACL field at all.
-#     `allowConnections` is the pg_database.datallowconn FLAG (open/closed to
-#     everyone), not a per-role GRANT; its only grant/revoke verbs are the `usage`
-#     lists on `fdws` and `servers`.
-#   * `spec.managed.roles` and `DatabaseRole` manage ROLE ATTRIBUTES (login,
-#     superuser, connectionLimit, ...) plus `inRoles` MEMBERSHIP. Membership is the
-#     wrong tool: the only local role holding CONNECT here is the OWNER, so
-#     `inRoles: [nextcloud]` would hand the exporter the owner's CREATE and TEMP on
-#     the database and read/write on every application table — the opposite of
-#     least privilege, to buy one CONNECT.
-#   * `bootstrap.initdb.postInitApplicationSQL` runs ONCE, at bootstrap. It cannot
-#     repair these three already-bootstrapped instances (the actual bug), and on a
-#     FRESH cluster the grant is unnecessary anyway (datacl starts NULL). Adding it
-#     would be a second mechanism that fixes nothing this one does not.
-# So the SQL has to be applied by something, and this repo already has the pattern
-# for state Flux cannot reach: the level-triggered CronJob reconciler in
-# platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml, whose reasoning transfers
-# verbatim — the drifted state lives inside PostgreSQL, not in a Kubernetes object,
-# so no admission or mutation policy can see it. A one-shot Job is deliberately NOT
-# used: a completed Job is never re-run, so a DB rebuild or a PITR restore would
-# silently reopen the blind spot. A loop converges instead.
-#
-# PRIVILEGE GRANTED — EXACTLY ONE, AND NOTHING ELSE:
-#   GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE nextcloud TO cnpg_metrics_exporter;
-# Resulting ACL entry is `cnpg_metrics_exporter=c/nextcloud` — the `c` is CONNECT;
-# there is no `C` (CREATE) and no `T` (TEMPORARY). No ownership, no superuser, no
-# write, no table or schema grants. Nothing further is needed because CNPG already
-# creates this role as a member of the built-in `pg_monitor` role (verified on all
-# three prod clusters), and pg_monitor already carries the read access every
-# collector query wants — they read pg_catalog views (pg_stat_database,
-# pg_stat_archiver, pg_settings, pg_postmaster) and no application tables. Proof
-# that CONNECT alone is sufficient: after this grant, `Error collecting user query`
-# went to ZERO on all three pods, i.e. every collector query now succeeds.
-#
-# IT RUNS AS THE DATABASE OWNER, NOT AS A SUPERUSER. `enableSuperuserAccess` is off
-# on this Cluster (there is no nextcloud-db-superuser Secret), and it stays off: the
-# owner of a database holds the grant option on that database's privileges, so
-# `nextcloud` can issue this GRANT itself. Verified live before committing, by
-# running the statement under `SET ROLE nextcloud`. Credentials come from the
-# in-namespace SOPS Secret nextcloud-db-app that already exists for the app.
-#
-# NETWORKING: nextcloud-db is intentionally NOT an app-namespace (see this file's
-# header), so Kyverno generates no default-deny baseline here and this same-namespace
-# pod -> nextcloud-db-rw:5432 connection needs no rendered allow.
-#
-# THE POD LABEL IS DELIBERATELY *NOT* app.kubernetes.io/name=nextcloud-db. That
-# label is what `inheritedMetadata` stamps on the CNPG instance pods and what the
-# rendered nextcloud egress CiliumNetworkPolicy selects; reusing it here would quietly
-# make this reconciler a permitted destination for the Nextcloud app. It gets its own
-# name so that selector keeps meaning "the database".
-apiVersion: batch/v1
-kind: CronJob
-metadata:
-  name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
-  namespace: nextcloud-db
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
-    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: nextcloud-db
-spec:
-  # Every 15 minutes, matching the keycloak reconciler's cadence. A converged
-  # database makes this one idempotent GRANT and exits; the cost is negligible, and
-  # after a rebuild or PITR restore monitoring is blind for at most one interval
-  # (well inside the alert's `for: 6h`).
-  schedule: "*/15 * * * *"
-  # A run still waiting on the primary must not be lapped by the next tick.
-  concurrencyPolicy: Forbid
-  startingDeadlineSeconds: 300
-  successfulJobsHistoryLimit: 1
-  failedJobsHistoryLimit: 3
-  jobTemplate:
-    spec:
-      backoffLimit: 2
-      activeDeadlineSeconds: 300
-      ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 3600
-      template:
-        metadata:
-          labels:
-            app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
-            app.kubernetes.io/part-of: nextcloud-db
-        spec:
-          restartPolicy: Never
-          # Talks only to PostgreSQL; its one input is a mounted Secret, so it needs
-          # no Kubernetes API access at all (R-SEC-02, least privilege).
-          automountServiceAccountToken: false
-          securityContext:
-            runAsNonRoot: true
-            # uid/gid 26 is `postgres` in the CNPG PostgreSQL image.
-            runAsUser: 26
-            runAsGroup: 26
-            seccompProfile:
-              type: RuntimeDefault
-          containers:
-            - name: grant
-              # The SAME image the instances above run, pinned to the same tag. psql
-              # is already in it and it is already present on every node, so this
-              # adds no new image and no new supply-chain surface. Keep the tag in
-              # step with spec.imageName above when Renovate bumps it.
-              image: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.4
-              imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-              command:
-                - psql
-                # -w never prompts; -X skips ~/.psqlrc; ON_ERROR_STOP makes the Job
-                # FAIL LOUDLY rather than reporting success on a refused grant.
-                - "-w"
-                - "-X"
-                - "-v"
-                - "ON_ERROR_STOP=1"
-                - "-f"
-                - /etc/grant/grant.sql
-              env:
-                # libpq connection, assembled from the owner Secret. Target the -rw
-                # Service: GRANT is a write and must reach the primary.
-                - name: PGHOST
-                  value: nextcloud-db-rw.nextcloud-db.svc.cluster.local
-                - name: PGPORT
-                  value: "5432"
-                # Connecting to the application database itself is deliberate: the
-                # owner has CONNECT on it, and a successful connection is the same
-                # check the exporter was failing.
-                - name: PGDATABASE
-                  value: nextcloud
-                - name: PGUSER
-                  valueFrom:
-                    secretKeyRef:
-                      name: nextcloud-db-app
-                      key: username
-                # Read by libpq from the environment and never logged; psql echoes
-                # no connection parameters.
-                - name: PGPASSWORD
-                  valueFrom:
-                    secretKeyRef:
-                      name: nextcloud-db-app
-                      key: password
-                - name: PGCONNECT_TIMEOUT
-                  value: "10"
-              volumeMounts:
-                - name: sql
-                  mountPath: /etc/grant
-                  readOnly: true
-              securityContext:
-                allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-                readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-                capabilities:
-                  drop:
-                    - ALL
-              resources:
-                requests:
-                  cpu: 10m
-                  memory: 32Mi
-                limits:
-                  memory: 128Mi
-          volumes:
-            - name: sql
-              configMap:
-                name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
-                defaultMode: 0444
---
-# The desired state, as SQL. Idempotent: re-granting an existing privilege is a
-# no-op, so a converged run changes nothing. The DO block is the ASSERTION — it
-# turns "the grant did not take" into a failed Job instead of a silent success.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ConfigMap
-metadata:
-  name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
-  namespace: nextcloud-db
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud-db-exporter-grant
-    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: nextcloud-db
-data:
-  grant.sql: |
-    -- The ONE privilege the CNPG metrics exporter is missing on this database.
-    -- CONNECT only: no CREATE, no TEMPORARY, no ownership, no table/schema grants.
-    -- Read access for the collector's pg_catalog queries already comes from the
-    -- built-in pg_monitor role, which CNPG grants this role when it creates it.
-    GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE nextcloud TO cnpg_metrics_exporter;
-
-    -- Fail the Job if the privilege is somehow still absent, so a broken
-    -- reconciler surfaces as a failed Job rather than as a quiet blind spot.
-    -- NO PL/pgSQL, AND NOT ONE DOLLAR SIGN IN THIS FILE — DELIBERATE, including in these
-    -- comments. This assertion began life as a dollar-quoted DO block, which cannot survive
-    -- being shipped this way: the ConfigMap is rendered through Flux's postBuild
-    -- substitution, and envsubst collapses a doubled dollar into a single one. The block
-    -- reached Postgres with its opening quote halved and every Flux-reconciled run died
-    -- with a syntax error pointing at that character.
-    -- It PASSED when hand-applied with kubectl, because that path runs no envsubst — so
-    -- the defect was invisible until Flux owned the object, and three runs of Error pods
-    -- were the first sign. Escaping by doubling again would work and would also be the
-    -- next person's trap; plain SQL leaves substitution nothing to touch.
-    --
-    -- has_database_privilege() returns boolean; ::int is 1 when granted and 0 when not, so
-    -- the division raises division_by_zero and ON_ERROR_STOP=1 fails the Job. The divisor
-    -- is not a constant, so it cannot be folded away at plan time.
-    \echo 'asserting cnpg_metrics_exporter has CONNECT on database nextcloud'
-    SELECT 1 / has_database_privilege('cnpg_metrics_exporter', 'nextcloud', 'CONNECT')::int
-      AS exporter_can_connect;
@@ -1,196 +0,0 @@
---
-# =================================================================================================
-# PiHole DNS EXPOSURE — the LAN half of split-horizon (R-DNS-01 / R-DNS-03), and NETWORK POLICY.
-# =================================================================================================
-# HAND-WRITTEN, NOT RENDERED. This file is a non-catalog app-tier unit anchored to the `pihole`
-# ServiceDefinition and placed into wave 0 by `catalog/render.py --emit-waves` via its EXTRA_UNITS
-# table (the same mechanism gitea-actions uses). It is hand-written because the ServiceDefinition
-# schema genuinely cannot express it: schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json is
-# `additionalProperties: false` and has NO field for a type=LoadBalancer Service, for a pinned
-# lbipam VIP, for a sharing key, for loadBalancerSourceRanges, or for UDP north-south exposure at
-# all. `ingressRoutes` renders HTTPRoutes on the shared Gateway, which is an L7 HTTPS terminator and
-# cannot carry DNS. The two existing L4 workloads in this repo are hand-written for exactly this
-# reason and in exactly this shape — apps/vms/unifi/50-service-l4.yaml and
-# platform/crafty/service-l4.yaml. The ANSWERS PiHole gives are declared in the catalog
-# (catalog/pihole.yaml `env`), so the only thing living outside the catalog is the exposure the
-# schema has no word for.
-#
-# WHY THIS EXISTS AT ALL: platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml is explicit that its split-horizon is
-# for PODS and defers LAN clients to "PiHole split-horizon" — but PiHole served no DNS. Its Service
-# was ClusterIP with ports 80 and 4180 only. The LAN half of the split-horizon that docs/09
-# (R-DNS-03) and the README's Phase 2 row both claim simply did not exist, and LAN clients ran on
-# hand-maintained per-client dnsmasq files instead. Upstream cannot substitute: the SOHO router that
-# owns this LAN strips RFC1918 answers for public domains as rebind protection (NOERROR, ANSWER 0).
-#
-# VIP: ${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP} (cluster-vars, R-ENV-02 — dev 192.168.1.56, prod 192.168.2.23), PINNED via
-# lbipam.cilium.io/ips out of the CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool `default-pool`
-# (${CILIUM_LB_POOL_START}..${CILIUM_LB_POOL_STOP}) and ARP-announced on the flat LAN by the
-# existing CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy `default-l2` (platform-config/cilium/*). No new Cilium config
-# is needed; these Services just consume the pool. PINNING IS NOT OPTIONAL HERE: this address is
-# typed into every LAN client's resolver configuration (or handed out by the router's DHCP), so it
-# can never be allowed to move.
-#
-# ONE VIP, TWO SERVICES: a LoadBalancer Service is single-protocol-friendly, so udp/53 and tcp/53
-# split into two Services sharing one address via lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key — the same
-# arrangement unifi and crafty use. BOTH PROTOCOLS ARE REQUIRED, not belt-and-braces: UDP is the
-# normal query path, and TCP is what a resolver falls back to for any answer that does not fit in a
-# UDP datagram and what some clients use unconditionally. A UDP-only resolver fails intermittently
-# and confusingly.
-#
-# NO external-dns ANNOTATION, DELIBERATELY. unifi and crafty both carry
-# `external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname` so external-dns publishes their address as a PUBLIC
-# Cloudflare record. This Service must not: `pihole-dns.${BASE_DOMAIN}` is answered by PiHole itself
-# (catalog/pihole.yaml's dnsmasq override), it is an RFC1918 address that is useless in public DNS,
-# and publishing a resolver's address in a public zone invites exactly the traffic the source-range
-# filter below exists to refuse. Internal name, internal answer, no public record — which is also
-# why this change touches nothing under platform/externaldns/.
-#
-# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster — AND WHY IT IS NOT `Local`, WHICH IS WHAT unifi AND crafty USE.
-# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# `Local` is the obvious choice: it preserves the client source IP and, in theory, pins the VIP to
-# the node running the backend. The second half is NOT TRUE on this cluster, and that was measured,
-# not assumed (Cilium 1.20.1, prod, 2026-09-14):
-#
-#   * Cilium's L2 announcer elects one lease holder per Service among the nodes matching the
-#     CiliumL2AnnouncementPolicy's nodeSelector — `default-l2` matches ALL linux nodes — and it does
-#     NOT filter that candidate set by which nodes hold a backend. Created fresh, the two Services
-#     landed on DIFFERENT nodes (`cilium-l2announce-pihole-pihole-dns-tcp` -> k3s-prod-3,
-#     `-udp` -> k3s-prod-2) while the pihole pod ran on k3s-prod-1.
-#   * With `Local`, a node that announces the VIP but holds no backend has nowhere to send the
-#     packet, and the query fails with ICMP port unreachable (dig: "connection refused"). On three
-#     nodes with one replica that is a 1-in-3 chance of working, drawn independently per protocol.
-#   * It does not self-heal. The lease holder keeps RENEWING after the pod moves away: a pod
-#     rescheduled from k3s-prod-1 to k3s-prod-2 left the lease on k3s-prod-1, still renewing three
-#     minutes later, with LAN resolution dead the whole time. Only deleting the Lease forced a
-#     re-election — and that re-election is random, so it may pick a backend-less node again.
-#
-# A resolver that works one time in three and stays broken after any reschedule is not a resolver.
-# `Cluster` makes every node able to serve the VIP by forwarding to wherever the pod is, which is
-# what makes this survive a reschedule and a rebuild. VERIFIED in exactly the broken arrangement
-# above — leases on k3s-prod-2 and k3s-prod-3, pod on k3s-prod-1 — udp/53, tcp/53 and recursion all
-# answering.
-#
-# THE COST, STATED PLAINLY: Cilium runs in SNAT mode here (no `loadBalancer.mode: dsr` in
-# platform/cilium/helmrelease.yaml), so a query forwarded between nodes reaches PiHole with the
-# INGRESS NODE's address as its source, not the client's. PiHole's per-client query log, per-client
-# groups and per-client rate limiting therefore see one apparent client instead of the LAN. Two
-# consequences are handled: the rate limit is disabled in catalog/pihole.yaml (otherwise the whole
-# LAN counts as one client against PiHole's 1000-queries-per-60s default and PiHole starts
-# REFUSING), and the LAN restriction is enforced in the datapath rather than by source identity —
-# see loadBalancerSourceRanges below. The fix that would restore client IPs is `loadBalancer.mode:
-# dsr` on the Cilium HelmRelease, which is a platform-wide change with an Ansible [parity] contract
-# and would also fix the same latent defect in unifi and crafty; it belongs in its own change.
-#
-# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# loadBalancerSourceRanges — THE LAN RESTRICTION, ENFORCED IN THE DATAPATH.
-# -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Cilium enforces this list in eBPF on the ingress node, on the VIP, BEFORE load-balancing and
-# before SNAT. A packet to ${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP}:53 from outside ${LAN_CIDR} is dropped by the
-# datapath — it never reaches a backend and never reaches a network policy. This is what makes
-# "LAN clients only" a real, tested restriction rather than a comment: VERIFIED by narrowing the
-# range to a /24 that excludes the test client, after which the same query that had been answering
-# stopped being answered at all, and restoring it, after which it answered again.
-#
-# It is also the layer that survives the SNAT above. A CiliumNetworkPolicy cannot express this
-# restriction once the source has been rewritten: measured on this cluster, the forwarded query
-# arrives from the ingress node's internal router address and Cilium resolves that source to the
-# reserved `world` identity, which a `fromCIDR` clause does not match even when the CIDR covers the
-# address (tried: fromCIDR ${CLUSTER_POD_CIDR}, still dropped as `world`). So the peer restriction
-# lives here, where it is actually enforceable, and the policy below restricts the PORTS.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  name: pihole-dns-udp
-  namespace: pihole
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
-  annotations:
-    lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key: "pihole-dns"
-    lbipam.cilium.io/ips: "${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP}"
-spec:
-  type: LoadBalancer
-  externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
-  loadBalancerSourceRanges:
-    - ${LAN_CIDR}
-  selector:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
-  ports:
-    - { name: dns-udp, port: 53, targetPort: 53, protocol: UDP }
---
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  name: pihole-dns-tcp
-  namespace: pihole
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
-  annotations:
-    lbipam.cilium.io/sharing-key: "pihole-dns"   # same key + same IP => shares the VIP with -udp
-    lbipam.cilium.io/ips: "${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP}"
-spec:
-  type: LoadBalancer
-  externalTrafficPolicy: Cluster
-  loadBalancerSourceRanges:
-    - ${LAN_CIDR}
-  selector:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
-  ports:
-    - { name: dns-tcp, port: 53, targetPort: 53, protocol: TCP }
---
-# =================================================================================================
-# NETWORK POLICY — a NEW ingress path from off-cluster, restricted to the two DNS ports.
-# =================================================================================================
-# The pihole namespace is default-deny on ingress (the baseline NetworkPolicy in the rendered
-# apps/wave-0/pihole.yaml: `ingress: []`). Cilium enforces the UNION of that NetworkPolicy and the
-# CiliumNetworkPolicies in the namespace, so this file ADDS one path and nothing else. Everything
-# undeclared stays denied, and the existing `pihole-allow-gateway-ingress` (Gateway -> :4180, the
-# oauth2-proxy gate in front of the admin UI) is untouched. PiHole's own :80 is NOT in this rule:
-# the admin UI stays reachable only through the Gateway and oauth2-proxy, and a LAN client that
-# talks to ${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP} on any port other than 53 gets nothing — there is no Service port for
-# it and no policy for it.
-#
-# PORTS ARE THE NARROWING HERE; THE LAN RESTRICTION IS THE SOURCE-RANGE FILTER ABOVE. The peer is
-# `world` for a mechanical reason, not a lazy one: with externalTrafficPolicy Cluster in Cilium's
-# SNAT mode a forwarded query arrives from the ingress node's internal router address, which Cilium
-# resolves to the reserved `world` identity — a `fromCIDR` clause does not match it, which was
-# measured (a fromCIDR of ${CLUSTER_POD_CIDR}, which contains that address, still produced
-# "Policy denied ... identity world" drops in `cilium-dbg monitor`). So `world` is the only peer
-# selector that can describe LAN traffic that has been through the LoadBalancer, and the set of
-# addresses that can actually BE that traffic is fixed by loadBalancerSourceRanges before this
-# policy is consulted. Together: ${LAN_CIDR} in the datapath, udp/53 + tcp/53 here.
-#
-# This is NOT wider than the precedent it follows. unifi-allow-l4-ingress and crafty-allow-ingress
-# admit `fromEntities: [world, cluster, host]` on their L4 ports with NO source-range filter at all;
-# this rule admits fewer entities (no `cluster` — in-cluster pods resolve through CoreDNS and none
-# needs PiHole on :53) on fewer ports, behind a filter those two do not have.
-#
-# WHAT REMAINS REACHABLE WITHOUT THE VIP, ACKNOWLEDGED: Cilium applies source ranges to the
-# LoadBalancer address, not to the NodePorts the same Services allocate, so a host that can route to
-# a node IP can still reach udp/53 and tcp/53 through the NodePort. On this LAN that is the same
-# population the source range admits, and nothing at the edge forwards 53 inward, so PiHole is not
-# an internet-facing open resolver. Say so out loud rather than implying the filter is total.
-#
-# `host` and `remote-node` are named explicitly because node-sourced traffic carries a reserved
-# Cilium identity that no CIDR or `world` selector matches: the kubelet's probes and the
-# node-to-node forwarding that IS the Cluster-policy datapath both need them.
-apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
-kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: pihole-allow-lan-dns-ingress
-  namespace: pihole
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
-spec:
-  endpointSelector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
-  ingress:
-    - fromEntities:
-        - world         # LAN clients, post-LoadBalancer: see the block above for why not fromCIDR
-        - host          # this node's kubelet probes
-        - remote-node   # the node-to-node hop that forwards a query to wherever the pod runs
-      toPorts:
-        - ports:
-            - { port: "53", protocol: UDP }
-            - { port: "53", protocol: TCP }
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: pihole-oauth2-proxy
-    namespace: pihole
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    client-id: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:C6IXgQxi,iv:A9bWygwabOKIRi55jV9+TRU7eiZels3vqqLDTZ469aA=,tag:hC7sn/Xr4vQFkRjDLMgEmQ==,type:str]
-    client-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:50HEfMG+CoWXokS+IxQgCPQEt+EBCUontOc0GrTyauHuV/U7w9IPo83iJECO0QhTPiQIgD3j+F+YXfubCbTnuw==,iv:ejQxin0NMs0Ye0fhqfPuh8JmRrEimDrSAcZj28uS+GM=,tag:FVassLZPZMY9ry48ZjBgmw==,type:str]
-    cookie-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:nfTEg5DlIXCLI/hhHngyqLwsQh2SgXU21LaSkVnr91sTi4wODrEH4C7wvPY=,iv:WWXnHnFP2IqLrw1yXAlD0Sw+Vc1m4rxXIHT1u2UWH3o=,tag:pYZEuwPYH+b8S4kGtaWqEA==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBuTnJiWTVPR01aY2h3dkJI
-            OTV0WTFQeHoyUGluVzV4NFpSZjd6bjlHZkE0ClZmTGgzQWo4VTROaUg5Wkd1TTVV
-            cGRjZjJuMitPZC9OaVZUZzRGeEJmemcKLS0tIGRjUFd3SzFzeFBBQVRacjZWQmNH
-            ZjllZTQxbzRWQXNiVllkc1hESGN4alEK/hFOtchsYMx09/WE5uaCe6JetUurzhhQ
-            7imb8RIjh0cfP4PDT3dZhhPF+ehcV7ttslFkcyaqlG1F8Gk2jtN0pw==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-08-31T13:33:15Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:Tse6fLhc08DxCAuZW5KSZ3M5OQUTlbeHnWiO3jIROUVLrBfbXCuDNWnQyOPjwVPqyzeAzC3APEKFzQ2S8rYjRyO08SJ4ZFPPUeRblcXgXHZ4Y/E4Renq7axk61VvFGtZteHWuQz9ss//Qt+KwPMDBGTivLCoVTOh2K01AXPFXdA=,iv:fyhkDLVN28umXDR4/f4ZzQuu3OG6QBkpUgf3E9rknKk=,tag:iNqor6cD9tJ6MsqAmmRP0Q==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -81,88 +81,9 @@ spec:
        image: pihole/pihole
        ports:
        - containerPort: 80
-        env:
-        - name: FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode
-          value: ALL
-        - name: FTLCONF_dns_upstreams
-          value: 8.8.8.8;8.8.4.4
-        - name: FTLCONF_dns_rateLimit_count
-          value: '0'
-        - name: FTLCONF_misc_dnsmasq_lines
-          value: address=/${BASE_DOMAIN}/${GATEWAY_VIP};address=/unifi.${BASE_DOMAIN}/${UNIFI_L4_VIP};address=/crafty-mc.${BASE_DOMAIN}/${CRAFTY_L4_VIP};address=/pihole-dns.${BASE_DOMAIN}/${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP}
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
          mountPath: /data/config
-      - name: oauth2-proxy
-        image: quay.io/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy:v7.8.1
-        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-        args:
-        - --http-address=0.0.0.0:4180
-        - --reverse-proxy=true
-        - --provider=oidc
-        - --oidc-issuer-url=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab
-        - --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:80
-        - --email-domain=*
-        - --scope=openid email profile
-        - --oidc-groups-claim=groups
-        - --allowed-group=platform-admins
-        - --skip-provider-button=true
-        - --redirect-url=https://pihole.${BASE_DOMAIN}/oauth2/callback
-        - --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_pihole
-        - --cookie-domain=pihole.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --whitelist-domain=.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --cookie-secure=true
-        - --cookie-refresh=2m30s
-        - --pass-access-token=true
-        - --set-xauthrequest=true
-        - --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180
-        env:
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: pihole-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-id
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: pihole-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-secret
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: pihole-oauth2-proxy
-              key: cookie-secret
-        ports:
-        - name: http
-          containerPort: 4180
-          protocol: TCP
-        - name: metrics
-          containerPort: 44180
-          protocol: TCP
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            cpu: 25m
-            memory: 64Mi
-          limits:
-            memory: 128Mi
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-            - ALL
-        livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-        readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
      volumes:
      - name: config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
@@ -183,9 +104,6 @@ spec:
  - name: port-80
    port: 80
    targetPort: 80
-  - name: authproxy
-    port: 4180
-    targetPort: 4180
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy gateway-ingress allow (R-NET-01/02): pihole-allow-gateway-ingress
 apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
@@ -204,7 +122,7 @@ spec:
    - ingress
    toPorts:
    - ports:
-      - port: '4180'
+      - port: '80'
        protocol: TCP
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): pihole-allow-internet-egress
@@ -222,10 +140,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute pihole-80 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -238,14 +152,13 @@ metadata:
  annotations:
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: platform-admins
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
 spec:
  parentRefs:
  - name: shared
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - pihole.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - pihole.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -253,7 +166,27 @@ spec:
        value: /
    backendRefs:
    - name: pihole
-      port: 4180
+      port: 80
+---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: pihole
+  namespace: pihole
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: pihole
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - pihole
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
 ---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
@@ -269,11 +202,11 @@ spec:
  - name: pihole.slis
    rules:
    - alert: pihole-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="pihole", deployment="pihole"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="pihole", deployment="pihole"})
+      expr: up{job="pihole"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: pihole
      annotations:
        summary: pihole is down
-        description: 'pihole: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'pihole has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-# Plex plex.tv server-claim token (WS-APPS). SOPS-encrypted (age).
-# Consumed by catalog/plex.yaml as env PLEX_CLAIM via valueFrom.secretKeyRef.
-#
-# NOTE ON THESE COMMENTS: they carry NO dollar-brace expressions, deliberately. This file is applied
-# by the apps-wave-0 Flux Kustomization, which runs envsubst over the built output, and kustomize
-# preserves body comments into that stream (see conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-
-# substitution). A braced token quoted from the upstream shell script would be a live hazard here,
-# not prose, so the upstream conditions below are described in words.
-#
-# THIS FILE NO LONGER HOLDS THE PLACEHOLDER. Corrected 2026-09-29: the server was CLAIMED on that
-# date, and the value here is the SPENT token from that claim. It is inert and safe to leave --
-# upstream gates the exchange on PlexOnlineToken being ABSENT from /config, and it is now present on
-# the plex-config PVC, so this value is a NO-OP on every start whatever it holds. Deleting the Secret
-# would NOT be safe (see below), which is why a spent token stays here rather than being blanked.
-#
-# The claim token is SHORT-LIVED -- minutes. Read the countdown that plex.tv/claim renders when it
-# issues one; do NOT budget against a number written in this tree. Earlier revisions of this comment
-# asserted a "~4-minute TTL" as established fact with no citation, and upstream plexinc/pms-docker
-# documents no expiry at all. That uncited number was load-bearing for the whole procedure design.
-#
-# This file exists to make the Secret — and therefore the env reference — ALWAYS RESOLVABLE IN THE
-# FLUX GRAPH, not to carry a working token. Re-claiming (only needed after a /config wipe) is
-# scripted: infra/plex/claim-ship.sh, measured at ~2m45s end to end.
-#
-# WHY SHIPPING A PLACEHOLDER IS SAFE (verified against plexinc/pms-docker branch `master`, the
-# s6-overlay v2 script root/etc/cont-init.d/40-plex-first-run, cross-checked byte-identical against
-# the same file extracted from the running `plexinc/pms-docker:latest` image):
-#   - line 106 guards the claim exchange on TWO conditions: PLEX_CLAIM non-empty AND the
-#     PlexOnlineToken pref read out of /config empty. Once the server is claimed that block is
-#     skipped entirely, so whatever this Secret holds is a NO-OP on every later start. Upstream
-#     README: "If server is already logged in, this parameter is ignored."
-#   - on a still-UNCLAIMED /config, an invalid or expired token makes plex.tv answer 403 with an
-#     empty body. curl's exit status is never checked, the sed for the authentication-token element
-#     yields the empty string, and the success branch at line 120 simply does not fire. There is no
-#     else branch and no non-zero exit; the script has no `set -e` and ends by touching
-#     /.firstRunComplete and echoing, so it exits 0. The server comes up UNCLAIMED and serving.
-#     It does NOT crashloop.
-#   - the image never sets S6_BEHAVIOUR_IF_STAGE2_FAILS, whose default is 0 ("continue silently even
-#     if a cont-init script failed"), so even a hypothetical non-zero exit would not halt startup.
-# A MISSING Secret would NOT be safe: the ServiceDefinition schema's valueFrom.secretKeyRef shape
-# has no `optional` field, so an absent Secret is a hard CreateContainerConfigError. That is exactly
-# why this file is committed and listed in apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml instead of being created
-# by hand at claim time.
-#
-# INJECTION / ROTATION (operator, not agents) — runbooks/plex-claim.md has the timed procedure:
-#   infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run sops apps/wave-0/plex-claim-secret.sops.yaml
-# Never decrypt this file into a shell, a log, or a shared terminal.
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: plex-claim
-    namespace: plex
-    labels:
-        app.kubernetes.io/name: plex
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    PLEX_CLAIM: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:nLmzeUBWRhRjUakrGiGzQpQuqZNcIYvRH6M=,iv:z0on/dArsNejNLrp3V1nSiNLFzKcREhPuMO1634CwQw=,tag:Ih23CT1JYna/5lfYQUb1Dw==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSA2dWtqOVNQalZ2QlRxOXJa
-            cDc1MTdtWENkdWIxS1JId3dIU1JDSmk0ODNrCk1YUzhFWXR3bUxyV2NNcmFOakdz
-            THl1Q284dFJxTy9Rd1h0eXJJaVZtdmcKLS0tIERuN0ZFeW9zdi9aNFRYNWxmUS9s
-            QUtYdHEvN042ajNoNktOLzlYQmQrc1kK4NHozMbXVzNGYbUBRbK6a9Uw/sVPAfe6
-            RW5KWzZ4I/hloqjN3zzVISoSMieMkBGDnF5qZS5N6FqIc6/HrsDD8A==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-29T06:31:16Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:62BmBAq45CD2g6LDyx+Ho4bTfrhJcaro/RB/iM+OaRc4a/D83MhjbcBL11Uz/O726inqhkvCKDJ/fFemoc50JDbtC79cYMaxrGJNjFM0sdckWrowPvh6ie7HHHUBRBaefl+gNfnc+pbvcncvRzwA4RyzcZse1wbxKfHN8FjEopE=,iv:h0cMShs3tIgnY6eruUYymYrcLFzQZLk/uXQJ/Jsd5ek=,tag:nZ9Pau7p4xWT1QCN1vv2vA==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -35,34 +35,6 @@ spec:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 53
 ---
-# PersistentVolume plex-media - static external NFS (bulk tier)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolume
-metadata:
-  name: plex-media
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: plex
-spec:
-  capacity:
-    storage: 9Ti
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadOnlyMany
-  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
-  storageClassName: ''
-  mountOptions:
-  - nfsvers=4.1
-  - hard
-  - noatime
-  - timeo=600
-  - retrans=2
-  nfs:
-    server: ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    path: /mnt/Storage/plex
-    readOnly: true
-  claimRef:
-    namespace: plex
-    name: plex-media
---
 # PVC plex-config (R-STATE)
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
@@ -79,23 +51,6 @@ spec:
    requests:
      storage: 8Gi
 ---
-# PVC plex-media (R-STATE)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: plex-media
-  namespace: plex
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: plex
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadOnlyMany
-  storageClassName: ''
-  volumeName: plex-media
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 9Ti
---
 # Deployment (R-PLAT-02)
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
@@ -132,24 +87,13 @@ spec:
          value: Etc/UTC
        - name: ALLOWED_NETWORKS
          value: 10.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16
-        - name: PLEX_CLAIM
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: plex-claim
-              key: PLEX_CLAIM
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
          mountPath: /config
-        - name: media
-          mountPath: /media
-          readOnly: true
      volumes:
      - name: config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: plex-config
-      - name: media
-        persistentVolumeClaim:
-          claimName: plex-media
 ---
 # Service
 apiVersion: v1
@@ -239,7 +183,7 @@ spec:
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - plex.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - plex.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -249,6 +193,26 @@ spec:
    - name: plex
      port: 32400
 ---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: plex
+  namespace: plex
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: plex
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: plex
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - plex
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
+---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
 kind: PrometheusRule
@@ -263,11 +227,11 @@ spec:
  - name: plex.slis
    rules:
    - alert: plex-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"})
+      expr: up{job="plex"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: plex
      annotations:
        summary: plex is down
-        description: 'plex: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'plex has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# qBittorrent DURABLE WebUI credential (WS-APPS). SOPS-encrypted (age), decrypted in-cluster by Flux.
-#
-# WHY THIS FILE EXISTS (defect, measured on prod 2026-09-13):
-#   qBittorrent.conf on the config PVC carried NEITHER `WebUI\Username` NOR
-#   `WebUI\Password_PBKDF2`. qBittorrent 5.x treats that as "no credential set" and generates a NEW
-#   random `admin` password on EVERY process start, announcing it ONLY on stdout ("A temporary
-#   password is provided for this session: ..."). Consequences, both real: (a) Sonarr's and Radarr's
-#   saved download-client credentials stop working at the next qbittorrent pod restart, silently
-#   breaking Completed Download Handling; (b) a human operator has no stable login at all and must
-#   read the pod log after every restart.
-#
-# HOW IT IS APPLIED: catalog/qbittorrent.yaml's app container reads BOTH keys below as env
-#   (QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME / QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD) and its `lifecycle.postStart` hook — the same idiom as
-#   gitea's break-glass admin bootstrap — DERIVES the PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512 digest qBittorrent stores
-#   and asserts both keys into /config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf on EVERY container start, then
-#   verifies the WebUI actually accepts them. Level-triggered: a pod restart, a config-PVC restore
-#   from an older backup, and a rebuild-from-git onto an EMPTY PVC all end with this SAME
-#   credential, because the hook re-asserts it on every start rather than once.
-#
-# webui-username: the WebUI account name. qBittorrent has exactly ONE local account, and `admin` is
-#   the name its own temporary-password path uses, so keeping it avoids inventing a second identity.
-# webui-password: the durable plaintext. It is ALSO what Sonarr's and Radarr's download-client
-#   entries store in their own databases (app state on their config PVCs, NOT in git — see
-#   DECISIONS-LOG), so rotating it here means re-pointing both arrs.
-#   Deliberately alphanumeric: it travels through a urlencoded WebAPI login body and two arr JSON
-#   payloads, and a shell/URL-special character in any of those is a bug waiting to happen.
-#
-# NEVER put a value in a comment: SOPS does NOT encrypt comments.
-# Recover with: infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run sops -d apps/wave-0/qbittorrent-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: qbittorrent-bootstrap
-    namespace: qbittorrent
-    labels:
-        app.kubernetes.io/name: qbittorrent
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    webui-username: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:P022nG0=,iv:MXcCXsD5hs7MAJ+OAYHkZ3pXep7XGPqeAExChoqna08=,tag:WE34mxtfQRgiwPRaDA12pQ==,type:str]
-    webui-password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:+Lx0Ny7SBZeF/CzQYm8umntw27ewyXS7unWObpl0fCg=,iv:JkAtublBMS7SJUutAFip1XjdmsKnGe+S2E9QDT4rCJk=,tag:MYptPVgoEUEpXe5kmg1xIg==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSB1aWpUY04wZHoyWVdPbGU2
-            TC9vaU5oYmhWSVh3YWVTdzkvU3Axdlh6QVFZCkV4MldaZXNyam5CejQyZStyczJ3
-            UStFd0hRQmRsNGZLVEVTRnVjWXp6SVkKLS0tICtkWlRqVGN5OWYvVnZUaHYvbEZv
-            VWtHMVdDU3hmdXo1TndLb05zQzJ0S28KfqlDBTocO0ZAKtH6ad/00EeVRqZ7WMwv
-            FP2evd5vyn95QQICWhY/LH6EKbwVVlcIlL7i9l8K3kK4Ebdk54mAyw==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-13T05:23:23Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:hQ7jIgFqpNcFY5H4AfMxuslC2R/2wGmGWtghemOmTUUipSdoGdbNjWGQhxzk40lFjw6Zj2b+buOpXpg70s4xr+4feusqa2TJ3+bxAuRWmuZpTQAU2OaO5v0SdDEs3gwKm2mA3JFo/e6POm/P/kf2GIECcyU1AciZQt6ws7UJmQc=,iv:6SF0ZAuzHQThD/FGbWhFfa4dXU8hyW8jWFiDmwgfFU8=,tag:31i8HM2s/mGeS4zvFxO53Q==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: qbittorrent-oauth2-proxy
-    namespace: qbittorrent
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    client-id: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:ytfVRDabEfRM8NI=,iv:ERtFy5iss10id/cGLMZDmIAazkYtFG/spkxRYkoT2pw=,tag:FzOepKeYT05BBrz6RlnACQ==,type:str]
-    client-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:klZzTdyAqQgG+1s074/0Bh5ybuHehiEo/RYceRGAGwuUrgCMb0AmYHCrE9gvtnPkSOBqWvFnPnorWkERc+V73g==,iv:nOUO/p+WnI5657I3Lm6zQAsumkscjF7J0fK0EVFHGo0=,tag:dF3AHYP4sxDChroRer9kMQ==,type:str]
-    cookie-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:jVpsZjYHRrPvblfsb2f9OuneqoZ0cwcTLKrPb8XJ5oves1PmHtN5njrkk4o=,iv:bNjUK/ar4nniR7AjJ9fsGVkKd8nxwphkptmhFaYh9Ek=,tag:2axf+AshSdIvvqwyIfhq6g==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSAreWdPdUxiYXBxYWxZNlhy
-            WHFTZmo1RW1McXJJTjlWeTBCd2Y4WVU2TVRNCnExbEQrQXZCS2RRaGxJQlQ5eHpY
-            Z1UrZWlubUJpRC9YeEhJZW8zNVdLUVUKLS0tIGtmblFDRzk3ZC8wWVo2ZHJHWmEx
-            OW9DRUpaSlFrbHNDTGYvQUdyamh2bWsK5VvV4cl1iNXYECnSk3fi1ZuAPKGN+n8B
-            g51lT4gi03KA67ARzwVGVBfP5E1Cdmx4rJhi305tG+Ug99VyLBCUfQ==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-08-31T13:42:02Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:7GdlUKnZ/ST7EOhfPB6I2e2wyVHWmZ2G554yBcZQzqoZZWZ1hn+lkosNJxWD7E0hRId6P320EKj+Sf0g2ur3Mna5zii1GKFJHGtDEoccKvJQRx2JMkZlEC/x6xwc4BeJNtvidECVRvKC2WdrByRMr9rrI8NfXpmWH4e7iz1Xac0=,iv:UqsNOPRwzT+Dt043ldxIubkAAkPr0/nvjxlgVPiXIbw=,tag:7Wex5Rng3Nwtr8wxkFJD9Q==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -35,33 +35,6 @@ spec:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 53
 ---
-# PersistentVolume qbittorrent-downloads - static external NFS (bulk tier)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolume
-metadata:
-  name: qbittorrent-downloads
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: qbittorrent
-spec:
-  capacity:
-    storage: 9Ti
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteMany
-  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
-  storageClassName: ''
-  mountOptions:
-  - nfsvers=4.1
-  - hard
-  - noatime
-  - timeo=600
-  - retrans=2
-  nfs:
-    server: ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    path: /mnt/Storage/plex
-  claimRef:
-    namespace: qbittorrent
-    name: qbittorrent-downloads
---
 # PVC qbittorrent-config (R-STATE)
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
@@ -78,23 +51,6 @@ spec:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
 ---
-# PVC qbittorrent-downloads (R-STATE)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: qbittorrent-downloads
-  namespace: qbittorrent
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: qbittorrent
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteMany
-  storageClassName: ''
-  volumeName: qbittorrent-downloads
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 9Ti
---
 # Deployment (R-PLAT-02)
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
@@ -118,123 +74,20 @@ spec:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
      annotations:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
+        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: qbittorrent
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:5.1.2
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080
-        env:
-        - name: PUID
-          value: '1000'
-        - name: PGID
-          value: '3000'
-        - name: QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: qbittorrent-bootstrap
-              key: webui-username
-        - name: QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: qbittorrent-bootstrap
-              key: webui-password
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
-          mountPath: /config
-        - name: downloads
-          mountPath: /downloads
-          subPath: downloads
-        lifecycle:
-          postStart:
-            exec:
-              command:
-              - /bin/bash
-              - -c
-              - "# Assert the durable WebUI credential in the config PVC's qBittorrent.conf, then PROVE the\n# running WebUI accepts it. Idempotent: the steady-state path writes nothing at all.\n#\n# THIS SCRIPT CONTAINS NO BRACED DOLLAR EXPANSION AT ALL, AND THAT IS DELIBERATE.\n# apps-wave-0 declares postBuild.substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux runs envsubst over\n# this whole manifest at RECONCILE time. The repo's escape contract (double the dollar;\n# enforced by render.py's assert_substitution_safe) makes such a form correct ON THE\n# CLUSTER \u2014 but only there:\n# envsubst collapses the doubled dollar, so the SAME text run any other way (a `kubectl\n# apply` of the golden, which runs no envsubst; a hand `kubectl exec` of the script during\n# development) keeps the doubled dollar, which bash reads as its own PID. Not hypothetical;\n# see the PORT comment below for the bug it actually caused here. Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)`\n# are untouched by envsubst, so they are used throughout and the script behaves IDENTICALLY\n# however it is run.\nset -u\nCONF=/config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf\nSVC=/run/service/svc-qbittorrent\n# The WebUI's listening port, as a LITERAL. It matches ingressRoutes[0].port in this\n# ServiceDefinition \u2014 which is the single place the renderer takes the containerPort, the\n# Service port and the HTTPRoute backend port from \u2014 and the image exposes no WEBUI_PORT\n# env var for a lookup to read anyway.\n# It USED to be a doubled-dollar default-operator expansion of a WEBUI_PORT env var, and\n# that cost real time: run without envsubst, bash read the doubled dollar as its own PID,\n# so PORT became \"<pid>{WEBUI_PORT:-8080}\" \u2014 the brace never expanded, the digits never\n# matched. Every curl below then got an unparseable URL, returned nothing, and the hook\n# logged \"the WebUI rejected the durable\n# credential\" \u2014 having never actually asked it. That MISDIAGNOSIS is preserved in this\n# service's own marker log at 2026-09-13T05:35Z (three \"rejected\" lines, then GAVE UP,\n# against a WebUI that accepted the credential perfectly well). A literal cannot be mangled.\nPORT=8080\n# A postStart hook's stdout/stderr goes to the KUBELET, not to `kubectl logs` \u2014 so a hook\n# that only echoes is effectively silent (gitea's hits the same wall and writes a marker\n# file for it). Every outcome therefore also lands, timestamped, on the persistent config\n# volume: /config/qbittorrent-webui-cred.log is where an operator looks to see whether the\n# credential from git was asserted and accepted on this start.\nlog() {\n  echo \"[qbt-webui-cred] $*\"\n  printf '%s [qbt-webui-cred] %s\\n' \"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)\" \"$*\" \\\n    >> /config/qbittorrent-webui-cred.log 2>/dev/null || true\n}\n\n# (1) The image's init-qbittorrent-config copies /defaults/qBittorrent.conf onto the PVC\n#     before it starts the service. Wait (bounded, ~30s) so we EDIT that file instead of\n#     racing to create one it would then not overwrite.\nn=0\nwhile [ ! -s \"$CONF\" ] && [ \"$n\" -lt 120 ]; do n=$((n + 1)); sleep 0.25; done\n\nwaited=0\nattempt=0\nwhile [ \"$attempt\" -lt 3 ]; do\n  attempt=$((attempt + 1))\n\n  # (2) Converge the conf. 0 = already correct (steady state: NO write, NO re-salt),\n  #     10 = rewritten, anything else = could not write.\n  python3 - \"$CONF\" <<'PY'\nimport base64, hashlib, hmac, os, stat, sys\n\nconf = sys.argv[1]\nuser = os.environ.get(\"QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME\", \"\")\npw = os.environ.get(\"QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD\", \"\")\nif not user or not pw:\n    sys.stderr.write(\"[qbt-webui-cred] credential env is empty - refusing to touch the conf\\n\")\n    raise SystemExit(1)\n\n# qBittorrent's OWN parameters (base/utils/password.cpp): PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512, 100000\n# iterations, 16-byte random salt, 64-byte digest, stored as\n#   WebUI\\Password_PBKDF2=\"@ByteArray(<base64 salt>:<base64 digest>)\"\n# Get any one of them wrong and the app simply rejects every login.\nITERATIONS, DIGEST_LEN, SALT_LEN = 100000, 64, 16\nUKEY, PKEY, SECTION = \"WebUI\\\\Username\", \"WebUI\\\\Password_PBKDF2\"\
-                , \"[Preferences]\"\n\ndef matches(raw):\n    \"\"\"True iff the stored digest is one OUR password produces (salt is read from it).\"\"\"\n    v = raw.strip().strip('\"')\n    if v.startswith(\"@ByteArray(\") and v.endswith(\")\"):\n        v = v[len(\"@ByteArray(\"):-1]\n    try:\n        salt_b64, digest_b64 = v.split(\":\", 1)\n        salt = base64.b64decode(salt_b64, validate=True)\n        digest = base64.b64decode(digest_b64, validate=True)\n    except Exception:\n        return False\n    if not salt or not digest:\n        return False\n    return hmac.compare_digest(\n        hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac(\"sha512\", pw.encode(), salt, ITERATIONS, len(digest)), digest)\n\ntry:\n    lines = open(conf, encoding=\"utf-8\", errors=\"replace\").read().splitlines()\nexcept FileNotFoundError:\n    lines = []\n\ndef value_of(key):\n    for i, line in enumerate(lines):\n        if line.startswith(key + \"=\"):\n            return i, line.split(\"=\", 1)[1]\n    return -1, None\n\nui, uval = value_of(UKEY)\npi, pval = value_of(PKEY)\nif uval == user and pval is not None and matches(pval):\n    raise SystemExit(0)          # converged - leave the file (and its salt) alone\n\nsalt = os.urandom(SALT_LEN)\ndigest = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac(\"sha512\", pw.encode(), salt, ITERATIONS, DIGEST_LEN)\nstored = base64.b64encode(salt).decode() + \":\" + base64.b64encode(digest).decode()\ndesired = [UKEY + \"=\" + user, PKEY + '=\"@ByteArray(' + stored + ')\"']\n\nout = [line for i, line in enumerate(lines) if i not in (ui, pi)]\nif SECTION in out:\n    at = out.index(SECTION) + 1\nelse:\n    if out and out[-1].strip():\n        out.append(\"\")\n    out.append(SECTION)\n    at = len(out)\nout[at:at] = desired\n\ntry:\n    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(conf) or \".\", exist_ok=True)\n    tmp = conf + \".webui-cred.new\"\n    with open(tmp, \"w\", encoding=\"utf-8\") as fh:\n        fh.write(\"\\n\".join(out) + \"\\n\")\n        fh.flush()\n        os.fsync(fh.fileno())\n    # This hook runs as ROOT; the service runs as PUID:PGID. A root-owned 0600 conf would\n    # cost the app the ability to save its own settings, so carry the ownership over.\n    try:\n        st = os.stat(conf)\n        os.chown(tmp, st.st_uid, st.st_gid)\n        os.chmod(tmp, stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode))\n    except FileNotFoundError:\n        os.chown(tmp, int(os.environ.get(\"PUID\", \"1000\")),\n                 int(os.environ.get(\"PGID\", \"1000\")))\n        os.chmod(tmp, 0o664)\n    os.replace(tmp, conf)        # atomic: the app never reads a half-written conf\nexcept OSError as exc:\n    sys.stderr.write(\"[qbt-webui-cred] cannot write %s: %s\\n\" % (conf, exc))\n    raise SystemExit(1)\nraise SystemExit(10)\nPY\n  rc=$?\n\n  if [ \"$rc\" = 0 ]; then\n    log \"conf already holds the durable credential for '$QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME' (no write)\"\n  elif [ \"$rc\" = 10 ]; then\n    log \"asserted WebUI Username + Password_PBKDF2 into $CONF\"\n    # postStart runs CONCURRENTLY with the s6 init chain, so qbittorrent-nox may ALREADY\n    # have read the old, credential-less conf and be serving a random temporary password.\n    # Restart the SUPERVISED SERVICE (not the pod) so it re-reads what was just written.\n    # Nothing to do when the service has not started yet - it will read the new file.\n    # Its own counter, NOT the shared `waited` API budget: sharing one counter is how the\n    # 2026-09-13 failure spent the entire verification budget before the first login and\n    # then fired attempts 2 and 3 with no wait left at all.\n    sv=0\n    while [ \"$sv\" -lt 60 ] && [ \"$(s6-svstat -u \"$SVC\" 2>/dev/null)\" != \"true\" ]; do\n      sv=$((sv + 1)); sleep 1\n    done\n    if [ \"$(s6-svstat -u \"$SVC\" 2>/dev/null)\" = \"true\" ]; then\n      log \"qbittorrent-nox was already running - restarting it to load the credential\"\n      s6-svc -r \"$SVC\" || log \"s6-svc -r failed (continuing to verify anyway)\"\n      sleep 3\n    fi\n  else\n    log \"FAILED to write the credential into $CONF (helper exit $rc). The WebUI will keep\" >&2\n    log \"minting a random password\
-                \ every start and BOTH arrs will break. Fix and restart.\" >&2\n    exit 0\n  fi\n\n  # (3) GROUND TRUTH: the WebUI itself must accept it. Wait for the API to answer at ALL\n  #     (shared ~120s budget across attempts), then spend exactly ONE login per attempt -\n  #     at most 3 rejected logins, which stays under qBittorrent's default ban threshold.\n  #\n  # \"THE API NEVER ANSWERED\" IS A DIFFERENT FAULT FROM \"THE PASSWORD WAS REJECTED\", and\n  # conflating them is what made this hook lie once already (see the PORT comment). An\n  # unreachable WebUI is reported as unreachable, and the hook stops rather than spending\n  # its remaining login attempts to produce two more identical wrong diagnoses.\n  api_ok=0\n  while [ \"$waited\" -lt 120 ]; do\n    code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -m 3 -w '%{http_code}' \"http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/\" 2>/dev/null)\n    if [ -n \"$code\" ] && [ \"$code\" != \"000\" ]; then api_ok=1; break; fi\n    waited=$((waited + 1)); sleep 1\n  done\n  if [ \"$api_ok\" != 1 ]; then\n    log \"the WebUI never answered on 127.0.0.1:$PORT within the wait budget, so the\" >&2\n    log \"credential in $CONF is UNVERIFIED. This is NOT a rejected password - it was\" >&2\n    log \"never submitted. Do not rotate the credential on the strength of this line.\" >&2\n    exit 0\n  fi\n  body=$(curl -sS -m 10 \\\n           --data-urlencode \"username=$QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME\" \\\n           --data-urlencode \"password=$QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD\" \\\n           \"http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/api/v2/auth/login\" 2>/dev/null)\n  if [ \"$body\" = \"Ok.\" ]; then\n    log \"VERIFIED: the WebUI accepts the durable credential for '$QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME'\"\n    exit 0\n  fi\n  log \"WebUI rejected the durable credential (login said '$body')\" >&2\n  # A rejection when the conf was ALREADY converged (rc=0, nothing written) can only mean\n  # the running qbittorrent-nox is serving something it read from an EARLIER conf, so\n  # rewriting the same bytes on the next attempt would change nothing. The remedy is to\n  # make the process RE-READ the file, so restart the supervised service and let the next\n  # attempt re-verify. Without this the retry loop could never change its own outcome.\n  if [ \"$(s6-svstat -u \"$SVC\" 2>/dev/null)\" = \"true\" ]; then\n    log \"restarting qbittorrent-nox so it re-reads $CONF, then re-verifying\" >&2\n    s6-svc -r \"$SVC\" || log \"s6-svc -r failed (continuing to verify anyway)\" >&2\n    sleep 3\n  fi\ndone\n\nlog \"GAVE UP after $attempt attempts: the WebUI does not accept the credential from git.\" >&2\n# A postStart hook MUST exit 0 - a non-zero exit makes the kubelet KILL the container\n# (FailedPostStartHook -> CrashLoopBackOff), turning a credential fault into an outage.\n# Both failure paths above therefore log LOUDLY and exit 0; the `up` SLI still watches the\n# app, and the arrs' own download-client health check surfaces a broken credential.\nexit 0\n"
-      - name: oauth2-proxy
-        image: quay.io/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy:v7.8.1
-        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-        args:
-        - --http-address=0.0.0.0:4180
-        - --reverse-proxy=true
-        - --provider=oidc
-        - --oidc-issuer-url=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab
-        - --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:8080
-        - --email-domain=*
-        - --scope=openid email profile
-        - --oidc-groups-claim=groups
-        - --allowed-group=media-users
-        - --allowed-group=platform-admins
-        - --skip-provider-button=true
-        - --redirect-url=https://qbittorrent.${BASE_DOMAIN}/oauth2/callback
-        - --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_qbittorrent
-        - --cookie-domain=qbittorrent.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --whitelist-domain=.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --cookie-secure=true
-        - --cookie-refresh=2m30s
-        - --pass-access-token=true
-        - --set-xauthrequest=true
-        - --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180
-        env:
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: qbittorrent-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-id
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: qbittorrent-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-secret
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: qbittorrent-oauth2-proxy
-              key: cookie-secret
-        ports:
-        - name: http
-          containerPort: 4180
-          protocol: TCP
-        - name: metrics
-          containerPort: 44180
-          protocol: TCP
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            cpu: 25m
-            memory: 64Mi
-          limits:
-            memory: 128Mi
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-            - ALL
-        livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-        readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-      securityContext:
-        fsGroup: 3000
+          mountPath: /data/config
      volumes:
      - name: config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: qbittorrent-config
-      - name: downloads
-        persistentVolumeClaim:
-          claimName: qbittorrent-downloads
 ---
 # Service
 apiVersion: v1
@@ -251,9 +104,6 @@ spec:
  - name: port-8080
    port: 8080
    targetPort: 8080
-  - name: authproxy
-    port: 4180
-    targetPort: 4180
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy reciprocal ingress allow (R-NET-02): qbittorrent-allow-radarr-8080
 apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
@@ -316,7 +166,7 @@ spec:
    - ingress
    toPorts:
    - ports:
-      - port: '4180'
+      - port: '8080'
        protocol: TCP
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): qbittorrent-allow-internet-egress
@@ -334,10 +184,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute qbittorrent-8080 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -349,15 +195,14 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: qbittorrent
  annotations:
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
+    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
 spec:
  parentRefs:
  - name: shared
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - qbittorrent.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - qbittorrent.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -365,7 +210,27 @@ spec:
        value: /
    backendRefs:
    - name: qbittorrent
-      port: 4180
+      port: 8080
+---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: qbittorrent
+  namespace: qbittorrent
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: qbittorrent
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: qbittorrent
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - qbittorrent
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
 ---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
@@ -381,11 +246,11 @@ spec:
  - name: qbittorrent.slis
    rules:
    - alert: qbittorrent-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="qbittorrent", deployment="qbittorrent"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="qbittorrent", deployment="qbittorrent"})
+      expr: up{job="qbittorrent"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: qbittorrent
      annotations:
        summary: qbittorrent is down
-        description: 'qbittorrent: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'qbittorrent has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: semaphore-db-backup-credentials-prod
-    namespace: semaphore-db
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    ACCESS_KEY_ID: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:OhWEEYqrvmDB40NmiETgeUisBvaO9ocevCZAsurNijw=,iv:kEjOIg9NHbRYm+Ul1WrBAzb3gLbIv+ipiYCxFK0QoVc=,tag:KAB1JAIw0ATwbjDEKZVT9A==,type:str]
-    ACCESS_SECRET_KEY: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:C0PNKv07LCYpFONLqd55sz+ioyU/i2YJUkbZ8OX/dCErM/DilqchyUAT5EqnT/r3YJmdaA1pX85S3fxlVVHkbg==,iv:4ha28b+xIebvX2JPITmtTovIe4vdmj2XfI3cgkUHH4c=,tag:xbMyflcHojytPzgaoOYcXQ==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBZVTJ3cXR6cks3Y0RNS2hx
-            K3pjZEduYUxmL0V3SmFUcU9XbGVHSVFITWh3Cjl1eHlTLytoOW5PaVNFVkJoeTBo
-            T1FnRHNDVzJ6dWpuR09WaElvbWF4YU0KLS0tIEJoQ1VsM1cxRlg0R1dtNGdOenNn
-            aVNjMjVBTytLdHlFdmZCS2tPelo1Y2MKYt1G5t+sDiHgcg+Q9ECBzJn2gS/paSEC
-            7aoX60SBrPgHvnGls5lzc3Tin9nH4jWYl6Nu8DAvIE0YPXDFr5a0UA==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-07T06:36:33Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:mhVP7tjdZK2FR2imvpJbTyT7BigvcIKEpLSnBS1oSITUirB8xZC7aHBfyFuIoKOrpOJgEe40nHUdDYCHRJtb4dLeVja8+7meVaQWzxC8BWVHsksW+73hsqhjAzlHeobx6Irbk4PAMqIY0/jnf4MHryjnRn3dUuwu9U1CqL30JbE=,iv:57oCcp6FW9EAIVKnYGtkaTrnbijyv54T+vmZxMbMqnw=,tag:agrRP/JLypU60KOeN0s/5w==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -38,53 +38,16 @@ metadata:
  name: semaphore-db
  namespace: semaphore-db
 spec:
-  # THREE instances — one primary + two hot standbys (2026-09-07), same as keycloak-db /
-  # nextcloud-db; see platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml for the full rationale. Short version:
-  # Longhorn's 3-way replication saves the DATA on node loss, not the SERVICE, and with
-  # `instances: 1` all three CNPG primaries had drifted onto k3s-prod-2, so one node took Semaphore
-  # down alongside SSO and Nextcloud. A streaming standby lets CNPG promote in seconds and repoint
-  # the -rw Service. Gated on the Barman archive below actually working (ContinuousArchiving=True
-  # with a real firstRecoverabilityPoint) — standbys replicate corruption, they are not a backup.
-  #
-  # Scaling out is non-disruptive: CNPG creates -2 then -3 sequentially, each seeded by
-  # pg_basebackup from the running primary, which is neither restarted nor disconnected.
-  instances: 3
+  # Single Postgres instance on 3-replica Longhorn is acceptable at home scale (ADR-0014, same as
+  # keycloak-db / nextcloud-db). The storage is already 3-way replicated by Longhorn; raise to 3 for
+  # Postgres-level HA as a future hardening.
+  instances: 1
  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16.4
  # Stamp app.kubernetes.io/name=semaphore-db onto every generated pod/service so the rendered
  # semaphore egress CiliumNetworkPolicy's toEndpoints selector matches the primary pod (R-NET-02).
  inheritedMetadata:
    labels:
      app.kubernetes.io/name: semaphore-db
-  # HARD anti-affinity — the three instances MUST land on three DIFFERENT nodes; and roll the
-  # primary by SWITCHOVER rather than CNPG's default in-place `restart`, which would delete and
-  # recreate the primary pod. Full rationale in platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. Short
-  # version: CNPG's default `preferred` is a scheduler hint, so when CNPG recreates an instance
-  # after a node loss it may stack two instances on one node — which is how `instances: 3` decays
-  # back into the single-node failure domain this change removes. `required` makes it a constraint;
-  # the cost is that an instance whose node is gone stays Pending, which is correct (2 of 3 still
-  # serve). Satisfiable on both clusters: prod and dev each have 3 schedulable, untainted nodes.
-  #
-  # APPLYING THIS CHANGES THE POD SPEC, so CNPG rolls the instances: standbys first, then one
-  # switchover. Expect a single brief connection reset for Semaphore.
-  affinity:
-    enablePodAntiAffinity: true
-    podAntiAffinityType: required
-  primaryUpdateMethod: switchover
-  # SYNCHRONOUS REPLICATION — quorum of ONE standby, PREFERRED durability (2026-09-07). Full
-  # rationale in platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml. Short version: async replication loses the
-  # last few transactions when a primary dies before its standbys catch up, and `method: any` +
-  # `number: 1` makes COMMIT wait for one standby to confirm. dataDurability MUST stay `preferred`,
-  # never `required` — `required` blocks writes outright when fewer than `number` healthy standbys
-  # are available, which on a 3-node cluster sharing nodes with etcd and the CNI turns one degraded
-  # standby into a total write outage. `preferred` relaxes to async instead.
-  #
-  # NON-DISRUPTIVE: compiles to `synchronous_standby_names`, a reload-only PostgreSQL parameter —
-  # no restart, no switchover, no client disconnect. Land it after the anti-affinity roll.
-  postgresql:
-    synchronous:
-      method: any
-      number: 1
-      dataDurability: preferred
  storage:
    storageClass: longhorn
    size: 5Gi
@@ -106,38 +69,23 @@ spec:
      memory: 256Mi
    limits:
      memory: 512Mi
-  # --- Off-cluster DR backup (R-STATE-03) — CNPG-native Barman → object storage ---
+  # --- Off-cluster DR backup (R-STATE-03) — CNPG-native Barman → the on-Proxmox MinIO `cnpg` bucket ---
  # Continuous WAL archiving + periodic base backups = proper Postgres PITR (realises the SD's
-  # backup.policy daily-offcluster). CNPG appends serverName (defaults to the Cluster name) to
-  # destinationPath, so objects land under ${CNPG_BACKUP_PATH}/semaphore-db/ — dev
-  # s3://cnpg/semaphore-db/ on the on-Proxmox MinIO, prod
-  # s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman/semaphore-db/ on Cloudflare R2. Both endpointURL and
-  # destinationPath are cluster-vars knobs (R-ENV-02), substituted by `apps-wave-0`.
-  # Credentials: PER-ENVIRONMENT (2026-09-07). dev reads semaphore-db-backup-credentials (the
-  # scoped MinIO key), prod reads semaphore-db-backup-credentials-prod (the Cloudflare R2
-  # token). BOTH Secrets are applied to BOTH clusters by apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml (a
-  # generated golden — render.py places the -prod sidecar in this DB's wave); the
-  # cluster-vars knob ${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX} (dev "" | prod "-prod") chooses which
-  # one this Cluster reads. Both are in-namespace, which is all a pod can read. They were
-  # ONE shared Secret until the split, so giving prod its R2 token would have left dev
-  # signing MinIO requests with an R2 key id — 403 on every archive command, i.e. the
-  # disk-full clock below rather than a merely missing backup.
-  #
-  # archive_mode is ON, so a FAILING archive command is a disk-full clock, not a degraded backup:
-  # Postgres refuses to recycle a WAL segment it has not archived, and the pgdata PVC fills until
-  # the primary PANICs. Prod demonstrated this from bootstrap to 2026-09-07 with a placeholder
-  # endpoint. Treat ContinuousArchiving=False here as an availability incident.
+  # backup.policy daily-offcluster). destinationPath is the bucket ROOT; CNPG appends serverName
+  # (defaults to the Cluster name), so objects land under s3://cnpg/semaphore-db/. Path-style HTTP.
+  # Credentials: the scoped key from the in-namespace SOPS Secret semaphore-db-backup-credentials
+  # (same-ns only), kept in sync with platform/backup/minio-credentials.sops.yaml.
  backup:
    retentionPolicy: "30d"
    barmanObjectStore:
-      destinationPath: ${CNPG_BACKUP_PATH}
-      endpointURL: ${S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT}
+      destinationPath: s3://cnpg
+      endpointURL: http://192.168.1.9:9000
      s3Credentials:
        accessKeyId:
-          name: semaphore-db-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
+          name: semaphore-db-backup-credentials
          key: ACCESS_KEY_ID
        secretAccessKey:
-          name: semaphore-db-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
+          name: semaphore-db-backup-credentials
          key: ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
      wal:
        compression: gzip
@@ -1,267 +0,0 @@
-# promtool rule-unit tests for the wave-0 per-app `<app>-down` SLI rules.
-# Manifests under test: every PrometheusRule in apps/wave-0/ — gitea, jackett, pihole, plex,
-# qbittorrent (container/Deployment) and vm-demo (KubeVirt VMI). The harness discovers this file by
-# the SUITE convention (`<dir>/tests/*.test.yaml`) and flattens those RENDERED manifests, so these
-# tests run against the exact expressions Flux applies, never a copy.
-#
-# Run with: platform/monitoring/tests/run.sh apps/wave-0/tests/app-slis.test.yaml
-#           (the merge gate runs the same harness via
-#            conformance/tests/l0-static/alert-rules-unit-tested)
-#
-# WHY THESE EXIST. Until 2026-09-13 every one of these rules read `up{job="<app>"} == 0` while the
-# rendered ServiceMonitor named a Service port (`metrics`) that no rendered Service defined. The
-# monitor discovered ZERO targets, so no `up{job="<app>"}` series existed and the rule could not
-# fire — on prod, `count by (job) (up)` listed 24 jobs and not one of the twelve appeared.
-# `PrometheusTargetsMissing` could not see it either: a target that was never discovered has no `up`
-# series to be 0. The rules now read kube-state-metrics / kubevirt series that DO exist for these
-# workloads (verified on prod), and every rule below is pinned in BOTH directions:
-#   * QUIET on the healthy state -> it is not permanently firing;
-#   * FIRING when the workload has no ready replica -> it is not inert;
-#   * FIRING when the signal is ABSENT -> the failure mode that produced this whole defect class
-#     (a rule that goes quiet because its series vanished) is itself alerted on.
-#
-# CLOCK/`for` CONVENTION: sample interval 1m, series 21 samples long, evaluated at 10m — comfortably
-# past every rule's `for: 5m` and well inside Prometheus' 5m lookback.
-rule_files:
-  - generated.rules.yaml
-
-evaluation_interval: 1m
-
-tests:
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 1. HEALTHY WAVE-0 (what prod looks like right now) -> every rule SILENT.
-  #    This is the "not permanently firing" half. It is also the test that catches a mis-spelled
-  #    label: get `deployment=` wrong and the `== 0` half matches nothing while the `absent()` half
-  #    matches everything, so this test goes red instead of the rule going quietly wrong.
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-0 healthy - every app has a ready replica, the demo VM runs - all quiet
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="jackett", deployment="jackett"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="pihole", deployment="pihole"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="qbittorrent", deployment="qbittorrent"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace="vm-demo", name="vm-demo", phase="running", node="k3s-prod-1"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: gitea-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: jackett-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: pihole-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: plex-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: qbittorrent-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: vm-demo-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 2. EACH APP DOWN IN TURN (0 available replicas) -> ONLY that app's rule fires.
-  #    The per-app isolation matters: a rule that forgot its `namespace=`/`deployment=` matchers
-  #    would light up every app at once and be useless for routing.
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-0 plex has no available replica - only plex-down fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="jackett", deployment="jackett"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="pihole", deployment="pihole"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="qbittorrent", deployment="qbittorrent"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace="vm-demo", name="vm-demo", phase="running"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: plex-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: plex
-              namespace: plex
-              deployment: plex
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "plex is down"
-              description: "plex: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: gitea-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: jackett-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: pihole-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: qbittorrent-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: vm-demo-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-    # Before `for: 5m` has elapsed the rule must be PENDING, not firing — proof the 5m is real and
-    # a single scrape blip does not page anyone.
-    promql_expr_test:
-      - expr: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"})'
-        eval_time: 2m
-        exp_samples:
-          - labels: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{deployment="plex", namespace="plex"}'
-            value: 0
-
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-0 gitea/jackett/pihole/qbittorrent each down - each own rule fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="jackett", deployment="jackett"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="pihole", deployment="pihole"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="plex", deployment="plex"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="qbittorrent", deployment="qbittorrent"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace="vm-demo", name="vm-demo", phase="running"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: gitea-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: gitea
-              namespace: gitea
-              deployment: gitea
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "gitea is down"
-              description: "gitea: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: jackett-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: jackett
-              namespace: jackett
-              deployment: jackett
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "jackett is down"
-              description: "jackett: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: pihole-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: pihole
-              namespace: pihole
-              deployment: pihole
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "pihole is down"
-              description: "pihole: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: qbittorrent-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: qbittorrent
-              namespace: qbittorrent
-              deployment: qbittorrent
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "qbittorrent is down"
-              description: "qbittorrent: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: plex-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: vm-demo-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 3. THE SIGNAL VANISHES -> the rule FIRES. This is the defect class itself, asserted on.
-  #    The old `up{job=...} == 0` rule had exactly this shape of hole and was silent for it. Here
-  #    the Deployment series for plex is simply not in the input at all, and plex-down must still
-  #    fire (via the `absent()` half), with the labels the selector's equality matchers carry.
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-0 plex Deployment series ABSENT (never scraped / workload gone) - plex-down fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace="vm-demo", name="vm-demo", phase="running"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: plex-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: plex
-              namespace: plex
-              deployment: plex
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "plex is down"
-              description: "plex: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: gitea-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 4. THE VM: a VMI carries no replica count, so liveness is the EXISTENCE of a running-phase
-  #    series. Two ways to be down, both asserted: the VMI is gone entirely, and the VMI exists in
-  #    some OTHER phase. The second is the one a naive `kubevirt_vmi_info == 1` would miss, and it
-  #    is why the phase value is matched — LOWERCASE `running`, the value KubeVirt actually writes
-  #    (a capital-R matcher selects nothing and would be just as inert).
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-0 demo VM has no running-phase VMI - vm-demo-down fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="gitea", deployment="gitea"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: vm-demo-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: vm-demo
-              namespace: vm-demo
-              name: vm-demo
-              phase: running
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "vm-demo is down"
-              description: "vm-demo: no KubeVirt VMI in phase running for 5m (SLI: up, via kubevirt_vmi_info)."
-
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-0 demo VM exists but is Failed, not running - vm-demo-down still fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace="vm-demo", name="vm-demo", phase="failed"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: vm-demo-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: vm-demo
-              namespace: vm-demo
-              name: vm-demo
-              phase: running
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "vm-demo is down"
-              description: "vm-demo: no KubeVirt VMI in phase running for 5m (SLI: up, via kubevirt_vmi_info)."
@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
---
-# Namespace (trust zone; default-deny + policies apply)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Namespace
-metadata:
-  name: vm-demo
-  labels:
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/app-namespace: 'true'
-  annotations:
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/backup-policy: daily-offcluster
---
-# Default-deny baseline (R-NET-01): deny all, allow only DNS
-apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
-kind: NetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: default-deny
-  namespace: vm-demo
-  labels:
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/baseline: default-deny
-spec:
-  podSelector: {}
-  policyTypes:
-  - Ingress
-  - Egress
-  ingress: []
-  egress:
-  - to:
-    - namespaceSelector:
-        matchLabels:
-          kubernetes.io/metadata.name: kube-system
-    ports:
-    - protocol: UDP
-      port: 53
-    - protocol: TCP
-      port: 53
---
-# CDI DataVolume (standalone; survives rebuild, R-STATE-01)
-apiVersion: cdi.kubevirt.io/v1beta1
-kind: DataVolume
-metadata:
-  name: vm-demo-rootdisk
-  namespace: vm-demo
-spec:
-  source:
-    registry:
-      url: docker://quay.io/containerdisks/fedora:41
-  storage:
-    accessModes:
-    - ReadWriteOnce
-    storageClassName: longhorn
-    resources:
-      requests:
-        storage: 6Gi
---
-# KubeVirt VirtualMachine (R-PLAT-03)
-apiVersion: kubevirt.io/v1
-kind: VirtualMachine
-metadata:
-  name: vm-demo
-  namespace: vm-demo
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: vm-demo
-spec:
-  running: false
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        kubevirt.io/vm: vm-demo
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/egress-class: internet
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: none
-    spec:
-      domain:
-        cpu:
-          cores: 1
-        memory:
-          guest: 1536Mi
-        devices:
-          disks:
-          - name: rootdisk
-            disk:
-              bus: virtio
-          - name: cloudinit
-            disk:
-              bus: virtio
-          interfaces:
-          - name: default
-            masquerade: {}
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            memory: 1536Mi
-      networks:
-      - name: default
-        pod: {}
-      volumes:
-      - name: rootdisk
-        dataVolume:
-          name: vm-demo-rootdisk
-      - name: cloudinit
-        cloudInitNoCloud:
-          userData: "#cloud-config\npackage_update: true\npackages:\n  - dnf-automatic\nwrite_files:\n  - path: /etc/dnf/automatic.conf\n    content: |\n      [commands]\n      upgrade_type = default\n      random_sleep = 0\n      download_updates = yes\n      apply_updates = yes\nruncmd:\n  - [ systemctl, enable, --now, dnf-automatic.timer ]\n"
---
-# CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): vm-demo-allow-internet-egress
-apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
-kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: vm-demo-allow-internet-egress
-  namespace: vm-demo
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: vm-demo
-spec:
-  endpointSelector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: vm-demo
-  egress:
-  - toEntities:
-    - world
---
-# PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: PrometheusRule
-metadata:
-  name: vm-demo-slis
-  namespace: vm-demo
-  labels:
-    release: kube-prometheus-stack
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: vm-demo
-spec:
-  groups:
-  - name: vm-demo.slis
-    rules:
-    - alert: vm-demo-down
-      expr: absent(kubevirt_vmi_info{namespace="vm-demo", name="vm-demo", phase="running"})
-      for: 5m
-      labels:
-        severity: critical
-        service: vm-demo
-      annotations:
-        summary: vm-demo is down
-        description: 'vm-demo: no KubeVirt VMI in phase running for 5m (SLI: up, via kubevirt_vmi_info).'
@@ -4,13 +4,7 @@
 # against Gitea. Flux decrypts it via the sops-age key at reconcile (apps Kustomization
 # decryption is wired in clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml). Rotate by resetting the token
 # in Gitea (admin -> actions -> runners) and re-encrypting a fresh value here.
-# ROTATE: ./infra/gitea/runner-token-rotate.sh -- it mints a fresh instance-level token from the
-# Gitea API and writes it here via `sops set`, without the value ever being printed.
-# Do NOT `sops -d` this file into a terminal, a log, or an agent transcript. To check only that
-# it still decrypts, redirect: `sops -d <file> > /dev/null`.
-# NOTE: a fresh token alone may not re-register the runner. act_runner registers ONCE and keeps
-# its identity in /data/.runner on the act-runner-data PVC; if Gitea no longer holds a matching
-# row it skips registration silently. Clearing that PVC is what forces a real re-registration.
+# Recover/inspect: infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run sops -d apps/gitea-actions-runner-secret.sops.yaml
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
 metadata:
@@ -20,7 +14,7 @@ metadata:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: act-runner
 type: Opaque
 stringData:
-    token: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:f574mAUkLvMGq0TYycwCd4tduMuBgQLiTg/140kuRDgFUYYm1ZoSjQ==,iv:Tn7gFWBLm2hHk/BbfVX7qIZegwZp9ah1cMou5i2O91E=,tag:TkdSiMI4sdCNn2JuN++Pig==,type:str]
+    token: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:W48mEtBqGeukX13lMhrhrer+zB21cLVp0acy3m1Xy/oo89DqO8FX/Q==,iv:wfTUU7RiFLdEc1fmEFS9DfE2SmGCFLPK17m0IKspft0=,tag:UhoXA47p7386KHcYNbPzCg==,type:str]
 sops:
    kms: []
    gcp_kms: []
@@ -36,8 +30,8 @@ sops:
            MDZLUE52QzJXbFlrNWxOcVhJbDNnY00KxCpFkbhhCuk4Fa8CC3C4+R9AcsUnaXQR
            UjAfwKFoXAneXUih7TTXMbR/6+VgQBww5Bmwpn7jVLnzP0N0pIZVTA==
            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-29T05:48:35Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:nobqr794nrdRYFrd8Ct8bw9M8NtftJXawRGk9zrL+pTWahwlWrwXVtOAxMGEPVojz3WemsxTJESzmzy0gcT1QcrjpYTsF2MVHcr6+umk8q9gAh2enyxy/0QkYiSt6XjvRVqfqleLanEkeIq1FPf2zhSLSJaiw4/oZTfkCHD1/Zg=,iv:JxaP0htmGcvE4ZU1YAmGF4A6JkejV29NNygyMl1OKF8=,tag:G70NvcPyVuagXhugWoUfTw==,type:str]
+    lastmodified: "2026-08-26T04:48:14Z"
+    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:b99/zkL332RIT3FYBa1sR3o9+pwlmrUgKvVHawbjWYSJZ7ERUfO+LXuhKJ0HKrp6i1JfkurZlRO27iBcfrBisAXS9KLaqmsCJf4kKfFc4skANrmKCzprrXUmZexr1uiE8eDUzjNCLNxSCZfnFR6d/AkMXJqi6Hsj9/O+wH2lWsc=,iv:3DIPszSdxK81ERO3o/nTs33qQYHaAKLNcGP4qlZViFc=,tag:/B6VKkzMUwh0byNUicS5wQ==,type:str]
    pgp: []
    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
    version: 3.9.4
@@ -99,82 +99,29 @@ spec:
      # CI holds no cluster credentials — do not mount a SA token into the runner or
      # (via the shared netns) the job containers (R-SEC-02, docs/14).
      automountServiceAccountToken: false
-      # ---- Docker-in-Docker: the job executor daemon (privileged) -------------------
-      #
-      # NATIVE SIDECAR (k3s v1.36; sidecar containers are GA). It is an initContainer with
-      # `restartPolicy: Always`, which means: it starts BEFORE the regular containers, keeps
-      # running alongside them, and is terminated after them. kubelet holds `runner` until
-      # this container's startupProbe passes, so the ordering is enforced by the kubelet
-      # instead of hand-rolled shell in the runner.
-      #
-      # This REPLACES two bounded wait-loops that used to live in the runner's `command:`.
-      # Deleting them also deletes an envsubst hazard: clusters/base/apps-wave-1.yaml runs
-      # postBuild substitution over this ENTIRE manifest, comments included, and those loops
-      # depended on bare dollar-names surviving it untouched. There is now no shell here at
-      # all, so there is nothing to escape or mis-escape.
-      #
-      # WHY THE PROBE IS `exec docker ... info` AND NOT `tcpSocket`. A tcpSocket probe would
-      # re-open the exact gap the old Stage 1 existed to close: dockerd writes the TLS certs
-      # and only THEN begins listening, so the port can accept a connection while the certs
-      # are absent or incomplete -- and act_runner hard-exits on a missing
-      # /certs/client/ca.pem. A full TLS-verified `docker info` proves BOTH that the certs
-      # are usable and that the daemon answers.
-      #
-      # CORRECTION (measured 2026-09-29, after this conversion shipped): the commit that
-      # introduced this claimed the conversion would REMOVE the one-per-start dockerd line
-      # `http: TLS handshake error from 127.0.0.1: EOF`. IT DOES NOT. Exactly one still
-      # appears, immediately after "API listen on [::]:2376" -- it is now this probe's FIRST
-      # attempt, landing microseconds after dockerd begins listening and cut off by
-      # timeoutSeconds: 1. The next poll succeeds. It is cosmetic, exactly as cosmetic as it
-      # was before, and deliberately NOT chased: raising timeoutSeconds to hide one benign
-      # startup line would slow every subsequent poll. Left documented rather than silenced.
-      #
-      # periodSeconds 1 x failureThreshold 60 preserves the previous 60s cap.
-      initContainers:
-        - name: dind
-          restartPolicy: Always   # <- this field is what makes it a SIDECAR
-          image: docker:27-dind
-          securityContext:
-            privileged: true
-          env:
-            # Generate + publish TLS certs into the shared emptyDir; dockerd then listens
-            # on tcp://0.0.0.0:2376 (TLS) which the runner reaches at localhost:2376.
-            - name: DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR
-              value: /certs
-          volumeMounts:
-            - name: certs
-              mountPath: /certs
-            - name: dind-storage
-              mountPath: /var/lib/docker
-          resources:
-            requests:
-              cpu: 100m
-              memory: 256Mi
-            limits:
-              memory: 2Gi
-          startupProbe:
-            exec:
-              command:
-                - docker
-                - --host=tcp://127.0.0.1:2376
-                - --tlsverify
-                - --tlscacert=/certs/client/ca.pem
-                - --tlscert=/certs/client/cert.pem
-                - --tlskey=/certs/client/key.pem
-                - info
-            periodSeconds: 1
-            failureThreshold: 60
      containers:
        # ---- act_runner: registers with Gitea, dispatches jobs to the DinD daemon ----
        - name: runner
          image: gitea/act_runner:0.2.11
-          # No `command:` override. The image's own entrypoint (/sbin/tini -- /opt/act/run.sh)
-          # registers from env on first boot and runs `act_runner daemon`. The two wait-loops
-          # that used to live here are gone: kubelet now holds this container until the dind
-          # sidecar's startupProbe passes (see initContainers above).
+          # Wait for the DinD sidecar to publish its TLS client certs into the shared
+          # emptyDir before starting the daemon — act_runner reads /certs/client/ca.pem at
+          # startup and hard-exits if it is missing (a startup race against the sidecar).
+          # Then exec the image's normal entrypoint (/sbin/tini -- /opt/act/run.sh), which
+          # registers-from-env on first boot and runs `act_runner daemon`.
+          command:
+            - /bin/sh
+            - -c
+            - |
+              i=0
+              until [ -f /certs/client/ca.pem ]; do
+                i=$((i + 1))
+                [ "$i" -ge 60 ] && { echo "dind certs never appeared" >&2; exit 1; }
+                echo "waiting for dind TLS certs ($i)"; sleep 1
+              done
+              exec /sbin/tini -- /opt/act/run.sh
          env:
            - name: GITEA_INSTANCE_URL
-              value: https://gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+              value: https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
            - name: GITEA_RUNNER_REGISTRATION_TOKEN
              valueFrom:
                secretKeyRef:
@@ -207,6 +154,27 @@ spec:
              memory: 128Mi
            limits:
              memory: 512Mi
+        # ---- Docker-in-Docker: the job executor daemon (privileged) ----
+        - name: dind
+          image: docker:27-dind
+          securityContext:
+            privileged: true
+          env:
+            # Generate + publish TLS certs into the shared emptyDir; dockerd then listens
+            # on tcp://0.0.0.0:2376 (TLS) which the runner reaches at localhost:2376.
+            - name: DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR
+              value: /certs
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: certs
+              mountPath: /certs
+            - name: dind-storage
+              mountPath: /var/lib/docker
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: 100m
+              memory: 256Mi
+            limits:
+              memory: 2Gi
      volumes:
        - name: data
          persistentVolumeClaim:
@@ -1,208 +0,0 @@
---
-# Namespace (trust zone; default-deny + policies apply)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Namespace
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak
-  labels:
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/app-namespace: 'true'
-    gateway-access: shared
-  annotations:
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/backup-policy: daily-offcluster
---
-# Default-deny baseline (R-NET-01): deny all, allow only DNS
-apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
-kind: NetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: default-deny
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/baseline: default-deny
-spec:
-  podSelector: {}
-  policyTypes:
-  - Ingress
-  - Egress
-  ingress: []
-  egress:
-  - to:
-    - namespaceSelector:
-        matchLabels:
-          kubernetes.io/metadata.name: kube-system
-    ports:
-    - protocol: UDP
-      port: 53
-    - protocol: TCP
-      port: 53
---
-# PVC keycloak-db (R-STATE)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak-db
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteOnce
-  storageClassName: longhorn
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 10Gi
---
-# Deployment (R-PLAT-02)
-apiVersion: apps/v1
-kind: Deployment
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  replicas: 1
-  strategy:
-    type: Recreate
-  selector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-  template:
-    metadata:
-      labels:
-        app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/egress-class: internet
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: native
-    spec:
-      containers:
-      - name: keycloak
-        image: quay.io/keycloak/keycloak
-        ports:
-        - containerPort: 8080
-        volumeMounts:
-        - name: db
-          mountPath: /data/db
-      volumes:
-      - name: db
-        persistentVolumeClaim:
-          claimName: keycloak-db
---
-# Service
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Service
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  selector:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-  ports:
-  - name: port-8080
-    port: 8080
-    targetPort: 8080
---
-# CiliumNetworkPolicy egress allow (R-NET-02): keycloak-allow-keycloak-db-5432
-apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
-kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak-allow-keycloak-db-5432
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  endpointSelector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-  egress:
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak-db
-        k8s:io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak-db
-    toPorts:
-    - ports:
-      - port: '5432'
-        protocol: TCP
---
-# CiliumNetworkPolicy gateway-ingress allow (R-NET-01/02): keycloak-allow-gateway-ingress
-apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
-kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak-allow-gateway-ingress
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  endpointSelector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-  ingress:
-  - fromEntities:
-    - ingress
-    toPorts:
-    - ports:
-      - port: '8080'
-        protocol: TCP
---
-# CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): keycloak-allow-internet-egress
-apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
-kind: CiliumNetworkPolicy
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak-allow-internet-egress
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  endpointSelector:
-    matchLabels:
-      app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-  egress:
-  - toEntities:
-    - world
---
-# HTTPRoute keycloak-8080 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
-apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
-kind: HTTPRoute
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak-8080
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  parentRefs:
-  - name: shared
-    namespace: gateway
-    sectionName: https
-  hostnames:
-  - keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-  rules:
-  - matches:
-    - path:
-        type: PathPrefix
-        value: /
-    backendRefs:
-    - name: keycloak
-      port: 8080
---
-# PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
-apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
-kind: PrometheusRule
-metadata:
-  name: keycloak-slis
-  namespace: keycloak
-  labels:
-    release: kube-prometheus-stack
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: keycloak
-spec:
-  groups:
-  - name: keycloak.slis
-    rules:
-    - alert: keycloak-down
-      expr: kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak"} == 0 or absent(kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak"})
-      for: 5m
-      labels:
-        severity: critical
-        service: keycloak
-      annotations:
-        summary: keycloak is down
-        description: 'keycloak: its StatefulSet has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready).'
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ resources:
 - gitea-actions.yaml
 - nextcloud-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
 - nextcloud.yaml
- radarr-oauth2-proxy-credentials.sops.yaml
 - radarr.yaml
 - semaphore-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
 - semaphore.yaml
- sonarr-oauth2-proxy-credentials.sops.yaml
 - sonarr.yaml
@@ -35,34 +35,6 @@ spec:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 53
 ---
-# PersistentVolume nextcloud-legacy-archive - static external NFS (bulk tier)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolume
-metadata:
-  name: nextcloud-legacy-archive
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud
-spec:
-  capacity:
-    storage: 270Gi
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadOnlyMany
-  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
-  storageClassName: ''
-  mountOptions:
-  - nfsvers=4.1
-  - hard
-  - noatime
-  - timeo=600
-  - retrans=2
-  nfs:
-    server: ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    path: /mnt/Storage/nextcloud
-    readOnly: true
-  claimRef:
-    namespace: nextcloud
-    name: nextcloud-legacy-archive
---
 # PVC nextcloud-data (R-STATE)
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
@@ -79,23 +51,6 @@ spec:
    requests:
      storage: 20Gi
 ---
-# PVC nextcloud-legacy-archive (R-STATE)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: nextcloud-legacy-archive
-  namespace: nextcloud
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadOnlyMany
-  storageClassName: ''
-  volumeName: nextcloud-legacy-archive
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 270Gi
---
 # Deployment (R-PLAT-02)
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
@@ -149,13 +104,13 @@ spec:
              name: nextcloud-bootstrap
              key: admin-password
        - name: NEXTCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS
-          value: nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+          value: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
        - name: OVERWRITEHOST
-          value: nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+          value: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
        - name: OVERWRITEPROTOCOL
          value: https
        - name: OVERWRITECLIURL
-          value: https://nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+          value: https://nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
        - name: NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
@@ -164,26 +119,18 @@ spec:
        volumeMounts:
        - name: data
          mountPath: /var/www/html
-        - name: legacy-archive
-          mountPath: /mnt/legacy-nextcloud
-          subPath: nextcloud
-          readOnly: true
        lifecycle:
          postStart:
            exec:
              command:
              - /bin/sh
              - -c
-              - "# Idempotent Keycloak OIDC wiring (R-IDP-02/06). Runs alongside the nextcloud entrypoint\n# (which installs/upgrades on first boot). Installs+enables the user_oidc app and creates OR\n# updates the \"keycloak\" login provider (occ user_oidc:provider is create-or-update by\n# identifier). Auto-discovery pulls the realm's endpoints; the `groups` claim drives Nextcloud\n# group provisioning. occ runs as www-data (owns config.php); the client secret is passed via\n# --clientsecret-env so it never lands on a command line. Safe to re-run every start; a missing\n# secret or not-yet-installed instance is skipped so the pod never crashloops (the local\n# break-glass admin still works).\nset -u\n# OCC runs occ as www-data (owns config.php). NOTE: this wrapper word-splits its args via $*,\n# so it is used ONLY for single-token subcommands (status/app:list/app:install/...). The\n# provider call below carries a MULTI-WORD value (--scope 'openid email profile') and is run as\n# ONE su -c with the scope single-quoted, so the inner shell keeps it a single argument.\nOCC() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c \"php /var/www/html/occ $*\"; }\nNEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration\nnextcloud_oidc_fail() {\n  echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] FAILED to configure 'keycloak' provider: $1\" >&2\n  { echo \"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [nextcloud-oidc] FAILED: $1\"; } >> /var/www/html/nextcloud-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true\n}\n# (a) Wait for the instance to be installed AND out of maintenance mode. The entrypoint holds\n#     maintenance mode during first-boot install/upgrade; occ writes made in that window do not\n#     stick \u2014 a second race on top of the quoting bug fixed at (c).\ni=0\nuntil OCC status 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"installed: true\" && ! OCC status 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"maintenance: true\"; do\n  i=$((i + 1))\n  [ \"$i\" -ge 300 ] && { echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] occ not ready (installed/maintenance) after wait; skipping\" >&2; exit 0; }\n  sleep 2\ndone\n# Let Nextcloud's OWN server-side HTTP client reach the private-network IdP. The Keycloak\n# FQDN resolves (split-horizon) to the PRIVATE Cilium gateway VIP (RFC1918), and Nextcloud's\n# SSRF guard otherwise REFUSES that request \u2014 OCP\\Http\\Client\\LocalServerException \"violates\n# local access rules\" \u2014 during user_oidc's discovery/JWKS/token fetch AT LOGIN, surfacing to\n# the user as \"Could not reach the provider\". (The (b) curl check below uses system libcurl,\n# NOT this guard, so it passes while the browser login still failed.) Idempotent; re-applied\n# every start so it survives pod rolls / PVC rebuilds. Confirmed root cause 2026-08-27.\nOCC config:system:set allow_local_remote_servers --value=true --type=boolean >/dev/null 2>&1 \\\n  || echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] WARN: failed to set allow_local_remote_servers\" >&2\n# NOTE the `$$` escape below \u2014 it is load-bearing. apps-wave-1 declares postBuild.\n# substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux envsubst rewrites this whole manifest at RECONCILE\n# time, before any container runs. Written unescaped, `$${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}` is\n# not a cluster-var, so envsubst blanked it and the guard reconciled as `[ -z \"\" ]` \u2014 ALWAYS\n# TRUE \u2014 so this hook `exit 0`d here on EVERY boot since 8738871 (2026-08-27), never\n# installing/enabling user_oidc nor registering the provider. SSO kept working only because\n# the provider was already in the DB; a PVC rebuild or fresh cluster would have come up with\n# NO OIDC at all. Flux STRICT substitution cannot catch this \u2014 it EXEMPTS default-operator\n# forms by design. `$${VAR}` is the escape: envsubst emits it back as a plain brace expansion\n# for the shell. Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` are left alone and need NO escaping \u2014 which is why\n# `--clientsecret-env` and the bare uses below always worked and only the guard broke.\n# Contract: clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. Enforced at render time by catalog/render.py.\nif [ -z \"$${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}\" ]; then\n  echo \"[nextcloud-oidc]\
-                \ client secret unset; skipping OIDC (break-glass admin only)\"\n  exit 0\nfi\nif ! OCC app:list 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"user_oidc\"; then\n  OCC app:install user_oidc || echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] app:install user_oidc failed\" >&2\nfi\nOCC app:enable user_oidc >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n# (b) Wait up to ~90s for the Keycloak discovery doc to be reachable (HTTP 200) before registering.\nd=0; disc_ok=0\nwhile [ \"$d\" -lt 45 ]; do\n  if [ \"$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 5 \"$NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL\" 2>/dev/null)\" = \"200\" ]; then\n    disc_ok=1; break\n  fi\n  d=$((d + 1)); sleep 2\ndone\n[ \"$disc_ok\" = 1 ] || nextcloud_oidc_fail \"Keycloak discovery endpoint not reachable (HTTP 200) within timeout\"\n# (c) Configure (create-or-update by identifier) then VERIFY it persisted; retry the whole cycle.\n#     HARDENED: run as ONE su -c so www-data's shell parses --scope='openid email profile' as a\n#     single argument. The previous `OCC user_oidc:provider ... --scope=\"openid email profile\"`\n#     form fed the value back through the wrapper's $*, which SPLIT it into extra positionals ->\n#     occ \"Too many arguments\" -> silent failure on EVERY boot. Secret via --clientsecret-env\n#     (never on argv). The verify-then-retry loop guarantees the provider actually persisted.\nr=0; reg_ok=0\nwhile [ \"$r\" -lt 10 ]; do\n  su -s /bin/sh www-data -c \"php /var/www/html/occ user_oidc:provider keycloak \\\n    --clientid=nextcloud \\\n    --clientsecret-env=NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET \\\n    --discoveryuri=$NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL \\\n    --scope='openid email profile' \\\n    --unique-uid=0 \\\n    --mapping-uid=preferred_username \\\n    --mapping-email=email \\\n    --mapping-display-name=name \\\n    --group-provisioning=1 \\\n    --mapping-groups=groups\" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n  if OCC user_oidc:provider 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"keycloak\"; then\n    reg_ok=1; break\n  fi\n  r=$((r + 1)); sleep 3\ndone\nif [ \"$reg_ok\" = 1 ]; then\n  echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] provider 'keycloak' configured and verified\"\nelse\n  nextcloud_oidc_fail \"user_oidc:provider ran but the provider did not persist after retries\"\nfi\n# (d) Promote Keycloak 'platform-admins' members to Nextcloud admins (#5). user_oidc 8.11 has\n#     NO native group->admin mapping (occ user_oidc:provider offers group PROVISIONING and a\n#     login WHITELIST only), so mirror the provisioned 'platform-admins' membership into the\n#     built-in 'admin' group (the sole source of admin rights in Nextcloud). Idempotent every\n#     start: occ group:adduser is a no-op for an existing member. A user is promotable only\n#     AFTER their first OIDC login provisions them into the group, so a brand-new admin gains\n#     rights on their next login + the following pod start (or run `occ group:adduser admin\n#     <uid>` once). The LOCAL break-glass admin is unaffected (docs/15). The group name is\n#     passed to php as argv (never interpolated) so group:list JSON parses robustly.\nADMIN_SRC_GROUP=platform-admins\n# HARDENED (verify-and-retry, like step (c)): the previous single pass ran `occ group:adduser`\n# exactly once with its output swallowed (>/dev/null 2>&1) and NO retry, so an early-boot\n# transient failure (DB / maintenance race in the first seconds after container start) silently\n# dropped the promotion until the NEXT pod restart. This loop re-reads group:list and re-adds\n# any platform-admins member still missing from 'admin' until all are verified (bounded ~30s);\n# it is a no-op for members already in 'admin'. Group names are passed to php as argv (never\n# interpolated) so the JSON parses robustly.\nparse_group() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c \"php /var/www/html/occ group:list --output=json\" 2>/dev/null | php -r '$d=json_decode(stream_get_contents(STDIN),true);$g=$argv[1];if(is_array($d)&&!empty($d[$g])&&is_array($d[$g])){foreach($d[$g] as $u){echo $u,\"\\n\";}}' -- \"$1\" 2>/dev/null; }\np=0\nwhile [ \"$p\" -lt 15 ]; do\n  current_admins=$(parse_group admin)\n  missing=0\n  for uid in $(parse_group \"$ADMIN_SRC_GROUP\"\
-                ); do\n    if printf '%s\\n' \"$current_admins\" | grep -qxF -- \"$uid\"; then\n      continue\n    fi\n    missing=1\n    if OCC group:adduser admin \"$uid\" >/dev/null 2>&1; then\n      echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] ensured '$uid' is a Nextcloud admin (member of $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP)\"\n    fi\n  done\n  [ \"$missing\" = 0 ] && break\n  p=$((p + 1)); sleep 2\ndone\nif [ \"$p\" -ge 15 ]; then\n  nextcloud_oidc_fail \"could not promote all $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP members into 'admin' after retries\"\nfi\n# A postStart hook MUST exit 0. A non-zero exit makes the kubelet KILL the container\n# (FailedPostStartHook -> CrashLoopBackOff), which is exactly what happened on 2026-09-01:\n# the final statement used to be `[ \"$p\" -ge 15 ] && nextcloud_oidc_fail ...`, so on the\n# SUCCESS path the test returned 1 and became the script's exit status. That was latent for\n# as long as the OIDC guard above was dead code and exited 0 first; fixing the guard\n# exposed it immediately. Every failure path here logs loudly and writes a marker file and\n# deliberately does NOT crash the pod \u2014 the break-glass local admin must stay usable.\nexit 0\n"
+              - "# Idempotent Keycloak OIDC wiring (R-IDP-02/06). Runs alongside the nextcloud entrypoint\n# (which installs/upgrades on first boot). Installs+enables the user_oidc app and creates OR\n# updates the \"keycloak\" login provider (occ user_oidc:provider is create-or-update by\n# identifier). Auto-discovery pulls the realm's endpoints; the `groups` claim drives Nextcloud\n# group provisioning. occ runs as www-data (owns config.php); the client secret is passed via\n# --clientsecret-env so it never lands on a command line. Safe to re-run every start; a missing\n# secret or not-yet-installed instance is skipped so the pod never crashloops (the local\n# break-glass admin still works).\nset -u\n# OCC runs occ as www-data (owns config.php). NOTE: this wrapper word-splits its args via $*,\n# so it is used ONLY for single-token subcommands (status/app:list/app:install/...). The\n# provider call below carries a MULTI-WORD value (--scope 'openid email profile') and is run as\n# ONE su -c with the scope single-quoted, so the inner shell keeps it a single argument.\nOCC() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c \"php /var/www/html/occ $*\"; }\nNEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration\nnextcloud_oidc_fail() {\n  echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] FAILED to configure 'keycloak' provider: $1\" >&2\n  { echo \"$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [nextcloud-oidc] FAILED: $1\"; } >> /var/www/html/nextcloud-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true\n}\n# (a) Wait for the instance to be installed AND out of maintenance mode. The entrypoint holds\n#     maintenance mode during first-boot install/upgrade; occ writes made in that window do not\n#     stick \u2014 a second race on top of the quoting bug fixed at (c).\ni=0\nuntil OCC status 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"installed: true\" && ! OCC status 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"maintenance: true\"; do\n  i=$((i + 1))\n  [ \"$i\" -ge 300 ] && { echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] occ not ready (installed/maintenance) after wait; skipping\" >&2; exit 0; }\n  sleep 2\ndone\n# Let Nextcloud's OWN server-side HTTP client reach the private-network IdP. The Keycloak\n# FQDN resolves (split-horizon) to the PRIVATE Cilium gateway VIP (RFC1918), and Nextcloud's\n# SSRF guard otherwise REFUSES that request \u2014 OCP\\Http\\Client\\LocalServerException \"violates\n# local access rules\" \u2014 during user_oidc's discovery/JWKS/token fetch AT LOGIN, surfacing to\n# the user as \"Could not reach the provider\". (The (b) curl check below uses system libcurl,\n# NOT this guard, so it passes while the browser login still failed.) Idempotent; re-applied\n# every start so it survives pod rolls / PVC rebuilds. Confirmed root cause 2026-08-27.\nOCC config:system:set allow_local_remote_servers --value=true --type=boolean >/dev/null 2>&1 \\\n  || echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] WARN: failed to set allow_local_remote_servers\" >&2\nif [ -z \"${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}\" ]; then\n  echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] client secret unset; skipping OIDC (break-glass admin only)\"\n  exit 0\nfi\nif ! OCC app:list 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"user_oidc\"; then\n  OCC app:install user_oidc || echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] app:install user_oidc failed\" >&2\nfi\nOCC app:enable user_oidc >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n# (b) Wait up to ~90s for the Keycloak discovery doc to be reachable (HTTP 200) before registering.\nd=0; disc_ok=0\nwhile [ \"$d\" -lt 45 ]; do\n  if [ \"$(curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 5 \"$NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL\" 2>/dev/null)\" = \"200\" ]; then\n    disc_ok=1; break\n  fi\n  d=$((d + 1)); sleep 2\ndone\n[ \"$disc_ok\" = 1 ] || nextcloud_oidc_fail \"Keycloak discovery endpoint not reachable (HTTP 200) within timeout\"\n# (c) Configure (create-or-update by identifier) then VERIFY it persisted; retry the whole cycle.\n#     HARDENED: run as ONE su -c so www-data's shell parses --scope='openid email profile' as a\n#     single argument. The previous `OCC user_oidc:provider ... --scope=\"openid email profile\"`\n#     form fed the value back through the wrapper's $*, which SPLIT it into extra\
+                \ positionals ->\n#     occ \"Too many arguments\" -> silent failure on EVERY boot. Secret via --clientsecret-env\n#     (never on argv). The verify-then-retry loop guarantees the provider actually persisted.\nr=0; reg_ok=0\nwhile [ \"$r\" -lt 10 ]; do\n  su -s /bin/sh www-data -c \"php /var/www/html/occ user_oidc:provider keycloak \\\n    --clientid=nextcloud \\\n    --clientsecret-env=NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET \\\n    --discoveryuri=$NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL \\\n    --scope='openid email profile' \\\n    --unique-uid=0 \\\n    --mapping-uid=preferred_username \\\n    --mapping-email=email \\\n    --mapping-display-name=name \\\n    --group-provisioning=1 \\\n    --mapping-groups=groups\" >/dev/null 2>&1 || true\n  if OCC user_oidc:provider 2>/dev/null | grep -q \"keycloak\"; then\n    reg_ok=1; break\n  fi\n  r=$((r + 1)); sleep 3\ndone\nif [ \"$reg_ok\" = 1 ]; then\n  echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] provider 'keycloak' configured and verified\"\nelse\n  nextcloud_oidc_fail \"user_oidc:provider ran but the provider did not persist after retries\"\nfi\n# (d) Promote Keycloak 'platform-admins' members to Nextcloud admins (#5). user_oidc 8.11 has\n#     NO native group->admin mapping (occ user_oidc:provider offers group PROVISIONING and a\n#     login WHITELIST only), so mirror the provisioned 'platform-admins' membership into the\n#     built-in 'admin' group (the sole source of admin rights in Nextcloud). Idempotent every\n#     start: occ group:adduser is a no-op for an existing member. A user is promotable only\n#     AFTER their first OIDC login provisions them into the group, so a brand-new admin gains\n#     rights on their next login + the following pod start (or run `occ group:adduser admin\n#     <uid>` once). The LOCAL break-glass admin is unaffected (docs/15). The group name is\n#     passed to php as argv (never interpolated) so group:list JSON parses robustly.\nADMIN_SRC_GROUP=platform-admins\n# HARDENED (verify-and-retry, like step (c)): the previous single pass ran `occ group:adduser`\n# exactly once with its output swallowed (>/dev/null 2>&1) and NO retry, so an early-boot\n# transient failure (DB / maintenance race in the first seconds after container start) silently\n# dropped the promotion until the NEXT pod restart. This loop re-reads group:list and re-adds\n# any platform-admins member still missing from 'admin' until all are verified (bounded ~30s);\n# it is a no-op for members already in 'admin'. Group names are passed to php as argv (never\n# interpolated) so the JSON parses robustly.\nparse_group() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c \"php /var/www/html/occ group:list --output=json\" 2>/dev/null | php -r '$d=json_decode(stream_get_contents(STDIN),true);$g=$argv[1];if(is_array($d)&&!empty($d[$g])&&is_array($d[$g])){foreach($d[$g] as $u){echo $u,\"\\n\";}}' -- \"$1\" 2>/dev/null; }\np=0\nwhile [ \"$p\" -lt 15 ]; do\n  current_admins=$(parse_group admin)\n  missing=0\n  for uid in $(parse_group \"$ADMIN_SRC_GROUP\"); do\n    if printf '%s\\n' \"$current_admins\" | grep -qxF -- \"$uid\"; then\n      continue\n    fi\n    missing=1\n    if OCC group:adduser admin \"$uid\" >/dev/null 2>&1; then\n      echo \"[nextcloud-oidc] ensured '$uid' is a Nextcloud admin (member of $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP)\"\n    fi\n  done\n  [ \"$missing\" = 0 ] && break\n  p=$((p + 1)); sleep 2\ndone\n[ \"$p\" -ge 15 ] && nextcloud_oidc_fail \"could not promote all $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP members into 'admin' after retries\"\n"
      volumes:
      - name: data
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: nextcloud-data
-      - name: legacy-archive
-        persistentVolumeClaim:
-          claimName: nextcloud-legacy-archive
 ---
 # Service
 apiVersion: v1
@@ -258,10 +205,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute nextcloud-80 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -280,7 +223,7 @@ spec:
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -290,6 +233,26 @@ spec:
    - name: nextcloud
      port: 80
 ---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: nextcloud
+  namespace: nextcloud
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: nextcloud
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - nextcloud
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
+---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
 kind: PrometheusRule
@@ -304,11 +267,11 @@ spec:
  - name: nextcloud.slis
    rules:
    - alert: nextcloud-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="nextcloud", deployment="nextcloud"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="nextcloud", deployment="nextcloud"})
+      expr: up{job="nextcloud"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: nextcloud
      annotations:
        summary: nextcloud is down
-        description: 'nextcloud: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'nextcloud has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: radarr-oauth2-proxy
-    namespace: radarr
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    client-id: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:vFLxqzxt,iv:6k0ZjKP8rvg56ZFPWEGdyj+FLgK+LBOE0pLBWfC0bjA=,tag:LiZb5BasJAEWM1c3I8vFTA==,type:str]
-    client-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:JzfHF8JF4YUxBxiC738N4UsMlcCOvxn4/AE2B4meZNGAZb2uhG4n51uEY8OQsbsM0Ni4qM2Wi17KuLDwAicfUA==,iv:A3AnUhYxw/IWfvfcZf6MgC5u37dMoNToIWxRG9AxEJQ=,tag:1OY2pWGTbCxPYYdaiBa/oA==,type:str]
-    cookie-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:LPt5nghLfoNvr7yBes8rLeEK3M6UVIO1h9POHMOAj8iZX3l2RJJa4w8GcSg=,iv:Q5+7zH8Tb1SWe92B0pxekfMgOXlBG8nixWn/ho4oJw4=,tag:D+41dBFPVTGj86xv5/GEng==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBHVG5MWVRyOVl1RWFpOExC
-            SjZKcEd1ZlFnZVZ5NmtyUlQzRGI1b1o3dG04CkwrTUNjd3crM1VzaUdPczliSDY1
-            a3dONnBFWk8yOW5kL2xES1RZbUN6L3cKLS0tIG9hWG9Cbm01RlMrcC9zMWkxeFgr
-            ZnRGRUVTTS81SFRyenNsZUZEcG1TUm8K5XUGP/1NVsoaFcBZUER3/zMPTtCuVisT
-            LrbSmTkIyVfzjN/vRpRH92b1VzENJvhGhRghhQaKY0rbG34i6yh3Vw==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-08-31T13:42:25Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:TxdPz2zE6+ypgQG2b0Rp3VFiPL7LLls4NNkC7YQ/bVCLvyvaXdGsEWkiHJE+Po7hcESmZRt/NMS25mEXPMfvlSCltwFUTcrxoZDS0NI27kIzbtceTbxmznt/dMS/iZm21lCgA6Aag9ByLjWusPLkRKWhep+G+0G54qtfQzv3s80=,iv:44f0KikrpKpnSaLLyzTvnCfrwEXylRgVIlKMtSpMyNc=,tag:jDx43n0usDtbwzo8KzDBqw==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -35,33 +35,6 @@ spec:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 53
 ---
-# PersistentVolume radarr-media - static external NFS (bulk tier)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolume
-metadata:
-  name: radarr-media
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: radarr
-spec:
-  capacity:
-    storage: 9Ti
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteMany
-  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
-  storageClassName: ''
-  mountOptions:
-  - nfsvers=4.1
-  - hard
-  - noatime
-  - timeo=600
-  - retrans=2
-  nfs:
-    server: ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    path: /mnt/Storage/plex
-  claimRef:
-    namespace: radarr
-    name: radarr-media
---
 # PVC radarr-config (R-STATE)
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
@@ -78,23 +51,6 @@ spec:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
 ---
-# PVC radarr-media (R-STATE)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: radarr-media
-  namespace: radarr
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: radarr
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteMany
-  storageClassName: ''
-  volumeName: radarr-media
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 9Ti
---
 # Deployment (R-PLAT-02)
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
@@ -118,105 +74,20 @@ spec:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
      annotations:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
+        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: radarr
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:5.21.1
        ports:
        - containerPort: 7878
-        env:
-        - name: PUID
-          value: '1000'
-        - name: PGID
-          value: '3000'
-        - name: TZ
-          value: Etc/UTC
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
-          mountPath: /config
-        - name: media
-          mountPath: /media
-      - name: oauth2-proxy
-        image: quay.io/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy:v7.8.1
-        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-        args:
-        - --http-address=0.0.0.0:4180
-        - --reverse-proxy=true
-        - --provider=oidc
-        - --oidc-issuer-url=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab
-        - --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:7878
-        - --email-domain=*
-        - --scope=openid email profile
-        - --oidc-groups-claim=groups
-        - --allowed-group=media-users
-        - --allowed-group=platform-admins
-        - --skip-provider-button=true
-        - --redirect-url=https://radarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}/oauth2/callback
-        - --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_radarr
-        - --cookie-domain=radarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --whitelist-domain=.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --cookie-secure=true
-        - --cookie-refresh=2m30s
-        - --pass-access-token=true
-        - --set-xauthrequest=true
-        - --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180
-        env:
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: radarr-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-id
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: radarr-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-secret
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: radarr-oauth2-proxy
-              key: cookie-secret
-        ports:
-        - name: http
-          containerPort: 4180
-          protocol: TCP
-        - name: metrics
-          containerPort: 44180
-          protocol: TCP
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            cpu: 25m
-            memory: 64Mi
-          limits:
-            memory: 128Mi
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-            - ALL
-        livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-        readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-      securityContext:
-        fsGroup: 3000
+          mountPath: /data/config
      volumes:
      - name: config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: radarr-config
-      - name: media
-        persistentVolumeClaim:
-          claimName: radarr-media
 ---
 # Service
 apiVersion: v1
@@ -233,9 +104,6 @@ spec:
  - name: port-7878
    port: 7878
    targetPort: 7878
-  - name: authproxy
-    port: 4180
-    targetPort: 4180
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy egress allow (R-NET-02): radarr-allow-qbittorrent-8080
 apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
@@ -320,7 +188,7 @@ spec:
    - ingress
    toPorts:
    - ports:
-      - port: '4180'
+      - port: '7878'
        protocol: TCP
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): radarr-allow-internet-egress
@@ -338,10 +206,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute radarr-7878 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -353,15 +217,14 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: radarr
  annotations:
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
+    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
 spec:
  parentRefs:
  - name: shared
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - radarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - radarr.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -369,7 +232,27 @@ spec:
        value: /
    backendRefs:
    - name: radarr
-      port: 4180
+      port: 7878
+---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: radarr
+  namespace: radarr
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: radarr
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: radarr
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - radarr
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
 ---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
@@ -385,11 +268,11 @@ spec:
  - name: radarr.slis
    rules:
    - alert: radarr-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="radarr", deployment="radarr"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="radarr", deployment="radarr"})
+      expr: up{job="radarr"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: radarr
      annotations:
        summary: radarr is down
-        description: 'radarr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'radarr has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -5,15 +5,6 @@
 #   credential from its own namespace (a Pod cannot read a Secret in another namespace).
 # access-key-encryption: FIXED base64 32-byte AES key Semaphore uses to encrypt stored SSH keys /
 #   credentials; MUST stay stable across restarts or stored secrets become undecryptable.
-# oidc-client-secret: the Keycloak `semaphore` CONFIDENTIAL client secret, and ONLY that. It MIRRORS
-#   `semaphore-client-secret` in platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-clients.sops.yaml (the realm import
-#   injects that copy into the client), same cross-namespace mirror pattern as db-password above.
-#   It replaced the former `oidc-providers-json` key (2026-09-07): that key held the WHOLE
-#   SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS blob, which buried the environment-specific realm-issuer and redirect
-#   URLs inside ciphertext where Flux's ${BASE_DOMAIN} postBuild substitution could not reach them,
-#   so prod ran with dev's URLs. Those URLs are PUBLIC and now live in plaintext in
-#   catalog/semaphore.yaml (rendered to apps/wave-1/semaphore.yaml); the kubelet splices THIS value
-#   back into the blob via $(SEMAPHORE_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET). Only the secret half is encrypted.
 # Recover: infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run sops -d apps/semaphore-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: Secret
@@ -24,11 +15,11 @@ metadata:
        app.kubernetes.io/name: semaphore
 type: Opaque
 stringData:
-    admin-username: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:ju3wVdjNzRUP/w==,iv:d/5ZxgQZ5bympu3gT2ck3DJy9iUPPBAtZYsJvD3To7I=,tag:0UtBaDVqNSK4RCJrQicchw==,type:str]
-    admin-password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:pxIwpgh3BoND2TI0mPTixOTJoictzT77dqtuRdMKgY/2WaW4wM1Ra6H6n/dxnyR2,iv:eYbFQGFYVJsnYGwn6cOI3BgAdzMcin9YggAhiuL+xqM=,tag:/sPWGv4gue0vjc2nMk7wWA==,type:str]
-    db-password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:hBFpWXdpk1R5a23Pntup03t56NBRPS+SZU8CrHVb/ypIaIpgf7kjYtVy6nhTF6u0,iv:eBzoQgH5ZhWWpfKZ6AQmwaSal5QaiuN9gfexQ7GsVFs=,tag:j2k8EwhKDlj/Ud6O39ioVQ==,type:str]
-    access-key-encryption: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:SKtAV4HxJ9pNYDqUK/1uOdI1rtMji3pTfprI2rhQxFQyhc6dFlhqI+OUEcY=,iv:rKCP+FLidcOltOwmMMcO5M8tz4qiifIMI+W5soGO2M8=,tag:HaHzkX/JI+9wmcg2SD9GAQ==,type:str]
-    oidc-client-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:uCo7TNzbM2QKw9ie+xzyUG9MFKco1OAlwr5qPn/AGpNvo1YyXSfbZyyM0CLJ1NS821hGg5Zr/m3R/xpy84s3FQ==,iv:O8a4haskufpmorPaxOkJ1Q99Y5GTlzmDFJAsHS+irLk=,tag:VojJpA9jNMbNQmIe1Qr44w==,type:str]
+    admin-username: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:uD/vO9A9MjerFg==,iv:i/NAqVD6rWg9oWWSGBrRkxzwcPp2IW1HLIKY0pdcPPg=,tag:r27tKLAJ+ydE7Ty3ccMNUw==,type:str]
+    admin-password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:544nWY1UmBnlsdPJAQZJMXRumu4W9X7UXZvZ6vHN/ArjRgLXKTArOe5JkT/nNrNw,iv:AC1DDbZj2HfpU19EjzA7T+WpIaR4nZc3PNN61y8bAzU=,tag:r28LFi5w6ZeCCaRaX2jRdg==,type:str]
+    db-password: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:ySkdvaGRCW9fMQqChs5l8dY4zCG19i4HOEinRC48mgLuh9WOrjd16T6jwFgiwB55,iv:+1gztJ22HbwgQJiolZMMWOcKIsxrBJpnruJdtxdooOU=,tag:8CfJGwyPTjDGyr0CvalXMQ==,type:str]
+    access-key-encryption: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:1YAMLo1nVkpJWZc+KBZ7B4ia+Y8P+xMyOhHMcEGGJOXd3o+WC5FqirLBVh4=,iv:j28ozeaDhGWDjoaxFOhn2t9YbYE7L3ah/Mfi+i2DWwY=,tag:czG9Wxc/7Nsuh1W5iATOww==,type:str]
+    oidc-providers-json: ENC[AES256_GCM,data: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,iv:jbfVdrrZ9fGiOxhQeoTJfFg1QwiOMkoQyaadiVfxX/w=,tag:JkepcRs34EuEgNb4buTTDQ==,type:str]
 sops:
    kms: []
    gcp_kms: []
@@ -38,14 +29,14 @@ sops:
        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
          enc: |
            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSAyTzF6NTBtcFVWK1Vtc0I2
-            VGdySHBsRGgvc1h0VzgvQ01xYVBJV3g2Q1NRCjJyZHVYZGtuamo1MFJHWlBwWkxt
-            cHA4VkY1TkRpN3M4UTdMOWZTbFVGemMKLS0tIGVNdDBrWVJveU56VjVBU2JWdHF4
-            RGtaYStXYUpONTZjZCtmM0NyZ3Rka1UKIQpmQai8dz+uRAsXxyeuGaRlRwsFqIPQ
-            9AfrZJcslYwlaK3ptm1oqaCdrlxcMar2nI7thSqzbLe+e1nzA2z7vQ==
+            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBuRDlqRFJ0dk14UHluSGRP
+            S1pESy9PWlpMakU0aTkzNVhqUGdtbWNEdTJjCm5RNG14azJHc28rdEJ4L0RzR0xO
+            MGRocGZ1V1JZTENWQkN3VGZzamp2eTgKLS0tIGt6QkNNaW5hdTBJVHY0SVo5d3JX
+            elp0SWxHcjg0RWF3aW9mWTJHZ0lhcUEKc0rU5VilAVDleCwqq4SOF+Y9sniu1Pka
+            w/MGDA9THSB0b+YgWRWiX/KiimFqp0ZFODOJ9cHVwFGY71+VadPwOg==
            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-09-07T07:01:50Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:Xutm1rQt57J4RILElD8FkNOsQT1HK5jZlPtqqLyZ/VqOoDwo+IS1wp7hROprlUvQC0bUXy79tRRIl5Q0CCOD+fvAGIdmade+vB7qXlYN6Q1441dGhuSTPvckso6FaB2ddRjKhKGLc/Z4bJoz9VaRNNxJNpWXIrENTg+I+QhNhlo=,iv:klJOrEQ6QN5dTGkQfGnbMbgCWsgWwZPb5YXDMeWeE34=,tag:fuJr4t3Tt3dT9u3/0SFo8Q==,type:str]
+    lastmodified: "2026-08-27T22:12:32Z"
+    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:nHftJTGnTr0O5h8yGXwgz3eflggXJfIXM3m8n3bzDJE/P4nvSpZzFeMb+sc2on+AL+t+SeKrIl8blzm33XsQ1lkaY85Zm+bc5cnED1g04BMDVmmK3brh/8w50Bp2wPEVzb4I01MDzhhyIbOYg7pFvZAH3/VuqvM1t6XmfF1NrOA=,iv:4KBa9PH/dfdGwLC16RenZIVB6BtSoGo6x3qt3h1R43I=,tag:KULiA1klP/RZMNigkloGDA==,type:str]
    pgp: []
    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
    version: 3.9.4
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ spec:
        - name: SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_NAME
          value: Semaphore Admin
        - name: SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_EMAIL
-          value: admin@${BASE_DOMAIN}
+          value: admin@home.keithjackson.dev
        - name: SEMAPHORE_ACCESS_KEY_ENCRYPTION
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
@@ -118,13 +118,11 @@ spec:
              key: access-key-encryption
        - name: SEMAPHORE_PORT
          value: :3000
-        - name: SEMAPHORE_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET
+        - name: SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: semaphore-bootstrap
-              key: oidc-client-secret
-        - name: SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS
-          value: '{"keycloak":{"display_name":"Keycloak","provider_url":"https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab","client_id":"semaphore","client_secret":"$(SEMAPHORE_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET)","redirect_url":"https://semaphore.${BASE_DOMAIN}/api/auth/oidc/keycloak/redirect","scopes":["openid","profile","email"],"username_claim":"preferred_username","email_claim":"email","name_claim":"name","order":1}}'
+              key: oidc-providers-json
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
          mountPath: /etc/semaphore
@@ -211,10 +209,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute semaphore-3000 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -227,14 +221,13 @@ metadata:
  annotations:
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: oidc
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: platform-admins
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
 spec:
  parentRefs:
  - name: shared
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - semaphore.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - semaphore.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -244,6 +237,26 @@ spec:
    - name: semaphore
      port: 3000
 ---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: semaphore
+  namespace: semaphore
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: semaphore
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: semaphore
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - semaphore
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
+---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
 kind: PrometheusRule
@@ -258,11 +271,11 @@ spec:
  - name: semaphore.slis
    rules:
    - alert: semaphore-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="semaphore", deployment="semaphore"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="semaphore", deployment="semaphore"})
+      expr: up{job="semaphore"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: semaphore
      annotations:
        summary: semaphore is down
-        description: 'semaphore: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'semaphore has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: Secret
-metadata:
-    name: sonarr-oauth2-proxy
-    namespace: sonarr
-type: Opaque
-stringData:
-    client-id: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:JMYoJymH,iv:CM9HF71QZCeETzrOtkeTUs+BLTp/gGSExulXUP8yS/M=,tag:l73RaFQolO7+wZBo8nYCvw==,type:str]
-    client-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:Fq271KdbtKWKWOe1Sun6+SLv/kSBsvAeFUhZIq6J2DNPGM4E8dgc2YANITcpezcJR07PAbSlUcS0L/qF6K+YhQ==,iv:/mVD1uOkweyO26RMV3qRQmLdyxXJR4I7p+OjYiiuSMU=,tag:9ZOKye5Sp2NHU2RXH1Y+wQ==,type:str]
-    cookie-secret: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:jMZZEi8fdh20BbPzCoVfwdS1g0/ma5n/QISU5A/gQCu/2Rkylt7mp798CUg=,iv:6IPqDNQyJHze2DUOQ93IwruWSge5nXjkVcQIOMfJSwY=,tag:cOKRcDKywV3PBOBrhoddRQ==,type:str]
-sops:
-    kms: []
-    gcp_kms: []
-    azure_kv: []
-    hc_vault: []
-    age:
-        - recipient: age175l8mdpdfu7hq0aml3exs3gykarwjmuvr23sq56s3wjejnyk44wsp4mfzg
-          enc: |
-            -----BEGIN AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-            YWdlLWVuY3J5cHRpb24ub3JnL3YxCi0+IFgyNTUxOSBoNU5NbnJnV0dKRnpIN2dw
-            QmhBRWI4aEpWajRHVkxZcGxCRk1hMDBjSlRVCm91b0U2N08vNi8rSEFaVlRJazFL
-            bllPcm9EMUgrQ3ZlUDlrdEZpZE8zNmMKLS0tIDU0ajdycXZrazlQb3RVRGQyY25h
-            R3RDajltcmFvQWdLYWQ2Mjh0VkplaWsKJprnLNJYzMd0yHbxjsD8P66Wu+sefmaV
-            nduEgVQY0t4EsYN6iKVDLMUAp+o3gXU8QuMuBnFZznrmBghfG+ZruQ==
-            -----END AGE ENCRYPTED FILE-----
-    lastmodified: "2026-08-31T13:42:49Z"
-    mac: ENC[AES256_GCM,data:ckVR9OyFvle0fLhBjHtJ6hH2St2CRJeu6abTCnqtxAfMDVXdbIkgHEesmN2kAgA7s3LkKJC2m7EFIpt3pO94VQNnZvC1KKD7qUSIfJN1DLVv78m8JbEQfVTJk/WgWy1ObxLriw5hDuMiEuOvKND+s6eqS5j6er4Q72lBsBpoEeY=,iv:uguThOQbR9Ks1qs1U0HO7EhUj1BT60fvM+3xVEC9hUU=,tag:m4P5nhlspCZyJRuOqffMog==,type:str]
-    pgp: []
-    encrypted_regex: ^(data|stringData)$
-    version: 3.9.4
@@ -35,33 +35,6 @@ spec:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 53
 ---
-# PersistentVolume sonarr-media - static external NFS (bulk tier)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolume
-metadata:
-  name: sonarr-media
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: sonarr
-spec:
-  capacity:
-    storage: 9Ti
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteMany
-  persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy: Retain
-  storageClassName: ''
-  mountOptions:
-  - nfsvers=4.1
-  - hard
-  - noatime
-  - timeo=600
-  - retrans=2
-  nfs:
-    server: ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    path: /mnt/Storage/plex
-  claimRef:
-    namespace: sonarr
-    name: sonarr-media
---
 # PVC sonarr-config (R-STATE)
 apiVersion: v1
 kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
@@ -78,23 +51,6 @@ spec:
    requests:
      storage: 5Gi
 ---
-# PVC sonarr-media (R-STATE)
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
-metadata:
-  name: sonarr-media
-  namespace: sonarr
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: sonarr
-spec:
-  accessModes:
-  - ReadWriteMany
-  storageClassName: ''
-  volumeName: sonarr-media
-  resources:
-    requests:
-      storage: 9Ti
---
 # Deployment (R-PLAT-02)
 apiVersion: apps/v1
 kind: Deployment
@@ -118,105 +74,20 @@ spec:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
      annotations:
        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
+        homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: sonarr
        image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:4.0.15
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8989
-        env:
-        - name: PUID
-          value: '1000'
-        - name: PGID
-          value: '3000'
-        - name: TZ
-          value: Etc/UTC
        volumeMounts:
        - name: config
-          mountPath: /config
-        - name: media
-          mountPath: /media
-      - name: oauth2-proxy
-        image: quay.io/oauth2-proxy/oauth2-proxy:v7.8.1
-        imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
-        args:
-        - --http-address=0.0.0.0:4180
-        - --reverse-proxy=true
-        - --provider=oidc
-        - --oidc-issuer-url=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab
-        - --upstream=http://127.0.0.1:8989
-        - --email-domain=*
-        - --scope=openid email profile
-        - --oidc-groups-claim=groups
-        - --allowed-group=media-users
-        - --allowed-group=platform-admins
-        - --skip-provider-button=true
-        - --redirect-url=https://sonarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}/oauth2/callback
-        - --cookie-name=_oauth2_proxy_sonarr
-        - --cookie-domain=sonarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --whitelist-domain=.${BASE_DOMAIN}
-        - --cookie-secure=true
-        - --cookie-refresh=2m30s
-        - --pass-access-token=true
-        - --set-xauthrequest=true
-        - --metrics-address=0.0.0.0:44180
-        env:
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_ID
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: sonarr-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-id
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_CLIENT_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: sonarr-oauth2-proxy
-              key: client-secret
-        - name: OAUTH2_PROXY_COOKIE_SECRET
-          valueFrom:
-            secretKeyRef:
-              name: sonarr-oauth2-proxy
-              key: cookie-secret
-        ports:
-        - name: http
-          containerPort: 4180
-          protocol: TCP
-        - name: metrics
-          containerPort: 44180
-          protocol: TCP
-        resources:
-          requests:
-            cpu: 25m
-            memory: 64Mi
-          limits:
-            memory: 128Mi
-        securityContext:
-          allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
-          readOnlyRootFilesystem: true
-          capabilities:
-            drop:
-            - ALL
-        livenessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-        readinessProbe:
-          httpGet:
-            path: /ping
-            port: http
-          initialDelaySeconds: 5
-          periodSeconds: 15
-      securityContext:
-        fsGroup: 3000
+          mountPath: /data/config
      volumes:
      - name: config
        persistentVolumeClaim:
          claimName: sonarr-config
-      - name: media
-        persistentVolumeClaim:
-          claimName: sonarr-media
 ---
 # Service
 apiVersion: v1
@@ -233,9 +104,6 @@ spec:
  - name: port-8989
    port: 8989
    targetPort: 8989
-  - name: authproxy
-    port: 4180
-    targetPort: 4180
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy egress allow (R-NET-02): sonarr-allow-qbittorrent-8080
 apiVersion: cilium.io/v2
@@ -320,7 +188,7 @@ spec:
    - ingress
    toPorts:
    - ports:
-      - port: '4180'
+      - port: '8989'
        protocol: TCP
 ---
 # CiliumNetworkPolicy world egress allow (egress class governs the path; R-NET-05): sonarr-allow-internet-egress
@@ -338,10 +206,6 @@ spec:
  egress:
  - toEntities:
    - world
-  - toEndpoints:
-    - matchLabels:
-        io.kubernetes.pod.namespace: keycloak
-        app: keycloak
 ---
 # HTTPRoute sonarr-8989 (R-TLS/R-DNS)
 apiVersion: gateway.networking.k8s.io/v1
@@ -353,15 +217,14 @@ metadata:
    app.kubernetes.io/name: sonarr
  annotations:
    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-mode: forward-auth
-    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users,platform-admins
-    external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/controller: none
+    homelab.keithjackson.dev/auth-groups: media-users
 spec:
  parentRefs:
  - name: shared
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - sonarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -369,7 +232,27 @@ spec:
        value: /
    backendRefs:
    - name: sonarr
-      port: 4180
+      port: 8989
+---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: sonarr
+  namespace: sonarr
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: sonarr
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: sonarr
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - sonarr
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
 ---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
@@ -385,11 +268,11 @@ spec:
  - name: sonarr.slis
    rules:
    - alert: sonarr-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="sonarr", deployment="sonarr"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="sonarr", deployment="sonarr"})
+      expr: up{job="sonarr"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: sonarr
      annotations:
        summary: sonarr is down
-        description: 'sonarr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'sonarr has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,245 +0,0 @@
-# promtool rule-unit tests for the wave-1 per-app `<app>-down` SLI rules.
-# Manifests under test: every PrometheusRule in apps/wave-1/ — nextcloud, radarr, semaphore, sonarr
-# (container/Deployment) and keycloak (StatefulSet, see below). Discovered by the SUITE convention;
-# the flattened manifests are the RENDERED ones Flux applies.
-#
-# Run with: platform/monitoring/tests/run.sh apps/wave-1/tests/app-slis.test.yaml
-#
-# See apps/wave-0/tests/app-slis.test.yaml for the full history: these rules all read
-# `up{job="<app>"} == 0` until 2026-09-13 against a job no scrape target produced, and were
-# structurally inert on prod. Each is now pinned QUIET on the healthy state, FIRING on no-ready-
-# replica, and FIRING when the signal is ABSENT.
-#
-# KEYCLOAK IS THE INTERESTING ONE. Its server is a StatefulSet run by the Keycloak operator, NOT the
-# Deployment this ServiceDefinition would otherwise imply — so its rule reads
-# kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready (catalog/keycloak.yaml declares
-# `observability.livenessWorkload: {kind: StatefulSet, name: keycloak}`). Had it been left to the
-# default, the `absent()` half would have matched forever and the alert would have been PERMANENTLY
-# FIRING, which is the other failure mode this repo has shipped to prod. Verified on prod
-# 2026-09-13: kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak"}
-# = 2, and the only Deployment in that namespace is keycloak-operator.
-rule_files:
-  - generated.rules.yaml
-
-evaluation_interval: 1m
-
-tests:
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 1. HEALTHY WAVE-1 -> every rule SILENT ("not permanently firing").
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-1 healthy - every app ready, keycloak StatefulSet at 2 replicas - all quiet
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak"}'
-        values: '2+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="nextcloud", deployment="nextcloud"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="radarr", deployment="radarr"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="semaphore", deployment="semaphore"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="sonarr", deployment="sonarr"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      # The namespace's OTHER workloads are present on purpose: keycloak-operator is a Deployment in
-      # the keycloak namespace, and keycloak-db is a StatefulSet in it. A rule that matched the
-      # namespace only (not the object) would be satisfied — or triggered — by these instead of by
-      # the IdP itself. That is the exact masking KeycloakDown had to be fixed for.
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="keycloak", deployment="keycloak-operator"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak-db"}'
-        values: '3+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: keycloak-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: nextcloud-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: radarr-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: semaphore-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: sonarr-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 2. THE IdP ITSELF IS DOWN while its operator and DB are fine -> ONLY keycloak-down fires.
-  #    This is the anti-masking assertion: the neighbours in that namespace stay ready.
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-1 keycloak StatefulSet has no ready replica (operator + DB fine) - keycloak-down fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="keycloak", deployment="keycloak-operator"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak-db"}'
-        values: '3+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="nextcloud", deployment="nextcloud"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="radarr", deployment="radarr"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="semaphore", deployment="semaphore"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="sonarr", deployment="sonarr"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: keycloak-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: keycloak
-              namespace: keycloak
-              statefulset: keycloak
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "keycloak is down"
-              description: "keycloak: its StatefulSet has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: nextcloud-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: radarr-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: semaphore-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: sonarr-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 3. EACH DEPLOYMENT-BACKED APP DOWN -> its own rule fires, keycloak stays quiet.
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-1 nextcloud/radarr/semaphore/sonarr have no available replica - each own rule fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak", statefulset="keycloak"}'
-        values: '2+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="nextcloud", deployment="nextcloud"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="radarr", deployment="radarr"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="semaphore", deployment="semaphore"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="sonarr", deployment="sonarr"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: nextcloud-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: nextcloud
-              namespace: nextcloud
-              deployment: nextcloud
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "nextcloud is down"
-              description: "nextcloud: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: radarr-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: radarr
-              namespace: radarr
-              deployment: radarr
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "radarr is down"
-              description: "radarr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: semaphore-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: semaphore
-              namespace: semaphore
-              deployment: semaphore
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "semaphore is down"
-              description: "semaphore: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: sonarr-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: sonarr
-              namespace: sonarr
-              deployment: sonarr
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "sonarr is down"
-              description: "sonarr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: keycloak-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  # 4. THE SIGNAL VANISHES -> the rules FIRE. The defect class itself, asserted on: a rule that can
-  #    only fire on `== 0` goes SILENT when kube-state-metrics or the workload object disappears,
-  #    which is indistinguishable from healthy. Here NOTHING in wave-1 is scraped.
-  # ===========================================================================================
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-1 all liveness series ABSENT (kube-state-metrics gone) - every rule fires
-    input_series:
-      # One unrelated series so the test has an input at all; no wave-1 liveness series exists.
-      - series: 'up{job="kube-state-metrics"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: keycloak-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: keycloak
-              namespace: keycloak
-              statefulset: keycloak
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "keycloak is down"
-              description: "keycloak: its StatefulSet has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: nextcloud-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: nextcloud
-              namespace: nextcloud
-              deployment: nextcloud
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "nextcloud is down"
-              description: "nextcloud: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: radarr-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: radarr
-              namespace: radarr
-              deployment: radarr
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "radarr is down"
-              description: "radarr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: semaphore-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: semaphore
-              namespace: semaphore
-              deployment: semaphore
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "semaphore is down"
-              description: "semaphore: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: sonarr-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: sonarr
-              namespace: sonarr
-              deployment: sonarr
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "sonarr is down"
-              description: "sonarr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ spec:
    namespace: gateway
    sectionName: https
  hostnames:
-  - seerr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - seerr.home.keithjackson.dev
  rules:
  - matches:
    - path:
@@ -233,6 +233,26 @@ spec:
    - name: seerr
      port: 5055
 ---
+# ServiceMonitor (R-OBS-01)
+apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
+kind: ServiceMonitor
+metadata:
+  name: seerr
+  namespace: seerr
+  labels:
+    release: kube-prometheus-stack
+    app.kubernetes.io/name: seerr
+spec:
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app.kubernetes.io/name: seerr
+  namespaceSelector:
+    matchNames:
+    - seerr
+  endpoints:
+  - port: metrics
+    interval: 30s
+---
 # PrometheusRule SLI alerts (R-OBS-01)
 apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
 kind: PrometheusRule
@@ -247,11 +267,11 @@ spec:
  - name: seerr.slis
    rules:
    - alert: seerr-down
-      expr: kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="seerr", deployment="seerr"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="seerr", deployment="seerr"})
+      expr: up{job="seerr"} == 0
      for: 5m
      labels:
        severity: critical
        service: seerr
      annotations:
        summary: seerr is down
-        description: 'seerr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available).'
+        description: 'seerr has been unreachable for 5m (SLI: up).'
@@ -1,69 +0,0 @@
-# promtool rule-unit tests for the wave-2 per-app `<app>-down` SLI rule (seerr).
-# Manifest under test: apps/wave-2/seerr.yaml. Discovered by the SUITE convention; the flattened
-# manifest is the RENDERED one Flux applies.
-#
-# Run with: platform/monitoring/tests/run.sh apps/wave-2/tests/app-slis.test.yaml
-#
-# seerr (Jellyseerr/Overseerr) exports NO Prometheus metrics of its own, so its `up` SLI could never
-# have been met by scraping the app — see apps/wave-0/tests/app-slis.test.yaml for the full history
-# of the inert `up{job="seerr"} == 0` rule this replaces. Pinned in both directions plus the
-# signal-vanishes case.
-rule_files:
-  - generated.rules.yaml
-
-evaluation_interval: 1m
-
-tests:
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-2 healthy - seerr has an available replica - quiet
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="seerr", deployment="seerr"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: seerr-down
-        exp_alerts: []
-
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-2 seerr has no available replica - seerr-down fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="seerr", deployment="seerr"}'
-        values: '0+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: seerr-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: seerr
-              namespace: seerr
-              deployment: seerr
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "seerr is down"
-              description: "seerr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
-    # Under `for: 5m` a 2m-old condition must NOT yet be a firing alert, but the expression must
-    # already be selecting — the distinction an inert rule cannot make.
-    promql_expr_test:
-      - expr: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="seerr", deployment="seerr"} == 0 or absent(kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{namespace="seerr", deployment="seerr"})'
-        eval_time: 2m
-        exp_samples:
-          - labels: 'kube_deployment_status_replicas_available{deployment="seerr", namespace="seerr"}'
-            value: 0
-
-  - interval: 1m
-    name: wave-2 seerr liveness series ABSENT - seerr-down still fires
-    input_series:
-      - series: 'up{job="kube-state-metrics"}'
-        values: '1+0x20'
-    alert_rule_test:
-      - eval_time: 10m
-        alertname: seerr-down
-        exp_alerts:
-          - exp_labels:
-              severity: critical
-              service: seerr
-              namespace: seerr
-              deployment: seerr
-            exp_annotations:
-              summary: "seerr is down"
-              description: "seerr: its Deployment has no available/ready replica for 5m, or the signal is gone entirely (SLI: up, via kube_deployment_status_replicas_available)."
@@ -11,76 +11,16 @@ Spec: [ADR-0004 (Flux)](../../../home-network-k3s/decisions/adr-0004-gitops-flux
 ## Files
 | File | Purpose |
 |---|---|
-| `bootstrap.sh` | **The single bootstrap entrypoint** the Infra worker's final Ansible play calls. render+apply the Flux controllers (`components/`) → verify `sops-age` Secret → `kubectl apply -k clusters/dev`. |
-| `components/kustomization.yaml` | **Customization of the Flux CONTROLLERS themselves.** Overlays `flux install --export` output; currently enables `StrictPostBuildSubstitutions` on kustomize-controller. See "Customizing the controllers" below. |
+| `bootstrap.sh` | **The single bootstrap entrypoint** the Infra worker's final Ansible play calls. `flux install` → verify `sops-age` Secret → `kubectl apply -k clusters/dev`. |
 | `patches/platform-sops-decryption.yaml` | Strategic-merge patch enabling `decryption.provider: sops` + `secretRef: sops-age` on the `platform` Kustomization (realises the base TODO). |
-| `patches/apps-sops-decryption.yaml` | Same, for the app-wave Kustomizations. There is **no single `apps` Kustomization** any more — the apps tier is now `apps-wave-0/1/2` + `apps-vms`, and SOPS decryption is layered on **per wave** (each wave Kustomization is patched by name in `clusters/dev`). |
+| `patches/apps-sops-decryption.yaml` | Same, for the `apps` Kustomization. |
 | `patches/flux-system-source-url.yaml` | Overrides the `flux-system` GitRepository `url` placeholder with the real bootstrap source (template — fill at bootstrap). |

