pm-agent reconciled exactly as designed after #57: Flux applied main@sha1:95597bd to platform-config, pm-agent and apps-wave-0 (all Ready), the ClusterPolicy pm-agent-job-shape is live with Enforce + failurePolicy Fail and all six rules, SOPS decryption works through the new overlay patch (checked by key names and value lengths, never values), and pm-agent-worker really is bound to nothing. Measuring it turned up two prerequisites for the NEXT operator step that nothing in this repository declares, and that #57's handoff could not have known — it listed the image pull as unverified, and that is exactly where it bit: - the nodes cannot verify the registry's TLS certificate (containerd: 'x509: certificate is not valid for any names'), while the same name serves a healthy Let's Encrypt wildcard from the LAN. A correct digest fails identically; - an unauthenticated client gets nothing from this Gitea's registry (its anonymous token carries no access scope) and no imagePullSecret exists anywhere in the tree. Not specific to pm-agent: conformance-runner shares the registry path and has never been pulled either. The dispatcher is the first workload in the cluster ever to reference it. Documentation only — no manifest, no policy, no code. Both fixes need an operator action and one of them is a posture decision, so the docs present both rather than pick. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>