-## Customizing the controllers (`components/`) — and how it reaches a RUNNING cluster
-
-Because this repo does not use `flux bootstrap`, the Flux controller Deployments are **not in git
-and not reconciled by Flux**. Verified on the live dev cluster (2026-09-01):
-
-```
-$ kubectl -n flux-system get deploy kustomize-controller -o jsonpath='{.metadata.labels}'
-{"app.kubernetes.io/component":"kustomize-controller","app.kubernetes.io/instance":"flux-system",
- "app.kubernetes.io/part-of":"flux","app.kubernetes.io/version":"v2.4.0","control-plane":"controller"}
-# no kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name label; deployment.kubernetes.io/revision: 1
-```
-
-No `kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/*` label => no Flux Kustomization owns it. **Nothing under
-`clusters/**` can change a controller flag.** So `bootstrap.sh` step 1 uses the mechanism Flux
-documents for hand-installed clusters ([Customize Flux
-manifests](https://fluxcd.io/flux/installation/#customize-flux-manifests)):
-
-```
-flux install --export …  ->  <tmp>/gotk-components.yaml     # regenerated from the pinned flux CLI
-components/kustomization.yaml -> <tmp>/kustomization.yaml   # the only hand-authored part (in git)
-kubectl kustomize <tmp> | kubectl apply -f -
-```
-
-Nothing is vendored into the repo, so the component manifests can never drift from `FLUX_VERSION`
-(`infra/devcontainer/versions.env`). Every future controller flag (vertical scaling, tolerations,
-more feature gates) is another entry in `components/kustomization.yaml`.
-
-### Rolling this out to the ALREADY-RUNNING dev cluster (operator/PM step — NOT automatic)
-
-> **A `git push` does not deliver this.** Merging the change reconciles `clusters/**` only; the
-> controller Deployment is outside Flux's inventory. Someone must run step 1.
-
-Re-running `bootstrap.sh` is safe and idempotent, but if you want only step 1:
-
-```bash
-# inside infra/devcontainer (pinned flux 2.4.0 / kubectl 1.36.4), from the repo root
-d=$(mktemp -d)
-flux install --export --namespace=flux-system \
-  --components-extra=image-reflector-controller,image-automation-controller > "$d/gotk-components.yaml"
-cp bootstrap/flux/components/kustomization.yaml "$d/kustomization.yaml"
-kubectl kustomize "$d" | kubectl apply -f -      # add --server-side --force-conflicts on a field-manager conflict
-kubectl -n flux-system rollout status deploy/kustomize-controller
-```
-
-**Expect kustomize-controller to restart** (new arg => new pod template => new ReplicaSet). Any
-reconcile in flight is interrupted and retried by the new pod; Flux is level-triggered, so nothing
-is lost. Confirm afterwards:
-
-```bash
-kubectl -n flux-system get deploy kustomize-controller \
-  -o jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[0].args}'   # must contain --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true
-flux get kustomizations -A                                  # all 11 must return to Ready
-```
-
-**Rollback** is the same command with `FLUX_INSTALL_PLAIN=1 bash bootstrap/flux/bootstrap.sh`, or
-simply `flux install --namespace=flux-system --components-extra=…` (drops the arg back off).
-
 ## Why `flux install` + apply, not `flux bootstrap git` (Phase 1)

 The reconciliation graph is **already authored** in `clusters/base` (read-only to this worker):
-`flux-system.yaml` is the `flux-system` **GitRepository**; `platform.yaml`, `platform-config.yaml`
-and the app-wave Kustomizations (`apps-wave-0/1/2.yaml` + `apps-vms.yaml` — the single `apps.yaml`
-was retired) are the Flux **Kustomizations**; `clusters/dev` is the overlay that patches
-`cluster-vars` (R-ENV-02) and layers SOPS decryption onto each Kustomization by name.
+`flux-system.yaml` is the `flux-system` **GitRepository**; `platform.yaml`/`apps.yaml` are the Flux
+**Kustomizations**; `clusters/dev` is the overlay that patches `cluster-vars` (R-ENV-02).

 `flux bootstrap git` **generates and owns its own** `gotk-sync` GitRepository + Kustomization named
 `flux-system` and commits them into the repo — which would **duplicate/conflict** with the authored
@@ -101,9 +41,8 @@ tofu apply → cloud-init → Ansible (k3s + Cilium)          [Infra worker, T-1
 3. bootstrap/flux/bootstrap.sh           # flux install → verify sops-age → apply -k clusters/dev
        │
        ▼
-Flux reconciles: GitRepository(flux-system) → Kustomization(platform) → Kustomization(platform-config)
-→ Kustomization(apps-wave-0 → apps-wave-1 → apps-wave-2) + Kustomization(apps-vms),
-with per-Kustomization SOPS decryption enabled (patches/) and cluster-vars overlay (R-ENV-02).
+Flux reconciles: GitRepository(flux-system) → Kustomization(platform) → Kustomization(apps),
+with SOPS decryption enabled (patches/) and cluster-vars overlay (R-ENV-02).
 ```

 ## Interface note — for the Infra worker (T-1.3 Ansible)
@@ -133,8 +72,7 @@ patches:
  - path: ../../bootstrap/flux/patches/apps-sops-decryption.yaml      # SOPS on apps
 ```

-Alternatively the base TODOs in `clusters/base/platform.yaml` and each app-wave Kustomization
-(`apps-wave-0/1/2.yaml`, `apps-vms.yaml`) and the `url` in
+Alternatively the base TODOs in `clusters/base/{platform,apps}.yaml` and the `url` in
 `clusters/base/flux-system.yaml` can be filled in directly (same effect) — the clusters owner's call.
 Either way the `sops-age` `secretRef` name and `flux-system` source name are kept in lockstep with
 the authored base.
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
-# bootstrap.sh — the SINGLE Flux + SOPS bootstrap entrypoint. ENVIRONMENT-AGNOSTIC: which overlay
-# it applies is FLUX_ENV_PATH (default clusters/dev). roles/flux_bootstrap exports that from
-# `flux_bootstrap_env_path`, overridden to clusters/prod in group_vars/k3s_prod/vars.yml — so the
-# same script bootstraps dev and prod with no fork (R-ENV-02).
+# bootstrap.sh — the SINGLE Flux + SOPS bootstrap entrypoint for the dev cluster.
 #
 # Phase 1, T-1.4 · ADR-0004 (Flux) · ADR-0007 (SOPS+age) · R-GITOPS-01 · R-SEC-01.
 # =============================================================================
@@ -28,19 +25,16 @@
 #                         We do NOT use `flux bootstrap git` in Phase 1 because that command commits
 #                         and OWNS its own gotk-sync GitRepository+Kustomization named `flux-system`.
 #                         Our entrypoints are ALREADY authored in clusters/base (flux-system.yaml =
-#                         the GitRepository; platform.yaml + platform-config.yaml + the app-wave
-#                         Kustomizations apps-wave-0/1/2.yaml + apps-vms.yaml = the Kustomizations;
-#                         the single apps.yaml was retired). Letting
+#                         the GitRepository; platform.yaml/apps.yaml = the Kustomizations). Letting
 #                         bootstrap regenerate them would DUPLICATE/conflict. `flux install` +
 #                         applying the authored clusters/dev overlay is the reconciling path.
 #   2. sops-age Secret  — the operator installs the age PRIVATE key out-of-band BEFORE reconcile so
 #                         decryption works on first pass (../sops/age-key-secret.md). This script
 #                         only VERIFIES it exists; it never handles key material.
-#   3. `kubectl apply -k ${FLUX_ENV_PATH}` — materialises the authored reconciliation graph:
+#   3. `kubectl apply -k clusters/dev` — materialises the authored reconciliation graph:
 #                         GitRepository `flux-system` (source) -> Kustomization `platform` ->
-#                         `platform-config` -> the app-wave Kustomizations `apps-wave-0/1/2`
-#                         (chained dependsOn) + `apps-vms`, with cluster-vars overlay
-#                         (R-ENV-02) and per-Kustomization SOPS decryption enabled via ./patches/.
+#                         Kustomization `apps` (dependsOn platform), with cluster-vars overlay
+#                         (R-ENV-02) and SOPS decryption enabled via the patches in ./patches/.
 #
 # PREREQUISITES the operator/PM resolves before this runs (see ../README.md "Handoff"):
 #   - clusters/base/flux-system.yaml url placeholder is overridden — wire ./patches/flux-system-
@@ -55,10 +49,7 @@
 set -euo pipefail

 # --- config (env-overridable) ------------------------------------------------
-# Which environment overlay to apply. Dev is the DEFAULT (it was the only Phase-1 build target);
-# prod passes clusters/prod via roles/flux_bootstrap. Changing the default would silently retarget
-# every existing caller — override it, never edit it.
-FLUX_ENV_PATH="${FLUX_ENV_PATH:-clusters/dev}"
+FLUX_ENV_PATH="${FLUX_ENV_PATH:-clusters/dev}"     # dev is the ONLY Phase-1 build target
 FLUX_NAMESPACE="${FLUX_NAMESPACE:-flux-system}"
 SOPS_SECRET_NAME="${SOPS_SECRET_NAME:-sops-age}"
 # The two Phase-4 image-automation controllers are installed alongside the default set so their CRDs
@@ -68,66 +59,23 @@ FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA="${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA:-image-reflector-controller,image
 script_dir="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 repo_root="$(git -C "${script_dir}" rev-parse --show-toplevel 2>/dev/null || (cd "${script_dir}/../.." && pwd))"

-echo "==> Flux + SOPS bootstrap — path=${FLUX_ENV_PATH}"
+echo "==> Flux + SOPS bootstrap (dev) — path=${FLUX_ENV_PATH}"

 # --- 0. tooling present (from infra/devcontainer; versions pinned there) ------
 for bin in flux kubectl; do
  command -v "$bin" >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "ERROR: '$bin' not found (use infra/devcontainer)." >&2; exit 1; }
 done

-# --- 1. install Flux controllers (rendered through ./components) --------------
+# --- 1. install Flux controllers ---------------------------------------------
 # Default controllers + the image-reflector/image-automation pair (Phase-4 hands-off updates,
 # ADR-0009). `--components-extra` regenerates flux-system with all controllers and registers the
 # image.toolkit.fluxcd.io CRDs before any reconcile — so platform/image-automation's CR applies cleanly.
-#
-# We do NOT run `flux install` directly any more. The controllers need CUSTOMIZING (currently:
-# --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true on kustomize-controller, so an undefined
-# postBuild variable FAILS the Kustomization instead of silently rendering an empty string — see
-# ./components/kustomization.yaml and the 2026-09-01 INCIDENT entry in DECISIONS-LOG.md).
-#
-# `flux install` has no flag for that, and because this repo does not use `flux bootstrap` the
-# controllers are not in git for a Flux Kustomization to patch. So we use the mechanism Flux
-# documents for hand-installed clusters ("Customize Flux manifests"):
-#
-#     flux install --export  >  gotk-components.yaml     # exact manifests `flux install` would apply
-#     kustomize overlay      =  ./components/kustomization.yaml (checked in — the ONLY hand-authored part)
-#     kubectl apply -k
-#
-# The export is regenerated from the PINNED flux CLI on every run (FLUX_VERSION,
-# infra/devcontainer/versions.env), so nothing is vendored and nothing can drift. The render dir is
-# a temp dir — the repo tree is never written to.
-#
-# ESCAPE HATCH: FLUX_INSTALL_PLAIN=1 falls back to a bare `flux install` (no customization, so NO
-# strict substitution). Use only to unblock a bring-up if the render path misbehaves, and say so.
-echo "==> [1/3] installing Flux controllers${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA:+ (+ extra: ${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA})}"
-flux_install_args=(--namespace="${FLUX_NAMESPACE}")
-[ -n "${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA}" ] && flux_install_args+=(--components-extra="${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA}")
-
-if [ "${FLUX_INSTALL_PLAIN:-0}" = "1" ]; then
-  echo "    WARNING: FLUX_INSTALL_PLAIN=1 — controller customization SKIPPED."
-  echo "             StrictPostBuildSubstitutions will NOT be enabled; substitution fails OPEN."
-  flux install "${flux_install_args[@]}"
+if [ -n "${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA}" ]; then
+  echo "==> [1/3] flux install (default controllers + extra: ${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA})"
+  flux install --namespace="${FLUX_NAMESPACE}" --components-extra="${FLUX_COMPONENTS_EXTRA}"
 else
-  components_dir="${script_dir}/components"
-  [ -f "${components_dir}/kustomization.yaml" ] || {
-    echo "ERROR: ${components_dir}/kustomization.yaml missing — refusing to install uncustomized." >&2
-    echo "       (Override with FLUX_INSTALL_PLAIN=1 only if you accept fail-OPEN substitution.)" >&2
-    exit 1
-  }
-  render_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
-  trap 'rm -rf "${render_dir}"' EXIT
-  echo "    rendering flux install --export through ${components_dir}"
-  flux install --export "${flux_install_args[@]}" > "${render_dir}/gotk-components.yaml"
-  cp "${components_dir}/kustomization.yaml" "${render_dir}/kustomization.yaml"
-  # Fail fast if the overlay cannot build (e.g. a patch target that no longer exists after a Flux
-  # version bump) — better a hard stop than silently installing without the feature gate.
-  kubectl kustomize "${render_dir}" > "${render_dir}/rendered.yaml"
-  grep -q -- '--feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true' "${render_dir}/rendered.yaml" || {
-    echo "ERROR: the StrictPostBuildSubstitutions patch did not apply to the rendered manifests." >&2
-    echo "       Check ./components/kustomization.yaml against this flux CLI version." >&2
-    exit 1
-  }
-  kubectl apply -f "${render_dir}/rendered.yaml"
+  echo "==> [1/3] flux install (default controllers only)"
+  flux install --namespace="${FLUX_NAMESPACE}"
 fi

 # --- 2. verify the out-of-band age key Secret exists -------------------------
@@ -140,7 +88,7 @@ if ! kubectl -n "${FLUX_NAMESPACE}" get secret "${SOPS_SECRET_NAME}" >/dev/null
  exit 1
 fi

-# --- 3. apply the authored environment entrypoint ----------------------------
+# --- 3. apply the authored dev entrypoint ------------------------------------
 echo "==> [3/3] kubectl apply -k ${FLUX_ENV_PATH}"
 kubectl apply -k "${repo_root}/${FLUX_ENV_PATH}"

@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
---
-# Controller-level customization of the Flux CONTROLLERS themselves (the `flux-system` Deployments).
-#
-# WHY THIS DIRECTORY EXISTS
-# =========================
-# This repo does NOT use `flux bootstrap` (see ../README.md "Why `flux install` + apply"): the
-# reconciliation graph is authored by hand in clusters/base, and the controllers are installed
-# imperatively by `flux install`. Consequence, verified on the live dev cluster 2026-09-01:
-#
-#     kubectl -n flux-system get deploy kustomize-controller -o jsonpath='{.metadata.labels}'
-#     -> NO kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name label, deployment.kubernetes.io/revision: 1
-#
-# i.e. **the controllers are not managed by Flux and are not in git.** There was therefore no
-# existing mechanism to customize them, and no amount of editing under clusters/** can reach them.
-#
-# This is the mechanism Flux documents for exactly that situation ("Customize Flux manifests" —
-# https://fluxcd.io/flux/installation/#customize-flux-manifests): export the component manifests
-# with `flux install --export`, overlay them with kustomize `patches:`, and apply the result.
-# `../bootstrap.sh` step 1 does that render — it copies THIS file next to a freshly exported
-# `gotk-components.yaml` in a temp dir and runs `kubectl apply -k`. Nothing is generated into the
-# repo, so the manifests can never drift from the pinned FLUX_VERSION
-# (infra/devcontainer/versions.env) the way a vendored copy would.
-#
-# Every future controller customization (vertical scaling, tolerations, extra feature gates,
-# --concurrent) belongs HERE, as another entry under `patches:`.
-apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
-kind: Kustomization
-resources:
-  # Written by `bootstrap.sh` from `flux install --export ...` at render time. NOT checked in.
-  - gotk-components.yaml
-patches:
-  # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  # StrictPostBuildSubstitutions — make postBuild substitution FAIL CLOSED.
-  #
-  # Default behaviour is fail-OPEN: a `${VAR}` that is not defined in `cluster-vars` renders as the
-  # EMPTY STRING, silently. On 2026-09-01 that shipped `k8sServiceHost: ""` into the Cilium
-  # HelmRelease and put 2 of 3 agents into Init:Error (DECISIONS-LOG, INCIDENT entry). With this
-  # gate the undefined variable FAILS the Kustomization instead, and Flux keeps the last-good state.
-  #
-  # PROVEN SAFE before enabling: every one of the 11 substituted paths was rendered with
-  # `kubectl kustomize --load-restrictor LoadRestrictionsNone <path> | flux envsubst --strict` and
-  # exited 0, with a negative control reproducing the incident. The permanent guard that keeps it
-  # true is the L0 gate conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-substitution/.
-  #
-  # NOTE the gate does NOT catch default-providing forms (`${VAR:-d}`, `${VAR:?msg}`, `${VAR:=v}`) —
-  # Flux exempts them by design. That class is what the L0 gate covers; the two are complementary.
-  #
-  # This also pre-pays for the Flux 2.4.0 -> 2.9.x upgrade: strict substitution became DEFAULT-ON in
-  # kustomize-controller v1.9.0, so the upgrade flips this behaviour whether or not we opt in.
-  #
-  # JSON-6902 `add ... /args/-` (append), NOT a strategic merge: a container's `args` is an atomic
-  # list, so a strategic-merge patch would REPLACE every arg `flux install` generates
-  # (--events-addr, --watch-all-namespaces, --log-level, --log-encoding, --enable-leader-election)
-  # and silently drop any the CLI adds in a future version.
-  - target:
-      group: apps
-      version: v1
-      kind: Deployment
-      name: kustomize-controller
-      namespace: flux-system
-    patch: |-
-      - op: add
-        path: /spec/template/spec/containers/0/args/-
-        value: --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true
@@ -1,30 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # bootstrap/gitea/bootstrap-gitea.sh — run a SINGLE Gitea container on the HOST (outside the
-# cluster) as the GitOps bootstrap source. While a cluster is built, Flux (in-cluster) reconciles
-# this repo from the host Gitea. This is the "local bootstrap source" that migrates to in-cluster
-# Gitea at cutover (docs/05 "Source-of-truth", CONTRIBUTING.md). Dev has already cut over; PROD is
-# using it now.
+# cluster) as the Phase-1 GitOps bootstrap source. While the cluster is built, Flux (in-cluster)
+# reconciles this repo from the host Gitea over the k3s-dev NAT gateway. This is the "local
+# bootstrap source" that migrates to in-cluster Gitea in Phase 6 (docs/05 "Source-of-truth",
+# CONTRIBUTING.md).
 #
-# HOW THE CLUSTER REACHES THE HOST — read this before setting HOST_NAT_IP.
-# It is an ADDRESS OF THIS HOST as seen from the cluster nodes, and it differs per environment:
-#
-#   PROD (bare metal, current use):  HOST_NAT_IP=192.168.2.132
-#       The prod nodes (192.168.2.10/.11/.12) and this workstation are on the SAME LAN. There is
-#       NO NAT hop of any kind, and NO firewall change was needed — verified 2026-09-04 from all
-#       three nodes. The firewalld note further down is a DEV-ERA libvirt concern; it does not
-#       apply to prod, so do not "fix" prod by opening zones.
-#
-#   DEV (libvirt VMs, HISTORICAL):   HOST_NAT_IP=10.73.0.1 was the k3s-dev libvirt NAT gateway.
-#       *** THAT NETWORK IS RETIRED. 10.73.0.1 is stale and must not be reused. *** Dev's own
-#       bootstrap Gitea was later reached on 192.168.2.103:3000 and is retained STOPPED as
-#       recovery (see the comment on the GitRepository patch in clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml).
-#
-# WHO RUNS THIS: the OPERATOR, or an agent the operator has EXPLICITLY DIRECTED to stand up a
-# bootstrap source for a specific bring-up (as happened 2026-09-04 for prod). It is NOT part of
-# author-only work and must never be fired off casually or "to see if it works": it starts a
-# long-lived container, generates and writes admin credentials to $HOME, creates an org and repo,
-# and PUSHES THE CURRENT HEAD to that repo's `main` — which is the revision a cluster pointed at
-# it will then reconcile. Know which HEAD you are publishing before you run it.
+# Run by the OPERATOR at bring-up — NOT during author-only, NOT by any agent.
 set -euo pipefail
 ENGINE="${ENGINE:-podman}"
 GITEA_IMAGE="${GITEA_IMAGE:-docker.io/gitea/gitea:1.22}"   # pinned; bump if needed
@@ -35,24 +16,11 @@ SSH_PORT="${GITEA_SSH_PORT:-2222}"
 # subuid that can't write a host-owned dir, so Gitea fails to create /data/gitea/conf/app.ini.
 DATA_VOLUME="${GITEA_DATA_VOLUME:-gitea-bootstrap-data}"
 DATA_DIR="podman volume ${DATA_VOLUME}"   # display label only (data lives in the named volume)
-# The address the CLUSTER uses to reach this host (see the header). ROOT_URL must match it so
+# The cluster VMs reach the host on the k3s-dev NAT gateway (10.73.0.1). ROOT_URL must match so
 # clone/redirect URLs are correct from inside the cluster.
-#
-# The DEFAULT IS DELIBERATELY UNSET — there is no correct default any more. The old default
-# (10.73.0.1) was the retired k3s-dev libvirt NAT gateway; leaving it in place would silently
-# publish a ROOT_URL no cluster can resolve, and Flux would report what looks like a network fault.
-# Pass it explicitly, e.g. for prod:   HOST_NAT_IP=192.168.2.132 bash bootstrap-gitea.sh
-#
-# NOTE (DEV/libvirt ONLY, historical): firewalld's `libvirt` zone (owns virbrN) blocked
-# VM->host:3000 by default and had to be opened once with
+# NOTE: firewalld's `libvirt` zone (owns virbrN) blocks VM->host:3000 by default. Open it once:
 #   sudo firewall-cmd --zone=libvirt --add-port=3000/tcp --permanent && sudo firewall-cmd --reload
-# PROD needs NO firewall change: same-LAN, no libvirt zone involved (verified 2026-09-04).
-if [ -z "${HOST_NAT_IP:-}" ]; then
-  echo "ERROR: HOST_NAT_IP is not set — it is this host's address AS SEEN FROM THE CLUSTER." >&2
-  echo "       prod: HOST_NAT_IP=192.168.2.132   (same LAN as the nodes, no NAT, no firewall change)" >&2
-  echo "       There is no safe default: the old one (10.73.0.1) is the RETIRED libvirt NAT." >&2
-  exit 1
-fi
+HOST_NAT_IP="${HOST_NAT_IP:-10.73.0.1}"
 ORG="${GITEA_ORG:-Home-Network}"
 REPO="${GITEA_REPO:-home-network-k3s-impl}"

@@ -107,17 +75,8 @@ cat <<EOF

 Gitea bootstrap source ready (${DATA_DIR}).
  UI (host):                     ${BASE}/${ORG}/${REPO}
-  Flux GitRepository (cluster):  http://${HOST_NAT_IP}:${HTTP_PORT}/${ORG}/${REPO}.git
-                                 (patch this url into the overlay being bootstrapped:
-                                  clusters/prod today; clusters/dev has already cut over)
+  Flux GitRepository (cluster):  http://${HOST_NAT_IP}:${HTTP_PORT}/${ORG}/${REPO}.git   (clusters/dev)
  Admin creds (host, 0600):      ${ADMIN_CRED_FILE}
-Reachability: prod nodes reach ${HOST_NAT_IP}:${HTTP_PORT} directly on the LAN — no NAT, no
-firewall change (verified 2026-09-04). For libvirt-based clusters ONLY, firewalld's libvirt zone
-must allow VM->host:${HTTP_PORT} —
+Prerequisite: firewalld must allow VM->host:${HTTP_PORT} —
  ansible-playbook infra/ansible/playbooks/host-prereqs.yml --ask-become-pass
-REMINDER: the push above published the CURRENT HEAD as this repo's \`main\`. Whatever cluster points
-at this source will reconcile THAT revision.
-TEMPORARY BY DESIGN: this container is outside every cluster and is a single point of failure for
-any cluster reconciling from it. Cut over to in-cluster Gitea (docs/05); for prod the cutover
-procedure is written on the GitRepository patch in clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml.
 EOF
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ policy, egress, TLS, DNS, monitoring, and update policy from it (see
 [`docs/13-service-catalog.md`](../../home-network-k3s/docs/13-service-catalog.md) (14-service table +
 SSO/egress/dependency intent).

-## Current examples
+## Current examples (Phase 0)
 | File | docs/13 row | exposure | egress | auth | Notes |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | `pihole.yaml` | 6 | internal | internet | forward-auth | admin UI behind oauth2-proxy; config on Longhorn (DR-critical); also platform DNS |
@@ -28,16 +28,6 @@ inherit every guarantee automatically.
  `auth.groups`; `native`/`none` are documented exceptions only.
 - Irreplaceable state (`class: longhorn` configs/DBs) must set `backup.policy` to an off-cluster
  schedule — never `reacquirable` (R-STATE-03). Only bulk media may be `reacquirable`.
- **Shell braces must be escaped `$${...}`.** Anything rendered verbatim onto the workload — a
-  `lifecycle` postStart script, an `env` value — lands under `apps/wave-<N>/`, and every
-  `apps-wave-<N>` Flux Kustomization declares `postBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars`. Flux runs
-  envsubst over the WHOLE manifest at reconcile time, so an unescaped `${VAR:-}` meant for the
-  *shell* is replaced with the empty string before the container ever starts (this silently killed
-  gitea's and nextcloud's OIDC registration for days). Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` are left alone and
-  need no escaping; a genuine environment knob is declared in `clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml` and
-  written bare `${KNOB}`. Full contract: [`../clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml`](../clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml).
-  `render.py` REFUSES to emit a manifest that breaks this rule (Flux's *strict* substitution mode
-  cannot: it deliberately exempts the `${V:-}` / `${V:=x}` / `${V:?}` default-operator forms).

 ## Validate before commit — single command, no cluster (R-TEST-02)
 ```bash
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ env:
        name: gitea-bootstrap
        key: secret-key
  - name: GITEA__server__DOMAIN              # correct public clone/redirect URLs for the TLS-terminated host
-    value: gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+    value: gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
  - name: GITEA__server__ROOT_URL
-    value: https://gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}/
+    value: https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/
  - name: GITEA__actions__ENABLED            # Phase 6 CI/CD: declared (not implicit upstream default) so the
    value: "true"                            # in-cluster act_runner (ns gitea-actions) registers against it
  - name: GITEA__actions__DEFAULT_ACTIONS_URL  # resolve `uses: <org>/<action>@ref` from github.com (cluster
@@ -104,24 +104,12 @@ lifecycle:
          # persisted and retries the whole cycle, and (4) on give-up logs LOUDLY to stderr AND a marker
          # file on the persistent /data volume WITHOUT crashlooping the pod (break-glass admin stays
          # usable). The verify-then-retry loop is the real guarantee against "exit 0 but nothing stuck".
-          GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration
+          GITEA_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration
          gitea_oidc_fail() {
            echo "[gitea-oidc] FAILED to register 'keycloak' login source: $1" >&2
            { echo "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [gitea-oidc] FAILED: $1"; } >> /data/gitea-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true
          }
-          # NOTE the `$$` escape below — it is load-bearing. apps-wave-0 declares postBuild.
-          # substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux envsubst rewrites this whole manifest at RECONCILE
-          # time, before any container runs. Written unescaped, `$${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}` is not
-          # a cluster-var, so envsubst blanked it and the guard reconciled as `[ -z "" ]` — ALWAYS TRUE
-          # — making every line below (discovery wait, add/update-oauth, verify-then-retry) DEAD CODE on
-          # every boot since 8738871 (2026-08-27). SSO kept working only because the login source was
-          # already in the DB; a PVC rebuild or fresh cluster would have come up with NO OIDC at all.
-          # Flux STRICT substitution cannot catch this — it EXEMPTS default-operator forms by design.
-          # `$${VAR}` is the escape: envsubst emits it back as a plain brace expansion for the shell.
-          # Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` are left alone and need NO escaping — which is why the
-          # `$GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET` uses below always worked and only the guards broke.
-          # Contract: clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. Enforced at render time by catalog/render.py.
-          if [ -z "$${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then
+          if [ -z "${GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then
            echo "[gitea-oidc] GITEA_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET unset; skipping OIDC source (break-glass admin only)"
          else
            # (1) Wait up to ~90s for the Keycloak discovery doc to be reachable (HTTP 200).
@@ -162,13 +150,7 @@ lifecycle:
              gitea_oidc_fail "add/update-oauth ran but the 'keycloak' source did not persist after retries"
            fi
          fi
-          # A postStart hook MUST exit 0 — a non-zero exit makes the kubelet KILL the container
-          # (FailedPostStartHook -> CrashLoopBackOff). This hook already ends 0 on both paths, but
-          # it is made EXPLICIT so the guarantee does not depend on whatever statement happens to
-          # be last. nextcloud's equivalent hook did depend on that and crashlooped on 2026-09-01,
-          # the moment its OIDC guard was fixed and the block actually ran for the first time.
-          exit 0
-exposure: public                # edge-forwarded git host at gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN} (docs/09; R-DNS/R-NET)
+exposure: public                # edge-forwarded git host at gitea.home.keithjackson.dev (docs/09; R-DNS/R-NET)
 egress: internet                # normal WAN egress (docs/03; R-NET-05)
 storage:
  - name: data
@@ -178,36 +160,8 @@ storage:
                                # the default /data/<name> would strand real state on the ephemeral rootfs (R-STATE-01)
 dependencies: []                # default-deny: reaches only DNS; git clients reach it north-south via the Gateway (R-NET-01/02)
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: gitea.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 3000                  # Gitea HTTP web/API; TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08, docs/09)
-# THIS IS WHAT KEEPS PROD'S GITOPS OUT OF A DEADLOCK — it is not an incidental allowance. Remove it
-# and prod cannot reconcile AT ALL, in a way that is very hard to diagnose from cold.
-#
-# Prod's Flux source is THIS SERVICE, not a public hostname:
-#   clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml -> GitRepository.spec.url =
-#   http://gitea.gitea.svc.cluster.local:3000/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl.git
-# chosen deliberately so prod's GitOps depends on NEITHER public DNS, Cloudflare, prod's own
-# Gateway, NOR ${BASE_DOMAIN} — a future domain change cannot sever prod from its own source. That
-# file documents the other half of this pair at length; the two must be read together.
-#
-# The only other ingress this entry renders is gitea-allow-gateway-ingress, which admits
-# `fromEntities: [ingress]` — the shared Gateway's Envoy proxy — and nothing else. Flux's
-# source-controller dials the ClusterIP DIRECTLY, so under the namespace default-deny (R-NET-01) its
-# clone was DROPPED (`wget` from source-controller timed out; srcReady=False, "unable to list
-# remote"). The deadlock that made this urgent: the HTTPRoute that would have served the new public
-# name after the 2026-09-13 apex flip lives in a DOWNSTREAM tier, which cannot apply while the
-# source is down — source down -> routes never rename -> source stays down. It was broken on
-# 2026-09-13 with a live `kubectl apply` of a hand-written gitea-allow-flux-ingress, i.e. with a
-# cluster object that existed OUTSIDE git. This declaration renders that object, so one
-# `kubectl delete` or one cluster rebuild can no longer put prod back in the deadlock.
-inClusterClients:
-  # `name` is pinned to `flux` (rather than defaulting to the namespace) so the rendered policy name
-  # equals the live object's, `gitea-allow-flux-ingress`, and Flux ADOPTS it in place: no
-  # near-duplicate policy beside it, and no window in which prod's own source has no allow.
-  - name: flux
-    namespace: flux-system      # matched by NAMESPACE alone — the flux controllers' pod labels belong
-                                # to upstream's manifests, not to this platform's contract
-    port: 3000                  # ONLY the Gitea HTTP port — the same single port the Gateway allow opens
 auth:
  mode: oidc                    # native Keycloak OIDC client (docs/13 SSO row, docs/15 "Native OIDC" set; R-IDP-02)
  groups:
@@ -17,40 +17,20 @@ name: jackett
 kind: container
 source:
  image: lscr.io/linuxserver/jackett:latest
-exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at jackett.${BASE_DOMAIN} (docs/13 row 4; R-DNS/R-NET)
+exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at jackett.home.keithjackson.dev (docs/13 row 4; R-DNS/R-NET)
 egress: vpn                     # indexer scraping via node PIA tunnel + kill-switch (docs/03; ADR-0015; R-NET-05/06)
 storage:
  - name: config
    size: 2Gi
    class: longhorn             # indexer definitions/API keys on 3-replica Longhorn (docs/04; R-STATE-02)
-    mountPath: /config          # THE APP WRITES /config, NOT the renderer default /data/config.
-                                # LSIO images run with `-data=/config` (Jackett/qBittorrent likewise use
-                                # /config), so without this the Longhorn PVC mounted at /data/config sat
-                                # holding nothing but lost+found while the app wrote its entire
-                                # configuration to the container's EPHEMERAL writable layer — destroyed on
-                                # every pod recreation: restart, reschedule, image bump. Measured in-cluster
-                                # 2026-09-12: /data/config was dev=2080 with [lost+found], /config was
-                                # dev=2053 on the node's own disk with [Sentry asp config.xml logs].
-                                # This is the SAME failure catalog/plex.yaml:54 already records fixing.
-                                # The live /config contents were copied onto each PVC before this landed,
-                                # so API keys and credentials other apps reference were preserved.
 dependencies: []                # default-deny: reaches only DNS; arr reach it north of its own egress (docs/03; R-NET-01/02)
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: jackett.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: jackett.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 9117                  # Jackett WebUI; protected at the Gateway by forward-auth (docs/09, docs/15)
 auth:
  mode: forward-auth            # oauth2-proxy -> Keycloak; bare UI, no usable native OIDC (docs/15; R-IDP-02)
  groups:
    - media-users               # authenticated AND in an authorized group (R-IDP-06)
-    # platform-admins is a SUPERSET, not a widening. --allowed-group is repeatable and OR-ed, so
-    # listing both means "media consumers OR platform operators". Without it the media UIs are
-    # reachable by NOBODY the moment media-users is empty: on prod the realm's only user is the
-    # operator, who is in platform-admins only, so jackett/qbittorrent/radarr/sonarr answered an
-    # immediate 403 at the oauth2-proxy callback (no login prompt, because the Keycloak SSO session
-    # already existed) while pihole/crafty — which already gate on platform-admins — worked.
-    # This grants no real privilege: platform-admins already maps to cluster-admin via
-    # k8s-oidc-rbac.yaml (oidc:platform-admins), so a member can already exec into these pods.
-    - platform-admins           # operators of these services must not be locked out of them
 update:
  channel: stable               # R-UPD-01
  range: ">=0.22.0"             # stay on the Jackett 0.22.x stable line
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies:
    port: 5432
    protocol: tcp
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 8080                # HTTP listener; TLS terminates at the Gateway (docs/08, docs/09)
 auth:
  mode: native                # it IS the IdP; own admin login is local + MFA (docs/15; ADR-0014). Documented exception.
@@ -31,15 +31,5 @@ observability:
  metrics: true
  slis:
    - up                      # IdP down/unhealthy is a critical alert (docs/10; R-OBS-01)
-  # WHAT "up" IS for Keycloak. The Keycloak OPERATOR runs the server as a StatefulSet named
-  # `keycloak` (pods keycloak-0/1), not as the Deployment this ServiceDefinition would otherwise
-  # imply — the operator owns the workload (platform/keycloak/keycloak-instance.yaml) and this SD
-  # is the catalog's declaration of intent for it. Without this override the rendered SLI would
-  # read a Deployment series that does not exist and its `absent()` half would fire FOREVER.
-  # Verified on prod 2026-09-13: kube_statefulset_status_replicas_ready{namespace="keycloak",
-  # statefulset="keycloak"} = 2, and the only Deployment in that namespace is keycloak-operator.
-  livenessWorkload:
-    kind: StatefulSet
-    name: keycloak
 backup:
  policy: daily-offcluster    # DR-critical: rebuilds from DB + git realm config (docs/15, docs/04; R-STATE-03)
@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ env:
  #     the vhost answer for the public FQDN; OVERWRITE* make Nextcloud emit https:// self-URLs even
  #     though it speaks plain HTTP behind the proxy. ---
  - name: NEXTCLOUD_TRUSTED_DOMAINS
-    value: nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+    value: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
  - name: OVERWRITEHOST
-    value: nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+    value: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
  - name: OVERWRITEPROTOCOL
    value: https
  - name: OVERWRITECLIURL
-    value: https://nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+    value: https://nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
  # --- Keycloak native OIDC SSO (auth.mode oidc; docs/15 "Native OIDC"; R-IDP-02/06). The confidential
  #     `nextcloud` realm client's secret is mirrored into this namespace's nextcloud-bootstrap Secret
  #     (oidc-client-secret; same value SOPS-held in keycloak-realm-clients). The postStart hook reads it
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ lifecycle:
          # provider call below carries a MULTI-WORD value (--scope 'openid email profile') and is run as
          # ONE su -c with the scope single-quoted, so the inner shell keeps it a single argument.
          OCC() { su -s /bin/sh www-data -c "php /var/www/html/occ $*"; }
-          NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration
+          NEXTCLOUD_DISCOVERY_URL=https://keycloak.home.keithjackson.dev/realms/homelab/.well-known/openid-configuration
          nextcloud_oidc_fail() {
            echo "[nextcloud-oidc] FAILED to configure 'keycloak' provider: $1" >&2
            { echo "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ) [nextcloud-oidc] FAILED: $1"; } >> /var/www/html/nextcloud-oidc-bootstrap.log 2>/dev/null || true
@@ -111,19 +111,7 @@ lifecycle:
          # every start so it survives pod rolls / PVC rebuilds. Confirmed root cause 2026-08-27.
          OCC config:system:set allow_local_remote_servers --value=true --type=boolean >/dev/null 2>&1 \
            || echo "[nextcloud-oidc] WARN: failed to set allow_local_remote_servers" >&2
-          # NOTE the `$$` escape below — it is load-bearing. apps-wave-1 declares postBuild.
-          # substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux envsubst rewrites this whole manifest at RECONCILE
-          # time, before any container runs. Written unescaped, `$${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}` is
-          # not a cluster-var, so envsubst blanked it and the guard reconciled as `[ -z "" ]` — ALWAYS
-          # TRUE — so this hook `exit 0`d here on EVERY boot since 8738871 (2026-08-27), never
-          # installing/enabling user_oidc nor registering the provider. SSO kept working only because
-          # the provider was already in the DB; a PVC rebuild or fresh cluster would have come up with
-          # NO OIDC at all. Flux STRICT substitution cannot catch this — it EXEMPTS default-operator
-          # forms by design. `$${VAR}` is the escape: envsubst emits it back as a plain brace expansion
-          # for the shell. Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)` are left alone and need NO escaping — which is why
-          # `--clientsecret-env` and the bare uses below always worked and only the guard broke.
-          # Contract: clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml. Enforced at render time by catalog/render.py.
-          if [ -z "$${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then
+          if [ -z "${NEXTCLOUD_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:-}" ]; then
            echo "[nextcloud-oidc] client secret unset; skipping OIDC (break-glass admin only)"
            exit 0
          fi
@@ -203,17 +191,7 @@ lifecycle:
            [ "$missing" = 0 ] && break
            p=$((p + 1)); sleep 2
          done
-          if [ "$p" -ge 15 ]; then
-            nextcloud_oidc_fail "could not promote all $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP members into 'admin' after retries"
-          fi
-          # A postStart hook MUST exit 0. A non-zero exit makes the kubelet KILL the container
-          # (FailedPostStartHook -> CrashLoopBackOff), which is exactly what happened on 2026-09-01:
-          # the final statement used to be `[ "$p" -ge 15 ] && nextcloud_oidc_fail ...`, so on the
-          # SUCCESS path the test returned 1 and became the script's exit status. That was latent for
-          # as long as the OIDC guard above was dead code and exited 0 first; fixing the guard
-          # exposed it immediately. Every failure path here logs loudly and writes a marker file and
-          # deliberately does NOT crash the pod — the break-glass local admin must stay usable.
-          exit 0
+          [ "$p" -ge 15 ] && nextcloud_oidc_fail "could not promote all $ADMIN_SRC_GROUP members into 'admin' after retries"
 exposure: public                # edge port-forward + public DNS (docs/09; R-DNS/R-NET)
 egress: internet                # normal WAN egress (docs/03; R-NET-05) — app store, integrity checks
 storage:
@@ -223,50 +201,12 @@ storage:
    mountPath: /var/www/html    # 3-replica tier; irreplaceable, DR-critical (docs/04; R-STATE-02).
                                # The whole html dir is persisted so config.php + user data survive a
                                # rebuild (the default /data/<name> would strand them on ephemeral rootfs).
-  # THE LEGACY NEXTCLOUD DATASET (Storage/nextcloud, 270 G) — MOUNTED READ-ONLY, DELIBERATELY, AND
-  # NOT AS THIS INSTANCE'S DATA DIRECTORY. Read this before changing either decision.
-  #
-  # WHAT IS ACTUALLY IN THERE (measured 2026-09-07, not assumed):
-  #     /mnt/Storage/nextcloud/nextcloud/config          103 M
-  #     /mnt/Storage/nextcloud/nextcloud/config_old      3.4 G
-  #     /mnt/Storage/nextcloud/nextcloud/config_backup   267 G   <- 99% of the dataset
-  # There is NO `data/` directory. This is the OLD, non-k3s Nextcloud's configuration plus a backup
-  # blob — an ARCHIVE, not a live user-data tree.
-  #
-  # WHY READ-ONLY. Two independent reasons, either sufficient:
-  #   1. The old instance is STILL LIVE on it. The export is currently shared rw to 192.168.1.6 and
-  #      192.168.1.5, and the operator has said the existing non-k3s prod must remain active. Two
-  #      Nextcloud instances writing one instance's config directory, each with its own database and
-  #      therefore its own oc_filecache, is a corruption scenario with no clean recovery.
-  #   2. Nothing here needs writing. An archive is read.
-  # "Do not grant more than needed" therefore lands on `ro`. If the operator's intent is in fact a
-  # MIGRATION (read this data in, then decommission the old instance), that is a different and
-  # larger change than a mount, and it should be a deliberate one — flip `readOnly` and update the
-  # export at that point, not before. Enforced by the PV's nfs.readOnly, so it is a real `ro` mount.
-  #
-  # WHY NOT /var/www/html/data. That path is the LONGHORN PVC above and is this instance's own
-  # state; mounting a foreign tree into it would have Nextcloud scan and index an archive it does
-  # not own. A neutral path keeps the two completely separate. To expose it to users, add it as a
-  # Nextcloud External Storage (Local) mount pointing at this path — an in-app, per-user decision.
-  #
-  # subPath skips the redundant single-child directory: the dataset root holds exactly one entry,
-  # `nextcloud/`, so mounting that subtree puts config/ config_old/ config_backup/ at the top.
-  #
-  # UID: nothing to do. The tree is 0755 owned 1000:3000 and the mount is read-only, so www-data
-  # (uid 33) can read and traverse it. (fsGroup would be a no-op on an NFS volume in any case.)
-  - name: legacy-archive
-    class: bulk
-    export: /mnt/Storage/nextcloud   # the ZFS dataset Storage/nextcloud, on ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    subPath: nextcloud
-    mountPath: /mnt/legacy-nextcloud
-    readOnly: true
-    size: 270Gi                      # ADVISORY ONLY on a static NFS PV — the dataset's used size.
 dependencies:
  - to: nextcloud-db            # explicit allow: Nextcloud -> its PostgreSQL (docs/13 graph; R-NET-02).
    port: 5432                  # Renders the egress half; the DB namespace mirrors keycloak-db (no
    protocol: tcp               # default-deny), so Cilium's default-allow accepts the reciprocal ingress.
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: nextcloud.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: nextcloud.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 80                    # apache HTTP; wildcard TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08/09)
 auth:
  mode: oidc                    # native Keycloak OIDC client (docs/13 SSO row, docs/15 "Native OIDC"; R-IDP-02)
@@ -13,95 +13,8 @@ storage:
    size: 2Gi
    class: longhorn           # replicated config state; DR-critical (docs/04 line 118; R-STATE-02/03)
 dependencies: []              # default-deny: reaches only DNS; it PROVIDES DNS (docs/03; R-NET-01/02)
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# LAN SPLIT-HORIZON DNS — the half of R-DNS-03 that platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml defers to.
-# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# coredns-custom answers the ${BASE_DOMAIN} zone for PODS ONLY and says so in its own header ("LAN
-# clients keep their own answers (PiHole split-horizon)"). Until now PiHole served no DNS at all —
-# its Service was ClusterIP :80/:4180, no port 53, no LoadBalancer — so the LAN half did not exist
-# and LAN clients depended on hand-maintained per-client dnsmasq files. One went stale after the dev
-# decommission and cost the operator sonarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}. Upstream cannot cover for it either: the
-# SOHO router that owns this LAN strips RFC1918 answers for public domains as rebind protection and
-# returns NOERROR / ANSWER 0. apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml exposes udp/53 + tcp/53 on
-# ${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP}; these env vars are what make the ANSWERS declarative.
-#
-# WHY env AND NOT A RECONCILER: the repo's level-triggered CronJob reconcilers
-# (platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml, the CNPG grant reconciler in
-# apps/wave-0/nextcloud-db.yaml) exist because their state has NO declarative entry point — a
-# Keycloak client secret lives in Keycloak's own database and a Postgres GRANT lives in the
-# catalog, and nothing in a manifest can express either. PiHole v6 is not that case. Every FTL
-# setting has an `FTLCONF_<section>_<key>` environment variable, and a value supplied that way is
-# ENV-FORCED: FTL logs it as "forced through environment", applies it on every start ahead of
-# /etc/pihole/pihole.toml, and marks it read-only in the admin UI so a human cannot drift it. That
-# is strictly better than a reconciler — it is enforced at t=0 on a cold start rather than at the
-# next cron tick, it cannot be defeated by the UI, and it carries no extra RBAC, image or Job. A
-# CronJob here would be ceremony around a knob the app already exposes. (Verified on the live prod
-# image, PiHole Core v6.4.3 / FTL v6.7, 2026-09-14.)
-#
-# THE PVC IS NOT THE MECHANISM AND MUST NOT BE. The `config` volume below mounts at /data/config;
-# PiHole's actual state directory is /etc/pihole, which is EPHEMERAL in this Deployment. Anything
-# configured through the UI is lost on the next reschedule — which is exactly what happened to the
-# upstream servers: the live pod's pihole.toml carried a hand-set `upstreams` marked "### CHANGED"
-# that no manifest declared, so a restart would have left PiHole with upstreams = [] and no
-# recursion at all. Declaring upstreams here closes that too: PiHole must stay a usable GENERAL
-# resolver, not only authoritative for this zone, or pointing LAN clients at it breaks the internet.
-env:
-  # Default is LOCAL, which answers only clients on the same subnet as the listening interface. The
-  # pod's interface is on the CLUSTER pod CIDR, so every LAN client would be refused. ALL is
-  # required for a LoadBalancer-fronted resolver; what keeps PiHole from being an OPEN resolver is
-  # the exposure, not this setting — `loadBalancerSourceRanges: [${LAN_CIDR}]` on the DNS Services,
-  # enforced by Cilium in the datapath before load-balancing, plus a CiliumNetworkPolicy that admits
-  # nothing but udp/53 and tcp/53. See apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml.
-  - name: FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode
-    value: "ALL"
-  # Recursion for everything that is NOT this zone. Public resolvers on purpose, NOT the SOHO
-  # router at the LAN gateway: that router is the box whose rebind protection strips RFC1918
-  # answers, and forwarding to a device that may forward back here invites a loop.
-  - name: FTLCONF_dns_upstreams
-    value: "8.8.8.8;8.8.4.4"
-  # Per-client query rate limit OFF (default: 1000 queries per 60s, then REFUSED). It has to be off
-  # because of how the DNS Services are exposed: apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml uses
-  # externalTrafficPolicy Cluster — it must, or LAN resolution breaks whenever Cilium's L2
-  # announcement lease and the pihole pod land on different nodes, which is most of the time — and
-  # Cilium runs in SNAT mode here, so a query forwarded between nodes reaches PiHole carrying the
-  # INGRESS NODE's address instead of the client's. Every LAN device therefore counts against ONE
-  # apparent client's budget, and a normal evening of browsing from a handful of machines would trip
-  # a limit meant to catch one misbehaving host. Leaving it at the default turns the whole LAN's DNS
-  # off for 60 seconds at a time, intermittently, which is the worst possible failure shape. The
-  # limit becomes meaningful again — and should be restored — if Cilium is ever switched to
-  # `loadBalancer.mode: dsr`, which preserves the client address.
-  - name: FTLCONF_dns_rateLimit_count
-    value: "0"
-  # THE SPLIT-HORIZON ANSWERS. A dnsmasq `address=/<domain>/<ip>` entry answers that domain AND
-  # every subdomain of it, and dnsmasq resolves overlapping entries by LONGEST MATCHING DOMAIN —
-  # so the first line is a wildcard for the whole zone and each later line is a specific override.
-  # PRECEDENCE IS THEREFORE STRUCTURAL, not order-dependent: `unifi.${BASE_DOMAIN}` matches both
-  # line 1 and line 2, line 2 is the longer domain, line 2 wins. Rewriting these in any order
-  # changes nothing.
-  #
-  # A NEWLY ONBOARDED SERVICE NEEDS NO CHANGE HERE. Every catalog ingressRoute host is
-  # `<label>.${BASE_DOMAIN}` served by the shared Gateway, so the wildcard already answers it with
-  # ${GATEWAY_VIP} — the same guarantee, and the same reasoning, as the `template IN A` block in
-  # platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml. Add a line here ONLY for a service that does not live
-  # behind the Gateway: an L4 LoadBalancer on its own pinned VIP. Those are enumerated from the
-  # repo, not from memory — grep `external-dns.alpha.kubernetes.io/hostname` on a Service, which
-  # is the annotation that means "this Service publishes its own hostname at its own address":
-  # apps/vms/unifi/50-service-l4.yaml (unifi -> ${UNIFI_L4_VIP}) and
-  # platform/crafty/service-l4.yaml (crafty-mc -> ${CRAFTY_L4_VIP}). Those two, plus PiHole's own
-  # resolver address, are the complete set of exceptions today.
-  #
-  # AAAA needs nothing: dnsmasq answers a AAAA query for an `address=`d name with NODATA
-  # (NOERROR, no answer), so IPv6-capable clients fall back to the A record instead of getting
-  # NXDOMAIN — the same behaviour coredns-custom hand-writes a `template IN AAAA` block for.
-  #
-  # Array-valued FTLCONF variables are SEMICOLON-separated. A JSON-looking list is accepted and
-  # then silently wrong: FTL stores `["a","b"]` as ONE array element containing those literal
-  # characters, writes that single bogus line into /etc/pihole/dnsmasq.conf and reports "0 invalid"
-  # while resolution for the zone does not work. Confirmed both ways against the live image.
-  - name: FTLCONF_misc_dnsmasq_lines
-    value: "address=/${BASE_DOMAIN}/${GATEWAY_VIP};address=/unifi.${BASE_DOMAIN}/${UNIFI_L4_VIP};address=/crafty-mc.${BASE_DOMAIN}/${CRAFTY_L4_VIP};address=/pihole-dns.${BASE_DOMAIN}/${PIHOLE_DNS_VIP}"
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: pihole.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: pihole.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 80                  # admin web UI, protected at the Gateway by forward-auth (docs/09)
 auth:
  mode: forward-auth          # oauth2-proxy -> Keycloak; bare UI, no native OIDC (docs/15; R-IDP-02)
@@ -4,11 +4,21 @@
 # auth: native (Plex accounts, NOT Keycloak — docs/13 + docs/15 documented exception).
 # Validates against schemas/servicedefinition.schema.json.
 #
-# BULK MEDIA — NOW ATTACHED (docs/04 bulk tier; the long-standing OQ-2 prerequisite, resolved for
-# the STATIC case). The library is 8.33 T of ZFS on the Proxmox host at /mnt/Storage/plex, and it
-# already exists: nothing is provisioned, an existing dataset is mounted. See
-# docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md for the layout, the export change and the uid analysis. (The bulk-tier
-# requirement ID is deliberately still not typed here — see that document's "gate" note.)
+# BULK MEDIA (spec bulk-tier requirement, docs/04) — OPEN PREREQUISITE, intentionally NOT declared
+# here yet (the requirement ID is cited in the WS-APPS report, not as a token here: this change does
+# NOT exercise the bulk tier, so it must not be selected as a "touched" requirement whose in-cluster
+# conformance test is still a Phase-1 gap).
+#   The Plex library belongs on the `bulk` tier (docs/04 / docs/13 cross-cutting note: metadata DB
+#   on replicated Longhorn, large library on bulk). The `bulk` StorageClass exists
+#   (platform/longhorn/storageclasses.yaml) and the schema+renderer both support `class: bulk`, but
+#   that class is a documented STUB: OQ-2 (external NFS/SMB backing) is UNRESOLVED and the NFS CSI
+#   driver is not installed, so a `bulk` PVC will not bind and would leave the Plex pod Pending.
+#   To onboard the running Plex shell now (compute + config + public exposure), the media volume is
+#   omitted. Once OQ-2 is resolved and `bulk` provisions, attach the library with a one-line add:
+#     storage:
+#       - name: media
+#         class: bulk        # external mount; size omitted (sized outside the cluster)
+#   then re-render. See the WS-APPS report for the full bulk-media finding.
 name: plex
 kind: container
 source:
@@ -32,46 +42,11 @@ env:
  # (10.43.0.0/16); 192.168.0.0/16 covers the home LAN.
  - name: ALLOWED_NETWORKS
    value: 10.0.0.0/8,192.168.0.0/16
-  # PLEX_CLAIM — the ONE-SHOT plex.tv server claim, sourced from the SOPS Secret `plex-claim`
-  # (apps/wave-0/plex-claim-secret.sops.yaml, same wave => applied in the same reconcile as this
-  # workload). Plex cannot create libraries over the mounted bulk share while the server is
-  # UNCLAIMED, so this is wired; it was previously left out on the reasoning below, and only one
-  # half of that reasoning survived contact with the upstream source.
-  #
-  # A SHORT TTL IS THE OPERATIONAL CONSTRAINT, not a reason to abstain. A https://plex.tv/claim token
-  # expires in MINUTES — read the countdown the claim page renders; do not budget against a number
-  # written in this tree. (This comment previously asserted "~4 minutes" as established fact. It was
-  # UNCITED, upstream plexinc/pms-docker documents no expiry at all, and that number was load-bearing
-  # for the whole procedure design — including a since-disproven claim that the delivery pipeline was
-  # too slow to fit inside it. Measured 2026-09-29: the full loop is ~2m45s and fits.)
-  #
-  # The live token is injected by the operator inside that window, with an explicit `flux reconcile`
-  # to collapse the wait. Scripted end to end as infra/plex/claim-ship.sh; runbooks/plex-claim.md is
-  # the procedure. SERVER CLAIMED 2026-09-29 — this env is now a permanent no-op (see below), and the
-  # committed value is the spent token from that claim rather than the original placeholder.
-  #
-  # ONE-SHOT, AND SAFE TO SIT HERE EXPIRED. Verified from plexinc/pms-docker's own first-run script
-  # (branch `master`, root/etc/cont-init.d/40-plex-first-run, confirmed byte-identical to the file in
-  # the running `:latest` image), NOT assumed:
-  #   - the exchange (line 106) is guarded on TWO conditions: PLEX_CLAIM non-empty AND the
-  #     PlexOnlineToken pref in /config empty. Once claimed, the block is SKIPPED — this env is a
-  #     no-op on every subsequent start, whatever it holds. (Upstream README: "If server is already
-  #     logged in, this parameter is ignored.") The claim itself persists on the /config PVC as before.
-  #   - an invalid/expired token on a still-unclaimed /config gets a 403 with an empty body; curl's
-  #     status is unchecked, the token `sed` yields "", the success branch at line 120 does not fire,
-  #     there is no `else` and no `exit 1`, and the script (no `set -e`) exits 0. It comes up UNCLAIMED and
-  #     SERVING — it does NOT crashloop. The image also leaves S6_BEHAVIOUR_IF_STAGE2_FAILS at its
-  #     default 0, which continues startup even when a cont-init script fails.
-  # So the earlier "a placeholder claim Secret would crashloop the pod" note was WRONG about the
-  # placeholder; it was right only about an ABSENT Secret. secretKeyRef here has no `optional` field,
-  # so the Secret must always exist in the Flux graph — which is why it is committed, encrypted, and
-  # listed in apps/wave-0/kustomization.yaml rather than hand-created at claim time. No schema change
-  # is needed: `optional` would only matter if a missing Secret had to be tolerated, and it doesn't.
-  - name: PLEX_CLAIM
-    valueFrom:
-      secretKeyRef:
-        name: plex-claim
-        key: PLEX_CLAIM
+  # PLEX_CLAIM is deliberately NOT set here: a https://plex.tv/claim token has a ~4-min TTL, far
+  # shorter than the commit -> push -> Flux reconcile -> pod-roll cycle, so any token committed to git
+  # is already expired by the time the pod starts. Claiming is a one-time LIVE step (UI sign-in, or a
+  # single API POST) against the running server; the claim then persists on the /config PVC and
+  # survives pod rolls (including the roll this env change causes), so it never belongs in git.
  # ADVERTISE_IP ("Custom server access URLs") is DEFERRED, not accidentally omitted. It tells Plex
  # which URL to advertise to plex.tv for REMOTE clients. The only candidate is
  # https://plex.home.keithjackson.dev, but that host resolves via split-horizon DNS to the INTERNAL
@@ -91,40 +66,13 @@ storage:
                              # container's EPHEMERAL layer -> unclaimed + all state lost on restart. The image inits as
                              # root (s6-svscan PID 1), chowns /config to the plex user, then drops -> no fsGroup needed
                              # (verified in-cluster: PID1=root, "Plex Media Server"=plex). Persisting /config here also
-                              # makes the claim survive restarts once claimed — which is what makes the PLEX_CLAIM env
-                              # above a ONE-SHOT: the token is exchanged for a PlexOnlineToken written here, and the
-                              # exchange is then skipped on every later start. (The older note here claimed a
-                              # placeholder claim Secret "would crashloop the pod"; upstream's first-run script says
-                              # otherwise — see the PLEX_CLAIM comment in `env` above. An ABSENT Secret is the hard
-                              # failure, and that is why one is committed.)
-  # THE LIBRARY (docs/04 bulk tier). One READ-ONLY mount of the export ROOT, giving /media/movies,
-  # /media/tv and /media/photos — the whole tree the layout actually has (`ls /mnt/Storage/plex`:
-  # downloads/ movies/ photos/ tv/).
-  #
-  # WHY THE ROOT AND NOT THREE subPath MOUNTS. Nothing is gained by narrowing: the mount is `ro`,
-  # so no subPath could remove a privilege that matters, while three mounts would triple the NFS
-  # mounts per pod and mean a manifest change every time a top-level library is added.
-  #
-  # WHY READ-ONLY, when the export is `rw` and the other consumers write. Plex is a SERVER: it
-  # indexes and streams. Every write on that tree belongs to Sonarr and Radarr. Marking it here
-  # costs nothing and removes Plex from the set of things that can damage 8.33 T. Enforced by the
-  # PV's nfs.readOnly (a real `ro` mount), not only by the volumeMount flag.
-  #
-  # UID: no change needed. The tree is 0755 owned 1000:3000 throughout, so it is world-readable and
-  # world-traversable, and PLEX_UID/PLEX_GID above already make the process uid 1000 in any case.
-  # (fsGroup would have been a no-op here regardless — the in-tree NFS plugin does no ownership
-  # management. That is the trap the arrs' PUID/PGID exists to avoid; Plex never hits it.)
-  - name: media
-    class: bulk
-    export: /mnt/Storage/plex   # the ZFS dataset Storage/plex, on ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    mountPath: /media
-    readOnly: true
-    size: 9Ti                   # ADVISORY ONLY (nothing enforces a static NFS PV's capacity): the
-                                # dataset's 8.33 T used, rounded up, so `kubectl get pv` reports
-                                # something true. The real limit is the ZFS pool.
+                              # makes the claim survive restarts once claimed. To auto-claim on first boot instead of the
+                              # UI sign-in, the operator adds a PLEX_CLAIM env from a fresh https://plex.tv/claim token
+                              # (4-min TTL) — deliberately NOT wired here: the env secretKeyRef pattern has no `optional`,
+                              # so a placeholder/absent claim Secret would crashloop the pod. See operator hand-off.
 dependencies: []              # default-deny: reaches only DNS; clients/Seerr reach IT (docs/03; R-NET-01/02)
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: plex.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: plex.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 32400               # Plex web UI + API served on 32400 (wildcard TLS at the Gateway; docs/08/09)
 auth:
  mode: native                # Plex account auth — documented exception, NOT Keycloak (docs/13/15; R-IDP-02)
@@ -4,18 +4,19 @@
 # internal download client | egress VPN + kill-switch | config on Longhorn | auth forward-auth
 # (bare web UI, no native OIDC).
 #
-# BULK DOWNLOADS TIER — DELIVERED 2026-09-12 (the deferral below is CLOSED; kept for the record).
-#   This entry used to ship config-only, with a comment promising to attach the downloads volume "once
-#   OQ-2 is resolved". OQ-2 was resolved for STATIC pre-existing datasets (schema 1.5.0 / renderer
-#   `class: bulk` + `export` -> a static, pre-bound NFS PV), and plex/sonarr/radarr/nextcloud all took
-#   their media mounts — but qBittorrent's was never added, so the DOWNLOAD CLIENT was the one member
-#   of the chain with no media volume at all. Measured on prod 2026-09-12:
-#       Session\DefaultSavePath=/downloads/   Session\TempPath=/downloads/incomplete/
-#       Downloads\SavePath=/downloads/       `ls /downloads` -> No such file or directory
-#   i.e. the app was configured to write a path that DID NOT EXIST, in a container with no volume there.
-#   Anything it did manage to create would have been invisible to sonarr/radarr, lost on every pod
-#   recreation, and filling the NODE's ephemeral disk in the meantime. The `downloads` entry under
-#   storage: below closes that. See docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md and the bulk-tier L0 conformance test.
+# BULK DOWNLOADS TIER — OPEN PREREQUISITE, intentionally NOT declared here (mirrors plex + sonarr/radarr):
+#   docs/13 row 13 places qBittorrent's downloads/staging volume on the `bulk` tier (large, non-3x-
+#   replicated media handoff to the arr stack). The `bulk` StorageClass exists
+#   (platform/longhorn/storageclasses.yaml) and both the schema and renderer support `class: bulk`, BUT
+#   it is a NON-PROVISIONING STUB pending OQ-2 (its NFS/SMB backing is REPLACE-ME and the NFS CSI driver
+#   is not installed) — a `bulk` PVC would never bind and would leave the pod Pending. Declaring it now
+#   would also pull the bulk-tier requirement into the change's "touched" set, whose in-cluster
+#   conformance test is not yet scaffolded, blocking the merge gate. So the downloads volume is DEFERRED
+#   and this onboarding ships config-only. Once OQ-2 is resolved and `bulk` provisions, attach downloads
+#   with a one-line add under storage:
+#         - name: downloads
+#           class: bulk          # external mount; size omitted (sized outside the cluster)
+#   then re-render. See the WS-APPS report for the full bulk-downloads finding.
 #
 # VPN-class (docs/13 row 13; docs/03 "VPN-class set"): ALL of this pod's public-internet egress
 # (peer/tracker/DHT traffic) MUST leave via the node PIA tunnel, never the WAN. `egress: vpn` renders
@@ -31,423 +32,20 @@ name: qbittorrent
 kind: container
 source:
  image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:5.1.2   # pinned stable tag (R-UPD-01); update.range governs advancement
-# LinuxServer images run their service as the user `abc`, whose uid/gid these two set. They are
-# LOAD-BEARING FOR THE BULK MOUNT, not cosmetic — exactly as on sonarr/radarr. Measured on prod
-# 2026-09-12 BEFORE this change: `id` inside the container reported the qbittorrent-nox process as
-# uid=911 gid=911, and /mnt/Storage/plex/downloads is 0755 owned 1000:1000. 0755 grants write to the
-# OWNER ONLY, so uid 911 would have mounted the export cleanly and then failed every write with
-# EACCES — the "mounts fine, cannot write" failure the sonarr entry warns about at length.
-env:
-  - name: PUID
-    value: "1000"               # owner uid of /mnt/Storage/plex/downloads (and of every dir under the export)
-  - name: PGID
-    value: "3000"               # the export's dominant group, matching sonarr/radarr: files this writes stay
-                                # readable to the EXISTING non-k3s consumers of the same dataset, and land
-                                # group-owned the same way the arrs' own writes do
-  # --- THE DURABLE WebUI CREDENTIAL (consumed by the postStart hook below) -------------------
-  # Measured on prod 2026-09-13: /config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf held NEITHER `WebUI\Username`
-  # NOR `WebUI\Password_PBKDF2`. qBittorrent 5.x reads that as "no credential configured" and mints a
-  # NEW random `admin` password on EVERY process start, announcing it ONLY on stdout ("A temporary
-  # password is provided for this session: ..."). Two real consequences, not hypotheticals:
-  #   * Sonarr and Radarr store a download-client username/password in their OWN databases. Both
-  #     tested valid against the then-current temporary password; both would have started failing at
-  #     the NEXT qbittorrent pod restart, silently breaking Completed Download Handling (the arrs
-  #     report a failed client, not a failed import).
-  #   * The human operator had no stable login: every restart meant reading the pod log.
-  # Provided as apps/wave-0/qbittorrent-bootstrap-secret.sops.yaml (SOPS/age, decrypted by Flux) —
-  # same shape and naming as gitea-bootstrap, so `render.py --emit-waves` places it in this wave.
-  - name: QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME
-    valueFrom:
-      secretKeyRef:
-        name: qbittorrent-bootstrap
-        key: webui-username
-  - name: QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD
-    valueFrom:
-      secretKeyRef:
-        name: qbittorrent-bootstrap
-        key: webui-password
-lifecycle:
-  # LEVEL-TRIGGERED CREDENTIAL ASSERTION, run on EVERY container start.
-  #
-  # WHY A postStart HOOK AND NOT A CronJob RECONCILER: the repo's idiom for "state Flux cannot reach
-  # directly" is the level-triggered CronJob (platform/keycloak/client-secret-reconciler.yaml,
-  # apps/wave-0/nextcloud-db.yaml). That idiom's PRINCIPLE — desired state lives in git and is
-  # RE-ASSERTED unconditionally, never set once — is exactly what is applied here, but the trigger is
-  # the container start rather than a clock, because the failure this closes IS a container start:
-  #   * The credential is read by qbittorrent-nox ONCE, at process start, from a file on the config
-  #     PVC. A 15-minute cron would therefore leave a 0-15 minute window after every restart, PVC
-  #     restore or rebuild in which the app serves a random password and both arrs are broken. The
-  #     hook has no such window: it runs before/with the very start that would otherwise regenerate.
-  #   * A CronJob would also have to reach the conf from OUTSIDE the pod — mounting an RWO Longhorn
-  #     PVC that the app already holds, or `kubectl exec`-ing with RBAC it would need granting — and
-  #     then edit a file UNDER the running process, whose own save-on-exit can overwrite the edit.
-  #     In-container, before the service starts, none of that exists.
-  #   * It needs no ServiceAccount, no RBAC, no NetworkPolicy and no API token: strictly less
-  #     privilege than the CronJob alternative (R-SEC/least-privilege).
-  # The gitea entry's postStart is the same pattern (idempotent bootstrap of a credential the app
-  # keeps in its own state), and the schema documents this hook for exactly that use.
-  #
-  # AND WHY NOT AN initContainer, which is the genuinely tempting third option: it would run strictly
-  # BEFORE qbittorrent-nox, removing the race the `s6-svc -r` below exists to cover, and its stdout
-  # would reach `kubectl logs -c <init>` instead of the kubelet. Two reasons it loses here:
-  #   * It CANNOT do step (3) — the ground-truth login that proves the WebUI actually accepts the
-  #     credential — because the WebUI is not running yet. That assertion is the most valuable line
-  #     in this whole mechanism: it is what turns "we wrote a file" into "the credential works", and
-  #     writing the right PBKDF2 bytes is precisely the part that is easy to get subtly wrong.
-  #   * The ServiceDefinition schema (1.5.0) has `lifecycle` but NO initContainers field, so it would
-  #     mean a schema version bump plus a renderer change — a blast radius across every service's
-  #     golden — to buy something strictly weaker than what the hook already does.
-  # The honest summary: postStart trades a short, self-healing start-up race (detected and closed by
-  # the s6 restart + re-verify loop) for the ability to VERIFY. That is the right trade.
-  #
-  # DURABILITY, the whole point — all three paths end with the SAME credential:
-  #   pod restart      -> conf on the PVC already holds it; the hook verifies and writes NOTHING.
-  #   config-PVC restore from an older backup -> restore requires the pod to be recreated, so the
-  #                       hook runs and re-asserts over whatever the snapshot contained.
-  #   rebuild from git -> empty PVC; the image copies /defaults/qBittorrent.conf, the hook writes the
-  #                       credential into it before the service is serving. Nothing outside git.
-  #
-  # WHAT IT DOES NOT DO: it never weakens authentication. `WebUI\AuthSubnetWhitelist` (bypassing auth
-  # for the pod CIDR) was REJECTED: it leaves the human login broken, and makes qBittorrent's auth
-  # depend on network policy staying correct forever. The WebUI keeps demanding a password; that
-  # password is simply now known, fixed, and reproducible from git.
-  postStart:
-    exec:
-      command:
-        - /bin/bash
-        - -c
-        - |
-          # Assert the durable WebUI credential in the config PVC's qBittorrent.conf, then PROVE the
-          # running WebUI accepts it. Idempotent: the steady-state path writes nothing at all.
-          #
-          # THIS SCRIPT CONTAINS NO BRACED DOLLAR EXPANSION AT ALL, AND THAT IS DELIBERATE.
-          # apps-wave-0 declares postBuild.substituteFrom cluster-vars, so Flux runs envsubst over
-          # this whole manifest at RECONCILE time. The repo's escape contract (double the dollar;
-          # enforced by render.py's assert_substitution_safe) makes such a form correct ON THE
-          # CLUSTER — but only there:
-          # envsubst collapses the doubled dollar, so the SAME text run any other way (a `kubectl
-          # apply` of the golden, which runs no envsubst; a hand `kubectl exec` of the script during
-          # development) keeps the doubled dollar, which bash reads as its own PID. Not hypothetical;
-          # see the PORT comment below for the bug it actually caused here. Bare `$VAR` and `$(cmd)`
-          # are untouched by envsubst, so they are used throughout and the script behaves IDENTICALLY
-          # however it is run.
-          set -u
-          CONF=/config/qBittorrent/qBittorrent.conf
-          SVC=/run/service/svc-qbittorrent
-          # The WebUI's listening port, as a LITERAL. It matches ingressRoutes[0].port in this
-          # ServiceDefinition — which is the single place the renderer takes the containerPort, the
-          # Service port and the HTTPRoute backend port from — and the image exposes no WEBUI_PORT
-          # env var for a lookup to read anyway.
-          # It USED to be a doubled-dollar default-operator expansion of a WEBUI_PORT env var, and
-          # that cost real time: run without envsubst, bash read the doubled dollar as its own PID,
-          # so PORT became "<pid>{WEBUI_PORT:-8080}" — the brace never expanded, the digits never
-          # matched. Every curl below then got an unparseable URL, returned nothing, and the hook
-          # logged "the WebUI rejected the durable
-          # credential" — having never actually asked it. That MISDIAGNOSIS is preserved in this
-          # service's own marker log at 2026-09-13T05:35Z (three "rejected" lines, then GAVE UP,
-          # against a WebUI that accepted the credential perfectly well). A literal cannot be mangled.
-          PORT=8080
-          # A postStart hook's stdout/stderr goes to the KUBELET, not to `kubectl logs` — so a hook
-          # that only echoes is effectively silent (gitea's hits the same wall and writes a marker
-          # file for it). Every outcome therefore also lands, timestamped, on the persistent config
-          # volume: /config/qbittorrent-webui-cred.log is where an operator looks to see whether the
-          # credential from git was asserted and accepted on this start.
-          log() {
-            echo "[qbt-webui-cred] $*"
-            printf '%s [qbt-webui-cred] %s\n' "$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)" "$*" \
-              >> /config/qbittorrent-webui-cred.log 2>/dev/null || true
-          }
-
-          # (1) The image's init-qbittorrent-config copies /defaults/qBittorrent.conf onto the PVC
-          #     before it starts the service. Wait (bounded, ~30s) so we EDIT that file instead of
-          #     racing to create one it would then not overwrite.
-          n=0
-          while [ ! -s "$CONF" ] && [ "$n" -lt 120 ]; do n=$((n + 1)); sleep 0.25; done
-
-          waited=0
-          attempt=0
-          while [ "$attempt" -lt 3 ]; do
-            attempt=$((attempt + 1))
-
-            # (2) Converge the conf. 0 = already correct (steady state: NO write, NO re-salt),
-            #     10 = rewritten, anything else = could not write.
-            python3 - "$CONF" <<'PY'
-          import base64, hashlib, hmac, os, stat, sys
-
-          conf = sys.argv[1]
-          user = os.environ.get("QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME", "")
-          pw = os.environ.get("QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD", "")
-          if not user or not pw:
-              sys.stderr.write("[qbt-webui-cred] credential env is empty - refusing to touch the conf\n")
-              raise SystemExit(1)
-
-          # qBittorrent's OWN parameters (base/utils/password.cpp): PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA512, 100000
-          # iterations, 16-byte random salt, 64-byte digest, stored as
-          #   WebUI\Password_PBKDF2="@ByteArray(<base64 salt>:<base64 digest>)"
-          # Get any one of them wrong and the app simply rejects every login.
-          ITERATIONS, DIGEST_LEN, SALT_LEN = 100000, 64, 16
-          UKEY, PKEY, SECTION = "WebUI\\Username", "WebUI\\Password_PBKDF2", "[Preferences]"
-
-          def matches(raw):
-              """True iff the stored digest is one OUR password produces (salt is read from it)."""
-              v = raw.strip().strip('"')
-              if v.startswith("@ByteArray(") and v.endswith(")"):
-                  v = v[len("@ByteArray("):-1]
-              try:
-                  salt_b64, digest_b64 = v.split(":", 1)
-                  salt = base64.b64decode(salt_b64, validate=True)
-                  digest = base64.b64decode(digest_b64, validate=True)
-              except Exception:
-                  return False
-              if not salt or not digest:
-                  return False
-              return hmac.compare_digest(
-                  hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac("sha512", pw.encode(), salt, ITERATIONS, len(digest)), digest)
-
-          try:
-              lines = open(conf, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").read().splitlines()
-          except FileNotFoundError:
-              lines = []
-
-          def value_of(key):
-              for i, line in enumerate(lines):
-                  if line.startswith(key + "="):
-                      return i, line.split("=", 1)[1]
-              return -1, None
-
-          ui, uval = value_of(UKEY)
-          pi, pval = value_of(PKEY)
-          if uval == user and pval is not None and matches(pval):
-              raise SystemExit(0)          # converged - leave the file (and its salt) alone
-
-          salt = os.urandom(SALT_LEN)
-          digest = hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac("sha512", pw.encode(), salt, ITERATIONS, DIGEST_LEN)
-          stored = base64.b64encode(salt).decode() + ":" + base64.b64encode(digest).decode()
-          desired = [UKEY + "=" + user, PKEY + '="@ByteArray(' + stored + ')"']
-
-          out = [line for i, line in enumerate(lines) if i not in (ui, pi)]
-          if SECTION in out:
-              at = out.index(SECTION) + 1
-          else:
-              if out and out[-1].strip():
-                  out.append("")
-              out.append(SECTION)
-              at = len(out)
-          out[at:at] = desired
-
-          try:
-              os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(conf) or ".", exist_ok=True)
-              tmp = conf + ".webui-cred.new"
-              with open(tmp, "w", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
-                  fh.write("\n".join(out) + "\n")
-                  fh.flush()
-                  os.fsync(fh.fileno())
-              # This hook runs as ROOT; the service runs as PUID:PGID. A root-owned 0600 conf would
-              # cost the app the ability to save its own settings, so carry the ownership over.
-              try:
-                  st = os.stat(conf)
-                  os.chown(tmp, st.st_uid, st.st_gid)
-                  os.chmod(tmp, stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode))
-              except FileNotFoundError:
-                  os.chown(tmp, int(os.environ.get("PUID", "1000")),
-                           int(os.environ.get("PGID", "1000")))
-                  os.chmod(tmp, 0o664)
-              os.replace(tmp, conf)        # atomic: the app never reads a half-written conf
-          except OSError as exc:
-              sys.stderr.write("[qbt-webui-cred] cannot write %s: %s\n" % (conf, exc))
-              raise SystemExit(1)
-          raise SystemExit(10)
-          PY
-            rc=$?
-
-            if [ "$rc" = 0 ]; then
-              log "conf already holds the durable credential for '$QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME' (no write)"
-            elif [ "$rc" = 10 ]; then
-              log "asserted WebUI Username + Password_PBKDF2 into $CONF"
-              # postStart runs CONCURRENTLY with the s6 init chain, so qbittorrent-nox may ALREADY
-              # have read the old, credential-less conf and be serving a random temporary password.
-              # Restart the SUPERVISED SERVICE (not the pod) so it re-reads what was just written.
-              # Nothing to do when the service has not started yet - it will read the new file.
-              # Its own counter, NOT the shared `waited` API budget: sharing one counter is how the
-              # 2026-09-13 failure spent the entire verification budget before the first login and
-              # then fired attempts 2 and 3 with no wait left at all.
-              sv=0
-              while [ "$sv" -lt 60 ] && [ "$(s6-svstat -u "$SVC" 2>/dev/null)" != "true" ]; do
-                sv=$((sv + 1)); sleep 1
-              done
-              if [ "$(s6-svstat -u "$SVC" 2>/dev/null)" = "true" ]; then
-                log "qbittorrent-nox was already running - restarting it to load the credential"
-                s6-svc -r "$SVC" || log "s6-svc -r failed (continuing to verify anyway)"
-                sleep 3
-              fi
-            else
-              log "FAILED to write the credential into $CONF (helper exit $rc). The WebUI will keep" >&2
-              log "minting a random password every start and BOTH arrs will break. Fix and restart." >&2
-              exit 0
-            fi
-
-            # (3) GROUND TRUTH: the WebUI itself must accept it. Wait for the API to answer at ALL
-            #     (shared ~120s budget across attempts), then spend exactly ONE login per attempt -
-            #     at most 3 rejected logins, which stays under qBittorrent's default ban threshold.
-            #
-            # "THE API NEVER ANSWERED" IS A DIFFERENT FAULT FROM "THE PASSWORD WAS REJECTED", and
-            # conflating them is what made this hook lie once already (see the PORT comment). An
-            # unreachable WebUI is reported as unreachable, and the hook stops rather than spending
-            # its remaining login attempts to produce two more identical wrong diagnoses.
-            api_ok=0
-            while [ "$waited" -lt 120 ]; do
-              code=$(curl -s -o /dev/null -m 3 -w '%{http_code}' "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/" 2>/dev/null)
-              if [ -n "$code" ] && [ "$code" != "000" ]; then api_ok=1; break; fi
-              waited=$((waited + 1)); sleep 1
-            done
-            if [ "$api_ok" != 1 ]; then
-              log "the WebUI never answered on 127.0.0.1:$PORT within the wait budget, so the" >&2
-              log "credential in $CONF is UNVERIFIED. This is NOT a rejected password - it was" >&2
-              log "never submitted. Do not rotate the credential on the strength of this line." >&2
-              exit 0
-            fi
-            body=$(curl -sS -m 10 \
-                     --data-urlencode "username=$QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME" \
-                     --data-urlencode "password=$QBT_WEBUI_PASSWORD" \
-                     "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/api/v2/auth/login" 2>/dev/null)
-            if [ "$body" = "Ok." ]; then
-              log "VERIFIED: the WebUI accepts the durable credential for '$QBT_WEBUI_USERNAME'"
-              exit 0
-            fi
-            log "WebUI rejected the durable credential (login said '$body')" >&2
-            # A rejection when the conf was ALREADY converged (rc=0, nothing written) can only mean
-            # the running qbittorrent-nox is serving something it read from an EARLIER conf, so
-            # rewriting the same bytes on the next attempt would change nothing. The remedy is to
-            # make the process RE-READ the file, so restart the supervised service and let the next
-            # attempt re-verify. Without this the retry loop could never change its own outcome.
-            if [ "$(s6-svstat -u "$SVC" 2>/dev/null)" = "true" ]; then
-              log "restarting qbittorrent-nox so it re-reads $CONF, then re-verifying" >&2
-              s6-svc -r "$SVC" || log "s6-svc -r failed (continuing to verify anyway)" >&2
-              sleep 3
-            fi
-          done
-
-          log "GAVE UP after $attempt attempts: the WebUI does not accept the credential from git." >&2
-          # A postStart hook MUST exit 0 - a non-zero exit makes the kubelet KILL the container
-          # (FailedPostStartHook -> CrashLoopBackOff), turning a credential fault into an outage.
-          # Both failure paths above therefore log LOUDLY and exit 0; the `up` SLI still watches the
-          # app, and the arrs' own download-client health check surfaces a broken credential.
-          exit 0
-podSecurityContext:
-  # For the LONGHORN config PVC only, and for the same reason radarr/sonarr set it: fsGroup is a NO-OP
-  # on the NFS volume (the in-tree plugin does no ownership management), but on a Longhorn filesystem
-  # the kubelet applies it, so /config becomes group-writable by the now-uid-1000 process without
-  # depending on the image chowning it. (This image DOES chown: init-qbittorrent-config runs
-  # `lsiown -R abc:abc /config`. Belt and braces — the live /config was 911:911 before this change,
-  # and losing write access to it would lose the WebUI password hash and the session state.)
-  fsGroup: 3000
-exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at qbittorrent.${BASE_DOMAIN} (docs/13 row 13; R-DNS/R-NET)
+exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at qbittorrent.home.keithjackson.dev (docs/13 row 13; R-DNS/R-NET)
 egress: vpn                     # ALL public egress via node PIA tunnel + kill-switch (docs/03; ADR-0015; R-NET-05/06)
 storage:
  - name: config
    size: 5Gi
    class: longhorn             # settings/categories/session on 3-replica Longhorn; DR-critical (docs/04; R-STATE-02)
-    mountPath: /config          # THE APP WRITES /config, NOT the renderer default /data/config.
-                                # LSIO images run with `-data=/config` (Jackett/qBittorrent likewise use
-                                # /config), so without this the Longhorn PVC mounted at /data/config sat
-                                # holding nothing but lost+found while the app wrote its entire
-                                # configuration to the container's EPHEMERAL writable layer — destroyed on
-                                # every pod recreation: restart, reschedule, image bump. Measured in-cluster
-                                # 2026-09-12: /data/config was dev=2080 with [lost+found], /config was
-                                # dev=2053 on the node's own disk with [Sentry asp config.xml logs].
-                                # This is the SAME failure catalog/plex.yaml:54 already records fixing.
-                                # The live /config contents were copied onto each PVC before this landed,
-                                # so API keys and credentials other apps reference were preserved.
-  # THE DOWNLOADS AREA — ONE mount of the SAME export sonarr/radarr/plex already consume
-  # (192.168.2.102:/mnt/Storage/plex), narrowed by subPath to the `downloads` subtree and presented at
-  # /downloads, which is precisely where this app is ALREADY configured to write.
-  #
-  # WHY subPath: downloads AND NOT THE EXPORT ROOT AT /media (the shape sonarr/radarr use):
-  #   * LEAST PRIVILEGE, AND IT COSTS NOTHING HERE. A download client has no business writing the
-  #     LIBRARY. The arrs need the root mount because THEY hardlink downloads/ -> tv/ or movies/ and
-  #     link() is a same-MOUNT operation (EXDEV otherwise) — their smallest common ancestor genuinely
-  #     IS the export root. qBittorrent performs no such cross-directory link: it writes into the
-  #     downloads tree and nothing else, so narrowing to that subtree removes movies/, tv/ and photos/
-  #     from this pod's mount namespace without removing any operation it actually performs.
-  #   * HARDLINKS STILL WORK, because they are not done here. The arrs still see ONE mount containing
-  #     both /media/downloads and /media/tv, so their link() stays intra-mount. Proven live 2026-09-12:
-  #     a file created from this pod under /downloads was hardlinked from the sonarr pod between
-  #     /media/downloads/... and /media/tv/... with st_nlink 1 -> 2 and no EXDEV.
-  #   * IT IS ONE MOUNT, so the L0 test `bulk-tier-distinct-from-replicated` assertion (6) — no
-  #     workload mounts one export twice — holds. That assertion is about TWO mounts inside ONE pod;
-  #     a single subPath mount is not the EXDEV trap, two are.
-  #   * The narrowing is a CLIENT/kubelet guarantee, stated honestly: the NFS server still exports the
-  #     whole dataset to this node, so the containment is the mount namespace, not the server's ACLs —
-  #     the same class of caveat docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md §5 records for plex's readOnly.
-  #
-  # NOT readOnly — this is the one workload whose whole job is WRITING here.
-  #
-  # KNOWN, DELIBERATE SIDE EFFECT ON SHARED STATE: the image's init-qbittorrent-config runs
-  # `lsiown abc:abc /downloads` (non-recursive) whenever /downloads is a mount, so starting this pod
-  # chgrps /mnt/Storage/plex/downloads from 1000:1000 to 1000:3000 on the SERVER. Benign and verified:
-  # the directory is mode 0755, whose group bits (r-x) are identical to its other bits, so no consumer
-  # — k3s or legacy — gains or loses any access. Recorded because it is a write to state shared with
-  # non-cluster consumers, which should never be a surprise.
-  #
-  # PATH AGREEMENT WITH THE ARRS IS STILL *NOT* CLOSED — see DECISIONS-LOG 2026-09-12 "Remote Path
-  # Mappings". This pod calls the finished file /downloads/<name>; sonarr/radarr call the same bytes
-  # /media/downloads/<name>. Same inode, different absolute path, so Completed Download Handling needs
-  # ONE Remote Path Mapping per arr (remote host `qbittorrent.qbittorrent.svc.cluster.local`, remote
-  # path /downloads/, local path /media/downloads/).
-  #
-  # THOSE MAPPINGS ARE NOW CONFIGURED AND VERIFIED ON PROD (2026-09-12), together with the qBittorrent
-  # download client itself — which did not exist in EITHER arr until then (both
-  # `GET /api/v3/downloadclient` returned `[]`, so completed-download handling had never been wired up
-  # at all). `downloadclient/testall` reports isValid=true in both, and Sonarr's queue was observed
-  # reporting outputPath=/downloads/... with the mapping deleted and /media/downloads/... with it
-  # present — same torrent, same client.
-  #
-  # BUT THEY LIVE IN THE ARRS' OWN DATABASES (app state on their config PVCs), NOT IN GIT: a rebuild
-  # from git alone does NOT restore them and no gate here notices their absence. The alternative —
-  # repointing qBittorrent's SavePath at /media/downloads and mounting this subPath there instead —
-  # buys path agreement at the cost of editing THIS app's config PVC, which is also app state; it was
-  # not chosen because it changes a running download client's save path, which the deferral above
-  # already shows is easy to get wrong. It is nonetheless the RECOMMENDED end state (it makes the
-  # mappings unnecessary and puts the mountPath half of the fix in git) and is awaiting an operator
-  # decision, not a technical blocker.
-  #
-  # RELATED OPEN BLOCKER: this app has no durable WebUI credential (no WebUI\Username /
-  # WebUI\Password_PBKDF2 in qBittorrent.conf), so v5 issues a NEW temporary `admin` password on every
-  # start. The arrs' saved download-client password therefore goes stale on every pod restart. See the
-  # same DECISIONS-LOG entry for the two fixes, neither of which was taken unilaterally.
-  - name: downloads
-    class: bulk
-    export: /mnt/Storage/plex   # the ZFS dataset Storage/plex, on ${BULK_NFS_SERVER} — the SAME export
-                                # plex (ro) and sonarr/radarr (rw) mount; one dataset, one set of inodes
-    subPath: downloads          # the handoff subtree ONLY: no movies/, no tv/, no photos/
-    mountPath: /downloads       # matches the app's EXISTING Session\DefaultSavePath / TempPath, so no
-                                # change to config-PVC app state is needed to make this take effect
-    size: 9Ti                   # ADVISORY ONLY on a static NFS PV (the ZFS pool is the real limit): the
-                                # dataset's 8.4 T used rounded up, stated the same way plex/sonarr/radarr
-                                # state it so `kubectl get pv` reports something true
-dependencies: []                # default-deny: reaches only DNS; arr reach it north of its own egress (docs/03; R-NET-01/02).
-                                # STILL EMPTY WITH THE NFS MOUNT ABOVE, AND THAT IS CORRECT, NOT AN
-                                # OVERSIGHT. An NFS PersistentVolume is mounted by the NODE KERNEL in the
-                                # HOST netns, not by this pod: there is no pod-side socket to 2049, so no
-                                # CiliumNetworkPolicy can permit or deny it and none is needed. Verified by
-                                # construction — sonarr and radarr have mounted this same export read-write
-                                # for weeks and neither has any CNP naming the NFS server or port 2049
-                                # (grep apps/wave-1/sonarr.yaml: none). The SAME fact is what keeps the VPN
-                                # egress gateway off this traffic (its selector is a podSelector), and
-                                # 192.168.2.102 is inside the 192.168.0.0/16 excludedCIDR besides — see
-                                # platform/vpn-egress/egress-steering.yaml, "BULK NFS".
+dependencies: []                # default-deny: reaches only DNS; arr reach it north of its own egress (docs/03; R-NET-01/02)
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: qbittorrent.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: qbittorrent.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 8080                  # qBittorrent WebUI; protected at the Gateway by forward-auth (docs/09, docs/15)
 auth:
  mode: forward-auth            # oauth2-proxy -> Keycloak; bare UI, no usable native OIDC (docs/15; R-IDP-02)
  groups:
    - media-users               # authenticated AND in an authorized group (R-IDP-06)
-    # See catalog/jackett.yaml for the full rationale: --allowed-group is repeatable and OR-ed, so
-    # platform-admins here is a superset, not a widening (that group already carries cluster-admin
-    # via k8s-oidc-rbac.yaml). Without it, an empty media-users locks every operator out with an
-    # immediate 403 at the oauth2-proxy callback — observed on prod 2026-09-12.
-    - platform-admins           # operators of these services must not be locked out of them
 update:
  channel: stable               # R-UPD-01
  range: ">=5.0.0 <6.0.0"       # stay on the qBittorrent 5.x stable line
@@ -9,90 +9,18 @@ name: radarr
 kind: container
 source:
  image: lscr.io/linuxserver/radarr:5.21.1   # pinned stable v5 tag (R-UPD-01); update.range governs advancement
-# LinuxServer images run their service as the user `abc`, whose uid/gid these two set. They are
-# LOAD-BEARING for the bulk mount, not cosmetic: see the storage note below. The default is 911,
-# which cannot write a 1000:3000-owned 0755 tree.
-env:
-  - name: PUID
-    value: "1000"               # owner uid of every directory under /mnt/Storage/plex
-  - name: PGID
-    value: "3000"               # dominant group there; keeps files this writes readable to the
-                                # EXISTING non-k3s consumers of the same export, which stay live
-  - name: TZ
-    value: Etc/UTC              # same safe default plex uses; the arrs schedule by local time
-podSecurityContext:
-  # For the LONGHORN config PVC only. fsGroup does nothing on the NFS volume (the in-tree plugin
-  # does no ownership management), but on a Longhorn filesystem the kubelet applies it, which is
-  # what makes /config writable by the now-uid-1000 process WITHOUT relying on the image chowning
-  # /config for itself when PUID changes. Matches PGID so the primary group owns the config too.
-  fsGroup: 3000
-exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at radarr.${BASE_DOMAIN} (docs/13 row 3; R-DNS/R-NET)
+exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at radarr.home.keithjackson.dev (docs/13 row 3; R-DNS/R-NET)
 egress: vpn                     # indexer scrape + downloader handoff steered via the shared VPN egress gateway,
                                # kill-switch enforced OUTSIDE the workload (docs/03; ADR-0015; R-NET-05/06)
 storage:
  - name: config
    size: 5Gi
    class: longhorn             # app DB / config on the 3-replica tier; DR-critical (docs/04; R-STATE-02)
-    mountPath: /config          # THE APP WRITES /config, NOT the renderer default /data/config.
-                                # LSIO images run with `-data=/config` (Jackett/qBittorrent likewise use
-                                # /config), so without this the Longhorn PVC mounted at /data/config sat
-                                # holding nothing but lost+found while the app wrote its entire
-                                # configuration to the container's EPHEMERAL writable layer — destroyed on
-                                # every pod recreation: restart, reschedule, image bump. Measured in-cluster
-                                # 2026-09-12: /data/config was dev=2080 with [lost+found], /config was
-                                # dev=2053 on the node's own disk with [Sentry asp config.xml logs].
-                                # This is the SAME failure catalog/plex.yaml:54 already records fixing.
-                                # The live /config contents were copied onto each PVC before this landed,
-                                # so API keys and credentials other apps reference were preserved.
-  # THE MEDIA TREE (docs/04 bulk tier) — ONE read-WRITE mount of the export ROOT at /media, giving
-  # /media/movies (the library) and /media/downloads (the import source) UNDER THE SAME MOUNT.
-  #
-  # *** THE ROOT MOUNT IS THE POINT, NOT A CONVENIENCE. *** Radarr imports by HARDLINKING or
-  # atomically renaming a finished download into the library. Both are same-FILESYSTEM operations,
-  # and to the kernel "same filesystem" means SAME MOUNT. The layout on the host is:
-  #     /mnt/Storage/plex/movies/                      the library
-  #     /mnt/Storage/plex/downloads/complete/radarr/  where finished releases land
-  # — siblings under one dataset, so a hardlink between them is legal on the server. But mounting
-  # them as two subPath volumes (subPath: movies at /media/movies, subPath: downloads elsewhere) creates
-  # TWO mounts, and link() across mounts fails EXDEV no matter what the server thinks. Radarr then
-  # silently degrades to copy-then-delete: every import rewrites the whole file over NFS and the
-  # seeding copy is destroyed. Their smallest common ancestor IS the export root, so the root mount
-  # is the MINIMAL mount that preserves hardlinks — least privilege bounded below by a hard
-  # requirement, not a shortcut. (The cost is stated plainly: Radarr can also write /media/tv,
-  # which is sonarr's. Narrowing that would cost hardlinks, which is a worse trade.)
-  #
-  # *** /media, NOT /data — AND THAT IS NOT A STYLE CHOICE. *** The config PVC above renders at the
-  # renderer default /data/config. A media mount at /data would be mounted OVER it and MASK the
-  # config volume entirely; the pod would come up with its app database shadowed by an 8 T media
-  # tree. /media collides with nothing in a LinuxServer image and matches the path plex uses for
-  # the same export, so when qbittorrent is eventually given this mount too, the arrs and the
-  # download client will already agree on absolute paths — which is the other precondition for
-  # hardlinked imports (otherwise every import needs a Remote Path Mapping).
-  #
-  # SEPARATE LATENT BUG, NOT FIXED HERE (deliberately — it changes live on-disk state): /data/config
-  # is almost certainly the wrong place for this PVC in the first place. LinuxServer's arr images run
-  # with `-data=/config`, so the app writes /config — the container's EPHEMERAL layer — while the
-  # Longhorn PVC at /data/config sits unused. That is the EXACT failure plex's own mountPath comment
-  # documents having already been bitten by. Fixing it means starting from an empty config volume, so
-  # it belongs in its own change with the operator present.
-  #
-  # UID/GID — THE FAILURE THIS AVOIDS IS "MOUNTS FINE, CANNOT WRITE". The export is no_root_squash
-  # + sec=sys, so the client's numeric uid is passed through verbatim and the server's ownership is
-  # the whole story. The tree is 0755 owned 1000:3000 (some dirs 1000:1000), so ONLY uid 1000 can
-  # write it. LinuxServer images default to PUID/PGID 911 — which would mount cleanly and then fail
-  # every import with EACCES. The PUID/PGID set above make the process uid 1000, matching the owner.
-  #
-  # AND NOTE fsGroup CANNOT SUBSTITUTE FOR THAT. The in-tree NFS volume plugin performs no
-  # ownership management, so podSecurityContext.fsGroup is a NO-OP on this volume — it is not the
-  # lever here, and reaching for it is how this failure normally gets misdiagnosed. The fsGroup
-  # that IS set above exists for the LONGHORN config PVC, so that changing PUID does not depend on
-  # the image re-chowning /config for itself.
-  - name: media
-    class: bulk
-    export: /mnt/Storage/plex   # the ZFS dataset Storage/plex, on ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    mountPath: /media           # => /media/movies (Root Folder) and /media/downloads (import source)
-    size: 9Ti                   # ADVISORY ONLY on a static NFS PV: the dataset's 8.33 T used,
-                                # rounded up, so `kubectl get pv` reports something true.
+  # NOTE (bulk-media PREREQUISITE): docs/13 row 3 places the media library / downloads volume on the
+  # `bulk` tier (docs/04 bulk storage). The `bulk` StorageClass exists (platform/longhorn/storageclasses.yaml)
+  # but is a NON-provisioning STUB pending OQ-2 (NFS/SMB backing = REPLACE-ME). Adding a `class: bulk`
+  # volume now would leave the PVC (and therefore the pod) Pending. The media/downloads volume is
+  # therefore DEFERRED until OQ-2 is resolved; config-only on longhorn keeps Radarr deployable today.
 dependencies:
  - to: qbittorrent             # arr → download client (docs/13 dependency graph; R-NET-02 explicit allow)
    port: 8080
@@ -101,17 +29,12 @@ dependencies:
    port: 9117
    protocol: tcp
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: radarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: radarr.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 7878                  # Radarr web/API; TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08, docs/09)
 auth:
  mode: forward-auth            # bare UI, no usable OIDC: oauth2-proxy → Keycloak at the Gateway (docs/15; R-IDP-02)
  groups:
    - media-users               # authenticated AND in the media group (R-IDP-06)
-    # See catalog/jackett.yaml for the full rationale: --allowed-group is repeatable and OR-ed, so
-    # platform-admins here is a superset, not a widening (that group already carries cluster-admin
-    # via k8s-oidc-rbac.yaml). Without it, an empty media-users locks every operator out with an
-    # immediate 403 at the oauth2-proxy callback — observed on prod 2026-09-12.
-    - platform-admins           # operators of these services must not be locked out of them
 update:
  channel: stable               # R-UPD-01
  range: ">=5.0.0 <6.0.0"       # stay on the Radarr v5 stable line
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ dependencies:
    port: 32400
    protocol: tcp
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: seerr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: seerr.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 5055                   # Overseerr web UI + API; wildcard TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08/09)
 auth:
  mode: native                   # Plex account auth — documented exception, NOT Keycloak (docs/13/15; R-IDP-02)
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ env:
  - name: SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_NAME
    value: Semaphore Admin
  - name: SEMAPHORE_ADMIN_EMAIL
-    value: admin@${BASE_DOMAIN}
+    value: admin@home.keithjackson.dev
  # --- Persistent access-key encryption key (see header): FIXED base64 32-byte key from SOPS so the
  #     SSH keys / credentials Semaphore stores in the DB stay decryptable across restarts. ---
  - name: SEMAPHORE_ACCESS_KEY_ENCRYPTION
@@ -78,34 +78,16 @@ env:
  #     (util ConfigType `oidc_providers`, env-tagged SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS). The value is a single
  #     JSON blob for the `keycloak` provider — provider_url is the homelab realm issuer (auto-discovery),
  #     client_id=semaphore, redirect_url=/api/auth/oidc/keycloak/redirect, claims map to the realm's
-  #     token. The name is NOT a kubelet service-link var (those are SEMAPHORE_SERVICE_HOST /
-  #     SEMAPHORE_PORT_*), so no collision. The LOCAL SEMAPHORE_ADMIN above stays break-glass (docs/15).
-  #
-  #     PER-ENVIRONMENT URLS (2026-09-07 fix). The blob USED to live whole inside the SOPS-encrypted
-  #     semaphore-bootstrap Secret (key `oidc-providers-json`) because it CONTAINS the confidential
-  #     client secret. That hid two environment-specific, NON-SECRET URLs — the realm issuer and the
-  #     redirect URI — inside ciphertext, where Flux's ${BASE_DOMAIN} postBuild substitution CANNOT
-  #     reach them. Both were frozen at the apex `home.keithjackson.dev`, so PROD (BASE_DOMAIN =
-  #     prod.home.keithjackson.dev) pointed its OIDC at DEV's Keycloak — unroutable from prod's
-  #     192.168.2.0/24 (the identical root cause as the Headlamp login timeout; see
-  #     platform/headlamp/README.md). Dev was only ever "right" because dev IS the apex.
-  #
-  #     THE SPLIT: the URLs are public, so the blob is now a PLAINTEXT literal here and gets
-  #     ${BASE_DOMAIN}-substituted per environment like every other hostname. Only the confidential
-  #     client secret stays SOPS-encrypted, in its own key (`oidc-client-secret`), and is spliced back
-  #     in by the KUBELET's dependent-env-var expansion: an env `value` may reference an EARLIER env
-  #     var of the same container as $(NAME), and secretKeyRef-sourced vars are eligible. So
-  #     SEMAPHORE_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET MUST STAY IMMEDIATELY ABOVE — the kubelet resolves env in list
-  #     order, and a reference to a not-yet-defined name is left as the LITERAL text $(...). It is
-  #     fail-loud in the way that matters: if the Secret key is missing the Pod never starts
-  #     (CreateContainerConfigError), rather than silently authenticating against nothing. ---
-  - name: SEMAPHORE_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET
+  #     token. It CONTAINS the confidential client secret, so the whole blob is held SOPS-encrypted in the
+  #     semaphore-bootstrap Secret (key oidc-providers-json; same secret value SOPS-held in
+  #     keycloak-realm-clients) and injected here by reference — never in cleartext. The name is NOT a
+  #     kubelet service-link var (those are SEMAPHORE_SERVICE_HOST / SEMAPHORE_PORT_*), so no collision.
+  #     The LOCAL SEMAPHORE_ADMIN above stays as the break-glass path (docs/15). ---
+  - name: SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS
    valueFrom:
      secretKeyRef:
        name: semaphore-bootstrap
-        key: oidc-client-secret
-  - name: SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS
-    value: '{"keycloak":{"display_name":"Keycloak","provider_url":"https://keycloak.${BASE_DOMAIN}/realms/homelab","client_id":"semaphore","client_secret":"$(SEMAPHORE_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET)","redirect_url":"https://semaphore.${BASE_DOMAIN}/api/auth/oidc/keycloak/redirect","scopes":["openid","profile","email"],"username_claim":"preferred_username","email_claim":"email","name_claim":"name","order":1}}'
+        key: oidc-providers-json
 # The semaphoreui/semaphore image runs as the non-root user UID 1001 / GID 0 (tini -> server-wrapper),
 # and on boot the wrapper writes its generated config.json into the config dir. A mounted Longhorn PVC
 # is root:root, so UID 1001 cannot write it -> the pod panics ("permission denied"). fsGroup=1001 makes
@@ -128,19 +110,17 @@ dependencies:
    port: 5432                  # Renders the egress half; the DB namespace mirrors keycloak-db (no
    protocol: tcp               # default-deny), so Cilium's default-allow accepts the reciprocal ingress.
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: semaphore.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: semaphore.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 3000                  # Semaphore HTTP web/API; wildcard TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08/09)
 auth:
  mode: oidc                    # native Keycloak OIDC client (docs/13 SSO row, docs/15 "Native OIDC"; R-IDP-02)
  groups:
    - platform-admins           # access scoped to an authorized group (R-IDP-06)
  # WIRED (native OIDC): the Keycloak `semaphore` confidential client (platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-
-  # import.yaml + live kcadm) is consumed via the SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS env — a PLAINTEXT JSON blob
-  # (see `env` above) whose per-environment URLs are ${BASE_DOMAIN}-substituted, with the confidential
-  # client secret spliced in at runtime from the semaphore-bootstrap Secret key `oidc-client-secret`.
-  # The `groups` claim is exposed for authorization (R-IDP-06). Semaphore KEEPS its LOCAL admin as the
-  # break-glass path so an IdP outage never locks the operator out (docs/15 "Availability caveat").
-  # No secret is embedded here.
+  # import.yaml + live kcadm) is consumed via the SEMAPHORE_OIDC_PROVIDERS env (JSON blob held encrypted
+  # in the semaphore-bootstrap Secret, oidc-providers-json). The `groups` claim is exposed for
+  # authorization (R-IDP-06). Semaphore KEEPS its LOCAL admin as the break-glass path so an IdP outage
+  # never locks the operator out (docs/15 "Availability caveat"). No secret is embedded here.
 update:
  channel: stable               # R-UPD-01
  range: ">=2.19.0 <3.0.0"      # stay on the 2.x stable line
@@ -9,90 +9,18 @@ name: sonarr
 kind: container
 source:
  image: lscr.io/linuxserver/sonarr:4.0.15   # pinned stable v4 tag (R-UPD-01); update.range governs advancement
-# LinuxServer images run their service as the user `abc`, whose uid/gid these two set. They are
-# LOAD-BEARING for the bulk mount, not cosmetic: see the storage note below. The default is 911,
-# which cannot write a 1000:3000-owned 0755 tree.
-env:
-  - name: PUID
-    value: "1000"               # owner uid of every directory under /mnt/Storage/plex
-  - name: PGID
-    value: "3000"               # dominant group there; keeps files this writes readable to the
-                                # EXISTING non-k3s consumers of the same export, which stay live
-  - name: TZ
-    value: Etc/UTC              # same safe default plex uses; the arrs schedule by local time
-podSecurityContext:
-  # For the LONGHORN config PVC only. fsGroup does nothing on the NFS volume (the in-tree plugin
-  # does no ownership management), but on a Longhorn filesystem the kubelet applies it, which is
-  # what makes /config writable by the now-uid-1000 process WITHOUT relying on the image chowning
-  # /config for itself when PUID changes. Matches PGID so the primary group owns the config too.
-  fsGroup: 3000
-exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at sonarr.${BASE_DOMAIN} (docs/13 row 2; R-DNS/R-NET)
+exposure: internal              # LAN-only web UI at sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev (docs/13 row 2; R-DNS/R-NET)
 egress: vpn                     # indexer scrape + downloader handoff steered via the shared VPN egress gateway,
                                # kill-switch enforced OUTSIDE the workload (docs/03; ADR-0015; R-NET-05/06)
 storage:
  - name: config
    size: 5Gi
    class: longhorn             # app DB / config on the 3-replica tier; DR-critical (docs/04; R-STATE-02)
-    mountPath: /config          # THE APP WRITES /config, NOT the renderer default /data/config.
-                                # LSIO images run with `-data=/config` (Jackett/qBittorrent likewise use
-                                # /config), so without this the Longhorn PVC mounted at /data/config sat
-                                # holding nothing but lost+found while the app wrote its entire
-                                # configuration to the container's EPHEMERAL writable layer — destroyed on
-                                # every pod recreation: restart, reschedule, image bump. Measured in-cluster
-                                # 2026-09-12: /data/config was dev=2080 with [lost+found], /config was
-                                # dev=2053 on the node's own disk with [Sentry asp config.xml logs].
-                                # This is the SAME failure catalog/plex.yaml:54 already records fixing.
-                                # The live /config contents were copied onto each PVC before this landed,
-                                # so API keys and credentials other apps reference were preserved.
-  # THE MEDIA TREE (docs/04 bulk tier) — ONE read-WRITE mount of the export ROOT at /media, giving
-  # /media/tv (the library) and /media/downloads (the import source) UNDER THE SAME MOUNT.
-  #
-  # *** THE ROOT MOUNT IS THE POINT, NOT A CONVENIENCE. *** Sonarr imports by HARDLINKING or
-  # atomically renaming a finished download into the library. Both are same-FILESYSTEM operations,
-  # and to the kernel "same filesystem" means SAME MOUNT. The layout on the host is:
-  #     /mnt/Storage/plex/tv/                      the library
-  #     /mnt/Storage/plex/downloads/complete/tv-sonarr/  where finished releases land
-  # — siblings under one dataset, so a hardlink between them is legal on the server. But mounting
-  # them as two subPath volumes (subPath: tv at /media/tv, subPath: downloads elsewhere) creates
-  # TWO mounts, and link() across mounts fails EXDEV no matter what the server thinks. Sonarr then
-  # silently degrades to copy-then-delete: every import rewrites the whole file over NFS and the
-  # seeding copy is destroyed. Their smallest common ancestor IS the export root, so the root mount
-  # is the MINIMAL mount that preserves hardlinks — least privilege bounded below by a hard
-  # requirement, not a shortcut. (The cost is stated plainly: Sonarr can also write /media/movies,
-  # which is radarr's. Narrowing that would cost hardlinks, which is a worse trade.)
-  #
-  # *** /media, NOT /data — AND THAT IS NOT A STYLE CHOICE. *** The config PVC above renders at the
-  # renderer default /data/config. A media mount at /data would be mounted OVER it and MASK the
-  # config volume entirely; the pod would come up with its app database shadowed by an 8 T media
-  # tree. /media collides with nothing in a LinuxServer image and matches the path plex uses for
-  # the same export, so when qbittorrent is eventually given this mount too, the arrs and the
-  # download client will already agree on absolute paths — which is the other precondition for
-  # hardlinked imports (otherwise every import needs a Remote Path Mapping).
-  #
-  # SEPARATE LATENT BUG, NOT FIXED HERE (deliberately — it changes live on-disk state): /data/config
-  # is almost certainly the wrong place for this PVC in the first place. LinuxServer's arr images run
-  # with `-data=/config`, so the app writes /config — the container's EPHEMERAL layer — while the
-  # Longhorn PVC at /data/config sits unused. That is the EXACT failure plex's own mountPath comment
-  # documents having already been bitten by. Fixing it means starting from an empty config volume, so
-  # it belongs in its own change with the operator present.
-  #
-  # UID/GID — THE FAILURE THIS AVOIDS IS "MOUNTS FINE, CANNOT WRITE". The export is no_root_squash
-  # + sec=sys, so the client's numeric uid is passed through verbatim and the server's ownership is
-  # the whole story. The tree is 0755 owned 1000:3000 (some dirs 1000:1000), so ONLY uid 1000 can
-  # write it. LinuxServer images default to PUID/PGID 911 — which would mount cleanly and then fail
-  # every import with EACCES. The PUID/PGID set above make the process uid 1000, matching the owner.
-  #
-  # AND NOTE fsGroup CANNOT SUBSTITUTE FOR THAT. The in-tree NFS volume plugin performs no
-  # ownership management, so podSecurityContext.fsGroup is a NO-OP on this volume — it is not the
-  # lever here, and reaching for it is how this failure normally gets misdiagnosed. The fsGroup
-  # that IS set above exists for the LONGHORN config PVC, so that changing PUID does not depend on
-  # the image re-chowning /config for itself.
-  - name: media
-    class: bulk
-    export: /mnt/Storage/plex   # the ZFS dataset Storage/plex, on ${BULK_NFS_SERVER}
-    mountPath: /media           # => /media/tv (Root Folder) and /media/downloads (import source)
-    size: 9Ti                   # ADVISORY ONLY on a static NFS PV: the dataset's 8.33 T used,
-                                # rounded up, so `kubectl get pv` reports something true.
+  # NOTE (bulk-media PREREQUISITE): docs/13 row 2 places the media library / downloads volume on the
+  # `bulk` tier (docs/04 bulk storage). The `bulk` StorageClass exists (platform/longhorn/storageclasses.yaml)
+  # but is a NON-provisioning STUB pending OQ-2 (NFS/SMB backing = REPLACE-ME). Adding a `class: bulk`
+  # volume now would leave the PVC (and therefore the pod) Pending. The media/downloads volume is
+  # therefore DEFERRED until OQ-2 is resolved; config-only on longhorn keeps Sonarr deployable today.
 dependencies:
  - to: qbittorrent             # arr → download client (docs/13 dependency graph; R-NET-02 explicit allow)
    port: 8080
@@ -101,17 +29,12 @@ dependencies:
    port: 9117
    protocol: tcp
 ingressRoutes:
-  - host: sonarr.${BASE_DOMAIN}
+  - host: sonarr.home.keithjackson.dev
    port: 8989                  # Sonarr web/API; TLS terminates at the shared Gateway (docs/08, docs/09)
 auth:
  mode: forward-auth            # bare UI, no usable OIDC: oauth2-proxy → Keycloak at the Gateway (docs/15; R-IDP-02)
  groups:
    - media-users               # authenticated AND in the media group (R-IDP-06)
-    # See catalog/jackett.yaml for the full rationale: --allowed-group is repeatable and OR-ed, so
-    # platform-admins here is a superset, not a widening (that group already carries cluster-admin
-    # via k8s-oidc-rbac.yaml). Without it, an empty media-users locks every operator out with an
-    # immediate 403 at the oauth2-proxy callback — observed on prod 2026-09-12.
-    - platform-admins           # operators of these services must not be locked out of them
 update:
  channel: stable               # R-UPD-01
  range: ">=4.0.0 <5.0.0"       # stay on the Sonarr v4 stable line
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 # ci/Makefile — portable, single-command local equivalent of the Gitea Actions
 # merge gate (R-TEST-02: the gates are runnable TODAY, without Gitea).
 #
-# The LIVE Gitea Actions workflow (.gitea/workflows/gate.yml) invokes `make -C ci gate`
-# directly, so `make -C ci gate` locally IS the CI merge gate — byte-for-byte. Run from
-# anywhere:
+# The Gitea Actions workflow (.gitea/workflows/merge-gate.yaml) calls these exact
+# scripts, so `make -C ci gate` locally == the CI merge gate. Run from anywhere:
 #   make -C ci gate
 #
 # Every stage is a thin wrapper over a ci/*.sh script; see ci/README.md.
@@ -12,7 +11,7 @@ CI_DIR := $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))

 .DEFAULT_GOAL := help

-.PHONY: help spec-immutability decisions-log lint schema l0 render-golden l1 conformance gate all touched versions tools test
+.PHONY: help spec-immutability lint schema l0 render-golden l1 conformance gate all touched versions tools

 help: ## Show this help
 	@awk 'BEGIN{FS=":.*##"} /^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+:.*##/{printf "  \033[36m%-14s\033[0m %s\n",$$1,$$2}' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
@@ -29,18 +28,9 @@ schema l0: ## ServiceDefinition schema validation + Kyverno L0 policy gate (no c
 render-golden: ## render==golden: canonical render reproduces committed apps/ (no cluster; live now)
 	@"$(CI_DIR)render-golden.sh"

-decisions-log: ## handoff log: DECISIONS-LOG.md frozen, decisions/ entries well-formed (no cluster)
-	@"$(CI_DIR)decisions-log.sh"
-
 l1: ## L1 rendering checks (no cluster; live now)
 	@"$(CI_DIR)l1.sh"

-approval-policy: ## CI is the approver; sensitive paths still need a human (needs PR_NUMBER + token)
-	@./approval-policy.sh
-
-gitea-settings: ## Gitea branch protection + runners match infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json (SKIPS w/o GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN)
-	@./gitea-settings.sh
-
 conformance: ## L2/L3 in-cluster Chainsaw Job (SKIPS w/o CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true)
 	@"$(CI_DIR)conformance.sh"

@@ -52,13 +42,6 @@ all: gate ## Alias for `gate`
 touched: ## Print the touched-requirement subset for the current branch vs main
 	@"$(CI_DIR)touched-requirements.sh"

-test: ## Run ci/ script unit tests (no cluster; e.g. touched-requirements content scan)
-	@rc=0; for t in "$(CI_DIR)"tests/*.test.sh; do \
-	  echo "== $$t"; bash "$$t" || rc=1; \
-	done; \
-	if [ $$rc -ne 0 ]; then echo "ci/tests: FAILED" >&2; else echo "ci/tests: all suites passed"; fi; \
-	exit $$rc
-
 versions: ## Print pinned tool versions (R-TEST-02)
 	@cat "$(CI_DIR)versions.env"

@@ -1,19 +1,5 @@
 # `ci/` — portable merge gate (runnable today, without Gitea)

-> **STATUS NOTE (2026-09-29) — read before trusting the "Phase 0" framing below.**
-> This document speaks as though no cluster exists and the platform is scaffolding. **A
-> three-node k3s cluster has existed for weeks** and Flux has been reconciling against it.
-> Gitea is live, the Actions runner `incluster-dind` is online, and `main` is a protected
-> branch. Where the text says "Phase 0", "stub", or "no cluster exists", read it as
-> describing a **live gap** rather than an expected stage — most importantly, L2/L3
-> conformance still does not run in CI (`vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` is unset), which is a real
-> coverage hole, not a phase.
->
-> This mismatch is not cosmetic. A month of "the gate enforces this" claims rested on
-> documentation rather than measurement, and `main` was unprotected with zero runners
-> registered the whole time. **Query the live API before asserting platform state.**
-
-
 **Task T-0.2 · R-TEST-02 (reproducible, single-command) · Owner WS-GITOPS (CI).**

 The same merge gate the Gitea Actions workflow runs
@@ -34,118 +20,17 @@ Individual stages:

 ```bash
 make -C ci lint        # yaml/lint                          (no cluster; live now)
-make -C ci l0          # schema + Kyverno + L0 static conformance (no cluster; live now)
+make -C ci l0          # ServiceDefinition schema + Kyverno  (no cluster; live now)
 make -C ci l1          # L1 rendering checks                 (no cluster; live now)
 make -C ci conformance # L2/L3 in-cluster Chainsaw Job       (SKIPS unless CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true)
-make -C ci test        # unit tests for these scripts themselves (ci/tests/*.test.sh)
 ```

-The `l0` stage has three sub-stages: ServiceDefinition schema validation, the Kyverno policy gate
-(`kyverno test`), and **`conformance/run.sh --layer l0 --include-scope whole-repo`** — the whole-repo
-L0 invariants a per-resource policy cannot express (secret hygiene across every tracked file,
-least-privilege RBAC, spec-immutability enforcement). See `conformance/tests/README.md`.
-
-### `--include-scope whole-repo`: why the L0 sub-stage is not purely requirement-scoped
-
-R-TEST-03 runs the conformance subset a change **touches**. That has one blind spot, and it is the
-worst-shaped kind: an invariant that quantifies over the whole tracked tree, or over subtrees the
-coarse path→requirement map keys to *nothing* (`apps/`, `infra/`, most of `platform/`), cannot be
-selected *by* the requirements a change touches — because **the change most likely to break it
-attributes no requirement at all**. Requirement-scoped selection then filters the check out of
-exactly that change.
-
-This used to be handled by a hand-written "UNCONDITIONAL" stage per such check (3c subst-safety,
-3d keycloak-client-secrets, 3e bulk-tier): three near-identical rationales, three hardcoded
-`check.sh` paths, three copies of the same `rc 0/3/*` case block — and, worse, a mechanism that
-failed **silently**, because whoever added the next whole-repo invariant had to *remember* to write
-a stage. Those stages are gone. A test now **declares** `conformance.home.k3s/scope: "whole-repo"`
-and the runner unions every declaring test into the run. Adding the annotation is the only step.
-
-`rc 3` is preserved exactly as those stages had it: a **SKIP** of a scope-declared check means the
-tree it audits has vanished, so the runner exits `3`, `ci/l0.sh` sets the gate's own `rc=3`, and the
-gate reports SKIPPED — **never a pass**. The mechanism is itself proven, end-to-end and falsifiably,
-by `conformance/tests/l0-static/whole-repo-invariants-wired`; `conformance/lib/common.sh` carries the
-full rationale and the incidents behind it.
-
 ## Exit-code contract

 Every stage script uses: **`0` = pass · `1` = fail (blocks merge) · `3` = SKIPPED** (cluster-gated
 with no cluster, or an unwired seam / missing tool). A `3` is **never** counted as green — that is how
 the gate stays honest in Phase 0 (no fake green).

-### The gate's OWN verdict (changed 2026-09-13 — read this if you consume the exit code)
-
-**`MERGE GATE: PASS` + exit 0 means every stage that was supposed to run RAN and was GREEN.** It
-used to mean less than that: a FAILED stage set the block flag but a SKIPPED one only printed a
-warning, so the gate printed `l0: skipped (unwired seam / missing tool) — not green` and then
-`MERGE GATE: PASS`, exit 0. That happened for real twice — a missing `promtool` (the alert-rule
-unit tests) and a missing pinned `kyverno` CLI — and exit 0 is what automation reads as
-merge-approved. Fail-open in the one component whose whole job is to fail closed.
-
-| verdict | exit | meaning |
-|---|---|---|
-| `MERGE GATE: PASS` | `0` | every stage that was supposed to run ran and was green; the R-TEST-03 subset was checked. Any capability the environment **declared** out of scope is **named in the headline** (see below), so a PASS never implies more than it verified. |
-| `MERGE GATE: BLOCKED` | `1` | a stage FAILED, or a stage did not run **where it must**, or the decision input is unusable. |
-| `MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED` | `3` | nothing failed, but a stage did not run, so greenness was **not established**. Never a pass; non-zero so nothing can read it as approval. `3` is this repo's existing "not run" code, now spoken by the gate as a whole and not only by its stages. |
-| `MERGE GATE: NOT APPLICABLE` | `0` | there is no branch under gate at all (`HEAD` is on base — a push-to-`main` run). Stages ran; no subset was checked, and the headline says so. |
-
-Precedence: BLOCKED > UNDETERMINED > NOT APPLICABLE > PASS.
-
-**`make` masks the difference.** GNU make reports any recipe failure as its own exit `2`, so
-`make -C ci gate` collapses `1` and `3` into `2` (the headline still tells a human which it was). A
-caller that must distinguish them invokes `./ci/gate.sh` directly.
-
-### Which skips block, and why — a skip is not one thing
-
-| stage | a skip there means | verdict |
-|---|---|---|
-| `lint`, `l0`, `render-golden`, `l1` | a **pinned tool is absent** or a **wired seam went unwired** — it *could not run* | **BLOCKED** under strict skips (a CI runner: the toolchain is installed for us by `.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh`, so a skip is a defect); **UNDETERMINED** otherwise (a workstation missing a tool is a real local condition — still non-zero, still not a pass; the remedy is `infra/devcontainer/dev.sh`, which carries the pinned toolchain) |
-| `spec-immutability` (R-TEST-06) | the sibling spec repo is not checked out, so the spec **could not be verified** | **UNDETERMINED** — unverified is unverified. Deliberately *not* upgraded to BLOCKED by strict skips: the live runner does not check the spec repo out at all, so blocking would leave the only enforced status check permanently red for a reason no PR could clear. It is therefore the **one** skip whose non-answer a caller may knowingly tolerate, and `.gitea/workflows/gate.yml` does so in one visible line. `REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true` makes it a hard block once that checkout is wired. Locally: check the spec repo out beside this one, or set `SPEC_REPO` (`dev.sh` mounts a sibling automatically). |
-| `decisions-log` | **nothing** — this stage has no skip path. It reads only files in the tree under test and needs no tool and no cluster, so there is no environment in which it "could not run" | a reported skip is a **defect in the stage** and BLOCKS. The stage fails when the frozen `DECISIONS-LOG.md` is modified (which silently re-creates, for every *other* open branch, the tail-hunk conflict that made four of five PRs unmergeable on 2026-09-29) or when a `decisions/` entry is malformed. There is deliberately **no** `REQUIRE_DECISIONS_LOG` knob: a guard with an off switch is not a guard. See `decisions/README.md`. |
-| `conformance` (L2/L3) | `CLUSTER_AVAILABLE!=true` — the environment **declared** the capability absent (documented Phase-0 behaviour) | **does not deny a PASS**: a declared-inapplicable stage was never *supposed* to run. It is NAMED in the PASS headline and step summary, the touched requirements it would have covered are reported UNVERIFIED, and `REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS=true` (Phase 1+) turns that into a block. A skip **despite** `CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true` is a defect and BLOCKS. |
-
-That asymmetry is the whole rule: **declared-not-applicable may pass; could-not-run may not.**
-
-`GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true|false` decides strictness and is **declared, never sniffed** — `gate.yml`
-sets it on the gate step, because the workflow is the thing that knows it is CI. Unset, it falls
-back to `GITHUB_ACTIONS` / `CI` (set by the runner itself). A wrong answer in either direction
-cannot fail open: both branches are non-zero and neither is a PASS. Set it locally to rehearse CI
-strictness.
-
-Locked down by `ci/tests/gate-decision.test.sh` (47 assertions over the decision table: stubbed
-stage outcomes against the real `gate.sh`; 32 of them fail against the pre-2026-09-13 gate).
-
-### The touched-requirement subset can also be *undeterminable* (exit 3)
-
-`touched-requirements.sh` is the input to the R-TEST-03 decision. It resolves a diff base in this
-order, **verifying each candidate exists** before using it:
-
-```
-BASE_REF (explicit)  >  GITHUB_BASE_REF (Actions PR runs)  >  origin/main  >  main
-```
-
-If no candidate resolves, if there is no merge base, if the diff command fails, or if **HEAD is not
-ahead of the base** (you are sitting on `main`, or the branch is already merged), it prints a loud
-banner, writes **nothing** to stdout, and exits **3** — plus a machine-readable reason code
-(`on-base` / `no-base` / `diff-failed`) to `$TOUCHED_REASON_FILE` when that variable names a path.
-
-**Why this is not cosmetic.** Every one of those conditions used to degrade *silently* to an empty
-touched set and exit 0. An empty set means `conformance/run.sh` is invoked with no `--requirements`,
-which means its coverage `--require` gate never runs — so on 2026-08-31 the local gate printed
-`MERGE GATE: PASS` having checked nothing, while CI (correct base, 17 touched requirements) BLOCKED
-on real coverage debt. There is no silent narrowing left: the `HEAD~1` last resort and the two-dot
-diff fallback are both gone. Locked down by `ci/tests/touched-requirements-base.test.sh`.
-
-`gate.sh` turns exit 3 into an **UNDECIDED** merge decision, never a pass:
-
-| reason | headline | exit |
-|---|---|---|
-| `on-base` | `MERGE GATE: NOT APPLICABLE — no branch under gate` | 0 (a push-to-`main` CI run legitimately lands here; it just must not read as "my branch is green") |
-| `no-base`, `diff-failed` | `MERGE GATE: BLOCKED` | 1 (the environment cannot support a merge decision; refusing to decide must not look like deciding yes) |
-
-A stage that needs the subset (`l0.sh`, `l1.sh`) still runs its FULL layer as a superset sanity net
-in that case — nothing goes untested — and says plainly that the *scoped* check did not happen.
-
 ## Reproducibility (R-TEST-02)

 - **Version-pinned:** all tool versions live in [`versions.env`](versions.env) — the single source of
@@ -158,21 +43,16 @@ in that case — nothing goes untested — and says plainly that the *scoped* ch

 ```
 ci/
-  Makefile                 targets: lint · l0 · l1 · conformance · gate · touched · test · tools · versions
+  Makefile                 targets: lint · l0 · l1 · conformance · gate · touched · tools · versions
  versions.env             PINNED tool versions (R-TEST-02) — single source of truth
  lib.sh                   shared helpers: logging, tool checks, cluster detection, artifact paths
  yamllint.yaml            lint config for the yaml/lint stage
  lint.sh                  Stage: yaml/lint
-  l0.sh                    Stage: schema validation + Kyverno L0 gate + L0 static conformance
+  l0.sh                    Stage: ServiceDefinition schema validation + Kyverno L0 policy gate
  l1.sh                    Stage: L1 rendering checks (Chainsaw L1 via the conformance runner)
-                           (harness: platform/monitoring/tests/). Catches the two alerting bugs no
-                           other stage can see — permanently-firing and structurally INERT rules.
  conformance.sh           Stage: L2/L3 in-cluster Chainsaw Job (trigger + collect)
-  touched-requirements.sh  compute the R-* subset a change touches (drives the R-TEST-03 filter);
-                           exits 3 LOUDLY rather than guessing when the diff base is unreliable
+  touched-requirements.sh  compute the R-* subset a change touches (drives the R-TEST-03 filter)
  gate.sh                  run all stages + the merge decision (the single command)
-  tests/*.test.sh          unit tests for these scripts (`make -C ci test`), run against
-                           throwaway git repos via the REPO_ROOT override — no network, no cluster
  README.md                this file
 ```

@@ -187,7 +67,7 @@ below are this workstream's **assumptions** — flagged for the PM to verify at
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | ServiceDefinition schema validator | WS-GITOPS · **T-0.3** (`schemas/`) | `SCHEMA_VALIDATE_CMD` | `schemas/validate.sh` | `validate.sh catalog/*.yaml` → exit 0/1; `--version` supported |
 | Kyverno L0 policies + tests | WS-TEST · **T-0.5** (`platform/kyverno/`) | `KYVERNO_POLICY_DIR` | `platform/kyverno` | contains `kyverno-test.yaml` files discoverable by `kyverno test <dir>` |
-| Conformance runner (Chainsaw) | WS-TEST · **T-0.4** (`conformance/`) | `CONFORMANCE_CMD` | `conformance/run.sh` | `run.sh --layer <l0\|l1\|l2,l3> [--requirements R-A,R-B]`; artifacts land in `conformance/_artifacts/` |
+| Conformance runner (Chainsaw) | WS-TEST · **T-0.4** (`conformance/`) | `CONFORMANCE_CMD` | `conformance/run.sh` | `run.sh --layer <l1\|l2,l3> [--requirements R-A,R-B] [--trigger in-cluster-job] --junit <file> --coverage <dir>` |
 | Catalog (ServiceDefinitions) | WS-APPS | `CATALOG_DIR` | `catalog` | `*.yaml` ServiceDefinition files |

 Artifact locations (git-ignored): JUnit → `results/junit/*.xml`; coverage → `reports/coverage/**`.
@@ -202,15 +82,3 @@ its owner delivers a runnable entrypoint.
 `CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true` (env locally, `vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` in Gitea) makes the L2/L3 stage run and
 be **required**; anything else makes it **SKIP** (Phase 0). `REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS=true` (Phase 1+)
 turns any unverified cluster-needing touched requirement into a hard block.
-
-All four switches are read through one `truthy()` in `lib.sh`, so they spell "on" identically
-(`true|1|yes|y|on`, any case) and — the direction that matters — **anything else is OFF**: a
-misspelled `CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=ture` leaves the capability undeclared instead of silently claiming
-it, which can only make the gate stricter about what it says it verified.
-
-| switch | default | effect |
-|---|---|---|
-| `CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` | `false` | declares a cluster; L2/L3 then run and are required |
-| `REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS` | `false` | Phase 1+: an unverified cluster-needing touched requirement BLOCKS |
-| `REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION` | `false` | an unverifiable spec repo BLOCKS instead of UNDETERMINED |
-| `GATE_STRICT_SKIPS` | `auto` | `true` = a missing tool / unwired seam BLOCKS (CI); `auto` follows `GITHUB_ACTIONS`/`CI` |
@@ -1,117 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/approval-policy.sh — the CI/CD pipeline is the approver, EXCEPT for changes that alter
-# what the pipeline verifies or the security posture it rests on.
-#
-# THE POLICY, and why it is shaped this way.
-#
-# Operator intent (2026-09-29): "CI/CD pipeline is the end-all-be-all for approval. If the CI
-# pipeline is not good enough to be trusted for this, then it is not good enough to do its
-# intended job and needs to be improved. Manual approvers should only be for architecturally or
-# security relevant changes -- which is essentially the CI pipeline itself and kyverno policies."
-#
-# So `required_approvals` on the branch drops to 0 and the GATE decides. That is a real transfer
-# of authority, and it has exactly one hole: **a change to the gate cannot be gated by the gate.**
-# A PR that weakens a check would be approved by the weakened check. The same applies to the
-# admission policies, the Flux wiring that decides what reconciles, the SOPS recipients, and the
-# RBAC. Those are the "architecturally or security relevant" set, and this stage is what still
-# requires a human for them.
-#
-# The list is data, not code: infra/gitea/approval-policy.json, with a stated reason per entry so
-# it stays reviewable. Changing that list is itself a sensitive change (infra/gitea/**), so the
-# policy cannot be widened without a human.
-#
-# FAIL-CLOSED, DELIBERATELY DIFFERENT FROM gitea-settings.sh. That stage skips when its token is
-# missing, because an unwired credential blocking every PR is a lock-out. Here the reverse is
-# true: if this cannot evaluate, an unreviewed change to the gate itself could merge. A skip is a
-# BYPASS, not a gap. So: cannot determine -> BLOCK.
-#
-# EXIT CODES
-#   0  no sensitive paths touched (gate alone is sufficient), OR sensitive paths touched and a
-#      non-author APPROVED review is present
-#   1  sensitive paths touched without such a review, OR the policy could not be evaluated
-set -euo pipefail
-CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-REPO_ROOT="$(cd "${CI_DIR}/.." && pwd)"
-# shellcheck disable=SC1091
-source "${CI_DIR}/lib.sh"
-
-log "Stage: approval policy (CI approves; humans approve changes to CI)"
-
-DECL="${REPO_ROOT}/infra/gitea/approval-policy.json"
-[ -f "$DECL" ] || die "approval policy declaration missing: ${DECL}"
-require_tool jq
-require_tool python3
-
-# Not a PR -> nothing to gate. A push to main is already merged, and direct pushes are refused
-# by branch protection, so this is genuinely not-applicable rather than a skipped check.
-EVENT="${GITHUB_EVENT_NAME:-${EVENT_NAME:-}}"
-PR="${PR_NUMBER:-}"
-if [ "$EVENT" != "pull_request" ] || [ -z "$PR" ] || [ "$PR" = "null" ]; then
-  ok "not a pull_request event (event='${EVENT:-none}') — approval policy N/A"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-GITEA_URL="${GITEA_URL:-https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev}"
-GITEA_REPO="${GITEA_REPO:-Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl}"
-TOKEN="${SETTINGS_API_TOKEN:-${GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN:-}}"
-if [ -z "$TOKEN" ]; then
-  err "no SETTINGS_API_TOKEN — cannot read this PR's changed files or its reviews."
-  err "  BLOCKING. A skip here would let an unreviewed change to the gate itself merge."
-  summary "- approval-policy: **BLOCKED — cannot evaluate** (no token; a skip here is a bypass)"
-  exit 1
-fi
-api() { curl -sS --max-time 20 -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" "$@"; }
-
-FILES_JSON="$(api "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${GITEA_REPO}/pulls/${PR}/files?limit=1000" || true)"
-PR_JSON="$(api "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${GITEA_REPO}/pulls/${PR}" || true)"
-REVIEWS_JSON="$(api "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${GITEA_REPO}/pulls/${PR}/reviews" || true)"
-for v in FILES_JSON PR_JSON REVIEWS_JSON; do
-  jq -e . >/dev/null 2>&1 <<<"${!v}" || {
-    err "could not read ${v} from Gitea for PR #${PR} — BLOCKING rather than assuming."
-    summary "- approval-policy: **BLOCKED — Gitea unreadable**"
-    exit 1; }
-done
-
-AUTHOR="$(jq -r '.user.login // empty' <<<"$PR_JSON")"
-[ -n "$AUTHOR" ] || { err "could not determine PR author — BLOCKING"; exit 1; }
-
-# NOTE: the PR file list goes in via an ENV VAR, not a second stdin redirect. `python3 - <<EOF`
-# already consumes stdin for the script; adding `<<<"$json"` silently wins and the script body is
-# never read. Caught before shipping, by running it.
-SENSITIVE="$(FILES_JSON="$FILES_JSON" DECL="$DECL" python3 -c '
-import json, os, fnmatch
-decl = json.load(open(os.environ["DECL"]))
-files = [f.get("filename", "") for f in json.loads(os.environ["FILES_JSON"])]
-pats = decl["sensitive_paths"]
-hits = sorted({f for f in files for p in pats
-               if fnmatch.fnmatch(f, p) or (p.endswith("/**") and f.startswith(p[:-2]))})
-print("\n".join(hits))
-')"
-
-if [ -z "$SENSITIVE" ]; then
-  ok "no architecturally/security-relevant paths touched — the GATE is the approver."
-  summary "- approval-policy: **green** (CI approves; no sensitive paths touched)"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-echo "  sensitive paths touched:" >&2
-printf '    %s\n' $SENSITIVE >&2
-
-APPROVER="$(jq -r --arg a "$AUTHOR" \
-  '[.[] | select(.state == "APPROVED") | select(.user.login != $a) | .user.login] | first // empty' \
-  <<<"$REVIEWS_JSON")"
-
-if [ -n "$APPROVER" ]; then
-  ok "approved by '${APPROVER}' (author '${AUTHOR}') — sensitive change is human-reviewed."
-  summary "- approval-policy: **green** (sensitive paths approved by \`${APPROVER}\`)"
-  exit 0
-fi
-
-err "This PR changes the pipeline or the security posture it rests on, and has NO approving"
-err "  review from anyone other than its author ('${AUTHOR}')."
-err "  A change to the gate cannot be gated by the gate — that is the one thing CI cannot"
-err "  honestly approve for itself. Get a human review, or move the change out of:"
-printf '    %s\n' $SENSITIVE >&2
-err "  The list lives in infra/gitea/approval-policy.json, with a reason per entry."
-summary "- approval-policy: **BLOCKED — sensitive paths need a non-author approval**"
-exit 1
@@ -47,11 +47,7 @@ fi
 # (conformance/lib/common.sh) now unions a comma/space list of layers, so this is a single
 # invocation with one aggregated report (no per-layer looping needed). Artifacts are then
 # COLLECTED from the fixed location below.
-# --include-scope: union the touched subset with every L2/L3 test DECLARING
-# `conformance.home.k3s/scope: whole-repo` (none today — wired once, here, so a future
-# whole-repo behavioural invariant needs only the annotation; see conformance/lib/common.sh).
-: "${WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE:=whole-repo}"
-"$CONFORMANCE_CMD" --layer l2,l3 --include-scope "$WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE" "${req_args[@]}"
+"$CONFORMANCE_CMD" --layer l2,l3 "${req_args[@]}"

 CONF_ART="$(dirname "$CONFORMANCE_CMD")/_artifacts"
 if [ -f "${CONF_ART}/report.junit.xml" ]; then
@@ -61,45 +57,5 @@ if [ -d "${CONF_ART}/coverage" ]; then
  cp -r "${CONF_ART}/coverage/." "${COVERAGE_DIR}/"
 fi

-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# DID IT ACTUALLY RUN? -- the guard without which this stage FAKES A GREEN.
-#
-# run.sh exits 0 in "scaffold mode" when it cannot reach a cluster: it emits a JUnit file
-# whose every testcase is <skipped> and returns success. That is correct FOR run.sh -- an
-# honest skip is its documented no-cluster behaviour. It is catastrophic HERE, because
-# reaching this point means the environment DECLARED CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true, and this stage
-# would otherwise print "L2/L3 conformance passed" over 54 tests that never executed.
-#
-# MEASURED 2026-09-29, before this guard existed:
-#   CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true ./ci/conformance.sh   ->  rc=0
-#   "[junit] wrote skipped JUnit for 54 scaffolded test(s)"
-#   "[ ok ] L2/L3 conformance passed for touched subset"
-# One Gitea variable away from a fake green on an enforcing merge gate. That is exactly the
-# HARD RULE 4 violation this repo's whole gate design exists to prevent, and nothing caught
-# it because nobody had ever set the variable.
-#
-# A skip while a cluster is DECLARED is a contradiction: either the declaration is wrong or
-# the cluster is unreachable. The merge-gate decision matrix already says this case is BLOCK
-# ("conformance skipped while CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true -> BLOCK (it should have run)"). This
-# makes the stage itself honour that instead of reporting a pass.
-JUNIT="${CONF_ART}/report.junit.xml"
-if [ -f "$JUNIT" ]; then
-  total="$(grep -o '<testcase' "$JUNIT" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
-  skipped="$(grep -o '<skipped' "$JUNIT" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')"
-  if [ "${total:-0}" -gt 0 ] && [ "${skipped:-0}" -ge "${total:-0}" ]; then
-    err "CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true, but the L2/L3 suite SKIPPED every one of its ${total} tests"
-    err "  (scaffold mode -- run.sh could not reach a cluster and exited 0)."
-    err "  This stage will NOT report that as a pass. Either the cluster is unreachable from"
-    err "  this runner, or CLUSTER_AVAILABLE is set when it should not be."
-    err "  NOTE: the in-cluster trigger path is still UNIMPLEMENTED -- see"
-    err "  docs/plans/l2-l3-conformance-ci-wiring.md. Setting CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true does not"
-    err "  by itself make L2/L3 run; it only makes this stage attempt a LOCAL run that the CI"
-    err "  runner has no credential for (automountServiceAccountToken: false, by design)."
-    summary "- conformance-l2-l3: **BLOCKED — declared available but every test skipped** (not a pass)"
-    exit 1
-  fi
-  log "L2/L3 executed: ${total} testcase(s), ${skipped} skipped"
-fi
-
 ok "L2/L3 conformance passed for touched subset"
 summary "- conformance-l2-l3: **passed**"
@@ -1,195 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/decisions-log.sh — the handoff log is a DIRECTORY, and the old single file is frozen.
-#
-# WHY THIS STAGE EXISTS
-# ---------------------
-# CLAUDE.md §7 tells every agent to record a handoff before finishing. Until 2026-09-29 that
-# meant appending to the tail of one 5,228-line file, DECISIONS-LOG.md. Every branch appended
-# to the SAME last hunk, so git could not auto-merge any two of them. Measured that day against
-# the live Gitea: four of the five open PRs were `mergeable: false`, and `git merge-tree`
-# against `main` named DECISIONS-LOG.md as the ONLY conflicting path in all four:
-#
-#   #22 fix/crafty-oauth2-proxy-signin       CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
-#   #20 feat/conformance-job-template        CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
-#   #19 feat/conformance-trigger-kubeconfig  CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
-#   #18 feat/conformance-runner-image        CONFLICT (content): DECISIONS-LOG.md
-#   #17 feat/ci-is-the-approver              clean — it wrote no handoff entry
-#
-# Nothing was wrong with any of those changes. The log's storage format serialised work that
-# was otherwise parallel, and the cost grew with every concurrent branch (N branches -> N-1
-# rebases, each invalidating the gate run before it).
-#
-# The fix is that handoffs now live one-per-file under decisions/, so concurrent branches touch
-# disjoint paths and there is nothing to merge. See decisions/README.md.
-#
-# WHY IT NEEDS A CHECK AND NOT JUST A DOCUMENT
-# --------------------------------------------
-# The old habit is written into this repo in many places — the runbooks, the muscle memory of
-# every agent that has read the log, and (until this change) CLAUDE.md itself. An agent that
-# appends to DECISIONS-LOG.md anyway does not fail: it produces a perfectly good-looking commit
-# that quietly re-creates the conflict for every other open branch, and the damage is only
-# visible later, to somebody else, in a PR that is not theirs. That is the exact shape this
-# repo keeps getting burned by — a silent regression with a delayed, misattributed symptom — so
-# it gets a guard rather than a paragraph.
-#
-# WHAT IS ASSERTED
-#   (1) DECISIONS-LOG.md is byte-identical to the SHA-256 pinned in decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256.
-#       Re-pinning is a deliberate, reviewable line in a diff; appending is not.
-#   (2) Every decisions/ entry is named YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md with a real calendar date, so the
-#       directory sorts chronologically and two agents cannot collide on a filename.
-#   (3) Every entry carries frontmatter (date, branch, title) whose `date` agrees with its
-#       filename — a disagreement means a copied template nobody edited.
-#   (4) Every entry has all three of CLAUDE.md §7's sections with a real body under each:
-#       "What changed", "What I verified", "What I did NOT verify". This is the quality floor
-#       that stops an entry degrading into "done ✅". The third heading is the load-bearing one:
-#       this repo's recurring failure is a confident report of something nobody measured, and an
-#       entry with nowhere to write "UNVERIFIED" does not get one written.
-#
-# EXIT CODES (ci/README.md contract): 0 pass, 1 BLOCKS the merge. This stage has NO skip path —
-# it reads only files that are in the tree it is run against, needs no tool beyond coreutils and
-# no cluster, so there is no environment in which it "could not run". Adding an rc 3 here would
-# add a fail-open surface to a guard whose whole job is to close one.
-set -uo pipefail
-CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-# shellcheck disable=SC1091
-source "${CI_DIR}/lib.sh"
-set +e   # aggregate every problem in one run; do not stop at the first.
-
-cd "$REPO_ROOT"
-
-ARCHIVE="DECISIONS-LOG.md"
-PIN="decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256"
-rc=0
-
-# ---- (1) the archive is frozen ----------------------------------------------
-log "Stage: decisions log (archive frozen + entries well-formed)"
-
-if [ ! -f "$ARCHIVE" ]; then
-  err "${ARCHIVE} is missing. It is the frozen pre-2026-09-29 history and must stay in the tree."
-  summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${ARCHIVE}\` missing)"
-  rc=1
-elif [ ! -f "$PIN" ]; then
-  err "${PIN} is missing, so the archive's integrity cannot be established."
-  err "  If you are re-pinning deliberately: sha256sum ${ARCHIVE} > ${PIN}"
-  summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${PIN}\` missing — archive unverifiable)"
-  rc=1
-else
-  want="$(awk 'NR==1{print $1}' "$PIN")"
-  got="$(sha256sum "$ARCHIVE" | awk '{print $1}')"
-  if [ "$want" != "$got" ]; then
-    err "${ARCHIVE} HAS CHANGED. It is a FROZEN ARCHIVE — do not append to it."
-    err "    pinned:  ${want}"
-    err "    on disk: ${got}"
-    err ""
-    err "  Every branch that appends to this file's tail conflicts with every other branch that"
-    err "  does, on the same hunk. That is what made four of five open PRs unmergeable on"
-    err "  2026-09-29, and your commit would re-create it for branches that are not yours."
-    err ""
-    err "  Write your handoff as its OWN FILE instead:"
-    err "    decisions/\$(date +%F)-<your-branch-slug>.md      (see decisions/README.md)"
-    err "  and restore the archive:  git checkout -- ${ARCHIVE}"
-    err ""
-    err "  If the archive genuinely must change (redacting a leaked credential, say), that is a"
-    err "  reviewed act: re-pin it with 'sha256sum ${ARCHIVE} > ${PIN}' and say why in your entry."
-    summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED — the frozen archive \`${ARCHIVE}\` was modified** (append to \`decisions/\` instead)"
-    rc=1
-  else
-    ok "${ARCHIVE}: unchanged (sha256 matches ${PIN})"
-  fi
-fi
-
-# ---- (2)(3)(4) every entry is well-formed ------------------------------------
-shopt -s nullglob
-entries=( decisions/[0-9]*.md )
-shopt -u nullglob
-
-# Zero entries is legitimate only until the first handoff lands; after that the glob always
-# matches. It is never an error here — a branch that changes no behaviour owes no handoff, and
-# CLAUDE.md, not this stage, is what asks for one.
-if [ "${#entries[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then
-  log "no decisions/ entries yet"
-fi
-
-REQUIRED_SECTIONS=("What changed" "What I verified" "What I did NOT verify")
-
-for f in "${entries[@]}"; do
-  base="${f#decisions/}"
-
-  # (2) filename
-  if [[ ! "$base" =~ ^([0-9]{4}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2})-([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*)\.md$ ]]; then
-    err "${f}: name must be decisions/YYYY-MM-DD-<slug>.md with a lowercase [a-z0-9-] slug."
-    err "  Use your branch's last segment as the slug — it is already unique per unit of work."
-    summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` misnamed)"
-    rc=1
-    continue
-  fi
-  fname_date="${BASH_REMATCH[1]}"
-
-  if ! date -d "$fname_date" +%F >/dev/null 2>&1 || [ "$(date -d "$fname_date" +%F)" != "$fname_date" ]; then
-    err "${f}: '${fname_date}' is not a real calendar date."
-    summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` — impossible date)"
-    rc=1
-    continue
-  fi
-
-  # (3) frontmatter
-  if [ "$(head -1 "$f")" != "---" ]; then
-    err "${f}: must open with a '---' YAML frontmatter block (date, branch, title)."
-    err "  See decisions/README.md for the template."
-    summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` — no frontmatter)"
-    rc=1
-    continue
-  fi
-  fm="$(awk 'NR==1&&$0=="---"{inb=1;next} inb&&$0=="---"{exit} inb{print}' "$f")"
-  missing_keys=()
-  for k in date branch title; do
-    grep -qE "^${k}:[[:space:]]*\S" <<<"$fm" || missing_keys+=("$k")
-  done
-  if [ "${#missing_keys[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-    err "${f}: frontmatter is missing a non-empty ${missing_keys[*]}."
-    summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` — frontmatter missing \`${missing_keys[*]}\`)"
-    rc=1
-    continue
-  fi
-  fm_date="$(grep -m1 -E '^date:' <<<"$fm" | sed -E 's/^date:[[:space:]]*//; s/[[:space:]"'\'']//g')"
-  if [ "$fm_date" != "$fname_date" ]; then
-    err "${f}: frontmatter date '${fm_date}' disagrees with the filename's '${fname_date}'."
-    err "  One of them was copied from a template and not edited; the log's ordering depends on both."
-    summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` — date disagrees with filename)"
-    rc=1
-    continue
-  fi
-
-  # (4) the three required sections, each with a real body
-  body_start="$(awk 'NR>1 && $0=="---" {print NR; exit}' "$f")"
-  [ -n "$body_start" ] || body_start=1
-  for want_sec in "${REQUIRED_SECTIONS[@]}"; do
-    hdr_line="$(awk -v s="$body_start" -v w="## ${want_sec}" 'NR>s && $0==w {print NR; exit}' "$f")"
-    if [ -z "$hdr_line" ]; then
-      err "${f}: missing the required section '## ${want_sec}'."
-      err "  CLAUDE.md §7 asks for what you changed, what you verified, and what you did NOT."
-      err "  All three are structure here, because the third is the one that gets dropped."
-      summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` — missing \`## ${want_sec}\`)"
-      rc=1
-      continue
-    fi
-    # A real body: at least 20 non-blank, non-heading characters before the next '## '.
-    nchars="$(awk -v s="$hdr_line" 'NR>s { if ($0 ~ /^## /) exit; print }' "$f" \
-             | tr -d '[:space:]' | wc -c)"
-    if [ "$nchars" -lt 20 ]; then
-      err "${f}: section '## ${want_sec}' is empty or a stub (${nchars} chars of content)."
-      err "  If nothing was verified, WRITE THAT — 'nothing was verified; the gate was not run'"
-      err "  is a valid and useful entry. A blank section is not."
-      summary "- decisions-log: **FAILED** (\`${f}\` — \`## ${want_sec}\` is a stub)"
-      rc=1
-    fi
-  done
-done
-
-if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; then
-  ok "decisions log: archive frozen, ${#entries[@]} entr$([ "${#entries[@]}" -eq 1 ] && echo y || echo ies) well-formed"
-  summary "- decisions-log: **passed** (archive frozen; ${#entries[@]} entries well-formed)"
-else
-  err "decisions log stage FAILED"
-fi
-exit "$rc"
@@ -7,75 +7,6 @@
 #   skip (3)  not run (cluster-gated stage w/ no cluster, or unwired seam) —
 #             NOT counted as green (HARD RULE 4: don't fake green)
 #
-# ...AND THREE OUTCOMES FOR THE GATE ITSELF (2026-09-13). Until today a stage that
-# SKIPPED only printed a warning ("— not green") and the gate then printed
-# `MERGE GATE: PASS` and exited 0 anyway. That is fail-open in the one component whose
-# entire job is to fail closed: a pinned tool missing from the runner, or a seam silently
-# becoming unwired, produced exit 0 and read as merge-approved. Observed live:
-# `prom-rules: skipped (missing tool) — not green` followed by `MERGE GATE: PASS`, and
-# `l0: skipped (kyverno CLI not installed)` likewise. The gate's own vocabulary already
-# had the answer — the 2026-08-31 "local false green" introduced UNDECIDED for exactly
-# this shape of non-answer — the offline stages just did not use it.
-#
-#   MERGE GATE: PASS           exit 0   every stage that was SUPPOSED TO RUN ran and was
-#                                       green, and the R-TEST-03 subset was checked.
-#   MERGE GATE: BLOCKED        exit 1   a stage FAILED, or a stage did not run WHERE IT
-#                                       MUST (see the per-stage rules below), or the
-#                                       decision input is unusable.
-#   MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED   exit 3   nothing failed, but a stage did not run, so
-#                                       greenness was NOT ESTABLISHED. Never a pass;
-#                                       non-zero so no automation can read it as approval.
-#                                       `3` is this repo's existing "not run / not
-#                                       established" code (ci/lib.sh), now spoken by the
-#                                       gate as a whole and not only by its stages.
-#   MERGE GATE: NOT APPLICABLE exit 0   there is no branch under gate at all (HEAD is on
-#                                       base) — a push-to-main CI run. Stages were green;
-#                                       no subset was checked, and the headline says so.
-#
-# NOTE ON `make`: GNU make reports ANY recipe failure as its own exit 2, so
-# `make -C ci gate` collapses 1 and 3 into 2 — a human sees the headline and that is enough.
-# A caller that must tell BLOCKED from UNDETERMINED invokes ./ci/gate.sh directly; to tolerate
-# an UNDETERMINED run it writes `./ci/gate.sh || [ $? -eq 3 ]`, the same explicit idiom
-# .gitea/workflows/gate.yml already used for its spec-immutability pre-step and now uses for
-# the gate itself (with GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true, so that tolerance can ONLY ever cover the
-# declared-environmental skip below — a missing tool on the runner is exit 1, untolerated).
-# TOLERATING A NON-ANSWER IS A VISIBLE, REVIEWED CHOICE IN THE CALLER. There is deliberately no
-# knob inside this script that turns UNDETERMINED into exit 0: that would be the fail-open this
-# change exists to remove, just relocated.
-#
-# WHICH SKIPS BLOCK, AND WHY (per stage — a skip is not one thing):
-#
-#   lint / l0 / render-golden / l1   A skip here means a PINNED tool is absent or a wired
-#     seam went unwired. On a CI runner the pinned toolchain is installed for us by
-#     .gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh, so a skip there is a DEFECT, not an
-#     environment: it BLOCKS. On a workstation a missing tool is a real local condition, so
-#     it degrades to UNDETERMINED (still non-zero, still never a pass). See strict_skips()
-#     in ci/lib.sh for how CI is detected and why misdetecting it cannot fail open.
-#
-#   spec-immutability (R-TEST-06)    A skip means the sibling spec repo is not checked out, so
-#     the spec COULD NOT BE VERIFIED. Never a pass — unverified is unverified — so it denies a
-#     PASS and yields UNDETERMINED. It is deliberately NOT upgraded to BLOCKED by CI strictness,
-#     because on the live runner it is not a defect anyone can fix from inside this repo: the
-#     workflow does not check the spec repo out at all (SPEC_REPO_SLUG is unwired — the blueprint
-#     lives in merge-gate.yaml), and blocking would leave the only enforced status check
-#     permanently red for a reason no PR could clear. So THIS is the one skip whose non-answer the
-#     CALLER may knowingly tolerate, and gate.yml does so in one visible line. Locally the
-#     remedy exists and the message names it: check the spec repo out beside this one, or point
-#     SPEC_REPO at it (infra/devcontainer/dev.sh mounts it automatically when it is a sibling).
-#     Set REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true (the counterpart of REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS) to make it a
-#     hard block once that checkout is wired.
-#
-#   conformance (L2/L3)              A skip when CLUSTER_AVAILABLE!=true is NOT a defect and
-#     NOT an accident: it is the environment DECLARING that the capability is absent, which
-#     is the documented Phase-0 behaviour. A declared-inapplicable stage was never "supposed
-#     to run", so it does not deny a PASS — the touched requirements it would have covered
-#     are still reported UNVERIFIED, and REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS=true (Phase 1+) turns that
-#     into a block. A skip DESPITE CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true is a defect and blocks, exactly as
-#     it already did. That asymmetry is the whole distinction this file now draws:
-#     DECLARED-not-applicable may pass; COULD-NOT-RUN may not. A declared gap is still NAMED in
-#     the PASS headline (see DECLARED_GAPS below), so a PASS never reads as "everything was
-#     verified" when a layer was declared out of scope.
-#
 # Phase 0 policy (no cluster): L0/L1 stages (lint, schema, kyverno, L1 render)
 # MUST be green. L2/L3 SKIP. If the touched subset needs L2/L3 and no cluster is
 # available, the gate reports those requirements UNVERIFIED and — unless
@@ -89,7 +20,6 @@ source "${CI_DIR}/lib.sh"
 set +e   # lib.sh enables -e; the gate must run ALL stages and aggregate, not abort.

 : "${REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS:=false}"
-: "${REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION:=false}"

 declare -A OUTCOME
 run_stage() {
@@ -108,171 +38,37 @@ summary "## Merge gate (R-TEST-03)"
 summary ""

 run_stage spec-immutability "${CI_DIR}/spec-immutability.sh"
-run_stage decisions-log "${CI_DIR}/decisions-log.sh"
 run_stage lint          "${CI_DIR}/lint.sh"
 run_stage l0            "${CI_DIR}/l0.sh"
 run_stage render-golden "${CI_DIR}/render-golden.sh"
 run_stage l1            "${CI_DIR}/l1.sh"
-run_stage approval-policy "${CI_DIR}/approval-policy.sh"
-run_stage gitea-settings "${CI_DIR}/gitea-settings.sh"
 run_stage conformance   "${CI_DIR}/conformance.sh"

 echo >&2
 log "==== gate decision ===="
 BLOCK=0
-# Stages that did NOT run and are tolerated here — but never as green. A non-empty list
-# means the gate could not establish greenness -> MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED, exit 3.
-NOT_ESTABLISHED=()
-# Stages the environment DECLARED inapplicable (today: L2/L3 with no cluster declared). These
-# do not deny a PASS — nothing was supposed to run — but they are named IN the PASS headline, so
-# "PASS" is never mistaken for "everything was verified".
-DECLARED_GAPS=()
-
-# --- R-TEST-03 input: the touched-requirement subset --------------------------
-# Computed ONCE here. ci/touched-requirements.sh exits 3 when it cannot establish a
-# reliable diff base; that used to degrade to an empty set, which silently disabled the
-# coverage `--require` gate and let the gate print "MERGE GATE: PASS" having checked
-# nothing (the 2026-08-31 local false green). An undeterminable subset is now surfaced
-# as an UNDECIDED merge decision, never as a pass.
-_reason_file="$(mktemp)"
-# NOTE: command substitution, NOT `mapfile < <(...)` — process substitution does not
-# propagate the child's exit status, and the whole point here is to SEE the exit 3.
-TOUCHED_OUT="$(TOUCHED_REASON_FILE="$_reason_file" "${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh")"
-TOUCHED_RC=$?
-TOUCHED_REASON="$(cat "$_reason_file" 2>/dev/null || true)"
-rm -f "$_reason_file"
-TOUCHED=()
-[ -n "$TOUCHED_OUT" ] && mapfile -t TOUCHED <<< "$TOUCHED_OUT"
-UNDECIDED=0
-SUBSET_BROKEN=0
-if [ "$TOUCHED_RC" -eq 3 ]; then
-  UNDECIDED=1
-  echo >&2
-  err "R-TEST-03 DECISION INPUT MISSING: the touched-requirement subset could not be"
-  err "  determined (${TOUCHED_REASON:-unknown}). The scoped coverage gate did NOT run."
-  summary "- **R-TEST-03 subset UNDETERMINED** (\`${TOUCHED_REASON:-unknown}\`) — the scoped coverage gate did not run."
-elif [ "$TOUCHED_RC" -ne 0 ]; then
-  # Any OTHER non-zero exit is a hard defect in the subset computation itself — an
-  # incomplete path->requirement map (a changed path matches no row) or an invalid row
-  # would report exactly this. The reasoning is taken from the unlanded
-  # fix/touched-requirements-fail-closed (47068ee): gate.sh special-cased ONLY exit 3, so
-  # any other non-zero exit left TOUCHED empty and UNDECIDED=0, and the decision below
-  # printed "MERGE GATE: PASS" having applied no coverage gate at all. Unreachable on
-  # `main` today (touched-requirements.sh exits only 0 or 3) and wired here so it is
-  # already closed the moment a fail-closed path map makes exit 1 reachable. A subset that
-  # cannot be computed is NOT an empty subset.
-  SUBSET_BROKEN=1
-  echo >&2
-  err "R-TEST-03 DECISION INPUT BROKEN: touched-requirements.sh exited ${TOUCHED_RC}"
-  err "  (${TOUCHED_REASON:-unknown}). Its output above names the paths/rows to fix."
-  summary "- **R-TEST-03 subset UNUSABLE** (\`${TOUCHED_REASON:-unknown}\`, exit ${TOUCHED_RC}) — the coverage gate could not be applied."
-elif [ "${#TOUCHED[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-  log "touched requirements: ${TOUCHED[*]}"
-fi

 # spec-immutability (R-TEST-06): a FAIL always blocks (the spec was modified/drifted).
-# A skip means the spec repo wasn't available to verify — UNVERIFIED, never green: it
-# denies a PASS (exit 3) and, with REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true, blocks outright. See the
-# file header for why this one is not upgraded to a block by CI detection alone.
+# A skip means the spec repo wasn't available to verify — surfaced, not green.
 case "${OUTCOME[spec-immutability]}" in
  fail) err  "spec-immutability: FAILED -> blocks merge (R-TEST-06)"; BLOCK=1 ;;
-  skip)
-    if truthy "$REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION"; then
-      err "spec-immutability: skipped (spec repo unavailable) and REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true -> blocks merge"
-      summary "- spec-immutability: **SKIPPED** (spec repo unavailable) — blocks merge (REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true)"
-      BLOCK=1
-    else
-      warn "spec-immutability: skipped (spec repo unavailable) — R-TEST-06 NOT VERIFIED, so"
-      warn "  this run cannot be a PASS. Check the spec repo out beside this one (or set"
-      warn "  SPEC_REPO) to verify it."
-      summary "- spec-immutability: **SKIPPED** (spec repo unavailable — R-TEST-06 not verified; not a pass)"
-      NOT_ESTABLISHED+=("spec-immutability")
-    fi ;;
+  skip) warn "spec-immutability: skipped (spec repo unavailable) — not verified" ;;
  pass) ok   "spec-immutability: green" ;;
 esac

-# approval-policy: the branch requires NO human approvals (required_approvals: 0) -- the GATE
-# is the approver, per operator intent. This stage is the single exception: a change to the
-# pipeline itself, the admission policies, the Flux wiring, the SOPS recipients or the RBAC
-# cannot honestly be approved BY the thing it changes, so those paths still need a human.
-#
-# It never SKIPS -- it exits 0 or 1 only, and blocks when it cannot evaluate. That is the
-# opposite of gitea-settings' tolerance and it is deliberate: there, a missing credential is a
-# lock-out; here, a missing credential would let an unreviewed change to the gate merge.
-case "${OUTCOME[approval-policy]}" in
-  fail) err "approval-policy: a sensitive change lacks a non-author approval -> blocks merge"; BLOCK=1 ;;
-  skip) err "approval-policy: did not run -- it is fail-closed by design, so treat as a block"; BLOCK=1 ;;
-  pass) ok  "approval-policy: green" ;;
-esac
-
-# gitea-settings: the ONLY check that can see Gitea's own database (branch protection +
-# runner registration). A FAIL is real drift and always blocks -- that is the whole point.
-# A SKIP means no token or unreachable Gitea, which is an UNWIRED CREDENTIAL, not a defect
-# in the change under test. It is deliberately NOT in the strict-skips loop below: making an
-# absent secret block every PR is precisely the lock-yourself-out failure this repo keeps
-# walking into (a required check with nothing able to satisfy it). So a skip denies a PASS
-# (exit 3) and says loudly what is unverified. Set REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true once the
-# token is wired, and the skip becomes a block as it should.
-case "${OUTCOME[gitea-settings]}" in
-  fail) err "gitea-settings: Gitea DRIFTED from infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json -> blocks merge"; BLOCK=1 ;;
-  skip)
-    if truthy "${REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS:-false}"; then
-      err "gitea-settings: skipped and REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true -> blocks merge"
-      summary "- gitea-settings: **SKIPPED** (no token) — blocks merge (REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true)"
-      BLOCK=1
-    else
-      warn "gitea-settings: skipped (no GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN) — branch protection and runner"
-      warn "  registration are UNVERIFIED. Both were silently wrong for a month. Wire the token"
-      warn "  (infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh), then set REQUIRE_GITEA_SETTINGS=true."
-      summary "- gitea-settings: **SKIPPED** (no token — protection/runners unverified; not a pass)"
-      NOT_ESTABLISHED+=("gitea-settings")
-    fi ;;
-  pass) ok "gitea-settings: green" ;;
-esac
-
-# decisions-log: the handoff log's storage format. A FAIL means either the frozen archive
-# DECISIONS-LOG.md was modified — which re-creates, for every OTHER open branch, the tail-hunk
-# conflict that made four of five PRs unmergeable on 2026-09-29 — or a decisions/ entry is
-# malformed. Always blocks, and has no skip path by construction: the stage reads only files in
-# the tree under test and needs no tool or cluster, so there is no environment in which it
-# "could not run". A guard against a silent, delayed, misattributed regression must not itself
-# have a way to not-run.
-case "${OUTCOME[decisions-log]}" in
-  fail) err "decisions-log: FAILED -> blocks merge (see decisions/README.md)"; BLOCK=1 ;;
-  skip) err "decisions-log: reported SKIPPED, which this stage has no path to produce -> treat"
-        err "  as a defect in the stage itself and block."
-        summary "- decisions-log: **SKIPPED** (impossible by construction) — blocks merge"
-        BLOCK=1 ;;
-  pass) ok  "decisions-log: green" ;;
-esac
-
-# L0/L1 stages: any failure blocks. A SKIP here means a pinned tool is missing or a seam is
-# unwired — NEVER green. In CI (strict) that is a defect and blocks; on a workstation it
-# degrades to UNDETERMINED, which is still non-zero and still not a pass. render-golden is a
+# L0/L1 stages: any failure blocks. A SKIP here means a seam is unwired — in
+# Phase 0 that is tolerated (placeholders), but surfaced. render-golden is a
 # no-cluster reproducibility gate (canonical render == committed apps/ goldens):
 # a FAIL means a golden drifted from its ServiceDefinition source — always blocks.
 for s in lint l0 render-golden l1; do
  case "${OUTCOME[$s]}" in
    fail) err  "${s}: FAILED -> blocks merge"; BLOCK=1 ;;
-    skip)
-      if strict_skips; then
-        err "${s}: skipped (unwired seam / missing tool) under STRICT skips, where the pinned"
-        err "  toolchain is installed for us (.gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh) and every"
-        err "  seam is on main — so this is a DEFECT, not an environment -> blocks merge"
-        summary "- ${s}: **SKIPPED under strict skips** (unwired seam / missing tool) — blocks merge"
-        BLOCK=1
-      else
-        warn "${s}: skipped (unwired seam / missing tool) — not green, so this run cannot be a PASS"
-        summary "- ${s}: **SKIPPED** (unwired seam / missing tool) — not green"
-        NOT_ESTABLISHED+=("$s")
-      fi ;;
+    skip) warn "${s}: skipped (unwired seam / missing tool) — not green" ;;
    pass) ok   "${s}: green" ;;
  esac
 done

-# L2/L3 conformance: cluster-gated. The ONLY stage whose non-execution can still be a PASS,
-# because CLUSTER_AVAILABLE!=true is the environment DECLARING the capability absent rather
-# than the stage failing to run where it could have — see the file header.
+# L2/L3 conformance: cluster-gated.
 case "${OUTCOME[conformance]}" in
  fail)
    err "conformance (L2/L3): FAILED -> blocks merge"; BLOCK=1 ;;
@@ -281,86 +77,31 @@ case "${OUTCOME[conformance]}" in
  skip)
    if cluster_available; then
      err "conformance: skipped despite CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true -> blocks merge"; BLOCK=1
-    elif [ "$UNDECIDED" -eq 1 ]; then
-      warn "conformance L2/L3 UNVERIFIED, and the touched subset is unknown — nothing certified."
-      DECLARED_GAPS+=("conformance-l2-l3(no cluster declared)")
    else
-      if [ "${#TOUCHED[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-        reqs=("${TOUCHED[@]}")
+      mapfile -t reqs < <("${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh" || true)
+      if [ "${#reqs[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
        warn "conformance L2/L3 UNVERIFIED for touched requirements: ${reqs[*]}"
        warn "  (no cluster — Phase 0). These are NOT certified green."
        summary "- **UNVERIFIED (no cluster):** ${reqs[*]}"
-        if truthy "$REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS"; then
+        if [ "$REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS" = "true" ]; then
          err "REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS=true and cluster-needing requirements are unverified -> blocks merge"
          BLOCK=1
-        else
-          DECLARED_GAPS+=("conformance-l2-l3(no cluster declared; ${#TOUCHED[@]} touched reqs unverified)")
        fi
      else
        skip "conformance L2/L3 skipped; no cluster-needing requirements touched"
-        DECLARED_GAPS+=("conformance-l2-l3(no cluster declared)")
      fi
    fi ;;
 esac

-# An UNDECIDED subset is never a pass. Two outcomes, by reason:
-#   on-base  -> this checkout has no branch commits to gate (you are on main, or the
-#               branch is already merged; a push-to-main CI run lands here). Legitimate,
-#               so the job is not failed — but the headline says NOT APPLICABLE, never
-#               PASS, so nobody reads it as "my branch is green".
-#   anything -> the environment cannot support a merge decision (no base ref, broken
-#      else     diff). Refusing to decide must not look like deciding yes: BLOCK.
-if [ "$UNDECIDED" -eq 1 ] && [ "$TOUCHED_REASON" != "on-base" ]; then
-  err "cannot compute the R-TEST-03 subset (${TOUCHED_REASON:-unknown}) -> blocks merge"
-  BLOCK=1
-fi
-# An incomplete/invalid path map is not an environment problem to skip past: the change under
-# gate contains paths whose requirements are UNKNOWN, so no subset can be certified.
-if [ "$SUBSET_BROKEN" -eq 1 ]; then
-  err "R-TEST-03 subset unusable (${TOUCHED_REASON:-unknown}) -> blocks merge"
-  BLOCK=1
-fi
-
 echo >&2
-# Precedence: BLOCKED (something is wrong) > UNDETERMINED (a stage did not run, so
-# greenness was not established) > NOT APPLICABLE (nothing to gate) > PASS. UNDETERMINED
-# outranks NOT APPLICABLE because "no branch under gate" AND "a stage did not run" is two
-# reasons this is not a green run, and the stronger, non-zero one must be the headline.
-if [ "$BLOCK" -ne 0 ]; then
+if [ "$BLOCK" -eq 0 ]; then
+  ok "MERGE GATE: PASS (touched-requirement subset green for the layers that can run)"
+  summary ""
+  summary "**Result: PASS** — L0/L1 green. L2/L3 status per cluster availability above."
+  exit 0
+else
  err "MERGE GATE: BLOCKED"
  summary ""
  summary "**Result: BLOCKED** — see failures above."
  exit 1
-elif [ "${#NOT_ESTABLISHED[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-  err "MERGE GATE: UNDETERMINED — greenness was NOT ESTABLISHED."
-  err "  Stages that did not run: ${NOT_ESTABLISHED[*]}"
-  err "  Nothing FAILED, and nothing is certified either: a stage that did not run is not"
-  err "  green (HARD RULE 4). This is exit 3, never 0 — no automation may read it as"
-  err "  merge-approved. Fix the environment (install the pinned tool / wire the seam /"
-  err "  check out the spec repo) and run again, or accept it KNOWINGLY and explicitly:"
-  err "    ./ci/gate.sh || [ \$? -eq 3 ]"
-  summary ""
-  summary "**Result: UNDETERMINED** — these stages did not run, so nothing is certified: \`${NOT_ESTABLISHED[*]}\`. Not a pass (exit 3)."
-  exit 3
-elif [ "$UNDECIDED" -eq 1 ]; then
-  warn "MERGE GATE: NOT APPLICABLE — no branch under gate (${TOUCHED_REASON})."
-  warn "  The stages above ran and did not fail, but NO touched-requirement subset was"
-  warn "  checked. This is NOT a green branch: check out the branch you mean to gate"
-  warn "  (or set BASE_REF) and run it again."
-  summary ""
-  summary "**Result: NOT APPLICABLE** — no branch under gate (\`${TOUCHED_REASON}\`); the R-TEST-03 subset was not checked."
-  exit 0
-else
-  ok "MERGE GATE: PASS — every stage that was supposed to run RAN and was GREEN, and the"
-  ok "  R-TEST-03 touched-requirement subset was checked."
-  if [ "${#DECLARED_GAPS[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-    ok "  NOT verified here, because the environment DECLARED it out of scope (never a silent"
-    ok "  gap — Phase 0 by policy, see the header): ${DECLARED_GAPS[*]}"
-    summary ""
-    summary "**Result: PASS** — every stage that was supposed to run ran green. Declared out of scope (NOT verified): \`${DECLARED_GAPS[*]}\`."
-  else
-    summary ""
-    summary "**Result: PASS** — every stage that was supposed to run ran green; nothing was declared out of scope."
-  fi
-  exit 0
 fi
@@ -1,133 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/gitea-settings.sh — Stage: the Gitea platform settings that gate this repo still
-# match what git declares.
-#
-# WHY THIS STAGE EXISTS AT ALL
-# ----------------------------
-# Every other check in this repo reads the repository, the rendered manifests, or the
-# cluster. NONE of them can see Gitea's own database — and that is where branch
-# protection and runner registration live. On 2026-09-29 that blind spot was measured:
-#
-#   * `main` had NO branch protection, and
-#   * ZERO Actions runners were registered,
-#
-# for roughly a month, while DECISIONS-LOG.md recorded both as working and every agent
-# and human in the loop repeated that claim because the repository said so. PR #1 — the
-# first pull request this repo ever had — sat `pending` for 30.6 minutes with nothing to
-# execute it. Later the same day `enable_status_check` and `required_approvals` were turned
-# on and STILL did not bite, because `block_admin_merge_override` was false; PRs #5-#9
-# merged with zero approvals recorded against `required_approvals: 1`.
-#
-# Three separate failures, one shape: a setting that READ as enforced while not being, with
-# no mechanism anywhere that could notice. Scripts that ASSERT the desired state
-# (infra/gitea/*.sh) do not detect drift from it. This stage is the detector.
-#
-# WHAT IT ASSERTS
-#   1. every key in infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json `.protection` matches the
-#      LIVE rule at /repos/{repo}/branch_protections/{branch}, exactly;
-#   2. at least `.runners_online_min` Actions runners report status "online".
-#
-# (2) is not decoration. A required status check with no runner is the deadlock this repo
-# nearly walked into: every PR pends forever, including the one that would fix it.
-#
-# READ THE RULE OBJECT, NOT THE BRANCH VIEW. /repos/{repo}/branches/{branch} reports
-# `protected`, `enable_status_check` and `required_approvals` but NOT
-# `block_admin_merge_override` — it showed all-green while the rule was overridable by the
-# only account that merges. This stage queries /branch_protections/ deliberately.
-#
-# EXIT CODES (the gate contract)
-#   0  live Gitea matches the declaration
-#   1  DIVERGENCE — something drifted, or was never applied. Blocks the merge.
-#   3  SKIP — no token, or Gitea unreachable. Never a pass; see gate.sh, which treats this
-#      skip like spec-immutability's (UNDETERMINED, exit 3) rather than a hard block, so
-#      that an unwired credential cannot lock the repository.
-#
-# TO WIRE IT: create a Gitea repo secret SETTINGS_API_TOKEN (a token that can read repo
-# settings) — infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh does it. Until then this stage skips LOUDLY and
-# the drift it exists to catch is still undetected.
-#
-# NOT `GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN`. This comment named that until 2026-09-29 and it instructed the
-# reader to do something IMPOSSIBLE: Gitea reserves the `GITEA_` prefix for secret names and
-# rejects the PUT with HTTP 400 "invalid secret name". That is not a style rule — it is why the
-# detector sat inert for hours while a token existed and no secret did. The env var below still
-# accepts GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN, but only for a LOCAL run: it can never be the CI wiring, because
-# the secret that would feed it cannot be created at all.
-set -euo pipefail
-CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-REPO_ROOT="$(cd "${CI_DIR}/.." && pwd)"
-# shellcheck disable=SC1091
-source "${CI_DIR}/lib.sh"
-
-log "Stage: Gitea platform settings match the declaration"
-
-DECL="${REPO_ROOT}/infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json"
-GITEA_URL="${GITEA_URL:-https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev}"
-GITEA_REPO="${GITEA_REPO:-Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl}"
-# SETTINGS_API_TOKEN, not GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN. Gitea RESERVES the `GITEA_` prefix for
-# secret names and rejects a PUT of one with HTTP 400 "invalid secret name" — the same way
-# GitHub reserves `GITHUB_`. The original name could therefore never be stored, and because
-# infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh sent that PUT to /dev/null and printed "stored" unconditionally,
-# it looked like it had worked. A token was minted, no secret existed, and this stage would
-# have skipped forever. GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN is still honoured for a local run.
-TOKEN="${SETTINGS_API_TOKEN:-${GITEA_SETTINGS_TOKEN:-}}"
-
-[ -f "$DECL" ] || die "declaration missing: ${DECL}"
-require_tool jq
-require_tool curl
-
-if [ -z "$TOKEN" ]; then
-  skip "SETTINGS_API_TOKEN is not set — cannot read the live Gitea rule."
-  skip "  Branch protection and runner registration are therefore UNVERIFIED. They were"
-  skip "  wrong, unnoticed, for a month (2026-09-29). Wire it: infra/gitea/set-ci-token.sh"
-  summary "- gitea-settings: **SKIPPED — no token** (protection + runners UNVERIFIED; not a pass)"
-  exit 3
-fi
-
-api() { curl -sS --max-time 20 -H "Authorization: token ${TOKEN}" "$@"; }
-
-BRANCH="$(jq -r '.branch' "$DECL")"
-LIVE="$(api "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/repos/${GITEA_REPO}/branch_protections/${BRANCH}" || true)"
-if [ -z "$LIVE" ] || ! jq -e 'type == "object" and has("branch_name")' >/dev/null 2>&1 <<<"$LIVE"; then
-  skip "could not read the branch-protection rule from ${GITEA_URL} (unreachable, or the token"
-  skip "  lacks permission). Not treating this as a pass."
-  summary "- gitea-settings: **SKIPPED — Gitea unreadable** (not a pass)"
-  exit 3
-fi
-
-RC=0
-
-# --- 1. every declared protection key must match the live rule, exactly ---------------
-while IFS= read -r key; do
-  want="$(jq -Sc --arg k "$key" '.protection[$k]' "$DECL")"
-  got="$(jq -Sc --arg k "$key" 'if has($k) then .[$k] else "<<ABSENT>>" end' <<<"$LIVE")"
-  if [ "$want" = "$got" ]; then
-    ok "  ${key} = ${got}"
-  else
-    err "  ${key}: DECLARED ${want} but LIVE is ${got}"
-    RC=1
-  fi
-done < <(jq -r '.protection | keys[]' "$DECL")
-
-# --- 2. a runner must actually be online ----------------------------------------------
-MIN="$(jq -r '.runners_online_min // 1' "$DECL")"
-RUNNERS="$(api "${GITEA_URL}/api/v1/admin/actions/runners" || true)"
-N="$(jq -r '[(.runners//[])[]|select(.status=="online")]|length' <<<"${RUNNERS:-{\}}" 2>/dev/null || echo 0)"
-if [ "${N:-0}" -ge "$MIN" ]; then
-  ok "  runners online: ${N} (>= ${MIN})"
-else
-  err "  runners online: ${N}, DECLARED minimum ${MIN}."
-  err "  A required status check with no runner leaves every PR pending forever —"
-  err "  including the PR that would fix it. This is the 2026-09-29 outage condition."
-  RC=1
-fi
-
-if [ "$RC" -eq 0 ]; then
-  ok "Gitea settings match the declaration."
-  summary "- gitea-settings: **green** (branch protection + runners match \`infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json\`)"
-else
-  err "Gitea has DRIFTED from infra/gitea/expected-branch-protection.json."
-  err "  Re-assert it (infra/gitea/require-gate.sh, block-admin-override.sh), or if the live"
-  err "  state is what you now want, change the DECLARATION in the same commit — deliberately."
-  summary "- gitea-settings: **DRIFT** — live Gitea does not match the declaration; blocks merge"
-fi
-exit "$RC"
@@ -7,21 +7,6 @@
 #   Stage 3  L0     : `kyverno test` over platform/kyverno/ — default-deny baseline
 #                     present, no plaintext secrets, required labels/egress-class,
 #                     ServiceDefinition schema conformance (owner: T-0.5, ADR-0011).
-#   Stage 3b L0     : conformance/run.sh --layer l0 — the WHOLE-REPO L0 invariants that
-#                     a per-resource policy cannot express (secret hygiene across every
-#                     tracked file, least-privilege RBAC, spec-immutability enforcement).
-#                     Selection = the TOUCHED requirement subset (R-TEST-03) UNION every L0
-#                     test DECLARING `conformance.home.k3s/scope: whole-repo`. That union
-#                     replaces what used to be a hand-written "UNCONDITIONAL" stage per
-#                     whole-repo check (3c subst-safety / 3d keycloak-client-secrets / 3e
-#                     bulk-tier): three near-identical 12-line rationales, three hardcoded
-#                     check.sh paths and three copies of the same rc 0/3/* case block, which
-#                     did not scale and — worse — failed SILENTLY, because whoever added the
-#                     next whole-repo invariant had to REMEMBER to hand-write a stage. Now the
-#                     test declares its own scope and the runner enforces it. The reasoning and
-#                     the incidents those stages recorded were moved INTO the tests they
-#                     describe (see each chainsaw-test.yaml's `scope` annotation) and the
-#                     general mechanism is documented in conformance/lib/common.sh.
 #
 # Integration seams are env-overridable (see ci/lib.sh + README). When an owning
 # subtree is still a placeholder, this reports SKIPPED (exit 3) for that sub-stage
@@ -79,88 +64,15 @@ else
  cp -a "${KYVERNO_POLICY_DIR}/." "$l0_render/"
  find "$l0_render" -type f -name '*.yaml' -print0 \
    | xargs -0 sed -i "s/\${KYVERNO_VALIDATION_ACTION}/${KYVERNO_VALIDATION_ACTION}/g"
-  # DO NOT TRUST `kyverno test`'s EXIT CODE ALONE. A policy that fails to LOAD (schema
-  # error, bad match block, malformed JMESPath) does not fail the run: every result row
-  # becomes `Skip / Invalid Policy` and the CLI still prints "N tests passed" and exits 0.
-  #
-  # MEASURED 2026-09-29 while authoring conformance-trigger-job-shape: the policy had its
-  # `subjects` in a separate `match.all` entry from its `resources` — a schema error. All 9
-  # rows came back `Skip / Invalid Policy`, and the summary read:
-  #     Test Summary: 9 tests passed and 0 tests failed
-  # `kyverno apply` on the same file reported `error: 1` and named the path. So the gate's
-  # own policy stage would have certified a SECURITY POLICY THAT DOES NOT LOAD as green.
-  #
-  # This is not specific to that policy: a typo in restrict-host-namespaces or
-  # secret-provenance would silently disable it and the gate would stay green. Scan the
-  # output for the load failure the exit code hides.
-  l0_kout="$(mktemp)"
-  if kyverno test "$l0_render" 2>&1 | tee "$l0_kout"; then
-    if grep -q 'Invalid Policy' "$l0_kout"; then
-      err "Kyverno reported 'Invalid Policy' — one or more policies FAILED TO LOAD and were"
-      err "  skipped, so their rules were never evaluated. The CLI exits 0 for this; the gate"
-      err "  must not. Run 'kyverno apply <policy> --resource <resources>' for the exact path."
-      grep -n 'Invalid Policy' "$l0_kout" | head -5 >&2
-      summary "- kyverno-l0: **FAILED — policy did not load** (Invalid Policy; rules never evaluated)"
-      rc=1
-    else
-      ok "Kyverno L0 policy tests passed"
-      summary "- kyverno-l0: **passed**"
-    fi
+  if kyverno test "$l0_render"; then
+    ok "Kyverno L0 policy tests passed"
+    summary "- kyverno-l0: **passed**"
  else
    err "Kyverno L0 policy tests failed"; summary "- kyverno-l0: **FAILED**"; rc=1
  fi
-  rm -f "$l0_kout"
  rm -rf "$l0_render"
 fi

-# ---- Stage 3b: L0 STATIC conformance checks ---------------------------------
-# docs/14's L0 row is "manifests/ServiceDefinitions obey invariants", which is wider
-# than what Kyverno alone can express over single resources: whole-repo invariants
-# (no plaintext secrets anywhere in git, least-privilege RBAC across every tracked
-# binding, the spec-immutability gate's own behaviour) live in the conformance
-# harness's tests/l0-static subtree and run with no cluster. This stage executes them
-# through the same single-command runner CI and a laptop both use (R-TEST-02).
-#
-# THE UNION, AND WHY IT IS NOT OPTIONAL (R-TEST-03's blind spot)
-# --------------------------------------------------------------
-# 3b scopes the conformance run to the TOUCHED requirements. That is right for an invariant
-# whose inputs live under the subtree its requirements map to. It is WRONG for one that
-# quantifies over the WHOLE tracked tree, or over subtrees (apps/, infra/, most of platform/)
-# that ci/touched-requirements.sh's coarse path map keys to NOTHING: for those, the change
-# most likely to break the invariant attributes no requirement at all, so requirement-scoped
-# selection filters the check out of EXACTLY that change. `--include-scope whole-repo` unions
-# in every L0 test that DECLARES that scope, so those run on every gate invocation.
-#
-# rc 3 IS NOT A PASS. The runner returns 3 when a scope-declared check SKIPPED (its subject
-# subtree is absent, or it has no check script): UNWIRED, not green, exactly as the deleted
-# per-check stages had it ("check SKIPPED (clusters/ absent) — not a pass"). It is mapped to
-# the gate's own rc 3 below, never to rc 0.
-: "${WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE:=whole-repo}"
-log "Stage: L0 static conformance checks (${CONFORMANCE_CMD} --layer l0 --include-scope ${WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE})"
-if ! entrypoint_ready "$CONFORMANCE_CMD"; then
-  skip "conformance runner not present at '${CONFORMANCE_CMD}' — UNWIRED, not green"
-  summary "- l0-static: **SKIPPED** (conformance runner missing)"
-  if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; then rc=3; fi
-else
-  load_touched_requirements
-  l0_static_rc=0
-  "$CONFORMANCE_CMD" --layer l0 --include-scope "$WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE" \
-    ${REQ_ARGS[@]+"${REQ_ARGS[@]}"} || l0_static_rc=$?
-  case "$l0_static_rc" in
-    0) ok "L0 static conformance checks passed"
-       summary "- l0-static: **passed**" ;;
-    3) skip "an L0 check declaring scope='${WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE}' SKIPPED — UNWIRED, not a pass"
-       summary "- l0-static: **SKIPPED** (a whole-repo check is UNWIRED — not a pass)"
-       if [ "$rc" -eq 0 ]; then rc=3; fi ;;
-    *) err "L0 static conformance checks failed"
-       summary "- l0-static: **FAILED**"
-       rc=1 ;;
-  esac
-  # Per-check step-summary lines, so the gate output still NAMES what ran — the generated
-  # replacement for the one hardcoded `summary` line each deleted stage carried.
-  emit_offline_summary
-fi
-
 case "$rc" in
  0) ok "L0 stage complete" ;;
  3) skip "L0 stage incomplete (unwired seam / missing tool) — not a pass" ;;
@@ -20,27 +20,19 @@ if ! entrypoint_ready "$CONFORMANCE_CMD"; then
  exit 3
 fi

-# Touched-requirement subset (R-TEST-03). An empty OR undeterminable subset => run all
-# L1 as a superset sanity net, and SAY SO — see load_touched_requirements in ci/lib.sh.
-load_touched_requirements
-req_args=(${REQ_ARGS[@]+"${REQ_ARGS[@]}"})
+# Touched-requirement subset (R-TEST-03). Empty subset => run all L1 as a sanity net.
+mapfile -t reqs < <("${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh" || true)
+req_args=()
+if [ "${#reqs[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
+  log "touched requirements: ${reqs[*]}"
+  req_args=(--requirements "$(IFS=,; echo "${reqs[*]}")")
+fi

 # RECONCILED (PM 2026-08-16): conformance/run.sh's real interface is `--layer <l1|l2|l3>`
 # [--requirements R-A,R-B]; it ALWAYS writes artifacts to a FIXED location
 # (conformance/_artifacts/) and does NOT accept --junit/--coverage. Invoke by layer +
 # touched subset, then COLLECT its artifacts into the CI artifact dirs.
-# --include-scope: union the touched subset with every L1 test DECLARING
-# `conformance.home.k3s/scope: whole-repo`. As of 2026-09-18 ALL THREE L1 tests declare it, so this
-# is load-bearing rather than a no-op: every L1 golden is checked on every gate run, whatever the
-# touched paths attribute. It was wired HERE first, ahead of any declaration, so picking up a new
-# whole-repo invariant needs only the annotation instead of someone remembering to hand-write a
-# stage — and that "someone must remember" is exactly how the 2026-09-04 external-dns merge gated
-# GREEN while leaving all three goldens stale (see the rationale in the Tests themselves).
-# rc 3 = a scope-declared check SKIPPED = UNWIRED, never a pass.
-: "${WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE:=whole-repo}"
-l1_rc=0
-"$CONFORMANCE_CMD" --layer l1 --include-scope "$WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE" \
-  ${req_args[@]+"${req_args[@]}"} || l1_rc=$?
+"$CONFORMANCE_CMD" --layer l1 "${req_args[@]}"

 CONF_ART="$(dirname "$CONFORMANCE_CMD")/_artifacts"
 if [ -f "${CONF_ART}/report.junit.xml" ]; then
@@ -50,16 +42,5 @@ if [ -d "${CONF_ART}/coverage" ]; then
  cp -r "${CONF_ART}/coverage/." "${COVERAGE_DIR}/"
 fi

-case "$l1_rc" in
-  0) ok "L1 rendering checks passed"
-     summary "- l1-render: **passed**"
-     emit_offline_summary ;;
-  3) skip "an L1 check declaring scope='${WHOLE_REPO_SCOPE}' SKIPPED — UNWIRED, not a pass"
-     summary "- l1-render: **SKIPPED** (a whole-repo check is UNWIRED — not a pass)"
-     emit_offline_summary
-     exit 3 ;;
-  *) err "L1 rendering checks FAILED (rc=${l1_rc})"
-     summary "- l1-render: **FAILED**"
-     emit_offline_summary
-     exit "$l1_rc" ;;
-esac
+ok "L1 rendering checks passed"
+summary "- l1-render: **passed**"
@@ -10,12 +10,9 @@
 set -euo pipefail

 # --- Paths -------------------------------------------------------------------
-# CI_DIR = this ci/ directory (always the real script location). REPO_ROOT = its
-# parent (impl repo root) by default, but OVERRIDABLE via the environment so the
-# scripts can be pointed at a throwaway git repo under test (see ci/tests/) without
-# copying them out of the tree. CI and normal runs leave it unset -> unchanged.
+# CI_DIR = this ci/ directory; REPO_ROOT = its parent (impl repo root).
 CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
-: "${REPO_ROOT:=$(cd "${CI_DIR}/.." && pwd)}"
+REPO_ROOT="$(cd "${CI_DIR}/.." && pwd)"
 # shellcheck disable=SC1091
 source "${CI_DIR}/versions.env"

@@ -72,123 +69,16 @@ entrypoint_ready() {
  return 1
 }

-# truthy <value> — the ONE place the repo's "is this switch on" spelling lives, so
-# CLUSTER_AVAILABLE / REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS / REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION / GATE_STRICT_SKIPS
-# all agree. Anything not listed is OFF, and that direction matters: a misspelled value
-# (CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=ture, REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=yeah) leaves the guard OFF rather than
-# silently declaring a capability "available", so a typo can only make the gate stricter about
-# what it claims to have verified, never looser.
-truthy() {
-  case "${1:-}" in
-    true|TRUE|True|1|yes|YES|y|on|ON) return 0 ;;
+# --- Cluster detection (drives SKIP vs run for L2/L3) -------------------------
+# A cluster is 'available' only if explicitly declared. We NEVER auto-assume a
+# cluster in Phase 0 — silence means SKIP, not pass (HARD RULE 4).
+#   CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true   -> L2/L3 run and are REQUIRED green
+#   CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=false/unset -> L2/L3 SKIP (reported, never faked green)
+cluster_available() {
+  case "${CLUSTER_AVAILABLE:-false}" in
+    true|1|yes) return 0 ;;
    *) return 1 ;;
  esac
 }

-# --- Cluster detection (drives SKIP vs run for L2/L3) -------------------------
-# A cluster is 'available' only if explicitly DECLARED. We NEVER auto-assume a
-# cluster in Phase 0 — silence means SKIP, not pass (HARD RULE 4).
-#   CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true   -> L2/L3 run and are REQUIRED green
-#   CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=false/unset -> L2/L3 SKIP (reported, never faked green)
-# That DECLARATION is what makes an L2/L3 skip different IN KIND from every other skip —
-# see "WHICH SKIPS BLOCK, AND WHY" in ci/gate.sh.
-cluster_available() { truthy "${CLUSTER_AVAILABLE:-false}"; }
-
-# --- Skip strictness: is this a CI runner, or a workstation? -------------------
-# A SKIPPED stage is never green anywhere (HARD RULE 4), but its SEVERITY differs:
-#
-#   CI       the pinned toolchain is installed by .gitea/workflows/scripts/install-tools.sh
-#            before the gate runs, and every seam is on `main`. A stage that skips here is a
-#            DEFECT (a tool dropped from the installer, a seam that went unwired) -> BLOCK.
-#   local    a missing pinned tool is a real, ordinary local condition -> the gate reports
-#            UNDETERMINED (exit 3): not green, not a pass, but distinguishable from a red.
-#
-# HOW STRICTNESS IS DECIDED — DECLARED first, detected only as a fallback:
-#
-#   1. GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true|false is the AUTHORITY. .gitea/workflows/gate.yml sets `true` on
-#      the gate step, so on the one CI runner that matters strictness is a DECLARATION IN THE
-#      WORKFLOW, not an inference: the environment that KNOWS it is CI says so, and no
-#      env-var sniffing can get it wrong.
-#   2. `auto` (the default — anywhere the caller said nothing) falls back to GITHUB_ACTIONS /
-#      CI, which are set by the runner ITSELF (Gitea's act_runner, as well as GitHub). We do
-#      NOT sniff hostnames, paths or tool availability: a heuristic that guesses "this looks
-#      like CI" is exactly the unreliable inference this gate must not contain.
-#
-# WHY A WRONG ANSWER CANNOT FAIL OPEN: both branches are non-zero and NEITHER is a pass. A CI
-# run misread as local yields UNDETERMINED (exit 3) instead of BLOCKED (exit 1) — that still
-# fails the job unless its caller explicitly tolerates 3, which gate.yml does only knowingly
-# and only for the one declared-environmental skip (see its comment). A workstation misread as
-# CI yields BLOCKED instead of UNDETERMINED — harsher, never looser. Set GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true
-# locally to rehearse CI strictness.
-: "${GATE_STRICT_SKIPS:=auto}"
-strict_skips() {
-  case "$GATE_STRICT_SKIPS" in
-    auto) truthy "${GITHUB_ACTIONS:-}" || truthy "${CI:-}" ;;
-    *)    truthy "$GATE_STRICT_SKIPS" ;;
-  esac
-}
-
 mkartifacts() { mkdir -p "$JUNIT_DIR" "$COVERAGE_DIR"; }
-
-# --- Offline (L0/L1) per-check step summary -----------------------------------
-# conformance/lib/run_l1_offline.py writes one Markdown line per check it executed to
-# conformance/_artifacts/offline-summary.md. Splice those into $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY so the
-# gate's output still NAMES every check that ran and its verdict.
-#
-# WHY THIS EXISTS: ci/l0.sh used to carry a hand-written stage per whole-repo check, each with
-# its own `summary "- subst-safety: **passed**"` line. Those stages are gone (the tests declare
-# `conformance.home.k3s/scope: whole-repo` instead and the runner unions them in), so the
-# naming is generated for EVERY offline check rather than for the three that had a stage.
-: "${OFFLINE_SUMMARY_FILE:=${CONFORMANCE_DIR}/_artifacts/offline-summary.md}"
-emit_offline_summary() {
-  local f="${1:-$OFFLINE_SUMMARY_FILE}" line
-  [ -f "$f" ] || return 0
-  while IFS= read -r line; do
-    [ -n "$line" ] && summary "  $line"
-  done < "$f"
-  return 0
-}
-
-# --- Touched-requirement subset (R-TEST-03 input) ----------------------------
-# Sets: TOUCHED_RC (0 ok / 3 not determinable), TOUCHED_REQS[] and REQ_ARGS[]
-# (ready to splice into a conformance/run.sh invocation).
-#
-# ci/touched-requirements.sh exits 3 — LOUDLY — when it cannot establish a reliable
-# diff base, instead of the old silent degradation to an empty set. An empty set
-# means run.sh gets no `--requirements`, which means its coverage `--require` gate
-# never runs; treating "could not determine" as "nothing touched" is precisely the
-# false green this helper exists to prevent. A stage still runs its FULL layer in
-# that case (a superset, so nothing goes untested), but says plainly that the
-# SCOPED check did not happen; ci/gate.sh turns that into an UNDECIDED decision.
-load_touched_requirements() {
-  local out rc=0
-  out="$("${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh")" || rc=$?
-  TOUCHED_RC=$rc
-  TOUCHED_REQS=()
-  # `if`, not `[ ... ] && ...`: under `set -e` a false AND-list is the caller's last
-  # command status and would abort the stage script on an EMPTY touched set.
-  if [ -n "$out" ]; then mapfile -t TOUCHED_REQS <<< "$out"; fi
-  REQ_ARGS=()
-  if [ "$rc" -eq 3 ]; then
-    warn "touched-requirement subset UNDETERMINED (reason logged above)."
-    warn "  Running the FULL layer as a superset sanity net; the SCOPED R-TEST-03"
-    warn "  coverage check is NOT performed here — ci/gate.sh reports that as UNDECIDED."
-  elif [ "$rc" -ne 0 ]; then
-    # Any OTHER non-zero exit means the subset is UNUSABLE, not empty (today: a
-    # path->requirement map that cannot classify a changed path, once that map fails closed).
-    # The FULL layer still runs here as a superset — nothing goes untested — but this stage must
-    # not claim the SCOPED check happened, and ci/gate.sh turns the same exit into a BLOCKED
-    # merge decision. Wording carried over from the unlanded fix/touched-requirements-fail-closed
-    # (47068ee), whose gate-side half this branch lands.
-    warn "touched-requirements.sh exited ${rc} (subset UNUSABLE — see its output above)."
-    warn "  Running the FULL layer as a superset; the SCOPED R-TEST-03 check did NOT happen."
-    warn "  ci/gate.sh BLOCKS the merge on this: fix the path->requirement map in"
-    warn "  ci/touched-requirements.sh so every changed path is classified."
-  elif [ "${#TOUCHED_REQS[@]}" -gt 0 ]; then
-    log "touched requirements: ${TOUCHED_REQS[*]}"
-    REQ_ARGS=(--requirements "$(IFS=,; echo "${TOUCHED_REQS[*]}")")
-  else
-    log "empty touched-requirement set (base WAS established) — running the full layer."
-  fi
-  return 0
-}
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ PYTHON="${PYTHON:-python3}"
 # DESIGN-waves.md §"Catalog services not yet onboarded"). They render as a
 # by-product of `--all catalog` but must NOT have a golden; the gate ignores
 # their rendered output. Onboarding one = add its golden and drop it here.
-#
 : "${RENDER_GOLDEN_NOT_ONBOARDED:=keycloak vm-demo}"

 log "Stage: render==golden reproducibility (canonical render vs committed apps/)"
@@ -1,214 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python3
-# =============================================================================
-# ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py
-#
-# Render platform/keycloak/client-urls.yaml FROM platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-import.yaml.
-#
-# WHY THIS EXISTS
-# ---------------
-# The Keycloak realm import is a ONE-SHOT that fails OPEN: once it rests at
-# Done=True / Started=False it never re-runs, so a redirect URI changed in git is
-# never applied to the realm. The client-secret half of that failure class is
-# already healed by a level-triggered CronJob (platform/keycloak/client-secret-
-# reconciler.yaml). This renderer supplies the DESIRED STATE that the same CronJob
-# needs to heal the URL half.
-#
-# THE CONSTRAINT THAT SHAPES IT: the reconciler pod runs with
-# automountServiceAccountToken: false. It has NO Kubernetes API access at all, by
-# design (R-SEC-02) — so it cannot read the KeycloakRealmImport CR to learn what
-# the realm is supposed to look like. Its inputs must be MOUNTED. Hence a
-# ConfigMap.
-#
-# A hand-authored ConfigMap would be a SECOND SOURCE OF TRUTH for every public
-# hostname in the realm, free to disagree with the realm import — and "two
-# declarations that can disagree" is the same shape as the bug this whole effort
-# is closing. So the ConfigMap is GENERATED from the realm import and the
-# generation is GATED: conformance/tests/l0-static/keycloak-client-secret-
-# reconciler/check.sh runs this script with --check on every merge, and the merge
-# fails if the committed file is not what this renderer produces. That is the same
-# render==golden idiom catalog/render.py + ci/render-golden.sh already use for
-# apps/.
-#
-# STRINGS ARE COPIED VERBATIM, NEVER RE-DERIVED. If a URL in the realm import is
-# written as a Flux substitution token (https://grafana.${BASE_DOMAIN}/...), the
-# token is carried through into the ConfigMap CHARACTER FOR CHARACTER. Both files
-# are rendered by the SAME Flux Kustomization (./platform-config, whose
-# postBuild.substituteFrom reads cluster-vars), so both are substituted in the
-# same pass with the same values and cannot disagree about what BASE_DOMAIN is.
-# This renderer never parses, splits, or reconstructs a hostname, and never reads
-# cluster-vars — so there is no second place for the domain to be decided.
-#
-# USAGE
-#   python3 ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py            # print the rendered file
-#   python3 ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py --write     # write it (regenerate)
-#   python3 ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py --check      # exit 1 if it has drifted
-# =============================================================================
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import argparse
-import difflib
-import json
-import sys
-from pathlib import Path
-
-try:
-    import yaml
-except ImportError:  # pragma: no cover
-    print("FATAL: PyYAML is required (same dependency as catalog/render.py)",
-          file=sys.stderr)
-    raise SystemExit(1)
-
-ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
-IMPORT_FILE = "platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-import.yaml"
-OUT_FILE = "platform/keycloak/client-urls.yaml"
-DATA_KEY = "client-urls.json"
-CONFIGMAP_NAME = "keycloak-client-urls"
-NAMESPACE = "keycloak"
-
-# The client fields this renderer exports, and therefore the ONLY fields the
-# reconciler may write. Every one of them is an environment-derived URL: it changes
-# when BASE_DOMAIN changes, and a stale value breaks OIDC login (a wrong
-# redirectUri) or silently widens trust (a stale wildcard left behind).
-#
-# DELIBERATELY ABSENT: `secret` (healed by the secret pass from the SOPS Secret,
-# and it must never appear in a ConfigMap), and every non-URL field —
-# protocolMappers, defaultClientScopes, attributes, flags. Those are not
-# environment-derived, so nothing re-renders them on a domain flip; keeping them
-# out keeps the reconciler's write surface as narrow as the problem.
-LIST_FIELDS = ("redirectUris", "webOrigins")
-STR_FIELDS = ("rootUrl", "baseUrl", "adminUrl")
-
-
-def render(root: Path) -> str:
-    """Return the full text of client-urls.yaml as it should be committed."""
-    docs = list(yaml.safe_load_all((root / IMPORT_FILE).read_text()))
-    imp = next((d for d in docs if d and d.get("kind") == "KeycloakRealmImport"), None)
-    if imp is None:
-        raise SystemExit("FATAL: no KeycloakRealmImport document in %s" % IMPORT_FILE)
-    clients = (imp.get("spec") or {}).get("realm", {}).get("clients") or []
-    if not clients:
-        # Fail closed. Emitting an empty desired state would make the reconciler
-        # believe every client is unmanaged and silently stop reconciling URLs.
-        raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s declares zero clients — refusing to render an "
-                         "empty desired state" % IMPORT_FILE)
-
-    want: dict[str, dict] = {}
-    for c in clients:
-        cid = c.get("clientId")
-        if not isinstance(cid, str) or not cid:
-            raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s has a client with no clientId" % IMPORT_FILE)
-        entry: dict[str, object] = {}
-        for f in LIST_FIELDS:
-            if f not in c:
-                continue                 # not declared => NOT MANAGED (never forced empty)
-            v = c[f]
-            if not isinstance(v, list) or not all(isinstance(x, str) for x in v):
-                raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s client %r field %s is not a list of strings"
-                                 % (IMPORT_FILE, cid, f))
-            entry[f] = list(v)           # verbatim, order as authored
-        for f in STR_FIELDS:
-            if f not in c:
-                continue
-            v = c[f]
-            if not isinstance(v, str):
-                raise SystemExit("FATAL: %s client %r field %s is not a string"
-                                 % (IMPORT_FILE, cid, f))
-            entry[f] = v
-        if entry:
-            want[cid] = entry
-    if not want:
-        raise SystemExit("FATAL: no client in %s declares any of %s — refusing to render "
-                         "an empty desired state"
-                         % (IMPORT_FILE, ", ".join(LIST_FIELDS + STR_FIELDS)))
-
-    body = json.dumps(want, indent=2, sort_keys=True, ensure_ascii=False)
-    indented = "\n".join(("    " + ln) if ln else "" for ln in body.splitlines())
-    return HEADER + indented + "\n"
-
-
-HEADER = """---
-# =============================================================================
-# GENERATED FILE — DO NOT EDIT BY HAND.
-#
-#   source:      platform/keycloak/keycloak-realm-import.yaml (spec.realm.clients)
-#   regenerate:  python3 ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py --write
-#   gated by:    conformance/tests/l0-static/keycloak-client-secret-reconciler
-#                (runs this renderer with --check on every merge)
-#
-# WHAT THIS IS: the DESIRED STATE for every environment-derived client URL in the
-# `homelab` realm — redirectUris, webOrigins, rootUrl, baseUrl, adminUrl. The
-# client-secret reconciler CronJob mounts it and makes the live realm match it.
-#
-# WHY IT IS A SEPARATE OBJECT: the realm import is a ONE-SHOT that never re-runs
-# once Done=True, so a redirect URI edited in git never reaches the realm. Prod's
-# stored redirect URIs were measured still pointing at the pre-migration hostname
-# while git declared the new one, and every OIDC login would have failed with a
-# redirect_uri mismatch. The reconciler is the level-triggered loop that closes
-# that; this file is what it reconciles TOWARDS.
-#
-# WHY IT IS GENERATED AND NOT AUTHORED: a hand-written copy of every public
-# hostname would be a second source of truth, free to disagree with the realm
-# import. It is rendered from the import and the render is gated, so the two
-# cannot drift. URL strings are copied VERBATIM — if the source uses a
-# ${BASE_DOMAIN} token it appears here unchanged, and both files are substituted
-# by the SAME Flux Kustomization (./platform-config), so the domain is decided in
-# exactly one place.
-#
-# A field that is NOT declared on a client in the realm import is simply ABSENT
-# here, and the reconciler leaves it alone. Absence means UNMANAGED, never
-# "force to empty".
-# =============================================================================
-apiVersion: v1
-kind: ConfigMap
-metadata:
-  name: %s
-  namespace: %s
-  labels:
-    app.kubernetes.io/name: %s
-    app.kubernetes.io/part-of: keycloak
-data:
-  %s: |
-""" % (CONFIGMAP_NAME, NAMESPACE, CONFIGMAP_NAME, DATA_KEY)
-
-
-def main() -> int:
-    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
-    g = ap.add_mutually_exclusive_group()
-    g.add_argument("--write", action="store_true", help="write %s" % OUT_FILE)
-    g.add_argument("--check", action="store_true",
-                   help="exit 1 if the committed file has drifted from the source")
-    args = ap.parse_args()
-
-    want = render(ROOT)
-    target = ROOT / OUT_FILE
-
-    if args.write:
-        target.write_text(want, encoding="utf-8")
-        print("wrote %s" % OUT_FILE)
-        return 0
-
-    if args.check:
-        if not target.is_file():
-            print("CHECK FAIL: %s does not exist. Run: python3 "
-                  "ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py --write" % OUT_FILE, file=sys.stderr)
-            return 1
-        have = target.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
-        if have == want:
-            print("client-urls.yaml is in sync with %s" % IMPORT_FILE)
-            return 0
-        print("CHECK FAIL: %s has DRIFTED from %s — the reconciler would converge the "
-              "realm on a desired state the realm import does not declare.\n"
-              "Regenerate with: python3 ci/render-keycloak-client-urls.py --write\n"
-              % (OUT_FILE, IMPORT_FILE), file=sys.stderr)
-        for line in difflib.unified_diff(have.splitlines(True), want.splitlines(True),
-                                         fromfile="committed " + OUT_FILE,
-                                         tofile="rendered from " + IMPORT_FILE):
-            sys.stderr.write(line)
-        return 1
-
-    sys.stdout.write(want)
-    return 0
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    raise SystemExit(main())
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/tests/decisions-log.test.sh — proves ci/decisions-log.sh actually fails closed.
-#
-# The stage exists because appending to DECISIONS-LOG.md silently re-creates a merge conflict
-# for every other open branch. A guard against a silent regression is itself worth nothing
-# unless somebody has watched it reject the thing it claims to reject, so each case below
-# CONSTRUCTS the violation in a throwaway tree and asserts a non-zero exit — the same reasoning
-# as ci/tests/gate-decision.test.sh, one layer down.
-set -uo pipefail
-REAL_CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
-
-PASS=0 FAIL=0
-ok()  { printf '  ok   %s\n' "$*"; PASS=$((PASS+1)); }
-bad() { printf '  FAIL %s\n' "$*"; FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); }
-
-TMP="$(mktemp -d)"; trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
-
-# A minimal well-formed tree: the frozen archive, its pin, and one valid entry.
-mk_tree() {
-  local d="$1"; rm -rf "$d"; mkdir -p "$d/ci" "$d/decisions"
-  cp "${REAL_CI_DIR}/decisions-log.sh" "${REAL_CI_DIR}/lib.sh" "${REAL_CI_DIR}/versions.env" "$d/ci/"
-  printf 'frozen history\n' > "$d/DECISIONS-LOG.md"
-  ( cd "$d" && sha256sum DECISIONS-LOG.md > decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256 )
-  mk_entry "$d/decisions/2026-09-29-a-good-entry.md" 2026-09-29
-  # REPO_ROOT in ci/lib.sh is derived from git; give the tree a repo so it resolves here.
-  ( cd "$d" && git init -q . && git add -A && git -c user.email=t@t -c user.name=t commit -qm init )
-}
-
-mk_entry() {
-  cat > "$1" <<ENTRY
---
-date: $2
-branch: chore/example
-title: An example entry
---
-
-## What changed
-
-Enough prose here to clear the twenty-character body floor comfortably.
-
-## What I verified
-
-Enough prose here to clear the twenty-character body floor comfortably.
-
-## What I did NOT verify
-
-Enough prose here to clear the twenty-character body floor comfortably.
-ENTRY
-}
-
-# run <dir> -> sets RC and OUT
-run() { OUT="$( cd "$1" && bash ci/decisions-log.sh 2>&1 )"; RC=$?; }
-
-D="${TMP}/t"
-
-echo "== 1. a well-formed tree passes"
-mk_tree "$D"; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -eq 0 ] && ok "clean tree -> exit 0" || bad "clean tree -> exit ${RC}: ${OUT}"
-
-echo
-echo "== 2. THE REGRESSION THIS STAGE EXISTS FOR: appending to the frozen archive"
-mk_tree "$D"; printf '\n## my new handoff\n' >> "$D/DECISIONS-LOG.md"; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "append to DECISIONS-LOG.md -> non-zero (${RC})" \
-                || bad "append to DECISIONS-LOG.md was ACCEPTED — the guard is inert"
-grep -qi 'frozen archive' <<<"$OUT" && ok "the message names the archive as frozen" \
-                                    || bad "the message does not say the archive is frozen"
-grep -q 'decisions/\$(date +%F)' <<<"$OUT" && ok "the message names the file to write instead" \
-                                           || bad "the message does not name the remedy"
-
-echo
-echo "== 3. a re-pin is a deliberate, accepted act"
-mk_tree "$D"; printf '\nredacted\n' >> "$D/DECISIONS-LOG.md"
-( cd "$D" && sha256sum DECISIONS-LOG.md > decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256 ); run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -eq 0 ] && ok "archive changed AND re-pinned -> exit 0" || bad "re-pin rejected: ${OUT}"
-
-echo
-echo "== 4. a missing pin is unverifiable, not green"
-mk_tree "$D"; rm "$D/decisions/ARCHIVE.sha256"; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "no ARCHIVE.sha256 -> non-zero (${RC})" || bad "missing pin was accepted"
-
-echo
-echo "== 5. entry naming"
-for badname in 2026-9-29-x.md 26-09-29-x.md 2026-09-29-Upper.md 2026-09-29-.md 2026-02-30-x.md; do
-  mk_tree "$D"; mk_entry "$D/decisions/${badname}" 2026-09-29; run "$D"
-  [ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "rejects decisions/${badname}" || bad "ACCEPTED decisions/${badname}"
-done
-mk_tree "$D"; mk_entry "$D/decisions/2026-10-01-fix-thing-2.md" 2026-10-01; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -eq 0 ] && ok "accepts a digits-and-dashes slug" || bad "rejected a valid slug: ${OUT}"
-
-echo
-echo "== 6. frontmatter"
-mk_tree "$D"; sed -i '1d' "$D/decisions/2026-09-29-a-good-entry.md"; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "rejects an entry with no frontmatter" || bad "accepted a bare entry"
-
-for key in date branch title; do
-  mk_tree "$D"; sed -i "/^${key}:/d" "$D/decisions/2026-09-29-a-good-entry.md"; run "$D"
-  [ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "rejects frontmatter missing '${key}'" || bad "accepted missing '${key}'"
-done
-
-# The copied-template failure: the body was rewritten, the date never was.
-mk_tree "$D"; mk_entry "$D/decisions/2026-09-30-copied.md" 2026-09-29; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "rejects a frontmatter date that disagrees with the filename" \
-                || bad "accepted a date/filename disagreement"
-
-echo
-echo "== 7. the three required sections, and their bodies"
-for sec in 'What changed' 'What I verified' 'What I did NOT verify'; do
-  mk_tree "$D"; sed -i "/^## ${sec}\$/d" "$D/decisions/2026-09-29-a-good-entry.md"; run "$D"
-  [ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "rejects an entry missing '## ${sec}'" || bad "accepted missing '## ${sec}'"
-done
-
-# A heading with nothing under it is the way this floor gets defeated in practice.
-mk_tree "$D"
-python3 - "$D/decisions/2026-09-29-a-good-entry.md" <<'PY'
-import sys,re
-p=sys.argv[1]; s=open(p).read()
-s=re.sub(r'## What I did NOT verify\n\n.*', '## What I did NOT verify\n\nn/a\n', s, flags=re.S)
-open(p,'w').write(s)
-PY
-run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -ne 0 ] && ok "rejects a stub body under a required section" || bad "accepted an 'n/a' section"
-
-echo
-echo "== 8. README.md in decisions/ is not an entry and is not policed as one"
-mk_tree "$D"; printf 'not an entry\n' > "$D/decisions/README.md"; run "$D"
-[ "$RC" -eq 0 ] && ok "decisions/README.md ignored by the entry rules" || bad "README policed: ${OUT}"
-
-echo
-if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then echo "decisions-log tests: PASS ($PASS assertions)"; exit 0
-else echo "decisions-log tests: FAIL ($FAIL failed, $PASS passed)"; exit 1; fi
@@ -1,210 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/tests/gate-decision.test.sh — the merge gate's OWN decision table.
-#
-# WHY THIS SUITE EXISTS (2026-09-13). ci/gate.sh used to set BLOCK=1 for a FAILED stage but
-# only `warn` for a SKIPPED one, so it printed the words "— not green" and then concluded
-# `MERGE GATE: PASS` and exited 0. Observed live twice: `prom-rules` skipped for a missing
-# promtool, and `l0` skipped for a missing pinned kyverno CLI — both read by automation as
-# merge-approved. That is fail-open in the one component whose entire job is to fail closed,
-# and nothing tested it: every other ci/tests suite covers the INPUT (touched-requirements),
-# none covered the DECISION.
-#
-# WHAT IS UNDER TEST: the real ci/gate.sh and ci/lib.sh, copied into a throwaway CI_DIR beside
-# STUB stage scripts whose exit codes this suite dictates (STAGE_RC_<stage>) and a stub
-# touched-requirements.sh whose rc/reason it dictates (TR_RC / TR_REASON / TR_OUT). Stubbing the
-# stages is the point: this asserts how the gate REASONS about pass/fail/skip, independently of
-# what any stage happens to do on this machine — so it runs anywhere, with no tools, no cluster,
-# no network, in milliseconds.
-#
-# THE INVARIANT: `MERGE GATE: PASS` + exit 0 means every stage that was supposed to run RAN and
-# was GREEN. A stage that could not run is never a pass, and the exit code says so too.
-#
-# Run:  ci/tests/gate-decision.test.sh     (or `make -C ci test`)
-set -uo pipefail
-
-REAL_CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
-
-PASS=0 FAIL=0
-ok()  { printf '  ok   %s\n' "$*"; PASS=$((PASS+1)); }
-bad() { printf '  FAIL %s\n' "$*"; FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); }
-
-TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
-trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
-CI="${TMP}/ci"; mkdir -p "$CI"
-REPO="${TMP}/repo"; mkdir -p "$REPO"
-
-cp "${REAL_CI_DIR}/gate.sh" "${REAL_CI_DIR}/lib.sh" "${REAL_CI_DIR}/versions.env" "$CI/"
-
-# One stub per stage. It exits with STAGE_RC_<stage-with-dashes-as-underscores>, default 0.
-# NOTE: this list must name EVERY stage gate.sh runs. It did not: `gitea-settings` was added to
-# gate.sh and never added here, so its script was absent from the stub CI dir, `run_stage` got
-# exit 127 from the missing file, and the gate recorded a FAILED stage in every single case —
-# 15 of 47 assertions failed on `main` for that reason alone, including every one that expects a
-# PASS/UNDETERMINED/NOT-APPLICABLE headline. The suite was measuring the missing stub, not the
-# decision logic. `decisions-log` is added here in the same change that adds it to gate.sh.
-for stage in spec-immutability decisions-log lint l0 render-golden l1 gitea-settings conformance; do
-  cat > "${CI}/${stage}.sh" <<'STUB'
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-n="$(basename "$0" .sh)"; v="STAGE_RC_${n//-/_}"
-exit "${!v:-0}"
-STUB
-  chmod +x "${CI}/${stage}.sh"
-done
-
-# Stub decision input. TR_RC (default 0), TR_REASON (written to $TOUCHED_REASON_FILE like the
-# real script does), TR_OUT (the touched requirement list on stdout).
-cat > "${CI}/touched-requirements.sh" <<'STUB'
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-if [ -n "${TOUCHED_REASON_FILE:-}" ]; then printf '%s\n' "${TR_REASON:-}" > "$TOUCHED_REASON_FILE"; fi
-[ -n "${TR_OUT:-}" ] && printf '%s\n' "$TR_OUT"
-exit "${TR_RC:-0}"
-STUB
-chmod +x "${CI}/touched-requirements.sh"
-
-# run_gate <VAR=VAL>... — run the gate with a clean, explicit environment. Sets OUT and RC.
-# GATE_STRICT_SKIPS is pinned false unless a case says otherwise, so the suite never depends on
-# whether the machine running it happens to look like CI.
-OUT="" RC=0
-run_gate() {
-  local summary_file="${TMP}/summary.md"; : > "$summary_file"
-  OUT="$(env -i PATH="$PATH" HOME="$HOME" \
-        REPO_ROOT="$REPO" GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY="$summary_file" \
-        GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=false TR_OUT="R-TEST-03" \
-        "$@" bash "${CI}/gate.sh" 2>&1)"
-  RC=$?
-  SUMMARY="$(cat "$summary_file")"
-}
-
-# assert_verdict <headline> <expected-rc> <label>
-assert_verdict() {
-  local want="$1" want_rc="$2" label="$3"
-  if ! grep -qF "MERGE GATE: ${want}" <<<"$OUT"; then
-    bad "${label}: headline should be '${want}' — got: $(grep -oE 'MERGE GATE: [A-Z ]+' <<<"$OUT" | tail -1)"
-  elif [ "$RC" -ne "$want_rc" ]; then
-    bad "${label}: headline '${want}' correct but exit code ${RC} != ${want_rc}"
-  else
-    ok "${label} -> ${want}, exit ${want_rc}"
-  fi
-}
-# The load-bearing negative: nothing may say PASS, and nothing may exit 0.
-assert_not_pass() {
-  local label="$1"
-  if grep -qF "MERGE GATE: PASS" <<<"$OUT"; then bad "${label}: printed 'MERGE GATE: PASS'"
-  elif [ "$RC" -eq 0 ]; then bad "${label}: exited 0"
-  else ok "${label}: not a PASS, non-zero exit (${RC})"; fi
-}
-
-echo "== 1. the happy path: every stage green"
-run_gate
-assert_verdict PASS 0 "all stages green + a touched subset"
-grep -qF "nothing was declared out of scope" <<<"$SUMMARY" \
-  && ok "PASS summary states nothing was declared out of scope" \
-  || bad "PASS summary does not state the absence of declared gaps"
-
-echo
-echo "== 2. a FAILED stage blocks (unchanged behaviour, locked down)"
-for s in lint l0 render-golden l1 conformance spec-immutability; do
-  run_gate "STAGE_RC_${s//-/_}=1"
-  assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "${s} FAILED"
-done
-
-echo
-echo "== 3. THE REGRESSION: a SKIPPED stage is not a PASS and not exit 0"
-for s in lint l0 render-golden l1; do
-  run_gate "STAGE_RC_${s//-/_}=3"
-  assert_not_pass "${s} SKIPPED (local)"
-  assert_verdict UNDETERMINED 3 "${s} SKIPPED (local)"
-  grep -qF "$s" <<<"$SUMMARY" && ok "${s}: the step summary names the stage that did not run" \
-                              || bad "${s}: step summary does not name the skipped stage"
-done
-
-echo
-echo "== 4. under STRICT skips (CI declares it) a could-not-run skip BLOCKS, never merely 3"
-for s in lint l0 render-golden l1; do
-  run_gate GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true "STAGE_RC_${s//-/_}=3"
-  assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "${s} SKIPPED with GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true"
-done
-# ...which is what makes gate.yml's `|| [ $? -eq 3 ]` safe: in CI, exit 3 cannot be a missing
-# tool or an unwired seam. Only the declared-environmental skip below can produce it.
-run_gate GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true STAGE_RC_l0=3 STAGE_RC_lint=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "several stages SKIPPED under strict skips"
-
-echo
-echo "== 5. spec-immutability: unverified is never green, but is not upgraded to a block by CI"
-run_gate STAGE_RC_spec_immutability=3
-assert_not_pass "spec-immutability SKIPPED"
-assert_verdict UNDETERMINED 3 "spec-immutability SKIPPED (local)"
-run_gate GATE_STRICT_SKIPS=true STAGE_RC_spec_immutability=3
-assert_verdict UNDETERMINED 3 "spec-immutability SKIPPED under strict skips (deliberate exception)"
-run_gate REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true STAGE_RC_spec_immutability=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "spec-immutability SKIPPED + REQUIRE_SPEC_VERIFICATION=true"
-
-echo
-echo "== 6. conformance L2/L3: a DECLARED-absent capability may still pass — and is NAMED"
-run_gate STAGE_RC_conformance=3
-assert_verdict PASS 0 "conformance SKIPPED, no cluster declared"
-grep -qF "conformance-l2-l3" <<<"$OUT" \
-  && ok "the PASS headline names the declared L2/L3 gap" \
-  || bad "the PASS headline hides the declared L2/L3 gap"
-grep -qF "conformance-l2-l3" <<<"$SUMMARY" \
-  && ok "the step summary names the declared L2/L3 gap" \
-  || bad "the step summary hides the declared L2/L3 gap"
-run_gate CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true STAGE_RC_conformance=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "conformance SKIPPED despite CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true"
-run_gate REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS=true STAGE_RC_conformance=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "conformance SKIPPED + REQUIRE_CLUSTER_TESTS=true with a touched subset"
-# A misspelled switch must leave the guard OFF (truthy()), never half-on.
-run_gate CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=ture STAGE_RC_conformance=3
-assert_verdict PASS 0 "CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=ture is NOT 'available' (no cluster was declared)"
-run_gate CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=TRUE STAGE_RC_conformance=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=TRUE IS a declaration (skip then blocks)"
-
-echo
-echo "== 7. the undetermined touched subset: unchanged (2026-08-31 false-green paths)"
-run_gate TR_RC=3 TR_REASON=on-base TR_OUT=
-assert_verdict "NOT APPLICABLE" 0 "subset undeterminable, reason on-base, all stages green"
-run_gate TR_RC=3 TR_REASON=no-base TR_OUT=
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "subset undeterminable, reason no-base"
-run_gate TR_RC=3 TR_REASON=diff-failed TR_OUT=
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "subset undeterminable, reason diff-failed"
-# Precedence: a stage that did not run outranks "nothing to gate" — the stronger, non-zero
-# headline must win, or a push-to-main run could hide a missing tool behind NOT APPLICABLE.
-run_gate TR_RC=3 TR_REASON=on-base TR_OUT= STAGE_RC_l1=3
-assert_not_pass "on-base AND l1 SKIPPED"
-assert_verdict UNDETERMINED 3 "on-base AND l1 SKIPPED (UNDETERMINED outranks NOT APPLICABLE)"
-
-echo
-echo "== 8. an UNUSABLE subset blocks (carried over from 47068ee): any other non-zero exit"
-for rc in 1 2 4; do
-  run_gate "TR_RC=${rc}" TR_REASON=unclassified-path TR_OUT=
-  assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "touched-requirements.sh exited ${rc} (subset unusable, not empty)"
-done
-run_gate TR_RC=1 TR_REASON=unclassified-path TR_OUT=
-grep -qF "UNUSABLE" <<<"$SUMMARY" && ok "the step summary calls the subset UNUSABLE" \
-                                  || bad "the step summary does not report an unusable subset"
-
-echo
-echo "== 9. combinations: a FAILURE outranks a non-run, and the headline is the worst news"
-run_gate STAGE_RC_l0=1 STAGE_RC_l1=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "l0 FAILED + l1 SKIPPED"
-run_gate STAGE_RC_spec_immutability=3 STAGE_RC_conformance=3
-assert_verdict UNDETERMINED 3 "spec-immutability SKIPPED + conformance declared-absent"
-
-echo
-echo "== 10. decisions-log: the handoff log's storage format has no non-blocking outcome"
-# A FAIL here means the frozen archive was appended to (re-creating, for every OTHER open
-# branch, the tail-hunk conflict that made 4 of 5 PRs unmergeable on 2026-09-29) or an entry is
-# malformed. A SKIP is impossible by construction — the stage needs no tool and no cluster — so
-# if one is ever reported it is a defect in the stage, and the gate must not soften it into
-# UNDETERMINED. Both outcomes block, and neither is upgradeable by an env knob: there is
-# deliberately no REQUIRE_DECISIONS_LOG, because a guard with an off switch is not a guard.
-run_gate STAGE_RC_decisions_log=1
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "decisions-log FAILED (archive modified / entry malformed)"
-run_gate STAGE_RC_decisions_log=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "decisions-log SKIPPED (impossible by construction -> defect, blocks)"
-run_gate STAGE_RC_decisions_log=1 STAGE_RC_l1=3
-assert_verdict BLOCKED 1 "decisions-log FAILED outranks an l1 non-run"
-
-echo
-if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then echo "gate-decision tests: PASS ($PASS assertions)"; exit 0
-else echo "gate-decision tests: FAIL ($FAIL failed, $PASS passed)"; exit 1; fi
@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/tests/touched-requirements-base.test.sh — regression tests for BASE-REF RESOLUTION
-# in ci/touched-requirements.sh.
-#
-# THE BUG THESE LOCK DOWN (2026-08-31, local/CI divergence):
-#   `make -C ci gate` on a feature branch printed
-#       "no changed files vs base; empty touched-requirement set"
-#   and then "MERGE GATE: PASS" — while CI, with a correct base, computed 17 touched
-#   requirements and BLOCKED on real coverage debt. Root cause: EVERY way of failing to
-#   establish a diff base degraded silently to an EMPTY touched set and exit 0. An empty
-#   set means conformance/run.sh is invoked without `--requirements`, which means its
-#   coverage `--require` gate never runs — so the gate reported PASS having checked
-#   nothing. A false green is worse than a red.
-#
-#   The fix: an undeterminable base is a LOUD exit 3 (ci/README.md's SKIPPED code) with
-#   EMPTY stdout and a machine-readable reason code, never exit 0. These tests assert
-#   that for each way the base can be undeterminable, and assert the good paths still work.
-#
-# The tests point the real script at THROWAWAY git repos via the REPO_ROOT override
-# (ci/lib.sh honours a pre-set REPO_ROOT); the script runs from its true location so it
-# still sources the real lib.sh. No network, no cluster, and the working repo is never
-# touched.
-#
-# Run:  ci/tests/touched-requirements-base.test.sh     (or `make -C ci test`)
-set -uo pipefail    # NOT -e: these tests deliberately run a script that exits non-zero.
-
-CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
-SCRIPT="${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh"
-
-PASS=0 FAIL=0
-ok()  { printf '  ok   %s\n' "$*"; PASS=$((PASS+1)); }
-bad() { printf '  FAIL %s\n' "$*" >&2; FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); }
-
-TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
-trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
-
-# newrepo <dir> — a throwaway repo with one baseline commit on `main`.
-newrepo() {
-  local d="$1"
-  mkdir -p "$d/notes"
-  git -C "$d" init -q -b main
-  git -C "$d" config user.email [email protected]
-  git -C "$d" config user.name t
-  git -C "$d" config commit.gpgsign false   # throwaway: never sign (ignore host gpg config)
-  echo baseline > "$d/notes/base.txt"
-  git -C "$d" add -A && git -C "$d" commit -qm baseline
-}
-
-# commit_touching <dir> <text> — a commit whose content declares an R-ID.
-commit_touching() {
-  local d="$1" text="$2"
-  printf 'name: %s\n' "$text" > "$d/notes/decl.yaml"
-  git -C "$d" add -A && git -C "$d" commit -qm change
-}
-
-# Runs the script in <dir>; sets RC, OUT (stdout), ERRTXT (stderr), REASON.
-run_in() {
-  local d="$1"; shift
-  local reason_file="${TMP}/reason.$$"
-  : > "$reason_file"
-  OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$d" TOUCHED_REASON_FILE="$reason_file" "$@" "$SCRIPT" 2>"${TMP}/err.$$")"
-  RC=$?
-  ERRTXT="$(cat "${TMP}/err.$$")"
-  REASON="$(cat "$reason_file")"
-}
-
-# assert_refusal <label> <expected-reason>
-assert_refusal() {
-  local label="$1" want="$2"
-  [ "$RC" = 3 ]        && ok "${label}: exits 3 (SKIPPED), not 0" || bad "${label}: rc=${RC}, expected 3"
-  [ -z "$OUT" ]        && ok "${label}: stdout is EMPTY (no silent requirement list)" \
-                       || bad "${label}: stdout was '${OUT}'"
-  [ "$REASON" = "$want" ] && ok "${label}: reason code '${want}'" \
-                          || bad "${label}: reason '${REASON}', expected '${want}'"
-  grep -q "NOT DETERMINABLE" <<<"$ERRTXT" && ok "${label}: announces the refusal LOUDLY on stderr" \
-                                          || bad "${label}: stderr lacked the loud banner"
-}
-
-echo "== case 1: a branch ahead of local main (no remote) resolves and reports"
-R1="${TMP}/r1"; newrepo "$R1"
-git -C "$R1" checkout -q -b feature
-commit_touching "$R1" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-run_in "$R1"
-[ "$RC" = 0 ] && ok "ahead-of-main: exits 0" || bad "ahead-of-main: rc=${RC}"
-grep -qx "R-ALPHA-01" <<<"$OUT" && ok "ahead-of-main: emits the touched R-ID" \
-                                || bad "ahead-of-main: output was '${OUT}'"
-grep -q "diff base: main" <<<"$ERRTXT" && ok "ahead-of-main: names the base it used" \
-                                       || bad "ahead-of-main: base not reported: ${ERRTXT}"
-
-echo "== case 2: THE FALSE GREEN — HEAD is the base branch itself"
-# This is the state that produced 'no changed files vs base' + 'MERGE GATE: PASS'
-# locally while CI blocked. It must now refuse, not report an empty set.
-R2="${TMP}/r2"; newrepo "$R2"
-git -C "$R2" checkout -q -b feature
-commit_touching "$R2" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-git -C "$R2" checkout -q main            # <- sitting on the base branch
-run_in "$R2"
-assert_refusal "on-base" "on-base"
-
-echo "== case 3: a branch already merged into the base (HEAD is an ancestor)"
-R3="${TMP}/r3"; newrepo "$R3"
-git -C "$R3" checkout -q -b feature
-commit_touching "$R3" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-git -C "$R3" checkout -q main
-git -C "$R3" merge -q --no-edit feature
-git -C "$R3" checkout -q feature         # feature is now behind main
-run_in "$R3"
-assert_refusal "already-merged" "on-base"
-
-echo "== case 4: no base ref resolves at all (no main, no origin/main)"
-R4="${TMP}/r4"; newrepo "$R4"
-git -C "$R4" checkout -q -b work
-commit_touching "$R4" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-git -C "$R4" branch -q -D main
-run_in "$R4"
-assert_refusal "no-base-ref" "no-base"
-
-echo "== case 5: a single-commit repo with no main (the removed HEAD~1 last resort)"
-# HEAD~1 does not exist here. The old code fell back to it, the diff failed, and the
-# empty result was reported as 'no changed files' + exit 0 — a silent false green.
-R5="${TMP}/r5"; mkdir -p "$R5/notes"
-git -C "$R5" init -q -b work
-git -C "$R5" config user.email [email protected]; git -C "$R5" config user.name t
-git -C "$R5" config commit.gpgsign false
-echo only > "$R5/notes/only.txt"; git -C "$R5" add -A; git -C "$R5" commit -qm only
-run_in "$R5"
-assert_refusal "single-commit-no-main" "no-base"
-
-echo "== case 6: BASE_REF names a ref that does not exist"
-R6="${TMP}/r6"; newrepo "$R6"
-git -C "$R6" checkout -q -b feature
-commit_touching "$R6" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-run_in "$R6" env BASE_REF=refs/heads/nope
-assert_refusal "bogus-BASE_REF" "no-base"
-
-echo "== case 7: GITHUB_BASE_REF set but absent from the checkout (shallow clone)"
-R7="${TMP}/r7"; newrepo "$R7"
-git -C "$R7" checkout -q -b feature
-commit_touching "$R7" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-run_in "$R7" env GITHUB_BASE_REF=release-9
-assert_refusal "missing-GITHUB_BASE_REF" "no-base"
-
-echo "== case 8: origin/main is preferred over a stale local main, and staleness warns"
-R8="${TMP}/r8"; newrepo "$R8"
-UP="${TMP}/r8-origin.git"; git init -q --bare -b main "$UP"
-git -C "$R8" remote add origin "$UP"
-git -C "$R8" push -q origin main
-# advance origin/main beyond the local main ref, then branch off it
-git -C "$R8" checkout -q -b ahead
-echo more > "$R8/notes/more.txt"; git -C "$R8" add -A; git -C "$R8" commit -qm more
-git -C "$R8" push -q origin ahead:main
-git -C "$R8" fetch -q origin
-git -C "$R8" checkout -q -b feature origin/main
-commit_touching "$R8" implements-R-ALPHA-01
-run_in "$R8"
-[ "$RC" = 0 ] && ok "origin-preferred: exits 0" || bad "origin-preferred: rc=${RC}"
-grep -q "diff base: origin/main" <<<"$ERRTXT" && ok "origin-preferred: uses origin/main, not local main" \
-                                              || bad "origin-preferred: base line was: ${ERRTXT}"
-grep -q "may be stale" <<<"$ERRTXT" && ok "origin-preferred: warns that local main differs" \
-                                    || bad "origin-preferred: no staleness warning"
-grep -qx "R-ALPHA-01" <<<"$OUT" && ok "origin-preferred: emits the touched R-ID" \
-                                || bad "origin-preferred: output was '${OUT}'"
-
-echo
-if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then
-  echo "touched-requirements base-resolution tests: PASS (${PASS} assertions)"; exit 0
-fi
-echo "touched-requirements base-resolution tests: FAIL (${FAIL} failed, ${PASS} passed)" >&2
-exit 1
@@ -1,164 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/tests/touched-requirements-test-attribution.test.sh — regression tests for DETECTION
-# RULE 3 in ci/touched-requirements.sh: a change anywhere under `conformance/tests/<test>/`
-# attributes THAT TEST'S OWN `conformance.home.k3s/R-*` labels.
-#
-# THE GAP THESE LOCK DOWN (2026-09-12). The coarse path map keys `conformance/*` to
-# R-TEST-01..04 — the requirements about the HARNESS — and says nothing about what a given
-# test PROVES. So weakening `conformance/tests/.../check.sh` attributed R-TEST-01..04 and
-# nothing else: the merge gate ran the harness's self-tests and NOT the weakened test's own
-# requirement subset. Weakening (or deleting) a test is the one change that most needs the
-# requirement it certifies to be re-verified, and it was the change least likely to select it.
-# The content scan cannot close this: it reads only ADDED/REMOVED lines, so it sees a change
-# to the LABEL BLOCK but not one to the test BODY — exactly the case that matters.
-#
-# Also covers the two path-map entries added in the same change (infra/* -> R-ENV-01, and
-# R-TEST-06 on .gitea/*|ci/*), which is how the two L0 checks that are DELIBERATELY not
-# whole-repo-scoped get selected by the paths that can break them.
-#
-# Same harness as the sibling suites: the real script, pointed at a THROWAWAY git repo via
-# the REPO_ROOT override. No network, no cluster, the working repo is never touched.
-#
-# Run:  ci/tests/touched-requirements-test-attribution.test.sh   (or `make -C ci test`)
-set -euo pipefail
-
-CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
-SCRIPT="${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh"
-
-PASS=0 FAIL=0
-ok()  { printf '  ok   %s\n' "$*"; PASS=$((PASS+1)); }
-bad() { printf '  FAIL %s\n' "$*" >&2; FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); }
-
-assert_present() {
-  if grep -qxF "$1" <<<"$2"; then ok "$3"
-  else bad "$3 (missing '$1' from: $(tr '\n' ' ' <<<"$2"))"; fi
-}
-assert_absent() {
-  if grep -qxF "$1" <<<"$2"; then bad "$3 (found unexpected '$1' in: $(tr '\n' ' ' <<<"$2"))"
-  else ok "$3"; fi
-}
-
-TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
-trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
-
-git -C "$TMP" init -q -b main
-git -C "$TMP" config user.email [email protected]
-git -C "$TMP" config user.name t
-git -C "$TMP" config commit.gpgsign false
-
-# --- Baseline: two conformance tests, each declaring its own requirement labels ----------
-# TEST A: a flat l0-static test. TEST B: a test with a NESTED fixture dir, to prove the
-# walk-up from an arbitrary changed file to the enclosing test dir.
-mkdir -p "$TMP/conformance/tests/l0-static/alpha" \
-         "$TMP/conformance/tests/l2-behavioral/beta/fixtures" \
-         "$TMP/conformance/lib" "$TMP/infra" "$TMP/ci"
-
-cat > "$TMP/conformance/tests/l0-static/alpha/chainsaw-test.yaml" <<'YAML'
-# HEADER PROSE. This test used to also cover conformance.home.k3s/R-STALE-09: "true",
-# which is a REFERENCE in a comment, not a declaration, and must NOT be attributed.
-apiVersion: chainsaw.kyverno.io/v1alpha1
-kind: Test
-metadata:
-  name: alpha
-  labels:
-    conformance.home.k3s/R-ALPHA-01: "true"
-    conformance.home.k3s/R-ALPHA-02: "true"
-  annotations:
-    conformance.home.k3s/layer: "L0"
-spec: {}
-YAML
-# The check BODY deliberately contains NO R-ID text, so anything the scan finds for a
-# body-only edit came from rule 3 and not from the content scan.
-cat > "$TMP/conformance/tests/l0-static/alpha/check.sh" <<'SH'
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-echo "assert something"
-SH
-
-cat > "$TMP/conformance/tests/l2-behavioral/beta/chainsaw-test.yaml" <<'YAML'
-apiVersion: chainsaw.kyverno.io/v1alpha1
-kind: Test
-metadata:
-  name: beta
-  labels:
-    conformance.home.k3s/R-BETA-07: "true"
-spec: {}
-YAML
-echo "seed: 1" > "$TMP/conformance/tests/l2-behavioral/beta/fixtures/data.yaml"
-
-echo "harness helper" > "$TMP/conformance/lib/helper.sh"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm baseline
-
-# ========================================================================================
-echo "== case 1: a BODY-ONLY edit to a test attributes that test's own labels"
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b body-edit
-cat > "$TMP/conformance/tests/l0-static/alpha/check.sh" <<'SH'
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-echo "assert something weaker"
-SH
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm weaken
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-assert_present "R-ALPHA-01" "$OUT" "body-only test edit attributes the test's own R-ALPHA-01"
-assert_present "R-ALPHA-02" "$OUT" "body-only test edit attributes the test's own R-ALPHA-02"
-assert_present "R-TEST-03"  "$OUT" "the conformance/* path map still applies (R-TEST-03)"
-assert_absent  "R-STALE-09" "$OUT" "an R-ID cited only in the test's HEADER COMMENT is NOT attributed"
-assert_absent  "R-BETA-07"  "$OUT" "an UNRELATED test's labels are NOT attributed"
-
-# ========================================================================================
-echo "== case 2: an edit to a NESTED file walks up to the enclosing test"
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b nested-edit main
-echo "seed: 2" > "$TMP/conformance/tests/l2-behavioral/beta/fixtures/data.yaml"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm fixture
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-assert_present "R-BETA-07" "$OUT" "nested fixture edit attributes the enclosing test's R-BETA-07"
-assert_absent  "R-ALPHA-01" "$OUT" "nested fixture edit does NOT attribute a sibling test's labels"
-
-# ========================================================================================
-echo "== case 3: DELETING a test still attributes what it used to certify"
-# Removing the only verifier of a requirement must not be the cheapest way to make the gate
-# stop checking it — so the labels are read from the BASE when HEAD no longer has them.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b delete-test main
-git -C "$TMP" rm -rq "$TMP/conformance/tests/l0-static/alpha"
-git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "delete the alpha test"
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-assert_present "R-ALPHA-01" "$OUT" "deleting a test STILL attributes its R-ALPHA-01 (read from base)"
-assert_present "R-ALPHA-02" "$OUT" "deleting a test STILL attributes its R-ALPHA-02 (read from base)"
-
-# ========================================================================================
-echo "== case 4: a change OUTSIDE conformance/tests/ gains no test labels"
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b lib-edit main
-echo "harness helper v2" > "$TMP/conformance/lib/helper.sh"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm lib
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-assert_present "R-TEST-02"  "$OUT" "a conformance/lib edit still attributes the harness requirements"
-assert_absent  "R-ALPHA-01" "$OUT" "a conformance/lib edit attributes NO individual test's labels"
-assert_absent  "R-BETA-07"  "$OUT" "a conformance/lib edit attributes NO individual test's labels (B)"
-
-# ========================================================================================
-echo "== case 5: path-map entries for the two DELIBERATELY path-scoped L0 checks"
-# infra/* -> R-ENV-01 (dev-nodes-provisioned-as-code reads nothing but infra/).
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b infra-edit main
-printf 'resource "x" "y" {}\n' > "$TMP/infra/main.tf"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm infra
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-assert_present "R-ENV-01" "$OUT" "an infra/ edit attributes R-ENV-01 (was UNMAPPED: attributed nothing)"
-
-# ci/* -> ... R-TEST-06 (spec-immutability-enforced reads nothing but ci/ + the spec repo).
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b ci-edit main
-printf 'echo hello\n' > "$TMP/ci/thing.sh"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm ci
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-assert_present "R-TEST-06"  "$OUT" "a ci/ edit attributes R-TEST-06 (the spec-immutability test's own ID)"
-assert_present "R-GITOPS-01" "$OUT" "a ci/ edit still attributes R-GITOPS-01"
-
-echo
-if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then
-  echo "touched-requirements test-attribution tests: PASS (${PASS} assertions)"; exit 0
-fi
-echo "touched-requirements test-attribution tests: FAIL (${FAIL} failed, ${PASS} passed)" >&2
-exit 1
@@ -1,233 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# ci/tests/touched-requirements.test.sh — regression tests for the content scan in
-# ci/touched-requirements.sh, focused on rule 3: R-IDs cited only in a whole-line
-# YAML/shell `#` comment are PROSE (a reference), not a declaration, and must NOT be
-# attributed — while R-IDs on real code/spec lines still ARE.
-#
-# The tests point the real script at a THROWAWAY git repo via the REPO_ROOT override
-# (ci/lib.sh honours a pre-set REPO_ROOT); the script itself is run from its true
-# location so it still sources the real lib.sh. No network, no cluster.
-#
-# Run:  ci/tests/touched-requirements.test.sh     (or `make -C ci test`)
-set -euo pipefail
-
-CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
-SCRIPT="${CI_DIR}/touched-requirements.sh"
-
-PASS=0 FAIL=0
-ok()   { printf '  ok   %s\n' "$*"; PASS=$((PASS+1)); }
-bad()  { printf '  FAIL %s\n' "$*"; FAIL=$((FAIL+1)); }
-
-# assert_absent <needle> <haystack> <msg>
-assert_absent() {
-  if grep -qxF "$1" <<<"$2"; then bad "$3 (found unexpected '$1' in: $(tr '\n' ' ' <<<"$2"))";
-  else ok "$3"; fi
-}
-# assert_present <needle> <haystack> <msg>
-assert_present() {
-  if grep -qxF "$1" <<<"$2"; then ok "$3";
-  else bad "$3 (missing '$1' from: $(tr '\n' ' ' <<<"$2"))"; fi
-}
-
-TMP="$(mktemp -d)"
-trap 'rm -rf "$TMP"' EXIT
-
-git -C "$TMP" init -q -b main
-git -C "$TMP" config user.email [email protected]
-git -C "$TMP" config user.name t
-git -C "$TMP" config commit.gpgsign false   # throwaway repo: never sign (ignore host gpg config)
-mkdir -p "$TMP/notes"                 # a path OUTSIDE path_requirements() so we isolate the content scan
-echo "baseline" > "$TMP/notes/base.txt"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm baseline
-
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature
-
-# A YAML file: an R-ID in a whole-line comment (must be IGNORED) and an R-ID on a real
-# value line (must be DETECTED). Also an indented comment, to prove leading space is fine.
-cat > "$TMP/notes/example.yaml" <<'YAML'
-# This header explains R-DOC-01 and must NOT be attributed.
-kind: Thing
-metadata:
-  name: implements-R-REAL-01
-spec:
-  note: value  # trailing inline comment mentioning R-INLINE-01 (conservatively still seen)
-    # deeply indented comment about R-DOC-02 — also NOT attributed
-YAML
-
-# A shell file: a `#` comment R-ID (IGNORED) plus a real command line R-ID (DETECTED).
-cat > "$TMP/notes/example.sh" <<'SH'
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# doc: this script relates to R-SHDOC-01 (comment only — ignored)
-echo "runs check for R-SHREAL-01"
-SH
-
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm feature
-
-OUT="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set:\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT"
-
-# Comment-only citations are dropped (rule 3):
-assert_absent  "R-DOC-01"    "$OUT" "whole-line YAML comment R-ID is NOT attributed"
-assert_absent  "R-DOC-02"    "$OUT" "indented YAML comment R-ID is NOT attributed"
-assert_absent  "R-SHDOC-01"  "$OUT" "shell '#' comment R-ID is NOT attributed"
-# Real code/spec lines still count:
-assert_present "R-REAL-01"   "$OUT" "R-ID on a real YAML value line IS attributed"
-assert_present "R-SHREAL-01" "$OUT" "R-ID on a real shell command line IS attributed"
-# Conservative: a trailing inline comment on a REAL line is still seen (only whole-line
-# comments are dropped) — documents the intentional boundary of the fix.
-assert_present "R-INLINE-01" "$OUT" "inline comment on a real line is (conservatively) still seen"
-
-# Removed comment lines are also excluded, while removed real lines still count. The file
-# must EXIST at the base, so we diff the removal against the commit that added it.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature2 main
-cat > "$TMP/notes/todelete.yaml" <<'YAML'
-# will delete a comment citing R-DELDOC-01 and a real line citing R-DELREAL-01
-kind: Thing
-name: implements-R-DELREAL-01
-YAML
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm add
-ADD_SHA="$(git -C "$TMP" rev-parse HEAD)"
-git -C "$TMP" rm -q "$TMP/notes/todelete.yaml" && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm remove
-OUT2="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF="$ADD_SHA" "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (removal):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT2"
-assert_absent  "R-DELDOC-01"  "$OUT2" "REMOVED whole-line comment R-ID is NOT attributed"
-assert_present "R-DELREAL-01"  "$OUT2" "REMOVED real-line R-ID IS attributed"
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# PATH MAP — bootstrap/* (added 2026-09-13)
-#
-# WHY THIS IS LOCKED DOWN. path_requirements() keys `bootstrap/*` to R-STATE-03 +
-# R-GITOPS-01, and until 2026-09-13 the comment justifying it described
-# `bootstrap/standup.sh` as a file that carries the placeholder guards. That file has never
-# been on `main` (it landed only on unmerged prod-standup branches), so the comment was
-# stale and the entry looked like dead weight someone would tidy away. It is not dead: it
-# is what SELECTS conformance/tests/l0-static/placeholder-guard-coupling for the change
-# that eventually lands a placeholder guard under bootstrap/ — and that test discovers its
-# guard by content rather than by path, so it activates on exactly that change. Removing
-# the entry would let the change introducing a guard be gated by nothing, which is the
-# 2026-09-05 class. These assertions make the entry's deletion a test failure rather than a
-# silent loss of selection.
-#
-# NOTE the R-ID content scan must not be what produces these: `notes/` is outside the path
-# map precisely so the other cases isolate the scan, and here the file content cites no
-# R-ID at all, so any R-ID in the output came from the PATH.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature3 main
-mkdir -p "$TMP/bootstrap/flux"
-cat > "$TMP/bootstrap/flux/bootstrap.sh" <<'SH'
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# a bootstrap-path change that cites no requirement id of its own
-echo "flux bootstrap"
-SH
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "touch bootstrap/"
-OUT3="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (bootstrap/ path map):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT3"
-assert_present "R-STATE-03"   "$OUT3" "bootstrap/* attributes R-STATE-03 (selects placeholder-guard-coupling)"
-assert_present "R-GITOPS-01"  "$OUT3" "bootstrap/* attributes R-GITOPS-01 (it IS the GitOps bootstrap path)"
-
-# And the neighbouring entry the same test leans on for its other half: clusters/* must
-# attribute R-ENV-02, which is what selects placeholder-guard-coupling's HALF A (the
-# authored-values sweep over clusters/<env> effective cluster-vars).
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature4 main
-mkdir -p "$TMP/clusters/base"
-printf 'kind: ConfigMap\nmetadata:\n  name: cluster-vars\n' > "$TMP/clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "touch clusters/"
-OUT4="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (clusters/ path map):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT4"
-assert_present "R-ENV-02"     "$OUT4" "clusters/* attributes R-ENV-02 (selects placeholder-guard-coupling HALF A)"
-assert_present "R-GITOPS-01"  "$OUT4" "clusters/* attributes R-GITOPS-01"
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# PATH MAP — apps/*, the C2 UI, and the platform assembly (added 2026-09-19)
-#
-# These arms closed the largest remaining fail-open hole in the map. Before them, 49 tracked
-# app manifests (apps/wave-0, -1, -2, apps/vms) plus platform/homepage, platform/headlamp,
-# platform/gateway, platform/kubevirt, platform/crafty, platform/coredns, the snapshot/backup
-# machinery and platform/kustomization.yaml all attributed NOTHING — so a change to any of them
-# selected only the whole-repo-scoped checks, and every requirement-scoped L2 behaviour test
-# (default-deny, egress class, auth mode, C2 surface) was filtered out of the merge gate.
-#
-# The C2 case was already documented as a known gap in changed_diff()'s rule-3 comment: the ONLY
-# route to R-C2-01/02 was rule 3, i.e. editing the C2 test itself.
-#
-# As with bootstrap/ above, each fixture cites NO R-ID of its own, so any R-ID in the output came
-# from the PATH and not from the content scan.
-
-# apps/vms/* must win over apps/* — `case` takes the FIRST match, so arm ORDER is the property
-# under test here, not just the presence of both arms.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature-apps-vms main
-mkdir -p "$TMP/apps/vms/demo"
-printf 'kind: VirtualMachine\nmetadata:\n  name: demo\n' > "$TMP/apps/vms/demo/vm.yaml"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "touch apps/vms/"
-OUT_VMS="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (apps/vms/ path map):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT_VMS"
-assert_present "R-PLAT-03"  "$OUT_VMS" "apps/vms/* attributes R-PLAT-03 (KubeVirt VM lifecycle)"
-assert_present "R-STATE-01" "$OUT_VMS" "apps/vms/* attributes R-STATE-01 (VM root/data volumes)"
-assert_absent  "R-PLAT-02"  "$OUT_VMS" "apps/vms/* does NOT fall through to the apps/* container arm (order holds)"
-
-# A plain ServiceDefinition under apps/ gets the container-workload set.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature-apps main
-mkdir -p "$TMP/apps/wave-1"
-printf 'kind: ServiceDefinition\nmetadata:\n  name: demo\n' > "$TMP/apps/wave-1/demo.yaml"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "touch apps/wave-1/"
-OUT_APPS="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (apps/ path map):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT_APPS"
-assert_present "R-PLAT-02"  "$OUT_APPS" "apps/* attributes R-PLAT-02 (container workload render)"
-assert_present "R-NET-01"   "$OUT_APPS" "apps/* attributes R-NET-01 (default-deny applies to every app)"
-assert_present "R-NET-06"   "$OUT_APPS" "apps/* attributes the egress-class requirements"
-assert_present "R-IDP-02"   "$OUT_APPS" "apps/* attributes the auth-mode requirements"
-
-# homepage / headlamp ARE the command-centre surface.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature-c2 main
-mkdir -p "$TMP/platform/headlamp"
-printf 'kind: Deployment\nmetadata:\n  name: headlamp\n' > "$TMP/platform/headlamp/deployment.yaml"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "touch platform/headlamp/"
-OUT_C2="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (C2 path map):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT_C2"
-assert_present "R-C2-01" "$OUT_C2" "platform/headlamp/* attributes R-C2-01 (was reachable only by editing the C2 test)"
-assert_present "R-C2-02" "$OUT_C2" "platform/headlamp/* attributes R-C2-02"
-
-# platform/kustomization.yaml is the assembly: one deleted line disables a whole component.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature-assembly main
-mkdir -p "$TMP/platform"
-printf 'resources:\n  - cilium\n  - longhorn\n' > "$TMP/platform/kustomization.yaml"
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "touch platform/kustomization.yaml"
-OUT_ASM="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (platform assembly):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT_ASM"
-assert_present "R-GITOPS-01" "$OUT_ASM" "platform/kustomization.yaml attributes R-GITOPS-01 (component assembly)"
-
-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# THE ID PATTERN MUST ALLOW A DIGIT IN THE WORKSTREAM SEGMENT (added 2026-09-13)
-#
-# The content scan's pattern was `R-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+`, which CANNOT match `R-C2-01` or
-# `R-C2-02` — `[A-Z]+` consumes the `C` and then demands a `-` where the `2` is. Those are
-# the only two registry IDs whose workstream segment carries a digit, and the scan was blind
-# to BOTH, in the fail-OPEN direction: a change self-declaring a C2 requirement contributed
-# it to nobody, so the C2 conformance tests were filtered out of the merge gate. Found while
-# wiring conformance/tests/l0-static/c2-root-surface, which closes those two coverage gaps.
-#
-# `notes/` is outside path_requirements() on purpose, so the IDs below can only have come
-# from the CONTENT SCAN. A neighbouring all-letter ID is asserted too, so a regex that
-# somehow matched only the digit form would still fail here.
-git -C "$TMP" checkout -q -b feature5 main
-cat > "$TMP/notes/c2.yaml" <<'YAML'
-kind: Test
-metadata:
-  labels:
-    conformance.home.k3s/R-C2-01: "true"
-    conformance.home.k3s/R-C2-02: "true"
-    conformance.home.k3s/R-OBS-04: "true"
-YAML
-git -C "$TMP" add -A && git -C "$TMP" commit -qm "declare R-C2-01 / R-C2-02"
-OUT5="$(REPO_ROOT="$TMP" BASE_REF=main "$SCRIPT" 2>/dev/null)"
-printf 'touched set (digit in the workstream segment):\n%s\n---\n' "$OUT5"
-assert_present "R-C2-01"  "$OUT5" "an R-ID with a DIGIT in the workstream segment IS attributed (R-C2-01)"
-assert_present "R-C2-02"  "$OUT5" "the second such ID is attributed too (R-C2-02)"
-assert_present "R-OBS-04" "$OUT5" "an all-letter workstream segment still works (control)"
-# The pattern must not become so loose that a non-ID token is read as a requirement: a bare
-# numeric workstream is not a registry shape, and attributing one would WIDEN the gate on
-# noise (over-broad selection, never a false green, but noisy and misleading).
-assert_absent  "R-1-01"   "$OUT5" "a purely numeric workstream segment is not invented from thin air"
-
-echo
-if [ "$FAIL" -eq 0 ]; then echo "touched-requirements tests: PASS ($PASS assertions)"; exit 0;
-else echo "touched-requirements tests: FAIL ($FAIL failed, $PASS passed)"; exit 1; fi
@@ -21,110 +21,35 @@
 #      the R-IDs that policies/ServiceDefinitions self-declare (docs/14 + ADR-0011).
 #      Untouched lines and prose are NOT scanned; see changed_diff() for why.
 #   2. A coarse path->requirement fallback for changes that don't self-declare IDs.
-#   3. For a change anywhere under `conformance/tests/<test>/`: THAT TEST'S OWN requirement
-#      labels, read from its chainsaw-test.yaml. See test_requirements_for_path().
 # The coarse map (2) NEVER overrides an explicit tag; it only widens coverage for
-# untagged changes so nothing silently escapes the gate. (3) is the same principle applied
-# to the tests themselves: editing or weakening a test must be gated by the requirements
-# that test CERTIFIES, not merely by R-TEST-0x.
+# untagged changes so nothing silently escapes the gate.
 set -euo pipefail
 CI_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
 # shellcheck disable=SC1091
 source "${CI_DIR}/lib.sh"

-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# BASE-REF RESOLUTION — and why it now REFUSES rather than guesses.
-#
-# BUG THIS FIXES (local/CI divergence, 2026-08-31): every failure to establish a
-# reliable diff base used to degrade SILENTLY to an EMPTY touched set, which main()
-# reported as "no changed files vs base" and exit 0. An empty set means the coverage
-# `--require` gate is never applied, so the merge gate printed "MERGE GATE: PASS"
-# having checked NOTHING — while CI, with a correct base, computed 17 touched
-# requirements and blocked. A false green is the worst outcome this project can
-# produce, so every one of those degradations is now a LOUD exit 3:
-#
-#   * HEAD~1 last resort  REMOVED. It silently narrowed the diff to the last commit
-#                         (and on a one-commit repo failed into an empty set).
-#   * two-dot fallback    REMOVED. It masked a failing three-dot diff as "no changes".
-#   * unresolvable base   exit 3 (was: HEAD~1 or empty).
-#   * diff command fails  exit 3 (was: empty set).
-#   * HEAD not ahead of   exit 3 (was: exit 0 with an empty set — this is the case
-#     the base                that produced the false green: running the gate while
-#                             sitting on `main`, or on a branch already merged).
-#
-# Exit 3 is the ci/README.md "SKIPPED / not-run" code: NOT a pass, NOT a fail. Callers
-# (ci/gate.sh) must surface it as an UNDECIDED merge decision. An honest, noisy skip
-# beats a quiet false pass.
-#
-# Order of preference: BASE_REF (explicit) > GITHUB_BASE_REF (Actions PR runs, target
-# branch) > origin/main > main. Each candidate is VERIFIED to resolve to a commit
-# before it is used, so a shallow checkout that lacks origin/main is reported, not
-# papered over.
+# Base ref to diff against. In Gitea/GitHub Actions PR runs this is the target
+# branch (main). Locally, default to main; override with BASE_REF.
 : "${BASE_REF:=}"
-BASE=""            # resolved base ref
-BASE_SOURCE=""     # where it came from (for the log line)
-BASE_PROBLEM=""    # why resolution failed, when it did
-
-rev() { git -C "$REPO_ROOT" rev-parse --verify -q "$1^{commit}" 2>/dev/null; }
-
-# Loud, structured refusal. Prints to stderr only; stdout stays empty so a caller that
-# captures stdout gets NO requirement list rather than a silently-empty one.
-#
-# $1 is a machine-readable REASON CODE, also written to $TOUCHED_REASON_FILE when that
-# env var names a path. ci/gate.sh uses it to tell the two cases apart:
-#   on-base      HEAD is the base branch (or already merged) — nothing to gate. Legitimate
-#                (a push-to-main CI run lands here), so the gate reports NOT APPLICABLE
-#                rather than PASS, and does not fail the job.
-#   no-base      no reliable base ref exists in this checkout — the ENVIRONMENT is broken,
-#   diff-failed  or git could not produce the diff. A merge decision is impossible, so the
-#                gate BLOCKS rather than guessing.
-undecidable() {
-  local code="$1"; shift
-  if [ -n "${TOUCHED_REASON_FILE:-}" ]; then printf '%s\n' "$code" > "$TOUCHED_REASON_FILE"; fi
-  err "TOUCHED-REQUIREMENT SET NOT DETERMINABLE (${code})"
-  err "  reason: $*"
-  err "  consequence: the R-TEST-03 coverage gate CANNOT be applied to this checkout."
-  err "  This is exit 3 (SKIPPED / not-run), never a pass — see ci/README.md."
-  err "  Fix one of:"
-  err "    * check out the feature branch you mean to gate (not the base branch), or"
-  err "    * git fetch origin main   (so origin/main exists and is current), or"
-  err "    * BASE_REF=<ref> make -C ci gate   to name the base explicitly."
-  exit 3
-}
-
 resolve_base() {
-  local cand
-  if [ -n "$BASE_REF" ]; then
-    if rev "$BASE_REF" >/dev/null; then BASE="$BASE_REF"; BASE_SOURCE="BASE_REF"; return 0; fi
-    BASE_PROBLEM="BASE_REF='${BASE_REF}' does not resolve to a commit in ${REPO_ROOT}"
-    return 1
-  fi
-  if [ -n "${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-}" ]; then
-    for cand in "origin/${GITHUB_BASE_REF}" "${GITHUB_BASE_REF}"; do
-      if rev "$cand" >/dev/null; then BASE="$cand"; BASE_SOURCE="GITHUB_BASE_REF"; return 0; fi
-    done
-    BASE_PROBLEM="GITHUB_BASE_REF='${GITHUB_BASE_REF}' is set, but neither 'origin/${GITHUB_BASE_REF}' nor '${GITHUB_BASE_REF}' exists here (shallow checkout? the workflow needs fetch-depth: 0)"
-    return 1
-  fi
-  for cand in origin/main main; do
-    if rev "$cand" >/dev/null; then BASE="$cand"; BASE_SOURCE="default"; return 0; fi
-  done
-  BASE_PROBLEM="no base ref resolves (tried origin/main, main) in ${REPO_ROOT}"
-  return 1
+  if [ -n "$BASE_REF" ]; then echo "$BASE_REF"; return; fi
+  if [ -n "${GITHUB_BASE_REF:-}" ]; then echo "origin/${GITHUB_BASE_REF}"; return; fi
+  if git -C "$REPO_ROOT" rev-parse --verify -q origin/main >/dev/null; then echo "origin/main"; return; fi
+  if git -C "$REPO_ROOT" rev-parse --verify -q main >/dev/null; then echo "main"; return; fi
+  echo "HEAD~1"  # last resort
 }

-# Both diff helpers assume BASE is already resolved and validated by main(). They return
-# git's exit status so the CALLER can distinguish "no changes" from "the diff failed" —
-# conflating those two is exactly what produced the false green.
 changed_files() {
+  local base; base="$(resolve_base)"
  # Three-dot: changes on this branch since it diverged from base.
-  git -C "$REPO_ROOT" diff --name-only "${BASE}...HEAD"
+  if git -C "$REPO_ROOT" diff --name-only "${base}...HEAD" 2>/dev/null; then return; fi
+  git -C "$REPO_ROOT" diff --name-only "${base}" 2>/dev/null || true
 }

 # The ADDED/REMOVED lines of the change, for the R-ID content scan — excluding
 # documentation.
 #
-# THREE scoping rules, all learned from the gate blocking merges it should not have:
+# TWO scoping rules, both learned from the gate blocking merges it should not have:
 #
 #  1. Scan the DIFF, not whole file contents. Grepping whole files meant a change
 #     inherited every requirement those files had EVER mentioned, on lines the author
@@ -141,34 +66,14 @@ changed_files() {
 #     that matter (conformance/, schemas/, catalog/, clusters/, ci/) are covered by
 #     the path->requirement fallback regardless of file type.
 #
-#  3. Skip COMMENT-ONLY lines in non-Markdown files — rule 2's logic, applied to the
-#     prose that lives INSIDE code files. A requirement ID cited in a YAML/shell `#`
-#     comment is documentation, not a declaration, exactly like an ID in a `*.md` file.
-#     Rule 2 drops whole Markdown files, but a `.gitea/workflows/*.yml` or `ci/*.sh`
-#     HEADER that explains a requirement would otherwise re-attribute it. Concretely:
-#     gate.yml's header cites R-TEST-06 (enforced by the spec-immutability STAGE, not by
-#     any Chainsaw test, so a known-uncovered ID); before this rule, editing that comment
-#     re-attributed R-TEST-06 and the coverage `--require` check false-blocked the merge —
-#     the same self-referential trap rule 2 fixed for `*.md`. Applied in main()'s content
-#     scan (see there): after the diff marker is stripped, a line whose first non-blank
-#     character is `#` is dropped BEFORE the R-ID grep. Deliberately conservative — only
-#     WHOLE-LINE comments are dropped; an R-ID on a real code/spec line is still detected
-#     (authoritative declarations — test tags, policies, ServiceDefinitions — are never a
-#     bare comment), so this only narrows PROSE, never a declaration.
-#
 # Removed lines count: deleting a test's requirement tag, or a policy's self-declared
 # ID, touches that requirement just as much as adding one.
-# `:(exclude)*.md` drops Markdown from the content scan (rule 2 above).
-# `:(exclude)ci/tests/` drops this dir's OWN unit-test fixtures: those files embed example
-#   R-IDs as DATA (asserting the scan's behaviour), never as declarations — the same
-#   "reference, not declaration" logic as rule 2. Their gate coverage is unaffected: any
-#   ci/ change (ci/tests/ included) still attributes R-GITOPS-01/R-TEST-02/R-TEST-03 via the
-#   path->requirement map below. NOTE: this excludes ci/tests/ only — conformance/tests/
-#   carry AUTHORITATIVE `conformance.home.k3s/R-*` labels and are deliberately still scanned.
-# Three-dot to match changed_files(): changes on this branch since it diverged from base.
+# `:(exclude)*.md` drops Markdown from the content scan (rule 2 above). Three-dot to
+# match changed_files(): changes on this branch since it diverged from base.
 changed_diff() {
-  local -a excl=(':(exclude)*.md' ':(exclude)ci/tests/')
-  git -C "$REPO_ROOT" diff -U0 "${BASE}...HEAD" -- . "${excl[@]}"
+  local base; base="$(resolve_base)"
+  if git -C "$REPO_ROOT" diff -U0 "${base}...HEAD" -- . ':(exclude)*.md' 2>/dev/null; then return; fi
+  git -C "$REPO_ROOT" diff -U0 "${base}" -- . ':(exclude)*.md' 2>/dev/null || true
 }

 # Coarse path -> requirement map. Deliberately conservative; extend as subtrees
@@ -177,23 +82,6 @@ path_requirements() {
  case "$1" in
    catalog/*)                 echo "R-GITOPS-02" ;;
    schemas/*)                 echo "R-GITOPS-02" ;;
-    # apps/* was UNMAPPED until 2026-09-19, and it is the largest such hole in the map: 49 tracked
-    # manifests (apps/wave-0, -1, -2, apps/vms) that describe every workload on the cluster. A change
-    # adding or editing an app attributed NOTHING, so the merge gate ran only the whole-repo-scoped
-    # checks and none of the requirement-scoped L2 behaviour tests — default-deny enforcement, egress
-    # class enforcement, auth-mode enforcement — which are exactly what a new or edited app can
-    # violate. Kyverno admission and the L0 egress-path check are real backstops, but "admission will
-    # catch it at apply time" is post-merge, and the gate exists to catch it before.
-    #
-    # ORDER MATTERS: `case` takes the FIRST match, so apps/vms/* must precede apps/*.
-    # apps/vms/ are KubeVirt VMs (R-PLAT-03 lifecycle) with root/data volumes (R-STATE-01), still
-    # subject to default-deny (R-NET-01).
-    apps/vms/*)                echo "R-PLAT-03 R-NET-01 R-STATE-01" ;;
-    # Everything else under apps/ is a ServiceDefinition rendered by catalog/render.py: a container
-    # workload (R-PLAT-02) rendered from the catalog (R-GITOPS-02), carrying the egress-class
-    # (R-NET-05/06/07) and auth-mode (R-IDP-02/R-IDP-06) labels that admission requires, under
-    # default-deny (R-NET-01).
-    apps/*)                    echo "R-PLAT-02 R-GITOPS-02 R-NET-01 R-NET-05 R-NET-06 R-NET-07 R-IDP-02 R-IDP-06" ;;
    platform/kyverno/*)        echo "R-TEST-01 R-NET-01 R-SEC-01" ;;
    platform/cilium/*)         echo "R-NET-01 R-NET-02 R-NET-05" ;;
    platform/longhorn/*)       echo "R-STATE-01 R-STATE-02" ;;
@@ -201,229 +89,30 @@ path_requirements() {
    platform/externaldns/*)    echo "R-DNS-02" ;;
    platform/velero/*)         echo "R-STATE-03" ;;
    platform/monitoring/*)     echo "R-OBS-01 R-OBS-02" ;;
-    # platform/cnpg was UNMAPPED until 2026-09-06. It is the PostgreSQL DR path for keycloak-db /
-    # nextcloud-db / semaphore-db (barmanObjectStore WAL archiving + ScheduledBackup), so a change
-    # there is an R-IDP-05 / R-STATE-03 change; it now also carries the platform-health alert rules
-    # for that path (R-OBS-04). Without this line an edit under platform/cnpg/ contributed ZERO
-    # requirements unless it happened to retype an R-ID on a non-comment line, and escaped the gate.
-    platform/cnpg/*)           echo "R-IDP-05 R-STATE-03 R-OBS-04" ;;
-    # vpn-egress was UNMAPPED until 2026-09-06. platform/vpn-egress/egress-steering.yaml IS the
-    # R-NET-04 datapath (the rule that selects between the two egress paths) and the R-NET-05/06/07
-    # steering policy — it even self-declares those IDs in its `homelab.keithjackson.dev/requirements`
-    # annotation. But the content scan only reads ADDED/REMOVED lines, so any edit that does not
-    # happen to retype an R-ID (a selector change, an excludedCIDRs change, a comment) contributed
-    # ZERO requirements and escaped the gate entirely. Mapped explicitly; the annotation still wins
-    # when a diff does carry the tags.
-    platform/vpn-egress/*)     echo "R-NET-04 R-NET-05 R-NET-06 R-NET-07" ;;
-    # Keycloak is the whole SSO surface: the realm import (declarative identity config),
-    # the SOPS client secrets, and the reconciler that heals them. Added 2026-09-06 after
-    # the client-secret incident, in which editing platform/keycloak/ attributed NO
-    # requirement, so the L2 keycloak tests were filtered out of the merge gate's touched
-    # subset — the change that could break every OIDC login was gated by nothing.
-    # R-IDP-05 is in scope because platform/keycloak/ also carries the CNPG DB Cluster and
-    # its off-cluster backup credential, not only the realm.
-    platform/keycloak/*)       echo "R-IDP-01 R-IDP-02 R-IDP-03 R-IDP-04 R-IDP-05 R-IDP-06" ;;
-    platform/oauth2-proxy/*)   echo "R-IDP-02 R-IDP-06" ;;
    platform/image-automation/*) echo "R-UPD-01 R-UPD-02" ;;
-    # The C2 UI was UNMAPPED until 2026-09-19. This is the gap named explicitly in changed_diff()'s
-    # rule-3 comment above: "path_requirements() has no arm for platform/homepage/* or
-    # platform/headlamp/* either, so the ONLY route to R-C2-01/02 was rule 3 (editing the C2 test
-    # itself)". homepage + headlamp ARE the command-centre surface (registry: R-C2-01/02 ->
-    # docs/12-command-center-ui.md), so editing them must select the C2 tests.
-    platform/homepage/*|platform/headlamp/*) echo "R-C2-01 R-C2-02" ;;
-    # KubeVirt is the VM platform itself (R-PLAT-03); its virt-* components are also scrape targets.
-    platform/kubevirt/*)       echo "R-PLAT-03 R-OBS-01" ;;
-    # The shared ingress Gateway: the L2-announced VIP every HTTP service answers on (R-DNS-01), the
-    # TLS listeners and their certificates (R-TLS-01/02), under default-deny (R-NET-01).
-    platform/gateway/*)        echo "R-DNS-01 R-TLS-01 R-TLS-02 R-NET-01" ;;
-    # CoreDNS is cluster DNS resolution (R-DNS-01).
-    platform/coredns/*)        echo "R-DNS-01" ;;
-    # crafty is a first-class app living under platform/: a container workload with a Longhorn PVC and
-    # its OWN L4 LoadBalancer VIP (Minecraft 25565 is not HTTP, so it does not use the Gateway).
-    platform/crafty/*)         echo "R-PLAT-02 R-NET-01 R-DNS-01 R-STATE-01" ;;
-    # Snapshot machinery is the storage/DR path: CSI snapshots (R-STATE-01) feeding backup (R-STATE-03).
-    platform/external-snapshotter/*|platform/backup/*) echo "R-STATE-01 R-STATE-03" ;;
-    # runbooks/ IS the R-OBS-04 surface: alert-runbooks-resolvable asserts every alert's runbook_url
-    # resolves to a served page, and runbooks/serving/ is the Deployment that serves them. That check
-    # is whole-repo-scoped so it runs regardless, but the attribution should still be honest — a
-    # runbook change is an observability change.
-    runbooks/*)                echo "R-OBS-04" ;;
-    # platform-config/ is the env-specific configuration Flux substitutes into and applies.
-    platform-config/*|platform-config-cdi/*) echo "R-ENV-02 R-GITOPS-01" ;;
-    # platform/kustomization.yaml is the ASSEMBLY: the list of platform components Flux applies.
-    # Deleting one line there disables an entire component (cilium, longhorn, velero...) while every
-    # file it points at stays perfectly valid on disk, so nothing else in the map would attribute the
-    # change. That is the most consequential single-line edit in the repo and it attributed nothing.
-    platform/kustomization.yaml) echo "R-GITOPS-01" ;;
-    # .sops.yaml holds the encryption rules (which paths must be encrypted, with which keys). A change
-    # here can silently stop a new secret path from being encrypted, which is R-SEC-01's whole point.
-    .sops.yaml)                echo "R-SEC-01 R-GITOPS-01" ;;
    conformance/*)             echo "R-TEST-01 R-TEST-02 R-TEST-03 R-TEST-04" ;;
-    # infra/ was UNMAPPED until 2026-09-12 — the OpenTofu + Ansible that provision the dev
-    # nodes. conformance/tests/l0-static/dev-nodes-provisioned-as-code reads NOTHING but
-    # infra/, yet an infra/ edit attributed ZERO requirements, so the one check that asserts
-    # the nodes are provisioned as code was filtered out of every change that could break it.
-    # That test's invariant IS path-scoped (it is deliberately NOT whole-repo-scoped; see its
-    # chainsaw-test.yaml), and the correct fix for a path-scoped invariant is a path-map entry.
-    infra/*)                   echo "R-ENV-01" ;;
    clusters/*)                echo "R-GITOPS-01 R-ENV-02" ;;
-    # bootstrap/ was UNMAPPED until 2026-09-06. The entry STAYS, but its original rationale
-    # was written against a file that is not here, and that is corrected on 2026-09-13:
-    # it claimed "bootstrap/standup.sh carries the placeholder guards that decide whether
-    # `velero` may be enabled against a real backup endpoint". bootstrap/standup.sh HAS NEVER
-    # BEEN ON `main` — it was not deleted (no deletion commit exists anywhere), it landed only
-    # on unmerged prod-standup branches. `git ls-tree main bootstrap/` lists README.md, flux/,
-    # gitea/, sops/. So R-STATE-03 here is ANTICIPATORY, not descriptive.
-    #
-    # WHY IT IS STILL RIGHT. conformance/tests/l0-static/placeholder-guard-coupling DISCOVERS
-    # its guard (any tracked *.sh defining `<name>_is_placeholder()`) instead of hardcoding a
-    # path, so the moment a standup guard lands under bootstrap/ that test's coupling half
-    # activates — and this entry is what selects the test for the change that lands it.
-    # Deleting the entry would mean the change introducing a placeholder guard is gated by
-    # nothing, which is the 2026-09-05 class (a prefix glob that stopped matching when the
-    # value it guards changed, in a different file) left to reintroduce itself. R-GITOPS-01 is
-    # descriptive today: bootstrap/flux/, gitea/ and sops/ ARE the GitOps bootstrap path.
-    # Locked down by ci/tests/touched-requirements.test.sh's path-map section.
-    bootstrap/*)               echo "R-STATE-03 R-GITOPS-01" ;;
-    # R-TEST-06 added 2026-09-12. The comment in changed_diff()'s rule 3 above records why it
-    # was ABSENT: R-TEST-06 used to be enforced by the spec-immutability STAGE and carried by no
-    # Chainsaw test, so attributing it made the coverage `--require` check false-block. It is now
-    # carried by conformance/tests/l0-static/spec-immutability-enforced — whose entire input
-    # surface is ci/ — so a ci/ change must attribute it, or the test that proves the
-    # spec-immutability mechanism is still load-bearing runs on nothing that can break it.
-    .gitea/*|ci/*)             echo "R-GITOPS-01 R-TEST-02 R-TEST-03 R-TEST-06" ;;
+    .gitea/*|ci/*)             echo "R-GITOPS-01 R-TEST-02 R-TEST-03" ;;
    *) : ;;
  esac
 }

-# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# A CHANGED TEST ATTRIBUTES THE REQUIREMENTS IT CERTIFIES (detection rule 3).
-#
-# THE GAP THIS CLOSES (2026-09-12). The path map keys `conformance/*` to
-# R-TEST-01..04 — the requirements about the HARNESS. It says nothing about what a given
-# test PROVES. So editing `conformance/tests/l2-behavioral/tenant-isolation/check.sh` to
-# weaken or delete an assertion attributed R-TEST-01..04 and nothing else: the merge gate
-# then ran the harness's self-tests and NOT the weakened test's own requirement subset.
-# Weakening a test is the one change that most needs the requirement it certifies to be
-# re-verified, and it was the change least likely to select it.
-#
-# The `conformance.home.k3s/R-*: "true"` labels on a test ARE the authoritative declaration of
-# what it verifies (lib/coverage.py reads the same labels); this reads them directly. Note the
-# content scan in main() only sees ADDED/REMOVED lines, so it catches a change to the LABEL
-# BLOCK but not a change to the test BODY — which is exactly the case that matters here.
-#
-# WHY IT READS HEAD *OR* THE BASE: a change that DELETES a test, or deletes its
-# chainsaw-test.yaml, must still attribute what that test used to certify — otherwise removing
-# the only verifier of a requirement is the cheapest way to make the gate stop checking it.
-# HEAD first (the post-change truth), base as the fallback (the deleted case). Fail-closed:
-# this function can only ADD requirements, never remove one.
-: "${CONF_TEST_LABEL_PREFIX:=conformance.home.k3s}"   # == CONF_LABEL_PREFIX, conformance/lib/common.sh
-
-file_text_head_or_base() {
-  local path="$1"
-  git -C "$REPO_ROOT" show "HEAD:${path}" 2>/dev/null && return 0
-  git -C "$REPO_ROOT" show "${BASE}:${path}" 2>/dev/null && return 0
-  return 0
-}
-
-# test_requirements_for_path <changed-path> -> space-separated R-IDs (possibly empty).
-# Walks UP from the changed file to the nearest ancestor directory carrying a
-# chainsaw-test.yaml, so it works for any file in a test dir (check.sh, mutations.py,
-# fixtures, the chainsaw-test.yaml itself) and for nested test layouts.
-test_requirements_for_path() {
-  local f="$1" dir yaml text
-  case "$f" in conformance/tests/*/*) ;; *) return 0 ;; esac
-  dir="${f%/*}"
-  while :; do
-    case "$dir" in
-      conformance/tests|conformance|.|"") return 0 ;;
-      */*) ;;
-      *) return 0 ;;
-    esac
-    yaml="${dir}/chainsaw-test.yaml"
-    text="$(file_text_head_or_base "$yaml")"
-    if [ -n "$text" ]; then
-      # Whole-line `#` comments are dropped first — same "reference, not declaration" rule the
-      # content scan applies (changed_diff() rule 3): a label shown inside a header example is
-      # documentation. Only a real YAML mapping line counts.
-      printf '%s\n' "$text" \
-        | grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*#' \
-        | sed -nE "s#^[[:space:]]*${CONF_TEST_LABEL_PREFIX}/(R-[A-Z0-9]+-[0-9]+):[[:space:]]*[\"']?true.*#\1#p" \
-        | tr '\n' ' '
-      return 0
-    fi
-    dir="${dir%/*}"
-  done
-}
-
 main() {
-  local files reqs="" rc=0 base_sha head_sha local_main merge_base
-
-  resolve_base || undecidable no-base "$BASE_PROBLEM"
-  base_sha="$(rev "$BASE")" || undecidable no-base "resolved base '${BASE}' vanished"
-  head_sha="$(rev HEAD)"    || undecidable no-base "HEAD does not resolve to a commit (empty repo?)"
-  log "diff base: ${BASE} (${BASE_SOURCE}) @ ${base_sha:0:12} ... HEAD @ ${head_sha:0:12}"
-
-  # Advisory: a never-fetched origin/main silently WIDENS the set (over-broad, never a
-  # false green) — surfaced so an unexpectedly large touched set has an explanation.
-  if [ "$BASE" = "origin/main" ] && local_main="$(rev main)" && [ -n "$local_main" ] \
-     && [ "$local_main" != "$base_sha" ]; then
-    warn "local 'main' (${local_main:0:12}) != origin/main (${base_sha:0:12}) — if origin/main"
-    warn "  was not fetched recently the touched set may be stale: git fetch origin main"
-  fi
-
-  merge_base="$(git -C "$REPO_ROOT" merge-base "$BASE" HEAD 2>/dev/null)" \
-    || undecidable no-base "no merge base between '${BASE}' and HEAD (unrelated histories, or a shallow clone)"
-  if [ "$merge_base" = "$head_sha" ]; then
-    undecidable on-base "HEAD is not ahead of '${BASE}' (merge-base == HEAD): this checkout contains no branch commits to gate. The empty touched set would be empty BY DEFAULT, not by verification."
-  fi
-
-  files="$(changed_files)" || rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || undecidable diff-failed "git diff --name-only ${BASE}...HEAD failed (rc=${rc})"
-  if [ -z "$files" ]; then
-    warn "HEAD is ahead of ${BASE} but the three-dot diff is empty (self-cancelling commits?)"
-    warn "  -> genuinely empty touched-requirement set; base WAS established."
-    exit 0
-  fi
+  local files reqs=""
+  files="$(changed_files)"
+  [ -n "$files" ] || { log "no changed files vs base; empty touched-requirement set"; exit 0; }

  while IFS= read -r f; do
    [ -n "$f" ] || continue
    reqs+=" $(path_requirements "$f")"
-    # Detection rule 3: a change under conformance/tests/<test>/ attributes THAT TEST'S own
-    # requirement labels, so weakening a test is gated by what the test certifies.
-    reqs+=" $(test_requirements_for_path "$f")"
  done <<< "$files"

  # Self-declared R-IDs on the ADDED/REMOVED lines of the change (see changed_diff).
-  #
-  # THE ID PATTERN IS `R-[A-Z0-9]+-[0-9]+`, NOT `R-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+`. The WORKSTREAM segment may
-  # contain a DIGIT: `R-C2-01` and `R-C2-02` (command & control UI) are the only two such IDs
-  # in conformance/requirements/registry.yaml today, and the stricter pattern silently failed
-  # to match BOTH of them — `[A-Z]+` consumes the `C` and then demands a `-` where the `2` is.
-  # Every other consumer in the repo already allows the digit: test_requirements_for_path()
-  # twenty lines above uses `R-[A-Z0-9]+-[0-9]+`, as do conformance/lib/coverage.py,
-  # conformance/lib/status.py and conformance/lib/run_l1_offline.py. This grep was the lone
-  # dissenter, and it dissented by UNDER-attributing — the fail-OPEN direction. A change that
-  # retyped a `conformance.home.k3s/R-C2-01` tag, or a manifest self-declaring R-C2-02 from a
-  # path the map keys elsewhere, contributed those IDs to NOBODY, so the C2 tests were
-  # filtered out of the merge gate. Same defect class as the map's `*) : ;;` arm: a miss that
-  # reads as "nothing touched". path_requirements() has no arm for platform/homepage/* or
-  # platform/headlamp/* either, so before this fix the ONLY route to R-C2-01/02 was rule 3
-  # (editing the C2 test itself). Regression-tested in ci/tests/touched-requirements.test.sh.
  # `^[+-]` keeps hunk headers (`@@`) and the `+++`/`---` file headers out of scope.
-  # `sed 's/^[+-]//'` then strips the single-char diff marker (safe: -U0 emits one), so
-  #   what remains is the SOURCE line, and `grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*#'` drops whole-line
-  #   YAML/shell comments (rule 3 in changed_diff's header) BEFORE the R-ID grep — a
-  #   requirement cited only in a `#` comment is prose, not a declaration.
-  local diff_txt
-  diff_txt="$(changed_diff)" || rc=$?
-  [ "$rc" -eq 0 ] || undecidable diff-failed "git diff -U0 ${BASE}...HEAD failed (rc=${rc})"
-  reqs+=" $(printf '%s\n' "$diff_txt" \
+  reqs+=" $(changed_diff \
    | grep -E '^[+-]' \
    | grep -vE '^(\+\+\+|---)' \
-    | sed -E 's/^[+-]//' \
-    | grep -vE '^[[:space:]]*#' \
-    | grep -hoE 'R-[A-Z0-9]+-[0-9]+' \
+    | grep -hoE 'R-[A-Z]+-[0-9]+' \
    | tr '\n' ' ' || true)"

  # Normalize: split, unique, sort. Emit to stdout.
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # whatever platform/kyverno and conformance/ pin — see integration notes in README.

 # L0 policy gate (Kyverno CLI) + ServiceDefinition validation (kyverno-json)
-KYVERNO_VERSION="1.19.0"
+KYVERNO_VERSION="1.13.4"
 KYVERNO_JSON_VERSION="0.0.3"

 # L1/L2/L3 declarative runner (Chainsaw) — invoked via conformance/ entrypoint,
@@ -18,18 +18,9 @@ CHAINSAW_VERSION="0.2.12"

 # Lint / manifest tooling
 YAMLLINT_VERSION="1.35.1"
-KUBECTL_VERSION="1.36.4"
+KUBECTL_VERSION="1.31.4"
 YQ_VERSION="4.44.6"

-# Alert-rule unit tests (promtool test rules) — the L0 check
-# conformance/tests/l0-static/alert-rules-unit-tested runs every
-# platform/**/*.promtool-test.yaml through it. MUST stay in lockstep with
-# infra/devcontainer/versions.env (which bakes it into the image) AND with the Prometheus
-# version running on prod, because promtool IS the rule engine: verified 2026-09-12 as
-# v3.14.0-distroless via `kubectl get prometheus -n monitoring -o jsonpath='{.items[*].spec.version}'`.
-# Shipped inside the prometheus release tarball, not as a separate release.
-PROMTOOL_VERSION="3.14.0"
-
 # ServiceDefinition JSON-Schema validation (schemas/validate.sh). Pip-installed;
 # pinned here so CI and a laptop validate against the exact same validator.
 CHECK_JSONSCHEMA_VERSION="0.29.4"
@@ -1,19 +1,5 @@
 # clusters/

-> **STATUS NOTE (2026-09-29) — read before trusting the "Phase 0" framing below.**
-> This document speaks as though no cluster exists and the platform is scaffolding. **A
-> three-node k3s cluster has existed for weeks** and Flux has been reconciling against it.
-> Gitea is live, the Actions runner `incluster-dind` is online, and `main` is a protected
-> branch. Where the text says "Phase 0", "stub", or "no cluster exists", read it as
-> describing a **live gap** rather than an expected stage — most importantly, L2/L3
-> conformance still does not run in CI (`vars.CLUSTER_AVAILABLE` is unset), which is a real
-> coverage hole, not a phase.
->
-> This mismatch is not cosmetic. A month of "the gate enforces this" claims rested on
-> documentation rather than measurement, and `main` was unprotected with zero runners
-> registered the whole time. **Query the live API before asserting platform state.**
-
-
 Flux entrypoints and the environment-overlay model (**R-ENV-02**, **R-GITOPS-01/02/03**).

 Governing spec: [`docs/05-gitops-and-delivery.md`](../../home-network-k3s/docs/05-gitops-and-delivery.md),
@@ -43,9 +29,8 @@ clusters/

 ## How the overlay model satisfies R-ENV-02

-The base authors the reconciliation graph **once**. `platform.yaml` and the app-wave Kustomizations
-(`apps-wave-0/1/2.yaml` — the single `apps.yaml` was retired; `apps-vms.yaml` deliberately omits it,
-see below) declare `postBuild.substituteFrom` the `cluster-vars` ConfigMap. Platform and
+The base authors the reconciliation graph **once**. `platform.yaml` and `apps.yaml` (Flux
+`Kustomization`s) both declare `postBuild.substituteFrom` the `cluster-vars` ConfigMap. Platform and
 app manifests use `${TOKEN}` placeholders for every value that legitimately differs between
 environments (issuer, replica counts, storage sizes, retention, node placement).

@@ -54,31 +39,6 @@ they add no resources of their own and never copy/fork a base manifest. Promotio
 ([`docs/02`](../../home-network-k3s/docs/02-environments-and-provisioning.md)) is a change to the
 prod overlay's variables, nothing else.

-### LAN addressing is a knob, not a literal (fixed 2026-08-31)
-
-Until 2026-08-31 the base manifests hardcoded the **dev** LAN: the k3s API host Cilium dials, the
-Cilium LB IP pool range, the pinned crafty/unifi L4 VIPs and the off-cluster S3 backup endpoint. That
-broke R-ENV-02 outright — `clusters/prod` would have rendered dev addresses (192.168.1.x) onto the
-prod LAN (192.168.2.x). They are now the `cluster-vars` "LAN addressing" block
-(`K3S_API_HOST`, `CILIUM_LB_POOL_START`/`_STOP`, `UNIFI_L4_VIP`, `CRAFTY_L4_VIP`,
-`S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT`, alongside the pre-existing `GATEWAY_VIP`), set explicitly by BOTH overlays.
-
-Two rules when touching that block:
-
-1. **Substitution coverage.** A `${TOKEN}` only resolves in a path whose Flux Kustomization declares
-   `postBuild.substituteFrom: cluster-vars`; anywhere else the literal string `${TOKEN}` ships to the
-   cluster. `apps-vms` was the one path without it and now has it — which means every shell `${...}`
-   in a VM manifest's cloud-init must be escaped `$${...}` (see `clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml` for the
-   full envsubst escape contract).
-2. **`GATEWAY_VIP` must be inside `CILIUM_LB_POOL_START..STOP`,** and in practice equal to START: the
-   `shared` Gateway pins no address, so Cilium LB-IPAM gives it the pool's first free IP while
-   split-horizon CoreDNS answers with `${GATEWAY_VIP}`. A VIP outside the pool blackholes in-cluster
-   hairpin traffic while the Gateway still looks healthy.
-
-Values the operator has not decided are `TBD-PROD-*` placeholders, not guesses: prod inherits the
-DEV base defaults if an overlay op is simply omitted, so an invalid value that fails loudly is
-strictly safer than a plausible one that quietly comes up on the wrong network.
-
 ## How Flux is pointed at an environment

 `flux bootstrap` (run by WS-INFRA in Phase 1) targets one environment's path per cluster:
@@ -111,27 +71,6 @@ Kustomization: apps-wave-1  (./apps/wave-1, dependsOn apps-wave-0)
 Kustomization: apps-wave-N  (./apps/wave-N, dependsOn apps-wave-N-1)
 ```

-### Second-order CRDs need a THIRD pass (`platform-config-cdi`, added 2026-09-05)
-
-The controllers/configs split (`platform` → `platform-config`) assumes a CRD is registered by the
-controller **install**. CDI breaks that: `cdi-operator.yaml` registers only `cdis.cdi.kubevirt.io`,
-and cdi-operator creates `storageprofiles` / `datavolumes` / `datasources` **only after it has
-reconciled the `CDI` CR**. Since kustomize-controller server-side **dry-runs every object in a pass
-before applying any of them**, having the `CDI` CR and the CDI `StorageProfile`s in one pass was a
-**deadlock, not a race**: unknown kind → pass aborts → CR never applied → CRD never created →
-`platform-config` can never converge → every tier below it blocked. Invisible on dev (its CDI CRDs
-have existed for months); it cost 12h on prod's cold start.
-
-So there is a third tier, `platform-config-cdi` (`./platform-config-cdi`, `dependsOn:
-platform-config`), and a rule:
-
-> A CR belongs in `platform-config-cdi`, not `platform-config`, when the CRD it needs is created by a
-> **controller at runtime** rather than by a manifest in git.
-
-`apps-vms` `dependsOn` it as well as `platform-config`, because CDI reads
-`StorageProfile/longhorn-vm` at DataVolume **provisioning** time — a VM disk provisioned before that
-profile exists is stamped RWO/Filesystem and is permanently not live-migratable.
-
 Wave 0 `dependsOn` `platform-config` (transitively `platform`) so CNI/storage/TLS/DNS/gateway
 exist before any workload reconciles. The app tier is split into dependency-ordered WAVES
 (`catalog/render.py --emit-waves`): each `apps-wave-<N>` health-gates (wait:true) ONLY its own
@@ -4,11 +4,8 @@
 # NON-GATING (wait:false): unlike the app waves, this does NOT health-wait. A VM's first-boot image
 # import (CDI, minutes) + in-guest software install mean a VM can be intentionally long-not-Ready, so
 # health-gating it would wedge reconciliation for no benefit. VMs have no in-cluster dependents.
-# dependsOn platform-config so KubeVirt/CDI + the longhorn-vm StorageClass exist first, AND
-# platform-config-cdi so the CDI StorageProfiles do (2026-09-05: the StorageProfiles MOVED OUT of
-# platform-config into their own tier, so `dependsOn: platform-config` alone NO LONGER guarantees
-# them — see the dependsOn block). prune:true — this Kustomization solely owns the VM manifests (no
-# adoption concern).
+# dependsOn platform-config so KubeVirt/CDI + the longhorn-vm StorageClass + CDI StorageProfiles
+# exist first. prune:true — this Kustomization solely owns the VM manifests (no adoption concern).
 apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
 kind: Kustomization
 metadata:
@@ -22,47 +19,11 @@ spec:
  wait: false
  dependsOn:
    - name: platform-config
-    # LOAD-BEARING, not decoration. apps/vms/unifi/20-datavolume.yaml provisions a DataVolume on
-    # storageClassName `longhorn-vm`, and CDI reads StorageProfile/longhorn-vm AT PROVISIONING TIME to
-    # decide the claim's accessModes/volumeMode. Without that profile's `claimPropertySets`
-    # (ReadWriteMany + Block) the PVC is stamped RWO/Filesystem and the VM disk is PERMANENTLY not
-    # live-migratable — a silent, unrecoverable-without-recreate loss. The profiles used to arrive
-    # with platform-config; since 2026-09-05 they arrive with `platform-config-cdi`, so the edge has
-    # to move with them. platform-config-cdi runs wait:true and StorageProfile has no status
-    # conditions (kstatus -> Current on apply), so this edge cannot stall this tier.
-    #
-    # HONEST LIMIT: CDI provisions from the profile's STATUS, which its storageprofile-controller
-    # derives from our spec. This edge proves the spec is applied, not that CDI has folded it into
-    # status — that is a watch-triggered round-trip of seconds against a ~30s dependency requeue, so
-    # it is a timing argument rather than a guarantee. See clusters/base/platform-config-cdi.yaml.
-    #
-    # This edge also makes the StorageProfile prune/recreate transition safe: platform-config's prune
-    # deletes the two profiles for the ~30-60s before platform-config-cdi re-applies them, and this
-    # dependsOn is what guarantees Flux cannot create a DataVolume inside that window.
-    #
-    # The platform-config edge above is kept although platform-config-cdi already dependsOn it: the
-    # edges are a set, there is no cycle, and stating both means a future edit to platform-config-cdi
-    # cannot silently drop this tier's KubeVirt/StorageClass gate.
-    - name: platform-config-cdi
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: flux-system
  path: ./apps/vms
-  # postBuild.substituteFrom ENABLED 2026-08-31 (R-ENV-02). It was previously omitted because Flux's
-  # envsubst runs over the ENTIRE manifest — including VM cloud-init shell scripts — and would mangle
-  # every `${...}`; the omission was safe only while no VM manifest referenced a cluster-var. It now
-  # does: apps/vms/unifi/50-service-l4.yaml pins the UniFi L4 VIP from ${UNIFI_L4_VIP} instead of the
-  # hardcoded dev-LAN literal that would have shipped 192.168.1.54 onto the PROD LAN.
-  #
-  # The escape contract the old comment prescribed is now in force and MUST be honoured by every VM
-  # manifest under this path (verified with `flux envsubst`):
-  #   `${VAR}`  -> substituted (empty when unset)  => escape shell braces as `$${VAR}`, which
-  #                envsubst emits back as a literal `${VAR}`.
-  #   `$VAR`    -> left alone by envsubst          => bare shell vars need NO escaping.
-  #   `$(cmd)`  -> left alone by envsubst          => command substitution needs NO escaping.
-  #   `${ARR[0]}` (e.g. ${PIPESTATUS[0]}) -> HARD ERROR "missing closing brace", which fails this
-  #                whole Kustomization. NEVER use an indexed expansion here, escaped or not.
-  postBuild:
-    substituteFrom:
-      - kind: ConfigMap
-        name: cluster-vars
+  # NO postBuild.substituteFrom: Flux's envsubst would run over the ENTIRE manifest, including the
+  # VM cloud-init shell scripts, and mangle every `${...}` (e.g. ${UOS_URL}, ${PIPESTATUS[0]}) —
+  # corrupting the in-guest install. VM manifests reference no cluster-vars, so substitution is
+  # unneeded here. A future VM that needs a cluster-var must escape its shell `${...}` as `$${...}`.
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ spec:
    substituteFrom:
      - kind: ConfigMap
        name: cluster-vars
-  # SOPS decryption for the `cloud` INI credentials — velero-cloud.sops.yaml (dev's scoped MinIO key)
-  # and velero-cloud-prod.sops.yaml (prod's Cloudflare R2 token) — is layered per environment by the
-  # overlay (clusters/dev and clusters/prod patch THIS Kustomization by name), identical to how
-  # headlamp/oauth2-proxy/crafty decrypt their own SOPS secrets. Both Secrets are applied on both
-  # clusters; ${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX} (substituted from cluster-vars above) decides which one the
-  # velero Deployment actually mounts. See clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml.
+  # SOPS decryption for velero-cloud.sops.yaml (the scoped MinIO `cloud` credential) is layered per
+  # environment by the overlay (clusters/dev patches THIS Kustomization by name), identical to how
+  # headlamp/oauth2-proxy/crafty decrypt their own SOPS secrets. See clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml.
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
---
-# Flux Kustomization: CILIUM (the CNI) — reconciles ./platform/cilium.
-# Serves R-PLAT-01 (platform components reconciled by GitOps) and R-GITOPS-01/03.
-#
-# WHY CILIUM HAS ITS OWN KUSTOMIZATION (split out of `platform`, 2026-09-01)
-#
-# This is the MIRROR IMAGE of the oauth2-proxy / headlamp splits, not a repeat of them. Those are
-# leaves that must NEVER gate a tier, so they left `platform` and run `wait: false` below it.
-# Cilium is the one component that legitimately SHOULD gate everything — but inside the shared
-# `platform` Kustomization its health was indistinguishable from eleven unrelated components:
-#
-#   * `platform`'s Ready condition could not tell you "the CNI is down" from "longhorn is slow".
-#   * The only emergency valve was `flux suspend kustomization platform` — freezing the ENTIRE
-#     tier (storage, TLS, DNS, ingress, monitoring, Keycloak, KubeVirt) to stop touching the CNI.
-#     `flux suspend kustomization cilium` now freezes exactly the CNI and nothing else, which is
-#     the valve the 2026-09-01 substitution incident wanted and did not have.
-#   * `platform`'s 10m interval + 5m timeout are wrong for a CNI: a 3-node DaemonSet rollout with
-#     `wait: true` can exceed 5m, and re-rendering the CNI every 10m buys nothing.
-#
-# GATING IS PRESERVED, NOT WEAKENED: `wait: true` here plus `platform.dependsOn: [cilium]` means
-# nothing in the graph reconciles until the CNI is healthy — the same guarantee as before, now
-# expressed as an explicit edge instead of an accident of co-tenancy.
-apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-kind: Kustomization
-metadata:
-  name: cilium
-  namespace: flux-system
-spec:
-  # A CNI does not need a 10m re-render cadence. A git push still reconciles immediately —
-  # kustomize-controller is source-triggered; `interval` is only the drift-correction floor.
-  interval: 1h
-  retryInterval: 2m
-  # 10m (not the 5m `platform` uses): a 3-node Cilium DaemonSet rollout under `wait: true`,
-  # rolled ONE NODE AT A TIME (maxUnavailable: 1, P2), legitimately exceeds 5m.
-  timeout: 10m
-  prune: true
-  # TRUE, deliberately: this is the ONE component whose health should gate the whole platform.
-  wait: true
-  # Same revision-gating reason `platform` has it (2026-09-01 incident): `cluster-vars` is APPLIED
-  # by the root `flux-system` Kustomization, and this Kustomization SUBSTITUTES from it. `dependsOn`
-  # is revision-gated (kustomize-controller v1.4.0 `checkDependencies`), so this cannot render
-  # revision N of helmrelease.yaml against the revision N-1 `cluster-vars`. That race is exactly how
-  # `k8sServiceHost: ""` once reached the Cilium HelmRelease and took down 2/3 agents.
-  dependsOn:
-    - name: flux-system   # the ROOT Kustomization (sync.yaml) that applies cluster-vars
-  sourceRef:
-    kind: GitRepository
-    name: flux-system
-  path: ./platform/cilium
-  # MANDATORY, not decorative: platform/cilium/helmrelease.yaml references ${K3S_API_HOST}.
-  # kustomize-controller now runs --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true, so without
-  # this stanza an undefined ${K3S_API_HOST} FAILS this Kustomization outright (it no longer
-  # renders empty). That is the intended fail-closed behaviour — but it means the stanza is
-  # load-bearing for the CNI coming up at all. Do not remove it.
-  postBuild:
-    substituteFrom:
-      - kind: ConfigMap
-        name: cluster-vars
-  # No `decryption` stanza: platform/cilium carries no SOPS-encrypted resource (unlike
-  # oauth2-proxy/headlamp/crafty/velero, whose overlays patch one in by name).
@@ -17,228 +17,20 @@ data:
  CLUSTER_ENV: "base"                       # dev | prod  (overlays set this)

  # --- DNS / TLS ---
-  # THE platform hostname suffix. Every public hostname the cluster serves is `<svc>.${BASE_DOMAIN}`,
-  # the wildcard cert is `*.${BASE_DOMAIN}`, coredns-custom answers the `${BASE_DOMAIN}` zone with
-  # ${GATEWAY_VIP}, and every OIDC issuer/redirect URI is built from it.
-  #
-  # THIS KNOB WAS DEAD UNTIL 2026-09-04 — declared here but referenced by NO manifest, because every
-  # hostname was hardcoded. That is what made the 2026-09-04 incident possible: prod and dev were
-  # authored to serve the SAME hostnames out of the SAME Cloudflare zone, so prod's external-dns
-  # (policy: sync, owner `default`) concluded it owned dev's public records and DELETED ALL OF THEM.
-  # See infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §10. The fix is architectural: each environment gets its OWN
-  # subdomain, so the two clusters can no longer describe the same name.
-  #
-  #   dev   -> home.keithjackson.dev            (UNCHANGED — see below)
-  #   prod  -> prod.home.keithjackson.dev
-  #
-  # DEV DELIBERATELY STAYS ON THE APEX `home.keithjackson.dev`. The target architecture puts dev on
-  # `dev.home.keithjackson.dev` with apex CNAMEs `<svc>.home` -> `<svc>.prod.home`, but moving dev
-  # relocates its Keycloak issuer, every OIDC client redirect URI, kubectl SSO, its wildcard cert and
-  # the Gitea host that IS the GitOps source — on a live cluster. Deferred to phase 2
-  # (infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §10). Base default is therefore the DEV value, the same convention as
-  # GATEWAY_VIP / LONGHORN_DATA_PATH: the base default is the known-good working value, dev restates
-  # it verbatim, and prod overrides it. Dev's rendered output is byte-identical to the pre-
-  # tokenization hardcoded manifests (verified 2026-09-04, all 12 substituted paths).
-  BASE_DOMAIN: "home.keithjackson.dev"
-
-  # ExternalDNS `--domain-filter` (platform/externaldns/helmrelease.yaml). SAFETY NET #2 behind
-  # EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID: a record whose name falls outside this filter is not even considered,
-  # so it cannot be created, updated or deleted regardless of TXT ownership.
-  #
-  # DEV KEEPS THE ZONE APEX `keithjackson.dev`, and must: dev serves the `home.keithjackson.dev`
-  # apex itself, and the Cloudflare provider filters the ACCOUNT'S ZONES by this value — a filter
-  # that is a strict subdomain of the zone dropped the parent zone outright ("no hosted zone matching
-  # record DNS Name", DECISIONS-LOG 2026-08) on the version in use then. So dev's value is unchanged
-  # from the retired `DNS_ZONE` knob this replaces, and dev renders byte-identically.
-  #
-  # PROD NARROWS TO ITS OWN SUBTREE `prod.home.keithjackson.dev`. VERIFY ON PROD'S FIRST RECONCILE
-  # (infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §10): if the zone-lookup limitation above still applies to the pinned
-  # chart, prod's external-dns will select NO zone and create NO records. That failure is FAIL-CLOSED
-  # — it can never delete another environment's records — and the fallback is to set prod's value
-  # back to "keithjackson.dev", leaving EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID as the sole (and sufficient) guard.
-  EXTERNALDNS_DOMAIN_FILTER: "keithjackson.dev"
-
-  # ExternalDNS TXT registry owner id (`--txt-owner-id`). THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE 2026-09-04 INCIDENT:
-  # neither cluster set it, so both inherited the chart default `default`, and ExternalDNS treats a
-  # record whose TXT registry entry carries ITS OWN owner id as its own to reconcile — and with
-  # `policy: sync`, to DELETE when no local resource claims it. Two clusters sharing an owner id on
-  # one zone therefore garbage-collect each other. Each environment MUST have a distinct value.
-  #
-  # DEV MUST RENDER EXACTLY `default`. Dev's LIVE public records are already registered in Cloudflare
-  # under owner `default`; changing dev's value would make dev's own external-dns stop recognising
-  # them, and it would re-create duplicates alongside the orphaned originals. Dev's overlay pins it.
-  #
-  # THE BASE DEFAULT IS A NON-COLLIDING SENTINEL, deliberately NOT `default`. A new environment that
-  # forgets this knob must not silently inherit dev's identity — that is precisely the incident. With
-  # this sentinel such a cluster owns nothing, so it can DELETE nothing; it would publish under a
-  # visibly wrong owner id (grep the TXT records) instead of destroying a live environment's DNS.
-  EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID: "unset-see-cluster-vars"
-
+  BASE_DOMAIN: "home.keithjackson.dev"      # platform hostname suffix (same both envs; split-horizon)
+  DNS_ZONE: "keithjackson.dev"              # the actual Cloudflare ZONE (BASE_DOMAIN is a subdomain of it);
+                                            # ExternalDNS domain-filter must be the zone, not the subdomain
  ACME_CLUSTER_ISSUER: "letsencrypt-staging" # dev: staging | prod: letsencrypt-prod (ADR-0006)
-  GATEWAY_VIP: "192.168.1.53"                # in-cluster split-horizon target (R-DNS-01/03): the L2-announced
-                                            # ingress VIP of the `shared` Gateway. MUST equal the FIRST address of
-                                            # ${CILIUM_LB_POOL_START}..${CILIUM_LB_POOL_STOP} below — the Gateway
-                                            # takes the pool's first free IP, and coredns-custom answers
-                                            # *.home.keithjackson.dev with THIS so pod -> public-hostname traffic
-                                            # hairpins through the Gateway (correct SNI -> wildcard cert).
-                                            # Base default = the DEV LAN VIP (was 10.73.0.240, an address on the
-                                            # long-RETIRED libvirt network — corrected 2026-08-31 so an overlay that
-                                            # forgets this knob at least lands on a REAL network). A prod overlay
-                                            # MUST still set the prod LAN VIP alongside the prod L2 pool range.
-
-  # --- LAN addressing (R-ENV-02) — the ONE block every new environment must re-supply -------------
-  # These were HARDCODED into base manifests until 2026-08-31, which broke the golden constraint:
-  # `clusters/prod` would have rendered the DEV LAN (192.168.1.0/24) onto the prod LAN (192.168.2.0/24)
-  # — a silent, cross-environment IP collision. They are knobs now. Base defaults ARE the dev values
-  # (same convention as GATEWAY_VIP above: the base default is the known-good working value), so the
-  # dev overlay restates them verbatim and a prod overlay MUST override EVERY knob in this block
-  # before `flux bootstrap --path=clusters/prod`.
-  #
-  # Substitution coverage (verify before adding a knob here): every path that consumes these declares
-  # postBuild.substituteFrom cluster-vars — platform (K3S_API_HOST), platform-config
-  # (CILIUM_LB_POOL_*, and keycloak-db's S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT + CNPG_BACKUP_PATH: the Cluster lives at
-  # platform/keycloak/postgres-cluster.yaml but is rendered by platform-config, which is the ONLY
-  # tier that lists it), crafty (CRAFTY_L4_VIP), apps-wave-0 (nextcloud-db + semaphore-db:
-  # S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT, CNPG_BACKUP_PATH; pihole + pihole-dns: PIHOLE_DNS_VIP, LAN_CIDR, plus
-  # GATEWAY_VIP/UNIFI_L4_VIP/CRAFTY_L4_VIP read BY pihole to author its LAN split-horizon answers),
-  # velero (S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT, S3_BACKUP_REGION,
-  # VELERO_BACKUP_BUCKET, VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX), apps-vms (UNIFI_L4_VIP). A ${TOKEN} in an
-  # UNSUBSTITUTED path would ship the literal string into the cluster.
-  #
-  # ADDING A KNOB IS SAFE UNDER StrictPostBuildSubstitutions ONLY BECAUSE OF THE ROOT EDGE. An
-  # UNDEFINED variable is a HARD Kustomization failure, so a manifest that references a knob the
-  # live ConfigMap does not yet carry breaks its whole tier. `clusters/base/platform.yaml` gained
-  # `dependsOn: [flux-system]` for exactly this: dependsOn is REVISION-gated, so no substituting
-  # tier can reconcile revision N until the ROOT Kustomization has APPLIED revision N — i.e. until
-  # the new cluster-vars key EXISTS. Every substituting consumer chains transitively through
-  # `platform`, so one edge covers the graph, and a new knob plus its first reference may ship in
-  # ONE commit. (A hand-run `kubectl apply -k clusters/<env>` bypasses that ordering entirely: apply
-  # the overlay BEFORE the tier that references the knob, or the tier fails until it retries.)
-
-  # k3s API endpoint Cilium's kube-proxy replacement dials (platform/cilium/helmrelease.yaml).
-  #
-  # *** THIS IS THE CONTROL-PLANE VIP (kube-vip), NOT A NODE ADDRESS. *** Operator decision
-  # 2026-09-06. It was each environment's PRIMARY NODE IP until then, which made the CNI's
-  # control-plane path depend on one machine in a cluster whose entire purpose is HA: verified on
-  # live prod, all three cilium-agents carried KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST=192.168.2.10 (k3s-prod-1's
-  # own address) while kube-vip held 192.168.2.9. Losing that node leaves the datapath running off
-  # Cilium's cache while NO service or policy update lands — a silent, unbounded staleness, not an
-  # outage you would notice. A virtual address that follows the control plane is the fix, and it is
-  # what kube-vip was stood up to provide.
-  #
-  #   dev  -> 192.168.1.49   (= kube_vip_address, group_vars/all.yml; base default, below)
-  #   prod -> 192.168.2.9    (= kube_vip_address, group_vars/k3s_prod/vars.yml)
-  #
-  # THE NAME IS NOW SLIGHTLY WRONG AND IS KEPT ANYWAY: renaming the knob would be a second,
-  # unrelated change to every substituting Kustomization at the same time as a live CNI endpoint
-  # move. Read it as "the API host Cilium dials", which is what it always meant.
-  #
-  # [parity] MUST equal the Ansible bootstrap's **k3s_apiserver_endpoint** for the SAME environment
-  # (infra/ansible/inventory/group_vars/all.yml -> roles/cilium/templates/cilium-values.yaml.j2,
-  # already inventory-parameterized). NOT k3s_api_host — that variable still exists and still holds
-  # the FOUNDER's address, because the cold-bootstrap `--server` join needs a machine that is
-  # already up before any VIP exists. The two are deliberately separate; see the TWO API ADDRESSES
-  # block at the top of group_vars/all.yml.
-  #
-  # Wrong value = Cilium cannot reach the API server on adopt and the CNI breaks. Port stays 6443
-  # in both envs, so it is NOT a knob.
-  #
-  # TLS needs nothing: k3s_tls_sans has always carried kube_vip_address alongside every node IP, so
-  # both addresses are already in the serving cert (verified live 2026-09-06 — prod answers through
-  # https://192.168.2.9:6443 under full CA verification). No cert reissue, no k3s restart.
-  K3S_API_HOST: "192.168.1.49"
-
-  # CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool `default-pool` (platform-config/cilium/l2-ip-pool.yaml): the VIP range
-  # L2-announced on the flat LAN. Must sit OUTSIDE the node IPs and any DHCP scope, and must match the
-  # tofu reservation (cilium_l2_vip_range). INVARIANT: ${GATEWAY_VIP} must be INSIDE this range and in
-  # practice EQUAL to START — the `shared` Gateway pins no address, so LB-IPAM hands it the pool's
-  # first free IP. (⚠ the operator-supplied PROD values currently break this; see l2-ip-pool.yaml and
-  # the flagged block in clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml.)
-  CILIUM_LB_POOL_START: "192.168.1.53"
-  CILIUM_LB_POOL_STOP: "192.168.1.60"
-
-  # Pinned VIPs carved out of that pool by name (lbipam.cilium.io/ips). These are L4 workloads the
-  # HTTPS Gateway cannot express (raw TCP/UDP), so they hold their own stable address:
-  UNIFI_L4_VIP: "192.168.1.54"               # UniFi controller VM: inform/STUN/adoption (apps/vms/unifi)
-  CRAFTY_L4_VIP: "192.168.1.55"              # Crafty: Minecraft Java (TCP) + Bedrock (UDP) game ports
-  # PiHole's DNS listener: udp/53 + tcp/53 for LAN CLIENTS (apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml). It is a
-  # THIRD pinned L4 VIP for the same reason as the two above — the `shared` Gateway is an L7 HTTPS
-  # terminator and cannot express DNS at all (udp/53 especially). It must NOT be ${GATEWAY_VIP}:
-  # LAN clients are pointed at this address as their resolver, and it has to stay put across
-  # reschedules, so it is pinned by lbipam.cilium.io/ips rather than taken from the pool head.
-  #
-  # WHY A SEPARATE ADDRESS AND NOT THE GATEWAY VIP: every `<svc>.${BASE_DOMAIN}` name resolves TO
-  # the Gateway VIP. Serving DNS from the same address would be legal but conflates "the thing that
-  # answers where services live" with "a service", and it would put LAN resolution behind the
-  # Gateway Service's own lifecycle. Keep them separate.
-  #
-  # dev  -> 192.168.1.56  (base default; next free after crafty .55 in dev's .53-.60 pool)
-  # prod -> 192.168.2.23  (next free after crafty .22 in prod's .20-.30 pool; see clusters/prod)
-  PIHOLE_DNS_VIP: "192.168.1.56"             # PiHole: authoritative LAN DNS for ${BASE_DOMAIN}
-
-  # The FLAT LAN this cluster's nodes and LB VIPs live on, in CIDR form. Consumed as the ingress
-  # peer of the PiHole DNS CiliumNetworkPolicy (apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml): a resolver reachable
-  # from `world` is an open resolver and an amplification reflector, so the allow is scoped to this
-  # CIDR, not to Cilium's `world` entity the way the unifi/crafty game-port allows are. It is the
-  # same /24 the node IPs and ${CILIUM_LB_POOL_START}..${CILIUM_LB_POOL_STOP} come out of.
-  #
-  # dev  -> 192.168.1.0/24  (Proxmox LAN; nodes .50/.51/.52)
-  # prod -> 192.168.2.0/24  (prod LAN; nodes .10/.11/.12)
-  LAN_CIDR: "192.168.1.0/24"                 # ingress scope for the PiHole DNS listener
-
-  # --- Bulk (external NFS) storage host (docs/04 bulk tier) ---------------------------------------
-  # THE address of the Proxmox host whose ZFS datasets back every `class: bulk` volume: the media
-  # library (Storage/plex, 8.33 T — plex, sonarr, radarr) and the legacy Nextcloud archive
-  # (Storage/nextcloud, 270 G). The renderer emits it into each static NFS PersistentVolume's
-  # `spec.nfs.server` (catalog/render.py, BULK_NFS_SERVER); the export PATH is per-dataset and is
-  # declared in the ServiceDefinition, because the path is identical in every environment and only
-  # the ADDRESS is not.
-  #
-  # WHY THIS IS A KNOB AND NOT A LITERAL — the two clusters are on OPPOSITE SIDES of pfSense.
-  # The storage host has exactly one interface, vmbr0 192.168.1.9/24, on pfSense's LAN.
-  #   dev  nodes are 192.168.1.40/.41/.42 — the SAME L2 segment. They reach it directly, and one
-  #        NFS export to them already exists on that host (/mnt/Storage/k8s-volumes in
-  #        /etc/exports), so this path is proven, not theoretical. Base default = the dev value,
-  #        per the convention of the LAN block above.
-  #   prod nodes are 192.168.2.10/.11/.12 — pfSense's WAN. tcp/2049 does NOT traverse that today;
-  #        22 and 8006 answer only because pfSense port-forwards them via 192.168.2.102. Opening
-  #        the storage path is a PENDING OPERATOR DECISION with two candidate outcomes that give
-  #        DIFFERENT values here: 192.168.2.102 (another port-forward) or 192.168.1.9 (a route).
-  # So prod holds a loud TBD-PROD-* placeholder — see clusters/prod/kustomization.yaml for the
-  # blast radius of shipping it unset, which is NOT the usual "fails to apply".
-  BULK_NFS_SERVER: "192.168.1.9"
-
-  # Off-cluster S3 backup target (R-STATE-03, R-IDP-05) — the on-Proxmox MinIO, plain HTTP, path-style.
-  # Consumed by BOTH backup paths: every CNPG Cluster's barmanObjectStore.endpointURL (keycloak-db,
-  # nextcloud-db, semaphore-db) and Velero's backupStorageLocation s3Url. Full URL incl. scheme+port.
-  # Prod needs its OWN target: a backup that lands on the dev LAN's MinIO is not off-cluster DR —
-  # and, measured 2026-09-05 from a pod INSIDE prod, it CANNOT reach it anyway (prod is on the SOHO
-  # network 192.168.2.0/24, which is pfSense's WAN, while this MinIO sits inside pfSense's LAN:
-  # `curl http://192.168.1.9:9000/minio/health/live` timed out after 15s). Prod uses Cloudflare R2.
-  S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT: "http://192.168.1.9:9000"
-
-  # S3 region. Every S3 client REQUIRES one; MinIO ignores whatever it is; Cloudflare R2 demands
-  # exactly `auto` (its `head-bucket` reports the physical hint `WNAM`, which is NOT a usable region
-  # string). This was hardcoded `us-east-1` inside platform/velero/helmrelease.yaml — correct-by-
-  # accident for MinIO and wrong for anything else, which is why it is a knob now. The base default
-  # is dev's LIVE value, deliberately: dev's Velero has been signing requests with `us-east-1`
-  # against that MinIO since bootstrap, and this repo's rule is that base == the known-good dev
-  # value. Prod overrides to `auto`.
-  S3_BACKUP_REGION: "us-east-1"
+  GATEWAY_VIP: "10.73.0.240"                 # in-cluster split-horizon target (R-DNS-01/03): the L2-announced
+                                            # ingress VIP of the `shared` Gateway (first IP of the Cilium
+                                            # LB IP pool 10.73.0.240-.250, platform-config/cilium/l2-ip-pool.yaml).
+                                            # coredns-custom answers *.home.keithjackson.dev with THIS so pod->
+                                            # public-hostname traffic hairpins through the Gateway (correct SNI ->
+                                            # wildcard cert). Base default = dev VIP; a prod overlay must set the
+                                            # prod LAN VIP alongside the prod L2 pool range when hardware is built.

  # --- storage (ADR-0003) ---
  LONGHORN_DEFAULT_REPLICA_COUNT: "3"       # default StorageClass replica count (3 on 3 nodes)
-  # Longhorn's defaultDataPath (platform/longhorn/helmrelease.yaml): the on-NODE directory every
-  # replica is written into. It must be the path the NODE's own data disk is actually mounted at —
-  # roles/node_baseline owns that half (node_baseline_longhorn_data_path), and the two are ONE
-  # fact stated in two places, so [parity] holds per environment or replicas land on the OS disk.
-  # Base default = the DEV value, same convention as GATEWAY_VIP / the LAN block: the known-good
-  # working value. Dev's dedicated /dev/vdb IS mounted here and the LIVE cluster has 18 volumes
-  # on it — changing dev's value would orphan every replica, so the dev overlay restates it
-  # verbatim. PROD DIFFERS: its data partition serves TWO tenants (Longhorn plus k3s's whole data
-  # dir, moved off the 11.8 GiB /var — infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §2), so it is mounted at the
-  # neutral /data and Longhorn gets the /data/longhorn SUBDIRECTORY, not the mount root.
-  LONGHORN_DATA_PATH: "/var/lib/longhorn"

  # --- observability sizing (docs/10) ---
  MONITORING_PROMETHEUS_RETENTION: "7d"     # dev short | prod long
@@ -278,99 +70,6 @@ data:
  VELERO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE: "0 3 * * *"        # cron; overlays may differ
  VELERO_RETENTION: "168h"                   # dev short | prod long

-  # ==========================================================================================
-  # OBJECT-STORE TENANCY — the three knobs that keep two clusters and two backup tools from
-  # writing into each other's data. THESE ARE SAFETY KNOBS, not preferences.
-  # ==========================================================================================
-  # Nothing about the object layout was per-environment before this: Velero's bucket was the
-  # hardcoded literal `velero` with no prefix, and every CNPG Cluster used the hardcoded
-  # `s3://cnpg` with barman's `serverName` defaulting to the CLUSTER NAME — and BOTH environments
-  # have a keycloak-db, a nextcloud-db and a semaphore-db. Point two clusters at one bucket under
-  # that layout and:
-  #   (a) each cluster's Velero ADOPTS the other's backups and TTL-DELETES them on retention; and
-  #   (b) two different Postgres servers stream WAL into ONE Barman prefix, which does not merely
-  #       mix files — it CORRUPTS THE CHAIN and destroys PITR for both. That is the worse half:
-  #       dev's DR restore is PROVEN (R-STATE-03) and this would silently un-prove it.
-  #
-  # WHY THERE IS NO SINGLE `S3_BACKUP_BUCKET`. The two consumers take differently-SHAPED values:
-  # the Velero chart wants `bucket` and `prefix` as separate fields, while CNPG's
-  # barmanObjectStore.destinationPath is ONE full s3:// URL whose first path segment IS the bucket.
-  # CNPG's bucket therefore already lives inside CNPG_BACKUP_PATH; adding a second knob that had to
-  # hold the same bucket name a second time would be a rotation waiting to drift — the exact class
-  # of duplication this repo has been bitten by. Three knobs, each shaped for its own consumer, and
-  # no two of them can contradict each other.
-  #
-  # BASE = DEV'S LIVE LAYOUT, BYTE-FOR-BYTE, AND MUST STAY THAT WAY. Dev's existing backups are at
-  # `s3://velero/` (bucket root, no prefix) and `s3://cnpg/<clusterName>/` on that MinIO. Giving dev
-  # a prefix, or renaming its buckets, would ORPHAN the very backups its proven restore depends on —
-  # the same reason dev's EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID stays `default` and its LONGHORN_DATA_PATH stays
-  # /var/lib/longhorn. Verified: with an EMPTY prefix the Velero chart omits `objectStorage.prefix`
-  # from the rendered BackupStorageLocation entirely (helm template, chart 12.1.0), so dev's live
-  # BSL is unchanged by this parameterization rather than merely equivalent to it.
-  #
-  # PROD, which has no history to preserve, gets ONE bucket with TWO disjoint top-level prefixes:
-  #
-  #     s3://k3s-prod-backup/velero/…                 Velero (kopia repo + backup metadata)
-  #     s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman/<clusterName>/…   CNPG WAL + base backups
-  #
-  # The operator created exactly one R2 bucket, so velero-vs-barman separation has to come from the
-  # prefix rather than the bucket. The BUCKET ROOT IS DELIBERATELY LEFT EMPTY: if a prefix ever
-  # renders wrong, its objects land somewhere obviously bogus instead of silently colliding with a
-  # real tenant's data. Dev↔prod isolation is doubly independent — different endpoint AND different
-  # bucket — so neither cluster can reach the other's objects even with a mis-substituted prefix.
-  VELERO_BACKUP_BUCKET: "velero"             # dev: the `velero` MinIO bucket | prod: k3s-prod-backup
-  VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX: ""                   # dev: bucket root (live layout) | prod: "velero"
-  CNPG_BACKUP_PATH: "s3://cnpg"              # dev: the `cnpg` MinIO bucket root | prod: s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman
-
-  # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  # WHICH CREDENTIAL SECRET THE BACKUP CONSUMERS READ (added 2026-09-07 — the per-env credential split)
-  # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-  # The three knobs above say WHERE the backups go. This one says WHICH KEY signs the requests, and
-  # it exists because the endpoint moved per-environment while the credential did not.
-  #
-  # THE BUG IT FIXES. The four backup-credential Secrets — velero-cloud.sops.yaml and the three
-  # <db>-backup-credentials.sops.yaml — are SHARED BASE manifests: platform/ and apps/ are rendered
-  # by the same Flux tiers on both clusters, and cluster-vars substitution is the ONLY thing that
-  # differs (R-ENV-02). So writing prod's R2 token into those four files did not GIVE prod a
-  # credential, it REPLACED DEV'S: dev's Velero and all three dev CNPG Clusters would have started
-  # signing MinIO requests with an R2 key id. For Velero that is a broken BSL; for CNPG it is worse,
-  # because `archive_mode=on` means Postgres REFUSES TO RECYCLE a WAL segment it could not archive,
-  # so a 403 loop is a monotonically filling pgdata PVC ending in a PANIC — the same failure prod
-  # spent its whole bring-up in with a placeholder endpoint. One shared Secret also means rotating
-  # either environment's key silently breaks the other; that is the structural reason for the split,
-  # independent of dev's eventual decommission.
-  #
-  # THE MECHANISM. Each credential is now TWO Secret objects, both applied to BOTH clusters (they are
-  # base resources; nothing here forks a manifest per environment). The consumer names one:
-  #
-  #     velero:   credentials.existingSecret: velero-cloud-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
-  #     CNPG:     s3Credentials.*.name:  <db>-backup-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}
-  #
-  # ONE knob, not four, ON PURPOSE. Four independent secret-name knobs could be updated three-
-  # quarters of the way, leaving one consumer pointed at the OTHER environment's key with nothing
-  # rendering wrong — and StrictPostBuildSubstitutions cannot catch that, because it only fails on an
-  # UNDEFINED variable, never on a defined-but-stale one. With a single suffix the four move together
-  # or not at all. The cost is that the rendered Secret name is not greppable from the consumer; the
-  # names are spelled out in full in each kustomization.yaml beside the resources.
-  #
-  # THE BASE DEFAULT IS THE EMPTY STRING, AND THAT IS LOAD-BEARING. It renders the UNSUFFIXED names,
-  # which are the objects that already exist and that the live dev cluster is running. A default
-  # naming a Secret that does not exist would be worse than the shared-Secret state it replaces:
-  # Velero's pod would sit in ContainerCreating forever on a missing `existingSecret` volume, and a
-  # CNPG Cluster whose s3Credentials Secret is absent stops archiving WAL — i.e. the disk-full clock
-  # again — so an unresolvable default breaks the referencing cluster HARDER than a wrong key does.
-  # Empty is also the value dev must carry, so base and dev agree, exactly like VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX.
-  #
-  # An EMPTY VALUE IS SAFE UNDER StrictPostBuildSubstitutions: strict mode fails on a variable that is
-  # not DEFINED, not on one defined as "". VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX above has shipped empty since the
-  # gate was enabled and proves it. Both overlays state this knob explicitly — dev "" and prod
-  # "-prod" — so neither inherits it silently.
-  #
-  # ADDING A NEW BACKUP CREDENTIAL: create BOTH halves (`x-credentials.sops.yaml` and
-  # `x-credentials-prod.sops.yaml`), list both in the kustomization, and reference
-  # `x-credentials${BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX}`. Never a single shared Secret again.
-  BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX: ""              # dev: "" (MinIO creds) | prod: "-prod" (R2 creds)
-
  # --- placement ---
  PLATFORM_NODE_SELECTOR_KEY: "kubernetes.io/os"   # base no-op selector; prod may pin roles
  PLATFORM_NODE_SELECTOR_VALUE: "linux"
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---
-# Conformance identities (ns + conformance-runner + conformance-trigger RBAC).
-#
-# NON-GATING, exactly like apps-vms: `wait: false` and its own Kustomization, so a conformance
-# identity can never gate the platform or app tiers. A test harness that stalls the estate it is
-# meant to verify is worse than no harness.
-#
-# dependsOn platform-config only — it needs nothing from the app waves, and nothing in the app
-# waves needs it.
-#
-# NOTE: this reconciles RBAC that is INERT until
-# platform/kyverno/admission/conformance-trigger-job-shape.yaml is also enforcing. That policy
-# ships in the `platform` tier, which reconciles before this. Do not reorder them so that the
-# trigger identity can exist while the policy bounding it does not.
-apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-kind: Kustomization
-metadata:
-  name: conformance
-  namespace: flux-system
-spec:
-  interval: 10m
-  retryInterval: 2m
-  timeout: 5m
-  prune: true
-  wait: false
-  dependsOn:
-    - name: platform-config
-  sourceRef:
-    kind: GitRepository
-    name: flux-system
-  path: ./conformance/incluster
@@ -34,12 +34,8 @@ spec:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: flux-system
  path: ./platform/homepage
-  # LOAD-BEARING, not parity decoration (the comment here used to say the opposite). This component
-  # references ${BASE_DOMAIN} in TWO places: httproute.yaml's apex hostname, and EVERY tile href in
-  # configmap.yaml. Without this substitution the token is applied LITERALLY — the apex route binds
-  # the host `${BASE_DOMAIN}`, which matches no Gateway listener, and every link on the operator's
-  # front door points at a host that does not exist — while Flux still reports this Kustomization
-  # Ready. It fails OPEN. Asserted by conformance/tests/l0-static/c2-root-surface (5).
+  # Homepage references no ${VARS} today; the substitution is retained for parity with the other
+  # tiers / future overlay knobs.
  postBuild:
    substituteFrom:
      - kind: ConfigMap
@@ -5,24 +5,8 @@ apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
  - flux-system.yaml     # GitRepository (reconciliation source)
-  # Cilium (the CNI) — its OWN Kustomization, split OUT of `platform` (2026-09-01). The mirror image
-  # of the oauth2-proxy/headlamp splits: those are leaves that must never gate a tier (wait:false);
-  # Cilium is the one component that legitimately SHOULD gate everything, so it keeps wait:true and
-  # `platform` dependsOn it. Splitting it out buys a per-CNI Ready condition, CNI-appropriate
-  # interval/timeout, and `flux suspend kustomization cilium` as an emergency valve that does not
-  # freeze the other eleven platform components. See clusters/base/cilium.yaml.
-  - cilium.yaml          # Flux Kustomization -> ./platform/cilium (dependsOn flux-system, wait:true)
  - platform.yaml        # Flux Kustomization -> ./platform (CONTROLLERS: HelmReleases / CRDs)
  - platform-config.yaml # Flux Kustomization -> ./platform-config (CONFIGS: CRs; dependsOn platform)
-  # SECOND-ORDER CDI configs — CRs whose CRD is created by a controller AT RUNTIME, not by any
-  # manifest in git. cdi-operator.yaml registers only `cdis.cdi.kubevirt.io`; `storageprofiles` (and
-  # datavolumes, datasources, …) appear only after cdi-operator reconciles the `CDI` CR that
-  # platform-config applies. Because Flux dry-runs every object in a pass before applying any of them,
-  # keeping the StorageProfiles in platform-config was a TRUE DEADLOCK (unknown kind -> pass aborts ->
-  # CR never applied -> CRD never created -> tier never converges), invisible on dev and fatal on any
-  # cold cluster — observed on prod 2026-09-05. This tier is the durable fix; `standup.sh crds` stays
-  # as the belt-and-braces repair for clusters already wedged. See clusters/base/platform-config-cdi.yaml.
-  - platform-config-cdi.yaml # Flux Kustomization -> ./platform-config-cdi (dependsOn platform-config)
  # App tier, split into dependency-ordered WAVES (was the single ./apps `apps` Kustomization).
  # Each apps-wave-<N> dependsOn wave N-1 (wave 0 dependsOn platform-config) and health-gates
  # (wait:true) ONLY its own wave, so a crashloop in a later wave can't stall an earlier one.
@@ -33,7 +17,6 @@ resources:
  - apps-wave-2.yaml     # Flux Kustomization -> ./apps/wave-2 (dependsOn apps-wave-1)
  # VM tier (KubeVirt) — non-gating (wait:false), separate lifecycle from the app waves.
  - apps-vms.yaml        # Flux Kustomization -> ./apps/vms (dependsOn platform-config)
-  - conformance.yaml     # Flux Kustomization -> ./conformance/incluster (non-gating; R-SEC-02 trigger identity)
  # oauth2-proxy forward-auth — POST-platform tier (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false). A leaf
  # service that needs Keycloak + trusted TLS + split-horizon DNS must NOT sit in the gating
  # `platform` tier, where it self-gated its own dependencies into a cold-start deadlock (twice).
@@ -51,13 +34,6 @@ resources:
  # reverse-proxy sidecar (Option B). POST-platform tier (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false); same
  # non-gating leaf-UI rationale as headlamp/homepage/oauth2-proxy (a UI must never gate the platform).
  - crafty.yaml          # Flux Kustomization -> ./platform/crafty (dependsOn platform-config)
-  # Alert runbooks — POST-platform tier (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false). Serves the 34
-  # runbooks the alert rules' `runbook_url` annotations point at, at <apex>/runbooks/<name>; before
-  # this tier existed that path was a 404 and every alert handed the operator a dead link. Same
-  # non-gating leaf rationale as headlamp/homepage/crafty. Carries NO postBuild substitution on
-  # purpose — it renders documentation containing `${...}` shell examples that envsubst would empty;
-  # see clusters/base/runbooks.yaml.
-  - runbooks.yaml        # Flux Kustomization -> ./runbooks (dependsOn platform-config)
  # Velero backup controller — POST-platform tier (dependsOn platform-config, wait:false). A backup
  # controller must NEVER gate the platform chain; same non-gating rationale as headlamp/oauth2-proxy.
  # Carries velero-cloud.sops.yaml, so clusters/dev adds a SOPS decryption patch for it (by name).
@@ -1,135 +0,0 @@
---
-# Flux Kustomization: SECOND-ORDER CDI CONFIGS — reconciles ./platform-config-cdi.
-# Serves R-GITOPS-01 (all desired state in git, reconciled by Flux) and R-ENV-02.
-#
-# WHY THIS TIER EXISTS — the durable fix for the 2026-09-05 prod CDI DEADLOCK
-#
-# `platform-config` applied the `CDI` CR and the CDI `StorageProfile`s in the SAME pass.
-# kustomize-controller server-side DRY-RUNS EVERY object before applying ANY of them, and
-# `storageprofiles.cdi.kubevirt.io` does not exist until cdi-operator has reconciled that `CDI` CR.
-# So the unknown kind aborted the whole tier → the CR was never applied → the CRD was never created →
-# platform-config could NEVER converge and every tier below it stayed blocked. Not a race: a
-# deadlock. cdi-operator was Available for 12h on prod with no CR. Invisible on dev (its CDI CRDs
-# have existed for months), FATAL on any cold cluster. See DECISIONS-LOG 2026-09-05.
-#
-# `bootstrap/standup.sh crds` pre-applies the `CDI` CR to break it by hand. That is a WORKAROUND and
-# stays as belt-and-braces for clusters already wedged; THIS Kustomization is the fix that makes the
-# graph order itself, so a cold cluster needs no human in the loop.
-#
-# THE ORDERING GUARANTEE, precisely: `dependsOn` is REVISION-gated, not merely Ready-gated (verified
-# against kustomize-controller v1.4.0 `kustomization_controller.go :: checkDependencies`, our
-# version): sharing a GitRepository with the dependency, this Kustomization cannot reconcile revision
-# N until `platform-config` has APPLIED revision N — and, because platform-config runs `wait: true`,
-# not until the `CDI` CR it applied is HEALTHY. cdi-operator creates the remaining CDI CRDs as part of
-# reaching that state, so by the time this tier's first dry-run runs, `StorageProfile` is a known
-# kind. One edge, no pre-apply.
-#
-# WHY NOT just move the CDI CR earlier, into `platform`? Because `platform` is the tier the CNI gates
-# and everything else waits on: putting CDI's health on that critical path is the mistake the
-# oauth2-proxy/headlamp splits were made to undo. The CR is correctly a platform-config CR; it is the
-# StorageProfiles that were in the wrong pass.
-apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-kind: Kustomization
-metadata:
-  name: platform-config-cdi
-  namespace: flux-system
-spec:
-  interval: 10m
-  # 2m (short, deliberately). kustomize-controller caches API discovery, so on a COLD cluster the
-  # very first attempt here can still fail `no matches for kind "StorageProfile"` even though the CRD
-  # now exists — a stale RESTMapper, not a missing CRD (the failure mode `standup.sh crds` warns
-  # about). The controller resets the mapper and the retry succeeds, so the only cost of that stale
-  # cache is one retryInterval. Keep it short.
-  retryInterval: 2m
-  # 2m is ample: this tier applies two tiny cluster-scoped CRs. There is no workload to roll out, no
-  # image to pull and no controller to become Available, so a slow apply here means a real error, not
-  # a slow rollout — failing fast surfaces it instead of burning 5m per attempt.
-  timeout: 2m
-  # TRUE, and this tier is the SOLE declarer of both StorageProfiles (checked repo-wide), so prune is
-  # component-scoped: the stale set can only ever be a StorageProfile this file stopped rendering.
-  # It is NOT the platform/cilium case — nothing here declares a shared Namespace, or any object a
-  # second path also declares. See the transition note at the bottom of this file.
-  prune: true
-  # TRUE, but understand exactly what it buys and what it does NOT.
-  #
-  # CANNOT STALL: `StorageProfile`'s status type (CDI v1beta1 StorageProfileStatus: storageClass,
-  # provisioner, claimPropertySets, cloneStrategy, dataImportCronSourceFormat) carries NO
-  # `conditions` and NO `observedGeneration`, so kstatus's generic path reports it Current the moment
-  # it is applied. `wait: true` therefore adds a Ready condition without adding a way to hang — which
-  # is why it is safe to let `apps-vms` gate on it (contrast the headlamp gating stall).
-  # If a resource that CAN be unhealthy is ever added to ./platform-config-cdi, re-derive this:
-  # `apps-vms` waits on it.
-  #
-  # WHAT IT DOES NOT PROVE (honest gap): CDI reads the profile's **status**, not its spec, when it
-  # provisions a claim (status.claimPropertySets / status.cloneStrategy), and CDI's
-  # storageprofile-controller computes that status from our spec override plus inference. So Ready
-  # here means "the spec override is accepted by the API server", not "CDI has folded it into
-  # status". That reconcile is a watch-triggered round-trip of seconds, and the dependency requeue
-  # below it is ~30s, so a DataVolume cannot realistically beat it — but it is a timing argument, not
-  # a guarantee, and no `wait` setting can turn it into one (there is no condition to wait on).
-  wait: true
-  dependsOn:
-    # platform-config applies the `CDI` CR and (wait:true) waits for it to be healthy — which is what
-    # causes cdi-operator to create `storageprofiles.cdi.kubevirt.io`. Revision-gated, so this is an
-    # ordering guarantee and not a hope. Transitively this also chains platform -> cilium ->
-    # flux-system, so `cluster-vars` at revision N is applied before this renders revision N.
-    - name: platform-config
-  sourceRef:
-    kind: GitRepository
-    name: flux-system
-  path: ./platform-config-cdi
-  # NO SOPS `decryption` stanza: ../platform/kubevirt/cdi-storageprofiles.yaml is two plain CRs with
-  # no Secret and no *.sops.yaml, so neither overlay needs to patch one in (unlike
-  # oauth2-proxy/headlamp/crafty/velero, which each carry an encrypted Secret). Nothing to add to
-  # clusters/dev or clusters/prod for this tier.
-  #
-  # substituteFrom cluster-vars: the manifest currently contains NO `${TOKEN}`, so this stanza
-  # substitutes nothing today. It is declared anyway for two concrete reasons, not for symmetry:
-  #   1. COVERAGE. conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-substitution/check.sh only audits paths
-  #      whose Kustomization declares substituteFrom. Omitting it would move
-  #      cdi-storageprofiles.yaml OUT of the audited set — a blind spot where a future `${TOKEN}`
-  #      could ship as a literal string, precisely the class of bug that check exists to stop.
-  #   2. FAIL-CLOSED. kustomize-controller runs --feature-gates=StrictPostBuildSubstitutions=true, so
-  #      with this stanza an undefined token FAILS this Kustomization loudly instead of rendering
-  #      empty. Without the stanza there is no substitution at all and the literal ships silently.
-  postBuild:
-    substituteFrom:
-      - kind: ConfigMap
-        name: cluster-vars
-  # ── FIRST RECONCILE AFTER MERGE: a TRANSIENT DELETE-THEN-RECREATE. READ BEFORE MERGING. ──────────
-  # Moving cdi-storageprofiles.yaml out of ./platform-config drops both StorageProfiles from THAT
-  # Kustomization's inventory, and platform-config has `prune: true` — so its next apply DELETES
-  # StorageProfile/longhorn and StorageProfile/longhorn-vm, and this Kustomization recreates them on
-  # the following reconcile (revision-gated: strictly after platform-config's apply, so there is no
-  # dual-ownership fight — the objects are pruned before they are re-applied under this tier's
-  # `kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name=platform-config-cdi` label).
-  #
-  # Why that is acceptable here — and it is NOT the platform/cilium case:
-  #   * Neither object is the sole (or any) declarer of a shared object. No Namespace, no ConfigMap,
-  #     nothing else in the repo declares a StorageProfile. The stale set is exactly two
-  #     cluster-scoped CDI CRs.
-  #   * The objects do not actually go missing: CDI's storageprofile-controller creates a
-  #     StorageProfile per StorageClass and recreates a deleted one, with an EMPTY `.spec` and
-  #     inferred `.status`. So the transient is "our .spec overrides are absent", not "the object is
-  #     absent".
-  #   * A StorageProfile is read at DataVolume/PVC PROVISIONING and CLONE time only. Existing PVCs,
-  #     existing DataVolumes and running VMs do not consult it again, so nothing already provisioned
-  #     is disturbed and no data path is touched.
-  #   * The only exposure is a DataVolume/clone STARTED inside the window: it would clone by `copy`
-  #     instead of `snapshot`, and on `longhorn-vm` be stamped RWO/Filesystem instead of RWX/Block —
-  #     permanently non-live-migratable for that disk. Flux cannot cause that, because `apps-vms` now
-  #     dependsOn THIS tier (clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml), so no Flux-managed DataVolume can be
-  #     created while the overrides are absent. A human running `virtctl`/`kubectl` in that minute
-  #     could.
-  #
-  # PRECONDITION THE OPERATOR MUST CHECK, because it is what bounds the window: the recreate cannot
-  # happen until `platform-config` is Ready, and platform-config runs `wait: true` over the whole
-  # config tier (ClusterIssuers, wildcard Certificate, Gateway, Keycloak, CNPG, KubeVirt, CDI…). On a
-  # healthy cluster that is seconds and the window is ~30-60s (kustomize-controller's
-  # --requeue-dependency default is 30s). If platform-config is NOT Ready when this merges, the
-  # StorageProfiles are pruned and stay at CDI defaults until it recovers. So:
-  #   `flux get kustomization platform-config` must be Ready BEFORE merging.
-  # If it is not, do the two-step the cilium move used instead: merge with `platform-config.prune`
-  # temporarily set to `false` (the objects are then dropped from its inventory but NOT deleted, and
-  # this tier ADOPTS them with zero window), verify the ownership label transferred, then restore
-  # `prune: true` in a second commit.
@@ -11,53 +11,8 @@ spec:
  interval: 10m
  retryInterval: 2m
  timeout: 5m
-  # Cilium was moved OUT of this tier into its own Kustomization (clusters/base/cilium.yaml)
-  # on 2026-09-01. `prune: true` is restored here now that the ownership transfer is VERIFIED
-  # live: Namespace/kube-system, the Cilium HelmRelease and the HelmRepository all carry
-  # `kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/name=cilium`, this Kustomization's inventory no longer lists
-  # any of the three, and the `cilium` Kustomization's inventory holds exactly those three.
-  #
-  # LESSON WORTH KEEPING: `platform/cilium/namespace.yaml` was the ONLY declaration of
-  # Namespace/kube-system under ./platform. Moving that path out of a prune:true Kustomization
-  # made the stale set `delete namespace kube-system` — coredns, metrics-server, local-path AND
-  # Cilium. Before moving ANY platform/* component in future, check whether it is the sole
-  # declarer of a shared Namespace; that turns a component-scoped prune into a cluster-scoped one.
-  prune: true
+  prune: true          # drift correction: delete resources removed from git (R-GITOPS-03)
  wait: true           # block `apps` until platform is healthy
-  # ORDERING FIX (2026-09-01 incident: a substitution race that failed OPEN broke Cilium).
-  #
-  # `cluster-vars` — the ConfigMap every substituting Kustomization reads — is APPLIED by the root
-  # `flux-system` Kustomization (clusters/<env>/sync.yaml), not by this one. Without an edge here,
-  # `platform` could render a manifest from revision N against the revision N-1 `cluster-vars`, so a
-  # NEWLY ADDED knob was undefined and (non-strict substitution) silently became the EMPTY STRING.
-  # That is how `k8sServiceHost: ""` reached the Cilium HelmRelease.
-  #
-  # `dependsOn` is REVISION-gated, not merely Ready-gated (verified against
-  # kustomize-controller v1.4.0 `kustomization_controller.go :: checkDependencies`, our version):
-  # when the dependency shares a GitRepository with the dependent, the dependent cannot reconcile
-  # revision N until the dependency has APPLIED revision N. Applying revision N is exactly what
-  # writes a newly-added `cluster-vars` knob — so this one edge closes the race.
-  #
-  # `platform` is the ONLY Kustomization in the graph with no `dependsOn`; every other substituting
-  # consumer (platform-config, apps-wave-0/1/2, apps-vms, oauth2-proxy, headlamp, homepage, crafty,
-  # velero) chains transitively through it. One edge therefore protects the whole graph.
-  #
-  # TRADE-OFF — READ THIS BEFORE YOU CURSE IT: the root is now a GATE. A malformed manifest
-  # ANYWHERE under the root's path (clusters/<env>, which includes clusters/base) fails the root
-  # Kustomization and therefore stops `platform` and EVERYTHING downstream, where before this edge
-  # the rest of the graph would have kept reconciling. That is deliberate and fail-closed: a broken
-  # entrypoint should stop the line, not let consumers render against a half-applied variable set.
-  # No deadlock risk — the root runs `wait: false`, so it reaches Ready on APPLY success and never
-  # health-gates its own children (see clusters/dev/sync.yaml).
-  dependsOn:
-    - name: flux-system   # the ROOT Kustomization (sync.yaml) that applies cluster-vars
-    # THE CNI GATES THE TIER. Cilium was split out of ./platform into its own Kustomization
-    # (clusters/base/cilium.yaml, wait:true) so its health has its own Ready condition and its own
-    # suspend valve. This edge preserves the ordering that co-tenancy used to provide implicitly:
-    # nothing in `platform` — and therefore nothing anywhere downstream — reconciles until the CNI
-    # is healthy. It is also revision-gated, which is what makes the prune-safety argument above
-    # deterministic rather than a race.
-    - name: cilium
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: flux-system
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
---
-# Flux Kustomization: alert runbooks — reconciles ./runbooks.
-#
-# WHAT THIS SERVES. Every alert rule in this repo carries
-# `runbook_url: "https://${BASE_DOMAIN}/runbooks/<name>"` — 42 annotations over 34 distinct names.
-# Until this tier existed that path returned 404 on the live cluster, so every alert that reached a
-# human handed them a dead link at the moment they needed help. This Kustomization renders the
-# markdown under ./runbooks into a ConfigMap and a two-replica nginx that serves it at that exact
-# prefix. See runbooks/README.md and runbooks/serving/httproute.yaml.
-#
-# POST-PLATFORM TIER (dependsOn platform-config), NON-GATING (wait:false) — the same placement and
-# the same reasoning as homepage/headlamp/oauth2-proxy. It needs the wildcard TLS cert, the shared
-# Gateway (including the `https-apex` listener) and split-horizon DNS, all of which arrive with
-# `platform` + `platform-config`; and a leaf web server must never be able to stall the platform
-# chain, which is the whole lesson of DECISIONS-LOG's "Headlamp gating stall". wait:false guarantees
-# its health can never gate anything even if something is later mistakenly pointed dependsOn it.
-#
-# NO postBuild.substituteFrom — THE ONE DELIBERATE DIVERGENCE FROM EVERY OTHER TIER, AND THE MOST
-# IMPORTANT LINE IN THIS FILE.
-# This tier renders the runbook PROSE into a ConfigMap, and runbooks are full of shell: `$POD`,
-# `$(kubectl ...)`, and — unavoidably, since they document these very annotations — the literal text
-# `${BASE_DOMAIN}`. Flux's postBuild substitution runs envsubst over the ENTIRE built stream, and it
-# FAILS OPEN: an undefined `${X}` becomes the empty string while the Kustomization still reports
-# Ready (DECISIONS-LOG 2026-09-01 — that is how `k8sServiceHost` was emptied and Cilium broke on 2
-# of 3 dev nodes). Enabled here it would silently mutilate the documentation: every braced expansion
-# in every command example blanked, in a file nobody re-reads after writing. Worse, the L0 check
-# `conformance/tests/l0-static/flux-postbuild-substitution` scans only files reachable through
-# kustomization `resources:`, not `configMapGenerator` inputs, so the damage would be invisible to
-# the gate as well.
-# The fix is to have nothing to substitute. The only knob this tier would have wanted is the apex
-# hostname, and runbooks/serving/httproute.yaml avoids needing it by declaring NO `hostnames:` and
-# inheriting the `https-apex` listener's own hostname instead. So this tier is
-# environment-independent by construction and R-ENV-02 ("authored once, promoted dev -> prod") holds
-# without substitution rather than because of it.
-# IF A FUTURE KNOB EVER GENUINELY NEEDS SUBSTITUTION HERE: do not add substituteFrom to this
-# Kustomization. Split the serving manifests into their own substituted tier and leave the content
-# ConfigMap in an unsubstituted one, or the runbooks lose their shell examples.
-#
-# NO SOPS decryption stanza: this tier carries no encrypted Secret (markdown plus five plain
-# manifests), so — like homepage — neither clusters/dev nor clusters/prod patches it.
-apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-kind: Kustomization
-metadata:
-  name: runbooks
-  namespace: flux-system
-spec:
-  interval: 10m
-  retryInterval: 2m
-  timeout: 5m
-  prune: true
-  wait: false
-  dependsOn:
-    - name: platform-config   # wildcard TLS + Gateway (incl. the https-apex listener) first
-  sourceRef:
-    kind: GitRepository
-    name: flux-system
-  path: ./runbooks
@@ -106,11 +106,8 @@ patches:
          secretRef:
            name: sops-age
  # velero (backup controller) has its own post-platform Flux Kustomization (clusters/base/backup.yaml).
-  # It carries BOTH halves of the per-env `cloud` INI credential — velero-cloud.sops.yaml (dev's scoped
-  # MinIO key) and velero-cloud-prod.sops.yaml (prod's R2 token) — so it needs its own SOPS decryption
-  # stanza (same as headlamp/oauth2-proxy/crafty). Which one the Deployment mounts is chosen by
-  # BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX in the cluster-vars patch below, not here. The `sops-age` Secret is
-  # out-of-band (name only).
+  # It carries velero-cloud.sops.yaml (the scoped MinIO `cloud` credential), so it needs its own SOPS
+  # decryption stanza (same as headlamp/oauth2-proxy/crafty). The `sops-age` Secret is out-of-band (name only).
  - patch: |-
      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
      kind: Kustomization
@@ -122,23 +119,6 @@ patches:
          provider: sops
          secretRef:
            name: sops-age
-  # apps-vms (the KubeVirt VM tier, clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml) gained its FIRST encrypted Secret
-  # on 2026-09-14: apps/vms/unifi/unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml, the operator's UOS installer URL,
-  # which 30-virtualmachine.yaml mounts into the guest as a disk. Without this stanza kustomize
-  # would hand Flux the raw SOPS document and the VM would mount a disk full of ciphertext — the
-  # failure is silent from the cluster's point of view (the Secret applies fine), so the stanza is
-  # as load-bearing as the file itself. The `sops-age` Secret is out-of-band (name only).
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: apps-vms
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
  - patch: |-
      apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
      kind: GitRepository
@@ -168,155 +148,16 @@ patches:
      - op: replace
        path: /data/ACME_CLUSTER_ISSUER
        value: "letsencrypt-prod"
-      # --- DNS identity (R-DNS-01/02/03) -----------------------------------------------------
-      # DEV STAYS ON THE APEX. Restated explicitly even though it equals the base default, exactly
-      # like the LAN block and LONGHORN_DATA_PATH below: this is what the LIVE cluster is running.
-      # Every one of dev's public DNS records, its `*.home.keithjackson.dev` wildcard cert, its
-      # Keycloak issuer, every OIDC client redirect URI, kubectl SSO, and gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
-      # (which IS this repo's GitOps source) are all on this exact suffix RIGHT NOW. Prod moved to
-      # prod.home.keithjackson.dev instead (2026-09-04) — that alone ended the collision, so dev did
-      # not have to move. Relocating dev to dev.home.keithjackson.dev is phase 2 and is a migration,
-      # not a variable change: infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §10.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/BASE_DOMAIN
-        value: "home.keithjackson.dev"
-      # ExternalDNS scope. MUST stay the zone apex: dev serves the home.keithjackson.dev APEX itself,
-      # and the Cloudflare provider selects zones with this value (a strict-subdomain filter dropped
-      # the parent zone — DECISIONS-LOG 2026-08). Same value the retired DNS_ZONE knob held.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/EXTERNALDNS_DOMAIN_FILTER
-        value: "keithjackson.dev"
-      # DO NOT CHANGE THIS VALUE. Dev's LIVE public records are registered in Cloudflare's TXT
-      # registry under owner `default` (the external-dns chart default, which is what both clusters
-      # silently shared until the 2026-09-04 incident). Dev's external-dns identifies its own records
-      # BY this string: any other value and it stops recognising every record it manages, then
-      # re-creates duplicates beside the orphaned originals. Prod is `prod` — distinct, which is the
-      # whole point. The base default is a non-colliding sentinel, so this line is load-bearing.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID
-        value: "default"
-      # --- dev LAN addressing (192.168.1.0/24 on the Proxmox LAN) -----------------------------
-      # EVERY knob in cluster-vars' "LAN addressing" block is restated here EXPLICITLY, even where it
-      # equals the base default. These values are what the LIVE dev cluster is running right now, so
-      # the substituted output is byte-identical to the pre-parameterization hardcoded manifests
-      # (verified 2026-08-31). Never let this block drift from the live cluster.
-      #
      # Split-horizon DNS target: the Cilium-L2 VIP of the `shared` Gateway on the Proxmox LAN
-      # (= CILIUM_LB_POOL_START, the pool's first address). coredns-custom answers
+      # (base default 10.73.0.240 was the old libvirt VIP). coredns-custom answers
      # *.home.keithjackson.dev with this so in-cluster OIDC clients reach Keycloak via the Gateway.
      - op: replace
        path: /data/GATEWAY_VIP
        value: "192.168.1.53"
-      # k3s API endpoint Cilium's kube-proxy replacement dials — DEV'S CONTROL-PLANE VIP,
-      # the address kube-vip floats, NOT the primary node .50.
-      # [parity] equals the Ansible inventory's k3s_apiserver_endpoint for dev
-      # (= kube_vip_address, group_vars/all.yml). See clusters/base/cluster-vars.yaml for why.
-      #
-      # *** THE ONE EXCEPTION TO "NEVER LET THIS BLOCK DRIFT FROM THE LIVE CLUSTER" ***
-      # Every other value in this block is what dev is running right now. This one is not:
-      # the live dev cilium-agents dial 192.168.1.50 (k3s-1). Changing it here is a
-      # DELIBERATE, OPERATOR-APPROVED move (2026-09-06) and reconciling it ROLLS THE CILIUM
-      # AGENT DAEMONSET on dev — one node at a time (updateStrategy.maxUnavailable: 1, kept
-      # in parity for exactly this reason). Do not push this to dev-live casually, and not
-      # while dev's DNS migration is mid-flight; the L2 datapath survives an agent restart
-      # but a wrong value here is the 2026-09-01 incident. .49 is in dev's serving-cert SANs
-      # already (k3s_tls_sans) and dev's own kubeconfig validates against it via
-      # tls-server-name, so TLS is not the risk — the risk is reachability, and .49 is on the
-      # same LAN as the nodes and ARP-announced by kube-vip on every server.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/K3S_API_HOST
-        value: "192.168.1.49"
-      # Cilium LB IP pool = the tofu reservation cilium_l2_vip_range .53-.60, outside the node IPs
-      # (.50/.51/.52) and outside the DHCP scope. .53 Gateway, .54 unifi, .55 crafty; .56-.60 free.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CILIUM_LB_POOL_START
-        value: "192.168.1.53"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CILIUM_LB_POOL_STOP
-        value: "192.168.1.60"
-      # Pinned L4 VIPs out of that pool (lbipam.cilium.io/ips). Changing either MOVES a live device-
-      # facing endpoint: unifi is the inform/STUN target every adopted UniFi device holds.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/UNIFI_L4_VIP
-        value: "192.168.1.54"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CRAFTY_L4_VIP
-        value: "192.168.1.55"
-      # Bulk (external NFS) storage host: the Proxmox host itself, on the SAME LAN as dev's nodes
-      # (192.168.1.40/.41/.42), which already hold an NFS export from it (/mnt/Storage/k8s-volumes).
-      # Restated verbatim rather than inherited, per this overlay's "supply every knob" convention.
-      # Dev is therefore the environment in which the bulk manifests can actually be VALIDATED
-      # end-to-end before prod's network path exists — provided the additive `zfs set sharenfs=`
-      # change described in docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md is applied for the dev node addresses.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/BULK_NFS_SERVER
-        value: "192.168.1.9"
-      # Off-cluster backup target: the on-Proxmox MinIO (plain HTTP, path-style) that every CNPG
-      # barmanObjectStore and Velero's backupStorageLocation write to.
-      #
-      # DEV IS DELIBERATELY STAYING ON THIS MinIO while prod goes to Cloudflare R2 (2026-09-07).
-      # Prod could not use it at all — it cannot even route to it — but dev's move is a separate,
-      # operator-gated decision, because R2 would start dev on an EMPTY prefix: Velero would write
-      # a fresh kopia repository, CNPG would take new base backups, and the 30-day Barman window
-      # would rebuild from zero. Dev's DR restore is the one PROVEN recovery path in this repo
-      # (R-STATE-03); resetting its PITR window is not a side effect to take while fixing prod.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT
-        value: "http://192.168.1.9:9000"
-      # DO NOT CHANGE THESE FOUR. They are dev's LIVE object layout, restated verbatim for the same
-      # reason as LONGHORN_DATA_PATH and EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID below/above: they equal the base
-      # defaults today, and a silent drift in base would ORPHAN dev's existing backups — the ones
-      # its proven restore depends on — without any manifest looking wrong.
-      #
-      # `us-east-1` is what dev's Velero has signed every request with since bootstrap; MinIO
-      # ignores the value, but changing it is a needless risk against a live, working backup path.
-      # An EMPTY VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX means the bucket root, which is where dev's backups already
-      # are — and the Velero chart omits `objectStorage.prefix` entirely when it is empty (verified
-      # against chart 12.1.0), so dev's live BackupStorageLocation is byte-unchanged by this.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/S3_BACKUP_REGION
-        value: "us-east-1"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/VELERO_BACKUP_BUCKET
-        value: "velero"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX
-        value: ""
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CNPG_BACKUP_PATH
-        value: "s3://cnpg"
-      # WHICH CREDENTIAL SIGNS THOSE REQUESTS. Empty suffix = the UNSUFFIXED Secrets
-      # (velero-cloud-credentials, <db>-backup-credentials) — the scoped MinIO keys dev's Velero and
-      # its three CNPG Clusters are running RIGHT NOW, byte-identical to what is on the cluster. Prod
-      # renders "-prod" and reads the Cloudflare R2 token from the parallel `-prod` Secrets instead.
-      #
-      # RESTATED EXPLICITLY even though it equals the base default, for the same reason as
-      # EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID and the four backup-layout knobs above: the four Secrets are SHARED
-      # base manifests, so before this split prod's R2 token landed in the objects DEV reads. Dev
-      # signing MinIO with an R2 key id is 403 on every barman-cloud-wal-archive, and archive_mode=on
-      # turns that into a filling pgdata PVC — the disk-full clock, on the one cluster whose DR
-      # restore is PROVEN (R-STATE-03). This line is what keeps dev on its own credential.
-      #
-      # DEV IS NOT BEING BACKED UP GOING FORWARD and is slated for decommission (operator,
-      # 2026-09-07), so this is not protecting a future backup — it is protecting the EXISTING
-      # backups and the WAL chain until dev is retired. Do not "simplify" it away while dev runs.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX
-        value: ""
      # dev mirrors prod's 3-node topology, so the replicated tier keeps 3 replicas.
      - op: replace
        path: /data/LONGHORN_DEFAULT_REPLICA_COUNT
        value: "3"
-      # DO NOT CHANGE THIS VALUE. The LIVE dev cluster has 18 Longhorn volumes whose replicas are
-      # on disk under /var/lib/longhorn — the dedicated /dev/vdb ext4 disk roles/node_baseline
-      # mounts there. Longhorn addresses a replica by dataPath; pointing defaultDataPath anywhere
-      # else would orphan every one of them (they are not recoverable from the old path by
-      # rescheduling). Restated explicitly even though it equals the base default, exactly like the
-      # LAN block above: this is what the live cluster is running. Prod uses /data/longhorn because
-      # its data partition also carries k3s's data dir — see clusters/prod and PROD-PROVISIONING §2.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/LONGHORN_DATA_PATH
-        value: "/var/lib/longhorn"
      # smaller retention / volumes to keep the dev workstation footprint light.
      - op: replace
        path: /data/MONITORING_PROMETHEUS_RETENTION
@@ -5,255 +5,11 @@
 # When Phase 7 is opened, `flux bootstrap ... --path=clusters/prod` points the prod cluster's Flux
 # here. Like dev, this overlay adds NO resources — it ONLY patches cluster-vars with prod-scoped
 # values (R-ENV-02). Promotion to prod is a change to THESE variables, never a base edit.
-#
-# *** PHASE-7 BLOCKER — READ BEFORE BOOTSTRAPPING PROD ***
-# `clusters/base/platform.yaml` now carries `dependsOn: [flux-system]` (the 2026-09-01 substitution-
-# race fix). That names the ROOT Kustomization, which clusters/dev supplies as `dev/sync.yaml`
-# (path ./clusters/dev). THIS overlay has no sync.yaml yet, so as written a prod bootstrap would
-# leave `platform` stuck on "dependency 'flux-system/flux-system' is not ready" FOREVER and nothing
-# downstream would reconcile. Phase 7 MUST add `clusters/prod/sync.yaml` — a copy of dev/sync.yaml
-# with `path: ./clusters/prod` — as part of opening this overlay. (Adding it now is deliberately NOT
-# done here: prod is design-only and its root object is the prod bring-up owner's call.)
 apiVersion: kustomize.config.k8s.io/v1beta1
 kind: Kustomization
 resources:
  - ../base
-  - sync.yaml          # self-managing root Kustomization -> ./clusters/prod (REQUIRED: see below)
 patches:
-  # --- SOPS decryption (operator decision 2026-09-01: prod uses the SAME age key as dev) ---
-  # Mirrors clusters/dev exactly, one stanza per Kustomization that carries encrypted Secrets.
-  # The `sops-age` Secret is created OUT OF BAND on the prod cluster
-  # (bootstrap/sops/install-age-key.sh) — referenced by NAME only, never inlined.
-  # Add a stanza here whenever `render.py --emit-waves` introduces a new deepest wave.
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: platform
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: apps-wave-0
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: apps-wave-1
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: apps-wave-2
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: oauth2-proxy
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: headlamp
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: crafty
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: velero
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  # apps-vms (the KubeVirt VM tier, clusters/base/apps-vms.yaml) gained its FIRST encrypted Secret
-  # on 2026-09-14: apps/vms/unifi/unifi-uos-installer.sops.yaml, the operator's UOS installer URL,
-  # which 30-virtualmachine.yaml mounts into the guest as a disk. Without this stanza kustomize
-  # would hand Flux the raw SOPS document and the VM would mount a disk full of ciphertext — the
-  # failure is silent from the cluster's point of view (the Secret applies fine), so the stanza is
-  # as load-bearing as the file itself. Mirrors clusters/dev. `sops-age` is out-of-band (name only).
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: Kustomization
-      metadata:
-        name: apps-vms
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        decryption:
-          provider: sops
-          secretRef:
-            name: sops-age
-  # --- GitOps source (operator decision 2026-09-01: prod tracks the SAME BRANCH as dev) ---
-  #
-  # ############################################################################################
-  # ###                                                                                      ###
-  # ###   *** T E M P O R A R Y   B O O T S T R A P   S O U R C E  —  NOT PERMANENT ***       ###
-  # ###                                                                                      ###
-  # ###   The url below is a Gitea container running ON THE OPERATOR'S WORKSTATION, outside   ###
-  # ###   any cluster. It exists ONLY to get prod's first reconcile off the ground. It MUST   ###
-  # ###   be cut over to the in-cluster URL once Gitea runs on prod. If you are reading this  ###
-  # ###   and prod has been serving traffic for months, THE CUTOVER WAS NEVER DONE — that is  ###
-  # ###   a live single point of failure, not a settled design. See "CUTOVER" below.          ###
-  # ###                                                                                      ###
-  # ############################################################################################
-  #
-  # WHY THE IN-CLUSTER URL CANNOT BE USED YET (blocker found 2026-09-01, still true; the
-  # unusable value was `https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl.git`).
-  # Two independent reasons, both consequences of the split-horizon design:
-  #   1. SELF-HOSTING CIRCULARITY. Gitea runs ON THE DEV CLUSTER. Prod syncing from it means prod's
-  #      GitOps source lives inside the very cluster slated for decommission. Gitea must move to
-  #      prod (or off-cluster) BEFORE dev is retired, or prod loses its source of truth.
-  #   2. SPLIT-HORIZON DNS SENDS IT TO THE WRONG PLACE. platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml
-  #      answers the ENTIRE home.keithjackson.dev zone with ${GATEWAY_VIP}. On prod that is
-  #      192.168.2.20 — PROD's own gateway, where no Gitea is listening. Prod's Flux would resolve
-  #      gitea.home.keithjackson.dev to itself and never reach a repository.
-  #
-  # WHAT THE TEMPORARY SOURCE IS (stood up 2026-09-04 on explicit operator direction):
-  #   bootstrap/gitea/bootstrap-gitea.sh with HOST_NAT_IP=192.168.2.132 — a podman container on the
-  #   operator's workstation, Gitea 1.22.6, listening on 192.168.2.132:3000. All three prod nodes
-  #   reach it DIRECTLY on the LAN: no libvirt NAT hop (that network is retired) and no firewall
-  #   change was needed. This is the same "local bootstrap source" pattern dev itself used before
-  #   its Phase-6 cutover (docs/05 "Source-of-truth").
-  #
-  # PLAIN HTTP, AND WHY THAT IS ACCEPTED HERE: the bootstrap Gitea has no TLS, so there is no cert
-  # for Flux to trust and no caCertSecretRef to wire. Traffic is LAN-local between prod nodes and
-  # the workstation, the repo carries NO plaintext secrets (everything sensitive is SOPS-encrypted,
-  # .sops.yaml), and the window is the bring-up only. Do NOT extend this posture past cutover.
-  #
-  # NO secretRef, DELIBERATELY: the repo is PUBLIC on the bootstrap Gitea, so anonymous clone
-  # works and Flux needs no git credentials. VERIFIED 2026-09-04 by unauthenticated request:
-  #   curl http://192.168.2.132:3000/api/v1/repos/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl -> "private":false
-  #   git ls-remote http://192.168.2.132:3000/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl.git  -> refs/heads/main
-  # If the GitRepository ever reports an auth failure that looks like a network problem, RE-CHECK
-  # THAT FIRST: a private repo here fails exactly that way.
-  #
-  # *** CUTOVER — the exit condition, mirroring dev's Phase-6 cutover (docs/05) ***
-  #   WHEN: Gitea runs on prod (reconciled in-cluster) and answers gitea.home.keithjackson.dev
-  #         through prod's own Gateway VIP with a publicly-trusted cert.
-  #   DO:   1. push/mirror this repo into the prod in-cluster Gitea;
-  #         2. change the url below to
-  #            https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl.git
-  #            and DELETE this whole TEMPORARY block (dev's equivalent stanza, ~15 lines above in
-  #            clusters/dev/kustomization.yaml, is what "done" looks like);
-  #         3. confirm `flux get sources git -n flux-system` reconciles the new revision;
-  #         4. only THEN stop the workstation container. Keep it stopped-not-deleted as recovery,
-  #            exactly as dev retained its bootstrap Gitea.
-  #   UNTIL THEN: prod's reconciliation depends on a container on a workstation that may be
-  #   powered off. Flux keeps the last-reconciled state running, but NO new revision lands while
-  #   it is down. Tracked as an open blocker in infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §7.
-  #
-  # The BRANCH below is settled and correct: prod tracks `main`, the same branch as dev.
-  # CONSEQUENCE, recorded deliberately: once prod is live, EVERY MERGE TO main RECONCILES BOTH
-  # CLUSTERS. There is no promotion step and no soak window — dev and prod move together.
-  # NOTE for bring-up: bootstrap-gitea.sh pushes the operator's CURRENT HEAD to the bootstrap
-  # Gitea's `main`, whatever branch that is. Before bootstrapping prod, confirm that remote `main`
-  # is the revision you intend prod to run (`git ls-remote` above, against local `main`).
-  - patch: |-
-      apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-      kind: GitRepository
-      metadata:
-        name: flux-system
-        namespace: flux-system
-      spec:
-        # CUTOVER DONE 2026-09-06 (operator direction: "move the repo to prod"). Prod now reconciles
-        # from PROD'S OWN in-cluster Gitea. The workstation bootstrap container
-        # (http://192.168.2.132:3000) is retired as prod's source — it was a podman container on the
-        # operator's workstation holding a DHCP lease on WIFI, i.e. production's source of truth was a
-        # laptop. It is kept only as a recovery path (bootstrap/gitea/bootstrap-gitea.sh).
-        #
-        # THIS LINE IS SELF-REFERENTIAL AND THAT IS THE WHOLE DIFFICULTY. The root Kustomization
-        # renders ./clusters/prod, which contains this patch — so a live `kubectl patch` of
-        # GitRepository.spec.url is REVERTED on the next reconcile unless the authored value moves
-        # too. The cutover therefore had to be: (1) push the repo to prod's Gitea, (2) fast-forward
-        # its `main` to the exact commit prod was already running so the source swap changed nothing
-        # else, (3) live-patch the url to open a window, (4) land THIS commit through that window so
-        # the authored value agrees. Dev hit the identical trap on 2026-09-05
-        # (infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §10a "D0/D1 as executed").
-        #
-        # Verified before the switch: a throwaway pod INSIDE prod resolved this host through
-        # in-cluster CoreDNS to the Gateway VIP and cloned over the public LE cert with no CA
-        # supplied. The workstation being able to reach it proves nothing about pod egress.
-        # MOVED WITH THE APEX FLIP (2026-09-13) — and it had to move in the SAME fetch.
-        # This URL is a hardcoded literal, NOT templated on ${BASE_DOMAIN}, so the flip did not
-        # carry it. But the flip DOES rename prod's own HTTPRoute hostnames, so:
-        #   - external-dns (policy=sync) deletes gitea.prod.home.keithjackson.dev, and
-        #   - platform/coredns/coredns-custom.yaml answers the whole ${BASE_DOMAIN} zone with
-        #     ${GATEWAY_VIP}, so in-cluster resolution moves from prod.home. to home.
-        # Leaving this on the old name would therefore have severed prod from its OWN GitOps
-        # source moments after the flip reconciled — self-reference, the same class of trap as
-        # patching this url live and having the root Kustomization revert it. The fix has to land
-        # THROUGH THE OLD SOURCE, which is why it is in the same push as the flip rather than
-        # after it.
-        # FOLLOW-UP worth doing: point this at the in-cluster Service
-        # (gitea-http.gitea.svc.cluster.local) so prod's GitOps stops depending on public DNS and
-        # on its own Gateway at all. Deferred: it needs the TLS/credential path rethought.
-        # IN-CLUSTER SERVICE, NOT A PUBLIC HOSTNAME (2026-09-13). This is the durable fix for a
-        # deadlock the apex flip walked straight into, and it is worth stating precisely.
-        #
-        # The url used to be a public name. The flip renamed prod's HTTPRoute hostnames, so the
-        # name this GitRepository pointed at stopped serving — but the HTTPRoute that WOULD have
-        # served the new name lives in a DOWNSTREAM tier, which cannot reconcile while the source
-        # is broken. Source down -> routes never rename -> source stays down. Observed live:
-        # `srcReady=False`, "unable to list remote for https://gitea.home.keithjackson.dev".
-        #
-        # Pointing at the Service breaks the cycle permanently: prod's GitOps no longer depends on
-        # public DNS, on Cloudflare, on its own Gateway, or on ${BASE_DOMAIN} at all. A future
-        # domain change cannot sever prod from its own source again.
-        #
-        # Plain http is deliberate and safe here: it is cluster-internal traffic to a ClusterIP,
-        # TLS terminates at the Gateway for external clients only, the GitRepository has no
-        # secretRef (the repo is cloned anonymously), and every secret in the tree is SOPS-encrypted
-        # at rest regardless of transport.
-        url: http://gitea.gitea.svc.cluster.local:3000/Home-Network/home-network-k3s-impl.git
-        ref:
-          branch: main
  - target:
      kind: ConfigMap
      name: cluster-vars
@@ -265,97 +21,9 @@ patches:
      - op: replace
        path: /data/ACME_CLUSTER_ISSUER
        value: "letsencrypt-prod"
-      # ==========================================================================================
-      # PROD DNS IDENTITY (R-DNS-01/02/03) — the fix for the 2026-09-04 incident.
-      # ==========================================================================================
-      # PROD SERVES ITS OWN SUBDOMAIN. Until 2026-09-04 every hostname was HARDCODED to
-      # home.keithjackson.dev in the base manifests, so prod was authored to serve the EXACT SAME
-      # public names as the live dev cluster out of the SAME Cloudflare zone. Two consequences, one
-      # of which already happened:
-      #   1. HAPPENED: prod's external-dns (policy: sync, owner id `default` — the same implicit
-      #      default dev had) concluded it owned dev's records and DELETED EVERY ONE of them.
-      #   2. QUEUED BEHIND IT: platform-config would have requested a `*.home.keithjackson.dev`
-      #      wildcard from letsencrypt-prod for a cert dev already holds, and both clusters would
-      #      have raced each other's `_acme-challenge` TXT records on that one zone.
-      # Moving prod to its own suffix dissolves both: the two clusters can no longer name the same
-      # record. This is what makes ACME_CLUSTER_ISSUER: letsencrypt-prod above safe here.
-      #
-      #   dev   -> home.keithjackson.dev         (UNCHANGED — dev is live; phase 2 moves it)
-      #   prod  -> prod.home.keithjackson.dev    (this knob)
-      #
-      # CONSEQUENCE — prod's hostnames are NOT the apex names. Prod's Gitea is
-      # gitea.prod.home.keithjackson.dev, its Keycloak keycloak.prod.home.keithjackson.dev, and so
-      # on; the wildcard cert becomes `*.prod.home.keithjackson.dev`. The apex CNAMEs that make
-      # `<svc>.home.keithjackson.dev` point at prod are PHASE 2, deliberately not done here — they
-      # would take traffic off the live dev cluster. infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §10.
-      #
-      # [parity] MUST equal k3s_base_domain in infra/ansible/inventory/group_vars/k3s_prod/vars.yml.
-      # The kube-apiserver's oidc-issuer-url is an INSTALL-TIME k3s flag, not a manifest, so it is
-      # set Ansible-side from that variable and cannot read this one. If they disagree, kubectl SSO
-      # trusts a different Keycloak than the one prod actually runs.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/BASE_DOMAIN
-        # APEX AS OF 2026-09-13. Prod now serves home.keithjackson.dev directly; dev has been
-        # decommissioned and released the name. Prerequisites completed and VERIFIED before this
-        # flip, in this order:
-        #   1. dev's 18 A records released by its own external-dns (policy=sync, sources deleted)
-        #   2. dev's 18 LEGACY UNPREFIXED TXT registry entries deleted from Cloudflare by hand —
-        #      external-dns v0.21.0 removed only the `a-` prefixed form and then reported "All
-        #      records are already up to date", so it would NEVER have cleared them. They carried
-        #      `owner=default`, and prod runs `owner=prod`, so prod could not have claimed these
-        #      names while they existed. Confirmed gone at the AUTHORITY (betty.ns.cloudflare.com);
-        #      1.1.1.1 served stale cache for minutes afterwards and must not be trusted here.
-        #   3. dev's `*.home.keithjackson.dev` + apex Certificate deleted, so it stops renewing.
-        #      It was issued ~18d ago, so prod's request is #1 this week against LE's duplicate
-        #      limit of 5 per identical name set per week.
-        # NOTE the zone has wildcards `*.keithjackson.dev` AND `*.home.keithjackson.dev` pointing
-        # at the public IP 136.51.115.252 (legacy non-k3s prod). Dev's specific records were
-        # SHADOWING that wildcard; prod's new specific records shadow it again. The legacy stack
-        # lives on `*.keithjackson.dev` and is untouched by any of this.
-        value: "home.keithjackson.dev"
-      # SAFETY NET #2 (independent of the owner id below): narrow ExternalDNS's name scope to prod's
-      # OWN subtree, so prod cannot create, update or delete any record outside it no matter what the
-      # TXT registry says. VERIFY ON FIRST RECONCILE — the Cloudflare provider uses this value for
-      # ZONE selection too, and on the version in use in 2026-08 a strict-subdomain filter dropped
-      # the parent zone ("no hosted zone matching record DNS Name"). If prod's external-dns logs no
-      # matching zone, it will create NOTHING — fail-closed, and it can still never delete dev's
-      # records. Fallback in that case: set this to "keithjackson.dev" (dev's value) and rely on
-      # EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID below, which is sufficient on its own.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/EXTERNALDNS_DOMAIN_FILTER
-        # MUST be the Cloudflare ZONE, not prod's subdomain. FINDING F-DNS1 (DECISIONS-LOG,
-        # 2026-08-17) proved a subdomain filter DROPS THE PARENT ZONE: ExternalDNS generated the
-        # record then skipped it with "no hosted zone matching record DNS Name", so prod would
-        # publish NOTHING. Isolation from dev does NOT come from this filter — it comes from
-        # (1) prod only requesting *.prod.home.keithjackson.dev hostnames, and
-        # (2) txtOwnerId: prod, so prod's registry never claims dev's `default`-owned records.
-        # That pairing is what the 2026-09-04 incident needed and this filter cannot provide.
-        value: "keithjackson.dev"
-      # SAFETY NET #1 — THE ACTUAL ROOT CAUSE OF THE INCIDENT. Both clusters left this unset and so
-      # both inherited the chart default `default`; prod then treated dev's TXT-registry entries as
-      # its own and, under policy: sync, deleted the records behind them. This value MUST differ from
-      # dev's (`default`, pinned in clusters/dev — dev's live records are registered under it and
-      # cannot be renamed without orphaning them). `prod` is distinct, which is the entire fix.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/EXTERNALDNS_TXT_OWNER_ID
-        value: "prod"
      - op: replace
        path: /data/LONGHORN_DEFAULT_REPLICA_COUNT
        value: "3"
-      # Longhorn's on-node replica directory: a SUBDIRECTORY of the claimed data partition, not
-      # the mount root. Prod's ~424 GB partition (LABEL=k3s-data) is mounted at the neutral /data
-      # and serves TWO tenants — /data/longhorn here, and /data/k3s for k3s's entire data dir
-      # (embedded etcd + the containerd image store), which had to move off the 11.8 GiB /var:
-      # measured on dev, containerd alone is 21-25 GB per node, so prod would have filled /var on
-      # its first image pulls and etcd could not have written its WAL. infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §2.
-      #
-      # [parity] MUST equal node_baseline_longhorn_data_path in
-      # infra/ansible/inventory/group_vars/k3s_prod/vars.yml — Ansible creates and mounts the
-      # directory, this tells Longhorn to use it. If they disagree, Longhorn writes replicas to a
-      # path on the OS filesystem instead of the data partition and /var fills up.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/LONGHORN_DATA_PATH
-        value: "/data/longhorn"
      # longer retention / larger volumes on prod NVMe.
      - op: replace
        path: /data/MONITORING_PROMETHEUS_RETENTION
@@ -366,16 +34,8 @@ patches:
      # Size-cap below the 50Gi PVC (headroom for WAL + head + compaction scratch): prod may hit the
      # size cap before 30d if series volume is high, keeping the disk from filling either way.
      - op: replace
-      # LOWERED 45GiB -> 36GiB on 2026-09-13. 45 of 50Gi left only 5 GiB, which is not headroom for
-      # what the comment above already names: retentionSize counts ONLY persisted blocks, not the WAL,
-      # not the head's in-flight segments, and not compaction scratch, and a large compaction can need
-      # roughly the size of the blocks being merged. At 90% one bad compaction is ENOSPC, and ENOSPC on
-      # /prometheus wedges every WAL commit: scrapes keep succeeding, nothing is stored, and every
-      # absent()/==0 alert in the platform fires falsely at once. Costs NO history: the TSDB is 11.2 GiB
-      # at 30d today, so 36GiB is ~3x current and 30d stays the binding limit. To keep more history,
-      # grow the PVC rather than the fraction of it.
        path: /data/MONITORING_PROMETHEUS_RETENTION_SIZE
-        value: "36GiB"
+        value: "45GiB"
      - op: replace
        path: /data/MONITORING_LOKI_PVC_SIZE
        value: "50Gi"
@@ -389,239 +49,8 @@ patches:
      - op: replace
        path: /data/VELERO_RETENTION
        value: "720h"
-      # ==========================================================================================
-      # PROD LAN ADDRESSING (192.168.2.0/24). Nodes: k3s-prod-1/2/3 = .10 / .11 / .12.
-      # ==========================================================================================
-      # These knobs were HARDCODED to the dev LAN inside base manifests until 2026-08-31; prod would
-      # have come up ANNOUNCING DEV ADDRESSES (192.168.1.x) on the prod LAN. They are knobs now, and
-      # this overlay supplies every one of them. Anything the operator has NOT yet decided stays an
-      # INVALID `TBD-PROD-*` placeholder on purpose: base defaults are the DEV values, so an OMITTED
-      # op means prod silently inherits a dev address — far worse than a failed apply. `TBD-PROD-*`
-      # is not a valid IP/URL, so Cilium CRD validation / LB-IPAM / CNPG / Velero reject it LOUDLY.
-      #
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      # ADDRESS PLAN (operator, 2026-08-31) — see infra/PROD-PROVISIONING.md §4 for the full table.
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      #   nodes                 192.168.2.10 / .11 / .12   (Ansible inventory)
-      #   control-plane VIP     192.168.2.9                (Ansible group_vars/k3s_prod — NOT here)
-      #   ingress Gateway VIP   192.168.2.20               (GATEWAY_VIP, below)
-      #   Cilium LB pool        192.168.2.20 - .30         (CILIUM_LB_POOL_*, below)
-      #
-      # CONTAINMENT INVARIANT SATISFIED: GATEWAY_VIP (.20) IS CILIUM_LB_POOL_START, mirroring dev
-      # (.53 of .53-.60). This matters because the `shared` Gateway (platform/gateway/gateway.yaml)
-      # pins NOTHING — no `lbipam.cilium.io/ips`, no spec.addresses (unlike platform/crafty and
-      # apps/vms/unifi, which DO pin) — so Cilium LB-IPAM assigns it the FIRST FREE address of a
-      # matching pool block. Had GATEWAY_VIP stayed outside every pool (the original .21-.30
-      # proposal), the Gateway would have come up on .21 while split-horizon coredns-custom kept
-      # answering *.home.keithjackson.dev with .20 — an address nothing announces — blackholing
-      # in-cluster hairpin traffic (OIDC clients -> Keycloak/Grafana) while looking healthy.
-      # KEEP GATEWAY_VIP == CILIUM_LB_POOL_START when changing either.
-      # The control-plane VIP (.9) is deliberately OUTSIDE this pool: kube-vip floats it, and
-      # LB-IPAM must never be able to hand it to a Service.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/GATEWAY_VIP
-        value: "192.168.2.20"
-      # Cilium LB IP pool, operator-supplied: 192.168.2.20-.30 (START == GATEWAY_VIP, see above).
-      # Mirror this range into the prod tofu reservation (cilium_l2_vip_range) if prod ever gets one.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CILIUM_LB_POOL_START
-        value: "192.168.2.20"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CILIUM_LB_POOL_STOP
-        value: "192.168.2.30"
-      # k3s API endpoint Cilium's kube-proxy replacement dials. This is the prod CONTROL-PLANE VIP
-      # (kube-vip), NOT .20 (the ingress VIP) and NOT the single node address .10.
-      #
-      # *** DECIDED 2026-09-06 by the operator: the VIP, as intended. *** (This block previously
-      # read "Not yet decided" while shipping .10 — the founder's own address — and that is what
-      # the LIVE prod cluster is running: all three cilium-agents carry
-      # KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST=192.168.2.10 while kube-vip holds .9, verified 2026-09-06. On a
-      # 3-node HA cluster that makes the CNI's control-plane path depend on k3s-prod-1: lose it and
-      # the datapath keeps running off Cilium's cache while no service or policy update lands, with
-      # nothing looking broken. The VIP is a virtual address that reaches the cluster wherever the
-      # control plane is, which is the whole reason kube-vip exists here.)
-      #
-      # It is owned Ansible-side by **k3s_apiserver_endpoint** (group_vars/all.yml, derived from
-      # this environment's kube_vip_address = 192.168.2.9 in group_vars/k3s_prod/vars.yml) and MUST
-      # equal that value — [parity] contract in platform/cilium/helmrelease.yaml. NOT k3s_api_host:
-      # that variable still exists and still holds the FOUNDER's .10, because the cold-bootstrap
-      # `--server` join needs a host that is up before any VIP is floated. Two addresses, two
-      # variables, deliberately.
-      #
-      # .9 sits OUTSIDE the Cilium LB pool (.20-.30) and is not a node address, so kube-vip and
-      # LB-IPAM can never be handed the same IP — asserted by
-      # conformance/tests/l0-static/ha-control-plane-as-code.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/K3S_API_HOST
-        value: "192.168.2.9"
-      # --- still UNDECIDED -> loud placeholders (must be real before `flux bootstrap`) ------------
-      # Pinned L4 VIPs, both carved out of the pool by lbipam.cilium.io/ips. Not yet assigned for
-      # prod. Leaving the dev literals in place would hand a prod LoadBalancer a dev-LAN address, so
-      # they stay placeholders; whatever is chosen MUST fall inside [POOL_START, POOL_STOP] and not
-      # collide with the Gateway VIP or the node IPs (.10/.11/.12).
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/UNIFI_L4_VIP
-        value: "192.168.2.21"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CRAFTY_L4_VIP
-        value: "192.168.2.22"
-      # PiHole's DNS listener VIP — udp/53 + tcp/53 for LAN clients (apps/wave-0/pihole-dns.yaml).
-      # 192.168.2.23 is the NEXT FREE address in the prod pool 192.168.2.20-.30, verified live
-      # 2026-09-14: the CiliumLoadBalancerIPPool `default-pool` reported IPsTotal 11 / IPsUsed 3 /
-      # IPsAvailable 8, and the only three allocations are .20 (cilium-gateway-shared), .21
-      # (unifi-l4-tcp/-udp) and .22 (crafty-l4-tcp/-udp). ARP-probed from a LAN host in the same
-      # broadcast domain (arping 192.168.2.23, 3 probes, 0 responses), so nothing off-cluster holds
-      # it either, and it is inside the pool block the operator already asserted sits outside the
-      # SOHO router's DHCP scope.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/PIHOLE_DNS_VIP
-        value: "192.168.2.23"
-      # The prod flat LAN. This is the 192.168.2.0/24 segment the SOHO ROUTER at 192.168.2.1 owns —
-      # NOT pfSense's 192.168.1.0/24, which is a different network and not in the LAN-DNS path.
-      # It scopes the ingress allow for PiHole's DNS listener to LAN clients only.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/LAN_CIDR
-        value: "192.168.2.0/24"
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      # BULK (EXTERNAL NFS) STORAGE HOST — *** NOT YET DECIDED. THIS PLACEHOLDER IS LOAD-BEARING. ***
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      # Backs every `class: bulk` volume: the 8.33 T media library (Storage/plex — plex, sonarr,
-      # radarr) and the 270 G legacy Nextcloud archive (Storage/nextcloud).
-      #
-      # THE STORAGE HOST IS NOT REACHABLE FROM PROD AT ALL RIGHT NOW. It has one interface,
-      # vmbr0 192.168.1.9/24, on pfSense's LAN; prod's nodes are on 192.168.2.0/24, pfSense's WAN.
-      # 22 and 8006 answer from prod only because pfSense port-forwards them via 192.168.2.102;
-      # 2049 and 111 do not. Opening that path is an OPERATOR decision, and the two candidate
-      # outcomes give DIFFERENT values here:
-      #     port-forward 192.168.2.102:2049 -> 192.168.1.9:2049   =>  "192.168.2.102"
-      #     a WAN->LAN route to 192.168.1.0/24                    =>  "192.168.1.9"
-      # Guessing either one authors a prod cluster that mounts nothing, or — worse, if the guess
-      # ever became reachable — mounts something unintended. So it stays a placeholder.
-      #
-      # WHICH PORTS THE DECISION MUST OPEN: exactly ONE, tcp/2049. The PVs mount nfsvers=4.1, and
-      # NFSv4 carries mount and lock in-protocol — no rpcbind/111, no mountd, no statd. Choosing v4
-      # over v3 was in part this decision's cost: v3 would have needed four ports and three of them
-      # on ephemeral numbers.
-      #
-      # WHAT THE EXPORT MUST ALLOW IS ALREADY SETTLED, and it is the same under BOTH outcomes.
-      # Measured 2026-09-07 from this workstation (192.168.2.132) through the existing port-forward:
-      # the storage host logged the connection as coming FROM 192.168.2.132, not from a pfSense LAN
-      # address (`ss -tn` peer 192.168.2.132, and the host's only route off-LAN is its default via
-      # 192.168.1.1). pfSense DNATs WITHOUT source NAT, so the NFS server will see prod's REAL node
-      # addresses either way. The additive `zfs set sharenfs=` values are in docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md.
-      #
-      # *** BLAST RADIUS — READ BEFORE MERGING THIS TO A BRANCH PROD RECONCILES. ***
-      # A PersistentVolume's spec.nfs.server is an unvalidated string: the API server ACCEPTS this
-      # placeholder, the PV is created and the PVC BINDS to it (binding is pure control-plane). The
-      # failure surfaces only when a pod mounts — MountVolume.SetUp "Failed to resolve server
-      # TBD-PROD-BULK-NFS-SERVER" — so plex, sonarr, radarr and nextcloud would sit in
-      # ContainerCreating on prod. Unlike the LAN knobs above, this placeholder does NOT fail at
-      # apply time and there is no CRD validation to lean on. Set this value BEFORE prod reconciles
-      # a revision containing the bulk volumes; the dev overlay renders a working value, which is
-      # where these manifests are meant to be proven first.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/BULK_NFS_SERVER
-        # 192.168.2.102 is pfSense's WAN address, which DNATs tcp/2049 through to the Proxmox
-        # host's REAL address 192.168.1.9 on pfSense's LAN. Prod sits on the WAN side and cannot
-        # reach 192.168.1.9 directly, so the cluster mounts the NAT address. Dev is on the LAN and
-        # keeps the base value 192.168.1.9.
-        #
-        # PROVEN from k3s-prod-1 on 2026-09-12, not inferred:
-        #   - mount of 192.168.2.102:/mnt/Storage/plex negotiated nfs4 vers=4.1 proto=tcp
-        #   - a write as uid 1000 succeeded. Tested as 1000 and NOT root deliberately: the export
-        #     carries no_root_squash, so a root write would have passed and proved nothing, while
-        #     LSIO images default to PUID 911 and would have gone Ready then failed every import
-        #     with EACCES. The tree is 0755 1000:3000, so uid 1000 is the only writer.
-        #   - ln() across downloads/ -> tv/ returned link count 2 (same inode), so the arrs get
-        #     real atomic moves instead of silently degrading to copy-then-delete on EXDEV.
-        # pfSense DNATs WITHOUT source NAT (the host logs prod's own node addresses as the peer),
-        # so the ZFS export ACL names 192.168.2.10/.11/.12 directly rather than one translated IP.
-        value: "192.168.2.102"
-      # ==========================================================================================
-      # OFF-CLUSTER DR TARGET — Cloudflare R2 (operator, 2026-09-05; bucket + token 2026-09-07).
-      # ==========================================================================================
-      # Dev's versitygw/MinIO (192.168.1.9:9000) sits on the DEV side of the network and is NOT an
-      # option for prod, for two independent reasons:
-      #   1. UNREACHABLE. Prod is on the SOHO network 192.168.2.0/24 — pfSense's WAN — while that
-      #      MinIO is inside pfSense's LAN. Measured from a pod INSIDE prod (the workstation proves
-      #      nothing about pod egress): `curl http://192.168.1.9:9000/minio/health/live` → connection
-      #      timed out after 15s. Reaching it would need a WAN→LAN rule that does not exist.
-      #   2. NOT OFF-CLUSTER DR. It runs on the same Proxmox host as dev's VMs, so it already shares
-      #      a physical failure domain with dev. R2 is genuinely off-site, and its free egress means
-      #      restore REHEARSALS cost nothing — R-STATE-03 has no financial disincentive to stay proven.
-      #
-      # THIS UNBLOCKS AN ACTIVE INCIDENT, not just a roadmap item. All three prod CNPG Clusters ship
-      # `archive_mode=on` with `endpointURL: TBD-PROD-S3-BACKUP-ENDPOINT`, so barman-cloud-wal-archive
-      # exits 4 on every segment and Postgres — correctly — REFUSES TO RECYCLE WAL. Verified live
-      # 2026-09-07: keycloak-db / nextcloud-db / semaphore-db all report
-      # ContinuousArchiving=False/ContinuousArchivingFailing, and keycloak-db's 5 GiB PVC is at
-      # 579 MiB used / 4360 MiB free and climbing monotonically. A disk-full PANIC there takes the
-      # cluster's SSO database down, and with it kubectl OIDC, Grafana, Headlamp, Gitea and
-      # forward-auth. Fixing the endpoint lets Postgres drain the whole backlog.
-      #
-      # ENDPOINT IS ACCOUNT-SCOPED, so it stays a prod-overlay value even though it is not a LAN
-      # address: this is the operator's Cloudflare account id, confirmed from inside a prod pod
-      # (`head-bucket` on k3s-prod-backup → BucketRegion WNAM; PUT and DELETE both succeed).
-      # It is NOT put in base, because base is dev's live MinIO and dev is deliberately STAYING
-      # there — moving dev to R2 would reset its PITR window and orphan the backups its PROVEN
-      # restore depends on. Two environments, two targets, isolated by URL *and* by bucket.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT
-        value: "https://7ce452a1b3d6c86daf2c020edcb82d37.r2.cloudflarestorage.com"
-      # R2 requires the region string to be exactly `auto`. (`head-bucket` answers
-      # `{"BucketRegion":"WNAM"}` — that is a PHYSICAL LOCATION HINT, not a signing region; using it
-      # here produces AuthorizationHeaderMalformed.) Dev keeps the base `us-east-1` its live MinIO
-      # has always been signed with.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/S3_BACKUP_REGION
-        value: "auto"
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      # OBJECT TENANCY INSIDE THE ONE BUCKET. The operator created a SINGLE R2 bucket, so velero and
-      # barman cannot be separated by bucket the way they are on dev's MinIO (`velero` and `cnpg`).
-      # They are separated by disjoint TOP-LEVEL PREFIXES instead:
-      #
-      #     s3://k3s-prod-backup/velero/…                 Velero: kopia repo + backup metadata
-      #     s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman/<clusterName>/…   CNPG: WAL + base backups
-      #
-      # The bucket ROOT is left empty on purpose — a misrendered prefix then lands somewhere
-      # obviously wrong instead of silently colliding with a live tenant. Velero's retention TTL
-      # deletes objects under its own prefix only, so it can never reap a WAL segment; and barman's
-      # per-cluster serverName subdirectory keeps the three Postgres servers' chains apart, which
-      # matters because interleaving two servers' WAL into one prefix corrupts the chain outright.
-      # Dev cannot be reached from any of these: different endpoint AND different bucket names.
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/VELERO_BACKUP_BUCKET
-        value: "k3s-prod-backup"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX
-        value: "velero"
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/CNPG_BACKUP_PATH
-        value: "s3://k3s-prod-backup/barman"
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      # WHICH CREDENTIAL SIGNS THE REQUESTS TO THAT BUCKET (per-env credential split, 2026-09-07).
-      # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-      # The knobs above moved the ENDPOINT and the OBJECT LAYOUT per environment. The credential did
-      # not move with them, and it could not: the four backup-credential Secrets are SHARED BASE
-      # manifests, applied to both clusters by the same Flux tiers. Writing the R2 token into them
-      # gave prod a working key by TAKING DEV'S AWAY — dev would have signed MinIO requests with an
-      # R2 key id, and under archive_mode=on that is a filling pgdata PVC, not a missing backup.
-      #
-      # So each credential is now two objects, and this suffix selects prod's:
-      #     velero-cloud-credentials-prod           the R2 token in the AWS INI `cloud` shape
-      #     <db>-backup-credentials-prod            the same token as ACCESS_KEY_ID / ACCESS_SECRET_KEY
-      # for keycloak-db, nextcloud-db and semaphore-db. Both halves ship to both clusters (they are
-      # base resources); ONLY this value decides which one each consumer reads. It is a SUFFIX rather
-      # than four secret-name knobs deliberately — four could be updated three-quarters of the way,
-      # leaving one consumer on dev's MinIO key with nothing rendering wrong, and strict-mode
-      # substitution cannot catch a defined-but-stale variable.
-      #
-      # THE R2 TOKEN IS THE ONE PROVEN FROM INSIDE PROD (chore/r2-credentials 0a6a862): head-bucket on
-      # k3s-prod-backup returns BucketRegion WNAM, and PUT and DELETE both succeed. Rotating it now
-      # touches ONLY the four `-prod` files; dev's MinIO keys are untouched objects. That isolation is
-      # the structural reason for the split, independent of dev's eventual decommission.
-      - op: replace
-        path: /data/BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX
-        value: "-prod"
      # TODO(WS-INFRA, Phase 7): pin prod node placement once the bare-metal role labels exist.
+      # TODO(WS-NET, Phase 7): set GATEWAY_VIP to the prod LAN ingress VIP (add a `replace` op here)
+      #   at the same time the prod Cilium LB IP pool range is supplied — the split-horizon
+      #   coredns-custom (platform/coredns) answers *.home.keithjackson.dev with ${GATEWAY_VIP}, so
+      #   the prod value must match the prod pool's Gateway address. Base default is the dev VIP.
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---
-# Self-managing ROOT Kustomization for PROD (mirrors clusters/dev/sync.yaml).
-#
-# Reconciles ./clusters/prod from the GitRepository so the ENTIRE prod graph — the cluster-vars
-# ConfigMap, the GitRepository source, platform / platform-config / the app waves, and THIS object
-# itself — is applied from git on every push. dev/sync.yaml carried the note "a prod overlay needs
-# its own sync.yaml -> ./clusters/prod"; this is it.
-#
-# WHY IT IS NOW LOAD-BEARING, not just symmetry: `clusters/base/platform.yaml` gained
-# `dependsOn: [flux-system]` (2026-09-01) to close the post-build substitution race — a dependent
-# cannot reconcile revision N until the ROOT has APPLIED revision N. Without this object there is no
-# `flux-system` Kustomization on prod, so `platform` would block forever on a dependency that does
-# not exist, and NOTHING downstream would ever reconcile.
-#
-# `wait: false` is deliberate and is what keeps the dependsOn edge deadlock-free: the root reaches
-# Ready on apply success without health-gating its children (platform does its own wait/health
-# gating). Do not "harden" this to true.
-apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1
-kind: Kustomization
-metadata:
-  name: flux-system
-  namespace: flux-system
-spec:
-  interval: 10m
-  retryInterval: 2m
-  timeout: 5m
-  prune: true
-  wait: false
-  sourceRef:
-    kind: GitRepository
-    name: flux-system
-  path: ./clusters/prod